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Peaceful Warriors: The Mundurukú Resist Dams With Strength and Art
Maíra Irigaray
Yesterday some 60 Mundurukú people and 10 activists gathered at an island near the proposed São Luiz do Tapajós dam site in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, and performed an act of strength, dedication, and perseverance demonstrating their passion at any cost to save the Tapajós region.
Sprawled in a banner of rocks and earth designed to live for as long as the river would allow were the words "Tapajós Livre" ("Free Tapajós"). Each Mundurukú warrior carried piece by piece materials from the river to the middle of the island (nearly 1970 ft round trip) under a sweltering 100 degree sun; it was a crowd that included men, children and woman with babies.
"We respect what our ancestors left to us and that is why we carried those rocks with our bare hands – to show that we are warriors ready to fight for our territory," said Leusa Mundurukú, one of the leaders of the Movement Ipere Ayu.
I tried carrying a rock myself and couldn't, they where extremely heavy. Nonetheless the Mundurukú worked all day long without complaint. And at the end of the action, they gathered their hands and danced for an iconic aerial shot with the strength and determination as if they still had a lifetime of energy to go.
This act marks the start of a special moment when over 500 people – fisherman, riverine, political and religious leaders, activists, civil society and the Mundurukú people – shall join hands to form a "Caravan of Resistance" in the São Luiz do Tapajos community.
Sawe! *
* Sawe is a commonly-used word by the Mundurukú that means many things – it's a battle cry, an indication that all are in sync and in solidarity, or that they are in a time of celebration.
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The New Leaf
by Laura E. Richards
The New Leaf is a perfect story to introduce idioms (figures of speech) to young children and English language learners. Published in Three Minute Stories , illustrations by Josephine H. Bruce (1914).
“Why are you crying, Little Cat?” asked Little Dog.
“Because my paws are so cold!” said Little Cat. “I have been digging in the snow and I cannot find one.”
“One what?” asked Little Dog.
“One new leaf.”
“What do you want of a new leaf?”
“I want to turn it over, but there just aren’t any to turn.”
“Of course there aren’t!” said Little Dog. “It is winter.”
“But Little Girl is going to find one,” said Little Cat. “I heard her mother say to her, ‘You really must turn over a new leaf!’ and she said, ‘I truthfully will, Mamma!’ and when Little Girl says she truthfully will she always does. Then her mother kissed her, and said everybody had to turn over new leaves now, and she had some of her own to turn, so she knew just how it was. The door shut then—on the tip of my tail, too—and I heard no more; but what do you suppose it means?”
Little Dog shook his head. “We must ask somebody,” he said. “Let me see! Great Old Dog is out for a walk, and Crosspatch Parrot bit me the last time I asked her a question.”
“I know,” said Little Cat. “We will ask Old Cat in the Barn. She knows a good many things, and if she isn’t catching rats—but she generally is—she will tell us.”
They found Old Cat in the Barn sitting on a truss of hay, washing herself. She listened to Little Cat’s story, and her green eyes twinkled.
“So you have been looking for new leaves under the snow!” she said.
“Yes,” said Little Cat. “First I looked on the trees, and there weren’t any there; so I thought it must be leaves of plants and things, so I scratched and dug till my poor paws were almost quite frozen, but not one single scrap of a leaf could I find.”
“Fffff!” said Old Cat in the Barn. “This barn is full of ’em!”
“Full of leaves!” cried Little Cat and Little Dog together. “What can you mean, Old Cat? We don’t call hay leaves!”
“How many rats have you caught this week?” asked Old Cat, turning to Little Dog.
“None!” said Little Dog. “The last rat I caught bit me horridly; besides, they are odious,[23] vulgar beasts, and I don’t care to have anything to do with them.”
“Fffff!” said Old Cat. “Little Cat, how many mice have you caught in the kitchen this week?”
Little Cat hung her head. “I haven’t caught any,” she said. “I don’t care for mice, the flavor is too strong; I like cream better.”
“Ffffff! grrrr-yow!” said Old Cat; her green eyes shot out sparks, and her fur began to stand up. “Now, you two, listen to me! Why do you think the Big People keep you? Because you are soft and pretty and foolish? Not at all! They keep you because you are supposed to be useful. Your mother, Little Cat, was a hard-working, self-respecting mouser, who caught her daily mouse as regularly as she ate her daily bread and milk. Your father, Little Dog, hunted rats with me in this barn as long as he had legs to stand upon, and between us we kept the place in tolerable order. Great Old Dog cannot be expected to hunt at his age, and besides, he is too big; one might as well hunt with an ox. But since your parents died you two lazy children have done next to nothing, and what is the consequence? I am worked to skin and bone, and the mice are all over the house; I heard Cook say so. Mind what I say; no creature, with four legs or two, is worth his salt unless he earns it, in one way or another. Now, what have you to say for yourselves?”
“Miaouw!” said Little Cat. “I am very sorry, Old Cat.”
“Yap! Yap!” said Little Dog. “I am sorry too, Old Cat.”
“Very well!” said Old Cat in the Barn. “Then turn over a new leaf!”
“Miaouw!” “Yap!” “That is just what we want to do!” said Little Cat and Little Dog together; “but we can’t find any.”
“The fact is,” said Old Cat in the Barn, “it is one of the foolish ways of speaking that the Big People have. It just means, stop being bad and begin to be good. Now do you see?”
“Prrr!” said Little Cat; “now I see. I will go and catch a mouse this minute, Old Cat.”
“Wuff!” said Little Dog; “I see, too, and I will come and hunt rats with you, Old Cat.”
“Prrrrrrr!” said Old Cat in the Barn. “That is right! Go to work, like good children, and as I may have been rather short with you lately I will turn over a new leaf, too, and ask you both to supper with me in my hay-parlor. Cook gave me the bones of the Christmas goose, and we will have a great feast.”
If you enjoy this story, you will find plenty of idioms and short story lessons in Aesop's fables. An example is the expression, "in a pinch" used in the Aesop story, The Crow and the Pitcher.
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Return to the Laura E. Richards Home Page, or . . . Read the next short story; The Patient Cat
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Bible > Commentaries > Proverbs 23:24
◄ Proverbs 23:24 ►
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begets a wise child shall have joy of him.
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
23:19-28 The gracious Saviour who purchased pardon and peace for his people, with all the affection of a tender parent, counsels us to hear and be wise, and is ready to guide our hearts in his way. Here we have an earnest call to young people, to attend to the advice of their godly parents. If the heart be guided, the steps will be guided. Buy the truth, and sell it not; be willing to part with any thing for it. Do not part with it for pleasures, honours, riches, or any thing in this world. The heart is what the great God requires. We must not think to divide the heart between God and the world; he will have all or none. Look to the rule of God's word, the conduct of his providence, and the good examples of his people. Particular cautions are given against sins most destructive to wisdom and grace in the soul. It is really a shame to make a god of the belly. Drunkenness stupifies men, and then all goes to ruin. Licentiousness takes away the heart that should be given to God. Take heed of any approaches toward this sin, it is very hard to retreat from it. It bewitches men to their ruin.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The three forms of evil that destroy reputation and tempt to waste are brought together.
Drowsiness - Specially the drunken sleep, heavy and confused.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
24, 25. (Compare Pr 10:1; 17:21, 25).
Matthew Poole's Commentary
No text from Poole on this verse.
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice,.... Or "in rejoicing shall rejoice" (d), in his son; not that he is rich, but righteous, truly righteous, internally and externally; having the righteousness of Christ imputed to him, and righteousness and true holiness wrought in him, and so lives soberly, righteously, and godly: this must be understood of a father who is himself righteous; for otherwise wicked men, if their sons do but thrive in the world, they are unconcerned about their character as righteous, or their state and condition God-ward;
and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him; especially if he is wise in the best things; if he is wise unto salvation; he may be wise and knowing in things natural, have a good share of wit and sense, and be wise in worldly things, which may yield a pleasure to a natural man his parent; but, if he is a good man, he will have greater joy of his son if he is wise in the first sense. The mother and grandmother of Timothy had no doubt great joy of him, who, from a child, knew the holy Scriptures; and so had the elect lady of her children, who were walking in the truth; and so has our heavenly Father of his children, who are righteous and wise through his grace.
(d) "exultando exultabit", Paguinus, Montanus, Mercerus, Gejerus, Michaelis; "gaudendo gaudebit", Cocceias.
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)
Pulpit Commentary
Verse 24. - The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice. The father of a righteous son who has won truth and profited by the possession has good cause to be glad (Proverbs 10:1). Septuagint erroneously, "A righteous father brings up children well." The second clause repeats the first in different words, with the further idea that the wise son affords his father practical proof of the excellence of his moral training. The contrast is seen in Proverbs 17:21.
Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament
The poet now shows how one attains unto wisdom - the beginning of wisdom is the fear of God:
17 Let not thine heart strive after sinners,
But after the fear of Jahve all the day.
18 Truly there is a future,
And thy hope shall not come to naught.
The lxx, Jerome, the Venet., and Luther, and the Arab. interpreters, render 17b as an independent clause: "but be daily in the fear of the Lord." That is not a substantival clause (cf. Proverbs 22:7), nor can it be an interjectional clause, but it may be an elliptical clause (Fleischer: from the prohibitive אל־תקנא is to be taken for the second parallel member the v. subst. lying at the foundation of all verbs); but why had the author omitted היה dettim? Besides, one uses the expressions, to act (עשׂה), and to walk (הלך) in the fear of God, but not the expression to be (היה) in the fear of God. Thus בּיראת, like בחטּאים, is dependent on אל־תּקנּא; and Jerome, who translates: Non aemuletur cor tuum peccatores, sed in timore Domini esto tota die, ought to have continued: sed timorem Domini tota die; for, as one may say in Latin: aemulari virtutes, as well as aemulari aliquem, so also in Heb. קנּא ב, of the envying of those persons whose fortune excites to dissatisfaction, because one has not the same, and might yet have it, Proverbs 3:31; Proverbs 24:1, Proverbs 24:19, as well as of emulation for a thing in which one might not stand behind others: envy not sinners, envy much rather the fear of God, i.e., let thyself be moved with eager desire after it when its appearance is presented to thee. There is no O.T. parallel for this, but the Syr. tan and the Greek ζηλοτυποῦν are used in this double sense. Thus Hitzig rightly, and, among the moderns, Malbim; with Aben Ezra, it is necessary to take ביראת for באישׁ יראת, this proverb itself declares the fear of God to be of all things the most worthy of being coveted.
In Proverbs 23:18, Umbreit, Elster, Zckler, and others interpret the כּי as assigning a reason, and the אם as conditioning: for when the end (the hour of the righteous judgment) has come; Bertheau better, because more suitable to the ישׁ and the אחרית: when an end (an end adjusting the contradictions of the present time) comes, as no doubt it will come, then thy hope will not be destroyed; but, on the other hand, the succession of words in the conclusion (vid., at Proverbs 3:34) opposes this; also one does not see why the author does not say directly כי ישׁ אחרית, but expresses himself thus conditionally.
(Note: The form כּי אם־ does not contradict the connection of the two particles. This use of the Makkeph is general, except in these three instances: Genesis 15:4; Numbers 35:33; Nehemiah 2:2.)
If אם is meant hypothetically, then, with the lxx ἐὰν γὰρ τηρήσῃς αὐτὰ ἔκγονα, we should supply after it תּשׁמרנּה, that had fallen out. Ewald's: much rather there is yet a future (Dchsel: much rather be happy there is...), is also impossible; for the preceding clause is positive, not negative. The particles כּי אם, connected thus, mean: for if (e.g., Lamentations 3:32); or also relatively: that if (e.g., Jeremiah 26:15). After a negative clause they have the meaning of "unless," which is acquired by means of an ellipsis; e.g., Isaiah 55:10, it turns not back thither, unless it has watered the earth (it returns back not before then, not unless this is done). This "unless" is, however, used like the Lat. nisi, also without the conditioning clause following, e.g., Genesis 28:17, hic locus non est nisi domus Dei. And hence the expression כי אם, after the negation going before, acquires the meaning of "but," e.g., 17b: let not thy heart be covetous after sinners, for thou canst always be zealous for the fear of God, i.e., much rather for this, but for this. This pleonasm of אם sometimes occurs where כי is not used confirmatively, but affirmatively: the "certainly if" forms the transition, e.g., 1 Kings 20:6 (vid., Keil's Comm. l.c.), whose "if" is not seldom omitted, so that כי אם has only the meaning of an affirmative "certainly," not "truly no," which it may also have, 1 Samuel 25:34, but "truly yes." Thus כי אם is used Judges 15:7; 2 Samuel 15:21 (where אם is omitted by the Kerı̂); 2 Kings 5:20; Jeremiah 51:14; and thus it is also meant here, 18a, notwithstanding that כי אם, in its more usual signification, "besides only, but, nisi," precedes, as at 1 Samuel 21:6, cf. 5. The objection by Hitzig, that with this explanation: "certainly there is a future," Proverbs 23:18 and Proverbs 23:17 are at variance, falls to the ground, if one reflects on the Heb. idiom, in which the affirmative signification of כי is interpenetrated by the confirmative. אחרית used thus pregnantly, as here (Proverbs 24:14), is the glorious final issue; the word in itself designates the end into which human life issues (cf. Psalm 37:37.); here, the end crowning the preceding course. Jeremiah (Jeremiah 29:11) in this sense connects אחרית ותקוה [end and expectation]. And what is here denied of the תּקיה, the hope (not as certain Jewish interpreters dream, the thread of life) of him who zealously strives after the fear of God, is affirmed, at Psalm 37:38, of the godless: the latter have no continuance, but the former have such as is the fulfilling of his hope.
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Morning Links: LAPD cop charged in beating of bike rider, Biking While Black in FL, and Facebook bike drama
April 21, 2015 / bikinginla / 2 comments
An LAPD officer has been charged with assault in the October beating of a South LA bike rider.
Twenty-two-year old Clinton Alford, Jr. fled from officers when they tried to stop him because he allegedly matched the description of a robbery suspect.
According to Alford, he ran when someone grabbed the back of his bike because the officers failed to identify themselves, and he only became aware of who they were when he was being held down and handcuffed with his hands behind his back.
After all, why would anyone look back to see who was chasing him as he fled for his life?
It was while he was face down trying to surrender that LAPD officer Richard Garcia allegedly kicked him in the head, repeatedly, in an attack that was captured on a nearby security camera. Police say they have no intention of releasing the video, despite the demands of Alford’s lawyer for it to be made public.
According to KTLA-5, he was kicked so hard he lost a filling from his teeth; other officers at the scene called the attack horrific, describing it as like someone kicking a field goal, with Alford’s head as the ball.
Garcia has entered a not guilty plea. He faces up to three years in jail if he’s convicted.
The LA Times reports three other officers and a sergeant have been relieved of duty and assigned to their homes while the investigation continues.
All charges against Alford, for possession and resisting arrest, have been dropped.
Fifty years after Selma, people are still ticketed for Bicycling While Black, as eight out of ten of the 2,504 bike tickets written in Tampa FL in the last three years — more than Jacksonville, Miami, St. Petersburg and Orlando combined — went to African American residents.
Seriously, it’s long past time this country put this kind of crap behind us. No one should face fear for riding a bike, especially not from police.
KCBS-2 offers a good report on Sunday’s Finish the Ride; for a change, someone in the media actually seems to get it.
Meanwhile, Streetsblog’s Damien Newton offers an update on the current status of hit-and-run, saying we’ve made progress, but there’s still a lot of work to do.
Major Facebook drama, as an apparent cyclist fires back after Burbank racer Troy Templin posted a photo of a BMW that he says nearly ran him over because, as he claims the driver said, “you were in my way.”
Someone identifying himself as Peter Richardson professed to tell his version of what really happened, claiming Templin “committed multiple acts of violence” simply because the woman honked to let him know she was there, and he had to be run off by a security guard when he wouldn’t let her exit the car. He even includes stills from a security camera to support his claims.
However, the view in the photos is so distant it could show anyone, and it’s impossible to tell from them what may or may not be happening.
And as a commenter to Richardson’s post points out, the photos on his Facebook page were lifted from other websites, raising questions as to whether he actually exists, or if the persona was created simply to go after Templin in retaliation for the photo.
It is curious that his timeline only goes back to April 15th, two weeks after the original photo was posted online.
Thanks to Danny Gamboa for the heads-up.
The Times belatedly catches up with the news that the proposed California helmet law has been converted to a study of helmet use by the CHP and the state Office of Traffic Safety; BikinginLA sponsor Michael Rubinstein offers his take on it.
The Daily News lists bicycling as one of the top five eco-friendly ways to get around in LA, while Slate asks if LA can sell the myth of a green, sustainable city.
Alhambra police bust a thief who tried to escape with one of their own bikes on Sunday; the apparently remorseful man wrote of letter of apology from his jail cell.
A 24-year old San Jose woman is under arrest for slamming into a Miltipas bike rider who was standing on the sidewalk, then crashing into a mini-golf course before fleeing in another car.
An elderly Palo Alto woman was seriously injured in a collision with a cyclist; the rider was coming around a blind curve at speed when he ran into the woman as she crossed the street.
A San Francisco cyclist was seriously injured when he was deliberately rammed by an Uber driver following a violent road rage dispute in which he reportedly pounded on the driver’s car and pushed its mirror in. Seriously, I’m as hot tempered as anyone, but resorting to violence only makes things worse.
Marin County’s new bicycling museum will open this June; maybe they’ll include one of those rental bikes that Sausalito councilmember wants to get rid of.
A new study shows drivers are more likely to ignore crosswalks at speeds over 30 mph. I wonder what a similar study would have to say about bike lanes and sharrows.
An Anchorage cyclist says ride defensively, because your life may depend on it; good advice anywhere.
If cops in my hometown are reluctant to ticket cyclists because they feel bad about writing tickets that can reach $170 including fees, imagine how the riders feel about getting them.
Minnesota researchers determine that bike lane density — the measure of bike lanes within a given area — matters more than connectivity when it comes to encouraging ridership.
A Knoxville TN bicyclist suffers multiple non-life-threatening injuries when he’s hit by an SUV, but the only thing a local TV station seems to care about is his lack of a helmet.
Mashable looks at a decade of ghost bikes, while New Yorkers conduct the 10th Annual Ghost Bike Memorial Ride, visiting some of the 150 memorials to people who have lost their lives riding in the city.
Just like countless bicyclists everywhere, Shreveport bike riders says motorists need to be more aware of cyclists and the laws governing bikes. Especially the requirement to ride in the street where sidewalk riding is illegal — and the right to do so everywhere else.
Vancouver’s Van City Buzz gets it right, saying the media’s focus on shiny new safety gadgets is no substitute for proven safety measures like traffic calming and an effective bicycle infrastructure network.
Guardian readers relate their heart-stopping near-misses on the road; unfortunately, that’s something we can all relate to. Meanwhile, hundreds of people turn out for a vigil demanding a stop to killing cyclists; even so, Britain’s Labour Party may be backpedalling in its support for bicycling.
A soccer player is killed when a train smashes into on of those pedal-powered multi-passenger beer bikes in The Netherlands.
Turkey’s president rides through Istanbul to kick off the country’s 51st Presidential Tour of Turkey; he promised to make the city more bike friendly, while saying they “couldn’t manage to make people love the bicycle.”
A road raging Aussie driver hits a woman participating in a charity ride, then drives off with the mangled bike still trapped under her car.
Taking ciclovía to the next level, as one neighborhood in a Korean city bans cars from the streets for a full month.
Now you can wear matching outfits when you ride with your dog. A word of advice: don’t try to use a mountain bike as a getaway vehicle if you can’t manage to ride it.
And a Portland BMX rider could be facing an expensive bill after riding over a parked $350,000 Lamborghini; the owner says he’s getting estimates to repair damage to the windshield.
Unless it’s all a publicity stunt, of course.
Category: Bikes & the Law, Law Enforcement, Morning Links, Violence & Crime / Tags: Bicycling While Black, Clinton Alford, Finish the Ride, L.A.P.D., Peter Richardson, police behaving badly, police violence, Richard Garcia, Troy Templin
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B.I.T.R. Sisters
Baltimore Independent Theater Review
THE GOODIES @ Iron Crow Theatre
Going to see a devised piece with an awesome graphic and no major information, is a bit like the box of chocolates: you never know what you are going to get. In the case of The Goodies at Iron Crow though, it is the best kind of treat- one with a full cast of women of color, a storyline reminiscent of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and an evening of exploratory theater with highly relevant themes.
The girls of the Salem Witch Trials are now attending Every High School where there is a graffittied racial slur on the bathroom wall which morphs into a choral intro with lots of LOLs. This time the targets are the minority girls at the school, and they are tired of the blatant racism and second-hand prejudices people slur as if they are making kindnesses. Their affected behavior calls to light the girls of those famous trials that feigned sickness for attention- but weren’t those girls ultimately the villains who were responsible for the death of innocent people? The cover graphic for The Goodies is a woman with the broom tattoo- so are these girl’s witches? Are they on a witch hunt? Or, should we leap to the conclusive stereotypical phrase for women with power- bitches? These girls are more easy to identify with and without giving away the ending sort of have to swallow their pride and move forward. Beside Abigail (the most famous of the Crucible crusaders) I don’t know if there is known history for the rest of them? Do they move on with their lives? Do they marry and reproduce and life a fruitful life?
The most compelling reason to see this play is by far and away: the cast. They gel perfectly, like a clique of high school girls who have spent years forging these relationships. Tina Canady as Queenie is spot on as a social media maven who brings you episodes of “Stall Talk” until she gets too political and isolates viewers. Danielle Harrow is so entrancing as the hippie rebel Tokka, she may have really mellowed out pre-show. Rachel Reckling as Jada has the attitude of a sullen teen down to a science. Aladrian Wetzel as Sam is an academic misnomer, Elizabeth Ung as Xinyi represents the Asian stereotypes that still prevail. Dana Woodson as Ari is all the girls unsure of their bodies and lives, Alex Reeves as Mela represents all the girls fighting with body image and eating disorders. And Jess Rivera as Mercedes is the Hispanic girl who also represents the LBGTQ community. All these ladies double as staff members at the school and as administrators dealing with the fall out. Their physicality and voice pitch and tenor indicate the shifts as much as a headband, blazer, or lab googles. These ladies (girls) are phenomenal. Honesty, their jokes, their quips were well-timed and executed. They migrated like a flock of small teen girls, managing obstacles sometimes with grace and ease, and other times with trepidation and intimidation.
The script has potential. It is a great start to an honest and open conversation about race culture in Trump’s America. But there are a few glitches to iron out. The show was 2.5 hours long with a ten-minute intermission. But from that opening scene with the slander graffitied on the backdrop it takes forty minutes or so to really get the storyline rolling where the girls are ill and staff are called out on their racist bullshit for “reckoning day.” There is another minor point where the teachers are made out to be the enemies, even the ones trying to assist. The education system in our country presents a whole other set of issues to dive into but teachers are put on leave and dismissed WAY TOO often for perceived illnesses because the students run the buildings now- and this is maybe the staging for another devised piece- but I digress.
I think with a little tightening, workshopping, and editing this could be a powerful piece that can go on to be produced in other facets and really cut like a knife. The costumes are all spins of the traditional school girl uniform as well perceived by Kristina Green. Other properties by various crew are well done to transport you back into your days of high school with accuracy and ease.
As for the crew, and there is a lot of them! No less than ten people are credited with script development; but the biggest shout out goes to the projection and animation design by Justin Johnson. His use of twitter feeds with melting words, and gruesome but accurate artistic renderings mesh seamlessly with the stage antics- from sticky notes representing real time feedback on social media, to white masked figures as your inner demons- the psyche of a modern teen is laid bare for all.
SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO? Go. Go see this piece before it is gone. I think good art acts as a catalyst to start conversation and this performance is ripe with opportunity to discuss racial affairs in our nation. Go see these ladies ooze confidence, flip in and out of multiple roles with the flip of a switch, and meld into a group of forthright teens looking for revenge on their wrongs. Go see it and let us know what you think.
The Goodies at Iron Crow Theater. Directed by Susan Stroupe, running 12/1- 12/10. Tickets available at Ironcrowtheatre.org
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Sports Update
Dynamo/Soccer
MLS takes back controversial red card issued to Dynamo’s Jermaine Taylor
By Jose de Jesus Ortiz on April 29, 2015 at 4:32 PM
The Dynamo’s Jermaine Taylor, left, had his controversial red card rescinded by the MLS. (Scott Halleran / Getty Images)
After an independent review, Major League Soccer rescinded the red card Jermaine Taylor was given last Saturday night.
Referee Kevin Stott gave Taylor a red card in the 77th minute of the 4-4 tie against Sporting Kansas City when the referee ruled that he handled the ball.
“Yes, the defender made contact with the ball with his arm,” Stott wrote in a statement hand delivered to the Houston Chronicle after the match.
Replays proved otherwise.
Now that his red card and one-game suspension have been rescinded, Taylor is eligible to play Friday against FC Dallas.
“The Independent Review Panel consists of one representative from the U.S. Soccer Federation, Canadian Soccer Association and Professional Referees Organization (PRO),” MLS notes.
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Tag Archives: New Carlisle Indiana
Welcome to New Carlisle
21 February 2019 Jim Greyhighways, Indiana, Kodak EasyShare Z730, Lincoln Highway, Michigan Road, New Carlisle Indiana, roads, US 20 20 Comments
New Carlisle is a cheerful Indiana small town about 15 miles west of South Bend on a triply historic road: US 20, the longest US highway; the Lincoln Highway, our nation’s first coast-to-coast road; and the Michigan Road, which has linked the Ohio River to Lake Michigan since the 1830s. The town has been there since 1835, not long after the road was built.
As you enter New Carlisle from the east, you take a tight S curve under a railroad bridge and along a retaining wall that greets you cheerfully.
Until 1926 the road ran straight, crossing the tracks at a dangerous angle that was the scene of many accidents. Four rail lines passed through: two owned by the New York Central Railroad; one by the Chicago, South Bend, and Northern Indiana Railway; and one by the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad. The South Shore tracks were a few feet lower than the New York Central tracks, making for an uneven crossing and increasing motorists’ challenge.
New Carlisle, Indiana. Imagery © 2019 DigitalGlobe, IndianaMap Framework Data, USDA Farm Service Agency. Map data © 2019 Google.
Negotiations with the railroads to build a viaduct and reroute the road for safer passage dragged on for several years but kicked into high gear when New Carlisle passed an ordinance limiting trains to eight miles per hour. That got the railroads’ attention. Terms were worked out, the bridge was built, and the road was curved.
After you negotiate that curve, New Carlisle unfolds before you, tidy and cheerful. Little has changed, at least cosmetically, in this town since before World War II. Check out this mural of the town as it was in about 1941, painted on the side of one of downtown’s buildings.
Downtown New Carlisle has changed little since those days! You’ll have to take my word for it to some extent, as I made these photographs in 2008. Margaret and I drove through on our late-December Michigan Road trip, but heavy rain made it a poor day for photography. But we could see it: New Carlisle still looks very much like this.
I’m always curious why some small Indiana towns remain well-maintained and others don’t. Money obviously makes the difference. But where does New Carlisle’s come from? There’s no real industry here, to speak of. It’s too far away from Chicago to be a commuter town. I suppose many residents commute to South Bend to work; is that enough?
Regardless, everywhere you look in New Carlisle’ downtown, the buildings are in good condition. Something must be going right here — unlike so many Indiana towns of similar size, New Carlisle is growing. Its population remained flat at about 1,400 for several decades, but between 2000 and 2010 it swelled to over 1,800.
As you keep heading west you soon leave the downtown area and pass many lovely older homes.
This church is right on Michigan Street. The sign says, “God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts.”
Memorial Park is on Michigan Street, too. It’s a lovely spot to rest on a lovely street in a lovely town.
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NHL changes 2019-20
By BJ Sands, January 29, 2019 in Sports Logo News
msu 269
2 minutes ago, Ice_Cap said:
"Redneck" was coined by white people to refer to other white people. And is therefore not disparaging based on race.
Seems like you also encourage class shaming. You’re so much better than the “poors” hey?!
2 minutes ago, msu said:
Nah, there are poor white people who aren't rednecks.
3 minutes ago, Still MIGHTY said:
I've always considered "redneck" to be more of a lifestyle thing than a racial white thing, but I don't know.
People find strange hills to die on, man.
Anyway @msu that ^ is what "redneck" refers to. You got anything else? Any other avenues of confrontation you wanna try to manufacture out of this one?
Not as strange as the hill of redneck is a joke. That term makes fun of people based on race and class according to the dictionary. How is that funny at all? Or relevant to a new hockey jersey?
Maybe if the mod kept the discussion to jerseys and logos like this forum is supposed to be instead of actively participating and using an insensitive term based on insulting a race and class of people, things wouldn’t be so confrontational.
It's got nothing to do with race, as has been explained to you.
You could make the case that it's based on class, however as @Still MIGHTY explained it's become more of a out-and-out cultural thing, regardless of race or class. That you chose to get offended by "Redneck Rangers" as a joke and then make it a hill to die on is the problem here. AFTER using a disagreement about a Rangers jersey to get confrontational.
So no. No dice here. You're going to have to find a way to deal with it.
QueenCitySwarm 758
Location:Charlotte, North Carolina
Favourite Logos: Charlotte Hornets, Carolina Panthers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Wild
I think the new Canes jersey looks okay, nothing great, but not awful, either. My biggest nitpick is that the hurricane flag striping isn't actually a hurricane flag, because the little squares aren't black. This seems to be messed up a lot with this franchise, and it's literally impossible to mess up on without trying. It's not correct on the new whites, it's not correct on the reds, and it's not correct on the blacks. If they wanted to utilize what I think is an excellent idea for striping, they need to execute it properly. I also honestly feel they've been restricted by their location (again): because they share an arena with NC State, they pretty much need to use red/black/white for co-branding, but so many other teams use red/black/white so well, the Canes are in a tricky spot.
Eastport76 206
Favourite Logos:Minnesota Wild primary, Toronto Blue Jays primary(2012-pres),Seattle Seahawks primary(2012-pres),Boston Red Sox primary(1976-2008) currnet Winnipeg Jets primary(2012-pres)
Hurricanes: Hey Rangers, can we copy your homework for our new roads?
It's just a joke, but the new roads aren't looking good. Just a bootleg version of Rangers's jerseys. Only thing I like is the flag pattern across the waist. Come on, this is easy. Just add a flag pattern on bottom of the former roads.
Edited August 20, 2019 by Eastport76
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mcj882000 882
Location:Calgary... (dramatic pause) Alberta, Canada
1 hour ago, msu said:
Hi, nobody else here cares, drop it please
I suggest we just eliminate the guesswork and avoid using any slurs, regardless of the origin, the intent, or what category of superficial characteristic it disparages. We’re adults.
How about that hockey?
2 hours ago, msu said:
I just wanted to thank you for bringing such a strong sense of awareness to the term which I created, therefore galvanizing it in CCSLC lore. This is my “stick won’t injury you” moment. It’s a proud day, indeed.
daniel75 835
I'm a loner Dotti, a rebel.
Location:Kokomo
Favourite Logos:overall looks- Canucks, Blackhawks, Devils(green), Whalers, North Stars, Habs, L.A. Kings 2002-2011, Buccaneers, Raiders, Colts, Chargers, Bills, Seahawks (silver)
Alright already.
insert name 4,186
Location:In The City
The font makes it look like a cheap Target brand jersey. I don’t like this uniform. Should’ve said “CAROLINA” instead.
VikWings 1,084
Favourite Logos:Vikings horn Red Wings Whalers FSU Spear Mighty Ducks
10 hours ago, DC in Da House w/o a Doubt said:
Here's a good, clear look at em:
The Canes wordmark ruins an otherwise beautiful jersey. Seems more like an alternate. Should have stuck this on the black jersey if they wanted it that bad.
the admiral 21,561
No one is being mature. No one gets the point
Favourite Logos:North Stars
SFGiants58 9,723
The Mellow Midori
1 minute ago, the admiral said:
Guardian Beast Tyrannosaurus is really trying to sell Dragon Caesar in this match. Maybe the Guardian Beast just wants to help his buddy look good while he's recovering from a big hit he took a few nights before from a cage deathmatch.
Anyway, about the jersey, it's OK. Just OK.
Ridleylash 481
Location:Sudbury, Ontario
Favourite Logos:Sabres 2000's Primary, Carolina Third, St. Louis Primary, Winnipeg Primary
I mean, being completely honest, the Canes' new away jersey is better with the shoulders then the Rangers jersey. And considering the prevalence of college sports in NC, especially since the Hurricanes are basically on a college campus? It makes perfect sense to lean into that and go for a look that local fans will get behind, especially since the team isn't trash anymore.
I still think the "CANES" is temporary while Dundon and co. make a new primary logo, but I can't blame them for going to a design philosophy that NC is all over in terms of sports as a temporary measure.
infrared41 6,401
There's no pleasing people...
Location:Ohio/Florida
Favourite Logos:
Not as strange as the hill of redneck is a joke. That term makes fun of people based on race and class according to the dictionary. How is that funny at all?
I hate to have to brag a little to make a point, but in this case, I have to. I am retired at 58 years old, I have plenty of money, live next to a golf course whose first fairway borders on my back yard. I worked in radio and TV management for 25 years. I am a proud alum of The Ohio State University and University of Toledo. I grew up in a middle class neighborhood. I am also a proud, NASCAR loving, Harley riding, son of Kentucky hillbillies redneck. Being called a redneck is a lot of things and a racial slur isn’t any of them. Sorry, but you’re flat out wrong on this one.
Edit: FWIW, I also own a double wide in Florida. So I guess I qualify as a redneck even more than I thought.
24 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:
I actually like that they've decided to minimize the primary logo. The Hurricanes' primary has never worked for me, and I much prefer the warning flag mark. So I'm happy to see they kept that one on the shoulders.
I have a weakness for diagonal wordmark sweaters, but the choice of "CANES" doesn't do anything for me. I would have preferred either "HURRICANES" or "CAROLINA." Both because team nicknames look bush league and because I think the more letters the better is a general rule when it comes to diagonal wordmark sweaters.
I would have also preferred striping that matched the home reds. I don't think that mismatched logos are inherently a bad thing (I have a weakness for this Penguins set) but I think you need as much consistency as possible to pull it off. Mirroring the home striping would have gone a long way towards bringing it together. As it is now they're the Wild of the Eastern Conference. Three mismatching sweaters. It's not a good look.
So I'd say they're ok, but frustrating because they're only a few small design choices away from being really solid.
And naturally, just because you’re not personally offended by something doesn’t mean everyone feels the same. Regardless of anyone’s opinion on the matter, those terms don’t exactly make the world a better place, and I promise we’ll all be fine without them. No reason to poke the bear.
3 minutes ago, andrewharrington said:
"Redneck Rangers" isn't offensive in the slightest. It's a fun nickname based off of the fact that they opted to go with a design element currently employed by only one other team, the New York Ranegrs. One dude throwing a temper tantrum doesn't change that.
Is it also poking fun at the team? Yeah, but what I said back when this started still stands. Every team gets poked fun of. That's trash talk. If "Redneck Rangers" offends a hockey fan so much than perhaps they need to re-evaluate a few things.
You implored us to get back to the hockey, and I did that in the post above. So where do we stand?
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5 Things I Learned Launching a Little Literary Magazine
M. Lynx Qualey 04-23-19
Little literary magazines come and go. Shi’r was here one decade, gone another. So too Tin House, Souffles, The Partisan Review, and Black Clock. Indeed, author Nick Ripatrazone went so far as to write last year that “Literary Magazines are Born to Die.” He didn’t mean it as a bad thing, but rather that we should recognize they have a life cycle and pay tribute to our literary ancestors.
As a species, little literary magazines have persisted, blossomed, and flourished. If most of the publishing landscape is big, profit-oriented, and difficult to maneuver, then the little-lit-mag landscape is small, bad with money, and welcoming. Finding a traditional publisher can be soul-killingly difficult. But finding a little mag to love your work? It’s doable.
The sheer number of living lit mags also demonstrate a clear hunger to belong to the literary discourse. A few magazines have predated on this need, charging exorbitant fees for submissions, writing courses, and editorial assistance. But a lot of little lit mags—let’s optimistically say most—have made room, in the best anti-capitalist spirit, for tens of thousands of literary voices.
Why open yet another little magazine? The answer to the question is, naturally: Why not? Although you might need a few more reasons during the long hours of formatting the pages, rooting out errors, fielding angry emails, and remembering you forgot to ask for so-and-so’s bio.
We recently launched the second issue of ArabLit Quarterly. After a lot of frustration trying to get the print version uploaded on Blurb, we eventually decided to go with Amazon. The biggest thing we learned was probably: It always takes more time than you think! But also:
Five (MORE) things We’ve Learned (so far)
1. Find a space where you’re comfortable. I moved to Cairo in the summer of 2001, and I spent my literary coming-of-age hanging around Arab book fairs and literary translators. Although I’ve attempted to tackle other niches, the one I always fall back into is Arabic literature in translation. I’m by no stretch an expert. But this is where I’m most comfortable.
2. Community is essential. ArabLit Quarterly is prrrrobably not going to make me rich or famous, give me better teeth or healthier skin, or put my children through college. Alas! So what makes it worthwhile? Creating fresh aesthetic experiences and stretching literature, certainly. And yes, it’s also the friends we made along the way.
3. A budget is necessary. Ugh. I am anti-capitalist both by belief and by circumstance, but it’s important to know how much you can pay your contributors without emptying your personal checking account.
4. Apply for grants. We’re not a U.S. nonprofit, since none of ALQ’s core members live in the U.S. That cuts off a lot of possibilities. But there are other opportunities out there. Our second issue, for instance, we floated in large part by the Gumroad Creators Fund, which recently opened up.
5. Define your own success. There might be a page out there, if I google hard enough, that tells me whether ArabLit Quarterly is successful or not. But that seems about as promising as an internet search for “my left breast hurts am I going to die?” or “does life have meaning?” It’s bound to take me to a dark place. What could “success” be for ArabLit Quarterly? I’m not sure yet. But maybe just being able to talk about it is enough.
HIGH RISE MYSTERY: The First Young Black UK Detective Duo Is Here!
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The End of Wall Street
Roger Lowenstein
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The roots of the mortgage bubble and the story of the Wall Street collapse-and the government's unprecedented response-from our most trusted business journalist.
The End of Wall Street is a blow-by-blow account of America's biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Drawing on 180 interviews, including sit-downs with top government officials and Wall Street CEOs, Lowenstein tells, with grace, wit, and razor-sharp understanding, the full story of the end of Wall Street as we knew it. Displaying the qualities that made When Genius Failed a timeless classic of Wall Street-his sixth sense for narrative drama and his unmatched ability to tell complicated financial stories in ways that resonate with the ordinary reader-Roger Lowenstein weaves a financial, economic, and sociological thriller that indicts America for succumbing to the siren song of easy debt and speculative mortgages.
The End of Wall Street is rife with historical lessons and bursting with fast-paced action. Lowenstein introduces his story with precisely etched, laserlike profiles of Angelo Mozilo, the Johnny Appleseed of subprime mortgages who spreads toxic loans across the landscape like wild crabapples, and moves to a damning explication of how rating agencies helped gift wrap faulty loans in the guise of triple-A paper and a takedown of the academic formulas that-once again- proved the ruin of investors and banks. Lowenstein excels with a series of searing profiles of banking CEOs, such as the ferretlike Dick Fuld of Lehman and the bloodless Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan, and of government officials from the restless, deal-obsessed Hank Paulson and the overmatched Tim Geithner to the cerebral academic Ben Bernanke, who sought to avoid a repeat of the one crisis he spent a lifetime trying to understand-the Great Depression.
Finally, we come to understand the majesty of Lowenstein's theme of liquidity and capital, which explains the origins of the crisis and that positions the collapse of 2008 as the greatest ever of Wall Street's unlearned lessons. The End of Wall Street will be essential reading as we work to identify the lessons of the market failure and start to reb...
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Lowenstein (When Genius Failed) offers an overview of the causes and consequences of the financial crisis that rises above the glut of similarly themed books with its juicy behind-the-scenes detail and thoughtful analysis. He sets out to prove that the current financial difficulties began long before the summer of 2008, and long before the failure of Lehman Brothers. He begins with the history of Fannie Mae and the rise of mortgage-based securities and a dangerously burgeoning housing bubble, and hits the high points of the 2008-2009 news cycles, including Washington Mutual's unwise loan strategies, the panic following Bear Stearns's near-demise, a rash of foreclosures, TARP, and the woes of Citigroup. The insider knowledge lends flavor and context to many of these stories a ranting Jim Cramer, Ben Bernanke's loss of confidence, and Alan Greenspan's astonishing 2008 testimony to Congress. Lowenstein's strong knowledge of the source material and flair for the dramatic and doomsday title should draw readers who still wonder what went wrong and how.
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April 22, 2008 / 12:27 AM / 12 years ago
Silkworms give Philippine farming town a makeover
Manny Mogato
KAPANGAN, Philippines (Reuters) - Hundreds of white mulberry trees have started to cover mountain slopes deep in the northern Philippines’ Cordillera region, changing not just the landscape but also making over the image of a poor farming town.
A caretaker walks past crops of anthurium flowers grown by farmers as an alternative livelihood to marijuana cultivation in Kapangan, Benguet province north of Manila April 18, 2008. Hundreds of white mulberry trees have started to cover mountain slopes deep in the northern Philippines' Cordillera region, changing not just the landscape but also making over the image of a poor farming town. REUTERS/John Javellana
Up until the early 2000s, the upland villages of Kapangan, a vegetable growing town of 18,000 people in Benguet province, was widely known as one of the country’s largest cultivation areas of an illegal plant — marijuana.
“We’ve started something to erase that tag,” Roberto Canuto, a public attorney in the province who was elected mayor in 2007, told Reuters. “We’re determined to be known as something else, perhaps, the silk capital of the country.”
Canuto said some farmers have started growing mulberry trees, the main food of silk-producing worms from China and Japan, after sericulture was introduced in nine of Kapangan’s 15 villages in late 2004.
“We’re expanding the mulberry plantation to accommodate more farmers willing to go into silkworm operations,” he said, adding many farmers got excited after initial trials produced about 25 kilos of rawsilk, sold at $50 per kilogram early this year.
Wilbur Teofilo, leader of a 33-member farmers’ cooperative in Kapangan, said they have started upgrading 11 “rearing houses” and building nine more to raise rawsilk production to 250 kilos every two months this year.
“We can easily produce about 500 kilos of rawsilk every two months when our operations go on full blast,” Teofilo said, showing a box containing thousands of fresh cocoons, leftovers from last month’s production.
“This could be the perfect alternative to marijuana because it would also take six to eight months to harvest mulberry leaves that would be fed to hungry worms. This could give us extra cash without taking any risks.”
Fe Donato, an official from the Fibre Industry Development Authority, said the silkworm project could produce as much as 2,000 kilos of rawsilk every year once operations expand in two years, bringing in an extra 4 million pesos ($95,690) for the farmers.
Like most other farmers in his village, members of Teofilo’s cooperative were not ready to admit they had cultivated marijuana in the past before getting into sericulture.
But, it was no secret that some farmers in the town were able to construct modest mansions only from raising vegetables, such as cucumbers, chayote and potatoes.
Daniel Baligar, a member of the town’s legislative council, said some farmers had taken the risks because cultivating the illegal plant costs less and was not so tedious.
“But, they were planting marijuana in the most inaccessible parts of the mountains, making it difficult for authorities to detect and eradicate the plants,” he said.
HEMP EXPORTER
In its 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy report, the U.S. State Department said marijuana had regained popularity in the Philippines because of tight supply and price increases of the crystal form of methamphetamines, or “shabu.”
A gram of the illicit substance on Manila’s streets now costs 6,000 pesos ($143.2) compared with about $0.50 per gram of dried marijuana leaves and buds, the report issued in March said.
Washington said the Philippines was also exporting marijuana to some countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Malaysia.
The report, citing data from the Philippines’ Dangerous Drug Board (DDB), had identified at least 60 cultivation sites in the country’s northern mountain regions and on the troubled southern islands of Mindanao, Jolo, Basilan and Tawi-tawi.
In an earlier interview with Reuters, DDB chairman Anselmo Avenido said about 20 new cultivation sites had been discovered since the start of the year even if security forces had uprooted 2.5 million of the plants in 2007, valued at $11.66 million.
Avenido said the presence of Maoist-led guerrillas and Muslim militants in most of the cultivation sites had complicated the government’s efforts to eradicate marijuana sites.
Intelligence reports said about 17 percent of proceeds from production bases were used to fund activities of communist New People’s Army (NPA) rebels, including buying weapons and training and feeding more than 5,000 cadres.
TUBER, FLOWERS AND WORMS
Avenido said reducing drug supply was only one part of the government’s efforts to overcome the problem. His office was also pushing for programmes to cut demand, raise awareness, cooperate with counterparts abroad and offer alternative livelihood.
Dionisio Santiago, head of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, said they were looking into how Thailand had wiped out its poppy fields by offering farmers viable alternative as well as increasing risks for those who continue to plant marijuana.
“We’ve been doing lots of experiments but our initial tests met some problems,” Santiago said, adding that the planting of a medicinal tuber, known as “yacon,” did not take off due to the lack of commercial demand.
Although there were still some farmers planting the tubers, others had gone into cutflowers, Santiagp said, the DDB and his office had supported efforts by local officials in Benguet to experiment on sericulture.
He said anti-narcotics agencies had pledged to sink in more investments in the sericulture project if silk-making succeeds in cutting marijuana supply.
Teofilo said farmers in his village were willing to give the silkworm project a try because the potential for providing them extra cash was huge based on the initial experiments since 2004.
“What’s important for us was to find new ways to improve our finances through honest means,” he said, pointing to an area in the mountain where they had started a mulberry plantation.
“Of course, we like most people to know that we’re no longer the marijuana capital in the country. It really gives us a bad name and we wanted that erased forever.”
($1=41.80 Philippine Peso)
Reporting by Manny Mogato; editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan
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May 20, 2008 Bruce Allen Boston Globe, BSM Approval Ratings
Approval Ratings – Nick Cafardo
A hell of a nice guy, from most accounts.
Cafardo begin his career in Brockton in 1975 before moving to the Quincy Patriot Ledger in 1981. In 1989 he joined the Boston Globe sports staff.
Cafardo has covered both the Red Sox and Patriots during his tenure at the Globe, but his heart is clearly with baseball. During his time on the Patriots beat he was clearly frustrated with the working environment and it reflected in his coverage of the team. Having moved back to baseball, he’s noticeably more confortable and in his element.
He was a frequent presence on the various NESN programs, and in the past was in demand on WWZN radio, ESPN Radio and WBZ-TV’s Sports Final.
He is the author of several books, including The Impossible Team: The Worst to First Patriot’s Super Bowl Season , 100 Things Red Sox Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die and Boston Red Sox: Yesterday and Today
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55 thoughts on “Approval Ratings – Nick Cafardo”
FCM says:
I get Bills notes from Nick. APPROVE!!!
buttercup says:
“Do you smell that too?”
“No, Nick. I don’t.”
Actual quote from the photographer that took that photo?
“A six hour shoot and THAT was the best shot. (deep, heart-wrenching sigh)”
Bob Bobovich says:
i wish i could mail in this vote like Cafardo does with his Sunday notes column. has a mancrush on JP Riccardi and the Poston bros.
NASCL says:
Has no more than five names in his rolodex.
Never covered the Bruins for a full season.
“Disapprove!”
Beaker says:
Never lets the facts get in the way of his sweaty man love for certain sports figures willing to chat him up….noted water carrier for Roger Clemens…prays nightly for Tom Donahoe’s employment prospects…currently carrying six live salmon in his neck pouch… enjoys writing about contracts and money… frequently looks and writes dyspeptic…balding, gunty…hates the NFL’s cut-throat player relations practices…looks like a 1970s era member of the Pro Bowlers Association…pasty
Doza says:
He has no home. Horrible at football, in love with Donahoe and Bledsoe. Bad at baseball, in love with Trot and Roger, JP.
Jackass of all trades, master on none. Disapprove.
Guntfather of SportsRadio says:
He’s a Friend of the Guntfather. Approve!!!
Laziest and hackiest writer at the Globe. Ignorant of any changes to happen in baseball in the last 25 years, and that’s the sport he likes. Beyond horrible football writer. Solid disapprove, don’t think I’ve ever been more sure of anything in my life.
Stephen Starring says:
Nick, Sep 2003:
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a team do so much to help a competing team within the division get so good so fast. The Bills were in ashes just two years ago. The trade to Buffalo of Bledsoe, sparked their offense. Their offseason moves to revamp their defense has worked well, and taking Milloy away from the Patriots has made them a worthy contender. We don’t even know what Willis McGahee can do yet. It didn’t take long thanks to a little help from the Patriots.”
The Bills proceeded to go 20-28 before mercifully gassing Tom Donahoe (Nick “I’ve always felt Donahoe is the best at what he does in the league”) 3 years later.
Wow…I guess I was a little too hasty on my ‘Approve.’ Is there an ‘Undo’ command here somewhere?
LJ Sandwich says:
Asked to be taken off the Patriots beat because he wasn’t being spoon-fed what he needed. Shows you all you need to know about Lazy ol’ Nick.
Did several years of regular appearance with Andelman on the Zone. That alone would earn a dissaprove. On the Zone, he had about three responses “Yeah..oh yeah”, “Sure”, and “Right.” Played along with Eddie’s antiquated schtick like a puppet.
His mailbag was legendary. It’s final few appearances nearly drove Nick to suicide with the deluge of negative emails that he got.
Still fondly remembers a Gillette stadium rat that nibbled some foot in the corner of the locker room. That rat gave him better copy than the rest of the organization.
Another tired old Globie that mails it in and whores himself out to any TV show that will have him. Cares not that the quality of his work is garbage, so long as the TV checks roll in.
Needs to come to grips with the fact that the last remaining strands of hair on the top of his head would look better on the barbershop floor. If Sarandis can give up the combover, anybody can. Weight flucuates somewhat, but the gobbler under his chin does not.
DISAPPROVE!!!
Sluggo says:
May have to retire when Nixon hangs ’em up, Ricciardi is fired, and Clemens slinks off in disgrace. In other words, imminently.
Thumbs down.
b holmes says:
i spoke to old friend chad eaton before voting…
king of the mail in.
strongly disapprove.
Former Bills GM Tom Donohoe is only one of the several NFL executives troubled by the recent revelations that the Patriots cheated their way to three world titles. Donohoe has retained high-powered Washington attorney Michael Levy as he considers his next move.
“I think its safe to say that I would have never traded a first round draft pick for Drew Bledsoe had I known he had been given the defensive signals ahead of time,” said a clearly disappointed Donohoe, who sees the game to which he he has given so much collapse around him. “I seriously thought all he needed was some good coaching – but it turns out his problems were much, much deeper than that.”
“And Lawyer Milloy – I wouldn’t have done that either. I realize the Patriots stole only defensive signals, but the confidence Lawyer had as a result of this completely maksed the fact that he couldn’t run or cover to save his life.”
The fact that the reclusive Donohoe is speaking out so openly now shows that the media is on the right track with Spygate. Until the Patriots answer to and apologize for each of the victories they falsly claimed from 2000 through last season, and compensate each of the rival executives who lost their jobs as a result of the Patriots nefarious methods, the story will not be over.
Chris M says:
This can’t be real, it’s too ridiculous.
NAOP says:
Even though Nick has been known to answer mail bag question from nonexistent cities all across the globe, I must DISAPPROVE! Nick likes baseball, but didn’t like the travel so he moved over to football, but he could never come to grips with the fact that football and baseball are different. He couldn’t hang out in the locker room for hours on end, and the head coach wasn’t inviting the media into his office. Now he’s back on the baseball beat, well the secondary baseball beat. He doesn’t seem to be really covering the Sox, except when Privates Benjamin is out on maneuvers, instead Nick talks with out-of-town GM’s and makes excuses for Roger Clemens. He may have enjoyed his job a few decades ago, but he certainly doesn’t now and it’s reflected in his work. Nick should retire, but he’s got nowhere else to go.
JDokes says:
Has a column entry entitled “Apropos of Nothing.” Is this something that you want me to read?
Almost miraculously, he manages to add neither insight nor incite.
He is the watercress in the newspaper sandwich.
His Sunday column has at least one of:
a factual error
a Clemens reference;
a Nixon update;
a slam at anyone using statistics developed after 1980.
He is conventional wisdom without the wisdom.
Ixnay.
I love how the people who slam Cafardo for having a Clemens note every week are the same people who lavish praise on Kevin Paul Dupont, a guy who does the EXACT SAME THING with Joe Thornton and has his stupid nicknames.
Dupont is irrelevant like hockey.
fishercat says:
When they unpack Nick from the mothballs and send him out for Spring Training if he sees his own shadow there will be six more weeks of winter at Morrissey Blvd.
Long after keeping the drugs out of Southie for all those years Will befriended a young Cafardo. He must have made the Globe promise to keep Nick around as a last favor.
Who got Will’s rolodex? Not Nick.
Rotillo says:
Badly in need of a Globe buyout and some better glasses. Maybe suffering from Excessive Andelman Exposure, a syndrome where a sports reporter slowly enters a state where other teams and ex-local players always seem more appealing to cover than the more successful local teams. This condition eventually led to total career implosion of Ron Borges.
If, as alleged above, he’s a good guy, I hope he can find something that he actually seems to enjoy doing as this doesn’t seem to be it.
QM says:
Terrible, terrible, lazy hack, who will let his suck-up-ness for his sources (Donahoe, Bledsoe) completely color his “writing”. His books are terrible, too. Consider how he inserted a long pro-Bledsoe, anti-BB rant out of nowhere into the middle of his Pats book.
I can’t see how any of you can do anything other than DISAPPROVE this jerk.
Jackass of all trades! Yes!
Complete hack – Hates Hockey
Should move to Buffalo and cover the Bills
Corner Blitz says:
Strong Disapprove, Cafardo is the type of writer that longs for the 50’s. He hasn’t come to grips with the changes in the media landscape and it shows. His writing is devoid of flair, insight and passion. He lets his personal opinion seep into his prose, and his predictions and analysis are Stearnsish in their accuracy. He’s bad at his job and it really shows.
JohnnyApps says:
Disapprove. I haven’t enjoyed reading his baseball notes column for awhile now and he seems to be lazy and without a lot of contacts. I agree w/ Rotillo…this guys is badly in need of the Globe buyout..
Bruce…I know he’s been off WEEI for awhile now, but can we vote on Ted Sarandis at some point just for the fun of it? I’d love to see the reaction…
thetruth says:
Ok, so we all seem to be in agreement that he’s a hack’s hack, so why is the vote pretty much split? Approvers, show yourselves!
Matt H. says:
He is equally awful at every sport he covers. Once he gets a source on the team he covers, he protects that player to the end of the earth, regardless of what that athlete has done. See Terry Glenn, Wade Boggs, Roger Clemens, etc.
What I believe defines his career is the time,about eight yaers ago, when the Pats were about to play the Cardinals at Sun Devil Stadium. He wrote a gushing story about Tedy Bruschi’s return to his alma mater, Arizona State, and how wonderful it was going to be for Tedy to go home and see old friends. The only problem was that Tedy went to the University of Arizona, and it is safe to say Tedy despises Arizona State, which he affectionately to as the “Scum Devils”.
If you read his stories closely there are constant inaccuracies. I also believe he is not above making up a quote or a source to suit the needs of the story.
Just a bad, lazy, reporter.
Approved just to be a contrarian.
Let me know when you get to Smerlas, CHB, and the Giant Forehead!
Wow, I was going to vote Disapprove, but after reading all of the nasty things said about Carfado here, I may have to change my mind out of sympathy.
Nah…he sucks.
I think he’s just mailing it in until Donahoe gets hired as GM for some other NFL team and brings Nick along as the team’s PR guy.
JP Riccardi says:
There’ll always be a place for Nick at The Toronto Star!
More from the photographer…
“I lost my voice screaming, “Smile!…I said SMILE!” After two hours of that he said, “I don’t know what you’re talking about, I am smiling.”
Very tired, very uninterested. Basically playing out the string like a union state worker. Not worthy of an APPROVE or the passion needed to DISAPPROVE.
In honor of Nick we need a third choice in this poll, one that reads “don’t give a sheet”.
Nick’s Sunday baseball column review:
— Mention of Roger Clemens and/or his agent? Check.
— Mention of Toronto Blue Jays and/or their GM? Check.
— Mention of Trot Nixon (typed somehow through tear-swollen eyes)? Check.
He’s probably a nice guy and someone who’s a great neighbor, but in his chosen field at this stage of his career he’s just plain b-a-d. A major disapprove at this address.
HighWireNickEsasky says:
Seems to be hedging his bets by stroking Kenny Williams along with JP. If one of them gets canned he still has the other as unnamed “American League General Manager/Front Office Executive” source. Has the distiction of being both the worst Baseball Notes and Football Notes writer of the last 15 years.
Nopointe says:
No one does less with more
Dennis P. says:
The only time I’ve ever bought a book, read it, and then returned it for a full refund was with Nick Cafardo’s book about the Patroits and their first Super Bowl-winning season. I expected the beat reporter for the team to bring something new to the table, something that I (as an avid fan who’d followed the team the entire season) hadn’t read before. Unfortunately, it was the WORST example of exploiting a team’s success for commercail profitability that I’ve ever seen: It consisted of snippets from all of his Globe stories throughout the season, and added NOTHING new–no additional insights, no locker room anecdotes. How can a guy who’s supposedly been around the team all year have NOTHING else to add that I hadn’t already read in the newspaper during the season?
Major disapprove…
He has covered the Red Sox and Patriots for all or part of their 2001,2003,2004 and 2007 Championship seasons .. he was around those teams every week, multiple times a week.
Name one story he broke. Name one story he wrote that was mildly interesting – and no shoehorning a Clemens reference into everything doesn’t count.
He’s basically a non-entity.
mottthehoople says:
The question is: Why was he ever given the Baseball Notes column over Edes in the first place? That column used to be the standard for American sportswriting; now it’s the standard for suckitude.
Two-hundred-fifty-whatever “approves”? As far as I’m concerned, that’s 250 votes from those who don’t know what good writing looks like…or 250 votes from Cafardo himself. Oh wait, that’s the same thing…
Lazy, clueless hack.
A lazy hack that tries very hard to be superior and smug. That’s the important thing to Nicky. Writes the same 4 things every week. He is one of the reasons I canceled the Globe. Why pay for this clown to write nothing on a weekly basis? Another embarrassment in a long line of Boston Media jackals.
SOSH says:
Here’s the sad part: Nick is a world-class guy. I can genuinely say that he’s the nicest guy I’ve met among the Boston sports media and I’ve dealt with most of them. What’s most amazing is that he slams stats like defensive zone rating and range factor, but he attends functions for SABR!
Angry Old Bastard says:
a lazy , boring, oaf…oh yeah, DISAPPROVE!
Big Ed says:
Apros po of nothing:
Do we believe that the subjects of these polls come here to check them out and read the comments? The nature of the typical sports media hack would suggest that they do, which is a good thing. Our plan is working. Oh yeah…’Bwahahahahahahaha.’
keitho says:
Not a big fan of Nick. The guy has done some major ballwashing over the years of former players. And his number 1 of all time Clemens in theory might have the smallest balls of them all. A baseball note section with value would be nice sometime as well.
The Gimp says:
I feel like i lose an IQ point each time I read his column.
This is one of those instances where I’m surprised by the extent of negative reviews. Although I can’t argue with much of this, I find Nick to be relatively benign. I know it’s a sad commentary on the state of local media when I’m voting thumbs up on a guy because he’s not doing any damage, but there it is.
My take on Nick; despite his biases, he reports facts and has a straight-forward writing style. He understands that he’s not the story. He does not engage in hateful, negative, agenda-driven reporting. Unlike Shaunessey or late-stage Borges, I will actually read his stuff when its a topic of interest. Not high standards I know, but there’s not much to choose from out there these days.
Gil Santos says:
A friend alerted me to your piece on the video tape story.I just finished reading it and in a word…..”BRILLIANT.”
I understand people will view me as pro-Belichik in this and that’s fine because I am.
Gil Santos
My comment was meant for Bruce Allens piece and I have no clue how it ended up here.
I’m not in the business of judging other sportscasters or sportswriters.
I’m too busy trying to do my own job and don’t try to tell others how to do theirs.
KF says:
Too much love for Roger Clemens and JP Ricciardi. Disapprove.
Bob Pollock says:
Nick is the most boring TV reporter I have seen. He never offers new information and his columns are equallu innocuous.
Early 90’s cut my wife and I off heading into an elavator to the skyboxes at Fenway. Missed the first few batters…..disapprove! Also, please go write a book about Tom Glavine, instead of putting him the column every Sunday.
Looks like he needs a “press” card inserted onto his top hat…then he can ask FDR what he’ll do about Pearl Harbor.
MarkB says:
Borges-lite. Nuff said.
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← So much for defenses adapting.
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Observations from the 45: a wild time was had by all.
It was with the third failed extra point attempt of the day that I realized the game had lost its damned mind.
I mean, how many Georgia games have you seen with three blown extra points? Later, I started worrying that Tennessee would tie things up and send the game into an overtime that would never end. It was that screwy. Momentum changes that were both so frequent and sudden they caused whiplash, hair pulling mistakes and killer play making – basically, you couldn’t afford to look away or you’d miss something big. And the way it turned out, every bit mattered.
In thirty-plus years, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a crazier game between the hedges. But in the end the Dawgs did walk away with the win. It could have been worse.
And now, on to the post-mortem.
Bobo saw what a lot of people saw Florida do successfully – attack the perimeter of the Tennessee defense – and went after that with a vengeance. That first drive was masterful in making UT have to worry about defending the width of the field.
I really wish Burnette hadn’t been flagged for a false start on Georgia’s next series, because I really wanted to see where that play, with a fly sweep run one way and Gurley going the other, was heading.
The pure joy that Marc Deas, who quit the team earlier this year and then came back, showed after his punt block was great to see.
Seventy or so passing plays and not a single penalty for offensive holding? How is that possible?
The increase in athleticism on Georgia’s defense with the return of Ogletree and Rambo was noticeable (that first interception, for example). But so was the rust and uncertainty that comes with adjusting to the repositioning. Way, way too many busted assignments. And on Tennessee’s last touchdown of the day, Rambo was still facing the sideline looking for instruction when the ball was snapped.
Yeah, take out the special team snafus and turnovers that turned the last five minutes of the first half into a nightmare and the defense doesn’t look so bad. But that’s no excuse for the shoddy tackling I saw throughout the game. And it doesn’t explain Tennessee’s success on third downs.
I’m not sure Georgia ever successfully defended Justin Hunter. Fortunately, Bray either ignored the short, easy stuff Georgia was giving him, or overthrew Hunter a few times.
Catch the damned ball, Woot. Especially that last drop.
There was no excuse for that Patterson touchdown. None.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that Malcolm Mitchell’s career as a punt returner is at an end.
I’m willing to cut Aaron Murray a little slack on his two turnovers. The pick-six came on a tipped pass and the fumble came on a well-timed delayed blitz when the offense was in Predictable Bobo mode. But the main reason I’m generous is that he played so well the rest of the time. Outside of looking out of sync on a couple of throws intended for Bennett on one of those fourth-quarter series that went nowhere, he was totally in control of his game.
Great play from the tight ends, both blocking and catching.
I think people are more impressed with Tyler Bray’s arm than with Tyler Bray, the quarterback. He loves the deep ball and you can count on him throwing a few balls every game that make you go wow, but he deserves his reputation for not handling pressure well. Three straight series with Bray turnovers to end the game testifies to that.
Sanders Commings, of all people, with two interceptions. And both were tough catches. If he can hang on to the ball like that, I like the secondary’s chances to do a lot more ball hawking this year.
That being said, the most misleading stat of the night had to be Georgia finishing +1 in turnover margin. All three of Georgia’s turnovers led to Vol touchdowns. Only one of the Dawg recoveries led to a score.
I’m running out of superlatives for Gurshall. But I get a kick out of Marshall’s one-armed windmilling while he gets his balance. And when it stops, look out.
The o-line performed pretty well. They dominated early, but got a little overwhelmed late when UT started sending the house. And I didn’t notice any painful moments from Theus.
I think Grantham was a little surprised by how well Tennessee’s offensive line played. He almost waited a little too late to start applying extra pressure.
And I also think that Tennessee’s pace on offense proved difficult for Georgia to handle. That combined with some of the defensive rust that came from the rejiggering the defensive personnel left the Dawg defense on its heels in the second half too much for comfort.
I didn’t like Bobo pulling in the reins when the field position went against Georgia. He made it too easy for Sunseri to gamble by loading up the box. But he deserves a lot of credit for pushing the drive that led to the tying field goal at the end of the first half. That turned out to be a huge score.
Speaking of which, how do you screw up two extra points (sure, one was blocked, but the trajectory on it looked low) and nail a clutch fifty-yard field goal?
After the first drive, did Georgia’s offense ever hold the ball for three minutes or more on any series the rest of the way?
I said after the Buffalo game that the Dawgs bringing their “C” game could beat a MAC team by three TDs. It looks like their “C” game was good enough to win a nail biter at home against a mediocre SEC opponent. It’s obviously not going to get the job done against a top ten SEC team on the road.
When it’s not screwing up or pulling in the reins because of field position concerns, the offense looks pretty unstoppable. But special teams are shaky, to say the least. And while I think the defense will sort things out as things settle in, you wonder if that will happen quickly enough. South Carolina’s offense presents very different problems from Tennessee’s and another week of getting up to speed could prove fatal.
On the other hand, it’s not like the ‘Cocks have faced a team with as many threats on offense as Georgia has, so they’ve got their own concerns.
I dunno, I’m starting to think that Columbia may come down to how many times Georgia’s offense has to start inside its own ten.
139 responses to “Observations from the 45: a wild time was had by all.”
I watched the USCe Kentucky game and now my big concern returns to the O line. I watched Clowney and friends pummel the Kentucky o line in the second half. I don’t think Theus and Gates have faced ends that good yet and I am truly worried. UGA will have to get something good out of Gurshall or be in trouble. Murray won’t have much time to stand and decide. D will have to play better too, as I don’t see us getting 40+ on the SC defense. Special teams? Arrrgh is all I can say.
Amen – their D line will give us fits. Maybe we’ll get the same crew from Saturday and we can just hold all game. Otherwise, I don’t expect to see us working too many downfield plays.
biggity ben
I had to work yesterday and didn’t get to watch any games (tivo’d our game) but are we talking about the same USC team that trailed Kentucky in the 3rd quarter and pulled away at the end? Sorry, I know they are good but I just don’t buy what they are selling yet. I guess it’s just our job as UGA fans to expect the worst.
Watch the replay. Clowney beat their left tackle like a drum in the second half. USC just slept through the first half, like UGA against FAU.
I conjure the image of Theus going against Clowney (or even Taylor, for what it’s worth) and it just plain hurts my gray matter. This next game calls out for something that has yet to be unveiled by the offense: the screen game! Think of Marshall out there in the flats with some effective WR blocking. Then, as that starts to gain traction, jam Gurley up the gut on some draw action. Well, whatever the braintrust works up for the Dawg offense playing a super-hyped style devoid of ball security will likely spell doom in Columbia(e).
THE RETURN OF THE SPRINT DRAW, BABY
The most troubling sight was the three successive runs on UGA’s own goal line. I know that Marshall and Gurley can each break loose as they showed last night, but playing conservatively at that point flipped the momentum to the Vols and led to being tied at the half. Even throwing a pick 6 in that situation may not have been worse than what happened. I wouldn’t say that Morgan has the yips yet but he needs to be practicing PAT over and over as it looks like he has distance down. He did looked as surprised as anyone else when he hit the 50 yarder though.
This, plus pretty much everything the Senator wrote above. I wonder if the back up place kicker ought to be doing the extra points and letting Morgan handle the FG’s? Surely our back up kicker can knock down PATs with regularity, right?
And he smacked the Holy He** out of that FG. I think it counts from 60 yds.
I was disappointed in our defense yesterday. It seemed like several times in the second half the players were lining up late and looking to the sidelines when Tennessee snapped the ball. Got to get better to beat Carolina.
One thing that was really obvious was just how slow the Tennessee secondary is. On both Marshall touchdowns and Gurley’s long touchdown, the safeties had angles but Gurshall blew past them every time. Probably the biggest indictment, though, was on the 2nd Bennett touchdown where he took a slant 30 yards untouched. Bennett’s not slow but he ain’t Malcolm Mitchell (aka is white).
“Gym Rat.” The term you’re looking for it “gym rat.”
Actually, Bennett is pretty fast…not quite as fast as Mitchell or Marshall, but he can move with anyone in the SEC.
Fans around me were getting down on Bobo a bit. I didn’t see it. I’m not sure what the right plays to call are when you’re starting inside the ten. He’s an idiot either way, right? If we go five wide and give up another fumble sack for six points that’s just stupid. If we run up the middle and try to get a little room. That’s predictable. Folks – please dazzle me with some playcalls you’d like to see us run from the endzone. Hey- what about that 44 flatback rooskie?
Some dude in the stands near me was whining about how predictable we were when we handed off to Marshall on his last long TD.
I sometimes wonder if Bobo gets restricted parameters from Richt near the end of the game. I will agree that it’s hard to watch us sputter in the end of games, but running the ball and grinding the clock late in the game is my preference over spreading the field in the 4th quarter.
But spreading the field and mixing passes and runs at several points of attack is how we scored 51 points on last night. The drives where we stalled were when we were paralyzed by fear and ran Marshall into the pack. Yes, Marshall can run through the pack, but only if there is a threat of a pass or a sweep or whatever to keep the other side’s D honest.
I see no reason to stop doing what is working (in this case, using all our weapons on offense, a great mix of passes and runs) because of the clock, unless you truly have the game completely put away – I mean like three scores with five minutes left.
Not making first downs is what gives the other guys a chance to climb back into the game. It’s what gives them hope, and shifts momentum. Every time we move the chains, we can figure on another two minutes of clock running out. Last night, passing was working because running was working, and running was working because passing was working.
But if we don’t run our best offense, regardless of where we are on the field, then we don’t make first downs. That is just intuitive to me. Run the offense that has the best chance of making first downs, the same offense you’ve been running all night. Keep the ball away from them, and move the chains to run the clock.
