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Green Dot Selects Vormetric to Secure Customer Data and Support Compliance Standards
Vormetric Data Protection and Encryption Solutions to Protect Cardholder Data and Support Adherence to Payment Card Industry (PCI) Requirements
BERKELEY, CA - October 10, 2006 - Retail Data Security Forum -- Vormetric, a leading provider of security solutions for protecting sensitive data from unauthorized access, announced today that Green Dot Corporation, America's leading provider of prepaid credit and debit cards and owner and operator of the Green Dot® Financial Network, has selected Vormetric's Data Protection Products to help protect sensitive cardholder data and enable compliance with PCI requirements. Vormetric's product was selected because it can be implemented quickly, is easy to use, and won't impact Green Dot network operations.
The PCI Data Security Standard is a multifaceted security standard that includes requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design and other critical protective measures. This comprehensive standard is intended to help organizations proactively protect customer account data. Implemented in late 2004, the standard has been adopted by all major payment card brands including Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club, and Discover.
Green Dot Corporation announced Sept 27, 2006 that the company successfully passed the rigorous standards and compliance audit as directed by the PCI DSS organization. The comprehensive audit, which encompassed over 200 requirements, validated that Green Dot Corporation is in full compliance with the stringent new industry-wide security standard and, as such, is following best practices for protecting highly sensitive cardholder account and transactional data.
Green Dot Corporation is America's leading provider of prepaid cards, with tens of thousands of retail locations nationwide selling its products. It is also the owner of the Green Dot® Financial Network, the largest domestic cash-acceptance network of its kind offering prepaid card reloading and other cash collection services to America's leading banks and financial services companies.
About Green Dot Corporation
Green Dot Corporation is America's first and largest provider of prepaid cards sold at tens of thousands of locations across the United States, including Rite Aid, CVS Pharmacy, RadioShack, and Walgreens. Green Dot Visa and MasterCard reloadable prepaid products offer customers the convenience of a debit card without the need for a credit check or bank account. The company also operates the Green Dot® Financial Network, among the nation's largest retail financial networks. The extensive network provides cash acceptance services such as prepaid card reloading and remittance cash collection at tens of thousands of locations. Privately held Green Dot is headquartered in Monrovia, Calif. Major investors include Sequoia Capital of Menlo Park, California and Total Technology Ventures, an affiliate of Synovus. For more information, visit www.greendotcorp.com.
Vormetric is the leader in data security management and enforcement solutions. Vormetric Data Security provides a centrally managed, high performance, easy-toimplement, distributed solution that solves the pressing compliance, security and risk management challenges facing today’s enterprises and government agencies. Vormetric’s application- and database-transparent solution outperforms other offerings to provide stronger and broader data security at a fraction of the management and implementation cost.
Vormetric’s more than 230 customers represent the world’s most trusted brands in financial services, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, media, energy and telecom industries as well as highly security conscious government agencies.
Vormetric technology has received strong market validation for its innovative approach to data security, including:
Selection by IBM as the core database encryption solution for DB2 and Informix on LinuxTM, Unix® and Windows
Computerworld Technology Innovation Award
Selection by Symantec to provide the Symantec Veritas NetBackupTM Media Server Encryption Option
Partnership with Oracle to secure the execution environment for Oracle® Database Vault
Five patents issued and nine patents pending
Vormetric is a trademark of Vormetric, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.
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School board decides on charters, Lafayette High
Performing arts academy moving; charter applications denied
School board decides on charters, Lafayette High Performing arts academy moving; charter applications denied Check out this story on theadvertiser.com: https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/2016/06/01/performing-arts-academy-change-locations/85238558/
Amanda McElfresh, amcelfresh@theadvertiser.com Published 7:53 p.m. CT June 1, 2016 | Updated 1:41 p.m. CT June 2, 2016
Lafayette High School(Photo: Amanda McElfresh, The Advertiser)Buy Photo
The Performing Arts Academy will move from Lafayette High to Comeaux High, beginning in 2017-18.
The Lafayette Parish School Board unanimously approved the change Wednesday night. It rejected all other proposed changes for Lafayette High, including moving the health careers academy, gifted services or changing its attendance zone.
Last year, the academy had 441 students. Chief Administrative Officer Joe Craig said 27.5 percent of them were zoned for Comeaux.
NEW INFO:Plans under way for Performing Arts Academy transition
Board member Justin Centanni said he was disappointed in having to make such a change but felt it was necessary to address facilities issues and Lafayette High’s large enrollment.
“If we move performing arts, we’re putting the programs at Lafayette High back to the way they were in 2008,” Centanni said. “It’s the smallest change that accomplishes our goal. It’s an opportunity to support a program and to let it grow, because it can’t grow where it is.”
BACKGROUND: Documentary pushes to keep LHS programs intact
Several Lafayette High teachers said they were concerned about a lack of performing arts space at Comeaux, particularly the fact that it does not have an auditorium.
Greg Robin, director of the performing arts academy, said the Lafayette High auditorium was used more than 200 times, often by academy students, last year. Some board members said they had figures that showed it was used less.
Craig, who spent 10 years as the Comeaux principal, said choir students there have used UL’s Angelle Hall and The Bayou Church on Kaliste Saloom Road for performances. Auditoriums also could be made available at other schools.
Lafayette High students Jade Hawkins, Kori Abshire, Maci Roberts, Armani Bailey, Erin Jacobs and Dhaija Smith rehearse for their production "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" Feb. 29, 2016. (Photo: Lee Celano, The Advertiser)
Robin said it is important for students to rehearse in the same space in which they will perform. Others said the district will have to pay transportation costs for academy students to use other facilities.
Superintendent Donald Aguillard said the board can allocate money for venue rentals but suggested that any major changes to Comeaux, or other campuses, might not happen without a new tax.
“There’s no easy solution to build an auditorium or to build out practice areas,” Aguillard said. “Long term, the answer would be this board would need to make a decision about the readiness of Lafayette to consider a bond proposition … We want the programs to have state-of-the-art facilities.”
In an unrelated matter, the board agreed to let the district apply to the state for a Type 4 charter school for non-traditional students. The application will be submitted this summer.
The board also rejected charter school applications from Athlos Academies and Jefferson Chamber Foundation Academies. Those operators can now appeal to the state education board for permission to open.
Board member Erick Knezek suggested the Lafayette board approve both applications, but with several conditions about their locations, enrollment, attendance zones and collaboration with the district. Representatives for Athlos and JCFA said they were willing to negotiate with the district, but a majority of board members opted not to move the applications forward.
RELATED: Athlos, JCFA make charter pitches to Lafayette board
Board Vice President Dawn Morris said it would be “an inherent conflict of interest” for her to approve the applications.
“I represent a public district. I really don’t believe that I can, in good conscience, vote to delegate some of my responsibilities to support a charter school,” Morris said.
The district-run charter school would completely be under the system’s control.
Aguillard said the idea is for a school similar to Lafayette Charter High, which closed in 2012. It would work with students who have dropped out, at risk of dropping out or do not succeed in traditional classrooms for other reasons. The goal is to open the school in 2017.
“Lafayette Parish is, I think, going to be noticed,” Aguillard said. “We are not abandoning these children. We are not sending them off somewhere else. We are taking responsibility for our students. We think we can educate children more effectively with the model we will develop over the next 12 months.”
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GROWING NEEDS
Ghana 2016 | AGRICULTURE | FOCUS: BOOSTING IN-COUNTRY FOOD PROCESSING
Ghana's steady economic growth over the last decade has fueled a new demand among the rising middle class for consumer-orientated food products such as poultry, beef, dairy, and prepared foods. Although these foods can be produced in Ghana, the scale of agricultural activity is yet to meet demand.
Food processing, naturally, plays a major role in Ghana's economy. Major food crops are maize, rice, millet, guinea corn, cassava, yam, and plantain (banana). Although production is widespread, it is on a very small scale, and does not even nearly meet local demand. Of course, there are a few exceptions, with companies like Blue Skies, which process fruit for export to European supermarkets, and large processing companies like Benso Oil Palm Plantation, Guinness Ghana Breweries, and Golden Web.
Over the years, the government has implemented policies incentivizing adding value to raw agricultural products; for example, the volume of cocoa beans processed locally has doubled over the last decade. However, with the falling price of cocoa, as well as timber and gold—Ghana's primary exports—the country has been forced to explore new markets and diversify its revenue stream.
Much work remains to be done. Ghana remains heavily reliant on imports and agricultural imports in 2014 totaled $1.8 billion, according to the UN Annual Exporter Derived Data. The main imports were rice from Thailand and Vietnam, and palm oil and sugar from Southeast Asia.
In 2013, Ghana's total exports valued $18.8 billion. In terms of agricultural products, 27% was from cocoa beans ($5.02 billion), 2.1% from cocoa paste ($391 million), 1.2% was from coconuts, brazil nuts, and cashews ($22.4 million), 0.37% was from tropical fruit ($68.5 million), and bringing up the rear was animal products, which made up 0.22% ($50.6 million). In comparison, Ghana imported $188 million worth of chicken in 2014.
So far, Ghana has been fairly successful in boosting export figures for pineapple and cashew nuts, as well as handicraft items and textiles. One of the main problems is that crop production lags behind the needs of agribusiness. The country is now prioritizing the development of strategies to boost productivity to meet rising local demand, reducing reliance on imports, and developing an environment for agribusiness.
One such strategy is the brainchild of Ghana's minister of food and agriculture and the US' deputy agriculture secretary. Numerous reports have highlighted the need for Ghanaian farmers to improve the health and quality of their poultry stock as a way of increasing income for the individual farmer and meeting local demand. In November 2015, the two announced a pair of Food for Progress agreements targeting agricultural development and trade within Ghana's poultry and soybean sectors.
The agreement will be affecting producer groups and operators to improve feed quality and veterinary services for chickens. As part of the initiative, the American Soybean Association will be tasked with educating producers on the importance of high-quality feed and improving the industry's capacity to test feed. The two agreements have a combined value of $58.1 million and will be operating over the next five years.
The problem, however, is larger than the reach of two initiatives. Underinvestment in agricultural inputs such as fertilizer, seed, and labor is driving low crop yields in Ghana. In many cases farmers and producers lack the capital necessary to purchase these inputs and strengthen the value chain.
There is a pressing need for processing companies along the whole food chain. Inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides run parallel with processing companies' need for raw agricultural products like maize, yams, cassava, palm oil, mangos, cashews, coconuts, and traditional vegetables like tomatoes and peppers. At the other end of the chain, there is a need for machine manufacturers to supply cold chain equipment, for example, and processors and manufacturers for packaging materials.
There are already some incentives in place, with a custom duty exemption for agricultural and industrial plant machinery. There are also tax rebates available for manufacturing industries located in regional capitals. As well as reducing unemployment figures, the government hopes that such incentives will encourage the private sector to come in and develop the infrastructure of an increasingly demanding nation.
Review: Diplomacy
In 2016, Ghana will again hold elections, as the nation approaches its 60th anniversary of independence.
HE John Dramani Mahama, President, Republic of Ghana
HE John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana, on the importance of sustainability development and making tough decisions.
Jacob Zuma, President, South Africa
TBY talks to Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa, on the relationship between South Africa and Ghana.
Focus: ECOWAS & Regional Stability
Stable & Willing
Ghana has proven itself as a bastion of stability in the region and is now leveraging its position to mediate in local crises.
Honorable Hanna Serwaah Tetteh, Ghana Minister, Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration
TBY talks to the Honorable Hanna Serwaah Tetteh, Ghana Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, on trade and security in the region and establishing ties with the EU.
Focus: Ebola
Despite no deaths due to Ebola being recorded in Ghana, the country is recovering from the serious social and economic impact that the virus has had.
What a Year
With commodity prices in the doldrums, chronic power outages, and an upcoming election, Ghana is enduring a slow year. But with solid indicators elsewhere, including promising non-oil data, the West African nation remains upbeat.
Hon. Seth E. Terkper, Minister, Finance
TBY talks to Hon. Seth E. Terkper, Minister of Finance, on dealing with the drop in commodity prices, investment areas, and targets for 2016.
Focus: IMF Deal
Cash Injectıon
In early 2015, the IMF committed $918 million to Ghana, a loan that is set to back growth and give the country some fiscal breathing space.
Togbe Afede XIV, CEO, SAS Finance Group and Strategic Initiatives Ltd
TBY talks to Togbe Afede XIV, CEO of SAS Finance Group and Strategic Initiatives Ltd., and President of Asogli State Council, on the business of creating business.
Prince Kofi Amoabeng, Group President, UT Holdings
TBY talks to Prince Kofi Amoabeng, Group President of UT Holdings, on businesses in the group, working in South Africa and Nigeria, and turning things around after a difficult 2015.
Focus: Diversifying the Economy
Loud & Clear
The government is looking to the private sector to drive growth and diversification as a means of fighting the negative effects of falling commodities revenues.
HE Hamad Buamim, President & CEO, Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry
TBY talks to HE Hamad Buamim, President & CEO of Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, on establishing an office in Accra, key sectors for investment in Ghana, and trade between the countries.
Alhassan Andani, Chief Executive, Stanbic Bank
TBY talks to Alhassan Andani, Chief Executive of Stanbic Bank, on the path to growth, achieving awarded recognition, and ensuring long-term success through innovation.
Hon. Kwabena Duffuor, President, Institute for Fiscal Studies
TBY talks to Hon. Kwabena Duffuor, President of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Former Minister of Finance, on expectations for the economy, reforms, and regulations.
Focus: Commercial Banks Increasing Interest Rates
Persistent inflation and macroeconomic instability have forced banking authorities to raise interest rates as a last resort strategy to right the course of Ghana's economic trajectory using monetary policy.
Review: Capital Markets
Limited gains made in the trading of equities on Ghana's stock exchange make fixed-income securities a central component of the country's capital markets.
Review: Insurance
Increased minimum capital requirements and talk of new compulsory lines will shape the development of Ghana's insurance sector over 2016.
Lydia Lariba Bawa, Commissioner of Insurance & CEO, National Insurance Commission (NIC)
TBY talks to Lydia Lariba Bawa, Commissioner of Insurance & CEO of the National Insurance Commission (NIC), on new regulations, penetration rates, and consolidation of the market.
Focus: Insuring the Oil Industry
The massive scale of Ghana's nascent oil and gas industry has posed a challenge to the country's insurance operators, requiring creative solutions to back the risk of highly valued energy firms.
Review: Energy
Ghana's nascent hydrocarbons industry offers up a wealth of opportunity if it can secure the necessary care and attention.
Anthony Nwosu, Managing Director, Baker Hughes Ghana
TBY talks to Anthony Nwosu, Managing Director of Baker Hughes Ghana, on the hydrocarbons sector in Ghana, local content, and JVs.
Gauthier Pourcelle, Country Manager, Technip Ghana
TBY talks to Gauthier Pourcelle, Country Manager of Technip Ghana, on the record-breaking development of Jubilee field and prospects for the future.
Focus: The Power Sector
Ghana is facing headwinds. The rising star of Africa's upward momentum has been weighed down by dumsor—the local name given to power outages that have steadily plagued the economy for the last three years.
Robert Kremer, Regional Coordinator - West Africa Region, Karpowership Ghana,
TBY talks to Robert Kremer, Regional Coordinator - West Africa Region of Karpowership Ghana, on how the firm's Powerships can provide energy solutions to countries like Ghana.
Hon. John Abdulai Jinapor, Deputy Minister, Power
TBY talks to Hon. John Abdulai Jinapor, Deputy Minister of Power, on facing Ghana's energy crisis, developing the role of natural gas, and financing energy projects through the capital markets.
Focus: Green Energy
Windfall Energy
Ghana is increasingly leveraging its environment to draw on renewable energy sources in meeting the growing demand for a reliable energy supply.
Review: Mining
Gold mining represents 95% of the country's mining sector, which is also the second largest producer of gold in Africa after South Africa.
Mawuena Trebarh, CEO, Ghana Investment Promotion Centre
TBY talks to Mawuena Trebarh, CEO of Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, on increasing the ease of doing business, cyclical instability, and the “Made in Ghana" campaign.
Focus: SME Potential
Scaling Heights
An overwhelming majority of businesses in Ghana fall into the SME segment, making specific approaches tailored to support smaller scales of economy a vital component of creating a viable economic vision.
Kate Quartey-Papafio, CEO, Reroy Group
TBY talks to Kate Quartey-Papafio, CEO of Reroy Group, on developing infrastructure, ECOWAS exports, and plans for 2016.
Subhi Accad, CEO, Accad Group
TBY talks to Subhi Accad, CEO of Accad Group, on the company's operations in Ghana, the gray market, and introducing new products and brands to the market.
Review: Telecoms & IT
Cable & Willing
Having been an early pioneer in internet services, Ghana is investing again to offer its citizens the best solutions in West Africa.
Russell Xu, CEO, Huawei Technologies (Ghana) S.A. Ltd.,
TBY talks to Russell Xu, CEO of Huawei Technologies (Ghana) S.A. Ltd., on the role the company is playing in Ghana and developing local staff.
Focus: Data Revolution
Stream Me Up, Scotty
Quick growth rates in an unsaturated market reveal the potential to drive economic development by expanding the availability of information and communication technology.
Focus: Alcatel Fiber-optic Program
Fiber Up
One of the earliest adopters of the internet is attempting to give its now insufficient network a boost via an extensive fiber backbone.
Torgbor Mensah, Executive Director, DDP Outdoor Ltd.
TBY talks to Torgbor Mensah, Executive Director of DDP Outdoor Ltd., on partnerships, client portfolio, and expansion on the continent.
