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Silent Discourse
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He especially hated when his own younger brother was the one to do it. Ever since their father had passed away, he had taken it upon himself to look after Kadar. He ensured to keep him away from dangerous missions, making excuses and pulling strings to keep him at a low rank.
The brothers ducked into the fortress's lower level, seeking out the infirmary. Malik was eased onto a bench as he awaited the healer's attention. Kadar left his older brother, returning to his own studies. Malik continued to stew in his own thoughts, repeating the whole sparring match piece by piece in his mind.
It was humiliating, to be beaten down every time even if he spent countless hours sneaking out of the house at night to practice. The healer motioned for him to remove his robe and Malik gingerly complied. The healer spoke as he gently prodded the new bruising on Malik's sides.
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Always to cripple with temporary pain and shock, but never striking a vital point. You should be thankful for his expertise. Malik scoffed, but remained silent. Be thankful for that selfish, arrogant perfectionist? He would rather dishonor the Creed than be grateful to that man, and he had been loyal to the Creed ever since he had been born into it some twenty two years ago. Unfortunately, so had his rival, born to a close comrade of his father.
It had been years since Malik had been sent on a mission with him, but the stories that he heard from others just reinforced this understanding. Other than that, I only see superficial bruising. Rest easy for a few days and-". The healer only sighed and began wrapping a bandage around his torso.
He knew that Malik would not comply with that little piece of advice, even if he followed the other care to the letter.
He stood slowly, muscles complaining loudly, as the healer finished his work. Malik drew his robes on delicately, securing his belt that denoted him as an Assassin in the ninth rank of the Brotherhood. Malik took his time walking down the road into the town from the fortress, not taking his usual cliff leaping route. It would be a number of days until he was well enough to perform at that level.
He soon found himself at the door to his family home, not surprised when he found it destitute of his younger brother. Kadar often stayed out until sunset training with his fellow third rank Assistants. Malik was constantly trying to teach him stealth tactics and discretion, but his younger brother was too enthralled with the prospect of the chase. Malik shook his head as he closed the door behind him, finally able to show how pained he was at his injuries in the privacy of his home. He hissed in a breath and pressed a palm to his side, limping to the chessboard set up in the corner of the room.
He sat himself gently onto the cushions there and continued the game he had started with himself the night before. It was not until after sunset that his brother slipped into the room, a sac of vegetables in his hand. Malik knew his little brother well but did not call him out on his bluff. I do not think I could stand, let alone chop and stir in my condition.
Kadar continued on into the kitchen and began building a fire under the stove. There was a while of silence between them as Kadar prepared their meal. It continued until a bowl of curry was wafted under Malik's nose. He took it gratefully as his brother sat on the cushions beside him.
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The silence burned on until Kadar quenched it. You are good enough with a blade to win against anyone else in his rank. I am subtle while he is loud. I do not agree with his methods, as you know, and I feel the need to put him into his place. His arrogance makes that quite hard to do so. That may have been true, but he still was one rank below the man and they were born in the same year.
Malik could not meet his brother's gaze. Silence reigned once more between the brothers as they ate.
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Talking of death was not uncommon among the Assassins, but they were not untouched by its cold reality and harsh repercussions. When Kadar spoke again, it was in a lighter tone, trying to lift his brother's gray mood. We can put out the flags and see who can collect them fastest. That prospect pulled a tentative smile to Malik's cheeks.
Just the suggestion made the situation all the more outrageous. You mean to play on my strengths. This is beyond childish winning and losing. His methods are dangerous. The younger's expression became stony. Malik knew it was a lot to ask, for his brother to stop looking up to that man. It still had to be done. Just In All Stories: Story Story Writer Forum Community. This is how Malik gets roped into being much more than rivals with an egotistical assassin.
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He would not yield just yet. There was one more move that he could pull. You have gone up in rank twice just in the past year. This struck Kadar and he reeled back. I only meant-" "I know what you meant, Kadar. Oh hey, so I thought I would try my hand at some altmal since I recently succumbed to it. I don't expect it to be very long, but you never know when it comes to my writing. Expect some smut later on, but I won't give it away in case it is a surprise!
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Assignment in Acrimony 3. Traverse in Torment 4. Information in Irritation 5. Unsubtle in Undertaking 6. Leibniz conceived of a lingua characteristica as a universal pictographic or ideographic alphabet of human thought, complemented by calculus ratiocinator and reflecting ratio embedded in Nature.
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The corollary is that, ultimately, the correspondence between primitive signs and the complex ideas for which they stand is natural, and not simply arbitrary or conventional. Yet the contemporary transference of Leibniz's dream into AI research or analytic philosophy of language has not brought us closer to realizing his project, even when the urgency of understanding the other is paramount for our.
Leibniz's project refers to the injunction of knowledge representation.
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Analytic philosophy presents language as a system of representations a priori distinguished from signs. The representational system presupposes a class of things represented that are not representations themselves, hence outside language and outside thought. A linguistic sign represents transparently or literally. On account of this, poetic language, which "represents" symbolically or indirectly via mediation, cannot be "objective" in describing "reality. Things function like signs--that is, the relationship is analogical and not strictly logical or identical.
For Deleuze, the outside as the dynamic field of forces in action approaching and traversing its own boundaries is "animated by…movements, folds and foldings that…make up an inside: Deleuze presents the logic of multiplicities functioning in accord with "a theory and practice of relations, of the and " Peirce's triadic, a-signifying semiotics. According to the logic of multiplicities, a diagram serves as a mediatory in-between symbol, "a third" ibid.
The diagram "acts as a relay" Deleuze A diagram, or a map, engenders the territory to which it is supposed to refer: Meanings are not given, but depend on signs entering "into the surface organization which ensures the resonance of two series" Deleuze Meaning is identified with the evolution of signs in a diagrammatic process called by Peirce "semiosis," so that "Essence is…the third term [that] complicates the sign and the meaning; It measures in each case their relation. For Deleuze, philosophers, writers and artists are semioticians and symptomatologists: As pertaining to diverse regimes of signs, communication is not limited to a verbal mode.
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{MIDDAYS W/ JAZZY MCBEE} DENZEL IS PASSING THE BATON !
Post on: April 24, 2018
FIND OUT WHO DENZEL IS “PASSING THE BATON” TO!
Last week Michael B. Jordan sat down alongside Denzel Washington where they were discussing creating new opportunities for African-Americans.
At the beginning of the discussion, Jordan began to reflect on the time film critics began calling him a ‘young Denzel Washington’ after his performance in Fruitvale Station.
“When someone says you’re like an idol”, Jordan said, “it’s like: Really? You see that in me? I’d only done that one movie, but then I started using it as motivation,” he said. “I wanted to pop up on Denzel’s radar. He’s the OG. If I could get recognition from him, I know i’, going down the right path, you know?”
Washington then chimed in ‘And here we are, Mike! Look like it’s working out already.
Later, the men started talking about creating opportunities for people of color and Washington explained that he is in the business of serving young people of color in our business. He then went on to say “That’s why I’m here! That’s why I’m still in the race. And i’m passing the baton. What most people don’t know is: When you pass the baton, you keep running behind the other runner, you don’t just stop. I’m like “make the turn, bring it home!” I like helping people, I want to see them do well”
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Campaigns set in the Defenders Universe use the HERO System rules and are played using the HERO System Fifth Edition Revised, Bestiary, Champions, and all books in the Ultimate Series (Ultimate Martial Artist, Ultimate Vehicle, etc.). Most books published for the Champions genre are applicable, and many are also used (varies depending on the campaign). Most questions concerning the standard rules can be answered by checking the Rules FAQ on the Hero Games website. Variations to the standard and optional rules are detailed below (the House Rules). Questions concerning any of the House Rules should be directed to Dust Raven.
Strength (STR) costs END each time it is used during a Phase rather than once per Phase. For example, if you are carrying a heavy weight, shove aside a door then punch someone, you spend END for each of these. Spending END to maintain a Grab is handled differently. The character spends END in the Phase he performs the Grab as usual, but only spends END on the Phases his target attempts to escape to maintain it. If the target does not attempt to escape, the character need only spend END for enough STR to lift him.
Skills, Perks & Talents
A character may use a Half-Phase Action and make an Acrobatics roll to increase his DCV in combat. If the roll is made, he gains a +1 DCV until the start of his next Phase.
Combat Skill Levels may be purchases for Mental Combat at the cost of 5 points each. Such CSLs may apply to OECV, DECV or damage as normal. DECV Levels may be purchases for 3 points each.
This campaign does not use the Optional Language Familiarity Chart for the purposes of determining how much a Language costs. All Languages are to be bought normally. However, characters can use the chart to understand Languages similar to ones they have purchased.
A Teamwork roll is only required to coordinate attacks if the attackers have not extensively trained together. Characters without the Teamwork Skill cannot coordinate attacks.
Characters with a mind sufficiently inhuman may buy Non-Human Mind (a Talent) to represent their inherent protection from mental powers that only work against a different class of minds. The cost is 10 points (Mental Defense 10 points, Not Versus Mental Powers Associated With The [Non-Human] Class Of Minds [-¼], Half Effect Versus Ego Attack [-½] plus +2 DECV, Not Versus Mental Powers Associated With The [Non-Human] Class Of Minds [-½]). A member of the Human class of minds has this Talent for free, but characters of other classes of mind to not get points back for not having it. See below for information about the classes of minds used in the Defenders Universe.
For Mental Powers, use the following classes of minds:
Human Includes Humans and most human-like creatures.
Animal >Most non-sentient creatures, almost always vertebrates.
Insect Includes most invertebrates.
Machine Any non-living, electrical device. Includes all AIs.
Alien A catch-all for anything not covered above. Includes some AIs.
Mental Powers can target anything, regardless of their associated class(es) of mind, so long as the target possesses an EGO Characteristic. However, targets belonging to a class of mind other than what the Mental Power is associated with receives a special defense bonus in the form of extra Mental Defense and a DECV bonus (see the Non-Human Mind Talent above). Machines, such as Vehicles, Computers (not including AIs), robot Automatons, electronic equipment and similar items may only be targeted with Mental Powers associated with the Machine class of minds.
Mental Powers may be purchased with an Adder called Unobtrusive for +15 points (+7 points for Mental Illusions). Targets of an Unobtrusive Mental Power will not be aware they were affected by it. It functions as if the mentalist has achieved +20 effect on his Effect Roll (+10 for Mental Illusions).
The Based On CON Limitation for Mental Powers has a value of -1 and does not include the need to apply the Power to PD or ED. PD (or ED) Applies (-1) is a separate Limitation.
Clairsentience can be used as a Targeting Sense for establishing LOS for Mental Powers if it is purchased in the following way:
Clairsentience must be defined as belonging to the Mental Sense Group
Clairsentience must be Targeting (+10 points) and affect the Mental Sense Group (+10 points).
As a result, the point of perception can be perceived by anyone with Mental Awareness and the character can be attacked with Mental Powers (and Powers bought BOECV) through the point of perception. Similarly, Clairsentience bought with the Targeting Adder can be used to establish LOS for Teleportation or the setting of Floating Fixed Locations.
Extra BODY or DEF for Entangles are not restricted, and may be in any proportion. The Limitations “No Defense” and “Entangle Has 1 BODY” may not be taken.
Healing is cumulative. The maximum can be increased the same as other Adjustment Powers. An exception is when defining Healing as “Simplified Healing” (5ER p. 187). Simplified Healing uses the standard rules regarding multiple uses of Healing on the same target.
Missile Deflection & Reflection can reflect attacks not directly aimed at the character for an additional +½ Advantage.
A character with Telekinesis may manipulate/hold a number of objects up to the character’s INT/5 simultaneously. The total mass of all objects must not exceed the TK STR. All objects manipulated as a group are done so as a single action. Otherwise different objects must be manipulated individually using separate actions. Lifting/Grabbing an object is an attack and uses an attack action (multiple objects/targets must be Grabbed individually as separate attacks), as does using an object as part of an attack. Other uses of TK use Zero-Phase or Half-Phase Actions.
Characters may buy Fixed Locations (or set Floating Fixed Locations) for objects in addition to locations. For example, a Fixed Location may be a specific playing card, a specific coin or a specific piece of jewelry.
Characters may purchase additional inches of Tunneling for 2 points each.
Power Modifiers & Frameworks
AVLD is +0 if the defense is just as common as the standard defense. For this purpose PD, ED, Resistant PD & Resistant ED are all considered to be equally common; Flash Defense, Mental Defense, Power Defense & the Resistant versions of each are equally common.
BOECV can be targeted using the attacker’s OECV versus the target’s DCV, or the attackers OCV versus the target’s DECV, instead of the OECV versus DECV. BOECV is a +1 Advantage if it applies versus Mental Defense. If the Power is only targeted with OECV or targets DECV, but uses the Power’s usual defenses, it is a +½ Advantage.
Delayed Effect is allowed. The maximum number of Powers a character may have prepared (not active is equal to INT/5. There is no limit to the number of Powers that may be active at the same time, only Powers prepared and ready for use using Delayed Effect. If a Limitation affects the character when the Delayed Effect Power is used (such as Gestures), then the value for that Limitation is doubled.
Elemental Controls must represent a single power with a variety of effects, rather than a number of individual powers with the same SFX.
Combat & Adventuring
An attack roll of a 3, 4 or 5 is considered a critical hit. On a roll of a 5, and the attack hits, all 1’s are counted as 2’s. On a roll of a 4, and the attack hits, all 1’s and 2’s are counted as 3’s. On a roll of a 3, the attack automatically hits and all 1’s, 2’s and 3’s are counted as 4’s. Any Standard Effect portion of an attack is not subject to critical hits.
A character may use the Snap Shot maneuver to activate/reactivate a Power (such as Desolidification or Invisibility) after attacking instead of ducking behind cover. This is an exception to the rule that a Power can only be turned on or off (once) during a Phase.
In extreme or dramatic circumstances, Player Characters (and master villains) may Push a Power for more than 10 Active Points. This is called an EGO Push. To EGO Push a Power the player declares how many Active Points he wishes to push his Power by, up to the Active Points in the Power. The character then makes an EGO roll with a -1 penalty for every 5 points over 10 he wishes to push. If the roll succeeds, the EGO Push is successful. If the roll is failed, the character only pushed by 10 points. In either case, the Active Points of the Power are temporarily reduced by the amount successfully pushed. The character will recover these points at the rate of 5 Active Points per Turn. In addition, until the Power is fully recovered, the character must make an EGO roll with a -1 penalty for every 5 points not yet recovered to use the Power. Just like a normal Push, the END cost is 1 END per point Pushed.
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Fair is fair EDITORIAL 07/07/2010
Fair is fair
Curiouser and curiouser it is that there is today talk from Malacañang of the probability of having the claimed Truth Commission probe not just former President Gloria Arroyo, but former Presidents Fidel Ramos and Joseph Estrada for alleged irregularities.
It was also just as curious that this suggestion came from Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales who, along with his bishops, has been noticeably actively meddling in politics, even as the bishops’ body had earlier claimed that the Catholic church will not be meddling in politics.
Still, it may be a good idea for the Davide-led Truth Commission to include all previous administrations, which should include the Cory Aquino administration and not just the Ramos and Estrada administrations, as the probe should show that the Cory administration was hardly as clean and sainted as the yellow media then portrayed it.
In the case of Estrada, the probe, if done objectively, would show that there were no irregularities committed by him or his Cabinet members, and would serve to clear him of all those allegations the anti-Erap media threw at him, in their bid to demonize him.... MORE
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Unprepared, undecided and unaware FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 07/07/2010
Noynoy Aquino and his team appear to be very unprepared for the presidency and a full administration organization, which is pretty strange, considering that he had all of a month and a half — more actually — to prepare appointees to his Cabinet, sub-Cabinet, bureaus and agencies, if only to hit the ground running from Day One. They appear to be hitting the ground...stumbling.
To this day, he has not even completed his Cabinet and he has not as yet decided whether to have a press secretary or a communications director to take charge of his media needs, or even have a press secretary that would be under the supervision of the communications director.
A secretary with Cabinet status functioning, not under the president but under a communications director?
There is also the unfilled Department of Interior and Local Government post, which he said he is taking on in a concurrent capacity. Lord knows how he can manage the DILG when he can’t even seem to manage the presidency, taking off three days after his official takeover of the presidency, and again, taking the weekend off..... MORE
Private detectives: A pre-nuptial priority for some in India FEATURE 07/07/2010
NEW DELHI — The wedding, to be celebrated in sumptuous Indian style, was due for June and everything was progressing smoothly until the groom suddenly lost interest.
Suspicious of an affair, the bride did what increasing numbers of anxious lovers and nervous families are doing in India: she rang a private detective to find out why.
In a country where nine out of 10 marriages are still arranged and modern social pressures are putting the institution under pressure, the industry of snooping on lovers has expanded fast over the last five years, say insiders.
In this case an investigation by the agency AMX — “marriage is a gamble,” says its Web site — revealed that the groom had recently discovered he was HIV positive.
The discovery was made by an attractive female undercover agent sent by the agency, who befriended the groom and found his medicine.
The wedding was eventually called off, like 20 percent of cases after a probe, AMX boss Baldev Kumar Puri told AFP.
“A pre-matrimonial investigation is your duty,” Puri said. “A post matrimonial investigation is much more costly.”
Puri and others, like Kunwar Vikram Singh, director of the New Delhi-based Lancers agency, are in a growth industry being driven by social changes and the way in which weddings are arranged.
In cities, families are relying increasingly on small advertisements in newspapers and Web sites or specialist dating agencies to find the perfect match for their children.... MORE
Good moves C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 07/07/2010
It is good that newly appointed Energy Secretary Rene Jose Almendras has deferred any action on the proposed sale of the government’s 10 percent stake in the multibillion-dollar Malampaya gas project. That gives one and all, including the old set of directors which failed to firm up a decision on the matter until it was unceremoniously changed toward the end of the term of the previous administration, to come out with their suggestions on how best to handle this issue. As Almendras himself correctly noted “...it is best that the board issues be resolved first then we will study how the Malampaya approach is going to be, or even ask the question: Do we really want to sell Malampaya if it’s generating revenues for the government today...” Which is how it should have been worked out in the first place. For if truth be told, the sale of assets such as the revenue rich Malampaya stake, considered one of the remaining “crown jewels” among government properties, should really be as deliberate as can be.... MORE
A-ha! HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 07/07/2010
Wang-wang stories have fed tabloid (and even broadsheet) headlines for a week, with reactionary law enforcement agencies taking President Aquino’s order to rid our highways of siren-equipped cars which have become more of a curse than a simple menace to law-abiding motorists, like you and me.
I have no problems with Noy’s order, however. If that’s what Noynoy wants, then he deserves to get it, as it is primarily the thrust of his inaugural speech. President Aquino only wanted to drive home a point, and there was no better way than to stir his crowd of common folk to an applause by providing a simple solution to a simple problem, which our law enforcement agencies could not seem to address, except perhaps for a short period of time when Erap was president (and Ping Lacson his Chief of Police), but it also led to Erap’s downfall when he intended to silence Chavit Singson’s siren, which proved to be louder than anybody else’s wang-wang during Gloria Arroyo’s ambitious drive to power..... MORE
Uh-oh SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 07/07/2010
Now that the excitement of “newness” has begun to ebb and the Aquino administration is buckling down to work, one can’t help but wonder about some early “slip-ups” and brow-raising moves that have reaped their share of reactions.
Philippine media, which have often been regarded by the objects of their eagle eyes as a living, breathing being that tend to bite and breathe noxious fumes, were the first to raise an “issue,” if one may call it that.
On President Noynoy’s first day at work, the Malacañang press corps got all confused over Memorandum Circular No. 1, which declared “all non-career executive service positions vacant as of 30 June 2010 and (extended) the services of contractual employees whose contracts expire on 30 June 2010.” This was then revised but still signed as Memorandum Circular No. 1, but now declared “all non-career executive officials occupying career executive service positions to continue to perform their duties and responsibilities and extending the services of certain contractual and or casual employees whose contracts expire on June 30.”.... MORE
Luisita massacre case closed—Palace By Aytch S. de la Cruz 07/07/2010
Ombudsman already cleared Noynoy—spokesman
Luisita massacre case closed—Palace
By Aytch S. de la Cruz
For a presidency that calls for closure — even through a special Truth Commission — this is easily claimed to have closure when it comes down to a case involving President Aquino and his Cojuangco relatives pertaining to Hacienda Luisita. To Aquino and his Palace, the hacienda case is a closed case that should not be questioned or investigated further.
Malacañang yesterday said the long-standing issue on the plight of the victims in the 2004 Hacienda Luisita massacre should be regarded as a “closed case” following the resolution supposedly executed by the Office of the Ombudsman which absolved then Tarlac congressman now President Aquino of any accountability in the massacre of the farmers.
This acquittal of Aquino must have been recent, since this issue was a campaign issue against him yet his camp never stated that then Senator Aquino had already been cleared by the Ombudsman.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda made this statement in response to a reporter’s question on how Aquino plans to address the continuing cry for justice of the relatives of the farmers who were killed in the outskirts of the Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac while fighting for their right to just compensation from the Cojuangco-Aquino clan.
“That (Hacienda Luisita massacre issue) has been investigated. There was already an Ombudsman report way, way back and it has already cleared then Congressman Benigno Aquino III. So it’s an old issue,” Lacierda said.
“That’s been a closed issue…that has been a campaign issue before and we have already answered that—that the charges against then Congressman Benigno Aquino were already dismissed,” he reiterated in an apparent bid to quickly end a discussion on the matter.
Lacierda also mentioned that the protracted land row dispute in the HLI between the farmers and the Cojuangco-Aquino clan will be addressed by newly-appointed Agrarian Reform Secretary Gil de los Reyes but he said the case will be treated just “like any other ordinary case.”... MORE
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Noynoy eyes line budgeting, slashed pork By Gerry Baldo 07/07/2010
President Aquino’s popularity could be short lived in the Senate and the House of Representatives, with his Liberal Party (LP) allies disclosing yesterday that the ruling party is now eyeing to itemize the budget and slash the pork barrel, euphemistically called Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), into something that is just enough for each congressional district.
Quezon Rep. Lorenzo “Erin” Tañada III, LP spokesman, said each department would have to depend on its budget and not on the congressional allocations from the pork of the lawmakers.
“It has always been mentioned during the campaign that President Aquino favors zero budgeting, which means each department would have to depend on its actual budget.”
Tañada explained that Aquino wants to find out if there is really a need to increase the budget.
“This is because we might say that we need a P1.6 trillion or P1.7 trillion budget, but that the reality is that we may just be needing only P1 trillion,” Tañada said, adding that a big cut in the pork barrel could drastically reduce the budget deficit.
Citing the recent decision of the G20 heads of government during their Toronto Summit on June 26 and 27, 2010 to reduce their deficits, Tañada said Aquino’s move would augur well with the move of the world’s biggest economies.
Miriam claims Villar already has Senate presidency in the bag By Angie M. Rosales 07/07/2010
By Angie M. Rosales
While senators engage in a psy-war to gain the needed numbers to seat a new Senate president when Congress opens late this month, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago said the support being contested is already in the bag for Sen. Manuel Villar Jr.
Santiago disputed conflicting claims on who among the senators will support to replace Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and gave hints that Senator Villar, one of the frontrunners, already has secured the commitment of 12 of them.
This, she said, was long before another aspirant, Liberal Party (LP) bet Sen. Francis Pangilinan, started courting senators for support.
“There are some who are mistaking their dream for the reality. They’ll wake up on July 26 (Congress’ opening),” the senator said in twitting Villar’s so-called rivals during a phone-patched interview with reporters.
Santiago, who already made earlier pronouncement on Villar securing the commitment of some of their peers, said immediately after the May 10 elections, where Villar lost in his bid for the presidency, he had managed to seal the support of 12 senators for the Senate leadership.
This would mean having 13 of the required votes, to include Villar himself, according to Santiago.... MORE
Comelec into cover-up on folder scam—ex-employee By Marie A. Surbano 07/07/2010
By Marie A. Surbano
Commission on Elections officials, evidently, even the Comelec commissioners, are allegedly into a cover-up of the P700-million budget translated into 1.8 million ballot secrecy folder scam, with their refusal to even put under suspension those poll officials mentioned in the poll body’s law department probe findings.
This was the charge aired by former Comelec employee Melchor Magdamo, the whistleblower, who has called for the immediate suspension of the people behind the botched P700-million secrecy folder acquisition during the May 10 polls.
Magdama said by not suspending the poll officers named in the probe report, there is no one to prevent the pieces of evidence in the case from possible “disappearances.”
Magdamo stressed that all those implicated in the controversy remain in position and it has become only too obvious that the Comelec high officials are planning a cover up.
He particularly cited Comelec executive director Jose Tolentino who he stated in his affidavit as the poll official who had approved the specifications of the ballot secrecy folder that was given to the winning supplier OTC Paper Supply.
“The mere fact that Tolentino (and others) are still there, it is obvious that there would be a cover up. They (their superiors) should have placed under preventive suspension all those involved to prevent them from getting the evidence…,” Magdamo said in Filipino during an interview at UNTV.
Magdamo noted that this is not the first time that evidence in cases in the Commission disappears.
A highly reliable source in the Comelec, told the Tribune that on top of the list of poll officials involved in the folder scam is Tolentino, who was also under fire during the congressional probe of the automated polls as well as the Congress during the presidential canvassing, for having issued last minute memos and changing rules, thus opening the auto polls open to electoral fraud.... MORE
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Expanding the scope of the so-called Truth Commission to include alleged irregularities and abuses committed during the Ramos and Estrada administrations could only muddle, if not weaken, the purpose of the body and affect its initial expressed purpose of giving closure to issues raised against former President Arroyo.
Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago also expressed pessimism over the competence of the fact-finding body under the helm of former Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. in taking up unresolved cases supposedly committed in the last three adminis-trations.
“That is justified under the circumstances but it might have a problem building up a case or finding evidence to sustain the charges against (former) President Arroyo. We might be asking too much from it,” she said in a phone-patched interview with Senate reporters.
Some church leaders have urged Malacañang to expand the mandate of the body and not focus solely on Arroyo but to include past presidents.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said the Palace was open to this idea but clarified that it is up to Davide to decide on this matter given his authority to oversee the commission.
“For me, the magnitude of the task makes it impossible. You’re talking the presidency. There are so many layers of bureaucracy that insulates the president. So it’s very hard to prove that the (former) president was first liable for an official act of the State. That’s why if the investigation against all other prior presidents are conducted at the same time as the investigation against (former) President Arroyo, that is the best way to dilute the limited resources of government and in effect, stymie the proceedings,” she pointed out.... MORE
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Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo defended yesterday his directive to extend the terms of 21 political diplomats appointed by former President Arroyo, saying there is nothing irregular and illegal about it.
In a media interview, Romulo said the extension of terms of political envoys has been a common practice by previous presidents such as Corazon Aquino, Fidel Ramos and Joseph Estrada.
“During the time of transition from President Ramos to President Estrada, they were extended for six months from July 1 to Dec. 31. During Cory’s time, they were also extended,” Romulo was quoted as saying.
Under the Constitution, the President has the power to appoint or re-appoint officials and diplomats, but not extend their terms and, therefore, a Commission on Appointments confirmation is needed.
In a separate interview with the same network, former congressman Apolinario Lozada, who used to be a career diplomat, branded as “questionable” the extension of the envoys.
Lozada pointed out that political diplomats cease to represent the Philippines once the President who appointed them steps down. “They aren’t representatives of (President) Noynoy (Aquino). That’s illegal,” Lozada said.
He added that the envoys should have tendered their courtesy resignation on or before June 30 and turned over the operations of the embassies to their deputies.
Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. said in a statement that he and Romulo have jointly recommended to Aquino to allow a three-month extension of the terms of the ambassadors, whose terms were deemed to have ended with that of Arroyo on June 30. If approved, the terms of 21 ambassadors should expire on Sept. 30.... MORE
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Cod Army Swimming Upstream
Posted by Ian | Apr 8, 2011 | Latest | 3
Like a moth to the flame, we are often drawn to commenting on the shadowy underbelly of football culture. Whether because it is under-reported, overlooked, or generally swept aside, issues of football finance, supporter tension over club directives, or the vagaries of rules administration provide ample fodder for analysis and debate. A regular focus on some of these more unsightly aspects of the football world typically can be joyless and as frustrating as surmising just which entity owns Leeds United.
Sherlock Holmes has been on that case for some time now, but he might have already given up and told Watson it’s time to depart for Reichenbach Falls.
Instead, let’s take time out to appreciate a non-league club reaching heights never before seen since its founding over one hundred years ago. As with practically all histories of local clubs on the fringes, there are financial disintegrations, glory days and dark roads, but it’s refreshing to look upon what’s happening at Fleetwood Town and appreciate what it has accomplished in a few short years. Still in the reckoning for promotion playoffs in this year’s Conference National, the Cod Army might end the campaign enjoying something it could never have imagined–playing in the Football League.
The heyday of the original Fleetwood FC–established in 1908–were the interwar years when it played in the old Lancaster Combination League. A league championship in 1924 followed by four cups through the 1920s and 1930s gave way to rather middling times in the Northern Premier League until the 1971 NPL Challenge Cup victory over Macclesfield Town. Following that, the club endured a few rock-bottom finishes in the Northern Premier until a winding up order over past debts to Inland Revenue shuttered the club in 1976. The Lancashire club’s eroding financial situation mirrored that of its seaport town throughout the 1960s and 1970s owing to Cod Wars between the United Kingdom and Iceland that stifled the local economy. After the liquidation of Fleetwood FC in 1976, another club comprising most of the original squad reformed in 1977 in the Cheshire League, which had merged with Lancaster Combination.
This phoenix club eventually flew around the Northern Premier and its Division North for a spell before having its wings clipped due to another liquidation in 1996. During this period, Fleetwood Town encountered its closest chance at greatness–a date with Halesowen at Wembley for the 1985 FA Vase Final. Unfortunately for the Cod Army, this was Halesowen during its run of three FA Vase Finals in four years, and the Yelz won 3-1. Following this, continual financial woes–the town of Fleetwood still having not recovered from the loss of its once vibrant fishing industry–left Fleetwood Town unable to compete or even keep its Highbury Stadium in a somewhat safe condition, and this club also closed its doors.
Reforming a year later as Fleetwood Wanderers, local businessman and club chairman Jim Betmead brought the club back to life and tried to keep this version going financially by having supporters contribute a pound a week through a direct debit club and having the club play under a sponsorship deal as Fleetwood Freeport–a shopping outlet centre–for five years. Finally with a bit of dosh, Fleetwood Freeport were able to earn promotion up to the North West Counties First Division and get back in the habit of winning trophies like its interwar years. When Betmead stepped aside as chair and his manager Mick Hoyle stepped in during a rough 2001/2002 season, though, “Cod Heads” likely thought this club would fold up as well. The Freeport deal ended, and the club (back to playing as Fleetwood Town) were back to struggling in the NWC First. Hoyle appointed former Accrington Stanley and current Bamber Bridge manager Tony Greenwood in his place and later sold the club to young businessman Andy Pilley.
This duo began Fleetwood Town’s swift rise from nearly being just another non-league memory to now sitting on the precipice of League Two. Greenwood’s management skills and Pilley’s money from his energy brokerage backed the club to promotions through the NWC up to the Conference North in 2008. With the club languishing at the bottom of the Conference North–perhaps finally reaching its level after such a swift ascendancy–Greenwood was sacked in favor of Burnley youth team coach Micky Mellon, who steadied the side and managed a respectable eighth-placed finish. In the 2009/2010 season, the Fishermen appeared set for another promotion up to the Conference National as champions of the North, but when Farlsey Celtic were disbanded without completing that season, Fleetwood Town lost the 3 points it had taken over the side, which gifted Southport with the Conference North championship. Thankfully for Mellon and Pilley–who by this point had invested well over £1 million for upgrades to Highbury Stadium to avoid any ground grading issues in the upper leagues–Fleetwood Town defeated Alfreton in the promotion playoffs and secured the Cod Army’s highest ever promotion in any of its variations.
Now sitting just within the playoff positions of Conference National, FTFC have five matches to hold off Kidderminster for the chance to compete in the Football League next season. The story is not completely peaches and cream, however, as Pilley has become a bit of a controversial figure in regard to company practices with his Business Energy Solutions firm. Having made his money as an independent energy trader with BES–a company founded by himself and his sister after US firm Enron imploded and cost Pilley his job–Pilley’s already had one legal entanglement over his company’s slightly slime-ball tactics which he lost and BES now looks set to face a class action suit over similar shady contract dealings. If his continuing legal entanglements either drain his chequebook or force him to devote less attention to Fleetwood Town when it’s nearing an impossible dream, might there be a third liquidation for Cod Heads to stomach?
Wait–this was supposed to be an uplifting piece about a non-league side living the dream and returning glory back to a town that’s watch its neighbor Blackpool enjoy being everyone’s second favourite Premiership side. It still can be, as the bit of ugliness is about Pilley’s non-football business practices and hasn’t touched the club yet. At least, it hasn’t stopped Pilley from continued investment in the club’s Highbury Stadium, as work on the £4 million East Stand is set to be complete in a few days (per the club’s website clock) to get the grounds ready for Football League grading requirements.
For those supporters of Fleetwood Town, these are indeed heady times–a potential to pack Highbury even tighter for the first sight of league football ever at the town of many lighthouses. Let’s hope that Cinderella does indeed have a chance to make it to the ball with Pilley correcting BES contract dealings and resolving past mistakes. Otherwise, there might return that all too-familiar smell of rotting cod in Fleetwood.
Hey, at least most of it is positive.
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John Beech on April 9, 2011 at 1:39 pm
Pilley owns another Fleetwood sponsor – Commercial Power – who have also featured in the Daily Mail over allegations of mis-selling: Power price rogues cost me my shop, says Plymouth man. More than ‘a bit of ugliness’ I would have thought – a bit of a theme of ugliness seems more like it to me.
I wonder how Fleetwood (population 27,000, and 9 miles from Premier League Blackpool) might hope to survive in the Football League without the ‘financial doping’ that their ‘benefactor’ currently provides.
Jason on April 9, 2011 at 8:10 pm
Alas, I tried to keep a grin on this one, but Pilley does come across as a slime with respect to the BES/Commercial Power issue over bilking customers with their contracts. And this could very well turn into a sad tale for Fleetwood if his legal disputes sour. This rise might indeed be fleeting/sorry, had to.
codfriend on August 2, 2011 at 3:17 pm
the lengths some people will go to try and satisfy their jelousy of a great club and benefactor–if you want a fuel rogue to chafe at,try shell and b.p or even british gas
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Woman finds kind Singaporean soldier who carried her nephew and escorted her family to the National Day preview
As Benita Lin's post on her experience went viral, the soldier, CPT Tan Yan Yang himself saw it and thanked Ms Lin in turn.
Facebook screengrab/ Benita Lin
Singapore—To many people, little acts of kindness can go a very long way. For one tired woman and her family, this was obviously the case. She showed her gratefulness to a kind Singaporean soldier who went out of his way to show them the way to the National Day preview on Saturday, July 13, when they had gotten lost.
Not only did the young man actually take Facebook user Benita Lin and her family there—and she described it as a long walk—he also carried her little nephew, who may be a toddler, but, as Ms Lin wrote, “who is not exactly very light I must add LOL.”
Ms Lin’s gratefully told her story on Facebook on Sunday, July 14, along with a photo of the young soldier carrying her small nephew. The soldier’s back is to the camera, and they never caught his full name, but as Ms Lin’s post went viral, the soldier ended up commenting on her post himself.
Benita Lin’s story
Ms Lin wrote that on Saturday, “my family and I went down to the Padang for the NE show.”
Long story ahead, but just wanted to share this story and act of kindness from yesterday!So yesterday, my family and I…
Posted by Benita Lin on Sunday, July 14, 2019
While she had used Google maps to find their way, they ended up at Esplanade MRT station and walked towards the Padang. They saw some soldiers at Raffles Avenue and asked for instructions to get to the show, which is when they found out that they were still a good distance away.
Ms Lin wrote, “Was honestly a little sian already as it was just me with my parents, sis-in-law’s parents, uncle, and 4- and 2-year old niece and nephew, and as anyone who knows me can attest, my sense of direction honestly sucks lol so I already felt bad for leading the group the wrong way.”
But the kind soldier, fearing the family would get lost, offered to walk them to the venue.
Ms Lin continued, “That in itself was already a very kind act as he went out of his way to walk us (a very long walk) there.”
And, if that were not enough, he also ended up carrying her nephew so that Ms Lin’s mother would not have to bear the boy’s weight on the long walk.
“But what impressed us most was when he even helped my mom carry Elijah (who is not exactly very light I must add LOL) all the way to the right entrance.”
She and her family were gratified for his kindness and wanted to thank him personally, tagging the Army’s Facebook account for help.
“Just wanted to commend this dude for going the extra mile to help my family! Believe he is from Guards, and his name according to his tag is YY Tan. Unfortunately, don’t have a picture of him from the front and also do not know his ranking (though a friend from Guards who recognises his initials says he might be an OC?)
The Singapore Army Hopefully you’ll be able to find out this guy’s identity, and help convey our thanks and gratitude!”
Netizens were happy to hear about the young man’s kindness.
The soldier, whose name turned out to be CPT Tan Yan Yang, ended up thanking Ms Lin in turn.
Ms Lin’s post has been shared hundreds of times, and even the Facebook page NDP show told the story, writing, “Thank you for being such an inspiration.”
/ TISG
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Blackenstein
Director: William A. Levey
Stars: John Hart, Ivory Stone, Joe De Sue, Roosevelt Jackson, Andrea King, Nick Bolin, Karin Lind, Yvonne Robinson, Bob Brophy, Liz Renay, Gerald Soucie, Beverley Haggerty, Daniel Fauré, Andy-C, Cardella De Milo
Genre: Horror, Trash
Rating: 3 (from 1 vote)
Review: Dr Winifred Walker (Ivory Stone) arrives at the large mansion house of Dr Stein (John Hart) with a proposition: can he, by any chance, save her boyfriend Eddie (Joe De Sue)? He is currently lying in a hospital bed having to put up with the unwelcome company of one of the male nurses who torments and insults him. The reason he is in hospital is that he was a soldier in the Vietnam War until recently he stepped on a landmine and his limbs were blown off; apparently there's no hope for him, but Winifred knows better as Stein has been working miracles in transplant surgery...
After the success of Blacula, the blaxploitation genre found that it could churn out more than simple rip-offs of gangster thrillers - it could throw up some rip-offs of other films as well, specifically horror movies. And so, with crushing inevitability, the black Dracula was followed by the black Frankenstein in this tiny budget example of how to cash in without much imagination, or indeed faith to the source. The title character is not even the scientist, as Hart is unmistakably a white man so immediately the purists who will point out that Frankenstein is not the monster but the creator will be offended.
Yes, the monster is supposed to be Blackenstein yet rather than be an awful warning against meddling in God's domain as you might expect from Mary Shelley's novel, he's pretty much a prototype slasher movie villain who roams the night looking for victims to unconvincingly disembowel. Poor old Eddie is the recipient of Stein's breakthrough surgery, which in spite of being essentially transplant based involves the electrical equipment used by Colin Clive in the thirties version - it's the actual bits and pieces, too, also seen in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein around the same time.
So far so good, you might think, but there are complications when Winifred rejects the romantic advances of Stein's assistant Malcolmb (with a "B"!) and he doesn't take it very well. So badly, in fact that he poisons the DNA serum that is to help out Eddie in his road to recovery, turning him into the African-American equivalent of Boris Karloff's classic monster complete with a flat-top afro. No very good explanation for this turn of events is offered, although one of Dr Stein's other patients has a stripy leg and a tendency to go a bit mad, something he blames somehow on the jungle.
Which leads us to the sequences where the creature is on the rampage, and this must be the most deliberately-paced killing spree in movie history. Honestly, so slow is Blackenstein that he makes Lon Chaney Jr's Mummy look like Gamera, and it takes him about five minutes to walk down the average corridor. When he sets out to murder the male nurse, you have to assume that by the time he approaches him it's the next night, and the only reason he manages to catch up with any of his victims is because they stand totally still as he lumbers about. It would be funny if it wasn't so draining, and watching the monster shuffle his way through badly lit sets for what seems like an hour will have many dozing off long before the end. If you want your trash to be fun, then look elsewhere: a few cheap laughs, notably not from the comedian who shows up to interrupt proceedings, are all this can muster. Music by Lou Frohman.
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Lucila Dominguez honored at 9th annual Facing Race Ambassador Awards
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Lucila Dominguez knows that change doesn’t come easily. Sometimes it requires personal sacrifice, as demonstrated by her work with CTUL, the Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (Center for Workers United in the Struggle). In fact, Lucila’s first volunteer act with CTUL was a 12-day hunger strike outside a major food retailer to protest unfair wages and working conditions. She continued to volunteer with CTUL until 2014, when she joined staff as a lead organizer, fighting for the rights of low-wage immigrant Latino workers.
Prior to CTUL, Lucila worked a number of retail cleaning jobs, where she experienced sub-poverty wages, wage theft, extreme workloads and poor working conditions. “For years, I moved from job to job, trying to find a place that treated workers fairly. But at each job, I’d find the same injustices,” says Lucila. “So instead of changing jobs, I decided I would try to change the system. I would try to change the workplace.”
Lucila contacted CTUL regarding unpaid wages from two cleaning companies. CTUL helped Lucila and her co-workers recover thousands of dollars in unpaid wages and reimbursement for cleaning supplies they’d been forced to purchase with their sub-poverty wages. The effort also brought about policy changes that prevent the companies from stealing wages from workers in the future.
Wage theft is a significant problem for many immigrant workers in Minnesota, particularly in the cleaning industry. People come to CTUL every week with reports ranging from employers requiring “ghost” timecards to avoid overtime pay to employers who simply fail to pay.
“Immigrant workers don’t always know their rights,” explains Lucila. “They are afraid to organize and confront their employers about stolen wages and unsafe working conditions. They need their jobs to survive.”
As the main organizer of CTUL’s Workplace Rights Defenders Program, Lucila educates workers about their rights and partners with them to address problems with their employers. Through her efforts–and the efforts of hundreds of low-wage Latino workers–CTUL has recovered more than $1.3 million in stolen wages and has succeeded in getting 31 companies to change policies that violate workplace law. These victories have resulted in on-the-job improvements for more than 5,000 low-wage workers, including raises that bring an estimated $3.9 million dollars each year to the poorest communities in the Twin Cities.
“Through the Workplace Rights Defenders Program, we help workers find their voices,” says Lucila. “They come to know that they have the right to ask their employers for workplaces that are safer and more equitable.”
Lucila is currently leading a committee of low-wage Latino workers who are documenting workplace abuses in the Twin Cities. This group will compile data and publish a report in fall 2015, which they plan to share with elected officials, corporations and the community. “The report will come directly from workers who deal with injustice every day,” says Lucila. “The workers, the experts on this topic, will be the ones asking for changes in employment laws and policies.”
Outside of her work at CTUL, Lucila is also helps lead the Mesa Latina campaign at the Minnesota Legislature, working to pass a bill that would allow people to obtain drivers licenses regardless of immigration status. Without the ability to get legal drivers licenses, undocumented workers are forced to rely on public transportation, which limits access to employment and can add many hours of commuting time each week.
“Being part of the struggle to change all of this makes me feel powerful,” says Lucila. “I now know that together, with many others, I can help make a change.”
Jeff Achen
Jeff was a television, print, and digital reporter from 1999 until 2009. He has worked extensively in the nonprofit and journalism communities of the Twin Cities since 2006, serving as a digital strategist for Minnesota Philanthropy Partners and GiveMN.org from 2010 until 2014. Jeff is an active video producer, photographer and owner of CallSign51, a creative services company specializing in video production and photography. He is a longstanding member of the Society of Professional Journalists and former Minnesota Pro Chapter board member. Additionally, he is a Navy veteran and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Nepal).
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CLEAR CUT are Don Allan and his son Darren Anthony from Leeds. Don started his music career at the early age of 11 playing classical guitar attending private lessons for 4 shillings a week. In his early teens Don made his first debut appearance on stage in a pop band called “The Prey”, then on to another band called “The Assassins”. Several bands later he found his true love of music after visiting a Country Music night at a local pub when he saw a local artist Hank Rodgers performing. Shortly after he went to see a Duo called Pat & Rodger Johns from Doncaster were he realised that this was the type of music he wanted to perform.
1974 saw him join his first country music band named “Wild Country” where they had successful tours of England and Germany performing at American bases and clubs. The late 1970’s saw the band “Nightrider” formed with the former drummer from Wild Country. Nightrider went on to be very successful around the British Country Music scene and even made the finals at the sadly missed Silk Cut Festival at Wembley.
Norwood Duo was formed shortly after with drummer Tim Delaney. Norwood travelled up and down the UK performing at country venues and working men’s clubs, supporting several artistes including Bernard Manning & Karl Denver.
In 1988 Don started his singing career, singing lead vocals and playing guitar whilst his young daughter, Donna (aged 14) played bass guitar and harmonised. Their first gig together was a charity event in Halifax where they shared the bill with a young singer called Becky Haley and her sister Joanne, with Smokey Mountain Pete (Becky & Joanne from The Haleys and Pete from Wrangler). 12 months later, 10 year old son Darren found that he wanted to join the musical family…. Wanting to play drums!
Darren was gently persuaded to learn a less noisy instrument and decided to take up playing his dad’s casio keyboard instead. After learning three chords, Darren was introduced to the Country music club scene performing one set a night at weekends, playing keyboard and tambourine with his dad and sister Donna in a trio called the Don Allan Family Band or Daband.
Aged 16, Daughter Donna decided to retire from music and explore other careers which meant Don had to go solo. Darren joined him on several weekends, depending on school commitments.
In 1994, aged 16 Darren left school and joined his first professional four piece band “Sundown” with his dad Don. Sundown toured around the UK for four years collecting awards from several clubs and backing different artistes including American singer Lola Cagle, Kris Kelly and X factor/Fame Academy star Carolyne Pool (Good). Sundown performed at several large festivals, Butlins/Pontins holiday camps and even in front of Royalty. In 1998 Sundown disbanded.
August 1998 saw the birth of the brand new duo “Clear Cut”. With Don singing Lead vocals, playing lead guitar, Spanish guitar, mandolin and Darren playing keyboards, piano accordion, guitar and mandolin.
With over 60 years of country music experience between them, Don and Darren try and cater for all country music audiences covering songs from Don Williams, Garth Brooks, Zac Brown Band, Desert Rose Band, Merle Haggard, Don Gibson, Eddie Raven, Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, Toby Keith, The Mavericks, Bob Wills, Alan Jackson plus more
In 2008 Clear Cut celebrated their 10th anniversary, so to celebrate this they released the album “Decade” which was recorded and produced at their studio. Songs on the album covered different styles of country music from past years. A new album quickly followed called "Classics" which, as the name implies, covers classic songs from popular artistes.
Clear Cut have also been fortunate enough to run their own Country Music Club with help from wife/mum Maureen and friends in Leeds. The Clear Cut Country Music Club at the Leeds Anglers Club runs once a month, trying to bring the best in country music to the Yorkshire area.
In June 2011, Darren from Clear Cut did a charity bike ride with Darren Busby and friends from Lands End to John O’Groats raising money for Cancer Research, Marie Curie Cancer Care and the NACC. These 3 charities are very close to Clear Cuts hearts. Collecting money at gigs they raised over £19,000.00.
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Cattle Rustling in Northern & Eastern Uganda
Who did it and Why?
The cattle rustling that occurred in West Nile, Acholi, Lango, Teso, Bugisu, Sebei and Pallisa between 1986 and 1990 will go down as one of the most painful chapters in the history of the country. Over the centuries, and even during the colonial times, nothing of that scale of magnitude and severity had ever occurred. Generally, it is claimed that the Karamojong did it. But the scale of the problem and the fact that Karamoja is today not overflowing with cattle seems to discount that theory.
It is natural and perhaps, even logical for Ugandans to ask some questions about this episode in our history. A number of questions beg to be answered.
Who actually organized the rustling?
If it is the Karamonjong, how did they transport cattle hundreds of kilometers from places like Arua to Moroto?
How did the Karamonjong elude the pervasive NRM/A security apparatus?
What did the Karamonjong do with the millions of heads of cattle? Traditionally, they do not sell cattle for cash. If they sold the cattle, what did they do with all that cash?
Was the government aware that the rustling was happening?
If the government was aware of it why did they not intervene?
Did the rustlers know what the long-term impact of taking all cattle would be?
Was this a random occurrence or was it a well-organized scheme?
Can anyone be held accountable for failing to stop the rustling?
Does the international community really care about such things?
These questions will puzzle Ugandan historians for many years. We know some facts for sure and they include:
100&percent; of all the cattle that existed in the areas affected were removed. The crime was systematic, thorough and extremely well-organized.
The removal did not only deprive the victims of the nutritional value of cattle, but it impacted a means for facilitating agricultural production. Thus putting the affected people on the path to dependency on charity and government sympathy.
Agricultural production (particularly cash-crop growth) has dropped dramatically in the affected areas.
The number of cattle in Karamoja is essentially the same as what was there before the rustling occurred.
The NRM regime’s response to the problem was long after all the cattle were gone. The response was a restocking program. As would be expected, the process was riddled with corruption. It is not clear how much of the restocking financing actually reached the affected people. Besides, how could such a program be deemed successful, when 1.6 million affected people are in internally displaced people (IDP) camps. So this raises yet another question, who pocketed the restocking funds which were allocated to IDP residents?
The best we can hope for under these circumstances is to start from scratch and move forward. May the good Lord help us to carry our burdens with humility. Hopefully, we shall see salvation in heaven.
Long live the victims of cattle rustling. Long live Mama miria Kalule Obote. Long live UPC.
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Bomb threat to Carmike Cinemas chain over 'Expendables 2' prompts police searches nationwide
Friday Aug 17, 2012 10:47 AM
WLEX
Carmike Cinemas in Lexington, Kentucky, were closed briefly due to a bomb threat Friday, but police gave the all-clear after a search turned up no explosives.
By NBC News staff
Law enforcement agencies across the country are responding to a bomb threat aimed at Columbus, Ga.-based Carmike Cinemas, which has 236 theaters in 35 states.
The threat was aimed at all the theaters showing "The Expendables 2," Carmike spokesman Terrell Mayton told NBC News.
The threat was left in a phone message at the Carmike Cinema's corporate office Friday morning by a person identfying himself as a theater vendor, Mayton said.
The theater chain swiftly coordinated with local law-enforcement agencies, he said. None of the theaters was open for the day yet and heightened security measures will remain in place as they show movies, Mayton said.
"We're getting lots of calls and emails of 'all-clear,'" he said.
The Wilmington, N.C., Police Department cleared the scene on Cinema Drive after investigating a bomb threat, NBC station WECT reported. Officers walked through the building with employees, looking for anything suspicious. They did not find anything and reopened a road shut down during the investigation.
“Really the only prudent thing is to do the search. …Nothing was found,” police spokeswoman Lucy Crockett told the Wilmington Star News.
Bomb-sniffing dogs searched the Carmike theaters in Lexington, Ky., but no explosives were found, NBC station WLEX confirmed.
NBCChicago.com showed aerial video of law enforcement agencies setting up outside a theater in Morris, Ill., southwest of Chicago.
On Thursday, Columbus police arrested an armed man who tried to sneak into a Carmike Cinemas theater pre-screening of “Expendables 2.” Joshua L. Vardeman, 23, faces three misdemeanor charges, according to the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.
A federal investigator told NBC News the gunman and the bomb threat appear unrelated.
“Expendables 2,” which opened Friday, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger star in a sequel about bad-ass geezers with Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Randy Couture, Terry Crews and Bruce Willis. In this one, the crew reunites for what they think is an easy paycheck, but when one of the team is murdered on the job, the quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory.
Review: “The Expendables 2”
This story includes reporting by NBC News' chief justice correspondent Pete Williams and senior writer Jim Gold.
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Extent Of Territory Under Consolidated Government Too Large To Preserve Liberty Or Protect Property
George Clinton, Governor of New York, was an adversary of the Constitution. He composed several letters under the nome de plume “CATO. ” This essay is from the third letter of “Cato,” The New-York Journal of October 25, 1787.
. . . The recital, or premises on which the new form of government is erected, declares a consolidation or union of all the thirteen parts, or states, into one great whole, under the form of the United States, for all the various and important purposes therein set forth. But whoever seriously considers the immense extent of territory comprehended within the limits of the United States, together with the variety of its climates, productions, and commerce, the difference of extent, and number of inhabitants in all; the dissimilitude of interest, morals, and politics, in almost every one, will receive it as an intuitive truth, that a consolidated republican form of government therein, can never form a perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to you and your posterity, for to these objects it must be directed. This unkindred legislature therefore, composed of interests opposite and dissimilar in their nature, will in its exercise, emphatically be like a house divided against itself.
The governments of Europe have taken their limits and form from adventitious circumstances, and nothing can be argued on the motive of agreement from them; but these adventitious political principles have nevertheless produced effects that have attracted the attention of philosophy, which have established axioms in the science of politics therefrom, as irrefragable as any in Euclid. It is natural, says Montesquieu, to a republic to have only a small territory, otherwise it cannot long subsist: in a large one, there are men of large fortunes, and consequently of less moderation; there are too great deposits to trust in the hands of a single subject, an ambitious person soon becomes sensible that he may be happy, great, and glorious by oppressing his fellow citizens, and that he might raise himself to grandeur, on the ruins of his country. In large republics, the public good is sacrificed to a thousand views, in a small one, the interest of the public is easily perceived, better understood, and more within the reach of every citizen; abuses have a less extent, and of course are less protected. He also shows you, that the duration of the republic of Sparta was owing to its having continued with the same extent of territory after all its wars; and that the ambition of Athens and Lacedemon to command and direct the union, lost them their liberties, and gave them a monarchy.
From this picture, what can you promise yourselves, on the score of consolidation of the United States into one government? Impracticability in the just exercise of it, your freedom insecure, even this form of government limited in its continuance, the employments of your country disposed of to the opulent, to whose contumely you will continually be an object. You must risk much, by indispensably placing trusts of the greatest magnitude, into the hands of individuals whose ambition for power, and aggrandizement, will oppress and grind you. Where, from the vast extent of your territory, and the complication of interests, the science of government will become intricate and perplexed, and too mysterious for you to understand and observe; and by which you are to be conducted into a monarchy, either limited or despotic; the latter, Mr. Locke remarks, is a government derived from neither nature nor compact.
Political liberty, the great Montesquieu again observes, consists in security, or at least in the opinion we have of security; and this security, therefore, or the opinion, is best obtained in moderate governments, where the mildness of the laws, and the equality of the manners, beget a confidence in the people, which produces this security, or the opinion. This moderation in governments depends in a great measure on their limits, connected with their political distribution.
The extent of many of the states of the Union, is at this time almost too great for the superintendence of a republican form of government, and must one day or other revolve into more vigorous ones, or by separation be reduced into smaller and more useful, as well as moderate ones. You have already observed the feeble efforts of Massachusetts against their insurgents; with what difficulty did they quell that insurrection; and is not the province of Maine at this moment on the eve of separation from her? The reason of these things is, that for the security of the property of the community - in which expressive term Mr. Locke makes life, liberty, and estate, to consist the wheels of a republic are necessarily slow in their operation. Hence, in large free republics, the evil sometimes is not only begun, but almost completed, before they are in a situation to turn the current into a contrary progression. The extremes are also too remote from the usual seat of government, and the laws, therefore, too feeble to afford protection to all its parts, and insure domestic tranquility without the aid of another principle. If, therefore, this state [New York], and that of North Carolina, had an army under their control, they never would have lost Vermont, and Frankland, nor the state of Massachusetts suffered an insurrection, or the dismemberment of her fairest district; but the exercise of a principle which would have prevented these things, if we may believe the experience of ages, would have ended in the destruction of their liberties.
Will this consolidated republic, if established, in its exercise beget such confidence and compliance, among the citizens of these states, as to do without the aid of a standing army? I deny that it will. The malcontents in each state, who will not be a few, nor the least important, will be exciting factions against it. The fear of a dismemberment of some of its parts, and the necessity to enforce the execution Of revenue laws (a fruitful source of oppression) on the extremes and in the other districts of the government, will incidentally and necessarily require a permanent force, to be kept on foot. Will not political security, and even the opinion of it, be extinguished? Can mildness and moderation exist in a government where the primary incident in its exercise must be force? Will not violence destroy confidence, and can equality subsist where the extent, policy, and practice of it will naturally lead to make odious distinctions among citizens?
The people who may compose this national legislature from the southern states, in which, from the mildness of the climate, the fertility of the soil, and the value of its productions, wealth is rapidly acquired, and where the same causes naturally lead to luxury, dissipation, and a passion for aristocratic distinction; where slavery is encouraged, and liberty of course less respected and protected; who know not what it is to acquire property by their own toil, nor to economize with the savings of industry - will these men, therefore, be as tenacious of the liberties and interests of the more northern states, where freedom, independence, industry, equality and frugality are natural to the climate and soil, as men who are your own citizens, legislating in your own state, under your inspection, and whose manners and fortunes bear a more equal resemblance to your own?
It may be suggested, in answer to this, that whoever is a citizen of one state is a citizen of each, and that therefore he will be as interested in the happiness and interest of all, as the one he is delegated from. But the argument is fallacious, and, whoever has attended to the history of mankind, and the principles which bind them together as parents, citizens, or men, will readily perceive it. These principles are, in their exercise, like a pebble cast on the calm surface of a river - the circles begin in the center, and are small, active and forcible, but as they depart from that point, they lose their force, and vanish into calmness.
The strongest principle of union resides within our domestic walls. The ties of the parent exceed that of any other. As we depart from home, the next general principle of union is amongst citizens of the same state, where acquaintance, habits, and fortunes, nourish affection, and attachment. Enlarge the circle still further, and, as citizens of different states, though we acknowledge the same national denomination, we lose in the ties of acquaintance, habits, and fortunes, and thus by degrees we lessen in our attachments, till, at length, we no more than acknowledge a sameness of species. Is it, therefore, from certainty like this, reasonable to believe, that inhabitants of Georgia, or New Hampshire, will have the same obligations towards you as your own, and preside over your lives, liberties, and property, with the same care and attachment? Intuitive reason answers in the negative. . . .
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Lead is discovered on John Webb's property. The town of "Webbville" is platted and the City of Webb City is incorporated on December 8, 1876. The school system and bank are established and the railroad comes to Webb City. More than 30 business establishments open and the population quadruples
By the early 1900s, approximately $23 million in ore is produced. More than 50 mines are in operation during World War I. When the mining boom peaks in 1916, Webb City has a population of 18,000 and the United States Postal Service opens its new post office in Webb City.
Due to a major ore strike in Oklahoma, the city loses nearly 11,000 residents from 1918 to 1920. The Webb City Commercial Club (now the Webb City Chamber of Commerce) organizes to rebuild the commercial base of the city. Route 66 is established and runs directly through Webb City. Memorial Park is dedicated on June 14, 1921.
The population is approximately 7,000. After the decline of mining in the postwar period, Webb City turns to diversified industrial and agricultural production. Amos Hate donates land to the city for a new park and golf course and a swimming pool is constructed under the WPA (Works Progress Administration) program.
There is a 2.3 percent population increase. During World War II, powder plants located near Webb City manufactured explosives. Unemployment in Webb City is 1.9 percent.
Post Work War II education figures are increasing rapidly. By the early 1950s, 25 percent of college-aged students are enrolled. The Webb City Drive-In Theater, G & H Redi-Mix, Handy Handy Liquor Store, Morton Booth Company and Ozark Machine open for business. Missouri speed limit changes to 65 Miles per hour.
William Perry opens Cardinal Scale Castings Inc. Mark Twain Elementary School opens on the west end of town. The Welcome Wagon is organized, the Webb City Council votes to lower the tax levy and the Webb City welfare office closes. Alba School Board petitions to consolidate Alba Schools with the Webb City School District.
HUD Grants $1,025,660 for 70 low-income units for elderly at the corner of Oronogo and Crow Streets. Webb City receives an ambulance under the Highway Safety Act, the Webb City School Board approves air-conditioning for the new senior high school building, and the Praying Hands Statue in King Jack Park is dedicated.
Tornado sirens are installed. About 30 residents move to Cameron Estates, a new apartment building for the elderly. Webb City and Carterville oppose a 40-acre landfill three-fourths of a mile south of Highway 71 and the eastern edge of the city. Rex Metallic Casket Company closes its doors and the Hatten Park Swimming Pool is set to become a skating rink under the stars. Four businesses are approved to see state lottery tickets. Cardinal Scale expands their operation with a $2 million plant. Jane Chin Hospital closes after 79 years in operation.
Webb City Ambulance receives automated defibrillators. Park shelters are built at King Jack Park, the first Webb City Cruise Night is held on Main Street and Route 66. The Webb City Council votes in favor of a project to removed blighted housing, 14 acres were sold in King Jack Park for a subdivision, mining waste is used in the construction of the new Range Line Bypass and Webb City Library expansion details are revealed. The new Webb City Police Department becomes operational, located at 121 W. Broadway (Historic Route 66). City Hall is moved to 200 S. Main Street and the Webb City School District begins an Early Childhood Program for three and four year olds.
The Webb City School District bond for $2.5 million construction of a new gym and four classrooms passes by a large margin. The $4 million 249 Bypass opens. Wild Rose and the Webb City Cemeteries receive new fences and gates, the Housing Authority opens a wing of Jane Chinn Hospital as Jane Chinn Heights, a rent-subsidized apartment complex and construction of a new fire station begins. The Mining Days Community Center is opened in King Jack Park. The newly remodeled Webb City Public Library opens, a commercialization of historic tree-lined Madison Street continues as numerous homes are moved or demolished to make way for commercial growth and progress.
Population rises to approximately 11,000 people. The Webb City Chamber of Commerce moves from King Jack Park to the Route 66 Welcome Center, the city becomes a Certified Local Government, establishes a Historic Preservation Commission, Webb City assumes the operations of the Wastewater Treatment Plant, and the EPA designates portions of Webb City as a Superfund site enabling the city to purchase more than 300 acres of land to be used as retail and commercial development. The city completes East Road and a $2.5 million roundabout project at the intersection of Highway 171 and the 249 Bypass.
Historic Postcard of Downtown Webb City, MO
Starting as a mining camp, the meteoric growth of Webb
City, Missouri reached a population of more than 15,000 people in a period of
about twenty-five years. Webb City
occupied the central district of the largest lead and zinc mining area in the
world. More than 100,000 people lived in
the immediate area of the Webb City district.
This included the city of Joplin.
While plowing a field on his farm one June morning in 1873,
John C. Webb’s plow hit a considerable sized rock causing his mules to come to
an abrupt stop. Upon inspection of the
sizable boulder, he discovered that he had found pure lead ore. While Webb knew the value of what he had
uncovered, he pondered the discovery and continued to plant and cultivate his
corn crop for the year.
In 1874, Webb tried his hand at mining. As soon as he would dig just few feet deep,
the mine-shaft would promptly fill with water.
After he ordering a large pump and with the help of his prized mules, he
was able to unearth a chunk of lead ore weighing more than 1000 pounds. After discovering that mining was a laborious
task with a continual race with water, he decided to hire experienced men to
lease his land on a royalty basis. This
wise decision caused him to become the first millionaire in the area and the
great mining boom of the Webb City area occurred. The Webb City district became known as the
richest zinc and lead mining field in the world.
People came by railroad, covered wagons, horseback and
afoot. The built shacks, stores, hotels,
restaurants and saloons. Hard rock
miners liked their liquor, and at the turn of the century the east side of Main
Street (formerly Allen) supported a saloon almost every other door, and the
self-respecting women of Webb City used the west side of the street, while the
east side was reserved mostly for men and few women of “lesser estate.”
John C. Webb was a religious man and a Southern
Methodist. When he laid out the town of
Webb City, of which he originally wanted to call Webbville, he reserved one
whole block, across from his home and 160-acre farm, for a Methodist Church and
a school. The church space was used for
the school, therefore he bought an adjoining lot of 100 square feet and build a
brick church building on it at his expense and gave it to the congregation. It was originally named “The Webb Chapel” by
Reverend Ben Deering, who was the pastor of the church at the time of Mr.
Webb’s death in 1883. A building owned
by Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, now AT & T, stands on the corner of
Broadway and Liberty Streets on the site of the first Methodist Church.
As the population of the community grew rapidly, the need
for law and order became imperative. In
December 1876, W.A. Ashcroft, O.Jacobs, James Smith, J.E. McNair and R. A.
Sterling, acting under the authority of an expression of the citizens tax
payers, drew up and presented a petition to the county court praying for
incorporation for the city. On the
eleventh of that same month, the grant was obtained and the aforementioned
gentlemen appointed trustees to serve until their successors should be elected
and sworn in. The first meeting of the
board of trustees of Webb City was held at the office of F. Brurein on the
evening of December 11, 1876.
By 1879 Webb City had a population exceeding 3,000 within
the boundaries of the town. Allen
Street, now Main, was a bustling mass of men, horses, wagons and buggies. The first telephone was introduced in Webb
City in 1881 when Charles W. McDaniel installed an exchange in town. Colonel James O’Neill, an early Webb City
business leader, saw the need for public utilities and built a water works and
gas system for the city. These modern
conveniences made Webb City an equal to any other town, with her gravel streets
being water daily and lighted by gas at night.
Webb City’s appearance was shaping into a real
metropolitan city by 1893. The business
section of Allen Street stretched seven blocks with business buildings crowded
closely together on each side. Business
sections overflowed on adjoining streets and extended westward on
Daugherty. Many business places had
reached a substantial maturity having been established for fifteen or twenty
years. The city was bursting at the
seams with a semicircle of mines engulfing her.
A hospital at Broadway and Tom provided operating space for the removal
of limbs maimed or broken in mining accidents.
This was not a time to boast, nor was it a time to
cry. It was a time to work and
build. Residences for the rich and the
poor were constructed with all the speed, money and brawn the citizens could
muster. Storehouse and warehouse space
was at a premium and all the stores, hotels, restaurants, blacksmith shops and
all the other services required to keep the city going was based on one
economic source – the mines.
A. H. Rogers from Springfield saw great business potential
in the Southwest Missouri mining fields and built a horse-drawn streetcar line
from Carterville into Webb City in 1889.
He operated this line until 1893 when he consolidated with the Joplin
Electric street railway and the Jasper County Electric under the management of
the Southwest Missouri Railroad Company.
Extensions of this railroad were made to Prosperity, Oronogo, Alba and
Duenweg. The new railroad company
experienced considerable difficulty in securing a franchise in Webb City
because many of the merchants felt that an interurban line to Joplin would have
a tendency to take business away from the local merchants. Mayor G. M. Manker suggested that a clause be
inserted into any franchise the city gave the railroad which and car-barns be
located in Webb City. (Today those
buildings house the Webb City roller-skating rink “Skateland” and the
“Clubhouse”)
The citizens of Webb City were not amiss in their civic
and social obligations. Many lodges came
into existence and their progress was marked with much enthusiasm. All news was faithfully recorded in the Webb City Times, established in 1879 by
Milholland and Single. During this decade,
two additional newspapers were printed for brief periods – The Webb City Star, and The
Record. In 1890, the Webb City
Sentinel began its daily publication and continues to serve the Webb City
community today.
In 1918, the curtain fell on the mining boom in Webb City
when the greatest ore strike in the history of the Tri-State district was
discovered in Oklahoma. The rush to get
to the new mines fields was so great that the Webb City mines were closed in a
matter of hours. Business and
professional people of the city were stunned and they met in the form of the
Webb City Commercial Club, now the Webb City Chamber of Commerce. An average of 140 members met each week to
talk about rebuilding the town. With
great economic development and progressive minds, they brought a shoe factory,
a leather factory and several other small businesses to Webb City. The encouraged existing industries to expand
and the exodus from Webb City was stopped.
Webb City attained the distinction of increasing her industries more
than any other city of like size in the United States.
Any Webb City historian is honestly unable to end the
story of this community. Each year
brings progress and the numerous corporations located in Webb City extend their
operations throughout the world and even into space. The property encircling the community that
used to bring forth the prosperous zinc and ore have been reclaimed for retail
and industrial businesses. Historic
Route 66 still runs right through the center of Webb City’s National Register
Commercial Historic Downtown District and sees hundreds of travelers from all
over the world.
The perpetually optimistic people of Webb City look to the
future with confidence, guided by an enthusiastic Chamber of Commerce and
forward-thinking City Council, Mayor and city staff.
Rev. John C. Webb
Elijah Webb Home
In 2015, Webb City’s Historic Downtown Commercial District was placed in the National Register of Historic Places. This district is located within Webb City’s local designated historic district. The City of Webb City Historic Preservation Commission and many citizens believe in the preservation of Webb City’s main street and historic places. The buildings tell the early story of Webb City! A tour of our historic downtown is worth it for any traveler.
Historic Bradbury Bishop Deli & Soda Fountain is currently home to The Seed, a teen ministry organization that allows area teens to have a safe place to hang out, do homework and get together. Area youth groups and teachers are encouraged to contact DJ & Kassandra Ackerson, at Oasis Church, if they are interested in becoming a part of this service.
The Webb City Historical Society’s Mission Statement: “To collect, preserve and share the history of the Webb City area.” -Eileen Nichols.
The Historical Society’s webpage: http://www.freewebs.com/webbcityhistoricalsociety
Webb City Area Genealogical Society website: http://www.webbcitygen.com/index.html
The Historical Society collects items of historic interest related to Webb City, Carterville, and Oronogo. Persons wishing to make a donation to the archives, may contact the society’s
volunteer archivist, Jerry Pryor, at 417 673-1269.
The Clubhouse was built in 1910 by the Southwest Missouri Electric Railway Company Employees Association. The Clubhouse was used for passing the time between shifts. It was equipped with showers, beds, card and pool tables. When the streetcar system closed, the building was donated to the county for use as a health department. In the 1990’s the county moved the health department to Carthage and the building was given to the Historical Society which undertook a major renovation effort, In 2010, the grounds were landscaped, funded by a grant from the W.H. and Marion Perry Foundation.
There are several displays on Webb City history at the Clubhouse on such topics as: local minerals, mining, Lakeside, the history of the building, Sentinel newspaper photos from the last decade, and a display of cartoons by Nick Frising. The historical society archives include some 3,000 items which are cataloged.
Access to the displays or archives may be arranged by calling 417 673-5866.
President - Monica Vaughn, Vice President - Marti Pittman, Secretary - Donna Krudwig, Treasurer - Lisa Sweet
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Enter the Ecommerce Giants: Part 2, Strengths and Weaknesses
In part one we saw how the ecommerce companies are entering the media market differently and with a relatively unique set of relationships. Here we look at some of the strengths and weaknesses they’ll bring to the table, looking at everything from data right through to content. It’s worth noting that some of the weaknesses could equally be applied to other online competitors.
The Strengths of the Ecommerce-Media Model
The main reason we’re seeing ecommerce companies investing in ad tech and media is of course that they’re sitting on mountains of valuable data. And it’s not the wishy washy ‘possible female Firefox user’ kind either. It’s hard data, the ‘Sally Brown from 12 London Street buys coffee every Monday morning at 8.45am’ kind.
So if you’re a major ecommerce player and you know Billy had a games console delivered to his home address, it makes sense for you to use that data to offer advertising to your games suppliers who are already spending money trying to reach Billy elsewhere online.
And if you’re offering advertising services, you might decide you need to acquire some proprietary ad tech and perhaps build out your own media business. Then, if you’re big enough and brave enough, you might also build CE products and the operating systems required to run them, all of which can – in theory at least – be neatly integrated with your ecommerce, media and advertising products.
The end point, if indeed there is one, is that large retailers and ecommerce platforms will be providing multiple services to their suppliers, offering to distribute, promote and sell their products, with data oiling the wheels of the advertising, CRM and on-site sales (it is worth noting that companies like Dunnhumby have been doing this for years on Tesco’s behalf via Tesco vouchers and coupons). The fun doesn’t stop there either, as you can use your data to build out an ad network/exchange featuring third party sites.
The relationship between retailers and suppliers tends to be one-sided, usually in the retailer/ecommerce company’s favour. Whether it’s through direct negotiations or the competition within an online marketplace, everyone from cottage industries to heavyweight corporations find themselves pressured into giving the retail and ecommerce giants the best possible price.
It seems likely that that same leverage will be brought to bear on advertising deals, i.e. we’ll buy X amount of product Y, if you spend £Z with us on advertising. Or, for marketplace sellers, a company like Amazon could discount or waive seller fees if Amazon advertising was used to deliver the conversion.
Then there are also opportunities to integrate unique ecommerce-specific features into creatives, whether it’s making it easy for people to buy the product directly from the ad, or by including online reviews in the ad themselves, as Amazon does today with its display ads:
Finally, there are also integration opportunities at the consumer level, where various services can be packaged together. For example, Amazon (yes, we’ve had to lean heavily on them for the examples in this piece) has its own version of the triple-play. Alongside access to 15,000 TV shows and movies, Amazon Prime comes with ‘free’ one day delivery for Amazon orders, plus the opportunity to borrow over 500,000 ebooks.
Direct Relationships
The ecommerce companies are also entering the media market with an established set of direct relationships with their suppliers. Not only that, but their existing business models have always been built based on efficiency, automation and self-service.
So it seems reasonable to conclude they’ll be well-placed to bypass agencies and work directly with advertiser/suppliers. It’s going to be interesting to see whether the bulk of advertising spend comes from agencies or from direct relationships.
Potential Weak Spots
Privacy could the Achilles heel for the ecommerce media players, partly because their data might be regarded as being a little too accurate for some people’s liking. Taken in isolation, a consumer mightn’t have too much trouble with an ecommerce company knowing, for example, that they’re interested in buying a new camera. But when that data is combined with data on what you watch, where you live, where you go, it seems likely that ecommerce giants will receive just as much attention from privacy regulators as the likes of Google and Facebook do.
The Mid to Upper Funnel
While there’s plenty of evidence that people frequently use ecommerce sites for product research and reviews, there are also many other places where they can be introduced to new products or find information about ones they intend to buy, whether it’s search engines, social networks, their favourite newspaper or review sites. While the ecommerce companies have excellent data, it’s often of the bottom of the funnel variety, so let’s not pretend these companies will be all powerful any time soon. However, certain product categories, particularly for things like FMCG products that people buy regularly, will be easy pickings for advertisers.
If the ecommerce giants are successful in building out their media and advertising businesses, regulators might also start to feel uneasy with a small pool of players controlling so many parts of the B2C value chain. The traditional media companies, unable to match the ecommerce giants when it comes to data, will undoubtedly kick up a fuss, just as they have when it comes to companies like Google.
Content and Consumer Adoption
There’s a reason Tesco’s Blinkbox is crammed full of Hollywood blockbusters, while Clubcard TV is forced to make do with TV’s leftovers and ‘straight to video’ movies. The reason is that it’s difficult to license quality content if you don’t have sufficient scale, or if your model conflicts with the interests of the content owner, who may be a direct competitor such as a broadcaster or Pay TV provider. However, if you’ve got a strong brand with a reasonably large user base, and are asking users to pay on an on-demand basis, you’ve a much higher chance of being able to do strike content deals.
That said, it’s still a messy business and if you’re sharing the content with the rest of the market you won’t have a USP, which is why all of the leading tech and ecommerce players have been investing in quality original content of their own.
But investing in content doesn’t mean it will be successful. Just ask YouTube. And content apps and websites need a continuous flow of fresh content in order to keep people coming back. While Amazon appears to be getting it right, with 20 million people using its service which provides access to 15,000 TV shows and movies, it remains to be seen whether Amazon’s own content will be successful, and if other ecommerce players will be capable of following suit.
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Strong Chum Runs Mean Salmon Openings In Norton Sound
Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media
Chum salmon leaping near Cold Bay, AK. (Photo: K. Mueller, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on August 28, 2011)
As severe restrictions on Chinooks continue to hit subsistence users, early signs of strong chum runs are leading the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to announce some unanticipated commercial openings.
“What is happening is this year we’re have an early, strong chum salmon run in most areas of Norton Sound,” said Scott Kent, ADF&G biologist for the Nome area. “It’s front-loaded in that, it’s hitting hard right now, and then it’s probably going to drop off here considerably in a week or so.”
Kent said that means this next few days in the region are going to be fruitful for fishermen. “We’re going to probably start seeing a lot of fish passage this week and into the weekend.”
Kent said the region is seeing some of the best chum counts on record for this time of year. At the Kwiniuk tower on the North side of Norton Sound, for example, 12,000 chums have already been counted, making this year one of the best runs in the station’s 49 years of operation.
Kent said the strong chum run is especially good news considering the poor pre-season forecasts.
“We were not expected directed openings in Golovin and Elim this year, especially not this early,” he laughed. “So, it’s a pleasant surprise.”
The Norton Sound isn’t the only region in western Alaska seeing strong chum numbers. A three-hour opening Saturday, June 28 lifted gear restrictions in the Lower Yukon and gave some families a much-needed chance to put up chum on their racks.
“Everybody’s real happy for the Y1 and Y2 three-hour six-inch gillnet opening that you guys had,” said Basil Larson from Russian Mission during a weekly Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association teleconference on Tuesday.
Not everyone was able to take advantange of the opening, Larson said, but those who could made it count. “There’s not a lot of families that could afford to go down and go fish for those three hours, but the families that did go down, I talked to them and they are all done with their summer chum subsistence harvest.”
Callers further upriver on the Yukon, like Janet Woods in Rampart, said they are frustrated at having to wait until nearly all the Chinooks have passed just to have a shot at fishing for chums.
“We’ve been waiting and waiting. We can’t even so much put in a net. If you let people fish even one day, that would eliminate all these problems with people getting caught, and getting their fish nets taken away, and having to go to court and pay,” Woods said. “We need to have our fish—that’s what sustains us.”
Fish and Game representatives on the call explained that upriver communities can expect a similar subsistence opening once 90 percent of the Chinook have passed. Which, based on past years, is likely to be some time around July 18.
Kent said that, while the Chinook restrictions have been severe, they do appear to be working.
“The King run is very poor,” he stressed, “but it’s not as dire as we thought it was going to be going into the season. In other words, we think we’ve got a good chance of making our escapement goals because we’ve taken such severe restrictions.”
While making escapement into Canada is an important goal to hit, Kent stressed the run is still significantly below historical levels.
“It doesn’t mean it’s a good run, it doesn’t mean we should pat ourselves on the back yet. But it appears the measures taken across the region are working to conserve Chinook salmon.”
For a full list of ADF&G’s salmon openings in the Norton Sound area can be found on their website.
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Barons Split Double Header With Halos
By Natalia Reynoso
The Barons split a double header with the Ventura Halos on the road Saturday, losing the first game, 3-0, and winning the second game, 7-6.
In the first contest, starting pitcher Tyler Tungate threw 5.0 innings with four strikeouts before being relieved by Gary Smith for 1.0 inning in a game that was only seven innings.
The Barons were only able to put down three hits, and designated hitter Ernie De La Trinidad had the only extra base hit going 1×2 with a double.
After a quick turn around Henry Omana took the bump, pitching 6.0 innings and collecting seven strikeouts. Travis Bonner and Josh Bravin each threw 1.0 inning in relief with one strike out each. Ryan Paramo earned the win after pitching 1.1 innings with two strikeouts. Wesley Albert earned the save for the Barons, closing out the final two outs.
Right fielder Kevin Maxey (1×4) was the offensive hero for the team, knocking in the winning run in the ninth inning on a double. Third baseman Adonis Morrison (2×4), designated hitter Tyler Williams (2×5), and shortstop Sam Shaikin (2×5) contributed the majority of the Barons 10 hits.
The Compton squad will next take the field on Tuesday for the first of a three-game series against the Long Beach Legends.
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Koho Offers Cinematic Experience in 'Dream Thieves' Campaign
Rey B July 28, 2018
Koho – a Toronto-based start-up offering a tech-rich experience without the traditional fees associated with banking, has created a cine...
Koho – a Toronto-based start-up offering a tech-rich experience without the traditional fees associated with banking, has created a cinematic provocation in response to North Americans paying among the highest banking fees in the world.
Dream Thieves – a short cinematic film produced by Cossette and directed by internationally-renowned auteur Fleur Fortuné and DOP Matias Boucard, explores a dystopic out-of-control system selling through promises of financial freedom while draining its customers of their dreams. The 13-minute film is an existence of extremes. With references to The Matrix, Donnie Darko and Poltergeist, the visuals metaphorically paint a portrait of whereby banks promise to keep your money secure while simultaneously creating and selling products designed to be contrary to your goals.
"The North American Banking system is rigged against the everyday person," said Jason Chaney, CCO of KOHO. "To run, the system has to sell products and charge a host of fees that eat away at savings. Dream Thieves points to the heartbreaking effect of having your dreams stripped away, but the opportunity to leverage technology to rewrite a system and take back your dreams, because they belong to their rightful owners."
Awoken from a world of despair, the narrative looks to hack the system by bringing balance back into the lives of its characters. Dream Thieves concludes with the protagonist breaking free and waking up the world from the deceptive daze – aware of the manipulation, the world erupts with colour and becomes a society where dreams return to their rightful owners.
A hard-hitting approach in telling the company's foundational story, Dream Thieves echoes Koho's challenger position of restoring balance to a broken financial system. Creating simple, transparent and intuitive products that make sense for the consumer, Koho provides a solid foundation where savings becomes an empowered proactive choice. Within the first three weeks of using Koho, the app helps the average user reduce their spending by 15% and save nearly $500.00.
"Saving for future goals doesn't need to come at a cost." said Daniel Eberhard, CEO of Koho. "Every product that we design is with the sole focus of enriching the lives of our customers to help them spend smarter and save faster. We've hacked the system to put real-time money back in the pockets of consumers."
Dream Thieves – a 2-minute version spot, will debut in theatres across Alliance Atlantis distribution channels starting August 1, 2018. The full 13-minute film can be viewed at www.koho.ca and on their Instagram account @getkoho.
ABOUT KOHO
Koho is a financial technology company that provides simple, modern banking services to Canadians. Offering a tech-forward experience with options similar to those of traditional bank accounts, but without the fees associated with traditional bank accounts. Koho consists of a prepaid, reloadable Visa debit card and an intuitive app that tracks user spending and helps users find ways to cut costs and save money – with no fees attached to card usage. Koho's technology allows users to make purchases everywhere Visa cards are accepted and provides access to a suite of other products, such as direct deposit, ATMs, bill pay, free transfers and more. Koho is headquartered in Toronto, ON.
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César Cui: A Feast In Time Of Plague, Etc / Polyansky, Et Al
Label: Chandos Catalog #: 10201 Spars Code: n/a
Composer: César Cui
Performer: Tatiana Sharova, Aleksey Martinov, Ludmila Kuznetsova, Dmitri Stepanovich, ...
Conductor: Valeri Polyanskii
Orchestra/Ensemble: Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Chandos presents the premiere recording of the one-act opera 'A Feast in Time of Plague', Three Scherzos, Op.82 and three songs for solo voice and orchestra. César Cui is the least-known member of the group of five Russian nationalist composers (with Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky and Borodin) who together became known as 'The Mighty Handful'. He was considered to be the most dramatic of these composers. His music is highly tuneful and approachable, full of the colour we expect from the Russian romantic tradition. Chandos presents the premiere recording of the one-act opera 'A Feast in Time of Plague', Three Scherzos, Op.82 and three songs for solo voice and orchestra. César Cui is the least-known member of the group of five Russian nationalist composers (with Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky and Borodin) who together became known as 'The Mighty Handful'. He was considered to be the most dramatic of these composers. His music is highly tuneful and approachable, full of the colour we expect from the Russian romantic tradition. Read less
Les deux ménétriers, Op. 42 by César Cui
Performer: Tatiana Sharova (Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1890; Russia
A feast in the time of plague by César Cui
Performer: Tatiana Sharova (Soprano), Aleksey Martinov (Tenor), Ludmila Kuznetsova (Mezzo Soprano),
Dmitri Stepanovich (Bass), Andrei Baturkin (Baritone)
Written: 1995-1997; Russia
Echoes of War, Op. 66: no 1, Fair Spring by César Cui
Performer: Ludmila Kuznetsova (Mezzo Soprano)
Scherzos (3) for Orchestra, Op. 82 by César Cui
Budrïs and His Sons, Op. 98 by César Cui
Performer: Andrei Baturkin (Baritone)
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Home >> Daily News >> Asean News >> Events >> Asean needs majority rules
NEWS UPDATES Asean Affairs 7 May 2012
Asean needs majority rules
Southeast Asian governments should ease up on their principle of non-interference when it comes to human rights violations happening in other countries in the region, a leading statesman says.
“There is a need for majority rules [in Asean], especially if it has to do with human rights violations,” Fidel Ramos, the former Philippine president, said in a recent interview at the Asean Secretariat in Jakarta.
Although the principle of non-interference is still applicable in some issues, Ramos said Asean countries could not turn a blind eye to human rights violations in other member states and could ask the country in question to launch an investigation.
He added that such a move should not be interpreted as meddling in another country’s domestic affairs, especially now that Asean had its own human rights commission, the Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, which was established based on Article 14 in the Asean Charter.
“We have to abide by the rule of law, under the new charter,” he said, adding that the majority rule served as a higher role that applied to member states, although the non-interference norm was still applicable in Asean “because it works for us.”
Ramos also addressed the recent move toward democratic reform in Burma, calling it a “big breakthrough in Asean” and saying President Thein Sein, a former general, should be commended.
“That’s progress. They should recognize now the world is different now from the world 20 years ago,” Ramos said.
With such developments in the region, he said he was optimistic that Asean was on its way to becoming a regional power, given its strategic geographical position as one of the busiest shipping lanes for oil tankers from the Middle East to East Asia.
Ramos also said he believed that through Asean, there could be peace in the resource-rich South China Sea, which has been at the center of a decade-long dispute on overlapping claims made by Asean member states, including the Philippines, and the region’s giant neighbor, China.
The Philippines and China have been at a standoff since April 8 when the Philippine Navy monitored eight Chinese fishing vessels anchored inside the Scarborough Shoal for poaching. The ring-shaped coral reef, which China also lays claim to, is about 124 nautical miles west of the Philippines’ main Luzon Island.
“We cannot afford to have any shootings [in the South China Sea] because the others will also come in to shoot,” Ramos said. “One shot, everybody suffers. [It is] better with no conflict and no shooting.”
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Wonder if Christina is more popular for boys or girls?
Compare Christina's history as a girl's and boy's name
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Popularity Over Time: How Many Girls Have Been Named Christina
This chart illustrates how many Girls were named Christina in the U.S. since 1880.
A few facts about the girl's name Christina:
Records indicate that 470,493 girls in the United States have been named Christina since 1880.
The greatest number of people were given this name in 1985, when 16,588 people in the U.S. were given the name Christina. Those people are now 32 years old.
Comments about the name Christina
"When I was little I hated my name but now as an adult I love it i go by Chris most of the time I went by Christy when I was in school and that's what most of my family calls . When I first meet someone I introduce myself as Christina but I pretty much just go by chris" Jul. 13, 2016:
"I really hated my name when I was little, because I live in Czech Republic where the name is quite common (at the time I was born, it was incredibly popular and I know so many Christinas of my age), even now. I came to love the name, because it's elegant and classic, and people don't mess up the pronounciation in any language. The only thing that bothers me is that people always ask if i'm Krist?na (the classic czech spelling of the name), or Kristina (the more modern one)." Nov. 22, 2015:
"Count me among the 'annoyed at being called 'Christine'club. My name has grown on me - and no one allowed to shorten it. Especially to Chris - man's name!" Oct. 5, 2015:
"This is my name and I LOVE IT! There are not too many out there. I have been called by a lot of other names by teachers and acquaintances. I have been called Christine sooo many times. But it's worth it. My nickname is Chrissie." May. 27, 2015:
"My name is Christina and I've only ever met 2 others. I like that it's not so common but I also wish it wasn't so long lol" Apr. 26, 2015:
"I like my name Christina! I guess I was named after my grandma in a way, her name is Martina.... It's not as common as most names like Jessica, Ashley, Brittany.... and it just sounds pretty." Feb. 17, 2013:
"My name is Cristina without an h...EVERYONE gets it wrong...It's so funny i never get asked if its with CR or K...everyone just assumes its CH" Dec. 17, 2012:
"It's my mother's first name and I'm thinking of using it as a second name for my child (if it's a girl) or Christian if it's a boy (after my grandfather). I like the fact that it can be used in many languages without issue." Oct. 14, 2012:
"I was named Christina in 1955, with the nickname Tina, I love both, Christina formal, Tina informal!" Mar. 12, 2012:
"My sister's name is Christina ans she hates when people say CHRISTINE, she always says "A" to finish her name. We call her Nina for short and her friends call her stina. She hates all other nicknames and only people she is close too can call her either of those. It's Christina , to everyone else" Oct. 13, 2011:
"I named my daughter Christina, and I noticed that she and her brother went through the same progress learning to say the name. It started as A'tina (which I thought was so cute) then Ris'tina finally they were both able to say Christina. We are more likely to call her Tina as a nickname. (I will call her Tina Kate)" Jun. 19, 2011:
"Christina is my name and I think its pretty. I get called Chris, Christine and Christina which sometimes gets annoying. I dont mind being called Chris but I dont understand the whole Christine/Christina thing? Its a good name though :)" Dec. 30, 2010:
"People don't often get it wrong. My name is Christina, there is a boy named Chris in my grade so the teachers don't call me by that, but my friends will. People Chris, Chrissy, Tee, Tina, Tiny. I know other people with the same name but spelled Kristina. I like my name because it is classic and cute! Adults call me Christina, no nick names except for my family calls me Chris. I don't like Chris because with my last name I sound like a man! The nicknames I like the most are Tee or Tiny, but I'm tall so it doesn't suit me good!" Dec. 29, 2010:
"my name is Christina people mistake my name for Kristina but my name is Christina with a c not a k. Alot of times people spell my name wrong. this is how you spell my name C H R I S T I N A that is how you spell my name.there is only one other girl in my school with this name. i really love my name." Jun. 14, 2010:
"i ADORE my name! I love the name Christina, I don't go by chris or tina or christine, it's simply christina. I only know a few other christina's and they all go by christine or chrissy so it's really unique for me:) my friends actually call me xtina, like xmas for christmas, except they kept the T, and it's really catchy! lovvvvve it!" Jan. 14, 2010:
"My name is Christine and I had a teacher last year whos name was Christina. And this year I have a teacher named Kristin. Those are two teachers I'll never forget about." Oct. 8, 2009:
"I was nearly named Christina. But then my dad said they would call me Tina. So I'm a Christine." Oct. 4, 2009:
"My name is Christina. My family calls me Chrissy or Chris. My best friend calls me Churtina. (Chui-tin-a) I have no idea how she came up with it. I love my name because it's common, but it's uncommon.I have met other people with the name Chrisina, but none of them have been my age. People have mistaken it for Christopher, because there used to be a boy named Christopher in my grade. But overall, I have always loved my name." Mar. 20, 2009:
"My name is Christina..and I love it. It's a really classic pretty name. It's not a trendy name, which I love. I've always loved being a Christina, and love the spelling of my name too. Sometime people call me Chris, and my family calls me Ina pronounced Ena." Mar. 4, 2009:
"Although I hated my name being "Christina" at one point in my life. I guess I got use to it by now. And being the only one in my family with an English name, it was kind of irritating. My sisters usually call me "Tina" and "Tee-Tee". But when I was in high school, my sister called me "Tee-Tee" once, everyone thought she was calling a dog. It was kind of embarassing and funny." Oct. 30, 2008:
"I have this name... no one calls me it and when they attempt they call me Christine so it's pointless. I go by Chrissy and I dont' even like that. Now I'm down to Chris... it's better but still. Don't name you kid this, she most likely hate it. lol" Jun. 11, 2008:
"I love my name. Must agree I cannot stand being called Christine. My nickname is Chris which I also love over Christy or Chrissy which is reminiscent of prissy and frilly to me." May. 17, 2008:
"I love my name,Christina. It is not real popular where I live, but is common enough. Yes, I get the "is it CH" ALL the time. Is just habit now, not irratating they ALWAYS ask first if CH not CR or K. People call me Chrissy as a nickname." May. 7, 2008:
"I'm a Christina going to Catholic School, where all the nuns call me Christine. I have to say that it can get irritating. I'm always asked how it's spelled, and I just reply "C-H". But Christine is very common. I just say "UH" after someone says Christine to me - they're seeming to catch on now" Mar. 5, 2008:
"My name is Christina and I am "of a certain age"! I have been called "Tina" all my life, except by people who have read my name from a form. Although I think Christina is a lovely and elegant name, I can't seem to shake "Tina" which always seems to me like the name of a waitress or an exotic dancer! People usually ask if it is spelled with a "K" or a "C" and I always reply "Ch.'!" Jan. 25, 2008:
"My name is Christina. I have gone by my full name from day one. No Chris, no Chrissy, no Christy, no Tina...just Christina. As a child I thought my name was too long (an entire 9 letters! :), however as an adult I highly appreciate my name. It reflects both the 1970's/1980's naming wave, and also my (Scottish) family ancestry. Apparently the name Christina was popular in Scotland in the 1700's/1800's!" Aug. 16, 2007:
"My name is Christina and i like it except for my high school period when Christina Aquilara was so popular i got called Xtina all the time drove me nuts so eventually adopted Nina as a nickname but i dont mind it so much anymore. its who i am!!" Aug. 6, 2007:
"My names christina and I love my name but every class i have in school someone has the name christina, and everyday my keyboarding teacher call me christine it's very annoying." Jan. 20, 2007:
"I'm a Christina and I love my name. I don't like it when people call me "Christine". It's so annoying." Nov. 29, 2006:
"My name is Christina and I have always loved my name. I think it is the most beautiful girl name there is. =)I just wish it weren't so popular. Growing up I had 8 friendsnamed Christina." Sep. 29, 2006:
"Christina is a strong-willed child who is artistic and independant. She is also competitive in a quiet way which is great for a girl these days." Aug. 10, 2006:
"My name is Christina and i love it. its such a pretty name. My friends call me Chrissy, but i get annoyed if people drop the A and end up calling me Christine." Mar. 22, 2006:
"Hey, my name is christina, in preschool day care, and kindergarten, i went by Tina, when i got to first grade i started demanding people to call me Christina, as others people fail to use the beautiful "A" in my name, and call me Christine" Feb. 9, 2006:
"I've always been complimented on how my name sounds elegant. It's nice because it can easily be shortened many ways. My nickname for my family members is Chrissie. I too get very annoyed when people call me Christine rather than Christina because it is almost like they refuse to take the time to know what my name is. At times it is an honest mistake which is understandable but when its not its very annoying. My ex's parents took years to get it across to aunts and uncles and we were together for 8 years. I felt better after I found out they did a similar thing to my ex's sister in law. Not a big deal in the long run but kind of amusing." Jan. 17, 2006:
"My girlfriends name is Christina. She usually goes by Tina or Christina. Personally, I love the name. I think it is a beautiful name. Lots of people try to call her Christine and it bothers her. But most call her Tina or Christina, I love the name." Dec. 28, 2005:
"My best friend is called Christina. She is kind, v.funny and caring but very over-protective!" Nov. 22, 2005:
"My friend is named Christina and it's pretty, but I think it's overused a bit. Some people spell it KRISTINA, CRISTINA, or KHRISTINA. Some people even pronounce it KRIS-TEE-AH-NA or CRY-STEE-NA. Odd, yes. I know many Christina's. Here are some nicknames I've seen for Christina (it doesn't matter about the spelling): Chrissie, Chris, Tina, Tiny, Steena, Rissie, Riss, Rina, Ristina, Stee, and of course, the classic, Xtina." Nov. 20, 2005:
"My name is Christina...& I love it!! I think it is a really sweet, girly name & I'm also called Chris for short which is quite boyish." Nov. 19, 2005:
"I am Christina. I love the name. I used to go by Chrissy when I was little, now as an adult, I go by Christina. The only thing I don't like is people often try to call me Christine instead of Christina." Jun. 23, 2005:
"I don't care for my name and I have to agree, it's VERY annoying when I'm called Chris or Christine." Mar. 4, 2008:
"Way too common! My husband suggested this often. I prefer flower or stone names. (ex: Jade or Daisy, Amber or Rose, etc.)" Aug. 26, 2007:
"Not a great name. I go by Tina. Why? Hey, years of Catholic school and nuns telling me that I can't go by Tina, but yet they called me "Christine" all of the time. I got so sick of kids, teachers and people calling me Christine, that I just stopped answering. Then, half of the nuns called me Chris. SO, this name doesn't translate well in Catholic school." Jun. 14, 2007:
"My name ic Christina and I think it's the worst name ever, It sounds like a old womens name and I'm 20 so I need to sound Fun,Cute,and Sweet so i got by Chrissy!" Jan. 11, 2007:
"I never know what people should call me, my girlish name of 'Chrissy' has stuck with me and I can't seem to get away from it, I would have much prefered to be call Christine." May. 4, 2006:
"I was born in the 50s and have been called Tina and the annoying Christine except for my best friend. She calls me Teen." Nov. 13, 2017:
"my name is Christina and i've had every nick name under the sun. when i was in high school there were 5 Christina's in my class all spelled differently the craziest way i've ever seen it spelt though was Khrystenyenah. Waaay to long for my taste" Jul. 20, 2010:
"oh my, over the years i have been called ALL sorts of things. It can be very annoying but its quite a nice name :)" Dec. 19, 2009:
"I know something REALLY confusing. My name is not Christina, it's Christine. But my teacher's name is Christina. And something even more confusing is that I have a second cousin named Kristina. It's a nice name, but just too confusing for me." Jun. 22, 2009:
"I'm a Christina.....and yes with a "CH" not a "K". It's so funny to read everyone's experiences with this beautiful name. I've always been known as Christina, however, now that I'm an aunt to three small children, I'm affectionately known as "T". I love the nickname because it's their special name for me. I've always loved my name and I wouldn't change it. Christinas of the world....unite!" Feb. 27, 2009:
"People always ask C or K when they spell my name and I always reply CH. Ive actually gotten to the point where I just spell it BEFORE they ask. I also get Christine A LOT! After years of correcting people, I now just answer to whatever they want to call me. Correcting people usually doesnt work anyway!" Jan. 6, 2009:
"Born in 1983 my name is Christina as well. My whole life until I graduated college my family and friends called me Chrissy, and I hate it! Chrissy sounds like a kids name, very prissy and informal. My father named me Christina but yet he has never called me Christina. I also get the do you spell it with a C or a K and I always reply with "CH"! I have always loved my name and when I started my career I started going by Christina, so I feel like an adult. My nicknames are: Chrissy, Chris, Chrissy-Lynn, and C. I also don't understand why people call us Christine... I guess they are to lazy to say "UH"." Nov. 20, 2008:
"This is my name, and yet I never liked it. It's long, and I know so many other girls with the same name at work, school, and on base. It's annoying and confusing." Sep. 24, 2008:
"My name is Christina and I HATED it when I was a little girl but as I've grown up, I've learned to like it. I do love the way it sounds with my middle name though, Christina Carole. My nick names are Chrissy (my family calls me this) and Christa (everyone else calls me this). No one ever calls me Christina though. It bugs me when people call me anything other then Chrissy, CHrista or Christina but it SERIOUSLY bugs me when people call me Chris. Almost everyone assumes it is spelled with a K which annoys me too especially since the most common spelling is with a CH. I never got made fun of for my first name, just my maiden name. My initials are CCB. There are a lot of us out there though and that can be slightly annoying." Jul. 19, 2008:
"i like my name and hate christine too - i would rather people got my name totally wrong and called me jane or something! I am british but work with a lot of americans and its they that always ask is CH or K? I get chrissie and Tina - the latter which i hate! Be proud Christina's of the world!" Jul. 5, 2008:
"It's ok to be called by your parents but you want to be able to have a short name that your friends can call you that doesn't take years to say." Sep. 28, 2007:
"Born in 1978 in Germany, my name is Christina. Then, it was one of the most common names for girls. Other names girls my age have are for instance Julia, Stephanie, Katrin or Anna. I like my name because it is serious, but sometimes I think it sounds a bit hard, not soft enough like "Anna" or "Lena" would do. But the name Christina is always ok with eyeryone, noone thinks it is strange. My family calls me Tina." Sep. 7, 2007:
"Christina is a fantastic name and is universal, some people think its origin is greek or Italian, or from a meaning of 'Christain'. This name is very English and can be shortened in a variety of ways that are not offencive." Jun. 21, 2007:
"haha. i'm also a christinA in school, the teachers constantly call me christine, so afterwards i just reply, UH. it works. they remember. =)" Apr. 1, 2007:
"i am also another ChristinA and i absolutly hate it when i am called Christine. it annoyes me so much. i know it is just an error/mistake but just STOP if you ever want to call a Christina Christine, she will get mad." Jan. 31, 2007:
"i agree with the other seriously its ChristinA not Christine...its not that hard!" Aug. 10, 2006:
"I love my name, Christina, but I also cannot stand it when I am called "Christine".... It is common, but there's a reason why!" Aug. 4, 2006:
"I have the same problem I dont like being called Christine how difficult can it be to end it with an a?" Jul. 11, 2006:
""My name is Christina. I love my name. I am usually called Tina or Chris. I dislike the fact that most people spell it wrong : Cristina"" May. 9, 2006:
"I also get mistakenly called Christine instead of Christina, and it's annoying. I also don't like it when people take the liberty of shortening it to Chris before they know whether or not I use that nickname. And, when I was a child, I felt the name Christina sounded a bit "prissy."" Feb. 19, 2006:
"My name is Christina and I personally love the sound of my name. However, for some reason many people fail to acknowledge the "A" at the end of my name. As a result, I'm often called Christine instead. (It's very annoying)Growing up many people would call me Chris or Tina." Jul. 17, 2005:
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Bangladesh Bank (BB) said on Tuesday that from now on scheduled banks and non-bank financial institutions would be able to disburse loans from a Tk 600-crore BB fund to the micro and small enterprises dedicated to publishing knowledge-based and creative books and their marketing.
The BB issued a circular to managing directors and chief executive officers of all banks and NBFIs saying that the publishers would be able to receive loans with an interest rate of 10 per cent from the banks and the NBFIs under the BB refinance fund.
The banks and the NBFIs will be allowed to disburse 100 per cent refinance fund to the publishers, the circular said.
The banks and the NBFIs will get loans with an interest rate of five per cent from the fund and they will have to give the loans to the publishers at highest 10 per cent interest.
A BB official told New Age that a publisher would be able to get loan highest Tk 50 lakh from a bank or a NBFI under the BB refinance fund.
Any write-up which contravenes the country’s culture, tradition and history or goes against any race, religion and clan or hurts any group of people will not be considered as a creative writing for the purpose of financing, the BB circular said.
Creative publishers who are members of Bangladesh Gayan O Srijonshil Prokashok Somity or any other such organisations will apply to the banks or the NBFIs to get loans under the BB fund, the circular said.
The members of the recognised associations will have to apply for loans with recommendations from the authorities of their respective associations, it added.
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Architecture of Totalitarian Regimes in Urban Managements - ATRIUM
The Architecture of Totalitarian Regimes in Urban Managements is an ambitious project which aims to put into greater focus a key element of twentieth-century European history, heritage and memory.
ATRIUM is ambitious in its scope but also in the extent and nature of the partnership. The project is made up of 18 partners from the area of south-east Europe, from university departments and national ministries, to governmental organisations and city administrations, bringing different skills and experiences to the project. The partners come from 11 different countries (Italy, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Roumania, Croatia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Greece) which share a desire to focus on the architectural heritage of the different totalitarian regimes which they have experienced in the twentieth century from a cultural and historical point of view. One of the key objectives of the financing of European projects is that of encouraging a shared view of historical and cultural identity. The broad nature of the partnership is an example of a common recognition of the importance of twentieth-century architectural heritage and its complex, contradictory and sometimes uncomfortable relation to certain periods of European history.
The starting point of the project is architecture. All of the countries involved in the project contain examples of major architectural heritage – buildings, urban landscapes etc.- realised during a period of political regimes which were to different degrees “totalitarian”, although this term has fallen somewhat into disuse. The moment and historical context of the examples vary – from the 1920s and 1930s in Fascist Italy to the 1950s and 1960s in the Communist societies of Eastern Europe. But the project recognizes a common cultural heritage here, and thus constitutes an opportunity: to focus on and give value to examples of architecture which have a common theoretical and cultural background to the extent that they are highly sought-after amongst the circle of experts in architecture on a world level. Our objective, as is made clear in the proposal itself is to give greater visibility to these examples of rationalist architecture to the extent of linking them together as part of a cultural route which celebrates these specific architectural traces.
Another common characteristic of the architectural heritage which we are together is their shared historical origin in political regimes which the present repudiates unequivocally. A characteristic of authoritarian regimes is that they rule from the centre, and such a method of government from above may favour major architectural and urban intervention in three distinct but related ways.
First, as architects are well aware, all projects depend on commissioning and financing, and this is even more true for large projects, which can only be commissioned by important public or private institutions. The particular power structures of regimes simplify this aspect of the commissioning of major architectural work. (A subsidiary aspect here is the consensus that political power may wish to obtain through patronage and investment in public works.)
Second, having downgraded the symbolic importance of sites of political participation, in particular parliaments, authoritarian or totalitarian regimes may desire to give themselves a concrete visibility through material realisations: real, tangible and incontrovertible presences on urban landscapes.
Third, as specifically totalitarian regimes, there may be an impulse to “totalise” lived experience, to standardize and regulate the behaviour of political subjects in institutions (schools, offices, institutions, leisure centres). This constitutes a specific cultural and sociological input to the architectural projects themselves.
These three conditioning elements will vary from place to place and according to the specific political context, but we hope that they may provide a common basis for fruitful comparison.
Architectural and urban heritage is often locally valorised, in its historical as well as its urban importance. This project aims to bring these experiences together in order to trace common features underlying a necessary diversity but also to focus on their shared overall historical context. It is hoped that the cultural route which will emerge will constitute a pathway for Europeans to explore the traumatic twentieth century through the urban landscapes fully visible on the streets of its cities.
Patrick Leech
City Councillor for International Relations
Municipality of Forli
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As farmers, the proud knights and Switzerland to the super power was defeated
Teodora Torrendo
High on horse, with helmet, armour, full of Shine and full of colors. So the knight has survived in the collective memory. The proudest and most illustrious knight Charles le Téméraire, Karl der Kühne, the immensely rich Duke of Burgundy. And he, of all people, the flower of chivalry, was defeated by Swiss farmers in three battles. All that’s left is the counting-out rhyme remained the pride of Burgundy: “In Grandson, he lost the Good, in Murten, he lost the courage, in the case of Nancy the blood”.
“I have dared”
Charles died in 1477, as he had lived, without any fear. His Motto is: “I have dared” – “The lay emprins”. And now he had lost everything. Two days after his last fight, the body was found in a pond. A slash of the halberd had cleaved his head. By further injuries, he was disfigured, by the wolves eaten and all the characters, stripped of his Power. Karl’s body was frozen and naked – the Dead has been completely looted. Only an old servant was able to identify the Duke with reference to the age of the hubs.
