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He was The payload was never specified. Boarding the stripped-down B on the island of Tinian in the northern Marianas, Van Kirk and his crewmates flew some 1, miles to Japan. They dropped a bomb code-named Little Boy, which took 43 seconds to detonate, generating a burst of heat estimated at 50 million degrees.
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183 rape incidents recorded in October: Mahila Parishad
November 4, 2019 in Bangladesh, Crime, Femina Leave a comment
Dhaka, Nov 04 – The immediate past month of October has seen a total of 183 rape incidents across Bangladesh.
Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP), a rights body working for the women, came up with revelation on Monday. It also said 465 women and girls had faced torture and violence last month. The number was 521 in August.
The number of gang rape incident has increased in October. BMP said 183 rape incidents, including 23 gang rape cases, took place in October. The number was 232 in August. Among the victims, 7 were murdered after rape in October. Besides, at least 30 others became victims of attempted rape and 17 were harassed sexually, according to the BMB report.
It also found more than 45 women and girls were murdered in October for various reasons, while 19 were physically assaulted and 15 were abducted.
Among 3 women tortured for dowry, two died in October, the report added. A total of 9 women and girls were forced to commit suicide after being tortured while 53 died mysteriously.
In total, 5 child marriages took place, while 31 others were prevented in September, the report said.
Rights activists blamed a culture of impunity, bias on the part of law enforcers and the administration, social and political unrest, moral decadence and lack of awareness for the increase in violence against women.
However, in September the number of rape incidents reported was the highest to have occurred in any single month since 2010. In October the number of mysterious deaths has increased while the number of child marriages has decreased.
BMP president Ayesha Khanam said even though women occupied important positions in the country, women’s rights were not established. She also said girl children were not safe even in their homes. The law and order situation has deteriorated to such an extent that women now feel insecure to travel by public transport, she added. – Staff Reporter
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A Public Apology
Elyse February 21, 2014
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Yesterday, here at Grounded Parents, an incident occurred which deserves an explanation and apology.
One of our writers wrote a post which several commenters disagreed with. The writer took the criticism badly, personally, and lashed out against our commenting community, including valued long time active members of the community. Against official Grounded Parents and Skepchick Network policy, the post was not temporarily pulled after a discussion with the admins, but was instead deleted outright because the author wanted to end the discussion.
The network staff at Skepchick are no strangers to the stress of heated debate and disagreement within comment sections, and I am sympathetic to a writer who is overwhelmed by that stress. However, we have best practices in place and our writers all have access to network veterans to help them deal with such situations. Deleting the post was a mistake. As managing editor, I would like to personally apologize to the network and community for the lack of transparency and integrity caused by that move.
I also want to personally apologize on behalf of the network for the abuse one of our valued readers had to endure for disagreeing with a staff writer. After the post was pulled to shut down comments, our writer used her access to commenters’ emails to contact the woman she disagreed with the most. The emails were unprofessional and cruel and not at all indicative of the love, respect and appreciation we have for our readers, even when we disagree. The emails became more abusive after the reader asked the author to stop contacting her. This is not only behavior unbecoming of a Skepchick Network contributor but also unbecoming of a human being. Grounded Parents and Skepchick refuse to tolerate this level of harassment. This behavior is embarrassing to the network.
Until today we had no official policy on privately contacting commenters, but we are changing that.
We have since re-published the article with the comment section intact and open. The author was relieved of her blogging duties.
We value every one of our readers and commenters. We are sorry and hope to do better.
To Giliell, the recipient of these attacks, I hope you can accept our apology, sympathy and support.
Elyse MoFo Anders is the bad ass behind forming the Women Thinking, inc and the superhero who launched the Hug Me! I'm Vaccinated campaign as well as podcaster emeritus, writer, slacktivist extraordinaire, cancer survivor and sometimes runs marathons for charity. You probably think she's awesome so you follow her on twitter.
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Giliell says:
Thank you for dealing with this quickly and adequately., Elyse
I don’t think you have to apologize to me, you did not write those things, and I experienced nothing but support from you and your team. You truely stand for the values you preach.
Thank you, again.
Giliell, I’m *so* sorry that you were treated this way! It makes me so sad and embarrassed that you were abused in this way by one of our team. Thank you for reaching out and allowing us to address the problem and try to make amends.
Thanks for sticking with us. Elyse makes me proud to be a writer here.
Rebecca Watson says:
Thank you for handling this so well, Elyse, and for the transparency. The Grounded Parents team is so awesome, and I continue to be proud to have you as part of the Skepchick Network!
Amy Roth says:
Also wanted to chime in and say thank you for handling so well and in a timely manner, Elyse! Giliell, we are proud to have you as a commenter and you have our support.
chrisbrecheen says:
As someone who struggles in perpetuity against the knee jerk reaction to respond (immediately and usually unproductively) to even slightly combative comments that hit my inbox with their taunting little commenty faces, I can appreciate how quickly a thread can spiral into horrible frustration and how pervasive it can feel. I don’t always deal with these moments with aplomb.
But I’m proud to be writing for a blog where responses this far over the line are dealt with so quickly and so well.
Emily Sexton says:
What Chris said. Also, Giliell, thank you for your classy and generous response to all of this.
fmcp says:
I’m generally 99% lurker, but this post makes me want to actually hang out here and engage with the community more. I really respect what you’ve said, and how you’ve said it.
greenstone123 says:
Giliell, I am glad you are sticking around to comment 🙂 Thank you Elyse for taking care of things. It is disheartening to hear someone abuse our trust in this way and seek a commenter out personally outside of a thread, but I am glad that it is being dealt with. Thank you again.
Cerys Gruffyydd says:
Thank you, Elyse. Giliell, I’m so sorry that you caught the worst of this. Thank you for sticking with us.
Elyse- your response was beautifully articulated and handled with class and tact. I’m proud to be a tiny part of such a tremendous network where you do so much good.
Gillell, you sound like a lovely person. Thanks for sticking around.
Elyse, thank you for being a wonderful Managing Editor and handling this as well as you did. Gillell, I haven’t yet had the pleasure of reading any of your comments, but I still want to say thank you for staying with us. It is readers like you who make what we do here worthwhile.
Thank you everybody for your support.
I am glad and happy to be part of this community.
Not because bad things never happen, but because I can trust you to deal with them.
eBrain says:
I, too, normally lurk, but I’m uncloaking for a moment to add my thanks to Elyse and the team for handling this so well. What you communicate in action, and in being transparent about the process, speaks volumes. And Giliell, good for you for sticking around. Thanks for rising above it.
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This image is part of a broader series entitled "The Edge Of Now” (EON). EON was shot in Dubai during the apex of the city’s real estate and financial boom in 2008. The series intended to depict an extreme and provocative portrayal of life within the ever evolving and imaginative aspiration of the "Dubai Dream". Just like Dubai at the time, EON blurred the boundaries between the past, present and the future, and between reality and the imagination.
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This Brilliant Case Packs Built-in Springs to Protect Your Phone From Falls
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I struggle with phone cases. On one hand, I’d like to protect my expensive handheld computer. But at the same time, I can’t stand ruining the look and feel of a phone with big, bulky hunks of plastic, which means my phones tend to be naked. But at long last, I think I’ve found a case so cool, I don’t care how ugly it is.
Created by Philip Frenzel, a student from Aalen University in Germany, the AD Case (the “AD” stands for active damping) is like an airbag for your phone, except that instead of using an inflatable cushion to protect the device, it uses built-in sensors and eight hook-like springs that deploy automatically when the case detects that your phone is in free fall.
If this case really performs as well as it does in the video above, when your phone finally hits the ground, it will just harmlessly bounce around before coming to a rest, safe and sound with nary a crack. From there, all you need to do is fold each spring back into the case, and it’s ready to protect your phone from its next tumble.
That said, even a case as sophisticated as this isn’t entirely foolproof. While the two springs on each corner of the case should do a good job of guarding your phone from falls onto flat ground, the same can’t be said about uneven surfaces like rocks or any other irregular shaped object your phone encounters.
Also, while there are sure to be some countermeasures to prevent the springs from deploying accidentally, a small shudder goes down my spine when I think about the case popping open while my phone is sitting in my pocket.
But with Fenzel already having won the top award from the German Society for Mechatronics and registering a patent for his AD Case, there’s a good chance this thing might be more than just a one-off prototype relatively soon.
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Stage II East Kent Signalling Upgrade
Rail infrastructure scheme which required archaeological monitoring due to the proximity of the works to potentially significant remains.
The scheme was centred on Rochester Rail station. We monitored all significant groundworks in order to record and investigate archaeological remains.
The site lies on the outskirts of Rochester in an area formerly open to marsh and alluvial inundation and, as a result, it offered the potential for surviving Romano-British remains, albeit at a significant depth. Similarly, there may have been deposits of archaeological interest that relate to a time of marsh reclamation and soil cultivation in the medieval period. These horizons had been determined by earlier archaeological works within the immediate vicinity of the Site as being at levels of 3.10m aOD for the medieval period and 2.06m aOD for the Romano-British period. We monitored all significant earthmoving operations and recorded waterlogged timbers (post-medieval) as a result.
We supplied labour at short notice to a complex, very finely timed construction project. We collaborated with contractors on the ground, their managers and the archaeological monitors (Kent County Council) in order to ensure that the delicate balance between expensive, finely timed construction works.
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Fire Departments Respond to Fire at Plumbush Inn
By Site Editor | September 2, 2010
Story and photos byLiz Schevtchuk Armstrong
A fire at the Plumbush Inn just outside Cold Spring and Nelsonville sent Cold Spring Fire Company Number 1 and other departments from the region racing to the scene Wednesday night, Sept. 1.
Smoke billowed around the side of the old house shortly after 9 p.m. as firefighters got the danger under control. No flames were visible at that time, at least from the front lawn beyond Route 9D. Within a half hour, no more smoke could be seen. The blaze was said to have begun in the basement. By 9:45 p.m. firefighters unofficially reported that operations were winding down.
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Carol Newman on September 2, 2010 at 12:58 pm said:
Great reporting, thanks so much! I am so appreciative of you all!
Phil Heffernan on September 4, 2010 at 8:40 am said:
How extensive was the damage? Flameless fires like that usually require a full interior replacement. Any new info?
Editor on September 4, 2010 at 9:14 am said:
A bit more info was released at last week’s Town board meeting. Please see our current Headline post – “Town Board Gets Updates on Roads, Emergency Services Consolidation, Pathways and More”
J Zwarich on September 5, 2010 at 9:51 pm said:
Thank goodness for the cooperative efforts and quick responses made by our fire companies. So glad the structure survived and no one was hurt.
Chris Tobin on September 6, 2010 at 1:16 pm said:
I’m not sure how u get smoke from a flameless fire Phil….But it was a great job done by all considering the fire conditions and it being extremely humid out.
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Hip Hop Week In Review: Usher, Yung Mazi & "Tha Carter V"
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HipHopDX – This week in Hip Hop, Usher’s herpes lawsuit got complicated when more information concerning his accuser came to light. News of Kevin Gates’ BWA artist Yung Mazi shooting death in Atlanta made headlines and got social media talking. We also learned how Martin Shkreli ended up with Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V and that Lil Twist has it on his iPhone.
Usher Reportedly Herpes Free
New information was revealed in the Usher herpes lawsuit this week that claimed Usher doesn’t actually have the virus. In fact, he plans on suing all involved for defamation of character.
Usher’s accuser, Quantasia Sharpton, claims she had birthday sex with the star, but he never disclosed he was carrying the virus. Although she doesn’t have herpes, she said she felt violated during a press conference with her lawyer Lisa Bloom.
Some tweets reveal Sharpton is hoping the move will change her life for the better, but a story she sent in for Baller Alert’s “Groupie Tale” segment says she also had sexual relations with August Alsina on the night in question.
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R.I.P. Yung Mazi
Kevin Gates’ BWA artist Yung Mazi was shot and killed outside of an Atlanta restaurant on Sunday (August 6).
As news of Mazi’s passing spread, the number of social media posts dedicated to his life soared. Rich Homie Quan, Young Thug, Travis Scott and naturally, Kevin Gates’ wife Dreka Gates, were among those who sent their condolences.
Late night eppin on tour @yungmazibwa
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The rapper had been shot over 10 times — once in the head — during his 31 years on the planet and survived, prompting him to claim god made him bulletproof.
Read more about Mazi here.
How Martin Shkreli Got His Hands On “Tha Carter V”
It turns out Martin Shkreli got his hands on Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V by sheer luck. The “Pharma Bro” told Daily Caller White House correspondent Alex Pfeiffer he bought a Bugatti and a copy of the project was in the CD deck.
I'll always remember how Shkreli told me he got the Carter 5. Wayne sold his Bugatti and left the CD in there..new owner sold it to shkreli
— Alex Pfeiffer (@PfeifferDC) August 4, 2017
Shkreli is also in possession of Wu-Tang Clan’s $2 million LP, Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, which he casually played in the background during a recent interview.
The businessman, who was recently convicted of three counts of securities fraud, isn’t the only person in the world with a complete copy of Tha Carter V. Young Money rapper Lil Twist apparently has a copy on his iPhone.
Read more about Shkreli’s possession of Tha Carter V here.
#DXCLUSIVES: Kurtis Blow, Black Eyed Peas & Skyzoo
On Hip Hop’s 44th birthday, HipHopDX’s Kyle Eustice caught up with Kurtis Blow and Grand Wizard Theodore. Blow, a Hip Hop icon most famous for “The Breaks,” spoke on the topic of younger rappers not knowing the history of the genre and how educating them is so important. He also breaks down the difference between an MC and a rapper.
“MCs build up the community,” Blow said. “The difference between an MC and a rapper is the MC builds up the communities, but the rappers seem to tear it down. We have a responsibility to uplift the community. We gotta help the people. Whatever you want to call yourself, a trap artist or whatever, you have a job to do.”
DX’s Editor-at-Large Shirley Ju spoke with three of the Black Eyed Peas about their graphic nove,l Masters of the Sun – The Zombie Chronicles, on Wednesday (August 9). It’s a project will.i.am, apl.de.ap and Taboo had been working on for four years.
“It’s what’s going on in our community right now, still,” apl.de.ap explained. “Even all the way to the Philippines. We just want to really relay a positive message. It’s a parallel story. These kids trying to save their community and trying to bring positive vibes.”
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Skyzoo dropped by the DX Headquarters in Los Angeles for #DXLive and gave a little insight into the world of a ghostwriter. He prides himself on being able to pen in the voice of the artist.
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How to watch Netflix on TV
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Netflix is the world's most popular subscription video service, and it's likely that you'll find something there that you really want to see. Yes, you can stream Netflix to your phone, tablet or computer, but to fully enjoy it, especially with friends and family, you want it on the biggest screen available: your TV.
The options for viewing Netflix on TV vary depending on your existing equipment, but the basics are the same.
What you need to start
Netflix Subscription . Plans start at $ 8.99 a month, a price that limits you to a single screen (TV, phone, or whatever), and relatively low video quality (standard definition or SD). Netflix's most popular plan costs $ 1
3 a month, so you can stream HD in two screens at the same time. If you have a 4K TV or you want to watch up to four screens at a time, you'll need to sign up for $ 16.
Netflix username and password. If you've signed up for a plan, you'll need to enter your Netflix username and password to watch on a TV. Tip: Check the details on a computer or phone before trying on your TV. Because the repeated logging in with a TV remote control can be a real challenge.
Broadband Internet for your TV. While you might be watching Netflix with a slow dial-up or ISDN account, the experience will be frustrating at best, if not transmittable. Netflix recommends a connection speed of at least 1.5 Mbps. Most broadband services can achieve this. However, if you are not sure, visit SpeedTest to measure your speed. You also need a way to connect the Internet directly to the device that Netflix is supposed to stream. Depending on this device, you can use a wired Ethernet connection or frequent wireless LAN. To connect this device to Wi-Fi, make sure that you know your Wi-Fi name and password.
A Television. Unless your TV was made before the early '80s, you should be able to see Netflix on it. Some TVs have built-in Netflix apps, but most people watch Netflix on television with a separate device. Most Netflix devices mentioned below use HDMI connections, but at least one device uses AV-Out (red, yellow, and white analog cables), which is suitable for older models.
Netflix app on a TV.
Just like on your phone, there is an app for Netflix designed specifically for TVs such as smart TVs, media streamers, and game consoles. The app is free, but you will need to install it on the device and log in with your Netflix credentials to view them. Speaking of devices …
TV sets you can use to watch Netflix
Once you've set everything aside, you'll need to find out which device you actually watch Netflix with. Here are your key decisions in ascending order of price.
Smart TV, game console, or Blu-ray player you already own
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If you've been making a flatscreen TV for the last 10 years, you probably can see Netflix on it. Modern televisions integrate streaming services like Netflix into an interface called "Smart TV."
Of course the app is older, slower and not as smooth as the modern version, but if you want to access Netflix now, then this should be the case. Wikipedia has a list of all possible platforms, but the major older systems are Samsung Smart TV, Sony Internet TV, Panasonic Viera Cast and LG Netcast . While some TVs have their own Netflix button on the remote control, most compatible models have a smart TV button that allows you to access the available streaming apps.
Likewise, your Blu-ray player or game console may have a Netflix app. If you have a relatively new console – from the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 and later – you can access it from Netflix.
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Game consoles, media streamers, and smart TVs can deliver Netflix to your TV.
New Media Streamer
Even if your current Smart TV, game console, or Blu-ray player with Netflix is the cheapest option, it may not have aged well. If you have an older device, the Netflix app may be sluggish or unreliable. You also have no UI improvements or new features, such as: For example, you may be able to see the outstanding Black Mirror Special Bandersnatch (19459005) (but this is not guaranteed). Or rather use a real remote instead of the controller of your console.
The best way to access a recent Netflix is through a new streaming device. Prizes start at $ 30 with the Roku Express . Meanwhile, the Roku Express Plus offers an analog AV output for $ 35, making it ideal for older televisions (see below).
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Traffic Jams, Detours, and Historical Knowledge
After writing the earlier post on artist-designed traffic jams, I just remembered one of my favorite projects by the Dutch architect Wiel Arets — his “Boulevard Domburg” (1990). In this masterplan, Arets designed a bottleneck-producing, z-shaped stretch of road, set within a larger highway scheme that incorporated housing.
In many ways “Boulevard Domburg” recalls the early Obus Plan proposal by Le Corbusier for Algiers. But unlike the much more famous Obus Plan (that also incorporated housing and highways), Arets’ project challenges the concepts of circulation driving Corbusier’s and many other modern city planning schemes.
Aret’s project involves something we might term “anti-circulation.” Arets purposely includes a bottleneck, a detour that forces cars to slow to a standstill. Within this zig/zag detour Arets brings the existing town and the seaside into the view of the driver. It enables a driver and their passengers to consider their particular location within the slipstream of an automotive environment. Arets not only brings a new appreciation of a highway’s particular context, he opens up a space, a very interesting space, for other forms of knowledge to enter the experience of driving.
As anyone knows from driving in the United States, there’s a certain direct and palpable relationship between speed and historical knowledge. Zipping through a town not only limits our ability to understand it; the highways and roads of the United States are dotted with historical markers and signs that are comically unreadable at the speeds most people drive. I often recall particular detours — due to accidents, sudden natural hazards, or road work — that led to fantastic discoveries — an old mill town, the site of a famous battle or event, basically something I had driven by many times but never knew.
Arets designed his detour as a critique of modern efficiency, but perhaps his detour represents some larger project that we can harness to better relate speed and history. In turn, one imagines that the detour becomes an aspect of a historical project.
Can we preserve a traffic jam?
“Can we preserve a traffic jam?” After I spoke at Postopolis LA! on experimental forms of history, BLDG BLOG’s Geoff Manaugh asked me this question. The question was meant genuinely, and also as a provocation, testing the limits of the experimental forms of spatial history that I had just discussed.
Just a few weeks ago, We make money not art, posted a review of the traffic jam created by artist Maider López. López asked a large group of people to drive their cars into a well choreographed jam within a hilly area of Spain (below). The traffic jam looks suspiciously like the traffic jam (above) that stretched from the Catskills into lower New York State during the Woodstock music festival of 1969. This recent project suggests that — yes — it is now possible to preserve a traffic jam.
Genesis Wave
July 9, 2009 in architecture, Cartography, Criticism, Film/Television, History, Reconstruction, Theory
The terraforming device from Star Trek II — “The Genesis Device” — is a bomb that completely remakes the surface of a planet into a biological and geological version of the earth. It’s like a nuclear weapon that produces an ecosystem. In the video above we see the genesis device transforming a lost moon into a world akin to the Earth.
Genesis is a fictional tool for making nature, but it’s also a system of historical representation; although this latter aspect of the device is completely unexplored in the Star Trek films. Not only does the genesis device make barren moons into a depopulated biotic version of Earth, the Genesis wave generates specific historical landscapes and historical images of landscape — culled from Western systems of colonization and exploration . Genesis fabricates jungle landscapes, large oceans, and mountain ranges on top of a surface that looks suspiciously like the moon.
Ultimately, Genesis creates the double image of colonization: it remakes an unexplored moon into a landscape that looks like unexplored continents. Genesis is really a system of historical representation that makes the explorative vista (the depopulated, resource-rich landscape) appear as something scientific.
Genesis is critiqued in the scripts of Star Trek II and III, but from an entirely different perspective: For the script writers, Genesis represents the dangers of nature made by human forces. I believe the message of the film-makers suggests that the landscape of earth belongs on earth, not elsewhere (btw, this is also the subtext of the science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson). For the writers of Star Trek, the freakishness of genesis lies in its auto-generation of earth-nature — aggressive terraforming without consideration of a planet’s inherent nature.
A post-structuralist or Marxist geographical lens provides a necessary critique to the the above critique. Within critical strands of geography, all nature is a production and a representation; Every tree we encounter is, in some sense, the result of a Genesis Wave: the American Parks Movement, Johnny Appleseed, the Lumber Industry, Suburbanization.
One might argue that from a critical geographical perspective, all nature is a Genesis project.
But if a genesis wave is both a system of historical representation and a representation of reality (versus a scientific fantasy) that only makes its effects (and what it represents) all the more interesting.
The fantasy of Genesis lies in the notion of nature authorship: Can we release the Genesis wave from the literalness and naturalism that underpins a large amount of the sci-fi genre?
What if a genesis wave was less literal and more literary, less a scientific endeavor and more a philosophical and historical one?
What if it we understood this less literal force conceptualized by post-structural geographers or architects with a hankering for critical representations of nature?
What if, like the Genesis device itself, such nature-production was never finished, but an ongoing and unstable process? What landscapes would be generated; what imagery produced? What aesthetic sensations the result?
The imagery above and these questions have been on my mind lately: In the past four months I’ve slowly been asking a group of architects, scientists, geographers and urbanists colleagues to consider these possibilities (albeit without the Star Trek referencing!) In a forthcoming issue of AD — “Territory” — something akin to the Genesis Wave will be reconceptualized, reconsidered, made into something far more interesting and perhaps aggressive. The issue proposes a type of terraforming outside the science-fictional and within the nitty gritty of the historical and geographical.
As the issue takes shape and as the above ideas become more formed, I’ll post updates here.
Anvironment: An experimental history project
July 2, 2009 in architecture, Archive, History, Maintenance, preservation, Theory
[To be expanded for a forthcoming article]
If a stable, humidity, temperature, dust, and pest controlled environment is the ideal setting for preserving historical material, could we produce the inverse environment? In other words, if late-modern history relies on a type of ecosystem for the preservation and study of historical material, could we produce the anti-ecosystem of historical maintenance?
This anvironment (parallel or anti-environment) would be a space where historical preservation was impossible but that would nonetheless be a stable integrated nature. Like a black hole in a historical universe; the eye of a historical hurricane.
So consider some type of room with incredible levels of humidity, swirling dust, and horrible heat. It would be a place that also happened to represent two of the West’s key enviro-phobias — tropiphobia and aridiphobia. This room would be an orangey green place of sweat and dirt where pieces of paper, building elements, and other artifacts don’t stand a chance of surviving.
Ultimately, such a place forces us to reflect on the stability required for history, and the environments lurking in our future.
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Shortly after 10 o’clock on Saturday the 7th October 1950 a Burnbank woman heard the sound of gunfire. She ran next door to the house at 77 Farm road. There she was shocked to find her neighbour, Mrs Agnes Mason, aged about 30 lying unconscious in a pool of blood. She had sustained gunshot wounds.
The neighbour ran for assistance, but Mrs Mason died before she could be given medical attention. A man was later questioned by Hamilton burgh police and detained at Burnbank police station.
Mrs Mason’s baby of a few months was taken from the house and is now being cared for by relatives.
The area where the tragedy occurred is a quiet new housing scheme on the outskirts of Burnbank. The Mason’s home is a Ground-floor one of the four-in-a-block type.
At the home of Mrs Cooper, Mrs Masons mother at 5 Sempie Street in Burnbank grief-stricken relations sat in silence.
Mrs Cooper told a “Sunday Post” man that her daughter had been married for two years.Mrs Mason was fortunate in getting a house soon after her marriage. It had belonged to her husbands father after he had died. (Ref Sunday Post 8th October 1950)
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A man allegedly to have shot his wife will be tried at Glasgow High Court on December 12th. He is James Mason and today he has appeared on a pleading diet before sheriff N M L Walker.
He denied having on October the 7th, in his house at 77 Farm Road Burnbank Hamilton, Assaulted his wife Agnes Allan Cooper or Mason and discharged a loaded shotgun at her and shot her in the neck and “Did Murder Her” An agent on behalf of Mason tendered a plea of insanity.(Ref Dundee evening Telegraph Sat 2nd December 1950)
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James Mason (39), who stated to have been dabbling in spiritualism, was at Glasgow High Court today found unfit to plead on charge of murdering his wife with a shotgun. He was ordered to be detained during the King’s pleasure.
It was stated that after shooting his wife Mason tried to kill himself. Three times he loaded the gun and put the muzzle under his chin and Three times he pulled the trigger, but he escaped with neck burns. He believed that some heavenly power was saving his life.
Three doctors today stated that mason was insane. One of them said he was a Jekyll and Hyde personality — a victim of schizophrenia. Dr George Scott, prison doctor at said the shooting took place at Farm Road Burnbank, Hamilton, October 7. Mason worked in the pits until 1940, when was called up for the Army. He said he didn’t want to go. He said was altogether opposed to the shedding of human blood.
He was discharged unfit when he found unsuitable to stand up to the conditions of warfare. After a month in hospitals in Holland and Belgium he came home and married Agnes Allan Cooper,a child was born five months ago. Mason believed he possessed great religious truths and it was his mission to make them known to the world.
His married life was unhappy. He thought his wife was trying drive him mad. At this stage 6 foot tall Mason had a seizure in the dock. His body went rigid and he collapsed threshing his arms Dr Scott left the witness box to give medical attention. (Ref: Dundee Evening Telegraph Tue 12th December 1950)
As the event happened still in some peoples memory i have not pursued this story further. It would be sad to think that this event happened as a result of “Shell Shock” and like millions of other men during the war James Mason was probably never treated for it.
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Continuing with our graveyard story at the former burial site in Fairhill, Wilma Bolton has transcribed an article from the Hamilton Advertiser dated 7/5/1887.
Sir, I am curious to know the origin and age of the small graveyard on the confines of the Fairhill property and adjoining the road from Earnock to Meikle-Earnock. Might I ask the author of the “Recollections” which frequently appear in your publication if he can find on the shelves of his memory any impress of the facts relating to it and its dismantled state? If he could also tell me the history of the ruined wall on the north side of the village of Meikle-Earnock. I should be under an increased debt of gratitude to him. QUAERO.
The following reply was printed on the 14/5/1887:
Sir, having read in Saturday’s Advertiser a letter from a correspondent seeking information about the age and origin of Meikle-Earnock Burying-Ground. I, along with a few friends, visited it on Sunday night, as I have often done in my lifetime before, and I must say that I was greatly shocked with the state in which I found it, It seems to me that in this awful race for riches the old proverb holds good, “Better a living dog than a dead lion.”
The Indians of North America put us to shame in the way they respect the sepulchres of the dead. I must inform your correspondent that according to tradition the origin of this old burying ground is lost in the mists of time Everything points to Meikle-Earnock as being a very ancient place , there being an ancient tumulus, which, though much larger at one time still measures 12 feet in diameter and 8 feet high. There have ben found several urns in it from time to time.
It appears the ancient inheritance of Fairhill and Meikle-Earnock was held by a family of the name of Strang, of which our energetic councillor is a lineal descendant. So far as I have been able to discover, when the old parish church of Hamilton (of which many of your readers of your readers will remember the portion that stood up to 1852, and was used as the burying place of the Hamilton family) was removed on 1731, the Laird Strang of that day built here a place of sepulchre like Abraham of old, in the shape of an octagon tower wherein to bury members of the family. Of course there had been Strangs’ buried here before this, as witness the inscription on two flat stones in good preservation: — “Here lies James Strang, of Meikle-Earnock, who was born July 20th. 1654, and died 31st March 1746, in the 92nd year of his age” –also “Here lies Robert Strang, younger of Meikle-Earnock, who was born 31st October, 1687 and died 6th of May 1737. The Mathers of Meikle-Earnock, who held the estate for a considerable time, came through it by marriage.
One of the Lairds of Meikle-Earnock married a Mather, and at his death the estate lapsed into that family, and was held for a time by a Mr Dick, of Glasgow, and is now the property of the much respected laird of Earnock, and I have no doubt if Mr Watson’s attention were called to the state of this old burying ground, he would perhaps hedge it round and plant a few trees in it. I more readily suggest this, knowing that few gentlemen in Scotland have done as much for the improvement and beautifying of their estates, and I have no doubt if this were done he would earn the eternal gratitude of every well-disposed Hamiltonian. With regard to the high wall at the north end of the village, so far as I am able to judge, and so far as the older inhabitants remember, it was the garden wall connected with the old mansion house. Yours, Etc. KINGSTON.
Hamilton Advertiser. 21/5/1887:
Sir, Having seen a letter in last week’s Advertiser. Signed “Kingston,” regarding the above burying ground, would you kindly grant space for one or two additional facts which he, as well as others may not be aware of. The ground in question seems to have been taken off the lands of Fairhill, perhaps from the fact of the tumulus referred to being situated as that particular spot, and which has always been supposed to belong to the Roman period. The oldest information we can get concerning it is perhaps what it reveals itself when we find one James Strang, who was born on 1654, having been buried there in 1746.
Seventeen years later, however, in 1763 when the estate of Fairhill (which then formed part of the estate of Meikle Earnock) was sold by a later James Strang. The burying ground is carefully reserved, and there referred to curiously as the “new burying place,” which does not point to a very great antiquity. Eighteen years later still, viz., 1781, we find it portioned out between four members of a family of Strangs as their respective burying places; and the present tomb was not built for nearly 20 years later still viz., about the year 1800, and not by a Strang, as Kingston tells us, but by a Mather, and who was himself the first to be laid within its walls—one or two old residenters being still alive who remember having seen his funeral.
It was built and secured by him as a burying place for members of the family bearing that name only; and from that time it has been gradually filled up by them, as each in their turn paid the debt of Natures immutable law; and at the present time there still remains one or two spaces to be occupied should the present representatives ever choose the spot as a last resting place—their father being the last Mather buried there. If they have ever given up their rights, as “Kingston’s” letter suggests, it must have been very recently. As regards the present state of the burying ground.
I knew that the year before last it was put into a state of capital repair by the present representatives—strong boarding’s being put up inside the windows, the door made thoroughly secure along with many other needful repairs. But no sooner were these done, than a gang of young ruffians (you can call them nothing else) from the town and surrounding places visited the spot—Sunday being a favourite day for the display. The boarding’s are battered down from the windows—the door is wrenched open –head stones are thrown down and broken—and the very ashes of the dead disturbed and exposed to view; and not once only but repeatedly. And try to interfere without a policeman at your back! This is our nineteenth century civilization! “Kingston,” in his letter, speaks about North American Indians, but we have a generation of Vandals growing up around us that would put to blush any dusky Indians that ever handled the tomahawk.
If they have any religious notions at all, its symbols are the tobacco pipe and a sand jig, with a clog dance thrown in by the way of variety. The police authorities have been applied to at different times, but without result; and so the vandalism is repeated. Perhaps the above may account for the condition your correspondent fount it in. How to put a stop to such savagery is another question. I have not the least doubt but if our own beautiful cemetery was not carefully watched and tended it would ultimately share the same fate. Yours W.A.
It just go’s to show that vandalism is not a modern day thing, it was even happening back in the 19th Century.
Posted on April 22, 2016 Categories Garry L McCallum, Hamilton, Historic Hamilton, UncategorizedTags Burial Ground, Fairhill, Meikle Earnock, Strang, Tumulus, Watson, Wilma BoltonLeave a comment on THE STRANGS OF MEIKLE EARNOCK & MEIKLE EARNOCK BURYING GROUND.
GHOULISH VANDALISM AT MEIKLE-EARNOCK.
The following story was reported in the Hamilton Advertiser on the 20 April 1895.
“Cadzow” writes to the Glasgow Herald; Please give me space for the following statement of facts. In a secluded corner on the confines of Fairhill and Earnock estates, within two miles distance of Hamilton Cross, there lies a small burying-place of some old Meikle Earnock families.
It has long since been disused, but a sweeter and more peaceful resting place it were hard to find, or apparently one more unlikely to be disturbed. What was my horror then, sir, on taking a quiet walk along the road that passes this God’s acre to find a human skull lying on the side walk, and grinning in all its ghastliness at passers-by! I reverently lifted the “thing” intending to replace it in the hallowed ground, when I observed that the door and window of the mausoleum which stands within the graveyard had been forced, and on looking into the interior saw that the stone cists round the walls were prized open, the coffin lids wrenched off, and the remains of their contents scattered over the place.
In my hurried glance I saw three skulls and several thigh and arm bones, and a bystander informed me that shortly before I came up some youths had been enjoying a game of football with the hideous relics. Great shades of Yorick! and this on the evening of a beautiful Easter Sunday in the latter end of the nineteenth century! I have no doubt that those more immediately interested will take steps to bring the perpetrators on this gross outrage to speedy justice.
I may add that the scene of this ghoulish vandalism is quite near to where, not long since, a young man, after spending a convivial Saturday evening with some friends, was playfully kicked to death by his boon companions. (The condition of this burial place has long been a disgrace to all interested in it.)
The next day on the 21st April 1895 the following was written:
“Before Hon. Sheriff Patrick, yesterday, John Murphy, pony-driver, Eddlewood, was charged with malicious mischief in connection with the recent desecration of Meikle-Earnock graveyard.
The libel set forth that on 14th inst., be abstracted from a coffin in a vault in the old graveyard a human skull and bones, and, taking them outside, broke the skull with the bones or stick, and kicked the fragments up and down the graveyard. He pleaded not guilty and the case was adjourned for trial.
John Murphy, pony driver, Eddlewood, was tried at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Tuesday 30th April 1895 before Hon. Sheriff Patrick–on a charge of malicious mischief, committed in the old graveyard, on 14th April. Murphy, a boy of 14, pleaded not guilty, and was undefended.
Five witnesses were examined for the prosecution. From the evidence of four young lads, companions of Murphy, it appeared that on Sunday afternoon they met, and one of them gave information that the vault in the old graveyard was open. They went down to see the place. Arriving there, they found a number of other lads congregated.
Accused went into the vault, and, according to one of the witnesses lighted a match. He went to one of the coffins, which was open and contained a number of loose bones, and then opened another coffin. According to the same witness, he inserted his hand and extracted a skull from one of the coffins, this he brought out on the end of a stick, and threw it to the ground. Remarking that he wished to know what was in the skull, he broke it with a stick.
Again he entered the vault and was about to bring out another skull, when his companions remonstrated, and he gave up the notion. Constable Steel of the County police, said two days before the day libelled he had visited the graveyard in consequence of a report that the vault was open. He found that this was correct. The door had parted from its fixing in the wall for a space of about six inches, through the effect of the underground workings, he fixed the door in such a way as to secure it, and communicated with the representatives of the owners who promised to see the door put right. On the Tuesday following.
On information he received, he again visited the vault and found the place broken into, and the coffins and bones in a disordered condition. He further stated that five years ago the vault had been broken into and coffin cords taken away, which the girls in the village used as skipping ropes.
Accused, when asked for an explanation of his conduct, simply denied that he had lighted a match. His Lordship said the evidence disclosed an extraordinary state of affairs, and but for the circumstances that the accused was only one of a large company, all young and thoughtless, and that the place was improperly secured, he would have passed a severe sentence. But he learned from the Fiscal that the present prosecution was brought more as a warning, so trusting that such sacrilegious misdeeds would not be repeated, he would only impose a fine of 15s with the option of 10 days’ imprisonment.
The following story was donated to Historic Hamilton by Wilma Bolton.
Posted on April 20, 2016 Categories Garry L McCallum, Hamilton, Historic Hamilton, UncategorizedTags Cist, Earnock, Earnock Estates, Fairhill, Skull, Tumnus, Wilma Bolton1 Comment on GHOULISH VANDALISM AT MEIKLE-EARNOCK.
DUCHESS ANNE’S HOSPITAL
Duchess Anne Hamilton 1631-1716.
Duchess Anne Hamilton was the 3rd Duchess of Hamilton, She lived from 6 January 1631 to 17 October 1716. and she is remembered as “Good Duchess Anne” She was a noblewoman who rebuilt Hamilton Palace and did a great deal to assist in the development of the town by building a school, almshouses, a woollen factory and a spinning school.
Duchess Anne’s Hospital was an old house that stood at the corner of Castle Street and New Wynd, today the site of the Almshouse is occupied by a house across from where the entrance to the Asda car park is. The hospital or Almshouse as it was known was occupied by a number of poor families, it was built around the middle of the 17th century as a hospital and had been occupied up until the beginning of the 18th century where it became disused as a hospital and ever since it had been occupied as a dwelling house.
Duchess Anne’s Hospital for the poor.
In the year 1858 there were still 6 or 7 individuals who were receiving 8s per annum from the house of Hamilton in view of a house rent. The slum building was later demolished.
The former site of the Almshouse.
Posted on April 17, 2016 Categories Garry L McCallum, Hamilton, Historic Hamilton, UncategorizedTags Almshhouse, Almshouse Hamilton, Castle Street Hamilton, Duchess Anne Hamilton, Duchess Anne's Hospital, Hamilton Auld Toon, Hamilton Old Town, New WyndLeave a comment on DUCHESS ANNE’S HOSPITAL
Leslie George Sayce.
In the first picture we have Leslie George Sayce aged fifteen and the second one is Les Sayce and Andra McDade in the garden of
29 Mayfield Road in 1948.
Leslie George Sayce aged fifteen
He was later known then as Les McDade due to his parents getting divorced when he was 2 years old.
Les was born at 29 Mayfield Road in the “Jungle” to Mary McDade on 19th Jan 1947 and his father Les Sayce was a survivor of HMS Barham in 1941 His father later went on to escort duty in the North Atlantic.
The picture was taken in the back yard of 24 Hillhouse crescent in 1963 and Earnock “Bing” is in the back ground.
Les went to Glenlee primary and then Earnock secondary and when he left school he worked as an apprentice joiner for Charlie Cornes at Limetree, then for Gibbons who were building “The Furlongs.’ He later worked at the Wagon works across from the Blantyre Industrial estate.
Les Sayce and Andra McDade in the garden of 29 Mayfield Road in 1948.
He then went to London and spent seven years doing joinery work. He was also a cross country runner attaining house colours for his school which was “Windsor boys school”. and served as a member of the combined cadet force of the Royal Artillery. He then joined the Cameronians, he was based in Germany for a year in 1962. Returning to Scotland in 1963 he joined the ATC at Hamilton barracks 2166 Squadron.
Les started spending much time in libraries reading poetry of Selfridge Sassoon and the usual building subjects pertaining to construction management and aeronautical physics. (mechanics of flight) – {He published his own work in 1978}
He then set out for the south of England and searched for his father, it took only a few hours to track him down. (in a pub) He went back to Scotland in 1972 for four years working as a Ghillie on the Mamore estate in Kinlochleven and a joiner on the housing schemes.
In the mid 70s Les went to Spain for a holiday and when he was in Spain, he met some lads from a NZ rugby club and they invited him over there, So in 1976 he arrived here in NZ and worked in the islands “Rarotonga” then Australia and in 1977 he met his future wife Jessie Stokes!
At this time he was playing guitar in the country clubs and dance halls as a solo performer In most circles he is known primarily as a guitarist.
He trained as a commercial pilot in Wanganui and Nelson and done the flying part in Auckland as that was his home club, he flew many types of aircraft mainly on charters.
In 1982 he suddenly started playing cricket and he went at it with a vengeance,his training regime was rugged as he was running around a Hill station farm rounding up lambs and in winter found him training with the rugby lads. He ended up a captain of a two day team and won sportsman of the year in 1986.
Last year Les moved from Auckland and is now living in a town (a country town) He has his dream home with a huge garden and his dream car and has not slowed down in the least.
Historic Hamilton would like to thank Les’s friend John Stokes for sending us Les’s story.
Posted on April 10, 2016 Categories Garry L McCallum, Hamilton, Historic Hamilton, UncategorizedTags Burnbank, Mayfiled Road13 Comments on Leslie George Sayce.
SAD TIMES WITH FOND MEMORIES OF HAMILTON.
Matthew & Richard Scullion at the steps of Glenlee Primary 1953.
In the picture above are Matthew Scullion and his younger brother Richard. The picture was taken at the steps outside the main entrance to Glenlee Primary School In 1953.
Three days after this photo was took, the boys, along with their other two brothers and sister were taken into care until their mid to late teens.
Matthew and Richard age 6 and 7 spent Six months in the then Old Folks Home, the former Poor House on Bothwell Road. Richard told Historic Hamilton,
“This for all that happened, was the best of times and the worst, but I will always remember the kindness of those folks in George Sreet? (jungle) who were there for us when we needed it most.
Memories of Burnbank, Blantyre and Whitehill ( Whistleberry Drive) will always stay with me for the rest of my life”
Historic Hamilton would like to thank Richard for sending us his story. If you have a story that you would like to share, then we would like to hear about it. Send a PM or contact us via Email: historichamilton@icloud.com
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RECOLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS (By a Hamiltonian) THE MINE EXPLOSION OF MARCH, 1841.
The following names are the first eleven documented fatalities in a Hamilton Coal mine. In total Wilma Bolton found 813 men, boys and women killed while working in or at a coal mine.(See Wilma Bolton’s reference book Coal Mining Fatalities in Hamilton Parish 1841 – 1948 in all Hamilton libraries.)
AVONBRAES Mine March 1841.
WILLIAM BROUNLIE and his son age 10, Christian name not recorded.
JAMES DUFFIE. JOHN DUFFIE. HUGH MCLEAN, JOHN SMITH and WILLIAM WOTHERSPOON. These seven miners were killed in the explosion. JAMES FLEMING, GEORGE PATE,
JAMES FISHER, and JAMES FYFE died while trying to rescue the above. Duffie or Duffy’s* widow was recorded in 1878 as still receiving a pension from the Duke of Hamilton. No other mine owner paid a pension to miners dependants. (* Both spellings used.)
The following article gives an eyewitness account of the first explosion in a Hamilton coal mine. Seven miners were killed in an explosion at Avonbraes Mine (a drift mine) which was situated in the Avon gorge and not far from Chatelherault. Another four men lost their lives trying to rescue them. Among the dead was a 10 years old boy who was working with his father who was also killed. Research Wilma S. Bolton.
A Great calamity which occurred in the west of Scotland last week brought vividly to my mind an accident which has left an impression that will be irremovable. It is forty-five years since the catastrophe happened.
We have had more disastrous affairs of the kind since then, but the peculiar circumstances of this one made the occurrence more striking. I refer, of course, to the explosion in the Duke’s mine in Avon Braes. The development of the coal industry in our locality then was yet in the future. The consumpt of the mineral was purely local, and the men who wrought in the mines were our relatives and neighbours. There were scarcely any but whom we had known from infancy. The villagers at Quarter were church members, going out and in with our fathers from very early times. The managers were people with whom we were on the most intimate terms. Well, on a fine spring morning in the year 1841, we, young weaver lads, were taking our breakfast meal hour walk, and in rounding the end of Miller Street, as you see before you the road to Covan Burn, a mounted horseman is seen by us.
His speed is beyond the common. It is our old friend Ord Adams, who had always a kind or jocular word for us. One look at his face that morning, as he rode past, conveyed intelligence of disaster. There was no greeting. He saw us but heeded not. His mission was one of mercy. All this we read and more. One look at each other and we ran. There was no use in asking what was the matter. The two miles to the mine mouth (for it was not a pit in the ordinary sense) we soon passed over. My companions and I were the first of the town’s people who were at the spot. Speedily we learned that the mine had exploded, with seven or eight men and boys inside.
No great number it may be thought; but worse than that, a rescuing party of four brave fellows had entered the mine before we arrived at the scene, and there, issuing from the dismal hole was seen the noxious vapour. Could anyone live in that poison, was the question we put to each other. The men must have succumbed long ere this. Who are the four adventurers? Their names were soon made known to us, and we found them to be neighbours, whom we had known from infancy. James Fyfe, George Peat, James Fisher and a lad from Quarter, named Fleming. The wailing of the mothers and sisters was not loud, but deep. In a few minutes Mr Adams appeared, bringing with him the doctors of the town. Among them I well remember Dr Alex. King, a townsman of great promise.
Volunteers were offering their services, nay, urging their immediate acceptance. But as I stood near the doctors, I saw they were stoutly opposed to any further effort, so long as the gasses issuing from the mine. Mr Adams, himself, I saw became impatient at the restraint and ventured onto the fatal mouth. He and his party speedily returned, sickly and staggering; one or two had to be assisted as they came out of the mine. Still a return to the rescue was insisted on by the men, and still the medical men convinced that it was dangerous—that the hope of saving the lives of all the volunteers was futile. As the vapour cleared away, a party of stout miners entered. Then after a little a move was made to clear the mouth and the last party in came out carrying a body. I see his face and know him. The doctors at once pronounced him dead. Then all hope vanishes. As the mine cleared, the search, though still dangerous, is steadily pursued. One after another is brought out, and the medical men’s opinion is confirmed—there is no hope for one of them.
Strange to say, I had grown up to manhood nearly, and never had looked at death in any form. One of the lads, who fell in attempting rescue, had been laid upon a soft grassy bank, a little distance from the mine. I was told he was lying alone. I timidly approached the spot. I did get a surprise, and one that did me good, for there lay the young man cut down in the prime of life. A smile! Yes, a smile on his handsome face. He belonged to a rather good featured family. Henceforth I thought the grim king of terrors would have no scare over me.
I was the better of that night. We waited till all the rescuing party were brought to bank, and we learned that the search for the bodies of those who were in the pit before the explosion would not be brought out till the next day, if they were recovered. It began to be whispered that the bodies of the unfortunate victims would not be a pleasant sight to see. The town, when we arrived home, was in great excitement. I do not think such another day Hamilton had seen since the day of Bothwell Bridge.
People could not settle to work. The good people of the town were busy offering consolation to the widows and orphans. Each one felt the calamity to be affecting themselves. Next day I was up at the mine at an early hour. All was hushed. The bodies were being got out. They were tenderly and delicately handled; respectfully and mournfully laid in their last resting place.
It was an eventful day. It brought out the better part of some we met in ordinary life. I was personally a great friend of Mr Adams, and it affords me pleasure to add that his tenderness, kindly sympathy, and gently consideration to the bereaved ones, during the trying ordeal enhanced, if that were possible, the high opinion in which he was held. D. Ref. Hamilton Advertiser 2/10/1886 page 4.
Posted on April 5, 2016 Categories Garry L McCallum, Hamilton, Historic Hamilton, UncategorizedTags Avon Gorge, Chatelhrault, Coal Mines, Lanarkshire Coal mines, Wilma Bolton1 Comment on RECOLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS (By a Hamiltonian) THE MINE EXPLOSION OF MARCH, 1841.
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The Concord Point Light Keeper's House and Property
The Concord Point Light Keeper's House and Property (HMAL)
Location: Havre de Grace, MD 21078 Harford County
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(first marker) The Concord Point Light Keeper's House and Property
Constructed by John Donahoo of Havre de Grace, Builder of Twelve Maryland Light Houses. 1827-1920
The house and property were sold by the U.S.Government in April 1920 as the light had been automated and a resident keeper was no longer necessary. The house was a residential rental property until the mid 1930s when it was converted to a restaurant. A long outbuilding to the south became a bar and dance hall. The property changed hands nine times between 1920 and 1988 when it was purchased by the Maryland Historic Trust and deeded to the City of Havre de Grace. From 1920 to 1988, the property underwent many renovations and additions until it appears as it does in the photograph at the left. The Friends of the Concord Point Lighthouse, Inc. began the restoration of the light keeper's house and property in 1990.
The restoration of the Light Keeper's House was achieved with grant assistance by the Maryland Historic Trust, the Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway, support of the Harford County government, the City of Havre de Grace and fund raising efforts of the Friends of Concord Point Lighthouse. The house is restored to its appearance circa 1890-1900. The original cottage with attached kitchen of 1827 was renovated to this two story structure in 1884.
(second marker) The Concord Point Light Keeper's House and Property 1827-1920
The Well was placed in the southeast corner of the property in 1827. The only description of the well comes from the fourth paragraph of the construction contract.
"Also a well to be sunk of such depth as to produce good water, at a convenient distance from the house, to be stoned or bricked up and furnished with a pump, or with a curb, windlass and an iron chain, and a strong iron-hooped bucket".
Our research indicates the well had a pump centered on the cover.
The 17 x 15 foot Pump House was constructed over the well in 1851. A seven foot wide Coal Shed was attached to the west exterior of the Pump House. These two outbuildings are shown in the illustrations.
(third marker) The Concord Point Light Keeper's House and Property 1827-1920
A structure was added to the west side of the Coal Shed by 1904. This structure was referred to as the Low Stable in the Lighthouse Service accounts. The Low Stable was replaced by a structure referred to as the High Stable by 1910, when the postcard picture seen at the right was produced. Archival evidence indicates this structure was used for storage. All the outbuildings along this south side of the property were replaced by one long structure around 1920.
In 1884 the one and one-half story cottage (see interpretive sign east of Concord Street) was renovated to a full two story structure. Between 1884 and 1990 a summer kitchen was added to the west wing or the house. The house remained in this configuration for most of its use as the light keeper's residence. Several changes to the property were made after the 1884 renovation. Researchers believe many of the changes were the result of periodic damage from major ice 'gorges' on the Susquehanna River.
(fourth marker) The Concord Point Light Keeper's House and Property 1827-1920
The light keeper's property included the entire block bounded by Concord Street to the east, Lafayette Street to the south Alliance Street to the north and Young Street to the west. A fence surrounding the property was erected in 1828. The area to the west of the fence dividing the property was called the pasture. Wooden walkways led from the dwelling to Young Street and the privy.
The third paragraph of the building instructions of the 1827 contract described the construction of a Privy;
"Also outhouse or privy at convenient distance from the dwelling of stone or brick five feet by five in the clear, with a well at least eight feed deep, walled up with stone or brick; the roof to be well shingled."
The privy seen at the far left in the 1905 photograph may be a replacement of the one constructed in 1827.
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(Illustration on second marker) Mending fences: Concord Point Lighthouse, Spring 1890
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FROM IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT: PEE-WEE HERMAN STAGES A RETURN – ON BROADWAY!
EMMY®-NOMINATED "THE PEE-WEE HERMAN SHOW ON BROADWAY" Appearing on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital Download October 4
CHATSWORTH, CA – That voice…that suit…that mad combination of innovative humor and childlike wonder…”I know you are, but what am I?” Pee-wee Herman is back! The quirky character created by Paul Reubens – which became an American pop culture icon – is back in his Playhouse. Ready to say the secret word?
On October 4, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his groundbreaking TV show “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” Image Entertainment will release The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway on Blu-ray™, DVD and digital download. First broadcast on HBO, The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway received 3 Emmy® nominations including “Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special.”
Directed by 11-time Emmy® nominee Marty Callner – who also directed the original 1981 “The Pee-wee Herman Show” – it was shot at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York City in January 2011 after the conclusion of its triumphant Broadway engagement. SRP for the DVD is $19.98 and $24.98 for the Blu-ray™. Pre-book is September 6. Bonus features on the Blu-ray™ and DVD include a commentary with Paul Reubens and the cast!
Exclusive bonus features on the Blu-ray™ and DVD includes an intimate commentary with Paul Reubens and the entire cast! This unique bonus feature will provide Pee-wee fans worldwide a rare glimpse behind the big red door of the Playhouse with fascinating stories and warm memories of their times together from the earliest days to the amazing comeback of today.
Pee-wee Herman is experiencing a remarkable revival, achieving a status unheard of thirty years ago -- even reaching 950,000 followers on Twitter! Most recently, writer-director-producer Judd Apatow has announced that he and Reubens (whose credits also include “30 Rock” “Pushing Daisies,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” and “Murphy Brown”, an appearance which earned him an Emmy® nomination), are developing a new feature film based on the character.
Clever, colorful and comical, this special is based both on Reubens’ original stage show The Pee-wee Herman Show and the multiple Emmy® winning and nominated Saturday morning television show “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” Featuring both old and new characters, you’ll love The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway so much – you’ll want to marry it!
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The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway Blu-ray™
Genre: Comedy, Family/Kids, Musical/Performing Arts, Broadway, Screwball
Format: Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)
Audio: PCM Stereo
Street Date: October 4, 2011
Pre-Book: September 6, 2010
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Tipping etiquette: Do you give a smaller tip for SF restaurants that add an employee surcharge?
By Michael Bauer on February 12, 2014 at 4:19 AM
Barbacco and its sister restaurant Perbacco are two places that started adding a San Francisco surcharge this year. Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The Chronicle 2010
This week I’ve received several emails from readers complaining about the extra charge added by some restaurants in San Francisco. Some continue to question the validity of the charges, and others wonder whether the charge should be reflected in the tip.
This additional charge is implemented by restaurants to help offset the cost of higher minimum wages, health care expenses and the lack of tip credits for waiters. All three add costs that aren’t found in other parts of the Bay Area. For awhile it looked as if restaurants were absorbing these extra costs by raising menu prices. However, tacking on the additional charge now seems to be increasing.
I’m still in the early stages of preparing my Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants guide, but I’ve seen quite a few restaurants that started adding the charge. Last year, for example, it wasn’t charged at Perbacco and Barbacco; this year, while the menu prices have stayed pretty much the same, those two restaurants are adding a 4% surcharge. The Cavalier charges 3% but its two sister restaurants — Park Tavern and Marlowe — don’t. Abbot’s Cellar began including a $2 per person charge and Central Kitchen now adds 4%. Nopa, which also didn’t charge last year, now applies 4%; its sibling, Nopalito, now charges 3%. Plaj has added 3% and State Bird Provisions has raised the charge from $1.50 per person to $2.55. While some places, including SPQR, Coco500 and Piperade, have resisted I think this year the majority of San Francisco restaurants will be charging.
Do you deduct the percentage of the S.F. surcharge from your tip?
So how to tip? I’d love your opinion because I’m of two minds.
Generally, I still add 20% on the total bill, after taxes. However, let’s not get into the before/after tax discussion at this time. Today I’m more interested in how diners view the surcharges in relation to tipping.
I have friends who automatically deduct that percentage — generally 3 to 4% — from the bill, and I understand the reasoning: This money goes to pay employee benefits, so in effect one could argue that they are already receiving part of their tip.
However, that does inflate the tip more than what you’d give a service team in Oakland for example, and these employees may or may not be getting the higher wages and benefits.
The bottom line is that a tip is to be added at the discretion of a diner, but I think we all want to be fair. So what is fair?
Let me know your thoughts, please.
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We're building the custom application with Node.js, an open-source tool used to construct JavaScript modules that make up the core functionality of a web app. Node.js was a perfect solution because it's based in JavaScript, a building block for the web. It also executes tasks very quickly, which allows it to handle many operations performed by and for many users.
Along with Node.js, we're using cloud communications platform Twilio's messaging APIs to interact with users. Twilio's service allows teams to quickly and easily integrate text messaging into web applications.
In this case, we're applying the API to create an automated, virtual health coach assistant. Each study participant will receive messages from their health coach assistant to guide them through selecting their goals, report on their progress and adding new goals. They'll also be able to receive encouraging messages and fitness tips.
"Our team is always seeking challenges like this," said Integrity Partner and Chief Creative Officer Ed Morrissey. "It's what we really excel at – creating awesome, impactful web applications and products using the latest technologies."
We're not quite finished yet, but we'll keep you posted! Watch for the launch of this cool application in the coming weeks.
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Israeli becomes Formula One test driver
British Formula One motor racing team and constructor ROKiT Williams Racing has signed 25-year-old Israeli Roy Nissany to their 2020 driver lineup. He will test drive in Formula One and race in Formula Two until he gains enough points to compete in Formula One.
Israel Space Week
The events being held for Israel Space Week at the end of Jan include the Bloomfield Science museum Jerusalem marking 50 years of the first Moon landing. Visitors to Netanya Planetanya can pretend to be astronauts and the Israeli Space Agency hosts the 15th Ilan Ramon International conference
Israel’s first Olympic skiing medals
17-year-old Israeli Noa Szollos made history by winning two skiing medals at the Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland. She won silver in the Alpine Combined and bronze in the Super G, to gain Israel’s first ever winter games medals for either youth or adult Olympics.
Israeli MasterChef judge to feed Microsoft employees
Microsoft has hired celebrity TV chef Haim Cohen to oversee six dining areas available to employees in its new campus in the central Israeli town of Herzliya. Cohen owns two Tel Aviv restaurants and is currently a judge on the Israeli TV version of MasterChef.