Perhaps the biggest advantage is you send the message to your team and the rest of the cfb world that there is no play the GA Bulldogs are afraid to run because of field position. We are bold and confident. This does not mean embrace the strategy of running more often on passing downs and passing more often on running downs, which I believe we have been guilty of going overboard on from time to time, only that we will not stop playing our game because we’re afraid we might screw up.
Did I beat that horse sufficiently to death? 🙂
Nailed it my friend. We have, almost, an unstoppable offense. It will not be shut down by anyone but ourselves. I don’t mean to say we will continue to average almost 50 with the schedule coming up, but we are a DC’s nightmare with all the holes they must plug. Unless we do as you say, and go one dimensional. We don’t have the OL to successfully run the ball into the middle of the line when they know it is coming. And if I did, it would be with Boo.
Very good posts by both of you guys.
I understand what all of you are saying. I’ll point out that Tennessee’s longest drive of the first half was 58 yards for a field goal – and somehow they hung 30 on us. The coaches have to look at what we’re doing to beat ourselves and stop the bleeding.
No issue with the call to improve ball security and handling of punts/kickofs that bit us, but allowing TN to extend drives with 3rd down conversions while never penetrating their line is not flukey, it is just getting manhandled. I agree most of that was in the 2nd half but the defense could get more rest by making some plays on 3rd down. Hard to ask the offense to slow down their scoring drives.
I know we came into this year with a lot of confidence in the defense based on last season and the players we had returning but, except for the Vandy game, they have been disappointing. If they can pick their game up, we are going to be a really, really good football team. If the defense is really going to be that porous in pass defense, and get gouged on power runs and QB scrambles, we will not win the East. Some of the criticsm may only be because expectations were so high for them but the truth is, they are performing at a much lower level than the offense. I think they got embarrassed last night and maybe that will be the wake-up call they needed.
Exactly. The offense made the defense look much worse than it actually was with a pick six and the fumles deep in our own territory.
Do that against South Carolina and we’ll have the same result as last year.
Let me amend that:
The offense made the defense look much worse than it actually was with a pick six and the fumbles deep in our own territory.
And the special teams made the whole team look much worse than it actually was.
The irony of fumbling the “b” (the b no less!) as you typed the word “fumbles” was very funny, though!
per ESPN: “That was about Richt could stomach from Mitchell, as he benched him for junior receiver Rhett McGowan, who will now field punts, according to Richt.
“I need him to make good decisions,” Richt said of McGowan, who has fielded two punts for 41 yards this season. “Come up and make the fair catch. I don’t even care if he gets a lot of yards to return. Let’s make good decisions on when to catch it and secure it.””
Richt’s postgame comments pretty much sealed the deal. No more Malcolm Mitchell on punts.
Now, if we could convince the opposing kicker not to kick the ball into the corner at the goal line, we could have something…
One arm windmill. I’ve noticed it.
It is cool isn’t it?
I’m a big fan of the windmill. I’ve wondered what the other team thinks as he’s going by them with that move. If there is ever a collision between him and a safety on a run like that, it will end badly for someone.
I think that windmill further increase his speed and likely distracts the defender.
dawgy45
I remember seeing Knowshon doing the windmill a few times. I think its fair to say that he didn’t have Marshall’s speed though.
Knowshon didn’t have Gurley’s speed either. Those guys are FAST.
Some say Marshall’s getting his balance. I think he’s winding up to engage a higher gear!
Marshall is field surfing
Anyone else notice that the Jarvis groin issue hasn’t gon away? His pursuit on the busted reverse was scary to watch. Looked like he was in low mo, and he pulled up lame. No question he’s not full strength
Didn’t see that, but Branden Smith loafed on that play. He was jogging toward Patterson because he assumed other players would make the tackle. If you watch the replay, Branden finally accelerates but it was too late. Had he given more effort earlier in the play, he would have been in position to make the tackle. Check the replay and watch #1 Branden Smith and his effort on the play.
I’ve been distinctly under-whelmed with the play of B.Smith through his first four games. Is anyone checking on his baking recipes?
I agree Eli. He is not full speed and that isn’t good for our defense
It’s team that has already shown patches of greatness and still has lots of room for improvement. At this point, I think Georgia has the highest ceiling of any team in the country. Can the Dwags keep the awesome while weeding out the WTFs?
Si. Three deep turnovers pretty much kept TN from getting beat by a ton.
There it is./\
Very funny thread over at Sting Talk
http://www.stingtalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66854
LOL! It looks like GTU fans are finally getting some perspective on things 🙂
I want to put 60 on them this year
mg4life0331
Funny, some of them want us to as well. In hopes of firing Groh.
70. why not 70.
Richt won’t let it happen. But we can get 60 before the end of the third, I just know it.
My favorite was the pic of the Spaniards hiding in the Running of the Bulls.
This first page of posts almost says it all.
Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are, that’s funny!
They are in self destruct mode right now, some of them saying Roll Tide and Geaux Tigers.
I am convinced that the refs have been told not to call holding so that there will be a lot of scoring, and therefore, fan interest. I saw Geathers not only get held, but also horse-collared and no flag anywhere. I hate it, because I think it cheapens the game.
I think on the extra points we should either go for two or take a couple of delays to get in our kicker’s range. I think he’ll nail it from the 12 yard line.
Please, no more Malcom on special teams. I don’t want him getting hurt, anyway.
I guess I just didn’t expect SO MUCH “rust and uncertainty” from the defense. I mean, I realize that it’s the first game back for Rambo and Ogletree, but it’s not like they’re a couple of freshmen who just walked out of their dorms for the first time this year and out onto the field against Tennessee. I expected the defense to look a little shaky DURING their suspension, with some first-time starters filling in. But not from a unit that basically played an entire season together last year, and quite successfully at that.
Baccari did gamble on the INT and lose more than once. Perhaps hubris all around explains this whole thing.
It’s not necessarily only Tree and Rambo with the rust and uncertainty. They had been replaced by people who had to move back to other positions. Grantham’s philosophy is to cross-train them so they supposedly know how the whol defense is supposed to operate…yet, obviously, there can be a domino effect of players shuffling positions and it doesn’t take much hesitation to end up with yesterday as a result.
This is a smart observation.
Overall, I think every championship team in college football has to survive a game like this. UT and Dooley saw this as a HUGE game for the program and I think they gave us their 110% best shot while UGA was really looking at this coming week’s game as being the pivotal one. Bottom line, Georgia avoided a slip up against a team that has ruined some big seasons for us in the past.
> To Senator’s comment on Theus, I believe he totally whiffed on his block on Marshall’s fumble which led to him being hit as he was being handed the ball and essentially led to the fumble.
> Getting our punt returns under control has got to be the highest priority for the team. I think we scored on all but one drive that didn’t start within our own 10. I really don’t understand why Brandon Smith has not been used more as he seemed to do a decent job in the past. Mitchell has made really bad decisions on about 90% of his punt returns.
> I was shocked (as was everybody else) on how effectively UT was able to run up the middle. They really seemed to control our defensive line for most of the game (with the assistance of what looked like a ton of holding on Jarvis in particular).
> I don’t recall when UGA has had as set of CBs with better hands than this bunch. The INT by Swann was pretty ridiculous as was Commings’.
Well said, Schmoe.
Dude – Brandon Smith carries the ball like it is cotton candy and can’t be crushed.
Schmoe, I wasn’t impressed with either of Commings’ INT’s. One came on a terrible pass, and luck played a big part on the second.
As for Tree’s game, the announcers made a big deal about the number of tackles, but most came downfield from his position (after they were past him). I’d like to know how many yards were gained on him.
But, more importantly, the defense failed to meet out expectations due to a lack of a constistant blitz. Grantham only brought pressure from the LB or DB three or four times. All were relatively late, and most were effective.
From the start, I expected the defensive backfield to come with their ears pinned back. Even more so when it became apparent that #29 wasn’t getting in Bray’s face. I think that indirectly, this also contributed to UT’s ability to run straight ahead.
A very 2008-like performance all the way around.
Yep. Smelled exactly like ’08 UGA/GT, only the defense eventually stood up this time.
Really like the 2006 TN game which we handed to them after being close to blowing them out, and similar to SC 2011 when we handed them a W.
I think we should just line up at the 30 yard line for PATs now.
+1. Morgan appears to be a great kicker outside the 20.
How many false starts does that take? 5 or 6?
With Jarvis drawing double teams like he did all day Saturday, the table is set for someone else on the other end to get in the backfield and make a sack or two. It sure would be nice for somebody to step up. Tennessee’s offensive line completely controlled the line yesterday. If we get blocked like that all day against S. Carolina, Lattimore will eat us alive.
I was thinking that myself. Waiting for C. Washington to make an appearance.
You’ll be waiting a long time for C.Wash to pick up the pace. Biggest underachiever on our D. I’d put my money on Jordan Jenkins – who’s developing fast.
SOUTHGADAWG88
Jarvis wasn’t double teamed much, if at all in this game.The UT OT’s were oustanding in handling him straight up without any help for most of the game.He may be slowed by the groin injury, but I do agree that we need to have other means of getting after the QB,besides relying on Jarvis Jones’s greatness every big game.
Holding has become an art, not a penalty, this year.
JJ was held only a few times. Antonio Richardson is a bad ass though. He took Jarvis and Jordan Jenkins toe to toe and pushed them off their rush. A lot of credit to him and Juwan James.
Too bad we couldn’t get either one of them in recruiting. Would’ve been a nice
But yes…a lot of holding this year around the SEC…but appears the no calls are going both ways
Shaw is quick as a cat and smart. These teams are both running the ball well. It will probably come down to mistakes, as usual.
If Tennessee hadn’t gotten the 21 gift points, (think of it, that was at least a 20 to 30 point swing the way Georgia was moving the ball on the Vols), this game would have been a huge blow out.
Maybe the mistakes will be cut way down for SC.
Don’t forget, they’ve got a hell of a lot of Dawg offense to worry about too. Right now they’re probably saying “If we get blocked like that against Georgia, Gurley and Marshall will eat us alive”>
Well, I agree we gave them 21 points with the turnovers, but they dropped a sure TD pass, plus they turned it over 3 straight times in the fourth quarter. So, while I felt like we mainly had control, it could have easily turned out otherwise. We survived, which is the main thing.
squarebush
00:09 INT
00:13 TD
02:42 Punt
00:39 Fumble
00:42 FG (End of half)
00:07 End of game
Turnovers and 3-and-outs KILL a defense. I won’t complain about big play touchdowns, those can fire a defense up and put more pressure on the opposing offense. That usually leads to turnovers from the bad guys. We had a lot of chances to put these guys away and didnt do it. Hopefully next week will be a different story.
Morgan must be a golfer because I have seen any kicker hit the “flagstick” as often in one career as he has in 5 games. Someone needs to tell him to aim between the two posts on his short shots. Even when he doesn’t hit them he has been damned close. Isn’t there a foreign exchange student who played soccor that can handle the PATs? And this from a guy who is 3 for 3 from 50+. Damn so many other things to worry about, let’s solve this one. Can’t Kevin Butler be used as a consultant?
Agreed 10000%.
Certainly could’ve contributed to the defense’s troubles. The run defense has to play better next week or we’re in serious trouble.
Kevin Butler said on Dawgtalk after the game that our kicker has so much strength the shorter pats are harder because he has to dial back his kicks. I hope coaches were listening in.
He also said Morgan moves his head forward on kicks. Much like a golf swing, a stable, head-down position is critical to success.
Wasn’t that fault only on the pats and not the field goals? I hope someone was listening and can help Marshall. His field goal skill is amazing.
I’m so tired of hearing crap about Bobo. Our offense is explosive and let’s face it, they picked up the slack in the 2nd half when the D was struggling. I blame the momentum changing on Mitchell’s bad decision on that punt return. We were cruising until that point in the game.
BTW, I love Grantham but I believe he got outcoached in the 2nd half. You have to give credit to UT’s coaching staff. That being said, the Swann blitz was great timing and caused Bray to make a poor decision which resulted in an interception.
Time to move on to next week. Big time environment and we have to step up and play big to win! Go DAWGS!
Pretty silly to criticize over fifty offensive points against an SEC defense.
Pretty damn silly.
Orl Dawg
Yes stop criticizing Bobo. I would like to know when UGA had a more potent offense!!! We can run it or throw it against anyone. So stop criticizing the man making the calls and directing one of the best offenses in the country.
I only remember a handful of passes where TN had close coverage on our receivers all night so passing the ball wasn’t the usual risk, if they give it to you take it. Throw the damn ball, it was open all night and Murray was on target. CMB has to readjust the “traditional” thinking when the game matchups dictate it. In the 2nd and 4th Quarters we owered in the corner and ran into a stacked box.
Cosmic, if you ever get around Charleston SC you must visit Jack’s
Cosmic Dogs in Mt. Pleasant.
Ha! How about that? I will do it – if you live down there I will buy you one of Jack’s dogs, too! My father-in-law has a boat down that way he wants us to come visit. Now that me and Mrs. Cosmic Dawg moved back to Athens a few years ago we’re not that far off…
But then it wouldn’t be balanced. I agree, stick with what is working.
I remember seeing UT sitting with like 9 players within 8 yards of the LOS. They were selling out to stop the run and daring us to throw. And we didn’t do it. That was frustrating.
Mainly talking about late in the game, btw.
I honestly can’t believe you are saying this…..we are the top scoring offense in the SEC and scored 51 freaking points and you guys have the balls to criticize Bobo? Are you freaking kidding me?
Talk about hubris….
All I said was it was frustrating.
We had a few opportunities to win the game but kept going 3 and out and putting it back on our defense to win the game. The offense was playing so well and the defense was giving up drives. I don’t understand why we didnt want to keep the ball with our offense and not give them the chance to win. That’s what I mean.
There were also 3 other people above me who were frustrated about the same thing. Why attack me?
It wasn’t intended as an attack on you personally, but rather directed at all of you complaining about Bobo. If you have to have something to bitch about then complain about our defense with 10 starters back from last year that couldn’t stop the run or the pass.
Hubris would not be my description for it.
section Z alum
it was the best of games, it was the worst of games.
marshall’s speed was astonishing (and as a friend has observed, marshall’s gpa is higher than his 40 time). gurley’s long run was awesome not only because of his speed, but he waited for his blockers, which included rantavious wooten hustling downfield from the interior line. damian swan pulled in that INT like rodman pulling down a rebound. quayvon hicks likes hitting people.
gurley also brain-farted on the kick return. and i think he missed a block that lead to the murray sack and fumble. my man amarlo herrerra was demonstrative in his displeasure with missed assignments on a late urnge td (save for the locker room, please), and assorted defensive goofiness had me banging my head on the floor.
but i’ll take 5-0, baby. go dawgss.
Looks like some parts the game from last season have returned. One is Murray not securing the ball and the other still trying to throw into a tight window with a freshman TB. I would think South Carolina’s defense took note ot those miscues. Fullback play and protection will be required against Spurrier. Special team below average play returned again. I’ll defend Mitchell. He is talented and slowed by an injury, but I’d put him on one side of the ball and leave him. Too much to ask of him to be used like they are currently doing. One thing to close on a receiver, or RB, block and go downfield on a pass route. It is a lot different moving your eyes up to field a punt and glance back down for protection and see where you have a return lane. Would like to see the time Mitchell spends in practice in all 3 phases of the game vs the other players. I fault the coaches for using Mitchell in punt returns.
Maybe I’m partial to the Dooleys and almost attended UT rather than UGA, but I did not see a middle of the field UT team. I was impressed with UT. They lost to Florida, but Florida is a very good team on both sides of the ball. So is Georgia. Tennessee does some damn good things on offense. Their vertical passing game is lethal. I would be very wary of them if they were on my schedule. Tennessee can be a very good team by the end of the season. Derek Dooley has done an outstanding job.
The O line. The run blocking for those freshman back in yesterday’s game was very good. Even Crowell could have busted one. Okay, he could not because after the first tackle he takes himself out. O lineis work in progress but their play yesterday was very good.
Murray throws a pick in Columbia or puts the ball on the ground. Well you can bet South Carolina’s defense will get very juiced. Same on special teams. Can not let turnovers flip the field and give Carolina a short field. They will score. If Georgia puts up 35+ on South Carolina and wins. I move Bama down…somebody has to move if you can put that on Carolina and win.
I haven’t yet watched a replay of UT being called for running into the punter. How did Barber’s acting skills look on TV? Any better than last week?
Acting was as good as last week. This call was slightly more legit than last week.
It was an act, alright. In fact, I can’t remember a college punter as good at that as Barber is. He had Verne and Gary fooled until they watched the replay.
From section 321 it looked like maybe he took a hand to the jersey and went down. Then he got up and limped about halfway across the field before being miraculously healed right before our eyes.
I posted last night when I was angry. It seems like every year the same problems arise. Richt talked about doing extra work on special teams back in the spring. Then fall camp and now five games into the season and still no kick returner? WTF? If they aren’t going to play Scott-Wesley then put him back there and let him practice fielding kicks all week, and while you are at it teach him the where the 10 yd line is and how to fair catch. The D needs a ton of work on stopping the run to get ready for Lattimore and Murray needs to put BOTH hands on the ball when he is getting sacked. That being said I am about over my snit fit and glad for the victory.
Just re-watched the game and here are a few things that stood out to me.
1) Is Marlon Brown suspended, because I didn’t see him. I can’t see him missing those catches Wooten missed.
2) Bobo almost cost us the game with his conservative play calling in the 4th. Our defense was on the field almost the entire last quarter.
3) I am left wondering if USC is going to be able to neutralize Jarvis the way the Vols did. Was that due to their personel matchup, Jones’s injury,
scheme or all/none of the above? Really would like to hear some input on this.
Marlon played, caught the 2 point conversion, and made some key blocks but I don’t remember him being targeted on other passes. He has been clutch so I can only assume he was covered up.
Agree with your point 2nd point, it kept the game close because we refused to take the passes they were giving us. I think TN’s offensive line was much better than anyone thought, they handled JJ with their tackles alone, no double team. I don’t think SC’s line is that good but their DL is better.
“Bobo almost cost us the game”
You people have issues. Please go see a therapist.
He’s referring to the 4th quarter when we were running into a loaded box and going 3 and out over and over and putting the game back in our exhausted defense’s hands. Our receivers are good enough to get that first down and win the game.
I’m fully aware of what happened. I think even with that the Bobo hate is absurd.
I don’t know that all criticism and complaints qualify as “hate”. Sometimes they’re just justified complaints.
The offense played pretty well except for the turnovers, the disappearing act in the 4th, and disappearing under our own goalposts.
The defense played pretty poorly except for causing 4 turnovers (3 in a row to win the game) and causing a few 3 (or 4) plays and out situations. Lots of defensive issues, though.
The offense had a good game though. Doesn’t grant them a free pass from any an all criticism. At least, not for everyone.
West Virgina scored 800 points this week, I think. Did you see those six incomplete passes?
Some folks expect some sort of crystalline perfection, it seems. Who does this? Who do you want to trade personnel with at this point?
I know you’re saying the criticism was focused on specific things. I’m saying it doesn’t matter because scoring 51 fucking points should be enough to override mistakes. Why did we even have to have the starters in late in the 4th? Case in point: How many complaints are there here about the defense not holding Tennessee to field goals in that second quarter? Isn’t that the same kind of situational critique? Yeah, there’s justified worry about the defense in some posts, but because people recognize offensive playcalls better than defensive ones, they give the defense a pass for its situational mistakes while blasting Bobo for playcalls–even while the offense totally carried the defense nearly the whole frigging day!
It’s mind-boggling to me. You want almost cost the game? How about letting Patterson run for a TD on a broken play? How about Rambo not knowing what to do while the play is starting? How about not forcing Tennessee to punt at all in the fourth quarter and allowing them to drive down the field until Bray screwed up and threw the ball right to Commings or dropped it because of the one time all game we got pressure on him?
Be fair and quit dumping all of the blame on Bobo. It’s way past reasonable at this point.
+100 Well said.
The offense did awesome, it really did, but I think it’s fair to award them minus 14 points for turnovers. And you’re right, the difference is that we can see the plays the O is calling better than we can see the plays the D is dialing up in response, and so we ought to be a little more balanced in our critique.
However, the D played a kind of *generally* sub-par game – there was no specific issue that I could see needed a lot of fixing – it was just a malaise across the board. It also looked like they were just getting beat on the line – not that they were out of position or mailing it in or whatever. I may be wrong, as you suggest, I am guilty of not zoning in on D’s specific shortcomings.
But mostly we’re only really talking about one facet of the offense – we have a *chronic* problem of going conservative too soon or when we are deep in our own territory. Nobody’s really been jumping on AM for his fumble and interception too much, or getting on Theus for his missed block, etc. Because these are just issues of execution and they overall did great and hung a lot of points on TN and no single player or . The punt-punt-punt and punt-punt-punt you see in the post above re our drives is a *chronic* and fixable problem, though…
I haven’t seen anybody get really mad about Bobo or the O here today, I just think it’s like watching somebody drive their truck into a wall at 3mph over and over again – you just want to walk up and tell them to put it in reverse…
And listen, if AM had thrown another interception deep in our own territory, I’d be howling that we should have given it to one of the freshmen who’d been running all over TN…:)
Something that sticks out to me when looking at this…
Is how feast or famine the offense was. I think the defense just got worn out. They weren’t playing very well, but I think that the way the game played out exacerbated things quite a bit.
We had a fairly long TD drive then a pick 6, then a one play TD, then a 2:28 drive, then a 50 second TD drive. At that point, the D has been on the field a decent amount, but other than the pick 6, things have been ok. Then punt and a pair of fumbles (at the 2 and the 18). Ouch. Hard to recover from that when you have been on the field for most of the half. And a fumble that the opposing team gets at the 2 (and only because Aaron tripped the guy) is a TD 99% of the time. Then the D forces a quick 3 and out to start the second half and we score 3 straight TDs. They’re pretty quick, but still we score 3 straight. The defense is left out there for basically the rest of the game.
It’s weird that the game went: TD, pick 6, then 3 TDs then nothing for the rest of the half until the last 40 second. Then the second half starts with 3 quick TDs then nothing for the rest of the game. The offense put up plenty of points and I’m not trying to start a whole tangential argument in the middle of an argument, but that is just weird. The offense scored a bunch up front and then did nothing for the rest of the half in both halves. Wild.
We didn’t blitz anyone at all until the last drive of the game when we finally got some pressure on Bray. The rest of the time we tried ti rush four on six and never adjusted to the fact that their OL was stopping us from getting any pressure.
We kept the safeties back so far–I agree with not bringing them in the box, but they were 20 yards deep the whole game–that was impossible to really help stuff the run. This was a Willie Martinez version of the 3-4 if ever I saw one; we essentially played a cover 2 the whole game.
There’s two for you.
Not only that, but if Bobo did pass while backed up and gave an easy pick-six, these self-same gurus would be calling for his head along with the sane people. I’m glad Bobo doesn’t read this short shrift crap of fairy tales and maybes . We would lose all our games and they would disavow making dumbass plans.
Except that (running three straight times) didn’t happen until we were making them use their timeouts with less than 3 minutes to go.
1) Marlon caught the 2 pt conversion and had an end-around run for 8 yards (I think). Wish he had played more.
3) Jarvis said they often had the tackle plus a TE and/or RB on him. So 2-3 guys on him. I also saw Jarvis get held over and over last night. Tackles are apparently allowed to hold him with absolute impunity now. Jordan Jenkins and John Jenkins were the only other players consistently getting pressure when we didn’t blitz. Alec Ogletree, Herrera, and Swann got a little pressure too. We just had trouble getting back there fast enough and our corners were having trouble covering well enough to buy them enough time. UT’s OL also played really well. Wish Ju’Wuan James had picked Georgia a few years ago.
I strongly disagree on the 4th Q conservative play-calling. We had the ball 4 times (counting a drive that started in the 3rd.) First drive ended on a 4th and 6 after a penalty. Second drive was one run and two passes. Third drive was 2 runs and one pass, a pass which should have gotten us the first down if Wooten would have been able to haul it in. 3rd drive was 3 straight runs forcing UT to use their timeouts. Anyone who wouldn’t have ran it 3 straight times there (forcing them to use their timeouts) is an idiot. Last “drive” was a kneeldown. What’s conservative about all that?
Were all the passes on third down? Honestly curious, because it is not the run v pass I think we are arguing, it’s the
run straight
forced into a pass situation
predictability that is frustrating. May be all wet and it just felt that way in the heat of the game.
On the second possession of the fourth quarter, we passed on second and third down, with Murray missing badly on both. I don’t blame Bobo for trying to run the ball the next possession, and, as noted below, the play action pass worked beautifully – Wooten just didn’t make the catch.
I think the bigger problem in the 4th was the defense’s inability to get off the field.
I checked it out on the box score – we did NOT follow this format – I stand corrected. We actually ran and passed about the same percentage in the 4th Q as in the rest of the game.
Maybe because it *feels* that we are simply running into the pile in the 4th quarter and not getting to the edges, as some have suggested?
It was a matter of the circumstances of the game, too. Our defense was gashed, and we needed to run some clock. If Murray hits the passes on the second possession, or Wooten catches the third down pass, no one is having this discussion.
I think I have this figured out…..we hit the uprights on a PAT, we win the game! Bring on the chickens!
I don’t have much to add to the Senator’s and everyone else’s astute commentary, but I will say that the whole timing of the game seemed odd. There seemed to be a commercial or some other break every time the momentum shifted back to us. Never seemed to have a real flow going at any point. It seemed like one of the longest games I have ever attended. At the end I was happy with the win but also happy it was finally over.
Glad I’m not the only one that thought about that.
rocksalt76
Only complaint on Bobo was the playcalling when we were in the shadow of our goalpoasts – it was obvious that they were walking the safties up, and we should have burned ’em for it.
As for Defense, lots to talk about, but I think we may start to see a lot more Jordan Jenkins. He’s a solid pass rusher, and I think may (heaven forbid) start to spell Jarvis on occasion.
If I may be so bold, I propose we just start using the tag #MGAF for Gurshall and others. It’s easier to type than “My God a freshman!”
All sounds good to me.
I didn’t have as much of a problem with Bobo going into conservative mode coming out of our end zone…though I will say that while I like the alternating series between Marshall and Gurley…I wanted to see Gurley in those situations. I love both guys but to me Gurley is more the power runner that might get you a few yards running into the aforementioned stacked line. That might even have been a time to get Malcolme into the game.
My only real complaint with Richt/Bobo was going into the usual conservative shell in the 4th quarter. With the way the defense was playing(not well) compared to how the offense was looking unstoppable..I’m not sure the patented run twice into a stacked line, incomplete pass on 3rd and long and punt strategy was the best odds wise, though luckily it worked.
I was reading on some of the Vol boards where they were bragging about shutting down Georgia’s O in the fourth quarter. I didn’t bother to reply that anyone who has watched any film on UGA for the last 10 years knows that Richt/Bobo are going to go into a conservative shell with a lead in the 4th quarter. No offense to Sunsieri, but it it a lot easier to stop a team when you know they are going to play vanilla.
I’m not sure whether to give UT’s O-line a hell of a lot of credit or wonder if being able to hold on every play can make any group look good.
Sure hope we get the defense and special teams shored up before next week…one of the things that scared me the most last night was that UT was actually able to run the ball reasonably well…which was supposed to be their weakness…and they don’t have a Lattimore on their team..
All of you complaining about “conservative” mode are being ridiculous. We had already had a Pick-6 off of a tipped ball, a fumble on a QB sack and a fumble on a play where the defensive player got to the QB/RB exchange while it was in progress. We had already let them back in the game through turnovers and good field position. Punting to flip the field and playing defense in that instance is good sound football. Unfortunately our Punter and Defense didn’t hold up their end of the bargain.
That was kind of my point…I don’t mind the conservative shell in most games but up until the D finally forced some turnovers in the last few minutes…that seven point lead wasn’t looking too safe. There’s been plenty of games where I’ve had faith that the defense could close out a game…last night I wasn’t so sure. And the turnovers for the most part weren’t caused by playing wild and loose.
My point was that in yesterday’s game, the defense and special teams gave me less confidence to close out the game than another TD or extended drive by the offense did.
I’m far from a Richt or Bobo hater…but you can’t say that when they have a lead even early in the fourth quarter they don’t show pretty obvious tendencies on Offense and make games a bit more of a nail biter and dependent on the defense than they might otherwise.
I am neither hater or constant critic of Bobo, some here are selective readers and go off without loking at the total support people are giving the offense while expressing a point of view about one area where we looked inept. Obviously the defense is the weaker of the two units this year, and that is suprising to all, but that point has been made several times as well. Sometimes people just see one post, or part of a post. The lack of scoring for an entire quarter in a game where UGA had racked up yards in bunches deserves examination. The first and third quarters were outstanding, but as the defense found out in our last two games of 2011, this is a 60 minute game. It was needlessly close at the end and both units fell short in areas, while doing some things well.
Everyone is pleased with the W, but we will not get one next week with the same effort/execution and thus the posts some object to. Best skip over them, or not read the comments following a game, it is much tougher following a loss. That’s when the “fire———“, fools come out in force, not the “I wish we had tried ———” posts.
“I’m not sure the patented run twice into a stacked line, incomplete pass on 3rd and long and punt strategy was the best odds wise, though luckily it worked.”
If Wooten catches the ball on 3rd and 6 with less than 5 minutes to go, the game is effectively over.
True. Didn’t we have two more possessions after that one – not counting the kneel – though? Those were also 3 and outs, right? Sucks when we could win the game on a first down or two (when the defense is tired and struggling) and we can’t get them.
Ending the game with the ball in your hands is much less stressful, IMO. Either way, I’m glad the D finally stepped up, got 3 straight turnovers, and finished the game for us. If they weren’t going to show up for most of the game, at least they made some plays when it mattered most.
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/playbyplay?gameId=322730061&period=4
Ah thanks
So, the Wooten drop was a 3 and out.
Before that we had a 3 and out to start the 4th quarter (up 51-37), gave up a TD drive to make it a one score game, 4 plays and a punt, defense gets a pick, THEN the Wooten drop 3-and-out (in the run, run, throw on 3rd and 5+ mold of 3 and outs), defense forces a fumble, 3 and out, defense forces a pick, victory kneel.
That was a scary ending. We had one first down in our last 4 possessions and it was throwing it on first down. Interestingly enough, we threw 2 downfield passes (and one screen) in the entire second half. One was for 13 yards, the other for 38.
Just for the trivia of it, here are the other first down passes from the game (in no real order):
7 yards
1 yard (screen to Mitchell)
So Murray was 8/11 for 127 yards and a dumb pick that was tipped at the line. Pretty damn good on first down.
That was pretty much my point. I understand running clock and playing it close to the vest when the defense is playing lights out and there’s 5 or 6 mins left in the game. But it seemed to me that we basically went conservative for the whole 4th quarter…I’m happy for the win and think Bobo is doing well this year. I’m just saying that when the lead was down to 7 and we were going 3 and out series after series, we gave UT three series to try to tie or win it and I wasn’t sure the defense had it in them. In my personal opinion in some games you just have to keep your foot on the gas and last night seemed like one to me…but I’m admittedly just an armchair QB/Coach.
Did Malcombe play? I never saw him run, I don’t think. I like to see him in there as well.
UGAIII
When I saw Herschel the first time,
Eight years old against Texas A&M,
Can you believe that?
September 13, 1980.
My Dad, wearing those big puffy earphones,
Said Munson was screaming and yelling about some Freshman.
In spite of all the “mistakes” by the offensive leadership, we scored enough to win.
One would assume we won’t be so ready to tempt the Bitches this week, being that South Carolina has a real football team.
I, for one, am afraid the Cocks are a year ahead of us.
My friend, Jarvis brought everyone back for a reason and it’s coming up. I have to agree with several posters that Jarvis is not 100%. Well, neither is Larrimo’. Our O and D practiced all summer on their own and progressed even further than the team that was better than SC last year. Worry all you like, but don’t lose faith in these guys. They have a plan of their own in this game and we don’t have a clue until gametime.
Our O can beat’em, our D can hold’em. They just have to get a fighting ST effort because ole spittoon will put in some sneaky shit in that area.
Our O and D are a year ahead of SC. We have left the talking to the visor. Time to go and shut him up. You don’t get second chances to do that in this league.
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ROBERT FRANK (1924- )
Idyll in the Woods, Spain. Silver print, the image measuring 13 3/4x9 1/4 inches (34.9x23.5 cm.), flush mounted to masonite, with a Museum of Modern Art Post-War European Photography circulating exhibition label with Frank's signature, in ink, and his typed credit and title, on mount verso. 1951
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The Museum of Modern Art exhibition "Postwar European Photography" appeared at the New York institution from May 26-August 23, 1953. The exhibition then circulated to other museums, schools, colleges, and art associations, according to the museum's original press release. The more than 300 works were selected by Edward Steichen, then director of the Department of Photography, and included photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ernst Haas, Brassaï, and Bill Brandt, among many others.
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President Rodrigo Roa Duterte is accompanied by People’s Republic of China President Xi Jinping inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing prior to their bilateral meeting on April 25, 2019. KING RODRIGUEZ/PRESIDENTIAL FILE PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte could bring up the South China Sea territorial row and the proposed joint oil deal with China in his visit to Beijing later this month.
Asked if the maritime dispute in the South China Sea and the proposed oil deal would be raised, presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo said “issues of conflict” could be “part of the discussion” on the President’s fifth trip to China since assuming the presidency in 2016.
The President’s working visit to China this August will be his second trip to Beijing for 2019 after going there in April for the Belt and Road Forum.
“If it is a working visit, then it refers to discussions with the visited country relative to issues that affect both. Issues that will benefit both countries. Issues of conflict, issues of cooperation, issues of support,” Panelo said.
Malacañang said the President and Chinese President Xi Jinping may also discuss matters concerning terrorism, illegal drugs, cultural exchanges, people-to-people ties and financing.
President Duterte’s visit to Beijing comes in the wake of the Recto Bank incident in June, which the President dismissed as a “little maritime incident” between two fishing vessels.
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The Palace noted that it was up to the President if he would bring up the 2016 arbitral ruling that favored Manila’s claims over Beijing’s in his visit this month.
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DGCA permits off-duty pilots to journey
NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has now allowed off-obligation pilots to enter and travel inside the cockpit on the leap seat (extra seat at the back of where the pilots), relaxing its earlier ban on access into the cockpit through anybody except airline group rostered to operate that flight. The regulator’s modification, which pilots say will decorate safety, now allows team contributors, officials of that airline and met office to journey at the soar seat.
The staffers now allowed interior cockpit will, but, have to clean the pre-flight breath analyzer (BA) exams to prove they may be perfectly sober before being allowed to travel on the leap seat. Similarly, on worldwide flights, they’ll want to additionally clean the random submit-flight BA take a look at to show they did no longer have liquor as they have been traveling within the flight deck.
The DGCA had banned this not unusual exercise after a senior pilot operating with an Indian airline became discovered tipsy in pre-flight breath analyser (BA) check earlier than doing additional team member (ACM, travelling on leap seat in cockpit of a flight that he/she isn’t operating) travel on a Delhi-Bengaluru flight which did no longer have any vacant seat inside the passenger cabin this July. Following this, the regulator had issued an order banning journey of airline officials like pilots and engineers from traveling in cockpits while on leave or while no longer rostered to perform those flights.
Later, the Indian Commercial Pilots’ Association (ICPA, the union of erstwhile Indian Airlines’ pilots) had requested the regulator to revoke this order on the grounds that greater “qualified group member is continually an asset inside the cockpit… it complements the extent of safety and additionally safety in the cockpit. If an emergency situation arises inside the cockpit, the ACM will be of invaluable assistance.” ICPA had referred to the case of United Flight 232 where a captain journeying as ACM “assisted the crew of the flight which had suffered the lack of all 3 hydraulic structures within the aircraft. It becomes simplest with the assist of the ACM that” the flight landed safely.
The DGCA on Tuesday issued an order that allows certain sections of the airline, aviation and met department officers to tour on the jump seat inner cockpits of Indian-registered aircraft. These include: “crew participants; met officer legal by DGCA to perform respectable obligations in cockpit; officer within the ministry of civil aviation of the rank of joint secretary above, who by using distinctive feature of his/her functions may additionally input the cockpit inspection; employee of the plant operator, who has the permission the pilot-in-command (PIC) and whose duties are such that his/her entry the cockpit is vital for safe operation of the plane.”
Among the others now authorized to tour in bouncy seat are: “Officials of airline, who have been deputed for familiarisation of flight for higher realistic know-how and understanding of the features of the gadgets used in the cockpit supplied previous permission has been obtained from the pilot-in-command; any flight crew member of the aircraft operator, who has been legal by means of the aircraft operator and has the permission of PIC, whose presence within the cockpit will be beneficial to the overall safety of operations; duly authorized representative of the manufacturer of the aircraft, who’s required to study the strategies utilized by the pilots and display the units supplied previous permission of the pilot-in-command has been acquired for such entry; or every other individual permitted by way of the DGCA.”
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Additional material found in The Graphic issue dated February 17, 1877, concerning Bulgaria and the Eastern Question.
The first excerpt discusses English policy concerning the Eastern Question, illustrating the complicated relationship between foreign affairs and the feelings of the population at home.
The second is a brief notice of home affairs which gives voice to the concern of the people and acknowledges public gratitude towards William Gladstone.
From Topics of the Week:
ENGLISH POLICY IN THE EAST.—- The speeches of Ministers and the papers which have been laid before Parliament leave no room for doubt as to the course the Government have pursued during the recess, and the course they intend to pursue in the immediate future. All the evidence goes to show that they have sympathised as warmly as Mr. Gladstone himself with the oppressed subjects of the Porte, and have been thoroughly sincere in their efforts to secure the reform of Turkish methods of government. The instructions with which Lord Salisbury started for Constantinople could not have been more precise or firm; and although he was not authorized to threaten the use of force, he had full liberty to take every step short of that extreme measure. Above all, he was to give the Sultan clearly to understand that if our counsels were not adopted we should in no case intervene to save Turkey from ruin. It is difficult to imagine in what respect those who have been bitterly denouncing Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Derby for indifference to the wrongs of the victims of Ottoman tyranny could have given more emphatic proof of sympathy with the general feeling of the nation on the subject. With regard to the future, it seems probable that an attempt will be made to force the Ministry to side with Russia in compelling the Porte to carry out the proposals of the Conference. Even Lord Hartington, in his cautious speech, expressed the opinion that it would be safer not to let Russia act alone; and Lord Granville set forth the same view. Both statesmen, however, evidently believe that if we were to form the strange alliance for which they plead we should not really have to draw the sword, since turkey would inevitably yield rather than meet two such Powers. But this is by no means certain. In a moment of despair, and greatly overrating his own strength, the Turk might defy both England and Russia; so that before having recourse to threats of war we are bound to decide whether, in case of need, we are prepared to give effect to them. There are many signs that the majority of the English people would greatly prefer in the mean time simply to do nothing. In the first place, they do not like the idea of associating in a vast enterprise with a Power which they distrust, and which is capable of stealing a march upon them when they least expect it. Besides, they fear, not without reason, that if we were to fight Turkey we should cause fresh horrors of the kind with which the Bulgarians are already too familiar; and since the Porte has made large promises, and has the most powerful motives for fulfilling them, they think it only fair that the new régime should at least receive a trial. There can be little question, therefore, that Prince Gortschakoff will find no encouragement for his aggressive policy in the reply he will receive from this country. We shall not support the Sultan against the Czar, but we are not at all more inclined to support the Czar against the Sultan; and if the two come into conflict it will be our aim to let them fight out their quarrel by themselves, only taking care that our own interests are not injuriously affected by the conflict
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There has been little doing outside the walls of St. Stephen’s. It is said that Earl Granvillle and Lord Hartington have now definitively resolved to move resolutions in both Houses on the Eastern Question, urging the Government to act in concert with the other Powers, chiefly Russia, in insisting upon the adoption by the Porte of the recommendations made during the Conference. – At a meeting held in Liverpool on Monday, to raise further funds for the distressed in the East, Mr. H. Duckworth, a local Conservative, said the country was under an unspeakable debt of gratitude to Mr. Gladstone, whose conduct was both Christian and philanthropic. If it had not been for him Lord Salisbury would never have been sent to Constantinople.
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Global Content Marketing Is About to Get Sophisticated
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Jane Fleming
Increasingly, business is going global. That means your content must be global, too.
But it's not easy to create content marketing that resonates globally. We've all had that familiar sinking feeling when you realize you’ve got five days to localize a big content asset for a dozen different markets… that waking nightmare at 4am when you realize that cloning yourself is the only feasible option for getting through your to-do list… that moment you finally find a space for a planning call in your global content team’s diaries – only to find that’s because it’s a public holiday in Australia.
All too often, these are the experiences that define managing content across different countries. It can feel like an endless exercise in chasing your tail, wrangling calendars into shape, trying to keep literally everyone in your organization happy – and knowing with a deep, inner frustration that all this is getting in the way of what you’re really here to do.
I’m writing this blog post to tell you that we feel your pain. We’re global and regional content marketers ourselves. We know where you’re coming from – and we wanted to do something to help. That’s why my colleague Christina O’Connor and I put together The Sophisticated Marketer’s Guide to Global Content Marketing.
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We believe that content marketing across markets is a role for people with real passion: a passion for telling stories that resonate everywhere you have a voice — and an equal passion for empowering your local teams to help create it. Taking a sophisticated approach to global content involves building a strategy and a structure that will help that passion shine through. Too often the emphasis is on command and control, trying to manage everything from an overworked centre. In actual fact, global content works best when it’s supported by data-driven insight from a local level, and creative collaboration that can unlock the full potential of your organisation.
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Jason Momoa gets stuck in an elevator for two hours
By Natacha Maloon| 5 months ago
Jason Momoa got stuck in a hotel elevator for two hours on Tuesday.
The 40-year-old actor was at the L'Hermitage in Vancouver, Canada when he documented the entire experience on his Instagram Stories.
Momoa tried to make light of the daunting situation by narrating the ordeal in real time.
"Well, we're stuck on an elevator," he said. "The fire department really doesn't want to show up."
Jason Momoa wasn't thrilled with being trapped. (Instagram)
Momoa was stuck with his dog and a couple of friends for over two hours. They joked about rationing a single bag of M&M peanuts between them.
Later, Momoa's stunt team showed up, but the group were still struggling to escape.
"Just trying to get out, trying to be like Die Hard but this didn't work out according to plan," Momoa joked.
Then part of the ceiling collapsed as the group tried to break it open as a potential exit strategy.
Jason Momoa's stunt team tried to break him out. (Instagram)
Momoa didn't share how he was eventually freed from the elevator but we assume he made it out alive as his last few Instagram Stories showed him happily dining out with a friend. After two hours of no food and water, they were probably ravenous!
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Jason Momoa in Rome in July 2019. (Getty Images for Fendi)
Momoa was recently trolled for appearing to have a "dad bod". The Aquaman actor had the best possible response when the paparazzi asked him about it.
When TMZ approached him at the airport, he appeared to be unphased by the fact that he'd cooped some casual body shaming.
"Oh, that's alright," Momoa said, shrugging it off.
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Home > Who We Are
We work with community foundation leaders from coast to coast to develop their community leadership potential.
We are community foundations leading change.
Communities across the country vary greatly in terms of size, demographics, and environment. These diverse communities make our nation thrive. But our communities are facing new and growing challenges as long-standing issues become more complex, inequities worsen, and new crises emerge.
That’s why community foundations matter. Community foundations are community partners dedicated to improving the lives of people in a defined geographic area. With missions focused on tackling local issues and seizing important opportunities, community foundations are in a unique position to rally the people and organizations needed to make a lasting impact.
Now more than ever, community foundations need to lead change – change that builds strong, resilient communities where all people can participate and prosper.
We are CFLeads
CFLeads is the only national network of community foundations committed to community leadership. Once a small coalition of the willing, we are now hundreds strong with reach from coast to coast and beyond. We help individual community foundations access tools to rally the resources and build the relationships needed to drive progress, and we empower the entire field to create the best possible outcomes for community residents.
CFLeads supports community foundations leading change by:
advocating for a community leadership approach to improve community outcomes
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Our mission, vision and values drive our work.
Our board of directors is made up of community foundation leaders across the country who are working to improve their communities.
Our team is based out of Boston, MA with remote offices in New York state.
We are supported by a network of community foundation investors and private foundation funders.
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May 1, 2019 / GO Brooklyn / Brooklyn news / Downtown / Books
A summer for the books: Brooklyn Public Library beefs up summer reading programs with new funding
By Natallie Rocha
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Libraries across the five boroughs will split a $1 million grant from the New York Life Foundation, the 2019 citywide sponsor for the summer reading program.
The grant from this do-good group will support the Brooklyn Public Library’s free programs that encourage kids to read even in the summer months, when school is not in regular session.
“We look forward to seeing libraries across the borough crowded with students of all ages this summer and are so grateful for the support of the New York Life Foundation as we help children across New York discover the joy of reading,” said Brooklyn Public Library President and CEO Linda E. Johnson.
Lead support for Brooklyn Public Library’s summer reading program also comes from The National Grid Foundation, as well as Con Edison, Macy’s, the Barclays Center and the Brooklyn Nets, according to a local library representative.
“Brooklyn Public Library’s annual summer reading program aims to prevent ‘summer slide’ by encouraging young readers to visit the library and continue reading while school is out of session,” said Fritzi Bodenheimer, press officer for Brooklyn Public Library. “It is estimated that summer breaks will cause the average student to lose up to one month of instruction per year.”
Kids and teens who complete the summer reading challenge will receive two tickets to an event at Barclays Center and be entered into a drawing to win an Apple iPad. Last summer, 152,000 children and families signed up for BPL’s reading program and more than 250,000 people attended the summer reading programs.
The theme for this year’s summer reading program is, “A Universe of Stories,” and the educational programs will coincide with the theme of space exploration, Bodenheimer said. All ages are welcome to attend the launch of this summer adventure in reading on June 1.
“The library is grateful for the grant and major support provided by the New York Life Foundation,” Bodenheimer said. “We are especially excited for the launch weekend, where every one of our 59 branches will have music, story time, scavenger hunts and more!”
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Confronting the Long Crisis of Globalization: Risk, Resilience and International Order
o The nature of risks to global security has changed dramatically since the fall of the Berlin Wall, but our mechanisms for preventing, responding and adapting to them have lagged far behind. While there have been limited efforts to develop more effective international responses, these have been piecemeal and have produced only modest increases in global resilience. This report serves as a think piece to stimulate discussion about possible solutions.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Alex Evans, Bruce Jones, David Steven
Topic(s): Crises, Fragile States, G8 and G20, Resource Scarcity
The fourth edition of the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations was published by Lynn Reinner Publishers on 3 March 2009 and can be downloaded here
"An essential resource for understanding peacekeeping’s contribution to international security."— Stephen Stedman, Stanford University
Concepts and Dilemmas of Statebuilding in Fragile Situations : From Fragility to Resilience
This report follows upon earlier work commissioned by the Fragile States Group to further reflections within the international community on Whole of Government Approaches to Fragile States and Service Delivery in Fragile Situations : Key Concepts, Findings and Lessons. This report will help to promote greater consensus and clarity within and outside the DAC on what state building means in a situation of fragility. Such consensus is essential if international actors are to play a constructive role in this critically important but complex, highly political and nationally driven process.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Center on International Cooperation, Bruce Jones
Topic(s): Emerging Powers, Fragile States
Independent Review of the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States
The Mediterranean crisis and the UN
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COLD PURSUIT
by Hans Petter Moland
Quiet family man and hard-working snowplow driver Nels is the lifeblood of a glitzy resort town in the Rocky Mountains because he is the one who keeps the winter roads clear. He and his wife live in a comfortable cabin away from the tourists. The town has just awarded him “Citizen of the Year”. But Nels has to leave his quiet mountain life when his son is murdered by a powerful drug lord. As a man who has nothing to lose he is stoked by a drive for vengeance. This unlikely hero uses his hunting skills and transforms from an ordinary man into a skilled killer as he sets out to dismantle the cartel. Nel’s action ignites a turf war between a manically unpredictable gangster know as Viking and a Native American gang boss. Justice is served in one final spectacular confrontation that will leave (almost) no-one unscathed.
international title: Cold Pursuit
original title: Cold Pursuit
country: United Kingdom, Norway, United States, Canada
sales agent: StudioCanal
directed by: Hans Petter Moland
film run: 118'
release date: PT 7/02/2019, HR 7/02/2019, LT 8/02/2019, SE 08/02/2019, HU 21/02/2019, IT 21/02/2019, NL 21/02/2019, UK 22/02/2019, IE 22/02/2019, RO 22/02/2019, BE 27/02/2019, FR 27/02/2019, DE 28/02/2019, DK 28/02/2019, NO 1/03/2019, FI 1/03/2019, ES 26/07/2019
screenplay: Frank Baldwin
cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, Emmy Rossum, Julia Jones, William Forsythe, Elysia Rotaru, Tom Bateman, Aleks Paunovic, John Doman, Domenick Lombardozzi
cinematography by: Philip Øgaard
film editing: Nicolaj Monberg
art director: Jørgen Stangebye Larsen
costumes designer: Anne Pedersen
music: George Fenton
producer: Finn Gjerdrum, Stein B. Kvae, Michael Shamberg, Ameet Shukla
executive producer: Michael Dreyer, Shana Eddy-Grouf, Paul Schwartzman
associate producer: Nicolai Moland
line producer: Petter Julian Borgli
production: Paradox Films, StudioCanal Limited
distributor: NOS Audiovisuais, Eagle Pictures, StudioCanal, The Searchers, StudioCanal, StudioCanal Germany, A Contracorriente Films, SF Studios, SF Studios Denmark, SF Studios Finland Oy, SF Studios Norge AS
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Star Trek Into Darkness Boldly Goes Where We’ve Already Been
Filed Under:Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness
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Warning– There are spoilers ahead for Star Trek Into Darkness– if you have not seen the movie yet, you may want to wait until later to read this review.
If Star Trek Into Darkness, the second installment in the new reboot series by JJ Abrams, had to be described in a single word, the best one I could think of would be “sequel.” By that, I mean this is a movie which typifies virtually every negative stereotype we so often see in the second chapter of an ongoing film series. The action is ramped up, the set pieces overly elaborate, the story bloated with more plot twists and cheap fan references to the classic TV series… all at the cost of the charming character moments that made the 2009 film so fun to watch.
Into Darkness begins some time after the events of the last movie, with James Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise on a routine surveillance mission which leads to Kirk again breaking the rules, saving Spock’s life, but ultimately costing him command of his ship for breaking protocol. Just when it seems we’re in for a major shakeup of the iconic Enterprise crew, a pair of terrorist attacks leave Starfleet in shambles and Kirk back in command of the Enterprise, ready to hunt down the man behind the attacks, John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch).
This opening act starts off well enough, despite the first mission being a bit too drawn out and exhaustively action-packed. But it isn’t long before the film begins to fall apart– the Enterprise crew track Harrison to Kronos, the homeworld of the iconic Trek villains the Klingons, before their target surrenders and is taken aboard the ship.
Despite how painfully obvious it has been all along, the movie plays Harrison’s true identity as a “big reveal”– he’s Khan, Kirk’s nemesis from the original series. As the geneticaly engineered superman fills Kirk in on the history of himself and his fellow 300-year-old super humans (the rest of whom are encased in cryo-sleep tubes built into experimental photon rockets), there is a brief moment where Into Darkness threatens to become an intriguing movie, ready to raise some philosophical questions and introduce some welcome shades of grey to its moral center.
Khan paints Kirk a picture of his semi-tragic past, as he was exploited as a living weapon by Starfleet commander Admiral Marcus… All the “terrorist” claims he really wants is to be reunited with his crew and be left alone to complete their mission. Khan is set up as a very overt allegory for modern day terrorists, and the concept that he would be depicted as a layered person who committed horrible acts for what he considered a greater good seemed like a very interesting and mature idea to weave into a blockbuster film such as this. And the conspiracy that comes to light as Marcus himself intercepts the Enterprise with his brand-new Starfleet warship, guns at the ready, only seems to emphasize Khan’s plight as being, maybe, not the villain we expected him to be.
All of this is thrown out the window, in the laziest way possible, as the older Spock (Leonard Nimoy, in an aggressively tacked-on cameo) literally tells Spock and the crew that Khan is their ultimate foe. As soon as that comes to light, any empathy for Khan is immediately forgotten, and his actions turn from mysterious and sinister to over-the-top evil, with no seeming reason for the change. Buried under the manufactured mystery, and saddled with some terrible, stagey dialogue, Cumberbatch’s Khan never feels like anything close to the threat he supposedly is, ensuring the stakes of this film never feel high enough. He’s a blank slate– a generic bad guy, with none of the signature style Ricardo Montalban brought into the role on the classic series and The Wrath of Khan film. Keeping my Trekkie side out of this as possible (although there are plenty of Trekkie quibbles to be had), the new Khan still failed as a villain, largely because this movie seemed to not understand what made him such a great character to begin with.
Fortunately the Enterprise crew remained much more faithful to their characters. Like the previous film, Into Darkness‘ best moments come from the interplay between the cast. There’s a likeability and energy to this crew which makes them incredibly watchable, even in the midst of such a convoluted slog of a story. Many of the character moments still revolve around Kirk and Spock, but their shared story arc does feel different enough from the last film to feel worthwhile. Karl Urban once again steals the show as Bones, the doctor caught in the middle of the perpetual friendly sparring of Kirk and Spock. Bones gets a bit more sidelined in this movie, with many of his character’s “caught in the middle” moments going to Uhura instead, but Zoe Saldana handles her role like a pro and the more action-oriented Uhura is one change that suits this movie well.
Sulu and Chekov don’t get play this time out, but I was most worried that Simon Pegg’s fantastic Scotty would once again get the shortest end of the stick. Not so– Pegg is fantastic, stealing every scene he’s in, and while his comedic sidekick schtick was on point, he also gets some action sequences of his own which are amazing to see. Chris Pine’s Kirk is fine, although when considering his role feels largely like a rehash of the “Kirk needs to learn responsibility” arc of the previous movie. Zachary Quinto’s Spock remains perfect, the best-realized Vulcan character since Nimoy’s original, and he shines especially in his many interactions with Kirk and Uhura. While Quinto is competent in his action moments as well, the big set pieces don’t feel like the right place for Spock, leaving his shoe-horning into many of the film’s biggest action bits feeling tacked on.
As far as the action scenes themselves, they are all fairly well directed and realized. There’s a clear sense of what is going on in each, and from the rumble with a Klingon patrol on Kronos, to a truly thrilling deep-space luge jump, every moment feels unique. However there are a LOT of them, and parts of the overly complicated plot exist solely to connect one action sequence to the next. The end result is a very bloated movie, one so bombastic that I felt desensitized and completely pulled out of the story by the final foot chase through the streets of San Francisco. The volume and intensity of stuff that happens makes this movie feel considerably longer than its two hour run time, and the half-boiled plot twists don’t do it any favors. The first Trek reboot remains remarkably fun to watch, but upon any consideration it’s filled to the brim with plot holes and flaws that become obvious the moment you think about them. Into Darkness is loaded with the same kind of plot holes and nonsensical story choices as the former, but without the sense of wonder and charm that forgave those faults before.
It all comes to a head in the worst moment of Into Darkness, as Kirk sacrifices himself to save his ship and crew in a role reversal of Spock’s death in Wrath of Khan. The scene was clearly intended as a nod to its predecessor, but lacks any of the weight and drama that made the original a classic. Pine and Quinto are fine, but fans had followed Shatner and Nimoy for over a decade before the Vulcan said his goodbye and Kirk screamed the name of his enemy. Here, it all feels empty, and the painfully obvious way that the crew circumvents Kirk’s death leaves the entire scene pointless.
Into Darkness is far from the worst Trek film of all time, but it’s a definite step down from the surprisingly fun 2009 reboot. The cast that’s been assembled for the current Trek still shines bright, despite this movie’s best efforts to bury them beneath CGI explosions, predictable plot twists and nonsensical conspiracy theories. The film ends with the beginning of the five-year mission in which the original TV series took place… while I would absolutely love to see more adventures of the current Enterprise crew on the big screen, they desperately need to dial back some of the bombastic action and let us just enjoy these great characters a little more personally.
–Bill Sencio, CBS Connecticut
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Book Review: Hunger, by Judy Jordan
by Judy Jordan
86 pages, Tinderbox Editions, January 2018
ISBN-13: 978-1-943981-06-9
Review by Donna Vorreyer
It’s not hunger from which one dies but despair
or so the night comes, with its smells of owls and blood,
to tell me.
Hunger is both physical and metaphysical in Judy Jordan’s richly-textured book, and there is no shortage of despair. Jordan deftly uses the eye of a naturalist to bring the reader not only the despair of homelessness, poverty, starvation, and how the world can fail us, but also to give us the hope, rebirth and wonder held in the natural world.
In many of these poems, the speaker takes on the persona of Io. The conceit is well-chosen, as the collection constantly builds bridges between worlds, giving us the realism of city environments and the lives of the working poor alongside hyper-explicated imagery of the natural surroundings of the speaker’s dwelling. As Io escaped to Egypt in order to regain her human form after being cursed, the speaker also must transform, inhabiting a remote and crumbling greenhouse as a way to re-enter the world of the housed and the whole. The first poem in the collection, “Io Moves into the Greenhouse,” places us immediately into this setting:
the acorn-busy squirrels, those bundles of chittery fur
for whom living must seem like nothing
more than moments piled on moments of sheer
terrifying luck. Which is how she felt–except
for the luck—when she moved into the half-collapsed
greenhouse.
Many other poems in the collection preserve and catalog this time of transformation. In the poem “Into Light, Into Another Day,” Jordan takes the reader on a visual walk-through of the living space:
Plate, spoon, knife, cast-iron pan.
Rope I pull myself up with. Futon,
pillow, seams bleeding feathers,
desk lamp hanging by its cord
from the metal hoops beside the one
pair of dress pants, the sun-splotched coat,
water hose coiled on the ice-slivered gravel:
how I name myself now. And this:
flats of plants, flats of bone-flecked wet, black loam,
slim seeds slipped into the soil so rich it breathes.
This world, devoid of most material objects, is rich with the persistent and celebrated presence of gravel, frogs, spiders, mold, and loam. These images contrast with the urban world, which is presented as at odds with this natural one and holds the most terror and unrest. Whenever the speaker is most vulnerable, we are in the world of buildings and people—a judge berates a young black man in a courtroom where all cases go against the defendants; a nation of people take out bank loans / to buy groceries. A hospital has seized a bank account for payment on back surgery, pain / so bad it snapped the thread that tethered the blue sigh / of [my] soul. A light windbreaker having little impact in an unemployment line in the cold and stinging rain.
The centerpiece of the book is the twenty-page poem “ Hunger Moon, ” which chronicles the daily suffering of physical hunger, of new notches on the one belt which holds up the one pair of good pants. Written in a more direct narrative timeline, it chronicles the speaker’s descent into poverty and near-starvation after not being able to pay the high cost of recovering from a catastrophic medical event. The poem gives us both personal history and historical context of hardship, including sections that are about the increasing numbers of “days without food” and a haunting visit from the deceased father:
here to tell me not to give up, here to tell me
of his days of hunger, nine-year-old, hopping trains in 1929,
beggin g work, here to tell me, the body’s an amazing thing.
Now that he doesn’t have one, he should know.
It can take years to die, he’s here to say. He wants me
to know that was the thing that most surprised him.
This section is a tour-de-force, somehow maintaining a clear narrative of homelessness and suffering while including references as diverse as Herbert Hoover, spiders, late-night pizza delivery, and cucumber flowers, yet never seeking pity, never delving into the voice of a victim. The political commentary about the costs of medical care (both financial and emotional) is evident in the text, but never heavy-handed and always presented with authentic voice and detail.
In the third section of the book Green Hand Up Through the Ground, Door Scraping Open, the reader is given poems of possibility, of fertility, of recovery. For this reader, some of the repeated images of the world of the greenhouse lead to a bit of language fatigue. There sometimes didn’t seem to be enough newness in how the plants, the soil, the insects, the field were referenced, although the poems are accomplished and lovely, moving toward a most satisfying ending. In the penultimate poem “Hunger in the Month of Exploding Trees,” the speaker makes a list of things not to fear, ending with
Though every sense is honed to hunger,
gripped by that one thought.
Fear it not.
In “It Happened at Wind Sings, Trees Whisper Farm,” Jordan shares secrets and cruelties of both childhood and the present, observing Strange, the small stones of silence we carry through our lives. This revealing collection breaks a silence and gives voice to viewpoints that are often unheard in poems—those who live invisibly day-to-day, meal-to-meal. Those who can find the beauty in the world even when it has broken and ignored them.
Donna Vorreyer is the author of Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (Sundress Publications, 2016) and A House of Many Windows (Sundress, 2013) as well as eight chapbooks, most recently The Girl (Porkbelly Press).
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Expanded Partnership Helps Students with Disabilities Prepare for Careers Earlier
Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities sent this bulletin at 10/25/2019 01:25 PM EDT
From left to right: Lindsay Thomas, OOD Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor; David Howland, Drew Wills; OOD Director Kevin Miller; Markell Madison; Glenn Wilson; State Superintendent of Public Instruction Paolo DeMaria; Daniela Arrollo-Trinidad; Zachary Gillespie; Tyler Haddox; Nancy Armstrong, Transition Coordinator, West High School; and Maria Angel, Special Education Transition Coordinator, Columbus City Schools.
On Monday, Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities (OOD) and the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) announced the expansion of the Ohio Transition Support Partnership (OTSP) to ensure students with disabilities have support to gain the skills needed for in-demand careers.
Included in the state’s 2020-2021 biennium operating budget this year, the expansion provides approximately 270 additional students with disabilities in Cuyahoga, Franklin, and Hamilton counties with individualized transition services over the next year. The partnership will target an additional 360 students with disabilities statewide in the 2020-2021 school year.
“Career planning helps students identify where they want to go and how to get there,” said Ohio Governor Mike DeWine. “Expanding the Ohio Transition Support Partnership helps more students with disabilities get a great start to successful career paths.”
"The best way to remove barriers and support students with disabilities in viable careers is to offer a pathway to employment as they transition from middle and high school," said Kevin Miller, Director of OOD. “Once they land a job and succeed in the workforce, quality of life improves for people with disabilities, as they gain confidence, become financially independent, and enjoy contributing to their communities.”
Dedicated vocational rehabilitation counselors assist students with disabilities with career exploration and counseling, work-based learning experiences, counseling on post-secondary education, paid work experiences, and job coaching. With the expansion, OTSP is expected to serve more than 4,000 students with disabilities statewide this school year.
“Supporting the diverse needs of students with disabilities is a necessary and important step to addressing equity,” said State Superintendent of Public Instruction Paolo DeMaria. “When students have the opportunity to gain work experience, it enriches their overall educational experience.”
In conjunction with the expansion announcement, Director Miller and State Superintendent DeMaria visited West High School in Columbus. Stay tuned for a video about the visit.
For more information, visit https://ood.ohio.gov/Students-14/Ohio-Transition-Support-Partnership, or contact Julie Hance at 614-781-8724 or Julie.Hance@ood.ohio.gov.
Toledo Job Fair
In recognition of October’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month, OOD is hosting job fairs across the state to connect OOD job seekers with employers, as well as recognize businesses who are committed to an inclusive and diverse workforce.
The third job fair took place at Parkway Place in Maumee on October 17. The event included 29 employers and 115 job seekers. OOD staff were joined by 33 job developers from 10 agencies to support job seekers.
Employers take part in an interactive workshop called “Game Changers: An Assistive Technology Playbook for the Win.”
Stephanie Branco, OOD Vocational Rehabilitation Supervisor and Jill Simpson, OOD Business Relations Specialist.
Planning for the job fair begins nearly one year before the event. Stephanie Branco, who was recently promoted to an OOD Vocational Rehabilitation Supervisor from her former role as a Business Relations Specialist, worked closely with Jill Simpson, who was hired as her replacement in September 2019. The two staff worked together on final details for the job fair. Their transition also included introductions to employer partners.
Eric Muller and Brandon Kramer, both OOD Information Technologists, offer assistance at the job fair.
The OOD Division of Information Technology supports all of the job fairs. Staff provide numerous accessible computers at the events so that job seekers can apply online for positions. “We have helped with a lot of resume printing and some scanning,” said Brandon Kramer, OOD Information Technologist.
“Sometimes we’re helping job seekers establish accounts and save login information,” explained Eric Muller, OOD Information Technologist.
Before visiting with employers, job seekers had the opportunity to get pointers during an employer showcase. A group of transition students from the Penta Career Center in Perrysburg attended. Debbie Winters, Transition Coordinator, explained that for many of the students, this is their first time interacting with employers. Winters explained her goal for the students: “I want them to gain confidence.”
James Clinkscale, State Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Coordinator with the Ohio Department of Administrative Services, talks about job opportunities in state government during the employer showcase.
Employer Partners of Inclusion Awards were presented to Walgreens Distribution Center, HCR ManorCare, Renhill HR on Demand, MaritzCX, and Speedway.
OOD Director Kevin Miller presents award to Amy Conkey, Human Resources Manager and Sheryl Grauman, Human Resource Generalist, Walgreens Distribution Center.
OOD Director Kevin Miller presents award to Brian Brough, Senior Human Resources Director, HCR ManorCare.
OOD Director Kevin Miller presents award to Annastacia Price, Recruiter, Renhill HR on Demand.
OOD Director Kevin Miller presents award to Tori White, Human Resources Generalist, MaritzCX.
OOD Director Kevin Miller presents award to Cardon Rozelle, Centralized Recruiter, Speedway.
Curt Morman, OOD Northwest Area Manager, said, “We had many returning employers and new ones. I hope they leave with an increased perception of the abilities of people with disabilities.”
Left to right: Curt Morman, OOD Northwest Area Manager; Ohio Representative Michael Sheehy (Ohio District 46); and OOD Director Kevin Miller.
Ohio Representative Michael Sheehy (Ohio District 46) attended the event. “So many of us tie our self-worth to a job,” he said. “This work is so important.”
Katie Perry, OOD training supervisor (left) and Teri, Corporate Trainer for Kingston Residence.
Teri, a Corporate Trainer for Kingston Residence, also values inclusive employment. She explained that while she is no longer a recruiter, that she still comes to this job fair annually. Teri’s son Jonathan was assisted by OOD. While at the job fair, Teri saw Katie Perry, OOD Training Supervisor, who was Jonathan’s job developer several years ago. Teri explained, “Katie did a wonderful job assessing Jonathan, getting to know his strengths. She helped explore different opportunities. Meijer was a good fit, and he celebrated his third anniversary there.”
“Jonathan takes the bus to work and schedules his own rides. He washes his own clothes. As a mother, it’s so refreshing to hear his colleagues and customers tell me what a nice young man he is,” Teri said.
When asked her reaction to seeing Teri and hearing how Jonathan is doing, Perry said, “This is why I love this.”
Erica Larkett, Employment Professional with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, greeted job seekers at the OhioMeansJobs booth. “It was apparent the job developers worked hard to prepare people for today. Job seekers came dressed to impress. They had great handshakes. They spoke with confidence and gave their best,” Larkett said. “OOD is doing amazing things. I was proud to be part of the event.”
OOD Works Podcast: Scott Fedor
In episode 6 of OOD Works - the Podcast, Scott Fedor discusses how his life changed in an instant in 2009 when he dove into a lake and broke his neck. Fedor shares his story and philosophy for living in his new book, Head Strong: How a Broken Neck Strengthened My Spirit.
Fedor explains how a man he met in a nursing home told him about the services offered by OOD’s Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation. “A counselor named Janice met with me, and I was amazed at the ways they could help me get back to living a normal life and work,” Fedor said. “As someone who was always career-driven, I knew it would be different, but I still wanted to work. I wanted to contribute.”
Find the episode now wherever you listen to podcasts by searching "OOD Works." Transcripts and MP3 files are available at https://ood.ohio.gov/Podcast.
Angela Kenney Finds Her Stride as a Patient Ambassador
Angela Kenney at her job at Mercy Health Anderson Hospital.
Angela Kenney graduated from West Clermont County High School in 2019. Prior to receiving her diploma, Kenney gained experience as a bagger and cashier at Kroger. She also participated for a year in Project SEARCH, completing an internship at Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati.
Kenney informed Tamara Fultz, OOD Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor, that she was ready for a new challenge. Ben Alexander, OOD Job Developer, worked with Kenney on resume development and references. Learning that Kenney had an interest in working in a hospital setting, Fultz reached out to Mercy Health Anderson Hospital in Cincinnati. Kenney was provided a phone interview for the position of patient ambassador and got the job.
IKRON’s Joey Oakwood provided job coaching to Kenney. She gained communication skills and became independent at her job. “I had the pleasure of supporting Angela as she started her new role at Mercy Health,” said Oakwood. “Through her determination and self-sufficiency, she has done a great job adjusting to her new position, meeting employer standards, and transitioning to natural supports within her work environment.”
As a patient ambassador, Kenney visits patient rooms and takes meal orders on her iPad. “I feel great,” Kenney said. “I was really happy when I got the job, and I couldn’t wait to tell my parents.” She explained that she treated her parents to dinner with her first paycheck and has started to save money toward a cruise for her birthday.
“It has been an honor to witness Angela’s personal and professional growth over the past several years,” said Fultz. “Watching her perform her job as a patient ambassador and seeing the smile on her face was priceless. In my 30-year career, I have had the opportunity to work with many students who hold a special place in my heart. Miss Angela Kenney will always be one of those students.”
Jeff Kenney is Angela’s father. He said, "My wife Carolyn and I feel incredibly blessed regarding Angela's experience and success as a patient ambassador at Mercy Health. In a short period of time, she has learned a great deal and has put many of the skills from Project SEARCH to good use. She has demonstrated to her manager and peers that she is hard working and great with patients. Some days she walks over six miles at work and still comes home with energy, stories, and a smile. We are grateful Angela was given this opportunity to grow and shine.”
If you have a child, 14 years of age or older with a disability, reach out to OOD for more information on how we can help your child with career exploration, skill development, and strategies to get a job after graduation. To find out more, go to https://ood.ohio.gov/Students-14.
