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The ScanLife Transformation Begins!
26 Aug 2012 | Author: David J.
Here at ScanLife, we are very excited because Wednesday the 29th will mark the beginning of a major evolution of our apps that will change how we all discover and share information from the world around us. Every month, millions of people like you use ScanLife, and our other apps like BIDI in Spain, to connect with the physical world. You do this because you are interested in discovering information from the things you see every day – a can of Coke, a magazine article, a coupon offer, a Facebook page.
These connections are happening every second of every day, so now we want to make it easier for you to access this information and to help you discover even more. It’s not just what product is in front of you right now, it’s about getting access to new and relevant information from anywhere.
On Wednesday, August 29th a new version of our Android app will be released which you can see for yourself if you scan this QR code…
ScanLife 4.5 for Android has a whole new look which we hope you will like. The biggest addition is what we call The Hub. The Hub is the first thing you see when you open the app, and it gives you easy access to everything in ScanLife – your history of scans, live scan activity from around the world, the ability to customize your scanner screen from Settings, and of course the scanner itself from a super cool animated iris. Need quicker access to the scanner? Just go to settings and change your app so it’s scanning in no-time!
But that’s not all! We also added a new feature called QRcard where you can make your very own QR Code that links to your contact information. Just enter your details and the code is generated. Now you save or display it in the app so people can save your details in seconds – like a digital business card but better and with no paper!
To celebrate this momentous occasion, we are giving away a Samsung Tab 2 10.1 leading up to the big launch. All you have to do is click on the Tweet button right here to share this great news with all your friends.
Most importantly, thanks for all your support over the years. Without all of you, we would never be able to begin this journey.
Please continue your support by getting the new app on Wednesday, and please let us know what you think. We want to hear your feedback as we continue to transform the app over the coming months. Let us know what you like or want to see next! Just email us at pulse@scanlife.com with any ideas or feel free to post on our Facebook page.
Thanks again, and enjoy!
Legal Stuff that we are forced to include:
Android Samsung Twitter Contest – Terms and Conditions
Here is some legal stuff for your enjoyment:
Eligibility: No purchase is necessary to enter the Contest. The Contest is open to all legal U.S. and Canada residents (other than residents of Quebec) 18 years of age and older at the start of the Entry Period (as defined below). Employees of Scanbuy, or those of its subsidiaries, advertising and production agencies, and other companies directly involved in the implementation and/or operation of the Contest, along with their immediate families and household members, are not eligible to participate in the Contest. All federal, state, provincial, and local laws and regulations apply. Void where prohibited or restricted, in any manner. By entering a Contest, entrants agree to be bound by these Contest Rules and the decisions of Scanbuy and/or its authorized agents. Use of automated devices is strictly prohibited. An entrant shall only be entitled to win one (1) prize per ninety (90) day period and no entrant shall be entitled to win more than one (1) prize (by entering multiple Contests) in any ninety (90) day period.
Agreement to Contest Rules: By entering a Contest, you indicate your full and unconditional agreement to, and acceptance of, (a) these Contest Rules and (b) Scanbuy’s decisions, which are final and binding. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth in these Contest Rules.
Entry Period: A Contest begins when @ScanLife posts the giveaway question (“Official Giveaway Question”) and ends when @ScanLife posts an announcement terminating the Contest (“Entry Period”). All entries must be received by Sponsor during the Entry Period. Sponsor’s computer is the official time-keeping device for each Contest.
How To Enter: Follow @ScanLife on Twitter and submit an @ reply to @ScanLife via Twitter with an answer to the Official Giveaway Question posted by Sponsor during the Entry Period. Only one (1) entry per person per Contest. Any attempt by a person to submit more than one (1) entry by using multiple/different Twitter accounts, identities, registrations, or logins, or through any other methods, shall void all of such person’s entries and such person shall be disqualified from the applicable Contest. In the event of a dispute over the identity of an entrant, the entrant will be the registered owner of the Twitter account.
Selection of Winner for Random Question Giveaways: At the end of the Entry Period, the Sponsor will randomly select a winner (or multiple winners) in Sponsor’s sole and absolute discretion from all of the entries submitted in response to the Official Giveaway Question or retweet request posted by Sponsor. The winner will be notified by Scanbuy via tweet and/or direct message within three (3) days after the applicable Entry Period ends and will be asked to provide his or her full name and shipping address. In order to receive a direct message from Scanbuy, you must (a) be following @ScanLife on Twitter and (b) have your account settings set to “unprotected” and/or “public.” The winner will have three (3) days to respond to the direct message with their name and shipping address. If a winner cannot be contacted or fails to confirm his or her eligibility and shipping address within three (3) days of notification, an alternate winner will be selected by Scanbuy. Selection of winner will be conducted by Scanbuy, whose decisions are final.
Selection of Winner for First-Correct-Answer Giveaways: At the end of the Entry Period, the Sponsor will identify the first correct response (as determined by Sponsor in its sole and absolute discretion) to the Official Giveaway Question or retweet request posted by Sponsor. The winner will be notified by Scanbuy via tweet and/or direct message within three (3) days after the applicable Entry Period ends and will be asked to provide his or her full name and shipping address. In order to receive a direct message from Scanbuy, you must (a) be following @ScanLife on Twitter and (b) have your account settings set to “unprotected” and/or “public.” The winner will have three (3) days to respond to the direct message with their name and shipping address. If a winner cannot be contacted or fails to confirm his or her eligibility and shipping address within three (3) days of notification, an alternate winner will be selected by Scanbuy. Selection of winners will be conducted by Scanbuy, whose decisions are final.
Prizes: The winner of the Contest shall be entitled to receive the following prize (as determined by Sponsor in its sole and absolute discretion):
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Wi-Fi 16GB
All prizes awarded are non-transferable and cannot be redeemed for cash or credit (in whole or in part). Any prize notification or prize returned as undeliverable will be forfeited and awarded to an alternate winner. By accepting a prize, each winner agrees to be responsible for all federal, state, provincial, local, or other applicable taxes associated with acceptance and use of the prize. Once a prize has been delivered to a winner, all liability for any loss or damage, including any property damage, personal injury, or death to the prize winner or any third party shall be the sole responsibility of the prize winner and the prize winner shall indemnify and hold harmless Scanbuy and its affiliates for any claims therefore.
Release of Liability: By participating in a Contest, you release Scanbuy and its subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, employees, directors, agents, advertising agencies, and others associated with the implementation and/or operation of such Contest, from and against any and all injury, loss, or damage caused or claimed to be caused by your participation in such Contest and/or the acceptance, awarding, receipt, use and/or misuse of any prize. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the preceding release is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or void for any reason, each entrant agrees that, by entering a Contest, (i) any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of or in connection with such Contest, or any prizes awarded, shall be resolved individually without resort to any form of class action; (ii) any claims, judgments, and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering such Contest, but in no event attorney’s fees; and (iii) under no circumstances will any entrant be permitted to obtain any award for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental, or consequential damages and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased and any other damages, other than damages for actual out-of-pocket expenses. Each entrant acknowledges and agrees that the Contests are not endorsed or sponsored by Twitter in any manner whatsoever.
Privacy and Publicity: Any information you submit as part of a Contest will be used for purposes of such Contest and will be kept private. Except where prohibited, participation in a Contest constitutes an entrant’s consent to Scanbuy’s use of his/her name, likeness, voice, opinions, biographical information, and state of residence for Contest purposes in any media without further payment or consideration.
Disputes: Except where prohibited, you agree that any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of, or connected with, a Contest or any prize awarded shall be resolved exclusively by the appropriate court located in New York, New York. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Contest Rules, your rights and obligations, or the rights and obligations of Scanbuy in connection with a Contest, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules.
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Portugaliae Electrochimica Acta
Port. Electrochim. Acta vol.30 no.4 Coimbra jul. 2012
http://dx.doi.org/10.4152/pea.201204235
Joint Effect of Anogessius Leocarpus Gum (AL Gum) Exudate and Halide Ions on the Corrosion of Mild Steel in 0.1 M HCl
Paul O. Ameh1, Anduang O. Odiongenyi2 and Nnabuk O. Eddy1,2,*
1 Department of Chemistry, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
2 Department of Chemistry, Akwa Ibom State University, Ikot Akpaeden, P. M. B. 1167, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
In an attempt to improve the corrosion inhibition potential of Anogessius leocarpus gum exudates for mild steel in solutions of HCl, corrosion inhibition efficiencies of the gum, KI, KCl, and KBr were determined experimentally using weight loss and gasometric methods. 0.05 M KI, 0.05 M KBr and 0.05 M KCl were combined with various concentrations of Anogessius leocarpus gum and their combined inhibition efficiencies were used in computing synergistic parameters for the respective combinations. The results obtained indicated that combination of 0.4 and 0.5 g/L of AL gum with 0.05 M solutions of KI and KBr, respectively, enhanced inhibition efficiency of the gum. However, for all concentrations of AL gum, combinations with 0.05 M KCl recorded a remarkable increase in inhibition efficiency, but calculated values of the synergistic parameter indicated that the adsorption of AL gum on mild steel surface is antagonized by the presence of Cl-. Theory of competitive and co-operative adsorption has been used to explain the co-adsorption of the gum and the halides. From calculated values of activation energy (< 80 kJ/mol), free energy of adsorption (< -40 kJ/mol) and the variation of inhibition efficiency with temperature, the adsorption characteristics of the gum, halides and that of gum-halide mixtures were found to be consistent with the mechanism of physical adsorption. The adsorption was also found to be endothermic, spontaneous and favored the Langmuir adsorption model.
Keywords: corrosion, inhibition, adsorption, Anogessius leocarpus gum, synergism, potassium halides.
Corrosion is the deterioration of materials by chemical interaction with their environment. The consequences of corrosion are many and varied and its effects on the safe, reliable and efficient operation of equipment or structures are severe.
Most corrosion inhibitors are synthetic chemicals that are expensive and hazardous to the environment [1]. The use of natural products (green corrosion inhibitors) has been given extensive research interest because most of them are easily available, less expensive, less toxic and biodegradable [2-14]. In our research group, we have found that some natural polymers are effective corrosion inhibitors and can compete with green corrosion inhibitors [15]. According to Eddy et al. [15], polymers are effective corrosion inhibitors because through their functional groups they form complexes with metal ions and on the metal surface. These complexes occupy a large surface area that can blanket the metal surface and protect it against corrosion [16-17].
In spite of their numerous advantages as corrosion inhibitors, some natural polymers are found to be characterized with low values of inhibition efficiency. Therefore, it could be beneficial to work out efforts that can be adopted to improve upon their inhibition potentials. One of the ways of achieving this is through synergism [18]. Synergism has become one of the most important effects in inhibition processes and serves as the basis for all modern corrosion inhibitor formulations. It is an effective method to improve the inhibitive performance, to decrease the amount of usage, and to diversify the application of the inhibitor in acidic media [19]. Eddy et al. [3,20] stated that addition of Br- and I- ions to Lasianthera Africana and Gnetum African leaves extract antagonized their inhibition potentials for mild steel in solutions of H2SO4, while Cl- exerted synergistic effect in the same media. Synergistic inhibition effect between iodide ion and natural exudate gums of Raphia hookeri [20] and Pachylobus edulis [21] for mild steel in acidic media has been reported. In view of the high favourable composition of Anogessius leocarpus gum exudates and their low corrosion inhibition potential [15], the objective of the present study is to investigate the effect of halide ions (KI, KCl and KBr) on the enhancement of the corrosion inhibition potential of Anogessius leocarpus gum exudates.
Materials used for this study were mild steel sheets of composition (wt %, as determined by quantiometric method): Mn (0.6), P (0.36), C (0.15), Si (0.03) and Fe (99.01). The sheets were mechanically cut into different coupons, each of dimensions 5 × 4 × 0.11 cm. Each coupon was degreased by washing with ethanol, cleaned with acetone and allowed to dry in the air before preservation in a desiccator. All reagents used for the study were analar grade and double distilled water was used in preparing the required solutions. The Anogessus leocarpus gum exudates used for the studies were obtained from the Anogessius leocarpus tree, purified and concentrated using the method reported in our last work [15].
Weight loss measurement
In the gravimetric experiment, a previously weighed metal (mild steel) coupon was completely immersed in 250 mL of the test solution in an open beaker. The beaker was covered with aluminium foil and inserted into a water bath maintained at 303 K. After every 24 hours, in order to remove the corrosion product, each coupon was withdrawn and washed with a solution containing 50 % NaOH and 100 g L-1 of zinc dust. The washed coupon was rinsed in acetone and dried in the air before re-weighing. The experiment was repeated at 333 K. In each case, the difference in weight for a period of 168 hours was taken as the total weight loss. From the average weight loss (mean of three replicate analysis) results, the inhibition efficiency (%I) of the inhibitor, the degree of surface coverage (q) and the corrosion rate of mild steel (CR) were calculated using equations 1, 2 and 3, respectively,
where CR is the corrosion rate of mild steel in g/cm2/h, W1 and W2 are the weight losses (g) for mild steel in the absence and presence of the inhibitor, Θ is the degree of surface coverage of the inhibitor, A is the area of the mild steel coupon (in cm2), t is the period of immersion (in hours).
Effect of AL gum and halides
Fig. 1 shows the variation of weight loss with time for the corrosion of mild steel in various concentrations of HCl at 303 K.
The figure indicates that the rate of corrosion of mild steel in HCl increases with increase in concentration. The corrosion rate of mild steel in solutions of HCl was also found to increase with increase in temperature (figure not shown). Fig. 2 shows the variation of weight loss of mild steel in solution of HCl containing various concentrations of AL gum as an additive at 303 K.
The figure depicts that weight loss of mild steel in the blank is higher than those measured for solutions of HCl containing various concentrations of AL gum. This indicates that AL gum retarded the rate of corrosion of mild steel in solutions of HCl and that AL gum is an inhibitor for the corrosion of mild steel in solutions of HCl. At higher temperature (333 K), weight loss of mild steel in solution of HCl was found to follow similar pattern. However, at higher temperature (333 K), measured values of weight loss were higher than those obtained at a lower temperature (303 K).
From the calculated values of corrosion rate of mild steel and of the inhibition efficiency of AL gum (Table 1), it can be seen that the inhibition efficiency of AL gum for mild steel in solutions of HCl increases with increase in the concentration of the inhibitor, but decreases with increasing temperature, indicating that AL gum is an adsorption inhibitor for the corrosion of mild steel in solutions of HCl and that the adsorption of AL gum favours the mechanism of physical adsorption.
Calculated values of inhibition efficiency for AL gum are relatively low when compared to those obtained for some good green corrosion inhibitors. Therefore, in order to enhance the inhibition potential of AL gum for mild steel in solutions of HCl, synergistic effects of AL gum and halides (KI, KBr and KCl) were studied. Fixed concentration of the halides (0.005 M) in combination with various concentrations of Al gum was used for synergistic studies. According to Eddy et al. [19], synergism occurs when the combined inhibition efficiency of two or more inhibitors is greater than the sum of the inhibition efficiencies of the individual inhibitors, and that synergism of the corrosion inhibitor is due to the interaction between the components of the inhibitors, or the inhibitor and one of the ions present in aqueous solution. Table 2 presents values of the corrosion rate of mild steel and of the inhibition efficiency of various concentrations of KI, KBr, KCl, Al gum in combination with halides.
From the results obtained, it is evident that there is a significant enhancement of the inhibition efficiency of AL gum by potassium halides. Synergistic combination of AL gum with 0.005 M KCl, 0.005 M KBr and 0.005 M KI is found to increase the inhibition efficiency of AL gum, indicating that these halides have the potential of modifying the adsorption of AL gum on mild steel surface. In Fig. 3, plots showing the variation of the inhibition efficiencies of AL gum and those of halides and AL- halides mixtures with concentration of AL gum are presented.
From the figure, it is significant to note that inhibition efficiencies of the respective AL-halide mixture are higher than those of the corresponding halides and that of AL-gum. From the plots, it is evident that the increase in inhibition efficiency of AL gum as due to interaction with potassium halides is consistent with the following trend, KI > KBr > KCl.
In order to ascertain synergistic, antagonistic and non effect of halides on the adsorption of AL gum, synergistic parameters, S, were calculated for various combinations of the inhibitor and fixed concentrations of the halides (KI, KCl and KBr) using the following equation [19],
where IA and IB are inhibition efficiencies of compound A and B, respectively, and IAB is the inhibition efficiency of a combination of the two inhibitors. Calculated values of S are presented in Table 2.
The results indicate that the synergistic parameters for combinations of various concentrations of AL gum with 0.005 M KI, 0.005 M KBr and 0.005 M KCl tend to increase with increase in the concentration of AL gum, as shown in Fig. 4.
Consequently, calculated values of the synergistic parameters were greater than unity at AL concentration of 0.5 g/L when the inhibitor was co-employed with 0.005 M KI and KBr, respectively. Also S values calculated for combination of 0.4 and 0.5 g/L of AL gum inhibitor and 0.005 M KI were greater than unity. Therefore, at these concentrations, adsorption of AL gum on mild steel surface is enhanced by synergistic combination of KI and KBr at concentrations ≥ 0.4 g/L and ≥ 0.5 g/L, respectively. Below these critical concentrations and for all concentrations of Al gum in combination with KCl, calculated values of the synergistic parameter were less than unity, indicating that the adsorption of AL gum on mild steel is antagonized by the presence of KCl. The synergistic effect observed for iodide and bromide ions may be due to co-adsorption of iodide or bromide with the inhibitors' cations. It has been found that co-adsorption can be either competitive (in which the anion and the cation are adsorbed at different sites on the metal) or co-operative adsorption, in which the anion is chemisorbed on the surface of the metal and the cation on the layer of the anion [23]. However, it is possible to have both types of adsorption.
Effect of temperature
The effect of temperature on the corrosion of mild steel in solutions of HCl containing various concentrations of AL was studied using the Arrhenius equation, which can be written as follows [24]:
where CR is the corrosion rate of mild steel in a given medium, A is the Arrhenius or pre-exponential factor, Ea is the activation energy, R is the gas constant and T is the temperature. If the corrosion rates of mild steel at two temperatures [T1 (303 K) and T2 (333 K)] are assumed to be CR1 and CR2, respectively, then equation 5 can be simplified and written as follows,
The activation energies calculated from equation 6 are presented in Table 3.
From the results obtained, it can be seen that the activation energies are less than the threshold value required for chemical adsorption (80 kJ/mol), indicating that the adsorption of AL gum and those of AL gum-halides mixtures are consistent with the mechanism of charge transfer from the charged inhibitor to the charged metal surface, which indicates physisorption. The results also revealed that there is an improvement in the adsorption of AL gum due to synergism, which was observed for the following systems: 0.5 g/L AL + 0.05 M KI, 0.5 g/L AL + 0.05 M KI and 0.05 M KBr + 0.5 g/L KBr. This also implies that at higher concentration of AL gum, enhancement of inhibition efficiency through synergistic combinations with KI or KBr can be achieved through improved adsorption.
Heat of adsorption
The heat of adsorption of AL gum and for various combinations of AL gum with halides were estimated using the following equation [15],
where Qads is the heat of adsorption, R is the gas constant, q1 and q2 are the degrees of surface coverage for the inhibitor or inhibitor-halide combination at the temperatures T1 (303 K) and T2 (333 K), respectively. Values of Qads calculated from equation 7 are also recorded in Table 3. The results obtained indicate that the adsorption of AL gum, KI, KBr, KI, as well as joint adsorption of AL with halides, is endothermic.
Adsorption/thermodynamic studies
Adsorption characteristics of an inhibitor can be studied using adsorption isotherm. Several adsorption isotherms have been defined for various inhibitors including Temkin, Langmuir, Flory-Huggins, Frumkin and Freundlich adsorption isotherms [25]. Values obtained for the degree of surface coverage of the inhibitor (including combinations of AL gum and halides) at various temperatures and concentrations were used to fit curves for different adsorption isotherms. The test revealed that the best adsorption isotherm that describes the adsorption characteristics of Al gum is the Langmuir adsorption isotherm, which can be expressed as follows [26],
where b is the equilibrium constant of adsorption and is related to the standard Gibb free energy of adsorption (ΔGads) according to the following equation,
where R is the universal gas constant, T is the absolute temperature and 55.5 is the concentration of water in solution (mol L-1) .Simplification of equation 9 yields equation 10 and from the logarithm of both side of equation 10, equation 11 was obtained
From equation 11, a plot of log(C/q) versus logC should be expected to give a straight line with intercept equal to -log b. Fig. 5 presents the Langmuir adsorption isotherm for AL gum and for co-adsorption of AL gum-halides mixture.
Values of Langmuir parameters obtained from the plots are presented in Table 4.
The results reveal that R2 values are very close to unity, which indicates that the adsorption of AL gum and co-adsorption of AL gum-halide mixtures obeyed the Langmuir adsorption model. 'b' value indicates the strength of adsorption. The higher the value of 'b', the better is the adsorption. Recorded values of 'b' were deduced from the intercepts of the Langmuir plots for the various systems, and by substitution into equation 9, the free energy associated with the adsorption of the inhibitor was also computed (Table 4). The free energies are negatively less than the threshold value of -40 kJ/mol expected for the mechanism of chemical adsorption; therefore, the adsorption of AL gum and co-adsorption of AL gum with KI, KCl and KBr is spontaneous and supports the mechanism of physical adsorption.
The findings of the present study indicate that the inhibition efficiency of AL gum can be improved through co-adsorption with KI and KBr. However, critical concentrations of AL gum that allowed for the synergism with the halides are 0.5 g/L and 0.4 g/L for KBr and KI, respectively. The adsorption of Al gum and coadsorption of the gum with the halides is consistent with the mechanism of physical adsorption. The adsorption is also spontaneous and can best be described by the Langmuir adsorption model.
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*Corresponding author. E-mail address: nabukeddy@yahoo.com
Received 2 May 2012; accepted 31 August 2012
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"JUST VISITING"
(2001) (Jean Reno, Christina Applegate) (PG-13)
*Mild
*Heavy
Comedy: A French nobleman and his servant suddenly find themselves thrust from the 12th to the 21st century and must then find their way back home with the help of his future descendent.
Count Thibault of Malfete (JEAN RENO) is a 12th century French nobleman who's set to marry Rosalind (CHRISTINA APPLEGATE), the King's daughter. Unbeknownst to him, however, a rival has summoned a witch to use her black magic to stop the wedding and this results in him killing Rosalind while in the midst of a spell-induced hallucination.
Realizing his master is set to die, Thibault's servant, André (CHRISTIAN CLAVIER), brings an English Wizard (MALCOLM McDOWELL) to his prison cell, hoping that the magician will be able to resurrect Rosalind and get his boss off the hook. The Wizard states that he can't do that, but that he can send Thibault back in time to before he was poisoned and thus prevent the incident from occurring again.
Unfortunately, the Wizard leaves out a key ingredient in his potion, thus sending Thibault and André not into the past, but instead far into the future where they awaken in a museum display in present day Chicago. Viewed as thieves and lunatics, the men are about to be taken away when Thibault mentions the family motto of Julia Malfete (CHRISTINA APPLEGATE), the head of the museum's medieval art department.
He thinks she's Rosalind due to the spitting image, while she thinks he's her long lost cousin who's been believed dead and whose valuable estate she's recently inherited. Thibault quickly realizes he's incorrect and both he and André try to figure out what happened to them and then adapt to their foreign surroundings. Much to the dismay of Julia's fiancé, Hunter (MATTHEW ROSS) who's scheming to get his hands on the estate and then run off with his mistress Amber (BRIDGETTE WILSON-SAMPRAS), Julia brings Thibault and André home, thinking their odd behavior is a side effect of amnesia.
As André finds a kindred spirit in Angelique (TARA REID), the neighbor's gardener, Julia and Hunter must put up with the French men's peculiar and uncivilized behavior while Thibault tries to find a modern day wizard to send him back in time so that he can right the wrongs that have occurred.
If they're fans of someone in the cast or of medieval set, sword and sorcery type films, they just might.
WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG-13
For violence and crude humor.
JEAN RENO plays a courageous, 12th century knight from the past who finds himself in present day Chicago where his appearance, demeanor and behavior clash with the more "refined" society. He briefly uses some profanity, kills some bad guys in the past, is demeaning to his servant, and helps Julia find her inner strength.
CHRISTIAN CLAVIER plays his faithful servant whose crude ways (in appearance and behavior) similarly clash with his new surroundings. He briefly uses some profanity and finds a kindred spirit in Angelique.
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE plays the head of a museum's medieval art department who lives with her fiancé and takes in Thibault and André, believing the former to be a long lost and presumed death relative. She also plays Thibault's 12th century love.
MATTHEW ROSS plays her fiancé who's cheating on her with Amber, use some brief profanity and seemingly only wants to get his hands on the estate that Julia has inherited.
TARA REID plays the neighbor's gardener who befriends André.
BRIDGETTE WILSON-SAMPRAS plays Hunter's mistress.
MALCOLM McDOWELL plays the English wizard who accidentally transports Thibault and André to present day Chicago and then travels there himself to bring them back.
Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit?
Then read OUR TAKE of this film.
(Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below).
Here's a quick look at the content found in this comedy that's been rated PG-13. Violence consists of several people being killed with medieval-based weapons (in an old style, action-adventure fashion rather than being graphically realistic), a person jumping to their death from a castle window (the impact isn't seen), an explosion where a wizard is killed (but comes back to life), some cops beating the two Frenchmen (with slightly bloody results), people hitting others in various fashions, some property damage and several instances of slapstick/pratfall style material.
Some of those scenes and others may be unsettling or suspenseful to the youngest of viewers, while various characters involved in that and other scenes have varying degrees of bad attitudes. Profanity consists of several uses of the "s" word, while some other expletives and colorful phrases also occur. A man cheats on his fiancée (with whom he lives) with another woman who shows cleavage and writhes/rolls around on a table in a seductive manner in one scene.
Crude humor consists of some farting sounds and vomiting, the two Frenchmen washing their faces with toilet water and one thinking a urinal deodorant puck is some sort of edible breath mint (that's shared with others). Meanwhile, a few characters drink and some of the comedic moments may be enticing for some impressionable kids to imitate. If you're still concerned about the film's content, we suggest that you take a closer look at our detailed listings for more specific examples of what occurs in the film.
For those concerned with the flashing of bright lights on the screen, several instances of that occur (as the Wizard shows up in Chicago and in a scene set in a nightclub).
People drink wine at a royal banquet.
People have wine with dinner, including Thibault.
Thibault goes into a bar where some people drink. Later, we see him drinking with them, including holding his mouth under a spigot and having beer poured directly into his mouth.
People have drinks in a nightclub.
We briefly see what looks like a meaty skull float up to the top of a witch's brew in her cauldron.
Thibault has a little bit of blood from his nose and some on his head after being beaten by police.
We hear André vomit into Hunter's briefcase from being carsick and then see both Julia and Hunter's reaction to the smell.
After eating some dog food (and thinking it's great), André states that he'll "sh*t easily tomorrow."
He and Thibault then wash their faces from the water in a toilet.
After eating in a fine restaurant, André loudly belches and then lets loose with various farting sounds.
André discovers a deodorizing disc at the bottom of a urinal and liking the smell, takes a bite out of it. Later, he offers small pieces of that to Thibault, Julia and Hunter. Thinking they're after dinner mints, they all pop them into their mouths and chew them up, with Hunter enjoying the taste.
We see the Wizard chopping up a pork penis (he identifies it as such) while mixing up some magic.
One of Thibault's contemporaries hires a witch to cast a spell on Thibault to prevent him from marrying Rosalind. The plan turns out to have Rosalind drink some tainted wine that will cause her to hallucinate, see Thibault as a demon and thus kill him as such.
Thibault and others treat André poorly throughout the film (although we're led to believe this was apparently the norm in the 12th century).
Thibault comes across some bad guys harassing some innocents.
Those who don't like witchcraft, wizards and such magic may have a problem with such material as presented in this film (done and presented in a medieval style).
We learn that Hunter is having an affair with Amber (or at least wanting to while scheming to get all of Julia's family money).
Angelique's employer is mean and demeaning to her.
Some miscellaneous thug tries to steal Julia's purse.
Scenes listed under "Violence" and "Blood/Gore" may also be unsettling, suspenseful or even scary to some viewers (especially younger kids, although that depends on their age, level of maturity and tolerance for such material).
A large and fierce looking dragon grows out of a witch's caldron and acts menacingly toward a knight (shooting flames at him from its mouth).
After drinking some wine tainted with black magic, Thibault begins to hallucinate and sees various odd incarnations of reality warping and people with bizarre-looking heads (some of which might be unsettling or scary for younger viewers such as a snake-like apparition coming from Rosalind's head).
The scenes where various characters go through the time travel process (turning into a ball-like figure, a stone like figure that crumbles and another that turns into liquid) might be unsettling for the youngest of viewers.
Swords/axes/Knives: Used to threaten, wound or kill people, as well as attack a car and a TV.
Phrases: "Holy sh*t," "Old hag," "Bastard," "What the hell are you doing?" "Bloody" (adjective), "Idiot," "Retarded," "Who the hell are you?" "Piss" and "Whore."
Some kids may want to imitate what Thibault and André do with modern day appliances and such (such as attacking a car with swords, pretending it's a dragon; turning the lights on and off as if it's magic; André eating dog food from the dog bowl; playing in a toilet; drinking perfume like wine and then adding that and toilet bowl cleaner to a bath; eating toothpaste straight from the tube; tossing food to someone who's eating on the floor and eating food with their hands; using an umbrella to roast a raw chicken in a fireplace; attacking a TV with knives; André eating Angelique's lipstick; etc.).
An older woman gives Hunter and his group "the finger" for driving too slowly.
A moderate amount of suspenseful, dramatic and action-oriented music plays in the film.
At least 4 "s" words, 2 damns, 2 hells, 1 ass, 3 uses of "Oh my God," 2 of "My God" and 1 use each of "G-damn," "God," "Jesus," "Jesus Christ," "Lord," and "Oh God" as exclamations.
Amber shows cleavage as she writhes about on a table in front of Hunter and then sensuously crawls toward him (and occasionally rolls around some more while doing so). Hunter then tells her, "You're so much hotter than a bunny" (his nickname for Julia) and then calls her a tigress.
Hunter and Julia apparently live and sleep together (we see them getting into bed), but we don't see any activity between them.
A woman shows some cleavage in a bar, while Amber shows more cleavage in another scene.
A miscellaneous person smokes in a bar.
Time travel and the ramifications of doing so.
The differences in how people behave/act now and anytime in the past, and what is/was considered appropriate and/or acceptable in either time.
The way in which Hunter treated Julia.
Much of what's listed below is meant as comedy or old style action adventure rather than explicit/graphic realism (the latter particularly applying to the deaths that occur).
A large dragon shoots flames at a knight and partially singes his hair. Some slapstick style material then has that knight turning and accidentally banging his head on a low doorway.
A man kicks André from a moving carriage, sending him falling to the road. Thibault then hits his servant on the head with his shield.
Thibault comes across some bad guys harassing some innocents (including that of a man pushing a woman) and goes to rescue them, but the bad guys have set up a trap, tripping Thibault's horse to the ground. Various thugs then try to attack Thibault, who defends himself by striking many of them and knocking them down with his sword and shield. He then elbows an attacker in the face, stabs another with his sword (no blood), and avoids a thrown ax that lands in the chest armor of another attacker, presumably killing him. He then stabs one more attacker (who's severely wounded or killed, but there's no blood and no graphic shots of penetration for any of that).
After drinking some wine tainted with black magic, Thibault begins to hallucinate and sees various odd incarnations of people with bizarre-looking heads, including the Queen who he punches back into her chair and Rosalind who he sees as a demon and thus impales her with his sword (no blood), killing her.
Encountering a truck in a parking garage that they believe to be some sort of Hellish dragon, Thibault and André attack the truck, impaling it with their swords and otherwise smashing it.
Thibault kicks André to get out of his way.
Various cops kick and beat Thibault and André with their night sticks (we see the motion of both, but don't see the impact as it's blocked from our view).
Back in the past, guards try to get into a locked prison cell by taking axes to the door and eventually knock it down by ramming it.
Some pratfalls include André slipping on some ice and falling flat to the floor, Amber rolling off a table in a different scene, and some unintentional property damage in a kitchen.
Thibault grabs André and throws him into a bathtub to wash.
Hearing a conversation on a phone and not knowing what it is, André grabs the phone, rips it out and throws it into the toilet. Meanwhile, Thibault drops a framed picture and it breaks upon hitting the floor.
Told to take a torch with him to ward off any wolves (of which there are obviously none), André sees some electric candles on the walls in a restaurant and tears two sets of them from the walls (causing their "flame" to go out).
Thinking some people they see on TV are trapped inside the set, Thibault and André attack it with their knives, eventually causing it to explode and catch part of their room on fire.
André holds his knife to Angelique's boss to make him apologize to her.
Some miscellaneous thug tries to steal Julia's purse and so Thibault grabs him, throws him onto a car and prepares to cut off his arm (but doesn't).
A man in a bar challenges Thibault to a duel and comes at him with a pool cue. Thibault slices the cue in half with his sword that he then briefly holds on this man.
We hear an explosion in the Wizard's motel room where he was mixing up a magic potion, and all we see left are his two boots in the damaged room. Later, we see various pieces of his body that have turned to stone or metal (nothing graphic and they eventually come back together and he's reanimated back to life).
Showing Julia how to use a sword, Thibault impales a discarded refrigerator and other such items.
Julia briefly threatens Hunter with Thibault's sword. She then puts it back into its sheath and then uses that to strike Hunter between the legs, doubling him over before throwing him out the door and literally onto the street.
A car crashes into another during a chase where Thibault grabs a cop on horseback and pulls him from his ride, while the Wizard knocks another cop off his horse. Later, they blast through a plate glass window (on horseback) to enter the museum.
Back in the past, a man jumps from a castle window to his presumed death rather than drink some wine that's been tainted by black magic (we don't see the impact).
Reviewed April 2, 2001 / Posted April 6, 2001
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Didn't It Rain? (Day 26)
I admit it, I'm soaked. I love the Pacific Northwest, so lush and green, but enough is enough. And I'm not just saying that because of the groundwater seeping into my basement.
Yes, we're on our 26th consecutive day of rain here. And it's not just the usual Northwest drizzle; this is serious. Average rainfall for January is 8 inches, and just a third of the way through the month we're already near 6 inches, with rain moistening the forecast for at least the five days. Put the hip-waders and rowboats on standby...
Even if you don't live here, this has ramifications for you. There may be agricultural impacts, or migrational effects (as people vacation or move permanently to drier climes). But what you'll notice in the immediate future is that SoundRoots rain on the brain. (The title of this posting comes from the great gospel song given voice by Marion Williams.) So here's the first of perhaps several precipitation-related postings.
[mp3] Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Rain, Rain, Beautiful Rain
from the 1987 album Shaka Zulu [buy]
band website: www.mambazo.com
Do you know other rain-related world music songs? Please share!
Labels: Ladysmith Black Mambazo, rain, south africa
Mike Todd said...
I think we're on Day 25 here in Vancouver, BC. The record is 28, so we're going for it!
Wed Jan 11, 12:39:00 PM 2006
SpinTheGlobe said...
Ah, Mike, my brother to the north (I guess that's the Pacific Southwest, from your perspective, eh?). Seattle's record is 33 days; I'm not sure about Olympia. But it's clear from the increasing number of sliding slopes and flooding lakes and rivers that we're pretty saturated around here. I'm all for records, but maybe we could set the record with lighter rainfall. About the only break in the rain we've had today is when it hailed for 20 minutes. Yikes!
One of my favorite rain songs is Bob Marley's Kaya
Fri Jan 13, 02:52:00 PM 2006
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More info on Lubumbashi International Airport
Airlines and destinations
Lubumbashi International Airport: Wikis
Categories: Airports in the Democratic Republic of the Congo > Airports in Central Africa > Lubumbashi > Katanga > USAAF Air Transport Command Airfields - Central and South Africa > Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces
Lubumbashi International Airport
IATA: FBM – ICAO: FZQA
Airport type
Elevation AMSL
4,295 ft / 1,197 m
11°35′28.80″S 27°31′51.52″E / 11.591333°S 27.5309778°E / -11.591333; 27.5309778Coordinates: 11°35′28.80″S 27°31′51.52″E / 11.591333°S 27.5309778°E / -11.591333; 27.5309778
07/25 10,623 3,203 Asphalt
Lubumbashi International Airport is an airport in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (IATA: FBM, ICAO: FZQA).
1 Airlines and destinations
Air Zimbabwe Harare, Lusaka
Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation Kinshasa
Ethiopian Airlines Harare, Lilongwe, Addis Ababa
Hewa Bora Airways Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Kolwezi, Mbuji-Mayi
Kenya Airways Harare, Nairobi
Malift Air Kinshasa
South African Airways operated by South African Express Johannesburg
Wimbi Dira Airways Johannesburg, Kananga, Kinshasa, Mbuji-Mayi
Zambia Skyways Lusaka
Lubumbashi International Airport was founded in colonial times as the Elisabethville Airport.[1] It was also known as Luano airport.
This airport played a high-profile role during the Katanga war.[2] After it was seized by the United Nations Force in the Congo (ONUC) troops, the airport was used as a base against the secessionist government.[3]
^ Belgian troops parading at Elisabethville Airport
^ TIME - Moise Tshombe at Elisabethville airport
^ Rockets for the United Nations Force in the Congo (ONUC) at Elisabethville airport
Accident history for FBM at Aviation Safety Network
Airport information for FZQA at Great Circle Mapper.
Current weather for FZQA at NOAA/NWS
Airport information for FZQA at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
Categories: Central African airport stubs | Democratic Republic of the Congo geography stubs | Airports in the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Airports in Central Africa | Lubumbashi | Katanga
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Thursday, 23 October, 2015 | Vol-5, No.12, 8 Kartik, 1422 BS
Wednesday To Wednesday
5th Year Of Publication
Latest News of the Week
Dear readers, The Kushtia Times, only English weekly newspaper in Khulna division is now available online on epaper version. Please stay with us. All the best. Editor-publisher
Offers Tk 7,340cr benefit a year
Ganges Barrage scheme put on ice for decades
Says feasibility study on the Tk 31,414cr project
Special Report - March 5th, 2013
Although the foundation stone of the Ganges Barrage Project was laid nearly three decades ago, successive governments could not even finalise a site for the barrage yet, leading to continuing deterioration of the ecology and agriculture of southern Bangladesh.
With no tangible action towards realising the project yet in sight, the people of the region and environmentalists are saying the entire region will continue to pay a heavy price as more rivers will dry up hampering navigability, irrigation, and fishing.
Now the researchers says by building a barrage in the Ganges river system in Rajbari, the country can stop the salinity creeping in the southwestern region as well as reap a net benefit of Tk 7,340 crore every year, says a government study.
Once the project is completed, the area will produce 25 lakh tonnes of extra rice and 2.4 lakh tonnes of fish yearly, according to the Ganges barrage feasibility study tabled yesterday at an inter-ministerial meeting.
The meeting, held in the National Economic Council auditorium, was chaired by Planning Commission member MA Sattar Mandal.
The total cost of the proposed Ganges barrage has been estimated at Tk 31,414 crore and it can be implemented in seven years, says the study, adding it would take only seven years to recover this cost.
The water flow of the rivers dependent on the Ganges will increase and distribution of the Ganges water to the rivers of the area could be ensured as per demand during the dry season when the barrage reservoir is built.
About 33 percent of the high-salinity area in the Sundarbans will have low to moderate salinity. Of the area, 11,000 hectares will have very low salinity.
Member of the Planning Commission (General Economic Division) Shamsul Alam told that the barrage project is very important to the country and the commission will urge the concerned ministry to forward the project quickly to the planning ministry.
Another high official of the planning ministry said $1.03 billion of foreign currency would be required to bear the total project cost. He added that China had expressed its interest to finance the project.
After the barrage is built, about 52 lakh hectares of land could be brought under cultivation in different agricultural projects including GK and Pabna Irrigation.
A total of 113 megawatts of hydro-electricity can be generated in the main barrage and an off-track structure in the river Gorai.
The study report also says the amount of underground arsenic will be reduced and the coastal rivers saved from siltation. A direct communications and transport link can be made between the northern and southwestern regions of the country.
Entertainment and tourist spots could be built around the reservoir and in its adjoining areas.
In 2005, the Planning Commission approved a proposal for conducting a feasibility study of the Ganges barrage. In 2009, the government purchase committee approved DDC and Associates Ltd, an international consultant, for carrying out the study.
Though only 240 kilometres out of the 2,200-kilometre Ganges river flows into Bangladesh, an area of as many as 46,000 kilometres is dependent on the river system.
After India commissioned Farakka barrage in the upstream of the Ganges in 1975, Bangladesh suffered adverse effects as the water flow fell drastically.
In 1996, the Ganges Water Sharing Treaty was signed between Bangladesh and India.
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SATC 2: Shit and the City
I loved Sex and the City the show; however, the first SATC film shat upon the memory of my beloved show, forsaking sex, love, and, above all else, friendship for a film where a main character defecates in her pants. I couldn’t put my finger on why the first film rubbed me the wrong way—it was almost as if the characters that worked so well on the small screen became gross caricatures that were unwelcome to me at the Cineplex. So, going into the sequel, I had high hopes that this film could resuscitate the story for me. Luckily no one pooped their pants, but Michael Patrick King and Sarah Jessica Parker most certainly took a dump on those dreams.
SATC 2 picks up where the last film ended: Carrie (Parker) and Big (Chris Noth) are settling into marriage, while deciding on what wedded bliss looks like sans baby; Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Steve (David Eisenberg) are juggling Miranda’s hectic work schedule and angry boss with their family life; Charlotte (Kristin Davis) is struggling with the trials and tribulations of raising two young daughters; and Samantha (Kim Catrall) is trying to stave off menopause by ingesting hormones by the fistful. So when Samantha gets offered an all expenses paid vacay to Abu Dhabi, she brings her ladies for extravagant lady bonding and wacky shenanigans. While in the Middle East, Carrie runs into old flame Aidan (John Corbett) and old emotions resurface.
Read more after the jump!
While the HBO series made these characters relatable even in their $400 Manolos, the films have done their best to completely ruin the memory of four independent women striving to find love in the Big Apple. I understand that the ladies are getting older and that the struggles with marriage and mommyhood are appropriate plot-wise, but the way these storylines are handled doesn’t do anyone justice. Everyone seems selfish and spoiled, and I find it hard to pick the girl I most resemble a la the “I’m Carrie” or “I’m Samantha” talk. I want to be none of these ladies. Carrie is too distraught by the fact her husband would rather stay in and snuggle while watching black and white films than go out to see how fucking awesome her life is. Charlotte is drowning in motherhood but with the help of a full-time nanny, which doesn’t make me feel good for my future foray into eventual child rearing. And, as for Samantha, whatever happened to aging gracefully?
The film is just offensive on so many levels. In a time of deep recession and unemployment, these women frivolously throw money about like it grows on trees—seriously, I read that Parker wears a $50,000 dress in one scene. On top of that, the film begins with an over-the-top gay wedding that makes Liza Minelli (doing her best “Single Ladies” rendition while trying not to look lost) look like she’s a flannel-wearing, chainsaw-wielding lumberjack who thinks homosexuality will wear off on him if he drank anything but whiskey and beer. And Samantha does her best to offend everyone with her outrage of not being able to dress like a whore in a Muslim city. Just when it couldn’t get any more offensive, the writers try to convince me that every woman can relate to another simply through fashion. No matter how different we all are, we all just want to wear frilly things and jump up and down with excitement? Give me a break.
Sure, this film is maybe slightly better than the first. It is chock-full of the slightly un-clever puns that made the series so much fun, and the eye candy is above and beyond the best part of the film. There are slight glimmers of the greatness of the show, which is the wonderful friendship between these four women, but they are so few and far in between that it made me long for the good ol’ days even more. A favorite scene of Miranda and Charlotte bonding over the hardships of motherhood and saying the things no mother wants to say out loud over drinks in their hotel room almost made up for when Charlotte gets a camel toe—on an actual camel… Oh, brother.
Whereas Sex and the City the show celebrated independent women looking for love (and the perfect pair of shoes) while in the company of their best friends, Sex and the City 2 isn’t about anything other than buying tons of shit and complaining about how their lives aren’t “perfect.” And most women will eat it up. Sometimes I’m embarrassed for my sex…
--Darcie Duttweiler
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Thanks to your post, I found Weebly and made my own blog too, thanks.
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Live: Fall Out Boy @ London Camden Underworld – 25 February 2013
Thrash Hits » Reviews » Live » Live: Fall Out Boy @ London Camden Underworld – 25 February 2013
So Fall Out Boy are back. We queued up in Camden behind hundreds of teenage girls and dozens of confused Eskimo Callboy fans (their show was originally set to be at The Underworld) to see Pete Wentz, Patrick Stump, Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley strut their stuff again
Six things we learnt whilst screaming along to Fall Out Boy in Camden
1) Who cares that it’s only February, the award for “Most Anticipated Gig of the Year” is already pretty much sewn up. By 5 o’clock the queue is snaking around the Underworld with kids desperate to buy spares longingly shooting sideways glances at those with golden tickets to this super-intimate show. Inside the atmosphere is one of hushed excitement and tetchy nervousness. Welcome. It’s here.
2) As the band smash on stage to Infinity on High opener ‘Thriller’ the shriek from the crowd is deafening. Make no mistake, whether you love them or hate them Fall Out Boy are a VERY important band and a band without whom the last decade of pop punk would look very VERY different. That they are back is joyful, wonderful and ultimately A Good Thing For Music.
3) There can’t be many bands out there with a back catalogue that can compete with the Chicagoans. They have so much in the locker in terms of song writing that it is at times overwhelming. ‘Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes’ sounds phenomenal but the biggest responses are saved for Take This To Your Grave era material with ‘Grand Theft Autumn’ in particular met with a rapturous sing-along.
Apologies if you get motion sickness whilst watching this… 4) The positive reaction to older material isn’t saved for the crowd, the band too seem to enjoy giving the old stuff a run out. That said, Pete Wentz (the man who is arguably the focal point of the band) looks pretty bored throughout, giving a performance that occasionally kicks into gear but is mostly a little lacklustre. It is a shame – perhaps a product of jetlag or a feeling of having done it a million times before – because he is capable of really turning it on, as he does when he clambers into the crowd for closer Saturday. If only he had looked so enthused for the whole set.
5) The flip side of this coin is Patrick Stump. Oh, Patrick Stump. Rarely, if ever, has a pop-punk band had such a potent weapon in their arsenal as the Stumpster. His voice rises above the racket with consummate ease and from quickfire older material to the MONSTROUS crowd chant that he conducts for new single ‘My Songs Know What you Did In The Dark (Light ‘em Up)’ he is on point in style and delivery. He looks energized, focused, dripping in sweat and in fine fettle – it is wonderful to see.
6) Sure, the energy lulls during the 20+ song set and there are moments where WHO they are not WHAT they are doing carry the band through, but as Wentz’s proclamations about the transformative nature of music ring out across the sweat drenched venue it seems like a new chapter is opening for Fall Out Boy, one that they (and Stump especially) look hungrier than ever for.
Live & Photos: Fall Out Boy @ Brighton Centre – 08 March 2009 Fall Out Boy announce autumn arena tour Live: Sylosis @ London Camden Underworld – 25 February 2011
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Live: Cancer Bats + While She Sleeps @ Glasgow ABC – 29 April 2015
Live: Arch Enemy + Kreator @ London Kentish Town Forum – 18 December 2014
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Live: Roadburn Festival @ Tilburg 013 – 09-13 April 2014
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For Saab's 60th birthday
For Saab’s 60th birthday, Egekont provided dependable transportation on Ro-Ro vessels for the vehicles on Saab’s Performance Team, enabling the team to travel from Wallhamn, Sweden to Izmir to meet up with Saab fans in Turkey.
Egekont brings the Saab Performance Team to Istanbul
Arkas provided sponsorship with transport services in an exhibition held at Hezarfen Airport in Istanbul on May 5th, 2007, in which the Saab Performance Team displayed their 20 years of acrobatic experience. Attendees interested in taking a test drive had the chance to try out Saab’s new line of cars.
Saab rally drivers have joined together to form the Saab Performance Team, which uses a standard 9-3 sedan that can be bought from any dealer.
The team displayed performances of incredible 360-degree turns at speed, driving on two wheels and a stunt in which the automobiles drove toward each other at top speed, changing directions just before they were about to crash and stopping bumper to bumper.
Over one thousand spectators watched the synchronized driving exhibition.
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‘Lumang Piso Para sa Puso’ Stars Real-Life Sweetheart Oyo Boy and Kristine!
8:27 AM by Rocky ChuaNo comments
After the real-life sweetheart starer of Zanjoe Marudo and Mariel Rodriguez, another real-life couple will grace the fourth installation of Precious Heart Romances Presents "Quickilig Maiikling Kwento Ng Pag-Ibig"! This time, Oyo Boy Sotto and Kristine Hermosa will teamup for next week's episode entitled "Lumang Piso Para Sa Puso"!
Well, this is a reunion soap for this couple. Yup, we may recall that they were first teamed in the ABS-CBN's former afternoon soap, "Prinsesa Ng Banyera" in 2008! From a drama series before, this time we may see them in a light romance-comedy story!
And also, this is their first time to star in a series as a real-life couple! On their previous soap as well as their former movies, they were both single people!
Now let's talk about their soap.
In the story, Kristine will play the role of Sandra an ordinary government employee who desperately needs money so she decided to sell her departed grandmother’s antique coin to hobby-shop owner and coin collector Dave (played by Oyo Boy).
But after using the money, Sandra has been unceasingly haunted by her lola in her dreams, which really made her feel guilty. So she decided to get the coin back from Dave. But Dave rejected Sandra’s offer.
Determined to get back her lola’s precious coin, Sandra thought of no other solution but to steal it from Dave!
Will Sandra able to get back the coin from Dave? How would romance begin between these two people? What is the role of this 'old coin' to these two individuals?! How this become so significant in the story?
Well, many more questions really awaits! It's such another exciting and a sure hit mini-series every afternoon in ABS-CBN's Hapontastic starting March 15.
Joining them in the cast were Niña Jose, DJ Durano, Angel Jacob,and Mariel Sorino of PBB Double Up! I can't really wait to see this! c",)
Tagged: ABS-CBN, Hapontastic, Kristine Hermosa, Lumang Piso Para Sa Puso, New TV Series, Oyo Boy Sotto, PHR, precious hearts romance, Quickilig, Quickilig Maiikling Kwento Ng Pag-Ibig
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Category Archives: unemployment
San Diego Minimum Wage: Unions, Gloria vow to stop public vote
August 21, 2014 California, San Diego, Uncategorized, unemploymentDavid Alvarez, KOGO, LaDona Harvey, minimum wage, San Diego, Todd GloriaVictoria Taft
Council President Todd Gloria: Backing 40% minimum wage increase is “righteous cause”. Efforts to put on ballot start today.
San DIego City Council President, Todd Gloria, surrounded by SEIU and other union members announces efforts to stop you from signing petitions to put minimum wage on the ballot. Photo via 10News
Monday while filling in on KOGO Radio [listen at 13:58] a man named Alex, who identified himself as the owner of two Mexican restaurants, called me to say he doesn’t know what he’ll do if this $11.50/hour city wide minimum wage goes into effect after what has just happened to his business. What just happened? July first he statewide minimum wage bumped up from $8.00 to $9.00 an hour.
“I’m a small Mom and Pop restaurant, I can’t afford to give a job that they’ll [employees] can have a middle class life. I just can’t do it! Man, I barely do that myself, and I’m working 80 hours a week!”
At his two stores with 32 employees, he claimed the $1.00/hour increase now cost him an extra $900.00 a week. So, do you know what he did? He cut 100 hours from the weekly schedule hurting the very people Gloria and the unions claim to want to help. This was on top of his continual quest for cheaper food to serve his customers.
Owner of 2 restaurants told me on @KOGORadio when #MinWage went to $9/hr his costs rose $900/wk.& cut 100 hrs.Can't afford city increase.
— Victoria Taft (@VictoriaTaft) August 18, 2014
When San Diego City Council lefties such as David Alvarez and Todd Gloria first floated their proposal of a $13.09 (not a typo) an hour minimum wage, they promised to get the voters’ consent. Hearing the expected outrage from the business community, they feigned reasonableness, and dialed back the ask to $11.50 an hour.
[T]he soft spoken political pugilists pulled a rope-a-dope
Claiming they’d now “compromised” with “stakeholders”, Alvarez and Gloria announced they’d gotten all the input they needed and would not seek to put the minimum wage on the ballot. Put another way, the soft spoken political pugilists pulled a rope-a-dope.
Council President Gloria, in fact, is now heading the opposition with the SEIU and other unions to not only stop the vote but to stop people from signing the petition to get the proposal to a vote.
Council President Gloria, in fact, has now amassed $300,000.00 to head the opposition with the SEIU and other unions to not only stop the vote but to stop people from signing the petition to get the proposal to a vote. The signature drive to put the issue on the ballot began today.
What could possibly go wrong? How about intimidation at signature gathering spots as happened in 2011 when union activists fought pension reform?
In 2011 union members picketed signature gatherers to intimidate citizens trying to sign petition to put pension reform on the ballot. Photo via 10News.
And Gloria is teeing it up to happen again.
After saying he would take minimum wage to voters, Todd Gloria reversed himself. Now Gloria, the SEIU and other unions are vowing to stop people from signing referendum petitions. Gee, what could possibly go wrong? Photo via 10News
At his two stores with 32 employees, he claimed the $1.00/hour increase cost him $900.00 a week. So, do you know what he did? He cut 100 hours from the weekly schedule hurting the very people Gloria and the unions claim to want to help.
Union members brought their printed signs to vow to stop public vote. Union wages are based on minimum wages in an area. This issue is not about the people who would be impacted by the wage increase, it’s all about the Democrat’s campaign friends: SEIU and other unions.
During an interview with LaDona Harvey on KOGO yesterday, Gloria claimed his was a “righteous cause” and that efforts by small business groups and the Chamber of Commerce to put the vote to the people are a “wolf in sheep’s clothing”. Apparently that wasn’t the case when he suggested taking the measure to the voters. Oh, wait, he wasn’t planning to do that anyway. Wake up.
The biggest issue isn’t only the 40% increase in labor costs for the business owners in San Diego, although we all know people will lose jobs and teens and black youth will have an even tougher time getting into the labor force without education and training. It’s that minimum wage will keep going up every year and price more and more people out of the labor pool. Gloria, Alvarez and the unions have seen to that by tying the wage to the Consumer Price Index. They want this to be the minimum wage battle to end all minimum wage battles. If they win this, they’ll never have to do it again because of the CPI tie.
And what of the ever increasing costs of doing business?
The restaurant owner laments: When [minimum wage] goes to $11.50, I’m going to have to cut like crazy!
Exactly. Hurting the very people this proposal claims to help.
Oregon’s Latest Unemployment Rates
January 22, 2013 unemploymentadmin
Tell ’em where you saw it. Http://www.victoriataft.com
Moveon.org Asks, "Have You Ever Been In Her Shoes?"
February 28, 2012 Barack Obama, Occupy, unemploymentadmin
Far left Moveon.org asks, “Have you ever been in her shoes? Watch:”
I’m not a huge fan of Mitt Romney, so this is not in support of or an endorsement, but yes, as a matter of fact I have been in her shoes. After 20 years at a Chrysler dealer and at age 61, I found myself unemployed in an area with 15% unemployment when the White House helped compile of a list of 789 Chrysler dealers to have their franchises yanked, including some very profitable ones.
Should I feel pleased this young lady feels so good about saving her butt on the backs of taxpayers while hundreds of thousands of the rest of us were thrown out of work?
Maybe she needs to look at the real world.
Unemployment was 7.8% when Obama assumed office. Within a few months it exceeded 10% and only in the last couple of months dropped slightly below 9%.
Our National Debt has increased by over $5 Trillion (that’s $5,000,000,000,000) in just the 3 years Obama has been in office, currently sitting now at about $15,451,060,345,845 and change and increasing as you read. Each citizen shares $49,474.64 of the debt.
America had an AAA credit rating and now, we have been downgraded to an AA credit rating.
We see unrest in the streets rivaling that of the 1960’s with loosely labeled “Occupiers” marching, chanting and taking over empty homes, seizing public property and demanding more debt so they can have “free” stuff given to them.
The price of a gallon of gas was about $1.61 when Obama took office. Today, we see the price of a gallon of gas is exceeding $4.00 a gallon in many areas and climbing. And, not a whimper from those Democrats who were lambasting President Bush over the price of gasoline.
In answer to Moveon.org, I have been in the young ladies shoes. In fact, the whole country has been in and remains in the predicament she says she was in, except maybe for the Obama’s who seem to enjoy frequent multi-million dollar vacations as often as they can.
Of the stimulus bailout she boasts about saving her, Obama’s former auto czar Steven Rattner wrote in his book ‘Overhaul,’ “about $19.4 billion the government put into GM before the 2009 bankruptcy is ‘lost money’.”
He also stated, “Taxpayers will lose about $14 billion on the $82 billion investment to restructure General Motors, Chrysler and Ally Financial” here
Obama’s Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner acknowledged, “the taxpayers will not recoup $1.9 billion of the Chrysler bailout” here
OMG 2012
Obamanomics: Unemployment "Worse" Than Great Depression
June 6, 2011 unemploymentadmin
From CBS news, no less. Even a blind squirrel can find a nut ever once in awhile. Here.
And, as Andy from Beaverton shows us, you can see the numbers here:
2,320,000 less people are employed today than when Obama took office (numbers in millions)
Jan. 2009 http://www.bls.gov/schedule/archives/empsit_nr.htm#2009
Civilian labor force ....| 153,716| (1)
Employment ............| 142,099| (1)
Unemployment ..........| 11,616| (1)
Not in labor force ......| 81,023| (1)
June 2011 http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.htm
Not in labor force ......|
85,620| (1)
Washington Ecology Dept Joins Enviros in Suing to Stop Coal Depot in Longview. But There’s More!
December 29, 2010 unemploymentadmin
I don’t have a lot of time to spend on this except to say that it raised my eyebrows a little when I saw this story here that the Washington State Department of Ecology is suing to stop a coal depot in Longview, joining the rest of the far left enviro groups in opposing it.
Are they mining for coal around Cowlitz County? No. Are they polluting the Columbia with coal in Cowlitz County? No.
The Dept of Ecology wants to know the environmental impact on WHERE. THE. COAL. IS. GOING.
And where is this coal, mined in Wyoming and Montana, going?
In the original complaint, the coalition claimed the permit for the facility did not consider the greenhouse gas impacts of burning coal in Asia, the effects of increasing a demand for U.S. coal, and the emissions and environmental impacts associated with transporting the coal.
Nice photo, Lynn Topinka!
This coalition of the usual enviro left includes Earthjustice, the Washington Environmental Council and The Sierra Club , Climate Solutions and Columbia Riverkeeper. They’re going to the Shores Council to appeal the Cowlitz County Commissioner’s decision recently to approve the 416 acrew project “asserting the facility would threaten public health and runs counter to state efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.” In fact, they want to stop any fuel that would create ANY environmental impact ANYWHERE in the world.
In their own ‘news’ article here they say they don’t want to see any outsourcing of fossil fuels to any country because it’s, “offshoring carbon.”
“…isn’t it hypocrisy of the highest order for Northwest states to cover themselves in green, campaign to close coal-burning plants in the region and encourage renewable energy use while at the same time enabling companies to ship fossil fuels overseas so that it can be used to pollute the atmosphere on the other side of the world? Where is the line drawn between private enterprise, economic development, the public interest and environmental responsibility?”
Earth Justice thinks it’s their call. Not yours.
“Cowlitz County Board Chair George Raiter last month welcomed the project and the 70 jobs it’s expected to bring to Longview: “If I were to choose an expansion of jobs in this county, I’d choose all those great high-tech companies. But they’re not here. These people are here and personally I’m happy to see someone come in and develop that site, clean it up and start creating some more jobs for our citizens here.” Cowlitz County has one of the highest unemployment rates in Washington at 11 percent.”
And remember, these guys want the environmental impact of the transporting of the coal to be burned in China included in the state and local reports:
Coalition member Washington Environmental Council adds, “The coal shipped through this one facility [and used in China] would create more emissions [in China] than the entire city of Seattle [if it were burned there but it’s not] and more than any single facility in the state [if it were burned there but it’s not]. Is this the kind of future we want for our region? [sending coal we won’t burn to other areas that will burn it?] We need to decide – other coal companies are already lining up with their own proposals [to send coal somewhere else to be burned].”
So let me see if I have this straight: We can’t transport coal. We can’t distribute it. We can’t export it. We can’t import it. We can’t burn it. So why mine it? Exactly.
Obamavilles Continue to Pop Up All Over the Country
I came across this while researching. If George Bush was President this would be front page news. And, yes, I know it’s “Sacramento” but didn’t label this video.
Our Kids’ Recession: Oregon Teen Jobless Rate 5th Highest in Nation
July 8, 2010 unemploymentadmin
From the Portland Biz Journal here.
Teen summer job growth in both May and June combined is 503,000, a 38 percent drop from the same two months last year.
This is another argument against “ObamaCare” and Cap and Tax which would make hiring new workers too expensive for most but out of site for kids with no experience.
This is an argument FOR a training wage. This is an argument FOR reducing Oregon’s high minimum wage to make it easier to hire people.
This is an argument FOR cracking down on illegal aliens who take the jobs requiring the least training that used to go for teens.
Instead of staying home and sitting in front of a gaming screen and getting fat on soon to be illegal fatty food, how about a job for these kids who need to learn some of life’s lessons?
Here’s more bad news:
In mid-June the Employment Policies Institute estimated that the average unemployment rate for teens in Oregon was 33.1 percent as of April — the fifth highest in the country.
“This could end up being the worst teen summer job market in employment records going back to 1948,” said chief executive John Challenger. “With data now suggesting that consumers are pulling back on spending, it is unlikely that a late hiring surge will salvage the dismal summer job situation for the nation’s youngest workers.”
But what will the Obamnunists do? Run up the tab for a “new” “improved” program to pay teens to “volunteer” in some make work job.
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Impossible Peace
Client DRG
Director Michael Cove
Producer Michael Tear, Serge Ou
The First World War claimed a life every twenty-five seconds – for four years.
What had been the point of it all? Surely it was that out of all the grief and loss would come a new world order, one in which peace and prosperity would replace inequality, injustice and dynastic swagger.
But twenty years after the guns fell silent, they were again about their business – louder and more lethal than ever. Why? Why did the peace that people prayed and paid for last little more than twenty years? Why did tyrants rise to control the fate of continents? Why did a world that had survived a war collapse into an unprecedented depression?
Two world wars tore the heart out of the twentieth century. Between these two tragedies was an age that nostalgia views enthusiastically – a time of jazz, prohibition, the talkies, radio and the motor car. A time that was in reality an age of anxiety.
Our story, told through archive and the insights of international historians, is of twenty years of peace that produced war. A peace that failed. Impossible Peace.
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'Ab ki baar, 300 paar', says Modi in Khargone rally
Friday - May 17, 2019 3:14 pm , Category : MADHYA PRADESH
Khargone (Madhya Pradesh), May 17 (IANS) "Ab ki baar, 300 paar" (This time, it will be 300 plus), thundered Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an election rally here on Friday.
Asserting that the ongoing Lok Sabha battle was to decide the future of not a political party but the country, he said he expected the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to win more than 300 seats.
"This election is unprecedented because it is being fought not for a party but for the country. The seven phases of polling are being called 'exhausting', but the excitement of the tribals to vote has given it a new colour," Modi said.
Taking a dig at political pundits, he said: "Experts sitting in Delhi are calling the election long, exhaustive and boring. These tired people should spend some time among the tribals. They would not just get rejuvenated but also gain a new understanding of the mind of the country.
"The entire country from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Kutch to Kamrup is saying, 'Once more Modi sarkaar'. And over the past three or four days, I've been repeatedly hearing, 'Ab ki baar 300 paar'."
"My government's commitment towards ending terrorism and Naxalism are getting public support. People are happy that India now enters enemy territory to take on terrorists."
--IANS hindi/rtp/mr
Sex racket in the guise of spa busted, 17 arrested in Bengal
Bengal farmer killed in elephant attack
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip may cost as low as $860
US Space Force mocked for camouflage uniforms
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Busta’s People of the Week: Meet Cornerstone of Faith Ministries
Bishop Grosjean Stephens and Pastor Debra Terry-Stephens of Cornerstone of Faith Ministries
by WS Chronicle
By Busta Brown
What does a truly anointed man of God do before he and his church give away turkeys and then serves the community a free brunch? He has a conversation with God.
“I walked around the building and thanked God for the opportunity to be entrusted with this assignment. I told God that I don’t want to drop the ball on my end, and wanted to make sure we serve the community as we suppose to,” said Bishop Grosjean Stephens.
Bishop Stephens has been the pastor at Cornerstone of Faith Ministries in Winston-Salem for 14 years. He’s shared that duty for the past five years with his wife of five years, Pastor Debra Terry-Stephens.
This past Tuesday, Nov. 26, the Stephens and their church members gave the Belview community in Winston-Salem a Thanksgiving to remember. Over 50 families received a turkey and over 100 families enjoyed a delicious Thanksgiving Brunch, complements of Cornerstone of Faith Ministries.
“We did this last year as well, so we can stay connected before we move into our new church in the Belview community. When we have our grand opening, we don’t want to just pop up and they not have any interaction with our church members,” said Pastor Terry-Stephens. The Cornerstone of Faith Ministries Praise Team and Youth Choir showed up and showed out for the Belview community as well.
“We truly enjoyed fellowshipping and engaging with the community. It’s very inspiring to see a lot of the same families each year. So many of them told us that they can’t wait for our new church to move into the Belview community because they feel the love every time we come around. They can feel our hearts,” said Pastor Terry-Stephens.
One young man was so impressed with the turkey giveaway and Thanksgiving Brunch that he offered to donate cases of chicken for their next event. “I love the way they connect with everyone and I see and appreciate the hard work that goes into putting these events together. So, I just want to do my part,” said the young man.
Over the past five years, the church has given away over 500 book bags filled with school supplies, held a clothes and food drive, and had a fantastic Easter event. Whenever Cornerstone of Faith Ministries pulls up into the Belview community, the neighbors always come out to show their love and appreciation. It was extremely clear that they truly love their soon-to-be neighbors.
The new church is coming in 2020 and will be located at 2315 Urban Street. Until then, feel free to visit Cornerstone of Faith Ministries this Sunday at 2430 Farrington Point Drive in Winston-Salem. Service begins at 11:00 a.m. sharp.
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Alpena vs. Gaylord hockey game suspended due to poor ice conditions
TOPICS:Alpena Hockeyalpena wildcatsColby Plowmanhigh school hockeyKeegan MathewsKyle VanDusenmhsaa
Keegan Mathews celebrates after scoring his second goal of the season and giving the Wildcats a 3-1 lead in the second period.
Posted By: wbkb11 January 19, 2019
ALPENA — The game was suspended until a later date due to broken compressors at Northern Lights Arena. The surface temperature was 35 degrees, which caused the ice to begin melting. Water began pooling on the surface and players were having a hard time staying on their feet as a result.
The ice held up for a period and a half, with Alpena holding a 3-1 lead. Play will resume on a day to be determined with 8:30 to go in the second period. Had they been able to play through two periods, Alpena would have been credited with the win (assuming the Wildcats held the lead).
Alpena drew first blood through almost 5 minutes of play. Kyle VanDusen intercepted a pass from Gaylord’s Sean Jardine in front of the Blue Devils net and made it past Gaylord goalie Caleb Pettis.
The Blue Devils tied the game with 2:50 to go in the first. Jon Allen’s one timer clipped Cooper Black’s glove hand and made it to the back of the net.
The second period was all Wildcats. VanDusen scored his second of the game to take the lead back, and Keegan Mathews scored his second of the season to make it 3-1.
It was prearranged that Alpena and Gaylord would skip the first intermission and play half of the second period before the ice issues forced the game’s suspension. Both “The Pond” and “The Puddle” rinks were affected by the broken compressors. Fans were told that the teams would try and play the game on “The Puddle,” but that rink was in the same state as the “The Pond.”
There is no word yet on when the rest of the game will be played. As of January 19th at 1:16am, Saturday’s game against Sault Saint Marie is still on.
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Tag: superheroes
Higher, further, faster, Overdrive! Captain Marvel comics are now in our eLibrary!
April 3, 2019 April 9, 2019 Gus
You’ve seen the movie, now read the books!
In 2012, Carol Danvers became the latest character to bear the mantle of Captain Marvel, reinvented by prolific comic writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and reimagined with a brand-new space-age costume courtesy of The Wicked + The Divine artist Jamie McKelvie. Carol soared into comic stores with all-new alien-blasting adventures illustrated by the likes of Dexter Soy (Batman Beyond), Emma Rios (Pretty Deadly), and David Lopez (All-New Wolverine), and those stories went on to inspire the blockbuster film.
And now, you can read them all on our eLibrary Overdrive, available to download to your device of choice!
Captain Marvel (2012), Volume 1, Kelly Sue DeConnick (ebook)
Collects Captain Marvel (2012) #1-6. The “Mightiest” of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes is back! Ace pilot. Legendary Avenger. Carol Danvers has a new name, a new mission – and all the power she needs to make her own life a living hell. As the new Captain Marvel, Carol is forging from a challenge from her past! It’s a firefight in the sky as the Banshee Squadron debut. Witness Captain Marvel in blazing battlefield action that just may change the course of history! Avengers Time Travel Protocols: engage! (adapted from Overdrive description)
Collects Captain Marvel #7-12. Marvel NOW! Captain Marvel goes head to head with…Captain Marvel? Former Captain Monica Rambeau returns, but what’s her problem with Earth’s new Mightiest Hero? What threat is lurking below the ocean’s surface? And can both Captain Marvels stop it before they get ship wrecked? (adapted from Overdrive description)
Collects Captain Marvel (2014) #1-6. One of Marvel’s most beloved Avengers launches into her own ongoing series! Carol Danvers has played many roles in her life; hero, pilot, Avenger, and now, deep-space adventurer! Join Captain Marvel as she attempts to return an alien girl to her home world, and defend the rights of aliens revolting against the Galactic Alliance. Guest-starring Guardians of the Galaxy! (Overdrive description)
Collects Captain Marvel (2014) #7-11. Captain Marvel’s space adventure with her pet cat, Chewie, continues! But when they have an unexpected alien visitor, Carol learns that Rocket Raccoon was right: There’s more to Chewie than meets the eye! Chewie is a Flerkin…and a mom to hundreds! Is this the end for Carol and her pet? (adapted from Overdrive description)
Collects Captain Marvel (2014) #12-15. Captain Marvel’s time as an astronomical Avenger has pitted her against some of the worst the galaxy has to offer. But now, the Haffensye Consortium has finally caught up to Carol and Tic! Carol was barely able to survive the last time she squared off against the Haffensye — will she be so lucky again? (adapted from Overdrive description)
Captain Marvel (2016), Volume 1, Michele Fazekis (ebook)
Collects Captain Marvel (2016) #1-5. Oh Captain, my Captain! Carol Danvers soars higher than ever with her greatest mission yet — leading Earth’s first line of defense, the all-new Alpha Flight space program! And some alums of the old-school Flight are along for the ride: Puck, Aurora and Sasquatch! You think your job is tough? Try Captain Marvel’s! (adapted from Overdrive description)
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Comic book gold! New graphic novels at WCL
October 10, 2018 October 8, 2018 Dusty
Comic book titles hitting the library shelves this month feature award winners, best sellers, classics, antiheroes and more. Classics by Pearl S Buck, Octavia E Butler and Karl Marx have been transformed into visual narratives. Kindred has won awards and recognition in the form an Eisner award, and a Bram Stoker award. Maybe illustrator John Jennings’ colour samplings from bruises and blood had some influence there! This powerful adaptation is worth looking through, and if it’s the first taste you have of Octavia Butler’s work, lucky you! She is a fearless, insightful writer whose work deals with gender, race, age and class. Crime author Denise Mina, a recent Wellington visitor, is the writer for the latest John Constantine, Hellblazer.
The McElroy brothers playing Dungeons & Dragons with their dad is a different type of adaptation altogether. The Adventure Zone is a comic based on the podcast of the same name. Their fantasy characters are complete with ‘loafers of leaping and sprinting’ and proficiencies in wolf training and tea making. The graphic novel instantly became a New York Times trade paperback bestseller on release in August 2018.
Moon Knight [1] : crazy runs in the family / Bemis, Max
“Moon Knight has always been a protector from the shadows, but this new enemy is set to extinguish those shadows with blinding light and fire. Get ready for the introduction of Moon Knight’s greatest nemesis! But as the path of the Sun King brings him ever closer to Moon Knight, Marc has problems of his own: A man known as the Truth is driving people to suicide! Things get worse when Sun King and Bushman hit Marc where it hurts the most, and Jake Lockley’s dark secret is revealed! Will Moon Knight finally be eclipsed?” (Catalogue)
The good earth / Bertozzi, Nick
“Although more than eighty years have passed since Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. This indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings, tells the moving story of honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-Lan. Bertozzi retraces the whole cycle of life depicted in Buck’s original novel: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions, and its rewards.” (Catalogue)
Kindred : a graphic novel adaptation / Duffy, Damian
“This searing graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s science fiction classic is a powerfully moving, unflinching look at the violent, disturbing effects of slavery on the people it chained together, both black and white – and made kindred in the deepest sense of the word. Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can’t explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland.” (Adapted from Catalogue)
The Communist Manifesto / Rowson, Martin
“A graphic novel adaptation of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s revolutionary pamphlet on the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth, published in 1848. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s Manifesto for the Communist Party was at once a powerful critique of capitalism and a radical call to arms. Much of what it proposed continues to be at the heart of political debate into the 21st century. It is no surprise, perhaps, that The Communist Manifesto (as it was later renamed) is the second bestselling book of all time, surpassed only by the Bible.” (Catalogue)
The Adventure Zone : here there be gerblins / McElroy, Clint
“Join Taako the elf wizard, Merle the dwarf cleric, and Magnus the human warrior for an adventure they are poorly equipped to handle AT BEST, guided (“guided”) by their snarky DM, in a graphic novel that, like the smash-hit podcast it’s based on, will tickle your funny bone, tug your heartstrings, and probably pants you if you give it half a chance.” (Catalogue)
John Constantine, Hellblazer. 19, Red right hand / Mina, Denise
“Constantine discovers he’s cursed with empathy for his fellow man as the multi-layered tale races forward. Seeking the origin of the Empathy curse, Constantine and Chris roll into Glasgow in search of Steve Evans, a “massively powerful magician” who is waiting for Constantine. Meanwhile John finds out that there has been a connection between himself and Chris before they even met. Written by award-winning crime novelist Denise Mina. Collects issues #216-229.” (Adapted from Catalogue)
Made men : getting the gang back together / Tobin, Paul
“When Jutte Shelley and her squad are gunned down in an ambush, it looks like the end for the Detroit police officers, but Jutte comes from a very storied family… named Frankenstein. Using the secrets of her ancestors, Jutte enters the family business of resurrection, bringing her squad back from the dead. Sort of. As long as you don’t look too close. Eager for revenge, they’ve no choice but to team with the Detroit mob, using them for the resources to find the lowlifes who did them in, now that Jutte has quite literally gotten the gang back together.” (Catalogue)
The song of Aglaia / Simon, Anne
French illustrator Anne Simon, known for her biographies of Freud, Marx and Einstein, delves into whimsy and other worldliness. “Aglaia is a simple sea nymph. One day, a Merman seduces Aglaia, forever altering her life’s course. She is cast out of Oceanid by her chauvinistic father, forcing her to wander many days and nights, until one day she finds herself at the benefit of one Mr. Kite, whose traveling circus welcomes her (including the star attraction, a waltzing Horse named Henry) and once again alters her fate, sending her down many more unexpected paths.” (Catalogue)
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#Gozilla2013 Entry #11: GODZILLA'S REVENGE
GODZILLA'S REVENGE/GODZILLA, MINYA, GABARA: ALL MONSTERS ATTACK (Gojira Minira Gabara: Ōru Kaijū Daishingeki, 1969)
Directed by: Ishirô Honda
Starring: Tomonori Yazaki, Hideyo Anamoto, Kenji Sahara, Haruo Nakajima , Yû Sekida, "Little Man" Machan
Synopsis: A young boy can't handle a bleak reality where he is bullied, so he retreats into the imaginary world of a pop culture series that he is obsessed with to deal with it. Remind you of anyone you know?
Young whippersnappers nowadays are always complaining about remakes and reboots of their favorite nostalgic childhood properties. But these kids, they have it good nowadays. Back in the day of GODZILLA'S REVENGE, they didn't bother remaking or rebooting movies. They actually ended up making a movie version of a clip show, selling the audience an entire movie with footage they'd just seen a few years back.
DESTROY ALL MONSTERS is the goofiest thing I have seen in the series so far, and I can't say whether I love its insanity or if it's just a ridiculous disposable mess. To set up the story, this is one of those "meta" movies, which very obviously influenced Charlie Kauffman, so we probably have SYNCHDOCHE, NEW YORK and subsequently COMMUNITY as the spiritual descendants of this movie. In this world, Godzilla is not real, but he's a character from the movie and our young protagonist, Ichiro, loves him and his adventures. But poor Ichiro has a problem...he keeps on getting bullied and doesn't know what to do. I guess Japanese school teachers and parents are pretty OK about this. This actually causes the kid to retreat to Monster Island in his dreams.
There he gets to chill with Minya (Minilla or whatever you want to call him). In this particular iteration, he happens to be the size of a small child, and unlike his previous height of 18 mm, this means that he can hang out with Ichiro and gets to teach him about his struggles against a bigger kaiju calle, Gabara, who was featured in the last movie briefly. Gabara is always beating up poor Minya, and Godzilla, as the ever caring parent, tells Minya to just go deal with it himself and stand up to him.
Of course, all of the time that Ichiro spends in Monster Island is a metaphor for the issues that Ichiro has with the various bullies in his real life. You know by the end of the movie he will overcome his bullies, and that makes the story so boring. But the in between is what makes this amazing in an almost ironic hipster way. Let me preface by saying that I didn't care for the movie, especially coming off the comparatively strong ALL MONSTERS ATTACK. Not only that, but this features my least favorite Godzilla suit, the one that has the more "human proportions." Something about the quality of the suits made me feel for the first time in the series that these were guys in a suit.
But what makes this movie slightly amazing is the all of the crazy stuff in between. For one, the movie is a good 1/4 totally recycled and unedited footage from previous movies. Godzilla inexplicably fights Ebirah, from GODZILLA VS. THE SEA MONSTERS, thus recreatuit. Although, Gabara did have awesome shock powers.
So far in the series, big G is still be the main kaiju, but this is the first time that Godzilla has taken a backseat to any other monster character. In this case, Minya takes center stage along with Ichiro. This film is obviously not in the same continuity as the "real" Godzilla movies because Godzilla is a fictional character with movies in this film. So I guess it's completely and totally plausible that Minya is suddenly able to speak Japanese and also shape shift numerous times. Equally strange is that Minya is unable to speak Japanese when he gets bigger. So I guess it's a compromise of verbal communication or size?
What I found interesting is the use of Godzilla as a symbol and an empowering metaphor. Given how he began life as a symbol for the nuclear fear in the aftermath of WWII, it's only fitting that the allegorical use of Godzilla would change. I just never figured that it would be as a allegory for empowering against forces bigger and badder than one. I should've looked at the political climate of the late 70's of Japan at the time, but at least it would seem that instead of fearing the power of nuclear weapons, Japan or other countries have begun to embrace them.
This film is not as bad as the island movies, but it's not a good movie to come off after the greatest of DESTROY ALL MONSTERS. The most redeeming quality of the movie is just the super nutty scenes with a size-changing Minya, and Gabara chasing Ichiro throughout the island. So it didn't make it a total waste of time.
DESTROYED JAPANESE CASTLE COUNTER: 5 (At this point, I think I'll drop the counter until there's an actual Japanese castle being destroyed in the movie.)
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There’s one particularly beautiful, gruesome zombie he’s got a lot of green moss on him. But when you see that episode it’s in Episode 6, I think, that particular zombie something happens, and it harks back to a Daryl and Carol moment. I’m going to let you just guess what that could be, but there are Easter eggs in some of those zombies, so you’ll see it in Episode 6..
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2009 Edmonton Fringe Reviews: Day 11
I don't think its a huge shock to anybody that women are crazy. You just have to read those Cosmo surveys about what women want, and then sit at the mall or the bar watching them with the men they choose. Just because a few billion women claim to think or believe something doesn't mean they actually do, and folly to the man who tries being himself or some such insanity just because women said in a magazine poll what they want. So it is as well with Inviting Desires, a fringe play made up of a bunch of women answering an online poll. After an hour hearing sexual fantasies as portrayed by the four women you remember from the fringe grounds perfomring "My Vagina is Eight Miles Wide", I would certainly testify on your behalf that you seriously believed that all women had gangbanging fantasies and that what you did that to that hot girl waiting for the light at Army & Navy was in her best interests. The play features a number of vignettes, all culled presumably from the survey: you have to watch carefully to make sure you know whats going on, sometimes the change of character has less to do with a costume tick and more to do with...um, that's exactly what I mean. Well, I guess you'll just have to follow along. Naturally of course this play near the end of the Fringe Festival is where I get stuck with the first fawning President Monkey reference: a woman's sexual fantasy about meeting an "elephant cock"'d black guy in the gym and getting pounded up the ass turns out to be all about Obama, featuring those "yes we did!" t-shirts that I assumed people had long ago thrown away in rank embarassment. Ironically enough I know a person who actually did bump into President Monkey at the gym earlier in the year. She certainly came out of the encounter a little less flushed than this play would relate. There were a couple good sketches: the "he likes to call me Daddy" bit was very enjoyable, and the woman's hippie-massage story used a great cheap special effect to simulate the pool. In general though, while you think you've explored women's sexual fantasies through the performance, what you've actually done is accepted as truth what people claiming to be women talk about on an anonymous online message board. So no, your wife really doesn't want you and another women to do naughty things to your ass.
Its hard to get a good read on Manners for Men. This is clearly resonated in the conversation I heard as leaving the venue, where some people declared it the worst play they'd seen in the fringe. I wouldn't go that far, though its certainly a very low energy play that requires your full interest before you'd be able to accept it. The play tells the story of Frank, a meek and anti-social man who suffers from several issues:
a) He has a very condesending mother who is highly critical of him and more than willing to emotionally scar him at every opportunity.
b) When he was a young boy he lost control of his bowels in school, causing him to shit all over everything and endure teasing and humiliation which continues to present day. This may be related to (a)
c) His father left him when he was 8 years old. This may also be related to (a)
d) He's facing charges for allegedly fondling himself in a shoe store, which he claims was mere loitering as he found himself unwilling to go home. This is almost certainly related to (a)
Frank tells us the story of his life. With a few laughs and what seems to be a very dedicated performance (the spastic tics of Frank's mother are as much part of her character in this one-man play as her shrill tone) we don't get a bad play, but Frank's character has a very low energy about him, and its that level that has to carry the audience through a little under an hour. Its almost an excitement when Frank's lager-drinking football fan [Editor's note: the play takes place in England] has a few lines at the bar, or when the man who handles Frank's mother's hair gives him dating advice, as we're temporarily thrust back into the real world, away from Frank's slow demeanor. As Frank's court date looms, we discover that his mother is pretty sure that (a) and (c) above are directly due to (b), and that its entirely Frank's fault what has happened to their family. As its expected, once the matter of the alleged indecent act makes it into court, Frank is cleared of the charge, though the judge basically finds him not guilty not because he didn't do it but instead because his mother was such a cow. She doesn't let up even then. Its not until a day trip when her colostomy bag blows open on the bus that things finally change for the better: despite the parallels with his own circumstances, Frank volunteers for the cleanup, and possibly healing the rift between him and his mother. Which is good, the dude wears brown sandals with white socks and probably won't ever get so much as a date. And perhaps thats why at the end of the play, the girls were disappointed.
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Was Constable Woodall's death an elaborate suicide?
The overnight story of an Edmonton Police Services officer shot and killed while executing a search warrant has gotten a lot of people talking. The fact that the infamous "freemen on the land" group is involved has gotten a lot of people's attention.