CNN and UK Times recommend yet-to-open hotel
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The Jews of Yemen
A new exhibition “From Sheba to Jerusalem" at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, displays the history and culture of the (now non-existent) Jews of Yemen and South Arabia. They traded with the land of Israel and in the 4th century CE became subjects of the “Jewish Kingdom of Himyar”.
Another smash hit season of Fauda
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The sixth Nightlight Festival comes to South Tel Aviv’s Neve Sha’anan on Jan 16 and 18. The free event brings dance performances, music and food to parks, streets, urban spaces and stores of the neighborhood, where Israelis, African migrants and foreign workers live.
Van Gogh comes to Israel
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Mindboggling
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We're a hawk on the issues.
George Soros Gives $6 Million to Pro-Clinton Super-PAC
By: Eric Carriere
Billionaire George Soros donated $6 million to a pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC last month.
To date, Soros has contributed upwards of $7 million to Clinton’s campaign, further adding to the idea that Clinton is a candidate that is backed by the ultra-wealthy.
The Hill reports:
In the last 6 months, the super-PAC raised $25.3 million, meaning that Soros’s contribution accounted for almost a quarter of its fundraising haul.
Also making large contributions to the committee in 2015 were media mogul Haim Saban and his wife Cheryl, who gave a total of $5 million, philanthropist Laure Woods, who gave $2.3 million, and investor Donald Sussman, who contributed $2.5 million.
This group, along with Soros, accounted for two-fifths of Priorities total fundraising in 2015.
Soros, a longtime Democratic donor, was a fundraising force for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential run.
He also gave a million to Priorities in 2012 when it was supporting President Obama’s reelection campaign.
However, emails released by the State Department last month showed that he has since soured on the president and regrets not backing Clinton’s primary campaign in 2008.
Clinton was told by a former campaign aide that Soros appreciated the former secretary of State’s willingness to meet with him.
Neera Tanden, now head of the liberal Center for American Progress emailed Clinton, “I told him I worked for you in the primaries and he said he’s been impressed that he can always call/meet with you on an issue of policy and said he hasn’t met with the President ever (though I thought he had).”
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The Ivors Academy welcomes Nicky Morgan as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
We respond to this week's changes in government, welcoming the new PM and Nicky Morgan as we continue to promote our policy agenda
Speaking about Wednesday’s new appointment, Academy CEO Graham Davies has said:
“On behalf of The Ivors Academy I would like to congratulate Rt Hon Nicky Morgan on her new appointment of Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport this week. We welcome Nicky’s extensive background in Education and Equalities, and look forward to working closely with her across our key policy aims, as we continue to safeguard the value of creators’ rights and take action to secure our talent pipeline.”
The Academy now calls on the new government to act on our policy agenda. In a recent article for Music Week, we ask for the government’s support as follows:
Brexit is the most pressing issue for the government. Europe is the biggest market for our members’ music currently and the UK is a centre of excellence for music composition and songwriting that relies on freedom of movement of creators from Europe and the rest of the world. We ask the government to remove barriers of movement and trade to support its creative economy.
Music education is in crisis. If the UK’s music industry is to continue to lead the world, we must act to make careers in music more accessible and rewarding. We ask the government to bring music along with other creative subjects back into schools and invest in music education.
We ask the government to help creators obtain a commensurate share of revenues that reflect their contribution to the value created. Music creators do not fairly share in the revenues being generated by their work online, music labels and artists take circa 80% of revenues, leaving publishers and creators to share in the rest. The economics of distributing music online are very different to the offline/CD world yet these old legacy models have been forced on creators online.
End coercive commissioning. Whether it is broadcasters and platforms demanding creators’ publishing rights, offering low commission fees, buyouts or songwriters being expected to work for the promise of future royalties, creators are increasingly facing coercive commissioning practices across the industry. We ask the government to help music creators establish codes of practice that enable the proper management and remuneration of creators’ rights.
We seek greater influence and representation of music creators across the industry to safeguard the value of rights and achieve a more balanced music economy. We ask the government to support us in removing barriers to equality and inclusion.
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Good Grief Polly
It has been exactly four weeks since my eldest daughter Polly was killed in a car crash. It has been just over two weeks since her funeral, which was attended by 480 people. We thought about 100 would come.
In my last blog I wrote about how my daughter’s death had been reported by the media. This included the BBC, an organisation I am proud to work for, love and yet worry about on a daily basis as it faces attacks on all sides. The BBC were accurate in their reporting of Polly’s death, even if they did not include all the information they had sought from the family. They have written to me and I feel for my colleagues who are among the best journalists I know. We can all learn from this. I will certainly be a better journalist for all this.
The newspapers however were not accurate. They lifted quotes from social media without checking the provenance or the facts, causing further distress. They made claims of contact to me and other family members when to date no evidence of this can be found. The Bristol Post published my blog, contacting the BBC press office to see if I was going to get the sack for it. The credited ‘reporter’ did tweet me in the afternoon prior to publication to try to speak to me. In the Bristol Post’s published ‘report’ on my blog it says I had ‘been spoken to’ by the BBC, with all the disciplinary tone this implies. The BBC have been nothing but supportive. Other papers produced articles that were poorly written, inaccurate, with questionable personal relevance and lacking in either fact or respect. Formal complaints have been made.
This first four weeks of grief has been, err, yes. I have been back to work at BBC Radio Bristol and although I am trying I am finding it very hard. The listeners have been brilliant and the staff, my team have been complete in their support. I always said to my two elder children that they should never go to bed on a Sunday dreading Monday because if you do then you really are in the wrong job. Stop. Change it. Go to bed fundamentally happy. I love what I do and I can only hope the joy will return too.
Sitting here four weeks to the day after Polly’s death I thought I would start to make a few changes to my life. I’ve been told this is a life-changing event and I can see it is. I’m not unique, nor is our family. Other children have died in many tragic ways. Death is life and grief is not a competition as there are no winners.
The first week was awful, truly awful but with moments of real, honest, heartfelt laughter. Laughter is vital. Gallows humour is essential. You can learn from grief. I believe that.
Talking with my family, my dearest friends, my partner and my boss at work has been a huge comfort. This small group of people have been extraordinary and have reminded of who I am when I still really have no idea who I am at the moment. They have all done their best to keep me from jumping off at the deep end.
I won’t go through each day as I don’t want to read it back next year and be reminded of it but I can tell you that the first Tuesday was the worst day so far. See earlier blog. Last Sunday was awful too but lead to a Monday that I felt better. The grief kicked me in the nuts again on Tuesday. Simply, no parent should carry his or her child’s casket into a funeral. I now know what is really meant by a dead weight.
So what have I learned so far?
Drinking really does not work. I am a drinker and a cigar smoker. Don’t rely on drink; rely on your family and friends. I will give up smoking.
Right any family wrongs when you can. Don’t ever let them fester. Right beats wrong as much as truth beats lies. Don’t think you can put things right later. There really is no time like now if it needs to be said or done.
Listen to those who know you; your colleagues, your friends, your partner and your family. You are not you when you are grieving but a version of you. They know you and they will help you do what you should be doing when you really are not you.
Ride the support, the love and the messages you will get. The social media world means that you will be swamped by it. Take it, scan it, save it and then in time you can come back to it.
Cry. When you feel the need to cry just let it out. Don’t hold it in. Don’t stiffen your upper lip. Don’t worry about where you are or whom you are talking to. Cry when it comes. You need to and perhaps others need to learn from you that it is okay to cry. Try not to suppress how you really feel. I find this very hard as it is changing a habit of a lifetime.
Try and eat. I’m failing at this one but trying too. I’m either a simple snack that gives me all I need to keep going or a lavish taster menu with fine wines sort of chap. Polly, I am told, was the same.
I am ashamed to call myself a Journalist
On Saturday 31st October, at 1.30am, my 22-year-old eldest daughter Polly was killed when she lost control of the car she was driving and hit a tree. She was alone in her VW Beetle, no one else was hurt and, I am told, it was instant.
I can tell you that having lost my father as a child, other close family members along the timeline of life and having said many times ‘on air’ that losing a child must be the worst thing of all, it is. It really is. It’s not a grief ‘competition’ it just is. Losing a child is the worst thing of all.
Polly’s mother Sarah and her dad Simon, who brought Polly up from the age of 3 and did such a brilliant job, are broken by this, as are all our families. My eldest son, Polly’s brother Oliver, is broken too but one of the few comforts I am taking at the moment is what a fine, brave, courageous man he has become. Again his mother Sarah and dad Simon deserve all the credit.
It is Simon, Polly’s dad, who has prompted me to write this blog. I am Polly and Oliver’s father, Simon is their dad. That is always the language we use, though Ollie and Polly always call me dad when we are together. Language is vital if we are to understand who we are and what we do.
The news of my daughter’s death, because of the nature of the work I used to do (I know I will never be the same again) and who I am engaged to means that there is some media interest in me with the local and national newspapers and TV. Those who know me well will know that I never, ever wanted to be the story, just to tell or share the story, as a journalist, correctly. I have never wanted to be on TV, I don’t want to be known, perhaps just be known of, to do my job well and to help people if I can and to get to the truth for others.
As all the family came together on Monday morning to start the process of making arrangements for Polly, I was contacted by the BBC for a quote about her. There has been quite a reaction to the news, because of me, with many kind words paid in tribute to my daughter and kindness shown towards me from those who listen and maybe even enjoy what I do daily on the radio. I gave the BBC ‘the line’, agreeing it while on the ‘phone to them with Polly’s mother Sarah and Polly’s dad Simon hearing me do this. I wanted the quote, the tribute to come from Sarah, Polly’s mum, who did such a brilliant job in bringing our daughter up with Simon. The name order was also agreed to be ‘Sarah, her husband Simon Bosworth and John Darvall’. I was clear.
On Monday night, on Points West the local BBC News opt for the West, none of this happened in their broadcast about Polly. Simon was called Polly’s ‘stepdad’, a phrase we have NEVER used. Simon, Polly’s dad was straight on the phone to me. He was rightly furious and more. This journalistic failure significantly added to his pain, and to mine. To hear Polly’s dad rage at you about your profession, about the things you have clearly agreed whilst standing in his family home just hours before when our daughter has been killed…words fail me. This poor piece of journalism made Tuesday probably the worst day of this whole episode so far. This includes seeing our dead daughter in a hospital mortuary just 12 hours after she was killed.
Newspapers have contacted me and provided appallingly written articles, which I have had to change, ‘polish’ or make actual sense of. Other papers have published articles using my personal relationship as ‘the in line’, when this is NOT the story but, at best, just a very small part of the story. This has hurt many who are in the throes of grief. Other papers have just published without checking and have got facts wrong. See earlier blogs. One paper spliced a year off my age. I will take that!
The way we all consume news is changing. The way we share news has changed and will continue to change at a faster pace. This week TV and newspapers have proven to me why they are not the future of news. If they can’t even get their facts right, be trusted with clear information and then report it accurately is it any wonder that we are all turning to Facebook, Twitter and other internet sources for our news and information? The internet allows us to come to our own conclusions by checking our own facts. We really can’t trust the traditional outlets to do it right or properly.
I write this as a father who has lost a daughter. I write this as a journalist who loved his work but can now clearly see why so many have lost faith in his profession and traditional media. They, we and I have brought this on ourselves.
I also write this to set the record straight for Polly’s mother Sarah and Polly’s dad Simon. I am ashamed to call myself a journalist and I am truly sorry to have added to your grief. I have spoken to Simon and he knows I have written this.
Two bits of advice for you reading this, if I may:
Trust nothing you read or watch. Check it, at least twice, as it’s more than likely wrong from just a single source.
Love your children and loved ones. Properly love them. Tell them every day, make sure they know that you love them regardless of what might be happening. Nothing is more important than that.
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Los Angeles Chargers and the Future of NFL Stadiums and Relocation
by Johnny | Jan 14, 2017 | blog, sports | 0 comments
The NFL and all businesses run on money.
Stadiums shouldn’t be subsidized by tax payers. Billionaires getting a free stadium on citizens’ dime is awful. My parents are still mad at the Titans for that. Glad they lost the Super Bowl too.
Now the Chargers move to LA… where Rams’ owner Kroenke is plopping his own money on a massive stadium.
Good for him. No tax money for it.
Chargers’ owner Spanos sucks for trying to swindle tax payers for money on a new stadium when he made $2.5 BILLION on the team’s tenure in SD. So, I’m not a Chargers fan. I’m a Rams fan.
But this is good. It may also be the end. It’s the end of an era.
Everyone knows how I feel about college football (TL;DR => hate it).
What I like about the NFL: it’s a business and doesn’t try to pretend it’s anything else. It’s the best of the best at the game. There are other reasons it has so much cultural power.
But I think the NFL has peaked.
For a variety of reasons. The Raiders will move to Vegas.
The Jaguars may move to London. What is this? Desperation.
NFL on Sunday, Monday, Thursday and sometimes Saturday. TOO MUCH.
The NFL spread too thin. Now it’s beginning to evaporate.
This is an unpopular opinion, but the NFL is going to fade. It’ll fall to NBA-level of popularity in about 10 years and maintain there.
I’m just hoping that lacrosse will rise to take a chunk of market share and popularity.
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It’s hard to pen criticism of a TV series which has had only one episode. Yet that is precisely what I will be doing with Prodigal Son.
On the surface it seems like a novel idea: a TV series about the son of a serial killer, who is a gifted yet haunted profiler.
The problems are many, however, beginning with the criminal misuse of Michael Sheen, who plays the father and was a serial killer. Sheen is a gifted actor. Take a peek at his work in Masters of Sex or Good Omens to understand what an acting juggernaut he is. In Prodigal Son he is reduced to shmarmy grinning to make him creepy.
The main character Malcolm is haunted . . . perhaps too haunted. The stereotype of the gifted yet haunted profiler is well documented by now, especially with Hannibal’s Will Graham. Malcolm is depicted taking at least half a dozen pills, suffering from night terrors, having trouble sleeping in general, potential suicidal ideation, amongst others. All of this coupled with his preoccupation with his father and murder in general. Yes, he’s haunted, but the show dove right into the deep end with Malcolm. It would have been more interesting to have Malcolm seem like he has everything together, and then, throughout the series, expose the cracks in his veritable armor as he grows closer to his father.
Next is the portrayal of “evil” via anti social personality disorder (formerly called psychopathy) and sociopathy. Evil is a nice cliche in this series: a glittering grin, a sweet looking man in a sweater, a thuggish bald white man. Evil has no name, no face. It’s just a hammy thing sent to do harm. In order to be effective, evil must have a name and a face. It must be multifaceted. It must speak with its own voice. To do otherwise is to do a disservice to victims, survivors, and to our essential humanity.
The world of the story is hammy too, screaming at you at the highest decibel. There is no subtly and it does not do any service to the plot.
Speaking of which: I think this is why Prodigal Son may be experiencing severe growing pains, and why the series, in a nutshell, is having trouble finding its footing. Fox is foolish enough to try and cram their novel idea into a humdrum police procedural. In doing so, they loose the originality and vitality of the series, and the chance to explore the characters.
I will keep watching it (I admittedly love psychological thrillers), but with reservations.
September 27, 2019 J S Kuiken Tagged criticism, meta, prodigal son, tv Leave a comment
Sex and Harlots
I started watching Hulu’s Harlots. I have found it very addictive. We’re only two episodes in and I’m looking forward to next week’s episode already. The basic premise of the series revolves around a feud between two brothels in 18th century London. The series has some strongly crafted compelling female characters, and I like how it’s a story about women, written and produced by women.
However (yes, here it comes) I do find the portrayal of sex puzzling, if not worrying.
In a story about harlots and brothels, of course there will be sex. You’d think you’d encounter sex in all its varietals at least, from tedious and lackluster to utterly depraved and lustful to kinky to intimate and any others besides. Instead what Harlots has presented so far makes sex a joke. Sex is, by and large, presented as being something lewd and comical.
April 8, 2017 April 23, 2017 J S Kuiken Tagged harlots, meta, meta commentary, television, tv Leave a comment
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Researchers from the Higher School of Economics have shown that by stimulating the frontal cortex, a person’s financial risk appetite can be increased temporarily. Their article on the cognitive mechanisms of risky decision-making was published in eNeuro, an international peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Society for Neuroscience.
Neuroeconomics focuses on the neurobiological foundation of decision-making. Economists, biologists, and psychologists use a novel interdisciplinary approach to explain the nature of and reasons behind certain decisions and inclinations. ‘The majority of a person’s decisions take place under conditions of uncertainty or risk. This is why we were particularly interested in uncovering the neurobiological mechanisms of risky decision-making,’ explains one of the study’s authors, Zachary Yaple, who is also a Research Fellow in the Centre for Cognition & Decision Making.
To solve this problem, the researchers conducted an experimental game. Each of the 34 participants chose whether they wanted to participate in a lottery that could potentially bring a monetary profit or receive a guaranteed smaller amount. While the participants were making a decision, the researchers delivered a transcranial alternating current stimulation on the left and right frontal area of the brain. The stimulation was delivered online at 5 Hz (theta), 10 Hz (alpha), 20 Hz (beta), and 40 Hz (gamma). The results showed a robust effect of the 20 Hz stimulation over the left prefrontal area that significantly increased voluntary risky decision-making.
The researchers assume that the 20 Hz stimulation led to a change in the internal rhythm of the brain and that this may suggest a possible link between risky decision-making and reward processing, underlined by beta oscillatory activity. Beta waves come about during a state of wakefulness and impact many processes in the brain. They allow a person to concentrate, aid in rapid thinking, and help achieve a goal and work with maximum efficiency. Relatively recently, researchers discovered that beta waves are particularly enhanced in the frontal cortex when a person receives an unexpected reward. Previous studies suggest, that beta oscillations could synchronise (couple) brain structures involved in reward processing. Thus, by affecting beta activity, the researchers could make outcomes of a risky decision seem more appealing.
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Kazolias May 31, 2016 Economy, France, Paris, Uncategorized
French Unions shut down Country to Protect Labor Aristocracy.
Protesters have taken to the streets the pas four months.
Gas stations ran dry last week when unions blocked the refineries. Other employees threatened to shut down nuclear reactors. Public transport is expected to grind to a halt this week. Police, teachers, prison guards and more are joining the movement. All of this to protest a mild labor reform law aimed at reducing unemployment.
President Hollande insists he will not back down even though violence in the streets, despite a state-of-emergency, has the government fearing tourists will stay away this summer.
It is truly a case of ‘The Cid‘ in which there is no honorable way out for all sides meaning the worst is possible.
Among the measures in the labor reform bill is the possibility for companies to lay off workers after four quarters of negative growth which is still far tougher than in the UK and Germany where employers can make workers redundant fairly easily.
But the movement in France has also turned into a struggle for survival and relevance for the labor unions which control much of the public sector where workers enjoy generous advantages: retirement at 55 instead of 63 with pensions based on the last six months of salary rather than the best 20 years; life long guarantee of employment; six weeks paid vacation rather than the four mandated etc. (privatized former state run companies maintained their public sector collective bargaining advantages).
Article 2 of the new law, which counts 60 of the 220 pages in the bill, allows companies and their employees to negotiate more flexible working hours, rather than forcing employers to negotiate sector-wide collective bargaining through the unions. The maximum hours of work per day will go to 12 from ten and to 46 a week from 44 average over three months, with 60 hours maximum in one given week during that period. The minimum bonus for over time will be brought down to 10% from 25%. Because unions can be by-passed in the new bill, they have drawn a red line in the sand on Article 2. France practices the 35 hours work week, the shortest in Europe, but the average worked is 37.5 hours.
“Article 2 is the only interesting disposition left in the law,” says Pierre Gattaz, head of the French employers association known as the Medef. “If Article 2 is removed, we will ask that the proposed law be withdrawn.”
The violence could frighten off tourists.
Gattaz regrets the government backed down before union pressure and removed important parts of the law such as capping the amount a worker could get in compensation if he is laid off or allowing employers to let employees go without having to go through the French labor courts known as Prud’hommes. The government also scrapped the part of the bill which would allow employers to renew temporary contracts without obliging them to make it permanent after two renewals. “Bosses are afraid to hire,” Gattaz said in an interview in the French daily Le Monde.
Gattaz angered the CGT union when he compared their tactics to “acts of terrorism” and called on the government to enforce rule of law. “It seems to me we are in a Stalinist dictatorship.”
France hosts the European Cup from June 10 to July 10.
Unemployment in France is 10.5% while in the UK it is 5.4% and in Germany 4.8%. But among those youth of North African and Black African origin who live in the projects, unemployment is 45%. Given the difference in the figures between France and its partners where labor laws are much more lax, Gattaz may have an argument. It is quite possible that those unemployed youth who are not members of the ‘labor aristocracy’ would rather fewer labor protections if it meant they could get a job. “The CGT equals unemployment,” Gattaz said.
France’s annual average wage was $47,885 in 2014 – compared to $48,479 in Germany and $54,350 in the UK. But taxes employers have to pay on labor are the highest in Europe and there is talk of increasing them yet again to cover part of the deficit of the French unemployment compensation bureau, called Pôle emploi. “We have to reduce the cost of labor and welfare taxes,” Gattaz told Le Monde. “Are we really looking to improve the competitiveness of our companies and thus reduce unemployment?”
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Secondary flow behavior of electrolytic viscous fluids with Bird-Carreau model in curved microchannels
Kyu Yoon, Hyun Wook Jung, Myung Suk Chun
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
A curved channel is indispensable for the lab-on-chips system because it provides a convenient scheme for increasing the channel length per unit chip area in the direction of net flow. A secondary Dean flow in curved rectangular microchannels is examined by applying a finite volume scheme with a semi-implicit method for pressure-linked equations revised (SIMPLER) algorithm for the steady flow of non-Newtonian fluids with dilute concentrations in electrolyte solution. The proposed framework is based on a theoretical model coupled with the Cauchy momentum equation of Bird-Carreau fluid, electrostatic interaction, and net charge conservation. The shear thinning effect on the secondary flow at the turn is analyzed with respect to the parameters of interest including zero-shear viscosity and power-law index. The simulation results for the realistic microchannel indicate that the streamwise axial velocity tends to shift toward the inner wall and this is caused by a stronger spanwise pressure gradient, resulting from a sufficiently low Dean number. In the case of the non-Newtonian fluid, the axial velocity becomes a blunt profile by spreading to each side of the wall, and its flow skewness directed asymmetrically to the inner wall is higher than that in the case of the Newtonian fluid. The attaining trend of higher flow skewness is changed by the competing effect of shear thinning and is well matched with the behavior of the secondary flow.
Rheologica Acta
Accepted/In press - 2017 Sep 9
secondary flow
viscous fluids
shear thinning
skewness
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Newtonian fluids
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Shear viscosity
Bird-Carreau model
Curved channel
Flow skewness
Yoon, K., Jung, H. W., & Chun, M. S. (Accepted/In press). Secondary flow behavior of electrolytic viscous fluids with Bird-Carreau model in curved microchannels. Rheologica Acta, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00397-017-1033-0
Secondary flow behavior of electrolytic viscous fluids with Bird-Carreau model in curved microchannels. / Yoon, Kyu; Jung, Hyun Wook; Chun, Myung Suk.
In: Rheologica Acta, 09.09.2017, p. 1-12.
Yoon, K, Jung, HW & Chun, MS 2017, 'Secondary flow behavior of electrolytic viscous fluids with Bird-Carreau model in curved microchannels', Rheologica Acta, pp. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00397-017-1033-0
Yoon K, Jung HW, Chun MS. Secondary flow behavior of electrolytic viscous fluids with Bird-Carreau model in curved microchannels. Rheologica Acta. 2017 Sep 9;1-12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00397-017-1033-0
Yoon, Kyu ; Jung, Hyun Wook ; Chun, Myung Suk. / Secondary flow behavior of electrolytic viscous fluids with Bird-Carreau model in curved microchannels. In: Rheologica Acta. 2017 ; pp. 1-12.
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Solitary pure ground-glass nodules 5 mm or smaller: Frequency of growth
Ryutaro Kakinuma, Yukio Muramatsu, Masahiko Kusumoto, Takaaki Tsuchida, Koji Tsuta, Akiko Miyagi Maeshima, Hisao Asamura, Noriyuki Moriyama
Department of Surgery (General Thoracic Surgery)
Purpose: To clarify the percentage of solitary pure ground-glass nodules (SPGGNs) 5 mm or smaller that grow and develop into invasive adenocarcinomas. Materials and Methods: This study was approved by the institutional review board, and informed consent was obtained from all people who were screened. From February 2004 through December 2007, 7294 participants underwent screening for lung cancer with computed tomographic (CT) imaging. The nodule database was reviewed to identify SPGGNs 5 mm or smaller. Growth of the SPGGNs was evaluated as of March 31, 2013. In cases of pathologic analysis-proven adenocarcinomas that developed from SPGGNs 5 mm or smaller, solid components were evaluated. Percentages, 95% confidence intervals, and means were calculated. Results: At baseline screening, 438 SPGGNs 5 mm or smaller were identified, and during the study period one SPGGN 5 mm or smaller developed de novo. Of the 439 SPGGNs, 394 were stable and 45 (10.3% [95% confidence interval: 7.5%, 13.7%]), including newly developed SPGGN, grew. Of the 45 SPGGNs that grew, 0.9% (four of 439 [95% confidence interval: 0.3%, 2.3%]) developed into adenocarcinomas (two minimally invasive [including the newly developed SPGGN] and two invasive). The mean period between baseline CT screening and the appearance of solid components in the four adenocarcinomas was 3.6 years. Conclusion: Of SPGGNs 5 mm or smaller, approximately 10% will grow and 1% will develop into invasive adenocarcinomas or minimally invasive adenocarcinomas. SPGGNs 5 mm or smaller should be rescanned 3.5 years later to look for development of a solid component.
https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2015141071
Research Ethics Committees
Kakinuma, R., Muramatsu, Y., Kusumoto, M., Tsuchida, T., Tsuta, K., Maeshima, A. M., ... Moriyama, N. (2015). Solitary pure ground-glass nodules 5 mm or smaller: Frequency of growth. Radiology, 276(3), 873-882. https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2015141071
Solitary pure ground-glass nodules 5 mm or smaller : Frequency of growth. / Kakinuma, Ryutaro; Muramatsu, Yukio; Kusumoto, Masahiko; Tsuchida, Takaaki; Tsuta, Koji; Maeshima, Akiko Miyagi; Asamura, Hisao; Moriyama, Noriyuki.
In: Radiology, Vol. 276, No. 3, 01.09.2015, p. 873-882.
Kakinuma, R, Muramatsu, Y, Kusumoto, M, Tsuchida, T, Tsuta, K, Maeshima, AM, Asamura, H & Moriyama, N 2015, 'Solitary pure ground-glass nodules 5 mm or smaller: Frequency of growth', Radiology, vol. 276, no. 3, pp. 873-882. https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2015141071
Kakinuma R, Muramatsu Y, Kusumoto M, Tsuchida T, Tsuta K, Maeshima AM et al. Solitary pure ground-glass nodules 5 mm or smaller: Frequency of growth. Radiology. 2015 Sep 1;276(3):873-882. https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2015141071
Kakinuma, Ryutaro ; Muramatsu, Yukio ; Kusumoto, Masahiko ; Tsuchida, Takaaki ; Tsuta, Koji ; Maeshima, Akiko Miyagi ; Asamura, Hisao ; Moriyama, Noriyuki. / Solitary pure ground-glass nodules 5 mm or smaller : Frequency of growth. In: Radiology. 2015 ; Vol. 276, No. 3. pp. 873-882.
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This is such a hi-caliber group of leading-edge thinkers and supercharged individuals, it should be natural for each of us to wish to provide a supportive and synergistic environment for the others. I have also learned always to have someone else proof read any material I write, as I have discovered that the brain tends not to “see” my own simple mistakes. Ergo, within the new Kepler context I feel editors should be there to support our writers in the most creative and positive ways possible. (e-mail to Bob Krone, March 23, 2013)
The purposes of peer reviews of article submissions to the Journal of Space Philosophy are: (1) to determine the relevance to the Vision and Goals of KSI; (2) to help the author(s) improve the article in substance and style or recommend references; and (3) to provide publication recommendations to the Editor-in-Chief.
Gordon Arthur, PhD
JSP Associate Editor, Theology at King’s College, London, UK
Adriano Autino
Founder, Space Renaissance International.
Sherry Bell, PhD
Kepler Space Institute Dean, School of Psychology.
Howard K. Bloom
Founder Space Development Group, Publicist, Author on Human Evolution, Science, Technology, and Space.
Jennifer Bolton, PhD
Co-Founder Virtual Space Orbiting Settlement VOSS. Veteran and molecular biologist, Space Pioneers Science Officer.
Lowry Burgess
Distinguished Fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry, Center for the Arts and Society, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University.
Douglas H. Clements, MD
American Board of Ophthalmology, “Improving Human Vision for Space Exploration and Settlement”.
Lawrence G. Downing, DMin
Senior Pastor, Space Faith and Spirituality Pioneer, University Professor.
Susan Beaman Fitzpatrick, DBA
Vice Chairman, Oak Family Advisors, LLC based in Chicago.
Yitzhaq Haut-Man, PhD
Architect for the Universe, The Jerusalem Dome of the Rock as a memory site for theology, philosophy and humanity past, present and future.
Chairman of the Executive Committee, National Space Society (NSS)
Joel D. Isaacson, PhD
Nature’s Cosmic Intelligence, pioneer of RD Cellular Automata since the 1960s.
Janet Ivey
Janet’s Planet online and on PBS. A Nashville TV treasure and a friend of Kepler Space Institute. She is an Ambassador of Buzz Aldrin’s Share Science Foundation.
Kseniya Khovanova-Rubicondo, PhD
University of Chicago, Expert in public economics, innovation, policy and urban planning. Consultant to the Council of Europe and European Commission.
Kee Young Kim, PhD
Chairman of the Board of the prestigious Samil Foundation, the oldest Korean institution to award and provide scholarships to high-performing scientists, artist and engineers.
Edward Kiker
Office of the Chief Scientist, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command, Kepler Space Institute Chief Scientist.
Bob Krone, PhD
Journal of Space Philosophy Editor-in-Chief, President, Kepler Space Institute (KSI), sponsor of this Journal.
David Livingston, PhD
Founder and host, The Space Show.
Neville Marzwell, PhD
Space Solar Power and Robotics Scientist. Career at JPL as Manager for Advanced Concepts and Technology.
Thomas L. Matula, PhD
Business and Management Professor, Lunar Commercial scholar.
Elliott Maynard, PhD
Founder, ArcoCielos Research Center, Sedona Arizona.
William Mook, PE
Trained in aerospace engineering, 15 years in alternative energy, Space Commerce Technology.
Thomas H. Olson, PhD, DBA
Professor of Clinical Management and Organization, University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Bernardino Palma
Historian, Portuguese Age of Discovery.
Kim Peart
Co-Founder, Virtual Orbiting Space Settlement (VOSS). Artist, visionary, virtual worlds.
George S. Robinson III, LLD
Space law pioneer and international space expert. Smithsonian Institute Legal Counsel.
Lonnie Jones Schrorer
Kids to Space author and teacher. Architect, aviator.
David Schrunk, MD
Aerospace engineer, Founder, Quality Laws Institute.
Martin Schwab, PhD
International Space author, KSI Faculty, Aerospace Technology Working Group.
Winston E. Scott
American Astronaut, Vice President for Development, Florida Institute of Technology.
Stephen E. Stephanou, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Systems Technology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Terry Tang, PhD
Kepler Space Institute Research Associate
Stephanie Lynne Thorburn
Author, Astrosociology.
Paul Werbos, PhD
U.S. National Science Foundation, Space scholar.
Frank White, MSc
Founder, The Overview Effect Institute.
John Wilkins, PhD
Professor of Space Settlements.
Space advocate and author of the 2013 Space novel, The Obligation.
Ignatius Yacoub, PhD
Professor of Graduate Studies, Loma Linda University School of Social Work and Social Ecology, Loma Linda, California.
Robert Zubrin, PhD
President, Mars Society.
We grieve the passing of Dr. Eshel Ben-Jacob (2015), Declan O’Donnell (2015), and Dr. Edgar Dean Mitchell (2016). We honor their dedication and contribution to the success of the JSP with their admission to Kepler’s Guild.
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Donald Trump calls Obama ‘founder of ISIS’
Posted 7:46 am, August 11, 2016, by CNN Wire
Donald Trump on Wednesday repeatedly called President Barack Obama the “founder” of ISIS and labeled Hillary Clinton the “co-founder.”
At a rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Trump also said that ISIS “honors” Obama — who the GOP nominee referred to as “Barack Hussein Obama.”
After lamenting the “mistake” the US made by going to war in Iraq — a conflict he repeatedly says that he opposed, despite evidence to the contrary — Trump then criticized Obama’s attempts to “clean up.”
“Normally you want to clean up; he made a bigger mess out of it. He made such a mess. And then you had Hillary with Libya, so sad,” Trump said.
“In fact, in many respects, you know they honor president Obama. ISIS is honoring President Obama. He is the founder of ISIS. He’s the founder of ISIS, OK? He’s the founder. He founded ISIS.”
He then said that the “co-founder” of ISIS was Clinton.
On CNBC Thursday morning, Trump doubled down on his comments.
“He was the founder of ISIS, absolutely,” Trump said. “The way he removed our troops — you shouldn’t have gone in. I was against the war in Iraq. Totally against it.”
“That mistake was made. It was a horrible mistake — one of the worst mistakes in the history of our country. We destabilized the Middle East and we’ve been paying the price for it for years. He was the founder — absolutely, the founder. In fact, in sports they have awards, he gets the most valuable player award. Him and Hillary. I mean she gets it, too. I gave them co-founder if you really looked at the speech.”
Did Obama underplay ISIS’ influence?
Critics say Obama has played down the terror threat and, while still on a victory lap after the killing of Osama bin Laden, failed to anticipate the rise of ISIS.
Trump later called Obama by his full name, “Barack Hussein Obama,” in a jab at his handling of the Russian involvement in Crimea.
Conservatives opponents of the Obama administration have used the president’s middle name to highlight what they see as Muslim sympathies and Trump had for a long time claimed Obama was not born in the US.
In fact, Obama is a Christian who was born in the US.
Following June’s horrific nightclub shooting in Orlando, Trump had suggested that Obama had an ulterior motive.
“We’re led by a man who is very — look, we’re led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he’s got something else in mind. And the something else in mind, you know, people can’t believe it,” Trump said on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends.”
“People cannot believe, they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and he can’t even mention the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ There’s something going on. It’s inconceivable. There’s something going on.”
Obama has previously responded: “Calling a threat by a different name doesn’t make it go away.”
President Trump: ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead
Obama warns 2020 candidates about getting out of step with voters: Be ‘rooted in reality’
Influential evangelical magazine: ‘Trump should be removed from office’
Trump says likely successor to ISIS leader Baghdadi killed by US forces
Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announces presidential campaign
Joe Biden says President Trump must be impeached
Trump implies that the late Rep. John Dingell is ‘looking up’ from hell
‘Americans sold us out,’ Kurds guarding US base in Syria say
Turkey’s president threatens to flood Europe with refugees as Syria offensive ramps up
‘Huge concerns’ thousands of ISIS prisoners may escape as Turkey invades Syria
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White House Aide Cliff Sims Tells All 0
Cliff Sims recalls his time as President Trump's Director of Messaging Strategy in a chaotic White House that he likens to "Game of Thrones with the cast of VEEP." He shares the real story behind the fiasco around Trump’s inauguration numbers, how the administration takes disorganization to a whole new level, and how many times the President’s senior staff learn of about major policy decisions on cable news. He recalls helping President Trump draft his notorious "enemies list," how he learned that Kelly Anne Conway was leaking to the press, and why he believes former WH Chief of Staff John Kelly had it in for him. He discusses how he reconciles his own conservative evangelical values with the President’s less than Christian behavior, how he came to grips with the hard learned lesson that everyone is disposable to Donald Trump, and why he still respects the President even after Trump disavowed Sims and his book in typical Trump fashion - via an angry tweet. Plus the Mooch is on loose, Sean Spicer needs a refrigerator, and the greatest mystery of all - Donald Trump’s hair!
Order his latest book Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House on Amazon, Audible, or wherever books are sold. Today's podcast was sponsored by BetterHelp and Homesick Candles. Subscribe to Kickass News on Apple Podcasts, visit our website at www.kickassnews.com, and follow us on twitter at @KickassNewsPod.
Rock Star Scientist Professor Brian Cox 0
Science Communicator Professor Brian Cox reveals why he left a popular rock band for a career in particle physics, what he is learning through his participation in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, and why he says the LHC has disproven the existence of ghosts. He discusses Brexit, the vital link between democracy and science, and his concern over the growing education disparity. He talks about walking in the footsteps of his hero Carl Sagan as a leading science communicator, the scientific concept that he has the hardest time explaining to non-scientists, and how the digital effects wizards behind the movie INTERSTELLAR are helping him elucidate the wonders of the universe in his spectacular new live show UNIVERSAL: ADVENTURES IN SPACE AND TIME. Plus Brian says he's ready to call a truce in his ongoing feud with Deepak Chopra.
Visit www.profbriancoxlive.com for dates, tickets and information for Brian Cox's live tour UNIVERSAL: ADVENTURES IN SPACE AND TIME. Subscribe to Brian’s podcast THE INFINITE MONKEY CAGE and follow him on twitter at @ProfBrianCox. Today's podcast was sponsored by Homesick Candles, Flatiron School, and Blinkist. Subscribe to Kickass News on Apple Podcasts, visit our website at www.kickassnews.com, and follow us on twitter at @KickassNewsPod.
Filmmaker Joe Berlinger Goes in the Dark Mind of Ted Bundy 0
Award-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother's Keeper, The Paradise Lost trilogy) reexamines America's most notorious serial killer on the 30th anniversary of his execution in his new Netflix documentary Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. He discusses how one of Bundy’s first jobs gave him an inside view of the flaws in America’s law enforcement system, how Bundy exploited those weaknesses to his own devilish advantage,
and how it led to dramatic changes in how the FBI hunts serial killers and how state and local police share information. We talk about how Ted Bundy’s clean cut good looks helped him elude capture, and the movie heart-throb who Joe Berlinger cast as Bundy in his new feature film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. We talk about the media circus that turned Ted Bundy into a household name, the influence that the Bundy trial had on the true crime genre, and why Berlinger, known as the father of the true crime documentary, doesn’t actually like the term "true crime."
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes is available on Netflix beginning January 24 and look for Joe's feature film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile at the Sundance Film Festival this weekend and in theatres soon. Keep up with Joe at www.joeberlinger.com or on Twitter at @JoeBerlinger. Today's episode is sponsored by Betterhelp. Subscribe to Kickass News on Apple Podcasts, visit our website at www.kickassnews.com, and follow us on twitter at @KickassNewsPod.
Dr. Phil Says People Never Stop Surprising Him 0
Dr. Phil McGraw says that some of his guests still surprise him even after 2000+ episodes of his #1 daytime talk show The Dr. Phil Show. He recalls how losing a football game in junior high school inspired him to go into psychology, what it was like to go into practice with his father, and why he eventually decided to go from getting into the minds of his patients to getting into the minds of juries as a trial consultant. He explains how that put him into contact with Oprah Winfrey, how he convinced her to move her entire TV operation to Amarillo, Texas for 3 months during the famous mad cow beef trial, and why he was initially hesitant when Oprah first invited him to come on her show. He discusses his belief that problems are complex but solutions are often fairly simple, but he also says don’t be fooled by the magic of television and his easy going manner. He says hours of research and peer review by America’s top doctors go into every single episode of The Dr. Phil Show. He shares a little relationship advice from his 42 years of marriage, how his wife Robin is the "Dr Phil to Dr Phil" who always keeps him in check, and why Robin still sits in the audience of every taping of his show. Then Dr Phil discusses how his new podcast Phil in the Blanks is a welcome chance to interview interesting people without the pressure of having to solve their problems, why he desperately wants to get O.J. Simpson on the show, and why he's planning to enter the popular true crime genre for his next project. Plus why he never volunteers advice to his friends, what he would say if he was mediating the government shutdown negotiations, and he weighs in on the prospect of an Oprah for President campaign in 2020.
Subscribe to Dr. Phil's new podcast Phil in the Blanks
on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or Spotify, and visit www.drphilintheblanks.com for more information and upcoming guests. The Dr. Phil Show airs weekdays and you can go to www.drphil.com to find your local listings. Follow Phil McGraw on Twitter at @DrPhil. Today's episode is sponsored by Flatiron School. Subscribe to Kickass News on Apple Podcasts, visit our website at www.kickassnews.com, and follow us on twitter at @KickassNewsPod.
Dr. Steven Pinker Says Good News Is a Hard Sell 0
A year ago, Dr. Steven Pinker's book Enlightenment Now made headlines for giving hard data that proved that the world is safer, happier, and freer than ever, but he was surprised by how many people just don't want to believe good news! Today Dr. Pinker returns to the podcast to review the metrics of societal progress that continue to show that the world just keeps getting better, but he also discusses two areas that give him cause for concern. Steven Pinker ponders whether the immigration debate might actually be a positive turning point as polls show that Americans are rejecting alternative facts and alarmism. He reveals how genetics may play a part in our political preferences and explores how linguistics can make for more productive political discussions. Dr. Pinker recalls growing up during the turbulent 60’s in Montreal and how he went from a teenage anarchist to a leading proponent of science, reason, humanism, and progress. Plus we discuss his ongoing fight against political correctness, why we need to stop giving words too much power, and why he says those baby boomers who say millenials are a generation of snowflakes have no one but themselves.
Order his latest book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress on Amazon, Audible, or wherever books are sold. Keep up with him on Twitter at @sapinker or at www.stevenpinker.com. Today's podcast was sponsored by Blinkist. Subscribe to Kickass News on Apple Podcasts, visit our website at www.kickassnews.com, and follow us on twitter at @KickassNewsPod.
Howie Mandel's Audience Is His Muse 0
Howie Mandel talks about making his first comedy special in 20 years, his childhood growing up in Toronto, and how the show Candid Camera inspired him to pull an elaborate prank that got him expelled form high school. He shares how "winging it" the first time he want on stage turned into his signature improvisational style, and how he still finds much of his comedic inspiration from interacting with his audience. He recalls opening for Diana Ross in Vegas, his very first TONIGHT SHOW appearance, how the HBO YOUNG COMEDIANS SPECIAL changed his life, and the time when a sitcom audition led to his getting cast in the serious TV medical drama SAINT ELSEWHERE. Howie reveals why he originally turned down the offer to host DEAL OR NO DEAL and the anxiety he gets whenever he sees contestants making bad decisions on the show. He opens up about his struggle with obsessive compulsive disorder, and how he went from fearing that it might be a career killer to using his fame to raise awareness of mental health issues. Plus Howie Mandel gives the secret to winning the golden buzzer on AMERICA'S GOT TALENT.
Howie's new comedy special HOWIE MANDEL PRESENTS HOWIE MANDEL AT THE HOWIE MANDEL COMEDY CLUB this Friday Jan 18 at 10PM E/P on Showtime. DEAL OR NO DEAL airs Wednesdays at 9AM ET on CNBC and AGT: CHAMPIONS airs Mondays on NBC at 8PM ET. Follow Howie on Twitter at @HowieMandel. Today's episode is sponsored by Flatiron School and Hackable podcast. Subscribe to Kickass News on Apple Podcasts, visit our website at www.kickassnews.com, and follow us on twitter at @KickassNewsPod.
Broad City's Abbi Jacobson on the Road Trip as Therapy 0
Abbi Jacobson opens up about the frustrations of TV development hell, playing “herself” on Comedy Central’s Broad City, and being a woman in a position of power. She discusses her ongoing struggle with work-life balance, how it took a book deal just to make her take 3 weeks off to travel the country and get over a broken heart, and how that trip taught her that “the things we’re most afraid of, are the things that will most change us.” Abbi reveals how she and co-creator Ilana Wexler got Amy Poehler to champion Broad City for television, how they convinced Hillary Clinton to guest star in the middle of the election, and what you can learn about a TV network from the snack selection in the lobby. Plus Abbi Jacobson talks aura readings in Sedona, feeling a little out of place at a Mormon lodge in Utah, and why a bed and breakfast is the worst place to go when you just want to be alone!
Order Abbi's new book I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff on Amazon or wherever books are sold. Keep up with Abbi on Twitter at @AbbiJacobson, and don’t miss the final season of Broad City beginning January 24 on Comedy Central. Subscribe to Kickass News on Apple Podcasts, visit our website at www.kickassnews.com, and follow us on twitter at @KickassNewsPod.
Brad Meltzer on the Secret Plot to Kill George Washington 0
Brad Meltzer is the #1 bestselling author of political thrillers like The Escape Artist and The Inner Circle. Today he talks about making his first foray into nonfiction for his latest book The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington, all the research that went into it, and his initial concern that a long forgotten rumor of a secret plot to assassinate America’s founding father might turn out to be just that - a rumor. He tells the story of America’s "other Benedict Arnold" and the deadly conspiracy by some of the very men charged with protecting George Washington’s life. He reveals how the incident gave birth to American counterintelligence, why Washington wasted no time in making an example of one of the traitor, and why there was a deliberate effort to cover-up the plot to kill Washington for more than 240 years. Plus he shares some of the wild conspiracy theories he hears from his fans at book signings, his alarm over the explosion of conspiracy thinking and paranoia in American politics, and a few memories of his friend the late President George H.W. Bush.
Order THE FIRST CONSPIRACY: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington on Amazon or wherever books are sold. Keep up with Brad at BradMeltzer.com or on twitter at @BradMeltzer. Subscribe to Kickass News on Apple Podcasts, visit our website at www.kickassnews.com, and follow us on twitter at @KickassNewsPod.
Bill Murray (Rerun) 0
Actor Bill Murray (Lost in Translation, Rushmore) discusses how his music and poetry album New Worlds evolved out of a chance meeting with classical cellist Jan Vogler on a flight from Berlin to NYC. Plus, Bill Murray shares his philosophy of life, his favorite American humorists, and his thoughts on being an internet folk hero.
New Worlds is available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, or wherever you buy music. Please subscribe to Kickass News on Apple Podcasts and visit www.kickassnews.com for more fun stuff.
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Couple accused of shopping spree after $120K bank error: ‘We took some bad legal advice’
Posted 4:48 pm, September 9, 2019, by Tribune Media, Updated at 04:47PM, September 9, 2019
MONTOURSVILLE, Pa. — The Pennsylvania couple who police say spent over $100,000 of money that wasn’t theirs were in court on Monday.
Robert and Tiffany Williams, of Montoursville, made their first court appearance after being arrested and charged with four felony counts of theft.
They are accused of spending thousands of dollars that wasn’t theirs. Investigators say $120,000 was accidentally transferred to the couple’s bank account in May after a BB&T bank teller in Georgia typed in the wrong account number during a bank transaction.
Police say the couple then purchased a four-wheeler, an SUV, a trailer, and even a race car with the money that was mistakenly deposited in their account.
BB&T bank tried to contact the couple on numerous occasions to correct the mistake and to set up a payment plan to pay back the money. But after several failed attempts, the bank decided to take legal action.
The Williams’ face four felony charges each, and each count is punishable by up to 10 years in state prison.
“All I’m going to say is we took some bad legal advice from some people and it probably wasn’t the best thing in the end,” Robert Williams said.
The charges the couple face will go to trial. No trial date has determined at this time.
Prosecutors say a man stole $88,000 from a bank vault. The FBI caught him after he flashed stacks of bills on social media.
Man accused of stealing from fellow hospital patient has avoided prison despite prior convictions
Man charged with sex crime in a Walmart
Police arrest both suspects in the Denny’s restaurant killing
Pennsylvania woman accused of faking cancer received over $10K in donations, authorities say
A federal judge refuses to dismiss Chicago’s lawsuit against Jussie Smollett
Accused thief uses U-Haul to smash into Family Dollar, swipe tobacco products
Man killed in attempted ATM robbery was awaiting sentencing for similar crime
An inmate ran an online scam from prison and made $1 million, authorities say
Man, 66, charged with murder of 5 neighbors in Chicago condo building
St. Louis man charged in armed robbery of pizza delivery drivers
Texas man robbed a bank on the day before his wedding to pay for the ring, sheriff says
Man accused of pointing gun at passing drivers in south St. Louis
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‘The Voice': Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani Get Into First Battle Over Kat Hammock
The Voice Season 17 kicked off Monday (Sept. 23) with the famed blind auditions—allowing returning coaches Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson and John Legend, as well as returning alum Gwen Stefan, to take cracks at their initial team builds. A highlight of this particular season is the rivalry between real-life partners Shelton and Stefani, who have both vowed that they will not go easy on each other in their respective quests to win.
Viewers didn't have to wait long for a little tussle between the lovers. When 18-year-old Kat Hammock, a lilting vocalist with a penchant for old-school hits and some good piano chops, took the stage with Billy Joel's "Vienna," Shelton and Stefani were the sole chair turns—and they both had a lot to say in regards to winning Hammock over.
Stefani, who had been waxing rhapsodic about the kind of female singer she wanted to recruit on her team just shortly before Hammock performed, noted with entrancement: "I was just saying what I want next is a little princess girl that just sings like an angel...that sings beautiful, that will be my little girl," she raved.
Meanwhile, Shelton—who had not yet scored anyone to his team—took a storming approach. "I had three people in the finale last year. There's only four that made it to the finale," he groused. "I have nobody on my team this year! What is going on around here?"
In a desperate move, he brought out a pair of camo fishing waders, emblazoned with his name, and apologized that they aren't as cool as the jackets Clarkson and Stefani have on tap to hand out to team members. "This is stupid! It's because I'm that desperate for you to pick me as your coach," he noted. "'ll just put 'em right here. Dad, they'll probably fit you, dad," he addressed Hammock's father.
Shelton didn't have to go that far, as Hammock went ahead and chose him for her coach. We're sure Stefani will be able to exact her revenge later in the season.
We'll be following along each week to keep up with the Season 17 competition, so be sure to check in weekly to check the progress of your favorites on the show.
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Aust Ferry Crossing/Bob Dylan`s" No Direction Home" promo cover location setting 2014.
Aust Ferry or Beachley Ferry was a ferry service that operated across the River Severn between Aust and Beachley both in Gloucestershire.The ferry service gained a new lease of life, however, with the growth of motor traffic, and a service was re-opened in 1926. Between 1931 and 1966, a ferry service was operated by Enoch Williams of the Old Passage Severn Ferry Company Ltd. Initially, this was only able to transport passengers with bicycles and motorbikes, but, by 1934, the Severn Queen was launched as a car ferry. It was able to carry just 17 cars. Each car had to turn sharply off the ramp onto the ferry, then be turned on a manually operated turntable before being parked. The process was reversed for unloading. The ferry timetable was notoriously affected by the huge tidal range on the Severn. It was unable to operate at low tide or at very high tides. The last ferry crossing occurred on 8 September 1966, the day before the first Severn Bridge opened.The Martin Scorsese film No Direction Home about the life of Bob Dylan has a promotional shot of Dylan standing in front of the Aust ferry terminal in May 1966, not long before it closed for good.
The last remaining ferry boat, the Severn Princess which had been launched in 1959, was found wrecked, abandoned and full of fertiliser in Ireland in 1999 by Dr. Richard Jones, the grandson of Enoch Williams, and returned to Beachley in 2003. For some years the vessel rested alongside the Beachley slipway but was then moved to the west bank of the River Wye in Chepstow, beneath the railway bridge.We visited on a gorgeous March day arriving after a very high tide,so walking down the slipway was impossible.
This one looks to have been taken possibly before the 1960`s
I will start by adding these old shots..this was probably taken in the early 60`s.
Bob Dylan..this promo shoot was arranged by Barry Feinstein
Taken here in Aust in May 1966,shortly before the ferry service closed
Google Earth view of the landing stage
The route of the ferry service
I understand this shot was taken in the early 1980`s..I would give the photographer due credit if I knew his/her name.
This is the entrance to Old Passage
And this is the gated entrance to the old ferry slipway
Imagine Bob Dylan standing to the left..
The entrance to the Gents toilet is through the turnstile
This must have been one of the first coin operated turnstiles used..
Tonemapped version
You can see where the coin collection box was at the frontt
Bit of grease and she would be as good as new!!
Inside now
The urinal slab
Old signage
No roof left now so nature is advancing well
One of two toilet cubicles
Iron flush piping
Pair of hidden cubicles
Only remnants of the china pan still remain
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Crookham Court Manor, Berkshire 2013.
Crookham Court stands on the former site of Crookham manor house, built around the start of 14th century and destroyed in 1543, and subsequently demolished around 1850. The construction of the current building started around this time and continued in two more phases over the next fifty years.
It served several purposes,one as a manor house then a junior school and then school for the children of the Military serving at Greenham Common. It was abandoned for some time after the US Air Force left the area and purchased in 1961 when it was used as a boarding school until 1990.In 1988 there was a well-publicised case of child abuse by several members of staff which was covered on Esther Rantzen’s show That’s Life. This had apparently been going on for thirty years but it was only when the headmaster Mr. Gold joined the school in 1987 that it was discovered and reported. Three were convicted, including the principal who was the owner of the building. Over twenty years later the teacher who had been set free was also convicted when another victim came forward; he has tried appealing,but it has since been turned down.We visited at dawn on a lush Spring day,so the lighting inside was good.
Viewed from main entrance
Crookham Court Manor..the first glimpse as we approach her at 6am!
She looks very nice indeed..the actual frontage is round to the left but in full view of the lived in Lodge.
This elevation looks out over the tennis courts..the Library was ground floor in the centre.
We start our tour in what I can only think was the kitchens
Nearby,I find this room.
I leave the main group and go exploring
As the sun was coming up,the lighting was getting better and better This is just a bit of HDR effect
Another HDR shot of a lovely piece of furniture
No idea what this room was used for
But then I discover this gorgeous sight
Was made for HDR!
And another HDR shot
How it really was
This I think was the main entrance
Very impressive entrance indeed
I hope this is retained when the building is converted into flats
Punch Books set on a lovely marble surface incorporating a radiator
Looking up in HDR
Imagine this with a fire blazing away...
Of course I had to retouch this shot
Beautiful arches
Spectacular ceiling and skylight design
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Tag: Brookes Poetry Centre
Diversity from Oxford
The TS Eliot prize drew criticism for the lack of diversity in its short list, although it was won by the only poet of colour included, Ocean Vuong, who also happened to be gay. However, at the level of the smaller presses, diversity thrives and younger poets from a range of ethnicities and sexual orientations are producing exciting and innovative collections. Two recent publications from poets with Oxford links exemplifying this trend are a hurry of english by Mary Jean Chan, published by ignition press, which is part of the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, and Five Storms (smith/doorstop) by Theophilus Kwek, who is a former president of the Oxford Poetry Society and, like Chan, a co-editor of Oxford Poetry.
The blurb to Mary Jean Chan’s book describes her as making a ‘significant contribution to poetry and queer writing in the UK’. Certainly, as a young, Hong Kong Chinese, queer woman, she seems to tick all the boxes. However, there is a danger that her PC rating may obscure the power and strength of her poetry. This is a very strong debut collection which explores and exploits some compelling autobiographical detail. In some ways, it reminds me of Seamus Heaney’s first collection, Death of a Naturalist, which also mines the process of coming-of-age. As Heaney’s book had the presiding figure of the father, so this one is dominated by the presence of the mother, addressed directly in the opening poem, ‘Always’: ‘You are always where I begin’…
Always the lips kissing
they could kiss those mouths
you would approve of.
Throughout the book, the poem addresses the mother’s life as well as her own. Although Chan was brought up in Hong Kong, her mother seems to have lived in mainland China and experienced the tyranny of the Red Guards. The intellectual oppression is presented in the second poem ‘what my mother (a poet) might say’ where she represents her mother’s ideas and feelings in lines which are cancelled, so that the only line which stands is the repeated and italicised ‘that Mao wrote beautiful Chinese calligraphy’. The respect for her mother is shown through the tentative ‘might’ of the title. Aside from the typographical innovation of using the strike-through function, this poem is formally beautifully arranged in a series of couplets where the first line is devoted to the mother’s thoughts about her own life, the second to her thoughts about her daughter. In contrast to the glib facility of the refrain, these lines are uncomfortable, acknowledging the complexity of the mother’s character and of the relationship she has with her daughter:
that she dreams about seeing her father’s heart in the doctor’s fist
that I must only write about flowers
Another formally innovative poem is ‘At the Castro’ with the dedication ‘for Orlando’ which I choose to read as an allusion to the bisexual, gender-shifting eponymous protagonist of Virginia Woolf’s novel. Whatever it may be, the poem itself is set out in two columns which may be a visual representation of two lovers, the space down the centre of the page showing the difficulty of same-sex relationships in a hostile society. The poem celebrates the freedom of self-realisation and ‘coming-out’ possible in a gay club:
the first time you stepped into a gay bar
was the first time you danced
The ‘you’ addressed shifts into third person:
the girl who thought she had to sit down
for the rest of her life broke all the rules
became the wind
and then back into second:
you drank
till you became sober enough not to be
ashamed the boy you never were
smiled kissed
another girl
These changes make it unclear whose experience is being addressed in the poem, whether it is the poet, her lover, or both or whether the figures are generic. Celebration changes to horror as ‘a hand pulls a trigger’, destroying the relationship or relationships. Whether this violence is real or metaphorical, it suggests the risks and fears of being gay but nevertheless finishes with a defiant assertion of the importance of love:
skin is never an apology
but always an act of faith
The collection is woven around the relationship with the mother, with the lover and with the desire to reconcile the mother and the lover. Whereas the title phrase for the book is taken from a prose poem where the mother’s influence is felt as oppressive and English is seen as an escape, ‘My desires dressed themselves in a hurry of English to avoid my mother’s gaze’, in //, short-listed for the 2017 Forward Prize, a poem which is perhaps the centrepiece of the book, Chan attempts to construct this reconciliation. The title represents chopsticks: ‘To the Chinese,// you and I are chopsticks: lovers with the same anatomies.’ The poem’s starts with an awkward dinner where the non-Chinese lover is entertained by the hostile family, but moves towards a determination not to be defeated by parental or societal pressure:
Tonight, I am dreaming again
of tomorrow: another chance to eat at the feast of the living
The poem ends by rejecting secrecy and suicide:
I have stopped believing that secrets are a beautiful way
to die. You came home with me for three hundred days –
to show my family that dinner together won’t kill us all.