Review: Transport
Move It on Over
Ghana's transport sector is undergoing a major overhaul, with the public-private model being utilized across various modes.
Hon. Joyce A. B. Mogtari,, Deputy Minister, Transport
TBY talks to the Hon. Joyce A. B. Mogtari, Deputy Minister for Transport, on the recognition of Ghana's excellence in port management, supporting economic growth, and the role of PPPs.
Charles Asare, Managing Director, Ghana Airports Company Ltd.
TBY talks to Charles Asare, Managing Director of Ghana Airports Company Ltd., on increasing aviation capacity, bringing an outside approach to the aviation sector, and resilience amid global challenges.
Focus: Air Travel
Boom Time
Ghana is gearing up for an expected travel boom, investing time and money to ensure its aviation infrastructure is ready for the load.
Maame Yaa Roberson, General Manager, TNT Western Express & Logistics Limited
TBY talks to Maame Yaa Roberson, General Manager of TNT Western Express & Logistics Limited, on expanding market share, bolstering capacity, and increasing competitiveness.
Review: Construction
While the government remains the main investors for infrastructure, transportation, schools, and hospitals, private investment in the construction sector is on the rise, particularly in the retail segment.
Nana Kwame Bediako, CEO, Petronia City Development
TBY talks to Nana Kwame Bediako, CEO of Petronia City Development, on the initial stages of large-scale project management, the progress of the Petronia City Development, and the outlook for 2016.
Focus: Solving the housing deficit
Affording More
Affordability is becoming a major driver in Ghana's real estate market. The construction sector has thus far failed to deliver rentable space for the majority of Ghana's housing needs and the government is calling on more to be done by the private sector.
Review: Real Estate
Beyond the Skyline
Ghana has experienced rapid urbanization, with people flocking to the cities in search of a higher standard of living.
Joseph Aidoo Jnr., CEO, Devtraco Plus Ltd.
TBY talks to Joseph Aidoo Jnr., CEO of Devtraco Plus Ltd., on the evolution of the company, targeting the country's high-end market, and plans for expansion.
Focus: Basic Infrastructure Projects & FDI
The Right Partners
Current infrastructure levels fail to meet Ghana's middle-income aspirations, but new financing options are set to ameliorate this dilemma.
Michel Ghajar, Operations Manager, Takoradi Flour Mill Ltd
TBY talks to Michel Ghajar, Operations Manager of Takoradi Flour Mill Ltd., on the current state of the milling sector, shifts in global ownership, and the challenges to operating in Ghana.
Focus: Boosting In-country Food Processing
Focus: Cocoa
Farmer's Friend
Ghana's cocoa production is a very streamlined operation. It is carefully managed because it is one of the most important export crops, accounting for over 8% of the country's GDP and employing over 30% of the population.
Dr. Yaw Adu Gyamfi,, Founder/CEO, Danpong Group & Danadams
TBY talks to Dr. Yaw Adu Gyamfi, Founder/CEO of Danpong Group & Danadams, on pharmaceutical production, exports, and HIV prevention.
Ghana's universities are on a path to becoming a regional leader in higher education, attracting tens-of-thousands of students from neighboring countries while making an important contribution to GDP.
Professor Ernest Aryeetey, Vice-Chancellor, University of Ghana
TBY talks to Professor Ernest Aryeetey, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, on the growth and development of the institution and how it can work with industry.
Focus: Education Projects Portfolio
Dancing to the Algorithm
Ghana's education portfolio is made up of a range of public and private partnerships, and also enjoys substantial and targeted support from international agencies.
Review: Tourism
A dynamic engagement in promotional activities abroad has increased awareness of Ghana as a destination, both for African and international tourists.
Hon. Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare, Minister, Tourism, Culture, and Creative Arts
TBY talks to Hon. Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare, Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Creative Arts, on air traffic, the National Tourism Development Plan, and the private sector.
Photo Essay: Kakum National Park
Kakum National Park is one of Ghana's most popular destinations and offers plenty to those willing to make the trek.
Review: Doing Business
Rules of Play
Ghana's rich natural resources and the strong technical capacity of its local workforce make the country an ideal location for companies looking to establish operations in the West African market.
AB&David outlines Ghana's legislative framework and highlights the nuances of doing business in the country.
Review: Accountancy
The Lay of the Land
KMPG Ghana runs through all the details an investor will need to know about the business environment and the tax setup, as well as sector-specific details.
Blessed Rains
The agriculture industry is one of the largest in Ghana. With new government initiatives the sector is poised to transform the economy.
Million Dollar Marketing
TBY talks to Michel Ghajar, Operations Manager at Takoradi Flour Mill, on a new marketing strategy, export growth, and attracting investment to agribusiness in Ghana.
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Fun at the Fair for Hollyrood's 20th Anniversary
Autism and learning disabilities
Hollyrood
Service users at Hollyrood, our residential support service for people on the autism spectrum in Lindfield, invited friends, family and staff to celebrate their 20th birthday on 17 August. Fun included a circus skills workshop, tea cup ride, singer, hook a duck and ice cream.
Service Manager Rachel Priestly said: “What an incredible day it has been, I am proud to support the service users and their families at Hollyrood and cannot thank the staff enough for their time in setting up and organising this event. Special thanks go to the Rapid Relief Team who provided the BBQ and drinks, and MoniCakes who donated our birthday cake (both pictured). We couldn’t put on these types of events without the support and donations of the local community. Our service users and their families have had a truly magical (if not very tiring) day”.
Chief Executive and fellow guest Irene Sobowale also commented: “It was a wonderful day - service users, staff and guests all had a brilliant time and even the weather held out for us! The staff at our Hollyrood service and support teams from across the rest of The Disabilities Trust did a great job organising the event, a special mention and thank you to all the local businesses who were able to support us as we celebrated Hollyrood’s 20th Birthday.”
Take a look at some of the highlights of the day in the photos below.
Service users cut the cake (kindly donated by MoniCakes in Burgess Hill) along with service manager Rachel Priestley and Chief Executive Irene Sobowale.
Entertainment included circus skills such as juggling.
The giant bubbles were a huge hit!
Everyone enjoyed having a go with the Hula Hoops.
The fairground came to Hollyrood for the day in the form of a teacup ride.
Many thanks to Rapid Relief Team for putting on a delicious BBQ!
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The incredible canyon's of Turkey that will make your head spin!
Canyons are natural formations that are a result of the change of river currents and the erosion of gigantic rocks over the centuries… Let's discover the world's deepest or longest head-spinning canyons of Turkey. These breathtaking canyons, as can tell by the pictures, are not for the faint hearted. Prepare to feel the breadth and sublimity of nature in the face of these süblime canyons!
1. The world's deepest and most challenging canyon to cross; Valla Canyon
Valla Canyon, which is accessed via the Kanlıçay area of the Muratpaşa village in the city of Kastamonu's Pınarbaşı district stretches 12 kilometres toward Cide. One of the deepest and longest canyons in the world, Valla Canyon has cliffs varying between 800-1200 metres height. These incredible features draw in photograğhy, rafting and trekking enthusiasts from across the globe. Valla Canyon also boasts numerous trails for those interested in extreme mountaineering. We must emphasize that the canyon is a bit dangerous. You will need to acquire permission for every activity you embark on; Note that it is best to visit with a guide, although you can explore the canyon on your own. Discover the canyon as you train whilst learning and improving rope landing and water combat techniques. After you have made the most of your Valla Canyon adventure, make sure to explore Kastamonu, one of the most beautiful cities in the Black Sea region. To find out more about Kastamonu, take a look at our discovery guide.
2. Famous for rafting; Köprülü Canyon
The miracle of the nature Köprülü Canyon is declared as a National Park in which the Köprüçay River passes. The 1 kilometre long canyon with walls that stretch up to 100 metres long is the longest canyon in Turkey. Activities you can participate in vary from section to section. The activities on offer range from rafting, nature treks, mountaineering and nature observations. If you want to sit out the action, you can find a peaceful spot and enjoy the views. There are camping sites and bungalow accommodations within the national park for those looking to stay for longer periods. Make sure to check our Antalya discovery guide before your visit.
3. Stumble across Tazı Canyon
Not everyone is brave enough to look down from a 200-400 cliff drop! Some daring individuals have embarked upon this enthralling journey and had the pleasure of chancing upon the Tazı Kanyon. Köprülü Kanyon's reputation is yet to be exceeded, but nonetheless has been drawing an abundance of visitors. You can go rock climbing, take photos and camp to your heart's content at the Tazı Kanyon. When rock-climbing watch out for sharp-edged rocky cliffs. On nature walks you may come across wild goats, rabbits, rock pigeons and eagles. Book a flight to Antalya to reach Tazı Canyon.
4. Famous for narrow and steep submerged areas; Saklıkent Canyon
Saklıkent Canyon, one of Turkey's best canyons, lies on the Muğla border within the Seydikemer district of Antalya. It also had an interesting story behind it. The Canyon was discovered by a shepherd in the 1980s. It is estimated that the canyon is the result of a geographical cracking that took place thousands of years ago, 18 kilometres in length and 200-600 metres in height depending on the region. Saklıkent is such a unique place as in some parts the rock gaps narrow up to 2 metres, making it almost impossible to view the sky from within. The first sight you are greeted by at Saklıkent Canyon is the stream. Follow the wooden boards of the iron pier to reach the pristine clean waters that will splash you along the way. Rest on the seating areas built above the canyon waters, and feast on gözleme (Turkish pancakes) and trout whilst bathing you feel in brisk ice-cold water. Or you can explore the hidden paradises within the canyon or go rafting on the exuberant waters. For an incredible adventure, book a flight to Dalaman.
5. Where history meets nature; Arapapıştı Canyon
The Arapapıştı Canyon (İnceğiz Canyon), was formed by the erosion of Akçay which winds off into AfyonKemer Dam. 380 metres high, 6 kilometres long, this canyon is the perfect synthesis of nature and history. The Arapapıştı Canyon boasts caves, a monastery, and ruins and rock cemeteries. Please note: for more historical adventures you can visit the ancient cities surrounding destination. Book a flight to Denizli to visit the ancient sites and Arapapıştı Canyon. Don't forget to explore Arapapıştı by boat or canoe, accompanied by herons and cormorants. Climb the hill to enjoy the incredible views of Arapapıştı Canyon.
6. World-leading length; Ulubey Canyon
Ulubay Canyon, located in Uşak is one of the longest canyons in the world. It comes in second as the longest canyon in the world with a length of 77 kilometres, after the Grand Canyon in the USA. The canyon is known to have formed about 500 years with the collapse of the Büyük Menderes graben. The canyon stretched up to 140-170 metres high with a width varying from 100-500 metres. The canyon consists of a main canyon and dozen of side canyons attached. The rocks formed by wind and water erosion, the funnel-shaped karstic hills and terrace-shaped Wall structure are breathtaking to observe. Ulubey Canyon can be reached by dirt road or by foot. During certain periods, you can participate in water sports at Banaz creek or go rock climbing. If you plan on an extended exploration, stay at a bungalow in Uşak city center or close to the canyon. You can also set up a tent on the hills overlooking the canyon. Take a look at the Uşak discovery guide if you feel like exploring Uşak after discovering Ulubey Canyon.
7. A canyon you can discover fully on foot; Saklıkapı
Saklıkapı Canyon, which begins at the Karakaya Dam Lakeshore and runs along the 2.5 km long line between Baskil and Keban districts of Elazığ, is a Canyon that was discovered by sheer luck. Many visitors have been drawn in recent years to the height that ranges from 20-200 metres, witch karstic formations shrinking to half a meter along with the variety of different plants on display. The most distinctive feature is that the canyon can be scaled by foot. Karaleylek Canyon, within the vicinity of Saklıkapı Canyon, is a frequented place boasting steep cliffs, karstic cave formations and historical cave settlements. Reach these two canyons by booking a flight to Elazığ and view the million year old fossils on your trek.
8. One of the best canyons in the world; Cehennem Creek
Cehennem Creek is situated near Artvin and lies within the district of Ardanuç. It is amongst of the best canyons in the world with mountain heights of up to 500 metres, 70 metres in width and 6 metres in depth. Get ready for a challenge, as there are narrow roads and stony, steep paths ahead! There are plenty of places to explore, starting with the highlands of Artvin. Check the Artvin discovery guide.
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Claire Danes is an American actress. She is the recipient of three Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Danes gained early recognition as Angela Chase in the 1994 teen drama series My So-Called Life. The role won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. In 2012, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Claire Catherine Danes
Birthday / Date of Birth
Claire Danes was born on April 12, 1979, in Manhattan, New York, United States.
She’s currently 40 years old.
West Village, Manhattan, New York, United States
Danes went to Dalton School and New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies in New York City. She also attended Professional Performing Arts School and the Lycée Français de Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. In 1998, Danes began studies at Yale University to major in psychology but she dropped out to focus on her film career.
Father – Christopher Danes (Computer consultant and former architectural photographer)
Mother – Carla (née Hall) Danes (Day-care provider, textile designer and painter)
Siblings – Asa Danes (Older Brother) (b. 1973) (Corporate Lawyer)
Boyfriend / Spouse
Claire Danes has dated –
Andrew Dorff (1997) – Claire briefly dated vocalist, Andrew Dorff in 1997.
Ben Lee (1997-2003) – Australian singer, Ben Lee and actress Danes met for the first time during a birthday party in 1997. They started dating after their first meeting only. She had a 6-year long relationship with Ben. They finally separated in 2003 as Claire Danes found Billy.
Billy Crudup (2004-2006) – Actor Billy and Claire were romantically linked for three years from 2004 to December 2006. Billy left his pregnant girlfriend Mary-Louise Parker for Danes. Billy, who is 11 years older than Claire ended his relationship with her, when it came into light that Claire is cheating on him with her Evening (2007) co-star Hugh Dancy.
Hugh Dancy (2007-Present) – Since 2007, Claire is in a relationship with English actor Hugh Dancy. After commencing dating in 2007, the pair engaged in February 2009 and married in early September 2009 in France in a secret ceremony. Claire gave birth to their first child a son named, Cyrus Michael Christopher Dancy (b. December 17, 2012).
Physical Statistics
In feet – 5 feet 5½ inches
In centimeters – 166 cm
In meters – 1.66 m
In Kilograms – 54 kg
In Pounds – 119 lbs
Measurements – 34-23-34
Bust – 34 inches
Waist – 23 inches
Hip – 34 inches
Bra Size – 32D
Body Build
She wears a size 8 (US) shoe.
Her dress size is 4 (US).
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In 1995, she appeared in How to make an American Quilt and she was also got the lead role as Juliet, with Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet, in 1996.
Film Debut
She debuted with 1994 American drama film Little Women for her role as Beth March.
In 1992, Claire guest appeared in police procedural drama series Law & Order for her role as Tracy Brandt in an episode titled Skin Deep.
Brand Endorsements
She had participated in Gucci’s jewelry ad campaign in 2008 and Casio (2013).
Claire Danes Favorites
Favorite Books – Grace: A Memoir by Grace Coddington
Favorite Movies – Fargo (1996), Footloose (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985)
Favorite Fashion Designers – Alexander McQueen, Narciso Rodriguez, Zac Posen
Favorite Place – Montauk, New York
Claire Danes Net worth
Claire Danes has a estimated net worth of $25 million dollars as of 2019.
Instagram – clairedanes
Some Lesser Known Facts About Claire Danes
Danes started studying dance when she was six years old.
She started acting at the age of 12.
She likes surfing, gymnastics and dancing.
Her first major breakthrough was in the hit television drama series, My So Called Life as Angela Chase. She was nominated for numerous awards and won the prestigious Golden Globe Award for role in this series.
She is good friends with actor and musician Jason Schwartzman.
In 1994, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for the series, My So Called Life. .
In 1996, she won the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards for Favorite Actress as Juliet is Romeo + Juliet.
In 1997, Danes wrote an introduction to Neil Gaiman’s Death: The Time of Your Life.
She has two pets- a poodle dog named Ouija and a cat named Fifi-Champion.
Actress Morena Baccarin was her classmate at NYC Lab School for Collaborative Studies.
She was first considered for the title role in Lolita (1997), which was later given to Dominique Swain.
Claire also auditioned for the role of Rose in the film Titanic (1997). She was also in the top list for that role but again this role was finally offered to Kate Winslet, which she accepted.
In 2010, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for Temple Grandin.
In 2011, she returned to the world of television with another hit American series, Homeland where she played the role of a CIA agent.
In January 2012, Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals named Danes their 2012 Woman of the Year.
In 2012, Danes’s audiobook recording of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale was released at Audible.com. Her performance won the 2013 Audie Award for fiction.
In 2013, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for the series, Homeland.
In 2015, Danes was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In March 2016, Danes performed in Dry Powder by Sarah Burgess at The Public Theater, starring alongside John Krasinski, Hank Azaria and Sanjit De Silva.
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Continuity of Operations Plan
Section I: Acronyms
Section II: Purpose and Objectives
Section III: Authority
Section IV: Situations and Assumptions
Section V: Concept of Operations
Section VI: Assignment of Responsibilities
Section VII: Direction and Control
Section VIII: Administration and Support
Section XI: Attachments
Section X: References
Section IX: Plan Maintenance
Section XII: Annexes
The University President, an assigned Vice President, UH Police Sergeant/Officer assigned to UHV’s Public Safety and Security, and the UHV Campus Emergency Management are responsible for establishing objectives and guidance for emergency management, response, and recovery operations during any incident which may require the activation of the University of Houston-Victoria site established as the Emergency Management location for the event. In addition, individual departments and units are responsible for having their own department level response plans.
Executive Operations Team (EOT)
The Executive Operations Team (EOT) is comprised of the University President and Vice Presidents of the President’s Cabinet and can be viewed in Attachment #1.