However, there's a far more sinister group that has a direct connection with the events of Monday night: the Greater Manchester Police (GMP)
If you haven't heard of the Greater Manchester Police force, it's (somewhat predictably) located in Manchester, UK. The problem is, pretty much every disgusting modern trend in "hate crime" policing can be led back to British policing, and the Greater Manchester Police have been in the thick of it. The GMP police chief constable, Sir Peter Fahy, is convinced that free speech is something that needs to be properly limited by civilian authorities so that police can properly prosecute people for condemning the faggot lifestyle. GMP also arrested a 14-year old girl for the crime of asking to not be lab partners with Muslim immigrants who couldn't speak English.
Codie said: "I asked the teacher could I change groups because I didn't understand them and she said I was being racist and started shouting at me."
A complaint was made and she was taken to a police station.
Her mother said her Codie's jewellery and shoelaces were removed, her fingerprints and DNA samples were taken and she was put in a cell.
The school said it wanted to ensure it had a caring and tolerant attitude to pupils of all ethnic backgrounds and it did not stand for racism in any form.
Greater Manchester Police said it took hate crime reports very seriously and its treatment of the teenager was in line with normal procedure.
As Steyn writes it's ridiculous to believe that this should be "normal procedure".
What's "normal procedure" for Edmonton Police in dealing with this situation? How does it compare with the GMP normal procedures? Sadly, one person who could properly answer that is Daniel Woodall, the Edmonton officer shot and killed.
Edmonton Police Chief Rod Knecht held a news conference at midnight to confirm the death of Const. Daniel Woodall, a 35-year-old, eight-year veteran of the force who was recruited from Great Britain and used to serve with the Greater Manchester Police.
A 38-year-old officer, Sgt. Jason Harley, was shot in the lower back but was protected by his bullet-proof vest. Early Tuesday, Edmonton police said he had been released from hospital.
Woodall worked for the hate crimes unit.
Everybody pick up on that important bit of information? Woodall who was recruited from Great Britain and used to serve with the Greater Manchester Police also worked for the hate crimes unit. In other words, the ridiculous anti-liberty pathology that has infected police across Great Britain is the environment that Woodall festered in, before he was specifically recruited to bring it "across the pond" to Edmonton 2.0.
The GMP has been busy making sure the "hate crimes" unit always has something to do. In April 2013 they announced that, despite having no legal authority to do so, GMP's hate crime division would begin tracking hate crimes against goth and emo kids. Naturally the article picks a couple instances of a physical assault to goad the public into accepting this, hoping you'll ignore stories like Codie Stott. Stott, by the way, was arrested while Daniel Woodall was with the GMP, though it doesn't seem like the two crossed paths: Woodall was based in Wythenshawe station, Stott was treated like a criminal for an "offensive" remark in Swinton. A cursory check for the activities of Wythenshawe Race and Hate Crimes Unit didn't turn up any specific cases, though it's hardly conclusive. Not all Manchester Police abuses are going to reference a specific station. For example, the 2003 incident where GMP logged a "hate crimes" investigation when Christian Voice wrote in to complain about Manchester Police marching in the local Faggot Walk. Come to think of it, wasn't it about seven years ago that Edmonton Police Service (EPS) started walking in the #yegpooftermarch? Is this another of the despicable police practices imported from Greater Manchester?
Predictably, the Edmonton media and the public in general aren't in the mood to ask any such questions.
You shouldn't jump to conclusions. RT @staceybrotzel #yeg lost one of it's finest last night. #EPSstrong
— FACLC (@FACLC) June 9, 2015
It's not just cowardly Stacey Brotzel who's quick to assign "Edmonton's finest" to a guy who transferred from a jurisdiction more interested in criminalizing dissent against the state's agenda than stopping real crimes, who worked for a division of EPS more interested in charging a guy who put up signs critical of the sodomite agenda than, say, catching corrupt members of their own force. The EPS method of attacking their opponents and refusing to take responsibility for their actions has largely paid off: can you imagine Edmonton's media daring to take this photo ever again? Instead, very little critical reporting goes into Edmonton Police practices unless they specifically involve the media, then they're all over it. In fact, look what Simons has to say about EPS only two short weeks ago:
We only need to go to Baltimore, to Ferguson, to Cleveland, to see what happens when the social contract corrodes, when people start to lose confidence in their police.
.Now look at what Simons has to say about Edmonton Police today...
The hate crimes unit does such important work. I'm sure many communities who were helped by Daniel Woodall & his team also grieving today.
— Paula Simons (@Paulatics) June 9, 2015
So what changed? What changed is that the left-wing media is actively interested in "hate speech" being criminalized, as they always aim to be the be-all and end-all of information flow in society. They can't do that if people who speak out against their lies are allowed a voice, so they are quick to leap to the defense of those like Daniel Woodall and Jason Harley, despite any evidence to support these man executing a warrant.
The warrant, we're told by the same EPS that even their media defenders usually point out aren't very forthcoming in the details, was for criminal harassment. Why, you ask, was the "hate crimes" unit involved? What was Norman Raddatz's "hate crime"? The only legal document that has yet been posted is a Edmonton bylaw citation under the "Nuisance on Land", a rather ridiculous bylaw provision that is basically a way for neighbours to rat on each other and use the power of the law to solve sad little annoying conflicts between them.
When a complaint comes in, the process includes a warning, followed by a ticket and finally some kind of compliance order that could involve city staff or contractors entering a property and remedying the situation.
Despite the 90 per cent compliance rate, those who don't co-operate create up to 3,000 files a year. But thanks to a new approach over the past few years, the numbers remain manageable in a growing city.
"These problems are not necessarily what they look like on the surface. We're dealing with people who might have mental illness, we're dealing with people who are hoarders or they're seniors or there's a whole litany of things," said Courtoreille, adding more focus is now put on dealing with underlying issues of a bylaw infraction rather than the symptoms that incite complaints.
Looks to be doing a bang up job, doesn't it? Is this really a valid municipal government function? (Answer: nope)
From what can be determined, the timeline works something like this:
February, 2014: Raddatz "bullied" somebody. Edmonton pigs opened a "hate crime" file on him
mid-October, 2014: Royal Bank of Canada foreclosed on Raddatz's bungalow and sued him
October 27, 2014: Ryan Colton filed a complaint against Raddatz for a messy yard
February 23, 2015: Raddatz misses his court appearance, a judge signs off on an arrest warrant
October 2014 - June 2015: Raddatz "harasses" somebody, probably one of the neighbours who complained about him
June 2015: Raddatz's company North Summit Mechanical was deregistered due to a filing discrpeancy
June 8 2015: Edmonton Police try to talk with Raddatz but he won't let them in. They request a "Feeney" warrant and try to force their way into his home. A firefight ensues, Woodall killed and Harley was injured
June 9 2015, morning: Edmonton Police claim they were executing a warrant for criminal harassment related to his "hate crime". They say Norman Raddatz found dead in the basement.
June 9 2015, afternoon: The Edmonton Journal reports that Raddatz showed no criminal record, contradicting an earlier statement by Edmonton Police Chief Chief Rod Knecht that Raddatz "did not have a significant criminal record".
Police acting more like thought police than regular police, and city officials harassing homeowners. That's Woodall's modern-day Britain to a tee. The open questions remain: what was Raddatz's "hate crime"? Was this what drove officers to his door? And finally, will EPS learn from this experience and shut down the "hate crimes" unit?
Already one man has tried to defend himself from state aggression -- possibly due to government cracking down on his free speech -- and one of the more thuggish state enforcers has paid the price. Will another have to pay the price next time? Or will Edmonton Police stop their ridiculous policy of sending officers to talk to "bullies" who were mean to somebody? Much like GMP with their "emo kids" policy, Edmonton's "hate crimes" unit is proving Parkinson's Law day in, day out: they always expand their caseload, and it seems Raddatz was merely the latest target in their ever-expanding quest to change your opinions to match the SJW-class.
We don't know if Raddatz is a hero or a victim (or, more likely, some of Column A and some of Column B), but based on what EPS has released to date and based on what disgusting GMP actions Woodall imported into the 100% corrupt Edmonton Police Service, odds are when it comes time to build a statue to the hero who lost his life it won't be the EPS "hate crimes" investigator who was a victim of his own ill-advised policies.
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Casts : Steven Yeun as Bo (voice), Keegan-Michael Key as Dave (voice), Aidy Bryant as Ruth (voice), Oprah Winfrey as Deborah (voice), Tyler Perry as Cyrus (voice), Gina Rodriguez as Mary (voice), Zachary Levi as Joseph (voice), Kelly Clarkson as Leah (voice), Christopher Plummer as King Herod (voice), Tracy Morgan as Felix (voice), Kristin Chenoweth as Abby (voice), Anthony Anderson as Zach (voice), Ving Rhames as Thaddeus (voice), Gabriel Iglesias as Rufus (voice), Patricia Heaton as Edith (voice), Kris Kristofferson as Old Donkey (voice), Mariah Carey as Rebecca (voice), Fred Tatasciore as Melchior / Inn keeper #1 / Pottery Vendor (voice), Kari Wahlgren as Additional Voices (voice), Gregg Berger as Inn Keeper #3 (voice), Joel Osteen as Caspar (voice), Lex Lang as Hunter (voice), Roger Craig Smith as Chamberlain / Inn Keeper #5 (voice), William Townsend as Horse / Goat (voice), Stephen Apostolina as Additional Voices (voice), Kirk Baily as Additional Voices (voice), David Cowgill as Additional Voices (voice), June Christopher as Additional Voices (voice), Eddie Frierson as Additional Voices (voice), Rif Hutton as Additional Voices (voice), Mona Marshall as Additional Voices (voice), Caitlin McKenna-Wilkinson as Additional Voices (voice), Scott Menville as Additional Voices (voice), Warren Sroka as Additional Voices (voice), Pepper Sweeney as Additional Voices (voice), Grant George as Additional Voices (voice), Bridget Hoffman as Additional Voices (voice), Moira Quirk as Additional Voices (voice), Michelle Ruff as Additional Voices (voice), Joseph Sanfelippo as Additional Voices (voice), Justin Shenkarow as Additional Voices (voice)
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Hard Night Falling
Goro, a criminal mastermind, plot to steal a massive cache of gold from the Rossini family. Unbeknownst to Goro and his soldiers of fortune, one of Rossini’s guest is a…
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Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organization – after four cardinals are kidnapped on the…
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After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35 year old book editor from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys…
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It’s nighttime in 1980s Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Glittery and glamorous heels climb out of cars. Women shrouded in traditional black abayas make their way into a wedding hall. There, they…
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Art & Design Achievements
Any student achievement in fine art, literature, fashion, graphic design, music, or culinary arts; cool exhibitions, or design festivals organized by a college or institute etc.
Total of 112 submissions.
Help us reach our goal of 150 inspiring stories celebrating the achievements of colleges and institutes across Canada.
NBCCD Alumna Samaqani Cocahq: Sharing the Teachings of her Ancestors
NBCCD
We tend to doubt our abilities to do the things we have never tried before. We intuitively gravitate toward the safe and familiar, the sure and reliable. We put projects on hold until some future moment when we will be better equipped, more knowledgeable, ready. Samaqani Cocahq (Natalie Sappier) has burned her doubts in a fire of…
Graduate Cat Squires: How They Found Their Fit in Graphic Design
Do you fit in yet? Cat Squires does. Graphic Designer Extraordinaire, Expressive Artist, Gender Fluid Person, Borderline Personality Disorder Manager, Non-Profit Supporter, Loving Daughter, Proud Mother, Devoted Wife. Depending on which direction you approach Cat, you could try to label them a hundred different ways. They are all of these things – but cannot be…
Durham College art instructor’s unique project invites the community to take part
from The Oshawa Express: A single person’s life is filled with countless stories. Some of them happy, some of them sad, some exciting and other times tragic; for one local artist, those stories can be the gateway to something bigger, and she’s looking to channel that idea into her latest project. Dani Crosby, an Oshawa…
Photographer Kelly Baker: Telling Untold Stories
What do an anthropologist and a photographer have in common? A pure obsession with storytelling. Little wonder that Kelly Baker was drawn to pursue both career paths. In fact, before entering the photography program, she had already completed a PhD in Anthropology: “I went to school for a lot of years to become an anthropologist,…
The Queen Street Billboard Project
The new billboards on display in downtown Fredericton are designed to intrigue your sense of thought – they reframe the concept of how a typical billboard is used and showcase colourful eye-catching designs that each have a story to tell. This project flips the marketing norms to use billboards as exhibition space, and to give…
Dare to Achieve, by Gavin MacDougall
To mark Centennial College’s 50th anniversary as well as Canada’s 150th birthday, the college commissioned an outdoor mural at the new Centennial Residence and Culinary Arts Centre (CRCA) at Progress Campus. The winning design, entitled ‘Dare to Achieve’ by artist Gavin MacDougall, a graduate from Centennial’s Fine Arts Studio program, was unveiled on June 22. “Art that’s in the…
Monsters Rule at Selkirk College’s Tenth Street Campus
Building on an educational foundation for both elementary and college students, the Selkirk College Digital Arts & New Media Program joined forces with Hume Elementary School for a spirited project that brought to life some wonderful creatures. From the minds of Hume Elementary School students to the computer screens of Selkirk College Digital Arts & New…
NBCCD Alumna Kelsey Schroeder: Fashion Photographer & Content Creator
Kelsey Schroeder, new graduate of the Photography Diploma, wasn’t even out the door before she was in high demand as a fashion photographer and content creator. She did not wait to graduate to start building her business and she did not wait to have a career handed to her on a platter. She plunged headlong into blogging and social…
NBCCD Alumna Jennifer McInnis-Wharton: The Fire Tamer
Jennifer McInnis-Wharton is a sight to behold as she fearlessly pulls pots out of 1050 degree kiln and drops them into a pile of newsprint and sawdust, igniting the lot with the heat of the glowing ceramic. Equal parts brutal and dazzling, the process of Raku gifts her with marvels of metallic colour. Jennifer is…
Langara students pen the memoirs of local Holocaust survivors
In Fall 2016, Langara launched Writing Lives: the Holocaust Survivor Memoir Project. Writing Lives is a one-time two-semester project at Langara College, coordinated by English instructor Dr. Rachel Mines, in which second-year students are connected with local Holocaust survivors to interview them and write memoirs of their lives before, during and after the Holocaust. An interdisciplinary initiative, the…
NBCCD Textile Design Alumna Emily Blair Weaves a Poem
Featured on CreatedHere: Weaving is a code that transcends mediums. Known by an exclusive group of highly skilled craftspeople, this code empowers the weavers who use it to create something incredible from nearly nothing: from string into cloth, and sometimes beyond. Emily Blair is an up-and-coming weaver on the verge of graduating with her Diploma in…
Selkirk College alumnae embody homegrown philosophy at Lōkel Hair Studio
The owners of Nelson’s chic Lōkel Hair Studio personify their namesake. It doesn’t get much more local than the duo Ashely Simon and Michelle Devine. They were locally born and raised, locally schooled and are now local business owners. “We’re local to Nelson. Our families are local to Nelson. Our learning is local to Nelson,” says Simon.…
Virtual Reality 3D Modeling Software Created by Student Researchers at the Algonquin College Office of Applied Research & Innovation
Algonquin College
Masterpiece VR is a Virtual Reality application used to create stunning 3D art, including sculptures, paintings, and even whole scenes. This is all achieved through a combination of PhD level mathematics, cutting-edge technology and professional grade software/UI design. The technology also makes it possible for multiple users to collaborate seamlessly in real time across the globe…
Digital Tools for Textiles: How They Are Being Used by a New Generation of NBCCD Designers
Which kind of maker are you? Do you surround yourself with physical materials – bits of string, balls of clay, stones and metal? Or do you set yourself down in front of a computer – ready to skillfully use your powerful virtual tools? Or maybe, you lie somewhere in between… Craft is turning toward the…
Alison Murphy: The Artist and the Administrator
The line between artist and administrator has never been so blurry than in Felt/Mixed Media Artist and Craft NB Executive Director Alison Murphy. Alison the artist was born in her father’s studio. Touching his brushes, his palette, and his creativity, she developed a love for colour and for collecting. After graduating in 2004 with a…
NB Heart Truth: Featured Fashion Designer Chavah Lindsay
Chavah Lindsay of Chavah Designs has the honour this year of being the only designer showcased in both of the premiere New Brunswick Fashion events this spring: The New Brunswick College of Craft & Design (NBCCD) Annual Fashion Show in Fredericton and the NB Heart Truth Red Dress Event in Moncton. Chavah is creating two…
NBCCD Metal Arts Student Rory Greythorn: Making Sweet Jewellery
Rory Greythorn has made a conscious decision to slow down his path in Jewellery/Metal Arts, and have a more “textured” experience. Rather than rushing to get the basics, move on to the next learning project and putting “his eyes on the prize of the diploma”, Rory wants to build, explore and have time to absorb…
NBCCD Alumna/Instructor Melissa LeBlanc: Characterizing Clay
Melissa LeBlanc has found what many of us aspire to have – an ideal balance. Two days of every week, she has her hands in the mud, conjuring expressive animal characters from blocks of inert clay. Three days of the week, she teaches in the Diploma in Ceramics at NBCCD, pulling the best and most…
La loi 63 et le design d’intérieur au Nouveau-Brunswick
CCNB
Les designers d’intérieur du Nouveau-Brunswick accueillent favorablement une nouvelle loi qui devrait créer davantage d’intérêt pour le baccalauréat de quatre ans conjointement offert par le CCNB – Campus de Dieppe et l’Université de Moncton. L’Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick a récemment adopté la Loi relative aux designers d’intérieur, ce qui est une étape déterminante pour l’Association…
Indigenous Skateboard Workshop
In the summer of 2016, Sheridan’s Faculty of Animation, Art and Design partnered with Sheridan’s Centre for Indigenous Learning and Support to create a skateboard workshop for First Nations high school youth. The skateboards were created in Sheridan’s Furniture Studio and the workshop was led by faculty member Connie Chisholm. Now in its second year,…
Sask Polytech celebrates Indigenous culture with new mural
Saskatchewan Polytechnic
The new mural at the Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Moose Jaw campus is another aspect of the institution’s indigenization efforts, which are developed towards reconciliation and long-term positive change. With enrolment for Indigenous students increasing 31 per cent since 2011-12, it is the responsibility of the entire organization to ensure every student feels welcome on our campuses.…
Hope and Fear Exhibition
Portage College
Portage College Native Arts and Culture students and instructors were invited by the University of Alberta to produce a piece for ‘Hope and Fear Our Collective Response’. An exhibition by the University of Alberta and Portage College Art and Design Departments. This artwork which incorporates caribou hair sculpting, porcupine quill plaiting, traditional leatherwork, beading, printmaking,…
NBCCD Textile alumna Monica Memory makes little things you didn’t know you wanted
Monica Memory. Let that name sink in. How fitting that an artist with such an evocative name is in the business of making little memories. Each earring, each pendant, each pocket mirror is a tiny perfect illustration. Her work is reminiscent of childhood – bright and cute and bringing a smile to the lips every…
NBCCD graduate Vincent Briggs: Designing Identity
Vincent Briggs was once known by a different name. In high school he kept to himself, spending more time in the library than with other students. He “tried to be invisible, and did a reasonably good job of it.” Fast forward to today. Vincent is a presence in any room, wearing spectacular handmade garments that…
NBCCD Metal Arts Program is Tailored for Budding Entrepreneurs
At a recent workshop, Brigitte Clavette held a bowl aloft and declared, “Now you can save your own life.” That sounds dramatic, but when it comes to teaching jewellery and metal arts at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (NBCCD), Clavette takes her work seriously. “That bowl was hammered from a six-inch metal…
NBCCD Support the Creation of Mawi’art: Wabanaki Artist Collective
from Charles Gaffney, Department Head, NBCCD: In 2013, I had a vision regarding our graduating students of the Aboriginal Visual Arts (AVA) Program at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (NBCCD). How great would it be for them to transition from college to a supporting entrepreneurial environment that would enable them to refine their business…
Amy Sullivan & Rachel Greenwood: Making Space for Clay
Good partnerships don’t grow on trees. You find them buried in the mud. Amy Sullivan and Rachel Greenwood are mud goddesses. Both have been making a living with their work since graduating from the NBCCD Ceramics Diploma in 2006. Both of their respective businesses, Amy Laloon Pottery & Greenwood Pottery, are well known in the Maritimes. Now they have partnered…
Michael Rurka: The Digital Nomad
A decision faced by so many new grads: Build a Career or Travel the World What if you chose to do both? Before graduating with a Diploma in Graphic Design from the New Brunswick College of Craft & Design, Michael Rurka had already created an illustration that would be featured in Applied Art Magazine. Immediately after graduating he was…
Photography graduate Lanaya Flavelle showcases women as role models
Lanaya Flavelle was shy as a child, and being creative was the best way for her to express herself. Thanks to her mother who was an artist herself, Lanaya developed a love for art at a very young age. She credits this early exposure for helping her find not just photography, but a purpose and…
Lethbridge College wins awards for its alumni and community magazine, Wider Horizons
from the press release: “Lethbridge College’s Advancement team received two awards on Friday in Seattle at the CASE District VIII 2017 Communication Awards ceremony. The winning submissions appeared in two different issues of Wider Horizons, the college’s alumni and community magazine that is distributed to nearly 40,000 people three times each year, and included: A gold…
Red River College creative communications students organize fashion show in support of Winnipeg’s homeless
from CBC News: “Dapper men who used to live on the street suited up for a fashion show last week that organizers now say helped raise thousands of dollars for Winnipeg’s homeless. The Runway to Change fashion show at the Fort Garry Hotel on Thursday raised $8,000 for the Main Street Project, a 24-hour drop-in homeless shelter in Point…
GAME program partnership between Brock University and Niagara College teaches students about design and production of video games
from Erie Media: “It’s a nice problem to have. Brock University staff have been flooded by applications in a new program where students learn about the design and production of video games. The GAME program is a partnership between Brock and Niagara College. When it launched for its debut season in September, nearly 400 applications…
College of the North Atlantic student, alumna, and faculty member nominated for East Coast Music Association awards
College of the North Atlantic
from the press release: “Three people, three backgrounds, three awards. A College of the North Atlantic (CNA) student, alumna and faculty member will be contending for awards at the East Coast Music Association (ECMA) annual awards presentation, taking place in Saint John, New Brunswick this April. Leading by example, Sound Recording & Production instructor, Michelle…
Kwantlen Polytechnic art exhibit explores Collective Unconscious
Kwantlen Polytechnic
from The Runner magazine: “Throughout the past few weeks, fourth-year art students have been exhibiting some of their work in the Arbutus gallery on the Surrey campus. The exhibit, Collective Unconscious, includes a number of powerful artworks ranging from oil paintings to sculptures, and offers a hint of what’s to come at the year-end grad…
Fleming College and Sheridan College sign new pathway agreement for art and design students
Fleming College, Sheridan College
from Fleming College: “Fleming College and Sheridan College have signed a new agreement that provides a pathway from a Fleming diploma to the Honours Bachelor of Craft and Design (BC&D) degree at Sheridan. The agreement applies to eligible graduates of Fleming’s Visual and Creative Arts Diploma program who have specialized in fibre arts, glassblowing or…
Vancouver Community College hair design grad finds dream job at Vancouver salon
from the press release: “The one thing Jackie Penev knew she wanted to do after high school was play volleyball. After graduating, she entered an education program at a local college and made the varsity team. Only a few months into the season, however, Jackie developed a severe throat infection that prevented her from playing…
Vancouver Island University celebrates 25-year anniversary of Bachelor of Arts program with profiles of successful grads
from Vancouver Island University: “Happy Silver Anniversary, VIU BA! Twenty-five years ago, Malaspina College offered its first Bachelor of Arts program (Liberal Studies) in partnership with the University of Victoria. In 1996, the institution, which had then become Malaspina University-College, began offering homegrown BA degrees in a range of subjects. Today, as Vancouver Island University,…
Red Deer College visual arts faculty and staff exhibit mixed-media works at First Friday gallery opening
Red Deer College
from the Red Deer Advocate: “Art doesn’t have to be serious — so how about catching some stand-up comedy or wacky printmaking at February’s First Friday gallery openings in Red Deer? Described as a combination of historical printmaking, pop culture “and a little bit of insanity,” the Making a Good First Impression exhibit is on at the…
Emily Carr University artist and professor works to solve mystery of Tom Thomson’s death through clay facial reconstruction
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
from the Regina Leader-Post: “A hundred years ago this summer, the painter Tom Thomson died in Ontario’s Algonquin Park. His artistic legacy is unquestioned. Barely five years of serious painting during the First World War produced works, like The West Wind and Northern River, that still inspire the Canadian imagination of wilderness. His contemporary admirers…
Une table interactive aux surfaces irrégulières
Cégep régional de Lanaudière
INÉDI, le centre collégial de transfert de technologie (CCTT) du Cégep régional de Lanaudière, vise à faire progresser la pratique du design industriel et son utilisation dans les entreprises du Québec et dans d’autres CCTT par l’entremise du transfert technologique découlant de mandats et de projets de recherche appliquée. INÉDI a travaillé sur le projet du PARC…
Anasthasia More: NBCCD Ceramics student make ball-jointed dolls
New Brunswick College of Craft & Design
Anasthasia More has always known what she wanted to do. She wanted to come to NBCCD for many years and now she is finally here, studying in the 2-year Diploma in Ceramics. But she’s not here to do functional pottery. Anasthasia is here to increase her skills and knowledge for making porcelain ball jointed dolls.…
Algonquin College graphic design students and grads participate in digital comic book project to raise awareness about the immune system and vaccinations
from Metro Ottawa: “A prominent Ottawa doctor has teamed up with graphic-design prodigies to convince children to get vaccinated. Immunization Warriors is a digital comic book that aims to get children thinking differently about needles and go over the heads of reluctant parents. Comparing viruses to invading extra-terrestrials, the comic aims to explain the role of white…
Cumberland College calendar promotes Indigenous art
Cumberland College
from the Melfort Journal: “A new calendar for 2017 is promoting the work of Indigenous artists young and old while also promoting education. The calendar was created by Cumberland College, who is partnering with the North East School Division. “We want to acknowledge and celebrate the work of our Indigenous students,” said Brenda Mellon, Manager…
Northwest Community College receives donation of Indigenous art
from the press release: “It was a momentous event for First Nations Fine Arts students on December 8, 2016 when two carvings, crafted by Freda Diesing herself, were donated to the art studio at Northwest Community College. Donors Kelsey Wiebe (on behalf of her grandparents, Jim & Jane Christison) and Corey Bulpitt, presented a Wolf…
Sheridan College and Emily Carr University of Art + Design grads among Oscar nominees for animated short-films
Sheridan College, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
from Newscaf: “Canada is a leader in animation, pumping out scores of professionally trained artists every year from places such as Sheridan College in Oakville, Ont., and Vancouver’s Visual College of Art and Design. But as they enter the industry, they face a tumultuous landscape of rapidly changing technology and economic upheaval. Three of the…
Algonquin College partnership with Shopify to offer students a hands-on experience in graphic design
from Techopia: Shopify U has added graphic design to its course offerings. The e-commerce company announced a partnership with Algonquin College to offer 60 students a hands-on education in graphic design. Shopify employees partnered with instructors from Algonquin College to design a nine-week multidisciplinary course as part of the School of Media and Design. As…
Capilano University Graphic Design students transform experiences from seniors into shareable posters
from TrendHunter: “Capilano University’s IDEA School of Design, a department that’s located in North Vancouver, British Columbia, assigned its students to visit the Silver Harbour Seniors’ Centre in to interview those there. The goal was to get an understanding of their experiences and to attain useful advice that could be transformed into a graphic design.…
Selkirk College Hairstyling grad finds successful, passion-filled career in Vancouver
from the press release: “One of Selkirk College’s top Hairstylist Program graduates has cut, coloured and up-done herself to a successful career in a downtown Vancouver salon. Full of enthusiasm and ambition, she’s just 20 years old. Amber Beckjord graduated from Selkirk College’s Hairstylist Program in 2014 at the age of 17 passionate about all things hair.…
Cambrian College Graphic Design students benefit from partnership with local businesses
from the Sudbury Star: “Cambrian College Graphic Design students will be earning credits and pay cheques at the same time thanks to a partnership with four local businesses. The partnership was announced on January 13 between Cambrian College’s Graphic Design program; its applied research arm, Cambrian Innovates, and the Ontario Centres for Excellence VEBTA program. …
Selkirk College professor brings the art and culture of graphic novels to students:
from the Nelson Star: “Once condemned as a dangerous force of moral degradation, comics and graphic novels have come to be recognized as important cultural texts. “I’ve always been interested in popular culture as an expression of our deepest desires,” said Nelson professor Renée Jackson-Harper. “Graphic novels like Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and David B’s Epileptic,…
Emily Carr University graduate exhibited at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver
Emily Carr University
from The Source, a forum for diversity: “In the upcoming exhibitions, running from Jan. 13–Mar.17 at the Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), Wild Child and The Quantified Self Poems redress our preoccupation with labeling. “The two projects are conflated in some ways,” says Taşdelen. Always curious, the Emily Carr University graduate approaches his ideas through research – first through the…
Student-powered OddBird Studio has a remarkable year
The third-year Bachelor of Game Design students who fuel OddBird Studio entered the 2016 fall term at Sheridan in the same whirlwind manner that has characterized much of their past year as indie developers. They spent the first week of September in Seattle, showcasing their debut game Arrow Heads at PAX West – one of…
Sheridan signs historic agreement with Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre
from the press release: “Sheridan College took part last week in a Commercial Signing Ceremony held in Shanghai, China, and witnessed by the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Minister of International Trade. The agreement, signed by Michael Rubinoff, Associate Dean of Visual and Performing Arts at Sheridan, and Yang Shaolin, General Manager of the Shanghai Dramatic…
Contemporary Artist Kent Monkman
from Ovation, Sheridan’s Alumni Magazine: “It’s easy to be drawn into Kent Monkman’s paintings. He seduces the viewer with beautiful, richly colourful works, often depicting romantic 19th century western landscapes. But a closer look reveals images of violence and oppression central to the artist’s revisionist version of North American aboriginal history. Of Cree descent, Monkman…
Les finissants d’Arts visuels du Cégep de Sainte-Foy s’exposent
du communiqué de presse : « Les étudiants finissants du programme d’Arts visuels du Cégep de Sainte-Foy exposeront leurs œuvres dans le hall du pavillon des arts et du design du Cégep, dès le 27 mai. Le vernissage de l’exposition intitulée Callipyge aura lieu le vendredi 27 mai dès 17 h, une occasion rêvée de rencontrer la…
Les étudiants du Cégep de Sainte-Foy récompensés à l’Exposition de Design industriel 2016
du communiqué de presse : « Du 20 au 26 mai dernier, la Galerie Espaces Parenthèse du Cégep de Sainte-Foy accueillait l’exposition des finissants en Design industriel du Cégep de Sainte-Foy. Les finissants, au nombre de 16 cette année, en ont mis plein la vue aux visiteurs. Lors du vernissage, le mercredi 25 mai, plusieurs prix ont été…
Le Cégep de Sainte-Foy fête une Semaine Shakespeare
du communiqué de presse : « Du 7 au 11 novembre, tous les étudiants du Cégep de Sainte-Foy vibreront au rythme de Shakespeare, dans le cadre du 400e anniversaire de la mort du célèbre auteur. La semaine thématique organisée conjointement par les quatre disciplines de la formation générale (Français, Philosophie, Éducation physique et Anglais) propose aux étudiants…
Le Cégep de Sainte-Foy forme une nouvelle génération de graphistes avec le STUDIO Jeune coop
du communiqué de presse : « Favoriser l’insertion professionnelle de la prochaine génération de graphistes et développer les aptitudes entrepreneuriales de ces derniers, voilà les objectifs que vise la toute nouvelle coopérative scolaire du programme de Graphisme du Cégep de Sainte-Foy : Le STUDIO jeune coop. Unique au Québec, cette coopérative scolaire permet à quelque 32 étudiants de…
Les étudiants du Cégep Limoilou présente la pièce Les Marchands
Cégep Limoilou
du communiqué de presse : « Pour sa 38e saison de théâtre d’excellence, le Cégep Limoilou présente la pièce Les marchands du 23 au 25 novembre, à 19 h 30, à la salle Sylvain-Lelièvre. Une représentation de jour aura lieu le vendredi 25 novembre à 13 h 15. Les marchands est un texte de Joël Pommerat, mis en scène par Joanie Lehoux. Produit par…
Le Cégep Limoilou fête le succès du premier Show Mode socio
du communiqué de presse : « La première édition du Show Mode socio qui s’est déroulé le 23 novembre dernier au campus de Charlesbourg, fut un beau succès! Plus de 40 étudiants se sont mobilisés pour ce projet socio qui a été chapeauté par des étudiants de 3e année en gestion hôtelière : Coralie Blairon, Jennifer Chabot-Plourde, Myriam Dostie, Jean-Michel…
Le Cégep Limoilou lance un tout nouveau programme AEC Artiste 3D
du communiqué de presse : « Une toute nouvelle AEC Artiste 3D voit le jour au Cégep Limoilou pour répondre aux besoins de l’industrie. Les cours débuteront dès le 27 février prochain. C’est donc le temps de s’inscrire ! Les artistes 3D créeront les environnements et l’ambiance d’une scène, pour le cinéma ou la télé, par exemple,…
Le Collège Vanier ouvre une nouvelle librairie coopérative
Collège Vanier
du communiqué de presse : « Le Collège Vanier est fier d’annoncer que l’ouverture officielle de Jake’s Co-op, la librairie coopérative du cégep, s’est déroulée le 7 décembre 2016. La nouvelle librairie est gérée par la coopérative étudiante et est membre de la Fédération québécoise de coopératives en milieux scolaires (FQCMS). L’équipe de la librairie avait du…
Le Cégep régional de Lanaudière met en vedette les étudiants et enseignants du département de Musique
du communiqué de presse : « Les étudiants et les enseignants en Musique du Cégep à Joliette ont connu un automne haut en couleur. Plusieurs spectacles donnés, présence radiophonique et télévisuelle, participation à des événements de grande importance; c’est la tête haute et le cœur rempli de fierté qu’ils terminent cette session d’automne 2016. Lors de la partie d’ouverture de…
Le Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles lance une nouvelle version du programme d’Arts
Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles
du communiqué de presse : « C’est avec beaucoup d’enthousiasme que le Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles annonce la mise en place d’une nouvelle version du programme d’Arts, lettres et communication entre les Campus de Carleton-sur-Mer et des Îles-de-la-Madeleine, dès l’automne 2017. De la côte…aux Îles! Ce programme proposera une approche multidisciplinaire mettant de…
Les étudiants en journalisme de La Cité récompensés lors de la soirée « Reportages vidéastes 2016 »
du communiqué de presse : « La soirée de «Reportages vidéastes 2016» a récompensé des étudiants en journalisme lors d’une présentation qui s’est déroulée à l’amphithéâtre de La Cité. Douze reportages réalisés dans le cadre du cours Atelier de Journalisme Télé 1 ont été présentés. Chaque étudiant a effectué la recherche, la couverture, le tournage, le montage et la…
Vancouver Island University Culinary Arts grads find rewarding careers with luxury hotels
from the press release: “Vancouver Island University (VIU) Culinary Arts program graduate Perry Assu is living his dream. For fun, he snowboards down some of the finest slopes in the world at the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort and for work, he cooks up fine culinary creations in the luxurious Fairmont Chateau Whistler. Assu, 19, who…
Former St. Clair College Graphic Art students launch cathartic exhibit in Southern Ontario
St. Clair College
from The Windsor Star: Artist Dave Mutnjakovic started drawing as a cathartic way to deal with the challenges of living with Crohn’s disease. “I nearly died when I was 14 because I was misdiagnosed,” said Mutnjakovic. “Suddenly I started drawing and it poured out of me for six years.” Now 34, he works as an…
Red River College’s training restaurant is quickly becoming a culinary hub on Winnipeg’s hot new food scene
from Maclean’s: “It started with Deer + Almond in 2012. The small-plate restaurant popped up on Princess Street in Winnipeg’s Exchange District, offering a new option to downtown office workers and hip university students. Then, King and Bannatyne’s sandwiches drew lunchtime crowds. Next, Bronuts and Chosabi opened side by side in 2015, each tempting diners…
Architectural Technologies students learn both building sciences and interior design at Saskatchewan Polytechnic
Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s Architectural Technologies program incorporates interior design, building sciences, drafting methods, and geometry in a practical trades program. from Maclean’s: “Back in the ’70s they were known merely as draftsmen: people hunched over tables using pencils and mechanical tools to churn out blueprints for architects and contractors. But an evolutionary educational process has spawned…
Durham College Music Business Administration grad makes it to Top 40 with debut single
from Maclean’s: “Sarah Mark didn’t realize just how much she had learned in college until she got her first Top 40 hit on the radio. Granted, she had barely finished college when that happened. Her debut single “Tun Up,” a jaunty R&B summertime pop anthem, started getting serious airtime on Canadian radio stations just as…
Emily Carr University of Art and Design grad turns technicolour paintings and love of baking into edible works of art
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
from The Globe and Mail: “What colours come to mind when you think of a dimly lit parking garage in the heart of an urban city centre, a Saskatchewan sunset at the beginning of autumn or a big, creamy scoop of Saskatoon berry ice cream? A visual artist and pastry chef in San Francisco, Leah…
Red River College mechanical engineer designs handlebar adaptation for Canadian paralympian
Red River College mechanical engineer designs a handlebar adaptation for Canadian competing in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. from CBC: “When Chantal Givens raced Sunday at the Paralympic Games, she had a piece of Winnipeg along for the ride. The three-time Canadian paratriathlon champion, who competed in the sport’s Paralympic debut in Rio, was born missing her left hand. In an effort to…
Yukon College artistic collaboration explores climate change in northern communities
A collaborative project from Yukon College art students looks to tackle climate change through multimedia: from Maclean’s: “A collaboration between Yukon College’s school of visual arts in Dawson City, its Yukon Research Centre in Whitehorse and the University of Saskatchewan is adding a human dimension to the science of climate change. “We are trying to…
Giant pinhole camera offers a new experience for photography students
Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD)
An associate professor from Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) developed a giant pinhole camera to offer students a view of how a camera works from the inside: from Maclean’s: “Think back to high school photography class and recall the pinhole camera. Remember nothing? A quick refresher: “When light comes into any light-tight chamber,…
Cambrian College Graphic Design grad earns top award in RGD Student Awards Competition
from the press release: “An outstanding graduate of Cambrian College’s Graphic Design program has been recognized for excellence in visual communication and design, earning top awards through the RGD Student Awards competition. Neli Nenkova’s winning work was selected by judges from the Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) and was featured at the annual DesignThinkers conference held in Toronto in November 2016. Nenkova…
Former student at Emily Carr University on display at Heritage Hall in Vancouver
Paintings by Lan Yao, a former art student at Emily Carr University, on display at the Shiny Fuzzy Muddy show at Heritage Hall in Vancouver. from The Squamish Chief: “Squamish’s Lan Yao never really found the opportunity to produce art on her own time when she worked in 3D animation in Vancouver. But, in recent…
Lethbridge College adds new way of designing to its Interior Design Technology program
Lethbridge College Interior Design Technology program launches virtual-reality component to help both students and clients better visual projects. from the Lethbridge Herald: “There’s a new way of designing, and students at Lethbridge College are getting the chance to explore it firsthand. Students in the Interior Design Technology (IDT) program are getting the opportunity to work…
George Brown College opens another BIM Visionarium lab
George Brown College opens its second Building Information Modelling (BIM) lab to help students develop digital skills in building design and modelling. from the press release: “The BIM Visionarium officially opened on Nov. 25, 2016 at the Centre for Construction and Engineering Technologies at Casa Loma Campus – the second space of its kind at the campus. BIM technology…
Vancouver Art Gallery exhibit features artists from Emily Carr University
An new exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Ambivalent Pleasures, features artists with ties to Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Of the 40 artists exhibited, 26 are either faculty or alumni of the University! The exhibit presents Surrealist strategies, a range of approaches to abstraction, and concepts which address today’s social contexts. from…
Seneca College partners with CFC and AGO on ground-breaking virtual reality exhibit
Seneca College’s School of Creative Arts and Animation, the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab, and the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) partner on Small Wonders: The Gothic Boxwood Miniatures exhibit to showcase rare boxwood carvings in 3D. from the press release: “The Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab (CFC Media Lab), Seneca’s School of Creative Arts and Animation and the Art…
ACAD receives prestigious art & design designation
Alberta College of Art and Design
from the press release: “ACAD is pleased to announce that it has received the National Association of Schools of Art and Design’s (NASAD) designation of Substantial Equivalency – their highest designation for a post-secondary institution not located in the United States. The institution is the only independent art, craft and design post-secondary institution in Canada…
George Brown College signs agreements with Design schools in Ireland and Italy
George brown college launches two exciting new opportunities for art & design students to further their education abroad, both with the Institute or Art, Design and Technology (IADT) in Ireland and with Politecnico di Milano in Italy. from the press release: “The creation of this opportunity is a significant announcement – not only for us,…
Okanagan College once again hosts Short Story Contest to encourage young writers
A challenge has been issued to local writers: go big on creativity while short on time. Okanagan College’s English department is once again inviting up-and-coming writers to step out of their comfort zones and into the frenzied creative world of the popular 3-Hour Short Story Contest, returning Saturday, Nov. 5 at all four campuses. The…
Centennial College unveils new Culinary Arts Centre
In fall 2016, Centennial College unveiled its new Culinary Arts Centre, complete with seven kitchen labs, a teaching restaurant and nine new classrooms that can accommodate 600 students. from Centennial College: “The striking new building takes the shape of a quadrangle with a central courtyard to allow natural light to reach all of the residence…
Fleming College receives design award for Haliburton school rebranding
from the press release: “The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) is recognizing the transformation and rebranding of Fleming College’s Haliburton School of Art + Design (HSAD) with a prestigious design award. Fleming College will receive an RGD In-House Design Award of Distinction at the Association’s upcoming DesignThinkers conference in Toronto on Nov. 4. Formerly known as…
Medicine Hat College art installation raises awareness for MMIW across Canada
Medicine Hat College
In 2016, Medicine Hat College hosted its first ever REDress Project, an art installation in which red dress are hung around campus in order to raise awareness and memorialize the missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) across Canada. from Medicine Hat News: “A simple but beautiful red dress that’s easy to put on. It’s the…
UFV Library literary arts project displays “human books” to bust stereotypes
UFV’s unique literary arts project aims to display a Human Library that builds on personal experiences and outward appearances to challenge prejudices on campus. from the UFV blog: “Our mission is to present unique experiences that challenge peoples’ understanding of stereotypes and educate people on diversity,” says Lisa Morry, a UFV library technician and part of…
Four institutions sign transfer agreement for Arts students
Capilano University, Douglas College, Langara College, Okanagan College
from the press release: “Four post-secondary providers have made it easier for college transfer students to complete a bachelor of arts at Capilano University. The University recently signed agreements to enable Douglas, Langara and Okanagan college students to transfer seamlessly into year three of Capilano University’s bachelor of Arts with a major in Liberal Studies.…
College of the Rockies hosts “Repatriation as Reconciliation” art presentation
College of the Rockies was pleased to host a unique presentation from University of Victoria professor, Dr. Andrea Walsh, entitled ‘Repatriation as Reconciliation: Children’s Art from the Alberni Indian Residential School’. from the press release: “A visual anthropologist specializing in 20th century and contemporary aboriginal art, Dr. Walsh is interested in collections of objects and images…
Great Plains College students weld metal art for can’t miss-auction
Great Plains College
Great Plains College’s unique metal-art auction showcases student art achievements. as profiled in Maclean’s: “Chad Hittel, 21, has to step up his A game. Since he graduated in 2014 from the pre-employment welding certificate program at Great Plains College (GPC), Hittel always donates a piece of metal art to the program’s annual fundraising auction. In…
Niagara College excels in Culinary Arts
from the press release: Niagara College’s Junior Culinary Team Canada proved that it has the recipe for success, winning a gold medal in its first of two competitions at the 2016 Culinary Olympics. The team from Niagara College’s Canadian Food and Wine Institute competed in its first competition at the IKA /Culinary Olympics in Erfurt,…
University of the Fraser Valley launches “Bachelor of Arts 2.0”
from the press release: “The University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) is reshaping the venerable Bachelor of Arts degree, the foundation of many university graduates’ education. The new BA is linked to UFV’s key learning outcomes and emphasizes four core competencies as well as personal and social responsibility, and adds a mandatory online ePortfolio that highlights the…
MITT GPTech program thrives through industry collaboration
Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology
Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology’s (MITT) Graphic and Print Technician (GPTech) program not only provides students a learning experience which spans the continuum from design to ship-ready product; it also gets them hands-on experience with bona fide industry tools, including a large-format printer which Hamilton says is “in huge demand” these days. This is…
Candace Sanderson: The Sculptor
Candace Sanderson did not give herself a ‘Plan B’ when she made the decision to pursue her creative passion full time in 2012. “I always knew I wanted to be an artist even from a young age,” says Sanderson in work boots, with bright eyes and her hair pulled back into a braid that falls…
Collection et Créations sous influences
« Créations sous influences » est un projet qui existe depuis 10 ans. Ce projet, qui est une initiative du département d’Arts, lettres et communication du Cégep de Lanaudière à L’Assomption, a pour objectif de permettre à des étudiants de travailler sous la direction d’artistes professionnels. Depuis 2006, une cinquantaine d’étudiants ont ainsi produit une vingtaine…
OFFF Tour Québec
Cégep Édouard-Montpetit
Le OFFF Tour Québec, créé par le Département de techniques d’intégration multimédia du cégep Édouard-Montpetit, est un événement annuel d’envergure internationale regroupant des centaines d’amateurs et de professionnels du domaine de la création numérique. Sur place, les participants assistent aux prestations d’artistes de renom des quatre coins du monde qui présentent le fruit de leur…
Holland College student trades hockey stick for paint brush
Three years ago, Dylan McQuaid’s résumé would have led one to expect that the 20-year-old would pursue a career in business or sports. After several years of playing hockey – the last three in the Maritime Junior-A Hockey League and the Island Junior Hockey League – he seemed destined to follow the path of many…
St. Clair College’s Jason Fabok
Windsor, Ontario born Jason Fabok is a graduated from St. Clair College’s Tradigital Animation program in 2007 and was honoured as an Alumni of Distinction in 2014! Fabok has carried his passion for creative pursuits since he was a young boy. A fan of television cartoons, he enjoyed drawing the characters and watching them come…
Le design responsable du Collège LaSalle
Collège LaSalle
Le Collège LaSalle de Montréal “a pour mission d’offrir une éducation qualifiante de haute qualité en réponse aux besoins du marché du travail et à ceux du développement des individus, dans un contexte de mondialisation”. À l’aide de divers intervenants du milieu de la mode, les étudiants en Design sont appelés à développer leurs connaissances…
Native Arts and Culture Alumni: Amy Malbeuf
Portage College will be hosting a Visiting Artist Presentation in which accomplished alumni speak to students of the program from which they graduated. Recently, alumna Amy Malbeuf was invited to return to the College for a presentation to the public and for the students of the Native Arts and Culture Program. Having alumni return to the…
Future Ways of Living Cultural Celebration and Pop-Up Lab
The unique George Brown College Institute without Boundaries (IwB), a Toronto-based educational program and design studio, works to achieve social, ecological, and economic innovation through design collaboration. from George Brown College: “The Institute without Boundaries (IwB) was founded in 2003 by the School of Design at George Brown College, in consultation with Bruce Mau. The…
I am my Ancestors…My Ancestors are me
Amber Weasel Head is a visual artist, a student in Portage College’s Social Work program, and a graduate of the College’s Aboriginal Art Certificate program and its Artisan Entrepreneurship Diploma program. “I am my Ancestors… My Ancestors are me” tells her story: “This film is about my connection with my ancestors. I am the first…
Hairdressing Fantasy Competition
North West College
North West College offers the full breadth of Adult learning opportunities, one of which is a pre-employment certificate program in Hairstyling, teaching students to perform techniques on hair, wigs, hairpieces, skin and nails. Each year, the Hairstyling students are challenged to compete in a Fantasy Competition. Judged by a panel of experts, students submit mannequins finished…
Career training and culture coalesce at MITT
When the Downtown Winnipeg Biz put out a call for street banners to celebrate the Year of the Monkey (“Fire Monkey”), students in Jan Hamilton’s Graphic and Print Technician program (GPTech) at Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology answered the call, submitting 22 amazing designs. One of those designs – by MITT student Zhiling (Lucia)…
Lakeland College Interior Design student a double winner in design competitions
Lakeland College
Sydney Melnyk still can’t believe she’s a double winner in student design competitions. “It’s pretty crazy; I can hardly believe it,” says the Lakeland College alumna of winning first place in two National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) design competitions: the 2015-16 Charette Design Competition and the 2015-16 Schoolhouse Charm Student Design Competition. Competing against…
Camosun College’s Comic Arts Festival celebrates the artistry of visual storytelling
Camosun College in Victoria, BC, delivers a nationally unique certificate program in Comics and Graphic Novels each year to approximately 30 students. The one-of-a-kind program was created for students who have a desire to learn the language of visual storytelling, and focuses on skills-based learning for six career paths: comic book creation (print & online),…
“Carrying On” Indigenous Art Exhibition 2016
Portage College students from the Native Arts and Culture program were successfully juried into the “Carrying On” Indigenous Art exhibition at the Alberta Craft Council Discovery Gallery last year from June 18th to July 23rd, 2016. The show was also part of The Works Art and Design Festival in Edmonton, which is presented by The…
Fanshawe collaborates on motion capture suit for Parkinson’s patients
Fanshawe College of Applied Arts and Technology
Fanshawe College has collaborated with researchers at Movement Disorder Diagnostic Technologies Inc. (MDDT), a locally-based medical device company to create a prototype of a motion-capture suit and tremor arm sleeve to be used in the diagnosis and monitoring of Parkinson’s patients. MDDT collaborated with Fanshawe’s School of Design to create a prototype suit that can…
The Medicine Hat College Conservatory of Music and Dance
The Medicine Hat College Conservatory of Music and Dance is an important contributor to the Southern Alberta arts community – one that also enjoys the distinction of being one of the institution’s eldest programming areas, opening its doors shortly after the College was founded in 1965. On an annual basis, almost 1,000 multi-generational students enrol…
Full Blood Moon Entertainment: Films that Shifts Perspectives
They call themselves “The Four Horsemen.” They have more to do with film-making than the apocalypse, but the four gentlemen who make up Full Blood Moon Entertainment Inc. are working hard to create a global shift nonetheless. Today, however, they are taking a break at their shared alma mater. Sitting in dark suits in the…
Kelsi McInnes found her calling
Before Kelsi McInnes became a music therapist she first had to discover the profession existed. It all started when the Manning, AB, native was working in part-time respite care as a university student. Her client was a little girl with spinal muscular atrophy. McInnes found it incredibly fulfilling to help improve the well-being of another…
Dalen Landis is a man of many talents
As a photographer, landscape painter, custom tiler, videographer, music-festival organizer and now, professional beer brewer, Dalen Landis is not kidding when he says “I have my fingers in a few different pots.” This morning his fingers are busy filling kegs with fresh Redwillow Falls Amber Ale. A co-owner of Grain Bin Brewing, Landis has also…
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180 Shooter
Skill Development & The Four Factors
Originally published in Hard2Guard Player Development Newsletters, Volume 3. Purchase Volume 3 as a paperback or Kindle, and subscribe to the latest newsletters in the box above.
Dean Oliver’s Basketball on Paper provides a guide for identifying skills to develop for each position. Oliver identified the four factors that determine the outcome of each game. They are:
Shooting percentage differential
Offensive rebounding differential
Turnover differential
Free throw differential
When we discuss skills and talents of positions, we need to reference the Four Factors. A point guard can influence all four factors, but often in ways that go unnoticed. Typically, we rely on assists, turnovers, and steals per game, but these statistics tell part of the story.
The aggressive point guard may make more turnovers than a coach would like, but he may compensate by influencing other areas. By penetrating and drawing defenders, his bad shot may create offensive rebounding opportunities. I wrote an article called the “Allen Iverson Effect” about this idea: Iverson made guys like Theo Ratliff and Matt Geiger a lot of money by driving to the basket, drawing three defenders and taking bad shots that led to offensive rebound put-backs for Ratliff and Geiger. The 76ers built their team around this idea.
The point guard’s aggressive nature might get the other team into foul trouble and create a free throw advantage. He might use his aggressiveness defensively to create steals. Rather than evaluating a player’s impact on his team through one measure — assist to turnover ratio — that is not completely within his control (someone else has to make the shot), the four factors provide four ways (eight if you count offense and defense) to evaluate performance and a player’s impact.
When we look at the success of a point guard through assist and turnover numbers, we look at results. At the developmental level, we should look at the process. If I penetrate, draw a player, and pass to a teammate who misses the shot, I do not get an assist, but I did make the right play. To encourage better decision-making, we cannot focus solely on the result because we know that bad shots sometimes go in, and good shots are missed. A good shot is a good shot whether or not it goes in; a bad shot is a bad shot whether or not it goes through the rim. If we clap and reward a player only for made shots, we reinforce the belief that it does not matter what you do, as long as it ends in a basket. We want to influence and promote sound decision-making that depends on the process more than the result. A team that makes the right play over and over will have a better chance to score or stop the opposition.
If we look at the factors, we want to outline skills that lead to the process of improving these four factors. How do you improve your team’s shooting performance? How do you improve your defense against the opponent’s shooting percentage? Every player should understand their role in this regard. One player may be the lock-down defender on the opponent’s best player, but if he takes numerous shots outside his range, he may do as much harm as good. The player earns his playing time defensively, and becomes an integral part of the unit, but he needs to embrace his role offensively to maximize his performance. When he improves his shooting, his role changes.
Think of Bruce Bowen: Bowen started as a great defender who was not re-signed because he could not make a shot for the Miami Heat. San Antonio signed him, and Popovich told him that he needed to make corner three-pointers. He earned his playing time on defense, but before he could hit the corner threes, he did not have a major positive impact on his team. Once he could make the corner three, he became a starter and an integral member of a championship team. He improves the Spurs field goal percentage defense through his work on the opponent’s star, but he also improves their offensive efficiency through his three-point shooting.
Not every coach plays the same system or emphasizes the same things. The type of point guard or shooting guard or post player will differ from system to system. In the Triangle, a spot-up shooting point guard is more effective than a penetrating point guard, and a good passing big man is more effective than a true back to the basket scorer.
The role of a position changes from coach to coach and system to system. To maximize player development, we need to outline our expectations for players, and the four factors helps to organize our expectations. It is one thing to tell a point guard that he needs to make good decisions. What does that mean? Is a good decision for Chris Paul also a good decision for Derek Fisher? Maybe – some things are universal. Maybe not, as Paul can do things with the ball that Fisher cannot, and Paul’s team relies more heavily on his talent than do the Lakers with Fisher. Paul splitting the trap on a pick-and-roll is probably the right move almost every time, whereas it is probably unnecessary for Fisher because a trap means someone else is open and an open Gasol, Bryant, Odom or Ariza is a better option than Fisher trying to split a trap with the dribble.
If you tell a point guard that his decision-making should increase his team’s shooting percentage or decrease its turnover percentage or increase its free throw attempts, there is a tangible goal for the somewhat abstract concept of good decision-making. Once we set the goal, the results should be a part of the overall evaluation, as a player cannot determine whether a teammate makes the shot or not. Over a long period of time, the averages balance out and the results are more accurate, as a good passer will improve his team’s shooting percentage because he finds players at the right time and makes a good pass that enhances their shooting rhythm as opposed to passing late or making a player reach for the pass. On a single possession, the evaluation should depend on the process, not the result. Encourage the right process, and do not worry about the result.
Did he make the right play given the situation? Feedback should center on the correctness of the decision, as a player who makes the right decision a higher percentage of the time will lead to more positive performances on the four factors than one who makes the wrong decisions, but sometimes makes a spectacular play.
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I went from averaging 8 points per game as a senior in high school to averaging 22 points per game my sophomore year of college. Coach McCormick's workouts and drills played a key role in my vast improvement.
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Coach McCormick has put together the most complete book about shooting that I have ever seen. His breakdown of shooting methods and techniques are essential for athletes who want to improve their form and accuracy.
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I always look forward to reviewing new work done by Brian McCormick, because I know it will be well-researched, insightful, and cutting edge. His 180 Shooter did not disappoint. Brian has a critical eye and great ability to break down complex basketball movements into their most fundamental elements, and then incorporate an effective training protocol to progressively teach their mastery. 180 Shooter will be a valued addition to my training resource library.
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Brian McCormick is an outstanding coach, instructor and writer. His newest book, 180 Shooter, covers in great detail how to become a better shooter from the ground up. Brian worked for my program (Hoop Masters) as a coach and his attention to detail and ability to teach young eager players is a special gift. I would recommend the 180 Shooter to any player, coach, or parent that really wants to understand all aspects of improving your shooting percentages and overall shooting skills. In this day and age of quick fixes and short cuts it's refreshing to have someone take the time to really explain how to become a better shooter. If you follow the drills, practice the habits outlined in this book and really believe that you can become a better shooter. You will. There are no short cuts to improvement.
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Whatcom County, Washington, on the border with Canada, is an established college town with a growing population
Whatcom County has a population of approximately 200,000. The county seat and largest city is Bellingham. The county name ultimately derives from the Lummi word Xwotʼqom, meaning "noisy water."
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San Juan County is a county located in the Salish Sea in the far northwestern corner of Washington State. As of the 2010 census, its population was 15,769. Of the hundreds of islands in the county, only 60 islands are inhabited.
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Skagit County, with a population of 116,901, is situated in the gorgeous Skagit Valley. The county seat and largest city is Mount Vernon. The majestic Cascade Mountains stand to the east, overlooking a fertile valley boasting a variety of agricultural crops. Running through the valley is the powerful Skagit River flowing westward toward the beautiful San Juan Islands.
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Snohomish County, with a population of 772,501, is the third-most populous county in Washington. The county seat and largest city is Everett. The county is located between the sparkling blue waters of Puget Sound and the rugged, snow-capped peaks of the Cascade Mountains. Snohomish County begins 12 miles north of Seattle, a little under 100 miles south of Vancouver, and a short ferry ride away from the San Juan Islands and the Olympic Peninsula. Snohomish County is home to over 20,000 businesses, ranging from small family farms specializing in organic foods, to the world’s largest advanced manufacturing facility producing state-of art aerospace equipment.
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If you are the victim. It nearly never occurs that you will hear the adjuster handling your case admit that their insured customer is the one liable for the collision.
Yet another way Bellingham car accident victims can get dinged by insurance adjusters
Please remember that even if an adjuster sounds sympathetic and friendly, they are not on your side. You must pay close attention to their questions, and assume that they are looking for anything that can reduce your claim.
Are teenagers addicted to their phones? Half of them say yes they are.
As a personal injury attorney here in Bellingham, I feel like this problem has one of the greatest negative impacts on driving habits. If a teen can't get off the phone in general, driving is too often just another place to be on social media or the web.
5 Tips for the first conversation with the insurance adjuster after a car accident
Here are some tips for that first contact with the insurance adjuster to help you advocate for yourself or a loved one and set the stage for financial recovery instead of further anxiety and financial stress.
One of the tricks insurance adjusters will try is to get a recording of you talking about your accident and claim. Of course they will try to get in writing anything about you that they can, including your complete medical records.
It's very important for motorists to slow down and drive with their full attention. Below are some things for drivers to think about when school is in session.
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Most of those accidents occurred during the hours before and after school, and peaked in September, perhaps as everyone gets used to the idea of sharing the roads again.
One trick insurance adjusters use against Bellingham car accident victims
When you’re involved in an accident, it’s an insurance adjuster who comes to evaluate your claim. Most likely they will come across as very friendly and professional, but it’s important to remember whose side they are on.
Drive like your kids live here
If drivers follow the rules and drive under the legal speed limit, they should theoretically have enough time to stop if a child or pet runs into the street. But there is no substitute for caution!
Why are semi trucks such a danger to Bellingham and Whatcom County cars?
As you can imagine, if a truck driver or company does not abide by these regulations, the cargo they barrel down the road with could make for incredibly unsafe circumstances for the truck’s drivers, passengers, and innocent drivers sharing the road. If a truck driver does not follow these rules, fines and other serious penalties can be applied.
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Table of contents of journal: *Intelligence : A multidisciplinary journal
Genetic influence on the variance in coincidence timing and its covariancewith IQ: A twin study
Authors: Wright, MJ Smith, GA Geffen, GM Geffen, LB Martin, NG
Citation: Mj. Wright et al., Genetic influence on the variance in coincidence timing and its covariancewith IQ: A twin study, INTELLIGENC, 28(4), 2000, pp. 239-250
Performance on Raven's matrices by African and White university students in South Africa
Authors: Rushton, JP Skuy, M
Citation: Jp. Rushton et M. Skuy, Performance on Raven's matrices by African and White university students in South Africa, INTELLIGENC, 28(4), 2000, pp. 251-265
Genetic and environmental influences on two measures of speed of information processing and their relation to psychometric intelligence: Evidence from the German observational study of adult twins
Authors: Neubauer, AC Spinath, FM Riemann, R Angleitner, A Borkenau, P
Citation: Ac. Neubauer et al., Genetic and environmental influences on two measures of speed of information processing and their relation to psychometric intelligence: Evidence from the German observational study of adult twins, INTELLIGENC, 28(4), 2000, pp. 267-289
Measuring cognitive aptitude using unobtrusive knowledge tests: A new survey technology
Authors: Legree, PJ Martin, DE Psotka, J
Citation: Pj. Legree et al., Measuring cognitive aptitude using unobtrusive knowledge tests: A new survey technology, INTELLIGENC, 28(4), 2000, pp. 291-308
Early generic educational intervention has no enduring effect on intelligence and does not prevent mental retardation: The infant health and development program
Authors: Baumeister, AA Bacharach, VR
Citation: Aa. Baumeister et Vr. Bacharach, Early generic educational intervention has no enduring effect on intelligence and does not prevent mental retardation: The infant health and development program, INTELLIGENC, 28(3), 2000, pp. 161-192
The construction of "user-friendly" tests of cognitive functioning: A synthesis of maximal- and typical-performance measurement philosophies
Authors: Dennis, MJ Sternberg, RJ Beatty, P
Citation: Mj. Dennis et al., The construction of "user-friendly" tests of cognitive functioning: A synthesis of maximal- and typical-performance measurement philosophies, INTELLIGENC, 28(3), 2000, pp. 193-211
Differences in cognitive processes between gifted, intelligent, creative, and average individuals while solving complex problems: An EEG study
Authors: Jausovec, N
Citation: N. Jausovec, Differences in cognitive processes between gifted, intelligent, creative, and average individuals while solving complex problems: An EEG study, INTELLIGENC, 28(3), 2000, pp. 213-237
A further look at youth intellectual giftedness and its correlates: Values, interests, performance, and behavior
Authors: Roznowski, M Reith, J
Citation: M. Roznowski et J. Reith, A further look at youth intellectual giftedness and its correlates: Values, interests, performance, and behavior, INTELLIGENC, 28(2), 2000, pp. 87-113
Forty-year secular trends in cognitive abilities
Authors: Teasdale, TW Owen, DR
Citation: Tw. Teasdale et Dr. Owen, Forty-year secular trends in cognitive abilities, INTELLIGENC, 28(2), 2000, pp. 115-120
Complexity, metacognition, and fluid intelligence
Authors: Stankov, L
Citation: L. Stankov, Complexity, metacognition, and fluid intelligence, INTELLIGENC, 28(2), 2000, pp. 121-143
Item sequencing effects on the measurement of fluid intelligence
Authors: Carlstedt, B Gustafsson, JE Ullstadius, E
Citation: B. Carlstedt et al., Item sequencing effects on the measurement of fluid intelligence, INTELLIGENC, 28(2), 2000, pp. 145-160
Working memory, short-term memory, speech rate, word recognition and reading comprehension in learning disabled readers: Does the executive system have a role?
Authors: Swanson, HL Ashbaker, MH
Citation: Hl. Swanson et Mh. Ashbaker, Working memory, short-term memory, speech rate, word recognition and reading comprehension in learning disabled readers: Does the executive system have a role?, INTELLIGENC, 28(1), 2000, pp. 1-30
Calendrical calculation and intelligence
Authors: O'Connor, N Cowan, R Samella, K
Citation: N. O'Connor et al., Calendrical calculation and intelligence, INTELLIGENC, 28(1), 2000, pp. 31-48
The stability of individual differences in mental ability from childhood to old age: Follow-up of the 1932 Scottish mental survey
Authors: Deary, IJ Whalley, LJ Lemmon, H Crawford, JR Starr, JM
Citation: Ij. Deary et al., The stability of individual differences in mental ability from childhood to old age: Follow-up of the 1932 Scottish mental survey, INTELLIGENC, 28(1), 2000, pp. 49-55
Negligible sex differences in general intelligence
Authors: Colom, R Juan-Espinosa, M Abad, F Garcia, LF
Citation: R. Colom et al., Negligible sex differences in general intelligence, INTELLIGENC, 28(1), 2000, pp. 57-68
Genetic and shared environmental contributions to the relationship betweenthe home environment and child and adolescent achievement
Authors: Cleveland, HH Jacobson, KC Lipinski, JJ Rowe, DC
Citation: Hh. Cleveland et al., Genetic and shared environmental contributions to the relationship betweenthe home environment and child and adolescent achievement, INTELLIGENC, 28(1), 2000, pp. 69-86
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ACS / SENCER Issues & Innovations
The American Chemical Society (ACS), the SENCER Centers of Innovation Southwest and South, and Bellhaven University welcome you to Jackson, Mississippi and to our symposium with a theme of STEM Education in Mississippi: Issues and Innovations. Throughout a full-day of activities, we will focus on use of innovative and proven pedagogy to reduce barriers to learning, student success, and retention. Presenters include educators and administrators from throughout the country.
We look forward to seeing you at Belhaven’s Kim Center -- Friday, September 29, 2017! Remember to REGISTER so we know how many meals to prepare!
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Angela Erves works as a Cartographer in the Lower Mississippi River Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Her office also coordinates the Lower Mississippi River Conservation Committee (LMRCC). The LMRCC is a coalition of 12 state natural resource conservation and environmental quality agencies from the six states that border the Lower Mississippi River. She has been working in the conservation world for over a decade focusing on creating more efficient tools and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications for managing aquatic and terrestrial habitat in the 2.8 M acre Lower Mississippi River floodplain and throughout the Southeast region of the United States. Her GIS skills have been used to support planning and implementation of several national and regional conservation projects: 1) Section 402 - Lower Mississippi River Resource Assessment Watershed Management Plan in partnership with U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Memphis District, The Nature Conservancy and other partners - final assessment was sent to congress in July 2016; 2) Lower Mississippi River Batture Reforestation program in partnership with Mississippi River Trust and Natural Resources Conservation Service to restore and permanently protect 20,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forests by 2020- to date $55M have been dedicated to this effort; 4) Lower Mississippi River Aquatic Habitat Restoration Decision Support Model in partnership with USACE Engineer Research and Development Center which has resulted in the completion of over 30 LMR habitat restoration projects and almost 100 miles of secondary channel habitat being rehabilitated to benefit T&E Species (such as pallid sturgeon, interior least tern, and fat pocketbook mussel), other native fishes, and recreation; and 5) initial steps in the planning for a National Asian Carp Control Program to address Asian Carp issues in the Mississippi River Basin, as well as other areas such as the Great Lakes. She strongly believes that Geographic Information System (GIS) should be a basic component of any science related discipline for it is the highway that connects the scientific research with what’s going on in the real world now and years from now
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• FBI Admits Flaws in Hair Analysis – Washington Post. “The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed or died in prison.
• FBI’s dog hair disgrace – In 1978, Santae Tribble, then 17, was convicted of a murder in D.C. based on the testimony of two FBI forensics experts. They asserted that a single hair strand found at the crime scene matched Tribble’s DNA. He served 28 years in prison before an independent analysis found that the hair was no match—it was a dog’s hair.
• Go to Trial: Crash the Justice System – Michelle Alexander
• Kids in Cages – UT lecturer and juvenile justice reformer Michele Deitch says Texas prisons are no place for kids. Now she and her students are changing laws and saving lives.
• Lead prosecutor Marty Stroud’s letter of apology to man he sent to death row. (Update)
• Life After Exoneration – Slate Magazine
♥ Mass Incarceration: The Silence of the Judges by Judge Rakoff
♥ The Year’s Most Disgusting Book by Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone
• New Literature Tackles Big Questions on Mass Incarceration – Truthout
♥ Why Innocent People Plead Guilty – Judge Rakoff
♥ Bringing Down The New Jim Crow – Radio documentary series explores and gives voice to the continuing struggle for racial justice in the United States during the era of mass incarceration.
• Actual Innocence: five days to execution and other dispatches from the wrongly convicted by Barry Scheck, Peter Nuefeld & Jim Dwyer
• Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis
• At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuire
• Behind The Walls: A Guide for Families and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates by Jorge Antonio Renaud
♥ Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: An Organizing Guide by Daniel Hunter
• Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era by Dan Berger
• Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics by Marie Gottschalk
• Changing Lenses: A New Focus for Crime and Justice by Howard Zehr
• Chicken Soup For The Prisoner’s Soul by Jack Canfield
• Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice by Si Kahn
• Doing Life: Reflections Of Men And Women Serving Life Sentences by Howard Zehr
• Fatherhood Behind Bars by Jorge Antonio Renaud
• Finding a Voice: The Practice of Changing Lives Through Literature by Jean Trounstine and Robert Waxler
• Full Circle: A True Story of Murder, Lies, and Vindication by Gloria Killian
♥ Getting Life by Michael Morton
• Handbook for Writer’s in Prison by PEN American Center
• Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States by Rickie Solinger
♥ Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Brian Stevenson
• The Justice Imperative: How Hyper-Incarceration Has Hijacked The American Dream by Brian E. Moran
• The Little Book of Restorative Justice: Revised and Updated (Justice and Peacebuilding) by Howard Zehr
• Letters From Prison by Monique Holeyfield
• Letters from Prison: Felons Write about the Struggle for Life and Sanity Behind Bars by Shawn Thompson
• Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We can Do Better by Maya Schenwar
• Long Time Coming: My Life and the Darryl Hunt Lesson by Jo Anne North Goetz
• A Manual for Direct Action by Martin Oppenheimer and George Lakey
♥ The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
♥ Palpable Irony: Losing My Freedom to Find My Purpose by Martin Lockett
♥ Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton
• Race to Incarcerate by Marc Mauer
• Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling by Marc Mauer
• Razor Wire Women by Jody Michelle Lawston & Ashley E. Lucas
• The Real Cost of Prisons Comix – Lois Ahrens, Editor
♥ Rise of the Warrior Cop by Radley Balko
• Shakespeare Behind Bars: The Power of Drama in A Women’s Prison by Jean Trounstine
• The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs
• The Suspect: A Memoir: Surviving Three Decades of Accusation in Nashville’s Most Infamous Murder by Jeffrey Womack
• Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson
• Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated Compiled and Edited by Lola Vollen & Dave Eggers
♥ Three Felonies A Day: How The Feds Target The Innocent by Harvey A. Silverglate
• Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice by Adam Benforado
• The Unvarnished Truth About the Prison Family Journey by Carolyn Esparza & LPC Don Yow Sr.
• Unreasonable Inferences: The True Story of a Wrongful Conviction and Its Astonishing Aftermath by Michael Griesbach
♥ We’re All Doing Time – Bo Lozoff’s first book, (available in paperback or ebook), with over 400,000 copies in print, was hailed by The Village Voice as “one of the ten books everyone in the world should read,” and is acclaimed by prison staff and prisoners alike as one of the most helpful books ever written for true self-improvement and rehabilitation.
♥ Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons Edited by Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi – Reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States. Testimonies illustrate the harrowing struggles for survival that women in prison must endure.
• Writing As Resistance: The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons Anthology (1998-2002) – Dr Bob Gaucher, Editor
• After Innocence – This documentary, produced by a former Innocence Project clinic student, focuses on the DNA exonerations of seven wrongfully convicted men. It received the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize. Visit the film website, watch it instantly on Netflix, buy it on Amazon.
• At The Death House Door – Chronicles the extraordinary journey of Pastor Carroll Pickett, who served 15 years as the death house chaplain to the infamous “Walls” prison unit in Huntsville.
♥ The Central Park Five – In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers were arrested and charged with brutally attacking and raping a white female jogger in Central Park. News media swarmed the case, calling them a “wolfpack.” The five would spend years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit before the truth about what really happened became clear.
Watch instantly on Netflix or iTunes or purchase the DVD or Blue-Ray at Shop PBS.
♥ Conviction – Tells the true story of a woman’s fight to prove her brother’s innocence. Watch instantly on Netflix or buy a DVD on Amazon.com.
♥ The House I Live In – Filmed in more than twenty states, The House I Live In captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels of America’s War on Drugs.
• The Hurricane – The story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence. Watch now or buy a DVD on Amazon.com.
• In the Name of the Father – This Oscar-nominated film tells the true story of a Gerry Conlon’s coerced confession to an IRA bombing he didn’t do; and a British lawyer’s fight to free Conlon and his father. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Pete Postlethwaite. Watch instantly or buy the DVDat Amazon.
♥ Kids for Cash – A riveting look behind the notorious scandal that rocked the nation and sent one judge to prison for 28 years.
• Murder on a Sunday Morning – This 2001 Oscar-winning documentary follows the defense in a murder trial of an African American teenager wrongly accused of robbing and murdering a white tourist in Florida. The film focuses on racism and misconduct in the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. Buy a DVD at Amazon.com.
• Scenes of a Crime – Explores a nearly 10-hour interrogation that culminates in a disputed confession, and an intense, high-profile child murder trial in New York state. Watch instantly on iTunes, Vimeo or Distrify. DVD copies are also available for educators, libraries and legal practitioners.
• The Thin Blue Line – Errol Morris’ award-winning 1988 documentary presents compelling evidence that Randall Adams was wrongfully convicted of killing a police officer in Dallas, Texas. Watch instantly at Netflix, buy a DVD or watch now at Amazon.com.
• The Trials of Darryl Hunt – (2006) Break Thru Films’ documentary about Darryl Hunt’s decades-long fight for justice after being wrongfully convicted of rape and murder. The film follows Hunt’s multiple appeals and chronicles the police misconduct that contributed to the 20 years he spent in prison for a crime he did not commit. The film was on the short listed for a 2006 Academy Award for best documentary. Click here for to view a trailer. Watch instantly on Netflix or visit the film’s website.
• An Unreal Dream – In 1986 Michael Morton’s wife Christine is brutally murdered in front of their only child, and Michael is convicted of the crime. Locked away in Texas prisons for a quarter century, he has years to ponder questions of justice and innocence, truth and fate. Though he is virtually invisible to society, a team of dedicated attorneys spends years fighting for the right to test DNA evidence found at the murder scene. Their discoveries ultimately reveal that the price of a wrongful conviction goes well beyond one man’s loss of freedom. Buy the DVD or watch on Netflix or iTunes.
• 10 Things You Can Do To Support the Struggle for Prisoners’ Rights – Prisoners with Children
• Doing Your Time With Peace of Mind – A Meditation Manual for Prisoners – by Doug Booth
• Fighting For Our Rights: A Toolbox For Family Advocates Of California Prisoners – Outlines some basic tools that families of California state prisoners can use to fight for the rights of loved ones inside, and gives information on specific issues you may need to advocate about. Also included is an insert on Requesting Resentencing Under Three Strikes Reform.
• Inside Book Project Resource Guide – Inside Books Project sends this Resource Guide free of charge to any inmate in Texas.
• Letter From A Birmingham Jail – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The Jailhouse Lawyer’s Handbook – How to bring a federal lawsuit to challenge violations of your rights in prison – published by Center for Constitutional Rights and National Lawyers Guild.
• Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror (Summary) – Equal Justice Initiative For a copy of the full-length report, send an email at [email protected] or call EJI at 334.269.1803.
• Manual on SSI & SSDI for Prisoners and Their Advocates – This manual explains the initial application process and the reconsideration and appeals processes. Information on how incarceration affects your SSI/SSDI benefits is included along with sample letters of advocacy.
• Prisoner Resource Directory – PARC Prison Activist Resource Center
• Research & Papers – Real Cost of Prisons Project
• Sacred Gates: Bringing Mindfulness to Prisons – A Volunteer’s Guide by Chris Canfield
• We The People Legal Primer – Prison Book Program publishes this popular 40-page legal primer for prisoners.
• What to Plan for When You Are Pregnant at California Institution for Women – *2013* This manual was created for pregnant women currently housed at California Institution for Women. It addresses what to expect from arrival at prison to delivery, and how to create the best possible arrangements for the mother and her baby.
• World Prison Population List (10th Edition) – ICPS (International Centre for Prison Studies)
48 Hours (CBS)
• Grave Injustice – Convicted of murder and sentenced to death — 16 years later students help set Anthony Graves free.
60 Minutes (CBS)
♥ Eyewitness: How Accurate is Visual Memory? – The case of Ronald Cotton, who was wrongfully incarcerated for over ten years for a brutal rape and burglary he did not commit. Part 1
♥ Eyewitness: How Accurate is Visual Memory? Part 2
• The Exonerated (2005) – Film version of the award-winning Off-Broadway play features the stories of six people who were exonerated after being sentenced to death. The cast includes Susan Sarandon, Danny Glover and Aidan Quinn. Watch instantly on Netflix, Buy a DVD on Amazon.
♥ The Interrogation of Michael Crowe (2002) – Focuses on a 14-year-old California boy who was targeted by police investigating the murder of his 12-year-old sister. Police aggressively interrogated Michael Crowe and ultimately coerced a false confession from him. This film won a Peabody Award and an American Bar Association award for its thoughtful handling of false confessions and the need to record interrogations.
♥ Stories of the Innocence Project Series – Programs include: Marvin Anderson’s Nightmare (2004); A Life Stolen (2004); Confessions of an Innocent Man (2005); What’s in a Name? (2005); Fingered with a Print (2005); Broken Words (2006); Unforgettable Face (2006). This TV series “opens up the files” from the Innocence Project and takes an inside look at the stories of Innocence Project clients who were able to triumph in their fight for freedom, while highlighting key mistakes and causes for their wrongful convictions. Each episode is an hour long. Featured exonerees include: Bruce Godschalk, Marvin Anderson, Eddie Joe Lloyd, Jimmy Ray Bromgard, Dennis Fritz, Stephan Cowans and Anthony Michael Green.
• The System – The Wrong Man? (2001-2003) A series of specials investigating possible wrongful convictions. Features Edward Lee Elmore, who was convicted of murdering an elderly woman in South Carolina, and includes an interview with Barry Scheck. Other episodes investigate the cases of Marty Tankleff, Dennis Dechaine and Henry “Fred” Chichester. CNN
• Death Row Stories – Explores cases that pose hard questions about the U.S. capital punishment system.Frontline (PBS)
♥ Burden of Innocence (2003) – This look into the lives of five men who served years in prison for crimes they did not commit reveals the social, economic, and psychological challenges that people face post-exoneration.
♥ The Child Cases (2011) – An investigation by NPR, ProPublica andFrontline into more than 20 wrongful conviction cases involving faulty forensics in accidental child deaths.
♥ The Confessions (2010) – An award-winning documentary on the case of the “Norfolk Four” – Navy sailors convicted of a murder they didn’t commit after giving false confessions under pressure.
♥ Death by Fire (2010) – Examines the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas in 2004 for allegedly setting a fire that killed his three young daughters 13 years earlier. He always claimed his innocence, and the arson investigation used to convict him was questioned by leading experts before Willingham was executed. Since 2004, further evidence in the case has led to the inescapable conclusion that Willingham did not set the fire for which he was executed.
• Innocence Lost (1991) – Ofra Bikel’s three-part documentary raised serious questions about evidence in a notorious North Carolina day care abuse case.
• Requiem for Frank Lee Smith (2002) – An investigation by Ofra Bikel into Frank Lee Smith’s wrongful conviction of the rape and murder of a young girl.
♥ What Jennifer Saw (1997) – An examination of flaws in eyewitness identifications as evidence, through the lens of the case of Ronald Cotton, who served 12 years in North Carolina prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
♥ The Wronged Man (2010) – Calvin Willis was released from Louisiana State Penitentiary after more than 21 years of wrongful incarceration. The film focuses on Willis’ relationship with his longtime advocate, Janet Gregory, a single mom and paralegal, and her critical role in his exoneration. Visit the film website, Watch instantly on Netflix, Buy a DVD on Amazon.PrimeTime (ABC)
♥ False Confessions (2006) – Focuses on the phenomenon of false confessions and interrogation tactics that can lead people to admit to crimes they did not commit. Includes the cases of John Restivo, Dennis Halstead and John Kogut, who were exonerated through DNA evidence in New York.
♥ And Then The World Changed Me – Jennifer Thompson’s Ted Talk
• Broken on All Sides – Mass incarceration across the nation and the intersection of race and poverty within criminal justice.
♥ Bryan Stevenson’s Ted Talk: We Need to Talk About an Injustice
• Bryan Stevenson on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
• Bryan Stevenson – The Justice Conference 2014
♥ LIVE from the NYPL: Bryan Stevenson with Sister Helen Prejean
♥ CNN: Is America’s death penalty in its dying days? With Bryan Stevenson
♥ Part I: Bryan Stevenson on Ferguson, Prison Reform & Why the Opposite of Poverty is Justice – Democracy Now
♥ Part II: Bryan Stevenson on Executions and Civil Rights: Lynching Stopped But the Mindset Didn’t – Democracy Now
♥ Bryan Stevenson on Evening the Odds in American Justice – Moyers & Company
♥ Anthony Ray Hinton with Bryan Stevenson on His Exoneration After 30 Years on Death Row “They Couldn’t Take My Soul” – Democracy Now
• Indelible: The Case Against Jeffrey Womak
• Kids In Cages – Michelle Deitch and Jorge Antonio Renaud’s work in juvenile justice
• Marty Stroud speaks out on the Glenn Ford Case
• Why are we trying kids as adults? – Michele Deitch, Tedx Talk
• Essential Reading list from usprisonculture.com
• Melanie Newport compiled an excellent reading list for those interested in learning about the history of American prisons. You can see it here.
• Legal Resources for Inmates – Prison Policy Initiative
• Links to Organizations & Information – Real Cost of Prisons Project
• Prison Family Bill of Rights
• Prison Talk Online – Online community support forum for families of inmates.
• Prison Policy Initiative Research Clearinghouse – databases to empower activists, journalists, and policymakers to shape effective criminal justice policy.
• World Prison Population Data – International Centre for Prison Studies
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10 Road Trips for Retirees
by Garth Sundem
Banff and Jasper National Parks
Head north to Canada and explore Banff National Park -- you'll be amazed by some of the mountains you encounter.
From a jumping-off point in Calgary, Canada, head west into Banff National Park before hooking north from Lake Louise along the Icefields Parkway toward Jasper. Along the 140-mile (225.3-kilometer) parkway, you'll pass views of the Crowfoot Glacier and the Columbia Icefield, along with powerful Athabasca Falls, which is known more for its thunderous whitewater than for its height. Throughout the route, look up into the high summits of the Canadian Rockies, whose predominantly limestone cliffs tend to weather in a way that creates bands of snow that cling to many of the peaks year-round.
Gas and services are available only at the Saskatchewan River Crossing, and then only in the months from April to October.
See the Swirling Glory of Britain's 7-Circle Magic Roundabout
Top 10 Stress-free Road Trip Ideas
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Vargas' 13-hour blackout
FOX News Sep-8-2016, 12:20:34 GMT
Elizabeth Vargas, who battles alcohol addiction, has recalled a 13-hour blackout so severe that she's not sure of all the details. The ABC anchor became so inebriated one day in July 2012 that a good Samaritan had to pick her up and bring her home after finding her wandering around her neighborhood, she told People in this week's issue. By the time she got to her apartment, she had reportedly fallen unconscious and had to be taken to the emergency room, where she woke up completely unaware of how she got there. "It was terrifying once I started to hear the particulars," said Vargas, 54. "I will never know who that person was that saved my life. I spent a lot of time and energy after that trying to pry a memory out around that padlocked door, and I can't.
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'Justice League' Star Ben Affleck Continues Alcohol Addiction Treatment Months After Rehab
International Business Times Oct-6-2017, 05:35:04 GMT
Ben Affleck is determined to get over his alcohol addiction. Affleck reportedly continues to undergo alcohol addiction treatment months after he finished his stint in rehab. On Wednesday, the "Justice League" star was spotted at an outpatient treatment center in Los Angeles. "Ben looked so happy," the source told Us Weekly. "He was in such a good mood and looked refreshed."