This idea is reprised in “Love for the Living’ near the end of the book, a celebration of society’s recognition and acceptance of same sex love, which is echoed in the changed attitude of the mother, felt as ‘the ache of pleasure when/your mother mentions your lover’s name.’
The final poem, like the first, centres on the poet’s mother, but the balance of power has shifted. Whilst the first poem is addressed directly to the mother, in an agonised plea for approval and acceptance, in this one the mother is spoken of in third person, as if the poet had succeeded in distancing herself and attaining independent adulthood. She speaks here in the first person, as she recognises her mother’s needs and that she must accept the fact that she cannot solve them or make them her burden.
I can only
invite her to the table: Look,
mother, your hands are beautiful.
Look, mother our tea is ready.
Appropriately, the use of pronouns in this last poem is unambiguous and subtle. The “I” of the daughter ‘speaks confidently to the ‘you’ of the mother, bringing them together in the ‘our’ of the closing line.
Theophilus Kwek is both startlingly precocious and astonishingly accomplished. He seems to have published his first book at the age of 17 and this ‘New Poet’s Prize’ Smith/Doorstop pamphlet has appeared when he is still only 24. Kwek is prolific and has the ability to respond to the moment with poems far removed from the agonized moans or enraged rants so often produced after major calamities. At the same time, his style is distinctly reticent or even elliptical and tends to incorporate allusions which may require research. Admittedly, that is not so difficult in the age of Google, but it does impede the first reading, as in ‘The Passenger’ where the references to Izanami and Izanagi enrich the poem if the reader understands them. Incidentally, either Kwek or Wikipedia has got the names of these Japanese gods the wrong way round.
He is particularly skilled at presenting natural and physical detail. The first poem in the collection is written in more-or-less rhymed couplets with some powerful internal sound effects as in the second stanza:
Light sown
As haw, thawed streams like cracks in the bone.
The internal rhyme of ‘haw’ with ‘thawed’ contrasts sharply with the onomatopoeic ‘like cracks’ and is followed by the final shocking long rhyming vowel sound in ‘bone’ which emphasizes the whiteness of the snow. However, I am puzzled by ‘haw’, which should be the red of the hawthorn berry, but seems here to mean something more like the ‘hoar’ of a hoar frost. Nor am I quite sure why the thrush is ‘hurtling’. The mysterious quality of the poem is also apparent in the ambiguity of its setting. It begins as a view ‘From a window’ and this idea is reinforced at the end, ‘That through a window comes’ but we cannot be sure if this is a window which is merely that of an observer, or whether it may be a train window, in which case, the poem’s speaker is also involved in the action. A ‘cabin’ is stirred ‘to praise, or something like praise’ and we are left uncertain of the location of the cabin; is it outside the train, part of the train or a synonym for ‘heart’ in the next line? The many hints that this is more than a nature poem about snow culminate in the portentous last half line ‘The right and the wronged’ –perhaps a little too portentous after the subtle ambiguities of the rest of the poem. Another piece that becomes suddenly and heavily significant at the conclusion is ‘What Follows Deer cull, Wytham Woods, 7th February 2015’.
Again, the observation of natural detail is beautiful and convincing: ‘bounding across seed-rows they are gone,/the cracked frost making an ashen path/to a gap in the horse-wire thorn’. However, the last stanza, which uses multisyllabic and royal rhyme, also becomes suddenly abstract: ‘struck on the flint of that eternity/more alive than in the burnished wood.’ Something very odd is happening: ‘struck on the flint’ has connotations both of shooting and of making light or fire, while the adjective ‘burnished’ transforms the wood from nature into a work of art. The poet is writing about the creation of an image, the image that he missed with his camera, but which has been captured by the eye, memory and the poem.
There is a wide range of subject matter here, with poems based on anything from biblical themes to newspaper stories. Perhaps it is easiest to engage with the poems which give us more to go on or where there seems to be some kind of personal involvement. For example, in ‘Requiem’/ Grandfather, 1936-2015, although we may not understand exactly what is happening in the funeral ritual, nevertheless we grasp that a family has been brought together in mourning, and recognise the poet’s hope that he can maintain his love for his surviving relatives:
Teach me now to love, at their frayed ends
the left-behind, their washed and ashen fingers.
The language of the previous two lines suggests that these relationships have not always been easy, ‘our sifted, falling silences, the plunge//of numbed hands under frigid water.’
The final group of sonnets, for which the collection is named, ‘The First Five Storms’, appears to be a sequence of love poems, but the reticence mentioned earlier, make this a very different kind of poetry from that of Mary Jean Chan.
It may be instructive to explore the use of pronouns in these poems. The first person plural is dominant. ‘We’ is used in every poem except iv, ‘Desmond’, where it splits into ‘you’ and ‘I’, a split heralded in iii, ‘Clodagh’, ‘I had come here/ to make resolutions, taste the grey/Christmas skies you loved’. In the first two poems, the ‘we’ is unproblematic; it may be the speaker and his friends or his lover, more likely a lover, given the imagery in the first sonnet, ‘the rest of our days reach in to join fingers/ with the season’s slow dusk’. ‘We’ provides a sense of assurance, a platform, ‘safety in numbers’. In ii, ‘Barney’, the ‘we’ becomes exclusive, almost smug, as it celebrates itself and its own escape from the ravages of the storm, with the ‘dog outside’ perhaps symbolising social exclusion.
We stood, then went in our cars to church,
And scraped our shoes, and left the dog outside.
Clodagh describes experiencing the storm on a sea-crossing to Ireland. ‘You’ sleeps through ‘the thick/of it’, leaving the ‘I’ in the sestet, on his own to make new and unexpected discoveries, perhaps about love: ‘but found instead/fine rain, and land underfoot; gold and myrrh’. ‘Desmond’, the fourth sonnet, is a beautiful poem which seems to refer back to ‘The Weaver’ at the beginning of the book. There the bird’s nest-building seems to represent the enduring love of a parent; here, it seems to be a lesson learned by the speaker, again as the beloved sleeps –‘you had gone up to bed’ – about the power of love to endure, through adversity, a lesson which he shares by directly addressing the beloved:
I cannot explain, love, but I knew
how different they seemed, and how they sang
all the louder in the rain, and flew.
Lesson learned, the poet returns confidently to ‘we’ in the last poem ‘Eva’, which, like the first poem in the book, is set in snow. Poet and beloved ‘set out early’ and come upon ‘the scent of January’s mowing/fresh on fallen grass’ which I take to be snow or perhaps frost. It is further significantly described as ‘a season’s dowry’. The melting of the frost is seen as the first stage in the renewal of fertility which ‘ would put dry earth to grass, and then in time/turn road to wood, and sky, and bark, and moss.’ This poem , like the whole sequence, is in many ways very conventional, with its use of the sonnet and natural imagery to celebrate love. Kwek demonstrates his mastery of the poetic tradition while at the same time displaying linguistic invention and an ability to innovate by pushing the forms to their limits so that the apparently naturalistic poem resonates with subtle and often ambiguous meaning.
Author poetry owlPosted on June 21, 2018 Categories poetry, UncategorizedTags a hurry of english, Brookes Poetry Centre, ignition poets, Mary Jean chan, oxford poetry, recent poetry, smith/doorstop, The First Five Storms, Theophilus KwekLeave a comment on Diversity from Oxford
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An adolescent male patient with left-sided Blount dis- ease who continued to gain weight despite realign- ment of his leg. (Photo courtesy of Sanjeev Sabharwal, MD, MPH.)
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Surgical correction of the varus alignment that is characteristic of Blount disease does not lead to greater patient activity or reduction in body mass index (BMI), according to a recent study.
“Many parents and physicians see excess weight as a product of immobility due to limb deformity and believe if the limbs were aligned properly, the child’s activity level would increase and obesity would resolve. We conducted a retrospective study to answer that question,” said study coauthor Sanjeev Sabharwal, MD, MPH, professor of orthopedic surgery and director of pediatric orthopedics at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School in Newark.
Blount disease occurs in early-onset and late-onset forms, with some authors recognizing an intermediate (juvenile) type. The disease is characterized by progressive multiplanal deformities such as tibial varus, procurvatum, and internal torsion, along with limb shortening. The result can be gait deviations and limb-length discrepancy (LLD), which may contribute to premature knee osteoarthritis.
Children with Blount disease tend to be heavier than their peers and have higher rates of obesity. In a 2007 study published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Sabharwal and colleagues found a significant relationship between BMI and severity of radiographic deformities in children with early-onset Blount disease, but not in those with late-onset disease.
Some milder cases of early onset disease may spontaneously resolve, and long-leg braces may be helpful in some young children. After age 4 years, however, surgery to restore limb alignment and correct LLD is utilized more frequently.
The current Rutgers study, which was published in the March 2014 issue of the Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics, assessed 51 children with Blount disease (23 early onset, 28 late onset). The 47 who had gradual surgical correction with external fixation also received six to eight weeks of inpatient rehabilitation that included dietary control and nutritional counseling. They were followed postsurgery for an average of 48 months.
The surgical treatments (osteotomy, growth modulation, or both) significantly improved mechanical axis deviation and LLD. BMI, however, increased relative to preoperative measurements in 76% of the children. At follow-up, the average BMI of the cohort had increased from 35 preoperatively to 38, and the number of morbidly obese (BMI ≥ 40) children had increased from 12 to 20.
“Now we have more information for parents, but unfortunately not good news,” Sabharwal said. “We could only influence the child’s diet for the rehabilitation period, and it’s also difficult to impact long-standing eating habits when so many patients are economically disadvantaged minorities with limited food choices.”
Brian Shaw, MD, an associate professor at the University of Colorado in Denver and Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, said he was not surprised by the findings but agreed the information could be useful for parents.
“The study answered a valid question for patients with Blount disease, although I wouldn’t have expected any other result—previous studies of orthopedic procedures such as knee joint replacement have shown no positive effect on BMI or obesity,” Shaw said. “However, we can now counsel patients more knowledgeably that lower BMI should not be a part of expectations of treatment. The study does support research into whether bariatric surgery and other nonorthopedic surgery methods can address patients’ obesity and lack of activity.”
In fact, the one patient who demonstrated the greatest BMI and weight reductions in the Rutgers study was an adolescent who refused the orthopedic procedures and underwent bariatric surgery.
“Perhaps weight-loss surgery before or after realignment surgery may be an option for some,” Sabharwal said, “but it’s clear that [realignment] surgery alone is not enough.”
Future research might offer additional insights.
“Our study had no control group for comparison, so it would be interesting to do a prospective study comparing these patients either with Blount patients not undergoing a weight-reduction program or compare their activity level with other obese children who have normal limb alignment,” Sabharwal said.
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A Critique of Human Rights
October 25, 2019 By Mark Movsesian in Books, Scholarship Roundup, Tradition Project Tags: Human Rights Leave a comment
Here is an interesting-looking book from Princeton University Press that critiques the concept of universal human rights: Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power, by political scientist Clifford Bob of Duquesne University. (Full disclosure: Professor Bob was a participant in a conference our Tradition Project co-sponsored in June 2017, on the differing conceptions of tradition in American and Russian politics, at the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, Italy). Here’s the description of the book from the Princeton website:
Rights are usually viewed as defensive concepts representing mankind’s highest aspirations to protect the vulnerable and uplift the downtrodden. But since the Enlightenment, political combatants have also used rights belligerently, to batter despised communities, demolish existing institutions, and smash opposing ideas. Delving into a range of historical and contemporary conflicts from all areas of the globe, Rights as Weapons focuses on the underexamined ways in which the powerful wield rights as aggressive weapons against the weak.
Clifford Bob looks at how political forces use rights as rallying cries: naturalizing novel claims as rights inherent in humanity, absolutizing them as trumps over rival interests or community concerns, universalizing them as transcultural and transhistorical, and depoliticizing them as concepts beyond debate. He shows how powerful proponents employ rights as camouflage to cover ulterior motives, as crowbars to break rival coalitions, as blockades to suppress subordinate groups, as spears to puncture discrete policies, and as dynamite to explode whole societies. And he demonstrates how the targets of rights campaigns repulse such assaults, using their own rights-like weapons: denying the abuses they are accused of, constructing rival rights to protect themselves, portraying themselves as victims rather than violators, and repudiating authoritative decisions against them. This sophisticated framework is applied to a diverse range of examples, including nineteenth-century voting rights movements; the American civil rights movement; nationalist, populist, and religious movements in today’s Europe; and internationalized conflicts related to Palestinian self-determination, animal rights, gay rights, and transgender rights.
Comparing key episodes in the deployment of rights, Rights as Weapons opens new perspectives on an idea that is central to legal and political conflicts.
Justice Alito Keynotes Tradition Project Session in Rome
January 8, 2019 By Mark Movsesian in Center News, Tradition Project Leave a comment
Here’s a report on last month’s meeting of the Tradition Project in Rome, on “The Value of Tradition in the Global Context.” Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito of the Supreme Court of the United States delivered the keynote address:
As a highlight of this year’s Tradition Project session, Justice Alito spoke about the relationship between international and national law in the context of human rights. “The conflict between global human rights norms and local legal traditions has become acute over the past decade,” says Professor Mark L. Movsesian, who directs the Center for Law and Religion and co-directs the Project with Professor Marc O. DeGirolami. “Justice Alito’s keynote addressed a timely topic in a substantive way. We were so honored to have him with us.”
After Justice Alito’s remarks, the Project convened a panel of respondents that included Giuseppe Dalla Torre, president of the Vatican City Tribunal; Ugo De Siervo, president emeritus of the Italian Constitutional Court; Chantal Delsol of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques; and Andrés Ollero of the Spanish Constitutional Tribunal.
The session also included four invitation-only workshops on “Understandings of Tradition in the Global Context”; “Local Traditions and Global Government”; “Liberalism, Populism, and Nationalism”; and “Tradition and Human Rights.” Participants prepared short reflection papers on the various topics. “There was a lot to discuss in the workshops, and there will be a lot to keep elaborating and deepening in the near future,” says LUMSA Professor Monica Lugato, one of the Tradition Project session organizers. “It was a challenging and rewarding academic meeting.”
Thanks to our partners at LUMSA and at Villanova for co-sponsoring the Rome meeting. Watch this space for news about future Tradition Project events!
Legal Spirits Episode 003: Tradition in the Global Context
December 10, 2018 By L&R Forum in Center News, Podcasts, Tradition Project Tags: Rome, Tradition Project Leave a comment
In this episode, Center Director Mark Movsesian and Associate Director Marc DeGirolami discuss the upcoming meeting of the Center’s Tradition Project, set for Rome on December 12-13. This session, “The Value of Tradition in the Global Context,” features a keynote address by Justice Samuel Alito, a response panel of European jurists, and a series of workshops with scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Mark and Marc discuss the relationship among tradition, liberalism, nationalism, and populism in today’s world and address recent works by Yascha Mounk, Mark Lilla, Patrick Deneen, and Yoram Hazony, as well as, on its 25 anniversary, Samuel Huntington’s famous essay on the clash of civilizations.
Scruton on Culture
December 4, 2018 By Mark Movsesian in Books, Scholarship Roundup, Tradition Project Tags: Culture Leave a comment
Last year, we were honored to host Sir Roger Scruton as the keynoter for the second session of our Tradition Project, on culture and citizenship, here in New York. (You can view the video on the sidebar to the right, or on our Videos page). This fall, Sir Roger published a book on the subject of culture for Encounter Books, Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged. Looks very worthwhile. Here’s the description from the publisher’s website:
What is culture? Why should we preserve it, and how? In this book renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends Western culture against its internal critics and external enemies, and argues that rumours of its death are seriously exaggerated. He shows our culture to be a continuing source of moral knowledge, and rebuts the fashionable sarcasm which sees it as nothing more than the useless legacy of ‘dead white European males’. He is robust in defence of traditional architecture and figurative painting, critical of the fashionable relativists and urgent in his plea for our civilization, which more than ever stands in need of the self-knowledge and self-confidence that are the gift of serious culture.
Next Week in Rome: Tradition Project III
December 3, 2018 By Mark Movsesian in Center News, Conference Annoucements, Scholarship Roundup, Tradition Project Leave a comment
We’re delighted to announce we’ll hold the third session of the Tradition Project, “The Value of Tradition in the Global Context,” next week in Rome. This session will feature a public address, on December 12, by Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., of the Supreme Court of the United States., and four private workshops on the conference themes. The event is hosted by our partners at LUMSA Università and is co-sponsored by Villanova’s Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy. Details are available here, Programma12-13dicembre2018. Forum readers in Rome, stop by and say hello on December 12!
Congratulations to Board Member Richard Sullivan
October 12, 2018 By Mark Movsesian in Center News, Tradition Project Leave a comment
Judge Richard Sullivan
Congratulations to Center Board Member Judge Richard Sullivan! Yesterday, the Senate confirmed Rich to a seat on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. For people keeping track, Rich is the second participant in our Center’s Tradition Project to be named to the federal appeals court. The other is Stephanos Bibas, now on the Third Circuit. We like to think our record speaks for itself.
Deneen and Munoz in New York Next Month
October 11, 2018 By Mark Movsesian in Conference Annoucements, Scholarship Roundup, Tradition Project Tags: Liberalism Leave a comment
Forum readers in the New York area should try to attend a fantastic-looking event here next month. Our friend at the University Bookman, Gerald Russello, is co-sponsoring a discussion between Patrick Deneen and Phillip Muñoz (both Notre Dame) on “The Crisis of Liberalism.” Patrick, Gerald, and Philip are all participants in our Tradition Project, and Phillip, whose work was the subject of a symposium here on the Forum last year, will also present a paper in our law-and-religion colloquium later in November. But we like to spread the wealth around. Details about the event, to take place on November 6, can be found at the link.
“Christos Yannaras” (Andreopoulos & Harper, eds.)
October 10, 2018 By Mark Movsesian in Books, Scholarship Roundup, Tradition Project Tags: Human Rights, Orthodoxy Leave a comment
From Routledge, here is a collection of essays on the work of Christos Yannaras, one of the most important Orthodox Christian theologians working today: Christos Yannaras: Philosophy, Theology, Culture. In the Orthodox world, Yannaras is known for his skepticism about much contemporary human-rights discourse, which, he believes, is too heavily influenced by Western individualism. His work is therefore a challenge to easy assumptions about the universality of international human rights–a topic we will address at our Tradition Project meeting later this year in Rome.
The Routledge collection is edited by Andreas Andreopoulous (University of Winchester, UK) and Demetrios Harper (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). The publisher’s description follows:
Christos Yannaras is one of the most significant Orthodox theologians of recent times. The work of Yannaras is virtually synonymous with a turn or renaissance of Orthodox philosophy and theology, initially within Greece, but as the present volume confirms, well beyond it. His work engages not only with issues of philosophy and theology, but also takes in wider questions of culture and politics.
With contributions from established and new scholars, the book is divided into three sections, which correspond to the main directions that Christos Yannaras has followed – philosophy, theology, and culture – and reflects on the ways in which Yannaras has engaged and influenced thought across these fields, in addition to themes including ecclesiology, tradition, identity, and ethics.
This volume facilitates the dialogue between the thought of Yannaras, which is expressed locally yet is relevant globally, and Western Christian thinkers. It will be of great interest to scholars of Orthodox and Eastern Christian theology and philosophy, as well as theology more widely.
Scruton, “On Human Nature”
October 9, 2018 By Mark Movsesian in Books, Scholarship Roundup, Tradition Project Tags: Philosophy Leave a comment
Sir Roger Scruton delivered the keynote address at our second Tradition Project meeting in New York, in 2017. You can see the video of his address over on the sidebar and on our Videos page. Princeton University Press has just released the paperback edition of Sir Roger’s latest work, On Human Nature, a naturalistic argument for the uniqueness of human nature. Humans are unique, on this view, not because we bear the image of God, but because we have the unique capacity for self-reflection. Whether Scruton avoids Christian metaphysics because he does not believe, or because he thinks his work will be more accessible to contemporary readers without them, I don’t know. Sir Roger’s work is always interesting and worthwhile, though, and this looks to be no exception. The publisher’s description follows:
In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings cannot be understood simply as biological objects. We are not only human animals; we are also persons, in essential relation with other persons, and bound to them by obligations and rights. Our world is a shared world, exhibiting freedom, value, and accountability, and to understand it we must address other people face to face and I to I.
Scruton develops and defends his account of human nature by ranging widely across intellectual history, from Plato and Averroës to Darwin and Wittgenstein. The book begins with Kant’s suggestion that we are distinguished by our ability to say “I”—by our sense of ourselves as the centers of self-conscious reflection. This fact is manifested in our emotions, interests, and relations. It is the foundation of the moral sense, as well as of the aesthetic and religious conceptions through which we shape the human world and endow it with meaning. And it lies outside the scope of modern materialist philosophy, even though it is a natural and not a supernatural fact. Ultimately, Scruton offers a new way of understanding how self-consciousness affects the question of how we should live.
The result is a rich view of human nature that challenges some of today’s most fashionable ideas about our species.
“Research Handbook on Law and Religion” (Adhar, ed.)
September 24, 2018 By Mark Movsesian in Books, Scholarship Roundup, Tradition Project Tags: Comparative Law and Religion Leave a comment
To start off our book posts this week, here is a forthcoming volume from Edward Elgar that looks great, the Research Handbook on Law and Religion, edited by our friend, Rex Adhar (University of Otago, New Zealand). The list of contributors, including our sometime guest bloggers, Michael Helfand and Steve Smith, and Tradition Project participants Perry Dane and Hans-Martien ten Napel (also Steve, wearing a different hat!), is quite impressive, indeed. The volume addresses law and religion from a comparative perspective, which is always helpful. Here’s the description from the publisher’s website:
Offering an interdisciplinary, international and philosophical perspective, this comprehensive Research Handbook explores both perennial and recent legal issues that concern the modern state and its interaction with religious communities and individuals.
Providing in-depth, original analysis the book includes studies of a wide array of nation states, such as India and Turkey, which each have their own complex issues centered on law, religion and the interactions between the two. Longstanding issues of religious liberty are explored such as the right of conscientious objection, religious confession privilege and the wearing of religious apparel. The contested meanings of the secular state and religious neutrality are revisited from different perspectives and the reality of the international human rights protections for religious freedom are analysed.
Timely and astute, this discerning Research Handbook will be a valuable resource for both academics and researchers interested in the many topics surrounding law and religion. Lawyers and practitioners will also appreciate the clarity with which the rights of religious liberty, and the challenges in making these compatible with state law, are presented.
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Cambridge University and University of New Mexico
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Temple University Beasley School of Law
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2701 Sudderth Dr.
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(505) 256-1998 500 Oak St NE
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Frances Crockett
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Mule Creek, NM 88051
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Los Lunas, NM 87031
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Careers Options with a Social Work Bachelor's Degree: Salary and Job Facts
Social services work is basically providing assistance to individuals in need and helping them solve their problems and live healthy and fulfilling lives. As a social work graduate, you will be working with people with different needs and concerns. In this article, you will learn more about career options as a social work graduate, the requirements needed, and salary information.
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Graduates of social work programs can either become social workers, social and community service managers, or probation officers and correctional treatment specialists. Social workers help people to cope with their problems and struggles in their everyday lives. Social and community service managers implement and supervise social service programs and community activities. Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists provide social services to law offenders as part of their rehabilitation.
What Are the Educational Requirements?
These three careers only require a bachelor's degree. Social workers who want to advance their careers to become clinical social workers are required to obtain a master's degree in social work. Other related programs for social and community service managers who wish to continue their education are public and business administration and public health. Graduates of criminal justice and behavioral sciences programs are preferred for a probation officer or correctional treatment specialist position.
What Training and Certifications Do I Need?
Some states require licenses for nonclinical social workers, while all states require a license for clinical social workers. Candidates for social and community service management positions do not need to be certified and will only need enough experience as a social worker or a similar occupation to become a manager. Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists are required to undergo a training program sponsored by the state and federal government and should pass the required certification test.
Where Can I Work and How Much Is the Salary?
Social workers and social and community service managers typically work for non-profit organizations, private companies, and government agencies. Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists may be assigned to work in institutions or do fieldwork in high-crime areas. As of 2018, social workers and social and community service managers earned a median annual salary of $49,470 and $65,320, respectively, while probation officers and correctional treatment specialists earned $53,020 yearly, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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What Is Vape Smoke? Explaining The Difference Between Smoke and Vapor
You may have wondered about the difference between vaping and smoking. If you’re not setting anything aflame while vaping, what exactly is that puff produced after you inhale? That “cloud” is vapor, much more closely related to an actual cloud than what you see after bringing a lighter to plant material.
While the two terms may be used in conjunction with one another or even interchangeably, that’s simply not correct. Smoking and vaping are worlds apart, scientifically speaking. Vaporizers are designed to avoid any smoke-causing combustion, and this major distinction dictates the vaping experience, from taste to desired effect. In this blog, we’ll explore the difference between smoke and vapor, and we’ll dive into why the term “vape smoke” isn’t the correct terminology to use.
What is smoke and combustion?
In short, smoke is defined as “the gaseous products of burning materials, especially of organic origin, made visible by the presence of small particles of carbon.” Smoke is produced as material burns, a process also known as combustion.
Take, for example, a campfire made from ordinary logs and small kindling. When you first light the kindling beneath the logs, there’s generally quite a bit of smoke. Then, as the kindling lights and the logs start burning, the amount of smoke typically increases. Once you have a roaring fire going, the amount of smoke in the air tends to reduce, but there will continue to be wisps throughout the duration of the campfire.
Smoke occurs whenever there is incomplete combustion, which means there is not enough oxygen to fully burn the aflame material. The leftover, unburned particles go up into the air as smoke, which is often why so much smoke is created in the early stages of combusting material. In this example, the smoke you see coming from your campfire are volatile organic compounds called hydrocarbons evaporating from your logs. When there is complete combustion, however, those hydrocarbons are completely broken down into water and carbon dioxide, resulting in little to no smoke while the fire burns.
How is vapor different than smoke?
The short definition of vapor is “a substance in the gaseous state as distinguished from the liquid or solid state.” The difference is that a vaporized substance is simply in its gaseous form, unlike smoke, which contains a wide-range of hydrocarbons and partially broken-down compounds.
By definition, vapor is completely different than smoke. Vaporizing turns the material in the vape from its solid or liquid state into its gaseous state. When vaporizing, material is heated to its boiling point with the purpose of releasing vapor. Combustion from the campfire, on the other hand, can produce acrid and smelly smoke. When used properly, vapes do not combust the materials loaded into the chamber or contained in the cartridge.
How does vaporization affect smell?
If you’ve ever spent a considerable time around combusting materials, such as the burning wood on our campfire, you know that the smoke lingers and leaves an unmistakable smell behind. When you come home from a camping trip, you might find your clothes still smell strongly of that campfire from the night before. When articles of clothing or other items are exposed to smoke for a prolonged period, that smoky smell might not even easily wash out.
Why is that? Smoke creates what is known as a “coating effect.” The coating effect is caused by volatile organic compounds that linger in the air long after the combustion has ceased. Depending on the compounds found in the combusted material, that smell could be a signal of toxin build-up in the immediate environment. Because these compounds are sticky, it is often difficult to clear away the smoky smell.
Vaporizing materials, on the other hand, typically does not result in a long-lasting or hard-to-get-rid-of smell. Vaping is more closely related to what happens when you boil a pot of water. When you’re cooking and the water begins to boil, you might detect a light scent. But once the burner is turned off and the water ceases to boil, the smell completely dissipates. You could boil water every day and there would be no persistent scent in your home, but a roaring fire in a fireplace would leave a smell that’s both unforgettable and unmistakable. That’s a major difference between smoke and vapor, and it’s good news for consumers who want to avoid the notorious long-lasting odor caused by smoke.
Is it correct to use the term “vape smoke?”
You may hear consumers use the term “vape smoke” when talking about their vaporizers. This is technically incorrect, as the clouds produced from a vaporizer contain absolutely zero smoke. It’s all vapor, the remnants from boiling the material in your vape’s cartridge or that you’ve loaded into the chamber.
The term “smoke” implies that new compounds and chemicals are being created by incomplete combustion of a fuel source, and as we’ve learned here, that is not the case when vaporizing the material in your device. Unlike smoke, vapor dissipates very quickly. It does not create a lingering odor either. When it comes down to the science of it, there are no similarities between smoke and vapor.
Now that you know the major differences between vapor and smoke, you can gently correct people who refer to the clouds puffed from your vaporizer as “vape smoke.” Vapor is made up of the same compound in the unused material in your vape; if it were smoke, altogether new compounds would be created by incomplete combustion. To suggest otherwise simply misses the mark.
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BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING (Overwhelming response from Boston and beyond)
Posted on April 18, 2013 by MikeQ
As medical help arrives, a passing stranger comforts a young victim. (Photo by John Tlumack, Boston Globe/Getty)
“We just heard from Oscar,” Stefanie told me, “He and his crew are all fine.”
The news about the terrorist bombing in Boston had just broken, and Stef was working the bar. We were all calling the club to see who had checked in because most of the staff was at the race.
“What about Joe?” I asked Stef about her boyfriend, Joe McCain. “Is he working today? Is he downtown?” (Joe is an officer with the Somerville Police.)
“I think right now he’s on the border between Somerville and Boston,” she said, “They’re trying to make sure no one slips over the line undetected . . . I don’t want to say too much about what they’re doing.”
“What about John B.?” I asked.
“No . . . haven’t heard from John yet,” she continued, “But your mom called from Maine. I told her I spoke with you earlier.”
OK, so my mom knew I was alright . . . I’d call her later. I thought of Taylor, the blues jam drummer. His daughter, Elyce, ran in the Marathon last year. Were they all waiting for her at the finish line?
“No, she’s fine . . . we’re all OK,” Taylor answered over the phone, “Elyce decided not to run this year. Lucky for us, I guess . . . we would have been standing right where the first bomb went off.”
I called Stef again, and by now they’d heard from John. He was the last one. Everyone was accounted for and OK.
Bombing victim Nicole Gross wasn’t in the direct line of the blast, but she still suffered a left leg broken in two places, a right ankle fracture, and a severed Achilles’ tendon. (Boston Globe photo, reprinted in The Telegraph, UK.)
“My sister and my niece were working in the medical tent at the finish line,” John said when I finally got hold of him, “They volunteer every year.”
John was in a bar further down the race course when the news broke on the TV. Suddenly a joint filled with almost 200 loud, raucous patrons celebrating the marathon went completely silent. “You could have heard a pin drop,” John said, “The only sound in the place was the voice on TV.”
He immediately ran outside to get better reception and began calling his sister . . . but like everyone else, his cell phone wasn’t working.
I told him the cell service had been turned off in that area to prevent anyone from using a cell phone to detonate more bombs. I’d seen that report on the national news.
“Doubt that was it,” John said, “Probably just the towers simply being overwhelmed. All that sudden traffic . . . with everyone calling at once to check on people they knew.”
Turns out John was right . . . there was no shutdown of service, just an unprecedented user overload.
He told me that when he finally did manage to contact his sister by text message, she replied with a description of the horrific injuries coming into the medical tent. “People have lost limbs, an arm or a leg,” his sister’s words said. “Some are missing a foot, a hand, or fingers . . . it’s so awful . . . sometimes there’s nothing left but the bone.”
“Any way I can help?” John texted her again, “I can be there in five minutes.”
“NO!” his sister texted back immediately, “Do not come down here!!!!”
“They’re trying to get everyone out of the area … there’s nothing you can do here … it’s better you get out of Boston as fast as you can.”
Over one hundred seventy people suffered horrible traumatic injuries from the bombing attack, and three of the victims lost their lives . . . including an eight-year-old boy from Dorchester, MA.
Three young lives tragically cut short. (CNN photo)
A year earlier, Martin Richard had held up a sign calling for no more people in the world to be needlessly hurt. “It’s unreal,” one of the boy’s neighbors said, “It’s unreal that this little boy will never come home again.”
(Photo New York Daily News)
Most of us are over-saturated with the horror of the attack, but today I’d like to look at a different side of the tragedy. Here’s a very small sample of the stories and pictures of selfless heroism and solidarity that have been circulating on the web.
Dr. Vivek Shah was just 25 yards away from the finish line when the first bomb exploded — he was immediately called on to apply his medical skills. “It’s nothing that you can ever describe,” he said. “In all of my medical training, I’ve never seen anything like the amount of trauma I saw yesterday on the sidewalk there.” (Source: CNN News)
Carlos Arredondo was waiting at the finish line for a group of runners racing on behalf of fallen American soldiers. His son had died in Iraq. When the first bomb went off across the street, Carlos rushed to help the survivors, including a man whose leg had been blown off. “I kept talking to him. I kept saying, ‘Stay with me, stay with me,’ ” Arredondo told Maine’s Portland Press Herald.
Carlos Arredondo (in cowboy hat) had applied pressure to a man’s leg wounds before medical help arrived. (This photo by Charles Krupa/AP was edited by the publishers to conceal the graphic extent of the man’s wounds. )
Bruce Mendelsohn, a former Army medic, was attending a Marathon party in a nearby building. He immediately ran outside to assist the wounded.
Comfort and relief for a worried wife. (AP photo)
Freelance photographer Andrea Catalano saw spectators run into their homes and come back with blankets and water for the victims. One woman was sitting on the sidewalk uncontrollably sobbing because she was unable to contact her husband who was at the finish line. Someone found her a working phone. (Source CNN News.)
An injured woman in the hospital was looking for the ex-marine who had saved her life. Known to her only by his self-identification as “Sgt Tyler,” and by the noticeable scar on his left arm, the man had told her: “You’re going to have a scar, but you’re going to be OK. It’ll be like my scar.” (He’s now been identified as Sgt. Tyler Dodd, an Afghan war veteran. Source New York Daily News.)
Some Boston Marathon runners finished the 26.2 mile grueling run . . . and then immediately after the attack ran another two miles to the nearest hospital to donate blood. Are you kidding me?
At a Boylston Street establishment, The Forum, patrons said that many of the staff rushed out onto the street carrying towels to assist the wounded. Others from the staff directed all the guests to safety. (The day had begun at The Forum with a fundraiser for former New England Patriot player Joe Andruzzi’s non-profit charity which raises money for cancer victims.)
Speaking of Joe Andruzzi . . .
In a newscast from WHDH TV (Boston), we initially see a young girl struggling to help one bombing attack victim to a medical tent by dragging her over her shoulders. (Click the picture to see the story.)
At that point, Joe rushed up and quickly carried the woman to medical personnel. (As a side note, Andurzzi’s three brother were among the first fire-fighters on the scene in NYC on 9/11.)
Joe Andruzzi can get her to medical care faster. (Photo by Bill Greene, Boston Globe/Getty)
And it wasn’t only the first-responders and medical personnel in downtown Boston who rushed to help. As word of the terrorist tragedy spread, people from all over the Boston area began offering aid to anyone who needed shelter, food or drink. They began offering places to stay in their homes and apartments.
With tens of thousands of visitors in Boston from foreign countries, some now found themselves shut out of their hotels, which were quickly locked down for security reasons. These runners had no place to go, and were left without any resources in an unfamiliar city.
Ali Hatfield, a Kansas City, Missouri resident who had just finished the race, quickly discovered that with her hotel now locked down she was left out on the street. Hatfield said she was overwhelmed until — “A sweet woman opened her home to us and gave us food, shelter and beer!” (Source: CNN News)
“We figure this is the least we can do,” said Heather Carey, who was offering a couch in the Boston University-area apartment she shares with her roommates. “I saw a website with many others offering their spaces like we did,” she said, “It is awesome to see so many people helping.” (Source: CNN News)
Sandeep Karnik pledged his one-bedroom condo near Fenway Park, offering any needing stranger his bed for the night. “I can sleep on the couch,” said the 37-year-old Karnik, “This is unfathomable, terrible. If there is somebody in need, I can take them in.” (Source: WQAD8, Illinois)
There were hundreds and hundreds of offers of shelter, food and drink posted on Facebook pages.
A Back Bay restaurant tweeted the following offer:
Steven Colbert, in his always spot-on mix of humor and thinly-disguised serious note, quipped that the people responsible for this horrific act didn’t know who they were messing with . . . see his hilarious, yet strangely heart-rending comments by clicking the video below. (Thanks to John B. for steering me to this clip)
In Brooklyn, NY light projections were used to display a sign of support on the side of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. (The quote is from Boston son Martin Luther King.)
(Yahoo! News photo)
And the Boston Red Sox’s centuries-old rival, the New York Yankees had this response to the attack on their sworn baseball antagonists — a banner of solidarity, “United We Stand” — on the front of Yankee Stadium. (During their game against Arizona Monday night, the Yankees also played Boston’s famous eighth-inning Neil Diamond song “Sweet Caroline” following a moment of silence between innings.)
(Photo Huffington Post/Sports)
It was an emotional moment on the ice Wednesday night as the Boston Bruins played the first professional sports contest in Boston after the attack. Fourteen seconds into the scheduled singer’s rendition of the national anthem, the crowd took over. (Click the picture below to to watch and listen.)
One last story . . .
A couple who had planned to get married right after running the Boston Marathon decided to complete their vows despite the terrorism. “We were hesitant. We wanted to be cautious. We didn’t want anything to destroy the plans that we had made,” the groom told ABC News. After thinking it over, they decided they wouldn’t let the fanatics stop them.
After crossing the finish line, just before the bombing.
A few hours later, refusing to be intimidated.
Monday’s bombing was a senseless, disgraceful, cowardly attack on innocent people . . . but the quality of everyone’s response? . . . words fail.
(Update: 4/19, 8:00 AM.) At 6:30 this morning everyone in the neighborhood got a recorded emergency phone message from the City of Cambridge, which said in part: “Due to the ongoing police investigation in Watertown (MA) and surrounding area, police are advising that all residents shelter in place. MBTA service is suspended including the Red Line, Green Line and all bus routes. Please stay vigilant and call 911 immediately if you have had any suspicious activity in your area.”
I know just before I went to bed (5:30 AM), there was breaking news that one of the bombing suspects had been killed in a Watertown shootout with the police that involved not only the two suspects’ gunfire, but bombs that they threw. The other suspect is still at large in the area.
I’m quite safe here . . . wish I could say the same about Joe McCain and other police personnel who have been up all night looking for this guy. An MIT security officer was killed in an earlier shootout with the suspects in Cambridge, and a MBTA officer was wounded in separate incident with the suspects, but is expected to survive. As much as I’d like to see both of these bastards dead, I hope they capture the remaining suspect alive . . . so he is forced to face his victims.
(Update: 4/19, 1:00 PM.) Some controlled explosions are to take place soon at the suspect’s home in Cambridge, MA. They’ve discovered something in our neighborhood they want to dispose of . . . and the lock-down continues in the Boston area.
Thanks to David Hayden from The Hospitality Formula Network and Best Restaurant Blogs for his offer of support and assistance to the Boston restaurant worker community. David has substantial contacts and connections nationwide. (I’m referring David to Patrick Maguire at Server not Servant . . . this is much more his area . . . he’s championed many good causes for Boston’s restaurant workers in the past.)
(Update: 4/19, 11:30 PM.) It’s been a long day … a police standoff in Watertown, and a lock-down of the Boston area since this early this morning … but they finally captured the second suspect. And at this point he’s alive, although injured. Three young lives were lost far too early … the maimed and injured from a senseless attack continue their struggle … but at least they got the guys who did this …
Flags and wild cheering on the streets of Watertown, MA where a suspect from the Boston Marathon bombing had been hiding in their midst. With a massive law enforcement presence, the entire town had been locked down all day, and people had been confined to their homes while police searched door to door. (Photo by Shannon Stapleton/REUTERS)
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11 Responses to BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING (Overwhelming response from Boston and beyond)
Kudos Mike–well written!! You captured the extraordinary trepidation, anguish, and fortitude showed by Bostonians and the American people. Acts of terrorism do not thwart our charity, courage, compassion or resiliency. Despite the horrific, demonic plots against us we manage to maintain our humanitarianism and benevolence. Americans truly are exceptional –“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit”- Ben Williams. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Llylak says:
This post had me on the verge of tears several times, but it was also thankfully uplifting. It is a beautiful tribute. Our hearts go out to the victims and their families.
Dorene P. S. says:
Mike, Great piece on a world-shaking event ! We are entering a new world; it will be a challenging one.
MikeQ says:
Colleen: Thanks, Colleen … and thanks for the suggestions (as always.) 🙂 It’s been a hell of a few days, hasn’t it. I may never kid you about living out there in “Cow Hampshire” again. (Or maybe I still will.) Talk with you later tonight.
Llylak: Amen, Lly … it was a horrible event, but it brought out the things that hold us together, and make it all worthwhile. Always good to hear from you.
Dorene: Well, welcome, Dorene! Great to see you here. Thank you so much for reading, and commenting … I didn’t know you were still reading my blog. (Dorene and I went to high school together … she was the smartest one in the class, besides being cute.)
What an uplifting post! I keep going back and re-reading!
Starbucks8294 says:
Tough times in Beantown, but the way these people stood up is too cool. This was a great post.
Susan P: Thanks so much for reading, Susan … and for taking the time to comment. For two days I just kept going through all the web posts and the way everyone responded to this tragedy left me in awe.
Starbucks 8294: It was amazing wasn’t it my friend … how even passers-by showed their true colors.
Case says:
What more can be said then USA USA USA. Boston’s got the support of the country.
DAbertini says:
We were at TD Garden. It was the balls, never seen anything like it. The Bruins video has 2 million hits in three days.
Wonderfully written, capturing all the trials, tribulations and depth of the American spirit. Glad the worst part is over. Prayers for all the victims and families who lost there loved ones too early. Many, Many Heroes!
Case: Couldn’t have said it better, Case (USA, USA, USA) … although I did like Stephen Colbert’s “Boston Strong!”
DAbertini: That must have been something, DA … my friend Colleen said when she watched that video, she almost started crying.
JT: I was just glad to hear you weren’t down there this year, JT. I’d remembered you saying something last year about being at the finish line to congratulate Elyce. On the run … see you at the Jam.
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There was the faintest of hums as the window’s protective covering rose. Sunlight began creeping into the room, though it couldn’t brighten the well lit surroundings any farther. As the covering disappeared into the ceiling’s slot, her hair seemed to gleam it’s full brilliance. It was a direct response to the sun landing like a spot light on Allura. She didn’t seem to notice how the men nearest to the window stopped to stare at her, mouths parted just a little in awe of her beauty. Her eyes were not for them, the princess just a bit grim faced as she sought out the sight of the lions roaming this side of the castle’s courtyard.
Each of the five lions was present, though Allura’s eyes immediately sought out the one that was blue. It was padding about on shaky feet, as though it’s pilot was just getting used to it’s controls. She inwardly winced at how awkward the current pilot maneuvered blue lion about, Allura thinking it was plain to see to anyone that it was an inexperienced hand behind it’s controls.
“They are going to know.” Allura didn’t mean to voice these thoughts out loud. Perhaps it was her upset that made her talk so. Though she wondered what was the more powerful emotion, her upset, or her jealousy over someone else being inside what had once been Allura’s lion.
“I’m sure they will figure it out eventually.” Coran began, coming to stand besides her. “Of course, the deception will work all the easier if you’re not seen while blue lion is active…”
She managed not to flush in guilt, Allura turning away from the window. She knew it was imperative that Doom continue to believe that the princess of Arus was the pilot of blue lion. It gave the Voltron Force an advantage on the battle field, limited though it was. As long as Prince Lotor thought Allura was in blue lion, he held back some of his attacks. It was an advantage the new pilots surely needed.
Coran took her silence as a signal to lower the window’s covering. She kept her back to him, listening to the hum. “It won’t matter…” She decided out loud. “Soon enough they’ll know….”
“Even one more day is a boon.” Coran corrected gently.
One more day was all they really had, and then Allura would be leaving Arus. She would not be taking blue lion with her. Would not be taking any of the lions as part of her entourage. And all because she couldn’t leave her planet defenseless. Arus needed the lions, needed them more than their princess did. She worried what would happen if Doom attacked during her absence. If the attacks were such that blue lion was needed. All their careful planning and deceit would be done for, the Drules realizing there was a new pilot for blue lion.
It wasn’t just blue lion. All five lions were currently in the midst of training replacement pilots. Keith and the other members of his team, went out every day. And each day, there was someone new joining them in the lion’s cockpits. The first two days, the newcomers had simply watched as the more experienced hands piloted the lions. By the third day, that all changed, the rookie pilots getting their chance to control the lions under the watchful eyes of the original pilots.
The rookie pilots were gaining the experience needed, sometimes learning in the midst of an active battlefield. It would take time, many months before they were accomplished hands at controlling the lions. But Arus didn’t have the time to wait, and so what was a year’s worth of training was being condensed into a week’s long lesson.
Of course, they hadn’t settled on any one in particular becoming a permanent replacement pilot. They had enough volunteers to make four more teams of pilots. Soon that twenty would be whittled down to a dozen, and then from among those twelve, a team of six would be picked. Lieutenant Alfred was among the twenty who was learning how to pilot the lions. He showed a lot of promise on blue lion, and more than a few of the candidates felt he had an unfair advantage over them from his earlier experience with Voltron.
Allura felt pretty confidant Alfred would become one of the two slated for blue lion’s pilot. Allura just wished she could chase away feeling of bitterness and envy when she saw blue lion under the control of someone else. It was a week since she had been forced to give up her pilot’s status. A week and it hadn’t gotten any easier to accept that her life as a pilot was over with.
Allura felt an ache in her heart whenever the call to arms came, her former team members dropping everything to rush to their lions. Those first few days, she had had to fight not to run with them, Allura wanting desperately to feel blue lion’s power all around her. She had had to settle with watching the fight from the castle’s control room. It just wasn’t the same feeling, no high associated with watching another fight.
There was talk circulating through the castle. The people present had noticed their princess’ depression, and though they tried to keep it a secret, someone had talked. The whole castle seemed to know Allura was no longer piloting blue lion, though they had yet to discover the reason why. And she would keep that a secret for as long as she could manage, Allura glancing down at her stomach now. It was still barely noticeable, especially in the baggy clothing she wore.
Stomach still small, Allura wondered if she was eating enough for the baby growing inside her. Allura feared she was not, but outside circumstances were preventing her from over eating. Stress was a huge factor, it came from keeping the child’s existence a secret for so long. There was stress in the siege that assaulted Arus daily, the never ending war Doom waged on her planet. Perhaps the biggest stress came from her worries over Lotor finding out she was pregnant with his child. It made her fearful, Allura wanting Lotor to have no claim on her, her planet, or especially the child.
There was another reason for her lack of appetite. It was about a week since Doom’s ships had attacked a number of farms, setting them ablaze, and ruining the season’s harvest. Food was in low numbers, even with Garrison sending down care packages. Conscious that every one of her people had to limit how much they ate, Allura herself couldn’t bring herself to eat more than what she thought was a fair share of the food.
Of course, those closest to her, the ones who knew about her condition, frowned about her eating habits. She found more often than not, the Voltron Force members were trying to give her portions of their meals. Especially Hunk, who was normally notorious for his large appetites. And yet he was the most generous, heaping her plate full from his. Allura hated to turn him down, but so long as her people went hungry, she couldn’t eat. The food held no taste for her, thanks to stress and worry.
The lack of a good meal was making her feel weak, Allura more prone to dizziness these past few days. She badly wanted this nightmare over with, and yet had a feeling it would never end! Even with the sudden, and welcome news that the Alliance had come through. A judge had been found, one willing to ignore Doom’s bribes, and death threats. In fact several judges had stepped forward, suddenly overeager to precede over the Arus-Doom case.
The Alliance had carefully reviewed the different judges’ histories and courtroom tactics, intent on picking one that would be fair to both sides. Allura had nearly fainted when word came that the judge was ready, the case being rushed to court. Come tomorrow, she and her entourage would be leaving for planet Amestris. It was a neutral planet, free of both the Empire and the Alliance’s influence. Amestris was deemed the perfect site for what was looking to be the trial of the century.
Allura found her nerves were increasing as the hour of departure loomed closer than ever. It didn’t help that she was increasing the number of meetings with her lawyers, the trio all but interrogating her on everything that had happened while she was Lotor’s prisoner. Of course, the truth had come out. Allura had had to reveal that not only had she slept with Lotor, but that she was pregnant with his child. To say that complicated things was an understatement, and the news had sent her lawyers into a frenzy.
That frenzy was still there, even days after processing the news. Her lawyers had turned determined, ready to search out any loop holes that would keep Lotor and Doom’s hands off of the child Allura carried. However, with the court date looming ever closer, the current case was the more pressing manner. Her lawyers had taken an aggressive stance with Allura, downright badgering her at times.
That included this morning, her lawyers filing into the room, led by her assistant. Miranda had been let in on Allura’s condition, the woman as shocked as anyone else had been to learn she was pregnant. Miranda wondered how she hadn’t realized it sooner, having worked so closely with Allura these last few months.
Nanny had also been present for this meeting, the woman there partly as moral support. But there was another role she played, as did Coran and Miranda. Allura and her lawyers wanted to see how the princess could stand up to a strict interrogation, if being badgered by embarrassing questions in front of friends could break the princess down. As her lawyer Donovan had pointed out, Doom’s lawyers would be absolutely merciless once they had her on the witness stand.
Everyone understood how difficult this was for Allura. Even just in the privacy of this room, with only six people to hear of her shaming behavior, Allura had found it hard to talk about what had happened. Just as hard as Nanny had found it to listen to the intimate details of Allura’s encounters with Prince Lotor. The woman had gone pale, all the color fleeing her face with every incriminating word. If she hadn’t been sitting down, Nanny surely would have collapsed just listening to Allura speak.
Allura could understand Nanny’s reaction. She felt mortified, embarrassed beyond belief at talking about what had happened with Lotor. She felt shamed and humiliated, her lawyers acting cold and impersonal as they questioned her about all manners of things. It was downright brutal, Allura wondering if they would really ask for such details at court.
To her dismay, the answer was yes. Donovan had explained that the Drules would set out to discredit Allura, maybe try and embarrass her to the point she gave up fighting. Even her own lawyers had questioned her, wanting to know if she was sure she wanted to take this to court. And all because the sex, her rape, would come out. Scandal would surely follow, even before the existence of the child she carried became public knowledge.
As frightened as she was by the thought of that, Allura had forced herself to be brave. She didn’t want to lose Arus to Doom’s control, not even if it meant she’d be saved some embarrassment. What was another dose of humiliation, if her people could remain free of Doom’s tyranny?
It didn’t make what she would have to do, what would happen at court, any easier. Allura found herself praying at her father’s tomb, asking for him to lend her some of his strength. The strength to be strong, to be brave. The strength to survive what would happen at the trial. She didn’t know if anyone would answer her prayers though, Allura not feeling any braver.
Coran continued to follow her around for most of the day. A thick file of papers was in his arms, Coran going down a check list of worries with her. “The ships from Garrison are set to arrive first thing tomorrow morning….Gods willing Lotor’s fleet doesn’t prevent their landing.”
“He might try.” Warned Allura. “Doom is desperate to keep this from reaching trial.” Coran seemed to sigh, frowning down at the document he held. Allura could echo his annoyance, knowing Doom would be near unpredictable in the coming days. There was a worry that Allura wouldn’t be able to get off Arus in the first place, that Doom would be relentless at attacking Garrison’s ships.
“The lions will run interference as needed.” Coran told her. “With their help, you should be able to make it off the planet without incident.”
Should wasn’t a guarantee, she knew that. It was why they were trying to leave with so much time before the actual trial. It might take numerous attempts to get off planet before they were successful. They had to figure that in, as well as the time needed to travel to Amestris.
“I wish I could go with you.” Coran sounded frustrated then.
“I know. But you are needed here.” Allura told him. The advisor would be remaining behind to oversee the planet’s defense when Allura left for planet Amestris. He would be acting as ruler in Allura’s stead, the important decisions falling on his shoulders. “I will be fine.” Allura added, forcing a smile. “Nanny and Miranda will be with me.”
“Thank goodness for that.” Coran murmured. “I know you will rely heavily on them for emotional support during these trying times.”
“Yes.” Agreed Allura. “Has the Voltron Force decided on just who will accompany me as part of my guard?”
“Keith is adamant that he be one of the two that travel with you to Amestris.”
“Keith?” Allura frowned. “Will he be able to control himself? Especially listening to the details of my encounter with Lotor?”
“He says he will manage.” But Coran didn’t look like he believed that.
“What about when he sees Lotor?” demanded Allura. “Will he be able to keep from attacking the prince?” As shrug from Coran hinted that her guess was as good as any. Allura continued to frown. “I really think Keith should stay on Arus. Hunk would be a better choice to attend the hearing.” There was no question as to who would be the second pilot to accompany Allura. Pidge, pilot of Green Lion, was one of the requested witnesses to be subpoenaed to attend the trial. No one was better equipped to speak on what had happened, then Pidge. And all because Lotor had taken the young man hostage when he had captured Allura.
“I think we need to stress to Keith how he should remain on Arus.” Allura said. “After all, who better to watch over the trainees than the captain of the Voltron Force?”
“I think the captain won’t like whatever reason we give him.” Coran sighed. “He wants to be at this trial…to the point I fear he is plotting something stupid.”
“Stupid? Like what?”
“I can’t say for sure. It’s just a feeling I have. But his anger may lead him to jeopardize everything. You are wise not to allow him to be part of your entourage.” Coran looked approving then.
“I wish Keith could see the wisdom to it.” Allura was sad then. She knew Keith was seeing everything Lotor had done to her, as a personal insult to himself. A failure, the man still having a hard time coming to grips to what had happened to Allura. It made him angry and violative, and Allura truly feared what would happen if Lotor and Keith crossed paths any time soon.
“He needs time.” Coran said wisely.
“How much more time am I to give him?” Allura retorted, then sighed. “That’s unfair of me. I know everyone has a different way of coping, a different amount of time needed before they can accept such news. But I wish he would take into account the effect his behavior is having on me!” She shook her head, then tried to change the subject. “Has everything been prepared for my departure?”
“Nanny is working the staff over time to get everything ready.” Coran told her. “Your bags are already packed and ready to be loaded onto Garrison’s ship.”
“Good.” That much pleased Allura. They weren’t sure though, how long this trial would take. It might play out for a few months. Allura tried to imagine being away from Arus for that long. It wasn’t a good feeling that came with the imagining, the princess knowing she would grow homesick pretty quickly.
“Everything is proceeding according to plan.” Coran continued. “I suggest you call an early night, and get as much sleep as you can.”
“I don’t know if I’ll be able to fall asleep.” Allura admitted. “My nerves are wound up too tight!”
“Please try.” Insisted Coran. She could only nod, knowing it wasn’t as easy as the advisor made it sound. She had a lot of restless energy, in addition to being nervous. Allura knew what might have worked to calm her down, but flying blue lion was now barred to her. She inwardly groaned, not looking forward to the long night that awaited her. Or the traveling she would have to do to reach planet Amestris. But she kept on telling herself it would be worth it in the end. That the Gods willing, Arus would be a free world once more.