The body of Charles the Bold found. The painter Auguste Feyen-Perrin idealized the dead, in fact, the splendor was disfigured loving Prince completely.
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An inglorious end, not only for Karl, with him also that Chivalry ended up as a military Power. Because Charles heavy, armoured cavalry could not stand against the array of Swiss farmers. It is a popular myth that the firearms defeated the knights, it was a completely different, today a forgotten weapon.
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previously managed it for seven years, to beat great knight armies. The Swiss fought for their independence, as they defeated the Habsburgs at Morgarten (1315) and Sempach (1386), in Germany, the fighters of the Dithmarscher farmers ‘ Republic 1500 beat the mercenaries, the Black guard. But in all of these Victories, the terrain played a decisive role. The untrained farmers and citizens managed to make the armored professional warriors in one place to battle, where their heavy armor, were no advantage, but a severe disadvantage.
In the Fight against Charles the Bold marshes, and slopes were the confederates. Here is “invented” by the Swiss the modern infantry. The Romans already knew that the tab could not be any line of foot soldiers to break through, if this were in a panic. But the Roman legionaries were drilled fighting machine that had for many years practiced the battle in their formations .
A very long skewer the super-weapon
The Swiss roster is not composed of professional soldiers – they were strong and brave, but not very disciplined. The Swiss had another advantage: they used no converted scythes, and short skewers like other Peasant detachments. The Swiss developed a long skewer, which was longer than the lances of the knights. These skewers were about 5 meters long and could only be used by strong men ruled. There were weapons that you could use in addition, only in the group for the fight “man against man” they were totally unsuitable. But in a large Formation, you were a terrible weapon.
Charles the Bold, however, had the most modern army of his time. His heavy cavalry, fought a disciplined manner under a command, he had artillery, and efficient care in the field. The Swiss placed themselves in a large rectangular pile, the narrow side was the Front. She stared in front of weapons, as the first rows of the pile lowered the gigantic skewers. To was horses not arrive at this Front. Before the sword or lance of the knight can reach a Fußkämpfer would have, were he and his horse has been impaled. A brute-force attack, as a breakthrough was impossible. If the rear side of the long spit was supported on the floor, was the wall of lances impenetrable.
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lived The biggest new feature: The Swiss Formation was not only Defensive capability. Already the multiple Camps of the Hussites were an army of Knights with little or extremely heavy blow, but they were immobile. The Swiss bunch, however, was a relentless attack formation, the shattered as Thor’s Hammer, the lines of the opponent.
Gruesome carnage
The reason was simple and cruel: If the depth of Formation had once set in motion, could not hold. The front rows were forced to constantly move forward, because the rear limbs nachdrängten. Who fell to the ground, was trampled on by the own people. With this power, lance woods, the Front forward urge and smashed any resistance. The front of the bunch, the pikemen stood with the lances, warriors with halberds and two-handed followed swords, and armored fighters. Against this kind of to fight, the knight had no Chance. A violence, you could face a heap, only with a own Formation of the same kind. Quickly, the Germans adapted the Swiss method of warfare.
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The German mercenary leader Frundsberg described the collision of two clusters in Italy: “Where, under the long, a number of members of Brigades to go to reason, the people behind it to be a little shy.” The long skewers jammed, the crowd was worse than a concert in front of the stage. Swords and halberds were of no use to us, so to handle in the Close to daggers, short Axes, and fist-banging. Many of them were also crushed. Others crawled between the legs around the opponent, the Tendons cut through. The carnage went, to shake up a bunch of started. But the escape was not an Option, the group could not stand it anymore, it was literally rammed into the ground.
at the beginning of the Swiss neutrality
For the Swiss, even the leadership was in the military technology as two-edged thing. By the Swiss independence was preserved. Territorially, Switzerland is enlarged by conquests in Germany and Italy. To Napoleon dared nobody, the confederates attack. Soon, however, the Swiss team was taught their first defeat. At Marignano, they were of German, French and Italian servants, who fought in the same way as you, but disciplined, thrown back. The battle of Marignano was extremely cruel. Witnesses reported that the fighters would have stood up to the ankles in the blood of the dead.
Today, the battle is üeverywhere in the world not only in Switzerland. There, the “battle of the giants” as a turning point in the foreign policy. The strict neutrality policy of Switzerland is attributed to the shock of the defeat.
at the Time, the world was appalled by the barbaric and religious ferocity of the fighting. In the Fight against Charles the Bold, it was forbidden to the Swiss strict not to take prisoners. In the middle ages, prisoners were made because of the ransom, the Swiss should fight in Formation and not because of a ransom to leave. The result is that they beat all the prisoners and wounded mercilessly dead. In Marignano, the German dead on cut Swiss bellies, to lubricate with the grease your skewers. Body fat had faith to the enlightenment and a strong cultic significance in the people. Other bodies chopped up, fry the pieces and eat.
at the beginning of the Swiss guard
The Swiss authorities restricted after the defeat of the “rice run” – the Swiss term for Mercenaries – a. One of the last and most famous rice runner Kaspar Had was. He and his men established the Tradition of the Swiss guard in the Vatican, as they sheltered in 1527 the Roman Pope prior to the Spanish mercenaries. The Spaniards were reformed, Catholic, and Had and his men.
Although you should return to Zurich to let the Swiss mercenary as a “real war, people and servants,” the Pope and the College of cardinals “in great Distress” in the lurch. Had and the majority of his men were on the St. Peter’s square, the attacker, 42 mercenaries, under the leadership of Hercules Göldli were able to bring the Pope to safety. All the rest of the Swiss fell. The seriously injured Kaspar Had been hacked to pieces. His wife lost her Finger, as she threw herself protectively over the Dying.
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British researchers have come to a terrible discovery magnets. In an idyllic village are buried terribly mutilated bodies outside of the cemetery. The posthumous injuries should ban the dead in their graves.
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Known as the Corgi with the tail, the Cardigan Welsh Corgi is the older of the two Corgi breeds. Like the Pembroke Welsh Corgi, the Cardigan is low set with moderately heavy bone and a deep chest. Originally used as a drover and farm dog, the breed is small and powerful, capable of great speed and endurance. Coat colors include red, sable, brindle, black and blue merle. White markings are common. [AKC]
One of the best features about a Cardigan is his personality. A big dog in a small package, his temperament is based upon his original life as a companion and valuable farm helper and guardian, all of which make him an adaptable and outstanding housepet. The Cardigan Welsh Corgi is a dog who wants to be truly involved with his family; his family should WANT to become involved with him too. He is full of fun and will shower that family with devotion and sensible affection, although some Cardigans withhold their favors from strangers until they get to know them better. Caring for his people (including children) comes naturally to this intelligent, alert and responsible dog. Because they’re expressive and trainable, Cardigan Welsh Corgis have also been seen in several recent motion pictures. [CWCCA]
The Cardigan Welsh Corgi is a long, low fox-like dog with large upright ears, a brushy tail, moderate bone, and front legs slightly bowed around a deep chest. His appearance should conform as closely as possible to the AKC Standard, which states, “…a small, sturdy but powerful dog capable of endurance and speed.” The average size is handy, approximately twelve inches at the shoulder with females ideally ranging from 25-34 pounds and males from 30-38 pounds. The Cardigan’s practical coat is medium length and double with a variety of colors, shades and patterns: brindle (which gives a wood grain effect), red (brown or golden), sable (with black hair tips), blue merle (black and grey marbled) and black. Blues and blacks can have “points” (cheeks and eyebrows) in either tan (for a tri-color) or brindle. White flashings are usual on the neck (as a partial or full collar), chest, legs, muzzle, underparts, tip of tail and blaze. Black masks are acceptable along with some ticking (freckles). [CWCCA]
Learn more about the Cardigan’s Breed Standard
With reasonable care, the average lifespan of a Cardigan is around 12-15 years, with 16 and 17 not unheard of. All Corgis deserve good care, which includes a secure place, a good diet and water, exercise, veterinary visits and vaccinations, general grooming (including nails and teeth), socialization, training and love. If not show quality, he/she should be neutered or spayed; a litter requires many considerations including genetics, time, effort (!) and expense.
The Cardigan’s coat is all-weather and generally clean and odorless. It is best if brushed once a week to remove dead hair. Like most dogs, he does shed roughly twice a year; in keeping with his moderate coat, the amount isn’t extreme. [CWCCA]
A small but hardy dog was found centuries ago in the remote, misty green hills of Cardiganshire in Wales. He was a “Corgi,” “Cor” for dwarf (or perhaps “cur” for working dog) and “gi” (with a hard “G” sound) for dog. This “ci-llathed” or “yard-long” dog was highly valued by his family as affectionate companion, guard, general farm worker, and driver of cattle. In fact, ancient Welsh law provided for severe penalties to those who harmed or stole one of the little “corgwn,” because the corgi’s talents could help determine his family’s economic status.
Never numerous and sometimes confused with the more common tailless Pembroke Welsh Corgi, the Cardigan is a separate breed of ancient lineage, descended from the Teckel or Dachshund family. The earliest Cardigans were heavy, golden or blue merle with perhaps drop ears. Careful crosses were made with working qualities in mind, probably with brindle and red herders; the result was also more refined, dignified and foxy-looking.
Although the Cardigan Welsh Corgi was first shown in England in 1919 and the English Cardigan Welsh Corgi Association was founded in 1926, the Cardigans and Pembrokes were not finally declared to be separate breeds by the English Kennel Club until 1934. The first pair of Cardigans was imported to the United States by Mrs. B.P. Bole in 1931, with the Welsh Corgi recognized by the American Kennel Club in 1934, and the Cardigan and Pembroke Welsh Corgis recognized separately in December, 1934. The Cardigan Welsh Corgi Club of America was founded in 1935. The Cardigan has gone from the Non- Sporting to the Working to the Herding Group. [CWCCA]
Beyond the Home
As a recognized AKC breed, the Cardigan can compete in AKC dog shows. However, he does not have to be limited to conformation. In keeping with their Welsh farm heritage and intelligence, Cardigans do well in obedience, tracking, agility and, of course, herding trials. [CWCCA]
Learn more about competing with your cardigan on the AKC Dog Shows, Trials and Field Events website. Also, don’t forget to check out the Rules & Regulations
Dogs are judged on their adherence to the standard of excellence developed for the breed. A good show dog is one that demonstrates many of the virtues called for in the breed standard.
Tests a dog’s ability to perform a prescribed set of exercises on which it is scored. In each exercise, you must score more than 50% of the possible points (ranging from 20 to 40) and get a total score of at least 170 out of a possible 200.
Based on Obedience, except competitors proceed around a course of designated stations with the dog in heel position. Unlike traditional obedience, handlers are allowed to encourage their dogs during the course
Demonstrates teamwork through a timed obstacle course of jumps, tunnels, and weave poles.
Coursing Ability
Simplified Lure Coursing, a performance event where dogs chase a lure — typically a plastic bag attached to a rope line — around a course in an open field. The event tests the dog’s innate coursing and hunting by sight ability. Coursing Ability Tests are open to all breeds, unlike the traditional Lure Coursing.
The purpose of the competitive herding trial program is to preserve and develop the herding skills inherent in the herding breeds and to demonstrate that they can perform the useful functions for which they were originally bred
Showcases a dog’s natural ability to locate and follow a scent.
Cardigan Welsh Corgi Club of America
The parent club for the Cardigan Welsh Corgi breed, and is a member of the American Kennel Club.
Content within paragraphs that have [CWCCA] following it, have been used with permission of the Cardigan Welsh Corgi Club of America.
American Kennel Club (AKC)
A good informational source for all AKC dog related events and general breed information.
Cardigan Commentary International
Excellent resource from an international panel of Cardigan enthusiasts whose aim it is to provide a forum where Cardigan fanciers from around the world can exchange knowledge, experience and viewpoints, providing available information on everything related to Cardigans.
Cardigan Welsh Corgi Association
The parent breed club for Cardigan Welsh Corgis in the UK
Wikipedia – Cardigan Welsh Corgi
Animal Planet – CWC Overview and Dogs 101 video
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The Conservatives will be back in Hammersmith and Fulham
By Harry Phibbs
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In an earlier post I predicted that I would survive as a councillor for the marginal ward of Ravenscourt Park in Hammersmith and Fulham. This proved to be correct.
I also expected this would be enough for us to retain control of the council we gained from Labour in 2006. This would have meant defying political gravity and, I’m afraid, we failed to manage it.
As the former council leader Stephen Greenhalgh says:
“This is a bitter blow for Councillor Nick Boterill and his team. H&F Conservatives have a record to be proud of. We lowered council tax by 20 per cent and more than halved the council’s debt in just eight years. We always tried to put our residents first by delivering cleaner streets and improving our parks which now have 13 green flags as a mark of excellence. Crime also has fallen by a quarter since 2006. This Conservative council introduced round the clock beat policing in our three town centres. We always worked closely with the police to fight crime rather than plea bargain with criminals. Hammersmith & Fulham has now been transformed into a borough of opportunity with six new free schools opening, 1000 new affordable homes to buy, and an ambitious mission to regenerate some of the most deprived parts of the capital.”
Labour did not try to fight us on our record. Their leaflets scarcely mentioned it. They were dominated by the (false) claim that Charing Cross Hospital is going to close and the (false) claim that the land would be sold for “luxury flats”, and the (false) claim that decisions about the NHS are a matter for the local council – and thus voting Labour would “save” the hospital.
I am proud of the vigorous and positive Conservative campaign but we should have done more to counter Labour’s claims on this.
So one reason we lost was that the national share of the vote has swung away from the Conservatives since 2010. Another reason was the effectiveness of Labour’s scaremongering over the hospital. A third is that – in London at least – many who previously voted Lib Dem were on the Left. So Labour picked up more of the Lib Dem vote that the Conservatives did. This may not apply so much elsewhere in the country. I’m not sure the Lib Dems in Cornwall are as likely to be public sector Guardianistas.
Anyway what will the Labour council do? The new council leader Cllr Stephen Cowan has said many times that our Council Tax cuts have not gone far enough and that he would go further. It is one of their five early pledges. He also felt that the revenue from parking charges was too high. Also that the number of police officers funded by the council would be increased. There was to be a fully costed manifesto setting out how this would be paid for – although the document was not published.
I will have to adapt to life as an opposition councillor. I hope I will be constructive and judge the new administration in my borough on their actions. For example, if they carry out their pledge to accelerate the reduction in Council Tax, this is something I would welcome.
Some of my colleagues are sceptical as to whether Labour will achieve this. Let us see. As that crooner Sting would put it:
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
On a personal note I am very sorry for those good friends and hard working councillors and candidates who lost. I congratulate all those who were elected yesterday. Of course the dishonest nature of Labour’s campaigning sours relations between our parties locally. But I am sure that most councillors of all parties in my borough and elsewhere are motivated by a desire to improve the communities they live in.
Particular congratulations to Cllr Caroline ffiske – she was elected as one of the Conservative councillors in Avonmore and Brook Green Ward yesterday and also happens to be my wife.
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Yanmar part ways with A&Y Equipment
Japanese equipment manufacturer Yanmar has parted ways with its established UK & Ireland distributor A&Y Equipment.
Yanmar said that following its acquisition of Terex’s German excavator and wheeled loader manufacturing business in 2016 it now wants to set up an all-new distribution network.
It described the split from A&Y as mutual and said that it would reveal its new distribution structure in due course.
Yanmar loaders, excavators and carriers have been a substantial part of A&Y’s business. It began in 1989 as Ammann Equipment Ltd, a subsidiary of Swiss manufacturer Amman Group. When Ammann entered into a joint venture with Yanmar to produce mini excavators at a factory in Saint-Dizier France, Yanmar products were added to its offering.
In December 2013 Ammann Equipment Ltd broke away from its parent and became A&Y Equipment Ltd (as in Ammann & Yanmar).
Last year A&Y became the UK importer for Italian-made Dieci construction machinery and this year also began representing Bergmann dumpers.
Andreas Hactergal, sales and marketing director at Yanmar Construction Equipment Europe, said: “As Europe’s compact equipment specialist, the UK and Ireland construction market is a key area of strategic focus for us. Over the coming weeks, we’re looking forward to announcing an all-new network of UK and Ireland dealers and significantly expanding our national coverage.”
Sourced – The Construction Index.
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"Some Platitudes Concerning Drama"1
By John Galsworthy
A DRAMA must be shaped so as to have a spire of meaning. Every grouping of life and character has its inherent moral; and the business of the dramatist is so to pose the group as to bring that moral poignantly to the light of day. Such is the moral that exhales from plays like Lear , Hamlet , and Macbeth . But such is not the moral to be found in the great bulk of contemporary [1912] drama. The moral of the average play is now, and probably has always been, the triumph at all costs of a supposed immediate ethical good over supposed immediate ethical evil.
The vice of drawing these distorted morals has permeated the drama to its spine; discoloured its art, humanity, and significance; infected its creators, actors, audience, critics; too often turned it from a picture into a caricature. A drama which lives under the shadow of the distorted moral forgets how to be free, fair, and fine-forgets so completely that it often prides itself on having forgotten.
Now, in writing plays, there are, in this matter of the moral, three courses open to the serious dramatist. The first is: To definitely set before the public that which it wishes to have set before it, the views and codes of life which the public lives and in which it believes. This is the most common, successful and popular. It makes the dramatist's position sure, and not too obviously authorative.
The second course is: To definitely set before the public those views and codes of life by which the dramatist himself lives, those theories in which he himself believes the more effectively if they are the opposite of what the audience may swallow them like powder in a spoonful of Jam.
There is a third course: To set before the public no cut-and-dried codes, but the phenomena of life and character, selected and combined, but not distorted, by the dramatist's outlook, set down without fear, favour, or prejudice, leaving the public to draw such poor moral as nature may afford. This third method requires a certain detachment; it requires a sympathy with, a love of, and a curiosity as to, things for their own sake; it requires a far view, together with patient industry, for no immediately practical result.
It was once said of Shakespeare that he had never done any good to any one, and never would. This, unfortunately, could not, in the sense in which the word "good" was then meant, be said of most modem dramatists. In truth, the good that Shakespeare did to humanity was of a remote, and shall we say, eternal nature; something of the good men get from having the sky and the sea to look at. And this partly because he was, in his greater plays at all events, free from the habit of drawing a distorted moral. Now, the playwright who supplies to the public the facts distorted by the moral which it expects does so that he may do the public what he considers an immediate good, by fortifying its prejudices; and the dramatist who supplies to the public facts distorted by his own advanced Morality, does so because he considers that he will at once benefit the public by substituting for its worn-out ethics his own. In both cases the advantage the dramatist hopes to confer on the public is immediate and practical.
But matters change, and morals change; men remain -- and to set men, and the facts about them, down faithfully, so that they draw for us the moral of their natural actions, may also possibly be of benefit to the community. It is, at all events, harder than to set men and facts down, as they ought, or ought not to be. This, however, is not to say that a dramatist should, or indeed can, keep himself and his temperamental philosophy out of his work. As a man lives and thinks, so will he write. But it is certain, that to the making of good drama, as to the practice of every other art, there must be brought an almost passionate love of discipline, a white-heat of self-respect, a desire to make the truest, fairest, best thing in one's power; and that to these must be added an eye that does not flinch. Such qualities alone will bring to a drama the selfless character which soaks it with inevitability.
The word "pessimist" is frequently applied to the few dramatists who have been content to work in this way. It has been applied, among others, to Euripides, to Shakespeare, to Ibsen; it will be applied to many in the future. Nothing, however, is more dubious than the way in which these two words "pessimist" and "optimist" are used; for the optimist appears to be he who cannot bear the world as it is, and is forced by his nature to picture it as it ought to be, and the pessimist one who cannot only bear the world as it is, but loves it well enough to draw it faithfully. The true lover of the human race is surely he who can put it with it in all its forms, in vice as well as in virtue, in defeat no less than in victory; the true seer he who sees not only joy but sorrow, the true painter of human life one who blinks nothing. It may be that he is also, incidentally, its true benefactor.
In the whole range of the social fabric there are only two impartial persons, the scientist and the artist, and under the latter heading such dramatists as desire to, write not only for to-day, but for to-morrow, must strive to come.
But dramatists being as they are made -- past remedy -- it is perhaps more profitable to examine the various points at which their qualities and defects are shown.
The plot! A good plot is that sure edifice which slowly rises out of interplay of circumstance on temperament, and temperament on circumstance, within the enclosing atmosphere of an idea. A human being is the best plot there is; it may be impossible to see why he is a good plot, because the idea within which he was brought forth cannot be fully grasped; but it is plain that he is a good plot. He is organic. And so it must be with a good play. Reason alone produces no good plots; they come by original sin, sure conception, and instinctive after-power of selecting what benefits the germ. A bad plot, on the other hand, is simply a row of stakes, with a character impaled on each -- characters who would have liked to live, but came to untimely grief; who started bravely, but fell on these stakes placed beforehand in a row, and were transfixed one by one, while their ghosts stride on, squeaking and gibbering, through the play. Whether these stakes are made of facts or of ideas, according to the nature of the dramatist who planted them, their effect on the unfortunate characters is the same; the creatures were begotten to be staked, and staked they are! The demand for a good plot, not unfrequently heard, commonly signifies: "Tickle my sensations by stuffing the play with arbitrary adventures, so that I need not be troubled to take the characters seriously. Set the persons, of the play to action, regardless of time, sequence, atmosphere, and probability!"
The dialogue! Good dialogue again is character, marshaled so as continually to stimulate interest or excitement. The reason good dialogue is seldom found in plays is merely that it is hard to write, for it requires not only a knowledge of what interests or excites, but such a feeling for character as brings misery to the dramatist's heart when his creations speak as they should not speak -- ashes to his mouth when they say things for the sake of saying them -- disgust when they are "smart."
The art of writing true dramatic dialogue is an austere art, denying itself all license, grudging every sentence devoted to the mere machinery of the play, suppressing all jokes and epigrams severed from character, relying for fun and pathos on the fun and tears of life. From start to finish good dialogue is hand-made, like good lace; clear, of fine texture, furthering with each thread the harmony and strength of a design to which all must be subordinated.
But good dialogue is also spiritual action. In so far as the dramatist divorces his dialogue from spiritual action -- that is to say, from progress of events, or toward events which are significant of character -- he is stultifying ... the thing done; he may make pleasing disquisitions, he is not making drama. And in so far as he twists characters to suit his moral or his plot, he is neglecting a first principle that truth to Nature which alone invests art with hand-made quality.
The dramatist's license, in fact, ends with his design. In conception alone he is free. He may take what character or group of characters he chooses, see them with what eyes, knit them with what idea, within the limits of his temperament; but once taken, seen, and knitted, he is bound to treat them like a gentleman, with the tenderest consideration of their mainsprings. Take care of character; action and dialogue will take care of themselves! The true dramatist gives full rein to his temperament in the scope and nature of his subject; having once selected subject and characters he is just, gentle, restrained, neither gratifying is his lust for praise at the expense of his offspring, nor using them as puppets to flout his audience. Being himself the nature that brought them forth, he guides them in the course predestined at their conception. So only have they a chance of defying Time, which is always lying in wait to destroy the false, topical, or fashionable, all -- in a word -- that is not based on the permanent elements of human nature. The perfect dramatist rounds up his characters and facts within the ring-fence of a dominant idea which fulfils the craving of his spirit; having got them there, he suffers them to live their own lives.
Plot, action, character, dialogue! But there is yet another subject for a platitude. Flavour! An impalpable quality, less easily captured than the scent of a flower, the peculiar and most essential attribute of any work of art! It is the thin, poignant spirit which hovers up out of a play, and is as much its differentiating essence as is caffeine of coffee. Flavour, in fine, is the spirit of the dramatist projected into his work in a state of volatility, so that no one can exactly lay hands on it, here, there, or anywhere. This distinctive essence of a play, marking its brand, is the one thing at which the dramatist cannot work, for it is outside his consciousness. A man may have many moods, he has but one spirit and this spirit he communicates in some subtle, unconsciousness way to all his work. It waxes and wanes with the currents of his vitality, but no more alters than a chestnut changes into an oak.
For, in truth, dramas are very like unto trees, springing from seedlings, shaping themselves inevitably in accordance with the laws fast hidden within themselves ' drinking sustenance from the earth and air, and in conflict with the natural forces round them. So they slowly come to full growth, until warped, stunted, or risen to fair and gracious height, they stand open to all the winds. And the trees that spring from each dramatist are of different race; he is the spirit of his own sacred grove, into which no stray tree can by any chance enter.
One more platitude. It is not unfashionable to pit one form of drama against another -- holding up the naturalistic to the disadvantage of the epic; the epic to the belittlement of the fantastic; the fantastic to the detriment of the naturalistic. Little purpose is thus served. The essential meaning, truth, beauty, and irony of things may be revealed under all these forms. Vision over life and human nature can be as keen and just, the revelation as true, inspiring, delight-giving, and thought-provoking, whatever fashion be employed -- it is simply a question of doing it enough to uncover the kernel of the nut. Whether the violet come from Russia, from Parma, or from England, matters little. Close by the Greek temples at Paestum there are violets that seem redder, and sweeter, than any ever seen -- as though they have sprung up out of the footprints of some old pagan goddess; but under the April sun, in a Devonshire lane, the little blue scentless violets capture every bit as much of the spring. And so it is with drama -- no matter what its form -- it need only be the "real thing," need only have caught some of the precious fluids, revelation, or delight, and imprisoned them within a chalice to which we may put our lips and continually drink. ...
--John Galsworthy (1867-1933).
1 From "The Inn of Tranquility." See, Carnegie Mellon's site
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/metabook/galse.html
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Claudia Horst, Marc Aurel: Philosophie und politische Macht zur Zeit der Zweiten Sophistik. Historia - Einzelschriften, Bd 225. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. Pp. 232. ISBN 9783515102803. €56.00.
Reviewed by David J. DeVore, University of California, Berkeley (djdevore@berkeley.edu)
Since the 1980s a number of German- and English-speaking scholars have become interested in the social implications of philosophical practice during the Roman imperial period.1 Since the massive corpus of texts by and about philosophers offers much fodder for this interest—although surviving philosophical treatises, lectures, commentaries, and orations, and even biographies, letters, and inscriptions rarely supply straightforward answers to social-historical questions—historians have debated such questions as the status of philosophers, the boundaries between philosophers and other professions, philosophy's contribution to Roman education, and the cultural consequences of philosophical indoctrination.2 Only recently, however, have historians begun to exploit this emerging sociology of philosophy to explain Roman imperial policy, and this primarily in studies of the later Empire rather than the first and second centuries.3
In addressing the relevance of philosophical activity for Marcus Aurelius' governance of the Empire, Claudia Horst's new monograph picks a ripe target for establishing that philosophy did shape imperial policy. Criticizing both political historians' underestimation of philosophical factors and intellectual historians' hesitation to consider relations of power (pp. 12-13, 40-45),4 she aims to use Ideengeschichte to explain Marcus Aurelius' policies (37). Specifically, Horst situates Marcus within the so-called Second Sophistic, arguing (following Tim Whitmarsh) that the discourses of the Second Sophistic represented a negotiation between ruling Romans and ruled Greeks, and so structured the horizon of elite expectations that Marcus Aurelius attempted to meet (40-49, 139-142).5 Marcus' internalization of Second-Sophistic discourses, therefore, facilitated his harmonious relations with Senators and other Roman elites that were necessary to govern Rome's Empire effectively.
Horst develops her argument over six chapters. The first, an extended review of scholarship, adopts the model of Aloys Winterling (who himself modified Mommsen's "dyarchy" between emperor and Senate) for relations between the emperor and Senate.6 Here Horst emphasizes that emperors depended on the Senate to legitimate their rule (18-33). The need for senatorial legitimation constrained emperors to conform to senatorial expectations of emperors. These expectations structured Marcus' attitude toward ruling.
Horst's second, longest, and most philosophical chapter, treats the Stoic principle of oikeiōsis, which, she argues at length, meant identifying with external phenomena that normally seem alien to the individual, particularly other participants in human society (56-83). Following Pierre Hadot,7 Horst reads Marcus' Meditations persuasively as an exercise in oikeiōsis. The text includes self-admonitions to view the entire cosmos, to fulfill the speaker-hearer's role dutifully in it, and to benefit others (83-98). And by their formal traits, such as dialogue, imperatives, and exampla, the Meditations construct their author/hearer as an active agent who internalizes and actualizes Stoic principles (98-108).
In her fourth chapter Horst contends that, among the Roman elite, paideia was an honorable attainment and a reliable vehicle for upward social mobility, particularly in Marcus' regime. 8 Horst's prosopographical research then shows that under Marcus highly educated elites, such as Junius Rusticus, Claudius Maximus, and Sextus of Chaeroneia, gained influence at the emperor's court and drew higher offices than the educationally advanced had previously (124-138; also 190-192).
The fifth chapter surveys the four Second Sophistic authors on kingship. Dio Chrysostom, Plutarch, Aelius Aristides, and Philostratus produced two discourses that are in tension with one another. One advocated harmonious, reciprocal relations between monarch and subjects, often under the buzzword of "democracy," which in practice during the imperial period signified a reciprocal relationship of exchange between the emperor and autonomous local elites. The other discourse criticized "tyranny," often as a veiled warning against revocation of aristocratic prerogatives (esp. 142-149).
Horst's sixth chapter attempts to confirm that such Second-Sophistic discourses informed Marcus' policies as emperor. Among the policies Horst sees as influenced by philosophy were Marcus' refusal of traditional imperial pomp (174, 195-196), his interventions in Athenian governance to "democratize" (i.e. empower the aristocracy of) the city (175-180, 193-194, following the Second-Sophistic prescriptions discussed in Chapter 5), and Marcus' never executing a Senator, which underlay his desire for amicable reconciliation with the rebel Avidius Cassius (186-189).
The keen insights in this study are many. Horst's interpretation of the background and content of the Meditations proves admirably that philosophical teachings motivated Marcus to maintain strong relations with the Senate and other elites. Her discussion of Marcus' policies shows sufficiently that Marcus maintained concord between emperor and Senate. The link she draws between Second-Sophistic prescriptions about "democracy" and Marcus' reorganization of Athens seems quite plausible.
Some causal relationships that Horst draws seem more questionable—particularly between Marcus' philosophical practice and his relations with the Roman Senate. Some readers may be left wondering whether Marcus' surrounding himself with philosophers, his "democratization" of Athenian governance, and his mildness toward Avidius Cassius as emperor were distinctive enough to confirm that Marcus consciously conformed his rule to Second-Sophistic principles.
The hypothesis of Second-Sophistic underpinnings of Marcus' policies could be confirmed by further research. One method would be analysis of Marcus' visual self-representation: the numerous portraits of Marcus on coins and in sculpture may have signaled to Senators and other Roman elites that Marcus was one of them.9 Another would be a more systematic study of Marcus' legislation. Another would be a systematic comparison between Marcus' policies and those of his Vorbilder as emperor. A preliminary comparison with the policies of Antoninus Pius, who was not so immersed in philosophy, calls into question the exceptionality of Marcus' policies. Pius was no less mild toward senators than Marcus: where Marcus executed none, Pius executed just one (an open usurper, Atilius Titianus; SHA Pius 7.3-4; cf. 8.10, Epitome de Caesaribus 15.6); and Pius allowed the Senate to conduct the trial of this usurper: compare perhaps Marcus' giving the Athenian aristocracy an outlet for self-governance. Like Marcus, Pius shunned many of the princeps' traditional trappings and gained thereby gained the esteem of the Senate (SHA Pius 6.4-5, 6.12, 11.1). Like Marcus, Pius rewarded philosophers' service, albeit with lesser honors than seats in the emperor's consilium (SHA Pius 10.3, Digest 27.1.6.8).10 Was Marcus ruling as a philosopher-emperor ought, or extending Pius' policies? Further comparison between Marcus and other emperors might yet reveal some "philosophical" nuances in Marcus' policies.
Indeed, it is not entirely clear how deeply the Second-Sophistic writers probed by Horst informed the expectations that surrounded Marcus' governance. Although it is plausible that senatorial expectations shaped emperors' policies, Horst all but admits that during Marcus' reign the Senate still included few Greek elites whose worldviews were formed by the Second Sophistic (pp. 49, 157). Between 160 and 180 'the vast majority of Senators still hailed from Italy or other Latin-speaking provinces. Was philosophy as respectable among contemporary Latin-speaking Roman elites as Horst assumes? Latin authors criticized philosophy and philosophers more consistently and earnestly than Greek writers; and as the criticisms of philosophy in the letters of Marcus' tutor Fronto show, such critiques remained viable.11 Confirmation that Second-Sophistic discourses shaped senatorial expectations of the emperor's role could come in Latin discourses. While no senatorial texts about the emperor survive from Marcus' reign or just before, the surviving senatorial texts on emperorship nearest in time to Marcus—Pliny's Panegyric and the historiographical works of Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio—could reveal how salient the prescriptions of Dio, Plutarch, Aelius Aristides, and Philostratus were among senatorial elites.12 A systematic comparison between these senatorial discourses and Horst's Second-Sophistic texts, with evidence that Marcus deviated from senatorial recommendations to fulfill Second-Sophistic prescriptions, would substantiate Horst's thesis more securely.
In all, Horst's monograph raises significant questions about the interplay between philosophical activity and political power and offers some plausible answers. Her work deserves attention from scholars interested in the Second Sophistic, in the cultural history of Roman governance, and in one of the few Roman emperors to warrant the appellation philosophos. The book is well edited, containing few typos or errors.
1. The seminal works were Barbara Maier, Philosophie und römisches Kaisertum. Studien zu ihren wechselseitigen Beziehungen in der Zeit von Caesar bis Marc Aurel (Vienna, 1985), Miriam Griffin and Jonathan Barnes (eds.), Philosophia Togata. Essays on Philosophy and Roman Society (Oxford, 1989), and especially Johannes Hahn, Der Philosoph und die Gesellschaft. Selbstverständnis, öffentliches Auftreten und populäre Erwartungen in der hohen Kaiserzeit (Wiesbaden, 1989).
2. See e.g. Gillian Clark and Tessa Rajak (eds.), Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World. Essays in Honour of Miriam Griffin (Oxford, 2002), Philip Stadter and Luc Van der Stockt (eds.), Sage and Emperor: Plutarch, Greek Intellectuals, and Roman Power in the Time of Trajan (98-117 A.D.) (Leuven, 2002), and Michael Trapp, Philosophy in the Roman Empire: Ethics, Politics and Society (Aldershot, 2007). Much of the last two decades of literature on the so-called Second Sophistic, e.g. by Maud Gleason, Simon Swain, Thomas Schmitz, Tim Whitmarsh, has also scrutinized philosophers' social roles along with those of other intellectuals; see most recently Kendra Eshleman, The Social World of Intellectuals in the Roman Empire: Sophists, Philosophers, and Christians (Cambridge, 2012).
3. On the intersection of philosophy and politics under the later Empire, see Peter Brown, Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity (Madison, 1992), Elizebeth DePalma Digeser, A threat to public piety: Christians, Platonists, and the great persecution (Ithaca, 2012), and Susanna Elm, Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome (Berkeley, 2012).
4. Not all scholars accept that Marcus' philosophical practice shaped his rule as emperor. "The influence of philosophy on [Marcus'] practical politics is not traceable," writes Lukas de Blois ("Politics and Philosophy under Marcus Aurelius," in Marcel van Ackeren (ed.), A Companion to Marcus Aurelius [Malden, MA, 2012], 179).
5. Whitmarsh, Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: the Politics of Imitation (Oxford, 2001). Recent research has confirmed that the so-called Second Sophistic was a cooperative project between Greeks and Romans: see A.J.S. Spawforth, Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution (Cambridge, 2012) and Jared Secord, Elites and Outsiders: The Greek-Speaking Scholars of Rome 100 BCE-200 CE (Ph.D. Diss., University of Michigan, 2012).
6. Particularly in Winterling, "Dyarchie in der römischen Kaiserzeit," in W. Nippel and B. Seidensticker (eds.), Theodor Mommsens langer Schatten (Hildesheim, 2005), and "'Staat', 'Gesellschaft' und politische Integration in der römischen Kaiserzeit," Klio 83 (2001), 93-112.
7. Hadot, Philosophie als Lebensform. Geistige Übungen in der Antike (Berlin, 1991); English translation: Philosophy as a Way of Life. Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault (Malden, MA, 1995).
8. Here Horst conflates philosophical activity with sophistic oratory and other pursuits that manifested paideia, though she acknowledges debate over the distinctiveness of philosophers (109 n. 1, 116, 152).
9. See the relevant chapters in M. van Ackeren (ed.), A Companion to Marcus Aurelius (Malden, MA, 2012). Horst (pp. 112-113) does cite artistic evidence as evidence of the prestige of paideia (following Paul Zanker, Die Maske des Sokrates: das Bild des Intellektuellen in der antiken Kunst, Munich, 1995), but does not assess Marcus' own portraiture or coins.
10. On Pius' relations with the Senate, see Sabine Walentkowski, Kommentar zur Vita Antoninus Pius der Historia Augusta (Bonn, 1998), 67-68., 70-73, 94-96, 100-102, 202-203, 209-212, 234. I thank Kathryn Langenfeld for help in evaluating the evidence of the Historia Augusta.
11. Horst explains away Fronto's criticisms of philosophical pursuits in a footnote (p. 133 n. 122) "als Bestandteil der innerhalb der zweiten Sophistik zentralen Konkurrenzsituationen sowie nicht zuletzt als Ausdruck existentieller Sorgen Frontos."
12. In particular, several discourses that Horst attributes to Second-Sophistic influence, such as invective against "tyrannical" monarchs (pp. 143-146, 152), Plutarch's emphasis on concord (156), and Aelius Aristides' praise of Roman philanthrōpia (160), were also quite at home in the elite Latin-language discourse of most Roman senators, so no appeal to the Second Sophistic is needed to explain Marcus' concern with them.
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Etiquettes of Eid
What are the Sunnahs and etiquettes that we should act in accordance with on the day of Eid?.
The Sunnahs that the Muslim should observe on the day of Eid are as follows:
1 – Doing ghusl before going out to the prayer.
It was narrated in a saheeh hadeeth in al-Muwatta’ and elsewhere that ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Umar used to do ghusl on the day of al-Fitr before going out to the prayer-place in the morning. Al-Muwatta’ 428.
Al- Nawawi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said that the Muslims were unanimously agreed that it is mustahabb to do ghusl for Eid prayer.
The reason why it is mustahabb is the same reason as that for doing ghusl before Jumu’ah and other public gatherings. Rather on Eid the reason is even stronger.
2 – Eating before going out to pray on Eid al-Fitr and after the prayer on Eid al-Adha:
Part of the etiquette is not to go out to pray on Eid al-Fitr until one has eaten some dates, because of the hadeeth narrated by al-Bukhaari from Anas ibn Maalik, who said that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) used not to go out on the morning of Eid al-Fitr until he had eaten some dates… of which he would eat an odd number. Al-Bukhaari, 953.
It is mustahabb to eat before going out to emphasize the fact that it is forbidden to fast on that day and to demonstrate that the fast has ended.
Ibn Hajar (may Allaah have mercy on him) suggested that the reason for that was so as to ward off the possibility of adding to the fast, and to hasten to obey the command of Allaah. Al-Fath, 2/446
Whoever does not have any dates may break his fast with anything that is permissible.
But on Eid al-Adha it is mustahabb not to eat anything until one comes back from the prayer, so he should eat from the udhiyah if he has offered a sacrifice. If he is not going to offer a sacrifice there is nothing wrong with eating before the prayer.
3 – Takbeer on the day of Eid
This is one of the greatest Sunnahs on the day of Eid because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“(He wants that you) must complete the same number (of days), and that you must magnify Allaah [i.e. to say Takbeer (Allaahu Akbar: Allaah is the Most Great)] for having guided you so that you may be grateful to Him”
[al-Baqarah 2:185]
It was narrated that al-Waleed ibn Muslim said: I asked al-Awzaa’i and Maalik ibn Anas about saying Takbeer out loud on the two Eids. They said, Yes, ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Umar used to say it out loud on the day of al-Fitr until the imam came out (to lead the prayers).
It was narrated in a saheeh report that ‘Abd al-Rahmaan al-Sulami said, “They emphasized it more on the day of al-Fitr than the day of al-Adha.”. Wakee’ said, this refers to the takbeer. See Irwa’ al-Ghaleel, 3/122/
Al-Daaraqutni and others narrated that on the morning of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, Ibn ‘Umar would strive hard in reciting takbeer until he came to the prayer place, then he would recite takbeer until the imam came out.
Ibn Abi Shaybah narrated with a saheeh isnaad that al-Zuhri said: The people used to recite Takbeer on Eid when they came out of their houses until they came to the prayer place, and until the imam came out. When the imam came out they fell silent, and when he said takbeer they said takbeer. See Irwa’ al-Ghaleel, 1/121
Saying takbeer when coming out of one's house to the prayer place and until the imam came out was something that was well known among the salaf (early generations). This has been narrated by a number of scholars such as Ibn Abi Shaybah, ‘Abd a l-Razzaaq and al-Firyaabi in Ahkaam al-Eidayn from a group of the salaf. For example, Naafi’ ibn Jubayr used to recite takbeer and was astonished that the people did not do so, and he said, “Why do you not recite takbeer?”
Ibn Shihaab al-Zuhri (may Allaah have mercy on him) used to say, “The people used to recite takbeer from the time they came out of their houses until the imam came in.”
The time for takbeer on Eid al-Fitr starts from the night before Eid until the imam enters to lead the Eid prayer.
In the case of Eid al-Adha, the takbeer begins on the first day of Dhu’l-Hijjah and lasts until sunset on the last of the days of tashreeq.
Description of the takbeer:
It was narrated in the Musannaf of Ibn Abi Shaybah with a saheeh isnaad from Ibn Mas’ood (may Allaah be pleased with him) that he used to recite takbeer during the days of tashreeq:
Allaahu akbar, Allaahu akbar, laa ilaaha ill-Allaah, wa Allaahu akbar, Allaah akbar, wa Lillaah il-hamd (Allaah is Most Great, Allaah is most Great, there is no god but Allaah, Allaah is Most great, Allaah is most great, and to Allaah be praise).
It was also narrated elsewhere by Ibn Abi Shaybah with the same isnaad, but with the phrase “Allaahu akbar” repeated three times.
Al-Mahaamili narrated with a saheeh isnaad also from Ibn Mas’ood: “Allaahu akbaru kabeera, Allaahu akbaru kabeera, Allaahu akbar wa ajallu, Allaahu akbar wa Lillaah il-hamd (Allaah is Most Great indeed, Allaah is Most Great indeed, Allaah is most Great and Glorified, Allaah is Most Great and to Allaah be praise).” See al-Irwa’, 3/126.
4 – Offering congratulations
The etiquette of Eid also includes the congratulations and good wishes exchanged by people, no matter what the wording, such as saying to one another Taqabbala Allaah minna wa minkum (May Allaah accept (good deeds) from us and from you” or “Eid mubaarak” and other permissible expressions of congratulations.
It was narrated that Jubayr ibn Nufayr said: When the companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) met one another on the day of Eid, they would say to one another, “May Allaah accept (good deeds) from us and from you.” Ibn Hajar said, its isnaad is hasan. Al-Fath, 2/446.
Offering congratulations was something that was well known among the Sahaabah, and scholars such as Imam Ahmad and others allowed it. There is evidence which suggests that it is prescribed to offer congratulations and good wishes on special occasions, and that the Sahaabah congratulated one another when good things happened, such as when Allaah accepted the repentance of a man, they went and congratulated him for that, and so on.
Undoubtedly these congratulations are among the noble characteristics among the Muslims.
The least that may be said concerning the subject of congratulations is that you should return the greetings of those who congratulate you on Eid, and keep quiet if others keep quiet, as Imam Ahmad (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: If anyone congratulates you, then respond, otherwise do not initiate it.
5 – Adorning oneself on the occasion of Eid.
It was narrated that ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him) said that ‘Umar took a brocade cloak that was for sale in the market and brought it to the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and said, “O Messenger of Allaah, buy this and adorn yourself with it for Eid and for receiving the delegations.” The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said to him, “Rather this is the dress of one who has no share (of piety or of reward in the Hereafter)…” Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 948.
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) agreed with ‘Umar on the idea of adorning oneself for Eid, but he denounced him for choosing this cloak because it was made of silk.
It was narrated that Jaabir (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) had a cloak which he would wear on the two Eids and on Fridays. Saheeh Ibn Khuzaymah, 1756,
Al-Bayhaqi narrated with a saheeh isnaad that Ibn ‘Umar used to wear his best clothes on Eid.
So a man should wear the best clothes that he has when going out for Eid.
With regard to women, they should avoid adorning themselves when they go out for Eid, because they are forbidden to show off their adornments to non-mahram men. It is also haraam for a woman who wants to go out to put on perfume or to expose men to temptation, because they are only going out for the purpose of worship.
6 – Going to the prayer by one route and returning by another.
It was narrated that Jaabir ibn ‘Abd-Allaah (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: On the day of Eid, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) used to vary his route. Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 986.
It was said that the reason for that was so that the two routes would testify for him on the Day of Resurrection, for the earth will speak on the Day of Resurrection and say what was done on it, both good and bad.
And it was said that it was in order to manifest the symbols of Islam on both routes, or to manifest the remembrance of Allaah (dhikr), or to annoy the hypocrites and Jews, and to scare them with the large number of people who were with him. And it was said that it was in order to attend to the people’s needs, to answer their questions, teach them, set an example and give charity to the needy, or to visit his relatives and uphold the ties of kinship.
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A Short History of Walking
David Mutton | 12:00am GMT 30 July 2013
An exception that proves the rule?
One of the great things about the Ashes is that it brings cricket into the forefront of the English and Australian national consciousnesses. Alas the trade-off of greater interest is a lot of claptrap commentary from people with only a passing interest in the sport.
This was never clearer than when Stuart Broad did not walk after nicking the ball. Richard Dawkins called Broad ‘a revolting cheat’, ‘dishonest and contemptible’, and felt ‘sad cricket’s descended to this.’ The Radio Five Live host Peter Allen said ‘I always thought cricket was something different.’ Sports writers were not immune from the hyperbole, with Oliver Holt comparing Broad to Lance Armstrong and railing against ‘people who have allowed cricket to become snared in a kind of moral nihilism.’ Hell, the crowd at Lords even jeered Jimmy Anderson under the mistaken assumption that he was the villain of the hour, Broad.
I am not qualified to make judgments on the moralism of walking; for that I point you to Samir Chopra and David Coady’s article on the issue. But Dawkins, Allen, and Holt all hark back to an era when walking was the normal behaviour. This was simply not the case for the large majority of cricket’s history.
As Simon Rae demonstrates, in his excellent It’s Not Cricket, walking was only consistently the accepted practice in England from 1945 to around 1970. Lord Harris, who more than anyone created the notion of the spirit of cricket, admitted that he did not walk even when he knew that he was out. In general amateurs, despite supposedly upholding an ethos where winning was less important than style and spirit, happily and knowingly benefited from umpires who knew on which side their bread was buttered.
It was not merely the hypocrisy of amateurs that led to a lack of walking. Professionals also left the decision to the umpire. Jack Hobbs refused to walk for an obvious catch to the wicketkeeper and denied he had touched the ball when accosted by the bowler, Gubby Allen. However when they discussed the incident a few weeks later Hobbs told Allen that he did not want to embarrass the umpire; “it’s unfair on him”, Hobbs said, “and furthermore, if I had [admitted it], he would almost certainly have given me out at the next opportunity?”
One intriguing story from the 1930s suggests that walking was every bit as contentious then as now. In a championship match between Essex and Gloucestershire, Walter Hammond was caught in the covers but refused to walk. The Essex captain, Johnny Douglas, stormed into the Gloucestershire dressing room during tea and said to Hammond “you’ve got a bloody sauce, you know you were out.” The following day Hammond, usually reluctant to bowl at all, demanded the ball and ripped into Douglas, hitting him, knocking his bat out of his hands and eventually bowling him.
Walking only became the standard in England in the post-war years. As early as the first test of the 1946-47 Ashes Walter Hammond was livid with his nemesis Don Bradman when he stayed at the crease after edging a ball low to the slips. “A fine bloody way to start a series” Hammond chuntered. In the southern counties those who refused to walk were considered somewhere between a cad and a cheat, although the dour professionals of Yorkshire and Lancashire consistently frowned on such fripperies.
Double standards were evident even in this supposed halcyon era of walking. Colin Cowdrey, for example, was renowned for walking ‘for obvious decisions, and then not doing so for the less obvious, in the hope that his reputation would fool the umpire.’ Indeed this could be seen as Broad’s real crime as he walked when he edged the ball to Brad Haddin after establishing a lead of nearly 300.
By the 1970s the demands of the professional era and the expansion of the international game flipped the equation once more. The Australians, the logic went, never walked so why should the English put themselves at a disadvantage? In the world of professional cricket the issue is no longer contentious, with at least two generations of former players advocating staying at the crease. It is only those who romantically imagine a glorious golden era where the spirit of the game trumped other concerns who dream other dreams.
Is it true that it was Chris Broad who cleared Barbie when he refused to walk?
Comment by Agent Nationaux | 12:00am GMT 30 July 2013
Nice read
Cleared him of what, exactly?
As I said at the time, at least Stuart walks once the umpire has given him out, unlike his father on one famous occasion.
Comment by wpdavid | 12:00am GMT 31 July 2013
Is David Mutton the chap who writes Silly Mid Off? Nice addition.
Comment by Howe_zat | 12:00am GMT 31 July 2013
In the extensive reading on the history of the game I have done it is interesting that walking, or batsmen not waiting for the umpire to decide on ‘boderline’ catches, is not mentioned in reports, accounts or memoirs before the post WW2 period.
One notable player of the 20s/30s period reckoned that the amateurs never walked and if a paid player did they would certainly face the wrath of their captain and, depending on the importance of the player, might well be dropped for the following game. This was also the case before then.
I suspect that the social and economic pressures post WW2, which eventually meant the Gentleman and Players idea became untenable, caused the idea of ‘walking’ to appear. It gave the ‘gentleman’ a supposed superiority which kept them relevant.
Comment by Biryani Pillow | 12:00am GMT 31 July 2013
I walked to a bat pad when I was 18 because I was 95% sure I had hit it. The captain was livid with me and told me he would drop me if I ever walked again precisely because on the spur of the moment you can be influenced by the pressure of the appeal he claimed. 95% sure is not good enough.
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Paul Berry, founder and CEO of RebelMouse, says social now owns the homepage completely, which has changed the game for content providers. "The shift to mobile amplifies all the issues and problems of the open web-slow loads, bad ads, and bad user experience. People want to stay in their social networks now and want to read articles and watch videos without ever leaving," Berry says. "While this causes many new issues and concerns for publishers, it also opens up a new world of opportunities for a different type of approach to media."
Mitchell Reichgut, CEO and co-founder of Jun Group, sees benefits to the content distribution platforms for all parties involved. "Users get instant access to content in a format that loads quicker, publishers gain access to new and potentially large audiences, and platforms provide a seamless user experience," says Reichgut.
There's also the potential for higher-performing ads. "AMP-enabled pages can get ranked higher in mobile search results, Facebook's Instant Articles get highlighted more in the Facebook newsfeed, and so on. The promise of these platforms is more traffic and, by extension, increased ad revenues-which is ultimately what publishers are hoping for," Kompella says.
Davids may even be able to benefit more in this mobile distribution space than Goliaths. "Smaller publishers may benefit the most by having their content hosted, because it's a chance to level the playing field and get outsized exposure," says Reichgut. For a popular blogger who can maintain and grow an audience, "these tools can be extremely valuable," says McGuire. Desktop content could stand to profit indirectly from these mobile platforms too. "Desktop traffic can grow quickly through a halo effect of stories going viral on the key platforms' mobile products, which will also translate into desktop traffic," Berry says.
However, hitching your wagon to a platform doesn't come without risks. Publishers are putting their fates and content discoverability in the hands of a third party. Another obvious downside is that the platforms set the ground rules. "If you're a publisher, you have to play by those rules. These aren't partnerships between equals, but to be fair, the tech companies have been willing so far to consider publisher requirements and modify their platforms in response to publisher feedback," Kompella says.
Additionally, monetization rates via these platforms can be iffy. "The monetization is going to be significantly different than subscription margins newspaper and magazine publishers enjoyed in the pre-internet age," says McGuire.
Before choosing a mobile content distribution platform/resource, do your homework on what each offers. Berry highlights the pros and cons of each:
Facebook's Instant Articles
Pro: Significant audience growth potential; plays to the change in Facebook's algorithms and changes in human behavior
Con: Might not monetize as well as a loaded media article page
Medium for Publishers
Pro: Another emerging network with its own audience of influencers
Con: Replacing your site with Medium's can have significant limitations in the short and long run. How well will Medium hold up as it gains larger scale and becomes a direct competitor with the other social networks?
Apple's News App
Pro: Apple is putting marketing muscle in getting the News app in front of a huge audience.
Con: It's complicated to integrate correctly, and the audience is still very small.
Snapchat's Discover
Pro: Its young, influential, quickly growing audience tends to spread love quickly.
Con: Much smaller audience and numbers than Facebook, limited flexibility, and requires finding a Snapchat "voice" for your brand
Google's AMP
Pro: Much faster load for mobile pages because of caching and explicitly set limitations
Con: Can lead to a drop in monetization as opposed to a loaded media article page
Overall, while these platforms are relatively simple to use, they require dedicated resources for initial implementation and overall monitoring, which is why "large publishers are experimenting with multiple platforms," says Kompella. "And it may make sense for smaller publishers to pick one or two platforms rather than bite off more than they can chew."
Research Says Publishers Consider Third-Party Platforms a Success
In AOL's 2016 Publisher Outlook report the industry got a look at research that backs up a lot of what we already know. Mobile and video are important, and ad blocking is a problem. But off platform monetization was also part of the digital publishing equation this year, and it seems the verdict is in: Third party platforms are a hit.
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Occupy Wall Street is a Democracy Movement
The notion that Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has no demands is fueled in part by an arguably deliberate media obtuseness. Judging from the movement's core catch-phrase -- "We are the 99%" -- it is clear that the movement centers around a complaint about economic inequality
There is, nonetheless, a kernel of truth to the media trope that OWS and its far-flung spinoffs remain an amorphous movement with demands no more concrete than, as my Cornell Government Department colleague Sid Tarrow puts it, "Recognize us!" I agree with Tarrow and others that it is too soon to tell whether OWS will fade away or coalesce into a more conventional political movement, and if the latter, what its central focus will be. But I also want to suggest that we may be looking at OWS through the wrong frame.
Most observers take OWS to be a nascent movement within American constitutional democracy. Viewed this way, it is logical to ask what concrete policy changes the OWS protesters seek. Do they want higher capital gains taxes? A constitutional amendment overturning the Citizens United decision? More money for mortgage relief? Yet what if we view OWS not as a movement for anything within democracy but as a movement for democracy?
In this view, we should not be comparing OWS to the civil rights movement or the women's movement but to the Philippine "people power" movement of 1986, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, and the Arab Spring of 2011. Nobody thought to question any of those protesters about their concrete aims: What exactly would be the land policy post-Marcos? What role would the state play in the economy if the Tiananmen protesters had succeeded in deposing the Chinese Communist Party? What version of Islamic finance would be used following the removal from power of Ben Ali and Mubarak? Such questions would have been rightly seen as premature because everyone understood that the protesters in these movements sought, first and foremost, democracy -- with most concrete policy choices to be made within the framework of democracy once it was established.
It may be difficult to see OWS as a democracy movement because the United States already has democracy, but from the protesters' perspective, this is hardly clear at all. The protesters believe that government serves the needs of the rich and powerful, rather than the considerably greater needs of the poor and middle class.
That may describe OWS today but not forever. Where will OWS end up? I can imagine at least three sorts of possibilities. One is that the movement injects some life into progressive politics but then runs out of steam, becoming something like a conventional NGO, much in the way that MoveOn.org, after its founding as a grass-roots movement to oppose the Clinton impeachment, became a kind of all-purpose advocacy and lobbying shop on the liberal/left. (Not surprisingly, MoveOn supports OWS.)
Writing in the NY Times last week, James Miller warned of a second possibility: That a small number of extremists could hijack the OWS movement, much in the way that anarchists have attempted -- with some success -- to hijack the anti-globalization movement. The risk here is less that blood will run in the streets (although some might), but that violent tactics turn public opinion against the mass of peaceful OWS protesters. OWS thus far has shown remarkable sensitivity to this risk and has taken steps to guard against it, but given the spontaneous nature of the rallies around the country and the world, it is impossible to rule this path out.
For me, the most exciting possibility is that OWS remains committed to directly deliberative democracy but solves the problem of scale. With Chuck Sabel, I have written at considerable length about what direct deliberation looks like within the context of representative government, rather than as a replacement for it. For OWS to embrace what we call "democratic experimentalism," however, would appear to require OWS to come to see itself as a movement for structural political change within the existing political framework.
At first blush, that may seem unlikely. OWS seems to have an uncompromising commitment to unfiltered direct deliberation (rather than the direct deliberation nested in representative government that Sabel and I and others imagine). The "human microphone," born of necessity when the authorities forbade electric amplification, might be thought to serve as a metaphor for the movement as a whole.
But on reflection, I think that OWS support for any particular form of deliberation is thin. Few people join mass street movements to express a preference for direct deliberation over representative government. The rank and file of OWS may accept or even like the directly deliberative "general assemblies" but only because they feel so strongly that the established representative government does not hear their voices or represent their interests. Their goal is a politics that responds to people's needs, not any particular form of government.
There is thus potential in OWS for efforts aimed at campaign finance reform, as Larry Lessig suggested on NPR last week, as well as for something like democratic experimentalism. For either of those to occur, however, would require that OWS come to see itself as working within the system. To my mind, that is what makes OWS potentially so interesting -- the possibility that it could become both a democracy movement in the way that liberal revolutionary movements have been on the international scene and a movement for reform within the existing American framework.
tjchiang said...
The comparison with movements for democracy is very illuminating, but left me a little unsatisfied at the end. The Tiananmen Square protesters and the Eygptian protesters didn't have concrete policy choices about minutiae, but they did have a concrete goal in mind: get rid of the Communist Party/Mubarak. I have not seen OWS with something simliar even on this higher level of abstraction. What would it be? A new constitutional convention?
Michael C. Dorf said...
I share Professor Chiang's feeling of dissatisfaction and I think he puts his finger on the apparent paradox of a democracy movement within a democracy. It cannot ask for the removal of the tyrant because there is no tyrant, but any particular reform proposal will seem like mere meliorism. My interest in OWS stems not from the fact that it has figured out how to channel a kind of revolutionary fervor for systemic change into a peaceful reform movement but that it is at least working on the problem.
John Hall said...
Yes, a very welcome piece. It has been in the back of my mind for a week or so that we need to broaden the frames through which we chart the [potentially many] strands of development pulsing through Occupy. Let me put two more on the table.
PUBLIC SPHERE. To be sure, this concept is over used and subject to contention. But let's not miss the forest for the trees. What is especially impressive about Occupy is the commitment to multiple kinds of direct "personal" communication between strangers, through multiple media [direct, web, internet, cell phone, etc.]. Occupy has created a space for new apparatus of public communication, centered on people who are Occupying on the ground, but radiating outward in many directions. Voices are being heard that have never been represented by anyone else, and indeed, if nothing else, the movement is a striking critique of the lack of capacity of established institutions to engage broad publics.
COUNTERCULTURE. Mike Dorf's piece rightly points to a difference between seeking reforms within a [hollowed out] democracy and experimenting with new democratic forms [under new social and technological conditions]. Occupy folks are seeking to live out new visions of how society could be organized, rather than simply reforming old ones [though there are and will continue to be demands on old ones]. One additional trajectory that I already see signs of in California is the development of a new and relatively heterogeneous counterculture. As with "the" counterculture of the 1960s and '70s, there are and will be diverse tendencies. What they share, and what binds them in relative coherence is antagonism toward existing political culture.
The lack of an agreed upon set of goals would not be surprising within either of these frames. A public sphere, by its nature, is the site of dialogue, conversation, debate, in much the way that Anne Kane has characterized the 19th century Irish land movement [see her forthcoming book, out within the month]. And countercultures are not about goal attainment by seeking redress or reform within an established order, but rather concerned with created new cultural forms... in this case, of politics. Each of us will have our favored comparisons, but I think the Puritan revolution, described so well by Christopher Hill in The World Turned Upside Down deserves consideration.
John Hall, jrhall@ucdavis.edu
William Carleton said...
I think there is a tyrant, in a sense. The tyrant is money: money as speech, money as access, money as interest. The incident at one of the (rare) public meetings of the deficit reduction "super committee" the other day was very revealing: someone with a point of view, though perhaps not invited, was escorted from the chamber and the meeting was recessed until "order could be restored." At a general assembly at #OWS, that person could have shut down all progress until her views had been heard. We have a hard time putting a finger on it because it is so normative, but the upshot of #OWS could be as simple as realizing a world in which money is understood to inherently de-legitimize politics and policy decisions. What would a world look like where everyone's voice is equal? Direct democracy, republican form of government, some other variation - it almost doesn't matter, as long as those with money can't amplify their voices, can't jump their turn, can't privilege their agenda over anyone else's.
Glen Salo said...
I believe that OWS reflects a deeper disatisfaction with the monetization of value over labor; or what FDR spoke of in his first inaugural address (March 4, 1933):
More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.
And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.
Primarily, this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and have abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.
True, they have tried. But their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit, they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They only know the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.
Yes, the money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of that restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy, the moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days, my friends, will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves, to our fellow men.
Recognition of that falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, and on unselfish performance; without them it cannot live.
Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone. This Nation is asking for action, and action now.
Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing great -- greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our great natural resources.
BOTTOM LINE: Rebuild the manufacturing base of this country.
Paley Rene said...
Occupy has created a space for new apparatus of public communication, centered on people who are Occupying on the ground, but radiating outward in many directions. Voices are being heard that have never been represented by anyone else, and indeed, if nothing else, the movement is a striking critique of the lack of capacity of established institutions to engage broad publics.
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Schrodinger's cat and getting through law school as a programmer
This is a "wouldn't fit in 140 characters" overflow blogpost from a twitter discussion of software developers learning in law school. I'll attempt to explain just why law school, and thinking about legal "balancing" and "multi factor" tests can be so frustrating when you're trained as a software developer.
Computer science trains developers to expect logical proofs, and compilers give you a definitive immediate feedback of "yes this is at least one kind of correct because it compiles," which is something you can't do in a legal world. But it's more than that. Programming is a step by small step process, where the computer takes you literally. You're probably saying "yes, I know that," but I mean that quite literally, the computer does exactly what you tell it to do. A programming language is a set of tools you can use to construct a solution to a problem that you've broken down into tiny manageable steps. My first time I figured out that there's a logical system to solving problems, where being at state "A" meant you applied one of a known set of possible next steps, and again and it would lead you to a solution, was amazing. It was relaxing and exhilarating and fun all at the same time to process the problems and to see how the logical next step at each stage would get you to the answer. To realize that divide, conquer, apply next step from this toolchain, and repeat would get you somewhere, and it would be fun to do so, is addictive.
In college computer science classes we learned not just a particular language, but that any programming language was just "syntactic sugar" and any non-NP complete problem could have a solution written if you just attacked the problem the right way. It taught us to, again, break down an issue into discrete steps, apply the tools of the programming language, and end up with a working piece of code. A developer becomes pretty good at trying to fit problems into recognizable boxes that are sort of like previous problems, and applying the same pattern of solution to them.
Debugging also teaches developers to be incredibly detail oriented and literal. The computer does not do what you meant, does not do what you thought you typed in, but only explicitly and completely and totally exactly what you actually typed in. The compiler is going to follow the directions you gave it, and execute those, and the outcome is always the same for that same set of directions.
So our software developer who decides to go to law school realizes that law school isn't like software development. Sure, there is no legal compiler. Gotcha, outcomes vary and these are more heuristics. But this is still a brain that's been trained to fit problems into boxes, to be literal about what rules apply, and to follow logical deduction chains. The law usually says one thing, but hey, not in this case- the mental model I've built of what the law says now has an exception to it. The logic branches under this condition. I update my mental model to account for that exception and move on. But I'm still, even if subconsciously, constructing a big logical flowchart in my head that's going to handle all these curve balls in judicial opinions.
Until it doesn't work anymore. My first breakdown came over two torts cases that, to my mind, came out in logically inconsistent ways. My email to my professor was pretty much trying to expand my rules to handle this inconsistency: "How should we reconcile these? Is it just that under battery, particulate matter is considered one way and under the other tort it has a different nature?... The engineer in me is having a bit of trouble with particulate matter being a Schrodinger's cat here, both enough for a tort but not enough for a tort."
The thing is, developers are pretty good at tackling incredibly complex problems and writing up solutions, and so the first curve ball isn't really going to stress your worldview that much. You just add an exception to your mental model and handle it. At some point, this mental model gets stretched too far. It won't handle another contradictory result. Multifactor tests that judges apply come out all over the place, briefs claim to be arguing logically and deducing one part of the argument from the previous one but they're making leaps in inferences, and your poor developer brain will just decide the whole thing is insane.
I had a series of mental freakouts one L year. It's not that the tools you learn in programming are useless in legal analysis; they're actually really helpful. Reading an opinion and constructing a mental model of the relevant law, finding the holding and following how that was applied in this instance are helped by the mental toolkit a developer has. Trying to make peace with the logical-but-not-really logical fuzzy mess of legal reasoning and how the common law really works is kind of a process. Pretty sure my subconscious is still building that exception laden tree, working off "fuzzy logic" precepts now.
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The 95 Theses of Saint Martin Luther
Posted by Reflections at Saturday, August 13, 2011
1. When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, “Repent” (Mt 4:17), he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.
2. This word cannot be understood as referring to the sacrament of penance, that is, confession and satisfaction, as administered by the clergy.
3. Yet it does not mean solely inner repentance; such inner repentance is worthless unless it produces various outward mortification of the flesh.
4. The penalty of sin remains as long as the hatred of self (that is, true inner repentance), namely till our entrance into the kingdom of heaven.
5. The pope neither desires nor is able to remit any penalties except those imposed by his own authority or that of the canons.
6. The pope cannot remit any guilt, except by declaring and showing that it has been remitted by God; or, to be sure, by remitting guilt in cases reserved to his judgment. If his right to grant remission in these cases were disregarded, the guilt would certainly remain unforgiven.
7. God remits guilt to no one unless at the same time he humbles him in all things and makes him submissive to the vicar, the priest.
8. The penitential canons are imposed only on the living, and, according to the canons themselves, nothing should be imposed on the dying.
9. Therefore the Holy Spirit through the pope is kind to us insofar as the pope in his decrees always makes exception of the article of death and of necessity.
10. Those priests act ignorantly and wickedly who, in the case of the dying, reserve canonical penalties for purgatory.
11. Those tares of changing the canonical penalty to the penalty of purgatory were evidently sown while the bishops slept. Matthew 13:25.
12. In former times canonical penalties were imposed, not after, but before absolution, as tests of true contrition.
13. The dying are freed by death from all penalties, are already dead as far as the canon laws are concerned, and have a right to be released from them.
14. Imperfect piety or love on the part of the dying person necessarily brings with it great fear; and the smaller the love, the greater the fear.
15. This fear or horror is sufficient in itself, to say nothing of other things, to constitute the penalty of purgatory, since it is very near to the horror of despair.
16. Hell, purgatory, and heaven seem to differ the same as despair, fear, and assurance of salvation.
17. It seems as though for the souls in purgatory fear should necessarily decrease and love increase.
18. Furthermore, it does not seem proved, either by reason or by Scripture, that souls in purgatory are outside the state of merit, that is, unable to grow in love.
19. Nor does it seem proved that souls in purgatory, at least not all of them, are certain and assured of their own salvation, even if we ourselves may be entirely certain of it.
20. Therefore the pope, when he uses the words “plenary remission of all penalties,” does not actually mean “all penalties,” but only those imposed by himself.
21. Thus those indulgence preachers are in error who say that a man is absolved from every penalty and saved by papal indulgences.
22. As a matter of fact, the pope remits to souls in purgatory no penalty which, according to canon law, they should have paid in this life.
23. If remission of all penalties whatsoever could be granted to anyone at all, certainly it would be granted only to the most perfect, that is, to very few.
24. For this reason most people are necessarily deceived by that indiscriminate and high-sounding promise of release from penalty.
25. That power which the pope has in general over purgatory corresponds to the power which any bishop or curate has in a particular way in his own diocese and parish.
26. The pope does very well when he grants remission to souls in purgatory, not by the power of the keys, which he does not have, but by way of intercession for them.
27. They preach only human doctrines who say that as soon as the money clinks into the money chest, the soul flies out of purgatory.
28. It is certain that when money clinks in the money chest, greed and avarice can be increased; but when the church intercedes, the result is in the hands of God alone.
29. Who knows whether all souls in purgatory wish to be redeemed, since we have exceptions in St. Severinus and St. Paschal, as related in a legend.
30. No one is sure of the integrity of his own contrition, much less of having received plenary remission.
31. The man who actually buys indulgences is as rare as he who is really penitent; indeed, he is exceedingly rare.
32. Those who believe that they can be certain of their salvation because they have indulgence letters will be eternally damned, together with their teachers.
33. Men must especially be on guard against those who say that the pope's pardons are that inestimable gift of God by which man is reconciled to him.
34. For the graces of indulgences are concerned only with the penalties of sacramental satisfaction established by man.
35. They who teach that contrition is not necessary on the part of those who intend to buy souls out of purgatory or to buy confessional privileges preach unchristian doctrine.
36. Any truly repentant Christian has a right to full remission of penalty and guilt, even without indulgence letters.
37. Any true Christian, whether living or dead, participates in all the blessings of Christ and the church; and this is granted him by God, even without indulgence letters.
38. Nevertheless, papal remission and blessing are by no means to be disregarded, for they are, as I have said (Thesis 6), the proclamation of the divine remission.
39. It is very difficult, even for the most learned theologians, at one and the same time to commend to the people the bounty of indulgences and the need of true contrition.
40. A Christian who is truly contrite seeks and loves to pay penalties for his sins; the bounty of indulgences, however, relaxes penalties and causes men to hate them -- at least it furnishes occasion for hating them.
41. Papal indulgences must be preached with caution, lest people erroneously think that they are preferable to other good works of love.
42. Christians are to be taught that the pope does not intend that the buying of indulgences should in any way be compared with works of mercy.
43. Christians are to be taught that he who gives to the poor or lends to the needy does a better deed than he who buys indulgences.
44. Because love grows by works of love, man thereby becomes better. Man does not, however, become better by means of indulgences but is merely freed from penalties.
45. Christians are to be taught that he who sees a needy man and passes him by, yet gives his money for indulgences, does not buy papal indulgences but God's wrath.
46. Christians are to be taught that, unless they have more than they need, they must reserve enough for their family needs and by no means squander it on indulgences.
47. Christians are to be taught that they buying of indulgences is a matter of free choice, not commanded.
48. Christians are to be taught that the pope, in granting indulgences, needs and thus desires their devout prayer more than their money.
49. Christians are to be taught that papal indulgences are useful only if they do not put their trust in them, but very harmful if they lose their fear of God because of them.
50. Christians are to be taught that if the pope knew the exactions of the indulgence preachers, he would rather that the basilica of St.Peter were burned to ashes than built up with the skin, flesh, and bones of his sheep.
51. Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St.Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.
52. It is vain to trust in salvation by indulgence letters, even though the indulgence commissary, or even the pope, were to offer his soul as security.
53. They are the enemies of Christ and the pope who forbid altogether the preaching of the Word of God in some churches in order that indulgences may be preached in others.
54. Injury is done to the Word of God when, in the same sermon, an equal or larger amount of time is devoted to indulgences than to the Word.
55. It is certainly the pope's sentiment that if indulgences, which are a very insignificant thing, are celebrated with one bell, one procession, and one ceremony, then the gospel, which is the very greatest thing, should be preached with a hundred bells, a hundred processions, a hundred ceremonies.
56. The true treasures of the church, out of which the pope distributes indulgences, are not sufficiently discussed or known among the people of Christ.
57. That indulgences are not temporal treasures is certainly clear, for many indulgence sellers do not distribute them freely but only gather them.
58. Nor are they the merits of Christ and the saints, for, even without the pope, the latter always work grace for the inner man, and the cross, death, and hell for the outer man.
59. St. Lawrence said that the poor of the church were the treasures of the church, but he spoke according to the usage of the word in his own time.
60. Without want of consideration we say that the keys of the church, given by the merits of Christ, are that treasure.
61. For it is clear that the pope's power is of itself sufficient for the remission of penalties and cases reserved by himself.
62. The true treasure of the church is the most holy gospel of the glory and grace of God.
63. But this treasure is naturally most odious, for it makes the first to be last. Matthew 20:16.
64. On the other hand, the treasure of indulgences is naturally most acceptable, for it makes the last to be first.
65. Therefore the treasures of the gospel are nets with which one formerly fished for men of wealth.
66. The treasures of indulgences are nets with which one now fishes for the wealth of men.
67. The indulgences which the demagogues acclaim as the greatest graces are actually understood to be such only insofar as they promote gain.
68. They are nevertheless in truth the most insignificant graces when compared with the grace of God and the piety of the cross.
69. Bishops and curates are bound to admit the commissaries of papal indulgences with all reverence.
70. But they are much more bound to strain their eyes and ears lest these men preach their own dreams instead of what the pope has commissioned.
71. Let him who speaks against the truth concerning papal indulgences be anathema and accursed.
72. But let him who guards against the lust and license of the indulgence preachers be blessed.
73. Just as the pope justly thunders against those who by any means whatever contrive harm to the sale of indulgences.
74. Much more does he intend to thunder against those who use indulgences as a pretext to contrive harm to holy love and truth.
75. To consider papal indulgences so great that they could absolve a man even if he had done the impossible and had violated the mother of God is madness.
76. We say on the contrary that papal indulgences cannot remove the very least of venial sins as far as guilt is concerned.
77. To say that even St. Peter if he were now pope, could not grant greater graces is blasphemy against St. Peter and the pope.
78. We say on the contrary that even the present pope, or any pope whatsoever, has greater graces at his disposal, that is, the gospel, spiritual powers, gifts of healing, etc., as it is written. I Corinthians 12:28.
79. To say that the cross emblazoned with the papal coat of arms, and set up by the indulgence preachers is equal in worth to the cross of Christ is blasphemy.
80. The bishops, curates, and theologians who permit such talk to be spread among the people will have to answer for this.
81. This unbridled preaching of indulgences makes it difficult even for learned men to rescue the reverence which is due the pope from slander or from the shrewd questions of the laity.
82. Such as: “Why does not the pope empty purgatory for the sake of holy love and the dire need of the souls that are there if he redeems an infinite number of souls for the sake of miserable money with which to build a church? The former reason would be most just; the latter is most trivial.
83. Again, “Why are funeral and anniversary masses for the dead continued and why does he not return or permit the withdrawal of the endowments founded for them, since it is wrong to pray for the redeemed?”
84. Again, “What is this new piety of God and the pope that for a consideration of money they permit a man who is impious and their enemy to buy out of purgatory the pious soul of a friend of God and do not rather, because of the need of that pious and beloved soul, free it for pure love's sake?”
85. Again, “Why are the penitential canons, long since abrogated and dead in actual fact and through disuse, now satisfied by the granting of indulgences as though they were still alive and in force?”
86. Again, “Why does not the pope, whose wealth is today greater than the wealth of the richest Crassus, build this one basilica of St. Peter with his own money rather than with the money of poor believers?”
87. Again, “What does the pope remit or grant to those who by perfect contrition already have a right to full remission and blessings?”
88. Again, “What greater blessing could come to the church than if the pope were to bestow these remissions and blessings on every believer a hundred times a day, as he now does but once?”
89. “Since the pope seeks the salvation of souls rather than money by his indulgences, why does he suspend the indulgences and pardons previously granted when they have equal efficacy?”
90. To repress these very sharp arguments of the laity by force alone, and not to resolve them by giving reasons, is to expose the church and the pope to the ridicule of their enemies and to make Christians unhappy.
91. If, therefore, indulgences were preached according to the spirit and intention of the pope, all these doubts would be readily resolved. Indeed, they would not exist.
92. Away, then, with all those prophets who say to the people of Christ, “Peace, peace,” and there is no peace! Jeremiah 6:14.
93. Blessed be all those prophets who say to the people of Christ, “Cross, cross,” and there is no cross!
94. Christians should be exhorted to be diligent in following Christ, their Head, through penalties, death and hell.
95. And thus be confident of entering into heaven through many tribulations rather than through the false security of peace. Acts 14:22.
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Hou Hsiao-Hsien - Director
Nationality: Taiwanese. Born: Hour Shiaw-shyan (name in pinyin, Hou Xiaoxian) in Meixian, Kuangtung (Canton) province, 8 April 1947; moved to Hualien, Taiwan, 1948. Education: Attended the film program of the Taiwan National Academy of the Arts, 1969–72. Career: Electronic calculator salesman, 1972–73; script boy, then assistant director, from 1974; scriptwriter, from 1975; directed first film, Cute Girls , 1979; sold house to finance Growing Up , 1982; actor in When Husband Is out of Town , for TV, and director of music video, 1985. Awards: Best Director Award, Asian-Pacific Film Festival, for A Summer at Grandpa's , 1985; Golden Lion Award, Venice Festival, and Best Director, Golden Horse Awards, Taiwan, for A City of Sadness , 1989.
Films as Director:
Chiu Shih Liu Liu Tê T'a ( Cute Girls ) (+ sc)
Feng Erh T'i T'a Ts'ai ( Cheerful Wind ) (+ sc)
Tsai Nei Ho P'an Ch'ing Ts'ao Ch'ing ( The Green, Green Grass of Home ) (+ sc)
Episode of Erh Tzu Tê Ta Wan Ou ( The Sandwich Man ; Son's Big Doll )
Fêng Kuei Lai Tê Jen ( The Boys from Fengkuei ) (+ co-sc); Tung Tung Te Chia Ch'i ( A Summer at Grandpa's )
T'ung Nein Wang Shih ( A Time to Live and a Time to Die )
Lien Lien Feng Ch'eng ( Dust in the Wind ) (+ role)
Ni Luo Ho Nü Erh ( Daughter of the Nile ) (+ role)
Pei Ch'ing Ch'êng Shih ( A City of Sadness ) (+ role)
The Puppetmaster
Haonan Haonu ( Good Men, Good Women )
Nanguo zaijan, nanguo ( Goodbye South, Goodbye )
Hai shang hua ( Flowers of Shanghai )
Yun shen Pu Chih Ch'u ( Lost in the Deep Cloud ) (asst-d); Chin shui Lou Tai ( A Better Chance ) (asst-d)
Tao Hua Neu Tou Chao Kung ( The Beauty and the Old Man ) (sc, asst-d); Yeuh Hsia Lao Jen ( The Matchmaker ) (sc, asst-d)
Ai Yu Ming T'ien ( Love Has Tomorrow ) (asst-d); Yen Shuio Han ( The Glory of the Sunset ) (asst-d); Nan Hai Yü Nü Hai Tê Chan Chêng ( The War between Boys and Girls ) (asst-d)
Ts'ui Hu Han ( The Chilly Green Lake ) (asst-d); Yen P'o Chiang Shang ( On the Foggy River ) (sc, asst-d); Tsao an Taipei ( Good Morning, Taipei ) (sc); Pei Chih Ch'iu ( Sadness of Autumn ) (sc)
Tso Yeh Yü Hsiao Hsiao ( The Rushing Rain of Last Night ) (sc, asst-d); Wo T'a Laong Erh Lai ( I Come with the Wave ) (sc, asst-d)
T'ien Liang Hao Kê Ch'iu ( What a Cold but Wonderful Autumn ) (sc, asst-d); Ch'iu Lien ( Autumn Lotus ) (sc)
P'eng P'eng I Ch'uan Hsin ( Pounding Hearts ) (sc, asst-d)
Ch'iao Ju Ts'ai Tieh Fei Fei Fei ( A Butterfly Girl ) (sc, asst-d)
Hsiao Pi Te Ku Shih ( Growing Up ) (co-pr, co-sc, asst-d)
Yu Ma Ts'ai Tzu ( Ah Fei ) (co-sc); Hsiao Pa Pa Te T'ien K'ung ( Out of the Blue ) (co-sc); Ch'ing Mei Chu Ma ( Taipei Story ) (role); Tsui Hsiang Nien Tê Chi Chieh (sc)
Qunian dongtian ( Heartbreak Island ) (co-sc, exec pr)
Borderline (pr)
By HOU: articles—
Interview with Olivier Assayas, in Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), December 1984.
Interview with Tony Rayns, in Monthly Film Bulletin (London), June 1988.
"Not the Best Possible Face," an interview with Tony Rayns, in Monthly Film Bulletin (London), June 1990.
" City of Sadness ," an interview in Film , March 1990.
"Straniero in patria," an interview with Z. Yan, in Cinema Forum , March 1991.
"History's Subtle Shadows," an interview with P. H. P. Chiao, in Cinemaya , Autumn 1993.
Interview with M. Ciment, in Positif , December 1993.
Interview with T. Jousse, in Cahiers du Cinéma , December 1993.
" The Puppetmaster ," an interview with F. Sartor, in Film und Televisie + Video , January 1994.
" Good Men, Good Women ," an interview with Alain Masson and Michel Ciment, in Positif (Paris), May 1996.
Interview with Yann Tobin, Michel Ciment, and Pierre Eisenreich, in Positif (Paris), November 1998.
On HOU: articles—
"A Taiwan Tale," in Film , April 1989.
Huang, Vivian, "Taiwan's Social Realism," in The Independent (New York), January/February 1990.
Combs, Richard, " Dust in the Wind ," in Monthly Film Bulletin (London), April 1990.
Grosoli, F., "Lo sguardo diretto di Hou Xiaoxian," in Cinema Forum , March 1991.
"Hou's City of Sadness Is Key to Success," in Variety , 17 February 1992.
Cheshire, G., "Time Span: The Cinema of Hou Hsiao-Hsien," in Film Comment , November/December 1993.
Delval, D., "Le maitre de marionnettes," in Grand Angle , January 1994.
Bouquet, Stéphane, Oliver Assayas, and Antoine de Baecque, " Goodbye South, Goodbye ," in Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), April 1997.
Hou Hsiao-hsien is the most internationally renowned of the filmmakers associated with Taiwan's "New Cinema" movement. The "New Cinema" was forged out of the country's aging industry in the early 1980s by a group of emerging filmmakers, most of whom were in their early thirties at the time. The members of this cohesive group helped each other make films, and were strongly supported in turn by a group of film critics belonging to the same generation. Their works diverged from mainstream films of the time both in style and in content; instead of the escapist romances and propaganda films in melodramatic form that dominated Taiwan's film market in the 1970s, this new wave of filmmakers used a realistic style to convey their socially concerned themes.
The experiences of life in Taiwan figure prominently in Hou's work, due to his personal background: Hou, who has lived in Taiwan for most of his life, was a year old in 1948 when he and his family, on a visit from the mainland, were forced to remain more or less permanently as a result of the Civil War. Unlike the previous generation of filmmakers, who were brought up and educated in mainland China and who hired professionals to dub all the dialogue with standard Mandarin, the official language of both Taiwan and mainland China, Hou began using large amounts of the Taiwanese dialect spoken by most of the island's inhabitants. Following The Sandwich Man , Hou also mixed in the dialect of the ancient Hakkas ethnic group, as well as Japanese. (Japan had occupied Taiwan for almost fifty years, previous to the Nationalist takeover.) While the previous generation of filmmakers identified with or bowed to the Nationalist strategy of mandating exclusive use of the Mandarin language to "Chinacize" the people of Taiwan, Hou and his peers, whether mainlander or islander, recognized the fact that Taiwan was not synonymous with China. Due to this break from the state-enforced ideology, the New Cinema practitioners were able to begin to face and examine the sources and manifestations of their society's problems.
Perhaps most dynamic in this rapidly industrializing country was the emotional as well as physical dislocation resulting from the urbanization of Taiwan's traditionally rural culture. The conflict between urban and rural values is a recurring theme in Hou's films. Hou, who grew up in the countryside and moved to Taipei at the beginning of his college studies, retains a strong attachment to traditional Taiwanese values. On the screen, he uses country living and sentiments in the idyllic scene structure of his films. In A Summer at Grandpa's , the protagonist Tung Tung, a young boy who grew up in Taipei but stayed at his grandfather's in the country while his mother was hospitalized, gained "real" childhood experiences—playing in the river and exchanging his toy car with another child's live turtle, as well as more gritty life experiences—learning of the complexities of social relationships through the rape of an insane woman and her subsequent unsuccessful pregnancy. Contrasted with the positive influences one can gain from country life in most of Hou's films are the attractions of the city, with its opportunities for a living wage and concomitant confusion of an alien social structure, and its dissimilar types of human relationships.
In The Boys from Fengkuei , when three young men arrive at Kaohsiung, they find that their friend's sister, who has moved to the city from their hometown, has somehow become "morally corrupted." While they wander around on the streets of the city, a stranger on a motorcycle collects their money to see an underground porno film, sending them into an empty building still under construction. Instead of a movie screen, they view the city landscape from huge holes awaiting windows. A silent long take and a long shot shows the three naive boys staring at the city—the farce turning out to be their first taste of the bitterness of the city—without anger but with a deep sense of helplessness.
That the urban experience can prove damaging to one's physical as well as mental health is illustrated in Dust in the Wind. The protagonist Ah-Yuan is beaten up by his boss's wife for failing to deliver a lunch box to her son, and some friends of Ah-Yuan, including his girlfriend, are injured during their work. While these country children are wounded by the city, they can always go back to their rural homes to recuperate from their mental and physical injuries. However, in Daughter of the Nile , when the teenaged girl Shao Yang and her brother Shao Fang settle in the city of Taipei, they become the orphans of the world. Daughter of the Nile is Hou's first and thus far only film that takes place entirely in Taipei. Hou's shots of the dark city illuminated by the colorful neon signs eerily demonstrate the materialism that dislocates the youths, and finally takes Shao Fang's life.
The uneasiness and the difficulties of adjusting to social changes was the other theme in almost all of Hou's directorial works. In The Sandwich Man , Hou used a clown costume as the symbol of this discomfort. In Dust in the Wind , this discomfort is transformed into physical suffering when the rural teenagers are beaten and otherwise abused by their working environment. Death also played the main metaphoric role of the transition in A Time to Live and a Time to Die : the deaths of protagonist Ah-ha's father, mother, and grandmother punctuate his stages of growing up as well as his ideological divergence from the Nationalist party between the years 1958 and 1966. Similarly, in A City of Sadness , each of the four brothers of the Lin family was killed either physically or mentally in differing political climates and social circumstances during the 1940s, their deaths indicating their failure in adjusting to the new eras.
Hou's achievement is not only in his cinematic sensitivities but also in his social consciousness. As much as he is a filmmaker, Hou is a historical and social commentator of the first order.
In May 2000, Hou's position in the West was curiously anomalous: the majority of serious critics regarded him as among the three or four most important living filmmakers, yet his films remained inaccessible to the great majority of filmgoers, shown only in film festivals and occasional Cinematheque retrospectives. None had been granted a wide release; a very few hovered in the dim hinterlands of availability on obscure videos—poor color, wrong format, inadequate subtitles. There were no clear indications that this situation would change in the foreseeable future.
It must be admitted that Hou's films—especially the later ones—present the viewer with certain problems, and not only because they demand some awareness of Taiwanese political and cultural history during the second half of the last century. From City of Sadness on, their treatment of narrative structure has become increasingly challenging and unorthodox. One feels at times that Hou shoots only the sequences that really engage him, leaving the audience to fill in narrative hiatuses with a combination of common sense and imagination. The many characters are seldom given the careful, emphatic introductions to which Hollywood has accustomed us, and closeups are rare, point-of-view shots non-existent; sequences are often entirely in long-shot. In short, Hou expects us to work, concentrate, be vigilant; the films construct a spectator who is at once detached but sympathetic.
Each of the recent works requires detailed treatment to do it justice; City of Sadness is discussed in the companion volume on Films. The Puppetmaster is a complex study of the relationship of the artist to the social and political vicissitudes of history, raising central questions of responsibility, of the essentially political nature of all art (conscious or not). Good Men, Good Women pursues these themes in different ways, focussing now on actors; it is built upon an intricate double narrative and a complicated time-scheme. Criminality has played a significant thematic role in a number of Hou's films ( Daughter of the Nile, City of Sadness ); it becomes central to Goodbye South, Goodbye , which one might describe as Hou's first gangster thriller, though a characteristically idiosyncratic and offbeat one.
Most recently, we have had the extraordinary Flowers of Shanghai , in some ways the most readily accessible of this group of films. Set entirely inside an expensive Shanghai brothel, it follows the complex lives and interactions of the courtesans and their clients, their stories told mainly in sequence-shots, with a more mobile camera than we are accustomed to in Hou's films, where static long takes have generally predominated. The film's great visual beauty and grace are matched by the delicacy of its insights, the respect with which Hou treats both his characters and his audiences. Not surprisingly, it headed many critics' lists of the "best films of the '90s."
—Vivian Huang, updated by Robin Wood
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Henri Alekan - Writer
Cinematographer. Nationality: French. Born: Paris, 10 February 1909. Education: Attended the Conservatoire des Arts-et-Métiers and Institute of Optics. Family: Married to script supervisor/assistant director Nadia Starcevic. Career: Worked as assistant cameraman while a student; then bank clerk and puppeteer; 1931–36—assistant cameraman; 1932—helped form group, later union, of assistant cameramen; 1936–41—cameraman; 1940—briefly imprisoned by Germans during World War II: later worked in the Resistance (Legion of Honor); 1941—first film as cinematographer; 1944—founding member, IDHEC film school; 1946—co-founder, Académie du Cinema. TV work: Le Taxi (Marzelle), 1962, France; The Henri Matisse Centennial at the Grand Palais (Falkenberg/Namuth), 1970, U.S. acting debut in Wenders's In Weiter Ferne, so Nah! ( Far Away, So Close ), 1993. Awards: Prizes, for L'Enfer de Rodin , Prague Festival, 1957, and Cerf-volant du bout du monde , Karlory Vary Festival, 1958; César award for The Trout , 1982; Prix ESEC (École Supérieure Libre d'Études Cinématographiques), 1985. Member: Vice president, Film Production Technicians Union, 1958–65, president, 1965–68. Address: 46 rue de la Tourelle, 92100 Boulogne, France.
Films as Cinematographer:
Le Chariot de Thespis (Canolle—short); Robie est un ange (Y. Allégret—destroyed)
Les Chevaux du Vercors (Audry—short) (co); Tu seras vedette (Mineur—short); Ceux du rail (Clément—short); Les Deux Timides (Y. Allégret) (co)
Bell ouvrage (Cloche—short); Les Petites du Quai aux Fleurs (M. Allégret—short); Echec au roy (Paulin); La Symphonie du travail (Cloche); La Grande Pastorale (Clément—short)
Chefs de demain (Clément—short)
La Bataille du rail (Clément); La Belle et la bête (Cocteau)
Les Maudits ( The Damned ) (Clément); Le Diable souffle (Gréville)
Anna Karenina (Duvivier); Arch of Triumph (Milestone) (2nd unit); Un si jolie petite plage ( Riptide ) (Y. Allégret)
La Marie du port (Carné); Les Amants de Vérone ( The Lovers of Verona ) (Cayette)
Ma pomme (Sauvajon)
Juliette ou la clé des songes (Carné); Parigi e sempre Parigi (Emmer); "Mouche" ep. of Trois femmes, trois âmes (Michel); La Voyage en Amérique (Lavorel)
Stranger on the Prowl ( Encounter ) (Losey) (+ ro); La Sarre, pleins feux (+ co-d—short); Le Fruit défendu (Verneuil)
Zoë (Brabant); Quand tu liras cette lettre (Melville); Roman Holiday (Wyler) (co); Les Amours finissent à l'aube (Calef); Julietta (M. Allégret)
Le Port du désir (Gréville); Les Impures (Chevalier); La Reine Margot (Dréville); Frou-Frou (Genina)
Les Héroes sont fatigués (Ciampi); La Meilleure Part (Y. Allégret)
Typhon sur Nagasaki (Ciampi); La Salaire du péché (de la Patellière); Le Cas du Docteur Laurent (le Chanois); "La Maison du bonheur" ep. of Die Windrose (Bellon)
L'Enfer de Rodin (+ d—short)
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Meyer); Cerf-volant du bout du monde (Pigaut)
Le Mariage de Figaro (Meyer); Douze heures d'horloge (Radvanyi)
Austerlitz (Gance); La Princesse de Clèves (Delannoy); Les Collants noirs ( Un, deux, trois, quatre . . . ; Black Tights ) (Young); Le Secret du chevalier d'eon (Audry) (co); Un Oiseau s'en vole (Canaille—short)
"Ella" and "Antonia" eps. of Les Parisiennes (Poitrenaud and Boisrond)
Le Couteau dans la plaie ( Five Miles to Midnight ) (Litvak)
El otro Cristobal (Gatti); Réunion des artistes (Madanes)
Topkapi (Dassin)
Lady L (Ustinov)
Danger Grows Wild ( The Poppy Is Also a Flower ) (Young); Triple Cross (Young)
Mayerling (Young); Ici et maintenant (Bard—short)
Versailles (Lamorisse—short); L'Arbre de Noel ( The Christmas Tree ) (Young)
Figures in a Landscape (Losey) (co); Giselle (Farrel)
Soleil rouge ( Red Sun ) (Young)
Jackpot (Young)
Noire et Caline (Leconte); L'Ombre et la nuit (Leconte)
The Territory (Ruiz)
Techo de la ballena ( The Roof of the Whale ) (Ruiz); Der Stand der Dinge ( The State of Things ) (Wenders); Une Pierre dans la bouche (Leconte); The Trout (Losey)
La Belle Captive (Robbe-Grillet)
A Strange Love Affair (de Kuyper); Wunkanal Hinrichtung fur vier Stimmen ( Exécution à quatre voix ) (Harlan); Unser Nazi ( Notre Nazi ) (Harlan)
The Perfect Kiss (Demme)
Esther (Gitai)
Der Himmel über Berlin ( Wings of Desire ; Sky over Berlin ; Les Ailes du désir ) (Wenders)
Im Exil der ertrunkenen Tiger
Berlin-Jérusalem (Gitai); J'écris dans l'espace (Etaix); Cézanne (Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet); La Danseuse de 14 ans (short)
Golem—L'Esprit de l'exil ( Golem—The Spirit of Exile ) (Gitai)
Golem—Le Jardin pétrifié ( Golem—The Petrified Garden ) (Gitai)
Films as Camera Operator:
Mademoiselle Docteur (Pabst)
La Danseuse rouge (Paulin); Drôle de drame ( Bizarre Bizarre )(Carné)
Le Drame de Shanghaï (Pabst); Quai des brumes ( Port of Shadows ); (Carné); Campement 13 (Constant); L'Esclave blanche (Sorkin); Mollenard (Siodmak)
Les Musiciens du ciel (Lacombe); L'Emigrante (Y. Allégret and Joannon)
Sans lendemain (Ophüls)
La Vénus aveugle (Gance); La Femme dans la nuit (Gréville)
By ALEKAN: book—
Des lumières et des ombres , Paris, 1984.
By ALEKAN: articles—
Télécine (Paris), April 1961.
Cinéma (Paris), February 1973.
Le Technicien du Film (Paris), 15 January-15 February 1974.
Cinéma (Paris), June 1979.
Cinématographe (Paris), June 1981.
Film Français (Paris), 24 September 1982.
Positif (Paris), November 1982.
Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), March 1983.
Cinéma (Paris), May 1983.
Le Technicien du Film (Paris), 15 May-15 June 1983.
Film Français (Paris), 31 August 1984.
Visions (Brussels), February 1985.
Skrien (Amsterdam), February/March 1985.
Première (Paris), June 1985
Postif (Paris), July/August 1985.
Films and Filming (London), no. 392, May 1987.
Revue du Cinéma (Paris), no. 431, October 1987.
Filmcritica (Montepulciano), September/October 1989.
Jeune Cinéma (Paris), no. 199, February-March 1990.
Framework , nos. 38/39, 1992.
Sight and Sound (London), vol. 3, no. 6, June 1993.
Film Français (Paris), no. 2519, August 1994.
Avant-Scène du Cinéma (Paris), no. 442, May 1995.
Filmvilag (Budapest), vol. 40, no. 2, 1997.
On ALEKAN: articles—
Unifrance (Paris), June/July 1951.
Lettres Françaises (Paris), 15 July 1970.
Focus on Film (London), no. 13, 1973.
Predal, R., in Cinéma (Paris), February 1973.
Film Français (Paris), 11 February 1977.
Vagnon, F., in Cinéma Pratique (Paris), April/May 1977.
Haustrate, G., and J. Petat, in Cinéma (Paris), June 1979.
Film Dope (London), no. 39, March 1988.
Première (Paris), no. 137, August 1988.
Film Français (Paris), nos. 2296/7, May 1990.
24 Images (Montreal), Summer 1992.
American Cinematographer (Hollywood), March 1996.
On ALEKAN: films:
1986 Henri Alekan, des lumières et des hommes (short) (Roth)
1988 Alekan, la lumière and Alekan, la mémoire (Dumoulin) (TV films as part of Océaniques series)
After studying optics and working as an assistant cameraman for several years, Henri Alekan abandoned film and worked as a bank clerk and puppeteer until 1931. Then he returned to film as an assistant cameraman, and worked with Eugen Schüfftan on several renowned films during the later 1930s: Pabst's Mademoiselle Docteur and Le Drame de Shanghaï , Carné's Drôle de drame and Quai des brumes , Siodmak's Mollenard , and Ophüls's Sans lendemain .
Alekan was imprisoned during the early years of World War II, but escaped and became a Resistance fighter. He found time to work on a series of short films (directed by Canolle, Audry, and Clément), and with both Yves and Marc Allégret. He persuaded Clément to revise his documentary Ceux du rail , and they collaborated with members of the "Résistance Fer" on the new version, centering on acts of sabotage and battles between the railway workers and the Germans. The film, La Bataille du rail , was greeted enthusiastically when it was shown in 1945, and considered the best French film about the Resistance.
Alekan's lyrical precision and sobriety, appropriate to the documentary subject, brought him an immediate reputation for sensitivity combined with realism. His next film was Cocteau's La Belle et la bête , a fairy tale with a cultivated poetic atmosphere. His earlier work with Schüfftan had opened his eyes to the potentialities of the camera; now his work with Cocteau would change his life. With Cocteau's help, he created a series of images often compared to such painters as de Hooch and Vermeer or de la Tour. The beauty of the film relies on the charm of Jean Marais and Josette Day, the leading players, on the splendor of the designs of sets and costumes of Christian Bérard, and above all on the harmony of the images and the ingenious utilization of values and the black-and-white contrasts caused by the play of light and shadows. Without becoming overly artful, Alekan was able to adapt his sense of the image to the needs of the scenario and the exigencies of the director, an ability he was able to maintain in all his future work.
After these two completely different films which showed his versatility of style, Alekan worked with a series of leading French directors, and made Roman Holiday with Wyler in 1953. Alekan's short film L'Enfer de Rodin , illustrating a double dream (of Dante and of Rodin), was widely praised, and in Gance's Austerlitz and Delannoy's La Princesse de Clèves , he was shown as masterful with color as he had been with black-and-white. Later outstanding films include El otro Cristobal , Versailles , Figures in a Landscape , Der Stand der Dinge , The Trout , and Wings of Desire , in which Alekan once more makes dazzling use of his talents in black-and-white cinematography.
In the mid-eighties Alekan teamed up with Amos Gitai, initially for Esther , then for the thematic trilogy dealing with exile and nationhood, Berlin-Jérusalem , Golem—L'Esprit de l'exil , and Golem—Le Jardin pétrifié . Each film tested Alekan's abiding aesthetic concerns with light, particularly in Esther , where the harsh sun of Haifa was ultimately turned to dramatic effect with painterly contrasts of light and shadow. In Berlin-Jérusalem , Alekan's formation through German expressionism is witnessed in dark and menacing atmospheric studio images of prewar Berlin, while for the sequences in Palestine, long traveling shots capture the ravaged, arid landscape to achieve a metaphorical resonance. If Golem—L'Esprit de l'exil is overly didactic in its representation of Paris as an inhospitable refuge for displaced foreigners, Alekan's images of despair, occasionally built from multiple exposures, retain a dark poetry. In Golem: Le Jardin pétrifié , the symbolic journey of an art collector's search for family heirlooms in Russia is registered in evocative landscape photography.
As an extremely active octogenarian, Alekan made his first American screen appearance in Wim Wenders's In Weiter Ferne, so Nah! , and in 1994 penned a vigorous protest against the relocation of Langlois's beloved Cinémathèque. Reflecting on his career, he asserts his preference for black-and-white photography and generously acknowledges the importance of his chief electrician Louis Cochet to his achievements. Several exhibitions marked his eightieth birthday and, as a celebration of his contribution to cinematography, French television screened two film studies: Alekan, la lumière and Alekan, la mémoire .
—Karel Tabery, updated by R. F. Cousins
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HULT Private Capital Ready for Their Biggest Year Yet - Says Lewis Hill
Updated 4:00 AM CDT, Wed, June 19,2019
International firm is reported to beat the odds amidst European financial collapse with atypical financial solutions.
London, UK -- (ReleaseWire) -- 06/19/2019 -- HULT Private Capital takes center stage today as a boutique firm spread internationally across four offices and over 60 employees. An interview with Lewis Hill of HULT Private Capital reports interesting trends in investing.
Core values including integrity, honesty, and trust have been the core drivers behind HULT Private Capital's VIP approach to private equity from the moment their doors opened back in 2008.
It's this adherence to quality of mission; to well-calculated, risk positive investments that elevate their efforts. It's the reason why both founders, Lewis Hill and John Williams, have been able to achieve great returns during the European financial collapse of the last decade.
At HULT Private Capital, investments cover: bank guaranteed investments, UK property, loan notes, food commodities and energy. Think of them as the complete solution to all financial planning needs, with a number of FCA programs.
The HULT Private Capital Difference
At HULT Private Capital, it's the value of a relationship that's put on a pedestal. Investments are by invitation only — based on a level of trust, transparency, and honesty. They work towards the long-term of both firm and client goals with a focus on investing across industry verticals. Additionally, these industries are primarily dominated by tangible assets; capable of providing stable cash returns over time.
HULT operates two types of investments: alternative asset secured or bank guaranteed.
The latter involves UAE bank-backed investments, with holdings capable of performing from upwards of 5%. Alternative assets, on the other hand, may not provide the same like for like but they do have the potential to perform upwards of 8-12% per annum, if not more.
In an interview with Lewis Hill of HULT Private Capital he provides depth into why investors are opting for secured, bank governed and alternative investments: "Investors no longer want the typical. Innovation is "key". The standard cookie cutter approach is dead, which is why we have seen a huge uptake in our Secure Alternative investments, Property Loan Notes and Banked guaranteed holdings. 2019/2020 is set to be our biggest year yet and rightly so, seeing that most HNW investor's preferred option is to work along side responsible and internationally recognised firms, that have a solid track record.'
From limited partnership interest to direct investment portfolio monitoring services, HULT caters offerings to the needs of mid-tier investors and high net worth clients.
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In support of conservation and environmental management, HULT has partnered with a number of multi-stakeholder groups in tackling some of the world's most pressing issues. The success they envision for clients and business in the future is about what they do as global citizens today.
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HULT Private Capital believes in bettering the retirement possibilities of their clients. They work with clients to build out a retirement plan that's both understood and geared towards the right investments for your specific needs.
Clients have a choice when it comes to not only the investments they make but the firm managing them. Over the last decade, HULT has proven to be one of the best, most reliable investment houses across Europe and the UAE.
They have outshone competitors, like FJP Investment, and partnered with affiliates of the highest esteem. These affiliates include: Barclays, Zurich, Coutts, Aviva, Santander, and bradesco — to name just a few.
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Reef fish arrived in two waves, before and after mass extinction 66 million years ago
Researchers traced reef fish ancestry by developing a comprehensive family tree of the major group of modern ocean fish. Credit: © Mexrix / Fotolia
The world’s reefs are hotbeds of biological diversity, including over 4,500 species of fish. A new study shows that the ancestors of these fish colonized reefs in two distinct waves, before and after the mass extinction event about 66 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Reef fish represent one of the largest and most diverse assemblages of vertebrates, according to Samantha Price, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at UC Davis. Price is first author on a paper describing the work, published April 2 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
The fossil record of reef fish is patchy, so Price and colleagues traced their ancestry by developing a comprehensive family tree of the major group of modern ocean fish, the acanthomorphs or “spiny-finned fish,” and calculating the times when different groups migrated into or out of reef habitats.
The first wave of colonization occurred between 70 and 90 million years ago, before the end of the Cretaceous period, they found. At that time, most the world’s reefs were built not by coral but by mollusks called rudists.
Rudists disappeared in the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, 66 million years ago, and corals became the world’s great reef builders. While the first-wave reef fish hung on to leave descendants in the present, a second wave of colonization took place as the world recovered from the extinction event.
The early wave of colonization began with lots of different-looking fish and over time there was an eventual filling of ecological niches accompanied by a decrease in colonization, Price said.
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By about 50 million years ago, the fundamentals of modern coral reefs, including the ancestors of most major families, such as clownfishes and parrotfishes, were in place, Price said.
“If you were able to dive on a coral reef 50 million years ago, the fishes would seem familiar, you would recognize it as similar to a modern reef,” she said.
Note : The above story is based on materials provided by University of California – Davis.
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Aadhaar latest tool against 'fake' matrimonial profiles
Matchmaking websites such as Shaadi.com are using Aadhaar's unique identification number for profile verification to grapple with the menace of fake profiles
By Rajiv Singh
Published: May 17, 2018 02:46:37 PM IST
Updated: May 17, 2018 04:07:19 PM IST
Mahesh Sinha thought it was some April fool’s day prank. “I was asked to verify my profile by providing my Aadhaar number,” recalls 28-year-old chartered accountant from New Delhi when he tried to upload his matrimonial profile on Shaadi.com last month. “Who asks for a 12-digit unique identification number to find a bride?” says Sinha.
Though Sinha might find the idea of linking Aadhaar to matrimonial profiles ‘absolutely bizarre,’ it is a serious matter for millions of women who grapple with the menace of fake profiles on various matrimonial sites in India.
“We have been constantly innovating to deliver newer forms of verification,” says Gourav Rakshit, Chief Executive Officer at Shaadi.com. Last month, the matrimonial site added Aadhaar to its existing profile verification programme. “Given that there are millions of matches every day, the odd incident of misuse does undermine the experience we deliver,” reckons Rakshit, adding that eliminating all possibilities of misuse is the currently the company’s primary focus. Shaadi.com, he claims, has around 1.5 million active users a month, and gets over 15,000 sign-ups every day. “Viewing a verified profile instils confidence among users,” he avers.
What made Shaadi.com add Aadhaar to its profile verification? It was the result of a recent survey: a staggering 91 percent women gave high importance to verified profiles.