Business Enterprise’s Record-Breaking Year Shines Light on Operator Success
The OOD Business Enterprise (BE) Program provides entrepreneurial careers in vending services by licensed operators who are legally blind. The program currently has 93 licensed operators managing businesses in food service and vending throughout Ohio. These opportunities include the management of cafeterias, convenience stores, snack bars, and vending machines in state and federal buildings and highway rest areas, where licensed operators have priority under the Randolph-Sheppard Act and Ohio Revised Code. The program also operates at state universities, colleges, and in county buildings.
The past federal fiscal year marked a record-breaking year for the program, with the largest number of new licensees on record. A total of 11 new licensees were granted, and seven of these licensees are now active operators. The other four new licensees will soon be active operators as well. Congratulations!
Nicole Perrin Proud to be a Business Enterprise Operator
Nicole Perrin, Business Enterprise operator, fills her vending machines at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Nicole Perrin has been a licensed Business Enterprise (BE) operator since 2017. A native of Dayton, Perrin retired from a career in corrections in 2009 when she began having issues with her peripheral vision. At first, she thought her eyes were “playing tricks on her,” but a vision-related accident caused her to seek out a doctor. A diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa was made. Perrin tried to continue to work without revealing her vision challenges, but this proved to be difficult.
Perrin worked with Margaret Jane Worth, OOD Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor with the Bureau of Services for the Visually Impaired. Perrin tried a couple of different telework positions, but explained these did not work for her. She said, “I just had to get out of the house.” With a friend already involved in the BE program, Perrin decided to look into becoming an operator.
Worth said, “Nicole was motivated, proactive, and very committed to her training. She completed the training with flying colors. I am happy to have been part of her success.”
Today, Perrin is a proud BE operator with 42 vending machines at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. “It has changed my life,” said Perrin. “I walk differently. I talk differently. I don’t have to hide the fact that I’m visually impaired anymore. I used to be so nervous and scared of losing my job because I couldn’t see in front of my face. I had a heavy heart. Now, I am so proud. I take pride in my machines. People appreciate me being there. I make my own hours, and I am the proud owner of my own business, Nik-Nak Vending.”
Perrin went on to say, “If you are thinking about the BE program, know this is a chance to change your life. Being a BE Operator is an opportunity to own who you are and not be ashamed of your disability. This is your chance to make the world a better place.”
If you are interested in becoming a BE operator, visit https://ood.ohio.gov/Programs-Partners/Programs/Business-Enterprise for more information. If you are interested in having the BE Program assess your site for potential vending, please contact Christy Hauck, BE program manager, at 614-438-1278 or Christine.Hauck@ood.ohio.gov.
OOD and Ohio AgrAbility Partner to Bring Second Farm Life to Don Hazelton
Don Hazelton using his action track chair.
Don Hazelton worked as a Court Handler for General Motors for many years. In 2009, he decided to leave to work fulltime on his family farm in Continental where they grow corn, soybeans, and wheat and raise hogs and steers.
Hazelton began working with OOD in 2018 following a spinal cord injury. Working on the farm had become difficult, and Hazelton relied on his family for support.
“When Don came to us, he was losing hope,” said Rachel Erford, Hazelton’s OOD Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor. “He was about to quit and hand the family farm down to his son.”
OOD has a partnership with Ohio AgrAbility, which is part of a national program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that promotes independence for people working in agriculture, who want to continue to farm after experiencing a disability. “We have been extremely fortunate to work with OOD on behalf of farmers with disabilities,” said Randy Joseph, Rural Rehabilitation Supervisor for Ohio AgrAbility-Easterseals Serving Greater Cincinnati. Joseph explained, “Our program’s goal is to provide education, resources and technical assistance to those individuals and their families so they may continue to be successful in agriculture.”
Ohio AgrAbility partnered with OOD to complete a farm assessment for Hazelton. Based on his needs, Hazelton received an action track chair, flatbed and running board lifts for his truck, an air ride seat system, and a ramp for the entrance to his home. Hazelton can now independently navigate his workshop, truck, and farming equipment. He shared that the assistive equipment improved his stamina, reduced physical pain, and increased mobility. He also reports being able to reengage with his local community.
“To see things come together for him was an amazing process to witness,” said Erford. “It was truly life changing. He now can completely and independently work the farm, and there really is nothing he can’t do.”
“I have a whole new lease on my farm life,” said Hazelton. “I use everything, every day, and I can’t imagine a day without any of it. It has truly been a blessing.”
If you want to keep working or find out more about employment assistance that OOD can provide to individuals with disabilities, visit www.OODworks.com for more information.
All About Accessibility: Livescribe Echo Smartpen
Assistive technology is leveling the playing field for people with disabilities in workplaces and classrooms. The Livescribe Echo Smartpen allows users to write, record, and play back using a small, smart device.
The smartpen records what a user hears and writes. When the recording is needed, the user can easily access the material from the pen’s on-board storage. This is helpful for users who struggle to listen and take notes at the same time as well as for managing at a quick pace. The smartpen comes with companion software for organizing and sharing notes.
If you are interested in borrowing this smartpen or other assistive devices, check out Assistive Technology of Ohio, a part of the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University.
For more information about Livescribe products, visit https://www.livescribe.com/site/livescribe-2/echo/.
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Programs provided by Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities (OOD) are funded, in whole or in part, with federal grants awarded by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). For purposes of the Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Program, including Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS), OOD received 78.7% of its funding through the DOE VR grant. In Federal fiscal year (FFY) 2019, OOD received $99,548,657 in federal funds. Funds appropriated by the State covered 21.3 % of the total costs, or $26,942,648. Of these federal funds, $14,932,299 is set aside for Pre-ETS. For purposes of the Supported Employment (SE) Program, the DOE SE grant funded 90% of the costs for the Supported Employment for Youth with a Disability Program up to the grant amount and 100% of the costs of regular Supported Employment program costs up to the grant amount. In FFY 2019, OOD received $297,857 for SE Youth with a Disability and State appropriated funds paid a small amount more than the remaining 10% or $33,192 of the total costs. In FFY 2019, OOD received $297,857 in regular SE grant funds. For purposes of the Independent Living Services for Older Individuals Who are Blind (OIB) Program, the federal grant received from DOE in FFY 2019 paid 90% of the total costs incurred under the program. In FFY 2019, OOD received $1,153,208 in federal grant funds. Funds appropriated by the State paid over the 10% required match or $130,000 of the total costs incurred under the OIB program.For purposes of the Independent Living (IL) Program, the federal grant received from HHS paid 90% of the total costs incurred in FFY 2019. In FFY 2019, OOD received funding of $640,571. Funds appropriated by the State paid 10% or $71,175 of the total costs incurred under the IL Program.
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Denbighshire Housing Tenants have been awarded for their achievements at the first ever Denbighshire Housing Tenants Awards ceremony hosted in Rhyl recently.
The awards, arranged by Denbighshire Housing, was held at the 1891 restaurant in Rhyl and celebrated the achievements and participation of tenants from across the county, for the work they do within their communities and projects that are happening across the County.
The entries were shortlisted in the eight categories. The winners were:
Communal Garden of the Year award: Trem Y Foel Residents Association, Ruthin
Trem y Foel tenants have been working together planting various, bright and seasonal plants, ornaments, hanging baskets to create a place that can be enjoyed by everyone. The tenants have had recognition for their garden through the Wales in Bloom and Ruthin Garden Show for Community Garden of the Year.
Tenant Garden of the Year award: Angela Carrington-Roberts
Angela is known locally for her ‘green fingers’! Her garden has been part of the National Garden Scheme, which gives visitors a unique experience to her gardens, as well as raising money for various health charities. Her planting incorporates both hardy and seasonal plants, giving all round appeal to anyone that walks past. She is also very environmentally aware so recycles rain water and has her own compost.
Community Project of the Year award: Friends of Pengwern, Llangollen.
Working with the Nature for Health project, the Friends of Pengwern have really helped improve the local, natural environment and wider community. Their work has made a real difference in their community, bringing people together to look after their local and natural environment, while encouraging others to take a pride in their community. Project activities include dry stone walling, community woodland, willow weaving and so on. The group are now leading on this and working with the Woodland Trust.
Housing Resident/Community Group of the Year award: The Marsh Community Association, Rhyl
This group are made up of residents from the local area who voluntarily run The Phoenix Centre on Rhydwen Drive in Rhyl. The have created a safe and welcoming place for residents of all ages as well as delivering an activities programme that is making a difference to people’s lives. Working with third sector groups, activities include homework club, movie nights, gardening club, job club and so on. Feedback from residents include; “volunteers always have a welcoming smile”, “people here are always happy to help”, and “it’s a bright a cheery atmosphere as soon as you walk in”.
Denbighshire Housing Customer Service of the Year award: Shirley Rippingale
Shirley has recently retired after working for Denbighshire County Council, and living in sheltered housing for 18 years. She has been described always going above and beyond, in everything that she did as a warden. Her commitment to delivering excellent customer service to tenants helped increase community engagement and tenants feeling safe. Organising community activities, in her own time, making sure everyone were included and has access to supportive services and organisations.
Tenant of the Year award: Stuart Nield-Siddall
Over the past few years, Stuart has experienced some challenges in his personal life which he has overcome and look at straight on. His commitment and enthusiasm to voluntary work in his local community, has helped support him living an independent life and making a difference. Local residents and communities really praise his voluntary work in Coronation Gardens in Rhyl and the Golf Club and they think very highly of him. As well as volunteering, Stuart really enjoys attending self-development cooking classes, giving him the skills and confidence to live a full and independent life.
Young Tenant of the Year award: Bethan Owen
Bethan’s passion for wanting to give people an opportunity, make a difference and learn new skills are just some of the reasons that she decided to run her own karate club in Rhyl. She wanted to provide a chance for people, who couldn’t perhaps afford mainstream prices or 12 month contracts, who wanted to develop themselves, have a change of scenery and to learn karate. The karate club offers a weekly meeting place for families to come and chat, become fitter as well as bringing the community together. Volunteering in the community is also really important to her, which is why she is also a police cadet. She has won a number of awards nationally, including the Pride of Sport Award, the Prime Minister’s Point of Light Award, two International Martial Arts Hall of Fame, Under 16 Female UK Martial Arts winner, UK Hall of Fame, finalist in the St David’s Award and this May, she will become the UK Martial Arts Magazine winner!
Denbighshire Housing Award: Gina Jones
As Chairperson of the Marsh Residents Association and a valued member of her community, Gina took it upon herself to make a difference in her community, challenging stigma. She took over as Chair in 2017, when the Phoenix Centre was at a low point and has worked wonders ever since. The centre is now thriving and new faces are coming through the door. Working in partnership with third sector organisations, has been key in delivering a wide programme of activities and courses benefitting everyone. Thanks to Gina and her passion for making a difference, the centre is personal, engaging and has changed people’s lives.
Jamie Groves, Denbighshire’s Head of Facilities, Assets and Housing, said: “We were honoured to host the first ever award ceremony, to recognise and celebrate the achievements of our tenants. The panel was delighted at the quality of the applications which showed the vast amount of good work going on in communities county-wide.
“There are some great examples here of tenants making great efforts to look after their properties, as well as some exemplar community projects that help improve the life of residents living in their community. Their hard work, commitment, drive and amazing efforts help the housing team to provide a great service to tenants.
Geoff Davies Lead Officer for Community Housing told the packed audience about the vision for Denbighshire Housing is to invest in council homes and neighbourhoods to the highest standards, working with tenants to agree priorities but recognising that people then make communities great places in which to live.
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July 24, 2013: Chromecast TV Dongle Debuted
Jeffrey Powers @geekazine Affinion Group, aggregator, AMD, Android, ati technologies, caldera international, chromecast, continental airlines, Credit card, damages, day in tech history, dongle, dr-dos, fandango, Google, IOS, leo laporte, loyalty program, novell, parent company, Podcast, priceline, remote, senate commerce committee, shutterfly, technology history, us senate, vertue, webloyalty 0 Comment July 23, 2019
2013: Google put on a “Secret Town Hall” meeting. Nobody knew what was going on, although some speculated it had to do with the TV. In their major announcement, Google introduced Chromecast – the HDMI-based set top box that was small enough to plug into the TV and not see it. The 2.83 inch dongle could stream YouTube or Netflix (at the time), along with a feature that turned your Android or iOS device into the remote.
The video would push to the TV while the mobile device could continue on searching, playing games, and more.
Chromecast debuted at $35 with 3 free months of Netflix.
It’s whats known as “Data Pass”. You went up to Orbitz, Buy.com, Fandango, Shutterfly, Priceline or Continental Airlines and purchase something. You are then asked if you want to be a part of the loyalty program. If you say yes, the credit card would be passed to a 3rd party affiliate, like WebLoyalty, Vertue and Affinion. They would then continue to bill your card. This issue broke lose in 2009 and the US Senate commerce Committee started looking into the issue.On Aug 10, 2010, Affinion (parent company to Data Pass) agreed to pay 8 million in damages. An additional $2 million would be paid between 5 – 3rd party companies that included Classmates.com and FTD. A small amount to the millions they swindled for years…
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CT exchange wants to require broker commissions for health plans
by Arielle Levin Becker
Staff at the Access Health CT enrollment center in New Britain. (File photo)
Officials at Connecticut’s health insurance exchange want to require insurance companies that sell health plans through the marketplace to pay commissions to agents and brokers next year, a move aimed at restoring the assistance for exchange customers.
Last year, 40 percent of Access Health CT’s private insurance customers signed up through agents or brokers, who were paid a monthly fee by insurance companies. But insurance companies stopped the commissions for plans sold through Access Health in 2017.
Access Health CEO Jim Wadleigh said between 8,000 and 10,000 customers who had coverage in 2016 but did not sign up for 2017 coverage through the exchange had used brokers in the past.
“It’s having an impact to our enrollment,” Wadleigh said. The insurers continue to pay commissions for plans sold outside the exchange, and it’s possible that customers who did not sign up through the exchange this year picked plans sold outside the Obamacare marketplace.
The exchange’s board is expected to vote Jan. 26 on a proposal to require insurers participating in the exchange to pay commissions in 2018 to brokers who are certified by Access Health. The proposal doesn’t specify the size of the commissions, which are paid out of the premiums customers pay.
Keeping prices down for customers was one reason Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield cited last year to explain its decision to stop paying commissions for exchange plans. The company also said a low percentage of its individual-market business came from brokers, and that the exchange has tools that allow people to shop on their own.
Anthem spokeswoman Sarah Yeager said this week that the company will follow the guidelines the exchange determines. She did not comment on whether the requirement would influence the company’s decisions about whether to offer coverage through the exchange for 2018.
ConnectiCare, the other insurance company that offers coverage through the exchange, said a requirement to pay broker commissions would not impact the company’s decision to participate in 2018.
Tim Tracy Jr., a Fairfield insurance broker and president of the Connecticut Chapter of the National Association of Health Underwriters, praised the proposal.
“We feel this is a great first step to helping the consumers of Connecticut have access to the expert guidance and support they deserve,” Tracy said.
Wadleigh said many brokers have assisted exchange customers this year, even though they are not getting paid for the work.
Planning for 2018 coverage is already underway, despite considerable uncertainty about the future of Obamacare, which led to the creation of Access Health and provides hundreds of millions of dollars in federal tax credits that help state residents pay for insurance. The exchange is working on developing templates for the health plans to be offered next year, while insurance companies that want to sell policies through Access Health must submit proposed rates to the Connecticut Insurance Department this spring.
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Racial disparities persist in CT health care, two groups find
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Despite efforts, significant health disparities remain between state's residents of color and white residents, two new reports found.
Lawmakers are wasting no time seeking public input on a proposal to erase Connecticut’s religious exemption from mandatory vaccinations. They have scheduled a public hearing on the plan for Feb. 19 – just two weeks into the legislative session. A draft of the bill is expected to be released next week.
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Bowers Firing Reverberates
Published by Waldo Jaquith on December 4, 2005 in Politics and UVa. 24 Comments
The story of UVa’s firing of Dena Bowers continues, with UVa saying Bowers wasn’t fired for what she said, but how she said it, dozens of people holding a rally for Bowers on Friday, and the Associated Press picking up on the story today. The document that she sent from her UVa account was an NAACP document reviewing some effects of the charter plan, but it was not labeled as being a non-university correspondence. When the e-mail was widely circulated by a recipient, some of the additional recipients apparently thought that the document reflected the views of the university.
The trouble with Bowers’ firing is that, in the minds of some charter critics, it confirms (rightly or wrongly) their fear that legitimate concerns about the landmark change in university autonomy were being swept under the rug or squelched. Worse still, some university staff have worried that their employment will be more tenuous than ever under the charter plan, with Bowers’ dismissal for a seemingly-minor violation being seen as a sign that that might just be so.
24 Responses to “Bowers Firing Reverberates”
perlogik
I was once told that if your going taut the bulldog don’t so him your hindquarters.
If they can get away with this firing there will be quite a chilling effect to be sure. Even if she can sue to get here job back it will have an effect.
Sorry, thought I fixed that.
If your going to taut the bulldog don’t show him your hindquarters.
cville_libertarian
How about “taunt”? ;-)
I was thinking more along the lines of, “don’t bite the hand that feeds”. I do think UVa raises a legitimate issue WRT the “official nature” of the communication.
It’s one thing for those of us who are employed in other functions to be making broad political/public statements, critical of our employer, about something like the HR aspects of the transition; it’s a different thing for an official from within HR. The burden is on her to distinguish “hats” – which hat was she wearing at the time?
I think there is a fair bit of jurisprudence to back up the notion that her employer can reasonably expect her public statements, when acting in her capacity as that employer’s representative, to follow official policy.
I guess the facts are out still, but Ms. Bowers has only herself to blame if she blurred the lines. I expect UVa’s case to be quite solid – I would be very surprised if they took this step without reviewing the “evidence” with counsel at length. If they didn’t review it carefully, then it will raise quite a stink. My impression of these matters has generally been that UVa offers and respects quite a bit of latitude in these matters. We’ll see the evidence soon enough.
I do not believe we will be seeing any “chilling effects” from this. I know there has been an open and frank discussion of this change in my department, electronically and otherwise.
Bowers didn’t disseminate the e-mail. She sent it to one friend, who knew she was sending it as a friend. Unfortunately this recipient forwarded it to another friend, who forwarded it to everyone. UVa then jumped down the second friend’s throat, threatening him with who knows what if he didn’t explain it wasn’t official correspondence. Then UVa went after Bowers who, according to them, didn’t jump high enough. Personally I can’t blame her if she dragged her feet. UVa is almost as imperious as the Bush administration when it comes to dissent, and I wouldn’t want to cave to them either.
Like all uva faculty staff and students, Bowers agreed to an acceptable computer use policy that forbids doing what she did. Sure, there was a chance they wouldn’t notice or wouldn’t care, but there was a chance she would be punished too. Either her politics are more important to her than her job so she did it knowingly, or she was just being ignorant. Either way, it was her choice to take the chance. Does anyone really think that an employer should sit by while its employee uses the email system you gave her to get her work done to instead spread negative infomation about her employer? I can’t think of any instance where that would be acceptable. Hack wants to glorify Bowers for dragging her feet and fighting the man, but if the man you hate is your employer, how can they thrust you to work in their best interest at your daily tasks, and why would you continue to accept their pay and benefits? It sounds to me like Bowers was fired justifiably.
Moral: be very careful about what emails you send out, whether to one person or to many, using your official email and with your e-signature on it. It was risky of Bowers to send personal emails on a .virginia.edu address and with her official HR signature attached–UVa technically owns that email address, it’s not like it’s hers to do with as she pleases. (That’s why I have a 2nd, non-UVA email for my personal email.) I
it may be true that Bowers sent her email only to one person, who then multi-forwarded it, but she should have known that the email could possibly have then been forwarded out to multitudes. I read in one of the stories that the friend asked, before multi-forwarding, “do you want me to take your sig off?” and that Bowers said no, leave it on. That seems to me to mitigate her innocence of the multi-forwarding offense–if she had only said “oh, yeah, that’s not official HR communication, so take it off before you forward it.”
cville_skeptic
I have reviewed the documents in this case. Dena sent an email that was clearly personal in nature to a colleague who asked to see an NAACP report on the possible effects of charter. The attached report was clearly labeled on the first page: “Prepared by the Charlottesville/Albemarle NAACP.” Dena’s email was one sentence long, contained two grammatical errors, and there was a quote from Margaret Mead beneath her electronic signature. The email bore no resemblance whatsoever to an official university communication, and anyone who is familiar with official university communications would agree. Moreover, the person to whom the email was addressed understood that the email was personal in nature and that the report was an unofficial document.
The person to whom Dena sent the email forwarded it to several individuals without Dena’s permission. One of those individuals forwarded it to another individual, who then forwarded it to 275 classified employees.
The university has already said that Dena did not abuse her email account: there is nothing wrong with sending a personal email to a colleague using the university’s email system. The university claims instead that Dena endeavored to misrepresent her email as an official university communication. The only problem with this argument is that a review of the evidence demonstrates that she did nothing to misprepresent her email. As I’ve noted above, everything about the email and the attached report conveyed that these were personal and unofficial in nature. The fact that her electronic signature was attached to the “incriminating” email does not change that, since it takes more than an electronic signature to make an email “official.”
The sad fact is that the university has fired Dena based on trumped-up charges. They did this for three reasons: to rid itself of an outspoken critic among the classified staff; to send a message that it will brook no dissent as the management agreement is being pushed through the General Assembly; and to slow the rise of the Staff Union, which under Jan Cornell has become an effective advocate for UVa employee rights (Dena has been one of the union’s most active members). Based on my conversations with classified staff, the firing of Dena Bowers has already had the intended intimidating effect.
UVa is a state agency and, more important, a major research university. Freedom of speech is the essence of the institution. The firing of Dena Bowers strikes at the core of this institution’s values and its employees’ rights.
From more closely reading the news of this mole-hill turned political stunt I found:
Bowers was given an opportunity to clarify that the e-mail was not sent in her official capacity at UVa, but she “expressly declined” to do so.
UVa then fired her based on her “uncooperative, disrespectful and insubordinate” conduct.
If these two facts are true (both come from official UVa statements), then she had every chance to not get fired over her misuse of her university email account (and it was a misuse according to university policy). Instead, Bowers chose to put her politics above her career and refuse her employer’s request to clean up the mess she had made either willfully or absent-mindedly. Apparently this is what got her into the real trouble, not her email, but her subsequent insubordination. I don’t think anyone would argue that an employer (state institution or otherwise) doesn’t have a right to fire an insubordinant worker.
This case is really far from the anti-proletariat strike so many are now portraying it as. It seems a lot of people have just been waiting for an excuse to politically savage UVa for whatever interest of their own.
urbanitas is just dead wrong when he claims, repeatedly, that Bowers misused her university email account. If urbanitas had closely followed this story from the beginning, he would notice that uva has changed its tune: initially, they accused her of abusing her email account, but when they realized that would not fly — because she did NOT abuse her university email account — they added the trumped-up charge of “inubordination.” If a person has done nothing wrong, why should they agree to “renounce” what they did? This is the crux of the matter. Apparently, urbanitas believes that the uva administration can do no wrong and that employees of the university should jump when their superiors say jump even if doing so amounts to a renunciation of their personal opinions and values. Bowers did not create a”mess.” She sent a personal email that others forwarded and that someone, somewhere, somehow may have misinterpreted. If that is grounds for firing, then the university would have few employees left.
urbanitas should stop relying on uva’s press releases and study the (feeble) evidence in the case instead. To accuse Bowers’ defenders of merely looking “for an excuse to politically savage UVA” is to dismiss the serious issues involved in this case. Freedom of speech may not matter to urbanitas, but it matters deeply to the university community.
Missing from this conversation is the concept that a good employee is one who gives an honest opinion rather than a CYA response blithely agreeing with an employer’s dictates.
DaveNorris
Also missing from this conversation is any thoughtful discussion about whether the punishment meted out to Ms. Bowers was in any way proportionate to the offense she is alleged to have committed. Let’s grant for a moment (which I do not) that she did violate UVa’s e-mail policy, and/or was insufficiently contrite when confronted by her superiors with this “violation.” Especially in the context of her long track record of exemplary service as a University employee (as reflected in 10+ years of positive employee evaluations), doesn’t it seem like a more appropriate punishment would have been a written reprimand in her employee record, or (at worst) a brief suspension? UVa’s decision to take the drastic step of terminating this long-time employee for such a relatively minor infraction is what is feeding the suspicion that Ms. Bowers was treated differently because of (1) her history of speaking out for workers’ rights and/or (2) the specific subject matter of the e-mail in question.
UVa would do well by its public reputation by agreeing to review the proportionality of the punishment accorded Ms. Bowers and, one hopes, ultimately re-instating her to her position.
Waldo Jaquith
Well put, Dave. If what UVa says happened is true — she sent out this e-mail and then refused to correct it — then I have little sympathy for her position, and can’t see that this kerfuffle is emblematic of anything. But, yeah, firing a 17-year UVa employee for something like this seems totally out of scale. Presumably, UVa could have sent out their own correcting e-mail, she could have been sent on a few weeks of unpaid leave, she could have been reprimanded, and she could have been denied future promotions, raises, etc., given her lack of cooperativeness.
But firing? Based on what we know, it just seems like too much.
Good points, Dave and Waldo. I wanted to add that UVa DID send out an official email (from Yoke San Reynolds) repudiating Bowers’ forwarded email and the statistics contained in the (clearly labelled) NAACP report. There was nothing for Bowers to do once San Reynolds’ email went out to all classified employees. The charge of insubordination was merely a pretext for firing Bowers, since the charge of having inappropriately used her email account was unsupported by the evidence.
TrvlnMn
I’m arriving during the middle of the movie on this one. So I’ve only got one question.
Can anyone provide links to online material with regards to the “Charter Reform” issue?
What’s the difference between how things are done now, and how they’d be done under a “Charter Reform” situation?
I’ve heard the term bandied about in the news and media, but they’ve never bothered to elaborate on the changes or issues. Equally it could be I’m not looking in the right places for the info, so any assistance would be appreciated.
Uncle Johnny
The firing of Dena Bowers can be reduced to a question of selectivity: If the administration selectively enforced an ambiguous email policy, then they are probably acting out of retribution for Dena’s past activism or to preclude future criticism of administration attempts to undermine worker well-being.
We should ask ourselves: Would Dena have been fired for sending out an email in precisely the same format if it had praised “charter”?
There is also the empirical measure, and perhaps some fellow bloggers with UVa accounts can be of some assistance in this regard: Do many employees send out personal emails, perhaps with automtic signatures on them? Can anybody name a single person who has ever been fired for sending out email, much less a single email to a single colleague?
Uncle Johnny wrote:
Can anybody name a single person who has ever been fired for sending out email, much less a single email to a single colleague?
I’m assuming you mean at UVA? It’s a fair question. And other than Ms. Bowers, I cannot answer it for the UVA work environment.
However, I worked at a company where 3 people were fired (One executive and 2 assistant’s) for forwarding an email outside of the company. It happens all the time, that’s why there’s the I.T. department with all the snoop software.
Rule number 1, don’t send personal email at work or from work accounts.
So, cville_skeptic – you seem to have first hand access to all the evidence, but here’s a question: I’m classified, and I got nothing from Yoke San Reynolds about this; what’s the “real” story? I don’t think you know any more than the rest of us.
I believe Urbanitas is right about the policy – that is very directly relevant to my professional capacity at UVa. I’m also familiar with the balancing act of proportionality that Dave is suggesting, particularly with regard to questions of use policy, in my professional capacity. You are flat out wrong about that – it’s not that she didn’t technically violate the policy at all – she did.
I know that I was involved in a struggle against UVa a few years ago on a very specific issue, completely unrelated to my professional (and friendly) relationship with them as an employer, and very deliberately established a non-UVa infrastructure for those of us working against them (on this one issue) to use instead of our UVa work accounts – just to keep everything clean and by the book. All of us who were involved in that effort and also had a UVa affiliation were careful to change hats at every step. This is just common sense.
My total guess – I have no personal knowlege of this case, nor am I in any way even indirectly involved – is that UVa backed away from that justification because of the uproar it would create – and the difficulty they would face trying to make it stick – most likely because of unequal enforcement. I know, again in my professional capacity, that there is no way UVa can (at this time) effectively police all electronic communications. It’s bascially handled on a complaint/reaction basis. The chilling effect on and rebellion from faculty who would immediately cite the need for academic freedom in their communications would raise a lot of very difficult questions. It’s exactly like the pornography question. I think they prefer to let that sleeping dog lie. What Bowers did is nonetheless a techinical violation of the policy – and from what’s been publicly revealed, including your version, it doesn’t seem Bowers can claim that these communications were even tangentially related to her job duties (as a member of the faculty might while viewing pornography).
I’ll wait until the facts come out – everything else is pure speculation. If Bowers has anything close to a case here, it’ll go to court and we’ll get to learn all about it as the facts come out. I resubmit: I suspect that UVa would not have taken this action rashly – no matter how angry they were – without getting some assurances from legal counsel that they were on very solid footing. You don’t go after a high-profile target, my goodness: an HR critic from inside HR, without covering your bases.
Bowers, meantime, is an idiot – whether or not her firing ultimately sticks. I don’t care a whit whether she “only sent it to one friend” or not – it takes all of 60 seconds to set up a private email account off the UVa system (say, hmmm, gmail?). If she’s been so involved in the union effort, she, of all people, should be aware of what are potentially fireable offenses and of handing her adversaries one of them to use against her. Of course, she could have decided she wants to test the strength or enforceabiltiy of the use policies, and that’s fine: then she’s taken a calculated gamble.
To TrvlnMn and Uncle Johnny – I believe people have elected to leave UVa quietly due to various use policy violations although, again, I have no personal direct knowlege of such a person. You are absolutely right about rule #1 – do not mix your work accounts with your private ones – if for no other reason than for guarantees of privacy.
A follow-on to Uncle Johnny – in my experiece, UVa email accounts are used broadly by everyone for almost every type of communication on a regular basis. I think that’s likely why they backed away from that as cause. It would very likely be a case of extremely selective enforcement. Even attempting to enforce this would cause them no end of headaches. It remains, however, a technical violation of the use policy as written now. If Bowers’ objective (on advice of counsel) is to challenge this policy, then I’d bet she’d win. If her refusal to admit such a violation is the basis of the insubordination charge, as cville_skeptic suggests, then maybe that gets tossed out too. I’m not a lawyer, I wouldn’t know.
TrvlnMn – the difficulty here at UVa (and anyplace large) is the volume/scale of the mail system – like taking a sip from a firehose. Even limiting pornographic spam is a challenge. So, what to do when someone who never views porn ever gets a spam mail containing porn and it opens up automatically on their computer, and someone walking by reports it? These are very tricky issues to be “fair” about. A small company could conceivably monitor this, but more likely they learned of the forwarded email by some other means, and then tracked the logs to see where it had originated.
A general disclaimer: the information I provided above about the mail system is all publicly available via ITC’s website – what filtering they do and how it works – although some background knowlege may be required to understand the implications of what’s been posted. If someone had not forwarded the original to someone in the administration (either in the originial 275 or one of those people), in my opinion, it would never have come to anyone’s attention.
cville_libertarian: you would not have received San Reynolds’ email unless you are classified staff in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Also, cville_libertarian: Can you identify the exact policy that you believe was violated? A lawyer from the Law School has gone looking for a policy that Bowers violated and can find nothing definitive on UVa’s web site. At this point, UVa is not claiming that Bowers violated email policy, so I don’t understand why you keep claiming she did.
The issue to my mind is: Did Bower endeavor to misrepresent her personal email as an official university communication? The answer is: no, she did not,.
cville_skeptic:
No, I’m not in CLAS – I was responding to your blanket statement as written. It didn’t have that caveat.
From the online Appropriate Use Guideline:
http://www.virginia.edu/registrar/records/ugradrec/chapter5/chapter5-2.htm#equipment
“The intended use of all accounts, typically for university research, instruction and administrative purposes, must be respected.”
Personal emails are not research, instruction or administrative.
That’s why I said that. The intended purpose of the equipment is for any empoyee or student to carry forward their work at the University. There is a specific (explicit) prohibition against commercial uses, mainly because private parties complain bitterly, frequently and loudly about “free advertising”, and they’ve got a point. It’s my impression that this is where most of the practical enforcement effort has been made; people have complained to their delegate, and the complaint has come back to UVa by way of Richmond. In my limited experience, these, harrassment and pornography complaints have been the chief focus.
I am not an employee of ITC though and I don’t purport to give the definitive answer on this – they may handle all sorts of things quietly.
I said very clearly, this would be an almost impossible “cause” for them to enforce – it is so obviously selective – a subpoena for a sample of messages (if you could get it) would quickly reveal that a very high percentage are personal in nature. If she wants to challenge this policy, she’d either win, or we’d have a significant change in the system (or perhaps both).
But, I don’t think that’s the issue – I think you’ve got the issue exactly backwards – she had to endeavor to avoid the appearance of conflict. First, she creates, perhaps unintentionally (so just negligence, not malfeasance), the impression, by virtue of her name and job, that this is from an official channel/outlet of the university. The @virginia.edu is like letterhead. I think the obligation is on her to make that distinction clear – that she was not speaking for her employer, but as a member of the NAACP and Employee Union – she was obviously aware of this or she wouldn’t have asked the original recipient not to forward the email, or to at least remove her “sig line” from it. She could just have easily sent it from “@suuva.org” or “@naacp.org” – either would have made it very clear which hat she had on. I believe the onus is on her to be careful to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest – a labor lawyer can answer that.
What happens to the University’s liability under the following scenario:
– Bowers, in her capacity as a recruiter (according to the papers) sells an applicant on the new system as a positive attribute, a system under which they will have wonderful benefits and get ahead.
– the applicant is hired but discovers that the new system is terrible for them, and they’re trapped with no real opportunity for advancement.
– then the hire then comes across the negative report out on the web, with her UVa address on it, and gets angry.
Is that person entitled to bring action against the University for a kind of false advertising (your own HR person knew this was lousy!)?
Secondly, clearly she’s using UVa’s resources for potentially adversarial pursposes – whether or not that email went to a friend or not. Does the memo/report contain information not otherwise available to the public (ie, that would require her position for access)? I don’t hear that she’s going for whistleblower protection here. It seems to me that this is more akin to using the office copier to run off pamphlets calling for a strike against the boss. You can run off all the pamphlets you like, but you can’t use your employer’s copier and paper to do it (that these are ‘just electrons’ is meaningless – there is plenty of expensive hardware holding those electrons).
Is the law professor in question a labor lawyer? I am not a lawyer, so I don’t know what the requirements to show cause are in VA are, but with respect to the legal issues with IT that I am aware of, she was leaving herself vulnerable – the account, systems and data do not belong to the individual (that’s pretty clear) – they belong to the employer. Using the account for a purpose deemed to be actively counter to the employer’s interest, especially where there is a potential conflict of interest, is skating on really thin ice. This wasn’t an email responding to a relative’s questions about Thanksgiving dinner plans – which you seem to be equating it to – the nature of the email itself changes this, a lot.
Like I said, you seem to have seen the evidence and I haven’t, but based on what you and others have said, I’m betting she loses. Deborah Wyatt is a great attorney though, and we’ll get to hear how this plays out.
On the Policy, a bit more from the DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
POLICY NO.: 1.75
EFFT. DATE: 08/01/01
USE OF INTERNET AND
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (a really long title, no? What we get with a governor from telecom):
The distribution of electronic communications is difficult to
control and routing mistakes can easily occur. Copies of
electronic communications can be forwarded without the
sender’s knowledge or permission to unintended recipients.
Therefore, electronic communications should be drafted and sent
with at least the same level of care, professional judgment and
discretion as paper memoranda or documents.
See my point? Who has the burden of resolving ambiguity here? Now, as an IT person, I am somewhat aware of this; a Lecturer in the English Dept. in the College might not be – a professional from Human Resources should be (I mean, look at the title).
bmwgirl
I guess if Dena had sent out a cake receipe under her electronic signature would she have been fired? Doubtful. What I want to know is why the OTHER two people involved who ALSO sent this email out under THEIR electronic signatures weren’t fired also? BECAUSE DENA WAS TARGETED AND THEY WANTED TO GET RID OF HER. They were furious that this very damaging NAACP report got out to the public. And that is the bottom line. And if I had been hassled the way Dena had been you’re damn straight I would have been far more “insubordinate” than Dena ever was. But in the end it will all play out in a courtroom. All of UVA’s dirty laundry will come out then. It will be fascinating I’m sure.
I guess if Dena had sent out a cake receipe under her electronic signature would she have been fired? Doubtful.
That’s a really good point. It shows that UVa’s approach to this likely wasn’t content-neutral.
It’s called “selective enforcement”. And I am quite sure this was done to Dena. It doesn’t really matter if should she or shouldn’t she have sent the email it’s the fact that the U decided they couldn’t tolerate her criticism of their precious charter bill. There’s only about 15,000 other faculty and staff that use their UVA emails and their electronic signatures all day long for personal stuff. And of course the NAACP report had NAACP written all over the front page so the dummy that sent it out to 275 people couldn’t have NOT known it was NOT an official document from UVA. Guess he was trying to save his own butt from being fired so he made that part up.
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Score One for Musk!!
We've not been friendly to Elon Musk. His cars suck, his tunnel ain't so hot, and he's made a great living by sucking up Gummint dollars.
But he's dead-nuts right on the most important issue.
...“Most people think we have too many people on the planet, but actually this is an outdated view,” said Musk.
“Assuming that AI (artificial intelligence) is fine — we’re assuming there’s a benevolent future with AI — I think the biggest problem the world will face in 20 years is population collapse,” he continued.
“Collapse: I want to emphasize this. The biggest issue in 20 years will be population collapse, not explosion, collapse,” he added.
Ma said in response: “I absolutely agree with that, the population will be facing a huge challenge.”...
"Ma" is Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, an ultra-large e-retailer.
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Your Government: All CYA, All the Time
Once again we remind you: Buy. More. Ammo.
[General Michael] Flynn’s defense lawyer, Sidney Powell, notes two significant issues: (1) Ms. Powell is being denied a security clearance she needs to review all of the documents in the case; and (2) the DOJ is refusing to provide the original FBI notes from their interview of Michael Flynn on January 24th, 2017.
Given the stench emanating from Obama's DOJ, Obama's FBI, and Obama's NSC, this is not a surprise. But it sure as Hell notches UP the distrust-meter, doesn't it?
The defense attorney suspects (probably correctly) that a real judge will flat-out dismiss on Brady, misfeasance, malfeasance, and maybe perjury grounds.
That's not good enough; the perps should be executed.
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Local Rag Skews Issues to (D)'s Favor
This may come as a shock to you...but the kittylitter-liner is pulling another distortion. Get ready: it makes the Republican legislature out to be the bad guys.
Shocked?
The online headline (cannot be copy/pasted):
"Taxpayers' Legal Tab in Fight Over Lame-Duck Laws Tops $1 Million."
Now, then. Why IS there a "legal tab"?
Because the Democrat Party stamped its widdle feets and hired a bunch of lawyers in a futile attempt to overturn duly-passed and -signed laws. That's why.
The Republicans had nothing to do with TONY EVERS' HISSY-FIT COSTING TAXPAYERS $1 MILLION WITH MUCH MORE TO COME!!
Google Demands NHTSA Cave In....
Gotta admit these guys have a lot of chutzpah. They're allies of Communist China, AND they don't give a flying fart about your safety on the roads. But then, you're only an American. Deplorable dirt. Who needs you?
Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc., on Thursday urged the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to "promptly" remove regulatory barriers for cars without steering wheels and brake pedals....
We already know about "self-driving" stuff. Boeing's "self-flying" plane killed a few hundred people, remember??
Google can purchase a test facility and equip it with their own employees crossing streets, and their own children darting out from between parked cars. And don't forget to cover the test-roads with snow and ice during the winter.
Jackwads.
Clannish Catholics?
The Remnant's Michael Matt reports as follows:
Thanks to Fr. Z and his blog, Unite the Clans is now a hashtag, and seems to be catching on!
Posted on 26 August 2019 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
It is time to #UniteTheClans
The editor of The Remnant, my friend Michael Matt, has begun to promote something called
Unite The Clans!
What he is asking for is that Catholics who are on the traditional side of things should set aside small differences and work together – intelligently, strategically – to accomplish goals....
I have a question for Michael and "Fr. Z":
What does The Wanderer think about this??
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Save Money on Electricity!! Only One Hitch.....
Apparently the Sierra Club thinks we are as stone-stupid as they are.
The Sierra Club says Wisconsin’s largest utility could save ratepayers millions of dollars by shutting down its coal plants.
In testimony filed on behalf of the environmental group, utility analyst Paul Chernick estimates We Energies has lost an average of $98 million a year since 2014 operating its South Oak Creek and Elm Road plants, while WPS Corp. lost roughly $40 million on its share of two plants....
So, see, based on their guess that coal plants "lose" money, well......see....scritch scritch scratch.........through our magic tricks, ratepayers could save $138MM/year.
Attention, K-Mart* Shoppers!! Blue-Light Special!! Save $138MM!!!!
Yah, well, there's only one little-bitty hitch here....
...He argues it would be cheaper for the utility to replace both plants with wind, solar and storage resources....
So there's no guarantee of electricity.
Here's the conversation:
"Hey, honey!! I want to watch the Packers game--is the wind blowing? Is the sun shining?"
*Yes, I know K-Mart is out of business. That's what Wisconsin will be if the morons at Sierra have their way.
Vaping THC.....Not Smart
We kinda suspected that the hospitalized vapers were all using THC cartridges, and it looks like we were right. These not-very-bright kiddies thought they could get a cheap high AND not be obviously smoking dope.
Early reports buried that information (except Channel 6), probably because the reporters didn't ask the question--or because the stoners wouldn't admit it.
There are lots of "stupid" jokes told about dope-smokers. Looks like validation to me.
The newspaper? They concentrate on the "millions" of profit made by dealers. Talk about irrelevance.....
Cheap Labor, Useless College, WallyWorld, and....Mitt!!
Yup, all in one story!! We'll start with WallyWorld.
Walmart is outsourcing 569 finance and accounting jobs in North Carolina to Indian contract workers, spotlighting the expansion of the H-1B program from software jobs to accounting, healthcare, and design...
Next is the "useless college" part:
...The work is being taken over by Genpact, whose Indian H-1B workers will join the army of roughly 900,000 resident H-1B workers throughout the United States. The firm is a spin-off of General Electric, and it uses cheap Indian graduates to transfer may U.S. college-graduate jobs to cheaper Indian worksites....
Tell us again how a college degree increases lifetime earnings. Go ahead. We'll wait.
Oh, and about Mittens...
...Bain Capital became Genpact’s largest shareholder in November 2012, with the strategic objective to grow the company further. Since December 31, 2005, we have expanded from 19,000+ employees and annual revenues of US$491.90 million to 87,000+ employees and annual revenues of US$3.00 billion as of December 31, 2018....
That's Mitt's old hangout. They've specialized in dumping Americans to the curb for decades. Something to be proud of, no?
"Red Flag" By Other Means
Interesting parallel to the proposed "red flag" laws here.
A Colorado teen has been told he cannot return to school until authorities hold a “threat assessment hearing” after he went target shooting with his mother. Nate Evans, a junior at Loveland High School in Loveland, Colorado actually got a visit from police after he posted video of his plinking with his mom Justine according to the Colorado 2nd Amendment group Rally For Our Rights....
Huh? What??
Quoting the "Rally.." people:
[The mother] immediately contacted the school assuming she could easily clear things up, especially since the police had already assessed the situation and realized no one had done anything wrong or made any threats. She was wrong. The school not only refused to provide her with more information about the “threat”, but they refused to provide Nate with schoolwork so he doesn’t get behind. A “threat assessment hearing” has been scheduled for Thursday morning at 10am at the school admin building where Justine will be allowed to defend her son against SEVEN school officials who will be in attendance to, as she was told, “make their case”. ...
OK. We have an anonymous tip describing a target-shooting kid as "a threat." He is not allowed to confront his accuser(s). He is not allowed to return to school and in addition, is not allowed to keep up with his school assignments pending "trial" by a bunch of administrators.
He was "red-flagged", friends. Somebody has a grudge (or there is a melted snowflake out there) and they screwed this kid right to the wall.
Perjurer Claims "Defamation"
Jimmy, the man (?) who went from Director/FBI to (we pray and hope) Inmate/Leavenworth.
...I don’t need a public apology from those who defamed me, but a quick message with a “sorry we lied about you” would be nice....
Up yours with a meathook, jackwad.
Amazonian Weather Prayers
As far as we know, the "Amazonian Synod" called by Pp. Francis will not directly address the "climate crisis." (Yes, I know, it's not a "crisis." Yes, I know, it's merely another get-rich-quick scheme cooked up by all the Usual Suspects in 'academy' and government--plus the grifter-contractors such as Elon Musk.)
I digressed.
Here's how Ancient Amazonian Region tribes handled climate problems.
...Archaeologists have discovered the bodies of 227 kids at what they believed is the largest child sacrificial site ever recorded.
It's believed the youngsters were killed as part of a ritual to honour gods and stop bad weather in Trujillo, Peru.
The children - aged between four and 14 - were killed approximately up to 1,400 years ago and buried in a mass grave in Huanchaco, northern Peru.
Pictures released by the experts show some of the skeletons have skin, hair and were wearing silver earmuffs....
Remember: Pp. Francis believes that we have much to learn from Amazonian natives.
Opioids: Another "Free Money" Game for States?
The "Free Money!!!" lawsuit-game is back!! Update: This case--if upheld--has serious consequences for gun manufacturers. Keep reading.....
This week, an Oklahoma judge ruled that Johnson & Johnson should pay $572 million to “abate” a “public nuisance” the company created in that state by minimizing the hazards and overselling the benefits of prescription opioids....
(Didja ever notice that those $$$Umpty-Millions never seem to get into the hands of the taxpayers of the States?)
Anyhow.
...A 2018 analysis of medical records found evidence of “opioid misuse” in 1% of patients who took pain pills after surgery. While studies find that misuse is more common among chronic pain patients, a 2016 New England Journal of Medicine article concluded that “rates of carefully diagnosed addiction” average less than 8%.
That study, which was co-authored by Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, noted that “addiction occurs in only a small percentage of persons who are exposed to opioids — even among those with preexisting vulnerabilities.”...
Never mind the facts. Just stuff that money into the pie-hole of Gummint, where it will undoubtedly do the most good.
The Raconteur, who works in emergency medicine, has a few more observations which SHOULD have been considered by the judge (read this link for more colorful language....)
...1) Opiate deaths are overwhelmingly caused by heroin and carfentanil (street-cooked synthetic fentanyl, i.e. acetyl fentanyl), - typically the two in combination courtesy of street level pharmaceutical distributors - not by prescription opiates of any kind. I'd spitball it's at a ratio of about 99 to 1, but I may be low-balling the actual numbers for the true percentage of overdoses by street opiates (i.e. it may be 999 to 1 or 9999 to 1).
2) The LD50 of RX-grade fentanyl being unknown, using the [J&J]-made Durgesic patches above would require you to slap eighty of them on full-strength, just to get to the highest dosage of Rx tablet. And even then, that still wouldn't kill you....
Here's the part which has to do with gun manufacturers (and auto manufacturers, too):
3) I don't care if J&J blanketed the airwaves and beamed their ads into your head from space, and gave away multiple truckloads of free samples to every MD in the Okie State, and sold every RX pill they ever got: They are marketing a legal product for legal usage, and the actions of others are not their fault, in reality, or morally, ethically, nor legally, since ever.
Blaming the makers of a legal product, in an excruciatingly highly-regulated trade, for the misdeeds of others using completely different items, whose only similarity is a chemical class, is simply utter horseshit. Such jurisprudence is the hallmark of mental retardation and absolute professional incapacity.
Hmmmmm.
"Tested Positive." Give 'Em "Red Flag", Too!!
So let's get this straight. You want to give Government even MORE powers?
...The Maryland resident spent 82 days in jail after he was arrested December 29 and accused of bringing a controlled substance into the country. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers who searched Haughton's bag upon his arrival to Baltimore/Washington International Airport said the honey he was carrying tested positive for drugs....
...He stayed there until March when the charges against him were dropped after a second test in a Georgia lab found no signs of drugs.
"Once I came out, all my insurances collapsed, my credit was destroyed," he told the affiliate. "I lost my job, everything. They just left me a mess."
The father of six told WJLA he lost two jobs while sitting behind bars....
No apology from Government. In fact, the prosecutor still maintains that there was 'no error' made.
Why sure, these characters should have "Red Flag" powers. Why not??
Pp. Francis-Rousseau?
Pp. Francis' gang in the Vatican will be pushing the grievously-flawed "Will of God" statement, originally issued by Francis and one of the Muslim Imams.
The Vatican has created a special committee to draw out the principles contained in the controversial Abu Dhabi document, signed last February by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of al-Azhar. ....The text was subsequently criticized by prominent theologians for “devaluing the person of Jesus” and “undermining the gospel itself” since it seemed to propose that God willed the existence of a plurality of religions just as he wills a plurality of sexes, races, and languages, rather than willing that all people find their salvation in Jesus Christ.....
The philosopher who advocates this particular type of indifferentism? Rousseau.
...In distinction from this absolute Indifferentism, a restricted form of the error admits the necessity of religion on account, chiefly, of its salutary influence on human life. But it holds that all religions are equally worthy and profitable to man, and equally pleasing to God. The classic advocate of this theory is Rousseau, who maintains, in his “Emile”, that God looks only to the sincerity of intention, and that everybody can serve Him by remaining in the religion in which he has been brought up, or by changing it at will for any other that pleases him more (Emile, III)....
Theologically-educated Catholics defend the statement, asserting correctly that the statement refers to God's 'permissive' will, as opposed to His 'active' will. But that particular nuance is not widely known, to say the least. Catechesis on the point--like most catechesis--has been absent or muted, even though the permissive will is clearly in play when discussing tragedies and human suffering, e.g.
The problem is in the text as written:
The passage that caused the most furor reads, “The pluralism and the diversity of religions, color, sex, race and language are willed by God in his wisdom, through which he created human beings.”
Most people will NOT read the nuance of 'permissive will' into that short litany; rather, they will understand the text as referring to the active will. That's heresy.
Perhaps Pp. Francis' committee will revise the statement so that it is perfectly clear, but that's not a good bet. Francis' strong suit is ambiguity, after all, and he's not likely to change now.
Besides, what would the Imam say?
Lindsey's Poison Apples
Remember the story of Snow White and the poison apple? Well, children, the story hasn't changed, but the lead characters did. Here's how it plays out in Washington D.C.
Lindsey Graham has spent a lot of time very publicly kissing the a** of Trump, defending his initiatives, and throwing nastygrams at the Democrats. There's a reason: Graham wants The Donald to take just a little bite of two poison apples.
The first one is the Apple of the Red Flag and Background Check. The second one is the Apple of Everlasting War in Afghanistan.
When The Donald bites on Lindsey's poison offerings, The Donald will ........well, you know the story.
Lindsey Graham was John McCain's bestest forever friend and some things never change. Trump probably knows the story of Snow White. Let's hope he doesn't fall for this crap.
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FEEBS Still Stalling, After All These Years....
Seems like the FBI may lack EVERY part of "Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity".
Well, yea, we already know about the 'integrity' and 'fidelity' parts. But they're not even 'brave' enough to release records which they are ORDERED to release.
Think you'd get away with this shit if they were after YOU?
Not to mention............this is the very same FEEB which has not bothered to raid two of Epstein's residences and which got around to child-rape island only AFTER Epstein was murdered.
Not murdered? Really? Because ME's never make "mistakes"?
Anyhow, why are we paying for this "FBI" bunch? Hmmmmm??
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Court Dopes Order, Governor Refuses!!
You won't be surprised to know that it's a 9th Circus decision.
Citing constitutional protections against inflicting "cruel and unusual punishments" on criminals, a panel of three judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that the State of Idaho must pay for the male-to-female gender reassignment surgery of an inmate...
Sure. "Cruel and unusual." Just having to read about the 9th Circus IS cruel and unusual punishment for normal human beings. But I digress....
But it ain't over yet!!
...In response, Republican Gov. Brad Little vowed to make sure taxpayer money is not diverted to the sex offender's surgery, particularly because the treating physician and multiple mental health professionals maintain that it is not medically necessary....
Good. Maybe the Bizzo Blackrobes should donate the money out of their own pockets.
Car Tech Stuff: Pain in the A**
No surprises here at all.
..."Automakers are spending lots of money on advanced technology development, but the constant alerts can confuse and frustrate drivers," said Kolodge. "If they can't be sold on lane-keeping -- a core technology of self-driving -- how are they going to accept fully automated vehicles?"
The study also found that built-in entertainment and connectivity apps are not meeting owners' expectations. Among the 29 percent of owners who have discontinued use of built-in apps, 46 percent say they "do not need it" and 18 percent say they "have another device that performs the function better."...
Now for the Idiot-Savant of The Month winner!!
...Carla Bailo, CEO of the Center for Automotive Research, told Automotive News in July there is a need to educate consumers about in-vehicle technology.
"The automated driver assistance systems that are now on vehicles," Bailo said, "sixty percent of people are turning them off. Why? Because they don't understand how they operate. So they're beeping at them; they hate the beeping, they don't know how to change the settings, so they're just turning it off."...
Sorry, Carla, but the consumers ARE "educated" by dealership personnel at the time of delivery. And there are "Owner's Manuals" provided with every car.
Get this through your thick head, Carla: THEY DON'T WANT THIS STUFF.
You're KIDDING, Right?
News Item:
Campus crossing guards are coming to Marquette University.
What..........Blake and Blair can't cross the damn street by themselves? Didn't their nanny teach them about "stoplights"?
Twenty years old and still can't cross the street by themselves.
We are in the End Times.
Lizzie Warren Courts the Rust Belt?
Senator "I'm-a-gonna get me a beer" Warren figured out why Trump won the Midwest's votes, and is going directly after the same bloc. But there's a major 'missing link' here....
....“In a Warren administration, government policy will support American workers. I call it ‘Economic Patriotism.’
“We’ll create a new federal agency - the Department of Economic Development – to replace the Commerce Department and a handful of other federal agencies.
“We’ll pull them all together and this new agency will have a single mission: to defend and create American jobs. And, we’ll direct the new agency to use aggressive new tools, tools that other countries have used successfully, we’ll use them to boost American workers.
“This is not a question of more government or less government. It’s about who government works for....
(That's also a direct shot at Biden, of course, who is openly supporting Communist China by repeatedly stating that 'China is not a threat.' )
So what's that 'missing link'?
Warren doesn't mention mass illegal immigration. Her statement leaves a HUGE 'hole in the wall', so to speak; Lizzie Fauxcahontas carefully steps around the question: what is an 'American worker'?
One guess why that happened....
Orange Man Good!! China Caves (?)
How will Bloomberg and the WSJ write up THIS story?
...China signaled on Monday it was now seeking a “calm” end to its ongoing trade war with the U.S., as Asian markets crumbled and China’s currency plummeted to an 11-year low following the latest tariffs on $550 billion in Chinese goods announced last Friday by the Trump administration.
Trump said Monday that officials from China called U.S. officials and expressed interest to “get back to the table,” The Wall Street Journal reported. He called the discussions a “very positive development.”...
Various pundits have speculated that Communist China has plenty of muscle and patience and will hold out until Trump is history. Others have argued that Communist China is just another Potemkin Village, and with Hong Kong problems in the East and the Muslims raising Hell in the West, the ChiComs cannot push this string too far uphill.
Frankly, I don't trust the Communists--but this it interesting.
Parked in Chappaqua, NY
Ace of Spades (who else?) found this picture.
Walsh Self-Describes....
The mostly-erratic one-termer speaks his own description.
...After being asked about invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office, he added, "We've never had a situation like this. ... You can't believe a word he says. He's nuts. He's erratic. He's cruel. He stokes bigotry. He's incompetent. He doesn't know what he's doing. George, he's a narcissist. The only thing he cares about is Trump."...
Ever listen to this guy on the radio?
"Nuts....erratic...narcissist....cares only for [himself]..."
Walsh will find--as did Bill Weld--that his 78 supporters will not get him very far in the rest of the country. He will also find that his wack-a-doodle beliefs and policy prescriptions aren't that big a deal.
What you going to complain about, Joe? Border control? Taxes too low? Cutting BabyKillerInc's funding? Supreme Court (and all the other Courts) appointments? Should we just give the Communists in China whatever they want?
Walsh also proclaimed that 'no one else stepped up,' apparently consigning Bill Weld to "no one" status.
And there's Walsh's funding. The Money, Honey.....
Buy popcorn.
Jesuit General Sosa Is a Biden-esque Moonbat
Not only is he a material heretic on the topic of Satan, he's also a barking moonbat on the topic of immigration. He's becoming the Joe Biden of the Catholic church.....
...in one of his more controversial claims, Father Sosa said that nations have no right to enforce their borders because in the end, the land belongs to everyone.
“Those who live in a given territory have no right to turn away migrants,” he said, “because they have no absolute right to that territory. They do not own it; the goods of the land are for everyone.”
“I do not see a conflict of rights — those of migrants and those of those who already live in the place — but the opportunity for a human dialogue to create a universal fraternity through these movements of populations due to various reasons: wars, persecutions, poverty, the search for a better life,” he said....
This might come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the Old Testament, but perhaps (Fr.) Sosa is NOT familiar with it. You remember all that stuff about how God "gave" Israel to Abraham, right? Maybe God was just kidding?
It is true that 'the goods of the land are for everyone,' in a general sense--but there are plenty of "if-and-but" phrases there, which the General doesn't bother to mention. Begin with 'how do those goods get produced and distributed?', for example. Yes, it's complicated, General, and you'd rather toss gassy platitudes, I know.
Oh, it gets even more interesting!!
...Turning to the issue of modern political movements, Father Sosa said that populism is dangerous, alleging it is an authoritarian ideology.
“There are various populisms, as well as sovereignisms, that we find within fundamentalism,” he said, “sovereignism” being a term for belief in independent nation-states.
“Populism conceals various forms of authoritarianism under the blanket of the representation of the people. It takes a great deal of political discernment,” he said, adding that it represents an “ideological form.”
“One thing is a political idea, another is an ideology,” he claimed....
Oh, really, Father?
Is it "authoritarian" to have and enforce laws? Which laws? What, exactly, is "sovereignism"? In a representative republic, is there a "populist blanket"?
Inquiring minds need clarity, General. Meantime, why don't you take a moment to read up on Satan?
IPCC, Still Lying With Numbers
Ah, yes. The UN's 'climate' bunch. In the (slightly modified) words of Simon and Garfunkel, "Still lying, after all these years..."
Here's a simple chart comparing what the UN's barking moonbats predicted vs. what actually happened. It's about the atmospheric temps because:
...Getting the tropical climate right is essential to understanding climate worldwide. Most of the atmospheric moisture originates in the tropical ocean, and the difference between surface and upper atmospheric temperature determines how much of the moisture rises into the atmosphere. That’s important. Most of earth’s agriculture is dependent upon the transfer of moisture from the tropics to temperate regions....
The links have lots more info, but it's readable!!
Meanwhile, in the Fox River Valley
Go to the Fox River Valley: Green Bay, Appleton, Kaukauna. This guy was there.
HT PowerLine
Good Times, Good Times
Stolen directly from PowerLine
Nationalist or Patriot?
Nicely-drawn distinction between "nationalism" and "patriotism." Choose the latter, friends.
....Nationalism as is understood today by most people is largely a product of the French Revolution to push the French speaking peoples into a mode of hyper-statism and away from decentralization. It is ironic that the modern Right embraces the leftist notion to such a degree.
Many today declare themselves civic nationalists while laying claim to the intellectual thought of the conservative movement, which ironically always critiqued nationalism from a traditionalist perspective.
Traditional American conservatives such as Robert Nisbet or Russell Kirk were extremely critical of nationalism and identified it with social engineering and consolidated federal power vs. localism. Today it is seen as bedrock of a hard right, statist movement, which often tends toward fascism.
I have written elsewhere:
“Professor Clyde Wilson, staunch traditionalist and someone the SPLC would label a ‘neo confederate’ famously stated, ‘Patriotism is the wholesome, constructive love of one’s land and people. Nationalism is the unhealthy love of one’s government, accompanied by the aggressive desire to put down others—which becomes in deracinated modern men a substitute for religious faith. Patriotism is an appropriate, indeed necessary, sentiment for people who wish to preserve their freedom; nationalism is not.’...
There you are.
HT: Cold Fury
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Emergency!! Presidential Powers
Oh, yes he can!!
Under 1977 legislation, Trump has a lot of authority over US corporations.
S. 1701 a) Any authority granted to the President by section 1702 of this title may be exercised to deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States, if the President declares a national emergency with respect to such threat....
S. 1702 (a)(1) At the times and to the extent specified in section 1701 of this title, the President may, under such regulations as he may prescribe, by means of instructions, licenses, or otherwise--(A) investigate, regulate, or prohibit--(i) any transactions in foreign exchange,(ii) transfers of credit or payments between, by, through, or to any banking institution, to the extent that such transfers or payments involve any interest of any foreign country or a national thereof,(iii) the importing or exporting of currency or securities, by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States...
That's a lotta power, ain'a?
Who the Hell would ever give that to a Republican madman honky fascist who thinks he's the King of Israel and the Chosen One?
Who, I say?? WHO??
*Cough* That would be the Democrat Party, friends. Of course, they meant that only for Democrat Presidents, ya'know, like Carter, Obama, or Hillary, or Poca-honky, or Tlaib (praise Allah!!)
Progress!! ???
Cadged from AOSHQ
The Hillary-Francis Amazon Synod
She's Baa-aaack!!
Hillary Clinton may have inspired the "Amazon Synod" working document.
...Austrian philosopher Professor Thomas Stark said the liberation theology once condemned by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Cardinal Josef Ratzinger has “morphed” into “tribalism” and is now “all through” the synod’s working document.
“[Tribalism] is a new form of socialism that is unknown to most people,” Prof. Stark explained. “And because they are unaware of what it is really all about, they do not realize how dangerous it is.” ..
...In tribalism, there is “no individual property,” there are “no traditional families” and “children are raised collectively,” added Stark, who has taught philosophy at the Benedict XVI Academy of Philosophy and Theology (Heiligenkreuz) and is a professor of philosophy at the University of St. Pölten in Austria. ...
Hillary's 'Village' rises again, with +Francis I as its new champion.
Surprised?
Red China Election Interference!! Does Anyone Care?
We're told that Communist China will be imposing new tariffs ONLY on goods produced by "swing States" (and continuing the ones imposed on farm States.)
This constitutes Interference with Elections.
S'pose Tony Evers, Chuckles Schumer, Nancy, and the rest of the Clown Car are going to scream and shout?
NBCCBSABCAPCNN?
And Google has its own Election Interference machine, which worked on at least 2.5 million people in 2016. Yes, doh, it's anti-Trump.
Same question: will Chuckie, Nancy, and the loonytoon Press raise a question?
Same crickets.
Charlie Sykes, Joe Walsh, Wow!!!
Where there is Kristol, there is Sykes.
Will Charlie be strumming his keyboard for this guy Joe Walsh? The not-really-pro-lifer who issues open threats of "war" on Obozo and Black Lives Matter?
Inquiring minds, and all that.
It is interesting that Walsh's principal radio sponsor in Chicago is U-Line--which was also the source of the bazillions spent to push Kevin Williamson and to denigrate Leah Vukmir in the '18 Senate primary. Some state that Vukmir could have prevailed over Baldwin were it not for Dick Uihlein's folly.
We said earlier that Walsh appears to be a loonytunes and nothing has changed.
26 of 27 Worst Mass Shooters.....
Good ol' AOSHQ!! Always has useful information--FACTUAL information--that will never burden such as CNNNBCCBSAPGANNETTNYT, nor their Superiors in the Democrat Party.
Suzanne Venker’s recent opinion piece on FoxNews is very, very important, because she points out that almost all of the most recent deadly mass shooters have one thing in common: fatherlessness. --Patheos, referenced at Ace
Please see my immediately-prior post which addresses "virtue".
"National Conservatism" v. Homo Economicus
This essay is a fairly good summary of the current "national conservatism" v. "economic man" imbroglio. Since it reinforces my thoughts about men who wear bow ties *cough* George Will *cough* it starts out very well indeed. Even so, the author doesn't attempt to nail down the underlying problem.
The author finds a Williamson essay in NR next to an essay of the bow tie man, and compares....
....Williamson diagnoses what Will ignores: the technological and economic developments that gave us the iPhone and Uber have “upset longstanding social arrangements and put longstanding status relationships up for renegotiation.” According to this analysis, the economic policies that conservatives have promoted have undermined the social and cultural order that conservatism sought to preserve....As he puts it, “An economy that rewards geographic mobility, professional flexibility, and financial risk-taking brings unintended social consequences with it, from undermining local relationships and civil society to encouraging norms of delayed marriage and parenthood.”...
We highlighted the MOST important consequence.
So why did that happen?? Because of homo economicus--the libertarian economic system which has eaten 'conservatism' and now lives in its old dwelling.
...Economics is a science of individualism. True conservatives have a soft spot in their hearts for organic collectivity. It is small wonder that there is no truly conservative economic doctrine. True conservatives think people spend too much time thinking and acting “economically” in the United States, which has always encouraged individualism, ambition, and mobility at the expense of stability and community. Thus real conservatism has been a marginal and primarily cultural school of criticism....
(One could quibble about labeling 'economics' as a 'science,' but this ain't the place.)
So what's that underlying problem I mentioned? It is this: neither the author, nor Williamson, nor Will, consider the spiritual problem. To a greater or lesser degree, all of them still identify mankind as 'homo economicus,' and that's--at the very best--incomplete. "Why are we here?" is not answered with "To collect the most toys!", but also not "To have a happy family and community."
The answer was given by Aristotle, and it begins with "virtue," (which was not only moral.) Christianity clarified 'what is virtue' so that "earning Heaven" became "Why we are here."
The hardest part, then, is determining how much any government policy should advance that end without becoming a theocracy.
Sending Their Best, Eh?
Even the statistics are RRAAAAAAAAAAAAAYCISS!!!
...Non-citizens made up 64% of all federal arrests in 2018 despite making up 7% of the U.S. population, according to Justice Department data released Thursday and reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Between 1998 and 2018, federal arrests of non-citizens grew by 234%, while federal arrest of U.S. citizens climbed 10%....
You can bet large that non-citizens are disproportionately arrested in States and Locals, too. But the Nooz won't tell you that, will they?
Dr. Frankenstein, mit Teknobabbel!!
You won't find a Lefty screeching about this move.
To stop mass shootings, Trump reportedly considering a DARPA-style program to analyze "neurobehavioral signs" of mental instability, drawing on data collected from Apple Watches, Fitbits, Amazon Echo, Google Home, and other devices....Michael Tracey quoted at AOSHQ
Whatever happened to good, old-fashioned Phrenology??
Jebbie General Babbles Diabolically
This guy "Fr." Sosa SJ is doubling down on his personal theological fantasy on Satan.
Symbols are part of reality, and the devil exists as a symbolic reality, not as a personal reality.
Well, then, Father, how about this little personal theological fantasy:
"SJ" is a symbolic--not personal--reality symbolizing "BS Alert"!!
You get your fantasy symbols, we get ours.
By the way, if you can untangle Sosa's paragraph of double-talk drooling on the question, have at it.
Women Working a "Good Thing"?
A Catholic lecture-circuit woman from Louisiana tweets ....umnnhhhh...."wisdom."
St. Gianna Beretta Molla was a physician
St. Zelie Martin was a lacemaker
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton &
St. Katharine Drexel built schools
St. Joan of Arc was a soldier
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was a philosopher
So it looks like women working IS a good thing...huh. Wow.
Without going into that whole debate, we can make an observation that Ms. Katie avoids:
ONLY TWO OF THOSE WOMEN WERE MARRIED WITH KIDS, those being St. Gianna and St. Zelie.
It's not so easy to make a case for mothers working outside the home, especially if fathers are ALSO working outside the home, given the sociology we have today. 'Fess up, Katie.
Are MKE County Judges Idiots??
In case you're wondering why one should NOT live in Milwaukee County, just read this news item from Channel 6. It's damning
Prologue: a drug dealer makes bail in a Washington County drug case, after already being out-on-bail in a Milwaukee County case. TWO bonds, friends.
He continues his business in the City of Milwaukee.
Gunshots ensue.
Cops locate the bailed-out drug dealer who was shooting, demand that he drop the gun. Drug dealer runs, turns, points the gun at the cops, who commence fire.
Bailed-out drug dealer/shooter goes to hospital, then to Milwaukee County court on charges:
Intentionally point firearm — law enforcement officer, etc., use of a dangerous weapon
Felony bail jumping — four counts
Possession of a firearm by a felon
Possession with intent to deliver controlled substance (cocaine), greater than five to 15 grams, use of a dangerous weapon
Possession of narcotic drugs
HE WAS GRANTED $50K CASH BAIL AGAIN!!!
Barnes made his initial appearance in court on Saturday, Aug. 17. Probable cause was found for further proceedings, and a preliminary hearing was set for Aug. 27. Cash bond was set at $50,000.
Question: What's the difference between idiots and Milwaukee County judges?
Wackdoodle Walsh to Primary Trump?
We've listened to this guy Walsh on a number of occasions while driving through Illinois. He's a wackdoodle with quite a few strange ideas (see this link for one example.)
Run against Trump?
He might get more support than Bill Weld did. Remember him? I didn't think so.....
The fact that Kristol is involved should be all you need to know.
Purgatory Chamber Closes!
We are told that the "St Louis Jesuits" will stop their activity.
50 years of Purgatory-in-Strumming comes to a close.
Of course, if you are a really horrible sinner, you may have to listen to that stuff on an endless....and I mean ENDLESS.......loop.
Yes, that would be Hell.
(The above was a public service announcement that should send you off to Confession at a rapid rate of speed. You will also have a FIRM purpose of amendment, no?)
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Buy Kenosha Property NOW!!
There will be a rush on Kenosha property, whether raw, swamp, or good stuff, in the coming 12 months+++.
...Oh boy, just got the low down on Lightfoots plans for her speech on 28th. The focus of the speech will be the greedy police pensions bankrupting the city and the need for 8-10% property tax increases to offset the unbridled greed of a racist FOP and CPD....quoted at Second City Cop
Recall that Illinois raised its gasoline tax by nineteen cents/gallon (doubling it) effective June 1st.