During a campus emergency, the EOT’s responsibilities include:
Making recommendations to the University President regarding campus closure/cancellation of classes
Making recommendations to the University President regarding campus response/recovery efforts in the event of a campus-wide emergency
Providing resources and information to stabilize the campus incident as quickly as possible when requested through the University Incident Commander (UIC) and members of the UHV’s assigned Emergency Management Team.
Approving the request of additional external resources to stabilize a campus incident
Tracking and requesting status reports on various activities that have been initiated and the resources that have been mobilized for information and guidance
If a campus emergency is declared, additional members of the EOT may be requested to assemble at a location designated by the President or the Vice President in consultation with the University Incident Commander and/or the UHV Emergency Manager.
A staging area will be announced by the Emergency Manager or a designee to assemble the EOT at a safe location.
Emergency Management may coordinate with local emergency response personnel depending on the class of emergency and the resources required for successful operations.
The UHV Office of Emergency Management
May act on behalf of the University as the University Incident Commander (UIC) or as delegated by the authority from the UHV President and/or the Vice President
Will establish objectives and priorities for emergency management programs for the University
Provides general procedures and guidance information to the Executive Operations Team and to UHPD-UHV and Security or designee
Manages the activation of the campus UHV-EOC
Has primary responsibility for “command and control” functions of the OEM or may provide a transfer of command to any other well qualified individual.
Monitors emergency response actions during an event, incident or disaster and provides command and direction to all members of the campus UHV-EM.
Assists in the coordination of recovery efforts, if required.
Prepares and maintains the EMP and its supporting guidelines.
May initiate the coordination efforts to activate the UHV Business Continuity Plan.
University Incident Commander (UIC)
University Incident Commander Purpose and Responsibilities
Determines the level of the incident and impact to the campus and ability to contain the incident.
Possesses the requisite authority to make quick decisions regarding the incident.
Designates Command and General Staff, as needed for the incident.
Is delegated full authority by the University President to oversee the command and control of the incident.
Is fully trained in NIMS, ICS functions and certifications that will qualify the UIC for that position
The University Incident Commander (UIC) may respond to any campus incident. Any of the following trained campus individuals may be designated as the UIC:
Local Chief of Police- Or his or her delegate
Local Fire Chief- Or his or her delegate
UH-Police Designee
Any other well qualified and trained individual who may be charged with the operations of the campus UHV-EM
The UIC in conjunction with the campus emergency incident Command and General Staff may be required to report to the primary designated area for emergency operations.
UIC and staff assigned to emergency management events are required to be trained with a minimum certificate completion in specific NIMS and ICS courses.
Ride-Out Team
There are some university functions that should remain operational during an emergency event. Critical infrastructure components to the university’s function, such as utility service and computing and telecommunication equipment may be rendered inoperable by an emergency event. Therefore, if a failure occurs, continuity and recovery plans must be developed to assure prompt restoration of services. Since emergencies may preclude access to the campus because of circumstances such as campus operations needed to continue essential tasks and affect a rapid restoration of critical infrastructure, components immediately following the disaster will be designated as ride-out team members.
Ride-out team(s) will only include those essential personnel for the short period of time until access to campus is expected to be restored. University operations that are not essential during the period of time when the campus is inaccessible (not expected to exceed 48-hours) shall not be included as ride-out team personnel.
Departmental ride-out team procedures will include the specifics of reporting locations, responsibilities of individuals, operational procedures, and needed supplies and materials. Since the Ride-Out Team will be on campus during the emergency event, it is important that they be located in a safe location. The departmental ride-out procedures will specify the locations of operations as well as shelter and sleeping locations. These locations must be identified by the Director of Emergency Management and/or the University Incident Commander and coordinated through the UHV-EOC.
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The 1980 Tour Vienna & Visage
For the first time in the 40 years since it was made, Midge Ure and Band Electronica will perform the ‘Vienna’ album in its entirety at the Ulster Hall, Belfast.
At the end of the 1970s momentous change was afoot in Britain and the world – in society, politics, fashion and culture – and the musical landscape was also about to change forever. The guitar-driven dominance that had propelled rock and punk throughout the decade was about to end, as synthesizers signalled the sound of the future and video transformed the look of the pop charts. The 1980s were about to explode into life and nothing would be the same again.
At the heart of this seismic leap into a futuristic new dawn were two records that set the template for much of what was to follow. Visage’s single Fade To Grey from the band’s debut eponymous album and Ultravox’s single Vienna from the album of the same name were global hits that shared the same stark ambience, European aesthetic and electronic heart.
The albums that birthed those landmark singles expanded that sonic palette even further and brought the art-school alternative into the very centre of the mainstream.
Both records were co-written, recorded and produced by one of the leading characters in British music, Midge Ure, and not only transformed the charts around the globe but his life in the process.
“Autumn 1979 was a pivotal point in my career trajectory,” Midge Ure explains. “Over the previous two years I had grown from ‘pop band’ (Slik) to ‘post punk band’ (The Rich Kids) to being a stand in guitarist for Thin Lizzy. Over the course of autumn into winter 1979, while working on the Visage project with Billy Currie, I was invited to join Ultravox. The work we did that winter on the Vienna album was an exhilarating rush of creativity the likes of which I had never experienced before.
“Forty years later I want to celebrate this period and as we pass from 2019 into 2020 play the Vienna album in its entirety along with highlights from the eponymous Visage album. Join me and my Band Electronica celebrating the year of release for both the Vienna and Visage albums...1980."
It's set to be a show not to miss. Book your tickets now to Midge Ure at Ulster Hall!
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Donald Trump yells out to the media from the steps of the clubhouse of Trump National Golf Club November 19, 2016 in Bedminster, New Jersey.By DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images.
Earlier this week, longtime Donald Trump critic George Conway, the husband of senior White House adviser Kellyanne, tweeted a series of screenshots from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and warned that “all Americans should be thinking seriously now about Trump’s mental condition and psychological state, including and especially the media, Congress—and the Vice President and Cabinet.” And on Wednesday, the president did his best to prove Conway’s point, re: him being clinically insane.
After calling the conservative attorney “a total loser!” the day prior, Trump woke up on Wednesday morning and decided the best use of his time would be to tweet this:
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As a reminder, this man’s official title is president of the United States, and not, as his online ravings would suggest, Chairman of the Shithouse-Mouse Council. Setting aside the obvious irony of Trump—who reportedly cheated on Wife No. 1 with Wife No. 2, and Wife No. 3 with a porn star—lecturing anyone about how to be a good husband, it’s not at all clear what his perpetually addled brain is trying to imply here. Did Kellyanne Conway secretly tell Trump not to give her husband a Justice Department job that he’s said he was offered and turned down? Did Conway and Trump collude to disappear George’s résumé? As usual, no one can understand what he’s actually talking about, and someone should probably call a doctor.
Update: Later on Wednesday, Trump respondedto reporter Karen Travers’s question about how his attacks on Conway fit in with Melania’s anti-bullying campaign by saying: “He’s a whack job,” adding that George Conway is “doing a disservice to a wonderful wife. I call him Mr Kellyanne Conway. She’s a wonderful woman.”
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3D Geo-referenced Digital Built & Legal Environment (3D Geo-DBLE)
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Virtual Australia & New Zealand Initiative (VANZI)
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The Opportunities and Challenges of Digitalisation across the Natural and Built Environment
The report by Simon Carter: CROSSING THE THRESHOLD - a primer for sustainable digitalisation in real estate and cities - provides a straightforward and incisive overview of the opportunities and challenges that we face as new technologies converge to change every aspect of our lives.
It reinforces the findings of our 3D Qld Road Map Report Part A which identified $billions of benefits, but also existential risks arising from the use of emerging technologies within the built environment
The impacts are not simply within the 'property sector' but across society in general as the human species shifts from living in a purely physical world to one that seamlessly encompasses both the physical and the virtual.
World 1.0 was physical, analogue and
powered by the light of the sun.
Over the last century we have been moving to
World 2.0, a seamless combination of:
Physical and Virtual
Analogue and Digital
Powered by Light and Electricity
From Torrens Title System to the Digital Built Environment:
Realising the Opportunities and Responding to the Challenges
Australia brought the Torrens Title System to the world, and now stands poised to create the first Digital Built Environment incorporating property titles (and other legal and contractual boundaries) as the legal spatial context for decision-making across all sectors of the economy.
VANZI has brought together a National Workgroup of 80+ people to develop the Governance Framework for the Digital Built Environment. Its purpose is to promote privacy, security and trust in the Digital World. Current Draft is here
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You are free to copy and communicate this content, as long as you attribute it as follows: © VANZI
What is the Digital Built Environment (DBE)?
An authorised, federated, secure, certified 3D Data Set, that enables users to model the Natural and Built Environment - using any software, hardware and portal of their choice.
'Federated' simply means the DBE is made up of separate data sets each under the control of different owners and government agencies that can be securely integrated to form a complete 3D computer model of all of the modelled objects in their spatial context.
Ultimately, it will encompass models of every relevant object at all scales required for decision-making (both inside and outside, above and below ground), from Wide-area Topography, to Cityscape, Building, Plant Room, Piece of Equipment, to an individual Part
It will also include all geo-references to precisely locate each virtual object in its real-world context, as well as all 'rights boundaries' that link to all statutory, common law and contractual entitlements, together with all administrative and statistical boundaries.
Importantly, every model will need to be sectioned so that each part (and the data associated with it) can be accessed according to the rights boundaries that are embedded in it.
A new Governance Framework is being drafted that would provide new rights in the DBE, without detracting from any existing rights.
Under the proposed Governance Framework, as far as possible, the legal entitlements in each 'authorised' virtual property in the DBE will mirror those that apply to the real property that it represents.
While there will be countless virtual models, the objective is that DBE be the specific data set, 'authorised in law', for all property-related activities. At some point, Federal Legislation will likely be required to ensure common terms across all States and Territories.
In the meantime, we are working to develop a set of guidelines that can be adopted voluntarily on the basis of the benefits and protections afforded by the Governance Framework.
It will enable us to zoom from 'outer space', to a city, through its streets to a specific building and, if authorised, to enter it and see, not only all its internal spaces, but all its hidden features inside the walls and underground - as if x-rayed.
Importantly, it will also give access to all legal entitlements relating to the property...
All without searching through different organization's paper and electronic files.
Enabling better, faster planning, design & construction, (on some evidence up to 80% quicker) - so we do it once right in the Real World - providing potentially $billions in productivity savings.
With life-time operating and maintenance costs often double the construction cost, the total benefits are expected to be $billions more - generated through the on-going use of the model for facility management of every building, and to support emergency services, finance, insurance, real estate and other property-related services.
A key benefit is the ability to embed designer's copyright, manufacturer's warranty and authority certification, as well as fitment and operating videos within each virtual object - all just a mouse click away.
In time, 3D models will enable large building modules to be manufactured off-site, with 'augmented reality' laser guided assembly on-site. As well, 3D models will guide machines now being developed to 'print' structures on-site using sand and new binding agents. As techniques improve, greater flexibility will enhance designs to be more beautiful, functional and sustainable, while delivering huge time, cost and quality benefits.
With Dynamic 3D models we will be able to move to 'performance' based certification for resilience against earthquakes, fire and wind, as well as water penetration and thermal properties, light and sound, etc... allowing designers to confirm compliance on the fly.
Benefits will also include the use of DBE data as context for serious games, to simulate transport, energy and water flows, as well as the movement of people through our cities, to enhance productivity, livability and sustainability.
It is expected that the public data within the DBE (ie exterior views) should be made available without liability to third parties for 'value-add' location-based purposes - providing everyone with the same highest quality data.
Importantly, with everyone using the same base data, it means all users can help to continuously improve it, by feeding back discrepancies - regardless of which modelling software or access portal they use.
As 3D models become prevalent, internal location services for shopping centres, offices, factories and public buildings will add even more value.
Beyond its commercial and government benefits, DBE will enable every home owner to see their virtual house in its full spatial context, as well as the location of services, making it easier and cheaper to renovate.
In time, each owner will be able to use their own 3D model to test lighting and paint colours and then have painters quote off the model without having to visit your home, as well as to set out landscaping and see how it grows over the years in just a few minutes, and to trial decorations and furniture using 3D models from on-line retailers.
Ultimately, the DBE will include 3D models of all utilities and infrastructure, as well as government and commercial buildings and, in time, most private homes - with all spaces, services, structural elements, and fixtures and fittings at engineering scale.
Like the Real World, it will be built progressively - but much much faster.
In time, it is expected that 3D models will be required for all planning and approval purposes, at which point the approved model data would form part of the DBE.
Its development and operation will, in the main, be funded commercially.
Collectively, we now have the spatial and building modelling software, as well as the data collection, storage and communication technologies to deliver this vision.
In fact, some cities have already developed photo-realistic 3D 'surface' models down to 5cm scale, with more and more buildings also being designed at engineering scale using fully detailed 3D modelling software.
Individuals can even upload 2D photos of their home to a Cloud provider which will return a 3D model within hours ... for free.
With price performance improving at an exponential rate, all these technologies will only get better, cheaper and faster.
More and more properties are also being modeled in 3D for the purposes of sale, and asset and facility management.
It is realistic to expect that over the next 5-10 years, most government and commercial buildings will have their own 3D model.
How to securely store and integrate an ever growing number of differing data sets over the long term?
Ulitmately, these will number in the hundreds of millions, under the control of millions of different people: owners, lessees, property professionals and government personnel, etc. using many different software and hardware products and data formats.
A critical requirement is that the data must be maintained over the lifetime of each structure that the data models, as well as historical data, scenarios and plans - as the property changes, as interests in it change, and as software and hardware and data formats change and/or cease to be supported.
How to identify the data set to which the law applies for all property-related activities?
How to authenticate and authorise users, having regard to their statutory and contractual rights of access in the Real World?
How to 'lock' a specific 3D model against unauthorised change?
How provide certainity that a specific 'locked' 3D model is representative of a specific object within specific parameters?
How to certify the design, manufacture and approval terms within the 'locked' models?
How to provide simple mobile feedback systems under the control of owners and other authorised users - to ensure the DBE data is continually improved, as and when discrepancies are discovered in the field?
How to ensure all DBE data remains subject only to sovereign (Australian) law?
How to negotiate the minefield of freedom of information, privacy, copyright, licensing and liability issues to simplify access to and use of DBE Data across all jurisdictions?
VANZI is the 'not-for-profit' broker of the DBE, with all technical expertise provided by our collaborators.
VANZI has been working with stakeholders across the ‘property’ sector (including government and industry; the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) professions; finance and insurance; asset and facility management, through to sale and decommission, as well as technology providers), to understand and communicate:-
the capabilities of the new technologies to deliver the DBE vision
the benefits of doing so
the risks inherent in ad hoc integration of 3D models and sensors connected to our power, water, transport and telecoms grids...
To develop a way forward.
VANZI has run numerous workshops, and held its inaugural conference in Sydney on 13-14 May, 2013. The conference attracted some 135 speakers, delegates and sponsors from across the property sector, including:- owners, financiers and insurers; the AEC professions, research & academia, and all levels of government, as well as key technology providers who see value in taking a ‘national’ approach.
A similar conference was held on 15-16 September, 2014 with wide support from hundreds of participants.
In 2016, our CEO, Michael Haines, put together a team of domain experts, including ACIL Allen Consulting, that won the tender to write the Road Map for 3D Queensland (3DQld) based on wide consultation with stakeholders.
Michael was lead author of both the Part A Report (released by the 3D Qld Taskforce in April 2017), and the Part B Report (released in October 2018). Part A identified $billions of benefits to the Queensland economy and Part B set out the Road Map to develop 3D Qld.
DBE is not 'Proprietary'
The DBE also has nothing to do with 'harmonizing existing laws. It is simply a shorthand description for a new piece of 'infrastructure' (like our telecoms networks):
“the Authorised Federated Fully-integrated Secure 3D computer model of the natural and built environment (including inside and out of every structure and utility, above and below ground) on all scales required for decision making:(‘m’ for remote, ‘cm’ for cityscapes, ‘mm’ for buildings and ‘sub-0.1 mm’ for plant and equipment), together with 3D Cadastral and other legal and contractual boundaries that connect to all laws, regulations and contract terms relating to each property – with access based on the principle ‘rights in the virtual = rights in the physical’ ”.
It includes the requirement for every address, and administrative boundary of all Laws and Regulations (eg. water rights, planning and building codes, health and safety regulations, and environmental laws, etc) to be geo-refernced - enabling anyone to access the Rights, Responsibilities and Restrictions that pertain to any property (via the DBE), without the need to search.
DBE FRAMEWORK
This is being developed in consultation with a wide cross-section of stakeholders to help address the challenges faced in making DBE a reality.
It is the result of a growing collaboration across a new National Workgroup
It comprises ten Pillars:
3D Cadastral Model tied to Title that provides Identification and Authentication, with links to all Legal Entitlements relating to each and every property
Ten Fundamental 'Spatial' Data Sets provided through Government
3D Manufacturers' Models of every building component, ultimately including dynamic attributes such a fire resistence, resistence to earthquake, thermal & sonic properties, etc., 'locked' against unauthorised change
Processes to embed copyright, warranty and approving authorities certifications regarding design, manunfacture and approval within the 'locked' model that is itself certified to represent a specific object within specific parameters.