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Ben Affleck's Dad Blames Hollywood For Alcohol Addiction, Split From Jennifer Garner
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Ben Affleck's father got candid about his son's alcohol addiction and split from Jennifer Garner.
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Marijuana Is Good For You? Cannabis May Help Kick Tobacco Addiction
International Business Times Feb-16-2017, 19:40:02 GMT
Marijuana has proven to be a useful supplement for combating pain, but the plant could potentially also be resourceful for addiction management as well, according to a new study that found cannabis reduced tobacco use. The Canadian study, which was released Friday, found that marijuana was a growing replacement for a slew of harmful drugs, including opioids, as well as alcohol. The study surveyed 271 participants and asked 107 questions based on "demographics, patterns of use and cannabis substitution effect." In the findings, researchers found 12 percent of people were able to successfully stop using tobacco after using marijuana products. Twenty-five percent of people were able to substitute cannabis for alcohol.
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Amir Khan: Bolton fighter to face Samuel Vargas in September
BBC News Jun-28-2018, 14:30:33 GMT
Britain's Amir Khan will continue his comeback against Samuel Vargas in Birmingham on 8 September. The Bolton fighter did not fight for two years after a brutal defeat at the hands of Saul'Canelo' Alvarez in 2016. Khan, 31, returned to the ring in April with a 40-second knockout of Canada's Phil lo Greco in April. "One of my aims this year was to be as active as possible so I'm very happy to get back in the ring again so soon," said Khan. "Vargas is a tough and well-schooled fighter who has shared the ring with some top welterweights. "I have to get past Vargas before looking at the biggest challenges going forward.
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Music in Stone: Moodabidri and Karkala
Thousand-pillared Jain temple in Moodabidri
No other culture is inextricably linked to stone like the Jain tradition of architecture in India. The Jain legacy has produced marvelous monuments in stone all over the peninsula. In South India Kallu or stone associated to place names refers to Jain Bastis or temples that once adorned those places, later raised down or changed utterly. Kallil in Ernakulam is a typical example. Though a lot of Jain stone temples are now Hindu like that of Nagarcovil, Madurai and Iringalakuda, South Karnataka still has some relics of the ancient heritage of Jainism which was based on non violence and pluralism.
For survival against the dominant religious onslaught and Brahmanical internal imperialism and subsequent persecution some have become partially Hinduized as the one found in Moodabidri, some 30km north east of Mangalore on the way to Karkala. Here even Hindu gods and goddesses spot the walls of the thousand pillared stone temple which was built in the fifteenth century. It was part of the Sarva Dharma Samanvay (consensus of all religions) survival strategy that sustained Jainism in compromised and casteist forms. But even this religious camouflage could not hold and eventually Jainism crumbled before the violence of Brahmanism, submitting and dissolving into the omnipotent Hindu order of caste.
I made a pilgrimage through cultural history early this September 2010 by making a sojourn to these last surviving sites of Jain civilization in the south. I visited Moodbirdi and Karkala via Mangalore on bus. The splendid architecture and carvings in stone are simply amazing and awesome. The male nude monolith of Bahubali or Gomata on top of a hillock in Karkala is a replica of the biggest one in Sravanabelgola.
These surviving polyphony in stone tells us a lot about the shared and composite culture and history of South India in a variety of ways. It also reminds us of cultural imperialism and the erasures and suppression strategies of hegemony still dominant in our society and polity. It is a beacon of hope and the abiding spirit of human resistance against the onslaught of internal invasions.
Kerala and Karnataka: Historical and Cultural Linkages
Chandragiri Fort: A Landmark on the Kasaragod Coast
Jain Temples of Manjeswaram: Jainism in Kerala
Jain Temples of Calicut
Cultural and Ecological Legacy of Periyar Valley
This entry was posted in Cultural Politics on October 14, 2010 by Ajay.
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Richard Hell & The Voidoids :: CBGB, NYC, November 19, 1976
By the end of 1976, Richard Hell had co-founded two of the most important bands of New York’s fertile underground music scene — Television and The Heartbreakers. He’d also been kicked out of both of them (or he left of his own accord, depending on who you’re talking too). In other words, his place as a punk pioneer was pretty much firmly set in stone. But his best work was still ahead of him, miraculously enough. Hell formed the Voidoids in 1976 and quickly set about playing CBGB, the club he had helped make the hottest musical spot in all of New York City.
This short and sweet tape is one of the earliest documents of the band — an audio verite experience, to be sure, but thrilling all the same. The Voidoids’ twin guitar attack, conjured up by Ivan Julian and Robert Quine, was (and mostly remains) an utterly unique thing; intricate without being fussy, lightning fast without feeling rushed, and containing that real sense of threat that all great rock ‘n’ roll requires.
“I think Quine was the best rock and roll guitar soloist ever,” Hell writes in his recent memoir, I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp. “He found a way to mix art with emotion that put him ahead of everyone … He assumed as fundamental the qualities that were the highest aspirations of most soloists, and would then depart from that platform into previously unknown areas of emotion and musical inspiration.” Well said. There’s plenty of killer Quine to be enjoyed here, from the manic energy of “You Gotta Lose” to his skronked out excursions on “Love Comes In Spurts.” New Pleasures, indeed! words/ t wilcox
Download: Richard Hell & The Voidoids :: CBGB, NYC, November 19, 1976 (zipped folder)
1. Liars Beware 2. You Gotta Lose 3. New Pleasure 4. The Plan 5. All The Way 6. Blank Generation 7. Love Comes In Spurts
Posted on July 26, 2013 July 26, 2013 Live Upload Series Richard Hell
7 thoughts on “Richard Hell & The Voidoids :: CBGB, NYC, November 19, 1976”
fantastic! thanks for the info and tunes!!!!!
north says:
mighty fine, mighty fine
It should be pointed out that this performance is from the Voidoids’ debut weekend, the first time they’d ever played in public. Also, it’s Ivan Julian, not Quine, soloing on both “You Gotta Lose” and “Liars Beware” (which song he co-wrote with Hell), though the guy on the soundboard doesn’t seem to understand it either, so you can barely hear Ivan step out.
Agr8song says:
just perfect!!thanks for the download..
tylerw says:
Roy – good to know re: Julian. He definitely deserves credit!
Read his new memoir. One of the best in recent memory. Damned good writer.
jjazznola says:
Cool stuff. I saw them at CB’s a few times back then. easily my favorite band from that scene. Ivan is still rockin’ and playing great.
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Dual Anti-OX40/IL-2 Therapy Augments Tumor Immunotherapy via IL-2R-Mediated Regulation of OX40 Expression
William L. Redmond, Todd Triplett, Kevin Floyd & Andrew D. Weinberg
http://www.mendeley.com/research/dual-antiox40il2-therapy-augments-tumor-immunotherapy-via-il2rmediated-regulation-ox40-expression
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http://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiz237
http://doi.org/10.1093/imammb/dqw021
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsb.2019.08.010
http://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.2016.2808
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.it.2015.10.003
http://doi.org/10.1053/j.seminoncol.2015.05.014
http://doi.org/10.1111/imr.12644
PubMed Central 110 May 04:59 UTC
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From Obamacare to Pencecare: The Illogical Republican
Filed under: Politics — Rich Adin @ 7:00 am
Tags: Democrats, healthcare, healthcare legislation, Mike Pence, Obamacare, Pencecare, rationing of healthcare, Republicans, Tea Partiers, Tea Party
…or Sometimes You Just Gotta Keep Those Matches Away
I admit that since I became a thinking adult way back in the 1960s I have thought there was something wrong with America’s healthcare system. Even then a single-payer system made the most sense to me. But I wasn’t rabid about it. I did think that Medicare, which I strongly supported and wrote my first-ever political letter to my congressperson about, would be the baby step that would move us down that path. As history has demonstrated, 50 years later we haven’t really gone beyond either that first step or beyond the internecine wars regarding what is and isn’t a proper government role in healthcare.
I do respect the views of those who fear government encroachment into healthcare. I don’t discount some of their arguments as some of them do have merit. But I do discount and have little respect for those whose arguments essentially boil down to “your government intervention threatens my freedom and thus is bad; my government intervention threatens only your freedom and thus is good.” Alas, that is the rhetoric being applied to Obamcare (“your government intervention threatens my freedom and thus is bad”) and Pencecare (“my government intervention threatens only your freedom and thus is good”) by Republicans and Tea Partiers.
(For those who haven’t quite caught on, Pencecare is the healthcare plan that Congressperson Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana, and his fellow Republicans and Tea Partiers would like to foist on me and America — essentially, fend for yourself. Obamacare needs no definition today.)
What raised my hackles this week was the cutting of all funding for Planned Parenthood, abortion under any circumstance, and Obamacare. I don’t agree with everything Planned Parenthood does; I don’t agree 100% with the current plans for Obamacare; I don’t agree that abortion should be lightly undertaken or given — but I more fervently do not agree that Planned Parenthood should be wholly defunded; that Obamacare is not good for America and should not be funded; or that all abortions should be prohibited or made so difficult to get as to de facto prohibit them. There needs to be middle ground.
The Republican illogic runs many paths. It is not that Democrats aren’t often illogical, they are, but when it comes to healthcare, budgets, and morals, today’s Republicans are significantly more illogical (and more likely to run amuck) than Democrats. Consider this bit of budget busting: According to budget-cutting Republicans it is logical for the U.S. military to spend millions of taxpayer dollars sponsoring NASCAR races (which as a sport has a declining fan base; it would have been more logical to sponsor NFL football) but it is illogical to fund Sesame Street or family planning or universal healthcare. There is a severe disconnect.
And hasn’t the Republican-Tea Party battle cry against Obamacare been government intrusion into personal healthcare decisions — putting the government between the patient and the doctor? OK, let’s step aside from whether I think I am more likely to get an unbiased and better-for-me decision about my healthcare from a government bureaucrat who doesn’t have to worry about quarterly returns for shareholders than from a private insurer whose staff bonuses are determined by how much profit the company makes, not by how much healthcare it delivers to its insured. Instead let’s look at what the Republicans-Tea Party combination wants to give us: Pencecare. Pencecare puts the government squarely between the patient and the patient’s doctor because it has predetermined that universally certain forms of healthcare shall be denied the patient. No ifs, ands, or buts.
The difference between Obamacare and Pencecare is the neutrality factor. Obamacare is neutral. It gives citizens a menu of choices, from among which the citizen can choose. In contrast, Pencecare dictates what is permissible healthcare; it gives no choice. Whereas under Obamacare the patient, the patient’s family, and the patient’s doctors can consider the totality of circumstances and choose to take action (and among actions) or inaction, under Pencecare the patient has no need to consider anything, the family’s decisions are irrelevant, and the doctor might as well not exist — the government has made the decision in advance and regardless of circumstances.
Pencecare is the Republican formulation of Sarah Palin’s “death panels” for the rest of America. Sarah Palin’s “death panels” were dealing with end-of-life decision making (should we, for example, spend $1 million dollars of taxpayer funds to prolong the life of a 90-year-old person for 30 days?); in contrast, the Pencecare “death panels” deal with beginning-of-life decision making (should we, for example, compel a 12-year-old girl who was raped by her father to carry the fetus to term even though it is likely that she will die during the childbirth process?).
The other difference between Obamacare and Pencecare “death panels” is that under Obamacare the end-of-life discussion was voluntary whereas under Pencecare the beginning-of-life discussion cannot be held — to discuss it is forbidden.
One other thing that is striking about Pencecare. Unlike Obamacare which affects all classes of Americans, Pencecare almost wholly affects the lower socioeconomic classes. Enacting Pencecare has to be a relatively easy thing to do when your income is $170,000+ a year, enabling you to financially skirt its effects, and it is clear that the primary people affected will be those who earn less than $35,000 a year and often less than $15,000 a year.
Voters gave the Republicans and Tea Partiers matches to play with in this past election. The Republicans and Tea Partiers seem to be giddy with excitement about finally being able to play with fire, and so indiscriminately keep lighting those matches. The problem is that such giddiness is blinding them to their own hypocrisy. The least we should expect is no hypocrisy.
(For one perspective on the availability and affordability of health insurance, see Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance, written by Donna Dubinsky, a cofounder of Palm Computer and CEO of Handspring, who begins: “This isn’t the story of a poor family with a mother who has a dreadful disease that bankrupts them, or with a child who has to go without vital medicines. Unlike many others, my family can afford medical care, with or without insurance.”)
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Canine Companions for Independence
Phone: 800-572-BARK (2275)
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Independent and Outgoing After All
Tammy Middleton and Terzian, her Canine Companions service dog, teamed up so that Tammy could keep her independence after all.
At age 16 while on a double date, a car accident left Tammy paralyzed from the waist down. Having always been an independent person, Tammy found herself instantly dep-endent upon others. She also found herself self-conscious about her wheelchair.
Tammy wanted so badly to be independent, but she knew simple things most people take for granted would make this challenging, such as picking something up off the ground, or going grocery shopping. So Tammy applied for a service dog from Canine Companions for Independence.
Tammy eventually recieved her wish for a Canine Companions service dog named Terzian. Terzian began to help her physically by carrying her purse, pulling her wheelchair, and helping take in the garbage. Moreover, he has been there as her number one fan: he supported her on her first day at work, he offers her a sense of security, and he's always there whenever she needs a hug.
Tammy is thankful to live on her own and work full-time as a lawyer. Now, with Terzian, she is as independent and outgoing as before her accident.
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The Greater Fool
Unpopular ideas and why they're worth protecting
I've been thinking a lot about the situation in the SW United States. You know the one, Senate Bill 1062 which was passed by the Arizona Legislature last week and most recently vetoed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, ironically, at the behest of at least three state senators who "made a bad decision in a rushed process." The process was pandering to the state's constituency that no longer thinks the right is far right enough. The bill, which at two pages in length is a nice contrast to the usual Federal bills that obfuscate by expanding to thousands of pages, allows for the "Exercise of religion [which] means the PRACTICE OR OBSERVANCE OF RELIGION, INCLUDING THE ability to act or refusal to act in a manner substantially motivated by a religious belief, whether or not the exercise is compulsory or central to a larger system of religious belief." Of course that is meant to be a shield against litigation and, in effect, allowing American business to discriminate.
At first, I had the same general reaction of as a lot of the world; one of shock and dismay at the seemingly backwards step away from the tolerance and compassion that this country has worked so hard for in the last half-century. Upon further reflection, however, I can understand it. I don't support it by any measure. But I can see the value of a government that would allow such unpopular opinions to not only exist but be heard and legislated. Change only occurs if unpopular opinions are allowed to be disseminated and considered. That is how progress is defined. Benjamin Franklin stated that dissent is the highest form of patriotism. No one is forced to live in Arizona, Massachusetts, California, Texas nor any state which upholds strongly held beliefs on one side of the sociopolitical spectrum or another. In our republic democracy, we are free to live, vote, or legislate to our own values. And if Governor Brewer's veto stands, isn't that democracy, complete with checks and balances at work?
Download SB-1062-bill.pdf
Pixar leveraged Moore's Law to create Toy Story and now Google is following their plan
image courtesy: Bill Toenjes
A terrific yarn from Alvy Ray Smith, one of the co-founders of Pixar about how they knew they could create Toy Story, given enough time and resources in the 1970s. They knew that Pixar would have to spend its time building and innovating hardware instead of making movies in the early years in order to help Moore's Law along the way.
An interesting sidenote is how Moore's Law actually works (computing gets an order of magnitude better every five years) and why the intervening years matter (because the thought process to imagine those gains have to be acquired). Consequently, what Pixar did for movies is what Google is trying to do with the web. That's why they are building Android and Chrome, which are noticeably heading towards convergence. Google wants to own the web and everyone who interacts on/with/through it. They are predicting a future where everyone utilizes the ubiquitous cloud to do things we aren't even currently doing at all.
In order to imagine the computing paradigm of 2020, Google has to push the evolutionary crank around one cycle at a time. That's why they marketed their new Chromebook Pixel as the device for what's next. We don't know what's next but Pixel has to be built to "gain the courage, the insight, and the engineering mastery to proceed to the next step."
Now, I really want one of these.
Flickr tries again to be relevant by offering 1TB free for all users
I've been a flickr user since 2005 though, I let my pro membership lapse about 3 years ago. I stopped paying for it because it wasn't useful or relevant anymore. Flickr once defined social media long before twitter or facebook were dreamed of. Then Yahoo! came and acquired them. I thought it was a good thing at first. However, it didn't take long until it was obvious Yahoo! had bigger problems that keeping flickr afloat. They basically let a gold mine fall through their grasp as they let user after user leave with hard feelings due to crazy administrative stuff like deleting people's uploads to simple atrophy by letting their mobile apps become stale.
They were first (or close enough) in creating communities of users to contribute and engage in meaningful ways. They were first to offer 'unlimited' storage even if you didn't pay, they kept your images around so that whenever you came back, they would be there waiting for you. They were first in building quality API to interact with other services that people use. They were even first among the vowel droppers of app naming. All of these advantages meant nothing in a few years. I have tried 500px and SmugMug as replacements and none of them felt as seamless in terms of sharing. I loathed uploading directly to facebook but I eventually pulled the Flickr-Facebook integration since the mobile app sucked so bad.
So here we are, in 2013, as Melissa Mayer attempts to buy their way back to relevance. They acquired tumblr today, which I recently began using after choosing the 'Betamax/MiniDisc/HD-DVD' option in Posterous way back when those two were competitors and before twitter acquired Posterous and let that platform wither and die. Another attempt to get back in the game, they've offered 1TB (yes that's 537,731 6.5 Mpx images as their new landing page eloquently reminds me) gratis for all users. So all my images are back and hopefully they can get the photographers and artists back and make this platform a player again. I'm in.
Shells, Terminals, and tmux, oh my!
I've been working in a lot of non-microsoft development lately, namely the xAMP stack. Trying to find a suitable development environment has been a challenge. I've tried Eclipse, Netbeans, MAMP, MacVim and found all of them wanting in some fashion or another. It's either too bloated or slow or just feels wrong. Finally this weekend, I was determined to get back to the root and use Terminal (see what I did there?)
Learning to go CLI after a career in IDE is somewhat intimidating. Luckily, I started learning this stuff in the *nix heyday of the early nineties (I remember reading on USENET that some Finnish guy name Linus was going to port unix to the x86 platform). So I was at least comfortable in vi and bash, if not proficient. Started with plain ole Terminal and quickly moved to iTerm2 and quickly built tmux and I was off. I could do most things on the CLI, from creating directories to vim to executing the occasional sudo make install to get stuff running.
Ironically, the most taxing thing to learn how to do was to copy a directory and all its contents to a new directory. I tried copydir and cpdir without any success. With a little help from my favorite search engine, I found a nice unix command line primer on ibm's site of all places. If you ever need to copy the contents of a directory from one to another, here it is:
tar cf - /path/to/original | \
(mkdir -p /path/to/copy; cd /path/to/copy; tar xvf -)
I'm sure there will be more. Now tomorrow I have to switch back to Windows and MS development. I hope I remember how to start Visual Studio.
Key stuck in ignition (or how did we get by before the Internet)
Tonight, I came home and pulled into the driveway as usual and put the tranny in park and turned off the ignition. I've done this a thousand times in my 2005 POS Ford Focus. Pull in, put it in park, turn off, take key, leave. However, tonight, the key did not come out. It felt like I could not turn it all the way to the 0 off position. Turn the ignition back on; start the car; put the transmission in various gears. No luck, the key would not come out.
My first clue to trouble was that I could shift the transmission out of Park without stepping on the brake first to release the Shift/Lock interlock that prevents folks from shifting the car into a moving gear without realizing the consequences and having your foot on the brake pedal. There's a spot next to the shift lever to unlock the interlock device if it's stuck but I had the opposite problem. It was stuck off.
Pull out the smartphone, a quick google search brings me to this page. I push the collar under the shifter back up after it's been placed in Park and et voila, key comes out. Seriously, what did folks do before the Internet. Some folks may ask their preferred supreme consciousness for answers when they do not know the answer. I ask Google. QED
The cracks are starting to form...
via bgr.com
For all the bravado behind the idyllic synergy behind the Steve Job's Reality Distortion Field, the cracks are beginning to form after his death. These aren't the first signs. I think the message has changed significantly around their core products. Under Steve's rule, we never would have seen an iPad that was thicker, even marginally, than its predecessor. There would be no discussion of A5, A6, O69 processors; Steve preferred to keep those details away from the consumer.
But now, there's political chaos reminiscent of actual corporations rather than the (Walt) Disney-like transcendance that typifies a company with more cash than Amazon, Microsoft, and the US government put together. The SVP of iOS, Scott Forstall, and SVP of retail, John Browett, have been canned and the SVPs of Design, Jonny Ive, and Technology, Bob Mansfield have taken on additional responsibilities. (Even un-retiring in Mansfield's case.
Why Holbrook missed the spirit if not the letter of the infield fly rule
When a rule is barely understood, that’s a problem. When a rule is applied in seemingly counter-intuitive fashion, that’s a problem. When a rule causes fans to flip out, littering the field with debris and causing an 18-minute delay, that’s a problem.
via msn.foxsports.com
Too bad for MLB that this happened on a one-game wildcard play-in format. Too bad for the Braves for not winning their division and making this point moot. Too bad for the Cards a tainted victory when it may not have made a difference. Too bad for the umps that this happened less than a month after the NFL interception-touchdown.
Backbone.js Is Not An MVC Framework
There Are No Controllers In Backbone
There simply aren’t. In spite of the documentation saying that routers or view may be sort of maybe almost kind of close to some of what a controller might do, there are no controllers. It’s not a construct that exists in the backbone namespace, and there’s no implementation that represents what a controller does, architecturally.
A router is not a controller. It’s a router. A view is not a controller. It’s a view. Yes, both routers and controllers share some of what a traditional MVC framework would call a controller. No, neither of these is a controller.
More MVP Than MVC
I’ve spent 5 years building MV* family applications in thick-client / GUI systems (Windows / WinForms / WinMobile) and on the web (Rails, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, etc). Backbone clearly fits in to this family, but it’s also clearly not MVC. My opinion says that it’s closer to MVP, where the backbone view is closer to a P (presenter) and the HTML/DOM is the V (view).
Consider this picture of an MVC process flow (from Wikipedia):
Here, the models contain data which is used to populate views. Actions that a user initiates are handled by the controller which processes the request and updates the models. The models are then fed back to the views and the cycle starts over. It’s cyclical in nature.
And now consider this picture of an MVP process flow (from LessThanDot.com):
Notice the difference? Right – it’s not circular. That’s the big difference between MVC and plain-jane MVP (a.k.a. “passive view“). MVP does not work in a circular fashion the way MVC does. Instead, it relies on a presenter (the “P” in MVP) to be the coordinating brains of the operation. The presenter in an MVP app is responsible for taking the data from the models and stuffing it in to the views. Then when an action is taken on the view, the presenter intercepts it and coordinates the work with the other services, resulting in changes to models. The presenter then takes those model changes and pushes them back out to the view, and the elevator of moving data up and down the architectural stack begins again.
Does the idea and responsibility of a presenter sound familiar when thinking about Backbone? It should… it fits almost concept for concept with Backbone’s views, in my mind. But that doesn’t mean Backbone is an MVP implementation, either. It only means that views should be thought of as presenters, not controllers.
via lostechies.com
A great reminder on why backbone.js is not a MVC (nor MVVM, MVP) framework. If anything, it's best described as a MOVE framework. Models that represent the data or nouns of your application. Operations that represent the verbs of your operations. Views that combine the nouns and verbs and present them to the the user. Finally, there are events that bind all the other pieces together and allows for a common communication channel between them.
Flip your JavaScript Switch
No one likes code conditionals, right? They're difficult to read, extend, and maintain; primarily because they intermingle data with logic. They're why we put up with bloated IOC containers, just to be able to avoid using switch and nested if statements. In JavaScript, we have a better way. Here's a typical switch statement in JS:
var label = switch (dataTypeId) {
case 'revenue' : 'Thousands of USD';
case 'census' : 'Number of Customers';
case 'inventory' : 'Hundreds of Units';
default: '';
So we have to deal with ubiquitous break token, the extra case structure, and lengthy code bloat to make a simple decision. Got code smell? Here's the alternative, use object prototypal extension and JSON interpretation to create a hash instead.
var labelOptions = {
'revenue' : 'Thousands of USD',
'census' : 'Number of Customers',
'inventory' : 'Hundred of Units'
var label = labelOptions[dataTypeId] || '';
Et voila! We have separation of concerns, data and logic. We have easy extension by adding another property to our labelOptions object. We have more streamlined code without intermingled execution tokens and is easier to grok. Thanks to JavaScript's treatment of functions as data type, you could even return functions instead of simple expressions. So before you reach for that switch construct again, think about hashing instead.
25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web
I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I'd grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. My blind spot at Apple prevented me from making HyperCard the first Web browser.
via arstechnica.com
As the 25th anniversary of HyperCard approaches, ars technica takes a look back at the cool little program that could. I remember being a college freshman with my first Macintosh (Classic) in 1990 trying to figure out this desktop and GUI. HyperCard was instrumental in helping me understand this computing paradigm. Being able to put media and content on each Card and linking them into stacks.
Of course, as a comic book geek at the time, my first task was to catalog my collection. After some two months of effort, in between lectures, parties, and sleep, I finally had my first HyperCard array of my collection of New Mutants, Batman, and Grendel. I had fields for issue number, date, condition. How I longed for a way to capture an image of the actual book!
So on August 11, 2012, please join me in pouring one out for HyperCard which died in 2004 and its creator Bill Atkinson lamented the above-referenced quote to what it could have been.
By three methods may we learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is the noblest. Second, by imitation, which is the easiest. And third, by experience, which is the bitterest. These are my reflections.
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Pinecrest Academy
Basketball: Metz continues tear in Pinecrest Academy girls' win against Mount Paran
Pinecrest Academy’s Ben Gobbel drives to the basket Friday in the Paladins’ 56-40 loss to Mount Paran. - photo by Bill Brown
Aaron J. Bass
It was senior night at Pinecrest Academy Friday as both the boys and girls teams played the Mount Paran Eagles.
Led by new all-time scoring leader Mary Margaret Metz, the Lady Paladins (13-3, 8-1 Region 6-1A) improved on their amazing season with a 81-22 rout of the Eagles (3-14, 1-7).
It was an all-time performance by the all-time leader.
Metz recorded a double-double as she had 32 points to go along with 11 rebounds. Metz also led her team in steals, assists, and blocks.
Pinecrest showed a dominant effort as it controlled the court for all 27 minutes. The normal high school basketball game would normally last 32 minutes, but both coaching staffs agreed to shorten the last two quarters to help protect the athletes. And it makes sense as Pinecrest was up 58-14 at half.
To start the game, the Lady Paladins drained their first four field goals to go up 11-0 causing Mount Paran to call their first timeout in just the first 2 minutes of the contest.
Every girl who stepped on the court for Pinecrest made a 3-point shot. But not only did they dominate the bucket, but they also owned the boards – as a team Pinecrest out-rebounded Mount Paran 38 to 14.
On the other end of the spectrum, the Pinecrest boys’ team (1-15, 1-9) fell short in a 56-40 loss to Mount Paran (9-7, 5-5) in their senior night contest.
Unlike the girl’s game, it was the visitors’ senior which shined as Mount Paran seniors Kellum Rowan, Holt Shannon and Connor O’Neil each had 15 points apiece. Shannon also had 14 rebounds.
Pinecrest was led by junior Nick Boeye who tacked 13 points and two rebounds in the loss.
Both Pinecrest teams had quick turnarounds with games at Our Lady of Mercy on Saturday, which ended too late for this edition.
Basketball: Pinecrest Academy girls defeat Christian Heritage to advance in region tournament
National Signing Day: Small scare doesn't spoil day for 3 Pinecrest Academy signees
Lacrosse: Pinecrest Academy girls coach named state's 'Woman of the Year'
Basketball: At Pinecrest, Lady Paladins choose to ignore the numbers
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1. Prologue: The Thirteen Keys 2. Chapter 1: Remaining Recusant 3. Chapter 2: To Guard the Light 4. Chapter 4: To Seek the Darkness 5. Chapter 4: Hero to Zero 6. Chapter 5: Go the Distance 7. Chapter 6: Wandering in the Dark 8. Chapter 7: Promising Beginnings 9. Chapter 8: Lazy Afternoon Streets 10. Chapter 9: At Dusk 11. Chapter 10: Sinister Whispers 12. Chapter 11: You've Got a Friend In Me 13. Chapter 12: To Infinity and Beyond 14. Chapter 13: Chase the Shadows 15. Chapter 14: Paradise Found 16. Chapter 15: Adventure Is Out There 17. Chapter 16: Unspoken, Unheard 18. Chapter 17: How Far I'll Go
<a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/17899856"><strong>Keys to the Kingdom</strong></a> (168504 words) by <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/users/MiniJen"><strong>MiniJen</strong></a><br />Chapters: 18/72<br />Fandom: <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Kingdom%20Hearts">Kingdom Hearts</a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Disney%20-%20All%20Media%20Types">Disney - All Media Types</a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Hercules%20(1997)">Hercules (1997)</a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Toy%20Story%20(Movies)">Toy Story (Movies)</a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Up%20(2009)">Up (2009)</a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Moana%20(2016)">Moana (2016)</a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Big%20Hero%206%20(2014)">Big Hero 6 (2014)</a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Atlantis:%20The%20Lost%20Empire%20(2001)">Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)</a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Tangled%20(2010)">Tangled (2010)</a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Beauty%20and%20the%20Beast%20(1991)">Beauty and the Beast (1991)</a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Cinderella%20(1950)">Cinderella (1950)</a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/The%20Princess%20and%20the%20Frog%20(2009)">The Princess and the Frog (2009)</a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Aladdin%20(1992)">Aladdin (1992)</a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Gravity%20Falls">Gravity Falls</a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Lilo%20*a*%20Stitch%20(2002)">Lilo & Stitch (2002)</a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/DuckTales%20(Cartoon%202017)">DuckTales (Cartoon 2017)</a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Frozen%20(2013)">Frozen (2013)</a>, <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Winnie-the-Pooh%20(Disney)">Winnie-the-Pooh (Disney)</a><br />Rating: Teen And Up Audiences<br />Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence<br />Relationships: Kairi/Sora (Kingdom Hearts), Roxas/Xion (Kingdom Hearts), Naminé/Vanitas (Kingdom Hearts), Aqua/Terra (Kingdom Hearts)<br />Characters: Sora (Kingdom Hearts), Riku (Kingdom Hearts), Kairi (Kingdom Hearts), Roxas (Kingdom Hearts), Xion (Kingdom Hearts), Axel (Kingdom Hearts), Aqua (Kingdom Hearts), Terra (Kingdom Hearts), Ventus (Kingdom Hearts), Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts), Goofy (Kingdom Hearts), Donald Duck (Kingdom Hearts), Mickey Mouse (Kingdom Hearts), Naminé (Kingdom Hearts), Vanitas (Kingdom Hearts), Yen Sid (Kingdom Hearts), Xemnas (Kingdom Hearts), Ansem Seeker of Darkness | Xehanort's Heartless, Maleficent (Kingdom Hearts), Pete (Kingdom Hearts), Foretellers (Kingdom Hearts), Master of Masters (Kingdom Hearts), Riku Replica (Kingdom Hearts), Xigbar (Kingdom Hearts), Larxene (Kingdom Hearts), Marluxia (Kingdom Hearts), Vexen (Kingdom Hearts), Demyx (Kingdom Hearts), Luxord (Kingdom Hearts), Saïx (Kingdom Hearts), Ienzo (Kingdom Hearts), Ansem the Wise | DiZ, Eraqus (Kingdom Hearts), Hayner (Kingdom Hearts), Pence (Kingdom Hearts), Olette (Kingdom Hearts), Chirithy (Kingdom Hearts), Disney characters<br />Additional Tags: Kingdom Hearts 3, Not Canon Compliant - Kingdom Hearts III, Kingdom Hearts 3 AU, AU Fic, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst, Drama, Comedy, Horror, Action/Adventure, Romance, Tragedy, Heavy Angst, Disney Movies, Slow Burn, Character Death, some minor blood and gore, Friendship, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, long fic, Soranort - Freeform, Aquanort - Freeform, Possession, Kidnapping, Panic Attacks, Identity Issues, Psychological Trauma, dark fic is dark, but fun especially in the disney worlds, Tearjerker, You Have Been Warned, Sort of follows the plot of KH3 but derails from it for an original plot later on, Spoilers - Kingdom Hearts III<br />Summary: <p>Thirteen Keys, scattered across the worlds. Whoever holds them all is destined to rule the heart of all worlds: Kingdom Hearts. As the seven guardians of light and the thirteen seekers of darkness gather and scour the worlds for these keys, Sora finds himself caught between standing alongside his friends as they fight for the light and struggling against the encroaching darkness invading his own heart. KH3 AU.</p>
Fandoms:
Disney - All Media Types
Toy Story (Movies)
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
DuckTales (Cartoon 2017)
Winnie-the-Pooh (Disney)
Kairi/Sora (Kingdom Hearts)
Roxas/Xion (Kingdom Hearts)
Naminé/Vanitas (Kingdom Hearts)
Aqua/Terra (Kingdom Hearts)
Sora (Kingdom Hearts)
Riku (Kingdom Hearts)
Kairi (Kingdom Hearts)
Roxas (Kingdom Hearts)
Xion (Kingdom Hearts)
Axel (Kingdom Hearts)
Aqua (Kingdom Hearts)
Terra (Kingdom Hearts)
Ventus (Kingdom Hearts)
Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts)
Goofy (Kingdom Hearts)
Donald Duck (Kingdom Hearts)
Mickey Mouse (Kingdom Hearts)
Naminé (Kingdom Hearts)
Vanitas (Kingdom Hearts)
Yen Sid (Kingdom Hearts)
Xemnas (Kingdom Hearts)
Ansem Seeker of Darkness | Xehanort's Heartless
Maleficent (Kingdom Hearts)
Pete (Kingdom Hearts)
Foretellers (Kingdom Hearts)
Master of Masters (Kingdom Hearts)
Riku Replica (Kingdom Hearts)
Xigbar (Kingdom Hearts)
Larxene (Kingdom Hearts)
Marluxia (Kingdom Hearts)
Vexen (Kingdom Hearts)
Demyx (Kingdom Hearts)
Luxord (Kingdom Hearts)
Saïx (Kingdom Hearts)
Ienzo (Kingdom Hearts)
Ansem the Wise | DiZ
Eraqus (Kingdom Hearts)
Hayner (Kingdom Hearts)
Pence (Kingdom Hearts)
Olette (Kingdom Hearts)
Chirithy (Kingdom Hearts)
Not Canon Compliant - Kingdom Hearts III
Kingdom Hearts 3 AU
AU Fic
some minor blood and gore
long fic
Soranort - Freeform
Aquanort - Freeform
dark fic is dark
but fun especially in the disney worlds
Tearjerker
Sort of follows the plot of KH3 but derails from it for an original plot later on
Spoilers - Kingdom Hearts III
Keys to the Kingdom
MiniJen
Thirteen Keys, scattered across the worlds. Whoever holds them all is destined to rule the heart of all worlds: Kingdom Hearts. As the seven guardians of light and the thirteen seekers of darkness gather and scour the worlds for these keys, Sora finds himself caught between standing alongside his friends as they fight for the light and struggling against the encroaching darkness invading his own heart. KH3 AU.
Oooo boy, here we go with this little venture. Let it be known that this is the first Kingdom Hearts thing I've ever written and honestly? I'm super excited about it. I already have most of it all plotted out so it'll be a ton of fun to work on based on what i have planned. Now, one thing I should make quite clear is that this fic is something of an AU of Kingdom Hearts 3 (so first of all, spoilers abound for that game if you haven't played it yet). Its not a fix it fic or anything like that since I honestly love the game a ton, even if it is... kind of flawed. This is more of an old idea for a KH fic I had before 3 even came out that I finally decided to put into action after playing KH3, so I decided to kind of structure the fic around that. Parts of this fic will indeed be lifted right from KH3 (including a handful of worlds) though they'll play out differently since the fic has its own original plot running through out, one that'll become more apparent as the fic goes on. So while some parts of this might feel a bit like a novelization towards the beginning, that's not really my intent with this. My intent is to just write a story that I've really wanted to write, one that, fair warning, will get quite dark and angsty at times, so if that's not your thing, well, then you might not like this. Even still I am gonna try and pull this off with just as much charm as KH3 was packed with, so with that, I might as well shut up and let you enjoy it! And where better to start off a way long time ago with our prologue! Enjoy!
Chapter 1: Prologue: The Thirteen Keys
A meeting between the five newly-named Foretellers and their enigmatic Master sets the stage for a great conflict to come in the far distant future.
Long, long ago, all the worlds were still one. One day, this would be called the Age of Fairy Tales.
The massive clock tower rose high above the sprawl of homes and shops that was Daybreak Town, casting shadows upon its mostly resting residents as the sun only barely began to peak over the distant hills. In these early hours of the morning, the city was quiet and calm, the only sound echoing through the cobblestone roads and alleyways being that of the ever-swinging pendulum of the massive clock resting in the heart of the town itself. However, on this particular morning, the sounds of five sets of footsteps could also be heard approaching that very tower, their wondering whispers soon joining in as they congregated together before the imposing structure, confusion and curiosity hanging over all five of the young Keyblade wielders like a shroud.
“Wait… you mean the Master summoned all of you here too?”
“Yes, though… he didn’t give a reason why other than that it was ‘extremely important’.”
“He said that to me too… I wonder what it could be?”
“Whatever it is, we should listen well to him. Its said that his eye can gaze far into the future after all.”
“Well, if that’s the case, then I guess they don’t call him the Master of Masters for nothing, huh?”
“Speaking of which, there he is!”
The other wielders turned their gaze to where youngest among them was pointing, up towards the center of the clock tower before them. There a lone figure stood before the smoothly-swinging pendulum, clad in a pitch black hood and cloak that obscured all features as he looked down at the group far below. He said nothing, his hands held calmly behind his back as he simply turned and walked off, heading back inside the tower itself and offering the five wielders the unspoken invitation to do the same.
And though they still hadn’t the faintest idea as to why they were there, the ever-dutiful group nodded amongst themselves, eager to hear whatever it was their Master had to say.
“Hey, hey! There’s my five apprentices of the hour!” the Master of Masters greeted cordially as the five youths entered his chamber. “Ira, Aced, Invi, Gula, and… Ava!” He pointed at each of them as he essentially called roll. “Oh, and let’s not forget early-bird Luxu over here.” The Master nodded back at his sixth apprentice, clad similarly to him as he stood in the shadows of the room, offering a nod of greeting to his fellow apprentices and little else. “You’re all right on time. Sorry to call you all here so early,” the Master continued. “But we have a lot to talk about, so you might as well get comfy.”
The Master nodded over to the nearby table, prompting his apprentices to take a seat. Even still, it wasn’t long before one of them, namely Aced, spoke up to pose the question that was on all of their minds. “Master, if I may ask… what is that you’ve called us all here for?”
“Ah, always ready to get right to the point, aren’t you, Aced?” the Master asked knowingly. “Well then, I guess I won’t keep you all in suspense. See, lately I’ve been busy doing some… digging, so to speak.”
“Digging?” Ava asked, confused. “About what?”
“About the future, of course,” the Master said, walking around the table casually. “We have a pretty nice setup here, as you all know, with all of us Keyblade wielders keeping the worlds safe from darkness and whatnot. But… things aren’t gonna stay like this forever.”
“What do you mean?” Invi inquired, a hint of worry in her tone.
“What I mean is that change is coming,” the Master turned away from the group rather mysteriously. “Whether we like it or not. And that change is gonna leave nothing the same as what it once was. So I decided that we’re better of safe than sorry and by preparing for it rather than panicking over it, which is why you all are here.”
The wielders all looked to each other, still confused by the Master’s vague implications as a whole. What did he mean that change was coming? What kind of change and on what scale? And if indeed it was a change for the worst as most of them had already started to fear, then what could possibly be done to prevent it?
It seemed as though the Master had read their worrisome thoughts as he turned back to his desk, picking up a stack of thick, stately books that he began to pass around the table. All five of the books were seemingly exactly the same, thick tomes with elegant silver engravings upon smooth blue covers. Needless to say that all five of the wielders were quite intrigued by these volumes as they began to leaf through them, spotting entries on Keyblades, darkness, and more.
“Master, what is this?” Ira asked with a focused frown.
“That…” the Master pointed to one of the books lying on the table. “Is the Book of Prophecies. Wrote it myself, so you can trust me when I say it’s a pretty good read. Basically, it lays out everything you need to know about what’s gonna happen, which, in turn will help you get everyone ready for it.”
“Um… how are we supposed to do that, exactly?” Gulu asked as he shut his copy of the book.
“By taking charge of things around here!” the Master proclaimed with apt vigor. “That’s why, from here on out, none of you will be Keyblade Masters anymore-”
“What?!” Aced exclaimed, appalled by such a claim. “B-but Master, we… we all passed our Mark of Mastery exams years ago! How could you just take our titles away from us like this?!”
“Ah, you didn’t let me finish,” the Master shook his finger disapprovingly. “You aren’t going to be Keyblade Masters because you’re all getting a promotion! Today, I’m upgrading all five of you from Masters to Foretellers.”
“Foretellers?” Ava asked, curious.
“Yep! It’s a pretty snazzy title if I do say so myself,” the Master said, hands on his hips. “Each of you are going to go out there and recruit groups—or “Unions” of Keyblade wielders to train and teach, just like I did for all of you. Then you’ll each send your Unions out to fight Heartless, ya know, those pesky creatures of darkness I warned you about? And from those Heartless, your Unions will gather light, which in turn, will help protect you from the darkness. So you see, it all comes full circle. Makes sense, right?”
“I suppose so…” Ira mused thoughtfully. “But Master, why chose the five of us for such an important task?”
“Why not you five?” the Master shrugged. “After all, I did train you myself. Unless… unless you think I wasn’t a good enough teacher…?”
“N-no!” Ira exclaimed, flustered. “No, that’s not at all what I was trying to say, Master! You’ve taught us incredibly well, of course!”
“Glad to hear it,” the Master said mirthfully as he retrieved something else from his desk: a group of elegantly made, exceptionally intricate masks. “Now, don’t think I’m spoiling you all, but I’ve got even more presents to hand out. Ira, why don’t we start with you?” He presented his eldest apprentice with a grand unicorn mask with a graceful mane flowing out of it. “Here you go, the mask of the unicorn. Designates you as the leader of the Union Unicornis. As reliable as you are, I know you won’t let me down.”
“T-thank you, Master,” Ira nodded dutifully as he accepted his new mask and role, knowing well the importance of living up to the Master’s expectations.
“And for you, the fearless Aced,” the Master approached his physically strongest apprentice. “The mask of the bear and the Union Ursus. Go out there and gather up some strong wielders to stand by your side for me, got it?”
“O-of course I do, Master,” Aced said with a hint of pride for his new position in his tone. “I won’t disappoint you.”
“Hm… we’ll see,” the Master retorted vaguely, leaving Aced in a bit of confusion as he continued onto his next apprentice. “Now, Invi, as upright and virtuous as you are, you get the mask of the snake and the Union Anguis. I have no doubts that you’ll lead them well.”
“I… I shall do my very best,” Invi said, forcing her voice to be stern as she accepted the great task before her.
“Gula!” the Master passed off the next mask to his second youngest apprentice. “Coolheaded and calm; I always liked that about you. Which is why you get the mask of the leopard and the Union Leopardus to call your own.”
“I… understand, Master,” Gula said evenly as he took his mask and all it entailed.
“And last but not least, Ava,” the Master stopped at his last apprentice. “Young, pure-hearted, and kind. Just what we need to balance this group out. So, for you, I have the mask of the fox and the Union Vulpes. I have a feeling you’ll lead them to the light with no problem.”
Ava was silent for a moment as she stared down at the mask in her hands, awestruck at the heavy responsibility that now rested on her shoulders, even despite her youth. Still, in the end she nodded, confirming and hoping all at the same time that she could carry it out to the best of her abilities. “Yes, Master,” she said with a deep breath of resolve. “I’ll try—no. I will.”
“You got it,” the Master said, offering her a playful pat on the head before he moved to stand before the entire group once more. “Now, you’re all caught up to speed. Don’t worry, I’m still gonna be around to answer any questions you might have—for a while anyway—but for now, there’s still one more thing we need to talk about. And it’s… a big thing. A very big thing.” The Master’s usually playful tone turned serious as he paused for a moment, letting silence hang throughout the chamber. All of the newly deemed Foretellers leaned forward, and even Luxu perked up, curious to hear whatever it was the Master intended on telling them next.
“What I’m about to tell you doesn’t leave this room,” he began, his tone surprisingly hard and cold. “At least not until the right time has arrived. Each of you knows that every world is connected by one great light, one heart that binds everything and everyone that lives, that ever has lived and ever will live together: Kingdom Hearts.”
As the Master’s last words echoed throughout the chamber, an air of reverence fell upon the Foretellers, all of them paying their silent respect to the source of light within their world. Kingdom Hearts was seen largely as a thing of legend by most, but the Master’s research had confirmed to them that it was indeed real and was indeed the very thing that connected everything in existence, just as the Master had said.
“There’s no doubt Kingdom Hearts is going to play a role in what’s to come,” the Master continued almost ominously. “Which is why all of you need to know this: the door to Kingdom Hearts can indeed be summoned by its counterpart, the weapon after which all Keyblades in existence are made in the image of: the X-blade. I’ve studied that exact X-blade for years, and I used that research to pull each of your Keyblades out of your own hearts, but… none of them are the same as the real deal. All of you already know this, but what I’m about to tell you is something that almost nobody knows.”
Once again, the Master paused, leaving all six of his apprentices in almost breathless suspense until he finally unveiled this great secret to them in a tone so rigid and emotionless that it barely even sounded like the Master at all. “Even if someone does use the X-blade to summon Kingdom Hearts, that’s all they’ll do. Its true power, its complete essence, is something that can never be contained or controlled by anyone. Unless… that someone were to gather the thirteen Keys to the Kingdom.”
As captivated as they were by the Master’s lecture, most of the Foretellers barely even thought to speak up to interrupt him. However, as the Master let his words linger on the almost suffocating silent air once again, Ira decided to work up the nerve to venture the question each of them wanted to ask. “The… Keys to the Kingdom, Master?”
“Yep,” the Master nodded, his tone a bit lighter than before but still just as serious. “Thirteen special Keyblades forged by the essence of Kingdom Hearts itself. They’re scattered across a bunch of different worlds and hidden extremely well, to the point that looking for them is basically a fool’s errand in and of itself. But… without them… well, anyone looking to take over Kingdom Hearts for themselves is bound to be real disappointed, let’s just say that.”
“W-well, that’s a good thing, isn’t it?” Ava spoke up somewhat apprehensively. “That means that if someone with a heart filled with darkness tries to claim Kingdom Hearts as their own, then they won’t be able to… right?”
“Eh, maybe, maybe not,” the Master shrugged. “I guess it all depends on whether or not the Keys stay hidden or not. But… I have a feeling that nobody’s even gonna go looking for them for quite some time, so you shouldn’t have anything to worry about on that front. Just as long as we keep this a secret between the six of us.”
Without hesitation, the Foretellers nodded their confirmation that they would hold this prophecy to the upmost secrecy for the sake of protecting both Kingdom Hearts and the world itself. In fact, the only one of their number who didn’t make this same silent, solemn vow was Luxu, who simply turned to leave the room without another word to act upon the careful instructions his Master had given him, as odd yet integral as they might have been.
“Now, I want you all to forget about all of this Key nonsense for now,” the Master said with a passive wave of his hand. “Its not really that important for any of you to think too much about anyway. After all, you five each have much bigger roles ahead of you that we need to discuss. So… listen up!”
From there, the newly-named Foretellers spent most of the rest of the day heeding every word their Master had to say about their new positions with careful scrutiny. After all, as far as they were aware, the change that was on the horizon needed to be properly prepared for, regardless of what that change exactly was. However, when the five eventually did discover exactly what that change would entail, they were all quick to realize just how important the burden that rested upon each of their shoulders actually was.
For in time, the Master of Masters disappeared, leaving the fate of the worlds in the hands of his dutiful apprentices. The future, as bleak as it had been foretold, should have seemed bright, but inevitably, distrust stirred between the five, which soon turned to conflict, which eventually turned to war. And that great war, waged over the light of Kingdom Hearts itself, enshrouded all worlds in darkness, just as the Master prophesied would come to pass.
Yet in the end, when the light was reborn and the worlds restored yet now disconnected returned with it, the mystery and allure of Kingdom Hearts and the unimaginable power it posed still stood, beckoning hearts filled with enough greed and ire to try and claim it as their own. And yet, each of those hearts missed one, or rather thirteen essential pieces of the puzzle, pieces that would indeed bestow the might of Kingdom Hearts and all that entailed to them without question.
For, just as the Master of Masters had told his apprentices centuries ago, whoever claimed the thirteen Keys to the Kingdom would be destined to rule not only Kingdom Hearts, but every single world under its bright, all-encompassing light, now and forevermore.
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Bankruptcy Court orders 120 Catholic Diocese properties to be auctioned
By Arizona Business Daily Reports | Aug 10, 2015
Two United States Bankruptcy Court-appointed agents have revealed details regarding the sale of over 120 area Roman Catholic Church properties that will be sold at auction in two separate public events today from Newport Beach, California.
CEO/President of Accelerated Marketing Group Todd Good and CEO/President of Tucson Realty & Trust Co. Hank Amos announced that the assets will be available at proceedings led by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Thuma.
One of the poorest diocese in the United States, The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup, New Mexico, filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection on Nov. 12, 2013.
The first auction, on Sept. 12 at the Downtown Sheraton Phoenix Hotel in Phoenix, will include 32 Arizona properties. Of the total listings available on that date, 19 are part of the bankruptcy offering. Additionally, there will be 13 other properties from sellers including the National Bank of Arizona, Golden Eagle Distributors and other private entities.
The second auction will be conducted Sept. 19 at the Airport Sheraton in Albuquerque. The New Mexico offering will include 100 properties in nine counties. All the court-ordered Diocese of Gallup properties are being offered regardless of price, with no reserves, and without being subject to court approval.
The Diocese of Gallup was founded in 1939 and covers over 55,000 square miles in New Mexico & Arizona. It has 53 parishes, 13 schools and five social centers serving approximately 58,000 parishioners.
"We are hoping the National Catholic community will come out and support this 76-year-old Diocese [whose] work for thousands of the poor and disenfranchised people in their community has given hope to many who have none," Good said.
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Carlos Santana Wanted to Play the Super Bowl Halftime Show
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Posts Tagged ‘The Kinks’
Rob Vasquez: One of the Northwest’s Most Talented and Unknown Rock & Roll Guitarists
Posted in Music, tagged 45s, 90s garage revival, Ape Lost, Bad Vibe fanzine, Betsy’s Radar Hair and Records, Billy Childish, Bob Kondrak, Bum 7'', Chintz Devils, Conan O’Brien Show, Donnie Hilstad, Egor, Estrus, Estrus Records, Fe Fi Fo Fums, Flathead, garage rock, Garbage Can 7'', Girl Trouble, Gories, Hook or Crook records, Increasing Our High, Jay Hinman, Man Tee Mans, MC5, Memphis, Mudhoney, Nice Smile, Night Kings Rob Vasquez, Nights and Days, Nobunny, Nuggets comp, Oblivions, old Seattle, Pacific Northwest, Pebbles comp, Philly Joe Jones, Pissed Off Zombies, Puget Power III, raw power, Regal Select records, Right On, Rob Vasquez, rock and roll, Rolling Stone, Russell Quan, Seattle, shit-o-phonic, Sic Alps, Soundgarden, Spin, Steve Turner, Sub Pop 200 comp, Super Electro, Supercharger, Superdope zine, Tales from Estrus Vol. 1, The Fabulous Wailers, The Fall-Outs, The Feelings, The Funhouse club, The Kent 3, The Kinks, The Look, The Masonics, The Mummies, The Night Kings, The Sonics, The Statics, The Stooges, Thee Headcoats, Ty Segall, Wellwater Conspiracy on April 16, 2012| 19 Comments »
Vasquez and friends hanging out in Seattle, circa 1978. Photo by Bob Kondrak
Before there was Ty Segall,Nobunny or Fe Fi Fo Fums, there were the second wave garage bands from the so-called early ’90s revival. With the exception of Detroit’s Gories, Billy Childish’s Thee Headcoats and Memphis’ Oblivians, some of the best stripped-down, dirty guitar bands from that era came from the West Coast: The Mummies, Supercharger, The Fall-Outs, Girl Trouble. And one of the most incredible of them all came out of Seattle. Not even one band, actually, since none of his ten or so bands ever lasted very long, but a guitarist with a beat up Fender amp and a classic graveyard howl: Rob Vasquez.
Kinks-type riffs, thunder drums, fast changes – Vasquez delivered the whole raw, gutter-cocktailwith his earlier bands the Nights and Days and Night Kings, all the frantic yet melodic boom, bap, boom that fans of The Stooges and MC5 want in their music. The terrible essence of these bands can be summarized with one of the most tired lines in music: how can someone who writes such amazing songs remain so tragically underappreciated? Even in Vasquez’s native Pacific Northwest, and in our era of file-sharing and music blogs, it’s shocking how few people know the guy’s name.
Nights and Days’ Garbage Can 7”, one of the best Vasquez put out
Vasquez started playing in Seattle around 1976 with a punk band called The Feelings. According to the book Loser, they were one of the first bands in Seattle “to get into the snarly, surly attitude rock being spread in England by the Sex Pistols and the Damned. Its songs included ‘Turds of Love.’ Guitarist-singer Greg Ragan used to hang from curtains and rafters and scream his lyrics while writhing about. At one Odd Fellows [Hall] show, Ragan went into convulsions during the set and crawled to a restroom to vomit while drummer Dean Helgeson tore up his rented kit.”
When The Feelings split up, Vasquez started another band called The Look, followed by Egor, then Nights and Days, then Night Kings, Ape Lost, The Chintz Devils, Gorls, Man Tee Mans, Right On, currently Nice Smile, and in his wake he left a string of stellar 45s. Some of them, like the Gorls’ split 7-inch with the band Flathead, are quiet classics, but it’s his Night Kings and Nights and Days stuff that won him diehard fans. In Jay Hinman’s ’90s Superdope zine #5, Vasquez says the difference between these two bands is that “The Nights & Days were kind of mod-garage kind of stuff, style and music, whereas Night Kings I think are a little more of a punk offering than the Nights & Days were.” That’s as detailed a quote as you’re likely to find from him, because few fanzines, let alone glossy magazines, ever bothered to interview him. Named for the Fabulous Wailers’ song “All My Nights, All My Days,” the Nights and Days put out three 45s and some songs on a few compilations. One, called “Split,” appears on the famous 1988 Sub Pop 200 comp. Another, called “These Days,” has a chorus and melody so catchy that it always struck me as some sort of anthem. Same can be said for the more melancholic “Goes Without Saying.” Night Kings put out three 45s, two split 7’s and one LP, called Increasing Our High. It’s the sole full-length in Vasquez’s thirty-six-or-so years of playing. It came out on the Super Electro label, was never issued on CD, and it’s been the out of print since the early ’90s.
Mudhoney’s Steve Turner – one of the musicians who put Seattle on the map – started Super Electro in 1992. Turner was a Vasquez fan. In the liner notes to Mudhoney’s March to Fuzz anthology, Turner describes the influences you hear in their song “Touch Me I’m Sick:” “In retrospect,” he says, “it’s The Yardbirds’ ‘Happenings Ten Years Time Ago’ by way of The Stooges’ ‘Sick of You’. At the time I was trying for the stuttering R&B guitar of The Nights and Days.” Until Super Electro ceased operation seven years later, the label released 45s and LPs from Seattle bands such as The Kent 3, Wellwater Conspiracy, The Statics and The Fall-Outs, as well non-Northwest musicians such as Thee Headcoats, Holly Golightly and The Masonics. Although some might argue that The Kent 3 is the most underappreciated Seattle band of all time, many garage rock types would say that the Night Kings’ LP is the true cream of Super Electro’s crop.
Released in 1992 in the midst of the grunge feeding frenzy, Increasing Our High bears only the faintest whiffs of that era. The best songs sound as timeless as the bands that seem to have inspired Vasquez, such as The Kinks and The Sonics. The Pacific Northwest had always been a hotbed of garage music, but at that time, a so-called neo-garage revival was sweeping through the global music underworld. The charge was initially led by The Gories, and although the revival spawned tons of cookie-cutter, backward-looking bands with pageboy haircuts and formulaic tunes, it also birthed now legendary bands such as The Mummies, The Trashwomen and Supercharger, bands who turned the vintage sound into something completely unique and far more inventive than simple retro posturing. It’s with the Gories and Mummies that Vasquez’s Night Kings most closely fit, albeit still loosely. Despite his obvious influences, Vasquez wasn’t drawing from the all too familiar Nuggets and Pebbles wells to scavenge paisleysounds to meticulously recreate. He was someone for whom ’60s rock riffs best fit his fury. His Night Kings songs “Black Fluid,” “Dirty Work,” “Death,” “Black and White,” “Bum” and“Complaint Dept” are frenzied, infectiously catchy,and, despite their relative simplicity, have tons more personality than most of the songs that derivative garage dress-up bands such as The Fuzztones and The Lyres produced. If Vasquez’s anger and punk root-stock weren’t enough to earn his music wide recognition, then at least these elements colored his music with enough originality to distinguish it from the garage revival pack.
Listening to Increasing Our High, your feet tap and head sways, and when the gravely lyrics rise above the distorted guitar, you start to wonder: what’s this guy so angry about? Everything. He’s pissed about money, pissed about rules. He’s pissed about women and power, peoples’ perceptions and what the world expects from him. He works shitty jobs (“Dirty Work”) for low pay and he’s mad about it, though not mad enough to quit drinking so much beer and sitting around stoned watching TV (“Bum”) to pursue a better line of work. Yet beyond the particular sources of his ire, lies an indiscriminate, almost adolescent rage. Vasquez is just pissed, period, one of those fiery guys who might have been born with a chip on their shoulder and who give you the finger simply because they can.
Nights and Day’s These Days/Lookin’ 7”
Whatever the source of his energy, Vasquez’s sole LP seems destined to remain in that fetishized subset of the underground rock canon where the “underappreciated classics” go, and not simply based on the power of his songwriting, but also on the album’s limited availability. Apparently, an early ’90s Illinois-based fanzine called Bad Vibe was going to release a Nights and Days LP, but that didn’t pan out. They might have discovered what so many people in Seattle, including promoters, record labels, musicians, even Vasquez’s own band members, already knew: that he was difficult, some said impossible, to deal with. He’s been called “a dick.” On the Right On record sleeve, he seems to acknowledge his reputation when he credits his role in the band as “Guitar and His Big Mouth.” In the end, this makes Steve Turner the only person to squeeze a whole album out of Vasquez. The rest of Vasquez’s music scattered across a slew of 7-inches with print runs ranging from 250 to 1000. Based strictly on the size-to-convenience ratio, Increasing Our High offers the ideal starting point for anyone interested in checking out this aging punk’s music. Based on the unfiltered force of the performances, though, I would suggest tracking down each 45. They’re essentially live recordings, and they are full of The Stooge’s raw power. Yes, tracking them all down will require some hunting and shipping and handling fees, and you still won’t be able to play the songs on your iPod until you digitally transfer them yourself,but most of the records are readily available for purchase online. The best takes of some of Increasing Our High’ songs appear on their respective 45s, all recorded during different sessions: “Bum” on the Bum/Ain’t No Fun 45, “Death” from the Brainwashed EP, and “Dirty Work” from the Tales from Estrus Vol. 1 compilation. The one track that doesn’t appear on the LP but which is worth hunting down no matter what is “Black Fluid,” from the Puget Power III 45 (Regal Select Records). If you like rock and roll enough to have read this far, then that song will colonize your brainstem like root rot and never let go.It’s one of the best garage-punk songs of not only the ’90s, but any era.
The lyrics go:
First thing’s a double in the morning
When that one’s gone another’s coming
It goes on and on for hours
Untill I think I’ve got the power
Power climbing up the walls and grinding down
I can’t sit still, can’t hang around
My blood’s not red anymore
Black fluid oozing out my pores
One cause of Vasquez’s relative obscurity lies not in the quality of his music, but in its limited availability: maybe 90% of his recorded output, from thirty-six-plus years of playing, has never appeared on CD, only vinyl. And except for his new band’s, Nice Smile’s, 2010 seven-inch single, Building/Mans To Short, all of that vinyl is out of print. No iTunes downloads, no last.fm or Bandcamp sampling. You can’t even find that Nice Smile record at Silver Platters, Sonic Boom or Everyday Music in Seattle. I tried. Vasquez and the band aren’t in the stores’ databases. When I called each store in the summer of 2011, I listed a few of his other bands in hopes of sparking some faint recollection. Each clerk responded with a variation of the same reply: No, never heard of him. “Usually in these cases,” the clerk at Sonic Boom said, “I direct people to the artist’s website.” That’s another problem.
Nice Smile’s Myspace page is so Spartan and sporadically updated that it hardly qualifies as a web presence. Where the first thing most bands do nowadays is start a Bandcamp and Facebook page, seed certain music blogs with sample tracks, and sell their songs online, Vasquez’s music seems as inaccessible as it was in the pre-mp3 era. The issue of its invisibility is less the result of a disinterested public and more the result of his apathetic approach to self-promotion. From Gorls to The Chintz Devils to Right On, he’s never heavily promoted any of his bands.
I did some cyber-sleuthing last summer and managed to dig up Vasquez’s email address. His attitude might best be summarized by what he wrote me in an email: “shows, eh, nothin really planned out. not really aggressive about that kinda stuff, so we dont really play out much.” His small but dedicated group of fans hails him as an underground artist, and he is in the sense that he’s never been on a major label, never played outside the West Coast, and he drew many of his own record sleeves. But if he’s underground in the cool, respectable, punk rock sense of the term, it’s not because mainstream America has continually ignored his advances. He’s underground because he doesn’t make his music or himself that available. In our era of social-networking and transparent self-promotion, most people know that audiences don’t come to you. You have to get music into people’s hands, play out and blanket the web to let them know you exist. This is particularly regrettable since Nice Smile songs such as “My World,” “Dark Thud” and “The Show,” as with much of Vasquez’s previous music, are too powerful to let wallow away on some Myspace page’s embedded player, unavailable for purchase. It’s not like people aren’t interested.
Gorls’ Bongo Beat 7”, a spilt single with the band Flathead
Europeans sell his 45s on Discogs for up to 20+ Euros a pop. On music blogs such as Detailed Twang, guys describe the Nights and Days’ Garbage Can single as “one of the great records of the 80s to boot, and an all-time second-wave-of-garage landmark.” On message boards such as Terminal Boredom, fans write gushing accounts of Vasquez’s talent like “The live Right On stuff he used to have up on the MySpace page for his former page for his former bands just SLAYS – too bad that’ll never see the light of day,” and they trade and sell records: “Need a Nice Smile 7”! Have a spare Ape Lost.” The Hospitals’ guitarist and singer, Adam Stonehouse, credits Vasquez as his primary inspiration for playing music. When The Gories played Seattle in September, 2010, their second guitarist Dan Kroha wore a Night Kings shirt. “I often tell people that if we’d heard ‘Garbage Can,’ the Gories would never have formed,” Mick Collins told me over Twitter, “that’s what we wanted to sound like.” Even the Seattle Weekly gave a brief but resounding nod in their 2008 “Grunge 101” article: “Seattle might not know it, but Rob Vasquez is a goddamn rock-and-roll genius: His ’80s band, the Nights and Days, were hugely underrated, and his turn-of-the-decade band, the Night Kings, were just as good. The Night Kings played garage rock (not grunge at all) minus any and all lame revival shtick.” Imagine how many more people would share that enthusiasm if they could only find his music. Although some people might view Vasquez’s indifference as part of his punk rock mythos or DIY aesthetic, for me, it’s difficult not to see it as the most unfortunate thing a musician of his ability can do to themselves: not get heard.
Garbage Can 7” insert. Art by Vasquez
Hopefully, this might be changing a little. In the summer of 2010, Nice Smile opened for the legendary Gories on a short West Coast tour from Seattle to San Diego. They released the aforementioned 45. In 2008 they included a song on Funhouse Comp Thing II, a double CD put out by the longtime Seattle club The Funhouse. Vasquez told me he wants to eventually record a Nice Smile LP. Other than that, they still don’t have any local shows booked, and their Myspace page lists no news of upcoming releases. As Vasquez put it in an email: “you gotta realize were kinda bums at this whole mess. but ya, we’ll get some wax out again but we have no label and ive never fished.”
Unlike Rob’s previous efforts, Nice Smile is a duo. Interestingly, it’s The Statics’ first drummer, Donnie Hilstad, who now plays in it. He also played drums on Gorls’ two releases, Bongo Beat and the Tracie 45. Besides the two-piece format, what also distinguishes the band is Donnie’s drumming. One part Philly Joe Jones, one part Russell Quan, he stomps out big beats, crashes cymbals and pounds the floor-tom, conjuring a thunderstorm when the mood calls for it. But he also has a jazz drummer’s sensibility, that flexible, intuitive sense of timing, as well as quick snare rolls and gentle taps of the ride. That lighter touch perfectly fits the moody shifts and soft bridges of the song “The Show” (an old Chintz Devils tune). And it adds a distinctive texture to the loose, dark, almost deconstructivist “Muse” and “Mans To Short” (a revived Pissed Off Zombies song), giving Nice Smile a different, varied flavor than the more rocking four-four and punk beat Night Kings.
Hilstad. Image lifted from band’s Myspace page.
Judging from his new music, Vasquez seems to have mellowed a bit. One thing that has not changed is Vasquez’s signature guitar tone and playing. You’d recognize it anywhere. Dave Crider of Estrus Records once called it “shit-o-phonic,” a description Rob dislikes. RV’s gravely, tortured howl is still intact too, still front-and-center. One of the things that’s so interesting about listening to Nice Smile is that, no matter how “modern” some of it is, most of it still sounds like Night Kings and Nights and Days. When the opening riff of “The Show” kicks in, it sounds like it could have been written by 1988 or 1992 Vasquez. Same with guitar on “My World” and “Dark Thud.” That’s because Rob builds his songs from timeless materials. Straight rock and roll does not age. Beneath the sonic adulterations of effects pedals, keyboards and buried, echoey Sic Alps type mixes — all of which I love — melody and mood also matter. Vasquez has always delivered those. If his new songs could be mistaken for “old” songs, it’s not because they’ve aged poorly or feel out of sync with the so-called times; it’s because they’re vintage. Timeless. As evergreen as “Strychnine.” Nice Smile proves that Vasquez hasn’t failed to evolve; he’s simply stayed true to his favorite sound, which is, at its heart — whether under the name garage, under whatever name you want — the sound of pure rock and roll.
All of which is to say, hopefully we’ll get a Nice Smile LP soon.
Seatte show flyer, lifted from the band’s Myspace page
There are apparently a bunch of unissued songs lying around. Someone in Germany was supposed to, or may still be planning to, release some lost Night Kings tunes on a Night Kings compilation. Vasquez’s short-lived band The Pissed Off Zombies recorded an album’s worth of songs; the kick ass Bay Area record label Hook or Crook was going to release it but, for some reason, it fell through. There’s still that unreleased Nights and Days LP, and that live soundboard Right On recording, and there’s all those incredible Nice Smile songs on Myspace. Rob and Donnie made what he called a short “cheap mic set up” recording at rehearsal last summer that he was going to send me, but Rob ultimately wasn’t happy with the sound. In 2007, the band was selling two different CD-Rs at Seattle Nice Smile shows, simple homemade things with hand-written covers. It’s the closest thing to a Nice Smile album that exists. I’ve never been able to track down copies.
Clearly the time has come for a Vasquez retrospective. Unfortunately, if he’s as difficult to deal with as some people say, then the only person able to release such a compilation might be Vasquez himself.
Vasquez playing bass in The Look, Seattle, circa 1978. Photo by Bob Kondrak
On September 6, 2011, Mark Yarm published the book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge. I read it and loved it, and it left me thinking about my ’90s youth, the music that spilled out of old Seattle, and also, about Vasquez. I spun a bunch of his records and thought about how his music seemed to have so much potential for wider appreciation, if not on the scale of his Seattle contemporaries, then at least an appeal wide enough to have elevated him beyond the status of “tragically overlooked local legend.” But there are those musicians who just want to write music and be left alone. They enjoy the creative process for its own intrinsic rewards and don’t want to perform publically, or make money from their art, or even involve themselves in the commercial aspects of being in a band. You have to respect that. Touring, booking, dealing with club owners, record labels and royalties – from all reports, it sounds grating. Maybe Vasquez is that type of musician. Or maybe he was self-sabotaging. Maybe he just needed a little outside push to get him going, or maybe he pushed too many people away. It’s all speculation, yet the record is indisputable: during the early ’90s, while fellow Northwesterners such as Nirvana, Mudhoney and Soundgarden appeared on innumerable magazine covers, released albums on major labels and graduated to the large concert stages and world tours that defined their mid-90s careers, Vasquez remained in Seattle, playing the occasional local venue, pressing small runs of seven-inches, and working odd jobs. Which is where he remains today: as talented as ever, and just as invisible.
In 2010, Soundgarden reunited. Rolling Stone and Spin covered it. They played the Conan O’Brien Show.
In 2010, Nice Smile played Betsy’s Radar Hair and Records, a split salon and record store, in Seattle. No one wrote about it.
I’m writing this in the hope that others will hear him.
Bonus feature: Here’s some rare footage of Vasquez playing live. Although this is Vasquez’s band Nice Smile, they’re playing a Pissed Off Zombies song called “Garbage,” never officially released. Video shot 9/11/10 in Seattle at a club called Neumos, at the end of the Gories tour:
And here’s some more live footage of Nice Smile. They’re playing the song “Think You’re On Top of the World” by Vasquez’s band Right On, another song that was never officially released. This vid is composed of still photos from a January 15, 2011 show at Radar Hair and Records in Seattle:
Also, some DLs of 45s here and there, there and over here. No matter what you do, track down the Nights and Days’ song “These Days.”
And some info on rock and roll photographer Bob Kondrak.
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The black brute stereotype
Wed Apr 23rd 2008 by abagond
The black brute stereotype (1870s – ) is one of the pictures white Americans have in their heads about black men: as savage, violent, amazingly strong and not caring about right and wrong. Black men rape and kill for no reason. They cannot control themselves. Whites do not believe that every black man is like that, but they think plenty of them are.
Willie Horton, Emmett Till and Rodney King were all seen in this light. It is why Susan Smith could blame a black man for killing her children and be believed: because black men are like that: they kill for no reason, even children!
It is why whites are afraid to walk alone in black neighbourhoods: some black man might jump out of nowhere and rape or kill them. They especially like to rape and kill complete strangers at night. It is why whites cross the street to the other side – just to be safe! As if savage killers cannot cross the street too!
When a white man kills someone, white people ask, “Why did he do it?” But when a black man kills someone they do not ask why. They already know: because he is black.
As stereotypes go, this one is pretty new: it did not arise till the 1870s, after the black slaves were freed. As slaves they were seen as simple and childlike. Once freed, they were seen as being wild and out of control.
So if blacks were not kept in line by terror and lynchings, black men would freely rape white women. What, after all, would stop them? This became the stated excuse for Jim Crow – to protect pure white women against savage black men. When Congress tried to pass a law against lynching, white Southerners blocked it in the Senate for just this reason.
As it turns out, of all the blacks who were lynched only about one in seven was guilty of raping a white woman. In the case of Emmett Till all he did was call a white woman “Baby”. That was enough for her husband and her brother to kill him, a 14-year-old boy – and get away with it.
The true brutes in Jim Crow times were white men. They raped far more women, black and white – and, in the case of black women, got away with it. They were the ones who carried out the lynchings – which were far more savage and frequent than anything blacks had the power to do.
And even today blacks are three times more likely to be physically threatened, harmed or killed because of their race than are whites. So this idea of whites as peaceful and blacks as threatening to whites is not rooted in fact. It is rooted in something else.
Yes, there are black men who are violent and savage, who do unspeakable things. But there are white men like that too. In either case, they are hardly common enough to reasonably determine one’s ideas about the ordinary people of either race.
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
Sean Bell
How white people think
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Posted in America, black men, race, stereotypes, white people | 176 Comments
on Wed Apr 23rd 2008 at 14:35:21 Jazzy
Once again Abagond you touch upon a topic that reverberates throughout the black community. The media is an effective tool that has fueled the stereotype of brutish black men, so much too the point that even (yes even) some black people are beginning to fall victim to this belief. I am married to a black man, a man that was raised in the hood, and saw it all growing up. He is not the violent product of, but the product despite his situation. He is the most gentle, kind, slow to angry person that I have every encountered and it is frustrating that people (white people) will still give him a wide berth when we approach. It’s sad and disgusting that those individuals are so very blind to their own indoctrinations.
Formerly known as musiq
on Wed Apr 23rd 2008 at 17:08:33 BeautyinBaltimore
Excellent post Abagond.
What is sad or ironic about black men being lynched for raping or sleeping with white women is the fact that there are now so many interacial marriages and relationships between BM&WW.
I noticed the way that whites would cross the street when they came across black men when I was a teenager. In Montreal I saw something different. The white people in Montreal did not act as if every black male on the street was going to rob them.
Abagond, I saw a special on the History channel about how cocaine was outlawed because it was believed that it turned black men into brutes.
BeautyinBaltimore
I saw that same exact special! My husband and I watched it together and could only shake our heads in wonderment. To this very day wm are the predominate users and abusers of cocaine.
on Thu Apr 24th 2008 at 20:19:30 Stephanie
Compared to much older stereotypes of Black women by whites, the black male stereotypes are relatively new and gets far more press attention than any others. Maybe because we live in a male-dominated society or is it something else.
I think it is the strongest of the stereotypes and by far the most damaging, not just in Jim Crow times, but even now.
It is the strongest because it is based on fear.
Deep down whites know that if a black man bashed in their brains it would not be completely undeserved. Even in their blindness, they know the history of this country, they know it was built on a crime and they know that crime has never been made right. Even Pat Buchanan has to know that. All the whitewash in the history books cannot cover over the ugly fact.
on Sat Mar 14th 2009 at 22:46:05 jj solari
I’m a whitey cracker offay honkee, Abagond Noname. If a Negro bashed my brains in I wouldn’t think I deserved it. Just for the record. I’m pretty sure I speak for all my white associates. Ite.
I did not say they would think they deserved it but that they would not think it was completely undeserved. A much weaker statement.
Maybe whites are even more profoundly blind to race than I think, but what I am saying is that much of the fear they have of black men comes from their knowing, somewhere in the back of their minds, that America has been built on crimes against black people.
on Wed Apr 15th 2009 at 09:02:09 Dave
I think the facts on todays race crimes are inacurate. In fact I believe more whites are attacked because of race or otherwise by blacks then the opposite. now alot of these may be general muggings and robbings and not have to do with a hatred for the white victims , but would you rather rob an old weak white person or mike tyson? so it is racially motivated crime to a point. the fact is these things probably went on post civil war as well. now it should have been handled better than jim crow laws. but what do you think hungry freed slaves did to survive? they probably robbed as they do today. in fact they say alot of the cowboys from the old west were in fact black have you ever seen that movie posse. now lynching and hangings shouldn’t have been done but black people today need to stop attacking white people as well.
on Wed Apr 15th 2009 at 23:04:53 abagond
Most crimes done by blacks are against other blacks.
This idea that most black men just wait for their chance to kill and rob white people, that they have no morals and that only fear of the law (or lynchings in the old days) is what keeps them in line, is all part of this stereotype.
on Thu Apr 16th 2009 at 00:40:37 nonserviam
It is why whites are afraid to walk alone in black neighbourhoods: some black man might jump out of nowhere and rape or kill them.
Yeah, what a wildly implausible scenario.
Silly whites, believing their lying racist eyes.
on Thu Apr 16th 2009 at 13:36:27 Black&German
“To this very day wm are the predominate users and abusers of cocaine.”
Black people are the predominate users of crack cocaine and white people of the powder kind. That is why the punishment for crack is much more draconian for that of cocaine.
“but would you rather rob an old weak white person or mike tyson”
The question should be: would you rather rob an old weak white person or an old weak black person. That is the point of the stereotype: not all black men are brutes.
The truth is, that a white man walking in a black neighborhood is probably the SAFEST person there. And the one most likely to be stopped and questioned by the police. What is he doing there? Buying or selling drugs, missionary work, social worker, visiting a black girlfriend (okay, that might get him jumped), etc.
The person most likely to be killed or raped or robbed in America is a black person. That’s why there is such a shortage of black men: they’re killing each other. White people are pretty safe, except from their own white acquaintances.
“They especially like to rape and kill complete strangers at night. It is why whites cross the street to the other side – just to be safe! As if savage killers cannot cross the street too!”
ROFL! I always wondered why people do that. It’s so pointless.
Besides, why bother crossing the street? If they really wanted to kill you, they’d just shoot you. I’m sure they can get you from the other side of the street.
And most violent crimes (except rape) are actually committed in broad daylight.
on Thu Apr 16th 2009 at 22:04:17 Dave
come on abagond, you said in your “article” that whites are still victimizing blacks more than vise versa which is untrue. no one ever said that white people are getting beat up by every black person they walk past. but when it comes to interracial crime more blacks commit it -bottom line. especially the crime against old people and women. that is just dispicable. You even said if a person got thier head bashed -in in comment #5 above me -they would feel like they deserved it somehow. you are a sick individual.
on Thu Apr 16th 2009 at 22:25:41 racerealist
“The truth is, that a white man walking in a black neighborhood is probably the SAFEST person there.”
That’s just about the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2009/04/14/news/doc49e3cff8d6d54928171033.txt
This is just one example, but I have seen dozens. Note especially the irony:
‘One person yelled, “This is our neighborhood, white boy”’
‘Police do not know why the group surrounded the car or fought with the three roommates’
Statistics show that there is vastly more black-on-white violent crime than white-on-black. If you don’t think that a white person in an all-black neighborhood is a target, then you’re ignorant of the reality of the situation. Of course I can’t blame you, since the media seriously downplays black-on-white crime.
Do you know that recently, a group of four black men severely beat a white man in an attempted robbery ON A PUBLIC BUS in France, the entire incident was captured on video, and the French government forced all French internet providers to take the video off of their sites?
I’m not suggesting that blacks are inherently violent or criminal, but it is a fact that black violent crime is a serious problem in urban areas in America and Europe, and much of it is directed at whites. No politically correct media source will admit it, nor will they admit that many of the crimes are probably racially motivated. But when I see a statement like the one you made, I feel the need to correct this widespread ignorance.
Let a white man go into an all-black urban neighborhood thinking that he is the safest guy there, and he will learn the hard way that he isn’t. I’d rather we educate to prevent these kinds of incidents than deny the truth to avoid trampling on the delicate sensibilities of the PC crowd.
on Fri Apr 17th 2009 at 00:22:53 nonserviam
According to US Department of Justice document Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2005 (the pdf is online), there were 111,590 white victims and 36,620 black victims of rape or sexual assault in the US in 2005. In the 111,590 cases in which the victim of rape or sexual assault was white, 44.5 percent of the offenders were white, and 33.6 percent of the offenders were black. In the 36,620 cases in which the victim of rape or sexual assault was black, 100 percent of the offenders were black, and 0.0 percent of the offenders were white. (The table explains that 0.0 percent means that there were under 10 incidents nationally.)
Quite a disparity, isn’t it. Even before taking into account the fact that blacks are ~12% of the US population, while whites are ~66%.
And keep in mind that the US government isn’t exactly in the business of inflaming racial tensions by baseless stereotyping. On the contrary, they try to conceal the inconveneient truths. That’s why, for example, there aren’t separate statistics for Hispanics, but they’re merged with whites instead — in order both to inflate white crime numbers and to cover up high Hispanic criminality.
on Fri Apr 17th 2009 at 02:34:59 Black&German
“Statistics show that there is vastly more black-on-white violent crime than white-on-black.”
The rates are 17.2% and 10.4%, respectively. Considering that whites are a much larger portion of the population (75% versus 12.3%), that is actually surprisingly low.
“In the 36,620 cases in which the victim of rape or sexual assault was black, 100 percent of the offenders were black, and 0.0 percent of the offenders were white… Quite a disparity, isn’t it.”
Here we go with the rape statistics. You found those here, right?
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/cvus05.pdf
I know those statistics. They are accurate. It doesn’t mean that it proves your point. Let’s parse the statistics in that file.
Yes, it is quite a disparity. Don’t you wonder about that? Do you really think that 36,620 black women were raped in America and less than 10 of those cases were attributed to a white assailant? Do you really think that? Really?
Did you know that there are 117,000 black woman/white man married couples in 2006? Did you know that those rape statistics include spousal rape? Do you not think that “less than 10” of 117,000 women reporting spousal rape would be a suspiciously low number?
Remember: those statistics are based on REPORTED rapes, not on actual crimes. Rape is under-reported (54.8% aren’t reported to the police) and rape of black women is grossly under-reported (only 17.1% reported).
And did you know that a white woman is more likely to report a rape if it is committed by a black man? There’s a simple reason for that: most rape is acquaintance rape (friends, family, dates, coworkers, etc.). Most white womens’ acquaintances are also white. Therefore, when a white woman is raped by a black man that man is overwhelmingly a stranger. Rape by a stranger has a very high incidence of reporting (for white women, 42.7% of reported rapes were by strangers, even though 85% of rapes committed are by acquaintances).
Contrast that with the reporting of only 5.8% of rapes of black women by strangers. Do you really think that white women are over 7 times more likely to be raped by a stranger than black women are? Really? Or could it be because black women are less likely to report a rape, regardless of the assailant?
Here’s another interesting calculation:
There were 111,490 white women raped out of an estimated population of 118,927,477 That means that 9.37% of white women reported being raped.
For black women (36,620/37,909,341) the rate is 9.66%.
In other words, even though black women are a much smaller portion of the population (and therefore less likely to be found in any given location) they are more likely to be raped.
This doesn’t even take into account that many of the white victims are Hispanic.
And here’s another statistic:
For every white woman that reports her rape, at least 5 white women do not report theirs; and yet, for every African-American woman that reports her rape, at least 15 African-American women do not report theirs (Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report. Hart and Rennison. 2003. U.S. Department of Justice).
The simple truth is: black women don’t report rape. And if they do report it, it’s less likely to be prosecuted. And if it’s prosecuted, the case is less likely to result in a sentence of guilty. And if the assailant is found guilty the punishment is much lower than if the victim is white.
It’s open season on black women, folks…
Here’s a prime example of what happens to a black girl that reports being raped by a white man (or in this case, white men).
Remember Megan Williams, the black woman who had this done to her:
http://whyblackwomenareangry.blogspot.com/2007/10/black-west-virginia-rape-victim-was.html
They plea bargain their way out of it. Then she gets charged with writing a $32 hot check to Dominoes. I kid you not.
http://www.dailymail.com/News/200802280238?page=1&build=cache
on Fri Apr 17th 2009 at 04:05:37 Uncle Milton
Remember: those statistics are based on REPORTED rapes
No, those statistics are based upon an annual DOJ crime victimization survey which I would agree has quite a few issues. It has been used and misused by many people including White Supremacists and Tim Wise. (obviously they are not in agreement..) In my opinion It should only be used as a very rough guideline for crime in the US.
What’s clear from the survey at least is that most rape is intraracial so when you say “It’s open season on black women, folks…” statistically speaking black men are very likely to be the perpetrators in regards to rape. Likewise if you were say “it’s open season on white women..” it’s more common for the assailant to be a white.
They plea bargain their way out of it.
No they didn’t “get out of it” they were sentenced to prison, although I would agree the sentences were too light.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Williams_case
In February 2008, Alisha Burton and George Messer both plead guilty to assault and kidnapping and were sentenced to 10 years each.
On March 13, 2008, Karen Burton, one of the women involved in the attack, was given one 10-year sentence for violation of civil rights and two 2-10 year sentences for assault. She was the only person involved that was charged with a hate crime. Frankie Brewster received 10-25 years for second-degree sexual assault. They had both pled guilty in exchange for reduced sentences. Carmen Williams, Megan’s mother, expressed frustration that they had not received life sentences, which is the maximum penalty for kidnapping.
