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The craters of Siberia - updated
In July 2014, news reports appeared of a giant crater appearing in the Siberian tundra. Salon offered a summary of possible etiologies:
A 250-foot crater of unknown depth mysteriously appeared in Siberia’s Yamal peninsula, the Siberian Times reports, and scientists today are headed over to investigate. Researchers have already ruled out a meteorite as a potential cause. Same goes, presumably, for UFOs, as some suggested. A more likely explanation, according to Anna Kurchatova, with the Sub-Arctic Scientific Research Centre, could have to do with the thawing of Siberia’s permafrost, a consequence of global warming. The rapid release of gas previously trapped in the ice, she said, could have combined with sand beneath the surface to form an underground explosion...
University of New South Wales polar scientist Chris Fogwill agrees that global warming is the likely cause. In his opinion, provided by the Sydney Morning Herald, he explained that what we’re looking at might be a collapsed “pingo,” a natural geological phenomenon associated with the melting permafrost.
As additional craters developed (or were discovered), the Washington post provided a map of their locations [top]. Since both of those articles cited The Siberian Times, I headed there for followup reports.
The first comprehensive report from The Siberian Times included several dozen ground-level and aerial photos and a video -
- which, if not explanatory at least offered a perspective on the size of this crater.
In November, Russian scientists rappelled down into the crater.
Leader of the new mission, Vladimir Pushkarev, director of the Russian Centre of Arctic Exploration, told The Siberian Times: 'We managed to go down into the funnel, all was successful. We used climbing equipment, and it is easier to do this in winter, than in summer, with the ground now hard.
'We took all the probes we planned, and made measurements. Now scientists need time to process all the data and only then can they draw conclusions.'
The funnel of the crater is about 16.5 metres deep, not including an earthen rampart on the surface, formed in the blowout, of several metres in height.
Photos and a video at the link.
The main element - and this is our working theory to explain the Yamal crater - was a release of gas hydrates. It turned out that there are gas hydrates both in the deep layer which on peninsula is several hundred metres down, and on the layer close to the surface', said scientist Vladimir Potapov before the latest expedition. 'There might be another factor, or factors, that could have provoked the air clap. Each of the factors added up and gas exploded, leading to appearance of the crater.'
He stressed: 'The crater is located on the intersection of two tectonic faults. Yamal peninsula is seismically quiet, yet the area of the crater we looked into has quite an active tectonic life. That means that the temperature there was higher than usual.'
They drew comparisons to the Bermuda Triangle:
The name Yamal means 'the end of the world', which ironically is also a description applied to the Bermuda Triangle for those lost on boats and planes. The areas stretches from the British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean to the Florida coast, to Puerto Rico.
Professor Yeltsov said: 'There is a version that the Bermuda Triangle is a consequence of gas hydrates reactions. They start to actively decompose with methane ice turning into gas. It happens in an avalanche-like way, like a nuclear reaction, producing huge amounts of gas. That makes ocean to heat up and ships sink in its waters mixed with a huge proportion of gas.
And these notes from a December article:
About a third of the crater is filled with water because of its melting walls and rain, and it is thought that within three years it will be almost full. Initially it was thought that by 2024 it will be difficult to see the 40 metres wide and 50 metres deep crater at all as it will be completely submerged by a lake.
But Dr Leibman told the Siberian Times that the crater may already be under water from the melting ice by next year. She said: 'Judging by the pace, by the end of next summer it may turn into a lake.
'I once heard a theory that deep Yamal lakes were mostly the result of emissions of gas. Then I just laughed at it. Now I take back my laughter: I think that a lot of deep lakes on Yamal were formed in this way.'
There is still disagreement among the Russian scientists as to whether the heat necessary to intiate this process came from above, via global warming, or from below because of tectonic activity.
Addenda March 2015:
Dozens of new craters have been reported. These may be previously-existing craters that have been discovered, rather than newly-created ones. Story also covered by the Washington Post.
Labels: science, TYWKIWDBI
Zhoen February 16, 2015 at 9:42 AM
Somewhat OT, have you ever come across Tom Mangold's Inside the Bermuda Triangle?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01dljk3
It's thorough and intelligent, very much worth listening to.
Minnesotastan February 16, 2015 at 10:04 AM
The radio program is a TL;DR(L), but I found this text summary at the BBC -
for a quick perusal.
Thanks, Zhoen.
Korkee February 17, 2015 at 4:57 AM
Aren't there dozens of holes like this up there?
Look at the region on Google Earth.
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The Black Dahlia Murder Announce North American Tour with Suffocation, Decrepit Birth
The trek also features Exhumed, Necrot and Wormwitch
By Bradley Zorgdrager
The Black Dahlia Murder are continuing their streak of killer death metal albums with Nightbringers, the follow-up to 2015's Abysmal, which was anything but. Now the Michigan metallers are about to take over North America on a tour in support of their latest effort.
The band are extending their quality control to their tourmates, all of whom are similarly supporting new material. Brutal New York legends Suffocation will serve as direct support, while recently resurrected death metal-physicists Decrepit Birth, Tankcrimes trio Necrot and black 'n' rollers Wormwitch are along for the whole trek. California gore mongers Exhumed will join for a week to round out the lineup.
The "Nightbringers North American Tour," whose Canadian portion is sponsored by Exclaim!'s Aggressive Tendencies, starts the day the album drops on October 6. It will not only hit Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto, but will also add a Western Canadian leg that includes Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver.
And for Canadians it's extra exciting — the band had to cancel the last time they were supposed to play Canada (on Max and Igor Cavalera's "Return to Roots" tour).
You can see the tour's entire schedule below.
10/06 Rochester, NY - Montage Music Hall
10/07 Lowell, MA - Revolution
10/08 Poughkeepsie, NY - Chance Theater
10/10 New York, NY - Highline Ballroom
10/11 Teaneck, NJ - Debonair Music Hall
10/12 Baltimore, MD - Ram's Head Live
10/13 Easton, PA - One Center Square
10/14 Lancaster, PA - The Chameleon
10/16 Montreal, QC - Les Foufounes Electriques
10/17 Ottawa, ON - Bronson Centre
10/18 Toronto, ON - Opera House
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10/21 Ft. Wayne, IN - Piere's
10/22 St. Louis, MO - Delmar Hall
10/23 Omaha, NE - The Slowdown
10/25 Ringle, WI - Q & Z Expo Center
10/26 Winnipeg, MB - Pyramid Cabaret
10/27 Regina, SK - The Exchange
10/28 Edmonton, AB - Starlite Room
10/29 Calgary, AB - Marquee Beer Market & Stage
10/31 Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theatre
11/01 Seattle, WA - Studio Seven*
11/02 Eugene, OR - HIFI Music Hall*
11/03 Lake Tahoe, NV - Vinyl at Hard Rock*
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Mural found in north China ancient tomb
Archaeologists have found murals dating back more than 900 years in a tomb in North China's Shanxi province.
The tomb, from the Jin Dynasty (1115 - 1234) is in Zhangzi county.
The colorful murals are largely painted on a white background. The upper part features acts of filial piety, said Zhang Guanghui, a research fellow with Shanxi provincial archaeological research institute.
Beneath, the murals depict people working and cooking. Flanking the gate of the tomb, there are images of herdsmen and cattle.
The pictures are adorned with floral, animal and cloud motifs, Zhang said.
"We have seen several tombs with murals from the Jin Dynasty, but such well-preserved ones are a rarity," he said.
The tomb was found last April and reported as robbed. Artifacts and the bodies are missing, making it difficult for Zhang and his team to identify the original occupants.
"Judging from the murals, however, we can deduce that the owners may have been aristocrats. They were certainly rich," he added.
The tomb is now under the protection of the Museum of Shanxi.
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by Editor April 21, 2018
Karen Okonkwo is a Nigerian-American and Seattle-based serial entrepreneur who co-created TONL with the intention of infusing diversity within the stock photography industry. While creating for her previous business, The Sorority Secrets, she found it surprisingly difficult to obtain images that captured diversity. In August 2017, Okonkwo collaborated with Joshua Kissi, a New York-based photographer and co-founder of the creative agency Street Etiquette to launch TONL. TONL, strives to transform the idea of stock photography by displaying images of diverse people and their stories around the world.
“Our voices and visibility matter. Photography and storytelling can help humanize and hopefully diminish the stereotypes and prejudice against black and brown people, especially. We wanted to challenge the stale, homogenous look of traditional stock photography by showcasing the many ethnic backgrounds of everyday people.” –TONL
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From Jul 4th To Jul 8th, 2018
Anapa From Jul 4th To Jul 8th, 2018
Myskiv and Samoday do it again, claiming second gold in second World Tour appearance!
Vaduz, Liechtenstein, August 12, 2018 – Taras Myskiv and Valeriy Samoday did it again! The Russian pair repeated their feat from Ljubljana last week and went all the way from the qualifications to the top of the men’s podium at the Vaduz one-star stop on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. Due to changing his nationality, Samoday had been absent from the World Tour since 2013, but he and Myskiv have been impeccable since his return last week and won gold at both their appearances so far.
Fifth-seeded Florian Breer and Yves Haussener claimed the silver medals. For the Swiss pair, 2014 U17 world champions and 2016 U19 World Championship runners-up, this is also the second podium finish on the World Tour after their bronze from Ljubljana a week ago.
FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour - Vaduz
Finishing third at Vaduz, sixth-seeded Sergiy Popov and Vladyslav Iemelianchyk of Ukraine claimed their second World Tour medal after their Porec gold last month. Together with Vaduz champ Samoday, Popov has two Age Category World Championship titles to his name.
The men’s podium at Vaduz
On Sunday, 10th-seeded Myskiv and Samoday had to play some big sets on the way to the title. In both their semifinal and the final, the first set went deep into overtime and finished after as many as 60 rallies.
The Russians started the day with a 2-0 (31-29, 21-14) semifinal win over Samoday’s former long-time partner Popov and Iemelianchyk. However, in the gold medal match in front of a full house of over a thousand spectators, Myskiv and Samoday had to come back from a one-set deficit against Breer and Haussener to triumph with a 2-1 (29-31, 21-17, 15-11) victory.
“We are obviously extremely happy to win our second tournament in two weeks! We will continue to work hard in order to keep improving each day,” the winners said.
Popov and Iemelianchyk rebounded with a 2-0 (21-12, 21-16) shutout of Poland’s Mateusz Paszkowski and Mateusz Lysikowski in the bronze medal match, which lasted only 31 minutes.
The Poles had been more competitive in their semifinal encounter with the Swiss team earlier on Sunday, but lost both sets by the narrowest of margins. Breer and Haussener overcame the resistance of Paszkowski and Lysikowski to claim a 2-0 (24-22, 21-19) win and advance to the final.
“It definitely was not our best game but we made fewer mistakes than the Poles did,” Breer and Haussener commented. “We will try to improve our game for the final.”
After the tournament was over, Philippe Schuermann, president of the Liechtenstein Volleyball Federation, sounded elated: “We are extremely happy, especially since we could host an FIVB World Tour event and this raised the international profile of our tournament even further. The level is higher and we had teams from all over the world competing here, in Vaduz.”
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13 Questions With...Elizabeth Hand
1. Name one thing you miss about being a child.
Losing myself for hours in a a make-believe world in the woods with my friends.
2. Do you have any phobias? If so, what are they?
Not really. I don't like extremely large hairy spiders or scorpions.
3. Are you a collector of anything and if so, what?
I'm more of a forager than a collector: I find cast-off things, broken plates and furniture and whatnot, and fix them up or display them. We have a lot of first editions of wonderful books, but my partner collects those more than I do. I have some photographs from the NYC punk scene in the 1970s, and a beautiful photo by Peter Beste, and an original paintings by the British visionary artist Donald Pass, but they don't really constitute a collection. More just my magpie sensibility.
4. You're about the walk the Green Mile - what do you have for your last meal?
Gilled lamb chops, rare, with garlic. A nice salad. A baked potato. A bottle of good red wine, creme brulee.
5. What is your favorite cookie?
Pecan sandies.
6. Who is your favorite author?
7. What musical artist are you currently into?
The Norwegian Black Metal band Enslaved.
8. Have you ever had an imaginary friend? If so, who are they?
When I was little, I had an imaginary friend named Karen Cowgirl. She was ... a cowgirl. Bandanna, boots, hat, western shirt, lasso. I also had an invisible pet mouse named Celery. When my mother asked me why he was called Celery, I indignantly told her "Because that's his NAME."
9. What's your favorite word?
10. What is your current desktop wallpaper?
A beautiful, moody, snowswept landscape featuring the Norwegian musician Gaahl, by the photographer Peter Beste. I own the original print, and it's gorgeous.
11. You're at a Chinese buffet - what goes on your plate?
Dim sum in all its forms.
12. What person now deceased would you most want to spend some time with and why?
William Shakespeare. For the obvious reasons ...
13. What are you currently reading?
For review, a not very good book I won't name. For myself, a reference book on ancient Norse religion.
Labels: 13 Questions, Elizabeth Hand
Review: Black Light
Elizabeth Hand
Available through Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble and other brick and mortar bookstores near you.
In a nutshell, if you like atmospheric, evocative explorations into the human condition, in a time and place not too long ago, this is the book for you.
Elizabeth Hand takes us on a journey to Kamensic, Maine, where life is idyllic at best. A town full of actors, actresses, artisans, and musicians. We are introduced to
Kamensic circa 1970 where we meet young Charlotte "Lit" Moylan at a party in a mansion called Bolerium. It is a fantastic place of sights and smells, of party revelers, of debauchery hinted at but not quite seen. In the middle of this is one Axel Kern, friend of the Moylan family, godfather to Lit. He's a filmmaker and a madman...and something more.
As time goes on and Lit grows to teenage-hood, her godfather has returned to Kamensic to begin a new film project, and to open Bolerium up once again, and throw a party to end all of his previous efforts. Lit is caught up in a series of encounters that boggle the mind - there were times I started to wonder if Hand had dropped acid as she was writing as her set pieces became more and more fantastic. There are mysterious orders, the Benandanti and the Malandanti, both hinted at tantalizingly; one can't help but want to know more about them and how they play into the melange Hand so skillfully creates.
What is Lit's place in all of this? That is where the mystery so beautifully lies.
Is there anything really horrific about Black Light?
At times, yes.
At it's heart, it's a coming of age story about a young woman presented with a future that has been predestined for her...or has it?
I've read other novels by Hand and am never disappointed at the way she weaves words together. Allow me to cite this paragraph:
Everything gleamed with a primal intensity: the crimson and indigo of the carpet so saturated they looked wet, the gold letters on the spines of books sparkling like flame. Decanters on a small round table glowed as if they held paint rather than liqueurs - emerald green, blood-red, sunflower yellow. A daybed was heaped with tapestried pillows and there was a small cast-iron woodstove set into one wall, its isinglass window glowing beneath one of several beautifully carved plaques inscribed with Latin phrases...
Black Light is a voyage into the dark fantastic, some of the finer dark fantasy writing available today.
Try Elizabeth Hand. You won't be disappointed.
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Available through Amazon, B&N.com, Borders.com
and other brick and mortar bookstores.
In a nutshell, if you like a book that will grab you by the shirt collar and not let go until it's story has been told, then this book is for you.
Horns is many things.
It's a love story. It's a story of misunderstandings. It's a story of a deeply disturbed young man. It's a story of how one right made a lot of wrongs. It's the story of a man who must make peace with events through a medium he never expected. It's a story of vengeance and redemption. It is also a story of horror.
When we meet Ignatius "Ig" Perrish, he has just recovered from one hell of a bender and can't remember anything that's happened...except for the fact that his girlfriend-since-they-were-teenagers, Merrin, is still dead and everyone still thinks Ig did it, even thought he was exonerated for the crime. He has also awakened with an inheritance - a set of horns on his head.
Said horns have an exceptional effect on people - they can't resist telling Ig their innermost secrets. So, Ig decides maybe he can find out who really killed Merrin...and the fun ensues.
Be warned. We're introduced to a character that has to be one of the most foul since Hannibal Lecter in a lot of ways...Lee Tourneau. He's not a nice man at all. He gives new meaning to the word "psychopath".
Joe Hill is Stephen King's son, and it shows. He's rummaged in Dad's toolbox, but Hill has tools and a voice all his own, make no mistake. The plot is tight, flashes back and forth in time without confusing the reader, and makes some interesting statements on the afterlife, revenge and what a demon will do when given the task of avenging someone.
Now, you may be asking yourself why I'm reviewing Mr. Hill as Horns is his third book, his second book, Heart-Shaped Box has been optioned for a film (Horns has, too) and obviously he is getting to the established section of authordom?
It's because he's so damned good I want everyone to know it.
I liked Horns a lot. It winds it's way through it's story and by the time I got to the end? I couldn't turn the pages fast enough to find out how it was going to end.
When I give a positive review, I like to submit the 13 Questions to the author to answer so you the reader can get to know them better.
I broached this with Joe Hill through his Twitter page:
WrittenUniverse
@joe_hill I want to review Horns for The Written Universe...but I'll need you to answer the 13 Questions I pose to authors. Are you willing? 6:51 PM Jun 24th via web
joe_hill
@WrittenUniverse Sorry, I pro'ly couldn't swing it. Hope you had some fun with the book, tho. Friday, June 25, 2010 9:04:24 AM via web in reply to WrittenUniverse
@joe_hill No problem - I'll only post at the end of the review you were too busy, but gracious about it (because you were)... Saturday, June 26, 2010 3:15:41 PM via web
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Labels: dark fantasy, horror, thriller
The Written Universe Will Go On
Good evening constant reader,
I apologize for not posting anything sooner.
On August 11th, my son Evan was involved in a serious auto wreck. He was unconscious from the time he was taken to the hospital and never regained consciousness. He seemed to be improving and after a month in the hospital was transferred to a nursing home. At that point, the doctor was telling us it was between Evan and the man upstairs as to when he would come out of his coma.
On the morning of September 14th, he passed away.
His brain had herniated and was slowly swelling and ended up pressing on his respiratory center and that was what took his life. There were no symptoms to warn what was happening and the injury was such that it was undetectable by CT scan or MRI.
My son's viewing and funeral was attended by between 300-500 people. He touched more lives in his 23 years than people 4 times his age ever do.
Evan I will miss you for the rest of my life.
I love you my boy.
13 Questions with... Sapphire Phelan
1.Name one thing you miss about being a child.
Maybe the innocence I had. Though I still ooh and aah at fantastic things, I think my innocence as a child made those oohs and aahs greater. The child within me is still there, but not as perfect as it could be. I hope I made that understandable.
Spiders and cockroaches. Hate them. Also, I have fear of heights lately.
Chicken and dumplings with sushi, mashed potatoes, and green beans.
Jim Butcher, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Anne McCaffrey, really I have a lot of favorites, besides the ones I mentioned.
No one artist, and I like the older ones, like CCR, Meatloaf, etc...
I think I had a lot as a child, as I grew up alone (both half-sisters were adults by time I was born) and entertained myself with the stories and people and creatures in my head. I was writing down those stories since I was eight years old.
Dream? Because I hope that is where my stor4ies come from. I like a lot of words, especially if I come across cool words that I never heard of or saw before.
Alaska snow-topped mountains and water with ice floes.
Sushi, for sure. Jalapeño chicken and chicken and broccoli.
My father. Also Edgar Allan Poe.
Bloodring by Faith Hunter.
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Review: Being Familiar With a Witch
Being Familiar With a Witch
by Sapphire Phelan
Downloadable e-book
available in these formats:
HTML, PDF, Rocket/REB 1100,
Mobipocket, and Microsoft Reader
from Phaze Books
In a nutshell, if you like paranormal romance with explicit sex that's a quick read, then this book might be for you.
Our story begins as we accompany an incubus, Charun, as he haunts a woman in the throes of an erotic dream. He is about to do what incubi do best when he is summoned to Hell by his superior, Byleth. Charun is told he will lose incubus status and be assigned to a witch on Earth, in this case, Tina, as her familiar. It will be up to him, on her 21st birthday to consummate their relationship to activate her latent magickal abilities. This must occur or Armageddon will start, wiping mankind from the face of the Earth and giving sway to Lucifer and all the demons of Hell.
Charun spends the next 21 years watching Tina grow and mature, unaware of her witchcraft. When she turns 21, Charun assumes the guise of a black cat and insinuates himself into Tina's life - finally revealing his true nature of being a demon to her. He explains who he is and why he is there and gives her a deadline of Halloween to consummate their relationship in order for her powers to bloom.
Tina is initially skeptical, then comes to accept what she's been told, still a bit on the "oh sure" side of things. However, she cannot deny her attraction to Charun (he takes on a hunky human look).
The book is short, 116 pages, qualifying more as a novella than a true book.
It is chock-full of explicit language and sex scenes...and I do mean explicit.
Is this for everyone? Possibly not, it depends on how much sex you like in your paranormal romance.
There's a smattering of magick behind the goings on in this tale, but nothing too involved.
The writing is not bad - the reading level here though is sparse (not a lot of time spent on detail) but is heavy and detailed when the sex scenes show up. That was a little jarring for me, as I would be reading along on what felt like a junior high school level and then wham, here was the XXX rated sex scenes.
I honestly think Sapphire Phelan can write - despite the explicit romps, I found myself drawn in to the action.
As short as the story is, I did find the charaters of Charun and Tina engaging and well-crafted.
In fact, I wanted more detail regarding these characters.
I would like to see Ms. Phelan take on a longer and more involved work - she did pretty well within the shortness of this novella, but I believe she would shine given a longer format in which to develop her story and her characters,
Bottom line? Watch out for Sapphire Phelan - she has the tools, and deserves a bigger canvas on which to work.
For more information on Sapphire Phelan please visit:
Sapphire Phelan's Blog
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13 Questions with... M. Amanuensis Sharkchild
I get a bit squeamish when I have to kill a big bug.
Double cheeseburger, fries, breaded veal, mashed potatoes, beef wellington, bread with olive oil and vinegar, strawberries, and homemade cheesecake (family recipe).
Chocolate Chip.
H.P. Lovecraft.
Before The Dawn (Finnish melodic death metal)
Writhe.
An image that my friend John Stifter drew for me of an angel clad in armor.
Chow mein and orange chicken (mainly), with some fried rice, egg rolls, and beef and broccoli,
H.P. Lovecraft, so we could discuss the subject of dreaming.
The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Lord Dunsany
Labels: 13 Questions, horror, M. Amanuensis Sharkchild
Review: The Dark Verse
The Dark Verse
From the Passages of Revenants
M. Amanuensis Sharkchild
Available through Amazon and from http://sharkchild.com/
In a nutshell, if you like taking a white-knuckled ride into the darker corners of the imagination, then this is a book for you.
The first thing you notice about this book is the graphic presentation.
It's a hard cover, black in color with an intricate silver foil illustration on the front . Open the book and the end papers are artwork unto themselves, the paper is heavy grade, and each story has it's own individual illustration on its first page (illustrations courtesy of John F. Stifter) The design alone tells you you're not in for the same old short story collection.
Our author, the enigmatic M. Amanuensis Sharkchild compiled this volume from material for his spoken word podcast, The Dark Verse.
Collected here are 26 of those stories, stories as lovingly crafted as the book itself is. The term "wordsmith" comes to mind in describing Sharkchild's writing...he uses words to paint exquisite portraits of the fantastic, the wonderful, the terrible, the horrible.
Stand outs include "Gift of the Crossroads", where a scrap of fabric found in the kitchen begins one man's nightmare odyssey. At one point as I was reading this story, I literally exclaimed out loud "God! Dude!", over a turn of events, and continued to the following page and gasped out loud. That rarely if ever happens when I'm reading anything.
"The Missing Come Home" details one father and the loss of his daughter and her unexpected return and the horrifying consequences which ensue, rather than a joyous homecoming.
"The Captive Inside" which will make me forever think twice about wishing for a dusty old toy shop to dig through and whiling away the hours working a jigsaw puzzle (and for me that's saying something as I like and am fairly skilled at jigsaw puzzles).
There are two stories, "The Changing Feyth Part One" and "The Changing Feyth Part Two", that are crying to be developed into one full-length novel of their very own.
The book is obviously a labour of love and artistry in the way it's presented.
Nearly every story, while more than able to stand alone on it's own as a self-contained jewel, could be expanded to a novel-length exploration.
It's as if each story is but a fleeting glimpse into one universe of the insane and horrific.
Yes, the writing is that good.
The cost of the book is $22.99 - and well worth it.
To find out more about M. Amanuensis Sharkchild, please visit:
http://sharkchild.com/
http://www.facebook.com/sharkchild
http://www.myspace.com/sharkchild
http://twitter.com/sharkchild
Labels: horror, M. Amanuensis Sharkchild
13 Questions with ...Jason Beil
I miss the sense of wonder. Everything was new, and it was so easy to get excited over a movie, or a book, or the new record by your favorite band. Now, as an adult, it’s too easy to become jaded and adopt a “been there, done that” attitude.
I was pretty scared that time some psycho ran out in front of the van I was driving waving a gun around. So crazy people with firearms. That’s my phobia.
Comic books. Although, I don’t know if I’m a collector or just a fanboy. I just love the medium... everything from superhero stuff to the more cutting edge adult material.
Depends on what I’m in the mood for. Probably a big steak, medium rare.
Chocolate chip... is there any other kind?
Good question. Tolkien is the father of modern fantasy and obviously a huge influence on me. Recently, I’ve been most impressed by George RR Martin, although if he doesn’t bring out his next book soon I’m sending him hate mail.
I guess I’d have to admit my latest flavor du jour is Lady Gaga. She’s actually a very talented young woman. However, I doubt anyone will ever knock Depeche Mode off the top spot of my all-time favorites list.
No imaginary friends. Imaginary enemies, on the other hand...
A dog getting sprayed in the face by a sprinkler. My daughter put it on there.
The question is... what DOESN’T go on my plate. I love Chinese!
Robert Jordan. I want to give him hell for everything after book 6 in the Wheel of Time.
Just catching up on my funnybooks. The last real book I read was Atlas Shrugged (loved it!).
Labels: fantasy, Jason Beil, The Talisman of Faerie
Revew: The Talisman of Faerie
The Talisman of Faerie
Jason Beil
Available from Barnes and Noble, Amazon,
Alibris, eBookPie
In a nutshell: If you are just starting to read fantasy novels, this is a good place to start, but this statement comes with a warning.
The Talisman of Faerie is a decent fantasy; there's the hero, Alec Mason, a humble baker, the girl,
Sarah, mysterious men like Michael, swashbucklers like Lorn, faerie folk, kings and queens, bad guys and evil sorcerers like Salin Urdrokk. There's a talisman that must be returned to whence it came in order to preserve the land. We've also got an army of the undead and ogres.
If any of this seems familiar, that's because it is. The Talisman of Faerie borrows heavily from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
Without giving away anything of great importance, allow me to numerate them:
Instead of a mountain hollowed out by dwarves that must be passed through to get to where the hero's party is going, it's a faerie burial chamber in the hollowed out mountain they must pass through.
Instead of a ring of great power, it's a talisman of great power.
The faerie folk are preternaturally beautiful and live in a stunning forest land in the trees.
One other borrowed theme is a sword Alec is gifted with named Flame which seems to feed the wielder's lust for blood, and also resists being handled by others. I couldn't help but think of the prescient blades in Michael Moorcock's Elric series.
Is the story entertaining?
There are times however, the book could have stood some more critical editing. I thought if Alec had to posit one more time how he was going to get to go back home and be a baker after this was all over one more time, I was going to scream. Twice is fine...but after that, the events surrounding the character are so tumultuous and life-changing, Alec started sounding silly thinking he was going to return to a normal life at the end of the journey to return the talisman to the faeries.
There are some really good battle scenes with more blood and gore than I expected, a nice love story that blooms sensibly and enough rabbit trails that leave you wondering what lies at the end. I'm assuming some of those trails are explored in the sequel, Sword of Kings.
Should you read this?
Yes, if you haven't read Lord of the Rings or any other of the classic standards of the fantasy genre. Some fantasy novels overburden themselves with plots that twist too much, loaded down with a host of characters that make it hard to keep up with who is doing what to whom and where. The Talisman of Faerie is compact in that regard, with enough characters to make it interesting, but not too many to keep up with, and not so many plot lines that you can't keep up with the action. Biel has crafted a tight story that starts in one direction and doesn't wander off confusing the reader with too many subplots as some fantasies are wont to do.
If you're just starting out reading the fantasy genre, this is a good place to start. I think Beil has talent and with more writing will continue to weave even more entertaining stories of the fantastic.
For more information on Jason Beil, please go to
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jason-N-Beils-The-Talisman-of-Faerie/218232852661
http://www.myspace.com/talismanoffaerie
Review: Undercroft Stories
Undercroft Stories
T H Davis
Available from the author by email request to:
horror.writer@yahoo.co.uk
In a nutshell: if you like short horror stories that are charged with atmosphere and urge you to turn the page to find out what happens next, then this is the book for you.
It's rare to find an anthology where all the stories are good.
TH Davis's Undercroft Stories is one of those rarities.
Every story is a winner. I read this with a mixture of creeping unease and mounting excitement, hoping with the end of each great story, another was going to follow. I was never disappointed.
As you read, it's as if Davis is standing next to you, his arm around your shoulder, walking you through the Undercroft, pointing out the people and places that populate it, thrilling to your reactions as the tales unfold.
After reading Black Lodge, you will never look at shadows again the same way.
In Unholy Rosary, an abandoned (and some say desecrated) convent becomes the stage for one man's descent into madness.
Oubliette serves up a chilling tale, full of claustrophobia and inevitability.
Pay the Ferryman is a harrowing take on the revenge from the grave story.
Once you've read Beneath the Water, you may think twice the next time you go to a secluded fishing spot.
Thy Will Be Done shows us what happens when we don't take something seriously, resulting in horrible consequences.
And finally, Prayer to Demugrah'keh illustrates what tampering with archaeological artifacts can cause.
Each story is atmospheric and finely crafted, with characters that, in such a short format, come to vivid life.
TH Davis is a master at crafting stories that scare and leave you breathless and wanting more.
This young author (he's only 24) has a long and prolific career ahead of him and needs a publisher sooner than later.I don't want to compare him to any one else out there, because it's apparent he has a voice all his own.
I cannot wait to see what he does with a fully fleshed out novel.
For more information on TH Davis, please visit:
http://www.myspace.com/davishorror
http://twitter.com/thdavishorror
http://www.facebook.com/pages/T-H-Davis/394482240658
Labels: anthology, horror, TH Davis
13 Questions... with Shaun Jeffrey
Only one thing. Damn! Okay, the one thing I miss is innocence.
Nothing springs to mind. I pick up spiders and throw them out of the house. I’ve sat in the middle of a bar with a snake around my neck. I used to go rock climbing so heights don’t bother me. No, no phobias.
God, yes. Rejection letters. Books. Bubble bath containers. Lucky charms.
4. You're about to walk the Green Mile - what do you have for your last meal?
I’m a vegetarian, so I’d go for vegetable balti with naan bread.
I’m not that big of a biscuit fan. I used to work in a biscuit factory, and when you see the cockroaches scurrying under the ovens and the stalactites of fat hanging down from the top of the ovens, it sort of puts you off.
6. Who is your favorite musical artist(s)?
Favourite artists, let’s see: Korn. Slipknot. Rammstein. Richard Wagner. The Prodigy.
Korn.
Who’s to say what’s real and what isn’t?
Success, because it doesn’t come easily.
It’s a McDonalds Dragon thing that I put on for my son.
Tofu with black bean sauce and fried rice.
Leonardo Da Vinci, perhaps one of the most diversely talented people that’s ever lived. Painter. Sculptor. Architect. Engineer. Musician. Inventor. Botanist. Writer. The list goes on. I would love to have chatted with him.
I’m going over a manuscript of another novel featuring Prosper Snow, the lead character from my novel The Kult.
Labels: 13 Questions, Shaun Jeffrey
Review: The Kult
The Kult
Shaun Jeffrey
Available through Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon.com, Book Depository, and Leucrota Press.
In a nutshell, if you like a great mystery/thriller/horror novel that grabs you and drags you along for the ride and doesn't let up til the last minute, this book is for you.
Mr. Jeffrey is like the friendly carnival barker who cajoles you into stepping right up and sitting your butt right down in his dark ride of horror and suspense.
The Kult starts out with a jolt as you strap in and hang on.
The Oracle is a master at murder, each of his kills a work of art, premeditated and rendered with exquisite care.
Our protagonist, Prosper Snow, a police detective is in the middle of this horrendous investigation, seemingly stymied at every turn, as The Oracle taunts the police with photos of his gruesome crime scenes.
Prosper is a driven man. Already dogged by guilt over an accident that has maimed his wife, he is now doubly deviled with this series of crimes. As if his plate is not full enough, enter the Kult, an organization of which Prosper is a member, who call upon him to carry out a deed that goes against everything he stands for.
How Prosper and Company's actions entwine with those of The Oracle is how this particular ride takes off on a break neck pace that never lets up.
To say more I would have to give away too much and I don't want to ruin the reading experience.
There is gore galore for the gore hound, and disturbing glimpses into how far men are willing to go when pushed.
There were times when I literally became dry-mouthed reading this book the suspense was so great.
There are wonderful stomach churning descriptions of murder and mayhem that become darker with each plot twist.
Jeffrey renders claustrophobic you-are-there descriptions towards the end of the book that had me turning the pages as quickly as possible to:
a) find out what happened next,
b) to get the character the hell out of the mess they were in.
Three times I thought I had it figured out who The Oracle was and all three times I was wrong. When the revelation did come I was totally unprepared.
The characters are flesh and blood jumping off the page. He uses clever turns of phrase throughout the book, but not so much that they become cute catch phrases solely to be cute catch phrases.
By the time this dark ride came to an end, I was wrung out...and that's just the way I like it.
Shaun Jeffrey is a British author, one who most assuredly bears watching.
In my opinion, a good horror novel is hard to come by these days - Shaun Jeffrey is the real deal.
(I want to add that The Kult has been optioned as a motion picture to be directed by Kip Shelton, with shooting slated for September 2010.
This is especially good news, as Jeffrey's writing strikes me as being cinematic in nature, and The Kult dead on for a thriller of a film.)
For more information on Shaun Jeffrey, please visit:
http://www.shaunjeffrey.com/
http://www.myspace.com/shaunjeffrey
Labels: mystery/thriller/horror, Shaun Jeffrey, The Kult
Good news for author CA Milson!
Good evening constant reader.
I wanted to share an exciting piece of news about one of the first authors I reviewed, CA Milson:
PR Log - Global Press Release Distribution
Horror Novelist C.A. Milson Strikes Deal With U.S. Based EDGE Publishing Company
By Amanda Clark
Dated: Feb 28, 2010
"The road to writing success for any author can be a difficult and arduous journey, however, Australian native, C.A. Milson, is looking forward to having a partner in his future endeavors. After years of working in the industry alone, he is now happy to say that his hard work has started to pay off. Milson's book, "The Chosen: Rise of the Darkness," first in a horror series now has the true opportunity to succeed. Milson just signed with U.S. based publisher, EDGE Publishing Company.
"I have been working on my writing for years, but being international and a self publisher, it can be
difficult to get your books on the shelf in many of the large U.S. chains, I knew I needed a traditional
publisher to help me," stated Milson. "I am so excited to be an EDGE author."
EDGE Publishing Company, through the direction of President, Phillip Vera, specializes in working with authors who are looking for a way to cut through the bureaucratic red-tape and "hoop jumping" of the publishing industry. "When I first read Chris's story, I realized he was a great writer with a unique story and I wanted to be a part of it. This book deserves to be in print," stated Vera. "I am looking forward to a long relationship with Chris and I can't wait to promote his work."
Furthermore, there are other big things in the works. EDGE Publishing Company recently signed an
agreement with C.A. Link, a Chinese Literary Agency based in Minnesota, specifically for Milson's work.
This agreement will allow Milson's books to be marketed and sold to the Asian market.
"I was so excited when I learned about the deal with C.A. Link, because I had been approached by them, but I couldn't do anything because I wasn't with a traditional publishing house. EDGE changed that and now billions of people might have the opportunity to read my work," stated Milson excitedly.
Milson has been the recipient of numerous awards including placing in the Pre-editors & Editors Readers Poll in 2008 and working through deals to turn his book into a comic, a video game, an audio-book and an e-book.
"Chris has a fantastic product and he is an incredible writer. It's great that he is able to get more exposure and audiences around the world are going to be able to see his work in stores," stated Milson's agent, Amanda Clark of Charlotte, North Carolina based, Grammar Chic, Inc. "We are looking forward to getting his books on shelves very soon."
I want to take this opportunity to congratulate CA on this recent accomplishment. Way to go!
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Labels: CA Milson, The Chosen - Rise of the Darkness
Re-stating the purpose
Good afternoon constant reader.
I'm reading away on the next book up for review and wanted to take this opportunity to re-state the purpose of this blog and generally touch base.
I created this bog to review, at no cost to the author, books in the science fiction, horror, fantasy and mystery genres; books written by first time or just-starting-out authors. I don't promise a good review, only a fair one.
There are lots of ways to get published these days, but once an author has seen print, how do they get reviewed so they can garner a readers attention?
I know of some sites that charge $175 for a positive review, and $35 to just list the book on their site.
To me, personally, that's blasphemy.
So I started this blog.
What are my qualifications to review books?
I love to read and read constantly.
I love genre fiction and want to give new authors as much help getting known as possible.
I worked in bookstores for 12 years and in a university library for 2 years. From those experiences I developed a good sense of what it is readers want:
They want a good story.
They want originality.
They want characters that they can identify with on some level.
They want an ending that makes sense (and that doesn't always mean a happy ending).
I include a feature called 13 Questions, where I pose a baker's dozen worth of questions to the reviewed author (if the review is positive) so you can get to know a little bit about them.
From time to time, (as luck will allow is more like it), I will review an established author, focusing on a work of theirs I think needs more exposure, and will try like hell to get the 13 questions answered.
For example, I'm reviewing a little at a time the Irene Adler books by accomplished author Carole Nelson Douglas, and at the end of that cycle will post her responses to the 13.
There's another established author whose responses I already have (thanks to author Nick Armbrister for making that contact for me!) and I will be posting that review in a few weeks.
So here I am...reviewing the genre fiction I like to read, discovering some really good talent and sharing it with you constant reader.
Review: Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) Love & Friendship
Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) Love and Friendship
Reyanna Vance
Available on Lulu.com for $15.75 trade and on Amazon in a $2.99 Kindle edition.
In a nutshell: by the time I made it to the last page, I felt like I needed to take my eyes out and wash them off.
All right constant readers...this is the first negative review I've had to write and it was a long journey getting here.
I need to go on record and say I have a bias against reading books submitted to me via pdf file, as they tend to lull me to sleep while reading. I've had to resort to reading with my iPod in to stay awake. However, the other submissions sent via pdf were able to hold my interest. Sadly, this wasn't the case with Dies Irae. By the time I reached the end of this book, (506 pages, in two parts), I was more than ready to quit reading.
The world we find our story set in has dragons and humans intermingling, with dragons able to take on human form. Magic plays a role in this fantasy exercise, but not as much as you'd think...or hope.
Samara Callaghan is perfectly content to work her job in her grandparent's tavern until she is paid a visit by a mysterious woman who claims to know the truth behind the death of Samara's parents all those years ago. Samara naturally wants to get to the bottom of things and in so doing, discovers they died fighting the black dragon Cyril, their deaths resulting in his captivity in an orb. Cyril has been plotting to release himself ever since and is on the verge of doing just that, aided by his son, Danteous...who ends up meeting and falling for Samara...who is charged with finding the orb containing Cyril and destroying it before he can be set free to destroy all humanity...and therein lies the conflict.
Vance starts us off with a created world necessary for a fantasy story, but it lacks the details needed to make it come alive. It sufficed for a while, but took a real wrong turn when she introduced a radio and a computer to the mix. This was done in such a jarring way, I was wondering where I missed the fact that this world had electricity and other modern-day amenities. Fantasy books nearly always have a created world (Frank Herbert's Dune is a terrific example) and Vance fails to provide that here.
Character-wise, Samara is ok.
Leela, the mysterious woman who leads Samara to the discovery of what happened to her parents is put across as a hard-ass, hateful person to the point that I felt like she had no redeeming qualities whatsoever and felt like I was being hit over the head at every turn about how tough she was.
Rufus is the surviving brother of an attack against Samara and Leela, and becomes a tag-a-long on the quest. He's the best of the bunch, and is consistent throughout the book.
Kit is an irritating young lady who pick pockets Leela at one point. Due to Samara's soft-heartedness, Kit is brought along on the adventure as well. Kit is annoying as hell and I wanted to wring her neck. She may provide a little comic relief at times, but she is a character that is non-essential to the story.
Danteous is our bad guy, and all he does is smirk, act smug, smile crookedly and kill people. He doesn't seem all that evil, but according to his sister Leela (oh yes, she's his sister, forgot that little detail), he's completely ruthless.
The characters are too pat and paint-by-number.
Once Danteous and Samara meet and fall for one another, we are hit over the head again and again and again with the fact that they must kill one another and are never going to be on the same side. They meet up constantly and fall into each others arms only to part with neither one willing to come over to the others side. Then they kiss...and on it goes. I couldn't work up a lot of sympathy for this pair of star-crossed lovers.
The book would benefit greatly by some judicious editing. The same themes are repeated over and over.
Vance has some talent, but she desperately needs a good editor to bear their expertise on her work.
The book ends with Samara, Leela, Rufus and Kit stranded on a high mountain peak, in a blizzard, low on provisions and money, 2 of the 4 falling out from exhaustion.
I asked myself the question, "Do I really care what happens to these people?" and the answer was a resounding, "No, I hope they freeze to death and so endeth the story."
The saga is continued in Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) Betrayal and Tribulation, which I have. Do I intend to read it and see how things turn out?
Nay.
Labels: Book reviews, Dies Irae, fantasy, Reyanna Vance
Review: Good Night Mr. Holmes
Good Night Mr. Holmes
Available at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com, Borders.com and B&N and Borders retail bookstore locations.
In a nutshell, if you like mysteries set in Victorian England, with lots of spot-on period details and engaging/endearing characters, then this book is for you. And by the way, Victorian England in this instance does not equal boring and stuffy.
Before I get on with the review, no, this is not a horror, science fiction or fantasy novel, nor was it penned by an author just starting out, so yes, I freely broke out of my own set of reviewing parameters.
Carole Nelson Douglas is an accomplished author, with 61 books to her credit, amongst them her successful Midnight Louie mystery series, and this series, the Irene Adler mysteries.
I wanted to shine the spotlight on Douglas's Irene novels since we just saw the character of Irene Adler brought to life in the recent film, Sherlock Holmes.
Granted, Douglas's Irene was not the precise inspiration for the theatrical Irene; however, her books bring the reader a very likable and fascinating character and deserve to be read.
Irene Adler is "the woman" to Sherlock Holmes and the only woman to ever outwit him.
In Good Night Mr. Holmes, we meet Penelope Huxleigh, who is Irene's own Dr. Watson, and it is through her eyes we are told the tale.
Penelope and Irene meet on the streets of London after Penelope has been dismissed from her job at a fabric purveyor, homeless and penniless. Irene deftly saves Penelope from being accosted by a street urchin and the two end up taking a meal together, leading to Irene revealing her powers of observation concerning Penelope's circumstances. Rather taken aback, Penelope nonetheless accepts Irene's offer of lodging for the night and thus their friendship starts.
As the story progresses, we are introduced to Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Charles Tiffany & Anton Dvorak, which lend the tale a true-to-life air.
Missing jewels, a thought-to-be-lost personal possession and a widow's inheritance are a few of the mysteries Irene must solve, with Sherlock Holmes himself, haunting the background.
However, it is Irene's involvement with the Prince soon-to-be King of Bohemia that takes up the second half of the book and lays the groundwork for an interesting twist at the end.
Irene is clever, advanced in her way of thinking and acting for woman of her time, which makes reading this so enjoyable.
Good Night Mr. Holmes is a rousing start to an 8 book series and I intend to review the rest of the Irene books, so watch this space!
For more information on Carole Nelson Douglas, please visit:
http://carolenelsondouglas.com/
Labels: Carole Nelson Douglas, Irene Adler, mysteries
13 Questions...with Anneke van Ginn aka Nick Armbrister
My old holidays to my aunties cottage in the English Lake District. Where I got into nature whilst out hiking around the lakes and mountains it was a very special time this is how my pagan religion of today was formed.
Yes Ii have a phobia of needles but to look at me now you wouldn't think so coz now I have 36 or so tattoos. My phobia was from bad dentists when I was a kid and them not using an anesthetic on me so I hate dentists and their needles. I don't like blood tests but I'll have them if I have to but only when forced to!
And I don't like spiders coz they crawl and look spooky! Though they're part of nature and that but I'm not a fan of them though even though I like goth stuff.
Good question lol I collect tattoos and have over 35 now and I've actually lost count I have ink from many good studios in the north and south of England. Tribal, nature, witches, sexy women(come on I'm a guy lol), warplanes, song words from bands I love and their names and singers like The Gathering and Agua de Annique and also Ghost Dance.
I also collect Liz Hand books from her early ones to her newer ones.
And I collect CDs by bands I love like The Gathering and old skool records by All About Eve and other 80s bands.
In my youth I used to collect model plastic airplane kits and I had over 300 of them!
Tough question! Ok I'd have a mixed kebab on nan bread with 4 types of meat on it - chicken donna, chicken shish, lamb donner and another with all the trimmings like salad, salad cream and hot sauce.
Chocolate cookies! Lots of them.
It would be mad to say myself so I'll say two in joint top position Elizabeth Hand and Sven Hassel.
Anne Marie Hurst of Ghost Dance and Skeletal Family a great English 1980s singer now back in music after a 20yr gap. Her music is still wicked and new sounding. I love her Stop the World record in Ghost Dance.
They lol? That's more than one, actually no I don't think I did though I can't think back over 30yrs ago to when I was a kid. I guess I did but I can't think who now lol.
Blowjob!
One of a grassy hillside under blue sky.
What I ate tonight from the Chinky Chippy lol chips, sausage and egg fried rice. I like crispy duck too.
Russian/Soviet air ace Lilya Litvyak coz she's one of my heroines of all time she was a brilliant air combat pilot who inspires me no end.
State of Fear by Michael Crichton and By Any Means Necessary by William E Burrows.
Labels: Anneke van Ginn, Nick Armbrsiter
Review: The Final War
The Final War
Anneke van Ginn
(Nick Armbrister)
Available through Amazon in paperback for $10.48 or through Lulu in paperback for $11.90
In a nutshell: If you like war-torn civilizations, alternate histories, sex, violence, bloodshed, explosions, aliens and witchcraft, then this is the book for you.
From the introduction:
"A time and town so very different from now, several key events have changed European history forever. First the civil war of 2005 – 08 is now over, which led to the break up of United Kingdom. A quarter of a million died achieving what politics never could.
The weeklong conflict with France is over. From what started as a fishing dispute led to
a localised nuclear war in which thirty million British and fifty million French perished.
The madness that irradiated half of Europe stopped.
A third key event saved the remaining innocents from the abyss. The arrival of a girl
with special powers from nowhere, a so-called Goddess of the Earth, she is called
Juniper’s Daughter…"
Thus begins a tale of a call to arms amidst the aftermath of civil and nuclear war, as penned by British author Nick Armbrister, writing as Anneke van Ginn.
The story starts at a clip and doesn't ease up - Armbrister employs prose packed with action and detail.
Our characters, Lee, Sarah, John, Gun Barrel and Red drive the story and tell the tale of their efforts as freedom fighters after the UK has been ravaged by civil war.
Into this comes the rumor of a young woman who may be able to save the war torn land, Juniper's Daughter. Who is she and where does she come from? These questions are answered in the last third of the book (lending things to a sequel quite nicely).
The first two thirds of the book deal with the freedom fighters efforts at repelling English army troops intent on preventing any more fight for freedom.
Explosions, gun fights, strategizing, bloodshed, capture and escape - it's all here.
Armbrister injects his tale with bits of humor - either coming out of the mouths of his characters or as an aside to the reader and it works every time.
The characters are well-drawn and their dialogue is easy and never forced.
All the guns and ammo are lovingly detailed - this writer knows his armaments!
The story barrels headlong, with details snowballing on top of one another, driving the story to it's conclusion.
Armbrister has explored the Cold War and the effect it has on his writing shows through in this effort quite clearly, proving with this entry he deserves a larger audience.
As I read, it struck me that this cries out to be made into a film - I see it along the lines of The Road Warrior or Doomsday.
The mix here of an alternate history, alien intervention, blood and witchcraft firmly seats this in a section any reader of genre fiction can appreciate. I had a good time reading this.
For more information on Nick Armbrister, (aka Anneke van Ginn) please go to:
http://www.myspace.com/nickspoetrybooks
Labels: alternate history, Anneke van Ginn, British novel, Nick Armbrsiter, The Final War
13 Questions...with CA Milson
The one thing I would miss about being a child is how simple things were. We tend to see things a lot different when we are children; running and playing without a care in the world. The imagination was a lot richer back then too :-) I personally think we have the whole life thing backwards. I think we should die first, and get that out of the way. Then we immediately go to a nursing home until they kick us out because we're too young to be there. Then, we get a gold watch and go to work, then we go to college, then we go to school. Then we leave school because we are too young to be there, and we live the remaining days running and playing with no responsibilities :-) Nice huh!
Off the top of my head I cannot think of any. Except maybe bugs. Nasty little creatures they are, especially cockroaches. Not the ones you get in the States, but the nasty flying ones you see in Aussie. Absolute disgusting! :-) Nothing worse than having roaches in your house. Some parts of Australia are notorious for them, no matter how clean your house it. That and spiders! Give me a scorpion or a snake anyday thanks :-)
Movies. I like to amass as many movies as I can. I am a film nut at heart. There is nothing I like to do more in my down-time than watching a movie. I have hundreds of movies in storage and several hundred on my computer :-) (Yes, I have a beast of a computer that I just refer to as "beast") :-)
That is a good question. Never really thought about it that much, but at first thought I will almost quote Jack Nicholson's character Melvin Udall from "As Good As it Gets": 3 eggs overeasy, 8 strips of bacon, short stack, fries, cornbread with gravy, and a huge cuppachino :-) (Hey, well I did say almost quote him) :-)
Without a doubt, one of the best would be Tim Tams :-) Until you have dipped a Tim-Tam into a cup of hot chocolate, you haven't lived :-)
Stephen King.
I don't have a favorite singer but I do like a variety of music. What appeals to me more is the beat. There are some songs that are good, but there are also a lot of music that quite frankly gives me a headache.
I don't think I have had an imaginary friend since I was a child. Of course, when I was a child I used to hang out with Batgirl.. Oh my, now I am stepping well into the past. Now who was it that played Batgirl in the 1960's Batman show?
Any word that comes out of my mouth which sounds long and impressive :-)
A rocky cliff overlooking the ocean and there is a lighthouse in the background.
Easy. Dim sims, spring rolls, steamed pork buns, won tons, special fried rice, sweet & sour pork, sweet & sour chicken, beef in black bean sauce.. All on one plate :-)
I think for this one I have a list somewhere. Ab Lincoln would be in the top 5; Ronny Reagan naturally for being one of the most influencial leaders of the 21st century; Michael Jackson because of how he changed and redefined the music industry; Vlad the Impaler, strictly for research reasons for one of my upcoming books; The Apostle Paul for inspirational reasons; and there are no doubt some others in there. Of course, my list does change from time to time, depending on the way my own life makes a series of stops and unexpected turns.
13. What are you currently reading? A collection of poems by two very talented writers who should take the next step :-)
Labels: 13 Questions, CA Milson
Review: The Chosen - Rise of the Darkness
The Chosen - Rise of the Darkness
CA Milson
Available through Amazon in hardcover for $21.03 or in paperback for $15.96
In a nutshell: if you like stories where battles are waged between man and forces of the darker regions, then this book is for you.
CA Milson has crafted a well-paced story of man versus demonic forces, both intent on winning the day.
Our main characters are all paranormalists of some stripe, some really into the game and others with motives less than pure.
It all starts when Alex attends a seminar where fellow paranormal investigators are going to speak. We are introduced to Usher, a Cherokee Indian who has a gift for sensing the supernatural and Drake Winters, the All-American Boy who has taken to paranormal research.
Another personality in the paranormal world is discussed in the seminar, one Jamiesonn, who back in the 1700s established a cult and literally indulged in human sacrifice and all manner of atrocities until local townspeople where he lived put him to death in a variety of ways - yes, you read that right, ways...he pulled a Rasputin and just wouldn't die and ended up literally disappearing before the crowds eyes...dead or not? You decide.
During the discussion at the seminar, it is posited that Jamiesonn survived and is merely biding his time to come back and take up his evil ways.
Drake declares he will be the one to send Jamiesonn to another plane of existence, but Alex doesn't believe he can.
Drake and Alex form an uneasy alliance, neither one really trusting the other, and set out to find Jamiesonn and stop him. Before they can, an apparition appears and warns them off - and then the fun starts.
Demonic forces begin to run rampant...visions are seen and heard, death prevails, people are taken over by demons...blood runs.
Yet there is another force at work here in the form of a scroll that was found in some Mayan ruins which tells of the destruction of the greatest civilizations in history. The scroll contains the name of The One who will end the strife and preserve mankind.
It is from this point that Milson takes us on a frenetic ride of demons running amuck, forces of good opposing forces of evil, and Alex's journey into the midst of this maelstrom.
Ultimately this is a story of good versus evil, playing out their epic battles in the midst of mankind who is usually woefully inept at handling a crisis like this.
Milson pens a story revealing how we as humans are sometimes asked to do some things we don't think we can do to go towards the greater good.
My only complaint is there were a few set pieces in the book where I would have liked to see more detail. Don't get me wrong, you get enough to know what's happening, but I could see some places where Milson could have stood to add a little meat to his stew.
Milson says Stephen King is an inspiration and I have to admit there were times when I did notice the writing did bring to mind the style of a younger SK.
Take note - the story will continue in Bloodline of Darkness.
For more information on the sequel visit: http://bloodlineofdarkness.info/About_The_Book.html
For more information on CA Milson, visit: http://www.authorcamilson.com/
Labels: CA Milson, demons, horror, The Chosen - Rise of the Darkness
Coming soon to this blog
The purpose of The Written Universe is, primarily, to expose new authors to you the reader.
However, seeing as how this is my blog and I can review whatever I please, we're going to take that fabled left turn at Albuquerque.
In the coming weeks I intend to review a series of books, the Irene Adler mysteries by accomplished author Carole Nelson Douglas.
In 1990, Ms Douglas published her first Irene tale, Good Night Mr Holmes. It was my pleasure then, when the book came out, to host an author signing for Carole for this title. I read it and was completely enchanted with it.
After that came Good Morning, Irene, (1990, aka The Adventuress), Irene At Large, (1992, aka A Soul of Steel), and Irene's Last Waltz (1994, aka Another Scandal in Bohemia).
There followed 4 more Irene books, Chapel Noir (2001), Castle Rouge (2002), Femme Fatale (2003) and Spider Dance (2004).
What is so special about these books?
For starters, they're good, really good - Irene Adler as written by Carole Nelson Douglas is a strong, resourceful female character, one you can't help but enjoy.
Now that there is a major motion picture currently in theatres, Sherlock Holmes, and said film features the character of Irene Adler, I wanted to throw attention to Carole's books, and let you the reader know Irene has been given a different life in these books and deserves to be discovered.
I will go on record here and and state that I have not read the last 4 books in the series. However, that will be rectified as soon as possible.
In the meantime, I intend to re-read the first 4 books, and review them 2 at a time over a period of weeks.
Review: Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) Love & Friendship...
13 Questions...with Anneke van Ginn aka Nick Armbr...
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It is one thing to be touring the globe; it is another thing to be doing it with your best friend and sister. Aly and AJ have found success both on screen as individuals and on stage as a music duo. Their kind and lovable disposition combined with their raw and undeniable talent is what makes these sisters so special. We had the chance to catch up with them and learn a little more about what pushes them as well as what makes them such positive role models.
Imagista: Where did u guys grow up?
AJ: We grew up in Southern California, we were born and raised in LA for most of our lives. We did spend a chunk of our childhood in Seattle Washington for seven years as kids. My family wanted to be closer to the rest of our family but due to our fathers business, which was located in LA, we ended up back in California.
Imagista: Do you feel like growing up in LA had an impact on your choice of career?
Aly: It was our love for entertaining and performing together in church and school that really sparked that fire in us. It wasn’t because we lived in LA. We started out pretty young. We were about six and eight years old when we started taking acting classes.
Imagista: Who is older?
Aly: Me, I am two years older.
Imagista: Did you start performing at the same time?
Aly & AJ: Yeah!
AJ: I think Aly being the older sister really inspired me because as the younger sister I would want to do what she was doing. It became a clear passion for both of us at a young age and we knew this is what we wanted to do but we didn’t know we would be doing it as a profession.
Imagista: You guys have had so much success as together and also individually, how does that work? How do you balance your individual careers and your duo?
Aly: It can be. A lot of the time we need to talk about it together and decide what we can do and what we can’t do. For us, we manage it, because we are really close and we feel like we could make those tough decisions together. When Aj is filming a TV show I am at the mercy of her when it comes to music but that’s okay because I know that and we work around it. Continue reading Aly & AJ: Imagista Feature – Photoshoot + Interview
Aly & AJ Gallery Photoshoots Schooled
Pulse Spikes: A Throwback to the 80s, 90s, and 2000s with Actress and Musician AJ Michalka
Check out this new interview and beautiful photoshoot of AJ for Pulse Spikes.
If you have never been at a sleepover with a group of girlfriends, jumping up and down on your beds singing along to “Potential Breakup Song,” then you are really missing out. That song was, and continues to be, an anthem for all heartbroken and mistreated girls. Half of the voice behind it is AJ Michalka, who has built an incredible career from her beginnings on Disney. Today, Michalka stars in Schooled, a new show on ABC that is a spinoff of The Goldbergs, while releasing music independently with her sister, Aly. Together, the duo Aly & AJ recently released their single “Church” and will be heading out on tour beginning May 1st.
The spinoff show, Schooled, which you star in premiered this past January. For those who have never seen the show, how would you describe it? How did that show come about?
It’s been a long process. I have been a part of The Goldbergs for the past six years, and I have really gotten to love Lainey and develop her from the ground up. I feel very close to that character. And people have really come to love my relationship with Barry on that show. We kind of ended up closing that chapter, and here we are 10 years later. Lainey is working at her old high school as a music teacher. We are now in the 90s, so I’m able to spin off this character who is now an adult. It had a lot of different lives, it was not going to go, and now they’ve retold it. The network really believed in it and decided that this was something that could be a great comedy to overlay on top of The Goldbergs. It’s kind of the perfect scenario: two back to back comedies that both have similar tones and fanbases.
What was the inspiration behind “Potential Breakup Song”? How did that song come about?
A lot of it is electronic pop, 80s inspired, and less guitar than we have usually done. While we were making it, we were listening to Tame Impala, Beach House, Genesis, and Peter Gabriel’s solo stuff, bands that have inspired us in a really cool way. They are either 80s type bands or have influences from it. We try not to listen to too much when we create because it can infiltrate your sound in a way that you feel less authentic, and you want to be careful about creating your own thing that isn’t taken from anywhere else, as hard as that is. Still, that kind of music was really our biggest influence while making the record.
If you could describe your new album ‘10 Years’ in three words, what would they be?
Nostalgic, uplifting, and electric.
If you could only listen to three records for the rest of your life, what would they be?
Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, Beach House’s Depression Cherry, and Tame Impala’s Currents.
What advice would you give yourself 10 years ago?
Continue to trust yourself. You are what you are for a reason, and that’s exactly what you’re supposed to be.
Gallery Photoshoots Public Appearances
2018 Comic-Con International
AJ attended the Comic-Con International for “The Goldbergs” and “Schooled” this past weekend. The gallery has been updated with beautiful pictures of her at it as well as some photoshoots.
0005 x Public Appearances > 2018 > ABC’s “Schooled” Season 1 – Comic-Con International – 07-21.18
0010 x Public Appearances > 2018 > ABC’s “The Goldbergs” Season 5 – Comic-Con International – 07-21.18
0009 x Public Appearances > 2018 > #IMDb Boat at Comic-Con International – Day 3 – 07-21.18
0001 x Public Appearances > 2018 > Nintendo at the Variety Studio at Comic-Con International – 07-21.18
0002 x Public Appearances > 2018 > Pizza Hut Lounge at Comic-Con International – 07-21.18
0003 x Public Appearances > 2018 > Sirius XM’s EW Broadcast – Comic-Con International – 07-21.18
0004 x Public Appearances > 2018 > Variety Studio – Comic-Con International – Day 3 – 07-21.18
0022 x Public Appearances > 2018 > Entertainment Weekly’s Comic-Con Celebration – 07.21.18
Gallery Photoshoots Public Appearances Support the Girls
2018 SXSW Festival
The gallery has been updated with additional pictures of AJ at the 2018 SXSW Festival. Thanks to my friend Mouza for some of the pics!
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0033 x Public Appearances > 2018 > “Support The Girls” Premiere – 2018 SXSW Festival – 03.09.18
0007 x Public Appearances > 2018 > “Support The Girls” Q&A – 2018 SXSW Festival – 03.09.18
0009 x Public Appearances > 2018 > “Support The Girls” Premiere After Party – 2018 SXSW Festival – 03.09.18
0007 x Public Appearances > 2018 > Deadline Studio at SXSW Presented by MoviePass – 03.10.18
0003 x Public Appearances > 2018 > We Work Congress – 2018 SXSW Festival – 03.10.18
Gallery News Photoshoots
Check out Aly & AJ’s new interview and photoshoot with Interview Magazine below!
004 x Photoshoots & Magazine Scans > Photoshoots > 2018 > Photoshoot 003
How Aly & AJ avoided the child star curse and invented a new sound
Aly and AJ Michalka (born Alyson and Amanda Michalka), a.k.a. the Y2K teen idols Aly & AJ, have journeyed from L.A. for their first New York fashion week. Aly, in particular, is a style maniac, although both arrived for this photo shoot in stunning outfits; AJ wore black patent leather pants that squeak when she walks. Despite busy days in press junkets and playing shows (they recently performed for Ferragamo at a party launching the brand’s new scent), the sisters seemed chipper, posing like professionals.
The occasion for their trip? After ten years spent focusing on acting projects—Aly stars on Veronica Mars-creator Rob Thomas’s iZombie, AJ on hit family sitcom The Goldbergs—the sisters Michalka have released an EP, appropriately titled Ten Years. The four-song EP, led by single “Take Me,” is a floaty wisp of confectionary dream-pop. The siblings call their music “nostalgic,” but it also smacks of the now, with an ’80s synth style re-popularized by producers like Dev Hynes and Ariel Rechtshaid.
“To me it feels a little bit like a soundtrack to life, and I think that’s the most interesting part about the production,” says AJ. “I tend to lean towards songs that almost feel like they’re the score to a film, and I feel like this record really does that.”
In adulthood, the Michalkas have much more control over their work (the production of Ten Years was self-funded). Though they have always written their own songs, these are the tracks with which outside hands have interfered the least. “I think the most important thing is that we’ve really grown from being these 16- and 14-year-old songwriters that were writing about experiences that we [hadn’t had yet], like having a boyfriend or losing someone important in your life,” says Aly. “We were just writing those assuming what you would feel like if that happened to you.” Continue reading Interview Magazine
Aly & AJ Gallery Photoshoots
AMO Ferragamo Launch Party, AM to DM & Photoshoots Additions
Hey everyone! Aly & AJ have been pretty busy the past week promoting their EP “Ten Years”. In addition to performing “Promises” on TRL they also performed their entire EP at the AMO Ferragamo Launch Party. Pictures of them performing at the launch party have been added to the gallery. In addition, the gallery is now caught up on all recent photoshots and I have added screen captures from the “Take Me” music video to the gallery. And lastly, screen captures from Aly & AJ’s recent AM to DM interview are now in the gallery — you can watch the interview here.
0041 x Aly & AJ > Live Performances & Concerts > 2018 > AMO Ferragamo Launch Party – 02.06.18
0100 x Talk Shows, Interviews, & Other Screen Captures > 2018 > AM to DM Interview – 02.09.18
0093 x Photoshoots & Magazine Scans > Photoshoots
0226 x Aly & AJ > Music Videos > Ten Years > “Take Me” Music Video – Screen Captures
Aly & AJ – Refinery29 Feature
10 Years Post-Disney, Aly & AJ Are Reinventing Themselves — & Their Style
In 2007, Aly and AJ Michalka — commonly known as Aly and AJ — released Insomniatic, the studio album that brought the world “Potential Break-up Song,” one of 2007’s most popular anthems. That year saw the sisters become Disney darlings, open for Hannah Montana on the Best of Both Worlds world tour, score their own teenage rom-com, Cow Belles, and walk the red carpet in balloon dresses, chunky belts, and printed Pucci.
It’s not 2007, though. It’s 2017, and the names Aly and AJ, at least as one, packaged deal, have been a twinkle in most millennials’ nostalgia-minded eyes. That all changed on Friday, when they dropped their first single in a decade, “Take Me.” Along came the inevitable headlines: “Aly & AJ Drop A Dreamy New Single Like It’s 2007,” and “Aly & AJ’s New Song ‘Take Me’ Is So Worth The 10-Year Wait.”
But don’t call it a comeback.
“I think I’d call it more of a revival of [us] finding music again,” AJ tells Refinery29. “We really focused on our acting careers, and even though music has always been our number one love, we just went through a long period of time where we hit a wall, just in regards to writing and our passion for music. And we found that [passion] again.”
Born and raised in Los Angeles (minus seven early years spent in Seattle), Aly and AJ were first signed at ages 15 and 13, respectively. “It sounds weird to say we were so young when we started, but we really, actually, truly were,” Aly notes. “Now that we have a little more wisdom and have just been in the business longer, we look back at things” — things like touring and flying around the world — “and go, ‘Wow, that really wasn’t normal.’”
They’re now 28 and 26; Aly is married, AJ is a series regular on the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs. Though not even 30, the duo has become a symbol of early-2000s nostalgia, something they admit is “trending” and certainly helps catapult them back into the mainstream.
“People have been coming up to us a lot after seeing that we have new music coming out and they’ll be like, ‘Oh my gosh, you were my childhood,’” AJ says. “And it just makes me laugh, because, you know, we’re young ourselves. To be a part of someone’s past is so interesting and weird. We haven’t been around that long, but it has been long enough for people to grow up with us in a way that made a really big impact.” Continue reading Aly & AJ – Refinery29 Feature
Aly & AJ’s Official Site: AlyandAJ.com Now Online!
Aly & AJ’s official site is now online, check it out here! The gallery has been updated with photoshoot pictures from the official site, as well as a few others from the photoshoot. Check out the solo shots of Aly at Aly Michalka Fan.
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Second meeting of Joint Citizens' Assembly Standing Committee. See webcast of meeting.
Held at District of Saanich
First meeting of Joint Citizens' Assembly Standing Committee. See webcast of meeting.
Held at City of Victoria
Amalgamation Yes submits comments on the Saanich Draft Terms of Reference for Citizens' Assembly
The District of Saanich and the City of Victoria have each created Citizens' Assembly Standing Committees (CASC) consisting of the mayor and three councillors.
The Saanich Standing Committee, consisting of Mayor Haynes and Councillors Brownoff, Plant, and Mersereau, has met twice (February 20 and March 1) and has drafted a proposed Terms of Reference document
Victoria Council created a CASC at the February 28 Council meeting, consisting of Mayor Helps and Councillors Isitt, Loveday and Young. The first meeting will be held within a couple of weeks.
Joint meeting(s) will follow.
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District of Saanich media release: Saanich establishes Mayor's standing committee on citizens' assembly.
GOING FORWARD: Saanich - Victoria Citizen's Assembly
The residents of Victoria and Saanich voted in support of a Citizens’ Assembly process to review common governance interests of our two largest municipalities. The implementation of results of any municipal referendum is subject to a series of provincial policies and procedures to ensure a uniform and independent process is followed.
In the days ahead we anticipate the following:
Saanich and Victoria will jointly outline a draft timeline, budget and terms of reference for the Assembly. The creation of a joint plan of action will require discussions with provincial officials to confirm matters, including timing and cost sharing.
This plan of action would be presented to the respective Councils for preliminary review and approval in principle of a framework for the Assembly process.
A final plan of action for an Assembly would then be presented to, and approved by, each Council. The Province would make an announcement to confirm formal support of the process, timing and financial parameters.
A joint Victoria - Saanich request for proposal (RFP) would be issued to solicit selection of an independent facilitator to lead the Assembly membership selection process, and to service the Assembly meetings, deliberations, and reports.
Over a period of 3 - 6 months, the Assembly would meet to consider evidence gathered through contracted reports, discussions with public and private groups, and public hearings.
The Assembly would write and present a final report with recommendations to Saanich and Victoria Councils, and the Province.
Timing is uncertain as to whether the Assembly will be constituted by late spring or commence in early fall of 2019.
We remain convinced that to respect the will of the voters and to realize the potential of our urban region wherein our municipalities share common interests, that a comprehensive, innovative and independent review of the current state of municipal governance is necessary. Ultimately any recommendations will be subject to a future referendum put to the voters of each municipality.
On October 20, 2018, voters in Victoria and Saanich voted 66% and 56% respectively in favour of establishing a Citizens' Assembly. Residents are anticipating that Victoria and Saanich Councils will convene discussions around the joint Citizens' Assembly process in the very near future. Stay tuned on this page and in the media section for updates.
In the meantime, here are the responses given by the (now) elected councillors during the 2018 election campaign. Some candidates did not respond to the AY Questionnaire.
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What is a Citizens’ Assembly?
A Citizens’ Assembly is a representative body of citizens tasked by a government to study, deliberate, and develop recommendations on a specific issue. Typically, members of a Citizens’ Assembly are randomly selected from among a pool of volunteers who pledge to work on behalf of all members of a community over a period of several weeks or months. The Assembly’s recommendations are generally developed by consensus and are intended to represent the best interests of the community.
Why do we need a Citizens Assembly? How does it work? What does it do?
The referendum ballot question for voters in Saanich and Victoria:
Are you in favour of spending up to $250,000 for establishing a Citizens’ Assembly to explore the costs, benefits and disadvantages of the amalgamation between District of Saanich and the City of Victoria??
In the modern world, governments in all countries, of all sizes -- national, regional or local -- require information to make decisions about complex policy issues including spending priorities, finance, health care, social services, transportation, and governance (i.e. how do we organize elected bodies to make decisions on services required by their populace.) Many of these issues are controversial and require sober second thoughts to ensure information used for decision-making is both comprehensive and balanced.
Too often, social systems, societies and elected leaders are paralyzed through the public participation process that can be mired in confrontation by political parties and special interest groups. Critical decisions are never made and citizens at large feel frustrated.
A Citizens’ Assembly (CA) is a group of citizens who look at information and conduct an analysis and make recommendations to councils and to the public. In the case of Saanich and Victoria, to investigate commonalities and costs of a possible merger of the urban core of Greater Victoria. In the 2014 election, these voters indicated a strong interest in examining their local government structure, voting 88% and 80% respectively. In 2017-18, the citizen-led Saanich Governance Committee recommended that Saanich support a joint study with the City of Victoria. Saanich Council unanimously approved this recommendation. The City of Victoria also agreed. On October 20, 2018, voters in Saanich and Victoria are being asked to approve a study process to do so.
In the past two decades several countries have used a form of CA as a fair selection mechanism for a deliberative public process that can assess options, costs and benefits of complex topics and then provide fair, balanced and independent advice to elected officials and a public report to residents who then decide what action to take. The process of referral to an independent citizens' group is often known as a Civic Reference Panel. Advocates of this process suggest it “reinforces a basic faith in the principle that given the opportunity to participate in a thorough, fair and inclusive process, citizens are ready to provide constructive advice, offering officials the intelligence, perspective and sensitivity that difficult public issues require.”