3D Building Information Modelling to detail every building & the processes to construct and manage it
3D Spatial Modelling of the natural and built environment, as the overall context for planning, design and location purposes
A highly secure Data Bank network that holds all 'Authorised' Model data 'in perpetuity' on behalf of the community
The Legal Framework that underpins the Data Bank network and provides certainty in Law regarding the Rights, Responsibilities and Restrictions applicable to the data held by the Data Banks
Software and dynamic algorithms to mimic behaviour of vehicles, equipment and people, as well as power, communications, gas, water and other fluids, and air/weather, etc.
Underpinning hardware, communications and mobile technologies, as well as satellite, aircarft, drone and vehicle remote sensing, such as: LIDAR and Ground Penetrating RADAR, as well as equipment sensors connected to our water, energy and transport grids for real-time monitoring
The Framework separates Data Storage and Access, from Data Generation and Data Modelling, with all elements operating on a 'commercial' basis.
It includes a network of Government and Commercial 'Data Banks' charged with holding DBE Data 'in perpetuity', regardless of changes in property ownership or technology. These would be networked into a secure web service that ties access to 'ownership' based on title in the property that the model represents - subject to the statutory and contractual rights of all other parties.
The Data Banks would be required to hold all data subject to a new uniform governance framework, ideally overseen by a single National Regulator (potentially in each country). Data could not be held offshore as that would put it at risk of being held subject to other nations laws.
Think of it like the traditional banking system, but instead of depositing and transacting data that represents your 'money', you will be able to deposit and transact data that represents your 'property'.
A key will be clearly defined and limited liability to third parties, with the focus on data correction systems across the network
Ultimately, we see the DBE interfacing with ePlanning and eConveyancing to provide a seamless workflow from start to end... so when you sell you property, you sell your rights of access to its DBE model too.
A Statement of Intention for the Governance Framework is here
Graphics covering the Key Elements and data flows are here
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A Governance Subgroup of 9 members was formed in September, 2018 to develop a draft of the Intent and Key Requirements of the Governance Framework and a Graphic of its main elements for consideration by the National Workgroup
If you would like to get involved please contact Michael Haines, CEO VANZI:
The National Workgroup was formed following a meeting on 26 Feb 2018, of 50 senior executives from across Australia (representing planning, surveying, engineering, architecture, costing, fabrication, construction, asset and facility management, real estate sales and marketing, and local government, together with a number of local and global technology providers). They met in Melbourne for a day to begin development of the Governance Framework for the Digital Built Environment (DBE).
This Communique from the 26 Feb Meeting explains the project in detail
Road Map for 3D Qld 2016-18
In 2016, a joint industry-government Taskforce issued a brief to write the Road Map for 3D Queensland (3D Qld), based in part on the VANZI/DBE vision.
Michael Haines (CEO VANZI) assembled the team of subject matter experts who were awarded the contract to write the Road Map.
The project involved interviewing a wide range of parties from across the property and infrastructure sectors, including utilities and local and state government. From the analysis of the data gathered, the economic benefit to be derived from a 3D Digital Cadastre and integrated Property Models was assessed by ACIL Allen Consulting to be in the order of billions of dollars to the Queensland economy alone. The study also exposed the existential cyber-risks arising from the integration of digital models, if no action is taken to address the risks.
The 3D Qld Part A report was released in April, 2017
During the 3D Qld project, several Federal and State Government representatives suggested that the development of the DBE framework would benefit from wide industry support. This observation became the catalyst for the meeting on 26 February 2018.
3D Qld Road Map Phase B Development was released in October, 2018.
Digital Built Environment (DBE) 2014 Conference
15-16 September, 2014 at Australian Technology Park, Sydney
Keynotes included:
Parliamentary Secretary of the Dept. of Communications
Chair of the UK Government Building Information Modelling Implementation Group and,
Deputy Director of the Singapore Land Authority speaking on
Singapore’s 3D City Model, and many others.
This followed a similar conference in 2013.
Use Cases and User Benefits
Governance
Security
Supporting Technologies
CRC for Spatial Information
buildingSMART
MAV
VPAC
Data61 (Previously NICTA)
ASMEA
The University of Melbourne
University of Technology, Sydney
- 10 Foundation Data Sets
- National BIM Initiative
- State & Local Programs
- Canada BIM Council
- UK BIM Taskforce
- Singapore BIM
- Open GeoSpatial Consortium
- Int. Society for Digital Earth
- Location & City Planning
- Realistic Simulations
- Visualizing Project Stages
If you have a video that demonstrates a key capability and would like to offer it for inclusion please email: m.haines@vanzi.com.au
These Organizations see value in the DBE Framework and have expressed support for the process being undertaken to evaluate it as a way of meeting the many challenges faced in making DBE a reality:
- SIBA
- Dial Before You Dig
- AIIA
- RDA, Sydney
- AECOM
- GHD
- ACIF
- FMA
- Simulation Australia
- City of Melbourne
- Business and Innovation
- Arup
- QUT
- Consult Australia
- UNSW
- CRC for Low Carbon Living
- FMClarity
- City West Water
- Planning Institute Australia
- Engineers Australia
- Australian Institute of Building
- Consulting Surveyors National
- GITA
- Aurecon
- Bentley Systems
- Arcadis
- SMEC
- Westpac
- AMCA
- Aerometrex
- Minter Ellison
- Nextspace
- AAMGroup
- Hassell
- Global Visioneering
- Land Information NZ
- buildingSMART
- Fender Katsalidis
- Lovegrove Lawyers
- City of Brisbane
- Zuuse
- AIQS
- Everledger
- LARKI
- Next Address
- City of Port Phillip
- Ridley/Willow
- Spookfish
- Pointerra
- Trimble
- Investa
- Lendlease
- Stockland
- University of Melbourne
- Jacobs
- A G Coombes
- Aconex
- Work Healthy Australia
- ACIL Allen Consulting
- v2i
Refer also:
Further Acknowledgements
In the course of the 3DQld study, it became clear that we needed to adopt a national approach to enable access, use and trade in the models to take place seamlessly across State borders.
A new National Workgroup has since been established. It comprises 80 people from every sector from planning through design, engineering, costing, finance, construction, asset & facility management, and insurance to sale and decommissioning, and including technology providers.
A draft Governance Framework is now in development which will establish a new set of rights in the Digital Built Environment (DBE). These rights will not detract from any other rights.
Key to achieving this is a requirement for any DBE model to include all relevant boundaries in 3D. Not only the Cadastre, but all statutory, administrative, common law and contractual boundaries, including for example, leases.
Participation in the DBE will be voluntary, based on the benefits and protections it provides.
The Governance Framework is intended to protect privacy, maintain security, enhance trust, respect rights, simplify transactions and reduce time and cost to gather and share data.
Implementing it will likely require development of a Distributed Digital Rights Management Ledger.
WINDOW of OPPORTUNITY
150 years ago we began building new rail lines with different gauges and different regulators in each State, forestalling even today, the productivity gains that a fully integrated system could deliver. 20 years ago, 2D Computer Aided Design (CAD) was also expected to deliver huge productivity gains within the design and construction sector... but did not, for the same reason: lack of formal integration across all stakeholders.
While work is continuing to rationalise multiple rail regulators and to integrate legacy CAD systems, it is a monumental task. The same that we face in trying to integrate our 2D Spatial and Land Information data sets and systems.
We are now on the cusp of a new revolution: 3D modelling.
In terms of 'systems development' we are at the 'time before rail', or the 'time before CAD'. As yet, there are few 3D legacy systems within government and few 3D data sets to worry about... and no laws or regulations directly governing the 'virtual world' - because there isn't one.
But the situation is changing fast.
As 3D becomes 'the norm', new laws and regulations will need to be written to recognise that 'photo-realistic' 3D models integrated with each other and our power, water and transport networks (via sensors) create a whole new set of challenges for privacy, security and liability. Few people can 'read' 2D plans... but viewing a 3D model is natural making it easier to use.
If we are to gain all the advantages of 3D while minimising the risks, we need to make sure now, that the legal framework to support it and the processes and protocols that give access to it are uniform across juridictions.
This is a task for government and industry.
Trying to integrate legacy systems and rationalise existing laws across jurisdictions is like continually improving the petrol engine - a worthwhile objective in the medium term.
3D offers the opportunity to start fresh - like designing an electric car... much easier than trying to mold old systems to new uses. But it does require a willingness to act quickly - before 3D becomes embedded in the culture of each jurisdiction and organization, each in their own way.
While the DBE Framework is a key enabler, the Land and Property Information, Spatial and Building modelling sectors each have their own challenges that require specific action. It is expected that the DBE will act as a focal point to integrate the separate initiatives - to create a functioning 3D world.
FrontierSI, buildingSMART Australasia, the Spatial Industries Business Association, Melbourne Uni 3D LPI and Queensland University of Technology, (all VANZI Collaborators) are among the leading organizations who are focussed on addressing their sector's unique challenges within a common Framework.
- data models for legal entitlements
- spatial and building modelling skill gaps
- new form of collaborative contracts
- new approach to risk management
- resistence to change
- lack of data standards
- lack of specific processes and protocols
- integration with legacy systems and data
- positioning, and
- feature extraction, etc.
We welcome other collaborators to address these and other challenges.
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Stage actor, director, and choreographer André De Shields was born on January 12, 1946 in Dundalk, Maryland to Mary Gunther and John De Shields. He was raised in Baltimore, Maryland as the ninth of eleven children. De Shields obtained his high school diploma at Baltimore City College in 1964, and earned his B.A. degree in English literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970. In 1991, De Shields received his M.A. degree in African American studies from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
De Shields began his career in 1969 at Chicago’s Shubert Theatre in Tom O’Horgan’s production of Hair, The American Tribal-Love Rock Musical. In 1971, De Shields joined the Organic Theater Company and began performing in Wrap! in Chicago. In 1973, De Shields left the Organic Theater Company and became an associate choreographer for Bette Midler’s Clams on the Half Shell Revue the following year. In the late 1970s, De Shields began choreographing for Saturday Night Live and Sesame Street. He then went on to perform in many televised productions, including Ain’t Misbehavin’ (1982), Alice in Wonderland (1983), and Duke Ellington, The Music Lives On (1984). De Shields continued his work while holding professorships at New York University, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Michigan. In 2009, in honor of President Barack Obama’s election, Mr. De Shields created his solo performance, Frederick Douglass: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory.
De Shields received numerous awards, including three Chicago Joseph Jefferson Awards and nine AUDELCO Awards. In 1982, De Shields won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Performance for the NBC TV Special based on Ain’t Misbehavin’. In 2004, he received honorary doctorate of fine arts degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and from SUNY-Buffalo State. De Shields received a Village Voice OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance in 2007, and in 2009, he won the National Black Theatre Festival’s Living Legend Award. De Shields received a Distinguished Achievement Award from Fox Foundation Fellowship in 2012, a Making Waves Award from Florida Atlantic University in 2014, an Award for Excellence in The Arts from the theatre school at DePaul University in 2015, and a Pioneer of the Arts Award from Riant Theatre in 2016.
André De Shields was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on September 19, 2016.
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Stage actor, director, and choreographer André De Shields (1946 - ) starred on Broadway in The Wiz, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Play On!, The Full Monty, and Impressionism in addition to serving as director of numerous off-Broadway productions.
SUNY-Buffalo State College
CUNY- Hunter College
New York University School of Education, Health, Nursing and Arts Professions
Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts
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Actor and writer Ruben Santiago-Hudson was born on November 24, 1956 in Lackawanna, New York to Alean Hudson and Ruben Santiago. He graduated from Lackawanna High School; and earned his B.A. degree in theatre from Binghamton University in 1978, and his M.F.A. degree from Wayne State University in 1982.
Santiago-Hudson first appeared in the 1988 film, Coming to America. He then played Captain Billy Cooper on the daytime drama Another World from 1990 to 1993. Santiago-Hudson made his Broadway debut as Buddy Bolden in Jelly’s Last Jam in 1992, and starred in August Wilson's Seven Guitars in 1995. He wrote the autobiographical play Lackawanna Blues in 2001, and adapted it into the award-winning 2005 HBO film of the same name. He co-starred opposite Phylicia Rashad in Gem of the Ocean on Broadway in 2004; and, in 2007, he starred in a PBS Nova documentary about the life of Percy Lavon Julian. From 2009 to 2011, he played Captain Roy Montgomery in ABC's Castle. Santiago-Hudson returned to Broadway to star in Stick Fly in 2011, and directed August Wilson’s JITNEY! on Broadway in 2017.
Santiago-Hudson’s other film credits include Bleeding Hearts, Blown Away, Domestic Disturbance, Which Way Home, The Devil’s Advocate, American Gangster, Mr. Brooks, Shaft, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Showtime’s Solomon and Sheba. He also made appearance on the television shows The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover, NYPD Blue, Touched by an Angel, The West Wing, Third Watch, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Showtime’s Billions, the TNT series Public Morals, and five episodes of Law & Order.
Santiago-Hudson received the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Performer in Seven Guitars, and was awarded the 2006 Humanitas Prize in writing for the HBO film adaptation of his play Lackawanna Blues, and the 2009 NAACP Lifetime Achievement Theatre Award. In 2013, Santiago-Hudson won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director, an Obie Award for Direction, and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play for the Off-Broadway production of The Piano Lesson. In 2016, he won an Obie Award for Special Citations: Collaboration of the play Skeleton Crew. He also received an honorary doctorate of letters from Buffalo State College in 2006, and Wayne State University in 2015. In 2014, The Ruben Santiago-Hudson Fine Arts Learning Center was named in his honor in his hometown of Lackawanna, New York.
Santiago-Hudson and his wife, Jeannie Brittan, have two children: Trey and Lily, in addition to his two older sons: Broderick and Ruben III.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on August 8, 2016.
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State University of New York at Binghamton
Actor and writer Ruben Santiago-Hudson (1956- ) appeared in dozens of feature films, television dramas and Broadway plays. He wrote 2001’s Lackawanna Blues, an autobiographical play that he adapted to film in 2005, premiering on HBO.