Bobby Brewster plead guilty to second-degree sexual assault, conspiracy to commit kidnapping and malicious assault. He was sentenced for 13 to 40 years in prison in July 2008. Danny Combs will stand 20 years for conspiracy to commit kidnapping. He plead guilty to sexual assault, assault during the commission of a felony, and conspiracy to commit kidnapping or holding hostage in September 2008.
on Fri Apr 17th 2009 at 04:41:18 Dave
why are you defending these criminals because they share your skin. it is rediculous WE ARE ALL HUMAN. I can’t hold you accountable because some blacks kill some whites unless you’re doing it. just like you can’t hold me accountable for the few whites who were slave masters, traders, etc. because I share the skin of the few oppressors. now if I told you that more whites were killed by blacks since the start of the iraq war than by all iraqis and afgans since 2001 should I be like abagond and say “well if a white man bashed in the head of a black man the black man should feel in the back of his mind that it is somehow justified” because of the violent crimes committed by blacks? you have to know that these views are poisonous. look it really shouldn’t matter but I’ll prove my point this way. I am half irish and half italian. all of my ancestors came through ellis island anywhere from 1880 and 1945 depending on which side of my family. so by abagonds way of thinking me being white I am comdemed by the black militants anyway even though I have no genelogical ties to any slave master. you guys have to see though this poison. he is bringing up old news to stir up new racist thinking against white people. YOU DONT KNOW ALL WHITE PEOPLE so you can’t make the generalizations that abagond does. most black people problably have more of the actual slave masters in thier family trees than most white people . we all need to stop this it breeds hate and thats why all these white people are getting attacked.
The only time it is right to bash in someone’s head is to save your own life or those of the people you are protecting. No one “deserves” it. No ancient crime can make it the right thing to do, not even slightly.
On the other hand white people in America have an OVERBLOWN fear of black men and, yes, even of poor black neighbourhoods. It is not based on a close reading of the numbers on crime, not mainly. It is based on racist fears and, yes, even racist guilt in a backwards kind of way (the point I tried to make about “not completely undeserved”).
Your family may have come to America long after the slaves were freed, but in the process of becoming a white American you picked up the white feelings about black people and some of those feelings do go back to slave days.
you just proved my point with those foolish old tired remarks that I have heard a million times. YOU DON’T KNOW ME so there is no way that you could ever know about my views just from the color of my skin and you’re still doing it . you don’t know my mom or dad and the same views that are pressed on me in america are also pressed on you from the media. in fact in recent times hatred of white people are more accepted in my opinion because of the fear of white executives getting sued by civil rights attorneys none of whom see dollar bills in thier eyes if the victim is white. it is only when the victim is black that they feel like they won the fucking lottery. in fact I blame these white greedy lawyers and the greedy white media who care nothing for the poor white people in this country then black people. but your views are helping to build a hatred for white skin that i believe is like a raging forest fire in this country. are there white racists? sure but I believe there are systems in place like the NAACP and other groups to combat against that.
I do not blame present-day white people for the slave trade and all that. When I do bring it up it is to explain how white people are now. White people did not fall from the sky: they come from a particular history that has shaped them. Some of what they do only starts to make sense once you look at that history. This stereotype is a good example of that.
Dave: I do not know you. When I talk about “white people” I mean in general, not every single one. They are not a race of robots or brainwashed zombies. Each one is different and yet there are some things most have in common.
I may watch the same television but I will bring my own experiences and point of view to it.
The “sytems in place” are decidedly wanting.
I am not trying to build a hatred for white people. I am trying to understand them.
I see what you are saying and I apologize if it seems I am coming on a little strong. but this is something I feel very strongly about I think when you say the history has shaped them. who is them- do you mean my Italian grandfather who came to this country when he was eight years old and his dad died while they were on the trip. and he had to get a job at twelve years old to help support the family and worked his fingers to the bone until he was 75 laying bricks. or my irish grandfather who had no hip and walked with a cane who died before I was born so I didn’t know him. but he worked as a machinist in a factory 12 hours a day. I know these people didn’t fall out of the sky and they shaped my personal history. you need to stop generalizing all whites who you know nothing about.
white people in America have an OVERBLOWN fear of black men and, yes, even of poor black neighborhoods. It is not based on a close reading of the numbers on crime, not mainly.
Abagond I have lived in predominantly black neighborhoods and I have to say based upon my experiences and that and other whites I knew who lived in those neighborhoods.. there is justified fear. It’s not of the 63 year old plumber who used to live next door to me nor of the guy who ran across the street to help me stop a paint scaffolding from falling down, nor the older women I used to see returning from church.. no those were all good people who were also black. It’s from the times I heard things like “Get the fuck out of my neighborhood white motherfucker” or when I had people scream at me when they driving down the street or on occasion when people would throw their trash at me or when I was struck in the face with a block of wood that left a permanent scar. I have other stories I could tell you about or that of friends or acquaintances… There are, of course, bad white people, but when I have lived in black neighborhoods I felt sometimes like there was a target on my back. FWIW murder statistics (and these aren’t from surveys..) indicate blacks commit at a rate 7 times higher than whites. This falls heavily upon other black people but do you think it’s possible that other forms of violent crime might also be higher as well..?
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/tables/oracetab.htm
Uncle Milton, try being a black person in a majority white neighborhood (or country, for that matter). I spent 5 years in Texas. The fear is justified.
“those statistics are based upon an annual DOJ crime victimization survey which I would agree has quite a few issues.”
“What’s clear from the survey at least is that most rape is intraracial so when you say “It’s open season on black women, folks…” statistically speaking black men are very likely to be the perpetrators in regards to rape.”
The open season was referring to ALL men, black, white, and other. BTW, according to numerous other surveys, the “open season” refers even more to mixed-race, Asian, and Native American women. Rape of white women is the most reported (to police and by the media) and prosecuted of all.
Too light? That is the understatement of the century. The maximum sentence for 1st-degree sexual assault in WV is 25 to life. Not a single one of them got that. And they can be paroled.
And why in the world were they plea-bargaining when the case was so watertight? I mean, she was discovered by the police, she was nearly beaten to a pulp, and she had to have major surgery to repair her bits, she’d been abused to badly. And they plea-bargained?! If the accused had been black they would have re-instated the death-penalty, extra-special.
Some black commentators have accused the public prosecutor of plea-bargaining because he’s racist but I think the truth might be more troubling: he’s pragmatic. He doesn’t think they’ll get a tougher sentences if he goes to court so why waste taxpayer’s money?
And the fact that the prosecutor charged her with bouncing a check WHILE SHE WAS IN THE HOSPITAL awaiting surgery is unspeakably cruel. And a statement in itself.
My point about the rape statistics is that I’m tired of hearing about “poor white women” that everybody’s raping: they live in fear, they carry pepper spray in their purses, they cross the street when a black man approaches them, etc. It’s minority women who are the most likely to be raped, not white women. The difference is that nobody CARES.
Okay. Now THAT is the understatement of the century.
on Fri Apr 17th 2009 at 15:49:33 racerealist
The fear of what? Not getting invited to a party?
Then you should probably do more asking and less telling.
Yes, and many of the “white” perpetrators are Hispanic too. Given the rate of poverty among Hispanic “whites” and the correlation of poverty with both criminality and victimization, it seems plausible that a disproportionate amount of both the “white” victims and perpetrators are Hispanic.
You also ignore the fact that while black women are much more likely to be victims of rape, statistics show that “white” men are not the ones committing these crimes.
on Fri Apr 17th 2009 at 16:23:58 A White Guy
abagond Says:
“When I talk about ‘white people’ I mean in general, not every single one. They are not a race of robots or brainwashed zombies. Each one is different and yet there are some things most have in common.”
I think it is a very bad habit. From childhood, it was instilled in me not to make generalizations. It annoys me every time I hear someone speak in monolithic terms.
“it seems plausible that a disproportionate amount of both the “white” victims and perpetrators are Hispanic.”
Which would mean that the percentage of white women who are raped is even more inflated.
I don’t ignore that fact. My beef was with the “In the 36,620 cases in which the victim of rape or sexual assault was black, 100 percent of the offenders were black, and 0.0 percent of the offenders were white.” statement. It’s obviously false. The % of WW raped by BM is inflated and the % of BW raped by WM is under-reported. That doesn’t change the fact that most rape/crime is intra-racial but it does effect the debate about interracial crime.
Is it under-reported by 37,000?
on Fri Apr 17th 2009 at 17:46:51 miker
fear of black people, well im not going to lie, i live in Sweden ( quite peacefull country compared to USA ), but if id meet a gang of black males at night id feel more uncomfortable than if i met a gang of whites.
To Black&German:
There’s no reference to a check to Dominoes in the link above. I can tell you that in several states arresting someone for a bounced check does not require a prosecutor. I did find an article on a blog that referenced it and said the charge had been dropped.
You have my deepest sympathies if you were harassed and/or assaulted in Texas as I was when I lived in Oakland. My point to Abagond was that for a white person to have fear while being in a black neighborhood was not irrational.
My point about the rape statistics is that I’m tired of hearing about..
You mean you only hear about white women being assaulted and not black women being assaulted..? I have seen multiple articles on the matter…that rape is more common for black women.. and the perpetrators are almost all black men. As we both agree most rape is intraracial. How should this information be brought to the public’s attention..?
Too light? That is the understatement of the century.
How would you have liked me to phrase it..? I would also say the sentence for Dan White.. the man who murdered a mayor (Moscone) and council member (Harvey Milk) of San Francisco was too light. (He received 7 years..)
Frankie Lee Brewster served 5 years previously (another plea bargain) for murdering an 84 year old woman:
Mrs. Brewster, convicted of voluntary manslaughter, served five years in the fatal 1994 shooting of an 84-year-old woman who the police now say was her mother-in-law.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/us/13captive.html
Deep down whites know that if a black man bashed in their brains it would not be completely undeserved.
That’s a stunning statement from you Abagond….so would this give me the right to objectify 20 plus million Americans because and bash in a random black man’s head because a small portion of people who shared the same phenotype were vicious and on a few occasions assaulted me..? I mean in your words it would appear not completely undeserved.
To Black & German:
Re: The inbreeds from West Virgina
My point with this.. since I didn’t follow it up is that this prosecutor’s office seems to dole out plea bargains pretty easily.
So.. I guess you’ve never been a victim of a mugging or attempted mugging then. The majority of muggers don’t use a gun…and a fairly common technique is for someone to knock you down as you pass them. IE not crossing the street makes this form of mugging possible. Crossing the street gives you time.. time to think how to respond and react. And by the yes.. I have crossed the street and had someone come after me.. but since I already had a lead on them and I was able to outrun them.
on Sat Apr 18th 2009 at 07:14:52 abagond
Racerealist said:
Wow. And you wonder why people get upset at the things you say.
Uncle Milton:
Your comment about living in a black neighbourhood as a white person (#26) was excellent. Thank you!
I wish it was that easy, but most whites are pretty blind when it comes to their own racism. But writing about white people and then reading their comments about it has been an eye-opening education for me.
Uncle Milton said:
See comment #21 where I said this:
The point of this post is not to excuse black crime (I am not – crime is crime) but to explain why whites have an overblown fear of black men, even given the crime numbers, as bad as they are.
The point I was trying to get across with my badly stated example of bashing in heads is that part of the fear is based on white guilt about living in an unjust society.
on Sun Apr 19th 2009 at 07:56:20 Dave
i just want to say this i work with the most friendly black people that are some of the best people white or black that I have ever met. black people have thier bad apples but they also have great human beings all I am trying to prove here is so do white people.
I look at it this way I live near philly and obviously i’m a phillies and an eagle fan. our biggest rival is the newyork mets and the newyork giants. now if the mets had a kind person on thier team I wouldn’t care I would concentrate on the mets I didn’t like. I think its the same way with white and black people they talk about the bad apples in both respective races and ignore the good.
on Sun Apr 19th 2009 at 16:23:35 nonserviam
I wonder if that’s what Eugenia Calle thought in her last moments. And for all I know, she might have.
Although a sheltered white liberal, she wasn’t an idiot — she was a prominent cancer epidemiologist. It should have been obvious to her that Shamal Thompson made a very improbable luxury condo buyer. And yet, she invited him to her apartment and refused help from the guard. “I don’t want him to think that we don’t trust him,” she said.
Better dead than racist. That is the racial cowardice that is killing us (whites) both physically and civilizationally.
on Mon Apr 20th 2009 at 19:05:20 Black&German
I’ve never personally been afraid of white people but then I don’t really look black so they tend not to notice me (although I’ve been sexually harassed for being a “senorita” and been told to “go back to Mexico”). My father and my cousin do and they were harassed on a regular basis. There was a KKK outpost near where we lived that would beat the crap out of a random Mexican or black guy every couple of months. Just so we wouldn’t forget about them, I guess. There was also this while we lived there (OMG, just saw that it’s happened AGAIN)
http://www.workers.org/2008/us/texas_1106/
I think it depends on the neighborhood. My parents (my mother’s white) live in an upper-class black neighborhood in Maryland. She’s very safe there. Now… South-East Washington DC is another story. But EVERYONE (black, white, brown, etc.) is unsafe there. Even the black people lock their doors when they drive through there.
“As we both agree most rape is intraracial. How should this information be brought to the public’s attention..?”
I have no idea. I don’t think they want to know about it.
Perhaps it’s financial? Maybe they don’t have the money to prosecute the cases? Felony trials cost a small fortune.
“I have crossed the street and had someone come after me.. but since I already had a lead on them and I was able to outrun them.”
Okay, I didn’t consider muggings. I’ve never been the victim of any crime except interpersonal ones. Okay, those are still crimes but they just don’t seem as bad as something involving a stranger. But maybe that’s what’s wrong with black women?
“Better dead than racist.”
I’m sorry, but that seems to be very naive of her. I would never let a perfect stranger into my house when I’m home alone. I’m even afraid of plumbers and taxi drivers. But maybe life has made me cynical.
on Sat Apr 25th 2009 at 20:55:19 nonserviam
I’m sorry, but that seems to be very naive of her. I would never let a perfect stranger into my house when I’m home alone.
Yes, exactly. You’re black, so you have no qualms about being wary of a suspicious-looking black person. My point is that neither should whites.
on Sat Apr 25th 2009 at 23:54:27 racerealist
Allow me to clarify what I think nonserviam meant – black people have no qualms about being wary of suspicious people, but certain brainwashed white liberals feel bad about being wary of suspicious people if those people are black.
Correct me if I’m wrong, nonserviam. I just didn’t want someone to take your comment the wrong way and start an unproductive accusatory tangent.
Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. I wasn’t aware of any ambiguity in my comment, but thank you.
My larger point is that white racial guilt over the injustices (real in the past, imaginary in the present day) done to blacks is the poisoned spiritual source of the Western civilizational suicide. Which means that, unless it is confronted and overcome, we are done for. That’s what makes the race realism, even though it’s descriptive rather than normative, so important.
on Sun Jul 19th 2009 at 19:43:56 BlueLake
Ted Bundy rpaed and killed over 30 white women, some he confessed to and others he would not fess up.
But when that man was in court, instead of treatng him like the nasty monster he was, there were many white women falling in love with him and many people felt sorry for him!
Now if a black man attacks somebody it’s different!
Shows you how twisted and nasty the so-called “superior white race” really is.
They have told so many lies over and over again, no rational person would believe a word they have to say at all!
on Sun Jul 19th 2009 at 22:49:41 Uncle Milton
Nope… there are many examples of women falling for black men in prison also. It’s a bizarre phenomenon and probably a reflection with America’s obsession with fame and crosses racial lines. In China they make you wear your a sign describing the crimes as you want to your place of execution. There is basically little description of the criminal’s himself but mostly of their deeds and victims. For capital crimes they put a bullet in the back of your head.. up until a few years ago they charged the criminals’ family for the cost of the execution.
on Sun Jul 19th 2009 at 23:22:28 Requiem
I remember the Sherrice Iverson murder.
That’s funny, David Duke and the other whites like to say that interracial rape where the white man is the perp NEVER happens.
The “superior white people” claim that black women are not raped by white men because black women are unrapeable.
If black women are “unrapeable” why did that nasty freak follow that little girl into a public restroom and strangle her over the toilet seat?
I’m sure many women get attacked all the time, but because the “superior white people” said that black women are unrapeable, no one believes them.
http://www.freewebs.com/sherriceiverson/
on Sun Aug 2nd 2009 at 09:04:23 JonShmaltz
Um to the last few people who posted … are you the same person? Because you have an uncanny knack for stereotyping massive groups of people based on a few so-called “members” of said group.
What the hell do white serial killers have to do with anything? There’s obviously something wrong with these people and everyone knows it. Despite the depravity of their acts, their stories are so twisted they are hard to ignore. How do they reflect on whites as a whole? Not at all.
Seriously, I find race relations to be fascinating and I read a lot of forum boards to get a better perspective on how things are going … and (warning, I have to generalize a bit here) it seems to me that blacks often segregate themselves, and pin all the blame for their troubles on the ambiguous “evil white man”. By the way some people talk about such topics, so sure of their inaccurate views, it makes me think they have been brainwashed.
As for other things being discussed, I’m not particularly afraid of black men … but I’m a pretty big guy and through athletics (wrestling, football) I have come to understand they are no more dangerous than anyone else. However, there is such a thing as “mob mentality” that sort of takes over when you’re in a group of peers or even strangers bearing similarity to you.
It’s ignorant to fear blacks on sight, but careless to throw caution to the wind, especially when dealing with a group of people who are (obviously) probably going to dislike you the instant they see you.
on Mon Feb 15th 2010 at 21:05:23 Raphael
WE cannot change what is. Black people male and female have higher levels of testosterone, mature physically faster, reach puberty earlier, have smaller cranial capacity than whites or Asians. Black Africans in America have an average IQ of 85, Caucasians 101, Asians 106. African Americans represent 13% of the U.S population and commit 80% of the violent crime. Blacks throughout the world have more sex partners and fewer black males stay with their childrens mother.Testerone is equated to athletic ability and the rapid rise to rage. Africans south of the Sahara score 70 as an average in IQ tests which would qualify them as handicapped elsewhere in the world. Not all blacks are dull and violent. It is just an observation on the Bell curve. In U.S. Blacks are on average 30% Caucasian which explains the higher than African average IQ. Indeed the Black man is the White mans burden. Sending aid constantly to civil war torn and starving Africa and other unsuccessful nations. There has never been in past or id there in present a successful Black nation.
on Mon Feb 15th 2010 at 21:13:55 abagond
Please state your sources.
on Mon Feb 15th 2010 at 21:24:35 leigh204
I’m not too sure, but I’m positive I’ve seen a similar post somewhere on this blog.
on Mon Feb 15th 2010 at 21:25:26 Thad
Her sources are that racist schmuck who won the Nobel peace prize for helping discover the structure of DNA back in 1953: James D. Watson.
Since then, has had a severe case of nobelitis and thinks it’s his scientific duty to exagerate marginal findings and make ridiculous claims based on thin evidence in order to keep everyone guessing. He’s also a self-proclaimed eugenicist.
The concept that blacks have smaller cranial capacity, on average, than whites and that this has something to do with race (instead of, say, nutrition) comes from Morton, IIRC, and was thoroughly debunked back in the 1920s.
The “bell curve” hypothesis for the biological root of low black I.Q. scores has been dealt with on this site, ad nauseaum. It is based on tendacious data, poor sampling techniques and shifting definitions of “black” and “white”. Gould has dealt with this point quite conclusively in “The Mismeasure of Man”.
Raphael seems to believe that if lies and bad science are repeated often enough, loud enough, people will eventually believe them.
on Mon Feb 15th 2010 at 21:58:40 Herneith
That James Watson is hilarious. Talk about putting your foot in your mouth! Get a load of this:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article3022190.ece
According to this article, he had his genes ‘donated’ to the genome project for posterity! Well wonders never cease! It came out that he has 16% African Ancestry, and 9% Asian ancestry. This from a man who made derogatory remarks about his own ancestors! Apparently this signifies that at least a great grandparent was black.
Hmm, lets see. According to good old Raphael, he derived his main source of intelligence from his European ancestry, his above average intelligence from his 9% Asian ancestry, and his ‘brutish’ behaviour from his black ancestry! Of course if you subscribe to the ‘one drop rule’, he is one smart black man.
From what I have heard Watson’s IQ was not particularly high – maybe like 105 or 110. That is better than most, of course, but not what you would expect for such a famous scientist.
LOL! You’re kidding!!!
Oh, that’s just too rich!
You know what this means, don’t you? The next time some little racist twerp says “Name one famous black scientist”, we can confidently say “Why James D. Watson, of course!”
I love it. This makes my day, Herneith. Thank you very much!
Racist fu$#wads have been using Watson for years. I imagine that they’ll now switch course 180 degrees and say that his low IQ was due to his African ancestry…
“From what I have heard Watson’s IQ was not particularly high – maybe like 105 or 110.”
Maybe his ‘Asian’ blood bumped him up a bit, LOL. Judging from some of his comments, he sure as hell doesn’t strike me as being being ‘politic’ in his public pronouncements whatever his ‘beliefs’, and that is what they are, based upon what other scientists and fellow Nobel Laureates have said in regards to his remarks. One comment from the article particularly stand out:
“This weekend his critics savoured the wry twist of fate. Sir John Sulston, the Nobel laureate who helped lead the consortium that decoded the human genome, said the discovery was ironic in view of Watson’s opinions on race. “I never did agree with Watson’s remarks,” he said. “We do not understand enough about intelligence to generalise about race.”
No, they will say he wasn’t that smart anyway and it was sheer luck that he stumbled upon his discoveries.
on Wed Jun 23rd 2010 at 13:37:52 Alan B'Stard M P
he abegond. If blacks beat a white man’s brains in, it is not deserved. You’re a hard gal. You would enjoy seeing a white guy brutalized would you> Is it a sexual thing?
Our perception of the negro are based on experience, on the crime stats. It’s damed unfortunate for the good black people out there. They must understand, our exprerinces in life make us react the way we do
on Tue Jun 29th 2010 at 16:52:01 bronxtalediver
Our perception of the whites are based on experience and crime stats also. Remember a few things called slavery, Jim Crow, lynchings, or apartheid. There has never been a time in American history that blacks have tried to subjugate an entire race based on physical features alone. I can’t begin to count the instances that this has been attempted by the white people. You just ask a black man who has met Bull Connor and his German Shepards how they feel about that comment.
on Wed Oct 6th 2010 at 20:02:07 Blaximus
Race discussions always seem to ramble-on and on, but grind to a halt on the same old sticking points.
Sad, but interesting. Like a really bad auto accident.
*sigh* Alas, I will have to ” generalize ” for the sake of this conversation. I hope no one will be deeply offended.
Whenever I read/listen to white people’s take on race and racism, it’s as if a majority of them exist in some sort of historical vacuum where everyone else on the planet ( whites are a minority worldwide…. ) is less intelligent, has no real historical accomplishments, or is widly uncivilized and brutish.
It seems an impossibility to assign the same declarations of savage-ness to, say, witch burnings, inquisitions, crusades, endless/countless wars ( barbarian and all others going forward ), and mass orchestration and execution of worldwide slavery.
It’s always ” everyone else’s fault ” and no one had anything to do with anything negative that has every happened. Period.
This is why, much to my sadness, there will NEVER be a discussion on race and racism that will ever be more than an exercise that will consistantly degrade into a pitiful morass of negativity and blame shedding.
White people want ” credit ” for scientific advances, certain societal structures, governing and politics, space travel…etc. etc, ( even nuclear weapons, which is surprising ) but want to poo-poo the equally numerous Shortcomings and atrocities by distancing themselves from them. This is amazing. ” I never had slaves…”. ” My grandfather came here and worked 90 hour days “…
People who’ve existed as ” Americans ” for 1 solid generations just absolving themselves of any of the acts, repercusions and responsibilities of the very same America.
That is a very neat trick indeed.
And it works. It works well because the majority is pretty much synced up to the same illusion.
United States of Disneyland.
And to anyone who is afraid of the ” ghettoes ” and ” certain black neighborhoods “, I invite you to take a tour of the nations many, many trailer parks.
All this blathering about IQ scores and skull circumfrence and Bell Curves is complete and utter nonsense. But it tilts the argument ( if you but into these premises ) in favor of whites.
…. I could easily make up a test that a majority of whites would do poorly on.
I’m just sayin’.
As a black man who stands 6 ft and weighs in at 239 pounds, I was interested in reading what commenters had to say.
I would hope that this conversation can keep going because there is much to learn, even if the same old tired examples and replies surface.
And I will leave all of my white breathren with the old, well worn quote : ” The only thing we have to fear is fear itself “.
on Wed Oct 6th 2010 at 21:12:24 King
To me, examples of the most savage behavior, in American history, were the mob lynchings. Those accounts are absolutely bone chilling:
Henry Smith Lynching [Wiki]
“He was placed upon a scaffold and tortured for fifty minutes by members of the girl’s family, who thrust hot iron brands into his flesh, starting with his feet and legs and working upward to his head. The family members involved included Myrtle’s father, uncles, and twelve-year-old brother. A February 2, 1893 article in The New York Sun stated that, “Every groan from the fiend, every contortion of his body was cheered by the thickly packed crowd.” Eventually, the hot irons were thrust into his eye sockets and down his throat. Afterwards, finding he was still breathing, the crowd poured oil on him and set him on fire. The crowd then fought over the hot ashes to collect his bones and teeth as souvenirs.”
Imagine that as a public event, held at the Paris Texas fair grounds with children both present in the crowd and even participating in the torture!
I don’t think that I could watch such a thing without being permanently scarred by it.
Sam Hose Lynching [Wiki]
The mob stopped just north of Newnan and went about their barbaric task. Newspapers reported that Wilkes/Hose’ ears, fingers and genitals were severed. The skin from his face was removed and his body was doused with kerosene. He was tied to a tree and burned alive. Some members of the mob cut off pieces of his dead body as souvenirs…
The torture of the victim lasted almost half an hour. It began when a man stepped forward and very matter-of-factly sliced off Hose’s ears. Then several men grabbed Hose’s arms and held them forward so his fingers could be severed one by one and shown to the crowd. Finally, a blade was passed between his thighs, Hose cried in agony, and a moment later his genitals were held aloft.
From the crude incisions he’d suffered, the bound, naked man was soon covered with bright crimson blood from head to foot, and must have appeared at last to be the “black devil” the newspapers had made him out to be all along. It was the last clear glimpse the crowd had of him, for with the command “Come on with the oil!” three men lifted the large can of kerosene and dumped its contents over Sam Hose’s head, and the pyre was set ablaze. “Sweet Jesus!” Hose was heard to exclaim, and these were believed to be his last words.
I mean, talk about barbaric! But again, much of this treatment was the result of the “Black Brute” stereotype.
on Wed Oct 6th 2010 at 21:44:08 Femi
As always, not as a general rule, but it does – unfortunately – sum it up quite accurately.
on Sun May 8th 2011 at 11:17:21 John
I think Abagond or whatever your name is.. you are incredibly pretentious .. to think that all white people dont understand that we live in a racist society..I understand that as a white person that there things that are easier for me then a black person to do..like getting a job interview. but with every race there are circumstances where people will prejudge you in becuase of your race.. Like people have said before if you want to know more about white people mabye yo should ask them individually rather than making claims which make you arrogant pretentious person no better than a slave master who thinks he knows better than the people he targets.. I have twin sisters guess what they hate themselves ..their culture and rather be black why is that?? mabye its because its white people in America cant be racist but other races are alowed to say whatever you like.. then you get mad when the white majority doesnt want to hear you.. You as a black person can make these claims this website and not get as much hate mail because your black ..think about it for a second if a white person said the things you said right now ..you would come off as an ignorant ass.. white or black your thought pattern is incredibly pretentious and flawed. and im tired of seeing your stupid blogs everywhere.get over it and live your life stop worrying about us white people. you obviously dont like us and no one going to listen to someone who puts words in their mouth and has no understanding of whats live your life as a white person no matter how much analyze it just like i would never what its like to black in america.. u make me want to become racist with all the crap white people have to tolerate.
on Sun May 8th 2011 at 12:59:00 abagond
John:
1. This is a personal blog, not a scholarly journal or holy writ. It is a place where I express my views, however right or wrong they may be. I know I am not always right. I expect people to disagree with me. Thus the comment section.
2. I never ever say “ALL white people” are this or that. But MANY white people get upset at what I say and then put the word “all” in my mouth. I do not talk like that. Some white people are way more racist than what I am saying, some are way less. I am thinking of the broad middle of White America or, depending on context, some part of them, like those who use certain arguments or stereotypes.
amband:
I accidentally deleted your comment. You can resubmit it.
on Tue Jun 28th 2011 at 06:26:00 brothawolf
If there’s one thing racists love is using statistics (usually exaggerated) and news reports to state their case that black men are more violent and hypersexual. I noticed on our old friends’ blogs, Unamused and Chuck’s, that they post news articles, links, and videos of crimes committed by blacks, and the are in ecstacy when the victim is white.
What’s funny is how some racists believe the media is unfair to whites and is too liberal, but they use reports from the same media to state their cases.
on Tue Jun 28th 2011 at 13:26:04 jas0nburns
“I never ever say “ALL white people” are this or that. But MANY white people get upset at what I say and then put the word “all” in my mouth.”
so if I were to say “black people are lazy” and someone told me that was racist, I could just say “I didn’t say ALL black people, stop putting words in my mouth.” and they would be like “oh sorry, I misunderstood you, my mistake.”
hmmm something tells me that wouldn’t fly here on planet earth. The fact is that the word “all” or at least “most” is directly implied. I don’t know where you got the idea that you could use a general term like WP and somehow have that not be taken as referring to anyone who is white.
by your usage rules, you could say just about anything about any group and technically you would be right. I could say blacks are lazy because some blacks are lazy just as some whites and some Asians are lazy. I could say black people love fried chicken because some blacks do love fried chicken, as does a certain number of people who belong to any group.
You are generalizing and trying to squeak out of it on a technicality. It’s dishonest.
If that is why whites are afraid, why are blacks afraid as well? It seems that blacks also believe this stereotype about black men.
on Tue Jun 28th 2011 at 14:39:08 jorbia
@ jasOnburns–
I’ll bet that even the black men who claim this is simply a stereotype are way more afraid of other black men jumping out at them than they are of white men doing that. Instead of admitting that it’s a big problem, too many American blacks try to deny it. You can’t solve a problem if you can’t admit that it is a problem. If they can’t admit this, no one is going to take them seriously about anything.
This whole discussion becomes so jumbled and chaotic after a while until it doesn’t make sense anymore.
I think the reason for this is that both sides of the debate are trying to obscure half of the truth, the half that doesn’t neatly fit inside their narrative. It’s true that as Abagond says fear of black men is inflated and a result of unfair stereotypes. I know this to be true even as you wouldn’t catch me strolling through a black neighborhood alone, because I know that there is enough dysfunction present as to make it unsafe for me. I think these two things feed on one another.
on Tue Jun 28th 2011 at 15:51:58 The Cynic
@Jorbia
“I’ll bet that even the black men who claim this is simply a stereotype are way more afraid of other black men jumping out at them than they are of white men doing that. Instead of admitting that it’s a big problem, too many American blacks try to deny it.”
-This is dumb. Being a black man, it’s not hard for me to see the variation w/in my group. Yes, if a man looks like a “thug”, I will put my guard up, but most black males are not thugs! If most of us aren’t thugs why would I feel that I am in danger just by being around another black dude’s presence? Is it really that hard to discern between a Lance Gross/Laz Alonzo type and some TI/Lil Wayne lookin dudes? I understand the need for stereotyping in some instances, but “black man=violent” is kind of vague and just damn lazy.
@Jas0nburns
“I know this to be true even as you wouldn’t catch me strolling through a black neighborhood alone, because I know that there is enough dysfunction present as to make it unsafe for me”
-This is dumb too. Every black neighborhood is not the same. I think it’s hilarious that any white person would be afraid to enter my neighborhood solely bc it is predominantly black.Their are more too many black neighborhoods that are safe & stable for someone to make a judgement based on racial population statistics alone.
“The fact is that the word “all” or at least “most” is directly implied. I don’t know where you got the idea that you could use a general term like WP and somehow have that not be taken as referring to anyone who is white.”
-Yeah, I realized the hypocrisy behind this a long time ago. I was going to mention it when someone asked if Abagond seemed anti-white in the open thread(to me he often comes off as resentful about white racism, prejudiced, and subjective, but nv hateful), but I didn’t care to comment at the time.
-Being objective really isn’t that hard. All you have to do is ask yourself, “if I was ____ would I feel comfortable with this?” and then proceed follow the golden rule.
“Yes, if a man looks like a “thug”, I will put my guard up, but most black males are not thugs!”
I see your point, and none of the black men I interact with on a daily basis fit into any type of thug catagory at all. So in my experience the great majority of black men are not thugs or brutes, which is why I agree that it is an unfair stereotype. However, It just seems like the thug ratio is higher with black Americans than with other groups in my experience. That’s why I personally would avoid being in even a middle class black neighborhood alone. (emphasis on alone) I know from experience that by the time you get close enough to determine whether someone is a thug or not, it’s too late.
Cynic, what’s dumb is to continue trying to convince people to relax when people know that there’s a reason to feel unsafe. You’re claiming that this is just an imaginary threat. You’re not going to be able to sell that.
@JasOnburns–
That’s why I personally would avoid being in even a middle class black neighborhood alone. (emphasis on alone) I know from experience that by the time you get close enough to determine whether someone is a thug or not, it’s too late.
You would be safe in certain middle class black neighborhoods, but not in others because some middle class black neighborhoods have thugs living in them since they are relatives of law abiding residents. Since you’re white, you would most likely not be able to figure out which is which because you can’t read the cues. Even if a black man can’t read the cues, he might be able to talk or fight his way out or go unnoticed if he’s misread the cues. If a black man dresses in a certain way, the chances are that some thugs would not notice or bother him, but there’s no way you could hide your complexion.
This is a problem that American black men need to face and handle.
@Jorbia & Jas0nburns
Black men are not threats. Yea, their is a higher ratio of thugs, but it really isn’t hard to discern between the thugs and regular old black dudes. Their is nothing dumb about not being afraid of some Laz Alonzo looking black guy. You aren’t being any smarter or safer by avoiding him based on race alone. That’s just lazy(ier than normal) stereotyping.
I also have no idea why you guys are bringing up middle class black neighborhoods when I nv said I lived in one. In the “7 layers” post I stated that i live in a quasi-burb, which may qualify as a suburb, although some of the residents are poor. Many ppl are lower middle class while others(like me) are legally below the poverty line, there is plenty of yard space, and the houses are like 30, 40yrs old. That being said, I don’t worry about crime at all. My family doesnt panic when the doors aren’t locked, my sister was fine walking 15mins from the bus stop every night. This is the complete opposite of when was living on my downtown campus. At school their IS reason to be afraid bc there ARE robberies left & right. Both of those environments are majority black, but it only makes sense to be afraid in one, whether you are alone or not.
Crime rates, and not whether their is a higher # thugs in a racial group, should be the determining factor of whether a neighborhood is safe or not.
*complete opposite of when I was living on my downtown campus
I also want to add that I just saw one of the few white ladies that live in my neighborhood walking her dog peacefully a few days ago…
Smh… my blackness does not make me immune to being a victim of crime. If i dont feel unsafe in my own neighborhood than there is no reason for a white person to be afraid.
I 100% agree with that, and I didn’t say that my race would make me a target. I know Jorbia did allude to that but that wasn’t something I was concerned with. I think being a stranger/ being alone / looking soft is what makes you a target in a bad neighborhood regardless of race.
Jorbia, there will always be people within groups that fit the stereotypes of their respected groups produced by groups with the most privileges.They are the minority within those groups, but most people focus more on them more than the other members. Why? Among other things, to make themselves feel better. It’s become so strong in this society that people within the groups accept stereotypes about themselves.
However, there have been discussions on this issue with negative stereotypes within black communities for some time now. What I don’t see often are whites joining in on the discussions seeing as how their people throughout history to today created, benefited, and still believe in stereotypes they have about black people.
on Wed Jun 29th 2011 at 00:26:52 jorbia
However, there have been discussions on this issue with negative stereotypes within black communities for some time now.
You guys are making assaults and other crimes in these communities into a figment of peoples imagination. Okay, let’s all agree that it’s just a bunch of stereotypes. That was a very easy problem to solve.
on Wed Jun 29th 2011 at 00:27:25 Zek J Evets
On the flip side, I believe the hardest thing is for me, as a White person, to acknowledge, understand, and try to see the stereotypes people have about Whites — particularly since they are often negative. It’s difficult to look at your group from an outside perspective when you are so used to seeing in the same way, over and over and over again.
For instance, my girlfriend when we first started dating made the comment that she thought White people always smelled like baloney when they were soaking wet from the rain. At first I thought this was hilarious, mostly because it was so silly and wrong. But now I use it as a way of understand how even the stupidest stereotypes can grow in the absence of experience — real, in your face experience — with people from different groups.
***understanding***
on Wed Jun 29th 2011 at 01:42:29 jas0nburns
“she thought White people always smelled like baloney when they were soaking wet from the rain.”
on Wed Jun 29th 2011 at 02:15:24 The Cynic
When did I ever say that there weren’t any dangerous or crime ridden black neighborhoods? All I said was that not ALL of them are dangerous. In fact, many aren’t. Maybe it’s a different story where you live, but I feel perfectly safe, or as safe as I would in a white place, in most of the areas in my majority black city.
Yeah, I haven’t heard about baloney, but I am familiar with the “white ppl smell like wet dogs” stereotype
on Wed Jun 29th 2011 at 02:30:21 brothawolf
Jorbia, by you referring to me or blacks as “you guys” it’s safe to conclude that you are either white or non-African American.
In the first place most of us who were victims or have witnessed crimes think less about whether they are stereotype threats or not as opposed to our safety. Black people in this nation are quite aware of crimes occuring within black communities, and there are those who are actively doing something about it.
In the second place even if the crime rate in black communities is almost nonexistant, that would not matter to some people outside the communities. The small number of criminals is what’s matter to them, not the people who do not fit that stereotype of the “criminal black man” OR the people who are not seen as capable of crimes in the neighborhoods of those outside that reality.
In the third and final place speaking from experience the ones who make crimes into a figment of people’s imagination are mostly whites. When the Columbine shooting occured, white people were shocked as hell that something like that happened in a community like that. They thought something like that happened in communities of color, never in their area.
However, did that create the stereotype that young white males are more murderous than any other race including blacks? No. Whites are seemingly more unaware about the possibility of being a victim of a crime by another white person, but they are scared at the thought of being attacked by a black person. Meanwhile, there are white parents physically and sexually abusing their children. There are white ministers sexually assaulting and raping young boys. There are young whites drinking and getting high while driving, and there are white females seducing and having sex with their students. Not to mention the frequent murder-suicides involving mostly white families, and the mostly white serial killers.
The bottom line is this; black people are aware of the crimes that are damaging their communities. Some have acknowledged it, and are doing something about it. What is the white community doing to solve its crime problem?
Like Cynic said, most black communities are not dangerous, but most people, depending on who they are, are mostly focused on the crime occuring in the ones that are. Some want to step in and fix those communities while others use it for their benefit, mainly to make them and others who are like them feel good about not living there among “those” people. The latter is the very essence of stereotypes, to dehumanize others for their personal enjoyment.
on Wed Jun 29th 2011 at 04:04:43 King
“For instance, my girlfriend when we first started dating made the comment that she thought White people always smelled like baloney when they were soaking wet from the rain.”
I too was always taught that Whites were full of baloney. Perhaps the smell was psychosomatic. She simply reasoned subconsciously, that with all the rain…
In the first place most of us who were victims or have witnessed crimes think less about whether they are stereotype threats or not as opposed to our safety.
Much of what some of you all are saying is contradictory and chaotic. This is why you sound like you’re just complaining and trying to blame whites. Is there a quite high physical safety issue in the black community or isn’t there one? You’re now trying to make it seem like it’s as safe in the black community as it is in the white community. I’ve often heard of American blacks complaining about crime in their own communities. They are scared. They feel unsafe and say that the police has abandoned them and left them there unprotected. I’ve heard and read that many times. Some of you here are making it seem like black people are lying about that and saying that the complaints are based on white stereotypes. I wasn’t the one who said it’s about stereotypes.I’m saying that people there feel a real threat to their safety. Maybe some younger black men feel safer because they’re black and male. They may feel they can fight back and outrun potential attackers. You should ask American black women whether they feel safe in most of those communities. Ask Koreans. Ask Pakistanis. Ask black immigrants. It’s not just whites who feel unsafe.
We all know that there is no place on earth that is completely safe. if whites have all of the crime you mentioned in their communities and are just as unsafe there, why is it that blacks who can afford it are running to live in predominantly white communities? Why aren’t whites and others running to live in black communities?
Wouldn’t it just make more sense to admit that there’s a serious issue with black males committing crimes and then direct your energy toward remedies, instead of denying it’s a serious issue?
“Is there a quite high physical safety issue in the black community or isn’t there one?”
Not in all of them. Not even in most of them. That’s the point you’re missing.
“If whites have all of the crime you mentioned in their communities and are just as unsafe there, why is it that blacks who can afford it are running to live in predominantly white communities?”
Not all of them “run” to live in predominantly white communities just because of “safety” issues.
“Why aren’t whites and others running to live in black communities?”
Why don’t you tell me. Oh, that’s right. Black communities EVERYWHERE are filled with crime committed by black males, right?
I thought I just made that point in my last response:
“The bottom line is this; black people are aware of the crimes that are damaging their communities. Some have acknowledged it, and are doing something about it.”
yeah, i’m leaning more towards this being more about perception than reality. I think Cynic has a point that you should be looking at actual crime rates and not race when determining the safety of a given neighborhood. It is lazy to just assume a black neighborhood is more dangerous.
Jorbia, it sounds to me like you’re trying to say that the black brute stereotype holds a lot of merit based on what you’ve heard supposedly by other blacks about not being safe in their own neighborhoods. I also sense of hint of “black males are more criminal minded than white males” in your responses. I could be wrong though.
Here’s the points trying to be made:
Most black males do not fit this stereotype.
Not all black communities are crime ridden by black males.
Some, if not many, black communities are safer as opposed to some of their white counterparts.
Some black people living in neighborhoods with crime problems are trying to do something about it. They don’t deny it. If they did, they wouldn’t be doing anything at all.
Just because the black neighborhoods in your area may not be safe doesn’t mean ALL black neighborhoods are the same way.
on Wed Jun 29th 2011 at 20:21:00 Demerera
In my experience, whenever you venture in to ANY new domain, the current inhabitants will often prove territorial. How this manifests itself can vary i.e. an uncomfortable silence, vocally, or heaven forbid physically, but you would hope that if your intentions are decent and honorouable you will be left to go about your business though perhaps under the watchful eye of an voyeuristic inhabitant (aka nosey neighbour) 🙂
In the U.K, if I were to venture in a pub in a rural area, there would be that uncomfortable/hostile silence and I might just have to wait my turn to get served after the local! On the other hand though, it could be a nice cosy country pub where they might welcome someone who’s ‘different’.
Even when you are a kid and you go in to the next ‘neighborhood’ to yours, you can guarantee that the inhabitants of that area will be checking you out to see whats what. Kids usually have less reservations than adults so generally you would find yourself in an all out territory war with x shouting ‘go back to your area, this is ours’. By the same token though kids are generally more open to difference than adults and this lack of reservations enables children to embrace difference without really noticing it.
Unfortunately when we become adults much of this innocence is lost and similar fears that haunted our parents now get passed on to us. In my experience this has been brought to the fore where I played with X well enough at school, though aware that their parents had sterotypical views/reservations about other races much to the disgust of said X, only to meet that person 10 years later, chatting and catching up for them to reveal very similar approach to their parents.
I guess what I am saying is that these fears of ‘black/white/asian’ neighbourhoods are not inherent – they develop and are influenced by social stigmas the older and less ‘open’ we get.
on Wed Jun 29th 2011 at 20:23:49 Lookingforanswers
@ The Cynic
“although some of the residents are poor. Many ppl are lower middle class while others(like me) are legally below the poverty line”
I find this hard to believe (and I mean this as a compliment) because people with your level of awareness are usually aware of how to overcome personal challenges like poverty. How can you possibly be below the poverty line? I don’t understand.
Something that plays a part in this I think which isn’t being discussed was reflected in a comment made by Tyrone. (who I never thought i’d be quoting):
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/bell-hooks-talking-race-and-racism/#comment-90105
“The character flaw that I see in a lot of blackmen is “Groupthink.” A lot of us have a tendency to think and act as a group, and not as individuals. ”
I think a lot of WP observe this in BP or at least think they have. So when we see blacks engaging in similar behaviors over and over again, we couple that with our idea that blacks tend to do everything as a group, (politics, fashion, music, language,) so if a few BP have been observed doing something, it seems likely to us that most other blacks do this thing as well. (Mind you, every ingroup does this to every outgroup, but the power dynamic inherent in Western society makes it racism imo.)
So naturally this extends to criminality, we see all blacks as potential criminals because we know that some blacks are criminals.
All any American of any race needs to do is imagine a Muslim woman in a Burka. As far as most of us are concerned, there is absolutely no difference between one Muslim woman in a Burka and another, we imagine that they are all identical carbon copies or clones when in reality they are just as different from one another as we are. So if we saw a woman in a Burka kill someone, we would fear all women in Burka’s. Blacks would be no exception to this stereotyping behavior.
If you’re a white high school student and you notice that every single black student is wearing their pants the same way or their hair the same way you start to think this group mentality extends to every aspect of life.
Of course, what WP fail to see is how we also conform to one another yet still see ourselves as individuals.
I believe the reason we find it so hard to see blacks as individuals is because we don’t spend hardly any time together in real life. It would literally be impossible for WP to hold these views if we were more socially integrated.
More people need to just deal with the temporary discomfort and awkwardness and stop isolating.
@ jas0nburns
This is why I think so many Blacks hold ill will toward Whites in general. It’s because they voluntarily isolate themselves because of stereotypes, form and perpetuate more stereotypes based on lack of exposure, which leads to creating social and legal policies based on those stereotypes, helping making those stereotypes a self fulfilling prophecy and then turn around and say “See? They’re not stereotypes. That’s how they are so why bother. Let’s just isolate ourselves from them.”
I think a lot of WP observe this in BP or at least think they have
Aha! The ole ‘pack’ mentality theme rears its head again. I don’t know many individuals who at some time in their life doesnt assimilate themselves with another/other groups of likeminded/similar people. I know that I see this in everyday life whether its mothers at the school or co-workers or even people joining a club or exercise class.
I remember being in town as a youngster, there were a group of kids from another school, a couple I knew in passing and said hi to. Hi. Thats all. When I got to work the following Monday, the lady receptionist there told me that her son had seen me in town ‘hanging out with a load of black people’. I was mystified – the girl I was with was white, yet her son (who I hadnt even noticed) quickly made the judgement that as I was in the vicinity with the group where I fleetinlgy said hi to a couple of individuals , I must be with them despite everything else about the situation that suggested otherwise.
How do we break down these barriers and stereotypes? We all know that there are individuals who purport to these ‘labels’ and that are out there. I think that people convince themselves of something and instead of looking inside themselves and addressing this, they are happy to leave the blame elsewhere.
Everybody needs to take individual responsibility if we are to ‘integrate’ cohesively and successfully. Regardless of race etc we are not always going to get on with another individual but, by the same token ‘difference’ shouldnt be what prevents us from finding a common ground. There is a rich, interesting, huge and diverse world out there – if you’re are afraid and only want to experience whats on your doorstep thats fine but, the fact that you are writing on a forum such as this suggests that there is even a smidgen of you who want to broaden your horizens.
The only place I can see that this is true is politically. Aside from that, Black people are all over the place.
on Thu Jun 30th 2011 at 12:31:10 jorbia
Only a small portion of blacks are violent criminals. Since whites avoid being around them, they do the most harm to other blacks. They need to be outted and dealt with and no excuses made. This needs to be done especially for the good of the rest of the great portion of good, law-abiding American black people, but for everyone else too.
Blacks who sell drugs to other blacks are also just as bad or even worse since they destroy many lives too by selling drugs to young black people who then harm black people and others. American black criminals do the most harm to other blacks, but still these other blacks will mainly try to make excuses and cover for them, just like some blacks are trying to do here when they try to minimize the physical danger issue by saying it’s not that bad. Right!
on Fri May 4th 2012 at 06:03:33 phoebeprunelle
Black guys ARE dangerous because IME they:
1. Protect the honor of black girls/women in their communities
2. Historically they have preferred to marry black women
3. Their earning potential almost doubles if they graduate from an HBCU as opposed to a historically white university
4. They were the brains behind most of the thriving black communites of the 20th century
You just can’t trust them . . . I believe that they are so dangerous and brutal that I married one.
on Fri May 4th 2012 at 13:18:30 Matari
This comment qualifies as one of the BEST comments I’ve ever seen on the web!!
Thanks Pheobe.
on Fri May 4th 2012 at 13:57:16 Aaron
These stereotypes are unfortunately somewhat grounded in reality. Currently the most dangerous cities in america all have high densities of black people. Places like Baltimore and Detroit have had 100-200+ murders a year for well over a decade. This is a phenomenon exclusive to black communities. Murder and violent crime happen everywhere but happen at staggering rates in black communities.
As far as rape goes, a white woman is far more likely to be raped by a black male than a black woman is to be raped by a white male. White on black rape is rare but black on white rape is very commonplace. Furthermore rape occurs in black areas and countries at a far higher rate than it does in white areas and countries. The rape capitol of the world is currently South America which is 80% black and rape is very prevalent in many African countries like the Congo Republic, Ivory Coast, Congo and so forth. Rape occurs at much higher rates in African countries than it does in countries with a strong Caucasian majority like Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, and etc.
Finally its not uncommon for significant sized groups of white people to find themselves living among large groups of blacks, where the vast majority of crime is committed by said blacks. College Campuses are a good example of this. It is not uncommon for universities, attended by mostly white people, to be in areas very close to black neighborhoods and to have the vast majority of assaults, muggings, robberies, and etc., be committed by blacks. The university near me, the University of MD in College Park, is situated in PG county. While the University is largely white and even the city of College Park itself has a significant Caucasian population, almost all reported muggings, assaults, and etc, have had black perpetrators as the described suspects. Whites are victimized by blacks at a much larger rate than blacks are victimized by whites.
So while not all blacks are violent thugs and criminals, its not hard to understand why a white person (or any person for that matter) would be more vigilant around a bunch of young black people late at night than they would be around a group of similar aged young white guys or Asian guys.
on Fri May 4th 2012 at 14:26:18 satanforce
^^^Bliff may be gone, but the Bliffisms continue.
on Fri May 4th 2012 at 14:41:03 truthbetold
@ AARON
Listen up good….I won’t respond further.
No amount of rape done by black men will EVER measure up to the mind-gagging violence done by white men to black/Native women.
They obilterated an entire race of people, FOREVER, and created an new race of blacks/ Indians called Mulatto/Mestizco.
Get the message, assh*ole?
What did I say that was incorrect?
I dont think that has anything to do with this at all. I think this is about the current Black brute stereotype not white people wiping out the Native Americans 200 years ago. What do the actions of dead white people from over a century ago have to do with the black brute stereotype of today? Absolutely nothing.
Did white men rape black and Native American women in staggering numbers in the 18th and 19th centuries? Yes they did. Do black men currently rape white women at far greater rates than white men rape black women? Yes they do. That you have to invoke the actions of dead white men from 150 years ago really shows how weak your position is.
on Fri May 4th 2012 at 15:13:26 abagond
In that whites are way more affected by white crime than black crime, the overblown white fear of black crime has everything to do with the fear that blacks want revenge for crimes past (slavery, Jim Crow) and present (racism). Deep down whites know that their relationship with blacks is completely fradulent. That is why they must demonize blacks, making them into the bad guys.
on Fri May 4th 2012 at 15:22:06 deedee7789
@Aaron
I would have to say I disagree with several points you made in your comments concerning “black brutes”, “rape”, and “murder”.
Black brutes. This was a stereotype originally made in the past to use as an excuse to lynch or jail Black men. It was not based on fact. The time during the use of the term did not have immense amounts of crime committed by Black men. There of course were Black men who were criminals but the numbers were not disproportionate for the population and could not accurately be used for the entire Black male population. Even today, yes there is a disproportionate amount of Black individuals that are in jail but the reasons for that situation is complex and cannot be simply be attributed to a specific “race” which you imply with some of your comments like “This is a phenomenon exclusive to black communities. Murder and violent crime happen everywhere but happen at staggering rates in black communities.”
Rape. I will assume that you made your comments based on statistics or news reports. Their are several issues with making a conclusion from statistics. The statistics do not count for all rape reports and generally the sources even mention only having about 44% of all at times (sources lile FBI, etc.). Then there is culture as well. Not to long ago (1950s I believe) WOC could be raped in the US without legal prosecution being taken against the rapist. This was because WOC were assumed to be promiscuous and of low moral standards. So you have WOC whose voices are shunned and their worth devalued. You factor in pass mis-justice as well as shame that is experienced by a woman in her community then you have less rape reports. It is not reasonable to make a statement like “Do black men currently rape white women at far greater rates than white men rape black women? Yes they do” because it is not clear if that is the case with lack of full data.
Murder. Very complex and to generalize things to make it appear that it happens “exclusively” in the Black communities is inaccurate. Countries with high inequality have been shown to have high crime. The US is the least developed of the developed countries because of the immensely high level of inequality (which includes factors like lack of proper healthcare, education, etc. [look into HDI for more info]). It is not about race but more so about the availability of resources and rights to people. This will include legislature to ensure something like women rights and you find that in countries with few laws protecting women rights then there are more rapes, assaults on women. There is also a need for a strong and dedicated police force. The US have well trained police but how they uphold the law at times leave less to be desired. There can be abuse of power and that will show up as a part of inequality experienced by various ethnic groups. It really isn’t reasonable to compare countries because they have different sets of laws, police forces, access to resources, hierarchies, illegal activities etc that will skew actual reports of crime.
Those are the reason that I disagree with several of your points. You have made several broad generalizations which I feel are not accurate for the reasons mentioned above.
on Fri May 4th 2012 at 15:33:44 B. R.
Aaron, where are your links to the statistics about South America having much more rape? I live in Brazil and I dont feel we are the rape capital of the world. If you just pulled that out of the air, your whole point of veiw is skewed…please clarify
And check out the great points people are making to you, you are much more likley to get hurt by another white person than a black person.Better start keeping your eyes open for all people instead of just being paranoid of blacks because of skewed statistics
I dont think the fear of black crime has as much to do with the fear that blacks want revenge for past crimes of slavery as much as it has to do with the fact that their is this perception that blacks are generally more prone to criminal behavior and this is a perception largely grounded in reality for whatever reason.
Lets look at two large American cities; Boston MA and Baltimore Md. Boston has around 650k people, blacks make up less than 25% of the population. In no single year at least within the last decade has Boston had more than 75 murders. Baltimore also has around 650k people and it is about 65% black. In only one year out of the last decade has Baltimore had less than 200 murders. Over the last decade it has averaged around 250 murders a year while Boston has averaged about 60. Detroit has a population of about 900k and is 75-80% black and has averaged 375 murders a year at least since the turn of the millennium. The white fear of black crime is grounded in the reality that neighborhoods and cities with significant black populations have significantly more violent crime than neighborhoods and cities with small or nonexistent black communities.
Violence and crime are also a big reason why educated and upwardly mobile blacks often leave black neighborhoods.
So it doesnt do much good to pretend like black crime isnt an issue and black neighborhoods are meccas of safety and prosperity that people flock to. Black neighborhoods do generally have more crime than white neighborhoods. It is far more dangerous to walk late at night in many black neighborhoods than it is to walk at night in many white neighborhoods. To act like there is absolutely zero basis for a white fear of black crime is an act of denial of statistical facts readily available to everyone.
Statistics are flawed. Statistics do not account for every single crime every committed because it would be difficult to get those numbers especially when someone knows the offender and chooses not to report the crime. You mention higher levels of crime but not the life chances that are available in a given area. What is the median income for the places you mentioned, the education, level of poverty, insurance, unemployment, law enforcement, policies and laws, etc..If you don’t take in the multiple factors that contribute to crime then your reasoning is flawed. The comparisons are meaningless because they do not explore the “why”. There was a recent study that showed that violent crimes rates have nothing to do with race (I can’t recall the name of the study, I had a link to it in another thread, from a criminology journal). So yes, “white fear of black crime” is not necessary. It should just be a fear of crime and to try to focus on race alone is very dangerous and foolish.
@deedee You cannot really argue against statics, or claim statistics to be false with an argument like unreported crimes and such. Currently more white women report being raped by a black man than black women report being raped by a white man. If black women are not reporting being raped by white men, there is really nothing that can be done about that. Black women report being raped by black men so its obviously not an issue with black women just not reporting sexual assault at all. Statistically it is very rare that a black woman reports being raped by a white male. You cant just hand wave statistics away when they dont arent in your favor.
Nowhere did I say that murder happens only in the black community. I said it happens at far higher rates in the black community than it does in the white community. This is basically a non-debatable fact from a statistical standpoint. There is nothing complex about it. Murder happens at far higher rates in black communities than it does in white communities. That is as much a fact as saying the sky is blue.
Furthermore lack of healthcare does not or at least should not cause anyone to commit criminal activity and I would argue that this country does not have a lack of proper education, you just have people who dont take advantage of it and this is overwhelmingly the case in the black community. The lack of education among blacks is more of a cultural phenomenon than any inherent problem with the education system itself. The education problem within the black community stems more to do with the culture and environment black children are raised in than it does with any failings of the school system.
In the past it was indeed true (I assume since I wasnt alive) that blacks were often stigmatized for the actions of a very small few. But this occurred largely in the south and had less to do with blacks being generalize because of the actions of a few and more to do with white southerns having an overwhelmingly strong dislike for blacks in general for no really good reason at all. In other words southern blacks just didnt like black people at all. Today however this stereotype comes from the high levels of violence in black commercials, the way young blacks often dress and act out in public whether it be the rash of flash mobs that have been committed by seemingly only young black kids, fights and shootouts on public beaches, fights in restaurants and other generally buffoonish behavior and then the most popular music of young black people is rap where the vast majority of the songs are about violence, drug dealing and so forth. So the black brute stereotype may have been unfounded in the early part of the 20th century but its not hard to find a basis for it in just about every black community in the country today.
All in all you dont really have any solid strong reasons for disagreeing with my points. You basically disagree because you dont like the notion, not because there is anything truly wrong with any point I have made.
Deedee if you knew anything about statistics you would knowthat they are not meant to account for every single instance but rather to provide a a good well rounded idea of what is going on. You dont have to have every single murder reported to know that a lot more murders occur in Detroit and Baltimore than occur in Boston. You dont have to have every single rape reported to know that white women are raped by black men at a much higher rate than black women are raped by white men. You would have to propose that there are multitudes of black women getting raped by white men and not reporting it to make the claim that you are making that statistics are flawed. You would have to argue that hundreds of murders go unreported in white communities every year to support your argument that statistics about murder are flawed. Basically my point is that simply saying statistics are flawed is a very weak argument that you would not get away with among any group of reasonably educated people. Im sure the census doesnt get every single White, Black, Asian, and Hispanic person but would you then argue that there are more black people than white people in this country because not every single white and black person was counted?Statistics are not meant to provide a bullet point for every single crime but to argue that statistics dont mirror reality is a flawed, false, uneducated argument based solely on not understanding how statistics work and why they are used.
“Nowhere did I say that murder happens only in the black community…..”
I mentioned your comment implies “only” due to the usage of the term “exclusive”.
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/the-black-brute-stereotype/#comment-127464
You cannot really argue against statics, or claim statistics to be false with an argument like unreported crimes and such…
I recall using the term flawed which does not mean false. So your statement about my stance is wrong. Flawed = IMPERFECT, even in basic statistics courses (which I have taken and I did a small study for a course) it is clear that there can be error in statistics so you have to be careful when considering them to make conclusions.
I have some reading for you to do since apparently you don’t understand my stance.
THE CENTRAL PLACE OF RACE IN CRIME AND JUSTICE—THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY’S 2011 SUTHERLAND ADDRESS
RECONSIDERING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEIVED NEIGHBORHOOD RACIAL COMPOSITION AND WHITES’ PERCEPTIONS OF VICTIMIZATION RISK: DO RACIAL STEREOTYPES MATTER?
Global Study On Homicide 2011 (very long but informative)
I have the right to disagree just as you do. I feel that you believe that I am ignoring Black crime, I am not and I am aware of the numbers. My issue lies with you implying that the blame can be placed on Black people for being “more likely” to do crimes. Race should be considered but not in the “blaming” manner that I have noticed people using. The US needs solutions and making generalized conclusions isn’t helping. The factors contributing to crime need to be considered and to avoid them will not fix the problem.
I have a response to you in moderation. I feel that you made some inaccurate observations. I also have some links in the moderated comment for you to look over whenever you get the chance. You can believe what you want but I feel that you are not taking all factors into consideration which lead to bias and misinformation.
@Matari,
Did you read my comment entirely?
No you didn’t. I’m assuming you are a BM hater.
SMH at the stupidity.
Also. According to you the FBI is making a “flawed, false, uneducated argument”.
“Historically, the causes and origins of crime have been the subjects of investigation by many disciplines. Some factors that are known to affect the volume and type of crime occurring from place to place are:
Economic conditions, including median income, poverty level, and job availability.
Cultural factors and educational, recreational, and religious characteristics.
Family conditions with respect to divorce and family cohesiveness.
Climate.
Effective strength of law enforcement agencies.
Administrative and investigative emphases of law enforcement.
Policies of other components of the criminal justice system (i.e., prosecutorial, judicial, correctional, and probational).
Citizens’ attitudes toward crime.
Crime reporting practices of the citizenry….
The data user is, therefore, cautioned against comparing statistical data of individual reporting units from cities, counties, metropolitan areas, states, or colleges or universities solely on the basis of their population coverage or student enrollment. Until data users examine all the variables that affect crime in a town, city, county, state, region, or other jurisdiction, they can make no meaningful comparisons.”
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/caution-against-ranking
I have made my stance based on reviewing the methodologies used by the sources of the statistics as well as on the different organizations on statements on the accuracy of the data. There is nothing “flawed, false, uneducated” about my argument. That was an unfair assessment but yet again that is how you feel and am not here to change how you feel.
Well yes I do agree that there are many variables involved in why black neighborhoods have more crime and violence but you didnt say there were variables involved but rather you are arguing that the statistics themselves that indicate this are flawed when that is not what the disclaimer is saying. The disclaimer is saying there are many factors that influence crime so use caution when using stats about crime to make a particular point. You are saying that statistics are flawed because they dont account for all crimes which shows a misunderstanding of how statistics work. You can be robbed, raped, or murdered in Boston or Detroit but statistically it is more likely to happen in Detroit than it is in Boston. There are many variables that influence this statistical likelihood but that is not the same as saying the statistical likelihood is flat out incorrect.
BR that was supposed to say South Africa is the rape capitol of the world, not South America.
DeeDee when I said “this is a phenomenon exclusive to the black community” I was speaking of the high rates of murder not murder itself. In other words I was saying that having 200+ murders a year is a phenomenon exclusive to the black community not that murder itself only occurs in the black community
The trouble with statistics, besides being easy to twist, is that they strip out all the context. They give mile high view, not the ground view.
I lived in a part of New York where hundreds were murdered every year – you know, that phenomenon exclusive to the black community. It had nothing to do with the supposedly violent nature of black people but the drug trade and how the police stood back and let the dealers shoot it out. It made it a very dangerous part of the city, of the whole country, but that did not matter because only black and Latinos were dying. So, like, no big deal (/sarcasm).
Some black neighbourhoods in America are extremely safe, some extremely dangerous. Again, statistics makes them all seem the same and gives you no other possible “reason” but race because that is all those neighbourhoods have in common. Cool trick, bro.
you didnt say there were variables involved…
“Even today, yes there is a disproportionate amount of Black individuals that are in jail but the reasons for that situation is complex and cannot be simply be attributed to a specific “race””
“The statistics do not count for all rape reports and generally the sources even mention only having about 44% of all at times (sources lile FBI, etc.). Then there is culture as well… ”
“It really isn’t reasonable to compare countries because they have different sets of laws, police forces, access to resources, hierarchies, illegal activities etc that will skew actual reports of crime.”
“What is the median income for the places you mentioned, the education, level of poverty, insurance, unemployment, law enforcement, policies and laws, etc..If you don’t take in the multiple factors that contribute to crime then your reasoning is flawed. The comparisons are meaningless because they do not explore the “why””
I have made several mentions that the situation is complex. I believe you may have just glossed over them. I hope you can see that I always understood that multiple variables are involved. Also I was using flawed as in the “imperfect” definition. Statistics are helpful but it is difficult to draw any real conclusions from them. The methods can be difficult to get 100% perfect data (like getting all reports which is practically impossible). I understand statistics and the insight it can bring but the numbers alone will not indicate causation (the “WHY”). That is what I meant so please understand I am not undermining statistics, just mentioning that it is not perfect.
phoebe wrote:
Ma’am. I did read your entire comment and I meant exactly what I wrote.
Would you kindly show me exactly what in my comment you found offensive and stupid?
BTW I am a black male that has a very high regard for black people.
I took your comment literally … and replied – literally.
I meant exactly what I wrote.
The more I read white commenters, the happier I am that I distanced myself from them.
Pheobe, Matari got everything you said, he is agreeing with you and understood your sarcasm
Well allow me to apologize.
I thought you were only taking those two statements and isolating them.
My. Bad. LoLz
Phoebe – no problem.. black marriage rates/long term male-female relationships/intact 2 parent households seem to be heading toward the way of dinosaurs .. so your comment gave me pause .. and a reason to enjoy a mini celebration because we (males and females) don’t *SEEM* to lift/hold each other up as much as past generations (parents, grandparents, etc..) once did.I could be incorrect.. Although it appears that we’ve lost some of the ground covered in your four points, your praise of black men caused my response. It’s nice to know that some black women still think well of black men.
B.R. Thank you.
on Sat May 5th 2012 at 12:19:04 satanforce
The problem with Aaron;s comments can be seen immediately in the following quotations, as Abagond pointed out earlier
You dont have to have every single rape reported to know that white women are raped by black men at a much higher rate than black women are raped by white men.
As far as rape goes, a white woman is far more likely to be raped by a black male than a black woman is to be raped by a white male. White on black rape is rare but black on white rape is very commonplace.
I had coined the term “bliffism” after a (former) commenter who would repeat the very same claim that had been refuted by the post he was commenting on, or make himself example of the very subject that Abagond had posted.
In your case:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/reading-while-white-black-rape-statistics/
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/reading-while-white-crime-statistics/
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/stereotypes-have-some-truth-to-them/
But to go back to the quotations above, the problem with them is not merely the implication that correlation = causation, or that they lack context, but the obvious satanicity that the statements contain.
What is the relevance of comparing B on W rape to W on B rape? We could say the same thing about rape regarding Asians and Whites or white collar crime by W vs. B but it would be nothing more than a non–sequitor intended to rationalize a factually and morally unsupportable argument.
That argument being, that Afro-American culture is so pathological that it has actually reverted to stereotypes that in hindsight, are a correct representation of modern day Afro-Americans.
You cite Afro-American anti-intellectualism, as well as trash culture as one of the main causes of AA deviance. I thought that anti-intellectualism was an American trait – see for example any American news channel, election or summer movie blockbuster, never the perpetual fear of “eggheads”.
If you take a look at American history, you will realize that what you are describing is nothing more than a ethnic group that is now becoming urbanized, especially with racism:
http://atlantapost.com/2011/07/14/8-political-lies-about-blacks-that-you-shouldn%E2%80%99t-believe/2/
On Wikipedia – Institutional discrimination in the United States housing market , effects on African Americans
Blockbusting
Routine racism by the NYPD, a admitted by the NYPD – http://newamericamedia.org/2010/05/secret-nypd-tapes-document-routine-massive-police-racism.php
on Fri May 18th 2012 at 02:10:25 omalone1
another contribution. I liked this alot, and it fits in with Jan Pieterse’s notion
on Fri May 25th 2012 at 04:44:02 4socialjusticenow
A very old saying: “Statistics are like ladies of the night; you can dress them up any way you want and they’ll tell you whatever you want to hear.”
on Fri May 25th 2012 at 05:55:09 Michelle
okay I am going to try, and I repeat, try to post as calmly as possible. The comments on this post have reeeeeaaaaallllllyyyyy struck a chord with me. I am sick and tired of little boys with no respect for human beings coming on here and posting nonsense about Black crime statistics and thugs and stereotyping as if you are superior. SHUT THE H@LL UP. I have had so much done to me in my life and guess who did it…come on little boys…take a guess. White boys! I was raped by a white boy, beaten by a different white boy and yet another white boy tried to run over me with his car. Now some of you may think that is too much information but guess what…I don’t give a f@!k!!! Not once has a black man ever tried to harm me!!! So get over yourselves and come down off the pedestal that you put yourselves on!!!!!
on Sun Sep 9th 2012 at 22:35:02 Gill
on Mon Sep 10th 2012 at 00:01:02 resjan
@Gill
“White on black rape is rare but black on white rape is very commonplace”
According to USDOJ stats, nearly 80% of all white rape victims identify their offenders as white. That’s somewhat close to the percentage of black rape victims who identify their offenders as black.
So how is “black on white rape very commonplace”? White on white rape is what is commonplace.
on Mon Sep 10th 2012 at 03:44:46 brothawolf
People like Gill are like most people who identify themselves as religious. It’s written in the scriptures. So it must be true. Someone somewhere said that black-on-white rapes are common and he believed it.
Forgive me for responding so late, but I’m really sorry that happened to you.
on Mon Dec 10th 2012 at 12:58:45 Lynn
Wow. This discussion has been going on for four years now.
Please allow me to share anecdotal evidence from my own life…
RIP James, an African-American librarian who was my friend when I was young. He was racially profiled by the police near his own place of work (in the parking lot.) Within a year he was dead: mugged and murdered by black teenagers in the neighborhood in which he lived. Shot to death.
RIP “Buddy”, a gay black man (possibly transgender) living in the downtown zone of Detroit, killed (by a group of black males) with a blunt force object to the back of the head.
The time I was standing on a corner across from the courthouse after midnight in downtown detroit (I am a white female) near four or five black guys, each over 6 feet tall (there was quite a crowd) and, to scare me, they started talking about recent drive-by shootings in the area. They wound up scaring themselves silly. I got on the bus, and the black female driver would not accept my transfer! I had to literally shove it into her hands and get her to look at it, she assumed it was expired.
The countless times I have walked onto a bus and heard discussions about the history of slavery, “I don’t like/don’t understand white people”, etc., etc., ad nauseum, as soon as an African-American saw a white face, black indigents trying to sit on my leg, etc….
The countless discussions I have had with African-Americans from all walks of life: the elderly unemployed black man who referred to me as “little girl” while explaining his troubles, the black professors (self-identified Muslims) proclaiming black supremacy, the black man with a turban on a bus who said it would be justice if all white people were enslaved and the white women raped, the two gay black men I witnessed molesting their own daughter on a public bus while the mother sat back and did nothing (they lifted her into the air, spread her legs and were kissing between her thighs. I screamed my head off. All the white passengers were silent!) They then tried to push me into moving traffic, but one of the men was subsequently sent to prison (I saw the short guy again after about 6 months… he’s still around).
There are many, many more absolutely heartrending stories that I have heard that I don’t have space for. The above are personal anecdotes *only*.
I’d have to agree that many African-Americans suffer from low self-esteem and are afraid of white people. I also wonder what @the cynic thinks a typical “black male thug” looks like- maybe a teenager that likes rap? I have also encountered gang members, and though they are deliberately intimidating, I was never assaulted by one. In my experience, an indigent man is more likely to rob you, and the most dangerous spots are downtown zones, shopping and entertainment districts, and the mall. IOW, if anyone intends to rob a white person, they will deliberately go to an area where they can find rich whites, not a black neighborhood.
On the other hand, I have heard reports of purely a hostile nature (assaults/murders, no intent to rob) committed by black people on white people in predominantly black neighborhoods. This would qualify as a hate crime, but never was: apparently, the very *definition* of a hate crime in America must be white-on-black, never black-on-white. This seems to be based on PC politics. None of the foregoing is meant to deny that white racism is alive and well in America.
Any thoughts on this?
on Sun Dec 23rd 2012 at 00:23:55 gungaru
Love the insight “As if savage killers cannot cross the street too!” because it also reveals how racism uses simplistic spatial organizing. In other words, blacks can just be avoided at any time without much effort because they are animals with no sense of control of their physical selves. They need to be directed in public spaces because they lack a coherent sense of how they impact on the white privilidged spatial lives of whites. Over policing by law enforcing is a sympton of this racial spatial (socio-cultural) organizing. Checkmate!
on Fri Feb 8th 2013 at 04:57:34 King of Trouble
Best line ever, “you’re a non-threating black guy.” I was flabbergasted. I know it was supposed to be a compliment like all those people who kindly say you’re not really black. I just wondered how many threatening black guys have they really seen.
My friends were all punks in the mid to late 80’s and they all had ripped jeans, mohawks, safety pins everywhere, piercings up the wa-whoo, and I wore three piece suits with a fedora all the time. So much that one of my friends mother friends said in all these pictures you look like you are in charge. Now I sat down to try to digest that.
I will also say about this whole black crime thing, from my own personal experience lots of white kids get away with things because their dad or mom is a cop, judge, or something or they are friends with said person and they drop the name.
In my youth I would go to the mall to buy something my mallrat associates and not friends would follow me. I go into a shop to buy something and they would follow me. They would practically rob the store blind because all the attendants or clerks were following me around. Maybe the suit and fedora was suspicious but those associates or friends of associates were all white. They understood quite easily that if I went into a store they would have free reign.
@ King Of Trouble; Them giving you back handed compliments and them and your white friends and their white priviledge at your expense. That totally sucks.Your white friends if they got caught would be released on their recognance.
@ King Of Trouble; I meant recognizance.
@ King Of Trouble; Did the white women clutch their purses to their chest when they saw you wallking toward them on the street.
(?) Sorry about punctuation. King Of trouble.
@ Mary, Back handed comments are my life. Like of course you can cook because you’re black. It makes me want to put the bandana on my head and find a broom. Or the greatest of all compliments. I personally put this one up to WTF you stupid ass B! I was doing an training course to teach English overseas and one of the other students had been to Africa. “They were so ugly not then she looked over and remembered that I was there, and said oh not like american blacks because we breed them to look better. She actually thought she was giving a compliment. Now it is very rare that I ever feel like using violence I personally have never wanted to hit a woman but in that moment I found I had to put my hand down. I don’t know how it got up there and there I was smiling like an idiot because we were in the middle of a sea of white people. I know it comes out as wimpy I really wanted to hit her I really couldn’t understand how someone could say such a stupid thing in the middle of a room with hundred people looking on. All I could say was I was pretty sure that my exceptional good looks came from my forefather extremely good taste in women. It was humiliating and all I can say for that is I had a thought of what if I did hit her. What would it look like, another violent black guy beating up on a white woman.
Another great compliment, I can trust my kids with you because you are not like those other blacks. What other blacks? I really wanted to ask but as my mother said to me “you’re black you need to know when to bite your words.” I still have problems with biting me words. I hate being pushed in any form. Like the stupid cops after I driven all the way from New Hampshire to Chicago, because I had finished college. I hadn’t made it more than 10 minutes in Chiacgo before some dumb ass cop pulled me over. Why, because a black guy fitting my discription in the same make of car. I stuipidly said, yeah because it was the other black guy with New Hampshire license plates that was here. He knew I didn’t believe him so he told me that since I was in Chicago I should have Illinois license plates and he could write me up for that. Again like a silly person who believed in the law(call it battered wife syndrome), I went to report this idiot but all I got was an insincere apology of how he was trying to do me a favor.
As a kid I tried to avoid the hell out of the mall in high school but if my Mom or sister needed something I would go. You would think the most dangerous thing on the earth was a black teenage male. The worst is you know the first thing they are going to say when they caught is we are with him. Kind of like the devil made me do it. The blackie made me do it! That is why they were associates I knew them they went to school with me but no where did I ever really want to hang out with them. Yet, I wasn’t going to fight them on where they went.
Sorry about this long post it’s just venting I guess and I should know better. However, if you swim out in the waters if you’re not careful you’ll find out you went too far. I love Japan but I miss seeing hearing a mass of black people’s voices.
White women always clutch their purses. I kind of think it is like a nervous tick. I was tiny when I was young I didn’t get into triple digits in weight until I was in my freshman year of College and even then I only weighed 120Ibs.
This is 2013, but the same things go on that used to get innocent African Americans lynched 50 years ago. Don’t think things have changed that much.
This from the Jim Crow Museum….. “A bad negro is the most horrible creatue upon the earth, the most brutal and merciless….. Charles H. Smith. A writer at the end of the 1890’s.
Clifton R. Breckinridge, A contemporary of Charles H. Smith said of the black race. “When it produces a brute, he is the worst and most insatiate brute that exists in human form.
@King of Trouble; Yes, I feel for black men. I have fear for my young cousins and all the men in my family. Things can go from 0 to 60. I feel for all the brothers in the United Snakes of America.
on Sat Feb 9th 2013 at 03:31:26 Adeen
”Yes, I feel for black men. I have fear for my young cousins and all the men in my family”
Yes I do too. My little brother is 14 and I don’t want him to stay out for too long fearing some White racist would take his gun and shoot him just for playing outside and exploring the way the way a teenage boy should!
I do worry about Black men in my family too!
However more young Black males are killed by Black youth in the urban areas than by Caucasians but we can’t ignore the fact that people want to kill off our Black males!
I don’t know why people like to target Black males so much?
on Sat Feb 9th 2013 at 07:04:31 King of Trouble.
At Adeen, I don’t ignore that fact we do kill off ourselves. When I taught in High School it was the first thing I told my kids. Being popular doesn’t matter the ony thing that does is that you are with friends who are building you up. If you have a friend that isn’t helping you to succeed in life prune them like a bad branch. If you aren’t helping your friends to move up look into why. My favorite thing to do was called a stress house where they would get a buch of popsicle sticks and build a structure; I told them it had to support 50Ibs. They were excited because wow it wasn’t history. The groups all got into it sure enough most stuctures couldn’t do it but some did. I would then explain by showing a picture of those structures that did and didn’t work. How the supports worked each one taking the pressure and allowing for the whole structure to take more stress. Then I’d tell them those sticks are your friends each one of you are the supports if it isn’t done right it leaves you weak. Find the friends who are going to help with the weight this world puts on you. This is what we are looking for through history what support went wrong that things failed what support was there for things to go right. This is how my history class works.
@Mary, a 14 year old black boy is in the mist of feeling his manhood which means they need to push against something and experience a grow. I almost put this in white proverbs but the thing I heard a lot growing up with my white friends and adults *Oh, he’s at that time in life where he’s exploring who he is!’ Said to other whites about why that white kid did something like key the car, or leave piss and crap on the teachers chair. (True happening, in which I got blame for by the principal I would have let it slid but they were also incriminating my hispanic friend who was a saint. They were talking about kicking us out and making us pay, I found the two dumb white girls who had been doing it and told them if they didn’t confess I would break my silence. I usually don’t give a crap because if course it was the black boy who did it. Why because everyone has Chocolate envy that is why no kid drinks white milk when their is a choice of chocolate.)
on Wed May 8th 2013 at 12:49:35 EthnicKonflict
That’s perfectly convenient of white people, who are some of the most violent people ever to set foot on this planet. Thomas Hobbes actually wrote a book claiming that without the State, white people would murder each other like it was the end of Hamlet.
on Thu May 23rd 2013 at 22:17:53 jane
Most woman are afraid to walk alone at night period.that was a little off-putting the fear is of being attacked period.being attacked by a white person is just as bad as being attack by a black person I say person becuse women attack people to. But most people don’t fear that. I understand were you coming from though I went for a walk with some black men before and a bunch of other white people pulled me in there house and said what’s wrong with you those men could have murdered you I thought in a public street they could murder me but I’m supposed to follow you in your house ok.
on Sun Dec 21st 2014 at 17:38:54 Chris
Whites do not believe that every black man is like that, but they think plenty of them are.
I don’t blame White people for that. I blame the media for highlighting things that racist people like to see and hear for profit. The truth is that we as Black men ARE disproportionately prone to crime because it has been acculturated into a large segment of the population
on Fri Mar 25th 2016 at 19:53:25 JOEL
Actually this was a war war 1 recruitmeant poster for Americans, the Germans during the 1st world War had the spikes on their helmets. And they portrayed the Germans soldiers as brute killing, raping, pillaging. For the creator of this blog/article you need to brush up on history.
@ JOEL
on Mon May 16th 2016 at 00:03:35 Fillmore
No source for the statistics, that was to be expected.
For white people, being afraid of blacks is a very sane attitude, it’s called the survival instinct. Here’s the story of what happened to a white liberal when she forgot to be afraid of black men. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/joanna-connors-why-i-tracked-down-my-attacker-after-20-years/
on Mon May 16th 2016 at 00:25:46 sharinalr
Sane? More like irrational fear supported by confirmation bias.
Also @ Fillmore there are no stats used in this post.
“blacks are three times more likely to be physically threatened, harmed or killed because of their race than are whites”
is a statistic…
on Mon May 16th 2016 at 00:39:01 Sharina
@Fillmore
I stand partially correct. You stated “No source for the statistics.” Now please point to the “statistics” as the word is plural.
Not to mention that those starts are easily verifiable through a google search.
on Mon May 16th 2016 at 01:16:02 TheHipHopRecords (@TheHipHopRecord)
Well if this bad experience justifies your belief that all black men are bad people, then by your train of thought anyone who had had good experiences with black men would be able to say that all black men are good people.
An argument every bit as silly, but just as logical give your line of reasoning.
on Fri Mar 3rd 2017 at 10:37:20 abagond
@ P. Lewis
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Disneyland to open real-life Pizza Planet from 'Toy Story'
"Toy Story" fans will get the chance to visit their favorite aliens at the real-life Pizza Planet, opening soon at Disneyland! ((Disney Pixar's Toy Story))
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- "Toy Story" fans will get the chance to visit their favorite aliens at the real-life Pizza Planet!
Redd Rockett's Pizza Port will be transformed into Alien Pizza Planet - "A Better Place" for the first-ever "Pixar Fest" on April 13 at the Disneyland Resort.
The menu will feature pies that are "out of this world," including a hearty cheeseburger pizza topped with ketchup, yellow mustard, pizza sauce, cheese, caramelized onions, diced tomatoes, slider patties, a house-made burger sauce, and pickles on a sesame seed crust.
The "Toy Story" invasion is just one of the many transformations coming to Disneyland for the festival, which runs until September 3.
Characters from Pixar films are about to play a starring role in Disney parks around the world, kicking off with a "Pixar Fest" on April 13 at Disneyland.
"We're taking the characters that families love, that guests love, and bringing them to life in a whole new way," said Jeff Schaver-Moskowitz, the Pixar Pier producer with Walt Disney Imagineering.
That includes that newly transformed Pixar Pier at Disney's California Adventure, opening June 23, featuring newly themed attractions, food, merchandise, and the "Incredicoaster," where guests will race alongside the Parr family as they try to catch baby Jack Jack.
All of those emotional highs and lows that millions of fans have grown to love while watching Pixar movies on screen, they'll soon be able to experience in person.
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The Atlantic Religion
A 'Prisca Theologia' of European Paganism
Bibliography and Reading List
Wayland Revisited: A Pan-European God?
December 8, 2015 December 9, 2015 / Atlantic Religion / 1 Comment
The enigmatic fairy-smith ‘Wayland‘ is famed in the legends of the pagan north Europeans, particularly among the speakers of the Scandinavian and Germanic language groups. What is less understood is that his influence is far more widespread – from Ireland in the west, to Russia in the east, and down into the Balkans, whose old regional name almost invokes the god of smithcraft, goldsmithing, weapons and armour – a skill for which these regions (for example , Thracia) and the Eurasian Caucausus were famous for from at least the 5thC BCE. In this essay, I will try and explore and unfold the nature of this ancient pan-European (and Eurasian) conceptual mythological figure who seemed to have a foot in the worlds of both gods and men, and in so-doing unified peoples’ conceptions of their gods and their land.
You can familiarise yourself with the ‘Lay of Volund’ here.
Germanic and Scandinavian Wayland:
The fairy-smith’s name has been encountered in a number of regional spelling-variants, including Wayland or Weyland (English) and Wêland (Old English), Völundr and Velent (Icelandic/Norse Poetic Edda and sagas), Wiolant (Old High German) and Gallant or Galans (France). In the medieval Latin of Geoffrey of Monmouth, it was spelled Guielandus.