A 10% hike in Chicago prop-tax is enormous and will cause significant emigration; Kenosha is certainly in the right place at the right time.
On the Contrary, the NYTimes Is Right!
Blaska noted this sentence in a NYTimes articls.
“America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others.”
Those "some" are people who went to the right schools. They live in New York City, Boston, and D.C., and also inhabit a few State capitols. They are usually being endlessly fluffed and pleasured by others who buy ink by the barrel and would really, really, like to deserve more power--but won't get it.
But in reality, they only think they are 'deserving.' We let them think that for a while, then we elect Donald Trump.
In fact, long before the NYTimes staffers figured out that their diapers really do stink, a fellow named Eric Arthur Blair wrote a well-known book using the quoted thought as a leitmotiv.
But a reminder, boys and girls of the Times: pigs get slaughtered. That was the chapter in Blair's book that didn't get published. You don't want to be part of that chapter, do you, boys and girls??
Is Musk a Fiery Flim-Flam Man?
It appears that Elon Musk's products are .....ahhh.......fiery.
Yah. That's it. "FIERY"
...On Tuesday, Walmart sued Tesla, after its solar panels atop seven of the retailer’s stores allegedly caught fire, alleging breach of contract, gross negligence and failure to live up to industry standards. Walmart is asking Tesla to remove solar panels from more than 240 Walmart locations where they have been installed, and to pay damages related to all the fires Walmart says that Tesla caused.
Walmart said it had leased or licensed roof space on top of more than 240 stores to Tesla’s energy operations unit, formerly known as SolarCity (which was basically a bailout by Elon Musk for Elon Musk who was also the largest SolarCity shareholder), for the installation and operation of solar systems. But as of November, fires had broken out at no fewer than seven of the stores, forcing the disconnection of all the solar panel systems for the safety of the public.
The breach-of-contract suit by Walmart, which was filed in the state of New York, alleges that: “As of November 2018, no fewer than seven Walmart stores had experienced fires due to Tesla’s solar systems-including the four fires described above and three others that had occurred earlier.” The fires resulted in evacuations, damaged property and inventory....
Now we wait for the tunnel under Los Angeles to goo all rice-krispies.
"Police!!" Actually, NOT Police.
This is just wonderful.
The Norfolk Police Department is looking for two people who impersonated police and forced their way into a Norfolk home.
It happened in April in the 3300 block of Illinois Avenue.
The two victims inside the home heard a knock at the door, someone yelled, “Police!” and moments later the door was kicked in, according to court records.
Records state the two suspects entered the house wearing ski masks armed with handguns. --quoted at The Captain
So now we all get to play "Is it? Or Is It Ain't??""
Did EPA Dingbats Hear This?
It is reported that the two most-useless bureaucracies in the galaxy, EPA and DoE, have bright, shiny, recommendations for your indoor climate.
85 degrees (F) when away, 78 degrees (F) while at home, and 82 degrees (F) at night.
Based on my spouse's reaction, one hopes that EPA and DoE personnel stay away from this place. FAR away.
Unless then can answer this question in the affirmative: "Can you run faster than 982 feet/second?"
Well, can you?
Pocan Loves Him Some Terrorists!
Mark Pocan, (D-LaLaLand) has a thing for banning "assault weapons".
Except for "assault weapons" used by Mohammedan terrorists.
Pocan is one of a very few Members of Congress who have been hand-picked and groomed by Miftah, a terrorist-tied, anti-Semite, blood-libel outfit. I'm sure that Madistan is proud of him for it.
Oh, and who else was hand-picked? The women Tlaib and Omar. (Omar's marital history and randiness are becoming legend, by the way. Soon she'll be in the Clinton-class....)
Well, Mark, here in the Normie World, we're not giving up any "assault" weapons. But feel free to stop over and demand them from us.
Popcorn Time??
In a way, this is not really humorous at all.
The left side of [Pelosi's] conference, run by the so-called “Squad” of socialist Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) is ascendant as Pelosi’s top deputies–several committee chairs–face primary challenges similar to one Ocasio-Cortez used to wipe out longtime Pelosi ally, former Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY) on her path to power.
In fact, at least seven of Pelosi’s top confidantes–committee chairs–potentiallly face the same fate as Crowley, as primary challengers have announced campaigns against them.
It's a well-worn observation that the Left eventually eats its own, e.g., Stalin v Trotsky.
But no matter Pelosi's growing intransigence against the Right, she is nowhere near a Communist, as are the "squad" dames.
The Gulag in the USA
"It can't happen here!!"--unless it DID happen here, as in the case of Steve Stockman
All you need to know about the case is this graf:
...The government organizations and people on whom Stockman blew the whistle are the very ones who tried and secured his conviction — the FBI, DOJ and IRS....
We hasten to add that this occurred during the Obama Administration.
But as we know now, FBI, DOJ, and IRS remain filled-to-the-brim with Obama/Alinsky Ruling Class thugs who put on their jackboots every morning. (This in contrast to EEOC/EPA Ruling Class people who put on their pink tutus every morning. See below thread.)
Oh, yes....Paul Ryan was making campaign plans with Mittens and just could not possibly take the time to assist Stockman. Too bad, eh?
Doofus Agency vs. Trump (and Common Sense)
The Daily Caller setup for this case is correct, but VERY incomplete.
A workplace anti-discrimination law does not cover transgender employees, the Trump administration told the Supreme Court in a new legal filing.
The case has created an internal split within the executive branch over the reach of Title VII, the civil rights law governing employment practices....
EEOC and EPA are the red-haired step-children in the Trump administration. Both those agencies have been staffed by Total Loonies for decades. In the case at hand, EEOC's wack-a-doodle decision, aided by the black-robed sparklefarts on the Sixth Circuit, are being opposed by a Justice Department which is headed by Normies (for the time being.)
So it's not really an 'internal split.' It's a split between Planet Earth and the Other Galaxy.
Wisconsin, Progressives, and Sterilization
About eleven years ago, we published an item related to Wisconsin's "Progressives" and their passage of a bill forcing sterlization on certain prisoners and mental-hospital inmates. It was eugenics, pure and simple, and the associated Big Names will be interesting to history lovers. (Hoyt, McGovern, Rodgers, Van Hise....)
The source document link we used at the time has gone dead, but we found a couple of very good substitutes which 'splain the whole thing in excruciating detail.
Recall that in the early 1900's, "Progressives" were also Republicans (Teddy Roosevelt, anyone?) and that--to some degree--explains the near-unanimous voting pattern of Wisconsin Catholics: pro-Democrat.
Things changed, eh? The Eugenics crowd--the Sanger-ites--found a new home in the Democrat Party and got their bloodiest wish: abortion on demand.
Lindsey's Ruling-Class Disease
It appears that Lindsey Graham still has "ruling class" disease. That's the one where people who are in D.C. suddenly think they are smarter, better, and more moral than anyone else in the entire country. It's a mental disease and should be "red-flagged", just like Fredo Cuomo's. But I digress.
Lindsey strokes Trump's ego in the hope that Trump will fall for Graham's line of crap. Who knows? Maybe it will work.
Lindsey will get shrinks to accompany cops on their dis-armament missions. So it's 4th-Amendment compatible, see, just like how Stalin had shrinks, too!! See?? Shrinks make everything Constitutional!!!
And of course, good ol' Lindsey throws in that happy talk about how he 'owns an AR-15,' so that means he's one of the boys.
No, Lindsey, It means you had the $1200.00 to spend.
You should spend $1200.00 on coursework related to the history of gun-controlled countries. Like pre-WWII Germany, or pre-WWII Russia, or Cuba, Venezuela, ........
Fuggedabout Greenland. Better Deal Here!!
The President should dump the Greenland idea.
Better deal RIGHT HERE, Mr. President!!!
Swap Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, and Manhattan to the Chinese in return for Hong Kong. Here's the hard part: Red China MUST take Pelosi, Feinstein, AOC, and the Mayors of all those cities as part of the deal, but they can keep the Mayor of Hong Kong. (Yes, I'm including DeBlasio as "mayor" of Manhattan and AOC who's supposedly from Brooklyn. Shut up already.)
Since Hong Kong already has lots of US flags, we won't have to ship any there. At the same time, all those individuals we're sending have plenty of hammer-and-sickle flags.
Whadda deal, eh??
RAYCIS!!!!
The Warrior found out why everything you say and do is Rrrrrrrrrraaaaaacis!!
John Paul II on "Nationalism"
Worth quoting.
“The Nation is truly free when it can be configured as a community determined by the unity of culture, language, and history. The State is solidly sovereign when it governs society and also serves the common good of society and allows the Nation to realize itself in its own subjectivity, in its own identity.” --Pope St. John Paul II
What's there of interest? First, that the Nation is NOT the same as the State, although the State may be constituted to rule that Nation. Secondly, the State is 'solidly sovereign' if it is serving the common good of society in its governance.
Common good is not merely 'monetary prosperity' (although that's nice to have.)
“...the fundamental truth about the freedom of the Nation: the Nation perishes if its spirit is deformed, the Nation grows when this spirit is purified more and more, and no external force is able to destroy it.”...
Should be clear to all but the willfully blind that JPII's definition of 'purified spirit' means a spirit which conforms to moral and ethical principles announced in the Old (Ten Commandments) and New Testaments, which is the Natural Law.
But we have the willfully blind, so JPII's comment ought to provoke concern.
The Trump Squeeze
It would be one thing if Communist China were honorable. But they're not; they lie, cheat, and steal every. single. day.
So when we read that Trump's tariffs are taking effect, there's a certain schadenfreude.
An interesting article in the South China Morning Post (SCMP) highlights how China is shifting their procurement priority from minerals used in manufacturing (cobalt, copper) to the acquisition of food and agriculture products....
Maybe some US interests could buy back the Mountain Pass mining operation from the ChiComs. They can use the cash, and ya'know, 'strategic minerals' might be useful to the US, ain'a?
"Nice" Church? Not Christ's.
We mentioned that a Utah priest has taken on a mighty penance by obeying his Bishop and becoming the pastor of a renegade parish. (There are lots of them here in Wisconsin too.)
To show you how bad things are, here's a quote from a followup article on the situation:
...[Dissenting] parents shared that they have tried to build an accepting and diverse faith community. They say that their school and church taught them to “walk the path that Jesus the Christ has laid before us. It is a path of love, compassion, and unconditional regard and acceptance.” ...
Here's an "unconditional" from Christ Himself: "Go, and sin no more." "Be perfect, as My Heavenly Father is perfect."
Christ did not waste any effort by being "accepting" of money-changers in His Father's house, nor did He offer "regard" to the bad thief next to Him on Calvary.
The homosexualists who wrote this piece are very good at Newspeak Agitprop; lying about Christ's mission is part of the game. But Christ was not the Founder of the 'Church of Nice.' Put aonther way, the 'Church of Nice' is NOT the Catholic church. Civil, yes. Charitable above all. But "nice"? Nope. That's someone else's church.
The same someone else who occupied the Dayton shooter's mind and body.
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Carbon Free Tokin'Tony
Sure, Tony. "Carbon-Free" Wisconsin by 2050.
Pixie Dust, Unicorns, and One Toke Over the Line.
How about "Do-Gooder Free" by 2025? "Dumb-Ass Commission Free"?
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Yup. Airbags Work
If you've ever doubted the efficacy of in-car airbags, take a look at the picture below. The driver of the pickup truck was ALIVE--albeit near-dead. (No, he didn't hit the fire truck. He hit a semi.)
Fast Talk, No Soul
Yes, that describes Little Benny Shapiro, the Los Angeles RadioMouth.
Or rather, 'Mouthpiece' for the Libertarian bunch which masquerades as "Conservative."
...The Reagan Revolution was inherited by the pushy ideologues and failed politicians who convinced themselves that the abstract ideas they cherished were responsible for Reagan’s success. They didn’t process the central reason for Reagan’s appeal to voters: that they felt he cared about them, their lives, and things that made life in America good for them.
Over the years, Reagan’s good cheer and passion have been replaced with the unsympathetic posturing of various “conservative” ideologues....
Shapiro is one of them. But don't think he's the only one. If you've paid attention, you'll note that Limbaugh has seriously modified his chatter on matters economic, too. For example, when Ross Perot claimed that NAFTA would demolish American jobs (accurately!!), Limbaugh mocked him mercilessly with a parody of "They're Coming to Take Me Away". Somehow, that episode has been deleted from the "Radio Archives" Rush keeps someplace.
Trump, in office, and Tucker Carlson, on TeeVee, define the winning policy and rhetoric for Republicans these days. Run away from them at your peril. Pubbies.
Branding Mercedes-Benz
Diametrically opposed to KIA branding.
The Canada branch of luxury car company Mercedes-Benz released an ad Monday that promotes diversity and features a mustachioed drag queen in an evening gown.
That'll get them 3 sales. Maybe 5.
No Manual Tranny on New 'vette!!
There will be no manual transmission available on the 2020 Corvette.
But you can get a heated steering wheel on the mid-range model.
Girlzzz rule!!
AOC = Humpty Dumpty
Here's AOC on the question of racism.
...“We need to talk about racism, its contours, its histories, where it manifests, how it’s used, because like all winning political phenomena, whether good or bad in your opinion, they rely on collation building. So Trump relied on a coalition, and a core part of that coalition were racists building a collation with all sorts of other people that could be susceptible to racist views—if they were blankets and layered and made people feel good about it not being a racist thing.”
She added, “So there are a lot of people that support Trump that genuinely don’t believe that they are racist because we do not talk about or educate people on recognizing racism....
What that means? Simple!! "Racism is whatever we SAY it is."
Lewis Carroll had it long ago.
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.” ...
"Which is to be master....."
Vos Speaks on Gun Legislation: "Nope"
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos spoke with WISN's Jay Weber this morning and said that the Legislature will not take up "red flag" or "universal background check" proposals.
He explained that Wisconsin's existing mental-health law which allows 3-day involuntary commitment for examination is not un-Constitutional, and very effective. Further, the current background check system is working just fine.
Vos summed it up--none of the Democrat proposals will have an effect on gun crimes.
He does favor additional funding for mental health in the State--something that the Governor is not interested in. Too bad, eh?
AG Kaul Talks Like a Sausage
You can figure out what I mean by that. It's not just because he's a Democrat carpetbagger, either.
The gun-grabber party is proposing a new gun-grabbing bill in the Legislature, so that's the excuse for writing this story. Down near the bottom, Kaul makes a fool of himself.
Currently, there are federal background checks on gun purchases made from federally licensed dealers and state checks on handgun sales at those same dealers. The legislation would have required state checks on all gun purchases to ensure a new federal background check system was working properly.
Got that? There are Federal background checks on all dealer gun sales in Wisconsin. ALL of them.
This new proposal will require State background checks on all dealer gun sales in Wisconsin. ALL of them, not just handguns.
Sure. Because the Feds can't do it right.
So in comes AG Kaul!!
...Attorney General Josh Kaul said Thursday the state's laws that require background checks for some sales of guns but not for others make "no sense whatsoever."
"It's dangerous and we need to change it," he said.
"Dangerous"? How so, Joshkins??
In reality, Kaul really, really, really wants a database of gun owners, which is where this legislation eventually leads.
Keep wishing, Josh.
AT&T Demeaning Women
If you live in SE Wisconsin you've heard the ad from ATT "Smart Home".
There's a surprise party and when the guest of honor walks in, the hostess orders her smartphone to turn on the lights in the room. The internet connex failed, so the hostess YELLS at her smartphone, only to get the same results.
If I were a woman, I would be very, very, offended. Every one of my daughters knows how to get up and use a lightswitch to turn on lights. (They do NOT know how to turn them off, however. That's another story.)
Is AT&T intimating that women are really stupid?
Sounds that way to me.
Yes, There IS "Diabolic Possession"
Here's the video, courtesy of Daily Caller and RedState.
Still think 'diabolic possession' is just a fantasy of religious nuts?
Beware, Gun Control Types
In a discussion of the Philly drug raid, Grim observes that the drug dealers are clearly in 'friendly' territory, which is obvious by the crowd's harassment of the cops on scene.
He applies that lesson to the gun-control mania infecting D.C. and the Deep Blues* (but not the rest of the country.)
...What the gun control politicians don't see is that the ultimate effect of their actions -- should they be successful -- will be to create a much bigger black market, this time for deadly weapons. They'll convert a much larger part of the population into a friendly sea for that black market. They'll alienate the people from the police, and thus make large parts of the nation hostile to their own authority.
More to the point, they [the people] won't be wrong. The People are the sovereigns, after all, and they are free to decide when the government no longer legitimately represents them.... The 2nd Amendment is encoded in the Constitution. Violations of your right to do what you want with your body isn't as plainly unconstitutional as infringements on the right of the people to keep and bear arms....
As the man said: "Go ahead. Make my day."
*Deep Blues = East- and West-Coast large cities, the Press, most Intellectualoids, most college campuses and faculty and all of the population of the Deep State.
"Red Flag"? Don't Cross the Gods.....
The Google whistleblower can tell us something about how "red flag" laws will be used.
..After he was outed as a "leaker" on Twitter by an anonymous account (believed to a Google employee), law enforcement paid him a visit at his residence in California.
According to Vorhies, San Francisco police received a call from Google, which prompted a "wellness check."
"They got inside the gate, the police, and they started banging on my door... And so the police decided that they were going to call in additional forces. They called in the FBI, they called in the SWAT team. And they called in a bomb squad..."
Somebody at Google (probably their goon-squad "security") declared to the cop shop that Vorhies was 'mentally unwell'. That's all it takes, just like with "Red Flag" laws as currently proposed and operative in several States.
As to "psychiatrists' who will determine 'wellness', there is precedent: Uncle Joe Stalin.
Does Stalin have any successors? Yes, yes, indeed!!
There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union,[1] based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as a psychiatric problem.[2] It was called "psychopathological mechanisms" of dissent....
Remember that Google Maximum Leaders Brin, Schmidt, and Page were very tight with B. Hussein Obama? The very same B. Hussein Obama who loosed the FBI, DoJ, CIA, and State on Donald Trump and all his family and friends. Birds of a feather, and all that.
That means something. And it ought to scare the Hell out of you while the Establishment contemplates "Red Flag" laws.
It's somewhat ironic that Obama was mentioned above. Turns out the FBI is far more scurrilous and dirty than you ever thought.
...Turns out the FBI was already secretly plotting to use the equivalent of red flag laws to prevent those in the black American Civil Rights movements from having legal access to firearms, claiming them as too mentally ill and prone to aggressive and violent behaviors. ...
...FBI documents that were declassified and published in the 2010 book The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease uncovered how FBI profilers in the 1960s were diagnosing black rights leaders like Malcolm X with "pre-psychotic paranoid schizophrenia" as a way to prevent their attempts to legally obtain firearms. Likewise, there was a huge push in medical journals for psychiatrists to address "the urgent social issue" of firearms as a response to "the threat of civil disorder."...
Now THAT's the FBI we know and love, eh, Messrs. Mueller and Comey?
Who Needs Your Steeenkin' Laws?
An interesting little tale with a lesson at the end.
Short story: teenager runs mouth on the 'net about 'shooting FBI agents' and rants about Bill Clinton's slaughter of the Waco people. Teenager lives with his father. FEEEBS raid father's house:
...Agents found plenty of firepower in Olsen’s father’s home, though it’s unclear how much of it the 18-year-old could access. There were about 300 rounds of ammunition on a stairway, the FBI says, and thousands of rounds of ammo, camouflage clothing and a gun vault in another bedroom in the house. Agents eventually seized about 15 rifles and shotguns and 10 semiautomatic pistols....
So Dad owned the weapons, had them in a vault, mouthy kid may or may not have had access....but dad's guns are *pfffffffffft* gone.
How many Amendments did the FEEEBS break there? As many as they wanted to.
A Message for Republicans
Zman has a message for Wisconsin Republicans. Although he uses another very fine example, the message also applies to today's Gun-Grabbing foolishness.
....the Buckleyites were never willing to state what it is they sought to achieve as an end goal. The hyper-focus on process allowed them to avoid making clear what they wanted. The homosexual marriage issue is always a great example and it is so here. Instead of saying homosexual marriage is irrational and at odds with civil society, which is certainly true, the so-called conservatives wrapped themselves in legal arguments about contract theory and downstream legal issues.
The Right could never bring themselves to state the obvious. The intent of marriage laws and customs is to encourage baby making. The language of marriage makes that abundantly clear. The only purpose of marriage is reproduction. The additional benefits created by society through laws and rituals is to encourage reproduction. Homosexual marriage is therefore an absurd contradiction. The Right never bothered with these arguments and instead fell into Jesuitical legalism....
Here's the obvious which the Pubbies should state re: guns.
"1) The right to keep and bear arms is given by God, not by the Constitution. The Second Amendment was written primarily so that a well-armed citizenry could prevent tyranny, and defense of self and others is a necessary and excellent byproduct.
"2) Current Wisconsin and Federal law provides remedies for 'threatening', and allows involuntary confinement of duly-processed individuals who display emotional problems. The laws also provide for extensive background checks when purchase is made through a dealer.
"Therefore, Wisconsin Republicans will NOT entertain either 'red flag' laws which are going to violate the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments, NOR more extensive background checks. Further, if the Federal Government writes such laws, Wisconsin will be a "sanctuary State" and such laws will not be enforced by Wisconsin authorities.
"Got that? Good. We will not take questions."
Sykes' Boy McMuffin: " You Are ALL White Supremacists!!"
Charlie got into bed with this nutbag who used to work for the perjurer Brennan's outfit.
With its long-standing opposition to immigration...National Review has found common ground with the far right. Like many conservative media outlets, it has flirted with the “great replacement” theory espoused by the El Paso gunman."--signed, Egg McMuffin
Charlie better check for fleas.
"Judge" Pirro Missed 2A Class in School
There's plenty of stuff in this interview which demonstrates that Pirro is.........ahh..........past her prime as a "judge."
But the most significant swing-and-miss?
...“Congressman, nobody is talking about take away people’s guns,” she said. “The United States Supreme Court made it clear we have the right to have these guns for our own personal protection. No one is talking about taking our guns away.”...
Since she advocates 'the Australian solution' which is confiscation, I think Pirro needs to take a rest.
On Guns, Evers Has "No Plan"
Two things emerge from this article at the local litterbox liner: (at some risk, we take the article to be entirely true)
1) The Republicans cannot speak intelligently about the gun issue; and 2) Evers has come up with zip, zero, nada "plan" for dealing with it.
What does all that mean?
1) That Evers will not put his name on gun-grab plans (which are called "universal background check" and "red-flag") because he knows he will get hammered in the next election, and 2) the Republicans are behaving exactly as they have for the last few dozen years.
Stupidly.
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Another Bar-B-Que Tesla
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What's an "Invasion"?
Here's "Conspiracy Theory"!!!
Globaloney From CNBC
Speaking of Grifters....
The NRA? Who Dat?
Oddsmakers Ready??
For President Trump
Pp. Francis' Current Moral Authority: "Whatever."...
Another Choo-Choo, and Subsidizing Lawyers, Too!!
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William Roache (Ken Barlow): March 2012
In the fall of 2011 we had a postcard in the mail from Stroll Promotions letting us know that William Roache was coming to Canada in March 2012. Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, Vancouver, Victoria and Halifax were the lucky cities. It was William's first tour in Canada...and most likely his last as he turns 80 next month. We put the postcard on the fridge and have been looking forward to the show.
We have been lucky and met William a few times in Manchester. William is a cast member that always finds the time for Corrie fans. Even though he is the most senior cast member he'll usually stop for a quick chat, pose for a photo and sign an autograph. The last time we met him was in January as we were having a tour of the studios and told him we would see him in Toronto. Today we were looking forward to hearing stories all about his life. Here are a few photos from previous times we've met him:
William was in Toronto on St. Paddy's day. A number of friends had tickets and we decided to meet at a pub for lunch before the show. Twelve of us met for lunch including Nadine who had taken the train from Kingston plus Karen & Steve who had come all the way from Saskatoon for this show. We went to the Duke of Richmond.
After lunch we headed to the Winter Garden Theatre which was only minutes away. As we approached the theatre we noticed the William banner flying outside.
When we walked inside, the theatre was beautiful! I have never seen anything like it, breath taking! I knew right away this was the perfect place for a Coronation Street icon!
Last year Stroll Promotions brought 'Roy & Hayley' to Canada. We loved that show soooo much and still talk about it to this day. We wondered what William would be like as he had his one man show the first half, no host or other Corrie stars on stage with him? Would we enjoy it as much as we did the Audience with the Croppers?
Thanks to Blighty's for this photo.
Finally it was show time and the packed theatre was ready. The host Neville Mackay from Halifax welcomed us, then we watched a 6 minute video of Coronation Street highlights. Next Neville introduced William Roache, aka Ken Barlow....the man we were all there to see. William has been on Corrie from day one Dec. 9th, 1960!!! I was the first one to stand to welcome him and next thing everyone was on their feet. Neville disappeared and William started talking. The first part of the show was about his life - his family, school, army and starting in show business. William has a great way of telling his stories. He's very funny too. Hard to believe he is going to be 80 next month. It was very interesting and I think a lot of fans were surprised when William said it was intermission time. We'd been enjoying it so much, the time had flown by. Although there were two chairs on the stage, William never sat on them the entire show. He walked back and forth talking to his audience.
The second part of the show was made up of fan questions. William said he would honestly answer any questions asked. Neville walked the audience finding lots of fans who had questions. Fans asked 'do you have any plans to retire? What is Deirdre like? Have more than one dog played Eccles? What does William read? Can you share a Blanche story, whose idea was it to have your two sons on the show.............and the list goes on. Most of the questions were good, but there were one or two I thought hmmmm...... As the show came to an end the fans cheered and rose to their feet.
To answer the question: Would the show be as good as Roy & Hayley last year............the answer is YES!!!! It really was an amazing afternoon. As we walked up to the VIP area I heard many fans say 'I could have listened to William talk for a few more hours.' I agreed with them. William was fabulous and the fans definitely got their moneys worth !!!
While waiting to see William I had to have a photo with Neville! Neville is the tour guide for Coronation Travel .* If you have ever dreamt of walking the cobbles this is the tour for you.
Next trip: Oct. 6th - 16th, 2012
*I have never been on this tour, but have friends who have
Our VIP time with William:
When I told William we had met him in January at the studios he replied "YES, I remember you!"
William greeted the ladies with a kiss on the cheek. He took his time with each fan and really made them feel like a VIP. William signed my 50th anniversary book, my favourite photo of us and a newton and ridley beer mat which I got at the Rovers in Jan. As we said goodbye, I thanked him for playing the role of Ken Barlow for the years he has and he gave me a hug goodbye. This is a St. Patrick's Day we will remember for many years!
THANKYOU......
....to William Roache for putting on such a wonderful show, plus playing the part of Ken Barlow for 51 1/2 years. The Barlows are the best!
....to Neville for being such a fabulous host.
.... and HUGE, HUGE THANKS to Stroll Promotions for bringing William to Canada. Your shows are first class!!! You make a lot of Canadian Corrie fans very happy.
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Into the World of Audible
Me – not my books. Not yet, at any rate.
Bruce and I have recently discovered audio books and we are thrilled.
I can only rave! Prepare yourself. We’ve always loved radio and we’ve often listened to podcasts in the evenings. Mostly news or political commentary. Hearing great books read aloud is a change of genre rather than medium. At the same time, what a change! Bruce and I have often read the same book and then discussed it. We’ve never experienced the same book at the same time. Wow!
We first ventured out on audio with the free one-month subscription to Audible and downloaded Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. The write-up hooked me! Plus the 166 member cast that it took to bring this novel to the audio world. Listen to what Amazon says about Saunders’ work:
Winner, 2018 APA Audie Awards – Audiobook of the Year
Winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize
The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented.
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln’s beloved 11-year-old son, Willie, is gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy’s body.
From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state (called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo) a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul.
Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction’s ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end?
Bruce joined me for the first hour, then said I should go on without him. He found it strange. Good way to describe the experience. But the novel isn’t just strange for the way it draws heavily on historical accounts of Abraham Lincoln at the time of his son’s death, or for its bizarre long-dead characters, or the ghostly and often bawdy graveyard antics that made me laugh and shudder in turn. It’s also a challenging first-ever audio book experience. The medium is a world away from reading.
Let me explain. If I’m confused at the start of a novel, I reread the first few paragraphs. Reading allows such review. With audio, you are right in the thick of it from the first moment and the narration just goes on. You must accept the ambiguity until it all starts to gel. Either that or spend endless amounts of time rewinding.
I persevered with Lincoln in the Bardo, and what a fantastical, amazing journey.
Next came Conclave by Robert Harris. I’m a huge fan of Robert Harris’ work and have read all his novels. I wanted to share Conclave with Bruce, but I only had it as an e-book. Bruce prefers a ‘real’ book experience.
Check out the Amazon write-up to see if you’d be interested:
What happens behind the closed doors of the Roman Catholic Conclave? The mysterious rituals surrounding the congregation of cardinal electors responsible for electing a new pope is brilliantly researched by Robert Harris, bringing an age-old tradition to life. Set against the swirling of religious theory comes an explosive political drama that will have you on the edge of your seat. The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, 118 cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next 72 hours, one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.
We listened to this one together and loved the experience. The narration, which should really be called a performance, was superb. How one narrator could bring a unique voice to each character is an amazing feat.
I stayed in Audible for another month so I could download another Robert Harris book. An Officer and a Spy. Historical fiction at its best and I know because I’ve read the e-book.
Amazon description:
They lied to protect their country. He told the truth to save it. A gripping historical thriller from the best-selling author of Fatherland.
January 1895: On a freezing morning in the heart of Paris, an army officer, Georges Picquart, witnesses a convicted spy, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of 20,000 spectators baying ‘Death to the Jew!’ The officer is rewarded with promotion: Picquart is made the French army’s youngest colonel and put in command of ‘the Statistical Section’ – the shadowy intelligence unit that tracked down Dreyfus.
The spy, meanwhile, is given a punishment of medieval cruelty: Dreyfus is shipped off to a lifetime of solitary confinement on Devil’s Island – unable to speak to anyone, not even his guards, his case seems closed forever. But gradually Picquart comes to believe there is something rotten at the heart of the Statistical Section. When he discovers another German spy operating on French soil, his superiors are oddly reluctant to pursue it. Despite official warnings, Picquart persists, and soon the officer and the spy are in the same predicament….
Narrated by Picquart, An Officer and a Spy is a compelling recreation of a scandal that became the most famous miscarriage of justice in history. Compelling, too, are the echoes for our modern world: an intelligence agency gone rogue, justice corrupted in the name of national security, a newspaper witch hunt of a persecuted minority, and the age-old instinct of those in power to cover-up their crimes.
This one is in our line-up for later.
Reflecting on the cost of an Audible monthly subscription (14.95) and how that would only give us access to one free book per month and a 30% discount on any we would purchase (which, in Canada, are upwards of 28.00 each) we decided the whole endeavour, though enjoyable, was somewhat pricey.
I checked out what our local library had to offer. I downloaded the Libby app (which is amazing) and checked out our first audio book. Andre Alexis’ Fifteen Dogs.
Amazon write-up:
WINNER OF THE 2015 GILLER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE 2015 ROGERS WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2015 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS
“I wonder,” said Hermes, “what it would be like if animals had human intelligence.”
“I’ll wager a year’s servitude,” answered Apollo, “that animals – any animal you like – would be even more unhappy than humans are if they were given human intelligence.”
And so it begins: a bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old dog ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings. Wily Benjy moves from home to home, Prince becomes a poet, and Majnoun forges a relationship with a kind couple that stops even the Fates in their tracks.
André Alexis’ contemporary take on the apologue offers an utterly compelling and affecting look at the beauty and perils of human consciousness. By turns meditative and devastating, charming and strange, Fifteen Dogs shows you can teach an old genre new tricks.
This book is narrated by Alexis himself and after listening, I’m not sure anyone else but the author could have pulled it off. We spent a wildly hilarious and moving 6.5 hours over four nights loving this novel. I will never look or speak to a dog the same way again. While we listen, I usually knit on my various sock projects and one night, Bruce put together plumbing parts for a next day job. Listening lends itself to certain pursuits that television viewing doesn’t allow.
I am now listening to an Isabele Allende’s novel – Ripper.
Indiana Jackson is thirty-three years old and works in San Francisco at an alternative medicine clinic that attracts all sorts of characters, some of them skeptics, who fall for her candour and humility. Her teenage daughter, Amanda, likes noir literature and hopes to attend MIT, where she will be with Bradley, an old friend that she plans to marry, with or without his consent. In her free time, she plays Ripper, an online role-playing game that involves solving real-life mysteries and crimes using information collected by Amanda’s father, the Chief Inspector of the San Francisco police. Amanda plays the game via Skype with adolescents from all over the world and with her best friend, her grandfather Blake.
Each player in the game has a virtual personality: Amanda is the game master, and Blake is her henchman; the others are Sherlock Holmes, Colonel Paddington, Esmeralda and the psychic Abatha.
When Ripper’s latest murder mystery-the case of the misplaced bat-begins to touch their real-world lives, Amanda and her friends know they must find the murderer before he can strike again.
Ripper is a true thriller, with twists, surprises, well-placed clues and revelations leading to a climactic finale.
Bruce is passing on this one because he doesn’t like too much bloodshed. I think he would love Allende’s characters, though, and I may convince him to give it a try. He is waiting for the new Barbara Kingsolver novel, Unsheltered, to show up. We have a library order in for it and must wait our turn. Estimated time is 14 weeks!
Rest assured, now that we have discovered this new medium, we’ll be filling our waiting time with more easily available treats.
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Joachim Rønning
Joe Roth
Duncan Henderson
Linda Woolverton (Screenplay & Story)
Micah Fitzerman-Blue (Screenplay)
Noah Harpster (Screenplay)
Jez Butterworth
Geoff Zanelli
Cinematography by
Laura Jennings
Craig Wood
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is an American epic dark fantasy film released on October 18, 2019. As the official sequel to Maleficent, Angelina Jolie returns to portray the titular role of the same name, along with Elle Fanning as Princess Aurora.
A fantasy adventure that picks up several years after Maleficent, in which audiences learned of the events that hardened the heart of Disney's most notorious villain and drove her to curse a baby Princess Aurora, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil continues to explore the complex relationship between the horned fairy and the soon to be Queen, as they form new alliances and face new adversaries in their struggle to protect the moors and the magical creatures that reside within.
In the five years since King Stefan's death, Aurora has reigned as Queen of the Moors and Maleficent as its protector. Despite her service, the neighboring kingdom of Ulstead, home to Prince Phillip, deems Maleficent a villain. Diaval, Maleficent's raven and confidant, overhears Phillip proposing to Aurora. When he relays this to Maleficent, she advises Aurora against the union, though Aurora insists she will be proven wrong.
Phillip's parents, King John and Queen Ingrith, host an intimate dinner. Maleficent maintains her composure after Ingrith tauntingly mentions the sleeping curse once placed on Aurora, and recalls King Stefan's death. She openly claims Maleficent killed two human fairy poachers last seen near the Moors. When Ingrith dismisses Maleficent's maternal bond with Aurora, Maleficent reacts angrily and seemingly curses King John, who suddenly falls into a deep slumber. Maleficent proclaims she did not curse him, though Aurora disbelieves her. Phillip urges his mother to try and awaken the King with a kiss. The Queen resists, and her weak attempt fails because she does not love King John. The Queen's servant, Gerda, shoots Maleficent with an iron bullet as she flees the castle.
Wounded, Maleficent falls into the ocean and is rescued by a mysterious winged creature. She awakens in an underground cavern where fairies like herself have been in hiding. Among them is Conall, their peaceful leader who saved Maleficent, and Borra, a warlike fairy who favors open conflict with humans. Maleficent is among the last creatures known as Dark Fae, powerful fairies forced into hiding and driven to near extinction by human oppression. She is also the last descendant from the Phoenix, an ancient and powerful Dark Fae ancestor. Because Maleficent's magic is so powerful, Conall and Borra believe she is instrumental in ending the conflict with humans, either by peace or war.
Meanwhile, Aurora grows disillusioned with being an Ulstead noblewoman but is happy that the Moor denizens are invited to the royal wedding. Aurora discovers that Queen Ingrith hates all Moor fairy folk, bitterly resenting their prosperity during a time when her kingdom had suffered. She also blames them for her brother's death. The Queen secretly plots to eradicate all fairies and woodland beings using iron weapons and a lethal crimson powder developed by Lickspittle, a de-winged pixie. Aurora also learns that it was Queen Ingrith who cursed King John, using Maleficent's old cursed spindle. When the Moor folk arrive, they are trapped inside the chapel. At Queen Ingrith's command, Gerda unleashes the deadly crimson powder. The fairy Flittle selflessly sacrifices herself to save everyone, while fairies Knotgrass and Thistlewit cause Gerda to fall to her death.
The Dark Fae launch an assault on Ulstead but soldiers begin massacring them until Maleficent, channeling the Phoenix power, joins the battle. She nearly kills Queen Ingrith but Aurora appeals to Maleficent's humanity to spare her, and declares that only Maleficent is her mother. The Queen fires her crossbow. Maleficent saves Aurora, but is struck by the arrow, dissolving into ashes. As Aurora's tears fall on the ashes, Maleficent is reborn as a Phoenix.
Prince Phillip forges peace between the fairies and humans and the Ulstead soldiers stand down. Maleficent reverts to her fairy form and gives Aurora and Phillip her blessing. Upon receiving it from Lickspittle, Maleficent destroys the spindle and its curse, awakening King John from his slumber. As punishment for her crimes, the Queen is transformed into a goat.
After Aurora and Phillip are wed, Maleficent leaves with the other Dark Fae. She promises to return when there is a christening.
Angelina Jolie as Maleficent
Elle Fanning as Aurora
Michelle Pfeiffer as Queen Ingrith
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Conall
Sam Riley as Diaval
Ed Skrein as Borra
Harris Dickinson as Prince Phillip
Imelda Staunton as Knotgrass
Juno Temple as Thistlewit
Lesley Manville as Flittle
Robert Lindsay as King John
Warwick Davis as Lickspittle
Jenn Murray as Gerda
David Gysai as Percival
Judith Shekoni as Shrike
Kae Alexander as Ini
Miyavi as Udo
Screenwriter Linda Woolverton returned to write the sequel with Angelina Jolie reprising her title role, with Elle Fanning who also reprised Aurora. Joe Roth returned as the producer.[1]
Joachim Rønning, director of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, directed the sequel. Production began in April 2018.[2]
Main article: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (soundtrack)
On May 22, 2019, it was revealed that film's score would be composed by Geoff Zanelli, replacing James Newton Howard from the previous film. The film marks Zanelli and Rønning's second collaboration, after Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Zanelli said that "the storytelling in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is fantastic", for which he said that "writing [the film's] score is a dream come true". On September 20, 2019, the song "You Can't Stop the Girl" by Bebe Rexha, from the film's soundtrack, was released as a single.
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil was originally scheduled for theatrical release on May 29, 2020, until it was moved up to October 18, 2019. The teaser trailer was released on May 13, 2019, and the official trailer was released on July 8.
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 40% based on 235 reviews, with a weighted average of 5.1/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "While it's far from cursed, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil too rarely supports its impressive cast and visuals with enough magical storytelling to justify its existence." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average of 43 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
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This is the second sequel to a Disney live-action adaptation of an animated film after 102 Dalmatians.
Harris Dickinson is taking over the role of Prince Phillip from Brenton Thwaites due to the latter's scheduling conflicts with the web series Titans.
Angelina Jolie and Chiwetel Ejiofor previously collaborated in the 2010 film Salt.
This is Chiwetel Ejiofor's second role in a Disney live-action adaptation in the same year of 2019, following his voice role as Scar in the live-action remake of The Lion King.
The title Mistress of Evil was used for some foreign language versions of the first Maleficent film.
This is the second sequel to a Disney live-action adaptation of an animated film to not have its music score composed by the same composer as its predecessor (James Newton Howard scored the previous film while Geoff Zanelli takes over for this film) after 102 Dalmatians (which was scored by David Newman).
In addition, this is the second live-action adaptation that Geoff Zanelli has composed and scored, after Christopher Robin.
Also, this is the second film that Joachim Rønning and Geoff Zanelli have worked together after Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
Due to being released on the same day as Fox Searchlight Pictures' Jojo Rabbit, this marks the last time Disney theatrically releases both films on the same day. It is also the last time both a Disney film and a Fox film in general are theatrically released on the same day, due to conflicting schedule changes by Disney (which acquired 21st Century Fox, including 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures, back on March 20, 2019) and the fact that Disney will continue to release Disney films and Fox films on separate days from November 2019 onward.
Both Imelda Staunton and Warwick Davis previously worked in the Harry Potter franchise as Dolores Umbridge, Filius Flitwick, and Griphook, respectively.
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Angelina Jolie all have roles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Ejiofor plays Baron Mordo, Pfeiffer portrays Janet van Dyne, and later Jolie has been cast as Thena in Eternals.
This is the last Disney live-action theatrical film to use the 1967 MPAA logo.
This was the first time Aurora's live-action counterpart was seen in her signature pink dress.
↑ 'Maleficent' Sequel On Disney Drawing Board As Linda Woolverton Makes Scripting Deal
↑ "Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent 2 Taps Pirates of the Caribbean Director Joachim Ronning". Variety. (October 4, 2017)
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Football: Northwestern overwhelmed by Minnesota for eighth straight Big Ten loss
Hunter Johnson loses the ball after a sack. The sophomore quarterback and the Wildcats fell 38-22 to Minnesota on Saturday at Ryan Field.
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Jonah Dylan, Gameday Editor
For all the hand-wringing and excuses and experts explaining what’s really wrong with Northwestern this season, Pat Fitzgerald provided a pretty simple explanation after Saturday’s loss to Minnesota.
“Just got beat.”
Tanner Morgan had an efficient 211 yards and four touchdowns, Rodney Smith added 77 yards on the ground and No. 10 Minnesota (10-1, 7-1) easily dispatched Northwestern 38-22 on Senior Day at Ryan Field. NU (2-9, 0-8 Big Ten) just had no way to stop Minnesota’s elite wide receiver duo of Rashod Bateman and Tyler Johnson, who torched the Cats all afternoon.
“They’re two good players,” junior safety Travis Whillock said. “And they made plays and we didn’t. Especially myself in particular, I didn’t play well enough. That’s on me and I know it’s a team game, but I take pride in trying to be the best I can be out there…you can put this one on me.”
The day could not have gone any worse for Hunter Johnson. The sophomore earned his first start since the Sept. 28 game at Wisconsin and finished with zero passing yards and negative 40 rushing yards. He was constantly under pressure and took a plethora of huge hits before finally being knocked out of the game by an Antoine Winfield Jr. sack. It was the third time this year that Johnson has been knocked out of a game with an injury.
Minnesota marched down the field with ease on its first three drives and built a healthy 21-0 lead, but a mistake from Morgan led to a safety that finally put the Cats on the board.
Sophomore quarterback Andrew Marty replaced Johnson and promptly led NU the length of the field for a touchdown drive. Jace James capped it off with a touchdown catch reminiscent of the plays Johnson and Bateman made all day for the guys in maroon and gold.
The Golden Gophers got the ball after the half and had no problems gashing the NU defense en route to a seven-yard touchdown grab by Bateman. But the Cats weren’t ready to go away, and Marty drove his team down the field and into the red zone. After a key fourth-down conversion, Marty plunged into the end zone on a Cam Newton-esque designed run to pull the Cats back within 12 at 28-16.
“I thought collectively as an offense we did a lot better,” Marty said. “I thought we were able to add a little bit of an element of QB run, and I thought I did a good job.”
NU suddenly had the momentum and desperately needed a stop, but the secondary again had no way to stop Johnson (115 yards, 1 TD) and Bateman (78 yards, 3 TDs). And after Bateman already had three touchdowns in the bank, it was only fitting that Johnson got on the board on a beautiful 17-yard dime from Morgan.
Marty continued to have success and added another rushing touchdown, but NU never really threatened the upset as Minnesota held serve to set up a massive showdown with Wisconsin for the Big Ten West title next weekend in Minneapolis. The Cats will now head to Champaign hoping to avoid a double-digit loss season in next weekend’s season finale.
There were a few bright spots for NU in the blowout loss. Senior defensive end Joe Gaziano earned the school’s all-time sacks record, capping off a fantastic career in purple and white. And Marty, seeing extended playing time for the first time in his career, finished with three total touchdowns and zero turnovers.
And yet, it was still a loss that leaves the Cats winless in the Big Ten, staring at a rare meeting with Illinois where they’ll enter as the underdogs. A year ago, NU was the surprise team that made a run to the Big Ten West title. Now, whether symbolically or by brute force, that team is Minnesota.
“They’re having a magical year,” Fitzgerald said. “We know what that feels like. We did that last year.”
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March 27, 2011 Damien Walter 14 Comments
This week I have been following with interest the rise and rise of indie-publishing phenomenon Amanda Hocking. In case you missed it, Hocking has over the last year or so been building considerable sales of her self-published paranormal romance novels through the Kindle store. Estimates of her sales run at on average 100,000 a month. Then at some point in the last few weeks, Hocking’s success became a story in and of itself and that part of the internet concerned with books basically caught fire and exploded her up to the heights of web-stardom. The latest news is that Hocking has signed a traditional publishing deal, and it seems likely she will be remembered at the very least as the first true indie-publishing star.
Amanda Hocking’s good fortune raises a few interesting issues. It certainly rocks the traditional publishing world, who simply can’t compete with indie authors that can make their work available online at $1 a pop or less when publishers are insisting on ebook prices of $10 or more to preserve their publishing model. And it makes it abundantly clear that e-books are now the primary delivery vehicle for fiction, and particularly for new writing.
But. The more interesting question arises from the intense excitement generated by Hocking’s success. Because while Hocking has demonstrated that indie-authors can tap real audiences with self-published e-books, it is not millions of paranormal romance fans who have made her a star. Instead it is the incredibly large number of writers seeking to imitate her success that have, through their fascination, become the very fuel of that success.
(I should at this point admit the existence of my own ebook, a short story published recently in the Kindle store, after being published in print and soon to be podcast.)
It is not news to anyone involved with writing or publishing that there are a very large number of people who carry the ambition of becoming a writer. It’s really impossible to know how many, but what we can say is that, between the vast growth in education and wealth in the developed world, and the array of democratic publishing technologies provided by the internet, it is exponentially more than a generation ago. In fact there are now so many aspiring professional writers that they have become a common object of pillory:
And yes, many, indeed most, will fail for exactly these reasons. But putting aside the millions of hopeless wannabes who will never get close, there are still literally tens of thousands of people putting in serious work, hour after hour, to honing their craft and drafting and redrafting short stories and novels. And given the very small number of people who will ever ‘succeed’ at the holy grail of becoming a professional, full-time writer, one has to ask…why?
At which point, I must turn to you, dear reader. If you are reading this then you (like I) are likely engaged in the thankless task of ‘being a writer’. Why, I ask, are you doing it? Do you enjoy pain? Are you addicted to rejection? Do you crave the patronising reactions of your more successful peers at dinner parties? What makes you do it? Why do you write?
Here is my answer. I write for al the reasons that we all do. I write with the deluded fantasy that I, despite the astronomical odds against it, might become successful and escape my mundane life for that of a famous author. (Did I mention I have an ebook? I did? Have you bought it yet?) I write because I’m one of those unfortunate souls who keep succeeding just enough to keep that fantasy intact. Somehow or another I have shaped some kind of career around writing, writing about writing, teaching writing. And I write because I like writing. I enjoy the muscular sensation of wrestling words towards some kind of meaning on the page.
But if there is one single reason above all of these why I write, and why the thousands of hours I have invested in writing have been worthwhile, and why none of the millions of aspiring writers out there are wasting their time, it is this.
I write to grow.
Emotionally. Intellectually. Spiritually. Socially. If I did not write I would be less a person in all these ways. I would probably have thousands of more hours TV watching under my belt, but I would understand far less about the world. I might have a few more friends, but they would be far less interesting than the friends I have made through writing. I would be less fulfilled in almost every way, of that I am certain.
We live in an age where, quite amazingly, millions of people are able to grow as humans by exploring their own fundamentally creative nature. That is a true wonder, and, while I might secretly resent the competition, if we ever reach the point where everyone of the seven billion humans on the planet are striving to be an artist of some kind, it will be a very good sign for our species.
But we also live in an age obsessed with the cults of success and celebrity. And I question how compatible the drive for creative fulfilment and the drive for celebrity can ever really be. The dream of success is no bad thing in itself, as a goad to fuel our creative development. But when that dream becomes the goal in itself, it risks completely destroying the creative growth and development which is the real reward of writing.
Amanda Hocking is, I have no doubt, creatively fulfilled by her writing. Her novels are well written, they know their readership and I believe they grow out of their authors genuine creative interests (if they did not I doubt they would have succeeded at all). They do the most important thing for any work of fiction, which is express their author’s true voice as an artist. But I truly doubt this is or will be the case for the millions of writers self-publishing dark fantasy, high fantasy, sci-fi, horror or other generic novels on to the Kindle. And this is a great shame.
Back in the pre-interent days of paper publishing, there were very few ways for people to succeed. Which, in creative terms, was a good thing. Because with every rejection it kept challenging aspiring writers to break the model of their work, and rebuild it…better, stronger, faster. As much as the multiplying opportunities for publication, recognition, success are an incentive, they are also a trap. Because with a few thousand ebook sales, or a few dozen good reviews, or a fan voted award or two, the temptation to say ‘I’ve made it! I’ve succeeded!’ becomes very strong, even when the truth is that you may still be a very long way from fulfilling your creative potential. From growing in to what you might become.
(ahem…did you catch the bit about the ebook. Its an urban fantasy. Kind of. Maybe more life an anti-urban fantasy. My Lovesick Zombie Boy Band. Go. Buy. Read.)
Amanda Hocking: Sell out or saviour? (saffinadesforges.wordpress.com)
Amanda Hocking and Self-Publishing (whatever.scalzi.com)
The Very Rich Indie Writer (novelr.com)
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Dancing on the Edge Urgent artistic dialogues with the middle east
Unspoken Thoughts
Reham abd El Razek / Mutiny Group
This production by three Egyptian women – a dancer, an actress and a singer – examines the role of women in Arab society. They describe it as ‘a world full of contradictions, mystery and psychology’, and in the performance they attempt to decode its symbols, and to reveal its secrets and social and religious taboos. Breaking with all clichés, the performance brings these subjects to the stage in a refreshing, ironic and sometimes very humorous manner.
Unspoken Thoughts won the award for Best Ensemble Work in the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre in 2007 and has been performed at the Journees Theatrales de Carthage in Tunisia.
Mutiny Group
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Bootler brings comparison shopping to food delivery services
Cheryl V. Jackson
http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/ct-bootler-food-delivery-bsi-20160126-story.html
A Chicago startup plans to feed on the food-delivery boom with a search engine that makes comparing costs and delivery times easier.
Bootler (at gobootler.com) launches Tuesday in Chicago with a platform that allows users to compare menu items, prices, delivery times and fees, and order minimums across a variety of services. Users can add booze to their orders through the company’s partnership with on-demand alcohol delivery service Saucey.
Founder Michael DiBenedetto says customers who use Bootler don’t have to hop from one delivery site to the next to find what they want, then evaluate costs and other information.
The site currently includes Delivery.com, GrubHub, DoorDash, Postmates and EatStreet, with plans to add Uber, Amazon, Caviar and Eat24.
“It’s a very saturated market,” DiBenedetto said.”We think it will work because of how many companies are in the space. We’re driving more awareness and traffic for all the players in the space by arranging them all in one spot.”
Users can search by restaurant or food category then see the total from various delivery services, including menu price, taxes and delivery fees. They can then click through to their preferred service to complete the order.
Using Bootler is free to consumers. The company plans to get a cut of the delivery services’ take.
One-stop shopping for online food and alcohol ordering seems a natural with the growth of restaurant delivery services, said Darren Tristano, president at research and consultant firm Technomic.
“It was only a matter of time before somebody built a site that makes comparisons,” Tristano said. “It makes sense. We’ve seen it in other types of comparative places like with travel, with airfares and hotels and car rentals.”
It could be difficult to get consumers who already order from particular sites to steer first to an aggregator, though, Tristano said.
It “will be interesting to see if they can get consumers for a few dollars’ or a few minutes’ savings,” he said.
DiBenedetto said he started working on the website in June.
“I’ve wanted to order from one restaurant and it didn’t have what I wanted, so you end up having three or four tabs open until you find one that delivers what you want,” he said.
The site began operating beta in December, he said.
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On the Horizon: Five Trends for U.K. Restaurants
The trends driving restaurant growth and innovation are driven by consumer demands for transparency, quality, flavour, and flexibility.
The U.K. foodservice scene continues evolving in unique and interesting ways. Looking forward to next year, Technomic’s analysts and consultants have identified five key trends that expected to play major roles at British restaurants.
Catering to the Millennial customer
As the influence and collective spending power of the U.K.’s Millennial generation grows, expect to see restaurant operators amplify efforts to target these consumers via foods and brands that appeal more directly to a Millennial demographic.
For instance, consumers aged 18–34 display the strongest interest in ethnic flavours. And a greater proportion of younger than older consumers indicate that it is important to them that cafés offer a variety of side options and seasonal menu items, according to Technomic’s U.K. Café Consumer Trend Report. Further, 31% of consumers aged 18–34 strongly agree that they would order limited-time offerings (LTOs) at cafés, compared to just 22% of all consumers polled.
Also watch for new mobile apps and digital tools that integrate seamlessly into Millennials’ lifestyle. Offering free WiFi in-store and letting customers place orders online are great starting points for connecting with these on-the-go, always-connected guests. Leading operators are also going beyond these steps.
Last spring, Wagamama partnered with Blippar, an image-recognition mobile application, to introduce augmented-reality place mats. Guests who downloaded the free Blippar app could hold their mobile device over (aka “blip”) the special place mats to access promotional information about the Wagamama Lounge, a pop-up concept featured at London-area summer music festivals.
Domino’s last September rolled out the free Pizza Hero app in the U.K., giving customers the chance to play professional pizza maker, rolling out pizza dough virtually, adding tomato sauce and then sprinkling on cheese and assorted toppings. A direct link takes users to the ordering page on Domino’s website.
And Apple’s Passbook lets iPhone users group their coupons, loyalty/rewards cards and more in one quasi mobile wallet—giving them quick access to their most-used or most-important passes. Last fall, casual-dining chain Harvester Salad & Grill became one of the first U.K. restaurant concepts to offer Passbook integration, and gave diners who used the app at Harvester £5 off when they spent £30.
The evolution of pubs
Classic British pubs will push even harder in 2014 to transform and grab market share from conventional restaurants by focusing more attention on creating upscale, premium food and drink (particularly speciality coffee and American craft beer); launching repositioned outlets in nontraditional sites; introducing web-enabled ordering systems that emphasise convenience and speed of service for guests; and promoting low-price-oriented menus and new loyalty programmes designed to spur customer traffic and strengthen the value perception.
Die-hard traditionalists might scoff at the idea of having a coffee and working on a mobile device at the pub, but a customer-centric evolution can help pubs maintain their relevance with a new generation of consumers.
Throughout 2013, we’ve seen examples of how pubs and pubcos are tackling the task of serving consumers who have higher expectations for food/drink, amenities and service at pubs. We expect the focus on this imperative to be that much keener in the year ahead.
For example, Orchid Group—whose approximately 250 pubs are now up for sale—realised that those establishments best positioned for success in Ireland and some U.S. cities after smoking bans took effect there were those that emphasised attractive food offerings. Orchid re-evaluated its menus and added pizza and Thai food, among other items, driving increases in food’s share of the sales mix. The company also took efforts to appeal to women.
Similarly, Marston’s PLC announced at the beginning of the year that it would install free Wi-Fi at about 550 pubs under its managed pub estate, Marston’s Inns & Taverns. The Prince George pub in Brighton, East Sussex, offers an all-vegetarian menu and a vegetarian-friendly wine list. And in August, Wetherspoon announced a new initiative pairing craft brewers from the U.S. with U.K. brewers, as part of an effort to seize upon U.K. consumers’ heightened interest in craft beer. The U.S. brewers produce their beers in the U.K. for sale at Wetherspoon pubs.
Honest chicken
Thanks in part to the recent crop of “better chicken” concepts opening in London, emerging chicken-focused concepts will flourish in 2014, a trend closely tied to growing consumer interest in sourcing, preparation and menu transparency. Pret a Manger, for instance, touts that its chicken is starch-free, phosphate-free and sourced from a higher-welfare supplier in Suffolk. Expect to see chicken increasingly described as “free-range,” “locally sourced” and “hand-battered.” We’ll also see more American influences in the form of barbecue chicken and buttermilk fried chicken, as well as simpler cooking techniques that let the quality of the chicken speak for itself.
KFC in the U.K. touts that its chicken on the bone comes from only British and Irish chickens, and that chicken goes from the refrigerator to a breading of flour and the chain’s 11 signature herbs and spices and then to the fryer within two minutes. Little Chef touts that its Crispy Chicken Platter features 100% chicken breast fillet.
Other takes on fried chicken include Scream’s Southern-Fried-Style Chicken fillets served with barbecue seasoned chips, Jubo’s Chicken Roll with Korean fried chicken fillet, kimchi slaw and gojuchang mayo, and Clutch’s Love Me Tenders, fried chicken tenders in a peanut and chilli crust.
These dishes also illustrate U.K. consumers’ growing appetite for spicy heat, also evidenced incurries that pack a little more punch than chicken tikka masala; the rising popularity of Mexican cuisine; and the cult-like following of London-based Nando’s, the fast-casual concept specialising in flame-grilled piri-piri chicken. Neutral-flavoured, food-cost-friendly chicken offers an ideal protein platform for showcasing the vibrant flavours and colours of chillis from around the globe.
Migration of street food
Fueled by younger consumers’ demand for authentic and unique offerings, chefs are looking to global street foods for menu inspiration for their brick-and-mortar restaurants. Trendy street-inspired dishes starring on menus include Venezuelan arepas, Chinese jian bing and bao, Taiwanese hirata buns and Italian arancini.
KFC U.K. got in the game last year, introducing a limited-time Streetwise Sweet Chili Wrap featuring a chicken mini-fillet, sweet chili sauce, lettuce and cheese wrapped in a tortilla. And London-based fast-casual chain Leon introduced a Thai Green Chicken Curry box, featuring slow-cooked shredded chicken thigh, roasted aubergine and bamboo shoots served on brown rice.
Looking ahead, ethnic beverages like Mexican aguas frescas and horchata will carve out a wider niche on the menu. Also watch for dynamic flavour mashups from different cuisines and the continued growth of food trucks serving ethnic and fusion street foods.
Telling the sourcing story
Transparency is now top-of-mind for operators who want to keep customers confident in their brand. Use of eco-friendly food packaging, such as recycled or reusable cups or stemware, is increasing along with a growing commitment to ethical food sourcing. Next year will bring a surge in brand campaigns communicating quality and traceability. Watch for package logos denoting animal welfare standards, in-restaurant signs documenting supplier sourcing, and marketing initiatives focusing on the use of British and Irish products.
A good example is the Olive Branch Pub in Clipsham. Its website highlights a story about head chef Sean Hope’s recent lobster fishing trip, to source the freshest lobster for dishes such as grilled lobster Thermidor and a fresh lobster claw and tail meat with lobster tortellini. The site also provides a list of the pub’s suppliers and producers—not just the names of the farms but also the actual farmers with whom the Olive Branch works.
For its part, McDonald’s U.K. invited three young British farmers to get a behind-the-scenes look at operations inside McDonald’s stores as the part of its Progressive Young Farmer Training Programme. The mentoring-focused programme, according to McDonald’s, “aims to help young people looking to work within agriculture kick-start careers in the industry by providing them with the blend of farming and business acumen needed to succeed in today’s modern farming sector.”
The programme has the added benefit of providing a fresh, interesting supply-chain story that McDonald’s—which also announced in April that it was switching to serving 100% Freedom Food pork raised on farms that meet strict animal-welfare standards—can share with consumers.
Similarly, fast-casual burrito specialist Chipotle, whose Food With Integrity philosophy/sourcing model has won acclaim in the U.S., notes on its U.K. website that it uses Freedom Food chicken, Farm Assured beef and free-range pork.
Key Takeaway
The trends driving restaurant growth and innovation are all driven by consumer demands for transparency, high-quality and -flavour, and flexibility. Restaurant operators should examine and pay attention to these trends but follow the lead of their own customers and those they are trying to attract.
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Restaurant And Hospitality IT News For VARs — January 6, 2014
Mobile apps with integrated loyalty and rewards is boosting digital gift card spending — and restaurants are planning to invest in smartphone app and other mobile technology. Also in the news, the RPI reached a five-month high in November 2013, at 101.2.
Help Clients Boost Engagement With Stored Value Cards
In his article for QSR Web, Jon Squire says that the launch of mobile apps with integrated loyalty and rewards has encouraged more spending on digital/mobile gift cards. For clients looking to invest in mobile platforms this year, it would be beneficial to discuss how gift cards fit in. Companies like Starbucks have seen success from stored value cards, which can be mGifted, can earn your client new customers, and can encourage repeat app usage. An app that integrates loyalty and rewards and promotes stored value cards could be an important strategy for your clients for 2014.
6 Priorities For Mobile Commerce
According to the National Restaurant Association, more than half of full- and limited-service restaurants planned to invest in smartphone apps and other mobile technology in 2013. However, there are six priorities that must be accomplished to ensure a successful future of mobile commerce in the U.S. These six priorities include: standards development, transparency, cost efficiency, legacy rule limitations, payment security improvements, and mobile commerce advancement.
RPI Reaches 5-Month High
The National Restaurant Association announced that the Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) hit a five-month high in November. The RPI rose 0.3 percent from October, reaching 101.2 in November. This is the highest its been since June. Operators attribute this increase to improving same-store sales and increasing customer traffic. A majority of restaurant operators (54 percent) also reported making a capital expenditure within the last three months.
Burger Joints Investing In Online Ordering
According to QSR Magazine, burger joints have been focusing on ways to incorporate online ordering into business. Even chains as large as McDonald’s have tested ordering capabilities via app to help ensure quicker customer service. These new services however, are daunting to businesses because of the staff training it involves and the overall effort to develop the service. Darren Tristano from Technomic says businesses looking into online ordering should invest in an app that is easily downloadable, free, and can securely store payment information. Making the app about more than just ordering will only help to boost convenience for customers.
Restaurant And Hospitality IT Talking Points
A Japanese company has begun to use QR codes to inform customers about where certain apples are from and how they’re produced, Japan Daily Press reports. These QR codes can provide consumers with information on how and where the apples were grown, along with a message from the farmer.
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Democratic Push to Ban Assault Weapons in Virginia Meets Resistance (From Within)
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Democratic Sen. John Edwards is one of at least four moderate senators — the others are Sens. Chap Petersen, Creigh Deeds and Lynwood Lewis — who are skeptical of plans to ban assault weapons.
By Alan Suderman
RICHMOND, Va. — Some top Virginia Democratic senators are expressing reservations about plans to ban assault weapons — a key part of the new Democratic majority‘s gun-control proposals and one that’s drawn fierce resistance from gun-rights advocates.
A lot of people don’t really understand assault weapons and how complicated the issue really is,” said Democratic Sen. John Edwards. “It’s going to be very difficult to figure out a way to do it. But we’re studying it, that’s all I can say.”
He’s one of at least four moderate senators — the others are Sens. Chap Petersen, Creigh Deeds and Lynwood Lewis — who are skeptical of plans to ban assault weapons. None of them has ruled out voting for an assault weapon ban, but all have said they aren’t impressed with any of the drafts of proposed bans they’ve seen.
“I’ve not seen an enforceable bill that makes sense yet,” Deeds said.
Heated debates over guns are set to dominate this year’s legislative session. A failure to pass an assault weapon ban would be a blow to Democrats.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, headed by Edwards, moved quickly Monday to advance several pieces of gun legislation that a Republican majority has blocked for years. Those bills include limiting handgun purchases to once a month, universal background checks on gun purchases, allowing localities to ban guns in public buildings, parks and other areas, and a red flag bill that would allow authorities to temporarily take guns away from anyone deemed to be dangerous to themselves or others.
But a ban on assault weapons was not put on the docket for debate.
“Well, you can read into that what you want,” said Petersen, another Democrat on the committee.
Petersen said that “on paper” he supports an assault weapons ban but said he has concerns about “details that nobody seems to have figured out yet.” Those details include like what technically constitutes an assault weapon or what to do with people who already own them.
Gov. Ralph Northam and Democratic lawmakers have credited their focus on gun control for helping them win full control of the General Assembly for the first time in more than two decades. Guns were a key topic of last year’s legislative elections — particularly after a mass shooting in Virginia Beach claimed a dozen lives — and gun-control groups heavily funded Democratic candidates.
A Democratic-led special rules committee voted last week to ban guns from the Capitol and a legislative office building.
Republicans and gun-rights groups are offering stiff resistance. Gun owners are descending on local government offices to demand they establish sanctuaries for gun rights. More than 100 counties, cities and towns have declared themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries and vowed to oppose any new “unconstitutional restrictions” on guns.
Hundreds of pro-gun advocates showed up Monday to protest the gun-control bills heard in the Senate committee.
Some of the most vocal opposition has focused on plans to ban semi-automatic weapons such as the popular AR-15-style rifles. Gun-rights advocates have accused Democrats of wanting to confiscate such rifles from current gun owners. Northam has said he has no interest in doing so.
An estimated 8 million AR-style guns have been sold since they were introduced to the public in the 1960s. The weapons are known as easy to use, easy to clean and easy to modify with a variety of scopes, stocks and rails.
George Persinger, 65, a custom home builder, drove about three hours Monday to voice his opposition to the proposed assault weapons ban and other gun control laws.
The AR-15 is a tool. I can use this to go kill feral hogs. I can use this weapon at home. I can use it to protect myself and my family. My wife can shoot this, my kids can shoot this,” he said.
Edwards noted the popularity and widespread availability of AR-style rifles, saying that makes debates about outlawing them difficult.
“I don’t know how you ban them all of a sudden,” he said.
Democrats have a slim 21-19 majority in the state senate, giving them little margin to lose members on key votes like an assault weapons ban. Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, a Democrat, casts votes in cases of a tie.
Gun control is only one part of an enormous agenda lawmakers are tackling this year. They have less than 60 days to get everything passed.
Learn more about the push for increased gun control in Virginia:
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We are regularly contacted about abused, mistreated or neglected horses, ponies and donkeys in our region and we will always do our best to help these animals. But please be aware that our organisation is basically just the two of us – Sue and Rod Weeding – and we have only a small team of part-time volunteers who help us, so our resources are very limited.
If you see an animal at risk, there is one step you must take before we can intervene.
The first step must always be to officially report the matter to police (see below for more detailed instructions on who to call and how to make an official denuncia, and click here for English versions of animal welfare laws that apply across the Valencian province). In almost all cases, we cannot step in to save an animal until we have official permission from the police.
We believe this is the only way forward for animal welfare in Spain. We cannot simply go around collecting unwanted horses, as owners will believe they can get away with mistreatment and we will not move the situation forward at all. A denuncia sends a clear message that abuse and neglect will not be tolerated.
You are welcome to alert us to cases of mistreatment by contacting us on rescue@easyhorsecare.net or phoning +34 652 021 980 during business hours.
Then, when making your report to the authorities, you can tell police that you have contacted us at the Easy Horse Care Rescue Centre and that we may be able to assist. This can help move the case forward more quickly, as the police will understand that there is somewhere to take the animal after it has been seized from its owner. We believe a lot of past police inaction stemmed from a lack of places to house seized animals.
For emergencies where an animal is injured or in immediate danger
Call the Guardia Civil on 062.
The Guardia Civil is Spain’s national police force. Their emergency contact number, 062, is monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week, all year round.
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To report an act of animal cruelty, mistreatment, neglect, injury or distress in Spain, you must go to the police in person and make a written report, called a denuncia.
This must be done at your local Police Comisaría. See this link for a full list of local offices across every region in Spain. Denuncias are best done in Spanish so you may need to take a Spanish-speaker to the police station with you.
You can also report the matter to your local ayuntamiento (council). See this link for a full list of local ayuntamiento offices across every region in Spain.
We will try to help if possible but please be aware that we have only a small team of part-time volunteers and our resources are very limited.
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Gather as much information as possible about the case. This includes details such as:
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Always make sure your report is made in writing. Make your complaint in Spanish if you can. When you present the report to police, they will stamp it and give you a stamped copy to keep. This serves as proof that an official complaint has been made.
In our experience it is rare for action to be taken quickly. You will likely have to be persistent and will probably need to follow up the complaint a number of times. It may be helpful if you can get other people to complain, too. The more complaints received about a case, the more likely it is that action will be taken.
If you are making your complaint to the ayuntamiento, you may need to remind them that they have the power to act under animal mistreatment laws. Article 21 of Law 4/94 is particularly important. Council officials should know this, but some may not. Click here for the relevant excerpt from the law in English.
Although the Valencian community has relatively strong animal mistreatment laws, getting these laws enforced can be difficult as authorities are at times reluctant to act. In such cases, we apply as much pressure as we can, but please be aware that our rescue centre has no legal power.
We do feel that things are gradually improving as the mistreatment of animals becomes increasingly publicly unacceptable across the Alicante province. However, for these changes to really take hold, those in power must understand that the majority of people want to see an end to animal cruelty.
Public opinion is the most powerful force for change. So please, if you come across any case of cruelty towards any animals, do your bit to help drive change and report the abuse to police immediately.
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Ninja and DJ Marshmello Set to Headline the Las Vegas Debut of Music and Gaming Festival “Metarama”
Jen Case June 27, 2019
Metarama Festival, a hybrid experience of music and gaming, will debut in Las Vegas this October. The festival is being described as “a first-of-its-kind festival experience where the worlds of gaming, live music, e-sports, comedy, streaming, cosplay, and more collide.” The unique festival will take place on October 19th and 20th at Las Vegas Strip’s Festival Grounds.