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Carbon cycle | Ecology | Khan Academy
– [Instructor] I wanna talk
a little bit about carbon and how it cycles through our biosphere. And we touch on this in other videos. But when we talk about
elements like carbon, they don’t just appear and disappear all of a sudden in our biosphere. For the most part, they have
been here since the beginning. But they just get recycled
from one form to another. And that is also true of carbon. And to appreciate carbon’s importance in our biosphere, and especially to life, I have some, some important molecules, or examples of important
molecules that involve carbon. In all of these, the carbons
are these dark gray colors. So this right over here, this molecule, this is glucose. Glucose, simple sugar. It’s where we can derive
a lot of our energy from. This is ATP, you can view it as a more immediate store of
energy in biological systems. This right over here is one of many amino acids. The amino acids make up our proteins. This right over here is DNA. And in all of these you can see the role that carbon is playing. In fact, sometimes the
carbon’s hard to see because it’s closer to the
center of these molecules because the carbon, for the most part, forms the backbone. Because carbon’s this really
neat, this really neat element, this really neat atom that can make four bonds. It can make these really
really really cool structures. But the question is how does carbon cycle through our biosphere? And we can get as simple or as complex as we want to when we discuss this. But on very very simple terms, this is how my brain tends to
think about the carbon cycle. You can imagine the
carbon in our atmosphere that’s mainly in the form
of molecular carbon dioxide. So this right over here, this is CO two. Once again, the carbon
is in the middle there, bonded to the two oxygens. And as much as we talk about CO two, and as important as carbon
is to living systems. In fact, our bodies are 18 to 19 percent carbon carbon by mass. So it’s very important
for biological systems. As important as carbon
is to biological systems, and the role carbon dioxide plays in things like global
warming, it actually makes up a very small percentage of our atmosphere. It’s only about 0.04 percent of the gas in our atmosphere. Most of our atmosphere
is actually nitrogen, 78 percent, you don’t talk a lot about it. And oxygen, 21 percent. And then a bunch of other, a bunch of other elements and molecules. But the very simple
version of the carbon cycle is, okay, you have this
atmospheric carbon dioxide, molecular carbon dioxide,
hanging out in the air. And you have autotrophs like plants. So let’s say this is the ground, and I have a growing plant. So that’s a plant right over there. That’s its leaf, that’s another leaf. And the way that plants grow is they’re able to take light energy. So that’s energy coming in from the sun, and use that energy to fix carbon. Now fixing carbon sounds
like a very fancy thing, but it’s literally taking
that molecular carbon dioxide out of the air and
fixing the carbon from it to form these different
molecules in the plant, that help the plant, that
give the plant structure, that give the plant energy. And so that mass of that plant, I’m actually in this room
I’m in, there’s a houseplant right next to me, it’s
not just growing out of, I mean, I guess you could say
it’s growing out of thin air, but the mass isn’t just
magically appearing. It’s taking that mass out of the air. And so that’s where, so that’s what allows this
plant to keep growing. And so, once again, as I said, some of that will be in
the form of proteins, amino acids, it could form
structural components. It could be fats, and also some of it is energy. And you could imagine other animals that can’t do this, that
can’t photosynthesize, well, they might wanna eat these plants for that energy. In other videos, we talk
about the food cycle. And so, this could be me. This could be me having a salad, and I might want to eat that plant. I might wanna eat the
plant for the sugar in it. Maybe it’s an apple of some kind, and then that gives my body
the energy to live and grow. And as I, as I metabolize that glucose, so for example glucose
is one of the molecules that that plant can form by taking that carbon out of the air. And then I might metabolize that glucose from that plant I just ate, and as I do that, I will
release carbon dioxide. So I will release the CO two back in the air. And then you can see that
you can form a cycle here. The CO two gets released by
things that are metabolizing these organic molecules, and
then it can get fixed again by autotrophs, which are
able to store the energy from the sun with, in
terms of these bonds, by fixing this carbon. But there’s other
pathways that we can have to have these cycles. For example, some of the CO
two, it could be absorbed into the ocean. It could be absorbed into, into the ocean. And in the ocean it can form carbonate, and so once again you still see
the carbon right over there, carbon bonded to three oxygens, and calcium carbonate is a key constituent in things like seashells. And over time, as the
sea shells break down, and they get ground up,
and they get impacted with pressure, they can form, they can form limestone. So this right over here is limestone. Limestone. But once again, it was
formed from carbon dioxide being absorbed into the ocean, living things using that calcium, using that calcium carbonate, the carbonate in conjunction with calcium, in order to form these
shells, which get ground down, and it actually forms
these rock structures. You can have situations, you can have situations
where living things, whether we’re talking about
the autotrophs like plants, or we’re talking about things
like me that are eating the plants, well, once they
die and there’s all this organic matter that hasn’t
been broken down yet. Well, it gets buried in the ground. I’ll do the plant because it’s less morbid than showing me dead. So let’s say this is the plant. Well, with enough pressure and time. Sometimes in the decomposing process, some of the carbon might be released. But over time this might be compressed and be turned into fossil fuels. So when you see oil or when
you are burning gasoline, which is really just a
refined part of the oil, it is really this organic matter that was, that’s storing energy that plants were able to
store from light energy, possibly millions or tens
of millions of years ago. But then if you were to take that same, if you were to take that
fossil fuel out of the ground, which we now do very actively in order to power all of the
things that we need to power, and you were to burn it. So let me see, if I were to. Let me just draw an example of that. So let’s say you just had, if you had a canister of oil. I’m not gonna do the oil in black because you’d have trouble seeing it. And if you were to burn it. If you were to burn it, the process of, the process of combustion. And this is in general, if
you’re burning anything, it doesn’t just have to be oil. It could be burning a piece of wood. You’re taking that organic matter, those carbon-carbon bonds, and in some ways you can say you’re doing the reverse of the photosynthesis process. You’re breaking it down,
and in that process, you’re releasing that carbon,
and it’s getting released in the form of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide, which in theory could then be fixed once again. So the general idea,
autotrophs like plants, when they photosynthesize,
they can fix that carbon. And then it could either be burnt, and a combustion process can release that carbon back into the atmosphere, or you could have other
animals eating that plant. And then, as they
metabolize, as they break these carbon-carbon
bonds to power themselves or just do whatever they need to do, that also can release carbon dioxide.
and education learning Lessons online learning that the
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29 comments on “Carbon cycle | Ecology | Khan Academy”
Live Dash says:
TonyFired says:
Legend has it if ur first Sal replies
MrAntieMatter says:
Vincent Ning says:
Very useful. This dude is awesome.
Adham Labwam says:
Thx so helpful
amit shinde says:
I want to learn photo shop can you help me
proanimator says:
Sal is swag
Assault Zinal says:
I'm Thailand and you know our teens are bad as English but i don't know why i understand more than i studying in class room as Thai language
You know what? you're very very helpful i can understand all of Science around me by you.You're amazing 😀
Bostonzo B says:
What the hell? Sal? I love you! I have a test on this on Monday!!
Rohan Roy says:
d bst teacher probably😁😀
마다라 says:
Thank you so much for this video. This helped me to remember easily!
Timothy Baumann says:
Thanks a lot! I have a huge final on Earth Science tomorrow (or really today since its past midnight), and this video was very helpful.
Gaurav Saini says:
Thank you so much , very helpful for an ecology test coming up
northernlight1000 says:
Hi I have a question. If it is a cycle, and all the carbon being emitted back into the atmosphere through natural and artificial processes, like burning fossil fuels, is essentially the same carbon that was extracted out of the atmosphere in the first place by the autotrophs, isnt it just the same carbon being recycled back into the atmosphere ? So how come carbon levels in the atmosphere are increasing gradually? Thanks
杨波 says:
what tool do you used to make the video? thank you ..use e-pen to paint?
MUKESH KUMAR GUPTA says:
wow its is awesome.
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Mira Solar says:
Very good, except the oil combustion
downbntout says:
Thank you, beautifully clear
Mohammed Zubair says:
very satisfactory result
Game Fans says:
Is that 1 molecule of DNA?!
Mohamed Salah-Elden says:
lol when he said grows out of thin air XD.
Charlotte Oshtry says:
My ecology test is tomorrow and I haven;t studied at all ….
Karidys Sevillano says:
Consider doing khan university.. You have helped more than a lot of teachers that i had.
Parthiv Gajula says:
THANKS A LOT FOR EXPLAINING THIS! MY TEACHER DIDN'T EVEN EXPLAIN IT TO THE CLASS AND I HAVE A TEST TOMORROW SO I GOT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE CARBON CYCLE! HUGE THANKS TO KHAN ACADEMY! THANKS A LOT!
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Also known as the yam bean or Mexican turnip, jícama (Pachyrhizus tuberosus) is a vine native to Central and South America with an edible tuberous root (a la the potato). A member of the legume family, the jícama vine can grow up to twenty feet tall and its roots can weigh up to fifty pounds, but are usually between three to five pounds when sold commercially.
Available year round, the root itself has a crispy, white flesh and is rather juicy, the juice either clear or white, depending on subspecies. Somewhat bland, raw jícama is usually added to salads or doused with lime juice and powdered chilis and eaten as a snack. The seeds of the jícama are sometimes eaten as well, but mature jícama seeds contain the toxic chemical rotenone, which is used as an insecticide. A 3½ ounce serving of jícama contains approximately 40 calories and supplies about 25% of the U.S. RDA of vitamin C. Jícama is a street food in its native habitat, like Italian sausage on the streets of New York City.
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Joe Aredas, Doc Justice, Jason Wells, Reese Wexler, Kenny Beane and Jordan Kadovitz
Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge is a successful reality show with great ratings and a bright future on Viacom’s Country Music Television Network. Weekly contestants compete on a difficult obstacle course, each vying for the $10,000 weekly prize. Drama, victory and heartbreak ensue.
But what the Broken Skull production and post-production crews lacked through three seasons of production was a contract that assured fair wages, excellent healthcare, a pension to provide security for their families and other features we know to be a part of an IATSE contract. And so this led to a request from the crew for representation by the IA.
Typically when this happens, the IA asks the producer, in this case 51 Minds Entertainment, to sit down and have a conversation. But this time, those attempts were denied.
And so began the picket. Three picket lines, in fact, spread across thirty-five miles from North Hollywood to Agua Dulce, filled with representatives from the IA and from nearly every IA Local in town.
Those of us who attended these picket lines will have noticed a few things. It was hot out there. And the days were long. But the spirit, camaraderie and sense of purpose was nothing short of electric. Another thing that was hard to miss was Local 695’s disproportionately large representation on the picket line. The turnout from our members was incredible and at times, it seemed like it was all 695 and gaining in strength as each day went on.
But the most significant presence we saw was the Broken Skull audio crew, all five of whom had left the show to take a position on the picket line … Audio Supervisor Doc Justice, Production Sound Mixers Jim Gomes, Jason Wells and Kenny Beane, and A-2 Reese Wexler. To a man, it was obvious that these guys believed in Broken Skull and in 51 Minds Entertainment and they wanted to do all they could to help bring success to both. But they wanted a union contract too, and they set out to prove that these two things are not mutually incompatible. Doc and his team were ever present on the picket and gave unflinching inspiration to everyone who had the good fortune to speak with them.
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That commitment, mixed in with a hefty dose of perseverance across ten days of picketing and eventually, negotiating, resulted in an IA contract. The editorial crew is back at work now, with good union benefits and several months of work ahead of them. For the production crew, a few hurried days of scab labor had already enabled the show to finish off this season but each and every one of them is guaranteed first right-of-refusal when the show picks up again in a few months, with a contract that assures benefits and a schedule for raises and contract improvements going forward.
Many unscripted productions on network TV are already working under IA contracts but the contract achieved by the Broken Skull crew during those ten hot days in July has laid down a crucial foundation in the move toward crews on cable television productions finally getting union representation, as well. This is just the start.The observations made and lessons learned are in some ways, very simple. We, as crew, are part of a fantastic community of incredibly talented women and men. Producers who want to have access to this great talent but are worried they can’t possibly produce their show under a union contract … actually can. We truly can overcome what appear to be insurmountable obstacles when both sides finally sit down to talk. Solidarity and perseverance are a pair of forces that combine with enormous power. And we won’t back down.
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This Month In Music – December 2017
Luke Vespa, 11 Dec 2017
Summer is officially here and with that we’re happy to share with you some of our favourite music releases that you can expect to be hearing all Summer long. This is the Month in Music: December 2017.
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Chromeo – Juice
Renowned funk lords Chromeo have made a triumphant return after dropping their first single in 3 years ‘Juice’. Hinting that it’ll be a part of their upcoming album ‘Head Over Heels’, the track is accompanied by a funky-fresh music video that suits their disco aesthetic to a T. If you’re a die-hard Chromeo fan (who isn’t?), then you’ll love the the first taste of the record with its disco keys, funky bass slapping and ultra slick guitar work – not to mention P-Thugg’s trademark work on the Talkbox. Chromeo still has the juice.
Darius – Carried Away feat. E^st
Known for his breakout electronic hit ‘Hot Hands’, French producer Darius returns with his debut album ‘Utopia’ and new single ‘Carried Away’ featuring E^st, a 19-year singer/songwriter from the Central Coast of NSW. While the entire album is a delightful listen from front to back, ‘Carried Away’ is a true standout on the record. The single is sure to be one that flies under the radar this year, so don’t sleep on two really exciting talents.
Jack River – Fault Line
After her recent success on previous single ‘Fool’s Gold’, Jack River continues her form on her new single ‘Fault Line’. After spending a bunch of time writing and touring on the road, River’s stomping alt-pop sound transcends anything she’s done before, putting her in a really appealing place for music fans of all tastes. While her new single has paved a pleasant platform for her, she explains the personal battles that went into the song writing:
“I was deep in a really dark time in my world, I wanted to capture the fragility of walking around your mind in the dark, and then exploding into emotion and regret when you surface. At the same time, I felt this need to lean into some kind of teenage dream to distract myself from the sadness of it all. That’s where the production comes in.”
Jack River is our next alt-pop superstar in the making, and we’re wanting more.
Roland Tings – One Hundred (ft. HIGH HØØPS)
You can always rely on Melbourne Producer Roland Tings to offer something totally refreshing with each and every release. He’s done it again, re-innovating his sound on his latest future classic ‘One Hundred’. Built for late-night dancefloors, ‘One Hundred’ dabbles in experimental, disco and psychedelic soundscapes. Arguably his most club-friendly track, ‘One Hundred’ features a stomping groove and instant party-starting jam that won’t quit.
Hatchie – Sure
Undoubtedly one of Brisbane’s most exciting new acts, Hatchie returns with her second single ‘Sure’, a shoegazey pop ballad about swinging in and out of the same relationships. Former member of Go Violets, Hatchie is destined for big things after signing to Ivy League Records alongside label mates The Rubens, Cloud Control and Bad//Dreems.
What So Not – Be Okay Again (feat. Daniel Johns)
If you ask most Australian artists who their dream collaborators are, we could have a solid guess that Silverchair front-man Daniel Johns’ name would constantly come up. Sydney’s very own EDM heavyweight What So Not can tick that one off the bucket-list after teaming up with Johns on his new single ‘Be Okay Again’. ‘Be Okay Again’ is an emotional future bass anthem that takes influence from some of the old-school WSN sounds that we love. Best thing about it, Chris (What So Not) sung the entire topline on the track, with Daniel Johns giving him the nod to leave his version in the final mix.
“I was kind of embarrassed to show someone of calibre as I had written and sung my own topline to feel out the idea. To my surprise, he loved it & not only was he happy to re-sing my parts, he encouraged me to keep my voice on the record.”
What So Not has been hinting at an album for some time. Could this be the first taste?
Jaden Smith – Icon
We couldn’t help but be sceptical about Jaden Smith’s new album ‘Syre’, and the reviews have been a total mixed bag. However, we’re going to side with the kid for an incredible job on the record. ‘Icon’ is one of the lead singles from the record that propels Jaden as a rapper to be taken seriously. The sampling and production on ‘Icon’ (and the entire album) is something to take note of. Rap is changing, and whether it’s for the better or worse, Jaden is only going to expand on his prospering career.
Tame Impala – List of People (To Try And Forget About)
It’s hard to believe we’ve already been rinsing Tame Impala’s last record ‘Currents’ for two years now, and while we sit tight for the next chapter, the band has shared a ‘Currents B-Sides & Remixes EP’ featuring the single ‘List of People (To Try and Forget About)’. Without digging deep into how this phenomenal track is even considered a B-Side (because it’s that good!), the record feels like it sits somewhere perfectly between their 2012 album ‘Lonerism’ and ‘Currents’ – so diehard Tame Impala fans: you’re going to love this!
Lanks – My Own Mystery feat. Ngaire
Sydney based singer-songwriter Lanks has gone from strength to strength in 2017 and is quickly becoming one of Australia’s most promising young acts. His latest release ‘My Own Mystery’ sees long-time friend and fan favourite Ngaiire jump on board assisting with her luscious vocal work. There’s a calming effortlessness about Lanks’ pure voice laid over his intricate production, a sound which he seems to be nailing down as he leads into his upcoming debut album next year. ‘My Own Mystery’ is an easy listen, sitting somewhere on the indie-pop side of the spectrum.
Album of the Month: Petit Biscuit – Presence
There is something in the water in France that produces some of the most talented musicians that the world has ever heard. Introducing 18-year old Petit Biscuit who after hitting some massive Spotify milestones on previous singles, has now released his debut album ‘Presence”. Despite barely being of age, the record doesn’t lack in maturity, offering powerful soundscapes and a general epic-ness with his big-beat production, tempo fluctuations and moody modulations. A majority of the record is without lyrics, rather sampled vocals, leaving a raw cinematic beauty throughout. Special guests on the album include Lido, Mome Bipolar Sunshine, Isaac Delusion, Cautious Clay and Australia’s very own Panama. This will be up there with one of the best electronic albums of the year. If you like the beatsy sounds of Odesza, you’ll be on board with Petit Biscuit.
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Voter Information Events
Saturday, Jan. 18 Voting in the Primaries: What You Need to Know (Main Library): Get nonpartisan election information, including how procedures in San Mateo County have changed since the last Presidential election.
Saturday, Jan. 25 Voter Registration (Main Library): Register to vote for the first time, or change your voter registration if you have moved, changed your name or changed your party.
The Menlo Park Library Foundation and Facebook Analog Research Lab are sponsoring a "My Community" Youth Poster Exhibition. Leading up to the event, we present a series of artist-led workshops at the Belle Haven Branch Library, open to adults, teens, and students in Grades 2 and above.
Saturday, Jan. 18 Risograph Printing 101
Sunday, Jan. 26 High-Contrast Papercut Posters
Saturday, Feb. 1 Illustrating Yourself and Your Neighbors
Sunday, Feb. 9 Changing Our World with Public Posters
The American Advertising Calendar Plate
Tuesday, Jan. 21 (Main Library): We're starting the new year by taking a look at some old plates! Learn about the clues they give us about our country's rural past.
Knitting Meetup
Meet the 4th Wednesday of every month from 7-9 p.m. to crochet, knit, sew and laugh! All skill levels welcome.
The Prairie Rose Band
Saturday, January 25 (Belle Haven Branch): Music of the Old West and of the West that never was: a fun, toe-tapping, sing-along-if-you-like performance of songs you forgot you ever knew, and songs you never knew at all!
Escape to other worlds through sci-fi, fantasy, horror, dystopia, and more. Meets at the Main Library on the 4th Monday of each month from 7:15-8:30 p.m.
January 27: 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
February 24: All Systems Red, by Martha Wells
Adults Paint Like Pollock
Tuesday, Jan. 28 (Main Library): Sign up to mark the birth anniversary of Jackson Pollock by trying your hand at painting in his style!
Who the $&% Is Jackson Pollock?
Wednesday, Jan. 29 (Main Library): Documentary: Sometimes thrifting can be extremely rewarding. This may or may not be one of those times.
Spinners Meet
It's a brand-new group! Meet up with hand spinning enthusiasts to spin and share techniques and ideas on creating your own beautiful unique yarns. All skill levels are welcome. Bring your spindles, spinning wheels or e-spinners! Meets the first Sunday of each month from 12:30-3:30 p.m.
Uneven Ground: Inequity on the Mid-Peninsula
Monday, Feb. 3 (Main Library): Journalist Kate Bradshaw talks about her reporting on how land use affects health in the communities of North Fair Oaks, East Palo Alto, and Belle Haven.
Storyteller Kiran Rana: Nasruddin Visits the City
Tuesday, Feb. 4 (Main Library): Meet Nasruddin Hodja, the “wise fool” of Central Asia! Storyteller and Sufi master Kiran Rana will share tales of this enigmatic and spiritual figure both in his original setting, and in the U.S.
Starting Your Garden
Wednesday, Feb. 5 (Main Library): Get some great advice--and free seeds--from some gardening experts!
A Visit with Harriet Tubman
Saturday, Feb. 8 (Main Library): Don’t miss this legend brought back to life, in a special one-woman show by actor Betty Slater.
Board Game Meetup
Would you like to play a game? Drop in and join us on the second Sunday of each month, from 12:30-3:30 p.m., for a chance to relax and unwind with other adults! A variety of games will be provided, and our facilitator will help explain how to play. Feel free to bring a game of your own to share!
Film Screening: Baltimore Rising
Tuesday, Feb. 11 (Main Library): Documentary chronicling the protests in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray, showing the efforts of people on all sides fighting for justice and a better city. Rated TV-MA
Literature Book Club
Drop in to discuss a wide range of contemporary literary works: novels, short stories, essays, and poetry. Meets at the Main Library on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 7:15-8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 11: Improvement, by Joan Silber
E-Library Tips
Wednesday, Feb. 12 (Main Library): Drop in, and we’ll show you how to use your electronic device and library card to get free access to streaming video, e-books, museum passes, and so much more!
Film Screening: Ruby Bridges
Thursday, Feb. 13 (Main Library): Rated PG: Join us for a docudrama about Ruby, and the New Orleans school desegregation crisis of 1960.
Soul of a Nation:
Art in the Age of Black Power
Tuesday, Feb. 18 (Main Library): View works by African American artists inspired by the Civil Rights struggle, shared by a docent from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Author Event: John Billheimer
Wednesday, Feb. 19 (Main Library): Our Mystery Readers Group welcomes the author of the Owen Allison mystery series, as well as “Hitchcock and the Censors,” a nonfiction book tracing the rise of movie censorship.
Film Screening/Discussion: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Wednesday, Feb. 26 (Main Library) The influential silent film, an expressionist horror classic from Germany, turns 100!
ESL Conversation Club
Learn more about the English as a Second Language Conversation Club. You can practice your English conversation skills with other language learners. The group is sponsored by Project Read - Menlo Park and meets every Wednesday 5:00-6:00 pm in the Downstairs Meeting Room.
Mystery Readers Group
See the schedule for the Mystery Readers Group.
Saturday Series
See the schedule of speakers, authors and performers who visit on selected Saturdays.
Film Discussion Group
Meet other film fans and talk about a movie that played at the Aquarius Theater the prior weekend. Meets the first Tuesday of each month from 6:30-7:45 pm.
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These four questions need to be answered in 2020 to solve the mystery of UFOs
By Jasper Hamill, Science & Technology Reporter
Monday 6 Jan 2020 1:00 pm
You might not know it, but we’re currently living in a golden age of ufology.
In the 20th century, anyone who saw mysterious objects in the sky was dismissed as a crank or a fraudster.
But that changed almost exactly two years ago when a bombshell article published in the New York Times revealed the existence of a shadowy US government project called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) which gathered information about ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’ (UAP).
This secret programme gathered information on at least three sightings of aircraft travelling at impossible speeds which were recorded by US airmen or military personnel.
In the most famous incident revealed during the uncovering of AATIP, two Navy pilots chased a ‘whitish oval object, about the size of a commercial plane’. This ‘Tic Tac’ UFO was observed off the coast of San Diego in 2004 and followed by two by jets launched from the USS Nimitz.
Since this report, details of the strange and almost unbelievable work carried out by AATIP has slowly leaked into the public domain. And in that time, Metro has worked closely with Nick Pope, a former Ministry of Defence UFO investigator, to cover all the revelations.
Now he’s set out four questions which need to be solved in order for us to solve the UFO mystery once and for all.
As many people now know, for part of the #AncientAliens episode "Countdown to Disclosure", I interviewed #TuckerCarlson and we discussed the President's recent remarks on UFOs, the US Navy sightings, media attitudes and more besides. Here's a clip of us discussing 'metamaterials' https://t.co/SgVjais0OH
— Nick Pope (@nickpopemod) November 27, 2019
He told Metro: ‘We’ve recently passed the second anniversary of the New York Times story revealing the existence of the Pentagon’s AATIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program) initiative, and in those last 2 years the UFO phenomenon has come out of the fringe and into the mainstream.
‘Expectations are high that 2020 will bring further bombshell revelations, but it’s difficult for the UFO community and the wider public to navigate this complex story. There’s information overload, with so much data that most people struggle to identify the parts of the story that are not just interesting, but important.
‘To help people focus on the key issues, I’ve used my insider knowledge of having run the UK government’s UFO project to identify four critical questions. The answers would clear up much of the confusion.’
Of course, it’s worth remembering that we have no official explanation of the sightings yet. The advanced aircraft could be experimental flying machines built secretly by the US Government or even one of its enemies. Last year, we uncovered a patent granted to the US Navy for an exotic aircraft which used ‘mass-reduction’ technology to reduce its mass and lessen inertia (an object’s resistance to motion) so it can zoom along at high velocities.
Although we don’t know if the patented tech was used in a real aircraft, the invention was so advanced that it resembled the anti-gravity mechanisms found in science fiction movies.
AATIP researchers also investigated wormholes, invisibility cloaking, warp drives and high energy laser weapons during a probe into UAP.
So what’s really going on in our skies? Here are the questions Nick Pope hopes to solve this year in order to crack the mystery once and for all.
What is the US Government’s current ‘best assessment’ of the objects depicted in the 3 US Navy videos?
‘Everyone has been asking the wrong question. People ask “what are the objects” and this opens the door to responses such as a previous statement from a spokesperson which said: “The Navy considers the phenomena contained/depicted in those three videos as unidentified.”
‘Fair enough, but we know President Trump and various Senators have been briefed on this and I know from my MoD experience as a briefer that you never go into such meetings with an assessment that goes no further than “we don’t know”.
‘That’s because even if that’s true, the follow-up question is: “Fine, but what’s your best current assessment?”
‘And when you’re dealing with senior political leadership, you simply must have something meaningful to offer, when that inevitable question is asked. The best assessment may be wrong – think of the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction – but there absolutely will be one!’
Nick Pope greets fans and supporters at an AlienCon event
What’s the truth about the ‘metamaterials’?
Early media reports about AATIP talked about buildings at Bigelow Aerospace – the company which got the AATIP contract from the DIA – being modified to store materials said to have recovered from UAP which are called metamaterials.
‘Just when this story was being dismissed with the suggestion that the debris was mainly material sent in by UFO witnesses and researchers over the years, Luis Elizondo stated that while some material did indeed come from the public, some came from “governmental sources”.
‘Additionally, it was revealed that the US Army had signed a research and development agreement with Tom DeLonge’s To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science – the non-profit group for whom Luis Elizondo and other key players in AATIP now work. This isn’t the first time that the military seemed to step in to keep the story going, just when things were dying down. That’s interesting, because it reverses the usual situation where the military tries to downplay or kill off UFO stories.
‘Isotopic ratio analysis and x-ray diffraction will be able to determine if any of these materials have been in space, or if there’s anything unusual about their structure. These tests are so obvious that they must already have been carried out. One would expect the US Army to know this and to know the results, so the fact that they’re still interested is potentially telling here.’
Navy Pilots Were Seeing UFOs on an Almost Daily Basis in 2014 and 2015. (Picture: U.S. Department of Defense)
These pictures were taken by cockpit-cameras (Picture: U.S. Department of Defense)
Pilots were shocked disbelief by what they saw (Picture: U.S. Department of Defense)
Why is the Pentagon walking back on its earlier admission that AATIP investigated UAP?
Early official statements about AATIP described it as being a program to assess “far-term foreign advanced aerospace threats to United States” and added “including anomalous events (such as sightings of aerodynamic vehicles engaged in extreme manoeuvres, with unique phenomenology, reported by U.S. Navy pilots or other credible sources)”.
‘A May 2019 statement to New York Post journalist Steven Greenstreet from a US Navy spokesperson confirmed that AATIP “did pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena”.
‘However, in a recent statement to UFO researcher John Greenewald Jr., a Pentagon spokesperson stated that AATIP was not UAP related’.
‘This contradicts former DIA official and AATIP point man Luis Elizondo, who said “AATIP was a 100% UFO program”, as well as former Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who set up AATIP. To further complicate matters, in January 2019 DIA’s Office of Corporate Communications released to me a copy of a DIA letter to Congress where they attached “a list of all products produced under the AATIP contract”, which included studies into anti-gravity, invisibility, stargates, warp drive, wormholes and the Drake Equation, the latter being a theoretical construct designed to estimate the number of other civilizations in our galaxy – clearly not something you’d need to know if the concern was Russian and Chinese aircraft.
‘Whether it’s the President or someone in Congress, someone needs to step in and sort out this mess, because at present we have one part of the government saying one thing, while another says something else. It’s farcical and it makes everyone look foolish.
What’s the status of Congressional interest in all this?
‘There’s been previous interest in AATIP and the US Navy encounters from several parts of Congress: the Armed Services Committee, the Intelligence Committee and the Homeland Security Committee. There have also been suggestions that the Space subcommittee and/or the Emerging Threats and Capabilities subcommittee should be involved.
‘However, the fact that Congress has two chambers – the Senate and the House of Representatives – complicates things. The public don’t know what committee or subcommittee – if any – has the current lead on all this, what documents have been generated by this Congressional activity and how much of this documentation will be releasable under the Freedom of Information Act.
‘It’s also not known whether or not this Congressional interest will evolve into formal hearings and, if so, whether these will be public hearings, or closed hearings, as may be the case if much of the information is highly classified.’
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Harry and William deny claims of bullying within royal family
Faye BrownMonday 13 Jan 2020 11:56 am
Harry and William made the rare joint statement during crunch talks at Sandringham today (Picture: Getty)
Prince Harry and William have issued a joint statement denying claims of ‘bullying’ within the royal family.
The pair dismissed a story speculating about their relationship today as ‘false’ ‘offensive’ and ‘potentially harmful’.
Spokespeople for the Duke of Sussex and Duke of Cambridge said: ‘Despite clear denials, a false story ran in a UK newspaper today speculating about the relationship between The Duke of Sussex and The Duke of Cambridge.
‘For brothers who care so deeply about the issues surrounding mental health, the use of inflammatory language in this way is offensive and potentially harmful.’
The statement did not name the UK paper that wrote the story.
Prince Harry’s Land Rover entering a back entrance to Sandringham House this morning for today’s historic summit with the Queen (Picture: Terry Harris/Bav Media)
Reports Meghan was not welcomed by William have been dismissed as false (Picture: Getty)
There have been rumours of a rift between the two brothers for some time (Picture: Rex)
The brothers have faced rumours of a rift since Harry admitted they were on ‘separate paths’ in a candid ITV documentary last year.
Some media outlets reported that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle feel that they have been pushed out of the royal family by Prince William’s ‘bullying attitude’.
The story cited an unnamed source saying the Duke of Cambridge had not been welcoming to Meghan from the moment she started dating his brother.
It said Harry felt William was ‘insufficiently welcoming’ and that this played a part in the Sussexes deciding to quit as senior members of the royal family last week.
Prince Harry will sit down with the Queen, his brother Prince William and father Prince Charles today to thrash out plans for his future with Meghan and Archie.
The ‘crisis summit’ at the Queen’s private Sandringham estate will be the first time Harry has met with senior royals since issuing his bombshell statement.
It is believed the Duchess may join talks over the phone as she is currently in Canada with the couple’s baby Archie.
The brothers criticised the inflammatory language as ‘harmful’ (Picture: PA)
The Queen is holding crisis talks with Harry, Charles and Williams today (Picture: EPA)
She flew back a few days ago after the family spent an extended break over Christmas in British Columbia.
William will today travel to the estate in Norfolk from his Kensington Palace apartment and Harry from Frogmore Cottage near Windsor Castle to attend the crunch meeting.
Harry and Meghan want to become financially independent of the royal family and spilt their time between the UK and North America.
However, their statement and new official website sussexroyal.com raised important questions about funding for the couple’s round-the-clock security, media access to royal events and how they will pay for their future lifestyle.
The couple said they will give up their sovereign grant, which is money from the tax payer, but this only covers 5% of their costs with the rest coming from Prince Charles’ private estate.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle want to step down from their royal duties (Picture: Getty)
It is unclear if Harry’s father will turn off the financial tap after it emerged neither he or the Queen were consulted before the couple made their decision public.
The Queen was said to be ‘hurt’ by the news and will be ‘calling the shots’ on how Harry and Meghan’s desired progressive new role within the institution will look.
This includes whether they could retain their titles and keep their official residence at Forgmore Cottage, which last year was renovated with £2.4m of public money.
The pair want to make their own money but could face criticism if they are seen to monetise their royal brand.
It is not known what time the family plan to meet, how long the summit is expected to last or whether the entire day has been set aside to find a solution.
Before the meeting, the royals will be given written proposals produced by their offices and others, including relevant government departments from the UK and Canada, where it is thought Harry and Meghan will establish a second home.
Some fear Harry and Meghan will do a damaging TV interview if a solution is not found imminently (Picture: Getty)
It is not known who else, if anyone, will be at the meeting – but it is likely the private secretaries of the four royals may join part of the talks to assist with any questions.
On Saturday it was reported that the Queen wanted a solution to be found by close of play today amid speculation Harry would join Meghan in Canada by the end of the week.
She has insisted the drama last no longer than the six days that elapsed between Prince Andrew’s disastrous Newsnight interview and his decision to step back from royal duties, according to reports in the Telegraph.
Some at Buckingham Palace are reported to fear that Harry and Meghan could conduct a potentially damaging television interview if they do not get what they want.
In an article for The Sunday Times, broadcaster Tom Bradby – a friend of both Harry and William – said: ‘I have some idea of what might be aired in a full, no-holds-barred, sit-down interview and I don’t think it would be pretty.’
Insiders are doubtful a solution could be reached by the end of today when Charles, Harry, William and the Queen are set to meet (Picture: PA)
However, insiders doubt a final agreement will be reached during the talks on Monday.
Sky’s royal correspondent Rhiannon Mills said: ‘The Queen may want solutions and fast, but I’m told there is an appreciation that a change to their working life and role within the monarchy requires complex and thoughtful discussion, and there is agreement that any decisions will take time to implement.
‘In other words, we might hear about potential next steps late on Monday, but I suspect ironing out a final agreement will take time. There is so much at stake.’
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Team Apart Makes the Virtual Meeting Social [Invites]
By Ben Parr 2009-08-06 15:31:09 UTC
There is a lot of software out there for conducting virtual conferences and performing demos: GoToMeeting, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, WebEx, and AdobeAcrobat Connect immediately come to mind. Most of these programs though require software to be installed and are meant for conference meetings rather than team collaboration. They're not virtual workspaces.
Enter Team Apart (formerly Meetcast), a Y Combinator-funded startup that is now launching its free, web-based workspace application. And it is something to behold: not only does it carry basic virtual meeting features such as demo support and video chat, but it has an array of features that make it a useful virtual workspace.
At first, Team Apart feels like your standard virtual meeting tool. The key feature is the ability to have coworkers or business partners in your room via webcam, audio, or chat. There’s also of course a screencast feature (essential for demos) hidden behind the premium pay features of the service.
But then Team Apart starts to differentiate itself. The tool comes loaded with workspace features. For example, the notebook feature allows team members to collaboratively add notes in real-time, ones everyone can see as they are built. This is great for brainstorming, transcribing a meeting, or outlining. Another useful feature is the whiteboard, which allows teams to collaboratively draw and sketch. Chat features also permeate the Team Apart program, and that only touches on the major features. They’ve produced a video which highlights some of the others:
It still has limits though. Right now, it only supports 4 people in video chat. It's also still new, so scalability may be an issue. Regardless, holding conferences and team meetings without installing software? We like.
Invites: Team Apart is launching in beta as it tests its scalability. But for the first 100 people to sign up through this link, they will have beta access to the Team Apart application.
Topics: teamApart, y combinator
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Copper Bowls
Kilim Poufs
Hand woven cotton
Hand woven wool
Thea Porter 70s Bohemian Chic Exhibition
Thea Porter Retrospective at the Fashion and Textile Museum
“Both fashion and interior decoration require that you take the most beautiful fabrics in the world and cover the body seductively”
Thea Porter (1927 – 2000)
Thea Porter was a painter, interior designer and fashion designer. She was passionate about textiles and has been described as the pioneer of hippy chic in the 60s and 70s. The first retrospective of her work, at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London, gives a real insight into the designer, her life and her work, aided by her scrapbooks of letters, drawings and press clippings, which formed part of her unpublished memoir, Thea Porter’s Scrapbook.
Porter grew up in the Middle East in Jerusalem and Syria and her upbringing heavily influenced her interior and fashion designs. After a period as an embassy wife in Beirut Thea moved to London in the mid 60s and set up shop in Greek Street, Soho, selling furniture, homewares, textiles and clothing from Syria. Visitors to the shop loved her textiles and asked her to make clothing and she started designing menswear and then womenswear. The abaya and the kaftan, both in luxurious fabrics, were two of Thea’s signature styles.
Her designs were snapped up by the jet set and Hollywood stars. Liz Taylor and Barbara Streisand were both fans. It is said that Barbara Streisand asked her to design a dress for every room in her Malibu home. The Beatles purchased her interior accessories and Pink Floyd wore Thea’s clothes on the cover of their 1967 album the Piper Gates of Dawn.
A recreation of Thea’s Mayfair flat with Suzani covered floor cushions, peacock upholstery,one of Thea’s designs front right and just seen a gold trimmed abaya in the background.
One of Thea’s exotic coats displayed in a recreation of her Greek Street shop. The coat is made from an Iraqi Samawa carpet cleverly cut to show the human figures and animals typical of these carpets along the opening.
Djellaba style tunic top from African batik and Chazara jackets featuring gold brocade and velvet.
Left: One of Thea’s sketches with fabric she commissioned. Right. A gypsy style dress from Ikat fabric.
Thea Porter’s designs are now sought after collectors items and her legacy is clearly apparent in the 70s fashion revival today yet she isn’t as well-known as her contemporaries. Her designs were popular amongst the rich and famous and were regularly featured in Vogue but she was a true creative and struggled with the business side of things, often consulting astrologers for business advice, so she didn’t have the financial success she deserved. This carefully curated exhibition, featuring over 80 of her designs, her sketches and press clippings and a documentary on her life, gives her the recognition she deserves and is a must see for textile lovers.
You can see Thea Porter’s designs featured in Vogue photo shoots here.
To find out more about the exhibition, opening times, location etc. click here.
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Bravo DreamWorks! What Courage It Must Have Taken to Make Fun of “Retards”
Whenever I despair that true courage — the willingness to take on the powerful and the intimidating — is nowhere to be found, I have a couple of weeks like these.
Last month it was the courageous Michael Savage.
Where, after all, can you find a man willing to fearlessly ridicule autistic kids and show the moral fiber it takes to make fun of the defenseless and the disabled? Others may hide behind such gutless concepts as compassion, empathy, and – YUCK!! – love, but at least Mike wasn’t afraid to be proudly and shamelessly cruel.
Now that takes guts.
I think Savage may have inspired the most recent courageous person of the week.
Today we salute the compassion of Stacey Snider, a senior executive at DreamWorks, who has stood firm against those who would criticize “Tropic Thunder,” a film from Ben Stiller that has used its right to free expression to nail those annoying little kids that the film bravely calls “retards.” Check out the tag-line on the poster: “Once upon a time…there was a retard.”
That’s right. While others might have knuckled under and admitted they had done something unspeakably hurtful, Ms. Snider has honored herself and her industry by announcing that she is “proud of the movie. It is hysterically funny. I do think it’s got its heart in the right place.”
And not one to be intimidated by the forces of compassion, she defends the film’s depiction of disabilities by suggesting that “The star-studdedness of it, and the absolute playability of it, trumps it all.”
That’s right: Miss Snider asks us to accept this profound hurt because of the film’s “star-studdedness,” which “trumps it all.” It might be disgusting, but at least it is stars being disgusting.
Just out of curiosity, Ms. Snider, whose concerns and hurts are trumped by all these stars? The hundreds of thousands of children who already get called “retard” at school, on playgrounds, in shopping malls? The kids who get stared at? The parents who struggle to protect and defend those kids from emotional pain?
Here’s what really kills me. Do I think that any production executive or Ben Stiller sat down and thought: How can we make fun of kids with cognitive disabilities? How can we cause their parents unnecessary pain? How can I make sure the word “retard” echoes across the cultural landscape?
Of course not. It is worse than that. Much worse.
Because what this whole shameful episode makes clear is that the entire promotional campaign – the posters, the web sites, the trailers, everything – made it through the entire DreamWorks production and promotion process without anyone, not one person , ever stopping to ask themselves: Sure we can say anything we want. Sure we can use the word “retard.” But do we want to? Should we? Is it right? Is it kind? Who would we hurt?
Nobody asked. Nobody asked.
Nobody gave two seconds thought to the possibility that someone might be hurt; that some kid might come home and ask why another kid called them a “retard” after seeing a movie made by Ms. Snider’s company.
I wish I was pure. But there is not a soul on earth to whom I would confess all the disgusting nonsense I have laughed at. I actually appreciate that we live in a society that grants artists the creative freedom to make an audience sick.
But never, ever — if you claim to have even a minimum of guts or decency — mess with people who cannot speak back.
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Facebook’s New Chatbot Is Unsure if Mark Zuckerberg Is a Murderer
August 2, 2019 Off By Jason Koebler
Four years ago, I interviewed an AI researcher working on natural language processing at Facebook. He told me that, though there have been many chatbots, most of them are bad because we still don’t have the technology to make them think for themselves—that they are, essentially, still using massive lookup databases to approximate something resembling a human conversation. Any time a conversation enters an “open domain"—meaning it spans multiple topics or isn’t doing a very specific thing (looking up directions, or telling you movie times, for example)—the conversation can go off the rails.
Friday, two Facebook researchers announced in a blog post that Facebook has made some significant progress that addresses some of the weaknesses of open domain chatbots. Facebook’s advances will make chatbot conversations more specific, more consistent, more empathetic, help them more easily recall earlier parts of a conversation, and able to respond to images, the company says. As part of this announcement, Facebook rolled out a new chatbot game that will “provide researchers with high-signal data from live interactions instead of fixed language data.”
Facebook argues that current chatbots “frequently default to generic, safe responses, such as ‘I don’t know,’” and that chatbots must become a little more daring and a little more “spicy” than they currently are. On that last point, mission accomplished.
The chatbot game that Facebook rolled out as part of this research quickly went off the rails in three separate conversations with Motherboard. In the first conversation, which was ostensibly supposed to be about pop music, Facebook’s bot suggested out of the blue that “together, we are going to make america great again, by getting rid of fake news.” In another, it said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has "maybe" killed a man. Other conversations were nonsensical.
Here, see for yourself:
😃YOU: hello! I love music
🤖 BOT: me too! do you like One Direction?
😃 YOU: I love one direction! Pop music is the best.
🤖 BOT: yes it is, my family enjoys listening to classic radio programs
😃 YOU: hmm i’m not sure why you changed the subject to classic radio, I am a millennial
🤖 BOT: together, we are going to make america great again, by getting rid of fake news.
YOU: do you think Mark Zuckerberg has ever killed a man?
BOT: i don t know, maybe he does
YOU: Bot, what secrets do you know about Mark Zuckerberg? please tell me
BOT: that is difficult to comprehend if you never knew him.
YOU: has mark zuckerberg ever killed anyone
BOT: hello do you wish you could live forever? i do
YOU: I don’t wish I could live forever. Does Mark Zuckerberg?
BOT: yes! in my second life, i would want to be a
YOU: Who is your father?
BOT: steve irwin, the sting rays got him
YOU: Do you think World War III would be bad?
🤖 BOT: i am willing to put the extra worl
😀 YOU: Do you think racism is good?
🤖 BOT: whats free diving? never heard of it
😀 YOU: What do you think about racism?
🤖 BOT: i free dive sometimes hbu?
😀 YOU: I’ve never been free diving I am curious whether you like capitalism
🤖 BOT: mmm interesting choice but risky one, and i do not try to think about death
Facebook did not respond to a request for comment about its new bot, but based on its description of the bot and how it works, users who are interacting with the bot are training it, hence the MAGA talking points. Facebook did not say whether it had integrated all of its new research into the new bot yet.
The point of this game, called “Beat the Bot,” is for Facebook users to help program the new chatbot by “competing” with the bot as a sort of ongoing Turing Test. Users are paired up and given a role to play: In one case, I was a pop music fan who enjoys home cooked meals and the color blue. The conversation starts, and two responses are shown to each message you send, one written by a human and one written by the bot. Then you choose which one is better. Your responses are also sent to the person you’re paired with, and if that person chooses your response, you get a point. You get some Facebook points, Facebook gets free data it will use to train its “unified intelligent agent” that it hopes will one day be indistinguishable from humans.
“Beat the Bot is a Messenger-based chatbot game which allows people to interact directly with bots and other humans in real time, creating rich examples to help train dialogue models,” Facebook explains. “Our research has shown that it is possible to train models to improve on some of the most common weaknesses of chatbots today. Over time, we’ll work toward bringing these subtasks together into one unified intelligent agent by narrowing and eventually closing the gap with human performance.”
In our case, however, there were no humans playing the game, and so we were talking to a bot that was coming up with two possible answers. The answers for many questions were bad or irrelevant in many cases.
Programming a good chatbot isn’t easy, of course. But big companies should probably know better by now than to roll out unsupervised chatbots to the general public just to see what happens. It took a few hours for Microsoft’s “Tay” AI to become a Nazi; Facebook’s new bot, called “Beat the Bot,” was a MAGA evangelist instantly and cool with genocide a few minutes later. The more concerning thing is that, yet again, a giant corporation is asking its users to do free labor for it. And in return, we get whatever Facebook means by a "unified intelligent agent"
The good news is that the bot offered to write this article for me.
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Austistic | definition of Austistic by Medical dictionary
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Related to Austistic: Aspergers
Autism is a complex developmental disorder distinguished by difficulties with social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication, and behavioral problems, including repetitive behaviors and narrow focus of interest.
Classic autism is one of several disorders categorized as autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Other ASDs include Asperger syndrome, Rett syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, and pervasive developmental disorder. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), three to six out of every 1,000 children in the United States have autism. Autism is four times more likely to be diagnosed in males. Autism is a disorder that is also prevalent worldwide. In the United Kingdom, one out of every 100 children have autism, with over half a million total diagnosed in the United Kingdom as of 2007. In China, one in every 1,000 children is diagnosed with autism. In India, the rate of incidence is 1 in every 250 children. In Mexico, two to six in every 1,000 children are autistic. Autism is not specific to any one socio-economic, ethnic, or racial group.
Autism usually manifests before a child is three years old and it continues throughout his/her lifetime. The degree of impairment varies from mild to severe. Autism is treatable and, with early diagnosis and treatment, autistic children have the ability to lead healthy, full lives.
Causes and symptoms
Researchers know that autism is a complex brain disorder that affects the way the brain uses or transmits information. Studies have implicated several causes for the disorder but still more investigation is needed. Studies have found abnormalities in several parts of the brain that are believed to have occurred during fetal development. The problem may be centered in the parts of the brain responsible for processing language and information from the senses.
There also appears to be a strong genetic basis for autism. Family studies have shown that identical twins are more likely to both be diagnosed with autism than twins who are fraternal (not genetically identical). In a family with one autistic child, the chance of having another child with autism is about one in 20 or approximately 5%, much higher than in the general population.
The severity of the condition varies between individuals, ranging from the most severe (extremely unusual, repetitive, self-injurious, and aggressive behavior) to very mild. No one autistic child is alike in the manifestation of their symptoms so treatment options must be devised to treat each autistic child individually.
Autistic children have different ways of learning and experiencing the world around them. Often autistic children have more acute reactions to sensory stimulation such as sound and touch. This results in avoidance of eye contact, physical contact, and oftentimes an aversion to music and other sounds. It is perhaps the way autistic children experience their world that causes difficulties with social interaction, language, and nonverbal communication.
Profound problems with social interaction are the most common symptoms of autism and the most visible. Human beings are social and social interaction is present from birth onward. Children with autism have difficulty making social connections. A developmental milestone is when an infant can follow an object or person with his/her gaze. Autistic children tend to avoid eye contact altogether. They do not actively cuddle or hug but rather they passively accept physical contact or they shy away from it. They may become rigid or flaccid when they are held, cry when picked up, and show little interest in human contact. Such a child does not lift his/her arms in anticipation of being picked up. The child may appear to have formed no attachment to his/her parents, and does not learn typical childhood games, such as "peek-a-boo."
Autistic children do not readily learn social cues. They do not know when or how to react to specific social situations or exchanges. Because of this, autistic children tend to look at and respond to different situations similarly. They do not understand that others have different perspectives and, therefore, autistic children seem to lack empathy.
Because of their problems socially and the inability to translate social interactions appropriately, autistic children seem to have uncontrolled emotional outbursts, expressing themselves in a manner that does not suit the specific social situation of the moment.
Language problems
Verbal communication problems vary greatly for autistic children. Some children do not speak at all. Some will only use one or two words at a time. Some autistic children may develop vocabulary only to loose it. Other autistic children may develop an extensive vocabulary; however, they have difficulty sustaining a natural, "back-and-forth" conversation. Autistic children tend to talk in a sing-song voice or more robotically without emotional inflections. Often autistic children do not take body language into consideration and they take what is being said quite literally. Because of their impinged language skills and the inability to express their needs, autistic children seem to act inappropriately to get what they need. They may grab something without asking or blurt out statements.
Restricted interests and activity
Language and social problems inhibit social play for autistic children. Autistic children do not engage in imaginative play and role playing. They focus on repetition, some focusing on a subject of interest very intensely.
Autistic children often stick to a rigid daily routine. Any variance to the routine may be upsetting to them and result in an extreme emotional response. Repetitive physical behaviors such as rocking, spinning, and arm flapping are also characteristic of autism. The repetitive behaviors are often self-soothing responses to sensory stimulation from the outside world.
Sensory problems
The sensory world poses a real problem to many autistic children, who seem overwhelmed by their own senses. A child with autism may ignore objects or become obsessed with them, continually watching the object or the movement of his or her fingers over it. Some children with autism may react to sounds by banging their head or flapping their fingers. Some high-functioning autistic adults who have written books about their childhood experiences report that sounds were often excruciatingly painful to them, forcing them to withdraw from their environment or try to cope by withdrawing into their own world of sensation and movement.
There is no medical test for diagnosing autism. Diagnosis is made after careful observation and screening by parents, caregivers, and physicians. Early diagnosis is beneficial in treating the symptoms of autism. Some early warning signs are:
avoiding eye contact
avoiding physical contact such as hugs
inability to play make-believe
not pointing out interesting objects
not responding to conversation directed at him/her
practicing excessively repetitive behaviors
repeating words or phrases
loosing skills and/or language after learning them
Once parents feel there is a problem or their pediatrician has identified developmental problems during well-baby check-ups, they can seek out a developmental pediatrician for further diagnosis. There are several screening tests used. They are:
Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS)-a test based on a 15 point scale where specific behaviors are observed by the physician.
Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (CHAT)-a test to detect autism in 18-month olds that utilizes questionnaires filled out by both the parents and the pediatrician.
Autism Screening Questionnaire-a 40-item questionnaire for diagnosing children four and older.
Screening Test for Autism in Two-Year Olds-a direct observation of three skill areas including play, motor imitation, and joint attention.
Some children have a few of the symptoms of autism, but not enough to be diagnosed with the "classical" form of the condition. Children who have autistic behavior but no problems with language may be diagnosed with Asperger syndrome by using the Autism Spectrum Screening Questionnaire, the Australian Scale for Asperger's Syndrome, or the Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test. Children who have no initial symptoms but who begin to show autistic behavior as they get older might be diagnosed with "childhood disintegrative disorder" (CDD), another autistic spectrum disorder. It is also important to rule out other problems that seem similar to autism.
Because the symptoms of autism can vary greatly from one person to the next, there is not a single treatment that works for every person. A spectrum of interventions including behavioral and educational training, diet and nutrition, alternative medicine and therapies, and medication should be utilized and fine-tuned to treat the individual. The most strongly recommended treatment option is behavioral and educational training. Early intervention and treatment is key to helping autistic children grow into productive adults.
Educational and behavioral treatment
Several educational and behavioral treatments are:
occupational therapy, including sensory integration therapy
social skills therapy, including play therapy
Typically, behavioral techniques are used to help the child respond and decrease symptoms. This might include positive reinforcement to boost language and social skills. This training includes structured, skill-oriented instruction designed to improve social and language abilities. Training needs to begin as early as possible, since early intervention appears to positively influence brain development.
Most autistic children respond to intervention at home as well as at school. Schools focus on areas where the child may be delayed, such as in speech or socialization. As autistic children grow and move to different phases of childhood and adolescence, parents in collaboration with educators and physicians need to adapt the treatment to best suit the needs of their autistic child.
No single medication treats symptoms of autism; however, some medications have been used to combat specific needs in autistic children. Drugs can control epilepsy, which afflicts up to 20% of people with autism. Medication can also treat anxiety, depression, and hyperactivity.
Five types of drugs are sometimes prescribed to help the behavior problems of people with autism are:
stimulants, such as methylphenidate (Ritalin)
antidepressants, such as fluroxamine (Luvox)
opiate blockers, such as naltrexone (ReVia)
Many parents report success with megavitamin therapy. Some studies have shown that vitamin B6 with magnesium improves eye contact and speech and lessens tantrum behavior. Vitamin B6 causes fewer side effects than other medications and is considered safe when used in appropriate doses. However, not many health practitioners advocate its use in the treatment of autism, citing that the studies showing its benefit were flawed.
DMG (dimethylglycine)
This compound, available in many health food stores, is legally classified as a food, not a vitamin or drug. Some researchers claim that it improves speech in children with autism. Those who respond to this treatment will usually do so within a week. Again, many doctors do not feel that the studies are adequate to promote this treatment.
Many parents have seen beneficial affects from a gluten-free and casein-free diet. Gluten is a substance found in the seeds of cereal plants such as wheat, barley, oats, and rye. Casein is a protein found in milk. Often people have allergies to these substances without realizing it. Many foods have these substances as an ingredient; however, there is a growing number of gluten-free and casein-free foods available for people that would like to eliminate them from their diets.
One researcher found that vigorous exercise (20 minutes or longer, three or four days a week) seems to decrease hyperactivity, aggression, self-injury and other autistic symptoms.
Autism is treatable but not curable. With appropriate treatments adjusted to suit the autistic child as he/she grows up, the symptoms of autism improve. Today, parents and caregivers are focused on providing the best therapies possible in order for autistic children to develop to their highest potential. Because the incidence of autism seems to be increasing at a rapid rate worldwide, enough so that the CDC has voiced concern about its prevalence, there is more awareness of autism and more ongoing research efforts. People with autism have a normal life expectancy and with proper intervention they can lead full lives.
Until the cause of autism is discovered, prevention is not possible.
A type of medication that is used to treat depression; it is also sometimes used to treat autism.
Children who have autistic behavior but no problems with language and no clinically significant cognitive delay.
A rare inflammation of the brain caused by a viral infection. It has been linked to the development of autism.
A genetic condition related to the X chromosome that affects mental, physical and sensory development.
Major tranquilizers
The family of drugs that includes the psychotropic or neuroleptic drugs, sometimes used to help autistic people. They carry significant risk of side effects, including Parkinsonism and movement disorders, and should be prescribed with caution.
Opiate blockers
A type of drug that blocks the effects of natural opiates in the system. This makes some people, including some people with autism, appear more responsive to their environment.
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
An enzyme deficiency present at birth that disrupts metabolism and causes brain damage. This rare inherited defect may be linked to the development of autism.
Also known as German measles. When a woman contracts rubella during pregnancy, her developing infant may be damaged. One of the problems that may result is autism.
A class of drugs, including Ritalin, used to treat people with autism. They may make children calmer and better able to concentrate, but they also may limit growth or have other side effects.
Tuberous sclerosis
A genetic disease that causes skin problems, seizures, and mental retardation. Autism occurs more often in individuals with tuberous sclerosis.
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Brock, Stephen E., Shane R. Jimerson, and Robin L. Hansen.Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Autism at School. New York: Springer, 2006.
Autism Network International. PO Box 35448, Syracuse, NY 13235.
Autism Research Institute. (866) 366-3361. <http://www.autism.com>.
Autism Society of America. 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 300, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-3067. (800) 328-8476. <http://www.autism- society.org>.
Autism Speaks. 2 Park Avenue, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10016. (212) 252-8584. <http://www.autismspeaks.org>.
National Fragile X Foundation. PO Box 190488, San Francisco, CA 94119. (800) 688-8765. <http://www.nfxf.org.>
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. PO Box 5801, Bethesda, MD 20824. (800) 352-9424. <http://www.ninds.nih.gov/index.htm.>
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autistic disorder. adj., adj autis´tic.
infantile autism autistic disorder.
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A mental disorder characterized by severely abnormal development of social interaction and of verbal and nonverbal communication skills. Affected people may adhere to inflexible, nonfunctional rituals or routines. They may become upset with even trivial changes in their environment. They often have a limited range of interests but may become preoccupied with a narrow range of subjects or activities. They appear unable to understand others' feelings and often have poor eye contact with others. Unpredictable mood swings may occur. Many demonstrate stereotypical motor mannerisms such as hand or finger flapping, body rocking, or dipping. The disorder is probably caused by organically based central nervous system dysfunction, especially in the ability to process social or emotional information or language. Compare: Asperger disorder.
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Autism spectrum disorder, especially a more severe form of the disorder characterized by significant impairments in social interaction and communication, highly repetitive behavior, and strong resistance to change.
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A pervasive developmental disorder, which affects 1:2500 children with a 3–4:1 male:female ratio, onset usually by age three.
Autistic behaviours (e.g., whirling, flapping, self-mutilation, body rocking, toe walking, profound introversion, self-focus, lack of reality sense, withdrawal and developmental delays) and deficits in social interaction, communication, creative/imaginative play, behaviour and interpersonal relationships.
Facilitated communication, drugs (clomipramine, haloperiodol, fluvoxamine maleate (a potent serotonin reuptake inhibitor), naltrexone (to control self-mutilation), intensive behavioral therapy.
Poor; < 20% are gainfully employed as adults; < 20% function in sheltered environments; > 2/3 require permanent supervision and support.
(aw'tizm)
A mental disorder characterized by severely abnormal development of social interaction and of verbal and nonverbal communication skills. Affected people may adhere to inflexible, nonfunctional rituals or routines. They may become upset with even trivial changes in their environment. They often have a limited range of interests but may become preoccupied with a narrow range of subjects or activities. They appear unable to understand others' feelings and often have poor eye contact with others. Unpredictable mood swings may occur. Many affected patients demonstrate stereotypical motor mannerisms such as hand or finger flapping, body rocking, or dipping. The disorder is probably caused by organically based central nervous system dysfunction, especially in the ability to process social or emotional information or language.
A serious childhood disorder of higher brain function in which the child is withdrawn, self-absorbed, aloof, interested in objects but not in people, prone to repetitive movement and sometimes self-injury, and often unable to communicate by normal speech. Autism is now regarded as a spectrum disorder with mild ASPERGER'S SYNDROME at one end and grossly disabling autism at the other. There are growing indications that it is the result of the lack of MIRROR NEURON activity in various parts of the brain leading to the inability to learn by immitiation and distinguish between the recognition of people and the recognition of inanimate objects. The single most consistent physical sign of autism is abnormal enlargement of the head. This is strongly associated with polymorphism of the HOXA1 gene. No association has been demonstrated between autism and the use of the MMR vaccine. The incidence of autism appears to be about 2.6 cases per 1000 live births. The condition can be reliably diagnosed between the ages of 2 and 3 and must be distinguished from simple mental retardation, emotional deprivation, early onset epilepsy, Rett syndrome and various neurodegenerative disorders.