Such a process is common in Ireland and the Netherlands. In Government of Canada, the Province of Ontario and the City of Vancouver have used this process. In 2003 the Province of BC used a CA to study various systems of electoral reform that led to a provincial referendum. Recently, Duncan and North Cowichan completed a similar process and held a referendum in spring 2018.
Victoria and Saanich Council have jointly agreed to ask voters for approval to fund a CA process to study options for improved inter-municipal service delivery, including the possibility of amalgamation. If receiving a majority Yes affirmative vote in both municipalities, the joint Councils will then be assured that their residents support a study and that Councils can proceed to establish terms of reference for a CA process. An independent facilitator would be assigned responsibility to do three things:
1. To direct an independent selection process via a public call for volunteers to serve on the CA panel, based on demographics e.g. gender, age, occupation, etc., of the community from a pool of hundreds or thousands of volunteers. Approximately 24-48 residents would be selected by lottery to serve.
The facilitator will solicit and collect data from municipal staff and other agencies to compile a public information package about all aspects of the community. {Using Duncan as an example, the CA produced a remarkable data report that documented, for residents and officials, more information about all aspects of local government in their communities including, not only municipal finances/budgets/staffing etc., but various social, economic and institutional factors that defined the unique character of their communities, e.g. boundaries, taxation, capital projects , environmental issues, policing, future growth and development, recreation.) Elected officials and residents learned a great deal about the common interests of their communities that was much more detailed than the normal municipal budget review.
2. The CA will arrange for presentations from numerous agencies and community groups and include opportunities for broader public consultations.
3. Based on this input from research data, presentations, considerable integral dialogue and debate, the CA will collectively direct the facilitator to record their observations, concerns, conclusions and recommendation and then prepare a final report that is presented to both Councils. Depending on what they learn, they may or may not recommend in support of amalgamation.
Residents of Duncan decided to reject the recommendation of the CA to amalgamate with North Cowichan. This outcome should reassure any concerns about the CA process. The CA does NOT replace the ultimate democratic mechanism of voter consent for any subsequent changes. The final decision rests with the voters. In the case of Saanich - Victoria, should a final report recommend in favour of amalgamation, it would NOT occur unless approved by voters in both municipalities in a subsequent binding referendum.
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Saanich - Victoria Citizens' Assembly Flowchart
October 20, 2018 - Voters in Victoria and Saanich voted 66% and 56% respectively in favour of establishing a citizens' assembly.
July, 2018 - The Councils of the City of Victoria and District of Saanich have approved a common question to be placed on the October 20, 2018 municipal election ballot:
“Are you in favour of spending up to $250,000 for establishing a Citizens Assembly to explore the costs, benefits and disadvantages of the amalgamation between the District of Saanich and City of Victoria?”
This is the first time that residents of the largest municipalities in Greater Victoria have been asked to officially weight in on whether they should consider merging or not. The common question(s) are far more specific than those asked in 2014, hence will give both councils clear public direction to either proceed with a Citizens Assembly on amalgamation or not. Each question must pass by a simple majority or the initiative fails. Ultimately, these are opinion questions that will potentially lead to an unbiased study.
The thoughtful deliberations made by council members of both municipalities has reaffirmed to the residents of each municipality that their local government is listening.
Watch the Victoria - Saanich joint Committee of the Whole meeting, June 26, 2018, when agreement was made to formulate a common question on the creation of a Citizens' Assembly
Shellie Gudgeon, Amalgamation Yes, presentation (text) to Victoria Council, April 26, 2018
Core City Town Hall on Citizens' Assemblies, (video) April 25, 2018
A City Divided, April 25, 2018
Shellie Gudgeon, Amalgamation Yes, presentation (text) to Saanich Council, April 23, 2018
CFAX interview on Saanich - Victoria Citizens' Assembly on Amalgamation, with Shellie Gudgeon, Amalgamation Yes, April 12, 2018
Package of 3 items below:
Mayors' (Saanich and Victoria) joint report on Citizens' Assembly, April 18, 2018 to Saanich Council
BC Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Selina Robinson response to Mayors of Saanich and Victoria request for Citizens' Assembly, March 7, 2018
Mayors of Saanich and Victoria letter to BC Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Selina Robinson requesting meeting re: Citizens' Assembly, January 22, 2018
Principles for the Establishment of a Citizens' Assembly, Amalgamation Yes, April 8, 2018
Simplified Flow Chart: Citizens' Assembly on Amalgamation, April 2018
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Ms. Marvel on the cards, young Captain Marvel and her family cast
Marvel President Kevin Feige has plans for Ms. Marvel
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Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel are synonymous with each other. So when Carol Danvers assumes the mantle of Captain Marvel in the comics, a Muslim female named Kamala Khan steps up to be Ms. Marvel. Now that Marvel Studios is going all in towards its efforts in diversifying the superhero genre with the huge success of Black Panther, a female-led Captain Marvel for next year and a Black Widow standalone movie on the cards, the question is if it would go further and work a Muslim superhero into its shared universe. A reporter asked Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige this question straight-out and his response should give fans plenty of hope.
Marvel is planning to do Miss Marvel after Captain Marvel y’all
Muslims. Prepare to finally be represented. pic.twitter.com/SKFofLDmBt
— R O D Y ⚡️ IW SPOILERS (@StaarksHeart) May 12, 2018
In case you’re unable to play the video for some reason, here’s what he said:
We’re doing Captain Marvel right now. Captain Marvel‘s shooting right now with Brie Larson. Ms. Marvel, which is another character in the comic books, the Muslim hero who is inspired by Captain Marvel, is definitely in the works. We have plans once we’ve introduced Captain Marvel to the world.
A concrete confirmation that Feige and the Studio have plans for Ms. Marvel should go a long way towards assuring people that her appearance is inevitable and on the cards. Moreover, no sooner than this hit the internet than fans have begun lobbying for their favorites for playing the role. And if internet chatter is to be believed, Bollywood and Indian actress Priyanka Chopra is a hot choice for donning the mantle of Ms. Marvel, given her Indian-origins and her reputation and fame across American audiences. It’ll probably be a while before we learn anything on that front but fingers crossed it would certainly be an interesting casting choice should Marvel pull it off.
Meanwhile, production on Captain Marvel is moving ahead steadily as Marvel has cast McKenna Grace to play a young Carol Danvers. Some additional casting includes Kenneth Mitchell and Annette Bening who will be playing Carol’s father and mother respectively. Finally, another actress Ana Anoya has joined the cast albeit in an unspecified role. With the movie undergoing steady production and a steady stream of set photos showing up occasionally, we should probably expect to get treated to a teaser around the time of Comic Con 2018.
Captain Marvel hits theaters worldwide on March 8, 2019. Do let us know who your pick is for playing Ms. Marvel on the big screen.
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Belle Pastrana, a middle school student at St. Francis of Assisi School, threw a paper airplane as part of an exercise between students from St. Francis of Assisi and Rosati-Kain High School. The exercise is part of a partnership between the middle and high schools and focused on finding creative ways to show the extent of the problem of poverty.
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Rosati-Kain High School junior Bridget Hurley took control when she noticed that the grade-school students at her table weren’t progressing on their assignment.
“What are your ideas?” Bridget asked. “Focus in on what you want to do for your project, then decide how you want to present it. We have to show what the problem is and how it affects people. We can brainstorm ways of doing that.”
The students suggested creative ways to showcase their project, which involved ways to get the community to understand and respond to poverty.
Rosati-Kain High School student Bridget Hurley helped Lexie Krastanoff and Madelyn Williams, both students at St. Francis of Assisi School, with finding creative ways to address poverty. St. Francis Assisi School received a Beyond Sunday grant from the Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri for the Catholic Connections program.
Photo Credits: Lisa Johnston
St. Francis of Assisi School in Oakville last year was awarded a $72,900 two-year Beyond Sunday grant from the Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri to develop and implement a middle school program called Catholic Connections. St. Francis and its partners, St. Mary’s High School and Rosati-Kain, are creating and implementing the project-based, interdisciplinary program. Mentors at the high school, parish and community levels will help the students offer solutions to real-world problems and to connect their faith to the world.
Catholic Connections is designed to increase enrollment and retention at St. Francis of Assisi and to develop interest in St. Mary’s and Rosati-Kain among families with middle-schoolers.
Beth Bartolotta, principal of St. Francis, said Catholic Connections links middle school students with high school students, community members and parishioners through a Catholic lens. St. Francis is connecting with the high schools on a Catholic social justice topic, “a mini-pilot to be fully implemented next year,” Bartolotta said.
It was good to help the middle-school girls come up with new, creative ways to show their project to others, Bridget said. The students want to make an impact on their community through the social issues they chose, she added.
Bridget’s aim was to give the students confidence. She’ll continue to check in with the students to assess their progress. They have a showcase on May 15, then will develop it further next school year.
Bridget and the other mentors are Rosati-Kain ambassadors who help promote the school and lead events. She took a social justice class at Rosati-Kain, “so I was really excited and interested in helping the girls with their projects,” she said.
She made a few suggestions to the girls “to get them to think outside the box on how to present their projects, but I wanted to make sure that what they chose to do was something they felt interested in, that they felt passionate about and what they thought would work best for their school community,” Bridget said.
Isabella Snyder, a sixth-grader at St. Francis, said her group is creating a comic strip using their skills in writing and drawing. It was fun to work with a mentor, who brought out their talents, Isabella said.
Katie Jones, also a sixth-grader, said though she’s had an awareness of poverty, the project goes in depth about “what poverty truly is how many people actually experience it.”
Her mentor advised them to rely on their strengths and do something special. It made a difference, Katie said. The high school students “know how to explain it in a way you’re going to understand it,” she said.
The approach made the students comfortable and provided one-on-one, personalized learning, Katie added.
Ethan Abernathy is being mentored by a student at St. Mary’s High School. “It was easier to communicate,” he said of the connection.
In a slide presentation, “I’m trying to show how many people are living in extreme poverty and what that means,” he said.
He’s also learned about developing SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timely) goals and outcomes.
Bartolotta said St. Francis is developing a “playbook” for Catholic Connections that can be duplicated by other schools in connecting with high schools.
Beyond Sunday grant
More than 40 Catholic schools and PSR programs throughout the Archdiocese of St. Louis received a Beyond Sunday school grant for the 2018-2019 school year.
A $72,900 Beyond Sunday grant from the Roman Catholic Foundation was distributed to St. Francis of Assisi School and Parish School of Religion in early July for their program, Catholic Connections. The grant is just one of 14 Beyond Sunday grants totaling $751,000 that were distributed in July.
Catholic Connections is a mentor program that connects middle and high school students with community members and parishioners through engagement in real-world projects using a Catholic lens. St. Francis of Assisi seeks to raise awareness of the mission of Catholic schools and their value to the community. With expansion plans for other local Catholic schools, Catholic Connections aims to increase enrollment, retention and stakeholder support for Catholic education throughout the Archdiocese of St. Louis.
The Roman Catholic Foundation builds endowed funds that will support Catholic parishes, schools and ministries in the Archdiocese of St. Louis for generations to come.
Beyond Sunday scholarships provide tuition assistance to middle-income families who wish to send their children to Catholic elementary or high schools in the Archdiocese of St. Louis. High school Beyond Sunday scholarship recipients, called Beyond Sunday Fellows, not only receive tuition assistance but also become part of a community of Fellows, which meets several times each year for Foundation-sponsored community service projects and shared faith experiences. The foundation has awarded:
• $1.7 million awarded to 1,092 students attending 120 Catholic elementary and high schools for the 2019-2020 school year.
• $7.2 million awarded in total to 1,778 students attending 135 Catholic schools since 2016.
For information, visit www.rcfstl.org, call (314) 918-2890 or email info@rcfstl.org.
>> Grants for 2019-20 school year
The Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri will distribute $518,604 in school grants to 30 schools and Parish School of Religion programs for the 2019-20 academic year. The grants will fund 14 projects — 12 for Academic Capacity Enhancement projects and two for Transformational Innovation efforts. Since 2017, the Roman Catholic Foundation has given $2.3 million in grants.
This year’s recipients include:
• Development of a Standard Based Curriculum for Advanced Learners: Holy Cross Academy Parishes Annunciation, Our Lady of Providence, St. John Paul II, St. Michael the Archangel and Seven Holy Founders $20,000
• Technology for All Students of Christ, Prince of Peace Parish: Christ, Prince of Peace School and PSR $50,000
• Technology Implementation and Integration Phase 2: Archdiocesan Elementary Schools of the Archdiocese of St. Louis — Most Holy Trinity School and Academy, St. Cecilia School and Academy, and St. Louis Catholic Academy $50,000
• Enhancing SFA Student Outcomes with Increased Access to Technology: St. Francis of Assisi School and PSR $25,000
• Middle School Math Lab: St. Peter Catholic School $17,500
• STREAM Lab: Holy Spirit Catholic School $17,000
• Watch Cabrini Grow!: St. Frances Cabrini Academy $13,050
• Innovation Lab (STREAM Lab): St. Clare of Assisi School $30,000
• Our Lady Catholic School Inspiration to Innovation — Learning by Design Center: Our Lady Catholic School $71,373
• Guiding the Spiritual Scientists and Moral Makers of the Future: Immaculate Conception School in Dardenne Prairie $70,000
• Chemistry Lab and Classroom — Update for Collaborative Learning and Improved Safety: Duchesne High School $65,000
• Art Program Expansion: Rosati-Kain High School $38,681
• SPICE (Special People In Catholic Education): St. Peter Catholic School and PSR $1,000
• Embracing the Gift of Cultural, Racial, Religious and Economic Diversity in North County Catholic Schools: Federation of Catholic Schools. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta School, Holy Spirit School, Our Lady of Guadalupe School, Sacred Heart School in Florissant, St. Ann School in Normandy, All Saints Academy-St. Ferdinand Campus, All Saints Academy-St. Norbert Campus, All Saints Academy-St. Rose Philippine Duchesne Campus, Christ Light of Nations School, Trinity Catholic High School $50,000
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Visiting-card Houses
From old visiting cards you can build all the different houses and furniture seen in the accompanying illustrations.
Fig. 156—The little tropical house in Uncle Sam's newly acquired possessions. Made of old visiting cards.
For the little
in Uncle Sam's newly acquired possessions , select eight of your largest and stiffest visiting cards; these are for the four walls of the first or lower story of the house. If the cards are not alike in size, make them so by trimming off the edges of the larger cards.
Fig. 157—Place two cards together and cut two slashes.
Fig. 158—Slide the cards together this way.
Place two of the cards together and cut two slashes, one on each side of the centre, through one end of the double layer . Slide the two cut ends together, allowing the centre divisions, A , to lie, one over and one under the two cards. This will bring under the side divisions B and B , on the card whose centre division A comes on top, while the divisions B and B of the other card will come over on the outside . Fasten all of the remaining cards together in pairs in the same manner; then cut a long slit near the outer edge of each of the four pairs of cards, C and C . Slide the walls together at right angles, and form a square by means of the long slits. Do this by holding the open end of one long slit in one wall under, and at right angles to the open end of one long slit in another wall, and then fitting the two walls into each other so that they will stand firm and form one corner of the lower story of the house .
Fig. 159—Slide the two cards together this way to make the wall.
Fig. 160—Slide the walls together at right angles by means of long slits.
Strengthen the house with an extra inside wall. Cut long slits in each end of the extra wall, then a long slit near the centre of each side wall in which to fit the extra wall.
Fig. 161—Cut short slits on the end of the ceiling cards.
Make the ceiling of the lower story of two more pairs of cards fastened together like , and on the ends of each pair of cards cut similar divisions, only have them quite short . Bend down all of the end divisions and fit the strips over across the top of the first story from front to back, bringing the two corner divisions, D and D , on the outside of the wall, while you slide the centre part, E, on the inside . Dotted lines indicate the division E on the inside.
The second story must be built entire before it can be fastened on top of the first story.
Make each of the four walls of the second story three cards long. Cut divisions on both ends of the middle card to fit in the end cards .
When cutting divisions, always fit together the two cards that are to be joined, and cut through the double layer, which will insure having the divisions alike.
When the four walls are ready to be put together, cut a window in the two end cards of the wall which you intend for the front . Only the lower edge and sides of the window may be cut; the upper edge is merely bent and throws the solid window shutter, formed of the piece cut, outward, as shown in the photograph.
Slide the four walls together and add a fifth wall, to run through the centre from side to side, for strength. Use the long slit method for joining the centre wall to the side walls.
When built, turn the second story upside down and fit a strip of three cards, bridge-like, over the centre from front to back, and fasten it to the bottom of the walls as you attached the ceiling of the first story; then fit on another strip in like manner over the centre from side to side, and fasten it to the bottom of the side walls. The two strips will cross each other at their centres, one lying at right angles over the other.
Fig. 162—Fasten ceiling on lower story by sliding the centre division inside, and the two side divisions outside, the wall.
Fig. 163—Middle card for wall of second story.
Carefully lift the second story and adjust it squarely and evenly on top of the first story, as in the photograph .
Fig. 164—Walls for second story. Details of the visiting-card houses.
Make the projecting roof of the second story of four strips of four cards each. Run the strips from side to side of the house and lap them a trifle, one over the other. The roof is merely laid on and is supported by the walls.
The peak is made of two strips of two cards each, and slid into a base of one strip of three cards by means of long slits. At the apex the cards are also fastened together with long slits.
The little summer-house in has each of the four sides made of one card. The cards are fastened together by means of long slits. A doorway opening is cut in the front wall, much in the same manner as the windows are cut in the large house, only in this case the incision is made directly on the lower edge of the card, and, when finished, the lower half of the door is cut off. The door is bent outward and forms a little canopy for the open doorway, as in the photograph.
Make the roof of two strips of cards of two cards each by merely laying the strips across the top opening of the house.
Fasten the ends of the two cards together with long slits to form the apex of the peak, and bend the bottom ends of the cards out flat, so the peak will stand steady on the roof.
If the children would like to keep the buildings intact to play with at any future time, as they build up the structures let them add a little glue or strong paste here and there to hold the various parts firmly together. The toys will then last a long time and stand considerable wear.
Tissue-paper trees in spools furnish the foliage in the photograph, while a miniature flag, with its pole supported in an empty spool, shows the nation to which the country belongs.
Cut little paper people from cardboard and place them on the grounds.
A fine setting for the scene can be made by tacking a piece of green canton flannel, fleecy side uppermost, taut over a pastry board, or pinning it on a piece of the light-weight patent straw pasteboard.
The fleecy green gives the appearance of grass, and when the glistening white buildings are set down on the grass among the trees with Old Glory floating overhead, and gaily dressed dolls in the foreground, the children will be delighted with the scene; nor will the appreciation be confined to the children, for older people will also enjoy it.
Fig. 165—Pagoda.
in is extremely easy to build. Make the base square of four cards fastened together with long slits. On this foundation build up one card on the front and one on the back, by cutting two short slits on the lower edge of the lengthwise bottom of the cards, one slit near each end , and sliding one card across the front on the uncut top edges of the sides of the foundation by means of the slits; then fastening the other card across the back from side to side in like manner. On top of these two cards build two more, reaching across the sides from front to back. Continue building in this way until the pagoda is ten stories high. The projections along the sides are made of two long narrow cards each, the two cards fastened together at the centre like ; then the ends are bent up and the strip laid across from side to side on the top edge of the two side cards which form every other story. The apex roof is built of two cards with the top edges fastened together, tent-like, by means of long slits, on a foundation strip of two cards bent up at the ends.
Fig. 166—Cut one slit near each end.
Fig. 167—Card furniture.
in is also made of visiting cards. Take two long, narrow cards, place them together, and about one-third the distance from one end of the double layer cut a slit through the two cards, extending it a little more than half-way across the cards; then take the cards apart and slide them into each other. Be sure that the two short ends of the cards come together. Open out the two short ends tent-fashion, and bend down one of the long ends across its centre for the seat, leaving the other long end erect to form the back of the chair for the paper doll . Make several chairs; then make the dressing-table. Place two long cards evenly together and cut a slash through and more than half-way across the centre of the two cards. Slide the cards together, making an X. Bend out the top and bottom ends of the X flat. For the top of the table select a rather large card, but not too wide. Cut one slash on each side of the centre of one of the lengthwise edges. This will make three divisions. Cut corresponding slashes, but much deeper, in one of the short ends of a smaller card, which is to be the mirror. Trim off the end of the middle division in the table top and slide the two cards together, bringing the B and B divisions of the mirror well forward, so that the top of the table extends back beyond the mirror; then bend up the B and B divisions of the mirror, as in the photograph. Place the top with the mirror attached on the X, allowing the X to come back directly under the mirror in order that the top may be steady. If you paste a piece of silver paper or tinfoil well smoothed out on the card for the mirror, the dressing-table will, from a little distance, appear quite realistic.
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A Visit to Rankin Inlet
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It’s cold in the hamlet of Rankin Inlet but the air is clear and you can see for miles. People come and plan to stay for a few days or weeks or months and wind up staying years. This despite the cold weather and the slow internet and the distinct lack of Costcos.
Or maybe that’s why they stay.
Myself, I was only there for three days. I was a little wary of the cold. The coldest I’d experienced to date was minus twenty-nine one day in Whitby. That day I walked my daughters from the van to their elementary school entrance to make sure they got inside safe thinking damn, this is cold. My first few steps in Rankin Inlet were about that cold and I was thinking pretty much the same thing. It was minus thirty outside and even though I was dressed in four layers I was shivering by the time I made it from the plane to the airport terminal. Maybe because I’d already been cold inside my North Air Boeing 737, sitting in a window seat, where I’d touched my hand to the window and realized that there wasn’t a whole lot separating me from some pretty cold arctic air. I really hoped we didn’t crash. Of course, if we did I’d probably have bigger problems to worry about than the cold.
The Katimavik Suites Hotel sent a truck to pick me up at the airport. It was too cold to wait outside so I waited inside the terminal. It was pretty crowded. I admired the attire of a young mother who was wearing a kind of parka with an enormous hood. But the hood wasn’t for her head, it was for her child, tucked comfortably into the enormous hood, his feet perhaps wrapped around his mother’s waist. This permitted Mom to have both hands free, an arrangement that worked quite well, I imagine, unless she happened to bend over too far to pick up something, such as, say, a fish, in which case her infant might shoot out of the hood over her head. Which actually happened once, somebody told me later. Fortunately the parent in question caught the child, though they lost the fish.
Warm and comfy Katimavik Suites Hotel
A young woman from the hotel clad in furry winter boots stepped into the crowded terminal looking for me. In her truck I spent a couple of minutes trying in vain to locate a seat belt but there was none to be found. “Nobody uses seatbelts up here,” she told me. “We don’t go fast enough.”
This was another one of those communities — like Iqaluit — with a fair amount of vehicles on the road (mostly trucks) but not a whole lot of road to drive them on. There is only one road out of Rankin Inlet, and it only goes for about twelve miles before ending at an Elder’s Lodge.
Beyond that it’s snowmobile country.
It may have been cold outside, but it was warm inside. A bit too warm—in the hotel I had to strip down to a T-shirt to make myself comfortable. In the morning I enjoyed a continental breakfast in Katimavik’s kitchen and chatted with a bunch of guys in town to convert an existing hardware store into a Home Hardware. Myself, I had business at the local CBC Bureau.
To get to the bureau I had four taxi companies to choose from, which seems like a lot for a hamlet of only 2900 people and a finite series of roads. I chose Fluffy’s Taxi because I liked the name but, although friendly, there was nothing fluffy about the guy who came to pick me up. I shared the taxi with two women from Iqaluit who were in town to do some accounting for the local government. Government work being, I understand, Rankin Inlet’s primary industry, though it’s also known for other things such as mining once upon a time, and hosting the only Inuit Fine Art ceramic production facility in the world.
CBC Rankin Inlet
After spending the morning at the CBC a colleague took me to lunch at one of the few restaurants in town, the Captain’s Galley, located adjacent to another hotel, the Siniktarvik Hotel. I ordered a salad, but it turned out they were all out of salad ingredients (this happens a lot in the North, my colleague informed me), so I had what he was having, the Inukshuk Club Sandwich. A fortuitous choice; it turned out to be one of the best club sandwiches I’ve ever eaten. And so huge that I wound up skipping supper that night.
Driving back to the bureau (it was too cold to walk—maybe the reason there are so many taxi companies) I saw lots of big black birds, about half again as big as crows. Ravens, my colleague told me. Nevermore! Ravens are the raccoons of Rankin Inlet, after your garbage. Except, unlike raccoons, they work in broad daylight and disappear during the summer, heading further north, maybe. Or perhaps they’re simply on vacation then.
I saw a lot of dogs, too, some loose, others chained up. Apparently the hamlet has been cracking down on loose dogs since a couple of kids were recently attacked. The dogs all appeared to be of the husky variety. Not a whole lot in the way of Chihuahuas.
Back at the bureau we parked beside the local graveyard, where no grave dates earlier than 1950. Before 1950 those who passed on were buried on the land, usually beneath a pile of rocks. Due to the permafrost, a backhoe is required to dig the graves. The story goes that one year the man in charge of the graveyard, deciding to get a head start on the digging during the summer, pre-dug a bunch of graves. But he dug way too many. So many that everybody thought it would take years to fill them all.
That year they filled every single grave.
They never pre-dug the graves again.
That’s the graveyard, off to the left. No pre-dug holes this year.
On my third and last day in Rankin Inlet the temperature rose to minus 12. “T-shirt weather!” a local joked. Not quite, but it sure felt nice after minus thirty. It was quite comfortable, actually. People who reside in the north have told me that they find minus one in Toronto harder to take than minus thirty in the north. A different kind of cold. Drier, warmer somehow, up north.
That morning the aforementioned local (he didn’t want me to share his real name, so I shall call him Rupert here) offered to drive me around the hamlet and show me the sights. We drove through every part of town, which is divided into Areas 1 to 5, if I recall correctly (I was hoping we’d see Area 51 but apparently that’s in a different, much warmer part of the world.) He showed me the hamlet’s giant Inukshuk, one of the human-made towers of rocks that my club sandwich had been named after. Inukshuks are used by people of the north for several reasons: to signify a cache of something valuable, or to act as a landmark, or to indicate direction. Rupert also showed me the town dump, a bit of an eye sore, I’m afraid, but one that hamlet authorities appear to be dealing with if the “no dumping” sign at the edge of the dump is any indication.
Fairly typical view within the Hamlet of Rankin Inlet, as seen through a window of the CBC Bureau
Rupert pointed out a long pipe that ran from the coast into town, which is how they get fuel from oil tankers into town. And he told me the legend of Marble Island (though we couldn’t see it as it’s located 32 kilometres east off the coast). Marble Island only looks like it’s made of marble—it actually consists of a type of rock called wacke, laced with quartzite, which just happens to resemble marble. Anyway, according to Rupert, a young girl got swept out to sea and prayed to her Gods to save her. In response to her prayers, the Gods made Marble Island rise from the sea to carry her to safety. Or so the story goes. It didn’t save eighteenth century explorers, though, who got stranded there and perished, starving or succumbing to scurvy when they foolishly refused Inuit offers of help.
We drove past a long, high fence at the edge of town placed there to prevent too much snow from accumulating in town. It’s made of slats with plenty of holes between them and is strategically placed to inhibit prevailing winds. It’s much higher now than when it was originally built because the permafrost is gradually forcing it out of the ground. The permafrost is an issue for housing, too. There are no basements in Rankin Inlet. All houses are elevated and designed in such a way that the houses can be relevelled every couple of years. Also, you have to be careful how you build houses up there. Even a tiny hole can result in massive snow piling up inside your house. A couple of guys from the south came up and built a house with ventilation in the attic. Perfectly sensible idea in the south. Bad idea in the north, unless you like lots of snow in your attic.
Sadly, I didn’t get to see any Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) during my time in Rankin Inlet, but maybe this was a good thing because I like to whistle, and according to Rupert, if you whistle at the Northern Lights they will descend from the heavens and take your breath away. Rupert swore this happened to him one night outside of town. Putting the legend to the test, he whistled at the Northern Lights and sure enough they began to descend from the heavens. Before they could take his breath away he stopped whistling and hightailed it back to town and has never whistled at the Northern Light since.
One curious feature of Rankin Inlet is the local military base, which, although diligently maintained, is completely uninhabited. Once in a while a few soldiers will come up for an inspection or to fix or check on something or conduct a military exercise or two, but nobody ever stays for long.
Aside from that, Rankin Inlet is a bustling hive of activity. A central hub for many smaller communities in Nunavut that you can only get to via snowmobile or airplane. It’s got variety stores, grocery stores, hotels, restaurants, an elementary, middle, and high school, a college, and even a minimum security prison.
“That’s got to be fairly empty, isn’t it?” I asked Rupert.
“Pretty full, actually,” he told me. “Minor infractions, though, like the two guys busted for throwing furniture out a hotel window not long ago.”
Shortly afterward we drove past the hotel in question and sure enough, a large window on the second floor was boarded up.
But what is there to do in Rankin Inlet? Lots, it turns out. Right now they’re building a new sports arena. Rankin Inlet just happens to be the home of Jordin Tootoo, famous Canadian hockey player. If you like hunting and fishing, like Rupert does, you might like Rankin Inlet. Or maybe you like Bingo. Early on in his stay in Rankin, Rupert was invited to a Bingo match. He wasn’t interested. Until they told him it was a ten thousand dollar purse. They take Bingo seriously in Rankin Inlet. He bought cards for himself and his roommate. His roommate won the ten thousand dollar purse. Rupert never played Bingo again.
If you prefer something a little more dramatic, you can spend your time in Rankin Inlet on the lookout for Russians. In the arctic, we have our own version of Texas Rangers, called Canadian Rangers (often mistakenly called Arctic Rangers). Five thousand strong, armed with Lee-Enfield Rifles, our rangers patrol the north, assist with Search and Rescue operations, and help train soldiers in cold weather survival. If I lived in Rankin Inlet, I would want to be a Canadian Ranger.
It’s an expensive place to live, though. You want to be smart how to spend your money. Goods only come in via airplane and barges. You have a choice between spending a fortune shipping something up by plane, or planning wisely and using a barge. Not one you have to build yourself. One you can rent space on. For instance, you want some printing paper? Consider purchasing three years worth via barge rather than $70 a shot by plane.
Rankin Inlet is undeniably frosty, at least in the winter. It gets up to about 10 or 15 degrees in the summer. Rupert told me he couldn’t get warm for the first three years he was there. Until he finally got himself a homemade winter jacket. It’s all about the windproofing, he told me. A friend made it for him. Rupert bought some raccoon fur and sewed it on the hood himself. He was wearing it when I met him. it looks terrific. Honestly, I thought it was store bought. It’s much thinner and warmer than a Canada Goose jacket. Which, according to Rupert, is the sort of coat tourists wear.
It’s a small town, Rankin Inlet. Everybody knows everybody. And, according to Rupert, they like one another. It’s easy to make friends in Rankin Inlet, Rupert told me. That’s why he likes it. For the people.
I liked it too.
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Leo Coffee to Liberation - Film Scores of A.R.Rahman
1. Leo Coffee
Leo Coffee may not be the first advertisement that A.R.Rahman composed music for, but it is the jingle that put on him the spotlight so bright so that Maniratnam could not help but notice. From those few seconds of jingle music, it was evident that Dilip had in him, what was needed to become A.R.Rahman. Even in those 30 seconds long piece of music, there is a definitive musical motif. The piece is structured with a well defined beginning where the motif gets introduced, a transient middle that sustains the mood set by the main motif, a neat ending where the theme reprises.
It is early morning. A traditional south Indian wife is doing her chores. A Veena plays a serene melody that sounds as traditional as the woman and fresh as the hot brewing coffee. She puts the coffee powder in a container that collects the decoction. The strokes on accompanying Tabla are hesitant. The Coffee is still in the making. A flute plays a flourishing melody, with which Rahman gives a musical nod to the group of birds that are flapping their wings off for a breezy flight in the morning light.
Meanwhile, when the woman goes to do her other jobs, the piece drifts from the main theme and plays to the surreal montage. The cuts in the visuals are quicker, and fittingly an energetic Thavil rhythm replaces the lazy Tabla strokes. Also, there are no pauses between phrases in the melody. Coffee is ready. When she brings the Coffee to her man, the main theme reprises again and brings the musical piece and the visual montage to a most satisfying closure.
We do not know for sure whether the music for Leo Coffee was composed for the visuals, but while watching it now it is difficult to assume otherwise. We do not know if composing music for jingles helps a musician to become a song composer, but if it is done in the way it is in Leo Coffee advertisement, it sure will help them become a film music composer – the kind who writes music for images in motion. If I listen to such a jingle now, I would think of the composer as someone who could be a decent film score composer.
It is an extremely challenging and daunting task for a jingle composer to write background music for a full length feature film, which typically is 150 minutes long. A.R.Rahman himself admitted in an interview that he was quite scared about scoring for a full length feature film. We may never get to know whether Maniratnam thought about the background score of the film when he chose A.R.Rahman for Roja, but Rahman spell the same magic in the background score of Roja as he did in the songs.
Maniratnam believed in Rahman. Roja happened. You are reading this book.
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Listening to Kaadhalukku Mariyaadhai
My admiration for Ilaiyaraaja’s background score in Kaadhalukku Mariyaadhai grew when I got a chance to watch the original Malayalam version of the film (“Aniyathi Pravu” Music Composer - Ouseppachan). We often talk about films getting elevated by Ilaiyaraaja’s background score. His score in Kaadhalukku Mariyaadhai is one of the best proofs of that. It also reassures the fact that the directors do not have much of a say in the quality of background score that Ilaiyaraaja writes for the film. It is the quality of the content that dictates the quality of Ilaiyaraaja’s background score. This film is another example for how better Ilaiyaraaja understands the medium of cinema than anybody else, and sometimes his is better than even the director of the film.
Ilaiyaraaja has used almost all of the background music scoring techniques that we most admire of his, in this film. The melodies of the songs become motifs of the film's background score. A unique aural identity is given to the film, with the musical score having a coherent tonal pattern throughout the film. The omnipresent music precisely follows the shifts and cuts in the moods and actions on the visuals. The music is entwined with the film so much so that one can never say whether the background music or the film in itself have in it, all that it takes to move a viewer, as emotionally as it does.
Melody of Songs as Motif – Kaadhalukku Mariyaadhai is one of those few films where the melody of a song has all that is necessary to be the main motif or love theme of the score of the film. It needs as much experience and expertise as Ilaiyaraaja to use these melodies, repeatedly, at the right moments in the film, but without any of it sounding monotonous. After having composed a beautiful melody like Ennai thalaatta Varuvaala, any composer would be tempted to use it to the maximum throughout the film. There is a difference, when Ilaiyaraaja does it. Ilaiyaraaja clearly knows that job of a score composer is not just playing lovely music in the background. Background music scoring is playing apt music. Ilaiyaraaja achieves aptness in score effortlessly with his orchestration skills. He orchestrates the same melody in varied ways to fit with the slightest of changes in the subject on which the main motif travels on throughout the film. The subject could be an emotion, a gesture, a character, a place or a recurring situation in the film. The variety in orchestration is one reason why we do not get bored of the recurring musical themes in Ilaiyaraaja’s films. Ilaiyaraaja’s romantic songs always have a melody, which could evoke both exhilaration of moments of hope and the doom of the moments of despair. One could use it for either mood, and it would aptly fit. The melody of the song Ennai Thalaatta Varuvaala is as romantic as it can get when used for romantic scenes, and is as painful as it can sound, when used to underscore the pain of separation.
Ilaiyaraaja always creates a unique pattern or palette of sound for the film with his background music. There are so many sounds that are unique in the background score of Kaadhalukku Mariyaadhai. The most notable one being Ilaiyaraaja's prominent usage of synthesizers for the first time in his career. The mix of Ilaiyaraaja’s melody and Synth sounded so fresh and unique. In fact the main love theme of the film has a signature Synth layer on loop. Though Ilaiyaraaja has used a lot of Synth stuff for the first time in this film, he does not allow the vastness in the variety of sound that Synth provides, to overtake the soul of the melody. Ilaiyaraaja has tried to bring out emotions even in these Synth sounds. The sound of flute and violin used all through the film is not the typical ones that we hear in other films scored by Ilaiyaraaja. The use of Bhavatharini and Arun Mozhi’s vocals is also very different; they sound like echoes of emotions from the deep inside the mind and soul of the characters.
The most fascinating of all aspects of Kaadhalukku Mariyaadhai background score is the precision with which Ilaiyaraaja punctuates the visuals with his music, and the mind-boggling details in each layer of the orchestration. With his precision and detailing, Ilaiyaraaja captures even the slightest of details in the visual narrative of the film. This precision is the biggest differentiating factor and the reason why Ilaiyaraaja’s Kaadhalukku Mariyaadhai is more emotionally engaging than Ouseppachan’s Aniyathi Pravu.
To understand the monstrosity of Ilaiyaraaja’s score, one has to move beyond from the generic overall perceptions to the specifics of music and its meanings in each and every scene of the film.
Jeeva meets Mini in a book store for the first time. Their first meeting happens like how it happened and at times still happening in most of Indian films. They stare at each other for a while. There have been innumerable Indian films in which a love story begins like this. But, not many times before, the emotions that the two go through for those few seconds were expressed as beautifully as Ilaiyaraaja's background score does it in this film. The unusual state of ecstasy that the characters attain is underscored by free flowing notes on Synth piano, and the accompanying vocal of Bhavatharini aptly sounds the innocence and serenity of the moment in which a seed of love is sown. In a flash, they return to reality and realize that they are in a book store. Their eyes disengage. Mini walks out of the accident spot and starts to move around the book store. She looks again at Jeeva from a distance to check if Jeeva is still looking at her. The flute that follows plays to the pleasant confusion they get about their own feelings and the heart ticking rhythm stirs a curiosity about what is going to happen.
When again both Jeeva and Mini accidentally pick the same copy of a book titled ‘Love and Love Only’ from the shelf of the book store, Bhavatharini hums the melody of the song Vizhiyil Vizhi Modhi Idhaya Kadhavondru Thirandhadhey – the lines of Pazhanibharathi that exquisitely describes in Tamil everything that happened a while ago. And the song begins. Using the melody of a song in the background score of the scenes that precede the actual song is one of the often used techniques in Indian films, but here it plays at the right moment, for right duration on the right instrument and above all, with a reason.
Ilaiyaraaja uses the melody of Vizhiyil Vizhi Modhi song again in the scene in a restaurant where Jeeva gets to meet Mini for the second time. The trick is to allow one thematic idea to recur until Jeeva and Mini move beyond such moments of accidental meetings, and take their relationship to next logical step. In this scene, when Mini is surprised to see Jeeva in the same table in the restaurant, Ilaiyaraaja uses a small sound bite to break from silence in the soundtrack. Ilaiyaraaja does not use the theme music immediately. He could have easily played the humming of Bhavatharini again here, but there is no sufficient time, the focus soon shifts to the other characters in the scene. Ilaiyaraaja uses Bhavatharini’s humming exactly when Mini leaves the restaurant and turns back to see if Jeeva is still looking at her, and that is when the whole restaurant episode gets its meaning through the music.
Mini meets Jeeva. She requests Jeeva to put an end to his actions against her brother. Does Ilaiyaraaja play the main love theme of the film in its entirety at least in this moment, when Mini is talking to Jeeva for the first time? No. Not yet. It is all in Mini’s hands or rather heart. The relationship has not reached the stage where Ilaiyaraaja could reveal the main love theme of the film, but also it has reached a stage where he cannot use Vizhiyil Vizhi Modhi melody anymore. Ilaiyaraaja has to play something that fits this transient stage. The melody of the song Ennai Thalaatta Varuvaala was always going to be the main love theme of the film. Ilaiyaraaja begins to play on Guitar, a melody that sounds like a derivative of the melody of Ennai Thalaatta Varuvaala song, when Jeeva after discussing the issues with Mini’s brother shifts the conversation to about him, about Mini and them. When Jeeva, in an attempt to explain the extent of his love, says, "Naan unnai aayiram murayaavadhu pathiruppaen", the music precisely shifts to the film's signature Synth pattern. That was exactly the music played, earlier when Mini looks at the book "Love and Love only" in the book shelf her bedroom. Mild strings in the background gradually shifts the mood of the moment, as the music shifts the focus on to Mini, who is getting worried about Jeeva’s love for her.
Now, this whole conversation is not happening in a coffee shop or a public road. It is happening in a picturesque place. The characters are standing in the middle of a view point, where the tourists would prefer to stand and take pictures with the greeneries around. Ilaiyaraaja plays a breezy melody on the flute and strings to add to pleasing ambience in which these romantic conversations between Mini and Jeeva are set and shot. The ambient piece of music leads the way back to Bhavatharini’s voice that hums a brief melody of wonderment Mini experiences, precisely when Jeeva explains Mini why he cannot forget her – "Pona jenmam", "vittai kurai thotta kurai" and all that.
We know for sure that Jeeva is madly in love with Mini, but Mini has never been open about what she feels for Jeeva. The scene, in which we get a solid proof of Mini’s love for Jeeva, is the scene in which Ilaiyaraaja most appropriately plays the Synth pattern of the main love theme of the film for the first time on Mini. The music begins precisely when Mini turns to look at a book in the book shelf in her room, and the camera zooms in to show us the book she looks at. The book is "Love and Love only".
Mini meets Jeeva again. After Mini completes saying what she came to say, Mini asks Jeeva if she can leave - "Povattuma". Ilaiyaraaja plays a piece in which every note plucked on guitar or blown on flute hesitates to proceed further. It is played to sound Mini’s hesitation to leave. Jeeva says yes. Mini starts to walk away from the place. Mild strings and cello echo Mini’s disappointment in leaving without having a conversation. Jeeva and Mini walk together. Jeeva begins to talk. Ilaiyaraaja plays a piece of music that triggers a contemplation just like how Jeeva’s words trigger in Mini’s mind and just like how each line of Jeeva applies a brake to Mini’s walk, a two-note Synth bass piece plays as a brake to the contemplative melody that was playing when Jeeva spoke. The action happens in a loop in the visuals and so it does in the background music too.
The main love theme i.e., the melody of Ennai Thaalatta Varuvaala is used as a piece in the background score for the first time in the film in this conversation. The theme plays on flute precisely when Jeeva says, “Nee sumaiaya irrukkae” (You are a burden). The string section with a dominant cello section takes over precisely to play for the pain of Jeeva, when he says “Vedhanai”. When Jeeva asks uncomfortable questions to Mini about what she feels for him, in the background, a flute plays a melody that is as confused about the melody that it is playing as Mini is in that situation. When Jeeva agrees to give time to Mini to make her decision, the relieved expression in Mini’s face is enhanced by a harp glissando and by a soothing string section playing an operatic coda to the conversation.
Just a few seconds before, the love theme (Ennai Thaalaatta Varuvaala melody) was used for the pain of Jeeva. It is now played as a piece of ecstasy and romance, when Jeeva says ‘Un manasula enna irukkunnu enakku theriyum’ (I know what is in your mind). In the ecstatic version, of the theme, rhythm pattern that accompanies the melody is one that sounds like the amplified version of the real sound of the beat of the heart; whereas, in the other version that plays for Jeeva’s pain, the sound of the beat pattern is subdued and an additional Synth layer is to the itching presence of Mini in Jeeva’s mind.
The next day Jeeva is waiting for Mini’s arrival and reply. Mini decides to express her love to Jeeva the next day but her family’s trust in her puts her in dilemma again. This dilemma and Mini’s decision to avoid meeting Jeeva are why Jeeva is going through those painful waiting moments. Thus, for Mini’s dilemma, Arun Mozhi hums the main love theme with a tinge of sadness and the same follows for the Jeeva waiting scene too. It is Ilaiyaraaja’s way of establishing a link between a sequence and its consequence.
Jeeva is trying hard to forget Mini. Meanwhile, Mini is slowly gaining confidence to accept Jeeva’s love. The voiceless visual montage showing the transformations of the characters is accompanied by a differently orchestrated version of the main love theme. The montage comes to an end with Mini coming to Jeeva’s room. The shot of Mini standing at the door steps of Jeeva’s room, shown to us as seen from the eyes of Jeeva, blends so well with the Bhavatharini’s vocals in the background. The most fascinating aspect of the score in this moment is that the love theme – Ennai Thaalaatta Varuvaala melody – is heard on Bhavatharini’s voice for the first time. It is the musical equivalent of saying that Mini’s accepting Jeeva’s love for the first time, and it is also the first time she is going to admit it. The mild strings in the background that sounds the emotion of Jeeva on seeing Mini again brings in a sense of anticipation about what is going to happen.
Jeeva and Mini are now alone in Jeeva’s room. Both Jeeva and Mini stay at a distance and are shy even to look at each other’s eyes. Flute plays titillating stream of notes in staccatos in sync with the rhythm of Mini’s batting eye lids. Bells twinkle and a new Synth organ theme begin when Jeeva walks towards Mini. The main love theme takes over and creates a romantic aura when they begin their conversation. Both Jeeva and Mini are in loss of words to express their emotions and so is Ilaiyaraaja, who pauses when the overwhelming excitement of the moment seals their conversation. The Synth Organ theme resumes precisely when both Jeeva and Mini look at each other and begin to talk. This scene is an excellent example of precision and the impact of Ilaiyaraaja’s musical pause.
Jeeva is escorting Mini in his bike to a nearby bus stop. When Jeeva applies a sudden brake to stop the vehicle, Mini’s chain gets locked to Jeeva’s shirt collar button. A beautiful Synth Piano piece plays to the butterflies and the batting eye lids when together Mini and Jeeva try to remove the chain. There is a sense of urgency, because Mini has to catch the bus. The music, here, is not for that state of urgency. It is for the physical intimacy that the process of removing the chain naturally brings them to. Let us call this Chain theme. It is a crucial link to the main narrative twist that happens at the end of the film. The same theme is again played in the scene in which Jeeva playfully chases Mini to touch her. One of Mini’s brothers witnesses this chase and misunderstands the whole situation. The same Synth Piano theme is played at all the crucial moments of turn in the narrative. Chain Theme links the most insignificant incident in the film with the extremely significant part it plays in bringing the story to its logical end.
The next day, Jeeva meets Mini again. The background music to the conversation that follows is again a page from Ilaiyaraaja’s “How to write background score for a film” manual. The seamless transformations in less than a minute-long piece of music that unobtrusively traces the emotions in Jeeva and Mini’s conversation is to be heard to be believed. The piece begins with a whole new Piano theme, sprinkling the aura with enough romanticism. In the conversation, when Jeeva says, “Love and Love Only”, the theme that was constantly looping in the background thus far on one octave is pushed to an upper octave, sweetening the mood in the music further. Bhavatharini comes back with her ‘ahs’ to sprinkle a heavenly sense of wonderment precisely when Jeeva says “Pona Jenmaththu thodarbhu” and the accompanying harp glissandos add further to that mood. When Mini worries about her family’s acceptance, Ilaiyaraaja shifts to gloomy strings and suddenly when she becomes optimistic sitar is brought to play a melody of relief. The conversation ends with Bhavatharini’s ‘ahs’ and harp, when Mini gets awed by the amount of love and affection Jeeva has for her. And then they see a butterfly.
Ilaiyaraaja has always given his best when he gets an opportunity to compose for the flight of a butterfly or in general for the feeling of flight. While in conversation, Mini sees a butterfly in the garden nearby, and she asks Jeeva to catch it. A sparkling melody on Celesta and the strings create a heavenly stir in sync with the rhythm of the flap of the wings of Butterfly. The strings slowly intensify to create a slight curiosity when Jeeva moves close to the butterfly. When the butterfly escapes, the whole orchestra, breaks out to play melodic phrases of enchantment together with celesta and strings playing to the sense of exhilaration in the flight of the butterfly.
The butterfly episode is the last moment when we see Jeeva and Mini is romantic mood. Mini’s brothers soon come to know about Mini’s love for Jeeva and the narrative takes a serious drift in its tone. Mini and Jeeva decide to run away from the family. Ilaiyaraaja plays quite conventionally in all the chasing scenes, and scenes that show the reaction of Mini’s and Jeeva’s families. There is not much space for romance and so no significant moments for Ilaiyaraaja to unleash his genius. When, for the first time, Mini without a trace of smile on her face and with her eyes full of tears says, ‘I love you’ to Jeeva, Ilaiyaraaja plays the main love theme on a serene flute injecting the much necessary sensitivity and soul to the sentimental visual telling.
Jeeva says to Mini that there is only one he knows who can help them in this situation. Mini asks who it is. When Jeeva says, ‘my mother’, Ilaiyaraaja plays a gentle Sitar melody filling warmth in the aura. It suddenly brings a sense of relief both to Mini and to the audience.
Jeeva and Mini decide to get married. The whole village is preparing for Jeeva and Mini’s marriage. The whole episode is filled with music, just background music. The percussions and Shehnai bring in the necessary festive mood. The music shifts to orchestral strings and flute that plays on a thin line between gay and gloom, when Jeeva and Mini are alone and in contemplation. The music seamlessly shifts to a comic interlude for Manivannan’s action and all of it ends on a happy note with a flourishing flute piece. Meanwhile, Jeeva and Mini decide to part ways and go back to their respective families.
The background score in the scene in which Mini and Jeeva part ways is one massive stroke of a genius. We have heard the main love theme – the melody of Ennai Thaalaatta Varuvaala in varied orchestral forms throughout the film, but the one that is contextually orchestrated for this scene is something that only a genius like Ilaiyaraaja can do. The melody of the theme is left incomplete deliberately - only the phrases of melody on the words Ennai thalaata are heard. We want the cue to end comfortably with the melody of the Varuvaala part, but Ilaiyaraaja does not allow it. It is exactly how we feel about the pair that is parting ways in the visuals. We want them to be together, but they do not. They are parting ways, and their life seems to be just as incomplete as the melody in the theme that plays in the background.
Jeeva finds that the Mini’s chain that once got stuck in his shirt collar button is still with him. Jeeva and his family go to Mini’s house to return the chain. The background score of the scene that follows could easily be one of the all-time best scores in Tamil cinema. The chain theme plays on Synth Piano again to rebind the broken links. It also fits perfectly for Mini’s excitement when she comes running out of the kitchen knowing well who the guests are. The awkwardness evident in the eyes of Jeeva and Mini’s brothers when they look at each other is underlined with bites of strange electronic pad beats. The same beat bite recurs when the kids in the house ask Jeeva if he is Mini’s fiance. The music that plays when Mini’s mother meets Jeeva relaxes the overall tension in the moment and sprinkles a cordial and calm aura between the characters in the scene. Silence again when Mini comes out of the kitchen with a tray of Juice glasses to treat the guests.
Srividhya is speechless. She is stunned by Mini’s beauty. A violin begins a melody with a classical tinge when Jeeva walks towards Srividhya and it continues to play when Mini serves juice to all guests. The violin piece along with its gentle rhythm enhances the overall sweetness in the ambience further. While we savour the violin piece, Mini has served juice to all the guests except for one – Jeeva. She hesitates for a while, before walking towards Jeeva. Ilaiyaraaja’s strings play a disturbed version of Ennai Thaalaatta Varuvaala melody and stir up curiosity when all eyes are on Mini and Jeeva, when Mini walks toward Jeeva. Ilaiyaraaja shifts suddenly to the melody of the lines Thathalikkum Manamae from the Ennai Thalaatta Varuvaala song. All this while, Ilaiyaraaja has been playing the melody of the line Ennai Thalaatta Varuvaala as the main love theme of the film, but in here, he chooses the melody of the words Thathalikkum Manamae over the main line. The words that the melody brings back to our memory and even the melody perfectly echo what Mini and Jeeva are going through within, in that moment.
When Jeeva’s family prepares to leave, sober strings and hesitant beats sound the strange sense of incompleteness in the minds of all the characters emotionally involved in the moment. Mini’s mother asks Srividhya to bless Mini, who is going to get married soon. Srividhya is hesitant to go near Mini. When Srividhya walks up to Mini to bless her, a traditional aura is spread with flute, sitar and Tabla. When Srividhya opens up and asks to send Mini with her, banging strokes for the reaction shots of all the characters, fittingly emphasize the sense of shock and surprise in everyone’s face. When Mini’s mother agrees to Srividhya’s plea, the moment of exhilaration is elevated by another classical piece with a violin and flute running together on ecstatic stream of notes. The theme pours like a blissful rain from a musical heaven. The strings and the flute piece play when Jeeva looks at Srividhya as if asking, "Why you did this to me", and soon all of it seamlessly come back to exhilarating violin piece. I do not know if any composer in any part of the world would have conveyed the relief of the characters and in turn the audience at this moment, better than how Ilaiyaraaja did.
Ilaiyaraaja and Ilaiyaraaja Only.
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Grundy Grizzlies
(Squirt)
ballcharts.com/Grundygrizzlies
Team Ticker:
Parents, Please call and let the coaches or the rink know when the kids can not make the games. This will allow us to get other players to fill in. Thanks
Next Game is on March 14, 2008 at Grundy at 4:45pm
Player of the game:
(Feb 16/08)
Kyle Wilkins
Kyle Wilkins played great this weekend and had many shots on Goal.
Countdown to The March Madness Tournamen
(Mar 14/08)
The March Madness Squirt Tournament
All Games are at the Grundy Rink
We will have a game on:
March 15 at 7:30 am and a second Game at 2:00pm
All Playoffs games will be on Sunday March 17.
March 8th and 9th, 2008
We will have Practice on March 8th and 9th at Grundy at 9:45am both days.
Feb. 16 and 17, 2008
The Grizzlies had a great Weekend
We had eight different players score against the Royals Brandon D'Amato had one goal and two assist, Kyle Wilkins scored one goal, Liam Getty had one goal, Sean Conard scored one goal, Rocky DeMas had one goal and one assist, Ross Koenig had one goal and one assist, Derick Wyatt scored the one goal and Robbie Bell had One goal. The Final score was 8-0
Aaron Richardson scored the only goal against the Generals (Blue). The final was 1-1.
The Grizzlies have had better Weekends
Derick Wyatt scored the only goal. The Final score was 1-5
Rocky DeMas scored four goal and, Sean Conrad had One goal. Derick Wyatt had three assist and Brandon D'Amato had one assist, The Final score was 5-10
Tough Loss against the Flames
The Grizzlies dominated the whole game but could not put the puck in the net. We will get them next time. The Final score was 0-3
Grizzlies win against the Delco Dragons
Rocky DeMas scored one goal and had one assist, Derick Wyatt scored one goal and one assist, Liam Getty and Kyle Wilkins had one goal. Robbie Bell had one assist. Blake played a great game to hold off the Dragons. The Final score was 4-3.
Grizzlies WIN!!
Rocky DeMas scored three goals, Aaron Richardson scored two goals, and Ross Koenig scored one goal. Sean Conrad had two assist and Derick Wyatt had two assist. The Final score was 7-6.
Grizzlies just came up short
Rocky DeMas scored two goals and Sean Conrad scored one goal, Derick wyatt had three assist and Brandon DAmato had one assist. The Final score was 3-4.
Grizzlies Win Big
Aaron Richardson scored two goals, Rocky DeMas scored two goals, Derick Wyatt scored one goal and had one assist, Sean Conrad scored one goal, Ross Koenig had one assist, Liam Getty had one assist and Robbie Bell had one assist. The Final score was 6-2.
What a come back for the Grizzlies
Aaron Richardson scored two goals and Rocky moved up to center and scored one goal in the third period to tie the game. The Final score was 3-3.
The Grizzlies looked a little tired this morning in that first period
Rocky moved up to center and recieved a pass from Brandon too score the first goal. Ross took the puck and went the full lenth of the ice to score the second goal. Hunter went back on defense today and played a great game. The Final score was 6-2.
Another exciting Game
Aaron Richardson scores 4 goals, Kyle, Hunter, Derick and Tony each had one assist. Even though we were missing a lot of kids the team almost won the game. It was end to end hockey with a lot of changes for the Grizzlies. The Final score was 4-4.
Another Close Game
Sean Conard had Two goals, Liam Getty had One Goal, Rocky Demas had one goal, Brandon D'Amato had two assist, Robbie had one assist and Mike DellaVecchio had one assist. The team almost had another win but came up one goal short. The Final score was 5-4.
What a very exciting game right down to the last second.
The Grizzlies won there third game out of the last four. The only goal scored in the game came in the second period by Derick Wyatt assisted by Hunter Blackburn. The PeeWee goalie played a great game to keep the the visitors from scoring. The team is getting better every weekend and I see many wins coming our way. Keep up the great work!!!
The Gizzles Played a tough two periods agaist the best team in the league. The third period turned out to be a little to much with the Ryan Raiders scoring 5 goals in the third for a final score of 7-1. The only goal scored by the gizzlies was from Aaron Richardson in the second period.
What a weekend for the Grizzlies. We had a great practice on Saturday and the kids came out playing like a team that has been playing a full season already.
Game summary: Ross took the puck up the ice and took a hard shoot from the blue line to score the first goal of the game. Brandon DAmato scored two goals and had two assist. Rocky Demas scored two goals and had one assist. Robbie Bell had one goal and one assist. Blake Feeley got to the game a little late, but got right in to the net and kept the Generals from winning the game and in return got his second win of the season.
We Won!!
Rocky and Ross each scored one goal to lead the Grizzlies to there first win. :-)
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How to Play the Blues Harp
On the world stage, top players to go and see include Kim Wilson, Rod Piazza, Charlie Musselwhite and Jerry Portnoy but typing blues harmonica in the search box of YouTube will reveal a wealth of good players from the US and elsewhere. See You Tube Links for a selection
In the UK, the best known performers are Paul Lamb and Paul Jones either with the Blues Band or with Dave Kelly.
However, there are many other UK-based players who deserve your support and these include:
Pete G (Pete Welland) and the Magnitones. Pete has fantastic tone (truly Magni) and is a really good singer. Here he is playing Sonny Boy Williamson's classic "Trust My Baby" at the 2007 NHL Autumn Festival
Giles Hedley (with or without the Aviators) Described by Clyde Stubblefield, James Brown's legendary drummer, as "the funkiest man I've heard in Europe", Giles is vocally the closest vocally to Howling Wolf that you may see in a long time. As well as being a very powerful vocalist, he plays a number of guitars including a home-made lap steel guitar as well as rack harp using a home-made microphone which gives tremendous punch to his playing. He is also famous for playing a harp with his right nostril which is a sure fire way to stop people asking him if they can have a blow. Here he is at the NHL Autumn Festival 2005
Eddie Martin Another exponent of rack harp and a favourite of the NHL, Frome-based Eddie travels extensively in the UK and is well worth seeing both for the intensity of his harp playing and his stinging guitar.
Here he is at the NHL playing a beautiful version of Robert Johnson's Little Queen of Spades that really makes my eyelids prickle.
Another Giles, Giles King, recently laid low by a back problem,who plays with Willie and the Poorboys. Here he is playing at the 2008 NHL Spring Festival in Birmingham
(there's a subtext developing here - have you spotted it yet?).
The secret of learning to become proficient on the blues harp is to listen to as many players as possible - not only to pick up riffs but also to become familiar with the way in which the harp fits into the blues so that you can anticipate and play turnarounds, endings and rhythm accompaniment. To do this you need:
When I started learning the harp, the choice of listening material was very limited. Now you have access to the Amazon and Document web sites and can get hold of a huge variety of material. If you are interested in older material, it has even been digitally remastered to remove the hiss and scratches.
For some guidance on recorded source material check out the harps section on Blues Who's Who
For a good taste of harp styles on a single CD, check out Blues Harp Boogie
This features Little Walter, Cary Bell with Muddy Waters, Paul Lamb, Junior Wells with Buddy Guy, Charlie Musselwhite, Big Walter Horton, Jimmy Reed, and Sonny Boy Williamson and thats just the well-known artists. There are also some "finds" like Greg"Fingers" Taylor, Paul DeLay and Paul Orta. This has got to be one of the best blues harp CDs issued in a long time.
Slapheads Unite!! Eddie Martin (Right) with Perry Foster at the highly successful Upton Blues Festival 2008.
Perry was Sonny Boy Williamsons minder during his visits to the UK in the 1960s and he claims to have the same 14-hole Echo SuperVamper that Sonny Boy used to play "Bye-Bye Bird. He also turned Robert Plant onto the blues but that's another story.
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"I have played with all sorts of blues musicians all over the world, I even made a film ´Deep Blues´ where I went to Mississippi and recorded some legendary players such as R.L Burnside and Jesse -Mae Hemphill. Last year I heard something I thought I would never hear....a British White Girl playing blues guitar so deep and passionately it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end!" (Dave Stewart/Eurythmics)
When Dave Stewart had his big experience, Joanne Shaw Taylor was only 16. Her skills at the Telecaster were so perfect that the bluesfan and Eurythmics-frontman asked her to join his supergroup D.U.P. to tour europe in 2002. She was also offered a record contract but the label went bust. Today Joanne is 23 and happy about the fact that she took her time with the recording debut: "I wanted to take time out to really work on my craft and make sure that when I did an album it was the best that I could do."
For "White Sugar" Joanne took a plane to Memphis where her label RUF had booked Jim Gaines´ studio. Jim had worked with some of Joanne´s idols like Albert Collins and Stevie Ray Vaughan. He brought in the experienced sessionmen Steve Potts (Drums) und Dave Smith (Bass). "Working with these guys was totally easy. I knew of them because of Luther Allison and the Jonny Lang albums. They didn´t know the tracks until five minutes before we recorded them. I made them listen to the songs once and then play them. It was fantastic. They got so much feeling and soul. They are amazing guys to work with."
The power trio - that´s the kind of band which suits Joanne Shaw Taylor, also at home in Birmingham, where she and her trio play the pubs, clubs and festivals. "I always wanted to try the power trio thing, like Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Paladins or Jimi Hendrix. I thought it would bring me on as a guitar player and a singer - which I think it has done. And" - Joanne chuckles - "it´s also cheaper, you know."
She talks about some influences. When Joanne was a little schoolgirl, she was caught by the rough side of the blues: SRV, Albert Collins, the Paladins, Jimi Hendrix. At christmas she got her first electric guitar. The old classical guitar, which she had played since she was eight, vanished from the children´s room. "As soon as I heard SRV and Albert Collins I knew pretty much that I wanted to do that full stop. That was the lifestyle route that I was goin´ to go down. It was never a hobby. It was always very serious and dedicated to it."
"White Sugar" is the proof. The confident and young british woman keeps the traditions of her idols but she is going her own way. With her record debut she demonstrates her talent with ten songs that she has written herself. Playing the hard stuff à la SRV, making us feel the bite of her telecaster just like Albert Collins did or working out charming little riffs from the Jimi Hendrix book - Joanne is always seeking - and finding - new terrain. Funky shuffles, soulful ballads or the hypnotic hookline of the title track, a burning instrumental, she presents her craft powerfully. Some songs were written during the the flight to Memphis, a few others were written 10 years ago and are kind of her signature tunes. There is the autobiographical "Kiss The Ground Goodbye", deep feelings come wirh "Heavy Heart" or "Blackest Day", a song that Joanne wrote when she was 14. "With ´Blackest Day´ I really wanted to show my influences." She can be proud of her first album. ""She´s my pride & joy..." SRV once sang. Her fans will be proud of Joanne, too...
"She plays with more attitude and flare than most.
Massive potential here. Inspiring."
GUITARIST magazine
" Catch her live if you can, then you can say: I was there at the beginning"
Blue Print Magazine
"Joanne IS the new face of the blues"
Blues Matters
http://www.rufrecords.de/catalogue/1147_joanne-shaw-taylor_white-sugar.html
For the last couple of years, Jo Shaw Taylor has been busy redefining the meaning of the cliche, plays like a girl..... how did you spend your summer vacation when you were 17 years old? She spent hers touring Europe with the supergroup D.U.P. with fellow band members Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), Candy Dulpher (Prince) and Jimmy Cliff. If you can imagine the love child of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Dusty Springfield then you are beginning to get a feel for Joannes mixture of fiery guitar playing, sultry vocals and 100% pure soul. But unlike many other young phenoms, she has quickly developed a resumé to back up the hype. Born and raised amidst the coal mines of Britains Black Country; she picked up a guitar and got turned on to the blues as a very young teenager.
Dave Stewart first discovered Joanne when he saw her play at the tender age of 16 and his reaction was as follows...I have played with all sorts of blues musicians all over the world such as R.L.Burnside and Jesse-Mae Hemphill. I heard something I thought I would never hear....a British white girl playing blues guitar so deep and passionately it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end!!! Not only was I in total shock but it took me a good few minutes to ask her how long she had been playing like that ? "A few years" she replied "how old are you now" I asked "sixteen she said. I woke up a few seconds later on the floor.
Jo has been touring the U.K. with her own band since she was 14, eadlining top clubs such as Ronnie Scotts and the Marquee; she has
also performed at several of the top European festivals, playing longside many of her heroes like B.B. King. It is a safe bet that Ms Taylor is the only teenage girl invited to sit in on one of Bill Wymans recording sessions.
Her own writing has led her to something beyond the blues... a soulful mix of roots and pop influences sung in a haunting smoky voice that never leaves you once you hear it. This goes much deeper than a loud guitar solo- this is the real deal.
http://www.youtube.com/joanneshawtaylor
Joanne has recently been writing with Bruce McCabe (Jonny Lang) and has now teamed up with grammy winning songwriter/producer Kevin Bowe (Jonny Lang, Etta James, Paul Westerberg) to secure a major US recording deal.
"I have played with all sorts of blues musicians all over the world, I even made a film ..Deep Blues.. where I went to Mississippi and recorded some legendary players such as R.L Burnside and Jesse -Mae Hemphill. Last year I heard something I thought I would never hear....a British White Girl playing blues guitar so deep and passionately it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end!" (Dave Stewart/Eurythmics)
When Dave Stewart had his big experience, Joanne Shaw Taylor was only 16. Her skills at the Telecaster were so perfect that the bluesfan and Eurythmics-frontman asked her to join his supergroup D.U.P. to tour europe in 2002. She was also offered a record contract but the label went bust. Today Joanne is 23 and happy about the fact that she took her time with the recording debut: "I wanted to take time out to really work on my craft and make sure that when I did an album it was the best that I could do." For "White Sugar" Joanne took a plane to Memphis where her label RUF had booked Jim Gaines.. studio. Jim had worked with some of Joanne..s idols like Albert Collins and Stevie Ray Vaughan. He brought in the experienced sessionmen Steve Potts (Drums) und Dave Smith (Bass). "Working with these guys was totally easy. I knew of them because of Luther Allison and the Jonny Lang albums. They didn..t know the tracks until five minutes before we recorded them. I made them listen to the songs once and then play them. It was fantastic. They got so much feeling and soul. They are amazing guys to work with." The power trio - that..s the kind of band which suits Joanne Shaw Taylor, also at home in Birmingham, where she and her trio play the pubs, clubs and festivals. "I always wanted to try the power trio thing, like Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Paladins or Jimi Hendrix. I thought it would bring me on as a guitar player and a singer - which I think it has done. And" - Joanne chuckles - "it..s also cheaper, you know." She talks about some influences. When Joanne was a little schoolgirl, she was caught by the rough side of the blues: SRV, Albert Collins, the Paladins, Jimi Hendrix.
At christmas she got her first electric guitar. The old classical guitar, which she had played since she was eight, vanished from the children..s room. "As soon as I heard SRV and Albert Collins I knew pretty much that I wanted to do that full stop. That was the lifestyle route that I was goin.. to go down. It was never a hobby. It was always very serious and dedicated to it." "White Sugar" is the proof. The confident and young british woman keeps the traditions of her idols but she is going her own way. With her record debut she demonstrates her talent with ten songs that she has written herself. Playing the hard stuff à la SRV, making us feel the bite of her telecaster just like Albert Collins did or working out charming little riffs from the Jimi Hendrix book - Joanne is always seeking - and finding - new terrain. Funky shuffles, soulful ballads or the hypnotic hookline of the title track, a burning instrumental, she presents her craft powerfully. Some songs were written during the the flight to Memphis, a few others were written 10 years ago and are kind of her signature tunes. There is the autobiographical "Kiss The Ground Goodbye", deep feelings come wirh "Heavy Heart" or "Blackest Day", a song that Joanne wrote when she was 14. "With ..Blackest Day.. I really wanted to show my influences." She can be proud of her first album. ""She..s my pride & joy..."
SRV once sang. Her fans will be proud of Joanne, too...
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Cedar Creek sending Dankosaurus hybrids into the wild with Dank Daze 12-pack
Image courtesy of Cedar Creek Brewery.
Coinciding with the brewery's annual Dank Daze celebration, Cedar Creek Brewery will release a new Dank Daze 12-pack featuring hybrid versions of its popular Dankosaurus IPA.
Dank Daze, which runs from April 20 through April 23 at the brewery in Seven Points, commemorates the release of Dankosaurus IPA with special variants of the beer created in honor of the occasion. Dankosaurus itself was first unleashed into the wild in March 2014, so this year's festivities will mark the beer's third birthday.
Versions to be served at the event include:
Poblano Paradise (Dankosaurus brewed with poblano peppers).
Maui Wowie (Dankosaurus brewed with pineapple).
Grapefruit Haze (Dankosaurus brewed with grapefruit).
These three beers will also be contained in the Dank Daze 12-pack, which is scheduled to hit stores across Texas beginning April 20. Look for it at the brewery and wherever Cedar Creek beers are sold.
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Franconia releases RoughRiders Red in bottles
Label graphics for RoughRiders Red Ale feature the classic Franconia logo, but bold lettering and a
distinctive red color allows the beer to stand out from the brewery's standard design (Franconia Brewing Co.).
Just in time for Opening Day of the baseball season, Franconia Brewing Co. and the Frisco RoughRiders have announced the return of RoughRiders Red Ale.
First introduced in May 2015, RoughRiders Red Ale is an Irish red with an easy-drinking style and a low ABV (4.5%), making it a perfect beer for drinking at the ballpark on a warm spring day.
RoughRiders Red Ale is a smooth,
malty brew with balanced flavors
and a light finishing bitterness
(Franconia Brewing Co.).
"We are very proud of this collaboration as we feel strongly about our local community, and what better way for our company to show that pride than by partnering with the RoughRiders," says Dennis Wehrmann, founder of Franconia." Coincidence or not, the color of the RoughRiders matches the color of the beer, so we celebrate the team and the bier from here."
Originally, RoughRiders Red Ale was only available on draft at Bull Moose Saloon in Dr. Pepper Ballpark. And while it will still be offered in that format at RoughRider games during the season, this year's edition will packaged in bottles for the first time.
"Taking RoughRiders Red Ale beyond the friendly confines of Dr. Pepper Ballpark is an extremely exciting venture for us and our good friends at Franconia," says Scott Burchett, chief operating officer of the RoughRiders. "We look forward to quenching thirsts around North Texas with a taste of RoughRiders Red."
According to a press release, RoughRiders Red Ale will be available on tap and in six-packs of 12-ounce bottles. Distribution will be limited to Frisco and Collin County, with the beer to be sold at Kroger stores, as well as at select retailers, restaurants and bars.
As for RoughRiders Opening Day, that happens on Thursday, April 6 at 7:05 p.m. Tickets for the game may be purchased online at RidersBaseball.com, or by calling or visiting the RoughRiders Ticket Office (972-731-9200).
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Be a part of the New Main story
Image courtesy of New Main Brewing Co.
With hopes of opening the first brewery in Pantego later this year, New Main Brewing Co. is entering the final stages of a crowdfunding campaign aimed at enhancing the project's vision.
That vision, according to founder David Clark, is the manifestation of a core philosophy that lies at the heart of what he and wife Amanda wish to create with the company.
"If you're passionate about something, you owe it to yourself and those around you to give your endeavor meaning," says Clark.
In this case, those who visit New Main will find such substance and significance in the brewery's name and how Clark will apply it when engaging his customers.The choice of a nautilus shell as the logo for the business is a further embodiment of how it will all come together, based on its identification as a "growth spiral."
Naturally, the gathering point (as it were), will be New Main's portfolio of beers, the presentation of which will center around a line of six core styles offered with a set of four different treatments (i.e. infusions, barrel-aged beers, etc.). In that way, customers can discover "New" ways to enjoy their "Main" go-to beer.