Metarama recently announced its lineup and Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, the Twitch streamer as well as Fortnite star, will be headlining alongside his friend, DJ and electronic music producer, Marshmello. Marshmello is also an avid gaming fan who has performed a live concert from inside Epic Games’ Fortnite. Ninja and Marshmello were teammates during last year’s E3 where they won the entire charity event. Other notable music names on the bill include Logic, Snoop Dogg, Lil Yachty, Witt Lowry, and Diesel aka Shaquille O’Neal, with many of the music artists also being into gaming and streaming on Twitch. For instances, Lil Yachty signed to e-sports organization Faze Clan, and Snoop Dogg runs his own e-sports tournament organization Gangsta Gaming League.
Metarama will have gaming tournaments, live exhibition matches, drone racing, VR experiences, an onsite arcade and two main stages for the music performances. The streamers will also be broadcasting live from the festival grounds and attendees will have the opportunity to drop into the streamer zone to play alongside them.
Ninja had the following to say about the launch of the new music and gaming festival:
I’m stoked about this project, first because I truly love the music, but also because I think this is another big step towards bridging the gap between music artists and gamers. Our worlds keep getting more and more connected, and this feels like the next step — hopefully, this can become the soundtrack to gaming.
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Recap: The Amazing Race 12, Episode 11 – “People don’t eat guts here do they?”
EPISODE 12-11: THE FINAL PUSH
From Taipei, Taiwan, teams learn their next stop is the final destination city, Anchorage, Alaska. Once there, they must travel to 6th Avenue Outfitters to pick up a bag of supplies for the leg and their next clue.
With $392, the final three teams head out on their final leg for the million dollars.
They all take a China Airlines flight and touchdown on American soil, but not before Ronald & Christina gain access to the China Air lounge where they use the internet to find out more information about where they need to go in Anchorage.
Clever TAR editing (as if there is any other kind) has Ron & Chris going into the lounge and the doors closing just as the other two teams roll on past them on the people movers wondering and starting to worry about where the father and daughter are.
Anyway, in Alaska, Ron & Chris leave the airport first, followed by TK & Rachel and then Nicolas & Donald. While the other two teams grab their clue and supplies at the shop, Nick & Don leave their bag at the counter.
Their clue tells them to travel to Ship Creek Boat Launch along the waterfront. Ron & Chris maintain 1st and find the Detour.
In this Detour, teams have to choose between two common tasks by the fishermen in Alaska, Cut the Cod and Grab the Grab.
In Cut the Cod, teams have to use their supplies to cut through several 50 pound lean cod to find a miniature canister containing their next clue inside the fish.
In Grab the Crab, teams must jump into the hull of a boat filled with 500 live crabs, where they must search through them for one crab marked with race colors.
Ron & Chris choose Cut the Cod and Christina finds their clue in their first fish. Meanwhile, TK & Rachel are dropped off 5 minutes away from where they’re supposed to be, with Nick & Don right behind.
The next clue tells the teams to make their way 60 miles by taxi to a marked boat landing where they must take a high speed boat ride upriver to 20-Mile Glacier. The teams don’t know, however, that once there, they must climb the face of the glacier to obtain their clue at the top.
As Ron & Chris leave, they pass Nick & Don and then TK & Rachel on the road.
Once they get their clue, Nick & Don realize what they’ve forgotten and go back to the shop to get their gear. TK & Rachel choose the crabs and are practically pinched alive by them, prompting Rachel to want to switch Detours. But TK eventually finds one.
Nick & Don return to finish the cod Detour and try to catch up.
At the boat launch, Ron & Chris speed off to the glacier and while Ron speeds up the glacier, Chris has trouble. Coming up fast are both TK & Rachel and Nick & Don.
Once at the top, Ron & Chris get their next clue which tells them that they must take a breathtaking scenic helicopter ride to the Merrill Field and from there, a taxi to Goose Lake Park for their next clue.
At the park, Ron & Chris open the Road Block… possibly the most complex Road Block ever in 12 seasons of The Amazing Race.
In this Road Block, one team member is given 15 recognizable items from each leg of the Race. They must place 10 specific items on a stage that match 2 different requirements; First, they must have one item from each leg of the Race.
Second, of the 10 items, they must have:
-3 animals or animal by-products
-1 U-turn
-2 objects either at or brought to a Pit Stop
-2 items of transportation with wheels, 1 of which was used at a Detour
-1 item of transportation resembling the shape of a stick
Phil warns: “If it sounds easy, think again.” He says there are many possible ways to fulfill each requirement, but only one combination of 10 items that can fulfill both. Once they place the correct 10 items on stage, they must say “Done” and the clue box will open for them to get their next clue.
Also, the teams are not allowed to use pencil and pen for the Road Block.
As Christina gets started, we are shown a spectacularly edited and scored sequence of Ron & Chris along the racecourse with the correct answers: tandem bike from Ireland, a bike from the Netherlands, a coconut bowl of camel milk from Bingo, Burkina Faso, a chicken from Ouagadougou, the stilts from Lithuania, the traditional Croatian gun, the Blackberry from Italy, the Indian U-turn, a cleaning guy from Japan, and the tea cups and saucers from Taiwan.
The other two teams arrive as Rachel and Nicolas do the Road Block.
Chris gets all her 10 items on stage, and all but one is correct. She has the Irish donkey instead of the tandem bike.
Meanwhile, Rachel has three wrong items when she says “Done.” Nick has four incorrect items as he is doing his.
Chris is getting messed up with the “3 animals…” requirement as she keeps the donkey on and questions whether or not the human cleaning guy is considered an “animal.” As she tries to find out what’s wrong, she now has three incorrect items when she calls “Done” next.
Nick thinks the Croatian gun is useless while Rachel thinks the same of the pole she used at a Road Block.
As the three struggle to figure out the Road Block, their three teammates are standing waiting for one of them to finish.
Finally, someone finishes, and that person is Rachel. Their next clue tells them to find “Cook’s eye-view of the Sleeping Lady” which is a statue of Captain Cook at Resolution Park in Anchorage.
As TK & Rachel make their way to the statue, Christina, near tears, finishes and Ron says to not give up.
At the statue, TK & Rachel find the next clue telling them to find the Salmon Hooker for their next clue. Ron & Chris are close behind.
The next, and final clue, tells the teams to take a taxi to Girdwood Airport and run to the Finish Line.
It’s the final face-off between TK & Rachel and Ronald & Christina as their taxis make their way to the waiting teams and Phil at the Finish Line.
A taxi arrives and…
…it’s TK & Rachel arriving first to claim their million dollars. Ronald & Christina finish 2nd and Nicolas & Donald come running for 3rd.
Well, I’ll get it out of the way. TK & Rachel. Quoting from my week 2 assessment of them, they “were kind of nonexistent again.” And they basically stayed that way the entire Race. Definitely not happy or okay with them winning. After running a barely competent Race while being uninterested and judgmental, I seriously can’t do anything but lump them in with Eric & Danielle and Freddy & Kendra at the bottom of TAR’s list of winners. It really pains me when I can find more redeeming qualities in E&D, F&K, and even BJ & Tyler than in TK & Rachel.
On the other hand, I have nothing but admiration for Nicolas & Donald and Ronald & Christina in overcoming so many hurdles that could have kept them out of the final 3.
As our first grandparent/child team, it was expected that they wouldn’t last long. Nicolas & Donald were either going to sadly say bye early like David & Margaretta or Don & Mary Jean or they were going to surprise everyone and at least come close to going all the way like Meredith & Gretchen. I am happy to applaud them for surpassing even the wildest expectations. A great mix of what makes a good Amazing Race team; wit, humor, a little drama, knowing when to step up, teamwork, and determination.
And Ronald & Christina, having to overcome hurdles within (Ronald’s attitude) and out of (his hernia) their control. They handled all of that pressure well and defied anyone’s expectations to not only make final 3, but do very well when they stepped it up and tried to solve their relationship problems. Once their teamwork got going and Ronald calmed down, they excelled, proven especially by their three 1st place finishes, including the two consecutive ones going into this final leg. Like Nick & Don, they too had a great balance of good TAR team qualities, and not only that, they also were able to strengthen their relationship and probably “win” more than what a million dollars could buy.
Episode Overall
Overall, this was probably the best TAR finale ever…
…until the last five or so minutes.
TAR really stepped it up with the final Road Block/task and was probably the best final task ever, even though I’ll probably resent it for a while. The Detour was great, and how awesome was it to have them in their final destination city for the entire leg.
My full Amazing Race 12 wrap-up later today J
QUOTES FROM EPISODE 12-11
Phil: “…teams without fast hands might find themselves in a pinch.”
Ronald: “How do you fillet these things? This is no easy task for a city slicker.”
Nicolas: “So you know where this is? Ship Creek Boat Launch.”
Taxi driver: “I’m a cab driver. I know stuff like that.”
Ronald: “Man, this is a lot of nasty guts. People don’t eat guts here do they?”
Donald: “He’s got a good memory. There’d be no sense in me doing this, I would… I’d be there for a —- year.”
Taxi Driver: *imitating Ian* “You got numbah one taxi drivah.”
Ronald: “You’re number one in my eye.”
Ronald: “I feel real grateful that even though I didn’t come up with the first place, but I come out with the first place in my daughter’s heart. And the fact that I’ve changed for the better.”
RONALD & CHRISTINA
TK & RACHEL
DONALD & NICOLAS
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2006: Issue 1
This journal issue has been quite some time in the making. There have been so many conversations that have shaped the papers that are included here. Focusing this year on the theme, ‘Responding to Trauma’, has meant witnessing more than usual the violence, trauma and abuse that is a part of life for many people. It has also meant coming to know about inspiring work in different parts of the world, from individuals and organisations who are dedicated to responding to trauma in ways that make a difference. Stories of this work are included here. We hope that these stories will spark conversations in your own context and lead to continuing creativity in your own work.
Some of the questions that are considered in this issue include:
• As therapists, how can we respond when natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina, result in hundreds of thousands of people being evacuated to the city in which we live? What role can we play?
• When working with children who have endured significant trauma, how can we ensure our conversations do not contribute to re-traumatisation? How can we provide an alternative territory of identity for these children to stand in as they begin to give voice to their experiences?
• What occurs behind the electric fences of Australia’s immigration detention centres? And what can a counsellor do who works within them?
• How can we remember the life and work of Simon Wiesenthal, who died while this publication was being put together? And what difference can this make to our work?
• When receiving and documenting the testimonies of those who have been subjected to trauma, violence and abuse, how can this be done in ways that are not re-traumatising and that, instead, contribute to redressing the effects of trauma in the person’s life? How can these testimonies then be used for broader purposes?
• When working with religious families who have experienced significant trauma, how can text and spiritual practice be a part of the healing process?
• When working in a context like the Acid Survivors Foundation in Bangladesh, how can narrative ideas assist to unearth and thicken the values that shape our work?
• When one’s work is occurring in a context of occupation, and the trauma that people are experiencing is not past or post, but is continuing, how can workers respond?
• How can narrative ideas be used to shape therapeutic gatherings for Indigenous women?
• How can we move away from thin descriptions of resilience that attribute success to something inside an individual alone, and instead in our work develop rich descriptions of resilience?
• How can we assist survivors of political violence, war and terror to speak the unspeakable?
• How can narrative ideas assist us to walk alongside women on their journeys to reclaim their lives from the effects of domestic violence.
The papers included here are from Bangladesh, Israel, USA, UK, The Palestinian Territories & Australia. In the second part of this journal, two thorough practice-based papers are also included. The first relates to work with women with physical differences and disabilities, and the second relates to work with people whose lives are affected by substance use.
It is with a sense of anticipation that we send this collection to you. It’s been quite a process to put it together and we are looking forward to hearing your responses.
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P.S. We would like to acknowledge the following people who have acted as readers and reviewers of papers in this journal: Norma Akamatsu, Chris Behan, Walter Bera, Pennie Blackburn, Maggie Carey, Anthony Corballis, John Cramer, Saviona Cramer, David Epston, Gary Foster, Yael Gershoni, Andrew Groome, Vanessa Jackson, Zoy Kazan, Natasha Kis-Sines, Tracey Laszloffy, Rick Maisel, David Moltz, Ron Nasim, David Newman, Margaret Newmark, Keith Oulton, Amaryll Perlesz, Amanda Redstone, Colin Riess, Mary Pekin, Ruth Pluznik, Salome Raheim, Bruria Rosenwaks, Shona Russell, Margaret Ryan, Yishai Shalif, Olga Silverstein, Jane Speedy, John Stillman, Gaye Stockell, Manja Visschedijk, Ruth Walter, Kaethe Weingarten, Michael White, John Winslade, Angel Yuen, Jeff Zimmerman.
The Tree of Life Project— Ncazelo Ncube
Surviving Juvenile Justice: Imagination, Kindness and a Toasted Sandwich— David Denborough
Taking a Journey with Young Women Who Are Subjected to Sexual Abuse within Families— Delphine YAU Cheuk-wai
Working with Adolescents Who Have Committed Sexual Abuse: Establishing a New Place to Stand— John R. Stillman
Using Michael White’s Scaffolding Distance Map with a Young Man and His Family— Mark Hayward
Loss and Letters— Alex Millham and Natalie Banks
Ethical Curiosity and Poststructuralism— Katy Batha
Turning Depression on Its Head: Employing Creativity to Map Out and Externalise Depression in Conversations with Young Women— Sarah Penwarden
True Leadership— Wayne Dhurrkay
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'''Liet Kynes''', was the son of [[Pardot Kynes]] and the father of [[Chani Kynes|Chani]], who became the concubine of [[emperor]] [[Paul Atreides]]. Liet was a prominent imperial planetologist/ecologist of [[Arrakis]], and the nominal leader of the [[Fremen]].
[[Image:Kynes.jpg|right|thumb|135px|Dr. Liet-Kynes, as portrayed by actor Max Von Sydow in the 1984 ''Dune'' Movie.]]'''Liet Kynes''', was the son of [[Pardot Kynes]] and the father of [[Chani Kynes|Chani]], who became the concubine of [[emperor]] [[Paul Atreides]]. Liet was a prominent imperial planetologist/ecologist of [[Arrakis]], the [[Judge of the Change]], and the secret leader of the [[Fremen]] at the time [[House Atreides]] took control of Arrakis in 10,191AG.
Liet-Kynes inherited his father's mantle and served as both the planetary ecologist of Dune and leader of the Fremen. He continued his father's vision of gradually terraforming the planet from a harsh desert world into a temperate one.
Liet-Kynes inherited his father's mantle and served as both the planetary ecologist of Dune and leader of the Fremen. He continued his father's vision of gradually terraforming the planet from a harsh desert world into a temperate world with precipitation, greenery, and open water.
Liet was a casualty of the [[House Harkonnen|Harkonnen]]/[[Sardaukar]] assault on [[House Atreides]]. He was abandoned in the desert without water or supplies by the Harkonnens.
Upon the arrival of House Atreides on Arrakis, Kynes acted as arbiter of succession in regard to the change of [[fief]], as ordered by the [[Padishah Emperor]] [[Shaddam Corrino IV|Shaddam IV]]. Kynes' role was to report to the [[Landsraad]] and the the Emperor regarding the legality of the processes used by the Atreides in taking control of the planet, after [[House Harkonnen]] was ordered to leave.
Through his intelligence network, [[Leto Atreides I|Duke Leto Atreides]] quickly came to realise that, as well as maintaining official imperial duties, Kynes also possessed some authority with the Fremen. Reports indicated that Kynes had "gone native". As a result, Duke Leto attempted to show Kynes as much as possible that he was taking control of the planet in an honourable fashion. Moreover, Leto realised that if he could get Kynes on side, it could possibly go a long way in winning the Fremen over, who had long-standing suspicion and distrust for the [[Faufreluches]] due to being pursued across the universe as slaves, and persecution by the Harkonnens.
Kynes initially regarded the Atreides with disdain. However, after spending some time time with them undergoing his imperial duties, he came to regard them - begrudgingly at first, and vehemently later - as honourable. Moreover, Kynes' regard for the Atreides increased significantly when he came to believe, along with most Fremen, that Leto's son [[Paul Atreides|Paul]] was the [[Kwtsatz Haderach]]. This belief came to serve as a major turning point for the universe, for when the combined Harkonnen/Corrino betrayal of House Atreides bore down on Arrakis, it was Kynes who saved Paul and his mother, the [[Jessica Atreides|Lady Jessica]] and had them spirited away to safety. This act would later serve to put Paul into a position where he could wrest the control of the Imperium from the Corrinos some two years later.
== Loyalty and Death ==
Kynes' act of saving the Atreides served to illustrate a point: the Atreides, through their honourable ways, could instill fanatic loyalty in people, to the point where they would give their life for them. Indeed, in the case of Liet-Kynes, this is indeed what happened. Upon the return of House Harkonnen to Arrakis, Kynes was captured as an accomplice to the Atreides, the Fremen, and witness of the dishonourable ways of the Harkonnens. He was abandoned in the desert without water or a stillsuit, and ultimately killed when heat exhaustion, dehydration and delirium prevented him from escaping a massive [[spice blow]].
== Legacy ==
Kynes was survived by his daughter, Chani, who later became concubine of Paul. As a result, he was grandfather to the [[God-Emperor]], [[Leto Atreides II]], and his twin sister, [[Ghanima Atreides]]. Kynes' descendants continued the terraforming of Arrakis, until it became a lush and fertile world.
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Dr. Liet-Kynes, as portrayed by actor Max Von Sydow in the 1984 Dune Movie.
Liet Kynes, was the son of Pardot Kynes and the father of Chani, who became the concubine of emperor Paul Atreides. Liet was a prominent imperial planetologist/ecologist of Arrakis, the Judge of the Change, and the secret leader of the Fremen at the time House Atreides took control of Arrakis in 10,191AG.
Upon the arrival of House Atreides on Arrakis, Kynes acted as arbiter of succession in regard to the change of fief, as ordered by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV. Kynes' role was to report to the Landsraad and the the Emperor regarding the legality of the processes used by the Atreides in taking control of the planet, after House Harkonnen was ordered to leave.
Through his intelligence network, Duke Leto Atreides quickly came to realise that, as well as maintaining official imperial duties, Kynes also possessed some authority with the Fremen. Reports indicated that Kynes had "gone native". As a result, Duke Leto attempted to show Kynes as much as possible that he was taking control of the planet in an honourable fashion. Moreover, Leto realised that if he could get Kynes on side, it could possibly go a long way in winning the Fremen over, who had long-standing suspicion and distrust for the Faufreluches due to being pursued across the universe as slaves, and persecution by the Harkonnens.
Kynes initially regarded the Atreides with disdain. However, after spending some time time with them undergoing his imperial duties, he came to regard them - begrudgingly at first, and vehemently later - as honourable. Moreover, Kynes' regard for the Atreides increased significantly when he came to believe, along with most Fremen, that Leto's son Paul was the Kwtsatz Haderach. This belief came to serve as a major turning point for the universe, for when the combined Harkonnen/Corrino betrayal of House Atreides bore down on Arrakis, it was Kynes who saved Paul and his mother, the Lady Jessica and had them spirited away to safety. This act would later serve to put Paul into a position where he could wrest the control of the Imperium from the Corrinos some two years later.
Loyalty and Death
Kynes' act of saving the Atreides served to illustrate a point: the Atreides, through their honourable ways, could instill fanatic loyalty in people, to the point where they would give their life for them. Indeed, in the case of Liet-Kynes, this is indeed what happened. Upon the return of House Harkonnen to Arrakis, Kynes was captured as an accomplice to the Atreides, the Fremen, and witness of the dishonourable ways of the Harkonnens. He was abandoned in the desert without water or a stillsuit, and ultimately killed when heat exhaustion, dehydration and delirium prevented him from escaping a massive spice blow.
Kynes was survived by his daughter, Chani, who later became concubine of Paul. As a result, he was grandfather to the God-Emperor, Leto Atreides II, and his twin sister, Ghanima Atreides. Kynes' descendants continued the terraforming of Arrakis, until it became a lush and fertile world.
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PUBLIC LAW 110-000—MMMM. DD, 2007
121 STAT. 544 6 USC 347.
PUBLIC LAW 110–53—AUG. 3, 2007
‘‘SEC. 707. QUADRENNIAL HOMELAND SECURITY REVIEW.
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‘‘(a) REQUIREMENT.— ‘‘(1) QUADRENNIAL REVIEWS REQUIRED.—In fiscal year 2009, and every 4 years thereafter, the Secretary shall conduct a review of the homeland security of the Nation (in this section referred to as a ‘quadrennial homeland security review’). ‘‘(2) SCOPE OF REVIEWS.—Each quadrennial homeland security review shall be a comprehensive examination of the homeland security strategy of the Nation, including recommendations regarding the long-term strategy and priorities of the Nation for homeland security and guidance on the programs, assets, capabilities, budget, policies, and authorities of the Department. ‘‘(3) CONSULTATION.—The Secretary shall conduct each quadrennial homeland security review under this subsection in consultation with— ‘‘(A) the heads of other Federal agencies, including the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Director of National Intelligence; ‘‘(B) key officials of the Department; and ‘‘(C) other relevant governmental and nongovernmental entities, including State, local, and tribal government officials, members of Congress, private sector representatives, academics, and other policy experts. ‘‘(4) RELATIONSHIP WITH FUTURE YEARS HOMELAND SECURITY PROGRAM.—The Secretary shall ensure that each review conducted under this section is coordinated with the Future Years Homeland Security Program required under section 874. ‘‘(b) CONTENTS OF REVIEW.—In each quadrennial homeland security review, the Secretary shall— ‘‘(1) delineate and update, as appropriate, the national homeland security strategy, consistent with appropriate national and Department strategies, strategic plans, and Homeland Security Presidential Directives, including the National Strategy for Homeland Security, the National Response Plan, and the Department Security Strategic Plan; ‘‘(2) outline and prioritize the full range of the critical homeland security mission areas of the Nation; ‘‘(3) describe the interagency cooperation, preparedness of Federal response assets, infrastructure, budget plan, and other elements of the homeland security program and policies of the Nation associated with the national homeland security strategy, required to execute successfully the full range of missions called for in the national homeland security strategy described in paragraph (1) and the homeland security mission areas outlined under paragraph (2); ‘‘(4) identify the budget plan required to provide sufficient resources to successfully execute the full range of missions called for in the national homeland security strategy described in paragraph (1) and the homeland security mission areas outlined under paragraph (2); ‘‘(5) include an assessment of the organizational alignment of the Department with the national homeland security strategy referred to in paragraph (1) and the homeland security mission areas outlined under paragraph (2); and
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sulcation
1.1.1 Related terms
1.2 Anagrams
English[edit]
sulcation (countable and uncountable, plural sulcations)
A channel or furrow.
Markings resembling channels or furrows, especially in shells, fossils, etc.
1865, Thomas Oldham (ed.), Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Volume 1, page 8 (Google preview):
The ornamentation of the shell is a character of considerable palaeontological importance. . . . The types of ornamentation are two; longitudinal striation, and transverse sulcation conformable to the shape of the aperture.
1946, Charles W. Gilmore, "Reptilian Fauna of the North Horn Formation of Central Utah", Professional Paper 210-C, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, p. 45 (Google preview):
[T]he presence of sulcation in the brow horns of all the Arrhinoceratops specimens known at the present time suggests a certain constancy in this genus.
(neuroscience) The development of or resulting formations of sulci in a brain cortex.
2004, Devin K. Binder, Helen E. Scharfman, Recent Advances in Epilepsy Research, page 146:
Lissencephaly refers to a diffusely smooth-surfaced cerebral hemisphere without sulcation.
2011, Denise Pugash et al., "Fetal MRI of Normal Brain Development" in Fetal MRI, →ISBN, p. 155 (Google preview):
Since the appearance and development of sulci in the fetal brain follows a predictable pattern, the degree of sulcation may be used as an indicator of gestational age-related cortical development, both at autopsy and in vivo with fetal MRI.
2014, Dario Paladini, Paolo Volpe, Ultrasound of Congenital Fetal Anomalies: Differential Diagnosis and Prognostic Indicators, page 66:
Gyration and sulcation occur during neuronal migration and continue until after birth.
Related terms[edit]
sulcate
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sulcation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams[edit]
suctional, unstoical
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BNRG Renewables teams up with Tata Solar and HSBC to complete €29m of solar power projects in the UK
Irish solar company BNRG Renewables has completed construction of 20 MW solar projects in the UK, in partnership with the UK–based Langmead Group. The project was funded by HSBC.Debjoy Sengupta | ETEnergyWorld | Updated: April 21, 2016, 16:20 IST
Kolkata: Irish solar company BNRG Renewables has completed construction of 20 MW solar projects in the UK, in partnership with the UK–based Langmead Group. The project was funded by HSBC.
Mark Frettingham, HSBC Area Director for Corporate Banking in Sussex, said: “HSBC provided just under €20 million of funding to support BNRG’s latest solar energy expansion. This consisted of four term loans to allow the company to complete each of the four new solar farms which, now finished, have a combined value of €29 million and created 140 full time jobs for one year.
“HSBC is pleased to play its part in BNRG’s expansion, particularly with the positive benefits the projects will have on the environment.”
In addition to providing carbon a reduction to the tune of 10,500 tonnes per year, the four projects built on a cumulative 110 acres will together produce enough electricity to power over 6,500 homes annually for 30 years.
The main construction contractor was Solarcentury, a London based engineering, procurement and construction contractor specialising in solar projects. The 78,000 solar PV panels required for the projects were supplied by Tata Power Solar.
Through these projects BNRG has become Tata Power Solar’s largest international client in 2015, by providing nearly 20 MW of panels to BNRG.
Ashish Khanna, ED & CEO Tata Power Solar said “UK has seen extraordinary growth in 2015 for solar installations and we see huge potential going forward with BNRG, even in other geographies.”
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Celebrate Undergraduate Research and Creativity Showcase
February 26, 2015 Author - Celebrate Undergraduate Research and Creativity (CURC)Mary SwansonUndergraduate CompetitionWriting Competition
Colorado State University holds its Celebrate Undergraduate Research and Creativity (CURC) Showcase every year in the Lory Student Center Ballroom. Students from every discipline — including English! — come together to present their work to other students, faculty, and professionals. This event allows the community to celebrate and learn from their hard work.
The upcoming CURC Showcase will include a poster exhibition, writing competition, art exhibition, and will culminate with an awards ceremony. The showcase features outstanding performers and award winners from all disciplines. Following the showcase, an awards ceremony recognizes all participants and honored awards winners from the various events.
English majors may be particularly interested in submitting work in the Writing Competition category. Both creative writing (including, but not limited to fiction, nonfiction, poetry and multigenre works) and nonfiction writing (including, but not limited to, essays, academic writing, journalism and multigenre works) can be submitted. The Highest Honor recipient will be published in the Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Excellence, and receive a $250 gift certificate to the CSU Bookstore!
Recent English department Writing Competition winners:
High Honors 2013: Chelsea Hansen for “The Road to Nowhere” and Lee Hutchinson for “In the Moonlight.”
High Honors 2014: Krista Reuther for “Starving Artist,” (Faculty Mentor: Todd Mitchell).
“CURC is an excellent way for students in the English Department to share their creativity as a writer or researcher with the larger CSU community.”
~Mary Swanson, Associate Director of the Office for Undergraduate Research and Artistry
This year, the CURC is offering several awards for students who receive top honors in the five categories. The awards are as follows:
6 $250 travel awards are available for students who receive top honors in the research poster category
1 $250 travel award is available to a student who receives top honors in the service learning category
1 $250 travel award is available to a student who receives top honors in the oral presentation exhibition
1 $250 award is available to a student who receives top honors in the writing competition (in the form of a gift certificate to the CSU Bookstore), and publication in the Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Excellence
1 $250 award is available to a student who receives top honors in the Art Exhibition, this award will be put toward framing the winning piece and displaying it in our offices in Johnson Hall
Registration and submission of abstracts are due no later than 11:59 pm, March 24, 2015, and can be submitted online. All undergraduate research, design, or other creative projects are appropriate for CURC. For more information, visit the CURC website or contact the CURC Directors.
CURC Showcase
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 – 10:30AM-1:30 PM
Lory Student Center Ballroom
CURC Awards Ceremony
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 – 5:00-7:00 PM
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What is the difference between weather and climate?
The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time. Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere “behaves” over relatively long periods of time.
Weather is what the atmosphere does in the short term; hour to hour, day to day. Weather is chaotic, which means that even a microscopic disturbance can lead to large-scale changes. That’s why those ten-day weather forecasts are useless.
Climate is the long-term average of the weather, over a number of years. It’s shaped by global forces that alter the energy balance in the atmosphere, such as changes in the Sun, the tilt of the Earth’s axis, the amount of sunlight the Earth reflects back to space and the concentration of greenhouse gases in the air. A change in any of them affects the climate in ways that are broadly predictable.
A dog’s meandering represents the short-term fluctuations–that’s weather. It’s almost impossible to predict what’ll attract his interest next, but not hard to know what the range of his meandering will be, because the owner is holding him
on a leash. We can’t observe climate directly–all we see is the weather–but the average weather, over the course of years, reveals a pattern. The owner represent that long-term trend, which is climate
Weather in the English language can be used as an adjective and a verb.
When describing the weather we can say – It is sunny today, It’s hot and humid today. Then it is an adjective.
The weather depicted as a verb – describing this type of weather happening now. – It’s drizzling outside. Take an umbrella, it’s raining.
In spoken English most people commonly ask about the weather by saying:
What’s it like out(side)?
What’s the weather like?
What’s the temperature?
What’s the weather forecast?
While climate in English language is a noun , climatic – when you refer to a country or a zone is an adjective.
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As Kemalist clergy excommunicates Can Dündar,
Attractions: football, cinema, music
Erkan's mumbles
By erkan 11 years ago
…he produces one of the most humane portrayals of Atatürk.
The film Mustafa demonstrates once again that Kemalist clergy (intellectuals, opinion leaders, cultural producers), cannot accept Mustafa Kemal as a human being. It is a suprahuman heroic entity. He has prophetic qualities. Any other portrayal is blasphemy. Can Dündar is a well-intentioned Kemalist but he could not escape being accused by these people and their militant disciples. I have watched the movie/documentary with a girl who started blurbing against the director before the movie and continued afterwards. This good work of biography has no meaning for her and others.
I would recommend the movie. It is too personal, it might ignore some of the social aspects of the early Republican years but it certainly gives clues to understand. Oh boy, those men and women around him in his later years are so familiar. He was surrounded by sycophants. He lost his closest friends and allies in political trials and he ended up surrounded with these people who would be the base of later cult of Kemalism. The cult was the reason of their existence and so they fed them. This still continues today.
Mustafa Kemal is a heavy smoker and drinker. He cannot sleep at nights, lonely and he cannot seem to have long term relations. So what? I would not lose my respect because of these but today’s Kemalist clergy is socially conservative as much as Islamists are. So this portrayal hurts them….
Mustafa the movie divides Turkey with a portrait of the ‘real’ Ataturk – Europe, World – The Independent
National hero depictedas solitary hard drinker by documentary-maker
By Nicholas Birch in Istanbul
Directed by Can Dundar, a leading documentary-maker with an until now spotless secularist record, Mustafa is the first Turkish film to emphasise the private side of the man whose stern features preside over public buildings across the country
Turks venerate Ataturk, the founder of the republic and architect of arguably the most successful social modernisation programme of the 20th century. How much they really want to know him is questionable, however, judging from the furor"
‘Mustafa’ or ‘Kemal’?
By EMRE AKÖZ SABAH on Turkish Press Review
I asked why do you suppose they named this documentary "Mustafa" and not "Kemal"? The answer was immediate: "’Mustafa’ is a more sincere name, one closer to the people of the nation." That is the perception.
Lonely drinker with a weakness for women: it’s Ataturk on film – Times Online
Turkcell’s fear of misunderstanding on ‘Mustafa’ – Turkish Daily News Oct 31, 2008
‘Mustafa’
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“Mustafa,” a documentary by journalist-documentary maker Can Dündar aimed at bringing into the spotlight the parts of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s life that have until today remained in the dark, was released in theaters across Turkey on Oct. 29, Republic Day.
Atatürk ignoramuses
By SABAH EMRE AKÖZ on Turkish Press Review
Turkcell has come under fire from Aydin Doğan’s media group for stating its intent to sponsor the film “Mustafa,” which depicts the private life of Atatürk, and then later deciding not to.
New movie about Ataturk in Turkey, triumph of Bregovic’s music
The individual Mustafa
A heated debate is continuing in the country… The debate is about a film on the individual life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the greatest national hero for Turks, with a focus on his private life. Since the film’s premiere to high society and media representatives of Istanbul last week, some people have been defending it, saying that Can Dündar — who not only wrote the script and was the producer of the “documentary” but also was the story teller — provided a glimpse of the individual Mustafa that Turks knew little about despite their great affection for the soldier and statesman Atatürk, the founder of the modern republic. Some people, on the other hand, were upset seeing their great
‘Mustafa’ sparks debate on Republic’s history
The title of Can Dündar’s new documentary “Mustafa” invokes the childhood name of Mustafa Kemal Attatürk, offering a human face to the founder of the Republic. But the
‘Secularization’ and the ‘Mustafa’ documentary
By YENİ ŞAFAK KÜRŞAT BUMİN on Turkish Press Review
As the ongoing discussions about it suggest, "Mustafa" is one of those movies about which you could talk without actually seeing it. It is true that this does not seem pretty reasonable at first sight. But, unfortunately, this is the case.
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Let’s not worship him, let’s just love him
By SABAH, NAZLI ILICAK on Turkish Press Review
For years and years we warned “Let’s not make an idol out of Atatürk; instead, break taboos about him.” As many others have done, we for a long time asserted that in a democratic country, general knowledge of the truth would not corrode the value of the great people who served this nation.
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Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged
Who is John Galt?
This is the mystery at the center of Ayn Rand’s 1957 brilliant, controversial but flawed magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged. Since Rand and her work remain deeply polarizing, I hope those of you who have already made up your minds about Rand will persevere with this post and hear me out. Especially those of you who haven’t read her work, but have formulated opinions based solely on the actions or words of individuals who champion her work or hit pieces from the progressive media.
Despite the seemingly ceaseless parade of straw men from the writers at Salon, AlterNet and every other cesspool of progressive dross who attempt to prove otherwise, Atlas Shrugged is prophetic and radical on every level. It is perhaps more radical and relevant now than it was in its day, but mostly, because she’s asking the reader to empathize with heroes who are generally regarded as objects of revulsion and contempt. Individuals who, according to broad swaths of the population, need to be regulated, taxed, supervised and preferably, jailed. Individuals who, according to prevailing modern progressive mindset, are despoiling the earth, exploiting the worker and hoarding the wealth of the world. These heroes are, of course, industrial magnates.
Atlas Shrugged is set in post-WW2 America, but it’s an America that never existed. It’s a mythological, dieselpunk retro-futuristic dystopian America. In this respect, Atlas Shrugged is properly understood as a work of dystopian science fiction. It is essentially a story of two industry leaders who are driven by a deep sense of purpose, but are thwarted by political apparatchiks, bureaucrats and would-be do-gooders whose greed, envy and narcissism are wrapped in pretensions of altruism of every stripe. As they proceed, other producers are mysteriously dropping out of society, and our heroes set out to unravel the mystery while the slow stranglehold of bureaucracy chokes progress all around them. Needless to say, it’s also an extended philosophical treatise on Objectivism which spells out Rand’s views on morality, ethics, the role of the State, and the rights of the individual. Rand does not suffer a shortage of critics of her writing or her worldview, and to be honest, a few of these criticisms have merit, but none detract from the towering achievement of this novel.
Rand’s first radical choice was making the heroes of the story captains of heavy industry. Though there are doubtless examples of railway and metallurgical innovation to be found, viewing the steel manufacturing and railway industry as dynamic fields of innovation was itself a leap of imagination. As the novel begins, Rand sets up an industry not yet completely captured by labor and regulation. She tacitly asks you to dispel the idea of the cartelized half-public/half-private industry that presently exists in America. As Amtrak proves itself a compost heap of mediocrity and inertia in the real world, Rand asks the reader to imagine steel and railways through the eyes of an Elon Musk-type mindset and builds the drama around the slowly accumulating regulatory death spiral.
As the title suggests, she also made these heroes movers of the world; titans of business which undergird modern society, and without which modern society could not function. Since the very notion of “capitalism” is presently so deeply tied to banking, high finance or software development, Rand grounds the novel with characters who make physical objects and must themselves literally move the earth in order to realize their plans.
This is an Ayn Rand novel, so naturally, our heroes are beset by the forces of collectivism and state authority at every turn. Just as she did in The Fountainhead, Rand rolls out her cannons of contempt and fires volley after volley at the ramparts of academic royalism, media pusillanimity and government bureaucracy. The regulatory state, economic planning, academic postmodernism, and state sponsored science are among her many targets. She reserves much of her heavy artillery for the statist orthodoxy of scientism and its attendant effects on social activism in order to illustrate the pernicious influence it breeds in academics, labor unions, lobbyists and social justice warriors.
Atlas Shrugged is an epic novel with a host of characters and subplots, but the main storyline centers around two characters: railroad heiress Dagny Taggart and steel magnate Hank Rearden. The heroes are eventually united with the mysterious John Galt and all of the dissident producers who dropped out of society to join the productive utopia of Galt’s Gulch.
Hank Rearden is the steel industrialist and a classically Randian heroic archetype. When we are introduced to Rearden, he is portrayed as an elemental force; a portrait of grim stolidity whose iron will was forged in the same molten furnace that makes the steel beams he sells. In a subsequent scene, we’re introduced to his family and close associates. As each character is introduced, Rand is showing how each preys on Rearden’s spirit and goodwill in different ways and is laying out the themes and dramatic conflicts that will unfold throughout the remainder of the book.
I found Rand’s portrait of Rearden family life incisive and resonant. Rand shows how Hank feels like a stranger within his own family while exposing the how family members use guilt to extract obedience. Rearden’s mother criticizes him for being too consumed by his business and wishes he’d show more humility, but he’s annoyed that she seems unwilling to recognize how much he loves his work and the dedication he brings to it. His wife wants a rich social life and wants him to be as interested as she is in the appearances of success. She affects a posture of progressive virtue and enlightened cosmopolitanism, but he simply can’t be bothered. His brother Philip is also a progressive and what would be referred to in today’s parlance as a social justice warrior. He’s annoying, predatory, miserable and ungrateful. Even when Hank gives him exactly what he asks for and wishes him happiness, he remains an ungrateful cunt. All of the manipulations and machinations which surface in Hank’s family dynamic are a microcosm of the the phenomena each hero experiences as the novel progresses.
Though I understand why feminists in general are put off by Rand, I still can’t help but to find it deeply ironic. Dagny Taggart is the female badass that feminists seem to revere and she’s infinitely more believable than Katniss Everdeen, Imperator Furiosa or any of the many ass kicking would-be archetypes that are de rigueur nowadays. Rand made an extremely radical choice by making Dagny a railroad magnate. The feminist power fantasy heroine that’s commonplace nowadays emphasizes physical strength wildly disproportionate to body size, combat capabilities obtained without training, superhuman scientific expertise or all three (looking at you Rey). By contrast, Dagny Taggart has the courage of her convictions and willpower. She climbs through the ranks of Taggart Transcontinental on pure ambition, skill and work. She doesn’t rely on affirmative action, global feminist PR campaigns, sexual favors, nepotism or any other form of special pleading. Not only does Dagny face down the sexist attitudes that surround her with work and results, the attitudes Rand invokes feel appropriate for the time period and the industry. Unsurprisingly, contemporary feminists seem intent on promoting the idea that 50’s era attitudes are not only normal, but more widespread than ever. While this does seem to be the case for progressive politicians and celebrities, feminists continue to crusade against words and the slightest perceived transgression against womanhood. Rand gives us a heroine who seeks only to be judged by her skills and her achievement. If only feminists would pay attention.
Through Dagny Taggart, Rand presents a refreshingly adult view of female sexuality and consent which stands in stark contrast to the neo-Victorian victimology of contemporary feminism. Rand knows that when a woman wants sex from a man, it’s not necessary for him to ask for consent at each juncture. An adult woman doesn’t demand that a man she truly wants comply with a set of consent rules imposed by government bureaucrats, feminist activists and academic elitists. Contrary to the contemporary feminists who shamelessly flog rape statistics as a psychological truncheon in order to extract compliance, shame and obedience from men, Rand emphasizes the pleasure Dagny gets from sex. Rand gives us an adult woman with full sexual agency uninhibited by religious or secular Puritanism. Feminists, on the other hand, seem intent on presenting themselves as hapless victims of a predatory patriarchy. It’s strange that feminists are the ones squashing the idea that women actively seek sexual congress and companionship while ignoring that women are always the gatekeepers of sex in a normal, healthy relationship.
Contemporary feminists also insist on rehashing the seemingly deathless talking point of an alleged stigma that’s applied towards women who have active sex lives. Rand gives us a character who simply has no fucks to give around what anyone has to say about her sex life. On a related note, Rand is also remarkably dismissive of monogamy. She sees no moral transgression in the extramarital liaison between Dagny and Hank. It is an aspect of her worldview that sets her apart from traditional conservatives and on which the libertine wing of the Left has been strangely silent. There is more than a faint air of wish fulfillment to Dagny’s amorous associations throughout the book. Is Ayn Rand injecting her own fantasies into the novel by making Dagny the savior of civilization who gets to bang the three most powerful industrialists in the world? It’s not an unreasonable guess.
I suspect that there a couple things about Rand that really get feminist panties in a twist. First, is that she portrays feminine bliss and joy as full submission to a man. For all of Dagny’s strength and independence, Rand is pretty explicit about her willingness to submit completely to Rearden and Galt. Secondly, she’s unafraid to portray female predation, vindictiveness and pathology. Rand is unsparing in portraying Lillian Rearden as vampiric and toxic influence on Hank. That kind of emotional honesty certainly doesn’t square with a worldview which casts feminists as saints who are exempt from any kind of moral judgment.
Repeating a theme of The Fountainhead, but taking it to a whole new level, Rand sharpens her critique of academic postmodernism and the elitism and nihilism it breeds. Of the many themes in Atlas Shrugged which have only accumulated in strength and relevance, this one is certainly near the top. Behind the scenes of today’s social justice activism is a years long indoctrination campaign which prioritizes social pseudoscience, cultural Marxism, nihilism and self-negation over principles of individualism, productive work, and liberty. These forces conspire to derail the heroes and infect the thought of thought of everyone who surrounds them.
Upon completion of the John Galt Line, Jim Taggart is completely unable to take pride in the achievement. Wallowing in his pointless and narcissistic self-flagellation, he befriends a young cashier and future wife, Cherryl Brooks, for the exclusive purpose of flailing at the void and whinging over the great emptiness of it all. She indulges his pretentious blathering and condescending attitude with aplomb and grace, but it’s a foreshadowing of pitfalls to come. We discover later that Cherryl tries to remain self-possessed as Jim’s megalomania increases, but meets a tragic end.
Rand correctly attributes a religious proselytizing quality to postmodernism and hints at the spiritual role that has been assigned to it in the wake of America’s increased secularism. In his insufferable soliloquy to the infinite futility of life, Jim Taggart appeals to the “higher values” which are apparently inaccessible in the pursuit of economic gain, but can be understood by studying the solipsistic wanks of Dr. Pritchett’s hilariously and appropriately titled bit of pompous dreck, The Metaphysical Contradictions of the Universe. One needs only to spend a little time perusing the New Peer Review account on Twitter to find ample evidence that Rand’s aim was true with respect to the navel gazing pointlessness of the entire spectrum of postmodern academic studies.
Consider the entire abstract highlighted. https://t.co/crbJXEbQRe pic.twitter.com/ewyOlmfB6C
— New Real Peer Review (@RealPeerReview) February 17, 2017
It’s unlikely that any Left-leaning feminists or gender constructionists are even paying attention, but Rand even engages in some gender swapping that’s all the rage with the Tumblristas these days. The main difference is that Rand doesn’t deny biological sex differences nor does she wallow in pomo relativism. She merely acknowledges that there are general qualities found in men and women that are both biological and social norms. The fun is in observing how Rand inverts these expectations. When Jim Taggart finally marries Cherryl Brooks, she approaches Dagny and haughtily reminds her that she’s the “woman of the family now”. That’s okay, Dagny says. “I’m the man”. Boom! Suck on it, Judith Butler.
Rand made it very clear that her fiction was a vehicle for the philosophy of Objectivism. It can be seen as a distinct philosophical worldview with unique epistemological propositions. Specifically, it posits the idea that “existence exists” and all that exists is what can be perceived through sense data. Metaphysical contradictions do not nor cannot exist. There is no a prioristic knowledge about the world nor is there a spiritual reality. It is a secular, materialistic framework which is equally explicit about the objective existence of morality despite Rand’s openly atheistic convictions. What makes this especially interesting is that Rand still chose to frame morality using the language of theistic belief throughout the novel. Rand is unequivocal about the objective existence of the good and evil dichotomy. Dagny Taggart believed, for example, that “the greatest sin on earth” was to do things badly. The Objectivist conception of morality and ethics is somewhat clinical on paper, and it’s not clear how one would arrive at the exact same formulation of objective morality she specifies through a process of pure deductive reasoning. Rand never discusses the origins of morality in Atlas Shrugged nor does she sufficiently explain the existence of good and evil. Given that she is very explicit about where the moral fault lines lay throughout the novel, it seems like a foundational flaw in the overall epistemological framework. If morality itself is a metaphysical abstraction, how can one acquire certain knowledge of the objective existence of morality, let alone moral error, without appealing to some a priori external, metaphysical absolute? Even after listening to lectures from Atlas Society luminaries like David Kelley and Yaron Brook, Objectivist ethics and metaphysics strike me as questionable at best and somewhat daft at worst.
In the Randian worldview, there are two very distinct and equally objective conceptions of moral truth. The bureaucrats, planners and looters hold just as steadfastly to their ideas that suffering is virtue just as the producers hold to their ideas of selfishness as virtue. These moral relativists are also claiming that their mandates and proclamations are objectively true. The only difference is that they require the power of the State (i.e. guns) in order to manufacture consensus. The best you can say about Randian morality is that she makes the distinction between the two worldviews very clear and asks you to make a choice. In the realms of ontology, moral psychology and ethical metaphysics, you can’t argue that there is objective error unless the behavior is being measured against some kind of metaphysical archetype or absolute. Nor am I convinced that morality is some emergent property of material reality or that the mere act of reasoning is inherently moral. Once you introduce these subjects, you have already departed from material reality. One wonders if perhaps the theists have a point when they say that atheists have generally failed to find a secular moral framework which doesn’t devolve into relativism, utilitarianism or cultish groupthink.
Yaron Brook in particular claims Ayn Rand’s ideas to be the apotheosis of enlightenment thought, but if anything, Rand is railing against a secular, enlightenment mindset run amok. The enlightenment consensus also proclaimed reason to be the ultimate engine of virtue and the French Revolution proved that disastrously false. It is the planners and bureaucrats who are able to usurp power by claiming that we live in an “enlightened age” where the altruistic values of being one’s “brother’s keeper” have prevailed. You can practically see the venomous sneer on her face as she as she heaps mounds of contempt on the idea that the mandate of a politician or a bureaucrat is equivalent to a law of nature. Objectivists undoubtedly view their creed as something beyond theistic morality, but it’s awfully difficult to see a dramatic difference between the Objectivist and the theist in the realm of moral truth.
Even more puzzling is that she speaks very openly about the existence of love, spirit and being. As the marriage between Jim Taggart and Cherryl Brooks unravels, Cherryl’s disillusionment comes from misplaced admiration while Jim’s desire for it was rooted in an overindulgence in feelings. Rand draws a clear distinction between Jim Taggart’s vision of feelings based love as an act of empty faith in contrast to Cherryl’s more noble desire for love as a true expression of affection earned through virtuous deeds. Both Cherryl and Rand consider Jim Taggart to be a parasite of the spirit and the produce of individual; someone who wants both unearned emotional and material reward. Rand is presumably making a sound point about the connection between mental health, emotional maturity and moral values, but once again, it’s not at all clear how one can distinguish these ideas as objective truths which emerge from material reality.
Adding to the credibility hurdles in Objectivism is her apparent belief in blank slate construction of selfhood which she shared with her postmodernist, neo-Marxist opponents. Rand seems to hold that people can just detach themselves from the a priori conglomeration of genetic memories, parental imprinting, emotional traumas, psychological conditions, cognitive biases, unconscious being and learned prejudices and view the world through a lens of cold reason and logic. And that’s saying nothing about IQ disparities found throughout the population. It may sound appealing, but it steps over some significant realities of the entire apparatus of the human mind. Developing the mental discipline necessary to think logically about deep philosophical questions requires not only a certain level of scholarly dedication but some willingness to wrestle with one’s own tangle of emotional proclivities and ideological biases. I suspect this may be one of many reasons people have a difficult time buying into Randian heroes. People could buy into Mr. Spock because he was a Vulcan. Accepting human characters with similar attributes may be a bridge too far.
Rand’s opponents have frequently derided Objectivism on the grounds that it is too self-centered and lacks compassion. Atlas Shrugged certainly lends credence to these charges since Objectivism seems to take a dim view of charity. The third act of the novel deals with Dagny’s arrival in Galt’s Gulch, and when Dagny suggests that Midas Mulligan give his automobile to Galt for a short usage, Galt quietly reminds Dagny that “giving” is verboten in this would-be paradise. In Galt’s Gulch, everything is earned. Rand clearly wants to draw a bright moral line around productive labor, but even the most virtuous people need assistance, care for the indigent is a genuine concern, and charity is a virtue that’s both necessary and actively cultivated. Rand is certainly correct in denigrating politicians and apparatchiks who exploit the language of altruism in order to advance political agendas, but her apparent disdain for even voluntary acts of charity seems misplaced.
This stinginess of spirit also extends into other realms of being. When Hank Rearden’s ex-wife, mother, and brother attempt to appeal to his sense of generosity and compassion as his steel mill’s economic pulse begins to seize up, none is forthcoming. They keep hoping that their emotional entreaties will get through to him, but he remains resolute in his refusal to offer even the slightest glimmer of mercy. This is entirely consistent with both Hank’s disposition and the overall framework of thought Rand has laid out, but it is also a deeply constrained and niggardly conception of humanity. Though she borders on making her heroes monochromatic in their Objectivist stoicism, Rearden refuses his family and ex-wife because of their betrayals and parasitism. The impression with which you’re left is that their posture of penitence was disingenuous and manipulative thereby justifying Hank’s cold blooded indifference. Fair enough. But Rand seems hostile to even the possibility of either genuine repentance or forgiveness. Hank is only willing to forgive if his mother encouraged him to quit and disappear. It also beggars belief that Hank didn’t harbor tons of pent up resentment and didn’t want to just vent a little. I could buy into Roark’s spartan emotional life in The Fountainhead, but giving these heroes the exact same attributes smacks of repetition and lacks basic dramatic credibility. This seems to be yet another unnecessarily impoverished Randian archetypal ideal. Even if we take the case that his family were just as duplicitous and spiritually bankrupt as Rand portrays them, sometimes people do genuinely seek absolution from those they’ve wronged. Conversely, granting forgiveness can offer just as much redemption for the person bestowing it as the person who seeks it. And sometimes, you may have to forgive the wrongs others have perpetrated if purely to achieve peace of mind because contrition is certainly not guaranteed. Not only does Objectivism seemingly disallow these possibilities, there is nothing within the framework of logical deduction that would lead anyone to seek or bestow forgiveness. Both require a certain measure of humility, and a purely rational analysis of material sense data is an insufficient epistemological model with which to develop a robust toolkit of human relations.
Objectivism has been described by some of its detractors as an atheist religion. I contend that there is validity to this charge. Objectivism’s big calling card is its claim on secular ethics. Anyone who devotes herself to the development of a set of philosophical principles which are intended to supplant the role that religion has traditionally played will undoubtedly attract a following who treat these ideas with the type of reverence normally reserved for actual religious faith. Rand denigrates and derides religious faith as a superstition which paves the way for the kind of slavish obedience to “higher authority” on which the villains preyed, but simultaneously venerates her heroes’ adherence to a higher metaphysical truth from which they drew their strength and independence. Replacing one set of theistic metaphysics with another set of allegedly secular and materialist metaphysics still constitutes an act of faith. Even as Galt’s life hangs in the balance in the novel’s climax, Wesley Mouch desperately wants him “to believe” in their cause. Like Thomas Paine and Bertrand Russell, she perpetuates a false dichotomy between faith and reason by asserting that the exercise of one faculty necessarily precludes the other. Or that the process of reasoning is somehow divorced from any embedded prerational biases. The human ability to conceptualize and concretize abstract archetypes and metaphysical ideals through language is the very essence of faith. The looters of Atlas Shrugged want to dispel the idea that the individual possesses a sovereign consciousness and that the “enlightened” citizen will abdicate logic and cede the act of thinking to the experts. Rand is essentially asking you to make a leap of faith wrapped in a tautology that’s scarcely different from that of theists. Human consciousness, free will and morality exist because existence exists.
At its core, Objectivism seems an elaborate hymn to the Logos stripped of any references to the divine. I can appreciate that she set out to create a secular philosophical framework which was intended to maximize virtue, but it seems lacking. Objectivism starts from the proposition that reason alone is the engine of virtue, reality is limited to that which can be perceived by the senses, and an objective world exists independent of our perception. Rand was deeply opposed to Immanuel Kant’s contention that both morality and human cognition were filtered through an a priori structure, but on this point, she was wrong and Kant was right. Rand rejects all prerational and a prioristic knowledge, but leans on prerational and a prioristic concepts like Good and Evil. Good and Evil all by themselves are transcendent concepts which exist outside the domain of reason. By disallowing traditional, prerational and hereditary knowledge from the Objectivist framework, the Kantian criticism of pure reason stands. A collection of independent minds processing sense data divorced from any a priori, cultural, or hereditary knowledge will necessarily arrive at different conclusions.
Rand is frequently lumped in with the conservative tradition, but Objectivism all by itself sets her solidly within the tradition of post-Enlightenment rationalism, and by extension, classical liberalism. Rand’s philosophy could be viewed as a distinct branch of thought that descends from the classical liberal tradition set forth by Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham. Ironically, her rigid insistence on the primacy of a posteriori empirical data as the only valid source of knowledge also puts her thought in close proximity to the quasi-socialist thought of Auguste Comte. Rand’s unalloyed contempt for the intellectual class and intellectual gnosticism in general is the one, and perhaps only, strand of her worldview which aligns her with the Burkean tradition. Though it doesn’t negate the existence of objective reality, one wonders whether the revelations of quantum mechanics would have prompted doubts in Rand’s mind over the viability of pure materialism.
Rand was militant in her political neutrality and vilified conservatives and libertarians alike. Though she derided them as “hippies of the right”, Rand and Objectivism are currently and rightly identified with the more secular, minarchist wing of the libertarian movement. Despite her vehement condemnation of anarcho-capitalism, Galt’s climactic speech does, in fact, spell out Non-Aggression Principle in very explicit terms. I believe this aligns her thought at least superficially with modern libertarianism.
Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that no man man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate – do you hear me? No man may start – the use of physical force against others.
Despite the flaws in its foundational propositions, it can’t be denied that Rand reaches some sound conclusions about both the productive class and the collective “unpersoning” to which they are frequently subject. Specifically, that there is a relatively small fraction of society that does a majority of the productive labor while simultaneously being demonized as either puppet masters or vampires. As Jordan Peterson has argued, the Pareto principle applies to the distribution of workers at the top that do most of the heavy lifting. It’s the kind of thing that sends progressives into conniptions, but Galt’s speech does correctly identify the fact that progressives use the rhetoric of “equality” to pit the will of the majority against this minority. The so called 1% are convenient villains. While many are quite eager to make common cause with progressives and affect the posture of virtue that Rand righteously derides, her overall criticism of the perverse and inverted morality of progressives is dead on.
‘The public,’ to you, is whoever has failed to achieve any virtue or value, whoever achieves it, whoever provides the goods you require for your survival, ceases to be regarded as part of the public or as part of the human race.
The cult-like environment Rand built up around herself in her later years is well documented. The reputation of modern Objectivists appears to have done little to alter this perception. Rand didn’t come across like the most jovial or happy person to be around despite her open affirmation of the pursuit of happiness as the highest human aspiration. A keen intellect for sure, but not exactly a barrel of laughs.
The knee-jerk hatred of Rand from progressives is puzzling because, at a bare minimum, one would expect that they would be sympathetic to several components of her thought. Her militant individualism, her zealous insistence on the application of the scientific method as the ultimate epistemological framework for determining reality, her materialist worldview and libertine approach towards sex set her far from anything in the conservative tradition of thought. Aside from her views on the free market and the role of the State, I see little daylight between her and the likes of Russell, Harris and Dawkins. If anything, the hatred she gets from progressives serves as confirmation that Objectivism is an untenable proposition as a complete philosophy of the world. People filter the world through a set of biases, and if anything, the very materialistic worldview she espoused has bred a fealty to political power as the font of virtue. Aside from the relentless demonization she gets in the media, the mental dissonance the mere perception of her message creates in the progressive mind likely creates too much of a barrier to warrant engagement. Because after all, how many Rand haters can actually say they’ve read her work?
The fact that Ayn Rand’s work has become a both a progressive dog whistle and lightning rod that is meant to signify the thought of all conservatives or libertarians says quite a bit about the effectiveness of leftist propaganda and the power of her work. Like Adam Smith, it’s assumed that if you’re conservative or libertarian, you automatically subscribe to everything she had to say and that your beliefs mirror hers exactly.
Above all else, Atlas Shrugged is an extended diatribe and warning against the slow encroachment of socialism in a free society. Contrary to the idiotic screeching about the alleged advent of fascism that emanates from the MSM echo chamber 24/7, totalitarianism doesn’t just spring forth from a single politician. It’s the slow accumulation of a consensus built slowly and carefully by bureaucrats and intellectuals. This book’s greatest strength is its sustained attack on the influence of the intellectual class in building a consensus for socialism. People have criticized Rand for the voluminous length of the novel as well as the lengthy philosophical expositions contained in the monologues of various characters, but there is a painstaking deliberateness in every word of this novel. Rand wants you to see and understand collectivism in every manifestation. She wants to show how each character is ultimately corrupted by it until it spreads through society like a virus and brings the gears of progress to a grinding halt.
Rand saves her heaviest artillery for the economic central planners. Upon Dagny’s return to the rapidly collapsing world after her convalescence in Galt’s Gulch, she returns to a Taggart Transcontinental laboring under the weight of the bureaucratic mandates of Directive 10-289. The regulations had throttled the normal functions of the line and plunged the operation into a spiral of unused resources, service shortages and diminishing short-term profit chasing. Dagny pried her hapless brother for any sign that he was thinking in the long-term for the company. Rand loads the cannon, and fires an ordnance directly at the legacy of John Maynard Keynes by putting his words in the mouth of hilariously named Railroad Unification bureaucrat, Cuffy Meigs. “In the long run, we’ll be dead”, he snorts. Indeed, Mr. Keynes. It’s too bad you were so dismissive of the price in human liberty your demand management models would extract for a little short term boost in GDP.
Rand clearly wants to venerate and celebrate the heroism she sees in the producer. The producers in Galt’s Gulch do not recoil or retreat from hard physical labor even if they were failed intellectuals in the world of the looters. They revel in the pride of having the opportunity to put their minds and bodies to their highest use. Work is always a virtue. Success that is honestly earned is never a vice. It’s also worth emphasizing that the crony capitalists who make common cause with the bureaucrats and planners are the ones that Rand considers villains.The caricature of Rand that’s widely circulated is that she blindly worshipped corporations and businesses while keeping her scorn limited to moochers and bureaucrats. Not so. The archetypal Randian hero stands alone and seeks only to be judged by the quality of his work.
The popular conception of Rand’s work is that she championed the pursuit of profit to the exclusion of all other considerations. Anyone who actually reads Atlas Shrugged (or any of her other works for that matter) will recognize that this is a complete misrepresentation of her position. One of the key events which spurs the heroes to uncover the mystery of the disappearance of the leaders of industry is their visit to an abandoned car manufacturing plant. After making their way through the squalor of the dying town which remained after the factory shuttered its operations, Hank and Dagny stumble upon the plans for a car powered by renewable energy. That’s right. Ayn Rand, the living epitome of capitalist rapacity and insensitivity, imagined a non-carbon based, renewable energy source in her book. I wonder why this little detail is overlooked in the Rand hate mill. Through this storyline, Rand simultaneously rebukes historical materialism and gives an elegant lesson on the virtues of free market innovation. When new technology is developed, it displaces old methods, increases efficiency, and frees up every individual. It is the absence of capitalism which leads to degradation, exploitation and servitude. The only thing Rand got wrong was that she didn’t anticipate that the planners would lure the masses into submission with lofty promises of an environmentally friendly techno-utopia.
It’s a theme that doesn’t figure as prominently in Atlas Shrugged as it does in The Fountainhead, but when she swings the wrecking ball at media mendacity, it’s well deserved demolition. As society grinds to a halt in the novel’s final chapters, the media remains focused on narrative while ignoring the chaos and violence happening throughout society.
Atlas Shrugged is filled with big ideas, but there are plenty of small details that suggest that Ayn Rand’s foresight wasn’t limited to macro phenomena. As the bureaucratic bigwig Mr. Thompson tries to forestall societal collapse by attempting to negotiate with Galt, violence and civil unrest breaks out in California. Rand describes a band of communist militants led by Ma Chalmers and her “soybean cult of Orient admirers”. Ma Chalmers became a soybean mogul by securing government subsidies. If you simply swapped in “Yvette Felarca and the Antifa Soy Boys“, it would sound like a headline ripped from today’s alternative media.
Another central theme in the book that’s accumulated relevance is the corrupting influence of the State on science and the attendant appeal to scientism in political discourse. In the novel, Rearden and Taggart each have to contend with would-be scientists who spend their time idling in the government insulated confines of the National Institute of Science drawing up industry mandates wrapped in a veneer of “public good”. The bureaucrats at the National Institute of Science end up creating a deadly sonic weapon which is greeted by a great rhetorical fanfare of Unity, but for which no one will take ultimate responsibility.
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— March for Science (@ScienceMarchDC) September 5, 2017
Rand righteously skewers the false antagonism between commerce and science. In Dagny’s quest to discover the inventor of the mysterious atmosphere powered motor, she seeks assistance from Institute of Science charlatan, Dr. Stadler. Stadler expresses his smug, entitled incredulity at the idea that such a brilliant mind would squander his discovery in the realm of commerce, and Dagny shoots back with a barbed retort about how he probably enjoyed living in this world.
Near the novel’s conclusion, Stadler makes a final appeal to Galt in which he attempts to justify his alliance with the State. He pleads ineptitude at persuasion while denigrating the masses of unthinking plebs as his justification for resorting to force in order to pursue the life of scientific progress he envisioned. This monologue is simultaneously one of the most powerful critiques of modernity in Atlas Shrugged and one of its biggest contradictions. Progressives have supplanted a spiritual worldview with a purely scientific one. Rand scores another ideological point by devoting so much of the novel to this line of critique, but the very materialistic rationality she espouses is the framework that allowed the mentality of the likes of Stadler to flourish.
She extends the critique of State influence on science into the mentality of the artist. Richard Halley is Dagny’s favorite composer, and she delights in having the opportunity to meet him in Galt’s Gulch. Once again, Rand lays waste to the belief that art and commerce are mutually exclusive.
For if there is more tragic a fool than the businessman who doesn’t know that he’s an exponent of man’s highest creative spirit – it’s the artist who thinks that the businessman is his enemy.
Hating on Ayn Rand is a subgenre of the political Left that’s well established at this point. I have yet to read a single anti-Rand diatribe which doesn’t straw man her position or blatantly distort her message in some way. It’s also quite fashionable to be penitent about your former fascination with Rand and proclaim that you’ve “grown up and opened your eyes.” All of these mendacious, spineless, virtue signaling twats can suck on it. Rand was a serious thinker and her ideas warrant serious engagement. It seems churlish and uncharitable to focus on what she got wrong rather than the really important stuff she got completely right.
Heaping smug disdain on Rand is an easy way to score points with leftists. While I’m sure there are leftists who actually attempt to engage honestly with what she’s written and that there are surely legitimate critiques to be found, everything I’ve read is throwaway snark, a pathetic straw man or knee-jerk disdain. You don’t have to look very far to find people who bash Rand, and to be fair, there are definitely shortcomings to her writing and her philosophy.
Some criticize her prose as leaden and hamfisted and I think there’s some merit to this charge. In her defense, I propose that the world has become so accustomed to obfuscation and postmodern obscurantism, her writing seems artless by comparison. The straitjacket of Objectivism also partially accounts for this phenomenon. She has no difficulty portraying corruption and evil, but when she wants to convey transcendent acts of heroism or romantic ecstasy, it feels wooden because she has confined all of these phenomena to the realm of reason. It fails more often than not.
There is also something emotionally arid to the various philosophical monologues. The content is great, but no one I know talks like that. Maybe hardcore Objectivists do, but most people don’t. The only way the dialogues make sense is to view them as mythological Randian archetypes. Even if you set aside the leaden tone of the content, she’s also recycling the basic dramatic template she used in The Fountainhead. The forces of collectivism conspire towards one dramatic event with high stakes which sets the table for the hero to lay down a heavy philosophical lesson on morality and virtue.
The sex scene between Dagny Taggart and John Galt is a bit of a groaner, too. Rand is trying to render the heat of erotic passion using the language of Objectivist rationalism and it comes off as clunky as it sounds. It’s clear that she’s saying that sexual fulfillment emerges from mutual respect and shared values, but like everything else in the Objectivist framework, this seems too narrow a view of humanity. To suggest that pure physical attraction doesn’t play some role in sexual arousal seems daft. Besides some level of pure animal magnetism, long-term relationships which prioritize communication and intimacy also play just as big a part in sexual fulfillment as mutual respect and values parity. Rand apparently sees it through this clinical and antiseptic lens which steps over some rather significant aspects of human psychology, physiology and pair bonding.
Despite all of their flaws, Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged both deserve respect. Rand was trying to provide an all encompassing philosophy for life which addressed the question of how to formulate a system secular morality. There’s a reason that religion and a religious worldview animated the great achievements of Western civilization. Mankind flourishes when he upholds ideals larger than himself. The pre-Enlightenment worldview stood atop the premise that man was striving for divinity and that the works of civilization must reflect this pursuit. Strip away that foundational view, and you’ve got a very large void in the human consciousness to fill. Unless you can fill it with a higher metaphysical ideal, the vampires of the State are going to fill it for you. I believe Ayn Rand knew this as well as anyone in history you can name whose highest aspiration was the emancipation of the individual. The fact that she fell short of meeting the challenge shouldn’t preclude an earnest engagement with the ideas she laid down in Atlas Shrugged.
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Betsy DeVos Versus the Government Education Establishment
I have family members and close friends who currently or previously worked in public education, and I can assure you, dear reader, that the libertarian argument for free market education isn’t a position that’s held in high regard in my world. It is my sincere hope that those of you reading this who also oppose a competitive market for education services will take this post in a spirit of promoting a real diversity of political opinion.
Betsy DeVos has been nominated for the Chair of the Department of Education, and as is the case with everything Trump says or does, the progressive establishment is having a conniption. Whether it’s her lack of Ivy League credentials, her advocacy of charter schools or her positively abhorrent donation to FIRE, Betsy DeVos has been branded Public Education Enemy Number 1 by the entire government education apparatus. In his recent piece in Reason, Robby Soave very carefully and methodically points out why all of them are wrong and it is they who are the ideologically hidebound zealots.
Here’s the deal.
Pretty much everyone agrees that education is important. The larger and more important question is over how best to promote real education; as in independent thought, critical thinking, a curious mind, marketable skills and a lifelong love of learning, versus just going to school.
It’s easy to view education as a “right”. Sorry to burst your bubble, but it’s not. If you are honest, you will easily be able to recall numerous occasions when school felt pointless and utterly without value. And the real world bears this out. Unless you cultivate entrepreneurial skills, a high school education is basically worthless in the marketplace. A bachelor’s degree doesn’t necessarily add much more value to your marketability either. When you treat any good or service into a “right” for which the government makes provision, you destroy the incentive to provide actual value.
Whenever the failure of public schools is discussed, “Reform” is the default cliché deployed. Anyone who suggests a market based alternative is just someone who hates children and only wants rich people to have education. Sadly, the Left is very good at painting opposition to government education as opposition to education itself while portraying themselves as Guardians of Knowledge and Social Justice from the mindless hordes of conservatards who just want to plunge America into a regressive New Dark Age of mandatory Christianity. It should be obvious to everyone that there is no such thing as “Reform”. Once you place a giant institution like education behind the government wall, there’s little you can do to truly reform it.
Institutional learning only reinforces deference to itself. If you want to promote real individuality and critical thinking skills, a bureaucratic, compulsory school system won’t produce that result.
I have plenty of skepticism over whether Betsy DeVos is going to make any meaningful difference, but I’m certainly willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. The public school bureaucrats are the real zealots here. It’s easy to point the finger of reproach when you enjoy the tacit protection of the government. And no, it doesn’t make one goddamn bit of difference that she doesn’t have fancy degrees. She’ll be in charge of a gigantic bureaucracy which sets the agenda for other bureaucracies.
If nothing else, she should do everything in her power to squelch the Title IX jihadists and the campus star chambers dispensing extrajudicial “justice”.
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All about tennis
Tag: Maria Sharapova
Nike and Tennis
Nike has over 40 years’ experience with the tennis court. Consistently, they have come up with on-and off-court styles for sports men and women. Let us go back to 1973 when Nike had its Nike Waffle Racer and Nike Boston, which were created for international runners. The company aim was to venture into other sports besides the tracks.
In 1972 to 1973, Nike sent envoys to the Rainier International Tennis Classic. They encounter an energetic Roman player with clever antics, eccentric styles, and many wins. He was similar to Steve Prefontaine, the company’s American star runner. In 1972, he narrowly missed a medal in Munich, but his name still lives on. The Romanian Player wore the Nike shoes claimed the top rank. Five years later, the Nike collaborated with a rebellious player as it NikeCourt DNA continued to take root.
John McEnroe was a talented rebel who would do the Nike’s footwear and court apparel. The McEnroe collection included a red swoosh and ‘Mc’ emblem for his footwear. The apparel featured black, blue and read. His preferred show was the Nike Air Trainer 1.