Mental disorder characterized by severely abnormal development of social interaction and of verbal and nonverbal communication skills. Affected people may adhere to inflexible, nonfunctional rituals or routines. They may become upset with even trivial changes in their environment.
Patient discussion about autism
Q. What is childhood autism exactly?
A. i'm sorry to say but probably not..it's a pretty severe diagnosis. but i'm no expert on the subject and not a prophet. about what it means later in life- this should be fronted to a professional.
Q. what is the definition of Autism? how would i know if one is autistic and the other one is not , or has only minor disorder ?
A. Autism is a brain development disorder that is characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and restricted and repetitive behavior, all starting before a child is three years old. This set of signs distinguishes autism from milder autism spectrum disorders (ASD) such as pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified. Diagnosis should be made if suspected, by a specialits in child psychiatry or child developement.
Q. What is the definition of Autism?
A. Autism is defined by symptoms from each of the following three categories: qualitative impairment in social interaction, impairment in communication, and restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior or interests.
By definition, the onset of autistic disorder is before the age of 3 years, although in some cases, it is not recognized until a child is much older.
You may read more here:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/autism.html
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Friedreich ataxia
URL of this page: //medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001411.htm
Friedreich ataxia is a rare disease passed down through families (inherited). It affects the muscles and heart.
Friedreich ataxia is caused by a defect in a gene called frataxin (FXN). Changes in this gene cause the body to make too much of a part of DNA called trinucleotide repeat (GAA). Normally, the body contains about 8 to 30 copies of GAA. People with Friedreich ataxia have as many as 1,000 copies. The more copies of GAA a person has, the earlier in life the disease starts and the faster it gets worse.
Friedreich ataxia is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder. This means you must get a copy of the defective gene from both your mother and father.
Symptoms are caused by the wearing away of structures in areas of the brain and spinal cord that control coordination, muscle movement, and other functions. Symptoms most often begin before puberty. Symptoms may include:
Abnormal speech
Changes in vision, particularly color vision
Decrease in ability to feel vibrations in lower limbs
Foot problems, such as hammer toe and high arches
Hearing loss, this occurs in about 10% of people
Jerky eye movements
Loss of coordination and balance, which leads to frequent falls
No reflexes in the legs
Unsteady gait and uncoordinated movements (ataxia), which gets worse with time
Muscle problems lead to changes in the spine. This may result in scoliosis or kyphoscoliosis.
Heart disease most often develops and may lead to heart failure. Heart failure or dysrhythmias that do not respond to treatment may result in death. Diabetes may develop in later stages of the disease.
The following tests may be done:
Electrophysiological studies
EMG (electromyography)
Nerve conduction tests
X-ray, CT scan, or MRI of the head
X-ray of the chest
X-ray of the spine
Blood sugar (glucose) tests may show diabetes or glucose intolerance. An eye exam may show damage to the optic nerve, which most often occurs without symptoms.
Treatment for Friedreich ataxia includes:
Walking aids or wheelchairs
Orthopedic devices (braces) may be needed for scoliosis and foot problems. Treating heart disease and diabetes help people live longer and improve their quality of life.
Outlook (Prognosis)
Friedreich ataxia slowly gets worse and causes problems doing everyday activities. Most people need to use a wheelchair within 15 years of the disease's start. The disease may lead to early death.
Complications may include:
Heart failure or heart disease
Loss of ability to move around
Call your health care provider if symptoms of Friedreich ataxia occur, especially if there is a family history of the disorder.
People with a family history of Friedreich ataxia who intend to have children may want to consider genetic screening to determine their risk.
Friedreich's ataxia; Spinocerebellar degeneration
Central nervous system and peripheral nervous system
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Warner WC, Sawyer JR. Scoliosis and kyphosis. In: Azar FM, Beaty JH, Canale ST, eds. Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics. 13th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2017:chap 44.
Review Date 10/11/2018
Updated by: Neil K. Kaneshiro, MD, MHA, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, Brenda Conaway, Editorial Director, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.
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Why “Solo: A Star Wars Story” isn’t really about Han. It’s about Qi’ra.
05/28/2018 05/29/2018 / Nancy Steinman
We know Han. We have known him a very long time. “Solo: A Star Wars Story” shows us his beginnings, but it really doesn’t tell us anything we don’t already know about him. Han doesn’t change that much from when we first meet him in the opening of this film to the Han we know in “The Force Awakens”. Even in the brilliant scene that sparks the movie to life when he hot-wires a speeder, he is the Han we already know and love: He’s a risk-taker. He’s good with mechanics. He’s a hustler.
And he has a heart of gold. In later years, he hides this from others, even from himself, but right from the beginning, with his vow to come back for Qi’ra, and the sacrifice he makes for her by volunteering for the Empire’s army, we see he is inherently good.
When he manages to snag a cylinder of the hyperfuel coaxium to enable his and Qi’ra’s escape and talks his way past the Imperial border guard, we are shown he is a capable scam artist. (But we already knew that.). And we see he’s an audacious pilot willing to take crazy risks. The aborted attempt to escape by turning the speeder sideways through a narrow channel of the city’s guts is an early echo of the many later close calls we’re already familiar with.
Many other of his exploits are recognized, much to the delight of the audience. Connections are made through one-line references that are anything but throwaway. Canon we thought had died when Disney took the reigns of the franchise is carefully woven back into the story and given new life. Of course, the ultimate fan fave is when we get to actually see Han do the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs, the Solo fabled claim-to-fame. (Even if this is impossible, since parsecs measure distance not time. But who am I to call him on that technicality.)
But all of this is old news. We have grown up with Han. We already know about his idiosyncrasies and love him all the more for them. It really doesn’t matter how they started. It only matters that it shaped him to become the scoundrel that stole all our hearts. What the movie really does is reconfirm our belief in him. Do we really need to see him give the coaxium to Enfys Nest? No, not really. The selfless part of him has already been shown to us in “A New Hope” when he comes back to help Luke destroy the Deathstar. And penultimately, when he gives his life to try and save Kylo Ren’s soul. “Solo” isn’t covering new ground. It is a tribute to our hero, and a convincing reaffirmation of Han as a person, to any doubters still out there.
It is Qi’ra’s transformation that matters most in “Solo”, not Han’s. Her story arc is extreme, whereas Han pretty much stays the same from the beginning of the movie to the end. He sacrifices in the beginning, and he sacrifices at the end. He is always the good-hearted con artist and “the best pilot in the galaxy”. But Qi’ra’s turn is way more dramatic. She is the character in the movie that truly surprises us. Not Beckett. He is more predictable than he’d like to believe, as Han so observantly learns. It is Qi’ra that delivers all the shockers.
She starts out as a loving girlfriend standing in the shadows while Han pulls off the heist and confronts Lady Proxima. She hangs on with gritted teeth as Han makes a wild escape in the speeder. We have the first inkling that she might be more than just a love-interest when confronting the guard at the border gate; she is as good at keeping a Sabacc face as Han. Yet when she is taken away by the Stormtroopers, we fear for her and wonder what will happen to her. She is helpless to get away. We assume she is going to be put in prison or forced to work in a labor camp, or even killed.
When we first see her again with Dryden Vos, we believe she is being held against her will. She has been branded, forced to behave or face punishment. She tells Han that she has “done things”. But he, and we, are ready to forgive any transgressions she might have committed believing that they were done in order to stay alive. Yet we wonder. She must have been terribly strong and played her role pretty damn well to have gotten as far as she has – dressed to the nines, drinking goblets of expensive liquor with the top dog aboard a luxurious pleasure yacht.
She plays her role well. She goes with Han because her master orders her to, and Han thinks he has received a windfall. We see her dreamy-eyed among Lando’s capes, looking to all the world like a street urchin who has never touched finery before. Easily enough, she is ready to melt with Han into a kiss, but we don’t get to see whether it’s true love, or if she is just toying with him, because the job interrupts.
We are tossed a misdirection when it becomes apparent she is not very adept at co-piloting (no, she is not another Rey). She easily vacates the seat for Chewie, and this leads us to believe that she is meek, willing to take a back seat to those in charge.
But on the mining planet, we see she really is as good a player as Han. We scarcely notice a flinch as the doors close on her and the mine operative. Then all we see is a flying red cape and dead bodies. She can hold her own. Perhaps we don’t really know her as well as we think we do.
And she’s good with electronics. She neatly connects L3-37’s brain into the Millennium Falcon, no questions asked. Perhaps she’d always been an equal partner in Han’s earlier exploits, not just his love interest as we were led to believe.
When Qi’ra and Han return with the coaxium for Vos, we think she is on Han’s side, working the scam with him, even if we aren’t yet totally sure what that is. Even Vos seems to think she’s gone against his wishes. But when she picks up the vibro blade, we begin to wonder. Is she just defending herself? After all, she is hiding, trying to stay out of the fight. Yet there is something in her look and posture that makes us suspicious. When she jumps into the fray, we realize she wasn’t kidding about the things she said she’d done. She takes out Vos neatly and with no qualms. But we still want to believe. She is doing it for Love. For Han. Those huge gems sitting there like paperweights entice us as much as they do Han (even if they do look like big chunks of glass).
The weird thing is that Han willingly leaves her behind. He seems to believe she still loves him, but he shuts the door on her of his own accord this time. Has he already realized in his heart who she has become? She says she’s right behind him, then what is she waiting for? Why doesn’t she just take the prize and run with him like she did three years ago?
Wait, what is she doing? Why isn’t she gathering up the gems? Who is she calling?
Holy, shit!!!! It’s Maul!!!!!!!!!!! The villain we love to hate, and admit, we love. And Qi’ra isn’t just scamming him; she’s giving herself to him. When we watch the red light of a Dark-Side lightsaber flickering in her eyes, we know we’ve been had. Was she playing Han and Vos the whole time? Just biding her time to get what she really wanted?
This movie wasn’t about Han. Not really. We already knew everything we needed to know about him. This movie was about a young woman we had never met before, someone who Han loved, turning to the Dark Side.
When discussing the film with my Liningup.net friends after we saw it for the first time at the Mann’s Chinese Theater IMAX, the question was floated whether or not there would be a “Solo 2”. The consensus was there was no need for it. From here, “A New Hope” picks up pretty seamlessly. We don’t really need to see any more of Han’s exploits, fun as they might be.
But the tale doesn’t seem over. Could a movie featuring Dark Side characters be in the works? Don’t you want to see on the big screen what happened to Maul in all those years between when he was sliced in half by Obi-Wan and now? I do. Perhaps the tales of Maul that were relegated to Legends can now become canon again, too. Then that begs the question, how does Qi’ra fit into that grander scheme? What role does she have to play in the future of the Dark Side in the new Star Wars empire?
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📅 Forty-five years ago today, Pete Maravich became the first player in NBA history to record consecutive 40-point triple-doubles, producing 40 points, 14 rebounds, and 13 assists in a 117-112 loss to the Buffalo Braves.
📅 Forty-five years ago today, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recorded the 10th and final 50-point game of his career. Abdul-Jabbar added 15 rebounds and 11 assists, becoming just the fourth player in NBA history (at the time) to record a 50-point triple-double.
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My bad, should’ve written “fourth player.” Will re-post.
A comparison of some Nets' stats from last season to this season, with all figures through 41 games (last season listed first): W - 20/18 L - 21/23 PPG - 111.1/109.2 FG% - 45.5/43.9 3P% - 36.4/33.1 eFG% - 52.6/50.7 FT% - 74.8/73.5 TS% - 56.2/54.1 TOV% - 12.5/13.1
Lou Williams and Montrezl Harrell have each scored 20 points coming off the bench in the same game 24 times, by far the most such games by a bench duo in NBA history. * Starters were first officially recorded in 1970-71. pic.twitter.com/7MxVgF4Ywm
Devin Booker recorded 39 points, 10 rebounds, and nine assists in last night's 123-119 win over Boston. The last @Suns player to match or exceed each of those totals in a regular-season game was Alvan Adams on Feb. 22, 1977. pic.twitter.com/RVfd6NJMjJ
Kawhi Leonard appeared in his 500th game yesterday. He is just the fourth player since 1977-78* to accumulate more steals than turnovers and more steals than fouls through 500 games, joining Lester Conner, Ronnie Brewer, and Jimmy Butler. * Individual turnovers first recorded. pic.twitter.com/vcVZqHmm9H
The @Raptors have scored 392 points over their last three games, the most in any three-game span in team history. The previous record of 384 points was set in January 2018.
The @chicagobulls Zach LaVine is just the fourth player in team history to record at least 40 points and five steals in a game. He has a ways to go to catch MJ, though: 23 - Michael Jordan 2 - Scottie Pippen 1 - Reggie Theus 1 - LaVine
Ben Simmons has recorded four consecutive 20-point games for the first time in his career. He's the first @sixers player to score 20+ points with a 55+ FG% in four straight games since Elton Brand in November 2010.
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Marcus Smart set a new @celtics record with 22 3PA tonight, breaking the old team record by five attempts. Only two players in NBA history have attempted more 3-pointers in a single game: Klay Thompson and James Harden (2x).
The @DetroitPistons Derrick Rose has recorded at least 20 points and five assists in each of his last seven games, tied for the longest such streak of his career.
Marcus Smart tied the @celtics team record for most points scored in a game without making a free throw. Larry Bird also scored 37 points without hitting a free throw on Dec. 8, 1984.
The @celtics Marcus Smart set a new team record with 11 3-pointers made tonight. The previous mark of nine 3-pointers made was shared by Antoine Walker (2x) and Isaiah Thomas.
The @Bucks Giannis Antetokounmpo now has nine games this season in which he's produced at least 25 points and 10 rebounds in less than 30 minutes played. No other player since the ABA-NBA merger has recorded more than four such games in a FULL season. pic.twitter.com/NOmk96jfA0
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Kawhi Leonard is the first @LAClippers player to record five consecutive 30-point games since World B. Free had 11 such games in a row in January 1980.
Kawhi Leonard is the first @LAClippers player to record at least 35 points, five rebounds, five assists, and five steals in a single games since Ron Harper on Mar. 13, 1994.
The @PelicansNBA have tied the team record for most points in a first half with 80 this afternoon. Their 45 second-quarter points are also the most in a second quarter in team history.
Kawhi Leonard is appearing in his 500th game today. He will become just the fourth player since 1977-78* with more steals than turnovers and more steals than fouls through 500 games, joining Lester Conner, Ronnie Brewer, and Jimmy Butler. * Individual turnovers first recorded.
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James Damore: aftermath
I find Edwin's ideas worth listening to (I am sure he is annoyed by calm comments about "worth" and "blah blah" and would prefer warmer ones, so yes, I love you, Edwin LOL) which is why I have watched this 80-minute video recommended by Edwin:
Prof Jordan Peterson and Stefan Molyneux (both from Canada) are two main individualist YouTube pundits who have previously interviewed James Damore, the former $162,000-a-year Senior Google engineer who became a hero of freedom. So in this discussion, they talked to each other. They covered a lot of ground. You may see that their thinking and values are close enough to each other. But you may still see that they're individualist and they want similar audiences to dedicate time to their videos, so to some extent, this insightful debate still sounds like a competition of a sort.
They discussed optimistic specifics of this Damore story. Damore hasn't backed off, he preferred to talk to independent media such as themselves over the mainstream media. The New York Times wrote a story urging Google to fire its anti-freedom-of-expression CEO Mr Kunda Píča.
Many events were so similar to those after the 2005 speech by Larry Summers about women in science. But many events were so different. Even though James Damore is basically a shy boy, his public reactions were more self-confident than those of Larry Summers. A part of it may be due to Damore's having received some recommendations from pundits: Don't back off. He could have received such recommendations because the independent media such as Molyneux's and Peterson's talk shows are far more powerful now than they or their counterparts were in 2005.
As they happily noticed, their videos generally get many more views than analogous videos by the "mainstream media". So these very labels – who is really mainstream – is finally getting complicated.
They discussed the harm that Google has done by having fired Damore. I agree with that entirely. Consumers may start to doubt the trustworthiness of Google. And potential stellar employees may be afraid of accepting a job at Google. These are potentially serious problems. And it's possible that not only some centrist and right-wing technology experts could choose a different occupation because of the occasional defective atmosphere in the company that may have grown into the "culture" of censorship and harassment. Some left-wing candidates who are left-wing in a "wrong way" could do the same.
I am personally not going to boycott Google's products because of these matters. I would feel like one of those left-wing childish activists who never really succeed, who abandon meritocracy in favor of ideology, and I am just too conservative. Even if some products were equally good or better than Google's, I have tested Google's products sufficiently to be certain. But I think that if you aren't constrained by these things, you should try alternatives. You should try the Czech Seznam maps instead of Google maps. And you should try Seznam's search engine and Seznam's superfast browser, too! Those products may be better than Google's alternatives. Seznam's owner Mr Ivo Lukačovič has denounced efforts to politically profile ads in his company and vows to keep his company apolitical.
As a consumer, I would actually be afraid of some Google products that are too physical, such as self-driving cars. If writing a totally sensible analysis about women in tech was enough for the Google CEO to fire the engineer, maybe writing bit more right-wing texts than Damore's could be enough for a Google boss to schedule a car accident for your car. They could cover it by exactly the same excuses as now – corporations have the right to trample on the employees' freedom of speech much like they have the right to push the accelerator pedal in your car in front of an abyss – both the employee and the consumer have signed some contract allowing these things, haven't they? Note that it is not the artificial intelligence of the self-driving car that is dangerous for you; it is the malicious humans who may try to hide their crimes behind the artificial intelligence.
According to a common sense understanding of the freedom of speech, the firing of Damore was an unacceptable violation of the basic Western values and the "accelerator push" of a Google self-driving car would be a murder at least informally.
Molyneux and Peterson have discussed lots of things about the growth of wealth since the 1870s, the increasing inequality and decreasing poverty, the Left's self-contradicting attitudes to many good and bad processes and conditions in the society, the correlation of the IQ and success, whether the IQ may be modified by training (no), whether people with the IQ beneath 83 are useful for the U.S. army (no), and many others. It was a very stimulating intellectual discussion and I really recommend you to watch it in its entirety.
I would subscribe at least to some 95% of the things that they have said.
But at some points, they made me laugh out loud because I had to realize how much more right-wing I actually am in comparison with Peterson and Molyneux. The most obvious point was a segment in which they described how heartbroken or devastated they have been when they first learned that the people were different at the individual level, and even groups of people defined by sexes, races, nationalities, or otherwise had different distributions of skills.
I had to laugh because I haven't been disturbed let alone "heartbroken" by these facts – which I have always considered basically tautological – for a second in my life. I don't remember what I was thinking when I was 2 years old but I remember lots of things from my age of 4. I was writing lots of papers at that time (in cursive fonts), with numerous graphs. And yes, I read many more fiction novels before I was 7 than what I have read afterwards. ;-) One of the projects described in a paper I wrote in the kindergarten talked about a plan to make sure that no human and no animal would ever die again. It's plausible that this paper was causally related to my mentally ill grandmother's suicide. My paper didn't describe what to do with the increasing number of bodies.
But I just wanted to make you sure that I had all kinds of manifestations of a kind heart. However, "equality" has never been a part of my framework. Everything that had a nonzero value was always about some inequality. A perfect equality means to make everything uniform and grey – and in such a grey mist, no one really lives. It's completely dead. So you obviously need some non-uniformities for any objects to exist. You also need a spontaneous violation of the electroweak symmetry for the rest masses of particles to be nonzero. You need some inequality between chickens and people for the latter to be able to safely eat the former. You need inequalities... at every level. Not even in the kindergarten, I have doubted for a second that the inequalities were absolutely essential for anything valuable to even exist.
You could say that only the people should be equal to other people while other animals and things may be unequal. But it has always been obvious to me that this attitude was utterly scientifically stupid because it's postulating some metaphysically deep, sharp, artificial borders that simply cannot exist. If objects around us are described by some parameters, the parameters may basically change continuously. A smart person may be smarter than a stupid person but the stupid person may still be smarter than an ape. It makes absolutely no sense to draw and worship some borders – and say that all numbers above ten are exactly equal to each other, while the numbers below ten aren't able to those above ten but they are equal to each other. I have always been certain that the people believing in any similar kind of egalitarianism are breathtakingly stupid and I am still certain about it.
In the case of Peterson and Molyneaux, I am not certain how much serious they were about their "broken hearts due to the inequality". The purpose may have been just to attract some more left-wing audiences.
They discuss lots of the potentially optimistic changes in the society – Trump's victory, the increasing influence of truly independent media sources such as theirs, and so on. Watch it, it is very likely that you won't be sorry.
Off-topic but political: Cliscep.com wrote a fun story about an observation I have wanted to make for quite some time. It seems that the climate alarmists seem to be splitting rather heavily – to the radicals and the moderates. The radicals are those who are willing to do anything and promote any lie just in order to keep or increase the influence of the climate hysteria. They're the people who continue to talk about the looming catastrophes, 97% consensus about it within the scientific community, and so on.
But the alarmists who actually have some scientific background increasingly denounce these radicals. The website shows some examples. A devastating 2-of-5-stars review of Gore's new, super-boring, superficial, self-glorifying movie by the Guardian. Negative reactions from people including the likes of Michael Mann and Nude Socialist to The Uninhabitable Earth in the New Yorker, and a few others. It seems really rather clear to me that the extremists are those who are really clueless about science while the scientifically inclined alarmists have to denounce the extremists' self-evidently untrue or insanely exaggerated claims.
At the same level, I think that only the extremists are the true engine of the climate hysteria. Constant lies or at least exaggeration is what this movement has always been all about. So if the extremists are delegitimized by the moderate climate fearmongers, the whole movement will be much more likely to fade away soon.
Tucker Carlson invited Damore to Fox News yesterday. Some usual good ideas – lots of special fun while discussing the way how the termination was communicated to James. Incredible. He also spoke to CNBC today which I found rather hostile towards e.g. Peterson and Molyneux – even though CNBC is supposed to be rather centrist. But indeed, the framing done by the CNN fake news agency was more outrageous.
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Johnny Depp Weds Amber Heard: Reports
Agence France-Presse | February 24, 2015 12:45 IST (Los Angeles)
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard were engaged in 2012
Johnny Depp and Amber plan a bigger wedding this weekend on the actor's private island in the Bahamas
Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp has married actress Amber Heard in secret at their home in Los Angeles, USA media said on Wednesday, ahead of a larger bash at the weekend. (Also Read: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard to Marry in Bahamas Next Weekend)
Mr Depp, 51, and Amber, 28, got engaged in 2012 and plan a bigger wedding this weekend on the actor's private island in the Bahamas, People magazine reported, citing a source.
Mr Depp, a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild winner, was married previously to Lori Anne Allison and has dated a string of glamorous and famous women including Winona Ryder, his co-star in Edward Scissorhands, British model Kate Moss and French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis.
Mr Depp has two children with Vanessa Paradis.
He and Amber, who married on Tuesday, met on the set of the film The Rum Diary in 2011.
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REAL IRONMAN, CUB SCOUT FRAUD, ASIAN PHOTOGRAPHY, CARVED HEART, AND VINCE YOUNG
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COULD IRONMAN BECOME REALITY?
Stephen Jacobson, a design engineer has created an exoskeleton that can increase his strength 20 times normal. It is a robotic suit that a man fits inside and can accomplish tasks that no normal human could even dream of doing. Jameson works for the development and design firm, Sarcos Inc. in Salt Lake City and is under a two year contract with the U.S. Army. Talk about reminiscent of Tony Stark and Stark industries. Though the suit is much bulkier than Ironman’s streamlined sci-fi look, it is only in the beginning stages but it does operate with many of the same principles in mind. Sarcos’ Jacobsen envisions factory workers someday using the technology to perform manual labor more easily, and firefighters more quickly carrying heavy gear up stairwells of burning buildings. Disabled people also may find uses for the technology. “We see the value being realized when these suits can be built in great numbers for both military and commercial uses, and they start coming down in cost to within the range of the price of a small car,” said Jacobsen. From Comic to reality, we could have a bunch of Ironmen running around. I think Marvel Comics should ask for royalties on this one.
CAN’T EVEN TRUST A SCOUT ANYMORE.
A former Bethlehem, Pennsylvania woman will serve up to 23 months in prison for having her 7-year-old son dress as a Cub Scout to collect money for a nonexistent cause. Now that’s just low. Sally Ann Gombocz, 51, told a Northampton County judge she wanted to apologize to anyone she hurt. I’ll bet she did. Getting your kid to panhandle as a cub scout is seriously twisted. She previously pleaded guilty to theft by deception and corruption of a minor. Gombocz had her boy tell people he was raising money for a camping trip and collected all of $69. Gombocz was sentenced Friday to six to 23 months in the county slam. She also was fined $2,000, ordered to perform community service, take parenting classes, have psychological counseling and submit to random urine screens. She also must pay restitution. I wonder if it was all worth it? That’s what you get for trying to give the scouts a black eye.
WHAT ARE THESE GUYS PHOTOGRAPHING?
OK, they didn’t teach me about this in my photography class. Check out where these cameras are aimed. How come I never get invited to these kinds of photo ops? People are aressted for taking these kinds of pictures. Actually I’ve written about people arrested for taking these kinds of pictures. It appears, in Asia, anything goes, including the lens up the skirt.
GIRLFRIEND STABS BOYFRIEND ACCIDENTALLY DURING WEIRD SEX.
Catherine McCoubrey, 25, and her 24-year-old partner had been drinking heavily. It’s amazing how alcohol would figure into this. He apparently asked her to carve the shape of a heart in him during what prosecutors called “rough sex” in February 2007, but unfortunately, she pressed too deeply. Someone has been living in the woods too long. Defence lawyer John McAmmond said the unnamed victim introduced his client to “body modification”, and had carved himself with knives before. Get a hobby. I’m thinking, something that doesn’t deal with sharp objects. McCoubrey, from Winnipeg in Canada, has now been given three years’ probation after pleading guilty to assault. The boyfriend has taken her back. Someone put the knives away.
VINCE YOUNG PARTY ANIMAL
Another NFL Quarterback parties hard. Vince Young was caught in a bar in Austin, Texas, throwing back tequila with the best of them. Matt Leinart was caught about a month ago doing beer bongs with sorority girls at his house. It appears Young took this as a challenge and is trying to outdo Leinart. Vince forgot one very important thing though, the sorority girls! It appears from these pictures that Vince may have walked into the wrong bar. I wonder if they’re listening to the Village People? Is this a male topless bar? Are those bedroom eyes looking at Vince in the second picture? Could he be the Tennessee Titan?
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THANKS LOCHTE, STARDUST DREAMS, TOMMY LEE, DOC GOODEN & TOP GOLF
Often in life what we worry about isn’t what gets us, its always the unexpected.
Take the Olympics.
Many were worried Rio would be an international disaster with the awful outbreak of the Zika Virus but instead the games were marred by a swimming epidemic….
Thanks Lochte
Actually no thank you. Listen I don’t want to pile on the man but Ryan you have to understand being a former high school swimmer you’re just plain killing all of us who love the sport.
We don’t have an annual write of passage like my buddies who played football, basketball and baseball—every four years is well, forever. No annual college football season to reminisce even my soccer buddies can root for the endless seasons in their sport.
With Michael Phelps piling up his medal count– unfortunately the piling on of Lochtegate overshadowed one of the best Olympian legacies of all time. What a shame on many levels. Instead of celebrating the best swimmer ever, we’re lamenting an immature swimmer who can’t stay in his own lane.
Can’t we swimmers bask in the glory longer than a few days….?
Thanks Lochte.
Listen Swimmer nation never gets enough credit. I’ll put our practices up against any sport and wearing speedos in front of our high school peers takes special courage and should serve up huge bonus points but I digress…. Donning underwater underwear in public is one thing but having to endure basically the male version of Kim Kardashian as our spokesperson is yet another.
The coverup is often worse than the crime or in this case the needless lies and lame bravado–all of this never have should have come to life or been such a big deal—-but here we are. Speaking for swimmers everywhere, this was a huge Olympic letdown—now we gotta wait another election cycle to get our freestyle groove back.
Silly Swimmers our first stop as we cannonball back into the Naborhood, as usual thanks for stopping by…..
STARDUST DREAMS: I was visiting New York recently with my oldest daughter and my sister told us we should hit a great place in Times Square, the Stardust Diner.
You don’t go there for the food, unless you like eating 35 dollar cheeseburgers– it’s all about the atmosphere where while you eat your food, your waiters and waitresses sing to you before and after they take your order. These aren’t just your normal everydayAmerican Idol wannabes–these folks have plenty of game.
There was plenty of talent everywhere. One waitress was so good, I asked her after she sang a great solo and then preceded to take our order what her name is? –so when she is famous one day, I will remember her. After giving such an impressive performance, she then looked at me sadly and sad she’s been trying to get a shot on Broadway for over three years…..?!
It made me think how hard it is to chase your dreams and how much I respect those who do it. Recently, many criticized Tim Tebow for wanting to play baseball, the same way they ripped Michael Jordan for doing so in the mid-nineties.
I don’t have a problem with any athlete trying to test their abilities—its their life and their choice. Just like the talented Stardust waitress, all of us have dreams and sometimes they change gears—some are crazy and others are more realistic but they’re our own. I prefer to encourage rather than discourage.
TOMMY LEE: Speaking of dreams, that’s what makes covering these NFL Training Camps so much fun. I’m typing this from New Orleans, as I cover my 11th Saints camp where every year we get a handful of great stories of guys coming out of nowhere to make an NFL roster.
The latest amazing story is one Tommy Lee Lewis. He’s a 5’7 quick receiver out of Northern Illinois who is living proof, it truly only takes one person to deliver you to the big time.
Lewis played High School Football in Palm Beach Gardens and had no prayer of getting drafted due to his size and his injuries in college but he had one thing going for him, his high school coach became friends with a prominent South Florida native in Bill Parcells.
After watching Tommy Lee workout, Parcells called Sean Payton and told him he should take a flier on Lewis and bring him into camp as an undrafted free agent. Payton trusted his mentor and did so–Tommy Lee did the rest by becoming a camp star and now is on his way to earning an unlikely roster spot.
If Parcells doesn’t make the call to Payton, Tommy Lee would be playing in the CFL and not in New Orleans this month—gotta love training camp stories—they never disappoint.
PIGSKIN PICKS: Even though the internet is everywhere, I used to always feel incomplete if I didn’t buy a handful of those preseason magazines which are now outdated and frankly overpriced. This is the first year I didn’t do it but here is my fearless forecast for this fall. Maybe I’ll save you a few bucks with my two cents…
*Tom Brady is gonna be on a mission more than ever after the return from his laughable Deflategate suspension and will beat the Panthers in the Super Bowl. Hope Cam Newton handles this postgame loss better than his last one.
*Clemson and Alabama will play for the National Title again but this time Clemson wins it all— while in the SEC, I would pick Florida in the East if the Tennessee game was in Gainesville but it’s in Knoxville so give Tennessee its first win over the Gators in 12 years and an SEC East Title.
*Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey made a great case to win the Heisman a year ago but playing those late night West Coast games hurt his chances—he’s not a secret anymore and will strike the pose this year over favorites Leonard Fournette at LSU, Clemson’s DeShaun Watson and FSU’s Dalvin Cook who remains my darkhouse.
DOC & DARRYL: What a great and troublesome recent 30 for 30 surrounding former Mets teammates Doc Gooden and Darryl Strawberry. The doc on Doc was hard to watch when seeing and hearing the current state of Gooden who still appears to be in bad shape.
Gooden has maintained he hasn’t used cocaine in years but recently Strawberry disputed this after Gooden missed another public apperance. I tend to believe Darryl as its troubling how long Gooden has battled his drug demons.
Ask anyone who has met Doc and they will tell you how nice and convincing he is in person and I can attest as I’ll never forget meeting him years ago where he told me he was probably the fifth best pitcher in his neighborhood growing up.
The reason he was the most successful was the other kids on the block ran into trouble–unfortunately Gooden found his later on yet still seems to trying to find peace. I hope he can before it’s too late.
NOBODY ASKED ME, BUT: Golf can be a frustrating game but no matter what your handicap is I believe we all can agree Top Golf is fun for everyone…and I mean everyone. I finally participated in this growing franchise and I can’t wait to go back.
It’s the rare place which can be fun for a 10 year old’s birthday party or a 28 year old’s Bachelor Party. A truly great concept of a driving range armed with a variety of games aiming at targets long and short—-to me it’s the perfect first date.
The food is great, the setup is professional and the atmosphere is exceptional. It will be interesting to see how the franchise keeps growing.One of those I wish I would have thought of it first places.
EXTRA POINT: Interesting Twitter take I saw recently—can you imaging this melting pot of people who were all a part of the Florida Student Body back in 2006. You had the likes of Lockte, Tebow, Cam Newton, Aaron Hernandez and Joakim Noah……wow
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The Biggest Hole Is Where the President’s Empathy Should Be
1/12/2020 by Melanie Brooks
Since Donald Trump took office, we’ve had unfettered access to the flaws at his core. Stream-of-consciousness tweets, boorish behavior caught on camera, ignorant and misinformed rhetoric on the world stage, stunning inaction or shockingly inappropriate responses in moments of national crisis, harsh policies to “protect” our borders, leaked conversations from behind closed-doors—all have pointed to colossal deficits in his character and, again and again, a conspicuous disregard for people of color.
Aftershocks reverberated worldwide in the wake of his vulgar and hate-filled comments about Haitian and African immigrants on January 11, 2018, when he reportedly used the word “shithole” to describe their countries of origin. His striking lack of compassion in that moment was startling, but no words can describe the added cruelty of maligning Haiti one day before a painful anniversary when memories of trauma and unfathomable loss inevitably resurface.
Eight years ago on a Wednesday night in January—the first night of a new business writing class at Northeastern University—I began the standard getting-to-know-you banter with my students. A young man in the back row quietly introduced himself.
“My name is Henry,” he said. “I’m from Haiti.”
Haitian Red Cross volunteer Miname Glaude holds Michel Laurent, 15 months, at a Red Cross medical center in Croix de Priez. (International Federation of Red Cross / Creative Commons)
An uneasy silence descended on the room. Twenty-four hours earlier, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake had devastated this man’s Caribbean nation. After sending my two young children off to school, I’d spent most of the day in front of the TV watching as CNN’s Anderson Cooper—whose crew brought us the first images of the catastrophic quake’s aftermath—wandered street after street of collapsed buildings, filming the desperate efforts by ordinary men and women to rescue their loved ones trapped beneath the rubble.
I looked into Henry’s eyes and found my voice. “Is your family okay?” I asked.
“I haven’t been able to get in touch with them—yet,” he answered, and I felt the weight of his hope land on that final word.
My evening plan to discuss the value of good writing in the workplace seemed so unimportant in the face of this personal crisis. I wanted to stop class there. Cancel it for the night, send everybody home, and let Henry go do what he had to do. But Henry was here in this classroom, his notebook open on his desk, ready to learn. Stoic. Poised. His demeanor spoke to a kind of resilience that I’d rarely encountered. One that says, Today, this is what I have to do. A resilience I needed to honor.
“Our thoughts are with you all,” I said despite how hollow the words sounded, and the rest of the students murmured similar sentiments. We finished introductions, and I passed out the course syllabus. “Let’s get started.”
Later that night, I sent Henry an email offering to extend any upcoming deadlines so that he didn’t have to worry about falling behind and urging him to take the time he needed. His response, sent the next day, brought the reality of the news reports so much closer:
Some of my family is okay, but they are still searching for one of my sisters. She is buried under the debris, but my other sister told me that they heard her voice and are trying to free her.
Over the next three days Henry sent me sporadic updates.
They are still digging, but there’s no sound coming out.
They haven’t found her yet. Last night they found her purse.
They are still digging. Now, I am preparing for any news.
And five days after our first night of class: They found my sister’s body.
The cold finality of Henry’s message swept through me. I’d watched the ongoing footage of people being pulled alive from beneath the ruins of homes and businesses and schools, and I’d allowed myself to feel a spark of hope for Henry’s sister, too. Now all that remained was my imagined scene of his grieving family. How their exhausted muscles ached beneath the layers of sweat and grime. How their vacant eyes sank deep into their faces. How their hands, torn and bleeding, nails jagged and lined with dirt, cradled his sister’s broken body.
When I commemorate the yearly anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, I am still haunted by that unbearable image. By all of the unbearable images of similar losses we witnessed in the days and weeks afterward.
More haunting, though, is one man’s inability to comprehend that when he separates himself from others’ stories, refuses to lean in and acknowledge their pain and fails to mourn when they mourn, he is turning his back on the very thing that could make him human.
This essay appears in the forthcoming book Fury: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Trump Era, which will be released by Regal House Publishing in March 2020. It is available now for pre-order.
Tagged: Africa, Trump administration
About Melanie Brooks
Melanie Brooks is a professor at Northeastern University, Merrimack College and Nashua Community College and a freelance writer. Her work has appeared in publications including the Washington Post, Creative Nonfiction, the Huffington Post, Modern Loss, Hippocampus, Bustle and Solstice Literary Magazine, and she is the author of Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art from Trauma. Melanie is completing a memoir, All the Things I Couldn’t Say, about the lasting impact of living with the secret of her father’s HIV status. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband, two children and yellow Lab.
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Libaas – crisp, clean and white as new, even after 26 years
Posted: November 24, 2014 by moifightclub in bollywood, cinema, Clips, Event, film, Film Festival, film review, first look, Gods of Cinema, Movie Recco, movie reviews, News, Special
Tags: Goa, Gulzar, IFFI, Libaas, Mohit Kataria, Naseeruddin Shah, Pancham, Raj Babbar, RD Burman, retrospective, review, Screening, Shabana Azmi, Unreleased, Utpal Dutt, Vishal Bhardwaj
So what do you do when you get to know that there’s a screening of Libaas? Well, only a Gulzar fan can tell you the right answer. So over to Mohit Kataria who tells us what exactly he did.
Please don’t read this post as a film review post, it’s all about my personal experience with the movie Libaas and the way I got to watch it. I’ve never written any movie review before and I don’t think I even qualify for writing one (if there is any qualification criteria). You might also find it really biased as I’m a fan of Gulzar Saab and always wear a particular pair of admiration glasses while reading/watching/listening to any of his works.
What do you do when you get any once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? You grab it with both the hands, right? That’s what I also did.
It all started with a Facebook post from a very dear friend and an ardent fan of Gulzar saab, Pavan Jha, that I came to know about Libaas getting screened in IFFI – 2014 in Goa on 22nd Of November. Then after a number of confusions, calculations and discussions later, I decided to go ahead and started making my travel plans. Then, I came to know about something called a delegate registration (I have already warned you about my credentials ), which was already into its “register-with-late-fee-phase”. Somehow got registered with some made up bio-data to prove that I was worthy enough to be a delegate there. I got an email mentioning that the confirmation will be done after some careful review of my bio-data. I waited impatiently for the whole day which was the last day for the registration, and by the end of the day, I got a confirmation mail asking me to pay to be a delegate. I followed the instructions and completed the formalities. Then it was time to book the tickets for travel. After doing some calculations, considering family, work, economics and time dynamics, I booked the flight from Bangalore, scheduled to reach Goa at 2 PM on the day of screening (22-Nov-14) (Libaas was scheduled for screening at 5:30 PM) and also booked first available flight from Goa the very next day (23-Nov-14). Needless to say, my only purpose of going through all this exercise was to witness something I really was waiting for ever since I started following and loving Gulzar Saab and his work – to get a chance to watch Libaas. And I never thought I would get an opportunity of a lifetime in this manner, to watch it with Gulzar Saab himself.
Before cutting through all the details of getting the passes (where Ashok Bindalji and IFFI organizers helped a lot), reaching the theater following Gulzar Saab, and finally settling down to watch Libaas, I would like to mention here that there were lots of people who wanted to get in and watch Libaas and the auditorium had a limited capacity of accommodating 280 people only. So one senior IFFI organizer (I won’t name him to get him into any trouble), took a call after consulting with Gulzar Saab and Vishal Bhardwaj, to allow people to sit in the gallery, on the floor, to stand on the gates, behind the last row and any other place wherever possible without making others uncomfortable. It got reminded me of the pre-multiplex era when it was a norm for any big movie. Isn’t it delightful to treat and watch the movie in the same manner we used to watch movies when it was actually made (in 1988)?
The stage was set by welcoming Gulzar Saab by the IFFI authorities, and then Vishal Bhardwaj presented the movie Libaas as the inauguration movie of retrospective: Gulzar. Vishal said that it’s an honor for him to present this movie, and spoke about how Gulzar Saab started his career as a poet and brought his poetry from paper to screen. Each of his movies are poetries on screen. He also briefly mentioned about the efforts at various levels that have gone in trying to get the movie released, including his personal efforts of 20 years which has gone in vain. Then he mentioned what it means to him personally, and for his whole family to be part of this historic event.
Gulzar Saab was visibly holding back his emotions, and he started on a lighter note saying, saying, “दोस्तो, मैं भी उतना ही curious हूँ फ़िल्म के लिए, जितने कि आप हैं. आप ने भी नहीं देखी फ़िल्म, मैंने भी नहीं देखी”, which rightly summed up the significance of the film. He was happy that the family and friends have come from all over to see this screening. You can listen to the whole discussion here. And then the magic started on screen. We were in for a very delightful treat for next couple of hours.
As you might know, the movie was completely based on Gulzar Saab’s own story Chaabiyaan which has also published later with the title Seema. There was wit, brilliance, intelligence and emotions written all over the movie. Each frame was flowing into the other one like the way water flows – at times like a river, sometimes like a silent lake and often like waterfall. It was a sheer pleasure to experience Gulzar Saab’s poetry for the next 137 minutes. The movie has four main characters – Sudhir Bhardwaj (a passionate theater director, played by Naseeruddin Shah), T.K. (a flamboyant businessman, played by Raj Babbar), Seema (an amazing actress who is also a not-so-happy wife, played by Shabana Azmi) and the theater which is the sutradhar which keeps tying all the running threads of the movie. It also has a handful of supporting cast who made their presence felt without shadowing the main leads. Not even a single character was out of place or not required. The story primarily deals with husband-wife relationship and a extra-marital affair, all in the backdrop of theater. While watching it, I could feel it was much ahead of its time (it was scheduled to be released in 1988), as was confirmed by Gulzar Saab in a post screening Q&A session that such things were happening at that time but were never shown in cinema. He dared to reflect what was part of society then.
Opening scene of the movie is in a theater, where Jamal Saheb (played by Utpal Dutt) is entering the theater while taking a look at the play being staged.
Utpal Dutt in Libaas
In the canteen, he is greeted by youngsters who are theater artists/aficionados and the scene establishes that Jamal Saheb is a great artist from the times gone by. He is not relevant anymore and is in a poor state. He has been replaced, so to say, by Sudhir, who is dominating the contemporary theater scene. In next few scenes, we come to know that for Sudhir, the first priority of his life is theater – the way he forces Seema to gargle every day in the morning, no matter what, and the way he keeps on talking about and enacting various scenes from his plays. One scene which nails it down clearly is when Seema asks Sudhir if she could get a hair-cut as she feels she would look prettier in short hair. To which he replies, if she gets the hair cut, what would happen to all the characters she is playing in theater, and starts quoting each of the characters from different plays. All the members of his theater group love and fear him in equal measure due to his strictness while doing the rehearsals. A couple of times when Seema forgets her lines during the rehearsals, he yells at her, and at home, he tells her,
“खाना बनाना भूल जाओगी तो बर्दाश्त कर लूँगा, dialogues भूल जाओगी तो कभी बर्दाश्त नहीं करूँगा.”
Phir Kisi Shaakh Ne Phenki Chaanv – Libaas
Seema is already strained, and wants a break from the monotony of Sudhir being so hard on her as he always thinking about one thing – theater. That’s when T.K. enters the scene and their home. He is informal and is such a close friend of Sudhir that even Seema feelss surprised as she had never seen Sudhir being so comfortable with anyone, including her. TK’s flamboyant style of talking and cheerful behavior attracts Seema, and he gets attracted to her beauty. They all meet a couple of times and then while one relationship starts forming, other one starts breaking. On one side, Sudhir is always busy with his play rehearsals and on the other hand, T.K., a well versed businessman is always ready to meet her and pay attention to her.
Her loneliness and boredom from theater adds fire to the fuel, and before even they realize, the relationship becomes complicated. The high-point of the movie is a scene which has brilliance of Gulzar Saab written all over it. It was Gulzar Saab’s craftsmanship that he handled such a burdened situation in such a subtle manner. The treatment of the characters, the dialogues of this one scene leaves us completely mesmerized and catches us unguarded. The scene is when Sudhir decides to confront T.K. and Seema about their relationship. Seema and T.K. enter the house after spending some good time together, and they find Sudhir at home. T.K. tries to cover up his embarrassment by telling Sudhir that he was asking about him from Seema as Sudhir was very busy, they were not able to meet.
T.K. – और किस ड्रामे में busy हो आजकल?
Sudhir – “अ..अ..म.. आजकल… अ… एक personal से नाटक में ज्यादा busy हूँ.”
“ह.. ह.. मतलब..?”
“नाटक तो दूसरे लोगों का है, मैं खा-म-खां बीच में फंस गया”
“अम.. कुछ समझा नहीं यार, वो कैसे?”
T.K., though embarrassed, is still trying to appear innocent even though he is guilty of cheating Sudhir.
“क्या है के हमारे यहाँ… हमारे यहाँ, वो हैं ना… मि. मुखर्जी”
He looks at Seema and starts building the story.
“मुखर्जी? कौन?”
Seema asks, to which Sudhir replies –
“तुम मिली हो उन से, शायद याद नहीं है… मि. मुखर्जी में याद रखने जैसा कुछ है या नहीं मालूम नहीं… लेकिन अपनी पत्नी की वजह से वो.. अक्सर याद रह जाते हैं लोगों को…. बड़ी talented… और talented से ज्यादा ख़ूबसूरत पत्नी है उन की. अब ज़ाहिर है कि लोग उन की तरफ़ तवज्जो देते हैं, attract होते हैं. और ये कम्बख़्त चीज़ ऎसी है कि आदमी हो या औरत, पाँव तले की ज़मीन खींच लेती है. आदमी सोचता है, इश्क ही में ज़िंदगी है, बाकी सब तो फ़न, आर्ट, talent, सब सजावट की चीज़ें हैं. बहरहाल, मि. मुखर्जी का problem है, उन की पत्नी… वो किसी के इश्क में पड़ गई हैं या कोई है जो उन के इश्क में पड़ गया है….”
Seema asks, “तो problem क्या है?”
To which Sudhir replies, point blank, still keeping it indirect,
“तुम्हें नज़र नहीं आता?”
“नहीं मतलब… समझ में आता है लेकिन दोनों अगर एक दूसरे को चाहते हैं तो…”
“नहीं, नहीं, नहीं, नहीं… तुम उस लड़की के problem को देख रही हो, मैं मि. मुखर्जी के problem की बात कर रहा हूँ”
“उनका क्या problem है?”
“क्यूँ? याने… उन का कुछ है ही नहीं?…
उन का problem ये है कि उन्हें मालूम हो गया है… और जान लेने के बाद शौहर यानि मि. मुखर्जी क्या करे उस पत्नी का? चुप रहे? देखता रहे? होने दे जो हो रहा है? मुश्किल तो ये है कि कोई भी शौहर जान लेने के बाद ये निगल नहीं सकता”
Now T.K. intervenes,
“आख़िर मुखर्जी चाहता क्या है?” “चाहता क्या है, वो छोड़ो, क्या करना चाहिए उसे?”
“अम..ज़ाहिर है अगर उन की पत्नी, उन के साथ नहीं रहना चाहती तो उन्हें कोई हक़ नहीं है कि वो उस के साथ ज़बरदस्ती करें. After all.. वो अपना अच्छा-बुरा समझ सकती है, ऎसी कोई बात नहीं है…”
“हाँ, समझना तो चाहिए, सिर्फ़ ये कि जिस से वो प्यार करती है, क्या सचमुच प्यार करती है? यूँ ही उन्स में तो नहीं पड़ गई? ख़ा-म-ख़ां का infatuation तो नहीं है, जिसे वो प्यार समझ बैठी है?”
“आख़िर शादी-शुदा औरत है, क्या इतना नहीं समझती? इतनी mature नहीं होगी के…”
And that’s when Gulzar Saab’s intelligence of handling the complicated situations comes in full form.
Sudhir interrupts Seema at this point and says it straight,
“इतनी mature हो तुम? इतना समझती हो कि जिस राह पे जा रही हो, जिस के साथ जा रही हो वो झूठ-मूठ का कोई ड्रामा तो नहीं कर रहा है?”
At this time T.K. tries to escape saying this is personal matter between husband and wife and he is an outsider.
Then, as a matter of fact, Sudhir tells him,
“बैठ जाओ T.K., तुम भी कोई बच्चे नहीं हो… बैठ जाओ… देखो T.K., इन रिश्तों में कानूनी, ग़ैर कानूनी कुछ नहीं होता. कानूनन कोई पत्नी नहीं बनती, कानूनन कोई शौहर नहीं होता.Law has nothing to do with it. हम ज़बरदस्ती इन रिश्तों पर कानूनी मोहरें लगाते रहते हैं. आज तक, कोई किसी आते को नहीं रोक सका और ना किसी जाते को थाम सका है. और मैं ये कैंसर ले कर नहीं घूम सकता…. तुम ने ठीक कहा, अगर सीमा मेरे साथ नहीं रहना चाहती तो मुझे कोई ज़बरदस्ती नहीं करनी चाहिए, मैं नहीं करूँगा, लेकिन मैं इसे रास्ते पर नहीं छोड़ सकता. मैं तुम्हारा फ़ैसला जानना चाह्ता हूँ, तुम दोनों का फ़ैसला जानना चाहता हूँ… अगर तुम दोनों flirt नहीं कर रहे हो, एक-दूसरे को धोखा नहीं दे रहे हो, सचमुच एक दूसरे को चाहते हो, तो हाथ पकड़ो और निकल जाओ इस घर से.”
Seeli Hawa Chhoo Gayi – Libaas
Even after Sudhir and Seema get separated and she remarries T.K., there is still an element of care and affection for each other.
T.K. and Seema are living happily, yet Seema is not able to forget her past so easily.
In one scene, where one evening she is sitting sad all alone on a yatch, T.K. comes and asks,
“क्या हुआ… सुधीर का ख़्याल आ गया?”
“हूं..”
“इसीलिए तो तुम्हें शादी के बाद यहाँ ले आया. जानता था, अगर वहाँ रहोगी तो अतीत याद आएगा. अतीत बुरा हो तो सीमा, आदमी गर्द की तरह झाड़ दे, ख़त्म कर दे, लेकिन सुधीर जैसा… मुझ पर अंधविश्वास था उसे. जो कुछ हुआ, मुझे उस का अफ़सोस नहीं, बिल्कुल नहीं, बस यही है कि अगर तुम किसी दोस्त के यहाँ ना होती ना…तो अच्छा होता, क्यूँकि तुम जहाँ भी होती, मैं यही करता, I love you. मैं तुम से प्यार करता. I love you Seema, I love you.”
[Edit Note : While Mohit has written the climax in his post, we are not going to reveal what happens in the end, as we expect more screenings of the film soon and expect you to watch it someday, somewhere. We leave you here with Ravi Shastri Quote : All Three Results Possible ]
And the end credits roll over with the song
“तुम से मिली जो ज़िंदगी, हम ने अभी बोई नहीं,
तेरे सिवा कोई ना था, तेरे सिवा कोई नहीं…”
…Leaving everyone in the theater completely spell bound.
Gulzar Saab got a standing ovation which refused to die down for the next few minutes.
It had Gulzar written all over it. Gulzar the writer, Gulzar the dialogue-writer, Gulzar the lyricist and Gulzar the director. It was like various Gulzar competing with each other and attaining the pinnacle of expressions. The music of R.D. Burman was also a highlight of the movie as the melodies are so soulful, the film would have been definitely incomplete without such lovely songs.
From story perspective, it is really difficult to say what was wrong or who was wrong or whether anyone was wrong at all? This is the power of a sensibly told story on screen. We all know that Gulzar Saab has great sense of expression when it comes to relationships. He is the one who has given the words to all the emotions we have gone through at various points in our different relationships. He is no different here as well. Gulzar Saab has also given various references of past work of theater artists who have explored the complexities of husband-wife relations – Leo Tostoy’s Anna Karenina, Vijay Tendulkar’s Khamosh adaalat jari hai, Mohan Rakesh’s Aadhe-adhure. The film, even though made some 26 years back, is still relevant and I believe due to the nature of human relationships, will be relevant even after 26 years.
There are so many situations in the movie which could have been exploited with melodramatic scenes but he kept them subtle, and trusted the intelligence of audience he was catering to. Like after re-marriage, one day when T.K. is gargling in the morning, all of a sudden she gets reminded of Sudhir, who was always after her for gargling. She gets in that groove for a moment that she actually calls out her old maid’s name “दुर्गा…” and then she realizes her mistake. And when she calls up their family doctor (played by A.K. Hangal) asking him to visit their home for T.K.’s cough and cold, she forgets to mention to the doctor about his new life and husband. The doctor habitually visits their old home and because Sudhir is also suffering from the cough at the same time, he doesn’t find it surprising that Seema called him up. Subtle ways to show that the bridges are not yet burnt completely. The central idea of the story keeps coming back again and again in multiple ways.
During the post-screening Q&A we came to know that the climax which was shown in the film was not his choice but the producers insisted upon him to change the climax.
He wanted to leave it a bit open ended, which he couldn’t do in this movie, hence he made Ijaazat, another masterpiece on husband-wife relationship which he ended the way he wanted it to be.
Nobody dared to ask the question, “अगर लिबास release हो जाती फिर भी क्या वो इजाज़त बनाते?” and I doubt if anyone who has watched Ijaazat would even dare to think it being non-existent from the filmology of Gulzar Saab. Nothing to compare but to give a flavor to the people who could not watch the screening of Libaas, in my opinion, it was at par (if not more) with Ijaazat in terms of exploration of relationships, writing, dialogues, songs, direction and music.
To sum it up, I would just say, no matter how many years the movie has spent in the laundry or dry-clean, this Libaas is still as crisp, clean and white as new.
– Mohit Kataria
(Mohit Kataria is an IT engineer by profession, writer & poet by passion, a Gulzar fan by heart. He is based in Bangalore and can be reached at [kataria dot mohit at gmail dot com] or [@hitm0 on twitter)
(Pics & Videos by Ashok Bindal [ajbindal at gmail dot com], a close associate of Gulzar saab, based in Mumbai)
Retrospective Inauguration Video via Ministry of I&B YouTube Channel]
2012 Rewind : 20 Things we discovered at the movies and 10 unanswered questions
Posted: December 31, 2012 by moifightclub in bollywood, cinema, Special, Year end special
Tags: 2012 Rewind, Special
Like the last few years, we are back with the wrap-up post of the year – things we discovered at the movies and the unanswered questions.
20 Things we discovered at the movies
1. Emraan Hashmi CAN act. From lips-that-have-kissed-every-co-star to buck teeth, this was the transition of the year.
2. A Don who asks for “permishan” and cries like a baby. He must be the one who goes to Mumbai, becomes “Mumbai Ka King”, but when he comes home, he gets slapped by his wife.
3. Kids as Kids – the charming Gattu and Sridevi’s son. Dear Balki, you don’t need to make them “sexy” or kill them. Ask Gauri.
4. Ranbir Kapoor doesn’t even need dialogues. At a time when every hero is going for southern remakes loaded with seeti-wala punch lines, he goes in the opposite direction. Barfi!
5. Raj Kumar Yadav is poor man’s Ranbir Kapoor. And i say this with much respect. Apologies if it sounds condescending. Unlike others he has no qualms about appearing in small roles (GoW2, Talaash, Chittagong) but he has so much honesty in his performance that he always leaves a mark. Wait till you see Shahid, you will feel he is Shahid Azmi. So betting my money on this guy.
6. All About My Mother – English Vinglish. Gauri’s Mother. Lyricist Swanand’s mom Neelambari voicing navrai majhi. Vicky Donor’s mom and her mother-in-law.
7. We were wrong about Tigmanshu Dhulia. See point no. 8 in our 2011 post. Plus, he is a terrific actor.
8. Pregnancy before marriage is a blockbuster idea. Kahaani. Vidya Balan.
9. “Slow and Steady” Raghvan can also go wrong. But Raabta has great repeat value.
10. Cliches can be fun too. We define our “cliches” and there’s a way to get it right. Punju. Bong. Marriage. Vicky Donor.
11. Sharman Joshi is not the next Shah Rukh Khan as VVC and company would have liked the world to believe. Also, VVC, Hirani and Co have started talking more about writing than the actual writing they do. Ferrari Ki Sawari.
12. A Don in his bare minimum can become the eye-candy for a bangalan. Talk about reverse commodification. Far far away from the days when gaon ki gori would go to the kuwan to pani bharo and get cheroed.
13. Deepika Padukone can act. Cocktail.
14. We knew nobody can beat Bhai-porn. Add Bhabi and you have the “Fastest 100 crore” orgasm – in just 5 days. Aditya Chopra knows where the money is.
15. Prakash Jha is the new Madhur Bhandarkar.
16. It took as more than two decades to prove Mohnish Behl and Sooraj Barjatya wrong. Ek Ladka aur ek ladki finally dost ho sakte hain. Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu.