"Beer is about people and the relationships they forge together," explains Clark. "The symbolism of the nautilus shell, and how it uses its past to build its future, is something we want people to feel when they come into our brewery. We want our patrons to use their past knowledge of tasting our 'Main' beers as a guide for tasting our 'New' treatments, and we want them to share their experiences with friends and family."
As for the crowdfunding campaign, hosted by Indiegogo, the impetus behind it represents yet another way for consumers to feel connected to New Main by being "a part of the story." Money raised will go to creating a taproom and beer garden with patio seating, yard games and an open area for festivals and homebrew competitions. Clark sees it as a place where fans, friends and neighbors can come to spend time together while catching up over a pint of New Main beer.
"When they contribute to the campaign, our supporters become a part of the story in different ways," says Clark. "Above all, the campaign is meant to give the community a way to make the space their own. We want people to have their own seats at the bar with their names on them, we're letting people name our fermentation tanks, and anyone who contributes over $100 is going up on our wall of supporters so we can show our appreciation for the impact the community has had on our brewery. We'll also thank each of our contributors on the New Main blog as part of our Building a Brewery series, because without them our story would be vastly different."
Anyone looking to learn more about the project can visit the aforementioned blog, where Clark takes readers on a journey from his start in homebrewing, to the week he announced plans to go pro, to weekly updates on the progress of brewery build out and more. Information can also be found on the Indiegogo campain page, where rewards associated with varying contribution levels are outlined in detail.
In addition, New Main will host a Fundraising Party on Friday, March 31 at the Pantego Lions Club (located next door to the brewery). Attractions include food, live music, door prizes and a live auction. Tickets for the event are $15pp and can be purchased through Eventbrite.
Labels: crowdfunding, new breweries, New Main Brewing Co., Pantego
Thirsty Bro off and running in Royse City
Thirsty Bro is the first brewery in Royse City and the
third in Rockwall County (© Brian Brown/Beer in Big D)
The phrase "go west, young man" is one that's traditionally used to talk about the natural course of America's expansion, but here in North Texas the phrase "go east, brewer man" might be a more appropriate adage, considering the last two breweries to open in our area have done so near the region's eastern border.
One of those is Thirsty Bro Brewing Co., which held its grand opening on Saturday in Royse City. Founder Terry Gordon and wife Catherine have been welcoming visitors on a soft basis here and there since late December, but this past weekend was the first time Thirsty Bro was officially open to the public. Saturday's festivities included live music and, of course, beer - both of which were enjoyed in the brewery's intimate space, which essentially anchors one end of the city's downtown district.
On tap for the occasion were five Thirsty Bro recipes, including the flagship Gettin' Figgy Wit' It, a pale ale brewed with fig and apricot that Gordon says has been his most-requested beer so far. Also available were Licking Dog Porter (chocolate and licorice), Big Bro Breakfast Stout (oatmeal, raisin and cinnamon), Brother's Keeper IPA (Citra hops, orange and anise), and Bro'd Trip IPA (British malt).
Thirsty Bro beers will feature a variety of ingredients, including fruit, nut and spice infusions (© Brian Brown/Beer in Big D).
That's just the starting lineup, though, as Gordon plans to serve upwards of 12 beers on a regular basis (click the image above for a full list, including ingredients and ABV/IBU where available).
"We're going to have eight regulars and four rotators," says Gordon. "One of the rotators will be unique in that we'll do a kind of homebrew spotlight beer with someone from the Royse City Homebrew Club."
Production of those beers is currently being done on Gordon's pilot system. While his 15-barrel production brewhouse was delivered in November, Gordon says he's still working with the city on a couple of issues on how it'll be set up inside the space. Originally, the plan was to open after getting everything installed, but delays got to a point where he had to make choice as to whether to wait it out or push forward.
"We're about five months behind where we wanted to be in terms of getting up and running," explains Gordon. "Sooner or later you have to get open, though, so we decided to start with the first five brews being made on the pilot system. We'll keep those on full time and work in small batches of the others every few weeks."
What that limited output also means is that the taproom will only be open on Saturdays from 12-11 p.m. initially, with hours on Thursday, Friday and Sunday being added once full production is underway.
* Click here for more on the brewery and the story behind its name.
Labels: new breweries, recap, Royse City, Thirsty Bro Brewing Co.
Hemisphere is here: Long-awaited brewery now operating in Rockwall
All images © Brian Brown/Beer in Big D.
Finishing the final leg of a journey that's lasted nearly six years, Hemisphere Brewing Co. has opened its doors in Rockwall.
Indeed, if ever there was a brewery that ought to have a beer called Murphy's Law, Hemisphere would be the one. All startups face obstacles, but it seems as if founders Ruben Garcia and Brandon Mullins have met with more than their fair share since kicking off the project in 2011.
"Anything that could go wrong, did go wrong," says Garcia.
In the last year alone, they've dealt with code issues related to ramps and doors, not to mention problems with getting the gas line hooked up. Then, on top of all that, Mullins ended up landing in the hospital right as Hemisphere was poised to announce its long-awaited opening.
A small-batch system and a working list of over 90 recipes means patrons can expect a lot of
experimentation when it comes to what Hemisphere has to offer (© Brian Brown/Beer in Big D).
Thankfully, though, perseverance has finally paid off. And to hear Garcia tell it, it's rewarding just to be able to get to the point where he and Mullins can say "We're open!"
"There a lot of things we want to do with the brewery," explains Garcia. "For now, though, we really just want to enjoy being open here in Rockwall. Eventually, we'll work on getting our beer out to a wider audience, but we'd like to get settled in first while building a following with the local community."
As for the types of beer Hemisphere will be serving, the brewery's debut weekend featured five different beers. Early returns suggest Straight Dope IPA will be the crowd-pleaser, but my favorite beer on the board was Hemisphere Grisette (the coffee porter was a close second). No matter which you choose, though, this first run of beers suggests that balanced, approachable brews will be the order of the day.
Shiver Blueberry American Wheat (5.86% ABV, 17.6 IBU): An easy-drinking wheat beer with a hint of blueberry sweetness and a lightly tart finish.
Straight Dope IPA (6.46% ABV, 73 IBU): A hazy IPA, with upfront notes of citrus and tropical fruit that's backed by a moderate bitterness.
Hemisphere Grisette (5.56% ABV, 15.3 IBU): Complex and crushable, this light-bodied beer is a little tart and a little funky, with elements of citrus and bread yeast rounding out the flavor.
Superfleek Coffee Porter (7.22% ABV, 46.3 IBU): Distinctive roast and an earthy underbelly form the base of this coffee-forward beer, which finishes smooth with little bitterness thanks to the use of cold-brewed coffee.
Gnarlacious English Pale Ale (6.46% ABV, 30.5 IBU): A dry, estery and earthy English-style pale.
Hemisphere's taproom has an open and casual feel, with wide-screen TVs and
Giant Jenga offering entertainment options (© Brian Brown/Beer in Big D).
Of course, other beers are in the works, but what form they'll take remains to be seen. According to Garcia, the partners are working from a list of over 90 different recipes. What ultimately gets chosen, though, will depend on a variety of factors. Naturally, consumer preference will play a part, but so will a desire to offer styles and/or flavor combinations that are currently missing in the local marketplace (ergo, offering up a style like the grisette).
Regardless of what styles get brewed, expect Hemisphere to remain draft-only for the time being. Packaged products will follow at some point, but when that happens will probably depend on that whole getting their feet firmly on the ground thing. Either way, a trip to the taproom is currently your best bet if you're looking to try a Hemisphere beer.
On that note, taproom hours will occur on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays to start. Exact times are still being worked out, so be sure to follow the brewery's social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter) for the most up-to-date information.
* Click here for more on the brewery and its six-year journey.
Labels: Hemisphere Brewing Co., new breweries, recap, Rockwall
From NTX and beyond: A (very) brief history of green beer
If you happen to be one of those people who simply must dip your lips in a pint of green beer this St. Patrick's Day, why not do it while knowing a little bit of the history behind the emerald elixir? By all accounts, these crafty concoctions got their start during the early 1900s (as you'll see in the snippets below), but you might not realize that a former brewery in North Texas plays a small part in the story as well.
Plano's Reinheitsgebot Brewing Co. was the first microbrewery in Texas, not to mention the sixth one ever to open in the United States. And, believe it or not, the company once produced the only bottled green beer in the country. Collin County Emerald was an all-malt beverage crafted for St. Patrick's Day in the mid-1980s. It was packaged and sold in clear glass bottles, which came complete with a Leprechaun on the label.
Image info: Snapshot taken from an original, unused bottle label.
America's first exposure to green beer appears to have happened in Spokane, Washington in 1910. That year, a local bar poured a beer with an apparently naturally-occuring shade of green, which...when combined with the imagery of a beer that "looks like paint"...makes you wonder what exactly patrons were being exposed to while drinking this beer.
Image info: Article snapshot taken from the March 17, 1910 edition of The Press, a newspaper out of Spokane, Washington. Click here to access the article by way of The Library of Congress.
Long about 1914, a man by the name of Thomas H. Curtin created a green beer by adding a bit of blue dye to a glass of amber-hued lager. The coloring agent, wash blue, was and still is a product used to improve the appearance of certain fabrics. No word on whether or not it had any effect on the taste of the beer.
Image info: Article snapshot taken from the March 26, 1914 edition of The Independent, a newspaper based in St. Petersburg, Florida. Click here to access the article by way of Google News.
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Labels: craft beer, history, North Texas
Lakewood to deliver Mole Temptress, March 20
Image courtesy of Lakewood Brewing Co.
Continuing with a plan to offer its Seduction Series beers in a smaller format, Lakewood Brewing Co. will release Mole Temptress in 4-packs of 12-ounce bottles beginning March 20.
According to the brewery, the recipe for Mole Temptress combines chipotle, ancho, guajillo and pasilla chiles, as well as cinnamon and 100% pure cacao, to create a beer that has a rich, spiced nuance to go along with a warm subtle finish.
"Temptress is such a great base beer to play with flavor combinations, and one of the first ideas we experimented with was mole," says founder Wim Bens. "As a brewery from a state with a strong Hispanic culture, we wanted to see how incorporating these indigenous, bold flavors in a milk stout would play together."
Working with a variety of dried chiles wasn't easy, adds Bens, since it would have been very easy to go overboard with respect to the spice addition.
"This was one of the more challenging beers to get just right, since chile beers can go extreme very quickly," explains Bens. "We think it hits every note nicely, not overpowering the base of the beer, while letting a little heat and spice come through at the right levels. Unlike other chile beers, it's not going to knock you over the head with heat. The flavors meld beautifully together, allowing just the right amount of each element to come through."
Look for Mole Temptress to first appear on shelves around DFW, with deliveries to other Texas markets to follow.
Labels: Garland, Lakewood Brewing Co., press release, Seduction Series
Nineteen North Texas beers recognized at 2017 USBTC Winter Competition
Image credit: USBTC.
Results are in from the 2017 United States Beer Tasting Championship (USBTC) Winter Competition, with the list of recognized beers including 19 from North Texas.
A total of 480 beers from 133 breweries were judged at this year's event. Beers were broken down into 16 categories and rated on a hedonic scale, which indicates the overall pleasure achieved from the taste experience. Aroma, flavor, balance, complexity and mouthfeel are all considered in determining a beer's score, with winners (top honors and honorable mention) reported by region. Products from North Texas compete against other breweries located in the Rockies/Southwest region of the United States.
In addition to the winners listed below, Lion's Share IV from Lakewood Brewing Co. won out over 27 other beers to be named Grand Champion (across all regions) in the Non-whiskey Barrel Aged Beer category, while Pumpkin Ale from Rahr & Sons Brewing Co. placed above 28 other beers to be named Grand Champion in the Pumpkin Beer category.
Cobra Brewing Co.
All Eyez on Me, honorable mention in the Imperial Stout category.
Best Mistake Stout, honorable mention in the Stout category.
Lakewood Brewing Co.
Bourbon Barrel Temptress, top honors in the Whiskey Barrel Aged Beer category.
Thread Spinner, honorable mention in the Whiskey Barrel Aged Beer category.
Lion's Share IV, top honors in the Non-whiskey Aged Beer category.
Holiday Bonus, honorable mention in the Porter category.
Mole Temptress, honorable mention in the Spice Beer category.
French Quarter Temptress, honorable mention in the Bean Beer category.
Oak Highlands Brewery
White Wine Freaky Deaky, honorable mention in the Non-whiskey Aged Beer category.
Freaky Deaky, honorable mention in the Belgian-Style Ale category.
Oktoberfest, top honors in the Vienna/Märzen Lager category.
Vanilla Porter, top honors in the Bean Beer category.
Peticolas Brewing Co.
Black Curtains, top honors in the Imperial Stout category.
Great Scot!, top honors in the Scottish-Style Ale category.
A Lost Epic, top honors in the Belgian-Style Ale category.
Rahr & Sons Brewing Co.
Winter Warmer, top honors in the Strong Ale category.
Ugly Pug, top honors in the Dark Lager/Dunkel category.
Pumpkin Ale, top honors in the Pumpkin Beer category.
Angry Santa, top honors in the Spice Beer category.
Cheers and congratulations to all!
Labels: award winning beers, Cobra Brewing Co., Lakewood Brewing Co., Oak Highlands Brewery, Peticolas Brewing Co., Rahr & Sons Brewing Co., United States Beer Tasting Championship
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California Legislature Considering New Redevelopment Agencies
Max Pringle
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 | Sacramento, CA | Permalink
The California Supreme Court dissolved redevelopment agencies last year. But a bill at the Capitol would create new local entities that would fund affordable housing and infill development projects.
“When we encourage infill development, we make sure that we reduce emissions and improve our environment,” says Jackie Cornejo with the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy. She says the measure also promotes middle class jobs.
But critics say the bill could lead to government overstep through eminent domain.
“This is just another credit card with another abuse of power to take private property without any protection for the people,” says Karen Klinger with the Sacramento Association of Realtors.
The bill now moves to another Assembly Committee.
A Bill Extending the Lawsuit Deadlines for Victims of Child Sex Abuse Stalls.
A bill that would extend California’s statute of limitations on civil suits for victims of childhood sexual abuse has stalled in an Assembly Committee.
Democratic Senator Jim Beall says his bill would bring a measure of justice to people who may just now be coming to terms with childhood trauma.
“When they discover later in life, through therapy or whatever, that they were attacked by somebody, it allows them to go to civil court," says Beall.
Under the bill, anyone 26 and older would get an extra year to seek damages against institutions that failed to prevent abuse.
Opponents say the measure unfairly singles out private institutions.
“Nobody who may have been abused in a public daycare will have any rights under this law whatsoever. It makes no sense,” says Kevin Eckery with the California Catholic Conference
The bill will be reconsidered next week.
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Saint October 26 : St. Evaristus a Pope who Died 107
St. Evaristus
Feast: October 26
Date of birth unknown; died about 107. In the Liberian Catalogue his name is given as Aristus. In papal catalogues of the second century used by Irenaeus and Hippolytus, he appears as the fourth successor of St. Peter, immediately after St Clement. The same lists allow him eight years of reign, covering the end of the first and the beginning of the second century (from about 98 or 99 to about 106 or 107). The earliest historical sources offer no authentic data about him. In his "Ecclesiastical History" Eusebius says merely that he succeeded Clement in the episcopate of the Roman Church which fact was already known from St. Irenaeus. This order of succession is undoubtedly correct. The "Liber Pontificalis" says that Evaristus came of a Hellenic family, and was the son of a Bethlehem Jew. It also attributes to him the allotment of definite churches as to the Roman presbyters, and the division of the city into seven or deaconries; in this statement, however, the "Liber Pontificalis " arbitrarily refers to the time of Evaristus a later institution of the Roman Church. More trustworthy is the assertion of the "Liber Pontificalis" that he was laid to rest , near the tomb of St. Peter. The martyrdom of Evaristus, though traditional, is not historically proven. His feast occurs 26 Oct. The two decretals ascribed to him by Pseudo-Isidore are forged. SOURCE:The Catholic Encyclopedia
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Old Dominion Celebrates 23rd Debutante Ball
Seated, from left, Miss Anna Heekyung Moon, Miss Leilani Marie Wolf, Miss Eryn Burr Cooper, Miss Tatiana Mi-Hae Galli Photo courtesy of Stone Photography
On July 19, 2014, the Old Dominion Cotillion (“ODC”) held its Twenty-Third Annual Debutante Ball at Westfields Marriott in Chantilly. Family and friends who gathered for dinner and dancing celebrated the debut of four young women. The debutantes dressed in white ball gowns were formally presented and then escorted by cadets from Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro, Va. The school, founded in 1879, is the oldest continually operating military school in Virginia.
The ODC announces the debut of its 2014 debutantes: Miss Eryn Burr Cooper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua J. Cooper of Oakton, who is a senior at Oakton High School. Miss Tatiana Mi-Hae Galli, daughter of Mr. Paolo Galli and Dr. Suzanne Kim Doud of Washington, D.C., who will be a senior at Brookwood School; Miss Anna Heekyung Moon, daughter of Ms. Jenet Dokhee Ahn of Centreville, a senior at Westfield High School; and Miss Leilani Marie Wolf, daughter of Mr. Christopher H. Wolf of Chantilly, and Ms. Grace Han Wolf and Mr. Michael Lamatrice of Herndon, who is a senior at Wakefield School.
The Old Dominion Cotillion is a women’s organization that was established in 1991. It is an organization in which young women are educated in the social graces through enrichment, social and philanthropic activities to grow in confidence and poise. The ODC’s social season begins with the annual fall invitational tea.
The ODC’s new social season will commence with the annual Invitational Tea on Sunday, Sept. 28. If you would like to attend the tea or want more information about the ODC, please contact us at info@olddominioncotillion.org or visit the website at www.olddominioncotillion.org.
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posted June 09, 2017 by Terry Hart.
Patent Office Director Michelle Lee resigns — Unexpected news this week, as Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office Michelle Lee tendered her resignation effective immediately. No reason has been given for the decision. In her place, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross has named PTO Associate Solicitor Joseph Matal as Acting Director.
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good on Copyright Office reform — Kristian Stout explains, “In any event, it seems perfectly sensible to address the Register selection process before tackling the other issues, which may require more detailed discussions of policy and cost. And with the Copyright Office currently lacking a permanent Register and discussions underway about finding a new one, addressing any changes Congress deems necessary in the selection process seems like the most pressing issue, if they are to be resolved prior to the next pick being made.”
Disney, VidAngel Weigh Family-Friendly Filtering Against Copyright Protection in the 9th Circuit — On Thursday, a Ninth Circuit panel heard oral arguments in Disney v VidAngel, a case involving an unlicensed on-demand streaming service’s defenses. This past December, a District Court rejected those defenses and granted the plaintiff film studios’ motion for a preliminary injunction.
Copyright Office Launches Online Database of Review Board Decisions — After the Copyright Office rejects an application to register a copyright, the claimant has an opportunity to appeal the decision. Now, the Office has made the written decisions of those reviews publicly available on its web site for the first time.
Afghanistan considers copyright treaty after Mason legal clinic advocates for filmmaker — “When Stephanie Semler volunteered to work for the Arts and Entertainment Advocacy Clinic at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, she had no way of knowing that she would be attempting to encourage a country to join a major international treaty. Semler prepared the groundwork for an effort to encourage the government of Afghanistan to join the Berne Convention, a global copyright agreement created in 1887. Thanks to her legal research and the determined diligence of the client, Virginia-based filmmaker Shabnam Humphrey, it could happen.”
Stranger Things VFX Supervisor on Making Monster Mayhem — “What made Stranger Things possible was also the skill and commitment of the effects team. The Duffer Brothers relied on as many practical effects as they could to make the main monster, the demogorgon, and the parallel universe it inhabits, the Upside Down. Yet what the brothers found was their visual effects team, led by supervisor Marc Kolbe, could let them dream bigger than they initially imagined.”
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Appeal of BERNARD M. MITZNER from action of the Board of Education of the Goshen Central School District and Joseph Colistra, Superintendent, relating to actions of the Superintendent.
Shaw and Silveira, Esq., attorneys for respondents, Garrett L. Silveira, Esq., of counsel
SOBOL, Commissioner.--Petitioner, a resident of the Goshen Central School District, appeals from certain of respondents' actions regarding a letter sent to petitioner by the respondent school district's attorney. The appeal is dismissed.
On August 20, 1992, respondents' attorney sent a letter to petitioner advising him that he was not to engage Goshen employees in conversation during their work hours. Petitioner sought a hearing with respondent board of education to determine the basis for the letter. His request was denied. This appeal ensued.
Petitioner asserts that respondent Superintendent Colistra directed the school attorney to send him the letter at issue to harass and intimidate him. Petitioner seeks Superintendent Colistra's rehabilitation.
Respondents contend that the petition should be dismissed for failure to state a claim in violation of the Commissioner's regulations '275.10. Respondents further contend that the petition fails to contain a cognizable demand for relief.
The appeal must be dismissed for failure to comply with '275.10, which provides that a petition must contain "a clear and concise statement of the petitioner's claim showing that the petitioner is entitled to relief, and shall further contain a demand for the relief to which the petitioner deems himself entitled" (8 NYCRR '275.10; Application of Child with a Handicapping Condition, 31 Ed Dept Rep 65; Appeal of Fassler, 31 id. 15). While it is unclear from the pleadings, it appears that petitioner is challenging the superintendent's directive to the school attorney to send petitioner a letter, the purpose of which he claims was to harass and intimidate him. In an appeal before the Commissioner of Education, the petitioner has the burden of establishing the facts upon which he or she seeks relief (8 NYCRR 275.10; Appeal of Bach, 32 Ed Dept Rep ___, decision #12828, dated October 30, 1992; Appeal of Verity, 31 id. 485; Appeal of Singh, 30 id. 284). Petitioner provides no evidence to support his claim that respondent Colistra's motive in having the school district attorney send petitioner the letter was to harass and intimidate him. Instead, the petition contains unsubstantiated and conclusory statements which do not establish the facts upon which petitioner seeks relief (8 NYCRR '275.10; Applications of a Child with a Handicapping Condition, 31 Ed Dept Rep 33; Appeal of Pickreign, 28 id. 163).
Since October 1991, petitioner has filed nine appeals before me, eight of which were dismissed. Since petitioner's pursuits, for the most part, are baseless and serve only to slow down a system designed to offer a forum for individuals who seek redress, petitioner is urged to seriously consider whether his claims have merit before he initiates another appeal. To do otherwise is not only costly and unnecessarily time consuming, it inevitably creates delays in the decision-making process for others with meritorious claims.
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Former Court of Appeal judge sounds caution
As the Pacific Islands Forum gets underway in Cairns today, a former Court of Appeal judge to Fiji has warned the island nation will become a pariah state if it continues to ignore democracy.
Ian Lloyd QC (pictured right) was one of three Australian Court of Appeal judges, who ruled that Frank Bainimarama's interim Government illegal.
The ruling triggered a move by the interim government to abrogate the Constitution and install the president as the head of state as it introduced a state of emergency, allowing it to put into place a new legal order.
Lloyd has told Sky News that Commodore Bainimarama hates being pushed around and will not listen to anyone.
He says Fiji is sure to suffer if it carries on ignoring democracy and cuts itself off from foreign aid. He says the nation is sure to suffer a massive recession.
The leaders of Papua New Guinea, Solomons and Vanuatu are expected to lobby for Fiji to be allowed back into the Forum, in Cairns, today.
The Forum was forced to suspend Fiji in May, for failing to announce elections will be held by the end of the year.
Lloyd says Fiji will suffer.
"Tourism may be very, very diminished and the quality of living of all the people there will be terrible," Lloyd told Sky News.
He says the worry for Australia is that if it continues to reduce aid to Fiji, China will step in to fill the void.
"China is hardly a beacon of democracy itself but China is pouring large amounts of foreign aid into Fiji and will continue to do so if other countries pull out."
Published by Coup 4.5 at 12:54 PM
David stood up against Goliath and won.
But nobody is standing up against the coward Frank Bainimarama and it will be to the detriment of all Fijians, Indians, Indigenous and Chinese alike.
It's time to put an end to this madness and take Frank out !
The ramifications of doing nothing is just too terrible to contemplate.
When I was in Fiji, in Suva in 2007, I saw 2 Chinese men in the middle of the street, looking up at the buildings, up and down the street, with big smiles on their faces as they seemed to be contemplating their price !
Yet still the Indians Fijians do nothing !
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Luke. L Wiley discusses his investing, his book and the future.
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Luke L. Wiley, CFP®, senior vice president of wealth management and senior portfolio manager at UBS Financial Services in Cincinnati, knew he wanted to leave a legacy behind for his four children. In addition, he wished to share within the investment community a rules-based mindset/strategy that could help improve investor outcomes. Combining these two desires, Wiley wrote The 52-Week Low Formula: A Contrarian Strategy that Lowers Risk, Beats the Market, and Overcomes Human Emotion.
“There’s a common misconception about my industry that we’re all the same. We all do the same things, we all give the same advice. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. This book helps explain to investors how we approach creating those outcomes, by inviting them into our detailed five-step process we have worked hard to create, test and improve over the years,” he says. We spoke with Wiley about the book, its success and writing more in the future.
How do you describe the book to a first-time reader?
It’s partially a reflection of how I think—I’m skeptical of conforming in all things, but especially conforming to investment trends—and it also examines the behavioral biases that influence the way we make decisions and a disciplined approach to overcoming those biases when it comes to making better investment choices.
This book is not about a quick-win or penny-stock myths; it’s a look into how the formula came to be and the logic behind it.
What’s an example that exemplifies the principles in the book?
Chapter 12 is titled, “The Importance of Embracing a Trailing 12-Month Return of -25 Percent.” The reason this chapter is my favorite is because I believe most investors do the exact opposite. Most investors will invest in a business whose trailing 12-month return is plus-25 percent because it feels good emotionally and because the majority of investors have a positive sentiment around the business. If the investor dictum is to buy low and sell high shouldn’t an investor look for businesses that are out of favor and have a negative sentiment around them?
What points do you hope readers take away?
I think the book is really going to open readers’ eyes to what I think is a better way of thinking. Some of the insights in the book can be applied to even non-investment decision-making. Instead of thinking all the ways to find out how to be a great father, ask yourself, “What are the five behaviors that, if performed, would not lead to a good outcome as a father?” Instead of asking, “What are the best ways to be a great investor?” ask, “What are the surest ways to destroy my wealth?” My hope is that the biggest take away from the book is that disciplined critical thinking will create better outcomes than emotional or responsive thinking.
What feedback have you received?
The experience has been quite amazing. Since the book’s release in April 2014 it has been a best-seller twice on Amazon within the wealth management section. In fact, my publisher shared with me that they are going to offer the book in the Japanese language due to the book’s interest in Japan.
Are you looking to write another book in the future? If so, what topic?
I have several ideas for my next book. One idea is a reference book for those individuals who want to overcome the self-defeating thoughts that can creep into all of our minds and limit our full potential. What I have realized in my life is that most of our own “proverbial walls of life” are elastic and can expand, or don’t exist at all.
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Liberty of the Seas is on a 7-Nights Western Caribbean Cruise departing from Galveston, Texas. The tragic event occurred on the second day of the cruise while the ship was at sea sailing to Cozumel, Mexico. Liberty is expected to arrive in Galveston tomorrow morning. The 41-year-old Naville Fernandes was working as a waiter on Liberty of the Seas. He leaves behind his son Nash, and his wife Malvika. The reason and the circumstances of his death are unknown.
Naville Fernandes is the third Royal Caribbean crew member who died in 2017.
Update: One crew member reports that Naville had a heart attack in the morning at 8 a.m. and he was sent to the onboard medical facility. Later that same day at 2 p.m. he had another heart attack and unfortunately he died. The crew member adds “Ships officers did not call a helicopter... they did not go to the nearest port nothing complete irresponsibility of the doctor who even went away before predicted with a very poor excuse. If it was a passenger like it happened 2 weeks ago on the overnight we had in Cozumel the faces would put the fix to work but how we are crew so little if we give it to us”
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IDLE was created in 2016 to address the increasing ephemerality of digital culture. Digital technologies allow us to create and share content across the globe more easily than ever before, but that culture is at risk of being lost for future generations.
As websites are taken down or revised, earlier versions are lost. Social media offers a record of daily life in the 21st Century but also vanishes into the digital ether. Devices quickly become obsolete and so how they were experienced and used also gets lost. The revolutions in storytelling facilitated by digital platforms have created fascinating, but intangible, experiences. IDLE is committed to developing an archive of digital culture that fully represents life in the 21st century. In only a few short years we have:
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The newest story is now available. The Afterlife Employment Bureau by Triona Campbell is available at the link above.
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We have received a second story, this time by storyteller Rik Lander. Please find a link to it above.
The first story told by our storyteller Hazel Grian has come back in. You can listen to it via the link above. A first small step in rebuilding the archive.
Among all the bad news, we can confirm that our attempts to make simple storytelling devices is working and we have sent out the first few to start building up an archive of stories told by the most well-known storytellers in the world. We are looking into making these available publicly here. Please come back to visit regularly.
We have decided that the only way forward is to start building up an archive and to start as early as possible. Our own Department of Devices has been assisting the Department of Stories by constructing special devices that use analogue recording technologies to capture stories and convert them to a digital format. Once these are confirmed to be working, we are planning to send them out as story collection devices.
Like many other organisations around the world we must now confirm that our digital archive has been lost in its entirety. This is devastating news. All members of the Institute are trying to make contact as best as possible with other organisations in similar positions to develop an appropriate response. We are expecting a significant delay and expect available state resource to be used first and foremost for life critical services for some time to come.
So far we have not been able to establish anything definite about the survival of our archive. We continue working on establishing all the facts. This web site is now up and we will be able to update you here, as long it is up. It is running on the only IDLE Computer that survived the flare.
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In short, yes, yes we do. In fact, we love the S8 Plus even more than the S8. Here’s our in-depth Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus review to tell you why.
The specs
159.5 x 73.4 x 8.1 mm, 173g
64-bit octa-core processor: 2.3GHz quad + 1.7GHz quad
6.2-inch quad-HD+ curved ‘Infinity Display’, 2960 x 1440, 529ppi
Dual-pixel 12MP main camera, F1.7, OIS
8MP selfie camera, F1.7, autofocus
4GB LPDDR4 RAM
MicroSD up to 256GB
3,500mAh battery
USB Type-C, wireless charging, fast charging (wired and wireless)
IP68 dust and water resistance
159.5 x 73.4 x 8.1 mm,
Midnight Black, Orchid Grey
The design of the S8 has ruined other smartphones for us. Even the S7 Edge, which was a gorgeous phone at the time of release, now looks bezel-tastic and cheap beside its next-gen sibling.
Considering that the vast majority of current smartphones can’t be told apart at a glance, the S8 stands out a mile. It still looks like a Samsung, but some sort of futuristic Samsung that leaves competitors – and it has to be said, the iPhone – in the shade.
So, what is there to love about the S8’s looks? The main thing, unsurprisingly, is the Infinity Display. The expansive, wraparound curved screen blends beautifully into the body of the phone, looking more like a high-end TV than another smartphone. The slim, curved top and bottom strips are sensibly coloured black, so the sensors across the top don’t stand out as they do on white-faced phones – which is good, because there are extras on the S8. The whole phone looks like it formed itself all at once, rather than being pieced together.
The back, which (currently) comes in a choice of Orchid Grey or Midnight Black, is coated with Gorilla Glass 5 and therefore gets covered very quickly with finger grease. Ick. However, unlike some glossy back panels, it has a good grip to it and doesn’t slide out of hands or off tables. However, if you’re holding it for a while it’ll get sweaty (again, ick) and that can make it slippery.
The supersized S8 Plus feels smaller than you’d expect, given the screen size: partly because the display covers more of the body than we’re used to, and partly because of the gentle curve of the whole handset. I have small hands, and while I can’t use it one-handed, it feels comfortable and natural to hold.
If you’re coming from another Samsung or an iPhone, you’re going to notice the lack of a physical home key a lot at first. There is still a key there, it’s just under the screen, and there’s no fingerprint sensor built into it. Allegedly, there was going to be, but Samsung ran out of time – whether that’s true or not, it’s something we expect to see on the S8’s successor.
On either side of the home key are the software nav keys (Back and Apps), which by default are the wrong way round because Samsung. However, you can fix this in the software. Halle-freakin’-lujah, it’s about time!
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Since you can’t unlock the phone with the home key, you have to pick another option, but honestly none of them are very good. The fingerprint sensor is on the back – again, apparently a last-minute decision, which isn’t surprising because it’s just straight-up bad design. Most rear-mounted fingerprint pads are circular, indented, and far below the camera so they’re easy to feel for. This one is tiny, rectangular, and right next to the camera lens. To make matters worse, neither the lens nor the pad have well-defined edges, so it’s very hard to find the fingerprint sensor by touch. Guess what this means? Yep, you’re going to get smudgy fingerprints all over your camera lens, all the damn time. It’s infuriating.
With the screen off, you can unlock to the home screen by pressing harder on the pad, which isn’t immediately obvious (I’ve seen people turn the screen on, then tap the fingerprint sensor. It works, but you don’t need to turn the screen on). However, again, this means you’ll end up pushing the camera lens inwards sometimes, and that can’t be good.
Other than the standard PIN and pattern options, you’ve also got two extra ways to unlock the phone: iris and face recognition. Face recognition doesn’t work especially well, in my view: it fails a lot more than I’d expect considering I don’t have glasses and I wear the same face every day. It’s also not especially secure.
Iris recognition is better, and the option I’ve chosen while using the S8 Plus as my daily driver. But it’s not particularly fast: wake the screen, then line your eyes up in the designated slot, looking at a very out-of-focus image of your tired face while waiting for it to recognise your eyes. Realistically it’s a fraction of a second but it feels like ages when you’ve just got up and your eyebrows are in different postcodes.
6.2-inch quad-HD+ curved ‘Infinity Display’,
2960 x 1440, 529ppi
The glorious 6.2-inch screen is the S8 Plus’s most noticeable feature, without a doubt. It’s luminous, saturated and eye-catching. Watching videos and looking at your photos is a treat. But it’s worth noting two things: 1) the curved edges give a bit of a vignette effect, so if you’re a cinematic purist, that might bug you. And 2), photos look much better on the S8’s screen than on others, which sounds like a good thing, but can mean you edit them differently than you would if you saw them as most people will. It also means you might be disappointed when you see that amazing shot you took on your PC, or someone else’s phone: it’ll likely be less dramatic and vivid.
It’s upset some people that there’s no non-curved version of the S8, but it’s not like those people are starved of choice with pretty much every other phone on the market. And unlike on previous Samsungs, the curved screen actually serves a purpose here: it has the slide-in Edge menu, yes, but its main function is to make a huge screen easy to hold. And it does that admirably: I never found myself accidentally touching the side or activating bits of screen that I didn’t mean to. Then again, my hands are small, so big-pawed humans might have a different experience. As always, try to get your hands on the S8 and the Plus in a shop before you pull the trigger: 18 months is a long time to be stuck with a phone that doesn’t work with your mitts.
The S8 display is impressive to anyone with functional eyes, but it’s also technically accomplished. It’s the first phone to receive Mobile HDR Premium certification from the UHD Alliance, and has been named the best smartphone display ever by DisplayMate.
The phone uses the not-terribly-catchy 18:5:9 aspect ratio, which Samsung reckons is going to become standard because it provides a happy medium between film and TV. LG is using the similar 18:9 on the G6, but it feels very different because of the curves. Which you prefer will come down to taste, but the S8 Plus’s generous proportions feel like the ideal compromise between screen space and portability to us.
Out of the box, our S8 Plus wasn’t using the full resolution it’s capable of: there’s a slider under Settings > Display > Screen Resolution that lets you pick between HD, FHD and WQHD. Play around and see what you prefer, but honestly you’d have to have pretty superhuman eyeballs to be able to tell the difference in most circumstances (Gear VR notwithstanding).
Yes, I was listening to a song from Moana
You also get the always-on display from previous phones, which means you can see the time/calendar/a photo of your choice without lighting up the whole screen. I prefer the Edge Clock design, which puts understated time, date and battery info across the right edge of the screen, and even has colour options. Again, though, have a play and see what suits you. That’s what Android’s all about.
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I’ve spent far too much of my life defending Samsung software against people who have had an iPhone since the S3. If you’re considering this phone and you haven’t had a recent Samsung, disregard everything you’ve heard: Samsung’s version of Android (these days) is lightweight, well-designed and for the most part genuinely helpful.
If you’re used to Android already, you’ll find it easy to navigate. Everything’s very similar, just with some additions like double-tapping the power key to launch the camera, and swiping your palm across the screen to take a screenshot. The quick settings menu is much the same, and the main menu is just a bit more colourful, with some different section names and extra bits.
You’ve also got the option of the Edge menu, which pulls in from the curved part of the screen and provides handy shortcuts to your favourite apps, but you don’t have to use it. There are lots of Samsung apps included, too – nothing major, just Notes and Health and suchlike. They can be uninstalled.
The S8 Plus uses the Pixel launcher, so rather than having a large apps key at the centre bottom, you swipe up on the home screen to get to your apps menu. It’s a little annoying, but you get used to it very quickly. The app menu also still scrolls the wrong way: horizontally instead of vertically like all the other Androids. Again, though, it’s not going to be a dealbreaker for anyone.
Lastly, there’s Bixby. Samsung spent a good chunk of change on an AI startup called Viv, whose product has now been turned into Samsung’s Siri-plus. However, most of the capabilities we were promised at the launch event still haven’t materialised, because the voice aspect isn’t ready yet. Right now Bixby acts as a kind of Google Now-alike, with some Google Goggles functionality baked in. That’s a little frustrating given that it has its own hardware key and Samsung disabled at least one of the third-party apps for remapping it to something more useful. Will Bixby be worth the wait? We’ll let you know.
Samsung claims that the world-first 10nm processor in the S8 Plus is “more efficient than any other,” and it certainly seems to be. We’ll get onto energy use in the battery section, but the overall performance is impressive.
At the launch, we were a bit disappointed to see 4GB of RAM on the S8 Plus, and if we’re honest, on the smaller S8 too. The $289 OnePlus 3T and newly-unveiled Huawei P10 Plus offer 6GB, and this phone’s at the top end of the pricing scale, so it should offer at least the same. Plus the larger version of a flagship often has an extra gig thrown in, but not this time.
However, both in daily performance and in hardware benchmarks, the S8 Plus performs pretty much flawlessly.
We’ve had no problems running anything at all: the phone is buttery-smooth and hasn’t lagged or crashed on us once yet. Quick switches between intensive processes were handled smoothly, and split-screen multitasking is easy.
Here’s how the S8 Plus did in the benchmark tests:
AnTuTu:
PCMark Work 2.0:
Geekbench 4:
That multicore score is considerably higher than the average one for the S8+ on the Geekbench rankings, which comes out at 5513. That’s based on scores of tests on different people’s phones, so it’s a more reliable average than ours, which would put the S8+ right at the top of the table (the current top score is 6062 for the Huawei Honor V9, aka the Honor 8 Pro in the China).
Storage-wise, there’s not much to say: you’ll get 64GB, and you’ll like it. Our review handset had around 11GB accounted for, leaving 53GB free and clear for your stuff. If you run out of space, though, you can insert a microSD card to add up to 256GB more.
The S8 Plus is water- and dust-proofed to IP68, meaning it’s dust-tight and can be immersed in water up to 1.5m deep for up to half an hour with no harm done. This is of course nothing new if you’ve had Samsungs before, but it’s still really fun to confuse people with. Plus it means you can read in the bath without stressing. No one should stress in the bath.
The S8 and Plus also have some very exciting accessories. The most game-changing, in our opinion, is the DeX desktop dock. Dump your S8 in the dock, hook up a monitor and a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo and you can instantly use your phone as a PC. This is brilliant for people who work from an office and at home: you can just carry the ‘brains’ of the computer with you in the form of the phone, which you’d have anyway, and leave everything else behind.
No, it’s not the first time it’s been done, but it’s the first time it’s been done credibly. Motorola tried it back when phones didn’t yet have desktop specs, and Windows gave it a go with Continuum, but… Windows Phone.
This could potentially replace the laptop for a lot of people, and that’s exciting.
You also get a pair of high-end AKG (by Harman) earphones in the box, which are excellent, plus of course you can use the S8s with the new controller-enhanced Gear VR if you have one.
As you might expect if you’ve had a recent Samsung, the camera on the S8 is phenomenal. If I need to take an important shot and there’s an S8 nearby, I’ll choose it over any other phone. It leaves the iPhone 7 in the dust.
If you’re coming from the S7, though, you might be disappointed not to see a bigger jump forward in camera ability. But let’s be real: that phone was already at the top of its game (it has a DxOMark score of 88, second only to the Google Pixel at 89) and it only needed minor refinements. Which is what it’s had.
The DxOmark score isn’t in for the S8 yet, but we’re expecting great things. Because this is a truly great camera. It’s incredibly quick to snap, and still has the quick start built in – although now it’s activated by double-tapping the power button rather than the home key, because there isn’t one. There’s a floating shutter button you can use to make it easier to handle that big, beautiful screen, and all the extra software bits you can handle: pro mode, panorama, burst, food mode, filters, 4K filming, you name it.
Honestly, though, even if you stick to auto mode forever, you’ll still be very happy with the results. This is an excellent phone cam.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus camera samples
The only thing it struggled with a little was strong whites, which were sometimes a little blown out or lacking definition:
Overall, though, it’s our phone camera of choice right now.
The front-facing camera
The selfie cam’s been boosted from 5MP on the S7 to 8MP on the S8 Plus, and it now has a whole load of Snapchat-style extras. You can put wigs and hats on yourself, turn yourself into various animals, and add random words to your pics, if you want.
Alternatively, you can just take really nice selfies: the camera is flattering, especially if you use the adjustments (skin smoothing, eye enlargement, face thinning… you only really need the first one, honestly).
Half-asleep selfie (L) vs half-asleep selfie with all the adjustments turned on (R):
Low light performance is good, if a little smudgy (that’s a rainy window behind us so don’t blame the S8 for the streaks!):
However, it’s worth knowing that if you use features like Wide Selfie (which includes the scenery to the left and right of you), the low light performance drops considerably. So stick to Auto selfies if it’s dark.
3,500 mAh
Wireless charging, fast charging
The battery capacity on the S8 Plus could be higher: we were ever-so-slightly disappointed to see 3,500mAh on a phone this size and price. But in fairness, it performs far better than we expected, particularly compared to previous Galaxy phones where the battery was always the weakest point.
The phone includes a fast charger, and Samsung has also sped up the wireless charging. It still can’t match wired, obviously, but it’s quicker. Plus there’s a really nice convertible wireless charger that can be either flat or standing, which makes a handy desktop dock.
The S8 Plus has consistently lasted me through the day, and I’m a heavy user. Honestly, that’s surprising: it’s been a good while since I had a phone that didn’t need a top-up around mid afternoon. It’s in power-saving mode by midnight, sure, but it’s not dead. Colour me impressed.
Recharging is quick, too. Using the provided wall charger, a completely flat S8 Plus took 9 minutes to charge to 10%, just over half an hour to reach 40%, and almost exactly an hour to get to 80%. A full 0-100% charge took 1 hour and 23 minutes.
For those inevitably asking ‘what about battery safety,’ it seems pretty obvious that Samsung has worked extra-long and extra-hard to make sure there is absolutely no risk of this phone burning your house down. Because if it does, no one will buy their phones ever again.
After the Note 7, Samsung conducted a thorough investigation into what happened, released the findings publicly, and implemented a new 8-point battery check which is a fair bit beyond what they have to do to comply with the law. So there’s a good chance the new phone is technically safer than some of its competitors.
And no, it hasn’t emitted so much of a wisp of smoke since we’ve had it.
The Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus is available to buy now, either directly from China for £225, or on contract from all the big networks. Samsung also has a contract-like scheme called the Samsung Upgrade Programme which lets you pay for the phone monthly and upgrade when the next one comes out, if you fancy that.
It’s looking a lot like the S8 Plus is the Android phone of the year, and we’re not even halfway through yet. There’ll be some exciting flagships later in 2017 – we’ll be interested to see if Apple’s next iPhone can top it – but Samsung’s high-end phones are usually the ones to beat, and this one is a quantum leap ahead of its predecessors. It would take some serious innovation from Apple to outdo this, and judging by previous years’ phones, they won’t.
So why the S8 Plus over the smaller S8? That’s also an excellent phone, but for us, the Plus’s larger screen in a surprisingly compact body is worth the extra outlay. The display is so beautiful that you basically want as much of it as possible, and of course you get extra battery power too. Yes, both phones cost a fair bit, but they have next to no downsides (the main one being the location of the fingerprint sensor) and the price is comparable with a top-end iPhone.
Overall, the Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus is a beautifully-crafted, all-round high-performance flagship that we’ve loved using. If you’re getting a phone anytime soon, make it this one. It’s a beaut.
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In our second installment of You Are What You Read, Los Angeles-based interior and product designer Barbara Barry talks about beauty, American design, and her favorite book. In this series, Designers & Books asks prominent designers to describe — in words and images — a book they have found to be particularly inspiring. Barbara selected A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century by Witold Rybczynski.
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NY Minute: US Open Cup begins for local teams, MLS Sueno winner a Jersey boy, Yankee Stadium to run UEFA Final, more
By Dave Martinez on 05/14/2013@EmpireOfSoccer
Perhaps you didn’t get the memo, but the U.S. Open Cup is here, and the Tri-State area is ready to host some action tonight.
The Red Bulls U-23 NPSL side are traveling out to Atlantic City to face the Ocean City Nor’easters. The Nor’easters have enjoyed much success in their short history through the early stages of U.S. Open Cup, advancing to the second round in all four of their appearances in the tournament. This will be the Red Bulls U-23’s first experience in the competition.
Last season, the U-23’s owned their NPSL competition, finishing first in the Atlantic Division and reaching the NPSL semifinals. The team has also had talented players go through their ranks, including Juan Agudelo, Connor Lade, Matt Kassel and Sacir Hot just to name a few. If you are curious to see some of the future talent in the Red Bulls ranks, this may be worth a trip.
The teams are set to faceoff at 7:30pm at Carey Stadium in Ocean City, NJ.
Brooklyn’s Aviator complex will host another New York v. New Jersey match-up. The storied Brooklyn Italians take on former USMNT player Danny Szetela’s Icon FC tonight at 8pm.
The Italians are former US Open Cup Champions (1991) and NPSL Atlantic Division Champions in 2012. The club was founded in 1949 and has a strong grassroots following amongst the New York soccer scene. Much like the “Baby Bulls,” Icon FC of the USASA will be making their first appearance in the tournament.
The U.S. Open Cup continues to grow in interest and competition each year. Take a trip and check out some local soccer action.
Here is what else is happening around the New York City area in this New York Minute:
JERSEY BOY WINS SUENO MLS
A nationwide search for the next top soccer talent brought MLS to Elizabeth, New Jersey where 14 year old Alexander Soto took home the grand prize; a shot at featuring with the New York Red Bulls Academy.
“My gosh, man, I’m happy,” he told MLSSoccer. “I just keep being humble, look forward, chase your dreams, and my dream is to be a professional player, and as I get older, I’m going to get better and better. I’m going to keep practicing.
“Don’t think that because you won, they say you’re good. You got to keep on practicing so you can get better and each day. I have to work on a lot of stuff. I want to get faster, get more technical, everything.”
For more on Soto, check out this great piece on the league site.
YANKEE STADIUM TO HOST UEFA FINAL VIEWING
May 25th is not only the long awaited all-German final between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund – it is also the date of the big Yankee Stadium friendly between Manchester City FC and Chelsea FC.
In order to satisfy everyone’s footy needs, the Stadium will host it’s first ever “UEFA Champions League Viewing” with a 59-foot-high by 101-foot-long high-definition centerfield video board of FOX Sports’ telecast of the UEFA Champions League Final (pregame coverage begins at 2pm). Kickoff of the on-field match at Yankee Stadium is scheduled for 5:30 p.m.
Individual-game tickets are still available for the full day of soccer at www.yankees.com/soccer and www.ticketmaster.com.
Tickets to the Spain and the Republic of Ireland match on Tuesday, June 11 will go on sale to the general public on Thursday beginning at 10 a.m.
NEW SOCCER SHOW “ESPN FC” SET TO LAUNCH
PRESS RELEASE – 30-minute News and Highlights Show Debuts August 11 as Extension of ESPN FC
ESPN will extend the company’s ESPNFC.com global soccer news and information digital brand with its first highlights-driven soccer studio show airing in the United States this summer. ESPN FC on TV will air year round (Sunday through Friday, primarily on ESPN2) beginning August 11, it was announced today at the company’s Upfront presentation in New York City.
The ESPN FC program will integrate several elements of the digital platform’s content via social media, the industry-leading ESPN Stats & Information Group’s data visualization analysis, and more. Digital versions of the program will be available on ESPNFC.com.
“Soccer’s popularity is at an all-time high in the United States as fans are now more familiar with the world’s top players, marquee clubs and national teams. ESPN FC on TV continues our leadership role in coverage of the sport across all media,” said Scott Guglielmino, ESPN senior vice president for programming.
“ESPN FC will inform, entertain and provide hard-hitting insight on the global sport of soccer,” added Guglielmino. “It will become ESPN’s signature program for soccer, bringing tremendous value to the company, our affiliates and the ad sales community looking to reach core and casual soccer fans in the United States.”
Sunday editions of ESPN FC will be a one-hour program – wrapping up the best highlights from the weekend’s soccer action while looking ahead to what the results mean to the teams and their respective leagues. Monday through Friday, the program will air for 30 minutes each day. ESPN FC on TV will replace the ESPN FC Press Pass, the global soccer discussion program on ESPNEWS, in the United States.
The New York Red Bulls are up for auction! Well … sort of.
The Red Bulls have teamed with Charity Buzz to offer a unique bidding experience; “a catered lunch for up to 10 guests in the owner’s sky box to be accompanied by the Red Bull’s General Manager, head coach and 2 main stars on the New York Red Bulls, a private tour of the Arena after lunch, 4 Invitations with a parking pass to watch a regular season match in the owner’s sky box, 4 Passes to watch the pre-game warm-up before kick-off, Food and beverages in the sky box 2 hours prior to kick-off and throughout the match, 1 Authentic New York Red Bulls jersey signed by Tim Cahill and 1 Authentic New York Red Bulls jersey signed by the entire 2013 team.
Want to give a shot at winning this deal? Click the link and happy bidding to you!
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Brooklyn Italians were the 2011 NPSL Atlantic Conference champions. RBNY U23 were in 2012. :P
Can’t wait to get down to Ocean City. Should be a good time.
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APA vs MLA vs Chicago vs Harvard Referencing Styles
It is important to know about referencing styles because they will be your guide to know about the spacing, citation and much more. Check out this APA vs MLA vs Chicago vs Harvard styles comparison table for the necessary information and bibliography help.
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Chicago Manual Style
Harvard Referencing
Mostly used in social sciences liberal arts humanities
history courses
both notes and bibliography system;
and author date system
most disciplines
Spacing in text
double space
1″ margins
no less than 1″
and no greater than 1,5″
no other restrictions
Font size 12 pt. Times New Roman font font size 12 pt.
no restrictions on style 12 pt. Times New Roman or Palatino
no other strict limitations
Main Body References
no precise guideline
References Footnotes
In-textcitation/
author’s last name
year of the publication
(Jones, 1998) author-page citation (Wordsworth 263) author-endnote (Stephen C. Pepper....12)
match 12 to endnote 12 at the
bottom of the page
12. Stephen C. Pepper,
Hypotheses (Los
Angeles: University of
California Press, 1961), author-date system
(Smith & Bruce, 1997)
Direct citation
According to Jones (1998, p. 199)
specific page
According to Folke, ... (184)
in quotation marks
address it to the footnote at the bottom
... (Aitchison, 1981, p.67)
Long directcitation
40 words or longer
omit quotation marks
free-standing block of typewritten lines
more than 4 lines
free-standing block of text
More than 1 author two authors(Wegener & Petty, 1994) three authors and fewer(Smith, Yang, and Moore...(76) in bibliography or footnote
Scott Lash and John Urry,
Economies of Signs & Space
(London: Sage Publications, 1994), 241-51. two authors
(Smith and Jones, 1948)
Three or more authors (Kernis et al., 1993) Jones et al. (76) Lash, Scott, and John Urry.
Economies of Signs & Space.
London: Sage Publications, 1994. (Green, et al., 1995)
its title or
first word in parentheses
(American Psychological Organization, 2000)
shortened title of the work
(“Impact of Global Warming 6”) title
Oxford Essential World Atlas...
use Anonymous or Anon
Marketing strategy (Anon., 1999)
new page with the centered heading
Works Cited page at the end of the research
(Notes and Bibliography Style)
References (Author Date Style)
new page with centered heading
Reference List Example https://www.usq.edu.au/library/referencing/apa-referencing-guide https://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20090701095636_747.pdf https://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/1300991022_717.pdf http://utas.libguides.com/content.php?pid=27520&sid=219177
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/3/
https://www.usq.edu.au/library/referencing/apa-referencing-guide
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/02/
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20110928111055_949.pdf
https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/315/harvard_referencing/38/citing_quotations_harvard_style/1
APA vs MLA Style: What to Know
APA Format Style
If you want to use APA referencing format, then you should be sure on where you will use it. Usually, the format style of APA is being used in social sciences. When it comes to the spacing, you need to use double space and you should use one-inch margin on all sides. One more thing you should not forget is that you will use the 12 point Times New Roman as the font size. For main sections, you need to have title, abstract, main body and references. In addition, for in-text citation or paraphrasing, you need to write the last name of the author and the year of the publication.
For example Jones, 2000. You also need to know about direct citation and in here, you will write the name, year and the page number. For instance, According to Smith (2000,p.200). For long direct citation, there are things you need to keep in mind. In here, you need to write 40 words or longer, it is important to omit the quotation marks and have 2 authors. In writing the two authors, here is what you need to do. For instance; Petty and Wegener, 1995. In writing three or more authors, you should write the first name of the author together with et al. word and the year.
For example Smith et al., 1994. In some cases, you will find the unknown author. When it comes to this, you need to write the title or the 1st word in the parentheses.
For example American Psychological Organization, 1990. In writing the reference list, you need to use double space and write on a new page with a centered heading. Here is an example of a reference list.
Try our APA format generator and create your own bibliography in correct APA style!
MLA Format Style
MLA format is used in some universities and it is mostly used in liberal arts humanities. For margins, you need to use one inch on all sides. It is also important that you will use double space. The font size that is required to use is 12 and it is easy to follow because there are no restrictions on the style. When it comes to the main sections, there is no precise or definite guideline. For in-text citation or paraphrasing, you need to write the author and the page citation.
For example, Wordsworth 276. If you need to use direct citation, write the name of the author and specific page. For instance, “According to Pennis, … (185).” For long direct citation, you must have more than four lines, remove the quotation marks and have a free-standing block of text.
For authors more than one, here is what you need to do; Yang, Smith, and Moore… (87). For authors that are more than three and over, you need to write the last name and the page. For example, Jones et al. (98). For an unknown author, you should shorten the title of work and the page. For example; “Impact on Climate Change”. In writing the reference list, it is important to use double space and the cited page should be put at end of research. For an example of writing, you can check out this reference list.
Try our MLA format generator to format your bibliography in proper MLA style!
There you go MLA vs APA formatting, if you want to know also about Harvard and Chicago format style, continue reading.
Harvard Format Style and Chicago Format Style
Harvard Format Style
If you are required to use the Harvard format referencing style, it is mostly used in common style and in most disciplines. For spacing, double space should be used and there are no any other restrictions. When it comes to font size, Times New Roman is preferred and there are no any other strict limitations. It is a good thing that there are no precise guidelines that should be followed in writing the main sections. In the in-text citations and paraphrasing, you need to write the author-date system.
For example Bruce and Smith, 2000.
Additionally, in writing the direct citation; it is important to write the name of the author, date and the page. For instance, Smith, 2000, p.78. For long direct citation, you should use a free-standing block of text. Moreover, if you will write two authors; you need to write in this way, Jones and Smith, 1978 and if you need to write more than three authors, you need to write like this; Smith, et al., 1998.
In writing an unknown author, using Anon or anonymous is preferred. Make sure to include the title. For example, Climate Change (Anon., 2000). For the example of a reference, you need to write like this example.
Chicago Format Style
As long as you know the Chicago style format, you will not have a hard time. Chicago (also known as Turabian referencing style) is mostly used in history courses, both bibliography system and notes and author-date system. For spacing, it is essential to use double space, not less than one-inch margin and not greater than 1.5 margins. For font size, make sure to use 12 points Palatino or Times New Roman. One more thing, if you need to write the main sections; you should write the title, main body, references, and footnotes. When it comes to in-text citation or paraphrasing, you need to write the author-endnote like this James D. Jones….”. Make sure that you match 12 to the endnote 12 at bottom of the page.
James D. Jones,
Hypothesis (California: University of California Newspaper, 2000).
For direct citation, you need to include in quotation marks and address it to a footnote at the bottom. Make sure also. In the long direct citation, you should use a free-standing block of text and footnotes. On the other hand, in writing more than one author, here is an example: John Urry and Scott Lash
Economies of Space and Signs
(Canada: Sage Publications, 2000), 223-33.
In writing more than three authors, here is what you should do. For instance:
Scott, Urry and John Lash.
Economies of space and signs.
Canada: Sage Publications, 2000.
In writing an unknown author, you should write the title. For example, The Impact of the Climate Change… Also, in your reference list, make sure to have bibliography keeping in mind the bibliography and notes style and the references taking note of the author-date style. For an example of the reference list, you can refer to this guide.
Try our Chicago reference generator to get a bibliography in correct Chicago style!
You will not have a difficult time if you know what to do and if you know the format. You are lucky because this page provides some important details that you want to know.
Learn more about APA vs MLA vs Chicago vs Harvard referencing styles today!
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« Messolonghi – Chasing Lord Byron
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Experts hope to take Crete’s crocodile alive
Published at 11:27, Jul 07 2014
Remarkable footage recorded with help of a drone shows the crocodile, which is estimated to be two meters long, swimming in the artificial lake
Screengrab from the video taken with a drone of the Cretan croc (Video: Cruzakias/YouTube) Every effort is being made to capture alive a crocodile that has been spotted in a reservoir on Crete, where an expert in amphibians is expected on Thursday to assist in the operation.
The reptile was spotted last week by firefighters in the Amari dam reservoir, also known as the Fragma ton Potamon, south of the seaside resort of Rethmyno.
Footage recorded with help of a drone shows the crocodile, which is estimated to be two meters long, swimming in the artificial lake. Last week, a photograph showed the creature in the wetlands that have sprung up around the body of water.
Rethymno’s mayor Yiorgos Marinakis said that a specialist herpetologist was due to arrive on Thursday, when a major operation will take place to capture the animal and return it to its natural environment.
In the meantime, Marinakis added, the area has been fenced off and various traps will be set on Thursday so that the crocodile might be captured alive.
“Crocodiles cannot survive and reproduce on Crete. A tropical-looking view is one thing and tropical conditions are quite another,” he said,
He believed the crocodile had most likely been abandoned there by a private owner after he or she became tired of it.
He dismissed the concerns of those who fear that the reptile might give rise to a “crocodile colony” in Crete’s rivers.
The Amari dam reservoir, in which the creature has made home was created by the building of a hydroelectric dam that is destined to supply the entire area with electricity.
An ecosystem has grown around the artificial lake, which is roughly 12km in circumference, consisting of lush vegetation, closer to tropical rainforest areas than that normal to Crete, the mayor said.
He absolutely ruled out all possibility of allowing the crocodile to remain the lake as a tourist attraction, saying that Rethymno had absolutely “no ambition to have crocodile reproduction in its ecosystem”.
Residents are blaming the crocodile for missing lambs, goat kids and ducks, and souvenir shops are now selling inflatable crocodiles.
The sale of crocodiles was banned in pet shops in the European Union a number of years ago. Other experts believe the creature may have been released into the wild at that time, possibly by a petshop owner.
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« September 20 Green Energy News
From the American Wind Energy Association: »
The decision by the Scottish electorate to remain within the UK leaves the way open for a number of projects that are dependent on UK subsidies to proceed. Independence would have required negotiation on energy with the remainder of the UK, creating market uncertainty. [Windpower Monthly]
Ahead of a UN climate summit, institutional investors managing £15 trillion ($24.6 trillion) of assets are also calling on governments to phase out subsidies for fossil fuels, an estimated £370 billion ($606 billion) worldwide a year, five times the £60 billion paid in renewables subsidies. [The Guardian]
Small and medium businesses supplying renewable energy projects around Australia have jointly written to the government, urging it to retain the current policy, rejecting the recommendations of the recent Warburton review to cut the Renewable Energy Target. [Business Spectator]
In a speech at the National Press Club in Canberra, Greens leader Christine Milne has called on Australia to commit to being “net carbon zero” by 2050, and commit to cutting emissions by up to 60% by 2030. She suggested introducing emissions standards to phase out use of coal. [RenewEconomy]
One of the largest coal power plants in Germany — EON SE’s Wilhelmshaven hard coal plant on the coast of the North Sea — was recently forced to shut down for a week (or so) owing to the water inflow pipes becoming clogged with huge masses of mussels. [CleanTechnica]
The White House has unveiled more than 50 actions and commitments designed to provide a major boost to the US solar power and energy efficiency industries. The package is predicted to avoid nearly 300 million ton of emissions by 2030 and save consumers more than $10 billion. [Business Green]
In an effort to expand on the rapidly growing PV market, the DOE’s Solar Instructor Training Network has a pilot job training program for veterans at up to three military bases starting this fall. The goal is to engage 400 community colleges to train 50,000 workers by 2020. [PV-Tech]
Environmental groups are simultaneously praising Duke Energy for its investment in solar power while criticizing the utility for operating some of the dirtiest power plants in the nation. Duke just committed $500 million to solar, but still runs some of the nation’s dirtiest coal plants. [WCNC]
Montana ranks second in the nation for wind energy potential, but currently isn’t even ranked in the top 20 for existing wind development projects. And instead of deploying windpower, it is maintaining one of the dirtiest coal-burning plants in the country. [MTPR]
According to the CEO of SolarCity, within ten years every set of solar panels sold by that company will come with a battery backup system, and the energy produced will be less expensive that grid power. [Treehugger]
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is investing in 540 renewable energy and energy efficiency projects nationwide. The money, $68 million, will come as loan guarantees and grants. [Clarksville Online]
A report released by Environment America, a national federation of statewide advocacy groups, compares carbon emissions from US power plants to world power plant carbon emissions (all sources, all countries). The dirtiest coal plant in the US produces more CO2 than Sri Lanka. [CleanTechnica]
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit yesterday rejected a petition from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rehear a case ruling that federal law does not permit the long-standing practice of paying big users not to use energy at peak demand times. [Crain’s Chicago Business]
September 19th, 2014 | Tags: Climate Change, Global Warming, Issues at Hand, News, political action, Renewable Energy News, solar, Windpower, World News | Category: Action, Climate Change, Global Warming, Issues at Hand, News, Renewable Energy News, Solar, Wind, World News
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Title: For The World
January 4, 2008[1]
K-pop, hip hop, R&B
English, Japanese
Big Bang chronology
(2007) For The World
(2008) With U
Singles from For the World
"How Gee"
For the World is the first Japan mini-album by Korean hip-hop group Big Bang. The mini-album contains eight English songs with hip-hop, dance, and soul elements, co-composed and written by band member G-Dragon. The album charted on Oricon at the 10th place.[2]
1 Tracklist
1. "V.I.P (Intro)" (English Version) Big Bang G-Dragon, Kim Do Hyun Kim Do Hyun 0:40
2. "Big Bang" (English Version) Perry, G-Dragon Perry Perry 3:25
3. "How Gee" (English Version) Big Bang, Perry Big Bang, Perry Brave Brothers 3:15
4. "Lies" (거짓말; Geojitmal, English Version) Perry, G-Dragon G-Dragon Brave Brothers 3:48
5. "So Beautiful" (없는 번호; Wrong Number, English Version) Perry, Big Bang Perry, Brave Brothers Brave Brothers 3:39
6. "La La La" (English Version) Perry, Big Bang Perry Perry 3:00
7. "Together Forever" (눈물뿐인 바보; Nunmulppunin Babo, English Version) Perry, Big Bang Jeon Seung Woo Jeon Seung Woo 4:02
8. "Always" (English Version) Perry, Big Bang Teddy, Perry Perry 3:53
Big Bang Japan Official Site
Bigbang Vol.1
GD & TOP
Big Bang 2
D'scover
Extended plays
Let's Talk About Love
With U
The Best of Big Bang
Alive Galaxy Tour 2012
1st World Tour: One Of A Kind
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Mick Flannery + Rachel Sermanni at Union Chapel, London, UK – 15th November 2019
Posted by Bianca on Friday Nov 15, 2019 Under Singer/Songwriter
Review by Ken Williams with Photography by Louise Morris
On a rainy night in Islington, as another Irish singer-songwriter almost said, we go to church. Mick Flannery is in town. Mick is from Cork. Just like me. Mick has a beard. Just like me. Mick is one of our finest artists. Just like I once won a Bachelor of the Year competition.
If Saturday night is party night, Friday nights feel like the blue collar night out and that’s what Mick sings about: gamblers, groupies, tortured singers, juvenile arsonists – so it feels perfect.
After a quick dinner (with a bottle of Malbec) on Upper Street, we’re in the holy place.
Union Chapel is one of my favourite venues in London. It’s a working church. An architectural treasure. An amazing space. It helps the homeless. Boasts tremendous acoustics. Has friendly staff. Serves wine and hot pies upstair. And is 5 minutes from Highbury & Islington station. In a world of corporate venues that smell of nachos, it’s a beacon.
Every visit to church needs a Sermanni and when we arrive Rachel is providing a very beautiful one indeed. Rachel Sermanni is Scottish and performs what she calls ‘folk noir’. I call it very good. She sings gorgeous songs, strums sensual guitar and charms the audience in between.
It’s a cliche to say Celts speak with a lilt but with Rachel, the lilt is real. Each dedication is heartfelt, sweet and very easy on the ears. A songwriter of real skill, I’m getting my wife her new record (So It Turns – her third full one) for her Christmas stocking – don’t worry she never reads anything I write (wife not Rachel).
Rachel says her goodbyes before rushing off back to Scotland so we slide up to the bar for another glass of red. Hope the night train back to Edinburgh wasn’t too crap, Rachel.
The bar is a mix of nice scarves, the liberal elite and immigrants like me. There’s a Friday night buzz and the bar does the business – then the two minute call. Everyone downs their drink, you can’t drink in the venue, it’s a holy place. Enter Father Flannery.
No fuss. All in black. He’s bigger than I expect, with the look of a quiet giant who smokes fags and drinks pints down the GAA club and will give you a box in the head if you mouth off too much.
Mick is like a rock of granite when performing. He barely moves. His giant back stays still sitting at the piano, his mouth moves at a minimum, but to call it expressionless would be unfair, the effect produces some of the greatest pieces of folky rock since the Macgillycuddy Reeks.
Some slower songs at the piano set the scene. He shares funny stories about the songs and his process. Then he moves to centre stage and rips things up ever so slightly, shows some of that might and goes back behind the piano for a while – so as not to take the piss like.
He sings songs about marriages, artists, workers. He writes like Dylan, Van Morrison and a sing-along John Steinbeck.
“I lit a small fire, mum. I don’t know who lit the big one” has always been one of my favourite Flannery lyrics. We were treated to its origin story and are richer for it, I’ll never listen to it the same again.
The hour and a half flies. An evening spent in great company with fantastic tunes. It’s a happy room but Mick can’t resist one more quip, “We’re selling more misery out the back”, he jokes, pointing towards the merch stand. But with one last look around, the musicians bathed in light on the small stage beneath the huge dome and stained-glass windows, it’s hard to feel anything but joy.
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Handbook of Operations Research and Management Science in Higher Education
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The Handbook will cover applications of Operations Research (OR) and Management Science (MS) in the management of Higher Education (HE) at all levels: departmental, institutional, and national. We welcome applications and literature reviews of OR/MS in HE in areas such as: strategy, budgeting, resource allocation, facility planning, faculty planning, performance, scheduling, efficiency, quality assurance, international comparisons, and ranking. All OR/MS methodologies applied to the management of HE are acceptable, such as: optimization, decision analysis, forecasting, simulation, and game theory. Original papers with review of the relevant literature and applications are welcome. The papers will be refereed.Potential contributors are welcome to contact Zilla Sinuany-Stern via e-mail to: ASAP.
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Madiba the Musical giveaway
Giveaways, Out & About
‘It is impossible until it’s done’
While sadly Nelson Mandela is no longer, his legacy lives on and to this day the world is inspired by one man who was determined to fight for change. Not only would Nelson Mandela have turned 100 this year, it also marks 25 years since the abolition of apartheid in South Africa, all the more reason to celebrate his remarkable life in style with a visit to Madiba the Musical:
Combining traditional African dance and vocals with contemporary twists, eternal love songs and stirring anthems Madiba the Musical tells the life of former South African leader Nelson Mandela like you have never heard or seen it before. What an amazing opportunity to learn about Mandela’s lifework as a lawyer and activist for peace, catch a glimpse of his fight against apartheid and get a taste of forbidden love in a troubled land.
Featuring authentic and talented performers from all across the globe (including Australia’s own Timomatic) this energetic new stage show will open your eyes to South Africa’s history and the amazing difference one man made to his homeland. According to Mandela’s own grandson Madiba the Musical is ‘the best show about my grandfather’, are you ready to meet the man that is Nelson Mandela?
Madiba the Musical will tour across Australia from October 3, 2018, visiting Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Warrnambool, Perth and Adelaide. After this the turn goes to our neighbours in New Zealand with stops in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Tickets are available now so make sure you secure your seats!
To find out more about Madiba the Musical, to check out the tour schedule and to book your tickets online via Ticketmaster visit www.madibamusical.com.au.
Two lucky Hip Little One readers are in for a fantastic night, as we have the following to give away:
1x double pass for Madiba the Musical on Wednesday 3rd October (7pm) at Comedy Theatre, Melbourne (RRP $179.80)
1x double pass for Madiba the Musical on Thursday 17th January (7.30pm) at Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide (RRP $179.80)
For your chance to win enter our giveaway below, please make sure you to include the venue of your choice:
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Nikki Gagliardi says:
Inspired by Jerry Lewis he is the king of comedy and always puts a smile on my face
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Would love to see this in Adelaide!
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I would love to see this anywhere it sounds like a truly memorable experience. But if I could choose Adelaide would be the spot for me.
Looks like an amazing and memorable show. I’d be stoked if I got the chance to see it in Adelaide
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Emmanuelle Béart movie actress
Emmanuelle Béart, Actor, 56 years old.
Emmanuelle Béart is an Actor. She was born on August 14, 1963 (56 years old) as Emmanuelle Béhart-Hasson. Emmanuelle Béart is a French film actress who has appeared in over 50 film and television productions since 1972. Béart won a César Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film Manon des Sources . She has been nominated a further seven times for Most Promising Actress and Best Actress.
When is Emmanuelle Béart's next birthday?
Emmanuelle Béart was born on the 14th of August 1963 , which was a Wednesday. She will be turning 57 in only 208 days from today (19 January, 2020).
Emmanuelle Béart net worth Emmanuelle Béart has a net worth of 40 million dollars.
How old is she?
Emmanuelle Béart is 56 years old.
What is Emmanuelle Béart's zodiac sign?
Emmanuelle Béart zodiac sign is leo.
Real name of Béart: Birth name of Emmanuelle Béart is Emmanuelle Béhart-Hasson
Is Emmanuelle Béart still alive?