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Tape: 1 Story: 1 - Slating of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's interview
Tape: 1 Story: 2 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson lists his favorites
Tape: 1 Story: 3 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his mother's family background
Tape: 1 Story: 4 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about his mother's drug addiction
Tape: 1 Story: 5 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson remembers his time with his mother and siblings
Tape: 1 Story: 6 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson remembers his surrogate mother
Tape: 1 Story: 7 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his father's family background
Tape: 1 Story: 8 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes how his parents met
Tape: 1 Story: 9 - Ruben Sanitago-Hudson describes his father's migration to the United States
Tape: 1 Story: 10 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his father's career on the railroad
Tape: 1 Story: 11 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes the demographics of Lackawanna, New York
Tape: 2 Story: 1 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his earliest childhood memory
Tape: 2 Story: 2 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls growing up in a rooming house
Tape: 2 Story: 3 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls a visit from social services
Tape: 2 Story: 4 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes Lackawanna, New York and Buffalo, New York
Tape: 2 Story: 5 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls the influence of his surrogate parents
Tape: 2 Story: 6 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson remembers the tenants of his surrogate mother's rooming house
Tape: 2 Story: 7 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his surrogate mother's family background
Tape: 2 Story: 8 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson remembers his godmother
Tape: 2 Story: 9 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson remembers the integration of Lackawanna High School in Lackawanna, New York
Tape: 2 Story: 10 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson remembers the mentorship of Robert Ambrogi
Tape: 2 Story: 11 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about the impact of integration on the black community in Lackawanna, New York
Tape: 2 Story: 12 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his godfather's political career
Tape: 2 Story: 13 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson remembers the race riots at Lackawanna High School
Tape: 3 Story: 1 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his struggles at the majority-white Lackawanna High School
Tape: 3 Story: 2 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about interracial dating at Lackawanna High School
Tape: 3 Story: 3 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his two eldest sons
Tape: 3 Story: 4 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson remembers the State University of New York at Binghamton
Tape: 3 Story: 5 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his college mentors
Tape: 3 Story: 6 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls his suspension from the State University of New York at Binghamton
Tape: 3 Story: 7 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls his return to the State University of New York at Binghamton
Tape: 3 Story: 8 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his early acting experiences
Tape: 3 Story: 9 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls his acting experiences in Detroit, Michigan
Tape: 3 Story: 10 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls performing in 'Native Son'
Tape: 4 Story: 1 - Ruben Santiago recalls his academic experiences at Wayne State University
Tape: 4 Story: 2 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls receiving his master's degree
Tape: 4 Story: 3 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls moving to New York City
Tape: 4 Story: 4 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson remembers his early acting career in New York City
Tape: 4 Story: 5 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls auditioning for the Negro Ensemble Company
Tape: 4 Story: 6 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls his roles with the Negro Ensemble Company
Tape: 4 Story: 7 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson remembers providing for his children
Tape: 4 Story: 8 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his experiences as a soap opera actor
Tape: 4 Story: 9 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson remembers auditioning for August Wilson
Tape: 4 Story: 10 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls marrying his wife
Tape: 5 Story: 1 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson explains the origin of his twins' names
Tape: 5 Story: 2 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his wife's career
Tape: 5 Story: 3 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about the black theater community
Tape: 5 Story: 4 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls his role in 'Jelly's Last Jam'
Tape: 5 Story: 5 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson remembers lessons from Gregory Hines
Tape: 5 Story: 6 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson explains his choice of roles
Tape: 5 Story: 7 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his approach to film roles
Tape: 5 Story: 8 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls acting in August Wilson's 'Seven Guitars'
Tape: 5 Story: 9 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls starring on the television show 'Castle'
Tape: 5 Story: 10 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson remembers his early directorial career
Tape: 5 Story: 11 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about his film roles
Tape: 6 Story: 1 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls creating the stage play 'Lackawanna Blues'
Tape: 6 Story: 2 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson remembers the first production of 'Lackawanna Blues'
Tape: 6 Story: 3 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls performing 'Lackawanna Blues' in Hollywood
Tape: 6 Story: 4 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about the film adaptation of 'Lackawanna Blues'
Tape: 6 Story: 5 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls the national response to 'Lackawanna Blues'
Tape: 6 Story: 6 - Ruben Hudson-Santiago remembers a lesson from August Wilson
Tape: 6 Story: 7 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes the legacy of his surrogate mother
Tape: 6 Story: 8 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about the influence of everyday life on his writing
Tape: 6 Story: 9 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson remembers directing 'Gem of the Ocean'
Tape: 7 Story: 1 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson remembers directing August Wilson's plays, pt. 1
Tape: 7 Story: 2 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls the obstacles to his production of 'Jitney'
Tape: 7 Story: 3 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about the preservation of August Wilson's plays
Tape: 7 Story: 4 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about the interpretations of August Wilson's plays
Tape: 7 Story: 5 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes the cost of a Broadway production
Tape: 7 Story: 7 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his directorial style
Tape: 7 Story: 8 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls a lesson from his surrogate mother
Tape: 7 Story: 9 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about his commitment to acting
Tape: 8 Story: 1 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls directing 'The Piano Lesson,' pt. 1
Tape: 8 Story: 3 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his play, 'Your Blues Ain't Sweet Like Mine'
Tape: 8 Story: 4 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his creative inspiration
Tape: 8 Story: 5 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his TED talk
Tape: 8 Story: 6 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson shares his advice to young actors
Tape: 8 Story: 7 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson reflects upon his legacy
Tape: 8 Story: 8 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson reflects upon his life
Tape: 8 Story: 9 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about the importance of black theater
Tape: 8 Story: 10 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about modern racism, pt. 1
Tape: 9 Story: 1 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his advice to a group of black construction workers
Tape: 9 Story: 2 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about standing up for yourself, pt. 1
Tape: 9 Story: 4 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson shares his advice to African American actors
Tape: 9 Story: 5 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson talks about the current black television networks
Tape: 9 Story: 6 - Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his family
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Ruben Santiago-Hudson describes his father's career on the railroad
Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls creating the stage play 'Lackawanna Blues'
So, he went to Florida, Chicago [Illinois], then Buffalo [New York] with Pedro [ph.], got that job. He had like three jobs he said before the week was over and he had to choose, so he chose the railroad. He liked the sound of the train, you know, and he--and that's where he spent his--he--and they never promoted him. He kept the same job. They gave him a raise, a little raise, but he said every year, they would bring a new young white guy in to be his boss and he would have to teach the guy how to be his boss. The guy would ask him to do something with a certain tool and he'd say, you know, "No, no, no--you don't--you don't--you don't do this like that. You, you take the--you hit with this? No, you don't move it. You, you don't (unclear), but if I move this, you--show you how to do it." And he--my father [Ruben Santiago] would show him and the guy would say, "Oh, okay, now I know," every other year. And I think what broke his heart more than anything 'cause he gave his life to the railroad and, you know, he wasn't one of them sit in the house kind of guys on the railroad, he was a track man. That means, anything going wrong with the track, you take care of it. So, in Buffalo in the winter when the track is supposed to switch so the train can go to the destination, when it get icy, it won't switch, so he had to make it switch. He had to go on there and thaw it, beat the track over, get it lined up, lock it in, and watch the train make that move, and then he can go back to--so, and that's what he did his whole, whole career. And he said the thing, the biggest thing that hurt him there, 'cause in the summer they would hire--if your kid was a college kid, the railroad would give you a job for the summer. You could work with your father, make five dollars, four dollars an hour, which was a lot of money in 1974, and they wouldn't--they never hired me. And he took me to his boss, to the big Penn Station--Penn, Penn Central--New York Central Railroad offices in Buffalo. It's, it's now abandoned, gorgeous building, took me up to the biggest boss up in an elevator and--, "This my son, you know, he, he go to college, he, he going to--he very smart, you know. He can working, too." They never hired me. He did it twice and they didn't hire me and that hurt him. And he never said anything until he was almost gone, you know, when he was like in his sixties, he admitted it to me. He said it hurt that they didn't hire me and they hired everybody else's son. Every white guy that brought his son got hired, but not me. And even--he even had me come to his job and meet him while he was working on the tracks, "Meet me at so and so," and I would meet him and took him--meet his foreman and say, "Put a word in for my son. He's good. He's in college." Never hired me, and that hurt him, you know.$I wanna talk about 'Lackawanna Blues' [Ruben Santiago-Hudson]. When did you start writing it?$$I started writing it--I tried--I tried to start writing it in, in college, but I wasn't sincere. I was afraid to expose a lot, so I, I put it away pretty fast. One of the teachers said I was the worst writer he had ever seen and I should forget about that, you know. It's like I should forget about Shakespeare [William Shakespeare]. I mean, the whole way is forget about it, forget about it, forget about it. You know, you never tell a kid that. So, I didn't write again, but I kept telling Nanny's [Rachel Crosby] stories, anybody that would listen, subway down the street. I just--even today, you know, I still tell Nanny's stories as you can tell in this interview. And I was telling it to Rosemarie Tichler and John Dias at The Public Theater [New York, New York] and George [HistoryMaker George C. Wolfe] was in charge of The Public, "You gotta go tell George." I said, "George has heard these stories." "You gotta go tell--just tell him the one you just told me." So, we go into George's office and I tell the story, George says, "Yeah." He says, you know, I'm tir- he said, "I'm tired of hearing these stories, you know. You need to go write them down." I said--you know, "They, they would probably be a great story and everybody need to hear and quit telling me and quit telling him." And I said, "Yeah, somebody gotta write it." He said, "Yeah, you," and walked out of the room. "I gotta go to this other meeting." And I'm like, we gotta get somebody to write this story. So, I think a week later, I got a commission from The Public Theater, a couple thousand dollars or something to write this play. So, I said, wow, I got accountability and responsibility, I gotta--I gotta do this thing. I just gotta find a writer. I'm not a writer. So, we hired a grad student from Columbia University [New York, New York] to transcribe what I was putting on the tape. They said, "What do you need?" I said, "A tape recorder, my harmonica, and a light in the room," and I just start telling stories into the mic- microphone and she typed them out and typed them out all wrong. If I say something, she would correct it. Like if I say something like I heard somebody say at the rooming house like heard them fool got drunk, cut each other throat. She would write I heard those fools had gotten drunk last night and cut each other's throats. No, heard them fool got drunk, cut each other throat last night. So, I had to start writing it to correct her, and that's how I started writing it.$$And this was about what time?$$This was--this was '90-something, '98 [1998], '90-something. And then my boy, Bill Sims, Jr., who did all the music, I called Bill Sims, I said, "Man, bring your guitar in here, man. I want you to play woodshed a little bit while I--while I do this monologue. I want you to hear this monologue." And Bill would come sit in that corner with his guitar and start playing. "Do that again, do that again, do that again." I would do it again and he would do a different thing to it. Or he would be playing and I say--and then I would pick up my harmonica and start playing, and we just start gluing it together, gluing it together. And I had a director who I brought in from Binghamton [State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York], and George came to hear our first--my first pass at it, some of my stories with this director and he was a musical theater guy and he needed a break. He wanted a break. He had just moved to New York [New York] and he was a guy that I really liked at school, but we had fallen out and come back together. He was a director and they brought in from U--UCLA [University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California], and he was teaching at Wagner College [Staten Island, New York]. Anyway, I brought him. He said, "Please, man, I want to get to The Public Theater. Please, I'll do anything. I'll direct the workshop, I'll do," George watched my first presentation. He said, "I need to see you in my office." I went to his office, he said, "What is that? This is not a musical comedy. This is the story of your life. What, what are you doing?" And I was like, "What do you mean?" He said, "Who, who is the director?" I said, "He's a guy I know." Well, he said, "Get him out of here. Get him out of here. Do your story. Quit playing at it. If you're gonna do your story, do your story." And I said, "All right," you know. So, he made me get real serious about it. So, I quit making everything comedy and let you laugh at the realities. If you laugh, you laughed at my characterizations or something, somebody might say--like, Ol' Po' Carl might say, "Your mama was a fine woman. Her lips was--she had the big pooty lips, look--lips was kind of like blue like she had been drinking black berry brandy," and you will laugh. Or Old Paul or, or, or, or Ol' Po' Carl would say, "Yeah, I went to New York, went up to the entire state building." You know, he was a (unclear) guy, so that would make you laugh instead of me joking everything. Just tell a story, the way it is. So, George kind of turned that around in me and Bill just got tighter and tighter. And then we brought in--George gave us a wonderful director, Loretta Greco to guide it. This is my story, but she--I needed a guiding eye, and she was a good guide for it.
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Vernell Lillie
Founder and artistic director of Kuntu Repertory Theatre, Vernell Audrey Watson Lillie was born on May 11, 1931, in Hempstead, Texas. Lillie attended Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she earned her B.A. degree in speech and drama. In 1958, she completed a six year graduate study at Texas Southern University. She earned her M.A. degree in English from Carnegie Mellon University in 1971, and her D.A. degree in English from Carnegie Mellon University the following year.
In 1974, Lillie established the Kuntu Repertory Theatre with the intent to examine Black life from a sociopolitical-historical perspective. Lillie used drama to educate while entertaining. The theatre naturally developed into a supportive community for black writers, actors and artists. Since its establishment, the theatre has sponsored countless activities which highlight the African American community. Lillie has directed many productions including: The Buffalo Soldiers Plus One, Little Willie Armstrong Jones and Whispers Want to Holler.
Lillie has been the recipient of many prestigious awards including the University of Pittsburgh Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award; the Outstanding Award for Women in the Arts by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.; and the 2003 Career Achievement in Education Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
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Stage director Vernell Lillie (1931 - ) was founder and artistic director of Kuntu Repertory Theatre, which produced drama that entertained while examining Black life from historical, social and political perspectives. She won the University of Pittsburgh Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award and the Outstanding Award for Women in the Arts from Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
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Tape: 1 Story: 1 - Slating of Vernell Lillie's interview
Tape: 1 Story: 2 - Vernell Lillie lists her favorites
Tape: 1 Story: 3 - Vernell Lillie describes her mother's family background, pt. 1
Tape: 1 Story: 5 - Vernell Lillie talks about the community in Brazos Bottom, Texas
Tape: 1 Story: 6 - Vernell Lillie remembers her maternal grandfather's home in Bellville, Texas
Tape: 1 Story: 7 - Vernell Lillie recalls her childhood visits to Bellville, Texas
Tape: 1 Story: 8 - Vernell Lillie describes her father's family background, pt. 1
Tape: 2 Story: 2 - Vernell Lillie talks about her family's education and occupations
Tape: 2 Story: 3 - Vernell Lillie describes her parents' professions
Tape: 2 Story: 4 - Vernell Lillie recalls how her parents met
Tape: 2 Story: 5 - Vernell Lillie describes her parents' personalities and who she takes after
Tape: 2 Story: 6 - Vernell Lillie describes her earliest childhood memory
Tape: 2 Story: 7 - Vernell Lillie recalls her childhood in Hempstead, Texas and Houston, Texas
Tape: 3 Story: 1 - Vernell Lillie describes her experiences at Crawford Elementary School in Houston, Texas
Tape: 3 Story: 2 - Vernell Lillie recalls her teachers at Crawford Elementary School
Tape: 3 Story: 3 - Vernell Lillie describes her involvement in the University Interscholastic League
Tape: 3 Story: 4 - Vernell Lillie recalls her early interest in theater
Tape: 3 Story: 5 - Vernell Lillie remembers the notable African American educators in Houston, Texas
Tape: 3 Story: 6 - Vernell Lillie recalls her teachers at Phillis Wheatley High School in Houston, Texas
Tape: 4 Story: 1 - Vernell Lillie remembers participating in the I Speak for Democracy oratorical contest
Tape: 4 Story: 2 - Vernell Lillie recalls her early involvement with civil rights
Tape: 4 Story: 3 - Vernell Lillie describes the Sweatt v. Painter case of 1950
Tape: 4 Story: 4 - Vernell Lillie talks about the influence of her education on her life and career
Tape: 4 Story: 5 - Vernell Lillie recalls Thurgood Marshall's speech during Sweatt v. Painter, 1950
Tape: 4 Story: 6 - Vernell Lillie describes her extracurricular activities at Phillis Wheatley High School
Tape: 5 Story: 1 - Vernell Lillie describes her decision to pursue acting
Tape: 5 Story: 2 - Vernell Lillie recalls her decision to attend Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana
Tape: 5 Story: 3 - Vernell Lillie talks about her parents' attitudes towards her theater career
Tape: 5 Story: 4 - Vernell Lillie recalls the productions at Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana
Tape: 5 Story: 5 - Vernell Lillie describes her work at the Julia C. Hester House in Houston, Texas
Tape: 5 Story: 6 - Vernell Lillie talks about her theater productions at Julie C. Hester House in Houston, Texas
Tape: 5 Story: 7 - Vernell Lillie recalls the beginning of her teaching career at Houston's Phillis Wheatley High School
Tape: 5 Story: 8 - Vernell Lillie talks about the first African American play she produced
Vernell Lillie recalls Thurgood Marshall's speech during Sweatt v. Painter, 1950
Vernell Lillie talks about the first African American play she produced
Can you give us a sense of what it was like to watch, to be in court when Thurgood Marshall was trying a case [Sweatt v. Painter, 1950]. I mean, do you have, can you kind of describe what took place (simultaneous)?$$(Simultaneous) Yeah, I can remember the physical something. Grover Sellers was kind of heavy and puffy face and it was sweltering hot and I don't remember which month it was, but it was hot in that courtroom. And Thurgood Marshall, and I think it must be my imagination because he had to have been hot too 'cause he was in a suit, but I swear in my memory and it must be what I want to remember, that he did not seem to have perspired at all. And he would start his speech talking in the kind of level and then he would come down and use a little piece of vernacular something, and it was just the most awesome something, and I'm telling you now, I have never been the same after experiencing him in that courtroom. I knew then and there that my life would forever be molding, changing, creating and understanding that whatever I have, it's my responsibility to give back. It, he was, it seems to me he was six feet tall. It was just, and it was the most flowing kind of process, and the thing that he had was dignity, not poking fun at anybody, but it was the cause that he was dealing with. You know, it was not making whites feel ashamed of themselves, it was presenting a case that this young man [Heman Marion Sweatt] had a right to have an education with the tax dollars, and so, that was another gift that I think, that I hope I acquired from him, because it is so easy to be arrogant and to be insulting, you know. And it was so very clear that somehow or another all he wanted to do was let that group there and the world know that these are human beings who are entitled to a quality education by your own state dollars that you're paying, and it was not a piece in which I need to ridicule you or be sarcastic toward you, and sharp tongued toward you that these are the facts as I see them, and these are the grounds from which I am stating what I am saying. And I hope, I hope, I really hope, but sometimes people will tell me I have a sharp tongue, but I do hope that I respect the personality. I don't have to agree with what you believe, but I need to know that when I am presenting to you that which I want, I don't have to demean you, because you are a product of whatever this society has structured, and you have somehow believed it, and I think that fortunately for me, I saw hardworking black men and women all my life from the time I was five years old and I saw them working, and working, and working, and then I saw them lose things and I still saw them maintain their dignity, and Thurgood Marshall just helped reinforce that. It's a wonderful world.$Now what, what year is this when you start teaching?$$Fifty-six [1956].$$Nineteen fifty-six [1956].$$Um-hm.$$Okay.$$And I stayed at Wheatley, I guess I stayed at Wheatley until I left in '69 [1969].$$Okay. Now when did--along the way did you start become more keenly, did you, well, at what point along the way did you start really drawing from black literature and culture?$$I gave an assignment in my class and I can't remember the little guy's name and he's dead now, and he came in, the assignment was Baraka's--Dante's "Inferno" ['The Divine Comedy,' Dante Alighieri].$$About what year is this now?$$Oh that's--$$Sixty-one [1961] (simultaneous)?$$--(simultaneous) it has to be somewhere around like '64ish [1964] or something, '65ish [1965], and demanding that I do a black play, and so he had, had gone to the library on his own, because I certainly didn't introduce Baraka's [Amiri Baraka] 'The Toilet' to him, and he wanted me to do 'The Toilet.'$$Well, that's in, in high school?$$I said, "I'm sorry I have two children that I have to help my husband educate, so I cannot produce Baraka's, 'The Toilet.'"$$'The Toilet' is pretty rough.$$So he kept harassing me. So then I did 'In White America' [Martin Duberman]. So he came back to me that night, he said, "I think you did a very fine job with it," he said, "but, you know, if you had been black and published this as a play, they would have told you that this is nothing but a collage of historical characters talking and moving through history. So now that you've seen whites on your stage, in 'White America,' why don't you do a black play?" And he said, "By the way, 'In White America' it's not any different from what you've been doing all along. You have been using those political collages and statements with your daughters as they are trying to get people to vote." He said, "So Duberman [Martin Duberman] has not done anything different from what you've been doing for the last ten years, dramatic collages and that's not a play. There's no structure in the traditional process that you taught me as a play, so why don't you do a play?" So I, that weekend after the play closed, I think I must have read twenty-five plays and the last one I picked up was guess what, 'Day of Absence' [Douglas Turner Ward] and 'Happy Ending' [Douglas Turner Ward], so that was my absolutely first black play that I produced.$$Now this is in, this is at Phillis Wheatley?$$This is at Phillis Wheatley High School [Houston, Texas], 'Day of Absence,' and that's the photograph that you see out there by my desk. That guy, Andrew, Michael Andrews [ph.], is still acting in D.C. [Washington, D.C.] and he was awesome.$$And this is a play by [HistoryMaker] Douglas Turner Ward.$$Douglas Turner Ward, and I have never since turned back.