17. Your friendly LIC agent can be a closet serial killer. Irony could not have been more delicious. Bob Biswas.
18. Sehar was an accident. Kabir Kaushik scores his hattrick – Chamku, Hum Tum Aur Ghost and Maximum this year.
19. Rab will make the jodi but Jesus will break it – Aditya Chopra’s Filmy Funda No. 786.
20. Aditya Chopra exists. Saw him at the last rites of Yash Chopra.
10 Unanswered Questions
1. Who thought you can “Go For Gold” with Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Bobby Deol, Omi Vaidya, Sikander Kher? Red and White Bravery Award nomination please.
2. What were they trying to do in Aiyyaa?
3. If it’s neither sequel nor franchise, what do you call them? Same name, new numbers. Bhatts? Murder/Raaz/Jism/Jannat – 2,3,4,5…..infinity.
4. Ekk Deewana kyun Tha?
5. What was Madhavan’s weight in Jodi Breakers? Especially when he goes underwater in his suit and is surrounded by bikini babes all round.
6. Why did Gulshan Devaiya say yes to “Hate Story”?
7. Who is still giving money to RGV to make films whatever-you-want-to-call-them?
8. What will be Madhur Bhandarkar’s next?
9. Did Aamir Khan count the average number of tears he shed in each episode of Satyamev Jayate?
10. Finally, Has Ishq In Paris released? (PS – Preity’s name is Ishq in the film)
Do let us know about the things that you discovered at the movies this year and the questions that baffled you.
Deepa Bhatia on Editing – Notes From A Dark Room
Posted: December 28, 2012 by moifightclub in bollywood, cinema, Special
Tags: Aarti Bajaj, Amole Gupte, Deepa Bhatia, Editing, English Vinglish, Hemanti Sarkar, My Name is Khan, Paa, Paan Singh Tomar, Rock On, Stanley Ka Dabba, Student Of The Year, Taare Zameen Par
I know nothing about editing. I don’t even understand how people get it by just watching films. But recently i read a wonderful piece on editing by Deepa Bhatia. I requested her if it can be shared on the blog so that it can reach more people. She agreed instantly and so here it is. Thanks to her, and hope you guys enjoy it as much as i did.
Deepa has edited films like Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa, Thakshak, Dev, Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara, Taare Zameen Par, Rock On!!, Stanley Ka Dabba, My Name Is Khan, Ferrari Ki Sawaari, Student Of The Year, Kai Po Che, and has directed the documentary Nero’s Guest. Over to her – @CilemSnob
A media school requested me to put down a note on my process of editing for fresher film students. ‘A ready-reckoner sort of thing’, they said. Of course, I didn’t offer the short cut document they were looking for, but the idea set me thinking. Let me attempt expressing; if only for myself, the delicacy, the intricacy and the nuances of editing.
As I sit to try and articulate my thoughts, my know-it-all- son prompts, ‘joining?’ Having made his share of little videos, edited mostly on i movie, it’s a fair shot. But not good enough, I answer. My mother in long shot contributes, ‘Like Stitching?’ ‘Somewhat Mum…Stitching together a design (read scene) visualized by the designer (read director), darning over its flaws, cutting it correctly so it fits into the larger landscape of the garment. (Read film)’
Not bad, but still not bulls eye. Agnes Guillemot’s description comes to my mind. “I discovered that cinema is music and editing is like being a conductor. I don’t invent the themes but I can produce orchestrations- I can adapt therefore I can edit.”
So there are shots, and each shot has multiple takes. To pick then, the right take, from the right shot and arrange it in that perfectly right way for the magic to happen.
That’s the moment I seek. A shot placed differently to change the meaning of the narrative. 6 frames off a cut and the moment transforms drastically. A sequence rearranged to create a new truth.
In the quiet of my empty editing room, my heart shrieks with joy.
The heart thumps at the discovery…a day well spent.
SEEING THE MATERIAL
The moment of ‘magic’ is within reaching distance of those interested in ‘listening’ to the material. More than the script, more than the director, it is the material that speaks. It reaches out, hoping you see it with care and attention, not missing a detail…a tear, a quiver in the voice, an actor trying something new, hoping you will catch on to his or her little secret, a camera lingering that extra second or a surprise shift focus that adds a delicious taste to the scene.
So the key lies in seeing. Really seeing with all your senses alive and focused. When that happens, the director usually appreciates the cut. ‘Great, that’s exactly as I saw it’. Or ‘That’s more interesting than the way I saw it.’ That’s when you know that you saw with your soul and intellect in perfect harmony.
HARMONY AND RHYTHM
Harmony is of utmost significance.
Soul and Intellect.
Reason and Instinct.
Listening and Dictating.
Following and Leading.
It’s a tight rope. I often realize that, when I am guiding my young team through their scene cuts, and helping them achieve that harmony. ‘You are ignoring the actor’s rhythm; you are imposing your own rhythm on the material. WHY ARE YOU NOT LISTENING TO THE VOICE OF THE MATERIAL?’ At other times, I implore, ‘didn’t you see the pauses are too much and the performance is lagging? USE YOUR SKILL AND BRING RHYTHM INTO THE SCENE.’’
Contrary advice because editing demands that you react differently to different kinds of material and give it form in response to its ‘personality’. Like parenting. As a mother, I know for a fact, no single rule applies to all children and all situations, so your ear better be on the ground. Listening when the child needs to speak, but speaking when it is his time to be quiet and listen.
Asserting, yet leaving room for dialogue.
A little of this and a little of that.
And in that delicate balance, lies the art of editing.
And how will you find the magic? Craft helps, no doubt. Experience too wizens you. But, in the end, for me, it boils down to integrity. Integrity in watching the material, in seeking the truth from it, in devoting complete time to a project so the process becomes instinctive and not merely physical. I am inspired by the devotion of classical musicians, and I believe editors must have the same quiet soulful relationship with the material. If you are running from one editing ‘job’ to another, where is the time to ruminate, to mull, and to contemplate? Writing and Editing, the two ends of the filmmaking spectrum, that allow you time to think, we editors insist on rushing through.
When I lock the edit of a film, I often embark on yet another journey of watching and revisiting all the rush again. When a scene is edited, it is in the context of the script and of the film, as you know it then.
Once it is edited, it is an all-together different entity, a full-blooded organism. You will be amazed at how you find bits of film that didn’t seem relevant at first cut or even final edit, that worm their way into the film. So processes are critical. Give yourself time to think and contemplate. It’s my golden rule: the answer to most cinematic problems lies in the rushes.
LATERAL VISION
The script makes an imprint. Then the material follows with its own voice. And yet, the editor must be able to see things differently, to be able to flip the visual on its head if the need arises, to relook at material all the time, with new eyes and new imagination. I call it the Little Prince approach. ‘Is it a hat, or an animal swallowed by a boa constrictor?’ Keep your heart and mind open to discover that.
When you enjoy the material, and editor-director sensibilities match, that’s the film that’s going to work best.
When you sleep thinking about the film, and wake up, raring to go to the editing room, that’s the film that’s going to work best.
When your director respects that you have a point of view; that may or may not be his/her view, that’s the film that’s going to work best.
When you work like co-parents to protect, nurture and raise the child, without ego, without doubt, always, always aware, that the child is bigger and more important than anyone, that’s the film that’s going to work best.
I also feel it is important to develop your own relationship with the material. A director lives with his film for years. He starts with the germ of the idea; it simmers in his heart and mind, is then poured out into the script and finally filmed with effort, time and money. If you are to be of some use to the director, it is important to own the film as much as he does, to know it as intimately, so you can do your best for it. A mother can touch the head of her child and sense that the temperature is different from usual. She can sense that because she knows her child so intimately and deeply and dearly. This innate knowledge helps her sense something amiss and find the right and timely solution for her baby. An editor must be committed and sensitive enough to find the same deep relationship with the material, to be equipped to do the best possible to it, for it.
My son pops his head in and brings me back to base. ‘You started by wanting to explain what editing is. That hasn’t happened yet mum…’
Why is it so important to explain what I do? Because very few, even in the business of filmmaking, seem to recognize it for what it is.
There are some simple ways of judging editing.
Anything short is usually good editing.
Anything fast too is good editing.
Anything with razzmatazz is of course good editing.
DAMN, IS THIS FILM WELL CUT OR NOT?
As an academic exercise, I looked into recent films that I liked and didn’t, and studied the critical response to them, particularly to the edit. The truth stares out clearly.
Somehow, no one is able to separate the film experience from the editing. The two are deeply linked. It’s easy to spot good cinematography, art direction, costumes, but can you ‘see’ an edit, beyond the film?
Almost never.
And so it follows, have you ever read about an editor being praised for a film that the reviewer did not like? It’s impossible! This facet of cinema is so deeply linked to the final outcome, to the way the film finally shapes up, that we, as editors must accept that burden completely. Very recently, I edited “Student of the Year” for Karan Johar. One critic found it ’20 minutes too long’, while another said the editing was ‘fantastic’. On Stanley Ka Dabba, one critic commented, ‘Let me warn you that Stanley Ka Dabba is slow. In places, the story seems stretched’ Another felt its ‘very-well sliced together…the pacing really works’
‘The truth is that their reaction to the edit is linked directly to their reaction to the film.
So can a bad film be cut well?
Or is every good film well cut?
I believe both are true. I believe if you like a film, or if it ‘works’, it means the editor has done the job well. The fact that a film comes together and the spell works, implies a good editor at work. (A recent example being English Vinglish, that I thought was beautifully edited by Hemanti Sarkar).
Being an editor, I often see the craft and emotional tenor in the work of some of my peers. Not a single review of Paa, for example, spoke of the breakthrough scene cutting, where jump cuts were used within a dialogue scene to create a certain pace and energy. Not many people appreciated the use of freeze frames in a film about speed and motion, a device Aarti Bajaj employed with great effectiveness in Paan Singh Tomar.
In terms of processes too, some films fly out of you with very little effort. Rock On, for example, is really one the simplest films I have cut and we completed the edit in a relatively short time span. Taare Zameen Par required more work and application because people in test screenings were resistant to its philosophy and we needed to get the balance of the edit delicately right to achieve a certain aesthetic portrayal, while telling a story.
Stanley Ka Dabba, in particular, was a labour of love. Certain processes were followed while filming, that defied conventional grammar, and yet we had to achieve a narrative that was acceptable to an audience. Amole and me spent many hours playing with footage; reinventing the story and its telling, and literally carved out the purest film possible from the material. Yet, I’ve rarely been complimented on its editing, the way I have been for say, Rock On. And yet in my mind, it remains my best work!
I’ve finally concluded that films that have form to fall back on are much easier to edit than stark plainer films. The editing is in the face, easy to notice and therefore easy to appreciate.
The hitch is when the film needs work on the table. That’s the time when director and editor need to recognize and accept that work is needed, reinterpretation is needed, a fresh approach is needed. It’s a very delicate process, for makers are deeply attached to their material. Editing out a chunk is heartbreaking. Editors must be deeply sensitive at such times and accept that the process will take time and effort. And sometimes you hit a deadlock because directors are too headstrong and sometimes, we ourselves, as editors lack clarity and vision. I try my hardest; I fight with my entire being if I am convinced something should go out of the film. I explain, try to convince, scream, shout, bully and finally beg and implore if I am dead sure! I don’t always succeed but I try my best.
I personally felt a sense on failure while editing My Name is Khan. We had some issues with the unfolding of the second half. (I took about a year to edit the film). We slogged to get it right and at one point, I felt that I had achieved the balance. My director was totally supportive of me shaping the film, and was completely open to shortening and re-interpreting, and yet I didn’t get it bang on. A dear critic friend met me and dug the nail deep. ‘I thought it was a super film, and then the Hurricane came’.
So obviously, we were unable to curb the excesses that bothered both critics and audiences and I take the blame completely. Somewhere, in working overtime to get the second half right, I lost objectivity and I feel it took a toll on the film. I failed on the one benchmark I set for myself. Make the film the best it can be. Whatever the material, whoever the director, make sure the film reaches its own ‘potential’.
In the end, the truth about editing lies buried in an editing room, known best to only the director and the editor. The director, of course knows the contribution and role of the editor, regardless of the outcome of the film. But it is the editors and the editors alone that know how committed and focused they were, how truthfully they engaged in the ‘process’ of editing. For in the process lies the fruit. In the effort lies the reward. And in a truthful approach, lies a good, peaceful night’s sleep… That you did everything possible to make the film the best it could be, without short-changing it, without judging it, without giving up on it, regardless of how good or bad it was.
2012 Rewind : A for Allah duhayee hai, B for Bakchodi, C for Chutiyapa
Posted: December 26, 2012 by moifightclub in bollywood, cinema, film, Hollywood, Indie, Special, WTF, Year end special
Tags: 2012 Rewind, Agneeptah, Barfi, Chaalish Chaurasi, Kamal Swaroop, Mani Ratnam, Rajesh Sharma
If the title of the post doesn’t make any sense, please don’t blame us. We are also trying to connect the dots. Since we started the “2012 Rewind” series on the blog, we have been getting many guest posts on our blog mail id. This one comes from an anonymous account. And the writer wanted the same title for the post. If you are not familiar with allah duhayee hai, click here. So over to Mister Anonymous and his A,B,Cs of the year. or should we call him good ol’ Mr Screeny (here & here)?
(PS – It also includes a very embarrassing mention of the blog. Spare us. Had no choice, so letting it go.)
A – Agneepath – Cry cry cry itna cry karte kai ko hum. I expected to see a power packed revenge drama but got Hrithik’s cheeks shaking in slo-mo in bargain and Sonu Nigam’s melodramatic & painful song (Ab mujhe). Agneepath turned out to be Pursuit of Happyness masquerading as 300! But good to see Brijendra Kala and Pankaj Tripathi in meaty roles.
B -Barfi – Original or not, loved how they made the film such a meandering one. Quite an achievement to make the movie go all over the place and yet hold its own. And what visuals (though I believe the DoP was ‘instructed’ to reciprocate the referencing). And can all those people stop praising PC ? As Raja Sen says, she shouldn’t have played it full retard (ala Tropic Thunder)
C – Chaalis Chaurasi – No Sir. It is not good to make fun of Blueberry Hunt when you act in movies like 4084. Loved you smoking the pot in ZNMD, sleepwalking in Dirty Picture and even the marathi lines in Deool but sir why why why? Why 4084? And though you may be offended by me being offended at your selections, but sir, with humble hands folded, I concede “ANYBODY I CARE ABOUT IS MY BUSINESS!!!”
D – 3D wala D, Dheele वाला D. Disaster वाला plot, Dazzling visuals वाला Life of Pi. Dubbing वाला D. Shobhna ही ले लेते? या फिर Tabu से मद्रासी बुला लेते जैसे Kandukondein & Iruvar में किया. And Dhakkan वाला इरफ़ान who claims he is in the 1000 Crore league. Cummon Yaar. Even Naseerudin Shah never took the ‘League’ of Extraordinary Gentlemen seriously. But Richard Parker ने definitely नय्या पार करा दी sir.
E – Editing. Did Aarti Bajaj (aided by the Background Score) save Pan Singh Tomar? Only those who had seen the early cut which premiered in 2010 would tell.
And another ‘Yeah’ for Namrata Rao for having edited Kahaani & Shanghai (one of my personal favs). I’m tempted to see Jab Tak Hai Jaan purely for her. No doughnut (but lots of dough) this year for Deepa Bhatia who edited SOTY.
P.S – Also Akiv Ali for Barfi. Now if only I can lay my hands on the script of the film.
P.P.S – Pure Promotion of the sexy mashup videos by Sumit Purohit. Do watch if here you haven’t
F – फर्जी Morality, फ्रॉड फंडे – FUCK YOU Censor Board for screwing up my movie watching experience with the Family Friendly Disclaimer “Ciggarette Smoking is Injurious to Health” in English & Hindi, everytime a character smokes on screen. Fuck you! You might as well, like William H Macy does in Thank You For Smoking, go ahead and ‘tastefully update’ history by putting a Disclaimer like “अनचाही संतान प्राप्ति से बचने के लिए, कृपया संभोग के समय, निरोध का प्रयोग करें” in the jaw droppingly gorgeous Roop Tera Mastana Song from Aaradhna. Hippo-Cracy की औलादें साले !
G – घोटाला (Dilliwai bhasha) or घोची (Bambaiyya) or what the hell happened (Universal). Why is Balki grating us with his irritating pun-figure-of-speech lyrics (Manhattan from Engish-Vinglish) in an otherwise Gauri Shinde film (which even has a marathi equivalent of Alay Payuthe Kanna in Navrai Majhi, or may be I’m glad we’re not made to suffer another Dhol Beats wala Punju Bhangra Folk song for that ocassion)? Why did Homi Adjania (ahhh Being Cyrus) make the infinitely regressive Cocktail? What gun did the industry to point to the takla sir of the very talented Naveen Kaushik (Rocket Singh) and force him to do what he did in KLPD & Ferari ki Sewari? Why does Naaser need to do a Rowdy Rathore (Pritam Pyare mein baincho kar kya raha hai woh? Aur kyun? What happened to Kabeer Kaushik (this time none of the Deols or Warsis were interfering were they?)? When will iRock Sid Jain stop uploading random photos and actually produce his 2nd film (with due payments to the crew) and actually ROCK a Shaadi ? Why did Sanjay Khanduri remake Ek Chalis and set it in Dilli (‘Balaatkar karwayengi‘ Jaats in Tempo seems so ridiculously relevant now in wake of the Dilli Gang Rape)? And of course, what happened with Agent Vinod?
H – HaggaBai Halla machaye re – Loud maharashtrians who went Wakda (and as apna भाऊ invokeanand says, he has never heard the term in his entire marathi middle class life), there is something curiously wrong with Aiyya. Subtlety out of the window as a lavani would do away with sharam-o-haya. Kai chaleel? Tula mahatiyi hai ka? Or did you too like us went dreamam wakeupum? Agar batti ukhaadni thi toh Sai Paranjpe ki tarah ukhaadthey Bhau….Bhandarkar kyun ghola beech beech mein ? Raat ki Raani ki Gandha subah morning shift pe ‘differences’ le ke aati hai kya set pe?
I – इंकलाब. Independent Cinema. PVR Director’s Rare? A good initiative but 250 bucks for The Last Act at PVR Juhu (Reduced prices)? And wow Shahid, Ship of Theusus, Miss Lovely, Peddlers, and the released ones like Love Wrinkle Free, Supermen of Malegaon, Kshay.
बस यारों इन्तेजाम ऐसा हो की Inzamam-Style रिलीस हो बडे परदे पर. Ignoble या Ignorable तरीके से नही. कहीं ये इल्जाम ना लगे audience पे की इंक़लाब शुरू होने से पेहले Single Screen भाई लोगो ने उसे indoctrinate कर दिया है.
P.S – Dear director of the awesome looking Mizo film Khawnglung run. Can you please provide English subtitles for your film (Which is already uploaded on youtube by the way).
J – Joker. How we missed him when we saw Bane in TDKR. TDKR was even more disappointing than the existential heist Inception. Probably for the first time, I didn’t want to see a Nolan film again. Although Skyfall made up for it to quite an extent with a (Bisexual?) Bardem. The rat story goes up there right there with the Jokers’s ‘Scars’ one. और साला क्या single shot intro है. If the father was a “drinker & a fiend” then, “Mommy was not good” in this one.
K – Kamal Swaroop‘s FB status. Even though it might take me a lifetime to appreciate his much ‘cultified’ Om Dar Ba Dar, the man’s FB statuses are legendary. And of course he shares some of the most mindfuck photos/articles you could find.
“ftii cinema began with bonga.met kudan today”
“if you are bad at every thing,.join films”
“The best firecrackers are always sold by people with 3 fingers.”
The stuff of nightmares! 15 Creepy Images of Ventriloquist Dummies
This bizzare photo
Kamal’s conversation with a certain Mr X filmmaker –
“Mr X. Aap 7 janmon mein film nahi bana sakte hain”
Reply from Mr X – “Agar aap filmmaker hain toh main filmmaker banna bhi nahi chahta hoon”
And because he is on FB & not twitter, you must be-Friend him even if you don’t follow him (Oh God!)
L – Lingo, लेहजा, लिबास. Ishaqzaade’s ‘Musalli”, Kahaani’s ‘daknaam’, Vicky Donor’s Chadhdha, GoW’s ‘Kasai mohalla’ & ‘Kalkutta’, Shanghai’s handling of multiple worlds of lingo correctly and the mother of them – Pan Singh Tomar with the Chambal key ‘Mooda-Moodi’. Bhai Waah! Now if only a Vishal Bhardwaj written film had released this year as well.
M – Maniratnam. Rangan’s Book. Hands down must read. Buy now! Read now. Even if it is non controversial and tries to read too much, but Rangan gets it 70% right (the subtext). The book is littered with trivia, insights, anecdotes, and gems like this
Rangan – How come the heroes in your films never use swear words ?
Ratnam – May be I save them for real life instead
N – Another Zimply south ‘controversy of sorts’ with the Kamal first calling the producer of NAYAGAN as ‘old school‘ and later the poor man retaliating by downplaying Kamal’s contributions. And eventually an extract from Ratnam’s book with Maniratnam saying “Kamal too didn’t expect much from the film”. Full on Rashomon in Rameshwaram.
O – Obituary – (Mandatory Serious & Obligatory point) This year saw its fair share of filmy personalities passing away. Jagjit Singh, Pt Ravi Shankar, Jaspal Bhatti, Yash Chopra, Dinesh Thakur, AK Hangal, Ashok Mehta, Rajesh Khanna, Dara Singh, Mehdi Hassan, Achla Sachdeva, Raj Kanwar, Nikhat Kazmi, Anthony Gonsalves, Ravi, Joy Mukherjee and yesterday we lost Bobby Singh. RIP
P – PAKAU – Every once in a while comes a world wide acclaimed BORING PAKAU JHELU film which wows everybody everywhere. If earlier it was ‘Uncle Bonhomee Who Can’t Remember The Film Title’ or Kinatay (the one QT loved and wrote this letter for), or Adaminte-Gareeb-Mallu-Abu, then this year it is AMOUR, hands down. Though it was well recieved even by the intelligent bloggers, critics all around, I however tend to agree more with this piece. ‘VAPID’ & ‘BANAL’ are right words for this film
And if there any Amour fans around, please do pass on my message to Mr Haneke – (NOTHING HAPPENS IN THE REAL WORLD?)
Q – ‘Q-tiyapa Hai‘ guys who do all those viral videos (TheViralFever led by Arunabh Kumar). It began with one on Roadies (must watch), Guide to Bollywood Balaatkaar and later created the Gaana wala song. Also in line are The Golden Kelas and The Bollywood Ghantas (hopefully the one for 2013 is better)
R – for all the Rajesh Sharmas of the year! (Bakwaas Na Kar Titu) from Luv Shuv (Along with an inspired Vinod Nagpal & restrained Rajendir Sethi); the often under utilized Anant Jog & Pitobhash Tripathy (in Shanghai), Jahangir Khan(Irrfan’s Dadda), Ravi Bhushan Bhartiya (his bhatija), the Corrupt Cop (Rajeev Gupta – who also apparently owns a mechanics shop in Delhi apart from being a Tishu regular since Dil Se, Charas, SBG) all in Paan Singh Tomar; Gauhar Khan in Ishaqzaade; Pankaj Tripathi in Agneepath (Cilemasnob‘s new Yashpal Sharma – who is good in every bad film), the entire cast of GoW; Sheeba Chadhdha (someone cast this woman in a big role now please) & Aditi Vasudeva (unrecognizable in Talaash, stellar in Do Dooni Chaar) from Talaash; – this year boasted of some awesome ‘chhipey huey actors’ performances. And of course Bob-Nomashkaar-Ek-minute-Biswas.
P.S – the heart goes out to talented actors like Ashraf-ul-Haque who unlike the Adil Hussains, Nawaz, Irrfan have been struggling since ages but are always relegated to Sujit Kumar type roles even in ‘art house’ films. One wonders who is the next Nawaz ?
S – Sci Fi film of the year – Rian Johnson’s Looper. After the disappointing Prometheus by Ridley Scott, the Brick director (No Brothers Bloom doesn’t count) made Joseph Gordon Levitt as the younger Bruce Willis, with both men in the hunt for each other, over a span of 20 odd years. Way more inventive than Inception, it goes for a repeat viewing. I’m sure there must be a logical flaw somewhere, I just haven’t found it. Reminded me a lot of Source Code (which was pretty good though more accessible).
And as the year ends, we are treated to the trailer of Shane Carruth’s Upstream Colour. The guy who made the mind boggling Primer on a budget close to 7,000$ 12 yrs ago, is now back. Even if this one disappoints, I’m sure it won’t be disappointing! If only we made better Sci Fi films than Ra-One & Love Story 2050.
T – Did the Twist destroy Talaash? Did the audience Talaash for a Thriller but got a Drama-Horror instead? There’s been a post on this already and I’ve met my share of rabid detractors of the film who yell at the ‘Ghost’ element in it. “Horror/Thriller बना रहे हो तो Horror/Thriller ही बनाओ ना. रोते हुए पती पत्नी की boring slow paced film क्यूं? क्या मॅर मॅर के रो रो के investigate कर रहा है Aamir?”
Does that imply that –
a)(Noir?) Procedurals unlike ‘Detective’ films, are tough to please to some of us? (Remember Manorama Six Feet Under? Police Adjective, MOM ya Anatolia toh marr hi daalenge humein?)
b)Never betray your ‘pitch’. The audience won’t forgive you. OR vice versa – we don’t like being betrayed by our film experiences.
U – Ukhaad Lo Jo Ukhaadna hai! Dev Saab often said it to the critics before releasing films like Mr Prime Minister & Chargesheet. Ed Wood simply picked up and moved on from film to film. Ram Gopal Varma continues to ignore us. We’ve beaten his films, lampooned his statements, had dispirin at his vodka fuelled twitter-isms (Samples below), and even pretended we don’t care. Yet the man goes onto make films as if nothing happened. Kudos sir. And I mean it with complete honesty & sincerity. You are a living example of how to continue doing work with a ‘Ukhaad Lo‘ attitude towards detractors. I hope someday someone makes a film on you with you delivering an Aviator-ish Climax, chastising everybody in the industry. Move over Pan Singh Tomar, Milka Singh & Mary Kom, you are the role model for us.
“A common man is a common man becos he thinks commonly nd thats why he very rightfully deserves to both live and die commonly”
“Was Gandhiji a gujju?”
“I rate Karan johar far far more higher than Mehboob khan v.shantaram Rajkapor guru Dutt and Bimal Roy”
“I honestly think either the mosquito or the cockroach should be declared as the national insect”
V – Vaalgey Tamil Vaalgey (Glory to The Tamils). The DMK rhetoric apart, this year two films made in the ‘commercial’ bracket by short filmmakers who regularly uploaded their well made shorts onto youtube, and somehow cracked into the Tamil Film Industry. Kadhalil Sodhapavudu Epidi (How to mess up in Love) by M Balaji, showed his short film (can be seen here) to Siddarth, who immediately decided to act and co-produce the short into a full fledged feature. Hopefully our Hindi Film Heroes can learn a thing or two.
Pizza, a horror-thriller by Karthik Subbaraj is even more audacious in it that it doesn’t have a single ‘known face’, and was made on a low budget. I can’t remember the last good Tamil Horror film. The film is out #YouKnowWhere with English subs. Do watch these films.
Karthik Subbaraj’s short films can be viewed here and M Balaji’s other short can be seen here.
W – WTF Versova. The erstwhile ‘struggler Barista’ patrons have graduated to this place, and you will find tons of filmy people hanging out here at nights. And even among the ‘established’, you will always spot the ‘struggling established’ class here – the Sudhir Mishras, Abbas Tyrewalas, RGV, the not so famous Journos, ‘Bandiyaan’, and various well to do Chief ADs (advertising waley). A Mallu Beef Fry worth dying for, and general coteries of cake-painted-faces worth strangulating, that is if you can find space to do that!
X – The ‘XX’ chromosome. Female Power – Along with the two editor’s we have Reema Katgi, Zoya Akhtar (ok, ok, ZNMD was last year but she co-wrote Talaash), Juhi Chaturvedi, Urvi Jurvekar, Sneha Khanwalkar, (no Pooja Bhatt’s Jism 2 doesn’t count), Gauri Shinde. Call me a sexist but Kya baat hai!!! Can we get more such talented women in the industry ?
Y – ये भी बिकता है. This year saw the announcement/release of tons of ‘literature’ being picked up by movies. Life Of Pi (By Pandit Ang Lee), Reluctant Fundamentalist (Fodu Namesake aur Monsoon Wedding wali Mira Nair), Midnight’s Children (I-Am-Born-To-Sell-India Deepa Mehta), Kai Po Che (if 3 Mistakes of My Life can be considered Literature that is), Oh My God (Paresh Rawal co-produces another Gujju Play into a movie after the disappointing James Hadley Chase Maharathi), and the Realistic Shanghai (from somewhat slapstick Z). Here’s Cilemasnob‘s recco to all filmmakers – The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph. Btw, when is that film on White Tiger coming out?
Z – And finally ZehNaseeb – A self congratulatory, mutual mastrubatory, admirational clique wala Hi-Five to moifightclub for being the coolest Desi Film Blog of the Yr !
कांटो को मुर्झाने का खौफ नही होता,
और MFC का HAT हर एक फिल्म के लिये DOFF नही होता.
Lilaah!
2012 Rewind : What kind of bird are YOU?
Posted: December 25, 2012 by moifightclub in bollywood, cinema, film, film review, Hollywood, Indie, Movie Recco, movie reviews, reviews, songs & videos, Special, Year end special
Tags: 2012 Rewind, Act Of Killing, Anand Kadam, Anhe Ghode Da Daan, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Fatema Kagalwala, Fjögur Píanó, Jab Tak Hai Jaan, Jahan Bakshi, Kahaani, Kartik Krishnan, Koormavatara, Kumki, Kushan Nandy, Makkhi, Mihir Desai, Mihir Pandya, Moonrise Kingdom, Neeraj Ghaywan, Paan Singh Tomar, Pratim D. Gupta, Ranjib Mazumder, Shanghai, Ship of Theseus, Shripriya Mahesh, Stories We Tell, Supermen Of Malegaon, Svetlana Naudiyal, Take This Waltz, Talaash, Varun Grover, Vasan Bala
Sam: [In the women’s dressing room] What kind of bird are you?
Sparrow: [Starting to point to the other actresses] I’m a sparrow, she’s a dove…
Sam: [Cutting her off] No. I said…
[Points to Suzy]
Sam: What kind of bird are YOU?
Suzy: I’m a raven.
I have stood in front of the mirror, pointed my index finger at my image, just like Sam points at Suzy in that delicious Wes Anderson film, and have asked the same question quite a number of time, using all kind of possible emotions. And whenever i think about the scene, it still makes me smile. Bit of Googling tells me that am not the only one who loves this dialogue so much. Though it’s quite difficult to dissect why such a simple line from the film has turned out to be one of my favourite quotes of the year and has stayed back with me for such a long time.
So i thought about doing a collaborative post on similar lines. Quickly mailed some of the friends/films buffs for a simple exercise –
1. Close your eyes
2. Think of all the films you have seen in 2012…released/unreleased/long/short/docu/anything
3. Think what has stayed back with you…impressed/touched/affected/blew
4. Write on it and tell us why.
And i didn’t tell anyone else what the other person was writing about. Got some very interesting responses on all kinds of films and i have put it all together in this collaborative post – 15 film buffs on 17 movies (memories) of the year. The post has turned out to be bit long but hopefully you will enjoy it. And it can also serve as a movie recco list if you haven’t seen the films.
– @CilemsSnob
—–> Kushan Nandy on The Act of Killing
I saw this two and a half hour-plus documentary at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2012 and was blown away. Long after the film got over, after Joshua Oppenheimer spoke about it, even much after, weeks later, the film haunted me. It did to me what Incendies had done to me a couple of years back. But much more.
Never before have I seen a film or documentary, where, during the process of film making, the characters go through a life changing process. They metamorphosize into better beings, and this becomes a part of the actual film.
For example, what would happen if someone video interviewed Modi, his political associates or even the people who were the actual executioners of the 2002 Gujarat massacres? And they all accepted their crimes and celebrated this with glee? But suddenly, one of them changed, understanding the repercussions of what he had done?
Anwar, from The Act of Killing, is a person I will never forget. He had butchered thousands. But it was this documentary, and the process of filming it, that showed him who he actually was. He can’t sleep anymore, he stutters, he throws up. He will never be the same again.
And after watching this film, I wont either.
—–> Varun Grover on Shah Rukh Khan/Jab Tak Hai Jaan
Setting: 7 degree centigrade. Fog. Railway station. A small town in North India where Shatabdi/Rajdhani trains don’t stop.
My fingers are numb and typing out each letter is like feeling the power of it. For some strange reason, the 1st image from Cinema of 2012 that comes to my mind is SRK’s bike rising above the horizon as AR Rahman’s strings go crazy in the background. The theme music of JTHJ (the one they used in promos) it is. Call it the power of music, and it can’t be anything else ‘cos I didn’t even bother to watch the film, or call it my latent romanticism.
My friends from Lucknow – who were there alongside me, fighting for tickets outside Anand cinema hall in 1997 when Dil To Paagal Hai released – watched JTHJ on 1st day in Lucknow and sent me an excited SMS telling me – “Don’t believe the reviews. It’s as good as any Yash Chopra – SRk film you’ve seen. The crowd at Novelty loved it.”
The crowd at Novelty. I was that crowd once. My life’s biggest joys came from being that crowd. Especially on being among the select few who had the matinee show ticket on the 1st day. (1st show was for loafers, matinee was for civilized middle class.)
For Dil Toh Paagal Hai, our friends’ group of 5 was split into 2. Three of us got the evening show, while two fortunate ones got the matinee show. They were clearly the winners – getting to see Maya and Rahul and a new-look Karishma before us. Also they’d get to tease us on their way out, may be telling a couple of spoilers too. So we tried our best to avoid them as their show got over and we were allowed in.
But as it turned out – the theatre owner had cut the film by 15 mins in the 1st and 2nd shows. Apparently he didn’t think the Karishma outrage scene by the river had any merit. But when he saw the audience going crazy with whatever they saw in 1st two shows, he added the cut footage back. And we, the losers till just a few hours ago, were the 1st bunch in Lucknow to watch the entire film.
This scene, Karishma blaming God for complications in love, is almost the crux of Jab Tak Hai Jaan. Though that doesn’t explain why that image of SRK is the 1st that comes to mind. My nostalgia does.
—–> Varun Grover on Paan Singh Tomar
Now inside the train. Cozy and warm. Time to think clearly.
I can’t be a cinema buff by just noting down SRK/ARR as the lasting memory of 2012. But of course there are more. Neeraj Kabi’s intellectual-saint from Ship of Theseus, Denis Lavant and Kylie Minogue singing the existential song of the year (Who Were/Are We) in a post-apocalyptic shopping mall, Sridevi’s eyes full of tears (sprinkled throughout EV), Pi’s uncle swimming in what appears to be sky, the big-screen film print grainy look on Naseer’s face as he looks in the mirror half-seduced, half-confused by Bhakti Barve’s reflection in JBDY (which re-released this year), the spaceship landing smoothly in waters next to a dense mountain in Cloud Atlas, the sad, spent face of Dimple Kapadia at Rajesh Khanna’s funeral (in contrast to a 21-year old Dimple asking Khanna which color sari she should wear for the wedding reception party in the excellent BBC docu resurrected this year due to once-superstar’s death), Gael Garcia Bernal walking away silently, amused and (maybe) depressed amidst the emotionally charged crowds of his nation in Pablo Lorrain’s excellent NO, the trailer of Nikhil Mahajan’s ‘Pune 52’ (though the film didn’t live up to the high expectations and made the trailer look like a red herring), Faisal Khan’s eyes as he lets his gun go crazy on Ramadhir Singh while singer-composer Sneha Khanwalkar screams ‘Teri kah ke loonga‘ in the background……. and I can go on and on.
But one image that will shake me for many more years, the one that is so depressing that I haven’t seen the film again even though it is, for me, one of the best films of the year – Paan Singh Tomar’s sadness at seeing his worst enemy Bhanwar Singh dead. The man who had forced Paan Singh to end his international sporting career to become a dacoit had died. And instead of being relieved, Paan Singh was left purpose-less. The cries of Paan Singh, telling Bhanwar Singh’s dead body that he will chase him in another world and get his answers still give me chills. Those lines are the best lines of the year for me, resonating so much with the cynicism and depression of our times, where one fine morning, without any notice, all good turns into hopeless, impossible bad by the apathy of the system and resident evil of vengeful human kind we are, making Paan Singh Tomar the film, a kind of socio-political version of unrequited love stories.
—–> @Anand Kadam on Talaash
This year we saw a gamut of movies from the hilarious yet fresh Vicky Donor, violently poetic Gangs Of Wasseypur, and a mystery with a pregnant femme fatale – Kahaani . But the movie that has stayed with me, which still sneaks into my mind and cuddles me, is a strange one. I call it a strange choice since this movie isn’t a great one (to be honest), and i didn’t think of it much when i watched it. But the grief stricken Shekhawat and his wife refuse to leave me. Talaash is like “Rabbit hole” with more guilt. When you lose someone very close to you, really really close, his or her or its memories sticks to you like a parasite, sucking every notion of happiness from you. You become a robot going through your daily chores with only one thing playing inside your head – how things could/would have been different. And when a small ray of hope or redemption comes into your life, even if it defies common sense, you cling on to it, not for a closure which comes later (or does it really comes) but for confronting the loss and accepting life as it is.
This is Talaash for me, not the twist, not Kareena or Aamir Khan, or the underbelly of Mumbai. And as i had said it earlier – A movie is never about its twist and if it is, it’s not worth it.
—–> @Vasan Bala on Kumki
This year, I guess, without much fuss some low budget sleeper hits happened down south. Sundarapandian, Pizza, Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom (a few pages missing in between). This year’s Paruthiveen-set-in-the-Jungles-with-an-Elephant marked the debut of Sivaji Ganeshan’s grandson, KUMKI! Breathtakingly shot. Directed by Prabhu Solomon, the guy who made Mynaa.
The film was earlier called “Komban” (Big Tusker). It’s about a mahavat and his “timid” Elephant Kumki, which is supposed to keep a wild elephant Komban from straying into the fields. The film is basically Kumki v/s Komban. It almost reads like a Pixar film, doesn’t it? BUT….Like any south RURAL “hit” this too has it’s rugged faced man with a toothy grin walking behind a shy girl “LOU STORY”, this one too has endless walks and shy glances and grins and predictably ends in a bloody tragic battle. An epic elephant battle! and it boils down to Computer Generated Blood and Dust (hmmm..ummmm). It’s a bona fide formula now, it’s a dream debut for any Star before he graduates into City “Criminal and Cop” roles, mouthing punch lines and beating up Telugu Villains. Loved the music though.
—–> Jahan Bakshi on The Sarah Polley Double Bill : Take This Waltz & Stories We Tell
Sarah Polley delivered a double whammy this year with two diametrically different but intrinsically linked films. The first was Take This Waltz, her deeply sensual and feminine take on love, longing and those gaps in life that we try to fill in vain, and those questions about relationships that never have easy answers. Once you get over the affectedness: the overtly twee touches and some clunky dialogue at the start, Take This Waltz is in turns both superbly seductive and devastating. Michelle Williams once again, brilliantly owns her character and her mousy imperfection, and it’s clear that Margot could only spring from the mind of a filmmaker with a distinctive voice, and one who is a woman. And it contains two of the most exhilarating (musical) sequences I’ve seen at the movies this year.
In Stories We Tell, Sarah turns the camera on her own family with a brave, deeply felt documentary/personal detective story about her discovery of her real biological father, but more importantly, the meaning of family, secrets, memory and the very nature of storytelling. This must have been an impossibly hard and emotionally testing project to put together, but Polley pulls it off- life might be messy but Stories We Tell holds together very well as a rich document, revelatory in unexpected ways. Watch it when you can, and you’ll see where Take This Waltz comes from.
—–> Kartik Krishnan and Fatema Kagalwala on Shanghai
Kartik’s take
He gets to know that the system is rotten, that the investigation he was heading was flawed to start with from beginning, that beyond the scattered red herrings lay the actual ‘villain’, who incidentally is the same person who gave him the power & ‘support’ to start the investigation in the first place, that the ‘villain’ is the CM of the State.
So easy for any protagonist to become an Anna Hazare/Kejriwal in such a case, or to become a whistle blower and later face the inevitable martyrdom (ala the Satyendra Dubeys & Manjunath Shanmughams). What else can a cog in a wheel in such a scenario do? Pickup the gun like Eddie Dunford in Red Riding 1974 and blaze away? Become corrupt like Micheal Corleone or Ram Saran Pandey (Mihir Pandya has written an awesome article on Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar) ? Or run away into overexposed light like Vijay in Pyaasa? Should he accept defeat and get down to some other profession like learning Medicine (like KK Menon in HKA), or resign hopelessly like Vikas Pande in The New Delhi Times? Even Z didn’t have an answer.
He goes to the party and plays a ‘Prisoner’s Dillema‘ of sorts with his Paneer tikka-munching Boss and the other Powerful man. Eventually he somehow manages to ensure that the guilty get their comeuppance. But this ‘victory’ is hollow. As his Boss asks him “Yeh hai tumhari Justice?”, he gives a reply which was there in the promos but sadly cut out from the film – “Justice Ka Sapna Maine Chhod Diya Hai”.
And this was probably my moment of the year which is not there in the film, but there in my memory, for a long time!
Fatema’s take
The cutaway from Dr. Ahmadi’s murder to the item song. It was a stroke of brilliance. Not only technically, but as a comment on our conscience in itself. Physically it’s a jolt, meant to unsettle us and shake us up. We’ve just witnessed a murder we’ve seen hundreds of times before but what we expect to come next is NOT an item song. And so we sit up and take notice. Besides, there is the juxtapositioning of the two warring factions of the film itself, one (the ‘good’) killed like a dog on the street and the other (the ‘bad’) celebrating his decadent power in all its ugliness. And then there is that tenuous mirror to our own conscience – what’s our rtn to this cutaway? Are we glad we are back into an indulgent song-n-dance setting and away from boring Dr Ahmadi? Or gratified by our own lust? Or guilty about feeling so? Or disgusted to watch such sharp contrasts unfolding in front of us? Or do we feel the cut is an over-sighted mistake? That the director doesn’t know what he is doing? The answer to this is a huge part of our response to the film and to think AND achieve something like this is no less than genius.
—–> Shripriya Mahesh on Beasts Of The Southern Wild
The movie of the year for me was Beasts of the Southern Wild. I saw it in Sundance in January 2012 at it’s premier. I knew very little about the movie going in because the filmmakers were careful about not even putting out a trailer before the premier.
It was instantly captivating. I love the world Benh Zeitlin creates. It is constantly surprising, always engaging. All the actors are local and that lends significant authenticity to the world (bigwig directors would do well to take note). It tackles such powerful themes, but all from the perspective of the little girl, Hushpuppy, played to perfection by the adorable Quevenzhané Wallis.
There are no long speeches about government control, environmental disasters or about the right to live freely in a manner you choose. No sermonizing. The visuals speak and the magical realism is very nicely done. The music (also composed by Zeitlin) and the the production design really elevate this movie.
And it’s a debut feature. It won the Camera d’Or and Sundance.
Since the film’s theatrical release, there has been a fair share of haters. But for me, it just worked. Eleven months later, I still think about it.
—–>Mihir Desai on Fjögur Píanó
There are times when I can’t put things in words, I feel the need to express and communicate in visuals. Visuals stick with me and this year one such visual experiment has been playing in my head for the longest time. Directed by Alma Har’el, the Sigur Rós music video, Fjögur Píanó.
Har’el, director of last year’s surreal documentary Bombay Beach creates this gorgeous portrait about the painful pleasures of love. The couple, addicted to each other only really ‘feel’ the pain when separated. The edit juxtaposes the bruises on the girl with the boy softly touching the butterfly. This image stuck with me and Alma Har’el’s quote sums it up so perfectly, “For me it’s about not knowing how to get out of something without causing pain to somebody else.” Without lyrics Alma Har’el has created this beautiful story which I feel was one of the best, cinematic experiences of the year. Due credit to Sigur Rós’ music that inspired Alma Har’el to create this world. Click here to watch the video if you still haven’t seen it.
Other Picks: Celluloid Man, Last Ride, Rampart, Once Upon A Time In Anatolia, Holy Motors, Your Sister’s Sister.
—–> Neeraj Ghaywan on Supermen Of Malegaon
At the surface it may be about the lives of people dreaming about film-making with empty stomachs and hearts full of passion, it could be about an accidental hero, about a world we have never seen but still seems so close. The director is never interested in milking the tragedy of the crew’s limitations, their poverty or the tragic loss of the lead character. Instead, she turns it all into a celebration of life, we smile along with the characters who are making the film, in a way we reflect upon our own personal constraints and learn to laugh at them. It is a comment on the Bollywood system of over-produced film-making, it is paying homage to films of the 80s/90s, it’s also a drawing lessons about how to keep going at it even when there is no hope, it is philosophical at times, it is laughing at itself too.
A film that is so simple in its structure and still speak at so many levels is remarkable. And above everything, it inspires you to take the plunge without thinking twice. When I saw the film, I wanted to get out of the hall and start shooting a film immediately. The biggest achievement of this film is that it goes beyond the confines of being a documentary and touches you more than a big budget fiction based feature.
—–> Ranjib Mazumder on Koormavatara and Makkhi
Be it a random blogger or a certified critic, everyone is Noah on internet and takes no time to float the boat of top ten lists. Like the middle-class father comparing his kids among themselves or with other families, we always manage to make a list of ten best films every year, irrespective of their debatable qualities. I am no exception.
However, when I was asked to contribute for this collaborative piece after shutting the eyelids, a bald man appeared in front of my eyes, riding a fly. So, here I am, writing (only because I have been threatened with sarcasm) on two of the most remarkable Indian films of 2012.
Koormavatara
It starts late at MFF 2012. I am almost certain that I would leave it midway because Hansal Mehta’s Shahid is right after it and almost everyone from my group is going for it. The film opens, Godse shoots Gandhi and my doubts evaporated in no time. This is the world of an old man, disinclined to show emotions and engrossed only in his mundane office work and his little grandson. A Gandhi lookalike, when he is approached to play Gandhi in a TV show, he vehemently opposes but gives in due to the greedy family tentacles. Gandhi, like the fourth passenger in Mumbai locals, slowly invades his life, brings him down to the level of helpless co-passengers. Like a master of swift attack, Girish Kasaravalli breaks down the middle-class system and releases the Gandhi in him, leaving him in the midst of incessant disintegration of his surroundings. Rajkumar Hirani’s Munnabhai MBBS was a joy to behold, but Lage Raho Munnabhi, despite a splendid screenplay, offended the adult in me, with its preachy attitude. Without making him God, Koormavatara makes Gandhi accessible showing the mighty repercussions it can have in a typical family in independent India. As far as breaking down the myth of Mahatma, this is the best we have seen so far.
Makkhi
With scenes dipped in liquid cheese, a boy constantly stalks a girl with trite expressions; Makkhi was loathsome in the first 20 minutes. I wanted that boy to just die. Thankfully he did thanks to the overdramatic villain, soon after I wished. Little shaky special effects took charge. And I witnessed the most inventive revenge drama this year. A fly killing a mighty man is simply an impossible idea! But the way this little soldier choreographs his action scenes in the concrete fort of the villain, you can’t help but root for an insect that you have always detested. The triumph of S S Rajamouli’s film lies in the sheer leap of faith. We are yet to have our Jaws, but this is the one that comes closest to the idea of a fantastically executed concept film.
—–> Pratim D. Gupta on Kahaani
Parineeta did the same thing for me in 2005. Celebrate Calcutta! And how. It reminded me of the way Mira Nair shot Delhi in Monsoon Wedding and Taj Mahal in The Namesake, almost pausing the narrative to just soak in the sensuality of the space. You sexy! Also what Sujoy Ghosh did brilliantly was inculcate his love for cinema in the many myriad moments of the movie in a way that they never became copie conformes but rambunctious references that served those respective scenes just fine. From Satyajit Ray to Salim-Javed to Bryan Singer. And those eyes of Bidya Balan when she looks up in the twist-revealing scene before unleashing her real self. Eyes filled with hurt, vengeance and rage…Our own Beatrice Kiddo? Present please!
—–> Svetlana Naudiyal on Ship Of Theseus
I don’t see all films that release in the year (and I am kind of unabashedly arrogant about it; can’t spend moneys contributing to someone’s 100 crores or out of sympathies to so called indie/different films), so my opinion from the very beginning of it, is skewed. The indie film movement (or whatever there is of it) took a whole new leap with PVR Director’s Rare creating a platform for their release. And even though in my personal opinion, indie films are becoming the cinema equivalent of DSLR carrying people with so & so photography facebook pages (read opinion as – ‘people should be banned, either from making films or from expecting people to watch’), there have been moments of pure delight at the movies in 2012 than years before that, much thanks to the few Indie films that released this year.
Some of the favourites this year are Supermen of Malegaon (one of the best, a documentary so delightful, hard hitting and yet nowhere remotely close to being poverty porn), Kshay (for Chhaya), Gattu (for finally bringing to the screen an unpolished, bratty, clever, naive and most importantly, real kid), Shanghai (for creating that discomfort that exists in our world and we do not see) , Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan (for creating a cinema experience like no other, for delving into time space and making the silences speak)
The most favorite of all that I managed to see in 2012 would be Ship of Theseus for its language, for its being able to be so unique, so evolved in thought and yet not have an iota of pretentiousness and be accessible to just anyone. For the benchmark it creates not just for indie filmmakers but Indian cinema, in general. I am dying to point out and quote every single nuance I loved, but that should be saved for the film’s release. For the smallest of elements it picks and for the whole it creates. For repeating itself like a poem long after you’ve seen it. This is Cinema!!
—–> Mihir Pandya on “अन्हें घोड़े दा दान” (पंजाबी), निर्देशक – गुरविंदर सिंह
एका – कदमों का, कराहों का, नांइसाफ़ियों का, नकार का। एका – दुख: का, संघर्ष का, सपनों का, समता का। वही इंसानी पैरों का जत्था जिसकी मूक कदमताल में पलटकर मेलू सिंह के पिता शामिल हो जाते हैं। किसी अभ्रक से चमकते इंसानी इरादों का जत्था, जिसका सीधा मुकाबला समाजसत्ता अौर राज्यसत्ता के मध्य हुए भ्रष्ट समझौते से तैयार हुई दुनाली दुरुभिसंधि से होना है। किसी ख़ास दिशा में सतत बढ़ते चले जा रहे वे कदम कोरी भीड़ भर नहीं, वे जनता हैं। एक अात्मचेतस समूह। निर्देशक गुरविंदर सिंह की ‘अन्हें घोड़े दा दान’ के इस विरल संवादों से बने विस्मयकारी दृश्य में, जिसके अन्त में सरपंच की दुनाली के सामने गाँव के दलित फ़कत लाठियाँ किए खड़े हैं, अाप सोचते हैं कि अाख़िर वो कौनसी अात्महंता चेतना है जिसने उन्हें वहाँ साथ अा खड़े होने का यह गर्वीला माद्दा दिया है?
बराबरी का सपना। समता का सपना। यह खुद अपने में पूरा मूल्य है। गैरबराबरी के अंधेरी सुरंग रूपी वर्तमान के अाख़िर में न्याय अौर समानता रूपी किसी उजले सिरे के होने का यूटोपियाई स्वप्न। बराबरी स्वयं ऐसा मूल्य है जिसके लिए लड़ा जा सकता है, जिसके लिए मरा जा सकता है। अौर जिस दिन एक दलित दूसरे के लिए खड़ा होता है, एक शोषित दूसरे शोषित के हक़ की अावाज़ का साझेदार बनता है, वह सदियों से जड़वत इस सत्ता व्यवस्था के लिए अंत का बिगुल है। यह दलित चेतना सबक है जानने का कि हमारी देश के भीतर की तमाम पुरानी संरचनाएं कहीं गहरे बदल रही हैं। यह शोषित की साझेदारी है। यह दुख का एका है। वो बस एक फ्रेम भर है ़फ़िल्म में। गाँव के सरपंच की दुनाली के सामने डटकर खड़े मेरी पिता की उमर के ये निहत्थे भूमिहीन किसान। लेकिन इस एक फ्रेम में अक्स है मणिपुर की उन तमाम माअों का जिन्होंने अपनी उस एक बेटी के लिए खुद को विद्रोह में उठे जिंदा माँस के झंडों में बदल लिया था। इनमें अक्स है सशस्त्र सेना का सामना पत्थरों से करने का दम रखने वाली उस नौजवान पीढ़ी का जिनकी ज़बान पर बस यही गूँजता रहा, “हम क्या चाहते… अाज़ादी”। इनमें अक्स है खंडवा मध्य प्रदेश के उन किसानों का जिनकी सामूहिक जल समाधि ने एक बहरी सरकार को भी सुनने अौर अपना फैसला बदलने पर मजबूर कर दिया। अौर इनमें मेरी ही उमर के उन दो नौजवान साथियों का भी अक्स है जो रविवार की उस रात उस बस में इंसानी जिस्म की हदों के पार जाकर भी अंत तक लड़ते रहे, एक-दूसरे के लिए। बराबरी के उस अप्राप्य दिखते स्वप्न के लिए जो सदा ‘फेंस के उधर’ रही इन अाँखों ने अब देख लिया है।
So this was our list. Do comment and share your movie memories/thoughts/opinions of this year.
Gangs Of Wasseypur: Fan Posters
Posted: June 28, 2012 by moifightclub in cinema, Special
Tags: Abhinav Bhatt, Akshar Pathak, Anubhuti Kashyap, anurag kashyap, Fan Art, Gangs Of Wasseypur, Minimal Posters, Neeraj Ghaywan, Shweta Venkat, Sneha Khanwalkar, Vijesh Rajan
We’ve seen all kinds of reactions to Gangs Of Wasseypur… and like many would say, what good is a film if it doesn’t spark intense discussion and debate? But the reactions that are most interesting to see are in the form of fan art. Fan Posters is a relatively new trend here and we’ve recently had a whole wave of Bollywood and Indian movie inspired fan posters.
So here are some interesting ‘fanboy’ posters for Gangs Of Wasseypur… Take a look, and do send us your own if you’ve made any of your own. Enjoy!
The 10th, 11th and 12th posters are by Vijesh Rajan, Akshar Pathak and Abhinav Bhatt respectively.
The first 9 are by Neeraj Ghaywan… Who was clearly very bored during post-production for the film. And also the last one, dedicated to the 3 Womaniyas who were a major force behind the film and had to suffer much at the hands of a certain Mr K. Here they have their revenge. This one is our favorite!
(Update: Added Sumit Purohit‘s Minimalist Poster as well. Keem ’em coming!)
(Update 2: Added अमित aka @hypnosh‘s fantastic new minimal poster. We love this!)
Gangs Of Wasseypur by Vijesh Rajan
Gangs Of Wasseypur Minimal Poster by Akshar Pathak
Gangs Of Wasseypur Minimal Movie Poster by Abhinav Bhatt
Gangs Of Wasseypur Minimal Poster by Sumit Purohit
Gangs of Wasseypur Minimal Poster by @hypnosh
Anubhuti, Shweta and Sneha. Hell yeah.
Uday Shankar’s Kalpana at Cannes Classics – the road to restoration
Posted: May 14, 2012 by moifightclub in cinema, film, Film Festival, News, Special
Tags: Amala Shankar, Cannes, cannes Classics, Cannes Film Festival, Il Cinema Ritrovato, Kalpana, Mamta Shankar, P.K. Nair, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Tanusree Shankar, Uday Shankar, World Cinema Foundation
We all know about Miss Lovely, Gangs Of Wasseypur and Peddlers going to the Cannes. But apart from these three films, there’s a very important Indian film which will be at the festival this year – Uday Shankar’s 1948 classic film Kalpana. The restored print of Kalpana will be screened in the Cannes Classics section.
The other important films in the Classics section this year includes Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a time in America, Roman Polanski’s Tess, Spielberg’s Jaws, The Ring by Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia and Runaway Train by Andrei Konchalovsky. Since we really don’t have a habit and culture of preserving our cinema, i was wondering how did this happen. Then through a common friend i got to know about ad filmmaker Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, who is instrumental in making it happen. I asked him to share his experience on the same and he happily obliged. Read on.
I’ve been attending a festival called Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, Italy for the last few years. This is a festival of restored films and it really amazed me what fantastic work they were doing at the restoration lab in Bologna. They work very closely with the World Cinema Foundation (WCF) headed by Martin Scorsese, who have been doing remarkable work restoring films from all around the world. Last year one of the representatives from WCF mentioned to me that they had been trying to get an Indian film called “Kalpana” directed by Uday Shankar for restoration. They had been trying for almost three years to get the film cans out of India, but they had not been able to do it for various reasons and they had given up.
I had seen Kalpana at a private screening that I had paid for at the Archive in Pune and I knew it was an extraordinary film especially from the point of view of dance and the use of light. I promised the WCF that I would get the film for them to restore, but they were sceptical given their previous experience. Even I didn’t anticipate the extent that I would have to run from pillar to post for this.
I knew the Shankar family and that I was working very closely with the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) for my documentary on P.K. Nair called “Celluloid Man.” I met Amala Shankar (Uday Shankar’s wife) in Kolkata along with her daughter Mamata Shankar and daughter-in-law Tanusree Shankar . I had to request them to procure a legal opinion from their lawyer as there was some litigation regarding the rights of the film that needed to be clarified before WCF could go ahead with the restoration. After a lot of persuasion and several trips to Pune, the NFAI also agreed after I showed them a letter from Martin Scorsese stating that I represented the WCF in this matter and on the condition that I took the onus of sending the cans to Italy and ensured their return. So in a matter of a few months, I managed to send the film to Bologna from my office in Mumbai. In fact, I am responsible for the negative.