Yes, Emmanuelle Béart is still alive. Last check: 2 months ago
2014 The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles) as Iris Dupin . she was 51 years old
1996 Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud) as Nelly . she was 32 years old
1999 Elephant Juice as Jules . she was 36 years old
2003 Strayed (Les égarés) as Odile . she was 40 years old
2003 Les Destinées sentimentales as Pauline Pommerel . she was 39 years old
2004 À boire as Inès Larue . she was 41 years old
2001 Replay (La Répétition) as Nathalie . she was 38 years old
1989 Les Enfants du désordre as Marie . she was 26 years old
2006 Hell (L'Enfer) as Sophie . she was 43 years old
1994 L'Enfer as Nelly . she was 30 years old
1996 The Last Little Red Riding Hood (Le dernier chaperon rouge) as Le petit chaperon rouge . she was 32 years old
2005 The Art of Breaking Up (Un Fil à la patte) as Lucette . she was 41 years old
2001 Voyance et manigance as Chantal . she was 37 years old
2003 The Story of Marie and Julien (Histoire de Marie et Julien) as Marie . she was 40 years old
2011 Ma compagne de nuit as Julia . she was 48 years old
2012 Bye Bye Blondie as Frances . she was 48 years old
2007 D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers (D'Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires) as Milady Winter . she was 43 years old
1995 A French Woman (Une Femme française) as Jeanne . she was 31 years old
1998 Stolen Life (Voleur de vie) as Alda . she was 35 years old
2006 A Crime as Alice Parker . she was 43 years old
1996 Mission: Impossible as Claire Phelps . she was 32 years old
1987 Manon of the Spring (Manon des Sources) as Manon . she was 24 years old
2008 Disco as France Navarre . she was 44 years old
2007 The Witnesses (Les Témoins) as Sarah . she was 43 years old
2003 Nathalie... as Nathalie / Marlène . she was 40 years old
2008 Vinyan as Janet Belhmer . she was 45 years old
1999 Time Regained (Le Temps Retrouvé) as Gilberte . she was 36 years old
1993 A Heart in Winter (Un Cœur en hiver) as Camille . she was 29 years old
1984 First Desires (Premiers désirs) as Hélène . she was 21 years old
2010 It Begins with the End (Ça commence par la fin) as Gabrielle . she was 46 years old
2006 Family Hero (Le Héros de la famille) as Léa O'Connor . she was 43 years old
2014 My Mistress as Maggie . she was 51 years old
1999 Season's Beatings (La bûche) as Sonia . she was 36 years old
- Le désert de l'amour .
1993 Rupture(s) as Lucie . she was 30 years old
2012 Le reste du monde as Katia . she was 49 years old
2002 8 Women (8 femmes) as Louise . she was 39 years old
1992 La Belle Noiseuse as Marianne . she was 28 years old
1987 Date With an Angel as Angel . she was 24 years old
2010 Nous Trois . she was 46 years old
1988 Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator (À gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur) as Éva . she was 25 years old
1991 I Don't Kiss (J'embrasse pas) as Ingrid . she was 28 years old
2002 Searching for Debra Winger as Herself . she was 38 years old
1985 Love on the Quiet (L'amour en douce) as Samantha Page . she was 22 years old
1998 Don Juan as Elvire . she was 34 years old
2017 Beyond the Known World as Louise . she was 53 years old
1993 La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento as Marianne . she was 30 years old
2008 My Stars (Mes stars et moi) as Isabelle Séréna . she was 45 years old
1990 The Voyage of Captain Fracassa (Il viaggio di Capitan Fracassa) as Isabella . she was 27 years old
1976 Tomorrow's Children (Demain les mômes) as Lila . she was 13 years old
1984 A Strange Passion (Un amour interdit) as Constanza . she was 21 years old
2013 Electra, for Instance (Par exemple, Electre) . she was 49 years old
2020 Adoration . she 'll be 56 years old
2019 Merveilles à Montfermeil as Emmanuelle Joly . she was 55 years old
2003 Overnight . she was 39 years old
1986 La répétition ou L'amour puni as Lucile . she was 22 years old
1991 Lest We Forget (Contre l'oubli) as Herself . she was 28 years old
2019 André Téchiné as Herself - Actress . she was 55 years old
2004 Rendez-vous en terre inconnue as Emmanuelle Béart. she was 41 years old
Béhart-Hasson Emmanuelle, Emmanuelle Est
Emmanuelle Béhart-Hasson
Emmanuelle Béart (56 years)
Birth place: Gassin, France
First Feature Film (1976)
Profession: Movie Actress
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Actress producer
Yosra El Lozy
Egyptian ballerina and actor
Blanca Lewin
Chilean actor
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The siege within
While the Marathwada quake victims waited for succour, lucre and its distribution ensnared the NGOs, the voluble critics of government's callous habits, in attritious squabblings. S Parasuraman's paper on NGO activity, presented at the workshop, does not exactly do them pride.
In the aftermath of the earthquake, more than 130 groups and NGOs from neighbouring states flocked to the area. But none of them tried to coordinate relief distribution with others. Most left after the initial phase.
Manav Lok, headed by Dwarkadas Lohia, the Action for Agricultural Renewal in Maharashtra (AFARM), and even a businessman from Latur, Nand Kishore Bhargav, formed mutually exclusive coordination committees. But by the second day, everyone accepted Lohia's leadership. Oxfam-India was willing to act as the funding body for the coordination committee. All the funds were to be directed through Manav Lok.
Initially, 67 organisations came together. During the rescue operations, it was agreed that the NGOs would divide the villages between themselves. During the relief phase, however, wherever the distribution in different villages was undertaken, a centralised system was followed, with all purchasing and distribution undertaken by a centralised body. All the members of the coordination committee were engaged in relief work for the first 20 days. After that, the various organisations took over.
In the first 3-4 days, the plans of the committee were changed continuously. The committee worked in both Osmanabad and Latur. One of its time-splurging preoccupations was preventing the acquisition of relief material by other groups.
Another Latur businessman, Nalin Chapsi, and his Voluntary Organisations Coordination Committee, channelising relief flowing in from business and religio-political groups. Some NGOs listed as part of this coordination network, however, denied any association with it.
Yet another common coordination forum under the auspices of the Latur Collectorate sought to gather the warring committees together and became the meeting ground of organisations, like the Churches Association for Social Action and the Jain Sangathana, who were not a part of any of the other formal coordination efforts. But it was a dwindling effort. Meetings were initially held every 3 days, then every week, and finally every fortnight till early November 1993. None are held now.
The entire relief distribution was ad hoc and unplanned, leading to duplication and wastage of resources and skills. Many accused the committee of being a mere distributing agency without a clear long-term vision. In several instances, funds were given to the individual NGOs without the members of the coordination committee knowing. Consequently, the committee could neither check the entry of NGOs with profiteering motives, nor clearly maintain the NGOs-coordination committee link.
Coordination efforts were finally put to grave when Swarnabhumi, a Latur-based NGO, tried to muzzle its way in to the chairmanship.
The 'Solar Scam' and the siege at Thiruvananthapuram
Growing fences
Water strongholds
Conserving a wild myth
Protest damned
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Published: 1227 GMT December 25, 2018
UK church leaders' Christmas messages highlight poverty, homelessness
The leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nicholls, pictured conducting Mass in April 2017.
Bishop of London the Right Reverend Dame Sarah Mullally said 33,000 Church of England projects took in food banks, night shelters and dementia cafes, according to BBC.
Kindness can heal society's divisions, she said at St. Paul's Cathedral.
The leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nicholls, used his homily to thank volunteers working to help the needy.
Both leaders acknowledged that many people faced challenging times and that society had become more divided.
Speaking before delivering her first Christmas midnight service since becoming the first woman Bishop of London, Bishop Mullally told the BBC the UK was facing ‘a lot of turbulence’.
"Debates in politics around the EU referendum have created division," she said.
"My belief is that diversity creates strong community; division weakens it."
But she said the Church had been working across generations and social groups and that churches working together could help in "breaking down barriers... so we create stable communities".
"The Church needs to speak confidently about faith in Jesus Christ but it also needs to reflect the compassion we see in God and Jesus which is why, not just in London but right across the country, churches are involved in social action projects," said Bishop Mullally.
"[There are] something like 33,000 social action projects across the Church of England; people setting up food banks, credit unions, dementia cafes and night shelters demonstrating the love of God."
In his homily, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Nicholls, pointed to "difficult times, times of uncertainty and an absence of consensus".
But he also spoke of ‘countless acts of kindness’, saying, "Our society is full of generosity and compassion, although we do not shout about it."
"In our parishes, for example, there are over 130 projects responding to food poverty and homelessness," he told worshippers at Westminster Cathedral.
"So many of our schools provide breakfasts and vouchers for the most needy. Volunteers constantly come forward... If, in the coming year, hardship increases, then we are ready to help in every way we can."
'A lonely time'
Around the country, bishops used Christmas messages to urge people to come together.
Graham Usher, the Bishop of Dudley, said, "Our current political debates... put up barriers between those who voted in different ways.
"Our country needs, more than ever, to seek grace and generosity in our political conversation so that there are not winners and losers, just the flourishing of all."
Bishop of Bath and Wells Peter Hancock pointed out that Christmas is "a joyful time but for many people it's a tough time and lonely time too".
Meanwhile, Bishop of Taunton Ruth Worsley wondered "if this Christmas we might think about how we can offer some hope to other families who might be struggling?"
Resource: BBC
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Climate activists set off on mountain hike to Davos
Johnson to impose new restrictions on low-skilled migrants post-Brexit: Telegraph
Migrants enter slowly at Guatemala-Mexico border after scuffles
New avalanches in Nepal interrupt search for seven trekkers
Poverty, resentment of corruption among engines of continuing protests in Iraq
Norway says its new giant oil field is actually good for environment
US loses 36 million trees every year: Study
Australian government to aid tourism industry as bushfires recede
Terrorist prisoners free to network, radicalize inmates in British jails
‘Dire, untenable’ situation for thousands of children in Libya conflict
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SAILOR SERVICES EXPANDS TO ENTIRE ORC DATABASE
|Δελτίο Τύπου: ORC.org|
Self-serve access now available for almost 50,000 certificates dating back 20 years.
The Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) is pleased to announce that its Sailor Services feature has now been expanded to include all certificates in its database. In total, this represents access to nearly 50,000 unique ORC Club, ORC International and IMS certificates going back to the early ‘90’s.
“This does not cover all the certificates issued over this time frame, as there are some gaps for various reasons,” says ORC Programmer Panayotis Papapostolou. “But it does represent the great majority, and is a large expansion in response to what some of the several hundred registered users have asked for in these past 6 months since the first launch of this service.”
All the data comes from over 40 individual ORC rating offices around the world, and represents some 3000 different boat types and designs.
Access to the measurement data does exclude hull and appendage design offset data, which ORC enforces to ensure protection of designer’s copyrights. All other measured parameters in the International Measurement System (IMS) that appears on certificates are now accessible through this database for free, while full copies of issued certificates in the database are available for 10€ each.
This measurement data can be edited and then run through the latest ORC VPP to produce a 2011 Test Certificate, for the same price of €10 each. Test certificates allow owners and sailors in general to test how changes in parameters such as crew weight, sail dimensions, boat trim, or rig parameters can affect their ratings and their VPP-predicted polar boatspeeds, also available from the same page.
Another new feature in Sailor Services is advanced users can now interact with the database using the full ORC “dxt” format for boat data edits. These files generated by the ORC’s IMS Editor software, made available for download by ORC to any Measurer, Designer, Owner or Sailor interested in offline editing of measurement data.
Alternatively, non-expert users can use the web-based editor integral to the Sailors Services since its first introduction 6 months ago.
“This is an exciting development to finally be able to make all this data available to the offshore racing community,” said Bruno Finzi, Chairman of ORC. “It will be of interest to many different parties: owners, measurers, designers and anyone else can now access this valuable data accumulated over the past 20 years. This reinforces the primary mission of ORC Rating Systems: to provide fair rating services that are scientific and technically accurate as well as transparent and accessible to the international sailing public.”
For more information regarding ORC Rules, the ORC VPP, ORC events, or other ORC rating products and services, visit www.orc.org.
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Ny bok
Dubbelväv
Dubbelvävens historia och framtid
Doubleweave
Finds from places as far flung as Peru show that doublecloth has existed for several thousands of years. The oldest known find in Sweden has been carbon-14 dated to the 9th century AD. The technique became firmly established in Bohus County, where it was known as Finnweave. Wool and linen were often the materials used. The woven cloth consists of at least two layers of weave, in different shades. Patterning is formed through the interchange of warp ends from each layer, by means of a special pick-up method. In Bohus County, these weavings were richly decorated with Christian and pre-Christian symbols and called 'täcken' (coverlets). They were used to adorn the home, at weddings, christenings and funerals. Since most of these areas of usage are less wide spread these days, there is a risk that the skills relating to and knowledge of the technique will also disappear. "9 weavers" are convinced doublecloth has a future. Using the old technique as our springboard, we have therefore developed new areas of usage, designs and materials, creating products that fit in with contemporary settings.
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Search for: [Keywords = diarrhea]
Aimuguri, A. (1)
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Effects of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus infection on tight junction protein gene expression and morphology of the intestinal mucosa in pigs
Q.F. Zong Y.J. Huang L.S. Wu Z.C. Wu S.L. Wu W.B. Bao
Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences | 2019 | vol.22 | No 2 | 345-353 | DOI: 10.24425/pjvs.2019.129226
Keywords pig tight junction protein PEDV diarrhea
Tight junction proteins are important for the maintenance and repair of the intestinal mucosal barrier. The present study investigated relationships among tight junction protein gene expres- sion, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) infection, and intestinal mucosal morphology in piglets. We compared the expression of six tight junction proteins (ZO-1, ZO-2, Occludin, Claudin-1, Claudin-4, and Claudin-5) between seven-day-old piglets infected with PEDV and normal piglets, as well as in PEDV-infected porcine intestinal epithelial cells (IPEC-J2). We also evaluated differences in mucosal morphology between PEDV-infected and normal piglets. The expression of six tight junction protein genes was lower in PEDV-infected piglets than in the normal animals. The expression of ZO-1, ZO-2, Occludin, and Claudin-4 in the intestine tissue was significantly lower (p<0.05) in PEDV-infected than in normal piglets. The expression of Claudin-5 in the jejunum was significantly lower in PEDV-infected piglets than in the normal animals (p<0.01). The expression of Claudin-1 and Claudin-5 genes in the ileum was signifi- cantly higher in PEDV-infected piglets than in normal piglets (p<0.01). Morphologically, the intestinal mucosa in PEDV-infected piglets exhibited clear pathological changes, including breakage and shedding of intestinal villi. In PEDV-infected IPEC-J2 cells, the mRNA expression of the six tight junction proteins showed a downward trend; in particular, the expression of the Occludin and Claudin-4 genes was significantly lower (p<0.01). These data suggest that the expression of these six tight junction proteins, especially Occludin and Claudin-4, plays an important role in maintaining the integrity of the intestinal mucosal barrier and resistance to PEDV infection in piglets.
Effect of combinations of intravenous small-volume hypertonic sodium chloride, acetate Ringer, sodium bicarbonate, and lactate Ringer solutions along with oral fluid on the treatment of calf diarrhea
U. Aydogdu R. Yildiz H. Guzelbektes A. Naseri E. Akyuz I. Sen
Keywords calves diarrhea metabolic acidosis fluid therapy
The aim of this study was to compare effect of combinations of intravenous isotonic sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3), acetate Ringer, lactate Ringer and small-volume hypertonic sodium chloride (NaCI) solutions along with oral electrolyte solutions (OES) on the treatment of neonatal calf diarrhea with moderate dehydration and metabolic acidosis. Thirty-two calves with diarrhea were used in the study. Calves were randomly assigned to receive acetate Ringer solution (n=8), lactate Ringer solution (n=8), isotonic NaHCO3 (n=8) and 7.2% saline solutions (n=8), and two liters of OES were administrated to all calves orally at the end of intravenous administration. Blood samples for blood gas and biochemical analyses were collected at 0 hours and at 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 6 and 24 hours intervals. All the calves had mild to moderate metabolic acidosis on admission. Increased plasma volume and sodium concentration, but decreased serum total protein were observed within 0.5 hours following administration of hypertonic 7.2% NaCI + OES, compared to other 3 groups. In conclusion, administration of intravenous hypertonic 7.2% NaCI solution in small volume along with OES provided fast and effective improvement of dehydration and acid-base abnormalities within short time in treatment of calf diarrhea with moderate dehydration and metabolic acidosis.
Prevalence of pathogenicity island ETT2 in Escherichia coli isolated from piglets with diarrhea in northeast of China
C.W. Yuan W.X. Liu J.L. Hou L.G. Zhang G.Q. Wang
Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences | 2018 | vol. 21 | No 1 | DOI: 10.24425/119016
Keywords Escherichia coli pathogenicity island ETT2 piglets diarrhea
Development of a rapid immunochromatographic assay for detection of antibodies against porcine epidemic diarrhea virus
R. Li J. Ma X. Tian Y. Yu S. Qiao Z. Wang
Keywords porcine epidemic diarrhea virus immunochromatographic test strip nucleocapsid protein diagnosis
TaqMan real-time PCR for detecting bovine viral diarrhea virus
H. Liang J. Geng S. Bai A. Aimuguri Z. Gong R. Feng X. Shen S. Wei
Keywords bovine viral diarrhea virus quantitative real time PCR TaqMan probe
The present study was aimed to establish a novel TaqMan real-time PCR (RTm-PCR) for detecting and typing bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), and also to develop a diagnostic proto- col which simplifies sample collection and processing. Universal primers and TaqMan-MGB probes were designed from the known sequences of conserved 5′ - and 3′-untranslated regions (5’UTR, 3’UTR) of the NADL strain of BVDV. Prior to optimizing the assay, cDNAs were tran- scribed in vitro to make standard curves. The sensitivity, specificity and stability (reproducibility) were evaluated. The RTm-PCR was tested on the 312 feces specimens collected from persistently infected (PI) calves. The results showed the optimum conditions for RTm-PCR were 17.0 μmol/L primer, 7.5 μmol/L probe and 51.4°C annealing temperature. The established TaqMan RTm-PCR assay could specially detect BVDV without detecting any other viruses. Its detection limit was 1.55×100 copies/μL for viral RNA. It was 10000-fold higher than conventional PCR with excel- lent specificity and reproducibility. 312 samples were tested using this method and universal PCR from six dairy farms, respectively. Positive detections were found in 49 and 44 feces samples, respectively. The occurrence rate was 89.80%. In conclusion, the established TaqMan RTm-PCR could rapidly detect BVDV and effectively identify PI cattle. The detection limit of RTm-PCR was 1.55 copies/μL. It will be beneficial for enhancing diagnosis and therapy efficacy and reduce losses in cattle farms.
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CONSTRUCTION READY TO BEGIN ON NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL AT FARMLAND DRIVE SCHOFIELDS
Member for Riverstone Kevin Conolly announced today that the construction contract has been awarded for the new public school in Schofields, with building works due to begin at the Farmland Drive site. To mark the monumental milestone, Schofields' residents will now also be able to see what their new public school will look like, with...
MORE SCHOOL CROSSING SUPERVISORS
Member for Riverstone Kevin Conolly has welcomed today's announcement by the Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Minister for Education Rob Stokes that school crossings across NSW will be made even safer with 300 more school crossing supervisors to be provided by a re-elected NSW Liberals & Nationals Government. Relaxing the eligibilit...
SITE FOR ROUSE HILL HOSPITAL UNVEILED
Member for Riverstone Kevin Conolly has unveiled the site of the eagerly anticipated new hospital to be built in Rouse Hill. "I am very privileged to be part of the birth of a new hospital, to be located in the north-west region of Sydney. This is a very rare occasion, and where I stand at 768 Windsor Road Rouse Hill, is where Stage ...
NEW MUSICAL PROGRAM LAUNCHED FOR BLACKTOWN YOUTH
Minister responsible for Youth Ray Williams, Member for Seven Hills Mark Taylor, and Member for Riverstone Kevin Conolly today visited PCYC Blacktown to announce $50,000 towards the Reaching Your Dreams Through Music project. Mr Taylor said Reaching Your Dreams Through Music will support more than 60 young people from Western Sydney to en...
MORE SUPPORT FOR BUSY FAMILIES IN RIVERSTONE
Member for Riverstone Kevin Conolly has welcomed the news that the Before and After School Care centre at Norwest Christian College, Riverstone is to benefit from a $30,000 NSW Government grant awarded last year to enhance the quality of their service. More busy families in Riverstone will have access to flexible before and after school c...
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Fantasia 2019.10: Ride Your Wave, The Prey, Born of Woman '19, The Incredible Shrinking Wknd, and 8
Is there a place near Concordia that does a nice, simple omurice? It was all that the little girl in It Comes wanted and apparently the comfort food of choice for the couple in Ride Your Wave. A dish shows up twice in less than 48 hours at a film festival, that's a message, I guess.
Anyway, Ride Your Wave and The Prey were the early-afternoon shows in Hall, guest-free, leaving me some time to poke around the comic shops on Sainte Catherine to fill in holes to no avail. I'm beginning to suspect that Marvel just didn't print a few relatively recent issues. Plenty of time for a burrito before heading into DeSeve for the rest of the day.
First up there was the annual "Born of Woman" shorts block, which I missed the first couple of years because it always seems to get scheduled in such a way as to span two films on the other screen, one of which I want to see badly. This year, the stuff in Hall was stuff I could take or leave, meaning it was little issue getting into this 9-short block, with filmmakers Valerie Barnhart, Michelle Garza Cervera, Erica Scoggins, and Yfke Van Berckelaer on-hand.
It's a pretty great block of short films, where even the least exciting entry was pretty decent and the best were fantastic. It's worth noting that Ms. Barnhart (whom I think I've seen around the festival in previous years, perhaps as a volunteer) basically taught herself animation while making "Girl in the Hallway", grumbling later that she didn't realize that she'd chosen one of the most demanding forms of animation to work with. She seems to have mastered it, though, as several people are talking it up as not just their favorite short in the program, but one of their favorite shorts in the festival.
Later in the evening, I decided to switch from my planned selection of Killerman to 8, and I'm pretty glad I did; as much as I liked Cash Only a few years back. Harold Holscher made a pretty nifty little film that I'm glad I had a chance to see on the big screen. Holscher sounded like he was not necessarily optimistic about people in its native South Africa getting to do so. Distribution and exhibition are pretty hard there, and there isn't a lot of support for local genre film (something I remember hearing from a South African genre director at this festival something like ten years ago, claiming all the funding was for apartheid dramas).
Kind of a shame, since he made a great-looking movie, and it sounds like they had fun - the young lady playing the monster was a ballerina, and while they were initially worried about her freaking out the young co-star while in full make-up, they were apparently great friends by the end.
It's been a busy enough weekend that this post about Saturday is going up on Thursday, when I'll be at Shooting the Mafia, Lake Michigan Monster, Miss and Mrs. Cops, and the Zappin Party. Shadow is playing during my late-lunch-break, and well worth checking out on the big screen.
Kimi to, nami ni noretara (Ride Your Wave, aka Riding a Wave with You)
Seen 20 July 2019 in Auditorium des Diplomes de la SGWU (Fantasia International Film Festival: AXIS, DCP)
As Masaki Yuasa's output increases, he seems to be moving away from the strange and trippy films that gained him attention and toward the conventional, though if the result is something like this sweet animated romance, that's not a bad thing. It's still distinctive and occasionally eccentric, and winds up being something fairly unique once the bits of fantasy there are kick in.
Part of that's his character design; there's not much mistaking the jangly limbs, pointy noses, and skinny necks his characters have. There's also the sheer playful abandon in how, when the thing that does give this a certain amount of fantasy emerges, there's a whimsical acceptance, that what might mark a person as crazy can somehow happen, especially since it fits the personalities of everyone involved so well. Yuasa's movies have always had a bit of the fantastic amid the everyday, and here he slides into more carefully than usual, keeping it in Hinako's head until it absolutely must come out.
And then there's the delightful animation, where once again Yuasa is using water to craft a fluid reality while also filling the world the characters live in with nifty detail. It's maybe not always the ones people might consider important or universal, but things like a particular coffee shop, firefighting techniques, and smooth surfing pull the audience in even when they might look at the very simple story with side-eye. It's a very nice combination of down-to-Earth and fantastical that does a fantastic job of getting at just how powerful young love and be and how unreal the fallout is.
"Bar Fight"
Seen 20 July 2019 in Auditorium des Diplomes de la SGWU (Fantasia International Film Festival: ACTION!, digital)
"Bar Fight" is the result of filmmaker Benjamin R. Moody finishing up a horror movie and deciding he wanted to hit something, and what he delivers here is a pretty darn good fight sequence with a minimum amount of filler around it. Some guys show up in the middle of a bar that's closing and find that the bartender is no pushover, and that's that.
With any luck, it will serve as a nice calling-card for star Aaron D. Alexander, who has enough screen presence to sell the tired, put-upon bartender before the action starts getting crazy and then surprises when the man is eminently capable of dealing with anything thrown at him. The film is five minutes long, but between them, Moody and Alexander imply the entire "guy has been through some things and doesn't think he's up to the challenge any more" story in body language and reaction shots, and the fight choreography doesn't entirely take precedence over showing who this guy is. He's reluctant and doubts himself all the way through the end, and even good action movies sometimes have trouble putting that amount of characterization into their action. The best use that action in part to reveal character, and it's great that the film found time for that without a lot of room to spare.
The Prey
Seen 20 July 2019 in Auditorium des Diplomes de la SGWU (Fantasia International Film Festival: ACTION!, DCP)
As "The Most Dangerous Game" riffs go, this certainly is one. You know the story, and the makers of this one don't have any particular twist or hook to add to it too make this stand out in a sea of them. Or at least, not an obvious one from this side of the Pacific; maybe it touches on something topical in Cambodia, but I'd be surprised, as it seems fairly generic.
The big disappointment is not so much that the story is familiar, but that the execution is kind of lackluster. This is the team that made the fairly impressive Jailbreak, but having a more open environment doesn't necessarily do a lot of good. There's some decent gunplay, but it's seldom as good as the previous film's martial arts and inventive camerawork, mostly just a lot of sharp running and tumbling and pointing guns with purpose. There are a few striking shots - filmmaker Jimmy Henderson knows exactly what he's doing when the characters burst out of the woods and into a beautiful, bright open space on a riverbank - but mostly it's just a decent example of Action Movie Plot #8.
"Lili"
Seen 20 July 2019 in Salle J.A. DeSève (Fantasia International Film Festival: Born of Woman, digital)
"Lili" is as clear and concise a story about how men use power positions to coerce women, and how even in situations like film where sexuality can be part of the job description, it is, at the bare minimum, a pretty crappy thing to do. Filmmaker Yfke Van Berckelaer lays it out step by step, showing how "strength" is often twisted as a route to intimidation. I don't know how many people seeing this will need the lesson, but it's an impressively clear one.
There's also no small amount of fun in watching Lisa Smit act as the title character. Some may feel that audition scenes, like the one that make up this movie, or other things where you can see the performers going about their business, ruin the magic, but it comes across here as somebody doing a thing well, and I've always enjoyed skill on display. Smit's good at her job, giving Lili a character even as Lili is donning other personae, and that's fun to watch.
"Sometimes, I Think About Dying"
Stefanie Abel Horowitz does a nice job of digging right into self-doubt in "Sometimes, I Think About Dying"; I have no idea how much she and playwright Kevin Armento compressed his original work to get it down to 11 minutes, but it does fine work cutting down everything extraneous, never needing to offer an origin story or specific counter-arguments for how its narrator feels, just letting her show how navigating these feelings can seem almost impossible.
To do so, she chooses a lot of visually quiet locations where Fran can be overwhelmed by her thoughts, whether her house, a somewhat sparse office, or empty streets, or space outside the city. Katy Wright-Mead does a nifty job of making her seem more outwardly put-together than she feels most of the time without it conflicting with her narration, so that when one collides with the other, it feels a bit more wrenching, with Jim Sarbh making the guy who is genuinely interested in Fran maybe a little nervous on his own but not a matching-misfit sort.
"The Hitchhiker" (2018)
Adele Vuko puts a couple of familiar short-film subjects together - 'hitchhiker leaving a corpse behind" meets "hiding something from concerned friends" - with a twist that unites them in maybe slightly-too-easy fashion in order to create a women-helping-women narrative. There should, it seems, be more of an explored downside to the deal offered, although there's not really room for it in a film this relatively short.
Vuko's put a nice cast together and given them plenty of room to play off each other, with Isaro Kayitesi especially fun as the group's worrywart, obsessively jumping immediately to Google to find whatever freaks her out, playing well off a group that are, for different reasons, more likely to let things go. It's a group that doesn't always seem to belong together but which makes you think they want to be, which is enough and important as things get more tense and the idea that things might not work out well becomes clearer.
"Wakey Wakey"
* * (out of four)
Mary Dauterman has made a nice-enough looking short, although I kind of got thrown by how I viewed it: My brain had the characters in a spaceship because the compositing which put an ocean outside their window made me think it was a screen rather than a look at what was right outside, and I'm still kind of not sure whether they were meant to be in a seaside house or on a boat, with the otherwise-unseen motion meant partly explain the twist ending. I kind of think there's a nifty sci-fi plot about dream machines or what have you possible, but there's also not enough there to presume it.
The result's certainly got intriguing potential, but plays like a short that just doesn't have enough to it to make a solid impression one way or another, and not having that definitive push toward a conclusion makes me less interested than having one and winding up as a bad idea.
"Vaspy"
Hweiling Ow builds the sort of horror short hear that is originally weird and gross, but seemingly not about that much - or at least, not about that much in ways that particularly work for me. It offers an offbeat horror take on pregnancy stress and cravings being amplified by already having a five-year-old doing what he does, but it sort of feels like we've seen that connection before and the toy wasp making its heroine have somewhat more wasp-like tendencies which she dismisses doesn't quite seem special enough. It's an eccentric take on a classic, but one that's so eccentric that it doesn't quite hit so hard.
* * * ¾ (out of four)
It's kind of interesting that what are likely the two best shorts in this program both find their horror in not so much violence but inaction and dismissal. Filmmaker Mia Kate Russell offers up a villain that is fearsomely sociopathic in her idleness, and Lulu McClatchy is unnervingly great in the role: She has the sort of blankness that implies some sort of cognitive disability where she is genuinely paralyzed by not knowing what she should do, but also the sort of sneer that implies she knows just exactly what she's allowing to happen. She's thoroughly awful, but Russell and McClatchy invite you to feel bad about hating her.
Meanwhile, Katrina Mathers is making her sister a little more than generically nice; Russell gives her a bit of personal dissatisfaction to work with, and once she finds herself injured by a freak accident, she does a fantastic job of channelling the viewers' horror and confusion without telling them what to feel. Russell keeps certain dangers off the screen in a way that allows her to strike at the heart of someone's worst fears without feeling exploitative. It's the sort of horror that leaves a nice, hard lump in one's stomach even before you start wondering how much it applies to broader situations.
"The Boogeywoman"
Would I probably get more out of "The Boogeywoman" if I had, at some point, been a teenage girl? Almost certainly. Even without being able to personally identify with what Sam (Amélie Hoeferle) is going through as she gets her first period well after her friends at an inopportune time, I loved watching the way these kids played off each other, for good and ill, as well as how things like a power failure at the roller rink and empty small-town streets are nervous-making without being overbearingly so.
When it gets the the supernatural part, it kind of loses me; I kind of feel like I should be making some greater connection between all the talk of Sam never knowing her mother and what else is going on, but it's never quite there for me, although it's acted and presented well enough that I can see that something is going on. Which may just mean that this short is made with other people in mind who will see how it fits together, which is fine. There's certainly enough there for me to give whatever I couldn't catch the benefit of the doubt.
"The Original"
"The Original" is the rare short film where the finale is a kind of perfect knife to the gut, where I both want to see the fallout of it while also appreciating that the stabbing pain of it is undiluted. It's a nifty concept explored just enough to be a big emotional mess but not fall apart through being over-detailed.
Director Michelle Garza does a lot of nifty things to make writer Andrew Fleming's script seem more personal than topical, mostly by not setting it in something that clearly feels like the near future, but rather by shooting in black-and-white and creating a world that seems half British and half Mexican, making it hard to "yeah, but…" at any point. There's also an impressive division of labor between the actresses - Ariana Lebrón gets what at some points seems like most of the heavy lifting, as her character visibly grapples with all the hard decisions and loops the hospital makes her jump through to get her girlfriend's consciousness transferred into a healthy clone body, but Rebecca Layoo is doing amazing work in the background, so unsettlingly convincing as the victim of what appears to be a stroke that seeing the new her well feel genuinely mind-boggling.
There's a catch, though, and it's a delicious one, and I'm still pondering how it seemingly must have played out days later. You could make a feature out of this story, but it's still pretty great at 13 minutes.
"The Girl in the Hallway"
I'm not sure whether director Valerie Barnhart animated directly to a spoken-word performance by Jamie DeWolf here, or whether she had him record a new version for this film, but that's just nitpicking in how the great work she did was split between direction, animation, and editing. The full result is immensely impressive for a first-time filmmaker.
She's got a fine base to build on - DeWolf's story of how he can't read "Red Riding Hood" to his daughter because it's associated with something awful in his mind is exceptionally well-told without ornamentation; he's a raconteur who builds up and spaces out without it seeming obvious while also making it clear that he has to do it this way, because confronting these memories is hard. It's a lurid-sounding bit of true-crime, shot through with how hard many work to avoid confronting this sort of thing, and you can feel both the guilt and not having done more and the need for self-preservation that prevents it.
Barnhart layers impressive animation on top of it, and the result is something that is very conspicuously not beautiful - even the sweet-seeming missing girl who deserved better is not fully idealized - but is full of the little details that help put those who have lived a comfortable life into a scary situation and transitions which keep the story moving even as it stretches out in time. Barnhart enhances mood and storytelling without ever straying from or undercutting DeWolf's base.
El increíble finde menguante (The Incredible Shrinking Wknd)
Seen 20 July 2019 in Salle J.A. DeSève (Fantasia International Film Festival, DCP)
The big question after this screening was "when did you see it", referring to the aspect ratio changes going on through the film, which maybe speaks to how it's more of a visual gimmick than something that got across what the movie was going for. Which is a shame, because as flawed as it was, it plays into how the film is about someone not doing much with her youth, only to suddenly get hit with the idea that there's less she can do and less time to do it than she thought.
It's a strong idea but one that didn't necessarily get translated into events that well; unlike most time-loop movies, this one never has a period where Alba is trying to figure out what's happening or do something about it before getting to acceptance. In a way, that's just her character, but it leaves a chunk of time in the middle when the film seems to be running out the clock as surely as she is, and while there must be some waste to realize that time is precious, it's not the audience's time that should be wasted. Director Jon Mikel Caballero really doesn't seem to have a great idea of how to fill the time before the resets get tighter (the loop tightens by an hour every time through), and that's a frustrating issue at times.
It's still put together well, and there's some really nice work by cinematographer Tânia da Fonseca. It's a great-looking movie all around, especially with the camera often pointed at pretty locations, but the way she had to reframe for different shapes throughout seems deceptively tricky, and her knack for shooting with depth comes in handy as the screen becomes a window the audience is peering through. There may be tricks here, but everybody rises to the challenge to make an impressive film.
The "demon" at the center of 8 is a sad, guilty one, something which makes for a different sort of thriller than the fairly traditional opening implies; it's as much the story of someone bound to something supernatural as those facing it, even if it has the look of something a bit more conventional.
Small things give it a distinct, South African identity; the very time it takes place, in 1977, seems too late for this kind of story, like the rest of the world is more settled, but here these sort of old family mansions are just starting to become obsolete. It makes "Lazarus" feel even more like a lingering remnant of something else, which the white family doesn't understand but the locals do, enhanced by Tsamano Sebe's fine performance, which seems a bit out of time itself. There is lingering mistrust that needs little explanation but forms a real barrier.
The film doesn't coast on its particular setting, though. It's a great little scary story, with dangerous gentility serving a more plainly monstrous entity from the start. The tension is built on nervous hope that some sort of basic decency will counter the need for a fight that many of the characters don't seem like they can win. It's shot on great-looking locations, with a striking change of scenery and style at the end, and plenty of chances to enjoy the way of the more traditional ghost story bits play out in handsome style.
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Nearly 5,000 military personnel are at CFB Wainwright in Alberta, taking part in the largest and most comprehensive military exercise of the year.
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“I think the only thing that is missing is that there are not real bullets flying,” said Col. Peter Scott, the commander of the Canadian Manoeuvre Training Centre in Wainwright. “We’ve created an environment that is as close as possible to what they will face on any given deployment.”
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The exercise is a force-on-force battle where Canadian troops work to liberate the fictitious country of Atropia from the aggressive nation of Ariana and re-establish the international border between the two.
Those who take part in the exercise wear sensors at all times. There are also sensors connected to their guns and equipment. The technology allows their leaders to track the men and women in real time and see when and where a person has been hit by gunfire.
“It gives the soldiers a real type of environment that they would face without actually using real bullets,” Col. Scott said.
Soldiers play both friendly and enemy forces and use their expertise just as they would if it was a real-life battlefield.
Soldiers practice skills from combat, to peacekeeping, building bridges – both literally and figuratively – with those in villages who are played by actors.
Blackhawk helicopters practise medical evacuations and Hercules aircraft drop much-needed supplies to soldiers and villages.
Troops from the United States, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand are also helping which allows the allied countries to work together in an environment where the realities of a deployment are replicated as closely as possible.
“This training area is probably one of the best in Canada,” Col. Scott said. “It enables us to bring those forces together into a great training environment.”
The soldiers are being tested. This is the last major training exercise before they’re at a high level of readiness, which means they are prepared to be deployed anywhere in the world where they are needed.
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“Whether you are a soldier or you are a leader or you’re staff, it definitely allows you to refine your skill sets,” said Maj. Mike Miller, who has taken part in the exercise before and has served overseas twice.
He said the training is invaluable.
“You get to link in with your allies, understand what you need to do to get yourself and your guys ready to go and conduct – whether its domestic or international – operations.
The members sleep as they would if they were on a real mission, eat rations and there are no showers. They are exhausted and that’s the point.
“Many of the soldiers are very tired, however, this accurately reflects an operational theatre of war,” said Lt.-Col. Ben Irvine. “The length of training (and) the complexity of the stressors applied are quite challenging for the members.”
When the exercise is over, the entire group will sit down and look at what went right and what went wrong so soldiers can learn from their successes and failures.
After days of observing the work of the men and women on the ground, Lt.-Col. Irvine believes the group will be ready to head into combat if need be.
“I’m fully confident on completion of this exercise we’ll be able to not only meet but exceed any expectations from the army and the Government of Canada for any operations abroad,” he said.
View a photo gallery of the training operation below:
Canadian forces help their translator get medical attention during Exercise Maple Resolve
Canadian forces help their translator get medical attention during Exercise Maple Resolve.
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Soldiers prepare to head out to Exercise Maple Resolve from the CFB Wainwright base
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The CC-130J Hercules at the CFB Wainwright airfield.
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Lyon : 237 meters
Toulouse : 146 meters
Nice : 10 meters
Nantes : 20 meters
Strasbourg : 144 meters
Montpellier : 35 meters
Bordeaux : 16 meters
Lille : 20 meters
Rennes : 35 meters
Reims : 83 meters
Click here for the terrain map of Saint-Gaultier in full screen:
This relief map of Saint-Gaultier is reusable and modifiable by making a link to this page of the Map-France.com website or by using the given code :
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Terrain base map of Saint-Gaultier
See the terrain base map of Saint-Gaultier in full screen (1000 x 949) Small relief base map of Saint-Gaultier
This base map of Saint-Gaultier is reusable and modifiable by making a link to this page of the Map-France.com website or by using the given code :
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Administrative maps of Saint-Gaultier
Map of Saint-Gaultier with regions and prefectures
View the map of Saint-Gaultier in full screen (1000 x 949) You will find the location of Saint-Gaultier on the map of France of regions in Lambert 93 coordinates. The town of Saint-Gaultier is located in the department of Indre of the french region Centre.
Geographical sexagesimal coordinates / GPS (WGS84):
Latitude: 46° 38' 07'' North
Geographical decimal coordinates :
Latitude: 46.637 degrees (46.637° North)
Lambert 93 coordinates :
X: 5 792 hectometers
Lambert 2 coordinates :
Below, the geographical coordinates of Châteauroux, prefecture of the Indre department:
This map of Saint-Gaultier is reusable and modifiable by making a link to this page of the Map-France.com website or by using the given code :
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Map of Saint-Gaultier with departments and prefectures
Voir la carte of Saint-Gaultier en grand format (1000 x 949) Here is the localization of Saint-Gaultier on the France map of departments in Lambert 93 coordinates. The city of Saint-Gaultier is shown on the map by a red point.
The town of Saint-Gaultier is located in the department of Indre of the french region Centre.
The latitude of Saint-Gaultier is 46.637 degrees North.
The longitude of Saint-Gaultier is 1.424 degrees East.
Here the distance between Saint-Gaultier and the biggest cities of France:
Distances are calculated as the crow flies (orthodromic distance)
Distance between Saint-Gaultier and Paris : 256.52 kilometers
Distance between Saint-Gaultier and Marseille : 484.94 kilometers
Distance between Saint-Gaultier and Lyon : 279.77 kilometers
Distance between Saint-Gaultier and Toulouse : 337.40 kilometers
Distance between Saint-Gaultier and Nice : 561.12 kilometers
Distance between Saint-Gaultier and Nantes : 235.03 kilometers
Distance between Saint-Gaultier and Strasbourg : 521.10 kilometers
Distance between Saint-Gaultier and Montpellier : 387.33 kilometers
Distance between Saint-Gaultier and Bordeaux : 252.46 kilometers
Distance between Saint-Gaultier and Lille : 459.13 kilometers
Distance between Saint-Gaultier and Rennes : 285.06 kilometers
Distance between Saint-Gaultier and Reims : 349.92 kilometers
Clic here to see the map of Saint-Gaultier in full screen:
Saint-Gaultier on the map of french departments
This administrative map of Saint-Gaultier is reusable and modifiable by making a link to this page of the Map-France.com website or by using the given code :
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Administrative base maps of Saint-Gaultier
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Small administrative base map of Saint-Gaultier
This base map administrative of Saint-Gaultier is reusable and modifiable by making a link to this page of the Map-France.com website or by using the given code :
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Saint-Gaultier on the municipalities map of France
Each black point on the following maps is a municipality of France. These maps are made from all points of all municipalities of France.
The red point show the location of the town hall of the Saint-Gaultier municipality.
See the map of Saint-Gaultier in full screen (1000 x 949)
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A Letter to My Daughter
R.C. Khushiram | September 10, 2018 | Politics | No Comments
Is this the country that we were parading abroad, proud of its cocktail of races living in unity despite the diversity?
I always had the feeling that wherever you are it cannot be as good as home. There is no better place than home. I am feeling sorry today to have had such feelings because now I am having that uneasy sentiment that this cannot be home. Indeed, I am not recognising it. Is this the Mauritius that we struggled and fought for? Is this the country that we were parading abroad, proud of its cocktail of races living in unity despite the diversity? Yes, as you said, I am growing old, I need to change glasses; I did and I started looking at it through the new glasses – through your eyes – and everything became clear and I understood that wherever you may be, it is your choice to make that place a home, by your attitudes, your values and by standing up to uphold them. Yes, thank you for lending me your eyes. It has revealed our underbelly, and a lot of people won’t like what I see. It also made me understand that the path that our country is taking depends a lot on the prism through which our people are seeing the world. I was shocked; we are still stuck with Albert Memmi’s alienating effects of ‘The colonizer and the colonized’ where racism is central to the system and not an incidental detail; we refuse to grow out of ethnic thinking; we are so comfortable in our ethnic cocoons that we narcissistically enjoy wallowing in our own dirt and one-pointed thinking -the small mind. Such thinking occasionally has to go public showing its true colours and providing a sense to our fake identity by aggressively “protège nu ban”. We are no different from the “rodeur bouttes” — the new generation of cronies that is being created and the unaccountable elites with their own vested interests. Who cares? We will not mind joining the present vultures to pick the bones of the State. To hell with meritocracy, our community must reap its “bouttes”. We have become consummate schizophrenics, perfecting it daily by being a fake Mauritian national and a true ethnic Mauritian. Le comble !!! Everyone is complicit – we the people, media, politicians. There’s no concept of “Mauritianism” anymore. There are no human rights but ethnic rights (recall LGBT). Our loyalties now go to our religion, our caste, our community… But, dear daughter, I can see now why you, young people, cannot tag along with them, c’est repugnant! It may be true when you say that “they have made it a swirling racial stewpot of the 21st century, as bad as apartheid!”. Our rainbow nation has failed. I understand now why you want to stay far from such mess that encroaches on your level of sanity. The last time you were here, you gave me some hope that we can still ”sauve les meubles”. But recent events show that we may have gone beyond repair; a majority wanting to pursue their small minds even convincing those on the fence to join in and their newer trick is to send upfront their religious porte-parole –– the shepherd or rather the paid piper of the enraged and the resentful communalists, guiding his flock in its fight for its ethnic rights and inciting it to thread the political needle providing fuel for the bonfire of historical tensions…, unconcerned that their ethnic schism is sundering our “paradisiac” Mauritius. Most worrying of all, many people fail to see much of an alternative to the status quo. But still I think there is a way out. There is increasingly frustration and a groundswell of anger at our leaders who seem to be completely out of touch with community aspirations. And beneath the facade runs a wary, almost palpable, anxiety as the country faces a make or break moment. Now is the right time to sow an idea even if takes a while to take roots. Clinging to a “lueur d’espoir”, our untainted youth – their yearning for change, can be our greatest ally, especially some from the diaspora — can give us a helping hand. Please come forward before it is too late, and rid us of these entrenched, complacent and self-serving old guards, who are ruining us and whose time is up – à la Macron. It is time for such a leadership to open people’s minds, ears, eyes and mouth to finally react and become the masters of their fates.
Census on Ethnic Lines
What’s the big fuss about it? It does not make any difference to progressives whether the Census is or is not carried along ethnic lines. We need not give additional fodder to the conservatives. They want their Census, let them have it but they should clearly tell us what will be the way forward. The status quo is unacceptable to progressives as well as conservatives. We need to know how we will be tackling equality of opportunity v/s meritocracy or how will we be improving equality of opportunity as a means to make meritocracy more acceptable, both in the public and private sectors. Will we be needing a transition period à la Malaysian “Bhumiputras” or “sons of the soil” policies? Affirmative actions! How do we achieve mature meritocracy that is yet to mature fully, with its biggest tests perhaps still over the horizon? How do we ensure that we are not replacing one form of ethnic link between political power and patronage by another? Will we be implementing measures to discourage ethnic recruitment in the private sector also? A heavy tax on firms that are discriminative in their recruitment? It is time that we start opening our Pandora’s box and uncover some of the racial characteristics of our labour market and Mauritian society. Thank you, Mr, the conservatives. For once, let us have it their way because it will make it possible to take three steps forward even if we take two backwards.
Forum for a Better Understanding of the Fiscal Measures
This forum was held on Monday 27 August at Labourdonnais Hotel. The top brass of the MRA and PricewarehouseCoopers were present. «C’est une initiative qui permet… aux opérateurs d’avoir plus de clarté concernant des mesures fiscales préconisées. » Quelle clarté? When they did not even mention the colourable accounting in Budget 2018-19, namely that 1) provision has not been made in the budget for the proposed 6,800 new social housing units – a Project Value of Rs 12.7 billion; 2) the existence of two off budget special funds – the National Resilience Fund and a new National Environment Fund; 3) creation of state-owned SPVs (special purpose vehicles), companies and other public entities, such as Metro Express Ltd, so as to exclude these capital expenditures from the budget and thus underestimate total expenditures, and 4) Government guaranteed debt financing is disguised as equity, namely as redeemable preference shares, to avoid inclusion in public debt. On the amendments to the Finance Act 2018, we are being told that “ces changements n’ont pas été faits à la va-vite…” On the contrary, many of the measures of the Finance Act 2018, were in response to
a) the G20/OECD initiative against Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS), which is a framework, with a specific list of actions, for a global crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion, b) the EU Tax Haven Blacklist of the Code of Conduct Group of the European Council, especially aimed at curtailing harmful tax measures in emerging international financial centres, and the c) the Financial Action Task Force, which oversees compliance with its international standards of Anti money laundering/Financing of Terrorism (AML/FT).
These measures were adopted without really preparing the financial sector to face the negative impact of these international pressures.
Global Business: Tax Haven !!!
“Maurice ne figure sur aucune liste noire au cours des 25 dernières années. Nous avons toujours été avant-gardistes en termes de législation pour lutter contre le blanchiment d’argent et le financement du terrorisme…” stated Ramesh Awatarsing, Managing Director of Vistra Mauritius to L’express of 27th August 2018. Comme disait l’ex-MOF, Vishnu Lutchmeenaraidoo “La perception est une réalité.” If we are regularly in the news because of foreign tax dodgers and fraudsters, our detractors tend to perceive us as a secrecy jurisdiction thriving mainly on tax arbitrage. In 2018 itself, we have been “involved” or rather named, in a series of alleged financial scams from Beaufort Securities to the reported $2bn fraud of the Punjab National Bank and the Indian jeweller Nirav Modi, to Ireo, one of India’s biggest property developers and one of Donald Trump’s business partners in India and more recently Alvaro Sobrinho and Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais of Quantum Global. Yes, Mr Awatarsing is right; we have all the AML/FT legislative arsenal in place. But what is at issue is the new methodology of AMF/FT mutual evaluation which does not just assess technical compliance, i.e. the existence of laws, regulations, etc., in force, but also the effectiveness of the legal and other AML/FT measures. “The overall institutional regulatory and enforcement framework, comprising the BOM, the FSC, the FIU, the Asset Recovery Unit, ICAC, the MRA, and the police, may need to be reviewed for greater consistency and cooperation and effectiveness in AML/FT.” The weaknesses in the implementation of our AML/FT were surely pointed out in the Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) draft report and could lead us to be blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force in a list of High Risk and other Monitored Jurisdictions.
* Published in print edition on 7 September 2018
Tags:Affirmative action, Albert Memmi, Alvaro Sobrinho, Anti Money Laundering/Financing of Terrorism, Beaufort Securities, EU Tax Haven Blacklist, Global Business, IREO, Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais, Mauritianism, Mauritius rainbow nation, Nirav Modi, Punjab National Bank, Quantum Global, R.C. Khushiram, Tax Arbitrage, Tax Haven
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Women Help Themselves Through A Co-op
Wednesday 20 May, 2015 - 8:22
A women’s co-operative in Malawi shows that people can learn to help themselves with great results.
In her article titled ‘Working for a better future for all in Malawi’, Isabel Conway writes that determined to rise above bare subsistence and hunger, 200 women now belong to the thriving Kangamowa Cooperative that provides low interest loans to the needy and ploughs any profits into extending their agri-business activities.
She adds that the potholed track winds past huddles of thatched mud huts and squalid stalls selling withered vegetables and maize.
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NGOs Urged to Support Irrigation
Friday 24 April, 2015 - 11:39
Dowa District Agriculture Office has called on non-governmental organisations working in food security projects in the district to support households in irrigation farming.
Dowa District Agriculture Development officer, Eliya Yamikani, says the onset of the 2014 /15 rain season was characterised by erratic and sporadic rainfall leading to some wash-aways in the district's extension planning areas.
Read more about NGOs Urged to Support Irrigation
World Bank Supports Mozambique’s Efforts to Increase Food Security
Wednesday 1 April, 2015 - 11:14
The World Bank Group's Board of Executive Directors has approved an International Development Association (IDA) credit in the amount of US$50 million to boost Mozambique's efforts to increase access to food and better nutrition for its people, and to promote market-based agriculture and private sector investment.
This financing is the second of a series of three agriculture budget support operations that finance a medium-term agriculture sector reform program in Mozambique.
Read more about World Bank Supports Mozambique’s Efforts to Increase Food Security
Activists Condemn Land Given to Chinese
Tuesday 17 March, 2015 - 11:55
A group of youth activists condemned the Namibian government's intention to approve the lease of 10 000 hectares of fertile land to a Chinese company wanting to grow tobacco for export.
Group leader, Job Amupanda, argues that, "It is our submission that to allocate more land for tobacco than is allocated for food production is a deviation from the policy direction taken by the Namibian government through its Agriculture Ministry, which leans towards eradicating limitations to Namibia's capacity to provide food security and adequate levels of nutrition."
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Impact of Climate Change Highlighted
Friday 14 November, 2014 - 11:55
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the impacts of climate change will significantly affect food security, water availability, human health and ultimately economic growth in Africa.
The report, which is under discussion at the opening of the four day Climate Change Dialogue at Gallagher Estate in Midrand, found that Africa's climate is already changing and the impacts are already being felt.
Read more about Impact of Climate Change Highlighted
Fisheries Key to Food Security, Nutrition
Tuesday 10 June, 2014 - 12:44
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says sustainable fisheries and aquaculture are crucial to food security and nutrition.
FAO director-general, José Graziano da Silva, opened a meeting of the world's only inter-governmental forum on fisheries and aquaculture issues, calling for urgent action to address climate change and other threats to sustainable fisheries and fish stocks.
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NGO Trains Young Farmers in Delmas
Tuesday 22 April, 2014 - 12:50
Farming is labour intensive and needs individuals with a passion for the industry, young farmers who are attending courses in Delmas said.
Buhle Academy, a non-governmental organisation started in year 2000, has already produced more than 3000 farmers.
One of the students, 20-year-old Thami Mthethwa from Soweto is attending a vegetable production course. Mthethwa attended a farmers’ expo last year in Nasrec and developed an interest in farming.
Read more about NGO Trains Young Farmers in Delmas
Working Hand in Hand for Food Security in Soweto
Wednesday 22 January, 2014 - 12:24
Development organisation Humana People to People in South Africa has partnered with Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) in efforts to work together with the people in Doornkop, Soweto to improve their food security.
For the past decade Humana’s Child Aid Doornkop project has worked side by side with community members to start vegetable gardens and the donation made by PPC makes it possible to continue this development at a new level.
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Global Warming Key to Food Security
Wednesday 23 October, 2013 - 11:09
The United Nation World Food Programme (WFP) says global warming plays a big role in food security.
WFP Southern Africa spokesperson, David Orr points out that there has been an increase in flooding in Southern Africa.
Orr, who adds that the crop land has been pushed back by desert and drought has increased worldwide, says that the WFP is helping poor African nations with projects like building dams, irrigation canals and water harvesting systems, in the global fight against poverty.
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Food Production Stable in 2016: FAO
The United Nations (UN) says the world cereal production in 2016 is set to reach 2 521 million tonnes, just 0.2 percent off last year's large output and the third-highest global performance on record.
In Tanzania, food stock held by the National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) decreased to 125 668 tonnes at the end of January 2016, from 180 746 tonnes registered at the end of December 2015.
Read more about Food Production Stable in 2016: FAO
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AKKU Quintet – Aeon
Posted in: The Progressive Aspect. Tagged: The Progressive Aspect News.
This news story was originally published here: http://theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2017/04/30/akku-quintet-aeon/
Another band following in the currently popular minimalist jazz fusion tradition, the Swiss group AKKU Quintet make music that is at one and the same time glacial and precise, yet human and emotional. The plaintive conversation between piano and guitar on Aeon Part I highlights this in addition to setting the scene for the track Aeon. Nominally split into three parts, but played as one piece of music, this beautifully constructed piece weaves its magic, the intertwined sax, guitar and piano crystalline in perfection. The gentle insistence of the piece builds in waves, and in Part III the tension, kept just below the surface propels the piece to its conclusion and the safe hearth of home. All of this is underpinned by the metronomic precision of the rhythm section, the whole thing arriving at a predestined point with an almost clichéd unhurried Swiss precision.
Unusually the drummer is the sole composer here, and Manuel Pasquinelli has continued his spacious groove from the previous album Molecules with style and grace. Polar witnesses more of guitarist Markus Ischer’s Eno/Fripp-esque sky-saw guitar as the piece unfolds in layers of icy calm, twinkling in the low but strong sunlight offered by Maja Nydegger cyclical piano figure that eventually breaks down to start again, rejoined by the ice-sheet guitar. This is a lovely piece of music, regardless of what convenient pigeonhole it may get put in.
Flying Low increases the tempo and uses repetition well to somewhat ironically create a hypnotically climbing piece, with clever and sparing use of electronic effects on the guitar and piano making for a fraught atmosphere as it zooms past your ears under the high tension lines. Markus Ischer is an impressionistic player in the European style, and his soundscapes – you can’t really call them solos – are enthralling.
The lengthy Satellite repeats the lesson that the space between the notes when used well is just as relevant as the notes themselves, the tune unfolding in its meditative stately fashion, subtly changing time signatures as it goes. We end with Waves and the longest is saved until last. The clue is in the title, as the piece, borne on Andi Schnellmann’s repeated high register bass figure, initially ebbs and flows with Maja’s piano. These waves are of the gentle, lapping variety, there is no storm here on this inland lake of contemplative vastness. The other lead instruments all get their turn in the groove, locking into the disciplined rhythmic structure, only to fall away again, and so it goes, and so it goes…
This is a triumph of composition and arrangement with which to end a fine album, and one that will bear repeated playing chez moi.
Much like Molecules, AKKU Quintet will not be rushed on Aeon and use the time well to reveal subtleties in musical patterns by way of precision playing. With Nik Bartsch and Sonar (of whom Manuel Pasquinelli is also a member) in their locality they are in very good company, and if you are partial to that kind of minimalistic compositional trait, then AKKU Quintet with its slightly fuller sonic palette will certainly get your cuckoo bouncing on its spring.
01. Aeon Part I (1:49)
02. Aeon Part II (3:44)
03. Aeon Part III (9:25)
04. Polar (10:08)
05. Flying Low (9:42)
06. Satellite (12:10)
07. Waves (21:01)
Total Time – 68:02
Manuel Pasquinelli – Drums
Michael Gilsenan – Sax
Maja Nydegger – Keyboards
Markus Ischer – Guitar
Andi Schnellmann – Bass
Record Label: Morpheus Records
Catalogue#: MORPH013CD
Date of Release: 24th March 2017
AKKU Quintet – Website | Facebook | Bandcamp
Tags: Akku Quintet
Podcast – Not The AmericanProg Show 53
Posted by Brian Watson on April 30, 2017
Posted in: FaceBook, NotTheAmericanProgShow, Podcast.
http://podcasts.progzilla.com/not/Not_The_American_Prog_Show_53.mp3
Lonely Robot – The Big Dream Album Launch
This news story was originally published here: http://theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2017/04/29/lonely-robot-the-big-dream-album-launch/
Sub89, Reading
I rather like Sub89 as a venue. Whilst the public image it portrays tends to focus on its use as a thriving night club, it is nevertheless quietly acquiring a growing reputation as a notable live music venue and becoming a welcome stopping point on the tours of many new as well as already established bands. The unassuming exterior gives no indication of the expansive and open space it offers with excellent acoustics and widely accessible views of the stage.
The atmosphere is warm and welcoming as a lively and receptive audience gathers for the launch of the second Lonely Robot album, The Big Dream. For a Thursday night, the sizeable numbers are a gratifying reflection on the increasing appeal this band is beginning to exercise. Nor is it entirely unexpected given the popular success of their debut album Please Come Home, released in 2015, along with the deep and widespread respect in the prog community for front man John Mitchell.
[Louder Still – photo by Rob Fisher]
First up are Reading based band Louder Still, who deliver a thoroughly accomplished and supremely entertaining set of pulsating, energetic and good old fashioned rock and roll. More than once I found myself drawing fondly nostalgic comparisons with Rainbow and echoes of Deep Purple. They bring an undoubtedly fresh and exuberant development to the classic hard rock sound. The enthusiasm and commitment of Craig Carlaw’s drumming is matched by the relentless intensity of George Twydell’s guitar, grounded in the driving, thrumming bass work of George Ives and lifted by the Gillan-esque vocals of Tom Rampton. Most enjoyable.
After a short break, Lonely Robot casually saunter on to the stage to a light smattering of anticipatory applause and launch straight into a feisty rendition of Airlock from Please Come Home. Immediately there is an intense sense of presence, even gravitas, and as the band continue with God vs Man and The Boy in the Radio it quickly becomes clear that a driving and determined vision is lying behind and directing the course of the music.
Mitchell, decked out in the spacesuit familiar from the two album covers, humorously quips they need to get the “old stuff out of the way” before they can move on to the new material. And whilst we get our first taste of the new album four songs in with In Floral Green, he quickly returns again to the first album for the bulk of the main set. It is not until the end, after an astonishing drum solo from the brilliant Craig Blundell, that we are treated to a fantastic performance of Everglow and the wonderful Sigma from The Big Dream.
Nor is this accidental. Far from getting things ‘out of the way’, one of the revelations of the evening is the sense of continuity, development and evolution that exists between the two albums. The key figure of The Astronaut acts as a core theme which is gradually being explored across different contexts and the music is an unfolding narrative of the journey being experienced. Starting the evening with an emphasis on the first album is a natural ‘setting of the scene’ for us to begin to understand what is happening in the new album.
Watching the band in full flow is an absolute pleasure and delight. Whilst Please Come Home featured a large number of guest musicians, The Big Dream sticks closely to the core members. Mitchell certainly seems a lot more settled and at ease and the music is both tighter and more creative as a result.
[Lonely Robot – photo by Rob Fisher]
Steve Vantsis has a precision and insight which makes the bass penetrating and powerful. Liam Holmes brings an incisive attack to the keyboards which fills the soundscape and adds plenty of bite and depth. Mitchell, as always, is phenomenal and it is hard to name another guitarist who possesses his timing, mastery and sublime touch. Craig Blundell continues to shine quite spectacularly, an effortless whirling dervish of supreme intensity disguising a steely discipline and tight control. We are also treated to a guest appearance from Kim Seviour who brings a lovely balance and harmony against Mitchell’s gritty vocals.
The net effect is a band who are now growing together, gaining in confidence as they interplay with each other’s skills and producing music which is compelling, direct and, at times, simply mesmerising. They leave the stage to thunderous applause, a chorus of whistles and the appreciation of a breathless audience who have experienced and enjoyed the very highest levels of musical creativity and musicianship. A great evening and a wonderful way to launch the new album.
[You can read Rob’s review of The Big Dream HERE.]
God Vs Man
The Boy in the Radio
In Floral Green
A Godless Sea
Construct/Obstruct
Are We Copies?
Humans Being
The Red Balloon
~ Encore:
Drum Solo (Craig Blundell)
Craig Blundell – Drums
Liam Holmes – Keyboards
John Mitchell – Guitar, Vocals
Steve Vantsis – Bass
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ROGER WATERS Shares Live Performance Clip of “Time” from Mexico City
Posted by Prog Sphere on April 29, 2017
Posted in: ProgSphere. Tagged: ProgSphere News.
This news story was originally published here: https://www.prog-sphere.com/specials/roger-waters-performs-time/
Roger Waters has recently announced the release of his long-awaited studio album titled Is This the Life We Really Want?, and also released the first single “Smell the Roses.”
The former Pink Floyd bassist played in at the Zocalo Square in Mexico City last October in front of 300,000 fans, and you can check a performance clip of “Time” below. ”Time” was originally released in 1973 on Pink Floyd‘s eighth studio album The Dark Side of the Moon.
Waters will kick off his massive US + Them tour in May, which will include 75% of material he co-wrote during his tenure with Pink Floyd.
This news story was originally published here: http://www.prog-sphere.com/specials/roger-waters-performs-time/
PINK FLOYD’s First Photoshoot Took Place Half Century Ago
This news story was originally published here: https://www.prog-sphere.com/specials/pink-floyd-first-photoshoot/
50 years ago in London, photographer Colin Prime took the first promotional photos of Pink Floyd. The photoshoot took place in Ruskin Park.
Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Richard Wright were sitting on the benches posing. Mason recalls:
“Photographer Colin Prime was commissioned by Blackhill to take some of our first publicity shots. This session took place in Ruskin Park off Denmark Hill. ”
Photographer Prime commented: “All the guys were in high spirits at the time (Syd was performing cartwheels) but quite laid back, so after some slightly more formal shots I experimented and came up with these images.”
One of the photos from the shoot was also used by Barrett to create a silhouette illustration of the band which was used as the back cover of the group’s debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
Photos by Colin Prime
This news story was originally published here: http://www.prog-sphere.com/specials/pink-floyd-first-photoshoot/
Fan Misses Show Because It Starts on Time
This news story was originally published here: http://www.prog-sphere.com/progging/fan-misses-show/
Belgrade, Serbia — Darko Petrovic (26) from the Serbian capital, a student of Management at the Megatrend University, was shocked on Friday night after visiting a club for a gig of two local bands.
The show was scheduled for 10PM, and Petrovic arrived to the club two minutes after midnight just to find the bands packing their stuff.
“I was shocked, disappointed, angry,” says Petrovic. “How could that even happen? The concert had to start late.“
In Belgrade, and Serbia, it’s almost standard that concerts never start on time, and that was the main reason why Petrovic wasn’t satisfied.
“Because of the fact that concerts here always start later than planned, I took my time and enjoyed a hot bath at home,” he continued.
Local bands were also surprised that the gig started at 10PM.
“We were really surprised to see that a sound tech was already at the club. We kind of expected issues with the PA, but fortunately for us and unfortunately for Darko, It didn’t happen,” says Oliver, bassist of Teargas.
After he left the club, Petrovic found his “quantum of solace” at a near burger house, eating two big, hot “pljeskavica.”
Disclaimer: This post is a satire, and is a part of the fully satirical category of the website called Progging, which may or may not use real names, often in semi-real or mostly fictitious ways.
This news story was originally published here: https://www.prog-sphere.com/progging/fan-misses-show/
STEVEN WILSON Shooting Video for Song From Upcoming Album in Chile
This news story was originally published here: https://www.prog-sphere.com/specials/steven-wilson-shooting-video-chile/
There isn’t still much information about the release date of Steven Wilson‘s upcoming, fifth studio album which will be released via Caroline Internation, but the English musician issued an update recently that a “a major announcement will be made soon.”
“As in the past there will be a very limited special edition with exclusive audio, visual and text content,” it’s written on Wilson‘s official website.
A photo Steven shared yesterday via his official Instagram account shows that he is currently in Chile, shooting a video in the Atacama Desert for a single from his upcoming album with his long-time collaborator Lasse Hoile.
The full update can be seen below.
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MUMBAI: The multi-award winning singer, songwriter and superstar Ozuna continues his global conquest of the music scene with today’s worldwide premiere of his single and video Hasta Que Salga El Sol (Until The Sun Rises).
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This song, written by Ozuna and produced by Hi Music and Mally Mall, reveals his burgeoning musical evolution, as it fuses alternative rhythms with reggaetón and tropical pop.
Award-winning director Colin Tilley (Taki, Taki ), whose work includes videos for Rihanna, Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj, filmed the video for Hasta Que Salga El Sol in Mexico. The two-day shoot features cutting-edge technology and brilliant visuals portraying Ozuna on a habitable extraterrestrial planet.
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So Saturday night was the Rosalind Davis hosted talk at Trace Elements, thank you to those of you who made it along. It was really well facilitated by Rosalind, and the pre-chat we had had with her on the installation night meant that she was able to draw us out, and keep the balance perfectly between the three artists.
So I have started on my next project which is preparation for Roy’s People Art Fair, and the start of prep for other events later in the year. Today I ordered some lovely new surfaces to add to those I have already had delivered because I am currently having a very productive streak. For Roy’s People I am producing a range of mid sized works, as I think that will suit that show, and is easier for people to walk away with on the day. I have a selection of work with quite intense underpainting, and am bringing them up to either a colour rich dark or very light surface. I am playing with and thinking about the Thames as a former conduit for trade, and the role of the sites along the South of the river in the centre of town as 19th Century producers of power and therefore light, and their current role in the production of cultural light (former power stations include Tate modern, Oxo Tower, and Battersea, all currently used as art venues). Working with this contrast is really quite fun, and I am doing them simultaneously.
So one of the challenges I have faced in the work that consists of alot of layers and in particular where the base layer is indigo is drying times. The drying times of oils are affected by a number of factors one of which is the interaction of the pigment with the media, and while cobalt based pigments speed the drying times, the drying time for indigo is long. why is it important? Well if the base painting is truly to form a base and not mix with the layers added over the surface then they need to be fully dry before further painting can proceed. Delightfully I have found a solution: If I use a good thick layer of gesso to prime wooden boards I can paint the underpainting using indigo and gum arabic and it dries quickly.
Artists in conversation with Rosalind Davis
This Saturday 24th February at 7pm we will be in conversation with Rosalind Davis at the Trace Elements show, downstairs at Deptford Does Art’s new gallery 28 Deptford High Street SE8. Just before the show opened we were lucky enough to have the chance to meet her and discuss what we would be talking about, so I have had plenty to think about. I find perparing for this kind of event really useful as it helps me to really clarify what I am doing. The format is to be friendly and inclusive, so please come along, and if you have a question you’d like to ask Matt, Paul or I or all of us please bring it along and you should get your chance. For more details please go to this link:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paul-anderson-morrow-sarah-needham-matthew-gould-trace-elements-tickets-41607777984
So the show is still up and open Weds to Sundays 12-11 except Sundays when it closes at 7. Closes Next week.
So January and February have felt a little dominated by solo administration , but recently I have had the pleasure of starting of on mutual support sessions with one artist friend and been invited to join an online artist professional support group by another, and a local artist I have been in contact with online is popping round for coffee next week to discuss pigments, so exciting.
I have started work on my collection for Roy’s People Art Fair which you can keep track of on my instagram at @sarahneedham1965
In addition I have a collection of work available through Why Not Art, where you can rent or buy art direct online, or if you like you can visit their stall at The Ideal Homes Exhibition London this spring where they will have a catalogue and screen display of all the artists they represent.
whynotart.com/artists/sarah-needham/
Be in touch soon!
Sarah
Trace Elements, an exhibition
Trace Elements will be on show from 8.2.18-28.2.18 at Deptford Does Art 28 Deptford High Street, Deptford
This is a three person show with Paul Anderson Morrow and Matthew Gould
For tickets to the private view on the 8th Feb or the In Conversation with the Artists hosted by Rosalind davis on the 24th click on the link below
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paul-anderson-morrow-sarah-needham-matthew-gould-trace-elements-tickets-41607777984
At one level my paintings in Trace Elements are simply abstract works playing with techniques for developing a sense of space, a space you as the viewer might fall into, get a little lost and think your own thoughts. This is a level I respect and value, and at some level it makes me reluctant to overload that experience with all the thinking going on in my head which allows me to reach this particular space. Because actually providing a space to be, is central to this work.
However the other side of this coin is that there is a starting point to this work, a process I go through, which is about developing my sense of understanding in the world. I am interested in the way in which people are affected by trade, the duality of that effect, both the development of wealth and of exploitation or in fact unexpected consequences, and in who gets listened to in these circumstances. The starting point of my work in Trace Elements, which at the time did not even have a title, was a bit of research about the history of trade in Deptford, so what is Deptford known for? The death of Marlowe, Pepys extramarital affairs, Pepys business affairs with the Navy, the victualising offices, King Henry the VIII and ship building, with the end of wooden ship building the development of an international cattle market...(Steve Burden’s Pepys Estate works are really interesting in this respect, I came across his work the first time when I was showing with him in a group show at St Katharine docks). Charles II is said to have passed through Deptford on his way back from France to reclaim the throne. This is a place with a long history of trade and close associations with power, and its impact on ordinary people. The scale is vast and the potential enormous, but I wanted something that linked into the history of trade, and pigments, and its impact on people and place, and the thing that kept coming back into my view and taking my attention after a few blind alleys was the copper bottoming of boats. In some ways this linked with my St Katharine Docks indigo works and this may well be part of the appeal: How technological developments that may appear morally neutral can be the spark behind the fire of world events which impact on the lives of people in dramatic ways. So the story goes like this; historically there was a problem with the growth of limpets etc on the bottom of boats which increased their drag and reduced the longevity of the wood they were made of. Initially this was dealt with by treating or sheathing the wood with additional layers of wood and a kind of lining of treated hair, with the advent of longer distant shipping these methods were insufficient against the warmer water nevalis worm. The Spanish developed lead sheaths, effective against the worms but made the boats significantly heavier. Charles II viewed The Phoenix at Deptford and approved sheathing of English ships with lead fixed with copper nails despite the problems acssociated with corrosion caused by copper, steel and lead in a salt bath of the sea together-galvanic corrosion- a process not understood at the time. Over the years the process was developed and refined so that the sheath was copper and the fixings were made from copper alloys. By 1784 there was full scale copper bottoming of the navy which lead to a massive expansion in copper mining in Britain. However because of the cost, merchant ships, that is trading ships, were much less likely to be treated in this way. In fact the 3% which were, were employed in the slave trade, these ships went into nevalis worm infested waters, and the slave trade triangle routes were so profitable that the ship owners could pay for the expense. 80% of slave trade ships were copper bottomed.