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Walter Mason, Jr.
Production manager, stage actor, stage director, and stage production manager Walter Mason, Jr. was born on January 26, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan. His mother, Joanna Columbus Mason, a school teacher, and his father, Walter Mason, Sr., a skilled laborer, reared Mason in a church and community-oriented environment. After graduating from Detroit’s Northwestern High School, Mason attended Wayne State University, where he earned his B.A degree in theater and business administration. Years later, Mason attended the Detroit College of Law while he continued to pursue a career in theater.
In a 1952 adaptation of Richard Wright’s book Native Son, he portrayed its chief character “Booker Thomas” at the World Stage in Detroit, Michigan. His theatrical performances include his role as “Othello” in seven separate productions of Othello and “Caliban” in two productions of The Tempest. Mason has also been an instrumental figure in notable Broadway productions such as Purlie Victorious and A Streetcar Named Desire. Beyond acting, Mason served as a producer, director and artist for The Good Book Sings on WJR Radio and appeared on WXYZ TV’s, Showtime at the Apollo as the master of ceremonies. He collaborated with choreographer, Alvin Ailey, in 1961 as the musical and production manager of African Holiday. Six years later, Mason became the production manager for The Emperor Jones, which starred actor James Earl Jones. Throughout his career, Mason has worked closely with many celebrities, including Sammy Davis, Jr., Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, Jimmy Durante, Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Ella Fitzgerald, Lola Falana, Jackie Gleason and Gladys Knight and the Pips. As a private speech and drama coach, Mason has worked with many public figures and film and television performers.
Mason served as an associate to the dean of Yale University School of Drama at both Yale and on Broadway. In 1983, Mason produced and directed a theatrical presentation at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. featuring aspiring young actors from black colleges and universities for The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. The following year, Mason directed the production of the Pulitzer Prize winning play, A Soldier’s Story, at Detroit’s Fisher Theater.
Mason is the entertainment director at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel and the founder and artistic director of the Aldridge Theater Company, Inc.
Mason passed away on February 28, 2017 at age 91.
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Stage actor, production manager, stage director, and stage production manager Walter Mason, Jr. (1926 - 2017 ) was the entertainment director at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel and the founder and artistic director of the Aldridge Theater Company, Inc.
Detroit Art Institute
University of Detroit Mercy
Eugene O'Neill Foundation
Michigan Bell Telephone Company
Las Vegas Hilton (Hotel)
Ira Aldridge Theatre Co., Inc.
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Tape: 1 Story: 1 - Slating of Walter Mason, Jr.'s interview
Tape: 1 Story: 2 - Walter Mason, Jr. lists his favorites
Tape: 1 Story: 3 - Walter Mason, Jr. describes his mother's upbringing and personality
Tape: 1 Story: 4 - Walter Mason, Jr. describes his father's personality and career
Tape: 1 Story: 5 - Walter Mason, Jr. talks about his grandparents
Tape: 1 Story: 6 - Walter Mason, Jr. describes his earliest childhood memories
Tape: 1 Story: 7 - Walter Mason, Jr. remembers his neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan
Tape: 1 Story: 8 - Walter Mason, Jr. describes the sights and sounds of his childhood
Tape: 1 Story: 9 - Walter Mason, Jr. remembers the case of McGhee v. Sipes
Tape: 1 Story: 10 - Walter Mason, Jr. remembers his early childhood
Tape: 1 Story: 11 - Walter Mason, Jr. remembers his schooling
Tape: 1 Story: 12 - Walter Mason, Jr. recalls transferring to Northwestern High School in Detroit, Michigan
Tape: 2 Story: 1 - Walter Mason, Jr. remembers his interests as a teenager
Tape: 2 Story: 2 - Walter Mason, Jr. remembers his early awareness of racial discrimination
Tape: 2 Story: 3 - Walter Mason, Jr. recalls enlisting in the U.S. Air Force
Tape: 2 Story: 4 - Walter Mason, Jr. describes the racial discrimination in the U.S. Air Force
Tape: 2 Story: 5 - Walter Mason, Jr. recalls his introduction to theater at Wayne University in Detroit, Michigan
Tape: 2 Story: 6 - Walter Mason, Jr. remembers his early theater roles, pt. 1
Tape: 3 Story: 1 - Walter Mason, Jr. talks about his early theater training
Tape: 3 Story: 2 - Walter Mason, Jr. describes the Panorama of Progress program
Tape: 3 Story: 3 - Walter Mason, Jr. describes his radio series, 'The Good Book Sings'
Tape: 3 Story: 4 - Walter Mason, Jr. recalls his decision to enroll at the Detroit College of Law in Detroit, Michigan
Tape: 3 Story: 5 - Walter Mason, Jr. describes the arts community in Detroit, Michigan
Tape: 3 Story: 6 - Walter Mason, Jr. recalls his performance in 'The Tempest'
Tape: 3 Story: 7 - Walter Mason, Jr. recalls managing the production of 'Jazz Train'
Tape: 3 Story: 8 - Walter Mason, Jr. recalls his opportunity to act in 'A Raisin in the Sun'
Tape: 3 Story: 9 - Walter Mason, Jr. remembers meeting Alvin Ailey
Tape: 4 Story: 1 - Walter Mason, Jr. remembers managing 'Free Sounds of '63'
Tape: 4 Story: 2 - Walter Mason, Jr. recalls his role in 'Free Sounds of '63'
Tape: 4 Story: 3 - Walter Mason, Jr. remembers starring in 'Purlie Victorious'
Tape: 4 Story: 4 - Walter Mason, Jr. reflects upon his theater career
Tape: 4 Story: 5 - Walter Mason, Jr. describes the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Foundation in Waterford, Connecticut
Tape: 4 Story: 6 - Walter Mason, Jr. remembers working with Sammy Davis, Jr., pt. 1
Tape: 4 Story: 7 - Walter Mason, Jr. describes the misconceptions about Sammy Davis, Jr.
Tape: 4 Story: 8 - Walter Mason, Jr. remembers managing a production of 'The Amen Corner'
Tape: 4 Story: 9 - Walter Mason, Jr. recalls his difficulties with the Actors' Equity Association, pt. 1
Tape: 5 Story: 2 - Walter Mason, Jr. remembers Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral
Tape: 5 Story: 4 - Walter Mason, Jr. recalls the Bicentennial Homecoming Festival in Detroit, Michigan
Tape: 5 Story: 5 - Walter Mason, Jr. recalls opening a restaurant in Detroit, Michigan
Tape: 5 Story: 6 - Walter Mason, Jr. remembers the Creative Express Theater Company
Tape: 5 Story: 7 - Walter Mason, Jr. remembers his work for the Michigan Bell Telephone Company
Tape: 6 Story: 1 - Walter Mason, Jr. remembers moving to Las Vegas, Nevada
Tape: 6 Story: 2 - Walter Mason, Jr. recalls his theatrical work at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada
Tape: 6 Story: 3 - Walter Mason, Jr. describes his work at the West Las Vegas Arts Center in Las Vegas, Nevada
Tape: 6 Story: 4 - Walter Mason, Jr. reflects upon his life and career
Tape: 6 Story: 5 - Walter Mason, Jr. describes his advice for aspiring artists
Tape: 6 Story: 6 - Walter Mason, Jr. describes his hopes for the African American community
Tape: 6 Story: 7 - Walter Mason, Jr. shares a message to future generations
Tape: 6 Story: 8 - Walter Mason, Jr. talks about the opportunities for artistic growth
Tape: 6 Story: 9 - Walter Mason, Jr. narrates his photographs
Walter Mason, Jr. describes the racial discrimination in the U.S. Air Force
Walter Mason, Jr. remembers working with Sammy Davis, Jr., pt. 1
Did you face any racism in the air cadets [sic. U.S. Army Air Forces; U.S. Air Force]?$$Oh yes.$$Could you explain that a little bit more for us, and how that was? Because basically you were sheltered all your life away from it.$$Yes.$$Now you're in a, in a federal, national organization where there is no shelter. Could you explain that to us, please?$$And traveling around the country in various locales such as Dyersburg, Tennessee; Biloxi [Mississippi]; Lou- a field in Louisiana, you got a real dose of, of racial prejudice, and it had its effect on, on you. You ask questions, how can a bus driver take somebody a mile beyond their stop before he lets them off the bus? And that happened at Shreveport, Louisiana. And came into a major church there and slapped a woman's face, and came back and got on, in his bus seat and drove off, and nothing was done. Or in Shreveport, the allowance of soldiers to be told that they couldn't come to town with a Captain Crockett [ph.] of--who was in leadership in the police department. And he would have an ability to have the soldiers stick their head--, "Look at this piece of paper I have in my hand. Now, draw yourself in and come and look at this paper." And he'd draw, he'd have the soldier to look at the paper, and he'd roll up the window. And once he rolled the window up, catching him between the neck and the window, he'd--, "Didn't I tell you not to come into town? And don't let me catch you in this town." It was this kind of activity that you--whoa.$$Did this occur particularly with you, or did you see this happening?$$This, there was a situation where I had a .45 on, going to Texarkana to get a prisoner. And there was an older gentleman who came up to me and said, "You got business here, boy?" I said, "Yes, I've come to this town to take a prisoner back." "All right, boy, but don't let me see you getting into any mischief." And took his foot and kicked me. Now, I could have turned around as a militant soldier, but I didn't. I knew enough to measure my losses and to step away. And for that, I am grateful.$$So there was definitely a lot of--not just inside of the, itself--you--in your travels and your duties, even just even doing your duties, there were problems with racism?$$Oh yes. For example, there was a situation where it came to--I began writing for one of the military newspapers. And they had a habit of on Fridays draining the pool. They would allow the black soldiers to go into the pool--this was in Dyersburg, Tennessee. And they could swim on that Friday, but they would drain the pool as the soldiers were in the pool. And I wrote in my article that it was not on a Friday, you with your Purple Heart, got shuffled around. It was not on a Friday that Bill [ph.], you, with, in your transition from the European sector to the Asian sector, got strapped with an event like this. So, why should it be in the home of the brave and the land of the free that you're not allowed to go swimming? And the commander called me into his office and said, "Do you want us to print this?" I said, "Well, I wrote it in truth, and I expect you to print it in truth." Another week I received my papers to go to, I think it was--no, this was in Coffeyville, not Dyersburg. This is in Coffeyville, Kansas, to go to, to be transferred out. And the war [World War II, WWII] ended, and so that got wrapped up and nothing more was heard of it.$Sixty-four [1964], you play Pepper White in 'Golden Boy' [Clifford Odets and William Gibson]. Now tell us about 'Golden Boy.' What was very significant about that?$$Well, that's the Sammy Davis, Jr. show (laughter). 'Golden Boy,' written by, eventually written by Bill Gibson, was the piece that was earlier presented with John Garfield as a movie. And Sammy had an ability to take on this project and take on the abilities of a fighter, a boxer and a singer, with new lyrics by Strouse [Charles Strouse] and Adams [Lee Adams]. And I had just joined Sammy, and he offered me this opportunity, but first as just an actor to play Pepper White. I did not sign a run of the play contract. I signed it just as a regular actor. Run of the play, you get, as long as the play runs, you--$$You're in it.$$You're in it. Well, the writers selected that they write out the part of Pepper White. And that's part of, of creativity of the theater. So, they wrote the part of Pepper Adams out.$$Pepper White?$$Pepper White. And so then I was out of that, but I didn't worry about being out of the play. I just went my merry way. And later, it came to be that they were auditioning for a production manager, and they called me. And so I went back as a production manager, which is a higher rate of pay, and--$$Than the actor was (laughter)?$$Right. So, I came in that way. And when you're in with a superstar like Sammy Davis, you get to know him pretty well, and he gets to know you pretty well. And I think Sammy was one of the most misunderstood individuals in show business.$$Please explain. I was going to ask you, what was he like, what was his personality? But explain it from your perspective.$$Well, Sammy was a genuine giver. And I can understand why he had as many difficulties with people like the IRS [Internal Revenue Service], and so forth because he took on the belief, or disbelief, that money was money. It's all to be here to enjoy. We're here for such a short time. Get it, give it, enjoy it. That was his mantra. And don't worry about saving or doing other things. See somebody who needs--who has been wronged, help that person. [HistoryMaker] Maya Angelou was singing in 'Porgy and Bess' [George Gershwin] in her earlier years. They couldn't get a pair of shoes to fit her. Have some made. If the boat--the boat does not leave the dock unless it is first class. And that was Sammy's attitude toward everything. And I think that he had great appreciation for me, because he felt that he ran into somebody that was intellectually challenging.
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Actor and theater founder John Beasley was born on June 26, 1943, in North Omaha, Nebraska, to Grace Virginia, Triplett and John Wilfred Beasley. Beasley’s neighbors included athletes Bob Gibson, Marlon Briscoe, Gale Sayers, Roger Sayers and Bob Boozer. Beasley’s maternal grandfather invented the brick of chili for Cuttahee Packing House. His parents separated and his father, an electrical contractor, moved to Chicago, Illinois. Beasley grew up at 24th and Lake near the Ritz Theatre and the Hotel Callahan. Beasley played football and was popular at Omaha Technical High School. He attended the University of Omaha from 1964 to 1968.
Beasley moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and after starting in the mailroom of WFIL-TV, he became assistant producer for a local children’s program called The World Around Us. Beasley worked on the waterfront, like Omaha’s Marlon Brando did in the movie of the same name. A small part in Germantown Theatre’s production of As You Like It started Beasley’s acting itch. From time to time, he studied and took classes and completed an internship in Minnesota with Don Cheadle. Beasley was cast in August Wilson’s early Goodman Theatre productions in Chicago; however, Beasley worked as a Union Pacific Railroad clerk for seven years before he decided to pursue acting as a full-time career. In his first year, Beasley’s dream to become an actor came true when he was cast alongside Oprah Winfrey in the short lived television series Brewster Place, and his career took off from there. Beasley’s other film and television credits include The Apostle, Rudy, The General’s Daughter, The Sum of All Fears and Everwood.
Still living in his hometown of Omaha, Beasley enjoys teaching and directing at his newly established theater, The John Beasley Workshop at Center Stage. Beasley also keeps busy with junior golf and tennis programs and fundraisers for the American Heart Association. He and his wife have been married for over forty years and have two grown sons who are aspiring actors.
Theater Chief Executive
The John Beasley Theater and Workshop
Omaha Technical High School
University of Nebraska-Omaha
Howard Kennedy Elementary School
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Actor, theater chief executive, and stage director John Beasley (1943 - ) appeared in several films and television shows, including the television series, 'Brewster Place,' in which he was cast alongside Oprah Winfrey, and the films, 'Rudy,' 'The Mighty Ducks,' 'The Apostle,' 'The General's Daughter,' and, 'The Operator.'