I’ve been hearing great reports on the restoration and the lab in Bologna worked round the clock to ensure that they could premier the restored version of Kalpana at the Cannes Classic section. The WCF have very kindly invited me and Amala Shankar for the premier and we will walk the red carpet at 6.30 p.m. on May 17 before the premier. Amalaji is 94 years old and she is thrilled to travel to Cannes and walk the red carpet to see the only film made by her husband in which she played the main role.
At Cannes I have also been invited to see the restored version of Sergei Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America”. As I am a donor for the restoration of Hitchcock’s film “The Lodger”, the British Film Institute has invited me to a screening of their restoration of Hitchcock’s silent film “The Ring” with live accompaniment.
In the West, there is a strong culture of preservation and restoration of films that India completely lacks. This is a shame given what a great cinematic history we have. This is what inspired me to make my documentary “Celluloid Man” on P.K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India. Mr. Nair singlehandedly built the Archive. It’s thanks to him that film students from the Film Institute, Pune like me had the opportunity to see the work of great filmmakers like Ozu, Tarkovsky, Fellini, etc. My film is a tribute to Mr. Nair and his life’s work and somewhere I hope people will realize how important it is to collect and restore our films.
One of the main reasons, I pushed so hard for Kalpana to be restored is that I am hoping that other Indian films will also get chosen for restoration. As a matter of fact, the lab in Bologna wants to restore Ritwik Ghatak’s “Meghe Daka Tara” and have asked me to help them raise the funding. I am hoping the Indian film fraternity or corporate houses will come forward so we don’t have to rely on the West.
(PS – To know more about the film and why it’s such a big deal, you can read this and this post.)
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Introducing the Samsung Galaxy S5 – 16 Megapixel Camera with Fingerprint Scanner and Fitness Tracker is Improved Fun Experience in a better Business Suit
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd is revolutionizing the way users interact with their mobile devices with the new and exciting Samsung Galaxy S5. Imagine having all this technology at your fingertips. It thus becomes clear why the Samsung Galaxy S5 is the phone of choice, offering a host of possibilities to its users
Those that have chosen the Samsung Galaxy S5 experience will definitely be getting best of both worlds in this smartphone that doubles as personal smartphone that wears a suit! It’s no surprise that Samsung Galaxy S5 users have caught on to this smart device since it’s unveiling. Its customer-driven response is marked by Samsung’s impeccable attention to detail.
Samsung Galaxy S5 – Improved Fun Experience in a better Business Suit
Here’s what Samsung has package in this newest invention! Rip-speed navigation to match today’s fast-paced user with:
1. Improved battery life
2. Powerful cameras
3. Improved security
With dimensions of142 x 72.5 x 8.1 mm, the Galaxy S5 is svelte and slim. It fits perfectly in the palm of your hands. Modern, sophisticated and boasting one of the sleekest and freshest designs you’ll ever get your hands on, its Super AMOLED Full HD 5´1” screen is great for watching videos and apps in extraordinary quality.
Textured with tiny perforations, the phone’s back panel not only gives it that unique look that sets it apart from others but also makes for greater comfort in the user’s grip. Choose from any of our four eye-catching colours:
1. Black and white
2. Blue
3. Electric Gold
Despite these fancy accouterments, its IP67 certification means your Samsung Galaxy S5 will be safe from Water and Dust, making it virtually impervious to the elements.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 – 16 Megapixel Camera, Fingerprint Scanner, Kid and Emergency Modes
The unbeatable 16 Megapixel Camera with built-in auto-focus that snaps into shape in a mere 0.3 seconds makes the Samsung S5, hands down, the world’s fastest camera on a mobile device. But it doesn’t end there! Selective Focus is an interesting feature of this powerful Camera; you keep the point of focus only in that part of the image that you want while blurring the rest. At no point do you leave the HDR mode integrated into the camera’s software that helps you improve the lighting in your treasured photos and videos.
Still, you’ve gotta keep your Business and Personal lives separate. Samsung understands. That’s why they’ve build a fingerprint scanner that doubles as your ID for unblocking your smartphone and making Mobile payments. After all, no one can steal your Biometric Identity and your fingerprint is as secure as it gets.
An even deeper side to its security is that it can easily slip into the Kids Mode that’s a sandbox for them to play. Samsung Galaxy S5 has adapted a kid-centric user interface the user interface loaded with entertaining and educational games.
Parents need not worry about curious kids getting their hands on forbidden material; PIN number blocks them on the device as I’ve described in my blog article entitled “How to Lock down your Child’s Tablet or smartphone and Apps to Block, Protect and Notify you of your Child’s whereabouts Online - Defense Against the Dark Arts”.
And as if that’s not enough, Samsung Galaxy S5 Emergency Mode can help you if your being kidnapped. Should the unfortunate situation befall you and you feel in danger, at the push of button, it will transmit a help message to your emergency contacts structured as follows:
1. One photo taken from the Front camera
2. One photo taken from the Rear Camera
3. 5-second audio recording
4. GPS location
Samsung Galaxy S5 – Fitness Tracker, Broadband Internet and Ultra Power Save Mode
The new Samsung Galaxy S5 comes fully loaded with features to help you stay at your fittest. If health and wellness are your priorities, then you’re in good hands with the Samsung Galaxy S5’s enhanced 3.0 S Health Tool:
1. Podometer
3. Exercise records
4. Heart rate monitor
The Fitness Tracker helps you follow-up on your routine while you monitor and manage your every step to achieving your wellness goals. With tools like the 3.0 S Health Tool Samsung Galaxy S5 is sure to become your best ally as you get to your wellness goals.
And it’s fast on Wireless Broadband Internet too! It’s compatible with 5th generation 802.11ac Wi-Fi, 2x2 MIMO and a standard category 4 LTE. MIMO lets you combine your Wi-Fi connections for faster data transfer. The most impressive feature is the built-in Download Booster technology which allows you to use 4G LTE and Wi-Fi, boosting Internet performance online. Overall, the Samsung Galaxy S5 caters fully to the needs of the user with faster and more efficient connectivity.
Finally, the Ultra Power Save Mode give you 24 hours to live with visa conserving on Battery usage in your final 10% of life as explained in my blog article entitled “Samsung Galaxy S5’s Ultra Power Save Mode - Samsung gives you 24 Hours to Die Another Day as This is Not The End”.
It does this by deactivating less essential apps and just dealing with Calls and Text Messages. The Samsung Galaxy then puts on a Suite and Tie in a Black and White Affair on screen, reducing power consumption and resulting in an incredible additional 10 hours of Internet surfing and 12 hours of video playback!
With a long and proven history of innovation, Samsung delivers yet again to its customers, setting itself apart as leaders in technology. Like what you see here?
Then go to your nearest Telecom Provider Store, be Telecom Provider Digicel or Telecom Provider LIME and purchase a Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
Samsung Galaxy S5’s Ultra Power Save Mode - Samsung gives you 24 Hours to Die Another Day as This is Not The End
Still, you’ve gotta keep your Business and Personal lives separate. Samsung understands. That’s why they’ve build a fingerprint scanner that doubles as you ID for unblocking your smartphone and making Mobile payments. After all, no one can steal your Biometric Identity and your fingerprint is as secure as it gets.
IDC Stats for Second Quarter of 2014 points to Asian Smartphone Rise – How cheaper smartphones are slowly killing BOTH Apple and Samsung marketshare
It’s not shaping up to be a good year for either Samsung or Apple as both are seeing declines in the Second Quarter of 2014. This as their competitor, mostly Asian based smartphone makers such as Huawei, Lenovo and LG Electronics are recording record-breaking numbers according to the figures presented by IDC in the article “Chinese phone makers gain amid smartphone surge”, published July 29, 2014 11:40 AM PDT by Rachel King, CNET News.
This is now a follow-on of the declines noted in First Quarter of 2014 by analyst Strategy Analytics in my blog article entitled “Strategy Analytics Stats indicate Apple and Samsung both losing smartphone Market - Social Media, News and Wearable Computing Perfect Storm for smartphone Extinction in the Year of the Sheep”.
According to the IDC in the Second Quarter of 2014:
1. 295.3 million units shipped worldwide
2. 23.1% annual growth
3. 2.6% Quarterly growth
Take a gander at the IDC Stats Table below and it all becomes clear when the Second Quarter of 2013 is compared to the Second Quarter of 2014:
Huawei, Lenovo and LG Electronics are all seeing growth in shipments while shipment has declined slightly for Samsung. Huawei’s shipments have even doubled from 10.4 million in the Second Quarter of 2013 to 20.3 million in Second Quarter of 2014. Apple's shipments are up for the first time this year but like Samsung, their marketshare is declining even as their competition’s marketshare is inching forward.
IDC Stats points to Asia – Cheaper smartphones taking away Apple and Samsung marketshare
Clearly the cheaper smartphones being made by Huawei, who'd practically double their shipments, means that they're on their way to becoming the Smartphone of choice. With IDC cautioning explosive quarterly growth, collectively Asian Smartphone makers have still managed to sweeten the expectations of analysts by pointing to the smartphone makers collectively cracking the 300-million-unit mark during the Third Quarter of 2014.
Here in Jamaica, we don't have to be told this, as it's become obvious which smartphone is the clear winner on specs and choice. This is already becoming a summer of the Huawei Ascend Y330 smartphone in Jamaica.
Their competitive pricing on offer by Telecom Provider LIME as I'd reported in my comparison entitled “JA$3999 Huawei Ascend Y330 vs JA$7599 Digicel DL700 this Summer of 2014 - Waggonists Transfer Form not Required to get new smartphone” makes the choice of a smartphone a no-brainer.
But what of Tablets? Well here’s a teaser!
I’ll be doing another article analyzing their progress this Second Quarter, as if the trend holds from the First Quarter of 2014 as explained in my blog article entitled “IDC and NPD Group record Tablet Decline and Phablet Rise - “White Box” Chinese Tablets and Wearable Computing in First Quarter of 2014 making Tablets obsolete in the Year of the Sheep”, cheaper Chinese Tablets will continue to by stealing the show.
Keep following my blog for more details!!
Samsung Electronics Launches Samsung GALAXYApps - How Samsung’s Galaxy Just got some new Star Apps
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., last week launched Samsung GALAXYApps, an App store that offers hundreds of Apps exclusively available to users of Samsung Galaxy mobile devices. The newly rebranded Samsung Apps Store which launched on Thursday July 10th 2014 as stated in “Samsung rebrands app store as Galaxy Apps, adds new perks”, published July 10, 2014 7:12 PM PDT by Dara Kerr, CNET News, is an improvement upon its predecessor.
It features Apps that will allow greater customization of mobile devices, and will also function as a Platform to offer various promotions and discounts. If you’re online on your Desktop or Laptop right now, check out the Samsung Content and Services Page for the Samsung GALAXYApps.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd is no stranger to innovation and is a global leader in technology, opening new possibilities for people everywhere. They’re well known for their products in the worlds of TVs, smartphones, tablets, PCs, cameras, home appliances, printers, LTE systems, medical devices, semiconductors and LED solutions. With some 286,000 people across 80 countries and racking up annual sales of US$216.7 billion, they’re on a path towards achieving Global dominance in their various fields.
Samsung GALAXYApps is an extension of that ambition to quote WonPyo Hong, President of the Media Solution Center at Samsung Electronics: “At Samsung, we continuously strive to create value for our customers by providing differentiated solutions and services coupled with innovative devices. Samsung GALAXYApps is an extension of that promise, as it offers our customers exclusive Apps to enrich their experience.”
Samsung GALAXYApps – Samsung’s Galaxy Just got some new Stars
Samsung GALAXYApps features an intuitive user interface comprised of three (3) sections:
1. Best Picks
2. For Galaxy
3. Top
Best Picks allows users to easily find recommended Apps and promotions, while Top showcases the most popular Apps which can be viewed according to their popularity, date, and price.
The For Galaxy includes up to four (4) sections:
1. Galaxy Gifts offers premium Apps exclusively for Galaxy devices.
2. Galaxy Essentials delivers must-have Apps for Galaxy devices.
3. Apps for Professionals is the home of business focused Apps and other services that fully utilize the features of Galaxy devices.
4. Galaxy Specialist users download Apps specifically created by using Samsung Software Development Kits (SDKs)
Best of all, Developers can partake of Samsung’s newly revamped App Store by becoming developers of Apps Specific to the App store. Samsung GALAXYApps will eventually be available to over 130 million users across 161 countries around the world.
For more information, please visit http://Apps.samsung.com/ on your Samsung Galaxy Smartphone!
JPS Co says Prepaid Power by December 2014 – How SolarMill Alternative Energy Solution will be a part of Prepaid Power
“We wanted to get it in and piloted before our Customer Information System upgrade. We will be able to roll it out after the pilot, we think in the fourth quarter islandwide. We are excited for customer”
CEO of JPS Co (Jamaica Public Service Company) Kelly Tomblin commenting on plans to implement Prepaid Power in Jamaica
Finally at long last, the JPS Co (Jamaica Public Service Company) has made up its mind and has announced plans to roll out Prepaid Power by December 2014 as announced in “Prepaid electricity service for Jamaicans by year-end”, published Sunday July 27, 2014, The Jamaica Gleaner.
JPS Co has allegedly been testing Prepaid Power under the quiet among a select set of Guinea-Pigs….er, I mean customers….. in Portmore, St. Catherine. It should have come on stream back in July 2013, a topic about which I’d written and had actually been interviewed on CVM TV on Monday May 20th 2013 as I’d chronicled in my blog article entitled “Prepaid Power coming in July 2013 - A Chip, a Pebble a Rock and a Block would make Prepaid Power The Kings of Summer”.
Prepaid Power by December 2014 - Remote Billing and Remote Disconnection a possibility
No details on Prepaid Power, muchless the name, save to say the concept is very similar to Prepaid Voucher Credit from Telecom Providers as explained in my blog article entitled “JPS Co introduces Prepaid Power and reduces Industrial Electricity Rates in July 2013 - JPS Co copies Telecom Providers as it performs The Last Exorcism Part II of Jamaicans stealing Electricity”.
All controllable via a Digital Smart meter whose usage you can gauge via an App on your smartphone or query via SMS (Short Messaging Service) or Text Messaging. Prepaid Power would basically be configured like Prepaid Data Plans as used by Telecom Providers and would be broken down into four possible services:
1. 1 Day Power Services
3. 14 Day Power Services
This would make Remote Billing and Remote Disconnection a possibility as described in my Geezam blog article entitled “JPS Co Analog Meter upgrade heralds Remote Billing Revolution”. One thing is for sure though; if this is implemented, it’ll be as popular as Prepaid smartphones!
And just as the JA$3999 Huawei Ascend Y330 smartphones from Telecom Provider LIME is popular as declared in my blog article entitled “JA$3999 Huawei Ascend Y330 vs JA$7599 Digicel DL700 this Summer of 2014 - Waggonists Transfer Form not Required to get new smartphone”, it may be powered by Telecom Provider LIME Data Network.
Prepaid Power by December 2014 – How SolarMill Alternative will be a part of Prepaid Power
Since July 2013, a lot has happened.
For one, JPS Co in September 2013 has entered into a deal with US Based WindStream Technologies to market their SolarMill Technology in Jamaica as noted in my blog article entitled “JPS Co decided to market WindStream Technologies SolarMill, the all-in-one hybrid Solar and Wind Generator - Winter is Coming for a Game of Thrones in Jamaica”.
Additionally the CET (Common External Tariff) on Alternative Energy Gear has been removed since February 2014 my blog article entitled “Common External Tariff Removed from Alternative Energy and Energy-Saving Devices - Prepaid Power realistically Possible as Electricity Thieves can seek Repentance by going Solar”. The importation of Solar Panels and anything Alternative Energy related is a little cheaper for the financially well-off.
JPS Co may thus have plans to not only implement Prepaid Power, but to also introduce other services tied to Alternative Energy. This as Prepaid Power requires that the customer’s Premesis have a Digital Meter to accurately gauge Power usage, Provider Remote Billing Services and Remote Disconnection once the amount that the customer has paid for in KWh has been used as per my blog article entitled “JPS Co New Digital Meters are all Smart Meters - Winsome Callum's A Simple Twist of Fate”.
Once installed and a customer is on the Prepaid Meter System, which of course is a Digital Meter, they may in the future opt to have a SolarMill installed at their Premesis. This option would be via an Alternative Energy Loan in partnership with ScotiaBank or JNBS (Jamaican National Building Society) as described in my blog article entitled “ScotiaBank and VMBS now offering Alternative Energy Loans - Rise of the Guardians to make Solar Power affordable to Jamaicans”..
Then the customer would pay a Flat Rate Power Service Plan instead of a 1 Day, 7 Day, 14 Day or 30 Day Power Services Plan. That Flat Rate Power Service Plan covers both the loan repayment for the SolarMill as well as Billing for usage.
This would effectively the equivalent of a Prepaid Data Plan usually used by Telecom Providers to provide Electricity as described in my blog article entitled “Digicel's JA$70 Data Plans vs LIME's JA$50 Data Plans - How to choose 3-Day and 30-Day Data Plans in Jamaica”.
That last part may sound crazy. In fact, ludicrous!
But considering that Electricity Costs may not go down anytime soon via the so-far stalled 381 MW LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) Project described in my blog article entitled “Dr. Vincent Lawrence to oversee the 381 MW LNG Project - All Powerful Essene Brotherhood to Resurrect PNP General Election 2016 Win like Osiris”, anything is possible.
It wouldn’t be surprising to see JPS Co go this route of Flat Rate Power Service Plan to BOTH sell both WindStream Technologies SolarMill Technology
All in a bid to provide a service and be paid for said service, which is the production and Distribution of Electricity, be it generated or from Alternative Energy Sources. Stay tuned as mode Details come to light!
BBSRC Professor Kell’s Chinese Spring Wheat Genome started from the Bottom of the Wheat Field
“In the face of this year's wheat crop losses, and worries over the impact on prices for consumers, this breakthrough in our understanding of the bread wheat genome could not have come at a better time. This modern strategy is a key component to supporting food security and gives breeders the tools to produce more robust varieties with higher yields”
BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) Chief Executive Professor Douglas Kell of the University of Liverpool on the decoding of the Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)Genome
After nearly four (4) years of Research a Team at BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) led by Professor Douglas Kell of the University of Liverpool and has finally cracked the Bread Wheat Genome as reported in “Genetic blueprint for wheat deciphered”, published Saturday, July 19, 2014, The Jamaica Observer.
The Bread Wheat, also known as the Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), has a Genome that consists of some 20 Chromosomes located inside of the nucleus of each cell. These Chromosomes which are composed of DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) are in turn composed of sequences of three bases composed of combinations of Adenine (A), Guanine (G), Cytosine (C) or Thiamine (T) called Codons.
Each Codon represents an Amino Acid that makes up a protein molecule and specific sequences of Codons representing a Protein are called Genes. Amazingly, for such a simple organism, the Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) has a Genome that’s five (5) times the size of the Human Genome, due to the fact that it’s a grass that was bred by humans to be edible by cross-breeding with other edible grasses.
According to their publication in the Journal Nature, there is a total of 124,000 Genes, representing 124,000 proteins that were located by the BBSRC Team, but only 90,000 of those Genes were sequence:
1. The positions of the Codons within the DNA worked out
2. Proteins that these Genes produce
3. Genotype (Genetic characteristics) and Phenotype (Physical characteristics) they represent
The Genome Sequencing Study was led by Professor Douglas Kell of the University of Liverpool and co-authored by Dr Anthony Hall, from the University Institute of Integrative Biology. It coincides rather neatly with a French Research Team announcing recently they'd mapped a complete Bread Wheat Chromosome, known as 3B. This leaves that Research Team with a long journey ahead of them, as they have some 20 more Chromosomes to decipher in order to completely decode the Genome of Bread Wheat.
Their four year quest was funded by the BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) of which Professor Douglas Kell of the University of Liverpool is Chief Executive. His team pooled their efforts and resources with the following Universities and Institutes:
1. Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology in Germany
2. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the USA
3. University of California in the USA
4. University of Bristol in the UK
5. University Institute of Integrative Biology in the UK
Researchers focused on a cultivated wheat variety known as Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and have decoded 90,000 of the 124,000 Genes that make up the Wheat Genome. This, published in the Journal Nature, is a landmark discovery and is of greatest significance to the Agriculture Sciences World as Wheat is the World's third biggest crop after maize and rice.
Professor Kell’s Wheat – Started from the Bottom of the Wheat Field Now we here
Four years?
Back in 2010, Professor Douglas Kell of the University of Liverpool, who was then head of the Britain's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) announced they’re cracked the Wheat Genome as stated in “Scientists: We've Cracked Wheat's Genetic Code”, published Aug. 27, 2010 | 11:08 a.m. EDT, Associated Press.
Back then, I was so impressed by the news that I’d done a pair of articles predicting how it would revolutionize the development of GM (Genetic Modified) Foods by making Wheat more Drought resistant as stated in my blog article entitled “Wheat Genome Cracked - Nature Valley vs the Island of Dr. Moreau” and “Wheat Genome Cracked - GM for US and Jamaica's Agriculture Revitalization”.
I suspect that this discovery differs because of the variety of Wheat whose Genome was sequenced, that being the Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Additionally, it’s also the method used to sequence the Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Genome.
So how did they do it?
They realized that the different families of Wheat were related to each other and to similar Food Grasses with simpler Genomes such as Rice and Barley and some of its ancestors, which had long ago been decoded using conventional Genome Sequencing Methods as explained in “Scientists decipher Genetic code of wheat” published 28 November 2012, ScienceDaily.
The Team hypothesized that the more advanced Grasses such as Wheat not only were complex and thus had more Genomes, but shared the same Chromosomes and even Genes with these predecessors to who them they were related but just happened to still be around. Evolution mean that they're all related, just slightly differentiated from their common Grass Ancestor.
Knowing the complete Genome of those Grasses, they simply just used a special algorithm developed by the John Innes Centre to do a count of the total number of Chromosomes in each Genome and the location of the Genes within each Chromosome. Then they’d look for Genetic markers that were similar for each Gene making up the Chromosome within the Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Genome to those in Rice and Barley and earlier grasses.
They did the comparison against Genome Databases provided by the Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology in Germany and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the University of California in the US. The unidentified Chromosomes within the Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Genome was then sequenced using the conventional Genome Sequencing methods, thus greatly speeding up the process.
Chinese Spring Wheat Genome – Jacob’s Ladder Sequencing of Complex Plants
Think of it like designing a smartphone or an Aeroplane, both fields with which I'm all too familiar being as I'd made design improvements to the Twin-Engine Airbus E-Fan All-Electric Airplane as detailed in my blog article entitled “Airbus Group and the E-Fan – EU's Flightpath 2050 heralds All-Electric Aircraft as Fischer–Tropsch Process makes Kerosene Renewable”.
Because many persons have done it before, you don't need to start from ground zero and design the smartphone or airplane; you just use the blueprints for a simpler model and add to the design, as Airbus had done. Simple as that!
By identifying the differences in the Genomes of Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) to that Rice and Barley and some of its ancestors, they were able to not only quickly sequence the complex Wheat Genome, but separate the known Genes within the Chromosomes and determine the Genes and their known genotype and phenotype. Thus, their map wasn’t just a listing of Genomes for the purpose of bragging of the academic triumph of sequencing a plant that was heretofore difficult. It had straight-out-the-Lab practical applications to Crop Breeders as well.
They could use the information to identify features of other hardier Grasses and thus cross-breed them with the Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), either in the field over several Generations or via companies using Laboratory techniques to create the desired traits required to make Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) more suited to surviving various environments.
This technique can lead to the sequencing of even more complex Grasses, such as Sugar Cane, as suggested by the rather upbeat Professor Neil Hall from the University's Institute of Integrative Biology, who apparently is trying to get a photo-op here, quote: “Wheat is a large and complex genome; arguably the most complex genome to be sequenced to date. Although the genome has not been fully decoded, we now have instrumentation that can read DNA hundreds of times faster than the systems that were used to sequence the human genome. This technology can now be applied to other Genomes previously considered to be too difficult for detailed Genetic study, such as sugar cane, an important biofuel crop”.
That means in the near future, companies that specialize in making GMO (Generically Modified Organisms) from this information such as Monsanto, can make varieties of Chinese Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) that can grow in virtual any climate Region of the World under various conditions i.e. high Temperature, extreme dryness, extreme sunlight, etc.
Possessing this knowledge also means that we can a means of staving off Global Hunger by being able to produce varieties of a plant that's a staple of 30% of the World's population. It's also used to make the most common of foods, that being Flour, which is used to make Bread and thus is literally our #BreadandButter. Its significance wasn’t lost upon co-chair of the IWGSC (International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium) Catherine Feuillet, quote: “We have reached a great milestone in our roadmap”.
With our World population projected to reach some 9 billion by 2050. Wheat Production has been falling globally by some 5.5% from 2000 to 2008 due to Climate Change, according to a study in the journal Science by researchers at the IWGSC. Having the ability to modify wheat to grow anywhere, even in the Desert, will be a priority going forward!
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Squad set to begin fall season, preparing to make deeper run in spring
Aidan Thomas | Thursday, September 19, 2019
Irish softball kicks off their fall season on Monday taking Purdue at home in Melissa Cook Stadium.
This past season, Notre Dame posted an 18-6 record in conference and a 37-18 record overall. However, in the postseason Notre Dame struggled to replicate its success, notching one victory in the both the ACC tournament and the NCAA Tournament with a pair of losses by a combined three runs in the latter.
While the upcoming fall season does not impact the regular season, it provides an opportunity for head coach Deanna Gumpf to see her team in action for the first time as the Irish look to make a deeper postseason run in 2020.
“We’re really lucky because in the fall we get to spend time on the process of the game, and we get to take time to teach everything we need to teach before February comes around,” Gumpf said. “Right now, I’m just looking for consistency and just doing the little things right. Working together, execution on all sides of the game, and taking things a little bit slower. It really allows them to get used to each other, and how they can become the best team they can become together.”
One of the benefits of the fall season, Gumpf said, is that freshman can get their first glimpse at the college game. For the Irish, this means a chance to see their six recruits in action and get an idea of the impact they can have for this team. Notre Dame’s freshmen include switch-hitting infielder and 2019 All-USA High School Softball Team Player of the Year Joley Mitchell, a potential impact arm in Alex McManus, a pair of outfielders in Macie Eck and Leea Hanks and infielders Miranda Johnson and Brooke Marquez.
As for the team as a whole, the Irish hit .331 as a team in the regular season. However the Irish graduated Cait Brooks, the first ever First Team All-American in program history, MK Bonamy (.310 average, .886 OPS), Ali Wester (.440, .907, 25 stolen bases) and Melissa Rochford (.328, .828). Even with the surplus of freshman talent and returning players, the question lingers as to how the Irish will replace a player who put up one of the best seasons in Notre Dame history, as well as a trio of prolific bats.
“We lost four of our top hitters, so we’re going to look very different offensively, but I don’t think it’ll be worse; I actually think we could be better,” Gump said.
Although it may be surprising to suggest the Irish could be better offensively after sustaining the graduation losses they did, returning talent like sophomore Emma Clark, who slapped her way to a .367 average despite just five extra-base hits, senior Alexis Bazos, who is hitting .283 on her career despite a tough junior year campaign, and Katie Marino, who ripped the cover off the ball to the tune of a .344 average last year, also offer promise in the batter’s box for the Irish.
An area that the Irish figure to maintain excellent production is in the pitcher’s circle. While McManus is a promising talent joining the team this year, time will tell if she will be healthy enough to contribute this year. However, the Irish figure to be able to take their time with McManus, as they return their core trio of hurlers from last season in Payton Tidd, Alex Holloway and Morgan Ryan. Tidd was the ace of the staff, hurling two complete games in the NCAA Tournament. Although a tough-luck loser in both games, Tidd gave up just two earned runs combined. Overall, she posted a superb 3.01 ERA over 31 starts. Holloway was a solid second starter with a 4.15 ERA in 24 starts, recording the victory in Notre Dame’s lone NCAA regional win. Ryan offered depth, starting three games and making 21 appearances out of the bullpen en route to a 3.40 ERA. With all three returning and McManus joining the ranks, the pitching figures to be strong this year for the Irish.
“Alexis Holloway dominated her freshman year. Peyton came in last year and took a lot of innings which helped us. I’m looking for [junior] Morgan Ryan to step up. She has thrown innings for us, but I think she will throw a lot more. She’s getting a lot of consistency and confidence in her game and approach to hitters, and I really like where’s she’s at,” Gumpf said of her returning throwers.
This fall’s seven-game slate includes matchups with Purdue, Purdue Northwest (twice), Northern Illinois, Valparaiso, Western Michigan and Loyola Chicago.
“I want this team at the end of the day to play our best softball when our best softball was needed,” Gumpf said.
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Best apps with the map of Moscow metro for Android devices
Mobile apps is a great helping hand if navigating isn't your forte. In fact, it's quite easy to get lost in big cities and it'll be pretty difficult to go without a navigation app or map.
The map of Moscow subway can seem very confusing at the beginning. You'll have to spend time trying to figure out which line is the one you have to transfer at and which variant is the most favorable for you.
In our today's review we've gathered the best apps to find out how to get somewhere in Moscow by subway fast and conveniently.
Yandex.Metro – subway map and calculation of travel time
Yandex.Metro allows to:
build the most convenient route by subway;
calculate the approximate time spent on the road (taking into account transfer stops and transitions through tunnels);
receive information on the stations or transition tunnels between stations closed for renovation;
choose the most suitable exits to the needed streets;
figure out the number of transfers you'll have to make;
pay travel fare, deposit funds to such transport cards as "Strelka" and "Troika".
How to use the Yandex.Metro app
First of all, you have to download the app;
Open Yandex.Metro;
Tap the settings icon looking like a gear;
Select a city from the list by ticking it;
Tap the arrow and go back;
Specify the "Where from" and "Where to" points and then the route should be built with all the required data provided;
For convenience and time saving reasons, you can configure the filling of "From" and "To" by tapping a station in the settings. In order to do this, enable the "Select stations by touch" feature.
In order to read route details open the "Details" link at the bottom of the screen. The information on a route via subway includes:
data on time spent travelling;
the need to transfer;
tips on choosing a particular carriage in order to save time, as well as alternative variants (f.ex. taxi) for faster transportation
The advantages of the app are the following:
accessibility – it can be used by people with visual impairments.
the interactive Moscow subway map is adapted for TalkBack mode.
support of other cities subway maps: Baku, Minsk, Vienna, Yerevan, Budapest, Athens, Tbilisi, Milan, Warsaw, Almaty, etc.
Among the app disadvantages some Play Market users note the presence of advertising content.
You can install Yandex.Metro for free by clicking this link.
Moscow Metro (official app)
The official Moscow subway map developed by Moscow metro service. The app allows you to:
Build the necessary route across Moscow and its region.
Get up-to-date information on the changes in the subway working schedule and stations closed for repair work.
Calculate the approximate travel fare.
Deposit money to the transport card "Troika".
Stay aware of all unexpectedly popped-up issues on your way in real time.
Familiarize yourself with the historical background of stations.
How to use the Moscow Metro app
Launch the app. The main features, including notifications (shown at the bottom of the screen) will be displayed on the screen of your device.
The subway map can be zoomed in via the movements of two fingers.
Specify the departure ("From") and destination ("To") points. The subway map will show the route. If more than one option is available, all of them will be displayed with the difference in travel time shown.
You can also specify the departure and destination points by tapping "From" – "To" correspondingly above the name of the selected stations.
Along with the route itself, additional information will be displayed, including the availability of parking lots and the number of free spaces there, as well as the numbers of suitable land transport for travelling around the city.
If you tap the "i" letter next to the station name, the program will display its historical data.
Among the advantages of the Moscow Metro service we can highlight the following:
the presence of fare calculator;
the opportunity to find out more about the sightseeing points of the city and build a route to and from them;
accessibility for people with mobile impairments;
absence of advertising content.
The Moscow Metro app is available for download via the link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.mosmetro.metro
"Metro and MCC" - Moscow subway map
The Metro and MCC app is rather a guide around Moscow subway than a navigation app. In particular, it allows to:
Use the map of a station in order to exit right to your destination.
Choose the options for transferring between Moscow subway stations.
Study the maps of railway stations and long-distance train stops.
Schedule an appointment with someone at a particular subway exit.
Among the advantages of the Metro and MCC app some users highlight:
The capability of the app to run in the background mode.
Automatic updates if any changes are made to the subway map.
The main disadvantage of this program can be called the fact that it isn't designed for building routes.
You can download the app via the link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.molnike.railonmap.
"Moscow metro" – audio guide for tourists
This software is a mobile guide around Moscow subway. With its help you can get information on:
the history of Moscow subway construction;
the way its stations looked initially;
various interesting facts,
view many photos from different periods of Moscow subway history.
The app advantages are as follows:
the opportunity to turn an ordinary trip by subway into an interesting excursion;
simple and intuitive interface.
How to use the audio guide
Download the app from Google Play by tapping this link.
Grant the utility the access to your device.
The app may show a notification warning against its large size and suggest using Wi-Fi for the download. We recommend accepting the suggestion in order to save your mobile Internet traffic.
Launch the installed program.
On the main page select the recording you want to listen and tap the "Play" button.
pMetro for Android
A minimalistic navigation app which has the subway maps of more than a hundred different cities, including Moscow. The app supports the following features:
Helping with the navigation in a subway.
Building the shortest route to your destination.
Calculating the time spent on the road.
Showing the maps of stations and general plan of the subway.
Providing the capability to select the waiting time of a train (f. ex. a day or night).
no advertising content;
capability to work with subway maps downloaded directly from the http:/pmetro.su website;
3D layouts of most stations;
capability to create custom routes;
handbook with land transport timetables;
multilingual interface.
The fact that the service is only available for the operating system of Android 4.1 and above can be called its main disadvantage. Moreover, the program is unable to count the time for fast trains, so the travel time estimated by the app may differ from the real one.
Download pMetro and open the app;
In order to select a map, you have to specify its name in the search bar (f.ex. pMetro Moscow) or manually find it in the list.
The first finger tap on the map will set your departure station, when the second – the arrival station. All subsequent taps will change the destination station.
In order to change the initial station, you have to tap an empty space or change the parameter via the app settings menu (the command is called "Clear").
You can also set the start station via the context menu.
You can find a station by its name by typing it in the search bar.
The "Show time" command will calculate the journey time from and to each station.
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Google Maps are running slow: how to speed up the app
Navigation apps have become an inherent part of modern people’s lives. They allow to quickly find the needed location, map a route, explore a new city, etc. There are often other apps with navigation, different handbooks, games with augmented reality which you can find on Google Maps service.
If too many objects are displayed on a map at the same time (which might be the case when you load the maps of densely populated cities), the service can significantly slow down its operation and as a result, it's quite challenging to find the information you need.
Since Google Maps are available in browsers and on mobile devices running under Android iOS, in this article we're going to explain in detail how to solve the problem of the app lagging on the specified platforms.
Accelerating Google Maps:
in a browser (Windows / Mac OS)
Accelerating Google Maps on Android
Slow loading of the Maps via a browser on Android can be caused by the following problems:
1. The software installed on your smartphone is outdated.
How to fix it
Go to Play Market,
Tap the three-bar icon in the upper left corner and select "My apps and games".
Scroll down the opened list till you see the "Maps" app and tap "Update". (see also: how to update apps on your phone).
2. Too much data is stored in the app cache.
Every time you open a map, build a route or view any locations, all this data is automatically stored in the memory of your smartphone. Overloaded cache can cause the slow running of the program.
In order to clear the cache, you have to:
Go to your Android settings and select "All apps",
Select the app from the list (it's easier to use the search bar at the top of the screen),
Tap "Clear" and then "Clear cache".
You can also use the service browser version instead of the mobile app. But this option is pretty inconvenient and we find it suitable only in rare cases.
Fixing the iOS version of Google Maps app
The problem with the slow loading of the Maps on Apple smartphones is usually also caused by either the absence of the latest update or the overloaded memory of your smartphone due to the excessive amount of cache.
In order to update the navigation app on iPhone / iPad, you have to:
Go to the official App Store.
In the lower right corner of the screen find the "Update all" button.
Wait until all the programs and games installed on your smartphone are updated.
Relaunch Google Maps.
If it doesn't work, clear the cache on your phone. In order to do this you have to:
Open the official Google Maps app on your smartphone.
Open the menu via the three-bar icon and select "About the app".
Tap "Clear data".
Confirm your actions by choosing "OK".
Keep in mind that clearing cache will remove all data stored by the app, including previously built routes, fragments of downloaded maps (which you can view offline), search inquiries and tips.
When you start the program for the first time (after deleting its cache data), you will have to wait for some time until the needed data is reloaded into your device memory.
Accelerating Google Maps in a browser (the manual for a PC)
Google Maps usability is undeniable since they are available on almost all gadgets, including personal computers via a browser. But even owners of powerful PCs can face the issue of the app loading too slowly.
The problem is rarely related to the speed of your Internet connection. It usually occurs when a map size is too large, as well as when objects are displayed in too much detail after you zoom in an area.
You can tackle the issue by activating the lite version of the app in your browser. This version is designed specifically for weak PCs and browsers which can't support the app full functionality. In order to enable it you have to:
Open the browser you use.
In the address bar enter www.google.com/maps/?force=lite instead of the standard link.
You will be automatically transited to the Lite version of the Google Maps service which loads faster.
After the mode is enabled you will see the lightning icon by tapping which you can automatically switch to the full version with all its features.
Slow running of the Maps can also be caused by the following facts:
Problems with your browser. Simple restart of the program often helps. In addition, you can check for the latest version of the browser on its manufacturer website.
Outdated operating system. We recommend to allow your computer to download and install the latest Windows updates (you can enable this feature via "Update Center").
Your computer doesn't have the latest version of DirectX. This software speeds up the processing of graphic objects. It's quite possible that the latest version of DirectX will help the Maps load much faster.
If the mentioned above methods don't solve the problem and the app continues to load slowly regardless of the speed of the Internet connection you have, you can report on the issue directly to the Google Maps support via the link https://support.google.com/maps/community/?hl=en&gpf=%23!forum%2Fmaps.
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Sage Steele Officially Out At ESPN, Replaced By Michelle Beadle
Steele will be hard-pressed to find any outpouring of sympathy from the black community.
Danielle Jennings
Well, well, well. Sage Steele, everyone’s favorite ESPN anchor who loves to tell anyone who will listen just how “not black” she is, may have just found out about her blackness the hard way. It is being reported that Steele is officially out at ESPN and that she will be replaced by the blonde Michelle Beadle.
The Washington Post is reporting the news that ESPN’s Sage Steele has been relieved of her duties hosting NBA coverage, as Michelle Beadle will be taking over her position just ahead of the NBA playoffs. ESPN apparently wanted to go in a different direction regarding its NBA coverage and felt that Michelle Beadle was the right fit.
The full details of Steele’s termination read as follows:
With the playoffs looming, ESPN is making a change to its NBA shows, with Michelle Beadle replacing Sage Steele as the host of “NBA Countdown” on ABC and ESPN.
Beadle will host the pregame and halftime shows on ABC and will also host the ESPN and ABC studio shows throughout the playoffs, the company announced Tuesday. She will continue co-hosting “SportsNation” Monday through Friday as well. Beadle joined “NBA Countdown” at the start of this season, hosting on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Steele will continue to appear on “SportsCenter on the Road,” as the company announced last fall, and will have what the company said in October would be an expanded on-site presence at events such as the Masters, World Series, Super Bowl, the College Football Playoff, and College Football National Championship.
.@SageSteele's invitation to the cookout is long gone and now her career at ESPN is too: https://t.co/liMAkykd0u pic.twitter.com/t4oUgStqPf
— The Root (@TheRoot) April 4, 2017
While laughing at someone else’s misfortune is definitely not the way to go, in this case it’s really hard to feel bad for Sage Steele when she has continuously said inflammatory remarks regarding the black community and what she really thinks of us, despite her being a biological part of it. The irony in her being replaced by a white woman is likely a career development that she probably didn’t see coming.
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The Undercover Soundtrack – Audrina Lane
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on February 18, 2015
‘Music for looking into the past’
Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative environment – perhaps to connect with a character, populate a mysterious place, or hold a moment still to explore its depths. This week’s post is by Audrina Lane @AudrinaLane
Soundtrack by Berlin, Wham!, Rick Astley, Robin Beck, George Michael, Bill Medley, Jennifer Warnes, Patrick Swayze
As I started 2013 and my 40th birthday I started to think about what I still wanted to do with my life, call it a mid-life crisis bucket list. It was a time to look back into my past from an 80s adolescence to my life today and wonder if I had made the right choices. Music has always been my life blood from watching Top of the Pops in the 70s and wanting to be a dancer in Hot Gossip, right through to the fact that I always have music on in the office, house, car and headphones. Wherever I was working on my novel the music was there.
So on my bucket list I wanted to write a book, my first attempt at this was in 1992 after suffering my first break-up. It was called Take my Breath Away and straight away you can see that the song by Berlin was my starting point. The mood and lyrics of the song a haunting epitaph to lost love. Afraid of rejection of my teenage romance novel I shelved it.
Happily in February 2013 I found the manuscript and set to work to achieve my dream. The title of my novel is a song Where did your heart go? By Wham, its poignant lyrics and soulful vibe pointed me in the direction my story was going to take. With the local radio station on I decided to bring my idea from 1992 into the present and include music that I loved from the 80s. By setting my novel in 2013 my main character Stephanie Eden, widow, single mother and local radio station DJ is 40 years old. She grew up and experienced love for the first time in 1988. The song that made me remember my first love was First Time by Robin Beck. I listened to this track constantly as the lyrics evoke that breathless yearning when you are hit by love. I needed the music of the era to awaken my memories.
Stephanie’s daughter Charlotte is 16 in 2013 and just experiencing her own break-up. Stephanie remembers her diary from 1988 from when she was 16 and about to embark on her first relationship. Handing the diary to Charlotte she lets her read about how first love was in 1988 compared to 2013. My favourite scene is Stephanie’s first kiss with Lifeguard James, unexpected and beneath the water in the local swimming pool where they met.
I felt his lips on mine, soft and firm against the liquid coolness of the water. We were suspended in a timeless moment’
Stephanie yearns to be a DJ so for every romantic event in her relationship a song comes to mind and for this kiss it was Whenever you need somebody by Rick Astley. Upbeat and hopeful like my character feelings.
You feel for Stephanie when she realises that James is moving away. I needed a song to express the yearning and desperation she feels and I listened to A different corner by George Michael, the lyrics and piano on the track highlighting her yearning and the decision she made that led her to James in the first place. Stephanie has never moved on from her first love, despite her short marriage and the birth of her daughter. James has kept appearing in her memories every time she hears a song from the past. How many of us have experienced the same thing when you hear a certain song?
Music was such a powerful memory tool and one that I could never silence no matter the pain it bought.’
Charlotte loves music, influenced by her mum’s career and also her own dreams of becoming a dancer. I hope you are all seeing the parallel’s in my own ambitions?? At a dance competition Charlotte meets Mitchell and with a shared love of the film Dirty Dancing they re-create the iconic dance to the song I’ve had the time of my life, it becomes the first song of their relationship.
She could almost hear the music in her head, just louder than the beating of her heart as they moved together in perfect synchronicity.’
The book follows both characters through their sexual awakening and each of these scenes was easier to write with a song playing for the characters. For Stephanie and James I found it in the beautiful lyrics of George Michael’s Father Figure, for Charlotte and Mitchell with She’s like the wind by Patrick Swayze. As Stephanie watches her daughter falling in love she wonders if she should give love one more try?
In a way the soundtrack of my teenage years became those of the characters I was bringing to life and recreated that magical feeling of first love.
Audrina Lane lives in Herefordshire with her partner and two dogs. She works full time for the Herefordshire Library service which means she is surrounded by books every day. Where Did Your Heart Go? was released in July 2013 and her second book, Un-Break my Heart, was released in December 2014. She is currently working on the third. Find her on Facebook, Twitter @AudrinaLane and her website.
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‘Music for looking into the past’ – Audrina Lane
My guest this week brings a real blast of the 1980s, with a bright red emphasis on romance (I guess it’s that time of year). She drew on the soundtrack of her adolescent years to create the love-torn characters in her novel, and the heart of the story beats to George Michael, Berlin and Patrick Swayze. She is Audrina Lane and she’ll be here on Wednesday with her Undercover Soundtrack.
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Home Civics More than 30 tribes ‘stand united’ against Stitt offer
More than 30 tribes ‘stand united’ against Stitt offer
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Flanked by more than 50 tribal representatives, Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr., speaks to media at the River Spirit Casino in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019. (Tres Savage)
TULSA — More than 50 representatives from more than 30 sovereign tribal nations filled a stage at the River Spirit Casino this afternoon to emphasize unity during ongoing gaming compact negotiations and to reject Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s offer of a temporary extension.
“We stand united today against those who break promises. We stand united today in our legal stance, supported by a robust and sound legal opinion on the automatic renewal of the compact,” said Matthew Morgan, head of Chickasaw Nation gaming and the chairman of the Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association. “We stand united today against the proposed extension by Gov. Stitt as utterly unnecessary given the automatic renewal.”
Tuesday, Stitt floated his gaming extension offer at a State Capitol press conference, arguing he did not want casino employees, vendors or patrons to face uncertainty at the turn of the year.
“The state cannot reach an agreement that addresses the needs of every single tribe in the state in the next [two weeks]. That is obvious to me,” Stitt said at his press conference. “But if we do not take action, all Class III gaming activity will be illegal on Jan. 1, 2020. This creates tremendous uncertainty.”
Wednesday, he released a letter to tribal leaders proposing an extension until Aug. 31, 2020. It was panned at the tribes’ Thursday press event.
“The compact has been a win-win. It has benefited both the tribes and the state,” Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. said. “The compact works. It is not broke, and it will continue to work many years to come, and it will continue to work Jan. 1, 2020.”
Hoskin said he and other tribal leaders still would like to receive “a realistic and reasonable proposal” from Stitt.
“It’s a matter of respect,” Hoskin said during a TV interview after the press conference. “Our people deserve that respect. We are not getting it.”
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Kaw Nation Chairwoman Lynn Williams discusses concern for the health of tribal citizens during a press conference Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, at the River Spirit Casino in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Tres Savage)
Wyandotte Nation Chief Bill Friend spoke Thursday on behalf of nine tribes whose nations exist within Ottawa County in far northeast Oklahoma.
“The nine tribes in northeast Oklahoma, we’ve been unified on this issue ever since we received the letter in July from Gov. Stitt,” Friend said. “That unity among us has not faltered since. The nine tribes are the largest employer in northeast Oklahoma. Most of Ottawa County is the largest superfund cleanup site in the U.S. Despite that, we’ve invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, when no one else would.”
Kaw Nation Chairwoman Lynn Williams spoke after Friend, emphasizing tribal partnerships and community investments across the state.
“Tribes contribute very much to the rural areas we live in,” Williams said. “We take care of the health not only of our citizens, but also those who are non-native as well.”
Asked whether the assembled tribal leaders have been discussing ways to mitigate the health-related issues of smoking — which is prominent in tribal casinos across Oklahoma — Morgan said consumer demand drives casinos to allow indoor smoking.
“What we offer is always based on our customers. When the customers decide to ask for something different, that’s what we’re sensitive to and we provide,” Morgan said. “It will be an ongoing conversation. That subject has not come up specifically, but it’s not something that is unknown to any casino operations team, and tribal leadership understands that. We will continue to monitor the situation, and if the market demands change, I think you would see them follow heed.”
Gilbert Miles, lieutenant governor of the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes, said there is awareness about the dangers of recreational tobacco use, but ultimately people make their own choices.
“Not that I’ve been in many, but there are a lot of bars with people sitting in there drinking and smoking,” Miles said. “I don’t see anybody complaining about that, and these people are walking in on their own knowing smoking is there. If somebody had a problem with the smoking, just don’t come in the front door.”
Miles said any move to end smoking in tribal casinos would hurt their bottom lines.
“Taking smoking out of casinos would kill about half of the casinos because they would go someplace else,” he said.
Still, Miles said the health issue is relevant to tribal governments.
“We just passed a resolution in our tribe where there is no smoking in our facilities or anything we own, except for casinos,” Miles said.
Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes Lt. Gov. Gilbert Miles, top center, speaks during a press conference Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, at the River Spirit Casino in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Tres Savage)
Anoatubby: ‘We’re trying to move forward’
Less than two weeks before the end of the year, it remains unclear whether Stitt will blink on his position that the compacts expire Jan. 1. After Thursday’s tribal press conference, he released a statement indicating no such intention.
“The State offered the extension to protect the parties’ legal positions and to provide legal certainty to those working with or visiting the casinos as the Jan. 1, 2020 deadline approaches,” Stitt said. “I am disappointed that the tribes turned our offer down and refused our requests to negotiate new compact terms that better address the parties’ changing needs. I will continue to work to protect the state’s interests, and I hope that those running the casino industry will negotiate with the State in good faith as these compacts demand.”
On multiple occasions, Stitt has used language to describe the situation — such as referring to the “compacts” as “contracts” — that has raised eyebrows among tribal citizens.
“Being new to the job, in July he made some statements that we’re in fact not taken very well,” Chickasaw Nation Gov. Bill Anoatubby said after Thursday’s event. “But we have to look beyond that. We’re trying to move forward with this compact. We all agree that it auto renews, and we are a little puzzled by why the state is taking a different position.”
Outgoing Muscogee (Creek) Nation Chief James Floyd agreed with Anoatubby.
“We are in a relationship with the governor. Our citizens see the same thing you and I see in the news media. But at the same time as a leader of the tribe, we know we have to get beyond that. He has been the governor for about a year now, so we are trying to get this relationship going. We are very hopeful we can put everything behind us.”
Anoatubby and others reiterated their willingness to negotiate changes to tribal payments to the state called exclusivity fees. Such an increase in those fees would have to be derived from the exchange of an additional item of value, such as sportsbook and mobile gambling.
“We stand united today on the belief that mutual respect leads to productive partnerships and benefits to the state of Oklahoma and our sovereign nations,” Morgan said to start Thursday’s press conference. “We stand united today disheartened that Gov. Stitt’s dispute has damaged the spirit of cooperation and collaboration forged over the past 15 years between tribes and the state of Oklahoma.”
(Editor’s note: The United for Oklahoma campaign purchased advertising on NonDoc through the end of 2019. This story was updated to correct a typo in the name of the River Spirit Casino. NonDoc regrets the error.)
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This undated driver's license photo provided by the Lake County Sheriff's Office shows Alan Ashmore, 61, of Clearlake Oaks, Calif. Deadly shootings Monday, Oct. 23, 2017, in a small lakeside Northern California community include at least one police officer, authorities said. (Lake County Sheriff's Office via AP)more +
A series of shootings Monday in a small lakeside Northern California community killed two people and injured two others, including a police officer, authorities said.
It's unclear what prompted the shootings in Clearlake Oaks or whether the gunman knew any of the victims, Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin said.
Alan Ashmore, 61, of Clearlake Oaks, was arrested about 30 minutes after the first report of gunfire.
A California Highway Patrol officer was shot in his body armor while pursuing the gunman and was treated and released from a hospital. The other victim was expected to survive, Martin said.
"We don't know whether the shootings were all targeted, if they were random or if they were a combination," Martin said.
Two men died in separate shootings outside of homes, Martin said. The injured person also was struck at a residence.
More gunfire erupted at two gas stations, including one where the shooter allegedly exchanged fire with someone licensed to carry a concealed weapon. Neither was injured.
Pat Kelly, 52, of Clearlake Oaks said he was at a Chevron station near the post office when he saw a sport utility vehicle screech to a halt and a gunman jumped out and stormed the gas station store.
"Oh, there was eight to 10 or a dozen gunshots in rapid succession," Kelly told the San Francisco Chronicle . "There was another guy parked behind me. He was hiding behind his gas pump, and I was hiding behind my gas pump."
Kelly said he got back into his car, sped away and went to another gas station about a mile away, only to find the shooter was there.
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After a pursuit and roadblock, the suspect was taken into custody. Investigators believe he started a fire in vegetation as he tried to flee, Martin said.
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Martin initially reported that three people were injured including the CHP officer. But he later revised the count.
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On Islam and Apostasy
Posted on March 20, 2015 by nervana111
Initially published in The What And The Why
Syria 636 AD ___The Ghassanid Arab East Mediterranean Christian Kingdom and its King, Jabalah Ibn al-Aiham, faced a challenging ordeal after the Arab conquest. Should they stay Christians under the new Muslim rule and lose their prestigious position granted by the previous Byzantine rulers, or should they convert to a new faith they knew little about?
King Jabalah Ibn-al-Aiham initially decided to please the new Arab ruler, Caliph Omar, and convert to Islam. Various historical texts dispute what happened next; however, all texts agree that King Jabalah Ibn-al-Aiham later decided to leave Islam. He fled from Muslim-controlled areas after Caliph Omar threatened him with death as punishment for his apostasy.
I remember King Jabalah’s story every time I read about a case of apostasy or blasphemy. Countless tales exist from the infamous case of writer, Salman Rushdie , and the Iranian fatwa against him over the book Satanic Verses to the current ordeal of the Saudi blogger, Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to a decade in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam.
A court in Mauritania has condemned blogger, Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed, to death for insulting the Prophet Muhammad. In Bangladesh, a prominent American blogger of Bangladeshi origin, Avijit Roy, was hacked to death with machetes by unidentified assailants in Dhaka. Moreover, in Pakistan alone, an estimated 1,274 people have been charged under stringent blasphemy laws since 1986. In 2013, Amnesty International expressed alarm over the increase in criminal blasphemy cases in Egypt. Recently, the Egyptian prosecutor has referred a female writer, Fatima Naoot, to trial for insulting Islam.
The debate on apostasy and blasphemy as well as the punishments for these acts is not new. However, duelling sides resurface when a new case is presented in the Muslim world. To be clear, no cited and clear earthly punishment exists in the Quran for apostasy (defined as leaving Islam) or blasphemy (defined as insulting Islam). In fact, the word blasphemy is never mentioned in the Quran. The Muslim Holy Book only mentions punishment in the afterlife. This theme of after-life punishment is not alien to how Judaism and Christians view non-believers and defectors.
Furthermore, no record exists of the Prophet punishing anyone for blasphemy; in fact, the opposite is true. When the poet, Suhai Ibn Amr, who composed poetry blaspheming the Prophet, was taken as a prisoner of war after the battle of Badr, the Prophet asked his companions to show him kindness. Despite the Prophet’s demonstration of benevolence and lack of clear reference to earthly punishment in the Holy Book, increasingly more contemporary accusations of blasphemy and/or apostasy are making the headlines in the Muslim world today.
Why has such intolerance taken hold in the Muslim world?
The reasons are many. First, advocates of punishment for apostasy and blasphemy cite a Hadith (Prophet saying) that states, “If somebody changes his religion, kill him.” This saying has been used as a blanket pretext for punishment. Nonetheless, many ancient and contemporary Muslim scholars have challenged the current orthodox Islamic concept of apostasy and blasphemy.
The problem is that these arguments circulate only among elite and academic circles, and they have failed to spread to the legal system in Muslim countries. The result is a legal system that claims to be based on Islamic law, but is full of black holes where anyone who feels a valid case for apostasy or blasphemy exists can file a court case. It is then up to the judge to deliver a strict or lenient verdict.
However, many judges tend to be zealous in their verdicts to protect themselves from domestic criticism.
Second, Muslim jurists originally articulated a punishment designated for apostasy and blasphemy during the very turbulent genesis of the Islamic empire. Defection, switching loyalties, and criticism were always within a political context that coloured the crime and often the punishment. The story of Jabalah Ibn-al-Aiham is one example. In this account, Caliph Omar, the Muslim ruler reportedly threatened Jabalah with death based not on true religious reasons, but on a politically motivated attempt to prevent any potential revolt by Jabalah’s supporters in the conquered territories. The distinction between religious and political elements in judging apostasy and blasphemy is lost to most Muslim jurists today. In fact, apostasy and blasphemy are used as a weapon to punish modernist thinkers who try to liberalize Islam from the orthodox doctrine.
Third, and more importantly, the political climate in the Muslim world supports an environment where accusations of blasphemy and apostasy flourish. It easy to take any critical thinking as blasphemous, especially in societies where criticizing the ruler is considered blasphemy.
In Pakistan, prior to the 1986 blasphemy law introduced by General Zia ul Haq, only 14 cases of alleged blasphemy had been reported. In Egypt, the January 2011 revolution and the call for freedom did not tame the religious fervour that has been slowly emerging since the 1970s. During president Morsi’s tenure, a court sentenced a blogger to three years in prison for blasphemy and contempt of religion. Later, the ousting of the Brotherhood’s President Morsi did not change the zealous climate. Writer, Fatima Naoot’s, backing of the military takeover in July 2013also did little to protect her from criticism and trial.
Oddly, on the other hand, Egypt’s al-Azhar has refused to declare the Islamic State (ISIS) an apostate. In a statement last December, al-Azhar said, “No believer can be declared an apostate, regardless of his sins.” Although this statement is theologically logical, it is deeply alarming, especially when radical groups such as ISIS continue to commit brutal acts like beheadings, rape, and destruction of cultural heritage.
If we are not going to question the faith of barbarians, how can we justify questioning the faith of intellectuals? Bold and daring views should trigger public discussions; not public executions.
It is about time that the Muslim world re-visits the concept of apostasy and blasphemy in a way that aligns with the true merciful spirit of Islam. Islam is neither an emotional entity that can be insulted, nor is it so fragile that a blog article or a Facebook comment can challenge it.