His earliest most complete surviving legend is found in the Völundarkviða (‘Poem/Lay of Volund’) of the 13thC Icelandic ‘Poetic Edda’ texts, which were derived from older oral traditions transmitted through the Atlantic archipelago (mainly Britain and Ireland) from Scandinavia and the Baltic provinces – all then part of northern Europe’s most dynamic ocean trade route, connecting via the Volga and the Black Sea to Byzantium. In this telling he is described as a ‘prince of elves’ and ‘one of the elves’ skilled in crafting jewels, weapons and armour with magical qualities.
Wayland is recognisable from the tale of Völundarkviða on the on the images depicted on the 8thC ‘Franks Casket’, currently in the British Museum.
The ‘Franks Casket’. The scene compares the heathen vision of Wayland (on the left) creating life from death with that of the Christian nativity. The two religious ideas were probably considered ‘one and the same’ to the Frankish and Anglo-Saxon peoples of the day.
The early 10thC Anglo-Saxon poem Deor (from the Exeter Book manuscript collection) refers to the details of the Völundarkviða story of Weland, also confirming this later telling was common in earlier Anglo-Saxon England. The fairy-smith is also mentioned (as ‘Weland’) in the 10thC Old English epic poem, Beowulf, as the creator of the hero’s chest armour.
He appears as ‘Velent’ in a side-story to a 13thC Scandinavian retelling of the popular Germanic saga of the life of the Gothic hero-king Theoderic (Dietrich) the Great (Þiðrekssaga/Thidrekssaga). This is itself another version of the story in Völundarkviða albeit different in a number of minor details. For instance, it states that Wayland learned smithcraft under the tutelage of Mimer (possibly the same as Mimir, whose well is to be found among the cthonic roots of the world tree, Yggdrasil) and the dwarves. He presents himself at the court of the King, this time called Nithung, and kills the king’s blacksmith. For this, he is crippled by Nithung and enslaved.
In fact, Wayland is mentioned briefly in all manner of medieval north European texts as a creator of special jewels, weapons and armour. There are also locations throughout northern Europe named after him.
The ‘Celtic’ connection:
Perhaps the most fascinating and generally unrecognised mythological incarnation of Weland is from the ‘Ulster Cycle’ of Irish legends which were written down in Irish and Latin from the 7thC onwards, but emanated from older oral traditions. This is the smith-king Cuillean or ‘Guillean’ – creator of magical weapons and armour for Ulster kings and heroes, and namesake for the famous Irish hero Cuchullain. 19thC Irish mythographer Nicholas O’Kearney had this to say about him in the context of Ireland’s old gods:
“… Aine, or Aighne, as the name is sometimes written, was a being of
great note in the olden times, as may be seen from the evidences
which I shall adduce, and generally supposed to have been possessed
of extraordinary or supernatural powers, having an affinity to the at-
tributes of a Pagan deity. This Aine was the sister of Milucradh of
Sliabh Guillean, better known among the peasantry as the Cailleach
Biorar (i.e. the old woman who frequents the water) of Loch Dag-
ruadh, on that mountain, and daughter of Cuillean, or Guillean, from
whom the mountain is supposed to have derived its name. But
before any further notice is given of Aine, it is necessary to give a
short sketch of Guillean himself, in order to show his connexion with
the ancient mythology of Ireland, and lead to the inference that his
daughter, too, was connected with the Pagan worship of our ancestors.
Cuillean, or Guillean, himself was a very famous being that once re-
sided in the Isle of Man, and of so long-lived or mythic a nature, as
to be found living in all ages of Pagan history ; at all events he is re-
presented to have lived at the time when Conchubar Mac Nessa, after-
wards king of Ulster, was a young man, who possessed little pros-
pects of aggrandisement, except what he might win by his sword.
Conchubar, being of an ambitious and enterprising nature, consulted
the oracle of Clochor, and was informed that he should proceed to the
Isle of Man, and get Cuillean, or Guillean, a noted ceard, or worker
in iron, to make a sword, spear, and shield for him ; and that the
buadha (supernatural power) possessed by them would be instrumental
in gaining for him the sovereignty of Ulster… ” Nicholas O’Kearney, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Volume 2, 1855 (p.32)
Although described in Irish legends as a blacksmith who creates magical weaponry, the connection between Cuillean and the germanic ‘Weland’ is not immediately apparent until you consider the tendency for the ‘Celtic’ languages of ‘lenition‘ (softening) or ‘fortition‘ (hardening) of initial and terminal consonantal sounds. I have discussed this connection previously here. This essentially means that ‘Cuillean’ was often pronounced ‘whallin’ or ‘wellin’ as occurs in the placenames associated with Cuillean in the Isle of Man, where his smithy was supposed in some Irish stories to have been located. In fact there are many more placenames in Ireland associated with Cuillean, although a bit of digging will probably find him in Scotland, Wales and England (where he is referred to as Wayland). If you employ a lenition of the primary consonant, and a fortition of the terminal consonant of the name ‘Cuillean’ you could phonetically pronounce it ‘Wolund‘. Probatum est!
It is of course possible that the character of Cuillean was introduced to the Irish poetic traditions during the Anglo-Saxon era, but this seems unlikely given that the Irish tales have little in common with the narrative of the 13thC Icelandic version of Völundarkviða, which we have fairly good reason to believe was the same myth known in 10thC England and was probably transmitted to Iceland via the ancient sea-routes between Norway, the Isle of Man and Dublin. Of course, this does not preclude the donation of the name of Weland to the myths of a legendary Irish blacksmith during this period of cultural interaction. Obviously, the most likely native character is Gobán Saor, an artificer-architect credited with building of many fabulous architectural structures, usually ecclesiastic. The word gobban actually means ‘blacksmith’, and the euhemerist Irish christians created a number of saints out of the character, known as ‘St Gobban’ or ‘Gobbanus’. As early christian churches were made of wood and stone rather than iron, the Gobán Saor remains a curious figure chosen to erect such structures…
It has also been suggested that the legendary Tuatha Dé Danaan blacksmith-hospitaller Goibniu is the same character, and he does indeed demonstrate the legendary attributes ascribed in the Germanic language legends to Wayland. The Gauls in the Roman period worshipped a god called Gobbanos as well as a hammer-wielding god known as Sucellus, although these may both be epithets of the same deity. The Romano-Britons appear to have incorporated the worship of Vulcan into native religious cults, and Scots and Hebridean folklore makes references to ‘Bolcan Smith’. Mad king Suibne (‘Sweeney’) of Irish folklore eventually settled in ‘Glenn Bolcain’. The ancient settlement of Govan, now a part of Glasgow’s metropolitan district, appears to be named after him and the official legends of their local saint, Mungo (Kentigern) incorporate material from the Cuillean/Weland legends, as well as aspects of Greco-Roman legends of Hephaistos and Vulcan.
Of interest, Kentigern’s famous hagiography compiled by Jocelyn of Furness also borrows details of the tale of the flying wizard Merlin, also used by his friend and contemporary, Geoffrey of Monmouth, who latinised Wayland’s name as Guielandus. Jocelyn used the flying wizard ‘Melinus’ as St Patrick’s adversary in the Isle of Man, redolent of King Suibne of Glen Bolcain, who also flew through the air. Lenition of ‘m’ to a ‘w’ sound is common in Gaelic (samhain = ‘sa-win’) so it can be seen how easily we go from ‘Melinus’ to ‘Welinus’. That crafty wizard – it would make sense for the name of the island where Geoffrey claimed King Arthur’s sword Caliburn was forged – ‘Insula Avalonis’ – could have been derived from a corrupted form of the Gaelic ‘Hy Guiellean’ (pronounced close to ‘A Wulan’ – ‘Isle of Wayland’).
Just what Cuillean was doing in the Isle of Man was anyone’s guess. Perhaps he was sojourning with Manannan, that other great traveller between the worlds and donator of arms and armour…. The deeper you dig, the more intriguing the link becomes!
The Greco-Roman connection:
Greco-Roman culture had a very important influence upon many indigenous north European legends and traditions. Not only was this culture partially-transmitted and deliberately syncretised into the zones of Roman occupation in north Europe, but continued to be used among the literate latin scholars of the early christian church whose literary understanding of paganism was largely based upon Greek and Roman mythology. Given the persistence of much older written and artistic depictions of these gods from mediterranean Europe, it is easy to assume that the Europeans (late-comers as they were to the idea of writing and iconic imagery) borrowed from the southern traditions, but this is not necessarily the case! Many of the Greek and Roman gods and myths are equally likely to have diffused down from northern Europe during the Bronze Age.
One good example of a striking similarity between the legend of Wayland and that of Hephaistos (know to the Romans as Vulcan, and to the Etruscans as Sethlans or Velchanus) is that (apart from being blacksmiths) they are both imagined as being somehow deformed or disabled. In Weland’s case, he is hamstrung by his captors, and in the case of the Greek god, he is said variously to have been born lame, or is injured when he is thrown down from Olympos by Zeus, when he tries to defend his mother Hera (the motif which appears in the 12thC hagiography of St Kentigern). It is of note that in both cases, the crippling precludes re-admission to the world of the divine.
Both Weland and Hephaistos supply legendary heroes and gods with their weapons, armour and tools. Both are wily and cunning and trick and ensnare their adversaries. Both are exiled from their divine right, only to return in triumph. In some Greek myths, the god is liberated from his earthly exile and returned to heaven by Dionysos who places him astride an ass and leads him back to Olympos.
Attic vase painting ca. 5thC BCE. Crippled Hephaistos is led back to his mother Hera on Olympos by the god Dionysos, riding on an ass. Aficionados of Iron Age Celtic coins will recognise the ‘horse’ motif as significant. The myths of the Dioskoroi and Bellerophon also appear related. Note the similarity of the tongs to the ‘caduceus’ of Hermes…
Unlike Hephaistos however, Weland is more of an action-character and a warrior, but he also strides between the human and the spirit worlds. The Volundr Saga and the various known carvings of the Wayland legend on Anglo-Saxon and Viking age artifacts also focus upon his escape from the world of men either with a magical flying machine, upon a giant bird, or with a valkyrie. The ‘flight’ of Hephaistos, by comparison, is through the liberating agency of Dionysus, a famous loosener of the bonds between the earthly and the divine. Both represent a ‘shamanistic’ type of journey of self-discovery, implicit in the perfection of a craftsman. Freemasons take note!
The other Greek deity who travelled between the worlds and had the legendary attribution of being something of a trickster was of course Hermes, who also shared the affections of Aphrodite (and who didn’t?). Aphrodite (emotional love) herself was almost a counter-image of Athena (virgin intellect), and if Athena is the feminine principle of the uncreated idea, Hephaistos was the active principle of a creator. The complex interplay of their principles can nearly drive you mad!
Etruscan Velchans:
Also known as Sethlans, Velchans was the Etruscan progenitor of Roman Vulcan. Little is known about him, although it is likely he merged with Vulcan at some point, so what can be said of Vulcan might apply originally to Velchans. According to later Roman authors commenting upon the substratum of Etrurian religious culture important at the heart of Republican era Roman religion, he was both a god of fire (Vitruvius 1stC, BC) and lightning (Servius, 4thC CE). The Etruscan haruspices or diviners were keen observers of natural phenomena, and lightning was one of the most important and potent of these.
Bellerophon and the Dioskouroi:
Legendary ancient Greek hero, the mortal but ingenious Bellerephon (rider of Pegasus and slayer of the Chimera) is associated with a legend in which he attempts to fly to Mount Olympos on the winged horse Pegasus. Zeus sends a gadfly to bite Pegasus who unseats its rider who tumbles down into a thorn bush and lives out the rest of his earthly existence blind and crippled until Zeus decides to deify him. It will be noted that the constellation ‘Pegasus’ appears to be a falling horse, given its inverted appearance – yet another hint that many myths are star-myths related to the seasonal cycles. Yet again we see the heroic smith-god motif of a fall from grace, injury, and finally divine elevation
In the 10thC Byzantine stela on the Veroli Casket, he is apparently depicted as one of the twin equestrian heroes – the ‘Dioskoroi’, Castor and Polydeukes:
Veroli Casket – This appears to show Bellerephon as one of the Dioskoroi. Note the cherub holding the ring or crown of divinity over the head of Bellerophon/Polydeukes
Bellerophon and Polydeukes represent the semi-divine gifted human, an assignation also common to Weland. The Dioskoroi were said to be children of the swan-maiden Leda, just as Weland was the wife of a swan-maiden (a valkyrie).
The Dioskouroi (literally ‘youth-gods’) seem to have been connected to the youthful cthonic deities of the Samothracian mysteries and those at Lemnos. These were the Kabeiroi, who share similarities with other Hellenised regional youthful groups of hero-deities, such as the Idaean Dactyls, Kouretes and Corybantes. They all ultimately seem connected to the worship of a Great Mother Goddess. The Idaean Dactyls – like the Kabeiroi – were considered masters of smithcraft.
Although Bellerophon (whose cult originates in Corinth) is never explicitly linked to any of these youthful gods by ancient writers, it is evident that he fits their category of semi-divine culture hero. Such heroes are always (so the tales tell us) in need of a steed, weapons and armour in order to complete their quests, and the character of the smith is the enabler in all of these, and with time becomes conflated with the hero. The smith shoes the horses and forges the weapons.
Where the myths of Bellerophon and Pegasus have a striking similarity to those from the Celtic provinces whose saints’ legends (including those of St Patrick, Satan, St Maughold and St Milburga among others) sometimes have the the motif that their leaping horse creates springs of water when its hooves strike the soil. In ancient Greek myth, the hooves of Pegasus create the Hippocrene Well when they strike the rock of Mount Helikon.
Ericthonios of Athens:
Another character arising from the ancestor/hero-cult aspects of ancient Greek mythology is the Athenian progenitor Ericthonius. He was supposed to have had an autocthonous birth when smith-god Hephaistos spilled his semen upon the earth, during a failed attempt to rape Athena. This infers that Hephaistos had intercourse with Gaia and created the primary ancestor of Athenians. This appears to be why Athena (Minerva to the Romans) – a goddess of the mechanical creative arts – can be thought of as the divine reflex of Hephaistos’ earthly manifestation. Athena’s legendary creation was from the head of Zeus, indicating her (virgin) capacity of representing pure mind and technical creativity. Hephaistos represented the manifest earthly power behind that divine will – the passive spirit operating through active physical activity.
Ericthonios was also associated strongly with horses and the creative arts – he is said to have taught the yoking of horses, the smelting of silver, and to have invented the quadriga chariot, as well as teaching the art of ploughing. This makes him a local variant on the Korybantes/Kouretes/Dactyls traditions. He is represented among the constellations by the ‘charioteer’ constellation, Auriga, which (along with Perseus and Aries) lies west of Pegasus, Pisces, Cetus and Aquarius on the celestial ecliptic path. Other horse-related constellations in this vicinity of the sky include Equuleus and Saggitarius. Capricornus lies between both of these. Taurus is also near. The theme of heroes, monsters, horses and grazing horned animals among these constellations fits the ‘semantic field’ of the semi-divine ancestral hero myths very strongly: every city was built upon the achievements of rustic ancestors who wrought all of their needs from nature…
Weland, Donar and Thor – Baltic and Slavic connections:
(Note: For the most explicit descriptions of Baltic and Slavic gods, the reader might wish to study the works of Mireja Gimbutas and Algirdas Greimas)
The medieval Nordic/Icelandic ‘Eddaic’ legends of Thor (equivalent of the older Germanic god Donar or Thunor – literally ‘thunder’) are an interesting mythological combination of the European ‘lightning-wielding sky god’ archetype and the more typical European legendary heroes such as Perseus, Herakles and Cuchullain. His weapon or tool of choice is the hammer, with which he shatters his enemies and the earth itself – he never (at least in the Icelandic myths) plays the role of the blacksmith, which is interesting, and possibly a late revisioning of Thunor or Donar’s original function as a cthonic agricultural deity, much like Roman Mars.
The hammer is, of course, one of the symbolic indicators of smithcraft, the other being the tongs. Instead of tongs, of course, the medieval Nordic Thor possesses a pair of impervious gauntlets and typically achieves his mythological victories through great strength and devil-may-care bravery rather than outright cunning. Nevertheless, these attributes certainly appear to bring Thor directly into Weland’s semantic field, necessitating an examination of how they relate to the other North European air/fire and cthonic/water gods – the Prussian Occopirmus*/Perkons and Pekols/Pushkayts, the Slavic Perun, Veles and Svarog, Lithuanian Perkunas and Velnias, and the Finnish *Ukko (Perkele) and Ilmarinen.
In the middle ages until its acquisition by the Ottomans in 1453, Constantinople was a magnet of power and wealth that attracted north Europeans to its shores to trade and seek their fortune. Consequently, trade and influence networks extended from the Black Sea upwards into the ‘viking’ territories of the Slavs, Rus, Balts and Scandinavians. Looking at it another way, the ‘Viking Empire’ stretched from Iceland in the west to Byzantium in the East! Many of these peoples remained nominally pagan and only partly christian (or jewish) until a very late period: the Kievan Russ (Varangians) and their cousins the Scandinavians officially converted under their leaders in the 10th and 11th centuries, and the Baltic peoples began to convert during a later more indeterminate period leading up to and following the fall of Constantinople, when the influence of Orthodox christianity moved north and west consequent upon Islam’s accession to its seat of power. As a result, there are a number of contemporary written sources and later folklore records of the actual pagan religions of Lesser Russia, Prussia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia which were still being practised until relatively recently.
It is perhaps unsurprising to find that there are many similarities between the Nordic, Baltic and Slavic gods, and these – touching on the aforementioned tentative link between Donar/Thunor/Thor and Weland – can help us untangle the meaning behind the enigmatic legendary blacksmith god of the Europeans.
In the east, Perun and Veles (also called Volos) were two closely-linked gods in the Slavic pantheon, notably that of the Kievan Rus until the 10thC and these survived in the guise of the gods Perkunas and Velnias among the Lithuanians until a much later date. These better-attested Baltic counterparts were known by a number of regional names – as Perkele (Ukko) and Ilmarinen in Finland, as Perkele and Pekkols in Prussia, and also as Perkons (Latvia, Estonia). Perkunas and his variants represented the sky (elemental air and fire), whereas Velnias and his variants represented the earth (elemental earth and water). Their various legends point towards an interplay between the two states: the earth and the heavens, or the mundane and the divine. Reconstruction of the underlying theology of these gods, it must be noted, depends upon collecting together details recorded over a period of time spanning almost 1000 years from sources in various different regions.
Perun/Perkunas is a thunder-god. Like Donar/Thor he is associated with wielding a hammer or axe akin to a thunderbolt. He also (like Thor) has been portrayed as either being accompanied by a goat, riding upon a goat, or riding in a chariot pulled by a goat or goats. Devotees of Donar/Thor wore similar hammer/axe amulets to those of Perun/Perkunas. They obviously have a common cultural root.
Thor’s hammer and cross-pendants were associated with worship of a heroic sky-god in pagan and early-christian Scandinavia.
Slavic ‘axe amulet’ c.10-11thC CE (Kievan Rus peoples)
Contemporary gold casting of ‘Crosh Bollan’ amulet from the Isle of Man (courtesy of Celtic Gold). It is cast from the palatal bone of the Bollan Wrasse fish, which bears a striking similarity to ‘Thor’s Hammer’ and the ‘Slavic Axe’. The Isle of Man was once a medieval viking kingdom and was once a principle stop-over destination on the ancient sea trade-routes from the Baltic and Scandinavia.
The ancient Minoan Labrys axe. Did it originally come from the Black Sea trade routes with the north?
It should become obvious that Wayland is an intermediary partaker of the qualities of the sky god and the terrestrial-god. In his myth he is confined on earth for a period, but longs for the sky, into which he leaps at the opportunity to escape. Perkunas seemingly represents ‘Sky Wayland’.
Perkunas: why an axe and not a hammer?
Whereas the hammer is archetypally the tool of a blacksmith or stonemason, the axe is the tool of the woodsman and the builder of wooden houses – particularly in the arboreal climes of the Baltic and Russian provinces where wooden houses have predominated, being warmer in harsh winters. Such buildings were ever at the mercy of fire, particularly that occasioned by great tree-splitting bolts of lightning. For these reasons, Perkunas is associated with an axe – he creates by dividing.
Velnias/Velinas as the ‘divine smith’:
Velnias (and his Slavic equivalent), on the other hand, has a terrestrial or subterranean association. It should be fairly clear that similarity with the Scandinavian ‘Velent’ or ‘Volund’ versions of the name of Wayland. In the ancient ‘elemental’ system of thought, Velnias represented Earth and Water – the cthonic and earth-bound forces and the dead. Perkunas represented Air and Fire – they are complimentary to one another. Velnias represents ‘Terrestrial Wayland’ who creates by forging – hammering things together.
The core aspects of the european smith-god legends – be they of Wayland or Hephaistos – represent him as the higher creative fire bound on earth. In Wayland’s tale, he and his two brothers (all elves) fall in love with three valkyries (swan-maidens), and when the swans leave them (the winter migration) Wayland becomes bereft and is captured and enslaved to the human king Nithhad where he is forced to create treasures for him. Weland does as he is bidden but in revenge kills the king’s two sons and makes their bones and teeth into jewels – a gruesome fulfillment of a promise by giving a gift that while of exquisite beauty and value is at once one of utter destruction. Further to this Wayland fulfils a ‘triple-revenge’ by raping and impregnating the king’s daughter, ensuring that the king’s sole inheritor will be of Weland’s divine seed. Upon extracting his revenge, he escapes into the sky on the back of a magical bird (the returning swan?) or in the other version on a flying machine which he himself created, thus re-entering the spiritual realm of air and fire that is the province of the alfar or elves. The allegory is one of winter and the return of vegetation from rot and decay. Weland is the ‘secret smith’ reforging nature within the earth ready for it to re-emerge in springtime. He is a killer AND a giver of life – a perfect archetype of the ‘cthonic’.
Lithuanians in the post-christianised period use the word ‘Velnias’ or ‘Velinas’ to indicate the christian devil, a fact attested in some of the earliest dictionaries translating the Lithuanian language, and it is still the devil’s name in this country. The related word veles (plural) indicated the souls of the dead, who were his ward just as Slavic Volos was described as the god of terrestrial flocks. Velnias rôle in Lithuanian mythology and folklore is as an underworld god – of earth and rivers – who contested with Perkunas, god of fire and sky.
Greimas (in ‘Of Gods and Men’) relates a number of late Lithuanian folklore-tales that he believes link the Devil (‘Velnias’) with an archetypal mythological blacksmith referred to as Kalevelis or Kalvelis – a combination of the Lithuanian word for ‘blacksmith’ and ‘-velis’. Although there are no written references to a god called ‘Kalevelis’, an insertion in a 13thC Slavic manuscript translation of the 6thC Byzantine Malala Chronicle contains an early account of the names of Lithuania’s principle pagan gods. The insertion mentions a god called Teliavelis who forged the sun (Saulė) and threw her into the sky. The 13thC Volyn chronicle also mentions Teliavelis as a god secretly worshipped by a Lithuanian king supposed to have converted to christianity. Neither chronicles name Velnias as a god, although Perkunas is mentioned in the Malala chronicle’s marginalia.
On closer analysis, Teliavelis appears to be the same god as Velnias, lord of the souls of the dead (veles): The prefix ‘Telia-‘ may be related to the latin word for ‘the earth’ – tellus. It might also be related to the Greek word telios (which linguists believe to be a metathesis from an original PIE word kʷelios – remember the Irish ‘Cuillean’?), referring to an end-point, summation, result or termination. The suffix ‘-velis’ appears to relate to the terrestrial god Velnias. Linguistically, this implies an interface where the earthy/watery lower world of Velnias meets the firey/airy upper world of Perkunas. Both prefix and suffix agree with fortive and lenitive metathesis (sound change) seen in Wayland’s various European names.
Linguistic implications of a ‘fallen’ god?
There is something of the tragic and self-sacrificial in the legend of Wayland, a theme echoed by many other mythical heroes and gods connected with his semantic field. Within the corpus of Norse mythology, the other great tragic sacrificial character is that of Baldr, who was accidentally killed by one of his kin who threw a mistletoe dart at him, believing he was impervious to it.
‘Baldr’ is associated with the ‘Phol’ and ‘Wodan’ (a version of the mysterious Eddaic god-triad Odin, Vili and Ve?) in one of the famous 9th//10thC Merseburg Incantations, discovered in a manuscript in the collection of the cathedral chapter of Meresburg in 1841.
Phol and Wodan were riding to the woods,
and the foot of Balder’s foal was sprained
So Sinthgunt, Sunna’s sister, conjured it.
and Frija, Volla’s sister, conjured it.
and Wodan conjured it, as well he could:
Like bone-sprain, so blood-sprain,
so joint-sprain:
Bone to bone, blood to blood,
joints to joints, so may they be mended.
(Translation: Benjamin W. Fortson.)
The relationship between Phol and Baldr is partly ambiguous, but appear to be co-identified in the charm. And who, indeed, is the mysterious ‘Volla’? The B>V>Ph lenition of the initial consonant of his name demonstrates the potential connection to Volund/Weland. He is a mythological figure embodying sacrifice. The name also appears cognate with the Old Norse word for the dead (or ‘fallen’) – val or vol, seen in the name of the otherworld destination, valhalla. In Lithuanian, the spirits of the dead are known by the similar word: veles. Also similar are the Nordic words for mountain, fjall or fjell, and the English words ‘fell’ (hill) and ‘fall’, as in ‘fall down’. This brings us back again into the semantic field of ‘celtic’ spirit and creation myths, where hills were considered to be the start of many things, and the seat of fairies or ancestors. Such hills and mountains were also believed by ancient Scandinavians to be the habitations of dwarves or dark elves whose ability in smithcraft was said to have been unparalleled. Folklore often ascribed the creation of hills and mountains to the dropping or casting of great rocks by giant mythological figures, or the trampling of mythical horses ridden by giants.
A coin of the Gaulish/Belgic Parisii c.1stC BCE. The horse was ubiquitous to coins of the Iron Age ‘celtic’ peoples. Baldr’s horse? The Nikkr? The steed of Hephaistos, even?
The ancient European peoples practised mound-inhumation from the middle stone-age onwards, and there is a famous example of one such neolithic-era mound in England known to this day as ‘Wayland’s Smithy’. The idea that the dead sacrifice themselves so that their souls might be reforged to generate more life seems to have underpinned ancient European belief, and this idea is embodied wholly within the story of Volund or Wayland.
Other linguistic aspects – ‘Will to Power’?:
The suffixes of the names Weland and Volund could also be derived from a common Proto-Indo-European root of the latin verbs meaning ‘to fly‘ and ‘to strive or want‘ – namely volare and volo respectively. The latter gives us the Germanic word ‘will’ (vili in the Scandinavian languages). They are connected by a sense of longing and energy with intent – both ideas encapsulated in the germanic versions of the smith’s legend: In the first case (flying), it is illustrated by his association with swan-maidens (valkyries), and his eventual flight to escape King Niðhad. In the second case, Wayland is very much essentially a man who strives – in his desperate love for his swan-maiden consort, in his work forging vast numbers of items of great beauty and function, in his desire to punish and eventually in his will to be free. He is a transcendental figure who flies his earthly bonds in order to obtain his will of liberation from a terrestrial state. Wayland therefore expresses Friedrich Nietzsche’s idea of ‘Will to Power’, and this is the essence of his potency as a legendary character not just among the Germanic peoples but of all of those indigenous peoples who have weathered the challenges of existing in northern Europe and western Eurasia over thousands of years.
Gods of War and Agriculture
June 13, 2014 February 20, 2015 / Atlantic Religion / 1 Comment
The identity of Mars in Roman culture shows a curious transition over the six or so centuries from its establishment as a regional power until its turbulent yet glorious Imperial era. Formed from a synthesis of native Latin, Etruscan, Sabine and Umbrian subcultures under a continuous stream of influence from their Greek and ‘barbarian’ neighbours it was a protean and ever-changing hotbed of innovation in both secular and religious matters. Its gods were therefore just as prone to change, and Mars makes an interesting case study:
Unlike the Greek god Ares, who tended to appear in myths (as befitted Greek warrior culture) as a dangerous quarrelsome outsider, Mars was treated more as an ancestral father-figure for the Romans. Livy (Ab Urbe Condita) recounted his role in Rome’s foundation-myth as father of Romulus and Remus by Rhea Silvia – a priestess of Vesta, identifiable with Vesta herself, otherwise cognate with the ancestral mother deity: Larunda, the Mater Larum. Indeed, Rome’s Etruscan forebears called their god of war Laran, which has similar connotations of the spirits of the departed, known as ‘Lares’. His consort was Turan whose entourage included the Lasas – another archaic name for Lares. Turan was also seemingly associated with birds – a common archetype for souls. She became identified in the Republican era with Venus – Mars’ complementary feminine aspect.
Mars’ agricultural aspect and his link to the ancestral spirits of the Etruscans and Romans is illustrated beautifully in the hymn of the priests known as the Arval Bretheren – the Carmen Arvale – preserved in a temple inscription, and invoking both Mars, the Lares and the fertilising spirits or Semones to bless the fields. The month of March (Martis – named after Mars) marked the sprouting of spring wheat and the beginning of the agricultural season as the weather warmed. Another Roman priesthood – the Salii – celebrated the rites of agricultural Mars, and had their origins back in the ancient Roman kingdom. They carried ancient shields called ancilia, which were kept in Mars’ temple. These were supposedly made by a legendary smith-armourer called Mamurius Veturius, possibly cognate with Mars in the Carmen Arvale under the name Marmor. The connection between the cthonic realm, food and metal seems obvious: the earth renders both. The annual re-forging of nature meant that it would not have been unusual for such a theological connection to have been made between smithcraft and the underworld.
Warfare and metal were likewise connected: War and death also. The annual death and rebirth of nature, and the fertility engendered in soil by dead matter (‘Putrefaction’) were likewise important parts of the same semantic field. In fact, the co-ordinated armies of people required for agricultural endeavours and the tendency for battle to be joined a campo in warfare added to this analogy. Rome and Etruria’s ancient wealth and power depended as much on agriculture as it did warfare, and Roman Mars expressed this idea.
Tied closely to Roman Mars’ semantic field-map are Janus, Mercury, Vulcan and Pluto. Pluto, because of the older connection to the cthonic otherworld and the Lares. Janus and Mercury because of the crossing of boundaries between the worlds, and Vulcan because of the active fiery, reforging aspect of Mars as an agricultural deity.
Elsewhere in Europe where hunting and transhumance and nomadic pastoralism were principle modes of food-production, one might imagine that the ‘herdsman’ aspect of cthonic gods was to the fore, and this indeed proved to be the case. The ‘wild hunt’ of Wotan, Velnias, Volundr, Herla are cases where battle-gods or smith-gods fulfill such roles. Thor was a battler-deity favoured for agricultural protection, as was Hercules.
The Greco-Roman mythological character who was the bestower of wealth was the ‘divine child’ Ploutos/Plutus, an aspect of Plouton/Pluto (related to the Roman gods Dis Pater and Orcus)who was at the heart of the Eleusinian Mysteries, and seems to have had a certain similarity to Cthonic Mars. Plutus was the child of Demeter and the Hero, Iasion, who made love to the goddess in a ‘thrice ploughed field’. The birth of Plutus might therefore have a parallel to the birth of the Etruscans’ ‘divine child’ Tages, who emerged from a ploughed field and gave knowledge of Augury and Haruspicy to the people. Knowledge of Sorcery or any form of Augury was to be found in the province of the dead… Mercury/Hermes was the ‘psychopomp’ responsible for conducting souls to this realm, as well as being the god of trade and pecuniary increase – the gift of Plutus transmitted in his hands back to this world from the Otherworld! Janus was also identified with the archaic member of the first Capitoline Triad, the Sabine god Quirinus, who was sometimes identified as a deified form of Mars’ divine son, Romulus. He ‘stood’ over the gates between the Otherworld and this world, and presumably allowed the two-way interaction between the spirit and elemental worlds to occur. Mars himself was therefore a conduit of masculine vital force from the spirit world which influenced the mundane world in a positive way. He was a keystone for the functions of a number of other gods, and was therefore one of the most important of Roman deities, and was venerated (under this wider identity) more than any other in the Romanised Celtic world…
Óðinn,Vili and Vé – Aesir, Elf and Vanir?
April 25, 2014 July 9, 2014 / Atlantic Religion / 1 Comment
Óðinn, Vili and Vé are the three brothers who created the world from the body of the primordial giant Ymir in the Poetic and Prose Edda stories from 13thC Iceland – largely believed to represent the mythology and religious beliefs of the Norse/Scandinavian pagan world.
Óðinn is instantly recognisable from his multiple myths and position as the supreme Norse pagan god, yet the brothers Vili and Vé seem on superficial inspection to have few attestable roles in the old religious continuum. This, however, may not be the full picture: Firstly the ‘V’ names have an interesting link to the name of the other group of Norse gods, known as the Vanir. The Vanir may be older gods, particularly if the reference of the 1stC CE Roman historian Tacitus to a god(dess) called ‘Nerthus’ (Njörðr or Jörð) and a ‘Tribe of Ingvi’ is anything to go by… In addition the ‘Celtic’ god known as Belenos/Belinus/Bel may have a similar relationship through the linguistic transformation that occurs between ‘b’ and ‘v’ – ‘Vili’ becomes ‘Bili’, which seems very close to ‘Beli’: The character of Baldr might also be closely related.
Óðinn’ typically occurs as ‘Woden’ in the more continental Germanic dialects. This makes the triad ‘Woden, Wili, and We’. The name-triad has particular significance as it suggests the name ‘Weland’ – Germanic folklore’s cunning blacksmith.
The apparently ‘triadic’ attestation of Óðinn and his brothers from the Icelandic Edda allows us an interesting opportunity to examine some lost elements of the puzzle of what the Norse gods were originally before the differentiations caused through Christianisation and migration of ‘Germanic’ language speakers during the collapse of the late western Roman Empire. In particular, we need to consider the triad as æsir-alfar-vanir, with Óðinn as æsir, Vili (Völundr) as alfar/elf, and Vé (Ingui) as Vanir.
The triadic division of gods and mythological divinities is commonplace in Europe’s ancient pagan traditions. With regard to Norse legend, the gods often travel in triads and in the poetic Edda lay of Völundarkviða, Völundr is travelling with his two brothers. The famous 11thC account of the pagan temple at Gamla Uppsala in Sweden by Adam of Bremen mentions a triad of giant statues – Óðinn, Thor and Freyr. Thor, although one of the Aesir, has a certain similitude with the hammer-weilding blacksmith Völundr, opening up another pathway for analysing how these gods might have evolved from common origins.
The possible link between Thor and Wayland (to use his English name) is beset at the outset with a number of contradictions or contradistinctions. For starters, we have a lot more mythological evidence about Thor, which necessarily skews the comparison somewhat. In Völundarkviða, Wayland is clever and a craftsman; he is wounded and enslaved by an apparently human adversary, against whom he eventually exacts vengeance. Thor, on the other hand is portrayed as less than bright; he is an impulsively bombastic smasher of skulls – in particular those of the ancient and monstrous mythological beings who represent primal chaos. The two therefore seem very different, albeit in a complimentary fashion…
In terms of similarity, we have the blacksmith’s hammer. Thor’s Mjölnir is forged by the ‘Sons of Ivaldi’ – dwarves or dark elves, of which I will say more. Although wielded by Thor as a weapon, its use as a subtle forging tool must not go unrecognised. The thought of Thor making things with Mjölnir seems laughable, yet the legendary theme of combat with primal forces is in essence one of mankind forging his survival out of the elements. The development of metalworking during the Bronze Age marked a shift in the archaeological evidence of how humans in Europe started to dispose of their dead – through cremation, underground. The cthonic realms (those of the dwarves and giants) offered up the metals and resources which were to drive radical changes in human technology and spirituality. Thor’s apparent ‘brutishness’ with monsters is in distinction to Wayland’s clever subtlety, but it can be seen that they both represent aspects of the same key idea. Goats are a similar example of exactly the same thing: goats are the most versatile domestic animals, being apparently able to feed on almost anything in order to produce meat and milk. Thor posseses two magical goats in the Edda accounts, said to pull his chariot. Both hammer-wielders are therefore responsible (spiritually) for representing the control of the elements and the creation of excellent things from base matter.
Other similarities between Wayland and Thor are that Wayland is also depicted in Völundarkviða (like Thor) as a fierce warrior and powerful hunter, capable of killing great beasts (he kills and eats a bear, for example). His human captor (a king) is ultimately powerless against him, suggesting a certain god-like power.
Another aspect of ‘Vili’ might possibly be found with the father of the characters referred to in the Snorra Edda book Skáldskaparmál as ‘Sons of Ivaldi’. These are three brothers (dwarves or dark elves) who create the mighty magical artifacts for the gods – a ring for Óðinn, a hammer for Thor and a golden boar for Freyr. The giant Thjazi (Þjazi) whose daughter Skadi marries the Vanir Njord is said to be a son of a giant called Alvaldi/Olvaldi, famous for his vast (cthonic) wealth. Thjazi’s two other brothers are Gangr and Iði, again forming a triad. Interestingly, one of Loki’s sons is called Váli (Gylfaginning) and is transformed into a wolf (symbolic of primal hunger and wildness) by the Aesir in order to kill Loki’s other son Narfi (Njord?) – the gods bind Loki with Narfi’s entrails! Also in Gylfaginning, the following is said of Odin’s sons:
“One is called Ali or Váli, son of Odin and Rindr: he is daring in fights, and a most fortunate marksman.”
Odin’s son Váli was said to have been created and grown up in a day in order to punish Baldr’s killer. The description of the gods in Gylfaginning associates him with the same qualities given to Wayland/Völundr in Völundarkviða – a daring vengeful warrior, and an excellent shot with a bow (one of Völundr’s epithets is ‘weather-eyed archer’). In fact the same is said of the Aesir Ullr – another of Odin’s sons who – like Völundr goes hunting on skis with a bow. ‘Ullr’ can be considered a linguistic transformation of Vllr, which links to both Váli and Völundr. Saxo Grammaticus’ Gesta Danorum names Ullr by the latinized version ‘Ollerus’ and describes him as a wizard who ruled in Odin’s stead during his exile, which fits with the Snorri’s Icelandic Ynglinga Saga account of Vili and Vé who ruled in Odin’s stead while he was away, and took Frigg as their wife.
The other link to Odin is that there are references in Old and Middle English literature (as well as in the sagas) to Wayland’s father – Wade (Norse: Vaði) – a name similar to Wotan. He is mentioned by Chaucer (e.g. – Troilus and Criseyde) and allusions are made to his wondrous boat.In the Thidrekssaga (also called Vilkinasaga), he is the son of King Vilkinus, a name redolent of Vili. Wade’s half brother is called Nordian.
The third member of the primal triad with Odin and Vili is Vé, who I suggest represents the Vanir aspect. The word ‘Vé’ way. It is interesting that Snorri mentions in his euhemerised account of the gods in the Ynglingasaga (Heimskringla) that Odin appointed Njord and Freyr to be the chief sacrificial priests among the Aesir, following the Aesir-Vanir war. The Vanir Njord was said by Snorri in this same text to have been the first buried under a burial mound at the temple of Uppsala in Sweden, effectively ending the (bronze age) custom of cremation urn-burial – Snorri was something of an archaeologist as well as an accomplished historian and author! The Vanir goddess Freyja was supposed to have had a hall at a place called Folkvangr which received the souls ?of women (‘half of the dead’), vangr meaning ‘field’ but with connotations of Vé.
The Isle of Man (known in its native tongue as Ellan Vannin) has a village called Glen Vine, which borders a farm called Ballafreer (next to Trollaby) at which there is a field recorded as being called ‘the devil’s field’ in the now lost Ordnance Survey namebooks. The field is – by popular tradition – said to have been cursed by St Patrick so that it might never grow barley for beer and must in Viking times have been a sacred meadow for the growing of barley for the winter ales. The same property (named after Freyr, and historically a church glebe) contains a whitewashed phallic standing stone of a type seen in Norway and Ireland, and the remains of a number of ancient buildings probably dating to the viking era (and before). The Vanir appear to have had a connection to temples and worship and cthonic bounties – as illustrated by this unique Manx example.
The Ynglingasaga account of Vili and Vé ruling while Odin was away from home runs straight into Snorri’s story of the Aesir-Vanir war, without explaining much about why this happened. In fact it occurs immediately after Odin returns to find his wife in bed with Vili and Vé, so we must assume that this is the cause! You may recall that the poetic edda lay, Grímnismál, describes Alfheim as Freyr’s ‘tooth-gift’ (generally thought to mean a teething present), associating Alfar with Vanir.
Grímnismál shares certain similarities with Völundarkviða – principally the capture and torture of a God by a king, and the resulting consequences. The star of the latter poem or lay is none other than Wayland, whereas Odin is the protagonist of Grímnismál. Wayland’s ‘tooth gift’ is somewhat more sinister – he sends his captor and torturer the teeth of his murdered sons as jewelery! As to Freyr (whose ‘tooth gift’ was Alfheim), he is also known as Yngvi-Freyr or Ingui-Freyr and the name ‘Yngvi’ can be considered to mean ‘Son of Vi’ or ‘Son of Vé’, connecting him to the Odinic triad.
Noting the apparent Elf-Vanir relationship hinted at in the sources, it is of further interest that the Ynglinga Saga (and other sources based on the poem Ynglingatal such as in the Gesta Danorum) tells of two euhemerised progenitor-kings of Sweden called Yngvi and Alf. Alf prefers (like the Elf-Prince Wayland) to stay at home, whereas Yngvi is an active fighter and traveller. Consequently, Alf’s wife Bera falls for Yngvi, and the two fall out and kill one another. Again we see echoes of the legend of the Aesir-Vanir war and the theme of kin-strife, and the seemingly-linked Wayland legend blends with that of these euhemerised historical traditions.
The appearance of another character called Bera as the lover of the character Bjorn in the 14thC Icelandic Hrólfs saga kraka is another interesting parallel to Völundarkviða: Bjorn is the son of a king who is often away campaigning. He is in love with a freeman’s only daughter, Bera. The queen (possibly his mother) desires the strong, large handsome young man and demands he has sex with her but he slaps her in disgust and tells her to go. She curses him to assume the shape of a bear, and when the king returns he hunts the bear and the queen has it served up to Bera at a feast. Although superficially dissimilar to Völundarkviða it has a number of interesting parallels: After he and his brothers ‘marry’ the Valkyries who depart after 8 years, his brothers go to hunt for them, but Völundr stays home and takes to hunting in the forest. He kills and eats a bear shortly before he is captured and enslaved by the local King – the (unstated) implication of this tragic tale seems to be that the Bear was his Valkyrie lover. In the Ynglingasaga, Bera was the wife of Alf (=Elf = Völundr). In Hrólfs saga kraka the character Bera (which means ‘bear’) loves the bear, Bjorn.
Bera is a name not lost on scholars of Gaelic folklore, and in this context it also evokes another primal (albeit male) character of the Norse Snorra Edda creation myths: Borr/Bur son of father of Odinn, Vili and Vé, by Bestla. Snorri tells us that Buri was Odin’s grandfather – licked from the salty ice of Ginnungagap by Ymir’s cow Auðumbla. This appears to be an image of a bear emerging from hibernation – perhaps an allusion to an astronomical event to do with Ursa Major, Taurus and the Milky Way.
Bears (notorious hibernators) are an explicit exemplars of the annual cycle and the returning year. Their hibernation reflects the hibernation of nature during Europe’s winter months, and the reforging of the world in springtime is an allusion represented by Wayland/Völundr and the cthnonic (dark) elves or dwarves (represented by Vili). The Vanir (represented by Vé) are therefore possibly gods of the annual cycle. These are both aspects of Óðinn.
Norse Sea-Giants in more detail…
April 21, 2014 April 21, 2014 / Atlantic Religion / Leave a comment
Giants and monsters have a special connection to the sea in Norse mythology – just like the Titans in ancient Greek mythology. They represent the unconquerable and titanic forces of nature. As characters in stories, their great size can be considered an expression of the large shadows cast by distant things with the low sun behind them – as happens as it passes into the ocean on the western horizon of the Atlantic. The main characters in these tales of oceanic titans are Thor, Loki and Aegir:
Thor with Hymir wrestling Loki’s son – the Midgard Serpent (painting by Füssli, 1788).
The 13thC CE, Icelandic christian scholar Snorri Sturluson wrote a mythological ‘theogonic’ dialogue on poetry called Skáldskaparmál (“language of poetry”) in which the primal sea-giant Ægir, also known as Gymir (a version of ‘Hymir’) or Hlér, discusses kennings and mythology with the Æsir god, Bragi, after the style of the poetic Edda composition Alvissmal. That Snorri chose these two as characters in the dialogue is interesting, moreso because of they seem to represent the two ‘Platonic’ aspects of what to the ancients was knowable – the first: nature and the elements (Ægir), understandable through sense, and the second: the gods and spiritual things – knowable through the mind, and therefore the province of poetry and philosophy (Bragi). In Alvissmal, it is a wise earth deity – a dwarf/dvergar called Alviss (‘All-Wise’) who instructs Thor on poetic kennings. In Skáldskaparmál, however, it is the ‘sea’ (Aegir) talking…
Aegir is also the host of the feast at the centre of the important poetic Edda story Lokasenna (Codex Regius): This is the tale of a feast of the gods and elves, hosted by Aegir, whose hospitality (and his ale and mead) is considered sacrosanct to the gods, who become angry when troublesome giant/god Loki starts drunkenly abusing the guests. This episode assures Loki’s imprisonment and Promethean-Orphic torture by the gods (he must endure the poison dripping from the fangs of a serpent ) until the showdown of Ragnarok. Aegir’s legendary cauldron or brewing pan seems to provide a link between the elements and the mind, and Lokasenna (the ultimate drunken social meltdown) provides an amusing view of how leisure and strife were never far away from each other in the Viking world. The poetic Edda version from the Codex Regius says Aegir was also called Gymir, and ‘Hymir’ is the giant with mighty caudron/brewing-pan who is Thor’s host and companion when he goes fishing for the giant Midgard Serpent in the poetic Edda tale of Hymiskviða (Codex Regius). Hymir, Gymir and Aegir are probably the same mythological sea-giant.
Aegir was said to be one of three sons of the giant-ancestor Fornjótr (described as an ancient king of the magical north),the other two being Logi (fire) and Kári (wind). Fornjótr might in literally mean ‘First Giant’. The compounding of his watery son’s name with ‘-gir’ is redolent of the word ‘Gyr’ (eg – Gygr) and theirefore of the Greek words Gigantes and Gygas, representing the larger than life ancestral deities of ancient Greek myth. Ægir might even be a Norse version of and the sea-giant Geryon, who had three bodies. This association with the elements (water in Aegir’s case) comes from the Skáldskaparmál kennings of the primal elemental forces:
“…How should the wind be periphrased? Thus: call it son of Fornjót, Brother of the Sea and of Fire, Scathe or Ruin or Hound or Wolf of the Wood or of the Sail or of the Rigging…”
The only classical element missing from the Ægir–Kári–Logi triad is earth (jörð), usually represented in Norse myth and kennings as the eponymous giantess Jörð – ‘wife of Odin’. The Earth is feminine – like in the Greek Gaia/Ge. It is obvious from both ancient Greek and Norse mythology that the ‘giants’ bear names with suffixes which connect them intimately with ‘mother earth’: Gigantes (‘Born of Gaia/Ge’) and Jötnar (‘Born of Jörð’).
Aegir’s other name or kenning is given as Hlér, which seems incredibly close to the Irish/Welsh/Manx name for the sea: Lir/Ller/Lear of whom the legendary Sea God Manannán/Manawydan was the son. In the most important 14thC Icelandic manuscript collection, Flateyjarbók, the following is said of Aegir/Hlér and his family:
“…There was a man called Fornjót. He had three sons; one was Hlér, another Logi, the third Kári; he ruled over winds, but Logi over fire, Hlér over the seas…”
The connection between Logi and the Norse ‘god’ figure Loki is uncertain. The names certainly seem similar, and Loki is definitely one of the Jötnar, being portrayed in the Edda myths as something of an uncontrollable ambiguous shape-shifter as well as a father (or even a mother) of monsters and magical horses. One might even compare him to the role of the Gorgons in Greek myth – a frightful challenge to be overcome by initiates into the mysteries of life, death and the otherworld. Logi represents fire – perhaps one of the most untameable and dangerous, yet useful ‘elements’ – and Loki represents a similar aspect of chaos in his oppositional and inductive roles in the Eddas. He, in fact, comes across as a character the Christian (and Muslim) narrative would assign to their ‘evil god’ – Satan – otherwise known as God’s right-hand man in the Hebrew Book of Job.
Another ‘giant’ of note in Norse myth who is tied closely to Aegir and Loki in surviving narratives is the god Þórr (Thor), whose name seems to be cognate with the word Thurs (þurs) which is another Germanic word for a giant/titan. In the Icelandic mythologies recorded in the Christian era from orally-transmitted traditional pagan poetic and story traditions, Thor is associated with great strength and battles with giants and monsters using his great hammer Mjölnir which represents both a weapon and a tool. His traditional role in Germanic societies is as a protector and battler with the elements akin to the Greek Herakles (a fact not lost on the 1stC CE Roman author and historian Tacitus), and he seems to have an agricultural/fertility aspect on account of this. This connects him to the folk-legends of similarly enthusiastic (but not too bright) ‘helpful fairies’ – Brownies, Glaistigean, Phynnodderee, the hammer-wielding Leprechauns and the ‘Hobthrust‘ of northern England…
The poetic Edda composition called Hymiskviða is a tale of Thor being sent by Aegir to fetch a giant brewing-pan or cauldron from Hymir – the giant who lives ‘at the edge of Heaven’. Hymir is said to be Aegir’s father, and Aegir also goes by the name Gymir, of which ‘Hymir’ is an aspirated pronunciation. Thor ends up going on a perilous fishing expedition with Hymir, during which Odin’s son manages to land the Midgard Serpent, Loki’s son Jörmungandr who encircles the Earth biting his tail. Hymir considers it very bad news when Thor bashes the serpent over the head before letting it slide (presumably lifeless) back under the waves… It can be seen here that the same consistent association occurs between oceanic Titans and sea monsters in medieval pagan Norse myths. The outcome of the story is that Thor obtains the brewing pan that will make the ‘poisonous’ ale or mead that spurs Loki to sow discord among the gods in Lokasenna. The killing of Jörmungandr and the breakdown of order with Loki and the giants/monsters presages the Ragnarok… This imagery appears upon a number of incised stones of the Viking era (including Cumbria and the Isle of Man, as well as in Scandinavia), providing corroborative evidence of its importance in Scandinavian-influenced Atlantic mythology.
There is much to be identified between the Norse myths and the Irish and Welsh. For instance, the theme of sea-giants and a ‘fatal feast’ featuring a caudron that determines the world’s outcome is seen in the Welsh Mabinogion tales, and the Irish tales ‘Bricriu’s Feast’ (Fled Bricrenn) and ‘The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel’ (Togail Bruidne Dá Derga) among others. They appear to be different figurative ‘branches’ of the same ancient tree whose roots are nourished by ‘world-river’,
Revisiting the ‘Celtic vs. Germanic’ question
Loki, Lugh and Logos
Parallels in Indo-European religion: Sidhe and Siddha
Serpents and dragons in British folklore
Ancient Babylonian Religion
Ancient European Paganism
Ancient Irish Literature
Ancient Persian Religion
European Celtic Iron Age
Mazdaism
Norse myths
Roman religion
The Evil Eye
Vedic religion
C.EL.T – Corpus of Electronic Texts
Mary Jones: Celtic Literature Collective
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News, Links, and Other Views
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City of San Diego
The release of the locations of the DecoBike bike-share stations has disappointed residents of City Heights.
A survey finds that San Diego ranks high among cities where young people would like to relocate, but with lack of public transportation, bike infrastructure, and walkable neighborhoods, how long will they stay?
During his visit to San Diego, author Ben Ross was interviewed by the Voice of San Diego about NIMBY’s, transit development, and activism.
City Councilmembers spoke about the upcoming referendum on Barrio Logan’s Community Plan, while others looked at the pros and cons of the plan, and the implications for community planning in San Diego.
Bay Park and Clairemont residents “stayed classy” at a community meeting, shouting at a 23 year-old that she should “live somewhere else” and “come back when [she has] a mortgage” because she voiced support for raising height restrictions around new trolley stations.
In 2013 the city fixed more potholes in Bay Park and Clairemont than in any other neighborhoods, however now a thief is using the pothole-free streets to steal residents’ mail.
The discovery of the endangered fairy shrimp living along the path of the trolley extension from Old Town to the UTC could possible delay the project.
The Union Tribune looks at the “romantic idea” of providing rail transportation to and from the San Diego airport.
San Diego has decided to pay $355,000 to the Save Our Heritage Organization in order to reimburse them for their attorney fees in the court case to stop the Cabrillo Bridge project.
San Diego Region
San Diego County’s Bike to Work Day is coming up, May 16th.
Temecula has added sharrows to Front Street in the city’s Old Town area.
Caltrans is planning to construct a roundabout instead of a traffic signal on the Birmingham Drive/I-5 interchange in Encinitas.
Police in San Francisco are concerned that motorists are confused by new bike lanes and don’t understand that they must “merge into the bike lanes” in order to make right turns.
In San Francisco where bike theft has increased 70% in the last 5 years, social media and police officers help people get their bikes back.
A temporary protected bike lane was built for bike to work day in Oakland on Telegraph Avenue.
A look at San Francisco’s non-profit bike rental and repair shop, the Bike Hut.
In hopes of another safe year on the road, cyclists attended the blessing of the bikes in New York and Los Angeles.
A community meeting to discuss bike lanes on North Figueroa in Los Angeles had to be moved from the cafeteria to the auditorium to accommodate all the attendees.
Police have busted a cross-border bike theft ring in Tempe Arizona.
Protected bike lanes have opened on Broadway in Seattle.
Business owners in the Westlake neighborhood of Seattle are wringing their hands about a proposed cycle track.
Both cyclists and motorists in Minneapolis support the construction of protected bike lanes.
Topeka is considering passing an ordinance that would require bike parking to be included when new parking lots are constructed.
Jersey City is trying to decide which side of the street a bike lane should be on.
The Mayor of Memphis discusses why bike infrastructure makes sense for his city.
Construction has begun on the a steel 288 feet long bikeway bridge in Miami County.
A call for cycle tracks and better bike infrastructure in Orlando.
In the last decade commuting to work by bike has grown by 60% in the United States as reported by the US Census Bureau.
National Geographic published a brief look at Amsterdam and its cycling infrastructure, history, and influence.
Introducing the Armadillo, a device that can create a protected bike lane in seconds.
New Buffered Bike Lanes on Fourth and Fifth Avenue
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Scaffolding is about to come off the old Inquirer building, revealing new clock tower
The $300 million police HQ will be called the Philadelphia Public Safety Building.
The former Inquirer building and soon to be police HQ
Mark Henninger / Imagic Digital
Max Marin
The new home of the Philadelphia Police Department and other public safety agencies is starting to take shape. Scaffolding on the old Inquirer building at 400 N. Broad St. is slated to come down within the next few weeks, revealing a beautifully restored historic clock tower.
The clock has been completely modernized, according to the company in charge of the restoration. It’s the first big milestone for the city-led revamp of what’s been dubbed the Philadelphia Public Safety Building.
“Construction…is moving along nicely,” said city spokesperson Mike Dunn, adding that the target date for the work to be “substantially complete” is January 2021.
The $300 million budget for the building and its restoration — a major deal with developer Bart Blatstein’s Tower Investments — has garnered scrutiny.
Structured as a 9-year lease followed by a sale, the Blatstein deal came after the city sank $50 million into a subsequently abandoned plan to locate the new PPD HQ in West Philly. The city did not conduct an independent appraisal for the purchase and rehab of the new facility, although the Inquirer reported the city will conduct one before it formally acquires the building from Blatstein.
Built in 1924, the hulking bone-white structure was constructed as the new home of the Philadelphia Inquirer. The city’s paper of record reported its daily news out of the 468,000-square-foot property until 2012.
Its new incarnation will become the home base for more than just city police — who were, ironically, the source of frequent coverage in the building for nearly a century.
So far, government agencies confirmed to relocate there include:
6th Police District (covers Center City east)
9th Police District (covers Center City west)
Unified command center for police and fire communications
Medical Examiner’s office and toxicology lab
PPD Homicide Unit
PPD Human Resources
PPD Command Center
While budget details are limited, the city disclosed one tidbit. The four-faced clock tower that presides over North Broad is being restored though a $75,000 contract with Elderhorst Bells, a Montgomery County-based restoration company.
The Inquirer building before renovations began
Kimberly Paynter / WHYY
Inside the PPD’s future timekeeper
Jay Scales, business manager of Elderhorst Bells, told Billy Penn his team has been working since May. They are nearly finished restoring the exterior, and will be placing new hands on the clock face just before the tower’s scaffolding comes down mid-December.
Elderhorst has impressive chops; its resume of historic clock tower rehabs include Independence Hall, the Paramount Building in Times Square, and the Colgate Clock in Jersey City — one of the largest in the world.
Spanning the 18th and 19th floors, the Inky building’s old timekeeper is larger than average. It’s an original Seth Thomas clock face, about 16 feet in diameter, and Scales says his team is focused on preserving its history while giving it a needed update.
“It’s a difficult thing to keep running well, especially at a police station,” Scales said. “So we’re mothballing all the historic mechanics of the clock in a push to modernize everything…We want it to be a ‘set it and forget it’ operation.”
In other words, the new clock will be fully automated without need for much regular interaction from public safety officials in the building.
An interior view of a clock face being worked on
reddit user vinnyfromphilly
Scales says the clock will automatically adjust for Daylight Savings twice a year (unlike the hand-cranking necessary at City Hall) and will also be synced with four large bells located in the building’s cupola. The bells will play the traditional Westminster Chimes ditty at the top of each hour — or any time interval of the city’s choosing, per Scales.
The restored tower will preside over North Broad soon, sans scaffolds, but it won’t start to keeping time until next year. Scales expects Elderhorst to finish the internal restoration around March.
As for the rest of the renovations, they’re moving along at a clip, Scales said:
“They’ve been doing so much work inside the building. We go one week and there’s no walls on an entire floor, and the next week the walls are up.”
The clock in the tower has been completely modernized
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The Spinster's Christmas - Chapter 3b #Christianfiction #Regency #romance
Chapter 3b
They all returned to the drawing room. One of the cousins was pounding away at the pianoforte while some of the furniture at the far end of the room had been rearranged to clear space for a few couples to dance.
Gerard sank into a chair near his mother, while his father sat beside her on the sofa.
“All went as expected, my dear,” his father said to her. “Ellie shall come home with us when we leave.”
His mother gasped with delight and clasped her husband’s hands in her own. “How wonderful it will be to have Ellie with us. The house has been so gloomy lately.”
Gerard looked away, but found he was staring down at his injured leg. At the very least, Ellie would distract his mother from the task of nursing him, which she had come to resent more in the past few weeks.
“The village seamstress is not as skilled as Madame Fanchon in London, but Ellie must have a new wardrobe,” his mother said. “And perhaps we might refurbish the nursery. Yes, a trip to Bath would be of utmost importance. Frilled curtains at the windows, a new table and set of chairs, a new canopy for her bed. Oh, there is so much to do.” She looked elated at the prospect.
“Mother, I wondered if we might bring Miranda with us, as well, to help with Ellie,” Gerard said.
Some of the annoyance crept back into her face. “Whyever would we do that?”
“Ellie has become very attached to Miranda, and she could serve as Ellie’s nursery-maid.”
“Ellie will soon become attached to me,” his mother said. “And we could hire a nursery-maid from the village.”
He should not have mentioned Ellie’s attachment, for it was making his mother defensive and possessive. “It is only for a few weeks, or a few months at most.”
“All the more reason for her not to stay with us,” she said. “Ellie will only miss Miranda the more when she leaves.”
“My dear, we only are thinking of your own comfort,” his father said.
“You needn’t be concerned about me,” his mother replied. “And I must say, John, that I am rather surprised that you would agree with Gerard in this. A penniless young woman, not related by blood, under our roof? It would be most improper.”
Heat crawled up Gerard’s neck and jaw. “I am in no danger from Miranda. We know each other too well.”
“You are not alleviating my concern,” she said.
“I don’t think Miranda has a heart to be captured by any man,” Gerard said. “She is still as quiet and self-controlled as ever she was as a child.”
“Your mother is correct, Gerard,” his father said. “A young woman under our roof …”
“If you are ill at ease, I will move to Foremont Lacy.” He had not seen his property, inherited from his grandmother, since he had come ashore. “I will soon be well enough that I can do with only a manservant.”
“But that is only …” His mother checked herself. “I am still unconvinced that it is necessary to bring Miranda with us.”
Gerard had not considered his marital prospects since becoming injured, but he now realized that nothing had prevented his mother from thinking of such things, especially now that he was living in his father’s house. And apparently, in his mother’s opinion, his residence at the neighboring farm of Foremont Lacy would still be too uncomfortably close to Foremont Court, should Miranda take up residence there.
His father’s look convinced Gerard to abandon the subject. “I would not distress you, madam.”
“Yes, your convalescence has been quite distressing enough,” she said peevishly.
He was rescued by the appearance of their evening tea, which also included an ornate silver punch bowl of wassail. However, on his way to get a cup of the Christmas drink, he was waylaid by Miss Church-Pratton, one of Felicity’s cousins.
“Now why were you men sequestered together for so long?” She gave a trilling laugh. “I had begun to fear you had abandoned us.”
“Business, I fear,” Gerard said politely.
“Oh, you mustn’t work during Christmastide.” She smiled, and dimples appeared in her cheeks. “Is not the company amusing enough?”
“Indeed.” She had been seated next to him at the dinner table, and while she spent a few scant minutes talking to her partner on her other side, she spent the rest of the time talking to him. About herself.
Even aside from that, Gerard was mistrustful of her smiles. He’d heard from Lady Wynwood, who obviously disliked Miss Church-Pratton, that she had broken her engagement earlier this year to an officer who had been wounded at Corunna. However, the season in London had not resulted in a second engagement, and Gerard could see that her charm had an edge of bitterness and desperation.
He had no intention of being her next matrimonial target. With his injury, he was in no condition to even consider a more distant future with any woman. He must concentrate on the most immediate needs, namely being able to discard his cane and to relieve the burden upon his parents.
It was a cowardly thing to do, but he simply grasped at the first idea that came to mind. He took a small glass of wassail from the maid serving the punch at a side table and then wobbled on his cane, spilling the drink on his waistcoat. The scent of wine, nutmeg, and apples grew stronger, and he felt the warmth as the hot beverage soaked through his shirt.
“Oh, dear!” Miss Church-Pratton fished out her handkerchief, a thin lawn square the size of a playing card, and swabbed at his chest.
Her hand seemed to be touching a larger area of his chest than the spill, and he hastily stepped away from her suspicious ministrations. “I do beg your pardon, Miss Church-Pratton. I must change my waistcoat before it stains.” He turned and left.
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Tie Kuan Yin tea review - Mastersteas.com
In my teens, I traveled to China and drank various types of Chinese teas everyday (black, green, oolong, and even red). I also bought some good quality tea to take home to my mom, who is a true tea snob, and tasted that, too. I don’t hate Chinese black teas by any means, but I always find myself preferring the more tannic, maltier English black teas.
That being said, I always try teas with an open mind. However, my natural inclinations most certainly influenced my review, so take it with a grain of salt.
Today I tried the Tie Kuan Yin Black tea from Mastersteas.com. They sent me several black teas to try and review for my blog, but I got so busy that I never got around to this until now. I was excited to be trying for the first time a tea I normally wouldn’t have bought—new tasting experiences are always fun for me.
Tie Guan Yin, often translated as Iron Goddess of Mercy or Iron Buddha, is a variety of Chinese oolong tea. However, this version takes the classic Tie Kuan Yin leaves and processes them in a black tea style. This unique combination culminates in the velvet savory texture of black tea with the unique floral charm of traditional Tie Guan Yin tea. When brewed, this intriguing handcrafted tea has a reddish-brown liquor that hints towards dark chocolate and a whispery licorice finish. A Masters Teas favorite!
About the leaves:
Our Tie Kuan Yin Black is grown at 1000 meters above sea level in Xiang Hua, Anxi, Fujian province. This is a special tea as it is a cross between black and oolong. Its picking standard is that of one bud and 3 to 4 leaves. The 8-10 cm leaves were harvested in May of 2019 from 15-year-old plants. It was also roasted for 5-6 hours at a temperature of 70 degrees. Fired for no more than 10 minutes it is considered to be a medium-fire oolong.
This tea contains a high level of caffeine | Steep at 212° for 2-3 minutes.
Upon opening the bag, it has a slightly stronger dry grass smell than my other English black teas, with a markedly less malty scent. It’s not unpleasant, and something about it does bring to mind some high-end Chinese restaurants I have eaten at.
I did one airy tablespoon in 500 mL of 212 degree water for three minutes.
Plain, it tasted like a typical black tea, although a little more grassy and less malty. I didn’t taste the chocolate notes. It’s a very nicely soothing tea while being full-flavored. I like how it’s only slightly acidic on the tongue, and there are no bitter notes even though it’s a strong cup of tea.
The tea was excellent with American style coffee cake. It wasn’t as good a pairing with Japanese cookies. I didn’t have Chinese food on hand to eat with it, but I could see how the slightly acidic, grassy flavor would be a good compliment with something salty and saucy like fish with black bean sauce.
However, I just tend not to like black teas without milk and honey, so after one cup plain, I tried a cup with milk and honey. It was terrible—the tea suddenly tasted like drinking damp grass and I threw out the rest of the cup.
Overall, it was a rather good cup of tea, if you like plain black tea. Since I don’t, it was only a nice tasting experience, but not a tea I would reorder for myself.
I’ve had a good start to the new year so far, but haven’t sat down to think about my goals until now.
I love setting New Year’s resolutions. Some people think that’s weird and I know all about the low probability of keeping resolutions, but I still like to make them. It makes me feel positive about myself and the upcoming year, and for me, that just feels good.
So I came up with some goals/resolutions for the new year that I hope to keep.
1) Three novels in 2020
Since I write full-time, this isn’t an unrealistic goal for me. Last year, I was still suffering from several bouts of writer’s block. Some was because of personal issues, but because I got nothing done during that time, it then made me doubt what I should be writing. I ended up flipping between several different projects as I tried to figure out what I wanted to work on, and the indecision itself also triggered writer’s block when I tried to write any particular project, because I wasn’t certain if that project was what I should be spending my time on.
But in mid-2019 I was able to break through my last bout of writer’s block as I finally decided what I wanted to work on (my Regency Lady Wynwood’s Spies series) and also how I wanted to structure the series. Once the indecision was gone, I was able to get words written and finished the rough draft of Lady Wynwood’s Spies volume 1 on November 2nd.
The hard part about figuring out the structure of the series is now done, so writing the other books in the series has been easier. I finished a rough outline of volume 2 in December and started work on the manuscript.
Based on my writing speed for volume 1, I think that four months to write a book isn’t too hard for me. My writing speed has been even faster when I started using dictation, but I’m still getting used to that and my words per hour rate isn’t consistent yet.
2) Daily Editing and Word Count
I started trying to do a daily editing habit, which I’ve never done before. Usually I’d just edit my manuscript all in one go after letting it sit for a few weeks, but since I detest editing, I found myself procrastinating early in December. When I started my daily editing goal, I found myself more likely to edit a scene or a few pages every day and make some progress. I’m hoping to finish editing Lady Wynwood’s Spies volume 1 and have it ready for release in February or maybe early March, depending on how things go with my graphic designer for the cover. Once I finish editing that, I’ll start editing the beginning of volume 2 even if I’m still working on the rough draft.
I also am utilizing what I learned about writing sprints last year to do a daily writing sprint so that I’m doing at least a few words every day, no matter how busy the day gets with family or home stuff. Normally I have several hours for writing, but lately I’ve been trying to clean the house up after the craziness of the holidays, so I’ve been spending time on housework instead. My writing fell by the wayside for a week, but I’ve started the habit of writing again. Some days I only get 500 words done, and other days I get a few thousand. I’m making progress, which is what’s most important.
I’m also still working on tracking my writing statistics to optimize my writing process. I started this last year, tracking the length of my writing sprints and words per hour rate, but this year I’m also tracking how long each process takes, including the research I have to stop and do when I’m editing the manuscript, the outlining I have to do if I’m writing the rough draft and come across a plot hole, and planning a detailed scene outline before I write each scene. My words per hour might be fast, but those other things take much more time, so I want to know how efficient (or not) I’m being. I hope to have a good understanding of my process by the end of the year so that I can write more quickly.
3) Blogging three times a week
I won’t lie, I dislike marketing. It might be because marketing feels like me running around naked shouting, “Look at me!”
But I enjoy blogging—I had only blogged occasionally during my writer’s block phases, but ultimately I really do enjoy it. So I decided to focus on blogging since I’m not great at Facebook or Twitter or Instagram. I’m going to try to blog 3 times a week and see how that goes. I have lots of knitting projects I want to blog about, including some things I knit because I was inspired by the Regency series I’m writing.
4) One short story a month
This is related to my blogging goal. I want to write a short story each month to post on my blog. I enjoy writing short stories, especially from picture prompts, but I often found myself hesitating if the story genre wasn’t something I usually wrote.
This year, I am giving myself permission to write whatever I feel like. I’m also aiming for flash fiction rather than longer stories, unless I feel motivated to expand a story idea.
5) One devotional a month
This is also related to my blogging goal. I finished a Bible study on the book of Luke in 2018, and I want to use my notes on that to write some devotionals that I can post on my blog. Eventually, if I write enough devotionals, I’ll collect them in an ebook and print book, and I’ll also hire a translator to translate the book into Japanese.
I would really like to release another Japanese devotional that I can give to the non-Christian Japanese women who come to my church outreach ministries. Because of my personal issues and writer’s block and just some unforeseen problems, I was very bad about finally releasing the devotional in Matthew that involved several other authors, so this time I think I’ll just write all the devotionals myself so that I don’t leave the contributors hanging like I did before.
6) Spiritual accountability
I wasn’t terribly consistent with my daily Bible reading last year, although I did manage to complete a lengthy study on Genesis. So my new resolution is to be better this year and do my quiet times every day.
I started doing the devotionals in the YouVersion app on my phone again. Some of them are really good, and I’ve given myself permission to stop any of them that I don’t particularly care for. I have started a Bible in a Year devotional which I’ve enjoyed so far, plus it gets me in the Word and not just reading other people’s words about the Bible.
If you’re also using YouVersion, be sure to look me up and add me as a friend! I’ll add you back. It’ll be fun to see everyone’s daily Bible reading.
I also have been reading My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers again this year, this time using the My Utmost app. I have always loved this devotional book because he focuses on complete surrender to God, and that’s something that really resonates with me spiritually. The hardest and best parts of my relationship with God have been related to complete surrender.
I suppose the majority of my goals for 2020 involve consistency—in writing and blogging, in my quiet times. I love the beginning of the year because all my goals are shiny and new, and the year is full of potential. I have great motivation to create good habits and the year looks bright.
What are you goals for this year? Feel free to comment to share them. Also if you’d like me to pray for you, feel free to share that too.
Labels: Bible , devotional , Japanese , Short Stories , Writing
For the better part of the last ten minutes, Gerard had been staring up Cecil’s hairy nostril. It was most unpleasant, but Cecil had kept his nose upturned during their entire discussion here in the library, which had taken place directly after dinner. Gerard wondered that Cecil didn’t get a crick in his neck from looking down at all the world. Or perhaps Cecil simply had extraordinarily large nostrils.
“I assure you it is no hardship for Eleanor to continue her stay here,” Sir Cecil said, playing with a pretentiously large silver paperweight upon his desk. “She is firmly fixed in our home. Indeed, the entire neighborhood is aware of it and approves.”
Ah, now Gerard understood. Cecil would never admit it, but he did not want it known that he had “cast out“ a little girl dependent upon him, especially because he obviously had the means to continue to keep her. It might reflect poorly upon his reputation, which was not otherwise known for its generosity.
“Surely you would not object to such a small sacrifice on your part for my mother’s health and happiness?” Gerard asked.
Cecil blinked rapidly, unable to think of a suitable response.
Gerard’s father turned to Mr. Belmoore, Ellie’s grandfather, who sat in an overstuffed chair. “Mary has always loved children, and they love her. She has always wanted a girl.”
“In addition to her most excellent son,” Gerard added with a grin. Mr. Belmoore returned it, but Cecil sniffed.
“We have the added advantage of more children Ellie’s age in our neighborhood than there are around Wintrell Hall,” Gerard’s father said.
Seeing Cecil’s brows draw low, Gerard added, “I assure you they are all of good family.”
Cecil said nothing, obviously thinking better of calling the statement into question because it would be insulting to Gerard’s father.
“Cecil, you recall I expressed some concern on that head a few months ago,” Mr. Belmoore said to his nephew. “John is perfectly right. Ellie would have more playmates if she were to go with him. She has been lonely and of low spirits since her mother died.” Mr. Belmoore reached over to clap Gerard on the shoulder. “My only real concern, dear boy, is your health.”
“I’m strong as an ox. Don’t let the cane fool you. Come, I’ll wrestle you, and you’ll see.”
Mr. Belmoore laughed. “I don’t doubt your enthusiasm, but I simply wish to be assured that you are recovered enough to have a lively young girl underfoot.”
“I have improved considerably, or I would not have put forward this scheme.”
“Are you … completely recovered?” Mr. Belmoore asked.
Gerard knew what he was asking. “The doctor tells me that I shall walk with this cane for many months yet, perhaps years. But a full recovery is entirely within my grasp.”
“Years?” Cecil said. “And what manner of accidents may befall a child? That cane is downright dangerous.”
“I hardly intend to bat at her like a cricket pitch,” Gerard protested.
“No one is accusing you of anything of the sort,” Mr. Belmoore said, “but Gerard, I speak from experience when I say that a young girl Ellie’s age can be dangerously unpredictable, especially for a man with difficulties getting about.” He took his walking stick from where it leaned against his chair and tapped his left foot. “My gout has its good and bad days, but after Edmund died in action and Beth and Ellie came to stay with me, I had any number of accidents. Ellie likes to run, and will often run into things like legs, even when she does not intend to do so.”
Yes, Gerard had seen Ellie running about earlier this evening before their dinner in the nursery, darting here and there. She and the other children had not sat down to behave themselves until Miranda had arrived in the room half an hour later, restoring order.
But he disliked the caution in Mr. Belmoore’s tone. Gerard was a sailor who had fought, and he’d had enough of being treated like a porcelain figurine or a gouty old man. “I assure you, sir, I will have no difficulties with Ellie. I quite look forward to playing with her.” The memory of the nursery also reminded him of his promise to Miranda, and he turned to his father. “Sir, I have not had opportunity to speak to you of this, but I thought we might take Miranda with us, if only for a few months, to assist Mother with Ellie.”
His father looked thoughtful. “That may be a good plan, although you will need to persuade your mother. And obtain Cecil’s permission, naturally.” He inclined his head toward Cecil.
Cecil frowned. “It matters not to me what happens to Miranda.”
His tone made Gerard’s teeth grind together.
Cecil continued, “However, Felicity had hoped to send the girl to her cousin’s home after Twelfth Night. They have lost yet another nursery-maid.”
Gerard had expected Cecil to object to losing his unpaid servant, but this unexpected need of his wife’s close relation would perhaps take precedence over Gerard’s family.
“Cecil, you must order your household as you think best,” Mr. Belmoore said. “As for Ellie, I have decided she will go to the Foremonts at the end of the Christmas celebrations.”
“Thank you, sir.” As Gerard shook Mr. Belmoore’s hand, he determined to spend every moment that he could playing with Ellie within sight of her grandfather, to show him that his injury was not affected in the slightest by having a child about. Regardless, he would need Ellie to become accustomed to him. She had been shy when he’d introduced himself in the nursery earlier.
He desperately hoped that having Ellie’s company would improve his mother’s temperament, which was wearing on both himself and his father. He had brought such difficulties to them because of his injury, and he only wanted to make his mother happy again.
“The children are eating dinner at the moment,” she said. “Perhaps if you visited them later tonight?”
“When have I ever stood on ceremony with the brats? I’ll pop in to say hello, wrestle a few of them to the ground, and make them cast up their accounts.” He grinned. “I shall see you at dinner, then.”
She considered giving a noncommittal answer because she knew the unvarnished truth would upset him again, but he would know the truth eventually. “I will not be downstairs. I am having dinner in the nursery.”
He had been about to head toward the nursery but he stopped. His cane halted in midair for a split second before it snapped down on the floor again. “Why would you do that?”
She bit her tongue so that she would not say the first thing that came to mind, namely, Felicity is exercising her ability to count heads at table.
However, the expression on her face must have given her away, because he said incredulously, “Felicity has barred you from the dining room?”
“Nothing quite so barbaric. You know how fanatically she values order and appearances. She does not wish an odd number of guests at table tonight.”
Gerard’s face grew thunderous. “That is outside of enough.”
“Gerard, I shall not be missed in the least.” While she knew it was true, saying it out loud seemed to hammer it into her chest with a hollow blow. No one would notice her absence, and indeed, some members of the party would even welcome it.
Her words seemed to have shocked him. Finally he sputtered, “Of course you will be missed. We all grew up together. It would not be the same without you there.” He checked himself, then added, “You and everyone else, of course.”
The spark of warmth that had involuntarily risen at his words was doused by the splash of reality. Gerard had never looked at her as other than a friend, and surely by now, after years apart, she had outgrown her childish infatuation with him. She gave him a rueful smile to hide her feelings. “Gerard, when have you known me to speak more than a dozen words at table? No one will pine for my brilliant conversational bon mots.”
A flicker of a smile on his face. “I want it all to be as it was the year before I went to sea. I have looked forward to Christmas in England these many years past.”
There was an echo of longing in his voice, and she could imagine what his Christmases had been like on his ship, far from home and family.
“I shall speak to Felicity,” he said.
“Pray do not,” she said fervently.
“She is treating you like a servant.”
“Because we have never gotten along and she is resentful that Cecil was forced to take me in. If you insist I sit at dinner, she will do something else.”
“It is not right, Miranda.”
“There is nothing you can …” An idea suddenly formed in her mind, vague like the sun straining to shine through mist over the fields, but slowly gaining strength. And hope.
“Miranda?” he asked.
“Do you wish to help me?”
“Of course. Name it.”
“Will you speak to your mother on my behalf? Will you ask if she will consent to allow me to travel to Foremont Court with Ellie after Twelfth Night?”
He sighed. “You saw my mother’s temper in the carriage,” he said in a low voice. “She is not best pleased with me. I fear I could not sway her.”
“Please, would you try? Ellie is very attached to me. You would have no need to hire a nursery-maid.”
His dark brows drew low over his eyes. “Miranda, I will not have you treated like a poor relation at our home, as well.”
“Gerard, my situation is intolerable.” She could not bring herself to speak such disgraceful gossip about Mr. Beatty to a young man—and certainly not Gerard—but she was desperate. Even admitting her desperation to him was difficult for her, who had always had to take care of herself.
A step on the stair made them both turn to see one of the under-maids, Jean, appear at the top of the stairs. She gave Miranda and Gerard a saucy, appraising look. Jean always seemed reluctant to serve Miranda or Miss Teel, the governess, and Miranda had the impression that Jean resented their place in the household, neither fish nor fowl, as it were—neither genteel nor of the servant class.
“What is it?” Miranda said, a bit shortly.
“Lady Belmoore requires you to fetch her rose-embroidered petticoat from her room and repair it before tomorrow.”
That was a task for Felicity’s abigail. “What about Hobson?” Miranda asked.
“She has to alter some fancy gown for milady at the last minute and is too busy.”
“Very well.” Miranda nodded to Jean, but the girl lingered at the top of the stairs, regarding Gerard with obvious interest.
He cleared his throat. “Thank you, that will be all.”
Jean’s mouth pinched, but she turned to walk back down the stairs.
“I am shocked at the forwardness of Felicity’s staff,” Gerard said.
“It is only Jean, I assure you. Felicity runs a tight ship.”
He laughed. “Just so.” He hesitated, then said, “I will speak to my mother, Miranda. But I do not wish to falsely raise your hopes.”
She realized that in those short moments, she had begun to rely upon Gerard. No, that would never do. She had long ago learned that it was futile to rely on anyone else besides herself.
He suddenly reached out and grabbed her hand. Neither of them wore gloves, and she felt the callouses of his fingers, the warmth of his palm. Somehow, his touch made her feel more substantial than she usually did in this household. He knew her, he saw her, where everyone else tried to forget her. She realized she had been growing accustomed to the feeling of having lost her identity.
“I meant what I said,” Gerard said. “I am happy to see you. For me, you are part of the Christmas season.”
She smiled and turned to go downstairs to Felicity’s room while he continued toward the nursery. But his words had caused a twinge in her chest, like a harp string too harshly plucked.
His anger on her behalf had made her feel less alone, and his kindness was a balm to her spirit after two years under Felicity’s thumb. But in truth, Gerard and his family would leave after Twelfth Night, and Miranda would be sent to Felicity’s cousin’s home.
She could only rely on herself to save herself.
“Miranda.” Felicity’s sharp, displeased voice echoed harshly from the wainscoting along the walls of the nursery wing’s corridor.
Miranda stopped on her way to her room and turned. Felicity stood at the head of the stairs. Waiting for her to come to her.
She headed back down the hallway. “What is it, Felicity?”
Felicity gave an impatient huff and strode to meet Miranda halfway. “For goodness’ sake, you walk as slowly as a slug.”
Miranda’s mother had complained of that, as well, but she and others among the Belmoores had equated Miranda’s slowness of foot with slowness of mind, also. Probably because in moments like these, Miranda simply said nothing. It made others uncomfortable, which was why Miranda did it.
Felicity waited, and when the silence stretched on, she blinked several times before saying, “I only needed to tell you that we won't be needing your presence at dinner tonight. We are already even at table, because there are a few guests who will be arriving tomorrow.”
Miranda kept her eyes lowered as her hands fisted in the fabric of her skirts. “Of course,” she said evenly.
“But do come to me in the drawing room after dinner. I might need you. And what do you mean by accepting a ride in Mr. Foremont’s carriage? I was ever so embarrassed that they’d seen you in that shabby gown.”
“I had thought you would want the ribbons I fetched for you a half hour sooner.”
Felicity’s lips pursed. They barely cracked open as she said, “Very well. But do try to spare a thought for my feelings. The less you are noticed, the better.”
Miranda felt as if she had been plunged into the lake. Her hands began to shake, making the fabric of her gown tremble.
“It will be better for all of us when you go to my cousin Polly’s household after Twelfth Night,” Felicity added.
“Felicity, I beg you to reconsider sending me,” Miranda said. Her hands now trembled with a darker emotion than mortification. “One of the maids has told me that there are … rumors about Mr. Beatty. The people who live near the Beattys spoke of maids who ran away from their posts.”
“Polly has always had difficulty retaining her nursery staff,” Felicity said impatiently. “It is reason I am sending you.”
“But the maid said there were some indelicate stories. Two of the maids were thought to be pregnant, and a third killed herself.”
“Miranda!” Felicity’s cheeks flamed with color. “Listening to spurious gossip—nay, repeating it!”
As an unmarried young woman, it was highly improper of Miranda to say these things, but she had to try to make Felicity see the truth and change her mind. “Villagers nearby will not allow their daughters to work at the Beatty home, no matter what the wages are. Felicity, do you not understand?”
“I understand that you are being disobliging,” Felicity snapped. “After we have taken you into our home, for you to go and serve my cousin is the least you could do.”
Miranda would be an unpaid servant in a household with a man rumored to have a penchant for forcing the maids. “Please, Felicity,” she said.
“I will hear no more of such horrid lies about my cousin’s husband,” Felicity said. “Cecil would be shocked if I were to tell him what you have said to me, you ungrateful wretch of a girl.” In an angry whirlwind of skirts, Felicity left Miranda standing alone in the nursery wing corridor.
Was she ungrateful? Were the rumors untrue? And yet her cousin’s wife should be more concerned about the possible danger to her relation, even if she was not connected by blood.
Miranda squeezed her eyes shut, all her limbs fluttering like leaves in a stiff winter wind. Life here with Felicity was difficult, but she simply could not go to the Beattys. She must find a way to save herself.
She shivered violently. She had been in the stillroom, which was pleasantly warm from the heat of the kitchen next to it. However, this wing of the house had terrible drafts, and so she went to her room to collect a shawl. She exerted herself to calm her jumbled emotions.