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Tape: 1 Story: 1 - Slating of John Beasley's interview
Tape: 1 Story: 2 - John Beasley lists his favorites
Tape: 1 Story: 3 - John Beasley describes his mother's family background
Tape: 1 Story: 4 - John Beasley describes his mother's upbringing
Tape: 1 Story: 5 - John Beasley describes his father's family background
Tape: 1 Story: 6 - John Beasley remembers his parents' separation
Tape: 1 Story: 7 - John Beasley describes his parents' personalities and who he takes after
Tape: 2 Story: 1 - John Beasley describes his earliest childhood memory
Tape: 2 Story: 2 - John Beasley remembers his neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska
Tape: 2 Story: 3 - John Beasley describes the sights, sounds and smells of his childhood
Tape: 2 Story: 4 - John Beasley recalls his early activities
Tape: 2 Story: 5 - John Beasley recalls the television programs of his childhood
Tape: 2 Story: 6 - John Beasley recalls his decision to play football
Tape: 2 Story: 7 - John Beasley recalls playing football at Omaha University in Omaha, Nebraska
Tape: 2 Story: 8 - John Beasley remembers his teammate, Marlin Briscoe
Tape: 2 Story: 9 - John Beasley remembers Howard Kennedy Elementary School in Omaha, Nebraska
Tape: 2 Story: 10 - John Beasley describes his early aspirations
Tape: 3 Story: 1 - John Beasley recalls the Ritz Theater in Omaha, Nebraska
Tape: 3 Story: 2 - John Beasley recalls the music of his youth
Tape: 3 Story: 3 - John Beasley remembers Technical High School in Omaha, Nebraska
Tape: 3 Story: 4 - John Beasley recalls his introduction to the arts
Tape: 3 Story: 5 - John Beasley remembers the Vietnam War
Tape: 3 Story: 6 - John Beasley recalls his theater involvement at Technical High School
Tape: 3 Story: 7 - John Beasley describes his decision to move to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tape: 3 Story: 8 - John Beasley remembers meeting his wife
Tape: 3 Story: 9 - John Beasley talks about his wife
Tape: 3 Story: 10 - John Beasley recalls moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tape: 4 Story: 1 - John Beasley recalls his introduction to screen acting
Tape: 4 Story: 2 - John Beasley describes his training as an actor
Tape: 4 Story: 3 - John Beasley recalls his first opportunity to sign with an agent
Tape: 4 Story: 4 - John Beasley talks about his early acting career in the Midwest
Tape: 4 Story: 5 - John Beasley recalls working with Oprah Winfrey on 'Brewster Place'
Tape: 4 Story: 6 - John Beasley talks about his film and stage acting roles
Tape: 4 Story: 7 - John Beasley talks about acting in August Wilson's plays
Tape: 5 Story: 1 - John Beasley talks about the challenges of acting in the Midwest
Tape: 5 Story: 2 - John Beasley remembers acting in 'The Apostle' with Robert Duvall
Tape: 5 Story: 3 - John Beasley recalls the success of 'The Apostle'
Tape: 5 Story: 4 - John Beasley recalls his transition to acting in Los Angeles, California
Tape: 5 Story: 5 - John Beasley talks about being a character actor
Tape: 5 Story: 6 - John Beasley describes the John Beasley Theater and Workshop in Omaha, Nebraska
Tape: 6 Story: 1 - John Beasley describes the acting community in Omaha, Nebraska
Tape: 6 Story: 2 - John Beasley talks about African American theater companies
Tape: 6 Story: 3 - John Beasley describes his plans for the future
Tape: 6 Story: 4 - John Beasley describes his hopes and concerns for the African American community
Tape: 6 Story: 5 - John Beasley reflects upon his life
Tape: 6 Story: 6 - John Beasley reflects upon his legacy
Tape: 6 Story: 7 - John Beasley talks about his family
Tape: 6 Story: 8 - John Beasley talks about his favorite acting roles
Tape: 6 Story: 9 - John Beasley describes how he would like to be remembered
John Beasley recalls working with Oprah Winfrey on 'Brewster Place'
John Beasley describes the John Beasley Theater and Workshop in Omaha, Nebraska
Few months later, my agent in Minneapolis [Minnesota] calls, says, "You remember Jane Brody?" I said, "Yeah, I remember Jane, you know, I auditioned for her at the, at your office up there." And so she says, "Well Jane wants to know if you would be interested in coming into Chicago [Illinois] to audition." And I just remembered reading in the USA Today, Oprah Winfrey was going to do a TV series called 'Brewster Place' based on 'The Women of Brewster Place,' and I thought, wow, that'll be a great, you know, great opportunity for some Chicago actors. And so she calls me into Chicago to audition for 'Brewster Place,' and I go in there and I meet [HistoryMaker] Reuben Cannon who had, I had worked for before, and it was a long process and they had me in there several times and then eventually they bring me in to read with Oprah Winfrey and I remember sitting in this cast, you know, office and Oprah Winfrey comes up the steps with her aide, with an aide, and they go in this room, you know, she doesn't give me an eye contact or anything, she goes in the room and so I go in and I do this and, you know, I do this audition, I know I'm good, I know I'm good and so after I, when I get ready to leave, I say to Oprah, I said, incidentally, I said, "Judy [Judy Beasley] says hi." So she says, "Who's Judy?" I said, "She's my wife." So, "Oh, tell her I said hi." So, eventually they called me in to screen test with Oprah, and so they give me this mail uniform, I don't wear a ring today, they give me this mail, I'm the mail carrier, he's a mail carrier, so I'm, so the master props man, he comes around he says, "So what, you need anything?" I said, I said, "Yeah," I said, "a mailman always has keys so I'm going to need some keys and, oh, I need a wedding band 'cause Reuben says that he's probably married and has a couple of kids." And I'm thinking, damn, you know, 'cause if I can have some kind of a relationship with Oprah's character, you know, that would mean that I'd be in it a lot more and I think it'd mean more to me, you know, but hey, I'm just happy to get a job. So we're sitting there while they're waiting and Oprah's sitting there and I'm sitting across from her and I'm just looking at Oprah and I'm giving her eye contact and she's looking at me and so eventually Oprah says, "So, how's the family?" And so, I figure okay, you know, I'd done some selling in my days and I know that in a situation like that, the first person that speaks loses. So now I get a little bolder and Oprah, I hope she never, she'll never see this, and so I get a little bolder and so I said, Oprah, I said to Oprah, I said, "Oprah," I said, "so where'd you study acting," I said, "because I really loved you in 'The Color Purple.'" And she says, "I never studied." I said, "Well," I said, "well, don't mess up 'cause this is my big chance," and so Reuben cracks up and Oprah's like, is this nigger for real (laughter)? I mean, you know, so, but I think it had to impress her because we're sitting there and as we go along a little further, Oprah looks down at the ring and she says, "You know, I don't think Mr. Willie is married," and I said, "You know what Oprah, I don't think he is either (laughter)." And so I got the job, I got the job as her love interest. We did eleven episodes. ABC didn't want it, it was a half an hour, half an hour dramedy, something like that, like 'Frank's Place,' very innovative, you know. 'Frank's Place' was an incredible show.$$Right, right.$$I thought it was one of the best shows not to make it on TV and, but this was, 'Brewster Place' was sort of like that, you know, and we were breaking grounds. ABC didn't want it but they wanted Oprah Winfrey so they gave her a shot, you know, and they kept moving it around, you know. You know, they would show two weeks and then the next week it wouldn't be on and then they would move it around again to different nights and they really knew how to program it to fail and so it never made it but I had my experience with Oprah Winfrey. A wonderful woman, I might add, she really is, you know and I felt that she looked out for me while I was there. There would be times, I came on as a recurring character and wound up having more episodes than some of the regulars and because Oprah would be, you know, they'd be at a table read and Oprah would say, "Well that sounds like something Mr. Willie would say," and the next thing I know I'd be getting a call, you know, "You're going to be working this week," you know. So--$$So, did they shoot that in Chicago or--$$We shot it in Chicago, yeah. Worked out of Chicago and it was a great time, it was a great time--$Now tell us about how, about the theater, I guess. We need to talk about that.$$You know, the theater, it used to be, the theater that I run is called, the John Beasley Theater [John Beasley Theater and Workshop, Omaha, Nebraska], and it's only because the people that owned the building at that time wanted to name it after me. I didn't want my name on it. I don't need my name on a building or anything like that, I know who I am and, but I was, I was working with some underprivileged kids in the projects over in South Omaha [Omaha, Nebraska] and the Center Stage [Center Stage Theater, Omaha, Nebraska] is one of the theaters I came up on, you know. We used to do a lot of good things there, had a good reputation, it was a black theater, only minority theater in the state, and it had been closed for about three years and they asked me if I would want to do something in the theater and I thought, well, no, I definitely don't want to be a busi- I'm not a businessman, I'm not a, my head's not there and I was working with a young lady who wanted to, to get into acting and I'd always told her that, you know, I would work with her at one point or another. She's, was fifty years old at that time and finally I said, listen, we'll do, I'll do something with you. So, I got the, I got 'Fences' by August Wilson and I gave her the role of Linda [sic.], and I said, "Study this," and I started working with her. She came along to the point where I thought, let me put some other people around her. So I put some people around her and the next thing I knew, we had enough for the cast for 'Fences,' and so I decided, okay, I'll do this over there and, you know, we'll do the show. So after that, it was owned by Omaha public housing [Omaha Housing Authority] and they, the council decided, the board decided to name the theater after me and, and now I'm stuck with, you know, running this theater, you know, and, because my name's on it, you know, I want to make it successful. So we started out doing three plays a year, four and five, and, and I've been with the--because I landed 'Everwood,' I was able to support this theater, you know, on my own, you know, with my own money and I've done that, I've done that up to the early part of this year, you know, when I decided that it's just, it's not good business, you know. I'm using my retirement money to run this damn thing and I don't know that Omaha [Nebraska] appreciates it, you know. And so it was a matter of, you know, the theater either making it on its own or, you know, we're just getting out of it, you know. 'Cause I never really wanted to run a theater but I've changed a lot of lives in here, in Omaha, and gotten peoples in the theater that never would have been there because we didn't have a large base to grow from, I'm normally training people and we would, we typecast a lot, you know. If you look like or act like you, this character that I'm looking for, you know, bring you in there and teach you how to be yourself, you know, and, again, it's in being in the moment, teaching them what I do, and just learning how to be real and if I can teach them how to be themselves, you know, we've got it made, you know, and I've turned out some pretty good actors and I've got a couple that I'm really proud of.$$What are their names? Some of the--$$Really proud of. Andre McGraw is one of them. He was in that first cast of 'Fences' and he played my son, and this guy, you know, he wasn't a very good reader but he really wanted to do this and, but once he got the words down, he was, he did really well. But he was in love. He had a girlfriend who lived in Kansas City [Missouri], and he was always on the phone with her and he, he was, you know, it was a distraction and one time I was on stage with him and I give his cue and there's no Andre and I'm waiting out there ad-libbing and this stuff. I finally go offstage and I see him, he's out there talking on the phone to his girlfriend. So I got on him about that. Then one Sunday we were getting ready to perform, he calls me from the highway, he's on his way back from Kansas City and, so I had to delay the show and he got in there and I finally, I said, "He'll never work in my theater again, never again." We were doing a play called, 'A Raisin in the Sun' [Lorraine Hansberry] and Andre called me, he said, "Mr. Beasley [HistoryMaker John Beasley]," he says, "listen, I know you, you know, that you took a chance on me, and I'm sorry and I, you know--I won't give you any problems, I really want to do this." So I said, "All right, Andre," I said, "you know, I'm going to bring you back in," I said, "but if you mess up," I said, "that's it, you're through with me." I brought him in and he was the surprise of that show. He was just, did a fantastic job. So my son, Tyrone [Tyrone Beasley], who directs for me, and I were, we're looking for a lead for 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' [August Wilson] and this character is, you know, is, it's a pretty strong character. And so, the only person we could think of was Andre and, you know, I talk--we can do this, he can do this.
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Kenny Leon
Theatrical and television director and actor Kenny Leon was born Kenneth Leroy Leon on February 10, 1956, in Tallahassee, Florida, to Annie Ruth and Leroy Leon. The oldest of five siblings, Leon’s family moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, when he was nine years old. At Northeast High School in St. Petersburg, Leon got involved in the federal government’s Upward Bound Program which encouraged him to pursue his dream of becoming a lawyer. In 1978, Leon graduated from Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia, with his B.A. degree in political science. He attended Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles for a brief period before returning to Atlanta.
In 1979, Leon returned to Atlanta to try his hand at theater. He soon became a member of the Academy Theater in Atlanta where he worked as an actor and director. Often times, Leon would run outreach programs at prisons and schools; one such play was performed entirely by the homeless. All of the profits from the homeless-cast play were contributed to local homeless shelters. In 1988, after years of touring and directing across the country, Leon was offered a job as associate artistic director at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta. By 1990, he was the senior artistic director and would lead the company for the next ten years. By selecting a wide range of multicultural plays for the theater, Leon increased the minority attendance and the national reputation of the Alliance, and quintupled the endowment.
In 2002, after leaving the Alliance, Leon founded his own theater company in Atlanta, the True Colors Theater Company, which focused on promulgating and preserving Negro-American theatrical classics. Leon has continued to make waves in the theater world outside of Atlanta. In 2004, he directed his first Broadway play, reviving Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun for which he cast hip hop mogul, Sean Combs in the role of Walter Lee Younger; in 2007, Leon directed a television adaptation of the play. Between 2004 and 2007, Leon directed the world and Broadway premieres of August Wilson’s final two plays, Gem of the Ocean and Radio Golf; he also directed the world premiere of Toni Morrison’s first opera, Margaret Garner. While he continues to ensure the success of True Colors, Leon plans to put together all of August Wilson’s ten plays at the Kennedy Center as a tribute to the deceased playwright.
Leon was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on September 9, 2007.
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Stage director and theater chief executive Kenny Leon (1956 - ) was the artistic director of Atlanta's Alliance Theatre and the founder of the True Colors Theatre Company. Leon's directorial achievements included the Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun; productions of an assortment of August Wilson’s plays; and the world premiere of Toni Morrison’s first opera, Margaret Garner.
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Tape: 1 Story: 1 - Slating of Kenny Leon's interview
Tape: 1 Story: 2 - Kenny Leon lists his favorites
Tape: 1 Story: 3 - Kenny Leon describes his mother's family background
Tape: 1 Story: 4 - Kenny Leon remembers being raised by his maternal grandmother
Tape: 1 Story: 5 - Kenny Leon recalls moving to St. Petersburg, Florida
Tape: 1 Story: 6 - Kenny Leon describes his grade school experiences in St. Petersburg, Florida
Tape: 1 Story: 7 - Kenny Leon describes the sights, sounds and smells of his childhood
Tape: 1 Story: 8 - Kenny Leon remembers celebrating the holidays
Tape: 1 Story: 9 - Kenny Leon talks about segregation in St. Petersburg, Florida
Tape: 1 Story: 10 - Kenny Leon remembers Macedonia Freewill Baptist Church in St. Petersburg, Florida
Tape: 1 Story: 11 - Kenny Leon recalls his early interest in acting
Tape: 1 Story: 12 - Kenny Leon talks about the Upward Bound program
Tape: 2 Story: 1 - Kenny Leon recalls his decision to attend Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia
Tape: 2 Story: 2 - Kenny Leon recalls the start of his acting career
Tape: 2 Story: 3 - Kenny Leon remembers the Civil Rights Movement in St. Petersburg, Florida
Tape: 2 Story: 4 - Kenny Leon describes the Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, California
Tape: 2 Story: 5 - Kenny Leon talks about his community theater programs
Tape: 2 Story: 6 - Kenny Leon recalls his theater experiences in Atlanta, Georgia
Tape: 2 Story: 7 - Kenny Leon remembers working with the Center Stage Theater in Baltimore, Maryland
Tape: 2 Story: 8 - Kenny Leon recalls working for the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia
Tape: 2 Story: 9 - Kenny Leon remembers August Wilson, pt. 1
Tape: 2 Story: 10 - Kenny Leon remembers August Wilson, pt. 2
Tape: 3 Story: 1 - Kenny Leon talks about his tenure at the Alliance Theatre
Tape: 3 Story: 2 - Kenny Leon recalls diversifying Alliance Theatre's staff and programming
Tape: 3 Story: 3 - Kenny Leon talks about theatre directors
Tape: 3 Story: 4 - Kenny Leon recalls leaving the Alliance Theatre
Tape: 3 Story: 5 - Kenny Leon remembers founding the True Colors Theatre Company
Tape: 3 Story: 6 - Kenny Leon recalls directing 'A Raisin in the Sun,' pt. 1
Tape: 4 Story: 1 - Kenny Leon talks about the directors of August Wilson's plays
Tape: 4 Story: 2 - Kenny Leon remembers his directorial vision for 'A Raisin in the Sun'
Tape: 4 Story: 3 - Kenny Leon recalls directing August Wilson's 'Gem of the Ocean'
Tape: 4 Story: 4 - Kenny Leon remembers directing August Wilson's 'Radio Golf'
Tape: 4 Story: 5 - Kenny Leon talks about directing 'Margaret Garner'
Tape: 4 Story: 6 - Kenny Leon describes the True Colors Theatre Company
Tape: 4 Story: 7 - Kenny Leon recalls directing 'The Wiz'
Tape: 4 Story: 8 - Kenny Leon talks about his Tony Award nominations
Tape: 4 Story: 9 - Kenny Leon describes August Wilson's 'Radio Golf'
Tape: 4 Story: 10 - Kenny Leon describes the playwrights he admires
Tape: 5 Story: 1 - Kenny Leon describes his concerns for the African American community
Tape: 5 Story: 2 - Kenny Leon reflects upon his life
Tape: 5 Story: 3 - Kenny Leon reflects upon his legacy
Tape: 5 Story: 4 - Kenny Leon describes his plans for the future
Tape: 5 Story: 5 - Kenny Leon shares a message to future generations
Kenny Leon recalls the start of his acting career
Kenny Leon remembers founding the True Colors Theatre Company
And at that time, I was a political science major and sort of a drama minor, you know what I mean, all of my electives were in theater, but I was preparing to go to law school, because that's when my mom [Annie Wilson Holtzclaw] said, "You're a first generation college student--you're going to be a minister or you're going to be a lawyer, or you're going to do something that they know." And then I went to law school for, you know, for like that long. And when I left, I went to law school in L.A. [Los Angeles, California]--Southwestern University School of Law [Southwestern Law School], and I left there and came back to Florida for a minute. I said, I can't live in Florida, so I came back to Atlanta [Georgia], and when I came back to Atlanta, I had an audition for the Academy of Music and Theater [sic. Academy Theatre], and this guy, Frank Wittow who died last year--he was a great friend of mine, he had this company that would do plays in prisons and in the school system, and I got a job doing that, working improvisationally through theatre to create plays, and then also doing it in legitimate plays, like, you know, 'Richard III' [William Shakespeare] and 'Hamlet' [William Shakespeare]. At the end of that year, he said, "Okay, so you want to come back and work for me for two hundred dollars a week, or do you want to go back to law school?" So, I was like, "Ah, I think I like this." And, at that time, I was also starting to do television commercials, because I looked a certain way at a certain time, and my mother, who was a dietician in Florida--I think she was concerned about, "Is he going to make a living," or whatever, and she was watching television with one of her patients and she said, "That's my son, that's my son." She said, "Oh, he does commercials, oh he can make a million dollars." I was like, really? So, at that point, she said "Okay, I understand, you know, okay, I understand."$$What was your first commercial?$$It was an Aaron [Aaron's, Inc.] rent furniture television commercial, and there was a thing about a man was working so hard that he was not spending any time with his mother. And at the end of the commercial, she would take this, her purse and hit the man in the stomach, and I was the man. And, so it was like a really cute, funny commercial.$I had no idea I was going to start another theater company, but then Riley Temple [HistoryMaker Riley K. Temple], who is the head of the Arena Stage board in D.C. [Washington, D.C.], and Chris Manos [Christopher B. Manos], who is the head of Theater of the Stars in Atlanta [Georgia], they both independently tried to talk me into starting a national black theater company. And I was like, why would I want to do that, I want to--you know. And, at the same time I got my first opportunity to direct 'A Raisin in the Sun' [Lorraine Hansberry] on Broadway with P. Diddy [Sean Combs; P. Diddy] and [HistoryMaker] Phylicia Rashad, so I wanted to do more of that, but you know, the weight of these two men saying, we need a national black theater company--so, I went into the room and said okay, if I had to do a theater company, what would it look like, you know? What would a national black theater look like? And to me, it would look like a theater that was all-inclusive of all people, because I wanted everyone--I didn't want to do a black theater for black people. I wanted to honor black theater, but in the midst of the broader community. So, I was like wow, if I can figure out a way to do that, it would be great. So, what I decided to do was to--at the center of the work, to do African American classics, which those plays--those are the plays that no one's doing. You know, if you're in the Alliance Theatre or the Arena Stage, or the Goodman Theatre [Chicago, Illinois], you're not doing plays by James Baldwin and Les Lee [Leslie Lee], and Zora Neale Hurston. You're not doing that, so I was like, wow, as soon as a black writer dies, that's it, you know. Their work don't get--that's it. So, and if you read James Baldwin or Langston Hughes, you're like, that was some great work. Or if you read Lorraine Hansberry's other work other than 'Raisin in the Sun,' that was some great work. And you got all these new generations of people that will never know these people, and these people were great Americans. So I was like wow, if True Colors [True Colors Theatre Company] can be the company that embrace that work--because if you're these other large regional theaters--you're only going to do the hottest thing that just left New York [New York] or just getting ready to go to New York, because it's about making your money, but you only got one space for diversity, you're only going to do one black play and one Hispanic play, so they couldn't do it. So, I was like, if we did that, that would be something no one else is doing. But, to be different, I don't want to just do all black plays, but then, let's flip that model because the model for most American theater is to do all Anglo-American work at the center. Right? And then they just diversify one or two spots on the edges for other people. So, it's like, I don't know, let's put the classics in the center, and then we'll do three or four plays by everybody else, because I'm not racist, I'm not sexist. And that's when I said that's what I would do if I was running the theater. So, Chris Manos said, "Here's fifty thousand dollars, start it." So, I was like, "Well, you know I'm not going to be able to spend all my time there because I've got to develop myself as a director." He said, "You don't need to, you just need to get it going. You need to be the inspiration, you need to be the vision for it." So, I went around the country and I asked these great people like Zelda Fichandler and all these people, and Zelda ran--you know, she started the regional theater movement--she started the Arena Stage about fifty years ago. So, I talked to all these people--Ben Cameron, and these people said, "Look--," Woodie King [HistoryMaker Woodie King, Jr.], who's a great pioneer of the black theater movement. So I talked to black folks, white folks--I talked to the great [HistoryMaker] Lloyd Richards just before he died, I talked to August Wilson, and they said, "Look, the reason these black--," and at the same time you got to remember black theaters in the last fifteen years were dying, so you had these large theaters that were trying to diversify, and they were getting a lot of funding to do that, but they were only putting in one play, one play. And then you had the black theaters that wasn't getting--they weren't getting enough money, and they were dying. So, now you have a problem in America. You don't have culturally specific theaters and you don't have the large theaters doing enough of the work--that can't do enough of the work. So, it's like wow. So we started this company to do that.$$And the name of the company? True Colors?$$True Colors Theatre, which means, you know, I promised myself to always be in pursuit of truth and clarity, and that's truth and clarity about life, about who we are. So, every play is an effort to shed some light on the truth as we know it. And sometimes that can be in a comedy, sometimes that can be in a musical, sometimes that can be in a drama.