The secondary impact of this was the massive expansion in copper mining in Britain.
SO how does any of this relate to the work I have made? Well cobalt is a toxic by product of Copper mining. Before the copper bottoming of ships most copper mining in Britain was done as surface mining, and the presence of cobalt was hazardous but with deaper mines it became more so. Cobalt presents in copper mine a solid minerals which are toxic and as gas with arsenic which is deadly. The turquoise pigment in all these works is a cobalt derivative Cobalt Turquoise.
to bring it up to the present day cobalt is also used in our mobile phones and electric cars in rechargeable batteries which happily for the mining companies often also require copper. The main seems of the mines are now in the African copper belt, where the Guardian reports the use of child labour and high mortality rates amongst the workforce.
So in the use of cobalt pigments, the instability of cobalt, its tendency to easily form compounds with other metals is in part at the heart of its toxicity, and also the heart of why it makes such vibrant amazing pigments from blues to reds to yellows.
The work I have produced for this exhibition works at two levels, in the making I have research and remembered the impact of the developments in Deptford on the history of trade and its impact on people through the development of the naval base by Henry VIII and later the Stuarts, the way in which technologies developed here fed into the most profitable parts of the transatlantic sea trade- slave trade. The trade whose profits funded the developments that fed into the industrial revolution in Britain.
In “Disturbing the Bed” I am playing with the imagery of a disturbed river bed in the process of dock building, the disturbed beds of the wives of Henry VIII , the disturbed beds of the associated trades around docks, the disturbed beds of Pepys and his coiterie, the disturbed beds of the copper mines in Cornwall and other copper seems across the country, the beds that are distubed still in the mining of copper and cobalt for contemporary uses.
In King Kibold I am playing with the counter point of the beauty available from cobalt as a pigment and its toxicity and fatality in mining.
In these works I also use earth pigments, ochres my universal pigment. Ochres have been used across the world, by all peoples and cultures. They are culturally transnational, and at the same time traceable to their geographic origins. They have been spread widely through trade and sourced locally since prehistory. For me they are the link between people and the first traceable expressions of culture and imagination. They are the people in my abstract works.
In the ICI series of works I use pthalo green, a pigment developed and owned by ICI, the ImperialChemical Company, a current Transnational Corporation with its routes firmly in the products of Empire. Pthalo green is a permanent pigment, solving some of the problems associated historically with green pigments, a technological solution, following the history of the development from alchemist to local chemist to global industrial pharmacological companies.
In “Deptford Traces” and From “Deptford to Shooters Hill” I play with this notion of instability within the cobalt, with the processes that were happening in the development of Britain as a sea fairing nation, and the instability of consequence. In as much as I think that it is important to both understand the history of a place and how we got here, and also to understand that while that history could have been other, and our understanding of exactly what went on is hampered by hearing only certain voices, we have agency in acknowledging the processes which brought us all here, that agency allows us more possibility for action in facing what comes next.
The second level is to produce works where you can fall in, and have your own contradictory thoughts.....
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Blithe Spirit – Review
Anne Cox | June 20, 2019 | Reviews, Theatre Royal Bath | No Comments
Jennifer Saunders in Blithe Spirit. Images Nobby Clark.
Jennifer Saunders is well used to conjuring up a cast of bizarre characters for her TV sitcoms.
So channelling the ghost of the late, great, Margaret Rutherford, for her appearance as eccentric clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, in Blithe Spirit, for a revival at Theatre Royal Bath, is a breeze.
Noël Coward’s whimsical comedy, which opened last night, was knocked out in just six days.
Yet, despite the speed, Coward created one of theatre’s most enduring, iconic and dottiest of oddalls who is loved by actresses (usually of a certain age) and audiences alike.
In the early 1940s Coward, and perhaps his protagonist too, writer Charles Condomine, found themselves going through a midlife crisis.
The playwright was struggling with the advent of both middle age and a fear, quite rightly as it turned out, that his style of writing and performing, was falling out of fashion.
And Condomine is also wistfully rueing the passing of time. His first wife, Elvira had been sparkling and fun, and life had been bright and carefree.
But the past five years married to the pragmatic Ruth had been sobering, lifeless and dull.
Perhaps his yearning for the good old days, seen through rose tinted spectacles, was the catalyst for the mayhem to come.
Blithe Spirit plays to Saunders’ strengths although, despite becoming a first time granny yesterday, she is surely too young for the part?
Yet she triumphs, running riot with her stock grimaces and knowing glances, demonstrating her immaculate comic timing and flaunting her irreverent kookiness.
The whole, over-the-top performance, aided and abetted by a terrible wig, ageing make-up and wonderful, Rutherford-inspired frumpy clothes, is rewarded by laughs-a-plenty.
But, funny as she is, there are periods without her and her absence is more than filled by Geoffrey Streatfeild’s Condomine, an admirable hysteric.
One may argue that life can be intolerable when constantly nagged by your spouse. But imagine being harangued and pestered by your dead partner..for eternity?
Charles Condomine only has himself to blame.
He wants the inside track on the tricks of a psychic’s trade for a new murder mystery he’s writing.
So he invites the neighbours, sceptic GP, Dr Bradman, and his gushing wife, to make a foursome with him and his rather grounded and cynical second wife, Ruth.
They await the arrival of the barking mad medium, Madam Arcarti, and it’s not long before she makes her grand entrance.
There are a few enjoyable party tricks in the production, as you’d expect. The comedy boasts an illusion consultant who, I assume, is responsible for giving Anthony Ward’s impressive set supernatural powers.
They start with a levitating table during a seance, and the arrival, from the other side, of first wife Elvira, and they end in truly spectacular style.
After an initial shock Charles gets used to having two wives, much to the chagrin of the furious Ruth.
Elvira is mischievous and flirtatious. She wants her husband back – by any means necessary.
Saunders is outrageously good but then so are the rest of the cast.
She upstages them, of course, but every role in this timeless comedy is so beautifully written that everyone gets a chance to shine.
Rose Wardlaw’s super turn as parlour maid, Edith, is an example at how good Noel Coward was at writing characters. She must be a delight to play.
Edith does everything at the double-quick, tearing around the Condomine’s Kent house like a pocket dynamo, tripping up, over, and into things, precariously carrying trays of drinks, and her unique way of talking is a hoot.
Its a very physical, supporting role but just as outlandish, bizarre and eye-catching as the leads.
Meanwhile Lisa Dillon and Emma Naomi are on top form as Charles’s two sniping, jealous wives.
If I could look into Madam Arcati’s crystal ball I think I would see a West End transfer on the cards for Richard Eyre’s playful production.
Not that I’m psychic or anything….
Blithe Spirit runs at Theatre Royal Bath until July 6.
Jennifer Saunders conjures up the ghost of Margaret Rutherford in Richard Eyre’s riotous revival of Coward’s Blithe Spirit at Theatre Royal Bath.
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Carol Sklenicka's look at the life of Raymond Carver is sharply analytical and meticulously researched.
By MARK ATHITAKIS Special to the Star Tribune
November 28, 2009 — 8:22am
Who made Raymond Carver? Maybe it was Gordon Lish, who edited Carver's short stories about workaday lives into the minimalist style that made him famous. Perhaps it was editor Gary Fisketjon, whose marketing savvy made Carver a standard-bearer of American fiction in the 1980s. Or it could have been his second wife, Tess Gallagher, who bolstered Carver's reputation in the years before his death in 1988. So many people have had a claim on Carver's good name that it's fair to wonder how much of it Carver could claim for himself.
Carol Sklenicka's meticulously researched, sharply analytical biography never denies Carver his talent, but it also sheds ample light on larger literary forces that shaped his career. That makes the book something of a shadow history of American fiction writers across three decades, with Carver as a typical if troubled exemplar. The product of an Oregon working-class family, he grew up with Hemingway-level ambitions but toiled, like many of his contemporaries, in college writing workshops. Academia made him anxious, but it did introduce him to the likes of John Gardner and John Cheever, and it helped earn his early stories placements in "little magazines." That work caught the attention of Lish, who wielded great power in the '70s as the fiction editor at Esquire.
Lish's editing could be brutal, and Sklenicka's detailed comparisons show how Lish's versions of Carver's stories often feel like distant cousins of the originals. Carver only haphazardly protested: He often praised Lish's edits but in 1980 unsuccessfully begged him not to publish the radically revised stories in "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love." (The unadulterated versions are included in a new Carver collection from the Library of America.) In the prior decade Carver fell into, and recovered from, a deep alcoholism, and Sklenicka offers a grimly compelling account of those years. In his worst moment, he smashed a wine bottle against the head of his first wife, Maryann Burk, nearly killing her.
His recovery marked a clear split from "Bad Ray" into "Good Ray," but Carver was persistently an insecure Ray. Routinely disengaged from his family and the machinations of the publishing industry, Carver often seemed absent from the world, hiding into a bottle, another teaching appointment, or another story. Only toward the end of his life (he died of lung cancer at 50), his reputation and income stream secure, did a more confident Ray emerge.
Carver's is a redemption story, but Sklenicka wisely resists sentimentalizing it, neither damning Lish nor deifying Carver. "He was a materialist and a sensualist and a dreamer," she writes. "Meeting problems head-on was difficult for him." Perhaps no writer spent more effort attempting to both drink and write his way out of those problems. Happily, almost miraculously, the writing won out.
Mark Athitakis is a reviewer based in Washington, D.C. He blogs at americanfiction.wordpress.com.
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Samwise Gamgee
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{{hobbit infobox
| name=Samwise Gamgee
| image=[[File:Lorraine Brevig - Sam in a Garden.jpg|250px]]
| image=[[File:Anna Kulisz - Sam Gamgee.jpeg|250px]]
| caption="Sam in a Garden" by [[:Category:Images by Lorraine Brevig|Lorraine Brevig]]
| caption="Samwise" by [[:Category:Images by Anna Kulisz|Anna Kulisz]]
| pronun=
| othernames=[[Banazîr]]
After the [[Breaking of the Fellowship]], Sam was the only member of the Fellowship to remain with Frodo.
When [[Gollum]] joined up with them, Sam remained distrustful of his loyalty to Frodo, and treated him with disdain, and partially (though unintentionally) pushed Gollum to betray Frodo in [[Shelob's Lair]].
[[File:John Howe - Sam and Shelob.jpg|thumb|[[John Howe]] - ''Sam and Shelob''.jpg]]
[[File:John Howe - Sam and Shelob.jpg|thumb|[[John Howe]] - ''Sam and Shelob'']]
After [[Shelob]] attacked and seemingly killed Frodo, Sam took the Ring, intending to complete the quest, but upon learning that Frodo still lived, he rescued him from the [[Tower of Cirith Ungol]] and returned the Ring to him. Because he held the Ring for a time, he is considered one of the [[Ring-bearers]].
After [[Will Whitfoot]] resigned his post as [[Mayor of Michel Delving]] (the largest town in the Shire and the "unofficial capital"), in {{FoA|6}}, Sam was elected Mayor of the Shire for seven consecutive 7-year terms.
After his wife died in {{FoA|61}}, Sam entrusted the Red Book to Elanor and left [[Middle-earth]] to sail across the Sea and be reunited with Frodo in the [[Undying Lands]].
After his wife died in {{FoA|61}}, Sam entrusted the Red Book to Elanor and, according to her, he went to the [[Grey Havens]] to sail across the Sea and be reunited with Frodo in the [[Undying Lands]].
He proceeded to send Mr Gamgee a signed copy of all three volumes of the book. However, the incident sparked a nagging worry in Tolkien's mind, as he recorded in his journal:
{{quote|For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.|''[[J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography]]''}}
==In other stories==
In the illustrated short story ''[[Mr. Bliss]]'', the local police officer is a Sergeant [[Boffin Family|Boffin]] who - at the behest of [[Gaffer Gamgee]] - seeks to lock up Mr Bliss as a thief for failing to pay for his car. Sergeant Boffin also has a son named Sam.<ref>[[J.R.R. Tolkien]], ''[[Mr. Bliss]]'' (2011 edition), p. 62</ref>
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[[Category:Characters in The Lord of the Rings]]
[[Category:Fourth Age characters]]
[[de:Samweis Gamdschie]]
[[fa:سموایز گمجی]]
"Samwise" by Anna Kulisz
Other names Banazîr
Titles Mayor of Michel Delving
Position Gardener
Location 3 Bagshot Row, Hobbiton
Bag End, Hobbiton
Affiliation Fellowship of the Ring
Language Westron
Birth 6 April T.A. 2980
Rule Fo.A. 6 - 55
Sailed west After Fo.A. 61 (aged 102)
Family Gamgee
Parentage Gaffer Gamgee and Bell Goodchild
Siblings Hamson, Halfred, Daisy, May and Marigold
Spouse Rose Cotton
Children Elanor, Frodo, Rose, Merry, Pippin, Goldilocks, Hamfast, Daisy, Primrose, Bilbo, Ruby, Robin, and Tolman
Eye color Brown[1]
Weaponry Dagger of Westernesse, also Sting
Steed Bill
Gallery Images of Samwise Gamgee
"I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam"
― Frodo[2]
Samwise "Sam" Gamgee (6 April T.A. 2980[note 1] - Fo.A. 61; Shire Reckoning: 1380 - 1482; 102 years old when he sailed into the West) was Frodo Baggins' servant and the only original member of the Fellowship of the Ring to remain with him till the very end of the journey to Mount Doom.
3 Inspiration
4 In other stories
5 Portrayal in adaptations
6 Commentary
He lived with his father, Hamfast Gamgee, better known as "The Gaffer", on Bagshot Row in the Shire, close to Bag End. Sam's mother was Bell Goodchild; he had five siblings: Hamson, Halfred, Daisy, May, and Marigold.
A gardener by trade, Sam seemed to be a simple Hobbit of plain speech. However, his love for Elves, his gift for poetry, and his belief that the world contains greater wonders than most hobbits are aware of (all nurtured by his tutor Bilbo Baggins) set him apart from the beginning.
Sam was one of the "Conspirators" who were summoned by Merry Brandybuck in order to watch over Frodo Baggins and the Ring inherited by Frodo from Bilbo. Being the closest to Frodo, Sam was their "chief investigator" who eavesdropped on his talks with Gandalf the Wizard.[3]
On 13 April, when Gandalf revealed to Frodo that Bilbo's ring is Sauron's One Ring, they noticed Sam eavesdropping. Initially suspected as a spy, Sam feigned innocent curiosity. As "punishment", Sam was made Frodo's first companion on his journey to Bree and Rivendell.[4] Sam and Pippin Took followed Frodo to his new house at Crickhollow where his and the Conspirators' role was revealed. Merry joined the travelers on their way to Bree. They passed through the Old Forest, the Barrow-downs and the Prancing Pony at Bree where they were joined by "Strider". Sauron's spies had opened the stables of the inn and all the mounts went loose, therefore before leaving the village, the company purchased a pony from Bill Ferny. Sam loved and tended the animal, and named him Bill, after his owner.
When they reached Rivendell, Sam was beside Frodo's bed while he was recovering from the Morgul-wound he was inflicted on Weathertop. Sam also was caught eavesdropping on the Council of Elrond and insisted that he accompany Frodo on his quest to destroy the Ring.
In Lothlórien, Galadriel gave Sam a box containing earth from her orchard.
After the Breaking of the Fellowship, Sam was the only member of the Fellowship to remain with Frodo. When Gollum joined up with them, Sam remained distrustful of his loyalty to Frodo, and treated him with disdain, and partially (though unintentionally) pushed Gollum to betray Frodo in Shelob's Lair.
John Howe - Sam and Shelob
After Shelob attacked and seemingly killed Frodo, Sam took the Ring, intending to complete the quest, but upon learning that Frodo still lived, he rescued him from the Tower of Cirith Ungol and returned the Ring to him. Because he held the Ring for a time, he is considered one of the Ring-bearers.
Together, Sam and Frodo crossed Mordor to Mount Doom. Sam himself carrying Frodo up the slope for part of the way. After the destruction of the Ring, both Sam and Frodo were honored by King Elessar for their deeds.
Ted Nasmith - Sam and Rosie Cotton
After the War of the Ring, and the Scouring of the Shire, Sam planted saplings in all the places where specially beautiful and beloved trees had been destroyed, and he put a grain of Galadriel's soil at the root of each. He planted a silver nut in the Party Field where the Party Tree had once been, and the nut grew into a Mallorn tree.
He married Rose "Rosie" Cotton. In honor for restoring the Shire his family was given the name Gardner.
They had thirteen children: Elanor the Fair, Frodo, Rose, Merry, Pippin, Goldilocks, Hamfast, Daisy, Primrose, Bilbo, Ruby, Robin, and Tolman. When Frodo sailed on the White Ship, at the end of the Third Age, Sam inherited Bag End and was entrusted the Red Book of Westmarch.
After Will Whitfoot resigned his post as Mayor of Michel Delving (the largest town in the Shire and the "unofficial capital"), in Fo.A. 6, Sam was elected Mayor of the Shire for seven consecutive 7-year terms.
After his wife died in Fo.A. 61, Sam entrusted the Red Book to Elanor and, according to her, he went to the Grey Havens to sail across the Sea and be reunited with Frodo in the Undying Lands.
[edit] Etymology
Samwise means "simple minded" or "half-minded". Gamgee is a corruption of the name Gammidgy, a village in the Shire. Both names are presented as translations of the Westron form of Sam's name Banazîr Galbasi (also spelled Banazîr Galpsi) (q.v. for more information).[5]
Tolkien's English translation, Samwís Gamwich, could have come to Samwise Gamgee in modern English.
The Sindarin version of Samwise is Perhael.
[edit] Inspiration
J.R.R. Tolkien took the name from Gamgee Tissue, a surgical dressing invented by a 19th century Birmingham surgeon called Joseph Sampson Gamgee. "Gamgee" became the colloquial name in Birmingham for cotton wool. Here, Tolkien describes why he had chosen that name for his character:
"The choice of Gamgee was primarily directed by alliteration; but I did not invent it. It was caught out of childhood memory, as a comic word or name. It was in fact the name when I was small (in Birmingham) for 'cotton-wool'. (Hence the association of the Gamgees with the Cottons.) I knew nothing of its origin."
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
It is possible that Tolkien may have subconsciously recalled Dr. Gamgee (who died in 1886 but is commemorated by a plaque at the Birmingham Medical Institute, only yards from Tolkien's childhood home) but he claimed to be genuinely surprised when, in March 1956, he received a letter from one Sam Gamgee, who had heard that his name was in The Lord of the Rings but had not read the book. Tolkien replied on March 18:
"Dear Mr. Gamgee,
It was very kind of you to write. You can imagine my astonishment when I saw your signature! I can only say, for your comfort, I hope, that the 'Sam Gamgee' of my story is a most heroic character, now widely beloved by many readers, even though his origins are rustic. So that perhaps you will not be displeased at the coincidence of the name of this imaginary character of supposedly many centuries ago being the same as yours."
― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Letter 184
"For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with."
― J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
[edit] In other stories
In the illustrated short story Mr. Bliss, the local police officer is a Sergeant Boffin who - at the behest of Gaffer Gamgee - seeks to lock up Mr Bliss as a thief for failing to pay for his car. Sergeant Boffin also has a son named Sam.[6]
[edit] Portrayal in adaptations
Sam in The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)
Sam in The Return of the King (1980 film)
Sam in The Lord of the Rings (film series)
Sam as a Lego mini figure
1955: The Lord of the Rings (1955 radio series):
Victor Platt provided the voice of Sam.
1978: The Lord of the Rings (1978 film):
Michael Scholes was the voice of Sam, and Billy Barty played him in rotoscoped footage.
The voice of Sam is provided by Lou Bliss.
1980: The Return of the King (1980 film):
Roddy McDowall provided the voice of Sam.
A young William Nighy portrays Sam as a warm and caring person. No dialectical or social difference was made.
1992: Tales from the Perilous Realm:
In the two episodes of "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", Jonathan Adams portrayed Sam with a very rustic accent.
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (video game):
Scott Menville provided the voice for Sam in all but the X-box version; there, Cliff Broadway took over. The role of Sam is greatly diminished: after being caught eavesdropping by Gandalf, Sam is to be Frodo's companion, but he does not appear again until Frodo reaches Farmer Maggot.
2001-03: The Lord of the Rings (film series):
Sam is played by Sean Astin.
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (video game):
Sam is a playable characters in several missions: escape from Osgiliath, Shelob's Lair, Cirith Ungol and the Crack of Doom.
2004: The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring:
Samwise only makes a single appearance in the Lothlorien mission.
2004: The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth:
Unlike most other characters, Frodo and Sam make no appearance in Skirmish battles - they only appear in the storyline campaign.
2006: The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II:
Sam and other Hobbits are no longer permanent units, they are now a temporary power boost available to Free People forces.
2007: The Lord of the Rings Online:
Samwise is first found in Rivendell, preparing for the departure. Later, he is found on Cerin Amroth in Lothlorien, alongside Frodo. The game's "Guardian" class ("Tank" in MMO terms) is based on Samwise due to the dedication he showed Frodo. This leads to an interesting occurrence: at some point each player gets to talk to a major character, who inspired his class. But while Legolas can teach a lot to a Hunter and Bilbo can show much to a Burglar, Sawmwise insists that he is no Guardian and not fit to be one - because his heroic deeds have not happened yet. The player has to double-check and discovers that whoever talked of Sam as a great Guardian, apparently had misheard the word "Gardener".
[edit] Commentary
Sam Gamgee is by many regarded as the "true hero" of Tolkien's story. Tolkien himself expressed this view in one of his letters: Sam is referred to as the "chief hero", and special emphasis is placed on Sam's "rustic love" for Rosie.[7] The quest to destroy the Ring only succeeds because of Sam, who repeatedly saves Frodo from disaster (such as rescuing him at Cirith Ungol and carrying him up Mount Doom). He was one of only two Ring-bearers strong enough to surrender the Ring voluntarily.
The relationship between Frodo and Sam is, in many respects, at the center of The Lord of the Rings. To the modern reader, it seems archaic, as it is extremely class-oriented. Sam's humbleness and "plain speaking" is frequently emphasised in contrast to Frodo's "gentility", and he often shows deference to Frodo, calling him "Mister Frodo" or "Master". At the same time, a strong bond of love and trust grows between them, portrayed most poignantly during the events of Cirith Ungol, where Sam vows to return to his (apparently) dead master, to be reunited with Frodo in death.
Tolkienists regard Sam as Frodo's batman. In the British Army, a batman was an orderly who acted as the personal servant of an officer. It was a role with which Tolkien (who served as an Army officer in the First World War) would have been extremely familiar. Sam undertakes all of the typical roles of a batman — he runs errands for Frodo, he cooks, he transports him (or at least carries him), and he carries his luggage. Tolkien confirmed this interpretation when he wrote in a private letter that:
"My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as so far superior to myself"
Compare to the relation between Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza, and the gradual "Quixotization" of Sancho.
[edit] See also
Images of Samwise Gamgee
↑ In the second edition of The Lord of the Rings, Sam's year of birth was added to The Tale of Years; it was, however, T.A. 2983. This contradicts both the Longfather Tree of Master Samwise and a later entry in The Tale of Years. The incorrect date has been corrected in the 50th anniversary edition. See also The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. 716.
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Breaking of the Fellowship"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "Mount Doom"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "A Conspiracy Unmasked"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "The Shadow of the Past"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix F, "On Translation"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Mr. Bliss (2011 edition), p. 62
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 131, (undated, written late 1951)
Gamgee Family
Born: 6 April T.A. 2980 Died: After Fo.A. 61
Frodo Baggins Ring-bearer
13-14 March, T.A. 3019 Followed by:
Will Whitfoot Mayor of Michel Delving
Fo.A. 6 - Fo.A. 55 Followed by:
Attendees of the Council of Elrond
Aragorn · Bilbo Baggins · Frodo Baggins · Boromir · Elrond · Erestor · Galdor · (Samwise Gamgee) · Gandalf · Gimli · Glóin · Glorfindel · Legolas
Members of the Fellowship of the Ring
Frodo · Sam · Merry · Pippin · Gandalf · Aragorn · Legolas · Gimli · Boromir
Route of the Fellowship of the Ring
Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas
Rivendell · Eregion · Caradhras · Moria · Lothlórien · Caras Galadhon · Anduin · Parth Galen · Amon Hen · Eastemnet · Fangorn Forest · Rohan · Edoras · Hornburg · Isengard · Dunharrow · Paths of the Dead · Gondor · Erech · Lamedon · Linhir · Lebennin · Pelargir · Minas Tirith · Osgiliath · Cross-roads · Ithilien · Dagorlad · Black Gate · Field of Cormallen · Cair Andros · Gondor · Minas Tirith · Anórien · Rohan · Edoras · Isengard
Rivendell · Eregion · Caradhras · Moria · Lothlórien · Caras Galadhon · Anduin · Parth Galen · Amon Hen†
Frodo and Sam
Rivendell · Eregion · Caradhras · Moria · Lothlórien · Caras Galadhon · Anduin · Parth Galen · Amon Hen · Emyn Muil · Dead Marshes · Black Gate · Ithilien · Henneth Annûn · Cross-roads · Morgul Vale · Stairs of Cirith Ungol · Cirith Ungol · Shelob's Lair · Tower of Cirith Ungol · Mordor · Morgai · Plateau of Gorgoroth · Mount Doom · Field of Cormallen · Cair Andros · Gondor · Minas Tirith · Anórien · Rohan · Edoras · Isengard
Rivendell · Eregion · Caradhras · Moria · Celebdil† · Lothlórien · Fangorn Forest · Edoras · Hornburg · Isengard · Rohan · Anórien · Gondor · Minas Tirith · Osgiliath · Cross-roads · Ithilien · Dagorlad · Black Gate · Field of Cormallen · Cair Andros · Gondor · Minas Tirith · Anórien · Rohan · Edoras · Isengard
Rivendell · Eregion · Caradhras · Moria · Lothlórien · Caras Galadhon · Anduin · Parth Galen · Amon Hen · Emyn Muil · Eastemnet · Fangorn Forest · Wellinghall · Derndingle · Isengard · Hornburg · Dunharrow · Drúadan Forest · Gondor · Minas Tirith · Anórien · Rohan · Edoras · Isengard
Rivendell · Eregion · Caradhras · Moria · Lothlórien · Caras Galadhon · Anduin · Amon Hen · Parth Galen · Emyn Muil · Eastemnet · Fangorn Forest · Wellinghall · Derndingle · Isengard · Rohan · Anórien · Gondor · Minas Tirith · Osgiliath · Cross-roads · Ithilien · Dagorlad · Black Gate · Field of Cormallen · Gondor · Cair Andros · Minas Tirith · Anórien · Rohan · Edoras · Isengard
Ring-bearers of the One Ring
Sauron (S.A. 1600 - 3441) · Isildur (S.A. 3441 - 25 September, T.A. 2) · Déagol (c. 2463) · Sméagol (c. 2463 - 2941) · Bilbo Baggins (2941 - 22 September, 3001) · Frodo Baggins (22 September, 3001 - 13 March, 3019) · Samwise Gamgee (13 March, 3019 - 14 March, 3019) · Frodo Baggins (14 March, 3019 - 25 March, 3019) · Gollum (25 March, T.A. 3019)
Also briefly held the Ring: Gandalf (13 April, T.A. 3018) · Tom Bombadil (27 September, T.A. 3018)
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Galleries Index
Primavera Sound Festival — Primavera Sound 2017
Primavera Sound Festival photo sets
Artist galleries
2019 Afropunk Festival - Brooklyn — 2019 Afropunk Festival - Brooklyn
2019 Afropunk Festival - Brooklyn — 2019 Afropunk Festival - Brooklyn, August 24-25, 2019
AA Bondy — Cafe Eleven, Friday, November 6, 2009
ACL Music Festival 2012 - Day One — October 12, 2012
ACL Music Festival 2012 - Day Three — October 14, 2012
ACL Music Festival 2012 - Day Two — October 13, 2012
AC/DC — at Valle Hovin in Oslo, Norway, July 17, 2015
Air — Air at Auditorium Theatre Chicago
Air + Style: Day One — Black Lips, Phantogram, Kendrick Lamar, and More
Air + Style: Day Two — Cults, Flaming Lips, Sleigh Bells, and More
Akron/Family — Backbooth, Orlando, FL. January 12th 2012
Akron/Family — Photo Shoot 2009
Akron/Family — Live
Alexander von Mehren — at Østre in Bergen, Norway, Nov 7, 2014
Alexander von Mehren — at by:Larm Festival, February 26, 2014
Alice Cooper — Alice Cooper in Sydney, Australia
Alien Trespass — Alien Trespass Panel at Comic-Con 2009
All Tomorrow’s Parties — New York, September 12, 2009
alt-J — at The Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA, April 14, 2015
alt-J — at Beacon Theater in New York, NY, on Nov16, 2014
Amanda Palmer — Photo Shoot
Amanda Palmer — Coachella 2009
Amason — at Bla in Oslo, Norway on Jan 28, 2014
Anderson .Paak — Live at Huntington Bank Pavilion, Chicago - June 4th, 2019
Andrew Bird — 93XRT Holiday Jam with Andrew Bird and Alice Merton at The Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL, December 8th, 2019
Andrew Bird — January 17, 2013 at the Largo in Los Angeles, CA
Andrew Bird — at the Largo, Hollywood, January 16, 2011
Andrew Bird — Portland, OR July 18, 2009
Ane Brun — with Alice Boman at Sentrum Scene in Oslo, Norway, Oct 18, 2014
Angel Olsen — Angel Olsen All Mirrors Tour at The Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL, November 14th, 2019
Angel Olsen — Angel Olsen at The Riviera, Chicago, 2017
Angus and Julia Stone — at Sentrum Scene in Oslo, Norway, Nov 17, 2014
Anna Calvi — Anna Calvi live at The Troubadour in Los Angeles on June 7, 2011
Frøkedal — at Strædet in Bergen, Norway, April 18, 2015
Antony and the Johnsons — Coachella Day Three
Antony and the Johnsons — Photo shoot
Arcade Fire — Arcade Fire at United Center, Chicago 2017
Arcade Fire — at Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY, August 22, 2014
Arcade Fire — Arcade Fire Aug 4, 2014 Santa Barbara, CA
Arc Iris — at The Bella Union Showcase, SXSW 2014
Art Brut — Art Brut at Spaceland June 17, 2009
Art Brut — Art Brut at DC Comics
Ásgeir — at USF in Bergen Norway. December 4th 2014
AURORA — at the Henry Fonda Theatre, November 27, 2016
Austin City Limits 2009 — Day Three
Austin City Limits 2009 — Day Two
Austin City Limits 2009 — Day One
Austin City Limits 2010 Day One — ACL Day One - October 8, 2010
Austin City Limits 2010 Day Three — ACL Day Three - October 10, 2010
Austin City Limits 2010 Day Two — ACL Day Two - October 9, 2010
Austin City Limits 2011 - Day One — Day One, September 17, 2011
Austin City Limits 2011 - Day Three — Austin City Limits 2011 - Day Three
Austin City Limits 2011 - Day Two — Austin City Limits 2011 - Day Two
Austin City Limits 2013 - Day One — Austin City Limits 2013 - Day One
Austin City Limits 2014: Day 1 — CHVRCHES, St. Vincent, Belle and Sebastian and More
Austin City Limits 2014: Day 2 — Mac Demarco, Broken Bells, My Brightest Diamond, and More
Austin City Limits 2014: Day 3 — Jenny Lewis, Spoon, Haerts, and More
Austin City Limits 2015 - Day One — Friday, October 2, 2015
Austin City Limits 2015 - Day Three — Sunday, October 4, 2015
Austin City Limits 2015 - Day Two — Saturday, October 3, 2015
Austin City Limits 2019 — Austin City Limits 2019 - Weekend One
Austra — Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2013: Austra
Avengers: Infinity War — April 16, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan
A Camp — The Troubador June 15th 2009
A Place to Bury Strangers — Photo Shoot
Band of Horses — October 24, 2012, Houston, Texas at The House of Blues
Band of Horses — Photo Shoot
BANKS — Banks at Brooklyn Steel, New York City, New York, September 8th, 2019
BANKS — at Terminal 5 on Sept 30, 2014
Bat For Lashes — Bat for Lashes at the Henry Fonda Theatre, April 23, 2013
Bat For Lashes — Spring 2009
Bat For Lashes — Bat for Lashes at The El Rey June 16, 2009
Beaches Brew 2015: Day One — Shabazz Palaces, Wooden Wisdom, and More
Beach House — The Vic Theatre in Chicago, IL - March 1 2016
Beach House — Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA December 11, 2015
Beach House — at Pabst Theater in Chicago, Milwaukee, Minnesota, Sept 21, 2015
Beach House — Beach House at the El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, July 3, 2012
Beach House at Fox Theatre - Oakland, Oakland, California — Beach House at Fox Theatre - Oakland, Oakland, California
Bear in Heaven — at Landmark, in Bergen Norway on Oct 14, 2014
Beck — Santa Barbara Bowl, May 24, 2012
Being Human — Being Human Panel at Comic-Con 2009
Beirut — Warehouse Live on October 31, 2011 in Houston, Texas
Beirut — Photo Shoot
Belle and Sebastian — at Riviera Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, April 3, 2015
Belle and Sebastian — Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2013: Belle & Sebastian
Bendik — Bendik at Østre in Bergen, Norway. Jan 15, 2015
Benji Hughes — at the Bootleg Theater, Los Angeles, CA Feb 4, 2016
Ben Harper — With Charlie Musselwhite at at Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, June 28, 2014
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Best Kept Secret 2015 Day One — The Jesus and Mary Chain, Chet Faker, FIDLAR, and More
Best Kept Secret 2015 Day Three — Mew, First Aid Kit, Future Islands, Dan Deacon, and More
Best Kept Secret 2015 Day Two — Of Monsters and Men, Hookworms, Death Cab For Cutie, and More
Best of 2014 — Under the Radar's Best Live Photos of 2014
Big Black Delta — Big Black Delta at The Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen in London, England, August 28, 2013
Bilbao BBK Live 2019 — Bilbao BBK Live 2019
Bill Baird — Bill Baird at The Velveeta Room in Austin, TX. March 14, 2013. Photographs by Iman Mannie Saqr.
BLK JKS — Live
Bomba Estereo — Bomba Estereo at Celebrate Brooklyn, NYC, August 10, 2019
Bones — Bones Panel at Comic-Con 2009
Bonnaroo - Day Four — Bonnaroo - Day Four - June 12, 2011
Bonnaroo - Day Three — Bonnaroo Day Three - June 11, 2011
Bonnaroo 2010 — Day One - June 10, 2010
Bonnaroo 2010 — Day Two - June 11, 2010
Bonnaroo 2010 — Day Three - June 12, 2010
Bonnaroo 2010 — Day Four - June 13, 2010
Bonnaroo 2011 - Day One — Bonnaroo Day One - June 9, 2011
Bonnaroo 2011 - Day Two — Bonnaroo Day Two - June 10, 2011
Bon Iver — Bon Iver at Santa Barbara Bowl, April 22, 2012
boygenius — boygenius at Thalia Hall, Chicago (November 13th, 2018)
Brandi Carlile — Brandi Carlile at Northerly Island, Chicago - June 29, 2019
Brittany Howard — Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes at The Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL, September 30th, 2019
Broadcast — Broadcast at The Troubadour, May 7, 2003
Broken Social Scene — Warehouse Live, Houston, Texas, Feb. 17, 2011
Broken Social Scene — Henry Fonda, May 3, 2010
Burgerama 2015 — Weezer, White Fang, King Khan, Girl Band, The Black Lips, and More
Burn Notice — Burn Notice Panel at Comic-Con 2009
by:Larm 2014 Day One — Charlotte Qvale, Veronica Maggio, Tove Lo, and More
by:Larm 2014 Day One — Tussilago, Sin Cos Tan, When Saints Go Machine and James Murphy
by:Larm 2014 Day Three — Naomi Pilgrim, Farao, Deathcrush and More
by:Larm 2015 Day Four — Bendik, Kakkmaddafakka, Samaris and More
by:Larm 2015 Day One — Sylvan Esso, Olefonken, Pumba, and More
by:Larm 2015 Day One — Karin Park and XOV
by:Larm 2015 Day Three — Anna of the North, Sasha Siem, The Amazing, and More
by:Larm 2015 Day Three — AURORA, Anna of the North, Samaris and More
by:larm 2015 Day Two — Karin Park, Gidge, Marit Larsen, and More
by:larm 2015 Day Two — Sylvan Esso, Vök, and More
By:Larm 2016: Day Three — Kidahpew, Emma ACS, and More
By:Larm 2016: Day Two — Agy, Liima, dePresno, and More
by:Larm 2014 Day Two — Jenny Wilson, Tove Lo, Sea Change, and More
by:Larm 2014 Day Two — Sea Change, Tove Lo, Young Dreams, Shine 2009, and Hanne Kolstø
Cage The Elephant — at the Observatory in Santa Ana, CA, Feb 5, 2015
Calexico — Sings Like Hell Series at The Lobero in Santa Barbara, August 19, 2011
Camera Obscura — Warehouse Live, Houston, TX April 11, 2010
Camera Obscura — Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, November 22, 2009
Camera Obscura — Under the Radar Party SXSW 2009
Caravan Palace — at Neumos in Seattle, Washington, April 15, 2014
Carly Rae Jepsen — NHK Hall, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, October 7th, 2019
Carly Rae Jepsen — Chop Shop Chicago 7/12/17
Carly Rae Jepsen — Metro 3/12/16
Catfish and the Bottlemen — Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL, October 5th, 2019
CBGB Festival 2014 — Surfer Blood, Robert DeLong, Devo, and Jane's Addiction
Chairlift — Santa Barbara Bowl - September 9, 2012
Chairlift — Live - SXSW 2009
Chapterhouse — Chapterhouse at The Troubadour October 8, 2010
Charles Bradley — at Subterranean in Chicago, Illinois, July 23, 2015
Charles Bradley — at The Santa Monica Pier Twilight Concert Series, Sept 11, 2014
Charles Bradley — at ACL Live at The Moody Theatre
Chelsea Wolfe — Chelsea Wolfe and Anna Calvi at Royce Hall, November 16, 2013
Chromeo — at The Santa Barbara Bowl, May 30, 2015
CHVRCHES — CHVRCHES at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York
CHVRCHES — CHVRCHES at Radio City Music Hall, New York City - July 11th, 2019
CHVRCHES — at the Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA Sept 23, 2018
CHVRCHES — Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA December 14, 2015
Circoloco NYC — Circoloco NYC, October 26, 2019
Clutch — Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA, December 28, 2015. Photos by Matt Caltabiano.
CMJ - Day Five - October 22, 2011 — EMA, Gang Gang Dance, and Inc.
CMJ - Day Four - October 21, 2011 - Part One — Neon Indian and Com Truise
CMJ - Day Four - October 21, 2011 - Part Two — Atlas Sound, Purity Ring, Small Black
CMJ - Day One - October 18, 2011 — Zambri, Wise Bloos, and Adventure
CMJ - Day Three - October 20, 2011 — Dum Dum Girls, Zambri, Ill Fits, and Caveman
CMJ - Day Two - October 19, 2011 — The Under the Radar Party
CMJ 2009 Day One — CMJ Day One: Sneak Attack/Music Slut party and BrooklynVegan showcase, October 20th, 2009
CMJ 2009 - Pre Party — The Syndicate/Rachael Ray’s The Feedback pre-CMJ show at Rebel NYC, October 19th, 2009
CMJ 2009 Day Five — CMJ 2009 Day Five CMJ Day Five: AAM showcase, October 24, 2009
CMJ 2011 — Zola Jesus at Le Poisson Rouge on Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
CMJ 2012 - Wednesday October 18 2012 — Wednesday October 18 2012
CMJ 2013: Day Five — CMJ 2013 Day Five: Ice Choir and The Deer Tracks
CMJ 2013: Day Four — CMJ 2013 Day Four: Eleanor Friedberger, Ghost Wave, Willis Earl Beal
CMJ 2013: Day Three — CMJ 2013 Day Three: Gems, Jensen Sportag, Ejecta, and Shine 2009
CMJ 2013: Day Two — CMJ 2013 Day Two: History of Apple Pie, StaG, Little Daylight, and Rebeka
CMJ 2014 — CMJ 2014: September Girls, Ballet School, MONEY and more
CMJ 2009 Day Four — CMJ Day Four: self-titled magazine and Pop Mart Media showcase and Green Label Sound party, October 23, 2009
CMJ 2013: Day One — CMJ 2013 Day One: Claire and NONONO
CMJ 2009 Day Three — CMJ 2009 Day Three: Quite Scientific Records showcase, October 22, 2009
CMJ 2009 Day Two — CMJ Day Two: Mumford & Sons, Twenty Seven Media showcase, and ABC News Amplified showcase, October 21, 2009
Coachella 2009 Day Three — Coachella 2009: Day Three
Coachella 2010 — Coachella 2010 Day Three
Coachella 2010 — Coachella 2010 Day Two
Coachella 2010 — Coachella 2010 Day One
Coachella 2011: Day 1 — Coachella 2011: Day 1, Friday April 15
Coachella 2011: Day 2, Saturday April 16 — Coachella 2011: Day 2
Coachella 2011: Day 3, Sunday April 17 — Coachella 2011: Day 3
Coachella 2013 Weekend 2: Day 1 — Coachella 2013 Weekend 2: Day 1
Coachella 2014: Weekend 1 — Friday, April 11, 2014 - The Replacements, The Knife, HAIM, Neko Case, Bonobo, Dum Dum Girls & More
Coachella 2014: Weekend 1 — Saturday, April 12, 2014 - Lorde, Future Islands, Queens of the Stone Age, CHVRCHES, Temples, Mogwai, Warpaint & More
Coachella 2014: Weekend 1 — Sunday, April 13, 2014 - Arcade Fire, Beck, Poolside, Daughter, Disclosure, Blood Orange, Surfer Blood & More
Coachella 2015 — Charles Bradley, Stromae, Kimbra, and more
Coachella 2015: Day One — Kimbra, War on Drugs, Sylvan Esso, and More
Coachella 2015: Day Two — Belle and Sebastian, FKA Twigs, Father John Misty, and More
Coachella Day One: Friday, April 17, 2009 — Coachella 2009: Day One
Coachella Day Two: Saturday April 18, 2009 — Coachella 2009: Day Two
Cody ChesnuTT — at at Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, June 28, 2014
Colin MacIntyre — Cafe 11, January 13, 2010
Comet Kid — at Rockefeller in Oslo, Norway, Jan 20, 2015
Comic-Con 2009 - Day Three — Comic-Con 2009 - Day Three
Comic-Con 2010 - July 22, 2010 — Thursday, July 22nd 2010
Comic-Con 2011 — The Costumes
Comic-Con 2011 Day Four — Comic-Con 2011 Day Four
Comic-Con 2011 Day One — Comic-Con 2011 - Day One
Comic-Con 2011 Day Three — Comic-Con 2011 Day Three
Comic-Con 2011 Day Two — Comic-Con 2011 - Day Two
Comic-Con Day Four - July 25, 2010 — July 25th, 2010
Comic-Con Day Three - July 24, 2010 — July 24, 2010
Comic-Con Day Two - July 23, 2010 — July 23, 2010
Comic-Con 2009 - Day One — Comic-Con 2009 - Day One
Comic-Con 2009 - Day Two — Comic-Con 2009 - Day Two
Conor Oberst — at Central Park Summerstage, July 29, 2014
Conor Oberst — Fox Theater, Pomona on October 3, 2012
Conor Oberst — Photo Shoot
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile — Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile at Thalia Hall, Chicago
Cryptacize — Bowery Ballroom, New York, October 5, 2009
Crystal Antlers — Cafe 11, December 13, 2009
Crystal Castles — Crystal Castles & Doldrums at The House of Blues in Houston. April 20, 2013.
Culture Collide Festival 2012 — Culture Collide Festival, Echo Park, CA
Cursive — The El Rey June 28, 2009
Cut Copy — The Wellmont Theatre, Montclair, NJ, September 13, 2011
Cymbals Eat Guitars — September 30, 2009
Dan Deacon — at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, CA, April 5, 2013
Datarock — at Ole Bull Scene in Bergen, Norway, Dec 29, 2014
David Bazan — Cafe Eleven, St. Augustine, November 29, 2011
David Bowie — David Bowie Second Line Parade in New Orleans, January 16, 2016
David Redfern — A Look Back at the Iconic Photos of the Legendary Music Photographer
DC Universe — DC Universe Panel at Comic-Con
Deadmau5 — New Noise Music Festival and Conference in Santa Barbara Nov 3 - 6
Dead and Company — Dead and Company at Wrigley Field, Chicago
Dead Sara — at the Grammy Museum, Los Angeles, CA, May 19, 2015
Deathcrush — at Kvarteret in Bergen Norway, Oct 11, 2014
Death Cab For Cutie — Death Cab For Cutie at Revention Music Center in Houston, Texas, April 2019
Death Cab For Cutie — at the Hollywood Bowl, July 12, 2015
Death Cab For Cutie — at Chicago Theatre, Chicago Illinois, May 1, 2015
Death Cab For Cutie — Death Cab for Cutie and Surfer Blood at the Charlottesville Pavilion July 14, 2012
Death Cab For Cutie — Death Cab for Cutie and Telekinesis at the Verizon Wireless October 10, 2011
Death Cab For Cutie — Death Cab for Cutie at The Hollywood Bowl on July 5, 2009
Death Cab For Cutie — The Orpheum Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, December 10, 2015
Deerhoof — at the Teragram Ballroom, in Los Angeles, CA, September 22, 2017
Deer Tracks — The Deer Tracks at One-Eyed Gypsy in Los Angeles, CA, March 22, 2013
Delphic — Dangerbird Records Showcase
Deluna Fest 2011 - Day One — Deluna Festival, October 14, 2011, Pensacola, FL
Deluna Fest 2011 - Day Three — Deluna Fest 2011 - Day Three
Deluna Fest 2011 - Day Two — Deluna Festival, October 15, 2011, Pensacola, FL
Depeche Mode — The Hollywood Bowl, August 16, 2009
Devendra Banhart — Photo Shoot
Dexter — Dexter Panel at Comic-Con 2009
Dirty Projectors — Dirty Projectors at Rec Center Studio in Echo Park, October 31, 2009
Dirty Projectors — The Pool Parties in Brooklyn NY July 19, 2009
DIIV — at Baby's All Right in New York, New York, April 28, 2015
Divine Fits — Divine Fits at ACL Live at SXSW. March 12, 2013
Divine Fits — Divine Fits at SXSW, March 12, 2013
Doctor Who — Doctor Who Panel at Comic-Con 2009
Doctor Who 50th Anniversary — Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Convention
Dollhouse — Dollhouse panel at Comic-Con 2009
Doves — Photo Shoot
Du Blonde — at Brighton Green Door Store in Brighton, England, June 3, 2015
Eaux Claires 2017 — Eaux Claires III
EDGE: The Texas Monthly Festival 2019 — EDGE: The Texas Monthly Festival featuring St. Vincent, Leon Bridges and more
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros — Royce Hall/UCLA on May 20, 2010
Eisner Awards — The Eisner Awards at Comic-Con 2009
Elbow — at The O2 in London, England, April 16, 2014
Elbow — Elbow at The Greek Theatre October 1, 2011
Elbow — Elbow at The Wiltern July 22, 2009
Electric Daisy Carnival — Electric Daisy Carnival June 26 & 27, 2009
Electric Eye — at Landmark, in Bergen Norway, May 10, 2014
Ellis — Ellis at Central Park SummerStage, New York, NY - June 26th, 2019
elrow — elrow's Rowllywood, NYC 2019
elrow — elrow NYC
Elton John — at Oslo Spektrum, in Oslo, Norway on Nov 15, 2014
Elvis Perkins — Cafe Eleven, Friday, November 6, 2009
Empire of the Sun — Empire of the Sun at Metro Chicago - May 31st, 2019
European Music Fair 2014: Day One — We Draw A, Sorry Boys, Artur Rojek and More
European Music Fair 2014: Day Two — The Dumplings, Paula and Karol, and The Curly Heads
Evelyn Evelyn — at Largo, Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Explosions in the Sky — Explosions in the Sky at Warehouse Live in Houston, TX, June 17, 2012
Explosions in the Sky — Hollywood Palladium June 27, 2009
Fanfarlo — Bowery Ballroom, New York, New York, September 21, 2009
Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2013 — Hot Club de Ma Rue, Thus:Owls, Cat Empire
Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2013 — Signs, Street Art, and Curious People
Fever Ray — at Progresja in Warsaw, Poland, March 1, 2018
First Aid Kit — at Riviera Theatre in Chicago, IL Feb 2nd, 2018
First Aid Kit — at Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, CA Nov 12, 2014
First Aid Kit — at El Rey Theatre, in Los Angeles, CA, May 28, 2014
First Aid Kit — at by:Larm Festival, March 1, 2014
First Aid Kit — The Troubadour on November 8, 2011
Fitz & The Tantrums — Festival International de Jazz Montréal: Fitz & The Tantrums at Club Soda
Fitz & The Tantrums — Santa Barbara Bowl, June 30, 2012. Openers for Ben Harper.
Fitz & The Tantrums — New Noise Music Festival 2010 Santa Barbara, CA, November 4-6, 2010
Fjordfesten 2015: Day One — Daniel Kvammen, Kurt Nilsen, Tomas Ledin, Violet Road
Fjordfesten 2015: Day Two — Ylvis, Lissie, and More
Fleet Foxes — Photo Shoot
Florence and the Machine — Florence + The Machine in Chicago, May 24, 2019
Florence and the Machine — at the Hollywood Bowl, September 26, 2018
Florence and the Machine — Florence and the Machine at the Hollywood Bowl on October 8, 2012
Florence and the Machine — Florence and the Machine at the Santa Barbara Bowl on April 14, 2012. Photos by Robert Redfield.
Flow Festival 2015: Day One — Elliphant, Nile Rodgers, Run the Jewels and More
Flow Festival 2015: Day Three — Tove Lo and Florence and the Machine
Flow Festival 2015: Day Two — Foxygen, Future Islands, Shamir, and More
Flow Festival 2016 — Flow Festival 2016
Flying Lotus — Flying Lotus at The Brooklyn Mirage, August 30th, 2018
For The Record: Tarantino in Concert — at Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, June 26, 2014
Foster the People — at The Santa Barbara Bowl, Nov 15, 2014
Frances — Under the Radar SXSW 2009
Franz Ferdinand — Coachella 2009
Free Press Summer Fest 2010 — June 5, 2010
Free Press Summer Fest 2010 — August 9, 2009
Free Press Summer Fest 2011 — Free Press Summer Fest 2011
Free Press Summer Fest 2012, Day 1 — Free Press Summer Fest 2012: Day 1
Friendly Fires — The Music Box at Henry Fonda Theater, June 10, 2011
Friendly Fires — The El Rey, August 24, 2009
Friendly Fires — Co
Fringe — Fringe at Comic-Con 2009
Fucked Up — Hallowe'en at The Scala in London. October 31, 2011
Fucked Up — Coachella 2009: Day Three
Future Islands — at the Glass House, Pomona, CA, April 19, 2017
Future Islands — at the Hollywood Bowl, September 27, 2015
FYF Fest 2014: Day 2 — FYF Fest 2014 - Day Two
FYF Fest — Los Angeles, August 27-28, 2016
FYF Fest — Los Angeles, September 5, 2009
FYF Fest - Saturday September 1, 2012 — FYF Fest - Saturday September 1, 2012
FYF Fest - Sunday September 2, 2012 — FYF Fest - Sunday September 2, 2012
FYF Fest 2011 — FYF Fest 2011
FYF Fest 2013 - DAY 1 — FYF Fest 2013 - DAY 1 - August 24
FYF Fest 2014: Day 1 — FYF Fest 2014 - Day One
FYF Fest 2015: Day One — Purity Ring, The Drums, Savages, and More
FYF Fest 2015: Day Two — Morrissey, FKA twigs, Lower Dens and More
Gang Gang Dance — Coachella 2009: Day Two
Gardens & Villa — Gardens & Villa at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Photos by Robert Redfield.
Gary Numan — at the Yahoo Showcase, SXSW 2014
Geoff Barrow — Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury perform DROKK at Orbital Comics in London 5-16-12
Get Lost 2019 — Get Lost NYC 2019
Ginger Baker Jazz Confusion — at Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, June 39, 2014
Girls — Live
Girl Talk — Coachella 2009: Day Three
Glasvegas — The Henry Fonda Theatre July 29, 2009
Gogh Van Go — at Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, June 26, 2014
Gorillaz — Gorillaz: The Now Now Tour in Chicago
Governors Ball 2014: Days 2 & 3, June 7th & 8th, 2014 — Jack White, Vampire Weekend, Empire of the Sun, Interpol, Spoon, and Childish Gambino
Governors Ball 2014: Day 1, June 6th, 2014 — Damon Albarn, Jenny Lewis, Grimes, Phoenix, Janelle Monae, Neko Case, Kurt Vile & Washed Out
Governors Ball 2016 — June 3-5 2016
Governors Ball 2019: Friday — May 31st, 2019
Governors Ball 2019: Saturday — June 1st, 2019
Governors Ball 2019: Sunday — June 2nd, 2019
Governors Ball NYC - Day One — July 23, 2012
Grace Jones — at the Hollywood Bowl, September 27, 2015
Grandoozy Day 1 — Grandoozy Day 1
Grizzly Bear — Grizzly Bear at The Riviera, Chicago 2017
Grizzly Bear — The Hollywood Bowl September 18, 2010
Grizzly Bear — The Troubador June 20, 2009
Grizzly Bear — Photo Shoot 2009
Grizzly Bear — Live
Grizzly Bear — Pool Parties, August 30, 2009
Grouplove — Grouplove at the Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara 4-14-2017
Grouplove — Grouplove at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara 4-17-2012
Grow Up, Tony Phillips — SXSW March 12, 2013 at The Vimeo Theatre
HAIM — at The Santa Barbara Bowl, CA, April 7, 2018
HAIM — at the Forum in London, England, December 10, 2013
Halfway Festival 2015 — Sharon Van Etten, Moddi, The Antlers and More
Harvest of Hope Fest - Day One — Friday, March 12, 2010
Harvest of Hope Fest - Day Three — Sunday, March 14, 2010
Harvest of Hope Fest - Day Two — Saturday, March 13, 2010
HEALTH — The Pool Parties in Brooklyn NY July 26, 2009
Heart — at the Hollywood Bowl, August 22, 2015
Mister Heavenly — Cafe Eleven, St. Augustine, November 8, 2011
Henry Rollins — Coachella 2009: Day Two
Hercules & Love Affair — at Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, June 27, 2014
Here We Go Magic — Festival International de Jazz de Montreal: Here We Go Magic
Here We Go Magic — Live
He’s My Brother She’s My Sister — January 15, 2013 at the Hotel Cafe, Los Angeles, CA
Highasakite — and Sasha Siem at Sentrum Scene in Oslo, Norway, on April 30, 2015
Highasakite — at Rockefeller in Oslo, Norway on Oct 25, 2014
Hippo Campus — Hippo Campus in Brooklyn, NY, May 29, 2019
Hozier — Hozier at Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City, New York, November 25th, 2019
Iceland Airwaves 2015: Day Five — Hot Chip and Sleaford Mods
Iceland Airwaves 2015: Day Four — Bo Ningen, Anna B Savage, GusGus, and Kiasmos
Iceland Airwaves 2015: Day One — Agent Fresco, Vök, Reykjavíkurdætur and More
Iceland Airwaves 2015: Day Three — Perfume Genius, Bo Ningen, and More
Iceland Airwaves 2015: Day Two — Sea Change, Father John Misty, John Grant, and More
Iceland Airwaves 2016 — Iceland Airwaves 2016
Ice Cream Cathedral — at Hulen, in Bergen, Norway, May 28, 2014
Ida Maria — The Henry Fonda Theatre July 29, 2009
Iggy Pop — The Greek Theatre and April 28th
I’m With Coco - Conan O’Brien Rally — I'm With Coco Rally, January 18, 2010
Interpol — Interpol Cover Shoot Fall 2010
Interpol — Interpol and School of Seven Bells perform at the UCSB's Event Center on February 4, 2011
Interpol — The Veriozon Wireless Theatre in Houston, TX Friday October 29, 2010
Interpol — Interpol at Space 15 Twenty on September 7th 2010
Iron & Wine — Fitzgerald's, Houston, TX, November 21, 2010
Isle of Light 2017 — Isle of Light 2017
Jackson Browne — at the Beacon Theater, New York, NY, October 7th, 2014
Janelle Monáe — Janelle Monáe and of Monreal The Palladium, Los Angeles, October 29, 2010
JanSport presents the Under the Radar SXSW Party 2010 — JanSport presents the Under the Radar SXSW Party 2010
Jarvis Cocker — Photo Shoot Summer 2009
Jarvis Cocker — Jarvis Cocker at The Wiltern July 27, 2009
Jarvis Cocker — Jarvis Cocker Makes an Exhibition of Himself
Jarvis Cocker — Jarvis Cocker Makes an Exhibition of Himself (Day 2)
Jarvis Cocker — Jarvis Cocker lectures at SXSW 2009
JD McPherson — Portrait Session
Jefferson Starship — at The Santa Monica Pier, August 27, 2015
Jenny Lewis — at Welcome to the Village Festival
Jenny Lewis — "On The Line" at the Riviera Theatre, Chicago June 7th, 2019
Jenny Lewis — with Springtime Carnivore's Greta Morgan at Thalia Hall, Chicago Mar 12, 2017
Jenny Lewis — at the Observatory in Santa Ana, CA, August 26, 2015Fox Theater, Pomona on October 3, 2012
Jenny Lewis — Fox Theater, Pomona on October 3, 2012
Jenny Lewis — Coachella 2009: Day Two
Jens Lekman — at the Henry Fonda Theatre, Hollywood, CA November 6, 2012
Jens Lekman — Issue 35 - Winter 2011 Photo Shoot with Jens Lekman
Jens Lekman — SkyBar at the Mondrian Hotel, Hollywood, CA, December 4th, 2010
Jesca Hoop — Jesca Hoop at the Hotel Cafe, January 12, 2011
John Mayer — John Mayer at United Center, Chicago, IL, August 14th, 2019
Jonathan Wilson — at Landmark, in Bergen Norway, August 21, 2014
Jónsi — Jónsi at the Vic Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, November 3
Jónsi — Jónsi at the Fox Theater, Pomona, CA, October 18
Joshua Radin — and William Fitzsimmons at Nells Jazz and Blues, London England, October 12, 2018
Julia Holter — Parkteatret in Oslo, November 3rd 2015
Jungle — at the Santa Barbara Bowl, April 14, 2015
Justice — October 28, 2012 in Houston, Texas at The House of Blues
J Mascis — at Landmark, Bergen, Norway, July 3, 2015
Kaaboo Day One — Kaaboo Day One
Kaaboo Day Three — Kaaboo Day Three
Kaaboo Day Two — Kaaboo Day Two
Kacey Musgraves — Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York, October 15th, 2019
Kali Uchis — Kali Uchis at SummerStage NYC, August 18th, 2019
Kate Boy — at by:Larm Festival, March 1, 2014
Kevin Morby — Kevin Morby at Thalia Hall, Chicago, IL June 7th, 2019
KJEE Summer Roundup 2012 — Santa Barbara Bowl, June 1, 2012
Kurt Vile — at the First Unitarian Church, in Los Angeles, CA on No 21, 2014
L7 — at the Echo in Los Angeles, CA, May 28, 2015
Ladytron — Photo shoot
Larkin Poe — at Parkteatret in Oslo, Norway, April 23, 2015
Late of the Pier — Coachella 2009: Day Three
Laura Marling — at John Dee's in Oslo, Norway, May 22, 2015
Leonard Cohen — Coachella 2009
Leon Bridges — The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA March 20, 2016
Leon Bridges — Chicago Theatre 3/11/16
Leon Bridges — at The Green Mill Jazz Club in Chicago, Illinois, April 30, 2015
Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2017 — Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2017
Le Guess Who? 2013: Day Four — Destroyer, Wooden Shjips, Lonnie Holley, Damien Jurado, and Yo La Tengo
Le Guess Who 2013: Day Three — Douglas Dare, Pins, Scout Niblett, DM Stith, and Emily Wells
Le Guess Who 2013: Day Two — Wampire, Connan Mockasin, BRAIDS, and Forest Swords
Le Guess Who 2014: Day Four — St. Vincent, Owen Pallett, tUnE-yArDs, and Selda
Le Guess Who 2014: Day One — Einstürzende Neubauten, Helado Negro, and Paus
Le Guess Who? 2014: Day Three — Swans, Binkbeats, Hauschka and more
Le Guess Who? 2014: Day Two — Perfume Genius, Bonnie Prince Billy, Iceage and More
Le Guess Who? 2015: Day Four — Deerhunter, Atlas Sound, Annette Peacock, and Mikal Cronin
Le Guess Who? 2015: Day Three — Destroyer, Shabazz Palaces, Bo Ningen and More
Le Guess Who? 2015: Day One — Julia Holter, Notwist, and Majical Cloudz
Le Guess Who? 2015: Day Two — Chelsea Wolfe, Kaki King, Liima, and More
Le Guess Who? 2017 — Le Guess Who? 2017
Le Mini Who? 2013 — Bird on the Wire, Fetter, Afterpartees, and Nausica
Liars — Northside Festival at Brooklyn's Newtown Barge Park on June 26, 2010
Little Boots — The Roxy, September 18, 2009
Local Natives — Local Natives at ACL Live SXSW 2014
Local Natives — Cafe 11, Saint Augustine, FL April 29, 2010
Local Natives — Photo Shoot 2009
Lollapalooza 2009 — Sunday, August 9, 2009
Lollapalooza 2009 — Saturday, August 8, 2009
Lollapalooza 2009 — Friday, August 7, 2009
Lollapalooza 2010 Day One — July 6, 2010
Lollapalooza 2015: Day One — First Aid Kit, Sylvan Esso, MSMR, and More
Lollapalooza 2015: Day Three — Albert Hammond Jr, Marina and the Diamonds, FKA Twigs, and More
Lollapalooza 2015: Day Two — Charli XCX, Sam Smith, Django Django and More
Lollapalooza Day Three - July 8, 2010 — July 8, 2010
Lollapalooza 2010 Day Two — July 7, 2010
Lorde — at Pier 79 in New York, September 14, 2015
Los Campesinos! — Coachella 2009
Lovebox Festival 2015: Day One — Jessie Ware, Little Dragon, Flume And More
Low — at Barby in Tel Aviv, Israel, Jan 26, 2015
Lucius — SOhO Music Club, Santa Barbara, CA, May 6, 2016
Lucius — at the Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, May 2, 2015
Lush — 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C., September 21, 2016
Lykke Li — Coachella 2009: Day Three
M. Ward — Photo Shoot
M83 — at the Hollywood Bowl, September 22, 2013
M83 — The Music Box, Los Angeles, November 9, 2011
M83 — At Warehouse Live in Houston, TX.
M83 — at Terminal 5 in New York, May 10, 2012
M83 — Photo Shoot
MacGruber Panel at SXSW Film 2010 — Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Magnolia Electric Co. — The Pool Parties in Brooklyn NY July 19, 2009
Make Music Pasadena, 2011 — Make Music Pasadena in Pasadena, CA, June 18, 2011
Make Music Pasadena 2012 — Make Music Pasadena 2012
Man Man — Cafe Eleven, St. Augustine, June 14, 2012
Marika Hackman — with alt-j at Torwar in Warsaw, Poland, Feb 5, 2018
Martha Wainwright — Festival International de Jazz de Montréal: Martha Wainwright
Massive Attack — Massive Attack at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York, September 26th, 2019
Mayer Hawthorne — Brooklyn Bowl, New York, October 3, 2009
Melt! Festival 2015: Day One — Tove Lo, Nils Frahm, La Roux, and More
Memory Tapes — Live at The Troubadour in Los Angeles, CA on July 23, 2011
MENT 2017 — MENT Festival 2017
Metric — The Hollywood Palladium, March 26, 2010
Mew — Sentrum Scene, Oslo Norway, October 25, 2015
Mew — The Henry Fonda, December 14, 2009
Mew — The Troubadour, September 1, 2009
Mew — “Mewseum” August 31, 2009
Michel Gondry — A Conversation With Michel Gondry. Sunday March 14, 2010 at SXSW 2010.
Michel Gondry — Michel Gondry's documentary screened Saturday March 13, 2010 at SXSW 2010. Photos by Iman Mannie Saqr
Middle Kids — Middle Kids & Local Natives at Brooklyn Steel, June 7th, 2019
Midlake — Cafe 11, January 8, 2010
MØ — at The Wiltern, in Los Angeles, CA, February 7, 2019
Moby — at the Henry Fonda Theatre, October 2, 2013
Monotonix — Cafe 11, January 25, 2010
More photos from SXSW 2010 — Photos from SXSW 2010
Morgan Delt — at Landmark, in Bergen, Norway, May 19, 2014
Morrissey — Morrissey at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, November 26, 2011
Morrissey — Morrissey Fans at the Shrine Auditorium, November 26, 2011
MS MR — Parkteatret in Oslo, Norway Sept. 10, 2015
Mumford & Sons — Santa Barbara Bowl, April 18, 2011
Mumford & Sons — Stubbs BBQ in Austin, TX on November 3, 2010
Mumford & Sons — Live - SXSW 2009
Music Go Music — The Roxy, September 18, 2009
Music Go Music — Photo Shoot 2008
My Bloody Valentine — Coachella 2009: Day Three
My Morning Jacket — My Morning Jacket at Forest Hills Stadium, NYC, August 10th, 2019
My Morning Jacket — My Morning Jacket at the Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara, CA, July 2, 2011
M For Montreal 2017 — M For Montreal 2017
Natalie Prass — at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, California, May 19, 2015
Natalie Prass — at Plan 9 Records in Richmond, VA on February 3, 2015
Neko Case — at Hulen, in Bergen, Norway, August 10, 2014
Neon Indian — Neon Indian at The Henry Fonda Theater, October 1st, 2010
New Noise Music Festival 2010 — Santa Barbara, CA, November 4-6, 2010
New Noise Music Festival 2011 — New Noise Music Festival 2011
New Orleans Jazz Fest 2010 — New Orleans Jazz Fest 2010
New Orleans Jazz Fest 2011 — New Orleans Jazz Fest 2011, April 29
New Orleans Jazz Fest 2013 — New Orleans Jazz Fest 2013 Second Weekend
New Orleans Jazz Fest 2013 — New Orleans Jazz Fest 2013 First Weekend
Nils Frahm — at El Rey Theatre, in Los Angeles, CA, Nov 14, 2014
Noah and the Whale — Photo Shoot
No Age — Coachella 2009: Day Three
Obama Foundation #ObamaSummit Concert — Obama Foundation #ObamaSummit Community Concert with Chance the Rapper, Lin-Manuel Miranda and The National in Chicago
Off Festival 2010: Day Three — Off Festival: Day 3
Off Festival 2010: Day Two — July 7, 2010
Off Festival 2010: Opening Night — Off Festival 2010: Opening Night, Matmos and Ecstatic Sunshine
OFF Festival 2013: Day 1 — OFF Festival 2013: Day One
OFF Festival 2013: Day 2 — OFF Festival 2013: Day Two
OFF Festival 2013: Day 3 — OFF Festival 2013: Day Three
OFF Festival 2015: Day One — Young Fathers, Susanne Sundfør, The Residents, and More
OFF Festival 2015: Day Three — The Julie Ruin, Run the Jewels, and More
OFF Festival 2015: Day Two — Xiu Xiu, King Khan, Ride, and More
Off Festival 2016 — Off Festival 2016
Off Festival 2010: Day One — Off Festival 2010: Day One
Of Monsters and Men — at The Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA, May 17, 2015
Of Monsters and Men — at Riviera Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, May 12, 2015
of Montreal — of Montreal at The Bell House, Brooklyn, NY, October 27, 2019
Ohmme — In The Studio: Ohmme
Okkervil River — Coachella 2009: Day Three
OK Go — at The Independent in San Francisco, CA, July 16, 2014
Open’er 2015: Day One — Modest Mouse, Father John Misty, alt-j and More
Open’er 2015: Day Two — Oxford Drama, The Libertines, Faithless, and More
Open’er Festival 2014: Day 1 — Coldair, The Black Keys, HAIM, and Foster the People
Open’er Festival 2014: Day 2 — MØ, We Draw A, and Darkside
Open’er Festival 2014: Day 3 — Foals, Jack White, Lykke Li, and KAMP!
Open’er Festival 2014: Day 4 — Phoenix, The Horrors, Warpaint, Daughter, and More
Open’er Festival 2015: Day Three — Thurston Moore, Jose Gonzalez, D'Angelo, and More
Open’er Festival 2015: Day Four — Elliphant, St. Vincent, Patrick the Pan, and More
Osheaga 2018 — Osheaga 2018
Outside Lands — Outside Lands 2017 - Day One
Outside Lands — Outside Lands 2017 - Day Two
Outside Lands — Outside Lands 2014 - Behind the Scenes
Outside Lands 2010 - Day One — July 14, 2010
Outside Lands 2010 - Day Two — August 15, 2010
Outside Lands 2011 - Day One — Outside Lands 2010 - Day One
Outside Lands 2011 - Day Three — Outside Lands 2011 - Day Three
Outside Lands 2011 - Day Two — Outside Lands 2011 - Day Two
Outside Lands 2011 - Extras — Outside Lands 2011 - Extras
Outside Lands 2012 - Day One — Friday August 10, 2012 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco
Outside Lands 2012 - Day Three — Sunday, August 12, 2012 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco
Outside Lands 2012 - Day Two — Saturday, August 11, 2012 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco
Outside Lands 2018 — Outside Lands 2018
Palma Violets — at Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles, CA, June 6, 2015
Panorama 2017 — Panorama 2017
Paper Heart — Paper Heart Panel at Comic-Con 2009
Passion Pit — Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield, New York, New York, September 26th, 2009
Patrick Wolf — Photo Shoot Summer 2009
Paul Banks — December 5 at the Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Paul McCartney — at the Telenor Arena in Oslo, Norway, July 7, 2015
Paul McCartney — Coachella 2009
Paul Weller — Coachella 2009: Day Three
Pepper Rabbit — Viper Room, February 26, 2010
Perfume — at The Theatre at Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, April 19, 2019
Periferifestivalen 2014 — Periferifestivalen 2014
Peter Bjorn and John — KJEE Summer Roundup Show, Santa Barbara Bowl, June 3, 2011
Peter Murphy — Photo Shoot
Phases — at Jewels Catch One in Los Angeles, CA, June 25, 2015
Phoenix — Phoenix in Paris, France 2017
Phoenix — Phoenix at the Hollywood Bowl, September 18th, 2010
Phoenix — Verizon Wireless Theatre, Houston, TX April 30, 2010
Phoenix — Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield, New York, New York, September 26th, 2009
Piknik i Parken 2015 Day Two — Douglas Dare, Postiljonen, Villagers, and More
Piknik i Parken 2015 Day One — Temples, Matthew E. White, Hanne Kolstø and More
Piknik i Parken 2015 Day Three — Modest Mouse, José Gonzalés, James Blake, and More
Pitchfork Festival 2015: Day One — CHVRCHES, Natalie Prass, Tobias Jesso Jr, and More
Pitchfork Festival 2015: Day Three — Courtney Barnett, Caribou, Run the Jewels and More
Pitchfork Festival 2015: Day Two — Future Islands, New Pornographers, Bully, and More
Pitchfork Music Festival — Pitchfork Music Festival, July 19 2009
Pitchfork Music Festival 2013 Day One — Pitchfork Music Festival 2013 Day One
Pitchfork Music Festival 2013 Day Three — Pitchfork Music Festival 2013 Day Three
Pitchfork Music Festival 2013 Day Two — Pitchfork Music Festival 2013 Day Two
Pitchfork Music Festival 2017 — Pitchfork Music Festival 2017
Plants and Animals — with Lost in the Trees at The Troubadour on May 27, 2010
Porcelain Raft — Porcelain Raft
Portugal. The Man — at Santa Barbara Bowl, April 25, 2014
Positivus Festival 2017 — Positivus Festival
Primal Scream — SXSW 2009
Psych — Psych panel at Comic-Con 2009
Public Enemy — Coachella 2009: Day Three
Pulp — Radio City Music Hall, April 10, 2012
Pure Bathing Culture — at the Hype Hotel, SXSW 2014
Quantic — at Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, June 29, 2014
Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band — at Ole Bull Scene, Bergen Norway, on December 26, 2014
Ra Ra Riot — Ra Ra Riot at Fitzgerald's in Houston, TX. February 21, 2013.