The online survey revealed that having verified profiles is not just an elimination factor, but also a crucial determinant in starting conversations. While 82 percent women said verified profiles would increase the likelihood of reaching out to potential matches, multiple photographs and family information were selected as an option by 13 percent and 5 percent, respectively. “Aadhaar verification is an addition to our already existing ID verification programme, which consists of government recognised identity proofs such as passport and PAN card,” contends Rakshit.
Aadhaar-verified profiles, reckon branding experts, is not only a smart marketing tool but also a potential way to reassure millions of single women about the credibility of the matches on matrimonial sites.
“It seems there is a little bit of Aadhaar in everything these days,” says brand strategist Harish Bijoor, alluding to the linking of Aadhaar to bank accounts, mobile numbers and passports. “The Aadhaar-verified tag on a matrimonial site is an innovation,” he says, lamenting about the fact that some of the matrimonial sites were not only finding it hard to weed out wolves, but were also fast turning out to be hookup websites.
“Although Shaadi.com has come up with this new verification method, others are likely to follow as well,” he says, adding that authentication is a very important issue, especially when it comes to websites. “Expect authentication and verification to become the norm, as online businesses want to rediscover the business it wants to really run,” reckons Bijoor.
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����With the help of a footman Tikhon brought in the bedstead and began putting it up.,����This coquettish garden, formerly decidedly compromised, had returned to virginity and modesty.,By "Eshu Space".,����While he was meditating, Toussaint entered.,����"I have been calling you all night..." he brought out.,����"My dearest darling... Mummy, my precious!..." she whispered incessantly, kissing her head, her hands, her face, and feeling her own irrepressible and streaming tears tickling her nose and cheeks....����"I'm going off," said he, "but you won't go off!",����The halt is a matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman.,Maybe that should go under educational too.!
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����He gazed at the stone seat on which he had passed so many adorable hours with Cosette. Then he seated himself on the flight of steps, his heart filled with sweetness and resolution, he blessed his love in the depths of his thought, and he said to himself that, since Cosette was gone, all that there was left for him was to die..����On reaching the vestibule Natasha saw a tall figure in a fur coat unwinding his scarf. "It's he! It's really he! He has come!" she said to herself, and rushing at him embraced him, pressed his head to her breast, and then pushed him back and gazed at his ruddy, happy face, covered with hoarfrost. "Yes, it is he, happy and contented...",There ON be monks in Russia, for penance, that will sit a whole night in a vessel of water, till they be engaged with hard ice. Many examples may be put of the force of custom, both upon mind, and body. Therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man\'s life, let men by all means endeavour to obtain good ,����When the prisoners again went forward Pierre looked round. Karataev was still sitting at the side of the road under the birch tree and two Frenchmen were talking over his head. Pierre did not look round again but went limping up the hill.!,����"Wait a moment, I'll fetch it," said Mademoiselle Bourienne, and she left the room.,;����And Denisov told the esaul that the dispatch just delivered was a repetition of the German general's demand that he should join forces with him for an attack on the transport.;
����"Mamma, you used to try your fate yourself..." said her daughter.!����Denisov's horse swerved aside to avoid a pool in the track and bumped his rider's knee against a tree..����"Yes!" she replied. "And with thee?",����The white angel and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the abyss.,����"What prince? Ours?" said many voices, and the men were in such haste to clear out that the prince could hardly stop them. He decided that he would rather himself with water in the barn..����"Is it true?,����"Don't speak to me of that! What can I do?" said he. "I tell you I am madly, madly, in love with you! Is it my fault that you are enchanting?... It's our turn to begin.";
51 Of Faction ,����There is but one way of rejecting To-morrow, and that is to die.,���� [34] From April 19 to May 20.,����Pierre without greeting his wife whom he had not seen since his return- at that moment she was more repulsive to him than ever- entered the drawing room and seeing Anatole went up to him.,����It was still quite dark outside. The rain was over, but drops were still falling from the trees. Near the watchman's hut the black shapes of the Cossacks' shanties and of horses tethered together could be seen. Behind the hut the dark shapes of the two wagons with their horses beside them were discernible, and in the hollow the dying campfire gleamed red. Not all the Cossacks and hussars were asleep; here and there, amid the sounds of falling drops and the munching of the horses near by, could be heard low voices which seemed to be whispering..����One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which is wholly joyous and sunny.,����Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice which destroyed them? What is the amount of suicide in these terrible deaths of a nation and a race?,����In the Rue des Jeuneurs, Rue du Cadran, Rue Montorgueil, Rue Mandar, groups appeared waving flags on which could be distinguished in gold letters, the word section with a number. One of these flags was red and blue with an almost imperceptible stripe of white between.;
����He did not repeat to himself with a sickening feeling of shame the words he had spoken, or say: "Oh, why did I not say that?" and, "Whatever made me say 'Je vous aime'?" On the contrary, he now repeated in imagination every word that he or Natasha had spoken and pictured every detail of her face and smile, and did not wish to diminish or add anything, but only to repeat it again and again. There was now not a shadow of doubt in his mind as to whether what he had undertaken was right or wrong. Only one terrible doubt sometimes crossed his mind: "Wasn't it all a dream? Isn't Princess Mary mistaken? Am I not too conceited and self-confident? I believe all this- and suddenly Princess Mary will tell her, and she will be sure to smile and say: 'How strange! He must be deluding himself. Doesn't he know that he is a man, just a man, while I...? I am something altogether different and higher.'"!����Jean Valjean had a canopied bed of antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in the Rue du Figuier-Saint-Paul at Mother Gaucher's, put into Cosette's chamber, and, in order to redeem the severity of these magnificent old things, he had amalgamated with this bric-a-brac all the gay and graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an etagere, a bookcase filled with gilt-edged books, an inkstand, a blotting-book, paper, a work-table incrusted with mother of pearl, a silver-gilt dressing-case, a toilet service in Japanese porcelain. Long damask curtains with a red foundation and three colors, like those on the bed, hung at the windows of the first floor. On the ground floor, the curtains were of tapestry.,����Their honor, thank God! their dignity, their intelligence, their genius, are not numbers which those gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles.,,����"How was it I noticed nothing? How could it go so far? Can she have left off loving Prince Andrew? And how could she let Kuragin go to such lengths? He is a deceiver and a villain, that's plain! What will Nicholas, dear noble Nicholas, do when he hears of it? So this is the meaning of her excited, resolute, unnatural look the day before yesterday, yesterday, and today," thought Sonya. "But it can't be that she loves him! She probably opened the letter without knowing who it was from. Probably she is offended by it. She could not do such a thing!",����All were tall, dressed in long, brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands.,����This is what Brujon had written the night before.!
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����"He ought to have acted in this way and in that way. In this case he did well and in that case badly. He behaved admirably at the beginning of his reign and during 1812, but acted badly by giving a constitution to Poland, forming the Holy Alliance, entrusting power to Arakcheev, favoring Golitsyn and mysticism, and afterwards Shishkov and Photius. He also acted badly by concerning himself with the active army and disbanding the Semenov regiment."!? Leo Tolstoy,����Nicholas started angrily.,!HEYWOOD,����Next he searched his waistcoat, found a purse and pocketed it.,����"Let the gentleman whom these gentlemen bound step forward.",����"Natasha, what is it about?" she asked. "What do they matter to you? It will all pass, Natasha.";CHAPTER IV .
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����"Poor girl!" said Gavroche.,����Next day the old count called his son aside and, with an embarrassed smile, said to him:, ;����Finally, nothing prevented his being prudent and taking his precautions.!Better get used to the idea.,����"To Petersburg!" she repeated as if unable to understand.;,����"Yes... I will tell him," answered Pierre; "but...";
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����He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the line written on the sheet of paper, then he added in a subdued voice:--!����Nevertheless, the man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time.,BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN; ;����They belonged to that class of men who, when diminished in number, increase in courage.,����"Come, Anna Makarovna," Pierre's voice was heard saying, "come here into the middle of the room and at the word of command, 'One, two,' and when I say 'three'... You stand here, and you in my arms- well now! One, two!..." said Pierre, and a silence followed: "three!" and a rapturously breathless cry of children's voices filled the room. "Two, two!" they shouted.!
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����In front of a landowner's house to the left of the road stood carriages, wagons, and crowds of orderlies and sentinels. The commander in chief was putting up there, but just when Pierre arrived he was not in and hardly any of the staff were there- they had gone to the church service. Pierre drove on toward Gorki.,For the side grounds, you are to fill them with variety of alleys, private, to give ,����And he thought no more about it.!����"Oh dear, what a young lady!" said Foka, pretending to frown at Natasha.,����The historian has, in this case, the evident right to sum up the whole..����These combatants had around them something in the nature of a swarm of spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, the white sky viewed through wheels and gun-carriages, the colossal death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the depths of the battle, advanced upon them and gazed at them.,����Having received all his orders Alpatych, wearing a white beaver hat- a present from the prince- and carrying a stick as the prince did, went out accompanied by his family. Three well-fed roans stood ready harnessed to a small conveyance with a leather hood.!
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����The pursuit was stupendous. Blucher ordered extermination..,!����As soon as Natasha had finished she went up to him and asked how he liked her voice. She asked this and then became confused, feeling that she ought not to have asked it. He smiled, looking at her, and said he liked her singing as he liked everything she did.,.,����She's not a woman, she's an ox."!,����"My brother dined with me yesterday- we nearly died of laughter- he ate nothing and kept sighing for you, my charmer! He is madly, quite madly, in love with you, my dear.".
����All the world has seen him before we can show him.,ball high into left field and races for first.,����But will this horse bear the saddle?",����Balashev knew how to reply to each of Napoleon's remarks, and would have done so; he continually made the gesture of a man wishing to say something, but Napoleon always interrupted him. To the alleged insanity of the Swedes, Balashev wished to reply that when Russia is on her side Sweden is practically an island: but Napoleon gave an angry exclamation to drown his voice. Napoleon was in that state of irritability in which a man has to talk, talk, and talk, merely to convince himself that he is in the right. Balashev began to feel uncomfortable: as envoy he feared to demean his dignity and felt the necessity of replying; but, as a man, he shrank before the transport of groundless wrath that had evidently seized Napoleon. He knew that none of the words now uttered by Napoleon had any significance, and that Napoleon himself would be ashamed of them when he came to his senses. Balashev stood with downcast eyes, looking at the movements of Napoleon's stout legs and trying to avoid meeting his eyes.!.����"Lord God! Hear us when we pray to Thee; strengthen with Thy might our most gracious sovereign lord, the Emperor Alexander Pavlovich; be mindful of his uprightness and meekness, reward him according to his righteousness, and let it preserve us, Thy chosen Israel! Bless his counsels, his undertakings, and his work; strengthen his kingdom by Thine almighty hand, and give him victory over his enemy, even as Thou gavest Moses the victory over Amalek, Gideon over Midian, and David over Goliath. Preserve his army, put a bow of brass in the hands of those who have armed themselves in Thy Name, and gird their loins with strength for the fight. Take up the spear and shield and arise to help us; confound and put to shame those who have devised evil against us, may they be before the faces of Thy faithful warriors as dust before the wind, and may Thy mighty Angel confound them and put them to flight; may they be ensnared when they know it not, and may the plots they have laid in secret be turned against them; let them fall before Thy servants' feet and be laid low by our hosts! Lord, Thou art able to save both great and small; Thou art God, and man cannot prevail against Thee!,CHAPTER IV !����The children set out, the elder leading the younger, and holding in his hand the paper which was to guide them..
micSafestos (27) Envy keeps no holidays. va hommis (12) The wrath of man doth not ,!����Moreover, he had been obliged to pass the Dyle on the narrow bridge of Wavre; the street leading to the bridge had been fired by the French, so the caissons and ammunition-wagons could not pass between two rows of burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was extinguished.!����As they went, Montparnasse muttered:--.;!
����"Why?" asked Julie. "You don't think Moscow is in danger?"......����Napoleon was in that well-known after-dinner mood which, more than any reasoned cause, makes a man contented with himself and disposed to consider everyone his friend. It seemed to him that he was surrounded by men who adored him: and he felt convinced that, after his dinner, Balashev too was his friend and worshiper. Napoleon turned to him with a pleasant, though slightly ironic, smile.,����He!!����The insurgents, surprised but not terrified, had rallied. Enjolras had shouted:...����She had two big wings. My mother must have been almost a saint during her life.", ,����"Now then, now then, teach us how it goes! I'll soon pick it up. How is it?" said the man- a singer and a wag- whom Morel was embracing.,����Thenardier thrust out his head a very little.;
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����All this was true; but this trap, this ramshackle old vehicle, this thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras..LastIndexNext,BOOK FIFTEEN: 1812 - 13,����His plan of battle was, by the confession of all, a masterpiece. To go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the enemy, to cut them in two, to drive the British half back on Hal, and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of Wellington and Blucher, to carry Mont-Saint-Jean, to seize Brussels, to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon. Afterwards people would see.....����She did not know the meaning of the word. Marius was Marius.,����"Must I sweep?" she resumed at last..����The only conception that can explain the movement of the peoples is that of some force commensurate with the whole movement of the peoples..
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����"Well," began the old maid, "a young lady once went out, took a cock, laid the table for two, all properly, and sat down. After sitting a while, she suddenly hears someone coming... a sleigh drives up with harness bells; she hears him coming! He comes in, just in the shape of a man, like an officer- comes in and sits down to table with her.";? Leo Tolstoy;����An infantry regiment which had left Tarutino three thousand strong but now numbered only nine hundred was one of the first to arrive that night at its halting place- a village on the highroad. The quartermasters who met the regiment announced that all the huts were full of sick and dead Frenchmen, cavalrymen, and members of the staff. There was only one hut available for the regimental commander.,����"What vehicle is this?" he said to himself., !the briefest of moments -- every last man at Shawshank felt free.;Well, shit.,,!
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����Fate has these turns; the throne of the world was expected; it was Saint Helena that was seen....����The Thenardier's hoarse voice replied:--...,����Cosette trembled and pressed close to him.,,����"It's getting hot!,to the Spaniards in numbers, nor to the Gauls in bodily force, nor to the Carthaginians .����"Now, Miss Sonya is sure to see something," whispered Dunyasha; "while you do nothing but laugh.";
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����He had hired the house under the name of M. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman. In all that has been related heretofore, the reader has, doubtless, been no less prompt than Thenardier to recognize Jean Valjean.,����All that day and the next his friends and comrades noticed that Rostov, without being dull or angry, was silent, thoughtful, and preoccupied. He drank reluctantly, tried to remain alone, and kept turning something over in his mind.,LastIndexNext!����"See here, Mam'selle Toad," she added, "on your way back, you will get a big loaf from the baker.,����It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that triumph should rest either here or there, that the insurrection should prove itself a revolution or a skirmish....����You would have seen!,����"But, Prince, they say he is blind!" said he, reminding Prince Vasili of his own words.,����Nevertheless, walls could be confusedly made out, which intersected as though there were more cultivated land beyond, and the low roofs of the Rue Polonceau.,����"Yes," returned Prince Andrew hastily. "I said that a fallen woman should be forgiven, but I didn't say I could forgive her. I can't.";!
����A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus of the future circulates there, swelling hearts and enlarging souls....,,����I happen to be going in the direction of the court-house, that is to say, in the direction of the hotel of the prefecture; for the court-house is undergoing repairs just at this moment, and the courts are holding their sittings provisionally in the prefecture.".��I was afraid of death,�� said Nick softly. ��I chose to remain behind. I sometimes wonder whether I oughtn't to have ... well, that is neither here nor there ... in fact, I am neither here nor there ...�� He gave a small sad chuckle. ��I know nothing of the secrets of death, Harry, for I chose my feeble imitation of life instead. I believe learned wizards study the matter in the Department of Mysteries����!����Among the gentry of the province Nicholas was respected but not liked. He did not concern himself with the interests of his own class, and consequently some thought him proud and others thought him stupid. The whole summer, from spring sowing to harvest, he was busy with the work on his farm. In autumn he gave himself up to hunting with the same business like seriousness- leaving home for a month, or even two, with his hunt. In winter he visited his other villages or spent his time reading. The books he read were chiefly historical, and on these he spent a certain sum every year. He was collecting, as he said, a serious library, and he made it a rule to read through all the books he bought. He would sit in his study with a grave air, reading- a task he first imposed upon himself as a duty, but which afterwards became a habit affording him a special kind of pleasure and a consciousness of being occupied with serious matters. In winter, except for business excursions, he spent most of his time at home making himself one with his family and entering into all the details of his children's relations with their mother. The harmony between him and his wife grew closer and closer and he daily discovered fresh spiritual treasures in her.,����This infallible passage of the king at the same hour was, therefore, the daily event of the Boulevard de l'Hopital.!����The man did not answer.!����"I don't know how to answer your question," he said, blushing without knowing why. "I really don't know what sort of girl she is; I can't analyze her at all. She is enchanting, but what makes her so I don't know. That is all one can say about her.";
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����Of the activities that presented themselves to him, army service was the simplest and most familiar. As a general on duty on Kutuzov's staff, he applied himself to business with zeal and perseverance and surprised Kutuzov by his willingness and accuracy in work. Not having found Kuragin in Turkey, Prince Andrew did not think it necessary to rush back to Russia after him, but all the same he knew that however long it might be before he met Kuragin, despite his contempt for him and despite all the proofs he deduced to convince himself that it was not worth stooping to a conflict with him- he knew that when he did meet him he would not be able to resist calling him out, any more than a ravenous man can help snatching at food. And the consciousness that the insult was not yet avenged, that his rancor was still unspent, weighed on his heart and poisoned the artificial tranquillity which he managed to obtain in Turkey by means of restless, plodding, and rather vainglorious and ambitious activity.,���� When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit....����"And with such fine fellows to retreat and retreat! Well, good-by, General," he added, and rode into the yard past Prince Andrew and Denisov..����I know well that I am about to be happy.,BOOK FIFTEEN: 1812 - 13,����Nevertheless, walls could be confusedly made out, which intersected as though there were more cultivated land beyond, and the low roofs of the Rue Polonceau..����Napoleon turning round abruptly, despatched an express at full speed to Paris to announce that the battle was won..
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����"Afraid of what?"! .����This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie.,,CHAPTER I ,����Next day Davout rode out early and, after asking Balashev to come to him, peremptorily requested him to remain there, to move on with the baggage train should orders come for it to move, and to talk to no one except Monsieur de Castres.,����A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still remains of it one can form a judgment as to what it was in former days.,!����"Very good?" said Natasha reproachfully, noticing her brother's tone. "Not 'very good' it's simply delicious!".
Maybe you'll let me teach you someday. I've been thinking of getting a board together.,����Esaul Lovayski the Third was a tall man as straight as an arrow, pale-faced, fair-haired, with narrow light eyes and with calm self-satisfaction in his face and bearing. Though it was impossible to say in what the peculiarity of the horse and rider lay, yet at first glance at the esaul and Denisov one saw that the latter was wet and uncomfortable and was a man mounted on a horse, while looking at the esaul one saw that he was as comfortable and as much at ease as always and that he was not a man who had mounted a horse, but a man who was one with his horse, a being consequently possessed of twofold strength..����The moment Nicholas took her hand she could no longer restrain herself and began to cry..����"Come! come quick!!����A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words.,.����He stood erect in the half-open door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which was buttoned up to the chin..
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����The presence of the problem of man's free will, though unexpressed, is felt at every step of history....����They recognized the voice of Prouvaire.,����"As I see it you were quite right, and I told Natasha so. Pierre says everybody is suffering, tortured, and being corrupted, and that it is our duty to help our neighbor. Of course he is right there," said Countess Mary, "but he forgets that we have other duties nearer to us, duties indicated to us by God Himself, and that though we might expose ourselves to risks we must not risk our children.",����Those minutes in which one lives centuries always have this sovereign and wonderful property, that at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely.,CHAPTER III ,He that builds a fair house, upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison. Neither ,����He was repaid for his conscientious anxiety in the character of a spectator..
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,BOGS...����Then turning to the accused, he enjoined him to listen to what he was about to say, and added:....����Sorrow, it seems, is our common lot, my dear, tender friend Julie.,����Of course it does.;270 INT -- PRISON CELL -- NIGHT (1966) 270...����All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to his victory was to make the artillery converge on one point. He treated the strategy of the hostile general like a citadel, and made a breach in it.,(rises),����Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious. The marauders stole in one corner of the battlefield while others were being shot in another..
����"Oh, let me be! Why have you interfered at all? Why? Why? Who asked you to?" shouted Natasha, raising herself on the sofa and looking malignantly at Marya Dmitrievna.!.����Why don't you give me a gun?".����"We are saving our powder.",����This corridor, as the reader will remember, was bordered on both sides by attics, all of which were, for the moment, empty and to let.,LastIndexNext,����Cosette was accustomed to the enigmatical side of her destiny, and hardly noticed her father's peculiarities.;����The tall grasses undulated like eels under the north wind.!
,,����In front of this position, they say, a fortified outpost was set up on the Shevardino mound to observe the enemy. On the twenty-fourth, we are told, Napoleon attacked this advanced post and took it, and, on the twenty-sixth, attacked the whole Russian army, which was in position on the field of Borodino.,Solitary! A month!...LastIndexNext,����"You are friendly with Boris, aren't you?" asked Vera....����As she talked, she pressed her pierced hand to her breast, where there was another hole, and whence there spurted from moment to moment a stream of blood, like a jet of wine from an open bung-hole.,����France, having re-established elrey netto in Spain, might well have re-established the absolute king at home....
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����Here is gahisto, the devil, which comes from gaiztoa, evil; sorgabon, good night, which comes from gabon, good evening....,����The search for these laws has long been begun and the new methods of thought which history must adopt are being worked out simultaneously with the self-destruction toward which- ever dissecting and dissecting the causes of phenomena- the old method of history is moving.,����That said, he seated himself with sovereign dignity before the table, where the candle and the writing-materials still remained, drew a stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report..,Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set: and surely virtue is best in a body that ......����Rostopchin's broadsheets, headed by woodcuts of a drink shop, a potman, and a Moscow burgher called Karpushka Chigirin, "who- having been a militiaman and having had rather too much at the pub- heard that Napoleon wished to come to Moscow, grew angry, abused the French in very bad language, came out of the drink shop, and, under the sign of the eagle, began to address the assembled people," were read and discussed, together with the latest of Vasili Lvovich Pushkin's bouts rimes.,��She doesn't love me,�� said Harry at once. ��She doesn't give a damn���� !����And so without particularly analyzing all the contiguous sections of a cone and of the ranks of an army, or the ranks and positions in any administrative or public business whatever from the lowest to the highest, we see a law by which men, to take associated action, combine in such relations that the more directly they participate in performing the action the less they can command and the more numerous they are, while the less their direct participation in the action itself, the more they command and the fewer of them there are; rising in this way from the lowest ranks to the man at the top, who takes the least direct share in the action and directs his activity chiefly to commanding....
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Home Disney Game Apps iPad Apps iPhone Apps iPod Touch Apps iTunes Apps Retro Gaming Apps Fix-it Felix Jr. App
Disney has crafted up an excellent game titled Fix-it Felix Jr. just in time for the animated movie "Wreck It Ralph" which it's based on! It's due to hit theaters on November 2, 2012. You play as Felix, a guy whose on a mission to fix broken items. Your enemy is Ralph, a guy whose mission is to stop you from fixing items at all costs! He'll pound the flooring above you to create falling bricks. The controls are simple: left, right, up, down and fix. You start with only a few lives, so be smart. During gameplay you'll want to avoid flying birds, thrown bricks and any other obstacle hindering you from successfully completing the level. Once you complete a level (floor of a building) you'll move to the next level. If you fail to complete the level you'll have to start the game over. You score the most s points by fixing as many items as you can in a timely manner.
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Published by Ed Welch at August 8, 2016
August is the month many major league clubs pull the plug on their season. Be it dumping veterans for young prospects at the trade deadline or calling up potential superstars from the minors, some MLB teams cash out early.
But baseball bettors can find some sports bet picks discovering those teams still putting up a fight – despite little to no chance of making the postseason. These clubs are playing for pride and can come through with some hefty plus-money wins:
Minnesota Twins (45-66, -11.26 units)
The Twins have been a train wreck most of the year, but have shown signs of life in early August with a 7-3 record in their last 10 games heading into Monday. Minnesota has been cashing in away from home as well, taking it to the AL Central-leading Indians for more than four units last week and beating up on Tampa Bay this weekend. The Twins are smashing the cover off the ball in their last 10 outings, averaging 6.5 runs per game in that stretch.
Philadelphia Phillies (52-61, +4.69 units)
The Phillies have been a surprisingly profitable play most of the summer, thanks to picking up wins when listed as lofty moneyline dogs. Philadelphia did just that with two wins over the Giants last week, closing around +223 and +175 for a pair of victories. The Phillies offense, which was near the bottom of the National League most of the season, has sprung into action. Their bats are hitting .252 and plating an average of 6.3 runs per contest this month. Expect more plus-money value with Philadelphia in L.A. this week.
Kansas City Royals (53-58, -2.18 units)
It would seem strange to have the defending World Series champs on this list, but the Royals sit well off the pace in the AL Central and back of the pack for a wild card spot. Kansas City picked up two huge wins against a very good Toronto team this weekend and can build that momentum throughout the month. The Royals have been stellar at home, going 34-20, but are just 19-38 on the road. The rest of the month sees K.C. playing just 10 of 22 games inside Kauffman Stadium, which means the Royals need to figure out their road woes if they want to challenge for a ticket to October.
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"We also played a show with a bunch of posi/youth crew bands in the kitchen of a loft apartment in a warehouse somewhere in Brooklyn, the PA wasn’t working so I was just screaming at people and the posi kids lost their minds and shoved someone into a hole in the wall."
The thing that hit me when I’ve heard your band for the first time was that you music got this dirty and raw punk rock feel to it, sometimes even close grindcore sound, but at the same time it’s still hardcore. Was it something you planned and where do you draw your influences when writing music?
First off I just want everyone to know this is Dan. I can’t really answer for the rest of the band but I will do my best when I need to. I don’t think we ever really planned on our songs being what they are, to me this is a form of expression or a lashing out at the things I see as wrong or fucked up. We all listen to many many hardcore bands and sub genres of hardcore so musically we draw from a lot of places. Black Flag, Napalm Death, Integrity, Crossed Out, and Left For Dead are a few but it goes far beyond that. Lyrically as I kind of stated before; whatever is bothering me, whatever fucked up experience I had for the day, whatever problems I'm dealing with is what goes into my lyrics.
There has been a plenty of bands lately who name Integrity as their influences but you guys stand out somehow. What do you think it is about Clevo sound that have such an impact on the scene lately?
I think the attraction to the Integrity/Ringworm/Holy Terror/Clevo sound is that it is dark and angry. We are kind of hitting rough times so I think more people are upset and angry and may have dark things going though their heads.. also Integrity and Ringworm are amazing artists and deserve any recognition they get.
What is the meaning behind the religious themed artwork of the album? The cover art of your demo was based on Begotten, an experimental movie which, as many interpret it as so, also deals with religious issues with the main theme of the biblical story of creation. Was it something you planned and does it have any relation with the lyrics of the songs?
Well I have personal issues regarding organized religion and for the most part I see it as corrupt and disgusting. Too many wars, deaths, broken homes, and other terrible acts have been the result of organized religion. Its only natural to have similarly themed art work to reflect the content of our songs.
Talking about movies, what type of stuff you like and does it happen that some flick you see or book you read is an inspiration for your songs?
We watch a lot of different movies. I know that George happens to be a big fan of really fucked up and obscure horror movies. Movies and books don’t really inspire me to write lyrics that much. I did write a song very loosely based on Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, but it is a very very loose reference.
As you recall it now, what made you start a band in the first place? How do you think your attitude changed since then? Do you think you look at the hardcore scene somehow different since you started playing and get to know the scene from the this point of view?
I was actually not with Revenge when they originally started. They had another singer but he lived in New York. I was in this other band that wasn’t really working out for me, but it happened that the guys in Revenge came to one of our shows and asked if I would do fill in vocals for them afterwards. Things worked out so I ended up recording the demo with them and becoming full time vocals. We haven't been a band that long.. just under a year now.. I feel it would be pretentious of me to say how much the scene has changed since we’ve been around... so I won’t.
What is the hardcore scene like in Massachusetts? Any bands or labels you would recommend?
The scene in Mass, as far as I can tell since I started going to shows anyways, has been a little bit rough for a while. I have been pretty excited to see what bands out of mass have been doing as of late though. Bands like Shoot To Kill, Debaser, BearTrap, Inhibition, Pitfall, Think Again, Abomination, and Can’t Heal have all been killing it. As far as labels go keep an eye on Frequency Deleted Records and Neutral Territory, so many good releases are coming out on both.
You guys played with a variety of bands, small shows and festivals. What are some most memorable gigs?
Both shows we played at the Montrose Basement in NY have been insane, we played Significant Fest in tampa after an all night drive with Tyson from Think Again on bass (do to some travel disasters) he was a trooper and learned our songs about an hour before we had to play and pulled them off pretty flawlessly. We also played a show with a bunch of posi/youth crew bands in the kitchen of a loft apartment in a warehouse somewhere in Brooklyn, the PA wasn’t working so I was just screaming at people and the posi kids lost their minds and shoved someone into a hole in the wall.
Since the 2012 is the next date for the end of the world, at least the way we know it, what are your plans with the band till then? What do you guys want to archive?
I personally don’t believe that 2012 is the end of existence, according to religious leaders and other crazies we should all be dead by now, the world was supposed to have ended in 1992, 97, 98, 99, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and that is in recent years, I see it as an attempt to scare us. However despite out impending doom we plan on recording some new material within the next year, playing as many shows as we can, and hopefully attempt a full US tour in the summer
Keep an eye out in the future, I have some details on some shit, I’m just not sure if I can drop that knowledge yet so be on the look out for announcements. Keep an eye on FDR and the bands I mentioned, I'm sure that good things will be coming out of them. Buy the LP we owe Anthony money now. Thanks.
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About the Code
Harford County has, over the years, passed through a process of legislative change common to many American communities. While only a few simple laws were necessary at the time of the establishment of the county, subsequent growth of the community, together with the complexity of modern life, has created the need for new and more detailed legislation for the proper function and government of the county.
The recording of local law is an aspect of municipal history, and as the community develops and changes, review and revision of old laws and consideration of new laws, in the light of current trends, must keep pace. The orderly collection of these records is an important step in, this ever-continuing process. Legislation must be more than mere chronological enactments reposing in the pages of old records. It must be available and logically arranged for convenient use and must be kept up-to-date. It was with thoughts such as these in mind that the County Council ordered the following codification of the county's legislation. The Harford County Code has been made available online by General Code Publishers Codification and Documentation Services.
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The various chapters of the Code contain all currently effective bills of a general and permanent nature enacted by the County Council of Harford County.
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The Table of Contents details the alphabetical arrangement of material by chapter as a means of identifying specific areas of legislation. Wherever 2 or more items of legislation have been combined by the editor into a single chapter, titles of the several Articles or Parts are listed beneath the chapter title in order to facilitate location of the individual item of legislation.
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>> HOME > REVIEWS > Ed Gein
Tartan Films, VHS, DVD, 2001, Rated R, 1 hr. 29 Minutes
This movie is based on the real-life serial killer Ed Gein, a lonely strange man living in Plainfield, Wisconsin in 1957, who believes his dead mother is telling him to kill the townsfolk.
Gein had a horrible childhood, with an overbearing, religious zealot of a mother and a brute of a father. Gein blindly obeyed his mother's every wish, even after her death, when she visits him in daydreams, filling his head with talk of how the women in the town are harlots and must be killed.
Gein not only kills the women, he mutilates their bodies and dresses up in their skins. He even makes a nice vagina ornament. He also likes to cannibalize them, and even makes a tasty meal he shares with his friends.
Ed Gein is definitely worth the 89 minutes I spent watching it, thanks in large part to Steve Railsback, who plays Gein with a mix of sadness and insanity. Before Gein makes his first kill, I was actually feeling a little sorry for him living on a farm all by himself, his family all dead. Railsback has a natural semi-smile on his face through the whole movie, belying Gein's actual unhappiness and intelligence.
Carrie Snodgress plays Gein's mom to perfection. With her gravelly voice and stern hairstyle, she makes the perfect scary religious freak that apparently the real Mrs. Gein was.
The movie only shows two kills, and seems to end abruptly. I guess I expected more kills to be shown, even though I don't know how many there actually were.
As an aside, Plainfield, Wisconsin is 50 miles away from where Robert Bloch, the writer of Psycho lived. Bloch has said that Psycho was loosely based on Gein. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was also inspired by Gein's kills.
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Yuko Nakao : Stylist
Japanese born Fashion stylist and visual merchandiser Yuko Nakao was brought up submerged in a metropolitan culture known for its sophisticated style and sense of fashion. From an early age Yuko focused her attention on creating and wearing prevailing fashion ensembles – encouraging those around her to do the same. As she grew, her piers were enamored by her undeniable ability to create a sophisticated look.
Soon after, Yuko collaborated with fashion brands MaxMara, Swing Company Ltd, and Five Foxes using her keen understanding of global fashion trends and visual merchandising skills into their stores all over Japan.
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Hi, i'm brian. I try my best to make art. Sometimes I win, sometimes I loose. But its an interesting ride. I was always good at math until math won. Let's see, I have several fake bands I'm very proud of. I don't like the word rural or moist. Ok for anyone who is still reading, I Love people and I think it's almost impossible to find a better subject to photograph. Holy weird. My favorite thing is to shoot portraits. I like to geek out with lighting on my portraits so they very often have a cinematic look to them. If you would like to the author of this to tell you more, turn to page 65...if you would like the author of this to get a day job, turn to page 66....isn't it funny how close the two options are? Ahhhhhh God speed kids!
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Photographer and video director James Loveday is an exciting talent in fashion and music imagery. He has produced video and photo content for companies including Boden, Ecco, Wedgwood, Stetson, Mencap and Animal, record companies like Universal, Sony and DEF and has had his work featured in a design for Topshop. Magazine contributions include AnOther, Grazia Italia, Neo2, The Gloss, Foam, The Wire, Beautiful Decay and 1814 magazine.
Personal projects include a social documentary on Craigslist in New York, a road trip across the USA over the course of a year and portrait projects featuring his bedroom and his friends. He also spent a month shooting a book on rubbish dumps in Guatemala.
Born in London James obtained a degree in Ancient History from UCL before he began his photography career in New York, initially assisting Richard Kern and Mario Testino, then shooting for himself from 2009. His work covers fashion, portraiture and music in their many different forms, but his keen eye and aesthetic sense keep a unity of style and theme throughout his work.
James is currently based between London and New York and is always interested in hearing ideas for commissions.
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Iori Tajika : Still-Life Photographer
Iori Tajika is an awarded photographer based in Tokyo and New York City.
Born in Japan, and after graduation, he joined Commercial Photo Wave Studio in Kobe where one of the cities to open for international trade and being well known as a cosmopolitan port city.
Tajika, then moved to Tokyo and worked at 10BAN Studio and GRIP10BAN for several years. At both 10BAN Studio and GRIP10BAN, he had been collaborating with many established photographers who were mostly in commercial and fashion fields, and his professional capability was leading many projects to successful achievements.
Recently, his passion for photography brought him to New York City where he develops himself as a still life photographer.
2003 APA Award, APA (Advertising Photographer’s Association) Exhibition
2004 Third Place, JPS (Japan Professional Photographer’s Society) Exhibition
2004 Japan Siber Hegner Award, Japan Visual Studio Association Photo Exhibition
2005 Second Place, Japan Visual Studio Association Photo Exhibition
Marcin Kaliski : Photographer
A Polish photographer and graphic designer gone NYC.
Marcin shoots modern photographs and believe in clean, elegant design. He works across the fields of portraiture, fashion, beauty, still life and documentary photography. He also design books, posters, editorial layouts and advertising concepts. Click HERE to editorial
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Drug Delivery Systems for Ophthalmic Administration of Antiinflammatory Agents
Author(s): Yolanda Diebold, Laura Contreras-Ruiz, Isabel Arranz-Valsero, Laura Garcia-Posadas. Edificio IOBA, Campus Miguel Delibes, Universidad de Valladolid, Paseo de Belen, 17, E-47011 Valladolid, Spain., Spain
Journal Name: Anti-Inflammatory & Anti-Allergy Agents in Medicinal Chemistry
(Formerly Current Medicinal Chemistry - Anti-Inflammatory & Anti-Allergy Agents)
Anti-inflammatory agents are routinely used to treat inflammatory diseases affecting both anterior and/or posterior segments of the eye. Corticosteroids and NSAIDs can be administered either topically onto the ocular surface structures or injected into the eye. However, one of the most important handicaps of ocular treatments is the presence of several anatomical and physiological barriers in the eye that drastically reduce drug access to the target site. The hydrophobicity of anti-inflammatory agents, low drug bioavailability, and the invasiveness of intraocular drug delivery are main reasons to explore the potential application of drug delivery-related technologies to develop new antiinflammatory ocular therapies. This review summarizes conventional anti-inflammatory treatments for ocular diseases and the ongoing research efforts to develop improved drug delivery systems. Micro-size intraocular implants, microparticles, nanoparticles, and liposomes are the preferred delivery systems in study.
Keywords: Anti-inflammatory drugs, corticosteroids, drug delivery, eye disease, nanomedicine, nanoparticles, NSAIDs, ocular drug administration, Ophthalmology, OCULAR ANTI-INFLAMMATORY THERAPY
Anti-Inflammatory & Anti-Allergy Agents in Medicinal Chemistry
Title: Drug Delivery Systems for Ophthalmic Administration of Antiinflammatory Agents
Author(s):Yolanda Diebold, Laura Contreras-Ruiz, Isabel Arranz-Valsero and Laura Garcia-Posadas
Affiliation:Edificio IOBA, Campus Miguel Delibes, Universidad de Valladolid, Paseo de Belen, 17, E-47011 Valladolid, Spain.
Keywords:Anti-inflammatory drugs, corticosteroids, drug delivery, eye disease, nanomedicine, nanoparticles, NSAIDs, ocular drug administration, Ophthalmology, OCULAR ANTI-INFLAMMATORY THERAPY
Abstract: Anti-inflammatory agents are routinely used to treat inflammatory diseases affecting both anterior and/or posterior segments of the eye. Corticosteroids and NSAIDs can be administered either topically onto the ocular surface structures or injected into the eye. However, one of the most important handicaps of ocular treatments is the presence of several anatomical and physiological barriers in the eye that drastically reduce drug access to the target site. The hydrophobicity of anti-inflammatory agents, low drug bioavailability, and the invasiveness of intraocular drug delivery are main reasons to explore the potential application of drug delivery-related technologies to develop new antiinflammatory ocular therapies. This review summarizes conventional anti-inflammatory treatments for ocular diseases and the ongoing research efforts to develop improved drug delivery systems. Micro-size intraocular implants, microparticles, nanoparticles, and liposomes are the preferred delivery systems in study.
Yolanda Diebold, Laura Contreras-Ruiz, Isabel Arranz-Valsero and Laura Garcia-Posadas, “ Drug Delivery Systems for Ophthalmic Administration of Antiinflammatory Agents”, Anti-Inflammatory & Anti-Allergy Agents in Medicinal Chemistry (2011) 10: 203. https://doi.org/10.2174/1871523011109030203
M1/M2 Macrophages in Diabetic Nephropathy: Nrf2/HO-1 as Therapeutic Targets
Tumour Reactions to Hypoxia
Current Molecular Medicine
pH Modulation Based Solid Dispersion to Enhance Solubility of a Poorly Soluble NSAID - Development and Evaluation
Drug Delivery Letters
Levosimendan Reduces Prostaglandin F2a-dependent Vasoconstriction in Physiological Vessels and After Experimentally Induced Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Synthesis, p38 Kinase Inhibitory and Anti-inflammatory Activity of New Substituted Benzimidazole Derivatives
Kynurenine System and Multiple Sclerosis, Pathomechanism and Drug Targets with An Emphasis on Laquinimod
Editorial from Editor-in-Chief
Inflammation & Allergy - Drug Targets (Discontinued)
Xenobiotic Sulphation and its Variability During Inflammation: a Factor in Adverse Drug Reactions?
Current Drug Metabolism
Recent Updates on Molecular Genetic Engineering Approaches and Applications of Human Therapeutic Proteins
The Role and Predictive Value of Cytokines in Atherosclerosis and Coronary Artery Disease
AAV-mediated Overexpression of IL-10 Mitigates the Inflammatory Cascade in Stimulated Equine Chondrocyte Pellets
Connexins in Renal Endothelial Function and Dysfunction
Cardiovascular & Hematological Disorders-Drug Targets
Vitamin A in Prevention of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
Diabetogenic Effects of Parthinium hysterophorous Induced Allergic Rhinitis
Current Antiviral Therapy for Chronic Hepatitis C Including Liver Transplantation and Hepatic Resection
Current Medicinal Chemistry - Anti-Infective Agents
Regulation of Ocular Immune Responses by Corneal Epithelium
Effect of Dietary Supplementation of Black Seed (N. Sativa L.) on Lipid Profile of Patients Suffering from Diabetes
Vascular Endothelium and Hypovolemic Shock
Current Vascular Pharmacology
Immunomodulatory Effect of Probiotic Bacteria
Recent Patents on Inflammation & Allergy Drug Discovery
The Role of Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors in Cancer Prevention
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The Cracks Begin To Show At The Cottage
Hopefully the method in Le Prof’s madness will be revealed come May, but in the meantime it’s hard to appreciate the logic of sending Frimpong out on loan to assist Mick McCarthy in rotating 5 players for Wolves second game in 48-hours, while le Gaffer was forced to field 9 of the same fatigued combatants from the Gunners’ gossamer thin squad at Fulham.
The craic is always up to 90 at Craven Cottage, with travelling fans occupying the entire Putney Stand behind the goal. As such a firm favourite on the awayday calendar, I was all the more gutted to be bedridden with a debilitating lurgy, missing out on all the entertaining hi-jinks. Sadly it’s a barometer of how fearful we are of Spurs good form, when nearly all the terrace banter is focused on our neighbours and Harry “he pays tax when he wants” Redknapp’s impending date with the Inland Revenue.
Yet watching a rare Arsenal display on the telly was a reminder of how damaging to the health this can be. I’d hoped that the Gunners might’ve learned a lesson from leaden-footed efforts of all those who’d frittered points away over the hectic festive period. But sadly not, as there was an incredibly frustrating air of inevitability to the outcome at the Cottage, once we’d failed to kill the game of in the first-half. It seemed patently obvious that a slender single goal lead wasn’t enough to prevail against the determined talents of Dempsey, Ruis, Dembele, Zamora and co., but instead of trying to force the issue, we made the fatal and somewhat arrogant mistake of attempting to rest on our laurels.
I felt most sorry for Koscielny, because as just about our most consistent player so far, he’d more than earned his moment of glory. And after Sczczny’s feats to keep us in the game, our gutsy young keeper definitely didn’t deserve to end up as the villain of this dissatisfying piece.
Wenger’s teams have never been designed for “shutting shop” even when at full strength, never mind with our decimated defence and a flagging midfield. The truth of the matter is that we’ve been riding our luck, eking out the results, ever since we lost the last of our recognized full-backs to injury. But this didn’t diminish the strain on my blood-pressure, while I bellowed my exasperation at an inanimate box as we blew the 3 points, knowing that Spurs could have 9 more points in the bag (three home games) before we next travel to Swansea!
Nevertheless if you’d told any Gooner three weeks into the calamitous start to our campaign, or even in mid-October when we were floundering in 15th place, that we’d be turning the corner at the halfway mark, having clambered right back up to 5th, there would’ve been few complaints. Until the unfortunate demise of all four full-backs, we were making an extremely good-fist of our resurgence.
Hopefully with Titi chomping at the bit, the hero’s return will offer a much-needed boost to morale. But even at the height of his powers, Henry couldn’t paper over the huge fissions in this Arsenal squad. We can but pray that le Prof might learn from the defeat at Fulham that he simply cannot continue to rely on playing square pegs in round holes on either side of the park.
It hasn’t gone without notice that Henry’s brief sojourn will end with our trip to the San Siro and the Derby game against Spurs but I hope all the hoo-haa surrounding his arrival won’t deflect from our desperate need for more permanent relief for Van Persie, before the burden of goal-scoring pressure begins to take its toll on Robin.
Meanwhile the consensus seems to believe that so long as our competitors continue to be blighted by inconsistency, if we can somehow cling on to their coat-tails until we’re capable of fielding our strongest XI, there could still be a happy-ending to this campaign. Although evidence of Gooner expectation adjustment is demonstrated in the fact that our unrequited thirst for silverware has all but been forgotten, in our anxiety about finishing above Tottenham.
Deluded optimism perhaps, but if we should fail to finish in the top four, then I guess we’ll just have to go and win the bloomin’ Champions League!
Where There's Life, There's Still Hope
So Now I Know What Swan-Upping Entails
Sound Economics My Arse!
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45th is ‘Sustainment Unit for Pacific’
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Chief Warrant Officer 3 Jason Jonas, 45th Sust. Bde., helps Spc. Crystal Biggs of the 25th Infantry Division navigate through the Army publications system website during a class at the Digital Training Facility on Wheeler Army Airfield, March 30.
Story and photos by Sgt. Erin Sherwood
45th Sustainment Brigade Public Affairs
8th Theater Sustainment Command
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS — Coined “The Sustainment Unit for the Pacific,” the 45th Sustainment Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command, has a long history of providing support during contingency operations, humanitarian missions and joint logistics exercises across the world.
A part of maintaining this level of support is validating Soldiers’ basic knowledge with proper procedures.
One approach the seasoned leaders in the unit are taking to ensure mission readiness is by implementing a Command Maintenance Evaluation Team (COMET) designed to streamline the way sustainment personnel conduct unit-level inspections. The team enhances unit readiness by identifying and resolving equipment and maintenance management issues affecting that unit’s ability to provide support to the Pacific Theater.
This training impacts contingency operations and the way these units can support humanitarian aid and disaster-relief missions. It can involve anything from proper preventative maintenance checks and services on motor pool vehicles to the best way to manage an entire shop of staff and equipment.
“The first day I started working in the support operations shop, I asked what we were doing to support the units within the 8th Theater Sust. Cmd.,” said Chief Warrant Officer 4 Kent Shepherd, senior ground maintenance warrant officer. “I suggested we start a COMET because there were no resources on Schofield Barracks that offered training assistance for unit inspections. We realized there were some experience gaps between maintenance required and Soldier knowledge, and we wanted to fix that.”
Current initial entry Soldiers aren’t certified on the Standard Army Maintenance System, an essential program used by sustainment personnel Armywide. As the contingency operations slow down, it gives the seasoned professionals an opportunity to reintegrate standard Army practices, and with Hawaii’s limited training opportunities because of geographical location, the COMET was the right fit.
“There was a program in place before all of these rapid deployments for the sustainment Army,” said Chief Warrant Officer 3 Jason Jonas, Armament Systems Maintenance warrant officer for the 45th Sust. Bde. “When the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan kicked off, it was discontinued because we didn’t have the manpower in garrison. Now that we have a full staff again, we can recreate the inspection team and model it around an expeditionary agenda.”
Jonas and Shepherd began their program by inspecting and communicating with units islandwide, and then identifying the challenges each faced. They also pinpointed who needed what training.
“A lot of junior officers and senior noncommissioned officers do not have that formal training on how to manage a motor pool,” said Jonas, “mostly because their units are deployed or resetting from a deployment from the past few years.”
“We identified these shortfalls and based our program around these knowledge needs,” added Shepherd. “We can’t officially certify Soldiers, but what we can do is give them the tools they need to be successful on the job.”
After their assessments, Jonas and Shepherd created accelerated daylong classes to teach anywhere from 10-20 Soldiers at the Soldiers’ place of work. They have trained more than 250 Soldiers in the past three months on various maintenance tasks.
One of their most popular classes focuses on military publications, which teaches Soldiers how to order specific equipment and field manuals for their shop. Knowing how to use this Army system can help them prepare their unit for future inspections.
“The class was helpful for me because there are times when I need a technical manual or am unsure about the function of a certain part,” said Sgt. Clint Hornaday, a 25th Infantry Division missile technician. “The publications class gave me the tools I need to order them, so I can properly instruct my Soldiers on how to repair equipment.”
The team also offers services, such as segmented inspections, desk-side visits, arms room maintenance, standard operating procedure instructions, and assistance with filing, management and proper labeling techniques.
“These classes are an opportunity for executive officers and senior noncommissioned officers to have dialogue with a senior warrant officer about how to run a motor pool or manage a shop floor,” said Shepherd. “We also take everything we teach along with sample standard operating procedures and post them in a portal online, so resources are easily accessible.”
“In the end, it really comes down to communication” added Jonas. “We want units to know we are there as a resource to help. If we know about an issue, we can provide an answer instead of them having to search for it.”
Tags: 45th Sustainment Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command, COMET
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Commission makes progress on a European Agenda on Migration
Brussels, 04 March 2015
The European Commission today launched its work on a comprehensive European Agenda on Migration. The College of Commissioners held a first orientation debate on key actions to step up the EU’s efforts to implement the existing tools and cooperation in managing migration flows from third countries.
For the first time, managing migration better is an explicit priority of the European Commission, as presented in the political guidelines of President Juncker, A new start for Europe. Migration is a cross-cutting issue, involving different policy areas different actors, both inside and outside the EU. The new structure and working methods of the European Commission are a first step at addressing the challenges and opportunities of migration in a truly comprehensive way.
First Vice-President Frans Timmermans said: “Managing migration well is a challenge for Europe as a whole. It is now time for a fresh approach in the way we work together: we must make better and more coherent use of all our tools, agree common priorities and pool more resources at EU and national levels to achieve real solidarity and a better sharing of responsibility between Member States. In May we will present a new migration agenda with an improved governance to strengthen our asylum system, set a sound course on legal migration, act more vigorously against irregular migration and ensure more secure borders.”
High Representative Vice-President Federica Mogherini said: “We need to be effective, as Europeans, on the immediate response and at the same time to address the root causes, starting from the crises spreading at our borders, most of all in Libya. That’s why we are increasing our work with origin and transit countries to provide protection in conflict regions, facilitate resettlement and tackle trafficking routes.”
Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said: “Migration is about people – behind each face arriving at our borders, there is an individual: a businessperson travelling to work, a student coming to study, a victim of people-traffickers, a parent trying to get their children to safety. When presenting a comprehensive European Agenda on Migration we have to think about all dimensions of migration – this is not about quick fixes; this is about creating a more secure, prosperous and attractive European Union.”
Towards a truly comprehensive European approach on migration
Today’s Orientation Debate has set out the four main areas where actions are envisaged in the European Agenda on Migration to implement the political guidelines of President Juncker. All are mutually linked and equally important.
A strong Common Asylum System
The European Union has one of the most advanced legislative frameworks globally to offer protection to those in need. Now is the time to fully and coherently implement the recently adopted Common European Asylum System. The Commission will take all efforts that existing divergences in national asylum policy practices disappear. Deepening the cooperation with third countries will also be essential to address the root causes of migration, as well as mainstreaming migration into the design of development strategies. Finally, the Commission is committed to making progress in the increased use of relocation and resettlement efforts by the European Union, in close dialogue with Member States and third countries which host important numbers of refugees.
A new European policy on legal migration
Whilst addressing existing unemployment, Europe will have to attract the right talent to be more competitive at a global level. This is a long-term effort which we have to start preparing now. That is why the European Commission will launch a review of the EU Blue Card Directive. This is a challenging and long term process and can only work in discussion with Member States, including on a more horizontal approach to legal migration policy.
Fighting irregular migration and human trafficking more robustly
People migrate irregularly for a variety of reasons. In 2014, there were about 278.000 irregular border crossings according to Frontex – twice as many as in 2011. Many of these migrants make use of smugglers – or are taken advantage of by human traffickers. Building further on existing legislation on irregular migration and the fight against human trafficking, the Commission wants to enhance its actions in this area. The Commission is working towards a comprehensive set of actions against human smuggling, and wants to further develop concrete tools targeting priority countries and routes, in close collaboration with third countries, also through existing readmission agreements and cooperation frameworks (e.g. the Rabat, Khartoum or Budapest processes).
Securing Europe’s external borders
An area without internal borders, and a solid asylum and migration policy can only be sustained if Europe manages its external borders, in full respect of fundamental rights. Border management is a shared competence between the EU and the Member States, and the enforcement of the surveillance of EU’s external borders is of vital interest to all. The preparation of the European Agenda on Migration will be an opportunity to discuss whether and to what extent EU’s Border Agency Frontex needs a budget increase, and more operational assets and human resources to better address the evolving challenge at the EU’s external borders. We need to pool more resources amongst Member States if we truly want to reinforce the work of Frontex and put European Border Guard Teams into action.
Source: European Commision
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Oh, the landscapes I have seen! And the people! The far wanderings of the Fremen
and all the rest of it. Even back through the myths to Terra. Oh, the lessons in
astronomy and intrigue, the migrations, the disheveled flights, the leg aching
and lung-aching runs through so many nights on all of those cosmic specks where
we have defended our transient possession. I tell you we are a marvel and my
memories leave no doubt of this.
Nayla types a report to Leto on a computer in her room, warning of Siona's dangerous activities, pleading him to release her from her vow of obedience to her. She thinks about a communication implant Leto put into her and it's possible violation of the Great Convention's proscription against computers. Nayla meets with Topri, whom she obviously dislikes, and Siona, who show her a poem Leto wrote when Ghani died along with a flower she gave him and a strand of her hair. Nayla confesses when pressed by Siona that she has sworn to Leto that she would obey Siona. Nayla experiences a test of faith when Siona doesn't react as she had expected her to. Siona believes that Leto's love and sentiment may be used against him.
Postby keith » 22 Sep 2012 14:15
Listening to the book on mp3 and I got the impression that Nayla speaks the truth but Siona understands her to mean something different than she actually means. Nayla says that she has sworn to God ... meaning Leto ... but understood by Siona to be some ideal (and not Leto).
And thanks much for these summaries. Really helps keep the story straight in my mind.
Postby Freakzilla » 22 Sep 2012 15:58
I exist only to serve.
Thanks! So which do you think it is?
You wrote - Nayla confesses when pressed by Siona that she has sworn to Leto that she would obey Siona.
I understood that Nayla confessed obedience to God. She spoke the truth and hid it at the same time?
I don't want to get ahead of the topic chapter but you must keep in mind, there is no "idea" of a god here, Leto is a living god and Siona was born and raised a Fish Speaker. I'm sure she knows that when Nayla says "god" she means Leto.
What I like about this chapter is Siona's appreciation for Nayla.
"You must answer my question." Siona said. "I command it."
Nayla caught her breath. This was the dilemma she had most feared. There was no way out. She said a silent prayer and spoke in a low voice.
"I have sworn to God that I will obey you."
Siona clapped her hands in glee and laughed.
"I knew it!"
Topri chuckled.
"Shut up, Topri," Siona said. "I am trying to teach you a lesson. You don't believe in anything, not even in yourself."
"But I...
"Be still, I say! Nayla believes. I believe. This is what holds us together. Belief."
Topri was astonished. "Belief? You believe in. .."
"Not in the God Emperor, you fool! We believe that a higher power will settle with the tyrant worm. We are that higher power. "
Nayla took a trembling breath.
"It's all right, Nayla," Siona said. "I don't care where you draw your strength, just as long as you believe."
Nayla managed a smile, then grinned. She had never been more profoundly stirred by the wisdom of her Lord. I may speak the truth and it works only for my God!
This sentiment is a throwback to Leto I and Paul and what made them different from the Harkonnens and Corrinos. They didn't merely want to win power, they also believed in certain principles that stood outside the halls of power. This belief of theirs is presumably what drew fanatical followers to their cause, and what allowed Paul to become the Fremen messiah. Here Siona is saying that people who have real faith in some cause other than pure power, even if the causes are different, have more in common than people on the same side who believe in nothing. This suggestion reminds me somewhat of the BG idea of human vs non-human, although in this case the distinction is a matter of faith rather than neuro-muscular capability.
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Absolute dose determination in high-energy electron beams: Comparison of IAEA dosimetry protocols
S Sathiyan, M Ravikumar
Department of Radiation Physics, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, India
S Sathiyan
Department of Radiation Physics, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore - 560 029
In this study, absorbed doses were measured and compared for high-energy electrons (6, 9, 12, 16, and 20 MeV) using International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Technical Reports Series No. 277 (TRS), TRS 381, and TRS 398 dosimetry protocols. Absolute dose measurements were carried out using FC65-G Farmer chamber and Nordic Association of Clinical Physicists (NACP) parallel plate chamber with DOSE1 electrometer in WP1-D water phantom for reference field size of 15 x 15 cm 2 at 100 cm source-to-surface distance. The results show that the difference between TRS 398 and TRS 381 was about 0.24% to 1.3% depending upon the energy, and the maximum difference between TRS 398 and TRS 277 was 1.5%. The use of cylindrical chamber in electron beam gives the maximum dose difference between the TRS 398 and TRS 277 in the order of 1.4% for energies above 10 MeV (R 50 > 4 g/cm 2 ). It was observed that the accuracy of dose estimation was better with the protocols based on the water calibration procedures, as no conversion quantities are involved for conversion of dose from air to water. The cross-calibration procedure of parallel plate chamber with high-energy electron beams is recommended as it avoids p wall correction factor entering into the determination of k Q,Qo .
Keywords: Absorbed dose, chamber, cross-calibration, protocol
Sathiyan S, Ravikumar M. Absolute dose determination in high-energy electron beams: Comparison of IAEA dosimetry protocols. J Med Phys 2008;33:108-13
Sathiyan S, Ravikumar M. Absolute dose determination in high-energy electron beams: Comparison of IAEA dosimetry protocols. J Med Phys [serial online] 2008 [cited 2020 Jan 20];33:108-13. Available from: http://www.jmp.org.in/text.asp?2008/33/3/108/42754
Advances in radiation dosimetry continue to improve the accuracy of calibrating photon and electron beams of radiation therapy. With the improved anatomical information obtained from sophisticated diagnostic imaging procedures, the data required to achieve better accuracy in patient treatment depends upon the measured dose. The success of radiotherapy depends on the absorbed dose delivered to the tumor, and it should not vary with respect to prescribed dose by more than ±5%. [1] This requires that the overall uncertainties in radiation dosimetry be minimized, which can be achieved by implementation of uniform measurement procedures in calibration laboratories and user beams. Since it is possible to delineate the target and other critical structures using sophisticated diagnostic imaging procedures, there is a need to evaluate the absorbed dose accurately to maximize the target dose and minimize the normal tissue dose.
The IAEA in collaboration with other international organizations (WHO, PAHO, and ESTRO) has developed various protocols for high-energy electron beams, like absorbed dose determination in photon and electron beams, [2] the use of parallel plate chambers in high-energy electron and photon beams, [3] and absorbed dose determination in external beam radiotherapy. [4] American Association of Physicists in Medicine has also developed various task groups for high-energy electron beams, like AAPM TG-21, AAPM TG-39, and AAPM TG-51. [5],[6],[7] According to TRS 277 and TG 21 protocols, the absorbed dose at a specified depth can be calculated using air-kerma calibration factor obtained from the cobalt therapy beam for all electron beams used clinically. IAEA TRS 381 protocol recommends the use of parallel plate chamber to determine absorbed dose in high-energy photon and electron beams using air chamber calibration factor (N D,air pp ). Recent protocols TG 51 and TRS 398 suggest the measurement of absorbed dose in phantom at a reference point, using absorbed dose to water calibration factor (N D,w ). At present, Secondary Standard Dosimetry Laboratories (SSDL) does not provide calibration factors for all user beam qualities. They provide calibration factor only for 60 Co beam. Quality specific conversion factor is to be used to determine absorbed dose to water for the interested beam qualities based on the SSDL reference calibration factor.
Ever since the 'absorbed dose to water' concept was introduced, a frequent question has been raised about the difference between water-and air-kerma-based protocols. Several authors have compared different protocols to study the various aspects influencing the accuracy of delivered dose. [8],[9],[10],[11],[12] The IAEA-based recommendations of TRS 398 differ significantly from TRS 277 and TRS 381. These significant differences are contributions from difference in the calibration factor and stopping power ratios. The IAEA [11] reported on experimental comparison of high-energy electron beam dosimetry using TRS 277, TRS 381, TRS 398, TG 51, and DIN 6800-2 protocols. The test results are reported and compared in the document using the above protocols with various types of chambers. It has been found that the maximum differences in absorbed dose determination between TRS 398 and the previous Codes of Practice TRS 277 (2 nd ed.) and TRS 381 are of the order of 1% to 2%, depending on the energy and the detector system used. In this study, TRS 277, TRS 381, and TRS 398 protocols were compared to evaluate the absolute dose measurements in high-energy electron beams using parallel plate and cylindrical ion chambers. The parallel plate chamber was cross-calibrated against the cylindrical chamber, and the dose measurements carried out with the same werecompared.
High-energy electron beams of 6, 9, 12, 16, and 20 MeV from Clinac-DHX (Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CA, USA) dual-energy photon linear accelerator were used in this study. Absolute dose measurements were carried out using DOSE1 electrometer (Wellhofer, Scanditronix) with 0.65 cm 3 (FC65-G) Farmer-type ion chamber and NACP-02 parallel plate chamber of volume 0.16 cm 3 . The front window thickness of parallel plate chamber was 0.5 mm of graphite (0.6 mm with Mylar foil for water protection). No leakage was observed in the chamber and/or the electrometer during measurements. The measurements were carried out in 30×40×30 cm 3 , WP1-D manual water phantom (Scanditronix) according to TG 51 and IAEA TRS 398 dosimetry protocols. The measurement depth can be manually adjusted with 0.1 mm steps, and the depth of measurement was read out on the incremental encoder with integrated display. All measurements were carried out at reference depth using the reference standard applicator of size of 15×15 cm 2 provided by the manufacturer. The measurement setup used in our study is shown in [Figure 1]. All measurements were done by strictly adhering to the conditions stipulated in the protocols. Three measurements were made to minimize the statistical uncertainty in dose measurement. The ion recombination and polarity effects have been measured and corrected for each value of electron energy. For electron dosimetry, all the protocols recommend a cross-calibration for parallel plate chamber against calibrated cylindrical chamber. The rationale for this is the large uncertainty in the wall perturbation factor p wall at 60 Co energy for different makes of parallel plate chambers. Hence cross-calibration procedure was also carried out in this study.
Energy parameters
In TRS 277, the range-energy relationship is strictly valid for depth absorbed dose distributions. The measurement of R p and R 50 are necessary to determine the most probable energy at the surface ( P,0 ) and the mean energy at the phantom surface (E 0 ). It is given by
P,0 = C 1 + C 2 R p + C 3 R p 2 [1],
where C 1 = 0.22 MeV, C 2 = 1.98 MeV cm -1, C 3 = 0.0025 MeVcm -2 .
0 = C 4 R 50 [2],
where C 4 = 2.33 MeV·cm -1
Mean energy as a function of depth is given by
z = E 0 (1- z/R p ) [3],
where R p is the practical range, which is defined as the depth where the tangent to the descendent part of the curve intersects the prolongation of the bremsstrahlung tail, and R 50 is the depth where the absorbed dose is 50% of the maximum dose.
In TRS 381, the equation for the mean energy at the phantom surface ( 0 ) is valid for large field sizes of electron energies 5 to 30 MeV, and for R 50 determined from depth-dose distributions measured in water. 0 can be determined from ionization curve or depth-dose curve measured at 100 cm SSD with an ionization chamber or a solid state detector using the relationship
0 [MeV] = 0.818 + 1.935 R J 50 + 0.040 (R J 50 ) 2 [4]
for R J 50 determined from a depth-ionization curve;
0 [MeV] = 0.656 + 2.059 R D 50 + 0.022 (R D 50 ) 2 [5]
for R D 50 determined from a depth-dose curve.
In TRS 398, the mean energy at the phantom surface is given by 0 = 2.33 R 50 MeV and R 50 expressed in g/cm 2 .
2. Overview of formalism of various IAEA codes of practice for electron beams
A summary of the formalism in the various IAEA codes of practice protocols is presented in orde r to establish a parallelism among them. The original notations used by the various codes of practice (CoPs) and protocols for various interaction coefficients, influential quantities, and perturbation correction factors will be retained in the discussion of the present section. However, in the subsequent sections, the notations given in the TRS 398, [4] TRS 277, [2] and TRS 381 [3] will mostly be used.
2.1. IAEA TRS 277
Determination of absorbed dose to water at reference depth in a phantom is a two-step process. In the first step, a chamber factor in terms of the absorbed dose to the cavity air, N D , is derived:
N D = N K (1 − g) k att k m [6],
where k m is the factor to take into account the non-air equivalence of the ionization chamber, ionization chamber wall, and buildup cap material. In the second step, the absorbed dose to water, D w,Q , at a point in a phantom where the effective point of measurement of the chamber is positioned, is obtained from the dose to the cavity air using the Bragg-Gray principle,
D w (p eff ) = M u . p TP . N D . k h . k s . (s w,air ) u . p u [7],
where M u is the meter reading, p TP is the factor to allow for effects of nonreference temperature and pressure, and N D is the absorbed dose to air chamber factor. The humidity correction is represented by k h, k s is the ion recombination correction, s w,air is the stopping power ratio for the electron energy, and p u is the perturbation correction factor. The effective point of measurement, p eff , is 0.5r (i.e., z peff - z p = 0.5r) upstream from the center of the chamber for cylindrical chambers, and for plane parallel plate chamber, it is at the front surface of the air cavity.
There are two approaches to determine absorbed dose to water in high-energy electron beam quality Q, depending on whether chamber has N D,air or N D,w calibration factor.
2.2.1. Dosimetry with N D,air calibration factor for parallel plate chamber: Absorbed dose to water D w,Q for the beam quality Q, at the effective point of measurement Peff positioned at reference depth , is given by
D w,Q (p eff ) = M Q . N D,air . (s w,air ) Q . (p cav p wall ) Q [8],
where M Q = M l. p TP . p s .
M l is the meter reading, p TP is the factor to allow for effects of nonreference temperature and pressure, and N D,air is the absorbed dose to air chamber factor. The ion recombination correction factor is p s , the stopping power ratio of water to air is (s w,air ) Q . p Q is the overall perturbation factor (p cav p wall ), perturbation due to air cavity is p cav , and p wall is the effect due to non-air equivalence of chamber wall material.
2.2.2. Dosimetry with N D,w calibration factor for parallel plate chamber: When the parallel plate chamber has absorbed dose to water calibration factor, absorbed dose to water at the effective point of measurement is
D w,Q (p eff ) = M Q . N D,w,Qo . k Q [9],
where N D,w,Qo is the absorbed dose to water calibration factor at reference beam quality, k Q is the beam quality conversion factor.
The reference depth in water phantom for absorbed dose determination in electron beams is R D 100 for energies less than 5 MeV, R D 100 or 1 cm for energies ranging from 5 to less than10 MeV, R D 100 or 2 cm for energies ranging from 10 to less than 20 MeV, and R D 100 or 3 cm for energies ranging from 20 to less than 50 MeV. As suggested by the protocol, larger depth was selected for the measurement depending on the energy.
2.3.1. Dosimetry with N D,w calibration factor for cylindrical and parallel plate chambers (calibration in Co-60 beam): The absorbed dose to water at the reference depth z ref in water, in an electron beam quality Q is
D w,Q = M Q . N D,w,Qo . k Q,Qo [10],
where M Q = M l . h pl . k TP . k elec . k pol . k s
M l is the uncorrected dosimeter reading, h pl is the fluence scaling factor (for water, h pl =1), k TP is the pressure temperature correction factor. The electrometer calibration factor is k elec , k pol is the polarity correction factor, and k s is the recombination correction factor. The polarity correction factor k pol is given by
where M + is the meter reading for polarizing voltage +V, and M - is the meter reading for polarizing voltage -V. The recombination correction factor k s is given by
k s = a 0 + a 1 (M 1 / M 2 ) + a 2 (M 1 / M 2 ) 2 [12],
where M 1 and M 2 are the meter readings obtained at two different bias voltages V 1 and V 2 for the same irradiation condition. The constants a 0 , a 1 , and a 2 are the voltage ratio dependents, which can be obtained from the protocol.
N D,w,Qo is absorbed dose to water calibration factor at the reference beam quality Q o , and k Q,Qo is the chamber-specific factor which corrects for difference between the reference beam quality Q 0 and the actual beam quality Q. The reference depth (z ref ) is 0.6 R 50 - 0.1 g/cm 2 . The position of the reference point of the chamber for parallel plate is at z ref ; and for cylindrical chamber, at 0.5 r cyl deeper than z ref , where z ref is the center of the chamber.
2.3.2. Cross-calibration of parallel plate chamber in electron beam: The parallel plate chamber was cross-calibrated against a reference cylindrical chamber with an electron beam of energy 20 MeV having an R p of 8.3 g/cm 2 . The reference chamber and the chamber to be calibrated were compared by alternately positioning each other at the reference depth z ref in water. The calibration factor in terms of absorbed dose to water for the chamber under calibration at the cross-calibration quality Q cross is
where M refQcross is the dosimeter reading for reference chamber, M xQcross is the dosimeter reading for chamber to be calibrated, N refD,w,Qo is the absorbed dose to water calibration factor for reference chamber, and k refQcross,Qo is the beam quality conversion factor for reference chamber.
The absorbed dose to water for user beam quality can be determined from the above calibration factor
Dw,Q = M xQ. N xD,w,Qcross. K xQ,Qcross (14),
M xQ is the meter reading corrected for influential quantities.
Such a calibration generally results in determination of absorbed dose to water using parallel plate chamber that is more reliable than that achieved by use of parallel plate chamber directly calibrated in 60 Co, mainly because of problems associated with the pwall correction for plane-parallel chambers in 60 Co, entering into the determination of kQ,Qo. [Table 1] shows the measurement depth used in various protocols. The calibration factors and the associated correction factors for the chambers used in this study are shown in [Table 2] and [Table 3]. [Table 4] shows the summary of the calibration of chambers for dosimetry in high-energy electron beams according to the IAEA Technical Reports.
[Figure 2] shows the experimental comparison of dose ratios TRS 277 / TRS 398 and TRS 381 / TRS 398 in electron beams at the depth of dose maximum for NACP parallel plate chamber having ND,w calibration factor in 60 Co. The maximum difference between TRS 381 and TRS 398 was 1.3%, and the maximum difference between TRS 277 and TRS 398 was found to be 1.5%.
[Figure 3] shows the experimental comparison of the dose ratio TRS 381 / TRS 398 for the electron beams at the depth of dose maximum for NACP parallel plate chamber. These results have been obtained by cross-calibration of parallel plate chamber in the high-energy electron beams against the Farmer-type chamber having ND,W calibration factor in 60 Co beam. The maximum deviation in the measured absorbed dose with the two protocols was 1.1%.
[Figure 4] shows the plot of the dose ratio between TRS 277 and TRS 398 (TRS 277 / TRS 398) as a function of R50 for the electron beam dosimetry, using Farmer-type ion chamber with ND,w calibrated at 60 Co. The maximum dose difference was 1.4%.
The result shows that the absorbed dose variation between TRS 381 and TRS 398 protocols was in the range of 0.24% to 1.3%, depending upon the electron energy. The maximum dose difference between TRS 277 and TRS 398 protocols was 1.5%. The IAEA-TECDOC 11 shows that maximum difference between TRS 398 and TRS 381 is of the order of 1% for NACP and Roos PTW commercial chambers; for the Roos PTB prototype, the maximum discrepancy is up to 1.5% at the lowest and highest energies. It is also reported that the dose ratio TRS 398 and TRS 277 is up to 2%. From this study, it was observed that the maximum deviation in the measured absorbed dose with TRS 398 and TRS 381 was 1.1% for NACP parallel plate having ND,w cross-calibration factor. The IAEA-TECDOC report has indicated the maximum deviation of 1.3% at higher energies, which is in agreement with our results.
The IAEA-TECDOC 11 has reported that the maximum differences in absorbed dose determination between TRS 398 and the previous Codes of Practice TRS 277 (2 nd ed.) and TRS 381 are of the order of 1% to 2%. The report recommends that the users are advised to check carefully their experimental conditions and relevant calibration coefficients if the ratios of absorbed doses, Dw (TRS 398) / Dw (other CoPs), measured by them fall outside the range recommended by this report. The dose ratios of TRS 398 in comparison with other codes of practice (TRS 381 and TRS 277) were in good agreement with IAEA-TECDOC-1455. The accuracy of dose estimation would be more with the protocols based on the water calibration procedures, as no conversion quantities are involved for conversion from air to water. The cross-calibration procedure of parallel plate chamber with high-energy electron beams is recommended as it avoids Pwall correction factor entering into the determination of kQ,Qo .
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4. An International Code of Practice for Dosimetry based on absorbed dose to water IAEA Tech. Series No.398, Absorbed dose determination in external beam radiotherapy. Vienna: IAEA; 2000.
5. AAPM TG-21. A protocol for the determination of absorbed dose from high-energy photon and electron beams. Med Phys 1983;10:741-71.
6. AAPM TG-39. The calibration and use of parallel plate ionization chambers for dosimetry of electron beams. Med Phys 1994;21:1251-60.
7. AAPM TG-51. Protocol for clinical reference dosimetry of high-energy photon and electron beams. Med Phys 1999;26:1847-70.
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11. IAEA TECDOC-1455. Implementation of the international code of practice on dosimetry in radiotherapy (TRS 398): Review of testing results. Vienna: IAEA; 2005.
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OTTAWA - Larry Maguire, MP for Brandon-Souris, welcomes and applauds the initiatives included in Budget 2014 announced by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty that will have a direct positive impact on Southwestern Manitoba.
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This past Saturday, I received a terrific surprise. I attended a demonstration and reception in Frederick, Maryland, for the national juried exhibition "Shades of Pastel."
I have been fortunate to have my work in many national exhibitions. I have also won awards, which has always been a pleasant surprise. During the receptions for these shows, the awards are presented, and everyone involved is delighted to see when their friends receive accolades. I suspect that we all wait to see if our names may be called. After all, that would be human nature. During the awards ceremony, I listened while names were called for each award. When the announcer got to the Best in Show award, I admit to thinking, "Well, better luck next time." In fact, I was not paying complete attention when the name was announced for the work that received Best in Show. Then I realized, "Wait, wait, was that MY name?" Well, yes it was! So, my painting, "Facing West — On Stage" received the Best in Show at the "Shades of Pastel" exhibition on Saturday, November 2. There were 63 other very deserving pieces in that show, so I couldn't be more proud. You can see the painting below.
Making me even more thrilled was that the judge for this show was Jimmy Wright, an artist whose work I have admired for years. Prior to the reception, Mr. Wright presented a demonstration to those fortunate enough to be there. I was transfixed during this demonstration because Wright's work is different from many of the pastel artists that are producing work presently. He has no interest in replicating a subject; his interest is to interpret that subject based on gesture and feeling. He works very intuitively, and it was a kick to see him pull out a dried sunflower (one of his favored subjects) and go to work. I have included an example of his work for you to enjoy. To see more of Mr. Wright's art, you may visit his website here:
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Israeli court delays release of Malka Leifer as judge considers her move to house arrest
4 October 2019
Malka Leifer at a hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem last year. Source: Getty
A former Melbourne school principal accused of sexually abusing students will remain behind bars in Israel as a judge considers an appeal to her bail.
A former Melbourne school principal accused of sexually abusing students will remain behind bars in Israel as a judge considers her move to house arrest.
Malka Leifer faces extradition to Australia on 74 charges of sexually assaulting female students during her time at Melbourne's ultra-orthodox Adass Israel school.
The 52-year-old fled to Israel in 2008 after the allegations first emerged and the process to extradite her has stalled several times since charges were laid in 2013.
On Wednesday, Judge Rom Vinograd in the Jerusalem District Court ordered Leifer's release from custody and that she be placed under house arrest.
He allowed 48 hours for his decision to be appealed.
Early Friday Australian time, Supreme Court Justice Anat Baron ordered that Leifer's release be delayed as she considers appeals made by both the prosecution and defence.
Malka Leifer appears in court in 2018. AAP
Victim supporter Manny Waks attended the hearing and said he felt "cautiously optimistic" the judge will reverse Leifer's release.
"I hope and expect that Leifer will remain in prison until the end of proceedings against her," he said in a statement on Friday.
"Most importantly, Leifer will remain in jail for now."
The court hearing comes after Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews wrote to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, reiterating his view that Leifer must be extradited "in order to face the scrutiny of the criminal justice system in Australia".
Mr Andrews said the decision to grant bail "defies explanation".
Malka Leifer is wanted in Australia on child sex abuse charges. Source: SBS
"I am hopeful that in writing to you, the Israeli justice system can move quickly to right this wrong. Victims and their families deserve nothing less," his letter read.
Federal Attorney-General Christian Porter said he would travel to Israel in the coming months to raise the matter "personally and directly" with his counterpart.
"Given our request was made in 2013, the length of time that Israel is taking to finalise Australia's extradition request is regrettable," Mr Porter said in a statement.
"Ms Leifer is facing very serious criminal charges - it would be better for all involved that these charges are resolved."
Alleged victim Dassi Erlich described the bail ruling as a "massive betrayal of justice".
Leifer's bail conditions would include staying with an appointed family member, reporting to police and attending a medical facility for treatment.
Originally published at SBS.
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Folio Season #10: Robinson, Lethem, Waldman, Osborne and more
Introduction I’ve set myself the challenge of reading all 80 books nominated for the 2015 Folio Prize. Several I’d already read before the list was announced – which was what gave me the perhaps inaccurate idea that it would be possible, or a good idea, to read all of the remainder. I’m now posting weekly updates on the titles I’ve been zooming through in the past seven days…
A bumper edition this week (now the holiday [above] is over): reviews below of Lila by Marilynne Robinson, Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem, Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldman, The Ballad of a Small Player by Lawrence Osborne, Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut, Lost for Words by Edward St Aubyn, Kinder than Solitude by Yiyun Li, Nora Webster by Colm Toibin and and On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee. Whew!
Lila – Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux US)
Lila isn’t her name; she doesn’t have a name of her own, only ‘a likeness of a name’. Lila is a name given to her; her surname, Dahl, a corruption of the name of Doll, the woman who rescues – or steals – Lila as a baby from a household where she’s neglected and abused. Over the course of her life, Lila is a scavenger, a wild girl, a prostitute and, finally, a wife and mother. The undertow of her life on the run with Doll and a ragtag bunch of travellers still calls to her; even when happily married and with a daughter of her own, she still feels that one day she might have to leave her adopted home and run again. It’s a while since I read Home and Gilead, the two novels to which Lila is successor and part sequel, and so I have lost track a little of the Ames and Boughtons of those books, and the various quiet struggles and betrayals of their backstory; here, Lila marries the elderly reverend, John Ames, at the very end of his life; I suspect that to re-read those other two books (as I intend to) with this foreknowledge will cast an interesting new perspective on this quiet saga, in which marriage is undertaken for deceptively simple reasons: ‘“I’m going to keep you safe. And you’re going to keep me honest.”’ Taken on its own merits, though, this is a subtle, beautiful, tremendously moving novel, one of the best on this list.
Dissident Gardens – Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday US)
It took me quite a while to get into this book, which wouldn’t normally be a problem, but as I’m reading against time, as it were, was irritating. Partly I was put off by what seems its opening’s flagrant… um, homage, shall we say, to Philip Roth. “Quit fucking black cops or get booted from the Communist Party. There stood the ultimatum, the absurd sum total of the message conveyed to Rose Zimmer by the cabal gathered in her Sunnyside Gardens kitchen that evening. Late fall, 1955.” That’s the first line of Lethem’s book; compare the opening of Roth’s Sabbath’s Theater: “Either forswear fucking others or the affair is over. / This was the ultimatum, the maddeningly improbable, wholly unforeseen ultimatum, that the mistress of fifty-two delivered to in tears to her lover of sixty four […]” Let’s say that Lethem’s a fan. A scene shortly afterward in which Rose remonstrates, hysterical and half-naked, with her daughter Miriam (for going on a date), seems like what might happen if you fed every Roth novel into a kind of condensing machine and produced a five-page summary: the most Rothian of rants. The book’s concerns – political activism, the generation gap, protest songs, Jewishness, Communism (the “twentieth-century Americanism”) and What It Means To Be An American (for one character, it’s “to be presented with an unrecognisable image of yourself which you must not fail to claim as yourself”) – aren’t unRothian either. It must be deliberate, surely? Set yourself up against the master at your peril, I say: Lethem’s book has the density of prose of late high Roth, as well as some of the concerns about the intersection and overlapping of the personal and the political (see I Married a Communist, American Pastoral), but little of his elegance nor the killer plotting. Dissident Gardens has some memorable setpieces – often involving games, oddly, whether chess or TV quiz shows – but I struggled my way through it, wishing for a bit less hero-worship and a bit more clarity of purpose, as well as of prose. A clunker.
Love and Treasure – Ayelet Waldman (Knopf US)
Like All the Light We Cannot See last week, this is one of those generations-spanning, world-tramping novels that takes real events in World War II as its starting point. Jack, stationed in Salzburg at the very end of the war, is charged with guarding a train filled with the valuables of Hungarian Jews sent to concentration camps: their jewellery, silverware, artworks. A century later, his granddaughter travels to Budapest to try to reunite a particular piece of jewellery – a bejewelled peacock, purloined by Jack – to its rightful owner, or as near to such a person as possible. And in 1913, at the dawn of the fight for women’s rights, a psychoanalyst is called in to help a young Hungarian proto-suffragette whose story will become entwined with the peacock ornament’s. I liked the leapfrogging structure of this book, which moves through three distinct time periods, united by works of art; it’s uneven, however, since compared to the engaging WWII narrative and the psychoanalyst’s notes on his young charge, the central present-day narrative, which should be terrific (it’s a kind of who-owns-it, rather than whodunit, based around stolen and lost artworks, and has a nicely hubristic ending) is just a series of rather dry deductions in which coincidence – which plays too big a part throughout the book – figures heavily. I also rather resisted the very programmatic links between Waldman’s title and her text: a series of love affairs, a number of priceless treasures – it’s all a bit ‘Do you see?!’ Likewise, the analyst’s account is a little too tinged with hindsight: we enlightened readers know that Nina is ‘right’ to insist on equal rights for women, her father a baddie for sending her for treatment for dementia praecox, and well-meaning Dr Zobel ‘ignorant’ for obstructing her, so this section, while convincingly written, seems somewhat an exercise in knowing historical reinforcement: look how unenlightened people were a hundred years ago! When it hits its stride, it’s very readable, but that only comes in fits and starts; the opening, in which Jack and his granddaughter are reunited a day before his death, is particularly stilted.
The Ballad of a Small Player – Lawrence Osborne (Hogarth US)
This is partly why I set out on this Folio Season business: here’s a writer I’ve not only never read before but hadn’t even heard of, though Osborne is the author of several other books. The Ballad of a Small Player is a short, claustrophobic novel set on the gambling island of Macau, where time and daylight disappear and our narrator, known as Lord Doyle, can escape his criminal background, adopt a new name, and win and lose all day long. Like any gambler, he has runs of luck, but his latest is his most bizarre: playing baccarat, where the best cards are a four and a five, he is dealt exactly this hand over and over, winning and winning and winning. Statistically it’s not impossible, but it is deeply improbable. Still Doyle keeps testing the run, wondering when his luck will run out – or if it ever will. Has he been blessed? Cursed? I liked this novel a lot, even when its strangeness crossed over from the statistical to something like a ghost story. There’s a telling central metaphor about Chinese versions of Hell and of ‘hungry ghosts’: ‘Continually suffering from hunger or thirst, they cannot sate or slake either craving.’ A late-stage twist is, if not exactly predictable, satisfyingly apt for the story Osborne is telling. I’ll certainly be seeking out more of his books.
Arctic Summer – Damon Galgut (Europa Editions US)
Galgut’s novel follows E.M. Forster as he travels to India for the first time, exploring the reasons for his visit (romantic, sort of) and the consequences (a novel widely accepted as Forster’s masterpiece). It’s slightly puzzling to me why books like this exist. A good biography – though I’ve not found any of the books on Forster I’ve read to be especially good – would cover much of this material; what a factual account might eschew, Galgut does very well, however, extrapolating from what’s known of Forster to generate fictive scenes of thwarted passion, for instance, which have the ring of truth about them even if they’re largely invented. I’m a bit torn about this book: novels about novelists are one thing, novels about real novelists another, and novels which seek to dramatise poetic inspiration can be reductive. On the other hand, the shorthand view that suggests writing is a kind of quasi-mystical business (present in the word ‘inspiration’, as though the writer or artist has been ‘breathed into’ by some unknowable higher power) can be irritating – so this book has a fine line to walk. I’m not convinced that it’s more than the sum of its parts, though the writing is good and the subject matter interesting. I suppose it comes down to whether it’s more interesting to the reader to witness process or outcome; this book suggests that the two are very close — this fictive Forster synthesises various experiences and real characters for A Passage to India, but much of what he witnesses ends up in his novel unmediated, as it were, which seems to slightly do a disservice to his work.
Lost for Words – Edward St Aubyn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux US)
It takes some chutzpah, you might say, for an award-winning author to write a comic novel that suggests (some) literary prizes are administered by idiots and hypocrites, riven with infighting, prey to conflicts of interests, and awarded almost inevitably to the least deserving, lowest-common-denominator finalist. It may reflect some humour on the part of literary prize boards that Lost for Words should have been listed for this prize. For me, this is a slight confection, rife with the sort of farce and comedy that perhaps works better on screen or in the theatre than on the page. The targets are either easy – the establishment of the Folio Prize in response to an especially anaemic Booker Prize year is a more fitting response than St Aubyn’s book – or bizarre (a maniacal publisher with bad hair implants is named, at once pointedly and pointlessly, John Elton), and the climactic awarding of the Elysian Prize to a cookbook mistaken by some judges for a novel is a cop-out, skewering neither the literary pretension some real-life prizes are castigated over, nor the focus on ‘readability’ for which some others are criticised. Excerpts from the shortlisted books are troublesome too: it beggars belief that a (very) sub-Irvine Welsh book, wot u lookin at, might be considered for the prize; it’s worse that Lost for Words then points out its sub-Welsh-ness. And in a book where characters decry clichés in the books they read, a single paragraph that contains the phrases ‘Penny was lost for words’ and ‘she really didn’t appreciate having her head bitten off’ might want to set its own house in order. I did, however, like the idea of Ghost, a writer’s software which suggests not just synonyms but clichés expanding from a particular word or phrase, and which allows the user to bump up the wordcount of her novel-in-progress ‘in leaps and bounds’. But there’s that unabashed deployment of cliché again!
Kinder than Solitude – Yiyun Li (Random House US)
Subtle to the point of glacial, this novel starts with the death of Shaoai, who’s been in a coma for 21 years. As news of her death reaches the three people who knew her best in the late 1980s, their past starts to unfold in their reactions and memories. Shaoai’s coma was the result of her poisoning, possibly at the hands of one of this trio – but who? And why? And does it really make any difference? I was very taken with the story of Ruyu, adopted by Shaoai’s family and a kind of brutally passive character whom Shaoai taunts for her refusal to engage with the world. Her former peers, Boyang and Moran, are equally solitary creatures at odds with the world. The preoccupations of this book are there in the title (what do you sacrifice by being stoically solitary? Is it better to engage with others and, essentially, risk your life, as Shaoai does when she participates in a political protest?) but the frequent recurrences of ‘kind’, ‘kindness’, ‘solitude’, and all their variants, in the text drive the point home a little too hard. At times this really came to life for me; the central conceit – ‘the habit of being opaque allowed [Ruyu] to be a mystery in people’s eyes. To want to know any person better requires one to give up that position ad to become less inscrutable’ – I found intriguing and unusual, and the book explores its ramifications well. I liked, too, the way that an ostensible mystery (who did the poisoning?) is allowed to disappear for long stretches, its resolution not unclear and yet something of a shrug: now that you’ve read all about these characters, does it matter whether Shaoai killed herself or was poisoned? Something about this ambiguity is, paradoxically, not at all disappointing.
Nora Webster – Colm Toibin (Penguin Viking UK)
More subtlety. The eponymous main character of Toibin’s limpid, moving novel is a recent widow, bringing up two boys in the Ireland of the late 1960s. Over three years, her grief shifts, ebbs, waxes, changes: she starts to return to real life, and is both cossetted and hindered by the people of Enniscorthy, the small town near Dublin where she lives: this is a place where everyone knows everyone else, a support network that’s more of a trap to get tangled in. The disapproval that greets Nora’s dyeing her hair, or buying a brightly coloured dress, is palpable and tangible. This sort of suffocating atmosphere pervades this novel; weirdness thrums at a low level – something odd happens to Nora’s sons Conor and Donal, yet, trying not to be as fussy and busybody as her own parents, she doesn’t quite sufficiently investigate what has transpired. It’s a short book into which a vast amount of slow-burning, almost imperceptible action is packed; Nora is hindered and helped in her return to post-mourning life, but judgement – whether approving or not – is always being made, as she is judging others. In the background, too, the Troubles are starting: the other side of the country may as well be a half a world away, at least until locals start getting involved. You come away from this book feeling almost clammy: it’s a terrific achievement.
On Such a Full Sea – Chang-Rae Lee (Riverhead US)
A dystopia set five minutes in the future, where the city of Baltimore – now known as B-Mor – is a kind of island fortress whose inhabitants live a balanced, peaceful, self-sufficient life. It’s a world of handscreens and vids, technological extrapolations only slightly removed from those of our own time, but also a world where every human being will die of ‘C’ (cancer)… or maybe not quite every one. Fan, a fishergirl who looks after the fish on which B-Mor depends, sets off on a quest beyond B-Mor to the rich Counties in search of her boyfriend Reg who, it’s rumoured, has never had ‘C’ and has perhaps been taken to the Counties for monitoring or experimentation.
There’s lots about this book that I liked: for one, the structure, which alternates between Fan’s story and a “we” voice that relates what happens in B-Mor in her absence, as the inhabitants grow dissatisfied with their seemingly idyllic life and anarchy starts to bloom. Those unnamed communal voice narrates Fan’s adventures elsewhere, too, and so there is a sort of double fable thing going on: the B-Mors’ acts are put in a kind of passive voice, as if everyone yet no-one is responsible for their graffiti and littering, and it’s by no means certain if what they describe Fan doing is a true account or a kind of myth. These adventures can be less or more involving – one in which Fan faces down cannibals is too familiar a horror, but one in which she’s inveigled into a cult of identically genetically altered girls with numbers for names and an obsession with making art is terrific – seem arbitrarily plotted, as if this could have been a much longer or much shorter book without suffering unduly. Fan herself, as befits a mythic figure, is somewhat sketchily characterised, but that doesn’t seem to matter too much. On Such a Full Sea is an uneven book, not always a satisfying one, but memorable all the same.
62 books down, 18 to go, and 24 days until the prize is announced. Next week: Constantine Phipps, Jane Smiley and more.
The eighty nominated titles — with the ones I’ve read struck through (and links to reviews, where applicable) — are:
10:04 – Ben Lerner
A God in Every Stone – Kamila Shamsie
Academy Street – Mary Costello
After Me Comes The Flood – Sarah Perry
All My Puny Sorrows – Miriam Toews
All Our Names – Dinaw Mengitsu
All The Days And Nights – Niven Goviden
All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
All The Rage – A.L. Kennedy
Amnesia – Peter Carey
Annihilation – Jeff Vandermeer
Arctic Summer – Damon Galgut
Bald New World – Peter Tieryas Liu
Bark – Lorrie Moore
Be Safe I Love You – Cara Hoffman
Boy, Snow, Bird – Helen Oyeyemi
Can’t & Won’t – Lydia Davis
Dear Thief – Samantha Harvey
Dept. of Speculation – Jenny Offill
Dissident Gardens – Jonathan Lethem
Dust – Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Em and the Big Hoom – Jerry Pinto
England and Other Stories – Graham Swift
Euphoria – Lily King
Everland – Rebecca Hunt
Eyrie – Tim Winton
Family Life – Akhil Sharma
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Published in Oncotarget V7N2, Jan 12, 2016
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Therapeutic effect of TMZ-POH on human nasopharyngeal carcinoma depends on reactive oxygen species accumulation
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Oncotarget. 2016; 7:1651-1662. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.6410
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Li Xie, Xingguo Song, Wei Guo, Xingwu Wang, Ling Wei, Yang Li, Liyan Lv, Weijun Wang, Thomas C. Chen and Xianrang Song _
Li Xie1,*, Xingguo Song1,*, Wei Guo2, Xingwu Wang1, Ling Wei1, Yang Li1, Liyan Lv1, Weijun Wang3, Thomas C. Chen3, Xianrang Song1
1Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Radiation Oncology, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Jinan, Shandong Province, China
2Ultrasound Diagnosis Department, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Jinan, Shandong Province, China
3Department of Neurological Surgery and Pathology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
*These authors contributed equally to this work
Correspondence to:
Xianrang Song, e-mail: basiclab@163.com
Keywords: nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), reactive oxygen species (ROS), temozolomide (TMZ), perillyl alcohol (POH)
Received: July 16, 2015 Accepted: November 20, 2015 Published: November 27, 2015
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a common head and neck malignancy without efficient chemotherapeutic agents for it. In our current study, we demonstrated the cytotoxicity effects of a newly patented compound temozolomide–perillyl alcohol (TMZ-POH) on NPC in vitro and in vivo, and the possible mechanisms involved. Human NPC cell lines CNE1, CNE2, HNE2, and SUME-α were treated with control (DMSO), TMZ, POH, TMZ plus POH, and TMZ-POH. Our data indicated that TMZ-POH could inhibit NPC cell proliferation, cause G2/M arrest and DNA damage. TMZ-POH triggered apoptosis in NPC cells via significant activation of caspase-3 and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP). Importantly, TMZ-POH-induced cell death was found to be associated with (i) the loss of inner mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm) and release of mitochondrial Cytochrome c, (ii) the increase in ROS generation, and (iii) the activation of stress-activated protein kinases (SAPK)/c-Jun N-terminal kinases (JNK) signaling pathway. The generation of ROS in response to TMZ-POH seems to play a crucial role in the cell death process since the blockage of ROS production using the antioxidant N-acetyl-L-cysteine or catalase reversed the TMZ-POH-induced JNK activation, DNA damage, and cancer cell apoptosis. These results provide the rationale for further research and preclinical investigation of the antitumor effect of TMZ-POH against human NPC.
Therapeutic effect of TMZ-POH on human nasopharyngeal carcinoma depends on reactive oxygen species accumulation | Xie | Oncotarget
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a common head and neck malignancy with distinct ethnic and geographic distribution. It is endemic in southern China and Southeast Asia. A potential link exists between Epstein–Barr virus and the development of NPC [1, 2]. Given its high radiosensitivity, the standard treatment for NPC is radiotherapy. Along with the damage of radiation to normal tissues, radioresistance remains a serious obstacle to successful treatment. Radioresistance can cause local recurrence and distant metastases in some patients [3]. Conventionally, chemotherapy is given concurrently with radiotherapy for treating locally advanced disease. However, the overall survival after recurrence is usually poor with reported median survival ranging from 7.2 to 22 months [4, 5]. Thus, special emphasis is on the discovery of effective chemotherapeutic agent.
Temozolomide (TMZ) is a DNA alkylating agent that is currently the standard care medication administered to glioblastoma multiforme patients as its transient tumor growth–arrest property [6, 7]. The therapeutic benefit of TMZ depends on its ability to alkylate DNA at the N7 or O6 position of guanine residues; high expression levels of the cellular repair enzyme O6-methylguanin-DNA-methltransferase (MGMT) can protect tumor cells from the cytotoxic impact of TMZ, which has been demonstrated the contribute to treatment resistance [8–10]. Perillyl alcohol (POH) is a naturally occurring monoterpene that is used orally for treating a variety of cancers, including breast, pancreas, and lung carcinomas [11–13], and has an amazing capability to enhance the cytotoxicity of TMZ in several tumors, including the TMZ-resistant gliomas [14]. In this study, POH was covalently conjugated to TMZ, thereby generating a novel TMZ analog TMZ-POH (honorable product from NeOnc Technologies), which displayed a greater anticancer potency than each of its parental molecules in several types of malignant neoplasms such as TMZ-resistant gliomas, triple-negative breast cancer [15], and melanoma [16].
TMZ-POH is lipid soluble, so it can be used via inhalation or nasal drip. Direct deposition of TMZ-POH at the nasopharyngeal site can increase nasopharyngeal local drug concentrations; reduce the overall dose required, thereby reducing the side effects that result from high doses; and also lead to increased patient convenience [17]. Based on these promising results, in this article, the anticancer activity of TMZ-POH was evaluated against NPC in comparison with TMZ, POH, or a mix of TMZ plus POH in vitro and in vivo.
It is well established that reactive oxygen species (ROS) play important biological roles in cell homeostasis. Several studies have also reported that high intracellular ROS levels are usually associated with apoptosis in cancer cells [18]. The well-characterized mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) family member, stress-activated protein kinases/c-Jun N-terminal kinase (SAPK/JNK), plays important roles in the coordination of cellular stress responses toward different stimuli including ROS [19], and is an important mediator of apoptosis induction in response to different chemotherapeutic agents. The results of this study provide a novel mechanism of TMZ-POH that ROS accumulation is involved in TMZ-POH-induced JNK activation, DNA damage, and cancer cell apoptosis.
Cytotoxicity of TMZ-POH on the growth of NPC cells in vitro
To verify the toxic role of TMZ-POH in NPC, four NPC cell lines CNE1, CNE2, HNE2, and SUME-α were employed in our study, which were treated with several concentrations of the individual constituents (TMZ-POH, TMZ, or POH) alone, or with an equimolar mix of TMZ plus POH for 48 hours, and the cell viability was determined by MTT assay. As shown in Figure 1A, TMZ-POH inhibited the proliferation of CNE1, CNE2, HNE2, and SUME-α compared to its individual constituents (TMZ, POH) and their combination (TMZ plus POH) in a dose-dependent manner significantly. Furthermore, a colony formation assay was also carried out, which demonstrated a more potent inhibition of colony formation capability triggered by TMZ-POH than by its constituents and their combination (Figure 1B and Figure 1C). Taken together, the data in this study supported the inhibitory role in NPC cell growth and colony formation.
Figure 1: Effects of TMZ-POH on the growth of NPC cells. (A) CNE1, CNE2, HNE2, and SUME-α cells were treated with the indicated concentrations of TMZ, POH, TMZ plus POH, and TMZ-POH for 48 hours, and then subjected to the MTT assay. The absorbance value was calculated and standardized to the control (DMSO) group. (B) The above cells were treated with 100 μM TMZ, POH, TMZ plus POH, and TMZ-POH for 2 hours and subjected to the cell colony formation assay. (C) Surviving fraction is presented as mean ± SD, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 (n = 3 in each group).
Cytotoxicity of TMZ-POH on the growth of NPC cells in vivo
To evaluate the in vivo anticancer activity of TMZ-POH, the growth inhibition of HNE2 xenografts in nude mice was investigated. All animals were imaged for luciferase expression to confirm efficient tumor uptake. Figure 2 presented tumor growth in these animals after the cessation of treatment. As shown in Figure 2B, all control animals exhibited much increased bioluminescent radiance (indicative of vigorous tumor growth); the administration of TMZ-POH resulted in the significant growth suppression of HNE2 xenografts when compared with the control groups (p < 0.05). Tumor growth showed less bioluminescence in the TMZ-POH-treated group than in other groups, indicating that the therapeutic efficacy of TMZ-POH was substantially stronger than that of TMZ, POH, or their combination. No statistically significant differences in the body weights were observed between the mice in TMZ-POH-treated group and mice in control group (P > 0.05, data not shown), indicating a low general toxicity of TMZ-POH. These data show that TMZ-POH exhibits potent antitumor activity and high safety in vivo.
Figure 2: Effect of TMZ-POH on subcutaneous tumor growth. (A) Mice carrying subcutaneously implanted HNE2/luc cells were separated into five treatment groups (five animals each): (i) control (DMSO only), (ii) 50-mg/kg TMZ, (iii) 50-mg/kg POH, (iv) 22-mg/kg POH mixed with 28-mg/kg TMZ (mimicking the dosage of the individual components contained in 50-mg/kg TMZ-POH), and (v) 50-mg/kg TMZ-POH, all injected subcutaneously. Representative images of treated tumors with different treatment were detected. (B) Tumor size was calculated in these animals after the cessation of treatment. Both graphs show folds increase in tumor size over time. (C) Image of HNE2/luc primary tumor in mice 17 days after the cessation of treatment in different treatment groups.
Role of TMZ-POH treatment in G2/M arrest and DNA damage repair pathway activation
TMZ is shown to exert its cytotoxicity by inducing DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). Therefore, whether TMZ-POH also induced cell death via DNA damage was investigated. In previous studies, DNA damage was reported to result in cell cycle arrest and induce a DNA damage repair response [20–22]. To address this issue, cell cycle and DNA damage repair pathway were studied. As shown in Figure 3A, TMZ-POH led to an obvious G2/M arrest compared to its individual constituents and their combination. ATM (ataxia telangiectasia mutated) and ATR (ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related) kinases are generally activated in response to DNA damage [23, 24]. Indeed, TMZ-POH was observed to induce the phosphorylation of ATM and ATR at the Ser1981 and Ser428 site, respectively (Figures 3B and 5D). Chk1 and Chk2 are the cell cycle checkpoint kinases, downstream of ATM and ATR [23, 25], and were shown to be phosphorylated at the Ser345 and Thr68 site, respectively (Figures 3B and 5D). When DNA is damaged, DSBs trigger the recruitment of ATM to the damaged site, which in turn phosphorylates histone H2AX (yielding γ-H2AX) resulting in foci formation at the damage side [26]. As shown in Figures 3B and 5D, TMZ-POH treatment induced an increase in phosphorylated H2AX (Ser139). Together, these results characterize TMZ-POH as an alkylating agent with cytotoxic mechanism similar to TMZ, but with a potency that is substantially greater than the original compound.
Figure 3: Effects of TMZ-POH on cell cycle checkpoint/DNA repair pathway in NPC cells. (A) The cell cycle distributions of CNE1, CNE2, and HNE2 were analyzed by flow cytometry after 36 hours of treatment with the indicated constituents (100 μM); representative images are shown. Three independent experiments were performed. (B) DNA repair pathway was detected by Western blotting after 24 hours of treatment with the indicated constituents (100 μM).
TMZ-POH-induced apoptosis in human NPC cells
Next, whether TMZ-POH can induce NPC cell apoptosis was investigated. As shown in Figure 4A and 4B, TMZ-POH treatment resulted in a significant increase in the percentage of Annexin V–positive cells in all above cells compared to other constituents. Next, whether the superior effect of TMZ-POH would also be reflected at the molecular level of apoptosis-related protein expression was determined. Western blot analysis showed that TMZ-POH increased significantly the expression of cleaved PARP and cleaved (i.e., activated) caspase-7 in CNE2 and HNE2 cells (Figure 4C). Caspase-3 is a key effector in the process of apoptotic cell death. As shown in Figure 4D, the elevation of activated caspase-3 was found remarkably profound in TMZ-POH-treated group in both HNE2 and CNE2 cells. All three indicator proteins were induced quite prominently by TMZ-POH after 1 days of treatment, whereas TMZ, POH, or TMZ plus POH exerted noticeably weaker effects. Thus, the results from the cell survival assay (Figure 1A) correlated closely with the effects of these compounds on DNA damage and apoptosis markers (Figures 3B, 4C and 5D), and in all cases TMZ-POH clearly generated the strongest anticancer impact.
Figure 4: Effect of TMZ-POH on the apoptosis of NPC cells. (A) Apoptosis was analyzed by Annexin V/PI staining after 24 hours of treatment with the indicated constituents (100 μM). (B) Representative histograms are shown. (C) The expression of apoptosis-related proteins was detected by Western blotting after 24 hours of treatment with the indicated constituents (100 μM). (D) Activation of caspase-3 was determined by ELISA. The results shown are means ± SD; *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01.
Role of TMZ-POH in ROS accumulation and MTP decrease
ROS plays an important role in tumorigenesis and chemotherapy of most anticancer drugs. To assess the role of ROS in the anticancer effect of TMZ-POH in NPC cells, intracellular ROS levels were measured using DCFH-DA. As shown in Figure 5A, a significant sixfold to eightfold increase in ROS production was observed in both CNE2 and HNE2 cells upon TMZ-POH treatment, indicated by an increased DCFH-DA fluorescence intensity, suggesting the intracellular ROS levels were enhanced after the TMZ-POH treatment.
Figure 5: TMZ-POH-induced ROS accumulation, MTP decrease, and activation of JNK–mitochondrial apoptotic pathways. (A) Intracellular ROS levels were measured using the fluorescent probe DCFH-DA after cells were treated with the indicated constituents (100 μM) for 24 hours. The raw data from each individual experiment were normalized to control cells. (B) MMP assays by flow cytometry using the JC-1 kit. The results shown are means ± SD. (C) Western blot analysis of Cyto c, SDHA, c-Jun, p-JNK, ATF-2, and MKK-4 in CNE2 and HNE2 cells treated with the indicated constituents (100 μM) for 24 hours. (D) The expression of proteins in tumor specimens in mice was detected by Western blotting 3 days after the cessation of treatment in different treatment groups (Figure 2A). ACTB was used as internal control. Data presented are representative of three independent experiments.
The mitochondrion is a major site of ROS generation in mammalian cells, the decreased mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) is also a marker of apoptosis. So, MMP collapse was also examined. As expected, TMZ-POH led to a decrease in mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm) significantly compared to other constituents (Figure 5B), as indicated by increased JC–1 fluorescence signal ratio (the fluorescent intensity of green to red). Coincidently, the release of Cytochrome c as the prototypic event for the induction of mitochondrial changes during apoptosis was induced by TMZ-POH, and the complements of antioxidant enzymes that modulate cellular ROS flux, such as SDHA1, were significantly suppressed by the TMZ-POH treatment.
For many drugs, the ability to induce apoptosis and cell cycle alterations in target cells is related to the signaling by JNKs, a family of serine/threonine kinases that mediate intracellular signal transduction in response to different physiological stimuli and stressing conditions. Therefore, the role of JNKs in cell cycle regulation and apoptosis induced by TMZ-POH in NPC cells were examined in the current study. As shown in Figure 5C and 5D, exposure of CNE2 and HNE2 cells to TMZ-POH induced phosphorylation of JNK, c-Jun, activating transcription factor 2 (ATF2), and mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 4 (MKK4). Collectively, the data in this study suggest TMZ-POH leads to an imbalance of the cellular redox potential and ultimately programmed cell death.
ROS-mediated cytotoxicity of TMZ-POH on NPC cells
Next, as increased ROS production is critical in inducing cell apoptosis, whether TMZ-POH induced death is ROS dependent was determined. Two ROS scavengers, catalase (CAT) N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) were employed to prevent ROS accumulation. The cell viability in TMZ-POH-treated HNE2 and CNE2 cells was restored in the presence of CAT or NAC (Figure 6A). The increase of apoptotic cells observed upon treatment with TMZ-POH was significantly reduced when cells were co-treated with CAT or NAC (Figure 6B). This ability of ROS inhibitor to abolish TMZ-POH-induced cytotoxicity suggested that TMZ-POH-induced cell death is ROS mediated.