Next Nike signed Andre Agassi in 1986 when he was only 16 years. Subsequently, Nike came up with the Agassi collection. The shoes were the Air Tech Challenge II that came in florescent orange and detailed using teal green. With Nike, Agassi become a skilled, disciplined player with many wins. His looks were often described as the “pirate look due to the printed shorts, and bandanas.
Nike’s next player was Pete Sampras who was a California native. He signed in 1993 who would combine the styles of Sampras and Agassi. In 1997, Roger Federer from Switzerland joined the growing entourage of products. Rafael Nadal, from Mallorca, also joined the Nike’s family. As the number of male tennis players increased, so did the women. The first female athlete to wear the company’s products from head to toe was Mary Joe Fernandez in 1993. However, Nike had started a series of sponsorship for female tennis players in the 80’s. As Nike worked with female athletes, the possibilities, and potential, become apparent. In 2000, they signed the young Russian player Maria Sharapova. The first thing Nike did was reviving the tennis dress.
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About: Perched on a saddle shaped ridge, at an altitude of 1646 mtr above sea-level is the ancient town of Almora. The natural beauty of Almora is greatly enhanced by the surrounding hills, which are covered with dense forests of fragrant pine and other conifers, each crowned by a temple. It is different from other hill resorts in Uttarakhand, as it has not been deserted by its senior citizens who made some mark in life. It has retained the aura of being a hub of educational and cultural activities, and because it was patronised by the Chand rulers and Britishers alike. Nature has made Almora a trekkers’ town and from here one can venture forth on to exhilarating treks past soaring pines and glades of ferns, rhododendrons and wild flowers to the dramatic spectacle of snow and stark mountains.
Almora District: Area – 3,090 & Population – 6,21,927 (Census – 2011)
Early Rulers: In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the Chand dynasty ruled Kumaon from Champawat. As they annexed larger areas in the west, they found it difficult to administer their kingdom from Champawat and looked for a more central place. In 1560, Bhishma Chand selected the Khagmara Hills as his new Capital and gave it the name Almora, but before he could move there, he was slain.
His successor, Balo Kalyan Chand established the new capital. Legend has it that the capital was moved to this site because, when Balo Kalyan Chand was hunting in the dense forests of Khagmara, he chased a hare which to his surprise changed into a tiger in the thicket. It was considered an auspicious event and so the site where the tiger appeared, was selected for the palace.
British Rule: Almora remained the capital of the Chand rulers, until the whole of Kumaon was annexed by the British in 1815. They made Almora their Headquarters and a good number of schools, hospitals, churches and other institutions sprang up. The town has a teeming population of nearly 60000 and the district boasts of the very high literacy rate. Befittingly this town became the centre of Kumaoni culture and great Indian traditions.
Swami Vivekanand: The doyen of Indian philosophy Swami Vivekanand (1863 – 1902) visited Almora three times. First time in 1890 when he along with his companion Akhandanand came as seekers of knowledge and meditated at Kakri ghat under a peepul tree. It is here that he had a deep spiritual awakening which he mentioned in his diary that macrocosm and microcosm are built on the same plan. In other words all that exists in the universe also exists in the body, and further that the whole universe exists in the atom. This was the beginning of his theory of Zero and birth of the cosmic system out of Zero. This became the theme of his lecture in Chicago that raised him to the status of international thinker on cosmic system and humanities. Interestingly Swami ji and his brother desciples had walked from Nainital and were to go on foot to Sri Badrinath. They could not complete the yatra as the roads to Sri Badrinath had been closed by the Government on account of famine. They returned to Rishikesh. This was followed by two more visits to Almora when he initiated propogation of the basics of Indian philosophy.
In 1898 Swamy ji came to Almora for third time and stayed in the Thompson House. Unfortunately this building today is in a dilapidated condition. During his stays in Almora Swami ji used to meditate in a cave near Kasar Devi temple. Other places he liked were Syahi Devi and Deval Dhar. In 1971 one Lady Imerson Sen founded the Vivekanand memorial guest house at a place where after enlightenment Swami once fainted and a muslim saint saved his life. Unfortunately this building also is a victim of negligence. It is unfortunate that a town which has been so closely associated with the life of this great thinker, has nothing in good condition to remember him today. The Ram Krishna Mission, an Ashram located near the Bright End Corner has also nothing much to say about this great scholar saint.
Ravindra Nath Tagore: Another building associated with India’s cultural past is the Tagore Bhawan in the cantonment area, where Ravindra Nath Tagore spent some time composing poems that will always rule the Indian hearts. For many years, Almora was the headquarter of Udai Shankar, the renowned exponent of Indian dances. Udai Shankar and his troupe became very popular among youngesters so much so that many a parents started discouraging their children from going for classical dancing.
Govind Ballabh Pant: It also has the distinction of being the home town of the great freedom fighter Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant. Govind Ballabh Pant was born in a nearby village called Khoont, and had his preliminary education in Almora. The Govind Ballabh Pant Public Museum on Mall houses important historical letters from Sardar Ballabh Bhai Patel and others to Pant and is an institute of national importance which needs a little more care. More important is that Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru served a term in Almora jail during the independence movement. History did not repeat here as the Uttarakhandi agitators were not jailed here and were sent else where.
How to reach: Almora, 65 km. from Nainital is an important tourists resort with several places of interest and adequate number of guest houses and hotels to suit all pockets…. read more for hotels.
Places of Interest in & around Almora
Nanda Devi Temple Nanda Devi is the presiding deity of whole of Uttarakhand. Like many other places, being in the heart of old Lala Bazar is the Nanda Devi temple built around thousand years back by the Chand rulers.
Bright End Corner 2 km on the main motor road. Famous for its snow views, especially at sunrise and sunset.
Simtola 4 km by bridle path. Along this trail, the ridges are covered with orchards and pine forests.
Kalimati 5 km beyond Simtola (on foot). View of the Himalayas and Almora town. The soil is black, hence the name Kalimati.
Chital 6 Km. Noted for its famous temple of Gollu Devta and beautiful landscape around.
Katarmal 18 km (14 km motorable and 4 km on foot). Altitude 1454 mtr Above sea level. It is famous for an old Sun Temple.
Panuwanaulla 31 km. away this place is set at an altitude of 1981 mtr above sea-level, and is the starting point for visit to Dandeshwar Temple. Close to this place is an old ashram called Mirtola.
Kasar Devi Temple On way towards Ranikhet at about 6km is the Kasar Devi temple at a height of 1740 mtr, where Swami Vivekanand is said to have come to meditate.
Sitlakhet Nearly 39 km away at an altitude of 1829 mtr above sea-level, this is a famous place for superb view of the Himalayas and a quiet holiday in case accommodation is made available.
Char Dham in Uttarakhand:
Badrinath Kedarnath Gangotri Yamunotri
Popular Hill Stations in Uttarakhand:
Mussoorie Nainital Almora Kausani
Other Interesting Tourist Destinations in Uttarakhand:
Dehradun Haridwar Rishikesh Bhimtal
Chopta Deoria Tal Hemkund Sahib Auli
Joshimath Kalpeshwar Madmaheshwar Ranikhet
Devprayag Rudranath Tungnath Ukhimath
Uttarakashi Vishnuprayag Chakrata Lansdowne
Trekking Destinations in Uttarakhand:
Kuari Pass Trek Valley of Flowers Trek Panch Kedar Trek Deoria Tal Trek
Chandrashila Trek Gaumukh – Tapovan – Nandanvan Trek Nanda Devi Sanctuary Trek Gangotri – Sri Kedarnath Trek
Nag Tibba Trek Panwali Kantha Trek Pindari Glacier Trek Khatling Glacier Trek
Roopkund Lake Trek Dronagiri Trek Kagbhusandi Trek Har ki Doon Trek
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Trekking routes in Uttarakashi district Trekking routes in Rudraprayag district
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Mussoorie: Cool and exhilarating in summer and then mantled in casual snow for winters; inviting all the year-round; the perfect spot for a magnificent scenery; a quiet walk; an evening out and a cool night’s sleep. It is situated between high mountains to the north and the flat Doon valley below. From a particular hilltop, on a clear day one can see the Ganga and Yamuna trailing their way from the hills into the plains.
The town started to develop during the first decade of the nineteenth century when Captain Young constructed the first building near Mullingar. In 1826, Landour became a sanatorium for British troops, and the entire area covering the township was taken on lease from the Maharaja of Tehri Garhwal for the nominal sum of Rs 1120. The Municipal Board came into being in 1873. In 1880, the ex-Amir of Afghanistan, Yakub Khan was placed under detention here in the Bellevue Estate. During 1884, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught chose Mussoorie as their summer residence. By this time several Indian princes had been attracted to this place and they built their own summer residences here. Gradually schools and public institutions also developed and it became a popular summer resort, first for the princes and Britishers and later for the tourists.
Like Dehradun, Mussoorie too is known for its public schools, many of them started by the Britishers. Prominent among them are the Wood Stocks, Wynberg Allen, St. Georges, Hampton Court etc. If Dehradun is famous for the IndianMilitaryAcademy, Mussoorie boasts of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Indian Administrative Services.
During summers, the Mall is packed with merry crowds of holiday makers.
Long queues are a normal feature at the booking booths of the ropeway that takes visitors to the 2142 mtr top of the famous Gun Hill for a panoramic view of the snow-clad Himalayas. A morning stroll along the winding Charleville Road takes one to the pine-scented HappyValley and the Tibetan township. Located here is a cliff-hanging Buddhist Shrine with ceremonial trumpets and acolytes reciting ancient scriptures. In the Himalayan twilight, one can also see the twinkling lights of Dehra Dun far off in the valley below.
George Everest Estate: George Everest, after whose name the highest peak in the world, “Sagar Matha” was rechristened in 1865, as Mount Everest (8839.81 mtr) was the first Surveyor General of India. He set up his office in Mussoorie and lived in a sprawling complex known as George Everest Estate. The old dilapidated buildings are still there.
Sir George Everest lived in Mussoorie during 1833 -43 before retiring to England… read more.
Sagar Matha is the popular name in Nepal and means the ‘Tallest Forehead’ and sounds the most appropriate name for the highest mountain in the world. The same mountain in Tibet is called Chomolungma. Many surveyors and geographers were of the opinion that the mountain should retain its local name either in Nepali or Tibetan. But finally after much debate the meaningful local name was dropped to remember Sir George Everest.
Benog Hill: It is 6 km to the west of Mussoorie, and the approach is via a 9 km bridle path passing the Waverly Convent School.
Depot: It is the highest point in Mussoorie (2448m) and affords a fabulous panorama of the Himalayas. The peaks of Chaukhamba, Kedardome, Bandarpoonch and Nanda Devi can be seen from here. Ponies go right up to the top.
Gun Hill (2142mtr): gets its name from an old British practice of firing a cannon here every mid-day. Ruskin Bond the famed writer from Mussoorie, who has won awards and accolades for his writings has interesting tales about Mussoorie. According to him untill 1919, a cannon was fired from the Gun hill top every day to indicate that it was 12 noon. One day one of these cannon balls landed right in the lap of a lady who was in a rickshaw along the Mall. This became the last cannon ball to be fired and the cannon was since removed, and now a water reservoir is located here for supply to Mussoorie. The top can be reached by a 2 km bridle path or by a 400 mtr ropeway which during summer is very busy.
Camel’s back road: As the name indicates, this is a rusty rock formation very much resembling a camel sitting on a hill top. You can see this rock camel from a point near MussooriePublic School near the rope way. Then there is a road called the Camel’s Back road favoured by those who love to walk in the morning or evening. Entry into the road begins from Kulri Bazar in the east and Library Bazar in the west and for the full 4km stretch of the road you walk, through the enchanting nature.
Lal tibba: It is about 6 km from central Mussoorie. Situated at a height of 2438m, it faces the snow peaks of the Himalayas. A telescope is installed here for the benefit of visitors .
Mossey falls: This pretty waterfall is 6 km away on the road to Rajpur.
Municipal’s Garden: An excellent garden, about 5 km beyond the Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy, is the hub of picnickers.
Kempty falls: From Mussoorie, a road winds its way through splendid mountain scenery to the beautiful KemptyFalls. The waters gush out of the mountains and get divided into five distinct falls to form a pool for the bathers. KemptyFalls is 12 km from Mussoorie, on the Barkot Road, and a favourite haunt of picnickers.
Mussoorie Hotels:
There are hundreds of hotels in Mussoorie having 5 star rating to standard hotels. For few of the well known hotels….. please click.
For home stay …………… please click.
How to reach Mussoorie from Delhi:
Dehradun to Mussoorie: 35 km by road
Delhi to Dehradun: Three options (Road, railway and airway)
By Road (Delhi to Dehradun): 235 km (frequent bus service is available)
By Air (Delhi to Jollygrant, Dehradun): less than an hour’s journey
By train (Delhi to Dehradun): 7-8 hour’s journey
Delhi to Dehradun train: Uttarakhand state has two major regions for tourism activities – Garhwal and Kumaon. The Garhwal region has major destinations like Mussoorie, Rishikesh, Dehradun, Badrinath etc. whereas the major destinations in Kumaon are Haldwani, Nainital, Ranikhet, .…..….read more
Delhi to Dehradun bus: Uttarakhand has two major regions for tourism purpose – Garhwal and Kumaon. The Garhwal region has major destinations like Dehradun, Mussoorie, Badrinath etc. whereas the major destinations in Kumaon are Nainital, Haldwani, Almora etc. The major .…..….read more
Delhi to Dehradun bus fare: The Roadways bus will charge more fare from the passengers travelling to New Delhi. The decision came after the hike in the fare by the UP Roadways. The charges shall be calculated based on the kilometers travelled in Uttar Pradesh by Uttarakhand buses…..read more
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Spain hit by downgrades amid Greek contagion fears
Spain's banks are struggling with bad real estate loans (Photo: owly9)
Brussels, 18. May 2012, 07:27
Spain's economic woes deepened on Thursday (17 May) as 16 of its banks and four regions were downgraded by Moody's ratings agency, while statistics confirmed the country is still in recession.
The US-based ratings agency cut between one and three notches the ratings of 16 Spanish banks - many of them regional banks - and of Santander UK, the British subsidiary of the big Spanish lender, due to the "renewed recession, the ongoing real-estate crisis and persistent high levels of unemployment," Moody's said in a statement.
It also invoked the "reduced creditworthiness" of the Spanish state, as its borrowing costs have again spiked close to bail-out territory earlier this week, which in turn makes it difficult for the government to support banks.
Even though the Spanish government last week passed a banking reform after taking over Bankia, a major lender holding some €32 billion worth of bad loans and mortgages, and the European Central Bank helped out banks with cheap loans, "Moody's believes these positive factors are overwhelmed by mounting asset-quality challenges that weaken the earnings and threaten to erode the capital positions of many banks."
The agency also cut the ratings of four Spanish regions - Catalonia, Murcia, Andalucia and Extremadura - which now hold only a "low probability that they will be able to meet the 2012 deficit target."
The European Commission warned last week that the high debts of the 17 regions, which account for about half of overall public spending, would prevent Spain meeting its goal of cutting the budget deficit to 5.3 percent of gross domestic product this year.
Spain officially slipped into recession in the first quarter this year, final figures confirmed on Thursday, with the government having to pay around five percent interests on its three and four-year bonds, almost double compared to a month ago.
And its ten-year bonds have again traded above six percent, edging closer to bail-out territory (7%), partly also because of investors fears about the stability of the eurozone as speculation about a Greek euro-exit has picked up in recent weeks.
Fitch ratings agency on Thursday downgraded Greece deeper into so-called junk territory, warning of a "probable" exit from the common currency area if the 17 June elections produce a government that scraps the €130 billion bail-out agreed in March.
"The downgrade of Greece's sovereign ratings reflects the heightened risk that Greece may not be able to sustain its membership of Economic and Monetary Union," the agency said in a statement.
US pressure
Leaders from the EU's biggest countries are set to be put under pressure by US President Barack Obama as they attend a G8 meeting in Camp David hosted by the US.
Washington is keen for the eurozone to change the austerity and deficit-driven policies that have sunk Spain and Greece into even deeper recession.
"The US welcomes the evolving discussion and debate in Europe about the imperative for jobs and growth. The US has an extraordinarily significant stake in the outcome of the economic discussions in Europe and the steps that are taken in Europe," Obama's national security adviser Tom Donilon told reporters in Washington.
EU leaders from Germany, France, Britain and Italy on Thursday held a video-conference ahead of the G8 meeting agreeing on the general concept that austerity and growth-spurring measures can go hand-in-hand. EU council chief Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso also took part in the video chat.
The office of British Prime Minister David Cameron office said the leaders had discussed the G8 and the eurozone "including Greece, growth, and the importance of expanding trade relations between the US and EU."
In the video-conference, Cameron "emphasised the importance of Greece and the eurozone taking decisive action to ensure financial stability and prevent contagion," his office said.
Earlier that day Cameron issued a stark warning, during a speech in Manchester: "The eurozone is at a crossroads. It either has to make up or it is looking at a potential break-up."
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Obama presses EU leaders on growth
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Germany's free borrowing is 'destroying Europe'
Greek leftist vows to cancel bail-out, renationalise economy
16. May 2012, 17:44
Greeks have withdrawn billions of euros from their banks in recent days, with the country's president warning of "panic" at the prospect of the country leaving the eurozone. Markets are equally jittery, pushing Spain closer to a bail-out.
Eurozone finance ministers are to hold a "very political" meeting on Monday amid intensified speculation of a Greek exit from the single currency and fresh worries on Spain.
A weekend summit of G8 leaders stressed the need for the eurozone to focus on keeping Greece inside the euro. But plans are reportedly being drafted to deal with its potential exit.
Eurostat is sending experts to Spain to check why its 2011 deficit is worse than previously declared.
European Parliament chief Martin Schulz has launched a scathing attack on the German chancellor for promoting policies he says drive the borrowing costs of other euro-countries up, while Germany has just hit a record zero-percent interest rate on its bonds.
Greek leftist leader Tsipras has pledged to scrap the bail-out, re-nationalise banks and slash defence spending. But economists see it as pre-election posturing.
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France, Italy, Belgium to get extra three months on deficit and debt
Hollande got his way with the Juncker commission (Photo: Council of European Union)
Brussels, 27. Nov 2014, 20:01
The EU commission on Friday (28 November) is set to give France, Italy and Belgium three more months to implement deficit-and-debt cutting measures or face fines.
It is the first time the commission splits its verdict on national budgets into two parts: acknowledging that France, Italy and Belgium are in breach of the deficit-and-debt rules (Stability and Growth Pact), but delaying a decision on the consequences until March.
"We received letters at the highest level from three countries. These are high level assurances we asked for, so we will check now how they are applied and issue the recommendations in March," an EU official said.
France has already twice received a postponement of its deficit reduction deadline, which should have been under three percent of GDP by 2015. But according to its draft budget, it plans to run a deficit of 4.3 percent of GDP in 2015 and will meet the three-percent target only in 2017.
Paris adopted a last-minute promise to shave €3.6 billion off the deficit - but critics noted that no new reforms are being undertaken.
If in March the commission is still not convinced that Paris is taking real action to meet the deficit target, France could face a fine of up to €4.2 billion.
Italy and Belgium are blacklisted because of their public deficits, which are far above the 60 percent of GDP foreseen in the Stability and Growth Pact. Instead of going down, their debt is ballooning and if no measures are taken by March, the commission may place the two countries under increased control over their fiscal and economic policies.
In his letter to the economics commissioners, Italian finance minister Pier Carlo Padoan blames the increase in public debt on factors beyond his government's control.
"The increase in the public debt-to-GDP ratio in Italy in the recent past is not due to a loose fiscal policy. Instead, it reflects the contributions to the euro area financial stability programmes, the settlement of commercial debt arrears and negative nominal GDP growth," the letter reads.
Apart from those three countries, Spain, Portugal, Malta and Austria are also at risk of breaching the EU rules.
There are two schools of thought about the extra three months allowing France and the others to tweak their budget plans.
One, defended by France and Italy, says that too many deficit-reducing measures at a time of low growth and recession risks aggravating the problem. The focus should be on investments and boosting economic growth, the arguments runs, including with state subsidies or tax exemptions.
On the other hand, fiscal discipline hawks, notably Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, but also the German commissioner Guenther Oettinger, say this is a credibility test for the EU which risks being accused of letting France and Italy off the hook because they are large member states, after having imposed harsh austerity measures on Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Cyprus.
After having to deal with French politicians' ire following a criticial op-ed, penned by Oettinger, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is hoping that the three-month delay will appease both camps.
In March, however, a verdict will have to be issued, with member states having two months time to react or endorse the commission's recommendations.
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Hawks and doves within the EU commission and member states continue to disagree on how to deal with France's budget deficit, seen as a credibility test for the EU.
European Commission president Barroso has hit out at Italy for publishing a letter the commission sent asking Rome to justify its budget for 2015.
"Germany and France have never been in situations so far apart," says French economy minister Emmanuel Macron. "We need an agenda for convergence."
The EU commission on Friday said "political" factors merit giving France more time to work on its budget deficit. It urged Germany to spend more to revive eurozone growth.
Europe is ailing. In no other place is this more clear than in Brussels, the heart of Europe, where Belgians are reluctant to accept the neoliberal austerity measures of their new government.
EU governments are too optimistic about their economic prospects and their ability to control public spending, a European Commission paper has argued.
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Evolutionary Enigmas, Tiny Tardigrades Strut Their Superpowers
Looking like squishy plump toys or alien invaders, take your pick, tardigrades are survivors extraordinaire. Also called water bears or moss piglets, these tiny arthropods with eight legs and eyeless faces seem wrapped in heavy survival canvas. But that’s not what gives them their invincibility.
Tardigrades, found around the world in a wide variety of environments, amaze scientists with their ability to withstand heavy doses of radiation, heat and cold, desiccation, and even the vacuum of space. See past articles at Evolution News on tardigrades, here and here, where evolutionists were struggling to explain why any creature would evolve protections from environmental conditions it had never experienced.
Some progress has been made recently on figuring out how these tiny creatures, less than a millimeter in length, survive conditions that would freeze, fry, or zap other organisms. News from UC San Diego, complete with two delightful color pictures of tardigrades, offers a possible explanation — and it’s about a protein. Dsup, or “damage suppressor protein,” is found only in tardigrades. The researchers found out two things about Dsup: (1) it clamps onto chromatin, the protein-and-DNA structures that wind genetic material into compact structures, and (2) it provides a “protective cloud” around the chromatin, shielding it from damage by hydroxyl radicals. Hydroxyl radicals are formed when X-rays disrupt water molecules, leaving charged OH– ions floating that can damage DNA.
The news is not clear on the nature of this protective cloud, what it looks like or how it works. Live Science quotes one of the team members describing it a little bit:
“We thought, ‘Why don’t we just see if Dsup can protect DNA from hydroxyl radicals?’ And the answer is yes, it can,” [James] Kadonaga explained. High-energy Dsup has a cloud-like structure; the cloud surrounds the DNA’s chromatin envelope, blocking hydroxyl radicals and preventing them from disrupting cellular DNA, the researchers reported. [Emphasis added.]
A Partial Answer
Whatever this “cloud” looks like, or how it deflects hydroxyl radicals, it appears to give only a partial answer to the tardigrade’s robustness. Dsup deflects OH– ions somehow, but how does it protect the tardigrade from extreme cold or heat, or from the vacuum of space? Surely other mechanisms are involved that can provide a complete toolkit the organism draws on for a variety of conditions, some of them never encountered in the animal’s natural environment. The authors speculate that tardigrades evolved this protein because they often encounter free radicals in their watery environments, and must survive desiccation when the water dries up. But many other small animals also face such risks without Dsup. Finding a “need” for such a protein cannot explain how it evolved. You might need a pair of wings to fly over traffic to work, but chance is not going to provide them.
Other questions come to mind: is Dsup found in every cell of the tardigrade? Is it active on all chromatin all the time, or only when the cell is stressed? Is there a downside to its “cloud” formation? For instance, molecular machines need to access chromatin regularly; can they do it when Dsup is bound to the chromatin? Why is Dsup unique to tardigrades, if it is so beneficial? And can humans benefit from Dsup-fortified cells?
On that last question, Live Science notes that an earlier study showed that “when added to human cells, Dsup safeguards against damage from X-rays.” Dsup might be a general-purpose protector of DNA. The UC team believes that their discovery of Dsup’s “cloud” protection could help all kinds of cells survive better.
By piecing together how Dsup functions at ever-more-precise levels, scientists can then use it as a blueprint for building other types of proteins — “better versions of Dsup” — that are even more effective at protecting cells from DNA damage, Kadonaga said. These new proteins probably won’t be used to produce radiation-proof people, but they could improve the hardiness of cultured cells that are used for growing pharmaceuticals, he added.
“You can have more-durable cells, more-longer-lived cells. That might be a case for putting some form of Dsup in that cell,” he said.
Proteins, unquestionably, are highly improbable arrangements of amino acids. Uniprot shows that Dsup is a large protein, 445 amino acids long. That’s way beyond the probability of chance. Moreover, it would be useless if this protein didn’t bind to chromatin at the right time, in the right way, and in the right cooperation with other cellular functions. It will be interesting to learn more about this amazing protein, and see if it can help humans live longer.
New Relative Found in Amber
So that’s the news about moss piglets, but now there’s a mold pig. George Poinar and a colleague at Oregon State University found hundreds of tardigrade lookalikes in amber recently. “Meet the ‘mold pigs,’ a new group of invertebrates from 30 million years ago,” OSU announces. Anyone looking at the photo is bound to think it’s just another tardigrade, but surprisingly, Poinar, an expert in amber fossils, claims it is so different, he needs to classify it in a new family and class, if not a new phylum!
The several hundred individual fossils preserved in the amber shared warm, moist surroundings with pseudoscorpions, nematodes, fungi and protozoa, Poinar said.
“The large number of fossils provided additional evidence of their biology, including reproductive behavior, developmental stages and food,” he said. “There is no extant group that these fossils fit into, and we have no knowledge of any of their descendants living today. This discovery shows that unique lineages were surviving in the mid-Tertiary.”
Perhaps other specialists will debate the taxonomy of this new critter he named “Sialomorpha dominicana” (“fat hog shape from Dominican Republic”), but it sure looks like a tardigrade. The news doesn’t say if it uses Dsup and is an extremophile. Poinar holds out the possibility that scientists may discover living examples of it. For now, there’s more to learn. Outwardly, “they share characteristics with both tardigrades” and mites, he says. It doesn’t look like a transitional form. It looks like a functioning member of its ecological niche. Poinar and Nelson’s paper is published in Invertebrate Biology.
Another Survivor
Some soft, squishy extremophiles were announced in Current Biology: a nematode that can survive 500 times the lethal dose of arsenic for humans! It and several other species of roundworms were discovered doing just fine in Mono Lake in California, known for its high salinity and soda that forms eerie towers of tufa rock along its shorelines.
Though Mono Lake has previously been described to contain only two animal species (brine shrimp and alkali flies) in its water and sediments, we report the discovery of eight nematode species from the lake, including microbe grazers, parasites, and predators. Thus, nematodes are the dominant animals of Mono Lake in species richness. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that the nematodes originated from multiple colonization events, which is striking, given the young history of extreme conditions at Mono Lake. One species, Auanema sp., is new, culturable, and survives 500 times the human lethal dose of arsenic.
The lab roundworm C. elegans lacks this kind of arsenic resistance. To keep Darwinists happy, the abstract of the paper calls the amazing trait a “preadaptation”:
This preadaptation may be partly explained by a variant in the gene dbt-1 shared with some Caenorhabditis elegans natural populations and known to confer arsenic resistance. Our findings expand Mono Lake’s ecosystem from two known animal species to ten, and they provide a new system for studying arsenic resistance. The dominance of nematodes in Mono Lake and other extreme environments and our findings of preadaptation to arsenic raise the intriguing possibility that nematodes are widely pre-adapted to be extremophiles.
Another word for preadaptation is foresight. In evolutionary theory, preadaptation makes no sense, because Darwinian evolution, which only reacts to the immediate environment, has no foresight.
On the other hand, as Marcos Eberlin argued convincingly in his book Foresight and in several podcasts on ID the Future, foresight is a marker for a designing intelligence.
Photo credit: Schokraie E, Warnken U, Hotz-Wagenblatt A, Grohme MA, Hengherr S, et al. (2012) [CC BY 2.5], via Wikimedia Commons.
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The Fisherman
by Skyless_star 0 reviews
Three moments of a life meet on a river's bank. Song-fic
Category: Full Metal Panic - Rating: G - Genres: Drama - Characters: Sousuke Sagara - Published: 2008-02-10 - Updated: 2008-08-14 - 2450 words - Complete
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by Skyless_star
Three moments of a life meet on a river's bank. Inspired by the song `Il Pescatore' by F. de André.
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`FULL METAL PANIC!/]' and all the characters involved had been created by [*Gato Shoji and firstly drawn by Shiki Doji.
The song `Il Pescatore/]' (The Fisherman) belongs to [*Fabrizio de André (1976).
A kid with unruly brown hair was lurking around a river. The bank was steep and offered many hiding spots that, if he was a little lucky, could help him escape from the police and arrive undisturbed to a village, about ten kilometers ahead, where he knew somebody would hide him. Moreover, the setting sun gave him some advantage on his pursuers.
Strengthening his hold on the gun he was concealing beneath his ample clothes, the kid took a look around, scanning the nearby space with his big gray eyes to find any possible sign of danger. Nobody seemed to be chasing him; at least, they weren't near enough to be seen. The other side of the river seemed clear, too.
Searching for the best path, the kid noticed that some thirty meters from him there was a man. He tensed up at first, but relaxed shortly after, as soon as he saw that the man hadn't spotted him.
All'ombra dell'ultimo sole
(In the shadow of the setting sun)
S'era assopito un pescatore
(A fisherman was slumbering)
E aveva un solco lungo il viso
(And there was a groove along his face)
Come una specie di sorriso.
(Resembling some kind of smile.)
For a brief moment, the kid stopped to contemplate the figure. The man had dark hair, just like his, but with some sporadic white spot here and there. He was fishing. Suddenly, the kid remembered he hadn't eaten anything since the morning, and the day that was about to finish had been very hard for him.
The kid eyed the river. He quickly discarded the idea of fishing; the water was too deep to do it bare-handed and he couldn't afford to waste his time waiting for something to catch a bait. Not to mention, he had nothing to hang a bait. He decided that the old fisherman would give him something.
Venne alla spiaggia un assassino
(A killer came at the beach)
Due occhi grandi da bambino
(Two big childish eyes)
Due occhi enormi di paura
(Two enormous eyes for fear)
Eran gli specchi di un'avventura.
(An adventure's mirrors.)
He approached the man, keeping his eyes on everything around him. When he was close enough, the kid saw that the eyes of the man were closed; he was sleeping. `Good. I can take something without him seeing my face or knowing I've been here.' He turned around him to reach the bag that was on the man's left side, and noticed that he had an X-shaped scar on his cheek.
By instinct, he kid touched his own left cheek, where there was an identical scar. Looking at him better, the young fugitive felt suddenly close to the man, as if he knew he could trust him. He decided to make his presence known. "Hey, old man. Give me the food you have in your bag. I've a gun, don't even think to say no."
E chiese al vecchio dammi il pane
[/(And asked the old man `Give me the bread)
[/Ho poco tempo e troppa fame
[/(I'm very hungry and out of time')
[/E chiese al vecchio dammi il vino
[/(And asked the old man `Give me the wine)
[/Ho sete e sono un assassino.
[/(I'm thirsty and I'm a killer'.)
The old man smiled; he had sensed the kid getting near him and his bag, but he wanted to see if he really wanted to steal his bread while he wasn't looking, if he really thought he wouldn't notice his presence.
From the way he moved, so silently, he had understood he was running from something or that he was hiding; from his steps, short and quick, he had understood he was a child. The way he had spoken reminded him an old version of himself, when he was about his age.
"Asking for food would have been enough, you know? I would have given it to you anyway, but I wouldn't have known you're armed, then an outlaw." Opening his eyes, the old man was surprised in seeing how much that kid really resembled him. He bent toward his bag and took some bread that he handed the child.
Gli occhi dischiuse il vecchio al giorno
(His eyes to the day disclosed the old man)
Non si guardò neppure intorno
(He did not even look around)
Ma versò il vino e spezzò il pane
(But poured wine and broke bread)
Per chi diceva ho sete e ho fame.
(For the one saying `I'm thirsty, I'm hungry'.)
The kid accepted what he had been given, without even wondering what it might be. After all, he was sure that the food was safe. In the bucket resting near the man's feet there were seven fishes, all alive. The man was there from a long time, he couldn't be a cop in disguise, neither he could know what he had done, since it didn't seem he had brought along a radio or whatever other equipment that could give him the news. The food was for him, it was impossible that it was poisoned.
"What's your name, kid?" the man asked.
The kid eyed him between the bites. "Why should I tell you? Then you could tell the police."
"You're right, I could. But I won't. After all, you already trusted me enough to ask for the bread and let me see your face, instead of stealing it while I seemed asleep." The man paused, even if he knew the kid wouldn't answer him. "You know, when I was your age I, too, was an assassin. To me, killing an enemy wasn't right or wrong, it was just something to be done to survive." The old man felt something pulling at his rod and began retrieving his prey. "Just like catching a fish."
The kid wondered if the old man had talked about assassins because he, too, had been one or because he had understood what he had done. If he was really that smart, he could be a problem for him.
The man's voice interrupted his thoughts "My name is Sousuke."
Against all his principles, the kid trusted him again. After swallowing noisily, he answered the question the man had asked him. "Kashim. My name is Kashim."
"Nice to meet you, Kashim." said the old man, giving him some water before he could choke. Kashim shrugged and drank the water in a big gulp, then continued devouring the bread. "You should chew, else that bread will sit in your stomach, will affect your reflexes, and the police will catch you."
Kashim slowed down just enough to be able to speak. "You're right but, really, I don't have time to waste right now."
"Then it's true they're looking for you." Kashim looked him for a moment, then nodded silently.
Sousuke took the paper bag with the remaining bread and motioned for Kashim to put there the uneaten bread. Kashim glared at him, wondering if he had a death wish.
"Don't worry, I don't want it back. I want you to take it away and eat it later, when you'll have some time." That convinced Kashim, who let the bread fall in the paper bag, that he took and hid under his clothes. "Take also this." The old man said, offering him the water. Kashim accepted it without a word, then got on his feet.
E fu il calore di un momento
(And it was a moment's warmth)
Poi via di nuovo verso il vento
(Then newly away toward the wind)
Davanti agli occhi ancora il sole
(Before the eyes still the sun)
Dietro alle spalle un pescatore.
(Behind the shoulders a fisherman.)
"Do you have a place to go, Kashim? If you don't, maybe I can arrange something." Sousuke said.
Kashim nodded. "South from here there's a town in which I already took refuge in the past. They will hide me without a question."
It was Sousuke's turn to nod; he knew all too well what kind of life that kid led. "Don't worry, I won't tell the police. Now go."
Kashim began walking, but after some steps he turned around. "Thanks for everything, old man."
Sousuke smiled. "Good luck, Kashim."
As he watched him go away, Sousuke recalled in his mind what had happened in his life. `If you'll ever meet a beautiful blue-haired girl, don't be afraid of being happy with her, Kashim.' he thought, smiling.
Dietro alle spalle un pescatore
(Behind the shoulders a fisherman)
E la memoria è già dolore
(And the memory is already pain)
È già il rimpianto di un aprile
(It's already the regret of one April)
Giocato all'ombra di un cortile.
(Played in a courtyard's shadow.)
Sousuke resumed his fishing. Looking the fishes swimming in the bucket, he thought he could have given one, or even two, to Kashim; six would be more than enough for him, Kaname and their three years old grandson -the only one at the moment- that always stayed with them when his parents were on a mission for Mithril.
Sousuke closed his eyes. Some minutes later, he heard two persons approaching; no, a person and a `Bonta', evolution of the equipment he had invented years before and that Kaname had perfected: now it was an human-sized unmanned AS.
Vennero in sella due gendarmi
(Two policemen came in the saddle)
Vennero in sella con le armi
(Carrying weapons they came in the saddle)
Chiesero al vecchio se lì vicino
(They asked the old man whether around there)
Fosse passato un assassino.
(Had passed a killer.)
The man, a young cop about twenty years old, went near Sousuke. "Excuse me, sir..."
Sousuke recognized the voice. He opened his eyes and turned around to look at the boy. "How can I help you, sergeant Sagara?"
"We're looking for a kid, about ten years old, height around one meter thirty centimeters, dark messy hair, steel grey eyes, medium built. Have you seen him?"
"A kid, sergeant? Did he escape from home or do you believe he was kidnapped? ... His parents must be worried."
"Nothing like that, sir. That kid is wanted for the attempted murder of his guardian (1); a bad lot, to tell the truth. Anyway, the man survived his fury, but it can't be said he's in good shape."
`Same old story.' Sousuke thought bitterly.
"I'm sorry, sergeant, but I can't help you. A little while ago I heard someone's footsteps, but since his path didn't include my position, I didn't even turn around. I can't even tell if he was a kid, an adult, a dog..."
The sergeant nodded. "Can you at least tell me where he went?" The sergeant knew well that man's skills. In the end, he was his father. That boy was indeed the fourth son, the last one, of Sousuke and Kaname. Even more dutiful than his father was, he always spoke to him as if he was a stranger anytime they meet while he was on duty. Even when there was nobody around except the `Bonta' that, no matter how sophisticated, was only a machine.
"From what I could make from here, he was following the road in that direction." Sousuke pointed to his left, "But, again, I can't be sure of it."
"Fine, sir. Thanks for your help and good afternoon." the boy said.
"Have a nice day, sergeant." Sousuke watched his son go away. He would have wanted to help him, but he knew him and could tell that, if he was to meet Kashim, one of them won't come out alive. Because his son, at most, would receive a tirade for letting the kid go away, he had decided the best thing to do was covering Kashim.
Another fish bit, and Sousuke decided it was time to return home to his Kaname. While he was putting away his equipment, Sousuke thought about himself, about his son, about Kashim. He smiled, wishing the two boys a lucky life.
The young policeman, the even younger killer, the old and finally free man; in a day like all the others, on the bank of a river that held no more secrets for him, the three most significant phases of his life had met each other in a timeless moment.
Ma all'ombra dell'ultimo sole
(But in the shadow of the setting sun)
S'era assopito il pescatore
(Resembling some kind of smile)
(And had a groove along his face)
Latest revision 14 August 2008
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By the way, English isn't my language, so I'm bound to make mistakes even after spell-checking the story -sadly, I couldn't find a beta-reader. I apologize for any possible mistake and, if you find one, please to tell me so I'll fix it as soon as possible.
Author's notes:
(1) It didn't fit it in the story, but when I thought of Kashim's guardian I imagined him as Gauron's alter ego.
As for the song's translation, in a previous version of the story it was more literal and not mixed in the text; I hope the solution of writing the song in bold characters and it translation in smaller ones made the song more understandable and the story more enjoyable.
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NCAAW what to watch: Battle of the (ranked) Bluegrass, Ohio State gets shot at No. 1 Stanford
Cassandra Negley
Louisville forward Bionca Dunham and Kentucky's star guard Rhyne Howard will go head-to-head again this Sunday. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
The Louisville Cardinals are the best basketball program in the country this week, according to ESPN’s combined men’s and women’s basketball rankings, while Kentucky is ranked a combined fifth. On the docket for December is the annual Battle of the Bluegrass that will pit those two against each other in the annual rivalry game.
The No. 7 ranked women’s squad is up first, hosting No. 14 Kentucky in a game televised on ESPN. (The current No. 1 ranked men, though that will likely change Monday, will travel to current No. 8 Kentucky on Dec. 28.)
Later in the day will be another key matchup for Ohio State. The Buckeyes will get a shot at No. 1 Stanford, which is coming off a long layoff for finals week, at 8:30 p.m. on the Pac-12 Network.
Here’s what to watch this weekend, with the full schedule and ultimate results found here.
No. 7 Louisville (9-1) at No. 14 Kentucky (10-0)
Sunday at 1 p.m. on ESPN
It’s the Battle of the Bluegrass with both teams again ranked this season. They’ve both been ranked in nine of the last 10 teams (including this one) and the rivalry is incredibly streaky.
That streak currently belongs to Louisville, which won the last three. The Cardinals are after a strong finish to the non-conference schedule following the Oregon victory-Ohio State loss roller coaster.
It was defense that led to the toppling of national champion favorite Oregon State, keeping the Ducks to a 34.2 shooting percentage from the floor (25 of 73). They were 6 of 35 from 3-point range (17.1 percent). That will be Louisville’s calling card. Opponents have shot an average 36.7 percent from the floor and 26.8 percent from 3-point range.
Highlights from the Cards 72-62 upset of #1 Oregon in the @paradisejam.#GoCards | #ParadiseJam pic.twitter.com/XGF4Tru7rX
— Louisville WBB (@UofLWBB) November 30, 2019
Dana Evans averages 19.1 points per game, shooting a team-best 49.2 percent from range (30 of 61), and Jazmine Jones averages 13.6 points shooting 57.9 percent overall (55 of 95). Kylee Shook, who led with a double-double against Oregon, has 19 total blocks.
It will be the first real test for Kentucky, which has played a schedule ranked 173rd in the nation.
Rhyne Howard, the 6-foot-2 sophomore guard, is the gas for Kentucky and averages 19.6 points per game, top-25 in the nation. Sabrina Haines averages 11.6 per game. All five regular starters average between 4.2 and 5.6 rebounds per game.
Obviously opposing teams are focusing on stopping @howard_rhyne this season. @Darren_Headrick asked her how she is adjusting, "I just try to stay calm. I don't let them control my game" @KentuckyWBB pic.twitter.com/OT2rLwdXyO
— UK Sports Network (@UKSportsNetwork) December 5, 2019
Ohio State (6-3) at No. 1 Stanford (8-0)
Sunday at 8:30 p.m. on Pac-12 Network
A week after Ohio State knocked off the No. 1 Cardinals of Louisville they’ll get a chance at the No. 2 Cardinal of Stanford. The Buckeyes’ non-conference schedule is intense and if the early conference showings are any indication, it won’t get any easier in Big Ten play this season. Their strength of schedule ranks second in the nation with match-ups so far against ranked squads UConn — an 11-point loss after trailing by two at half — Louisville and now Stanford.
Freshman Rebeka Mikulasikova is the sharp shooter on the squad, going 27 of 48 from the field (56.3 percent), 8 of 15 from 3-point range (53.3) and 10 of 11 from the line. She’s averaging 8.0 points and 3.2 rebounds in 14.2 minutes per game.
Dorka Johasz is averaging team-highs of 12.1 points and 8.0 rebounds. Kierstan Bell is averaging 11.0 points in 21.6 minutes.
The trio had 11, 15 and 14, respectively, in the win against Louisville.
Kierstan Bell is now 3-of-3 from deep and the Buckeyes lead 58-43 with 6:14 to go. pic.twitter.com/VDtNMLh7FP
— Ohio State WBB (@OhioStateWBB) December 8, 2019
Stanford has been off since a 67-62 victory against previously tenth-ranked Mississippi State at the Greater Victorian Invitational on Nov. 30. The deep Cardinal squad spent the last two weeks focusing on a myriad of class finals instead. (And enjoying a dog therapy session.)
That means they haven’t yet had the chance to defend their top ranking after Oregon and Baylor, the teams ranked above them to head into the season, lost on the same day and Stanford moved up by “default.” It’s the first top ranking for the school since late 2012.
“It’s not stopping us from working as hard as we are in practice or boosting us,” junior point guard Kiana Williams said, via the Associated Press. “We’re the same team that we were. We also have a sense of urgency because we have a bigger target on our back. We already have a target on our back because we’re Stanford. Now we’re Stanford No. 1.
“We don’t really worry about rankings. It changes. It only matters in March, winning in March — March, April.”
Williams is pacing a Stanford squad that is deep with talent. Head coach Tara VanDerveer is spreading minutes out, playing 13 of 15 players at least 12.4 minutes per game on average. The rotation she’ll rely on will likely be figured out in the coming week-plus with games against Ohio State, Tennessee and Texas.
Kiana Williams highlights for 4-0 Stanford! @Kiana__W pic.twitter.com/0Pw89Di6lD
— Courtside Films (@CourtsideFilms) November 18, 2019
The Cardinal keep opponents to an average of 30.7 percent from the field per game and are top-5 in the nation in blocks per game (6.5) and blocking rate (15.5 percent), per Her Hoop Stats.
Pacific (6-2) at No. 10 UCLA (8-0)
Sunday, 5 p.m.
Pacific kept it close to Oregon State and is a team to watch as a potential NCAA tournament buster. Brooklyn McDavid averages a team-high 19.6 points, shooting 64.1 percent (66 of 103).
It’s UCLA’s non-conference home finale and the Bruins have their best start since 2010-11. Four more wins will tie the all-time record of 12-0, set in 1980-81. Coming up is a tough stretch with Georgia and Indiana before hosting USC to kick of Pac-12 play on Dec. 29.
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New Vintage! This blend from the Luberon is crisp, yet still has the roundness of other Rhône whites. In addition to poultry and seafood, this wine pairs nicely with spicier cuisines like Mexican, Indian, and Thai.
Located in the village of Mirabeau in the Luberon, this family vineyard was owned by the Marquis de Mirabeau until the French Revolution. The property was purchased in the 1880s by an ancestor of the current owner and winemaker, Thomas Montagne. The Côtes du Luberon is in the extreme southeastern part of the winemaking Rhône Valley, and Luberon wines are not as well known in the U.S. as Côtes du Rhônes (even with the publicity from a not-very-good movie with Russell Crowe about the region). Although Clapier was well-reviewed in the latest Guide Hachette, the winery has never before exported to the U.S. M. Montagne makes traditional Luberon wines along with new vintages outside of the traditional – and traditionally approved – formulations. Refreshing as an aperitif - but also suitable for food pairing, Since the white has less Clairette grapes than other Rhone whites, it is crisper, but still has the roundness of the other Rhone whites – the Roussane grapes that grows in the Luberon has some of the characteristics of Sauvignon Blanc without the grassy notes.
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Nia Kitchin ’20 is the 109th Editor-in-Chief of The Flat Hat and a double major in Government and Art from Charlottesville, Virginia. Nia enjoys covering politics, student life, breaking news, features and human interest stories. During her time at the Flat Hat she has reported on local House, Senate and Gubernatorial races, investigated the impact of higher education policy changes, braved the freezing cold to interview students walking out for gun control, followed a high-stakes Cezanne painting discovery and attended more candlelight vigils and underground protests than she can count. She has had the privilege of speaking with insurgent political candidates, beloved College Presidents, passionate students and fascinating community leaders, to name just a few.
Prior to being elected Editor-in-Chief, Nia served as the News Editor and then the Managing Editor at the Flat Hat. She also currently serves as the chair of the College’s Media Council where she enjoys working with all the publications on campus. A fun fact is that she likes telling people she interned in Washington, D.C. In her free time, Nia enjoys darkroom photography, hiking, baking lemon squares, visiting museums, exploring new places and pestering people to return her emails. After she graduates, Nia intends to pursue a career in journalism and move to a big city where she will never run out of stories to tell.
Managing Editor: Ethan Brown ’21
Flat Hat Managing Editor Ethan Brown ’21 is an Economics and Government double major from Manassas, VA. Prior to serving as Managing Editor, Ethan was an editor in the Opinions section. Outside of The Flat Hat, Ethan works in the Charles Center as a peer scholarship adviser, participates in the College’s International Relations Club and is a co-teacher with the American-Bosnian Collaboration Project. In his free time, he enjoys baking, running and traveling.
Executive Editor: Brendan Doyle ’20
Brendan Doyle ‘20 is the Executive Editor of The Flat Hat. Doyle is a government major and music minor. He hails from Centreville, VA.
Digital Media Editor: Maggie More ’20
Maggie More ‘20 is an English major and Data Science minor, and the Digital Media Editor of the Flat Hat. She currently lives in Chesapeake, VA, though she considers Frederick, MD her hometown and has also lived in Rockville, MD and Jacksonville, FL. Her time at the Flat Hat only began in Fall of 2017, but since then she has interviewed U.S. senatorial candidates, seen Laverne Cox speak on stage, tried coffee from every coffee shop on campus, and contributed to almost every section at the paper. She is also a member of the William and Mary Club Quidditch Team and WCWM 90.9.
When not doing schoolwork or her extracurriculars, she enjoys drawing, reading, drinking coffee, dramatically singing along to swing and ‘80s music, and theorizing about Marvel movies with her friends. She aims to begin a career in journalism after graduation, and aspires to becoming a New York City native like both of her parents.
Business Manager: Amelia Sandhovel ’22
Amelia Sandhovel, ‘22, is a Government major and Sociology minor from Midlothian, Virginia (right outside of Richmond). She began with the Flat Hat in Fall 2018 as an intern, and is currently the Internal Operations Manager for the Business Department alongside co-manager Maddie Douglas.
After graduation, she hopes to live in Northern Virginia and work for the federal government. She’s also a self-declared astrological guru and the best/most characteristic Gemini you’ll ever meet.
Business Manager: Maddie Douglas ’22
Maddie is a sophomore studying business at William & Mary. She started as a Business Intern in the fall and was promoted to External Business Manager at the end of the semester. Maddie hopes to run her own business one day. When she isn’t selling advertisements, she spends time baking, playing volleyball, and trying not to fail out of college.
Operations Coordinator: Kevin Richeson ’20
Kevin is a senior from Henrico, Virginia. He is the Operations Coordinator for The Flat Hat and has previously served as an Associate Sports Editor. He is a Government major and Sociology minor at the College. Some of his favorite things are puns, dogs, listening to music, and the oxford comma.
Webmaster: Adam An ’20
Adam An ’20 is a computer science and linguistics major. He does full-stack web development, motion graphics, and radio broadcasting. As webmaster, he makes sure the Flat Hat’s online presence stays, you know, online. This sentence is here because Gavin asked for four sentences.
News Editor: Heather Baier ’20
Heather Baier ’20 is a Data Science major and Computer Science minor from Warrenton, VA. Currently, she is serving as News Editor after having previously served as Variety Editor, and earlier as an associate and intern. She hopes to pursue a career in development research or data driven journalism.
News Editor: Leslie Davis ’21
Leslie Davis ’21 is a Government and Data Science major from Burke, Virginia. She previously served as Social Media Editor and as a News and Online Intern. She has covered the intersection of social and political issues, including civil rights, women’s rights and more. Leslie aspires to become a data journalist, working to tell enterprise stories with a quantitative focus.
News Editor: Emma Ford ’22
Emma Ford ’22 is a current News editor for the Flat Hat. She is undecided in her major but considering a double major in government and English. Formerly, Ford was both a news and opinions associate the fall of her freshman year. With news writer Kimberly Lores, Ford writes the weekly Student Assembly Beat. In addition to the Flat Hat, Ford swims for the College’s club team.
Sports Editor: Gavin Aquin-Hernández ’22
Gavin Aquin-Hernández ’22 is a Sports Editor for The Flat Hat newspaper and a proud member of the Editorial Board. He has contributed to the paper since 2018. Gavin originally hails from Las Vegas, Nevada and Los Angeles, California. He is a Business Analytics and European Studies double-major, with a particular interest in Spanish and French cultural issues and the history of the Jewish Diaspora. Gavin hopes to eventually become a lawyer when he graduates. When he isn’t watching Tribe Athletics, Gavin follows the Vegas Golden Knights, the LA Dodgers, Tottenham Hotspur and C.D. Guadalajara. Visit www.gavinaquin.com to learn more about him.
En castellano: Gavin Aquin Hernández ’22 es un editor de deportes para el periódico « The Flat Hat » y es miembro de la Junta Editorial. Él ha sido miembro del periódico desde 2018. Originalmente, él viene de Las Vegas, Nevada y de Los Ángeles, California. Él está estudiando la analítica de negocios y los estudios europeos. En particular, le interesan los temas culturales españoles y franceses, y también le interesa la historia de la diáspora judía. Gavin desea trabajar como abogado después de graduarse. Además de seguir Tribe Athletics, Gavin sigue a los Golden Knights, los Doyers, Tottenham Hotspur y las Chivas. Visiten a es.gavinaquin.com para aprender más sobre él.
Sports Editor: Avery Lackner ’22
Avery Lackner ’22 is a Psychology and History double major from Dallas, TX. She is also cripplingly indecisive and loves being able to complain about having to walk from ISC to James Blair all the time. In her time at The Flat Hat, Avery has covered everything from scholarships to aid DACA students, to non-denominational race talks, to a historical reenactment of a 1918 women’s basketball game. Currently, she is serving as The Flat Hat’s sports editor, a position she loves for its unique challenges and opportunities, but mostly she adores her job because sometimes Tribe Athletics puts out chicken fingers in the media room before games. When she isn’t trapped in the basement office of The Flat Hat, Avery enjoys talking about her amazing home state of Texas, re-reading Harry Potter, going to the gym, quoting the Office, working summers as a camp counselor, and bragging about the Red Sox (World Series Champs, baby!) to the great annoyance of her friends.
Avery hopes to become a children’s and family therapist, and she plans on residing in Boston post-graduation to immerse herself in the city’s history and fulfill her lifelong goal of meeting David Ortiz. However, as it physically pains her to imagine leaving Texas permanently, she figures eventually she’ll end up back in the greatest state in the union, mostly because she’s tired of being heckled for sporting an Ezekiel Elliot jersey.
Opinions Editor: Anna Boustany ’21
Anna Boustany is studying International Relations and Religious Studies at the College. She is also involved in the Review Board, giving tours, working at the Wellness Center, various theater productions at the College and of course, serving as an Opinions Editor here at the Flat Hat! She is somewhat infamous in the office for saying nonsensical things on production night. P.S. Anna loves Gavin
Opinions Editor: Chloe Folmar ’22
Chloe Folmar is a Philosophy major and Arabic minor from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. She enjoys writing about her own controversial opinions and publishing the “hot takes” of people she recruits from Swampy Memes.
Chloe looks forward to working in the political sphere after she graduates where she plans to advocate for human rights and those who cannot speak for themselves. Most importantly, Chloe seems to be the only person in the Flat Hat Office who is anti-oxford comma.
Variety Editor: Zoë Beardsley ’22
Zoë Beardsley is a Variety Editor for The Flat Hat, who also occasionally contributes to the Sports section. She is still undecided on her major, but is leaning towards Film and Media studies or History. Hailing from Arlington, Virginia, Zoë is a huge Capitals and Nationals fan, even though both teams (especially the Nationals) constantly disappoint her in the playoffs. When she isn’t cheering for D.C. sports, you can find her watching college basketball or keeping up with the latest pop culture news. A big movie fan, some of her favorites include Mad Max: Fury Road, Singin’ in the Rain, Moonlight, and Easy A. Zoë intends to pursue Journalism when she graduates, though her dream job of writing for Saturday Night Live is still not completely off the table.
Variety Editor: Adithi Ramakrishnan ’22
Adithi Ramakrishnan is a Neuroscience major and Creative Writing minor from Northern Virginia. She loves storytelling and currently serves as the Flat Hat’s variety editor.
Adithi enjoys reading, writing, singing, and dancing in her spare time; her favorite animal is the red panda and she loves binge-watching sitcoms including (but not limited to) The Good Place, Parks and Rec, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. She believes firmly in the Oxford comma and is committed to defending it until her dying breath.
Social Media Editor: Olivia Koenig ’22
Olivia Koenig is a member of the class of 2022 and a proud Atlanta native. She started as an opinions and online intern for the Flat Hat, following her love for writing and digital media. The Flat Hat is full of passionate, well-spoken superstars and she is thrilled to be a part of a group so incredible here at the College.
Blogs Editor: Kate Lucas ’21
Kate Lucas ‘21 is an English major and Japanese minor from Orlando, Florida. She started her career at the Flat Hat has an online contributor for the Blogs section, and after a year and a half of writing movie reviews for Reel Talk, became Blogs editor. Her dream project for the Blogs section would be rating and reviewing every cat cafe in Tokyo. In her spare time, she plays the mandolin, sews her own costumes, and wrestles alligators, as is the custom in her homeland.
Blogs Editor: Katherine Yenzer ’21
Katherine Yenzer is from Saint Louis, Missouri and is double-majoring in Philosophy and Government. Katherine is currently one of The Flat Hat’s Blogs editors and was previously one of the Opinions editors. Katherine is a volunteer for the Haven, a member of Someone You Know, a Tribe Ambassador, a member of a social sorority, and a member of the Undergraduate Honor Council.
Online Editor: Naomi Gruber ’20
Naomi Gruber ’20 is a Film and Media Studies major and Creative Writing minor from Oakton, Virginia. After completing the Flat Hat internship program, she worked as a Variety associate editor. During the fall of her junior year, Naomi spent a semester wandering and occasionally studying in Cardiff, Wales before returning to campus and the Flat Hat as an Online editor.
Naomi isn’t quite sure what she’ll be doing after graduation, but getting an MFA in writing, working in DC or LA, or staying home with her two cats are all likely possibilities.
Online Editor: Claire Hogan ’22
Claire Hogan ‘22 is an Applied Mathematics major from Vienna, Virginia. In her time with the Flat Hat, she’s written political articles, made blog posts, and produced videos, and she hopes to do much more. She is passionate about digital and data journalism, which is why she loves the online section. She also loves to discredit conspiracy theorists and is always arguing with someone online. Visit her website here.
Graphics Editor: Kayla Payne ’20
Kayla Payne ’20 is an Art/Art History major with a concentration in 2D studio art. She is the Flat Hat’s Graphics editor. Prior to that, she has drawn graphics as an artist for the Flat Hat since her freshman year. Personality-wise, she is an INFJ-A.
Copy Editor: Jae Chung ’21
Jae Chung ’21 is an Applied Mathematics major who has been working for the Flat Hat since the fall semester of her sophomore year. She is from McLean, Virginia and has also lived in Maryland and South Korea. She loves dogs, and because her own dog is currently residing in McLean, regularly gets her dog fix from the Dogspotting page on Facebook. She also enjoys reading and making art in the spare time she doesn’t have.
Copy Editor: Zoë Connell ’21
Zoë Connell ’21 is a history and economics double major from New Jersey. As a member of the Flat Hat she has edited an innumerable amount of articles. She is currently serving as one of the Flat Hat’s Copy Chiefs, as she is a stickler for grammar. Her major goal in life is to rid the world of Oxford commas, one article at a time.
Photos Editor: Jamie Holt ’22
Jamie Holt is from Rustburg, VA. She has been with The Flat Hat for while now and she loves it! She self-designed a major in Photojournalism with a minor in French and Francophone Studies. She is a Sagittarius if that actually means anything, a member of Delta Gamma, and an obsessed dog-lover!
Photos Editor: Rebecca Klinger ’22
Rebecca Klinger is a sock enthusiast who happens to dabble in photography. She is from Virginia Beach where she loves to take long walks on the beach and explore Walmart at 3am. You can typically find her rocking hot pink crocs and the same three ski jackets of different shades of blue.
Chief Writers
Chief Staff Writer: Charles Coleman ’22
Charles Coleman is a chief staff writer who plans on majoring in Public Health, and is on a Pre-Med track. This is Charles’ first year on the Flat Hat staff and he is currently work as the Co-Chief Staff Writer. Charles typically writes articles found in the news section and helps assist the News editors. Charles would like to emphasize the influence and legacy of the Big Chungus.
Chief Staff Writer: Averill Meininger ’22
Averill Meininger has been writing for the Flat Hat since her fall semester of freshman year. She started as an intern and now works closely with the paper’s news section editors, primarily writing news articles. Currently undecided in major, Averill is interested in government, English, and economics. Outside of the Flat Hat she enjoys playing with the club field hockey team and mentoring with the Greater Arc of Williamsburg in their literacy program. She hopes to continue to develop as a writer in whatever career path she pursues.
Chief Features Writer: Alyssa Grzesiak ’20
Alyssa Grzesiak ’20 is a double major in Linguistics and Psychology from Chantilly, VA. During her time at the Flat Hat, Alyssa has served as sports editor and executive editor, and is now the paper’s chief features writer. She aspires to go on to work in counterterrorism and national security.
When she isn’t writing and editing (or stuck in the swamp) Alyssa spends her days surfing and jet skiing in the ocean with the dolphins. She is also an avid runner and enthusiastic supporter of the Oxford comma.
Associate News Editors: Karina Vizzoni, Sarah Greenberg, Fernando Castro
Associate Opinions Editors: Anthony Madalone, Lauren Cohen, Alyssa Slovin, Caroline Wall
Associate Variety Editors: Suzanne Cole, Isabella Miranda
Associate Sports Editors: Nathan Seidel, Collin Anderson
Copy Editors: Christian Borio, Lizzie Brown
Associate Business Manager: Griffin Dunn
Photos taken by Jamie Holt, The Flat Hat ❤️
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THE rarest Gamecube game?
Thread: THE rarest Gamecube game?
joshnickerson
Pac-Man (Level 10)
3DS Friend
I've noticed a few posts recently talking about the rarity of Gamecube games, and I remembered something I read in Nintendo Power. Apparently, before the release of Custom Robo here in the states, NOA sent out a demo disc containing a preview version of the game to select "Sages" from the Nintendo.com boards to "beta test" it. Now, that's all I remember and for all I know it could have just been the retail version sent out early (though why they would bother sending out a final version to be "beta tested" is beyond me), but I thought it might be interesting to find out more about. If anything, it could turn out to be the Cube's "holy grail"...
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dbiersdorf
Banana (Level 7)
Uh no, because it's a beta version, every game has a beta version it just depends who gets their hands on it. More of novelty then something spend their life and money towards, it's a nice thing to add to a collection, but in no means something that sticks out. Now Tower of Druaga bonus disc for GameCube will certainly become rare down the line.
Mostly just play Nintendo 64. If you've got games PM me! Cart only.
Jive3D
Pear (Level 6)
what about the Metal Gear Solid - The Twin Snakes japanese bonus disk with the original NES Metal Gear on it? That in the DP guide?
Querjek
ExistingLemon
Originally Posted by Jive3D
It all depends on if we're talking about the rarest commercially released game or not... but that one would definitely be high on any list.
Egbert, I miss you...
Yeah the Tower of Druaga and Metal Gear discs are certainly the rarest games available to the public as they were only given in limited production and under certain circumstances. Oddly enough they are both NES games too.
imanerd0011
I believe that NCAA Basketball 2K3 is quite rare, and was selling for $70+ a few months ago. It has since gone down in price, but is still considered the rarest current generation game.
gamegirl79
Munchies879
What is the story behind the Tower of Druaga and Metal Gear bonus discs? I am working towards a complete Gamecube bonus disc collection and didn't even know about those. :/
My collection|More stuff
WanganRunner
Emerald Hill Zone
Metal Gear bonus disc shipped w/Twin Snakes Gamecube.
If it's available seperately, then I haven't heard about it. I'd like to get my hands on it, but only if I can get it by itself.
Chaos Knight
Mayhem64
Correlation: it was only available with the Metal Gear Solid Gamecube bundle in Japan. After a copy myself actually. I have the Tower of Druaga disc (available from pre-ordering Baten Kaitos in Japan back end of 2003).
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importaku
You can add the japanese versions of pacman vs & the zelda collection to the list too.
The zelda collection was only available through club nintendo in japan. A few months back you could still get it but now its no longer on there so if you didn't get a copy thats it, your out of luck.
As for pacman vs, there was a version released normally packaged inside copies of R racing evolution but the club nintendo version of pacman vs is different in content, it has the same game but theres a club nintendo screen when it boots up & there are some extra demo stuff on the disk too.
goatdan
I think that the Resident Evil Demo Disc will be one of the real rarities too. I just got the Pure Evil double pack today, and I entered my code and it took it and said the game would be on its way to me soon. It's the last day of the promotion, and according to the Pure Evil double pack, only 10,000 demos were made.
I'm pretty excited by that
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cat-mince
WHat about RE2? Not really rare but freaking expensive on ebay.
RE2 and RE3 are only costly because they have demand, once this generation of consoles passes no one will give a rats ass about the games.
Originally Posted by Mayhem
In that case maybe I should stick to collecting only North American bonus discs.
Vectorman0
Avoiding OT
CT - USA
In the US, as far as official releases go, I would say that the Soul Calibur II demo disc is the rarest. I'm pretty sure it was a pre-order bonus at TRU. I also only know of 3 copies in existence, and it is being a pain in the neck for me to find. As far as games go, I think that NCAA Basketball 2K3 is a rarity. But I think that at this stage early in the Gamecubes life, we really need to just wait and see which games come to be the trickiest to locate.
Originally Posted by gamegirl79
Yeah dude - Good Luck. Really though, the games are not worth the cash, it's all about those pretty boxes on the shelf.
Really though..."Good Luck, You'll Need it!"
sabre2922
Bell (Level 8)
RE2 and RE3 are only costly because they have demand, once this generation of consoles passes no one will give a rats ass about the games?????????????????????????????????????
OK thats total bullshit the RE games are popular period and RE2 and RE3 were originally sold on the PSone my friend in case you are too young to remember and were also released on Dreamcast and PC.
I have the DC version of RE3 and still play it today.
the GC versions sell well on Ebay BECAUSE there is demand for them they have lasted through 2 GENERATIONS my friend so there will still be demand for them long after this generation
the making of Silent Hill 2:
http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=74740
D_N_G
Top Angler
Disney Sports Titles
Spirits and Spells
Gotcha Force
RedCard 2003
Originally Posted by sabre2922
Well seeing as how I own the games for Dreamcast and Playstation, yeah, I do think I remember, chump. All I'm saying is, knowing Capcom and how they love to whore out their old treasures they'll rerelease the games once again, and if not the RE series will continue. Want to know why people don't pay $100 for RE2 for PSX? Because it's an old console. Once the GameCube is behind us the same will be said about these games. Only about 6 months ago RE2 and RE3 were selling for about $30-40 new, now because of RE4 being release they have skyrocketed in price.
This isn't rocket science, it's the facts. I can prove it to you in years to come.
einbebop44
NCAA B-Ball 2K3 for GC sold something ridiculously low, like 6,000 copies.
http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=14231
That's Sega's sales from the current gen, which is where I got the 6,000 stat from.
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Food of Hari Raya Puasa
8th June 2018 by Jayme Chong 4 Min Read
Hari Raya Puasa is around the corner (15 June), and food is a huge part of the occasion. After a month of fasting during Ramadan, the Muslim community in Singapore celebrates this day by donning brand new traditional Malay wear, observing the annual tradition of visiting houses of family members, relatives and friends, and preparing and digging into grand feasts, with dishes ranging from mains like lontong with sayur lodeh to traditional and modern Malay snacks. With so much food during the Raya season, we’ve prepared a rundown of the more popular items so that you won’t miss the good stuff!
A dish of chicken coated with spicy tomato sauce, this is popular in many Malay households.
Sambal Goreng
This vegetable side dish consists of tahu (tofu), tempeh (fermented tofu) and green beans. It’s also spicy and has coconut milk added to it for flavour.
Sayur Lodeh
This dish is a soup prepared from vegetables in coconut milk, and is usually eaten with lontong, lemang or ketupat.
Popular around the world, this spicy beef stew is a savoury dish cooked with plenty of spices and coconut milk.
Serunding
These spicy fried coconut flakes are made from sautéing grated coconut; they’re usually eaten with staples or other dishes.
Sambal Tumis Telur
Hard-boiled eggs cooked with sambal (chili paste).
A Malay rice cake wrapped in banana leaves and boiled, this dish can act as a staple food instead of steamed rice, and is usually eaten with other dishes like serunding, sambal tumis telur and sambal goreng.
Ketupat
Similar to lontong, ketupat is a type of dumpling made from rice wrapped in palm leaves, and is served as a staple food and usually eaten with other dishes.
Lemang
Like lontong and ketupat, lemang is also a staple dish and eaten with other side dishes. It’s made of glutinous rice, coconut milk and salt, and cooked in a bamboo stick lined with banana leaves.
Kek Lapis
Also known as layered cake, this snack comes in two varieties: cakes with ordinary layers and those with designs like patterns, motifs or shapes, all of which must have at least two colours.
Kuih Bangkit
Also known as tapioca cookies, these powdery sweet snacks come in various bite-sized shapes and are known for melting in the mouth the second you bite into them.
Kuih Tart
The pineapple tart is a common sight in Singapore and popular during Chinese New Year too; traditionally, the tart has a ball of pineapple paste sitting on top of a round, buttery and salty pastry.
Suji Biscuit
This white bite-sized cookie, also known as a ghee cookie, is soft, slightly crunchy and melts in your mouth.
Ondeh Ondeh
This bite-sized pandan-infused snack comes in the shape of a green ball and is filled with gula melaka (palm sugar) and covered with coconut shavings.
Makmur
A biscuit containing peanuts and coated with powdered sugar, makmur is usually leaf-shaped.
Kek Sarang Semut
Also known as honeycomb cake because of how it looks, this light, airy and sweet cake is made with caramelised sugar.
Almond London Cookies
These long bite-sized cookies are coated with chocolate sauce and topped with chopped almonds.
Nutella Tarts
This sweet snack is a modern take on the kuih tart, with Nutella replacing the pineapple as a topping.
Honey Cornflakes
As the name suggests, this snack is made of oven-baked cornflakes coated with honey, sugar and butter.
Kuih Ros
Also known as rose biscuits, these sweet and crispy snacks come in the shape of a flower.
Kek Tapak Kuda
This Malay version of the Swiss roll comes in a variety of flavours, from the usual cream filling to chocolate, strawberry, durian and Nutella fillings.
Dengdeng
This is the halal version of the popular Chinese New Year snack, bak kwa. Instead of it being barbecued pork, these thinly sliced pieces of dried meat come in different flavours like chicken and beef.
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CLASSICS 56: Introduction to the Visual Arts: Prehistoric through Medieval (ARTHIST 1A)
This course explores monuments from the pre-historic through the medieval periods with a focus on their sensory dimensions. How did the ritual and the décor manipulate the viewer and produced different states of consciousness in the cave art of Lascaux? How was power structured as a sensual experience in the empires of Assyria, Babylon, and Egypt? How did the concept of democracy realize itself in the development of pictorial and sculptural naturalism in Classical Athens? We will engage some of the greatest monuments of human civilization produced in the most distant past in places far away and bring them nearby engaging also with the art at the Cantor Museum and the facsimiles of manuscripts at the Stanford Libraries. The lectures introduce major monuments, while the discussion sections allow students to gain new powers of observation and deepen their analytical skills through a direct engagement with objects on display at the museum.