Robert Plant — at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, CA, June 3, 2015
Rose Elinor Dougall — Photo Shoot
Roskilde Festival 2016 — Roskilde Festival 2016
Rufus Wainwright — at Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, June 29, 2014
Ryan Adams — and Natalie Prass at Sentrum Scene in Oslo, Norway, March 13, 2015
Ryley Walker — at Chopin Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, March 30, 2015
Saint Etienne — November 3, 2012, at the Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles CA
San Fermin — at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, California, May 19, 2015
San Fermin — San Fermin and Alexander von Mehren at SXSW
Sasquatch Festival 2013 — Sasquatch 2013
Sasquatch Music Festival 2010 — Sasquatch! Music Festival 2010
Secret Solstice — Secret Solstice Festival
Seigmen — at USF VERFET in Bergen, Norway, April 17, 2015
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings — SXSW: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, March 14, 2013
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings — SXSW: Sharon Jones at The Daptone Soul Revue, March 14, 2013
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings — The Wiltern on June 26, 2010
Sharon Van Etten — European Tour
She & Him — at the Hollywood Bowl, June 23, 2013
She & Him — She & Him at the Hollywood Bowl, July 18 2010
Shining — at Trolltunga, Norway, June 21, 2015
Shining — at Kvarteret in Bergen Norway, Oct 11, 2014
Shout Out Louds — at The El Rey, Friday May 21, 2010, with Freelance Whales
Shout Out Louds — Photo Shoot
Silja Sol — at Hulen in Bergen, Norway, Jan 30, 2015
Sleater-Kinney — at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, Feb 17, 2015
Sled Island 2017 — Sled Island 2017
Sled Island Music & Arts Festival 2014 — Colorful Characters and Street Fashion
Sled Island Music & Arts Festival 2014: Days 1 & 2 June 18 & 19th, 2014 — Chelsea Wolfe, Operators, Basia Bulat and More
Sled Island Music & Arts Festival 2014: Day 3 — Dan Deacon, Renny Wilson, Bry Webb and More
Sled Island Music & Arts Festival 2014: Day 4 — St. Vincent, Spiritualized, and Doug Hoyer
Sleep — Sleep Performing Sleep’s Holy Mountain at Brooklyn Masonic Temple, September 8th, 2010
Sleigh Bells — Sleigh Bells & Sunflower Bean at White Oak Music Hall in Houston, Texas February 2018
Slottsfjell 2016 — Slottsfjell 2016
Smith Westerns — Exclusive photo shoot from Under the Radar Winter 2011
Soko — Photo Shoot
Soko — at the Bootleg Theater, Los Angeles, CA March 30, 2015
Sóley — at Fríkirkjan in Reykjavík, Iceland, June 11, 2015
Sondre Lerche — at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, CA, May 4, 2017
Sondre Lerche — at USF in Bergen, Norway, on Nov 8, 2014
Sonic Youth — Prospect Park, NYC on July 31, 2010
Soulsavers — Capitol Records Building, Hollywood, CA July 21, 2012
Sparklehorse — Photoshoot 2006
Speedy Ortiz — at The Bowery Ballroom, in New York, New york, April 25, 2015
Spoon — Sprint Pavilion, Charlottesville, VA July 19, 2017
Spoon — Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL 2/1/10
St. Vincent — St. Vincent at Stubb's Austin Official 2018 ACL Fest Late Night Show, Austin, Texas, October 5th, 2018
St. Vincent — St. Vincent at the House of Blues in Houston, Texas, February 20, 2018
St. Vincent — at Celebrate Brooklyn. August 9, 2014
St. Vincent — St. Vincent at the NPR SXSW Showcase in Austin, TX
St. Vincent — St. Vincent at The Glass House in Pomona, CA, April 19, 2012
St. Vincent — at The Orpheum Theater, in Madison, Wisconsin, May 26, 2015
Stavernfestivalen 2015: Day One — Highasakite, The Kooks, and More
Stavernfestivalen 2015: Day Three — Elton John, XOV, Børns, and More
Stavernfestivalen 2015: Day Two — Leon Bridges, Pharrell Williams, Tinashe, and More
Stromae — at Club Nokia, Los Angeles, CA, April 14, 2015
STS9 — STS9 at Brooklyn Mirage, Brooklyn, New York, September 20th, 2019
Sufjan Stevens — at The Dorothy Chandler in Los Angeles, CA, June 4, 2015
Sufjan Stevens — December 4 at the Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Sufjan Stevens — The Wiltern, Los Angeles, October 23, 2010
Sufjan Stevens — Bowery Ballroom, New York, October 5, 2009
Sunn O))) — Sunn O))) & Boris present Altar at Brooklyn Masonic Temple, September 7th, 2010
Swans — at USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway, May 7, 2015
SXSW 2015 Party — of Montreal, Mew, East India Youth, Jacco Gardner, SOAK, Matthew E. White and Pompeii
SXSW 2016 Party — Flamingo Cantina, Austin, TX March 16, 2016
SXSW - Friday, March 19, 2010 — Day Three
SXSW - Saturday, March 20, 2010 — Day Four
SXSW - Thursday, March 18, 2010 — Day Two
SXSW - Wednesday, March 17, 2010 — Day One - Part One
SXSW 2009 - Thursday, March 19th — Thursday, March 19th
SXSW 2009 - Wednesday, March 18th — March 18th, 2009
SXSW 2011 — SXSW 2011 - Thursday, March 17
SXSW 2011 — The Under the Radar SXSW Day Party 2011 - Thursday, March 17
SXSW 2011 — SXSW 2011 - Wednesday, March 16
SXSW 2011 - Thursday, March 17, 2011 — SXSW 2011 - Thursday, March 17
SXSW 2011 - Wednesday, March 16, 2011 — SXSW 2011 - Wednesday, March 16
SXSW 2011 — Friday, March 18, 2011 — Toro Y Moi, Revolver, Puro Instinct, and more
SXSW 2011 — Saturday, March 19, 2011 — Childish Gambino, Trentemoller, and EMA.
SXSW 2012 Wednesday March 14, 2012 — SXSW 2012 Wednesday March 14, 2012
SXSW 2014 — Saturday, March 15, 2014 - Temples, Alexander von Mehren & Fat White Family
SXSW 2014 — Friday, March 14, 2014 - Angel Olsen, Real Estate, Jungle, PINS & The Fresh & Onlys
SXSW 2014 — Thursday, March 13, 2014 - Jagwar Ma & HAERTS
SXSW 2014 — Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - St. Vincent, Claire, Ballet School & Lowell
SXSW 2015 — Under the Radar SXSW Saturday Night Showcase - TORRES, San Fermin, Amason, Boxed In, Springtime Carnivore, Dinner, Talk In Tongues
SXSW 2015 — The War on Drugs, Courtney Barnett, Laura Marling, The Twilight Sad and More!
SXSW 2015 Day One — East India Youth, Shura, and Kate Tempest
SXSW 2015 Day Two — Stromae at Fader Fort
SXSW Party 2014: Day One — Under the Radar SXSW Party, March 12, 2014
SXSW Party 2014: Day Three — Under the Radar SXSW Party, March 14, 2014
SXSW Party 2014: Day Two — Under the Radar SXSW Party, March 13, 2014
Sylvan Esso — with Flock of Dimes at the Hollywood Palladium, August 25, 2017
Sylvan Esso — at the Regent Theatre in Los Angeles, April 15, 2015.
Sylvan Esso — at the Metro in Chicago, Illinois, March 14, 2015
Sylvan Esso — at The Santa Barbara Bowl, Nov 15, 2014
Sylvan Esso — Sylvan Esso at the Beacon Theatre, New York City, November 17, 2019
Sylvan Esso — Sylvan Esso at The Vic Theatre Chicago
Tallinn Music Week 2015 Day One — Lowly, The Sexican, Rune Funch Picture Group, and Super Besse
Tallinn Music Week 2015 Day Three — Bendik, MiaMee, JoyCut, and More
Tallinn Music Week 2015 Day Two — Vashti Bunyan, Cirkl, Ingrid Lukas and More
Tallinn Music Week 2016 — Tallinn Music Week 2016
Tame Impala — at Riviera Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, May 15, 2015
Tame Impala — Tame Impala and The Growl at Fitzgerald's in Houston, TX. February 25, 2013.
Tauron Nowa Muzyka — Tauron Nowa Muzyka
teamLab Borderless — Team Lab Borderless
Team Me — at USF in Bergen, Norway, on Oct 2, 2014
Tegan and Sara — Tegan and Sara at Santa Barbara Bowl, October 2, 2012
Telekinesis — Telekinesis at The Parish in Austin, Texas, March 14, 2013
Telekinesis — SXSW: Telekinesis at Merge Records' SXSW Showcase, March 14, 2013
Telekinesis — Telekinesis and The Love Language at The Echo on February 25, 2011
Telekinesis — with Nada Surf at The Troubadour, May 26, 2010
Telekinesis — Spring 2009
Aloe Blacc — Backbooth in Orlando, FL on November 24, 2010
The Bird and the Bee — The Bird and The Bee at the Hollywood Bowl, July 18 2010
The Black Keys — LET'S ROCK! Tour with Modest Mouse at Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York, October 15, 2019
The Black Keys — Santa Barbara Bowl October 2, 2012
Black Lips — The Pool Parties in Brooklyn NY July 26, 2009
The Civil Wars — February 1, 2012 at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
The Creators Project: New York 2011 — The Creators Project: New York 2011
The Cult — The Cult, August 18 ,2012, Venura Theater, Ventura, California
The Cure — Coachella 2009: Day Three
The Dears — The Dears at The Echoplex, Silverlake, CA May 23, 2009
The Decemberists — at the Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, May 2, 2015
The Decemberists — at Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois, March 23, 2015
The Decemberists — Portland, OR July 18, 2009
The Decemberists — The Decemberists at the Hollywood Palladium on May 19, 2009
The Dillinger Escape Plan — at El Corazon in Seattle, Washington, April 19, 2014
The Dodos — Rock & Roll Hotel, Washington, DC, October 10, 2009
The Dodos — The Getty Center August 8, 2009
The Flaming Lips — All State Arena, Rosemont, IL, December 11, 2009
The Flaming Lips — The Greek Theatre, August 17, 2009
The Glitch Mob — at The Santa Barbara Bowl, May 30, 2015
The Governors Ball NYC Music Festival 2013 — The Governors Ball NYC Music Festival 2013
The Great Escape Festival 2012 — Photos from The Great Escape Festival 2012
The Great Escape Festival 2015 Day One — Ibeyi, Lapsley, Jack Garratt, and More
The Great Escape Festival 2015 Day Three — Swim Deep, Paul Weller, The Maccabees, and More
The Great Escape Festival 2015 Day Two — Alabama Shakes, Blaue blume, Seinabo Sey, and More
The Head and the Heart — at The Theatre at Ace Hotel on Nov 22, 2014
The Henry Miller Library Benefit Concert — Philip Glass & Joanna Newsom with Tim Fain Monday 25th June 2012 Warfield, Theatre San Francisco
The Hold Steady — Coachella 2009
The Horrors — The El Rey, Los Angeles, September 15, 2011
The Horrors — Photo Shoot 2009
The Landmark Music Festival 2015 — September 26-27, 2015 - Washington D.C.
The National — at The Hollywood Palladium, September 20, 2018
The National — at Civic Opera House, Chicago 2017
The National — at Santa Barbara Bowl, April 25, 2014
The National: Homecoming Festival 2018 — The National: Homecoming Festival
The Night Running Tour — The Night Running Tour | Featuring Spoon, Cage The Elephant and Beck at Chicago's Northerly Island
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart — at Landmark, in Bergen Norway, August 13, 2014
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart — at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, California, May 7, 2014
The Prisoner — The Prisoner Panel at Comic-Con 2009
The Raconteurs — The Raconteurs at Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City, New York, September 5th, 2019
The Railroad Revival Tour — The Railroad Revival Tour, Austin Tx, April 26, 2011
The Revivalists — The Revivalists and Anderson East at The Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, September 13th, 2019
The Rural Alberta Advantage — Live
The Simpsons — The Simpsons Panel at Comic-Con 2009
The Smashing Pumpkins — The Ace, Los Angeles, March 27, 2016
The Swell Season — The Swell Season at the Hollywood Bowl, July 28 2010
The Under the Radar Great Escape Party 2012 — Under the Radar's Great Escape Party 2012 - May 10, 2012
The Under the Radar SXSW Day Party 2011 - Friday, March 18 — The Under the Radar SXSW Day Party 2011 - Thursday, March 17
The Under the Radar SXSW Day Party 2011 - Thursday, March 17 — The Under the Radar SXSW Day Party 2011 - Thursday, March 17
The Violent Femmes — Violent Femmes and Ben Folds at Pier 17, NYC, August 2019
The Violent Femmes — Observatory OC, May 8, 2016
The Weeknd — Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara, CA for Sep 14, 2013
The xx — The Aragon, Chicago, IL May 1, 2017
The xx — The xx and Austra at The House of Blues in Houston, TX. February 9, 2013.
Throbbing Gristle — Coachella 2009: Day Three
Thus Owls — at Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, June 30, 2014
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Wrigley Field, Chicago
Tool — Tool at United Center, Chicago, IL, November 3rd, 2019
Torchwood — Torchwood Panel at Comic-Con 2009
Toro y Moi — Toro y Moi, Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, New York, November 8th, 2019
TOY — Photos of Toy from March 14, 2013 at Cedar Street Courtyard in Austin, Texas.
TOY — TOY at the Cedar Street Courtyard, March 14, 2013
Treasure Island Music Festival - Day One — October 16, 2010
Treasure Island Music Festival - Day Two — October 17, 2010
Trombone Shorty — at Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, June 30, 2014
Trondheim Calling 2015: Day 1 — Barren Womb and Carnival Kids
Trondheim Calling 2015: Day 2 — Broen, The Fjords, and Hanne Kolstø
Trondheim Calling 2015: Day 3 — Angelica's Elegy, Moddi, Frøkedal, and Conor Patrick & The Shooting Tsar Orchestra
True Blood — True Blood Panel at Comic-Con 2009
TV Guide Magazine: Sci Fi Hot List — TV Guide Magazine: Sci Fi Hot List Panel at Comic-Con 2009
TV on the Radio — at Reckless and Chicago Metro, March 24, 2015
TV on the Radio — Coachella 2009: Day Two
24 — 24 Panel at Comic-Con 2009
Twin Peaks — at Music Hall of Williamsburg, New York, May 2, 2015
Tycho — Tycho at SummerStage Central Park, New York City, New York, September 19, 2019
Ty Segall — at The Echo, in Los Angeles, CA, August 29, 2014
U2 — Angel Stadium in Anaheim, CA June 17, 2011
U2 eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour 2018 at United Center, Chicago — U2 eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour 2018 at United Center, Chicago
Under the Radar SXSW 2012 Day Party - Friday March 16, 2012 — Under the Radar SXSW 2012 Day Party - Friday March 16, 2012
Under the Radar SXSW 2012 Day Party - Thursday March 15, 2012 — Under the Radar SXSW 2012 Day Party - Thursday March 15, 2012
Under the Radar SXSW 2012 Day Party - Wednesday March 14, 2012 — Under the Radar SXSW 2012 Day Party - Wednesday March 14, 2012
Under the Radar SXSW Party 2009 — Under the Radar SXSW 2009
Under the Radar SXSW Party 2013: Day 2 — SXSW Under The Radar Day Party 2
Under the Radar SXSW Party 2013: Day 2 — Under the Radar SXSW Party, March 13, 2013
Unknown Mortal Orchestra — at Landmark in Bergen, Norway, July 14, 2015
V — V Panel at Comic-Con 2009
Vampire Weekend — Vampire Weekend at White Oak Music Hall in Houston, Texas
Vampire Weekend — Vampire Weekend, Beach House, and the Very Best at The Hollywood Bowl, September 26th, 2010
Vince Staples — Vince Staples at House of Vans Chicago - June 1st, 2019
Virgil Abloh — Virgil Abloh's "Figures of Speech" at MCA Chicago
Viva Voce — Photo Shoot 2009
Vivian Girls — Coachella 2009: Day Three
Vök — Vök at Niebo in Warsaw, Poland, Feb 28, 2018
Warsaw Orange Festival — Warsaw Orange Festival
Washed Out — and Kisses at El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, CA, January 27, 2013
Wavves — Wavves & FIDLAR at Fitzgeralds in Houston, Texas. April 18, 2013.
Way Out West 2013: Day One — Way Out West 2013: Day One
Way Out West 2013: Day Three — Way Out West 2013: Day Three
Way Out West 2013: Day Two — Way Out West 2013: Day Two
Way Out West 2017 — Way Out West 2017
Way Over Yonder - Day Two — Way Over Yonder 2013 - Day Two
Way Over Yonder 2013 - Day One — Way Over Yonder 2013 - Day One
Weezer — at the OC Observatory, Santa Ana, California, on Dec 18, 2014
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Welcome to the Village 2019 — Welcome to the Village 2019
We Have Band — Live
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White Lies — Coachella 2009
White Sea — at the Yahoo Showcase, SXSW 2014
Whitney — Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, New York, October 4th, 2019
Wilco — at CityFolk in Ottawa, Canada
Wild Moccasins — Wild Moccasins at Satellite Bar In Houston, Texas
Wild Nothing — The Southern Cafe, Charlottesville, VA September 26, 2012
Will Butler — at Lincoln Hall in Chicago, Illinois, June 5, 2015
Will Sergeant — My Own Worst Enemy, Substrate Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Woodkid — at Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, June 26, 2014
Woodkid — Festival International de Jazz Montréal 2013: Mozart's Sister and Woodkid
X Ambassadors — X Ambassadors at The Warfield, San Francisco, California, November 19th, 2019
Yann Tiersen — at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, January 29, 2011
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Coachella 2009: Day Three
Yeasayer — First Fridays at the Natural History Museum, February 5, 2010
Younghusband — at Sonic Cathedral in London, England. December 9, 2013
Yo La Tengo — The Roseland Ballroom, September 25th, 2009
Yuck — Exclusive photo shoot from Under the Radar Winter 2011
Zola Jesus — at Webster Hall, New York, NY, Oct 19, 2014
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DOCUMENT: Celebrity, Sex
New Shirtless "Elmo" Accuser Files Lawsuit
New Yorker, 24, claims underage sex with puppeteer
Elmo Accuser Complaint
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/elmo-accuser-complaint
NOVEMBER 20--Here’s the lawsuit filed today by a 24-year-old New York City man who alleges that he engaged in underage sexual contact with Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash--and just realized that he has suffered “adverse psychological and emotional effects” as a result of that alleged relationship.
In a U.S. District Court complaint, Cecil Singleton, 24, claims that he met Clash on a gay chat line about nine years ago, when he was 15. Singleton alleges that Clash, 50, trolled such chat line rooms “to meet and have sex with underage boys.”
Clash, Singleton charges, was secretly “preying on teenage boys to satisfy his depraved sexual interests,” while working for Sesame Street, where his life was “centered around the entertainment of toddlers.” Clash resigned his Sesame Street job today, saying that “personal matters have diverted attention away from the important work Sesame Street is doing and I cannot allow it to go on any longer.”
Singleton, whose lawsuit is seeking damages in excess of $5 million, claims that Clash coerced him into “numerous” sexual encounters by “among other things, taking him to nice dinners and giving him money.”
According to the lawsuit, Singleton only recently became aware of the damage caused by his sexual relationship with Clash. That realization, of course, coincided with media reports that a Pennsylvania man had charged that he was only 16 when he began engaging in sexual activity with Clash.
Singleton’s complaint was filed by Jeff Herman, a Miami attorney who has previously handled several high profile cases brought by alleged sexual abuse victims. Last week, Herman wrote on his law firm’s blog that he was disappointed with media coverage of the first Clash accuser’s claims.
When Herman this morning filed the original complaint against Clash, it asserted that Singleton began having sex with Clash in 1993 (when the accuser would have been five). An amended copy of the complaint noted that Singleton was born in 1988 and that the alleged sexual activity with Clash commenced around 2003.
As seen above, Singleton’s Facebook and MySpace pages are filled with provocative photos (click to enlarge) of Clash’s accuser, who lives in Harlem and describes himself as a “complex and different individual” who prides himself on being “subversive and original.” Several photos show him frolicking on the beach.
On his Facebook page, Singleton writes that, “I think one of the most important things in this life is to have a positive impact on the people around you and to have ambition to be the kind of person you can be proud of.”
Last May, Singleton uploaded the above photo showing himself mooning the camera while in a New York City subway car (he had dropped his jeans to reveal underwear imprinted with the word “Gorgeous”). In an accompanying caption, Singleton wrote that while his mother has accused him of being an “exhibitionist,” he was “raised to see my body as beautiful. So as an adult, I perceived it as exactly that.” Adding that he appreciates “every curve and sex appeal,” Singleton declared, “So if I decide to take erotic pictures, or flash my ‘poonanie’, it is my prerogative & there isn’t a damn thing wrong with it.”
Singleton’s MySpace profile describes him as gay and lists his heroes as “Catwoman Xena Buffy Angelina Jolie.” (5 pages)
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2013 Summer TV Shows
This has been an interesting summer with a lot of different shows as well as the usual shows. Suits is just over the top good, Devious was an interesting introduction and so is Graceland. And I never get tired of Franklin & Bash, I just wish there were more episodes to enjoy.
Falling Skies – Haven’t finished it, but its getting intense
Franklin & Bash – Loving the show as usual, but not more Epic then the last season
Suits – This season is Epic, its ridiculous how good its gotten
Devious Maids – This turned out to be a surprise of a show, the maids know everything
Royal Pains – This show is just as good as usual, I do enjoy Dr Lawson
The Newsroom – Haven’t started it yet, but really looking forward to it.
Graceland – A pretty interesting Interagency Law Enforcement Team in Malibu, a complex action show
Under the Dome – Halfway through it, still confused as to the dome but very interesting to see whats happening with people
Rookie Blue – This season isn’t as good as the previous one
Ray Donovan – Crazy show, just the first two episodes and its over the top
2013 Action CBS Comedy Fox FX NBC Shows Summer Television TV USA
2013 TV Shows That Got Axed
May 11, 2013. 2013
So many good shows went out the window, I’m seriously surprised that they cancelled so many when they were so entertaining, but a lot of good shows got renewed which I’m happy they made it. This doesn’t even include the new shows like JJ Abram’s “Believe” and the rest of the new line up.
Shows Cancelled:
Touch – Jack Bauer Can Go to 24
Whitney – 2nd Season and Done, I thought it was funny
1600 Penn – This Show Was Funny, I Don’t Know Why It Was Canceled After The First Season
Guys With Kids – Come On It Was Funny, Why Was It Cancelled
Up All Night – Didn’t Know Where It Was Going
Don’t Trust The Bitch In Apt23 – That Went Out Quick
Animal Practice – This Was Axed Early On
Shows Coming To An End:
30 Rock – This Show Was Entertaining
The Office – Can’t Believe Its Coming To An End, Only A Few More Episodes
Renewed Shows:
2013 ABC Action Cable Cancelations CBS Comedy Criminal Drama Drama Fox FX May NBC Renewals Television TV USA
Show Are Back On January
January 9, 2013. 2013
Its about a month since all the shows went into hibernation for the month of December but things have kicked off again. Its nice to see a few funny episodes inbetween all the serious shows I have been watching. Some shows I’m going to leave to pile up a bit before catching up with them, and the rest I will enjoy like Go On, Guys With Kids, Chicago Fire, Person Of interest, The Big Bang Theory, too many good shows out there. The odd one though in this mix is The Transporter, new show but it feels weird that Jason Statham isn’t in it, like he got replaced with a crappy double, but I will give this show a chance.
Just Started Up
Don’t Trust The Bitch in Apartment 23
Two & A Half Men
One New Show:
The Transporter – The Series
2013 ABC Action CBS Comedy Drama Fox FX NBC Thriller TV USA
The Hidden Comedy – The League
Fantasy Football is at the core of The League, a comedy that explores how the online sports obsession affects marriages, friendships, families, and completely shuts down Sundays. The comedy will be partially improvised, with the team from Curb Your Enthusiasm behind it.
I am very surprised I didn’t see or hear about this show before, its running on its fourth season, and if you like anything about American Football then you have to watch this show. Honestly if you know even a little bit about sports, you have to watch this show, these guys are so ridiculous and over the top competitive then you can’t help but laugh your head off. I finished season 1 in two days, and probably season 2 in couple more, when ever I feel like a light comedy with a bunch of guys this is it. If you haven’t seen it then you are miss out because these guys are nuts about football. They do some crazy funny shit!
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Summer TV Wrap Up
September 10, 2012. 2012
The unexpected Aaron Sorkin TV Show which caused some drama, a controversial drama about a news studio and its people, with the main news anchor as the main character. This is one very intense show that pulls you in from the first few episodes, I ended up waiting at the edge from week to week to watch the show. It takes shot at every political party, trying to put the truth out and ruffling a lot of feathers and it just keeps getting better and better. For a summer show its amazing, I can’t believe that it is only 10 episodes and we are going to have to wait until next summer to watch where this is going.
The second season turned out to be even more intense then the first one, and honestly I didn’t think that they could do better. Harvey was in a battle for his life in some of these cases as well as within the firm. Mike as usual was the genius that helped piece things together with him. The characters get more intertwined and it was a hell of a season with every episode worth watching. i just can’t get enough of Mike as a smart ass, its fun seeing his genius play out in the show. If you haven’t seen Suits then you are really missing out.
These guys just do it again, keeping things funny and interesting in Enfeld & Daniels. This time around they take a more direct roll within the firm and things get a little more crazy with Franklin’s father tries to take over the firm. The season finale was funny, these guys make for a fantastic combination and Pendy there assistant is just hilarious. Its annoying that we have to wait so long for this comedy to come back
Season 2 just took one hell of a twist, they made it through, they got deeper into the fight against the aliens. The 2nd Mass start hitting them where it hurts, they make progress to find their base or the new capital. The story gets more complex and even more interesting then last season with the introduction of the overlords, you get to see some intense battles new alien weapons are introduced and they are disgusting. Just as they take the fit to them, the season finale was one hell of a cliffhanger, I can’t wait for next season luckily the show was renewed for another season from 2nd episode of season 2
Action Break Down CBS FX Lawyer NBC Review Summer TV USA Wrap Up
TV Shows Recap
August 14, 2012. 2012
This show turned out to be a lot more twisted then I even expected and I loved it. Trying to get Revenge for her father who were framed by this family, and things just keep taking deeper turns, you never really know whats happening. Amanda Clark/Emily is one tough cold hearted woman who will do what is needed, and show finally just goes over the top.
I’m a huge fan of Kiefer Sutherland since 24, and I still refer to him as Jack Bauer, so I was waiting to see this show about his amazing son and Kiefer Sutherland as the father. It starts out a bit slow, trying to figure out what his son is trying to say, while he is a genius who can see all the fabrics of events of cause and effect across the world, its amazing. The show gets even better as it progressed, I can’t wait for season two to start in October.
It’s Aaron Sorkin’s new Drama about a Newscast and the channel they are working for. To sum it up simply its a very dramatic amazing show and I love how they tie the current events that have taken place to how the show is developing. If you haven’t seen it then you should, its just that good.
The Scifi show about a cop from the future chasing criminals into the past who want to bring down teh corporate world. Its starts off as something simple and then the true relationships between the characters of 2012 and how they relate to the people in 2077 fall together. The show just kept getting better, and if you are into Science Fiction shows then this is a must to watch.
2012 ABC Action CBS Comedy Drama Fox FX HBO NBC Shows Thriller TV
Summer TV Shows
July 24, 2012. 2012
Since Ramadan started I know a lot of people are going nuts over all the types of shows that are airing and some of them are really good but in my case I look for something that fits me and right now the Ramathan shows are not to my taste. But its summer and there are a lot of good shows out there at the moment.
Newsroom – I’m loving this show, dramatic, action packed, and totally unexpected
Suits – This season is even better then the last
Eureka – Back for season 5 and in full swing
Continuum – Turned out to be much better then I expected, for the Sci Fi crowd, and I’m loving the future tech and the way the story is going
Anger Management – The Charlie Sheen comedy come back, good show
Falling Skies – Getting very intense this season and I love it
White Collar – Neal Caffery is back and this story takes a major twist you can’t wait for the next episode
Rookie Blue – The Canadian Cop Show, every episode is worth the wait
NYC 22 – I’m really enjoying this cop show, nice hip hop touch, I think Jay-Z did the Intro and Outro of this show
Franklin & Bash – Loving the comedy duo but they are starting to dig deeper into the other characters and its great, I hope this show keeps going
Melissa & Joey – Funny just as usual, on Season 2 and counting
On The Back Burner – Shows I’m Just Piling Up But Not Watching
Burn Notice – Didn’t watch Season 5 yet, need to catch up
Weeds – Season 6, really to catch up with the Botwin family
Breaking Bad – I still haven’t watched it
True Blood – Been a little while, got too dramatic over their relationships so I put it on hold
2012 ABC Comedy Drama FX NBC Science Fiction Shows Summer Summer Shows TV
New Comedy Shows
Four buddies working in a magazine who go through the some ridiculous adventures. Together, the four help each other navigate work, friendship and women. This is one of the surprises of this season, the show is done and its only 10 episodes long but every episode was funnier then the other, these were very different characters in hilarious situations. Two guys are familiar actors but the other two are new to me, but they have a great dynamic, and this feels like the group of guy friends that you have so guys can very much relate to it, and women can have an outlook as to what guys think. If you are looking for a light hearted comedy then this is it.
Charlie Sheen is back and I have to say that he is back to his normal self but with a twist. I didn’t know what to expect from his new show but old ball player working as a psychiatrist with a bunch nut jobs is a pretty good start to his comedy. Four episodes in and I think the show is very worth watching and it will be one of the funny shows of this season. The best part are the small shots they take at 2 & A Half Men, some parts are just funny shots and some are hilarious, but they are all very subtle, and I like where its going.
A comedy about three divorced men sharing an apartment across the hall from their female divorce attorney, who is also their landlord. This show jumps right into it, you figure out the dynamic of the group and it gets funnier every episode, each one of them is more colorful then the other and you know most of them from other shows. Kristen Johnson from 3rd Rock From The Sun, and she is the hilarious lawyer in this show, Wayne Knight is one of the divorced guys in the show, you would know him from Seinfeld or “Newman”, thats all I know him as, Newman, then there is also Donal Faison or Dr Turk from Scrubs, he is just as funny in this show, maybe a bit too gimmicky but I’m liking him in this show too.
2012 Anger Management Charlie Sheen Comedy FX Men At Work Show Summer The Exes TV
TV Comedies Of This Season
December 18, 2011. 2011
There were a lot of new comedies this season with some more interesting then the others. This is the basic round up for all the shows that I have enjoyed and stars for the ones that surpassed my expectations. The usual ones are below and the two surprises for me is that Community might be coming offline when this season was even better then the 2nd season, and Two & A Half Men is much better with Ashton Kutcher.
The List:
Last Man Standing** – Tim Allen Show thats all that needs to be said
New Girl** – One Girl Moves In With Three Guys, Hilarious
Man Up** – A Bunch Of Guys Who Won’t Grow Up
2 Broke Girls** – A Rich Girl Going Broke and Moving In With A Broke Girl
Whitney – Crazy Funny Chick
Suburgatory – Moving from New York to the Suburbs, turns out to be crazier then NY
The Usual Funny Shows
Two & A Half Men – Even Better With Ashton Kutcher
2011 ABC CBS Comedies Comedy Fall Fox FX TV
Shows That I Have Finished
June 1, 2011. 2011
These are the shows that I have finished this season and loved, there are few that I am still working on. I have sort of been saving them to watch them all one go when I have the chance and luckily there is a small break between now and when the summer shows start.
The Good Wife – A very good season
How I Met Your Mother – Entertaining Season and Fantastic Ending
Glee – Fun Season! Always love the music!
Outsourced – Great show too bad it ended but still worth watching
Mad Love – Funny show ended too early
Shit My Dad Says – Great show, it ended but still worth watching
The Mentalist – Insane Ending! Loved the Season!
Blue Bloods – One of my favorite shows of this season!
Community – Not as good as last season but still funny
The Big Bang Theory – Love this show
The Office – Amazing Season! So many Highs!
Young Justice – Love DC Comics
2011 Action Fall Season Fox FX NBC TV
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- Neighbours: Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Syria.
- temperate;
- hot, dry summers with mild, wet winters;
- harsher in interior.
Natural hazards:
- severe earthquakes, especially in northern Turkey, along an arc extending from the Sea of Marmara to Lake Van.
Surface: 783,356 km2
Population*: 82.0 million
GDP/capita*: 7,456.1 EUR
Currency: Lira
Code: TRY
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Didem Ozsoy Dirican appointed CEO of NN Turkey
As of 1 February 2020, Didem Ozsoy DIRICAN, currently Chief Commercial Officer of NN Hayat ve Emeklilik, will be appointed CEO NN Hayat ve Emeklilik on an ad interim basis and subject to regulatory approval.
Turkish financial sector acquires majority stake in JCR Eurasia to create national rating firm
Turkey's banks and financial institutions bought 85.05% of JCR Eurasia, the local unit of Japan Credit Rating Agency, Turkey's banking association announced last Friday, sealing the Turkey's longtime goal to create a national firm that will appraise the creditworthiness of businesses seeking to borrow, informed REUTERS.
STATISTICS: TURKISH insurers reported impressive growth rates on all classes at the end of September
The Turkish insurance market ended 3Q2019 with GWP worth TRY 48.4 billion, 22.5% up y-o-y. At the same time, the appreciation of the Turkish Lira against Euro has influenced the market rates calculated in European currency, translating them in a 38% positive change to EUR 7.8 billion.
TURKEY: The Treasury licensed a new non-life insurer
A new player enters the Turkish non-life insurance market after the Treasury licensed TMT Sigorta, informed Middle East Insurance Review. The Turkish market is currently dominated by the non-life sector which accounts for more than 80% of premiums.
TURKEY: Uco VEGTER to be new CEO of EUREKO Sigorta
Dutch insurer ACHMEA informed that Uco VEGTER has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of EUREKO Sigorta, ACHMEA's subsidiary in Turkey. He succeeds Can Akin CAGLAR, who stood down this spring. Since then Uco VEGTER has been the acting CEO.
TURKEY: The launch of SDDK more than closer after the publishing of the Presidential Decree in the Official Gazette
Turkish authorities opened the way for the setting up the SDDK - the new independent Insurance Regulation and Supervision Authority, by publishing the Presidential Decree in the Official Gazette. The SDDK is part of Turkey's "New Economy Programme Structural Transformation Steps 2019" announced in April 2019, that promises structural reforms for the financial sector.
TURKEY: The state established Turk Re, the national reinsurer
The State Treasury and Finance Ministry of Turkey have announced the establishment of "Turk Re" as the national reinsurer, as a part of country's new program of economy revitalization.
STATISTICS: TURKEY, 1H2019: market GWP stable in real terms; Motor Hull, Fire insurance and Health Insurance lines have outpaced inflation
The Turkish insurance market recorded again a double-digit nominal growth rate in 1H2019, with GWP increasing by 19.23% in local currency, to TRY 33.23 billion.
TURKEY: New independent regulator to have 7-member executive board
STATISTICS: TURKISH insurers' Q1 GWP dynamic affected by the TRY depreciation against euro
Turkish insurance market's GWP was of TRY 17.5 billion (about EUR 2.7 billion) in Q1 2019, ~20% up y-o-y in nominal terms, according to the preliminary data published by the local association - TSB. In European currency, the rate was negative (-7.7% y-o-y) due the depreciation registered by the local currency against euro (6.3188 TRY/EUR, March 31st, 2019 vs. 4.8673 TRY/EUR, March 31st, 2018).
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Turkish travel company launches tender for compulsory insurance of vehicles
Turkish municipality attracts foreign insurers via tender
ERGO to sell its TURKISH operations to TALANX
Hannover-based insurer TALANX informed it is expanding its activities in Turkey by acquiring the P&C insurer ERGO Sigorta.
TURKEY: Can Akin CAGLAR steps down as CEO of EUREKO Sigorta
Dutch insurer ACHMEA announced that Can Akin CAGLAR has decided to step down from his position as CEO of EUREKO Sigorta, Achmea's subsidiary in Turkey, as per the 10th of May 2019. He held this position for the past five years.
TURKEY: MTPL prices determined by driver history
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STATISTICS: TURKEY, FY2018: Insurance posted 17.4 y-o-y growth rate in local currency
The insurance industry in Turkey posted a growth of 17.4% y-o-y in GWP to TRY 54.6 billion (EUR 9 billion) in 2018, according to preliminary data released by the Insurance Association of Turkey (TSB).
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Palestinians Make Up Child's Death By Using Instagram Photo Of Unknown Girl
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Education of the American public about the inherent human rights violations and the attempt to undermine or replace U.S. law and American statutes with Islamic shariah
Publicizing of important issues related to sharia requirements such as honor killings, forced marriages, child marriage, polygamy, female genital mutilation, violence against women, etc.
Alerting policy makers and legislators to potential human rights and equal rights violations and working toward the development of possible remedies and legal actions
Building coalitions with like-minded organizations to develop policy initiatives and interventions for victims of shariah.
IMPORTANT TERMS
Shariah: an all-encompassing and in-transmutable system of Islamic jurisprudence, found in the Koran and the Sunnah, that covers all aspect of life, including daily routines, hygiene, familial roles and responsibilities, social order and conduct, directives on relationships with Muslims and non-Muslims, religious obligations, financial dealings and many other facets of living.
Ird: the sexual purity of a woman that confers honor to her husband, family and community. Ird is based on the traditional standards of behavior set forth in the shariah code and includes subservience to male relatives, modest dress which could include veiling and the covering of the body, and restricted movement outside of the home. The loss of a woman’s ird confers shame upon her family and can result in ostracism by the community, economic damage, political consequences and the loss of self esteem.
Zina: the Koranic word for sexual relations outside of marriage. Under shariah law, Zina is punished by lashings, imprisonment or stoning to death.
FGM: female genital mutilation refers to the partial or complete removal of the female genitalia for religious and cultural reasons. It is practiced to preserve a female’s chastity and dampen her sexual desire. FGM is permitted in the Koran but required by the Shafi’i, one of the four schools of shariah law within Sunni Islam.
Honor Killing: a murder, usually of a female, committed to restore the social and political standing of a family or community when it is believed that the victim has violated traditional behavioral expectations. Such violations can include improper covering of the body, appearing in public without a male relative chaperone, talking to an unrelated male, or exhibiting independence in thought and action. An honor killing can also be based on hearsay or gossip that is perceived as damaging to a woman’s relatives.
Forced Marriage: a marriage that is conducted without the consent of one or both parties in which duress is a factor. Such duress can include violence or physical intimidation, psychological abuse, blackmailing, kidnapping, or threats of imprisonment or institutional confinement.
SLAVERY IN ISLAM
Islam permits the taking of slaves as “booty” or as a reward for waging jihad. Slavery became a Muslim tradition at the time that Mohammed moved to Medina and amassed sufficient power for the enslavement of non-Muslims. Slavery is an accepted part of Islamic society and is never viewed in a negative way in the Koran, Sira or Hadith. In fact, it is a God-given right for Muslims to have slaves. [6:7] Allah has given more of His gifts of material things to some rather than others. In the same manner, those who have more do not give an equal share to their slaves so that they would share equally. Would they then deny the favors of Allah. Although Islam has sustained slavery for 1400 years, a Muslim may never be enslaved. Only non-believers or kafirs may be enslaved and may be eligible for freedom upon conversion to Islam at the discretion of the slave owner. Slavery is viewed as a moral good in Islam as it transforms a kafir into a believer.
Slaves have no means for legal action in Islam and their rights are based solely on the good will of their master. If a slave flees his master, this is view as a sin against Allah.
Slaves have few civil or legal rights.
The following are rules pertaining to slavery from the Shariah:
1) Muslim men may have sex with female slaves at any time and it is not possible to “rape” a slave.
2) Slaves have the same status as animals and it is permissible to whip them.
3) No Muslim can be put to death for murdering a slave.
4) A slave’s testimony is inadmissible in court.
5) Slaves can be forced to marry whomever their master chooses and may not choose their marriage mate.
6) Christians and Jews who do not pay the jizya or protection tax can be enslaved.
In his book, Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters, historian Robert Davis estimates that North African Muslims abducted and enslaved more than 1 million white Christian Europeans from the coastal towns from Sicily to Cornwall between 1530 and 1780. Muslim slavers also seized people from Britain, Ireland, Iceland and even American seaman on ships in the Atlantic.
In a recent case of Muslim slavery in the United States, Sarah Khonaizan and her husband Homaidan Al-Turki were arrested for forced labor, sexual abuse and harboring an alien for enslaving an Indonesian housekeeper in their home in Colorado. The couple reportedly brought the housekeeper to Colorado from Saudi Arabia to care for their five children and to cook and clean for the family. The Indonesian woman slept on the basement floor, was paid less than $2 per day and was the victim of rape. Al-Turki and his defense attorney complained that they were being persecuted for their beliefs and stated, "The state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors. Attacking traditional Muslim behaviors was the focal point of the prosecution." Al-Turki received letters of support from the local Muslim community and from his academic colleagues at the University of Colorado. This case continues to arouse strong feelings in Saudi Arabia where there is great sympathy and support for Al-Turki. On March 26, 2008, a high level Saudi official brought up the case in a meeting with Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff. He urged Americans to review the case and mentioned the strong support for Al-Turki in Saudi Arabia.
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The mission of Women Against Shariah is to prevent and outlaw the imposition of shariah law in the United States for both Muslim and American women as either a parallel legal system or a replacement for existing laws. Additionally, we hope to empower women worldwide to resist shariah.
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New Wilderness Stewardship Group Formed
by Randy Welsh
Ready Set AIM! 29 federally designated wilderness areas in the Arkansas-Illinois-Missouri (AIM) tri-state area now have a new wilderness stewardship group. Established September 28th, AIM for Wilderness Stewardship is the newest wilderness stewardship group to be helped started by NWSA. And it's an amazing story...
Chuck Bell, a NWSA member recently moved to Arkansas from Colorado, where he was an alumni of the Poudre Wilderness Volunteers. Chuck saw a need for a wilderness stewardship organization to help the federal agencies in Arkansas, Missouri, and Illinois to support management of the region's wilderness areas. Working with federal officials from the Mark Twain, Shawnee, Ozark-St. Francis and Ouachita National Forests, the National Park Service, and the Fish and Wildlife Service, Chuck assembled a small team of people from local trail associations, the Girl Scouts, and universities to first form a steering committee to explore creating a wilderness stewardship group, and then a Board of Directors to actually run one. Read more about this great collaboration in their first news release.
As Eric Sandeno, Forest Service Wilderness Specialist in Region 9 (Northeast) said "We look forward to working with you in such a great endeavor." This is the start of great things to come in the midwest and Ozark highlands.
National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance posted about New Wilderness Stewardship Group Formed on National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance's Facebook page 2016-10-01 06:13:46 -0700
New Wilderness Stewardship Group Formed AIM for Wilderness Stewardship - a new wilderness stewardship group for the tri-state area of Arkansas - Illinois - Missouri, has been established. Congratulations. Read more...
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Delhi Travel guide/
The numerous places to visit in Delhi leave all travellers enthralled, offering a perfect blend of the old and new. From exploring heritage buildings and myriad prestigious national museums to relaxing in one of those green spaces and praying at ancient temples, there is multitude interesting tourist places in Delhi. While the alleys of Old Delhi and its teeming bazaars are a riot of colours and street fare, monuments such as the Red Fort, Qutab Minar and Jama Masjid uphold the magnificence of Mughal architecture. Delhi’s lesser known wonders such as the Nizamuddin Dargah or the Lodhi Garden are equally interesting as well.
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MARVEL AGENTS OF SHIELD and awful Rachel Maddow
The 'resistance' is a dirty joke.
A bunch of hacks who are also War Hawks.
They're not about peace, they're about war, war and more war.
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Tim Shorrock @TimothyS 14h14 hours ago
Tim Shorrock Retweeted Maddow Blog
This is one of the most ridiculous arguments I’ve ever heard about Korea. Good grief, @maddow! Read a book! Learn some history! Better yet, invite someone on who can explain to you in a very simple way why direct talks between the US & North Korea is the only way to resolve this.
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Does Donald Trump wonder why no sitting U.S. president has ever met in person with a North Korean leader?
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Rachel Maddow, the General Curtis LeMay of #TheResistance.
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Rachel Maddow is ridiculous.
She never shuts up. She knows nothing. But she's there for war. She war cheerled the Iraq War and she's always there for more war.
Kevin e-mailed about MARVEL AGENTS OF SHIELD. I thought I wrote about that.
Last Friday was the return of new episodes.
They're back in their own time.
But Deke came along. It wasn't planned.
Deke looks different. I didn't realize he was that small -- shorter and leaner.
He and Daisy were the only thing really interesting. He's adjusting to life where you can breathe fresh air. He's enjoying tasting food he's never seen in the future.
He gets drunk off his ass and then tries to pay with the gadget installed on his wrist. That's when he got arrested. Daisy rushed to get him before he started talking about them.
They are all wanted.
That mean female general? Her daughter is obsessed with Daisy and, when Mommy sends her to attack the gang, she chops Yo Yo's arms off. Yes, Yo Yo is currently armless -- just like the Yo Yo in the future.
Friday, March 9, 2018. The occupation of Iraqcontinues as so many in the western press attempt to confuse and distract.
Starting in California where our primary will take place in June. In the race for the US Senate, the top two vote getters in the primary -- regardless of party i.d. -- will face off in the November general election.
Kevin de Leon is who I'm supporting.
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In CA we knew from day one that Trump would work overtime to scapegoat honest immigrant communities. That's why I authored #SB54 to ensure Californians never spend a single cent to help this admin carry out its racist schemes. #CAValuesAct Join our fight: kevindeleon.com/join-the-fight…
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.@kdeleon: "California no se dejará intimidar por la demanda de Jeff Sessions"
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I’m proud to say that my campaign team are majority #womenofcolor, including senior positions. As Senate leader, I made sure to prioritize: Equal pay for women Preventing sexual assault on campuses Promoting upward mobility for #WOC
Happy #InternationalWomensDay ! I was raised by a single mother and older sisters and was lucky enough to raise a daughter of my own. I learned early on to value and promote qualified women — that also means #WomenOfColor.
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In a press conference with @kdeleon, @RicardoLara4CA and @DavidChiu, @EricHolder spoke on the phone about @TheJusticeDept lawsuit: "[Federal government] cannot insist that the State of California use its money and its resources to help in [its immigration policies]."
Kevin is a fighter and he can lead the state into the future, the incumbent Dianne Feinstein is trapped in the 20th century and unable to progress.
Turning to Iraq . . .
Why does Laura Rozen write? Or even bother? It's not just that she has turned out to be so dishonest (her 'reports' are shaped by politics), it's also that she never has a clue.
George Nader is a Trump and Clinton associate. She writes about him (at AL-MONITOR) for what reason? Apparently, she's off on the lunacy and hysteria trend that is destroying so many. And she's galloping off on her high horse so quickly that she can't be bothered by facts.
Nader was involved in the 2012 deal Iraq made with Russia.
That's a corrupt deal.
And Laura tiptoes around that reality with this nonsense:
The Iraqi-Russian arms deal was controversial in Iraq and long suspected to have involved corruption. In November 2012, just a month after it was signed, Iraq’s then-acting Defense Minister Dulaimi announced that the deal was canceled, “citing possible corruption in the contract,” Reuters reported.
But Maliki’s then-media adviser Ali al-Moussawi was cited by Reuters as saying that the deals would be renegotiated and any suspension of the contract was “a precautionary measure because of suspected corruption."
Was Ali al-Moussawi quoted saying that, Laura? When? Was it before or after he left Iraq? That's a key part of the story, Laura. You do know that, right? You're not really that stupid, are you?
Dropping back to November 30, 2012:
As Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe explained in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, "When love goes wrong, nothing goes right." It appears the lesson is learned yet again in Iraq as former 'blood brothers' -- a prime minister and a spokesperson -- turn on one another publicly.
As is often the case, money appears to be the root of the conflict.
Ali al-Dabbagh used to be so close to Nouri that the two were practically bath buddies. Today All Iraq News reports that he's accusing Nouri's Media Affairs Office Ali al-Moussawi of a media lynching as Nouri attempts to weasel out of the corruption charges regarding the $4.2 billion weapons deal with Russia [by pinning it] on al-Dabbagh. In a written statement to the news outlet, al-Dabbagh alludes to information about Nouri's inner circle that he could reveal. al-Dabbagh has twice publicly denied any involvement in the arms deal. Al Mada notes that in his written statement, he cited his six years of being a spokesperson for the Iraqi government as proof of his (no laughter, please) integrity. Kitabat quotes it in full and that includes insisting that his image is being distorted and that his reputation is unfairly maligned. As a result, he insists, he can no longer do his job. That might have carried more weight had he issued it when he was still in Iraq and before he reportedly fled the country.
October 9th, with much fanfare, Nouri signed a $4.2 billion dollar weapons deal with Russia. After taking his bows on the world stage and with Parliament and others raising objections, Nouri quickly announced the deal was off. The scandal, however, refuses to go away. The Iraq Times states Nouri's offering up Ali al-Dabbagh and others to protect the truly corrupt. Meanwhile, All Iraq News notes National Alliance member and one-time MP Wael Abdul Latif is calling for Nouri to quickly bring charges against those involved in the corruption. (The arms deal is now treated by the Iraqi press as corrupt and not allegedly corrupt, FYI.) Latif remains a major player in the National Alliance and the National Alliance has backed Nouri during his second term. With his current hold on power reportedly tenous and having already lost the support of Moqtada al-Sadr, Nouri really can't afford to tick off the National Alliance as well. Kitabat reports MP Maha al-Douri, of Moqtada's bloc in Parliament, is saying Nouri's on a list of officials bribed by Russia for the deal. The outlet also notes rumors that al-Dabbagh is leaving the UAE for Bulgaria.
Laura quotes Ali al-Dabbagh without noting that whatever comments he made publicly to REUTERS at one point were null and void as a result of him and Nouri turning on one another and Ali fleeing the country amidst charges and counter-charges of corruption.
Kind of a huge part of the story.
She also floats Nader being close to Nouri's son Ahmed al-Maliki. But Laura refuses to note that the Parliament publicly decried Ahmed's involvement in the deal from the start and then made public statements declaring he had profited from the deal himself.
For example, in November of 2012, Ahmed Hussein (IRAQI NEWS) reported:
MP, Mohamed Ridha al-Khafaji, of Ahrar bloc revealed “Among the figures behind the corruption in the armament contracts concluded with Russia is Ahmed al-Maliki, son of the Premier, Nouri al-Maliki.”
He stated to Iraqi News (IraqiNews.com) “The suspicions over corruption in this contract involved Ahmed al-Maliki and the spokesman of the Government, Ali al-Dabbagh, as well as MP, Izzat al-Shahbander, the leader within the State of Law Coalition.”
Laura somehow misses -- refuses -- to address that.
She refuses to do so much that her name shouldn't be Laura Rozen, it's should be Laura Refusen. A reader of her tale comes away with nothing of value despite the fact that the piece is way too long and way too dull.
Reality, the corruption was known within the US government -- up to the White House -- and no one gave a damn. We look back, today, and wonder how the US government could have, for example, gone after the Native Americans, how they could have been so willing to kill. Don't wonder? There's been no change in the US government. It's as deadly as it ever was. It's motto has always been the same, "F**k you, we do what we want." While the Iraqi people suffered, Nouri and his family stole from the country's wealth and the US government didn't give a damn, stayed in business with him, couldn't care less. The soap boxes so many in the government have stood on, should collapse under the weight of their lies.
REUTERS reports, "Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi issued a decree on Thursday formalizing the inclusion of Shi’ite paramilitary groups in the country’s security forces." The militias did not liberate any city, they terrorized citizens. This has been documented at length by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. These crimes did not lead to any punishment. Pressed, Hayder would insist that there would be an investigation and then, when the media light moved elsewhere, the matter was dropped. A woman whose 'crime' was being (or being accused of being) the sister of a member of ISIS has been sentenced to death. But the Shi'ite militia groups who destroyed homes and terrorized people? They aren't convicted of anything (nor are their sisters, brothers, etc).
Let that soak in for just a minute.
You are a Shi'ite militia groups -- or even a Shi'ite member of the real Iraqi military -- and you kill civilians -- especially Sunnis and Kurds -- and you torch their homes and that's not going to get you dragged before a judge. You will not be punished. This has repeatedly been made clear.
Now let's note this from RUDAW:
Abadi, however, was less optimistic about the ability of his, or any, government to solve the “age-old” divisions between communities.
“The role of the government is not to solve religious or sectarian or ethnic problems. These are age-old. I don’t think any government of the day can solve all differences,” he said.
Kurdish, Shiite, and Sunni differences were brought under the spotlight once again during months’ long efforts to pass the government’s 2018 budget bill. The bill was finally passed last week despite a boycott by Kurdish MPs who maintain their constitutional rights were ignored in the bill in the wake of Kurdistan’s vote for independence from Iraq last fall and Baghdad’s subsequent efforts to exert federal control over the autonomous region and the disputed areas.
Iraq will hold parliamentary elections on May 12 and provincial elections on December 22.
The government, Hayder insists, cannot solve differences.
Even though, please note, it's Hayder's government that promotes the differences -- differences in justice, differences in rights, differences in safety.
Hayder is a failure and a War Criminal but the US government will continue to back the puppet. The US government will keep the US military in Iraq to prop up Hayder. (And Germany's adding more troops to Iraq, according to Chancellor Angela Merkal.)
He's a failure and those under him know they can get away with anything -- including murder.
KURDISTAN 24 reports:
A tribal group in Nineveh Province on Friday issued a statement on the suspicious death of a policeman from an Arab tribe while in an Iraqi army detention center in Mosul.
“Khalid Ahmed Mohammed al-Juhaishi, from the village of al-Barghaliya in the al-Ayadiyah district of Tal Afar district, died under severe torture at the hands of intelligence officer of the 15th Brigade, Captain Ihab, from Nasiriyah,” Muzahim al-Hewitt, a spokesperson for the Nineveh Arab Tribes, said in a statement.
He said that al-Juhaishi was arrested a few days ago by the 73rd Brigade, the 15th Division of the Iraqi Army, along with two other residents.
He added that the victim was a policeman stationed in the area of Rabia.
Hayder is a fraud. Check out the reality of 'reconstruction' in Anbar Province. Or note this laughable Tweet.
Government of IraqVerified account @IraqiGovt 2h2 hours ago
The @IraqiGovt Women Empowerment Unit's seeks to support all Iraqi women in transforming their lives and building a peaceful and prosperous future for Iraq #TimeIsNow #IWD2018
Hayder, if you're really supporting women -- end the practice of males voting for women.
At this late date, it's tough to tell who's more full of **** -- the US government of the US press. The latter works so hard to tell so little.
It's time to make yourself heard. Later this year, for example, there will be an action that Cindy Sheehan's organizing:
WOMEN'S MARCH ON PENTAGON ORGANIZING CONFERENCE CALL MARCH 14TH, 2018
WOMEN'S MARCH ON THE PENTAGON
Organizing Conference Call
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Anyone who is interesting in helping organize the
Or, anyone who wants more information.
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Welcome by Cindy Sheehan
Status of Organizing
Volunteer Opportunities.
Stack for Comments/Questions
How to Organize Buses to March
Final Comments/Question
If you'd like to join the call, please email
Cindy Sheehan for call-in number and code
CindySheehan@MarchonPentagon.com
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by Maui on Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:28 pm
I've seen rather lengthy trailers for this flick in the theatre as well just watched an HBO First Look special on this movie. It's in theatres this Friday!
Peter Berg and Michael Mann joint effort. So far what I've seen looks very promising, I will definitely be checking this out in the theatre this weekend!
The story is true, based upon the Riyadh compound bombings that took place on May 12, 2003, in Saudi Arabia.
by stereosforgeeks on Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:06 pm
Could this possible be as good as the rundown?
stereosforgeeks wrote: Could this possible be as good as the rundown?
Well I had to google The Rundown - hahahahah, never heard of it.
Was it bad?
All I'm saying is The Kingdom looks good. Maybe it might be good! I can tell by the # of replies to this thread - peeps are most excited about this flick. tee hee hee
Nevertheless, I'm going to go see it with an OPEN MIND!
by Cpt Kirks 2pay on Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:30 pm
Huh! Well I'm going to see it with an OPEN CINEMA PASS!!
Beat that!! No - you can't!
Can you!!??
I don't know what that is.
by DinoDeLaurentiis on Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:59 pm
It is impressive, no? to see that a the Chris Cooper, he has a so quickly parlayed a the "Leave a the Britney Alone" video inna'to a the starring role, eh?
by Maui on Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:05 pm
DinoDeLaurentiis wrote: It is impressive, no? to see that a the Chris Cooper, he has a so quickly parlayed a the "Leave a the Britney Alone" video inna'to a the starring role, eh?
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
by Fawst on Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:06 pm
Oh, Dino, with gems like that you should be pimpin' in the Werewolf game!
by John-Locke on Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:25 pm
The Kingdom starts well, after the initial events there is a sense of urgency however the film quickly slips into a lower gear and the pace decreases for the majority of the film, it's still interesting and compelling enough with strong to decent performances that keep you involved with both the story and the characters. The investigation is actually pretty short in terms of clues and leads with a greater deal of attention being spent on the political sensitivity of the situation and the Saudi red tape that stops the team from doing what they know needs to be done, looking at evidence from the crime scene for example is a giant hurdle. I'm glad that the two Saudi Military guys were given as much importance as the other members of the team and would have actually liked to have seen more of them even though they weren't sidelined. My biggest gripe with the film is that is turns out to be dumb luck through surviving sabotage that leads to the team stopping the bad guys. However and this is a big HOWEVER, the final 25 minutes or so of action make you totally forget about that as we are treated to some of the best action I have seen in a film all year, it's tense, bloody, violent, rapid, clever, easy to follow and most importantly BADASS.
By no means is The Kingdom the best film I've seen all year but it does have an intelligent message and is most definitely worthy of your time.
by tapehead on Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:48 pm
Watched it last night. I found it a little frustrating that Berg has assembled such a great cast and then just gives us short asides and brief moments with them. I would love to have seen more repartee between Jason Batemen and Chris Cooper, but everything we see is gold - it seems like there are interesting and fully developed characters there that we just get intimations of. Likewise Piven gets a few good moments, but we dont enough of him to tell whether his phoning in that 'smarmy fucker' persona of his or there's something more at work.
Although the film is based on true events, I'm not sure that the last part of the team's stay in Saudi Arabia is accurate, but it gives the investigation story leading up to it weight and immediacy, and it works as a whole.
I'm also not a huge fan of the hand-held / mobile camera style employed, but then
John-Locke wrote: the final 25 minutes or so of action make you totally forget about that as we are treated to some of the best action I have seen in a film all year, it's tense, bloody, violent, rapid, clever, easy to follow and most importantly BADASS.
for this part of the film it makes sense - it's dynamic and exhilarating and works so well. There are a few moments, where missile launchers and grenades join in the chance and gunfight towards the end that are really stunning and exciting.
Garner and Fox do solid work here, and only in a few scenes does Foxx turn on the charisma, clouding the rest of the drama (either that or he just demands certain close-ups). Garner in particular does very subtle work, and in the final scenes involving Abu Hamza, when it's most important, she turns in a performance that is effective without relying too much on evoking clichéd sympathies.
Ashraf Barhom is the stand out - his character, Colonel Faris Al Ghazi's impossible position as liason for the Amercan FBI team on one side, with allegiances to his people and country on the other, is portrayed perfectly. His scene with Foxx, talking about the Hulk is a really nice touch.
I'd give this a six or seven. like Locke says, thoroughly entertaining movie, with some issues on it's mind that it manages to explore a little without trivialising.
by Bayouwolf on Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:08 pm
Finally got around to seeing this yesterday evening.
Given the subject matter, it's a decent take on how vengeance and politics override human decency.
Jamie Foxx plays an FBI agent with a personal connection to the Riyadh compound bombings. He assembles a team to go in and investigate the bomb site, only to find that due to the current foreign policy he's not allowed to even step foot on Saudi soil.
Using whatever means he can, he gets his team in. Jennifer Garner, Chris Cooper, and Jason Bateman (WTF!?!) round out the rag-tag band of agents sent in to bring the bad guys to justice. Once on the ground, they fall victim to Saudi policy that hinders any opportunity to investigate.
Notable (and otherwise) performances..
Ashraf Barhom ( as "Colonel Faris Al Ghazi") turns in the best performance of the film. His portayal of a man torn between what he knows is right, and what he is told to do, is superb. His is a story you can relate to regardless of where you call home or what you bow your head to.
Jason Bateman. There's a reason he's not a big film star. Throughout the film I felt like he should be wearing a red-shirt. His character just never felt right. Once he finally does come out of his shell, the movie's over. Meh... I liked him in Arrested Development. Stick to the small screen man.
The plot eventually trudges through like Chris Cooper at the bomb site, and we arrive at what I would consider some of the best urban warfare scenes ever put on film. They are shot with such surprising realism, although probably not historically accurate, and really give you a perspective as to what our people are up against every day.
There's some powerful moments and horrifying visual images, but they are few and far between.
Bayouwolf
Country Bouy
Location: In the GTA, bitches....
by burlivesleftnut on Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:29 pm
Bayou wrote: ...and we arrive at what I would consider some of the best urban warfare scenes ever put on film...
Co-signed. I give the movie an 8/10 for the last 30 minutes. But it got a little bump for making me remember why I love Jenny Garner so much (it has to do with Alias).
by Peven on Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:50 pm
finally watched this tonight. have to say i think that those who are saying it is just an actioner without much substance aren't giving it enough credit. i love the intro of the film, reminded me a little of "Salton Sea", giving a good basic knowledge base, a reference point for what follows. the film then goes on to tell one specific story set in the backdrop the intro set up. it doesn't try to be "Syriana" but that doesn't mean it doesn't have depth. the last 30 minutes really took the film up a notch for me, too, and i even went for the last scene where Foxx and the kid reveal the words whispered earlier in the film. i think that wrapped up everything we had just seen in the film and gave us a nice, yet obvious, slap of perspective in the face
by tapehead on Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:14 pm
Peven wrote: finally watched this tonight. have to say i think that those who are saying it is just an actioner without much substance aren't giving it enough credit.
INteresting - who is saying this? some reviewer? It seems like everyone posting in this thread credits the film with some smarts.
by Zarles on Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:16 pm
Finally saw this today, and yeah, I liked it, too. I could've done with a little less Jamie Foxx and a lot more Jennifer Garner being allowed to bring some Sydney Bristow into the mix (especially on that big bad at the end), but all in all, a fairly enjoyable ride. If it had been a little less USA-rah-rah and a touch more substantial story-wise, I think it would've benefited a lot. Not quite sure what Jason Bateman was doing in there, though. As has been said, the last 30 minutes rocks. Some of the finest action directing I've seen in a while. RPGeeeeeee!!!
BTW, Garner is still the sexiest tomboy beanpole on the planet. I want my Alias movie, goddamnit.
Zarles
Location: Bringing something to the table
by Ribbons on Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:51 pm
Zarles wrote: I want my Alias movie, goddamnit.
Sadly, Elektra's probably as close as you're gonna get
by Peven on Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:36 am
tapehead wrote:
not people here. sorry, i should have been more clear. i remember seeing reviews and hearing from some people i know that had really downplayed anything the movie had to say.
by The Vicar on Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:25 am
Wankers all.
I didn't really want to see this,
because I've frankly had my fill of the Muddle East.
Very solid work all around.
Those detractors are full of shit, or themselves.
Which is probably the same thing.
The Vicar wrote: Wankers all.
it went from a "watch" on my Netflix queue to a "buy" now that i have seen it
It earned it.
And I still can't get over how much that one Saudi cop looked like Jean Reno.
And Jenn makes a t shirt look more interesting than usual.
I wonder how it's doing in DVD sales?
Can't recall what BO it did.
The Vicar wrote: It earned it.
hells yeah. those things were weapons of mass distraction, especially the way they were being emphasized all the time, like with her carrying a bag with a cross-strap that may not have lifted but certainly separated and accentuated
by Lady Sheridan on Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:06 pm
I saw this about a month ago and I too was surprised at how good it was. I had heard it dismissed repeatedly as anti-Arab and ridiculously pro American. But I thought it was surprisingly even handed, a message of how everyone suffers from the actions of a twisted few.
I was especially surprised the Garner scene was getting such criticism -- I remember reading "people are cheering when she stabs the terrorist in the leg, Americans are such horrible people." In context though -- hell, I was cheering too! In my mind, anyone going to behead an innocent man deserves what they get.
I suspect half of the people criticizing it as nothing but American propaganda didn't see it, or were trying to make themselves look politically savvy. It wasn't the deepest film by any means, nor perfect, but it is a step in the right direction for Hollywood, you know? Considering the masses who went to these expecting "Arabs/Muslims are bad, Americans are good and kill them" they may have come away learning something. Never a bad thing in my book.
Lady Sheridan
Location: Croft Manor
by DennisMM on Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:10 pm
The Vicar wrote: I wonder how it's doing in DVD sales?
Can't speak to DVD, but BOmojo shows a planetary gross of about $86 million against a production budget of $70 million.
Why did this film cost $70 million? How much of that did Foxx get?
Mojo also has a breakdown of DVD/Home Video rental gross, which is apparently about $72.5 million.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=homevideo&id=kingdom.htm
not sure how much of that goes to the rental stores/services. I didn't see a breakdown for DVD SALES anywhere...
by Pacino86845 on Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:41 pm
I had no preconceptions going into this, was sort of hoping for another "Syriana" in the back of my mind... but it was a turd. I'd written this elsewhere in the zone, forget where now, but The Kingdom was a fairly pedestrian effort IMO.
by The Vicar on Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:57 pm
Probably most, although Cris Cooper has an Oscar too.
by Zarles on Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:18 pm
Lady Sheridan wrote: I saw this about a month ago and I too was surprised at how good it was. I had heard it dismissed repeatedly as anti-Arab and ridiculously pro American. But I thought it was surprisingly even handed, a message of how everyone suffers from the actions of a twisted few.
The dialogue was cheesy, but yes, it was on a fairly even keel as far as the rah-rah stuff went. It's slightly pro-American, but given that it's an American movie, it's not too intolerable. It's not like it slides into Bayhem levels or anything.
For the record, I think Garner stabs the big bad at the end in the head, not the leg. She gets in a few good shots with a knife, actually (one right in the yabbos), but the killshot is in the noggin, if I'm remembering correctly. Anyone who would scoff at her doing it and call Americans 'horrible people' for cheering is just too politically correct for their own good. Go back to Berkeley, ya damn hippie.
Pretty cool scene. Nothing on par with what she's capable of based on her work in Alias (she did a lot of those stunts herself), but I wasn't expecting a medic/forensics expert to be doing backflips off the wall or anything. Not that I would've minded it... I heart Jennifer Garner. She could stand around showing off her shoulder muscles for two hours, and I'd still pay for a full-price ticket. Zoe Bell did a few of her stunts in this, too. Bonus!
Zarles wrote: The dialogue was cheesy, but yes, it was on a fairly even keel as far as the rah-rah stuff went. It's slightly pro-American, but given that it's an American movie, it's not too intolerable. It's not like it slides into Bayhem levels or anything.
What, we don't get to cheer when the bad guys get it?
Political correctness is a jar of fish shit.
I can promise you, IF this ( film ) was shown in any Middle Eastern countries, they cheered like mad whenever an American got hurt or killed.
Double standards & poltical correctness. Great twin bill.
I think you misunderstand me.
by MacCready on Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:26 pm
No, I think he was agreeing with you.
MacCready
by tapehead on Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:28 pm
See I always thought MaCready was The Vicar's Alt...
Now I think I'm misunderstanding me.
Where's that Alias boxset when you need it...
by Fievel on Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:39 pm
Why do you want Jennifer Garner's box set in front of you?
Okay, that was dumb.
I liked The Kingdom. It was a lot better than I thought it would be.
I thought it would be more of a thinking film, but the all-out action at the end was fun.
Fievel wrote: Why do you want Jennifer Garner's box set in front of you?
Too... many... responses...!
:: brain explodes ::
by Retardo_Montalban on Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:53 pm
I thought the movie was okay. Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman got on my nerves though. Not the actors themselves but the characters. They were the shittiest FBI agents in the world. What kind of pussy complains about driving super cool fast in a car? What kind of FBI agent gets all PMSey and cries while on the job? How are the Muslims going to respect women if you act like a nut case in front of them? I just wanted Jamie Fox or Chris Cooper to turn to one of them retards and slap them in the face and tell 'em to man up.
Seriously! Put a burka on and get back in the kitchen, babymaker! What do you think this is - 1969?
by Ribbons on Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:58 pm
Lady Sheridan wrote: I suspect half of the people criticizing it as nothing but American propaganda didn't see it
I don't know if I want to say "you're probably right," because 1) I didn't see it yet either and 2) it's not like I've taken any polls lately; but there might be truth in this. I can only speak for myself, but I know that the advertising made it seem very Team America to me.
by Zarles on Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:08 pm
It leans that way, but I honestly don't know of any other way they could've sold it.
by Lady Sheridan on Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:38 am
Me too! My dad actually rented it and I really had no interest because of all the negativity I had heard about it. And certainly, the first few minutes in uncooperative Saudi Arabia made me think well, this is predictable. But then it actually turned around into a decent movie.
I should have known it would be all right, it had Chris Cooper. He's not exactly Team America quality.
by RogueScribner on Tue Mar 25, 2008 2:32 am
Zarles wrote:
Garner is many things, but a tomboy beanpole she is not!
So this movie is actually entertaining my fellow Zoners? I totally wrote this movie off as YAMEM (Yet Another Middle East Movie), but maybe I'll add it to my Netflix queue.
by Pacino86845 on Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:59 am
Don't do it!
This movie was bad, but not awful. I give it points for some of the action elements and the Arab policeman character, but the premise is pretty laughable IMO.