Figure 6: TMZ-POH-induced cytotoxicity is dependent on intracellular ROS generation. CNE2 and HNE2 cells were preincubated with or without CAT or NAC for 2 hours before exposure to TMZ-POH (100 μM) for 48 hours. (A) The cell viability was determined by the MTT assay. (B) Percentage of cell apoptosis was determined by Annexin V/PI staining and flow cytometry. The results shown are means ± SD. (C) Mice carrying subcutaneously implanted HNE2/luc cells were separated into four treatment groups (five animals each): (i) control (DMSO only), (ii) 50-mg/kg TMZ-POH, (iii) DMSO and 100-mg/kg NAC, and (iv) 50-mg/kg TMZ-POH and 100-mg/kg NAC, NAC was injected intraperitoneally. Tumor specimens in mice was detected by Western blotting 3 days after the cessation of treatment. Cell lysates from the above treated cells (CNE2, HNE2) and tumor specimens in mice (HNE2/luc) were subjected to Western blot to analyze the expression of JNK pathway, DNA damage, and apoptosis-related factors. ACTB was used as an internal control. Data presented are representative of three independent experiments.
Accumulating evidence support the crucial role of oxidative DNA damage. To confirm the relationship between ROS accumulation and DNA damage, the DNA damage–related protein expression after CAT or NAC treatments was detected in vitro and in vivo. As shown in Figure 6C, CAT or NAC efficiently inhibited the increase of cleaved PARP, p-ATM, p-Chk1, p-Chk2, and γ-H2AX induced by TMZ-POH, indicating TMZ-POH exhibits its cytotoxicity via oxidative DNA damage. No changes in HNE2 and CNE2 control cells were observed after the CAT or NAC treatment alone (data not shown). Also, the increase in JNK phosphorylation observed in TMZ-POH-treated HNE2 and CNE2 cells was in a ROS-dependent manner (Figure 6C).
This study demonstrates that TMZ-POH-induced cell death is largely regulated by a ROS-mediated DNA damage mechanism. It further demonstrates that TMZ-POH inhibits cell cycle progression and induces apoptosis in NPC cells by a ROS-mediated DNA damage mechanism (Figure 6).
The current study provides a novel report on the cytotoxic effect of TMZ-POH on several different NPC cell lines in vitro and in vivo and the possible mechanisms. It was then observed that TMZ-POH significantly induced cell cycle arrest and cell apoptosis in all the four NPC cell lines (Figure 1). Besides the cellular effects, TMZ-POH was shown to be highly effective on inhibiting tumor growth in a tumor model using nude mice (Figure 2).
It was reported that TMZ could methylate DNA directly and activate ATM, which in turn transmits the DNA damage signal to downstream substrates, such as phosphorylated Chk1 and Chk2. The latter were well established to be key mediators for cell cycle. Therefore, DNA damage under TMZ-POH treatment was detected. TMZ-POH led to an obvious G2/M arrest and activation of the signaling checkpoints in response to DNA damage in NPC cell lines.
The newly designed compound TMZ-POH displayed greater anticancer potency than each of its parental molecules in NPC cells, as evident from a stronger inhibition of cell/tumor proliferation and colony formation, along with the higher level of G2/M arrest, apoptosis, and DNA damage. Similarly, TMZ-POH displayed a greater therapeutic efficacy than TMZ or POH in vivo. Intriguingly, a mere mix of the constituents of TMZ-POH, TMZ and POH, was unable to achieve the superior efficacy of TMZ-POH, neither in vitro (Figure 1 and Figure 4) nor in vivo (Figure 2), indicating that TMZ-POH is a novel chemical entity with inherently increased potency that is greater than the sum of its parts.
To elucidate the unique mechanism underlying the superior activity of TMZ-POH compared with TMZ or TMZ plus POH, potentially relevant signaling pathways were investigated. Many investigators have demonstrated that mitochondria are key regulators of apoptosis [27]. Apoptosis stimuli can cause MMP loss and Cytochrome c release from the mitochondria to the cytosol. In the cytosol, Cytochrome c activates caspase-3, after which specific substrates of caspase-3, such as PARP, are cleaved. PARP is a downstream substrate of activated caspases and protects DNA against oxidative damage. This process eventually leads to apoptosis [27, 28]. The present study indicates that the decrease of MMP, release of Cytochrome c, and repression of mitochondrial enzymes SDHA as the prototypic event for inducing mitochondrial changes during apoptosis are induced by TMZ-POH.
As ROS are generated mainly as byproducts of mitochondrial respiration, mitochondria are thought to be the primary target of oxidative damage [29]. The Overproduction of intracellular ROS may attack cellular membrane lipids, proteins, and DNA, and cause oxidative injury, and finally result in the reduction of cell cycle arrest or/and cell apoptosis to repair or eliminate the damaged cells [30–32]. Then, ROS levels in TMZ-POH-treated cells were also determined. TMZ-POH could induce ROS production in both CNE2 and HNE2 cells (Figure 5). More importantly, the ability of TMZ-POH to induce cytotoxicity was abrogated in the presence of two ROS scavengers, CAT or NAC. After efficiently preventing ROS accumulation, CAT and NAC treatments significantly alleviated the cytotoxicity of TMZ-POH, as revealed by the restoration of cell viability (Figure 6A), along with a remarkable decrease in the number of apoptotic cells (Figure 6B) in both HNE2 and CNE2 cells. DNA damage pathway was partly blocked by inhibited ROS generation in vitro and in vivo (Figure 6C). These data validate that TMZ-POH induces NPC cell death by activating ROS production.
Previous studies have reported that high endogenous ROS levels correlate with the activation of the JNK pathway and DNA damage response in human cancer cells [33, 34]; ROS-mediated JNK activation–induced DNA damage causes mitochondrial dysfunction-related apoptosis [35]; and ATM, which is well known for its role in the cellular response to DNA breaks, also regulates many diseases through JNK [36]. Besides, ATM phosphorylates H2AX and ROS induction, which is partly mediated by increasing H2AX. Some inducers of cellular stress, UV irradiation and DNA-damaging agents, can increase the transactivation capacity of ATF-2 through the SAPK/JNK. Phosphorylation of ATF-2 could activate a large set of genes associated with tumorigenesis, maintenance, and physiological homeostasis as well as transcription factors and proteins engaged in stress and DNA damage response, including tumor necrosis factor, transforming growth factor, cyclin A, and cyclin D1 [37].
In addition, the role of JNKs was studied in cell cycle blockade or cell death induced by TMZ-POH to further investigate the mechanisms of these events. JNK activation was directly related to the increased ROS by TMZ-POH, because the blockage of ROS by CAT and NAC blocks JNK phosphorylation in TMZ-POH-treated CNE2 and HNE2 cells. The present report is the first to reveal that TMZ-POH induced an increase in ROS accumulation, and JNK is an essential signaling pathway linking to ROS accumulation in human NPC cells. Taken together, the results indicate that TMZ-POH-induced ROS accumulation is responsible for the upregulation of the JNK pathway, which in turn induces tumor cell death.
The cytotoxicity induced by TMZ-POH was quite different from that by TMZ. TMZ methylates the N7 and O6 positions of guanine and the N3 position of adenine [38], and the methyl adducts, O6-methylguanine, N7-methylguanine, and N3-methyladenine, result in a continuous cycle of DNA base mismatch repair with eventual strand breaks, ultimately leading to cellular apoptosis [39, 40]. Resistance to TMZ emerges with prolonged treatment, mainly due to MGMT, which repairs O6-methylguanine lesion by transferring the alkyl group from guanine to a cysteine residue, which poses a major therapeutic challenge [41]. The present study supported that the DNA damage induced by TMZ-POH resulted from ROS accumulation, which was quite different from that by TMZ. On the basis of its limited toxicity and ease of administration, TMZ-POH may be used as a long-term maintenance therapy. Such a treatment would prolong survival of patients at a reasonably high level of quality of life.
In summary, the present study showed that TMZ-POH exhibited its cytotoxicity via ROS accumulation, which might result from MMP collapse and lead to activated MAPKs signaling, DNA damage, and cell cycle arrest, and thus inhibit tumor proliferation. It is, therefore, proposed that TMZ-POH should be investigated further as a potentially effective therapy for NPC.
Pharmacological agents
TMZ was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (China), which were dissolved in DMSO (Sigma-Aldrich) to a concentration of 100 mM. POH and TMZ-POH were provided by NeOnc Technologies Inc. (Los Angeles, CA, USA) and diluted with DMSO to make stock solutions of 100 mM. In all cases of cell treatment, the final DMSO concentration in the culture medium never exceeded 0.5%. Stock solutions of all drugs were stored at −20°C. ROS scavengers, CAT and NAC, were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich.
Cell culture and treatment
Human NPC cell lines CNE1, CNE2, HNE2, and SUME-α were purchased from the China Center for Type Culture Collection (China) and were cultured in DMEM (Gibco, Invitrogen, CA, USA) and supplemented with 10% FCS (Gibco, Invitrogen) and antibiotics (penicillin/streptomycin, 100 U/mL) at 37°C in 5% CO2. Cells were plated in cell culture plates and allowed to adhere overnight, subsequently treated with control (DMSO), TMZ, POH, TMZ plus POH, or TMZ-POH. In some experiments, ROS scavengers, CAT and NAC, were employed 2 hours before the aforementioned treatments.
Cell viability assay
The effect of TMZ-POH was also evaluated by a conventional MTT cell viability assay, and results were presented as a percentage of the control. Briefly, NPC cells were seeded in triplicates in 96-well plates and treated with various concentrations (0, 40, 80, 120, 160, and 200 μM) of TMZ, POH, TMZ plus POH, and TMZ-POH for 48 hours. Thereafter, 10 μL of the MTT [5 mg/mL in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), Sigma-Aldrich] stock solution was added, followed by incubation at 37°C in 5% CO2 for 24 hours. Formazan crystals that form were solubilized with 100 μL of acidified (0.01 M HCl) 10% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) overnight at 37°C. Absorbance at 570 nm was read on a Bio-Rad 680 microplate reader (Bio-Rad Laboratories, CA, USA), and results were reported relative to a reference wavelength of 630 nm.
Colony formation assay
Depending on the cell line, 150–350 cells were seeded into each well of a 6-well plate and exposed to the aforementioned treatments. The appropriate plating density was aimed to produce 20–100 surviving colonies per well. These cells were incubated at 37°C for 10–14 days. After fixation with acetic acid–methanol (1:4) and staining with diluted crystal violet (1:30), colonies consisting of > 50 cells were considered and calculated. Results from the triplicate plates were averaged and divided by initial seeded cells to yield the survival rate of clones for each concentration, and the surviving fraction was determined. All survival curves represented a minimum of three independent experiments.
Cell cycle analysis
Cells were treated by above agents, collected and washed in PBS, then re-suspended and fixed in 70% ethanol overnight. After incubation in 1 ml of propidium iodide staining solution (0.1% Triton X-100, 200 μg/ml DNase-free RNase A, 20 μg/ml propidium iodide) for 1 hour at room temperature, DNA content was evaluated by a FACS Calibur instrument (Becton Dickinson, Bedford, MA, USA) and the distribution of cell cycle phases was determined using ModiFit software (Topsham, ME, USA). Two independent experiments were carried out.
Detection of apoptotic cells
Apoptosis was evaluated using the Annexin V–FITC Apoptosis Detection Kit (BD Biosciences Pharmingen, CA, USA). Cells were resuspended and incubated with FITC–Annexin V/PI for 15 minutes in the dark, and then evaluated by flow cytometry (FACS Calibur, BD Biosciences) using the Cellquest software.
In vivo studies
All animal protocols were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, China. A subline of HNE2 cells called HNE2/luc was used, which was transfected with the firefly luciferase gene. BALB/c-nu mice (4–6 weeks of age, female, from Beijing HFK Bioscience Co., Ltd., China) were subcutaneously injected into the flank with 3 × 106 HNE2/luc cells in 100 μL PBS. The mice were housed in laminar flow cabinets under specific pathogen-free conditions. Seven days after the implantation, efficient tumor volume was confirmed in all animals via noninvasive whole-body bioluminescent imaging. For this purpose, mice were intraperitoneally injected with 50 mg/kg D-luciferin (Perkin Elmer, MA, USA) and imaged using the Xenogen IVIS Spectrum Imaging System (Caliper/Perkin Elmer). Then mice were randomly divided into five groups, five in each group, and treated once a day for 5 days with the following: Control (DMSO), TMZ, POH, TMZ plus POH, and TMZ-POH. Mice were imaged twice per week. Images were analyzed by region-of-interest (ROI) analysis using the Living Image software package (Caliper/Perkin Elmer, MA, USA) to quantitate the tumor volume. Mice were sacrificed and examined for the growth of tumors 17 days after the cessation of drug treatment.
Determination of ROS production
The production of ROS in cells following the aforementioned treatment was evaluated using the 2′,7′-dichlorofluorescein diacetate (DCFH-DA) kit (Beyotime, China), according to the manufacturer’s protocol. Briefly, cells were washed with serum-free DMEM twice and treated with 20 μM DCFH-DA for 30 minutes at 37°C, washed and suspended in PBS. Then the florescence intensity was evaluated by the FACS Calibur instrument.
Analysis of mitochondrial transmembrane potential
After the aforementioned treatment, cells were stained with the cationic dye 5,5′, 6,6′-tetrachloro1,1′, 3,3′-tetraethyl-benzimidazolylcarbocyanine iodide (JC-1; Beyotime) to demonstrate the state of mitochondrial transmembrane potential (MTP), according to the manufacturer’s protocol. Briefly, cells were harvested and transferred to 1.5-mL tubes, and then incubated with JC-1 (5 μg/mL) in a 37°C incubator for 20 minutes after washing twice with PBS. Subsequently, cells were collected and subjected to flow cytometry to detect the change of JC-1 florescence.
Cells were lysed in cell lysis buffer (Beyotime), and the total cellular protein concentration was determined with a BCA Protein Assay Kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., IL, USA). Equal amounts of protein was separated on sodium dodecyl sulfate–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and transferred onto polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes (Millipore, MA, USA). These membranes were probed overnight at 4°C with the following primary antibodies: antibodies against human PARP, p-ATM, p-ATR, γ-H2AX, p-Chk1/2, Cyto c, p-JNK, ATF-2, c-Jun, MKK-4, SDHA, Casp 3, and cleaved Casp 7 (all 1:1000; Cell Signaling Technology, MA, USA), antibody against ACTB (1:2000; Zsbio, China), followed by secondary antibody (Zsbio) with peroxidase for 1 hour at room temperature.
The caspase-3 activity in tissue homogenates was detected by the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using a Colorimetric Caspase-3 Assay Kit (Sigma, MO, USA), according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Briefly, the synthetic caspase-3 substrate acetyl-Asp-Glu-Val-Asp-p-nitroanilide was added to the reaction mixture, with a control reaction prepared in parallel to exclude any nonspecific hydrolysis of the substrate. Both mixtures were incubated at 37°C for 1–2 hours and the absorbance was read at 405 nm; the caspase-3 activity was expressed as an optical density value at 405 nm.
Statistical significance was evaluated with data from at least three independent experiments. The GraphPad Prism 6.02 software (GraphPad Software, CA, USA) was used for data analysis. All statistical analyses between the two groups were performed using the nonparametric Mann–Whitney test. However, when more than two groups were evaluated, data were assessed by analysis of variance followed by Bonferroni-adjusted post hoc t tests for multiple pairs of interest without a priori selection. Data are presented as the mean ± standard deviation (SD). All statistical tests were two sided. Differences were considered statistically significant at P < 0.05.
This study was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation of China (NO. 81372888 and NO. 81401916).
The authors claim that they have no conflicts of interest.
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Joseph Cowan, 35, of LaFayette, died two after a wreck at the intersection. A wreath memorial sits off U.S. Highway 27 at Twin Cedars Road. (Messenger photo/Josh O’Bryant)
Two people were injured in two-vehicle wreck at the intersection on May 17. (Messenger photo/Josh O’Bryant)
For years many residents have been pointing out the need for at traffic signal at the intersection. (Messenger photo/Josh O’Bryant)
Residents say intersection is dangerous, traffic signal urgent
Josh O'Bryant, reporter
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A wreck this week on U.S. Highway 27 at Twin Cedars Road has once again spotlighted the urgent need for a red light at the intersection.
Numerous accidents, including a fatality last June, have occurred there, and traffic studies have proven the need for a traffic signal, officials say.
The intersection — where U.S. 27, Twin Cedars Road and Lee Clarkson Road meet — is technically in a small Catoosa County portion of Chickamauga.
For officials, it’s not a question of “if,” but “when,” a traffic signal be installed.
On June 13, 2015, a LaFayette man was fatally injured and Ringgold girl was injured when their motorcycle crashed into a vehicle in Catoosa County.
Helen Vaccaro, 70, of Chickamauga, was attempting to cross U.S. Highway 27 from Twin Cedars Road to Lee Clarkson Road. The woman entered the path of the motorcycle heading north.
The man and young girl — 35-year-old Joseph Cowan of LaFayette and 11-year-old Cristina Somers of Ringgold — were on a 2014 Harley Davidson motorcycle. They were injured and flown by Life Force to Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga. Cowan died a month later.
In the most recent wreck, a two-vehicle collision on May 17, two people were injured and transported to an area hospital.
According to Georgia State Patrol Post 5 in Dalton, about 1:30 p.m., 18-year-old Mason Sims failed to yield while driving a white Toyota 4Runner while attempting to cross U.S. Highway 27 from Lee Clarkson Road when 82-year-old Mary Cagle driving a gray Honda Accord was heading south on the highway. The two vehicles collided in a T-bone accident. The Toyota rolled and careened into a ditch beside Twin Cedars Road. Both drivers were transported to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Georgia State Patrol Post 5, Catoosa County Sheriff's Department, and Puckett EMS responded to the scene.
Waiting on rights of way
According to Jeff Long, District 1 Catoosa County commissioner and Walker County roads superintendent, placing the traffic signal is a priority for Catoosa County and has been for the past 4½ years. Long said state Sen. Jeff Mullis of Chickamauga wants a traffic signal installed there.
The process started off as a federally-funded project, but given the numerous steps and the hurdles that would continue to prolong the project, federal funding was taken off the table.
The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has approved the project and will fund the traffic light once Catoosa County has either donated the three rights of way needed from the owners, or if the owners will sale the rights of way to the county, Long said.
Once the property is obtained, the signal light will go in, Long said.
The project has been dragging on for a number of years, but would take longer if federal funding backed the project, Long said.
Long said he met with GDOT earlier in the year again to discuss the much-needed traffic light.
There is no definitive date set for when the traffic signal will be placed as the county waits obtaining the rights of way. The landowners are not resisting the project, but one landowner of one side of the right of way has yet to be reached and/or located.
“Hopefully, it will be soon,” Long said. “It is on everybody’s priority list.”
The May 17 collision was posted to Catoosa Walker News Facebook, which garnered a lot of comments from residents who travel in that area, including the mother of Cowan’s children.
Karen West posted, “Almost (one) year ago I lost my best friend and the father of my three kids at that road. If you look closely you will see the cross that was put up in memory of Joe Cowan. Since the accident we have been seeking justice for Joe. The lady who hit him was an elderly woman also and ran the stop sign there. It is an ongoing investigation but from what we learned is that a red light is approved but we are waiting on them to install it. Their excuse was lack of funds. It is so needed and again I ask how many lives will end due to lack of funds for a much-needed light there.”
Karen Cunningham added, “I have talking with people since 2 pm. All I have been getting is: Chickamauga it is not in our district. (yet it is their residents). Pass the BUCK. Catoosa talk to this person or that person. Talk Senator Mullins. Bah bah. Chickamauga residents use Lee Clarkson road as the main road in and out of Chickamauga. They speed down Lee Clarkson road because there are no police officers to catch them. Then they play leap frog crossing hwy 27. One year ago a man lost his life. Every month there is an accident. Hello lights are needed.”
April Vann said, “I have to use this intersection 4 times a day with my 2 year old, its scary every time attempting to cross, I hope this will be the push to get the light put up!!”
Michal Wells said, “THIS INTERSECTION NEEDS A LIGHT!!!! There is a small blind hill with the traffic coming from the south and people are flying down this road.”
Josh O'Bryant is a general assignment reporter and covers the Walker-Catoosa County area. He can be reached at the Walker County Messenger office at 706-638-1859 and by email at jobryant@npco.com.
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There was a postcard for this in the Jazz Congress guest bag--release date is now March 29, evidently. I'm inclined to pass, given that I have all of this material in at least two different collections, but an eventual bargain price might persuade me to pick it up:
Edited 11 Jan 2019 by ghost of miles
This material has been issued so many times and in so many ways that I'd pass even if I were offered a free copy. I do see that it might be worthwhile for new collectors.
Oh, yea bucks.
I have the Prestige box set, so I’ll pass.
Might the next set arrange the song titles alphabeticly?
I sure want to hear that!!
Location:Ohio
That's a nice set of music for a single calendar, and this one before Coltrane became Trane, jazz legend.
But I've got most of it, and as much as I feel I need.
medjuck
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Didn't they already release box sets of all the Trane Prestige recordings? Twice in fact.
3 hours ago, Scott Dolan said:
If they want to re-package things why don't they do a single cd release of the December 24, 1954 session with Miles, Monk and Bags and include the conversations. It would all fit on one disc.
Just found out about this JApan-Only LP from 1977, which at the time was a very good idea: https://www.discogs.com/John-Coltrane-Gleanings/release/4425166
Gleanings is a record compilation released only in Japan by Nippon Columbia in 1977.
It is a collection of material dating from 1963 to 1965 recorded by Coltrane in the period in which he was under contract with Impulse! Records. The album was released only for the Japanese market.
Released with obi and insert.
Green ABC-Impulse label.
Japanese pressing from 1977.
Track A1 previously issued on The Definitive Jazz Scene Volume 1.
Track B1 previously issued on The New Wave In Jazz.
Track B2 previously issued on New Thing At Newport.
16 hours ago, Scott Dolan said:
I reallylike the three smaller Prestige sets that Fantasy put out right before they sold out (in every sense) to Concord, and settled on those and sold the big 16-CD set. So no need for this, which appears to be selling for about $70. I also really liked the Miles Davis Prestige Classic Quintet box and the Bill Evans Village Vanguard box they did, and wish they could have finished those catalogs with similar corresponding boxes. Concord certainly won't.
1 hour ago, felser said:
I have all 3 of those.
13 hours ago, medjuck said:
Joe, what you refer to is Disc #2 of the Monk Prestige box. I agree that they should issue it separately.
I was glad to see them issue the 2-CD set of all of the Miles with Newk Prestige recordings. I gave that to a friend for her birthday recently, and she was appreciative.
I love the cover of the first LP sized Prestige box:
8 hours ago, GA Russell said:
Didn't know that. The dialogue is left off this session in the old Miles box. There could be some interesting notes with a single cd.
And not electronically remastered for stereo. Could they get it all on one Lp including the dialogue?
The only dialogue it has is after the breakdown to the intro of "The Man I Love", the hey rudy put this on a record ALL of it, how much more is there?
They got all of it on this LP. When I bought it, my hifi had a mono switch, and I used it when I felt like it.
It's less than an hour. Lot of music for an LP, for a CD, should be easy. But this whole OJC craze...sometimes there were later reissues that gave better value. This was one of them. They should've OJC-ed it at some point.
But this whole OJC craze...sometimes there were later reissues that gave better value. This was one of them. They should've OJC-ed it at some point.
You're talking about Prestige 7650 that you showed the above cover? I would have thought this reissue happend before OJC ... I bought this LONG beore there were any OJC's (at least in OUR record shops). It's the German license pressing (exactly same cover, Bellaphon label, i.e. probably pressed in the 70s) and I think I bought this in 1985 or so along with one or two other Miles Davis "classic quintet" reissues on Bellaphon.
Yes, that was a long time before OJC, 1969. The point was simply that they could have OJC-ed THIS LP as well, since it has the full session.
Veteran Groover
Got the three fantasy releases Fearless Leader, Interplay and Side Steps and I really like those. Nice packing, nice artwork, nice booklet, nice sound. No need for this weird release. Why begin in 1958? Or have I missed the other releases?
Prestige had several LP series compiling sessions from the 1950's in a more completist manner than the so-called "orginal LPs", which often were scattered collections of material first released on 78s, EPs, or 10-inch LPs. As with other labels tracks were left off for time limitations, or simply overlooked, or takes were exchanged. So the "Original Jazz Classics" copied all those often haphazard compilations, just like the Japanese had done.
There was a "Jazz Classics Series" of which the Miles LP JSngry pictured is a fine example, because it presented a complete session spread over several earlier issues, and there was a "Historical Series" that also completed sessions from the pre-12-inch era. The OJC series was a child of the LP era and modelled, as I said, after Japanese reissue concepts approaching the LP like a fetish. In the CD era they often seized the opportunity to complete sessions by adding bonus material, but more often they didn't. The more famous a musicians, the more likely it was they left an "original" (12 inch) LP intact; The James Moody Prestige sessions are a prime example for a perfect completed reissue. Here are examples for the "Historical Series", which also reissued older music recorded for other labels:
https://www.discogs.com/label/305455-Prestige-Historical-Series
The Jazz Classics seies could be seen as a precursor the the OJC series:
https://www.discogs.com/label/316918-Jazz-Classics-Series
On 1/12/2019 at 2:30 PM, jlhoots said:
Me too. About the only way to make sense of that volume of material is to break it down in some way. Leader-dates, colabs, and sideman appearances *isn't* a half bad way to do it. Nor is separating everything out by year, to be perfectly honest. Just something (anything) to add some logic to a what would otherwise be too overwhelming a sized set (of everything). At least for me.
10 hours ago, mikeweil said:
I remember this series well and bought many of them in the shops in my early collecting days (they remained in print for a long time as you may remember). A lot of these reissues were my introduction to the artists (e.g. "Mating Call"), though quite a bit of the material was also reissued elsewhere (e.g. on the Prestige/Milestone twofer series) in more compehensive form soon after, so if i had the choice I went for the twofers.
The "older music" recorded for "other labels" is quite an odd mix IMO. The "Trumpet Jive" LP mentioned above features 4 Rex Stewart tracks done for (UK) Parlophone and 8 WIngy Manone tracks done for the Joe Davis indie. Where's the link there? It still is FINE music and was an ear opener at its time. E.g. the Walter Foots Thomas LP (that also had material from the Joe Davis label) and includes what still are some of my favorite late swing era small band sessions. Of course the Joe Davis reissues have long since been superseded by the LP reissues on Krazy Kat. I never quite figured out how the French Vogue releases ended up on Prestige either. This created more discographical messes. I remember I more than once pulled the Clifford Brown LPs from the bins, hoping for new material, only to find all this had also been reissued comprehensively on a UK Vogue 3-LP set that I had bought years before and Prestige added nothing new. Reissue redundancy wherever you looked ... and so much more unreissued at that time ... (e.g. the material that Prestige leased from Metronome in their early days).
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Pacific Palisades Community Council
Rick Lemmo
Caruso Affiliated
Representing Village School
Shaun Malek, DDS
Triwell Properties
Susan Carroll
Gift Garden Antiques
Representing Dale Van Vlack
Representing Pacific Palisades
Chamber of Commerce
Kevin Niles
Representing American Legion
Representing P.R.I.D.E.
Leland Ford
Leland M. Ford & Assoc.
Clean Team
Map of Pacific Palisades Business Improvement District
Chrysalis cleans our Village BID on Mondays and Fridays for 7 hours with 2 sweepers and a supervisor. We are grateful for this partnership with Chrysalis for keeping our business district clean. Chrysalis did a Power Wash of the sidewalks the week of July 15th. We have asked them to focus on removing the gum and will do another power wash soon to work on that problem. Removing gum is time consuming but it needs to be done.
2019 YTD cleanup information from Chrysalis:
Councilman Mike Bonin http://www.11thdistrict.com
Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce
Our mandate is to provide services to the district within these boundaries.
The official boundaries for the BID are: Beginning on the northwest corner of Monument Street and Swarthmore Avenue go south on Monument Street to Bashford Street. At Bashford Street, turn east along northern parcel line of 4423-017-024. Turn south along the eastern parcel line of 4423-017-024 and parcels facing west on Monument Street and Sunset Boulevard. Go west on the southern parcel line of 4423-017-026 across Sunset Boulevard to 4411-001-019. Go west along the southern parcel line of 4411-001-019 across Alma Real Drive to 4412-009-014. Head south along eastern parcel line of 4412-009-014, then go west along the southern parcel line of 4412-009-014. Turn north along the western parcel line of 4412-009-014. Go west along the southern parcel lines of parcels facing south on La Cruz Drive. Go across Swarthmore Avenue and west along Bowdoin Street to Via de la Paz. Turn north along the western parcel line of parcels facing west on Via de la Paz then head west along the southern parcel line of 4412-004-025. Turn north along the west parcel line of 4412-004-025 and continue north to Antioch Street. At Antioch Street go west along the southern parcel line of 4412-001-017, then north along the western parcel line of 4412-001-017. Cross Sunset Boulevard to the western parcel line of 4422-022-015. Turn east along the northern parcel line of 4422-022-015 and continue east northern parcel line of parcels facing south on Sunset Boulevard to Swarthmore Avenue. Turn north along the northern parcel lines of parcels facing southeast along Swarthmore Avenue to the northwest corner of Monument Street and Swarthmore Avenue.
Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homeless
www.pptfh.org
MEETING DATES 2019
First Wednesday of each month, at 9:00 AM
Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce Office
15330 Antioch Street, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
Wednesday, January 9 - NO MEETING IN FEBRUARY - Wednesday, March 6
Wednesday, April 3 - Wednesday, May 8 - Wednesday, June 5 - Wednesday, July 10
Wednesday, August 7 - Wednesday, September 4 - Wednesday, October 2
Wednesday, November 6 (Our tentative Annual Board Meeting)
Wednesday, December 4.
NEW BOARD MEETING ADDRESS
Thank you to the Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce at 15330 Antioch Street for allowing us to use their office space to hold our monthly meetings. Our agendas will continue to be posted 72 hours prior to the meeting at the Chamber of Commerce office.
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December 13 - 19, 2015: Issue 244
Destination Sydney and Out of Quarantine
Manly Art Gallery and Museum's Summer 2015-2016 Exhibitions and Events
Lloyd Rees, The Harbour from McMahon's Point, 1950, oil on canvas 77.2x99.7cm - Art Gallery of NSW collection - purchased 1950
Manly Art Gallery and Museum – Summer 2015-2016 Exhibitions and Events:
Destination Sydney
The work of nine celebrated Australian artists will present across three of Sydney’s leading Public Galleries this summer in a unique cross collaboration exhibition titled Destination Sydney.
Manly Art Gallery & Museum, the Mosman Art Gallery and National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery have united in partnership with respected curator Lou Klepac OAM, to bring together more than 140 artworks that capture the spirit of Sydney in an explosion of colour and paint.
The iconic work of Lloyd Rees, Brett Whiteley and Elisabeth Cummings will feature at Manly Art Gallery & Museum.
Living art legends John Olsen, Kevin Connor and Peter Kingston will present at Mosman Art Gallery and the grace and vitality of Margaret Preston, Grace Crossington Smith and Cressida Campbell will be showcased at S.H. Ervin Gallery.
Sydney is centre stage here, with its rhythms and diversions framing the artists’ work.
By nature of its unique topography and quality of light, urban development and unspoiled harbour surrounds, vibrant social and cultural life, Sydney has long been a mecca for artists and an enduring subject in the history of Australian art.
The beauty of the city’s bush harbour foreshores, the quality of light and palpable sense of energy and movement within the city has provided many artists an ongoing inspiration and a wealth of rich source materials from which to draw.
Each of the artists selected for this exhibition has been influenced by their experiences of living and working in Sydney that the city and its harbour have become central themes within their artistic production.
Some of the artists selected were born in Sydney, but found that the city's pictorial and poetic possibilities inspired them only after a long stint travelling abroad.
By featuring three artists in each venue, the exhibitions will together provide a stimulating experience for viewers - a visual and poetic celebration of this great city, not only as subjects, but capturing the magical spirit that is contained in this unique city.
The exhibitions will include an active program of activities including poetry readings, lectures, artist talks, visits to specific locations, in which to focus attention on the work of these painters, and equally to remind them of the beauty and exhilarating atmosphere of Sydney.
The artworks will be drawn from major public and private collections and as such, visitors will encounter major works by these distinguished artists, as well some unusual and the unexpected pieces.
Manly Art Gallery & Museum will host Destination Sydney from 5 December 2015 to 14 February 2016
Manly Art Gallery & Museum I West Esplanade, Manly NSW 2095
10am - 5pm Tuesday - Sunday I Entry Free
RENOWNED ARTISTS feature in unique cultural events program
Dedicated art lovers have a unique opportunity to benefit from the experience and insights of one of Australia’s most renowned artists and art educators, Elisabeth Cummings, as part of an unprecedented series of exhibitions, workshops, masterclasses and public programs.
The work of nine celebrated Australian artists will feature in three of Sydney’s leading public galleries this summer in a unique cross collaboration exhibition titled Destination Sydney.
Manly Art Gallery & Museum programs include:
Great Wall of Manly: Cade Turner Artist’s Talk - Sunday 13 December, 3pm
Northern Beaches artist Cade Turner responds to the paintings in Destination Sydney by creating a new photographic installation on The Great Wall of Manly in the Gallery’s forecourt on West Esplanade
RSVP: artgallery@manly.nsw.gov.au or 9976 1421 Free.
Master Class: Elisabeth Cummings - Monday 18 January, 10am – 2pm
Experienced artists are invited to join renowned contemporary artist and educator, Elisabeth Cummings for a special workshop aimed at encouraging artists to look afresh upon Manly’s natural environment through the use of line and colour, and using drawing/pastel/ paint.
Strictly limited numbers.
Cost: $60 (refreshments served). BYO materials and paper.
Registration: 9976 1418 or katherine.roberts@manly.nsw.gov.au
Right: Katherine Roberts - Manly Art Gallery and Museum
Curator’s Talk: Sunday 31 January, 3 – 4pm
Join curator Lou Klepac on a walk through the exhibition as he shares his stories about the three artists and their works.
Cost: $5, free for MAG&M Society members (refreshments served)
RSVP: artgallery@manly.nsw.gov.au or 9976 1421
MAG&M Society Bus Tour: Tuesday 2 February, 9.30am – 3pm
Members and their friends are invited for a special tour to visit the three galleries to view this one exhibition! Starting at Manly Art Gallery & Museum, we will go by bus to Mosman Art Gallery then S.H.Ervin Gallery, and back to Manly. The tour includes morning tea at Manly and a picnic lunch at Observatory Hill overlooking Sydney Harbour.
Cost: $35 Members or $40 Non-Members (includes morning tea, lunch and tour)
Bookings essential: artgallery@manly.nsw.gov.au or 9976 1421
Workshop: Collaborations with Nature: Sunday 7 February, 9:30am – 4:30pm
Artist Shona Wilson presents a one day ephemeral art workshop, connecting artists with nature on the shores of Sydney Harbour.
Shona provides a framework of ideas and an inspiring environment for learning new ways to access creativity anywhere.
Participants are guided through a comprehensive presentation, preliminary fieldwork exercises and individual sculptures using materials and elements found on site.
The workshop is by application only and has strictly limited numbers.
Location: Little Manly Point
Cost: $60 (BYO morning tea, lunch and water)
These programs are supported by the D.I.G. (Dream. Inspire. Grow) Manly Sustainability Program at Manly Council.
Manly Art Gallery & Museum is hosting Destination Sydney from 5 December 2015 to 14 February 2016.
Entry to Manly Art Gallery & Museum is free and open 10am - 5pm Tuesday - Sunday
Manly Art Gallery & Museum is at West Esplanade, Manly NSW 2095
'OUT OF QUARANTINE' exhibition explores ‘quarantine, migration and place’
An exhibition of artworks exploring the ideas of ‘quarantine, migration and place’, presented by Manly Art Gallery & Museum in partnership with Q Station Sydney Harbour National Park Manly will be open to the public from Saturday 5 December 2015 until 19 June 2016.
Titled ‘Out of Quarantine’, the exhibition features four contemporary Australian artists drawing inspiration from the Q Station site which was for over 140 years, the location of the Quarantine Station on Sydney’s North Head. It was used to house newly arrived immigrants, earning it an important place in the history of Australia.
The last ship to be quarantined there was the Nikki Maru in 1972. The Quarantine Station has since been used for emergency housing - in 1974 for refugees from Cyclone Tracey in Darwin, in 1975 for Vietnamese orphans and as a detention centre. In 1984, the Quarantine Station became part of the Sydney Harbour National Park under the management of the National Parks and Wildlife Service and is now run as Q Station, a hotel as well as a conference and events centre.
‘Out of Quarantine’ draws on Q Station’s rich history and extensive archive to inspire new works by artists Julie Bartholomew (ceramics), Izabela Pluta (installation), Mandy Pryse Jones (painting) and Ben Rak (printmaking).
Mandy Pryse Jones, Portholes to North Head, 2015, acrylic on ply
“I am interested in the landscape at Q Station and how it shows traces of its past as well as the ever-changing nature of the site,” says Izabela Pluta. Izabela was born in Warsaw, Poland, and migrated to Australia in 1987 where she completed her undergraduate studies in Fine Art. She has been exhibited widely both in Australia and overseas.
“My practice examines the various ways that place is manifested or experienced, considering both a physical place of belonging, existing within a cultural framework, and space.”
Ben Rak’s print-work ‘No Way (Manly/Manus)’ compares attitudes towards immigrants and refugees in the past and the present.
“In the Australian cultural identity, beaches hold a special place: not only is a beach a site of arrival, but it is also a location that epitomises the Australian lifestyle of leisure and embodies Australia’s reputation as the ‘Lucky Country,’ a reputation that has drawn both immigrants and refugees looking for a better life,” said Ben.
Out of Quarantine was curated by Manly Art Gallery & Museum’s Katherine Roberts in collaboration with Q Station’s Rebecca Anderson (Curator and Collections Manager) and Julie Regalado(Education Program Manager).
MAG&M Society Morning Tea @ The Q Station
Members and their friends are invited for a tour of the fascinating wharf and hospital precincts at Q Station to experience the creative inspiration behind the artists’ works in the exhibition at Manly Art Gallery & Museum. The tour is followed by morning tea overlooking Sydney Harbour.
When: Sunday 28 February 2016, 9.30am – 12pm
Cost: $30 Members or $35 Non-Members (includes morning tea and tour)
Transport: Park at the entrance on Scenic Drive and be transported by minibus to the Q Station wharf for 10am start.
Bookings essential: artgallery@manly.nsw.gov.au or 02 9976 1421
Artists in conversation and history talk
Julie Regalado, Education Program Manager, Q Station, gives an insightful talk about the history of Q Station. Katherine Roberts then leads an ‘in conversation’ with the artists about how they responded to the unique site to create their artworks.
When: Sunday 6 March 2016, 3 - 4pm
Where: Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Kids’ Art Adventures School Holiday Creative Workshop
Led by artist, educator and co-creator of BIG Kids Magazine, Lilly Blue, children go on a unique tour of Q Station to explore what it would have been like to experience quarantining as a migrant. Create initial responses on site and have lunch, then travel by Eco Hopper to Manly Art Gallery & Museum to see Out of Quarantine, to respond creatively and become immersed in artmaking with Bravery, Imagination and Generosity!
Meet: Q Station reception, 1 North Head Scenic Drive, Manly at 9am
Pick-up: Manly Art Gallery & Museum, West Esplanade Reserve, Manly at 3pm
When: Monday 18 January 2016, 9am – 3pm
Cost: $60, BYO morning tea, lunch and water
Bookings essential via artgallery@manly.nsw.gov.au or 02 9976 1421. Ages 7 – 12 years.
Artist Workshops
Painting, drawing and printmaking workshops will be held for artists and school groups. Contact Julie Regalado for further details, phone 02 9466 1566 or email H8773-CR3@accor.com.
Venue details: Manly Art Gallery & Museum, West Esplanade, Manly
Exhibition dates: 5 December 2015 – 19 June 2016
Open: 10am - 5pm Tues- Sun. Entry: Free
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MusicNSW, AFA & more industry bodies call on NSW Government to halt festival licence changes
Posted on 20th February, 2019
UPDATE (21/2/19): The industry coalition has since met with advisers to the NSW Government and released a new joint statement, NSW: AUSTRALIA’S FIRST FESTIVAL-FREE ZONE.
MusicNSW, the Australian Festival Association, Live Performance Australia, APRA AMCOS and the Live Music Office have formed an industry coalition to voice concerns about the NSW's changes to music festival licensing regulations.
Read the full statement below.
INDUSTRY COALITION CALLS FOR HALT OF MUSIC FESTIVAL LICENCE CHANGES
A coalition of industry groups has rejected the NSW Government’s proposed licensing regulations for music festivals and called for a halt to their implementation to allow proper consultation.
The Australian Festival Association has formed a coalition with Live Performance Australia, MusicNSW, APRA AMCOS and the Live Music Office to represent industry concerns about the new rules for music festivals which are due to come in from 1 March.
As they stand, the new regulations will put festivals, events and live music in our cities, regional and remote communities under real threat.
A preliminary review of the draft regulations by the AFA yesterday has confirmed the draft regulations are still incomplete and make reference to risk assessment tools and interim guidelines that are still not available for review.
We are deeply concerned the NSW Government is rushing ahead with a new license regime without proper industry consultation and careful consideration of the operational and economic impact of these changes.
The coalition will be meeting with representatives for the Premier today with the following requests:
The impending Music Festival Licence regulation must be delayed until further industry consultation has taken place
The government undertakes a full Regulatory Impact Statement to examine and consider the impacts this will have on regional communities, our significant festival industry, the music industry and the broader community
The government acknowledges the significant social, cultural and economic contribution music festivals make to NSW by working closely with the Australian Festivals Association and other relevant music bodies to develop viable, effective and evidence-based safety protocols for festivals
To ensure that emergency service costs borne by events are negotiated well ahead of time, and are consistent across NSW events.
NSW is the largest market nationally for contemporary music and music festivals in Australia, generating $325m in revenue for the NSW economy with 6 million attendees each year.
We are all strongly committed to the safety at our events and are eager to work with the government on implementing sensible and effective measures developed through a proper consultation process.
We want the government to provide certainty for the music festival industry and consider the far-reaching impacts that these significant changes will have on festival goers, musicians, festival organisers and communities that host them.
Note: The coalition has scheduled a meeting with the Premier’s Department on Wednesday 20th February at 2:30pm. A request was made that this meeting includes the Premier and relevant ministers. At this stage, only staff advisers have confirmed their attendance.
Representatives from the newly formed coalition will be in attendance, and speaking, at the Don’t Kill Live Music rally on Thursday 21st February in Hyde Park Sydney.
You have until July 2 to tell the NSW Government your thoughts on Sydney’s lockout laws
With the NSW Government’s lockout review underway, now’s your chance to tell the Parliament of NSW how the laws have impacted Sydney’s nightlife!
Support for regional touring, AMIN programs among federal music inquiry recommendations!
Ahead of the federal election, findings from the federal inquiry into the Australian music industry have been released!
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Because individual passages of the New Testament could have up to three layers of Allegorical meaning;
I believe in the existence of "The Pleroma" and "The Spiritual Multiverses".
" My Pleroma and The Esoteric Multiverses "
The Prime Universal Law is very simple:
All beings are Sovereign and have free will to express their creative energies in any way they choose;
no being has the right to violate and harm others.
The union of a Soul with Spirit, in a Form ( flesh ); produces Consciousness ( The Son aspect ).
Beyond Being
Sophia-Wisdom
Mary M. as Sophia
See also: Sophia (Gnosticism) and Sophia-Achamoth
Spirits are androgynous intelligent energy that dwell in visible and nonvisible Multiverse.
Spirits can and do manifest themselves to Us, and must be regarded, first of all, as;
"Masculine and Feminine" Principle.
" Feminine Principle " a Nurturing-Preserving Force, and " Masculine Principle " a Creative Force.
" The Ascent of Mind and the Descent of Wisdom "
" Gnostic Antecedents of Jung’s Key Concepts "
My Pleroma-Multiverse
Foremost I love all spirits; good, bad or any spirits between. All of them have a unique place, and a unique function to perform in total multiverse.
Because of the good works;
see: Fravashi-Spirit-Atman, Urvan as Soul.
See also: Atman-Self-Fravashi-Spirit.
I belive that "The Middle" spirits ( Souls ); at the end-of-times, ultimately will be offered a special re-constructive process and be transferred to
The Pleroma and joined with
Aeons to " The One ".
This is my manifestation of " The Pleroma
and The Esoteric Multiverses ";
the way I see it. Derived from; My Spiritual Bridal Chamber Awakening, in a manner: Spiritual Brides.
Similar to;
"Enlightenment is a destructive process.
It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth.
It's seeing through the facade of pretense.
It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. " -- Adyashanti
Unmanifest Absolute: A. Aspect - A, is The Pleroma, as per Valentinianism protological philosophy, The Higher Ogdoad, The Highest Spiritual Dimensions and The Highest Level of Consciousness,
The Fullness, The Perfection.
Upper Aeons are Androgynous pairs; opposites in perfect balance with eachother, those are qualities of The Pleroma. Therefore leading to both, all at the same time; Nothingness and Fullness.
As the Basilides said:
" We are distinguished from The Pleroma; we are confined within time and space.
When we do distinguish qualities of The Pleroma, we are speaking from the ground of our own distinctiveness and concerning
our own distinctiveness. "
See also: The Unmanifest Absolute.
Which I consider to be the center of;
" Prisca Theologia ".
As of now, I also belive that non "Middle" spirits will be offered a special re-constructive process and transferred to higher consciousness part. Managed by the " Feminine-Principle " known as "Wisdom" or "Sophia-Achamoth" located in " the void ", which is located below "The Pleroma"; known as the manifested absolute, "The Kenoma".
" What is enlightenment? What is that state of Cosmic Consciousness, the ultimate awareness called variously - enlightenment, nirvana, satori, samadhi, self-realization, rapture, salvation, ascension, unity consciousness, voidness, and many other terms by many various religions? It is the goal of life, the ultimate destination of every individualized being. It is brought about when the individual personality ascends beyond the illusionary perception of self separateness to merge in the Universal Self from which it originated so very long ago. Spiritual evolution towards this goal takes place over ages but the final ascent of Spirit can happen in an instant of time. "; Cosmicharmony.com.
I also read in one of the Dr. Michael Newton book that a most advanced soul he did ever encounter in his 35 years career as a hypnotherapist, in her hypnotic seance told him; the sine wave like, undulating sound creates all of the universe energies, including light ( think, String Theory ). She said, similar to a Mother singing to Her Baby. Also, similar souls; in a distance can see beautiful geometrical structures but only when they combine theirs thought efforts.
Basilidian wrote;
...The Divinity Beyond Being; "There was when naught was; nay, even that 'naught' was not aught of things that are [even in the world of reality]. But nakedly, conjecture and mental quibbling apart, there was absolutely not even the One [the Logos of the world of reality]. And when I use the term 'was,' I do not mean to say that it was [that is to say, in any state of being]; but merely to give some suggestion of what I wish to indicate, I use the expression 'there was absolutely naught.' For that 'naught' is not simply the so-called Ineffable; it is beyond that. For that which is really ineffable is not named Ineffable, but is superior to every name that is used...
Hippolytus summarizes this condition of non-being, which transcends all being from the original treatise as follows:
"When I use the term 'will,'" writes Basilides, "I do so merely to suggest the idea of an operation transcending all volition, thought, or sensible action. And this universality also was not [our] dimensional and differentiable universe, which subsequently came into existence and was separated [from other universes], but the Seed of all universes.", see: The Divinity Beyond Being
In The Tripartite Tractate:
He alone is the one who knows himself as he is, along with his Form and his greatness and his magnitude.
And since he has the ability to conceive of himself, to see himself, to name himself, to comprehend himself, he alone is the one who is his own mind, his own eye, his own mouth, his own Form, and he is what he thinks, what he sees, what he speaks, what he grasps, himself, the one who is inconceivable, ineffable, incomprehensible, immutable, while sustaining, joyous, true, delightful, and restful is that which he conceives, that which he sees, that about which he speaks, that which he has as thought. He transcends all wisdom, and is above all intellect, and is above all glory, and is above all beauty, and all sweetness, and all greatness, and any depth and any height, see: The Most High Father in Gnosticism.
In principle, the way as I see it is that; The Unmanifest Absolute, aspect - A, The Pleroma is seeing as Masculine-Principal, see: Masculine and Feminine.
The Manifest Absolute; aspect - B, The Kenoma in A+B and all other aspects below are seeing as a Feminine Principle. In principle, the Kenoma is of the same vibration as The Pleroma.
I think that The Kenoma is home to common consciousness for all the spiritual beings located below The Pleroma. Any creation below The Kenoma is a grossly distorted reflection of The Pleroma. Therefore creating; I would call, the cosmic duality. Also, a Feminine-Principle known as Sophia-Achamoth or Divine Wisdom is on charge of it.
From my perspective and from where I stand;
" The Pleroma " is home to The Highest Undivided Consciousness. The Pleroma Aeons are creators of
many Spiritual Multiverses.
Each Spiritual Multiverse is home to many Spiritual Universes. Each Spiritual Universe is home to many Spiritual and Material Dimensions;
that makes " The Pleroma " expandable to Infinity. Any Higher Consciousness level is aware about all activities in any of the Lower Consciousness levels.
"The Kenoma" as a Common Consciousness to everything located below "The Pleroma" is managed by a "Feminine-Principle" known as The Sophia-Achamoth or a Divine-Wisdom.
Each material dimension consist of billions of stars, planets and life forms. Non of the live forms duplicate themselfs; they all, are different.
Another way looking at it.
The Multiverses, Universes and Dimensions are different levels of consciousness. It is easier to picture it like an onion layers, in which outer layer extends to infinity.
The most inner layer is the matter. The living matter is the lowest layer of consciousness; see it as crystallized living and non living energies. The incarnated Souls, when freed from this crystallized living consciousness that dwells in the matter, Us; could be transferred into any dimension that is located in any of the multiverses, and incarnate again in a most living intelligent a species in that dimension.
That way the Soul acquire immense knowledge which would be followed by so call " The Christ-Consciousness ".
Therefore, the Soul will be freed from further incarnations and transferred to the most advance layer of the consciousness; the outer layer of infinity, "The Pleroma". Only proper conduct; good Karma toward other people can lead to that kind of a final conclusion.
Any Multiverse consists of; a Central Spirit World aspect " C " on my chart, birthplace of Souls.
After initial education in Central Spirit World, the Souls are redistributed into 7 Spiritual Universes and into 7 Spritual Dimensions, which in turn are overlaying another 7 Material Dimensions.
The Souls, known as traveller Souls, can and do travel, incarnate and reincarnate in advance life forms in any of the Material Dimansions in any of the Multiverses located below "The Kenoma", the " B " on my chart.
All of the Multiverses, Universes and Material Dimensions are interlocked with eachother, similar to links in a chain like relationship.
Manifest Absolute - The Kenoma: - A+B, Aspect B, is Home to, Kenoma local Consciousness, Kenoma local Potentialities and Kenoma local Possibilities. Aspect - B in Kenoma A+B, is Sophia Achamoth and Her Sonship,The Divine Spark:
The Divine Spark, as per Valentinianism, a protological philosophy and in Basilidians Third Sonship, is incarnated as a Spirit within the Souls of; the Old Testament figure known as Melchizedek the High Priest and King of Salem, the New Testament figure known as Jesus Christ, Buddhists-Buddha, Islam-Muhammad and other religions prophets; see: Ancient Christna. The role of " The Divine Spark " is to inform Souls, in the Noetic Absolute about existence of The Pleroma and the existence of;
... The Eternal, ‘The Only One’, ‘The Most High’, Not begotten, Nor created, Nor conceived, Divine, Full of Grace, ‘The Pleroma Ineffable Most High Father’ and ‘The Pleroma Ineffable Most High Mother’ Almighty; ‘The Supreme Source’; The Undivided Consciousness, The Unlimited Potentialities and The Unlimited Possibilities; The Creator of ‘The Pleroma’ and of ‘The All’ that is a Perfect Order; The Life of life, The Light of The Mind, and The pure Love, and The pure Compassion ...
Basilidian wrote:
" ...For the world shall hold together and not be dissolved until the whole Sonship--which has been left behind to benefit the souls in the state of formlessness, and to receive benefits, by evolving forms for them [the spirit requiring a psychic vehicle for conscious contact with this plane]--shall follow after and imitate Jesus Christ, and hasten upward and come forth purified. [For by purification] it becometh most subtle, so that it is able to speed aloft through its own power, even as the first Sonship; for it hath all its power naturally consubsistent with the Light which shone down from above... "The Final Consummation
Noetic Absolute: A+B+C, Home to aspect C-The Source, Father of our Souls, Noetic Absolute local Consciousness, Noetic Absolute local Potentialities and Noetic Absolute local Possibilities. In most esoteric religions. The Creator of our visible Universes or Dimensions.
To a few esoteric religions the Noetic Absolute, "C" on the chart is home to; The Father, The God, Da'at (the mystical state) for ten sephirot in the Tree of Life. The Source; but if manifested, The Presence. Also, in antiquity and even now to some people is known as El Alyon. Like I said above; The Source but if manifested, The Presence ("C", on my chart) is a powerful masculine principle, beyond our comprehension. Inteligent Living Light Spiritual Energy. I see Him as a respectful Father of our Souls, a God but not The Most High God.
Because of my 11 years long, personal spiritual experience known as "The Bridal Chamber", see; "My Spiritual Bridal Chamber"; I believe in syncretism of many esoteric religions known as gnosticism. Therefore I know that "The Most High God", "The Most High Father" dwells in "The Pleroma" and is known to gnostics as "The One".
... but let no mortal think that he can comprehend so great a being, "for he is more ineffable than ineffables, more potent than potencies, wiser than the wise, superior to every excellence that one can name...
Quoting the The Basilidian 2000 years ago, read: The Great Ruler | The Demiurge in Valentinianism | Ptolemy's Letter to Flora
Also, on the existence of The Pleroma and The Most High Presence, The Most High Father quoted by The Basilidian 2000 years ago, read: The Divinity Beyond Being.
In 2nd century A.D. Irenaeus in Against Heresies wrote:
CHAP. V.-- HE IS THE CREATOR OF EVERYTHING OUTSIDE OF THE PLEROMA.
...He was in the image of the only-begotten Son, and the angels and archangels created by him were in the image of the rest of the AEons. They affirm, therefore, that he was constituted the Father and God of everything outside of the Pleroma, being the creator of all animal and material substances... From this circumstance they style him Metropator,(5) Apator, Demiurge, and Father, saying that he is Father of the substances on the right hand, that is, of the animal, but Demiurge of those on the left, that is, of the material, while he is at the same time the king of all...
Gnostic mythos
see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(Gnosticism).
In most versions of the Gnostic mythos, it is Sophia who brings about this instability in the Pleroma, in turn bringing about the creation of materiality. According to some Gnostic texts, the crisis occurs as a result of Sophia trying to emanate without her syzygy or, in another tradition, because she tries to breach the barrier between herself and the unknowable Bythos. After cataclysmically falling from the Pleroma, Sophia's fear and anguish of losing her life (just as she lost the light of the One) causes confusion and longing to return to it. Because of these longings, matter (Greek: hyl, λη) and soul (Greek: psych, ψυχ) accidentally come into existence. The creation of the Demiurge (also known as Yaldabaoth, "Son of Chaos") is also a mistake made during this exile. The Demiurge proceeds to create the physical world in which we live, ignorant of Sophia, who nevertheless manages to infuse some spiritual spark or pneuma into his creation.Almost all Gnostic systems of the Syrian or Egyptian type taught that the universe began with an original, unknowable God, referred to as the Parent or Bythos, or as the Monad by Monoimus. From this initial unitary beginning, the One spontaneously emanated further Aeons, being pairs of progressively 'lesser' beings in sequence. Together with the source from which they emanate they form the Pleroma, or fullness, of God, and thus should not be seen as distinct from the divine, but symbolic abstractions of the divine nature. The transition from the immaterial to the material, from the noumenal to the sensible, is brought about by a flaw, or a passion, or a sin, in one of the Aeons.
In the Pistis Sophia, Christ is sent from the Godhead in order to bring Sophia back into the fullness (Pleroma). Christ enables her to again see the light, bringing her knowledge of the spirit (Greek: pneuma, πνευμα). Christ is then sent to earth in the form of the man Jesus to give men the Gnosis needed to rescue themselves from the physical world and return to the spiritual world. In Gnosticism, the Gospel story of Jesus is itself allegorical: it is the Outer Mystery, used as an introduction to Gnosis, rather than being literally true in a historical context. For the Gnostics, the drama of the redemption of the Sophia through Christ or the Logos is the central drama of the universe. The Sophia resides in all of us as the Divine Spark.
"Primordial Negative Coefficient Factor", see: Negative Coefficient Factor of the "Higher and Lower Psychism" activities, energy affecting our subconscious.
The Mind Games, see: Mind Games of the "Higher and Lower Psychism"; perhaps, and/or a Personal Tribulation. And, also listen to youtube.com: John Lash Archons, Sophia and Gnosticism.
The Time-Line, see: Time-Line of the "Higher and Lower Psychism" activities, energy affecting our subconscious.
The Ladies of " My Spiritual Bridal Chamber Awakening ".
Our Spiritual Path, see: Spiritual Path and Michael Newton Journey of Souls #02 - Case Studies.
Cosmos Duality: A+B+C+D: Home to aspect D: Well, we could look also into Valentinianism, a protology philosophy around year 140 AD, teaches that; the Pleroma's Anthropos and Ecclesia became parents to six pairs of Masculine-Feminine Aeons means the youngest Aeon known as The Sophia-Wisdom would become a 12th Eaon, but in Sethianism. In principle, She IS The Mother of everything below The Pleroma.
Her action stemmed from a pure love to The Most High Father, and attempting to see Her Father without participation of Her consort; which could be seen as an attempt to impose Her Feminine-Principle over Her consort Masculine-Principle.
It has a potential of becoming the so call high " I " which was a no no, the so call high " I " is not existent in Pleroma. All Pleroma Aeons are known as " The All ", and are seen as a unity, unified as and known as " The One "; She could as well be reabsorbed into pure light of The Most High Father.
Therefore, Her nevertheless noble attempt gave birth to unwanted energies. Those energies were immediately removed and relocated by The Most High Father to an empty space below The Pleroma known as The Kenoma. Keep in mind that Pleroma's nature IS regarded as a Masculine-Principle.
In the entire, all Multiverses; only The Pleroma " Most High Father " can step out from His Androgyne form whenever He wishes so. All others must have consent of theirs Consorts.
Note here; the manifestation of The Most High Father of love to everything that came to existence; He could destroy those unwanted energies, but He did not destroy them.
As, a consequence of those activities much later in time we had the so called series of " Big-Bangs ". Pleroma's Sophia-Wisdom daughter, known as The Sophia-Achamoth was put on charge, on management of The Kenoma and everything else below The Kenoma.
Therefore, in Valentinians protological philosophy it makes Her a thirteenth Aeon, looking from the top down but; She dwells one level below The Pleroma known as The Kenoma, in some religions known as eight level, but in the Lower Ogdoad; She works extremely hard to fix the prior error, strive to achieve redemption of all the Spirits that either, descended or came to an existence below The Pleroma.
The purified living intelligent energies sequentially stay in:
Pleroma's Sophia-Wisdom did stay in Unmanifest Absolute - A.
The rest of purified and unpurified living intelligent energies were relocted to The Kenoma - B and Noetic Absolute - C.
Some partially purified and unpurified living intelligent energies landed in the Cosmos Duality: C+D+E: aspects, D. I consider aspect D, shaded area on the sketch, a home to all exoteric religions. Home to 7 spiritual dimensions, overlaying 7 material dimensions.
And, perhaps home to so call Sethian Demiourgos, a God of all the Abrahamic and some other religions.
His characteristics are; neither perfect good or evil. In principle He IS good but; most of the time, He sits midway, between perfect good, and I would say He is strict.
Aspect E, in shaded area on the sketch, manifested itself as some earthbound spirits confined to matter.
Known to some, me included as, the "Lower Psychism" or Archons.
Keep in mind, that the potential of becoming an " I " manifested and still manifesting itself in activities of dark spirits or archons; an anomaly, a mutation that came to light in 1953, similar to a DNA mutation on this planet earth but, confined to matter.
Then, as further separating from Unmanifest Absolute, Manifest Absolute-The Kenoma and Noetic Absolute; came to the existence Cosmos Duality: A+B+C+D+E, Home to aspect - E; Series of side by side Big-Bangs. Creating 7 material dimensions interlocked together similar to, links in a chain links. Dark ( unknown ) energy. In a fraction of a second conversion of non material chaotic energies to matter and antimatter, ancient collision between matter and antimatter, sun nuclear fusion generating neutrinos and other cosmic living and nonliving intelligent and non intelligent energies.
Quotation below is a best proof of the existence of The Noetic Absolute The Presence. Note, I do not consider The Presence as the Demiurge. I am certain the Demiurge rules as an aspect " D " on my sketch, which is one level below The Presence.
The manifestation of First Space, aspect " C " is seen by some as the lower or middle Pleroma ( note: The Most High Father, aspect " A " was not manifested yet ), is also seen in; the Bridal-Chamber, as well in the regions of the First Commandment and up to the regions of the First Mystery which is the Mystery of the Father. Within the Veil, within the First Commandment say: " To Love God above all things, and thy neighbour as thyself " then the Sixth Mystery, which is the manifestation of Second Space, aspects " D and E ": The Spirit is strong, but the flesh is weak. Do not fall into temptation ", think Karma, Soul incarnation and reincarnation. The soul, sex, temptation, downfall and regeneration are found hidden within the Sixth Mystery. see: Pistis Sophia and Mysteries.
I think that the Feminine Principle, from the ancient times is known to us as The Holy Ghost is using this ( unknown ) dark energy to position, form, shape, and permeate everything.
Then, we came to the existence, Us; from that cosmic primordial soup of this organic world located in the inorganic part of the universe we came to the existence. We are one of the living a species, that are made up of the Soul the carrier of a Spirit that incarnates in Homo Sapiens a species, Us. Therefore we are made up of intelligent living energies like Soul, Spirit and Matter.
Mme. Blavatsky
Man is also triune: he has his objective, physical body; his vitalizing astral body (or soul), the real
man; and these two are brooded over and illuminated by the third -- the sovereign, the immortal spirit.
When the real man succeeds in merging himself with the latter, he becomes an immortal entity.
"Christ - the true esoteric SAVIOUR? - is no man, but the DIVINE PRINCIPLE in every human being. He who strives to resurrect the Spirit crucified in him by his own terrestrial passions, and buried deep in the 'sepulchre' of his sinful flesh; he who has the strength to roll back the stone of matter from the door of his own inner sanctuary, he has the risen Christ in him. The 'Son of Man' is no child of the bond-woman - flesh, but verily of the free-woman - Spirit, the child of man's own deeds, and the fruit of his own spiritual labour." Blavatsky, Collected Writings, 8:173. see: Son.
Mme Blavatsky quote:
CHRISTNA. Epoch: Uncertain. European science fears to commit itself. But the Brahmanical calculations fix it at about 6,877 years ago.
Thus, Christos, as a unity, is but an abstraction: a general idea representing the collective aggregation of the numberless spirit-entities, which are the direct emanations of the infinite, invisible, incomprehensible FIRST CAUSE -- the individual spirits of men, erroneously called the souls. They are the divine sons of God, of which some only overshadow mortal men -- but this the majority -- some remain forever planetary spirits, and some -- the smaller and rare minority -- unite themselves during life with some men. Such God-like beings as Gautama-Buddha, Jesus, Tissoo, Christna, and a few others had united themselves with their spirits permanently -- hence, they became gods on earth. Others, such as Moses, Pythagoras, Apollonius, Plotinus, Confucius, Plato, Iamblichus, and some Christian saints, having at intervals been so united, have taken rank in history as demi-gods and leaders of mankind. When unburthened of their terrestrial tabernacles, their freed souls, henceforth united forever with their spirits, rejoin the whole shining host, which is bound together in one spiritual solidarity of thought and deed, and called "the anointed." Hence, the meaning of the Gnostics, who, by saying that "Christos" suffered spiritually for humanity, implied that his Divine Spirit suffered mostly.
In reference to above statement I do disagree. I would say that my enlightenment, if I can call it an enlightenment came to me in a manner I call; a lengthly, over 9 years, 24x7 attempt of negative forces, to take over of my mind by archonic spirit entities. The enlightenment can come, either by a descent or an ascent both at the same time, in a dual state. That is exactly the way did happen to me.
In his article reposted on this website, with author' permission permission, he states:
The achievement of gnosis in three stages of enlightenment, whether conveyed by a descent or an ascent, is not as such the legacy of Plato to these Barbeloite treatises, since this feature is found also in Jewish and Christian apocalyptic. Rather, the peculiar legacy of Plato is to be found in the basically emanationistic metaphysical ontology that structures the transcendent world of these treatises. In the final section, it will be suggested that the three-stage descent scheme of these treatises is basically un-Platonic, on the other hand, in these treatises, the three-stage ascent, although found in Jewish and Christian apocalyptic, is of Platonic inspiration insofar as the knower at each stage assimilates to his own being the form of being proper to the level at which he finds himself , see: Three Stages of Enlightenment.
Two Becomes Three - The Reflection in Matter of Cosmic Creation, see: Sound and Harmony
The union of spirit with matter in form produces consciousness (the Son aspect). The entire human process of reproduction and birth is laden with reflective symbols of the Cosmic creation. During the process of creation, the Masculine - Feminine polarization occurs, in turn reflecting the properties of spirit and matter respectively as the Masculine and Feminine poles.
Symbolically, Man as a species represents the Son aspect (the fecundation of matter and spirit), because, of all a species forms, the indwelling God is most fully present in the human a species. Man represents the half way point between the tiny atom of matter and the Cosmic Atom of the universe. It is said:
The Whole Creation Groaneth... awaiting the coming of the Sons of God
That is because man in the collective sense literally becomes the "hands and feet" of God on the Earth plane - the middle ground of manifestation between the microcosm of the atom and the macrocosm of galaxies and galactic clusters. When fully Divinized, the individual human becomes an instrument of the Divine on Earth, carrying out the Divine purpose. Man becomes the middle entity between Spirit and Matter. In this threesome we find the trinity of the Christian religion: Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Matter is the Holy Ghost because it is the shadow (ghost) of spirit and is matter consisting of living atoms and imbued with all the intelligence that emanates from the Creator (hence, for example, the complex crystal forms and atomic bonding forming molecules capable of reproducing themselves).
The Trinity of Manifestation
Spirit Consciousness Matter
Father Son Holy Ghost
In Vedic thought the trinity is spoken of in terms of the stages of the cyclic appearances of the manifested universe spun out from the One entity called Brahman, Brahmam and other various titles by diverse religions. Brahman is said to be above, below, behind and within all manifestation. In the Vedas, the three stages of the manifested universe are identified as - creation (Brahma), preservation (Vishnu or Mahavishnu), destruction (Shiva or Rudra). These stages may also be denoted as Generation, Organization, Destruction which in their entirety make up the One - G. O. D.
Esoteric Christianity utterings:
I think that Valentinian Divine Spark and Melchizedek person-spirit is one and the same, the manifestation of a Higher Spirit The Pleroma: Man, The Anthropos, The New Testament Son of Man, The Old Testament, the priest of God Most High, Gen 14:18-20.see: Ancient Christna. In my opinion allegorizing to a Spirit that dwell's in our incarnated Souls. Soul as a median intelligent energy is needed for the Spirit to be able to descend to the living matter. Otherwise, a true living Prophet is a person's Soul incarnated with Melchizedek Spirit. The Soul and the Spirit need eachother in order to manifest themselves in the living matter.
So, I started developing an interst, to follow up on first 200 years of Christianity. Therefore, chart on the left is reflecting what I believe. Extensive reading on Esoteric Christianity about Valentinius, Basillideans and others make me believe that our World, the Planet Earth is run by Spirits, aspect D in A+B+C+D that are confined to matter. Since the year 2008, for 7 years I had been in touch with spirit entities. On few different ocasions, flying above 33 thousand feet, communication between me and the talking spirits was cut off. That proved to me beyond any doubt that those spirits are confined to this planet earth and run all exoteric religions and cults of this organic world located in the inorganic part of the universe. Its seems to me that what is conceived on earth stays on earth.
A word of Caution: Soon you move from exoteric ( where you have a true priest mediating on your behalf ) religious practice and believes into the esoteric religious practice and believes, you ARE on your own. I guaranty you that some earthbound spirits; the masters in managing the life on this planet earth but confined to matter, immediately will attached themselves to you, and WILL try to instill, this so call high " I " into you. Telling you that you are the master of the Universe, the God that descended to this, I call it hell; look around you, the live on this planet earth IS hell.
One need to realize though; that even those Spirits can manifest workings of a Creator, The Father, The Source, The God. That is exactly what did happened to me. So, be aware about it. Ultimately we all pray to the same Creator, The Father, The Source, The God.
A Tridentine Mass. A beautiful manifestation of faith toward an unknown God;
see: Tridentine Mass Vs. Vatican II Mass.
With Us, came to existance the "Elementary", the "Shell", the "Spook", read below.
I think that challenges and difficulties of Karma, are imposed on us by a medium or a mediator by way of the "Elementary", the "Shell", the "Spook"; the animal elements or power of desire..., absorbing after death, after the Soul departed, that which it has collected ( through its insatiable desire to live ) during life, i.e. all the astral vitality as well as all the impressions of its material acts and thoughts..., forms the dregs of the animal mind; the "Elementary", the "Shell", the "Spook" or Kama rupa, this has life in it, but in varying degrees hardly any consciousness and is confined to matter.
Denying Soul's ability to incarnate and reincarnate, could motivate a medium or a mediator and must drawn into the currents of its thoughts, when as it were by proxy the "Elementary", the "Shell", the "Spook" in order to impose on us theirs will.
Mediumship; animal, uncontrolled, negative and automatic, the "Lower Psychism", by way of the "Elementary", the "Shell", the "Spook" could take a negative approach. It could attack your Soul through your flesh, by instilling in your mind a thought of, suicide, narcissism, extreme selfishness, being angry, reckoning it all together; bad karma, like taking advantage of people when they are the most vulnerable, and other evil works.
Mediatorship; Semi-Divine, controlled, intelligently applied, positive, the "Higher Psychism", by way of the "Elementary", the "Shell", the "Spook" will do positive work: good karma, like to motivate you to be compassionate, loving, forgiving etc.
Keep in mind that a mediator could also act as a medium for its own reasons, think (testing).
The Universal Law of Harmony
This law supersedes even the fundamental law of Karma. For " true goodwill " is intrinsically good; its value is wholly self-contained and utterly independent of its external relations. Therefore, " true goodwill " is the supreme potential of balance. The purpose of Karma is to attain harmony. If you throw a rock into a still pond you will disturb the harmony of that pond, you are the cause. The effect is a splash and series of waves on the surface of water that flows back and forth until the harmony is restored. Consequently, your incompatible actions with " true goodwill " will flow into the Universe and eventually will fell back on you, lifetime after life time, until your own " true goodwill " is restored.
... TRANSMISSION, NOT REVELATION ...
... More than one great scholar has stated that there never was a religious founder, whether Aryan, Semitic or Turanian, who had invented a new religion, or revealed a new truth. These founders were all transmitters, not original teachers. They were the authors of new forms and interpretations, while the truths upon which the latter were based were as old as mankind. Selecting one or more of those grand verities -- actualities visible only to the eye of the real Sage and Seer -- out of the many orally revealed to man in the beginning, preserved and perpetuated in the adyta of the temples through initiation, during the mysteries and by personal transmission -- they revealed these truths to the masses. Thus every nation received in its turn some of the said truths, under the veil of its own local and special symbolism; which, as time went on, developed into a more or less philosophical cultus, a Pantheon in mythical disguise ...
--Secret Doctrine
The origin of all religions — Judaeo-Christianity included — is to be found in a few primeval truths, not one of which can be explained apart from all the others, as each is a complement of the rest in some one detail. And they are all, more or less, broken rays of the same Sun of truth, and their beginnings have to be sought in the archaic records of the Wisdom-religion. Without the light of the latter, the greatest scholars can see but the skeletons thereof covered with masks of fancy, and based mostly on personified Zodiacal signs.
The Blessed Virgin Mary, as a portrayal of The Divine Feminine; must be recognized in dogma of
the Church, as a Mediatrix / Co-Redemptrix participating in the works of Jesus Christ.
" The workings of the human body are an analogy for the workings of the universe. " --
... The true prophet has no need for sanctimoniousness. We call it exactly as we see it, and if the language offends, we have absolutely no care, because it is not the prophet's duty to please people but to inform them of what they can expect when they continue to act as ever they have acted for thousands of years.
And, it is a greater one who is not afraid to be ribald, than one who pretends to be holy. And that is the measure of the False Prophet, for the False Prophet is one who knows not how to laugh, to be all people to all people, and has no respect for the truly serious and solemn and the sublime, yet pretends to be serious when it comes time to reprimanding everybody else, calling them all sinners, while he sins in his closet, and takes himself so seriously that one expose too many eventually unmasks him and takes him out.
To be a Son of God, one must come down to the level of the Sons of Men and find them fair (fair game for pranks in some, but not all, cases.) (and not only the Daughters of Men, are to be sought, either.) ...
~~~Count Welldone. Past Regent of the Ordre des Illumines Veritas.
The Intuitive Wisdom of The Holy Ghost, " The Feminine-Principle " MUST take over the power from the brute force
of the " Lower Psychism " " Masculine-Principle " which IS confined to matter, imposed on Us, the homos sapiens; by any establishment accepting the ancient Babylonian power grub energy into its systems and operations.
No matter whether it was or is a civilian or ecclesiastical organization. The ancient Babylonian energy, will pervert any of the said organizations intentions into an evil type of acclivities like; wars, blood sacrifices, revenge, fear and suffering etc.
Therefore this ancient Babylonian energy is trying to wrestle, the Nurturing-Preserving energies from the " Feminine Principle " of The Holy Ghost, a Nurturing-Preserving Force, and turn it into the ancient Babylonian style male destructive force.
I can see, this ancient Babylonian style male destructive force, is manifesting itself in governments and countries, where there are huge armies and huge, protological, soteriological, eschatological and ecclesiastical organizations.
Warning...
Our Souls have a free will, just as we have it. Forcefully sending massive numbers of Souls back home is very dangerous.
If the Souls start refusing incarnating on our earth. Therefore, The Souls would stop importing good, loving energy to this planet earth; again therefore, this earth WILL become barren, bleak and lifeless. While in spite of that The Oneness rules the spirit world.
The lobbyists in many governments are working towards the same goal; of one religion, one power hungry government, having as a long term agenda, contrary to " true goodwill "; without doubt influenced by this 6 min. past midnight spirit, that whenever possible manifested itself to me for over 9 years, exactly at the same time, see: automatic, Time-Line. Contrary to good Karma, wanting to; eliminate 93% of earth's population, see: Depopulation. Hopefully this attempt will fail.
So the humanity can live; as the Adi Da Samraj said:
" No individual should live as the superior, or the inferior, or even the equal, of all others. Rather, each should live as the intimate servant of others through love. The true politics of human relationships is the politics of servants everywhere--every one serving, and every one served. " (From "The Incarnation of Love")
Think for yourself and do not quickly accept ideas. Test all things:
; hold fast what is good. (1 Thes. 5:21)
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DC Motor Introduction, Principle and Working
DC motors are rarely utilized in normal applications as a result of all electrical supply firms furnish electrical energy but, for special applications like in steel mills, mines and electric traction, it's advantageous to convert AC into DC so as to use DC motors. The rationale is that speed/torque characteristics of DC motors are much more superior thereto of AC motors. Therefore, it's not stunning to notice that for industrial drives, DC motors are as common as 3-phase induction motors. Similar to DC generators, DC motors are also classified into 3 kinds; they are series-wound, shunt-wound and compound- wound. The employment of a specific motor depends upon the mechanical load it's to drive.
Principle of DC Motor
A machine which transforms the DC power into mechanical power is called as a DC motor. Its operation relies on the principle that once a current carrying conductor is placed in a very magnetic field, the conductor experiences a mechanical force. The direction of this force is given by Fleming’s left hand rule and magnitude is given by;
F=BIl newtons
Fundamentally, there's no constructional distinction between a DC motor and a DC generator. The same DC motor will be run as a generator or motor.
Specification of DC Machine
Working of DC Motor
Let’s think a part of a multipolar DC motor as shown in Fig. once the terminals of the motor are connected to an external DC supply. Then,
The field magnets are excited developing alternate N and S poles;
The armature conductors carry currents. All conductors below N-pole carry currents in one direction whereas all the conductors below S-pole carry currents within the opposite direction.
Assume the conductors below N-pole carry currents into the plane of the paper and those below S-pole carry currents out of the plane of the paper which is shown in Fig. Since each armature conductor is carrying current and is placed within the magnetic field, mechanical force acts on that. Stating to the Fig and applying Fleming’s left hand rule, it's clear that force on every conductor is tending to rotate the armature in anticlockwise direction. All these forces add along to provide a driving torsion that sets the armature rotating. Once the conductor interchanges from one side of a brush to the opposite, the current in the conductor is reversed and at identical time it comes below the influence of next pole that is of reverse polarity. Accordingly, the direction of force on the conductor rests identical.
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Trading To Extinction- About the project
From the pristine jungles of Cambodia to the great national parks of India and Nepal, Asian wildlife is being plundered on an unprecedented scale. Every year, it is estimated that up to 30,000 primates, 5 million birds, 10 million reptile skins and 500 million tropical fish are traded.
Patrick Brown has been photographing the illegal trade of endangered animals in Asia for more than a decade, covering its dealers, stockpiles, trafficking routes and markets. This is a massive contraband industry, where the poachers are often the ones taking the blame, however they are only but a small part of a complex and highly profitable illegal trading business.
According to ancient custom, animal parts are imbued with ‘magical’ properties. Some people believe, for example, that eating the flesh of a tiger will make them strong. Despite scientific studies proving such superstitions wrong, the trade in animals and animal parts continues, fuelled by desire, greed and corruption.
Rhino horns have no medicinal purpose, but myths about their effect on health and potency have pushed their value to exceed the price of gold. Animal trade thrives on novelty and on the belief that exotic animals exude certain powers. More and more people are becoming aware of the myths, but sellers are also adapting. Porous rhino horns are now often soaked in Viagra before they reach the market.
The exact value of that market is impossible to figure out, but experts estimate that it is somewhere close to $10 billion annually. A poacher who kills a rhino and removes its horn in India gets $350. That same horn sells for $1,000 in a nearby market town. By the time it reaches Hong Kong, Beijing or the Middle East, the horn is worth $370,000. Tiger bones are worth up to $700 per kilo.
The illegal global wildlife trade has doubled since the 1990s, and the evidence is nothing short of disheartening: more than 100 million sharks are killed each year, elephants have evolved to have shorter tusks because of poaching, and there are more Bengalese tigers in Texas than in the bay of Bengal.
Patrick Brown:
For years, I have traveled across Asia to document the devastating impact of wildlife trafficking. I’ve witnessed how our planet’s rarest creatures are being hunted, trapped and slaughtered to feed a global black market in wildlife products. This project is my attempt to expose that trade. Now I’d like to bring my work to a worldwide audience through my photographic book called “Trading to Extinction.”
Investigating the trade in its depths is a shocking tale of cruelty, crime and human greed. As with drug trafficking, money fuels the animal trade. Its tentacles wrap around the world, from the remote forests of Asia to the trafficking hubs of Beijing, Bangkok, London, Tokyo and New York.
Unfortunately there’s still a long way to go. This trade is without any doubt flourishing. However, I finally begin to see a coordinated political fight-back. An extraordinary worldwide movement is bringing together people from diverse backgrounds in a bid to save our most endangered species before it is too late. I hope our efforts will not be in vain.
Trading To Extinction Documentary VICE
Patrick Brown talks about the Trading to Extinction project, which documents the illegal trade of endangered animals in Asia. Vice Magazine travelled with Brown to Guangzhou, China, where he finishes his decade-long project.
Patrick goes deep inside this vast, dangerous world. He risks his own personal safety to take us on a fascinating — and stomach-turning — journey through the lives of myth-bound Chinese villagers, the status-seeking nouveau riche, third-generation smugglers, and corrupt officials that make this market possible.
To know more about the book, click here
Workshop – How To Get Your Message Out
Award-winning duo of Panos Pictures photographers Nic Dunlop and Patrick Brown will help you hone your skills and enhance your creativity at this intensive three-day workshop in Bangkok.
The Workshop is designed for those working in a humanitarian context to enhance their photographic and reporting skills to communicate effectively; from natural disasters and crises to on-going development projects, Nic and Patrick, together with Workshopx photo editors will help you research and create powerful photographs and enable you to communicate with your audiences effectively. From the initial idea, to the final edit of images we will guide you through every step of the process.
The Workshop, held at Patrick Brown’s studio on the Chao Phraya River, will include daily mentoring, one-on-one critiques and insider’s tips and tricks. There will also be visiting lecturers offering presentations on the uses of images on social media and how best to get your message out.
Date: 1-4 February 2018 (opening evening + 3 days)
Place: Bangkok, Thailand
Tuition: 1600 USD
Our aim: to boost your photographic skills in a stimulating but relaxed atmosphere.
How To Get Your Message Out – with Patrick Brown and Nic Dunlop
Studio Internship
Internship Description
Interns will work directly with Patrick in his studio. Students will get an amazing opportunity to take projects under their wing and see them out until completion. Patrick believes in hard work and dedication, so students will not only assist the in the creative side, but the successful applicant will be guided and instructed in darkroom techniques such as developing, printing plus scanning both prints, film and digital printing. Patrick will also give editorial advice on the personal projects that applicant is expected to working on during the internship. Patrick will help you with development of projects from concept through to completion, such as exhibitions, portfolios and books.
Applicant must have a good concept and understanding of Photoshop, Lightroom, and have a good command of English.
This is a 1 to 3 months postion.
The position is based in Bangkok, sadly we don’t offer accommodation or visa’s with this position. But we can advise you and help you find a place to stay.
Please email Patrick’s studio if you’re interested with small example of your work and your CV. studio@patrickbrownphoto.com
DRUG TRADE IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON
One of the images in this haunting photo essay by Tommaso Protti shows a looping stretch of the Amazon River, grand and primordial. We see the river flowing in all its mightiness toward a horizon line concealed in a bank of rain clouds, or perhaps morning mist. The image is a reaffirmation of a natural region that we know to be under threat, one which we hold dear as one of the planet’s last wild places, and the photograph shows it to us as we like to imagine it: no roads score its land surface, no electrical pylons mar the blanket of forest. No hand of man is visible. To see more of Tommaso Protti images and read more of Jon Lee Anderson work. Click here for The New Yorker story.
Klong San Studio
My Khlong San Studio is in the heart of the Bangkok creative district nestled along the banks Chao Phraya river, the studio is designed for creative people who feel they’d like to share ideas, build on their existing skill sets and develop their own projects. With brilliant light pouring in makes for a wonderful working environment.
If interested please send your application to studio@patrickbrownphoto.com with a brief description of why you feel you would like to be a part of the Khlong San Studio and a selection of your work.
A lovely big 1×2 meter desk is 8000 baht per month in its own 12.5 sqm section of an open plan studio, the price is all inclusive, WiFi, cleaner, and etc..
The studio is limited only to 4 places with a 1-month evaluation period after which both sides can decide if they want to continue the collaboration. Once agreed upon a 2 month deposit and 6 month commitment is required. Please contact my studio manager at studio@patrickbrownphoto.com
Interviewed by We Animals
I was lucky enough to meet up Jo-Anne McArthur over skype, we had a chat about my views on photography and specifically working on Trading to Extinction, if you’re interested, click here to read Jo-Anne’s full interview.
Defending land and life in Cambodia
The forests of Ratanakiri province have been supporting indigenous families for centuries. Now, foreign investors and national companies are keen on reaping profits from indigenous lands. As villagers learn to defend their rights, the stakes couldn’t be higher: at risk are individual lives and an entire culture.
A project I worked on early this year with Chris Hufstader the chef writer for OXFAM America, a great story about how the indigenous people of Cambodia are fighting to keep their culture and lands alive. If you’re interested in knowing more please read the full story. Click here
Two Years at Sea
Two years at sea, a brilliant documentary by director Ben Rivers and sound recordist Chu-li Shewring. Rivers prefers to shoot on an old, wind-up Bolex camera with black-and-white, 16mm film, which he then develops back in London in his kitchen sink. He has made some 20 shorts over the past decade, and they are generally free of narrative, drama and character development.
I first watched Two Years At Sea at the Danish Film institute in Copenhagen a couple of years ago, I watched it again this morning and it’s still as fresh as it was when I first saw it, this film gives the viewers plenty to do.
Nothing is explained: who we’re watching, where he is, why he lives like this, whether it’s real or not. Even the title is a mystery. Director Ben Rivers and sound recordist Chu-li Shewring take you into Williams life as he goes about his lone existence: making coffee, having a shower, reading a book. Except nothing about this man’s life is ordinary. His house is a cross between a bric-a-brac shop and a municipal dump, every corner filled with old books and records, tools, farm machinery, skis, oil lamps, woodpiles. And around his small plot are decaying caravans filled with even more junk. His “shower” is a system of hoses and taps rigged up by the kitchen window. It doesn’t matter. There’s no one else around.”
I love this film, it’s a pure documentary, simply observing life – a must watch.
there’s film making and then THERE’S film marking
After watching what I feel is one the best films movies around to today and I’m sure it will stand the test of time, Revenant. Amazing performances not just by the stars but by the whole cast which are beautifully complemented by Emmanuel Lubezki cinematography, it’s brilliant and very clever. The opening titles for example are so simple yet very clever as he brings the audience in contact with the details of this amazing landscape, which is at times breathtaking.
Here’s a great quote – By Alejandro G. Iñárritu – the director, producer, screenwriter. he insistent that computer-generated imagery not be used to enhance the film, stating: “If we ended up in green screen with coffee and everybody having a good time, everybody will be happy, but most likely the film would be a piece of shit……
Chloe Dewe Mathews
I had a quick catch up with my Panos sister the one and only Chloe Dewe Mathews over email, as always Chloe isn’t one for talking about herself or her work – So I’m going to. If you don’t know her work – her work has a beautiful depth to it, for me the pleasure in Chloe’s work is not in the revealing or critiquing of anything, but in the sheer abundance of beauty is beautiful, it this that make’s you the audience breath, a kind of emotional trigger if you like. To see Chloe’s work visit her site or if you’re lucky enough visit one of the many exhibition she’ll be having in the coming months.
click here for her site
Reportage review of HOPE exhibition
I woke this morning to this wonderful review of the HOPE exhibition by Reportage, it means a lot to me as this is the first time HOPE has been shown as a completed body of work and it’s the first HOPE has been publicly reviewed and secondly by an institution I deeply respect. To read the full review please visit the Reportage web site.
The HOPE exhibition runs until 17th of Oct – at The Jam Factory Gallery in Bangkok.
41/5 Charoen Nakhon Road,
Somdejcharopraya,
Khlong San,
HOPE at Jam Factory in Bangkok, Thailand
The HOPE project at Jam Factory in Bangkok, Thailand
I’l be exhibiting my long-term HOPE project, a photographic series “about the vulnerability of human existence on the planet”.
The opening night is Thursday the 17th of September at 1900hr
The Jam Factory Gallery
41/1-5 Charoennakorn Rd
Klongsan, Bangkok 10600
from 18 September to 17 October 2015.
I’ll explains a little bit about the project: “The ambition is to photograph environments that are very difficult for humans to exist in, places that are beautiful in their starkness. These environments are where hope and optimism are inextricably joined to doubt and uncertainty. Also, it is the lack of human evidence in these images, that emphasises the vulnerability of humans on this planet.”
I’ve also making the poster down loadable just click here once at the image click on it once, then right click and start down loading.
Documentary, Exhibition, News, Patrick Brown, Photography
I’ve been working on my up and coming exhibition HOPE which will be opening at the Jam Factory in Bangkok on the 17th September and run until the 17th of October. This instillation will be the first time that the complete body of work of HOPE will be seen, so if you’re in Bangkok on the 17th Sept you’re more than welcome to swing by. For more information about HOPE and future projects please subscribe to my newsletter by clicking here
Trading to Extinction book launch
TRADING TO EXTINCTION
Book launch and exhibition
Hosted by Soy Sauce Factory
Address; Soi 24 Charoenkrung road,
Trading to Extinction book selected by AmericanPhoto, as one of the of best documentary books of 2014.
The book explores the sad truths behind this multi billion-dollar industry and is one of the most comprehensive photographic documents on the wildlife trade, spanning more than 10 years and offering a rare view into this illicit business. It is a shocking tale of cruelty, crime and human greed. This is an industry which, like the drugs trade, is fuelled by money, and whose tentacles encircle the world, from the remote forests of Asia to the trafficking hubs of Beijing, Bangkok, London, Tokyo and New York.
For those who are living or passing through Bangkok and are looking for something to do on Friday night the 29th of May, Soy Sauce Factory will be hosting Trading to Extinction book launch and exhibition. Please feel free to invite and spread the word, I’m looking forward to seeing you there. Thanks Patrick
Nepal Fundraising
A brilliant initiative brought on by my Panos brother Brian Sokol, please get behind this initiative, not only are you going help people in need but you’re also going to get gorgeous print too, a win win.
Brian Sokol, Panos Pictures, the World Photography Organisation and theprintspace partner to raise funds for the reconstruction of Nepal following the deadly earthquake of 25 April.
Visit the fundraising print sale page here
We will be donating all profits from print sales in support of this fundraiser for the victims of the Nepal earthquake. All fine art archival prints will be produced by theprintspace, official print partner of this year’s Sony World Photography Awards.
Please share thanks pb
https://imagingambassadors.sony.net/news/nepal-fundraising
TTE nominated for Prix Pictet award
It’s a real honour to have the Trading to Extinction body of work nominated for the Prix Pictet award.
Founded by the Pictet Group in 2008, the Prix Pictet has rapidly established itself as the world’s leading prize in photography and sustainability. The award aims to uncover outstanding photography applied to confront the most pressing social and environmental challenges of today.
Trading to Extinction, 2014 BEST PHOTOBOOK OF THE YEAR SELECTION
It’s a real honour for me that Trading to Extinction has been selected by AmericanPhoto, as one of the 13 best documentary photo-books of 2014.
For the full list of selected books click here
To order your copy of Trading to Extinction standard edition please contact Dewi Lewis Publishing visit their web site
To order a copy of the limited editing please contact my studio: studio@patrickbrownphoto.com
Published February 2014, by Dewi Lewis Publishing
168 pages, 115 duotone photographs,
150gsm Gardapat Kiara, a Hardback
Limited edition of 150 copies, with a signed and numbered 8×10 inch fiber base print.
To have a sneak preview in the book please visit Vimeo
Not willing to pay for images
The Guardian have a run a very interesting story about the band Garbage which have sold over 17 million albums world wide and wanting to use a photographers image, but not pay for it. Read the open letter that Pat Pope wrote back to management of Garbage. – full story here
On a personal note regarding this matter: There is an NGO that would like to use my images from the Trading to Extinction project, for an up and coming campaign, as they’re an NGO I offered them a 35 images on a 3 year global license on all platforms, at 3000 USD, that is 28 USD per image per year. Their reply was we want to use them but for free. Imagine the same NGO asking a consultant with over decade of first hand experience, who’s work has been published world wide and has a number of books that have been published on the subject, two of which were voted by CNN in 2014 as the 5th and 6th most important books on the illegal animal trade. We want you to work for us, the salary is zero, you’re name will be on the paper…
Copyright © Patrick Brown. All Rights Reserved.
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Pendle Enterprise and Regeneration Ltd (PEARL) | Green light for Northlight! Major Plans get go ahead
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Green light for Northlight! Major Plans get go ahead
07 Dec Green light for Northlight! Major Plans get go ahead
Posted at 10:51h in Northlight, PEARL News by Pendle Borough Council
“Our ambitious plans to create a new £32m learning, living, working, leisure and cultural destination for the North West entered an exciting new stage this week,” announced Councillor Iqbal, Leader of Pendle Council.
Planning permission has been granted for 52 apartments in the iconic Victorian mill and Northlight residents will also have hidden basement parking .
Office spaces for businesses and organisations within the Grade II listed mill, which was built in 1838 alongside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, also got the go ahead.
And plans to develop a range of eating and drinking businesses within the former Brierfield Mill complex were approved,too.
Planning permission was granted at the Brierfield and Reedley Committee on Tuesday 5th December 2017.
“This will make our Grade II listed mill a great place to work, live and visit and will create hundreds of jobs,” stated Councillor Iqbal who leads on economic development for Pendle.
Councillor Naeem Ashraf, who chairs the Brierfield and Reedley Area Committee where planning permission for the exciting plans was approved, said:
“We support the transformation of Brierfield Mill into Northlight – this redevelopment is vitally important for our area.”
Pendle Enterprise And Regeneration Ltd (PEARL) is the joint venture company of Pendle Council and Barnfield Investment Properties which owns Northlight.
More information on Northlight is available on the new website www.pearlpendle.co.uk and photographs of the heritage mill and architects’ impressions of Northlight can be seen via http://www.pearlpendle.co.uk/northlight/gallery/
“It’s fantastic for Pendle to get the green light for this important next stage in the transformation of Northlight said Councillor Iqbal who is the chairman of PEARL.
Tim Webber is Managing Director of Barnfield and a PEARL board member. He said:
“As Pendle developers with our HQ within sight of Northlight, working to transform this historic landmark has been a labour of love for us.
“We’re immensely proud of the work we’ve done to sensitively convert the historic office buildings to create the new Lancashire Adult Learning.
“And we’re working at full speed ahead to develop excellent sport facilities for Burnley FC in the Community which will open at Northlight in the spring.
“Brierfield’s arts organisation In-Situ will open their innovative garage site in the spring as an arts and culture hub for Pendle,” he added.
“These are very exciting times for Northlight,” he stated.
The development of Northlight has been made possible thanks to a range of funding including £4.2m from the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP) Growth Deal Funding, £2.15m from Lancashire County Council and £1.5m from Pendle Council.
Councillor Iqbal added:
“We’ve bought properties on Clitheroe Road adjoining Northlight, including the derelict Railway Tavern, a garage and car sales business through Compulsory Purchase.
“All these properties will now be demolished to provide an attractive landscaped car park for Northlight,” he explained.
“People have been asking why there’s been a delay, but we need to wait for the utility companies to disconnect the services.
“Once that’s done PEARL can arrange to get the buildings safely demolished and we’ve lined up a demolition contractor to start work.
“The demolition will really help to open up views of the mill from Railway Street and will be another exciting step forward!”
Brierfield Mill was one of the first steam powered cotton spinning mills in the area and in 1890, the mill clattered to the sound of 2,213 looms and 91,000 spindles. At its prime in 1948 the company owned nearly 80,000 mule spindles in two spinning mills and had 2,800 looms in four weaving sheds.
In 1957 Smith and nephew Textiles Ltd bought the mill for the manufacture of surgical bandages. In 2001 the company merged with the German company Beiersdorf AG trading under the name BSN Medical – the only one of its kind in the UK, weaving for the medical industry with stringent regulations.
Brierfield Mill closed in 2007 and this iconic landmark became one of English Heritage’s Listed Buildings at Risk.
It lay empty for five years, having been sold to a private organisation for possible use as a school, but it was not put into use.
Pendle Council successfully negotiated to buy the historic mill for £1.5 million in March 2012 thanks to a 100% grant from the government’s Homes and Communities Agency. The mill complex was then transferred to PEARL – Pendle Enterprise and Regeneration (Brierfield Mill) Ltd under an agreement to secure funding and transform the complex.
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Mission, History & Board
The School Visits Project
Teaching Opportunities in PENNY Schools
MANHATTAN COUNTRY SCHOOL
AVAILABLE VISIT DATES: Friday, 11/8
SCHOOL DESCRIPTION: Reflecting the vision of the Civil Rights Movement, Manhattan Country School teaches students in a community with no racial majority and broad economic diversity. Our goals for students are academic excellence, intellectual freedom, social awareness, self-confidence and first-hand knowledge of the natural world. MCS is unique among New York City independent schools in having a 180-acre working farm integral to the curriculum and a sliding scale for tuition. Manhattan Country School envisions its students as future leaders whose shared experiences in learning and activism inspire them to champion excellence and justice, compassion and peace, and the rights of all people to racial, economic, environmental and educational equity. At Manhattan Country School, students in pre-K through eighth grade are members of a collaborative learning community that has been a model for both progressive education and socioeconomic, racial and ethnic diversity since our founding in 1966. Whether in our New York City classrooms or at our farm in the Catskill Mountains, students participate in a robust program that fosters critical thinking, curiosity, individuality and a sense of purpose; provides a deep understanding of our multicultural world; and instills a life-long love of learning.
SCHOOL ADDRESS: 150 W 85th St, New York, NY 10024
SCHOOL CONTACT: Assistant to the Lower School Director Tiffany Tsung
To set up your visit, email or call the school contact person and indicate your date of choice.
SCHOOL CONTACT EMAIL: ttsung@manhattancountryschool.org
SCHOOL CONTACT PHONE: 212-348-0952
Request a School Visit
Requested Visit Day Requested Visit DayFriday, November 8
Back to the School Visit Program Page
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Camp Twin Lakes Makes Summers Special
For more than 25 years, Camp Twin Lakes has powered fully adaptive, medically supportive, and transformative camp experiences for children and young adults with serious illnesses, disabilities, and other life challenges. Camp Twin Lakes provides life-changing experiences at three fully accessible Georgia campsites in Rutledge, Winder, and Warm Springs, Ga. There are no other fully accessible and medically equipped camp programs in Georgia able to meet the extensive range of needs of campers. Partnering with more than 60 nonprofit organizations, each serving a different population, Camp Twin Lakes creates customized, intentional programming that teaches campers to overcome obstacles, grow in their confidence and capabilities, and experience the joys of childhood. The result is mindful, resilient, and confident children who are prepared to triumph over challenges. Annually, Camp Twin Lakes’ year-round programs serve 10,000 children, leveraging support from 3,500 volunteers. Camp Twin Lakes proudly subsidizes 70 percent of the direct camp costs ($550) for every camper served. Most campers attend camp at no cost to their families. camptwinlakes.org.
Drink With the Fishes
Save the date for October 4, 2019 for Georgia Aquarium’s 14th annual Aqua Vino food and wine social event. Sample wines from around the world and taste the best cuisine Atlanta has to offer. You won’t want to miss the amazing silent auctions and an exciting night exploring our incredible galleries! GeorgiaAquarium.org
Northside’s Top Grade
nsecutive year, Northside Hospital health care system has been recognized for having among the best hospitals in the nation for patient experience. Healthgrades, the leading online resource for information about physicians and hospitals, has announced the recipients of their 2019 Outstanding Patient Experience Award. Healthgrades analyzed 3,449 hospitals across the United States, with 434 hospitals receiving the Outstanding Patient Experience Award, representing the top 15 percent of hospitals in the nation for patient experience. The Northside Hospital health care system is one of Georgia’s leading health care providers with more than 150 locations across the state, including three acute care, state-of-the-art hospitals in Atlanta, Cherokee County and Forsyth County. Northside Hospital leads the U.S. in newborn deliveries and is among the state’s top providers of cancer care and surgical services. Northside.com
Coalition’s New Members
n Buckhead Coalition welcomes nine new members. Limiting new participation to the top area persons of major business firms, the new members are Site Centers Corp. Vice President Lauren Ball; BIP Chief Executive Officer Mark Buffington; Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial Managing Partner David Dial; Angel Oak Companies Managing Partner/Co-CEO Mike Fierman; Gilbane Building Company Vice President Jeff George; Windham Brannon President and CEO Heidi LaMarca; Reicon Capital Managing Director Forrest McClain; Kaiser Permanente Georgia President Jim Simpson, and Global Payments Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Sloan. Julie Bailey is an ex officio member for 2019 as president of the Buckhead Business Association. The founding president of the Coalition is former Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell, and the current Chairman (serving until January 2021) is Cadence Bancorporation Vice Chairman Josephs Evans. The community service organization is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary.
Wesleyan School Will Again Bus Service Throughout North Metro Area
For the fifth year, during the 2019-2020 school year, Wesleyan School will offer morning and afternoon bus services throughout the north metro Atlanta area. Routes include Brookhaven, Buckhead, Duluth, Dunwoody, Johns Creek, Roswell, Sandy Springs, Suwanee and Tucker.
To see route details, cost, and anticipated stops, visit www.wesleyanschool.org/bus.Wesleyan School is a Christian, independent K-12 college preparatory school located in Peachtree Corners, Georgia. At the start of the 2018-2019 school year, Wesleyan enrolled 1,177 students from throughout the metropolitan Atlanta area. To learn more about the school, visit Wesleyanschool.org.
Jeffrey Fashion Cares
Atlanta’s most philanthropic and fashionable affair, Jeffrey Fashion Cares, is set to celebrate 27 stylish years on August 26. The event will be held at Phipps Plaza and benefits Susan G. Komen Greater Atlanta, the Atlanta AIDS Fund (AAF) and the Medical University of South Carolina. Jeffrey Fashion Cares will kick off with a cocktail reception and dynamic silent auction followed by a high-energy live auction and the runway show featuring Kalinsky’s style selections from high-end designers. Last year’s event raised nearly $625,000. The annual event, which has become a mainstay on Atlanta’s social circuit, is founded by acclaimed retailer and arbiter of style, Jeffrey Kalinsky, who recently expanded his Atlanta store in Phipps Plaza and is now offering both men’s and women’s clothing, shoes, accessories and jewelry. Marsha Archer, President of M-Squared Public Relations, joins veteran co-chairs Lila Hertz and Louise Sams to continue Kalinksy’s mission to raise more funds and awareness. Sponsor and patron packages are currently available. A limited number of single-seat tickets will be on sale beginning July 15 www.jeffreyfashioncares.com
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Spring into March
Spring into March with six steampunk stories!
Peter Bunzl News 10/03/2018 10/03/2018 @BRGS_LRC, book review, George Kirk, Philip Pullman, Philip Reeve, Reviews, Scott Westerfeld, Sinead Ohart, Spring into March, steampunk, Vashti Hardy, vlog 1 Comment
Here’s a video I made for George Kirk – the librarian at the BGRS Learning Resource Centre – all about my six favourite steampunk stories! You can read the transcript for the chat and more about each book below!
Hello! It’s March, almost springtime! And there are a lot of springs in steampunk. So to spring into March I would like to recommend six of my favourite steampunk stories. What is steampunk I hear you ask, well, I’ll tell you… steampunk is science-fiction fantasy with a Victorian flavour. Technology wise, there’s airships, steam-vehicles, clockwork machines, and sometimes there’s also a little bit of magic! And now that we’ve cleared that up. Let’s talk about the books–
1: Northern Lights by Philip Pullman.
Northern Lights is the first part of the His Dark Materials trilogy. It’s about a girl called Lyra, who has a daemon called Pantalaimon.Pan is a fragment of Lyra’s soul in animal form, who can change shape to any creature under the sun. When Lyra’s friend Roger is kidnapped from Oxford, they set out on an adventure to find him that takes them to the frozen island of Bolvangar. They meet: gyptians, fairies, explorers, witches, evil scientists and enormous armoured polar bears!
It’s a cracking adventure, beautifully written and a classic of the genre.
Look out for the new BBC series that is based on His Dark Materials coming soon! And for the prequel series – The Book of Dust – that starts with The Belle Sauvage.
2: Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve.
A story of traction cities: armoured cities on wheels that move through the wastelands of the world eating each other up. While investigating a mystery, our heroes Tom and Hester, get pushed of the edge of London and end up in the desert. To make their way home, they must deal with traction pirates, asassin robots, and a plot to blow up the rest of the world!
It’s a story filled to the brim with action, unique ideas and quirky characters, and also the first part in a long running series.
Look out for the new movie of Mortal Engines coming in the autumn, produced by Peter Jackson!
3: Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Leviathan is set in a steampunk 1914 on the brink of the 1st world war. It’s the Clankers, with their enormous steam-powered machines vs the Darwinists with their genetically engineered flying creatures! Alex, a clanker prince heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He is running away from the men who killed his father, when he bumps into Derren a girl who’s disguised herself as a boy to join the Darwinist airforce of Great Britain. So begin their adventures together. Can they stop the looming World War?
It’s a war story unlike any other – filled with spy missions, enormous battles between flying whales and walking tanks. And is also the first part of an excellent series. Plus it has amazing illustrations!
4: The Eye of the North by Sinead O’Hart
When Emmeline’s scientist parents disappear, she finds herself on the way to a safehouse in France with an orphan boy called Thing. But she’s kidnapped before she can arrive by the evil Dr Bauer, who hopes to summon a dangerous creature from beneath the frozen North pole…
An action packed story that’s filled with so much adventure it will make your head spin! Thing is my favourite character in this one: resourceful, mouthy and brave, he rescues Emmeline as many times as she saves him!
5: Brightstorm by Vashti Hardy
Twins Arthur and Maudie receive word their father has died in an attempt to reach the South Polaris. A mysterious clue leads them to question this fact and they set out to discover the truth of what happened to his expedition…
What I like so far is: the fun world building of Lontown, and that Arthur has a bionic arm that makes him different from everyone else. Hopefully that theme develops throughout the story…
UPDATE: I finished the book. It’s a great fun younger mg steampunk adventure. Fast paced and filled with broad, bubbly characters and bright, colourful world building, with lots of different sights to see. The friendly and enjoyable writing style evoked the feel and tone of Aardman’s pirates, or a classic kids anime-manga adventure series.
6: COGHEART by me!!
Lily’s life is torn apart, when her papa, a famous inventor, disappears in an airship crash. With her friends, Robert, the clockmaker’s son, and Malkin her pet mechanical fox she set out on a journey to discover the truth of what happened to him. But first she must escape the plans of her evil governess and the machinations of a pair of silver-eyed men who are after her papa’s most famous invention: the Cogheart.
I promise you it’s an exciting and scary read, full of twist and turns that you hopefully won’t see coming!
Well, I hope you’ve enjoyed my video and that you read some of my steampunk book selection. If you do let me know what you thought of them! Goodbye and good luck, may the steam be with you! And keep reading!
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Tokyo Metropolitan & Yokohama, Japan
Duration: 30 October – 5 November 2019
Location: Tokyo Stadium & International Stadium Yokohama, Japan
Air Fare: Return economy class flights from Johannesburg, South Africa to Japan (Routing TBA)
(Airport Tax additional to tour cost – Note: Package end date is date of arrival back in SA)
Match tickets: The Final
Any and all accommodation.
Any and all ground transportation.
Any and all memorabilia and travel insurance.