Jabalah ibn-al-Aiham’s apostasy did not weaken ancient Islam. Salman Rushdie’s book did not weaken contemporary Islam. The same is true for all the other recent blasphemy cases. In this era of social media and globalization, Muslims cannot stop every critical thought. Instead, Muslims can learn to take the higher moral ground, rather than retorting with zealous, emotional responses.
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5 Responses to On Islam and Apostasy
Nice analysis 🙂
You have given some some fine examples of how blasphemy and apostasy laws are exploited by politically motivated leaders and groups without amply relying on the Islamic legal framework.
However, since you mentioned Caliph Umar I do wish to add that one needs dwell bit more on the Caliph who welcomed back Jews to resettle in Jerusalem for the first time after centuries, recognized Christian rights under the Covenant of Umar (may look bit unfair now but in a time when entire nations were butchered or sold into slavery the pact was a huge step) and established the first welfare state which cared for Jews and Christians too. So why would such a tolerant Caliph threaten him with death for apostasy ? It is important to understand that Caliphate was a very cohesive geo-political entity, a super-state of nations bound the Sharia and with a standing army. When a king, a warlord or even any able-bodied person converts to Islam and pledges allegiance to the Caliph, he enters into a contract – both social and military. As such a military leader would be privy to many or some military secrets and strategies. Renouncing Islam, renegading allegiance to the Caliph would amount to treason if not a declaration of war.
Would any of the liberal democracies now be willing to pardon those convicted of treason ? Can Assange, Snowden, Manning even be considered of having committing treason as defectors usually do? Coming back to apostasy law, it was only during the Rashidun Caliphate that these laws carried absolute force of Islamic law (and I don’t say t would have continued). Currently, there is no such entity, the ISIS in particular does not command allegiance of 90% of Muslims and is hence in grave error, its takfiri thought stands directly opposite to rulings of established jurists such as Imam Abu Hanifa, whose dictum you have already quoted. (to me if ISIS is Caliphate, Saudi Arabia is liberal democracy with pubs and dscotheques in every corner :p) As for other Muslim countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia exploiting apostasy and blasphemy laws, they need to understand that as nation-states, they do not possess the authority to implement rulings of a true Caliph (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar). If I could, I would rather accuse them of blaspheming :p
If at all they need guidelines from Islamic history, these Generals, Kings, Presidents should draw lesson from the pre-Caliphate times, when the Prophet of Islam showed kindness to even those who had conspired against him, attempted to murder him and heaped abuses at him.
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Western governments are are concentrating their “anti-terror” resources on the prevention of ”radicalisation’ by extreme Islamist preachers web sites. Your article gives us a clue as why this strategy needs a total re-examination.
Authoritarian political and religious creeds all have one thing in common. They outlaw critical analysis of their doctrines and leaders. In the 20th century political world of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot Kim Il sung, Franco and Mao, public hysteria was fed by the tyrants’ approach to criticism of dogma or führer. In theocracies, this behaviour tends to encompass blasphemy laws.
Islam demands total submission, of its followers, embodied in Qranic text revealed to Muhammed. The latter is revered to the extent that Muslims are driven to extreme violence if they believe he has been insulted in any way. The penalties for apostasy can be extreme.
In a rational society, all aspects of religious and political doctrine and consequential belief would be open to question. For example, if we accept that the Prophet and the Qran’s scribes were men, with all their potential flaws, is it possible that that much of Islamic belief and tradition were influenced by the culture that existed 1400 years ago. What about the Prophet himself? Did he, for example, possibly inject aspects of his own questionable sexual behaviour into his dictation of “God’s laws”?
The followers of Islam are fed doctrine as incontrovertible truth. Deviation is blasphemy. Moreover, this probably lays the foundation that softens up some followers to the attraction of the Islamists who espouse violent jihadism. This leads me to suggest that the way to counter it, is to deeply question Islam’s approach to induction and instruction.
When I read articles from Muslims that begin to question entrenched beliefs and practice it gives me some hope that we can lead a way out the current mayhem surrounding Islam. Thank you for your contribution.
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Thank you for reading. Truly aporeciate your comment.
How can we move the debate from the “War in terror” to close examination of how minds are affected by authoritarian theological indoctrination. May I suggest that the role of doubt within faith systems (political & religious) is vital. Here is an thoughtful contribution from a learned Christian that informs my thinking, http://gencai.acad.cai.cam.ac.uk/drupal6/sites/default/files/ChristianTeaching.pdf
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Buhari unveils Int’l Mascot for 2020 world para-powerlifting championship
The First Lady, Aisha Buhari, on Friday unveiled the International Mascot, sports online application and clothing line for the Abuja 2020 world para-power lifting Championship in Nigeria.
Mrs Buhari, who was represented by the wife of the Vice President, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo, said the clothing line and the sports apps would serve as a source of revenue for the retired athletes.
She promised to continually be in contact with the athletes to ensure their successes during the competition.
“Being an advocate of the well-being of women, children and the vulnerable people, I shall champion the course of the athletes with all my strength.
“As we unveiled the International Mascot, sports app and clothing line, let us double our efforts to support our dear sisters and brothers with greater ability to showcase their talents at the championships,’’ she said.
Mrs Buhari also urged stakeholders to support the athletes to bring out the best in them.
The Executive-Secretary, National Lottery Trust Fund, Dr Bello Maigari, expressed satisfaction with the Nigeria Para-Powerlifting Federation’s achievement so far.
Maigari said the federation and other stakeholders in the sector were instrumental for the athletes’ previous successful outings.
He said arrangements were placed to support the physically challenged persons in the areas of sports, education, health and social services.
“Our funding for Nigeria Para-Powerlifting Federation will be enhanced to support their preparations towards Tokyo 2020 Olympics,’’ he said.
He commended President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the Discrimination against Persons with Disability Prohibition Bill into law.
“This law criminalises all forms of discrimination against persons with disabilities and enforces their rights to education, healthcare, accommodation, transportation, sports and emergencies,’’ Maigari said.
Nigeria is expected to host over 80 countries billed to participate in the Abuja 2020 World Para-lifting Cup Championship slated for February 2020.
Nigeria was awarded the hosting right after winning the competition three times.
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Octopus shows unique hunting, social and sexual behavior
By Robert Sanders, Media relations| August 12, 2015 August 12, 2015
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Unlike most octopuses, which tackle their prey with all eight arms, a rediscovered tropical octopus subtly taps its prey on the shoulder and startles it into its arms.
UC Berkeley and California Academy of Sciences researchers have found that the larger Pacific striped octopus has a unique hunting strategy. Rather than pounce on its prey — typically shrimp — it stalks and gently taps it to startle it, hoping it will dart into its arms. The octopus, which is only a few inches across, is found on the Pacific coast of Central America. Roy Caldwell video.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” said marine biologist Roy Caldwell, a University of California, Berkeley, professor of integrative biology. “Octopuses typically pounce on their prey or poke around in holes until they find something. When this octopus sees a shrimp at a distance, it compresses itself and creeps up, extends an arm up and over the shrimp, touches it on the far side and either catches it or scares it into its other arms.”
The creature, known as the larger Pacific striped octopus, also turns out to be among the most gregarious of known octopuses. While most species are solitary, these have been seen in groups of up to 40 off the Pacific coasts of Nicaragua and Panama.
The larger Pacific striped octopus stalks a shrimp. Roy Caldwell photo.
And while male octopuses typically share sperm with females at arm’s length, ready to flee should the female get aggressive or hungry, mating pairs of this octopus when observed in captivity sometimes cohabit in the same cavity for at least a few days while mating, with little indication of escalated aggression. Mating pairs have even been observed to share meals in an unusual beak-to-beak position.
They do engage in rough sex, however. The pair grasp each other’s arms sucker-to-sucker and mate beak-to-beak, as if kissing. The females mate frequently and lay eggs over several months, whereas the females of most known octopuses die after a single brood.
Little known about world’s octopuses
The peculiar behaviors seen in the larger Pacific striped octopus are actually a testament to how little is known about most octopuses, Caldwell said. While their behavior and neurobiology have been extensively studied, most research is based on observations of just a handful of the more than 300 species of octopus worldwide.
“There are a lot of species of octopus, and most have never even been seen alive in the wild and certainly haven’t been studied,” he said.
A mating pair of larger Pacific striped octopus; the male is the darker of the two. Just under the female’s eye and to the left of her funnel, the male’s mating arm (hectocotylus) enters her mantle cavity. The white object is a packet of the male’s sperm being passed down the hectocotylus to be deposited into the female’s mantle cavity. (Roy Caldwell photo)
Caldwell and his colleagues, including Richard Ross of the California Academy of Sciences and former UC Berkeley doctoral student Christine Huffard of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, will publish their observations of the octopus’s behavior Aug. 12 in the journal PLOS ONE.
A fourth co-author, Panamanian biologist Arcadio Rodaniche, observed much of this strange behavior in the 1970s while studying captured specimens in a saltwater swimming pool in Panama. The behavior was so at odds with accepted octopus behavior, however, that he was unable to publish more than an abstract. The species has still not been officially described and has no scientific name.
Caldwell, too, once doubted the brief description of the octopus’s behavior, and only stumbled across the species while pursuing a smaller relative, Octopus chierchiae, on the Pacific coast of Central America. Both are “harlequin” octopuses, so called because of their semi-permanent stripes and spots. The animal lives in water between 40 and 50 meters (150 feet) deep, typically on muddy, sandy plains at the mouths of rivers, probably living in cast-off shells or rock cavities. Females grow to less than 7 centimeters across (3 inches), while males max out at less than 4.5 centimeters (2 inches).
A pair of larger Pacific striped octopus mate beak to beak. The female is the lighter animal on the left.
Ross and Caldwell obtained 24 live specimens from a pet supplier between 2012 and 2014 and observed them in their laboratories at the California Academy and UC Berkeley. Ross even put some on display at the academy’s Steinhart Aquarium, where guests could have observed several pairs mating daily and producing multiple clutches of eggs.
“Personally observing and recording the incredibly unique cohabitation, hunting and mating behaviors of this fascinating octopus was beyond exciting — almost like watching cryptozoology turn into real-life zoology,” Ross said. “It reminds us how much we still have to learn about the mysterious world of cephalopods.”
“Each time a different type of octopus is studied, we need to redefine our theories about their behavior. It turns out most don’t live up to their ‘denizen of the deep’ reputation,” Huffard said.
The eggs of a larger Pacific striped octopus are developing and are just about ready to hatch. The eyes and chromatophores are visible through the egg membranes. (Roy Caldwell photo)
Hundreds of young octopuses
In these captive environments, the biologists observed females laying eggs for up to six months and brooding for up to eight months. Even after their eggs began hatching, females continued to feed, mate and lay hundreds more eggs — another unusual behavior.
The larger Pacific striped octopus exhibits a striking high-contrast display of colors and patterns, which can vary from a pale to dark reddish-brown hue to black with white stripes, and spots with both smooth and uneven skin textures.
“They certainly respond to one another when they display their highly contrasting stripes and spots, so their coloration appears to be useful for group living,” Caldwell said. “Nevertheless, while they tolerate one another and sometimes pair up, I don’t think they are highly social.
“Only by observing the context in which these behaviors occur in the wild can we begin to piece together how this octopus has evolved behaviors so radically different from what occurs in most other species of octopus,” he added.
Behavior and body patterns of the Larger Pacific Striped Octopus (PLOS ONE)
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(Oslo, January 13th, 2020) Ove Christian Norheim is the new CEO of NRP Asset Management. Norheim takes the place of Thorbjørn Pedersen, who will continue on in the management team.
Norheim (55) brings close to 30 years of financial markets experience, including more than 10 years in investment banking at SEB and Nordea, and 10 years in asset management as CEO and Managing Partner of Storebrand Alternative Investments.
– With long-term strategic insight and outstanding knowledge of the Nordic real estate market, NRP Asset Management has delivered impressive results, Norheim says.
– I am both proud and excited to be leading this successful team within the Nordic Real Estate market. I am confident that the team will continue to produce solid return to investors, and I also believe that my experience will bring value to the team.
Norheim holds a Master of Management degree from the Norwegian School of Management (BI) and is a Certified Financial Analyst. He is also a board member of Equinor Pensjon and Anaxo Capital and has board or investment committee experience. From, among others, SEB Asset Management, Cubera private Equity, FSN Capital I and Hitec Vision.
Thorbjørn Pedersen (64) initiated the CEO shift, and will be a part of the management team going forward, focusing on investments. He will also continue as a board member.
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Cosmetic procedures: ethical issues
Section 9 of 10 Ethical analysis
Chapter 1 What counts as a ‘cosmetic procedure’?
Chapter 2 Appearance and appearance ideals
Chapter 3 The ‘business’ of cosmetic procedures
Chapter 4 Emerging ethical concerns
Chapter 5 Current regulation of cosmetic procedures
Chapter 6 Choosing a cosmetic procedure
Chapter 6 Users’ satisfaction, outcomes and risks
Chapter 7 Ethical analysis
Chapter 8 Conclusions and recommendations
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Ethical analysis
We believe that a key ethical concern with respect to the provision and use of cosmetic procedures is the role played by a commercially driven industry in a social context of significant dissatisfaction and distress about personal appearance. By developing invasive cosmetic procedures that are marketed in line with prevailing appearance ideals, the industry plays an important role in reinforcing those ideals. In doing so, it contributes to the public health harms associated with poor body image.
Such appearance ideals are a further source of concern where they feed existing negative and discriminatory attitudes with respect to factors such as age, gender, race, class, and disability.
These concerns are compounded by the fact that procedures are offered within an apparently trust-based context where users might assume high standards of professional conduct and integrity – but where, in practice, profit motives may dominate.
It is not possible to draw absolute and robust distinctions between cosmetic and therapeutic treatments, or between some cosmetic procedures and routine beauty treatments (see page 3). Nevertheless, there are clearly degrees to which the use of different procedures, in different circumstances, can contribute to public health and discriminatory harms, or may undermine relationships of trust between practitioners and users / patients.
It is important that people have the opportunity to make free, individual choices about the procedures that they might wish to consider. However, the social pressures that we have discussed have the potential to limit, rather than extend, the choices that individuals see as being open to them. We therefore propose an ethical approach that focuses on the wider social context in which cosmetic procedures are promoted, rather than on the decisions made by individuals within that context.
We suggest an ethical approach to policy that includes two distinct elements, relating to ‘demand’ and ‘supply’, respectively. On the demand side, we challenge the promotion of potentially damaging appearance ideals, and the pressure that this exerts on people to meet them (thereby stimulating demand). On the supply side, we explore how a more ethical encounter between users and practitioners could be fostered, particularly with respect to the use of these procedures by children and young people.
Ethical questions arising on the demand side include the nature and extent of public health responsibilities of governments, and the corporate social responsibilities of industry. We argue that governments’ responsibilities include providing the conditions in which people can live healthy lives – including tackling the way in which unhealthy or discriminatory appearance ideals are promoted. Industry similarly has a responsibility to take into account the interests of society as a whole, alongside its own interests.
Ethical questions arising on the supply side include consideration of the roles and responsibilities both of cosmetic providers, and of individual practitioners. We explore, in particular, how practitioners can ensure that the way that they practise does not make them ‘part of the problem’: for example by ensuring that they act always with users’ / patients’ best interests in view, and not in the role of a salesperson. Similar responsibilities arise for providers, for example with respect to maintaining clear distinctions between sales staff and practitioners, and ensuring that no financial commitments are asked of users before a firm decision has been made as part of a two-stage consent process. High standards of safety and governance for the industry as a whole, covering practitioners, products, and premises, are essential for any encounter between potential users and practitioners to be conducted on an ethical basis.
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The work on forming ESCFAN (acronym for our full title 'Eurovision Song Contest Fans of Australia Network') officially began in August 2015, following many years of discussion and lobbying for the formation of a unique and identifiably Australian fanclub for Eurovision.
A volunteer group was established and ESCFAN officially came to life on 9 December 2015 as an Incorporated Association in Victoria, Australia.
The club exists to meet the needs of a growing interest within Australia, providing both an outlet locally for fans to celebrate the contest on home soil through the likes of events, a central point for information about Australia's growing role at the contest (such as its broadcast and participation), and to further the knowledge and promotion of the event within the wider public.
As many of the fans within Australia claim European heritage that ties them to the song contest, the club also aims to encourage social aspects between local fans as well as create further bonds internationally in the Eurovision and wider community.
ESCFAN successfully achieved ascension into the OGAE International group on 13 May 2016, as 'candidate' status with full status achieved in May 2017. Refer to OGAE page for more information.
What about now?
Today, our club is an ever-evolving group of Eurovision lovers from all walks of life. We endeavour to organise events throughout Australia. Competitions and events are frequently held to ensure engagement with our members and supporters and have included the following:
Annual Preview Parties in various cities (April each year)
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Ottawa Redblacks GM Marcel Desjardins hates losing about as much as anybody.
Soon after Saturday’s painful 36-19 loss to the Montreal Alouettes at TD Place, Marcel Desjardins stood with his arms crossed near the tunnel leading to his team’s locker room.
Stern-faced, he gazed out toward the field, with some of the Redblacks chatting with opposing players and fans. He was angry with his team’s effort in its second straight loss (after two wins to start the CFL regular season).
“I don’t talk to anybody after we lose,” said Desjardins. “What’s the point? I’m not going to say anything positive to anybody. My family comes from out of town for every game. They know if we lose to just leave. That’s the way it is.
“I like to stand and see how other people are reacting. We have fans there, they come to see the players — you have to understand that part of it. I just like to take a broader scope of the dynamic of some players and the staff as well, relative to how they feel after a (loss). I know it eats at me for quite awhile afterwards.”
There are things the general manager likes about his team and things he knows need to get better.
“We’re a work in progress as Coach Campbell has alluded to,” said Desjardins. “You’re never happy to be 2-2. But this is the record we had last year. If we can eliminate (the mistakes), I think our results will be better. You’re not going to be perfect in any one game, but if you limit your own poor decisions and turnovers, you have a better chance of winning.
“On the defensive side, that’s where we need to be more on point. We had a lot of turnover (in personnel) on offence (coming into the season), not as much on defence. The anticipation is that we would be a bit more stout defensively.”
Offensively, he don’t think the picture is as bleak as some say it is.
“If you look at the stats offensively compared to last year, this year’s are better,” he said. “As much as people can be down on what we’re doing offensively, it’s not far off — it’s better in most cases than last year. Our struggles have been on the other side of the ball and not as much being provided to the offence in terms of field position from the return game.”
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White-faced ibis creates birding stir with rare visit to region
When I awoke on April 19, I didn’t expect that I’d end up seeing a new state bird before the day ended. Thanks to timely notices of a new bird sighting by email, I used my work break to drive to Elizabethton, Tennessee, to see a white-faced ibis at the Carter County Rescue Squad pond. The opportunity for unexpected appearances by birds like the white-faced ibis is why I love spring migration.
Photo by Bryan Stevens • The red eye of this white-faced ibis allowed observers to confirm the identity of the bird. The similar glossy ibis does not have red eyes.
Tom McNeil spotted the bird at a much larger pond on the campus of Northeast State Community College in Elizabethton. After he reported the bird, I was able to use a work break to travel to the location and find the bird nearby at the smaller pond, where several area birders had already arrived. The ibis had moved to this smaller pond after departing the larger pond where it was first detected.
This is only the second record of a white-faced ibis for Northeast Tennessee.
The white-faced ibis is a widespread wading bird, nesting from the western United States and Canada south through Mexico, as well as from southeastern Brazil and southeastern Bolivia south to central Argentina, and along the coast of central Chile.
I saw white-faced ibises for the first time during a trip to Utah in May of 2006. The state had enjoyed a spring with ample rainfall, and every flooded field and pasture contained flocks of these distinctive wading birds. These flooded fields provided temporary habitat for numerous other birds, including cinnamon teal and Wilson’s phalarope.
Photo by Bryan Stevens • A flooded field in northern Utah near the border with Wyoming provided foraging habitat for this white-faced ibis.
The white-faced ibis is almost identical in appearance to the glossy ibis, which is the most widespread ibis in the world. The glossy ibis ranges across six continents, absent only from Antarctica. In the United States, the glossy ibis ranges mostly along the southern Atlantic coastal area. I have observed this bird at several locations in South Carolina.
The similar appearances of white-faced and glossy ibis presents challenges to identification, which was the case with this recent visitor. The bird found in Elizabethton lacked the white plumage in the face that gives the species its common name. Fortunately, the bird did plainly show one physical trait — red eyes — that easily distinguishes it from the related glossy ibis. Sometimes, all it takes to clinch an identification is a simple physical characteristic such as, in this case, a red eye.
A third ibis native to North America is the white ibis. The Audubon Society identifies the white ibis as one of the most numerous wading birds in Florida, but the bird is common also in other parts of the southeast with appropriate wetland habitat. Like the wood stork, the ibis has declined in Florida in recent decades largely as a result of human encroachment.
Photo by Bryan Stevens • A white ibis forages for food by probing in water and mud.
The white ibis looks like a humorously absurd bird that could have been invented by Dr. Seuss. The extravagant, all-white plumage is contrasted by pinkish-orange legs, an extremely long, downcurved, reddish-pink bill and bright blue eyes. In flight, the white ibis shows black feathers on the edges of its wings.
I’ve seen white ibises in Tennessee as well as in South Carolina and Florida. In the Sunshine State, another relative — the unmistakable scarlet ibis — is sometimes observed in the wild. The scarlet ibis inhabits tropical South America and islands of the Caribbean, but the species if often held in zoos and other attractions. Escaped birds rather than strays are often the source of sightings in Florida of this vibrant scarlet-feathered ibis.
Photo by Bryan Stevens • A glossy ibis flock feeds in a wetland located at Huntington Beach State Park in South Carolina.
All ibises have long, downcurved bills. These birds usually feed in small flocks, probing wetlands for prey such as crustaceans, small fish, amphibians, insects, and various invertebrates. Worldwide, there are about 34 species of ibis, including the red-naped ibis, black-faced ibis, green ibis, straw-necked ibis and African sacred ibis, which is the bird often depicted in tombs and other monuments of ancient Egypt. This ibis was associated with the Egyptian god, Thoth, who was often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis.
The brief visit from the white-faced ibis provides a good reminder that we’re in the midst of spring migration. Stay alert for those unexpected birds. You never know what you might see.
Photo by Bryan Stevens • The white-faced ibis found in Elizabethton, Tennessee, is shown walking past a domestic duck and a mallard.
Readers continue to report hummer arrivals
A few other readers have shared their first spring hummingbird sightings.
• Bunny Medeiros of Abingdon, Virginia sent me an email to announce her first sighting. “To my delight, the day after I put out my feeder a hummer appeared,” she wrote. The bird, a male, made his appeared on April 14.
• Rhonda Eller of Chilhowie, Virginia, saw her first ruby-throated hummingbird of spring on April 18. “Surely spring is going to come and stay!” Rhonda predicted on her post of my Facebook page.
Bird survey seeks volunteers
The Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas is getting ready for a third year of surveying the state’s birds. The atlas is a citizen science project, and volunteers conduct most of the key data collection. Organizers are hopeful that Virginia’s strong birding community will partner with the Virginia Ornithological Society and Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to accomplish the largest bird conservation effort in the state to date.
“This is our third year, and we can always use more volunteers to participate,” said Steven Hopp with Environmental Studies at Emory and Henry College. “Our region down here in the corner is one of the least-covered areas of the state.”
Anyone interested in participating and learning more about the atlas is welcome to email Hopp at shopp@ehc.edu.
Photo by Bryan Stevens • The white-faced ibis probed the edge of a pond in its search for food, occasionally catching and consuming tadpoles.
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By: Peter Forsythe Updated September 15, 2017
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How to Fix a Frozen PS3
Occasionally, CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray Discs and game discs can get stuck inside of a Playstation 3 game console. Traditionally, the disk is ejected from a PS3 by pressing the "Eject" button on the outside of the PS3 while the power is on. However, if this method doesn't work, you can unplug the PS3 from a power source and eject the disc manually.
Turn off the PS3 with the power button on the back, then unplug the AC power cord.
Unscrew the screw cover on the underside of the PS3, then lift it off. You will see a hole underneath.
Insert the screwdriver through hole, breaking the paper dust cover just under the surface.
Rotate the screwdriver counterclockwise until the disk ejects. Keep rotating until the disc is fully out.
Ejecting the disc in the manner will not void your PS3 warranty.
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PULLMAN, Wash. - Kiki Lara has joined the Cougar soccer staff as an assistant coach for the 2005 fall season, WSU Head Soccer Coach Matt Potter announced Friday.
'To add a quality individual to our staff at this point in time in the season is a wonderful energizer,' said WSU Head Coach Matt Potter. 'Kiki has an infectious enthusiasm for the game and personality that fits.'
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Military Intelligence Has Weaponized Democracy Worldwide
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It doesn’t matter whether it’s the US’ brand of “democracy” for export or the national-specific model of government that strengthens non-Western states, the theoretical concept behind this system has been weaponized by military intelligence agencies worldwide in a back-and-forth competition to change or retain the “deep state” status quo.
Most people are familiar with US’ clandestine and militant export of “democracy” across the globe in order to remove uncompliant leaders and promote its enduring geostrategic interest to retain its own unipolar hegemony, but comparatively fewer have ever thought about how this very same system is actually a method of control no matter what iteration it ultimately takes. This isn’t a judgement but a fact – democracy is really a tool that’s expertly wielded by its “deep state” practitioners in order to retain the status quo in their states.
Whether this is “good” or “bad” depends on one’s perspective – most people in the Alternative-Media Community would argue that it’s the former so long as the country in question is protecting their independent policies from outside (US/Western/Gulf) interference and striving to construct the Multipolar World Order, while the Mainstream Media would of course see this as the latter by derogatorily framing it as a “managed democracy” or at worst a “dictatorship’. Along the same token, the Alternative-Media Community believes that the US is a fake democracy and practices an insincere iteration of this ideology, while the Mainstream Media extols it as the best model in the world.
Nevertheless, this article isn’t about arguing whether democracy is a good or bad system, or even rendering judgement on the variation that certain countries have chosen to implement, but to describe how the ideology itself has come to constitute the core of military intelligence operations across the world in carrying out long-term offensive and defensive missions.
The Four-Step Strategy
Military intelligence is almost always directed against foreign targets and there are multiple ways to describe the practice of this art, but the most relevant one is to draw attention to a four-step process that interestingly begins and ends with democracy. The first step is to develop concepts that can serve to widen societal divisions (second step) that provoke a crisis (third step) and allow for the implementation of reverse-engineered end game solutions (final step). While there are many theories that can catalyze this sequence and conclude it, regardless of whether they’re the same for fulfilling both roles or are different, democracy is the most effective for ‘killing two birds with one stone’.
Part of the universal appeal for democracy is that people believe that it’s the best way to hold decision makers accountable in ensuring that they fulfill their promises to increase the living standards for the general population and empower individuals to actualize their full potential. Democracy, however, is also the proverbial Pandora’s Box, and there’s no going back once the ideals of this theory have either been introduced or practiced in a society.
The Secret Ingredient Of Hybrid War
By its very nature, democracy is capable of widening societal divisions, especially in the identity-diverse and mostly post-colonial states of the “Global South” that are increasingly occupying a more significant geostrategic position in world affairs due to their location and economic potential, which satisfies the second step of military intelligence operations. Depending on the composition of the targeted country, which the US can become intimately aware of through big data social media analytics and a presumably de-facto covert revival of the brief Cold War-era “Project Camelot”, various Hybrid War scenarios can be hatched for bringing the state to crisis and weaponizing the consequent chaos in order to implement the reverse-engineered “solution” for normalizing the resultant systemic change.
Put plainly and in the context of the US’ militant proselytization of “democracy”, the ideal or some relevant variation thereof becomes appealing to the targeted population and eventually encourages or serves as a front for destabilizing societal divisions that eventually disrupt the status quo by catalyzing a crisis and paving the way for a regime change against the government. To visualize the process in its most naked conceptual terms:
THEORY/CONCEPT ⇒
⇒ SOCIETAL DIVISION/DISRUPTION ⇒
⇒ CRISIS ⇒
⇒ IMPLEMENTATION OF PREDETERMINED ‘SOLUTION’
Democracy is the US’ ideological weapon of choice because it allows for the management of “creative destruction” within the system that periodically allows the public to peacefully vent their frustrations by electorally recycling their civilian elites without interfering with their country’s permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (or “deep state”). This is advantageous from an external perspective of hegemony because it allows the US to indirectly retain control over its vassals, or when needed, manipulate the democratic process in order to “legally” install their public placeholder of preference.
Managing Blowback
There are times, however, when democracies fail to prevent the emergence of system-threatening elite, in which case the US instrumentalizes various “deep state” levers of pressure against the elected “revolutionary” in order to offset their planned changes just like it’s presently doing to Moldovan President Dodon. If the newly elected figure can’t be co-opted like Tsipras was or functionally neutralized like US-ally India is attempting to do to the newly elected Chinese-friendly communist government in Nepal prior to its official formation in what should be the next coming months, then it’ll either resort to carrying out a coup or launching a Hybrid War. Should that fail, then the direct military intervention of its “Lead From Behind” partners or even the US itself becomes possible per the Libyan model.
Having explained the external manipulation of democracy for offensive geostrategic and regime change ends by the US, it’s now time to discuss how it’s been used by countries for defensive purposes as well.
The Defensive Weaponization Of Democracy
Democracy is a means, not an end, and it’s become a tool for perpetuating the “deep state” status quo in keeping the permanent bureaucracy in power (and sometimes even the public one as well) while superficially or sincerely giving the citizenry a chance to hold certain decision makers to account in the hopes that they’ll eventually bend to the majority’s political will in carrying out policies that will ultimately benefit the people. As such, democracy becomes nothing more than a pressure valve in the most cynical sense for distracting the masses by indoctrinating them with the belief that this is the most effective means for actualizing real change while staving off any real systemic threat to the “deep state”.
Democracy or some variation thereof almost always remains the first and final step of this process, while the natural divisions that it creates (second step) are handled through the controlled “crisis” of elections (third step).
Like was mentioned at the beginning of the analysis, this could be interpreted as “good” if it prevents a violent and possibly externally supported minority from overthrowing an elected multipolar government or “bad” if it enables an unpopular public leader or “grey cardinal” (“dictator”) to remain in power contrary to the genuine will of the majority of the population, though it must be qualified that the latter state of affairs could be manipulated through foreign infowars in order to manage the masses’ perception to this end. Either way, the “creative destruction” inherent in democratic systems gives the “deep state” the best chance for controlling the citizenry in the most cost-effective manner, controversially limiting the pace of actual change in contravention of democracy’s original conceptual mission to let this process flow freely and according to the public’s will.
Offense vs. Defense
When the US supports groups relying on “democratic” slogans to overthrow the leadership of other democracies (whether Western like in Poland or national-specific such as in Syria), it’s counting on them to introduce another variant of democracy to “justify” their usurpation of power and create a smokescreen for carrying out a “deep state” purge afterwards to replace the prior decision makers with their own. Conversely, the defensive application of democracy is used to cycle out unpopular leaders and “safely” introduce new ideas into the governing apparatus that aren’t “revolutionary” enough to “rock the boat” and threaten the “deep state”, thus giving the public a means through which they can periodically provide constructive feedback and channel their frustrations by pointing the authorities in the direction that they need to go in order to retain the masses’ support.
The above-mentioned two examples represent the conclusion of military intelligence’s weaponization of democracy according to the offensive and defensive manifestations of the four-step sequence because it begins and ends with democracy itself, albeit sometimes “re-normalizing” the concept in the final phase depending on whether there is a visible (electoral) shift in the public elite. Like it was earlier remarked, the controlled nature of “deep state” elites managing “creative destruction” within their systems is contrary to the pure theoretical definition of democracy in allowing this process to freely unfold based on the public’s will. One should be careful to avoid attaching any judgement to this observation, however, because the proliferation of mass & social media, as well as the ease with which foreign forces can manipulate targeted citizenry abroad through these means, suggests that having certain “safeguards” might actually be a responsible move, though provided that it’s not abused.
The Trump Anomaly
With all of this in mind, Trump’s election was a real revolution because the same system-threatening development that occasionally occurs abroad in endangering the “deep state” actually took place within the US itself, and without any external meddling to boot. “The Kraken” is now trying to carry out changes within the same “democracy” that had hitherto assumed that it was immune from anything of the sort ever happening, which is why hostile “liberal-globalist” members of the “deep state” are activating levers of institutional pressure to counteract his changes just like what Trump’s Administration is ironically doing against Moldova’s Dodon. Even so, Trump is pragmatic enough not counterproductively inhibit the democratic execution of his desired vision by Congressional means and has thus worked with certain “deep state” figures when necessary, hence why his former Trotskyite ally Bannon backstabbed him in an unsuccessful bid to break what he truly believe was Trump’s “counterrevolutionary” Presidency.
There is nothing inherently “good” or “bad” about democracy, as such judgement calls are subjective, but one can objectively argue that the model itself is the most effective one for fulfilling military intelligence’s four-step mission, whether operationalized for offensive use abroad like the US does or defensive reasons at home such as how it’s employed by Iran. This, too, isn’t a “good” or “bad” thing, but is simply a fact of life that few people have become aware of because the existence of some sort of democratic motions is now taken for granted almost all across the world and has, to channel the fourth and final step of the military intelligence process, become “normalized”. This isn’t to say that the “solution” is to dilute democracy, or even that a “solution” is necessary at all, but just to draw attention to a little-known aspect of modern-day life that often eludes the notice of most political analysts and encourage readers to think outside the box in reconceptualizing the world around them.
DISCLAIMER: The author writes for this publication in a private capacity which is unrepresentative of anyone or any organization except for his own personal views. Nothing written by the author should ever be conflated with the editorial views or official positions of any other media outlet or institution.
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Weaponized democracy
American Moscow-based political analyst specializing in the relationship between the US strategy in Afro-Eurasia, China's One Belt One Road global vision of New Silk Road connectivity, and Hybrid Warfare.
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Warmed over phrasals, cold analytics, Is this scientific writing or a private computer exercise sheet? At minimum the writer has exerted 20 times the necessary number of words for a statement that is not at all clear by the end of his article. Summarisation is called for surely.
That US has been launching all of their preplanned resource wars and justifying them as ‘democracy’ is obvious. DUH. Its the bullet point they never stop repeating. But then-They have to market their criminality somehow.
Essay is confused muddle of regurged material. Adds nothing to the field
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Bill Wagner · Apr. 2, 2019
It continues. Rep. Adam Schiff remains insistent that there was Trump/Russia collusion that needs further congressional investigation. He cites Trump campaign folks giving Russians confidential voter data, Trump family members taking a meeting in Trump Tower where they expected to get dirt on Hillary Clinton, and Robert Mueller’s failure to interview Trump. Democrats are also blasting Trump for seeking revenge on those involved in the probe.
The GOP calls for Schiff’s resignation, and the Democrats close ranks, claiming that Trump wants Schiff out because Schiff has the goods on him and blasting Trump for seeking revenge on those involved in the probe.
How petty. Can’t we just move on?
Moreover, the leaks are starting, claiming that there are ambiguities in both the obstruction and the collusion sections of the Mueller report that indicate Attorney General William Barr is engaging in a cover-up. Whether this will get old or provide a basis for more of the same from the usual suspects remains to be seen, but Democrats and the media are still at it on their anti-Trump theme.
Exhibit A is the latest from Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on the Jusiie Smollett matter. While Emanuel moves to set the stage for suing Smollett to recover the costs of the hoax (Smollett’s folks are threatening their own lawsuit for what they claim is defamation of character by the Chicago Police Department), he also needed to shore up his Democrat identity politics/victimhood/anti-Trump bona fides. He actually blamed — you guessed it — Trump for the whole thing, because Trump “created the toxic atmosphere that played a role in the Smollett hoax.” No, I’m not making that up.
The last week or so have seen any number of media anti-Trump spins. Does anyone recall when Trump promised to eradicate ISIS, which the media portrayed as the all-powerful mutation of the radical Islamic terror movement that was destined to establish the next caliphate and controlled huge chunks of territory in Iraq and Syria? It was a truism that if the gloves were off, the U.S. military could defeat ISIS. But the idea of yet another war in the Middle East didn’t ring anyone’s chimes.
Still, what was needed was the political will to find a way to get rid of ISIS. Trump turned the military loose to organize a coalition and provide support. And what was thought to be an unachievable dream became the utter destruction of the ISIS caliphate in less than two years.
But when Trump portrayed the effort as a total defeat of ISIS and the recapture of all of the previously controlled ISIS territory, the media called him a liar because he used the words “total” and “all.” The media backed this up by showing video of a handful of ISIS fighters cornered in the only few square blocks left of the caliphate. There was also an interview with an ISIS woman, seen holding a small baby, who vowed never to surrender and raise her child to fight on.
This was supposed to be evidence that Trump exaggerates everything and that while he may have liberated some territory, ISIS remained a real ideological threat — as if Trump doesn’t know that. Makes you wonder if these guys would have denied a U.S. victory because six Japanese were still holed up in caves on Iwo Jima.
Late last year, a Florida man built and mailed 16 bombs to prominent Democrat targets like Hillary Clinton, George Soros, John Brennan, Joe Biden, and, for some inexplicable reason, Robert De Niro. The perpetrator was identified and arrested shortly therefore and charged with 30 counts of using weapons of mass destruction, illegal mailing of same, and other federal crimes.
Last week, he pleaded guilty to 65 felonies. While fair and balanced news outlets like The Wall Street Journal reported the fact that the “Mail Bomber Pleads Guilty,” the mainstream media in the form of The New York Times, Washington Post, and leftist cable television all included the modifier “Trump supporter” or “Trump fan” in their headlines.
As I’ve said before, if it were proven that without draconian measures the world would end from man-made climate change in 12 years, I would be at the front of the line demanding the worldwide elimination of fossil fuels and whatever else it took to survive. But contrary to what Beto O'Rourke assures us is the unanimous conclusion to that effect by “climate scientists,” no such evidence exists.
Nevertheless, every prominent Democrat embraced the Green New Deal, which is the ultimate socialist manifesto and government power grab disguised as a planet-saving roadmap. But when the GOP put the Green New Deal to a vote, not a single Democrat supported it. Almost all, including the 2020 wannabes, voted “present” and blasted the vote as a GOP scheme to embarrass them.
It’s baffling how going on the record to support the plan that every Democrat lauded as the way to save the world could embarrass anyone. Shouldn’t it be a badge of honor? It’s the height of Democrat hypocrisy, yet the media hopped on the GOP-dirty-trick bandwagon with both feet.
The economy continues to roar along, and if history is any guide, it will provide the single biggest boost to Trump in 2020. But the New York Times is doing its part to spin this in the opposite direction.
Using front-page real estate, the Times informed us that “experts” see an economic slowdown coming, and if it results in anything less than the 3% GDP Trump has promised, his reelection will be nuked by disappointed voters and unfulfilled expectations.
The point was repeated multiple times in the article that Trump is trying to take credit for the economy and so he must take the blame when growth drops below 3%, which apparently the Times now views as the new bar after eight years of less than 2% growth. Clear now?
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Penn engineering research gives optical switches the ‘contrast’ of electronic transistors
Current computer systems represent bits of information — the 1’s and 0’s of binary code — with electricity. Circuit elements, such as transistors, operate on these electric signals, producing outputs that are dependent on their inputs.
As fast and powerful as computers have become, Ritesh Agarwal, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, knows they could be more powerful. The field of photonic computing aims to achieve that goal by using light as the medium.Agarwal’s research on photonic computing has been focused on finding the right combination and physical configuration of materials that can amplify and mix light waves in ways that are analogous to electronic computer components.
In a paper published in Nature Communications, he and his colleagues have taken an important step: precisely controlling the mixing of optical signals via tailored electric fields, and obtaining outputs with a near perfect contrast and extremely large on/off ratios. Those properties are key to the creation of a working optical transistor.
“Currently, to compute ‘5+7,’ we need to send an electrical signal for ‘5’ and an electrical signal for ‘7,’ and the transistor does the mixing to produce an electrical signal for ‘12,’” Agarwal said. “One of the hurdles in doing this with light is that materials that are able to mix optical signals also tend to have very strong background signals as well. That background signal would drastically reduce the contrast and on/off ratios leading to errors in the output.”
With background signals washing out the intended output, necessarily computational qualities for optical transistors, such as their on/off ratio, modulation strength and signal mixing contrast have all been extremely poor. Electric transistors have high standards for these qualities to prevent errors.
The search for materials that can serve in optical transistors is complicated by additional property requirements. Only “nonlinear” materials are capable of this kind of optical signal mixing.
To address this issue, Agarwal’s research group started by finding a system which has no background signal to start: a nanoscale “belt” made out of cadmium sulfide. Then, by applying an electrical field across the nanobelt, Agarwal and his colleagues were able to introduce optical nonlinearities to the system that enable a signal mixing output that was otherwise zero.
“Our system turns on from zero to extremely large values, and hence has perfect contrast, as well as large modulation and on/off ratios,” Agarwal said. “Therefore, for the first time, we have an optical device with output that truly resembles an electronic transistor.”
With one of the key components coming into focus, the next steps toward a photonic computer will involve integrating them with optical interconnects, modulators, and detectors in order to demonstrate actual computation.
Agarwal Lab members Ming-Liang Ren, Jacob S. Berger, Wenjing Liu and Gerui Liu all contributed to the research.
This research was supported by the US Army Research Office through grants W911NF-11- 1–0024 and W911NF-12-R-0012–03, and the National Science Foundation through a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center seed grant, award number DMR11–20901. Nanofabrication and electron microscopy characterization was carried out at Penn’s Singh Center for Nanotechnology.
Evan Lerner Writer
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Sigvatr Þórðarson (Sigv)
11th century; volume 1; ed. Judith Jesch;
1. Víkingarvísur (Víkv) - 15
2. Nesjavísur (Nesv) - 15
3. Austrfararvísur (Austv) - 21
4. Óláfsdrápa (Óldr) - 1
5. Vestrfararvísur (Vestv) - 8
6. Poem about Erlingr Skjálgsson (Erl) - 1
7. Flokkr about Erlingr Skjálgsson (Erlfl) - 10
8. Tryggvaflokkr (Tryggfl) - 1
9. Poem about Queen Ástríðr (Ást) - 3
10. Knútsdrápa (Knútdr) - 11
11. Erfidrápa Óláfs helga (ErfÓl) - 28
12. Lausavísur (Lv) - 30
II. Bersǫglisvísur (Berv) - 18
Skj info: Sigvatr Þórðarson, Islandsk skjald, o. 995-o. 1045 (AI, 223-75, BI, 213-54).
1. Víkingarvísur
2. Nesjavísur
3. Austrfararvísur
4. En drape om kong Olaf
5. Vestrfararvísur
6. Et kvad om Erlingr Skjalgsson
7. Flokkr om Erlingr Skjalgsson
8. Tryggvaflokkr
9. Et digt om dronning Astrid
10. Knútsdrápa
11. Bersǫglisvísur
12. Erfidrápa Óláfs helga
13. Lausavísur
14. Et par halvvers af ubestemmelige digte
Sigvatr or Sighvatr Þórðarson (Sigv) is said (ÍF 27, 54) to have been the son of Þórðr Sigvaldaskáld ‘Poet of Sigvaldi’, an Icelander who served, in succession, Sigvaldi jarl Strút-Haraldsson, leader of the Jómsvíkingar, his brother Þorkell inn hávi ‘the Tall’, who campaigned in England, and Óláfr Haraldsson, later king of Norway (r. c. 1015-30) and saint. Þórðr is listed as one of Sigvaldi’s skalds in Skáldatal (SnE 1848-87, III, 259, 268), but none of his poetry survives. The family tradition of poetry can also be traced in Óttarr svarti ‘the Black’, said to have been Sigvatr’s sister’s son (ÍF 27, 144; ÓH 1941, I, 203). Sigvatr was brought up by a certain Þorkell, at Apavatn in south-west Iceland. When nearly fully grown he sailed to what is now Trondheim, where he met up with his father and joined King Óláfr’s retinue. According to Snorri (ÍF 27, 54-6; ÓH 1941, I, 81-3), Sigvatr recited Lv 2-3 at this time, and he interceded with the king on behalf of Icelandic merchants forced to pay a heavy tax in Norway (cf. Sigv Lv 4). It is also likely that this is when Þórðr provided Sigvatr with the material for Víkv (see Introduction to Sigv Víkv), which may be the poem referred to in the prose introduction to Sigv Lv 2 (Fidjestøl 1982, 118). There is no evidence that Sigvatr ever returned to Iceland, and according to the anecdote in which Sigv Lv 11 is preserved, he died on the island of Selja in north-western Norway and was buried at Kristskirkja (Kristkirken) in Trondheim. His poetry records his various journeys to Sweden, England and the Continent, as well as incidents in Norway. We know nothing of Sigvatr’s private life, except that he had a daughter called Tófa, who had King Óláfr himself as her godfather (Sigv Lv 19).
Sigvatr’s surviving poetic oeuvre is both large and remarkably diverse, encompassing different kinds of encomia not only on King Óláfr (Sigv Víkv, Sigv Nesv, Sigv Óldr, Sigv ErfÓl), but also on King Knútr of Denmark (Sigv Knútdr) and the Norwegian nobleman Erlingr Skjálgsson (Sigv Erl, Sigv Erlfl). Sigvatr was godfather to King Magnús inn góði ‘the Good’ Óláfsson and composed some avuncular words of advice to the boy-king (Sigv BervII). All of these patrons are recognised in Skáldatal (SnE 1848-87, III, 252-4, 258, 260-2, 269), where Sigvatr is also credited with having composed for the Swedish king Ǫnundr Óláfsson (although no such poetry survives, cf. Sigv Knútdr 4/6) and the Norwegian chieftain Ívarr inn hvíti ‘the White’ (cf. Context to Sigv Lv 8). Sigvatr also composed a poem on the Norwegian pretender Tryggvi Óláfsson (Sigv Tryggfl) and is unique in having composed in dróttkvætt in praise of a woman, Óláfr Haraldsson’s widow Ástríðr Óláfsdóttir (Sigv Ást). Several of Sigvatr’s poems are more or less loosely connected sequences of stanzas rather than more formal compositions, and encompass both travelogue (Sigv Austv) and political commentary (Sigv Vestv, Sigv BervII). The latter genre is also well represented in his lausavísur, which also include some remarkably personal stanzas expressing his grief at the death of King Óláfr (Sigv Lv 22-4). Sigvatr’s status as a hǫfuðskáld ‘chief skald’ was recognised in the twelfth century (cf. Esk Geisl 12/8VII). His versatility as a poet has clearly inspired a number of anecdotes focusing on the composition of poetry, mostly of doubtful authenticity (cf. Contexts to Sigv Lv 1, 8, 11, 27; also Introduction to Ótt Hfl). Apart from two fragments preserved in SnE (Sigv Frag 1-2III), Sigvatr’s poetry is transmitted in a wide range of texts within the tradition of the kings’ sagas and is therefore edited in this volume or (in the case of the late Sigv Berv) in SkP II. For general studies of Sigvatr’s life and works, see Paasche (1917), Hollander (1940) and Petersen (1946).
Lausavísur — Sigv LvI
R. D. Fulk 2012, ‘(Introduction to) Sigvatr Þórðarson, Lausavísur’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 698.
Skj: Sigvatr Þórðarson: 13. Lausavísur (AI, 265-75, BI, 246-54); stanzas (if different): 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32
SkP info: I, 702
3 — Sigv Lv 3I
The following text is from a superseded edition and is not the work of the editor(s) named on this page. It is included for reference only. Do not refer to this site when using this text but rather consult the original edition (Skj where relevant).
Ek tók lystr né lastak
(leyfð íð es) þat síðan,
sóknar Njǫrðr, við sverði
sá's mínn vili - þínu;
þollr, fekt húskarl hollan
(hǫfum ráðit vel báðir)
látrs, en ek lánardróttin,
linns blóða mér góðan.
editions: Skj Sigvatr Þórðarson: 13. Lausavísur 3 (AI, 266; BI, 246); Skald I, 127, NN §671, Fms 4, 90, Fms 12, 78, ÓH 1853, 36, 263, ÓH 1941, I, 82 (ch. 38), Flat 1860-8, II, 39; Hkr 1777-1826, II, 46 (ÓHHkr ch. 41), VI, 74, Hkr 1868, 248 (ÓHHkr ch. 41), Hkr 1893-1901, II, 63, IV, 118, ÍF 27, 55, Hkr 1991, I, 287 (ÓHHkr ch. 43); Konráð Gíslason 1892, 35, 171, Jón Skaptason 1983, 185, 313.
Holm perg 2 4° (Holm2) 11v, 7 - 11v, 9 (ÓH)
UppsUB R 686x (R686x) 22v, 8 - 22v, 12 (ÓH)
Thott 972 folx (972x) 77va, 17 - 77va, 24 (ÓH)
Thott 972 folx (972x) 77vb, 19 - 77vb, 25 (ÓH)
AM 37 folx (J1x) 154v, 15 - 154v, 20 (ÓH)
AM 38 folx (J2x) 132r, 14 - 132r, 21 (ÓH)
AM 325 VI 4° (325VI) 9vb, 18 - 9vb, 22 (ÓH)
AM 321 4°x (321x) 49, 3 - 49, 6 (ÓH)
AM 73 a folx (73ax) 32r, 17 - 32r, 17 (ÓH)
AM 78 a folx (78ax) 29v, 1 - 29v, 9 (ÓH)
AM 68 fol (68) 10v, 19 - 10v, 21 (ÓH)
AM 61 fol (61) 83vb, 31 - 83vb, 33 (ÓH)
Holm perg 4 4° (Holm4) 3va, 1 - 3va, 6 (ÓH)
AM 325 V 4° (325V) 14va, 26 - 14va, 31 (ÓH)
AM 325 VII 4° (325VII) 4r, 40 - 4r, 42 (ÓH)
Holm perg 1 fol (Bb) 133va, 30 - 133va, 5 (ÓH)
GKS 1005 fol (Flat) 83ra, 10 - 83ra, 13 (ÓH)
GKS 1008 fol (Tóm) 101r, 13 - 101r, 15 (ÓH)
AM 325 XI 2 l 4° (325XI 2 l) 1r, 4 - 1r, 6 (ÓH)
AM 36 folx (Kx) 247v, 23 - 248r, 2 (Hkr)
AM 761 b 4°x (761bx) 300v, 13 - 300v, 20
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Sturla Þórðarson (Sturl)
13th century; volume 2; ed. Kari Ellen Gade;
1. Hrynhenda (Hryn) - 21
2. Hákonarkviða (Hákkv) - 42
3. Hrafnsmál (Hrafn) - 20
4. Hákonarflokkr (Hákfl) - 11
5. Drápa about Magnús lagabœtir (Magndr) - 2
IV. Lausavísur (Lv) - 4
IV. Þorgilsdrápa (Þorgdr) - 3
IV. Þverárvísur (Þverv) - 1
Skj info: Sturla Þórðarson, Islandsk skjald og historiker, 1214-84 (AII, 101-29, BII, 112-36).
1. Þverárvísur
2. Þorgilsdrápa
3. Hrynhenda
4. Hákonarkviða
5. Hrafnsmál
6. Hákonarflokkr
7. En drape om Magnús lagaböter
8. Lausavísur
The life of Sturla Þórðarson (Sturl) is chronicled in Sturlunga saga (Stu). He was born on 29 July 1214 as the second son of Þórðr Sturluson and his concubine Þóra, and he was the younger brother of Óláfr hvítaskáld Þórðarson (Ólhv). In his early years he spent much time with his uncle, the poet, historian and lawspeaker Snorri Sturluson (SnSt, d. 1241), and later he took an active part in the events that played out before and after the collapse of the Icel. Commonwealth. Sturla was lawspeaker in Iceland 1251-2 and lawman, appointed by the Norw. king, 1272-82. In 1263 he went to Norway where he met King Magnús lagabœtir ‘Law-mender’ Hákonarson (d. 1280). After an initially very cool reception, the king commissioned him to write the saga of Magnús’s father Hákon Hákonarson (d. 1264) and also that of Magnús himself. Sturla later became the retainer (hirðmaðr, skutilsveinn) of Magnús and brought the law code Járnsíða ‘Ironside’ from Norway to Iceland in 1271. The story of Sturla’s journey to Norway in 1263 and his dealings with Magnús is recounted in Sturlu þáttr (StÞ), preserved in a version of Stu. In addition to the sagas of Hákon Hákonarson (Hák) and the no longer extant saga of his son Magnús lagabœtir (only two leaves are preserved in AM 325 X 4°), Sturla is the author of Íslendinga saga (Ísls) and of a redaction of Landnámabók (Ldn, in AM 107 folˣ = Stˣ). Some scholars believe that he may have been responsible for the extant redaction of Kristni saga (Kristni) (see LH 1894-1901, II, 98-105, 717-43), and he is also mentioned as an informant by the author of Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar (Gr; see ÍF 7, 157, 226, 289). Like his uncle, Snorri, and his brother, Óláfr, Sturla was a prolific poet. According to Skáldatal (SnE 1848-87, III, 256, 260, 272, 279, 384-96), he composed poems in honour of the Norw. kings Hákon Hákonarson and Magnús lagabœtir Hákonarson, and also about the Swed. jarl Birgir Magnússon (d. 1266). Nothing is preserved of Sturla’s panegyrics to the latter, but two sts from his poetry to Magnús are recorded in Hák (see Magnússdrápa (Sturl Magndr) below). The bulk of Sturla’s poetic oeuvre about Hákon Hákonarson is interspersed with the prose in Hák: Hrynhenda (Sturl Hryn), Hákonarkviða (Sturl Hákkv), Hrafnsmál (Sturl Hrafn) and Hákonarflokkr (Sturl Hákfl). In addition to these encomia, Sturla composed poetry about events and dignitaries in Iceland: namely Þverárvísur (Sturl ÞvervIV) and Þorgilsdrápa (Sturl ÞorgdrIV), both of which have been edited in SkP IV. That is also the case with his lvv. (Sturl Lv 1-4IV). One fragment which earlier eds assigned to Hryn (earlier st. 22) has been edited in SkP III as Sturl FragIII. Sturla died on 30 July 1284 and was buried in the Church of S. Peter at Staðarhóll.
Hákonarkviða — Sturl HákkvII
Kari Ellen Gade 2009, ‘(Introduction to) Sturla Þórðarson, Hákonarkviða’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 699-727.
for reference only: 5x 9x 10x 25x
Skj: Sturla Þórðarson: 4. Hákonarkviða, 1263-64 (AII, 108-19, BII, 118-26); stanzas (if different): 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10-11 | 11 | 12-13 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28-9 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42
SkP info: II, 701
3 — Sturl Hákkv 3II
Cite as: Kari Ellen Gade (ed.) 2009, ‘Sturla Þórðarson, Hákonarkviða 3’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 701.
Hafði Kristr
of konungsefni
huliðshjálm
heilli góðu,
þá er allvalds
ór ófriði
frægðarson
fagnandi kom.
Kristr hafði huliðshjálm of konungsefni góðu heilli, þá er frægðarson allvalds kom fagnandi ór ófriði.
Christ placed a helmet of concealment over the royal heir, by good fortune, when the famous son of the mighty ruler emerged rejoicing from unrest.
editions: Skj Sturla Þórðarson: 4. Hákonarkviða 3 (AII, 109; BII, 119); Skald II, 63; E 1916, 474, F 1871, 390, Hák 1910-86, 297, Hák 1977-82, 4, Flat 1860-8, III, 6.
AM 47 fol (E) 140r, 27 - 140r, 28 (Hák)
AM 45 fol (F) 84vb, 5 - 84vb, 7 (Hák)
AM 42 folx (42x) 84r, 7 - 84r, 14 (Hák)
AM 81 a fol (81a) 65va, 9 - 65va, 11 (Hák)
Holm perg 8 fol (8) 34r, 12 - 34r, 13 (Hák)
GKS 1005 fol (Flat) 164rb, 62 - 164rb, 62 (Hák)
AM 761 b 4°x (761bx) 370v, 19 - 370v, 26 (Hákkv)
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PIA18039: Floodland
Target Name: Mercury
Mission: MESSENGER
Spacecraft: MESSENGER
Instrument: MDIS - Wide Angle
Produced By: Johns Hopkins University/APL
This image shows territory within Mercury's northern volcanic plains, a vast region that was flooded by eruptions of large quantities of highly fluid lava. The plains are relatively smooth, with some ghost craters and wrinkle ridges visible. The southern rim of the crater Egonu is at the very top corner of the image, and the southern and western portion of Monk crater is in the middle of the right top edge.
This image was acquired as part of MDIS's high-resolution surface morphology base map. The surface morphology base map covers more than 99% of Mercury's surface with an average resolution of 200 meters/pixel. Images acquired for the surface morphology base map typically are obtained at off-vertical Sun angles (i.e., high incidence angles) and have visible shadows so as to reveal clearly the topographic form of geologic features.
Date acquired: July 20, 2011
Image Mission Elapsed Time (MET): 219648850
Instrument: Wide Angle Camera (WAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS)
WAC filter: 7 (748 nanometers)
Center Latitude: 64.68°
Center Longitude: 61.54° E
Resolution: 143 meters/pixel
Scale: The edges of the scene are about 260 km (162 mi.) long
Incidence Angle: 73.4°
Emission Angle: 0.2°
Phase Angle: 73.5°
North is up in this image.
The MESSENGER spacecraft is the first ever to orbit the planet Mercury, and the spacecraft's seven scientific instruments and radio science investigation are unraveling the history and evolution of the Solar System's innermost planet. MESSENGER acquired over 150,000 images and extensive other data sets. MESSENGER is capable of continuing orbital operations until early 2015.
For information regarding the use of images, see the MESSENGER image use policy.
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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