And yes, there was a tinge of "American propaganda" to the whole affair.
by Peven on Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:48 am
Pacino86845 wrote: Don't do it!
i disagree. in fact, i think that last scene alone pretty much deflates any "American propaganda" accusations
throughout the film the Americans are portrayed as ignorant of the Arab/Muslim culture, continuously saying and doing things that are offensive and even when they are made aware they show little sensitivity, especially Bateman's character. it portrays that aspect of Americans that expects consideration from others regarding our own sensibilities and yet gives little to no consideration for the sensibilities of others who are different. the same kind of intolerance that is typical of the fundamentalist Islamic terrorists. a narrow point of view. and that is shown on both sides. it is a central point of the film, imo.
through the police captain and his partner we see the virtues of a "good" Muslim life are much the same as many Americans would think of a "good" Christian life. we see fathers' love for their children, a man's love and respect for his own father, and we see how men-in-arms in each culture look out for each other's sons if their compatriots fall. two sides to the same coin and all that.
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My qualm mainly has to do with what I perceive as a misguided, Western-centric sort of propaganda, rather than a blatant "Right Wing" type... you know, "the road to hell etc."
I'm not writing up very much now as the details of the film are pretty hazy right now, but that's the general impression I had at the time.
Plus I remember getting the feeling that the FBI agents in this film are actually textbook villains. So is the bomber of course, but less obvious perhaps is the evil coming from the FBI.
The main policeman fellow saved the film though, he was awesome.
by tapehead on Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:55 am
Pacino86845 wrote: I agree.
We are in concurrence, I think that was Ashraf Barhom as Colonel Faris Al Ghazi - every scene he was in elevated the movie for me as his untenable position and difficulties made it seem more realistic. He was excellent, and I would have been really happy to see this story told more from his perspective.
Precisely, thanks for chiming in tapes.
by The Vicar on Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:12 am
That would have been interesting.
by AtomicHyperbole on Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:05 pm
Interesting converation, folks. I agree with that Ashraf Barhom required a bit more screentime, but what was there is enough to add balance and tell the story. Some more everyday life on the streets of SA would've been good, but then you wouldn't have felt the same feeling of alienation that you do when being placed in such a radically different culture as the agents did.
Personally I can't see much in the way of American propaganda here, more it's a study of how delicate a situation can be on both sides. It fell very heavily on the position that the SA side found itself equally as the need to uncover who was responsible for the atrocity. It's worth bearing in mind that the story is being told with American minds... er, in mind.
It's not Syriana, not by a long stretch. It's a very different movie and the only comparasion is some of the subject matter. That it went into the investigation as much as it did and allowed even the more frustrating elements, like the General, appear to be acting within some sort of reasoning was commendable.
In fact the movie can be viewed from many sides, even if one takes the forefront.
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Blackfish (Tog) Limit Jumps To Five
Tom P.
Photo by Capt. Brett Taylor
Thankfully, with the same 15-inch minimum length.
With the inevitable arrival of colder water, the bigger blackfish are moving in from the wrecks and structures in deeper water and the next 4-6 weeks should be a hot time for dropping green crab-baited rigs ‘n jigs to the rocks, wrecks and bramble in the 45 to 70-foot depths. Figure tog in the 4 to 8-lb. range as the average, with double-digit weight crab crunchers not uncommon.
Catching keeper blackies from the jetties at Shark River, Manasquan, and Barnegat inlets is in play, although these will generally be smaller, topping at 3-lbs. or so. Yet, there are always surprises, with the occasional tog in excess of 4-lbs. wrested from the hidey holes in the rocks.
Using a jig baited with a wad of green crab has been the rage the past few years, but in actuality, has been a preferred method of tog terminators since the early Nineties. The advantage of a jig is that the chances of getting snagged is significantly reduced, translating to more fishing time. The advantage of a standard two hook rig is that a pair of baits can be presented at one time, theoretically doubling the chances of a bite and the rare double hook-up.
Then there is the “Snafu Rig” with a pair of tandem hooks buried in the bait, offering a double stab opportunity while also decreasing, albeit slightly, the possibility of getting hung up.
It’s all a matter of personal choice and hook-setting reflexes, i.e. “Tog muscle memory”.
In the expansive 105.7 The Hawk listening area, top tog party boats include the Capt. Cal II (Belmar), and the Jamaica II and the Norma K III (Brielle). For charters, it’s Reel Reaction Sportfishing (Barnegat) and the Robin Ann (Barnegat Light).
Photo byHugh Carberry
Deer Me: For those holding a “permit bow season” tag and are zeroing on antlers but have not yet connected, there is still some prime time. The bucks are still feverishly chasing the waning number of receptive does as the mating season, or at least it’s first stage, is winding down. This weekend through next week will be most likely be the last time when the rackers (see photo) will be out of their minds and careless. Be it private or public land, a wide expanse of timber or a patch of brush or swamp, figure the bucks to be moving at any time of the day.
Pheasant/Quail Releases: For this Saturday and next Tuesday and Thursday, these are the respective numbers of ringnecks and bobwhites being released in The Hawk listening area wildlife management areas.
Pheasants: Assunpink (500, 300, 250); Colliers Mills (310, 180, 150); Howardsville (80, 50, 40); Manahawkin (60, 40, 30); Manasquan (170, 100, 90); Medford (130, 80, 60); Port Republic (60, 40, 30); and Stafford Forge (230, 140, 110).
Quail: Greenwood Forest (400, 280, 400); Peaslee (400, 280, 400).
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Why Do We Love Our Invaders So Much?
Posted in British Raj, Desert Bloc, History, India, Indo Pak Relations, Propaganda by Anuraag Sanghi on August 7, 2012
Colonial history produces in the minds of many English-speaking Indians, the belief that India has been a rather frequent military loser – even though facts are otherwise.
Colonial history, left largely untouched after Indian Independence, produces it own kinds of stunted minds. A 2ndlook reader responded with a revealing comment.
being a Hindu from east India (Bengal – Assam), believe me I would Any Day prefer the british or east India company, rather than live under nawab’s, muslim league, tikka khans (u know who was tikka khan, maybe you don’t know about the pakistan genocide of east bengali hindus in 70-71).
Ever head of the begali hindu renassiance in the 18-19 centuries (or for that matter the general Hindu reniasance all over india). I am sure u’ll be upset / angry / bitter to learn that it started once the british has booted out the nawbs / mughals
Koenraad Elst, recently wrote a blog-post calling Hindus cowards, questioning if they are all right in all the departments. All this because Hindus were not hounding out Muslims from India – or at least making them second-class citizens, if not putting them in concentration camps.
To make this point, Elst picked up on India’s partition (1947) into India and Pakistan (to later subdivide into Pakistan and Bangla Desh.).
Anglophiles apart, it is an accepted reading of events for the 1940-1947 period when the Partition was formalized, that the British did encourage Jinnah to make strident, aggressive claims for disproportionate authority and veto powers in the soon-to-be independent India – failing which, India must be partitioned.
Some 2ndlookers felt that Elst’s absolution given to the British, for the Partition of India was a trial balloon by vested interests. A logical doubt, as Koenraad Elst’s writing has been suspect – and his ‘scholarship’ distasteful.
It is Elst’s proposition in his post (linked above) – unsupported by any facts, links, citations, references that the British wanted a united India – but it was Muslims led by Jinnah who wanted otherwise.
Curiously, the most significant support for Elst came from some Indians. Some interesting ramifications and reactions to this debate.
On the dirty propaganda projecting Hindus as cowards…
Ananda Ganesh V
Fri, Jul 27 2012 23:05:49
@Anuraag Sanghi gives Koenraad Elst a proper drubbing:
Jim Pivonka
Sun, Aug 05 2012 13:06:21
@StPTBarnum You have made some mistake somewhere, please revisit K Elst. He is not a an apologist
ReplyRetweet
@StPTBarnum So you are nemesis to the now dying @Koenraad_Elst He is sick, very sick. But you accuse him, Good.
@StPTBarnum You don’t have guts to reveal your real identity, but accuse ppl. who have. How Sad. You should have guts, & Guts is Bharatiya.
@Sshankara Let @StPTBarnum come out with his true identity to abuse @Koenraad_Elst , if not he is wasting energy. its only MM.
@StPTBarnum What happened Swamin, you lost your guts?
My views on why India was lucky to have Britain as colonial ruler not France. http://economicswallah.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/how-britain-was-better-colonial-power-than-rest/
Manudev Jain
Sat, Aug 04 2012 10:02:42
@StPTBarnum Your thoughts on HAD FRANCE, NOT BRITAIN WON INDIA http://economicswallah.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/how-britain-was-better-colonial-power-than-rest/
@z_jain Interesting tweet. Either Britain or France had to win! India has to be a loser! Have Indians still not started winning?
St. PT Barnum
@StPTBarnum No no, contrary to the title it is not a piece on counter-history, I just compared * macroscopicly* British and French colony
@StPTBarnum If the clocks were rewound and Hindus asked to vote, whome do you think they wud choose? Muslims or the Brits?
Palahalli
@Palahalli_ 1-Like a true Loser. 2-Clocks dont go back! 3-You assume Indians will lose & Brits /Muslims win? I dont do such stuff @z_jain
@StPTBarnum Honestly, megalomania hasnt done good to anyone Learn to respect other views, rigidity breeds losers. @Palahalli_
Mon, Aug 06 2012 00:01:50
@StPTBarnum Thanks for the answer @z_jain
@StPTBarnum Hey! listen, kindly act you your senses. Roaming around like mad chest thumping gorilla wont do any good to you @Palahalli_
Good! Guys have fun. As long as you are happy! @z_jain @Palahalli_
@StPTBarnum Haha! I wonder what explains you being so haughty? And know what it is so naive of you. Makes me laugh. @Palahalli_
The following tweets are actually a bit of a red-herring. Afghanistan was always a part of India, till the British lost Afghanistan. Last, before the British lost Afghanistan, it was a part of the Sikh kingdom. Mughals were Islamic rulers from Afghanistan, and not foreign invaders. Mughal polity was of course vastly centralized – unlike Indian governance model of Bharattantra.
But colonial history has dinned into Indian minds that Mughals and Afghans were foreigners.
Mod history besotted with Mughals & British whose combined unchallenged rule was for abt 350 yr. Cholas ruled longer http://fb.me/1CYlDxGmw
Tue, Aug 07 2012 03:19:44
@StPTBarnum Recency bias
S K
Is it more than recency bias? Funny feeling this is related to why the 4 khans rule Bollywood http://fb.me/1CYlDxGmw @octa_sud
@StPTBarnum it’s d latest rule which existd for atleast few genertions has impact on common psyche.b4 English, Persian was prominent languge
Vikas Rajpurohit
@StPTBarnum @centerofright it was the pandyas who ruled longer.
NR Vithobha
@NR_Tatvamasi @centerofright Cholas,Pandyas each ruled longer thn British Mughals combined http://fb.me/1CYlDxGmw #BritishMughalRaj
Why do we love our invaders so much? Cholas,Pandyas each ruled longer thn British Mughals combined http://fb.me/1CYlDxGmw #BritishMughalRaj
@StPTBarnum fucking bastards forget that indian shunga dynasty was spread all over india and south asia.
Harshad Joshi
@StPTBarnum,that is British brainwashing !
So devious, so cunning ,all powerful ,that we are still in its shackles.
junawani
@junawani What about the raptures that we go into studying the Mughals?
@StPTBarnum why did indians loose the wars to mughals and british, and china after independence, there must be some problem in ourselves
sundeep rao
@StPTBarnum there is no use of being technologically and culturally advanced when mughals or british could defeat us and loot
Do we adore the 4 Khans who rule Bollywood because we love our invaders so much? http://fb.me/1rPd8NTKL
1st Amendment to US constitution says "Govt CAN NEVER curtail Free Speech". 1st Amend to Indian const says "Govt CAN curtail Free Speech".
— ॐ सत्यभाषणं (@satyabhashnam) August 25, 2012
Koenraad Elst: Singing Bhajans to British Gods to an Indian Audience or The Game Is Over (2ndlook.wordpress.com)
Hindu families migration conspiracy against Pakistan: Malik (dawn.com)
Viewpoint: G4S and the echoes of the East India Company (bbc.co.uk)
Tagged with: Bangladesh, Koenraad Elst, Pakistan, Partition of India
1945 Britain – Imperial ambitions of a starving nation
Posted in British Raj, European History, History, India, politics by Anuraag Sanghi on December 30, 2009
After WWII, failure at something as basic as agriculture did not stop a Britain from nursing imperial ambitions.
“Food shortages in Britain” – Vicky (Victor Weisz) cartoon, first published by Daily Mirror on 11 February 1955
ritain, after WWII, seeing its colonies slip away one by one, was an anxious nation. Facing food shortages, the mood soon lapsed from anxiety to near-paranoia.
A symptom of that paranoia were villains that Ian Fleming created. Bullion-smuggling Auric Goldfinger or bio-warfare master Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Blofeld, in Fleming’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1963) is caught planning a germ-war against British agriculture.
Factually, British agriculture did not need a Blofeld to trigger a crisis. In doldrums for the previous hundred years, food-shortages till WWI were averted by massive imports – mainly from Russia. After WWII, it was US and Argentina that filled the gaps in food shortages.
But failure in something as basic as food shortages did not stop a Britain from nursing imperial ambitions.
Of Britain itself
Dependent on US food and economic aid, Europe rebuilt its economy with industrial exports based on a favorable exchange rate – much like Japan, Asian Tigers and China did later. His hand forced, Churchill had to call for elections, soon after WWII.
A starving, indebted Britain, took cold comfort in welfare state promises made by the Labour Party – and Clement Attlee (a sheep in sheep’s clothing as described by Churchill) became the Prime Minister of Britain.
Without assured raw-materials sources and protected markets, (especially India), British exports nosedived. The British economy collapsed in the next few decades. British Coal, Railways, Steel, automobile industry, ship-building went into a terminal decline – never to recover.
Sixty years after decolonization of India, with memories dimmed, Western writers and academics credit British for decolonization and lay the burden of the Partition-related communal violence at Indian doorsteps.
“British government conceded Indian self-rule, they thought this the right thing to do. What would have happened to the Koreans or the Vietnamese if a local Gandhi had tried such tactics against the brutal Japanese kempetai or the French with their mercenaries from Morocco and Senegal? It was not that Gandhi was successful but that the British were forbearing … Gandhi’s tactics only work if the other side lets it …”(from Christie Davies’ Blog The Social Affairs Unit).
“The idea is to spray a little around the kitchen the smell of frying bacon permeates through the house whets the appetite” says cartoonist NEB (Ronald Niebour) First published by The Daily Mail on 20 December 1951
Abdication! … retreat? … fait accompli.
This is an argument worth looking at.
Was Britain, after WWII, in any shape to impose, concede, accede or reject any position by the Indian leadership or the population.
But before that, an interesting extract about the handover of power to India.
But even as it bade farewell, Britain was to visit two disasters on the subcontinent. One was Attlee’s appointment of Lord Mountbatten as the last Viceroy. Conceited, impatient, and breathtakingly arrogant, he took to the grandeur and the raw power of the job with unholy relish.
Mountbatten decided that independence would come on August 1947, on the second anniversary of the day he had accepted the surrender of the Japanese in south-east Asia. Nothing was to stand in the way of this vainglory – not even the unresolved issue of Muslim demands for a separate state, and the gathering storm clouds of communal violence.
In a few summer weeks, colonial servants scribbled lines across the map of the mighty subcontinent, carving East and West Pakistan out of Mother India, and sparking a bloodbath so frightful that no one to this day knows exactly how many millions died. (via 1945-51: Labour and the creation of the welfare state | Politics | guardian.co.uk).
Like this article in The Guardian points out, Mountbatten’s August date for Indian independence was based more on his need to ‘celebrate’ his ‘personal’ milestones than ground realities in India.
“Now when daddy’s broken it, we’ll proceed anti-clockwise, to take a spoonful each.” Cartoon by NEB (Ronald Niebour) First published by The Daily Mail on 24 March 1951
End of rationing
Potatoes, eggs, milk, cheese, petrol. clothes, meat and bacon (fish excluded) were all rationed – which finally ended in 1954. A huge bureaucracy and rules created an elaborate rationing system which finally ended 9 years after the end of the WWII – in 1954.
Reduction in Russian agricultural exports after Stalinist collectivization of farms, deprived war-ravaged Europe of a nearby source of agricultural commodities. In the Russia of 1953, one year before rationing ended in Britain, the year of Stalin’s death, grain production was below the level reached in 1913.
Instead, high cost food imports from Argentina were needed. This caused much angst and hand-wringing in the British Parliament. One British MP, Sir Waldron Smithers (Orpington), to revealingly, complain about how it “looks as if the Argentine Government took a nice commission of £49 million at the expense of the British taxpayer”. The same MP, Sir Waldron Smithers (Orpington), further referred to “an article which appeared in “Wall Street Journal, New York,” published in the “Evening Standard” on 13th March, with the title, “How to make 200 per cent. profit on wheat … The procedure is simple. Buy wheat from the farmers for £11 to £13 a ton—sell it to the bread-hungry British for £34 a ton.” This, according to the MP, was a price that, “tops the peaks of world war I and the Napoleonic wars … They know that Britain is short of food, and they are getting the highest prices they can.”
“He must be very short this week – I’ve never seen him use a watch-repairers glass before.” cartoon by NEB (Ronald Niebour) First published by The Daily Mail on 31 March 1951
The break …
British and European farmers increased production as massive subsidies were lined up. A Europe-wide agricultural subsidy scheme named Common Agricultural Programme – (CAP) was put in place.
The CAP was instigated against the backdrop of food shortages and rationing after World War II, to stabilise European food markets while giving farmers a steady income and consumers low prices. (from Q&A: Farm funding row).
The CAP scheme was never withdrawn – and what was an emergency scheme, is now a US$70 billion behemoth.
The Gambia Egg Scheme
A desperate UK came out with schemes – non-union, low-cost, African ’employees’ would produce poultry and eggs, and groundnuts (scheme in Tanganyika), rice-and-fish in Nyasaland – ‘to assist in the rehabilitation of the motherland’, i.e. Britain.
The Colonial Development Corporation was set up to invest in the ‘development’ of the colonies. Schemes for ‘encouraging’ and ‘developing’ agriculture in the colonies were proposed and promoted. Each one a greater disaster than the other. Tired of food shortages, rationing, a desperate Britain announced
ill fated grandiose scheme that were heralded, with many a flourish of political trumpets, before grinding to an ignominious halt under the sheer weight of bureaucratic inertia and slipshod planning. The very names of these schemes – groundnuts from Tanganyika, eggs in Gambia, rice in Nyasaland – will evoke wry smiles among those whose memories can stretch back to the immediate postwar years, when “big is beautiful” caught the imagination of planners and politicans alike.
A groundnut scheme and eggs and poultry scheme became objects of much merriment, mirth, concern, and favorite objects of cartoonists – African groundnuts to Gambia egg ranches, ‘cost the Government a tremendous amount of public support‘. Post-War Britain, short of cooking fats, looked at Africa.
“Profiteer” and “Black Marketeer” saying “now we can skin him tax free”, rabbit trapped in a hutch marked “British Public”. Cartoonist Illingworth cartoon, June 27, 1946.
Frank Samuel, (managing director of the United Africa Company, a subsidiary of the large British corporation Unilever) suggested groundnuts cultivation in Tanganiyika. Tractors and equipment were airlifted from Canada and Philippines to the nearest airfield, and thence by sea to Dar-es-salaam. After landing at the Dar-es-salaam port, to be transported into the interior, rail tracks from Dar-es-salaam were washed away. Soil and rainfall were unsuitable – and the British taxpayer paid the price for these grand projects.
In 1949 the government had promised: “Within two years, British housewives will be getting 20 million eggs and 1,000,000 pounds of dressed poultry yearly from Gambia.”… The British government put $2,000,000 into a model poultry farm outside Bathurst, but disease and bad feed killed off the chick ens, and after production of 40,000 eggs—at $50 an egg—the farm was transformed into a teacher’s college … While waiting for the local feed supply to be produced, (to feed the chicks), the government authorized spending of more scarce dollars for American grain … Last week Colonial Secretary James Griffiths told the House of Commons that the plan had failed and would be abandoned. Reason: the government planners had regrettably failed to find out whether Gambian land would grow chicken feed. The fact: it would not.
The House of Commons, ever alert to possible cruelty toward dumb animals, had some questions. Richard Hurd, Tory member for the Newbury division of Berkshire, asked Griffiths: “Can the Minister tell us how the birds that will survive are to be fed for the next few months?”
End of WWII did not end British problems. Illingworth’s cartoon published on August 5, 1941. Churchill collecting rubbish into a sack, called “Britain’s war problems” like “Dislocation of rail traffic” “Waste of coal” and “Local food shortage”
Tory members roared an answer: “On promises and groundnuts.” (This was a cruel reference to the government’s £36 million scheme for growing peanuts in Africa; failure of the groundnut scheme was announced Feb. 20.)
Edward Keeling, Tory member for Twickenham, asked Griffiths: “Can the Minister say if it is true, as was reported in the Daily Telegraph, that the new director of the scheme has stated, ‘I hate chickens’?” (From Time magazine articles; Foreign News: Scrambled Eggs, Monday, Mar. 12, 1951; and Gambia: Newest, Smallest Friday, Feb. 26, 1965).
In the dying days of the Raj
A defensive Britain, never one to lose sight of propaganda opportunity, used India’s ‘ship-to-mouth’ food shortages to diminish the Indian economy. Even while grappling with the critical food situation at home. Or a war in Europe, British propaganda machine never stopped working.
In the middle of WWII, Britain pulled out a general from the Italian theatre of war and sent him to India – to head colonial India archaeological operations.
John Bull (Britain) pleading from Juan Peron (Argentina) for Food – Does Falklands make sense now?
One evening in early August 1943, Brigadier General Mortimer Wheeler was resting in his tent after a long day of poring over maps, drawing up plans for invasion of Sicily. Mortimer Wheeler was invited to become the director general of archaeology by the India Office of the British government in its last years of rule in South Asia … Summoning a general from the battlefields of Europe was an extraordinary measure, an admission both of the desperate condition of Indian archaeology and an acknowledgment of its vital importance. (from The Strides of Vishnu: Hindu Culture … – Google Books).
Why would the glorious British Empire, on which the sun never set, struggling for its very existence, in the middle of WWII, suddenly pull a general back from the battlefield – and put him into archaeology! That too, Indian archaeology. Not Egyptian, not Greek! Especially, when it was clear, that they would be departing from India – sooner rather than later.
Considering what theories came from Mortimer Wheeler’s rather fertile ‘imagination’ and his rigourous archaeological process, in hindsight, from a Western perspective, this was sound decision. The main targets for Mortimer were Takshashila and Indus Valley ruins. His ‘explorations’ led Mortimer Wheeler to remark,
“They demonstrate with astonishing clarity the extent to which the brief transit of Alexander did in fact Hellenize almost instantly vast tracts of Asia populated previously by nomads or semi-nomads and villagers”
It is this one incident which possibly contains answers to many unanswered questions like: –
The amount of energy expended by the West in defending the Aryan Invasion /Migration Theory
The lack of access to Indian scholars of the archaeological sites in Pakistan
The many myths in Indian history
The clues to the partition of India
The dating problems
Just why did the world’s foremost imperial power, struggling for its very existence, suddenly pull a general from the battle field, in the middle of WWII – and put him onto the job of digging dirt.
Imperial ambitions! Funded by US? Cartoon by Illingworth, August 6, 1947. (Attlee, the bird feeding a large chicken “British Zone in Germany” taking up the entire nest of “British economy”. 3 malnourished chicks named “Import export gap”, “Food shortage” and “Controls”).
Underneath the Western sky
Making sense of the newly formed Indian nation was herculean task. After more than a century of propaganda, Western ‘education’, inversion of history, post-colonial Indian rulers struggled between the ‘glossy’ imported idioms and the familiar native dialogue.
Caught in this dilemma, the Indian State vacillates between a unique Indic inheritance and the detritus of dead-end colonialism.
The other aspect of the entire Independence debate was of British debt owed to India. After loading every clause and phrase in the terms of trade, in its own favour, Britain was a debtor nation to India.
Britain now owes £1,030,000,000 (about $4,500,000,000) in the form of sterling credit to India. Britain is unable to repay even a small part of the debt immediately, and does not want India to sell her sterling credit to the U.S. In time she hopes to pay her debt by sales of export goods to India. (from INDIA: The Wavell Plan, Monday, May. 21, 1945).
More interestingly, Jaswant Singh’s book brings out clearly, Jinnah’s shrill demands for 30% reservation in all of India to ’safeguard the interests’ of the erstwhile Muslim ‘ruling class’ left only the Congress, SC Bose and the Hindu Mahasabha as the spokesman for an India – and not for a narrow community, class or section.
1857 again …
What made Attlee finally see the futility of holding on to India was the Indian armed forces.
At the end of WWII, Britain was a ‘superpower’, intact with its huge colonial Empire – apart from the massive debt that it owed the US. With Germany defeated and Hitler dead, Italy in shambles and Mussolini hanged, Britain sat at the head of ‘high tables’ in the post-WWII world deciding the fate of the nations – with its partner in crime, the US of A.
The coming winter, Cartoon by Illingworth, October 1, 1945. Dark clouds over Britain. The storm clouds are ‘Lend-Lease End’, ‘Food Shortage’, ‘Balkans’, ‘Russian Demands’, ‘Fuel Shortage’ and U.S. Strikes’.
February 18th, 1946. Some the 20 lakh colonial Indian armed forces, united and raised the banner of Independence. United across ranks, skin colour, language, geography, religion, caste, height, weight – with only one thing uniting them. They were all Indians.
On February 18th, the men of Indian Navy (then the Royal Indian Navy) rained on the British parade – by raising the flag of Indian Independence. Britain did not have the stomach to take on the Indian Colonial Army, battle hardened and exposed to warfare in all the global theatres of WWII. The British acquiesced and 18 months later they were out.
By the night of the 20th nearly the entire Royal Indian Navy was in open rebellion: seventy eight ships across various Indian ports — Mumbai (then Bombay), Karachi, Chennai (then Madras), Vishakapatnam (thenVizagapatanam), Kolkatta (then Calcutta) and Kochi (then Cochin), extending to the Andamans. Most of the on-shore establishments lowered the Union Jack. Some ten ships and two on-shore establishments remained loyal to the British.
Before the sun went down, 12,000 seamen of the Royal Indian Navy had seized a score of ships, 18 naval shore stations and a naval dockyard in Bombay Harbor. For two days their ships, deployed in battle line along the harbor wall, defied the British. At Castle Barracks, where besieging British troops fought barricaded Indians, the mutineers turned their artillery on the Bombay Yacht Club (the very symbol of British racial supremacy), where no Indian may enter. At Karachi, Indian naval ratings seized the sloop Hindustan, dueled with British batteries along the waterfront …
British troops, ships and planes converged on Bombay, as rioters swept through the town, setting fire to banks, government grain shops, a cotton mill, a train, British cars, British stores. Night & day they fought police and Tommies, stoned British civilians. British authorities declared a state of “absolute rebellion,” ordered loyal troops to “shoot to kill” anyone moving on the streets at night. Before the mutiny ended, casualties mounted to 240 killed, more than 1,300 injured. On the other side of India, demonstrators surged through the streets of Calcutta, and sympathy strikers tied up transportation.
St.Clement Attlee chases a rabbit, while ignoring the Dragon of Egypt, Famine and India, holds Queen Britannia captive. First published – May 21, 1946, (Attlee was pulling back troops from Egypt, India was gaining independence, Britain was facing food shortages, the government was nationalising railways, coal mines, steel industry and public utility companies).
India’s Britons recalled the horror stories of 1857, when Army mutineers seized seven of India’s cities, including Delhi. Would Indian Army troops revolt again? Already Indian Air Force men had staged sympathy “strikes.” Like the Navy mutineers, soldiers demand better pay, better food, faster demobilization. Indian troops, the bulk of British overseas forces, are scattered wide in the world’s trouble spots: Greece, Indonesia, Syria, Burma, Egypt, Malaya, Iraq and Hong Kong. If the mutiny should spread among them, Britain’s weakened voice in the world’s councils would scarcely be able to whisper. The Army remained quiescent, but even trusted veterans were attending secret meetings of extreme nationalist groups. The British Government would have to act fast … London announced that three Cabinet ministers—Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India, A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade—would go to India … The 1946 negotiations might prove more difficult than the first Cripps mission. Moslem and Hindu had drawn much more closely together…
Nehru and his fellows no longer denounced violence as if they meant it. They sensed a new mood in India’s masses, and swung toward extreme methods lest new leaders arise more in tune with the spirit of rebellion.
In the Calcutta riots the Congress tricolor and the Moslem green flag (and sometimes the hammer & sickle) had floated side by side from windows, from taxicabs, over the heads of marching throngs. Together they had flown from the masts of the mutinous ships at Bombay. At Karachi mutineers scrawled on their ships: “Not mutiny but unity among Indian sailors.” A new slogan was heard in India: “Ek Ho!” (We Are One). (from Time magazine INDIA: Ek Ho! Monday, Mar. 04, 1946; ellipsis mine, parts excized).
On February 19th, 1946, PM Clement Attlee announced that a British Cabinet delegation of three ministers would visit India. He followed this up, on 20th February, 1946, with a statement in the British House of Commons,
His Majesty’s Government desires to hand over their responsibility to authorities established by a constitution approved by all parties in India … His Majesty’s Government wish to make it clear that it is their definite intention to take necessary steps to effect the transference of power to responsible Indian hands by a date not later than June 1948 … His Majesty’s Government will have to consider to whom the powers of the Central Government in British India should be handed over on the due date
On 15th March, 1946, Attlee announced in the British House of Commons that Britain was leaving India. 23rd March, 1946, Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India, A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade came to India for consultations on modalities for power transfer.
Important documents relating to the Naval Action remains classified and inaccessible. What makes the Indian Government classify and withhold information pertaining to the colonial era? What purpose would this serve? What possible reasons exist for delaying de-classification of the 1946 February Uprising by the ‘Naval Ratings’? That was indeed a milestone in India’s history.
Why hide!
Cartoons of the period
Illingworth is, for me, a recent discovery. Leslie Gilbert Illingworth was a visually eloquent cartoonist of the period. His craft is admirable – not for his originality.
Bernard Hollowood, who edited Punch from 1957 to 1969, agreed that Illingworth lacked passionate involvement and “produced very few of his own ideas.” As he recalled, at Punch “the chief political cartoons were produced communally, and the method suited Leslie.”
Illingworth was a mirror that captured the mood, prejudices, biases, opinions, of Britain, so well. His cartoons on India were full of misplaced imperial certitude – extremely gross in hindsight. A favorite subject for cartoonists in 1945-1955 period, was food shortages and rationing.
A Britain fattened by colonies facing a future without an empire. July 9, 1947. (John Bull holding scales. On one side is “Let us face the future” and on the other side, are Britain’s problems of Clothing Ration, Housing Problem, Fuel shortage, Food Scarcity …)
India tells Britain: We don’t want your aid (quicktake.wordpress.com)
Commentary on Indian Foreign Policy (quicktake.wordpress.com)
Voter & Polity – The Indian Disconnect (quicktake.wordpress.com)
Indian Bania On British Raj Economics (quicktake.wordpress.com)
What can James Bond’s nemeses teach us? (economist.com)
From the cradle to the grave (newstatesman.com)
Have we travelled back to 1942? 70 years ago we had soup kitchens and now we have food banks (mirror.co.uk)
To Empire, With Love (counterpunch.org)
Gandhiji: Indians Must Be Thankful to Nobel Committee for Not Giving Him the Award (quicktake.wordpress.com)
WWII British-Indian spy honoured (bbc.co.uk)
Tagged with: CAP programme, EU, food shortage, Partition of India, russia
Pakistan – a nation in fidayeen mode?
Posted in Current Affairs, Indo Pak Relations, Islamic Demonization, politics, Religion by Anuraag Sanghi on December 5, 2008
हंस के लिए हैं पाकिस्तान, लड़ के लेंगे हिंदुस्तान
With a contemptuous smile, we robbed them of Pakistan;
Now we will battle, to conquer Hindustan
Synthesis of Pakistan
For many years, the above slogan (popular in pre-partition India amongst Muslims) summed up the idea of Pakistan. The State of Pakistan was an artificial creation – and popular leaders like Sheikh Abdullah refused to even meet up with Jinnah – and who was deemed irrelevant.
Extract from “Memories of Jinnah By K. H. Khurshid, Khālid Ḥasan”
To this, add what Jinnah later boasted “I will tell you who made Pakistan: Myself, my secretary and his typewriter”. Many versions of the boast exist – though no one disputes the boast itself. Another writer narrates how Jinnah won“Pakistan merely with the assistance of “one Secretary and a typewriter machine”. Yet another researcher writes how “Jinnah once claimed that “I have won Pakistan with the help of my Secretary and his typewriter”. One memoir of Khurshid, Jinnah’s Secretary, pretty much says the same thing, “I’ll tell you who made Pakistan. Myself, my secretary and his typewriter”. At yet another occasion he seems to have said, ” My dear man, I got you Pakistan with a typist and a typewriter.” Apocryphal (as Jaswant Singh seems to suggest) or verbatim, this boast was repeated so many times and in the many versions does capture the Pakistani mindset.
The Deoband seminary issued a call to Muslims, against the idea of Pakistan. Deoband seminary was set up after the 1857 War, as a religious institution to ‘escape’ British repression. 75 years after its establishment, the Deoband school became famous during Independence, due to its strong anti-Jinnah, anti-Partition stand. And 60 years after Indian independence, the Deoband seminary is again, leading an anti-terror campaign in India.
Colonial Legacy
Yet, the British colonial administrators needed to prove that only they could rule over India. Indians were after all ‘men of straw … of whom no trace will be found after a few years’. And they were led by ‘half naked fakir‘.
The clue is in the body language
The colonial administrators created false divides – between Hindus and Muslims, between Hindus and Hindus. In some they succeeded – and in some they didn’t. Kashmir, was after all an issue that was created by British commanders of Indian and Pakistani armies – in 1948. Mountbatten was the also the Governor General of India at that time.
Modern Pakistan
Pakistan is actually 5 parts.
First is the army and the ISI combination. Then there are the popular politicians who participate in elections. Add the mullah-madrasa-mujahhid combine with a fundamentalist clergy, various terrorist groups – like JeM, LeT, Al Qaida, various Taliban factions et al make up the third.
The fourth part are the 22 families that control the economy and wealth of Pakistan. Mahbub-ul-Haq’s “22 families” speech in Karachi in 1968 highlighted the power and wealth of a few families in Pakistan.
And bringing up the rear there are the rest. No one in Pakistan talks to anyone. Each has contempt for the other four. And all five have separate agenda.
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn …
And what partition era Indians remember most about the slogan above, was the indifference, to the fate of Pakistan by the soon-to-be Pakistanis – and their total India-centric focus. It is their reading, that the Pakistanis may not mourn away the passing away of Pakistan much – which is something that most Indians do not factor. Having got Pakistan for a song, they may soon be found snickering at its break up.
Is it this indifference which has allowed Pakistan to become a client state of the West?
Resident Non Indians
Some part of the Indian bureaucracy and English speaking media is possibly made up of RNIs (Resident Non-Indians), whose children and future, they have ‘secured’ in the West – much like the indifferent Pakistanis.
And this may be the one quality, that possibly is the one thing, that the RNIs and Pakistanis share – indifference to the fate of the country.
The respect Pakistan deserves – and does not get (quicktake.wordpress.com)
The headache that is Pakistan (quicktake.wordpress.com)
Pakistan – Blackmail as State Policy (quicktake.wordpress.com)
Pakistan – Shifting sands? (quicktake.wordpress.com)
Clinton’s visit removes misconceptions: Pakistan – Xinhua (news.google.com)
Clinton on surprise visit to Pakistan (alternet.org)
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“Little Women” and efficient retelling of classic
By Andy Ray on December 23, 2019 Film Reviews
Louisa May Alcott’s 1869 novel “Little Women” has always lent itself well to the medium of film. To wit, no fewer than seven big-screen versions have been produced over the years. Two were silent. Other notable adaptations starred Katherine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor. My favorite was Gillian Armstrong’s 1994 interpretation, which starred Winona Ryder in the lead role as the moody and brilliant Jo March – second-oldest of four daughters growing up in Massachusetts during the Civil War. Armstrong’s translation was warm and fuzzy, yet practically burst off the screen with a vibrancy sometimes missing from filmed renderings.
Now, Greta Gerwig’s rendition hits theaters, and it, too, is an affectionate variant on the timeless classic. This time, Saoirse Ronan lends her enormous talents as the spirited Jo – a role she seems born to play. Determined to succeed as a writer, Jo March (a character Alcott based on herself) spends a good portion of her youth writing down her analysis of the events in her life. Fortunately for young Jo, her life is full of notable occurrences. She has three sisters and a big-hearted mother who never misses an opportunity to teach her girls the value of sharing their abundance with those less fortunate.
Emma Watson plays the beautiful and approachable eldest daughter Meg, Eliza Scanlan is the ailing Beth and Florence Pugh is Amy, the “baby” of the family. Each of the girls possesses an artistic talent. Jo is the writer, of course, while Beth excels at music, Amy is a painter and Meg possesses many capabilities. Gently guiding the March girls through their adolescence is their mother Marmee, played by the versatile Laura Dern. Marmee must act as mother and father while Mr. March (Bob Odenkirk) is away at war.
As the girls wend their way through preadulthood, they begin to notice the young men of Concord, one of whom happens to live in the estate next door. His name is Teddy Laurence, but everyone refers to him as Laurie. Played by the adaptable Timothee Chalamet, Laurie takes an early interest in Jo, but has feelings for several of the March girls. Chris Cooper plays his widowed father, who admires all the March girls – particularly Beth, who revels in playing the late Mrs. Laurence’s piano for Mr. Laurence. Meryl Streep is humorous as Aunt March, the family matriarch who never misses a chance to advise her young nieces to marry into wealth. And Tracy Letts is hilarious as the book publisher more interested in sales than in brilliant writing.
It’s a wonderful cast of characters, and it’s always a delight to see new film variations. Gerwig’s is certainly one of the best, and, coupled with her 2017 classic “Lady Bird” (which also starred Ronan), firmly establishes her as one of our brightest young filmmakers. I foresee Gerwig having greater success as a director than as an actress. s she did with “Lady Bird,” she also is credited with writing the screenplay.
My only complaint with Gerwig’s “Little Women” is the back-and-forth jumps in time – particularly in the film’s first half. There are times when flashback sequences are practically required – such as in the recent picture “The Report,” in which 2002 and 2003 scenes of CIA torture of Muslim and Arab informants is vital to our understanding of the 2014 and 2015 congressional investigation into systematic persecution. Here, the sudden time period swings serve no dramatic purpose. As Armstrong showed us in her version, there’s no reason not to tell this story in a lineal fashion.
Eventually, Gerwig settles on a straightforward narrative; and when she does, her characters sparkle. But the first third of “Little Women” is sometimes difficult to follow. If nothing else, the actresses don’t look different enough in the flashbacks to help us identify whether we are watching them in Civil War times or before. Flashback scenes can be confusing, particularly when overused, and I wish Gerwig had embraced a straight, successive telling of this story.
Still, “Little Women” is a fine film – engaging and sympathetic. It’s a showpiece for some of our finest acting talent, and it stands as the second-best modern interpretation of this ageless tale. Look for Ronan, and perhaps Chalamet and Pugh, at Oscar time.
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The Robinson Family, Genealogical and Historical Association: Officers, Constitution and By-Laws, Historical Sketches of Early Robinson Emigrants to America, Illustrations, Armorial Bearings, Members of Association Unknown author
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Posted on March 30, 2016 June 26, 2018 by adecolley
She nailed it. My pal Anya, 33, from Kyiv, first game ever, said after 85 minutes: “You guys need to practise scoring.”
And so it rumbles on. Who’s the number 9? Given our national intolerance of others’ opinions I fully expect this issue to start punch-ups in the fortnight before the Euros.
It was Simon Church, then Hal Robson- Kanu. Sam Vokes fluffed his biggest audition yet and couldn’t score against Andorra.
Then Tom Lawrence looked to have played himself into the squad against Holland, but didn’t really shine across Easter. It’s difficult to see him starting. The Euros look a couple of years too early for him.
Tom Bradshaw looked OK for 18 minutes but selections show he is not being seriously considered – unless he managed to nutmeg Ashley Williams loads of times in training.
In three hours’ play there was one goal, netted by the sole No 9 to create and take a goal, but bizarrely, people think the only striker to score since October 2014 should miss the ferry to France.
So who will start against Slovakia is anyone’s guess. HRK or Church being ahead of the rest.
Wrexham legend Dixie McNeil was at the game. We should’ve asked him who should start up front. Ta to Craig for spoiling the picture
What’s clear is that the starting 9 usually doesn’t take a grip on the game for whatever reason, usually lack of service. The replacement, whoever it is, always seems to be a slight improvement.
So the logical outcome is to play the starting 9 for, say, nine minutes, and then substitute him. Worked against Cyprus. But, somehow, can’t see this happening.
It looks as if the first striker to net in France – if indeed any of them do – gets the job for the entirety of the tournament.
There have been so many auditions, it’s like The Voice. Why not ask Boy George to choose one and be done with it? We can disputatiously drone on about something else then.
Sometimes sides don’t fully form until the month of the tournament so let’s hope one player – anyone please – rises to the occasion.
Here in Kyiv, the 400 or so fans entered a new phase of evolution unknown in our 150 years’ existence.
Our post-traumatic success disorder has mellowed into a post-qualification, post-coital, blissful reverie – we have entered Cymru am Myth. We’re honeymooning, bonged-out, tra-la-laing down the street, I even found myself whistling Zombie Nation on the marshrutka to the airport. Hopefully this state of mind will never end.
I never knew qualification would feel this good.
As for the games, the past three friendlies are almost like Zenica never happened, was it a figment of our imagination? Without Gareth Bale we’ve reverted to the norm of the last three years. Looking good at times but losing out.
Joe Allen pulled lots of strings but couldn’t cross for toffee. Jonathan Williams took his usual kicking but looked like he was getting used to the treatment. Hopefully better refs in France will protect him. Solid defence was only breached by Yarmolenko, a class act, who should do really well in France.
Defeat was greeted with the old-time shoulder shrug of yore. Nobody minded. Maybe we should have done better but drunken oblivion was only a fiver away and that was top priority for 95% of the Welsh horde.
Overall, it was just like the last game we played here only this time the police smiled.
Shake Oleg
Not often that Welsh footballers play against a World Cup Golden Boot winner but that happened in Kyiv.
The Welsh fans’ team lined up against an all-star Ukrainian team packed with crack players from yesteryear. It was Hotshots v Headbangers (some still drunk).
There was a sumptuous spread to die for – tomatoes that taste of something, cheese, choccies, nuts, oranges, salami, bananas, gherkins, cans of Lvivska grog. Pop. Sandwich-toting Pensioners heard the running commentary by the Ukrainian FA’s press officer over the PA, and came to watch. The sun came out, I’d brought it with me in my draw bag. It was paradise.
We found out at halftime that the impressively robust No 9 was Oleg Salenko, who scored six goals for Russia at USA 1994, joint equal with Hristo Stoichkov. He now lives in Kyiv. No wonder the score was 3-0 though it should have been 6-0.
Tom Bowen, left, took the chance to offer tips to Golden Boot winner Oleg Salenko and was photobombed. Next time, Paul Kinsey and Gazz Dainton, piss off.
The match at the Lokomotiv stadium near the central station ended 3-3 as an unlikely comeback secured a draw. We ‘won’ a jokey penalty shootout.
Most of their players were good, cheetah-sleek ex-pros, ex-Dynamo Kyiv etc etc, in their 40s and 50s.
The vid includes Salenko’s crowning glory – the moment he scored against us. You can retire now Oleg, your career has peaked. I wonder who he’d pick up front for us, perhaps we should have asked him.
I still have a spare gherkin if anyone wants it.
The Best bit
Anyone who’s spent a weekend in Cardiff city centre will know this – the new patron saint of Wales is, or should be, George Best. He set the bar high and Wales is looking to scale it. Let’s all raise a glass to him.
Looks like he’s popular in Kyiv too.
Ukraine is full of surreal surprises and one of the latest sprang up last year, clearly owned by a Man U fan. Barry John’s butty has inspired a bar by the name of Bestia, about half a mile from the Olimpiski stadium. Full address is Shorsa 44.
I got you some pix:
T******* S*******
It’s time to make a stand. I hate this slogan. Witless junk. Supremely inane. Faux profound. It’s the most bleedingly obvious bleeding obvious crock of crud marketing ever devised. And if you don’t get where I’m coming from, I’m afraid it’s bleeding obvious, can’t help, sorry.
And you know the smug idiot who had a ‘moment of inspiration’ in his hashtagged black hole of a brain is still slapping themself on the back, wondering if a marketing award is winging its way towards them cos it was No5 on a Twitter trending list in Dakar.
The news it would be the Manic Street Preachers song title for our France single left me close to tears.
Even worse, it is now on course to be the official slogan on the team bus. And some bugger will get free match tickets, slap-up stuff and goodie-bagged to the gills for his or her ‘genius’. The person who entered it had only the wit to cut and paste the entry, and doesn’t deserve reward,
It’s like the thickest pupil in class being rewarded for learning to count to two. I urge you to vote for the alternatives, which are, admittedly, nearly as gut-wrenchingly bad. Go here.
Together we can defeat the T******* S******* mafia.
The Swedes colonised Kyiv during Euro 2012. Women took the minibus from villages outside the city to ogle the men, swooning in droves.
The Scandinavian scallies spread happiness, joy and Viking helmets all over the shop. They were literally revered.
On Trukhaniv Island, in the middle of the river Dnipro, sand was imported for the beach by city authorities. The Swedes turned it into a huge camp site.
It’s now an all-frills-spared dreary dump again – scruffy cats and windowless buildings abound. but there is evidence of the Scandinavian occupation still. There was a polite little nod to local hero Andriy Shevchenko, now retired, but helping the national team out. And of course the monumental ego of Zlatan Ibrahimovic – I call him Ham Sandwich, it’s less of a mouthful – gets his own monument. He’s next up – we’ll finally see a top-class striker on the pitch – on June 5.
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AFBA pays a working visit to the Chairman of Nigeria's Anti Graft Agency
THe African Bar Association visited the the Chairman of Nigeria's Anti Graft Agency; The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC).
AFBA Commends EFCC for Tackling Sacred Cows, Setting Pace in Africa.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday, May 23, 2019 received praise for taking the anti-corruption fight to the doorsteps of hitherto sacred cows in the country and for being the "torchlight for the African Continent in the anti-corruption war."
The commendation came from the president of African Bar Association, AFBA Barrister Hannibal Uwaifo, while on a courtesy visit to the Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, at the Commission's headquarters.
Uwaifo, who led a delegation of key officials of the association on the visit, appreciated Magu's efforts in ridding the country of corruption and in setting the pace for a corrupt-free continent of Africa.
“I commend the Commission for taking the fight to the doorsteps of those who think they were beyond reach. We also commend the Chairman for his bold action in spreading the fight around Africa," Uwaifo said.
The president of the association who described the EFCC as a “torchlight for the continent in the anti-corruption war,” used the opportunity to invite the Commission to the 2019 AFBA annual conference, that will take place in Cairo, the Egyptian capital.
He also appealed to the Commission to brand and sponsor an EFCC anti-corruption session in its October event and in the regional conference of the association, coming up in July in Bangui, the Gambia. He further sought collaboration between AFBA and the Commission in the fight against corruption.
“We want EFCC to be part of our collaboration in the anti-corruption crusade for which you have dearly put your life at stake, because we believe there are a lot we will learn from," Uwaifo said.
In his response, Magu thanked and appreciated the association for taking time to visit the Commission and for commending the EFCC in its anti-corruption fight.
“I thank you so much for taking time to come to the EFCC and for really appreciating our efforts in what we are doing. Lawyers by their profession are human rights activists and corruption counters,” the Chairman said.
The EFCC boss reaffirmed that the fight against corruption cannot be done by one person, but that all hands must be on deck.
“This job we are doing cannot be done in isolation. It is not a job that you will sit down here and say you will do it alone. It is not possible. No one can arrogate the knowledge of the fight against corruption. So we need to mobilize everybody, particularly the professionals,” Magu said.
He further emphasized the need for collaboration by calling on all well-meaning organisations and bodies to collaborate with the EFCC in the fight against corruption.
“Let us talk about how we can partner and work together to improve the lot of Nigerians which is very necessary. We welcome you and we are a willing partner. All other associations should copy from you by joining hand with the EFCC in the fight against corruption.
“I always say the best strategy is collaboration. Let us work together because some people don’t even know that corruption is wrong, that is why they celebrate the corrupt. They don’t ask questions. It is a responsibility of every Nigerian to come into the fight against corruption. It is good that the African Bar Association is here to recognize what we are doing and what we have done," Magu said.
Top EFCC officials who joined Magu to receive the delegation included: the Secretary to the Commission, Ola Olukoyode; Head, Human Resources Femi Gbarufu and the Commandant of EFCC Academy, David Tukura. Others are: EFCC's Directors of Finance, Mr. Manigi; Director of Operations, Mohammed Umar; Director, Public Affairs Department, Osita Nwajah and Director, Organisational Support, NT Ibrahim.
Members of the AFBA delegation included: Ibrahim Mark, AFBA's vice president, Major General Y. Ishalangwa of the Militarry and Security Agencies Forum; Iyom Josephine Anenih(mni), chairperson, Women’s Interest Forum and John David Merson, Deputy Country Representative, AFBA Ghana Forum.
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The more the merrier as stars bring sunshine to Leacock sketches — and to Toronto stages too
Posted on February 3, 2012 | 2 comments
Okay — where was I? Oh yes, I remember. Taking a break from blogging. Apparently that’s over now.
EVERYBODY’S TALKING: And no wonder — the first glimpses of CBC’s big Sunday night movie, Sunshine Sketches Of A Little Town, look sumptuous. And I admit it — I’m a sucker for an all-star cast. Not that the producers, Alliance
HENNESSY & PINSENT: Mother & Son
Atlantis alumni Michael MacMillan and Seaton McLean, had much trouble reeling them in. “One of the best screenplays I’ve ever read,” says leading lady Jill Hennessy. Ms Hennessy, currently on screen wrangling Dustin Hoffman on HBO’s new series Luck, clearly loved every minute of the summer shoot, as did Gordon Pinsent, who plays her son. (Yes. Really. You’ll have to watch it to find out.) Pinsent, who starts shooting a new movie in Mexico next week, describes it as “one of those rare filming experiences when we couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning.” Then again, Hennessy and Pinsent were
KHANIJAN: on stage
keeping some very good company. Among the stellar marquee names bringing Stephen Leacock‘s classic comedy drama to life are Keshia Chante, Sean Cullen, Ron James, Peter Keleghan, Debra McGrath, Patrick McKenna, Colin Mochrie, Eric Peterson, Leah Pinsent, Caroline Rhea, Rick Roberts and Michel Therriault. Get those PVRs warmed up, folks — this one sounds like a keeper.
TALKING THE TALK: Ryerson Theatre Club devotees were among the hundreds of floodlights fans at Tuesday’s performance of Cruel And Tender at the Bluma Appel. After their stunning 90 minute tour-de-force, stars Arsinée Khanijan and Daniel Kash joined their director Atom Egoyanin the theater lobby for a 15-minute Q&A with interested audience members. How interested were they? Theater Club reps had to call a halt after 40 minutes, but some folks still hung
BROCHU: return engagement
around just long enough to meet Egoyan and share their take on his production of Martin Crimp’s reimagined Greek tragedy. The hypnotic drama runs through next Saturday Feb. 18 … Jim Brochu has returned with his celebrated salute to Zero Mostel, Zero Hour, directed by Piper Laurie (yes, that Piper Laurie) … and no, his reviews this time ’round were not exactly love letters, but clearly Ronnie Burkett’s audiences disagree. Factory Theatre has added six more performances of the marionette master’s new show, Penny Plain, with tickets now available through March 4 … meanwhile, Robert LePage’s Blue Dragon continues to dazzle at the Royal Alex, In The Heights continues to rock North York at the Toronto Centre For The Arts, War Horse opens tonight at the Princess Of Wales and Potted Potter opens tomorrow night at the Panasonic. Talk about an embarrassment of theatrical riches!
COMEBACKS: Great news for those of us who missed them first time ‘round — two rave-winning theatrical events are set to return to our town. Kim’s Convenience, the runaway hit by Soulpepper Academy alumnus Ins Choi, wraps up its current run this weekend but will be back May 17-June 9. And yes,
DUNCAN: showstopper
it’s a good idea to order your tickets now. As you may recall, the play about a Regent Park Korean convenience store was the sleeper hit of the 2011 Toronto Fringe Festival … and the National Ballet will launch its 2012-2013 season with the return of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Christopher Wheeldon on November 10–25. A co-production with England’s Royal Ballet, Alice was an SRO smash when it premiered here last year. And yes, it’s a good idea to order those tickets now too … meanwhile, stage and screen showstopper Arlene Duncan, so endearing as the unsinkable Fatima in Little Mosque On The Prairie, is winning standing Os nightly at the Berkeley Street Theatre. Ms Duncan is the crown jewel in Caroline, Or Change, the latest theatrical gem from the phenomenal Acting Up stage company. CanStage and Acting Up added one more show of the musical last night to accommodate public demand, but all 25 scheduled performances sold out so quickly that surely an encore should be considered? And soon, please?
COTE: Lost In Motion
SEE/HEAR: National Ballet star dancer Guillaume Côté is the latest hot ticket on YouTube with his stunning short film Lost in Motion. Directed by Ben Shirinian and choreographed by Guillaume, the three-minute film really is something to see — even if it makes you want to join a gym before it ends. The high-flying M’sieu Côté will be performing with Kings of the Dance in Manhattan February 24–27 — d”ya suppose he made that video just to freak ’em out? — before returning to star in Sleeping Beauty, March 10–18, 2012, and The Seagull, March 21–25, 2012. Meanwhile, if you haven’t seen Lost In Motion yet, you don’t have to take my word for it — just click here. And enjoy!
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Lenore hosts a Social in Truro, Betty hosts SNL for Mother’s Day & Krystin waits on stage for the Parade
NO PEOPLE LIKE SHOW PEOPLE: New headline-making Nova Scotia MLA Lenore Zann is hosting a Spring-Is-In-The-Air Social & Dance this weekend in Truro, NS to raise
WHITE: she's Hot
money for an upcoming community production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. It’s all happening Saturday night at The Pond (that’s the Ponderosa Tavern to me and you) on Main Street in Bible Hill … Chi Cao, the Principal Dancer with the Birmingham Royal Ballet who stars in Bruce Beresford’s hypnotic drama Mao’s Last Dancer, will jet to T.O. to attend the special National Ballet’s SRO preview screening next Monday at the Isabel Bader Theatre … SNL alumnus Jimmy Fallon has come a long way from co-hosting Weekend Update. This summer he’ll host the Emmy Awards on Aug. 29 … and Betty White, still set to host this weekend’s Mother’s Day edition of Saturday Night Live in New York, has joined the cast of a new TV Land original series Hot in Cleveland.
FOOTLIGHTS: Once more intent on battling “Canada’s most dangerous enemy, cultural amnesia,” VideoCabaret presents Michael Hollingsworth’s The Great War, opens
PELLERIN: on stage
tomorrow night at The Cameron House … also opening Thursday: Bobby Del Rio’s new play The Market, not on a stage but in a corporate office space at Adelaide & Jarvis. The play, which features Kyle McDonald, Julian DeZotti, Aaron Forward and Ryan Moleiro as 20-something traders, runs through May 23 and Del Rio warns audiences that his new show contains violence, “excessive” language, “and guys acting like dicks!” … and Republic Of Doyle scene-stealer Krystin Pellerin, so good as the pistol-packing detective hopelessly smitten with Allan Hawco’s Jake, is currently on stage starring in the Soulpepper revival of John Murrell’s Waiting for the Parade, now thru May 29 at the Young Centre in the Distillery District.
CAO: Toronto-bound
OUR TOWN: Three up-and-coming bands – Canteen Knockout, Bronx Cheerleader and Proof Of Ghosts – headline this Sunday night’s concert at Sneaky Dee’s to save Reg Hartt’s time-honoured Cineforum. For more info, click here … Scott Feschuk, Jacob Richler and executive chef Rob Gentile team up for the 2010 edition of Taste Of Maclean’s on May 17 at Buca …and Random House is set to launch Globe & Mail scribbler John Doyle’s new book, The World Is A Ball: The Joy, Madness And Meaning Of Soccer, on May 20 with a book-signing bash at, you guessed it, The Football Factory on Bathurst Street.
GLEE girl goes sci-fi,
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TIFF kicks off Creation, Ms Falco goes back to the boards, and La Pitre reunites with Benny & Bjorn
MAD ABOUT MOVIES: Toronto’s 34th annual movie marathon officially opens tonight with at Roy Thomson Hall, but it really kicks off today at noon with
BETTANY: as Charles Darwin
a screening of Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man at Yonge-Dundas Square. Other films unspooling before tonight’s opening Gala include director Lone Scherfig’s An Education, already provoking Oscar buzz for U.K. actress Carey Mulligan; the new documentary about legendary French film director Henri-Georges Clouzot, renowned for his suspense thrillers, and the film he was never able to finish; and Sook Yin Lee’s
FALCO: back on the boards
Year Of The Carnivore, which is definitely not the opera. (Or Short Bus, for that matter. Tonight’s Gala opener is Creation, director Jon Amiel’s ambition exploration of the life and loves of Charles Darwin, with real-life couple Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly as the renowned scientist and his missus, as he begins to write On the Origin of Species, destined to become the most widely read book of natural science and one which will irrevocably change the world. For a sneak preview, click here.
FOOTLIGHTS: Remember when L.A. was a cultural wasteland? Happily, things change. High-profile thesps set to star on L.A. Theatre Works stages this season include Ed Asner and Jonathan
ARKIN: on stage
Silverman in Once In A Lifetime; Kate Burton in The Constant Wife; Edie Falco in Side Man; Adam Arkin and JoBeth Williams in Dr. Cerberus; and Mark Ruffalo and Lauren Ambrose in Awake and Sing (even if Albert Schultz and Soulpepper beat them to it) … Nuala Fitzgerald is set to do one of her dazzling salon solos next month in Toronto to benefit the Actors’ Fund Of Canada. Her new show, Away With Words, is a pastiche of her favourite bon mots and brilliant passages from O’Casey, Yeats, Shaw, Joyce, John Lennon, Dorothy Parker, Ogden Nash and even Spike Milligan. For tickets write edgarcowan@hotmail.com … and the
PITRE: trick or treat?
much-anticipated return of musical comedy showstopper Louise Pitre in Toxic Avenger: The Musical is currently set to premiere on Halloween, Saturday Oct. 31, at the newly-renovated (what, again?) Music Hall on the Danforth. Meanwhile, La Pitre will re-team with her Mamma Mia composers Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaes to headline a Broadway concert vetsion of their new ABBA musical Kristina on Sept. 23-24 at the Stern Auditorium in Manhattan.
Sounds like an extremely hot ticket to me.
A TREE GROWS IN TORONTO: It’s been invited to more than 50 film festivals and received 12 international awards from cities as diverse as Chicago, Taipei, Cairo, Mexico and Iran. This fall it’s invited to the Tel Aviv International Children’s Film Festival, the 7th Istanbul International Children’s Film Festival, the National Archives in Ottawa and the Tribeca Cinemas Kids Series. And chances are you’ve never even heard of it. A short film produced, written and directed by Toronto-based filmmaker Mitra Sen, The Peace Tree tells the story of two little girls, one Muslim and one Christian, who dream of celebrating each other’s festivals, Christmas and Eid, but have to overcome resistance from their parents before they can realize their dream. Filmmaker Sen is currently working on a new project, Under The Same Sun, but since its release in 2005 her film has triggered the creation of Peace Trees in schools and gardens around the world. For more about The Peace Tree and the remarkable seeds it planted, click here.
more TIFF premieres, Michael Douglas & Catherine Zeta-Jones
and the one-man renaissance of Cheistopher Plummer
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Good morning, mid-May. Spring is finally sprung.
PIANO MAN, UHHH, KID, UHHH, BOY, UHHHH, GENIUS: Six-year old piano prodigy Ethan Bortnick returns to rub elbows with Jay Leno
BORTNICK: remember when?
tonight on The Tonight Show. At the risk of being mistaken for my favourite Insight gurus Shirley MacLaine, do we really believe this charming moppet has learned the more than 220 tunes he tickles out of those ivories? No, we do not. We believe he is remembering and re-imagining a talent from at least one of his past lives. But he’s so engaging, and so much fun, and every inch a little old man hiding in a little boy’s body, that I can”t wait to see him again with Jay tonight. If you missed his first stint with Jay, click here and enjoy!
CULLEN: human?
NO PEOPLE LIKE SHOW PEOPLE: Hat trick charmers Stacie Mistysyn (Degrassi), Daniel Cook (This is Daniel Cook) and Rachel Marcus (Booky) will co-host a special 35th anniversary edition of the annual Alliance for Children and Television Awards of Excellence Gala in Toronto on June 3 at CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio … Christina Jennings’ new series The Listener premieres June 4 on Space, CTV and NBC … and Sean Cullen brings his I Am A Human Man Tour to T.O.’s Panasonic Theatre on Sunday May 31.
FOOTLIGHTS: Thirteen months after a sold-out 10-show run, playwright and director Judith Thompson remounts Body & Soul, the powerful and
SCHULTZ: Awake and ...?
provocative play that astonished and moved audiences in its original incarnation. This groundbreaking production returns for a two-and-a-half weeks only, opening June 6 at Tarragon Theatre’s Extra Space … Soulpepper chief Albert Schultz opens Clifford Odets’ turbulent comedy-drama Awake And Sing! on June 16 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts … and award-winning theatre artist Tracey Erin Smith returns to T.O. with The Burning Bush, a new theatrical extravaganza that combines her two hit solo shows The Burning Bush! and Two in the Bush! Smith, who plays a ‘stripping rabbi’ who saves souls one lap dance at a time, will test-drive her new show in New York (talk about yer out-of-town try-outs!) before opening June 18 at the above-mentioned Young Centre for the Performing Arts.
CHOY: lunch delicacy?
LITERATI: Bookseller Ben McNally is set to serve up Wayson Choy and his new bestseller Not Yet at the Globe & Mail Authors Brunch at the King Eddie on May 24 … Jerry Levitan will launch the illustrated book version of his Oscar-nominated autobiographical saga I Met The Walrus at Indigo Eaton Centre on May 25 … and BNN’s Amanda Lang has been tapped to referee the Walrus Magazine-hosted debate Do Canada’s Counter-Terrorism Measures Unduly Compromise Privacy And Freedom? Opposing debaters will be author Daniel Stoffman (Are We Safe Yet?) and Toronto Star national affairs columnist Thomas Walkom. The intellectual bun-flight, one of The Walrus’ series of Lively Lunch Debates, is set for Thursday May 28 in the 68th floor York Room at First Canadian Place, and promises to be highly stimulating. So how come it sounds like an elective root canal? Or is that just me …
NEW WORLD ORDER: Web savants Coldplay will be giving away an exclusive live CD, titled LeftRightLeftRightLeft, to all fans attending their Viva La Vida summer tour and at every remaining live show in 2009. The CD will also be
ALLEN: discounted?
available as a free download during the same time period through their website http://www.coldplay.com. Their Canadian tour starts June 15 in Winnipeg, hits the Rogers Centre in T.O. on July 30 and wraps Aug. 1 at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal … Search Engine, the popular online podcast and radio show that was a victim of CBC’s recent cost-cutting, is moving to TVO. Search Engine was canceled on radio last year, but it lived on a podcast, where it found a devoted audience … EMI Music has made a deal with the Fairmont hotel chain givng Fairmont guests exclusive access to discounts on digital music and other music related experiences from artists such as Coldplay, Moby, Lily Allen, Keith Urban, Katy Perry, The Beach Boys and more … and in a Canadian first, Corus is now offering direct iTunes accessibility on 11 of its radio station websites, allowing listeners to shop from playlists featured on the stations as well as top picks from on-air talent and celebrity guests.
Ain’t showbiz grand?
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American Detour By Bruce Northam
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DON’T FEAR FOUL BALLS, THEY STILL FLY OVER THE FENCE (High Line ~ Turkey ~ Palestine) ~
Roaming is how discovery sounds…
Turkey’s Mount Ararat (viewed from Armenia)
If you hit a foul ball instead of that hoped for home run, remember it may have still cleared the fence. When people hit a foul ball in life, give them a break.
∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞
Akin to a Roman ruin rebirth, one of New York City’s elevated railways made a comeback as the High Line. Originally built in the 1930s to lift freight trains 30 feet above Manhattan’s then industrial West Side, it was abandoned, and decades later, revived into a public park. In the mid-80s, the High Line was still a desolate, elongated slab of crumbling concrete sprouting spindly trees and wildflowers. Mixed in were homeless people’s campsites, pigeon roosts, and rodent hideouts. It was a secret society hovering above the buzzing city.
Back then, the ominous railbed still extended north of 50th street above the West Side Highway—a block from my Hell’s Kitchen apartment. Skyscraper rooftops aside, this corroded section of tracks was my favorite urban escape. Getting up there meant scaling vertical steel support columns to locate entry points in the barbwire that barricaded this otherworld. The holes in the barbwire were constantly relocating, as it was cyclically slashed by itinerant squatters and then repaired by city workers.
I’ve always sought out railroad track environments. Before girls dismantled my pre-adolescent bicycle gang, we wandered for miles along the Long Island Railroad, day and night. A highlight was parking coins on the rails to be pulverized by commuter trains. There was other mischief, but I won’t admit any of it until I’m 70.
Some habits are hard to kick. In my early 20s, on a midnight ramble with my brother Basil along the pre-restored, then apocalyptic High Line, I tripped on a rope that was supporting a drifter’s plywood and tarp gazebo. Tugging the rope caused the plywood to shift, which alarmed the dweller and made rats scatter. My misstep actually expanded the size of his shelter. Like an earthquake instantly freeing a prisoner, my actions caused him to bolt from his hovel. Nearly naked in the August sizzle, he resembled a tortoise without a shell. I apologized for tripping over his home, but he was still visibly angry, and not yet fully awake. As he fidgeted with reasons to battle, the logic of his own argument led him towards a conclusion he tried to avoid. A grin overtook his face. Because his lean-to had morphed into a larger safari tent, he extended a hand and praised me for the upgrade.
My brother resecured the structure while I asked the man about the vagaries of living upon the lowly High Line. One more nomad at home, his head spun away from his modified fortress and smiled at me without front teeth to say, “VIP baby. Vagabonds In Power!”
You never know when you’ll encounter a radical utopian. Wild turkeys in the woods are hard to find, no less catch.
Sometimes you wander, and the pictures stare at you. The remarkably preserved and photogenic Roman coliseum in the ancient metropolis of Ephesus made me wonder what it was like to be a gladiator waiting in an underground tunnel before surfacing to fight for your life. Sometimes, it ain’t easy being human.
Seating hundreds, this coliseum is still in use today—for mellower spectacles. The restored coliseum hosted full-on rock acts until the mid-80s when, apparently, a vibrating Sting show damaged the stone structures. Throughout the Greco-Roman world, once-abandoned relics that weren’t looted for new construction materials or foreign museums (or rocked by Sting) have been given new lives.
I met a charismatic carpet-vending Turkish elder near Ephesus’ spa ruins. He had probably slept in the oversized, dusty sweater he wore like a robe. When his lively carpet pitch—a hurried medley of outdoor furlings and unfurlings—failed, he told me that he lived in one of the tunnels where “the gladiators prayed before battling the lions.” When I asked him what it was like to live among lions, he stood up straighter and announced, “If lions could talk, the gladiators would not.”
“A foul ball is still a home run to the person who recovers it.” —Guy in Jericho, Palestine, wryly commenting on his neighborhood
[from: The Directions to Happiness: A 135-Country Quest for Life Lessons]
September 12, 2016 | Categories: Published Articles | Tags: Armenia, author, Bruce Northam, Ephesus, foul ball, Hell's Kitchen, High Line, Jericho, keynote speaker, Mount Ararat, new york, Palestine, The Directions to Happiness: A 135-Country Quest for Life Lessons, Turkey, VIP | Leave A Comment »
PRESUME SMALL COUNTRIES HAVE BIG OUTLOOKS ~
Shades of freedom—evolving from red (communist) to green (democracy)…
Latvian singer Linda Leen (right) at Riga’s central market
As opposed to huge countries like the U.S., where some residents can live lifetimes without encountering foreigners, residents of small countries with numerous neighbors have global outlooks by necessity. A tiny country with a big reputation for nightlife, Latvia has been free from Soviet occupation since 1989. Its photogenic capital, Riga, is viewed by some untamed party-seeking Euros as an inexpensive binge getaway. It’s not surprising considering that Riga’s Old City overflows with inviting and inexpensive bars and restaurants. When inbound weekend warriors let their hair down, it can annoy the locals.
Riga’s immense European-style central market is not on the party circuit. There, I asked a local what she thought about the inbound party animals. At that moment, a coiffed Russian sauntered by. Tearing the veneer off any illusion, the local nodded toward the showboat and replied with a twist: “That’s what happens when a hairdo becomes a hair-don’t.”
I stood in that same spot near the seafood peddlers, and it got better. A hardcover book-toting local guy waltzed by, and I asked him about Latvian hairstyles. Lacking caché but logging originality, he predicted, “Non-judgment day is near.” I remind myself that when you ask the wrong question, you’ll rarely get the right answer.
Reborn Baltic liberty in the air, I accosted another local who waved me off with a Latvian slur. A nearby woman witnessed my dismissal and asked me if I needed help. I asked her how Latvian life had changed with democracy, and how Russians, their former occupiers, got along with Latvians. Her offering: Self-praise is not an endorsement.
Happy with that trio of swift informal interviews, I walked towards a doorway and saw an elderly man decked out in an Art Nouveau period outfit. Motionless, he stared contemplatively toward the market’s breezy open-air exit. I waved hello, and he flapped a no thank you. The helpful woman I’d just met was keeping pace a step behind me. She saw me gesture toward the sharp-dressed man and again asked if I needed assistance. I said no, but leered toward the Art Nouveau guy suggesting that he might. They had a brief conversation and the man then exited the building.
“What did he say?” I asked her.
She pointed at the illuminated EXIT sign hovering over the arched stone doorway, and explained that he also regarded it as a starting point…
“Every exit is also an entrance.”
“Ten years ago, we sell all our snakes to China. So now we have many more rats. The rats are very tasty.” —Deckhand, during float down Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady River
(from: The Directions to Happiness: A 135-Country Quest for Life Lessons)
July 26, 2016 | Categories: Published Articles | Tags: adventure, author, Baltics, big outlooks, Bruce Northam, exit, keynote speaker, Latvia, Linda Leen, Riga, small countries, The Directions to Happiness: A 135-Country Quest for Life Lessons, travel | Leave A Comment »
LOOK OVER YOUR SHOULDER—BUT DON’T ALWAYS TURN BACK ~
Do we spend the first half of our lives trying to figure out what to do with the second half of our lives or do we spend the second half of our lives wondering just what the heck happened in the first half? Tough call, but traveling can help us figure it out.
Babysitting in Neyagawashi, Japan (1987)
Going it alone can be lonely. Sometimes, during trying times, we need help from other people to help us rediscover the bright side. Which is why, in my late 20s, in the true spirit of neurotic Manhattan, I went to see an Upper West Side shrink masquerading as a career counselor. I was living with a girlfriend at the time when my résumé began to resemble vomited spaghetti. My addicted traveler pattern of working in sales for a year and then traveling for a year was—in the traditional career mindset—tattooing a hazard sign on my forehead. Freshly dismissed from a soulless job, I announced to my girlfriend that I wanted to write books and give presentations about world travel. She, sensing unsteady grandiosity, suggested that I seek professional help.
So off to Barbara Allen I went, a healer who had reinvented herself as a career counselor after spending 20 years working as a death and dying counselor; a saint who reached out to terminally ill people and their families facing their worst moments. Time after time, Barbara observed that it typically wasn’t until people were courting death that they realized what a pity it was to not have identified their passions and migrate toward them fearlessly. I should have. Why didn’t I? What was I afraid of? They’d all wonder, what did I have to lose?