As she exited the room, she nearly collided with a large male figure. She had been too preoccupied even to hear his footsteps.
There was a clatter of wood upon the floor, and then warm hands clasped her shoulders. She caught a whiff of sea rushes and mint and knew without looking that it was Gerard. He had not touched her like this since they’d played together as children, and she remained perfectly still, not wanting him to release her.
“Miranda, what are you doing?” He peered at the governess’s room behind her. “Why were you in there?”
“It is where I am sleeping for the holidays, since we are full to the rafters with guests.”
“In the nursery-maid’s room?”
“No, I am sharing the governess’s room. We have no nursery-maid.”
He frowned at her as his hands dropped from her shoulders. “Surely Cecil can afford one?”
“He has no need of one while I am here.”
His face grew dark. “He ought not to treat you this way. You are his cousin.”
“I am a poor relation now, Gerard. That is how poor relations are treated.”
“Not all poor relations are treated this way.”
“Did you expect an outpouring of love from Cecil or Felicity?”
His eyes, the color of cinnamon, narrowed as they surveyed her. “Who is in your bedroom, then?”
“The nursery-maids that Aunt Augusta and Aunt Anne brought with them.”
His brows furrowed. “Maids? In your bedroom?”
It took her a moment to understand his outrage, and she quickly said, “My bedroom is not in the family wing of the house. It is there.” She pointed to the door opposite.
But it seemed to make him even more shocked and angered on her behalf. “Do you mean to say that you sleep in the nursery-maid’s room?”
“It’s closer to Ellie’s bedroom, and to the younger boys when they are home on holiday from school. I don’t mind.”
“Miranda …”
“Ellie needs me sometimes in the middle of the night. She still misses her mama—it’s been barely a year since Beth died. And I can give her the kind of attention that no stranger would give to her.” She added, “I don’t want you to become upset on my account.”
To forestall his reply, she bent to pick up his cane. He’d dropped it when he’d grabbed her to prevent her from running into him. “Here you are. Soon you will no longer need it.”
He held her gaze, and she couldn’t look away. He was aware of her attempts to change the subject, but he acquiesced. “I suppose I should be grateful I can stand without aid now, but it is still frustrating to need this.” He set the foot of the cane on the wooden floor with a sharp snap.
He would never know the agonies she had suffered, praying fervently for him each night when she had first heard about the severity of his injuries from a letter his father had sent to her uncle Edward.
“Are you here to see Ellie?” she asked.
“Yes. I can hear the noise from the nursery all the way down the staircase.”
“All the children are excited to be with their cousins again.”
“I recall we were that way, at their age.”
She had lived for the times when he had joined their large family gatherings. His father’s close friendship with her uncle Edward had enabled him nearly to grow up with her and her cousins, at least until he went to sea. He had never known how much she cared for him, how she had pined for him with girlish tears. She was a girl no longer, but she still felt remnants of that wistful longing for him, that little gasp of excitement in her chest when he looked at her.
Gerard would never know. He must never know.
The Spinster's Christmas - Chapter 1c #Christianfiction #Regency #romance
Chapter 1c
At this point, the coach turned onto the stretch of drive that led up to the front of Wintrell Hall. The trees lining the drive were bare, but snow had not yet fallen, and the lawn in front of the house was a pale ash-green color. In contrast, on the east side of the house, the bushes peeking over the top of the stone garden wall were a startling orange-brown, waving in the wind that swept down the valley and swirled around the house.
They weren’t the first to arrive, for as they passed the red brick stables, a coachman was directing the grooms and stablehands in maneuvering a massive travelling coach inside the building.
They pulled up in front of the north entrance, and the butler and a footman promptly came out to meet them. In the winter sunlight, the red brick of the house was a warm russet color, which belied the blast of cold wind that rushed into the coach when the servant opened the door. “Welcome, Mr. and Mrs. Foremont, Captain Foremont,” said the butler. His grey eyebrows rose slightly at the sight of Miranda in the coach, but that was the extent of how he showed his surprise.
“Thank you, Lewis,” Mrs. Foremont said as the butler helped her alight. “Have Cecil’s sisters arrived with their families?”
“Yes, ma’am. And their husbands’ families, as well.”
Gerard’s mother gave a happy sigh. “The nursery must be full to bursting.”
“And eagerly awaiting your arrival, if I may say so, ma’am,” Lewis unbent enough to say.
Gerard gestured for Miranda to precede him out of the coach, but she shook her head violently.
“Miranda, what is going on?” he whispered to her.
Her only answer was to say in a neutral tone, “I shall pass you your cane, Captain Foremont.”
Gerard gritted his teeth at the necessity of being assisted from the coach by his father and the footman. A year ago, he would have …
Best not to think of it.
He had just taken his cane from Miranda when Felicity, Lady Belmoore, came out to greet them. “Mr. and Mrs. Foremont, you are come at last. And Gerard, you are looking well.” Her smile froze before it reached her blue eyes. “How good of you to give Miranda a lift to the house, but quite unnecessary of you.”
“Whyever not?” Gerard said with a touch of belligerence. “Miranda is hardly a scullery maid.”
“It is my fault entirely,” his father interjected. “Miranda demurred, but I insisted when I heard she was returning from an errand. We have brought her home sooner in case she should be needed.”
“So kind of you,” Felicity said. “Come inside, out of this wind. There’s tea in the drawing room.”
Miranda followed everyone into the house, but Gerard caught the disapproving look that Felicity shot toward her.
He was careful in climbing the stairs, his good leg beginning to shake with the strain from the two flights of the grand staircase. By the time he’d finally reached the drawing room with his parents and Felicity, Miranda had disappeared.
He lowered himself into a gold and white striped chair, but his leg gave out and he fell heavily into the seat, making it wobble on its delicately carved legs. He winced. Yes, Gerard, the quickest way to cultivate Cecil’s good graces is to break his furniture.
Felicity’s eyes widened slightly, but when the chair held, she relaxed.
“Gerard, I would not have thought the stairs to be so cumbersome for you,” his mother said critically.
He had been used to his commanders shouting in his face, but his mother’s impatience with his slow rate of recovery had worn through his temper like a taut length of rope being slowly shredded by friction. He was tempted to reply with some caustic remark, but held his tongue in front of Felicity.
Ever the peacemaker, his father said, “I wonder, Felicity, if we could beg your indulgence. Perhaps it would be best to give Gerard a room on this floor?”
“Oh, it would be no trouble at all,” she said.
Gerard pressed his lips together briefly before answering politely, “Thank you, I would be most appreciative.”
“If you will excuse me a moment to speak to my staff.” Felicity rose and left the drawing room.
Gerard took advantage of the moment of privacy to lean closer to his parents. “What is going on with respect to Miranda?” he demanded in a low voice.
His parents looked at each other, that uncanny way they could communicate without speaking.
“Would you rather discuss this with Felicity here?” Gerard asked.
His mother sighed. “So awkward.”
“Miranda’s position in this household,” she said.
“I don’t understand. She’s Cecil’s cousin.”
“Her parents died in great debt,” his father said. “Their tenant farms had been in decline for years and the house was mortgaged to the hilt. Cecil was forced to settle their obligations with the bank, and then to take Miranda into his household.”
Gerard could imagine how Cecil had felt about that. He was scrupulous with his money, to the point that he was a bit of a nip-farthing even though his wealth was substantial. It would have been painful for him to part with so much of his blunt to pay his uncle’s debts.
“Felicity was not best pleased,” his mother said. “She and Miranda have never gotten along.”
“But I don’t understand why—”
“I apologize,” Felicity said as she sailed back into the room. “It is so difficult to find good servants these days. They never seem to understand what you wish them to do. Could I pour you more tea, Mrs. Foremont?”
At that moment, the door opened again and Cecil’s aunt, Mrs. Augusta Hathaway, burst into the room. “John and Mary, I have only just heard you were arrived. How lovely to see you. And little Gerard!” She did not wait for him to struggle to his feet, but bent to kiss his cheek, enveloping him in her expensive French perfume. “You are looking so well.”
“Hardly little any longer, Mrs. Hathaway,” Gerard said.
“You will always be little to me, no matter how you grow.” Mrs. Hathaway plopped herself down upon the sofa. “You must tell me how you all have been doing. Felicity, be a dear and pour me a cup of tea. I am parched after settling the children in the nursery.”
“Oh, you must tell me how your granddaughters are,” his mother said. “I have not seen them since last Christmas.”
Gerard said little as the others talked. He was not skilled at waiting, but it seemed he must wait for an explanation of what had happened to Miranda for her to be treated so differently by her own family. It upset him. His own extended Foremont relations would not have treated a poor relation so shabbily.
His father had been good friends with Edward Belmoore, Sir Cecil’s uncle and Ellie’s grandfather, since they were schoolboys together, which was why the Foremonts were always invited to Wintrell Hall for the elaborate Christmas celebrations. He was friendly with the Belmoores, but he had sometimes disagreed with the way the family conducted themselves in their relationships with others.
He disliked the little that he understood about the goings-on here. He thought of the men who had died under his command, and the injuries he had suffered. What had they all fought for when there was still such injustice at home?
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The comedy book index, part 1: I, Partridge
Posted on October 17, 2016 October 4, 2017 by Paula Clarke Bain
I like comedy. I like books. I like indexes. I really like comedy book indexes.
I’ve encountered two particularly good examples of the comedy book index in my out-of-hours reading for pleasure:
I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan by Alan Partridge (authored by Rob Gibbons, Neil Gibbons, Armando Iannucci and Steve Coogan) (London: HarperCollins, 2011)
Toast on Toast: Cautionary Tales and Candid Advice by Steven Toast (authored by Matt Berry and Arthur Mathews) (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2015)
Both are fictional memoirs/autobiographies of established British TV comedy characters and both are enhanced by rather fine and funny indexes.
In this blog post, I will focus on the index for I, Partridge. Toast on Toast will be a future blog.
On the book’s blurb, Alan Partridge is described (by himself) as ‘the nation’s favourite broadcaster’. The character of Alan Partridge, sports presenter turned chat-show host, played by Steve Coogan, has been a regular feature in British broadcasting since the early 1990s in radio and TV programmes such as On the Hour, The Day Today, Knowing Me Knowing You (aha) and I’m Alan Partridge. Most recently he has appeared in the feature film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa and the TV show Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge.
As with any good biography and autobiography index, there is a large entry for the primary subject and a host of supporting characters.
The four-page index entry for Alan Partridge himself is where the main fun is to be found. As per good indexing practice for (auto)biographies, this lengthy entry is divided into themed sections (e.g. ‘as author and writer’, ‘awards’, ‘sex, relationships and friendships’, ‘TV career’). Some of these are richly detailed:
childhood, school and poly
A-level results 28–30 […]
shoe-horn/shoe-tree fixation 7
dress and grooming
aftershave (Pagan Man) 122 […]
dressing gown, when alone 132
interfered-with sandwiches 24
lemonade preference 40
omelettes at Travel Tavern 151 […]
Toblerone addiction 203–4, 213–23, 228–9, 231
homes and dwellings
static caravan 254–5
‘unstatic’ caravan 260
The subheading wording also offers insight into Partridge’s deluded and inflated sense of self-importance:
Booker prize (deserved) 233
Channel 4 100 best catchphrases (84th) 95
TV Quick’s Man of the Moment 27
radio career
‘Aha’ catchphrase 94–6
cross-genre mastery 286
expertise in modulation modes 276–7, 283
fans and super-fans 169–70, 172–8
More on Partridge’s chequered TV career later.
The entries for Partridge’s parents are brief but give hints of an intriguing backstory:
Partridge, Dorothy (mother)
compared to Rover 800 177 […]
neither nice nor important 141
Partridge, Snr (father)
butterfly tennis 7 […]
death 244, 247
location post-death 249
Ex-wives and love interests
The entry for Partridge’s ex-wife is quite enlightening:
Partridge, Carol née Parry (ex-wife)
body shape, attempted 260 […]
dog-like hair 37
jealous of Sue Cook 71
Past and present love interests are treated more briefly and by first name only:
Jemima ‘Jem’ (first girlfriend) 31–2, 33
Sonja (girlfriend) 259–64
Partridge’s ‘attraction to Sue Cook’ (a real British TV presenter) also warrants many index entries, such as one for his diary musings from page 124:
15 Dec 1995 – Got drunk and tried it on with Sue Cook. She was so understanding – though witheringly emphatic in her rebuttal.
Several other real British TV personalities appear in the index and the book in fictional encounters, such as former Goodie and birdwatcher Bill Oddie (and his ‘blast-proof underground bird chamber’, p.173), sports commentator and quizmaster David Coleman (with his pioneering ‘it’s-bad-news-ha-no-actually-it’s-good-news technique’ for Question of Sport quiz answers, p.29), and ‘the late, great Des Lynam’ (pp.84–5). Lynam, veteran TV sports presenter, is still very much alive in 2016.
I feel I have to include Partridge’s home county Norfolk and home city Norwich here. I lived in Norwich myself through my student years at the University of East Anglia and it makes Alan Partridge all the funnier for me. Norwich is a fine city. It tells you this on the road signs on its outskirts.
The Norwich entry contains such hugely useful subheadings as ‘bus system, seeking snivels on’, ‘Nando’s’ and ‘Our Price store’. The Norfolk entry goes into a little more detail:
backward unachievers of 24
‘development’ in 15–16 […]
sex in 2n
starvation in 228
Partridge contains references to some splendidly named characters from his fictional world, such as:
O’Hanraha-hanrahan, Peter 65, 81
[There was a real British BBC TV news reporter called Brian Hanrahan.]
Jom (Jim or Tom, entrepreneur) 156–7
[This points to a passage describing a ‘local man (don’t recall his name, think it was either Jim or Tom so I’ll call him Jom)’.]
Career and rivals
It all gets rather meta and postmodern here. The shows On The Hour, The Day Today, Knowing Me Knowing You and I’m Alan Partridge were all programmes broadcast on BBC radio and TV channels in the UK. The latest series of Mid Morning Matters is broadcast on the Sky Atlantic TV channel and purports to be a webcam feed of his radio show on North Norfolk Digital (‘né Radio North Norfolk’), which is a spoof radio station. All clear? Good.
The character Alan Partridge has a tricky relationship with the BBC in the shows, reflected in the book and its index:
bar 64 […]
compliance culture 210
execs, TV as inconvenience for 187
His BBC TV chat show Knowing Me Knowing You, featuring Partridge interviewing spoof celebrity guests, comes to an unfortunate end at the close of series one:
And then, live on air in the sixth and final episode of my chat show, I shot a man through the heart with a gun. (p.112)
The unfolding saga can be tracked through the index:
McAllister, Forbes, death of, 112, 113–14, 116–20, 132, 162, 211, 289
Partridge is ‘hauled in to the BBC for crisis talks’ (p.119) and is given a ‘chance of redemption’ with the Christmas special Knowing Me Knowing Yule (p.132), the BBC being duty bound to honour the rest of his contract. The Christmas special ends with Partridge punching his (fictional) BBC commissioning editor Tony Hayers in the face. Twice. The BBC do not commission a second series.
It seems to me that the index for I, Partridge had input from either a professional indexer or someone with a knowledge of good indexing practice. I asked the authors about this and Neil Gibbons told me via Twitter: ‘Hmm. Can’t remember. Think someone at the publishers did a basic one & we mucked about with it. That’s how we just did the new one.’ (NB: See also ‘Indexer update’ below for more information that has since come to light about the index’s origins.) It works perfectly well as a good index – just one that happens to contain some very funny entries and subheadings, as befits the content of the book. It’s a hoot to read and the book contains some extra gems such as lengthy irreverent/irrelevant footnotes and a ‘mandatory’ soundtrack listing of songs plus directions as to where in the book they should be played. The tracks include such highlights as ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’ (of course) by Abba, ‘Portsmouth’ by Mike Oldfield and the theme to Ski Sunday.
A new Alan Partridge memoir, Alan Partridge: Nomad, is published in late October 2016 and I believe this will have a similar index. If so, I will write a separate blog post on this with any further musings. I look forward to reading it in any case. You can read or listen to an extract from Nomad (read by Steve Coogan) here.
There will be a further blog post coming soon on the index to Toast on Toast.
I’d love to hear of any other similar comedy book indexes. If you know of any, please do get in touch by leaving a comment, sending a message via the Contact page or tweeting me @PC_Bain.
Indexer update (28 November 2016)
Following publication of this blog post, I understand from Mark Bolland at HarperCollins that he was the original indexer for I, Partridge. Thanks to Mark, I have now been lucky enough to see his original, unexpurgated index, which was considerably lengthier and even more Partridgean. Unfortunately some of this was cut before publication but I’m glad that the published version still retains much of the humour. Even with the cuts, it remains one of the funniest books and indexes I have read so kudos to Mark as the indexer and the authors. I’m happy to be able to set the record straight here and give proper credit where it’s due for posterity’s sake. It truly is a great book enhanced by a great index. Back of the net!
Paula Clarke Bain is a professional book indexer and editor. She likes comedy, books and indexes and really likes comedy book indexes. See more at her website at baindex.org or on Twitter @PC_Bain.
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Daredevil is a Deliciously Dark Side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
April 14, 2015 by Patrick
You’ve heard a great number of things from me that praise the DC television universe and the path they’re taking. I even somewhat criticized Marvel’s approach by having their connected universe holding them back from making big picture stories that truly affected the universes they were in. An example I used was that the DCTV universe can use Ras al Ghul, Solomon Grundy, and even Deathstroke, all of which are fairly big names in the DC fictional universe, without needing to hold back on waiting for a movie adaptation green light. I thought this was a weakness for Marvel’s TV universe, which until Daredevil was only affecting Agents of Shield and maybe Peggy Carter. A weakness that was defined for NOT having super powerful and well known villains or heroes compelling the story. Enter Daredevil.
Daredevil is a perfect way to counter this argument as he is the common man’s hero, which makes the television layout, budget, and story to be a perfect and believable medium of introduction. The televised layout is great here. We’re given time to truly see how disgusting Hell’s Kitchen is, not just hear how bad it is through character dialogue. There is a glorious amount of time given to the rest of the main cast, making each person earn a place in your memory. The pacing is great and mixes a great balance of origin story and intriguing conflict.
Overall I was very satisfied with Daredevil. As a primary DC reader, the Marvel Universe only goes as far as their cinematics, and it’s incredibly exciting not knowing what happens to what and who becomes who. Daredevil was just so well put together and fired so well on so many cylinders of entertainment. Being this pleased with this show even made me consider whether or not I would actually enjoy DCTV if I didn’t exactly know every little aspect and detail in their TV shows and mistake getting the reference for actual entertainment.
Below is a light-spoiler analysis of Daredevil and why I think its particularly effective at making it a great season 1.
Welcome to Hell’s Kitchen, Marvel’s Equivalent of Gotham City
After the Battle of New York, as seen in The Avengers, New York is still somewhat putting itself together. Matt Murdock and his best friend Foggy have recently opened their new law firm in the heart of their hometown in Hell’s Kitchen, New York. Hell’s Kitchen is an absolute nightmare of a city. Corruption runs the streets, junkies and criminals have their way with the city, domestic abuse is rampant, and no one seems to be doing anything about it. Matt Murdock, a blind man with heightened senses and martial arts training, has taken it upon himself to try to clean up the streets as a “Man in the Black Mask” (very reminiscent of “Man in the Hood” from Arrow). In doing so, he keeps his secret from his best friend and their new secretary as he fights the city’s criminal kingpin (ha, get it?) as both a vigilante and a lawyer. What could possibly go wrong?
Not only is Daredevil in a darker setting in the Marvel universe, it’s easily the darkest piece they’ve done to date. Curse words like, shit, pussy, asshole, and dick, are thrown around like any other 30 year old living in that area would. There are back alley medical procedures with gore. There’s bone breaking, torture, and references to the sex trafficking industry. There are guys who are getting their heads caved in from a car door being jammed repeatedly. This show is bloody, as violence of this caliber should be. These aspects really sell the breathing and bloody heart of Hell’s Kitchen. It’s a perfect way to set the dark and forsaken tone of Hell’s Kitchen, something I think Gotham is sorely missing.
Daredevil Gets Knocked Down, But Gets Up Again…and Again
Matt does not have super healing, billions of dollars, or an alter ego that manifests as a green hulk. His useful powers do include listening to people’s heart rates and using his heightened senses for detective work and martial arts, but he’s not bullet proof. So while he kicks ass a lot, he also gets his ass kicked…a lot. As he should, for a new untested vigilante on the street. His pain, vulnerability, and constant need to train make him incredibly relatable from a viewer standpoint. Far more relatable than Captain America, who got injected with his powers, Iron Man who bought his powers, The Hulk who accidentally gave himself powers, or Thor who is a literal God. Daredevil is a man of the people, and boy does getting stabbed and punched a lot make you feel more human.
I Learned a Lot About Blind Culture
Charlie Cox, who plays Matt Murdock, was (what I like to believe) excellent at playing a blind person. Owen Sleater was one of my favorite characters in Boardwalk Empire and, a lot of his charm carried on from that show to this one. There aren’t many shows and movies that expose what some blind people have to go through (or at least ones that I’ve seen), but Daredevil was a nice doorway into seeing the types of key boards, brail boards, and how people interact and the fun they can have together. Matt’s line about “I’m not made of glass” when he meets Foggy, who isn’t afraid of making a lighthearted joke about Matt’s blindness, was a real eye opener for me. I’m not saying this show was the absolute defining blind culture show, but boy do I have an interest in blind culture that I didn’t have before.
The Unintruding Surrounding Marvel Universe is Great
Other than the quick references to the Avengers and the Battle of New York, there isn’t a reliance on using the names of headliner characters to induce hype or get the audiences excited. And that’s a good thing. This is Daredevil’s show, and not having the need to make an Iron Man reference every episode is a great step in the right direction. I mentioned earlier that I thought being unable to use villains on the caliber of Red Skull or Loki would hinder the universe because of wanting to save them for cinematic villains. That’s what was so great about Daredevil was that his main villain, is a crime lord, not hellbent on blowing up a city or taking over the world. Like Daredevil, he is incredibly grounded and down to earth. His actions don’t warrant a call-in from The Avengers (or even a webbed slinger who is supposedly just across town).
But I digress. In a Marvel cinematic world that has magic, flying suits, and aliens already declared, it is nice that the show doesn’t constantly remind us about the already successful mythos established and instead focuses on the real nitty gritty of what is happening in Hell’s Kitchen.
Karen Page is My Favorite Female Character in Almost Any Superhero Movie/TV Show
Let’s talk Karen Page. She’s incredibly attractive. Yes. They did a good job casting Deborah Ann Woll in playing Matt and Foggy’s secretary. I at first loathed the oncoming love triangle that I knew would exist between Matt, Foggy, and herself. It even started getting more irksome when the triangle was forming under almost no pretense (a common flaw in many superhero movies and tv shows). But over halfway through the season, she didn’t find herself a damsel-in-distress. She didn’t find herself always swooning over the hero. She didn’t find herself doing stupid stuff just to get a word with the hero. She didn’t wear overtly revealing clothing for no reason. She didn’t follow a lot of the common tropes that plague attractive female characters in these types of shows. Instead she carried her own plot in a direction that was surprisingly in-depth and crucial to the rest of the story. There was even a section where the other characters were crying about their own problems and she was the one telling them to get their shit together because they have work to do. She’s smart, funny, charming, fun to hang out with, and kicks ass. I standby saying that she’s probably one of my favorite female characters in any superhero movie/television show.
The Other Main Cast is Great Too
But let’s not forget the rest of the cast. Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk was a sight to see. The television format allowed plenty of development as the show’s primary villain. We were able to be introduced to his backstory and motivations. He was fairly captivating as a ticking time bomb of rage, especially when contrasted with how was with his loved one. Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson served as the bulk of the comedic relief. Foggy was written really well, having legitimately funny lines and showing a great degree of heart, even in the darkest of times. I wasn’t entirely onboard with Rosario Dawson’s Claire. She was great in the 3 or 4 episodes she was in, but presence was always more of an intrusion than feeling like she belonged on the show. Overall, having a television format truly shines here when you can devote a solid 20 minutes to characters developing their personalities, habits, and create believable motivations for their actions.
Daredevil vs. DCTV
As a non-comic book reader, I thoroughly enjoyed Daredevil. As a television show, it set up a great balance between an origin story and intriguing plot. The choreography was excellently done and the style played excellent to emphasizing Matt’s blindness and how he interprets the world. The budget for this show could be guessed higher than shows like Arrow or Flash, both of which occasionally show constraint at times.
Compared to Arrow and Flash, would I say Daredevil is better? It’s a tough call. Sometimes I get so wrapped up on Arrow and Flash making references to their bigger DC universes and getting excited over that, that I forget some of their pitfalls. Both are ultimately more ambitious in scope. Arrow’s latest arc has it going through one of Batman’s primary storylines and the Flash’s special effects can’t be cheap. At times, this and having a 24 episode order can make the budgetary cracks show. Flash and Arrow have often dropped the microphone in some holy shit inducing ways, but as a season, Daredevil is a tighter, more effective, and just plain better put together show.
Civil War?
Oh gosh I hope Daredevil shows up in Civil War, even in a cameo spot. I don’t know too much about Civil War other than the basic plot line, but nothing would solidify the incredible universe Marvel is building more than having people like Daredevil, Spider-Man, and Captain America on the same screen.
I hope you all have been enjoying Daredevil as much as I have. Please let me know what you think in the comments!
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on April 14, 2015 at 1:54 pm | Reply On life and stuff
I’m absolutely loving it, Patrick. I am still three episodes from the end of the season, and enjoying every second. All the characters are flawless. I’m especially impressed with Vincent D’Onofrio. I’ve always loved him, but this portrayal is sheer genius.
I think I may even write my own review… 😉
on April 14, 2015 at 2:17 pm | Reply Patrick
I’m glad you’re enjoying it too! It’s totally up our ally. Can’t wait to hear what you think of the rest of it!
on April 24, 2015 at 12:08 pm | Reply On life and stuff
IT’s an all-around wonderful series. I can’t wait until season 2 comes out!!
on April 14, 2015 at 12:21 pm | Reply mariahjuneofficial
Ironically, I just watched the first episode of Daredevil last night and thought it was very good in terms of a Marvel TV show. Your review of it makes me want to watch more of it. Thanks for your post!
You’re absolutely welcome! Hope you enjoy the rest of it. And if you do, spread the word as much as you can!
on July 20, 2015 at 3:53 am | Reply mariahjuneofficial
Yes, I will! And thank you again!
on April 14, 2015 at 12:00 pm | Reply TheTVBuddy
Thanks TVBuddy!
on April 14, 2015 at 11:58 am | Reply TheTVBuddy
Great job on your review.
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AUGUSTA, Maine — A top Maine Republican Party official admitted to state ethics watchdogs that he is behind a once-anonymous website that may have helped tip a 2017 mayoral race in Lewiston, but he said it was “not related” to his work for the party.
The argument from Jason Savage, the state party’s executive director, comes after Democrats requested an ethics investigation into the Maine Examiner last month, but his lawyer argues that he wasn’t required to report his work.
The website gained attention in the run-up to the December mayoral runoff in Lewiston, when it posted several negative articles about progressive activist Ben Chin. One contained real, leaked campaign emails in which Chin said he ran into a “bunch of racists” while stumping.
Chin ended up losing narrowly to Republican Shane Bouchard in the runoff, in which both state parties were doing organizing work. Democrats requested an investigation of the Maine Republican Party’s involvement with the site in January. Just after that, the Sun Journal found Savage’s name in data embedded on the Maine Examiner.
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Frederick George Hilton Price - 1876 - 344 páginas
...Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military — from the Earliest Period in England to the reign of George the Third. Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the...the Costumes of the Principal Countries of Europe. By JE PLANCHE, Somerset Herald. To be Completed in Twenty-four Parts, quarto, at Five Shillings each,...
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" Report: 'GOP Prepares To Scale Back Aggressive Anti-Voter Fraud Campaigns' "
Report: 'GOP Prepares To Scale Back Aggressive Anti-Voter Fraud Campaigns'
By Brad Friedman on 6/26/2008, 9:05am PT
Blogged by Brad from somewhere near Portland...
Here's a chuckler. From Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic...
John McCain's election strategists plan to tone down the Republicans' traditionally aggressive and public campaign against potential voter fraud, several Republicans familiar with the situation say.
The strategists and consultants all would speak only on the condition that their names and affiliations not be used because they were not permitted to divulge the information, they did not want to disclose internal deliberations, and because the issue is still being discussed within the party.
Sources with direct knowledge of the coordinated Republican effort this year say that high-ranking Republicans, including some within McCain's campaign, are convinced that GOP efforts in 2004 were damaging.
"Spreading 10,000 lawyers around the country and announcing a challenge to 40,000 new registrants in Ohio was counterproductive," a Republican familiar with the situation said.
And if you believe the GOP has any intention of scaling back any such thing in 2008, we've got a swell bridge, beautifully located near Manhattan, to sell ya.
But just to drive home the point that we're equal opportunity disbelievers, there's this old standby from the Obama camp, later in the article...
"We would, of course, welcome an end to traditional Republican vote suppression activity, but we will believe it when we see it," said Robert Bauer, the Obama campaign's general counsel. "We will have a strong, comprehensive program to promote and protect the vote and need really no more from the McCain campaign and their allies than actions fully consistent with true respect for the voter and the voting process."
So if, as Bauer claims, the Obama campaign intends to "have a strong, comprehensive program to promote and protect the vote," why didn't they bother to "protect the vote" by asking for a full hand-count of all ballots in New Hampshire after the anomalous Primary results were reported by Diebold's known-hackable voting machines? They could have done so for the bargain price of just $2,000 at the time, but chose not to.
We'd also ask why Obama's camp didn't bother to demand that some 12,000+ perfectly-countable ballots cast in the Democratic Primary on Super Tuesday in L.A. County actually be counted at all. Or don't those folks deserve to have their votes "protected"?
Of course, this item was originally supposed to about the Republicans' bullshit. Don't blame us if there's just too much bullshit to go around...
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"Report: 'GOP Prepares To Scale Back Aggressive Anti-Voter Fraud Campaigns'"
... Dan-in-PA said on 6/26/2008 @ 11:47 am PT...
Be careful Brad...criticism of Obama tends to rub some folks the wrong way.
Sue me for saying this, but I'm about ready to write in Ron Paul.
There seems to be an awfully glaring lack of real integrity from our 2 major political parties.
... karen said on 6/26/2008 @ 7:30 pm PT...
Ron Paul did not ask for a recount either, in that very irregualr NH primary that showed all kinds of wierd things in regards to Paul's count. It was a great chance for checking electronic counting given the presence of paper ballots (poorly secured but at least something to check beyond a memory card)Paul left that recount to the much less popular Republican candidate Howard. This lost opportunity in my mind was a much worse decision by Paul than Obama's.
Obama was clearly a close contender and had much political capital to lose that early in the race by claiming vote counting fraud and it seemed he'd have a decent chance at winning even if some of his votes didn't get counted (as was proven out), but Ron Paul was clearly an underdog and only had a chance if all his votes were counted. I would have loved to have seen your ilk, Ron Paulites, kicking up dirt in a NH recount, it might have even gotten some mainstream media coverage.
Paul's lack of action in NH really was a huge huge missed oppurtunity by probably one our best hopes this primary election season to highlight the myriad election problems. Shame on him for missing it...
... TEDEGER said on 6/27/2008 @ 4:32 am PT...
My thought on the matter is that the GOP intends to count on the tried and true method of obfuscation. They will tell people that even if they have an unpaid parking ticket, they'll go to jail, they'll write or tell them their polling place has been changed, they'll try to convince them that the vote is to be on wednesday, et cetera, ad nauseam - and of course, 49% of the people are still voting on the one-armed bandits - - -
... IludiumPhosdex said on 6/29/2008 @ 8:11 am PT...
You might want to keep handy the Voter Protector Hotline's freecall number, just in case:
1-866-OUR-VOTE (that's 1-866-687-8683).
You may also want to contact local law-enforcement agencies with reports of real or suspected voter intimidation, especially that involving National Minorities or the disposessed.
Especially if the groups involved have suspiciously patriotic-sounding "feel-good" names to conceal their trick and deceit, usually operating out of mail drops to avoid attracting attention (or so they think).
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Parkinson’s Disease Award - 2009
Associate Professor Carolyn Sue was the recipient of Brain Foundation grant funding in 2009
Parkinson’s Disease Award
Live video recording of cell abnormalities
Associate Professor Carolyn Sue
University of Sydney and Department of Neurology & Neurogenetics, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital
Funded By Ami Olian Memorial Fund and the Estates of Grace Jeanie Admans, Esther Hennessy, Leslie Keller, Helynne Annette Hoban and Bruce Smith
Co-Investigators : Dr Jin-Sun Park
Parkinson’s Disease Award funded by Ami Olian Memorial Fund and the Estates of Grace Jeanie Admans, Esther Hennessy, Leslie Keller, Helynne Annette Hoban and Bruce Smith
University of Sydney and
Department of Neurology & Neurogenetics, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital
Co-Investigator: Dr Jin-Sun Park
Over the last decade, 6 genes have been confirmed to be causally associated with PD. There are four autosomal recessive (AR) genes (Parkin, PINK1, DJ1, ATP13A2) and 2 autosomal dominant (AD) genes (SNCA and LRRK2). The most recent gene to be causally linked to PD is known as the ATP13A2 or PARK9 gene (Ramirez et al., 2006). Although the function of this gene is not entirely understood, it is thought to impair lysosomal function, a pathway that is involved in clearing degraded proteins from the cell. The discovery that mutations in PARK9 are causative of PD implies that enhancement of lysosomal clearance of degraded proteins may offer a new mode of treatment for patients that suffer from PD.
We have identified a new family with young onset PD that has pathogenic mutations in the ATP13A2 (PARK9) gene. We performed confocal microscopy of COS7 cells transfected with plasmids containing fluorescent-tagged PARK9 and have found that the normal (wild-type) hPARK9 is located in the lysosomal membrane, whereas abnormal (mutant) PARK9 is not found in lysosomal membrane. These data indicate that mutant PARK9 is localised or targeted elsewhere in the cell. Mutant PARK9 may act or be degraded using alternative pathways.
Overall these studies will bring us closer to understanding the role of lysosomal function and thus lysosomal protein clearance in the aetiology of Parkinson’s disease. Studying its characteristics will allow us to discover the underlying malfunction(s) in patients with both PARK9 mutations as well as those who suffer the sporadic form of PD. If we establish that hPARK9 mutations cause lysosomal dysfunction, this will improve our understanding of the disease process in PD and direct the identification of novel targets that could be used for therapeutic intervention.
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How self-drive car rental startups is luring millennials to opt for renting over buying
A look at the new-age car rental business
December 14, 2016, 07:20 IST
For Greg Moran, it always defied logic to buy a car. Reason: elementary maths. The numbers just don’t add up. Consider this: While the average usage of a car in a year is less than 150 days, for another 200 days, it lies idle, depreciating in value and appreciating in cost due to maintenance. Add ever-increasing vehicular pollution in cities, choking congestion on arterial roads, and the financial burden of ownership, and the logic of not buying a car becomes apparent.
“A car is a high value, highly depreciating and highly underutilised asset,” contends Moran, co-founder of Bangalore-based self-drive car rental company Zoomcar. It does not make sense to own them, particularly when people have smarter alternatives, adds Moran who started the company in February 2013.
Fast forward to December 2016.In little under four years, Zoomcar has got 1 million registered users, over 2300 vehicles and is present in 14 cities. In August this year, it raised its Series B funding of $24 million from a slew of investors including Ford Smart Mobility, a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company.
“Zoomcar has disrupted the personal car ownership market,” he says. It offers cars on rent on an hourly, daily, weekly and monthly basis starting from Rs. 49 per hour for a Nano and going up to `250 per hour for a CLA class. “Cars are fast becoming a communal asset,” says Moran. Younger working professionals, he points out, are increasingly choosing to rent cars for a month or two, instead of buying new ones as there’s no hassle of EMI payments, maintenance or insurance. This also enables them to change models as and when they please, he adds.
It’s not only Zoomcar that is zooming in on the massive business opportunity — an estimated Rs. 14 Billion market by 2020 — to cater to the population that swear by the utilitarian value of a vehicle.
A clutch of self-drive car rental startups such as Myles, Voler and Revv are changing the way people ‘own’ cars in India. Over the next few years, contend experts, the self-drive car rental segment will redefine the automobile landscape as more people move away from owning to renting.
“Car sharing and rentals are going to be defining features of the industry over the next few years,” says Abdul Majeed, partner at PwC India. The young generation doesn’t believe in owning a car. It believes in using it.” This trend will continue to become sharper.”
Sakshi Vij, the founder of self-drive car rental company Myles, agrees. Started in November 2013, Myles has a fleet of over 1,200 cars, claims 1.5 lakh users, clocks between 10,000-12,000 rentals per month, is present in 22 cities and is growing at 30% every month. Over the next year, Vij plans to take the fleet strength to 8,000, which means generating over 100,000 rentals per month. And if the immediate target sounds ambitious, have a look at the target for 2020: a fleet size of 50,000 cars in 50 cities spread over 5,000 locations; one Myles car every 400 meters in a city and 5 million new members. Can it be done? Vij sounds optimistic.
“More people now prefer to rent a car over buying one,” she says. Myles offers cars for self-drive starting from Rs. 65 per hour for e2o, going up to `9,500 per day for a Mercedes E class.
As per a study, says Vij, over 20 personal cars are replaced with every car added in a car sharing network. She believes with lesser cars bought, space in the cities can be better utilised and decongested. “A new culture in urban mobility is needed,” she says, adding that Myles plans to foray into 100 cities in India. But can this new culture have resonance in a country like India? Experts think so.
The trend of shared ownership is growing, says Jessie Paul, founder of marketing advisory firm Paul Writer. Given that it is working even in the luxury market for yachts and private planes, there is ample potential for the model in India. Car-share growth, to a large extent, is driven by the convenience of a service and once it is 100% available and reliable, one will see a drop in car ownership, she adds.
Paul contends that rentals allow people to use the right vehicle for the right purpose, and with the rising trend of renting, one might actually see a drop in individual purchases of custom-purpose vehicles such as large SUVs. In cities with public transport, there would be more comfort in not owning a car, whereas in others it is more a substitute for a second vehicle, she adds.
Car ownership used to be a signifier of accomplishment and the industry’s upgrade cycle roughly parallels the life of a consumer: from entry level hatchbacks to premium sedans. If the self drive services are making the right bet, maybe the car you can afford to rent will be as much of a status symbol as the car you own is today.
Sakshi Vij
Greg Moran
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Third person in Neptune on NS questions
By Alberta Quilter, August 15, 2019 in Holland America Line
Alberta Quilter
Hi, we are considering booking a Neptune suite on the NS for three adults travelling together. I currently have an aft wrap suite on hold. Where does the third person sleep? On the couch? Does it pull out into a sofa bed or does one sleep on the full length of the couch? Does this impede access to the verandah at all?
There were three aft wraps available, one each on decks 5, 6 & 7. Which one is better and why? I currently have the one on deck 7 booked. How fully covered is each verandah? I was told that deck 7 is larger than the other two. With three of us, I thought larger would be best.
Daisyloo
We have only been in a Neptune Suite on the Zaandam, and the third person slept on the sofa bed. It was okay, but not the most comfortable bed.
3rdGenCunarder
If NS afts are like the ones on the K, 7 is larger than 6. We had a deck 7 aft wrap, and instead of a sofa there was what might be called a "day bed." It was too wide to sit on, but OK for reclining and lounging. Probably would be OK for sleeping, but I'm not sure about the length.
canadianbear
Beautiful British Columbia, Canada
Have you considered a Signature suite? The Murphy bed is sort of private for the 3rd person? We loved the cabin. This was on the Kongingsdam so not positive it’s same on the NS.
It’s hidden behind the picture on the wall then pulls down.
Edited August 16, 2019 by canadianbear
Yes, I actually was going to book a signature suite but the cost difference between the two was only C$500 which is approx. equal to the cost of Club Orange which I was considering anyway. Then when I found out it was an aft wrap, it was a bit of a no brainer! This will probably be the only chance we get to try a Neptune!
I did see your pics on Halfacts and really appreciated them!
3 minutes ago, Alberta Quilter said:
Ok, wanted to make sure. Aft wrap Neptune sounds fun for 3!!
suzannecruisecritic
We chose the aft wrap balcony Neptune suite on Koningsdam on deck 4 because the balcony was so large. I assume the sofa/day bed in there could have been used as a bed for the third person as it was about the size of a twin size bed. I’m attaching photos of the room and balcony. You can see the daybed under the tv. The only downside to being on 4 was that we were a little far from the Neptune lounge but I think the big wrap around balcony was worth it.
Thanks everyone! I looked at the deck plans this morning and you're right, it is the sofa/day bed. I should have checked the deck plan symbols. But I appreciate all the help and suggestions. We are very excited to try the suite life!
sevenseasnomad
Newport News, VA, USA
32 minutes ago, Alberta Quilter said:
You will love it and be totally spoiled! DH and I booked a NS on a flash sale that only lasted 24 hrs. By fortune or luck, I was on the HAL site a few minutes after the price dropped. We booked a NS for less than we normally paid for a balcony.
At the time, DH had cancer, hadn't been doing well, and suddenly a few weeks prior to this, he started doing much better. His doctor had given him permission to travel the week before, so we booked. That cruise was truly sent by God because it was the last cruise we took. He died 4 months later, but I was comforted by the fact that we had finally stayed in a NS, something he had wanted to do for years. We could have afforded it on previous cruises, but we wouldn't have been able to cruise for 3 years afterwards. We felt cruising more often (2-3x a year) was more important than booking a NS. That drop in price couldn't have come at a better time. What fun we had!
Prepare to be totally and completely spoiled. It was hard afterwards for me to go back to regular ocean view/balcony cabins, but, hey, at least I was on the ship, right?
3 hours ago, sevenseasnomad said:
It's funny, DM and I will stay on the ship for a second week while my sister has to return home. DM and I will be going down to a VD cabin for the second week that will cost less for the two of us, then the first week in a Neptune costs for one of us. So I understand totally what you're saying. We will be spoiled that first week but we may not have the chance to do this again.
1 hour ago, Alberta Quilter said:
Yes, definitely go for it. You won't regret it.
I'm sorry that you lost your DH, but that's a lovely story. And proof that you're more likely to regret things you didn't do than things you did.
1 hour ago, 3rdGenCunarder said:
Absolutely. And thank you.
sail7seas
Charter Member - 80,000+ Club
MA, U.S.A
On 8/15/2019 at 7:44 PM, Alberta Quilter said:
Three adults one bathroom? That's a vacation? Yikes 🙂
sail.noordam@gmail.com
Edited August 20, 2019 by sail7seas
2 minutes ago, sail7seas said:
Ha ha! We’ve had 4 adults twice in a Neptune (family members) and it worked just fine. Not perfect but it’s a cruise in a Neptune suite and all were happy!
On 8/17/2019 at 6:41 PM, 3rdGenCunarder said:
I, too am sorry about your D.H. but so hsppy you had that special cruise..
3 minutes ago, canadianbear said:
Well, then in that case I am happy for you
I don’t think I’d ever share it with another couple but it was family and it was so much fun. Of course WE didn’t have to sleep on the sofa bed or whatever it was called, lol!!
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By PittsburghSucks, July 19, 2018 in Sports In General
4 hours ago, McCarthy said:
So after declaring my interest in the NFL to be almost non-existent my wife and I decided it would be fun to go to a road game in Indianapolis this season so this Sunday us and a few friends are going to see the Bengals play the Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium. I am the problem.
Anyways, we're staying Saturday night right down the road from the stadium and despite growing up only a couple hours away from Indianapolis I've never spent any actual time there. Where's somewhere we can go eat food and drink alcohol that will be fun for a bunch of 30 year old dorks?
Keep in mind that it's a NASCAR race weekend, there may be more crowds than normal on a Saturday night downtown. I'd likely head to the Tomlinson Tap Room, but they close at 9PM on Saturdays. Basey's is closer to the stadium and is more of a dive bar.
Tracy Jordan 779
Location:30 Rockefeller Plaza
This is the first time I can remember not being the least bit excited about watching my team, or the NFL, in a very long time. Kind of hard to support a team when the head coach says things like "We have a lot of respect for that [legal] situation" in regards to LeSean McCoy being sued by his ex-girlfriend for allegedly having something to do with an intruder robbing her at gunpoint and having her beat up, among other things (i.e. abusing his son and dog). It's also hard to support that team when the players vote McCoy as a co-team captain and the head coach says he is "very proud of him for that".
I'm glad that Nike is putting Kaepernick in that new ad even if it's just to piss off the NFL and Trump. Good for them. I look forward to the owners having to testify in open court now that the collusion case is moving to trial. As usual, the league's incompetence knows no bounds. Just one single owner could have prevented this whole thing by just giving Kaepernick a roster spot. Not even a starting or backup spot, just a third string spot. Instead, there's a decent chance that the NFL will have to admit that they blacklisted a player out of fear of public backlash brought on by criticism from the President. These guys are total fools.
neo_prankster 2,854
Favourite Logos:All WLAF logos, Bucs pirate flag, Arizona State pitchfork, Notre Dame leprechaun, Albany Firebirds, Iowa Barnstormers, SD State eagle warrior
This year, I am interested to see who will get LA bragging rights when the Rams and Chargers face off in Week 3.
dont care 3,975
14 hours ago, Tracy Jordan said:
They offered him spots, 2 times he didn’t accept it due to it not being a starter spot, and the other the team recinded it after his girl friend started complaining about the team.
See Red 1,556
In all kinds of weather
8 minutes ago, dont care said:
Which teams offered him?
13 minutes ago, See Red said:
Seattle, Broncos, Ravens
25 minutes ago, dont care said:
As far as I'm aware, the Seahawks didn't. I know the Broncos didn't. John Elway referenced wanting Kaepernick (via trade) before the protests but he wouldn't restructure his contract and take a significant pay cut. But again, that was before the protests. After the protests, Elway, desperate for a QB and with an opportunity to sign one he once thought highly enough of to trade for, made no effort to sign him, which would seem to support Kaepernick's case.
The Ravens thing, as far as I know, is speculation from Ray Lewis, but an NFL team opting to sign an Arena Leaguer over someone who's had success in the NFL because of things his girlfriend said seems laughable to me.
crashcarson15 2,027
Resident CRJ stan
On 9/4/2018 at 1:47 PM, McCarthy said:
All of Mass Ave is very fine and fun for 30-year-old dorks, really. It's the other corner of downtown from the stadium, but still walk-able. To give you an idea of the vibe, The Eagle (from OTR in Cincinnati) set up shop at the front of Mass Ave a few years back.
Working down the street from southwest to northeast: The Tap has a wide beer selection; The Eagle is a thing you should know; Bazbeaux is pizza that a lot of people here like, but I think is only particularly good for non-traditional pies; Bru is a really solid burger joint; Fat Dan's is just off Mass Ave, which is a Chicago-style deli (so Italian beef and the like); Chatham Tap is a soccer bar with solid pub food. There's a lot of other spots along Mass Ave that I've never been to, and there are some neat shops, too, but that's what I've done in the neighborhood.
As for closer to where you are, Loughmiller's is another place to get a burger downtown that's not around Mass Ave, but may be closed on Sunday? Sugarfire is a barbecue place from St. Louis that moved in a couple months ago that a lot of people like and has good brisket. St. Elmo's is the notorious expensive steak house in Indianapolis, but Harry & Izzy's is a little more laid back and accessible and gets you access to try their shrimp cocktail. There's also a handful of more "collegiate" bars along and off of Georgia Street (Brother's is a national college town thing, Kilroy's is an IU thing), which could be another place to drink closer to where you're at. I don't think any IUPUI or UIndy kids really drink downtown though; I think they mostly exist for college grads?
Also, nobody goes to the Brickyard, so I wouldn't worry too much about crowds downtown.
6 hours ago, dont care said:
Denver tried to trade for him in 2016 but the deal fell through when they couldn't agree on the terms for his guaranteed money. Seattle never offered him a contract, they just worked him out. The Ravens only had conversations with Kaepernick but never formally made a contract offer. So he's had zero offers and a total of one workout since the end of 2016. As far as I know, Kaepernick has not demanded a starting spot with any team since becoming a free agent. Do you have a source for that claim?
Rain delay to start the 2018 NFL season.
willmorris 335
Location:Malaga, NJ
It feels weird to go into the 2018 season cheering for the Super Bowl champs.
Not that I'm complaining.
BringBackTheVet 12,807
Are all these nonsense flags ruining the game for anyone else? Both teams being called for total nonsense, and IMO the game has been altered by unneeded flags. It’s really not worth watching because the players kinda don’t matter anymore.
25 minutes ago, BringBackTheVet said:
The penalty on Grady Jackson for "driving the QB to the ground" when Foles was in the end zone was a bit extreme to me, but if a dude lines up offside, then that's on him.
25 penalties as I type. Last year, team average per game was 6.6.
The Rams/Raiders game might end up with 40 called and take longer than a Big XII game.
Falcons just Falcon'd again.
Yes. Offense, defense, referees. It's stupid.
23 minutes ago, dfwabel said:
There were roughing the passers on both sides that were absurd, a hold-ish one that negated a big play that didn't need to be called, roughing the kicker that was unnecessary, adn it got to the point where everyone's looking at the area of the screen where the "flag" indication is rather than the actual play.
The Eagles won the game, but I don't think it means anything at all, because the outcome could have been different (either way) had the refs not called what didn't need to be (or should never have been) called.
5 minutes ago, BringBackTheVet said:
I didn't watch the game from start to finish, just parts but have it on DVR.
In this NFL where QBs are forever protected, both guys were garbage. Foles, who I still don't think is in the top half of the league, didn't have much to work with. However, Meh Ryan reverted back to his typical self.
2 minutes ago, dfwabel said:
Foles sucks. He had a couple of amazing runs sandwiched around a lot of mediocrity. He was without his top and 3rd receiver today, and they're still trying to figure out what (if anything) Darren Sproles is now that hes back from his injury, but at the end of the day, he's Nick Foles and despite the size of his member he sucks.
None of that takes away from how the referees played a pivotal role in this game, and how they need to be told "just because you can call it doesn't mean you should call it."
Eight new NFL officials added to the pool and there are now 24 full time ones.
http://www.footballzebras.com/2018/07/staff-changes-highlight-chaotic-officiating-offseason/
http://www.footballzebras.com/2018/08/nfl-hires-24-full-time-officials-in-second-year-of-the-program/
On 9/2/2018 at 4:56 PM, Wings said:
If I were a Raiders fan I would be crying into a Mack jersey not burning it.
And I would like to thank Chucky from the bottom of my heart for completely alienating Mack for no good reason. I'll enjoy him in orange and blue.
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Home > CD conference assesses industry challenges, opportunities
CD conference assesses industry challenges, opportunities
Kyle Evenson, ED-CSO, chairs the annual construction conference March 2-5.
IP Newton Jones congratulates business managers for their political activism.
MOST recruiters field questions about signing up workers for Boilermaker projects. L. to r., Chris Hegeman, Southeast Area; Roman Alaniz Jr., Central States; Tony Smarra, Northeast Area; Chuck Dunham, Western States; and Brian Loftus, Great Lakes.
Jim Tinney, A/D CSO/CA, explains the Canadian Market Share Program.
Rich Calcara, BNF’s new Executive Administrator, discusses the pension fund.
Bruce Wilkinson describes the multi-generational work force.
Despite economic downturn, business managers hear good news
THE WORLD ECONOMY may be in a tailspin, but business managers still heard some good news at the annual Boilermaker Construction Division conference at Marco Island, Fla., March 2-5.
The union added about 1,500 members in 2008, despite plant closings and a slow-down in capital projects. Total construction man-hours worked last year hit 40 million, up nearly 10 percent from 2007. And construction members tied a record for safety on the job, even with the additional man-hours and an influx of new craftsmen.
Kyle Evenson, Executive Director of Construction Sector Operations, chaired the conference, which included updates from the International, reviews of various union and employer initiatives, reports from the national funds office, and guest presentations.
International President Newton B. Jones opened the conference by congratulating local lodge leaders on their achievements throughout 2008. He said electing Barack Obama president was a key accomplishment. “After eight years of fighting an administration that was almost rabidly antiunion, we have finally made a difference,” he said. “So many of you got out there and worked your hearts out. I think we now have a seat at the table for our issues.”
MOST recruiting, QCCUS show success
THE MOST RECRUITING program has registered nearly 6,000 individuals interested in working on Boilermaker construction jobs to its database, reported Gary Evenson, Director of Construction Recruitment Services. He said about 1,650 have been placed on jobs, and local lodges have signed up about 1,350 of those as members (nearly 1,000 of them remained active as of the first of the year).
“That’s [the equivalent of] about three or four good construction lodges,” Evenson said. “Going forward, I see the program growing. It’s only a little over two years old.”
Reporting on the Quality Control Council in the U.S., Gene Forkin, IR-ST, QCCUS, said efforts to organize workers performing nondestructive testing have shown promise, with about 250 new members added. The QCCUS is a coalition of the Boilermakers union and the United Association, and is modeled on the highly successful Quality Control Council of Canada.
Forkin said QCCUS recently negotiated a new national agreement. The council has also hired a Level III technical director with the aim of developing a central certification. “The central certification will give the member the opportunity to own his certification, much like Common Arc,” MOST’s program for welding certification, which provides portability between contractors and reduces the need for repeat testing.
Forkin encouraged business managers to promote the use of QCCUS contractors whenever nondestructive testing work is available. He noted that, in addition to regional contractors, QCCUS now has a signatory contractor that is willing to do NDT work on a national basis.
“We have a huge opportunity in front of us,” he said, noting that most people performing NDT in the United States are nonunion. “We as Boilermakers have represented members who weld on jobs for [many decades]. It’s time we represented the people who test those welds.”
Market share program is “first of its kind”
BEEFING UP MARKET SHARE, making it more efficient for travelers to get work, and optimizing Boilermaker resources were some of the key initiatives discussed at the conference.
Jim Tinney, Assistant Director of Construction Sector Operations — Canada, explained the Canadian Market Share Program developed by the union and Info Resources, a company that tracks heavy industry jobs. The groundbreaking program identifies man-hours worked by each lodge in a given year and compares that number to the total man-hours available for the lodge’s jurisdiction. Thus, if a lodge worked 50,000 man-hours, but 100,000 were available, it would have a 50 percent market share.
The value of the program, said Tinney, is not only does it provide an accurate picture of the available work for Boilermakers — and how much of that work a local lodge is getting — but it also identifies possible targets for organizing.
Info Source’s Lamar Blanton said, “I work with trades across the continent. No one else is doing this. This is the first program of its kind.”
Tinney also gave an update on the Web-based travel card and referral system, another Canadian initiative that is being considered for U.S. lodges. The system allows members to sign up for work via the Internet and maintains profiles of their skills and certifications. Tinney said a new module allows nonmembers to sign up for permit work. “It’s an ideal situation where they come to us and we look at their qualifications. If they turn out to be good hands, we can flag them and bring them into the union.”
An initiative sponsored by MOST — the National Resources Tracking System —continues to progress as well. FirstEnergy’s Larry Wargo, consultant for contractor services, reported that development costs for the Internet-based system are well under budget and that functionality for contractors and owners is now available. The system allows lodges, contractors, and owners to assess man-power availability for upcoming projects.
National funds office introduces new Executive Administrator
THE BOILERMAKERS NATIONAL Funds (BNF) office announced that Rich Calcara has been named the new Executive Administrator. Calcara was a senior partner with the law firm of Blake and Uhlig and has represented the BNF for over 30 years.
“Over the years, benefits have improved and diminished,” said Calcara. “But no retiree has ever missed a [pension] payment. Every benefit has been paid. Every appropriate medical claim has been paid. There’s no doubt that that will continue. The trustees are committed to do what they can to keep the benefits as high as they can.”
Calcara acknowledged that pension fund investments have been substantially reduced because of the economic crisis but said many other defined benefit plans have suffered more severe losses. He said the health and welfare plan is “a bright spot” despite the economy and “is in a pretty solid position.”
Len Beauchamp, BNF Associate Executive Administrator, and Mario Rodriguez, the Chief Investment Officer, detailed the impact of the economic crisis on the various funds and provided an historical perspective of the funds’ performance before the downturn.
Speaker addresses multi-generational work force
PROFESSIONAL SPEAKER AND workplace consultant Bruce Wilkinson addressed the conference on the topic of a multi-generational work force, at the invitation of the National Association of Construction Boilermaker Employers (NACBE). Wilkinson said craftspeople and those who lead them need to recognize differences in individuals, as people are motivated by different things and come from different perspectives.
Wilkinson said baby boomers come from a “git ‘er done” generation that tends to do things because they are told to do them. Generation X (those 29-42 years old) and Generation Y (16-29) have much different life experiences. It’s not enough to give Generation Y workers instructions, he said. They want to know why something needs to be done a certain way.
Wilkinson called upon all Boilermakers, contractors, and owners to work together and to lead by inspiring and motivating the work force — not only to achieve project goals, but also to ensure safety. He said just as soldiers in combat units look out for each other’s safety, so, too, should craftspeople. “It takes skilled men and women to work around danger,” he noted. “They’ve got to have their heads on straight. They’ve got to respect each other. What happens if we don’t control that danger, or if we come to the job and our heads are not on straight, is we lose control. Then danger will always get you.”
Intl. reps examine jurisdictional issues
LED BY DALE “Skipper” Branscum, Director of Construction Division Services, a panel of International reps presented case studies of jurisdictional disputes and explored the challenges of jurisdictional claims as new technology unfolds.
Taking part in the presentation were IRs Dennis King, Steve Speed, Clay Herford, Kent Oliver, Tony Palmisano, Jim Cooksey, Marty Stanton, and John Fultz. They discussed such project elements as SCRs; seal-air ducts; breeching and duct support; water separator tanks and piping; and limestone silos. They also examined the new generations of nuclear power plants that will be built in North America as well as fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP) ductwork and chimney flues. FRP technology is showing up in areas such as carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) test facilities, and it could see expanded use should CCS go into widespread commercial development.
Meeting topics also included union finances, political and legislative issues, consolidation of National Transient Lodge members into the construction lodges, safety and health, SERT (Special Emergency Response Team) services, insurance for labor leaders, opportunities in biofuel technology, a new hunting and fishing club for union members and their families, and the officers and employees pension plan.
The 2010 conference is scheduled for February 28 – March 5.
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Veganism might make you feel better, but it won't save our asses
I've got a lot of pals that maintain a vegan diet. Some do it for ethical reasons. Others dig it simply because removing animal products from the menu has had a tremendous effect on their overall health. Hell, I recently started a diet where I've had to eliminate carbs, reduce my meat intake, and take the majority of my proteins from nuts and other sources that haven't mooed, clucked or swam at one point or another. In just a few weeks, I found that switching it up provided me with more energy, less trouble with my guts and a significant amount of weight loss, thanks to my body entering ketosis.
Yet, as much as I respect veganism, and the various shades of vegetarianism out there, I have to agree with a recent op-ed from the aptly named Isabella Tree, published in The Guardian: eating plants isn't going to save us from global warming or other environmental disasters.
Much has been made of the methane emissions of livestock, but these are lower in biodiverse pasture systems that include wild plants such as angelica, common fumitory, shepherd’s purse and bird’s-foot trefoil because they contain fumaric acid – a compound that, when added to the diet of lambs at the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen, reduced emissions of methane by 70%.
In the vegan equation, by contrast, the carbon cost of ploughing is rarely considered. Since the industrial revolution, according to a 2017 report in the science journal Nature, up to 70% of the carbon in our cultivated soils has been lost to the atmosphere.
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Rob Beschizza / 8:18 pm Wed, Jan 31, 2018
Secret garden in an abandoned paper mill
From afar, and even from its own dark and derelict lower floors, this abandoned paper mill in Sweden is much like any other disused factory. But found upstairs, on the second level up, is an amazing "garden" space, half-recovered by nature. Redditor IEatBasil, posting in the marvelous Abandonedporn forum, describes it as "probably the most beautiful place I've ever been to."
This whole place was magical! It's a big, overgrown paper mill in Sweden surrounded by trees. The first floor and the basement are like the usual amazing abandoned factories. But when you climb up on the steep, rusty stairs who's probably seen better days, you enter this magical garden full of vivid colours. It's astonishingly high up to the roof and the huge windows fill up the room with sunlight. It was truly amazing to be there.
And besides it there's this that chimney you can walk into that stands almost 60 meters tall!
Photoset. What a splendid place to bug out to when the nukes fly and civilization collapses. Read the rest
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The men and the boys
R. W. Connell, Raewyn Connell
University of California Press, 2000 - 259 páginas
Questions about men and boys have aroused remarkable media attention and public interest in recent years. But what have we learned about masculinity, and where is our thinking on the subject headed? In this important book, R. W. Connell continues his pioneering work by taking the next step in understanding the dynamics of contemporary masculinity: incorporating the international dimension. The first sustained discussion of masculinity and globalization, The Men and the Boys links cutting-edge theory with fascinating case studies to point us toward change--in scholarship and public policy as well as in the lives of individual men.
This powerful book looks at a range of intriguing and controversial subjects, including the question of sex between men, men's bodies and health, education, the prevention of violence, and much more. It includes the voices of many men, both straight and gay, in a series of vivid life histories that include a compelling account of "iron man" Steve Donoghue and many others who describe coming to terms with their sexuality, their childhoods, and their experiences at school and work. As he reveals the price men and boys across cultures pay for patriarchy, Connell makes a persuasive case for men to change their conduct in order to create a more cooperative and peaceful world. Questions about men and boys have aroused remarkable media attention and public interest in recent years. But what have we learned about masculinity, and where is our thinking on the subject headed? In this important book, R. W. Connell continues his pioneering work by taking the next step in understanding the dynamics of contemporary masculinity: incorporating the international dimension. The first sustained discussion of masculinity and globalization, The Men and the Boys links cutting-edge theory with fascinating case studies to point us toward change--in scholarship and public policy as well as in the lives of individual men.
This powerful book looks at a range of intriguing and controversial subjects, including the question of sex between men, men's bodies and health, education, the prevention of violence, and much more. It includes the voices of many men, both straight and gay, in a series of vivid life histories that include a compelling account of "iron man" Steve Donoghue and many others who describe coming to terms with their sexuality, their childhoods, and their experiences at school and work. As he reveals the price men and boys across cultures pay for patriarchy, Connell makes a persuasive case for men to change their conduct in order to create a more cooperative and peaceful world.
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R. W. Connell is Professor of Education at the University of Sydney in Australia. He is author of Masculinities (California, 1996), as well as fifteen other books.
Título The men and the boys
Autores R. W. Connell, Raewyn Connell
Editor University of California Press, 2000
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The challenges facing Embraer
Natália Scalzaretto . Aug 19, 2019
In recent decades, planemaker Embraer has been synonymous with the best engineering Brazil could produce. Set up by the military on August 19, 1969, Embraer has been supported by every administration ever since—becoming a source of national pride as well as one of the largest commercial plane makers in the world, with clients in over 100 countries. Now, a merger with American giant Boeing has cast doubts about the company’s future and the way it will deal with its Brazilian roots.
</p> <p>Since 2017, Embraer’s future has been hanging on the Boeing merger, principally after European planemaker Airbus took over Canada’s Bombardier, leaving few options for the Brazilian company: it either had to consolidate its business with a larger player, or risk getting left behind.</p> <p>The Americans paid USD 4.2 billion for 80 percent of Embraer’s crown jewel, its commercial aviation division, evaluating this new business at USD 5.26 billion. Embraer may also sell its 20 percent stake in Boeing Brasil-Commercial (as the new business is called) in the future. With this injection of cash, Embraer will be able to start over with a clean slate, paying its debts, <a href="https://brazilian.report/money/2019/03/14/embraer-boeing-joint-venture-future/">providing USD 1.6 billion in dividends for shareholders</a>, and getting extra cash to innovate.</p> <p>Now, <a href="https://exame.abril.com.br/negocios/de-carro-voador-a-satelite-os-7-novos-negocios-da-cinquentenaria-embraer/">Embraer’s future lies in three divisions</a>: Defense—developed in the joint venture with Boeing—Services, and Engineering.</p> <p>On its side, it has a large military cargo plane, KC-390, as well as new disruptive projects bred under the subsidiary EmbraerX. Among them, a new <a href="https://economia.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2019/08/16/embraer-projeto-aviao-eletrico.htm">fully-electric plane</a> and an <a href="https://brazilian.report/money/2018/07/06/embraer-boeing-merger-aviation/">eVTOL</a>—also known as a flying cab to transport passengers—developed alongside Uber. Signature projects, such as the new executive Praetor 600 jet, are expected to boost the executive jets division.</p> <p>Some believe that providing services, such as airplane maintenance, or even expanding to work with integrated systems for ships would be good, profitable options for Embraer. There are plenty of possibilities, but the fact is that the company will have to reinvent itself, and fast, to remain a relevant player worldwide.</p> <h2>Why isn’t the market celebrating Embraer?</h2> <p>As of Monday, Embraer shares (<a href="https://www.investing.com/equities/embraer-on-nm-historical-data">EMBR3</a>), are 17 percent down for the year, making one wonder: if the future is so bright, why is the market not betting on it?</p> <p>The answer may be found in Embraer operations history. Historically, the commercial jet section has always been the most profitable, while Defense and Executive Jets have struggled to blossom. By taking on the commercial division, Boeing gives a welcome capital injection to the company, but some believe it has also undervalued the remaining businesses—<a href="https://www.infomoney.com.br/embraer/noticia/7504977/por-que-acao-embraer-despencou-acordo-com-boeing-uma-boa">which made stocks dive deep by the time the deal was closed</a>.</p> <p>Looking ahead, some analysts see better prospects for the company in spite of that, with the large amount of capital expenditure on building jets starting to pay off. Praetor sales are expected to pick up, as are those of the KC-390 military cargo craft. These positives may not yet have been priced in.</p> <div class="flourish-embed flourish-chart" data-src="visualisation/606659"></div><script src="https://public.flourish.studio/resources/embed.js"></script> <div class="flourish-embed" data-src="visualisation/606767"></div><script src="https://public.flourish.studio/resources/embed.js"></script> <p>Analyzing the company’s most recent earnings report, brokerage Guide Investimentos said that Embraer shares “are trading at an attractive risk-reward ratio.” They expect “a larger amount of sales for the executive segment, normalization of KC-390 deliveries (after some delays) and better margins.” They also highlight the potential for USD 150 million in synergies after the merger is fulfilled.</p> <p>Although partnering with Boeing opens even more doors for Embraer in the massive American defense and security market, the merger happens at a cumbersome moment for Boeing. Its flagship plane, the <a href="https://brazilian.report/newsletters/weekly-report/2019/03/30/737-max-brazil-only-country-demand-specific-training/">737 Max</a>, faces a credibility crisis after two lethal accidents in Indonesia and Ethiopia.</p> <p>This does not change Boeing’s interest in Embraer and shouldn’t affect the merger, but the turbulence is certainly not a boost for the overall scenario. Another concern for Boeing Brasil-Commercial is the Chinese-American trade war, as <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-01/a-brazil-firm-sweats-over-getting-caught-in-u-s-china-trade-war"><em>Bloomberg News</em> highlighted in a report</a> from June. Escalating tensions between the world’s two biggest superpowers may affect business, just like it did for <a href="https://brazilian.report/money/2019/06/27/huawei-controls-telecom-infrastructure-brazil/">Chinese technology supplier Huawei</a>. The deal between Embraer and Boeing is still awaiting approval from Chinese antitrust regulators. Moreover, two plane models are also waiting for certification from Beijing.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://brazilian.report/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-19-at-12.12.14-1024x501.png" alt="Embraer electric plane" class="wp-image-22511" srcset="https://brazilian.report/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-19-at-12.12.14-1024x501.png 1024w, https://brazilian.report/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-19-at-12.12.14-300x147.png 300w, https://brazilian.report/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-19-at-12.12.14-768x376.png 768w, https://brazilian.report/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-19-at-12.12.14-610x298.png 610w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption>Embraer’s electric plane</figcaption></figure> <h2>A source of pride for Brazilians</h2> <p>Far from the stock market and specialized air industry circles, Embraer is seen in a different light. Over the decades, the company was seen as a model of innovation and success for the Brazilian industry. It all started with the <a href="https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/2019/08/icone-embraer-chega-aos-50-anos-e-busca-uma-nova-identidade.shtml">Bandeirante Project</a>, the first plane ever produced by the then state-owned company. It was able to support both civil and military aviation needs—as the Brazilian Air Force required.</p> <p>Like most Brazilian state-owned companies, Embraer developed a close relationship with the country’s needs. It became one of the most important economic drivers of the city of São José dos Campos, in the Paraíba River Valley, helping to develop this region of the state of São Paulo. Its research and development roots also helped to boost colleges in the area, especially the military-run Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA), known as one of the best—and hardest—institutions to gain admission to.</p> <p>This also helps explain the controversy that involved the Boeing deal, with rumors that the Brazilian government would block it by using the golden share privilege it held on to when the company went public in 1994. The golden share allows the government to veto decisions essential to Embraer’s future, such as changes in controlling interest or headquarters.</p> <p>Trade unions fought a legal battle trying to block the deal or at least ensure there would be no mass firings. As reported by <a href="https://exame.abril.com.br/negocios/mergulhamos-na-nova-embraer-que-se-reinventa-apos-venda-a-boeing/"><em>Exame</em> magazine</a>, Embraer and Boeing will split Embraer’s 18,000-strong workforce and the factory in São José dos Campos will be maintained, which helped reduce tensions.</p> <p>It seems that, in spite of the new partnerships and many changes ahead, it seems Embraer is not willing to give up on its roots. Local newspaper <a href="https://www.ovale.com.br/_conteudo/nossa_regiao/2019/08/85570-embraer-anuncia-expansao-da-unidade-eugenio-de-melo-em-sao-jose.html"><em>O Vale</em></a> reports the company will expand its plant in São José dos Campos, increasing the capacity to 4,000 employees, almost three times the current size, as part of a revamp announced in order to celebrate the company’s anniversary.</p> <p>“By announcing the expansion of our facility in São José dos Campos, we reinforce our commitment to our people and the local community, that is part of our strategic vision of continued and sustainable growth,” said CEO Francisco Gomes Neto.
What the Embraer-Boeing deal means for both companies
Suffering losses, Embraer’s hopes depend on Boeing joint venture
Boeing wants a deal with Embraer, but Brazil says no
Embraer, Brazil’s iconic plane maker, turns 50
Natália Scalzaretto
Natália Scalzaretto has worked for companies such as Santander Brasil and Reuters, where she covered news ranging from commodities to technology. Most recently, worked as an Editor for Trading News, the information division from TradersClub investor community.
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Jason Kitcat should be applauded for his actions not suspended from office by a non-elected panel
Posted on July 10, 2010 by brightonpoliticsblogger
The decision on the “standards committee” of Brighton and Hove City Council to suspend Councillor Jason Kitcat is shameful. The panel found that Cllr Kitcat’s use of a video from a Council meeting was “political” and improper, particularly in regard to one “highly edited” clip of an exchange between Councillor Geoffrey Theobald and the then mayor, Councillor Garry Peltzer Dunn.
I for one am disgusted that a non-elected panel can suspend a councillor who has been democratically elected. There is such limited media coverage of the debates of councillors on the City Council that any democrat would welcome wider coverage, no matter how “political” it is. If Cllr Kitcat has ‘spun’ the item, then confront him politically. Don’t hide behind an undemocratic panel. This is politics, councillors are all adults.
If Cllr Kitcat has done wrong, the way to deal with him is next May in the Council elections. I suspect that Cllr Kitcat will be re-elected with a massive majority in Regency Ward. He is one of the finest and most hard-working councillors in Brighton and Hove. His reputation is enhanced by his opponents actions.
I imagine Geoffrey Theobald, who can mix it with the best of them, must be terribly embarrassed that his colleague, Councillor Ted Kemble, made the original complaint. Geoffrey doesn’t need the protection of this undemocratic panel to hide his policies.
What amazes me is that the Council is about to deliberate about what cuts they are to make, cuts on an unprecedented level. The Coalition Government wants public input. How can we participate if we don’t have information and the widest diversity of views.
Jason Kitcat should be applauded for what he has done. He shouldn’t apologise. He should be encouraged to carry on tweeting from Council meetings and posting videos, views and information on whatever media is available.
The person who can resolve this is Geoffrey Theobald who, I know, is sufficiently experienced in politics not to allow himself to be diminished by the complaint of Cllr Kemble and the ruling of the panel. He should say that an apology is not wanted nor called for.
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Cllr Jason Kitcat, on July 10, 2010 at 10:35 am said:
Thanks for your support BPB.
In fact, in an interview with the standards investigating officer, Cllr Theobald has already said he doesn’t feel personally bothered by the clips. He understands how politics works and is ready to take the ups with the downs, as do I. Yet Cllr Kemble, backed by Cllrs Mears and Oxley have decided to pursue this complaint regardless – involving a huge amount of officer time in the process.
Personally I think councillor and officers have more important issues to tackle at the moment.
The interview transcripts are online at http://present.brighton-hove.gov.uk/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=21917
Christopher Hawtree, on July 10, 2010 at 10:48 am said:
I too am very surprised that this decision has been made by the panel, and am glad to see that in fact Cllr Theobald was not bothered by the dissemination of some of his lively Council perfomances.
I sat outside a Patcham polling station early in the morning beside Cllr Theobald, and there was much good-natured banter and, indeed, discussion. I think he gives good value, doesn’t appear to take offence, and has wide experience to draw upon, in local government and elsewhere.
He is obviously wiser than his colleagues Mears and Oxley, who lack the ability to step back and see how this can only cause the Tories special damage. Look how everybody keeps mentioning Cllr David Smith’s bizarre challenge to a duel when, er, music libraries were the subject one had hoped was under discussion.
Alexander Craven, on July 11, 2010 at 7:24 am said:
lol @ local politics. I bloody well hope I’m not paying for this “standards committee”.
Paul McCrystal, on July 11, 2010 at 9:16 am said:
brightonpoliticsblogger: “I for one am disgusted that a non-elected panel can suspend a councillor who has been democratically elected.”
And I, for one, am disgusted that a democratically elected councillor has surely flouted the rules of the Council by filming a meeting and posting it on to the internet.
Cllr Jason Kitcat: “Personally I think councillor and officers have more important issues to tackle at the moment.”
Indeed, sir!
Still, at least you can have a break now, eh?
Jason Kitkat did not film a meeting. The Council did, and made it available, as with any other document. Perhaps the Council does not like the further airing of material that is more detailed than the parallel minutes?
planetpmc, on July 12, 2010 at 7:51 pm said:
Andy Richards, on July 13, 2010 at 11:21 am said:
I am amazed that this piece of misinformation is still circulating in relation to this. Kitcat DID NOT FILM THE MEETING, ok? Try reading reports properly!
Jim Killock, on September 11, 2010 at 4:53 pm said:
I know Jason, as he works with me on problems with evoting and ecounting at the Open Rights Group, but haven’t discussed this with him recently. Is Jason being accused of copyright infringement? If so, this is pretty despicable. Copyright is not meant to be a means to constrain free speech.
Or is it – I don’t really understand – that the complaint that the use of a clip was “political”? In which case, are Councillors supposed to be free of political opinions, or what? Or is the use of the Council website’s material meant to be “non-political”?
It would be good to see how this complaint has been framed, on the face of it seems quite shocking.
Alex Miahkhan, on October 15, 2010 at 8:30 pm said:
I applaude the desicion on the “standards committee”. Cllr Kitcat does not act in fairness to all the Regency ward voters, the very people who voted him. I do not reprecent any political party, but I have wittnessed Cllr Kitcat on various occassion as being unfair to all. He takes sides, as an elected Cllr he needs to act for all the people and their concern in the area, but instead he does the opposite! I am glad that this kind of Cllr are suspended. We are a democracy, a Cllr needs to act for all and above all needs to be fair. Cllr Kitcat naturally isn’t that. He has a long way to go in being a public servent.
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Mission, Values
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Ukrainian program
Secondary schooling at British International School in Ukraine is available at three of our campuses in Kyiv and Dnipro.
The Kyiv Nivki Secondary Campus was the one where the history of British International School in Ukraine started 20 years ago. Today the campus serves children 11-16 years of age and offers the English National Curriculum Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 Cambridge IGCSE. The Nivki Secondary campus is a Cambridge authorised exam centre where students can be assessed using the Cambridge Checkpoint exams and the Cambridge IGCSE exams.
The school also offers a Dual Curriculum programme for parents who wish their children to study for the Ukrainian Atestat.
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The Kyiv Pechersk Campus welcomes children 3-18 years of age and offers the full cycle of secondary education. From Nursery to Year 6 students follow ІВ Primary Years Program. In Years 7-9 they study the English National Curriculum Key Stage 3. At the end of Year 9 students are assessed using the Cambridge Checkpoint exams. In Years 10 and 11 (Key Stage 4) students are prepared for the Cambridge IGCSE exams.
In Years 12-13 students can study IB Diploma Program. The school also offers a Dual Curriculum programme for parents who wish their children to study for the Ukrainian Atestat.
The Kyiv Pechersk Campus opened in 2011.
1 Dragomyrova Str.
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The Dnipro Campus invites children 3-17 years of age and offers the full cycle of secondary education. From Nursery to Year 6 students follow a curriculum in line with ІВ Primary Years Program. In Years 7-9 they study the English National Curriculum Key Stage 3 and at the end of Year 9 sit the Cambridge Checkpoint exams. In Years 10 and 11 (Key Stage 4) students are prepared for the Cambridge IGCSE exams.
The Dnipro Campus also offers a Dual Curriculum program for parents who wish their children to study for the Ukrainian Atestat.
39a Antonovych Str.
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The luxurious Caribbean resort where Justin Trudeau and his family vacationed
With winter in full swing, Justin Trudeau whisked his family away for some fun in the sun over the new year’s break. The prime minster and his wife, Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau, treated their children -- eight-year-old Xavier, Ella, 6, and one-year-old Hadrien -- to a luxurious vacation on the Caribbean island of Nevis. The family stayed at Paradise Beach, a privately owned resort located on the west coast of the island.
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The Trudeau family enjoyed a week-long break in Nevis. Photo: © Paradise Beach Resort
The Trudeaus stayed in one of the property’s secluded beach villas, complete with private pool and full kitchen. They spent their days building sandcastles on the beach, paddle boarding and snorkelling in the pristine sea. During one evening, the Trudeau was spotted socializing at the hotel bar with acquaintances, including James Curleigh, Global president of Levi Strauss & Co.
The family stayed in a four-bedroom villa. Photo: © Paradise Beach Resort
As stunning as the resort is, Trudeau did venture outside the property to explore the 58-km volcanic island, which has been a favourite destination of celebrities such as Oprah and Michael Douglas. Princess Diana is also said to have spent time in Nevis. The 44-year-old politician enjoyed a meal at hot spot Sunshine's and even met the man who inspired the restaurant's famous Killer Bee cocktail. He was also spotted enjoying a hike through a rainforest and visiting the birthplace of U.S. Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.
Trudeau dropped by the island's famous Sunshine restaurant. Photo: © Paradise Beach Resort
Even though the Trudeaus freely roamed the property, security was very tight. Hotel staff did their best to kept the family's stay quiet, but the added guard presence around the resort peaked other guests' interest. A representative for Paradise Beach told Hello! that given the heightened security, one guest was convinced it was The Leftovers star and Jennifer Aniston's husband Justin Theroux who was causing all the commotion.
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Brazilian investor group Abradin files complaint against Embraer-Boeing deal
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Brazilian aviation company Embraer is seen during the Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition fair (LABACE) at Congonhas Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil August 14, 2018. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A Brazilian group representing minority investors filed a complaint on Tuesday with Brazil’s antitrust watchdog CADE against the Embraer-Boeing deal.
The head of the Abradin group, Aurelio Valporto, said it asked for an investigation of the deal. Abradin also filed a complaint with the European Commission two months ago arguing that the acquisition of Embraer SA’s (EMBR3.SA) commercial division by Boeing Co (BA.N) creates hurdles to competition in the Brazilian aerospace industry.
Former leftist presidential candidate Ciro Gomes also filed a complaint with the Brazilian antitrust watchdog and is seeking an injunction from Brazil’s Supreme Court to block the deal.
Embraer said in a statement that it is working with global regulators on the Boeing deal, which has been approved in the United States, China and Japan. The company said it will continue to cooperate with other regulators.
Reporting by Alberto Alerigi Jr; Writing by Tatiana Bautzer; Editing by Dan Grebler
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Ember Rev : From The Country To The City To The Sea, LP released 20 September 2019
A new album from Cambridge art/folk rockers Ember Rev, a complex mixture of acoustic mystery and thoughtful intensity. It is said there are only seven basic plots for any story, this presumably applies to concept albums too; here it is the ‘quest’ and the ‘voyage and return’ that give an arc to this set of songs and instrumentals.
‘Like Dreamers’ places the story in possibly an imaginary context, a floating ethereal landscape where the cymbals roll in and out and the accordion becomes a haunting meander. ‘From The Country ‘ describes the optimistic and youthful narrators setting off on an odyssey across the countryside into Cambridge ‘….and with our hip flask full and boots tied tight we set off to search for gold….’. The groove of this track stays restless and Dan Ecclestone’s vocals immediately pull you into the action.
‘To The City’ jumps ahead to a surreal interlude of a parade of lanterns in the capital, a metaphor for moving on. The most uptempo track here, it has a satisfyingly loose structure with a neat hookline and guitar figure, eventually dissolving into an extended workout with guest clarinet making a welcome contribution.
Two instrumentals follow, the first a short scene-setter with extra tuned percussion cameos then ‘Walk/Don’t Walk’ is a more ambitious piece, with terrific drumming driving a late seventies Brand X influenced piece of jazz fusion. ‘And So To The Sea’ hints at a tragedy to come on the final stage of the journey/quest ‘…..but I waited, I waited there at the water’s edge you never returned….’. The acoustic guitar gleams with melancholy and dominates the song. ‘Be Still’ is a wordless meditation where the mournful voice becomes a darker instrument to counterpoint the light of the accordion.
‘Ultramarine’ is a multi-sectioned piece with surreal musings on life and death with the inevitable draw of the sea for the central character ‘…let’s swim with the fishes tonight..and dance to their ebb and their flow…had you asked me jump I’d have jumped; and the waves would’ve welcomed me under…’. Instrumentally there is lots going on here – all of the band making an excellent contribution to this affecting mini-movie.
As Dan performs the Peter Gabriel-esque final track ‘Like Dolphins’ he leaves the listener in no doubt that the allusions in earlier songs reference a tragedy ‘….for though we slowly came of age you remained…and of your bones are coral made…’; one that lingers with those involved, as does this very personal and thought-provoking album.
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This entry was posted in Music and tagged album, Cambridge, Ember Rev, LP, review on July 28, 2019 by iknoweno.
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On blazars, quantum computers, and looking for life on Mars: A recap of TEDFellows Session 1 at TED2015
Posted by: Karen Frances Eng
Astrophysicist Jedidah Isler talks about the wonder of supermassive hyperactive black holes — called blazars, or blazing quasars — during TED Fellows Talks, Session 1. Photo: Ryan Lash/TED
TED Fellows and Senior Fellows have just opened TED2015 with a bang in the beautiful Kay Meek theatre in Vancouver. In the first session, discover: how bacteria can be programmed to detect and treat cancer, a yellow legal pad that smuggles transgressive data into the halls of power, what makes non-state armed groups tick, hyperactive supermassive black holes — and much more.
East African singer Somi sets the mood for the TED2015 Fellows talks with Abbey Lincoln’s “Should Have Been,” accompanied on double bass by Jodi Proznick. (Read more about Somi and her album The Lagos Music Salon on the TED Blog.
There are more bacteria in our bodies than stars in our galaxy, says bioengineer Tal Danino, and they are an integral part of our health. But did you know that we can program bacteria as though they were computers? Danino first engineered bacteria to produce fluorescent proteins in a rhythmic fashion, and generated a molecule that allows bacteria to communicate and synchronize. Danino next turned his attention to using programmable bacteria to detect and treat diseases like cancer. He programmed a bacteria to alert to the presence of liver cancer by producing a molecule that changes the color of urine in cancer’s presence. Another bacteria can be programmed to produce molecules that cause tumors to shrink. Danino also produces beautiful works of art using bacteria engineered to form complex patterns; he shows an image of a colorful and intricate mandala, a symbol of the universe, that speaks to the power and beauty of the invisible.