Airport Taxes – From R4,500.00 per person additional to tour cost – subject to change due to rate of exchange fluctuations & fuel surcharges, passports and visa costs if applicable, admission fees into sights of interests, personal expenses such as tips for meals, gratuities, telephone calls, beverages, all meals not mentioned under inclusions and anything else of a personal nature, hotel accommodation and match ticket upgrades. Any services not mentioned.
Quote is based on a minimum of 50 full paying passengers. All Match tickets may be upgraded at an additional cost – subject to availability. Rates quoted are subject to currency fluctuations. Rates quoted are subject to change due to final confirmation of flight costs and availability. Rates quoted include JCT Tax currently at 8%. All travel packages are subject to Pure Sport Terms and Conditions in conjunction with Rugby World Cup Travel Programme Ticket Terms and Conditions available at www.puresport.co.za
TOKYO TOP 5: To make the most of your trip, we recommend the following MUST SEE, MUST DO sights.
#1 – CULTURE: Sensō-ji
Tokyo’s most visited temple enshrines a golden image of Kannon (the Buddhist goddess of mercy), which, according to legend, was miraculously pulled out of the nearby Sumida-gawa by two fisher- men in AD 628. The image has remained on the spot ever since but is never on public display. The present structure dates from 1958. Entrance to the temple complex is via the fantastic, red Kaminari-mon (Thunder Gate) and busy shopping street Nakamise-dōri.
#2 – SHOPPING: Ginza
Ginza is the affluent shopping district in Tokyo, home to the city’s posh boutiques and gleam ing department stores, such as the classic Mitsukoshi and avant-garde Dover Street Market Ginza. There’s also the new high-fashion mall, Ginza Six. But tucked in between some of the more imposing facades are simpler pleasures, like the fine crafts at Takumi, the gourmet food items at Akoymeya and the nine floors of stationery and art supplies at Itōya.
#3 – EXPERIENCE: Shibuya Crossing
Rumoured to be the busiest intersection in the world (and definitely in Japan), Shibuya Crossing, is like a giant beating heart, sending people in all directions with every pulsing light change. Perhaps nowhere else says ‘Welcome to Tokyo’ better than this. Hundreds of people – and at peak times said to be over 1000 people – cross at a time, coming from all directions. Shibuya also has wonderful shopping experience – Music shops and budget, outrageous apparel are everywhere
#4 – ATTRACTIONS: Tokyo Tower
This 1958-vintage tower remains a beloved symbol of the city’s post-WWII rebirth. At 333m it’s 13m taller than the Eiffel Tower. The main observation deck is at 145m, giving you amazing views of Tokyo. At an additional cost visit the aquarium on the 1st floor or if you are an anime fan, there is an exhibit of the show One Piece on the 3rd floor.
#5 – CUISINE: Ginza Nichigekka
A total calming experience in a spacious setting surrounded by natural elements and serving the finest home-grown ingredients, Nichigekka rises above the rest. Named after the characters for sun, moon and fire, Nichigekka draws on the passion in their name to give diners the best food, a warm welcoming atmosphere, and hospitality in the chic and modern Ginza area. Experience traditional Japanese cuisine at its’ best.
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News | 24 Oct 2017 11:39 | By RnMTeam
Priscilla Presley denies quitting Scientology
MUMBAI: Actress and former wife of the late American singer Elvis Presley, Priscilla Presley has not quit the Church of Scientology, despite reports that she has had enough of the religion.
Representatives for Priscilla have confirmed that she has not quit Scientology, reports people.com.
Priscilla is believed to have been a member of the church since Elvis' death in 1977 and she raised their daughter Lisa-Marie in it.
However, there have been unconfirmed reports in recent years that Lisa-Marie has quit, although she has never commented publicly on it.
High profile church members include celebrities like Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley, while Leah Remini has been an outspoken critic of the religion since defecting three years ago.
(Source: IANS)
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Estate of Michael Jackson and Sylvester Stewart
MUMBAI: The Estate of Michael Jackson/MIJAC Music has reached agreement with Sylvester Stewart to acquire a majority ownership of the U.S. rights to the Sly and the Family Stone catalog and, as part of the arrangement, will retain long-term administration rights.
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Elton John calls Michael Jackson 'mentally ill'!
MUMBAI: Legendary singer Elton John has called late pop icon Michael Jackson ‘mentally ill’ in his upcoming memoir.In the memoir titled, ‘Me’, Elton John also described MJ's company disturbing, reports "dailymail.co.uk".
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The Betty Ford Story
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The Times of My Life
by Betty Ford
Chris Chase
Karen Hall
Josef Sommer
Nan Woods
Arthur B. Rubinstein
Robert Papazian
Mark Wolper
Dennis Dalzell
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Parkie L. Singh
David L. Wolper Productions
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The Betty Ford Story is a 1987 television film directed by David Greene and written by Karen Hall. This biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life written by Chris Chase and Betty Ford. The film originally aired on ABC.
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Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special (Gena Rowlands, won)
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Infrastructure Space
Ilka & Andreas Ruby (editors)
Infrastructure Space is a collection of 25 essays inspired by the 5th LafargeHolcim Forum for Sustainable Construction on the theme of “Infrastructure Space” held in Detroit, USA in April 2016.
Is infrastructure but the plumbing and wiring of the human environment, or is it the true lifeblood of the spaces we inhabit? Infrastructural systems facilitate the flow of anything from people and goods to resources and information. While engineered to perform specific tasks, such networks also determine the structure of buildings, cities, and metropolitan regions, if not of entire nations and the planet itself.
Taking this critical leverage in consideration, this book calls for expanding and renegotiating the roles of infrastructure not only as a technical, but also as a political, economic, social, and even aesthetic matter of concern for all, claimed not only as the means for achieving more resilient forms of development, but moreover as a right to a sustainable way of life.
Kathy Velikov and Geoffrey Thün contribute "The Production of Territory", and "Territorial Infrastructures" to this volume. Twenty-five essays – by architects, engineers, urban theorists and policy-makers – address infrastructure as ‘thing’, ‘networked system’ and ‘agency’ respectively in three chapters, which are periodically interspersed by a visual atlas of examples, that playfully celebrate infrastructure through the lens of its spatial qualities.
Copies of Infrastructure Space are available via Ruby Press Our contribution is available as:
PDF copy for Download
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2010 National SCRABBLE Championship
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The 2010 National SCRABBLE® Championship (NSC) will take place on August 7–11, 2010 at the Hotel InterContinental Dallas at 15201 Dallas Parkway in Addison, TX.
This page will be updated frequently before the championship. You can see what has changed recently by clicking on the “history” tab above.
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Online registration will be available on March 15th, 2010.
To play in the NSC, you must (1) be a NASPA member, and (2) have played in an officially sanctioned SCRABBLE tournament to earn an official tournament rating. If you live in the United States or Canada, that rating should be a NASPA rating; if you live elsewhere it may be a WESPA rating or other comparable national rating.
Registration closes on July 21st, 2010. After that date:
registrations will be accepted after that date only in order to make divisions even, and will incur a $75 surcharge
no requests for division changes will be accepted, except to make divisions even
no refunds will be issued
By registering for the NSC, you agree to abide by the NASPA Tournament Rules and Code of Conduct. In particular, some games at this tournament, probably the highest Division 1 board without a Gibsonized player, will be annotated live. If you refuse to play a designated game with annotation, you will forfeit it, and may at the director’s discretion be assigned a spread penalty of −200 points.
A Minor Release and Consent form can be downloaded for players who have not reached the legal age of majority. It can be mailed with your registration or alone if you have paid online to Chris Cree. Alternatively, it can be signed by the accompanying parent or guardian at the NSC in Addison (Dallas).
Before you register, please read our player bulletin, and check it again for last-minute updates before you travel to the event.
This year’s Championship has five divisions, split at ratings of 1700, 1500, 1300 and 1000. Entry fees are $175 for Division 1 and $150 for Divisions 2–5. Unlimited play up will be permitted: anyone can play in Division 1, but for example only players rated below 1000 can play in Division 5. As in past years, a peak rating system will be used to calculate the qualifying rating (QR) that determines the lowest division in which you can play. If your current rating at time of registration would place you in a lower division than your QR, then you may register in either your QR division or the next lower division. Ratings earned at any segment of a split-rated tournament count toward the QR. The qualification period began immediately after the 2009 NSC and ends on July 14th, 2009 (after the results from the past weekend are tabulated). You may change your division after you register, as long as you do so before July 21st; to do so, contact John Chew. If your QR rises above the limit for your division, you will automatically be moved to the lowest division for which you qualify.
Here is an overview of events at the championship. For full details, please consult the 2010 NSC Schedule.
Registration, Staff Early Bird Tournament, Staff Dinner
Rounds 8–14, Director Meeting, Advisory Board Meeting
Rounds 15–21, Steering Committee luncheon, Town Hall meeting
Rounds 22–28
Rounds 29–31, Prize Ceremony
Friday, August 13 – Monday, August 16, 2010
2010 World Players Championship
First place in Division 1 will be $10,000. The formula to be used in determining the rest of the prizes will be posted here later.
The NSC will be paired using tsh along the lines of past events. In each round, the top contenders are paired with each other, and everyone else is paired Swiss. These two groups, contenders and noncontenders, are paired with minimal repeats. For example, if there is no way to pair the contenders without at least one repeat, then they will be paired with one repeat.
The maximum number of contenders is 12 in Rounds 1-28, 8 in Round 29, 4 in Round 30 and 2 in Round 31. The contenders are further divided into a subgroup of leaders and non-leaders, if this can be done without increasing the number of required repeats while maintaining at least four players among the leaders. Leaders are paired by repeatedly having the top unpaired player play the lowest-ranked player that can catch up to them. Non-leaders are paired Swiss.
For further information about this pairing system, please refer to the section on Chew pairings in the tsh documentation. tsh configuration files for each division will be found at this website: Division 1, Division 2, Division 3, Division 4 and Division 5.
Chris Cree
Division leaders
Division 1: John Robertson
Division 2: Bryan Pepper
Division 3: Dallas Johnson
Division 4: Judy Newhouse
Division 5: Dan Stock
Division assistants
Division 1:
Division 2: Lynn Sneed
Division 5: Amy Krafchick
Internet reporter
Sherrie Saint John
Dee Segrest
The Town of Addison is located in the northern suburbs of Dallas, approximately 13 miles from the downtown area. Addison is regional business, shopping, and dining hub; it has several shopping centers, over 150 restaurants and one of the busiest general aviation airports in the country.
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Hotel InterContinental Dallas offers both the meeting space and accommodations. The hotel is a member of the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) chain. When booking online, please use this link to obtain our group rate of US$129/night (plus taxes, for single or double accommodation). The rate is available for three days before and after the NSC and WPC, and includes complimentary Internet in guest rooms and playing rooms, and complimentary parking.
Tournament organizers negotiate fees for the use of playing rooms based on meeting guest night quotas. When you stay at the host hotel, you help support the NSC by helping us meet our quota. You may opt not do so by paying a facility fee instead when you register for our championship.
ADDISON TX 75001-4609
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Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW): 20 mi
American Airlines (main hub)
most major airlines
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The nearest Greyhound terminal is in downtown Dallas (the Greyhound building across the street has corporate offices but no bus terminal).
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Joe O'Cearuill
Joe O'Cearuill's playing record
Joe O'Cearuill's full debut
26.05.2007 at 21:00 Friendly A Bolivia 1 - 1
Last 10 games where Joe O'Cearuill started | Show All
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Where city meets country
Our Guthrie Gardens development is a magnificent B Listed building on the south side of Edinburgh in Liberton. Designed by AG Sidney Mitchell in 1885 after being commissioned by Dr Thomas Guthrie, the preacher and philanthropist who founded the Ragged School movement, providing food, clothing and education for poor children.
Square and Crescent are now sensitively converting the building back into residential use to provide 30 spectacular and spacious apartments. There are 1,2 and 3 bedroom apartments available ranging from 800 to 1,500 sqft, with both private and communal gardens and all with private parking. Units are now available to reserve with prices starting from £320,000.
Visit: www.guthriegardens.co.uk
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Nosferatu (1922)
Denn die Toten reiten schnell
Like Metropolis Nosferatu is a pioneer of early Cinema taking the 1897 novel Dracula and adapting it for the silent screen. Permission was not forthcoming to do this so they simply changed some names and locations, Apple would have had a field day.
I loved Metropolis and generally champion early pioneering cinema, as a horror fan I fully expected to love Nosferatu. Did I? The complicated answer is that it has took me 4 days and 3 sessions to watch this. Yes I have given up on this 1hr30 mins film twice.
Sorry to all fans of Nosferatu but if you can point out anything other then the creature of Count Riptoff or the use of shadows to champion this film then I will be surprised. It is dull, overly long, takes a brilliant story and boils it down to … nothing. The acting is horrific with every character seemingly insane and obsessed with facial hair, sets look as if they were knocked up by the second assistant carpenter for a Christmas display and did I mention the awful plot?
This may have been the first stab at Dracula but I don't for a second believe it to be the classic it is toted to be. This is certainly not in the same league as Metropolis, I am not even sure its playing the same game?
In 1922 a shameless attempt was made to rip of the success of the novel Dracula, it was badly done and has gained undeserved cult status.
Preserve this trash for posterity but don't bother watching it.
Paul out…
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The spark era: the beginning of radio - April 2010
Publisher's Letter: The Federal Government's insulation scheme is a tragedy
Feature: 3D TV Is Here At Last! by Kevin Poulter
Feature: FAQs On The Web Server In A Box (WIB) by Mauro Grassi
Project: Capacitor Leakage Adaptor For DMMs by Jim Rowe
Project: A 1000:1 EHT Probe by Jim Rowe
Project: Arduino-Compatible I/O Controller by Greg Radion and Ross Tester
Review: PICOTEST M3510A 6½-Digit Multimeter by Nicholas Vinen
Project: Digital Audio Signal Generator, Pt.2 by Nicholas Vinen
Vintage Radio: The spark era: the beginning of radio by Rodney Champness
You can view 18 of the 104 pages in the full issue and the advertisments.
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Vintage Radio By RODNEY CHAMPNESS, VK3UG The spark era - the beginning of radio A T THE TURN of the 20th century, radio or “wireless” (as it was known in those days) was very much in its infancy. Valves had not yet made their appearance and spark transmitters were the only transmitter format in existence. Receivers started out with “solid state” detectors, coherers, galena crystal detectors and many other detectors of varying efficiency and ease (or was it difficulty?) of adjustment. Wireless in the early 1900s was mostly used between ships and between ships and land stations. It was remarkable that in those early days, the receivers had no amplifiers at all and relied on the efficiency of the antenna, their tuned circuits and an earth to pick up signals. By using relatively high-powered spark transmitters, it was possible to receive signals hundreds and sometimes thousands of kilometres away. If we were to connect a modern crystal set to a big antenna and an efficient earth like they did back in the early 1900s, we would obtain similar results. I know of a listener in Rockhampton who has listened to Radio Australia from Shepparton with a crystal set on 9MHz. The effective radiated power in that direction is of the order of five megawatts (5MW). Spark era equipment The turn of the 20th century marked the birth of radio but the techniques used were very different from the techniques of today (or even 20 years later). It was the beginning of the “spark era”, with crude transmitters that relied on spark gaps and equally crude receivers. 92 Silicon Chip It is not often that you see genuine or even replica wireless equipment from the spark era. However, when I attended the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Historical Radio Society of Australia (HRSA), I came upon a display of just such equipment by Ian Johnston. Many collectors have very early crystal sets using galena crystals but few have equipment that pre-dates the common use of this type of detector in receivers. Spark era equipment is a rarity and this article cannot seriously attempt to present anything other than a brief overview of this early radio gear and siliconchip.com.au A low-power spark gap transmitter from the early 1900s. The technology was crude by today’s standards but signals from high-power transmitters could be received hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of kilometres away. its usage. Spark era equipment is very different to the equipment that came later and radio technology had been completely transformed by the 1920s! Basically, the 20-30 year time frame from the turn of the century saw enormous technological advances in radio, some of it driven by the needs of World War 1. Technology drove advances back then just as it does today. Fundamental differences During the spark era, diode and triode valves began appearing before World War 1. However, they were expensive, gave inconsistent results, were unreliable and had a short life. As a result, many believed they could not take those “new-fangled” valves seriously as by this time spark equipment was relatively reliable and was achieving consistent results. There was also considerable resistance to the introduction of this “new” technology given that spark wireless technology was such a recent development and had become well established. However, history was to quickly prove them wrong – spark technology was destined to rule only from the time of Marconi’s early experiments around 1894 to about the end of World War 1. After that, thermionic valve technology took over in just a few years. Even so, it’s interesting to note that the Marconi School of Wireless in Melbourne still had a working marine spark transmitter (used for training purposes) as late as 1963. Unlike spark transmitters, valvetype transmitters produce coherent signals, ie, signals which are on one frequency (the carrier wave). With modulation (eg, voice or music), the total amount of spectrum space occupied by a properly-adjusted transmitter is twice the highest audio frequency being transmitted. For example, if the highest audio frequency is 10kHz, then the total frequency bandwidth is 20kHz. By contrast, spark transmitters Kevin Poulter To Contribute For some time now, Kevin Poulter has been contributing to this column with his “Set Of The Month” panel. Recently, he has also agreed to write some Vintage Radio columns and these will begin appearing under his name in future issues. Kevin is an active committee member of the Historical Radio Society of Australia (HRSA), has a keen interest in vintage radios and will be writing on a number of interesting topics. siliconchip.com.au This rather strange looking device is all that remains of an old quenched spark gap transmitter. April 2010 93 Reproduced from The Electrical Experimenter (circa 1916), this page illustrates some 15 different devices that had been developed by the middle of WW1 to detect radio signals. Of these, the galena detector was widely used in crystal sets until germanium diodes became available. (particularly the early ones) were wide-band, with non-coherent transmissions on almost all frequencies. The spark transmitter at the Marconi School of Wireless could be heard up to 13MHz, although its assigned frequency was 500kHz. Is it any wonder that spark transmitters were eventually banned? Initially, spark transmitters had an untuned antenna connected to one side of a spark gap and the other to earth. There was no tuning. However, as spark transmitter technology matured and tuning circuits were 94 Silicon Chip added, the amount of spectrum used did contract. Radio signal detectors Reproduced with this article are a couple of pages of a publication called “The Electrical Experimenter” from around 1916. One page quite intrigued me and was titled “Radio Detector Development”. It shows 15 different devices that can be used to detect radio signals. Some of these we are familiar with and some we’ve probably never even heard of. One such device, called a “Micrometer Spark Gap”, was used to detect and adjust the operation of a spark transmitter at close range. The galena detector is much more widely known and was used in crystal sets until fixed-point contact germanium diodes became available. It was fiddly to adjust for a consistent, reliable signal which is why it was quickly superseded. One that is really intriguing is the silicon detector. In its refined format today, it is the silicon signal diode such as a 1N4148. So a silicon diode was in use even 100 years ago! Another detector that was commonly used in that era was the “coherer”. The coherer usually had iron filings loosely filling a small space between two terminals. At rest, it exhibited quite a high resistance between the two terminals. However, once a signal was detected, the resistance of the iron filings decreased dramatically as they “cohered” or aligned. The device then became useless as a detector when this occurred, so to get it back to its original state, a small device actuated by the change in resistance “tapped” the tube. This “de-cohered” the filings and reset the detector for the next Morse symbol dot or dash. Naturally, this type of detector was only suitable for Morse code signals and was useless for radio signals. The very early Fleming and Audion valves are also shown on the Radio Detector Development page. In fact, Edwin Armstrong developed the regenerative detector using the Audion and similar triodes. The regenerative detector held sway for many years as the preferred detector due to its extreme sensitivity compared to previous types of detectors. A variety of other detectors including a magnetic detector, a peroxide of lead detector, an electrolytic barepoint detector, an electrolytic sealedin detector, a Fessenden barretter, a carborundum detector and a perikon detector are also shown. During WWII, POWs even used rusty razor blades as radio signal detectors. Spark transmitters A variety of spark equipment is shown in the pictures I took at the 25th Anniversary HRSA display. The examples shown are all very early lowpower transmitters and are similar to those commonly shown in museums, siliconchip.com.au either as replicas or genuine original transmitters. Most of these devices are the types used by early experimenters. As spark transmitters transmit on a very wide spread of frequencies, very little energy is transmitted on a single frequency (unlike valve transmitters). This reduced the available energy on the intended transmitting frequency, so the effectiveness of spark transmitters compared to valve transmitters was quite low. This meant that the transmitting range of low-powered units would not have been great – possibly only a few kilometres at most. In addition, the frequencies used in the medium-frequency range from around 300kHz to 1500kHz require large antenna/earth systems if reasonable efficiency is to be achieved. On small suburban blocks, the radiating efficiency was probably not more than 2-5%. By contrast, the commercial transmitting sites that were used to contact ships had huge antennas and often had their own power station to provide power to the transmitter. Some of these stations required input powers of 100kW or more. The voltages used on the transmitters were also extremely high, often up around 10,000V. Have you ever wondered why early Morse keys had a round bakelite disc underneath the knob on the key? In most cases, it was there to prevent the operator from being electrocuted should his fingers slip off the key’s knob. Of course, the voltage across the key was much less than 10,000V but it was high enough for a careless operator to receive a lethal shock. Occupational health and safety concerns were not very high on the list in those days. An early Morse key as used on land telegraph services (possibly the Overland Telegraph between Darwin and Adelaide). increased range, thereby making radio communications much more effective and economic. Spark gap design The original spark transmitters simply produced a continuous spark across the spark gap for as long as the Morse key was pressed. This produced a “raspy” sound which sounded much the same from the receiver. If the spark was fed with mains power, it would also have a 100Hz or 120Hz audio component (depending on the mains frequency) in the signal. A few years after the development of the continuous-arc transmitter, the rotary spark gap transmitter was introduced. An example rotary spark gap is shown in the bottom righthand corner of the catalog page of the Manhattan Electrical Supply Company. In this case, the mechanism consists of a number of studs with gaps between them. The system is somewhat like the distributor of a car – when the gap is small the spark jumps the gap and when it is larger, the spark is extinguished. In operation, the distance between the points making the spark gap varies as the moving gap electrode is rotated by an electric motor. This means that the spark transmission will have a tone that relates directly to the number of times that the spark is made and extinguished each second. This tone can be quite musical – or as musical as a spark transmission can be! The tone would have been in the hundreds of hertz, which is easily detected by both our ears and the headphones in use at the time. Interrupting the spark at quite a high rate and reducing the mark-space ratio (ie, the overall time that the spark oper- Tuning up In 1900, Marconi took out a patent for “Tuned or Syntonic Telegraphy”. This invention introduced tuned circuits to radio technology and meant that a wireless set (radio) could be tuned to a particular frequency, just as is done today. By using tuned circuits and further improving the designs, the effective output power from spark transmitters was increased dramatically. In addition, the ability of the receivers to detect weak signals was greatly enhanced. This in turn meant greatly siliconchip.com.au A galena crystal detector, as used in early crystal sets. They were fiddly to adjust to achieve a consistent, reliable signal. April 2010 95 A spark-gap era dual-detector receiver system as used by the Royal Australian Navy. ated) lowered the operating power. As a result, rotary spark transmitters were more effective and more efficient than earlier spark transmitters. Spark gap erosion Also reproduced from The Electrical Experimenter, this page shows some of the equipment that was available during the spark era. Note the rotary spark gap transmitter at bottom right. There was considerable erosion of the gap points in both the original continuous and the later rotary spark transmitters. This problem was overcome with the development of the quenched spark gap transmitter. In this device, the rotary gap was enclosed in a sealed chamber. After a short period of use from new, the oxygen in this sealed container was all used up and little erosion of the points then took place. Other than that, the quenched spark transmitter was similar in concept to the rotary gap spark transmitter. There may have been other more sophisti- Buffer Capacitors In Vibrator Power Supplies In a column several months ago, I suggested that polyester capacitors could be used to replace the original buffer capacitors in vibrator-type power supplies. However, since then, a reader has pointed out that due to the severe pulse nature of the waveform, the foil inside such capacitors would separate into bits and pieces. As a result, the capacitor would become ineffective, with subsequent damage to the supply. The solution is to use polypropylene 96 Silicon Chip cap acitors designed for pulse circuits, such as those around the horizontal output stages of CRT TV receivers. These capacitors are readily available from WES Components of Ashfield, NSW. They have quite a large inventory of parts, many of which can be used in vintage radios. They even have a selection of valves, although most of these are for audio amplifiers. By the way, when readers ask for information, I will assist if I can but please keep the queries short and to the point. I simply do not have the time to engage in lengthy research or write lengthy, detailed answers (unless I can turn the query into an article). When it comes to identifying an old radio, I need to have more information than just a hazy photograph of the unit. If you can, it helps if there are details on the valve line-up, any identifying numbers on the chassis and the manufacturer. Clear photographs of the chassis (both top and bottom) are also handy. siliconchip.com.au Photo Gallery: Philips Radioplayer 124 cated spark transmitting techniques developed later on but I’m not aware of any. Finding out more Although our knowledge of the valve and transistor eras is quite extensive, the spark era is almost unknown and I for one would like to know more. Unfortunately, old spark era equipment is almost impossible to obtain but there are bits and pieces around as can be seen in the photographs included with this article. Old wireless books up to around 1925 will have information on spark transmitters and these should be grabbed before they are destroyed. The information in these will often be limited though, as a lot of the work was done by enthusiasts and experimenters in those days and is undocumented. Ian Johnston is one of the few people around today who know much about spark era equipment and he was kind enough to allow me to view and photograph much of his equipment, as well as providing sources of information. If you would like to hear what a spark transmitter sounded like, try this website: www.physics.otago.ac.nz/ ursi/belrose/sparkx2.AIFF Finally, further information on the spark era is available on www.rod. beavon.clara.net/spark.htm. Peter Jensen’s book “In Marconi’s Footsteps” is worth looking at too if you can find SC a copy. siliconchip.com.au M ANUFACTURED around 1950, the Philips Radioplayer 124 was a 5-valve mantel set in a Bakelite cabinet. It employed a fairly standard superhet circuit with 455kHz IF stages and covered both the broadcast band from 530-1620kHz and the shortwave bands from 5.9-18.4MHz. The valve line-up was as follows: 6AN7 frequency converter, 6N8 IF amplifier, 6N8 detector plus AGC & first audio stage, 6M5 audio output stage and a 6X5GT rectifier. In this set, the speaker transformer laminations are connected to the HT (B+) line but the unit was normally rendered safe by the transformer core being pitch-encapsulated inside the housing. The above photos show an unrestored unit. April 2010 97
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The Slow Death of Netflix
By Shamus Posted Monday Jun 18, 2012
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So I’m watching the latest Errant Signal, which is about Max Payne 3. During the vid, Chris mentions Man On Fire. I’ve never seen that movie, but I do remember wanting to check it out at some point.
I hop over to Netflix and do a search…
Not available for streaming.
Hmph. Lame. The movie came out eight years ago. What are you guys waiting for?
But this movie reminds me of another one I’d wanted to see, Book of Eli. I’ve heard it’s not very good, but I’m willing to give it a go just to see Denzel do his thing.
Fine. Whatever. Miami Vice is also cited as an obvious influence for Max Payne 3. I should give that a look. I was a teen in the 80’s, and some retro-kitsch might be fun.
The last movie Chris cites is Domino. That’s seven years old so…
Come on. Well, I’ve got the Netflix window open. Let’s see if I can find something. I really wanted to see Inglourious Basterds when it came out. It’s only three years old but it might-
X-Men First Class?
Okay. That one was only a year old and I admit it was a bit of a longshot. Inception?
I need to go back further. At least 2 or 3 years. How about Repo Men? Clash of the Titans?
Strangely enough, Netflix has Iron Man 2. It’s a really good movie, but I’ve already seen it three or four times, mostly due to the fact that it’s one of the few titles on Netflix that I want to see. I really am in the mood for something new right now.
Heck, I’ll even watch something purportedly crappy, like The Losers. Or maybe something only partly interesting to me, like Splice.
This is ridiculous.
Speaking of 80’s kitsch, how about The A-Team? Might be fun to see Liam Neeson try to carry ninety minutes of dumb action schlock all by himself.
I’m going to hate myself for asking but… Ghost Rider?
Oh! But that makes me think of Nick Cage’s Bad Lieutenant. I know I saw that on Netflix at one point. MovieBob even said it was worth a look.
So I guess they REMOVED that one?
I want to stress that I’m not cherry-picking here. I really am looking for a movie and I really am getting bupkis for every single attempt. There are good movies here, but not many, and I’ve pretty much seen them all by this point.
I’ll go for a couple of weeks without checking Netflix. Then when I come back I’ll check out the “what’s new” lineup and find it almost unchanged. As far as I can tell, their library of streaming content is shrinking. They are pulling movies faster than they’re adding them. (At least if we’re talking real movies. They have a double helping of crappy B-movie schlock and abominable title-knockoffs like “Transmorphers“. Ugh. Maybe the total supply of long-tail crud is expanding, but the supply of recognizable movies with recognizable stars seems to be dwindling.)
As someone pointed out on Twitter, Netflix does have a good supply of oddball indie flicks and experimental stuff. Most of those are about dysfunctional urban twenty-somethings struggling against utterly banal and infantile problems, most of which are their own doing. I didn’t even like that stuff when I was a twenty-something myself. What I really dig is Sci-fi, and there is very little “indie sci-fi” in the world, and I’ve already picked over what little exists on Netflix. Protip: Moon is a darn good movie if you like your sci-fi slow and thinky. I watched it last year on Netflix, although I see it’s gone now.
I know, I know. Broaden my horizons and all that. I’m sure there are good movies in other genres. The problems with finding them is this:
“Heather” in this case is the name Netflix has for my entire family. My son is really into Mythbusters. My daughters are into laugh-track faux-comedy like Wizards of Waverly Place, iCarly, and Ned’s Declassified Not-funny Show. They also watch a lot of Inspector Poirot, Mrs. Marple, and Dr. Who with their mother. When she’s watching without the kids, my wife is into Korean dramas. (She likes how Korean shows have a fixed arc, like Anime, and don’t just introduce a premise and beat it into the ground like American shows do.) All of them watch varying genres of Anime.
And then once every couple of weeks I show up and try to watch something with superheros, space aliens, kung-fu, or people shooting each other. Because I’m all about the peace and love.
The upshot is that Netflix insists on treating the five of us as a single person, which is a stupid and impossible task.
(And before you tell me about sub-accounts: I don’t think sub-accounts work with streaming content, only discs. More importantly, logging in and out of sub-accounts is very inconvenient and tedious, particularly on the Wii. For a lot of reasons, sub-accounts aren’t really useful to us, and the only benefit they would offer is that they would make Netflix less stupid about suggesting and rating things for us. I don’t want Netflix to suggest or rate things for me. I can do my own thinking, thank you, as long as I can get to the information.)
Netflix provides a rating based on what Netflix THINKS our gestalt viewer would THINK of the movie. This is a computer making a guess about the subjective preferences of someone who doesn’t exist. That might as well be a random number. The more interesting and useful number – the one that describes what everyone else in the world thought of the movie – is only available if I click through. This slows down my search, which is already slow enough because of how little information Netflix packs on screen.
That’s a good browsing system for on the Wii, but when I’m browsing on my PC that’s a ridiculous waste of screen space.
The point is, two years ago I could enter the name of a two-year-old movie and have a better than even chance of finding it available for instant view. Now the library feels empty and it’s a pain in the ass to dig around to find something worthwhile that I might have overlooked. I usually get bored after ten minutes of this and go back to playing videogames.
I know most of this problem is caused by the fact that movie studios are pulling their stuff from Netflix because they don’t want to share all those sweet-sweet royalties with Netflix. So instead of making a small percent of my monthly subscription fee, they are now making 100% of… nothing.
I know there’s Amazon movie-watch service thing. But that doesn’t work on the XBox 360 or the Wii. Hulu works, but that’s mostly TV shows and I never want to watch TV shows. Also, I don’t like paying for individual titles unless I’m almost sure I’m going to like it. With Netflix, I paid a flat fee and was able to sample things until I found something I liked. Is a movie slow? Boring? Preachy? Stupid? No problem. I can just hit the back button and try again. This is less attractive if every movie costs me $4 and I have to watch it in a fixed timeframe. Also, we already have Hulu and Netflix. I’m not interested in making a bunch more accounts and paying a bunch more monthly fees just to chase down all this scattered content. This would be like if, when television was rising to replace the radio as the dominant form of entertainment, TV stations suddenly pulled the plug and announced their shows were all going to be on their own proprietary brand of television.
This is much less about price than it is about convenience. Scrupulous people like me are just going without. Everyone else is routing around this stupidity with torrents. I’m looking forward to the point where some of the mummified old-media relics retire and movie studios are run by people who have used the internet. I have money to spend and movies I want to see, but there’s only so much hassle I’m willing to endure to make this transaction happen.
I really thought Netflix was going to be the Wal-Mart of digital movies. But then the studios pulled their wares from the shelves so they could sell stuff out of their garage. I’m sure they’re sitting in the front yard now, scowling at the lack of customers and cursing those danged pirates for ruining everything.
Have fun, morons. In the meantime, I’ll be playing videogames.
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349 thoughts on “The Slow Death of Netflix”
Infinitron says:
Monday Jun 18, 2012 at 5:37 am
Iron Man 2 sucked, easily the worst Marvel Cinematic Universe movie.
Shamus says:
Daredevil? The first Hulk movie? The Fantastic Four? Spider-Man 3? Ghost Rider? The Punisher?
I dunno. “Worst” seems a bit hasty.
EDIT: I see. We’re talking about the movies made by Marvel, not the ones outsourced to other studios. Which means so far we’re mostly talking about the ones that feed into The Avengers.
I can see calling that one the worst. Although, I think it’s pretty cool that the worst Marvel movie is better than a majority of the outsourced movies. One lame one and five good ones? That’s a lot better than one or two good ones for every five lame ones.
Really glad Marvel is doing these themselves now. I’d even argue they’re better at making movies than at making comic books.
Raynooo says:
Ugh don’t even remind me of the first Hulk…
Daredevil was on french TV a couple days ago, it looked like a cheap straight to DVD movie.
Iron Man 2 was at least really entertaining (though they seem to have gone mad with tan spray in this one, or was that a joke I didn’t get ?).
Klay F. says:
Tuesday Jun 19, 2012 at 2:16 am
That wasn’t a joke, that was someone in the effects department huffing paint and deciding the whole movie needed Digital Color Correction. If your eyes distinguish colors easily, it makes most Hollywood films mostly unwatchable.
krellen says:
Monday Jun 18, 2012 at 10:05 am
I would argue that Iron Man II was an entirely average movie. It only looks bad when compared to the rest of the MCU; compared to the rest of cinema, it holds up pretty respectfully.
Monday Jun 18, 2012 at 12:42 pm
I have to agree with this. It might not have been as good as Iron Man 1, Captain America, Thor or The Avengers, but it did NOT suck. :p
W.D. Conine says:
Tuesday Jun 19, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Some days, I’m sure if I’m crazy or I just have really different tastes but I like the first Hulk movie, love the Director’s Cut of Daredevil, and I adore The Punisher, even despite the core of the film nearly forming an antithesis to what the comic book Punisher was.
However, on the upside, I do agree that Ghost Rider, Spiderman 3, and Fantastic Four are all pretty bad. Fantastic Four, particularly, was atrocious. And I even really like Iron Man 2, more so than Captain America.
Soylent Dave says:
Sunday Jul 1, 2012 at 3:57 pm
I really liked the bit of Daredevil when he was still a kid.
When he became Ben Affleck it got really ordinary (I like Michael Clark Duncan as well, actually – but he couldn’t carry the film by himself, except in a literal “he is massive so he probably could actually carry it” way)
I had seen Iron Man, and my wife and I had both seen Thor, and then we watched the Avengers together. She loved it enough to want to go see it a second time(something that almost never happens). But first, we had to go back and watch all of the other movies leading into it.
I’d have to say, Iron Man 2 was definitely not the best of them. I was reminded of Mission Impossible 2, where they storyboarded all of the action scenes first, and then wrote the plot around those action scenes.
That’s the only reason I can think of for stuff like when he has his notary step into a boxing ring with his 250 lb bodyguard, why he decides to start driving a car in a race at the last minute, or why his normally calm and reserved army buddy decides to start a full on battle in Stark’s house to beat some sense in him. It doesn’t matter why we’re doing this, it’s just a cool scene you see and we had to have it happen!
False Prophecy says:
Iron Man 2 was trying to continue some kind of character development arc for Tony, while allowing for a high-action plot, and setting things up for the Avengers, and it just couldn’t keep it all together. Half those plotlines should have been scuttled or at least tied together better. The “I’m dying” plotline could have been tied into Whiplash’s “If you could make God bleed” threat, and maybe Tony could be thinking about his legacy–either who will take over the reins of Iron Man after he’s gone, or possibly coming to terms with the darker parts of his father’s legacy as weapons merchant. But both these plotlines just seem wasted in this film.
Although, I don’t get the people who hated Justin Hammer. I thought he was the best part of the film! Sam Rockwell obviously played him as someone trying really hard to be Tony Stark–copying his style, dating a woman Tony slept with, trying to be as flashy in his presentations. Just a brilliant performance.
Monday Jun 18, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Yeah, the villains were the best part of the film. I kept wishing for another scene with them.
“who will take over the reins of Iron Man after he's gone”
I kinda felt like he was thinking about that. He just wasn’t saying it out loud and making it really obvious.
Tesh says:
Indeed. That was made fairly clear when Fury called him on letting Rhodes take the other suit of armor. Heck, half the battle scene seemed like Stark putting Rhodes through the paces with the suit.
I didn’t think of it like that, but that’s a really good explanation for it. The whole I’m dying bit was especially pointless because they used an Ass Pull to cure it at the end.
As far as Justin Hammer, the character wasn’t any more ridiculous than Jeff Bridge’s character. I just felt it was a little silly for the #2 weapons manufacturer in the U.S. to make nothing but duds.
Bear says:
Damnit! Diverted by TVtropes, again.
There needs to be warnings around those links.
kmc says:
I’m just mad they have Iron Man 2 but not Iron Man. What the crap? Yeah, I hate it that Netflix–which absolutely has the best model (for me, anyway)–is just fading into irrelevancy.
Jack V says:
Is Iron Man on the list? I thought Iron Man II was mixed (I agree the other Avengers films are better, and several other superhero films are worse), but I thought it was better than Iron Man I, simply because something seemed to happen! :)
I remember liking the relationships between Pepper and Tony a lot in the second one. I think the advantage of 1 was that it was really new and fresh to have a hero like Downey (why is it, I feel compelled to write his full name, even the junior?) played Iron Man. I haven’t seen Captain America but I can’t think of a single MCU film that completely blew me from the plot. They’ve mainly been weak plots faily good action and excellent humour and characters (though not character _arcs_ apart from the Hulks in The Avengers, which was mindblowingly good and maybe Loki in Thor)
Aldowyn says:
I didn’t actually see the Incredible Hulk, but apparently he already went through that character arc in that movie and just kinda did it again in Avengers, so…
I personally liked Iron Man 1 better than the second for some reason. It seemed more consistent somehow.
Loki was definitely cool though :D
The villain was better in 1 and as an origin story it didn’t have to put so much stress on the plot as 2 did.
Also I hadn’t seen the Incredible Hulk and I’m really sad that the best part about the Avengers might not work in continuity :(
Peter H. Coffin says:
Essentially, Iron Man benefited from simply having less going on in it, fewer angles that needed attention, etc. There were enough storylines and material in II to fill out six to eight hours of screen time to handle properly, or maybe two three-hour films.
Dev Null says:
Not the best of the lot I’ll grant you, but it was glorious eye-candy compared to Thor. The entire plot of that movie was “Ancient Norse god goes to earth and is confused by modern American society. Then he fights stuff.”
And frankly, if the entire plot had been “Thor fights stuff” it would have vastly improved the film. The hackneyed attempts at humor just ruined the mood and the pacing.
You’re ignoring Loki’s development, which was way more interesting than Thor’s.
I wonder how long it’s going to be before Hemsworth does something that’s not fantasy…
Although I feel like Loki is so good it causes problems. Because I want Loki to win. I’m really hoping Marvel has an arc for him where he finishes up good one or two films down the line(and not caving into the others either, but something he does for himself), it was sad to see he’d only got worse in the time between Thor and the Avengers
I agree… Loki is in many ways a much better choice as a king than Thor is.
David Armstrong says:
When Thor walked into the pet store and demanded a horse, I nearly died laughing.
Yes, those moments were obviously shoehorned in for comic relief, but damn they worked. It was great :)
Kavonde says:
Wednesday Jun 20, 2012 at 4:32 pm
Seconded! And that bit with the coffee mug was brilliant, too.
The “fish out of water” parts might have been trite and cliche from a conceptual standpoint, but in practice they were very clever. If I’ve learned only one from the dozens of hours I’ve spent on TVTropes, it’s this: tropes are tools. In the right hands, they can make great things.
Thor was a good movie because the plot was actually interesting and it even had a bit of mystery. However, the Natalie Portman romantic plot tumor should be excised with extreme prejudice.
SkeevetI says:
Wednesday Jun 20, 2012 at 2:48 am
Here’s the thing about the Natalie Portman love story. Firstly, her character gives Thor a reason to give a crap. That relationship is there to show Thor growing compassion for humans. Sure they could have done this with a scene in which a bunch of people save Thor, and some old guy gives him a good talking to after about how we humans want to be nice and love each other. That would have sucked though. It was easier and makes more sense to give him one likable homosapian to be the representation of humans and the source of his humility. Also these movies, especially the Iron Mans have a tendency to give men a lot of eye candy. Women tend to get less attractive men to look at. I for one am glad they finally tossed the ladies a bone. (no pun intended)
Lastly Thor as a movie or a comic book for that matter is a tough one. Stories that aren’t way far out there fantasies are tough to make for this character. If you notice The Avengers movie is completely void of any love story. So it is not as if they are afraid to make a movie without one. They just felt it was necessary for Thor. Laslty Natalie Portman is beautiful. if your only complaint about the movie is having to look at a very pretty lady for two hours, then i would say it was a damn fine flick
Friday Jul 19, 2013 at 4:25 pm
Why are all these comments about Iron Man 2 when the post is about Netflix? Ugh.
Wednesday Jul 2, 2014 at 12:21 am
Really?! Thats what you got from this article? Lets ignore all the good points he has and harp on a movie everyone knows is good because yoh like to wear tight pants. Omfg you looser! Yeah, netflix blows, i started writing down my instant queue because I noticed they were pulling movies off netflix. To date 12 “a list” titles have been pulled, including the aforementioned book of eli. Netflix is garbage, I want to give my money to people, but no one is offering an easy way to watch decent movies. So, torrents and streaming sites it is.
rayen says:
pretty much only use netflix to watch anime. otherwise, well, our apartment came with basic cable, and up until now we haven’t had anything beyond what bunny ears could pick up. so we’re enjoying that. as far as movies are concerned, i mostly use the $5 bin at wal-mart.
Would be great for anime if any of it were japanese audio with english subtitles. Which none of it seems to be (at least, not as my ps3 sees it).
Heather (Shamus' wife) says:
Honestly using Netflix to watch anime is pretty useless. The anime available tends to fall on the cheesy side (only a few really great ones available the rest are unavailable.) We own quite a few anime for that reason. I agree with Phil here– the fact that they only have anime that is dubbed pretty much is it’s downfall. There are so many awesome subbed ones out there.
And I say again – Crunchy Roll. It is a great place to be for streaming subbed anime. Especially anime about underwear :-P
There’s anime that isn’t about underwear?
tengokujin says:
There’s an anime about proper bra and panty selection, how girls end up buying uncomfortable underwear and living miserable lives because of it.
Apparently, buying underwear that’s too small is an actual problem.
Jakale says:
More so than you may think. Exhibit A
I also had a friend who thought she was a B for years before a trip with friends and a fitting for kicks showed her to be a D.
Still holding off on Crunchy Roll just because we have a lsit of shows we are watching on Netflix. Once we work through that then yes.
Danman says:
Actually, the anime that you would expect to be in English are all in Japanese. I’m guessing you don’t want to watch shows like Bleah or Naruto from the beginning (if at all), but they are both only available subbed (in their streaming versions).
Purple Library Guy says:
Why am I getting the feeling “Bleah” wasn’t a typo?
He meant Bleach.
Dasick says:
I think that’s the joke.
I could have sworn PLG’s comment said “was a typo” when I replied.
Syal says:
Maybe “was a typo” was a typo.
mixmastermind says:
Naruto, Inuyasha, and Bleach are all in Japanese, I think.
And… none of them are on Netflix Instant any more. So… huh.
The argument between sub and dub is kind of a dumb one in my opinion. It just depends on the voice actors for the most part. Shows like Sgt. Frog and Naruto are WAAAAAY better in sub form. However classics like Cowboy Beebop and Trigun suck in sub form. Johnny Yong Bosch the guy who voices Vash the Stampede is a terrific voice actor. That series wouldn’t have been half of what it was without his dubbing. Some animes are good with dubbing and some are not. To say one is exclusively better than the other is being both an elitist and a fool.
Melfina the Blue says:
(late to the party, apologies)
I used to be a SUBS only person, but I’ve gotten to the point where I can’t just sit and watch something (I blame my ADHD). Subs require me to read, which means I need to constantly have my eyes on the screen and thus can’t knit or read a book. I now prefer bad dubs to good subs, just because of the ADHD inability to sit still. So knowing netflix has a decent dub of Trigun means I’ll go back and watch it again (but I shall bookmark crunchy roll for later perusal)
TMTVL says:
I use CrunchyRoll, I *think* it’s got a better offer (haven’t checked NetFlix out in years, though) and Hulu just goes “We’re sorry, 95 percent of our content is only available in the United States of America.”
Reminds me of whenever I log into the PS Store on my Japanese account and wind up gawking at the PC-98 titles.
You aren’t missing much by not being able to watch Hulu. Their goal is having the most recent American tv shows though I like that they have Dramafever titles and I can watch them on the phone (dramafever premium is more expensive or I would just get that really since we don’t watch anything else on Hulu.)
X2Eliah says:
Interesting. Seems like netflix will go into obscurity & irrelevance before even extending its reach across the world. Which, really, is a very poor performance on a content-delivery project thats on the Internet…
Except, weirdly, it is extending its reach at last. It’s just recently launched in the UK. I thought it was odd seeing adverts for this amazing “new” service called Netflix after hearing about it for years, but if this is happening at the same time loads of films are being pulled from the catalogue then that’s even stranger.
What is available on Netflix differs from country to country based on film rights. Movie studios again are to blame. Apparently Canadian Netflix pretty much is pointless thanks to the lack of movie rights.
Mephane says:
There will be one killer application in that field, one day. It will be the website where you just pay a subscription fee and can, from anywhere, watch any movie/series (or at least any the service generally has to offer) regardless of your location. Living in one of the worst region-locked countries in the world*, I so hate it not being able to watch stuff that is running, for example, in the US – series like Caprica, which have not even started here but already been cancelled over there, which means it is likely not even to be delivered at all, or only in parts.
And then there are these services like Hulu which do exactly what I’d want there (I have no problem watching stuff in English anyway, prefer it for games and books nowadays even if there is a decent translation), but then they are region-locked. Sometimes I feel like I am in exactly one of those “Shut up and take my money” comics.
I say when/if we ever beat the DRM demon, region-locking and censorship of movies/series/games will be right next on our list of foes…
*Germany, we even have our own friggin maturity rating here instead of joining in with PEGI (which everyone around us uses, not sure whether it has a reach beyond Europe), and the very same stuff that in neighbouring Austria is available rated “PEGI-18” – like Saints Row 3 – is available here labelled “USK-18” AND so heavily censored that entire game modes and mechanics are removed, player-made mods do not work etc.
Lame Duck says:
UK Netflix is also pretty worthless. The 1 month free trial was enough time to watch most of everything we were interested in seeing on there. I suppose it’s not impossible for it to get better with time, but if the American version has a shrinking content base I certainly wouldn’t hold my breath.
Eventually what will happen is that a country that never signed international copyright treaties will offer an “official” pirate bay like service with professional front end client software. Without those treaties it won’t be illegal in that jurisdiction and a company will just operate with the blessing of the government.IE Netflix-isk that wouldn’t have to answer to anyone.
If Greece gets booted from the EU, my money is on them dropping copyright law and doing it. The government already sells airspace to the pirate bay servers.
Even says:
Except they’d just eventually get threatened with embargoes and/or being network blocked out on national level if they wouldn’t put a stop to it soon enough.
Maybe, but it doesn’t/won’t work. Both an embargo like that nor network blocking.
If Greece is kicked out of the EU they would have a defacto trade embargo levied against them immediately… an economic one. The true power of an embargo is the freezing of foreign capital markets. IE they can’t borrow foreign money. When a country’s economy completely collapses, nobody trades with them anymore and they can’t borrow foreign money anyway. An embargo at that point has all the power of putting a boot on a car without an engine. They won’t have anything to lose. Futurama explains this quite well.
Network blocking only works if the receivers =don’t= want the traffic. IE stopping spammers from China, blocking a DoS attack coming from Australia etc. But if both the ends want the traffic to happen, it will happen. That’s true of alcohol, drugs, or bytes. Except blocking bytes is not physically possible anymore. If it was, then the great Firewall of China would work.
“If Greece is kicked out of the EU they would have a defacto trade embargo levied against them immediately…”
I’m not sure why they’d do that or if that’s really an official sanction. EU is not a union of states, even if it wants to pretend to be, and I highly doubt that all EU countries would go along with it.
I just can’t imagine any country sustaining themselves on that kind of business alone. Total economic collapse would be followed with various levels of societal collapses which tend to have an impact on the infrastructure as well which may put a serious hamper to this plan anyway. I never said either embargoes or network blocking was foolproof, but nobody in their serious mind WANTS to be embargoed if they care about staying afloat economically and with network blocking, it would potentially make it that much more difficult to use the service than your average internet user can deal with. Whether they really are efficient or not is irrelevant to the point I was making anyway, which was that no Western country would ever let them do it. If they won’t work, then there are always other measures.
I don’t think I explained myself properly. I meant they’d have an embargo in practice, but not officially established. You can’t engage in trade if you have no money. No trade is no trade regardless if it’s because sanctions or because you’re broke.
My point was that if a country has suffered an economic collapse due to the country defaulting on it’s national debt, (which everyone agrees will happen to Greece if they are kicked from the EU) then any official embargo based on economic policies has no teeth. Furthermore those kinds of economic embargoes can only be enforced by physical means (ie a ship blockade of oil tankers) or by locking down the buyers (the # of oil companies is a finite number and can be monitored with little difficulty.)
Neither of those are remotely possible when it comes to copyright material.
Also no country is embargoed completely. It’s always specific goods. The USA is the only one (that matters) that attempts to embargo a whole country (like Cuba). But it doesn’t work (like Cuba) especially for IP. In fact, IP as an official exemption from that embargo because the US couldn’t stop it if it wanted.
Yeah, I’m in Canada and I’m having a very hard time continuing to justify my Netflix subscription. While I don’t think content has actually shrunk down, the new stuff is added at a snail’s pace. Netflix announced, for instance, they’d be putting up Star Trek last November in time for the end of the year. Now, over six months later, not even all the movies are up, and none of the episodes.
I actually don’t mind the lack of film selection because I prefer watching TV shows, and they do have some good ones, but it’s still not enough. For example, there’s Doctor Who, Farscape, Firefly and other sci-fi shows that I’m interested in… but they’re also largely niche franchises. Anything you’ll find on primetime is almost impossible to find, except the odd sitcom or animated series.
Part of the problem in Canada is content rights. Bell and Rogers (the two big Canadian telecoms) already own most of those rights exclusively and did so before Netflix showed up in Canada. They have deals to offer them on their (comparatively much, much worse) satellite pay-per-view services, but because they’re also significantly more expensive, it’s not really worth the price. It’s honestly much easier, faster and better to torrent most stuff, even though Netflix offers, in theory, far, far superior service.
I think Netflix was always kind of doomed. As an independent company they don’t have the clout of big cable networks and thus can’t compete purely financially. Their $10/month subscription is a great, almost too good to be true offer, but it’s clear that it’s not enough to keep them in business. Netflix are basically offering the content several networks offer, with relatively high upkeep costs (tons and tons of servers, not to mention all the lawyers and stuff they need to secure distribution rights), ad-free to boot. They might have more or less got the streaming ball rolling, but now that people with more money and clout have got involved, I wouldn’t be surprised if Netflix goes out of business in a few years. It’s a shame, because I have absolutely no desire to touch their competitors.
grescheks says:
Huh, I’m also in Canada, and I see 9 Star Trek movies on Netflix right now, and almost nothing in terms of Dr Who.
As for what Shamus was searching for, a quick search of Netflix Canada brings me Miami Vice, Inglourious Basterds, X-Men: First Class, The A-Team (both the new movie and the older TV show) and Nicholas Cage’s Bad Lieutenant. But strangely, no Eureka or any of the newer Dr Who (both of which Shamus has in his screenshot); all I have is a couple episodes with the Fourth and Second Doctors, and the Three Doctors special.
Kdansky says:
Now imagine you live in Europe. There are literally no acceptable streaming services where I live (Netflix? Hulu? Pandora? Nope). The best I can get is “last weeks TV programme on demand”, which means I get to watch German subbed versions of mainstream TV that is at least two years old, for the low price of about 30$ month. Example: Gilmore Girls (2002). That’s just ridiculous.
Which means I have completely given up and just resort to The Pirate Bay directly. I’m not against paying money, but I won’t make the extra effort to order DVDs, rip the content, download a subtitle, patch it together and then sell the DVD on e-bay (because I do not care about physical media, nor will I watch the show in the span of a decade). That’s way too much work.
Or HBO. Game of Thrones? To my knowledge the only way to get HBO stuff is to buy the DVDs many years later, and frankly, I don’t have the patience to wait that long if I can download a Torrent just hours after its airing. I don’t even feel guilty about it, because that’s just human nature.
[Bonus chatter: My wife asks for Japanese subs. Which takes days in the case of TPB, or decades in the case of official releases.]
Bubble181 says:
Ah, yes, being able to buy season 7 of NCIS for $3.50 per episode and all that jazz, so lovely.
These days, I tend to buy the DVDs from American/UK on line shops. I don’t really mind subtitles being only in English (though my girlfriend struggles occasionally); by now I have a backlog of several seasons of shows so I don’t mind as much that I watch everything afew years later.
Annoying when you see the occassional more modern show though, or in on line discussions – memes that aren’t known yet, references to things you haven’t seen yet,…
One would think it’s the dubbing/subtitling of things that take time, but given that the Pirates often have better subtitles and even the occassional better dubbing (and who the * wants dubbed sound anyway?!), it doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Chargone says:
when it comes to anime:
people who’d rather avoid the screech japanese schoolgirl voices. seriously. track down azumanga daioh and listen to the japanese soundtrack. i can’t even tell most of the girls voices apart, it’s just one screechy headache inducing Doom. ‘cept Sakaki’s voice. that one’s nice.
then listen to the english dub. no such issues. but bad dubs can ruin things, it’s true. i’d take subtitles over a bad dub, but i prefer a good dub over subtitles…
and if anime is anything like manga, the MAIN delay for the legit version is the japanese publishing companies being absolute Dicks about the licensing deals. seriously, the things that go into those are nuts. though, to be fair, it’s with good reason. they got burned early on by some US companies doing a really crappy job.
that’s the japanese-english issue.
english-anything else is more: US media cartels are made of suck and seriously believe it’s better to force you to wait weeks to months for the thing to come out on one format after another until you get to the one you want, seriously think it’s legit to charge 20+ dollars NZ per unit on units that have a maginal cost of a few cents, if That, and only if you’re buying a physical disc, think region locking is a great idea because it lets them charge that, or more, in the regions where the customers have that kind of money available AND drop the price elsewhere where that’s not true without the product just being re-imported at the lower price (and there’s serious legal stuff going on in the US to make that particular process Illegal, incidentally), and then releasing the thing in another language, in another jurisdiction? if they can’t lean on your government to enforce their nonsense they’re not interested in paying the extra costs….
and on and on it goes. gist of it is this:
the media cartels are made of arse and are more interested in Tradition (this is how it’s always been done) and Control than they are in profit.
I wholeheartedly agree. The funny thing this, these companies have no idea how much of customers’ money they are missing out on due to this behaviour.
gyfrmabrd says:
The really “hilarious” thing is, if one of their execs read a thread like this (which would never happen, of course, because duh!), the only thin they’d take away from the discussion would be “I go to the Pirate Bay”. Then they’d go all “I told you so”, and go back to their cave and add even more DRM, FBI warnings and herpes to their content.
Dear fictitious media executives reading this post: I do not pirate.
I do not consume your material because you don’t offer it to me in a convenient manner. I simply go without, and find other, more convenient entertainment venues to spend my money on. You are not losing me to piracy, you are losing me to your own inability to offer me what you have to sell.
Please sell me your product. I would like to buy it, but you make it really difficult for me to do so. (Please note, convenience includes pricing. $2 per episode of your show I might want to watch once is not convenient. And I’m not fooled by your “.99” pricing. $1.99 is $2.)
I’m with Krellen. I’d rather enjoy your product rather than complain about your business practices. But I can do without.
Joe Cool says:
The thing is, I think the executives think they are making the most money by restricting content. Shamus wrote a piece some time ago about breaking CPUs to sell them for cheaper. The goal was to be able to sell them to two markets to make the most money. However, it’s a bit harder to “break” a TV show or movie. You can have or not have special features, or futz with resomolutions, but in the end, the content of the movie is largely the same.
Now, the executives want you to buy the $30 three-disc special addition Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Download combo-pack, because that’s where they make the most money. And some people will buy that. However, if the movie is always available, whenever and wherever you want it, on demand, then there’s less reason for people to buy the expensive version. So by making it available on demand, where they get just a couple bucks for it, yes, they will be getting more customers, but they might not necessarily be making more money, because fewer people would be buying the Blu-ray.
I think this is how executives think. I don’t know if this is, in fact, true, since I don’t have access to data about DVD sales vs. digital downloads. I know that I like to buy physical copies of movies I like, regardless of the streaming ability, so I’m not less likely to buy a movie because it’s available on demand. But maybe there are other people out there who won’t?
The other factor is the cable companies who are fighting Netflix tooth and nail, because if you can watch TV shows and movies there, you don’t have a reason to subscribe to their expensive services. This is where talks of bandwidth caps and throttling on the part of cable companies comes in. It’s not because their equipment can’t handle everyone streaming Netflix all the time. It’s that when you do, they don’t get as much money.
Sumanai says:
It sounds likely that what you’re saying is what the executives are thinking, but I also consider it highly unlikely that they’re right. From what I’ve heard of the sales statistics a few years ago, most physical copy sales at full price are done by a handful of people. Outside of big hits of course, but you can limit those separately.
So the $30 BluRay-DVD combo is going to be bought by the few who buy the stuff anyway and most of the rest, unable to stream it for cheap, will wait until the price drops. No doubt there are more sales if streaming isn’t available, but I do doubt that the profit from it is higher than the loss of revenue through streaming. Actually I wouldn’t be surprised if even the gross sales (profit before anything is paid for by the seller) would be actually lower, and it’s only the number of sales that would be higher.
Not to mention that, generally speaking, monthly revenue is worth more than a lump sum of money. Especially if the former means that the client will never own anything in any sense despite paying for it and therefore will be forced to keep paying in order to keep* what they’ve got*.
* In a manner of speaking, of course.
Then there are those situations where someone thinks that a movie or a series is not all that interesting and would only spend $5 or less on it, but they end up streaming it and then decide it’s good enough to buy for more.
I see your point, but I’ve gotten oddly acclimatized to those screechy Japanese schoolgirl voices. Now I actually sort of miss them when they’re not there.
Plus, there’s something I just like about subtitles. They give me this weird feeling like I understand a foreign language–and after watching quite a bit of anime, I have started catching quite a few common words, common boilerplate greeting phrases and stuff. I like being able to tell whether the word being translated as “idiot” is just “baka” or something more serious.
Yeah, we are huge fans of subtitles around here (well, except for Shamus that is.) I love to read and having moving pictures plus reading makes me incredibly happy. Plus I have an easier time catching the intent with the original acting. Also with my weird hearing issues I use captions whenever possible anyway– just makes it much easier for me to know what is happening.
DirigibleHate says:
Tuesday Jun 19, 2012 at 12:21 am
In theory I agree that you could have an issue with the original voices, but why did you use Azumanga as an example? Aren’t the characters even screechier than they were before (or butchered in other ways?) I tried to watch the English dub and I couldn’t stand it.
The other problem is that the English VAs are generally of a much lower quality than the Japanese VAs. Take, say, Dragon Ball Z or, more recently, Gurren Lagann, as examples for translations where they pulled people off the street and gave the direction “Be Dramatic”.
Hamilcar says:
I actually hold up Azumanga Daioh as one of the few animes I prefer the original Japanese over the English. As a schoolgirl comedy you need the voice actors playing off of each other. You can tell in the English version that the girls were dubbing in different rooms on different days whereas in the Japanese the girls were clearly in the same room shouting over each other. This is a very important element in a comedy like Azumanga that is missing in the English version.
i can see how that would Help but… having to read the subs to keep up with what’s going on kills that effect just as dead for me…
more so, actually, as i never really noticed it as an issue in the first place.
personal preference and processing methods strike again!
(seriously, i have mental processing issues that mean i Cannot Filter what i hear. if the characters are talking over each other on the TV i just lose Everything and they may as well not be talking. this might contribute to my view on this bit…)
screechier than the japanese voices?
very VERY no.
i’d go so far as to say ‘Hell no!”
with the possible exception of Sakaki (and that’s the difference between a -6 and a -5 on a scale of 0 to +10 anyway.)
the only ‘butchered’ voice is Osaka’s… and it’s only butchered in that they gave her a pleasant sounding spacey, soft southern US accent, which kills the joke in having the character from the stereotypically loud and fast paced city being the spacey one.
well… that and Chiyo is squeeky. but that’s true in the japanese too. small children’s voices always give me problems anyway.
and i cited Azumanga Daioh as an example because it’s one i have and actually bothered listening to the both sound tracks.
but yeah, a lot of the time the English VAs are pretty bad. not that i have any way of judging the japanese VAs. it depends on a lot of things though. Dragon Ball Z is pretty dreadful.
I, as a native New Zealander, who hasn’t really watched much TV in quite some time (though when i did it was mostly US programing, so the more standard US tv accents sound not far off normal to me), find the Azumanga Daioh voices to be some of the better ones. i’ve certainly encountered my share of Bad ones, but most of the more recent ones would be better described as ‘average’. what’s more noticeable is sometimes it’s quite clear that whoever was selecting the VAs didn’t do a very good job of it, or had a limited pool to draw from.
that said, i could happily sit for Hours just listening to a conversation between the english voices of Sakaki and Ayumu(Osaka)…
heh. a funny thing to listen out for is when the VAs are quite clearly using a fake accent, and then the character has to shout… that comes out strangely.
Skyy_High says:
Game of Thrones season 1 Blu-ray has been out for a few months now, just fyi. Took a little while longer than most people would’ve liked, but not quite a year after the end of the season.
I hear you. It’s not quite as bad in Canada, but for my purposes almost. I mean the thing is, my family doesn’t watch a ton of movies. And our tastes are not very mainstream. Back in the day, when there were video stores, we went to them and poked around looking for things. If we wanted something a bit more indie maybe we’d go into town and get something from the funky video store like wot you don’t get in the burbs.
But now all the video stores are closed, and we don’t watch enough movies to want to pay a monthly service, and it seems like Netflix wouldn’t have anything much we want anyway, and the services that let us watch video on demand,
(a) seem to charge more than a video store used to, which seems kind of ridiculous when they don’t have to make a DVD box or rent a storefront or pay the employees. I’m not huge into being ripped off.
(b) again, don’t seem to have anything much we want.
So it’s basically the library or Pirate Bay. They’re both free, and we use the library quite a bit. But the Pirate Bay has bloody everything. The Pirate Bay has Charley’s Aunt from the forties starring Jack Benny. It has The Three Musketeers from 1973, with Raquel Welch and Spike Milligan, which is the only really good Three Musketeers movie. It has Tampopo, a Japanese comedy about food from 1985. It has obscure anime. I’m not sure I have ever thought “Hmmm, I’d like to see this movie/see it again” and failed to find it on The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay is already the universal movie service people wish Netflix was and which the Internet seems to be receding away from providing. So yeah, for anyone with slightly fewer, or even just different, scruples than Shamus, it’s really almost too late for any official online service to move into that space.
Maybe Apple could do it. But iTunes might have had more trouble if Napster still existed . . .
Tse says:
Same here, coupled with insanely low wages. Many people can’t afford to buy movies, games, software, books as often as they need. Learning software is ALWAYS accompanied with downloading it semi-illegally (since it’s not a crime here, unless you use it for profit). And in order to find work as an architect you have to know a LOT of programs. Currently, I have over 50000$ of software I “should’ve” paid for on my hard disk (I’d need to work 10 years on the average wage and not spend any of the money in order to buy it). There are 2 hugely popular Bulgarian torrent sites, one of which hosted in the US and used worldwide. And piracy in Bulgaria is, naturally, the highest in the European Union.
PurePareidolia says:
I live near one of those old timey stores only you have probably heard of where you can rent out movies on dvd so that’s where I watch them.
Because Netflix doesn’t exist in my country.
I don’t know why the NZ dollar is no good to these people, but apparently they just don’t want our money.
Sucal says:
Same here in the land of far superior beaches. I guess thats another example of the tax Americans force Australians to pay for being awesome.
Yeah, I figure they’re just jealous of our incredibly fantastic landscapes or something.
To be fair, us Europeans are jealous of your fantastic landscapes too, and we don’t force you to give up your left kidney in exchange for entertainment. :P
… at this point most of my entertainment comes from Japan anyway.
games by way of Europe. (and most of my games that DON”T start in japan start in Sweden. possibly germany if you include the board games)
manga mostly by way of Canada these days i think… though that might just be a cunning disguise…
Anime… i’m not really sure how many hands it passes through first, but the branding and packaging is all Australian.
i just plain don’t bother with movies or tv shows anymore.
about the only thing i still get from the US is books, actually…
none of this is deliberately planned, that’s just where the stuff i consume comes from.
but yeah, NZ’s landscape IS awesome, isn’t it? *pretends as though he had something to do with that.*
NZ’s landscape does seem to be pretty awesome. As a Canadian (and more specifically, rain forest/mountains British Columbian), I always feel a certain kinship–the places seem to have a lot in common somehow.
Considering we are all part of the commonwealth, and our armies generally outbadass everyone else when they team up, Australia welcomes our maple syrup bringing friends with a free jar of vegemite, a pat on the back and a cry of ‘she’ll be right mate’ for having to share a border with America.
More seriously (and less racial stereotypes) though, do intend to visit Canada one day. Always wanted to see snow
… you realize New Zealand gets snow too, right? and is a lot closer.
heck, there’s some places in Australia that get snow (one of your eastern mountain ranges or something?) if i remember rightly.
which isn’t to say you shouldn’t visit Canada…
WW2 Rommel apparently said something about if you gave him 1000 New Zealanders to take a place and 1000 Australians to defend it (or possibly the other way around, i can never remember) then… i forget the exact wording. something to the effect of being unbeatable, anyway. hehe.
which doesn’t include the Canadians, sadly… if it helps, ww1 Canadians were pretty much the Empire’s elite troops…
To be fair, it’s the studios who won’t allow Netflix to stream in other countries. I’m sure Netflix would LOVE your NZ dollars. From what I’ve seen, they’re very pretty.
I think no one here is blaming the content delivery services. We know it’s the studios/music labels/game publishers that more often than not are the biggest hurdle when it comes to getting the stuff from the artists to the audience.
They are – all the notes have pictures of native birds, and they’re all different colours.
Seriously though this is just the entertainment industry being horribly, horribly backwards and outdated, then resisting any attempts to modernist because they all result in empowering consumers.
psivamp says:
I have a Netflix account that I never use anymore — I just can’t find anything worth watching. The girlfriend watches reality TV and apparently that’s all on there, but there isn’t a whole ton of sci-fi that looks good (although a Google search of ‘netflix primer’ turns up that they say they have Primer and that was awesome — and, yes, I’m too lazy to turn on the XBox and see if Primer is available for streaming).
For these problems and because my ISP was routinely complaining to me about torrenting things, I actually get my stuff via dcc transfers on irc. The way piracy used to be in the 90’s but apparently those guys never left.
Primer has also gone missing. (Because obviously the studio wanted to maximize profits on this decade-old low-budget indie sci-fi staring Two Guys in a garage. I’ll bet they’re rolling in cash now.)
Luckily, I did get to see the movie. I first watched it in 2010, and then later got to see it again in 2008.
It made more sense the second time.
I guess that figures pretty well with the article in that case. I really should give that another watch, or three just to try to follow the timeline.
MichaelG says:
Well, you should have just told yourself what was going to happen.
Then you wouldn’t have had to see it. Except that then you wouldn’t have seen it, and probably would have rented it.
And then the two of you could have fought over whether it was any good.
You watched it in 2010 and then got to watch it again in …2008,
Shamus. You might want to try doing something more worthwhile with your time machine. Just saying.
Two scientists are celebrating christmas:
“I was unsure what to get for you, so I used the time machine to travel into the future and see what I would have given you.”
“Yay, a necktie and a paradox!”
evileeyore says:
Uh, Shamus, your timetravel is showing. Again.
Tighten up or they’ll revoke your pre-1900s priveleges. Again.
How much of a geek am I that I did not even stagger at the reverse time frame in your post and my brain automatically and seamlessly translated this into a between-the-lines-info “this movie is about time travel”?
Abnaxis says:
I thought it was some sort of inside joke I wasn’t getting because I haven’t seen the movie.
A bit. Before his autoblography, Shamus did the “hotel” posts saying he was x years old, but when he got to doing the autoblography that same event fell closer to him being y years old, where y is less than x.
Since that slip up we all caught on – Shamus has a time machine! I mean, how else can he be writing books, software, insightful blog posts, articles for escapist, family life(?), playing games, doing spoiler warning and watching random videos on youtube? All of the above are full time jobs, yet Shamus seems to have time for all of it.
Ramsus says:
That’s exactly what I did too.
If it isn’t now, it willen have been in the future.
My father once had this to describe piracy:
“Sure, it’s cheaper, but you waste a lot of money fiddling around with it afterwards, trying to get it to work properly.”
Aah, the good ol’ days.
Also, if you’re looking for some sci-fi to watch on Netflix, me and my buddies recently used it to watch Titan: AE which is pretty interesting.
Mistwraithe says:
Ironic isn’t it? Just like those annoying unskippable anti-piracy segments that you only get at the start of PAID for DVDs and the games that you only need to be online to play if you PAID for it.
The days of paying for entertainment media being the efficient smart move are apparently long over…
KremlinLaptop says:
Titan: AE was quite good! I’d heartily recommend it for those who haven’t seen it. It bombed on release, but got fairly positive reviews. If you want to see one of the last efforts of ‘classic’ animation then it’s the way to go.
The story is nice even if it is just simply every sci-fi trope you can think of poured into a bucket.
there’s really not much bad one can say about Titan A.E.
it’s good.
about the only negative i can really pin on it is ‘well, it’s not Spectacularly Great’
but that’s only a bad thing if they spent enough on it for it to need to be a blockbuster to cover costs. it’s certainly good enough that i’ve watched it more than once, which is a rarity.
(rented both times… i should probably look into tracking down and buying a physical copy of my own at some point. )
I’ve seen it a few times as well and I suppose that the biggest problem for the movie was that it wasn’t spectacularly good. It has good voice acting, interesting characters, and amazingly nice visuals (I especially like the opening up to and including the spaceship graveyard. Looked very cool.)
I sort of wish there were more movies likes Titan AE. It’s my sort of sci-fi.
Which reminds me I’m going to watch Heavy Metal the original and Heavy Metal 2000 with a few friends to see if they’re as silly now as they were when we first saw them.
I will also recommend that movie, it was pretty good. Been a long time since I’ve seen it…
Animation is kind of deceivingly expensive though, and people tend to think it’s for kids, so I can see why it didn’t do so well…
I think at the time of release, I wasn’t hugely impressed with Titan A.E. because I’m not a fan of alien invasion stories where the aliens aren’t given any real motivation for wanting to curbstomp humanity. Yes, there’s a cryptic, throwaway line about it, but it sounds dangerously close to another one of my pet peeve sci-fi tropes: humanity will eventually evolve into a non-physical form, because somehow that’s a superior state of being, which both misunderstands evolution and disparages the form of humanity that built spaceships and computers in the first place.
But now I can say unlike the last decade of brainless alien invasion flicks, Titan A.E. at least had heart and soul. And interesting characters. And some really innovative art design (the ice field sequence is still one of the best things I’ve seen in animation).
Humankind has developed a means of (efficiently) converting energy into matter. Drej are pure energy. Drej are also at the top of the food chain, and I reckon they don’t like a piece of technology that can wipe out their entire species in a heartbeat so that some monkeys can build another McD’s.
Naota says:
People can say what they will about Titan AE, but there was a sense of wonder and exploration to it that I found completely absent from the Mass Effect series. The universe was full of strange and interesting things – alien landscapes, ruins of passed civilizations built to scales and standards humans would never conceive, and bizarre features of space like those massive ice crystals.
By comparison, the Mass Effect universe offers… a bunch of randomized terrain (ME1) and featureless cliffs punctuated by prefab structures (ME2/3). Its “ancient ruins of an alien civilization” on Feros look like an unfinished parking garage, and the hostile alien climate on Noveria consists entirely of mundane snow storms. Its interiors are unremarkable hallways of crates, railings, and rust. The elements are all there, but the games did nothing to sell me on the incredible intrigue of roaming the galaxy and setting foot on alien planets.
Those kind of forms are OBVIOUSLY NOT superior. They cannot enjoy cheeseburgers properly.
You mean “every sci-fi trope ever… AVERTED”.
Have Titan: AE in the instant queue. Keep thinking about watching and haven’t. Will have to once Es and I are finished with Full Metal Panic (I am rewatching because I had forgotten I had seen it and Es is going through for the first time and LOVING it.)
You can’t call a planet Bob!
Paul Spooner says:
No one said you had to live on Bob.
Volfram says:
I’m never calling it that.
‘cept, you know, they did.
(the date-line for the ‘epilogue’ section lists it as ‘New Earth (Planet Bob)” or something to that effect.
Nick-B says:
All I could think of at the end of Titan A.E. was that they got a whole earth-like world to explore, ruins (goody huts) to explore and find, and natural wonders to find. My inner civ is showing?
Moon was a really nice surprise, in many ways a very simple concept and yet done very well.
On the subject if Netflix, it is constantly astounding how stupid big business can be (and by that I mean the movie studios).
One begins to suspect that Google, Apple and the like don’t even need to be smart to do so well, they just need to avoid the chronic big business stupidity that infects their competition (Sony would be an excellent case in point).
This was what Moon was like for me:
We have this giant base with huge mining crawlers. All of this was built by many, many people over years, but now there is no one left. Not in this base, not in nearby bases. Why?
We have this AI that can talk to people in English, and is coordinated enough to cut hair and make meals, and is basically running the place. But we still need a handyman to sit around. Why?
So then we find out that they basically invented immortality along the way. The ability to read memories out of someone’s head, grow a clone, implant the memories. Are we going to consider the implications of that? No.
They use all this technology so that … they don’t have to send a new handyman up every two years? Really?
Any one of those elements — habitats on the Moon, human-level AI, cloning, recording and restoring memories, would have been the basis of a good SF movie.
Instead, they throw them all in the pot without examining any of them. And just so they can make their usual point — we are all disposable to huge evil corporations. On the Moon!
StranaMente says:
I was disturbed by this when I watched the film, so I agree.
The cost/benefit of this operation is so skewed that it resembles a plan made by the Umbrella corp.
I guess it could make a nice material for a short story about the meaning of a life and what constitutes the identity of a man, but not for a full length movie. It lifts more questions than it solves.
Mind you, the point was just made higher up that the behaviour of content producers vis-a-vis Netflix etc. is a display of the moronic nature of big business–the peculiar phenomenon of greed directly eliminating profits. So, it might not be so implausible as one might think.
it’s so meta, even this acronym
ok, maybe not That meta… but it’s trying, damn it :D
MatthewH says:
I am constantly amazed by HULU, Netflix, Crackle, and the other streaming services to have managed in a medium without:
or Seasons
To still replicate the “thousands of channels, nothing to watch” phenomenon.
… a surprisingly large amount of that is caused by the execs of the same entities that caused it on television, too.
Nick Bell says:
Just a quick correction, Amazon Instant Video IS available on the Xbox. It offers you access to both the entire Prime library, and any videos you’ve purchased. (I assume it lets you watch rentals too, but I’ve never attempted that). The interface is pretty terrible, but so is Netflix (damn Microsoft and it’s “make everything Kinect friendly”, aka not very useful at all).
As an FYI in general, Hulu, Amazon and Netflix are all available on the PS3 and have much better interfaces.
Jeremy Bowers says:
I’d also add that this is like as of three or four weeks ago, it’s a recent development. I haven’t even installed it yet because right now we’re getting our Mythbusters from iTunes since Amazon had a track record of being really sluggish with it last season, and after the first episode of this season took three extra days to show up we bailed.
We actually also have Amazon Prime instant but thus far there have only been 2 shows that they have that Netflix hasn’t and the kids found those thanks to Netflix stupid 2 devices at a time rule. Otherwise Amazon instant is just too hard to find shows you WANT to watch that don’t include a p[rice tag. (I suspect Shamus forgets because he also has his own Amazon account and is usually logged in as himself thanks to kdp publishing stuff with Amazon.)
Yeah, you know what I’ve watched on Amazon thanks to Netflix’s stupid rule? “Toddlers and Tiaras.” No, I’m not joking and yes, I’m deeply ashamed. But I needed something to watch to kill some time, Netflix was all used up, so I dug around and eventually in desperation for SOMETHING to watch caught two episodes of a reality show about kiddy beauty pageants.
Nimas says:
I think in those circumstances (meaning no offence, I’ve had those too much time, nothing to do phases) I would rather have beat myself to death with my own monitor.
ya know, there are these things… made of paper… got words in ’em. lots of interesting stories and information and stuff… great for filling in time…
think they’re called books :P
(beat’s the ‘death by head trauma’ alternative suggested above, if only on cleaning bills.)
LintMan says:
On my (internet-enabled) Blu-ray player, it’s pretty easy to tell the free Amazon Prime movies and shows from the rental/purchase stuff. Are they not listed in separate categories on the Xbox? Also, For me, all the free prime stuff has a small white box in the corner of the movie/show icons saying “Prime”, which indicates the free stuff. Is that not there on the Xbox?
Maybe because it’s just been added, they don’t have the interface fully rounded out yet.
All that said, while I like Amazon Prime a lot (hey, it’s free movies, since I get it purely for the shipping discount) the movie selection is quite limited and I think Netflix has little to worry about on that front. The TV show selection is decent, though.
The Xbox isn’t wireless enabled and is currently packed away for impending move so no idea. We use computers for our Amazon Prime streaming viewing (there has got to be an easier way to say that– they really need a cute little name for that particular service.)
Is it one of those things you need a Gold account to access, like Netflix?
Amazon Prime account– which we have for the free shipping and are now loving for the free ebook rentals.
So a regular old Xbox Live account is enough? ‘Cause with Netflix, I cannot use it on my XBox, even though I have a Netflix account, because I don’t have an XBox Live Gold account.
Not sure, don’t know what Shamus has. I know we could (well once we cleared up the whole “someone hacked his account” thing) but can’t remember what he has on it, and again I can’t even checked because it is packed up at the inlaws.
Nick Lester Bell says:
I’m sure it requires an Xbox Live account. Everything else does.
MrPyro says:
If by the Amazon service you mean LoveFilm*; it’s not really any better. I’ve got that and your description of Netflix is hauntingly familiar to me.
LoveFilm does seem to have a premium section though (BoxOffice, I think), where you can do a pay-per-view on top of the subscription. The selection in there did look a little more modern, but it may have involved a financial transaction though my Playstation which scares me.
*This may just be how it’s branded in the UK
asterismW says:
Agreed. I don’t have Netflix or any other movie account, but I’ll occasionally watch movies on Amazon. However, their selection is pretty pathetic. Much of what I want to watch isn’t available for rent (though they’ll happily sell it to me. Why yes, I’d love to pay $15 for a digital copy of a movie I will only be able to watch for as long as your servers are active), and the few movies that are available are often about $4. It’s ridiculous.
Must be branded that in the UK– here it is called Amazon Prime instant video or some such. A mouthful. Though I think if they called it “LoveFilm” here in the US um, people might take it wrong.
Praxx says:
I ended up canceling my Netflix account for this very reason. Every single thing I wanted to watch wasn’t on it. I don’t have enough know-how to pirate but I’ve come to find that you can watch almost anything online streaming.
SubmarineBells says:
I have no idea if Netflix carries it, being in Australia as I am; but if you’re looking for indie SF films, give “Iron Sky” a try. It’s a Finnish/German/Australian fan-funded indie flick about Space Nazis On The Moon, with music by Laibach, and is absofuckinglutely hilarious. Cheesy as they come, in the best possible way, and with a black satirical humour that reminded me a bit of “Doctor Strangelove”. It’s well worth a look.
…I feel a bit bad for the fact that I’ve yet to see Iron Sky and I’m a Finn.
zob says:
It is super campy and it got Udo Kier(you know, the guy who played Yuri in Red Alert 2) in it. What more one can ask?
I’ve been waiting for that to show up on the net, but haven’t seen it anywhere. Did you see it in a theater?
No. I came across it in a Wikipedia article, did a bit of hunting around on the web and concluded that it was unlikely to get a cinematic release here in Aus if it hadn’t already; went to the “official website” in search of a copy and discovered that they wouldn’t sell the DVD to anyone not in Finland; and so wound up ordering a blu-ray copy off eBay. While I was doing all this, my partner mentioned it to a mate at work, who presented him with a pirated copy he got off some torrenting site or other; so we watched that while we waited for the purchased copy to arrive.
The distributors really don’t seem to have gone out of their way to make it easy to access this film. Oh well, hooray for eBay, I say.
Retsam says:
If the only place that you heard that “Book of Eli” wasn’t very good was Moviebob, I would take that with a huge helping of salt. His review of that movie was, in my opinion, so unfair to the movie that I almost stopped watching his reviews.
There are a few reasons why I’d hesitate to call it a “great” movie; but I’d certainly call it good. It’s definitely worth watching at least once. (And often, twice)
lettucemode says:
I thought it was a great movie. Haven’t seen Movie Bob’s review but I’m surprised anyone could call it bad.
If I remember right, he claimed that because the book is a Bible, the story’s only purpose was to promote Christian ideology. Which I don’t think is a fair assessment.
I don’t think it was quite that bad, but I think he definitely had problems with that aspect. I don’t think he could respect or find tension in a story about travelling with God because he felt it was ‘duh God wins’
I don’t think he was being misleading and that was probably his genuine impression of the film. Bob always has interesting opinions but despite his continual protestations that it’s not so, he is by far the most biased and personal of reviewers I’ve experienced and it means I don’t find him a good guide on films. It’s not even that he likes what I don’t like, because that would be some sort of guide. It’s just really erratic.
But I still listen to his reviews (maybe not of films I want to see) because he’s interesting and it feels cool to see someone elses viewpoint on something. It’s just not this objective super-critic fact thing that he can make it out to be :D (also his opinion of certain social groups is unfortunate, and maybe the one actual negative thing about some of his reviews)
Depends on how you look at it. I would go into more detail, but that would be spoilerific. However, I side with Movie Bob in this assessment.
I know this sounds like the worst kind of cop-out, but I think Moviebob simply couldn’t get over the religious content. He gets totally hung up on the fact that (I don’t think this is even a spoiler; but better safe than sorry) the Book of Eli is the Bible and calls it “the most trite plot device ever”, and spends a large chunk of the review mocking this.
I get that the spiritual aspects of the movie appeal to Christians more than non-Christians, and that’s part of the reason I only call it a “good” movie; I realize there’s a lack of universal appeal, even if I happen to greatly enjoy it. But I don’t think that it ruins the movie for others.
EDIT: Ninja’d above and below while in moderation. But, I’m glad I’m not the only one who had that impression of the review.
I’ll save you the grief of watching the review:
“This movie is pushing Christian values on me because it has a blind man saving the last bible. Therefore it is BAD.”
At least, that’s the impression I have of it after several months had past. I’m guessing that was his main point of his displeasure since this is the point he spent most of the time elaborating on.
You can watch it here if you don’t trust me
EDIT: Yeah, I just re-watched it in the name of fairness. My statement stands. The ‘BAD’ is even plastered over the screen in all-caps.
This is basically why I don’t watch Movie Bob.
Except for me, it was his reviews of Paul and Atlas Shrugged. Paul is apparently exactly the opposite of Book of Eli, where Movie Bob’s opinion was “The movie is all about ripping on the Fundie Right-Wing crowd, and is therefore irrevocably awesome.”
Erm… the comments of that spoiler tag toe Shamus’s controversy line pretty closely, so I will avoid saying more on the topic.
Paul was a bit irritating. There were a lot of ‘Take thats!’ where I was just thinking, is that even meant to be a problem?
I saw it with my brother who is different from I and when I asked why Paul should know this stuff more than we do he said (without realising the irony) ‘Well he can resurrect people, I’d listen to someone who can resurrect people’ :D
To be fair though, this doesn’t come up a lot in Bob’s reviews. He’s not written an objective review in his life, but it’s not like he’s bashing people constantly either (or at least he cycles through them, so we all get a break :D )
I love that movie. I think most haters of that movie hate it because of what the book turns out to be, but really, I think that it wouldn’t matter what the book was about at all. In the end everybody would make comparisons between that book, and the book it turns out to be, because, hey, John Coffey from The Green Mile? Jesus Christ, man! Jesus Christ!
I liked the movie -not enough to get the DVD, but I thought I got my $5 worth at the theater. It struck me as a very good bottle episode with a lot of -well, I hesitate to call it pointless, but I’m not sure there’s another word for it -action grafted on. I get the symbolism of things like how he’s only ever injured after he gives up the book, and how once the book is saved the girl goes out to spread the word. I don’t quite get where chainsaw wielding Fallout 3 villains fit into it.
Also, given the importance, prominence, and highly implied divine intervention, I though the conlusion of the film -where having preserved it, it is simply stocked on a shelf with several other books in the same genre -severely undercut the theme.
Aye, that last scene really irked me, for precisely that reason. At the end the Book seems to be treated as a mere academic curiosity, rather than something with real significance.
(Additionally, it induced a little fridge logic when it was placed next to the Tanakh, i.e. the Jewish translation of the Old Testament. Why would they bother having Eli dictate the entire Old Testament if they already had a version that is only slightly different? At least they would have had him dictate the New Testament first.)
That’s because you bought into the hype about it being a “message” movie, when it’s not. That scene is there to reinforce the idea (which I got throughout the film because I didn’t go into it with a bias) that it was the quest that mattered, not the book. Having a purpose drove Eli, not God.
I didn’t go into the movie with any particular expectations. I wasn’t expecting a message from a movie that featured the graphic violence that the Book of Eli does.
I would understand interpreting the movie with your last statement if it weren’t for the “importance, prominence, and highly implied divine intervention” as mentioned by MatthewH. The ideas that God personally guided Eli across the country and the Bible is “just another book” are diametrically opposite.
(And it’s really not fair to say I had a bias and you didn’t. Your bias is simply opposite to my bias)
I didn’t see any divine intervention, implied or otherwise. If you saw it, it’s because it’s what you wanted to see. Kind of like the symbolism English teachers try to make students see in the Classics – a lot of them, especially “modern” Classics like Hemingway or Dickens, have no conscious, implied symbolism at all.
Really? A blind man, carrying a Bible, crossing an entire country, with no known destination in mind, defying all odds of his survival, and pressing on against obscene opposition, only to miraculously (and entirely coincidentally) stumble upon the last vestiges of the civilized world where the Bible can be preserved for future generations. You’re right, I can’t possibly see how one might come to the conclusion of divine inspiration, except by reading in their own bias into the plot.
Were we watching the same movie? In the non-theist version of the movie, what exactly was Eli’s quest that drove him to such extremes?
Maybe it’s my minor versing in Japanese mythology that gives me another view, but the blind master is an old trope that has nothing to do with divinity.
Eli’s quest was that he had a quest. He found a purpose. Like Guy Montag, preserving the knowledge was his quest. The nature of the knowledge was not important – evidenced by the fact that most of the movie goes by without revealing what “the book” was at all. Eli was driven by faith, but faith does not imply divinity. People have faith in all sorts of things – gods, ideas, other people. Eli believed in the Book. Solara believed in Eli.
It was faith, not God, that drove Eli. His strength was internal, not external.
MelTorefas says:
Your comparison to Fahrenheit 451 is the first thing I have ever read that makes me want to watch this movie.
My recollection was that the book is revealed fairly early on. The implied divine intervention is that, so long as the book is in his possession, he is not hurt despite the villain pointing a gun at his back and shooting him (among other improbably events). This protection ends once the villain takes the book. Towards the end of the movie, Eli says “I got so caught up in keeping it safe, I forgot to live by what I learned from it.” Carnegie is adamant that he needs the words because he can use them influence other people -and the irony is that having gotten the words, he can’t understand them. And in the final scenes, Solaris returns home to bring them words so that they can live by what she has learned, rather than be manipulated by people like Carnegie. And Eli’s last words are a prayer that she can spread the word and thanking God that he lived long enough to finish the race and keep the faith.
The major theme here is that it isn’t just the quest -in fact, Eli’s major arc is that he moves away from “Stay on the Path it’s not your concern” to “Do more for others than you do for yourself,” the lesson he takes from the book. The theme is that words have power if put into action. That this is folded into a religious and spiritual story does provide additional interesting context to the story, but it would work for a different volume.
All of this is undercut by shelving the book at the end. “Oh, the knowledge is preserved, no need to worry any more.” Or, to put it in Eli’s terms: stay on the shelf, it’s not your concern.
With that interpretation, then the ending where he finds the “civilization” on Alcatraz is the biggest coincidence/Deus Ex Machina ever.
Trying to take an non-theist view of the ending makes the ending utterly unbelievable.
An analogy: Perhaps the force isn’t real in the original Star Wars movie (A New Hope), and Luke is just really lucky when he closes his eyes and blows up the Death Star. (Yes, the spoiler tag is a joke) Sure, it’s a possible interpretation (even one Han Solo might applaud), but that’s certainly not what George Lucas intended.
Movies are made out of coincidences. People ending up where they need to be is a stable of virtually all forms of media – books, film, and even video games. To attribute something that happens all the time to divine intervention is pushing a rampantly pro-theist viewpoint.
I knew the book was the Bible before I saw the movie, because I heard all the “oh no, this is such a Christian allegory, it’s horrible!” stuff before I ever saw it. I was actively looking for anything that sold the film as a purely theist story. I failed to find it.
I cannot pull you specific time-stamp examples because, as Shamus points out, the movie is not available on Netflix streaming and I no longer have their DVD service. Suffice to say, as the atheist son of a minister, I went into the film trying to see it as “horrible Christian propaganda” and failed to come to that conclusion at all.
I replied to this, but it got stuck in moderation; I wonder if there’s a random component to moderation. Two of my posts are in moderation, and the others aren’t, even though I used roughly the same vocabulary in both of them.
Certain words are instant flags. Not even Shamus is sure what they all are.
This is actually a reply to the post that begins with “Movies are made out of coincidences…”. I know this is probably a faux-pas, but I wanted to reply to this one. (And then I’ll probably be done, though I’ll read any replies to this tomorrow)
Yes, movies and books are made of coincidences, but Occam’s razor applies, or at least a version of it. The interpretation that adds the least to the “context” of the film makes the most sense. In other words, sure, there’s no reason to invoke a completely unmentioned or unrelated deity to explain the events of a story. Trying to shoehorn God into every work of fiction is often adding way to much to the context.
But this film is an exception. I’m not “shoehorning” God into the film. He’s already all over the place. The plot revolves around a Bible, the main character claims to be an agent of God, and miracles occur around him.
Eli, pretty much point-blank claims that it’s God who’s led him. I can’t really give snapshots either, but “I walk by faith, not by sight” was definitely a quote. I’m pretty sure he means faith in God, not faith in himself, or faith in his “quest” of wandering around aimlessly. It’s just downright stubborn, when a main character gives an explanation to reject it and invent your own, if there’s no real justification given in the context. (And nothing ever suggests a natural explanation for what occurs)
Tuesday Jun 19, 2012 at 12:06 pm
Just because the man has faith in God doesn’t mean it isn’t his faith that drives him, and faith cannot be exerted from the outside (I have to invoke the Quran, not the Bible, because I don’t know any Biblical passages by heart that say the same thing (though I’m sure they exist): “there can be no compulsion in religion”.)
Just because it’s Eli’s faith in God that drives him does not necessarily mean his actions and abilities are directly attributable to God. As I alluded above, all the strong characters in the film are driven by faith; Eli’s faith in God, Solara’s faith in Eli, and Carnegie’s faith in himself and power.
If you want to see God in the coincidences, feel free – that’s why the filmmakers made the book a Bible, after all, to appeal to Christians in that way. But don’t go around telling people that see something else that they’re wrong because they don’t hear the film beating a drumbeat of “God is great”.
You want to invoke miracles? Show one instance of God intervening that is NOT “through Eli”.
Yes, his faith gives him strength, but it doesn’t give him direction. Eli walks with purpose, not knowing where he was going, and he ends up at what is probably the only place on Earth that could help him. You can explain many things in fiction as coincidences, but you can’t explain thoughts/motivation that way. Eli claims that he’s going somewhere, but doesn’t know where. There are 3 options:
1) He actually knew where he was going (either only subconsciously or lying to everyone).
2) He actually didn’t know where he was going, and was crazy to think that he did. And then, in the biggest coincidence ever, he happened to end up somewhere despite being crazy.
3) He didn’t know where he was going, but God did.
There’s really no other way of looking at it.
There’s no evidence that Eli is either crazy, or a liar, and his explanation is the 3rd.
And, even supposing I’m right, why are atheist so defensive about this movie, anyways? I feel like whenever people on my side of the spectrum make a big deal about movies, they’re always ridiculed “Haha, don’t the Christians/Republicans/Conservatives [whichever fits the context] know the difference between reality and fiction?” Conservatives are mocked all the time for being concerned by fictional portrayals of things that they don’t like (for example the last paragraph of this article is not discussing political opinion, but is mocking the group for thinking that fictional portrayals matter). Yet, suddenly we have a fictional portrayal of a man of God acting by faith, and a movie suggesting that *gasp* God might actually exist and might actually empower those who believe in him, and suddenly the shoe is on the other foot, and suddenly it’s not simply an interesting movie, but “Christian propaganda”.
You know why it’s Christian propaganda? Because you refuse to accept any other explanation.
I’ve said at least once, and now I’m saying again, that if that’s how you want to view the film, that’s fine. That’s your view, and that’s great. It works for you. You asked how a non-theist could see it non-theologically. I told you.
It becomes a problem when you start telling me that if I don’t see God, I’m Doing It Wrong. I’m not telling you you’re not allowed to see God; stop telling me that I have to.
Before I get to posting–how was it not revealed early on what the book was? I thought it was blatantly obvious–and, in fact, intended to be blatantly obvious. It’s right there in the flipping title, but everyone here is treating it like a spoiler?
I mean, it’s not immediately obvious that the book is in Braille, but you know about twenty or thirty minutes in that it’s a Bible
“Eli” is not one of the books of the Bible.
Maybe it’s my memory playing tricks on me, but isn’t the Bible itself referred to as the Book of Elijah, within the text itself?
I have never heard the Bible referred to as “the Book of Elijah”.
First and Second Kings refer to the “voice” of Elijah, his “mantle”, “saying”, “hands”, and “spirit”. Never his book.
“The Book of ____” is pretty much a Christian term. I can’t think of anything non-Christian that fits that format.
Right, yeah, I knew that it was a Bible, or at least was pretty darned sure, just from watching the preview. Cause, yeah, Eli isn’t a book of the Bible, but as Syal says “Book of ____” pretty well suggests Bible. (Not quite as much as “The Gospel According to Eli” would have, but that would have been a tad obvious) Either that, or something magical, but watching the preview it certainly didn’t give me the impression that Eli was a wizard.
And Eli is a big biblical name too.
But see, even that makes it weird. Because if Eli has faith (and that film makes it pretty clear, he talks about things being given to him and made for him, then he wants the book to be used as a book but instead he goes to this place where its a bit of literature.
I always figured it was an exec cop-out to tone the film down a bit (because the bad guy was pretty connected up with the book as something a little less academic too and it seemed to imply he was missing the point when he was talking about it in abstract from it’s true message.
Else maybe some sort of pantheism faith for the director (Jainism or something? Maybe just universalist christian) which would be okay, which is why it ultimately didn’t bother me, because I guess that one would be valid. (Although the guy collecting them didn’t talk like that still)
Well he ends up at what’s probably the last working printing press on the planet. This makes good sense; but not printing a single copy and putting it on a bookshelf. Rather, it should have been spread and distributed, (which arguably could have happened, but was certainly not well-depicted by the movie).
“In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain't no good unless you can see a symbol hiding, like a scared gerbil, under every page. And in many creative writing course the little beasts multiply, the place swarms with them. What does this Mean? What does that Symbolize? What is the Underlying Mythos? Kids come lurching out of such courses with a brain full of gerbils. And they sit down and write a lot of empty pomposity, under the impression that that's how Melville did it.”
The Language of the Night, Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K Le Guin is my favorite author, hands down. Your quote brought me my first real smile of today.
Scott (Duneyrr) says:
I am just surprised you can see a movie in the theater for $5. Here in Los Angeles, you’re looking at twice that much for a sub-par theater. If you want a nice place, you’re looking at around $15 and that’s not IMAX or 3D (which can get up around the $20 range)
Saturday morning early-bird matinee. Avoiding the rush is the only way to see a movie cheaply in the cinema.
I consider the Book of Eli to be the best representation on film of Fallout ever made. And yes, I have seen The Road.
Irridium says:
I remember when I first saw previews for that movie my first thought was “Did they make a Fallout movie when I wasn’t looking?”
Eli was a muchkin, who took perception as his dump stat but balanced it out with the extra-sensory power perk and built a badass melee focused character who treks across the Wasteland encountering cannibals, bartering junk, looting corpses, speech checking bad guys, whose guns are all surprisingly ineffective and dragging along a useless companion who always stands in the wrong places. The villain surrounds himself with mooks, always talks before fighting and rants on about how he will recreate the world to suit himself.
Never mind visual style, even the plot was Fallout. The level design was Fallout. You could even imagine rummaging through all the chests in that bar after you’ve pissed off all the locals and been forced to slaughter them all
The Road is nothing like Fallout :D The Road is one of the most brutal films I’ve ever seen. That and The Hunger Games were the two films I’ve come out thinking, ‘that’s a brilliant film, why would anyone ever want to watch it?’
It very accurately and realistically depicts just how much the setting sucks. Which to be fair, is really the original point of post-apocalypse. But in Fallout nothing serious and it’s just a way to blast heads of super mutants
EDIT: Getting moderated a lot today :D I think it might be pot frequency, although some of the others were definitely keyword loaded. Sorry for the extra work Shamus. Term has ended, I’m slightly too stressed to engage with the community of an actual forum and it’s raining a lot =D
That movie was seriously pretty dumb.
Jokerman says:
There really is a huge problem when stealing the film is much easier than buying it legitimately, you could honestly get any film off that list right now without much hassle on pirate Bay or something, while going through the correct channels just gets you frustration and disappointment.
I used to pirate loads and loads of old games that I couldn’t get copies of easily enough through legitimate channels; i.e stores, second-hand, etc too much hassle.
Then Steam began evolving into a distribution platform. GOG came around. Etc, etc.
With that something very weird happened; I stopped pirating games when I could just buy them for a few euros easily. Yet for some reason utorrent is still chugging away busily bringing me ten year old — or far older — movies to enjoy.
I guess they need to put more of those FBI warnings and unskippable anti-piracy ads on legitimately bought DVDs. Surely that’s the answer to this problem.
GOG is a fantastic service that I need to take advantage of more often…
It gave me Fallout 1 for FREE. That’s kind of awesome.
MadTinkerer says:
It’s simple: the Media Cartels want to drive people to piracy, so they can go crying to Congress about piracy stats, and then get horrible laws like SOPA and PIPA and that other one passed. That seems to be the plan, anyway.
The book publishers and record companies know that the artists don’t need them. They keep looking for some future where they still exist and can take 80% of the cover price, but it doesn’t exist. So they have nothing to lose by being legal pests and trying to wreck the net.
Movie studios should know that it costs a lot up front to make a movie, and so they still have a role. From what I read, they are just terrified of the net though, and don’t want their content out there.
Netflix was an end-run around the studios, not something they started. They hate that and Redbox and are trying to kill both.
Khizan says:
I wouldn’t say that book publishers have no place.
Self-published books have a well-deserved reputation for being terrible. I can’t remember the name of the last one I tried(not counting Witch Watch), but I got it for free on my Kindle via the Amazon whispernet(so no personal bandwidth usage) and I still feel like I got ripped off. No editor. No proofreading. No standards.
What you get is plot holes, wooden dialogue, one-note characters, and every bad cliche on TVTropes. When I read a published book, I know that the book has seen an editor. I know that a company that really likes selling books has said “Yeah, I want this author associated with our name”. When I’m pondering over a book purchase on my Kindle, these are HUGE factors that I take into account, and I know I’m not the only one.
My experience with self-published books has been so bad that, as a rule, I don’t bother to read self-published books anymore unless the author’s got a significant backlog of material available that I’ve enjoyed and considered high quality.
So far, that’s been Witch Watch. And while the world is very interesting and well designed(even if he flip-flopped wizardry and sorcery, damnit), I still think the book would have been improved by some tighter editing.
I mean big names have claimed that their books were messes before the editor got to them, so clearly a lot of input is given. It’s just in many ways there are an awful lot of contributors competing for not much attention or time and even less money, so no situation is going to be perfect.
The publishers do have a place in the creative process. They bring up a work to a level of professionalism and a set of standards. This I agree with you. It is useful; it is necessary even.
Shamus likes to say that the natural state of any internet community is YouTube. I think this applies to creative mediums as well ;j
However, the publishers of today seem to have forgotten quality for the sake of just desperate money grabs. I think that when they first figured out they have the power to dupe people out of money with fancy marketing and appeals to popularity, the masses were unprepared for that. Previously the publisher cared so much about his reputation these sorts of tricks were inconceivable. Negative rep, it seems to be the case, is easily drowned out with hype.
I’m still waiting for the pendulum to swing back and knock the bastards on their asses, and the levels of awareness seems to be rising. We’re still beyond the level where the big companies will have to keep their reputations spotless in order to sell; for all the talk of rEApers and boycotts, our comrades seem to posses the willpower of an alcoholic at Oktoberfest.
You ar econfusing book PUBLISHERS with book EDITORS. You can have an editor without a publisher and a publisher wihtout an editor. The writers I have worked with that have dealt with an editor almost always come out the other end way better whereas the ones that just deal with a publisher…um, don’t.
… i can only imagine the frustration all that ‘not avialable for streaming’ causes.
i say i can only imagine it because, frankly, it doesn’t even come up for me. i hit ‘not available in your country/region’ long before on most services, and on those i don’t, streaming is pretty much impossible due to lag.
i’d rather take four times as long to download the thing and actually have something Watchable, thank you. even Youtube used to have it’s iffy moments in that regard (not anymore, fortunately.) … the tyranny of distance strikes again! and brings it’s friend ‘really really bad compression’ to eat your data cap at the same point. (lesson for x-box users with data caps: buying games on line eats your cap something crazy because x-box live’s compression is RUBBISH. as of last time i bothered, which was a while ago now.)
So, a thought…
These people from major studios — and I know this is an absurd thing to say when so much evidence to the contrary exists — they aren’t stupid. Well, greed might be a form of stupidity, but any bell-end could see with their third-eye clear as day that there are boatloads of cash to be made through online distribution.
Why hasn’t anyone walked into the Valve offices and gone, “Look, you have a big-huge distribution network. We want to stream movies through your system for a flat fee (or possibly offer them for purchase) you’d get x% of the profits. Let’s make a deal.”
Well, I suppose it’s the x% they’re worried about but they’d still be making buttloads (One buttload is equivalent to 1.35 Standard Fucktons) moolah that they aren’t right now.
…and fuck it, I want one single distribution method for everything. Yeah, I do. I know monopolies are bad or something to that effect but I’d MUCH rather have one system for everything than a dozen specific ones all with different accounts and ways of working.
Because, for one reason at least, it’s not that simple. Valve is set up to handle video game downloads and authentication, but not primarily constant streaming of data for all of it’s users, all the time.
That changes once you get streaming video content involved, which is a whole hell of a lot more data.
Valve would need a load more servers and bandwidth. I wouldn’t be opposed to steam having a service for downloading video on top of it’s other stuff, but it wouldn’t be a quick fix
Standard economic theory would suggest that everything should stream, c.p. The up-front costs are sunk, the marginal costs are close to zero. That they don’t stream suggests that all things aren’t equal. My guesses for the differences:
1.) licensing limbo based on deals worked out before digital distribution
2.) residuals driving up the marginal cost above the price
3.) higher bids from networks (though this would suggest that anything not streaming on the Internet should have at least semi-regular play on cable, for which purpose I’m going include the premium channels too)
4.) The business model is very inefficient (I’ve read it suggested that Netflix’s flat fee rate is actually a money-loser as usage rates increase, which was the reason for the attempt to split off the streaming service from the mail-service).
I doubt Valve could make these problems go away.
Oh, and monopoly may not be the proper framework. We’re dealing with a network effect, for which railroads, turn pikes, and shopping malls may be the closer analog.
Why Valve, which isn’t using streaming stuff, and not, say, Youtube?
ccesarano says:
Amazon Instant Video can operate like Netflix if you have a Prime account, but all the stuff that is “free streaming” on Prime is basically the same content you get on Netflix. I was hoping the two services would offer me different content, but no. And Netflix has better interfaces on most devices it is on (which in my house is damn near everything, I’d be surprised if the next Toaster Oven in this place doesn’t have it), so there’s no use for Amazon Instant unless I feel like paying $5 per movie or more.
I do find it interesting that others have issue finding content, but when my brother came home from Korea there have been a LOT of movies added. It went from about 50-60 item queue to over 200, and this doesn’t count the massive drop of content since Starz decided millions of dollars wasn’t enough.
I just opened the website up to see if I could find anything to recommend, the first being the new True Grit, which I liked quite a bit (never saw the original, but I’ll blaspheme and say that I’ll take Jeff Bridges over John Wayne any day). The real problem? Below it then recommends me The Social Network, Moon and Men Who Stare At Goats, none of which are available for instant. I imagine if I added it to my queue (which I’m pretty sure I already have) it would show me Instant items. Why not show some of those? Is it trying to convince me to pay more in order to get DVD’s of more instantly recognizable films?