Instructors: Pentcheva, B. (PI)
CLASSICS 56 | 5 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 19486 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | LEC
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Mon, Wed, Fri 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM at McMurtry Building rm 350 with Pentcheva, B. (PI)
CLASSICS 76: Global History: The Ancient World (HISTORY 1A)
This course examines the emergence of "world empires"-- the first way of constituting a world-- in four regions of the eastern hemisphere from the first millennium BCE to the year 900 CE. It will study the pivotal role of cities, the importance of rulers, the incorporation of diverse peoples, and how the states that followed their collapse constituted new world orders through combining imitation of the vanished empire with the elaboration of the new "world religions."
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Instructors: Lewis, M. (PI) ; Nunez, A. (TA)
CLASSICS 76 | 3-5 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-ED, WAY-SI | Class # 17513 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | LEC | Students enrolled: 6
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Mon, Wed 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM at 200-030 with Lewis, M. (PI); Nunez, A. (TA)
Instructors: Lewis, M. (PI); Nunez, A. (TA)
CLASSICS 76 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-ED, WAY-SI | Class # 30055 | Section 02 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | DIS | Students enrolled: 2
CLASSICS 82: The Egyptians (AFRICAAM 30, HISTORY 48, HISTORY 148)
Last offered: Autumn 2017 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
CLASSICS 83: The Greeks (HISTORY 101)
250 years ago, for almost the first time in history, a few societies rejected kings who claimed to know what the gods wanted and began moving toward democracy. Only once before had this happened--in ancient Greece. This course asks how the Greeks did this, and what they can teach us today. It uses texts and archaeology to trace the material and military sides of the story as well as cultural developments, and looks at Greek slavery and misogyny as well as their achievements. Weekly participation in a discussion section is required.
Terms: Win | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
Instructors: Morris, I. (PI) ; Angsten, O. (TA) ; Macksoud, J. (TA)
CLASSICS 83 | 4-5 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI | Class # 15387 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | LEC | Students enrolled: 28 / 40
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Mon, Wed 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM at 200-030 with Morris, I. (PI); Angsten, O. (TA); Macksoud, J. (TA)
Instructors: Morris, I. (PI); Angsten, O. (TA); Macksoud, J. (TA)
CLASSICS 83 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI | Class # 17467 | Section 02 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | DIS | Students enrolled: 11 / 15
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Fri 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM at 160-127 with Macksoud, J. (TA)
Instructors: Macksoud, J. (TA)
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Fri 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM at 260-011 with Angsten, O. (TA)
Instructors: Angsten, O. (TA)
CLASSICS 83 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI | Class # 35090 | Section 04 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | DIS
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Fri 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM at 160-123 with Macksoud, J. (TA)
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Fri 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM at 260-012 with Angsten, O. (TA)
CLASSICS 84: The Romans (HISTORY 102A)
How did a tiny village create a huge empire and shape the world, and why did it fail? Roman history, imperialism, politics, social life, economic growth, and religious change. Weekly participation in a discussion section is required; enroll in sections on Coursework.
Instructors: Scheidel, W. (PI) ; Macksoud, J. (TA)
CLASSICS 84 | 3-5 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI | Class # 17683 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | LEC
03/30/2020 - 06/03/2020 Mon, Wed, Fri 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM with Scheidel, W. (PI); Macksoud, J. (TA)
Instructors: Scheidel, W. (PI); Macksoud, J. (TA)
CLASSICS 84 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI | Class # 18703 | Section 02 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | DIS
03/30/2020 - 06/03/2020 Fri 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM with Macksoud, J. (TA)
03/30/2020 - 06/03/2020 Fri 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM with Macksoud, J. (TA)
CLASSICS 88: Origins of History in Greece and Rome (HISTORY 114)
What¿s the history of `History¿? The first ancient historians wrote about commoners and kings, conquest and power¿those who had it, those who wanted it, those without it. Their powerful ways of recounting the past still resonate today and can be harnessed to tell new stories. We will look at how ancients like Herodotus, Thucydides, Tacitus, and Livy turned stories about the past into compelling narratives of loss, growth and decline¿inventing ¿History¿ as we know it. All readings in English.
CLASSICS 112: Introduction to Greek Tragedy: Gods, Heroes, Fate, and Justice (TAPS 167)
Gods and heroes, fate and free choice, gender conflict, the justice or injustice of the universe: these are just some of the fundamental human issues that we will explore in about ten of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
Instructors: McCall, M. (PI) ; Kim, H. (TA)
CLASSICS 112 | 4 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II | Class # 19470 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | LEC | Students enrolled: 30 / 40
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Mon, Wed 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at 200-303 with McCall, M. (PI); Kim, H. (TA)
Instructors: McCall, M. (PI); Kim, H. (TA)
CLASSICS 112 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II | Class # 17496 | Section 02 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | DIS | Students enrolled: 13 / 15
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Thu 4:30 PM - 5:20 PM at 260-011 with Kim, H. (TA)
Instructors: Kim, H. (TA)
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Wed 4:30 PM - 5:20 PM at 260-011 with Kim, H. (TA)
CLASSICS 123: Ancient Medicine
Contemporary medical practice traces its origins to the creation of scientific medicine by Greek doctors such as Hippocrates and Galen. Is this something of which modern medicine can be proud? The scientific achievements and ethical limitations of ancient medicine when scientific medicine was no more than another form of alternative medicine. Scientific medicine competed in a marketplace of ideas where the boundaries between scientific and social aspects of medicine were difficult to draw.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
Instructors: Netz, R. (PI)
CLASSICS 123 | 3-4 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI | Class # 33155 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | LEC | Students enrolled: 16 / 20
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM at 200-107 with Netz, R. (PI)
CLASSICS 124: Ancient and Modern Medicine
Imagine a world where the Universe has a built-in purpose and point. How would this belief impact man's place in nature? Imagine a world where natural substances have "powers." How might this impact diet and pharmacology? Magical vs. scientific healing: a clear divide? Disease and dehumanization: epilepsy, rabies. Physical and mental health: black bile and melancholy. The ethical and scientific assumptions hidden in medical language and imagery. How ancient medicine and modern medicine (especially alternative medicine) illuminate each other.
CLASSICS 136: The Greek Invention of Mathematics
How was mathematics invented? A survey of the main creative ideas of ancient Greek mathematics. Among the issues explored are the axiomatic system of Euclid's Elements, the origins of the calculus in Greek measurements of solids and surfaces, and Archimedes' creation of mathematical physics. We will provide proofs of ancient theorems, and also learn how such theorems are even known today thanks to the recovery of ancient manuscripts.
Last offered: Autumn 2018 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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ITALIAN 41N: Imagining Italy
No city in Italy has inspired the imagination of writers, artists, and filmmakers more than Venice, with its golden dance of water and stone, its carnival masks, and its melancholic intimations of mortality. This course will be devoted to the city¿s imaginary life in literature and film. Readings include Marco Polo, Henry James¿s The Aspern Papers, Italo Calvino¿s Invisible Cities, John Ruskin¿s The Stones of Venice, and Joseph Brodsky¿s Watermarks. Films include ¿Dangerous Beauty,¿ ¿Casanova,¿ ¿Don¿t Look Now,¿ ¿Death in Venice,¿ and ¿The Comfort of Strangers.¿
Instructors: Harrison, R. (PI)
ITALIAN 41N | 3 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II | Class # 45771 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | ISF | Students enrolled: 5
01/04/2016 - 03/11/2016 Tue, Thu 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM at School of Education 229 with Harrison, R. (PI)
ITALIAN 52N: Life is a Play: Identity, Persona, and Improvisation in Luigi Pirandello
Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. For Pirandello (1867-1936; Nobel Prize, 1934), to suddenly realize your entire life has been a performance is a moment of utmost horror, comedy, and opportunity for self-awareness. In a quintessentially modern fashion, he claims that the performance cannot be stopped, that authenticity is a mirage, and that learning to laugh at oneself is the only liberation. Materials include Pirandello's existential "theater within the theater," his novels, and their film adaptations, which we will study in their cultural context.
ITALIAN 75N: Narrative Medicine and Near-Death Experiences (FRENCH 75N)
Even if many of us don't fully believe in an afterlife, we remain fascinated by visions of it. This course focuses on Near-Death Experiences and the stories around them, investigating them from the many perspectives pertinent to the growing field of narrative medicine: medical, neurological, cognitive, psychological, sociological, literary, and filmic. The goal is not to understand whether the stories are veridical but what they do for us, as individuals, and as a culture, and in particular how they seek to reshape the patient-doctor relationship. Materials will span the 20th century and come into the present. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors: Wittman, L. (PI)
ITALIAN 75N | 3 units | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI | Class # 28911 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | ISF | Students enrolled: 12 / 16
09/21/2015 - 12/04/2015 Mon 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM at 240-110 with Wittman, L. (PI)
09/21/2015 - 12/04/2015 Wed 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM at 260-244 with Wittman, L. (PI)
ITALIAN 100: Masterpieces: Dante
An exploration of Dante's "Inferno" (the first of the three canticles of The Divine Comedy). The aim is to learn how to read the poem in detail and in depth, through both slow reading and ongoing reconstruction of Dante's world. We will also ask to what extent Dante's civic identity as a Florentine, especially his exile from Florence, gave momentum to his literary career and helped him become the author of one of the masterpieces of Western literature. Special emphasis is placed on Dante's ethical world view and his representation of character. Taught in English.
ITALIAN 101: Italy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Renowned for its rich cultural tradition, Italy is also one of the most problematic nations in Europe. This course explores the contradictions at the heart of Italy by examining how art and literature provide a unique perspective onto modern Italian history. We will focus on key phenomena that contribute both positively and negatively to the complex "spirit" of Italy, such as the presence of the past, political realism and idealism, revolution, corruption, decadence, war, immigration, and crises of all kinds. Through the study of historical and literary texts, films, and news media, the course seeks to understand Italy's current place in Europe and its future trajectory by looking to its past as a point of comparison. Taught in English.
Instructors: Lummus, D. (PI) ; Gounalis, N. (TA)
ITALIAN 101 | 3 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 45954 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM | Students enrolled: 31
01/04/2016 - 03/11/2016 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM at 300-303 with Lummus, D. (PI); Gounalis, N. (TA)
Instructors: Lummus, D. (PI); Gounalis, N. (TA)
ITALIAN 102: Masterpieces: Boccaccio's Decameron
This course offer an in-depth consideration of Boccaccio's masterpiece The Decameron. We will pay special attention to Boccaccio's unparalleled art of storytelling; at his distinctly "modern" sensibility; and at the new kind of heroes his book champions: heroes of wit, imagination, free-thinking and self-reliance. Finally we will consider the erotic exuberance of many of Boccaccio's tales.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5
ITALIAN 102 | 3-5 units | Class # 47022 (CANCELLED) | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | LEC
Notes: This class section has been cancelled!
ITALIAN 104: La dolce vita: Italian Stereotypes in Film
Passion, nostalgia, mafia, women. What has it meant to be Italian in the past hundred years? How are these stereotypes invented, portrayed and dismantled by filmmakers such as Fellini, Scola, Giordana, Benigni and Torre? This course will address the problem of Italianità, its anomalies and contradictions, and look at how Italians have imagined themselves on the big screen, from the figure of the hopeless romantic to the mafioso. Films will be in Italian with English subtitles. Taught in Italian.
Last offered: Winter 2014
ITALIAN 110: Gateway to Italy
This course serves as an introduction to the world of Italy by focusing on the cultural significance associated with five key words and their concomitant human figures: ¿Stile¿ (the artist), ¿Spirito¿ (the hero-saint), ¿Scienza¿ (the thinker), ¿Migrazione¿ (the explorer), and ¿Crisi¿ (the political man). Readings will address figures such as Dante, Michelangelo, Saint Francis, Da Vinci, Galileo, Fermi, and Columbus; and socio-cultural phenomena such as fashion and design, the scientific revolution, brain drain, immigration and emigration, religion, and politics.
ITALIAN 120: Love Italian Style
Gateway course for Italian studies. An examination of representations of love and sexuality in Italian literature, art, film, and popular culture from the Italian Renaissance to the current period. Beginning with the figure of Silvio Berlusconi and ending with Dante's love for Beatrice, the course considers differences in social practices and mores over time, the role of literary and artistic representations in establishing cultural expectations about love, the question of gender roles and identity in Italian society, as well as contemporary stereotypes about love in Italy and Italians in love. Taught in Italian. Prerequisites: ITALLANG 22A or equivalent
Last offered: Spring 2013
ITALIAN 127: Inventing Italian Literature
An introduction to the study of literature in Italian, especially short prose fiction and poetry. Attention will be given to building a vocabulary and critical tool-set for the interpretation of literary texts from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period. Taught in Italian. Prerequisites: ITALLANG 22A or equivalent (2 years of Italian)
Terms: Aut | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors: Lummus, D. (PI) ; DeBenedictis, N. (TA)
ITALIAN 127 | 4 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II | Class # 16227 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | SEM | Students enrolled: 4
09/21/2015 - 12/04/2015 Mon, Wed 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at School of Education 208 with Lummus, D. (PI)
Instructors: Lummus, D. (PI)
ITALIAN 127 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II | Class # 31254 | Section 02 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | DIS
09/21/2015 - 12/04/2015 - with DeBenedictis, N. (TA)
Instructors: DeBenedictis, N. (TA)
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Independence from what? The Canine Anarchist Expropriators
Arts and Culture, Dec 26th
Far from the mainstream nationalist debates on independence, our failure to coherently confront power and offer meaningful alternatives, a community of squatters and expropriators live on the coast of Catalonia. …
Warning: This story contains numerous instances of literary fraud and copyright theft that some middle class readers might find distressing.
I squatted Castillo Parasito when the funds to combat eviction were robbed by Kurt, one of the guests, in 2018. His actions directly threatened the future of a house that gave me shelter, at a time when I had no where to stay in the heavily gentrified city of Barcelona.
His threat to the future of those who continue to live there was not just because of the money he stole but the atmosphere of distrust he sought to implement, a division based on fear.
This gonzo investigation explores the failure of the imagination that drives this psychology of eviction, told through the perspective of the ghosts of the civil war. And dogs.
Through someone else’s letterbox in Berlin, I received a terrifying letter. It was a demand for 500 Euros — that fact was in bold — and it came from a mafia of German copyright lawyers. They run a syndicate where internet traffic is intercepted and IP addresses tracked. In Germany you can go to jail for not paying up, whether it is copyright theft or not paying for your train fare. I met a man who had picked up a Methamphetamine addiction in prison. He could not pay the fine when he got caught on the train.
The film they accused me of downloading was Isle of Dogs by Wes Anderson, made by 20th Century Fox. ‘Murdoch!’ I screamed to myself in journalistic rage and then wrote my response to the lawyers. It ended like this;
“Ten centuries ago, before the Leveson Inquiry, free dogs roamed at liberty, marking their territory.
Seeking to extend its dominion, the cat-loving Murdoch Dynasty declared war and descended in force upon the unwary four-legged beasts. On the eve of total canine annihilation, a child warrior sympathetic to the plight of the besieged underdog dogs, betrayed his species, beheaded the head of the head of the Murdoch clan, and pledged his sword with the following battle-cry haiku. I turn my back — on plutocracy!
He would later be known as the Boy Samurai of Legend, RIP. At the end of the bloody dog wars the vanquished mongrels became powerless house-pets: tamed, mastered, scorned. But they survived and multiplied. The Murdoch’s, however, never forgave their conquered foe.”
I paused, considered the Meth addict, and packed a bag for Spain, finishing the letter in Japanese;
それは戦いになるだろう! (It’s going to be a fight!)
I awake to the sound of mice teeth grinding into wood and plaster. Arise King Alfonso, anarchist dog of Catalunya! I bark to myself. Open your crusty eyes and scavenge the castle for food! In the kitchen I can hear noises, the growl of dogs that have not had their first cup of coffee and the solitary purr of a cat.
Zaćma!, I bark but Mio, barks back ‘Fuck off Alfie,’ and the kitchen erupts in barking and growling. ‘We need food,’ a Russian dog barks as he piles powdered protein into a glass of curdling milk. A mouse runs through the kitchen. The dogs agreed finally and set out with bags; a pack of squatters roaming the streets of La Gertru.
“Everyday,” Mio growls, “humans sacrifice their food into metal containers, transferring their food to ancient burial sites.” They start to approach Lidl, a chain of German supermarkets.
“That’s madness!” I screamed. “Relax” Zaćma purrs as she jumps into the container, throwing vegetables, meat, pastries, coffee, chocolate and fruits out onto the street. My eyes light up as a whiskey bottle comes out of the container. “Even the poison goes to the gods” barked the Russian and packed up the bags.
Suddenly our ears rise to the sound of moaning. “My fingernails!” a British voice comes from the container as a body thrashes in the bins.
“My god, it’s the Boy Samurai of Legend RIP,” Zaćma screeched and fell back out of the bin. The noise was causing humans in the car park to gather and in the distance, the sound of the police could be heard. “We have to get out of here,” Mio howled and threw the man into a shopping trolley as they made their escape.
Graffiti on Plaza Espanya, Barcelona. “Your Hispanicness is a Francoist heritage
“Fascists!” the man in the trolley screamed at the incoming Guardia Civil, as they crashed into an alleyway, barking and howling. “All cats are beautiful!” Zaćma screeches as they tear into the front door of the Castle and bolt the door. The police bang heavily as the barricades go up. “What group are you?” the man splutters, ”POUM or CNT?”
‘Open the fucking door’, the Guardia Civil scream in Spanish. “In trench warfare five things are important,” the man sang on the floor, adjusting his hospital gown: “food, tobacco, candles and the enemy!”
“Who the fuck are you!” I scream. “Eric,” he replies, “my fingernails are falling out” and with that he slips into a deep state of unconsciousness, his body convulsing to the beat of the police at the door.
After barking for several minutes, a human opens the gate. Like the other humans the dogs had befriended over the years, this one was different to the zombified masses. The humans called him ‘Trash’ and I sniff his ass hole in humble respect. Trash lives in Pirate Platz – a squatted go-cart track on the edge of town. Dogs and humans were sitting together on a stage, drinking beers.
In the yard are boats of various sizes and reclaimed building materials scattered in piles. Inside the kitchen, dogs pant in the heat as lines of powdered protein were chopped up. One dog, Amphet-amigo, dives his face into the powdered protein, tilting his head back and yowling – the protein hitting the synapses of the brain.
Littered on the ground are blue barrels with yellow stars painted on them. The word “Brex-ship’ is painted on a piece of wood and Trash saw me looking at it. “What remains after the last Batalla Pirata,” he smiles and gives me a treat from his pocket. The sun was pulsating to a beat I can’t remember but it’s lyrics still haunt me today;
“At first those brothers tried to pass away the land. Now this is on the edge of town. And all run down.
Making love in her flat. Doesn’t say you got class. You don’t feel but you know it’s wrong. So are they Americans?
My guess is that your under stress. Now I really know what’s fucking best. Some of them they play around. What’s wrong with Russian lads?
Just throw your body on the scale. You play the game but it’s real. Why don’t you find out where she lives. Go dressed in your best, you’ll still be taxed!
UK82!”
Beer bottles stack up and the light begins to fade as a Bosnian dog asks me what’s the quickest way to build a mass grave and I tell him I don’t know and he says, put them in a well and dynamite the top! He laughs.
“Black humour, my friend. I am from Bosnia, I was a puppy in the 1990s. Can you imagine that?”
The dogs came together to build the roof of their pirate ship with the help of powdered Protein, supplied by Trash, who kept them doing until the bottle took over the hammer. I take another line and growl gently: Sleep will not come. We howl at the moon.
Caption: Graffiti on Plaza Espanya, Barcelona. “Faggots kill fascists
Eric takes a pull on his cigarette and sits down to an old typewriter, resting it in the ashtray and scanning the keys with his fingers. They were covered in plasters as all his fingernails had now come out. With great pain, his fingers tickle the keys and then with a decisive moment, he slams bloody hands into metal.
“I had been fighting this moment for a long time and now I must make a stand. This castle I lived in was crumbling and the vultures were waiting to tear it to pieces. This squat that gave me the stability to grow was now under threat.
We squat this castle because it is empty. We eat the food out of your bins because it is wasted. Your vision of freedom is through ownership, which inevitably brings waste. Our movement focuses heavily on the injustice of hungry people and wasted, edible food. It is based on the injustice of the homeless sleeping in the doorways of empty buildings.
Do not be confronted as we go through your bins, making use of what you have abandoned to a landfill. We are dogs – reminding you of the darker side of your reality. You complain about work while I quit my job, you despise those you see weeping in the gutter, not understanding your part in their misery.
None of us can escape the collective responsibility we share, no matter how gifted, intelligent or fearless you may be as an individual.”
Eric stops writing, he feels his body begin to change. Standing up, he walks down the dark stairway of the squat, the light below changing colours as the demonic roar of an electric guitar gets louder as he descends. The LSD he ingested an hour ago starts to hit his brain as he screams “I am the reincarnation of George Orwell!” And falls on the floor laughing.
Above him, stands a Russian crust punk called Filth and next to him, his dog King Alfonso or Alf — named after the Animal Liberation Front.
WWWWAAAAARRRRQQQQ. Filth spits into a nearby beer can.
Orwell picks himself up only to loose his balance as the tightening around his lungs begins. He coughs blood and then crashes through a door and into the next room. The walls are painted red and inside the room sits a man at a typewriter. George grabs an empty beer bottle and launches it across the room, causing the machine to crash on the floor in an explosion of sound.
The bell of the typewriter is followed by silence.
“Who the fuck are you?” Orwell rasps as his lungs begin to contract. “Why did you re-incarnate me!”
“My name is Kurt,” the writer screams on the floor. “I am a journalist… for the Sun Newspaper!”
“What era is this anyway?” Orwell continues, “Handheld telescreens? Brexit, nationalist independence! It’s like 1984!” George begins to wheeze. The TB had taken over his body and his legs were threatening to give way. He steadies himself on a mannequin covered in a fur coat and a sombrero. “Surely you can see it is obvious that you can’t have meaningful independence without social revolution!” he screams at Kurt. “Independence? Independence from what!”
WWWWAAAAARRRRQQQ. Filth spits into a beer can.
“Why do you have to steal other peoples ideas anyway?” Orwell demanded Kurt.
The journalist is now faced with the responsibility of a creator but aware that his position had become surreal. He was no longer in control.
Understanding he now had infinite creative possibilities, Orwell grabs the typewriter and starts to write a gun into the narrative. Kurt reacts immediately, suddenly screaming “You fool! Do you know how much LSD I have written into your character?”
“What?” Orwell interrupts, “as a narrative device to explain property ownership and the failure nationalist independence? – how does that have anything to do with the fight against Franco that I witnessed in the 1930s?”
“It’s doesn’t,” the Murdoch hack pleaded, “That’s why it’s clever.”
Orwell lifts his gun with one bloody hand, the other mashes at the typewriter. Three, two, one…
WWWWAAAAARRRRQQQ. Bang.
Thank you for your reply to my letter concerning your client Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Germany GmbH.
This letter is to give you notice that I will not be paying the 500 Euros you have requested by the end of November. The reason is simply that I do not have the financial means to pay, my profession is journalism and sometimes for years I live on next to nothing to finish my investigations. Your letters have been a great cause for concern, considering I am now of the opinion that my internet security has been compromised and that the sensitive data I share is not private. In effect, the identity of my sources are at risk.
Thank you for your understanding. I hope you can now feel confident closing your files, knowing that in this instance you made a mistake and followed the appropriate steps to protect a citizen over the financial interests of Rupert Murdoch.
That is what justice stands for, if an ideal stood for anything. Power must not blind us to it’s excessive force.
Boy Samurai of Legend, RIP.
~ Joe Reynolds
Outside of Estación de França in Barcelona
Joe is an anarchist investigative photojournalist living in Neukölln, Berlin. Joe focuses primarily on stories examining the housing crisis and the movement of refugees across the European Union. Since the Brexit vote in 2016, he has been based across Europe, investigating struggles in Greece, France, Spain and Germany.
Joe is a journalist without a guild or union. The core of his principles are held in the protection of his sources and a flat refusal to send documents and photographs to local police authorities. He is ‘Free’, independent but bound to the principles of his association with anarchism — the application of the tools of journalism to challenge those in power, not reinforce the lies that keep us all oppressed.
If you wish to challenge the journalist on his investigation, discuss the issues here or contribute/collaborate to a story, please contact;
freeassociation.org.uk
Main pic: Anarchist graffiti on Plaza Espanya in Barcelona, the morning after National Spanish Day 2019. All pics copyright Joe Reynolds
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Are High Income Earners Governed by the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines?
Few of us are “burdened” with the problem of being in a super-high income-earning bracket. But for those married individuals who are, and who decide to separate and divorce, a narrow but important question arises as to whether the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines (SSAG) apply in the way they do to people earning a more “regular” income.
As we have written in the past the SSAGs are a tool used by judges (and lawyers) to help determine the appropriate amount of spousal support that should be owned by one spouse to the other (and there are separate calculations depending on whether the couple have children).
However, as the word “Guideline” suggests, the SSAGs are not mandatory, but rather are intended to be a starting-point from which adjustments can be made, depending on the circumstances.
The Guidelines effectively provide a staggered range of spousal support, with the upper limit of support being calculated based on the paying spouse’s income of $350,000.
So what happens when the spouse earns more than that? Is the spousal support amount intended to be capped? (And this begs the question, which is perhaps better answered another day: Does a recipient spouse really need more spousal support than what would be calculated at the $350,000 level?)
Court have established1 that the SSAGs – which are not legislation, but merely guides – do not automatically apply in cases where the paying spouse’s annual income exceeds $350,000; in other words, court are not constrained to use the SSAGs, even as a starting-point, when the paying spouse’s income exceeds this level.
However, if a judge does decide to refer to the SSAGs in making a ruling on support, the SSAGs do not impose any sort of cap on the amount to be awarded in cases where the paying spouse’s income exceeds $350,000.2 Rather, in these kinds of cases, the SSAGs can still be used as merely a starting-point for establishing a range of spousal support payable, but the judge must still consider the parties’ individual circumstances.3
Perhaps it’s an arcane point, but for those who are high-income earners, it can be an important legal point. When it comes to paying support that old adage seems rings true “the rich aren’t like you and me”.
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1 In a case called Myers v. Vickar, 2012 ONSC 5004 (Ont. S.C.J.) at para. 74.
2 Elgner v. Elgner, 2010 ONSC 1578 (Ont. Div. Ct.) at para. 13.
3 Denofrio v. Denofrio (2009), 72 R.F.L. (6th) 52 (Ont. S.C.J.) at para. 48; Cameron v. Cameron, 2013 ONSC 1192.
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Fin7 hacking group targets more than 130 companies after leaders’ arrest
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Following the arrest in 2018 of a number of suspected leaders of the notorious Fin7/Carbanak cyber-gang, the group was believed to have disbanded. But Kaspersky Lab researchers have detected a number of new attacks by the same groups using GRIFFON malware. According to the company’s experts, Fin7 might have extended the number of groups operating under its umbrella; increased the sophistication of its methods; and even positioned itself as a legitimate security vendor to recruit professional employees and dupe them into helping it steal financial assets.
Fin7 is believed to be behind attacks targeting the U.S. retail, restaurant, and hospitality sectors since mid-2015, working in close collaboration and sharing tools and methods with the infamous Carbanak group. While Carbanak focused primarily on banks, Fin7 targeted mostly businesses, potentially making off with millions of dollars in financial assets, such as payment card credentials or account information on the computers of financial departments. Once the threat actors got what they needed, they wired money to offshore accounts.
According to Kaspersky Lab’s new investigation, the group has continued its activity - despite the arrest last year of alleged group leaders - implementing sophisticated spear-phishing campaigns throughout 2018 and distributing malware to each target through specially tailored emails. In different cases, the operators exchanged messages with their intended victims over a period of weeks before finally sending the malicious documents as attachments. Kaspersky Lab estimates that by the end of 2018, more than 130 companies might have been targeted in this way.
The researchers also discovered other criminal teams operating under the Fin7 umbrella. The use of shared infrastructure and the same tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), shows that Fin7 is likely to be collaborating with the AveMaria botnet and groups known as CobaltGoblin/EmpireMonkey, believed to be behind bank robberies in Europe and Central America.
Kaspersky Lab also found that Fin7 has created a fake company that claims to be a legitimate cybersecurity vendor with offices across Russia. The company website is registered to the server that Fin7 uses as a Command and Control center (C&C). The fake business has been used to recruit unsuspecting freelance vulnerability researchers, program developers and interpreters through legitimate online job sites. It seems that some of the individuals working in these fake companies did not suspect that they were involved in a cybercrime business, with many including the experience of working in the organizations in their CVs.
“Modern cyberthreats can be compared to the mythical creature Hydra of Lerna – you cut off one of its heads and it grows two new ones. Therefore, the best way to protect yourself from such actors is to implement advanced, multi-layered protection: install all software patches as soon as they are released and do regular security analysis across all networks, systems and devices,” said Yury Namestnikov, security researcher at Kaspersky Lab.
To reduce the risk of infection, users are advised to:
• Use security solutions with dedicated functionality aimed at detecting and blocking phishing attempts. Businesses can protect their on-premise email systems with targeted applications inside the Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business suite. Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 helps to protect the cloud-based mail service Exchange Online inside the Microsoft Office 365 suite.
• Introduce security awareness training and teach practical skills. Programs such as Kaspersky Automated Security Awareness Platform will help to reinforce skills and conduct simulated phishing attacks.
• Provide your security team with access to up to date threat intelligence data, to keep pace with the latest tactics and tools used by cybercriminals.
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Facebook is rolling out a test to hide your likes
Posted 6:20 pm, September 27, 2019, by CNN Wire, Updated at 06:43PM, September 27, 2019
(CNN) –For the past decade, “likes” have been the chief currency of Facebook. It’s the way we’ve determined how many people think our babies are cute, believe our jokes are funny and recognize our new jobs are impressive. Facebook itself has been so synonymous with likes that the thumbs up icon for the like button was placed on the sign outside the company’s headquarters.
Now, Facebook is rethinking this feature as part of a broader effort to make the social network less stressful to use.
On Thursday, the company said it will begin a test to hide the number of likes, reactions and video views from posts in Australia. The author of the post will still be able to see those metrics, but other users won’t.
The test applies to posts from users and pages, as well as ads across Facebook. It will slowly roll out to the majority of Australian users.
“We are running a limited test where like, reaction, and video view counts are made private across Facebook. We will gather feedback to understand whether this change will improve people’s experiences,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement.
Earlier this month, the company said it was considering hiding like counts on the platform.
In April, Facebook-owned Instagram announced it would begin testing hiding like counts in Canada, in a move to help reduce pressure on the platform. It has since expanded the experiment to several other countries, including Ireland, New Zealand and Australia.
“We are testing this because we want your followers to focus on the photos and videos you share, not how many likes they get,” an Instagram spokesperson said earlier this year.
Similarly to Instagram’s test, it will say “[name of user] and others” under the Facebook post where likes and reactions would normally appear. Users can then click to see a list of the other Facebook users who have liked it, although they won’t see a number saying how many.
Facebook and Instagram may see different results from their respective tests. On Instagram, users may feel more pressure to rack up the likes in comparison to Facebook.
But both tests could give the platforms insight into whether users feel more comfortable posting without public-facing likes, or whether that will hinder engagement and interactions.
CNN Business spoke with users in countries with the Instagram test, and most of them felt positively about the effort to improve wellbeing on the app.
“Likes are powerful because they are immediate feedback,” Renee Engeln, a psychology professor at Northwestern University, previously told CNN Business. “In a way, likes give you the same kind of hit like a gambler gets at a slot machine.”
However, some social media influencers who have built a business on Instagram said they have concerns about the test. Instagram personalities working with brands on sponsored content are paid, in part, based on the engagement of their posts, which includes likes.
Kamiu Lee, CEO of influencer marketing platform Activate, said the impact of Facebook hiding likes will likely be less of a concern for influencers.
“Instagram is a much bigger platform in the influencer space,” she said. “A lot of influencers do post on Facebook, but more as a secondary amplification [of their content]. They really view Instagram or YouTube as their core channel.”
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70 dead after gas cylinder explosion sparks fire on Pakistan train
Posted 12:14 PM, October 31, 2019, by CNN Wire
A passenger train caught fire in Pakistan, leaving multiple dead and injured.
At least 70 people were killed and 30 more injured in a fire that engulfed a train in Pakistan on Thursday morning, after a gas canister that passengers were using to prepare breakfast exploded.
The train was passing through the town of Rahim Yar Khan, in the south of Punjab province, when a stove blew up, causing a fire which spread through the train, according to local police officer Amir Taimoor.
Nadeem Zia, the medical supervisor of District Headquarters Hospital in Liaquatpur, a city in Rahim Yar Khan district, confirmed the death toll.
Footage broadcast on CNN affiliate Geo TV showed a blaze ripping through the carriages, with flames licking out of the windows and sending black smoke billowing into the sky.
Crowds gathered around the dramatic scene, as firefighters, paramedics, and soldiers responded.
An army helicopter was flown to the site from the city Multan to evacuate those who were critically injured, according to the ISPR, a media wing of the Pakistan Armed Forces.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan and President Arif Alvi have both shared their condolences for the victims’ families on social media.
Khan said that he had ordered the launch of an immediate inquiry to be “completed on an urgent basis.”
President Alvi “expressed profound grief on the loss of precious lives in the tragic blast caused by gas cylinder,” in a statement released on his official Twitter account.
“This is a terrible accident and we mourn those who have died,” said Sheikh Rasheed, the country’s railways minister, adding that the families of the dead and injured would receive compensation from the ministry.
Although gas cylinders are banned on trains, passengers were using gas-powered cookers to prepare breakfast inside the train carriage when the explosion occurred, Taimoor added.
He added that many of the people on board the train were heading to a protest in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) from Rahim Yar Khan.
The train was running on the Tezgam line, a daily service that goes from the coastal city of Karachi to the northern city of Rawalpindi.
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November 30, 2014 December 17, 2014 fpaul FF=5
So, thinking this will be in the cute ET or Batteries Not Included genre, I gather two granddaughters and we sit down to watch. They didn’t make the half-hour mark and I fell asleep soon after. I woke up and FF’d through to the end. No engagement. Plus it’s got that annoying found-footage look. A major misfire. Rewatch the two I mentioned above, or maybe Super 8 instead.
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November 29, 2014 fpaul FF=0
There’s something indefinably appealing about Bill Nighy’s acting in that he doesn’t seem to be acting. This trio of BBC films don’t have much suspense and have a relaxed, ambling pace that usually gets on my nerves, but the cast is so good at what they do that you remain completely engaged. You simply enjoy watching them. I can’t think of a reason for you to expend a whole lot of effort to find these films (check PBS) but then I can’t think of a reason why you shouldn’t.
SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR
I loved the first Sin City with all its narrative and visual excesses. Now, almost a decade later comes the sequel. The same CGI sets, the same (purposely) corny dialog and narrative voiceovers, people surviving violence that would kill Wiley Coyote. I didn’t think I’d like it, I thought the novelty would have worn off, but I sat entranced and didn’t reach for the remote once. The Sin City films are an acquired taste. You either like ’em or loathe ’em. And then there’s Eva Green. This movie earns it’s “R” so be warned.
…abound in this quirky film filled with quirky characters. Jason Bateman expends a ton of effort on playing a misanthrope and does it well. You have no clue as to why he’s entering these middle-school spelling bees. He’s softened by his relationship with an Indian kid who’s a fellow contestant. The film has its funny moments (the humor often has a rough edge – there’s a reason for the R rating – “Don’t look at me!”), but then it becomes a revenge flick. If you like dark humor, you’ll like this a lot.
November 23, 2014 November 23, 2014 fpaul FF=1
Ten years after the events of the first film, we’ve arrived at a tipping point between the apes and a plague-ravaged human race. The subtext is human hubris and racism, but there’s no shortage of action and violence. A little family drama is folded in to “humanize” the apes, but that could have been achieved much better with just a dollop of humor. These apes are the grimmest damn creatures. Make one of them a lovable clown to lighten things up. (Of course, you’d have to kill him…)
Another excellent X-Men film. I was never into the X-Men comics – more into the indies while Chris Claremont was doing his groundbreaking runs in the series. An excellent cast and a satisfying storyline but, as usual, you have to provide your own exposition for the inevitable head-scratchers (like how did Magneto control the Sentinels and why did he have to uproot RFK Stadium, etc.?) and just go with it.
November 2, 2014 December 17, 2014 fpaul FF=1
I didn’t think I’d like this because it looked like Ground Hog Day rebooted as SF and, well, it starred Tom Cruise. My bad. I cut my writing teeth in the SF field, so I gave it a shot and am very glad I did. This is top-notch military sci-fi. Cruise and Emily Blunt deliver. Don’t try to think too much about the time shifting — it will break your brain. Don’t try to understand why alien HQ is beneath the Louvre either. Just go with it. Lots of action and scary aliens that are truly alien. FF=1
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This incredible story of intergenerational legacy and healing goes back 181 years to 1838. That’s when 272 men, women, and children were sold by an order of Jesuit priests and the proceeds of the sale was used to pay the debts of Georgetown College, now Georgetown University. The slaves had lived on plantations belonging to the Jesuits in Maryland. They were put on a boat and moved to their new owners in Louisiana.
Melisande Short-Columbe is a descendant of this group known as the GU-272. Two-and-a-half years ago she left her work as a chef in New Orleans and entered Georgetown University as a freshman. She was 63 years old.
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FAIREST ISLE These Islands Now: Transformations in British Culture
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• Top-10 Russian Santa Clauses
Among the diverse peoples of Russia, many ethnic groups have their own Santa Claus. Check out our top 10 list of media presents.
1. Santa Claus.
Grandfather Frost, Russian incarnation of the New Year is officially live in the Vologda region in the city of Veliky Ustyug. It is here that children from all over Russia sent a letter asking for gifts. He lives with his granddaughter Snow Maiden. Without them, New Year's just unimaginable.
2. Shoo Babai - Tatarstan.
In the village of Yana Kyrlay in the Republic of Tatarstan is home to a brother of Santa Claus Shoo Babai. Shuba replaced by a coat and hat on a skull cap. And instead granddaughter he has a daughter named Kar Kyzy. Their residence live magical beings Shurale, forest spirit, a kind-hearted and brave hero Satan Batyr.
3. Talvi Ukko - Karelia.
Translated from the Karelian language Talvi Ukko means "Winter Grandfather." He lives far away from Petrozavodsk, the capital of the Republic of Karelia in the north of Russia, together with his team of reindeer helpers Huskies and Malamutes. Therefore, people visit his residence not only in order to receive gifts, but also to ride a reindeer and dog sledding, and drinking tea with Karelian pies known as the wicket.
4. Pakkaine - Karelia.
Even in Karelia, this time in the medieval town of Olonets, located in the south, lives another Santa Claus named Pakkaine whose appearance does not say anything about his true identity. His name is thus translated as "frosty weather". According to legend, Pakkaine was cheerful guy who loved winter activities and travel. But he also loved to sit in front of a mirror. It is said that in each city where he stopped, he reflected continued to live there.
5. Chyskhaan - Yakutia.
Further east in Yakutia has a Santa Claus. Chyskhaan severe as the boreal winter, the name is translated as "bitter cold". Blood, half-bull, when he grows horns in Yakutia the winter comes, and when they fall, summer begins. At the "king of cold" have a wife, star maiden Cholbon Kuo and his mother in law - Winter herself.
6. Yamal Iri - Yamal.
Nenets version of Santa Claus lives at the edge of the world, he has a long gray beard, traditional clothing northern nomads and tambourine to perform rites and rituals. Yamal Iri uses it to ward off evil spirits from people's homes. If you have a wish and touch his staff, and it will come true.
7. Tol Babai - Udmurtia.
Giant Tol Babai curve has a staff of his long years of wandering in the world. Legend has it that during his travels he learned to communicate with animals and plants, but people are always a little afraid of him. Only the children wanted to be friends with the giant. Since then, as a thank you, he gives presents to his young friends and invite them to visit him. It is easily recognized by his purple cloak and carrying a birch bark box for gifts.
8. Hel Mucha - Chuvashia.
In the past, the peoples of the Chuvash Republic celebrated the New Year during the holiday surhuri (literally "sheep's foot"), because after the holidays people are used to catch the sheep's leg. The main spirit of the magic holiday Chuvash - Hel Mucha, who is assisted by his granddaughter Ure Pike. Their box of tricks includes speaking samovar, a chest with the wishes and "happy" hours. Meeting with Hel Mucha New Year's Eve is believed to provide a successful year.
9. Sagaan Ubugunov - Buryatia.
Buryatia region honors its "white old man." It is believed that it brings peace, longevity and prosperity in the family. Sagaan Ubugunov carries a staff with a dragon's head, one of the main Buddhist symbols.
10. Arthuron - North Ossetia.
Name of Santa Claus Caucasian translated as "Grandfather Fire." Arthuron - the ancient god of the sun and fire, which gives people wealth and prosperity. In Ossetia on the eve of New Year baked a special round cake in his honor, which brings happiness, according to legend.
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How to meet the New Year in the USSR in the 1950s,
Social orphans: in Moldova live in the children of parents who have left to work in Europe
Visiting Santa Claus: the interior of the main wizard of the country, which is worth a look
30 magical plans for December
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Beautiful scenery film Ivan Dementievskogo
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Medicine’s history of eugenics » « Media debates
Dr. Becky, PhD
A teaching assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University was recently disciplined for making the dignity of trans people the subject of a debate. Lindsey Shepherd–or Dr. Becky, PhD as I’ve come to call her–recorded audio of her meeting with the administration, and leaked the subsequent recording. Since then, a horde of tedious dudebros have followed her every tweet, and Dr. Becky has taken up the reactionary dipshit speaking circuit. Whatever benefit of the doubt I might have given her before vanished once she signed up for generously paid speaking circuits to lambast the evil transes.
Her fans sound suspiciously similar to Jordan Peterson’s, for reasons that should be transparently obvious.
Still, I didn’t feel the need to respond myself because there has been nothing I’ve said about J Pete that doesn’t apply to Dr. Becky, PhD. But Florence Ashley looked at the typical frozen peaches lobbed in the name of ceaselessly litigating my humanity, and I’m sharing what she found:
Free speech only benefits those who have a voice. If you’re not invited to speak, freedom of expression is pointless. Those who have a platform don’t concern themselves with the difficulties of obtaining one as much as those who don’t have one.
When free speech is reduced to a justification for one’s intuitive reaction or opinion on a given case, it is instrumentalized in defence of those we agree with. It becomes a mere shadow of the right we have enshrined in our Constitution.
There is much to be said about balancing free speech with other human rights, such as the right to equality. But even for free speech absolutists, a lot more can be done without talking about other rights. The distribution of outrage and the equality of access to platforms are free-speech issues.
Read the rest here.
There is also an exceptional analysis on the situation here, which goes into greater depth:
https://medium.com/@thylacinereport/the-wlu-lindsay-shepherd-controversy-was-never-about-free-speech-9fe3442da3c3
Found it after I cued this post.
starskeptic says
That’s Lindsay and she’s not a PhD yet…
@2 It’s mockery, star.
Rob Grigjanis says
There’s also this piece by Azeezah Kanji.
Raucous Indignation says
We had a trans patient on the oncology unit nearly 20 years ago when I was in training. My chief of service, Dr Z., always referred to her as “her” or “she” because that’s what she preferred. He made sure the house staff knew to be respectful too. He taught us about respect and decency, as well as medicine. To Z, she was a person with leukemia who needed his help and care. And that most definitely included respect of the individual who was ill, not just treating the disease. He was a very decent human being. I think of him frequently when I read FTB. I know the anecdote was off topic, but I hope you’ll allow me to share it. It was an important moment in my own medical training.
@5 Raucous
Not off-topic at all. :)
polishsalami says
I think people have to remember that free speech isn’t a zero-sum game: you can boost trans (and other marginalized groups’) voices, while people like Jordan Peterson can talk his waffle to whoever wants to listen to it. Elite institutions are always going to favour conservative and Establishment figures, so the solution is to get better organized to give those groups a say.
Siobhan, I’m free-wheeling off topic again, again my apologizes. I need to use a gender neutral title in an official letter between doctors. Is Mx. generally correct or preferred? The patient in question hasn’t decided on what pronouns they prefer. I don’t want to offend the patient when they see my report. (By the way, I have no idea why I going to you with this, but you’ve been great so far.)
(By the way, I have no idea why I going to you with this, but you’ve been great so far.)
I do have a contact email to the left of the blog post under housekeeping if you ever want to ask questions without broadcasting them to the internet at large.
Mx can work if policy is insistent on including an honorific. Otherwise I just use their full name, no honorific.
K, thank you for the invite. I don’t like to cold email. It fells intrusive to me.
Siobhan @3
Don’t know how I missed it the first read…
emergence says
What really pisses me off is the reasoning Dr. Becky uses to argue that what she did was okay but what Masuma Khan said wasn’t.
I’ve seen this over and over again. Most of the time, when a person of color is called racist toward white people, it’s for calling out white people’s own racism, or how defensive white people get when they’re criticized for their attitudes towards people of other races. Accusing a person of color of “anti-white racism” has turned into a silencing tactic. White people claim to be victims of racism to derail discussions about their own racism.
The priorities that the universities and Dr. Becky have are completely fucked. Somehow, allowing endless debate over whether trans and non-binary people deserve to have their identities respected is necessary for academic freedom, but criticizing white people for being racist and hypersensitive to criticism about it is somehow beyond the pale.
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Tag Archives: goodness
“Make Sense of Me, Walk Through My Doorway: Don’t Hide in the Hallway!”
If you want to learn the heart of me — look at my father’s eyes.
Moreover: If you want to know the very gist of me, the ethics upon which I stand and the beliefs with which I measure the world; if you want to predict the disappointments of my spirit when others don’t live up to the their goodness (and if you wish to summon my own aspirations to be only good); if you desire to see the shadows of my mistakes and flaws that cost me so much time and heartbreak — the stories in my father’s eyes will tell all.
(His eyes are blue and honest. The man lacks all capacity to tell a lie. And if ever he discovers himself in the unsettling situation of having let somebody down — never due to his shortcomings but only circumstances — his hand comes up to rub the ridge above his eyebrows; sometimes, his chin. He hates to be the cause of pain.)
All other loves of mine — are replicas, and I have spent half of my lifetime searching for the exceptional kindness with which my father treats the world. In the beginning, I was meant to fail: It takes a while to not take for granted the components of our parents’ characters which, with our own older years, begin to make us proud. Identity compiles its layers with our exposure to the world; but the very roots of our goodness can only lead to those who gave us life and hopefully our first opinions of it. Their goodness — is our very, and most important, homecoming. And if I had to choose my only prayer for this world, I’d ask for every prodigal child to find their way back home, through forgiveness, wherein lies the discovery of what was missing all along. It always lies in our parents’ souls.
(There are two folds, now permanent, at the medial edge of father’s eyebrows. In those, he carries his concerns for those lives that he has vowed to protect. In them, I see the weight of manhood, his duty and his sacrifice. The endless rays of lines at the outer edges of my father’s eyes. How easily they bring him back to lightness! My father lives in constant readiness to bond over the common human goodness and delight. He’d rather smile, for life, and not brace himself to witness his child’s or the children of others’ pain. He’d rather give and then dwell in that specific peacefulness that happens after generosity — and not be helpless at relieving someone of their deprivation.)
The whole of lifetime, I can recall the never failing access to my gratitude. In childhood, I couldn’t name it yet: I never needed any reasons or explanations for the lightness of those days. My adolescent years posed a question about the qualities that made me differ from my contemporaries; and when I watched my friends make their choices, while inheriting the patterns of their parents, I started wondering about the source of what made me lighter on my feet and ready for adventure. I was different, but what was really the cause of it?
(My father lives in readiness to be childlike. When new things capture his imagination, I can foresee the eyes of my son, when he would be continuously thrilled by the world. Dad frowns a bit when he attempts to comprehend new things, but never in a burdened way: So intently he tries to comprehend the world, he thinks hard and quickly to get to the very main point of every new event and person, the central apparatus of every previously unknown bit of technology and invention. And then, he speaks, while studying your face for signs of recognition. To honor others with his complete understanding — is crucially important to that man!)
It would be gratitude, as I would name it later: The main quality of my father’s character that made me — that made us — different from others. The privilege of life never escaped my self-awareness. Just breathing seemed to be enough.
In the beginning years of my adulthood, which had to strike our family quite prematurely, I started aching on behalf of seemingly the whole world: I wished for human dignity. We needn’t much in order to survive, but to survive with dignity — was what I wished upon myself and everyone I loved (and by my father’s fashion — I LOVED the world and wished it well!). And then, when life would grant me its adventures, however tiny or grandiose, the force of gratitude would make me weep. Then, I would rest in my humility and try to pay it forward, to others.
(No bigger thrill my father knows in life than to give gifts. They aren’t always luxurious, but specific. They come from the erudite knowledge of his every beloved that my father gains through life. Sometimes, all it takes is someone’s equal curiosity toward a piece of beauty — and this magnificent man (my father!) would do anything to capture just a token of it and give it as a gift. He looks at someone’s eyes when they are moved by beauty, and in his own, I see approval and the highest degree of pleasure.
And I have yet to know another person who accepts his gifts more humbly than my father; because in life, IT ALL MATTERS. No detail must be taken for granted and no reward can be expected. So, when kindness is returned to my father by others, he is seemingly surprised. But then, he glows at the fact that all along, he had been right, about the world: That everyone is good!)
And that’s the mark that father leaves upon the world. He never chose a life with an ambition to matter, but to commit specific acts of goodness — is his only objective. With time that has been captured in my father’s photographs, I see his own surrender to the chaos and sometimes tragic randomness of life. And so, to counteract it, he long ago chose to be good.
It is an honor to have been born his child.
Posted in Children, Love, Self
Tagged "In the Name of the Father", adolescence, Audrey Tautou, belief, Bono, chaos, child, childhood, choices, compassion, curiosity, dad, daughter, dignity, empathy, ethics, eyes, father, fatherhood, giving, goodness, gratitude, heart, home, homecoming, humanity, humility, identity, kindness, lessons, life, lifetime, pain, self, self-awareness, surrender, U2, wisdom
“You Are the One That Got Me Started.”
I saw him first!
The roles reversed: When I departed, nearly twenty years ago — so reckless in my youth and dumb — he was the last to disconnect our gazes.
Such had to be the burden of the ones we left behind! And such — the mindless blessing of the ones with great adventures to distract them from the pain of leaving.
What courage it had cost him — to hold the ground and not crumble then, until I turned the corner! And how I would never learn it, until I birthed a child, myself!
And yet, he did: My darling old man. The hero of my lifetime doomed to never disappoint my expectations.
The one to whom my every love would be compared: the ultimate ideal for a man’s goodness. My goodness.
The one who, in tumultuous times, had to commit the ultimate, unselfish act of love — and let me leave in my pursuit of bigger dreams than our homeland could offer. (Would those dreams turn out to be worth our mutual sacrifice? My life is yet to reveal its bottom line. But how I pray!)
And when my hardships happened, oceans away — the one to suffer heartbreaks of a parent’s helplessness and the titan strength of prayer.
The one to not let go, despite the distances and family feuds. (Alas, human stupidity: It never fails to permeate a story.) The one to change in order to keep up. The one — to love and wait.
And pray.
This time, I saw him first!
The crowds of tired passengers were whirling all around him: Loves leaving, in their acts of youthful recklessness or being pulled by bigger circumstances. The lucky ones — were coming home. The floor tiles of the airport endured the writing of rushed footsteps, scoffed wheels of those things that people felt they had to bring along; the punctuation of chic heels of pretty girls; the patter of children’s feet, so blissful and undamaged in their innocence. Tomes could be written if every footstep could be interviewed: The snippets of humanity’s stories that were so often unpredictable, impossible to imagine. But when these stories happened to make sense — when stubborn courage persevered, when love learned to forgive — they found unequal beauty. (Oh, how we could all pray for that! Oh, how we should pray!)
One million more of pedestrians could be packed into the terminal — and I would still recognize my father’s outline. The mind’s a funny thing, of course: Recently, it began to blackmail me with forgetfulness. The first nightmare in which my father had no face — would be the turning point I’d call Forgiveness.
But when I saw him — and I saw him first! — I knew that I would not be able to forget him, ever! Because he was the one I’d spent half a lifetime trying to get back to; the one with whose name I’d christened my every accomplishment; with which I had defeated every failure. He was the love; the never failing reason for it. My starting point and the North Star whose shine I followed to find my way, in and out of grace, and back again.
And when I saw him first and called him: “Oh, my goodness!”
It had to be a prayer, for I had learned to pray — in order to come back.
No cinematic trick can capture the surreal speed with which he turned in my direction. The mind sped up. It knew: This had to be THE memory of my lifetime. This — was where my life would turn its course; and in the morning, I would no longer be the prodigal daughter looking for her homecoming, but an inspired child of one great man.
He turned. The smile with which he studied my departure, nearly twenty years ago, returned to his face, this time, again: It was a tight-lipped gesture of a man trying his hardest not to crumble. The loss had been magnificent; an the return — worth every prayer.
“My goodness! Oh, my goodness! Oh, my goodness!” I continued muttering. (That’s how I prayed, for years! Oh, how I’d prayed!)
I waved. And then, I waved again. The mind continued turning quickly. It had to remember every single detail of that day, so it could last forever. And fleetingly, it granted me a thought: The manner of my wave was very childlike, as if belonging to an infant mirroring a kind stranger’s hand. But in the moment, I knew no vanity. I cared none — for grace.
When dad’s hand flew up, I noticed: He’d aged. His timid gesture was affected by the trembling fingers and the disbelief of someone who hadn’t realized the perseverance of his prayer. C’mon! There had to be some moments in his life, historical events of giant hopelessness that the entire world endured since last I left, when he, like me, would lose the sight of reason.
Or maybe not. Perhaps, my father prayed! Perhaps, he prayed and bargained with his gods for this very opportunity to persevere life — and see my running back into his arms.
For this one moment, all — had been worth it! My life was worth when my father held me for the first time since nearly twenty years ago.
And I? I kept on praying:
“Oh, my goodness!”
For that had been my father’s name, for years.
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Tagged child, courage, daughter, departure, dreams, father, forgiveness, goodness, grace, history, home, homecoming, hope, innocence, loss, love, memory, perseverance, prayer, return, reunion, Russia, sacrifice, the prodigal child, to leave, youth
“I Told You: I Was Trouble. You Know That I [Was] No Good.”
“Knock, knock.”
“‘You’ who?”
You, silly. It’s you — but from a decade ago. A memory of you reiterated by someone else (who’s always claimed to have his own interpretation of you). The evidence from the past that you weren’t too proud of, to begin with.
Here it is, you! The ghost of you, desperately trying to keep your head above the water, with no parental guidance or a homeland to which you could go back. (Not that you’d want to, though: Those bridges have been burnt, their ashes — buried with your hind legs.)
You, talking yourself out of an encyclopedia of uncertainties and doubts, every morning; wishing to be someone else — anyone but you! — then blackmailing your gods for any type of a new delusion to lap up.
You, clutching onto love — any love, how ever selfish or unworthy — just so that you could feel an occasional liberation from the drudgery of life.
This is exactly why I’ve learned to not stay in close contact with my exes: I rarely enjoy a stroll down the memory lane. Shoot, I don’t even like a drive by through that lane’s neighborhood, while going at ninety miles an hour.
Because I’d rather think of it this way:
“It happened, thank you very much. But I don’t ever want for it to happen — again. I myself — don’t want to happen. I repeat: NEVER again.”
But ‘tis the season; and somehow, despite my good behavior this year, a single message from a former love has managed to slip in — and it appeared on my screen. He has been reading my fiction, he says, and has a few objections to it. And could he, he wonders, tell his story: He wants to contribute. He, as before, has his own interpretation he’d like to share.
And could I, he says, write about something else: Like good memories? Remember those? Because what he remembers of you — is sometimes good. So, he, he says, would like to see you in that light.
“‘You’? ‘You’ who? ‘You’ — me?”
Me don’t have much to brag about, in my past. Me is humbly grateful for her former opportunities, but the opportunities of mine now — are so much better!
And me has fucked-up plenty. (Don’t YOU remember? You — were there.) But then again, isn’t what one’s youth is for: To live and learn? Well. Me — has done plenty of that. And as for the suggested good memories, if it’s up to me (‘cause it is MY fucking fiction, after all!) — me would much rather remember the mistakes, just so that me don’t ever repeat them again.
Normally, in the vacuum of my blissful isolation from my exes, I do sometimes think of me — but now. The current me: The one that has survived. The one with enough intelligence and humility to summon her fuck-ups and to make something out of them (like knowing better than to repeat them).
And so, behold: A better me.
A kinder and more mellow me. The me who knows how to get a grip, when to summon her patience; and also the me who knows how to let go. Me who allows for her time to have its natural flow, who knows how to free fall into the tumbling, passing, speeding minutes of her life with gratitude and ease.
The ME who’s finally proud to be — her: The HER who knows how to live.
Like any woman that I’ve known, in my life, I wonder about aging. What will I look like, after the decline begins? Will I be kind enough to not compete with youth? Will I be loved enough to never fear the loss of tautness of my skin or breasts?
And when occasionally I panic at the discovery of a gray hair or a previously unwitnessed wrinkle, I bicker at my own reflection and I begin to research remedies. Nothing too invasive, but something with a bit more help.
But NEVER — I repeat: no, never! — do I, for a second, wish to be the younger me, again. It happened already — I happened — thank you very much. But I am good with never happening again.
I’d much rather want to be her: The current me. The one who’s loved, respected and adored and who knows how to accept it, for a change. The one who gives her kindness, but only until she starts losing the sight of herself. And then, she’s smart enough to stop.
She who refuses to give up her younger self’s beliefs in the general goodness of people, still; but who is too wise to not give up on those who do not know how to be good to themselves.
She is fantastic, and ME is very proud — to be HER.
Tagged "Wise Up", aging, Amy Winehouse, angst, “You Know I’m No Good”, beauty, denial, doubts, ease, exes, family, fear of aging, goodness, gratitude, lessons, looking back, love, lover, maturity, memories, Nikki Reed, opportunities, past, pride, self-esteem, vanity, wisdom, youth
“WAIT! Oh, yes, wait a minute, Mister Postman!”
But I prefer to think of him as my personal Clint Eastwood.
I don’t run into him much, maybe once a month. At first, I notice the white clunker, with the profile of a blue eagle plastered onto its side panel. Considering that most of the time, it’s a complete clusterfuck on my street, I usually see his car parked in the handicap spot, at the end of the block.
“How ever does he manage to not get cold? or hot?” I study the missing doors and the rusty metal of the vehicle. Zero isolation in that car.
Shit! I can’t even call it that: “a car”. It’s more like a golf cart, really; and I’ve often wondered whose genius idea it was to have the most important and the most underpaid government workers riding around in those things.
And those uniforms! Can’t some company get a better handle on the tailoring of that seemingly itchy baby- and navy-blue getup? Sometimes, I’ll watch some other skinny postman drudging a metal basket filled with mail through a block (but not my block!), and I feel sorry for the guy.
But not this one! My guy — is proud. Methodically, he returns to his little postal truck and grabs only as much mail as he can carry. He approaches each house with the respectful knowledge of its property; the habits, the characters of its residents. He must know all the local dogs and learn the manners of the cats basking on our lawns, porches or window sills. And even with the wild tenants, he must be well-acquainted: the curious raccoons, the badass skunks; the hooligan porcupines and the bullies that are the local coyotes. (But only when they’re in packs, of course. Alone, they are pathetic.) Yet, I imagine he navigates their territories with an even pace and a calm demeanor. They live here and have done so with more sensible behavior than the humankind. And even though he is not at their service, he knows to respect their rules.
Because he is my personal Clint Eastwood, and that man — never loses his good graces.
There is an abandoned house in the middle of my block. Or, so I thought. I thought that surely something sad must’ve happened to this house, leaving it to be occupied by the local homeless cats and runaway teens. But then again, the front yard of it is so overwhelmed by weeds, that only a wild thing cat navigate through it. And yet, I see him, sometimes — my quiet hero of methodical existence, my occasional man of the hour — and he come around to the side fence and hurls a tied bundle of mail to the doormat. I guess the house is not abandoned after all, but it still must have some sad stories to tell.
To my building, the man usually arrives toward the later part of the afternoon. The Hollywood Postal Station is in the same zip code as this block, but by the time he leaves, all the surrounding streets turn into a disaster of screeching, honking, smoking metal. Yet, he endures — my bearer of good news and deliverer of late notices, my confronter of procrastinators and the messenger of long lost loves. And then, he returns the next day with another handful of mail. Another truck-full of messages.
And if on occasion, I find him in the downstairs lobby, I watch him sorting out the papers with what seems to be a knowing smirk. Can he decipher the message of each envelope just by the look of it? Does he know which handwriting belongs to a lover, and which — to a child? Can he feel, by touch, the perforated patches caused by the tears of a heartbroken girl, pleading for her love to return? Does he wonder about the timezones, the climates, the political regimes which each message must endure — in order to make it to the bottom of a mailbox?
“Good day,” he’ll say. Not really a question, or a statement that taunts me for my own option. Just: Good day.
I don’t even know his name. I call him “love”. Sometimes, I ask him about the traffic, and in the winter, I bring down as many tangerines as I can fit into my palm. I wait and study him, as he continues to shuffle the papers into the identical gaps. No matter my impatience or the importance of an anticipated message, I NEVER interrupt.
Today, he said, “Hold up!”; then, grabbed the only bill inside my mailbox and handed it to me.
Shit! And I don’t even know his name. But I am sure he knows mine.
“Bad news,” he stated.
I pressed the white rectangle to my chest and tried to find my father’s face — on his: “Not really,” I shook my head. “Just: Steady. Steady news.”
“Well, that’s alright then,” he said, with every decibel sounding like my personal Clint Eastwood.
My constant memory keeper. A man of relevance despite the change of times.
My patient overseer of human interactions, a witness of our faults and generosities.
And someone capable of chronically forgiving our race — and then come back to work to prove it.
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“It’s NOT Going to Stop. It’s NOT Going to Stop. It’s NOT Going to Stop — ‘Til You Wise Up.”
They said their goodbyes over two cups of soup, in a narrow joint with floors filthy from the slush just outside the door. Instead of a doormat, the management had placed down sheets of cardboard. Not a pretty picture, but it was all somehow very… New York.
And the lines of their dialogue did not resemble any tragic love affair from the best of the world’s cinema. He was civil but not tender, just maintaining a casual conversation. It had been a chronic anxiety, for her, when others relied on the arrival of tomorrow. Since childhood, she was silly with her goodbyes, always making room for them. Just like she did that day: Insisting on sitting down for it, instead of aimlessly walking through the City that had seen way too many unhappy endings prior to theirs.
She had made a mistake of ordering something that sounded the most exotic, with yellow curry; but then she discovered ground chicken in it. She was a vegetarian. To save herself from the embarrassment — in front of him and the tired black woman working the line alone, during the rush of lunch hour — she pretended to eat around the white meat. Until he noticed it.
“You’ve gotta order something else!” he scoffed; and for the duration of their entire pathetic meal, which they’ve spent fully clothed, in their coats and he — in his hat, her mistake would be enough of a diversion from what was actually happening: He was leaving, like so many before him; looking for a graceful exit that no longer existed due to his cowardly procrastination.
“Oh, c’mon!” he kept trying to make her the pun of the joke. “You can’t just eat around the meat! You can’t keep doing… this thing that you do!”
A few months into the affair, he had begun reminding her of someone else. That day — on the repeatedly reiterated subject that suddenly so obviously annoyed him — she finally tracked it down: Someone else had happened to her, in this same City, nearly a decade ago. Someone else who had no intention of sticking around; who often got shamed of her in public — and in front off much chicer dressed young women, with whom he had to think he had a chance. Someone else who had hidden her from his family and friends, who pleaded for only private getaways; who gave her slivers of his time — if any — during the holidays. Someone else who’d made a good use of her youth and sex, but had no courage to end it.
Even back then, in her much younger — less jaded, more innocent — self, she felt something was akimbo. Not right. The intuition kept scratching on the ventricles of her heart. In those days, she wouldn’t call it that: Intuition. Not yet. She needed a few more disastrous repetitions and embarrassing endings — to become more in tune with her self-respect. But the sensation was already there: Something wasn’t right. By the universality of her gender, she knew: Not right.
Now, a decade older, she still couldn’t name it: that feeling of not being enough. Too poor, too orphaned; with not enough stock or family inheritance to her name. Pretty enough and selfless in bed — that was the only thing that made them last. But the awareness of that same feeling was beginning to land in the corners of her eyes with a melancholic recognition of the pattern: He — was leaving. Maybe not that day, and maybe not even after they would reunite at home, on the other coast. But eventually.
This trip had to end abruptly for him. He had to go. Maybe it could last a little longer: She could walk him to his town car. They could grab another drink at their hotel’s bar. But he would finish his cup of soup — and hers, with the chicken — then hug her outside the door, in the snow, among the locals who, just like their City, had grown indifferent to the sight of all endings. He would be clumsy, as that earlier someone else, trying to avoid meeting her eyes. Their height difference made it impossible though, so he would scurry off as soon as he couldn’t help but notice her face: Heartbroken.
“That’s right, fucker!” she thought of him meanly for the first time. “You will NEVER forget me!”
What else could she do to repair herself, in that moment — but to gloat in the peacefulness of her lack of guilt? She had been good, to this someone and the other one. To so many others, she had been good, or generous at least. It could’ve all been simplified in their honest communication of intentions. Instead, they had chosen to drag her along, while offering just enough attention but never too much of it. They procrastinated past the moment when she would fall in love; they scurry off into the landscapes of her Cities.
And the bloody New York — was still there. Like a background action shot, fabricated meticulously by a film crew, it continued to happen: with the never ending honking of cabs and beeping of closing and opening bus doors; with people coming and going — toward their dreams, careers and sex; or running away from love. Nowhere else did it smell or sound like this. And even with the strange sensation of something ending — something snapping and curling up to catch a breath — she knew she was still glorious: Because she loved it — all of it — so much!
“Never, never, never! You will NEVER forget me!” the City was humming along with her. And she didn’t even care about the already vague memory of someone leaving her behind, in it.
Posted in Break-Up, Love, Self
Tagged "Wise Up", Aimee Mann, break-up, Catrinel Menghia, courage, cowardice, dating, departure, ending, goodbye, goodness, guilt, heartbreak, honesty, innocence, intentions, intuition, love affair, lovers, Manhattan, memory, New York City, self-esteem, sex, to forgive, West Coast, wisdom, youth
“Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on — and TAKE It: Take Another Little Piece of My Heart Now, Baby!”
Posted on December 5, 2011 | 1 comment
There are days when it’s hard to clock in. But then, I see a single human face — and I’m on a roll.
Like the luminous face of a woman who, yesterday, made me wonder about my aging self.
She would have otherwise be found plain: Quite tall and long-limbed, in unmemorable clothes. A pair of ballet flats, a pencil skirt and a V-neck, all in jewel colors. That’s exactly how my eyes travelled too, along her thin body: from the ground, up to her face. From humility, up to humanity. And then, they got stuck. On her face.
Under the haircut of no longer than two inches that was bleached to camouflage the gray, her face was completely open. Readable, as if I expected to find my own reflection in it. Having not a dab of make-up on her — like she had nothing to hide — she seemed incredibly open and present. Up for anything.
“Like someone possessed by a clear conscience,” I thought.
“I didn’t expect you to be so petite and, um, lovely,” she said to me. It was our first meeting.
I can always tell. Especially when it comes to other broads, I can always tell when I’m being fed some insincere bullshit. And then, I can always tell when a woman means it; when she’s got no time — or in my case, no tolerance — for competition; and she’s got a sister’s better interest in mind. And I tell you, compliments from such a broad are a better ego treatment than a week-long stay at a beauty spa with, say, Olivier Martinez as your lover.
So, when she said that — I was hooked. First, I studied her well nourished skin with seemingly no trace of plastic surgery, and I pinpointed the gist of her: She was a happy one. She had done the work. That hard work one’s gotta do on herself in order to not be tortured with doubt, jealousy or self-loathing. She had the balls to be happy, to like herself, and by extension (or by my hubristic assumption that I was heading in the same direction), she seemed to like me just fine, too.
I was about to learn in one, two, three minutes — she was also a writer. It must be a common thing among artists, writers especially: We just can’t fucking give up on people. We cannot NOT like them.
Like every other fucker, over the course of a life, we acquire a history of letdowns and opinions. Every heartbreak hurts equally. After enough shit has been handed to us, though, some of us learn to pray to our Zen deities and pretend to surrender all control over the matter. But I suspect the truth is a lot more painful: Each fuck-up hits us below the belt and we hate it. Because by definition of our craft, we cannot lead with disappointment. We ought to stay in love with humanity, or at least in awe of it.
And why CAN’T people live up to their goodness? Surely, they had to be good at one point. It’s kind of a universal thing in the beginning: We are born good. We remain good for a while, and complete strangers get sidetracked at the sight of our still undamaged faces.
I wondered that as I studied the face of a babe who was being carried across the street by her father. She was little. Too little for me to remember what it felt like — to be her. Too young to have a palpable fear of time.
Facing out, over the man’s shoulder, the young girl was moving her mouth and pressing her plum cheek against her father’s stubble.
“That man’s heart is forever taken,” I thought.
The seconds on their walkway sign were about to expire, but the two creatures — one still innocent, the other one living vicariously through her — were so engrossed in their chat, they were hardly among us. Finally, by the time the man began jogging slightly, with his daughter bouncing uncomfortably in his arms (he had to be still training for such new functions of his body), they crossed in front of my left headlight. Two more lanes of traffic — and they would be safe.
Bouncing on her father’s arm, the girl noticed me. The green of her eyes got stuck to my heart. I waved, timidly, with one hand. Hesitantly but innocently, she squeezed her tiny left fist, then released it, and squeezed it again. She was imitating my gesture. She was still good. Up for anything.
It would be horrific, I thought, to lose my soul’s sight.