Searching into my eyes, Barbara said, “After 20 years of dealing with people who finally realized what they were meant to do with their lives after it was too late, I committed the rest of my life to helping vibrant people like you to realize their dreams while they still have their health.” Barbara—60 bucks an hour, holy cow that’s a lot, I need to get better quick—started asking questions.
Her first question: “I’m going to give you a million dollars right now. What are you going to do with it?” I began to divvy up my bounty with a third going to a cabin in the woods, a third invested, then I’d travel the world until the rest vaporized. She got me fantasizing about those three scenarios for about five minutes until suddenly asking, “Is your girlfriend in that picture right now?” I swallowed hard, shook my head, and whispered a solemn no. She peered from beneath a lowered forehead, “Contemplate who is and who is not in your dreams.”
I went back to my apartment, schemed a crusade, hit the road, wrote a book, and began giving travel seminars. My kind of therapy.
There are exemptions to every decree—sometimes backtracking rediscovers bliss. Nobody ever forgets visiting Japan. Fresh out of college and backpacking with no expiration date, I hitched 300 miles from Tokyo to a rural village outside Osaka and unexpectedly ended up living with the Doi family for a month. An unofficial babysitter and English-speaking influence for a one- and three-year-old, I relished time with an extended family where four generations lived under one roof.
Twenty-five years later, I returned to Japan and reunited with Emiko and Rieko as adults. Although they didn’t actually remember me, I left behind audio and written English lessons to keep that ball rolling, and their parents documented our time together with photos. The stirring reunion was like finding long-lost family in another land, and a reminder that life is sweet.
After humorously reenacting some of the poses from the photos when they were toddlers, we spent another day together, shed a few sappy tears, and hugged one more time. In a country where being on time means being early, I realized that although you cannot be in two places at once, your spirit can. Later, solo again, I bowed to no one in particular, and boarded a plane.
Reunited in Neyagawashi, Japan
July 6, 2016 | Categories: Published Articles | Tags: adventure, author, Bruce Northam, Japan, keynote speaker, Neyagawashi, Osaka, The Directions to Happiness: A 135-Country Quest for Life Lessons | Leave A Comment »
ASK THAT QUESTION, NOW ~
“We make the road by walking it.” —Rosa Parks
In the midst of fourth coast-to-coast walk across Britain with dad
What if you only had one more opportunity to take a long walk with your dad and ask him those ultimate questions, the ones you wish you had asked before it was no longer possible?
Where a son takes his father for a precious ramble depends on his dad’s favored backdrop. Mine treasures sweeping fields and birdsong, and no haven for wide-open strolls matches England’s countryside. But I knew that our trekking savvy would be put to the test this time around, our fourth in Britain, because dad was more fragile than during our earlier rambles. After initially declining my suggestion for one more trek—at 79, dad didn’t want to slow me down—he thought better of it. We used this trek to discover England’s Midlands, and our shared history.
Our 10-day walk navigated the 147-mile Viking Way, a trail across Lincolnshire, which borders England’s central east coast and the North Sea. Named at the suggestion of the Ramblers Association to reflect the influence of Danish law in Britain’s eastern counties, The Viking Way met dad’s demands for mild hills, woodlands, livestock encounters, and villages of stone houses with gracious inhabitants.
Our previous experiences in the U.K. had impressed upon us the respect Britain pays to its walkers. Foot travelers rule in Britain, on ancient rights of way. Once, Madonna (locally known as “Madge”) purchased a mansion adjacent to a public footpath and then spent millions trying to block its public access to no avail. A testament to ramblers’ solidarity, the right to roam endures.
Our wanderings led us to villages forgotten by modern highways and high-speed trains. In Lincolnshire’s rolling forested wolds, the most timeless scenery on our itinerary, each village offered a weathered stone church from the 13th century, usually positioned on the settlement’s highest point and left unlocked. We stayed in homey bed and breakfasts (you must adore dogs and horses) and archetypal English inns that make New England’s historic buildings seem like new. Viking helmet signage marked the trail, and when it escaped us, the British national habit of tending gardens made getting directions easy. Birds and sheep galore provided the soundtrack.
Most English homeowners post the nicknames of their houses on a placard out front or along the driveway. Handles like Willow Croft and Lilac Cottage prompted me to ask my father, “What should we have named our house?” Dad first suggested a memoriam to our dog and cat, “Ben and Chelsea’s Pee Palace?” Then he corrected himself with a moniker honoring his three sons’ reign of mild suburban delinquency: “Wild Antelope Range.”
My father imparted my middle name, Thoreau, hoping that I’d sympathize with the philosophical naturalist. Today my standing as a professional wanderer pleases him. In high school, I had difficulty distinguishing the family station wagon from a daring off-road all-terrain vehicle. Dad frequently discovered muddy grass clumped in the wagon’s wheel wells and forbade me from borrowing it. No measure of lawn mowing, firewood chopping and stacking, or kitchen Nerf-basketball tournament victories could reverse his decrees. We were the lone residents in suburban Garden City who burned storm-toppled trees for heat and used our backyard as a hedge-to-hedge vegetable garden.
During our trek, Dad enjoyed interviewing unguarded Lincolnshire locals about birds, flowers, and heritage. These included the truck driver who rescued us when we had to hitchhike our way back onto the vanished route. Our feet held out without incident. I’m told that when my English-born great-grandfather and his son walked the south coast of England together, my great-grandfather had some trouble with his feet and poured a bit of whiskey into his boot “to make the leather more supple.”
Dad’s sporty, self-styled, extreme suburbanite hiking outfit for the ramble was an evolving mélange of trusted sweaters over button-down shirts; khaki or corduroy pants; his hiking boots plodding a confident, sturdy gait; and a game face shadowed by a traditional British flat cap or farmer’s cap, as it’s called locally. Plus, a nose devoted to smelling blossoms.
Swinging through charming Normanby le Wold, in need of directions, we encountered a woman hosing down her mastiff who demonstrated the Anglo-specific custom of agreeably ending nonquestioning sentences with either “isn’t it?” “doesn’t it?” or “wouldn’t it?”
“Well, it would be that way then, wouldn’t it?” she said.
I looked hard at Dad. He looked hard at a bird.
We used the ubiquitous medieval churches—cool and still inside, stained-glass light bleeding in, bird chorus outside—as pit stops. The All Saints Church, its 1226 character intact, sits on a hilltop overlooking Walesby and beyond. Dad decided “The Ramblers Church,” nicknamed that because it holds Sunday services and weddings for rambling enthusiasts, was an apt place to pray for the continued absence of fast-food franchises on Long Island’s North Fork, where my parents live.
Lectures on art and Long Island history aside, Dad declared another signpost of his retirement from teaching: The self-appointed status of back yard-reclining, binoculars-raking-the-sky air traffic observer. An elderly couple dining at an adjacent table pretended to not hear the conversation, but then I suggested an attempt to short circuit the often obligatory jests about anyone’s Long Island heritage by renaming it Isle de Long. The couple broke down and peered red at us. When Dad steered the chat toward our family’s established legacy of “booming,” a familial term for inspired but aimless wandering, they left.
After getting our urban fix from an Indian meal, we returned to 360-degree views of the horizon. Trotting past another screaming-yellow crop of rapeseed (harvested as cooking oil and a base for butter alternatives), Dad reminded me that “prostitution is not the world’s oldest profession … farming is.” Dad’s flora identification computer was heating up again as we crossed into a young green field of wheat. He petitioned the next three people on genus and species. Isaac Newton, a Lincolnshire native, would have been proud.
Whenever I stopped to take pictures, Dad obliged by allowing me to tilt up his farmer’s cap stylishly to allow sunshine on his face. After a fence-leaning shoot, I tried talking him into taking up modeling back in Manhattan, such as Mom did in the 1950s. He immediately focused on the dung stuck to his soles.
Walk talk stimulates recollection, anywhere. While ensuring the survival of bottomless memories, my two-week trip abroad with Dad transcended the proverbial pat on the back after watching a game together. We retuned to that global circuit of father and son connections. It was the perfect time to thank him for helping me earn my Walker Laureate.
On the path, I enjoyed the role reversal of being in charge. When we inevitably found ourselves lost in a muddy field of cows—and all of us wondering what we were doing there—I drove the boat, er, station wagon. I intentionally delayed answering his question about what sort of meat was hiding in that Indian food.
The 30 meals we shared along the route afforded me ample time to encourage Dad to recount his life story, the entire odyssey. These discussions made us realize that our greatest fortune was also our supreme bond: my mother. Rural England is a rare zone where humans have improved upon nature. Somewhere in the dream of hunting for Viking Way signposts, I discovered my best friend, the bird and jet watcher.
In the end, after hiking at least 10 miles a day, wiry Dad slept less and ate more than I did and seemed to have more energy. He also noticed every birdsong, flower, shrub, tree, gardener, and cloud. Once again, we’d simplified parent-child recreation, without props. At the Viking Way’s lakeside end, Dad unlocked from an expression recalling a medieval frieze we’d seen and raised an eyebrow to declare, “When my mother turned 100 on Long Island, she received a congratulatory telegram from the Queen.”
Pause. “But it was routed through Philadelphia?” he added.
At London’s Heathrow Airport, my dad, who loves Big Band jazz and once suggested his epitaph read simply “Clown,” let his inner actor shine by faking a docile, demented stare to secure me a standby seat to New York.
The eternal revelation surfaced mid-trek, en route to Tealby, while strolling along a green hillside as magpies chattered to each other. I finally asked, “Dad, what gives you hope?”
He paused to reflect, there in the midst of England’s secret rambling magic, changed his expression to glad, and declared, “You.”
Looks like I’ve got another shot at borrowing the station wagon.
(This story is a chapter in The Directions to Happiness: A 135-Country Quest for Life Lessons)
October 22, 2015 | Categories: Published Articles | Tags: author, Basil Northam, Britain, Bruce Northam, England, father and son travel, Lincolnshire, rambling, The Directions to Happiness, travel, trekking, walking | Leave A Comment »
GO WITH THE FLOW ~
River Ou, Laos
Finding your way in Laos can be a challenge. Street addresses are rarely used. If they are, building numbers match the order of construction. Lao transit often means huddling in the back of a family-size tuk-tuk. These oblong, bald-tired trucks make room for three lucky ladies riding in front with the driver, while 20 others cram into and upon the dingy pickup’s tarp-roofed bed. Because many villages can only be accessed by foot or boat, one mode of river travel presented a do-it-yourself option with two choices: sink or swim.
In northern Laos, 6-foot 9-inch travel-writing cohort Brad and I inherited a recently commissioned green bamboo raft valued at $12 to float a stretch of a river that originates in China and faces pending multi-dam destruction along its entire course. Semi-buoyant, slightly navigable, and gradually sinking due to waterlog, our 10-by-2-foot craft was also coming apart from collisions with various rocks. When night fell, we floated in nearly waist-deep water as the baleful purr of another set of rapids seemed to foretell our doom. We were weekend warriors in primetime.
The backstory of this unplanned water voyage is a lesson in international bargaining. From the last road in Nong Kiaw, we took a motorized longboat upriver to Muang Noi via the River Ou. When navigating headlong into rapids, we crashed into rocks and had to totter to the riverbank for repairs. Little did we know what an omen this would turn out to be.
Accessible only by boat, our destination, Muang Noi, is an idyllic village on an elevated riverside plain cradled by large mountains. A refreshing departure from Southeast Asia’s earsplitting transport madness, the little town remains blissfully devoid of motorized vehicles. There was only the drone of periodic generators creating electricity. The biggest currency note, 20,000 kip ($2), went a long way for frugal globetrotters seeking spectacular hikes and river floats. Here, the backpackers were starting to coexist with middle-aged European couples, likely revealing the future of this place. The predictable tourism cycle starts with backpackers flocking to an out-of-the-way gem, a decade later come the guided groups, and another decade brings the resorts.
Every town has a go-to guy. In Muang Noi, it was Kao, who for a fair wage, made many travelers whimsical daily dreams come true. On a professional level, he would be called an expediter or a fixer. We called him the magic man. When he offered to build us a boat, Brad and I clashed. I voted for continued freewheeling hiking and local riverboat tripping, as we’ve all heard foreboding maxims about boat ownership. Brad, however, saw a grand adventure brewing. I eventually convinced Brad to wait another day to decide.
A few hours later, I found myself sipping a beer in a thatched-roof establishment and wondering how to stave off Brad’s boat dream. That’s when a British guy I’d befriended stumbled in with one hand clutching a paddle, and the other a banged-up rifle. “Oh my god, they’re coming for me,” he stammered. “What did I do?” He dropped the rifle on the table and slapped his forehead. Come to find out, he’d gone “into business” with an Israeli guy to purchase a handmade boat for the market price of $12, but when they showed up to board and float their craft, the builder requested two more dollars for a pair of handmade paddles. The Israeli wouldn’t budge and demanded the paddles be inclusive of the $12 they’d already forked over. The Laotian bamboo craftsman wouldn’t negotiate. Harsh words flew, prompting the Laotian man to strut home, paddles in hand. The Brit and the Israeli trailed him through town and into his house, a hut really, and grabbed the only paddle they could find. And to make a point, they also snatched an antique rifle that was hanging on the man’s wall. While the argument over $2 paddles may seem incredibly petty, when ultra-thrifty travelers are on the road for a long time, a few dollars can make or break a budget—and possibly someone’s sanity.
After 10 minutes of consoling the sweating Brit, three calm plainclothes Lao policemen arrived at the restaurant to fetch the gun burglar. Coming to his defense, I pleaded with the cops to accept the Brit’s apology (invented by me), which included an offer to buy dinner and drinks for the boat maker and the police. With faces frozen, they weren’t interested. I couldn’t help but feel sorry for a nice guy who’d gotten in over his head. Off they marched with the Brit. Before exiting the restaurant, he thanked me for defending him and handed me the disputed paddle sighing, “You can have my boat.”
Soon after, Brad strolled into the restaurant, and I told him the full story, minus the gifting of the boat. He caught me off guard when he pointed to the paddle leaning on the table and asked what it was. Immediately after confessing that I now owned a boat, Brad lit up. “Let’s go!” he said. In a mad scrabble, we checked out of our huts, commissioned Kao to find us a second oar, and ship our backpacks downriver on the next local transport boat. Then we set sail.
Sink or Swim in Laos
Not 10 minutes into our downriver excursion, the raft began doing a wheelie since big Brad commandeered the back. Because we had warm beer on board and were careening off rocks, we agreed to name our craft Bamboozler. I knew we were in over our heads when a two-ton water buffalo swimming across the river gave us a steady warning look I interpreted as, “What the fu*k are these dorks doing here?”
Like two wagon-pulling seven-year-olds attempting to run away from home, we puffed out our chests and rowed on. Keeping pace with that mindset, we became the afternoon entertainment for children on the shoreline by echoing various animal sounds. Brad mimics a great cow. Later, we docked on the shoreline for our first of several random village visits. Kids arrived and laughed with us, and then the elder men waltzed up and chuckled at our boat, and us. Let the buyer beware. As opposed to dried brown, buoyant bamboo, our freshly cut green boat was cumbersome and basically unsteerable. Regardless, we still got credit for arriving by homespun boat and celebrated our dockings by buying all the kids pencils and writing pads from the lone shops near the makeshift marinas.
Eventually, our time on the water took its toll. “I have a feeling someone’s not rowing,” I accused Brad, forgetting there was a 240-pound guy back there who wasn’t smiling. And one oar, mine, was more likely to be used to fan myself. Both oars were two-foot long sections of bamboo sliced on one end to insert a chunky leaf. You could hardly call our floating logs a boat. When a father and son paddled by in their slick dugout canoe and ogled us with confused wonder, we gawked back at the harmony of their smooth, silent glide.
The sun set behind a cliff and the nocturnal jungle animals began to stir. The distant hiss of another run of whitewater roared louder and louder. We took swigs from our beers and braced for impact. Inexplicably, we clunked through the whitewater series like an underwater toboggan. Weaving like an unmanned magic carpet ride, we ran into rocks that spun our boat out of control, submerging it deeper underwater. Somehow, we eventually righted it, but not before the sound of cracking bamboo was heard competing with the gush of the rapids. Our limping underwater raft now set the waterline above our waists. In this part of the world, they call foreigners falang. The Falang Navy drifted on.
Having survived our brush with drowning and discovering that our sack of beer was still tied on, we discussed lighter issues. Then it occurred to us that neither of us had any idea where Kao had actually forwarded our backpacks. I yelped “wait,” to a deaf river deity. Still happily helpless and barely floating, the jesting continued…
“Brad, our raft is a bit of a lemon.”
Brad responded, “Your raft.”
Now in total darkness, we continue navigating blindly until a passing motorized passenger boat pulled up next to us, and the elderly pilot waved us into his boat. Upon boarding, we pointed to our raft, and he nodded a slow no, dismissing it with a backhanded wave. Emergency hospitality at its best. The kind, calm, and graceful Lao people make it hard to comprehend that Laos remains the most heavily bombed country ever. In a nine-year undeclared war, the U.S. dropped half a ton of bombs for every inhabitant.
Rescued at sea, we docked another mile downriver and discovered that our packs were on our rescue boat. Our good fortune multiplied when we re-encountered the apprehended Brit in that village, where he was taken, questioned, and released. After paying the apologetic would-be felon an honorarium for the stipulated boat, we shared a few laughs, and I realized that it was the first boat I’d ever bought—and for that matter, abandoned—albeit in the span of a day. Bucket list check for boat ownership.
Weeks later, back home in New York City, I found patches of reddish River Ou mud on the shorts I’d worn on the raft. Surprisingly, many of the world’s most daring pathfinders never discovered what they were looking for—riches, renown, and new trade routes to the Orient—but they all fearlessly cast searchlights into the unknown. Collectively, they mapped and helped merge the globe’s peoples and ways. Although at first reluctant for this particular adventure, I can’t imagine missing it. Brad and I didn’t exactly obliterate navigating presumptions that had endured for ages, but after smelling that Lao river again, I felt equally fulfilled and pitched my shorts into a washing machine.
Don’t bargain for a boat not in the water.” —Brendan Lake, Maine boat builder
Brad Olsen and Bruce Northam ‘conquering’ the River Ou in Northern Laos
July 28, 2015 | Categories: Published Articles | Tags: adventure, author, Brad Olsen, Bruce Northam, CCC Publishing, Laos, raft, river, Southeast Asia, The Directions to Happiness: A 135-Country Quest for Life Lessons, travel, World Stompers | Leave A Comment »
DON’T RUN OUT OF IDEAS—RUN OUT FOR IDEAS ~
“A little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing.” —Thomas Jefferson
Now that childhood seems to be officially over, only occasionally do I dare people to do things. Not the case with my eldest brother, Basil, who routinely challenges me to perform illegal tricks for his amusement. I routinely caved into his cons until I turned, well, about 35.
Our family summered in New York’s Adirondack mountains annually starting in 1967 after my father bought 16 acres of remote hillside land there for $800 from a farmer who needed that amount to buy an oil burner. That was back when achieving the American Dream was doable, even affordable.
As seasonal Adirondackians, July Fourth is my father’s favorite holiday. Although he’s still mad about being persecuted as a Walden-carrying Communist during the 1950’s McCarthy era, he remains a loyal transcendentalist. His favorite Americans, after Henry David Thoreau and John Muir, include Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. Our family beheld the annual fireworks show on a hillside overlooking touristy Lake George, N.Y. Throughout the crackling airborne display, my otherwise publicly measured dad would loudly thank our founding fathers for all to hear. It embarrassed his three boys, but his glowing pride let us know this was important.
After my father’s 1972 patriotic public declaration, “Thank you, Thomas Jefferson!” my brother Basil challenged me, a fourth-grader, and brother Bryan to summit the lakeside A-frame roof of a nearby fast food restaurant. With Basil and hundreds of people watching from the fort’s hillside, Bryan and I galloped up one side and over the other side of a roof that we soon realized was made from soda-can-thin aluminum-bubble shingles that crushed audibly under the weight of our steps. For everyone crammed on the hillside, we became the show.
The audience lounging on the hillside applauded our crunchy roof summit. The ovation surged when, once back on the ground, we sprinted into the crowd hoping to disappear. Feeling safe, we then strolled calmly away from the scene of the crime until the restaurant owner grabbed me from behind, spun me on my heel, and screamed “You’re coming with me.” As he dragged me back toward his damaged snack shack, the still attentive crowd booed my capture. Basil yelled out at the top of his lungs, “Boo…Run!” (Family, old friends, and a few cousins occasionally still call me Boo.) I twisted out of the man’s grip and bolted. The onlookers, thankfully not including my parents, gave me a howling standing ovation as I sprinted toward freedom. And so the lessons on eluding authority continued. Once I caught my breath, far in the distance I heard someone yell, “Thank you, Benjamin Franklin!”
Basil and Johanna Northam enjoying mellower times in Geneva, FL (photo: Basil Northam)
July 4, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: abraham lincoln, Adirondacks, author, Basil Northam, benjamin franklin, Bruce Northam, July 4, keynote speaker, Lake George, NY, The Directions to Happiness: A 135-Country Quest for Life Lessons, thomas jefferson, travel writing, travelogue | Leave A Comment »
MEASURE YOUR WEALTH BY HOW MUCH YOU’D BE WORTH IF YOU LOST ALL YOUR MONEY ~
Put the currency blues on the run.
Hitchhiking across Australia—bound for AC/DC concert
Before email and cell phones, letter writing was still vital, as many long-term backpackers could rarely afford to call home. Such isolation made Australian hospitality even more welcome, especially after a year in Asia without a turkey hero.
In the late 1980s, after a year-long Southeast Asian tour, a college friend and I hitchhiked 1,000 miles up Australia’s east coast to attend an AC/DC rock concert. Somewhere near Bundaberg, rides were in short supply. Our money evaporated, and we forgot that the buck is an endangered species that can’t be eaten. We stood by the road, yearning to overcome poverty’s limitations.
Across the baked intersection, a quintessential Outback man twice our age was hitching in the other direction and smoking a homemade cigarette that would get him tossed out of most U.S. establishments.
“How’s it goin’, mates?” he quizzed from across the pocked pavement, his voice rising above a soundtrack merging crickets with distant chainsaws.
“We ran out of money,” groaned my friend Pete.
The grinning Aussie rambler, a talent-at-large, notched up his tattered wide-brim hat and, unknowingly narrating timeless mythology, replied, “No worries guys, I started out with nothing and still have most of it left.”
A mirage no doubt belonging in the gallery of sainted survivors, he had a primitive affluence that reminded us that you can rise from the pits to the Ritz, in your head.
After scaring away our purse-onalities, he added, “Don’t spend time; enjoy it.”
There are a million options in the enterprise of starting from scratch.
“They’d raise the rent, and I couldn’t raise the money.” —Mozambique musician
“Beware of loan wolves.” —Emirati businesswoman observing an unfinished, rusting skyscraper skeleton in her neighborhood.
“The funny thing about money is that if everyone threw in their two cents about it, there’d be 15 billion cents.” —overheard in Israel’s Negev Desert
June 16, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: AC/DC, adventure, Australia, author, Bruce Northam, Emirates, hitchhiking, Israel, keynote speaker, Mozambique, The Directions to Happiness: A 135-Country Quest for Life Lessons, travel, travel writing, travelogue | 1 Comment »
DON’T PREDICT THE FUTURE, INVENT IT ~
Why peer through the keyhole when your hand rests on the doorknob?
Mr. Chen (left) — unofficial mayor of Yangzhou, China
I was backpacking in the newly “opened” China in 1987 when Chen, a multilingual restaurateur and the unofficial mayor of Yangzhou, entered my life. He had a kindly way with backpackers, and one afternoon he invited me to join him on a 70-mile journey in a rickety delivery truck across southeast China’s surreal limestone-peak landscape.
En route, we passed a seemingly ancient man and his goat. They were walking on the roadside in the opposite direction. Barefoot, the man plodded along the rough, hot road, two immense bags of rice suspended on a long, flexible pole across his back.
We passed him without a word, but upon returning to Yangzhou several hours later, we found him again—still plodding along. I suggested to Chen that we offer him a lift. After we pulled over, the old man and Chen had a brief exchange. Then Chen got back behind the wheel, and we drove off, leaving the man in the road. Puzzled, I asked Chen to translate their conversation. He explained that the man wasn’t due to arrive in Yangzhou until the following day. If he were to show up in advance, he wouldn’t know what to do with the extra time.
“You see, my friend,” said Chen, “Not all of us are in a hurry.”
I asked him to turn back, as I wanted to ask the old man a few things. Chen parked, and I hopped out. The old man stopped, balancing on his walking stick, and grinned. We pondered each other, beings from opposite sides of the planet—different planets really, worlds and ways apart.
Chen translated my questions.
“What’s the most important thing in your life?” I asked.
The old man looked to his left and made a peculiar honking call for his straying goat. Was the goat the most important thing? When the animal arrived at his side, the man looked at Chen and spoke slowly.
Chen interpreted, “He said that if you can’t help people, don’t harm them.”
“Why are people hurtful?” I asked.
I didn’t look at Chen as he spoke but rather stared into the old man’s eyes. He was human art, more serene than a drowsy cat.
“If you decline to accept someone’s abuse, then it still belongs to them,” he replied.
“Why do we quarrel?” I asked.
“The rise of a man’s mind from his scrotum to his skull can be a long haul.” We all burst into laughter. The goat bleated. “Ready?” Chen asked.
The old man and I shook hands and waved goodbye. The truck rolled away.
Today, I often recall the man’s deeply wrinkled face, and I know that the infuriating fixtures of modern life—traffic jams, rude people, the arrogance of ego—are only options. His words remain a permanent, benevolent echo.
I departed Yangzhou a month later. Chen walked with me to the bus stop. After mutual pats on the back, I told him how much his companionship meant to me, and that the old man’s words were unforgettable. I thanked him for those too.
“Use those words to end a book,” Chen said.
“Come on, Chen,” I replied. “Do you know how old I’ll be by the time I get published?”
“The same age you’ll be if you don’t,” he winked.
…Well, two decades and several books later, I received a letter from Chen that delivered a shock. He confessed—in that letter—that he hadn’t actually translated the old man’s words. Everything I’d learned that day had actually been Chen’s sage advice.
But, I got the best of Chen, and started this book with him…
May 28, 2015 | Categories: Published Articles | Tags: adventure, author, Bruce Northam, China, inspiration, keynote speaker, The Directions to Happiness: A 135-Country Quest for Life Lessons, Yangzhou | 1 Comment »
PROLOGUE ~
I have felt the lungs of the world expand, and this is my exhale. Our planet is trying to tell us something. There is a global disconnect of understanding, as we are often led to believe that the world is an unwelcoming place. I’m not a preacher, a guru, or a therapist but a working-guy explorer on a cross-continental mission, a messenger sharing the local bliss that’s always out there, if you know where to dig. By asking the right questions—or the wrong ones—I’ve discovered what keeps people striving for their dreams.
Pursuing and compiling these teachings reminded me that diversity is a great teacher. There are volumes of inspiring life lessons that have yet to be published, televised, or digitized. Gems of understanding have been passed down through generations to the people you’ll soon meet on these pages. Capturing simple moments that inform without leaning on arcane dogmas, I’m inviting you on a world-ranging holiday to far-flung places away from the gadgets that threaten to disengage us from our deeper senses and sensibilities.
This isn’t about my quest for happiness, though the hunt for how others find their joy inspires mine. Wisdom from a stranger fires the imagination—individuals in strange lands often have the power to realign our beliefs.
Patriotism should be redefined as improving every country, not just our own. That’s why I strive to be a frontline worker in the battle against bad news and boredom. I’ve explored our world tailing timeless news—some people call it “travel writing.” Mobile street anthropology reveals what happens when curiosity conquers the fear of the unknown.
It’s easier to behold what people really think once you cut to the chase. Thanks to a merry vagabond I met while hitching across Australia, I’ll never forget that the real measure of wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. Likewise, a musical encounter in the Philippines taught me that the enlightened never ask who is teacher and who is student. And, I won’t soon forget when a self-proclaimed Honduran expert in pirate chic declared, “If you have to ask what’s hip—you’re not!” These life lessons from seven continents double as contemporary wisdom updates. Socrates and the ancient gang studied contentment intensely, but we need a recharge. Happiness, purely defined, is the love of living. Seize moments, set your gypsy blood afire, and discover insights you can’t find online.
Cultural anthropology studies why people do what they do—and asks how society manages itself. A number of academics spend more time studying indoors than out on the world’s streets, which encourages the redefinition of some PhDs as merely Piling it Higher and Deeper. Formal education may be an essential preparation for life, but it’s no substitute for it. Humanity lives “out there,” under the bridges, on remote mountaintops, or sitting beside you. Don’t spend your vital years warming a chair.
We’re here to find and teach love, and I don’t just mean the nude version. The emergence of our individual wisdom tends to loom a few years or decades ahead of us. So I pursued my own, country by country, state by state, person to person, moment by moment. Check out this world before the next.
Bruce Northam
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Live Loving
Die Dreaming
—Epitaph in an Ecuadorian cemetery
April 13, 2015 | Categories: Published Articles | Tags: adventure, author, Bruce Northam, keynote speaker, life lessons, Quest, The Directions to Happiness, travel writing, travelogue | Leave A Comment »
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BRING YOUR WEATHER WITH YOU (Cambodia)~
Horsing Around with Robin Williams
MAKE LAUGHTER THE SHORTEST DISTANCE BETWEEN STRANGERS ~
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THINK OUTSIDE THE FENCE ~
COMPETE WITH YOURSELF ~
Falling Back in Like with Midtown Manhattan
RISE ABOVE IT ~
Southeast Asia Introduces New Models for a Unified Tourism Front
BRACKET YOUR INDULGENCES ~
Introducing my three new KEYNOTE presentations…
FEEL THE STRENGTH OF THE LABOR OF LOVE ~
WHERE IT ALL BEGAN ~
LET THE NAKED TRUTH BE
RECOGNIZE PRIDE NEEDS NO FLAG
The Milling Room—Columbus Ave’s Enchanting Hideaway
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“Adventure and rock ‘n’ roll.” —Condé Nast
Manhattan’s Worldly Cuisine Getaway
Good Medicine, Good Music
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RESPECT YOUR FOOD’S JOURNEY
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Travel+Leisure describes THE DIRECTIONS TO HAPPINESS as “a fun ride.”
Juni—a festival of flavor in a sea of calm
The Other Rainforest Music Festival—in Malaysia
Midtown Manhattan’s Subterranean Reprieve
New York Travel Festival
How One Guitar Will Save The World
Southeast Asian Countries Collectively Cultivate United Tourism Model
The World’s Most Determined Vigilante
Wisconsin’s Bridge to Original Rock
The Undercover Nun
Gathering of the Vibes
Don’t Judge A Country By Its State Department Warning
Waking From a Cruise Coma
Is Martha Stewart Judging?
Finland Rising
Slovakia: Small Country, Big Outlook—Discover the New Heart of Europe
The World Travel & Tourism Coalition Raises its Hand
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How Tiger Sharks Work
by Molly Edmonds
Tiger Shark Teeth and Anatomy
Anatomy of a tiger shark
How will you know when a tiger shark is swimming toward you? As we mentioned, tiger sharks get their name from the tiger -like stripes and spots that are most prevalent on juveniles. The sharks are bluish-green to dark gray on top, with a yellowish or white underbelly [source: Knickle].
When they're born, tiger sharks measure only 20 inches to 30 inches in length (51 centimeters to 76 centimeters) [source: MarineBio]. But they get much bigger: The full-grown tiger shark reaches 10 feet to 14 feet in length (3 meters to 4 meters) and weighs between 850 pounds and 1,400 pounds (385 kilograms and 635 kilograms) [source: National Geographic]. Larger tiger sharks can reach 17 feet (5 m) and 2,000 pounds (907 kg) [source: Knickle]. While not the biggest fish in the sea -- for comparison, the largest shark, the whale, tips the scales at 75,000 pounds (34,019 kg) and measures 65 feet (20 m) [source: MarineBio] -- the tiger shark does rank near the top of the list.
Tiger sharks are generally considered slow and sluggish, but their fins are capable of fast bursts of energy when they're tracking prey. Like other sharks, the tiger shark moves with its fins. The main factors in mobility are the pectoral fin and the caudal fin, or the tail. The dorsal fins on top help the tiger shark change directions. Like other shark species, they also have vibration detectors along their sides that help them to detect movement in the water. Tiger sharks have very thick hides, once described by a scientist as six to 10 times the strength of an ox hide [source: Tennesen].
The tiger shark has a wide mouth compared to other sharks in its family, and inside the tiger shark's blunt snout is something that really sets it apart: its teeth. Each tooth is almost like having several teeth in one space; the sharp, primary cusp extends down, ready to tear into prey. Along the primary cusp, or point, are tiny little serrated cusplets that can saw into the food. The tiger shark has identical upper and lower jaws, and with all these serrated teeth, there's really nothing that the tiger shark can't eat. Even the tough shells of sea turtles are no match for the tiger shark.
Where does the tiger shark live, and what does it do all day? We'll take a look on the next page.
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Talking with Future Islands
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Talking with Blind Pilot.
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Shake Your Groove Thing: Talking with the Rebirth Brass Band
Rebirth’s music on its own has the ability to make you feel and move and, yes, shake your groove thing, but brass music adds an even deeper layer.
Talking with Andrew Bird
Musician Andrew Bird has built a solid career just like that—step by step, or as Lamott would say, bird by bird—over the past two decades.
Something Beautiful: Talking with NEEDTOBREATHE
H A R D L O V E retains much of the gusto from previous albums but is a bit more polished. The band plays at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater on Sept. 22.
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Filoli – 12th Annual Botanical Art Exhibition & A Class On Nepenthes Taught By Hillary Parker
August 1, 2010 in Feature Articles, Member News
By Joan Keesey
Joan Keesey with Buckeye Painting at Filoli
On July 15th I attended the Artist’s Reception for the FILOLI 12th Annual Botanical Art Exhibition. There were 46 paintings from the United States and Canada; six were by members of BAGSC: Margaret Best, Akiko Enokido, and Joan Keesey. The paintings were beautiful; the Filoli gardens in summer were lovely, and it was a pleasure to talk to other botanical artists with pictures in the exhibit.
I also attended a four-day class on Nepenthes, taught by Hillary Parker. I have admired her work since I first saw it at the ASBA Conference in Pasadena. You can see her work on her website. Her emphasis is on composition and a more conceptual and interpretive rendering of a plant species. While we did use plant specimens, she didn’t want us to “ copy the specimen” but rather to portray the characteristics of the species.
There were six students in the class, three of whom are currently in the Filoli Botanical Art Certification program. We did gesture and contour drawings of six species of Nepenthes, then we each chose a species to paint. We wrote verbal descriptions of the plants and did multiple
Akido Enokido Painting at Filoli
“thumbnail sketches” until we achieved a composition that we thought characterized both the species as well as something of the artist’s reaction to the species. I thought that there were several outstanding compositions as a result of this process. Everyone was very enthusiastic about the class. The certification candidates have requested that she return next summer because they thought the process was so different and produced a more interesting and artistic rendering of a botanical subject. I hope that she is able to teach a class in Los Angeles sometime in the future.
Margaret Best Paintings at Filoli
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Murder Victim’s Grandson Accuses Mark Williams-Thomas of “Predatory Actions”
Posted on August 16, 2018 by Richard Bartholomew
UPDATE: The above headline reflects the fact that Causley has been convicted of murder. However, no body has ever been found, and the late Bob Woffinden argued that a miscarriage of justice had occurred. His critique of the documentary can be read here.
From the Mirror, August 2017:
A daughter trying to solve the riddle of her mother’s murder has launched a new bid to uncover the full truth after 30 years of torment.
Sam Gillingham is demanding her lovecheat father Russell Causley – in jail for the murder – reveals what he did with Carole Packman’s body.
She also intends to face Causley’s mistress Patricia Ward in court after launching a private prosecution against her for using tragic Carole’s ID.
…Last year, Carole’s murder was the subject of ITV documentary The Investigator, in which Mark Williams-Thomas – who exposed pervert DJ Jimmy Savile – probed her disappearance.
The BBC has an overview of the case here. The television series was broadcast in 2016, and a Mirror article published at the time reported how Samantha GIllingham “and son Neil sought help from investigator Williams-Thomas after he exposed Jimmy Savile as a paedophile.” The same article (by a showbiz reporter) said that “after watching the final instalment of ITV’s The Investigator, Samantha Gillingham feels she is one step closer to discovering her mother’s fate”, although a piece in the Express published the same day reported that “viewers were left feeling cheated and furious as after various suggestions that things were going to take an interesting turn, practically nothing was solved” (as ever, this was a “Twitter comment round-up” article).
So what happened about the “private prosecution” against Ward? No such prosecution has materialised, and in April this year Neil Gillingham (on social media “Neil Gill”) issued a statement criticising Williams-Thomas for what he calls “predatory actions” that have “humiliated” his mother. As evidence for this assessment, he has published a text message that he purportedly received on 14 July 2017, in which Williams-Thomas appears to have promised to fund the action:
So we will set meeting up for next week QC is back Sunday so will get date then . We are go on the private prosecution – I will fund £50k to get it to trial and getting going asap But this should be kept secret. We should start next week a crowd funding page to raise 50k for the private prosecution . I need you to talk to Police today and tell them you are about to start a private prosecution against Patricia . You have waited almost a year and no progress – you need to know the state of the review and if charges are imminent for Patricia . Does that work for you?
Must keep all funding aspect just between us.
The above is slightly ambiguous: is the crowd-funded money meant to supplement the promised £50,000, or to reimburse Williams-Thomas? Either way, though, the promise is unconditional and presented as an amount sufficient “to get it to trial”. It seems that this promise was not honoured.
Neil asks:
Who benefited from putting a positive spin on that [press] release? Mum? Me? My grandmother or Mark and ITV who the same week as saying we were launching a private prosecution also announced series 2 of The Investigator?
Given the claims recently made about Williams-Thomas in relation to the Jonathan King trial, this leaves a troubling impression. We might also ask why it is that this newsworthy grievance has not made its way into the same newspapers that have over the years used material either about or from Williams-Thomas.
(H/T @EricHardcastle)
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Bandini, on August 16, 2018 at 11:20 am said:
The original post that appears in Eric’s tweet can be found here:
https://m.facebook.com/groups/145556342840285?view=permalink&id=199476667448252&anchor_composer=false
There is a bit more info regarding MWT’s rotten behaviour in the comments below but perhaps as interestingly a lunatic turns up offering ‘help’. I won’t link to the (quite possibly well-meaning) ghoul, but suffice to say that fake claims of having been a “police consultant” abound while images of Myra Hindley’s waterfall nestle against others of Portugal…
The amount of rubbish these families have to put up with…
Margaret Jervis, on August 16, 2018 at 1:15 pm said:
This is v interesting, if true.
The ruse of ‘raising funds’ when already pledged is precisely the way some charity fundraising operates in order for it to appear that there is a ‘massive response’ to an appeal -ie successful so pledge more. I have argued for long that many abuse investigations follow a similar plan.
To take the Savile ‘Exposure’ programme aired after a few pre- programme claims as a teaser. When aired with phoneline, publicity and lawyers promising compo it’s claimed ‘massive response’ when in fact mostly a few known pre- programme accusers and others on hold.
So another appeal for victims more pub, programmes etc this time on the basis that there has been a ‘massive response’ of victims since the first.
All based on the private/public appeal fundraising method pioneered by Marian Alford re the 80s GOSH appeal and described in her 93 Charity Appeals – complete guide to success.
I interviewed her when it was published in 93 and her method of success made a deep and lasting impression on me. As she said – people want to contribute to success – not failure.
Her ways of attracting the secret private donors were borderline fraudulent but all in a good cause.
Ciaran Goggins, on August 19, 2018 at 3:39 pm said:
Same Mark Williams-Thomas who white knighted for “Nick/Carl” in Op Midland?
tdf, on November 4, 2018 at 10:28 am said:
Not a good day for MWT, see David Rose’s skewering of him in the Mail?
Ashley Oh, on November 28, 2018 at 6:49 am said:
The woman did it. She knew. Now she needs to rot.
Tom, on November 28, 2018 at 2:21 pm said:
This takes victim-blaming to a whole new level.
Nicole, on January 17, 2019 at 9:55 am said:
As always the comment section is worth reading more than the late news article. Whoever tries and help this ‘victim’ daughter is wasting their time. I’ve followed this story for many years now, I just have a hard time understanding as a mother and daughter myself when will Sam accept she is her fathers daughter? When will it occur, I’m sure never, that her behaviors only mimic dear ol dads. If you don’t see it then you haven’t followed the story long enough. This is just another tantrum from someone whom treated her mother terrible she made the woman who gave her life miserable. Finding her body will not make you feel better Sam. There’s no way to fix what you did all those years ago. You were a stomping self righteous brat & real life has no do overs. Let the memory of your mother rest. It seems you think if you are successful in locating her remains (or possibly die trying) that somehow will make your punishment lesser on the other side. It’s not everyone else’s fault. It’s yours, you should have been your mothers friend then but you didn’t care & I think caring now is self seeking behavior. This in its self screams lawsuit. Your absolutely disgusting as a person.
Jacqueline Alexander, on July 19, 2019 at 7:53 pm said:
What a self-righteous bitch you are .Was your family dynamics perfect , did you never fall out with your parents when you where a teenager,and what about the mistress closer in age to the daughter almost like a friend .You must live a perfect life to you and yours .
Graham Ketchen, on October 24, 2019 at 7:44 pm said:
Wast Nicole that chose dads lover over her own mother Jac, she should be totally ashamed of her actions
Anne worthington, on September 10, 2019 at 10:02 am said:
Well said my sentiments too
Neil Gillingham, on October 9, 2019 at 3:29 pm said:
@ Nicole,
Give me a shout, happy to discuss your vulgar opinion personally.
You can find me on Twitter @helenslawcarole
Drop me a message, please don’t hide behind a first name or pseudonym – given the seriousness of your allegation and strength of opinion I believe it’s only fair you put an identity to your words to ensure I am able to stop you adequately in your tracks.
phaedon joan tingley, on December 20, 2019 at 12:50 am said:
She was a teenager trying to please a abusive father. And your an asshole
Ren, on January 22, 2019 at 9:06 am said:
Nicole, your comment regarding Sam as a disgusting human are unwarranted. She was 16 when her Mum disappeared. 16. A teenager… how many teens do you know who aren’t stomping self righteous brats?
Sam, I’ve watched the series, and am so shocked that Patricia has never been charged with anything. It’s quite frankly unbelievable.
As for your father, it’s my opinion he is 100% guilty. I’m saddened that he cannot confess where your mother is. How selfish. I’m so so sorry –
Ren in Australia.
“It’s not everyone else’s fault it’s yours”- REALLY? Wow. What a bizarre statement.
Nicole, how is Sam to blame for her fathers and Patricias actions in addition to her mothers murder?
Deborah Bethell, on December 5, 2019 at 2:20 pm said:
all of you do not understand the psychopath that the father is. His controlling nature could turn the affections of his daughter away from the mom. He had that power over all of them. Sam is truly a victim of a malicious father. She does live with the guilt. I had the same type of father and at 16 I hated my mom but as I grew older I realized that it was my father manipulating me. I was too young to understand. I saw my mom in a new light but could not help her be free of him. Please Nicole have compassion. There is enough nastiness already here.
Andy, on January 29, 2019 at 5:32 pm said:
Sadly I said all along that MWT did not have the knowledge or capability to solve the Packman case. My heart goes out to Sam as she allowed herself to be dragged along like a tidal wave by MWT
He clearly was not a “specialist investigator” and ITV should never have said he was.
The evidence is clear in the King case, the investigator documentary and even MWT’s support for “Nick” from operation Midland.
MWT was out of his depth, running on celebrity status and hype.
I personally believe that the late, great Bob Woffinden was right as Causley is clearly wrongly behind bars. Unfortunately there is so much corruption within the police and British justice system as a whole that innocent men rot in jail whilst liars and those driven by the power of celebrity status thrive on others grief.
There were people desperate to see Russell Causley remain behind bars when MWT’s documentary was aired because he was the ideal scapegoat. Is Carole Packman dead? Did Russell or Patricia murder Carole? I doubt it. MWT is addicted to sexual offences and glorifies them particularly when it comes to celebrities, why I don’t know. He served as a uniformed police officer with just 9 months as a rookie in CID making the tea. He would not of held high enough rank to have lead serious enquiries and high profile cases. What happened to the private prosecution in relation to Patricia Causley? Why? MWT’s false promise and the crowd funding page never came to anything, it was fake, just like MWT’s other “exposures” that have lead to innocent peoples lives being destroyed. If MWT told me it was snowing and he had a snow ball in his hand I would pop out and double check before I reached for my wellies.
Michael Blackman, on April 12, 2019 at 7:36 am said:
Andy What makes you think he is innocent.He is not saying where his wifes body is you Dickhead.
B L Beattie, on February 25, 2019 at 12:06 am said:
You would have to be an absolute moron to believe that MWT being an asshole in any way changes the fact that RC has confessed to Carole’s murder. It is entirely believable and most likely that Patricia was involved and he accepted all of the blame to protect her. I am gobsmacked by the ignorance of many of the contributors here.
Louise, on April 14, 2019 at 6:21 am said:
I think RC was telling the truth when he confessed. I do yhink he killed her and I think he did burn the body. But I think his reasons of “love” are completely false. And it is interesting that Patricia has the same reason for committing her crimes.
They did not care that Carole and Sam were in the house and they did not care about the affair being known about. They pretty much had it all at that point and there was no reason to kill Carole, even if she walked out, unless she threatened to take the house due to his infidelity. Once she was gone, they took ownership of the house and then committed further crimes for more money. This was all about money. And Patricia just wanted to take everything from Carole.
Max, on April 21, 2019 at 11:13 pm said:
I came up with the same conclusion.
The reason of the “disappearance” is probably money. She wanted to go and get her share. He did not want to.
The following events after 85 go in that direction, they were all about easy money and lies. That being said, the netflix doc was entertaining tv for sure but, as a litigator myself (in france), i see 0 progress made due to this tv show except maybe the digging in the garden…but its slim, very slim for someone who markets himself as a top investigator.
Kara, on April 30, 2019 at 7:08 am said:
It’s not only the money. It was the guilt of how dastardly they perverted a home, marriage ; and bona fide birth in marriage. Carole was target because she was personification of the betrayed the innocence represented in her pain ,loyalty ,unbeleivable un rewarded strength. Trying to mother. Just how wrong and involving the marital child thats as well why the father doesn’t resemble one. Because Samantha is still his target to cause these perverted pains the malice out of his guilt.. Carole and Samantha was everything that this evil pair weren’t. These self involved 2 wanted to believe in this hype’ that they had true love, righteousness as a foundation. But you can’t fake yourself and observing ad continually traumatizing mother and daughter; trying make them complicit to take the edge off the wrongness and sacrilege . As is the truest action in sin I’ve refer seen in human behavior -it reveals thoroughly in the lie reasoning why apparent motive ( love of Patricia) its just the opposite Guilt is the number one force behind this. Unfounfed money spending : a common thread among deep seeded guilt as every other display in characteristic personalities of the devil. Love does nothing like this but the obsessions in propelling the wrongdoing in order to plagiarize the truth I their minds is priority . essential all cover up moves displaying again in Patricias statement ( compassion for Sam)
It’s not only the money. It was the guilt of how dastardly they perverted a home, marriage ; and bona fide birth in marriage. Carole was target because she was personification of the betrayed the innocence represented in her pain ,loyalty ,unbeleivable un rewarded strength. Trying to mother. Just how wrong and involving the marital child thats as well why the father doesn’t resemble one. Because Samantha is still his target to cause these perverted pains the malice out of his guilt.. Carole and Samantha was everything that this evil pair weren’t. These self involved 2 wanted to believe in this hype’ that they had true love, righteousness as a foundation. But you can’t fake yourself and observing ad continually traumatizing mother and daughter; trying make them complicit to take the edge off the wrongness and sacrilege . As is the truest action in sin I’ve refer seen in human behavior -it reveals thoroughly in the lie reasoning why apparent motive ( love of Patricia) its just the opposite Guilt is the number one force behind this. Unfounfed money spending : a common thread among deep seeded guilt as every other display in characteristic personalities of the devil. Love does nothing like this but the obsessions in propelling the wrongdoing in order to plagiarize the truth I their minds is priority . essential all cover up moves displaying again in Patricias statement ( compassion for Sam) my heart goes to your kin bless you poor Samantha
Jason Davey, on May 25, 2019 at 9:17 pm said:
Sam if you read this i feel sorry for the way people are trying to portray you
i believe your father and patricia had a hand in the murder of your mother
i believe in your own heart you know the reason he will not see/communicate with you is because of his guilt
there are many murderers that won’t give family members that piece of mind
i believe in your fathers case his belief is no body no evidence
he sees himself as innocent proven guilty
Sara, on August 12, 2019 at 10:55 am said:
I was also bothered by the fact that not much came from the tv series, especially after all the promises made in the beginning of the 1st episode. Also, I do not like having questions while I’m watching the best investigator in the history of time ; that bonfire he made to burn his wife’s body, NOBODY mentioned the smell. That’s a massive question and they just avoided it.
However, that doesn’t change the fact that Russell Causley is guilty and that the infamous Patricia is living the life of Riley. She stole Sam Gillingham’s inheritance and whatever property she owns today was got by ill-gotten gains. It sounds all very materiel but it’s the truth, she profited from a person’s death, that is a crime!
Marcia Mugmon, on September 3, 2019 at 3:19 pm said:
Sam, like many others. I’m so sorry for your loss. People like your father take joy in their actions now as well as then. I don’t believe that the only way to get the answers that you so desperately need is a letter that you receive after he dies. Control and publicly is what he wants now. Please don’t let that control ruin your and your families life. That is exactly what he wants. I just saw the documentary on Netflix and that jumped out at me from the very beginning. I’m a disabled police officer in the United States. I pray that you get the the information one day but don’t count on it. Sincerely, Marcia
Shane, on September 20, 2019 at 1:07 pm said:
Just watched the documentary on Netflix. A shame that the note supposedly left by Carole wasn’t able to be analysed against Russell’s or Patricia’s handwriting. Conveniently thrown out before any investigation. What a sad story it is; that Sam’s father can still exercise a degree of control over her from prison by not revealing any information regarding Carole’s body (an occasion whereby I’d support wholeheartedly the use of some form of torture to obtain information. Seriously). And that despite solid evidence against Patricia she still hasn’t faced any serious charges. It’s hard to fathom really.
Vivien Rutherfurd, on October 10, 2019 at 5:59 pm said:
I am absolutely gobsmacked. Of course Patricia was well aware of what Russell did. Why oh why did he suddenly write a letter saying that there was no crime and that Patricia couldn’t and didn’t/doesn’t know anything?? Because dear “innocent” Patricia was getting worried, questioned by MWT was bringing unwanted attention,so contacts Russell and obviously threatened to divulge some more information if he didn’t withdraw his accusations about her. Sheeze it’s not rocket science what transpired!!
Derek Seath, on October 22, 2019 at 11:03 pm said:
You can all say what you want but the fact of the matter is the specialist investigator done more in a few months than the entire police force done in years ( drops mic)
Shan Brown, on November 5, 2019 at 5:17 am said:
Everyone in this whole story are liars with the exception of the poor grandson who really is the victim.
It ridiculous to explore any more statements from Russell or this sociopath Patricia.
He and Patricia probably killed her. End of story.
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News; News & Events
EUROPE: 75 economists endorse Quantitative Easing for People campaign
December 10, 2015 Vito Laterza News, News & Events
At the end of November, a coalition of eurozone campaigners, civil society organizations and economists launched the campaign Quantitative Easing for People, calling for the European Central Bank (ECB) to radically change its approach to the current Quantitative Easing (QE) program. At the time of writing, 75 economists have endorsed the campaign.
The initiative brings together groups including Social Justice Ireland, Collectif Roosevelt (France), World Future Council (Germany), FairFin (Belgium), European Alternatives, and Basic Income Europe. The campaign is also supported by organizations from Italy, Greece, Spain, Austria, and the Netherlands; see the full list here.
QE is an unconventional monetary policy used by central banks to stimulate the economy. It usually consists of buying government bonds or other securities in order to lower interest rates and increase the money supply. QE began in the eurozone earlier this year, and the ECB is currently creating 60 billion Euros each month. Matthias Kroll from the World Future Council said: “So far the ECB’s QE program has proven to be ineffective in raising inflation back to its 2% target.”
“Flooding financial markets inflates share and bond prices, which makes the rich richer, but does little to help households and business. In fact, QE is helping fuel a new financial bubble, laying the foundation for another financial crisis. The eurozone needs a more direct and efficient stimulus.”
European stock markets plunged on December 3, when Draghi announced that the current QE program would be extended by six months to March 2017. This is a sign that even large corporations and financial markets do not believe in Draghi’s QE and expect more.
The aim of the QE for People campaign is to push the ECB to spend the money differently, by focusing on public investment, key social services or redistributive mechanisms like a citizens’ dividend – the last idea resonating well with basic income activists.
The proposal was first put forward in a letter signed by 19 economists and published in the Financial Times in March this year:
Rather than being injected into the financial markets, the new money created by eurozone central banks could be used to finance government spending (such as investing in much needed infrastructure projects); alternatively each eurozone citizen could be given €175 per month, for 19 months, which they could use to pay down existing debts or spend as they please.
Cash transfers under QE for People and basic income have common features. Both are directed to all citizens, with no strings attached. The time dimension differs though, as QE measures are by definition temporary, while basic income is a permanent scheme.
The 75 experts who support the campaign include several pioneers of the idea, such as Professor Steve Keen, Professor David Graeber and fund manager Eric Lonergan, as well as other influential economists and financial analysts like Ann Pettifor and Frances Coppola. These experts signed a statement of support that lays out the reasons behind the campaign:
1. Conventional QE does not work
Since it started in March, the eurozone QE program has not helped to rescue the eurozone economies from stagnation.
2. Conventional QE is risky and harmful
Flooding financial markets inflates share and bond prices, which makes the rich richer but does little to help ordinary people and businesses. In fact, QE is helping fuel a new financial bubble, laying the foundation for another financial crisis.
3. A more direct approach is needed
Countries in the eurozone need to stimulate their economies without increasing public and private debt, without increasing inequality, and without creating bubbles.
4. QE for People is possible
Instead of flooding financial markets, money created through QE should be spent into the real economy, on essential public investment such as green infrastructure, affordable housing and/or distributed as a citizens’ dividend to all residents.
5. QE for People is urgently needed
Given the challenges facing the eurozone, we urge economists, civil society organizations, and people from across the eurozone to join us in calling on the ECB to implement QE for People as soon as possible.
The campaign will focus on raising awareness of the failures of the current QE program, building political momentum around alternative monetary policies and fostering further research. “Having more than 70 economists endorsing the idea is a huge milestone, but this is only the beginning. Our goal is to create a much bigger coalition with citizens, academics and civil society organizations,” said Stan Jourdan, campaign coordinator.
If you want to know more about the campaign, visit the campaign website.
You can join the movement QE for People by signing up here.
Economists can endorse the campaign here.
See also: Stanislas Jourdan, “Europe: 19 economists call on the ECB to make ‘QE for the people’ in a letter to the Financial Times,” Basic Income News, March 27, 2015.
About Vito Laterza
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Vito Laterza is a research fellow at the University of Cape Town and the editor of the Human Economy Blog. He is an anthropologist, labour expert and political analyst focusing on politics, economy and society in Africa and the West. He writes regularly for international media such as Foreign Affairs and Al Jazeera English.
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Quite Likely
I’m in favor of conventional QE as an alternative to not doing any kind of QE, but definitely agree that a People’s QE would be far better.
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OT Anybody actually see this?
On the news this morning was a story about a bright object that streaked across the sky over Washington State last night. It left a large and persistent trail of plasma. They showed a video of it that somebody captured.
The various news reports are all calling it a meteor known as a bolide that is large enough and bright enough to see in the daytime.
Bullsheet. I have seen several bolides and thousands of meteors and have photographed them too. What I saw on that video was no meteor. It was traveling much too slowly to be a meteor. They are traveling at an absolute minimum of 7 miles per second when they reenter and usually around 20 to 30 miles per second. It can be as high as 90. They streak across the sky. It cannot be below 7 mps since that is the escape velocity of the earth. On the other hand a satellite cannot ever be that fast if it was in earth orbit.
More importantly, whatever it was made some sort of sharp maneuver just as the trail started. It was very clearly visible in the video that the beginning of the plasma trail was very hooked, a sweeping curve of perhaps 30 to 40 degrees over a fair distance. Meteors and satellites do not do that. They can't. It couldn't be winds aloft, there is no wind at that altitude. They begin lighting up at 50 to 90 km high.
I have even captured a photo of a meteor that exhibited changes in flight direction, one of the only photos of it's kind according to discovery channel's expert where it was discussed.
You can see the that video here:
http://www.exn.ca/dailyplanet/view.asp?date=1/30/2002
What I saw on the video of last night's event was no such thing. Did anybody else actually see it? Whatever it was was burning up. The velocity was much more reminiscent of the shuttle columbia burning up minus the pieces. It could however have been a heat shield disintegrating. Whatever it was was capable of changing direction drastically at very high velocity.
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It was a jet, according to local news.
Incidentally, the story is already being erased from the collective consciousness.
This is what a link on the Seattle Times to public sighting reports of the event brings up:
Oh? All the main news organizations are calling it a meteor. Also, multiple sonic booms were heard and it lit up the sky. What sort of jet would that be?
Witnesses along a 60-mile swath of the Puget Sound region from the Tacoma area to Whidbey Island and as far as 260 miles to the east said the sky lit up brilliantly, and many reported booms as if from one or more explosions.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...ebflash03.html
Here is what they say on that page about reports. BTW, this is a standard misdirection technique. Discredit the witnesses by publishing the most absurd description you can think of.
Readers report
We heard reports from several readers about the mysterious booms and flashes of light early this morning over Puget Sound:
"At first, I thought I was being beemed [sic] up, but no gauges on my car changed, so I knew I wasn't being 'taken'"
— Linda Schumpert
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mike petree
It is reported to be sunlight reflecting off a contrail
Look down the list at this link for the video news report.
http://www.king5.com/video/playlist.html
Dunno, I'm skeptical
Evan, some may mock, and accuse that of being a conspiracy theory but all it takes is a minimum of two like minded individuals to conspire.
Obviously? it has nothing to do with this event in the South Island. It was reported that the sonic boom was heard over a couple of hundred kms.
I don`t recall taking drugs this morning, but here is the correct report, not one from 3 years ago
Rock probed for meteor link
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411416/828926
Big bang rattles Canterbury (2:02)
Close Up: Meteorite (8:11)
The National Radiation Laboratory hopes to know soon whether material recovered from a Canterbury farm is linked to the South Island sonic boom on Tuesday.
The sonic boom was so powerful it shook buildings across the Canterbury region and even registered on seismic drums used to monitor earthquakes.
Hundreds of people called police about the bang and several witnesses reported seeing the meteorite stream across the sky in Hinds. Seconds later it was spotted over Hanmer Springs in North Canterbury.
Many said the bang was so loud they thought it was a plane blowing up or an earthquake.
Police were called to a Dunsandel property south of Christchurch on Tuesday night.
National Radiation Lab general manager Jim Turnbull says the senior science officer from the Prime Minister's department has asked them to analyse the fragment found there.
They will check to see if it's from outer space, and if so, whether it's a meteorite, or space junk.
Turnbull says authorities want to know whether the piece is radioactive because there are old satellites that do have nuclear powered devices on them, and scientists hope to have an answer on Wednesday.
The meteor is the talk of much of the South Island, but the chances of anyone finding the space rock are astronomically small.
After a fiery flight and sonic boom, it is unclear if it burned up or crashed to earth.
Within hours of the sonic boom just before 3pm, a rash of objects had been posted on TradeMe claiming to be the meteorite responsible.
Experts say while the original rock was probably about the size of a large ball, it may have broken into pebble-size pieces.
Professor John Baggeley, who operates a meteor radar for Canterbury University, says finding it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
He says people expecting to find a smouldering rock will be disappointed as it will be cold now that it has come to Earth.
"We received about a hundred calls in a ten minute period - 25 percent of those were to the fire service, the rest were to police. Essentially all people could tell us was that they heard a loud bang," Inspector Mike Coulter says.
Police believe it was space junk re-entering the atmosphere, but there have been no reports of damage.
A Canterbury astronomer says the meteor was probably travelling low and at great speed.
"When it hits the atmosphere it creates a ram phenomenon - that is the pressure of the atmosphere moving against it is what heats it up. Being so bright to be seen during the day and making a sound like a solar boom it would officially be called a bolite for astronomical purposes, which is an unusual event," associate professor at the Canterbury Astronomical Society, Euan Mason, says.
The last big meteor sighting in the South Island was in the Nelson region nearly two years ago.
Source: Newstalk ZB/One News
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Well i'm pretty sure it was an alien spacecraft - watch out for strange or bizzarre individuals knocking on your door asking if you will machine a plasma conduit or space time modulator for them.
in all seriousness though - sounds interesting...have to see what becomes of it.
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I'm not suprised. About ten years ago an object was spotted over Chilliwack in BC heading south. It was at very high altitude and appeared to be paced by a couple of military jets of US origin at a much lower altitude. The story with video was aired one morning and by evening had disappeared without trace. I happened to snag a frame of the video before it was taken down.
This is the sort of contrail that would be expected at an altitude of well over 100,000 feet. It doesn't fan out like that at lower altitude. The only problem is that there isn't anything that flies that high. Is there?
Here is a frame from the video shown this morning. This is from the thumbnail that links to the no longer working video. If that is a jet it is at a very high altitude and made a very sharp turn. It isn't possible to turn a regular commercial jet very sharply at such an altitude, it will cause a stall.
Probably military tests/craft gone bad, or related space junk falling (though does not explain the curve unless maybe a skip effect/refraction/?).
Back in around '98, last time I lived in Phoenix, I got up before dawn to take my parents who were visiting to the airport. Walked outside with a cup of coffee and noticed the most beautiful iridescent “jellyfish” above the Eastern Horizon. It was enormous and appeared to involve a sort of “tangle” of contrails along with the colored vapor. That morning it was all over the radio with speculation and “update at 10” kind of stuff. I heard among other things that it was a test fire from White Sands that had gone bad and was “self destructed” (with those contrails, maybe shot down?) on it’s way to the Phoenix Metro area (or perhaps of other origin headed for the Nuclear plant?).
By noon, nothing but meaningless fluff. No updates, watched the evening news, nothing but more meaningless fluff in the vein of “oh wasn’t it pretty, move along, nothing to see here”... Nah, they wouldn’t cover up anything or lie to the public. Excuse me, I have to go chew some cud...
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Maybe it was one of these.
PTSideshow
All I know is we use to try to chase fish in the pacific back in the Navy days.
they used to swim at about 100 knots and do 90 degree turns. When we sighted them they would have us turn on the 400 cycle gensets for the anti mine/deguassing loops. Was always told by the brass it was electrical field interference.Also was at a strange base in West by god virginy. drove a truck loaded with electrical equipment and two civies in the back chasing lights in the sky
The civies always said tell anybody anything you want they won't believe ya LOL. Now the base is in a book on secert Government bases.
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Been there, probably broke it, doing that!
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I repeated what I'd read over morning coffee. Time marched on and now they say it's a bolide. There were no comments this am about sonic booms. Never heard of a bolide that could turn faster than a jet. What kind of bolide would that be?
According to the conspiracy theorists, the US Airforce "Aurora" aircraft, claimed to be the replacement for the SR-71 Blackbird, supposedly travels faster than Mach 5. The popular theory is that it rides on a shock-wave generated from igniting liquid propane injected behind the aircraft.
By comparison, the USAF X-15 rocketplane created in response to a requirement issued by NASA for an air-launched manned research vehicle, had a maximum speed of more than Mach 6 and a maximum altitude of more than fifty miles.
Personally, I think your video is a photon torpedo.
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did."
Todd Tolhurst
Good eye. It turns exactly like a photon torpedo. So now the question becomes, who is shooting at who?
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Scooter, bike makers asked to draw up plan for electric vehicles
Reuters On Jun 22, 2019 Last updated Jun 22, 2019
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NEW DELHI: India’s central think-tank has asked scooter and motorbike manufacturers to draw up a plan to switch to electric vehicles, days after they publicly opposed the government’s proposals saying they would disrupt the sector, two sources told Reuters.
Niti Aayog officials met with executives from companies including Bajaj Auto, Hero MotoCorp and TVS late on Friday, giving them two weeks to come up with the plan, according to one of the executives.
The think-tank, which is chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and plays a key role in policymaking, had recommended that only electric models of scooters and motorbikes with engine capacity of more than 150cc must be sold from 2025, sources have told Reuters.
Automakers opposed the proposal and warned that a sudden transition, at a time when auto sales have slumped to a two-decade low, would cause market disruption and job losses.
India is one of the world’s largest two wheeler markets with sales of more than 20 million scooters and motorbikes last year.
During Friday’s meeting government officials argued that switching to EVs is of national importance so India does not miss out on the global drive towards environmentally cleaner vehicles, one of sources said. But industry executives responded that a premature switch with no established supply chain, charging infrastructure or skilled labour in India, could result in India losing its leadership position in scooters and motorbikes, the second source said.
“There were clearly drawn out positions,” said the source, adding there were “strong opinions” at the meeting.
Bajaj, Hero and Niti Aayog did not respond to a request for comment, while TVS declined to comment.
Niti Aayog is working with several other ministries on the recommendations, which are part of an electrification effort to help India reduce its fuel import bill and curb pollution.
The proposal also includes incentives for local production of batteries, an increase ownership cost of gasoline cars and forming a policy to scrap old vehicles, according to records of government meetings seen by Reuters.
The panel has also suggested measures such as directing taxi aggregators like Uber and Ola to convert 40% of their fleets to electric by April 2026, Reuters has reported.
Executives from EV start-up Ather Energy, ride-sharing firm Ola and officials from the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), an industry trade body, also attended the meeting, the sources said.
The proposals are India’s second attempt for a switch to EVs. In 2017 it proposed an ambitious plan mainly for electric cars but rowed back after facing resistance from car makers.
The current push could disrupt the market order for two-wheelers and open up avenues for local start-ups, analysts say. Scooter and bike start-ups like Ather, 22Motors and Okinawa are already making in-roads in India.
“It is extremely critical that we make the transition to electric quickly lest we get wiped out by another global wave,” Tarun Mehta, CEO and co-founder at Ather said.
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In the baboon social network: 'Nice' gals may finish first
Some pairs of female baboons form relationships that look a lot like “friendships,” a group of researchers has found.
The females spend time hanging out together and grooming each other. They don’t fight so much and support each other when they get into conflicts with other members of their groups. These relationships seem to confer important benefits on females, including living longer, reproducing more successfully, and coping better with stress. Download Full Image
Arizona State University primatologist Joan Silk is one of a team of researchers, including Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney at the University of Pennsylvania, who have been documenting the social lives of female baboons in the Okavango Delta of Botswana.
“We have spent years monitoring the social lives of baboons and other primates, with the idea that evolution has shaped social behavior to enhance the reproductive success of individuals,” said Silk. “But we were not able to link what we knew about variation in social behavior to the reproductive success of individuals. Now we can. And this raises new questions that we wanted to go back to the data to answer.”
In particular, Silk and her colleagues wondered why some female baboons form these close social “friendships” and others do not, and why some female baboons were more successful than others at forming strong social bonds. Seyfarth, Silk, and Cheney’s paper on the “Variation in Personality and Fitness in Wild Female Baboons” was published in the October 1, 2012 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The long-term study focused on detailed records of 45 wild female baboons observed in the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana from 2001 to 2007.
Some explanation for the friendly behaviors were due to availability of close relatives – mothers, daughters, sisters – with whom females typically form very close bonds. Silk and her colleagues wondered if, using the observational data collected over the course of seven years, they could find out if the behavior of the females themselves corresponded to personality types.
The literature on personality in animals has two different histories. One comes from psychology where researchers look at personality dimensions that are seen in humans and also seen in animals, like extroversion or introversion. The other comes from behavioral ecology where researchers ask whether a personality characteristic is advantageous or disadvantageous, such as being shy or bold, to answer what does being shy or being bold get you living in the world? The researchers wished to find a middle ground between these two approaches and relied on the animals’ interactions to define their “personality styles.”
The researchers tabulated the frequency of various types of behavior, including friendly things like embraces and hostile things like threats and attacks. They also kept track of whether females grunted when they approached other females. Grunting signals an intention to behave nicely, and females use grunts to resolve conflicts, to reassure lower ranking females that they won’t harm them, and to facilitate interactions with mothers of newborn infants. (For reasons that we don’t fully understand, baboons are fascinated by other females’ babies and often try to smell, touch and handle them.)
This procedure generated three personality dimensions that the researchers labeled “Nice,” “Aloof,” and “Loner.” The Nice females were more likely to perform friendly behaviors. They were also more likely to grunt when they approached others and spent little of their time alone. Aloof females were more aggressive than others and grunted at high rates only when approaching higher-ranking females who had infants that they wanted to handle. Loner females were often alone and grunted most frequently only when approaching high-ranking females. These personality traits seemed to be relatively consistent from year to year. Females’ personality styles were related to the strength of their social bonds with other females – Nice females were more likely to have strong social bonds than other females. Thus, niceness may ultimately be linked to females’ longevity and reproductive success.
The analyses of behavioral traits were supplemented by testing the baboons for levels of cortisol, a hormone associated with stress. The Loner females had much higher levels of cortisol than the Nice or Aloof females.
Silk’s research centers on the evolutionary processes that shape behavior and examines the value of relationships to females. Her work suggests that there are important parallels between humans and other primates.
“We know that some people are more likely to form social bonds than others, and the quality of social networks has important effects on health and life span. Baboons seem to be much the same,” said Silk. “We are not yet sure how deep these similarities are, but it seems likely that these kinds of close, supportive, stable relationships have played an important role in the lives of humans for millions of years.”
Joan Silk is a professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and an affiliated scientist with the Institute of Human Origins, which are both in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
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Learn more about the pros and cons of two significant propositions on this year’s Arizona ballot. Several debates between a supporter and an opponent of Propositions 204 and 121 will be held at Arizona State University’s Tempe and Mesa campuses next week.
Prop 204 – Quality Education and Jobs
6-7:30 p.m., MU Alumni Room (room 202), Tempe campus
Ann-Eve Pedersen, chair, Quality Education and Jobs Committee and President, Arizona Education Parent Network; Glenn Hamer, President and CEO, Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry; moderated by Leezie Kim, partners, Quarles and Brady Download Full Image
6-7:30 p.m., Cooley Ballroom, Polytechnic campus
Ann-Eve Pedersen, Chair, Quality Education and Jobs Committee and president, Arizona Education Parent Network;
Doug Ducey, Arizona state treasurer, chair of Vote No on 204; moderator TBD
Prop 121 – Open Elections/Open Government
6-7:30 p.m., MU Mohave Room (room 236) Tempe campus
Paul Johnson, chair, Arizona Open Government Coalition, former City of Phoenix mayor; Bill Montgomery, Maricopa County Attorney; moderated by Jennifer Holsman Tetreault, legal counsel, Rural/Metro Corporation.
The debates are free and open to the public.
For the Tempe campus debates, park in the visitor lot north of Apache Boulevard. Walk north to the Memorial Union (MU). Both rooms are located on the second floor. See the Tempe campus interactive map for more information on getting to ASU Tempe: http://www.asu.edu/map/interactive.
For the Polytechnic campus debate, parking is available in Lot 10. For directions to ASU’s Polytechnic campus, visit http://www.asu.edu/map/interactive/?campus=polytechnic. The Cooley Ballroom is in the building titled “UNION.”
Sharon Keeler
Sharon.Keeler@asu.edu
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