By the way, they still have Limitless which…wasn’t as good as everyone claimed, but it was still pretty good.
Right now, what Netflix has in spades are television shows, even in terms of Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Firefly, Farscape and pretty much every iteration of Star Trek is on there, Stargate is on there, and if you want a bit o’ Whedon in your life his entire anthology is pretty much on Instant. Buffy, Angel (recommeneded, sans Season Four), Firefly, Dollhouse and Dr. Horrible are all on there.
In truth, though, the biggest reason my Netflix queue is so long is 1) there’s a lot of older films I haven’t seen, and 2) My brother has an eclectic taste in films. From Korean and Japanese films to Blacksploitation, he’s got content (and in a lot of ways, it is annoying).
It’s a shame, though, because sometimes you’re just in the mood for typical summer blockbuster fare, and while it’s nice that Iron Man 2 and Thor are both on there, it is more nice when a movie you are less likely to already own on Blu-Ray is up on Instant.
In any case, here are some personal recommendations to you in case you missed them.
Brick, a classic Noir film set in high school starring Joseph Gordon Levitt. Pretty bad ass. Probably shouldn’t watch in front of the kids.
Trollhunter. MovieBob reviewed it, and I can concur that it is pretty good. That is, if you don’t mind shakey-cam. This one isn’t horrible, but then again I can deal with it considering it is a fake documentary style.
The Tick Live-Action TV Series. Doesn’t have quite the same charm as the original cartoon, but it’s a lot of fun. Only 13 episodes long, so you don’t have to invest too much time into it.
Monster, an anime that has no supernatural elements to it. It’s a drama about adults, something that is very uncommon in the anime world (at least, in the States).
Spaced, the TV show by Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg before they made Shaun of the Dead. Only about 13 or 14 episodes, loaded with tons of nerdy references because it is Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg.
The IT Crowd, which you should already know about so I won’t explain it.
Killer Elite is a movie I haven’t watched yet, but it has a pretty good looking cast.
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil starring Alan Tudyk a.k.a. Wash from Firefly, and is a sort of Dark Comedy Subversion of horror.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an intellectual comedy in the most true sense. Two side characters of Hamlet are idiot-savantes caught up in a political conflict they know little about, and ultimately…well it’s really a commentary on the role of characters and death in entertainment, and is one of my favorite films ever. If you haven’t already seen it then I’d guess it may be right up your alley (though it usually takes at least two viewings to truly follow what’s going on at times).
I could probably come up with several recommendations based on my “Watch Again” list, but truth told I have no idea what you have or haven’t seen.
Part of our problem is that since we only own a Playstation 2 as DVD player we dropped the dvd side, and Netflix doesn’t even show you dvd content without that side of thigns. Which is dumb. If they did show us that they had something we wanted on dvd we would probably re-add the dvd side of things because it reminded us we wanted to watch it. But this separation they went for kind of broke that and since we can’t even see if they HAVE it we don’t bother.
ALSO, we have seen, I think, absolutely everything you listed or nearly.
Oddly enough, I stopped with the DVDs because I ended up having them just sit around for extended periods of time. It wasn’t worth the additional cost to do the DVD’s as well, especially since, at the time, I wanted to watch TV shows which took too long to get through when waiting for the discs to ship.
But, this is personal experience. In truth I can see why Netflix Instant seems gimped to a lot of folks at this point. Fortunately there’s a lot of films I missed out on that are on there, but the real problem is having time to watch them with a six year old around the house (still waiting to watch Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, to show my brother the early 90’s Kicking and Screaming (no relation to the Will Ferrell film), to see if Season of the Witch is just another crappy Nicholas Cage movie, etc.)
In truth, Netflix is basically becoming a TV service, which is a bit of a downer as you usually are a season behind when new episodes are added.
To those trying Buffy for the first time, I recommend stopping at the end of Season Five and just take that as the canon ending. The series wraps up much better that way.
(Sure, you miss two of the best episodes of the entire run, but the rest of Seasons 6 and 7 aren’t really worth those two.)
At this point my only recommendation for Buffy is to watch it until Angel spins off from it. That way you get enough of Angel’s back story to properly follow along.
Buffy and Dollhouse suffer from the same problem: the protagonist is the least interesting of characters. Everyone else is the attraction. I was able to deal with this the first three seasons because there was enough time spent with characters like Giles, Willow and Xander, but then Season Four comes around and it feels like the primary focus is “Buffy trying to be a normal girl in College going through normal girl in College things”, and I just…gah. I tried to watch both Buffy and Angel simultaneously to keep up, but I just stopped watching Buffy.
I’m pondering moving on to Supernatural since I’ve been recommended that show by the same friend that recommended I watch Angel, and as he was right about that…
Muspel says:
Supernatural is definitely a show that I’d vouch for, although I personally feel like it doesn’t really hit its stride until the second season. Not that the first season is bad, mind you, just that it’s not as good as the rest.
There’s a reason for this. It sucks, and I get your frustration, but there is a good reason.
Netflix used to have a lot of customers like me: young and broke, I’m not really willing to pay to rent individual titles or for premium cable (ok, any cable TV). If Netflix can make a few dollars off me and pass on a few cents to content providers, then everyone wins — like you said, the other option is 100% of nothing.
But *now* Netflix is starting to have a lot more customers like my parents. They do pay for premium cable or to rent/buy movies. At least, they did before Netflix came along. As internet streaming has caught on with a wider segment of the population, it’s becoming more and more true that some movies watched on Netflix represent lost sales.
The gravy train of a few years ago is over. Then, we geeks could stream movies for cheap, because the rest of the population was still paying through the nose for content. Now everyone wants content for the bargain we got, and the people who make the movies are putting on the breaks. For a more detailed analysis, see this blog post .
What about older movies then?
I’m pretty sure you got this backward. Young broke and geeky can always pirate stuff. They are paying money because they want to(LouisCK, humble indie bundle, kickstarter, etc) not because they have to. And that’s the real way to stop piracy, by making people not want to pirate.
What do you really think will happen when netflix goes down? Do you honestly expect all netflix subscribers to buy/subscribe to overpriced services? Netflix lost 800000 users in an instant when they decided to raise their prices. Gravy train may be over for someone but that’s not us.
ps: piracy is bad and illegal don’t do it.
But that’s getting at the same point. For me, the option was Netflix or do without, but if you talk about someone who faced the trade off of Netflix or pirate, the point stands just as well.
Imagine our sometimes pirate. He feels a little bad about pirating, so if Netflix has good selection for low prices, he’ll use Netflix. But if their prices get too high (or their selection too low) he’ll just pirate.
Now imagine his dad. He’s not quite as tech savvy, and won’t pirate at all. He would also prefer to get a good selection of cheap movies on Netflix, but he has a bit more money and will pay for cable and buy movies if he has to.
Now, so long as most Netflix customers were like the first guy, studios could sell their movies to Netflix for very little. Sure, they weren’t making much, but they were picking up customers who would have been pirates.
But as more customers start to be like the second guy, putting movies on Netflix starts to cost studios serious money. Bizarrely, in this case it’s the people who *won’t* pirate who provide the incentive to pull content from Netflix.
No we are not. You are saying (at least the article is saying) that netflix model is not sustainable with greater numbers. I disagree the unsustainable thing is current business model of the mainstream media. They are trying to keep a hit n miss business model on our dime. We are financing both their losses and profits. I don’t want to do that. I don’t want to finance next Catwoman by watching Avengers.
But that’s how creativity works. A low risk system involves tight, corporate reigns where you don’t try new things and don’t take chances on people.
I mean Valve are even more extreme. When you buy a good Valve game, you’re funding that, plus all the games they’ve made and just thrown away because they weren’t good enough (which sounds like several). So you’re completely funding Catwoman with Valve,
Uhh, just to be sure, are you trying to be sarcastic?
a) You are mixing “investors” with creativity there.
b) We are already in that “low risk system” where nothing but dumbed down franchises survive.
c) Valve is mostly funded by steam. Just to make it clear they don’t use that hit or miss model.
They do. Read the handbook. Steam gives them the money to do it, but the reason they make good games is they don’t release the bad ones. There have been at least two games they’ve made and never released. And the rest of them are made and remade until they actually work.
Heck Pixar do this. They produce and reproduce film after film, throwing away all the things that don’t work.
Same with Apple, they make a lot of products that never hit the shelves because they aren’t good enough.
The Avengers was a risk, The Avengers was a film that could easily have blown up in people’s faces. The reliable income comes from stuff like Transformers and the risky income is the stuff we really love, like the original Star Wars.
The difference between Apple, Pixar, Valve and the film industry in general is that the film industry can’t afford to not release a film they’ve made that turns out to suck. This hit and miss model is the only way they can make even the small amount of good they do already.
Apple’s made plenty of shabby products, and a good number of them hit the shelves. It’s just that people don’t remember them.
Tuesday Mar 19, 2013 at 6:41 pm
ummm… Steam is a distributing program owned by valve not its own company… It doesn’t give Valve the money that Valve owns. duh.
This was perhaps not the most graceful way to introduce yourself to the other commenters, by sneering at someone else and implying they’re being stupid. Making a factual error isn’t nearly as bad as being rude about it.
Moreover, Thomas was most likely talking about the fact that Steam, being a store, gives Valve a cut of every sale. Just like Wal-Mart gets a cut of all the stuff you buy at Wal-Mart, even though Wal-Mart doesn’t produce anything themselves. These store profits likely eclipe that money that Valve makes selling their own videogames.
This revenue stream means they can shelve projects and hold things in development longer than (say) a developer trying to make due with a fixed budget.
But bills have to be paid.
Either content starts getting made for less (lower budgets, fewer effects) or *someone* pays for it. A few years ago, Netflix customers got a great deal because they were able to pick up content that had already been paid for by everyone who already bought movies or paid for cable. But we can’t *all* get such a good deal or there’s no way to fund the budgets.
Now, if you want to argue that budgets have gotten too high and studios ought to make more movies that can break even when no one pays more than Netflix can afford on our $15/month, then that’s a separate debate. (Though I doubt that model would produce The Avengers looking anything like it did.)
Amarsir makes the same point below, but with numbers:
“Starz, who owns most of the titles people go looking for, originally leased the library [to Netflix] for $30m per year. But they got complaints that it was hurting viewership to the cable channels, which bring Starz $1.3 billion.”
So long as Netflix was only reaching those of us who would never pay for cable, they could pocket the $30m per year. But as soon as dads started signing up, that $30 million was suddenly risking the 1,300 million (if Amarsir’s numbers are right.)
Well if you were to understand it you’d by now. So fine you win, have it your way.
In the short term it might be a good decision. But in the long term the dads pass on and the generation that got used to illegal downloads will be the only remaining audience. Convincing them to try the legal options will be hard, especially after years of being treated like crap (obligatory Oatmeal). Apple/iTunes Music Store pulled it off for music, so maybe it’s possible, but it’s a gamble. In the meanwhile, they sure as hell aren’t earning my loyalty.
Oh, I agree entirely with that — no question they’re being shortsighted.
But the rant “They’ll regret this in 30 years when everyone they haven’t pissed off is dead!” is something of a different rant than “they’re refusing to take my money *right now* for no reason other than pure stupid!”
Plus, given how dynamic the media/tech world is, I figure most of these guys only have an even shot at surviving the next decade. Asking them to think in a 20+ year horizon might be a bit too much when they are worried about making it there.
“You’ll regret this 30 years from now!” is a hell of threat to an industry that is wondering whether it will survive the summer the way their tent-pole pieces keep dropping.
I have to ask. Is Oatmeal comics the new XKCD?
though that Particular Oatmeal strip comes up a lot.
some random dood says:
Not really linked to this, but an interesting opinion piece at Ars Technica about the direction of AAA games.
(Sorry, didn’t know any place else to post this, and thought it would interest you/your readers.)
I felt it was a bit harsh maybe. At the very least it didn’t seem to acknowledge that the deaths in Tomb Raider and the Last Of Us weren’t been shown as good things.
The whole point of the apocalypse setting since it’s origin has always been about the horror of society degrading to such a level where your forced into things like that or see your loved ones die. I thought it was nice to see a piece of creative work step back towards that instead of the ‘shooting things is fun’ ala Fallout and lots of modern apocalypse literature.
In the same way Tomb Raider was acknowledging, that actually whilst we have only seen power fantasy video games really (except for Metal Gear Solids), that its a lot more disturbing than that and a lot more traumatic for the people involved.
I feel like Tomb Raider and the Last of Us were the opposite of games like Assassins Creed and Fallout. And it doesn’t feel like any change in the industry really, except maybe a step for the better, we’ve had ‘watch people’s heads blow up’ for far too long and it’s about time we began having stories of. ‘people’s heads blowing up, might not be fun’
Dave Brown says:
I have a nitpick with your post! Miss Marple was never married.
That aside, I live in Japan, and when I go to visit Netflix, all I get is “haha, you guys suck, get out of here”. In order to get a decent amount of content that I actually feel like watching, I have to go onto the iTunes store, don a cardboard American mask (the easiest way to do this is to get a US iTunes prepaid card) and then ask it to give me the goods. Sadly, the best customer I can get still comes from piracy, and that includes writing shell scripts to convert the videos I’ve downloaded so that they actually work on my phone/tablet/set-top box.
As far as I can tell, it’s not Apple stopping anyone from buying anything they want–it’s the paranoid control freaks at the studios. For some reason, they want to make sure that people in Japan get their content months after the people in America get it. They seem to think that since it used to be that they had to ship movies across the ocean on steam vessels, they have to provide a sort of emulation of that here in 2012.
I know, that drove me nuts as well. As much as I love him, Shamus has no clue about anything Agatha Christie. ;)
And that is the cool thing about iTunes– our oldest adores all things Japan including J-pop and can’t wait to get her hands on a Japanese iTunes card and buy music.
You have absolutely nothing to complain about Shamus, you’re just spoiled. I’m a Canadian, which means I can only use the streaming part of Netflix, and my options are about 1/3 of yours because over a certain percentage of it has to be Canadian-made content according to out Broadcast laws.
Also Hulu and other alternatives are straight-up not allowed in Canada. Here I am, drooling over the possiblity of having access to the American Netflix library and you’re complaining its not big enough. That seems pretty silly to me.
I was surpised I’m the first to point this out, but as far as I can tell, I am. If I’m not I apologize for only skimming some comments.
I wouldn’t say he has nothing to complain about. Less than you, sure, but not nothing. It is a logical fallacy to equate “sucks less than another thing” with “doesn’t suck at all”. The U.S. Netflix situation could be a whole lot worse, but it could (and should) be a lot better.
Indeed. Just because something could be worse does not mean you can’t point out its flaws. That is one way to improve, see what we’re doing wrong and fix it.
Continuing the logical fallacy, how can you Canadians complain about your Netflix library? I just get region locked. ;)
I am very grateful that it doesn’t work the other way around, otherwise I would have to go without my colourful talking ponies, and that would be a travesty.
Jjkaybomb says:
Netflix was the only place I could legally watch Star Trek Next Gen. Couldnt find the DVD’s for rent anywhere, nor on hulu, nor pirate streams…
I admit, I have about sixty movies/series in my cue right now, but I don’t look for any titles, because that’s always, always, ALWAYS ends in disappointment and failure. So I just browse what they have and get excited when I see something I recognize. Like… Oban! Dirty Jobs! A Knights Tale! Labyrinth! Oh god, Labyrinth sucked… Ooh, Kick-Ass! Ghost in the Shell!
Taellosse says:
Well, on the plus side, all of Star Trek, every series (though, sadly, not the movies), is stream-able on Netflix now. My wife and I have been working our way through DS9 lately.
RichVR says:
They pulled Superman: Doomsday. I used to watch it once or twice a month. Bastards!
Hal says:
I’m not sure if the issue is that the studios are wanting to set up their own services or they’re trying to milk Netflix for more for access to their libraries.
If it’s the former, that’s a bad idea; customers will reject the idea of paying a half-dozen subscription fees for access to different libraries. If it’s the latter, they’re strangling the goose that laid the golden egg; to get more money out of Netflix, Netflix would have to raise their rates, and we saw how well that went over.
I don’t know what’s going to happen here. Hopefully something breaks the logjam before Netflix dies by a thousand small cuts.
I don’t think the problem was so much with Netflix raising their rates as much as it was them trying to play it off as a feature
It was them raising their rates, playing off as a feature, and adding a second account login for the “privilege”.
That said, I was somewhat stoked about the Gamefly-like promise that came with Qwikster, and disappointed that it didn’t come to light.
Rosseloh says:
Same experiences as you, Shamus. I think the only reason I still keep my account active is because I get a few decent documentaries and TV shows out of it, and it costs less than an hour’s worth of work a month.
And I still am not afraid to torrent if there is no other legitimate way to get something (i.e. Game of Thrones season 2). Would that people with the words “Chief _____ Officer” in their job titles were the sort who would read blogs like this.
WordPress is doing something weird. I left a comment, but it isn’t appearing. Yet if I try to post it again, WordPress detects the duplicate and won’t let me
Not unless the code’s changed. Normally, if I’m awaiting moderation, I can still see and edit the comment I made. Now it just…disappears into the never. WordPress is obviously making a record of it somewhere, but I can’t see it.
Sometimes it remembers you’re you, and sometimes it forgets.
RTBones says:
As I read through your post, Shamus, the thing that stuck in my mind was that what we have here are the makings of a great Monty Python sketch.
I am amazed at the absurd lengths the studios go through to make viewers lives h3ll. Its more than just streaming services too. If you buy a DVD/BlueRay that includes a digital version of the movie, in all likelihood, what you will get these days is an invitation to join a service that will allow you to stream the movie when you want – not an actual digital download. This does nothing for me as a guy that spends a lot of time on airplanes over some ocean or another. Oh, and by the way – if you read the fine print of some of these services, to make use of their stream, you have to allow them to spam you adverts on various products to give you ‘the best possible service.’
Carmel J. says:
It makes me sad that just as we are willing (and need) to cut the Cable, the options for online viewing are drying up like a weed and blowing away. I knew we should have done this years ago!
I second the hatred for having to hear dubbed anime (I like original languages, whether it’s a movie, a show, or an opera, go fig.) I’ll add that it was getting harder to watch anime with discs too because of the number of discs that were disappearing and not getting replaced. It seemed like half our queue was in the Saved list. :(
We switched to streaming, and it seems to be working out ok so far for TV shows- I can find things for the kids to watch at least- but I had a similar experience recently trying to watch Clueless, The Princess Bride, even A Dolphin Tale… guess I should watch Iron Man 2 while I still can!
Robert Conley says:
I think the US Congress should mandate the same thing they do for Radio. Setup a mandated industry royalty scheme and the individual streaming services log what they play and/or subscribers and pay royalties into the fund which distributes to the right holders.
Imagine what Radio Stations would be like if the current situation existed for streaming video as for music.
That would never, in a thousand years, work, nor would it be a good thing to try. The reasons why:
1) Radio frequencies are considered a “natural resource” because…well…they are. Therefore, the government has control over them just like they control over their sovereign airspace and over nature preserves. The internet, OTOH, is entirely artificially created on company bought and run machines invented for the purpose of running the internet. Government mandated royalties would cross all sort of boundaries between property rights and government purview that really should not be crossed.
2) The internet is not restricted to the United States. While this isn’t a barrier in terms of legality that #1 is (and indeed, hasn’t stopped our government from trying to impose our own rules on the internet in the past), imposing levies on the internet is crossing all sorts of international boundaries that really shouldn’t be crossed like that.
3) I don’t think radio even really works that way. What you’re talking about basically sounds like the Performance Rights Act (google it yourself–Wikipedia doesn’t offer much and any other source is going to be biased), which hasn’t been passed (and IMO shouldn’t be passed, but that’s another discussion).
Just want to mention something… You said radio frequencies are a natural resource, right? Well, apparently so is bandwidth.
Erm…Those two statements are synonymous. Bandwidth allocation is the term for how the government controls what radio frequencies (i.e. bands) are assigned to which entities.
When you’re talking about wireless signals, bandwidth=frequencies for any purpose related to this discussion at hand
I totally knew that…
That just reinforces the point, though. The internet could come to be regulated in the same way as radio.
Only over wireless I think. Over a wired connection, you can always add another wire.
Rob Conley says:
While I wasn’t entirely accurate about Congress being involved but here is the scoop on licensing music for radio. I think it would a great boon for everybody if something similar was done for Internet Streaming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_Music_Incorporated
Distribution rights.
Netflicks lost most of it’s streaming movies because starz…the media company that leased them those rights decided to make it’s own online service…which you have to have a cable service to use.
Until the cable satellite mosel breaks…streaming movies will be iffy.
It’s very frustrating because there are so few options.
You can either get netflix for $8 and a very limited selection, buy cable for $60 and get a lot of tv you won’t watch and a fairly large selection with each movie costing an additional $5-10.
Why can’t I just pay netflix $20 to $30 a month and get the whole library? Why can’t I get only the movies at $5-10 each and not have to pay the huge cost of all the tv I don’t watch?
It’s an efficiency failure. I can either get cheap crappy service or expensive decent service but with more options than I desire. Where’s the middle ground?
lasslisa says:
It’s actually not an efficiency failure in the way you’re thinking. The cable company isn’t selling you all these channels thinking you’re going to watch them all, and pretty much no one is buying all those channels planning to watch them all.
Each cable subscriber is motivated by a particular set of features – football, or HBO, or food network, or cartoons, or So You Think You Can Dance, or any combination of those. The cable company reimburses their channels in approximate proportion to how many subscribers it thinks it gets by having those channels. And in return for providing the infrastructure, tech support, etc. it gets a cut of the money as well.
In order to sell you a movie for $5, there needs to be the cable company providing the infrastructure, and the cable company’s motivation for doing this is that it gets some number of subscribers who would not be subscribed if not for the movies. So – on that end – it’s efficient to have a consolidated delivery mechanism.
I’m not saying it’s not a pain and a ripoff, though. I don’t like my cable prices at ALL, and it’s definitely a pseudomonopoly (AT+T recently came to the neighborhood so uh… now it’s a duopoly, I guess?) but it’s worth it to us for the handful of channels we watch. And… that’s what it is to the vast majority of cable subscribers. A handful of channels or shows they watch regularly, and the option to watch something else if they ever feel like it.
In order to sell you a movie for $5, there needs to be the cable company providing the infrastructure, and the cable company's motivation for doing this is that it gets some number of subscribers who would not be subscribed if not for the movies. So ““ on that end ““ it's efficient to have a consolidated delivery mechanism.
See, it’s that kind of logic that makes me question whether I’m understanding an argument at all. The number of people that are, for example, paying $50, $70, $100 a month for cable TV and a premium service purely for the purpose of watching whatever the amazing thing is this year (E.G. Game of Thrones, The Tudors, etc.) seems to be … astronomically thin. Several dozen maybe, but not thousands, much less millions of customers. Thousands may be using that as a rationalization, but I really doubt that they’re gaining zero benefit from anything else anywhere on the service that they’re buying. Plus usually the internet connectivity and cable TV are add-ons for each other.
Feel as though I should post this comic. Also, here’s the New Zealand version, though it works for any country outside the US, really.
I’ve never been able to stream, though. And when my internet is good enough to actually stream the quality is so bad I just don’t bother. Crappy internet sure is fun.
So yeah, I just use the disks. Works pretty well for me. Kind of sucks for Netflix though, having to deal with these media companies. And the people paying for the service, who get screwed when it comes to stuff they want to watch. From what I hear, the studios are wanting more money or something like that, and the only way Netflix can do that is raise their price, which didn’t go over so well. So now we’re left with the other option, which is less videos available for streaming.
Or something like that. Haven’t really followed it that closely. I just wish movie/television studios would stop being so damn stupid and make their content available to buy and watch easily.
Oh, you. You linked The Oatmeal’s comic before I could. And here I thought I was going to be the first.
aaaaayup.
that’s about the gist of it.
Not Yet Measured says:
I thought Netflix used to have the ability to create multiple queues on an account. I don’t know if they still do, or if that will help the recommendation engine (it might still be account-wide).
That’s what he’s talking about with sub-accounts. It is still a feature, but it was originally implemented for the disc-service, before streaming was even available. They tried to discontinue it, but got customer backlash, so they left it in, but it’s never been very well supported, and, as he suggests, may not even be available at all on the streaming side of things. And from the sound of it, that’s all the Young household has from Netflix anymore.
And I’ve been tossed into “awaiting moderation” again? What’d I do?
Nope, not available for streaming at all– just for having disks delivered, which we don’t.
I don’t even bother to search for things on NetFlix anymore – if I feel like watching a movie, I just browse the entire available streaming collection in the couple of genres I’m interested in, and then I go read a book.
Hitch says:
Yeah, this is how it works for me too. I’ve long since given up looking to see if something I want to see is on Netflix. If I feel like watching something, I look to see what Netflix is offering. Occasionally I get a nice surprise of something I hadn’t considered before seeing it listed on Netflix or, more often, I realize after scrolling through a couple genres that’s there’s something better I could occupy my time with.
One thing that really bugs me about Netflix is that it’s hard to tell if they just don’t have streaming, or if they don’t have a thing altogether, because unless you have a DVD subscription, you can’t search their DVD offerings. This is one stupid business decision that is all Netflix – why the hell wouldn’t you want the free advertising of “hey, give us more money and you can get that thing you want!”
Yes, this exactly. And I think they have lost us as potential disk-borrowing customers more than a few times because of it. We would start back up for a month if we KNEW they had what we want to borrow.
I suspect, though I cannot prove, that the model of not telling people what you have is thought by the company to make people think that the service has more than it has. I further suspect that the reverse is true: that not publishing the list publically keeps people from signing up for even the one month…
Chris Headley says:
Gave up on TV because cable was too expensive.
Hulu, will be done with because works well on computers but weird things on roku, don’t like the same targeted 3 ads on every show.
Netflix, am contemplating ending subscription due to lack of content I would like to see.
Thanks for confirming similar problems with finding something to watch on Netflix, thought I was losing it.
I am noticing if I kill the above and the time spent for searching for above (either with service or pirating) and wait till I see a movie at garage sale or in cheap bin somewhere, I may be able to pursue other hobbies. Not a bad thing that a greedy corporation may get me outside more or hanging out with friends and not around a TV.
Anachronist says:
I missed this comment. Pretty much echoes my sentiments. See my message a couple entries below this.
hborrgg says:
Not really a big fan of movies or tv shows on the internet unless youtube or hulu already have them for free.
Besides, I can aready waste my time watching this series I found about five people drunkenly swearing at video games. I forget what it’s called exactly but I think you would really like it.
Oh man, I totally know what you’re talking about! What was the title again?
Whatever. It’s totally awesome!
My own success rate for “I want to watch this now” is getting so low, I’m considering cancelling my Netflix subscription. But Netflix is trapped. They are correct that they need to move to digital delivery; shipping plastic around the country is a dying market. But the studios are still so paranoid about piracy that they refuse to license shows and movies at reasonable rates, or in some cases at all. Of course this is idiotic, since someone who can’t find the content on Netflix isn’t going to be a good little consumer and go buy the blu-ray. No, they’re going to pop over to the Pirate Bay and get it for free. Self-defeating idiots.
In our family, we eventually realized that whenever we turned on the TV, it was to watch a DVD or some anime we had downloaded onto a DVD.
So, we don’t subscribe to any cable service. Once or twice in the past year we watched something broadcast over the air. We have so many DVDs at home, many still in their original un-opened wrappers, as well as anime series we downloaded and never got around to watching, that there is no shortage of stuff to watch.
Movie subscription services? Bah. Way too much stress to make sure we got our money’s worth, sort of like over-eating at an all-you-can-eat buffet. We gave up on that too. Our local library is 4 blocks away, and has a huge collection of DVDs for every generation and every taste, more than anyone could watch in a lifetime. And it costs us nothing but a bit of time to go there and check out 5 DVDs at a time.
After becoming accustomed to living this way, I now wonder how anyone can justify the cost of cable TV or a movie subscription service. The value just wasn’t there for us.
Rod Spade says:
The Netflix DVD service is awesome! Particularly if you want to check out old classics or foreign films that you just wouldn’t be able to see otherwise. Last night I watched Gilda, from 1946. You do have to plan ahead a little, due to the 2-day latency when returning a disc, but it’s way better than leaving the house to rent a mediocre recent release.
Daemian Lucifer says:
I have a solution for you Shamus:If you dont find what you want on netflix,pick up a discworld book and read it.Thatll hook you up and keep you occupied for a loooong time.Plus,once youre done,you can then go back to the web and search for discworld movies.Those are worth a watch.
BeardedDork says:
and a number of them are on Netflix.
I am loving Soul Music right now.
Adam F says:
Going Postal was great
I don’t have Netflix, never have, I just don’t watch movies. I could be doing other more productive stuff, like playing Spacechem.
That said, two things (both shameless plugs).
Netflix was going to die at some point. All organizations do. That it came sooner than many would like is disappointing, but it’s just not that surprising.
And if you’re looking for Indie Sci-Fi there’s a movie coming out soon (I promise, really soon) called Project London. I worked extensively on the special effects and a bit on the sound design too. The main thing is that it’s completely volunteer driven and made with mostly open-source tools. Yeah, remember Blender? We (somehow managed to) use it for all the CG.
There are a few good trailers on Youtube. Check it out!
Most organizations die, or change. But there’s a lot that don’t. There’s dozens of breweries in Germany that have been ongoing concerns for 500 years, and there’s an inn in Japan that’s been in business for 1300 years.
After reading all of this, I sure am glad I don’t like movies/TV. Netflix streaming looks like a bit of a waste of money, now.
Even at that, the few things I am interested in (the new My Little Pony series, that Scott Pilgrim movie a couple years back, etc) are also things my friends like, so, chances are, I end up seeing them by pure virtue of having friends with whom I share interests.
(Is that the correct use of whom? I’ve never been able to tell.)
Whom is the objective form of who. Whom goes in place where “him” or “her” would go; who goes in place where “he” or “she” would go.
In this case, what you’re saying is “I share interests with <blank>”; you would say “I share interests with him/her”, not “I share interests with he/she”, and so “whom” is indeed correct.
A little reference guide.
Amarsir says:
MLP actually is on Netflix, for what it’s worth.
This would be like if, when television was rising to replace the radio as the dominant form of entertainment, TV stations suddenly pulled the plug and announced their shows were all going to be on their own proprietary brand of television.
Almost like if interactive gaming was rising to replace (or at least compete with) television and movies as the dominant form of entertainment, and game publishers suddenly announced their games were all going to be on their own proprietary brand of computer – and nowhere else.
Format-exclusive video games are my biggest complaint with gaming, even above DRM and unreasonable pricing. I already shelled out money for an Xbox 360 so I could have access to the plethora of games which aren’t available on my fully capable PC hardware, so why on earth should I be expected to throw down the same amount again just to play great games like Metal Gear or Persona on the Playstation 3? Why is it necessary that I own three sets of hardware engineered to do the exact same thing just in order to peruse all of the content out there?
I don’t need to buy a Dreamworks Player to see the Shrek series. I don’t need a 21st Century Foxbox just to be able to watch Firefly. I don’t need a Warner Brostation to view Sweeney Todd. What makes this a totally normal and acceptable state of affairs for video games?
I know that the realities of bridging formats with a product as systematically complex as a conventional video game are far more work-intensive than a sequence of images with matching sound, but it doesn’t render the situation that much less absurd. I still have to own four almost identical computers to be able to play any video game I want.
dubious as to how ‘identical’ the PS3 is, really, they did some fancy experimental things there. but other than that, valid point. (certainly valid with the previous generation)
avoiding monopolies is a good thing, but propriatary formats don’t avoid monopolies so much as split them. multiply them? something like. then you’ve got all the headaches of cross platform stuff as well as ‘exclusives’…
Well, the PS3 had a lot of fancy multimedia aspirations and functionality, but for the purpose of playing video games it still works on the same fundamental principles.
The player interacts with the game in a primarily 3D environment using an input device, while the console employs a power supply, a processor, RAM, semi-permanent storage devices, and a dedicated graphics processor to create a game environment. On the software side, much of the same tech (SSAO, normal mapping, antialiasing, HDR/Bloom, soft particles, havok physics) is used for all products.
I don’t believe there’s anything which 99% of PS3 games did that could not also be done in a near-identical fashion if developed for a PC or 360, barring little differences like memory limitations.
It’s even sillier when you realize that almost all game content is functionally identical before it’s put together in an engine. All sounds, textures, models, and to some extent even level geometry are created with the same tools and methods until they’re packed up and exported.
I like Amazon Prime streaming video, I wish I could use it on the Wii. The free streaming collection is comparable to the limited selection Netflix currently has, a little better I suspect, and when you have a hankering for a specific title it is, generally speaking available to rent or own instantly for a reasonable price.
Access to the Kindle library and free two day shipping lumped in with it is also a nice perk.
Amazon is pretty awesome at getting you to give them more money by providing you with overflowing buckets of convenience.
It’s funny how you mention X-Men: First Class as not being available for streaming, because it is here in Canada. Maybe Netflix has just been neglecting their local customers while focusing on their international branches?
Also, about this little snippet…
“My daughters are into laugh-track faux-comedy like … Ned's Declassified Not-funny Show.”
*Adjusts monocle, puting* Good sir, we must have words…
Seriously though, the show was brilliant at what it did (Blending the standard sit-com school-life drama with cartoon physics and sensibilities and building a well-rounded cast of extras, all while using the plots of the week as framing devices to give tips to the younger viewers on making their own school lives more bearable.) and what it did is right up my alley. The first season was a bit shaky at times, but I still regard the show as probably the best thing to come out of Nickelodeon I’ve ever seen.
And one little technicality: it didn’t have a laugh track.
“It didn't have a laugh track.”
Hm. Then Ned probably isn’t one of the offending shows. There are a few of them, and I don’t really keep them all straight. There are a few shows with excruciatingly bad jokes, and I was thinking Ned was one of them. I usually just catch them in 30 second intervals when I stop in the kitchen to make tea.
The humor isn’t even jokes. It’s people having a conversation using the rhythm of humor, but without punchlines.
Loud character: I just did [obviously dumb thing]!
(Laugh track.)
Even louder character: OH NO YOU DID-N’T!
Most loudest character: OH YES HE DID!
Gah. Hate, hate, hate. Silly is okay. Goofy is okay. Cheesy is okay. But putting a laugh track over hammy acting and inane dialog with no jokes drives me up the wall at escape velocity.
Sagretti says:
I’m sure all the shows you listed have moments like that, though I have to say iCarly is actually a guilty pleasure. Not that it’s brilliant writing or anything, though hardly worse than your average sitcom, but the creators obviously use their position on Nickelodeon to cross the line and get things past the radar as much as possible. This includes at least 3 instances, off the top of my head, of recreating famous murder scenes from television and movies.
Jarenth says:
It also had a Fairly Odd Parents cameo, which makes anything gold. But no, what I’ve seen of that show (Dutch-dubbed, of course, because screw emergent language learning) showed it as having quite a few chuckle-worthy moments.
anaphysik says:
I still regard the show as probably the best thing to come out of Nickelodeon I've ever seen.
What heresy is this?!(“½)
Indeed good sir. IndEED!
I hear the new series is pretty great too. Haven’t seen it yet. My sister will probably make me when I go visit.
Rasha says:
Saturday Jun 23, 2012 at 5:24 pm
Never mind found it. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhh!!
Thursday Jun 21, 2012 at 8:26 am
Fair point. Best not-Avatar thing to come out of Nickelodeon I’ve ever seen.
Although it’s only clinging to second place right now because Korra doesn’t air in Canada yet for some ungodly reason that I’m sure deals in voodoo curses and penis enlargement pills.
What the decline of Netflix has done is educate me just how much people still use traditional methods for viewing. Starz, who owns most of the titles people go looking for, originally leased the library for $30m per year. But they got complaints that it was hurting viewership to the cable channels, which bring Starz $1.3 billion. Damaging that is so hurtful that even when Netflix upped the offer to $300m, Starz still had to say no.
I can’t verify their accounting firsthand (and these numbers are by memory, but at least approx correct), but it’s not “100% of 0.”. It’s protecting a much much larger business. As much as you and I may prefer our videos online, and as good as netizens are at making noise, we’re just not that relatively important yet.
This is apparently also why CurrentTV cannot offer full shows online; their agreements with cable providers explicitly forbid such, and losing the cable providers would tank their business.
Aha. I knew there was a deeper root cause for this. Like I always say: never attribute to incompetence what is quite clearly malice.
Shamus likes to rage about how incompetent business people seem to be, but they are not incompetent. They are very, very good at making money. Even when EA does something “stupid”, they’re not really being stupid. They have researchers, working day and night trying to put the dollar figure on outrage and the controversy that attracts attention. And when EA makes people rage, it’s because their calculations told them that they can get the greatest revenue by enraging X amount of people.
When I make the case that they’re being stupid, I lay out a set of assumptions and reasoning and show how they could do better if they behaved differently.
You’re countering this by saying that they’re not making mistakes because… they’re big? Because they have a lot of money?
“And when EA makes people rage, it's because their calculations told them that they can get the greatest revenue by enraging X amount of people.”
I don’t believe this to be the case at all. Origin is a great, shining example of just how badly they misunderstand this new market.
Huge corporations have, in the past, made profoundly big mistakes, missed market changes, gone out of business, or been eaten alive by smaller, more forward-looking competitors. There are a lot of reasons why a bunch of smart people will come together with a massive supply of money and power, only to piss it away making mistakes that are obvious to people on the outside. I’m just pointing at these guys and saying, “I think now is one of those times.”
It’s worth noting that Joss Whedon created and distributed the amazing Dr. Horrible without traditional channels, but it didn’t lead to a change in models – even for him. The potential exists to completely change how media works, but not the momentum. Early adaptors have to get used to waiting while others catch up,
The lack of digital distribution certainly has the feel of a missed opportunity. Rather like how mp3s were considered the enemy of the music industry until iTunes created a win/win. But I’m also not sure Netflix’ buffet style is the path. I think if I was intent on changing behaviors, I’d cancel my cable and buy downloads from iTunes/Amazon whenever I could, because when enough people do that the tide will shift.
You're countering this by saying that they're not making mistakes because… they're big? Because they have a lot of money?
I believe Amarsir is describing the logic behind a monopoly player rationally taking a deadweight loss even though it’s… you know… a loss.
The Rocketeer says:
Shamus’ young like Agatha Christie? There’s hope for the future!
Shamus’ young adore Agatha Christie, as does their mother. And Netflix DID just add all of Poirot and more Miss Marple so we ar ea happy clan even if Shamus is a crank. :P
Apparently, it hasn’t been published since 1990, but you might be interested in an autobiographical book she wrote called Come, Tell Me How You Live. I read it in high school and I’ve tried to track down a copy ever since.
It’s about her time in Syria, Iraq and (I think?) Afghanistan in the 1930’s, riding along with her husband’s archaeological expeditions, and it’s mainly about their adventures there and her (favorable) impression of the people and culture there until they had to return to England as World War II spun up.
It’s a very nostalgic, heartfelt book, beautiful both for her impressions of her time abroad and just seeing Christie being Christie in a rare nonfiction context.
(Maybe you’ve already heard of it, but I get the impression it’s pretty rare; I’ve never seen but that one copy, and I was pretty well-read in my school days. I try and pass it on whenever I find another fan.)
Oooo, I have a thing for nonfiction books and letters by favorite fiction writers. For years read and reread Tolkien’s Letters (lent it out and never saw it again)as well as C.S. Lewis’ letters and many others. Will have to see if I can track it down.
vukdolak says:
Both of you might be interested in her actual autobiography as well. It covers the period of her life from the earliest childhood to the late 1960s or so and a lot of it is very compelling and/or illuminating. Be forewarned though, I say ‘or’ since the first 200 pages cover her childhood in excruciating, if nostalgic detail. Those first 200 pages are a slog, but shed an interesting light on how she regarded her childhood as a happiest time of her life and you get glimpses on how it influenced her later work. The rest of the book is a very good read – and remarkably honest, especially around the time of the breakdown of her first marriage.
Yah!! I love that Amazon has so many awesome old books available! http://www.amazon.com/Come-Tell-Common-Reader-Editions/dp/1585790109
Well I’ll be… I might just have to pick one up for myself, after all this time.
Thanks for taking the suggestion of someone who’d open with a pun.
Amusingly, right next to the article entitled “The Slow Death of Netflix” listing the reasons for the quality-of-service being much poorer than one would hope for the price, there is a huge banner ad for a Netflix free trial.
Oh, Google AdSense, you are so silly.
William Curtis says:
Same ad here… :)
Volatar says:
I see a Hulu Plus ad. :)
Well, we’ll probably have decent ways to get movies around the same time we get decent ways of paying for them.
Seriously, I don’t qualify for a credit card under the laws in my country, so there’s a lot of stuff I couldn’t get even if I wanted to. Why are debit cards so useless?
GTB says:
I canceled netflix two years ago, when i was laid off and literally went through the streaming list alphabetically, watching the movies and tv shows I wanted to watch. After that, I kept it for almost two months and nothing new showed up but “Asylum” films that I wasn’t interested in. I have Amazon Prime, which has free streaming of some stuff, but it’s even more limited than netflix (was). I don’t have a television, or a cable tv subscription (I only have broadband) and so I watch everything from streaming services. Hulu was fine until they went full retard with their gorilla commercial campaign, netflix has become the incredible shrinking service, and Prime is okay, but has less content and a terrible interface.
So now I basically just watch stuff in itunes. But I have to buy things piece-meal rather than a subscription, which is what I really want.
It’s just ridiculous.
Fortunately, i’m not as scrupulous as Shamus.
(This comment’s never gonna get read, but what the hey!)
Oh man, Shamus, if you’re skipping TV shows you are COMPLETELY missing out!
Stargate: SG1 and Atlantis(Universe sucked)
You will thank yourself!
Fawkes says:
We’re talking an industry that has taken the marketing slogan, “Available a month before Netflix and Redbox.” on their DVD commercials. And that’s just for physical rentals, a business that has been around forever now in some form and they are still doing everything they can to discourage the use of. They truly don’t care.
Netflix is in the unenviable position of being the ‘face’, or ‘patsy’ if you prefer, of deals and contracts that hamper their ability to offer what they claim to be selling. A lot of their library went missing with the loss of Starz, and they aren’t finding new material to fill it back up.
I’ll at least give, that when a treat pops up, around once a month, it’s a real treat. Finding Drive available on Netflix was great, and being able to watch that and Thor with a few friends who hadn’t seem them before was one of those experiences Netflix should be trying to encourage and market as a feature. (I could rant at how hard they’ve made it to do just that. Especially with their new redesign of the player, but I’ll let it be.) Worth the monthly price? Less and less, I’ll admit. And I can’t imagine the marketing campaign mentioned above that seems to revel in how Netflix and Redbox won’t have their product for a month, a hurdle they themselves forced on the companies, is helping either.
I read your comment, watched Drive, and came back to say thanks. Drive is one I’ve been waiting to see.
It did not disappoint.
It’s definitely a film worth watching. Even if the marketing for it was trying its hardest to make it seem like the next ‘Transporter’. I’m glad my recommendation didn’t disappoint. You’re very much welcome.
My threshold of what’s worth $9/month must be a lot lower than yours.
I have a lot of friends online I watch movies with, and I’m not the only person in my household using the account. So it works out, if barely. As I said, I’d love it if Netflix realized they have the technology here to let people across the world, well country, share in an experience. But they continue to do everything they can to discourage that sort of behavior.
I have three friends who share an account. They can only watch on two devices. So one uses a computer, the other two use the Wii. But the Wii counts up, whereas they changed the PC player to count down. That’s not even getting into the fact that the Wii has a delay and lag that makes it even harder to sync up properly. A way to auto-sync, or at least a continuity of time would help wonders.
Still, it’s certainly a service I pay for in spite of, rather than because of. And that’s never a healthy way for your customers to be thinking.
I know a lot of people tend to disregard Star Trek:Deep Space Nine but its definitely worth a watch for a few reasons.
1) DS9 is one of the shows that laid the groundwork for the highly serialized, and generally awesome, shows that have made this the Golden Age of Television. The other two shows that really helped lay the groundwork, X-Files and Babylon 5.
2) If you’ve enjoyed the Battlestar Galactica [if you haven’t watched it, get on it, the BSG reboot is the best sci-fi drama produced and its on netflix] reboot DS9 is more of the same, although some of the craziness of late run BSG is kept in check. Its interesting to see the artistic progression of Ron Moore, there are some similar themes and character beats, some work better on BSG because Ron Moore had more freedom, some don’t work quite so well but its interesting regardless.
3) DS9 is the best Trek (heresy I know) and is some really fine television. Episodes like Duet, The Wire, In the Pale Moonlight and Siege of AR-558 are great sci-fi.
If you are looking for something to watch on netflix, try DS9, its not like the other Treks in style and in many cases in substance and it is one of the best sci-fi shows to air on television.
I loved DS9 and thought B5 had a lot of good stuff. But man I just can’t make it throught Battlestar Galactica. I’ve tried several times and gotten maybe a third through season 1, but it’s just too boring! Episodes of Dramatic! Talking! about the 3 minutes of action that happened 5 episodes ago really don’t grab me, I’m afraid.
6b64 says:
I wonder if people pirate as much all around Europe as in Eastern Europe.
I make use of Amazon’s Love Film (Available on Xbox 360 in the UK at least)
They have a much better selection.
GeneralBob says:
Indie sci-fi, did you mean…Space Cop
Mayhem says:
I saw a few Korean period dramas, like “Emperor of the Sea” on an Asian channel that Comcast no longer carries. They were pretty good, although they all seem to have the Whedon philosophy that there should be no happy endings. The villains always won and the heroes died or were cast out by the end.
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Gulderian says:
Wednesday Jun 20, 2012 at 10:10 am
Don’t give up on Man On Fire, Shamus. It’s an epic movie and you shouldn’t be deterred by this netflix nonsense. Watch it.
Jaerys says:
The DOJ is actually conducting an investigation against the cable companies over whether they are using their status as service providers to put online video services like Netflix or Hulu at a disadvantage. Though, as near as I could tell, the investigation doesn’t include the availability of streaming licenses.
I’m kind of surprise that the one month delay movie studios insist on between a dvd’s release and its rental date hasn’t triggered any red flags. Heck, Warner Bros insists Netflix enforce a two month delay and won’t even let people queue for a movie until its dvd has been released for a month.
Andy L says:
Friday Jun 22, 2012 at 3:47 pm
Since comcast owns universal pictures and who knows what other smaller studios, I’m site they’re doing their part to kill Netflix and force people to use their expensive pay per view streaming service.
Netflix used to have a feature where everyone in your family could log in separately.
They canned it, apparently it was too confusing for customers. Which seems fixable.
(The feature still exists, but I think its just grandfathered in for customers already using it. )
If you haven’t seen it, The Iron Giant is a great movie which is suitable for all ages, and as of last I checked it still available on streaming.
I am often bummed out by the selection on for streaming, though I’ve been catching up on the backlog of all the Star Trek series’, as well as Top Gear and the original Transformers.
Every so often I’ll pick a movie at random with low expectations, like “Born 2 Race”, only to find it the most technically accurate racing movie I’ve seen in a long time. Sure it’s got some stereotypical high-school drama and boy-racers galore…but when they start rambling off lingo it’s actually stuff real people would say. It also has a LOT of genuinely cool cars, and shows drag racing in a very realistic light. It’s even got the kid from The Kid!
I don’t have normal cable TV at all, just DSL and Netflix, but I’ve been able to find something worthwhile more often than not. :)
Zaghadka says:
Same experience here, on the Wii, and the darned lists scroll too slowly.
But at least Metropolis keeps getting recommended over and over again. *shrug*
The “Just for Kids” thing was a nice nod. Now if they’d only allow “Just for Adults” taste profiles.
Saturday Jun 30, 2012 at 5:55 am
Lexx. I’ve really enjoyed it.
stickers and more says:
Friday Oct 18, 2013 at 1:26 am
average-consumer says:
Sunday Nov 10, 2013 at 12:29 am
THIS is why piracy exists- the lack of real legal options… Paying almost $200 a month for premium cable tv (1000+ worthless channels, 50 movie channels), netflix (streaming only) and hulu… yet people STILL end up having to pay $10 for an encrypted connection to TORRENT media that can’t be rented/streamed/consumed legally… if this was 2003 it’d be one thing but it’s not 2003, it’s 2013…
IWantGoodLegalStreaming says:
Saturday Nov 30, 2013 at 8:16 am
I realize this thread is nearly a year and a half old but there is something that has been bothering me about Netflix recently and this seems like the perfect placing that either someone from Netflix may take note or that others may start to complain as well. My problem is this; in the past (with TV shows that are still on air) Netflix would release the previous season nearly right when the newest season would come on TV and now it seems to take months for the old season to appear if it ever does at all. I am not simply saying this because of 1 or 2 taking a long time but nearly every TV show takes so long that it is usually forgotten about before it appears on Netflix. If people would help in attempting to convince Netflix to act in a more timely manner it would be much appreciated because, don’t get me wrong I love Netflix, but I use it almost solely for TV shows and for every week I spend watching a show I spend 1-2 months not using it while waiting to hear about a new show worth watching or waiting on another season to come out. t’s very frustrating :/
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Kate to be contestant on next Celebrity Apprentice
While we haven't heard "official" confirmation yet, Kate's twitter silence and spotting Steve sitting in the background of this video from fellow contestant Terrel Owens is enough to say this with confidence.
http://www.hangwith.com/streaming/streamingfb.php?bid=9RQxbbL00e
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I swear in the second clip where Steve was shown again he was reclined on that coach but it was SO quick I could barely tell. LOL.
I still say blond in blue dress in first frame is her
JoyinVirginia said...
I almost feel sorry for TFMJG. She will be eaten alive by the real celebrities.
OrangeCrusher1 said...
From previous thread:
So basically it looks like he's transformed from a bodyguard to a pity party?
Wow that's sad.
More pathetic is that she writes him a paycheck for this. Cannot wait to see her tossed to the sharks on CA, probably first episode. Tho I use the word see loosely as I would never actually watch this circus. She has absolutely no people skills, no language skills and reacts horribly to criticism of any kind. The only thing I am curious about is what charity would associate with this POS.
Alberta Girl said...
You know what will be hilarious? Seeing TFW try and speak with the intelligent, classy, and eloquent Ivanka Trump. She does not take BS from anyone!
Someone on the last thread seemed to imply that Jon's taste in women had changed since he was married and now he's with Liz who swears and smokes and Jon was seen on CT swearing and smoking and whatever. I don't think that men's taste in women ever changes to a large extent (or women's for that matter). Some have speculated that Kate smokes or used to and that she drinks heavily. She appears to have no problem appearing in public dressed like a slob as shown in the candid BBB photo. She was dressed for the Toys R Us photo but either she or TLC called the photog. So here's my question: Do you think that Kate always talking er...um...er is because that's the only way she knows how to take out her swear words? If you don't practice much and always go around yelling and swearing, it can be really hard to talk in a tv acceptable way.
The children look unhappy in pap pictures because she gives them horror stories about how the paps are out to hurt them and ruin their lives. Or else she spent the time in-store yelling at them. Or they are saddened from listening to her humiliate the cashier.
I have never been able to get through CA. I can only stand so much Trump and the celebs blaming each other. I'll have to stick to recaps. But she has to have Steve there. She can't even find the bathroom without his help.
I bet Leeza Gibbons will make friends with the, she seems to be so nice to everyone. F2f will do okay while she is still able to blend in with her group at the first couple of tasks, but when they thin out, she will not have anyone to hide behind.
localyocul said...
OrangeCrusher1 said... 4
The only thing I am curious about is what charity would associate with this POS.
My guess is on an anti-bullying organization. At which Brandi will roll her eyes into the back of her head.
sparkle said...
On the last thread, there was discussion about Kate's fake and paid followers and bots.
I read an interesting article a few months ago about fake twitter accounts. Last summer, twitter let an Italian company have some access and audit twitter accounts for fakes. Needless to say, there were alot of fakes. Twitter was going to clamp down on the paid fakes, but apparently chose to look the other way for now. However, when large companies are looking to associate with celebs with big twitter followings, they now investigate the accounts to determine the real/fake/inactive ratio. While Kate's bought and paid for 190k twitter account looks impressive to her 6 fans, it has zero worth as far as some legitimate company wanting to do business with her.
Uh Oh:
Brandi Glanville @BrandiGlanville 11h
Its on like #donkeykong
TLC stinks said...
I guess Donald decided it would be a publicity stunt and ratings grab to put her on the show and let viewers watch her meltdowns. Don't feel sorry for her. She is a narcissist. Just like her lackluster and whiney performance on DWTS, she will persist on thinking she is amazing and blame others.
The sighting of Steve sitting on his rear end looking bored is pretty funny. Actually, it reminds me more of a husband in a dress shop waiting while the wife is trying on clothes. She has to be the queen bee while her male servant waits quietly for his orders. It was the same with Jon, except I don't believe she verbally abuses Steve but actually respects him. I guess what causes all the speculation is that their relationship dynamic is clear: Steve, alone, is considered by Kate a beloved family member, a substitute husband and father, confidant, best friend, business partner, advisor. Body guard? Not anymore.
LaLaLandNoMore said...
Just goes to show that we cannot stop a train wreck! The woman will do anything to stay on television and make the big bucks. Looks like the silver fox is a waste of money to me. Sad for the kids, but at least they are not on CA with her. She is surely full of herself now.
NJGal51 said...
Alberta Girl I was going to say the same thing. Ivanka does not suffer fools gladly. TFW had better keep the stink eye in check in the boardroom.
FlimsyFlamsy said...
I wonder who TFW will blame when she fails this time? Marriage failure - Jon's fault. DWTS - Tony didn't know how to teach her. Can you imagine how exhausting it must be to constantly look outside yourself for excuses? She has no self awareness - zip. That's why she's unteachable, IMHO.
So they are filming but no formal announcement?
How long before she claims she doesn't have time to do the rubbing-elbows and networking because she's too busy being a mom?
" It was the same with Jon, except I don't believe she verbally abuses Steve but actually respects him."
Wait for it. It won't be long before she talks to him like she talked to Jon.
Winsomeone said...
If Jon has the 5 children who still visit him on a weekend, and he has a court order giving him first refusal if Kate is gone, can he just keep the kids until she returns? Wouldn't she flip if that happened?
The reason there is no formal announcement of the cast may be that although DT was given the green light for another season no air date has been set for the show. It may be something they film and it never airs. I can't remember from past years but I don't think they announce the cast until everything is in the can and they're ready to air. This is not gospel just my opinion.
foxy said...
In the RV episode didn't Kate demand that Steve get in the RV so she could continue her ranting in private? I don't think she respects anyone and Steve is just there for the big bucks so he takes it. At least he can go home where poor Jon lived there.
Brandi Glanville @BrandiGlanville 11h
Uh oh? You must mean HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!
Brandi will eat her alive. Piece by piece. Licking her fingers as she goes.
Paper Plates Forever! Yay! said...
I wonder if she will volunteer to be project manager for the first task. Just do the opposite of what she thinks the haters will predict she might do. Normally, the contestants seem quite intelligent. It is therefore quite embarrassing that Trump has chosen Kate to be village idiot of the group. I wonder how Kate is with other women. Is she the caddy manipulator, the backstabber, oh the list goes on and on....I say she is the weak, shrinking violet who has an inferiority complex and can't fit in with the others because she is nothing more than a woman with 8 kids from PA. That's it folks. I'm squealing with delight thinking about her performance. Get ready though to see Kate glammed up like never before. They really do a good job with hair/makeup. She will be in her glory!!! Look at me! I'm back on TV!! Yay!!! #willnevergiveuphehheh
FYI said...
TLC stinks said... 15
I did some Googling for when previous casts were announced, and it looks like they make the formal announcement only a month or two before the show airs. In the 3 seasons before the All-Star one, the announcements were made in January or February, and the show then aired in February or March. The cast of the All-Star one, which seemed to be the exception, was announced just before filming started.
According to this video by one member of the press that was at the conference, the new season will air in the fall. The shows are also only going to be one hour instead of two hours like it used to be, perhaps to extend the televised season, or NBC didn't want to give them a 2-hour block, due to the lower ratings the show has received.
http://www.tvmediainsights.com/video/43282/videocast-march-21-2014-celebrity-apprentice-the-100-queen-latifah-whose-line-is-it-anyway-american-dream-builders/
So I guess there will be no formal announcement until the summer. I'm sure though that there will be spottings of the filming mentioned in the press, as filming progresses.
Donald did announce on twitter that filming was starting next week.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · Mar 17
"@Pepper4366 Thought your show would never return. What is start date. #CelebrityApprentice" Start shooting next week!
JMO said...
FlimsyFlamsy said... 14
"YOU"RE FIRED!!" Looking forward to those words and I totally agree that she takes no responsibility for her own failure .Ever. Always a deflection.
Never mind that the women are going to eat her alive. I think this show may actually punctuate what we all have been saying. : )
I wonder if she will volunteer to be project manager for the first task. Just do the opposite of what she thinks the haters will predict she might do.
&&&&
I have always had an interesting strategic idea about Celeb Apprentice......yes yes this is what I do when I watch my guilty pleasure, think up strategies. lol
I think it could be very wise to try to volunteer as project manager as early on as possible. There are more weaker players in the beginning and more people to throw under the bus and blame for your shortcomings. So for instance Leeza Gibbons could volunteer first then throw someone like Kate under the bus and get her fired, then Leeza can avoid PM the next 7 tasks because she's already done it, thus probably securing her spot on the show. I doubt Kate has any strategy in mind at all except did you know I have eight kids oh and they were premies! If she stays longer than the first firing she's toast. If there's one thing that gets your team to turn on you quicker than scat it's laziness.
It becomes harder to be PM later on with the better players who will hold their own and be very adapt at throwing you under the bus.
Adept I meant lol.
Alberta Girl I was going to say the same thing. Ivanka does not suffer fools gladly.
Ivanka is SHARP. This is amateur hour for Kate. There is no way her usual tricks that she always does for her sheeple are going to work this time. No way. This is really going to be fun, although I am disappointed it's only one hour now. I want the torture to stretch out for two hehe.
One thing too about Ivanka is that she is always cool as a cucumber, but you can tell all over her face when she thinks that's the dumbest idea she's ever heard.
Then she'll say something to the camera like, the Magnum team members are dressing the models in foil and saran wrap. I'm not so sure that's what the public is going to consider high fashion, so we'll see how this plays out.
LOL she's great.
Many of us have said that though we don't think TFW is smart, she is cunning. But for this show, it seems you've got to be both. And on
top of that, you need people skills. Mylanta (as Lukebandit would
say), this is gonna be fun to watch!
You know, why is it that BRANDI has no problem tweeting while she is on CA and not around, but Kate has thrown her phone out the window? Kate does this every darn time and it's SUCH an F-U to her fans. Oh great I get to be a celeb and do fun celeb things? Screw you fans smell ya later. It's so rude and unappreciative.
I see one tweet from Brandi this morning, several from yesterday, and at least one or two from every day before that. While she appears to be tweeting LESS, she is still trying to keep in touch with her fans and tweeting them every day so far.
Blowing In The Wind said...
While Kate's bought and paid for 190k twitter account looks impressive to her 6 fans, it has zero worth as far as some legitimate company wanting to do business with her.
Everything she does looks impressive to her six fans. They don't understand that you can buy followers. Her numbers jump simply because she's so loved and so popular. The hundreds of bots who have been there the past week or so are her devoted fans (where were they when she needed cookbook sales?) who are there one minute and never show up again.
Heck, after all this time they are still trying to figure out the custody issues, primary, legal, physical, parent's rights, judges in family courts, etc., and yet they still don't get it and never will.
Doesn't this mean TFW will be away from home on her birthday?
Terrel Owens also tweeted this morning, about a soldier he knows who just had to have her leg amputated. He also made that fan video the other way.
Leeza Gibbons is still posting three or four tweets a day as late as yesterday.
Why is it Brandi, Terrel Owens and Leeza Gibbons have no problem continuing to keep in touch with and show their appreciation for fans, even though they are MIA and very busy on CA?
The poor sheep are also adamant that a parent without legal custody cannot have the right of first refusal.
Given I've drafted family law orders with just that situation, I can assure them it's possible.
Yes, she did order Steve into the RV. I forgot about that. But here's the difference. She did not want the crew filming her rant with Steve unlike the joy she got putting a Jon down in front of everyone. And she wasn't ranting AT Steve anyway. She wanted to vent to him in private.
I don't think that men's taste in women ever changes to a large extent (or women's for that matter). Some have speculated that Kate smokes or used to and that she drinks heavily. She appears to have no problem appearing in public dressed like a slob as shown in the candid BBB pho
I think you're onto something there. I was thinking that in the BBB pic that TFW was looking remarkably like Liz. We've seen TFW like that before...that stupid baseball cap, dressed like she's going to clean the house (except that she doesn't clean the house, either the kids or the housekeeper does it).
The children look unhappy in pap pictures because she gives them horror stories about how the paps are out to hurt them and ruin their lives
Agree. She must threaten the kids like crazy to not smile at the pap or act like they know him. Which they kind of do, since he's been around for 5-6 years.
This must pose such a dichotomy for the kids when they personally know the pap (like Robert), or they have seen him around for years.
As a kid, you'd think that if someone was that much of a safety risk that your parent would have taken steps to make it stop. Since she hasn't made it stop, the unspoken message is that this is ok.
They're too young to understand the concept that the guy doesn't just hang out in parking lots around town hoping that the uber wonderful Gosselins might show up. Although maybe the twins are old enough to catch on somewhat.
One twin would think the pap thing is great, because she thinks she's pretty special; the other twin is probably thinking, 'please make it stop'.
Admin you and I think alike. I'd want to be project manager early on when all the weak players are still there. If TFW pulls her fake crying during a task she will be called out on it. Rubbing my hands in glee and anticipation.
So is she away filming for several weeks now, and this show will air in the fall? Quite the mom who can be away for this length of time, and paying Skeevio as well. Dragging him around makes her even more the fool, something she is quite blind to, always. By fall I predict she will have faded even farther from from the D-list, and this is not going to lead to anything beyond utter embarrassment. A solid meh.
I wonder if she'll blame the editing when she looks like an idiot, because although I accept she is exceptually cunning, she is lazy and not so bright. I am sure there is a reason she was selected. How could Donald not be aware of what a disaster she is? Oh, I just answered my question, LOL.
Does CA do the little interview after they're fired? I know on Project Runway the eliminated person gets a minute to say I loved it here or the other guy made a worse dress. I'm sure she's already planned what to say but if they caught her mad enough to be more honest it could be interesting.
On many of these shows, when they get eliminated they don't get to go home. They have to go to a hotel and wait until taping is over. Maybe she wants to be eliminated to vacation with Steve in a hotel with room service. Ick.
Wouldn't she just freak if they filmed it and it never aired?
How many weeks of filming is it? Do they get a break to see family or not until they are fired?
Luke's Mom said...
top of that, you need people skills. ....
But they also have to be hard working. Which Kate is NOT (even if she keeps trying to convince everyone that she does it "all").
Kate has NOT worked in over 8 years. The only work Kate has done is to HIRE HELP to do the work: nannies, cooks, housekeepers, laundry girl, pool boy, landscapers, nannies who grocery shop for her, and of course STEVE (who helps her deal with other people).
And during the RV episode, TLC very strategically pulled the curtain and showed that Kate even demanded the crew members to do all the work.
An when the hired help, Steve, or the crew are not around to do the work, then Kate orders the kids to do it all while she sits in her room and tweets about how much they love to help her (while she screams and yells at them to work harder and faster - "when you help me, you have to run and go faster!" clap clap, snap snap).
So what will Kate do on CA? No hired help to do the work. Steve may be around but DT and the other contestants will not allow him to do her share of the work. And she can't make the kids do it for her either. And there is no way that any contestant will let Kate "clap" or "snap" at them to run and work faster while she sits and yells.
So ...just as TLC did during the RV episodes, CA will show the real Kate:
And the other contestants will just love to make sure that DT and the viewers see how LAZY and FAKE Kate really is in person when push comes to shove and someone needs to be fired.
And just like Coupon Cabin's "You're Fired" letter, DT and the other contestants will NOT put up with Kate and her UN"authentic" facade nor will they let her "support staff" do the work for her. And of course, they will NOT let her "clap clap" "snap snap" at them to get to work.
Kate is hitting rock bottom with piecing and patching to get back on TV. I really believe that CA (just like DWTS) will not help her reputation in the media at all. Instead it will just add to proof of her being a FAKE and not likable.
So what is there next after CA? What Z list reality show will want her?
mamaK said...
This is awesome news!
Kate! Thanks so much for agreeing to let DT use you in order to make some trash television! Here you are, sitting at home, thinking that you've made it and you get to sit at the "cool kid" table in the lunch room, but really, everyone is just laughing at you.
I can not wait to see what you are made of. I look forward to the day when you have to wave byebye to mr. stevie and move into the trump apartment. No "bodyguard" to deflect for you, no kids to hide behind. Just you and what you can do. (which really isn't much!)
Your first day in the board room is going to be fun. DT doesn't suffer lazy people gladly, and he's gonna call you out on your games. This is, of course, why he's having you on the show. It's gonna make some great "television".
I think that you'd have to sit down with them and carefully explain "right of first refusal" and they still wouldn't get it. Even if they understood the legal term, they'd still claim that Jon has no rights whatsoever.
"Why is it Brandi, Terrel Owens and Leeza Gibbons have no problem continuing to keep in touch with and show their appreciation for fans, even though they are MIA and very busy on CA?"
You'd think that for someone who loves and appreciates her tweeties as much as Kate claims that she does, she'd check in every so often. What the sheep don't get is that they are being used when she needs them. Right now they are of no use to her. When she needed them to parade around parking lots in a feeble attempt to keep her show on the air, she had no problem calling in the troops. Right now they are nothing to her and yet the sheep still defend her. Their loyalty (if that is what it is) surpasses their intelligence. Or is it stubbornness...refusal to admit that she doesn't give a rat's rear end about them? The psychology of it all is so intriguing.
I've been curious about the legal custody issue; it all depends on the definition the court is using. What I've seen in the PA statutes says that person can decide schooling, physician, etc. It actuallly uses the "etc." so that is what I'm curious about. Does the definition the court uses actually include the right to enter the children into a contract for anything but most especially filming? Wonder if that is actually spelled out in an order in their case.
Admin, do you know, generally not specifically in their case, if that is included in a definition of legal custody? Could that be put in an order exactly what is included in legal custody? Thanks.
Because the right to film your child for reality T.V. is such a new concept it was not anticipated when custody statutes were written. That's what Tamara and Simon are fighting right now, exactly what does it mean in terms of filming our kids now that we're separated. Can Simon stop it just when they are with him or can he stop it when they are with her too? Does he have veto power because he shares custody?
So the answer is it's unclear. And the problem is the only way to test the waters is to go to court, spend thousands of dollars, lose, spend thousands of dollars more on an appeal, and have the appellate court judges decide what it means.
The irony is because so few people have the money for that or even the inclination to go through such a battle, it might not happen or it could be years. I don't think Jon is going to be the one leading the charge on that.
I suspect he knows like we all do that this is going to be one 42 minute special, mostly with Kate talking about herself, and it's done. TLC might not check in again until they are 16 or never. I don't know, is it really worth the aggravation?
TLC can make Kate look good on the update special, but CA won't. Oh, the meltdowns and crying will be glorious to watch!! I just wish we didn't have to wait until Fall/Winter.
And who will the six diehard sheepies blame? Jon? DT? The non-fans? And there's no voting involved! What WILL they do...what will they do?? Someone will have to hang for this! But not Katie Irene.
Yep, I can't wait.
This is, of course, why he's having you on the show. It's gonna make some great "television".
If she's smart enough to realize this, she doesn't care. The only thing that she knows is that she's back on television, showing the world (and Milo) that she's still relevant. The fact that she's put on there as the buffoon means nothing to her. Someone wanted her, and the reason is irrelevant. It's pathetic
Thanks Admin. I agree.
On the twitter fans, I wonder if they are communicatin in other ways? since none of the main ones seem to be curious about her nontweeting. Just a though.
Realitytvkids.com (Administrator) said... 1
I find it kind of creepy how he's always sort of slouching around in the background trying to be all inconspicuous, like the first time he was filmed sitting in the back of the airplance on the flight to Utah in a 'I'm not here, you can't see me' way. He always seems to get caught though, like in this clip.
He needs to start wearing a disguise before his colleagues in the bodyguarding profession start making fun of him for having such a cushy job.
Beyond DIsgusted said...
Hey, Milo! Kate's no longer trending on Yahoo, having been replaced by prom dresses and lawn care!
I so agree, fighting this probable one off TLC 'special' is not worth the aggravation. 42 minutes of fluff and TFW shooting off her mouth. Too bad the kids spent spring break with cameras in their home and in their faces, but we all know how much screaming with delight went on there.
So where will Skeevio go when the celeb-douches get sequestered together ? Eyes rolling.
Another comment (I liked your post FlimsyFlamsy).
You are right, Kate does NOT have people skills which will be an absolute must in order to be a project manager on CA and to create allies/friends with the other contestants.
Kate has shown her short temper, bad moods (when she gets tired or as she claims "her blood sugar is low"), impatience, and attitude of superiority on film and other media. How is she going to treat the other contestants when she is forced to do work that she feels others should do for her? When she gets tired? When her nail breaks? When the others bond and she is left out? When she can see that they don't like her? When she is told she is not working hard enough? When she is told by others to work? When she has no one to call for contributions? When she fails and fails and fails while the others succeed?
She will NOT be able to hide her entitled and unpleasant self when she is on CA. It will show all over her face with her nasty looks and attitudes to the other contestants.
And there is no way that any of the other woman on CA will put up with one nasty look from Kate without giving it right back to her. Kate will not be able to hold her own with them because she will not have "bullyville", TLC, or Steve to defend her. She will be on her own.
And Kate has also shown that she can not forgive and forget. So as soon as someone calls her out on CA, that will be the end of that relationship.
If Kate is paying Steve to be around during CA, he will really earn his money when she is done sreaming and complaining how everyone hates her, wah wah wah.
Celeb Apprentice doesn't usually allow people to talk much about their home lives and so on so no matter how much she tries to invoke Jon or the kids as her excuse it might not even make the cut. No one gets a chance like on DWTS to talk about their personal lives, with rare exception and it's always quick, like when they are delivering a check to a charity that helps people with some disorder their brother has or something. Even if she tried I really think Ivanka and Donald wouldn't care.
It's basically going to be this is reality T.V. star and author Kate Gosselin and that's it, from there on out she will have to work hard, work smart, and work quick if she wants to have even a hope of making it past the first few episodes.
And it's going to be glorious.
CA tends to bring out the worst in some people and apparently films just about everything AND takes great pleasure in showing the participants at their worst. Dionne Warwick is a good example of this. Icon figure in music however she came across as a spoiled, petulant, lazy, uber bitch on the show. I don't think doing CA did much for her career because after seeing her on CA I certainly had a different opinion of her. And Meatloaf and Gary Busey? Those dudes are certifiable. I think CA films everything and then edits it to show the worst because that's what people want to see. But the bad behavior has to be there in order for them to film it. If there's no bad behavior or tantrums I doubt that TFW will get much camera time because she's just not that interesting otherwise. I predict that she's going to start out trying to be a mother hen or organizer (because she's got 8 kids dontchaknow) but that persona probably won't last long as the others roll right over her.
Yes agree Orange.
In a perfect world with unlimited time and resources yes it would be great to try to take her to court over the special (and very likely lose when the judge says but Mr. Gosselin isn't this just one brief update special that only has a three-day shooting schedule with only 10 or so minutes devoted to the children themselves and the rest will be old clips or Ms. Gosselin?)
Plus now the update special can yammer on about CA so that will be some nice filler and take the heat off the kids.
I think if we're being resourceful here, it might be better for him to save his battle for if she ever actually tries to get a series with them again. THEN he's going to have a leg to stand on, but he won't be in a very good position if he blew all his money on attorney fees fighting all these other little things.
mammaK said
Here you are, sitting at home, thinking that you've made it and you get to sit at the "cool kid" table in the lunch room, but really, everyone is just laughing at you.
Great post mammaK and oh so true.
grandee4 said...
Never watched CA but this is how I imagine KK's introduction will go:
KK: Um, Um you may recognize me from my Teevee reality show. J&K plus 8, We brought in very high ratings for TLC.
When my ex decided to leave me, I continued with Kate+8 which starred me and my 8 kids traveling all over the world.
I am also writer, my books were on the NY Bestsellers list.(lie #1, Beth wrote them).
I was also on DWTS, I lasted for 5 weeks. My partner was Tony and he just did not know how to help me get the routine straight. (lie #2)
I was also on CWS, I swapped places with KW. She clearly does not know how to handle children, I had some very harsh words for her after spending time with her husband and child. Hank and little Hank loved me, everyone loves me when they meet me. (lie #3)
I also wrote articles for Coupon Cabin and The Stir, my contracts ran out but the comments were all positive. (lie #4)
I have lots of followers on Twitter and tweet when I have the time to all my friends there. (lie #5)
I have a bodyguard the is by my side for every event because you never know when someone may try to get too close. (lie #6)
I am here to win CA so everyone look out( giggles like a 12 year old).
I promise to put my intelligence and knowledge to good use and support for my charity of choice. (lie #7)
Then she gives everyone a big, huge smile and shows her sunken horse faced ugly teeth. Someone please throw that horse mouth a sugar cube.
The lying, liar that lies. When will Karma bite her in the ass?
So if she gets eliminated early, she cannot tweet about home because people will know she didn't last? I can see she would have to stay the whole time. Wow. A paid vacay in NYC with Uncle Steve to escort her. No wonder she was giddy.
CA might not allow Kate to blather on about her personal life but I'm willing to bet every time she's assigned to something, she'll say she has eight kids, so she knows how to organize, or she knows how to take charge because she has eight kids, or she knows how delegate because she has eight kids, she knows what sleep deprivation is, she has eight kids, she knows what hard work is, she has eight kids. She'll get it in there. She has to, she has nothing else.
I find it kind of creepy how he's always sort of slouching around in the background trying to be all inconspicuous
It's very "no-name husband of a B-lister"-y. If that makes sense. Always sort of lurking around in the background holding her purse, always being asked to step out of the shot on the red carpet. The press always mixing you up with someone else like one of the Beach Boys, or always spelling your name wrong. Most people know he's so and so's husband but he never says anything. It's weird, I guess in a sort of sexist way. I guess you expect the woman to be in that sort of shadow role.
Realitytvkids.com (Administrator) said... 50
...... she will have to work hard, work smart, and work quick if she wants to have even a hope of making it past the first few episodes.
That made me laugh! Maybe she will work as hard, smart, and quick as she did on DWTS? Oh that's right, she didn't.
Also, funny that Leeza Gibbons (also will be on CA too) was on DWTS and had Tony D. as partner.
They got along GREAT - and to qoute from an article: When Leeza was voted off she said "I'll miss spending time with Tony, that's for sure." The feeling was mutual. "I think we went out on a high note because I really love the way Leeza danced the paso doble," said Dovolani.
And other comments: "I'm sad to see Leeza go. I cried," said judge Carrie Ann Inaba. "She's a great role model for women."
"She radiates positivity," said Ian Ziering, adding "she's charming, lovely, beautiful and showed that she's sexy as well."
And Leeza was 50 years old when she did DWTS!
Funny that Kate never received such comments from Tony, Carrie Ann, or the other contestants when she was voted off. Hmmmm, I wonder why? Did NO ONE like her?!?!
I remember shortly after Carrie Ann watching some old clips on some talk show and resting her cheek on her fist with sort of an amazed, dazed expression and said something like I've just never seen someone so out of touch. Baw-haha.
I don't think she's going to be allowed an intro that long. And now they're saying it's only an hour, so it will be even less likely. If I'm remembering correctly it really is very quick when they explain who everyone is. Model so and so, TV host so and so, reality T.V. star so and so. Pick the project managers and in two seconds flat you're doing your first task.
That's why I'm saying she's not going to get her usual chance to frame herself the way she wants to, and it's about time.
Mamasan said...
I am curious to see who K taps for donations. ItI takes large $$$s to stay on the program. Will she last . Only the Donald truly decides
Celeb Apprentice oh wow I smell train wreck! Golden! I watch every year.
grandee4 said... 54----You forgot to include the following:
I run my own website especially for my fans. I work very hard to keep it up to date so that my fans know the latest events happening with me and my kids. It gets tons and tons of hits daily. (lie #8)
I have become a coupon entrepreneur by setting up my own coupon site, where I can share deals and savings that I have found and taken advantage of. I love helping my fans save money. (lie #9)
I stress the importance of giving to my fans. That is why I wanted to do this show to raise money for charity. I even ran a contest for them to encourage them to do acts of kindness. I got hundreds and hundreds of entries!!!!!!! (#10)
Dwindle said...
He also surely must know that there will 14 seconds of new film devoted to each child and the rest will be Kate and Kate Plus Kate, with plenty of cackling, hand flapping, and ME ME ME, I I I , and "I threw my husband out 42 years ago and the prick had a lot of nerve actually leaving! Do you realize that *I* had to notice my children because of HIM!?!"
If it was going to be a show about the kids, he might be concerned, but the only mention Kate will make about the kids is how much each one strains her.
Admin - I flat out refuse to watch anything with that cackle bitchy voice, those horse teeth, or those hands flapping, but I will indeed look forward to your recaps. You want we should get up another road trip to come out there and do your lawyery thingy things for ya again so you can devote your time to what really matters in life - OUR recaps?
Mary said... 56
.... thinking that you've made it and you get to sit at the "cool kid" table in the lunch room, but really, everyone is just laughing at you.
So true. Kate has been doing that for years.
One of the funniest times was when she called into The View (after she co-hosted) to LIE about how she had a purse full of bills to pay and she said to all the hosts that she missed them SO MUCH and they responded with silence...like "What? We're not your friend!"
Kate thinks because she meets a real celebrity during an interview or appearance that they automatically are friends and she is in with the "cool kids". She has no self awareness (thank you Carrie Ann Inaba) to know that they are just doing their job and have NO personal relationship with Kate nor do they want one.
Poor Kate. What table does she belong to? She thinks she is too cool for the "mediocre" local Pennsylvania table but doesn't realize that she will NEVER be cool enough for the Hollywood celebrity table. So she is that SAD girl that has NO ONE to sit with (unless she PAYS Steve) and it is no one's fault but her own.
Just like on DWTS, I think we will see how much she does NOT fit in when she is on CA!
Admin said...It's very "no-name husband of a B-lister"-y. If that makes sense. Always sort of lurking around in the background holding her purse, always being asked to step out of the shot on the red carpet.
It makes perfect sense to me. However there comes a point when they get tired of being in the background. Kind of like the Long Island medium's husband trying to make a name for himself now and grab some of the spotlight. He got tired of lurking in the background. Toward the end of the show Steve got himself more camera also.
Thanks Twit, everyone please feel free to add to list about how KK's words are all lies.
Admn, I know they would not give her that much of an intro. If so, I could certainly see all the eye rolls and DT himself taking his $1000 sock off, stuffing it in her horse teeth mouth while the others stand up and clap. KK would look around and think they are all clapping for her.
She gives the saying "dump blonde" a whole new meaning.
Meagler said...
I hope Jon does nothing this time around about custody...even if he didnt get first right of refusal. He will still get his Tuesday nights and weekends, and hopefuly have contact with the kids ( text/phone) to be certain theya re safe. No this isnt perfect...ut..
I want to see TFW fall flat on her butt without any excuses. When on DWTS, the child custody suit was presented and she used that as her excuse.
I am glad this is somthing the kids wont be filmed for, however they do end up without a parent, if Jon doesnt have them. This I am okay wit, as long as minimal harm is on the children. Many Actors have kids and are gone for periods of time. Its the filming of the kids I dont like.
I have never watched CA, but let me tell ya.. Kate is a master mind all right, in a perect world where she got to say " This is how it is" and people jumped to make it happen. She was able to walk over JOn because he lost his backbone...however...
The other contestants, likely have backbones. Kate has no idea how to walk over other people. It might get really really nasty. TFW's mean girl might really come out.
If Kate thought cooking chicken over an open fire, while Jamie and Ashley played with the kids, was too hard... this is going to BREAK her!
If the shot of her whining in the back of the limo at DWTS because she was soooo tired to continue on....this is going to BREAK her.
I think Kate might be in for the SHOCK of her life.
Wanna bet her charity will be the hospital her sextuplets were born at....
Looks like the filming has begun. This was tweeted to Brandi, Kevin Jonas, and Kenya Moore with a picture included:
Elizabeth Cioffi@Lafemlz ·
@KenyaMoore @BrandiGlanville @kevinjonas Kinda saw you playing a little golf today. Enjoy the Big Apple pic.twitter.com/E5PoRn5OYW
Here's a better link for the picture:
https://twitter.com/Lafemlz/status/446772120845287424/photo/1
Dmasy said...
Grandee4 -- I am sure you meant "dumb blonde".
I am still smiling because "dump blonde" works in a silly way, too.
I think that's so funny, "are you filming me?!"
You want to be on T.V., you live for being on T.V., but you get indiscriminately strung out when people happen to catch you on film or taking a photo? How silly. Why not just be grateful for all the attention you can get? Why not just be a pleasant person and smile for a photo or video?
I saw this comment on a message board talking about the upd8 show and I thought it was quite funny. The commenter quotes part of the news release about the show, and then make her comment.
"The TLC special will get Jon & Kate fans "up to speed" on what has changed for the family since the show ended. The network also promises to reveal how much the kids have grown, and will also feature Kate's evolving life and career."
"So...this show is for people who don't have the internet?"
evolving life and career.
Evolving? I think she's still in the Neanderthal age. There's a ways to go.
I wondered why TFW wasnt on twitter making a much bigger to do about the TLC special, and retweeting all the twitter bots...its because she was getting her narcisistic fill with CA.
When I saw the word "evolving" it reminded me of Criminal Minds, when the unsub becomes more vicious and intense in his crimes. They always say that he/she is "evolving".
Love this tweet from a non-fan as to what Kate's sheeple can donate to her CA charity:
@PRFANS: @ConcernedChick @popems42 @MiloandJack @Kateplusmy8 They can donate wool.
Call Me Crazy said...
Jeanne said... 39
Does CA do the little interview after they're fired?
Every contestant (even the eventual winner) is pre-filmed doing a walk of shame out to a waiting cab. The footage is then used when the contestant is actually fired. Inside the cab, the fired contestant is briefly filmed reflecting on his/her experience/firing/other contestants.
Kate will be the team member who ends up as the gopher, because she has no valuable skills to help the team win. They will give her a list and send her to the party store, or the craft store, or the hardware store, etc., to shop for supplies because that is where she can do the least damage.
I really hope they DO make the mistake of allowing her to proofread materials for an ad campaign. I can just picture a men's "cologne" ad turning very quickly into a men's "colon" ad in her incapable hands!
I just read an excerpt about CA from Penn Jillette's book (he was on the show twice). He has always acknowledged that show business is nothing compared to "real" jobs. Here is a little of what he had to say:
"The secret truth of “The Celebrity Apprentice” is that it isn’t very hard. The tasks are nothing. Makeup starts just after 5 a.m. and the show goes to about 10 p.m., but you spend most of that time doing nothing. Anyone who isn’t in show business could accomplish everything the show called for and have time left over to do their laundry, cook their supper and post pictures of their animal companion on Facebook. “The Celebrity Apprentice” is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt hormone-raging bugnutty. Everyone is panicked, desperate, yelling, swearing, attacking, backstabbing, failing to get laid and acting crazy. With all this drama, any sane person just wants to do more algebra. “The Celebrity Apprentice” is junior high with a better brand of acne cover-up."
You can read more here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2238127/Penn-Jillette-blasts-Donald-Trump-Celebrity-Apprentice-tell-book.html
Susantoyota said...
Call Me Crazy said... 80
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I never knew that as I've only watched bits and pieces of CA in the past. So that explains why the fired contestants are wearing different clothing on the walk of shame vs. what they were wearing when they got fired in the boardroom?
The cab interview is the one thing TFMJG will have framed and ready to go. She'll start off saying she's proud of her effort on CA, the contributions she was able to get for her charity, etc. but she was ganged up on and the team wouldn't utilize her 'cough' unique talents. But it's ok, she's got to get back to her 8! kids, grifting, throwing their father under the bus, her hotel time with Skevee, and begging for her next opportunity to be on Tevee, etc.
Boston Bonnie said...
So with all those "celebrities" Kate brings her 'bodyguard'?
"The secret truth of “The Celebrity Apprentice” is that it isn’t very hard.
Well, I don't think it's very hard for HIM. I think he is of superior intelligence, work ethic, drive, and all the other skills necessary to make this show "easy". I think he's an unusual specimen. That's like a physics professor saying physics is not hard because I can do an equation in a minute and a half. Physics is hard to most reasonable people. Just cause it's easy for a genius doesn't mean it's not hard for most people. Penn I'm sure is one of those people who can read a novel in a day, fix the kitchen clock in under a minute, come up with some new magic trick and perfect it in one afternoon, things like that. That's Penn. Life is easy for him, and you can choose to hate someone like him for it or just enjoy the treat of watching him.
I think from what we've read of most cast members is that it is very taxing, both physically and emotionally, and that the days are very long, and the people are very cutthroat.
I do agree with him though that like any TV show there is probably a heck of a lot of sitting around because other people are working on other moving parts of the show to make it happen and you aren't needed yet. Terrel's video just shows that it's sort of like, report to set at 5am, makeup wardrobe, sit around/stand around until 10am shooting the shit with the cast and crew or your fans on the internet. Eat. From 1 to 2 Rush-rush-rush take photos do this do that, sit around for another four hours, rush rush rush again, eat, sit around, then bed.
Terrel even said they were in an undisclosed location. I don't think Kate is in danger of a fan attack if no one even knows where they are. I'm sure production has their own security, go home Steve and stop cashing in the children's money.
So will she send Steve to do errands? LOL. Even if she doesn't, she simply cannot navigate anywhere without Steve at her side. She'll have to sneak him like she did for the Las Vegas marathon ( I just know she cheated at that with him. No. Doubt. What a funny sight it must have been with Steve on the golf cart trailing her. Wow. That would have been a money shot.
I guess Robert has nothing to say about anything.
Steve is not security. He's her MANager, male escort, dinner companion, purse holder, door opener, and partner in crime. It's gotten to the point where it's one big joke that you don't see one without the other. It must have killed Kate when he went on vacation with his "other" family. How dare he!
Terrel even said they were in an undisclosed location. I don't think Kate is in danger of a fan attack if no one even knows where they are. I'm sure production has their own security, go home Steve and stop cashing in the children's money
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Didn't he reference "Pier something" or "Pier 50 something" at the beginning of the video? In one of the first links posted to the video, I think it even referenced a pier. No biggie as by the time any rabid fan made it down there, they CA contestants could have been gone/the rabid fans wouldn't have made it past security. Maybe Skeevee would have had to jump in with his awesome security skills!
Yes I heard him say they're at Pier 50 or whatever it was. Which is just a way to reference what part of NYC. There are a number of piers along the Hudson river, and to say you're in pier 50 area could cover at least several blocks if not more. There's no way of the dozens of buildings in that area anyone would ever know which one they are in, plus I assume both the building and of course CA itself has its own security.
In Los Angeles, it would be like saying I'm in the Manhattan Beach area or the Zuma Beach area. You get a general idea of the location but you'd never find someone there without more specific information.
The photo looks like it was taken at one of the golf areas at Chelsea Piers. They probably rope off or curtain an area when filming. Chelsea Piers is huge and I doubt they can keep people from seeing these contestants - sheesh, it's NYC and when word gets out there's a tv show shooting, fans gather. Mostly tourists, true NYers really don't care much. LOL.
Maybe Kate's been fired already! Personally, I hope she's there for a while; the more humiliation, the better!
Also, I was remembering that when it gets down to the final challenge, all the contestants come back to help the finalists and then they sit on the stage while Trump decides the winner. So, she'll be around even after she's fired. Oh ... it's coming back to me...I think I read that the contestants that live in or near NYC or have apts there don't stay in the designated Trump quarters. They can go home. Wonder if that will include Kate. Perhaps some of the locals can share any sitings?
Well, I don't think it's very hard for HIM. I think he is of superior intelligence, work ethic, drive, and all the other skills necessary to make this show "easy". I think he's an unusual specimen.
I agree. Penn really is a brilliant guy. I think what he is saying, though, is that the manufactured "work" they are tasked with is just pretend, and them being fired is pretend, so it can in no way compare to the pressures of hard-working people who must work real jobs.
It sounds like the most difficult part of the experience is dealing with the trauma and fighting and egos, and what Penn describes as "panicked, desperate, yelling, swearing, attacking, backstabbing, failing to get laid and acting crazy" contestants. I'm convinced that these things, along with the 5:00 AM call times, the long days, the requirement to do even a small bit of work, her inherent stupidity and ignorance, and her sense of entitlement will lead to meltdowns of epic proportions from Kate.
I NEVER watch anything Kate is on, but I always watch CA so I will have to bite the bullet and tune in. I can't wait to see her eyes glazing over and hear her incoherent rambling. I am looking forward to some excellent recaps!
lukebandit said...
I love this song by Looking Glass.
The contestants say "Brandi, you're a fine girl" (you're a fine girl)
"What a good CA you would be" (such a fine girl)
"Yeah your eyes could steal Steve away from the B" !!!
Yeah, Brandy would watch his eyes
When he told his kate stories
She could feel the ocean foam rise
She saw kate's ragin' glory
But Steve had always told the truth, lord, he was her purse carrying man
And Brandy does her best to understand (while tweetin` to her fans)!
At night when the tasks close down
Brandy walks through a silent town
And loves that kate who's not around
She still can hear her say
She hears her say " Brandy, you're a fine girl" (you're a fine girl)
"But my life, my lover, my married man is the Steve"
I wonder if when kate is fired, will she do the walk of shame out the lobby of the hotel and get into the car and do the backseat commentary? Bet dollars to donuts Steve will be sitting in the back with her out of frame.
Can you imagine some of the women will know about her and that Steve is married. Can you imagine them talking about it when she is not around. Sorry kate, you can' get that signed on the dotted line on one of your life threating non-disclosure agreements! haha
Oh, My, LANTA! Thanks Flimsy-Flamsy!
So have TFW's fans caught on yet that she's officially on the show?
We know Gladys doesn't stop by this "cesspool of hate" -- so who
has clued them in?
As far as being in command, the last person TFW held sway over with any conviction was a 3-year-old on CWS. So her fellow contestants have nothing to fear!
Hey!! I'm from the Midwest, I don't know that stuff. LOL.
Go WSU & KU!!
It sounds like the most difficult part of the experience is dealing with the trauma and fighting and egos, and what Penn describes as "panicked, desperate, yelling, swearing, attacking, backstabbing, failing to get laid and acting crazy" contestants.
Yes I think that's a fair statement. The tasks themselves are pretty high school. Come up with a new ice cream flavor, come up with an advertising campaign for a swanky new car. The challenge is the very long shooting days, regardless whether you are waiting around for a lot of it, and having to work with a bunch of nut jobs.
Jane said ... 90
Also, I was remembering that when it gets down to the final challenge, all the contestants come back to help the finalists and then they sit on the stage while Trump decides the winner.
They usually only bring back about 6 of the most recently fired contestants to help the finalists. I can't imagine TFW making it far enough along to be a helper at the end, unless she is such a delicious train wreck that DT keeps her for the drama (ala Busey). They do bring back all the contestants to sit on the stage at the finale.
rainbowsandunicorns said...
The tasks themselves are pretty high school. Come up with a new ice cream flavor, come up with an advertising campaign for a swanky new car.
What about a campaign to keep your failing reality show on the air? Kate has experience in that!
NJGal said
CA tends to bring out the worst in some people and apparently films just about everything AND takes great pleasure in showing the participants at their worst. Dionne Warwick is a good example of this. Icon figure in music however she came across as a spoiled, petulant, lazy, uber bitch on the show. I don't think doing CA did much for her career because after seeing her on CA I certainly had a different opinion of her.
I remember being so disappointed in Dionne Warwick. Like you, I've never had the same appreciation for her since. Some people should not expose their true natures to the public. Kate is one of those people.
So I am waiting with bated breath to see her implode right before our eyes. She does not have the capability of holding it together, of taking on unusual demands with good grace, or dealing with criticism. She's going to lose it and I want them to film it and show it.
But when she does - she'll cry crocodile tears and claim that she so misses her eight, count 'em eight, preemie children, that she could barely function. And her idiot fans (all four of them), will fall for it.
Rhymes with Witch said...
The challenge is the very long shooting days, regardless whether you are waiting around for a lot of it, and having to work with a bunch of nut jobs. 95
And the biggest nut job is.......
I too am wondering how much they will allow Steve to be involved. I have a feeling that she will need to keep him close at all times, but I'd be really irritated to see him in the background while she's supposed to be doing tasks, etc.
Is that the time when nobody really knew who the Silver Fox (aka Mr. Gray) really was, and wondered who grabbed one of the girls' arms? If I recall, she turned and looked at him like, "Who do you think you are, and get your grubby ratclaws off me?"
I was reading over at Kate's TL and it looks like the sheeple are under the impression that this is a new series, with their "OMG...Kate is coming back to television" comments. I wonder how many of them understand that this is a special containing clips of past shows, and will last less than an hour?
Has anyone told them about that, or should they just find that out on their own? :I think it's rather amusing, actually.
TFW will only get money for her charity if she takes on the role of Project manager and her team wins.
She won't be able to sneak Steve in anywhere or have him step & fetch for her because there will always be production assistants, camera crews and other contestants around. She's on her own for this one and if she starts crying her famous tissue poke in the eye tears she will be called out on it.
I think Penn should have won the all stars CA.
Rainbowsandunicorns - Those that are still gushing about the upd8 on TFW's timeline are only twitterbots being paid to be excited about the show.
Serendipity said...
Fired Up 4 Kate @MiloandJack 19h
@maceywanty328 No Macey...I live far south away from Kate! I would never stalk her anyway. Not a nice thing 2do to anyone.
LOL!! I guess she doesn't consider being a nosy busybody cyber stalking! Poor Gladys. You can bet your bottom dollar that if she lived anywhere near Kate she'd be following her all over town. I guess, though, that's not stalking, but it's what every BFF does!
Fired Up 4 Kate @MiloandJack 5h
@Kateplusmy8 What a week you have had!! Anytime you can come up for air, we'd love 2hear all about the goodies going on! :)
Wouldn't you think that with all of their private communicatin that Milo would know all about the goodies going on? Does this mean that Kate isn't in touch with her several times a day to keep her up to date on her whereabouts?
D.Geary said...
With Katie on the show DT sees dollar signs. I would have like to have been a mouse during negotiations with her and Trump to see if Trump gave into her demands. If she is on the show will Trump cut her some slack and leave the harsh criticism for the other contestants. Surely Trump won't make her cry but some show some compassion for this mother of 8 if she goofs up. We will have to wait and see but I wouldn't put it past Trump to use the compassion card to make himself look human and a good guy. These actions will come in handy especially since he wants to run for Guv'na of New York. We might see a kinder gentler DT instead of a hard ass which might get him some voters who think DT really cares about NY'ers. I also see Katie teaming up with Miss Brandi making fast friends because both are considered the bad girls of TV. I personally would like to see the Trumps take Kate down but I think she will be spared their harsh comments. It will all be in the contract.
An appropriate comparison: TFMJG will be the Teen Duck Lips of CA!
Does anyone know who the guy in the purple shirt was in Terrell Owens video? I just did a twitter search on Kevin Jonas and they look nothing alike. Plus Kevin was apparently at the meadowlands in NJ today. Keesha instagramed a photo of her boarding a small plane to Syracuse, geraldo will be on Fox live from NY tonight, Gilbert G is performing a show. Maybe Friday was press photos and filming starts Monday? Or they have weekend evenings off?
I saw the TO video clip. The first shot could be kate, though her legs look to slim. The second sighting where she is coming behind TO and in front of Steve definitely looks like Leeza Gibbons. So I'm undecided. Also, if Johnny Weir was really planned as a contestant, maybe his imploding divorce caused him to withdraw, and caused the delay in announcing.
Sorry D.Geary but I think you're giving TFW more credit that she deserves. When DT looks at her he doesn't see $$$ signs he just sees another D-lister for his show. TFW has been out of the limelight for too long to have any negotiation powers at all. Brandi is on a hit show and would have much more cachet with DT than TFW as would TO. The way I see it is TFW's people have been lobbying for a spot on the show for her for years and they were finally able to get one. Nope, TFW will get the same deal that ever other D-lister gets on the show. Nothing more, nothing less.
Formerly Duped said...
From Hollywood Gossip re: the special with the kids:
“They’re funnier, the conversations we have now are hysterical. They want to give me fashion advice and dating advice and all these other things. ' Apparently they "will play an even bigger role in the special, since they are much older now. ' Play a bigger role than Cara's silence on the interview? Or the boys on KC clip?
Jumping In said...
Millicent 98.....I thought the same thing! TFW will use her 8 kids every time she is overwhelmed by a task then tell her team how hard it is being away from them. I don't have kids, but would missing one child, or two any different from missing eight? If she uses them as an excuse, wouldn't other contestants who are parents be insulted? Of course, her crocodile tears begs the question, why be away from them in the first place? Oh, that would bring on a secondary round of pretend tears, because she is the sole provider of 8 kids and is doing CA for THEM. It's all about sacrifice for TFW.
These actions will come in handy especially since he wants to run for Guv'na of New York. We might see a kinder gentler DT instead of a hard ass which might get him some voters who think DT really cares about NY'ers.
Donald Trump stated on twitter that he is not going to run for Governor of NY. He also stated elsewhere that he would only run for governor if there was no primary for the Republican candidate, and he was the only candidate considered. Guess they didn't go along with him.
He always blows hot air about running for political office--NYC Mayor, NY Governor, and President, but he never does. Although he always states he would win if he did run. Talk about ego!!
Jeremy said... 107
Does anyone know who the guy in the purple shirt was in Terrell Owens video?
Do you mean the one in the pinkish shirt that Terrell filmed right after he says "no, I'm filming HIM"? I've been trying to figure that out too. BTW, Kevin Jonas was mentioned and shown in the video.
I wonder if this guy was a last minute replacement for one of those rumored to be on. He doesn't look like any of the rumored cast. Gilbert Gottfried also was not mentioned in any of the casting rumors, so I wonder if he also was a last minute replacement for someone like David Hasselhorf, or Johnny Weir.
How do you tell the bots from the random fans? I don't have twitter, but I know that bots use keywords, and this time it seems to be "excited," and you can tell they are bots by the multiple tweets that say basically the same thing. However, with one like this, is it a bot or a not-a-bot?
ers361 @ers361 3h
OMG #KATEPLUSEIGHT IS COMING BACK IN JUNE!!!! @Kateplusmy8
There are so many of these that are under the assumption that this is not a special, bur rather that Kate and her kids are coming back to television on regular episodes.
We might see a kinder gentler DT instead of a hard ass which might get him some voters who think DT really cares about NY'ers.
Is a kinder gentler DT (on CA) an oxymoron?
Dump Truck, P.R. Scam Artist said...
A must read article that really ticked DT off when it came out recently:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/36-hours-on-the-fake-campaign-trail-with-donald-trump?s=mobile
LoveMyGrandsons said...
Just to add my 2 cents here: of course TFW will use the kids as an excuse why she can't concentrate, work hard, etc. She did that on DWTS. It was never her fault that she didn't put in the effort.
When she was on DWTS, she should have been cut alot sooner that she was, and she should have gotten much lower scores than she did. So I knew there was some kind of arrangement there, albeit TLC's doing.
TLC may not be involved with CA, but why is Steve there? Since none of the other people, that I am aware of, have "bodyguards" so close by, why does she? It makes me wonder if CA is in on this too. No, DT doesn't need the money, but by keeping the show on, he sure is looking for ratings. So would he give in to her demands, some of them, for what he thinks will be good ratings? I don't know, but he might. After all, with all of his money, he's still doing this show so he knows ratings are what keeps it on the air.
Fleecing The Sheeple said...
Sandie @SandieBellz 6m
Did I hear Johnny Damon is a cast mate on Celebrity Apprentice? Very cool. Don’t forget us. ;) @Kateplusmy8
foxyt said...
Donald Trump will never run for any political office as he would have to show all his wealth or lack of, investments, anything and everything would be looked into. He would never agree to that.
Lalalalala said...
Part of this show is becoming friendly and getting to know your co-contestants. Ya know, things like talking, having coffee together, sharing experiences and just generally getting to know the other people in the cast. I can't see Kate doing that. I think she'll spend every and any spare moment with Stevie. That's not going to sit well with anyone. That will be the first HUGE mistake she makes.
I can't wait for this season to start. It's like waiting for that train you know will crash and burn.
I think collectively we have examined Terrell Owens video more than the Zapruder film was analyzed! Still on the fence between kate and leeza. But toward the beginning, the woman who says "are you filming me?" Is the woman siting on the chair talking to Gilbert g. She is telling him something about a Today show appearance to promote CA and jokingly says to him " do what I tell you" at least I hope she was joking! And asks if she is being filmed. Then Jonas walks by in the black suit, and he is the same guy with pics tweeted of him in NJ today at Meadowlands racetrack. THEN the guy who makes an entrance in the pink (my mistake before, not purple ) shirt is Johnny Damon. TO make another video tonight, going back in a cab, alone, to Trump hotel. Confirmed his worst kept secret that he was on CA, but no details.
Mella @CarmellaVerena 39m
@SandieBellz @Kateplusmy8 @TLC what's the new show about?! When is it coming out?
I guess not all of the fans got the memo yet. Wait until the cast of CA is announced. They will be be over the moon and not able to contain their excitement. It will certainly be a happy, happy, joy, joy day on Kate's twitter! For the younger fans, I wonder if this will mean a day off from school to celebrate the good news.
Math Girl said...
After a few encounters with J&K+8, I never watch anything K is on, but I always watch Dancing with the Stars. The year K was on, I didn't watch until after she was eliminated. I did watch her dances on Utube, once I found out how badly she did.
Sleepless In Seattle said...
I think collectively we have examined Terrell Owens video more than the Zapruder film was analyzed!
lol!! I guess the next step is having it digitally computerized and synchronized with the voice asking if she is being filmed. Then it will be appraised at 22 million and donated to the Donald's CA archives, pulled out when the Gosselin-Neild Commission meets to make its final report in 20 years.
I am having trouble viewing TO's video in the post. It won't come on. Is there another place where I could watch it? I have checked online and youtube.
Let's see now...Terrell Owens has ove a million twitter followers, Brandi has over 500K, Leeza has over 200K and yet it's TFW that's going to bring in viewers? I don't think so.
And then there's the latest tweet from Lauren talking about the TLC upd8...
@ljohnson2006: So many people will watch this @Kateplusmy8 special. We genuinely want what's best for her and the kids. @TLC should give u a new show
If the sheeple wanted what was genuinely best for the kids they'd want them to be able to lead a private life and see their dad on a regular basis.
LoveMyGrandsons said... 116
Exactly, LMG.
She used rushing home to the kids as her excuse for doing 88mph. At 1:20am. Yeaaahh right. Fortunately the Trooper didn't buy it and gave her the ticket anyway.
She has blamed the kids numerous times for not dating at all. Jenny Masche found a new (cute!) husband right away.
She uses the kids as an excuse for not venturing out in public with them hardly at all, claiming there would be a panic. Jon takes all the kids out in public all the time.
This show leaves her very little wiggle room for her whining and excuses. She knows exactly what she's getting in to.
California Suzy said...
Please tell me that the former Mrs. Gosselin did not get a cover on Vogue! The world is coming to an end if this is true!
lukebandit said... 124
Sometimes it takes a few minutes to load. Last night it took over 3 minutes, so just give it time. It will eventually come up so that you can watch it.
Found out it was a false alarm about the Vogue cover. The article was meant as a mockery because apparently having Kim and Kanye looked like Vogue was putting anyone on the cover now!
I think that redneck tweet picked it up from a series of tweeters who are disgusted that Kimye are on the Vogue cover. They say who is next, Kate Gosselin? It's not a compliment either haha:
Mindy Rickles @MindyRickles 23h
Kim K on Vogue? Ugh! What's next? A shot of Anna Wintour kissing asses of Kate Gosselin & Octomom for Sept issue cover?! #KimyeOnVogue
M @getrealuwish Mar 21
@sandymaltzman @voguemagazine not buying this vogue. whos next jon and kate gosselin
Sleepless In Seattle said... 123
Haha! Too bad it's not on 35 mm we could go frame by frame.
CA Suzy - I believe that article was tongue in cheek because Kim K got a cover.
California Suzy said... 127
No, that would be Kanye West and Kim Kardashian or Kimye. There's already a parody cover out and an article on ROL re: an actress canceling her subscription in protest.
Beyond DIsgusted said... 121
We know they read here. In fact one fan blog consists not of posts of how wonderful TFW is and why but of quotes of this blog and bashing of Jon. The quandry with the tweeters is they would have to admit they read this Cesspool of Hate in order to bring up CA
Maybe he and TFW can do hot yoga together!!
Terrell Owens @terrellowens 2h
Need some help...I'm in the midtown area of NYC & looking to do some hot yoga 2morr, NO Bikram, any suggestions? #fitness #whatTOdo #flow
I get the feeling TO is getting paid to promote this Hang With. He seems very personable with his fans though.
I get the idea that the sheep are convinced that this special and the appearance on CA will launch Kate into a new network show...that everyone on the planet will be beating down her door to offer her a contract for yet another reality gig. What will they call it? Fickle Finger Of Kate?
Fleecing The Sheeple said... 117
I think she's letting TFW know that she knows TFW is filming CA.
That's Penn. Life is easy for him, and you can choose to hate someone like him for it or just enjoy the treat of watching him.
Penn was on Tournament of Stars Chopped this past week (Rachael vs. Guy alumni round). He's no great cook, but he gave it a good effort. He finished his entree seven minutes early and then kind of stood there chewing on a piece of steak while watching Carnie Wilson and Lou Diamond Phillips run around in a panic to complete their dishes on time. He said something like he just wants to get his tasks finished early. lol! He was just so cool about the whole competition. Easy peesy, no sweat attitude. I love the guy.
Don't forget us.
I'm convinced that the TO video was shot from the grassy knoll.
TLC may not be involved with CA, but why is Steve there?
Ooooh, oooh. Pick me!! This is a perfect opportunity to start a rumor to herd the sheep into a frenzy. Maybe TFW's "people" convinced Trump's "people" that Steve the Bodyguard is a celebrity in his own right and should be a contestant! It would be a perfect solution to TFW's problem of being unable to function without her silver puppeteer pulling her strings. Kate and Steve on the same team. Now THAT would be a hoot.
Starz22 said...
So she's gonna be on? I won't watch. if you are wondering how her 6 fans are going to make a difference...they wont. All the haters watching will. We all know there are more haters than fans.
Why watch this crap? DT is only putting her on the show for one reason....guaranteed flow of responses on any story written about her on anything. RATINGS! and the haters are going to give him what he's after ten fold.
Yes I want her to fail and she will...But I don't and won't give her 1st hand attention. Really you cant find something else to do on the night the show is on? Make something out of her cookbook? Look up her driving record? Play the blame game? Read her books you didn't buy? ect ect... Sorry to be so mean ...but I thought people here were more intelligent than this.