Then, I went home and wrote this.
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Tagged "Piece of My Heart", a compliment, adults, aging, artist, Catrinel Menghia, children, compassion, confidence, daughter, disappointment, empathy, goodness, heartbreak, humanity, humility, inspiration, Janis Joplin, kindness, motherhood, pain, self-esteem, sincerely, sisterhood, woman, writers
“Sometimes You Wanna Go Where Everybody Knows Your Name…”
He is quite pretty.
Yes, I said “pretty”. Or, rather: He is luminous.
I’ve never seen him here before, waiting tables at this joint I frequent. In the City ruled by the most beautiful gay boys who always bitch-slap my occasionally fearful face with the courage of their specificity, I have finally found my corner. It’s calm here, and I am still completely anonymous. I make it a point to be as sweet as Amelie when I come in, and I am always a generous tipper. But no one knows my name. They let me be. And that’s somehow soothingly perfect.
Diagonally from its floor-to-ceiling window panes, I can see at least half a dozen of rainbow flags. The parking is a bitch around here, but the stroll is always worth it. And no matter what comrade of mine I’ve introduced to this place — a single mother with an unruly child or an ancient director with my father’s face — they all seem to find comfort, if not peace here.
“Reminds me of a Noo Yok di-nah!” a Russian from Brooklyn once correctly tagged the reminiscence of this joint while falling into the only round booth, and nesting his bulky body next to my bony elbow. I could see it in his eyes: A chord has been struck.
And it is true: The leather-covered booths, plastic tables and chairs are squeezed against each other with economical consideration. Identical bar stools, bolted onto the floor, look like a net of mushrooms sprouted after the autumn rain; and I’ve once, especially tipsy over a boy, spun on one of them while waiting for my smoothie with red cabbage. (Shit! I’ve become a hardcore hippie, in this California livin’ of mine!)
The UFO’s of lamp shades with single, off-white bulbs inside each light the place up with a certain light of nostalgia; but every kind face slipping in and out of the swinging doors of the kitchen reminds me that I ain’t in New York — any more!
But will you look at them?! Just look at these faces!
There is the Zenned-out brown boy with gentle manners who insists on diamond studs that sparkle from underneath his backwards-turned baseball cap. Underneath his crew-necks or fit t-shirts, he hides a fit but lithe body. Sometimes, I catch him texting underneath the only cash register; but from where I sit, in those moments, he simply looks possessed by bliss, behind the tiny glass display of whole grain muffins.
The only older gentleman working regular shifts here has a quite voice. He is not as effeminate as the other waiters here, neither is he flamboyant as most of the clientele. When he tends to my table, I cannot always distinguish the content of his speech, but his Spanish accent is lovely.
So, I grin and stretch my arms to the other side of the tiny table. “I’m fine! Thank you,” I purr, and wait: Is this the day he’ll finally smile at me?
But this boy — is pretty, and I have never seen him before. Dressed in the most perfect caramel skin, he has one of those faces that makes me regret not having a talent or even any predisposition for drawing. His body seems perfect, and a pair of rolled-up jean shorts reveals a runner’s legs. He carries just a touch of feminine grace, and oh, how the boys love him! The entire length of my 3-hour writing session, they come in to quietly watch him from corner tables. Some hug him while sliding their hands along his belt-line. A sweet boy, he doesn’t seem to mind. Men in couples flirt with him discretely, but I recognize their desire — for his youth and goodness — underneath the nonchalant gestures.
A woman with a complexion I would kill to have when I reach her age, has entered the joint shortly after me. From the bits of overheard conversation, I figure out: She lives in Laurel Canyon. Has “a partner”. A writer.
“130,000 people lost power last night,” she reads the newsfeed to the pretty boy, as he flocks her table. He seems to possess an equal curiosity toward both genders; and if there is any hint of discrimination, it’s in his innocent desire to be in the proximity beauty.
Oh, right. I nearly forgot: Last night was messy. When the winds initially picked up, I was willing to believe in the magic on some beautiful female creature blowing in, with the wind, to save this last hope of this forsaken place. But then, my night turned tumultuous; and in my chronic want to flee from here, I thought of the more unfortunate souls, with not as much as a shelter of their car. I checked myself in.
The morning ride to this joint was rough: Fallen over trees, freaked out drivers and broken traffic lights. But once I landed in my booth — and the angelic, pretty boy approached me — I remembered that I was always the last to give up on human goodness. So, I hung around and recuperated in beauty.
And I’ve been hanging here ever since.
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Tagged "Cheers", a partner, admiration, attraction, “Amelie”, beauty, belonging, bliss, Brooklyn, compassion, courage, curiosity, diner, Doutzen Kroes, gay, genders, goodness, hippie, Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, magic, memories, New York, nostalgia, pretty, Russian, sex, shelter, talent, West Hollywood
“A Man Gets Tied Up to The Ground — He Gives The World Its Saddest Sound.”
(Continued from November 26th, 2011.)
“Make a wish,” he said. “If you wish for something good — it WILL come true.”
I held the ring he gave me in the middle of my palm, and I stared at the open space caught in the center of its beaded circle. It was made out of a tightly wound spiral of a single metallic line, as thin as a single hair on a horse’s mane. I thought of my grandmother’s cuckoo clock whose pendulum she had stopped winding-up, suddenly one night.
Her husband, a retired fisherman, had gained himself a habit in his old age: He’d climb up to the roof above their attic to watch the sunset every night. There, he would witness the reunion of two unlikely lovers: The sun would give up the ambition of its skies and melt into the waters of the Ocean beneath; and every such reunion would illuminate the old man’s eyes with colors of every precious stone in the world.
There, up on the rooftop, my grandmother would find him, when she returned home from work.
“My little darling boy!” she’d gosh. “You’re too old for this game.”
She was eleven years his junior; but after a lifetime of waiting for the Ocean to return her lover, she hadn’t managed to forget her worries. And even with his now aged body radiating heat in their mutual bed each night, she would dream up the nightmares of his untimely deaths.
“I’ve died so many times in your sleep, my baby lark,” he joked in the mornings, “I should be invincible by now.”
Still, the woman’s worrisome wrath turned her into a wild creature he preferred to never witness: They were unlikely lovers, after all. So, he’d smirk upon her scolding, obey and lithely descend. Then, he would chase my grandmother into the corner bedroom of their modest hut. And she would laugh. Oh, how she would laugh!
One day, after she scolded him again, he slipped; and as she watched each grasp betray him, she suddenly expected that her lover could unfold his hidden wings and slowly swing downward, in a pattern of her cuckoo clock’s pendulum, or a child’s swing. But he was an injured bird: That’s why he could no longer go out to sea.
Upon the permanently wet ground, he crashed. And on that night, she stopped winding-up the spiral inner workings of her clock.
“Well? Did you make a wish?” the old Indian merchant asked me after I slipped his gift onto the ring finger of my left hand.
The beads rolled on the axis of the spiral and slid onto my finger like a perfect fit. On its front, four silver colored beads made up a pattern of a four-petalled flower, or possibly a cross. I bent the fingers of my hand to feel its form against my skin. Under the light, the beads immediately shimmered.
“Well? Did you?” the old, tiny man persisted.
Instead of answering him, I pressed the now ringed hand against my heart and nodded.
“See. It is already coming true,” he said.
He was by now sitting in a lotus position on top of a lavender cloud. It had earlier slipped out from behind the room with bamboo curtains, in the doorway, and it snuggled against his leg like a canine creature. Before I knew it, the old man got a hold of the scruff of the cloud’s neck, and he reached down below — to help me up.
His hand was missing a ring finger. How had I not noticed that before? I studied his face for remnants of that story. But it was not its time yet, so I got lost in between the wrinkles of his brown skin and followed them up to his eyes:
His eyes were two small suns, with amber colored rays. The center of each iris was just a tiny purple dot, too narrow to fit in my reflection. I looked for it though until the suns began to spin — each ray being a spoke on a wheel — faster and faster.
The spirals of the old man’s watch began unwinding, and we floated up through the layered clouds of time, up to the sunroof. With a single gesture of his arm, the man unlatched the windowed frames. He sat back down, shifted until his sit bones found their former markings in the lavender cloud; and when he turned to face me, I realized he had become a young lover of my own: with jet black hair and a pair of smirking lips of that old fisherman who had stopped the spiral of the clock inside my grandma’s hut.
“I had a feeling about you,” he said and buried his four-fingered hand inside my loosened hair. “You are the type to always wish — for good.”
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“And You Want to Travel WITH Him, And You Want to Travel Blind.”
It was the smell of burning patchouli incense that brought me in here.
Come to think of it, my nose had been acting up all day.
Earlier, down the street, along the netted fence that safeguarded a preservation ground, it picked-up on a strong smell of fish.
The encyclopedia of marine aromas was familiar to me since birth: Somehow, my people were always drawn to large bodies of water, albeit only a few of them actually knew how to swim.
“Fresh fish doesn’t smell,” my grandfather used to say. The man was a fisherman.
And it was not the smell of processed fish that my nose sensed either. That one I had learned early on in life, as well: at the cannery of anchovies and sardines that my grandmother supervised, in the Far East of Russia. With her badass temper and a crass sense of humor, she would walk the premises; and I would march in her footsteps, armed with a jar of black caviar and an aluminum spoon. Grandma would always smell like lily-of-the-valley bouquet; and when in certain portions of the factory, the reek disgusted me out of my appetite, I would bury my nose into the skirt at the back of her knees.
“See, comrade!” the woman would be ripping a new one to manager of that particular department. “Even my grandchild knows this is not a smell of good produce. Fuckin’ fix it!”
So, no: The earlier smell down the road did not belong to the byproducts of humans. This particular scent belonged to the wild. When my nose picked up on it, I could envision piles of fish carcasses and flakes of scales circling in the air, close to the ground.
Along the fence, tourists with heavy lenses of cameras were taking photographs. Parents were instructing their children to pose while the adults watched them through the screens of their iPhones.
I looked in the direction of the attraction: Seals were lounging on a small patch of a gated beach with sprawled seaweed and patches of red succulents. Lazily, they were lying in the same direction with their glossy or fuzzy bodies, then take turns crawling into the Bay, for more feasts. Aha! That’s the smell!
When I began to run again, I could smell the musky scents of cheap perfume on older women and the sweat of other runners. As I neared the Cannery Row, the flavors of caramel popcorn and spiced hot chocolate seduced me into slowing down. Right around the corner, the street opened into an alley of shops and street vendors. People carried cups of frozen yoghurt and oily paper bags of street food. Children on sugar highs were biting into chocolate covered apples and nagging their parents for sips out of their hot paper cups.
When a familiar scent from my motha’s kitchen reached my activated nose, I wandered into a store that emanated it.
“What IS that?” I muttered as I sniffed the air and scanned the shop’s display for hints.
Armed with a giant cup of coffee I felt obliged to purchase there, I continued my walk, a few minutes later. The smell of patchouli incense reached me from across the street, and before I was aware of my obedience, I was stepping over the threshold.
I first looked around for signs by the door: “Am I allowed to bring drinks in here?”
But the rich colors of exotic textiles and seemingly ancient jewelry quickly distracted my eyes. I began to cruise aimlessly around the store. High above, rows of women’s capes clung to the walls. Hemp threaded backpacks and sequined shoulder bags lined the shelves down below. A rack of wraparound skirts attracted my attention.
“From Tibet,” a old brown man with striped gray and black beard said from behind the grass counter, in the corner. I hadn’t noticed him till then.
Sheepishly lowering my cup that had been soothing my nose with a sharp scent of roasted coffee beans, I smiled at him.
“Good day,” the gentle man nodded.
“They’re very lovely,” I patted the adorned cotton. I owed him at least that much. I had followed a scent and was planning to make no purchases here.
The tiny man would return to his noninvasive silence of a meditating good heart. His goods, however, would begin to tell me stories: of dusty passages of India and and the small roads of Thailand, jam packed with traffic; of silky hair of Chinese seamstresses and the blistered dry hands of bead workers in the Kingdom of Bhutan. The transcendent scent continued hanging above me like a cloud that, if I could straddle, would carry me to the magical land of the Far East, so close to the settlement of my people.
“Good choice,” the tiny man stood up to bag a pair of chandelier earrings the color of a frost bitten malbec grape.
“A man of two words,” I thought to myself and felt grateful for his manner. “A good man!”
I lowered my gaze to the jewelry display with amber, rubies and turquoise.
“Have this,” he said, and in his wrinkled palm I saw a ring of a matching color. I studied his face: “Good luck,” he said.
I lowered my head. “Thank you. That’s very sweet. Thank you.” And I slipped on the ring.
“Make a wish,” he responded. “If you wish for something good — it WILL come true.”
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“I Was in the House — When the House Burned Down.”
Trembling. Waiting for clearer thoughts to come in.
Here comes one:
“How is it that I’m shivering in a 110-degree heat?”
That’ll do, for now.
Gently! You must handle yourself — gently.
Standing on a street that to a bystander’s eye would appear idillic and “homey”, she wonders about the horrors that could be happening behind the closed doors of these same “homey” homes, with pretty white doors: the quiet, muffled horrors of domestic violence.
“Beware — of pretty,” another thought comes in.
There is a reason why she has always loathed the sight of the white picket fence: They reek of false advertisement and broken promises — of broken hearts. And the heart that break due to the broken promise — takes longer to heal. She is now cradling her heart, in her heaving chest; but it would take her years to learn just how long the healing would take.
Her thinking is fragmented. If only she could get a grip on this shivering: If only she could catch her breath. But the body takes its time.
There is a violence that lives in every body: A violence that strikes at another — or at itself. It always comes from the darkest corners of one’s soul and it prefers no audience. But those whom we love the most often fall victim to it.
So, she is catching herself wonder about the suffering that others endure when love betrays its goodness. It is much better to be thinking of others, in moments of extreme pain. Because the end to her own pain — she cannot possibly see from here: In the “homey” neighborhood that has broken its promise to her and found her homeless, in 110-degree heat.
Besides, the suffering of others should remind her that someone is always having it worse.
“How can it possibly be worse?!” another thought flings itself inside her throbbing head.
The chest is heaving. The heart is beating fast: It is not broken yet.
“Do people die — of broken hearts?” she thinks and sits down on the curb to catch her breath. Is that what happens — in heart attacks?
A Heart: Attacked. That would be the name of her cause, if she were to stop breathing right now.
She stares at her feet. The pedicure on her toes is of her own manufacturing. She’s had a hand in that. The chosen color is pink: They have just passed Easter, on the calendar. The pair of shoes, that she’s had very little time to peel on before leaping out of the house, are multicolored: Each strap bears a neon shade. When she first laid her eyes on them, on a shelf at Payless, she thought.
“When in the world would I wear those?!”
Now. She is wearing them now. And in a juxtaposition with her black tank top and blue bicycle shorts, they fail to make any sense at all. She chuckles to herself: Yes, she actually chuckles — while shivering — because she is thinking that she must look like a burnt house victim, right now.
And isn’t that what happened, anyway: Her “homey” home has burnt down on its promise? It has collapsed on itself, and no matter its false appearance from the outside, behind those pretty white doors and the white picket fence — one can only find ruins.
She shivers and looks over her shoulder at the sight of the house:
The perfectly groomed, neon green lawn — FAKE!
The deceivingly white and pink exterior — FALSE!
The beautiful rotunda window of its office space — LIARS!
A distorted face of a man has been watching her through that window. She has just realized that. He is puffy and unshaven, bewildered behind his thick-rimmed glasses. His mouth begins opening once he notices her looking back. He is that bug-eyed bottom-feeding fish that outlives the smaller bastards in a shared tank. The existence of his type is necessary, in nature. She knows that. Symbi-fuckin’-osis! But again, it would years before she sees his purpose in her life.
“GET THE FUCK OUT!” she can lipread on his gaping, bottom-feeding mouth.
“I hope I took my glasses with me,” another thought happens.
That’s when she realizes she’s actually not seeing the man: She is remembering him, at this very moment. The brain is taking in the memories: The bits that it will then try so very hard to forget.
The shivering hasn’t subsided, but it has transformed into an all-over warmth that happens to the survivors of car wrecks. This is:
The Body: Coping.
That is the name of her current disease.
No, she wouldn’t die of A Heart: Attacked. Not on this day. Her body has chosen to persevere, to survive the violence.
The shivering is violent. The body is confronting brutality with its reserve of sudden energy.
This is what it takes — to survive: To outlive the broken heart.
She wants to go to sleep but then realizes that it’ll be a while; for she has just leapt out of a burning home: a “homey” home. The thought of anything too far ahead refuses to happen; and strangely calm, she is grateful for that. She thinks no more than five minutes ahead.
Not feeling her own body, she picks herself up off the curb and reaches for the giant black bag packed in the middle of the night.
And: She. Starts. Walking.
It should be hard, in theory, to not know where she’s going. She’s got no home. She knows no shelter.
But she is only thinking of one step at a time — and only five minutes ahead.
Gently! You must handle yourself — gently! — when you survive.
She’s chosen to survive. It would begin when she starts walking.
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Nuance Dragon Anywhere is finally available for iPhone and iPad. Nuance had last month at the launch of the Android app said the iOS app would arrive soon. The company is offering a week-long free trial to the users.
Dragon Anywhere offers a range of handy features. The company claims that using the app, users will be able to create documents, and fill out forms with voice commands. Targeted at field workers, lawyers, and other professionals who often work outside of an office, the app can let them quickly navigate through a document and make edits to the transcribed texts. In addition, all the transcriptions are synced to the cloud and to your devices.
Nuance, the company behind the app, is renowned for its dictation technology. Apple’s iOS stock keyboard app utilises Nuance’s technologies for the dictation feature. Nuance touts Dragon Anywhere’s accuracy and endless voice input features.
“We are excited to expand the availability of Dragon Anywhere to iOS, further empowering the mobile workforce to more easily complete time-consuming documentation and achieve greater levels of productivity away from the office,” said Peter Mahoney, senior vice president and general manager of Dragon.
Dragon Anywhere is available as a subscription service, which cost $15 (roughly Rs. 1,000) per month to $150 (roughly Rs. 9,800) per year. Users can test the app for free for a week, the company said. The app will require you to have an iPad 3 or higher, iPhone 5 or higher, iPad mini or higher with software iOS 8.1 or higher.
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Comedic ‘Superfest’ discusses disability portrayal in film
The audience gets a chance to ask questions about the films shown during Superfest, the International Disability Film Festival at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Calif., Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014.
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“How many disabled people does it take to screw in a light bulb?” well-known stuttering comedian Nina G. asked the audience at this year’s Superfest International Disability Film Festival. “One to screw it in and five able-bodied people to say, ‘You are such an inspiration.’”
A roar of laughter was followed by applause for the Oakland-based comedian and emcee of last Sunday’s fest that features short films portraying disability and its various facets of diversity, intricacy and empowerment.
The Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability celebrated its second year hosting the volunteer-based festival at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in downtown San Francisco last Sunday.
The Institute is SF State’s in-house organization located on the first floor of the Humanities building. Assistant Director of the Institute Emily Beitiks worked with Director Catherine Kudlik and Executive Director Bryan Bashin of Lighthouse, an organization for the blind and visually impaired, to bring Superfest to San Francisco.
Beitiks said people were surprised that Lighthouse was affiliated with the event.
“Blind people are running a film festival? What?” Beitiks joked.
The festival accommodations were ensured to be accessible for people of all types of disabilities. Two sign language interpreters, closed captions and audio descriptions were provided at Sunday’s event to help the audience watch and hear each movie.
The films featured people who were born able-bodied and later became disabled, as well as people born with disabilities.
The first movie, titled “The Limbless Mountaineer,” starred Jamie Andrew, a man who lost his friend and all his limbs due to frostbite while climbing the Matterhorn mountain in the Pennine Alps. The movie covered Andrew’s rehabilitation and dedication to climb the mountain once again despite numerous setbacks. However, the film ended with his retreat before reaching the summit.
Samuel Leath, an ASL translator, does sign language for the crowd members at the Superfest International Disability Film Festival at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Calif., Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014. Daniel Porter/Xpress.
An audience member stated during the question and answer segment that she was pleased the movie did not have a typical hollywood happy ending
“Isn’t it nice to see a disabled man fail?” said Nina G, as the audience roared once again in laughter.
Zach Reed, a man with Lyme disease who attended the event in a wheelchair, stated that despite the ending, the movie failed to show the other problems associated with Andrews’ disability, as well as his financial situation, that allowed him to pursue his dream.
“If a film is going to be a good film, it should capture the humanity of the situation,” Reed said, adding that the movie focused more on the physical aspect of his disability and ignored the mental repercussions. He said the film should have followed up on Andrews’ PTSD from losing his friend.
Despite his dislike of the mountaineer film, Reed said he enjoyed “Everything is Incredible,” a short film featuring a poverty-stricken Honduran man with polio who had spent over 50 years of his life building a helicopter.
During the festival’s intermission, Bashin was found talking to audience members and discussing the festival, as well as the movies.
Lighthouse and the Institute recently began hosting the festival after Culture!Disability!Talent!’s 15 year stint. Bashin said the two organizations were honored to have the responsibility of hosting future events. They started their first year by hosting an awards ceremony titled “The Dissies,” where people voted on the most regrettable representations of disabilities in film. However, this year they returned the event to its traditional format.
“We believe it’s our role to be out there to be the part of the cultural movement on disability awareness,” Bashin said. “And the Bay Area is the crucible of disability rights.”
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July 20, 2019 July 20, 2019 Gronda Morin
United We Stand, Divided We Fall/ Goal Is To Save US Democracy By Ousting Trump In 2020
I’ve been reading a lot of commentary from the ex-GOP and GOP “Never Trumpers” who are having a meltdown over who the Democrats select to be their next presidential candidate for the November 2020 elections to compete against the republican President Donald J. Trump. They’ve been hard at work to steer the Democrats towards choosing a more moderate candidate.
Then there are the progressives in the Democratic Party who tend to be mostly from the the younger members who are insisting on an agent for change as they’re frustrated with the snail pace and gridlock of Congress where little gets done to help average Americans, like with reasonable gun control measures, developing a serious plan to combat the negative consequences of climate change which includes revamping US infrastructure, having everyone who resides in the USA have access to affordable high quality healthcare, making college and post high school training affordable, and assisting young people’s with the expense of quality, affordable day care for children, for starters. They want more accomplishments instead of a lot of talk.
The third wing of the Democratic Party are the more moderate/ establishment wing of the who have learned to become more pragmatic in developing legislation.
Finally, there are peoples like me who are solely focused on the defeat of President Trump in 2020, end of story. This is going to require unity among the coalitions of the decent to accomplish this goal.
HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI (L) MODERATE WING
I’m pledging to support whoever the Democrats select to be their 2020 presidential candidate. My only goal is to save our US democracy with the values of encouraging diversity which is our strength: restoring people’s faith in the “rule of law,” maintaining the right of people’s to criticize/ to protest peacefully against the policies of government; to protect a free press, and establishing election integrity, for starters.
The reality is, that there’s a possibility President Trump could win reelection in 2020 via the electoral college map with help from GOP led states with partisan gerrymandered maps approved by the US Supreme Court; the GOP state rules regarding voter ID laws and other tactics like purging voter rolls designed to depress Democratic likely voters from exercising their rights; assistance with love from Russia, and a war chest worth well over $100 million dollars.
This is a thought that gives me nightmares and terrifies me.
See: independent.co.uk/ Why Trump Will Win In 2020 And It Won’t Even Be Close...
Read NYT/ Trump’s Electoral College Edge Could Grow in 2020, Rewarding Polarizing Campaign
See: Dear Dems, Yes, Trump Can Win Reelection In 2020 Via Electoral College Map
This possibility of a Trump victory in 2020 is one major reason that I’ve become pro-impeachment inquiry/ investigation. Because an impeachment investigation would garner world-wide daily media attention, the president’s misdeeds would be frequently shared with the public, drip, drip, drip. The Democratic Party presidential candidates could never afford to pay for this high level of media coverage exposing President Trump’s felonious activities as per the 3/22/2019 FBI’s final report regarding its 22 months long Trump-Russia probe, led by the Special Counsel Robert Mueller III and other evidence. In addition, this is one sure way to signal to the world that these US valued principles aren’t just empty words.
See: washingtonpost.com/ An impeachment inquiry is risky. Not opening one is riskier.
President Trump isn’t acting alone. He has been acting with the backing of certain interests who are intent on maintaining power. These mostly dark monies donors behind the scenes have long been aware of the changing demographics which favor the Democratic Party. Thus, they are not opposed to an authoritarian governing body where they can continue to exert power over the direction of the USA.
President Trump is simply the front office’s super salesman who can sell anything to the republican party base coalition, comprised of the anti-immigration hardliners; the 2nd amendment gun rights’ zealots; the White Evangelical contingency; the White Supremacists and those who are like minded; the wealthy whose only interests are the tax cuts and the roll back of government regulations; corporate executives who favor fossil fuel industry and those who still buy that President Trump is going to bring back to the USA, coal industry and manufacturing jobs.
As per the October 2016 New York Magazine report, “The GOP’s Age of Authoritarianism Has Only Just Begun” by Jonathan Chait: (These folks are not above Trump winning via the use of a racist megaphone.)
“The Republican Party is instead more unified than one might imagine, as well as more dangerous. The accommodations its leaders have made to their erratic and delirious nominee underscore a capacity to go further and lower to maintain their grip on power than anybody understood. More consequentially, the horrors Trump has unleashed are the product of tectonic forces in American politics. Trump has revealed the convergence of two movements more extreme than anything in the free world that may yet threaten the democratic character most Americans take as their birthright.”
“From the beginning, however, the conservatives faced a predicament: Their belief that government is evil irrespective of whether its programs function as intended only had traction with a minority of voters. Americans may have opposed big government as an abstract notion, but they did not want to do away with their Social Security, Medicare, farm subsidies, minimum-wage laws, and progressive taxation. This misalignment between the conservative movement and the American people has, in fact, bred among conservatives a fundamental distrust of the American people. The welfare state, in the eyes of conservatives, was merely a government-sponsored mechanism by which the masses of voters could steal from the minority. (Russell Kirk, the influential mid-20th-century conservative, lamented that “taxation of the prosperous for the benefit of the less wealthy, through the votes of the benefiting crowd,” was “first cousin to theft.”) Since conservatives define liberty as the preservation of property rights, democracy — and its potential for legalizing theft via redistribution — poses a constant threat.”
“And yet American democracy was where the conservatives lived, and so a movement built on distrust of the majority set out to find a constituency. It found one in the segment of the country where conservative anti-government theory had deep resonance: the white South.”
“That congressional Republicans would submit to Trump even at the risk of compromising the basic security of the American government is not merely a hypothesis. It already happened. U.S. intelligence agencies have reportedly grown concerned about links between the Trump campaign and the Russian campaign strategy of using cyberattacks to help elect him. Republicans in Congress conceded to Daily Beast reporter Shane Harris that they shared these concerns but nonetheless refused requests by their Democratic colleagues to launch an investigation, which would have had subpoena power to force witnesses to testify.”
“The episode is telling because Republicans have no ideological motive to oppose an investigation — indeed, as the generally hawkish party on Russia, they might have been especially concerned by the prospect of Putin’s subverting the American political process. As Harris reported, they simply “have no appetite to launch inquiries into their party’s presidential nominee.” Their willingness to turn a blind eye to what even Republicans acknowledge as a security threat is a display of the absolute logic of party unity that would prevail under a Trump presidency.”
See: nymag.com/ The GOP’s Age of Authoritarianism Has Only Just Begun, And it will not end with a Clinton presidency…
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TokyoSand says:
Defeating Trump in 2020 is crucial. I’m already worried about how we’ll be able to recover from the damage he’s caused. I, too, will support the eventual nominee as everyone of our candidates is superior to Trump. The key, as you point out, to beating Trump is winning the Electoral College. That’s it. I’d prefer a popular vote win but that won’t be in place by next year, so winning the EC must be the focus. (I’m going to write a post on that next week.)
Dear TokyoSand,
That’s why I became so upset of the infighting that spilled over into the public sphere between the House Democratic leadership and the progressive young House freshmen. We can’t afford the Dems participating in a circular firing squad.
We really do need to be unified with the focus on ousting President Trump in 2020 or sooner. The April 2019 Cook Political report shared a scenario where President Trump could lose the popular vote by 5 million while he wins via the electoral college map.
I’m mostly supporting Dem candidates who can go toe to toe with President Trump.
One thing I like to keep in mind is that there are many media outlets that gravitate towards the “Dems in disarray” narrative. Our party is not made up of sheep who blindly follow their leader like the Republicans clearly do. The fact that we do have disagreements isn’t abnormal, in fact I’d argue that it is healthy. However those disagreements seem to fuel the disarray narrative, which is deeply unfortunate.
Good comments. A retired editor once said the media is biased toward conflict. That is why a doctor doing the right thing 19 times out of 20 is not newsworthy. Only when the doctor screws up is it news. Keith
Gronda, if someone cares about our global reputation and trade, cares about good healthcare options, cares about fighting climate change, cares about protecting the environment and bee pollinators, cares about our growing debt problem made worse by this president, cares about civil rights and liberties for all, cares about common decency, cares about data-driven analysis, and knows that our economy has been growing for over 120 months, only 30 of which have been under this president, then please vote for Donald Trump’s opponent.
But. you must vote and not phone it in. Trump won because he got people who were not crazy about Hillary to stay home or vote for Jill Flynn. As for the Democrats – beating Trump truly is the major consideration. Please do not nominate a candidate that will not appeal to moderate Dems and Independents. Trump should not win this election if Dems do this. He can win if he continues to resonate with his race baiting and fear mongering of perceived evils of socialism and Dems nominate a George McGovern or Walter Mondale like candidate (please research how they did in the general election).
Gronda, I am writing this to any progressive readers. We cannot be stupid about this election. Trump is beatable, but he can also win. Watergate was all about making sure Nixon ran against McGovern and not Edmund Muskie and getting dirt on McGovern. Trump is more corrupt than Nixon, per conservative writer George Will – I agree. He will do everything in his power to lie, cheat and bully. Take that to the bank.
I am thinking Democratic voters so far are siding with VP Biden because they think he’s the best Democratic Party candidate to beat President Trump.
But I’m getting more basic in my pleading for unity among all peoples of decency to back all Democratic Party candidates, no matter what their policies are in order to rescue our US democracy. President Trump and his sycophants are trying to rob us of what makes this country truly great,like our value for truth; our appreciation for diversity; our promotion of a free press; our backing of a non-partisan, competent judicial and law enforcement systems; our promotions of peoples to peacefully protest our government and leaders; etc.
We accomplished our 1st goal, to elect enough Democratic Party candidates to take over the majority of seats in the US House in 2018. Now our next objective should be to oust President Trump from The White House in November 2020. We need to keep our eye on the ball.
I can totally relate when you state that the thought of tRumpsky winning reelection “gives me nightmares and terrifies me.”
I sometimes wonder how this country was able to turn around so strikingly in a mere two years. But the answer lies in what you wrote about the “backing of certain interests who are intent on maintaining power. These mostly dark monies donors.” As the old saying goes … Money talks … and it’s been shouting quite loudly in tRumpsky’s ears.
I truly am concerned about the future of this country and its people if there is a repeat of the 2016 election.
Dear Nan,
President Trump did not happen over night. The environment has been built over years to allow for an authoritarian racist leader. We’ve seen the GOP states implement voter ID laws and other ways to depress the turn-out of Democratic Party likely voters. We’ve watched the Supreme Court justices give their stamp of approval to extreme partisan gerrymandered state maps. We’ve seen the development of FOX TV and other right wing media outlets by right wing executives who designed its outreach to stoke the racist impulses/ anger in their viewers.
In short, these right wing money guys have figured out that having control over GOP isn’t sufficient for them to maintain power because of the changing demographics that will favor Democrats.
The GOP in Congress need their fix, monies and so they’re kissing President Trump’s derriere. What I don’t get is the defensive posture of the Democratic Party leadership team in the US Congress. This is not the time to play, defense.
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My Armies
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Last week I painted up three elements of 7Hd for the Battle of Hastings. I also finished all the figures I need for the King Magnus campaign.
Feudal Hordes
These are all Essex figures, some of which I got by trade from Paul Potter. They are pretty primitive looking figures, some are armed with lumps of wood or crude stone clubs. They’ll be used in campaign games for emergency reinforcements. The middle element is made up of figures without trousers, so it’s particularly suitable for the Welsh and Pre-feudal Scots, who don’t hold with such fashion!
I also finished one 3Sp and two 3Bw for the Welsh (Feudal Castings, of course). Until I’m inspired to paint the early Welsh option (lots of 3Wb), that’s all of them for now, though I do have the figures for some more command elements, particularly another mounted one, but I think other projects will take priority.
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And I’ve done some more Viking archers (also Feudal Castings), only to decided that if I make the Anglo-Norse huscarls immune to QK, they won’t need any more light troops. Still, I’ve now got enough archers for two Viking armies, and I’ve probably got the blades too, if I painted the rest; again I can’t see that being an immediate priority.
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The Battle of Hastings (Harold v. William)
No sooner had Harold sent the Norwegians packing, after a hard fight, than he got news that William of Normandy had landed in the south. Without hesitating he marched his forces to meet this challenge to his sovereignty. He was able to recover one element of the fyrd he’d lost at Stamford and he brought his force up to strength with some hastily raised levies of dubious worth. Hi s force to face the Norman invader was, 3x4Bd (huscarls), 6x4Sp (fyrd), 1x2Ps (skirmishers) and 2x7Hd (fyrd dregs). The huscarls acquitted themselves so well at Stamford that I decided to give them a bonus; they can only be killed by knights if they’re doubled. This was a variant rule I saw in Slingshot 263 (“The Normans in Italy”). It seems eminently reasonable to make these elite troops the steadiest in the army against knights rather than some of the most vulnerable.
William had brought with him plenty of cavalry (7x3Kn and 1x2LH) with some spear (2x4Sp) and archers (2x2Ps). It was a toss-up whether to deploy the archers as skirmishers or in formation, as the formed-up archers could have a lot of fun with the hordes, but then so can the knights.
William had the first piece of luck as he was able to set the terrain, and he wasn’t about to play fair! He managed to meet Harold on a road with only a pair of small woods in opposite corners to break up the flatness. This was that flat bit on the way to Senlac Hill, which is clearly where Harold was heading! This is the battle of Hastings where Harold doesn’t get to that hill.
There was little to choose between the various edges, but Harold got the road running between them and the smallest hill on his left flank. William deployed with his spear on the road, hoping to use it to help them keep up with the knight. He them put his light horse and skirmishers on the right flank, hoping to move quickly to contest the wood with the Saxons. Otherwise his knights formed up either side of the spear.
Harold met this with a block of psiloi-supported spear flanked by himself and his huscarls and a two-deep block of spear on the right flank. He tried to give the hordes what little protection they could by placing them near the woods, hoping to delay the Norman light troops with them. He kept some fyrd in the camp in case the LH got through to it.
Initial deployments; William on the left, Harold on the right.
On his first turn Harold moved his horde out of the woods to stop the Norman light horse getting around it to the camp and he advanced the line (not needing 2 PIPs to move hordes on the first turn is handy!).
With 4 PIPs William opted to send his light troops forward quickly.
Turn 1: The Norman light troops advance quickly.
On the next turn Harold wheeled his line and brought the horde on the end out to anchor it. William with 6 PIPs got clever and advanced his spear along the road and broke up his knights as they chased along after.
Turn 2: The Normans rush forward.
Harold, excited to see the Normans in disarray, rushed forward, moving his horde around to ZOC the enemy skirmishers. William paid the price of his rashness with only a single PIP, which he used to try to get the spear across to face Harold’s spear.
Turn 3: Harold gets closer and William's line is not yet organized.
Harold continued to advance. Now he had the enemy ZOCed. It would be harder for them to manoeuvre. William was still in a dither with only 2 PIPs. He used these to support his spear as best he could.
Turn 4: Harold's bold advance looks to catch the Normans in disarray.
Harold didn’t hesitate and on the next turn attacked William’s left flank before it could properly deploy. He succeeded in destroying a conroi of Norman knights with spear that had overlap support (6-3) and drive back some knights with his huscarls.
Turn 5 (Harold): First blood to the English as the knights on the right flank break.
William has better PIPs now (4) and starts to organize a response, but it’s not easy with the enemy already so close. His skirmishers attack the end of Harold’s line forcing the fyrd to turn to react, and William gets a better line to face Harold on his left.
Turn 5 (William): The Norman skirmishers force the Saxons to turn to face them.
Harold now throws his army into the attack before William can outflank it. It’s a disaster! Despite being two-deep, the spear on the right flank are routed (3-6). Any chance of an advantage against William with his huscarls is lost and they are forced to retire (had I not made them special it would have been game over!). The huscarls to the left of Harold seem disheartened too and are forced back, destroying any chance against the Norman spear, who are fought to a standstill.
Turn 6: Harold's luck fails and his right flank is blown away.
William responds by flanking Harold’s huscarls and throwing everything he has against the Saxons. The hordes remain unfazed by the Norman light horse supported by skirmishers and throw them back. Elsewhere there are three stalemates, including the beleagured huscarls and the fight between the two commanders.
Turn 6 (William): The Saxons hold firm against the Norman charge.
Harold can do little to put pressure on the Normans beyond straightening his battleline and fighting bravely. Sadly this was not to be a repeat of Stamford, and this time his huscarls are destroyed. Nevertheless, he throws back William’s attack on him, and his other huscarls, heartened by this, rout the knights in front of them (5-2).
Turn 7 (Harold): The right flank continues to collapse, but elsewhere Harold's huscarls are victorious.
William now gets 5 PIPs and flanks his rival for the throne. Clinically he straightens his line, extending the spear to cover for the lost knights. His skirmishers advance to ZOC the spear on his far right again. No heroics here, he’ll wait for English right flank to collapse under the weight of knights opposing it. He is victorious. Harold’s huscarls fight bravely, but flanked they go down in a close fight (4-4). Legend has it that Harold was killed in single combat with William, who was able to lift the crown of England from his head.
Turn 7: (William): Harold falls surrounded by his huscarls. The heart of English resistance collapses with him.
With their commander gone all resistance collapsed and the Norman cavalry was able to carry out a terrible pursuit. Only the hordes got away. They melted into the woods and claimed to be innocent truffle-collectors. The Normans, being partial to these, were surprisingly fooled!
There was no Senlac Hill for Harold, unlike at Stamford. For all that he gave the Normans some anxious moments. Had the right flank not folded, the odds against the rest of the knights there would have been in his favour. William was still really getting organized, and it could have got even worse. Surprisingly the hordes were not the weak link. Harold’s bold advance gave William no time to organize a real attack on them, and they performed their duty of guarding the left flank very well.
William would have been better to have moved his spear as part of his reaction to Harold’s set-up. If he could have got them opposite Harold’s psiloi-supported spear he would have been able to drive it back and attack the remaining spear with knights at even odds and a quick kill. That was his plan part way through his advance. They were certainly better against spear, but the manoeuvre threw his line into disorder. It was luck that brought down the Saxon’s right flank and gave him the battle. Harold’s plan was really as good as it could get in the circumstances. Waiting to be attacked would only have made the hordes a target and allowed the camp to be attacked.
The outcome of the battle:
Well, I can let out a sigh of relief. I was worried Harold might create another upset. And what if he wasn’t killed himself? What if his hordes and a few fyrd were destroyed? There might have been yet another battle!
With Harold dead, William set to securing the south of the kingdom. Harald got wind of this victory and returned to claim the north of England for himself. Neither were keen to attack the other that summer, and in the next season, when William advanced north he was met by Harald at Navenby and given a bloody nose.
The only battle remaining to be fought before the campaign can begin is the battle between Gruffudd ap Cynan and Gruffudd ap Rhys to see which represents the Welsh in this campaign.
I think I’ll give the same status to Harald’s huscarls that I gave to Harold’s. They certainly showed it at Navenby! This means that the Anglo-Norse will get 3x4Bd (huscarls), 1x3Kn (Norman adventurers), 7x4Sp (fyrd), 1x2Ps or 3Bw (archers). Now that I’ve finally painted enough archers for them to have more I’ve decided not to use them!
Filed in Battle Reports, DBA, III/51: West Frankish or Norman, III/71: Anglo-Danish, King Magnus' War
The Battle of Stamford (Harold v. Harald)
Well, I finally fought the battle between Harald Hardrada and Harold Godwinson that was the main point at which the alternate history for the King Magnus campaign branches from regular history. I decided not to make it a close refight of the battle of Stamford Bridge, but rather make it a regular DBA encounter between the two armies. I was thinking it’d be a walk-over for the Vikings as they out-classed the bulk of the Anglo-Saxon army (Bd v. Sp), but it proved to be an enthralling encounter.
Harald had defeated the Northern earls at Fulford and was advancing on Harold when the two armies met near Stamford. Harald had 11 blade, of which 4 were his huscarls, 6 were hird and one was an element of tag-along raiders (for variety!). He also had some berserks. Against this Harold met him with 3 elements of huscarls (4Bd), 8 elements of fyrd (4Sp) and an element of skirmishers (2Ps).
Harald was the aggressor and Harold met him along a road where two low hills faced each other. To one side of them was a wood. Harold was fortunate in getting the edge he wanted and deployed so that the fyrd would be able have the advantage of the hill. He deployed between the hill and the woods with his huscarls and anchored the line with his skirmishers in the wood.
Initial Deployment: English on the left, Vikings on the right.
Harald saw a number of ways of attacking this deployment. He opposed the fyrd with himself and his huscarls along with the berserks. He hoped to get around the hill with the berserks. He then opposed Harold and his huscarls with his hird. He hoped to be able to flank and destroy the skirmishers in the wood and turn the line on Harold.
Harold in turn could not see anything he could do but wait and try to strengthen his left flank. For the first four turns the Vikings advanced while Harold wheeled the fyrd to occupy the hill.
Turn 1: Harald advances; Harold wheels the fyrd onto the hill.
Turn 2: The advance continues.
Turn 3: The Vikings rumble closer.
Turn 4: The Viking huscarls wheel to face the hill and the hird continue to advance.
On the fifth turn the berserks attacked a lone group of fyrd guarding the flank, but were repulsed. On the next turn, with only one PIP, Harald detached some of his huscarls to support the berserks. Meanwhile, Harold deployed a second fyrd to strengthen this flank.
Turn 5 (Harald): The berserks are repulsed.
Turn 5 (Harold): Harold brings more fyrd to face the berserks.
Turn 6: Harald supports the berserkers with some huscarls.
On turn seven Harald attacked. While he and the huscarls waited at the foot of the hill, on the right flank the detached huscarls and the berserks tore the opposing fyrd to shreds. The huscarls rolled 6-1 and the berserks 6-2 (I’ll just give the dice rolls, attacker-defender)! On the other wing, however, things did not go so well. The skirmishers repulsed the hird (2-6) and Harold nearly destroyed the hird opposing him (1-6).
Turn 7 (Harald): The Saxon left flank is swept away.
Harold in reply advanced on the hird, but despite recoiling the enemy he destroyed none (had he not retired the skirmishers to prevent them getting flanked, however, with their overlap he would have!).
Turn 7 (Harold): Harold and his household troops force the Viking hird back.
On the next turn Harald finally assaulted the hill. With the end fyrd flanked he had a good chance of destroying another element, which he did. Otherwise he forced the fyrd to retire up the hill. However, on the left Harold, despite being overlapped on both sides, fought to a stubborn standstill, rolling his second 6 in combat. The fyrd in the centre also fought to a stalemate. Significantly, Harald had committed to this fight the hird that had been hanging back in the centre to stop flanking attempts on either half of the Viking battleline.
Turn 8 (Harald): Harald assaults the hill. Note how the central element of hird has been pulled into the battle.
Harold was staring defeat in the face: the fyrd on the hill was on the point of collapse. Nevertheless, he launced himself into the fray and destroyed the hird in front of him (his third 6!).
Turn 8 (Harold): Harold fights back, making it 1-3.
Harald, low on PIPs (2), could only react to Harold’s attack on the fyrd, but with the skirmishers having fled, he was able to flank Harold’s huscarls. These, however, proved stubborn and fought to a stalemate (4-5).
Turn 9 (Harald): Harold's huscarls stubbornly fight off a flank attack.
With this reprieve, Harold was still hanging on. He was now able to flank the hird in the centre. This resulted in another element of hird being destroyed. He continued his ferocious form rolling another 6, but the hird in front of him only recoiled, rolling 3. Better still, the huscarls that were flanked threw back their attackers (3-1).
Turn 9 (Harold): Harold's turn to flank! Now it's 2-3.
Harald continued to have low PIPs (2 again), and decided to end things by sending the berserks against the fyrd on the hill. It’d make a good spectacle from his vantage point. This used both his PIPs. Unfortunately, these fyrd, buoyed on by what they saw their king doing below them, completely routed the berserkers (1-6)! Suddenly the battle that had looked to be all over for the Saxons was in the balance!
Turn 10 (Harald): Harald has a grandstand seat of his berserks getting routed. It's now 3-3
In contrast to Harald’s dithering, Harold was all action (6 PIPs). The element that had flanked the hird last turn now rounded on the huscarls, while he moved the fyrd on the hill and the skirmishers to shore up his flanks. Harald’s huscarls proved as tough as Harold’s, though fortunately it was a stalemate (5-5), as otherwise the flankers would have recoiled into their own men! However, on the other flank it appears the hird were losing heart against Harold’s household professionals, having failed to break them when they were flanked. Harold rolled his fourth 6 and broke the hird in front of him (who rolled a 1). Remarkably the huscarls that had fought off their flankers repeated the exercise (6-1)! Harald’s hird was in flight and he was forced to retire from the field surrounded by his huscarls.
Turn 10 (Harold): Victory to Harold (5-3) as his huscarls show their professionalism.
What a remarkable battle! I really thought the English didn’t have a hope, and I wasn’t happy with their plan, which was to sit and wait. When the flank on the hill crumbled, there was nothing they could do about it. In hindsight it was the committing of the hird that was ZOCing the two fyrd at the corner of the English line that was Harald’s undoing, but he was also handicapped by poor PIPs and some very dogged fighting by the English huscarls. It was quite neat to see how the huscarls on both sides fought—on both sides they shrugged off flank attacks. Otherwise, Harald’s gamble with the berserks only confirms the essential solidity of spear; they’re no walk-over.
Where now with the King Magnus’ War campaign?
I knew it was tempting fate to fight this battle. Still, Harald’s still alive and it’s reasonable to think he could retire from the field with his huscarls in good order. He would then retreat back to Norway, leaving Harold to meet William. As Harold has fought so valiantly it’s only reasonable that he get to refight this battle. If he loses (not a forgone conclusion by any means) I’ll assume that the Battle of Navenby that I fought a while back was Harald’s return to the North and rallying of the fyrd there against William. The campaign would then be back on track, assuming that Harold does as he’s supposed to against William!
I’m not sure what to do about Harold’s casualties. Do I allow him to make good the loss of the 3 fyrd, or do I fight this like a campaign with him down 3 elements? Alternatively I could give him some hordes to make up the numbers (though I’d have to paint them!). While I’m at it, I should really repaint Harold’s standard! The St. Andrew’s Cross dates back to when he was going to be a Pre-feudal Scot!
Filed in Battle Reports, DBA, III/40: Viking, III/71: Anglo-Danish, King Magnus' War
Serious Flash
Yesterday I cleaned up all my new Corvus Belli Ancient Britons. I found out what serious flash is, as they had heaps of it and it was very thick in places. I’ve read figure reviews where the reviewer comments that the figure had little flash and I hadn’t paid much attention to it. Until now most flash that I’ve encountered is a thin crest that can be scrapped away with a blade. Not this stuff. It needed to be hacked off. Fortunately the metal was very inflexible and didn’t bend or break as I cut large chunks of lead off the bases. The experience left me with a new appreciation for flash!
I then cleaned up the figures I need to finish the Komnenan Byzantines and a stack of Black Raven figures that my son decided he wanted to paint. I’m not sure if this sudden interest wasn’t a ruse to avoid going to bed, but they’re now ready if he decides he wants to paint them. They a pack of orcs and a pack of dwarves. The dwarves are taller than my humans so I’ve not used them, though they look nice.
This morning I undercoated them all, and was surprised at how much of the detail this brought out. I’d noticed that the Old Glory figures on their website were a curious grey colour as though they were plastic, but I think they’ve been undercoated for just this reason. It’s much easier to see the detail than when you’re looking at shiny metal. I’m now really keen to make a start on those Britons.
The arrayed figures that were undercoated this morning. I've found putting the riders on nails with Blutak is a convenient way to paint them. I use flat-headed nails for the foot and round-headed ones for the riders. I find poking them into polystyrene a handy way to stand the nails up.
Filed in II/11: Gauls, II/53: Ancient Britons, IV/01: Komnenan Byzantines, Painting
Irish and Byzantines
The complete Norse Irish army with 4 Kerns, 2 Ostmen, 8 Bonnachts and 1 Rising Out
I did my first bit of painting in a while last weekend and finished off some figures I’d started month. I now have a Norse Irish army with all the options: 8x3Ax and even 1x5Wb for the Rising Out, which isn’t in the DBA list but is in the DBM one. The two extra elements of Bonnachts will allow the Scots Isles and Highland army to field them as Irish mercenaries against the Norse Irish in the King Magnus’ War campaign. I’m almost ready to start that campaign and am working on the last lot of figures for it now: 1x3Sp (Welsh spear), 2x3Bw (Welsh bow), 2x3Bw and 1x2Ps (Viking archers). When these are done, hopefully this weekend, I’ll be ready to start.
Two more Bonnachts and one Rising Out
I also finished off 3Kn for the Latinikon of the Komnenan Byzantine army. The rest of the figures for that have arrived, so it should be my next project, but I’m getting attracted to the Classical period. Blame Conquest for that, and winning a Corvus Belli Ancient British army there. Now I’m wanting to get some more Corvus Belli armies (Late Carthaginians and Ancient Spanish) as well as Hellenistic and Roman armies for them to fight. If this goes ahead, I may end up running a pre-history to the Hesperia campaign with them!
Outpost Crusader Knights for the Komnenan Latinikon
Filed in III/46: Norse Irish, IV/01: Komnenan Byzantines, Painting
Picts and Pikes: Conquest 2009
The day before I left for the DBA competition at Conquest in Christchurch, Keith, the organizer, sent out a list of “runners and riders”. This showed a lot of pike armies, something I learnt with some trepidation, as I’d not faced them before and felt I’d have trouble finding a weak element I could get an advantage over (certainly my spear were outclassed against the pike). I had no time to practice and trusted I’d get to learn on the day.
I had a great time at Conquest. I found all my opponents very friendly. I would like to thank Keith for organizing the event. We had 11 registered before the day, so there was a bye round; however, we picked up another player early on. He’d never played before and used a loaner Spartan army. He clearly enjoyed himself, even with a fairly ill-favoured army given the opponents, as he’s asking about where to get figures. He even managed a win against the Athenians, which is only right and proper!
The competition had as many players as the FoG one there, which shows the game has a good following in the South Island. Along with a Wellingtonian, I flew the flag for the North Island, and I’m keen to see if I can’t get something off the ground for DBA in Auckland now. Who knows? Sometime soon we might be able to have a genuinely national competition.
I didn’t bring a camera, nor did I take many notes, so the following battle reports have the character of an observer whose recall of detail is not always perfect. I welcome correction by any opponents with a more secure recall. I have been able to add a few pictures kindly supplied by other players.
Game 1: Late Achaemenid Persians, II/7 (Nick Sutton)
Bridei mac Máelchú finally found the fabled land of Konkwest, or so he thought; he certainly found opponents in profusion, particularly ones with very long pointy sticks. There was no diplomacy; more often than not he was being attacked, though on occasions he threw the first stone, so to speak. This was certainly the case with the first army he met, who were an army of Late Achaemenid Persians, led by a Satrap of the Great King, Nick Sutton. Bridei spotted this army, took an instant dislike to it and got stuck in.
Nick set up a pair of hills and a wood on one side between two quarters. Bridei succeeded in getting him to deploy with this wood on his baseline, a situation that he’d found disadvantageous in the past . Nick set up with a cavalry wing on one side of this and his spear in the woods and psiloi on the other flank. Bridei responded by deploying his spear on a hill opposite the cavalry, his psiloi opposite the wood, and his LH on the right flank against the psiloi.
Low PIPs on the first turn prevented any attempt to trap the Persian spear in the woods with a fast move against them. However, the LH went after the psiloi, who are evenly matched, only a little slower. This combat didn’t come to much, though the LH did consider going after the Persian camp. Nick had to spend a lot of PIPs getting his spear out of the woods, and I think Bridei did send his psiloi after them, catching some of them just at the edge of the hill.
It was Nick’s attack on the hill where the battle was decided. It was recoiled without loss. In Bridei’s turn he was able to engineer an attack on the horse that left the Persian Satrap overlapped on both sides against psiloi-backed spear (from memory). He was doubled and the Picts started with a victory.
I caught up with Nick at lunchtime and asked how his Persians had fared. He confessed to being somewhat at a loss against the pike and elephant armies. I encouraged him to see the advantages of his army—its great mobility, especially if he took the auxilia, and the advantages they gave, along with his psiloi, in bad terrain and against elephants. Others encouraged him to use the scythed chariots as the properly Persian thing to do. His performance improved after lunch, which he put down in part to all the advice he’d got.
Game 2: Alexandrian Imperial, II/15 (Jim Morton)
Relaxing after routing the Persians, Bridei’s rest was interrupted by the imperious demand to submit. Or at least that’s what he thought. His interpreters were not too competent, though they reckoned the ambassador was speaking Greek, a language his monks had a smattering of. It transpired that some fellow, Alexander, was upset that Bridei had been beating up Persians, which was his job. Bridei decided he was quite mad and suggested he go boil his head.
Alexander was the attacker and Bridei met him on a field with two hills in opposite corners and a wood in the centre. He then set up his spear on one of these hills, the psiloi behind the woods, and the LH on the other flank. Bridei himself was in the centre.
Alexander countered this very successfully by putting his entire army against the flank with the LH. The spear spent the whole battle trying to move to the action. This was a deployment error Bridei didn’t repeat!
The battle, however, did not reach a conclusion before dusk, though I think Alexander probably had the upper hand. Bridei was attacking his pike with LH and his elephant with psiloi, but with no luck. Alexander had sent some LH behind the Picts’ the hope of my recoiling into them. However, as this was one of those multi-PIP moves they couldn’t go within a base width of the rear. The Pictish LH were recoiled and then couldn’t retreat because of these LH so they went against the pikes again, hoping to flee, which they could safely do past the enemy LH. This worked for one of them, and I think Bridei later gave the enemy LH a spanking.
Alexander's response to Bridei's deployment leaves his spear attempting to move to the action in two columns. the psiloi dominate the woods and Alexander's LH can be seen between Bridei's (one has succeeded in fleeing past it).
This was the Picts’ first battle against pike and a good learning experience.
Game 3: Late Hoplite Greek, II/5b (Andrew Taylor)
After this encounter with Macedonians, the Picts made themselves scarce and in the process bumped into some more Greek speakers; these, the monks sagely informed Bridei, were somewhat easier to understand. They were Athenians, and they weren’t pleased to see the Picts.
The Athenians were a match-up that Bridei’d been hoping for, as he thought he’d have the advantage. They were both spear armies, but the Picts had more supporting troops, and looked forward to winning on the flanks.
Bridei was the attacker and he encounter the Athenians on a beach near two steep hills facing each other. I rolled for edge and as luck would have it got the very one I didn’t want—the beach! The Athenians forbore a littoral landing, though they did try to intimidate the Pictish camp by having their triremes cruise past it!
I soon learnt that Andrew’s claims to being a DBA novice were only partially correct. He’d used the Athenians in Keith’s recent Greek campaign and soon showed he knew more about hoplomachia than I did. The two hills created a corridor that neutralized the Pictish LH and largely their psiloi. It turned into a spear-fight in which numbers and a spear general gave the Athenians the advantage. The game ended in a draw but the advantage was with the Athenians; in fact I was luck not to lose a fourth element in the last turn.
Andrew was interesting guy to play. He may have lost the extra turn he needed to win by telling me about triremes; he’d been on the crew of the Greek navy’s recreation of one. After the game he pointed out to me that the Picts had advanced into the valley between the hills to their disadvantage; if they’d hung back a bit they might have been able to harry his flank from the hills with psiloi. It’s ironic that when I’d come to see the virtues of spear I’d have thought that another spear army would be an easy match for me!
Game 4: Pyrrhic, II/27a (Alastair Penney)
After encountering the Athenians, Bridei returned to the spot where he’d met Alexander. There he waited while I had lunch. This was interrupted by yet more Greeks! These had a few among them who had a smattering of Latin (though the monks wisely informed Bridei that it was very rough—not that they knew it was in fact archaic!). It seems this wood held some significance to the Greeks, but Bridei was in no mood to listen to them, and repeated to the ambassador of Pyrrhus the suggestion he’d made to Alexander to go boil his head. Pyrrhus was understandably unimpressed.
This time, however, Bridei deployed the Picts with the LH on each wing with a group of 3 Sp next to them, In the centre was the psiloi and the general. This way he could react to the enemy deployment more easily. It proved quite a good deployment.
I confess that I don’t really recall much of this fight. Perhaps it was the beer and the sun at lunchtime and the meal that I ate during the game (catering were overwhelmed!). Pyrrhus’ pike were forced to deploy on one flank where they did nothing. However, in the fight on the other flank against his cavalry Bridei had the upper hand until one LH turned aside to deal to a Ps that looked like it could become annoying. Despite having it flanked with Ps it lost (and may have been doubled). This left Bridei and his retinue able to be flanked and he was destroyed. In hindsight that was a mistake; Bridei should have kept the pressure on Pyrrhus, and also kept his flank protected.
Game 5: Asiatic Early Successor, II/16b (Keith McNelly)
Having met Pyrrhus, yet more Greeks showed up at this wood. This time is was Demetrius Poliorcetes. Bridei again had to defend the wood; he adopted the same deployment as he’d used against Pyrrhus. This time Demetrius deployed with his pike, himself and one Cv on one flank and his elephant and a Sp and Ax on the other, along with a LH. Bridei reacted by swapping a LH for a Ps to face the Kn and pikes and then the LH and a Sp to the other flank.
Bridei had enough PIPs to race the psiloi into the woods (the next turn I noticed a confused Sp had tagged along with them; he was promptly sent back to the start!). The attack on Demetrius’ left flank started well: the Pictish 2 LH destroyed his one, and then they destroyed the Ax, though his Sp caused a LH to flee off the field. However, then they could not destroy his elephant. Despite having overlap support from Bridei and then the LH to the elephant’s rear, for some 5 turns it stubbornly resisted. Even more bizarrely most of the results were ties!
The Picts close in on Demetrius' elephant, while over on the other flank Demetrius turns to come to their aid and the phalanx contiues to bear down on the Pictish spear
Unable to destroy the elephant Bridei’s initial advantage began to slip away. Demetrius came to support the elephant and his pike reached the Pictish spear. When dusk fell Bridei was lucky only to have lost a Ps to Demetrius and his companions and have held on for a 2-2 draw. I was pleased, though, with the plan—I had a good shot at victory, but for that stubborn elephant.
Demetrius's phalanx approaches the Pictish spear
Game 6: Alexandrian Imperial, II/15 (Stephen Malone)
In his last two battles Bridei fought armies led by players from Timaru. The first of these saw the return of Alexander. Bridei was again the defending that wood, taking care to keep it in the middle of the battlefield. He deployed as he had against Demetrius. As Alexander had two 4Ax (although the list only permits one!), he steered clear of the woods and instead decided to attack his left flank, which had the elephant and all the cavalry on it. Bridei ignored Alexander’s right flank with the pikes. He advanced a block of spear with psiloi support against the Macedonian mounted, supporting it with the general and a LH. He was able to pull the other LH over from the other flank during the advance.
As the battle developed Alexander moved his elephant so that it attacked an element of spear that had had to turn (I think) to face the peltasts in the woods. In this combat the spear recoiled the elephant to almost touching the side of Alexander’s element. In response Bridei was able to advance one of his spear towards Alexander, where they gesticulated rudely at him. They also made noises that the Macedonian was not able to interpret, but seem to have been their approximation of the sound an elephant makes in reverse. With these blocking Alexander’s ZOC Bridei moved another spear with a psiloi support to provide overlap support for the spear that had faced off the elephants the turn before; these spear now advanced back into contact. The odds were good (5-3), with only a 1/6 chance of being killed, a 1/6 chance of killing the elephant (not the desired result) and over 1/2 chance of squashing Alexander. I got the result I wanted, though I refrained from making squelching sounds.
This battle only confirmed for me the solidness of psiloi-supported spear. And also the aggressive use of spear, not waiting to be attacked, but taking the initiative. Whereas against Keith’s elephant the odds were at best even and usually less, here the odds favoured me heavily. Still I can’t claim to have killed an elephant, though Stephen’s one was probably fairly contrite!
Game 7: Mark Bradley (Patrician Roman II/83b)
Having finally staked an incontestable claim to that wood, Bridei next went in search of more fights. He was the aggressor when he met some Romans. His monks were sure of this; they could even talk readily with them, though they’d not known the Romans to have any real army to speak of for some time (except those further east!), though a good third of the army were smelly Germans—a good deal smellier than the Picts! Bridei faced these Romans in a wooded area—two woods diagonally opposite each other. Through one ran a road with a small villa on it at the other end of the road. Opposite this wood was a low hill.
The Romans deployed along this road with a Bd in the villa, the general and the other two Kn between the wood and the villa, the four Wb in the wood and the two Ax, the Ps and the LH on the right flank near the villa.
Bridei responded to this by positioning his Sp backed by Ps on the hill, a LH next to them on the left flank, the other LH behind the wood to protect it and Bridei and the last Ps next to the right flank of the Sp.
The Romans sent their light troops into the woods, but otherwise showed no indication of advancing. This really gave the advantage to Bridei, but tired after a long day he muffed it. First he advanced his LH on the right flank where it met the Roman LH and was defeated. It would have been better to stay put and protect the camp if the Roman LH got adventurous.
Then he attacked the Roman Kn too soon. He had a LH behind their lines who could have got into the rear of the Roman Kn commander, almost ensuring his destruction. Instead the attack did little beyond forcing a few recoils and being destroyed the next turn. This overrecklessness was similar to what led to the Picts being roughly handled by the Athenians and is something to watch for in future!
Comics Compulsion, the sponsors of Conquest, provided prizes for the first three places in the competition. Keith then gave the DBA armies provided by Magister Militum and Corvus Belli to the rest of us determined by different criteria. Stephen Malone won a Chariot Early Imperial Roman army for having the most generals destroyed (those of his enemies and his own). The other two armies were allocated randomly (I believe). I was lucky enough to get a Corvus Belli Ancient British army. The figures look really splendid and I’m looking forward to painting them. I think it’s great that these two figure manufacturers sponsored the competition so generously, and I’ll certainly be getting more figures from them both. it looks like my collection of Dark Age Celtic armies is now extending back in time!
After Dinner (BBDBA)
Half of us were still keen for more after the competition ended (the Timaru contingent, myself and two from Christchurch), so after a meal at a Thai restaurant, we got out the rest of my armies that I’d brought down for such an occasion and set up a BBDBA encounter between two Anglo-Norman armies each with allies. The first of these armies were commanded by the Timaruvians led by Stephen Malone, who had North Welsh allies led by Dave Batchelor and Norse Irish allies led by Mark Bradley. Against them Keith McNelly led the other Anglo-Norman army with Pre-feudal Scots allies led by Nick Sutton and Scots Isle and Highland Allies led by myself.
I had given a little thought to a possible scenario for this encounter, something along the lines of the Islemen going after a disputed kingship in Ireland and drawing on the support of a Scots lord and a Norman magnate. The Irish contender for this title also called on the help of a Norman marcher lord, who, most unusually, had good relations with a North Welsh prince, presumably one from Powys.
The Timaruvians were the defenders and deployed first. Initially they had the Anglo-Normans in the centre flanked on their left by the Welsh and their right by the Irish, but they then decided to swap the Anglo-Normans and the Irish. Their deployment left a lot of free space on their right flank.
It is indicative of how tired we were that none of us though to match their swap, and my Islemen faced a few Welsh archers fighting for the Anglo-Normans that were on a steep hill, while Keith’s knights faced a combination of Irish in a woods and knights.
The fighting on our right flank got off to a quick start, but the Scots, weary from their exertions as Picts during the day were not able to shift the Welsh from a low hill.
The Point of Contact: Keith's Spear and Bow meet Stephen's knights.
On my flank I made slow progress towards the hill, where my numbers were largely neutralized by these few archers. By the end of the game I’d only just started to attack them with my Islemen and it would have been a slow process to have driven them back.
In the foreground Galwegians charge the Welsh, in the centre Keith's Anglo-Normans have evaporated and in the background the Islemen have finally contacted the archers on the hill.
However, in the centre Keith’s Marcher infantry squared off against Stephen’s knights. They were in a formation of alternating archers and spear, and the odds were in their favour, but Keith’s wretched luck stayed with him, and the knights swept these troops away without any trouble. With his command now demoralized, it was only a matter of time before it was all over. Had we swapped positions, Keith could have exploited the open flank while I could have gone after the Irish in the woods. As it was Keith fought the Irish and a good portion of the Anglo-Normans on his own, and my troops were too slow to intervene.
The Islemen force back the archers, but the battle was already lost in the centre.
It was an interesting introduction to BBDBA. At this stage I don’t have enough troops to create one command that is larger than the rest. Had I had more feudal troops, Keith’s command might have had more staying power.
This battle brought to an end a really enjoyable day of DBA. I’d like to thank Keith again for organizing it and I look forward to getting along to the next one. I may even try to get to Tagcon in Timaru as well.
Filed in Battle Reports, Competitions, DBA, II/68: Picts
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II/03: Classical Indians (5)
II/05: Later Hoplite Greeks (8)
II/08: Southern Italians (8)
II/09: Syracusan (20)
II/11: Gauls (29)
II/12: Alexandrian Macedonian (1)
II/14: Ariarathid Kappadokians (1)
II/15: Alexandrian Imperial (6)
II/16: Asiatic Early Successor (6)
II/17: Lysimachid (3)
II/18: Macedonian Early Successor (3)
II/19: Seleucid (30)
II/20: Ptolemaic Egyptians (10)
II/23: Later Pre-Islamic Arabs (1)
II/27: Pyrrhic (10)
II/30: Galatians (2)
II/31: Hellenistic Greeks (2)
II/32: Later Carthaginians (53)
II/33: Polybian Romans (24)
II/35: Later Macedonians (12)
II/36: Graeco-Bactrian and Graeco-Indian (2)
II/36: Graeco-Bactrians & Graeco-Indians (1)
II/39: Ancient Spanish (15)
II/40: Numidians (11)
II/45: Sicilian and Italian Slave Revolts (1)
II/48: Mithridatic (12)
II/49: Marian Romans (29)
II/53: Ancient Britons (13)
II/56: Early Imperial Romans (6)
II/64: Middle Imperial Roman (1)
II/68: Picts (4)
II/72: Early Frankish, Alamannic, etc. (1)
II/74: Palmyran (4)
II/83: Patrician Romans (9)
DBA Book III (63)
Anglo-Norse (3)
III/10: Hindu Indian (1)
III/19: Welsh (16)
III/24: Middle Anglo-Saxon (1)
III/28: Carolingian Frankish (1)
III/33: Early Muslim North Africa and Sicily (2)
III/34: Andalusian (2)
III/35: Feudal Spanish (1)
III/40: Viking (11)
III/43c: Samanids (8)
III/45: Pre-feudal Scots (17)
III/46: Norse Irish (8)
III/51: West Frankish or Norman (16)
III/63: Ghaznavids (4)
III/67: Early Hungarian (1)
III/71: Anglo-Danish (7)
III/74: Fanatic Berbers (3)
III/77: Scots Isles and Highlands (12)
III\72: Communal Italian (2)
III\76: Papal Italian (1)
DBA Book IV (49)
IV/01: Komnenan Byzantines (25)
IV/03: Anglo-Normans (10)
IV/05: Sicilians (2)
IV/06 Syrian (7)
IV/07: Early Crusader (4)
IV/13: Medieval German (1)
IV/17: Later Crusader (2)
IV/19c: Cortez (1)
IV/35 Mongol Conquest (1)
IV/59: Post-Mongolian Samurai (2)
IV/61: Italian Condotta (1)
IV/63: Aztecs (3)
IV/66: Later Polish (1)
IV/74: Free Company and Armagnac (2)
IV/76: Early Burgundian (2)
IV/78: Yi Dynasty Korean (1)
IV/79: Later Swiss (4)
IV/82: French Ordonnance (1)
IV/83 Wars of the Roses English (2)
HOTT (31)
Dwarves (10)
Fantasy Celts (1)
Fantasy Feudal Europeans (1)
Fantasy Vikings (2)
Goblins (24)
Battle Reports (104)
Bohnanza (1)
Catan (2)
Decline and Fall (1)
Elasund (1)
Hammer of the Scots (2)
Seven Wonders (1)
Ticket to Ride: Europe (1)
Twilight Struggle (1)
DBA (183)
DBR (1)
Glutter of Ravens (1)
King Magnus' War (16)
SBH (18)
SoBH (6)
Centaurs (1)
Dwarves (2)
Gnolls (1)
Halflings (1)
Lizardmen (2)
Normans (2)
Troglodytes (2)
15mm Painting Shack
20mm Gamer
Ancient Wargaming with DBA
Andrewmclaren26's Blog
Bob's Miniature Wargaming Blog
Craig's Wargaming Blog
Dale's Wargames
Dante's War
DBA n Stuff
El blog de Gorgo
Figure-atively Speaking
Hordes and Heroes
I Was A Teenage Visigoth
Irr WB (F)
John's Wargames Page
Kingo's Wargames Blog
Knight & Spear
Little Hordes
Little Odo's Miniature Wargaming Blog
Miniature Minions
Miros' Blog
Mr Farrow's DBA Page
My Little Soldier
Painting Tiny Romans
Punic Peril Continued
Solo Wargamer
Stephen's Balagan
Wargaminnz
Wojna w miniaturze
DBA Sites
David Kuijt's DBA Page
Fanaticus
Hour of Wolves
MEDBAG
HOTT Sites
HOTT Yahoo Group
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