Some people are moved by sunsets, weddings, a child’s birth. But for artist Sarah Sandman, marching band parades make the tears flow. Why? It’s the magical togetherness of people moving in sync that pulls her heartstrings, she says. An artist who designs ways to bring people together, Sandman cares less about personal expression than about creating human connection, “extracting a collective voice.” Her projects have included designing black hand-shaped protest signs with her HOSTOS South Bronx students to join the Hands Up, Don’t Shoot movement, Human Scrabble games where total strangers race to form words together, and Gift Cycle — in which she and her collaborator rode 75 miles a day from community to community all the way across the United States, carrying local art from one location to exchange with artists in the next community. A narrative of togetherness emerged, unexpected acts of kindness, fun, and generosity — building social capital through the sweat of altruism.
Stellar astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz speaks about how searching for habitable planets beyond Earth can help us treasure and preserve our own. Fellows talks Session 1, TED2015 – Truth and Dare, March 16-20, 2015, Kay Meek Center, West Vancouver, Canada. Photo: Ryan Lash/TED
Stellar astronomer and TED Senior Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz works with NASA’s Kepler mission, searching for unknown planets by looking for the dimming of starlight as planets pass in front of them, as well as looking for clues as to whether the planets we do find might be habitable: “You could say I look for choice alien real estate!” Meanwhile, she says, Earth is undergoing dramatic changes at the hands of humanity — and she’s worried that our belief that we can find a habitable planet “out there” to save us from destruction may be preventing us from fully appreciating and making the best of the only habitable planet we do know — Earth. We excitedly look to Mars as a possible new home, for example, as its environment somewhat resembles our own deserts — yet we still have a long way to go in colonizing our own. Planetary exploration and preservation are two sides of the same goal, says Walkowicz. Maybe we can do both at once.
Slovenian photographer Jošt Franko takes us to Gaza, about two months after the 2014 war, to show us the devastating and often unseen consequences of conflict. Many of his subjects, rendered in black and white, are Palestinian farming families deeply affected by the atrocities of war, people whose homes have been destroyed and whose land and crops have been rendered uncultivable or lost to encroaching buffer zones between Israel and the Gaza Strip. His images show children living in a UN refugee school, farmers looking over their ruined fields, a makeshift rooftop playground surrounded by snipers. “I aim my camera at the world beyond the world of fighting and blood, and document lives,” he says. “The main story of every war isn’t the fighting but civilians who struggle to survive long after the bombing has stopped.”
Whiteflies devastate cassava by transmitting a destructive virus to the staple crop, on which 700 million people depend for their daily food. Smallholder farmers in Africa rely on cassava not only to feed their families, but as a cash crop that pays for the other necessities of life, such as school fees and health care. Computational biologist Laura Boykin uses genomics, supercomputing and phylogenetics to study the speciation of whitefly. So far, she has identified 34 species of Bemisia tabaci, information crucial for researchers to develop cassava that is genetically modified to be virus resistant as well as resistant to the correct whitefly. She announces that her team at the University of Western Australia is making this information available to the scientific community with the launch of WhiteFlyBase – the world’s first database of whitefly genetic information. Boykin’s dream: to soon see East African markets filled with healthy and plentiful cassava, and for the region to be food secure for many years to come.
Jonathan Home is building a quantum computer at the atomic level. He explains during TED Fellows Talks, Session 1, at TED2015. Photo: Ryan Lash/TED
Have you ever seen an atom? In the photograph that opens quantum scientist Jonathan Home’s talk, a lineup of seven individual atoms look like a row of stars. These are the building blocks of matter — but Home is isolating them in order to build a new kind of computer, one that can solve complex problems of science and mathematics — as well as crack RSA cryptography — far more quickly than a classic supercomputer, using far less space. So how to build one? Home manipulates individual atoms’ quantum states using laser pulses, and manipulates the connections between atoms to create circuits, using atoms as quantum wires to communicate information. How close are we to quantum computing? There is no fundamental barrier, says Home. The challenge now is to build larger systems, requiring building more complex structures, something that may be possible with fabrication methods used to make the chips in our current-day laptops.
Neuroscientist and co-founder of Backyard Brains Greg Gage delights the crowd with a demo of his Human-to-Human Interface, the latest in his set of low-cost, DIY kits designed to make learning about neuroscience accessible to young people. Applying sensors to the arms of volunteers Samantha and Miguel (“You’re about to lose your will,” Gage warned), Gage showed how electrical activity from Sam’s brain as she flexed her arm sent a signal to Miguel’s ulnar nerve, causing his arm to contract involuntarily. The best part? When Gage manipulated Samantha’s arm himself, nothing happened — proving that brain activity, not muscles, are the origin of movement.
At 12, astrophysicist Jedidah Isler fell for the love of her life: the night sky. Now she studies some of the most exotic objects in the universe, including supermassive hyperactive black holes called blazars — or blazing quasars. These devour material at the rate of a thousand times more than an average supermassive black hole, and produce powerful particle streams. Blazars pull in material via an accretion disk that spins around the black hole, and shoot it out via jets that move at 99.99% the speed of light — some of which are pointed at Earth. Isler is working to understand how and where the highest-energy light from the jet is made, and how energy is transported through the galaxy. “Who knew that chasing after the universe would ground me so deeply to my mission here on Earth? Then again, when do we ever know where love’s first flutter will truly take us?”
As a result of the US-led invasion of Iraq, an estimated 150,000 to 1 million Iraqis lost their lives, says artist Matt Kenyon — a number that stands in startling contrast to the 4,486 American service members who died in the same period. Yet it’s the latter number most often quoted in Western media. Wanting to create a monument to individual Iraqi lives, Kenyon took inspiration from a school civics assignment, in which a teacher encouraged students to write a thoughtful letter to a member of government in the hope of getting a reply. His monument, Notepad, looks like an everyday yellow legal pad, but its lines, specially printed in microtext, contain the names, locations and dates of Iraqi civilian casualties. Kenyon has smuggled these pads into the stationery supplies of US and coalition governments, sort of a Trojan horse of transgressive data. Now he offers each member of the Fellows audience a sheet, asking them to use it to write to a member of US government. As each piece of government correspondence is archived in the Library of Congress, Kenyon’s monument will infiltrate and become part of the US permanent historical record.
Artist Matt Kenyon wants to infiltrate the halls of power with transgressive data. Photo: Ryan Lash/TED
Physical therapy can be painful, frustrating and boring, as Romanian physical therapy entrepreneur Cosmin Mihaiu knows firsthand. As a kid, he fell out of a tree and broke his arm during a game of hide-and-seek. His physical therapist advised him to flex and extend his arm 100 times a day, 7 days a week, to regain movement after the cast came off. Of course he balked at doing his exercises, and recovery took months longer than necessary. His story is common: patient noncompliance in physical therapy is high. Mihaiu’s software platform MIRA Rehab could change all that. Running on a PC with a Kinect controller, MIRA creates fun-to-play games that lead patients through therapy-specific exercises — like navigating a bumblebee through a garden with flex-and-extend motions — while allowing physical therapists to monitor recovery. The games are appropriate for all ages and address orthopedic and neurological problems, and more games are in development for children with autism and for speech therapy. MIRA Rehab is already being used in 10 clinics in Europe and the United States. Meanwhile, a home version is in the works.
“What do non-state armed groups do when they’re not shooting?” asks Middle East policy analyst Benedetta Berti. In order to engage or defeat groups like Hamas, Hezbollah or ISIL, we need to understand what makes them tick. Contrary to their portrayal in Western media, non-state groups are quite plugged in. Hamas has set up media communication — radio, TV, its own social media strategy, says Berti. ISIL even has its own glossy magazine, published in English for the sake of recruitment. Non-state groups launch for-profit companies that fund their activities. But what makes them so popular? Berti suggests that non-state groups are filling a vacuum by offering the services governments are failing to provide. They win populations over by building schools and hospitals, and offering vocational training programs and microloans. And, as with the Taliban, they can offer personal safety, social order and security. Yet in the West, all we see is the violence. Once we accept how complex and sophisticated such groups are, the less we can think of them as the opposite of the state. “Military can win battles but not give us peace,” says Benedetti. Perhaps the journey there will require governments to invest more in their people’s nonmilitary needs. Read more on ideas.ted.com.
Astronomer Aomawa Shields looks for other planets in the universe where life might exist. While some astronomers do this work by measuring the distance between planets and their suns, Shields uses computer models to calculate the kind of atmosphere a planet would need in order to be able to support life, because while distance to a star is one marker of habitability, it’s not the only one. For example, while Venus looks hospitable, its surface is 900 degrees Fahrenheit, hot enough to melt lead – not due to its proximity to the sun but to its thick atmosphere, which traps heat. Another contradiction: ice on a planet orbiting a cooler star could absorb heat to make it warmer than a planet orbiting a warmer star. Shields, who besides being an astronomer is a classically trained actor, also works to interweave science, art and education with her organization Rising Stargirls, which teaches astronomy to middle-school girls of color, using theater, writing and visual art. She hopes that “maybe one day they’ll join the ranks of astronomers who are full of contradictions — and use their backgrounds to discover, once and for all, that we are truly not alone in the universe.”
Negin Farsad skewers the Iranian-American experience during TED Fellows talks. Photo: Ryan Lash/TED
What do mushrooms have to do with climate change? In agricultural entrepreneur Trang Tran’s native Vietnam, farmers traditionally burn the straw left over after the rice harvest, twice a year, for two months at a time. This is a common practice in rice-producing countries around the world, says Tran. In Vietnam alone, 20 million tons of rice straw are burned annually, releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and the particulate matter, when inhaled, causes health problems in poor communities. Tran and a friend did some research and discovered rice straw is a perfect substrate for growing mushrooms. They gathered some straw, soon had a delicious crop of mushrooms, and even found that the used substrate made excellent amendment for soil. When Tran returned to Vietnam from getting her MBA in the US, she launched her social enterprise Fargreen to teach farmers this sustainable, profitable and closed-loop mushroom production model — which also saves farmers from having to travel to the city between rice crops to earn money. Fargreen’s farmers have so far collectively saved 10 tons of straw from being burned — equivalent to 10 tons of greenhouse gases.
Paleontologist and National Geographic explorer Nizar Ibrahim wonders why so many of our favorite exotic, alien worlds and creatures exist as figments of our imagination? He takes us on a tour of what is now the Sahara Desert, traveling back in time 100 million years to a lush and extreme ecosystem that he describes as the most dangerous place in the history of our planet. “Three different kinds of flying dragons inhabit this alien world,” he says, “and its huge river systems cover an area approaching the size of the continental US — in which giant river monsters patrol in search of car-sized fish.” This aquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus, was bigger than T rex, had a sail taller than a human, long slender jaws for fishing — and, says Ibrahim, makes our imaginary dragons seem pretty boring in comparison. Ibrahim, who helped co-discover the Spinosaurus, continues to comb the Sahara sands for fossils of these fantastic creatures, his discoveries resurrecting a real past that is more bizarre than we could possibly imagine.
Standup comedian, filmmaker and writer Negin Farsad ends Session 1 with an edgy, uproarious and downright scatological take on the trials and tribulations of being an Iranian-American in Iran (“Maybe I should hide all the freedoms I enjoy — like boys, and alcohol, and peaceable assembly…”), involving an unfortunate incident with an American-style, husband-repelling toilet.
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Giant pouched rats, baby corals & the FBI: A recap of TEDFellows Session 2 at TED2015
By Karen Frances Eng
In Session 2 of the TED Fellows talks, we learn about the FBI’s use of informants in counterterrorism operations, how giant pouched rats are helping to save lives, laser-delivered HIV drugs, how Silicon Valley companies are working to protect our privacy — and that’s not to mention the piano solo, percussive dance and opera! Sri Lankan […]
Rhythms of starlight, melodies of astrophysics: Fellows Friday with Lucianne Walkowicz
on Mar 8, 2013
Ever wondered what the music of the cosmos sounds like? You’re about to find out. Astrophysicist and TED Senior Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz works on the Kepler mission, looking at a patch of our galaxy to learn about stars and their planets. During an interview at TED2013, she mentioned that she is also an artist and […]
Erica Morgan commented on Mar 22 2015
This is phenomenal! When will recordings of Session 1 be made available?
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‘Tax Cuts 2.0’ could include a rate reduction for the middle class. Here’s who would benefit most
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Reducing the 22% marginal rate to 15% would deliver a $770 billion tax cut through 2025, according to an analysis by the Tax Foundation.
However, the benefit to the middle class would be minimal because not much of their income is taxed at 22%.
In mid-November, Larry Kudlow, Trump’s top economic advisor, told CNBC’s “Closing Bell” that any plans for a so-called Tax Cuts 2.0 are in the “very preliminary stages right now.”
Don’t be surprised if a proposal billed as a middle-class tax cut emerges from the White House at some point next year.
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With the president’s hope to make it an election issue — as recently described by his top economic policy advisor in an interview with CNBC — the idea is to lower taxes on America’s middle earners in a package dubbed “Tax Cut 2.0.” Yet one of the early ideas floated — reducing the 22% marginal rate to 15% — could miss the mark.
“That actually wouldn’t do much of anything to cut taxes for the middle class,” said Daniel Bunn, director of global projects for the Tax Foundation, an independent tax policy research group.
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“If cutting the rate doesn’t really accrue to those folks, then maybe you look at broadening eligibility for refundable tax credits as a more direct route for a middle-class tax cut,” Bunn said.
The first round of tax cuts under the Trump administration — delivered via the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — largely benefited the wealthy in its first full year of being in effect, critics say.
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On average, U.S. households paid about $1,300 less in individual income taxes in 2018 than they would have under the previous law, according to an estimate from the Tax Policy Center, which also does independent analyses of tax policy. About 65% paid less, 6% paid more and the remaining 29% paid about the same.
However, broken down by income, the picture varies significantly: Households with less than about $25,000 got an average tax cut of about $40, compared with about $800 for those with income from about $48,000 to $86,000, and about $33,000 in tax savings for those with $733,000 or more in income (the top 1%).
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In mid-November, Larry Kudlow, Trump’s top economic advisor, told CNBC’s “Closing Bell” that any plans for Tax Cuts 2.0 are in the “very preliminary stages right now.”
“This thing will not be completed for many months and it will be released as a strategic pro-growth document for the campaign,” said Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council. “We want to see middle-income taxpayers get the lowest possible rates.”
He also said: “Whether we get to 15% on a middle-class tax rate — I don’t know. Sounds like a pretty good idea to me.”
While there’s no certainty whether that rate would be included, Bunn’s group examined the effect of reducing the current 22% marginal rate to 15%. (The other existing rates, which apply to certain brackets of income, are 10%, 12%, 24%, 32%, 35% and 37%.)
In short, while reducing that one rate would be a $770 billion tax cut through 2025, the benefit to the middle class would be minimal because not much of their income is taxed at 22%. For singles, that rate applies to taxable income (after all deductions and credits ) of $39,476 to $84,200 in 2019. For married couples, the range is $78,951 to $168,400.
The median U.S. household income is about $63,200, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
“You would have some increase in after-tax income for the middle class, but it’s 0.001%, which rounds to zero,” Bunn said.
And, the wealthiest taxpayers would again benefit the most, the Tax Foundation’s analysis shows. Those in the 90th to 95th percentile would see after-tax income increase by 2.45%.
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The top 1% would get 0.4% more — a small benefit, but still more than 80% of earners.
The reason is that regardless of a person’s overall income, any amount that falls into each of seven defined brackets is taxed at a specific rate.
In other words, whether someone has income of $20,000 or $2 million, the lowest federal rate — 10% — applies to a certain amount of that income (zero to $19,400 for a married couple and up to $9,700 for a singles). The next rate (12%) applies to another range of income, and so on — with the top rate of 37% applying to income above $612,351 for married couples and $510,301 for singles.
Meanwhile, another factor feeding into the discussion for Tax Cuts 2.0 is the 2025 expiration of both the current rates and a variety of other changes that affect individual taxpayers. In contrast, the corporate rate was reduced permanently to 21% from 35% in the 2017 tax law.
“Generally speaking, stable tax policy is more efficient from a policy perspective than something you’d do ad hoc or temporarily,” Bunn said.
He added that the trade-off would be the revenue challenges created for the federal government. His group estimates that it would cost $638 billion over the next 10 years if the current individual tax cuts were made permanent.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act already was expected to add about $1.5 trillion to the national deficit over a decade.
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We built WhatsApp as a private messaging app - a simple, secure, and reliable way to communicate with friends and family. And as we've added new features, we've been careful to try and keep that feeling of intimacy, which people say they love.
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Today, we're launching a test to limit forwarding that will apply to everyone using WhatsApp. In India - where people forward more messages, photos, and videos than any other country in the world - we'll also test a lower limit of 5 chats at once and we'll remove the quick forward button next to media messages.
We believe that these changes - which we'll continue to evaluate - will help keep WhatsApp the way it was designed to be: a private messaging app.
We are deeply committed to your safety and privacy which is why WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, and we'll continue to improve our app with features like this one. For more information, please visit our WhatsApp Safety Tips page.
UPDATE: WhatsApp carefully evaluated this test and listened to user feedback over a six-month period. The forward limit significantly reduced forwarded messages around the world. Starting today, all users on the latest versions of WhatsApp can now forward to only five chats at once, which will help keep WhatsApp focused on private messaging with close contacts. We'll continue to listen to user feedback about their experience, and over time, look for new ways of addressing viral content.
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Sunday bonus links: all about Occupy Wall Street
November 6, 2011 at 12:30 pm | In crime, guerilla_politics, links, politics | Comments Off on Sunday bonus links: all about Occupy Wall Street
I’m neglecting my blog again, lately just posting my weekly Sunday Diigo Links posts, but on this Sunday, here are a couple of extra links that deserve a spotlight.
These articles focus in some way on the Occupy Wall Street groundswell, which is in danger of being squashed by the stirrup-holders of the financial system (to repurpose a phrase). But the OWS message needs to be heard (and sharpened, versus diluted), as it’s the best bet we have to effect much-needed change.
…Oh, change – that word. Wasn’t that what Obama promised? Whatever happened to that?
First up, two articles by Rolling Stone‘s Matt Taibbi. On October 25 he posted Wall Street Isn’t Winning – It’s Cheating, which (aside from arguing a range of critical points, such as that it isn’t “envy of the rich” that’s driving the OWS movement) offered the following nugget of information. This, folks, totally threw me for a loop:
One thing we can still be proud of is that America hasn’t yet managed to achieve the highest incarceration rate in history — that honor still goes to the Soviets in the Stalin/Gulag era. But we do still have about 2.3 million people in jail in America.
Virtually all 2.3 million of those prisoners come from “the 99%.” Here is the number of bankers who have gone to jail for crimes related to the financial crisis: 0.
Millions of people have been foreclosed upon in the last three years. In most all of those foreclosures, a regional law enforcement office — typically a sheriff’s office — was awarded fees by the court as part of the foreclosure settlement, settlements which of course were often rubber-stamped by a judge despite mountains of perjurious robosigned evidence. [emphasis added]
That means that every single time a bank kicked someone out of his home, a local police department got a cut. Local sheriff’s offices also get cuts of almost all credit card judgments, and other bank settlements. [emphasis added] If you’re wondering how it is that so many regional police departments have the money for fancy new vehicles and SWAT teams and other accoutrements, this is one of your answers.
What this amounts to is the banks having, as allies, a massive armed police force who are always on call, ready to help them evict homeowners and safeguard the repossession of property. But just see what happens when you try to call the police to prevent an improper foreclosure. Then, suddenly, the police will not get involved. It will be a “civil matter” and they won’t intervene.
The point being: we have a massive police force in America that outside of lower Manhattan prosecutes crime and imprisons citizens with record-setting, factory-level efficiency, eclipsing the incarceration rates of most of history’s more notorious police states and communist countries.
But the bankers on Wall Street don’t live in that heavily-policed country. There are maybe 1000 SEC agents policing that sector of the economy, plus a handful of FBI agents. There are nearly that many police officers stationed around the polite crowd at Zucotti park. (more)
Please read the whole article. Breathtaking.
Call me naive, but I had no idea that local (US) police forces were benefiting from this crisis – and that this means, as per the ever-useful “follow the money” mantra, they are corrupted by the financial crisis. I had heard that private corporations “contract” police services in NYC (with the tax-paying public holding the bag for police insurance, no less), but I had no idea that police departments were effectively skimming off the top of the foreclosure/ eviction crisis. This is so wrong.
…If the cops wore logos on their uniforms that identify all the corporations overtly or covertly paying for their services, they too would look like race car drivers…
Well, that’s a real nail in the coffin of democracy. You have to wonder whether the financial industries realize how dangerous their game is. As Taibbi points out in his article, Americans have never resented the rich – we’ve adulated them. We love Horatio Alger stories, we believe in bootstrapping. And we believe in winning. But we hate cheaters – and by making cheating into their actual modus operandus, these guys are shaking down the whole country. What a dangerous and rotten game, and how unworthy of America.
Taibbi’s other article of note is his take-down of NYC’s Mayor: Mike Bloomberg’s Marie Antoinette Moment. This is another breathtaking read – Taibbi isn’t just a great writer, he’s absolutely fearless. I guess my take-away from this piece was that it isn’t the “anonymous” protesters who are wearing the masks – it’s people like Bloomberg. And Taibbi’s article reveals Bloomberg’s true face (one that’s beholden to the banking industry and its friends, not to the people he’s supposed to be serving). As Taibbi puts it:
Well, you know what, Mike Bloomberg? FUCK YOU. People are not protesting for their own entertainment, you asshole. They’re protesting because millions of people were robbed, by your best friends incidentally, and they want their money back. (source)
Seems it’s time to stop mincing words. President Obama, where are you in all this?
Speaking of Obama, we need a Teddy Roosevelt. See Simon Johnson: ‘We Are Looking Straight Into The Face Of A Great Depression’ – not for the faint of heart. Everywhere, it seems, people with brains and expertise are saying: hold on, this can’t continue. The “this” in question is the privatization of profit and the socialization of risk and losses. Why does it continue?
Oh, wait… follow the money… Which brings me to my last link, Guy Dauncey‘s November editorial in his Earth Future newsletter, Nailing the Jello to the Door.
The “door” Dauncey refers to is the door on which Martin Luther nailed his Reformation theses on October 31, 1571. Luther had clear theses, not jello – much of what’s happening with the Occupy Wall Street protests articulates the demand for Reformation (reform) as jello (and that’s where writers like Taibbi et al. are doing such important work, because they’re pointing out that there are clear rallying points – theses – for reform).
Dauncey notes that the #1 demand for OWS should be “get the money out of politics”:
In America, there is clear justification for articulating the Number #1 demand as “Get the money out of politics!”. The corruption of American politics by money is legend. So let’s say it is successful, and Americans achieve what Canada has already done.
Most Americans have no idea that Canadian political parties are publicly funded based on their share of the vote at the last election, and that no-one, whether billionaire or broom-pusher, can donate more than $1,000 to a party.
It is due to controls like this that Canada’s banking regulators are not controlled by the banks, and that Canada did not experience the sub-prime mortgage scandal that is causing such chaos and tragedy in America.
Canada’s tragedy is that Harper’s Conservative government is planning to abolish this very constraint, so one of our demands here in Canada must be “Keep the money out of politics!” (source)
But, as Dauncey notes, Canada has similar problems as America: poverty, inequality, corporate influence. It’s still a follow the money question. Referencing an earlier infographic in New Scientist, Dauncey notes that:
A new analysis by complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a core of 1318 interlocking companies which control 80% of the world’s global operating revenues.
Within these, 147 tightly knit companies (1% of the core) control 40% of the wealth. Most are financial institutions such as Barclays Bank, JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, but the top ten also includes companies that almost nobody has heard of such as FMR, AXA and Capital Group Companies.
Furthermore, most or all of these companies operate with off-shore tax havens where they hide their wealth and avoid paying taxes. They are like Jello – if you try to pin them down, they simply move their money somewhere else, managed by anonymous trusts that no-one has the power to investigate or control. Collectively, they are a three-foot wide lump of Jello, and our regulatory powers are a single thumb. [emphasis added]
So what could crack the core of the problem and nail the Jello to the door? We need to capture the flight capital and close down the world’s tax havens, aided by a Tax Evasion Complicity Law which would make it a criminal offense to knowingly serve as a fund manager, accountant, trustee, lawyer or corporate nominee for a known tax evader.
And that last suggestion – which would strike at the heart of a global ecosystem that now feeds off that lump of jello – is probably what makes reform so difficult. Clamped tightly to the jello teat, weaning will be a challenge.
Infographic from New Scientist, "Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world "
Potted economy
August 6, 2010 at 10:22 pm | In addiction, crime, politics, social_critique | 2 Comments
Everybody is talking /writing) about pot, including pot in Canada, it seems. Nothing new, really: every Canadian (especially every British Columbian) knows it’s a resource and a big economic contributor.
Now a recent Guardian article by Douglas Haddow, Marijuana may cause Canada’s economic comedown, prompted even our local press conglomerate to publish a pretty good piece, Could legal California pot send Canadian profits up in smoke?, that takes a closer look at what’s surely a most interesting ecosystem of resource and distribution.
It’s not news to read that marijuana production is a big piece of British Columbia’s economy. And it’s not inspiring to read that we could kneecap the criminal element with the stroke of a pen (by legalizing marijuana production and distribution, and controlling it, the way we control and tax alcohol and cigarettes). I don’t care for pot myself – haven’t smoked it in decades, mainly because it’s not like wine, which goes with food (and I like my pleasures well-rounded!). That said, wine isn’t entirely harmless either, is it?
But wine is legal, and we have a culture of wine – whatever culture of pot actually exists doesn’t yank my chain, but that, too, speaks to the importance of cultures, which are created and nurtured, never given in a vacuum or created ex nihilo.
Right now, we’re creating a culture of pot that’s not exactly desirable.
I’d like to see a rational approach to “soft” drugs like marijuana especially, which would knock the legs out from under organized crime and gangs. And then, by all means, let’s go after the a-holes that produce and spread crack and meth (which imo is total poisonous garbage).
See, my take is this: Lumping all the qualities – the various drugs – together as a similar quantity is a huge, huge mistake. Instead, differentiate and sort the qualities: there are differences between pot versus crack or meth or IV drugs. When the legal system makes these very different qualities into the same thing, no one wins. I don’t want to get into discussions around legalizing hard drugs and garbage drugs – it seems to me (and this may sound cruel) that they affect such a small percentage of the population as to warrant a different approach that excludes accommodation. Marijuana, on the other hand, is total mainstream – has been since I was a kid, and I’m all grown up. Wasn’t a gateway back then for most of us, and isn’t a gateway now – the dastardly bastard organized crime element, however, is: they’re a vector for evil. They’re a gateway, no doubt about it, but it’s one that’s easy enough to close …through legalization.
Front-line/Downtown – Community Solutions
April 2, 2009 at 1:25 pm | In addiction, community_associations, crime, health, homelessness, housing, justice, leadership, local_not_global, victoria | 1 Comment
On Monday March 30, the Downtown Residents Association (DRA) hosted a public meeting, On The Front Lines: Community Solutions for Homelessness and Social Issues, at City Hall. Moderated by DRA chair Rob Randall, we heard from Victoria City Councilor Charlayne Thornton-Joe, the Coalition to End Homelessness‘s Jill Clements, the Downtown Victoria Business Association’s Ken Kelley, and Victoria Police Department Chief Jamie Graham.
Rob wrote a follow-up report on his blog – go check it out (especially the comments). Davin Greenwell also posted a great summary, and included photo documentation, so do take a look at it here.
I haven’t commented on Rob’s post, but just left a long comment on Davin’s entry. Click through to read my (partial) response to the session.
One of the categories I’m filing my post under is “leadership,” a quality that Jill Clements of the Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness seems to have, and it’s something we expect from Jamie Graham. We also see it in Charlayne Thornton-Joe.
As I was checking off categories, I also checked “justice,” as I was reminded of Graham’s discussion of implementing Restorative Justice (see Saanich’s program), which we hope to see used more frequently in Victoria. Incidentally, Restorative Justice is modeled on First Nations approaches to crime and social disorder, and reminded me that the American Congress (and Senate?) is modeled on a New World/ First Nations approach (vs. the British Parliamentarianism we still practice in Canada, where everyone shouts at the same time and heckles the opposition). Sorry, can’t provide a link right now, but just think of the concept of the talking stick. Works for me – bring it on.
Connect the dots: two articles by Miro Cernetig and Bob Ransford that should be read together
March 24, 2008 at 10:16 pm | In addiction, affordable_housing, canada, cities, crime, homelessness, housing, justice, leadership, local_not_global, social_critique, street_life, taxes, urbanism, vancouver, victoria | 1 Comment
The Vancouver Sun published two articles, nearly back-to-back, which make a lot of sense when read in conjunction: on March 22, we read Bob Ransford’s As cities become more complex, our taxes keep rising and on March 24 we read Milo Cernetig’s Approach to social woes a moral failure by all three main B.C. parties.
These two articles have to be comprehended together. One (Ransford’s) wants people to understand the economics of taxation that underlie municipal finance, while the other (Cernetig’s) wants people to understand how a certain kind of underfunding has produced the horrible social problems we see in our (BC) cities today. Cernetig references Vancouver, but Victoria has similar problems.
I have for some months now picked up on the criticisms of municipal infrastructure funding in Canada — even going so far as to publish a short piece on Vibrant Victoria on Dec.3/07, Victoria’s Choice: to be or not to be …is not the question. The gist of Ransford’s article elaborates on the theme I also addressed in my piece: cities (in my opinion, Canadian cities especially, although Ransford argues that it’s a Western/ First World global problem) are too dependent on single sources of income, primarily property taxes, while so-called senior levels of government (state or provincial, and federal) receive funding from many diverse sources of income: consumption taxes, income taxes, and so on. At the same time, cities are in the front line of having to provide services on every level.
This is lunacy, especially when you take into account the fact that cities generate most of a nation’s economic activity and wealth, and that they also will typically attract the largest populations of people dependent on what is collectively referred to as “services”: supported housing, addiction treatment, food banks, welfare, etc. Poor people come to cities because this is where the services are. Very often, they are in a city’s downtown, which is why you’ll find neighbourhoods in downtowns that become magnets for the visibly needy.
The problem is that these services are underfunded or even non-existent, some having once been funded by one of the two senior levels of government, but now having been off- or downloaded to municipalities.
And there we are, connecting the dots.
The Feds “downloaded” to the Provinces those services that used to be Federally-funded. The Provinces in turn have downloaded Provincially-funded services to the municipalities.
And, …well, the municipalities have no one to download to …except us. And that, in a nutshell, is my argument: citizens — people who live in cities — are shouldering the downloaded costs of all the stuff that all the other levels of government, including the municipalities, used to handle. Beggars on the streets; addicts shooting up in broad daylight; mentally ill people freaking out on corners; homeless people in every nook and cranny of public and private spaces; human feces on the sidewalks and in doorways; used needles in parks and on sidewalks; drug deals transacted openly on downtown streets… The list goes on.
The police refer to the mentally ill who openly use illegal drugs and defecate on the street and sleep in doorways as their “clients.” It seems to have gone by the board that the police shouldn’t be dealing with people on that end of the spectrum of social disorder in the first place — the police should be dealing with criminals and with law enforcement. When the people on that end of the spectrum engage in criminal activity — and they do, because they steal to stay alive and to feed their addictions — the police act like social workers …because that’s the role that has been downloaded to them, too.
Criminals exploit this.
My neighbours, who came home at 11pm on a recent weekend night to find that their basement door had been kicked in by thieves while they were away, thieves who robbed them of various items and who apparently fled just as the family returned home, had to wait for over 12 hours before the police could come over. And why was that? Perhaps they were too busy taking care of “clients”…
We — citizens — are the bottom of the food chain in this story. We — citizens — are the last link to off- or download to. We — citizens — are supposed to feel guilty if we don’t express or display the appropriate level of compassion toward the marginalized. But the citizen might ask herself, “Whatever happened to the idea that I pay my taxes, and that they pay for services intended to ameliorate these conditions?” The citizen still pays her taxes — and pays and pays and pays, if she lives in Canada — and the senior levels of government boast of surpluses. The municipalities, meanwhile, relying almost solely on the property taxes she and the many other citizens in the urban area pay, find themselves shouldering the cost of upgrading ancient infrastructure (sewage, roads, parks, recreation centres, etc.), plus the cost of “helping” the growing pool of service seekers.
But there are no provincial mental hospitals anymore, there is no affordable housing or supportive housing being built by the province or the feds, and all the damage that accrues from this out-casting has been downloaded to Joe and Jane Schmuck, i.e., you and me Citizen Jim and Citizen Jill.
That’s the dot.
Let me just present a couple of extract from the above-mentioned articles. Here’s Ransford:
Am I getting value for dollar for the property taxes I pay to local government? Politicians and bureaucrats at city hall would argue that I am getting more for my dollar than I ever have. Despite the fact that the number of employees at my city hall has grown faster than the rate of local population growth, the people that work there will tell you they are doing much more with fewer resources.
The fact is that cities across the country have become much more complex organizations than they were in the past and they have taken on more and more responsibilities. The federal and provincial governments have downloaded a long list of responsibilities on municipal governments. They have also stopped doing things that they once did as governments and the municipalities have stepped in and taken over where a need had to be met.
Social or non-market housing is a good example. Providing housing for the truly needy used to be almost the sole responsibility of the federal government. They started backing out of this area in the late 1980s and have next to no involvement today in funding what most are identifying is a desperate social need in our urban centres
The role of municipal governments has evolved. No longer do you look to your municipality merely to fix the potholes in the road in front of your house or to build and maintain the pipes that dispose of the sewage when you flush your toilet..
As Ransford points out (on page 2 of the article), a key problem here is aging populations:
The concept of a tax tied to the value of your home is beginning to make less practical sense with an aging urban population that will soon be dominated by retirees on fixed retirement incomes with all of their equity tied up in relatively expensive homes.
There’s only one kind of civic taxpayer and one source of civic revenue. There is a looming danger that taxpayer will soon no longer be able to fund the full cost of what it takes to run a city.
I would further add to Ransford’s excellent summing-up that Victoria’s troubles are uniquely compounded by our balkanized political system, which splits Victoria into many separate un-amalgamated municipalities (the Capital Regional District, which is all of Victoria, is 13 municipalities, each with its own mayor and council, fire chief, police department, and so on). At the same time, the City of Victoria holds the region’s downtown, the place where everyone comes for services — social services that range from food banks, charities, needle “exchanges,” and plain old week-end partying — many of which require policing and various levels of clean-up. Who pays? The City of Victoria, not the surrounding municipalities, which merely take advantage of what the City offers.
Let’s look at Milo Cernetig’s article now. He gets a gold star (in my book) for slamming all the BC provincial parties — too often and for too long, the problems we’re facing have been presented in partisan terms: it’s the BC Liberals’ fault (note to non-BC readers: the BC Liberals are sort of neo-conservative, and have little in common with the Federal Liberals); or it’s the NDP’s fault, and so on. Yadda yadda yadda. Blah blah blah.
Forget about it. That partisan shit has to stop, because it’s obvious that none of the parties have covered themselves in glory here, and that whole partisan shtick is old beyond words.
Here are some excerpts from Cernetig’s piece:
…here’s the fast-rewind of the amazing arc of policy blunders — given to us by a melange of Social Credit, New Democratic and Liberal governments — that I tried to explain.
First, imagine progressively shrinking the province’s major psychiatric hospital, Riverview, to save money. Then, in a cruel twist, offer no safe harbour for many of those psychiatric patients, who politicians told us would benefit from being “deinstitutionalized” and put back into society.
Instead, let large numbers of these truly desperate souls fend for themselves on our streets. Let them line up for a room in those bedbug-infested flophouses our health inspectors, for reasons that mystify, somehow allow to stay open. While we’re at it, we’ll also slow down the construction of new social housing, too, since it’s too expensive.
So now we’ve got all these lost souls begging and wandering the city’s downtown, often in a schizophrenic or crystal meth haze.
But we really haven’t done much about it. We’re not good at the tough job of distinguishing between vagrants (who should be moved on by the cops), or chronic criminals (who should be put in jail by judges) and the truly sick (who should be taken to shelters or hospitals by good beat cops, if we had enough of them).
Nope. We somehow got used to the sight of people sprawled on sidewalks and inside the doorways of the world’s “most livable” city.
There it is: another dot: We somehow got used to the sight of people sprawled on sidewalks and inside the doorways of the world’s “most livable” city.
The “somehow” in that sentence is “downloading.” We have been worn down by senior levels of government absenting themselves from the business of governing (a big piece of which includes providing services in exchange for all the money we fork over), and in the British tradition (within which we exist here), we have taken it uncomplainingly up the rear end, “muddling through” and accepting it all as if it were an inevitability.
That’s why we put up with the sight of what Cernetig describes, put up with open drug use, criminal transactions in plain daylight, and lunatics on our streets. In the British tradition, we are, after all, but subjects of these governments, not its master. Just as every level has downloaded — until there’s no one left to download to except to you and me, so every level absolves itself of accountability, because of course there’s always a higher level to defer to. In the last instance, the senior levels can defer to “the Crown,” a cruel joke referencing Canadian impotence.
The emancipation of Canadian cities is a project so inextricably tied to emancipation from old ways of tutelage and subjugation that it will amount to a revolution if it is ever to happen.
Unfortunately, since there has never been a Canadian revolution, I don’t hold out much hope for the emancipation / empowerment of Canadian cities. Perhaps — counter to my current pessimism — we’ll eventually strike some sort of paternalistic bargain with the “higher” levels of government after all. Since they hold the power already, they might grok the problem and step up, if only to maintain their hold.
At this point, I almost don’t care as long as the downloading stops.
Photograph by Ian Lindsay, from Milo Cernetig’s article.
The caption reads “A homeless person sleeps on a Cordova Street sidewalk in February. Figures show that investing in social housing would save B.C. $211 million annually.”
Is “balance” enough?
February 26, 2008 at 11:48 am | In crime, ideas, scenes_victoria, social_critique | 2 Comments
Just a quick post, as I’m still in catch-up mode. This morning I read an article in the local paper about a man who has 250 charges against him for public drunkenness, causing disturbances, aggressive panhandling, harassing people, and so on. “Red,” as he’s called in the article, is not homeless, according to police, and they do not believe that he has a mental health problem (although that’s debatable, given his behavior). See Persistent panhandler gets summons under a section of community charter.
Now the city will use a new community charter bylaw to haul this individual before court, where they hope the judge will sentence him to stay away from the downtown core. The intent is to ban Red from panhandling and from “socializing” downtown.
One city council member, quoted in the article, says, “There’s always got to be a balanced approach in dealing with all the issues.”
This bothers me, maybe because we hear too much about “balance” these days. The councilor is concerned that Red’s rights to be downtown on the street to panhandle (which isn’t illegal as such) aren’t infringed upon, and that the way to address the problems caused by the behaviors of people like Red is to seek balance. It somehow makes me think that balance is starting to become a sort of mantra which doesn’t allow valuation. And if that’s the case, you have to ask: Is “balance” stasis? If so, it’s death.
What about judgement? Are we (especially in Canada) so afraid of judging (as my daughter pointed out to me a couple of years ago, in Canada judges need to take workshops to learn how to be non-judgemental…) that we opt for balance (stasis), versus embracing quick, nimble, intellectually aware and alert change? And besides, isn’t our supposed balance often enough just an appearance of balance? All sorts of stuff is still out of whack beneath the surface and in other domains, and the fervent wish for balance is …well, just a wish. Perhaps a wish to get out of making judgements and decisions?
It’s ironic that the US should be full of religious evangelists, whose mantra on the Christian side of the register is not to judge, lest ye be judged, and yet it’s we in Canada, supposedly secular, who are holier than thou in being non-judgemental.
So here’s the deal: I have a problem with being non-judgemental, especially since I’m not a Christian or religious. Being non-judgemental might work fine in your spiritual life, but it sucks when it comes to ethics and politics and economics and policy. You know, it’s like that old shibboleth about rendering unto Caesar what’s Caesar’s and onto god what’s god’s.
Which finally makes me wonder if politicians, when they talk about “seeking balance,” are refusing to judge, …which makes me wonder whether focusing on “balance” is replacing decision-making. I also wonder whether balance in the spiritual sense was ever intended to be a sort of placeholder for anything, whether painful or pleasurable.
As an atheist, I object to any strategy or philosophy that introduces religion into politics. When people talk about “balance,” they usually mean something quasi-religious (or at least “spiritual,” whatever that horse of a different color means to all the riders out there). Whether the councilor in question is religious or not is moot for me at this point. I’m concerned with the discourse of “balance,” which is starting to sound like religion. I object to religion whenever and wherever it worms its way into places where it doesn’t belong.
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Boogie: Bleak Street Lifes (PingMag – The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things”) Annotated
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Interview with “Serbian photographer Boogie [who] grew up in the war-torn region of former Yugoslavia, documenting protests and the disturbing portraits of skinheads. After moving from Belgrade to Brooklyn in 1998, he started observing New York’s bleak street side of life with monochrome shots. Distinctively, his work isn’t emphatic. He doesn’t judge. He is more reporting on a not so distant universe with a fine eye for detail – and a lot of guts. He showed PingMag his depiction of Brooklyn gang life and junkies.” Boogie notes: “‘This whole life is a bunch of choices you make and they just made a couple of wrong ones,’ says photographer Boogie about his series on junkies in Brooklyn.”
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High Streets Initiative Praseeda Nair · 26 January 2018
Rural shopkeepers demand improved digital infrastructure to meet investment ambitions
Two-thirds of rural stores are independently run
Britain’s rural shopkeepers invested £315m into their business in 2017, new research has found, but poor digital infrastructure has undermined efforts to deliver crucial services to local communities.
The 2018 Rural Shop Report, released by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS), confirmed the importance of local convenience stores to rural areas, and provided an overview of the challenges facing such business owners.
With independent retailers making up 76 per cent of all rural stores, the sector is predominantly populated by small business owners. Rural shops also make up a third of all UK convenience stores.
As the majority of rural stores operate with no other business or service provider nearby, many are providing essential products and services that would otherwise be absent to local communities, such as bill payment services, free-to-use cash machines and postal services.
In 2017, rural shopkeepers invested a total of £315m into new services like contactless payment technologies and Post Office counters to meet the needs of customers. Investment increased steadily throughout each quarter, demonstrating optimistic outlook among business owners.
February 2017: £59m
May 2017: £74m
August 2017: £88m
November 2017: £94m
However, lack of high speed internet infrastructure, poor mobile data coverage and effective support for rising business rates have continued to cause concerns for rural shopkeepers.
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In 2015, the government proposed a Universal Service Obligation (USO) that set of a target of delivering speeds above ten megabits per second (Mbit/s) for every home and office premises in Britain. ACS welcomed this commitment, but recent Ofcom research revealed that 65,000 rural business owners continue to access internet speeds below this benchmark.
Commenting on the report, James Lowman, ACS chief executive, detailed some of the unique challenges facing rural shopkeepers, and called for new government strategies to support local high streets.
“Rural shops have to deal with many of the same issues as other stores such as rising employment costs and crime, but also face unique challenges when compared to their more urban counterparts,” he said.
“Sub-standard broadband and mobile connection speeds and a lack of effective business rates relief remain serious concerns for rural stores who are keen to invest in their businesses, offer more services, and use new technology to provide the service their customers need.”
Around a third of rural stores contain a Post Office counter, while a majority offer either cash back or a free ATM, according to the report. With Post Office numbers and the LINK cash machine network looking increasingly threatened, Lowman pointed out the importance of convenience stores to local communities.
“Rural shops are crucial to the UK economy and to the often isolated communities that they serve, and we encourage government to continue looking at ways to support these businesses and encourage retailers to invest.”
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Could “Belonging” be the next marketing revolution?
By Dr. Julia Bramble, {grow} Community Member
When I recently went to a talk given by Mark Schaefer, I looked forward to becoming educated, inspired, and entertained.
But I did not expect to find myself crying.
But that’s exactly what happened at the sunny seaside town of Bournemouth, UK, and an event hosted by You Are The Media.
What caused my tears to flow?
Mark engaged in an intimate conversation with his audience. He just sat in a chair and poured his heart out about how we can do better in marketing, how we can set a better standard. And then he started talking about the crisis of belonging in our world today.
I later wrote him that this hit me so deeply that tears welled in my eyes. He encouraged me to dig deep and explore what was going on there when that emotion hit … It might even make a good guest post, he said. So, here I am.
Belonging and beyond
What does “belonging” even mean, especially as it relates to business and marketing? And why did the idea of it make me cry?
True belonging goes beyond feeling accepted.
Belonging meets that deep human need to feel safe, and validated. And it fosters a sense of community by inspiring taking care of others.
In psychologist Christopher Peterson’s words, other people matter. In fact, they matter so much, that they become a source of our self-esteem.
Although we seem to be a click away from a friend, the research shows that the more time people spend on social media, the more isolated, depressed, and alone they feel.
Maybe Mark’s talk had so much emotional impact because in my work as Chair of Governors at our local primary school, I’ve seen the effects of not belonging first-hand.
When children feel they don’t belong, they may not respect boundaries, rules, or the other children. Brene Brown suggests that almost every civil ill begins because people don’t belong, and you can see this drama playing out even on the schoolyard playground. This “difficult child” soon gets caught in a vicious circle of expectation and fulfillment of “bad” behavior.
When the school can deal no more, the child is excluded, with the next stop often a centre specifically for children with emotional challenges. Maybe then they finally start to feel they belong, but at what cost?
It’s heartbreaking.
The role of business
This is just one small example. I’m sure you see how loneliness and isolation are playing out in your own neighborhood and workplace. Can a business do something to confront these problems?
In my opinion – yes.
We’ve had the Industrial Revolution, the Internet Revolution … maybe now it’s time for a Marketing Revolution that begins with belonging.
The environment seems perfect – with the world open to new forms of influence, and the rate of change itself accelerating.
Just look at how social media has propelled messages from new leaders like David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg and created waves of new action.
Traditional brands are crumbling in the wake of market disruption, but the after-shock caused by genuinely empathetic connection-based marketing could be even bigger. (Just check out the examples in Mark’s Marketing Rebellion book
if you don’t believe me!).
Because of the belonging thing!
A business and shared values
If we see a business that talks like us, shares good stuff and walks the walk with values that are similar to ours, we’ll instinctively feel pulled toward them in a way that we never would with a corporate brand. (And we’ll naturally want to talk about the company or buy from them, as then we’ll be supporting the thing we believe in too.)
And within the communities of customers and supporters that these businesses will attract, the sense of belonging that will naturally germinate can be communally nurtured and grown.
Going back to our youngster who doesn’t feel like they belong at home or school …
Even if their families don’t understand their ‘thing’ or don’t have the same beliefs, even if their friends think they’re weird, now they’ve found a group of people that accept, understand and validate them.
Could belonging really happen without a business having to have a physical presence?
We already see something similar happening with YouTubers. They attract huge audiences of loyal young fans, often desperate to watch every episode as it drops. The children love the videos and the fact that they’re not filtered by school, parents or TV stations. They’ll often repay the YouTuber by creating pictures and videos themselves and sending them in.
DanTDM
One example is DanTDM – a British YouTuber who makes videos for kids about Minecraft. He’s built a following of about 20 million and has created such a strong connection with his young fans that he’s been able to build an offline arm to his business.
He’s twice toured the UK with a physical show based on his YouTube show. Two years ago, the tour played in smaller venues around the UK (and sold out within hours.) This year, the tour played to huge venues including Wembley Arena. Once again, it sold out.
The sense of belonging he’s created has motivated children to persuade their parents to not only empty their wallets but also to expend time and energy taking their kiddos to these events!
The budget and belonging
You don’t have to be a YouTube star or even a big company with a big budget to create a sense of belonging.
I recently worked with a network marketing company (who sell make up and beauty products) training their distributors to use social media effectively.
Most of the distributors have Facebook groups for their customers – but the conversations aren’t all skincare and make-up, they’re about whatever matters to their customers, from dealing with balancing work and kids to celebrity gossip. Their customers absolutely feel like they belong.
But some women have taken it even further.
At one workshop I ran, I encouraged the women to share their points of difference. And it got emotional! Two stories really hit home.
One woman, who described herself as “alternative,” found that she naturally attracted others like her who use make-up not as adornment but as a way to make a statement. Her community became a place for those who felt awkward in other groups to actually be themselves. And it grew by word-of-mouth.
Another shared how she’d been asked for help with make-up by a person who did not conform to the traditional norms of binary gender. She was happy to do this – but what she actually provided went far, far beyond just providing make-up lessons. She learned that this customer had asked for help at many make-up counters in many stores but had been turned away. But now this customer was being treated with dignity and respect.
She just wanted to belong.
Could this be the next marketing revolution?
So could the Belonging Revolution be a real thing?
The possibility that business could have a meaningful new role addressing this societal crisis is exciting to me.
We have a LONG way to go to achieve a vision as grand and authentic as this, but there are clearly huge wins down the line for companies brave enough to take this path.
And potentially huge wins for society too!
Thank you so much for inspiring me Mark. I’ll bring tissues the next time I attend your speech!
Dr. Julia Bramble, an ex-forensic scientist, is an international social media consultant and speaker.
She helps clients ramp up their results by focusing on the human behind the digital and the details that build connection. She’s a mum to six crazy kiddos and has a Ph.D. in molecular biology Julia loves meeting new people on the socials so why not connect on Twitter or LinkedIn.
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Mitchell Gold talks bullying at TED
digital disruptors | Feb 5, 2018 |
By Katy B. Olson
Did you know that Hickory, North Carolina, has its own TED event? TED Talks, the fantastically popular lecture series, brings together local and independently organized events in the Catawba Valley, among other places. Mitchell Gold, chairman and co-founder of Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings, as well as a self-described equality advocate, recently delivered a talk about bullying and its impact, particularly within the LGBT community.
Mitchell Gold at TedX
Hosted at Lenoir-Rhyne University last fall, the sixth anniversary of TEDxHickory focused on the theme of “Next,” with a roster of speakers addressing what TED described as: “What’s next? Exactly. That’s what we’re all trying to figure out. At all times. Anywhere. Everywhere. And for any aspect of our lives. And it makes sense, it’s human nature—just think about how far everything around us has come during our lifetimes.”
Among those joining Gold were Mitchell Levy, an entrepreneur; Jon Carfagno, director of the Hickory Museum of Art; Jesse Itzler, founder of Marquis Jet, the world’s largest prepaid private jet card company.
“A guiding principle for my life is that I truly want to make the world more comfortable, for everyone. I know what it's like to be uncomfortable,” said Gold, discussing the impact of his sexuality and feeling “broken” as a child. Another part of his life, he said, in addition to creating the “comfortable furniture” his company is known for, is to help LGBTQ kids.
Gold co-founded Faith in America, a nonprofit that educates people about the harm religious intolerance causes LGBT Americans and is also on the board of Board of the Human Rights Campaign as well as on the board of the Tyler Clementi Foundation, an antibullying nonprofit organization. He has advocated against the HB2 bathroom bill, a discriminatory bill in North Carolina, which made news at High Point in 2016.
Watch Gold’s full TEDx talk here:
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Chart Music Through The Years – 1957
November 28, 2019 carlosnightman
The Olden Days
As you should no doubt now be aware, my current form did not exist in 1957. That should not suggest that I am ignorant of what was going on in music then, or of the wider world in general. Most of what I know is surface and via the largely fictional works of others and it’s not a period I’m overly invested or interested in. Looking at the 10 offerings below, I’ll be upfront and say I recognise most of the performers more than the actual songs. There are a few songs that I know by name, and of course one which everybody knows. I imagine I’ll recognise a few more once I listen.
What else was befalling man in 1957? Well, close to home the IRA was up to their usual shenanigans and Harold Macmillan became Prime Minister. Elsewhere, Eisenhower began his second reign as US President, The Cat In The Hat was published, The Treaty Of Rome was signed, The Sky At Night was first broadcast, heavy rain causes the death of almost 1000 people in Japan, The Civil Rights Movement continued to gain movement and opposing suppression, and Laika went to space. In Music, Elvis bought Graceland, Doris Day’ Que Sera Sera won an Oscar, The Cavern Club opened in Liverpool, and a couple of lads named John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time. Rock and Roll continued to gain traction, with the likes of Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Chuck Berry all having major hits. By all accounts, a good time to be a kid just getting into music it would seem.
Paul Anka: Diana
A very traditional rock ballad intro is bolstered by some languid horn work before Anka’s distinctive vocals drop. Lyrically it seems to be a self-written defense of Paul’s MILF relationship. Anka does these little excited gasps throughout the verses and I like how the notes increase in pitch and urgency as the chorus approaches – I think we all know what that means, especially when you throw in lyrics like ‘hold me close and squeeze me tight’. Spoiler Alert – he’s not talking about hugs. There’s an unexpected little breakdown in the middle where the pace picks up in intensity, giving a sprinkle of depth. I don’t believe I’ve heard this before, in terms of comparison it’s not the most adventurous by today’s standards but it’s light years ahead in terms of melody, emotion, and integrity.
2. Elvis Presley: All Shook Up
This is the one we all know, right? I’ve no idea when or how I heard my first Elvis song given that he was dead before I was born, but his biggest hits (like this) seem to have a knack for finding you and staying with you. It begins innocently enough with gentle guitars but when the vocals start you know you’re in trouble – it’s easy to see how so many young ladies fell for him. It’s very simple – that piano riff from the blues was already thoroughly recycled by this point but is one of the foundations of early rock. It’s shorter than I remember, likely more to do with squeezing as many hits onto a record or the radio as possible, but that helps it to become one of those songs you want to hit play on as soon as it ends.
3. Tab Hunter: Young Love
A quiet piece of guitar eases us in before an overly pleasant voice takes things to a heady saccharine level. It’s very sweet – too sweet for me and ironically as he sings of ‘deep emotion’ I fail to find any trace of such in the vocals. It’s too plain and stale and smooth. It’s harmless and innocent on the surface, but it sounds far too childlike and insipid given the eras which have past since.
4. Pat Boone: Loveletters In The Stand
Most songs which begin with whistling don’t go down well with me. It reeks of country, even with the staccato piano and additional of horns. The vocals are again far too smooth and sleepy for me – you may as well be rapping. Badly. I don’t get any sense of feeling from vocals like this. I’m sure there is emotion, but it is so filtered and watered down that it doesn’t reach me. I understand why it was a hit at the time, but it’s not for me.
5. Guy Mitchell: Singing The Blues
More whistling and this time with added ‘bum de dum’ vocal nonsense. It has a sense of fun at least and the vocals are more interesting. The vocal mix however reminds me of Gary Glitter, which is never a good thing. A fun and bouncy mid-range quality song.
6. Lonnie Donnegan: Gamblin’ Man
Boy howdy, it’s always amazing to me when I actually hear people in reality speak and sing with this accent. It doesn’t seem real. Props for going solo in the intro. It seems funny to me rather than anything else, but then it picks up pace and turns into something else. It’s better but it’s also funnier. Then by the end both the drummer and vocalist are going buck nuts – the fury and fun of the performance are enough to carry it through and we even get a very muddy, lost in the mix guitar solo. Good stuff, even if it does have both feet dipped in Country (even if it’s more jazz and skiffle based) – see this is the sort of Country style music I can enjoy – pissed off their faces and absolutely wrecking everything in sight.
7. Harry Belafonte: Island In The Sun
A lesser known (for me) Belafonte song. See, Belafonte has a similar smooth quality to his vocals as others on the list, but his emotion does come through more. It’s not 100 percent clear, but at least I can feel it. Maybe it’s the inflections, maybe it’s because lyrically it’s not some bullshit simplistic love sentiment. The imagery is potent and genuine too, only someone who cares and understands could write like that.
8. Johnnie Ray: Yes Tonight Josephine
There seems to have been a lot of these vocal tick songs in the 50s – this one opening with ‘yip yip bapiddy boo’ or some balls. Main vocals are fine, backing vocals outside of the ‘yip yip’ stuff are not great. The arrangement is too repetitive and simple and the melodies don’t go out of their way to say anything interesting – the main melody repeats without much variance and it’s not overly strong in the first place. Not bad, just forgettable beyond the ‘yip yip’.
9. Pat Boone: Don’t Forbid Me
Senor Boone returns once more, and this time it’s personal. It’s more smooth, easy listening junk. Like most of the other songs here, it’s straight down the middle, takes a basic an idea and runs with it – that’s not necessarily a criticism but I lose interest quickly if the melody or vocals are plain. This is preferable to his last one. It does have a slight middle section where it looks like the song might shift gears, but it’s momentary.
10. Frankie Vaughn: The Garden Of Eden
A mixture of ballad and soft rock blues rhythms. There’s a horn bombast to close the chorus. Vaughn seems playful on some notes and words, holding the note for longer than he needs to or adding a little waver. I assume this would have caused some controversy at the time due to the lyrics, at least in the US. The drummer has some fun towards the end. This would be mostly boring if not for the little excesses by the drummer, singer, and trumpet guys.
We learn once again that regardless of the year or era, we have some good songs and plenty of crap ones too. We also learn that, no matter what the song, someone on Youtube is going to comment that it’s their favourite, or was their parent’s favourite, or bemoan how the music after ‘their decade’ ended has been crap. Without exception. There are three songs here I’d choose to listen to again, with maybe another couple I wouldn’t be annoyed by – the rest I would dismiss. As we’re still in the 1950s and my knowledge is limited, my alternative list of songs isn’t the most exciting. Not all were strictly written in ’57 either.
Elvis – Jailhouse Rock
2. Jerry Lee Lewis – Great Balls Of Fire
3. Danny And The Juniors – At The Hop
4. That’ll Be The Day – The Crickets
5. Peggy Sue – Buddy Holly
6. When I Fall In Love – Nat King Cole
7. Wake Up Little Susie – The Everly Brothers
8. Tutti Frutti – Little Richard
9. Rock N Roll Music – Chuck Berry
10. Come Fly With Me – Van Heusen/Cahn
Let us know in the comments if you have any favourites above or elsewhere from 1957!
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The top 10 paying IT jobs: IT careers can prove fruitful
Rich2015-06-24T09:30:08-04:00
By Rich IT News
IT management positions have long paid quite well, but a new survey finds that a lot of other IT jobs are providing big paychecks.
Mondo, a company that recruits and places technology workers, collects data on its annual placements, which can be either permanent or contractor positions. Based on data from 4,000 placements this year, it developed a salary report that includes regional pay ranges, and year-to-year wage increases.
One of the more striking results was the difference in the rate of wage growth between Android and iOS developers.
Android developer salaries ranged from $110,000 to $155,000 this, and iOS from $105,000 to $155,000. The salaries seem similar, but there’s a big difference in wage growth.
Salaries of iOS developers only increased 1% over the last year, while those of Android developers rose 6%, according to Mondo’s data.
Mondo also reported that hiring of contract workers over full-time staff is an increasing trend, with 48% of hiring managers indicating that they plan to hire more contract workers, rather than permanent staff, over the next 12-18 months.
An increasing reliance on contractors by IT departments is something Computer Economics has also found in its surveys. Late last year, it found that the percentage of contract workers on IT staffs reach as high as 17% at some firms, the highest level of contractors-to-staff since the late 1990s.
People who rise to CIO, CTO and CSO positions earn the most money, but many other IT jobs are also paying well, according to Mondo.
Data warehouse engineer salaries range from $105,000 to $150,000 depending on region. Amazon Web Services consultants can earn from $110,000 to $140,000. Salaries for Hadoop and Salesforce.com developers were as high as $160,000.
The salaries for .Net developers ranged from $95,000 to $135,000, and for Java/J2EE developers from $95,000 to $165,000.
Salaries, year-to-year, were up in the 2% to 5% range in many categories, though there were exceptions. Network engineers and network managers only saw a 1% increase. .Net developers were up 1% and Java developers 2%.
Broadly, Mondo identified the “hot” skills in a number of platforms including Oracle Eloqua, Salesforce.com platforms, and cloud-based automation vendor Marketo. Hadoop and Netezza skills were among those in the highest demand.
The top paying IT positions are listed below. The low end reflects rates paid in locations such as Florida and Dallas, and the high end is what to expect in San Francisco and New York.
1.CIO/CTO: $150,000-$230,000
2.Chief Security Officer: $135,000-$200,000
3.Application Architect: $130,000-$170,000
4.VP, Information Technology: $130,000-$165,000
5.Director, Information Technology: $125,000-$165,000
6.Network Architect: $125,000-$150,000
7.VP, Engineering: $120,000-$165,000
8.VP, Infrastructure: $120,000-$165,000
9.IS Security Manager: $120,000-$160,000
10.MySQL DBA: $120,000-$130,000
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Start Your New Year Right With Our Must-Try Recommendations
Begin 2017 with new experiences and adventures. The staff at Lotte New York Palace has compiled their recommendations for must-try, must-see and must-experience activities at both The Palace and around New York City. Take it from our experts and start the New Year right, with some of our insider picks, from craft cocktails and fine foods to live music, spa treatments, unique museums and much more:
Our on-site French patisserie, Pomme Palais, is a delight for guests and locals alike. Ola, Pomme Palais’ Manager, recommends the homemade macaroons, as well as the honey and ginger tea to boost wellness and beauty. Pomme Palais team member Alreni says the chocolate bar is a must-try: “It’s an adult Kit-Kat…made of hazelnut crunch and chocolate mousse on top.”
The culinary options don’t end at Pomme Palais. Director of Restaurants, John Gulinello, recommends stopping by VILLARD for the Lobster Pearl Pasta, which he says is a “dish like no other”, as well as the Billionaire’s Bacon, prepared with five spices and offering an Asian inspired twist. Felix Hum, Food and Beverage Manager of Trouble’s Trust, says the Ruby Kiss cocktail is a must-try, featuring muddled raspberries, schnapps, vodka and champagne; while the Queen of Mean is a house classic consisting of whiskey, apple juice, ginger beer, elderflower syrup and baked apple chips.
Of course there is more to do at Lotte New York Palace than simply sip and savor. Guest Experience team member, Adrianna, recommends enjoying a performance by jazz duo, Acute Inflections, who performs every Monday in the Lobby Lounge. Shanowa recommends a visit to the Spa at Lotte New York Palace, and experiencing a clarifying facial which leaves skin feeling soft and rejuvenated.
Explore the best of Manhattan and New York City’s outer boroughs with destinations like Café What?, which boasts some of the best music in the city and has been a hangout for legends such as Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan. Diego Chingo of the Front Desk suggests visiting Queens to catch up on your movie and television history at the Museum of the Moving Image. Emma of the Guest Experience team loves to visit the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, while Chris Mendez recommends the Bronx Zoo, the biggest zoo in New York.
NYC offers a vast array of excellent food and dining options, such as Joe’s Pizza, which Josephine says is a New York classic, and Molly’s Cupcakes in the East Village. Jason on the financial team loves ABC Kitchen, while Illana suggests Las Margaritas for authentic Colombian cuisine and frozen margaritas.
No matter how you want to start your New Year, you will find it in New York City and at Lotte New York Palace. Be sure to contact us before your stay, and allow our Concierge team to help plan your getaway. We look forward to seeing you in NYC!
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Leila Jeffreys – Interview with a Cockatoo (or Two)
Sydney based photographer Leila Jeffreys doesn’t shoot your typical portraits. Sure her portraits feature handsome, intelligent, poised characters but you find wings where you expect to find arms, all because of Leila’s fascination with our native Australian birds.
Leila’s interest in birds doesn’t quite reach ‘twitcher’ status but it has led to her to produce a series of portrait shots titled ‘Biloela – Wild Cockatoos‘ and ‘Portrait of a Budgerigar‘. This year Leila incorporated some of her Cockatoo portraits into a witty book titled ‘Interview with a Cockatoo (or Two)’ which won the Peoples’ Choice Award for the 2013 Head On Momento Photobook Awards. She graciously agreed to answer a few of my questions to give us an insight into her work, life and passion for bird photography and conservation.
How has your upbringing influenced your Fine Art photographic style?
When I was little I had a lot of interaction with animals whether it was seeing them in the wild, rescuing injured wildlife with my Dad or simply being around family pets. I was the youngest child and had an active imagination so to me animals were my friends and I always saw them as ‘people’. Capturing a strong portrait of a person involves tapping into their character and I think animals are no different. It’s how I had always seen them so I guess that is how my photographic style developed without realising there was something unusual about it.
As a child, Leila Jeffreys was a keen wildlife conservationist
How did you start out as a photographer and what have you learnt along the way?
I began studying photography at school, continued through university and a full time Certificate in photography at TAFE. For years I took photos, mainly of bands or portraits of people for magazines. The work I was producing was never as good as what I wanted and I often felt self-conscious which meant I wasn’t really connecting with who I was photographing. My photos were OK but they didn’t have that special something, so I gave it up to become a Photo Editor. I always had a camera in hand though. I loved taking photos and just couldn’t shake it.
For a long while my photography was purely for personal projects. Then one day I became obsessed with this idea to photograph a beautiful budgie and print it human size, to hang in my home, as a tribute to a budgie I had as a child. It was a simple idea that ended up as a series of 15 budgerigar portraits taken over two years, and my first solo exhibition.
There are three things that I have learnt;
1. I am still not very good at photographing people!
2. I love photographing animals because I am so enamored with them that during a shoot nothing else matters. I am able to simply be in the moment and enjoy their company like two people getting to know each other for the first time.
3. That getting to the point where you produce work that you’re truly happy with is all to do with a lot of hard work.
Leila Jeffreys with Seisa the Palm Cockatoo. Photo by Darren Clements.
Tell us a bit about your project ‘Biloela – Wild Cockatoos‘
We live in a country with the most phenomenal native birds but it felt like it a secret that only birdwatchers knew about. Anyone that spends time really observing wildlife can’t help but see the wonder in them. I wanted to capture that wonder and show it to the world. Establishing a connection to wildlife reminds us that we share the planet with amazing creatures and we need to ensure they always have a home.
I wanted to focus on one species of parrot and chose cockatoos because they’re the most human-like of all birds. I set myself the difficult task of photographing every major native cockatoo species in the country! The hardest bit was getting access to each species, so I worked with wildlife rescue groups… if a bird came into care I would photograph it before it was released … then with wildlife parks, zoos and private breeders who were heavily involved in conservation programs.
‘Seisa’ Palm Cockatoo © Leila Jeffreys
What techniques do you use to snap a great cockatoo portrait?
It really comes down to making sure that the bird is comfortable and that we bond in some way. The best example is when I photographed Seisa the Palm Cockatoo. That shoot still gives me heart pangs when I think about it. She was so sweet and quite shy to begin with but she was also incredibly curious, and had a strong desire to communicate with me. As the shoot progressed we bonded so strongly she would come and nuzzle into my neck. When we achieve that level of communication, I’m most likely to capture a great portrait.
You’ve had a number of exhibitions nationally and internationally but why did you decide to present your photos in a book?
Some people who visited the “Wild Cockatoo” exhibition expressed an affection for particular birds, and had their own interpretation of the birds’ personalities and back-story. I loved this! It was so unexpected and made me realise there were so many ways to view them. I chose one portrait per bird for my exhibition and that limited the number of images I could use, so I wanted to create a book with more images that I loved but couldn’t exhibit. I also wanted to do something that was creative and a bit of fun.
Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
My friend Todd Sheldrick introduced me to the book ‘The Frenchman,’ published in the 1950s. The book is about a French actor who can’t speak English so he answers the interview questions using just his expression. Todd, James (my husband) and I loved it and thought we could play with that notion but in reverse. By looking at the birds’ portrait we imagined what question had inspired that pose, or physical response . Sometimes it was about their expression but sometimes it was simply to do with the colour or markings of their feathers. It enabled me to be creative and add a narrative to the work.
Why did you choose these specific materials for your Momento photo book?
I love the orange linen. It reminds me of the curtains that Harry Seidler chose for his 1950s modernist masterpiece – the Rose Seidler house. It’s bold and beautiful just like the cockies. The black embossed stamp seemed to give the book a feel of professionalism which I loved too.
The front cover of ‘Interview with a Cockatoo (or Two).’ Hard cover Linen in Orange with a Custom Emboss in Black. © Leila Jeffreys
Which bird is your favourite and why?
I wouldn’t know how to answer that question. The experience of photographing each cocky has been so special to me, it’s like fond memories of people that you’ve met and they all make you smile.
What are you going to photograph next and why?
I’ve got several projects in mind but it’s very hard to know which one will be my next. Getting access to wildlife is incredibly hard, especially because I am very selective and only work with people involved in conservation and have the birds best interest at heart. So it’s a bit too early to tell. I am currently in the process of meeting different wildlife carers, doing my research, observing wildlife and taking lots of test shots. I’ll have to get back to you on that one!
What did winning the People’s Choice Award at the 2013 Head On Momento Photobook Awards mean to you?
When I found out I was so thrilled. It’s the award that I value the most! To me it must mean that people have affection for the cockies and that’s what it’s all about. It’s about the cockies; it’s not about me. It also means that people got the subtle humour in the concept of the book. Trying to put together a narrative that makes the reader smile is actually very hard to achieve. I hope people got what we were trying to do.
Are you selling copies of this book or fine art prints?
I’d love to get the book published one day and when I get some time I’ll start to approach some publishers. The cockatoos were exhibited at the Olsen Irwin Gallery in Sydney as large fine art prints, they’ve almost sold out but there are some editions left.
The 2013 Head On Momento Photobook Awards exhibition at the NSW State Library, Sydney
Recently I read this quote by writer Ira Glass, it applies to anyone doing creative work and it’s brilliant.
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.” —Ira Glass
Leila Jeffreys was a delight to interview and her portfolio of work can be viewed here.
by Momento Photobooks on July 22, 2013
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Art Beat: 6 Exhibitions to See in April
Rob Goyanes Apr. 02, 2018
SIXTY’s resident art writer Rob Goyanes is on the search for the best of what’s going on in L.A., Miami, and NYC this month. Spring means an abundance of new life, and the cultural calendar is rife with new exhibitions celebrating artists both emerging and established. Herewith, your guide to the best art exhibitions in April.
Bogosi Sekhukhuni, installation view, 2018. Photo courtesy of Foxy Production.
NEW YORK CITY: Bogosi Sekhukhuni at Foxy Production
Bogosi Sekhukhuni, born in Johannesburg in 1991, is an artist who’s interested in what develops between people and technology. His first solo exhibition in North America, held at Foxy Production, presents works that span a range of media—from drawing to video simulation—and questions how we relate to technology, and how technology alters our relationship to others (or fails to).
Drawings of trilobites seem like field sketches by an anthropologist, but they’re an artist’s probing of the idea that the spine is an integral system belonging to all vertebrates, from bugs to humanoids. The drawings may also hint at the ways that science and natural history museums commodify fossils as representations of the past, conjuring concepts of a mystical prehistory which is still very much with us.
Sekhukhuni’s two-channel video installation, titled “Consciousness Engine 2: absentblackfatherbot (2013),” recreates a discussion had between the artist and his estranged father on Facebook messenger. Simulated animations of the artist’s face and his father’s face are present on separate screens as they speak to each other. The work is chilling not only for its sense of alienation between father and son—but also for the discord made between audience and artwork. Taken to its logical extent, it may also say something about our relationship with ourselves. Through May 6, 2018.
Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings, installation view, 2018. Courtesy of Queer Thoughts.
NEW YORK CITY: Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings at Queer Thoughts
Artists Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings, both based in London and also born in 1991, explore the intimate spaces and signs of queer life in a new exhibition at Queer Thoughts. The video and drawings on display satisfyingly alternate between black and white and lush color, and, all together, tell the story of a real-life relationship between a gay friend and a straight-presenting cop.
The video, titled Gaby after the artist duo’s best friend, presents three cases of intersections between police and gay culture. The first is a montage of cops dancing to Y.M.C.A. at various Pride parades; the second, an animated sequence of an issue of Christopher Street magazine (an epitomal gay mag from the 1970s); and third, a recording of the real friend Gaby telling the story of his relationship with the cop, when Gaby was an 18-year-old.
The pencil drawings on view are far more anonymous, showing darkened scenes of same-sex hookups in twilit taverns. Representing the gay bar as an essential space for socialization in American LGBTQ history, the highly-detailed drawings render billowy jeans and chiseled physiques embracing and carousing. Unlike the video, the drawings leave it up to audiences to read their own stories into the scenes. Through April 15, 2018.
Laura Aguilar, Nature Self-Portrait #2 ,1996. Courtesy of the artist and Frost Museum.
MIAMI: Laura Aguilar’s ‘Show and Tell’ at the Frost Art Museum
What does it mean to be doubly, triply, or quadruply oppressed? Throughout the course of her life, artist Laura Aguilar, born in 1959, has struggled with the burden of having multiple outcast identities. Mexican, large-bodied, and growing up with auditory dyslexia, Aguilar found solace in photography as a means of communicating her position against many odds.
A retrospective of her sublime work, particularly her 1990s output, is on view at the Frost Art Museum, which includes the politically-charged self-portrait of the artist bound with rope, flanked by an American and Mexican flag, her head cloaked by the Mexican coat of arms as if she were a prisoner in the midst of brutal interrogation. Her body is nude, going beyond the assertion of racial and cultural identity and forcing a look at the body itself as an othered thing.
Additional works are lighter, and reveal the artist at play. Images of Aguilar lying nude amongst rocks turns her body into a feature of the landscape, suggesting that viewers empty their heads of the cultural associations applied to those who are “overweight” and instead find their natural beauty. Draped over rocks in the deserts of New Mexico, Aguilar reclaims the right to represent herself, as she is. Through May 27, 2018.
Jessica Martin at Tile Blush. Courtesy of the artist and Tile Blush.
MIAMI: Lynne Gelfman and Jessica Martin at Tile Blush
An exhibition at the recently-minted gallery Tile Blush contains the work of two local female artists—one well into her career, and another at the dawn of it. Lynne Golob Gelfman, a painter whose work is clearly identifiable by her signature, ghostly triangles, and Jessica Martin, a recent graduate of New World’s BFA program who engages sculpture and design, are a fitting pair of artists considering the gallery’s premise.
Rising from the ashes of the former artist-run gallery (variously titled VersaceVersaceVersace and Noguchi Breton), Tile Blush is now focusing on exhibitions that present both contemporary art and design. Gelfman’s paintings, based on grids and inspired by Miami’s flora and architectural palette, contain a powerful sense of geometry. However, the artist’s method of controlled chaos, letting the paint bleed through and flipping the paintings around, results in a sort of loose mathematics.
While Gelfman graduated from Columbia’s MFA program in the late 1960s, Martin finished her studies just two years ago. The young artist’s cross-disciplinary approach to art making results in design objects that employ methods of Japanese joinery—it’s unclear if they’re sculptures or meant to function as coffee tables. Paired together, the exhibition also highlights the role of contemporary painting as design decor. Through June 3, 2018.
Jennifer Rochlin, Figure with Splattered Shapes and Sgraffito, 2015. Courtesy of the artist and The Pit.
LOS ANGELES: Jennifer Rochlin at The Pit
Switching mediums can sometimes result in splendid surprises. Jennifer Rochlin, a painter who expanded to ceramic works, makes vessels that burst with simple joys. An exhibition of work at The Pit presents large terra cotta pots that portray painted scenes of animals, superheroes, and landscapes that appear in the everyday life of L.A.
But these aren’t flat or straightforwardly rendered. The pots contain imperfections from the ceramic methods the artist employs: Rochlin revels in the unique flaws of each piece. Engaging in practices that have existed for thousands of years, the ceramic works contain a sense of connection to ancient human practices, while also managing to feel wholly contemporary.
The artist, who was born in Baltimore and resides in L.A., was inspired by a range of cultural referents, from the mountain lion known as P-22 who slinks through Griffith Park, to the Hollywood sign, to Botticelli’s Venus. Paintings on view also reveal the artist’s penchant for patterns and figuration. Taken together, they show Rochlin’s semi-primitivist approach to the present day. Through April 15, 2018.
Harald Szeemann in 1995 in Maggia, Switzerland © Keystone/Photo Press-Archive.
LOS ANGELES: Harald Szeemann’s ‘Museum of Obsessions’ at The Getty
From restaurant menus to Instagram accounts, “curating” has entered colloquial parlance to mean any action that involves choosing from a set of things. While this is mostly annoying and incorrect, it speaks to the great significance placed on the act of arts curating, now considered an art form in its own right. The latter has much to do with Harald Szeeman, the Swiss artist, curator, and art historian who bucked countless curatorial conventions.
A curious fellow, Szeeman made art history with the exhibition Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form while at the helm of Kunsthalle Bern. The show caused such an uproar that he was forced to resign. A challenger of typical museological methods, Szeeman’s revolutionary approach is on view at The Getty in a show titled Museum of Obsessions, referencing the name he gave to his vast library and archive.
Drawing from this immense collection of materials, the exhibition on Szeeman—who died in 2005—shows how he approached curating much like an artist: by treating history and aesthetic categories and concepts as material to be morphed and molded, presented anew. An understanding of Szeeman’s work and life would grant viewers a deeper comprehension not just of how this man changed art, but also how arts curating has changed so much else. Through May 6, 2018.
Header photo: Michael Heizer’s 1969 ‘Bern Depression’, an installation with wrecking ball © Keystone/Niklaus Strauss
Rob Goyanes
Rob Goyanes is a writer from Miami, Florida, now living in New York City. He has work forthcoming in the Paris Review Daily and Interview Mag.
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On the Historial Origin of the “Roguelike” term
Santiago Zapata
v1.2.1 November 13, 2017
On November 11 2017, at the Roguelike Celebration in San Francisco, I had the pleasure of doing the opening talk, titled “What is a Roguelike?, 2017 Edition”, where I explored some of the interpretations on the Roguelike term.
Something interesting I found while doing research for the talk was what could be the first efforts to organize a group of games similar to rogue under an umbrella term. This happened on Usenet, the technological precursor to Internet Forums, throughout which most of the discussion of computer games happened.
My current progress on this research indicates that the efforts to define this hierarchical relationship, intended mainly to facilitate discussion, ended up serving the purpose of creating a community of niche developers and players who through the constant usage of the term ended up giving it an evolving, collective meaning that was relatively stable until the 2010’s decade, with the growth of the indie games scene and diffusion of the more action focused “Roguelike” labeled games.
Note that while there are indications that the term had been used already before this organization was proposed, based on the discussion it brought forth it seems clear that it was nowhere near established until it happened.
1. The first Request for Discussion
On July 2, 1993, Andrew Solovay sent the first version of a “Request for Discussion” to the news.groups Usenet newsgroup (2). He proposed to create a new hierarchy, rec.games.dungeon, to group together some games that shared similar characteristics.
I would like to propose formally that a new hierarchy be created, namely rec.games.dungeon. This hierarchy would contain groups dedicated to discussion of rogue-type games. These games share the following characteristics:
* They are character-based; that is, the game generally presents a map of the current playing area, with different characters representing the player, opponents, objects, etc. Text is a secondary element at most. This is in contradistinction to other, “text-based” adventure games, such as Adventure, Zork (a.k.a. “Dungeon”), etc.
* They are very portable. The games are usually written in a high-level langauge [sic], and as noted, they use character graphics; this makes them easy to port to various architectures (mainframes, workstations, and different types of personal computers). As a result, they don’t fit into any of the comp.sys.*.games groups, which are machine-specific.
This Request For Discussion was likely prompted by the repeated posts calling out for the creation of an Angband specific newsgroup, since most of the posts on rec.games.moria were now being related to Angband. Deriving from these posts, we have a proposal by Aliza R. Panitz, who insisted on “reorganizing [the games] under rec.games.dungeon – recognizing the intrinsic similarities of all these games.” (1)
This definition of “rogue-type” games (which would later be renamed to “roguelike”, extending over the same term) meant to group games sharing the following characteristics:
Character based display: The game generally presents a map of the current playing area, with different characters representing the player, opponents, objects, etc. Text is a secondary element at most. This is in contradistinction to other, “text-based” adventure games, such as Adventure, Zork (a.k.a. “Dungeon”), etc.
Highly Portable: Easy to port to various architectures (mainframes, workstations, and different types of personal computers).
As we can see, the reasoning for this grouping didn’t include random / procedural content generation, permadeath / persistent consequences, turn based interactions nor any other game design related characteristic from rogue or any of the existing similar games. The “character based display” they shared was mostly what prompted the original grouping.
His justification for this reorganization was the following:
There are several advantages to having such a hierarchy, notably:
* Most people who play any of these games are interested in other games of the type. Thus, if the newsgroups were grouped together, people could easily find other groups that interested them.
* It would provide an area for discussing dungeon games that do not currently have a USENET group (e.g. larn), and for discussing the relative merits of different games.
* It would provide a uniform framework for adding new groups for
dungeon-type games that become popular.
Even though this Request for Discussion didn’t give out a detailed definition of a Roguelike, we can see there is a notion that in some way, these games are connected and most importantly, there will be more similar games being developed in the future.
The games he intended to group together, based on the existing Usenet groups where:
Hack and Nethack
Angband
He also suggested the creation of a new group (rec.games.dungeon.misc) for “discussion of dungeon-type games that do not yet have mainstream groups (e.g. larn).“. This gives us an idea even at this point there was roguelike development activity beside these 5 games, albeit it was probably very small. Omega also comes up as part of this initial ecosystem in the ensuing discussion.
One of the key points of his request for discussion (besides doing an initial measurement on the interest of the community of proceeding ahead) was how this group of games would be named:
Should the hierarchy actually be named “rec.games.dungeon”? Some have expressed concerns about this name. They note that many text-based adventure games (e.g. “Zork”) are set in dungeons; indeed, one early version of Zork was named “dungeon”. Another concern: The unifying characteristic of these games is *not* that they’re set in dungeons, but rather the style of interface. There is no reason one of these games couldn’t be set, e.g., on the Death Star or in a gulag, and yet remain appropriate for the hierarchy. Again, perhaps “dungeon” is a misleading name.
Perhaps, since “rogue” is the granddaddy of these games, the hierarchy ought to be called “rec.games.roguelike”. Or perhaps some other name would be better.
2. Initial debate around the name
PLEASE, there has got to be something better that roguelike. — Robert A. Hayden
Since it was a Request for Discussion, a discussion ensued and it was pretty heated; while some people agreed, others failed to see the connection between these games.
Note that some of the discussion revolved around the practicality of the proposed Usenet group hierarchy in terms of discoverability, the actual design of Usenet hierarchies and whether the groups should better be categorized based on the computer architecture of the games. That part is less relevant for our purposes.
Here are some interesting excerpts: (3)
How about “Single-User Computer Role Playing Game” or .sucrpg. That is what Hack, Moria, and the rest share. — Michael Neylon
Well, I know of the rogue, but I think there’s a lot of people who don’t. After all, rogue is quite an old game, and not very common any more. — Juha Laiho
I do worry about confusion between “dungeon” and dungeon and dragons type people. “Roguelike” is the most accurate description anyone has yet come up with for these games. — Peter Glen Berger
This particular message provides a future point of expansion for the research:
[…] it’s already pretty accepted that rogue-like games are a special category of their own. […] — Ron Asbestos Dippold
Although it’s possible that the rogue-like term had already been conceived as a category, it’s unlikely that it was already widespread, based on the messages we see on the discussion.
Following up on the discussion, Andrew iterated over the first RFD and posted a second one. At this point, besides strengthening his proposal for the “roguelike” term, Andrew further tries to narrow down the definition by adding another characteristic: being descended from rogue. (4)
There is general consenus [sic] that “rec.games.dungeon” would be a bad name for the hierarchy. The main problem is that “dungeon” describes far too wide a variety of games, including pencil-and-paper FRP games, games like ZORK (one version of which was actually called “dungeon”), graphic-oriented computer games, etc.
“roguelike” seems to me much superior. It describes all the games in the proposed hierarchy, and no other games. The one thing all these games have in common is that they’re descended from “rogue”, and have a basically rogue-style interface.