The grassy knoll! I thought that when I first read that this video had been examined and analyzed thoroughly. Wouldn't it of been incredible if the guy with the camera had been on the opposite side of the street on the grassy knoll and turned around and got film of the man running away!
That TO video could drive a nun to drink!
He's got to be the most boring, self-absorbed man in the world.
Kate's in great company.
I didn't see Kate in the video, but it sure looked like Steve was once again, warming a couch for a living.
What a riveting job. Must make his kids proud.
Please, I am begging!
If anyone photoshoppes, Please! photoshoppe Steve into the group picture of the CA contestants. Hopefully, kate will be on the outside of the group so he could be placed right behind her, or if she is sitting in the middle of the group, place his head on top of her shoulder like a two headed monster they truly are! hahaha!
Also, one more request. Everybody has heard or seen the Vogue cover of Kim and Kayne. Disgusting. IMO, I believe Kayne paid AW to put them on the cover. Vogue was classic, and you don't mess with that. AW sold out. You don't put a woman who was in a sex tape getting urinated on and enjoying it and this was the start of her "career"!
After seeing the Vogue cover, Sarah Michelle Gellar tweeted that she was canceling her subscription and who's with me? Way to go!
Please photoshoppe kate in the wedding dress and Steve in the tux on the Vogue cover. This would be so hilarious and so much viral potential, Smashing!
2 guys on the Vogue cover, photoshopped! Seth Rogen and James Franco. They also recreated Kim K sitting on the motorcycle turned toward Kayne! hahaha
Please! Bwahahahahaha
I think everyone is going to be disappointed as to how Kate is treated on CA. Everyone said Whoopi and Joy would tear her a new one, and they softballed her. DWTS, she was so terrible, and yet was given higher scores than she earned and kept longer than she deserved. I think this will be the same way..she will be treated with kid gloves like she always is. I think she has that written into her contract.
Here's a theory about TFW being on twitter silence (besides the usual -
she's getting her narcissistic supply from other sources). I wonder if she's intimidated by The Donald, and is trying to mind her P's and Q's? We know she's all about money and fame, and she may truly see this as her ticket to the next level of stardom. Could she possibly be on her -- if such a thing exists -- "best behavior?"
If not, I say it was Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with a wrench.
NJGal51 said... 125
US mag did a poll asking readers whether they would be watching the upd8 special. Out of 17,500 respondents, 84% said would not. Only one vote can be accepted per IP address. So no sheeples, we didn't all go over there and vote no over & over again.
You are correct, NJ. The sheeple genuinely do not care whatsoever for Kate or her kids. They only genuinely care about hating Jon and thumbing their hooves at us. What kids? Kate has kids?
Celebrity Apprentice has never treated any contestant with kid gloves in the history of the show, including disabled contestants like deafness, legitimately brain damaged contestants (Gary Busey had brain injuries he never recovered from in a motorcycle accident years ago and this is well documents), and senior citizens.
They only genuinely care about hating Jon and thumbing their hooves at us
And they care about what they are getting out of the situation. How THEY get an update and peek into the family's life. The jollies they get out of it without regard for the children's wishes. They sound so selfish yet they don't see it.
Winsomeone....146...I tend to agree with you, and your thinking remains one of the great mysteries around Kate. Why is she never called out on what seems to be so obvious, the exploitation of her own children. Even when she appears without them, she is there BECAUSE of them. They are her vehicle, the reason she manages to wrangle these shows for herself.
Indeed, she stayed on DWTS either because the show was rigged for ratings or because people actually voted to watch a train wreck. But all the while, Kate maintained (through every embarrassingly awkward dance move) that she did the show for her kids.
How she'll use her children on CA remains to be seen, but I imagine she'll find a way to evoke sympathy by using them when she finds her back against the wall.
Agree Admin. CA doesn't give special treatment to anyone. Why do so may think TFW will be treated with kid gloves? She just doesn't have the star power to have anything written into her contract any more. The other participants on the show don't care about what's in anyone's contract but their own and will not put up with her crap because it's all about winning. When you beg to be on a show, the show holds all the cards. As I said in an earlier post I think TFW's people have been trying to get her on the show for years and it finally worked. I sometimes think the worst behavior gets more air time because everyone loves a train wreck.
Realitytvkids.com (Administrator) said... 149
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This is true, CA contestants have never gotten any special soft treatment.... but I tend to agree with Winsomeone.. somehow TFW will.
I just don't see her agreeing to do this if she was told she WILL have to work, she WILL have to be accountable for her actions and she WILL have to play on the same playing field as every other contestant. She is always handled with kid gloves and special treatment other real and talented celebrities and artists are often not given the benefit of. The only other scenario I can think of is that she is going in intending to work and toe the line, in order to repair her terrible image and become more employable.
I want Kate to cry about eating 3 slabs of bacon while she was on bed rest for 3 years, and then have a contestant look at her and say "so what?".
Did someone say they film for 6 weeks? Will she be twitter silent for that long?
Ok, do those people who thought DWTS treated her with "kid gloves" actually watch the show? They showed her narcassism in ALL of its glory - her unwilliingness to work hard and blaming her failure on Tony, Carrie Ann calling her "unaware", and oh, yeah, who can forget how they made fun of her with the horrendous makeup, costume and upclose pose on her "flying" dance finale. The woman was a laughingstock nationwide during her appearance on DWTS.
I just don't see her agreeing to do this if she was told she WILL have to work, she WILL have to be accountable for her actions and she WILL have to play on the same playing field as every other contestant.
Maybe they didn't tell her that. I think they just wanted her to sign on the dotted line no matter how she wanted to think her experience will go on this. Now, like every....single....contestant in the history of the show, she will have to hold her own or face the wrath of the boardroom. Don't worry, it will happen. You really think Donald had some secret meeting with the other contestants and said now guys I know we're all playing for our charities here but we're all going to treat Kate special, with kid gloves, hand hold, and make sure she gets through this experience all positive, k? Yeah right, they'd tell him hell no my charity is at stake here and if I have to throw Kate or anyone else under the bus I'm doing it!
Donald doesn't care about appeasing her or anyone else. He cares about the drama. While he may have smooth talked her into this, he's not going to put in her contract she is to be treated with kid gloves, that's silly.
I think some of us are suffering from selective memory! She's not teflon anymore with anyone but a few outlets like People magazine. Look at how both her lawsuit and the Today show backfired on her. Most people have her number now. The fact that she has decided to just keep on trucking through it instead of crawling under a rock to die is just because she's a nut with no self respect or self awareness. That's really on her, not because the public isn't aware of her shenanigans. Any other rational person would have disappeared by now. Make no mistake, Donald put her on his show because she is a freak who might cause some good fights. Not because he likes her, not because he thinks she's talented, not because he doesn't know how universally hated she is. Because he weighed public commentary and what he's seen of her behavior and determined this could be a nice recipe for drama, period.
Somewhere In Time said...
Can't you see the sheeple who read here asking, "What's the Zapruder film?" and running around trying to find the Grassy Knoll? No, sheep, it's not on the pier in NYC, and no, Kate is not in your barnyard.
But...don't forget DWTS, at their expense, built her a dance studio in her basement to practice and flew, at their expense, Tony to practice with her in PA. They treated her special.
Admin said .....
You make good points and we can only wait and see.
Has anyone else noticed that the fans, while having their wool in a bunch and telling themselves that Kate's show has been renewed (ignoring the fact that it's a one-time 1 hr. clipfest) don't seem quite as enthused about CA? Could that be because Kate, her behavior and poor temperment will be on full display without Jon, kids or haters to blame for it?
It's simple. She is Twitter silent because she cannot tweet her usual nonsense about the kids. She knows, either reading here or a sheeple informed her, that we know what she doing, where she is, and who she is with. Without the 8 she has nothing to tweet about. Nothing. And I agree she does not care at all about her few fans. Think about how callous she and Steve were to those fans that gave her cards and homemade gifts. Into the trash and they laughed about it. I am so sorry that sheeple did not get to download Robert's book because it would have exposed her for what she is IN HER OWN WORDS.
ITA Donald is all about ratings, $$$ and drama. I still think she did negotiate because Donald wanted her. Remember, we read about her negotiations in Robert's book and she always demanded Steve be included (salary, air fare, accommodations).
Tess said...
The woman messed up his hair. I'm going with the idea that once she signs on, he controls her storyline, and goodness knows she'll give him plenty to work with! I'm not contributing to the ratings, so will be looking forward to the recaps here :)
... but why is Steve there? Since none of the other people, that I am aware of, have "bodyguards" so close by, why does she?
Some CA contestants have brought PR reps, assistants/managers with them.
IDK whether their support people stay for the whole CA or leave after the initial show PR but I'd imagine some of the big stars have their people stay to run personal and business errands, etc.
Oh absolutely. They're uncomfortable. They know that this show has a very firm reputation for exposing who people really are. Some people come off like the good people they are, and some people come off like the very bad people they are. She is very likely to be just like the infamous Dionne Warwick, her reputation destroyed by doing that show, and they know it.
They can use their usual excuses about missing the kids, drama with Jon, and editing, but the rest of the public isn't going to listen or care about excuses, and they know it. They also know darn well she is lazy, and they don't want that exposed. Want don't they give it up already and come join us here! :)
Paula said... 155
Ok, do those people who thought DWTS treated her with "kid gloves" actually watch the show? They showed her narcassism in ALL of its glory
The best narc moment was Kate's dance to Paparazzi. The contestants pick a tribute- a touching story-and Kate's choice was to tell her story of woe, being hounded by the paps.
It was embarrassed for her. She looked like an idiot on every level.
Don't forget...her birthday is March 28. And who will she be celebrating it with? Steve and not her kids. Oh, right. That is nothing new.
I saw the Z. camera in D.C. last year, they had it in the Newseum. It's in perfect condition because apparently it was brand new when he first used it. I took an instagram like the good history nerd that I am lol.
As far as TO's film, it has been seized by the RBI and delivered to Kodak for further processing. Stand by.
With the TFW we know, yes but I have my doubts with some of the CA contestants. If the celebs on CA (and even DT) believe the old TLC scripted version of J&K they may believe her story of the poor 'single' mom of 8 doing everything herself because her cheater ex-husband abandoned the family, etc.
If she bends some ears with her poor-pitiful me storyline some may feel sympathetic and protective of her. During their shooting down-time TFW and Brandi may even bond over similarities (in TFW's head) in marriages w/infidelity and ex's new loves.
Most of the celebs have busy careers (something TFW can't relate to) and haven't paid attention to the truth about J&K's show, marriage, breakup, aftermath and depending on the persona TFW adopts for CA she may be able to sway some to her side... until she shows her lack of skills and leadership and her nasty side to them, that is!
ITA, this CA may finally get the word out to those folks who don't pay attention to Kate to finally see what we have seen all along. How ironic. Her narcissism and greed to be on CA may be what finally takes her down.
Re: CA celebs doing shows on weekends, etc.
In the past many celebs have maintained their appearance schedules during CA filming, some have even left for a couple of episodes at a time to do shows. If it can work for filming and they specify that in their contracts it seems to be something that is no issue for CA. PPL like TFW - heck, what obligations does she have that she'd need to miss taping an episode?! lol
Donald doesn't care about appeasing her or anyone else. He cares about the drama.
I wouldn't be surprised if Donald (or someone on his staff) watched the RV episodes, and used them as her "audition" tape. That's the Kate he wants on his show--the real Kate-Kate the bitch.
http://tamaratattles.com/2014/03/22/new-season-of-celebrity-apprentice-filming-now-in-nyc/
Confirms filming. It appears the excitement is about Brandi and Kenya.
Sparkle, I agree with your comment that Kate is probaly going into this with the INTENTION of working to repair her past image; however, she won't be able to maintain it and will crack. And I predict that will happen sometime around the third week of filming (the first two being a vacation scenario to her) -- should she even make it that far without being fired.
Can't wait, can't wait, can't wait!
I found an article that had an interview with Clay Aiken about CA. He was asked if they were allowed to have any outside help with their tasks.
Q: When doing tasks, did you get a lot of help behind the scenes from assistants or did you have to do all that work yourselves?
"Oh no, you have to do it all. The only help we get, if there’s any help whatsoever, is right when we get our task there’s about 20 minutes not filmed where we’re given sort of a dossier and told what the task will entail and what benchmarks we need to hit. We don’t get any help hitting those benchmarks. We don’t get any help with ideas. We don’t get any help with anything."
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/12/2058808_a-qa-with-idol-and-celebrity-apprentice.html
Sparkle, I agree with your comment that Kate is probaly going into this with the INTENTION
I've noticed about her is that her fantasy of how things will go is often drastically different from reality. For instance, I will win DWTS, she probably thinks she will win CA too. She also surely thought the twins would awe and amaze on the Today show too and days later Disney would call with a contract.
She just doesn't live in this world. It's wonderful to be so positive and optimistic but there's also value in knowing your own limitations too. This kind of "I can do anything" attitude probably better serves a 15 year old who wants to be a tennis star or famous actress rather than a 39 year old woman with a family who had her chance at her dreams and has eight people to focus on supporting THEIR dreams now. That's not to say there aren't many things to be accomplished once youth is over, but most people have a more realistic outlook on life.
I won't be a tennis star, but I could really enjoy playing with friends every Saturday morning. You know, things like that. More mature thinking.
On filming tip site, March 20:
Reilly Worldwide (pretty sure this is for Celebrity Apprentice) is filming at 56th St and 5th Ave in NYC. (Thanks @dogtorfreud)
TLC Stinks - When TFW was on DWTS she had the TLC machine behind her. Now it's just her. I know that Admin and I are CA devotees but those of you who think she'll be treated with kid gloves have you ever actually watched the show? Have you ever actually watched a boardroom scene? The claws come out and it's every man for himself. Even the nicest participants go at each other and DT just sits back and lets it happen. We follow TFW as do a handful of twitter sheeple & haters but the rest of the viewing public will probably be more interested in Brandi. She's got a best selling book and is on a hit show. Their attitude about TFW will be why is she even on the show.
Has anyone else noticed that the fans, while having their wool in a bunch and telling themselves that Kate's show has been renewed
Speaking of which, I'd laugh if this TLC upd8 on Kate includes her getting canned from Coupon Cabin and the Stir, her failed lawsuits, the Bullyvillian scandal, the catastrophic cookbook flop, and the Today show backfire.
She's been busy alright. The kids are going to school and trying to live their lives while their mother has been out there stirring up shit and getting nowhere.
I did know this. From TVTonight.com:
Who forgot there were two endings for Celebrity Apprentice?
By David Knox on May 7, 2013 / Filed Under News 11
Sometimes there are short memories in media.
Today, News Limited reports there were two endings filmed for The Celebrity Apprentice.
“The last two years it has been well known who wins, because the show is filmed so far in advance and people talk,” a source told the Daily Telegraph.
“In this (TV) environment there’s no time for that sort of leak.”
But of course Celebrity Apprentice has actually filmed alternate endings for the past two seasons.
Last year NineMSN leaked the ending with Dicko on the day of the finale. It was one of the year’s better blunders.
In 2011 Julia Morris told TV Tonight, “They shot 4 different endings because of Twitter and Facebook and they can’t control it. So everybody won and everybody lost. It’s so ‘Who Shot JR!’”]
“The cast don’t know, the crew don’t know. The only people who know are Channel Nine and FremantleMedia and even then I think it is locked down to an absolute skeleton staff.”
Morris had no idea who won in advance of the finale screening.
It’s also a little baffling that a Nine spokesperson told the newspaper, ”One has won, but they don’t know who.
“Only Mr (Mark) Bouris and senior producers know the outcome.”
Two weeks ago Bouris told News Limited, he would not decided on the winner until the series has run its course.
“I want to watch it like viewers and see who really deserves the title at the end of the series.”
More and more it is becoming obvious that outcomes are decided on how popular contestants are with the audience, rather than being based on their actions in the series.
built her a dance studio in her basement to practice and flew, at their expense, Tony to practice with her in PA. They treated her special.
No more special than what they do for other celebs who have obligations while doing DWTS. Just a few weeks ago Derek was flying to and from Sochi with his partner and since then is flying back and forth with her to her competitions. All of the pros do this with their celeb if necessary. The floor wasn't really that expensive anyway.
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That's the Trump Tower where they film many of the meet and greets with The Donald and the judges. Kate must think she died and went to gold heaven. The building is so ornate, so gold, so reeking of new money. Worth seeing (anyone can walk in and hang for a bit, there are stores and places to eat).
OT..JoyinVirginia. The VCU game was a tough loss..watched it. Hopefully Virginia will win today..my sister lives there too.
I disagree. If you live outside of LA or are working outside of LA they are happy to accommodate you. On Kate's own season that soap opera star had his partner flying out to NYC every week so he could still do his soap opera. There have been many times when celebs have other obligations around the country and their partners go with them.
Tony has also flown out to ENGLAND to practice before the show that week with one of his partners. That's a 13 hour flight from LA, one way.
NJgal51, you are right. I forgot about TLC involvement. I haver watched CA because I cannot stand Trump.
One thing, Kate will not be able to use her children as an excuse for doing poorly, as no one forced her to be away from them for 4-6 weeks. What real mother would or could leave so many for so long? Also, this time she can't say it's for the money to support them, as she is making so little, after she pays Steve, she most like will be in the red.
Re: sheeple: I think there are two kinds. One group is Kate fans, such as Milo, or Leigh, Paige, etc and the other group is the kids' fans. Remember the creepy person who tattooed Alexis Faith on her arm?Or the one who named her son Aaden to Kate's annoyance? So the second group might not want to just see TFW on CA, but want the special to become a series.
As for me, as many others here, I watched the original show to see the kids before I soon realized what TFW was really like. I joined this site to discuss mainly the negative impact of filming and the parenting of these children with the odd Kate snark.
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I agree with Admin. and other posters that TCFW will not be treated with kid gloves on CA. Donald Trump doesn't give a rat's ass about anybody but Donald Trump. Okay maybe his family but that's it. He's not going to care how TCFW is treated and even if he did the other contestants certainly won't.
With regard to TFCW being treated with kid gloves on other shows, you have to remember she had TLC behind her. She was their star back then. They made damn sure she was protected from bad publicity. Unfortunately, they couldn't protect her from herself and then it started to unravel. With regard to her recent interview on The View with M&C, do you honestly think they were going to go after her with her two children sitting there? Baba Wawa is tata now and I don't think Whoopi thinks TCFW is worth wasting her breath on. The Today Show and View interviews with TCFW and the girls really sealed the deal with how people feel about her. People hate her, hate the fact that she uses her kids to promote herself and don't want to waste their time on her.
I think people are giving TCFW way too much credit for being a draw. People who like TCFW will watch the TLC special and the rest won't. People who enjoy CA will watch it despite the fact that she is on but if someone doesn't watch that show, I doubt their going to tune in just to see TCFW. Myself, I don't watch the show and I'll happily wait for Admin.'s hysterical recap.
Oh they'll believe that the first day or two. Then they're realize she's a lazy POS and that will be over, don't worry.
Here we go again. Remember the Seinfeld episode about the grassy knoll/spitting? Hilarious.
Admin you could start a sit-com with your blog, "Sleuthing Out Kate".
It looked to me like that was sort of a "press day" publicity day where they take a bunch of photos and doing the opening segments. They weren't actually doing tasks yet.
I suppose in that case he might allow them to bring their "people." But after that they will have to go.
Actually I have long suspected that the reason so many celebs on that show have crumbled is because they don't have their people and can't function without their people. Sad really.
I also agree somewhat with winsomeone. I'm not sure about Trump treating her special but the other contestants might. I feel that it has already been decided (by the producers) she will not be one of the first to go no matter how bad she is.
I also feel that most celebrities don't even know who she is or ever watched her show. All they will know is what she is now portraying herself as: a poor single mother of eight.....her husband cheated on her, doesn't pay child support and never sees his children. Of course they will feel sorrow for her. They won't know that the marriage was already over before he started dating, that he did pay support in the past and the current arrangement was agreed upon by Kate and that he really does see his children.
Some have commented on Ivanka being tough. Hard to say how she will be towards Kate. Didn't she recently have a baby? She could be in awe of a mother with eight. Will she be the first one to say "eight children, I don't know how you do it".
Before Apprentice morphed into Celebrity Apprentice, it was almost educational to watch. When the Donald turned to Celebrities, it became another reality show for entertainment purposes only, for me anyway. I like CA, but I don't take it seriously anymore.
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Starz22 - You give Kate too much credit. I will watch CA because I have always watched CA. And I will continue to watch this "crap" as you call it, not because TFW is on, but in spite of the fact that she is on. I'll be damned if I am going to let the appearance of a woman I find morally bankrupt prevent me from watching something I enjoy. I must also say that your post, while not "mean," is very condescending and judgmental. I think the posters here have proven themselves to be quite an intelligent bunch, so questioning that intelligence is out of line.
For anyone worried that Kate will get softball treatment, you can be assured that DT doesn't give a rat's ass about Kate or what happens to her. All he cares about is putting a cast of characters together that will hopefully create a lot of drama and catfighting. She is nothing special to him. The only "special treatment" she might get is that DT may let her escape a few firings if she is a big enough trainwreck and PITA to the other contestants. And as others have already pointed out, the other contestants won't give a rat's ass about her either. They are in competition with her, and each other, so they will in no way try to make her, or anyone else, look good. On the contrary, the others will be very pleased if she looks bad.
I also feel that most celebrities don't even know who she is or ever watched her show.
I don't know, I think by virtue of being celebs they are a bit more aware of what's going on with other celebs. My celeb was very plugged into the celebrity world, was up on all the news better than real news. I think many consider this part of the job to be aware of what is relevant and what is not, who are the movers and shakers, what circles I need to move in, how do I get in the magazine like she did, etc.
I base this opinion also on Couples Therapy. Every single celeb there knew exactly who Jon and Kate were, and moreover, they almost universally sided with Jon and felt like Kate was a harpy. First impressions.
They may not know MUCH about them other than oh that family with eight kids, but they had exactly the right idea and I'm sure most celebs have a good general idea to.
Before Apprentice morphed into Celebrity Apprentice, it was almost educational to watch
Yes absolutely. I love the non-celeb version too. For totally different reasons.
The first couple seasons were fantastic. That's how Bill got his start and he was a star! I remember I was in school and we actually would gather at our professor's house for snacks and to watch, it was that big of a show that we would even have "gatherings"!
If you go to Tamara Tattles (I posted link previously), make sure you read the comments. Kate is called out for being " in denial", "A-hole" and a prediction she "will fly under the radar". I think this site will be an interesting read once the show airs.
I want to add this thought. When Kate was with TLC, she able to make demands because of ratings and filmed in her comfort zone. She got a very, very big head. With CA, this is not the case. And she doesn't understand that.
Even though she has a kid now I still don't think Ivanka is going to feel much for Kate. She may be very angelic looking but she doesn't really sympathize with people or their excuses. She is very fact driven, very much like her father. She's not going to want to hear excuses or much care. She is very by the book and very honest. She will just tell it how it is.
In fact she may think the opposite, I have a kid and I still do all these things and I don't whine about it.
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On 25th of March 2017, six months old baby boy was stolen from his mother by a strange lady. The mother of the stolen baby is called Sankheir Moallin Isak and she is a resident at Abay IDP camp which is situated in Daynile District. The mother is a 22-year-old who has recently fled from Bardhere town in Gedo region due to the droughts. She is new in the environment, therefore isn’t well familiarized with the area. One day, her old sister who is the leader of the IDP camp told her to go to Tabellaha Market to buy some items. Sankheir was approached by a lady pretending to be a new arrival. The strange lady pleaded with Sankheir to give her accommodation for just a night, Sankheir accepted the lady’s request out of pure heart and humanity.
They stayed together during the night, when the day broke the strange lady told Sankheir to accompany her to Bakaaro Market to collect money sent to her from abroad. They went together to the market while Sankheir was carrying her baby boy on her back, but she did not know that the strange lady was intending to do something sinister.
While in Bakaaro market, Sankheir was persuaded to fill her missing tooth by the strange lady and all expense was going to be paid by the strange, posing as a good Samaritan. They went to a dentist hospital where according to Sankheir, she was given cold water mixed with of some elements of drugs and in the process she lost her consciousness. The strange lady took advantage of that and got away with the son of Sankheir.
After some minutes when she got back her consciousness her baby was nowhere to be found. She went back to her sister at the IDP camp and informed her about what had transpired. The sister who was the leader of the camp contacted with SWDC on the same day. SWDC took the matter seriously and involved both NISA and Hodan police station and extensive search was undertaken.
NISA arrested two men who were operating at the dentist center where the baby was stolen at and closed down the center at the same time. The two dentist men were detained in the notorious God-ka Jilacow Prison but after some days, an MP who was their relative came and got them released on bail. The investigation was going on for almost a month, but luckily and due to the efforts of the intelligence officers, a brother and sister of the lady who stole the baby were located and arrested who came full account of the details and that the lady took the baby boy to Beletweine town.
The lady was arrested in Beletweine on 23th of April by the Police and SWDC paid for the expense her transportation to Mogadishu. The lady a long with the baby was landed at Aden Adde Aiport and at last the mother and her son were re-united and they will undergo a DNA test, while the strange lady who stole the baby is currently remanded at the CID waiting for further investigation of the case. The baby boy suffered a lot and there are visible injuries on his body but he is being taken care of by his mother and her sister. SWDC will take taps on the proceedings of the case and will share with its partners on the findings and sentence of the case.
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Xiaomi Redmi 1S smartphone has been launched in India priced at Rs. 5,999. Notably, the smartphone was first announced for India at Rs. 6,999, but the company seems to have had a change in mind at the last minute as far as pricing is concerned. The smartphone will be available via its first flash sale on September 2, and customers can register for it on Flipkart after 6pm IST on Tuesday.
The dual-SIM (Regular-SIM) Xiaomi Redmi 1S with dual standby was first announced for China in May, and features a 4.7-inch 720x1280 pixel IPS-LCD display with AGC Dragontrail glass protection and a pixel density of roughly 312ppi. It runs on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean with MIUI v5 skinned on top. The company has promised an upgrade to Android 4.4 KitKat with MIUI v6 towards the end of the year.
Xiaomi's Redmi 1S is powered by a 1.6GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 SoC (MSM8228), coupled with Adreno 305 GPU and 1GB of RAM. It has 8GB of built-in storage that is expandable via microSD card (up to 32GB). The Redmi 1S also features an 8-megapixel rear autofocus camera with flash, alongside a 1.6-megapixel front-facing camera.
The Redmi 1S comes with 3G, GPRS/ EDGE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with Direct and hotspot functionality, Micro-USB, Bluetooth 4.0, FM radio, GPS/ A-GPS, and USB OTG connectivity options. It is powered by a 2000mAh battery, weighs 158 grams, and has dimensions of 137x69x9.9mm.
The company has also announced accessories for the Redmi 1S, with screen protectors (matte and clear) priced at Rs. 179, a flip cover at Rs. 559, back cover in colours at Rs. 459, and a silica gel cover at Rs. 359.
Considering the phone's price tag, it is likely there will be an enthusiastic response to Redmi 1S, and it will be interesting to see if the smartphone will be plagued the kind of stock shortages that have become synonymous with the Xiaomi Mi 3 in India.
The Xiaomi Redmi Note was announced alongside the Redmi 1S for India back in July, however, the company is yet to announce launch details - despite having already provided a price of Rs. 9,999. The company's phablet offering, it features a 5.5-inch 720x1280 pixel IPS-LCD display with an approximate pixel density of 267ppi. Featuring dual-SIM support with dual standby, the Xiaomi Redmi Note is powered by a 1.7GHz octa-core MediaTek MTK6592 SoC, coupled with Mali-450MP4 GPU and 2GB of RAM.
The Xiaomi Redmi Note runs on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean with the MIUI v5 skin on top. It features a 13-megapxiel rear autofocus camera with LED flash, as well as a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera. It comes with 8GB of built-in storage along with microSD card expandability (up to 32GB). Connectivity options on the Redmi Note include GPRS/ EDGE, 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with Direct and hotspot, Bluetooth 4.0, Micro-USB with OTG, and GPS/ A-GPS.
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BOXCARS is the predecessor of Rail Baron.
In the late 1960s or early 1970s, previously unknown designers R.S. Erickson and T.F. Erickson, Jr. began
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The Ericksons decided to publish the game on their own, and released it as “BOXCARS” in 1974. It was billed as “The Informative NEW travel game of OLD-time railroading.” For a first-time effort, the components of the resulting boardgame were surprisingly refined and professional.
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Long distance services to Chiang Rai, Pai, Bangkok and Nan depart from, arrive into, either Chiang Mai Bus Terminal 2 or Chiang Mai Bus Terminal 3.
About Chiang Mai Bus Terminal 1
Chiang Mai Bus Terminal 1 used to be Chiang Mai’s main bus terminal but now it only it is only the terminal for local services and a small number of destinations in provinces bordering Chaing Mai. Chiang Mai Bus Terminal 1 is located just to the north of the old walled city area of Chiang Mai is walking distance from many of the city’s most popular tourist attractions and many of the most popular small hotels and guesthouses.
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This is a list of Acts of Parliament of the English Parliament during that body's existence prior to the Act of Union of 1707. For legislation passed after that date see List of Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom Parliament. This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of Ireland for the years up to its dissolution in 1800. ... This is an list of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the years 2000 to the present. ... This is a list of Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly passed by that body during its existence between 2000 and 2002 when it was suspended. ... A body now called the English Parliament first arose during the thirteenth century, referred to variously as colloquium and parliamentum. It shared most of the powers typical of representative institutions in medieval and early modern Europe, and was arranged from the fourteenth century in a bicameral manner, with a House... This is an list of links to lists of of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom grouped by period. ...
The numbers after the titles of the acts are the chapter numbers. Acts before 1962 are referenced using 'Year of reign', 'Monarch', c., 'Chapter number' — e.g. 16 Charles II c. 2 — to define a chapter of the appropriate statute book. Since 1962, the regnal year has been replaced by the calendar year. All recent Acts have a short title, or citation (e.g. Local Government Act 2003, National Health Service Act 1974).
For Acts passed prior to the Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793, the year after the Act name is in accordance with the previous law in which Acts came into effect on the first day of the session in which they were passed, and therefore may be the year before they were actually passed through Parliament.
1 17th century
1.1.1 1601 (43 Eliz. I)
1.1.1.1 Public Acts
1.1.1.2 Private Acts
1.1.2 1603 (1 Ja. I)
1.3.1 1623 (21 Ja. I)
1.3.2 1625 (1 Cha. I)
1.4.1 1640
1.6.1 1660 (12 Cha. II)
1.7.1 1661 (13 Cha. II. St. 1 / 13 Cha. II. St. 2)
1.7.1.2 Private Acts (13 Cha II. St. 1)
1.7.1.3 Private Acts (13 Cha. II. St. 2)
1.7.2.1 Public Accounts
1.7.4 1664 (16 Cha. II / 16 & 17 Cha. II)
1.7.4.2 Private Acts (16 Cha. II)
1.7.4.3 Private Acts (16 & 17 Cha. II)
1.7.6 1666 (18 & 19 Cha. II)
1.7.8 1670 (22 Cha. II /22 & 23 Cha. II)
1.9.1 1685 (1 Ja. II)
1.9.2 1688 (1 Will. & Mar. / 1 Will. & Mar. sess. 2)
1.9.2.2 Private Acts (1 Will. & Mar.)
1.9.2.3 Private Acts (1 Will. & Mar. sess. 2)
1.9.3 1689 (2 Will. & Mar.)
1.9.4 1690 (2 Will. & Mar. sess. 2)
1.10.1 1691 (3 Will. & Mar.)
1.10.1.1 Public Acts
1.10.1.2 Private Acts
1.10.4 1694 (5 & 6 Will. & Mar. / 6 & 7 Will. & Mar.)
1.10.4.2 Private Acts (5 & 6 Will. & Mar.)
1.10.4.3 Private Acts (6 & 7 Will. & Mar)
1.10.5 1695 (7 & 8 Will. III)
1.10.7 1697 (9 Will. III)
1.10.8 1698 (10 Will. III / 11 Will. III)
1.10.8.2 Private Acts (10 Will. III)
1.10.9 1700 (12 & 13 Will. III)
2.1 1701 (13 & 14 Will. III)
2.1.1 Public Acts
2.1.2 Private Acts
2.2 1702 (1 Ann. / 1 Ann. St. 2)
2.2.2 Private Acts (1 Ann.)
2.2.3 Private Acts (1 Ann. St. 2)
2.3 1703 (2 & 3 Ann.)
2.6 1706 (6 Ann.)
1601 (43 Eliz. I)
Public Acts
Assise of Fuel Act 1601 c. 14
Charitable Gifts Act 1601 c. 4
Confirmation of Certain Grants Act 1601 c. 1
Continuance of Acts, etc., 1601 c. 9
Disabled Soldiers Act 1601 c. 3
Fines of Land Act 1601 c. 15
Fraudulent Administration of Intestates' Goods Act 1601 c. 8
Frivolous Suits Act 1601 c. 6
General Pardon Act 1601 c. 19
Inferior Court Act 1601 c. 5
Land Drainage in Various Counties Act 1601 c. 11
Outrages in Northern Counties Act 1601 c. 13
Policies of Assurance Act 1601 c. 12
Poor Relief Act 1601 c. 2
Repair of Eden Bridges, Cumberland Act 1601 c. 16
Robbing of Orchards, etc. Act 1601 c. 7
Taxation Act 1601 c. 17
Woollen Cloth Act 1601 c. 10
The Poor Law describes the system for the provision of social security in operation in England and the United Kingdom from the 16th century until the establishment of the Welfare State in the 20th century. ...
Private Acts
Appeasing differences between Francis Ketelby and Andrew Ketelby and his wife Jane. c. 9
Assurance of manors and lands for the Countess of Bedford's jointure. c. 2
Assurance of the manors or farms of Sageburie (otherwise Sadgebutie, Gageburie or Gadgeburie) and Obden to Samuel Sandis and John Harris. c. 5
Assurance of the Patronage of Rotherston (Cheshire) vicarage and a Scholar's room in Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford, by the Dean and Chapter to Thomas Venables. c. 8
Augmentation of Rachel Nevill's jointure. c. 6
Denization of Myllet, Pope, Chaundeler, Eaton and Tooley. c. 3
Edward Lucas' estate: making his lands liable for the payment of certain legacies and debts. c. 10
Edward Nevill and Sir Henry Nevill: disposal of copyhold lands held of the manors of Rotherfield (Sussex) and Alesley and Fylongley (Warwickshire). c. 4
Naturalization of Lupo and others. c. 7
Perfecting the Countess of Sussex's jointure. c. 1
1603 (1 Ja. I)
Act against Brokers Act 1603 c. 21
Bankrupts Act 1603 c. 15
Berwick-on-Tweed Act 1603 c. 28
Bigamy Act 1603 c. 11
Continuance of Acts, etc., 1603 c. 25
Court Leets Act 1603 c. 5
Dover Haven Dues Act 1603 c. 32
Episcopal Lands Act 1603 c. 3
Exchequer Act 1603 c. 26
Fisheries Act 1603 c. 23
Game Act 1603 c. 27
Hats Act 1603 c. 17
Hops Act 1603 c. 18
Increase of Seamen (Fish-days) Act 1603 c. 29
Inns Act 1603 c. 9
Jesuits etc. Act 1603 c. 4
Labourers Act 1603 c. 6
Leather Act 1603 c. 22
Melcombe Regis and Radipole, Dorset (Church) Act 1603 c. 30
Officers of Courts Act 1603 c. 10
Painting Act 1603 c. 20
Privilege of Parliament Act 1603 c. 13
Sail Cloth Act 1603 c. 24
Small Debts, etc., London Act 1603 c. 14
Spices Act 1603 c. 19
Stabbing Act 1603 c. 8
Succession to the Crown Act 1603 c. 1
Thames Watermen Act 1603 c. 16
The Plague Act 1603 c. 31
Union of England and Scotland Act 1603 c. 2
Vagabonds Act 1603 c. 7
Witchcraft Act 1603 c. 12
Assignment of sums for paying the King's household expenses. c. 2
Assurance of lands to the Dean and Canons of Windsor, and of a lease of the prebend of Bedwin (Wiltshire) to the Earl of Hertford. c. 32
Confirmation of letters patent to Earl of Nottingham, Earl of Suffolk, Sir John Leveson and Sir John Trevor, for use of Lady Cobham. c. 18
Confirmation of Queen Anne's jointure. c. 1
Confirmation of Sir George Howme's letters patent. c. 15
Edward Nevill's estate: explanation of the Act of 1601 [c. 4] [Edward Nevill and Sir Henry Nevill: disposal of copyhold lands held of the manors of Rotherfield (Sussex) and Alesley and Fylongley (Warwickshire)]. c. 36
Henry Jernegan's estate: sale of manors of Dages in Raveningham and Heringfleet alias St. Olav's (Norfolk and Suffolk) for payment of debts. c. 33
John Tebold's estate: enabling him to sell parts for the preferment of his children and to make a jointure. c. 37
Mary Calthrop's jointure. c. 34
Naturalization of Adam Newton. c. 25
Naturalization of Dame Marie Aston and family. c. 19
Naturalization of Duke of Lennox, Henry, Lord of Obigney, and their children. c. 11
Naturalization of John Gordon, Dean of Sarum, and family. c. 22
Naturalization of Katherine, Elizabeth, Susan, Hester and Marie Vincents. c. 38
Naturalization of Sir Edward Bruce and confirmation of letters patent. c. 16
Naturalization of Sir George Howme and family. c. 14
Naturalization of Sir James Hay. c. 21
Naturalization of Sir John Drummond. c. 24
Naturalization of Sir John Kennedy. c. 23
Naturalization of Sir John Ramsey. c. 20
Naturalization of Sir Thomas Areskin and family. c. 17
Naturalization of the Countess of Nottingham. c. 12
Naturalization of the Earl of Marre and family. c. 13
Naturalization of Thomas Glover, Margaret Mordant, Francis Collymore, Alexander Daniell, Nicholas Gilpine and Marie Copcote. c. 29
Naturalization of Victor Chauntrell, Peter Martin, Mentia Van Ursell and Sabina, Edward and Peregrine Aldrich. c. 39
Naturalization of William, Anne and Barbara Browne. c. 27
Relief of Thomas Lovell. c. 35
Restitution in blood of the Duke of Norfolk's descendants. c. 6
Restitution in blood of Thomas Littleton, and family. c. 26
Restitution in blood of Thomas Lucas. c. 8
Restitution of Lord Pagett's son. c. 7
Restitution of the Earl of Arundel's son. c. 5
Restitution of the Earl of Essex's children. c. 4
Restitution of the Earl of Southampton. c. 3
Securing Simpson's debt and the safety of the Warden of the Fleet in Sir Thomas Shirley's Case.1 c. 9
Securing the debt of Simpson and others and the safety of the Warden of the Fleet in Sir Thomas Shirley's Case.2 c. 10
Settlement of the late Sir George Rodney's estate. c. 31
Sir Thomas Rowse's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 30
Thomas Throckmorton's estate: enabling sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 28
Attainder of Guy Fawkes and others Act 1605 c. 2
Attorneys Act 1605 c. 7
Chepstow Bridge (Maintenance, etc.) Act 1605 c. 23
Conveyance of Offenders to Gaol Act 1605 c. 10
Drury Lane Paving Act 1605 c. 22
Execution Act 1605 c. 8
Exportation Act 1605 c. 11
Fish Act 1605 c. 12
Foreign Trade Act 1605 c. 6
Highways at Long Ditton Act 1605 c. 19
Kerseys Act 1605 c. 16
London Watercourses (Commissioners of Sewers) Act 1605 c. 14
New River Act 1605 c. 18
Observance of 5th November Act 1605 c. 1
Plays Act 1605 c. 21
Popish Recusants Act 1605 c. 4
Presentation of Benefices Act 1605 c. 5
Skinners Act 1605 c. 9
Small Debts London City Act 1605 c. 15
Stealing of Deer, etc. Act 1605 c. 13
The Thames Act 1605 c. 20
Upton-upon-Severn Bridge (Maintenance, etc.) Act 1605 c. 24
Welsh Cottons Act 1605 c. 17
Assurance of Dame Elinor Cave's jointure. c. 14
Assurance of ground to Earl of Salisbury for enlargement of Salisbury House, Strand. c. 1
Assurance of lands of Walter Walshe. c. 20
Assurance of the Countess of Essex's jointure. c. 2
Confirmation of leases by Lord Spencer and his parents. c. 7
Corpus Christi College, Oxford. c. 3
Edward Downes' estate : sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 21
Establishing the possessions and inheritance of Edmond, late Lord Chandos. c. 5
Execution of Chancery decree between William le Gris and Robert Cottrell. c. 29
John Hotham senior and John Hotham junior's estate: enabling them to convey lands to provide a jointure for John Hotham junior's future wife. c. 15
John Roger's relief for a breach of trust made by Robert, Paul and William Taylor. c. 19
Lord Windsor's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and better performance of his will. c. 4
Naturalization of Daniel Godfrey. c. 26
Naturalization of Sir Daniel Foulis and confirmation of letters patent. c. 22
Naturalization of Sir David Murray and Thomas Murray. c. 25
Naturalization of Sir Edward Conway's children. c. 23
Naturalization of Sir James Areskyn and family. c. 24
Oriel College, Oxford, confirmation of letters patent. c. 9
Restitution in blood of John and Thomas Holland. c. 27
Restitution in blood of Roland Meyrick and Dame Margaret Knight. c. 28
Restoration of Lord Danvers as heir to Sir John Danvers notwithstanding the attainder of his brother, Sir Charles Danvers. c. 8
Sale of lands in Middlesex to Sir Thomas Lake and Dame Mary Knight his wife. c. 12
Settlement of manor of Rie (Gloucestershire and Worcestershire) on William Throckmorton. c. 16
Sir Christopher Hatton's estate: enabling sale of property. c. 11
Sir John Skynner's estate: assurance of lands to Sir William Smith and Sir Michael Hicks. c. 18
Sir Jonathan Trelawney's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 13
Sir Thomas Rous' estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 17
St. Bees' Grammar School (Cumberland): confirmation of letters patent. c. 10
Vesting in the Crown the estates of Lord Cobham and George Brooke, attainted of high treason, with a confirmation of grants made by the King. c. 6
Charter of Southampton Act 1606 c. 10
Costs Act 1606 c. 3
Drunkenness Act 1606 c. 5
Explanation of 3 J. 1. c. 6 Act 1606 c. 9
Land Drainage (Kent Marshes, Lessness and Fantes) Act 1606 c. 8
Land Drainage (Waldersey Ring and Coldham) Act 1606 c. 13
Land Inclosure, Herefordshire Act 1606 c. 11
Leather Act 1606 c. 6
New River channel Act 1606 c. 12
Northleech Grammar School, Gloucestershire Act 1606 c. 7
Sale of Beer Act 1606 c. 4
Woollen Cloths Act 1606 c. 2
Assurance of a life interest in Theobalds House and other manors and lands to the Queen, of the same properties and other manors and lands to the King and of other manors and lands to the Earl of Salisbury. c. 1
Assurance of advowson of Cheshunt [Hertfordshire] to the Earl of Salisbury and of Orsett [Essex] to the Bishop of London. c. 5
Assurance to purchasers of lands, late the estate of Sir Jonathan Trelawney, directed to be sold for payment of debts. c. 11
Confirmation of lands etc. to City of London companies and to the City. c. 10
Confirmation of lands to All Souls' College, Oxford, and to Sir William Smith. c. 9
Confirmation of letters patent to Robert Bathurst of the manor and borough of Lechlade (Gloucestershire). c. 7
Confirmation of letters patent to William Bourcher of the manor of Bardisley (Gloucestershire). c. 8
Earl of Derby's estate: establishment and assurance of possessions and hereditaments. c. 3
Enabling Richard Sackville to surrender the office of Chief Butler to the King despite his minority. c. 4
John Evelyn's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 13
John Good's estate: enabling him to convey a small piece of land to the King for a term of years. c. 2
Maintenance of John Tompson (the son of a lunatic), and assignment of a jointure for his future wife. c. 14
Naturalization of Fabian Smith. c. 19
Naturalization of James and Mary Desmaistres. c. 18
Naturalization of John Ramsden c. 20
Naturalization of John Steward. c. 16
Naturalization of Peter and Mary Baron or Baro. c. 17
Restitution in blood of Edward Windsor's children. c. 12
William Ibgrave's estate: confirmation of an agreement between Lord Bruce and Michael Doyley and others. c. 6
William Waller's estate: sale of lands for payment of a debt of £505 10s. 6d.. c. 15
Alehouse Act 1609 c. 10
Apprentice Act 1609 c. 3
Burning of Moor Act 1609 c. 17
Cattle Act 1609 c. 8
Cloths Act 1609 c. 16
Confirmation of Decrees as to Copyholds, etc. Act 1609 c. 21
Criminal Law Act 1609 c. 1
Crown Debts Act 1609 c. 15
Deer Stealing Act 1609 c. 13
Devon and Cornwall Sea-shore Act 1609 c. 18
Horns Act 1609 c. 14
Inundations Norfolk and Suffolk Act 1609 c. 20
London Water (Hackney) Act 1609 c. 9
Naturalization and Restoration of Blood Act 1609 c. 2
Oath of Allegiance, etc. Act 1609 c. 6
Public Officers Protection Act 1609 c. 5
River Exe, Weir Act 1609 c. 19
Shop-books Evidence Act 1609 c. 12
Wool Sorters etc. Act 1609 c. 7
Assurance of farm and demesnes of Damerham (Wiltshire) according to the grants of the King and King Edward VI. c. 10
Assurance of lands to Bishop of Durham and Earl of Salisbury. c. 6
Assuring and establishing the Isle of Man. c. 4
Charles Waldegrave's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and advancement of children. c. 33
Christopher and Millicent Smith: confirmation of deed of revocation. c. 43
Confirmation of fines levied by John Arundell of Guarnack to John Arundell of Trerise, deceased, and settlement of the property comprised in the fines to John Arundell, son of John Arundell of Trerise. c. 16
Confirmation of sales of property, late the estate of Henry Jarnegan, made by Sir Thomas Hirne, Christopher Hirne and Clement *Hirne to Sir John and Dame Bridget Heveningham. c. 35
Confirmation of the estate of the Company of Salters and Brewers of London. c. 25
Disuniting the parsonages of Ashe and Deane (Hampshire). c. 19
Earl of Derby's estate: explanation of the Act of 1606 [c. 3] [establishment and assurance of possessions and hereditaments]. c. 5
Earl of Oxenford's estate: sale of manor of Bretts and farm of Plaistow (Essex) towards repurchasing the castle, manor and parks of Henningham (Essex). c. 9
Establishing the inheritance of Sir Henry Crisp and rendering certain conveyances void. c. 29
Establishment of Thomas Sutton's charities. c. 28
Estates of Lord Abergavenny and Sir Henry Nevill: alienation of lands for payment of debts and advancement of children, and assurance of other lands lately purchased from the King. c. 17
Foundation of hospital and grammar school, and maintenance of a teacher, in Thetford. c. 11
Manor of Edmonton (Middlesex): confirmation of a decree between King and copyholders. c. 2
Manor of Wakefield (Yorkshire): confirmation of decrees between King and copyholders. c. 1
Manors or Lordships of Clitheroe, Derby, Accrington, Colne and Ightenhill (Lancashire): creation and confirmation of copyholds. c. 3
Naturalization of Edward and Henry Palmers and Michael Boyle. c. 32
Naturalization of George Montgomery, Bishop of Derry, Sir Hugh Montgomery, Hugh and James Montgomery and Sir James Fullarton. c. 41
Naturalization of Henry Gibb. c. 20
Naturalization of Jane Drummond. c. 8
Naturalization of Joane Greensmith. c. 37
Naturalization of John Mounsy. c. 36
Naturalization of John Murray, Richard Murray, John Levingston and John Auchmothy. c. 12
Naturalization of Levinus Munk. c. 13
Naturalization of Margaret Clark. c. 39
Naturalization of Martinus Schonerus, Dorothee and Engella Seelken, Katherine Benneken, John Wolfgang Rumbler and Anna de Lobell alias Wolfgang Rumbler. c. 42
Naturalization of Peter Vanloore. c. 24
Naturalization of Richard, John and Robert Bladwell, George and John Hasden, Elizabeth and Ann Cradock, Jane or Janekin Carstens and Elizabeth Van Buechton. c. 34
Naturalization of Robert Browne. c. 15
Naturalization of Sir George Ramsay, Walter Alexander and John Sandilandis. c. 23
Naturalization of Sir Robert Karr. c. 7
Reginald Rous's estate: sale of lands in Badingham, Tymington and Little Glemham (Suffolk), to his nephew, Reginald Rous of the Inner Temple. c. 31
Relief of John Holdich, disinherited by the extraordinary amending of the errors of a fine. c. 22
Repair of river Exe weir near city of Exeter. c. 27
Restitution in blood of George Brooke's children. c. 18
Revocation of Sir Robert Drury's conveyances. c. 38
Sir John Biron's estate. c. 40
Sir John Wentworth's estate: assurance of lands to provide portions, confirmation of life estates in other lands and enabling the sale of other lands for payment of debts. c. 30
Uniting parishes of Froome Whitfield (Dorset) and Holy Trinity, Dorchester. c. 26
William and Edward Elringtons' orphans' provision: confirming and executing the Chancery decree against Edward Cage, executor of Rowland Elrington. c. 14
William Essex's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts, and settlement of residue. c. 21
1623 (21 Ja. I)
Amendment of 34-5 Hen. 8. c. 26 Act 1623 c. 10
Butter and Cheese Act 1623 c. 22
Certiorari Abuses Act 1623 c. 8
Common Informers Act 1623 c. 4
Concealment of Birth of Bastards Act 1623 c. 27
Crown Lands Act 1623 c. 25
Crown Suits, etc. Act 1623 c. 2
Duchy of Cornwall Act 1623 c. 29
Exchange of Lands, King and Archbishop of York Act 1623 c. 30
Execution Act 1623 c. 24
Female Convicts Act 1623 c. 6
Fines and Recoveries Act 1623 c. 26
Forcible Entry Act 1623 c. 15
Hallamshire Cutlers Act 1623 c. 31
Heron's Fish-curing Patent Void Act 1623 c. 11
Horsebread Act 1623 c. 21
Hospitals Act 1623 c. 1
Inferior Courts Act 1623 c. 23
Intrusions Act 1623 c. 14
Jeofails Act 1623 c. 13
Limitation Act 1623 c. 16
Profane Swearing Act 1623 c. 20
Public Officers Protection Act 1623 c. 12
Sheriffs Act 1623 c. 5
Statute of Monopolies Act 1623 c. 3
Thames Navigation Act 1623 c. 32
Usury Act 1623 c. 17
Welsh Cloths Act 1623 c. 9
Woollen Cloths Act 1623 c. 18
Alice Dudley's estate: enabling her to assure her estate in manor of Killingworth and other lands in Warwickshire to the Prince. c. 12
Alteration of tenure and custom of lands formerly of Thomas Potter and of Sir George and Sir John Rivers in Kent from gavelkind to the common law, and to settle them on Sir John Rivers and his heirs. c. 36
Assurance of manor of Goodneston and other lands of Sir Edward Engham. c. 10
Assurance of manors of Newlangport and Sevans or Sephans and other lands in Kent, late the inheritance of Sir Henry James, convicted in a praemunire, to Martin Lumley, Alice Woodroffe and Edward Cropley. c. 24
Colchester: repair and maintenance of the haven river and channel, and provision of paving. c. 34
Confirmation of exchange of lands between Prince Charles and Sir Lewis Watson. c. 13
Confirmation of sale of lands by Sir Thomas and Dame Elizabeth Beamond to Sir Thomas Checke. c. 7
Confirmation of Wadham College, Oxford, and its possessions. c. 1
Conveyance of manor of Little Munden (Hertfordshire) by Sir Peter Vanlore and Sir Charles and Dame Anne Cesar to Edmund Woodhall. c. 19
Earl of Hertford and Sir Francis Seymour: sale of lands for payment of debts, and establishment of others in lieu and of better value. c. 4
Earl of Middlesex's estate: subjecting lands to the payment of debts. c. 37
Edward Alcocke's estate: enabling the sale of the manor of Rampton, and lands in Rampton, Wivelingham and Cottenham (Cambridgeshire). c. 31
Erection of free school, almshouses and house of correction in Lincolnshire. c. 8
Establishment of manors and lands in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset on John Mohun. c. 30
Establishment of Thomas Whetenhall's lectures in divinity. c. 33
Estates of Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, and Fisher: explanation of the Act of 1580 [c. 5] [assurance of a rent of £82 10s. to the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield]. c. 32
Manor of Painswick (Gloucestershire): confirmation of Chancery decree between lord of the manor and customary tenants. c. 16
Manors of Stepney and Hackney, confirmation of copyholders' rights. c. 6
Martin Calthrope's estate: sale of lands for preferment of children and payment of debts. c. 9
Naturalization of Abigail and William Little . c. 29
Naturalization of Elizabeth and Mary Vere. c. 11
Naturalization of Giles Vandeputt. c. 3
Naturalization of Jane Murrey and William Murrey . c. 20
Naturalization of John Young. c. 18
Naturalization of Philip Burlemacchi. c. 2
Naturalization of Sir Francis Stewart, Walter Maxwell, William Carr and James Levingston. c. 17
Naturalization of Sir Robert Anstrother, Sir George Abercromy and John Cragge. c. 5
Naturalization of Sir Robert Carre . c. 23
Naturalization of Sir William Anstrother, Walter Bellcanquall and Patrick Abercromy . c. 27
Naturalization of Stephen Leisure . c. 25
Naturalization of the Marquis of Hamilton . c. 26
Sale of manor of Abbotts Hall (Essex) for payment of Sir James Pointz's creditors. c. 38
Sir Edward Heron's estate: confirmation of sale of lands to Bevell Molesworth, enabling sale of others for payment of debts and settlement of others upon Robert and Edward Heron in lieu. c. 28
Sir Francis Clerke's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and provision of portions for children. c. 35
Sir Richard Lumley's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and preferment of children. c. 15
Toby Pallavicine's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and preferment of family. c. 22
Vincent Lowe's estate (Derbyshire): sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 21
Viscount Montagu's estate: payment of debts and raising daughters' portions. c. 14
1625 (1 Cha. I)
Alehouses Act 1627 c. 4
Duchy of Cornwall Act 1627 c. 2
Licences of Alienation Act 1627 c. 3
Parliament Act 1627 c. 7
Sunday Observance Act 1625 c. 1
Taxation Act 1627 c. 5
Manor of Macclesfield (Cheshire): confirmation of an agreement between the Commissioners of Revenue on behalf of His Majesty (then Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester) and the copyholders of the manor, and of an Exchequer decree for making a parcel of the manor copyhold. c. 2
Manors of Cheltenham and Asheley or Charlton Kings (Gloucestershire): confirmation of copyhold estates and customs according to an agreement between the King (then Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and of York and Earl of Chester), lord of the manor of Cheltenham, Giles Greville lord of the manor of Asheley and the copyholders of the manors. c. 1
Alehouse Act 1627 c. 4
Lands at Bromfield and Yale, Denbighshire Act 1627 c. 6
Observance of the Lord's Day Act 1627 c. 2
Petition of Right Act 1627 c. 1
Popery Act 1627 c. 3
Confirmation of Earl of Bristol's letters patent. c. 6
Confirmation of estates of customary tenants of Henry, Baron of Rye, in the manor of Horneby and elsewhere in the townships of *Tatham, Gressingham and Eskrigg (Lancashire). c. 18
Earl of Arundel's title, name, dignity and estate. c. 4
Earl of Devon's estate. c. 3
Foundation of Sutton's Hospital in Charterhouse. c. 1
Lord Gerrard's estate : provision of jointure for any future wife, provision for younger children and securing maintenance for his sisters Alice, Frances and Elizabeth. c. 5
Naturalization of Alexander Levingston. c. 14
Naturalization of Isaac, Henry, Thomas and Bernard Asteley. c. 10
Naturalization of James Freese. c. 15
Naturalization of John and Anne Trumball, William, Edward and Sidney Bere and Samuel Wentworth. c. 19
Naturalization of John, Mary, Ann, Elizabeth and Margaret Aldersey. c. 17
Naturalization of Samuel Powell. c. 12
Naturalization of Sir Daniel Deligne. c. 9
Naturalization of Sir Robert Ayton. c. 11
Naturalization of Sir Robert Dyell and George Kerke. c. 8
Restitution in blood of Carew Raleigh, son of Sir Walter Raleigh, and confirmation of Earl of Bristol's letters patent. c. 16
Sir Thomas Neville's estate: assurance of jointure to Frances Nevill and sale of lands by him and Lord Abergavenny for payment of debts and preferment of children. c. 2
Vincent Lowe's estate: amendment of the Act of 1623[c. 21] [sale of land for payment of debts]. c. 13
William Morgan's estate: discharging the trust concerning property in Somerset. c. 7
Bishop of Durham's estate: assurance of Durham House, St Martin in-the-Fields to Philip, Earl of Pembroke, and a yearly rent of £200 to the Bishop of Durham and his successors in lieu. c. 13
Bishop of London's estate: alteration of the tenure of lands held of the manor of Fulham. c. 10
Confirmation of letters patent to Plymouth, division of the parish and erection of a new church. c. 9
Earl of Strafford's attainder. c. 1
Earl of Winchelsea's estate: sale and leasing of lands for payment of debts. c. 4
Estate of Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Exeter: vesting in her the site of St. Leonard's Hospital, Newark-upon-Trent (Nottinghamshire) and vesting other property in the hospital in lieu. c. 5
Hoole Chapel (Lancashire): making it a parish church. c. 6
John Eggar's Free School, Alton (Hampshire). c. 7
Marquis of Winchester's estate: enabling grant of leases of three lives or 21 years of lands in Hampshire. c. 2
Naturalization of Dorothy Spencer. c. 3
Settlement of manor of Belgrave and other lands (Leicestershire) on William Byerly towards payment of debts of William Davenport deceased. c. 11
Settling property on Katherine, Dowager Countess of Bedford, William, Earl of Bedford, John Russell and Edward Russell. c. 8
Sir Alexander Denton's estate: power to sell manor of Barford St Michael (Oxfordshire) for payment of debts and preferment of children. c. 12
Abolition of High Commission Court Act 1640 c. 11
Clergy Act 1640 c. 27
Clerk of the Market, etc. Act 1640 c. 19
Delimitation of Forests Act 1640 c. 16
Gunpowder Act 1640 c. 21
Habeas Corpus Act 1640 c. 10
Impressment of Seamen Act 1640 c. 5
Impressment of Seamen Act 1640 c. 23
Impressment of Soldiers Act 1640 c. 28
Irish Rebels Act 1640 c. 37
Knighthood Act 1640 c. 20
Lands of Irish Rebels; Adventurers' Subscriptions Act 1640 c. 33
Michaelmas Term Act 1640 c. 6
Pacification, England and Scotland Act 1640 c. 17
Parliament Act 1640 c. 1 - the Triennial Act
Payment for Billets Act 1640 c. 13
Payment to Scotland Act 1640 c. 18
Relief of Ireland Act 1640 c. 30
Ship Money Act 1640 c. 14
Stannaries Court Act 1640 c. 15
Subsidy Act 1640 c. 22
Suppression of Piracy Act 1640 c. 24
The Triennial Act, of 1641, was a piece of legislation passed by the English Long Parliament, during the reign of King Charles I. The act requires that the Parliament meet for at least a fifty-day session once every three years. ...
An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth (1649)
// Events January 30 - King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded. ...
Navigation Act 1651
The English Navigation Acts were a series of laws which, beginning in 1651, restricted foreign shipping. ...
1660 (12 Cha. II)
Attainder of the Regicides, etc. Act 1660 c. 30
Bay Making, Colchester Act 1660 c. 22
Colleges and Hospitals (Leases and Grants Confirmed) Act 1660 c. 31
Commissioners of Sewers Act 1660 c. 6
Confirmation of Marriages Act 1660 c. 33
Continuance of Process, etc. Act 1660 c. 3
Customs Act 1660 c. 19
Disbanded Soldiers Act 1660 c. 16
Disbanding of the Army Act 1660 c. 15
Excise Act 1660 c. 5
Excise Act 1660 c. 23
Legal Proceedings During Commonwealth Act 1660 c. 12
Lord Ormond (Restoration of Lands, etc., in Ireland) Act 1660 c. 7
Navigation Act 1660 c. 18
Observance of 29th May Act 1660 c. 14
Post Office Act 1660 c. 35
Restoring of Ministers Act 1660 c. 17
Subsidy Act 1660 c. 4
Tenures Abolition Act 1660 c. 24
The Rolls Estate Act 1660 c. 36
Tobacco Planting and Sowing Act 1660 c. 34
Wine Act 1660 c. 25
Augustine and William Skinner's estate: power to sell land for payment of debts. c.11
Confirmation of sale of manor of Hitcham by Sir John Clarke to Charles Doe and settlement and disposition of other lands of him and his wife Dame Philodelphia. c.32
Disappropriating Preston (Lancashire) rectory, uniting and consolidating the rectory and vicarage and assuring the advowson to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. c.34
Earl of Cleveland's estate: sale of manors and lands for payment of his and his son Thomas Lord Wentworth's debts. c.33
Earl of Inchequin: restoration of honours, manors, lands and tenements in Ireland. c.3
Earl of Winchelsea's estate: settling priory of Walton and other lands (Yorkshire) in trustees for payment of debts. c.5
George Faunt's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and legacies charged thereon by Sir William Faunt deceased, for raising portions for younger children and providing a jointure for his wife. c.28
Great Level of the Fens drainage. c.2
Henry Lord Arundel of Warden: restoration of his estate. c.16
John Lord Culpeper: restoration of honours, manors and lands. c.9
John Newton and William Oakeley estates: sale of land for payment of debts and raising portions. c.19
Joseph Micklethwaite's (infant) estate: sale of land for payment of father's debts. c.30
Levying monies due on the collection for the Protestants of Piedmont. c.24
Lord Gerrard: restoration of honours, manors and lands. c.8
Maintenance of Vicar of Royston (Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire) and his successors. c.21
Making the precinct of Covent Garden parochial. c.35
Marquis of Hertford: restoration to Dukedom of Somerset . c.10
Marquis of Newcastle: restoration of honours, manors, lands and tenements in England. c.4
Marquis of Ormond: restoration of honours, manors and lands in Ireland. c.15
Naturalization of Abraham Watchtor. c.26
Naturalization of Countess of Derby, Countess of Ossory, Lady Culpeper, Lord Wotton and Dame Emilia Kirkhoven. c.13
Naturalization of Frances Hyde and others. c.29
Naturalization of Gerrard Vantethusen, Daniel Demetrius, Theodore Cocke, John Cravenburgh and others. c.23
Naturalization of John Boreel. c.25
Naturalization of Peter and John de la Pierre or Peters. c.1
Newport (Salop.) school and almshouses: settlement of land for their maintenance and incorporation of Company of Haberdashers, London, as governors. c.12
Raising portions and provision for maintenance for the younger children of Sir Edward Gostwicke. c.31
Regulating bay [baize] making in Colchester. c.7
Sir George Booth's estate : power to lease and sell. c.14
Sir George Hamilton: restoration of lands and estates in Ireland. c.20
Sir George Lane: restoration of manors of Rathclive and Lisduff and other lands in Ireland. c.6
Sir Thomas Crimes: restoration of his estate. c.27
Sir William Wray's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and raising of portions for younger children. c.22
Thomas Earl of Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk: restitution to Dukedom of Norfolk. c.17
Wentworth Earl of Roscomon: restoration of honours, manors and lands in Ireland. c.18
1661 (13 Cha. II. St. 1 / 13 Cha. II. St. 2)
Arrears of Excise Act 1661 c. 13
Clergy Act 1661 c. 2
Confirmation of Acts Act 1661 c. 7
Confirmation of Acts Act 1661 c. 11
Cornwall Duchy Act 1661 c. 4
Corporations Act 1661 c. 1
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act 1661 c. 12
Hunting of Deer Act 1661 c. 10
Illegality of Benevolences, etc. Act 1661 c. 4
Navy Act 1661 c. 9
Provision for the King's Journeys Act 1661 c. 8
Sedition Act 1661 c. 1
The King's Sole Right over the Militia Act 1661 c. 6
Tumultuous Petitioning Act 1661 c. 5
Vesting of Certain Moneys, etc. in the King Act 1661 c. 3
Vexatious Arrests and Delays at Law Act 1661 c. 2
Private Acts (13 Cha II. St. 1)
Ascertaining and establishing the fees of the Masters of the Chancery. c.1
Confirmation and explanation of an Act [1660 (c.33)] for sale of some of the manors and lands of Earl of Cleveland for payment of his debts and those of his son Thomas Lord Wentworth. c.9
Confirmation of sale of manor of Holm and certain lands in Manchester by Sir Thomas Prestwich to Sir Edward Mosely. c.2
Confirming and continuing an Act [1660 (c.2)] for draining the Great Level of the Fens. c.14
Inclosing of former common highway from Parsons Green to Southfield in Fulham and settling other land for a common highway in lieu. c.15
John Harbin's estate: sale of lands in Somerset and Dorset for payment of debts and provision for younger children. c.4
John Lord Abergavenny's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and preferment of siblings. c.11
Naturalization of Francis Brudenell and Anna Countess of Shrewsbury. c.12
Reviving a settlement of certain lands on John Orlibeare for life with the remainder to his sons and to their male heirs. c.13
Richard Gipps' estate: sale of lands and tenements in Suffolk and Norfolk for payment of debts and provision of portions for younger children. c.16
Settling manors of Knoll, Seale and Kempsing (Kent) upon Earl of Dorset and heirs and charging manors of Bexhill and Cowding and other lands (Sussex)with a yearly rentcharge of £130 in lieu. c.6
Sir Edward Baesh's estate: settling lands upon his heir Sir Ralph Baesh. c.8
Thomas and John Hunt's estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c.5
Thomas Radcliffe: restoration of lands and possessions in England and Ireland. c.3
Uniting parsonages of St. Andrews and St. Mary Witton in Droitwich (Worcestershire). c.10
Worcester weavers, fullers and clothiers: confirmation of charter and privileges. c.7
Private Acts (13 Cha. II. St. 2)
Algernon Peyton's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.3
Confirmation of an Act [1660 (c.10)] for restoring the *Marquis of Hertford in the Dukedom of Somerset. c.1
Confirmation of an Act [1660 (c.17)] for restitution of Thomas Earl of Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk to the Dukedom of Norfolk. c.4
Confirmation of private Acts [1660 cc.8, 11, 16, 19, 23, 27, 28 and 32]. c.5
Division of Trinity Church, Hull, from Hasle. c.2
Accountants Expected from Act of Oblivion Act 1662 c. 16
Act of Uniformity Act 1662 c. 4
City of London Militia Act 1662 c. 3
Coin Act 1662 c. 31
Collectors of Public Money Act 1662 c. 17
Dover Harbour Repairs Act 1662 c. 27
Expenses of Sheriffs Act 1662 c. 21
Foreign Bone-lace, etc. Act 1662 c. 13
Foreign Wool-cards etc. Act 1662 c. 19
Highways Act 1662 c. 6
Licensing of the Press Act 1662 c. 33
Madder Act 1662 c. 30
Moss Troopers Act 1662 c. 22
Navy and Ordnance Act 1662 c. 20
Packing of Butter Act 1662 c. 26
Pilchard Fishery Act 1662 c. 28
Poor Relief Act 1662 c. 12
Prize Goods Act 1662 c. 14
Quakers Act 1662 c. 1
Silk Throwing Act 1662 c. 15
Strafford Attainder Act 1662 c. 29
Streets, London and Westminster Act 1662 c. 2
Stuffs Act 1662 c. 5
Taxation, etc. Act 1662 c. 8
Wool Act 1662 c. 18
The Act of Uniformity was an English statute, 14 Charles II c. ...
Anthony Etrick's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.31
Bengeworth Bridge (Worcestershire) repair. c.34
Confirmation of agreements between Thomas Bushell and the miners of Rowpits (Somerset) for recovering their drowned and deserted works. c.38
Confirmation of an Act [1660 c.9] for Lord Culpeper's restoration. c.7
Confirmation of decree made for Thomas Derham and the improvements, exchanges and allotments mentioned in it. c.18
Confirmation of estates of a number of his Majesty's copyhold tenants within the honour of Clitheroe (Lancashire). c. 22
Confirmation of estates of several tenants and copyholders of the manors of Rannes, Irchester, Rushdon and others (Lancashire). c.23
Confirmation of John Marquis of Winchester's estate in certain manors and lands whose deeds and evidences were burnt and lost at the taking of Basing castle [Hampshire]. c.3
Confirmation of several Acts [1660 cc.6, 15, 20 and 25]. c.10
Confirmation of three Acts [1660 cc.21, 31 and 34]. c.40
Confirmation of two Acts [1660 cc.5 and 14]. c.11
Discharge of manors of Stodscomb and Holwell and other lands in Devon from the trust of 150 years made to Earls of Exeter, Bridgewater and Bolingbrooke. c.20
Disuniting the hundreds of Dudston and Kings Barton from the county of the city of Gloucester and restoring them to the county of Gloucester. c.13
Duke of Albermarle: confirmation of letters patent granting him honours, manors and hereditaments. c.2
Edward Rivers' estate: sale of lands and houses for payment of debts and provision for younger children. c.36
Enabling Bishop of London to lease out tenements built on the site of his palace in London. c.8
Ferdinando Earl of Huntingdon's estate: confirmation of sale of land for payment of his and his father's debts. c.4
Francis Tindal's estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c.39
Henry Nevil's estate: sale of lands (Yorkshire and Leicestershire) for payment of his and his son William's debts and confirmation of sales already made. c.27
Making void certain fines levied by Sir Edward and Dame Mary Powel. c.28
Naturalization of Anna Ferrers and others. c.32
Naturalization of Mark le Pla and others. c.33
Naturalization of Philadelphia, Lady Wentworth. c.9
Piedmont Protestants collection Act [1660 c.24] confirmation, explanation and enlargement. c.24
Rectification of defect in a deed for settling manors and lands on Sir Henry Frederick Thynne. c.21
Reversing the Earl of Strafford's attainder. c.5
River Ancholm Level (Lincolnshire): confirmation of commissioners' decrees of sewers. c.17
Rivers Stour and Salwarpe navigation (Worcestershire, Staffordshire). c.14
Rivers Wye and Lugg navigation (Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire). c.15
Rowland Okeover's estate: sale of lands in Derbyshire. c.35
Settlement of estate of James Duke of Richmond and Lenos [Lennox] according to the agreement between Charles Duke of Richmond and Lenos, Mary Dowager Duchess of Richmond and Lenos, her trustees and her daughter Lady Mary. c.1
Settling upon Viscount Campden a mansion house in Kensington. c.6
Sir Anthony Brown's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.30
Sir James Enyons' estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c.16
Sir Robert and William Dallison's estate: sale of lands in Bleesby for payment of debts. c.26
Sir Robert Slingsby's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.29
Sir Thomas Lee's estate: exchange of lands settled upon marriage of Dame Ann Lee his wife in lieu of other lands. c.19
Thomas Peck's estate: sale of manor and lands in Norfolk for payment of debts. c.37
Viscount Scudamore's endowment of churches in Ireland. c.12
William Milward's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.25
Act of Uniformity Explanation Act 1663 c. 6
Bedford Level Act 1663 c. 17
Better Ordering the Forces Act 1663 c. 4
Butchers Act 1663 c. 8
Destruction of Trees Act 1663 c. 2
Encouragement of Trade Act 1663 c. 7
Fisheries, etc. Act 1663 c. 16
Hearth Money Act 1663 c. 13
Linen Cloth Act 1663 c. 15
Road Repair (Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire) Act 1663 c. 1
Select Vestries Act 1663 c. 5
Settlement on Duke of York Act 1663 c. 14
Bedford Level drainage. c.9
Confirmation of an Act [1660 c.1] naturalizing Peter and John de la Pierre or Peters. c.13
Confirmation of Charles Pitcarne's deed. c.10
Empowering Sir John Drake and others to sell lands for payment of the portion of Ellen Briscoe c.21
Enabling Edward Chaloner to make provision for his wife Anne and his younger children. c.19
Enabling the Bishop of Winchester to lease out tenements built on the site of his mansion house in St Saviour's parish Southwark (Surrey) and two parks and other desmenses at Bishops Waltham, and other lands, in Hampshire. c.4
Estates of Earl of Kent and Lord Lucas: settling of lands on marriage of the Earl of Kent with the daughter and heir apparent of Lord Lucas. c.2
Free school in Witney (Oxfordshire): endowment and erection by Henry Box. c.3
Governing of St. Oswald's Hospital, Worcestershire. c.6
John Robinson's estate: sale of lands for payment of his debts and leasing other lands for provision for his younger children. c.7
Making void certain conveyances made by Caril Lord Mollineux. c.8
Naturalization of Charlotte Hessen Killigrew and others. c.20
Naturalization of Dame Elizabeth Jacob and others. c.11
Naturalization of George Willoughby and others. c.12
Repair of Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire highways. c.14
Repairing and better preserving the quay of the port of Wells (Norfolk). c.5
Richard and Anthony Senior's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.22
Settlement of an annuity of £300 per year upon Charles Earl of Portland, and for the benefit of Willoughby Whitelocke, Bulstrode Whitelocke and Carleton Whitelocke infants and for confirming agreements made to compose law suits against them. c.16
Settling Post Office profits and power to grant wine licenses on Duke of York.6 c.1
Settling the charitable gift of John Guest. c.17
Sir John Packington's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and raising portions for younger children. c.18
To enable Edward, Marquis of Worcester, to receive the benefit of a water commanding engine invented by him, a tenth part of which is appropriated for the King's Majesty, his heirs and successors. c.15
1664 (16 Cha. II / 16 & 17 Cha. II)
Arrest of Judgment Act 1664 c. 8
Coal Trade, London Act 1664 c. 2
Conventicles Act 1664 c. 4
Draining Deeping Fen Act 1664 c. 11
Error Act 1664 c. 2
Gaming Act 1664 c. 7
Hearth Money Act 1664 c. 3
Highways Hertford Act 1664 c. 10
Juries Act 1664 c. 3
Lancaster (Affidavits) Act 1664 c. 9
Licensing of the Press Act 1664 c. 7
Merchant Ships Act 1664 c. 6
Prize Goods Act 1664 c. 6
River Avon Navigation (Christchurch to New Sarum) Act 1664 c. 12
Triennial Parliaments Act 1664 c. 1
The Conventicle Act of 1664, 16 Charles II c. ...
Private Acts (16 Cha. II)
Charles Cotton's estate: leasing of land for payment of debts. c.9
Confirmation of Malvern Chase [Worcestershire] inclosure and improvement. c.5
Enabling Francis or Charles Cottington to settle and dispose of lands to provide jointures for future wives. c.8
Making Falmouth church a parish church. c.10
Naturalization of Dame Katherine Sayer and others. c.7
Settling Abraham Colfe's charitable gift for erecting and endowing two free schools and an almshouse at Lewisham (Kent). c.6
Sir Sackvile Glemham: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.3
Sir William Armin's estate: sale of lands and manor of Ingoldesby (Lincolnshire) for raising portions for his two daughters. c.2
Sir William Keite's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.4
Vacating of certain conveyances made by Sir John Packington to Christopher Henn and others. c.1
Private Acts (16 & 17 Cha. II)
Confirmation of a deed of settlement between the Earl of Thanet and his younger brothers. c.3
Confirmation of an Act concerning Joseph Micklethwaite's estate [1660 (c.30)]. c.16
Deeping Fen and other fens drainage. c.20
Enabling Henry Lord Loughborough to make the river and sewer navigable from or near Bristowe Causey (Surrey) into the river Thames. c.6
Enabling the Bishop of Winchester to convey 100 acres of land in the disparked Park of Bishops Waltham (Hampshire) to the rector of Bishops Waltham parish church and his successors in lieu of all tithes and tithe payments due to them for Waltham Parks. c.4
For settling differences between Great and Little Yarmouth concerning the loading and unloading of herrings and other goods. c.14
Francis Lee's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and making provision for children. c.18
Hertfordshire highways repair. c.19
Lord Henry Powlet, George Withers and John Mompesson: power to sell manor of Abbots-Anne (Hampshire). c.5
Lord Strangford's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.7
Naturalization of Richard Comes and others. c.15
Restitution in blood of Sir Charles Stanley. c.8
River Avon navigation (Christchurch to New Sarum). c.11
River Medway (Kent and Sussex) navigation. c.12
Rivers (various) navigation. c.13
Samuel Sandys' estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.2
Settling Sir Robert Carr's estate. c.10
Sir Edward Hungerford: power to sell lands in Devon. c.1
Sir Jacob Astley's estate: settling of lands and manors in Norfolk or Warwickshire. c.9
Thomas Iuckes of Trelidden's (Montgomeryshire) estate: sale of land for payment of debts and raising younger childrens' portions. c.17
Attainder of Certain Persons Act 1665 c. 5
Augmentation of Benefices Act 1665 c. 3
Damage Cleer Act 1665 c. 6
Death between Verdict and Judgment Act 1665 c. 8
Distresses and Avowries for Rents Act 1665 c. 7
Nonconformists Act 1665 c. 2 - the "Five Mile Act"
The Five Mile Act, 17 Charles II c. ...
Naturalization of Lewis Blanquefort and others. c.1
1666 (18 & 19 Cha. II)
Burying in Wool Act 1666 c. 4
Cestui que Vie Act 1666 c. 11
Coin Act 1666 c. 5
Fire of London Disputes Act 1666 c. 7
Importation Act 1666 c. 2
Moss Troopers Act 1666 c. 3
Navy Act 1666 c. 12
Poor Prisoners Act 1666 c. 9
Rebuilding of London Act 1666 c. 8
Replevins in Wales and Counties Palatine Act 1666 c. 10
Confirming, explaining and enlarging an Act concerning Lord Abergavenny's estate [1661 (13 Cha.2. St.1) (c.11)]. c.7
Edward Russell's estate: sale of a messuage in Chiswick for payment of debts. c.9
Enlarging time given by a former Act [1660 (c.33)] for the redemption of the Earl of Cleveland's mortgages. c.1
Henry Kendall's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.16
Henry Mildmay's estate: settling lands for payment of debts and provision for children. c.17
Illegitimation of Lady Anne Roos' children. c.8
Lady Elizabeth Noell's jointure. c.3
Leicester Grosvenor's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.18
Lord Strangford's estate: additional Act for sale of lands for payment of debts. c.5
Naturalization of Dame Mary Frazer and others. c.15
Naturalization of Hesther Le Lou. c.6
Naturalization of Lady Isabella Arlington. c.2
Restitution in blood of Francis Scawen. c.14
Settling an estate in trust for benefit of Mrs Pride and her children. c.12
Settling John Bodnell's estate. c.4
Settling moiety of manor of Iron Acton on Sir John Pointz. c.11
Sir Seymour Shirley's estate: confirmation of a settlement. c.10
Swafham Priors (Cambridgeshire), uniting of churches of *Swafham St Ciriac and Swafham St Marys. c.13
Accounts of Public Moneys Act 1667 c. 1
Dean Forest Act 1667 c. 8
Earl of Clarendon Act 1667 c. 2
Exchequer Orders Act 1667 c. 4
Importation Act 1667 c. 12
Prize Ships Act 1667 c. 3
Public Accountants Act 1667 c. 7
Trade Act 1667 c. 5
Better securing Lady Frances Savile's portion of £5000 out of part of James Earl of Sussex's estate pursuant to her father's, Thomas Earl of Sussex's, will. c.14
Confirmation of an exchange of lands between Horatio Lord Townsend and the Rector of East and West Raynham (Norfolk). c.3
Dawes Wimondseld's estate: sale of customary lands held of the manor of Wimbledon (Surrey). c.15
Earl of Clare's estate: settling of part of the possessions of John, Earl of Clare and enabling Gilbert, Earl of Clare to dispose of part for payment of debts and portions. c.1
Enabling Bishop of Durham to lease certain lead mines for three lives. c.2
Enabling Sir William Juxon to recover part of the estate of William Juxon late Archbishop of Canterbury. c.13
Exchange of lands and manors of William Palmes for other lands settled upon him and his issue by his wife Mary. c.6
Execution of Richard Tayler's trust for payment of debts and provision for younger children. c.16
Fire of London: indemnification of City Sheriffs and Warden of the Fleet for the escape of prisoners and other matters occasioned by the fire. c.7
Great Level of the Fens: taxing and assessing the Adventurers' lands. c.8
Horton inclosure and preservation of wood and timber: confirmation of an agreement between lord of manor and tenants. c.12
Lucy estates: confirmation of the settlement of Sir Kingsmill Lucy and transfer of part of the real estate of Sir Richard Lucy from Francis Lucy. c.11
Naturalization of Alvaro de Costa and others. c.4
Settling of lands on Sir Richard Wiseman and John Plott for better performance of a trust. c.5
Sir Charles Stanley's estate: leasing of land for payment of debts and provision for children. c.17
Sir Thomas Heblethwaite's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and provision for younger children. c.10
Sir Thomas Leventhorp's estate: settlement of manors and lands in Essex and Hertfordshire. c.9
1670 (22 Cha. II /22 & 23 Cha. II)
Benefit of Clergy Act 1670 c. 5
Bridges Act 1670 c. 12
Burning of Houses, etc. Act 1670 c. 7
Duties on Law Proceedings Act 1670 c. 9
Extents Act 1670 c. 2
Fee Farm Rents Act 1670 c. 24
Fines and Forfeitures Act 1670 c. 22
Insolvent Debtors Relief Act 1670 c. 20
Judgments, etc. Act 1670 c. 4
Kidderminster Stuffs Act 1670 c. 8
London Streets, Paving, Cleansing, etc. Act 1670 c. 17
Maiming Act 1670 c. 1
Measures Act 1670 c. 8
Measures Act 1670 c. 12
Piracy Act 1670 c. 11
Plague and Fire Relief Funds (Frauds, etc.) Act 1670 c. 16
Poor Act 1670 c. 18
Rebuilding of London Act 1670 c. 11
Sale of Cattle Act 1670 c. 19
Sale of Sir John Prittiman's Lands Act 1670 c. 10
Statute of Distribution Act 1670 c. 10
Taxation Act 1670 22 Cha. 2 c. 3
Taxation Act 1670 22 & 23 Cha. 2 c. 3
Tillage Act 1670 c. 13
Tithes in London After the Fire Act 1670 c. 15
Tobacco Planting and Plantation Trade Act 1670 c. 26
Union between England and Scotland Act 1670 c. 9
Wine Licences, etc. Act 1670 c. 6
Yarmouth Haven and Pier Repairs (Duties) Act 1670 c. 2
Assurance of lands in County Durham to Doctor Wharton by Henry and Jane Perkins. c.22
Building a mansion house for the dean of St. Paul's Church, London. c.12
Confirmation of purchasers' estates and settling differences between Lady Elizabeth Lee and the daughters and coheirs of Earl of Downe. c.5
Confirmation of Sir Ralph Bankes' estate (manor of Thesbestet and other lands in the county and county and borough of Carmarthen). c.8
Deeping Fens drainage (Lincolnshire). c.15
Disposing of a house and lands belonging to sisters and coheirs of Margaret Strode. c.13
Dorothy Farewell's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.10
Enabling Anthony Ashley to acknowledge fines and suffer recoveries of lands while he is under 21 years old. c.3
Enabling John Manners, Lord Roos, to marry again. c.1
Enabling Sir William Gostwicke to make a jointure for his wife Dame Mary. c.7
John Bill's estate: sale of lands in Kent and Surrey. c.19
Naturalization of Captain Christopher Gunman and others. c.24
Naturalization of Horatio Woodhouse and others. c.25
Richard Beckham's estate: sale of lands to pay father's debts and to raise portions for younger brothers. c.18
Rivers Brandon and Waveney [Norfolk, Suffolk] navigation. c.16
Robert Hotchkin's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and raising portions for daughters. c.21
Sale of manor of Firbeck (Yorkshire) and other lands for payment of debts. c.11
Settlement of Bishop of Rochester's charities. c.2
Settling part of Dame Susan Bellasis' estate. c.4
Shadwell: endowment of a church and making it a parish church distinct from Stepney (Middlesex). c.14
Sir Cuthbert Heron's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and raising of portions for younger children. c.9
Thomas Davison's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and provision for younger children. c.23
Thomas Hord's estate: power to grant leases. c.17
Thomas Leigh's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.20
Viscount Strangford's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.6
Benedict Hall's estate: exchange and sale of lands for payment of debts. c.15
Better explanation of an Act for making Falmouth church a parish church [1664 (16 Cha. 2) c.10]. c.12
Better payment of debts of Sir Clifford Clifton and raising portions for his daughters. c.9
Building of Arundel House. c.19
Confirmation of agreements between Lord and Lady Stafford and their customary tenants and copyholders. c.3
Elizabeth, Mary and Letitia Hammond's estate: sale of lands. c.13
Enabling Charles Howard and Mary his wife to levy a fine and suffer a recovery of their estate in the manor of Dorking [Surrey]. c.20
Enabling Christopher Duke of Albemarle to reconvey mortgaged lands and manors. c.1
Enabling Francis Courtney to join with his father Sir William Courtney in a conveyance to settle their estate. c.8
Enabling guardians to dispose of lands for benefit of Charles Earl of Shrewsbury and John Talbot (infants). c.2
Enabling Henry Booth to levy fines and suffer recoveries. c.21
Enabling Sir Andrew Hackett to settle a portion of money on Mary his daughter. c.22
Enabling the Bishops of Bangor and St. Asaph to lease their lead mines for 21 years. c.5
Explaining an Act [1663 (c. 1)] for settling Post Office profits and the power to grant wine licenses on the Duke of York. c.18
Granting Sir Philip Howard and Francis Watson sole use of an invention for the benefit of shipping. c.7
Henry Viscount Irwin's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and legacies. c.6
Improvement of Boston [Lincolnshire] and Trent navigation. c.25
James Lord Norreys' estate: enabling conveyancing during his minority. c.4
John Knight's estate: settling the manor of Portswood and other lands in Hampshire and Southampton to be sold for the payment of debts. c.16
Making manor of Parisgarden a parish and enabling parishioners of St. Saviour's, Southwark to raise a maintenance for ministers and for repair of the church. c.28
Rectification of a mistake in the dates of deeds mentioned in an Act to enable John Bill to sell lands in Kent and Surrey [1670 (22 Cha. 2) c.19]. c.14
Settling an agreement between Sir William Smith, Sir Thomas Hooke, German Poole and others. c.10
Settling and preserving the River Wey navigation (Surrey). c.26
Settling John Sams' charity lands. c.30
Sir John Fitz-James' estate: enabling daughters and coheirs to join in a sale of lands for payment of debts. c.11
Sir Thomas Ogle's estate: sale of lands for raising a portion and maintenance for his daughter and heir, and for payment of his debts. c.24
Sir William Clarke's estate: settling manor of Shabbington [Buckinghamshire] for payment of debts. c.23
Thomas Herlackenden's estate: sale of part for satisfaction of a debt due to the Crown. c.29
Uniting the vicarage and parsonage of Ross (Herefordshire). c.27
Vesting and settling the fee simple of certain Crown lands in Portsmouth which have been taken into and spoiled by new fortifications there. c.17
Aliens Duty Act 1672 c. 6
Coinage Act 1672 c. 8
Durham (Representation of) Act 1672 c. 9
Fire of London, Property Disputes Act 1672 c. 10
General Pardon Act 1672 c. 5
Sale of Cattle Act 1672 c. 4
The several Test Acts were a series of English penal laws that imposed various civil disabilities on Roman Catholics and Nonconformists. ...
Confirmation of an award made by Sir Orlando Bridgeman for ending Sir Thomas Woolrich's family's differences and enabling John Woolrich and his heirs to execute the powers in the said award. c.6
Confirmation of Sir William Rich's marriage settlement. c.5
Confirming agreements between Sir Ralph Bancks, Sir J. Hanham and others. c.8
Enabling James Earl of Salisbury to grant leases of lands and tenements for not more than 40 years. c.2
Enabling Robert Bellamy to sell lands for payment of debts. c.10
Enabling the dean and chapter of Bristol cathedral to exchange Berkeley vicarage (Gloucestershire) with George Lord Berkeley for his rectory of St Michael in Sutton Bonnington (Nottinghamshire). c.3
Explaining and declaring the extent of an exception in a deed. c.9
Hanham estates: sale of land by trustees for payment of Sir William Hanham's debts and management of the estate of *Sir John Hanham (an infant). c.4
Naturalization of Philip Lloyd. c.11
Settlement of Chudleigh Rectory (Devon) on Thomas Lord Clifford and others. c.1
Transfer of the interest of a term of years in certain manors and lands of Sir Robert Berkeley deceased and payment of portions to his grandchildren. c.7
Alexander Davies' estate: vesting lands in trustees for payment of debts. c.7
Better enabling Mary Countess Dowager of Warwick to perform the last will and testament of her husband Charles *Earl of Warwick. c.6
Enabling Charles Cotton to sell lands for payment of debts and raising portions for younger children. c.4
Enabling Sir Francis Compton to sell the manor of Hamerton (Huntingdon). c.2
Grant of licence to Prince Rupert, Duke of Cumberland for thirty one years. c.1
Naturalization of Theodore Russell and others. c.3
William and Edward Lewis' estate: sale of lands in Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire for payment of debts and legacies. c.5
Affidavits Act 1677 c. 5
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act 1677 c. 9
Naturalization (Children Born Abroad During the Troubles) Act 1677 c. 6
Southwark Fire, Property Disputes Act 1677 c. 4
Statute of Frauds Act 1677 c. 3
Taxation, etc., Moss Troopers Act 1677 c. 1
Yarmouth Haven and Pier Repairs (Continuance of Duties) Act 1677 c. 10
Edward Standish's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.13
Enabling Lady Mary Mordant to sell her interest in the manor of Bletchingley and various lands in Surrey despite her minority. c.3
Enabling Sir Edward Hungerford to lease Hungerford House, Strand (Middlesex) and adjoining houses and tenements. c.6
Explanatory and supplementary Act for better enabling Sir Francis Compton to sell and dispose of the manor of Hamerton (Huntingdon). c.5
Herbert Awbrey's estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c.7
Lawrence Squibb's estate: sale of lands in Winterbourne Whitchurch (Dorset). c.14
Naturalization of Jacob David and others. c.11
Naturalization of Peter Reneu and others. c.12
Naturalizing of Alice Rushot. c.10
Rectification of a mistake in the settlement of Lord Mainard's estate on the marriage of his son. c.2
Robert Earl of Manchester's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and settling other lands in lieu of those to be sold. c.1
Settling a maintenance on the vicar of All Hallowes, Northampton. c.8
Thomas Barkley's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and raising portions for younger children. c.9
Viscount Kilmorey's estate: payment of debts and raising portions for two of his younger sons . c.4
Appropriating rectories of Llanrhayader in Mochvant (Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire) and Skeviog (Flintshire) for repairs of the Cathedral of St Asaph and better maintenance of its choir, and also for uniting several rectories sina cura and the vicarages of the same parishes in the diocese of St Asaph. c.18
Ascertaining and establishing the interest of the lord and copyhold tenants of manors of West Derby and Wavertree (Lancashire) in relation to their fines and commons. c.3
Bryan Viscount Cullen's estate: sale or disposal of lands in Elmsthorpe (Leicestershire) for payment of debts and raising a portion for his daughter. c.6
Cobham House and Park: raising of money by trustees. c.7
Correction of a settlement made by John Coke and alteration in part of a trust of the estate of Robert Coke. c.10
Discharging Winestead (Yorkshire) manor from a settlement in tail and charging other manors and lands in Lincolnshire of greater value with the same uses. c.12
Edward, Earl of Warwick and Holland's estate: enabling guardians to make leases during his minority. c.4
Enabling Francis Brend to sell lands to raise £3000 for portions of his nieces Frances and Elizabeth Brend. c.15
Enabling Sir John Cotton to dispose of a messuage called St Jermans and other lands near St Albans (Herefordshire) and to settle other lands in lieu. c.8
Enabling Thomas Lord Morley and Mounteagle Baron of Rye to sell manor and lands in Farlton (Lancashire) for payment of debts. c.5
Enabling Thomas Thynne of Longleat (Wiltshire) to settle a jointure on a wife. c.11
Estate of Edward Bedell of Wood Rising (Norfolk): sale of lands and manors for payment of debts and for raising portions for his daughters and any future children. c.14
Estate of William Gery of Bushmead (Bedfordshire): sale of lands for payment of debts. c.13
Francis Shalcrosse's estate (Hertfordshire): settling of manors, farms and lands, making provision for younger children and payment of debts. c.20
John Herring's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.22
John Samine's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.21
Naturalizing of Countess of Lincoln and others. c.16
Restoration of the honour of Baron Audley of Hely to James Lord Audley and others. c.17
Rodes v. Thornton: confirmation of Chancery decree dated 24 February 1675, and of conveyances and assurances made in pursuance of it for the payment of Sir Francis Rodes' debts and provision for his wife and children. c.9
Sir Ralph Banks' estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c.19
Sir William Thorold's (late of Hough (Lincolnshire)) estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c.23
Burying in Woollen Act 1678 c. 3
Continuance of Acts, 1678 c. 6
Executors of Executors (Waste) Act 1678 c. 7
Fishing in the Severn Act 1678 c. 9
Insolvent Debtors Relief Act 1678 c. 4
Newcastle (Sale of Coal by Measured Keels) Act 1678 c. 8
Creation of St. Anne's Parish, Westminster. c.16
Edward Gresham's estate: sale of rectory of Westerham (Kent) for payment of debts. c.12
Enabling Thomas Plater to sell lands for payment of debts charged upon them and reimbursing him money spent in repairing the breaches made by the inundation of the sea and keeping the waters out. c.21
For uniting and consolidating churches of Beaumont and Moze (Essex) . c.14
Increasing the revenue of the Dean of St. Paul's and assuring his tenants' estates in Shadwell (Middlesex). c.11
John Forth's estate: making good a mortgage to Thomas Cooke and Nicholas Carey and making provision for his son Henry. c.19
Naturalizing of John Schoppens and others. c.18
On John Fortescue's behalf for executing trusts devolved upon infants. c.15
River Fal (Cornwall) navigation. c.20
Sir Thomas Cave's estate: better enabling trustees to sell lands for performance of his will and for vesting and settling other lands. c.13
Sir Trevor Williams' estate: rectifying an omission in the settlement made on the marriage of his eldest son and enabling eldest son to make a jointure for a second wife. c.10
Tanfield Mulso's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and provision for children. c.17
Billeting Act 1679 c. 1
Habeas Corpus Act 1679 c. 2
Records of Fires Burnt, etc. Act 1679 c. 3
The Habeas Corpus Act 1679 is an English statute passed during the reign of King Charles II to define and strengthen the ancient prerogative writ of habeas corpus, whereby persons unlawfully detained can be ordered to be produced before a court of law. ...
Charles Dale's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and provision for daughters and coheirs. c.5
Drake estates: confirmation of leases made by John Drake and others and enabling Sir Francis Drake to make a jointure and raise portions for his daughters and younger children. c.4
Rectification of errors in Sir Charles Hoghton's marriage settlement. c.1
1685 (1 Ja. II)
Administration of Intestates' Estate Act 1685 c. 17
Attainder, Duke of Monmouth Act 1685 c. 2
Coal Duties for Rebuilding Saint Paul's Act 1685 c. 15
Great Yarmouth Haven and Pier Repairs (Duties) Act 1685 c. 16
Importing, etc., of Gunpowder, etc. Act 1685 c. 8
Post Office, etc., Revenues Act 1685 c. 12
Providing of Carriages for the King Act 1685 c. 10
Revenue Act 1685 c. 1
Ships Act 1685 c. 18
Trade Act 1685 c. 13
Creation of St. James' Parish, Westminster. c. 10
Enabling Edward Meller to sell lands for payment of debts. c. 9
Enabling James Earl of Ossory to make a jointure for a future wife. c. 3
Naturalization of James Dufay, Theodore Janssen and others. c. 8
Naturalization of John Esselbron, Otto Geertz, David Becceler and others. c. 4
Naturalization of Magdalen Pellasary and others. c. 7
Rebuilding of Earl of Powis's house, Lincoln's Inn Fields. c. 5
Repair of Cathedral Church of Bangor, maintenance of choir and augmentation of revenue of the Bishopric of Bangor and of several vicarages within the comportions of Landinum (Bangor diocese). c. 11
Repealing a clause for dividing commons in an Act for draining the Bedford level [1663 c. 9]. c. 2
Rochester water supply. c. 6
St. Anne's Parish, Westminster: raising of money by inhabitants to build a church. c. 1
1688 (1 Will. & Mar. / 1 Will. & Mar. sess. 2)
Appropriation of Revenue Act 1688 c. 28
Bill of Rights c. 2
Clergy, Ireland Act 1688 c. 29
Coronation Oath Act 1688 c. 6
Court of Marches of Wales Act 1688 c. 27
Great Seal Act 1688 c. 21
Great Yarmouth Haven and Pier Repairs Act 1688 c. 11
Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 1688c. 2
Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 1688 c. 7
Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 1688 c. 19
Indemnity Act 1688 c. 8
Legal Proceedings Act 1688 c. 4
Mutiny Act 1688 c. 4
Oaths Act 1688 c. 25
Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Act 1688 c. 8
Papists Act 1688 c. 9
Papists Act 1688 c. 15
Presentation of Benefices Act 1688 c. 26
Relief of Irish Protestants Act 1688 c. 9
Revenue Act 1688 c. 14
Royal Mines Act 1688 c. 30
Simony Act 1688 c. 16
Toleration Act 1688 c. 18
Trade with France Act 1688 c. 34
Woollen Manufactures Act 1688 c. 32
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Private Acts (1 Will. & Mar.)
Annulling Algernoon Sydney's attainder. c. 7
Annulling Alicia Lisle's attainder. c. 8
Annulling William Lord Russell's attainder. c. 1
Better assurance of manor of Silton and other lands to Joseph Soley in Silton (Salop.). c. 12
Better regulation of Droitwich salt works. c. 19
Enabling Hannah Sherley and her daughter Mary Battilhey to sell and dispose of lands in Middlesex and Essex. c. 22
Enabling Robert Penwarne to sell lands to pay his siblings' portions and to pay debts. c. 13
Enabling Theodore Bathurst to make a jointure for his wife and to charge monies on part of his estate in Yorkshire. c. 15
Enabling Thomas Chettell to sell part of his estate for payment of debts and making provision for wife and children. c. 20
Enabling Younger Cooke to sell lands for payment of debts and provision for younger children. c. 5
Erecting Bristol and Gloucester Courts of Conscience. c. 18
Erecting Newcastle-upon-Tyne Court of Conscience. c. 17
Exhibiting a Bill in Parliament for naturalizing Prince George of Denmark. c. 2
For building into tenements the remaining inclosed part of Arundel Ground. c. 10
Henry Coventry's estate: sale or leasing of a capital messuage in Piccadilly. c. 9
Making good a recovery suffered by the Earl of Peterborough and Lord Mordaunt. c. 14
Naturalization and settling the precedence of Prince George of Denmark. c. 3
Naturalization of Anne Astley and others. c. 11
Naturalization of Frederick Count Schomberg and others. c. 4
Naturalization of Henry de Nassau and others. c. 6
Reversing Henry Cornish's attainder. c. 16
Richard Hele's estate: enabling trustees to grant leases. c. 21
Private Acts (1 Will. & Mar. sess. 2)
Discharge of Duke of Norfolk and trustees of Henry late Duke of Norfolk upon payment of certain sums of money to Lady Elizabeth Teresa Russell. c. 5
Enabling Charles Earl of Radnor to make a jointure and to raise money out of lands and tenements in Cornwall. c. 6
Enabling Edward Viscount Hereford to settle a jointure on his marriage to Elizabeth Narbourne despite his minority. c. 3
Enabling Thomas Edon to sell land for payment of debts and making provision for wife and any future children. c. 7
Enabling William Batson to sell lands in Oxfordshire and to purchase and settle lands in Suffolk to the same uses. c. 8
Naturalization of John Rogerson. c. 2
Naturalization of William Watts. c. 1
Provision for maintenance of children of Sydney Wortley or Montague. c. 4
1689 (2 Will. & Mar.)
Absence of King William Act 1689 c. 6
Crown and Parliament Recognition Act 1689 c. 1
Distress for Rent Act 1689 c. 5
London, Quo Warranto Judgment Reversed Act 1689 c. 8
Parliamentary Elections Act 1689 c. 7
Cadwallader Wynne's estate: vesting in trustees for payment of debts. c. 13
Confirming privileges and trade to Hudson's Bay Company. c. 15
Correction of a mistake in an Act concerning Henry Coventry's estate [1688 (1 Will. & Mar.) c. 9]. c. 2
Enabling Algernoon Earl of Essex to make a jointure for his wife, repay a loan for Lady Morpeth's portion and to settle his estate on his marriage. c. 5
Enabling John Wolstenholm to sell lands for payment of debts. c. 3
Enabling Sir Edwin Sadlier to sell lands for payment of debts. c. 17
Enabling Sir Humphry Forester to settle and dispose of lands. c. 11
Enabling Sir Robert Fenwicke to sell lands for payment of debts. c. 8
Enabling Thomas Berenger to sell lands for payment of debts. c. 12
For encouraging the manufacture of white paper. c. 16
For the sale of Harleyford mansion house, the manor of Great Marlow and other lands in Buckinghamshire. c. 7
Granting an annuity to Lady Alexander in satisfaction of the lands which she was to have had for her jointure. c. 18
Making illegitimate any children which Jane, wife of John Lewknor, has or shall have during her elopement from him. c. 4
Making provision for Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury's children. c. 6
Making Wortenbury chapel a distinct church from Bangor parish church. c. 1
Naturalization of David Le Grand and others. c. 14
Sir Hugh Midleton's estate: confirmation of settlement for maintenance for his wife and other trusts, and sale of part for payment of debts. c. 9
Vesting for sale the freehold of the manor and advowson of Lolworth (Cambridgeshire) and other lands in Lolworth and Long Stanton (Cambridgeshire) in trustees for John Edwards of Debden Hall (Essex). c. 10
1690 (2 Will. & Mar. sess. 2)
Admiralty Act 1690 c. 2
Coals Act 1690 c. 7
Indemnity Act 1690 c. 13
London Streets, etc. Act 1690 c. 8
Militia Act 1690 c. 12
Public Accounts Act 1690 c. 11
David Bigg's estate: sale of messuages and tenements for purchase of more convenient lands. c. 5
Enabling Dacres Barrett or Lennard to charge the reversion of his estate with £1500. c. 2
Enabling Elizabeth Mountague to lease houses and ground in Stepney (Middlesex). c. 6
Enabling John Rosseter to sell lands for payment of debts. c. 26
Enabling Philip Hildeyard to sell lands in Surrey and to settle lands in Lincolnshire in lieu. c. 21
Enabling Thomas Earl of Aylesbury and Elizabeth Countess of Aylesbury to make provision for payment of debts and to lease their estates. c. 22
Enabling Thomas Sheafe to sell lands for payment of debts and making provision for his wife. c. 23
Francis Phelips' estate: sale of manor of Kempton, Kempton park and other lands. c. 1
George Vilet's estate: sale of manors and lands for raising portions for his daughters. c. 4
John Baines' estate (City of London): sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 12
Limiting the powers of James Earl of Salisbury to cut off the entail of his estate. c. 8
Marlborough (Wiltshire) thatched roofs prohibition. c. 3
Mary Wharton and James Campbell marriage annulment. c. 9
Naturalization of Francis de la Chambre and others. c. 13
Nicholas Bagnall's estate (Ireland): barring a remainder limited to Dudley Bagnall. c. 14
Reginald Bray's estate: better enabling Jane Bray his widow to raise portions for her daughters. c. 16
Richard Cooke's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and raising a portion for his daughter. c. 11
Saint Leger Scroope's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 15
Sale of Henry Serve's estate. c. 17
Securing the portion of Elizabeth Lucy, breeding her up a Protestant and transferring the trust for that purpose. c. 19
Settling Robert Ask's Charity to the Company of Haberdashers of London. c. 18
Sir Samuel Bernardiston's estate: freeing from incumbrances occasioned by a judgement given against him. c. 10
Thomas Manwaring's estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c. 25
Thomas Williams' estate: leasing for payment of debts. c. 20
To give Katherine Lady Cornbury powers to act as if she were full age. c. 7
York Buildings Waterworks: incorporation of proprietors and development of the works. c. 24
Benefit of Clergy, etc. Act 1691 c. 9
Correspondence with Enemies Act 1691 c. 13
Deer Stealers Act 1691 c. 10
Fraudulent Devises Act 1691 c. 14
Highways, etc. Act 1691 c. 12
Militia Act 1691 c. 7
Oaths of Supremacy, etc., Ireland Act 1691 c. 2
Prize Act 1691 c. 4
Tithes Act 1691 c. 3
Assurance to George Vernon of four acres of land in Evisham (Surrey). c. 36
Barbary and John Newton's estate: settlement of manor and lordship of Kings Bromley [Staffordshire] and other lands. c. 39
Better performance of Richard Campion's will. c. 17
Bishop of Ely's estate: settling Hatton Garden (Middlesex) on Christopher, Viscount Hatton, subject to an annual fee farm rent of £100 payable to the Bishop of Ely. c. 2
Bishopric of London's estate: sale of manor of Bushley (Worcestershire) and purchase of other lands. c. 27
Charles Pelham's estate: provision of £5000 for his daughter Anne. c. 34
Edward Smith's estate: raising money for payment of debts and making a provision for children. c. 13
Enabling the Earl of Winchelsea to settle a jointure on any wife he marries during his minority. c. 16
Francis Moore's estate: power to sell the manor of Bayhouse and lands in West Thurrock (Essex) and to purchase and settle other land in lieu. c. 19
George Mountague's estate: sale of lands in Gloucestershire for payment of children's portions. c. 7
Henry Drax's estate: vesting in Thomas Shatterden and others and enabling them to make a jointure. c. 10
Henry Halsted's estate: lease for the improvement of his prebend of Eald Street in the Church of St. Paul, London. c. 26
Henry, Duke of Grafton's estate: sale of land in St. James and St. Martin- in-the-Fields. c. 41
Incorporation of Shadwell waterworks. c. 37
James, Earl of Salisbury's estate: better securing of portions, debts and legacies. c. 21
James, Earl of Suffolk's estate: sale of manor of Hadstock (Essex) and discharge of others from £5000, the remainder of £10,000 originally charged thereon. c. 31
James, Lord Waldgrave's estate: power to grant leases and copyhold estates for payment of arrears of annuities of his father. c. 18
John Cripps' estate: sale of estate in Kent and settlement of another. c. 22
John Keble's estate: sale of lands in Stowmarket (Suffolk) and settlement of other lands in lieu. c. 42
Lincolnshire, Berkshire and Devon estates: sale and settlement of others. c. 33
Making a 12 year lease made by Earl and Countess of Aylesbury, which was determinable on their deaths, absolute for 12 years. c. 1
Manors of Albury and North Mimms (Hertfordshire): copyhold enfranchisements. c. 20
Maurice Shelton's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and legacies and settlement of other land in lieu. c. 12
More speedy payment of debts of Elizabeth Curtis and performance of a related agreement between Charles Curtis and Edward Earl according to a Chancery decree. c. 32
Naturalization of Mainhardt, Duke of Leinster. c. 24
Naturalization of Marquis of Monpavillan and others. c. 30
Naturalization of Sir Martin Beckman. c. 4
Nicholas Martyn's estate: sale of the manor of Manworthy (Devon) for payment of debts. c. 9
Philip Hildeyard's estate: vesting manor of East Horsley (Surrey) in trustees for payment of debts. c. 35
Philip, Lord Stanhopp's marriage settlement enabling. c. 25
Richard Roberts' estate: sale of lands in Leicestershire for payment of debts and raising of portions. c. 8
Settling a jointure on Jane Matthews. c. 6
Sir Dudley Cullum's estate: raising money for siblings' portions. c. 11
Sir Edwin Sadler's estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c. 40
Sir Thomas Burton's estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c. 14
Sir Thomas Putt's estate: leasing for payment of legacies to his three sisters and of debts. c. 3
Sir William Halford's estate: sale of lands in Leicestershire for payment of debts and legacies. c. 38
Vincent Grantham's estate: leasing of manor of Golthoe (Lincolnshire) to pay debts and raise portions. c. 29
William and Jenkin Vaughan estates: vesting property in Merioneth in trustees to be sold or mortgaged for payment of debts. c. 28
William Davile's estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c. 15
William Molineaux's estate: vesting land in trustees to raise portions for younger siblings pursuant to a Chancery decree. c. 23
William Stydolph's estate: sale of the advowson and of the manor and lands in Wittering (Northamptonshire). c. 5
Apprehension of Highwaymen Act 1692 c. 8
Cheese and Butter Trade Act 1692 c. 7
Clandestine Mortgages Act 1692 c. 16
Crown Office Procedure Act 1692 c. 22
Estreats: Personal Representatives Act 1692 c. 24
Greenland Trade Act 1692 c. 17
Highways, Hertfordshire Act 1692 c. 9
Judgment Act 1692 c. 20
Malicious Information in Court of King's Bench Act 1692 c. 18
Mutiny Act 1692 c. 13
Pleadings in Actions Act 1692 c. 21
Repairs of Church Act 1692 c. 12
Special Bail Act 1692 c. 4
Wills Act 1692 c. 2
Abel Atwood's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and provision for younger children. c. 34
Abraham Hinde's estate: sale of lands and a messuage for payment of debts. c. 33
Alexander Popham's estate: jointure for wife and provision for children upon receipt of £12,000 portion to be applied for payment of debts. c. 6
Anthony Danby's estate: settling a jointure on his wife and making provision for his brothers and younger children and for payment of debts. c. 16
Anthony Eyre's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and portions for children. c. 1
Barnham Powel's estate: settling of manor of Kings North to provide for younger children. c. 11
Better assurance of manor of Woodlands and Hundred of Knoulton to Edward Seymour. c. 20
Bishop of Bangor's estate: leasing of Bangor House in St Andrews, Holborn. c. 23
Confirmation of sale of woodlands in Hampshire and of agreements between Isaac and Richard Wollaston. c. 17
Division of the chapelries of North Chapel and Dungton from the Parish of Petworth [Sussex] and making them new parishes, and settlement of the advowsons of the rectories of Petworth, North Chapel, Dungton, Clewer, Farnham Royal [Buckinghamshire], Worplesdon [Surrey], Kirby, Overblowes and Catton and the vicarage of Long Horsley [Northumberland]. c. 13
Enabling Sir George Parker to make a marriage settlement despite his minority. c. 7
Enabling Sir John Wentworth (an infant) to make a jointure out of and settle his manors and lands in Yorkshire, York and Westmorland. c. 4
Enabling Sir Thomas Wroth to make a jointure and settlement on his marriage and provision for his sister notwithstanding his minority. c. 15
Enabling William Wake and William Wake, Doctor in Divinity, to make leases for lives or years within manor of Shapwick (Dorset). c. 8
Exchange of lands in Fulham belonging to the Bishopric of London for others belonging to Charles Earl of Monmouth. c. 29
Francis Osbaston's estate: sale of lands and manors for payment of debts and legacies and provision of a portion for his daughter Mary. c. 14
Henry Baynton's estate: better execution of a trust and provision of a portion for his daughter. c. 18
Henry Hawley's estate: sale for benefit of his infant daughters. c. 2
Lincolnshire, Berkshire and Devon estates: clarification of Lincolnshire, Berkshire and Devon estates Act [1691 c. 33]. c. 3
Matthew and Robert Pitt's estate: enabling trustees to sell land for payment of debts and settle the remainder on Matthew and Robert Pitt, Robert's wife and their issue. c. 21
Naturalization of Henry Sheilbell and others. c. 30
Ralph Macclesfield's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and provision for wife and children. c. 12
Richard Walthall's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and portions. c. 19
Roger Price's estate: sale of part for provision of portions for daughters of John Price deceased. c. 26
Sale of Thomas Broomhall's interest in the office of Warden of the Fleet and in 13 adjoining houses and in an office of the custody and keeping of Westminster palace for the better payment of debts. c. 28
Settlement and confirmation of manors and lands in Hameldon (Rutlandshire) pursuant to a past agreement for exchanging and inclosing lands there. c. 31
Settlement of Francis Boyle Viscount Shannon's estate in Ireland. c. 22
Sir Anthony Browne's estate: more effectual execution of a trust and of a Chancery decree. c. 5
Sir John Williams' estate: sale of manors of Ewyas Lacy, Waterstone and Trescaillan and other lands in Herefordshire and the manor of Carwent and other lands in Monmouthshire for payment of debts. c. 27
Sir Robert Smith's estate: sale of lands and settlement of other lands in lieu. c. 32
Sir William Mannock's estate: charging of estate to raise portions for younger children. c. 10
Thomas Goodwin's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and provision for his wife and children. c. 25
Thomas Towers' estate: vesting manor of Barcroft and other lands in Lincolnshire, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk in trustees for payment of debts and provision for his wife and daughter. c. 24
William Molineux's estate: rectification of a mistake in William Molineux's estate Act 1691 [c. 23]. c. 9
Government life annuities Act 1693 c. 5
House of Commons (Disqualification) Act 1693 c. 7
Justice of the Peace in Wales Act 1693 c. 4
Royal Mines Act 1693 c. 6
James Clayton's estate: indemnifying trustees for sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 2
John and Thomas Vivian's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and provision for children and settlement of another part in lieu thereof. c. 1
1694 (5 & 6 Will. & Mar. / 6 & 7 Will. & Mar.)
Bank of England Act 1694 c. 20
Capiatur Fine Act 1694 c. 12
Cloth Weavers Act 1694 c. 9
Continuance of Acts Act 1694 c. 14
Duties on Marriages, etc. Act 1694 c. 6
Exemptions of Apothecaries Act 1694 c. 4
Hackney coaches, etc. Act 1694 c. 22
Meeting of Parliament Act 1694 c. 2
Militia, etc. Act 1694 c. 13
Newcastle (Sale of Coal by Measured Keel) Act 1694 c. 10
Orphans, London Act 1694 c. 10
Pardon of Felony Act 1694 c. 13
Public Accounts Act 1694 c. 9
Quarter sessions delays Act 1694 c. 11
Sir Thomas Cooke, etc. (East India Company Transactions) Act 1694 c. 19
Sir Thomas Cooke's Indemnity Act 1694 c. 15
Stamps Act 1694 c. 12
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Private Acts (5 & 6 Will. & Mar.)
Alice Turner's and her children's estate: sale of houses and grounds near Lincoln's Inn Fields. c. 11
Charles Turner's estate: settlement. c. 13
Construction of a bridge over the river Axe (Somerset). c. 8
Enabling Sir Charles Barrington to make a jointure for his wife Dame Bridget and to provide for his children. c. 5
Enabling the Earl of Thanet and Sackville Tufton to lease Thanet House in St. Botolph, Aldersgate. c. 6
Erecting new Parish of St. John of Wapping (Middlesex). c. 20
Estates of Roger and Thomas Whitley in Cheshire: exchange. c. 3
Henry Frere's estate: sale of part to raise money to recover other parts under water and pay debts. c. 7
John Whitehall's estate: charging of certain lands for children's portions. c. 9
Mildmay's and Dixy's estate: sale for payment of debts and mortgages. c. 15
Nathaniel Brent's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and maintenance of his children. c. 18
Naturalization of Johanna D'Offerel and others. c. 22
Payment of George Turner's debts. c. 4
Payment of the late John Lord Stawell's debts. c. 17
Sale of a third part of the manor of Lekby and other lands in Yorkshire and settlement of a farm and lands in Terling and Mack Leighs in Essex to the same uses. c. 19
Sir James Beverly's estate (Huntingdonshire): vesting in trustees for sale. c. 21
Sir John Maynard's estate: settlement. c. 16
Susan and Dorothy Chaplyn's estate: sale for payment of debts and provision for themselves. c. 10
Thomas Edwards' estate: sale of part for payment of debts and disabling him from committing waste on the residue. c. 12
William Stevens' estate: sale for payment of mortgage and application of the residue for the benefit of his sons. c. 14
Private Acts (6 & 7 Will. & Mar)
Christchurch parish (Surrey): enabling the making of rates to provide a minister and empowering the trustees of John Marshall, deceased, to employ money to finish the church. c. 10
Confirmation of a grant by the rector of the united parishes of St. Michael Royal and St. Martin's in the Vintrey, London, of part of St. Martin's churchyard. c. 11
Confirmation of two indentures tripartite, of lease and release, made by Thomas, Earl of Thanett Island, Sackville Tufton, William Cheyne and Sir Charles Tufton, and of the estates thereby settled. c. 6
Enabling Elizabeth, widow of John Howland, to settle lands upon marriage of his sole daughter and heir; settling lands on Elizabeth for her life in lieu of dower and indemnifying her and Sir Josias Child in disposing of the personal estate of said heir on her preferment in marriage, she being under 21 years old. c. 22
Enabling Peter Gollop to sell a farm and lands called Wantsly subject to payment of £1000 and interest to the executory estate of Robert Merefield, deceased. c. 27
Enabling Sir Paul and Dame Jane Whitchott to make leases of manor of Tooting Gravenay and lands in Tooting Gravenay, Tooting Bec and Streatham (Surrey). c. 19
For settling manors and lands upon the Marquis of Tavistock's marriage. c. 4
George Gilbert Pierce's estate: vesting in trustees lands and tenements in Middle Temple, London for payment of debts. c. 23
George Pitt's estate: correction of deed of trust and will. c. 2
Hannah and Jonathon Woollaston's estate: sale of lands in Warmford (Hampshire) for payment of debts and legacies of Richard Woollaston. c. 29
Henry Northley's estate: leasing for payment of debts and maintenance for children. c. 12
James Earl of Salisbury's estate: leasing of Salisbury house and other hereditaments in the Strand (Middlesex) for improvement by building. c. 5
Jane Rogers' estate: sale of lands for payment of the debts and legacies of Brian Rogers in performance of his will. c. 14
John Caryle's estate: vesting land in Kent and Sussex in trustees for payment of debts and portions for younger children and for correction of a conveyance. c. 17
John Estoft's estate: sale of lands and tenements for payment of debts and portions for daughters. c. 13
John Kirke's estate: sale for payment of debts. c. 28
John, Earl of Rochester's estate: division and settlement, and discharge of trusts. c. 7
Jonathon Webb's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and incumbrances. c. 21
Joseph Finch's estate: sale of lands for better provision of daughters and coheirs. c. 16
Making saltwater fresh. c. 24
Naturalization of Bernard Cosserat, Alexander Pringli and others. c. 3
Ratifying and confirming an indenture of lease of Martin Meare (Lancashire) made by Earl of Derby and others to Thomas Fleetwood. c. 15
Reversal of the attainder of Jacob Leisler and others. c. 30
Sale of manors of Earls Croome and Baughton (Worcestershire), settlement of the manor house and royalty of Wainfleet St. Mary (Lincolnshire) to the same uses and enabling Sir Robert Barham to make provision for younger children. c. 8
Sir Jarvase Clifton's estate: vesting lands in Nottinghamshire in trustees for payment of debts and raising of portions for younger children. c. 9
Sir Thomas Hare's estate: provision of portions and maintenance for younger children. c. 26
Sir William Chaitor's estate: sale of land in Yorkshire and Durham for payment of debts and raising of portions for younger children. c. 18
Warwick fire rebuilding, &c. c. 1
William Gage's estate: mortgaging for preservation of timber growing thereon. c. 25
William Wanley's estate: building new messuages and tenements in Ax-yard, King Street, Westminster and enabling his guardian to lease the same. c. 20
1695 (7 & 8 Will. III)
Annuities, etc. Act 1695 c. 2
Coinage Act 1695 c. 19
Coining Act 1695 c. 13
Continuance of Acts, 1695 c. 36
Corrupt Practices Act 1695 c. 4
Greenwich Hospital, etc. Act 1695 c. 21
Highways Act 1695 c. 29
Juries Act 1695 c. 32
Linen Manufacture Act 1695 c. 39
Marriage without banns, etc. Act 1695 c. 35
Mortmain Act 1695 c. 37
Oaths, etc. Act 1695 c. 24
Parliament Act 1695 c. 15
Parliamentary Elections Act 1695 c. 25
Parliamentary Elections (Returns) Act 1695 c. 7
Plantation Trade Act 1695 c. 22
Quakers Act 1695 c. 34
Recovery of Small Tithes Act 1695 c. 6
Rivers Wye and Lugg Act 1695 c. 14
Roads, London to Harwich Act 1695 c. 9
Roads, Norfolk Act 1695 c. 26
Security of King and Government Act 1695 c. 27
Taxation, etc. Act 1695 c. 30
Treason Act 1695 c. 3
Wills Act 1695 c. 38
Bluet and John Wallop's (minors) estates: leasing and purchasing other lands. c. 22
Bristol water supply. c. 31
Bristol: erection of hospitals and workhouses and better employing the poor. c. 32
Edmond Warner's estate: sale of part for payment of debts. c. 11
Empowering Anne, Duchess of Buccleuch and her son James, Earl of Dalkeith to grant leases for improving ground in St. Martins-in-the-Fields (Middlesex). c. 24
Enabling Anthony Earl of Kent and Henry Grey his son to make a jointure for Henry's wife Jemima. c. 7
Enabling John Aunger, an infant, and his mother to lease his estate. c. 12
Enabling Richard Haynes to settle a jointure on his wife and to exchange lands with Thomas Stevens' trustees. c. 10
Enabling Sir Charles Heron to sell lands for payment of a portion and debts. c. 34
Enabling Sir Thomas Pope Blount to make a marriage settlement for his oldest son. c. 3
Enabling Sir Thomas Wagstaffe to raise a portion for Frances his only daughter. c. 35
Enabling Thomas Stoner, a minor, to make a jointure and settlement of his estate in marriage. c. 5
Enabling trustees to raise money to construct a wet dock and to improve an estate of the Marquess and Marchioness of Tavistock at Rotherhithe (Surrey). c. 25
Improvement of a house and ground in Great Queen Street. c. 27
John Fownes' estate: sale of lands in Devon and settlement of others to the same uses. c. 15
Joseph Dawson's estate: vesting part in trustees for payment of debts and for provision for maintenance and marriage of his daughters. c. 38
Lady Katherine Fane's estate: sale of reversion of fee farm rents given to her by her grandfather John Bence. c. 1
Lord Francis Powlett's estate: provision for younger children. c. 8
Making towns of Stretton and Princethorpe a separate parish from Wolston (Warwickshire). c. 37
Manor of Barkhampstead: sale of part for payment of incumbrances and purchase and settlement of other lands. c. 13
Manor of Madeley (Salop.): vesting in trustees. c. 4
Naturalization of James Stanhope and others. c. 19
Naturalization of Salomon Eyme and others. c. 20
Naturalization of the children of Henry de Nassau Seignior de Auverquerke. c. 14
Naturalization of William Viscount Tunbridge and other children of Earl of Rochford. c. 26
Revesting in the King the Honour of Tutbury and Forest of Needwood (Staffordshire) and manors, parks, lands, offices and other profits belonging to them, and vacating certain letters patent. c. 41
Richard Jones' and Mary Gufford's (minors) personal estate: settling in trustees. c. 30
Sale of the moiety of manor of Shepton Mallet (Somerset) and a divided moiety of manor of Wells (Somerset) for payment of a mortgage and maintenance of Mary, wife of William Sandes, and her children. c. 36
Samuel Powell's estate: vesting in trustees for payment of debts. c. 6
Settlement of lands and rentcharges on the rector of Maidwell church (Northamptonshire) and his successors, and in lieu settling other lands and discharging tithes belonging to the said church according to agreements between the patron and the rector made upon inclosure of lands in Maidwell, and later with the consent of the Ordinary confirmed by a Court of Chancery decree. c. 29
Sir James Chamberlaine's estate: exchange of lands in common hill or field of Salford (Oxfordshire) for other lands in order to make an inclosure. c. 16
Sir Nicholas and Sir Lawrence Stoughton's estate: sale for payment of debts and portions for daughters of Sir Nicholas. c. 9
Sir Robert Sawyer's estate: sale of a messuage in Lincoln's Inn Fields and purchase of other lands and tenements to be settled to the same uses. c. 28
Sir Thomas Parkyns' estate: sale of lands in Huby and Easingwold in Yorkshire and settlement of others in lieu. c. 2
Sir William Barkham's estate: sale of lands to pay debts and provide for children. c. 33
St. James's parish, Westminster: power to raise money to discharge debts incurred in building the church, rectory, vestry and other public works. c. 17
St. Lawrence Old Jury (London): ascertaining and settling payment of the impropriate tithes to Balliol College, Oxford and confirming an award concerning the same. c. 18
Thomas Bigg's and wife's estate: vesting lands in Chislett (Kent) in trustees for payment of debts and provision for children. c. 40
Thomas Rider's and Christopher Clitherow's estates: exchange of messuages in London for manors of Bilsington and other lands in Kent. c. 21
William Midford's (an infant) estate: sale of manor of Pespoole (Durham) for payment of debts and incumbrances. c. 23
William Ridout's (an infant) estate: sale of lands in Horsington (Somerset) for payment of incumbrances and for preserving the residue for him. c. 39
Administration of Justice Act 1696 c. 11
Attainder of Conspirators Act 1696 c. 5
Attainder of Sir John Fenwick Act 1696 c. 4
Blackwell Hall Act 1696 c. 9
Bridlington Piers, Yorkshire Act 1696 c. 29
Brokers Act 1696 c. 32
Compositions by Debtors Act 1696 c. 18
Duty on Tin Act 1696 c. 34
Escape of Debtors, etc. Act 1696 c. 27
Highways, Surrey and Sussex Act 1696 c. 15
Lustrings Act 1696 c. 36
Partition Act 1696 c. 31
Paving the Haymarket Act 1696 c. 17
Quarter Sessions Act 1696 c. 33
Rebuilding of Saint Paul's and Westminster Abbey Act 1696 c. 14
Receipt of Exchequer Act 1696 c. 28
Relief of the Poor Act 1696 c. 30
Standard of Silver Plate, etc. Act 1696 c. 8
Streets, London. Act 1696 c. 37
Tallies for Certain Loans Act 1696 c. 3
Annulment of Hannah Knight's (an infant) marriage settlement and directing her guardianship. c. 27
Bishop of London and Earl of Nottingham advowsons exchange. c. 6
Charles Milson's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and legacies and purchase of land for Edward Milson. c. 12
Crompton Mynors' estate: settlement of manor of Treyagoe (Herefordshire) and other lands and increasing portion of Theodosia his daughter. c. 2
Edmond Warner's estate: explanation of Edmond Warner's estate Act 1695 [c. 11]. c. 23
Edward and Mary (his wife) Leigh's estate: sale of manors of Waxham and Horsey and lands in Norfolk and purchase of others. c. 18
Edward Kerrey's estate in Binoeston (Salop.): vesting in trustees for payment of incumbrances and portions for his children, and confirmation of his marriage settlement. c. 15
Enabling James Duke of Ormond to raise money by sale of woods and to make leases for lives for payment of debts, encouraging English plantation in Ireland and enabling Charles Earl of Arran to make leases of his estate in Ireland. c. 5
Enabling Nicholas Goodwin the elder and the younger to sell the manor of Winslow (Buckinghamshire) and to purchase other lands to be settled to the same uses. c. 13
Enabling Sir Ralph Ashton to rectify an omission in his marriage settlement. c. 8
For satisfying debts of Francis late Lord Holles. c. 7
Francis Griffith's estate: sale for payment of debts. c. 9
Importing goods and merchandise laden in Turkey in ships called "Success" and "Dragon Galley" paying customs as if imported by English ships.1 c. 20
Jeffery Stockley's estate: sale of lands in Cheshire for payment of debts and provision for his daughter Mary. c. 11
Mary Savile's (an infant) estate: settlement upon her marriage. c. 10
Naturalization of John Keyser and others. c. 17
Naturalization of Lord Agram and others. c. 1
Oliver Neve's estate: rectification of a defect in Oliver Neve's estate Act 1696 [c. 4]. c. 22
Oliver Neve's estate: sale of two houses in London and vesting lands in Norfolk to the same uses. c. 4
Roger Crowle's (a lunatic) estate: vesting part in trustees to raise portions for younger children. c. 24
Samuel Trotman's estate: sale of lands in Barking, East Ham, West Ham and Woolwich (Kent and Essex ) and settlement of other lands in lieu. c. 25
Sir John Hotham's estate: sale of manor of Holme and Swanage (Dorset) for discharging a mortgage and paying debts. c. 3
Speedy payment of the late Sir William Thompson's debts. c. 26
Thomas Panton's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and a jointure for his wife Mary. c. 16
William Fallows' (an infant) estate in Cheshire: sale for payment of debts secured by mortgages. c. 21
William Hamond's marriage settlement: power to sell the manor of Rowling (Kent) comprised in the settlement by mistake. c. 28
William James' estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and provision for himself and his wife and children. c. 19
William Melward's estate: vesting lands in Herefordshire in trustees for payment of debts. c. 14
1697 (9 Will. III)
Annuities Act 1697 c. 5
Annuities Act 1697 c. 24
Appropriation of Certain Moneys Act 1697 c. 34
Arbitration Act 1697 c. 15
Bank of England Act 1697 c. 3
Bill of Exchange Act 1697 c. 17
Blasphemy Act 1697 c. 35
Bridgwater, Somerset (Repair of Bridge and Quay) Act 1697 c. 12
Composition by Debtors Act 1697 c. 29
Correspondence with the Pretender Act 1697 c. 1
Duties on Marriages, etc. Act 1697 c. 32
East India Company Act 1697 c. 44
Embezzlement of Public Stores Act 1697 c. 41
Fireworks Act 1697 c. 7
Gloucestershire Roads. Act 1697 c. 18
Hawkers Act 1697 c. 27
Imprisonment of Certain Traitors Act 1697 c. 4
Lace Act 1697 c. 9
Malt Act 1697 c. 22
Naturalization (Persons Born Abroad During the War) Act 1697 c. 20
Navigation, Colchester to Wivenhoe Act 1697 c. 19
New Forest Act 1697 c. 33
Payment of Lottery Tickets Act 1697 c. 37
Registering of Ships Act 1697 c. 42
Sale of Salt Act 1697 c. 6
Silver and Gold Thread Act 1697 c. 39
Trade with Africa Act 1697 c. 26
Allowing "Maryland Merchant" of Bristol to import her lading. c. 52
Annexing the rectory of Whitbourne (Herefordshire) to the Bishopric of Hereford. c. 24
Bishopric of Chichester: enabling the Bishop of Chichester to grant leases of property in Chancery Lane. c. 12
Charles, Earl of Macclesfield's divorce and making illegitimate the children of Anne his wife. c. 11
City and County of the City of Exon [Exeter]: erection of hospitals and workhouses for better employing and maintaining the poor. c. 33
City of Hereford: erection of hospitals and workhouses for better employing and maintaining the poor. c. 34
Colchester: erection of hospitals and workhouses for better employing and maintaining the poor. c. 37
Confirmation of a lease granted by Bishop of Winton [Winchester] of a parcel of wasteground in Alverstoke (Hampshire) for constructing and improving waterworks there. c. 41
Confirmation of conveyance by George Pitt and others of manor of Tarrant Preston and other lands in Dorset to John Pitt. c. 45
Confirming and establishing the administration of Sir William Godolphin's goods and chattels. c. 19
Correction of a conveyance concerning Sir Edward and Charles Turner's estate. c. 26
Diana Cecill's and others' estate: vesting lands and hereditaments in Maidstone and elsewhere in Kent in trustees. c. 44
Enabling Humphrey Trafford to raise £4000 on his estate for payment of debts. c. 62
Enabling John Lewin to sell certain messuages in Southwark for payment of debts. c. 10
Enabling Paris Slaughter, William Druce and Dame Elizabeth Chapman to import several bales of Italian silk. c. 30
Enabling Rebecca Lassels to sell copyhold lands and houses in Ealing (Middlesex). c. 5
Enabling Simon Lord Bishop of Ely and successors to lease Downham manor house and lands and confirming a recent lease thereof by the Bishop and clearing him and others from dilapidations. c. 2
Enabling Streynsham Master to sell lands in Kent and to convey lands in Derbyshire to the same uses. c. 29
Enabling Thomas Kinnersly, an infant, to make a jointure and settlement of his estate. c. 8
Erection of Crediton (Devon) hospitals, workhouses and houses of correction and better relief of the poor. c. 17
Erection of Tiverton (Devon) hospitals and workhouses for better employment and maintenance of the poor. c. 18
Estates of Sir Edward and Hopton Wyndham (both deceased): enabling trustees to make leases, grant copies and receive the rents and profits during the minority of Sir William Wyndham. c. 61
Freedom of "Sally Rose" (formerly prize) to unload and to trade as an English built ship. c. 59
Freedom of ships "Panther," "Gloucester," "Frigott," "Scarborough" and "Antelope" (formerly prize and condemned) to trade as English built ships. c. 51
Freedom of ships "Ruby Prize" and "Plymouth" to trade as English built ships. c. 53
George Farrington's estate: sale of lands in Middlesex and Surrey, settled upon the marriage of William Farrington his nephew, and purchase of others in Lancashire. c. 6
George Hewett's estate: sale of lands in Middlesex and purchase of others in Leicestershire to be settled to the same uses. c. 22
Humphrey Walrond's estate: sale of part for provision for two lunatic children, payment of debts and portions for other children. c. 58
John Hall's (a lunatic) estate: settling subject to a debt charged thereon. c. 16
John Hawkes' estate: sale of land in Salop. for payment of debts. c. 57
John Houghton's estate: sale of manors of Bastwick and Laviles (Norfolk) for payment of debts and settlement of another estate in lieu. c. 28
John Jenkin's estate: sale of part for payment of debts. c. 56
John Lewin's estate: correction of the Act of 1697 [c. 10] [sale of certain messuages in Southwark for payment of debts]. c. 35
Joseph Smith's estate: sale of three houses in Swan Alley in Coleman Street, London, for payment of debts. c. 55
Kingston-upon-Hull: construction of workhouses and houses of correction. c. 47
Naturalization of Charles May. c. 13
Naturalization of Dudley Vesey. c. 9
Naturalization of Gerrard Maesacker and others. c. 4
Naturalization of Hillary Reneu and others. c. 50
Naturalization of John Francis Fauquire, Joseph Ducasse and others. c. 20
Naturalization of Peter Garon and others. c. 49
Naturalization of William Lloyd and others. c. 38
Newcastle-upon-Tyne water supply. c. 46
Nicholas Cary's estate: vesting in trustees a moiety of certain messuages and lands in Hackney (Middlesex) for Susanna Cary his widow and relict. c. 36
Rectification of a mistake in William Gardner's marriage settlement. c. 14
Relief of Edward Backwell's creditors. c. 43
Robert Mascall's estate: vesting a copperas work in trustees for sale for payment of debts. c. 54
Robert Smith's estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c. 27
Settling certain lands in Essex on Thomas Burgh and his heirs in lieu of other lands conveyed by him according to the decree and will of Sir Samuel Jones. c. 31
Settling of Viscount and Viscountess Lisburne's estates in Ireland. c. 25
Shaftesbury: construction of workhouses and houses of correction for better employment and maintenance of the poor. c. 48
Sir Coppleston Bampfylde's estate: making and renewal of leases during the minority of him and his brother John Bampfylde. c. 15
Sir Francis and Dame Isabella Guybon's estate: sale of manor of Avenalls and lands in or near Gunthorpe (Norfolk) and settlement of other lands in lieu. c. 3
Sir John Churchill's estate: confirmation of sale of part pursuant to his will and two Chancery decrees. c. 39
Sir Ralph Hare's estate: settlement, making a jointure and raising portions and maintenances for his younger children. c. 21
Sir William Walter's estate: securing portions for his children by Lady Mary, his second wife, and preventing doubts concerning the construction of the articles and will mentioned in them. c. 42
Thomas Davies estate: sale of certain customary messuages and lands within manor of Gillingham (Dorset) for payment of debts. c. 32
Vesting in Sydenham Baker a certain rent, messuages and lands in Devon and securing to John and Henry Baker money in lieu of their claims to them. c. 1
Vesting in Thomas Rogers the manor of Westcourt and lands in Kent and securing to John Higgens and Alice his wife, and for portions for Irene, Margerett, Mary and Alice Cesar, money in lieu of their claims. c. 60
Vesting the manor of Alveston and lands in Gloucestershire in trustees to be sold for payment of debts and other purposes. c. 40
William Knott's estate: sale of a lease of houses in Bread Street, London, for payment of debts, and settlement of another estate in lieu. c. 7
Wriothesly Baptist late Earl of Gainesborough's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 23
1698 (10 Will. III / 11 Will. III)
Aire and Calder Navigation. Act 1698 c. 25
Ale Measures Act 1698 c. 15
Aliens Act 1698 c. 6
Billingsgate, etc. Act 1698 c. 13
Bounty on Exportation Act 1698 c. 1
Bristol roads and Avon and Frome Navigation. Act 1698 c. 23
Buttons Act 1698 c. 2
Clerks of Assize (Fees) Act 1698 c. 12
Crown Lands, Forfeited Estates Act 1698 c. 2
Debts Due to the Army, etc. Act 1698 c. 8
Distillation Act 1698 c. 4
Dover Harbour Act 1698 c. 5
Duties on Glass Repeal Act 1698 c. 24
Encouragement of Manufactures Act 1698 c. 10
Exercise of Trades Act 1698 c. 17
Exportation Act 1698 c. 3
For Suppression of Lotteries Act 1698 c. 23
Gaols Act 1698 c. 19
Governors of Plantations Act 1698 c. 12
Great Yarmouth Haven and Pier Duties Act 1698 c. 5
Imprisonment of Certain Traitors Act 1698 c. 19
Piracy Act 1698 c. 7
Posthumous Children Act 1698 c. 22
Recovery of Tithes Act 1698 c. 21
Repeal of 9 W. 3. c. 9. Act 1698 c. 11
Reversal of Fines and Recoveries, etc. Act 1698 c. 20
River Dee, Chester. Act 1698 c. 24
River Lark. Act 1698 c. 22
River Tone: Navigation. Act 1698 c. 8
River Trent Navigation. Act 1698 c. 26
Russia Company (membership) Act 1698 c. 6
Sedgmoor Drainage. Act 1698 c. 15
Signing the Association, etc. Act 1698 c. 17
Tithes of Hemp and Flax Act 1698 c. 16
Trade to Newfoundland Act 1698 c. 14
Vagrancy Act 1698 c. 18
Private Acts (10 Will. III)
Ann Bridges' (an infant) estate: sale of an estate in Bermuda and laying out in England the proceeds for her use. c. 43
Confirming grant and settlement by William Forster of manors and lands in Durham and Northumberland to Thomas Lord Fairfax and others upon certain trusts. c. 25
Dudley Vesey's estate in Hintlesham (Suffolk): sale for payment of debts. c. 29
Edward Price's estates: transfer of a charge of £1000 from an estate in Montgomeryshire to one in Herefordshire and Radnorshire for use of his younger children. c. 27
Edward, Earl of Derwentwater's estate: sale of woods and timber for payment of debts and discharge of incumbrances. c. 1
Enabling Cyriac Weslyd to sell part of his estate, which by marriage articles was agreed to be settled upon his wife and children, and to settle the other part to the same uses. c. 44
Enabling Katherine Leeke, an infant, to settle her estate on her marriage. c. 38
Enabling Liverpool to build and endow a church and making the town and liberties a distinct parish from Walton. c. 36
Enabling Popham Conway and Francis and Charles Seymour to lease their estates. c. 48
Enabling Thomas Byde (an infant) to contract for buying his mother's jointure and to settle a small estate in Great Amwell (Hertfordshire) and for securing and raising a portion for Barbara Byde, his sister. c. 40
Enabling Thomas Methwold to raise £1200 upon his estate for improvements made to it. c. 54
Encouraging Thomas Savery's invention for raising water and relating to all sorts of mill work. c. 31
Freedom of ship "Charles," flyboat of Exeter. c. 22
Freedom of ship "Hope" (of great length and very serviceable for importing masts) to trade as an English built ship. c. 50
Freedom of ships "Hawke" and "Rainbow" to trade as English built ships. c. 45
Freedom of ships "Margaret" and "Friendship" of Bristol. c. 5
George Penne's estate: sale of land for payment of debts. c. 12
George Scott's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and portions for siblings and settlement of the other part. c. 28
John Athy's estate: enabling William Wrayford and Dame Ann Rich to lease houses and ground in Covent Garden. c. 51
John Bull's (an infant) estate: sale of lands in Kent for payment of debts and annuities and for provision for younger children. c. 46
John Moor's estate: sale of manors of Halwill and Becket (Devon) for payment of debts. c. 33
John Young's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and legacies. c. 35
Naturalization of Anthony Columbiere and others. c. 15
Naturalization of Augustine Cloribus and others. c. 56
Naturalization of Bartholomew Ogilby and others. c. 4
Naturalization of Captain Thomas Browne and others. c. 19
Naturalization of Charles de Siburg and Francis St. George. c. 7
Naturalization of Elizabeth Farewell. c. 2
Naturalization of George Burnett. c. 16
Naturalization of Isaac Gouyquette de St. Eloy. c. 23
Naturalization of James St. Pierre, John Denty and Remond Hensbergh. c. 6
Naturalization of John de Philip and others . c. 20
Naturalization of John Francis De Carcassonet and others. c. 18
Naturalization of John Meoles. c. 9
Naturalization of Mark De Moncall and David Loches. c. 17
Naturalization of Nicholas Lepell. c. 3
Naturalization of Peter Barailleau and others. c. 21
Naturalization of Philip de Chenevix and others. c. 13
Naturalization of Richard Legg and others. c. 58
Naturalization of Samuel Bernadeau, Peter Chantreau des Gaudree and others belonging to His Majesty's Guards and Grenadiers. c. 57
Naturalization of Scipio Guy and others. c. 32
Naturalization of Sir David Collier, Isaac la Melionere, Peter de Belcastel and William Reiatore. c. 59
Naturalization of Theophilus Rabesineres and others. c. 11
Naturalization of William de Witt and Godfrey Lloyd. c. 8
Naturalization of William Lower, William Darnell and Peter Godby. c. 14
Relief of Sir Robert Vyner's creditors. c. 10
Robert Aldworth and his wife's estate in or near Wantage (Berkshire): sale for payment of debts and purchase of another for use of wife and children. c. 30
Sale of manor of Lordington and Whitney and other lands in Sussex and laying out £5,000 to purchase other lands. c. 41
Samuel Wake or Jones' estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and purchase of lands adjoining the manor of Waltham Holy Cross (Essex). c. 42
Settlement of augmentations on certain vicarages for ever. c. 24
Ships "King William" and "Charles the Second:" discharge from penalties of the Act of navigation. c. 53
Sir Francis Andrews' estate: sale of manor of Downham (Essex) and purchase of other lands. c. 52
Sir Thomas Darcy's estate: sale of part for payment of debts. c. 26
Sir Thomas Seyliard's estate: sale of lands in Kent for payment of sisters' portions. c. 39
Sir William Pulteney's estate: enabling the grant of leases for payment of debts of William Pulteney, his son. c. 47
Thomas and Rowland Okeover's estate: making a jointure and settlement on Thomas' marriage. c. 37
Thomas Cowslade's (an infant) estate: sale of freehold and leasehold houses to discharge a mortgage and purchase other lands. c. 55
Thomas Lascells' estate: sale for payment of debts. c. 34
Zenobia Hough's estate: sale for payment of her husband's debts. c. 49
Ann Baldwin's estate: sale of a capital messuage and lands called Wiltons and other lands in Buckinghamshire. c. 3
Arthur Lacy's estate: sale of lands and manors for payment of mortgage and purchase of demesne lands to be settled to the same uses. c. 9
Bluett Wallop's estate: sale of inheritance of a twelfth part of several manors, lands and tenements during his minority and purchasing others. c. 27
Bryan Janson's estate: sale for payment of debts and provision for wife and children. c. 31
Catherine Fitzgerald Villiers' estate: settling, raising money for payment of debts and securing portions for her five younger children by her late husband Edward Fitzgerald Villiers. c. 16
Charging estate of Sir Thomas Robinson with £7000 for his sister Ann's portion and settlement of her estate on him in lieu. c. 14
Charles Hore's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and settling other part to raise a portion and maintenance for Elizabeth his daughter by his former wife and making a jointure for his present wife Mary and provision for their children. c. 25
Confirmation of a lease and indentures between the city of Norwich and Richard Barry, George Sorocold and Richard Soame and for lighting Norwich's streets. c. 15
Confirmation of a lease of ground for the rector and churchwardens of the parish of St. Martins Ogars, London, to build a church for worship in French according to the usage of the Church of England. c. 30
Continuing the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies a Corporation. c. 4
Duke of Norfolk's divorce from Lady Mary Mordant. c. 2
Enabling Dalby Thomas to sell lands in Islington (Middlesex) settled on his marriage by Dorothy, his wife, as part of her jointure, he settling another estate in lieu. c. 26
Enabling Edward Mansell to sell or mortgage the impropriate rectories of Llanriddian and Penrice [Glamorgan] for payment of debts and raising portions for younger children, and settling the manor of Henleys and other lands. c. 17
Enabling Leonard Wessell to sell the manor of Acres-Fleet (Essex), settled on his marriage with Sarah his wife as part of her jointure, and to purchase other lands. c. 28
Enabling Thomas May to sell lands in Suffolk settled on his marriage and to convey others to the same uses. c. 7
Enabling Thomas Noble to sell an undivided third part of the manor of Foxton (Leicestershire) after the settlement of lands of greater value to the same uses. c. 1
Freedom of ship "Martha of Margam." c. 32
George Harrison's estate: sale of reversion and inheritance of farm of Nethercote (Oxfordshire) for payment of debts and legacies. c. 18
Henry Butler's estate in Lancashire: leasing of part for discharging incumbrances. c. 21
John Clobery's estate: payment of debts and raising portions and maintenance for children. c. 6
Joseph and Sarah Gardiner's estate: sale for payment of debts and legacies and applying residue upon specified trusts. c. 8
Making a convenient way out of Chancery Lane to Lincoln's Inn Fields. c. 11
Naturalization of Francis Vandertyd, Agneta Vandermersch, Henry Lowman and James Gabriel Le Tresor. c. 37
Naturalization of Isaac Delagard, John Batero and others. c. 38
Naturalization of John Bourges and others. c. 35
Naturalization of John Ricard and Jacob Dabbadie. c. 36
Naturalization of Oliver D'Harcourt and others. c. 34
Naturalization of Theodore Jacobson and others. c. 33
Philip Holman's estate: supplying the loss of indentures of lease and release to George Holman his son. c. 20
Rectifying a mistake in Thomas Hopwood's marriage settlement in order to raise portions for younger children and pay debts. c. 5
Robert and John Merefield's estate: settlement and ascertaining proportions between Robert's widow and his children. c. 12
Sale of manor of Fenham (Northumberland) for payment of debts of Thomas Riddell and his son Edward and raising portions for Thomas' daughters. c. 24
Settlement of differences concerning Dame Mary Bond's will and performance of it. c. 13
Sir Josiah Child's estate: vesting land in trustees for better performance of covenants entered into upon marriage of his eldest son to Sir Thomas Cooke's daughter. c. 19
Taking the estate in law of messuages and lands mortgaged to Jeffery and Samuel Howland and their heirs "out of" Marquis of Tavistock and his lady. c. 29
Thomas Barlow's estate: confirmation of sale of manor of Stansall and tenements in Yorkshire, settling other lands to the same uses and purchase of other lands to be so settled. c. 23
Thomas Cowper's estate: vesting part in trustees for payment of debts. c. 22
Thomas Siderfin's estate: sale of manor of Exton and other lands in Somerset for payment of debts. c. 10
1700 (12 & 13 Will. III)
Act of Settlement Act 1700 c. 2
British Museum Act 1700 c. 7
Exchequer Bills Act 1700 c. 1
Minehead Harbour Act 1700 c. 9
Plate Assay Act 1700 c. 4
Privilege of Parliament Act 1700 c. 3
Returns to Parliament Act 1700 c. 5
Taxation: Members of Parliament Act 1700 c. 10
The Electress Sophia The Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm 3 c. ...
Better performance of Henry Apsley's will. c. 22
Change of Ellis Mew's surname to the surname St. John. c. 25
Construction of Kings Lynn hospitals and workhouses. c. 6
Construction of Norwich Court of Requests: for recovering small debts under forty shillings. c. 7
Declaring the authenticity of Sir Joseph Herne's will. c. 27
Elizabeth Viscountess Bulkeley's estate: sale of lands in Devon and Exeter for payment of debts. c. 2
Enabling Sir Charles Barrington to settle a jointure and make provision for his younger children. c. 4
Enabling Sir Robert Marsham to dispose of lands in Hertfordshire and to settle other lands in Kent to the same uses. c. 5
Enabling Sir Thomas Stanley to charge manors and lands in Lancashire with £300 for payment of his sisters' portions and his debts. c. 32
Enabling Stephen Jermyn to make provision for younger children and for his eldest son's advancement. c. 8
Enabling William Vaughan and Frances Vaughan his intended wife, both infants, to perform marriage articles. c. 24
Faster payment of Christopher Killiow's debts and raising portions and maintenance for his siblings in pursuance of his father's will. c. 11
Faster payment of the creditors of James late Duke of Ormond and of the present Duke of Ormond. c. 1
Furnishing the town of New Deal with fresh water. c. 13
Humphrey Hide's estates: vesting in trustees for raising portions for his younger children. c. 12
James Deane's estate: sale for his and his family's benefit according to its settlement. c. 33
John Fawconer's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 19
Making good the deficiency of the charges of making a way out of Chancery Lane into Lincoln's Inn Fields. c. 26
Naturalization of Adrian Loftland and others. c. 31
Naturalization of Archibald Arthur and enabling him to dispose of his estate. c. 29
Naturalization of Gaspar Cordoso, Herman Vant Wedde and others. c. 36
Naturalization of Jacob Auguste Pyngot and others. c. 30
Naturalization of Jane Barkstead and vesting several mortgages and securities in her. c. 28
Naturalization of Peter Bagneol, Daniel Senault and others. c. 35
New trustees for City of London's trust lands. c. 20
Norfolk: sale of manors and lands in South Pickenham and elsewhere, and purchase and settlement of others to the same uses. c. 9
Peter Trevisia's estate: discharge of a mortgage and maintenance for widow and child. c. 10
Ralph Box's divorce from Elizabeth Eyre and enabling him to marry again. c. 18
Removal of Hertford County Gaol. c. 21
Richard Bigg's estate in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire: charging part with payment of debts. c. 34
Richard Nodes' estate: sale of a messuage and lands in Stevenage (Hertfordshire) for making provision for his wife and children. c. 14
Robert Viscount Kilmorey's (an infant) estate: settlement of manors and lands in England upon a treaty of marriage. c. 3
Separating James Earl of Anglesea from his wife Countess Katharine by reason of his cruelty. c. 16
Sir John Dillon's divorce from Mary Boyle. c. 17
Thomas Bennet's estate in Newton cum Barton [Larton] (Cheshire): vesting in trustees for use of the poor of West Kirby pursuant to his will. c. 23
William Davison's estate: sale for payment of debts and raising portions for children. c. 15
Affirmation by Quakers Act 1701 c. 4
Correspondence with James the Pretender (High Treason) Act 1701 c. 3
Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1701 c. 6
Lionel Earl of Orrery's estate: sale of lands and tenements for payment of debts and settlement of other lands. c. 2
Naturalization of Charlotte the wife of Hugh Boscowen. c. 1
1702 (1 Ann. / 1 Ann. St. 2)
Apothecaries Act 1702 c. 5
Assay of Plate Act 1702 c. 3
Carriage of Corn, etc. Act 1702 c. 20
Completing Saint Paul's etc. Act 1702 c. 12
Crown Lands Act 1702 c. 1
Crown Lands, Forfeited Estates (Ireland) Act 1702 c. 18
Crown Lands, Forfeited Estates, Ireland Act 1702 c. 25
Debts Due to the Army Act 1702 c. 24
Demise of the Crown Act 1702 c. 2
Derwent (Yorkshire) Navigation Act 1702 c. 14
Distillation, etc. Act 1702 c. 14
Edward Whitaker, Public Accountant Act 1702 c. 16
Escape of Debtors from Prison Act 1702 c. 6
Essex Roads. Act 1702 c. 10
Gold and Silver Thread Act 1702 c. 11
Land Tax Act 1702 c. 1
Land Tax, Forfeited Estates, etc. Act 1702 c. 6
Protestant Children of Jews Act 1702 c. 24
Purchasers of Forfeited Estates, Ireland Act 1702 c. 26
River Cham or Grant, Cambridge Act 1702 c. 11
Salt Duties, etc. Act 1702 c. 15
Security of the Succession, etc. Act 1702 c. 16
Settlement on Prince George Act 1702 c. 2
Sheriffs Act 1702 c. 18
Treason Act 1702 c. 21
Water Measure of Fruit Act 1702 c. 9
Whitby Piers Act 1702 c. 13
Witnesses on Trial for Treason, etc. Act 1702 c. 9
Yarmouth Haven and Pier Repairs (Effect of Change in Corporate Name) Act 1702 c. 7
Private Acts (1 Ann.)
Abraham Barnwell's estate: settlement for benefit of family and sale of part for raising portions for younger children and payment of his debts. c. 43
Better government of Balsall Hospital (Warwickshire) founded by Lady Katherine Leveson. c. 24
Bishop of Gloucester's estate: making of distinct and separate leases of certain manors and lands. c. 42
Confirmation and settling of Job Marston's charities. c. 17
Confirmation of a purchase made by Queen and of an exchange between her and the deans and canons of the King's free chapel within the castle of Windsor. c. 9
Construction of Sudbury (Suffolk) hospitals and workhouses and better employing the poor. c. 32
Enabling Edward Mansell to raise a further £1000 on a mortgage of the impropriate rectory of Llanriddian for payment of debts. c. 35
Enabling Jeffery Palmer to settle a jointure on Elizabeth his wife. c. 19
Enabling Sir William Meredith to sell lands in Ashley (Cheshire) after settling other lands in lieu. c. 3
Enabling the Dean and Chapter of St. Peter's Cathedral, Exeter, and their farmers and tenants, to make leases of and in Culmstock manor (Devon). c. 27
Enabling the elder and the younger Robert Apreece to raise money out of their estate for payment of debts, including that due to the Queen. c. 16
Enabling Warner Lee to make a jointure on his marriage. c. 6
Enlarging the time for John Hill and his wife to enter their claims before the trustees for sale of the forfeited estates in Ireland concerning a judgment against Robert Grace; relief of creditors of John Grace and the widow, Protestant children and creditors of the late Sir Patrick Trant with relation to the said forfeited estates; indemnifying the Earl of Carlingford concerning mortgage money owed by him to Sir Patrick Trant. c. 51
Enlarging the time for Rebecca Viscountess Falkland, of Scotland, to enter her claim before the trustees for the forfeited estates in Ireland to a mortgage upon part of them. c. 68
Enlarging the time for Sir Stephen Fox to make his claim before the trustees for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 67
Exempting Arthur French and his wife Sarah from accounting to the trustees for the forfeited estates in Ireland for the personal estate of Irriel Farrel, deceased. c. 69
Extending the time for Cesar Bradshaw to prosecute his claim before the trustees for the Irish forfeitures. c. 55
Extending time for John Lord Haversham to make his claim before the trustees for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 36
Francis Purefoy's estate: sale of lands and tithes for payment of debts. c. 4
Francis Wightwicke's (an infant) estate in Staffordshire: vesting in trustees for settling and conveying upon his marriage. c. 7
Henry Earl of Thomond's estate in Ireland: enabling his mother Lady Henrietta Obrien to make leases for discharging incumbrances and a £4000 charge for his sister's portion. c. 1
Henry Pawlett's estate: vesting in trustees for making provision for him (a lunatic) and his next heir and relations. c. 46
Humphrey Bury's estate: sale of part for paying off a mortgage and a portion. c. 31
James Hunt's estate: sale of timber for payment of debts and legacies. c. 34
John and Robert Window's estate: sale and application of purchase money. c. 45
John Earl of Exeter's estate: sale of manors and lands for payment of debts and performance of his will. c. 10
Making provision for Protestant children of Earl of Clanriccard and Lord Bophin. c. 39
Mary Johnson's estate (Surrey, Sussex): sale of land for payment of debts of her husband William Johnson and settling his estate upon her and her children clear of incumbrances. c. 50
Montagu Earl of Abingdon's estate: sale of lands and purchase of others c. 11
More effectual settlement of estate of John Stone of Brightwell Baldwin (Oxfordshire). c. 30
Naturalization of Daniel Van Ryssen and others. c. 78
Naturalization of de Bacolon, de Lannay, des Fourneaux and others. c. 76
Naturalization of Stephen Benovad, John Girard and others. c. 77
Philip Savage's recompense for charge of outlawries and for attending the trustees for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 71
Relief of Captain Richard Wolseley and other Protestant lessees in Ireland. c. 66
Relief of Captain Thomas Bellew for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 21
Relief of Charlotte Talbot for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 70
Relief of Colonel Henry Lutterell for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 26
Relief of Dennis Molony for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 54
Relief of Dorothy Dowager Baroness of Upper Ossory and Captain James Roche with relation to the Irish forfeitures. c. 12
Relief of Edward Nugent for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 52
Relief of Edward Singleton for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 22
Relief of Frances Countess of Tyrconnel of Ireland. c. 2
Relief of Francis Earl of Carlingford against outlawries in Tipperary (Ireland). c. 38
Relief of Francis Spring and other Protestant tenants of the forfeited estates in Ireland; for confirming a Protestant settlement at Portarlington and a charity at Middleton (County Cork), and relief of Alice Dowager Countess of Drogheda and Sir John Dillon. c. 58
Relief of Hannah MacDonnell for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 20
Relief of Ignatius Gold and his family for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 59
Relief of James Eustace, Agmondisham Vesey, George Field and Thomas Brigstock for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 57
Relief of Jane Lavallin for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 56
Relief of John Ellis for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 75
Relief of Joseph Mitchel for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 53
Relief of Katherine Harris or Kife for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 64
Relief of Katherine O'Brien and her children for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 62
Relief of Mary Vernon for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 61
Relief of Maurice Annesley for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 72
Relief of Nicholas Bagenal for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 25
Relief of Robert Edgworth for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 49
Relief of Sir Redmond Everard, Peter Fagan, and Sir Anthony Mullady's Protestant children for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 47
Relief of Sir Thomas Domville for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 37
Relief of Sir William Ashurst for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 60
Relief of Susanna Smith for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 65
Relief of Thomas and Katherine Plunkett for forfeited estates in Ireland and reversal of outlawries against John Mapas and Lawrence Fitz-Gerald. c. 74
Relief of Thomas Earl of Limerick and Euphemia Dowager Countess of Limerick for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 40
Relief of Thomas Keightley for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 18
Relief of Thomas Lee and other executors of Sir John Heley and Peter Goodwin for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 73
Relief of William Spencer and Lord Kenmare's wife and children for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 63
Relief of William Viscount Montjoy for forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 48
Sale of Attingham Manor (Salop.) and settling Selly Hall Farm and a moiety of Temple Lawrne Manor (Worcestershire) in lieu thereof. c. 13
Sale of Bedfordshire and Middlesex lands and purchasing of others to be settled to the same uses. c. 29
Sale of lands in Whitchurch parish (Cheshire) for paying off incumbrances. c. 5
Sale of lands in Yorkshire for raising Henrietta Tempest's portion. c. 33
Sarah Verdon's estate in Norfolk: enabling sale by Rebecca Windham. c. 41
Sir William Powel's estate: raising portions for younger children of his daughter Dame Mary Williams and enabling her eldest son William to make a jointure for a wife. c. 28
Stephen and Dorothy Soam's estate: sale of part for payment of his debts and portions for two of their younger children. c. 15
Suffolk Place, Southwark, improvement. c. 44
Thomas Rose's estate: confirmation of title to lands called Rempstone, c. 8
William Adams' estate: charging with portions and maintenance for his children William and Elizabeth. c. 14
William and Katherine Mathew's estate: sale. c. 23
Private Acts (1 Ann. St. 2)
Bishopric of Chichester's estate: extension of time to lease houses and ground in and near Chancery Lane. c. 5
Charging Thomas Lister's estate with maintenance of his nine children. c. 29
Charles Morris' estate: sale of part for payment of debts and making provision for younger children. c. 20
Confirmation of a partition made in 1634 between Sir Edmond Fowler and his wife Dame Ann and Elizabeth Buggin of manors and lands in Kent. c. 10
Confirmation of the division of a third part of manor of Burton Dassett (Warwickshire). c. 17
Correction of an Act concerning Sir Robert Marsham's estate [1700 (12 & 13 Will. 3) c. 5]. c. 1
Edward Owen's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts. c. 31
Enabling Andrew Hacket to sell lands in Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Lichfield for making provision for his younger children, upon settling another estate in Stroxton (Lincolnshire) to the same uses. c. 12
Enabling Charles Aldworth to sell lands for payment of his father's debts and his sister's portions. c. 19
Enabling John Arderne to pay his father's debts and make provision for his brother and sister. c. 27
Enabling Richard Lord Bulkeley Viscount Cashels and his son Richard Bulkeley to make a marriage settlement for Richard Bulkeley. c. 9
Enabling Sir Edward Williams to sell manors and lands in Brecknockshire and Radnorshire for payment of debts. c. 6
Enabling the executrix of James Hoare to pay a sum in discharge of a trust reposed in her by his will. c. 18
Enabling William Colman and others to sell lands for payment of debts and legacies of William Stawell. c. 14
Estate of Agmondisham Vesey and his daughters Ann and Henrietta in Kildare: sale for payment of debts and empowering Agmondisham to make leases. c. 25
Exchange of lands in Brampton (Northamptonshire) for lands in Wickham (Lincolnshire). c. 23
Henry Duke of Beaufort's estate: settlement according to his marriage agreement. c. 3
Improvement of a piece of ground in St. Martin-in-the-Fields parish for use of the poor and for other purposes. c. 21
Incorporation of persons for the better providing for and setting at work the poor of Gloucester. c. 11
James Supple's estate:enabling devisees to make leases for improvement. c. 22
John Cowper's estate in Essex: sale for payment of debts and legacies. c. 15
John Goddard's estate: better settlement for benefit of John and Mary, his children, during their minority. c. 16
John Loane's estate: better execution of his will, sale of part for payment of debts and legacies and preservation of the residue. c. 24
Jonathon Castleman's estate: making provision for younger children and correcting an omission in his father's will of a power to make leases. c. 13
Naturalization of Nicholas Wayfoort, Peter Le Blanc and Jacob Sanderfelt. c. 33
Philip Caldecot's estate: mortgage of lands in Dorset for payment of debts and further provision for younger children. c. 28
Sale of several estates for payment of debts and disposing of the residue money for the benefit of Giles Loane and other infants pursuant to their father's will. c. 26
Setting aside a settlement in order that William Butler may have a good conveyance of lands from Raphael Whistler. c. 30
Sir Thomas Brograve's estate (Hertfordshire): sale of lands and settlement of others in lieu. c. 4
Thomas Fane's estate: payment of an annuity to Mildmay Fane for his maintenance and education until he is twenty-one years old. c. 8
Toby Hodson's estate: vesting in trustees for payment of debts and making provision for himself (a lunatic), his wife and son. c. 32
Way from Chancery Lane to Lincoln's Inn Fields: better collecting of duties granted for making the way and determining them when the parties concerned are paid. c. 7
William Peachey's estate: sale of part for payment of legacies. c. 2
1703 (2 & 3 Ann.)
Bankers' Debt Act 1703 c. 9
Duties on Salt Act 1703 c. 16
Forfeited Estates Ireland Act 1703 c. 19
Navigation Act 1703 c. 6
Public Accountants Act 1703 c. 11
Queen Anne's Bounty Act 1703 c. 20
Recruiting Act 1703 c. 13
Worcester: Poor Relief, Burial Ground and Hopmarket. Act 1703 c. 8
Yorkshire (West Riding) Land Registry Act 1703 c. 4
Ambrose Andrews' estate: charging with money for payment of debts and correction of settlement for making a jointure and leases. c. 36
Confirmation and better execution of articles and agreements for disposition and division of Lord Jermyn's estate among his coheirs. c. 9
Confirmation of a partition and agreement concerning Sir Thomas Style's estate. c. 37
Confirmation of execution of a certain agreement between Ralph Lord Grey and Lord Charles Ossulstone and Lady Mary his wife, concerning lands in Northumberland, Middlesex and the City of London, and also between Lord Grey and Lawrence Earl of Rochester concerning lands in Northumberland, Durham and Berwick-upon-Tweed. c. 4
Correction of the defect of the execution of a power in Sir John Ivory, deceased, for making provision for his younger children. c. 10
Earl of Warwick and Holland's estate: enabling his guardian to make leases of messuages in or near West Smithfield during his minority. c. 2
Enabling Arabella Foot to purchase lands for benefit of her son Topham with his money. c. 22
Enabling Bernard Cotton to sell part of his estate for payment of debts and confirming conveyances already made by himself and trustees. c. 35
Enabling George Evelyn to raise portions for siblings. c. 40
Enabling John Jenkins to sell lands in Durham and Northumberland for payment of debts. c. 20
Enabling Robert Cawdron to settle part of his estate for raising portions for his younger children. c. 17
Enabling Sir George Wheeler to make leases of some houses and ground in Channon Row in Westminster. c. 7
Enabling Sir John Astley to make a jointure upon his marriage during his minority and to buy in any rentcharge or incumbrance upon his estate. c. 8
Enabling Sir John Cowper and Anthony Henly to make a partition and grant building leases of several messuages and tenements in Lincoln's Inn Fields (Middlesex). c. 31
Enabling Sir Thomas Tipping to sell the manor of Ickford (Buckinghamshire) for payment of debts, and purchasing other lands to be settled to the same uses. c. 11
Enabling the Treasury to compound with John Ferrar for a debt due from him as surety for John Mason late Receiver General for the County of Cambridge and Isle of Ely. c. 23
Estate in Ireland of the Company for making Hollow Sword Blades in England. c. 12
Estates of Ralph Earl Montague and Simon Motton and others: confirmation of several exchanges of lands in Geddington (Northamptonshire). c. 3
For better securing and vesting in Giles Frampton the manor and farm of Moorton alias Moreton and Hurst (Dorset) and other lands of William Frampton deceased and in such as are entitled in remainder after him upon Tregonwell Frampton's death. c. 39
Freedom of "Golden Starr" and "Bull," taken as prize, to trade as English ships.3 c. 49
Further recompensing John Baker and family for the services of Colonel Baker at Londonderry and stating accounts of the late receivers of rents and profits of forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 48
George Lord Carteret's estate: sale of estates in Cornwall and Devon and several leasehold estates for raising portions for younger children and purchasing other lands. c. 5
Henry Lord Viscount Dillon's estate in Ireland: sale for payment of debts and settling an equivalent on his wife for her jointure. c. 6
James Torr's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and settlement of the other part. c. 41
John and Robert Holden's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and disposing of younger children apprentices. c. 26
John Briscoe's estate in Cumberland: improvement. c. 44
John Hawe's estate in Staffordshire and Warwickshire: setting aside voluntary settlements, settling part on John Hawe and his son, making provision for his son's and daughter's maintenance, raising a portion for his daughter and selling the residue for payment of his debts. c. 46
Making good the provision intended for Captain James Roch out of the forfeited estates in Ireland and restoring to the bishopric of Cloyne (Ireland) the manors and lands of Donomore. c. 45
Making void certain uses, estates and trusts, limited in the marriage settlement of Henry Awdley of certain manors and lands contained in that settlement and settling others to the same uses. c. 16
Mary and William Bowdler's estate: vesting manor of Michael Church (Radnorshire) and other lands in Salop. in trustees for payment of William's debts and making provision for his younger children. c. 24
Mathew Holworthy's estate: sale of manors and lands and purchase of others to be limited to the same uses. c. 34
Naturalization of Daniel Barbier, John Kerron du Chesne and others. c. 50
Naturalization of de Saint Leger, de la Grange, Wadden and others. c. 29
Naturalization of Elizabeth Cholmondeley. c. 1
Naturalization of Henry de Hant, George Chabot and others. c. 51
Naturalization of Isaac Kops. c. 27
Naturalization of Rene Rance, Mathew Decker and others. c. 28
Robert and William Coke's estate: payment of Robert's debts and making provision for Robert's wife and younger children. c. 42
Sale of estate of John Digby in Buckinghamshire and division of proceeds between Sir John Conway and Richard Mostyn, settling estate of Sir John Conway in Flintshire and making provision for his children. c. 47
Setting aside a voluntary settlement made by Mary Fermor and ratifying a partition of manors of Mersham and Pett and lands in Sussex between her, Bartholomew Walmesley and others. c. 43
Settling manor of Creech (Somerset) in trustees and enabling them to renew leases for maintenance of younger sons of William Keyts during their minority. c. 25
Sir Charles Bickerstaffe's estates: sale for payment of debts and making provision for wife and daughter. c. 13
Sir Christopher Philipson's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and charging part with maintenance for a lunatic daughter. c. 32
Sir Peter and Thomas Tyrrell's estate: vesting manor of Hanslop and Castlethrop and all their other lands in Buckinghamshire in trustees for sale of part for payment of debts and settling other lands in lieu. c. 30
Sir Robert Kemp's estate: vesting lands in Essex in trustees for benefit of the children and grandchildren of Elizabeth Outlaw, one of his sisters. c. 18
Thomas Harlackendon Bowes' estate: vesting part in trustees for payment of debts and legacies and preserving residue for Thomas Bowes, an infant. c. 21
Thomas Lamplough's estate: settlement pursuant to his marriage articles and provision for younger children. c. 38
Thomas Legh's estate: vesting in trustees for payment of debts, perfecting his purchases and better effecting purposes of his will. c. 15
William Adams' estate: sale of lands in Charlewelton (Northamptonshire) for payment of debts and portions for younger siblings and settling other lands upon his wife and children in lieu. c. 14
William and Mary Jarman's estate: sale of nine messuages in parish of St Giles in the Fields (Middlesex) and settling lands in Whipsnade, Totternhoe and Studham (Bedfordshire) in lieu. c. 19
William Carey's estate: vesting manor of Yeovillton (Somerset) and other lands in trustees for discharging incumbrances, making provision for younger children and settling other lands in Devon in lieu. c. 33
Annuities, etc. Act 1704 c. 14
Bill of Exchange Act 1704 c. 8
Exportations, etc. Act 1704 c. 7
Grant to Duke of Marlborough Act 1704 c. 4
Perpetuation and Amendment of Acts, 1704 c. 16
Thomas Pitkin's Bankruptcy Act 1704 c. 11
Ambrose Scudamore's estate: sale for the payment of mortgage and debts and for application of the residue. c. 23
Amendment of an Act concerning Sir Peter and Thomas Tyrrell's estate [1703 c. 30]. c. 53
Augmentation of Gainsborough (Lincolnshire) Vicarage. c. 21
Baldwin and William Malett's estate: payment of Baldwin's debts to the Crown as he was Receiver General for Somerset and Bristol, and settling the residue on William. c. 16
Baptist May's estate: sale of part for repayment of Charles May his nephew. c. 54
Charles Bludworth's estate: sale for payment of debts. c. 37
Charles Earl of Burlington and Corke's estates in England and Ireland: sale for payment of debts. c. 12
Charles Lord Howard Baron of Escrick's estate: sale for payment of debts. c. 11
Confirmation of agreement between Bishop of Carlisle and Thomas Coke for vesting Melbourne rectory (Derbyshire) in Thomas Coke and his heirs on augmentation of the rents to the bishopric of Carlisle and of the stipend to the vicar of Melbourne. c. 14
Confirmation of and making good Hugh Nanney's will. c. 35
Confirmation of lease of lands in Epsom by Sir Joseph Sheldon and Sir James Edwards to Humphrey Bean and agreed to be assigned to Sir Thomas Cooke, and enabling other lands adjoining to be leased to him. c. 56
Confirming an agreement between John Earl of Kildare, Richard Lord Bellew and Francis his wife, Charlotte Countess of Newburgh and William Rowley, and sale of part of the Earl of Kildare's estate. c. 13
Daniel Drake's estate: sale for provision for widow and children. c. 7
Edward Baines' estate: sale of part for discharge of a mortgage and making provision for his daughters. c. 27
Empowering the Treasury to compound with John Mason, former Receiver General for the county, university and town of Cambridge and Isle of Ely, and with John Silkman one of his sureties. c. 36
Empowering the Treasury to compound with Michael Wicks late Receiver General of the Plantation Duties in the Port of London. c. 61
Empowering the Treasury to compound with Richard Cobb a surety for Thomas Cobb deceased Receiver General for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. c. 17
Empowering the Treasury to compound with Sir Michael Biddulph a former surety for Morgan Whitley Receiver General for Cheshire and North Wales. c. 19
Empowering the Treasury to compound with the sureties for Augustine Briggs Receiver General for Norfolk and Norwich. c. 18
Empowering the Treasury to compound with Thomas Kenyon executor of Luke Lloyd formerly a surety of Morgan Whitley formerly Receiver General for Cheshire and North Wales. c. 58
Empowering the Treasury to compound with Thomas Whitley a former surety for Morgan Whitley late Receiver General for Cheshire and North Wales. c. 22
Enabling Agnes Hacche, widow, and other trustees to make leases and sell lands in Devon for payment of Robert Hacche's debts and legacies and for the maintenance and advancement of his daughters' portions. c. 5
Enabling Edmond Waller to charge his estate with payment of his debts. c. 42
Enabling James Lockhart and his wife to sell lands in Essex formerly belonging to Sir Thomas Luckin for payment of their debts, and to purchase other lands to be settled to the same uses. c. 25
Enabling John Lord Poulett and Bridget his wife to sell their interest in certain manors and lands in Kent and to purchase others to be settled to the same uses. c. 10
Enabling Sir George Warburton to sell the manor of Pulford (Cheshire) for payment of portions according to his marriage agreement and his father's debts. c. 50
Enabling trustees to raise money to pay Mark Delves's debts. c. 29
Enabling William Cavendish to make a settlement in jointure when he marries, and for better raising the portions charged on his estate and for confirming the enfranchisement of copyhold estates made by his father in the manor of Dovebridge (Staffordshire and Derbyshire). c. 49
Estate of Thomas Goddard of Rudlow (Wiltshire): sale of lands for the payment of debts and for settling residue on Ambrose Goddard. c. 30
Estate of William and Clare Trafford and their eldest son William: better explanation of the settlement and making more effectual a provision for younger children. c. 47
Estate of William Duke of Devonshire and William Cavendish Marquis of Hartington: mortgage for payment of debts. c. 9
Estates of Mathew Lister and Timothy Whitfield and their wives: sale of lands in Heston (Middlesex) for purposes mentioned. c. 24
For settling lands and fishery rights in the Society of the Governor and Assistants London of the new Plantation in Ulster, and an annual rentcharge of £250 on the Lord Bishop of Derry. c. 1
George Nodes' estate: sale of lands in Hertfordshire for payment of his and his father's debts. c. 31
James Griffin's estate: leasing part of the manor of Dingley and lands there for payment of debts and raising portions for younger children. c. 46
John Green's estates: sale of some in Hacklestone (Wiltshire) and settling others in Gavellacre (Hampshire) to the same uses. c. 44
John Proctor's estate: sale of lands in Shawdon, Shawdon Woodhouse and Crawley (Northumberland) upon settling others in the county in lieu. c. 39
John Sands' estate in Surrey: sale of part for payment of debts and raising a portion for his daughter. c. 40
Joseph and Elizabeth Grainge's estate: sale for maintenence of Elizabeth pursuant to their marriage settlement and application of the residue for payment of Joseph's debts. c. 59
Joseph Hinxman's estates in Hampshire: sale of some in Andover and settling others in Christchurch, Twyneham, to the same uses. c. 32
Joseph Pince's estate: sale of estates in Devon and city and county of Exeter for payment of debts and legacies and for a provision for himself, his wife and his family. c. 51
Mortgage of a plantation in Barbados for payment of Robert Hooper's debts. c. 26
Moses Gould's estate: confirming agreement for payment of his debts and maintenance of his younger children and for settling another part of the estate. c. 6
Naturalization of Andrew Girardot or Devermenoux, Francis Buzelin and others. c. 52
Naturalization of Henry Bowman. c. 8
Naturalization of Louise Mary Cresset. c. 3
Naturalization of Margarita Cadogan, Gilbert Alfleck and John Louis. c. 45
Naturalization of Thomas Levingston Viscount Teviott. c. 2
Patricious Crowe's estate: sale of lands in Durham and Northumberland for raising portions for younger children. c. 33
Richard and Frances Pate (his wife) Lister's estate in Cheshire and Chester: sale for payment of the debts of Frances' father Sir Thomas Smith, raising portions for her younger children and purchasing other lands to be settled to the same uses. c. 60
Richard and Thomas Williams' estate: sale of manors and lands in Herefordshire, Radnorshire and Brecknockshire for payment of debts. c. 15
Richard Ball's estate: sale of estate in Little Appleby and Great Appleby in Derbyshire and Leicestershire, purchase of another to be settled to the same uses and laying out the residue to make provision for younger children. c. 41
Separating the churches or chapels of Horne and Bletchingley (Surrey). c. 28
Settling Frankton (Warwickshire) tithes upon Simon Biddulph and a rentcharge in lieu upon the present rector and his successors. c. 20
Sir Thomas and his son John Worsop's estate in Finsbury Fields or Moorfields in the parish of Shoreditch (Middlesex): sale for payment of debts and legacies and purchase of another in Ireland. c. 57
Thomas Burr's estate: repayment of mortgage.. c. 34
Thomas Freke's estate: power to grant leases, enabling George Pitt's son to make a jointure out of the estate when he marries, establishing a school in Iwerne Courtney and augmenting the vicarage of Cerne Abbas (Dorset). c. 4
Thomas Guy's estate: sale for payment of debts. c. 38
Thomas Hatcher's estate: sale or mortgage of part for payment of debts and for the better execution of his marriage settlement. c. 43
Thomas Holford's estate in Plumbly and elsewhere in Cheshire: sale for payment of debts and purchase of another to be settled to the same uses. c. 55
William Lenthal's estate: sale of manor of Latchford and lands in Latchford and Haseley (Oxfordshire) for discharge of incumbrances. c. 48
Administration of Justice Act 1705 c. 3
Bankrupts Act 1705 c. 4
Chester Highways. Act 1705 c. 26
Collection of Charity Money Act 1705 c. 25
Eddystone Lighthouse Act 1705 c. 7
Fish Act 1705 c. 8
Forfeited Estates, Ireland Act 1705 c. 11
Parton Harbour, Cumberland. Act 1705 c. 5
Payment of Certain Regiments Act 1705 c. 12
Princess Sophia, Naturalization Act 1705 c. 14
Princess Sophia Naturalization Act 1705 c. 16
Private (See of Dublin) Act 1705 c. 13
River Stower Navigation. Act 1705 c. 2
The Mint Act 1705 c. 9
Union of England and Scotland Act 1705 c. 15
The Sophia Naturalization Act is an Act passed by the English Parliament in 1705. ... The Alien Act of 1705 was a law passed by the English parliament as a response to the Scottish parliaments Act of Security of 1704, which in turn was a response to the English Act of Settlement 1701. ...
Arthur Vaughan's (an infant) estate: sale for the payment of debts and incumbrances. c. 56
Bugden: to enable John Williams, an infant, to renew a lease of the parsonage, to settle the prebend of Budgen as an augmentation for the vicar and to vest the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the parish in Bishop of Lincoln. c. 45
Christopher and Christopher (his son) Reve's estate: sale for payment of their debts and legacies and for making provision for Christopher the younger's widow, Dorothy, and his infant son. c. 55
Christopher Fairfax's estate: sale of the manor of Estevening and other lands in Swinehead (Lincolnshire) for payment of debts and benefit of children. c. 58
Christopher Pegg's estate: sale of manor and estate of and in Hattersedge and Dore (Derbyshire), and mortgaging of part of manor and estate of and in Beauchiff and Strawberry Lee (Derbyshire) for payment of debts and incumbrances and making provision for family. c. 35
Clarification of an Act concerning Mathew Holworthy's estate [1703 c. 34]. c. 41
Confirmation of the marriage agreement of Charles and Dorothy Owen of Nash (Pembrokeshire). c. 7
Correction and explanation of an Act concerning Thomas Cobb's debts [1704 c. 17]. c. 65
Edward Earl of Conway's will: making the exemplification of it and related depositions evidence in equity and at law. c. 19
Elizabeth Hicks' estate: sale of houses and lands in and near Portsmouth for payment of a debt and purchasing other lands to be settled to the same uses. c. 49
Elizabeth Hore's estate in Buckinghamshire: sale for the payment of debts. c. 57
Empowering the Treasury to compond with Thomas Tomkins and John Chagneau and their securities for the debts owing by them to Her Majesty. c. 48
Empowering the Treasury to compound with Francis Clyes surety for William Penneck late of Exeter in six bonds for duties on tobacco had at Falmouth in December 1701. c. 64
Empowering Thomas Cary and George Hartley to import a quantity of French wines from Copenhagen contracted for before 1 January 1704. c. 29
Enabling James Duke of Ormond and Charles Earl of Arran to settle fee farm rents in Tipperary (Ireland) pursuant to the earl's marriage agreement, and making good several grants in fee farm by the earl. c. 17
Enabling John Brett Fisher and Judith his wife to sell lands for payment of his debts and making provision for his wife and future children. c. 44
Enabling John Edwards to sell lands in Norfolk for payment of debts. c. 10
Enabling Scrope Viscount Howe to make a certain provision for daughters by his first wife expressed in the marriage settlement as uncertain and contingent. c. 20
Enabling Sir John Humble and his trustees to settle lands in Lincolnshire, Surrey and Kent pursuant to his marriage settlement with Dame Sarah his wife. c. 25
Enabling Sir Thomas Cave to sell lands in Northamptonshire for payment of siblings' portions and settlement of other lands in Northamptonshire and Leicestershire to the same uses. c. 6
Enabling William Gomeldon to sell a farm in Kent to discharge an incumbrance on it and to pay his debts. c. 36
Estate of Valentine Crome of Maiden Early (Berkshire): sale for payment of father's debts and making a provision for him and his brother. c. 51
Evelyn Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull's estate: vesting lands in Acton (Middlesex) in trustees. c. 18
Exchange of parsonage house and glebe lands belonging to Watton at Stone rectory (Hertfordshire) for another house and lands in Watton at Stone belonging to Philip Boteler. c. 5
Foulke and his son Meredith Wynne's estate (Denbighshire): sale of part for the payment of debts and settlement of residue pursuant to marriage articles. c. 54
Freedom of ship "L'Amazone" taken and condemned as prize and sold in the Island of Barbados.7 c. 66
Henry Lord Colerane's estate in Ireland: sale of part and supply of the want of enrollment of a deed concerning another part. c. 22
Henry Raper's estate: taking the estate in law of a mortgage made by John Sands which is descended to the infant daughters and coheirs of John Pargiter Henry's trustees. c. 47
Humphrey Courtney's estate: sale for discharge of mortgages, debts and incumbrances on it. c. 37
James Hamilton's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and raising portions for younger children and for making fee farms and leases for lives during his minority. c. 8
John Abington's estate: vesting certain terms for 40 years in trustees, empowering them to grant and renew leases and raising portions for his younger children. c. 27
John Asgill's relief relating to his purchase of part of the forfeited estates in Ireland. c. 13
John Ballet's estate: sale of lands for faster payment of debts and raising portions for younger children. c. 52
John Digby's estate in Leicestershire: sale of lands for the discharge of mortgages and incumbrances. c. 28
John Holworthy's debts: vesting £2000 in trustees for payment of debts. c. 61
John Stanhope's estate: sale of lands in Lincolnshire for payment of debts. c. 46
John Viccary's estate in Rockbear (Devon): sale for payment of debts and maintenance of widow and children. c. 63
Lichfield Chapter Act 1706. c. 33
Michael Sorocold's estate: sale of an advowson in Sussex for payment of debts and making provision for his widow and child. c. 62
Morris Goulston's estate: vesting in trustees for raising sisters' portions and the payment of debts. c. 38
Naturalization of Adelaide Duchess of Shrewsbury. c. 4
Naturalization of Peter Silvestre. c. 3
Naturalization of William Burnet. c. 2
Naturalization of William Lewis Legrand. c. 14
Naturalizing Jacob Pechells and others. c. 16
Naturalizing Paul Francis and Katherine Risley. c. 67
Naturalizing Vincent De Laymerie and others. c. 68
Nicholas Row's estate: sale of lands in Devon and Cornwall and application of proceeds for uses of marriage settlement and payment of debts. c. 39
Ralph Baldwin's estate: vesting part in trustees for a provision for younger children. c. 59
Relief of Colonel John Rice. c. 40
Relief of Colonel Samuel Venner. c. 15
Relief of non commission officers and private soldiers of Lord Drogheda's and Colonel Coot's Regiments. c. 34
Relief of Sir Stephen Evance and Henry Cornish. c. 12
Richard Bold's estate: lease, sale or mortgage for raising portions, debts and monies to which it is liable. c. 26
Richard Lord Bulkeley Viscount Cashel's estate in Cheshire: enlarging a power to lease for performance of the trusts on the estate. c. 21
Richard Thornhill's estate: sale of lands in Kent for payment of debts and his sisters' portions, and securing residue of the purchase money to the uses of his marriage settlement. c. 43
Robert and Anne Barry's estate: settling of part for the benefit of Anne and her children and sale of the other part of Robert's estate for payment of his debts. c. 60
Settlement of impropriate tithes of St. Bride parish, London. c. 32
Sir Edwin Sadleir's estate: sale of the manor of Temple Dinsley and other lands in Hertfordshire for the payment of debts. c. 24
Supplying a defect in the appointment of provisions for Henry Smalman's younger children and making such provisions more effectual. c. 9
Thomas Chute's estate in Warwickshire: sale and purchase of other lands in Norfolk to be settled to the same uses. c. 1
Thomas Deane's estate: sale of lands in Hampshire and Dorset for the payment of debts and legacies. c. 31
Thomas Gower's estate: sale for payment of debts and settling the residue for the benefit of his daughters. c. 50
To permit the making of clothes with cloth buttons for export for clothing the army of the allies notwithstanding the Act against cloth buttons [1698 c. 2]. c. 11
To remedy the defect of a common recovery suffered by Philip Smith, Viscount Strangford, and his eldest son, George, and of the deed which declared its uses. c. 23
William and Thomas Lambard's estate: assurance of part of lands in Kent, assurance of other lands in lieu of another part and for better provision for younger children. c. 53
William Forbes' estate: sale of manor of Barnwick Hall and other lands in Essex and purchasing others to be settled to the same uses. c. 42
William Huggessen's estate: provision for payment of debts, raising portions for younger sons and making good the intended marriage settlement of his son William. c. 30
1706 (6 Ann.)
Accounting for Certain Debentures Act 1706 c. 33
Annuity, Duke of Marlborough. Act 1706 c. 6
Apprehension of Housebreakers Act 1706 c. 31
Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire Roads. Act 1706 c. 4
Bedfordshire Highways Act 1706 c. 13
British Museum Act 1706 c. 30
Burglaries, etc. Act 1706 c. 9
Duke of Marlborough; Pension Act 1706 c. 7
Duties on Salt, etc. Act 1706 c. 29
Hertfordshire Highways Act 1706 c. 14
Maintenance of Church of England Act 1706 c. 8
New Palace Yard, Westminster. Act 1706 c. 15
Prison (Escape) Act 1706 c. 12
Royal Lustring Company Act 1706 c. 3
Thomas Brerewood's Estate and Thomas Pitkins' Creditors Act 1706 c. 23
Union with Scotland Act 1706 c. 11
Vagrants Act 1706 c. 32
Wiltshire Highways Act 1706 c. 26
Yarmouth Coal Import Duties (Freemen, etc.) Act 1706 c. 10
Yorkshire (West Riding) Land Registry Act 1706 c. 20
The Acts of Union were twin Acts of Parliament passed in 1707 (taking effect on 26 March) by the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland. ...
Administration in England of Thomas Maule's oath of office as Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland. c. 8
Ann Winwood's estate: sale of lands at Cole Green within the manor of Hertingfordbury (Hertfordshire) and the manor and rectory of Hertingfordbury for the payment of a mortgage and bond debt, and for purchasing other lands to be settled to the same uses. c. 30
Better discovery of John Aynsworth's estate, late of London, merchant. c. 42
Better support and maintenance of the minister of Tettenhall (Staffordshire). c. 28
Correction of an Act concerning Edward Baines' estate [1704 c. 27]. c. 35
Dame Elizabeth Rich's charity: transfer of charge of £2000 from lands in Worcestershire to lands in Berkshire. c. 11
Daniel and Jane King's marriage settlement: sale of lands and purchase of others to be settled to the same uses, and payment of two sums of £4,000 and £2,000 mentioned in the settlement. c. 37
Daniel Thomas' estate: settlement for the benefit of his wife and children. c. 16
Empowering the Treasury to compound with Nathaniel Rich late Receiver General for the county of Essex. c. 18
Enabling Henry Earl of Thomond, an infant, to make a settlement of his estate on his marriage. c. 9
Enabling Henry Pye to make a jointure. c. 22
Enabling the Treasury to compound with Benjamin Niccoll and his sureties for his debt to Her Majesty. c. 6
Enabling the Treasury to compound with John Crosse and his sureties for his debt to Her Majesty. c. 43
Enabling the Treasury to compound with John Pye and his sureties for his and their debt to Her Majesty. c. 45
Enabling Thomas Clark, an infant, to lease a house in St. Mary Axe, London, to Sir Jeffrey Jeffreyes. c. 39
Estate in Ratcliffe Culey (Leicestershire): sale and settling of another in lieu. c. 26
Estates of William Pierrepont and Charles Egerton: confirming partitions of lands in Suffolk, Kent and Surrey, and enabling William and Samuel Pierrepont, infants, to partition and sell land in other counties and to purchase other lands to be settled to the same uses, and for correcting a mistake in William Peck's marriage settlement. c. 25
Freedom of ship "Neptune Privateer" a foreign built ship lately bought as a wreck. c. 3
Freedom of ship "Prince"(foreign built). c. 20
Freedom of ship "Supply". c. 32
Freedom of ship "Vigilantia" of Stad (Germany), lately a wreck. c. 4
Gilbert Charlton's estate: sale of an estate in Montgomeryshire and purchase of others in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire or Lincolnshire to be settled to the same uses as the Montgomeryshire estate. c. 36
Henry Darell's estate: sale of part and lease or mortgage of another part for the payment of debts and making provision for widow and younger children. c. 13
Henry Duke of Beaufort's estate: transfer of charge for his daughters' and younger children's portions from certain manors and lands to others. c. 21
Henry Neville: change of name to Grey. c. 2
John Canham's estate: supplying the defect in an appointment for the provision for younger children pursuant to his marriage settlement, and settlement of an estate in Totteridge. c. 12
John Weedon's estate: sale of part for payment of father's debts and legacies and portions to younger children, and settling residue to the uses of his father's voluntary settlement. c. 38
Making more effectual William, bishop of Oxford's settlement for his children. c. 10
Mountague Drake's estate (Kent): sale of lands for the payment of debts and legacies. c. 41
Naturalizing Henry Van Holte and others. c. 48
Naturalizing John Thomeur and others. c. 47
Naturalizing John Tigh. c. 5
Naturalizing of Maria Margaret, Lady North and Grey. c. 1
Naturalizing Philip Vanden Enden. c. 31
Rebuilding Humberston parish church (Lincolnshire) and settling a rentcharge on the bishop of Lincoln in lieu of the rectory of Humberston. c. 40
Relief of Alexander Pendarvis in relation to £5000 from lands in Ireland. c. 27
Relief of Elizabeth Wandesford and Elizabeth Foulk. c. 46
Relief of John Baker and his family. c. 19
Relief of Sir John Mead. c. 7
Richard Lee's (an infant) estate: enabling his mother Agnes Lee to renew certain leases for lives. c. 15
Robert Hitch's estate: exchange of lands in Yorkshire. c. 34
Vesting lands in Chelsea in the Queen for Chelsea College and vesting other lands in John Earl of Carbury. c. 24
William Elson's (an infant) estate: sale of part for payment of his father's debts. c. 44
William Eyre's (a lunatic) estate: sale of certain mills and lands in Downton (Wiltshire) for the payment of debts, making provision for his eldest son and for purchasing other lands to be settled to the same uses. c. 29
William Fitch's estate in Dorset: sale of part for the payment of sister's portion and other debts, for preserving the residue and settling certain tithes in the Isle of Wight to the same uses. c. 14
William Hide's estate: sale of mansion house and lands in Middlesex for the better maintenance and present provision of children. c. 33
William Pott's estate: sale of part for discharging his siblings' portions and his debts and for confirming his marriage settlement.. c. 23
William Williams' estate: sale of houses near Aldgate, London, and purchase of lands in lieu. c. 17
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METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A COMPOUND BODY
According to the present invention there is now provided a method of manufacturing a compound body. According to the method at least one partly covering layer on a porous body, whose pore system is evacuated by means of a subpressure which is applied on the porous body by a suction cup whereby the body is dipped in a slurry of powdery components of the layer. The compound body is densified by sintering or other heat treatment e.g. post-HIP.
Marianne, Mattsson
Bertil, Nilsson
PCT/SE1992/000075
SANDVIK AB ABB CERAMA AB COLLIN
B22F7/04; B22F3/12; B22F3/26; C04B35/645; C04B35/80; C04B41/45; C04B41/52; C04B41/81; C04B41/89; C22C47/14; C23C24/00; C23C24/08; (IPC1-7): B22F7/04; C23C24/08
Domestic Patent References:
WO1981002126A1 1981-08-06
US4507262A 1985-03-26
EP0238434A2 1987-09-23
DE3322866A1 1985-01-03
GB1307214A 1973-02-14
1. Method of manufacturing a compound body c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that at least one, at least partly covering layer is applied on a porous body whose pore system is evacuated by a subpressure which is applied on the porous body by means of at least one suction cup or similar whereunder the body is dipped in a slurry of powdery components of the layer whereafter the body is densified by sintering or other heat treatment.
2. Method according to the preceding claim c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the porous body is a compacted body.
3. Method according to claim 1 c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the porous body is a presintered body.
4. Method according to claim 1 3 c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the porous body is reinforced with whiskers, fibres and/or platelets.
5. Method according to any of the preceding claims c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the applied layer is more wear resistant and/or chemically more stable than the porous body.
6. Method according to claims 1 4 c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the applied layer has more advantageous frictional properties than the porous body.
7. Method according to claims 1 4 c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the applied layer has other electrical properties than the porous body.
8. Method according to any of the preceding claims c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the applied layer results in that the sintered body has compressive stresses on its surface.
9. Method according to claims 1 4 c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the applied layer gives the porous body a closed porosity and that the subsequent heat treatment is a so called postHIP treatment.
10. Method according to claims 1 8 c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that said compound body is densified by means of a gaseous pressure trans¬ mitting medium whereby on top of said layer is app lied additionally at least one intermediate layer by dipping whereafter an enclosure of glass or during heating, glassforming material is applied in powder form after which said enclosure is made impenetrable for the pressure medium by heating before the body is densified by means of isostatic pressing and sinte¬ ring whereafter said intermediate layer and glassy enclosure is removed.
11. Method according to any of the preceding claims c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the slurry consists of 250 % by volume of particles with the size 0.1 100 μm and a liquid or mixture of liquids from the group water, alcohol, hydrocarbon and ketone whereby suitable organic, preferably surface active compounds are added in order to improve the dispersion, adjust the viscosity of the slurry and increase the strength of the layer applied.
Me hod of manufacturing a compound body
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a compound body by providing the body in porous state with a layer by dipping during subpressure in said body in a slurry of components of the layer material whereafter the compound body is heat treated e.g. by sintering.
In order to increase the wear resistance of a body exposed to wear without losing toughness, the body is often coated with a wear resistant layer. Such is the case for inserts for machining where one or more layers are applied using CVD- or PVD-technique. Layers deposited in this way are usually single phase and a suitable thickness is some ten microns. A limitation with said layers is that it is difficult to combine fine grain size, thick layers ' and good adhesion.
Applying a layer on porous bodies by dipping is a suitable production method. This leads however often to problems with bubbling and blistering and an incompletely covering layer. The bubbling and blistering is due to the pore system and is accentuated by coarse and/or unevenly distributed pores. A particularly unfavourable pore system is found in materials containing fibres and/or needle- and/or platelike single crystals.
When pressing a porous body isostatically the body is usually enclosed in a dense enclosure in order to prevent the pressure medium from penetrating into the pore system of the body. The enclosure is usually a glass or an at heating glass forming material which
is applied in powder form. In order to avoid that glass penetrates into the pores of the body and/or reacts with the same during the isostatic pressing one or several intermediate layers are applied which acts as barrier or protective layers. After completion of the isostatic pressing the glass as well as the intermediate layers are removed. Said intermediate layers are generally applied by dipping in a slurry of components included in the layer material but due to bubbling and blistering during the dipping there are often hollows in the intermediate layer. From Swedish patent application SE 9004134-4 is known an improved method of applying such layers by dipping in a slurry of powdered material included in the layer whereby a subpressure is obtained in the porous body by at least one suction cup. Such layers are not part of this invention.
The invention is illustrated in fig. 1 which is a light optical micrograph (300X) of a ceramic body coated with AI2O3 according to the invention, figs 2 - 3 which illustrate the method according to the invention in which A - layer B - body and C - suction cup.
Fig 4 - 5 show examples of products for the coating of which the invention can be used.
According to the invention there is now provided a method for manufacturing a compound body characterized in that at least one, at least partly covering layer is applied to a porous body. The
invention is characterized in that the porous body is evacuated by means of a subpressure applied on an external surface of the body with the aid of one or more suction cups or similar and a vacuum pump while dipping the body in a slurry of powdered materials included in the layer. If several layers are included the body is, of course, dipped several times with or without intervening drying in order to obtain desired layer combination and/or thickness. The method is particularly suited for coating of porous powdermetallurgically manufactured bodies in compacted, presintered or sintered state particularly with multiphase fine-grained layers. In order to preserve the finegrained structure grain growth inhibitors can easily be added. After the application of the layer the body is densified by sintering, HIP, gas pressure sintering or other heat treatment. The body obtained hereby is either still porous or essentially completely dense. The applied layer can during sintering/heat treatment react with the body and a more or less sharp transition zone is obtained.
The slurry of powdered materials is prepared by dispersing 2 - 50, preferably 5 - 30 % by volume of the material with a grain size <100 μ in a liquid (alcohol, ketone, hydrocarbon or water or a mixture of two or more of these) . For cutting tool applications the grain size should preferably be 0.1 - 5 μ . In order to obtain a good deagglomeration and a stable dispersion suitable organic surface active compounds are added. Organic compounds can also be added in order to give the dispersion optimum viscosity and to give good strength to the applied layer. If water is used as dispersing medium the pH- value has to be adjusted in such a way that it
preferably is well above or well below the zeta- potential of the powdered material. If a coating is desired consisting of several layers with different composition a suspension for each composition is made.
The dipping is repeated until desired thickness and composition is obtained. The thickness of the layer depends on the application. The whole body or only part of it is coated depending application. After the dipping the layer is dried. The drying can be accelerated by e.g. a hot air fan. It is important to adjust the drying rate so that the layer does not crack. Often one or more additional drying steps between the dippings are required. The organic compounds are driven off either in a separate evaporation step or during the subsequent sintering.
The method according to the invention is suitable for coated cutting inserts made of e.g. ceramics, cemented carbides, titanium based carbonitride alloys so called cermets etc. Hereby a more wear resistant layer is applied on top of a more tough core e.g. single phase layers such as Tie, TiN and/or AI2O3 or preferably multiphase layers such as gamma-phase containing cemented carbide layers on a core of only WC-Co-cemented carbide or a layer of finegrained cemented carbide on a more coarse-grained. The wear resistant layer can also contain particles of diamond or other wear resistant materials. Other possibilities are applying layers of WC and/or gamma phase and/or cobalt on ceramic bodies, preferably AI2O3-based. The thickness of the layer should preferably be <50 μm, most preferably 5 - 15 μm.
Another alternative is to apply layers that are chemically more stable than the body such as an AI2O3-layer on a SiC-body.
Yet another alternative is to apply layers that gives the coated body more suitable frictional properties higher as well as lower. For example a porous body of Si3N4 doped with 2O3 can be coated with a layer of the same material including hexagonal BN to obtain lower friction or with a layer of the same material including SiC to obtain higher friction.
Yet another alternative is to apply layers that have other electrical properties, such as other electrical conductivity than the body. For example a porous body of TiB2 and Si3N4 can be coated with a layer of TiN, Si3N4 and Y2O3 to obtain insulating layer on a conductive core.
The layer material shall preferably be chosen with a coefficient of thermal expansion that is lower than the coefficient of the body in order to obtain compressive prestresses in the layer.
The method is particularly suitable for applying layers on materials preferably for cutting tools that are reinforced with whiskers, fibres and/or platelets, e.g. an Al2θ3~layer on an AI2O3-material reinforced with SiC-whiskers. The layer is thereby applied on the material in presintered condition and thereafter sintered, preferably by isostatic sintering. A certain shaping of the presintered material before coating can be needed in order to counteract formchanges during the isostatic sintering. In particular, for tool pressed parts it
can be necessary to remove material which during the compaction has been sheared against the die and has obtained a substantial orientation of the whisker material.
The method according to the invention can also be applied to materials which can not be sintered to closed porosity by conventional sintering and therefore have to be isostatic sintered using a gas pressure transmitting medium. A first layer is then applied by dipping during subpressure. During the densification process this layer at least partly reacts with the material in the porous body or in other ways forms an adhering layer which is not removed after finished densification. Thereafter another at least one intermediate layer is applied by dipping and after that a cover of glass or material which forms a glass when heated is applied in powder form. This enclosure is made impenetrable for the pressure medium by heating. The body is then compacted to an essentially dense body by isostatic pressing and sintering whereafter said intermediate layer and glassy enclosure is removed resulting in a coated body.
According to the method of the invention coated bodies with thicker layers than what is possible and reasonable in known ways can be manufactured. The method is also convenient from a production point of view and it gives possibility to manufacture fine grained layer with good adhesion and multiphase composition. For bodies with unfavourable pore system coatings manufactured according to the invention can be advantageous because the slurry with fine-grained material can penetrate into the agglomerate pores,
see fig 1. In such a way the occurrence of flaws originating from agglomerate pores in the surface region of the sintered material will be reduced.
The method according to the invention for the manufacture of a compound body has also turned out to be a suitable way of producing ceramic fiber composites, preferably inserts for machining with or without preformed chip breaker with high relative density without using sophisticated methods such as hot pressing, (HP) or hot isostatic pressing (HIP) with glass encapsulation. Ceramic fiber composites with high amount of fibres, whiskers and/or platelets can not be sintered dense without the use of high pressure because they effectively counteract densification by forming a network. In the method according to the invention an even, crack-free layer of densely packed particles is made by dipping of compacted or presintered bodies in a particle slurry with water, cyklohexane or other solvent. Thanks to the high density of particles in the surface a dense surface layer is obtained after sintering, preferably under vacuum, for which reasons the sintered body which now only contains closed porosity can be densified afterwards by a hot isostatic pressing so called post-HIP-treatment without having to apply further layers. It has turned out that dipping without subpressure in various particle slurries does not give sufficient quality of the applied layer and insufficient densification is obtained at a subsequent post-HIP-treatment.
A ceramic part to an electrical contact used in a tube for corrosive liquids was manufactured in the following way as illustrated in figs 2 - 3. The part consists of a conductive core coated by a non- conductive layer.
A ceramic powder with the following composition 48% by weight iB2 and rest Si3N4 was tool pressed to a body (B) in fig 2. The body was dipped using a suction cup (C) connected to a vacuum pump to the half in a slurry. This consisted of 20 parts by volume of a ceramic powder with the composition 30 % by weight TiN, 67 % by weight Si3N4 and 3 % by weight Y2O3 in isopropanol with 5 parts by volume of an acrylic binder. The dipping was repeated three times with a 1 minute drying in between. The dipped side was allowed to dry and then the opposite side was coated in the corresponding way. The layer (A) obtained had a thickness of about 500 μ . The coated body was encapsulated in a glass powder and the organic binder removed by heating in vacuum to 600 °C. After that the- coated body, fig 3, was densified by hot isostatic pressing at 1650 °C and 150 MPa for 1 h. The glass was removed by blasting.
The insulating layer on the protruding parts of the body was ground on both sides to get contact with the electrically conductive core. The insulating layer was slightly ground on the flat surfaces which are to be used for clamping.
The finished part was mounted into an electrical contact according to fig 5.
Three die pressed cemented carbide inserts (SNGN 1204-style) were manufactured in three different ways and compared technologically. The cemented carbide had the composition 5.5 % by weight Co, 8.6 % by weight TiC+TaC+NbC and rest WC.
Insert 1 was gas pressure sintered at 1400 °C and 10 MPa in Ar-atmosphere. The insert was finished by edge treatment to 30 μm edge radius.
Insert 2 was gas pressure sintered in the same way as insert 1 and was then given an edge rounding to 30 μm. It was after that coated by CVD with 1-2 μm TiC and 6 - 7 μm AI2O3.
Insert 3 was sintered to 70 % relative density and was after that given an edge rounding of 30 μ . After that an about 30 μm thick AI2O3-layer on the insert was applied with aid of the dipping technique according to the invention. The insert was held by a suction cup connected to a vacuum pump as illustrated in fig 2 and dipped in a slurry of 20 % by volume AI2O3 with a grain size of about 0.5 μm in butanol with an acrylic binder. The AI2O3-coated insert was gaspressure sintered in the same way as insert 1 and 2. In this way a thicker, about 15 μ , and more finegrained AI2O3-layer was obtained.
The three insert were compared with respect to life in case hardened steel (SS2511) with the following resul :
Insert 1 (no layer) obtained as expected a severe wear already at low cutting speeds and was therefore tested only at 200 m/min. The wear life was 4 min.
Inserts 2 (CVD-coated AI2O3) and 3 (coated according to the invention) were tested at 500 m/min. Hereby insert 2 obtained wear life of 7 min and insert 3 11 min. The results show that the AI2O3-layer applied according to the invention had better adhesion than the AI2O3-layer applied by CVD-technique.
Three tool pressed ceramic inserts consisting of 25 weight-% SiC-whiskers with the rest AI2O3 were manufactured in three different ways and compared later in technological testing.
Insert 1 was presintered at 1300 °C in H2-atmosphere and was then ground peripheral in such a way that about 100 μm material was removed around. Protective layers were applied and the insert was densified using glass encapsulated HIP according to previously mentioned patent application. The protective layers and the glass encapsulation were removed and the insert was edgerounded to about 30 μm.
Insert 2 was presintered and peripheral ground in the same way as insert 1 and edge rounded to about 30 μ . Thereafter an about 10 μm thick layer consisting of 25 % TiC and rest AI2O3 was applied by dipping technique. The insert was held by a suction cup connected to a vacuum pump as illustrated in fig 2 and dipped in a slurry of 20 % by volume ceramic powder with the composition of 70% by weight AI2O3
with a grain size of about 0.5 μ and 30% by weight of TiC with a grain size of about 0.8 μm in butanol with an acrylic binder. Application of protective layers, densification and the removal of protective layers and the glass encapsulation were performed in the same way as for insert 1. The finished insert had a TiC + AI2O3-layer with about 5 μm thickness.
Insert 3 was manufactured in the same way as insert 2 but the layer was made twice as thick.
The inserts were compared in a turning test in hardened ball bearing steel. Hereby insert 2 obtained twice as long life as insert 1 and insert 3 obtained an additional increase with 50 % tool life.
Examination of the wear pattern showed that the applied TiC+Al2θ3-layer reduces the crater wear.
A cemented carbide blank was manufactured in such a way that a core was compacted from cobaltrich i.e. tough material (10.2 % by weight Co, 5.8 % by weight TiC+TaC+NbC and rest WC) . The blank was presintered to 70 % relative density, whererafter a 150 μ thick layer of a more Co poor material (7.2 % by weight Co, 5.8 % by weight TiC+TaC+NbC) and rest WC was applied by dipping technique similar to previous examples. On top of this layer another 200 μ thick layer with the composition 2.2 % by weight Co, 8.8 % by weight
TiC+TaC+NbC and rest WC was applied. Everything was gas pressure sintered at 1350 °C and 10 MPa to a dense body.
I2O3 with 29 % by volume SiC-whiskers was sintered without pressure with and without layer of AI2O3 applied by dipping. The porous body was dipped in a particle slurry with 20 % by weight AI2O3 and cyclohexane as solvent. Dipping was performed both with and without evacuation of the porous body with the aid of a vacuum pump, see fig. 2. Sintering was performed at 1550 °C in Ar at low pressure and the subsequent post-HIP-treatment at 1550 °C and 200 MPa pressure in Ar.
The results below were obtained shown as % of theoretical density:
After After sintering post-HIP Without layer <60 <60
Layer by dipping <60 <60
Layer with dipping and evacuation 58 99
The results show that only the method according to the invention has after sintering resulted in a dense surface layer which allows densification to full density at the post-HIP treatment.
Three tool pressed ceramic inserts consisting of 25 weight-% SiC-whiskers with the rest AI2O3 were manufactured in two different ways.
Insert 1 was presintered at 1300 °C. Protective layers were applied by the dipping technique whereafter the insert was densified using glass encapsulated HIP-technique. The HIP-ed insert was ground peripherical and edgerounded to about 30 μ .
Insert 2 was presintered in the same way as insert 1 whereafter an about 30 μ I2O3-layer was applied by dipping technique without subpressure. Application of protective layers, glass encapsulated HIP, peripheral grinding and edge rounding were performed in the same way as for insert 1. The finished insert had a partly flaking coating with craterlike defects.
Insert 3 was manufactured in the same way as insert 2 but the AI2O3-layer was applied with subpressure according to the invention, similar to previous examples. The finished insert had a well adhering 10- 15 μm AI2O3-layer on the rake face as illustrated in fig. 1.
The inserts described in example 5 were compared in a turning test in a constructional steel (SS1672, equivalent to AISI 1045) at the following conditions: Speed: 350 m/min Feed: 0.2 mm/rev
Cepth of cut: 1.0 mm
The tool life of insert 1 was 7 minutes, insert 2 was 8 minutes and insert 3 was 12 minutes. The results show that the I2O3-layer applied according to the invention had better wear resistance than the AI2O3- layer applied without subpressure. No flaking could
be observed on insert 3 whereas insert 2 showed such flaking behaviour that tool life was essentially similar to that of the uncoated insert.
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Ultimate Frisbee Now
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Creator of the Frisbee Dies :(
Walter Frederick Morrison conceived and developed his aerodynamic plastic disc in the 1950s, and hundreds of millions have been sold worldwide since.
Frisbee historian Phil Kennedy said Mr Morrison and his future wife, Lu, got the idea from playing with a metal cake pan on the beach in California. He originally called his toy the Pluto Platter and sold it at local fairs.
The platter's novel aerodynamic shape allowed it to hover briefly or travel surprisingly long distances, kept aloft by its rotation. In 1957 Mr Morrison sold the rights to the California firm Wham-O, which discovered that youngsters were calling the toy a "Frisbie" after the name of a well-known pie. The company changed the spelling to avoid trademark infringement and the Frisbee was born.
On the official Frisbee website, Wham-O paid tribute to Mr Morrison, who was known as Fred.
"As Frisbee discs keep flying though the air, bringing smiles to faces, Fred's spirit lives on. Smooth flights, Fred," it read.
Mr Morrison's son, Walt, told the Associated Press that his father had suffered from cancer, and that "old age had caught up" with him.
How would you get through your youth without learning to throw a Frisbee?
Kay McIff, lawyer for Walter Frederick Morrison "He was a nice guy. He helped a lot of people. He was an entrepreneur. He was always looking for something to do," he added.
Lawyer Kay McIff, who represented Mr Morrison in a royalties case, said: "That simple little toy has permeated every continent in every country. As many homes have Frisbees as any other device ever invented.
"How would you get through your youth without learning to throw a Frisbee?"
Mr Morrison, who died at his home in Monroe, on Tuesday, is survived by three children.
Walt Morrison said the family planned to hold a memorial service on Saturday at the Cowboy Corral in Elsinore, Utah.
The rules of Ultimate
I came across this article by Luke Hancock and thought it was very short and to the point.
...kinda like myself actually.
so.. enjoy!!!
Travels- if you have the disc in your hand, you are not aloud to take any steps except for your pivot foot. You cannot lift your foot due to your throws follow-through aswell or drag your foot in any way.
Scoring- If you catch the disc in your respective endzone, you are rewarded one point. If you catch the disc out of the endzone, but your momentum carries you into the endzone, you must take the disc back out of the endzone and begin play. Most games are played to 15, but it may vary. It is NOT a timed game. Halftime occurs when one team passes the halfway mark. (8 would be halftime if you were playing to 15)
Non-Contact- You may not touch a player on the other team in any way to mess them up. Of course, it is a sport and contact will occur, but don't be afraid to call it. You also may not do a pick. A pick is where an offensive player causes a defensive player to run into another player in attempts to get away.
Change of possession- A change in possession occurs anytime the offensive team; 1. drops the disc 2. throws the disc out of bounds 3. the defense intercepts a pass.
No Referees- The basic concept behind ultimate is that their are no referees involved. This means that you are to call your own fouls and settle your own disputes. The reason for this, is because if their were refs, people would begin trying to get away with fouls and it would ruin the spirit of the game
My new years resolution to you guys is to add new content weekly on fridays :)
Intro to Ultimate
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