Of course, the issue here is determining the criteria for being a “descendant” of rogue, since there is no direct relationship between the source code of Rogue and any of the games intended to be grouped. This brought up a lot more of discussion as some people disagreed on Rogue’s legacy being a defining factor to group the games (3):
I’ve never seen rogue. Played rogue. Or even heard of rogue until this RFD and the name just rubs me the wrong way. […] ascii-dungeon is perfectly discriptive [sic] […] and shows the theme of the games without anyone having to know anything about rogue. — Robert A. Hayden
[…] I don’t like the idea of having this group of games named after a single one of them. […] — Zodiac
[…] Roguelike i could see applying to Larn and Nethack, but a program like Moria is somewhat a different now [sic] (I understand it’s origins in rogue).For example it is not a single screen game, as Rogue is. […] — Brian J. Dunford
Some others failed to see the need of a unified hierarchy
All the omegas, morias, hacks, etc…have diverged too far from each other to be unified into 1 hierarchy. — axl
[…] considering how much the ‘roguelike’ (that has got to be the worst heirarchy [sic] name I’ve ever seen) games have diverged since the creation of rogue, they no longer need to be grouped together. […] Perhaps the difficulty in finding a unifying term for the games should serve as a hint to you that there *aren’t* enough similarities between them anymore to justify a subheirarchy. [sic] — John N. Trusell
Then we get glimpses of the character based display may be not being the real unifying characteristic
I realise that some of these games have acquired somewhat more sophisticated interfaces than ASCII graphics. At least in the ones I’ve seen, this is simply a matter of substituting coloured ASCII characters or small graphical images for the original plain ASCII characters, and the game still feels very much like an ASCII graphics one. — David Seal
And we also have some initial ideas at abstract ideas such as the “feeling” of the game (instead of a list of characteristics) being a factor for grouping
Some attempts to enumerate these features have failed (IE, “ascii”, “dungeon”, etc.) But for any of them you can look at the screen and say “Duzzn’t dat remind ya of rogue?” They don’t each have every common feature, but they form a reasonable grouping. — Tom O. Breton
Some of the alternatives that were discussed:
rogueish
rogue-style
alphabet-soup
ascii-dungeon
hack’n’slash
hacklike
morialike
3. Settling on a name
On the third Request for Discussion, Andrew finally settled for Roguelike for the lack of a better term. (5)
This is a third RFD. The discussion seems to have reached its conclusions; I don’t think many people will change their minds at this point, and people are mainly repeating the same points. Those people who agree on a name seem to favor “roguelike” as the least of all available evils.
And thus began the road to the formal Call for Votes, which was the official way to legitimize changes on Usenet groups hierarchy. There were further outcries against the idea (3)
[…] the whole “roguelike” suggestion is obscure, overly limiting, poorly named, and generally abhorrent (the last IMO). […] I’d also like to see how the vote on this insane “roguelike” heirarchy comes out so I’ll know what steps need to be taken. — Chris Waters
The sub-hierarchy rogue-like is pointless. It doesn’t tell the average person what kind of games they are, unless they happen to know what rogue is. — Gregory R. Weiss
Someone could next come up with the idea that DnD is a subgenre that got it’s ideas from Tolkien, […] This insistence to search back to the ‘granddaddy’ of the genre and honor it with new newsgroup names is just plain silly… — axl
Try playing Nethack like it was Moria and see how far you get: They are two seperate [sic], even if related, games. The only real connection is their rogue ancestry, a connection that has no relevence [sic] from a player’s point of view — Sean O. Conell
As we can see in this point of time, having a character based display as a common feature was not consensually considered to be enough to provide grounds for grouping these games together. Some people considered this kind of display as something that any game could have, regardless of its origin or its gameplay, in a similar way that today we wouldn’t consider Call of Duty and World of Warcraft to belong to a same genre just because they are both rendered in 3D.
Of course, they were right on the long term, but at this point we also see more supporters of the idea appear, now further extending the definition towards gameplay related features.
These games all have something in common that the other D&D-type games do not — their ancestry. This includes style of play, techniques, and other things. — Richard Hartman
[…] The games nethack, rogue, moria, larn, et. al. share certain common features, game goals, and strategies. Often, people who enjoy one game of this genre, and who follow the relevant newsgroup, learn about, and come to enjoy, other games of the genre, […] — Aliza R. Panitz
On the official Call for Votes, Andrew added another characteristic to his Roguelike interpretation: (6)
* They are very addictive, and people who like one of these games often enjoy the others.
While pretty shallow, I think most Roguelike players will agree. I believe this was one of the defining factors of the community that was creating around these games.
The results of the Call for Votes were the following: (7)
rec.games.roguelike reorganization results - 337 votes
Yes No : 2/3? >100? : Pass? : Group
---- ---- : ---- ----- : ----- : -------------------------------------------
229 100 : Yes Yes : Yes : rec.games.roguelike.announce
228 99 : Yes Yes : Yes : rec.games.roguelike.misc
212 115 : No No : No : rec.games.roguelike.moria
214 116 : No No : No : rec.games.roguelike.nethack
207 120 : No No : No : rec.games.roguelike.rogue
This initial process was thus half successful for the purposes of Usenet group reorganization, but proved to be the first step of an inevitable collision between these similar games.
Also, with the creation of rec.games.roguelike.announce and rec.games.roguelike.misc, a Request for Discussion on the creation of rec.games.angband was resumed (it had been put on hold, waiting for the decision on the rec.games.roguelike hierarchy). (8)
With the rec.games.roguelike reorganization vote now over, it is now time to restart the discussion on rec.games.angband. This is a continuation of the existing discussion, not a new RFD, so the vote will be held soon.
With a 184/50 votation, it was decided that the group would be created as rec.games.roguelike.angband. (9)
4. Further refining the name
As proposed in the Call for Votes, Aliza R. Panitz was appointed as moderator for the newly created rec.games.roguelike.misc. Part of her work included creating a FAQ for the group so that newcomers would know what the discussion was about.
In an early iteration of this FAQ, on July 1993, we find another early effort at defining what a Roguelike is, based on the original discussion for the rec.games.roguelike hierarchy (10):
Although the common features of rogue and its many descendants are ‘obvious’ to many people, they are difficult to describe in simple terms. All of the games mentioned below are single-user, fantasy role-playing computer games, generally set in a dungeon, run with a simple graphic interface. In all of the games, the player controls a single character, who roams around getting more powerful, in order to fulfill a difficult quest. Sword-and-sorcery rule the day.
Logistically, they’re all free games; executables, and generally sources, are available by FTP.
The FAQ also gives us an idea of some qualities that would disqualify a game from discussion on the group on the criteria on “not belong to the category”:
Commercial games (like Ultima and Wizardry)
Multi-User-Dungeon games
Text-mode games (like Adventure, Zork, and the whole family of Infocom text adventure games.)
5. Six months later
On April 1, 1994, David Grabiner revived the discussion about the creation of the rec.games.roguelike.{moria,nethack,rogue} hierarchy. (11)
It has been six months since the creation of the rec.games.roguelike.* hierarchy to dicuss Rogue and related games. The hierarchy is inconsistent as it now stands. Since the consensus was to put the Angband group in this new hierarchy, while the votes to move the existing groups for Moria, Hack, and Rogue failed, we now have rec.games.moria but rec.games.roguelike.angband.
Therefore, I propose that we clean up this hierarchy by putting everything under rec.games.roguelike; this will make it easier for readers of one group to find the others.
The final results overwhelmingly supported the move (12)
rec.games.roguelike.* results - 295 valid votes
229 45 : Yes Yes : Yes : rec.games.roguelike.moria
230 60 : Yes Yes : Yes : rec.games.roguelike.nethack
219 59 : Yes Yes : Yes : rec.games.roguelike.rogue
Based on the examined material, we can draw some conclusions on these early definitions:
They make no mention at all of the game design features that we currently consider being inherent to the games of the genre, such as randomly generated content (procedural), permanent consequences (permadeath) or being real time or turn based. As a result it’s hard to consider these historial interpretations as a criteria on the discussion of whether Roguelikes must to be turn based or lack meta progression or non-permanent death.
They make a great emphasis on features which nowadays may seem distant and secondary except on the most traditional roguelike circles:
Character based display: While still a staple of roguelikes, nowadays we wouldn’t consider it a requirement.
Being “Free”: Disowning commercial and closed source games.
Being portable: A very specific quality of these first games.
They have been contested since the beginning, but nobody ever found a better term.
Panitz, Aliza (June 18, 1993) “Rec.Games.Dungeon.[Moria|Angband|Hack|Rogue|Omega|Misc]” Newsgroup: rec.games.moria. Usenet Message-ID: 1vsuhk$mj7@bronze.lcs.mit.edu. Retrieved November 12, 2017 using Google Groups
Solovay, Andrew (July 2, 1993). “RFD: rec.games.dungeon.* hierarchy“. Newsgroup: news.groups. Usenet Message-ID: 211gvmINNsnp@rodan.UU.NET. Retrieved November 12, 2017 using Google Groups. Also available on November 13 2017 in the ISC.org archive here
Followup posts on Solovay, Andrew (July 2, 1993). “RFD: rec.games.dungeon.* hierarchy”. Newsgroup: news.groups. Usenet Message-ID: 211gvmINNsnp@rodan.UU.NET. Retrieved November 12, 2017 using Google Groups here
Second RFD
Solovay, Andrew (July 20, 1993). “3rd RFD: rec.games.roguelike.* hierarchy“. Newsgroup: news.groups. Usenet Message-ID: 22ie07INNbaa@rodan.UU.NET. Retrieved November 12, 2017 using Google Groups. Also available on November 13 2017 in the ISC.org archive here
Solovay, Andrew (July 28, 1993) “CFV: rec.games.roguelike reorganization” Newsgroup: news.groups. Usenet Message-ID: rec.games.roguelike-CFV1@uunet.uu.net. Available on November 13 2017 in the ISC.org archive here
Solovay, Andrew (August 18, 1993) “RESULT: rec.games.roguelike reorganization” Newsgroup: news.groups. Usenet Message-ID: 24tdibINNb6t@rodan.UU.NET. Available on November 13 2017 in the ISC.org archive here
Grabiner, David (August 18, 1993). “2nd RFD: rec.games.angband”. Newsgroup: news.groups. Usenet Message-ID: 24u5agINNpei@rodan.UU.NET. Available in the ISC.org archive here
Dipold, Ron (September 27, 1993). “RESULT: rec.games.roguelike.angband passes 184:50”. Newsgroup: news.groups. Usenet Message-ID: rec.games.roguelike.angband-RESULT@uunet.uu.net. Available on November 13 2017 in the ISC.org archive here
Panitz, Aliza (October 7, 1993) “Roguelike Games Mini-FAQ” Newsgroup: rec.games.roguelike.misc. Usenet Message-ID: 291sr3$f5e@bronze.lcs.mit.edu. Retrieved November 12, 2017 using Google Groups
Grabiner, David (April 1, 1994). “RFD: rec.games.roguelike.{moria,nethack,rogue}”. Newsgroup: news.groups. Usenet Message-ID: rec.games.roguelike-newgr-RFD1@uunet.uu.net. Available in the ISC.org archive here
Manyard, Jay (May 31, 1994). “RESULT: rec.games.roguelike.{moria,nethack,rogue} all groups pass”. Newsgroup: news.groups. Usenet Message-ID: rec.games.roguelike-newgr-RESULT@uunet.uu.net. Available in the ISC.org archive here
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Suggested Matchbox Cherokees for 2001
Over the past couple of years, Matchbox has released a great series of models based on its 1/58 scale Cherokee Sport casting (see Matchbox 2000 Jeeps and Matchbox 1999 Jeeps). All conceived as vehicles which might have a light bar mounted on the roof, they include an airline pilot transporter, water works maintenance vehicle, animal rescue unit, and Camp Jeep staff car.
Here are some suggestions for more in the series of XJ's:
Matchbox has done a couple of Fire Chief Cherokees, but lots of fire departments also employ them for EMS and squad use (see Jeep Cherokees in the Fire Service and Laguna Beach Lifeguards). This one in particular, in Forest City, Pennsylvania, has sharp graphics on white, and a standard red light bar, which would be a nice departure from the previous Matchbox versions in red paint with blue lights (see Jeep Cherokee Fire Service Toys.)
TV news crews all over North America use the Cherokee as a location vehicle: this photo was taken by Mike Albright in St. Louis (see part of the arch in the background). The News4 unit is actually white (70K JPEG), but a Matchbox "Live at 5" XJ could be a flashy yellow and carry an amber light bar, or (better yet) a microwave dish on the roof.
(I've always thought of yellow as the classic Matchbox Jeep color, because of the original Matchbox No.72 yellow CJ-5 (see The Matchbox Jeep Story) -- that's why the background of these pages is yellow.)
Mike also spotted this security patrol unit at a Texas shopping mall, painted white with graphics which make it look like they picked up a replacement door at the junkyard. But for a private security patrol, Matchbox could choose any color in the spectrum -- or how about a U.S. Secret Service type unit in basic black with red light bar?
Here's a classy version in dark green -- a "Security and Safety" vehicle at the Metro Toronto Zoo, photographed by Jarek Skonieczny. Come to think of it, a "Zoo Jeeps" 5-pack would be nice.
See also a Chicago Parks Department XJ (60K JPEG) with a two-tone paint job that would be nice, in a photo from Jeep Mud.
Matchbox hasn't done a police Cherokee, so how about it? That field certainly hasn't been exhausted by the "Sheriff" XJ's from Majorette. This "Constable Precinct 5" patrol unit of Harris County, Texas, has nice graphics. And maybe somebody could figure out how to do a red/blue light bar in miniature without breaking the bank.
While we're making suggestions here on the Web, why not throw in this idea for a Grand Cherokee? The purple would give Hot Wheels a run for their money on store shelves. Personally, I'd prefer to see something like this rather than the non-prototypical fire and police ZJ's we've seen from some other toy manufacturers. This photo was taken by Bob Davidson in San Diego.
Thanks to Bob Davidson, Mike Albright, Jarek Skonieczny and Ron Richards for photos. -- Derek Redmond
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Patients must have bidimensionally measurable disease (at least one lesion with longest diameter >= 1.5 cm) documented on the Lymphoma Baseline Tumor Assessment Form in Rave.
Patients must have a whole body or limited whole body PET-CT scan performed within 42 days prior to registration. (A contrast-enhanced [diagnostic] CT, magnetic resonance imaging [MRI] or MRI-PET is acceptable in event that PET-CT is contraindicated, however the same modality must be utilized through the trial.) NOTE: All images from PET-CT, CT, MRI or MR-PET scans performed as standard of care to assess disease (within 42 days prior to registration) must be submitted and associated radiology reports must be submitted.
Patients must not have received any prior chemotherapy, radiation, or antibody-based treatment for classical Hodgkin lymphoma. Steroid pre-treatment is permitted.
Patients must not have had prior solid organ transplant.
Patients must not have had prior allogeneic stem cell transplantation.
Patients must not have received a live vaccine within 30 days prior to planned day 1 of protocol therapy (e.g. measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, yellow fever, rabies, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin [BCG], oral polio vaccine, and oral typhoid).
At registration, investigator must declare intent-to-treat with residual PET radiation therapy (residual PET RT- RPRT) to be administered after patient completes 6 cycles of therapy if, after end of treatment, the patient meets criteria specified for receiving RT). Patients will be stratified by investigator's intent-to-treat with residual PET RT.
All patients enrolled by Children's Oncology Group (COG) investigators will be considered intent-to-treat with residual PET RT.
Patients must have a performance status corresponding to Zubrod scores of 0, 1 or 2. Use Lansky for patients =< 17 years of age. *The conversion of the Lansky to Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) scales is intended for National Cancer Institute (NCI) reporting purposes only.
Adults (age 18 or older): Creatinine clearance >= 30 mL/min, as estimated by the Cockcroft and Gault formula. The creatinine value used in the calculation must have been obtained within 28 days prior to registration. Estimated creatinine clearance is based on actual body weight.
Pediatric Patients (age 12-17), the following must have been obtained within 14 days prior to registration:
Measured or calculated creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate (GFR) >= 70 ml/min/1.73 m2, or
Serum creatinine =< 1.5 x institutional upper limit of normal (IULN), or a serum creatinine (SCr) based on age/gender as follows:
Age < 13 maximum serum creatinine: Male 1.2 mg/dL; Female 1.2 mg/dL
Age 13 to < 16 maximum serum creatinine: Male 1.5 mg/dL; Female 1.4 mg/dL
Age 16-17 maximum serum creatinine: Male 1.7 mg/dL; Female 1.4 mg/dL
Total bilirubin =< 2 x IULN (must be documented within 28 days prior to registration for adults [age 18 or older]; must be documented within 14 days prior to registration for pediatric patients [age 12-17]).
Unless due to Gilbert's disease, lymphomatous involvement of liver or vanishing bile duct syndrome
Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) =< 3 x IULN (must be documented within 28 days prior to registration for adults [age 18 or older]; must be documented within 14 days prior to registration for pediatric patients [age 12-17]).
Patients must have an echocardiogram (ECHO), multigated acquisition (MUGA), or functional cardiac imaging scan with a left ventricular ejection (LVEF) fraction >= 50% or a shortening fraction of >= 27%.
For adults (age 18 or older), the ECHO or MUGA be performed within 42 days prior to registration.
For pediatric patients (age 12-17), the ECHO, MUGA, or functional cardiac imaging scan must be performed within 14 days prior to registration.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients on effective anti-retroviral therapy with undetectable or unquantifiable viral load within 6 months prior to registration are eligible for this trial.
Patients must not have known active hepatitis B (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) at date of registration. Patients with previously treated HBV or HCV that have an undetectable viral load and no residual hepatic impairment are eligible.
Patients must not have any known central nervous system lymphoma.
Patients must not have a history of or active interstitial pneumonitis or interstitial lung disease.
Patients must not have had a diagnosis of inherited or acquired immunodeficiency.
Patients must not have any known uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, hemodynamically unstable cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
Patients must not have a condition requiring systemic treatment with either corticosteroids (> 10 mg daily prednisone equivalents) or other immunosuppressive medications within 14 days prior to registration. Inhaled or topical steroids, and adrenal replacement doses > 10 mg daily prednisone equivalents are permitted in the absence of active autoimmune disease. Steroid use for the control of Hodgkin lymphoma symptoms is allowable, but must be discontinued prior to cycle 1, day 1.
Patients with peripheral neuropathy must have < grade 2 at date of registration.
Patients must not have active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in past 2 years (i.e., with use of disease modifying agents, immunosuppressive drugs, or corticosteroids with doses higher than prednisone 10 mg or equivalent). Autoimmune diseases include but are not limited to autoimmune hepatitis, inflammatory bowel disease (including ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease), as well as symptomatic disease (e.g.: rheumatoid arthritis, systemic progressive sclerosis [scleroderma], systemic lupus erythematosus, autoimmune vasculitis [e.g., Wegener's granulomatosis]); central nervous system (CNS) or motor neuropathy considered of autoimmune origin (e.g., Guillain-Barre syndrome and myasthenia gravis, multiple sclerosis or glomerulonephritis). Vitiligo, alopecia, hypothyroidism on stable doses of thyroid replacement therapy, psoriasis not requiring systemic therapy within the past 2 years are permitted.
No second prior malignancy is allowed except for adequately treated basal (or squamous cell) skin cancer, any in situ cancer or other cancer for which the patient has been disease free for two years.
Females of childbearing potential must not be pregnant or nursing, and have a negative pregnancy test within 28 days prior to registration. Women/men of reproductive potential must have agreed to use an effective contraceptive method while receiving study drug and for women until 6 months after receiving the last dose of study drug or, for men, until 7 months after receiving the last dose of study drug. A woman is considered to be of "reproductive potential" if she has had menses at any time in the preceding 12 consecutive months. In addition to routine contraceptive methods, "effective contraception" also includes heterosexual celibacy and surgery intended to prevent pregnancy (or with a side-effect of pregnancy prevention) defined as a hysterectomy, bilateral oophorectomy or bilateral tubal ligation. However, if at any point a previously celibate patient chooses to become heterosexually active during the time period for use of contraceptive measures outlined in the protocol, he/she is responsible for beginning contraceptive measures.
Patients must have sufficient diagnostic tissue specimens collected prior to registration.
Patients must be offered participation in banking for planned translational medicine and future research. With patient consent, any residuals from the mandatory tissue submission will also be banked for future research.
Patients who can complete patient-reported outcome instruments in English, Spanish, or French must complete the PROMIS Fatigue, the FACT/GOG-Ntx, and the PROMIS Global prior to registration and must agree to complete these instruments and the PRO-CTCAE or Pediatric PRO-CTCAE at the scheduled on-study assessment timepoints.
Patients must be informed of the investigational nature of this study and all patients and/or their parents or legal guardians (for patients < 18 years of age) must sign and give written informed consent and assent (where appropriate) in accordance with institutional and federal guidelines.
University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center accepting new patients
Sacramento California 95817 United States
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center accepting new patients
Torrance California 90502 United States
Kaiser Permanente-Cadillac accepting new patients
Los Angeles California 90034 United States
Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center/Disney Family Cancer Center accepting new patients
Burbank California 91505 United States
Kaiser Permanente-Irvine accepting new patients
Irvine California 92618 United States
Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center accepting new patients
Children's Hospital of Orange County accepting new patients
Orange California 92868 United States
Kaiser Permanente - Panorama City accepting new patients
Panorama City California 91402 United States
Kaiser Permanente-San Diego Zion accepting new patients
San Diego California 92120 United States
Naval Medical Center -San Diego accepting new patients
Lead Scientists at UC Cancer
Joseph M. Tuscano (ucdavis)
Professor, Hematology and Oncology. Authored (or co-authored) 80 research publications
Eduard H. Panosyan (ucla)
March 2024 (estimated)
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Lead Scientists
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What’s He Building In There? from Baksha Games Review by David Lowry
Posted by David Lowry in Board Game Reviews, Board Games, Family Board Game Reviews
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Clink…. clink…. clink…. “Joe! Don’t damage it!” you yell at your henchmen who is beating on your doomsday device without thinking about the damage it could cause if he isn’t careful. Stupid henchmen, why are smart ones so hard to come by? you think to yourself.
In a few days you’ll unleash your master plan and take over all of London with your device and perfect escape plan. Only a few more things to do and then finally you will be done. You have spent months building, climbing the social ladder, improving your secret hideout, tightening security and buying exotic pets to firmly entrench yourself in the high ranks of society. Now soon, they will all bow to you and be at your command to do your bidding!
You can feel yourself growing anxious and giddy with the excitement of your soon to come dominance! “Prepare yourself London,” you murmur to yourself as you start laughing maniacally. “Three nights from tonight and you will all bow in fear of Dr. Power and my mighty machine!”
Publisher: Baksha Games
Game Designer: Sean Scott Garrity
Artwork: James Van Niekerk
Players: 2 – 6
Playing Time: 25 – 30 Minutes Per Player
Game Mechanics: Worker placement
Contents: 267 cards, 7 doomsday cards, 7 escape cards, 30 wooden cubes, 26 pawns, money tokens, 1 game board and 1 rule book.
In What’s He Building In There? players are competing as Evil Doctors who along with their three henchmen, are racing to complete their doomsday machine and escape plans which both require inventions to be built before hand, climb the social ladder, build their evil lair compound, increase their security to keep prying eyes out or in maybe?… As well as acquire the rarest exotic pets to help establish their status in high social circles. Players only have 15 rounds to complete and launch their evil master plan and it comes quicker than you think. Can you build the biggest, baddest doomsday machine and escape plan to prove your superiority over the other wanna be evil doctors? Bring your blueprints, henchmen and let’s see if you are the genius you think you are. The evil doctor who garners the most points wins!
Game Play
Game play consists of players each taking one action per player until all four pawns have been placed on the board. Every round, players will have new workshops (up to six cards depending on the number of players) to choose from that provide the raw materials or a chance to refine materials needed to build your doomsday machine and escape plans. The first player to place on these cards will usually get a “bonus” for being their first. This applies to first 14 possible places to play on the board. The last three tracks don’t provide a first player there bonus. Note that Evil Doctors can only be placed on orange spaces and henchmen can only be placed on gray spaces. On the workshop cards, the very first space is both orange and gray and provide a different bonus depending on which pawn was placed there.
The next two spots to possibly play are money and taking the first player token. Then the next four spots are the Black Market spots that allow for things like additional refining, resource trading or money depending on which cards get placed on the board.
The next spot is the Genius at Work (GAW) track. Every invention needed to be built plus your doomsday machine and escape plan need GAW hours to be built. These hours are spent every time you build and invention so you need to make sure that you have enough hours to complete your different levels of your doomsday machine and escape plan at end game. Only the Evil Doctor may play here.
The next playing location is the Manual Labor (ML) track. This track is for accumulating enough hours from henchmen to build your final doomsday machine and escape plan. These hours do not spend as they are only used for the final project. Only the henchmen can play here.
The next three tracks are an additional way to accumulate victory points. The first is the Social Track which is how players build their evil lair. If a player doesn’t have it built by turn five, they must pay rent every turn until they finally build it. This track racks up lots of victory points the higher up you build. Note that only the Evil Doctor may place on this track making it hard to get GAW or the first player bonuses on the workshop cards and acquire these points as well.
The second track is the security track. This track accumulates victory points and the players must have built the “Real Estate” achievement on the previous track to build up to the second spot here being “Secure Fences.” The player who completes this track gets a bonus of +2 GAW and +2 ML hours at the end of game to help complete their doomsday machine and escape plan.
The last track is the Exotic Pets track. This track also accumulates victory points and the “Real Estate” achievement on the first of these tracks must be built here again to advance to the second achievement. The player farthest on this track gets an additional +5 victory points at end game.
The final step is to create and improve your doomsday machine and escape plan. Both must be completed to at least level 1 on their respective level charts indicated on the panel given or the player is basically disqualified. If either one is not finished to at least level 1, then the player cannot win the game period. The player has failed miserably as an Evil Doctor and must sit in their corner of shame and watch as all the other “real” Evil Doctor’s fight it out for supremacy. There are three possible levels on each doomsday machine and escape plan and you can complete as many on either that is possible as long as their is at least one completed on both. Each level requires more inventions to be built during game play and more resources on hand at end game. Each level is a nice jump in victory points at the end of the game.
The board is very nice and easy to navigate. It is a long board so it will take a decent size table with plenty of space for all the cards and player aids. The pawns are typical wood pieces with the Evil Doctor being very large compared to the henchmen. It adds a tiny bit to the theme but nothing special here. The cards come in different sizes. The Invention Cards are bigger than most cards that come with games probably to big and take up a lot of space on the table and the resource cards are very small and difficult to keep organized as they slide everywhere. All are good quality and should last a long time. The Doomsday Machine and Escape Plan Cards are very thick stock with slots so they can be put together and used as a wall to hide a players money and resources. These are easy to read and very well done. A nice component actually.
The way the board works with the invention cards is different as there are slots/space along the top edge of the board for the invention cards. These cards a previously said are very large and take up a lot of space. I am sure that the intent was to make it easy to read but it’s exactly the opposite here. If you are at the other end of the board, you can not read the icons at all to determine what resources you need to build it as the board is so long and far away. The player has to get up and constantly look or have it passed to them to read it. A resource track with smaller cards would have been a much better way to do this and dispense with the multitude of resource cards and length of board issues. This is my only complaint though. Otherwise, every thing is solid.
What’s He Building In There? is a sleeper hit! It’s an extremely fun game with lot’s of depth, decision making and a great theme. The choices between what to take when and will you be able to finish this track or level before the 15 rounds runs out provides for a very fulfilling game. The time goes quite fast so you need to make sure you plan well and hope you can beat the other players to the punch. First player can mean a lot in this game. If you like worker placement games and want something new, unique and a game no one else has to bring to your game nights then this is a game to check out. I never felt like I had played this game before which is very common in worker placement games to me. The more people that play, the better the game as it gets harder to get things accomplished, keep your money engine running and rack up enough resources and hours to complete your end objectives.
This worker placement game is a surprise to my gaming group! I highly recommend it and am looking forward to what Baksha Games brings to table in the future.
I am giving What’s He Building In There? 8.0 out 10 stars.
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Dread Curse by Smirk & Dagger Games Review by David Lowry
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Dread Curse from Smirk & Dagger Games
Smoke fill your eyes as you watch the ship sinking in the sea, fire still raging on top of part the decks that haven’t sunk yet. Your shipmates are loud and raucous as they celebrate their plunder. Bags of doubloons spill over on the deck as they run their grubby hands through it, fighting over who gets their share and how much of it.
BANG! Your eardrums rattle as you look up and see the Captain holding his musket high in the air, smoke trailing out of it. Instant silence fills the air except the sound of waves lapping up against the hull of the hip. “Keep your hands off!” the Captain yells. “Be proud you scalawags! Not a man lost and more bounty than we expected! The First Mate will gather the loot and divide it accordingly…” “I want my share now!” shouts a pirate about five people away from you slowly getting up. “Bang!” A small rivulet of blood drips out from right between his eyes as you look at the First Mate in shock. “Any other dead men?” the First Mate asks. The pirates shake their heads no as they slowly take a step back. “Get back to work!” the Captain yells and the pirates scramble to their stations grumbling about what they’ll do if they end up getting short changed.
You return to your duties, plotting your scheme to get as much of that loot as you can without getting caught. A smirk creeps from your lips as you chuckle lightly thinking about whom you want to steal from the most.
Publisher: Smirk & Dagger Games
Game Designer: Stuart Sisk
Artwork: Lindsey Look
Players: 3 – 8 Ages: 10 to adult
Playing Time: 30 – 45 Minutes
Game Mechanics: Auction/Bidding, Variable Player Powers, Press Your Luck
Contents: 8 crew cards, 60 doubloons, 50 pirates code cards, 1 phase order card, 1 Jacques Pierre card and 1 bag to hold the loot.
Dread Curse back of box
Dread Curse is a game of push your luck with plenty of opportunity to create good fortune for yourself. Players play a different role card every turn (usually) and draw doubloons from the bag while stealing from fellow pirates to increase their share of the bounty have the biggest stash at the end of the game. However their are two Black Spot doubloons in the game, don’t get caught with one of these or you automatically lose.
There are five phases to each round. Draw Coins, Steal, Pay Jacques, Cut and Run and All Hands on Deck. Except for the setup phase, you bid to see who gets the Captain card. From there on, the Captain randomly shuffles and hands out the character cards to the remaining players. The cards are numbered 1 – 8 and have variable cheat powers the may be played on the draw phase or steal phase based on the text on the card. Each player also has a hand of three pirate code cards that can be played also based on what the text on the card says. The interesting thing about these cards are that they are harder to come by and they are worth the gold value at the end of the game adding to the total of your stash. This of course, make the players “think” about whether or not it’s worth it to play the card.
During the Draw phase, all players draw from the back according to their text on their character card except for the Cabin Boy. The default amount is one coin unless your text states to draw more.
The Steal phase has each player stealing from another player in some amount unless their character cards states otherwise.
The Pay Jacques phase allows players to pay two doubloons to get a new pirate code card if they so desire.
The Cut and Run phase is when the players decide they are staying in or getting out of the game when they think they have enough loot or don’t want to get stuck with the Black Spot.
And finally the All Hands on Deck phase is when the players bid for the Captaincy with at two doubloons, more if there is a tie.
The loot is face down for the game unless the players reveal it during the All Hands on Deck phase.
When I first acquired this game, I had heard it was very Citadels like. I guess from the Character cards and their uniques powers that is true, but the comparison stops their. I had also heard it was better than Citadels and I’ll talk about that in a minute.
Dread Curse certainly draws some influence from Citadels but is a completely different game and plays that way. There is always a bit of the leader gets stolen from the most in this game in my experience which could be a bad thing for the stealing players. The Captain has the higher chance of having one of the two Black Spot coins as the captain has the option of drawing the most coins out of the bag. Being the Captain is great in the begging but risky towards the end of the game. The trick is to know when to use your powers, paying attention so you don’t forget to use your powers and knowing when to cut and run.
There is a definite bit of strategy to this game while keeping it very light, easy and fun. It is a social game for sure as people are laughing, stealing and trying to screw each other.
The components of Dread Curse are very well done. The Character cards are big, maybe to big but it doesn’t effect game play at all, just isn’t as easy to tote around as it could be. The doubloons are your typical card board pieces and the Pirate Code cards are all coated to prevent wear and tear. The bag to hold the coins is better than most I have received with most games lately. The artwork on Dread Curse is fantastic! Probably my favorite artwork of the year so far. Great job here!
My final thoughts on Dread Curse are this. It’s a fun, quick, very easy game to learn. Great for the meta game or waiting for others to show up at your game night. Perfect for family game night or a quick lunch time game at work. It isn’t better than Citadels like some claim but it is just as good and maybe quicker to play. They are different enough from each other to own both games in your collection. For advance gamers, you can play it in 10 minutes straight out of the box! That is a big plus. A solid game from Smirk & Dagger Games and definitely belongs in your collection if this type of game suits you.
I am giving Dread Curse 7 out of 10 stars as it is a nice addition to your library providing fun, social gaming and quick play for almost any situation.
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The Downfall of Pompeii from Mayfair Games Review by David Lowry
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Shake….. Shake….. Loud crashing noises and the earth moving….. You look around trying to figure out what’s going on. Your home is shaking unbelievably, things are crashing to the ground shattering. You run outside to see every in a panic. Screaming, shouting and wailing coming from every direction. You start to panic trying to stop anyone to ask whats going on. They ignore you running in every direction, grabbing their children and old folk. Then you see it. You look up and see a huge plume of smoke rising from Mt. Vesuvius. Fire spitting out of the top of it. You stand frozen, you can’t believe what you are seeing. Your panic sets in deeper as you don’t know what to do.
You run back in the house, grab your family, shouting at them to drop everything and run. They are crying, they don’t understand, your daughter grabs her doll and you all fun for the door trying to keep your balance as the earth shudders and tosses you around. You grab your daughter into your arms as she fell and hurt her leg. As you exit the door, you look back at the volcano and see lava erupting and hurling large chunks of lava in to the city! One narrowly misses you as it crashes into your home. Lava pours down the sides of the volcano and towards the city. You and your family take off running as fast as you can away from the volcano. Where do your run to? How do you get away from this disaster?
Publisher: Mayfair Games
Game Designer: Klaus-Jurgen Wrede
Artwork: Oliver Freudenreich, Guido Hoffmann
Game Mechanics: Hand Management, Grid Movement, Tile Placement
Contents: 120 wood pieces, 62 game cards, 45 lava tiles, 3 dual vent tiles, 1 volcano, 1 cloth bag, game board and rulebook.
In The Downfall of Pompeii, the players compete to place as many of their pieces on the board as possible and then race to get them out of the city before the lava takes them over and covers them or traps them essentially eliminating them from the game. The game is played in two phases the first of which is the players trying to populate as many of your own people as possible. The second phase when Mt. Vesuvius erupts is when the players try to vacate as many of their people as possible out of the city. If you people get caught, they get thrown into the volcano! The person with the most amount of escapees is the winner.
The Downfall of Pompeii is a short family oriented game that is easy to learn and provides enough challenge for any “serious” gamer to enjoy for the most part. Someone will always argue this point I am sure. This is a revised edition of this game originally published in 2004. The only new addition to the game is the “Dual Vent Variant” which is 3 double sided tiles giving the player a choice of which side to play.
The Downfall of Pompeii is more strategic than you might think. After the players play the initial eight cards and draw the first A.D. 79 card, then they get to place their “relatives” on the board allowing for additional pieces to get a chance to escape. Being that the initial placement of the pieces are dictated by the card being played, once the piece is played in a building, that player then gets to play “relatives” equal to the amount of pieces in the city square portion of that building, meaning you could play up to four additional pieces in one turn if that building is already full. You cannot chain this effect so once you get the first batch of relatives on your turn, that is all the relatives you will receive during that turn. The relatives must be placed in different empty building spaces after that.
This is one of the key component strategies of the game. The other is when the second phase kicks in, the players now get to move two of their pieces. Each equal to the amount of pieces currently in that building. So if you have three pieces in that building before moving, then you get to move three city squares to try and escape. Of course you move into spaces with lots of pieces in it, to try and get all those movement points the next turn. There is a nice level of depth here to provide a “game” and balance the randomness of the tiles being pulled out to place the lava.
Their are six lava starting points on the board represented by six different symbols all on the tiles. When players draw a tile, they must put the tiles in accordance to the symbol. The first tile of each symbol must be placed on the starting city square before placing anywhere else. From there on out, the tiles must be place directly next to a tile with the same symbol and never diagonally.
After the second A.D. 79 card comes into play, all the players discard their cards, put their remaining pieces back in the box and then pull one tile to place and move to of their pieces on the board to escape the lava flow.
The components of this game are decent. The artwork is good but standard. The tiles are thick and will last a long time. The cards are good weight and coated so as to not get all dirty and peel. The board was a tiny bit warped but not enought to effect anything. The volcano is just a piece that folds in a circle and two little tabs slide into their slots making a serviceable volcano. We are working a styrofoam one to add a little more theme to the game. The tile bag is practical but probably the cheapest element of the game. I am still pulling loose threads out after many plays.
All in all, The Downfall of Pompeii is a good, solid and fun family game that is easy to pull out, teach and fit into any gaming situation. Ideal for maybe gaming during lunch at work, the initial warm up game at a game night or teaching new gamers about the great hobby of gaming and of course family game night. Even thought the theme might seem a bit gruesome, it really doesn’t play at all in the game and is completely safe for kids. Mayfair Games even did a nice job of putting some actually history in the rule book to describe what happen when Mt. Vesuvius actually erupted. You’d be surprised at how many people didn’t know a thing about what happened with Pompeii and had no idea it was a real event. Some people complain about the set up with the cards, but I found that to be not a negative at all. It’s very simple, quick and shouldn’t bother anyone. It’s a very light set up game and packs a lot of fun into a short amount of time.
I am giving The Downfall of Pompeii 7 out of 10 stars as it provides a nice fit into so many situations and provides enough depth while being a light game.
NSKN Games Announces the Release of Their New Game Praetor
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Praetor by NSKN Games
NSKN Games announces Praetor, their first board game release in 2014 and their largest hobby release to date.
Praetor is a strategy board game designed by NSKN Games and published in cooperation with 8 other publishers in 7 languages. Designed and developed in English, Praetor will also be released in German, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish and Romanian.
Publisher: NSKN Games
Game Mechanics: Worker Placement, Family game
Praetor Components
About Praetor
In Praetor you will take the role of a Roman engineer and you will work together with the other players to build a magnificent city. You will manage your limited resources wisely and look for new ones, you will recruit new Workers while your old experienced ones will retire, you will build settlements to keep the population happy and you will praise the Gods to earn their favor. Caesar will reward you if you give away precious resources to build Hadrian’s Wall thus increasing your chances of becoming Praetor.
Every turn you will place your Workers on previously built City Tiles to gain resources, Morale, new Workers or Favor Points. You may also assign Workers to build new City Tiles or spend resources to meet Caesar’s demands to gain Favor Points. At the end of each turn, you will have to pay your Workers. Otherwise, the mood in the city will deteriorate.
Most of the actions your Workers will perform will help them gain experience. They will become increasingly skilled in collecting resources. Your most experienced Workers will eventually retire and bring you additional Favor Points but you will still have to show solidarity and pay them until the end of the game.
The game ends when there are no more City Tiles available or when Caesar has no more demands for resources. The player with the most Favor Points will be appointed Praetor and win the game.
200 copies available through pre-order
The first 200 copies of Praetor (English edition) can be pre-ordered directly from NSKN Games until April 21st, with multiple delivery options (worldwide shipping, UKGE and Spiel’14 Essen pick-up).
The official European release will take place on June 1st, 2014 at the UK Games Expo (Birmingham, UK) and the game is planned to reach the majority of hobby retailers throughout Europe in June 2014.
The English edition will be carried by major hobby distributors in the United States and although a North American release is not planned yet, we expect Praetor to make its debut at GenCon in August 2014.
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64 Ounce Games Announces Board Games: Now Blind Accessible on Kickstarter
Posted by David Lowry in Board Game News, Board Games, Kickstarter, News
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64 Ounce Games and Richard Gibbs have announced today that they released their new Kickstarter campaign to make board and card games accessible to the blind in order for them to be able to play on their own or with their sighted friends. How cool is that?
Starting with transparent card sleeves, 64 Ounce Games will work to make existing copies of games ready to play for the blind. This is the most worthy cause I have come across yet on Kickstarter for board game programs so please get behind this!
Find out more about this project on Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/64ouncegames/board-games-now-blind-accessible
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If I’m Going Down… by Van Ryder Games Review by David Lowry
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If I am Going Down… by Van Ryder Games
Creak….. Creak….. Drag…. Thump, Drag….. Thump. The noise grows closer as you hear ragged breath emanating from whatever is getting closer. You peak through the slit in the door frame and see a human forming moving closer to you. Limping along, it is misshapen you can tell from the back light. Trying not to make a sound, the hair on the back of your neck stands up as you know something isn’t right. A chill runs down your spine as it just keeps coming. How does it know you are in there? You feel around for anything you can find as a weapon, trying to not make a sound. Finally it moves in the light coming through a window from the moon.
Hollow eyes stare at your location, flesh hangs from its face and hands. Dried blood covers its clothes and it skin is grayish, rotted and you can start to smell the stink of a…. dead body. Suddenly, you notice more figures moving your way…. The same slow gate, and you realize they are there to help you. Panic rises and your breath grows shallow. What are you going to do, it’s almost at the door. You feel something round, wooden… a bat? You grip it tight, waiting for it to open the door.
Publisher: Van Ryder Games
Game Designer: A.J. Porfirio
Artwork: Gary Simpson, Aaron Wong
Game Mechanics: Co-operative play, Card/Battle Driven, Campaign
Contents: Zombie deck (55 cards,) fate deck (41 cards,) six character cards, 50 tokens, 3 scenario cards, 2 turn reference cards, 1 zombie ability reference card, scenario book and rule book.
Parental Advisory: Theme not safe for kids however, there is no blood or gore. The card art is the only real issue here.
If I am Going Down… by Van Ryder Games is the first DCG (Dying Card Game) at least that I know of on the market. What does this mean? It means you will die playing this game. No two ways about it. That is definitely a new marketing position if I have ever seen one. Being a able to play as a solo or a co-op with another play is a nice new twist as well. Also a nice feature is the fact that is scenario driven. You can play with or without the scenario book and even create your own scenarios.
In If I’m Going Down…, you place cards in set pattern and battle zombies as they move closer to you. Each character cards has unique abilities and operates better with certain weapons than others. You start the game with 3 items/weapons and can search for more on your turn to upgrade so to speak or ditch weapons which are no longer of any use. Most of the zombies are generic but some have special abilities that make it harder to kill and some pop up right next to you. The object of the game is to see how many zombies you can kill before they finally kill you.
When I first played this game, I found it to be fun but something that could very easily get old quickly. The first game I played was about 60 minutes and then I found a couple things I was doing wrong with not paying enough attention to the symbols on the zombie cards for effect. Then I played again right after that and the game never ended. Two hours in. and I am killing everything in site over and over again. I finally had to leave for a meeting otherwise I could have been there a very long time.
If I’m Going Down… is a well thought out game for the most part. It’s a bit of very cool and a bit of meh. I can see where A.J. has a great head for game design. He did extremely well in designing the components. The resources cards are double sided and very easy to understand and give you all the info you need while playing. The rule book is very well done. The scenarios are well done as well and the fact that you can create your own help with re-playability if you want to invest the time. Otherwise, this doesn’t have a ton of re-playability. It does suffer from the feeling of just going through the motions doing the same thing over and over again. However, it’s a very solid effort, with a few different zombies thrown in, and maybe a variant that increases the overall decision making, then this game becomes a whole lot better. Right now it’s basically a hack and slash card game that has great potential.
The other issue I had was the character movement. Can they? It isn’t listed as an action yet it is referenced in the rule book. I figured it should be an action, so I used the same movement as a zombie. One space per turn. This needs to be clarified unless of course I missed it.
Like I said before, the components are well done both in ease of use, structure and materials. The art work is good, but could be better. Being the first game, I am sure budget may have had a bit to do with this. A.J. included a spacer on the back of the rule book to help keep the card rows straight. That was a great idea to be included. There were a lot of little touches A.J. thought of that many designers and publishers don’t.
Over all, If I’m Going Down… is a decent game that is best suited to people who are zombie fanatics, love solo games and really like hack and slash. It’s not a must have game, but it isn’t bad either. It’s a very solid first (I believe) effort from Van Ryder Games. Based on what I have seen here, I am excited to see what else they bring to the table as they show great promise for future games.
I am giving this game 6 out of 10 stars.
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Belfort From Tasty Minstrel Games Review by David Lowry
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Belfort from Tasty Minstrel Games
“What the ….?” The lumber yard is bustling more than ever as you look upon scores of elves picking up wood for whatever project they are working on. “What is going on?” you ask the yard foreman. “Seems that the King has requested a lot of building to be done.” he replies. “What? I was given the license to build for the city. I won that job!” Hastily making your purchase you take your load to the job site where currently underway, you have a tower going up.
As you walk towards the site, a dwarf runs up to you handing you a letter. Reading the apology sent by the Assistant Deputy of the Assistant Deputy, it states the King has decided that because of a clerical error, many master architects have been hired to build for the city. When building season ends, the King will hand the Key to the City to the one master architect who truly deserves it. “I can’t believe this!” you scream. “Grunt! Get over here!” A dwarf red of hair, stout of build and covered in dust and dirt from the morning work ambles up to you. “Yes sir, what do you need?” he grumbles as if he is to busy to be bothered. “Hire, all the help you can, elves and dwarves alike! Get as many gnomes as we can muster and get to building as many building as we planning all at once. Make sure you are first to the quarries, lumber yards and gold mine. We need to be ahead and better than everyone else. Well don’t just stand there! Move!” you shout. “Yes sir!” Grunt starts yelling at workers, giving them orders and point in directions for them to go. Then he scurries off to attend to his mission.
Shaking your head, you mind reals from all the work, long nights and personalities that will create issues you will now have to deal with. “It’s always something” you mutter to yourself. You set your mouth in grim determination and your mind to make sure that you will have that Key to the City at the end of building season and no one is going to stop you.
Publisher: Tasty Minstrel Games
Game Designer: Jay Cormier, Sen-Foong Lim
Artwork: Joshua Cappel
Playing Time: 90 – 120 Minutes
Game Mechanics: Worker placement, Area Control/Influence, Card Drafting, Hand Management
Contents: 5 Game board districts, key to the city, calendar board, collection board, 50 property cards, 5 turn order crests, 1 calendar marker, 5 player boards, 12 guild tiles, 30 wood logs, 30 stone blocks, 20 metal bricks, 46 gold coins, 6 multiplier chips, 35 dwarves, 35 elves, 22 gnomes, 60 property markers and 5 scoring markers.
In Belfort, each player is sending their loyal crew of Elves and Dwarves to the tasks of gathering resources, gold and constructing various buildings that have unique abilities for increasing influence in the city. Hiring Gnomes as staff for the building thereby, activating many of the special abilities and helping the player achieve success. Likewise, players can hire guilds to help along the way.
As each player is building in the five districts, their influence grows and knowing what and when to build can be critical to their success. According to the calendar, the scoring will be done three times throughout the building season. This will based on each players influence in each of the five districts as well as the size of their workforce of Elves, Dwarves and Gnomes. By the end of the seven rounds, the player who has earned the most points wins the Key to the City!
First let me state that Belfort is an amazing worker placement game. It is very well thought out and offers plenty of strategy while it is still simple to learn and understand. With all the worker placement games out there (and there are tons of them,) this one to me stands hands above most of them. With the popularity of gateway games of the genre like Lords of Waterdeep, Belfort brings much more to the table. The theme stands out to me immensely. I am not sure why exactly but it probably is a combination of many things such as the artwork, story and feel of the game. Many games of this style have themes that are just pasted on such as Lords of Waterdeep and have really no effect on the game. The mechanics of cube pushing are really all that matter in providing the character of the game at this point.
Belfort somehow manages to incorporate their theme into the overall experience and make it absolutely critical to the experience. The strategy of the game is quite deep and yet only feels like a medium weight game. If the players are familiar with euro style games, they will pick this up very easily and a great game will be born every time you play it. Yet as stated before, it is a good game for new gamers to learn and pick up quickly. This also serves very well as a family game as there is nothing for adults to have to worry about theme wise.
The artwork of Belfort is top notch and really, really adds a lot of flavor to the gaming experience. The components are some of the best yet for a euro game. The boards, guilds and other pieces are thick and colorful. There was no warping whatsoever in my copy. Everything is easy to read and understand. The cards are of good stock, weight and good artwork. A little assembly is required as you need to put stickers on the different colored playing pieces when breaking open the game.
My only complaint may be that player boards might have been a bit better as you need a lot of room to play this game. The building costs are on the player board and on the cards again. I have yet to see anyone use the board to determine the cost of building. Some space may have been saved here and there, with the calendar board, resource board and player boards and a little better planning, but this is a very minor complaint. As over all this game is awesome.
Belfort has become my go to game in worker placement genre. I have to play anything of this weight that is this fun, deep and easy to learn. While there are many great games out there, Belfort should be a table favorite for a long time to come. You don’t shelve great games and Belfort is a GREAT game.
I am giving Belfort 8.5 out 10 stars.
TN Game Days 2014 Recap
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The TN Games Days held it’s 9th convention from March 14th – 16th in Franklin, TN at the Cool Spring Marriott this last weekend and let me tell you it was a blast. It was my 5th time and first time as a sponsor at this board game convention and each year it gets bigger and better. This year it grew by about 80 attendees to reach 350 people total. The event run by Rick Kuehler, Bo Link and Russ Rupe (Conquest Gaming, LLC) was very well done as usual and is one of the events I most look forward to every year.
Starting at 8:00 am on Friday morning, the convention hosts events all three days including things like a flea market, math trade, 3D Battlestar Galactica (thank you Craig Herbert,) Crokinole tournament, Wits & Wagers tournament, designers showcase, a Tessen tournament, Conquest of the Empire, a charity auction plus tours of games for the attendees to participate in and register to win prizes throughout the convention.
The tours consisted of the following:
Quick Gaming Tour – Escape: the Curse of the Temple, Love Letter, For Sale, The Resistance and Snake Oil being the featured games.
Calendar Tour – Around the World in 80 Day, Kingsburg and Dungeon Lords.
Cult of the New Tour – Relic Runners, Space Sheep! and Parade.
The Constructables Tour – Steam Park, Wits & Wagers, Stecon: Infinity.
Netrunner: New Players Tour.
Personally I was able to teach two epic games of A Game of Thrones 2nd Ed., one was 4 hours, the other was seven hours (I love this game,) played Battlestar Galactica (humans lost at the last second,) Trajan, Nations, the brand new Marvel Legendary expansion: Paint the Town Red, Belfort, DC Deck Building Game twice and Spartacus: A Game of Blood and Treachery. Friday I left at 3am and Saturday at 4 am. It was fun!
One of the great things about TN Game Days is it feels very intimate. Even though there are tables full of people everywhere, it isn’t to loud. You can hear the players, have plenty of space and you are close to everything you could need. The hotel is great, a bit pricey at $119 a night but it’s worth it right? Every year, I meet new and amazing people who come from all over the US to attend the event. Although I only got a couple new games in this year, it was well worth it as getting the big games to the table is always hard.
The first Game of Thrones
Sponsors for the event were:
Game Surplus, Out of the Box Publishing, AEG, Conquest Gaming, LLC, Days of Wonder, Rio Grande Games, Roll The Dice, Bring Your A Game, Stronghold Games, Van Ryder Games, Let it Sew, Meeple Source, Z-Man Games and Club Fantasci.
Next years TN Game Days will be March 13th – 15th at the same location. Don’t miss this! If you have any questions about attending in the future or sponsoring please email me or get a hold of TN Game Days here: www.tngamedays.com.
Lord of The Rings with Craig Herbert’s enhancing
Star Wars Crokinole Board
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Manifest: The Board Game from Schilmil Games on Kickstarter
Posted by David Lowry in Board Game News, Board Games, Kickstarter
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Manifest: The Board Game
Ships, Cargo and Pirates oh my! Manifest: The Board Game is set in the roaring ’20s as players compete to ship cargo, flee pirates, hope the stock market doesn’t crash to devalue their cargo and deliver passengers while not get lost at sea or sink altogether.
Publisher: Schilmil Games
Game Designer: Amanda Milne, Julia Schiller
Playing Time: 20 minutes per player
Game Mechanics: deck building, blind card draw
Contents: Game board, 55 action cards, 85 deck-builder cards, 42 contract cards, 48 cargo tokens, 24 passenger meeples, 10 cargo ships, 5 shipping company boards, 2 dice, 1 for sale board
Suggested Retail Price: N/A Currently in Kickstarter
Billed as a family game that has enough weight for serious gamers to enjoy this one to look at and support before it goes away. Only 15 days left to contribute!
Check out the Kickstarter for more videos, the rulebook and all the stretch goals: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/278847765/manifest-the-board-game?ref=live
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Duterte warns crackdown vs. polluters
By CNN Philippines Staff
Published Jul 22, 2019 9:49:09 PM
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, July 22) — President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to shut down business establishments out to damage the environment.
"I am going to dismantle your building or simply burn it down so we can have a new set up of environment-friendly -- whatever it (takes)," he said in his fourth State of the Nation Address Monday.
Duterte said this in light of the Manila Bay rehabilitation program. He created a task force in February to do the job.
"Though we have a long way to go, we are encouraged by the test results of the waters near Padre Faura. We will relocate informal settlers. I hope it can happen during my time," he said.
Earlier in the year, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources found the 2,000-square kilometer bay to have extreme levels of coliform -- bacteria which indicate disease-causing organisms are present -- at 333 million most probable numbers per 100 milliliters (MPN/100 ml). The level safe for swimming is 100 MPN/100 ml.
The administration hopes the bay could be fully rehabilitated by the end of Duterte's term in 2022.
Abu Sayyaf kidnaps 5 Indonesians off Sabah
Classes in Batangas to remain suspended while Taal is at Alert Level 4
House aims to pass bills creating 3 new departments before March
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Home /Your Internet Provider Likely Juiced Its Official Speed Scores
BusinessDecember 13, 2019
Your Internet Provider Likely Juiced Its Official Speed Scores
AT&T was dismayed at its report card from a government test measuring internet speeds. So the telecom giant sought to change its grade.
The company pushed the Federal Communications Commission to omit unflattering data on its DSL internet service from the report, which assesses whether providers are delivering the speeds they advertise. AT&T also didn’t provide information the FCC needed to validate speeds on those customers, the test officials confirmed.
In the end, the DSL data was left out of the report released late last year, to the chagrin of some agency officials. AT&T’s remaining speed tiers notched high marks.
The FCC’s nearly decade-old program, Measuring Broadband America, is the U.S. government’s gauge of whether home internet-service providers are holding up their end of the bargain when they promise users certain speeds.
Companies wield tremendous influence over the study and often employ tactics to boost their scores, according to interviews with more than two dozen industry executives, engineers and government officials. As a result, the FCC’s report likely gives consumers an unreliable measure of internet providers’ performances by overstating speeds.
“It’s hard to trust the numbers when you know” of efforts to massage the results, said veteran cable and telecom consultant
Mark Lubow.
The stakes are high. Cable and phone companies often tout the scores while trying to sell packages promising ever-faster speeds at higher prices, and they are increasingly leaning on their broadband businesses to drive growth.
The Truth About Broadband
The FCC informs companies which customers are part of the speed tests, allowing some to prioritize giving those households better service, engineers who worked at some of the companies said. The FCC relies on companies to provide information about the speed plans for the customers being tested.
Major providers have persuaded the FCC to remove unfavorable data, including individual houses with poor scores, blaming faulty equipment. They have successfully argued to exclude test days when heavy traffic slowed scores, such as during NFL games or when
pushed a new software update. Reasons for the deletions aren’t always included in the FCC reports.
Many internet providers gain additional information about the users being tested by paying SamKnows, the U.K.-based company that administers and provides equipment for the tests, for real-time access to testers’ scores year-round, and other analytics.
Representatives of major broadband providers denied tampering with the FCC study, pointing to a code of conduct they sign that forbids them from influencing the results unless it is “consistent with normal business practices.” They said any network upgrades improved service for swaths of their subscribers, not just households in the FCC’s tests.
The 2018 report excluded more than a quarter of test-taking users, mostly because providers said the users weren’t representative of their popular speed plans.
Excluded users, by reason
Providers say users aren’t representative of plan
Not enough users in speed plan
Provider unable to verify user
AT&T said that in its case, the company asked the FCC to remove DSL data from the report because it no longer markets that older technology, which relies on copper phone lines, used by a small percentage of its customer base. The company said the commission’s own policies should have excluded the “obsolete” internet plans. AT&T also said that it did validate the DSL accounts for the FCC.
An FCC spokesman said the program has a transparent process and that the agency will continue to enable it “to improve, evolve, and provide meaningful results as we move forward.”
SamKnows said it doesn’t believe anything the providers did could have made a difference to the results, given the checks and controls it has in place. The company’s chief executive,
Alex Salter,
said having internet providers as clients doesn’t interfere with its ability to do accurate testing for regulators. The program has spurred companies to make major nationwide investments in network upgrades, he said.
The tests cover thousands of users who sign up directly with SamKnows, or are invited to sign up by the FCC or their internet providers. They install measuring devices in their homes, known as whiteboxes, which measure speeds throughout the day.
For the official report, the FCC uses data from a specific time period, usually a month or two in the fall, to produce a report that has been published eight times in nine years, most recently last December. The FCC and SamKnows inform the internet providers the dates of the testing period and send them lists of individual testers’ names so they can confirm which speed packages the customers have signed up for. The agency compares that information with the actual results from the tests administered by SamKnows.
That makes it possible for companies to keep tabs on many testers from year to year, engineers said. Providers can use that information, as well as real-time data from the dashboard SamKnows sells them, which anonymizes the users but shows their states and regions, to make targeted upgrades that improve service for those households, engineers said.
Internet experts and former FCC officials said the setup gives the internet companies enormous leverage. “How can you go to the party who controls the information and say, ‘please give me information that may implicate you?’ ” said
Tom Wheeler,
a former FCC chairman who stepped down in January 2017.
Jim Warner,
a retired network engineer who has helped advise the agency on the test for years, told the FCC in 2015 that the rules for providers were too lax. “It’s not much of a code of conduct,” Mr. Warner said.
The reports largely paint a rosy picture for internet providers. Last year, a key finding was that “for most of the major broadband providers that were tested, measured download speeds were 100% or better of advertised speeds during the peak hours.”
Internet providers such as
Altice USA’s
Optimum and
Verizon Communications Inc.
’s Fios have used the FCC’s results over the years to bolster their marketing claims.
Charter Communications Inc.,
which in 2016 swallowed Time Warner Cable to become the No. 2 U.S. internet provider with its Spectrum brand, cited FCC speed-test results to defend itself when the New York attorney general sued it in 2017 for overpromising and underdelivering internet speeds.
says about its Xfinity service on its website that “recent testing performed by the FCC confirms that Comcast’s broadband Internet access service is one of the fastest, most reliable broadband services in the United States.”
Marcia Pearson,
a Cox Communications Inc. customer in Goleta, Calif., pays for 30 Mbps—or megabits per second—service but registered speeds of only 3.6 Mbps when she used Cox’s own online tool to test her speed on a recent day.
The Sandwich Bandwidth Test
Six users who tested their internet speed for The Wall Street Journal showed speeds much lower than those promised by their speed plans. Each user tried different speed tests on various platforms.
“The analogy I gave AT&T on the phone was, ‘Look, I’m paying for a 12-inch sub and you’re giving me 3 inches of it. You need to adjust the price or give me the rest of the sandwich.’”
“Never does the bill get prorated for that, even if you’re only giving me 50-60% of what I pay for.”
Ryan Greenwald
San Diego, Calif.
Chandhuluru
Iselin, N.J.
Bruce Clark
Marcia Pearson
Goleta, Calif.
David Resnick
Red Oak, Texas
“It is annoying that one has to pay for something that is falsely advertised,” she said. In interviews, several other consumers said they have had similar experiences.
Cox said that after it was contacted by The Wall Street Journal about Ms. Pearson, it discovered outdated equipment in the network connecting to her home and fixed it. Ms. Pearson said her speeds have improved.
Last year, Cox, one of the biggest U.S. broadband providers, wasn’t pleased with a weak score on a key FCC metric, which said Cox’s speed “consistency”—what most subscribers get most of the time—was 37% of what it advertised. Cox officials denied responsibility, arguing to the FCC that a congested link to an internet middleman had lowered scores for some of its Arizona customers.
In the December 2018 report, Cox’s results aren’t included in two main charts that show how companies compare in consistency. The FCC put Cox’s scores, including the 37% figure, in a footnote, where it said that, factoring out the contested results, the consistency score would have been 85%.
Cox and the FCC said most of the speed tests occurred over the congested internet link, the upgrade of which had been delayed. In normal use that link carried less than 3% of Cox’s web traffic, they said.
Some FCC officials were uncomfortable with the omission, people familiar with the episode said. Network experts say broadband providers share responsibility with internet middlemen to keep their connections upgraded.
AT&T was repeatedly at loggerheads with the FCC over its results and worked closely with the agency to have favorable items included in the report, a former AT&T employee familiar with the testing program said.
FCC officials decided reluctantly not to publish AT&T’s DSL data in last year’s report, according to
Walter Johnston,
a former FCC official who oversaw the program until he retired last year.
“Personally, I was not happy about that,” he said. Overall, Mr. Johnston defended the FCC test, saying the agency never meant it to be a “consumer guarantee.”
AT&T this year told the commission it will no longer cooperate with the FCC’s SamKnows speed test. Instead, it said it plans to use its own measurement tool, which it believes to be more accurate, to report performance to the government.
Providers have requested the FCC delete poor results from individual users, such as when major weather events like hurricanes hurt internet service, or when users have outdated modems.
Some FCC staff felt the providers should be responsible for ensuring their customers have updated equipment, a former FCC official said. The FCC routinely allows those deletions as long as companies make good-faith efforts to inform users of old modems.
In 2013 and 2014, millions of Comcast, Verizon and Time Warner Cable customers experienced internet slowdowns—most notably while viewing Netflix, but also on a range of other sites and applications. The FCC omitted speed-test results reflecting that in its report.
The agency said the network congestion, which stemmed from a standoff between
Netflix,
the providers and internet middleman
Cogent Communications Inc.
over who should pay for upgrading their shared connections, was outside the scope of the study. Comcast, Verizon and Time Warner Cable got stellar grades in the 2014 report.
Henning Schulzrinne,
the chief technology officer at the FCC for several years, said he was against such exemptions because they obscured customers’ actual experiences.
New York-based Cablevision Systems Corp., which was acquired by Altice in 2016, got especially bad results in 2011. Top executives pushed a network-wide effort to improve service, and during the upgrades, FCC speed-testing users were given white-glove treatment, some former Cablevision engineers said.
Jack Burton,
a former Cablevision engineer who is now a consultant, said “there was an effort to make sure known [users] had up-to-date equipment” like modems and routers. Cablevision also marked as “high priority” the neighborhoods that contained speed-testing users, ensuring that those neighborhoods got upgraded ahead of others, said other former Cablevision engineers close to the effort.
Cablevision’s SamKnows scores dramatically improved within a span of months, according to an FCC blog post. The following year Cablevision topped the rankings.
Altice declined to comment on activity before its acquisition of the company.
A former senior Cablevision executive denied the company gave households involved in FCC speed tests special treatment.
FCC officials said they are unaware of any such effort to influence the test. They added that they publish the raw data from tests online and rely on rival carriers to keep one another honest.
One way providers keep tabs on households is by paying SamKnows for access to its real-time dashboard. SamKnows said its contracts with providers range from about $13,000 to more than $650,000 a year.
Through the dashboard, companies could find out before the test that “you have issues somewhere,” said
Jason Weil,
a former engineer at Time Warner Cable and Charter who worked on the FCC program at both companies. “If you know six months ahead of time, that is much, much easier.” Mr. Weil said the close collaboration between SamKnows and the providers worked to the benefit of all users.
Sometimes providers boost speeds for households during the actual FCC speed-testing period. Comcast a few years ago upgraded speeds in some regions without notifying the FCC, making test results look stellar, people close to the FCC program said. The FCC discovered the changes after spotting anomalous data and adjusted the numbers.
This September, amid an FCC test, Comcast rolled out speed upgrades for many customers in several states.
“We have done annual speed increases during various months of the year for the past 18 years,” a Comcast spokeswoman said. “In addition, the FCC’s measurement system is designed to ensure that any changes in speed or tier during the testing window are accounted for so they can be measured accurately.”
In the age of high-speed internet, encountering a spinning wheel when you try to stream a video can be maddening. But before you call your provider, know that you’re probably already paying for faster speeds than you use. Illustration: Timothy Wong
Internet providers can spot government speed-test data on their networks and essentially open more bandwidth for a customer for the duration of the test, said
James Cannon,
a longtime cable and telecom engineering executive who left Charter in February and now consults for various providers.
“I know that goes on,” he said. “If they have a scheduled test with a government agency, they will be very careful about how that traffic is routed on the network.”
Michael Dozier,
a former AT&T engineer who left this year;
Maurice Dean,
a telecom and media consultant with 22 years’ experience working on streaming, cable and telecom projects, including at
’s Google; and Mr. Lubow, the cable and telecom consultant, agreed there was special treatment of speed tests.
“It is problematic,” Mr. Dean said. “This attempt to ‘enhance’ performance for these measurements is a well-known practice in the industry” and makes the FCC results “almost meaningless for describing actual user experience.”
The Journal reached out to the top 10 U.S. broadband providers to ask about special treatment of speed-test traffic. AT&T,
CenturyLink Inc.,
Charter, Comcast, Cox, Mediacom Communications Corp., Verizon and
Windstream Holdings Inc.
denied that they prioritize speed tests, and said they upgrade their networks continually and don’t give special treatment to FCC speed testers. Altice USA and
Frontier Communications Corp.
said they follow the FCC’s code of conduct.
Last year, satellite internet provider
Viasat Inc.
left the FCC’s program after growing concerned about rivals’ behavior. Its satellite competitor Hughes Network Systems LLC had posted results in 2017 showing it was providing greater than 160% of its advertised download speeds on average, far exceeding Viasat’s. Also worrisome, the New York attorney general alleged that Charter-Time Warner Cable juiced its FCC results by using certain tactics to paper over bad scores. Charter settled with New York state last year for $174.2 million while admitting no wrongdoing.
Should the FCC’s report be revamped to more accurately reflect user experiences? Join the discussion below.
It “really made us question…whether [others] are intentionally trying to influence the results,” said
Christopher Murphy,
Viasat’s associate general counsel. The fact that some internet providers were also clients of SamKnows struck Viasat as a conflict of interest.
FCC officials said their investigation of Viasat’s complaint found no evidence of tampering by Hughes. A Hughes spokeswoman said the company has also left the program and always abided by the FCC’s rules.
A big reason for the gap between the speeds internet companies promise and those they deliver is the structure of most broadband networks. Service providers pipe bandwidth into neighborhoods, where it is shared by those households. The amount of bandwidth providers deliver is a fraction—often as low as 1%—of the total bandwidth all households in the neighborhood have collectively signed up for in their monthly plans, according to CTC Technology & Energy, a telecommunications consulting firm.
That helps explain why at times of peak usage, when lots of people are playing “Fortnite” or streaming movies, for example, there isn’t enough bandwidth to go around, and people experience speeds slower than what they paid for.
Company executives said they provision bandwidth based on how much a neighborhood actually uses in order to be fiscally responsible.
When providers roll out faster speed plans, without upgrading the total bandwidth available to neighborhood networks, the results can be even more frustrating for consumers. For example, Charter-Time Warner Cable oversold its network to the point where 200 Mbps and 300 Mbps households “would achieve speeds that were only a half to a third of their promised speeds,” the New York attorney general alleged in its 2017 suit. Yet Time Warner Cable’s FCC speed-test results in the two years prior averaged 100% or more of promised speeds.
Internet experts said the FCC’s entire testing approach needs to be rethought to be more useful for consumers. The current test measures how much capacity internet providers supply to a household, in a vacuum, but doesn’t monitor the internet performance that users actually experience while streaming, gaming or surfing the Web, which can be affected by overtaxed neighborhood networks, Wi-Fi interference or traffic jams deep in the guts of the internet.
The Journal conducted its own test this year to assess how speed affects internet performance, focusing on how users actually experience a variety of streaming services. The Journal’s testing found that there were marginal benefits for paying for faster speeds beyond 100 Mbps. The FCC has considered a similar approach to testing streaming experiences, but hasn’t moved forward, people involved in the program said.
Tim Wu,
a longtime broadband industry critic and Columbia University professor, likened the FCC’s approach to measuring the speed of a car after getting rid of traffic. “If you want to get an idea of what Americans are experiencing, that’s a totally different story,” he said.
—Inti Pacheco contributed to this article.
Write to Shalini Ramachandran at shalini.ramachandran@wsj.com, Lillian Rizzo at Lillian.Rizzo@wsj.com and Drew FitzGerald at andrew.fitzgerald@wsj.com
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On Stage: 'Hedwig And The Angry Inch' and 'Ain't Too Proud'CBS 2 theater critic Chris Jones reviews "Ain't Too Proud," the Marvin Gaye story playing at the Chicago Theatre; and "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," playing at Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre.
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On Stage: 'West Side Story' and 'August Rush'CBS 2 theater critic Chris Jones reviews "August Rush," playing at Paramount Theatre; and "West Side Story," playing at Lyric Opera House.
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Vaccines Implicated in Rocketing Childhood Diabetes Rates
Posted on April 5, 2009 by ChildHealthSafety
The Times, London reports Thousands of children revealed to be suffering from diabetes – The Times – April 4, 2009, showing UK childhood diabetes rates are 15 times higher than previous figures. Childhood diabetes is listed as an adverse reaction to the US drug giant Merck’s MMR II and other vaccines and highlights the issue of risk of disease compared to risk of adverse reactions.
At what point and at what social and economic cost do we draw a line? How many cases of autism, diabetes, asthma, allergy and all the rest do there have to be to make the risks of the vaccines worthwhile? The MMR II product information leaflet can be found here: MMR II. The list of potential adverse reactions is long – and added to the end of this article. It includes:-
“ADVERSE REACTIONS ………..
Diabetes mellitus …………“
So this again highlights child health safety issues and risk of disease compared to the risk of adverse reactions.
Diabetes Increase Caused by “Environmental Factors” and not by “genes”
Dr Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. the 16th and current Director of the US$30.5 billion budget National Institutes of Health [nominated by President Obama: NIH News Release 17th August 2009 ] stated in evidence to US House of Representatives Committee May 2006 when Director of the US National Human Genome Research Institute:
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. evidence to US House of Representatives Committee May 2006
And do vaccines cause autistic conditions? If you read nothing else we strongly recommend you read this: PDF Download – Text of May 5th 2008 email from US HRSA to Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News]. In it the US Health Resources Services Administration [HRSA] state to CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkission
EXTRACT FROM MERCK’S MMR II PRODUCT INFORMATION LEAFLET
The following adverse reactions are listed in decreasing order of severity, without regard to causality, within each body system category and have been reported during clinical trials, with use of the marketed vaccine, or with use of monovalent or bivalent vaccine containing measles, mumps, or rubella:
Panniculitis; atypical measles; fever; syncope; headache; dizziness; malaise; irritability.
Vasculitis.
Pancreatitis; diarrhea; vomiting; parotitis; nausea.
Diabetes mellitus.
Hemic and Lymphatic System
Thrombocytopenia (see WARNINGS, Thrombocytopenia); purpura; regional lymphadenopathy; leukocytosis.
Anaphylaxis and anaphylactoid reactions have been reported as well as related phenomena such as angioneurotic edema (including peripheral or facial edema) and bronchial spasm in individuals with or without an allergic history.
Arthritis; arthralgia; myalgia.
Arthralgia and/or arthritis (usually transient and rarely chronic), and polyneuritis are features of infection with wild-type rubella and vary in frequency and severity with age and sex, being greatest in adult females and least in prepubertal children. This type of involvement as well as myalgia and paresthesia, have also been reported following administration of MERUVAX II.
Chronic arthritis has been associated with wild-type rubella infection and has been related to persistent virus and/or viral antigen isolated from body tissues. Only rarely have vaccine recipients developed chronic joint symptoms. Following vaccination in children, reactions in joints are uncommon and generally of brief duration. In women, incidence rates for arthritis and arthralgia are generally higher than those seen in children (children: 0-3%; women: 12-26%),17,52,53 and the reactions tend to be more marked and of longer duration. Symptoms may persist for a matter of months or on rare occasions for years. In adolescent girls, the reactions appear to be intermediate in incidence between those seen in children and in adult women. Even in women older than 35 years, these reactions are generally well tolerated and rarely interfere with normal activities.
Encephalitis; encephalopathy; measles inclusion body encephalitis (MIBE) (see CONTRAINDICATIONS); subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE); Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS); febrile convulsions; afebrile convulsions or seizures; ataxia; polyneuritis; polyneuropathy; ocular palsies; paresthesia.
Experience from more than 80 million doses of all live measles vaccines given in the U.S. through 1975 indicates that significant central nervous system reactions such as encephalitis and encephalopathy, occurring within 30 days after vaccination, have been temporally associated with measles vaccine very rarely. In no case has it been shown that reactions were actually caused by vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has pointed out that “a certain number of cases of encephalitis may be expected to occur in a large childhood population in a defined period of time even when no vaccines are administered”. However, the data suggest the possibility that some of these cases live measles virus vaccine administration remains far less than that for encephalitis and encephalopathy with wild-type measles (one per two thousand reported cases).
Post-marketing surveillance of the more than 200 million doses of M-M-R and M-M-R II that have been distributed worldwide over 25 years (1971 to 1996) indicates that serious adverse events such as encephalitis and encephalopathy continue to be rarely reported.17
There have been reports of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) in children who did not have a history of infection with wild-type measles but did receive measles vaccine. Some of these cases may have resulted from unrecognized measles in the first year of life or possibly from the measles vaccination.
Based on estimated nationwide measles vaccine distribution, the association of SSPE cases to measles vaccination is about one case per million vaccine doses distributed. This is far less than the association with infection with wild-type measles, 6-22 cases of SSPE per million cases of measles. The results of a retrospective case-controlled study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that the overall effect of measles vaccine has been to protect against SSPE by preventing measles with its inherent higher risk of SSPE.55
Cases of aseptic meningitis have been reported to VAERS following measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination. Although a causal relationship between the Urabe strain of mumps vaccine and aseptic meningitis has been shown, there is no evidence to link Jeryl Lynn™ mumps vaccine to aseptic meningitis.
Pneumonia, pneumonitis (see CONTRAINDICATIONS); sore throat; cough; rhinitis.
Stevens-Johnson syndrome; erythema multiforme; urticaria; rash; measles-like rash; pruritis. Local reactions including burning/stinging at injection site; wheal and flare; redness (erythema); swelling; induration; tenderness; vesiculation at injection site.
Special Senses — Ear
Nerve deafness; otitis media.
Special Senses — Eye
Retinitis; optic neuritis; papillitis; retrobulbar neuritis; conjunctivitis.
Urogenital System
Epididymitis, orchitis.
Death from various, and in some cases unknown, causes has been reported rarely following vaccination with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines; however, a causal relationship has not been established in healthy individuals (see CONTRAINDICATIONS). No deaths or permanent sequelae were reported in a published post-marketing surveillance study in Finland involving 1.5 million children and adults who were vaccinated with M-M-R II during 1982 to 1993.56
Under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, health-care providers and manufacturers are required to record and report certain suspected adverse events occurring within specific time periods after vaccination. However, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has established a Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) which will accept all reports of suspected events.47
A VAERS report form as well as information regarding reporting requirements can be obtained by calling
VAERS 1-800-822-7967″
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arthritis, on April 6, 2009 at 6:51 am said:
I am confused.Then how can I beleive in this vaccines.Let me check with my physician.
[ED: Didn’t you know about the association with vaccines and rubella vaccines in particular with arthritis? This is what your physician will tell you – it is on the vaccine data sheet – but can you rely on it?
susu laury, on June 4, 2012 at 11:02 pm said:
criminels !!!!!
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Spit Take Saturday: Anjelah Johnson at Just For Laughs Chicago
By Julie Seabaugh
Comedy >
Welcome to Spit Take Saturday, courtesy of Brown Paper Tickets’ Comedy Doer Julie Seabaugh and her professional comedy criticism site The Spit Take. Julie’s goal with the site is to “elevate the public perception of stand-up comedy to that of a legitimate art form, and to enable comedy criticism be taken as seriously as that of theater, film, music, food, even video games. No a**-kissing. No bias. No mercy. Just honest, unfiltered, long-form reviews written by professional, knowledgeable comedy critics.”
Every week Julie will select an entry from the site to be included on our blog and hand-pick some related events happening that week that she feels all you comedy lovers out there will appreciate.
So, without further ado, let us introduce you to this week’s Spit Take Saturday!
Threats of a torrential derecho kept some Chicagoans home instead of braving the storm and put a damper on the Just for Laughs-branded pedicabs that shuttled fans around the city. But they didn’t stop eager Anjelah Johnson fans from lining up with their umbrellas and galoshes outside The Vic Theatre, the former vaudeville venue on Chicago’s north side, to snag good general-admission seats for the former MADtv cast member’s Wednesday night performance.
Nashville-based opener T.C. Cope had an undeniably energetic stage presence, but it wasn’t enough to compensate for his dated material. Large, stagnant chunks devoted to Tickle Me Elmo, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and a SeaWorld drowning that happened in 2010 made it feel as though Cope hadn’t read a newspaper or been online much recently. He showed versatility with his Luther Vandross impression and preached the efficacy of R&B as an aphrodisiac, but somewhere along the line he meandered, reaching the halfway point of Toby Keith’s “Angry American” before it became difficult to remember how the joke began in the first place. The crowd seemed to like Cope well enough nevertheless, though perhaps Johnson’s younger, hipper fans weren’t his usual audience.
Johnson took to the stage, allowing for a quick photo op (“Tag me!” she joked), then opened with a bit on recently marrying a Christian rapper, saying that maybe Jesus had the best sense of humor of all, because her act used to contain a bit making fun of Christian rappers for being lame. Married life hasn’t necessarily changed that opinion, as she riffed, “Who are you? Ludachrist…JayZ-sus…Je-Hova?” She also used her nuptials to address the misconception that she was a lesbian. ”I wore my nails short, never had a boyfriend, and wore my hair in a ponytail because I was lazy, okay?”
Johnson’s most successful moments resulted from sharing anecdotes about mundane events. From flying in a rickety passenger plane to accidentally going out for tacos with a thug, she attracts danger and hijinks. One of the funniest bits recounted her failed attempt at jury duty. She was released after the first day because she couldn’t keep her opinions to herself, and things quickly devolved into her breathlessly recounting an episode of Law & Order: SVU. “Jennifer Love Hewitt was in it, but it was a different role for her. She had to cry a lot.” She expertly flipped back and forth between her own persona and the stodgy courtroom population, one of many times throughout the evening when her impressive character work shined.
The only part of her set that lagged came toward the end, when she chose Twitter winners for a meet and greet by scrolling through her iPhone, then trotted out characters Bon Qui Qui and the nail salon employee to lip sync snippets of tracks. Her MADtv fans probably made up much of her audience that night, but the seemingly tacked-on part of the performance felt a little low rent within the context of an otherwise sharp and engaging evening.
By Dyan Flores
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Here’s some other great comedy events coming up in Chicago this week:
Sunday, June 16 I Sundays with Susan It’s spring and Susan wants to spend this wonderful Sunday evening with you at CIC. Sit back, drink some ice tea and relax with the joyous fresh energy of Susan and a different opening team every night. There will be surprises around every corner, both theatrical and interactive. Susan will leave you wondering when you can get a little more Susan. Improv with CIC house team Susan. New opening team every week.
Tuesday, June 18 I Schlock & Awe Justin Bieber gets in touch with his feminine side. Secrets of the cultural illuminati are exposed. Puppets are violated and we can’t stop talking about Game of Thrones either. Democracy Burlesque, Chicago’s only political sketch comedy company is proud to present Schlock & Awe: Uncultured Sketch Comedy About Pop Culture. It’s a full frontal assault on the news we love to hate, and hate to admit we follow. Assauge your guilt for knowing the sex of Kim & Kanye’s baby but not your own Congressman. The Huffington Post is covering it, so it must be news right? So come out on a Tuesday night grab a Dirty Politick martini and join us for an evening of cultural schadenfreude and fun featuring musical guests, stand-up comedy and sketches performed by the Actors of Evil.
Friday, June 21 I Comedians You Should Know Presents: An Evening with Joe Kilgallon Chicago stand-up comedian Joe Kilgallon will be headlining a stand-up comedy show in the beautiful back room of Timothy O’Toole’s Pub in downtown Chicago, this Friday. It is a chance to see one of Chicago’s best comedians have the rare opportunity to do a 45 minute headliner set in an intimate venue. The show is being produced by Comedians You Should Know, a stand-up comedy collective in Chicago that produces a weekly Wednesday show at O’Toole’s. CYSK is made up of six Chicago-based comedians, including Kilgallon. The show will also feature Chicago comedian Megan Gailey with guest Camilla Cleese. Chicago comedian Jeff Steinbrunner hosts.
Tags: Anjelah Johnson, Bon Qui Qui, Chemically Imbalanced Comedy, Chicago, christian rappers, Comedians You Should Know, Democracy Burlesque, Jeff Steinbrunner, Joe Kilgallon, Just For Laughs Chicago, nail salon employee, O'Tooles, Schlock & Awe, Sundays with Susan, T.C. Cope, The Spit Take, The Vic Theatre.
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Let’s Make Their Positions Permanent
FYI, Voices
Mary Kate Hafner
March: Closer Look
Well, let’s be done with it. Erase the word “interim” from their titles and formally make John D. Glascock, PE, Columbia’s next city manager and confirm Lieutenant Geoff Jones as the next police chief of the Columbia Police Department.
Quit fooling around with out-of-town consultants, because this is just another case of them leading to an expensive parade of visits, interviews, and recommendations, not to mention inserting more delay and uncertainty in the process. How many times do we have to remind ourselves that the results accrued from these global searches have been a mixed result at best?
While neither one of them has come forth dancing on stage a hooting and a hollering that they really want their jobs nailed down, you know in their heart of hearts that they want to continue in their respective positions.
Glascock, age 59, can recall that Raymond A. Beck, PE, Columbia’s Public Works director and later city manager, didn’t step into retirement until he was 73 years old, so why would Glascock want to “retire” so soon? He’s having second thoughts as this is written.
Retirement? How about repurposing? Those who repurpose often end up then living the most productive portion of their lives, as was the case of the late Charlie Digges (1919-2019) who had the stamina, energy, and love of others right up to the last beat of his heart a few weeks ago.
Then there’s Lieutenant Jones, the “interim” chief of police, a mere youngster at age 43, another local boy and Rock Bridge High School alumnus. Who from the outside would be better equipped at tackling all the contentious issues blaring in recent headlines than him?
Both Glascock and Jones quickly abandoned their respective office warrens to adopt the most basic of management styles. They went out and mingled with folks ranging from their own to the most aggrieved individuals, who have since been calmed by their outreaches.
The community should work harder at developing a “bench” of talented individuals qualified and capable of moving upward in an orderly line of succession for positions in city government. In June 1956, the city hired Don Allard for a one-year assignment in city manager Leo Hill’s office, which was a requirement of Allard’s MA degree program at MU. Who ended up returning to town in 1962 to be city manager but Don Allard, after other managerial apprenticeships elsewhere?
With other controversies continuing to erode the public’s confidence in city governance, the mayor and council could help their reputations by striking “interim” from the titles of John Glascock and Lieutenant Geoff Jones.
But will they? Don’t count on it!
Al Germond is the host of the Columbia Business Times Sunday Morning Roundtable at 8:15 a.m. Sundays on KFRU. He can be reached at algermond@businesstimescompany.com.
Mary Kate Hafner February 27, 2019
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Engineering an Empire: The Aztecs (2006) History Channel
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Documentary Description
The story of the Aztec empire is one wrapped in myth and legend. In less than 200 years they transformed themselves from a band of wandering nomads to the greatest civilization the New World had ever known. What records remain of this amazing feat indicate they did it through brilliant military campaigns and by ingeniously applying technology to master the harsh environment they faced. They built their capital city where no city should have been possible: in the middle of a lake. They quickly transformed marshes into rich agricultural land surrounding an urban center that rivaled any city in the world at the time. They called it Tenochtitlan. When the Spanish conquistadors arrived there in 1519, and saw its gleaming pyramids, temples and places, grand canals filled with boats, enormous causeways crossing miles of lake from the mainland with aqueducts bringing fresh running water to the massive city, they actually thought they were dreaming.
But they also practiced human sacrifice on an unprecedented scale, at one time dispatching 20,000 victims at a single temple dedication ceremony. They also made many enemies. By the time the Spaniards landed they had no trouble recruiting tribal allies to destroy the Aztecs and that they did just that with amazing speed leveling Tenochtitlan completely to build their colonial capital, Mexico City, on the rubble. From the remains of the Great Temple in Mexico City, to the construction of their Venice of the New World, this episode will examine the architecture and infrastructure behind the New World's greatest, and last, indigenous society.
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