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Ricardo Khan
Ricardo Mohamed Khan was born on November 4, 1951, in Washington, D.C., to Mustapha and Jacqueline Khan, a doctor from Trinidad and an American nurse. Khan was raised in Camden, New Jersey. In 1968, as a high school student, he went on a class trip to Broadway and saw an all-black cast perform Hello, Dolly. The trip inspired him to become active in his high school’s drama program, and the next year, he attended Rutgers University, where he studied psychology and theater. Khan earned his B.A. degree in 1973 and his M.F.A. degree in 1977, both from Rutgers University.
Khan and one of his graduate school classmates, L. Kenneth Richardson, were frustrated by the limited opportunities for African Americans in theater; they wanted roles that went beyond conventional stereotypes. In 1978, they came up with the idea for the Crossroads Theatre Company as a place to promote black theater and black artists. With help from Eric Krebs of the nearby George Street Playhouse and a government grant, the company became a reality; its first theater was the second floor of an old factory in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Crossroads Theatre Company presented their first world premier, One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show by Don Evans in 1981. In 1986, with the premiere of The Colored Museum, Crossroads was established as a distinguished regional company. The next year, Khan and Richardson launched a $1 million campaign to build a new playhouse, though Richardson left the group before the new stage was completed in 1991.
In the following years, the Crossroads Theatre Company became increasingly well-regarded; in a famous 1996 speech, playwright August Wilson described it as a role model for black theaters. Khan won a number of personal awards as well, including induction into the Rutgers University Hall of Distinguished Alumni; an honorary doctorate from his alma mater; and the New Jersey Governor’s Award. In 1999, the Crossroads Theatre Company received the Tony Award for the Best Regional Theater.
However, lingering financial problems forced the company to make major cutbacks. In 2000, Khan went on sabbatical, traveling in Trinidad and later in Africa. That same year, Crossroads had to close for a season; the next year, it was able to mount a few shows, and it has gradually built back up since. In 2003, Khan returned to his role as artistic director, and in 2008 the Crossroads Theatre Company celebrated its thirtieth anniversary.
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Stage director and artistic director Ricardo Khan (1951 - ) co-founded and was the artistic director of the Crossroads Theatre Company in New Jersey.
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Tape: 1 Story: 1 - Slating of Ricardo Khan's interview
Tape: 1 Story: 2 - Ricardo Khan lists his favorites
Tape: 1 Story: 3 - Ricardo Khan describes his mother's family background
Tape: 1 Story: 4 - Ricardo Khan describes his mother's personality and influence
Tape: 1 Story: 5 - Ricardo Khan describes his father's family background
Tape: 1 Story: 6 - Ricardo Khan describes his families' businesses
Tape: 1 Story: 7 - Ricardo Khan describes his parents' education at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Tape: 1 Story: 8 - Ricardo Khan describes how his parents met
Tape: 1 Story: 9 - Ricardo Khan recalls his father's medical residency in Norristown, Pennsylvania
Tape: 2 Story: 1 - Ricardo Khan's mother remembers her professors at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Tape: 2 Story: 2 - Ricardo Khan describes his father's personality and career
Tape: 2 Story: 3 - Ricardo Khan lists his siblings
Tape: 2 Story: 4 - Ricardo Khan describes his earliest childhood memories
Tape: 2 Story: 5 - Ricardo Khan remembers moving frequently during his childhood
Tape: 2 Story: 6 - Ricardo Khan describes his neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey
Tape: 2 Story: 7 - Ricardo Khan describes the sights, sounds and smells of his childhood
Tape: 2 Story: 8 - Ricardo Khan remembers his mother's civic involvement
Tape: 2 Story: 9 - Ricardo Khan describes his education in Quaker schools
Tape: 2 Story: 10 - Ricardo Khan describes his experiences of discrimination at the Moorestown Friends School in Moorestown, New Jersey
Tape: 3 Story: 1 - Ricardo Khan remembers the Friends Select School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tape: 3 Story: 2 - Ricardo Khan describes the music of his youth
Tape: 3 Story: 3 - Ricardo Khan recalls the televisions programs of his youth
Tape: 3 Story: 4 - Ricardo Khan remembers the Moorestown Friends School in Moorestown, New Jersey
Tape: 3 Story: 5 - Ricardo Khan recalls Cherry Hill High School West in Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Tape: 3 Story: 6 - Ricardo Khan remembers the all-black Broadway production of 'Hello, Dolly!'
Tape: 4 Story: 1 - Ricardo Khan remembers his first role as a director
Tape: 4 Story: 2 - Ricardo Khan remembers the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tape: 4 Story: 3 - Ricardo Khan recalls his theatrical involvement at Cherry Hill High School West in Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Tape: 4 Story: 4 - Ricardo Khan describes his decision to attend Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey
Tape: 4 Story: 5 - Ricardo Khan recalls his theater involvement in Camden and New Brunswick, New Jersey
Tape: 4 Story: 6 - Ricardo Khan describes his experiences at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey
Tape: 4 Story: 7 - Ricardo Khan recalls his decision to attend the Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey
Tape: 5 Story: 1 - Ricardo Khan recalls Broadway's African American productions
Tape: 5 Story: 2 - Ricardo Khan remembers the New Federal Theater in New York City
Tape: 5 Story: 3 - Ricardo Khan describes the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, pt. 1
Tape: 5 Story: 5 - Ricardo Khan remembers founding the Crossroads Theatre Company
Tape: 5 Story: 6 - Ricardo Khan recalls naming his theater company
Tape: 5 Story: 7 - Ricardo Khan describes the mission of the Crossroads Theatre
Tape: 6 Story: 1 - Ricardo Khan describes the Crossroads Theatre's opening season
Tape: 6 Story: 2 - Ricardo Khan describes the Crossroads Theatre's audiences
Tape: 6 Story: 3 - Ricardo Khan describes the Crossroad Theatre's awards
Tape: 6 Story: 4 - Ricardo Khan remembers his directorial influences
Tape: 6 Story: 5 - Ricardo Khan recalls his production of 'The Darker Face of the Earth'
Tape: 6 Story: 6 - Ricardo Khan describes the Crossroads Theatre's production of 'Jitney'
Tape: 6 Story: 7 - Ricardo Khan describes the Crossroads Theatre's financial difficulties, pt. 1
Tape: 7 Story: 2 - Ricardo Khan remembers his departure from the Crossroads Theatre
Tape: 7 Story: 3 - Ricardo Khan talks about the closure of the Crossroads Theatre
Tape: 7 Story: 4 - Ricardo Khan describes Crossroad Theatre's funding
Tape: 7 Story: 5 - Ricardo Khan reflects upon the challenges facing black theater companies
Tape: 7 Story: 6 - Ricardo Khan describes his return to the Crossroads Theatre
Tape: 7 Story: 7 - Ricardo Khan reflects upon his reasons for leaving the Crossroad Theatre
Tape: 7 Story: 8 - Ricardo Khan describes his hopes for the African American theater community
Tape: 8 Story: 1 - Ricardo Khan narrates his photographs, pt. 1
Ricardo Khan remembers the all-black Broadway production of 'Hello, Dolly!'
Ricardo Khan remembers founding the Crossroads Theatre Company
So you're a junior in high school [Cherry Hill High School West, Cherry Hill, New Jersey] at this point?$$Yeah.$$And so you're in 'Funny Girl' [Isobel Lennart] in this, in this performance?$$That's right.$$And so where are you performing?$$In the high school. It was a (simultaneous)--$$(Simultaneous) Oh, I thought it was like a downtown audition.$$No, it was the high school musical--$$I understand. I understand.$$It was the high school musical, and that was the weirdest thing for me. It was like you're going to be a guy in the dancing, words going to get out (laughter). But I just turned it around, I said, oh my god, I love this, I could do this. So that year Benny [Benny White (ph.)] and I were in this musical, 'Funny Girl,' and I'm more into--I tend to like acting, but he always loved dance. But his mother, her name was Peggy White [ph.], god bless her soul, she would always prior to this take us out to see plays, like community theater and stuff like that. There were these things in the Camden [New Jersey] area called the music fairs where there's this big tent and underneath the tent they had seats and they had professional summer stock shows that would come through, musicals and things. She would always take us to these things. Also in Jack and Jill [Jack and Jill of America, Inc.], which is where, we would always go out to these shows and functions and every month was something different. One month it may be to go skiing, one month it may be to--one month we sat with a Black Panther who taught us things about movement at that time and one month in that junior year in 1968, the trip was to go to a Broadway show. Now, none of us had ever gone to a Broadway show before. We lived there in Camden and in Cherry Hill [New Jersey] and we went, got on the bus and it drove us up. All these Jack and Jillers to see a show on Broadway, 'Hello, Dolly!' [Michael Stewart], and what was remarkable about it, we didn't really know anything about it, was when we got in there, 'Hello, Dolly!' had become a big hit. It was produced by David Merrick and Carol Channing, the people that had made it famous. It won all these Tony Awards [Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre] but when we got there it was an all-black cast. Pearl Bailey was the lead and Cab Calloway. Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway and an all-black cast of 'Hello, Dolly!' of all things, 'Hello, Dolly!,' which has nothing to do with our culture at all. It was based on 'The Matchmaker' [Thornton Wilder], it was incredible but it was amazing that we were there doing it. All of sudden Broadway which is the center of theater in the world and the best show on Broadway at the time that we could be that, that we could be the best, no, no, no. Unbelievable what that did to us, these kids who hopped on a bus in Camden, New Jersey to come up to New York City [New York, New York] to see a show on Broadway and look up there and see that these people up there look just like us. Never ever could I come up with the words that properly describe this impact. But there was one thing that happened even more powerful and that was that at the end of the play we get back on the bus to go back to Camden and we're on the bus and a couple of the people from the play--from the show come out onto the bus and look at us kids and say, "You know what, we just wanted to thank you for coming." These guys, they were in this Broadway show and they came onto our bus to thank us for coming and then we asked them questions, they answered us back and all of a sudden there was a dialogue between us and these Broadway people who looked like us. I think that was the most powerful thing for me because it showed me that it doesn't matter how big you are, it doesn't matter how big you are, how bright your star is. Always remember where you came from, always remember that part of your role is excellence on stage or in film or whatever you're pursuing but the other part is to give back and I learned that that day.$But I had a meeting right after that with a friend of mine who by that time was working at CETA [Comprehensive Employment and Training Act], and he gave me the ins and outs of it. I applied, sent in a grant through the George Street Playhouse [New Brunswick, New Jersey] because we needed an umbrella organization; George Street said they'd do it. I wrote the grant, we put it in through George Street, they did some talking, I did some talking, we got a grant for basically--what came up to about $230,000 in 1978 to start what was called the ethnic theater project because we weren't allowed to use the word black (laughter). We got $230,000 and we were allowed to hire about twenty two people with that money. Actors, administrators, production people, public relations, everybody we needed to start a black theater in New Brunswick [New Jersey]. We found this little hole in a wall place it used to be a sewing factory. Half of the second floor was available, it had been vacant for a long time, we got in there, we got the money--the CETA money. The first thing we did was we had to renovate, and while we were renovating we were doing workshops. We sent workshops out in the communities the same way I learned how to do it in that other CETA project, we did it here 'cause I figure you know what, we needed to break down the barriers between the community, which at that time was primarily black and Hispanic, and theater which was formal to them. We also wanted to break down the barriers between the traditional theater going audience which is predominantly white and the black theater which they didn't think they could be a part of. So that's what the workshops are for, we went out and we did workshops everywhere to teach whatever we could to people and let them know we're here. Then we did an open house and fourteen people showed up and then we did it again and I think twenty people showed up, and then we finally were ready to rehearse a show, and now this is in 1979, early part of it. The first show we did was 'First Breeze of Summer' ['The First Breeze of Summer'] written Leslie Lee and we did that show and of course because we had that funding from CETA, we didn't have to charge for tickets, it was all free, and it was a big, big hit and that was what started the Crossroads Theatre Company.
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Billie Allen
Actor, dancer, director Billie Allen was born Wilhelmina Louise Allen on January 13, 1925 in Richmond, Virginia to Mamie Wimbush Allen and William Roswell Allen. Allen grew up in Richmond’s West End, attending Randolph Street School and Elba Elementary School before graduating from Armstrong High School in 1941. At Hampton University, Allen was inspired by Romare Bearden and mentored by Billie Davis. Drawn to show business, Allen moved to New York City in 1943 to take ballet classes and to study acting at the Lee Strasbourg Institute. Soon, Allen was dancing professionally and auditioning for stage roles.
In 1949, Allen was featured in the film Souls of Sin with Jimmy Wright and William Greaves. In 1953, Allen performed in the Broadway play, Take A Giant Step with Lou Gossett, Godfrey Cambridge and Lincoln Kilpatrick. She was cast as “WAC Billie” in five episodes of television’s Phil Silvers’ Show from 1955 to 1959. During this period, she also played Ada Chandler in the soap opera, The Edge of Night. In 1964, Allen was cast in Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro, and in 1990, directed the play’s revival. She also portrayed “Vertel” in the movie Black Like Me in 1964 and appeared on stage in James Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie. Since the 1960s, Allen was cast in a number of movies and television programs including Route 66, Car 54, Where Are You, The Wiz, Winter Kills, The Vernon Johns Story, Eddie Murphy Raw, and Law and Order. In the early 1980s, Allen directed the off-Broadway play Home featuring Samuel L. Jackson, and in 2001, she directed Saint Lucy’s Eyes starring Ruby Dee.
Allen was a founding member of the Women’s Project and Productions and served as a founding member and co-president of the League of Professional Theatre Women. In 1973, Allen with Morgan Freeman, Garland Lee Thompson and Clayton Riley founded Harlem’s Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop. She interviewed Rosetta LeNoire, Julia Miles and Ruby Dee for the theatre archives of the Library of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, and in 1999 and 2000, served as a voting member of the Tony Awards nominating board. Allen married the late composer, Luther Henderson with whom she received the 2002 Audelco “VIV” Pioneer Awards. She had two children.
Allen passed away on December 29, 2015 at age 90.
Women\'s Project Theater
Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop
League of Professional Theatre Women
Armstrong High School
Elba Elementary School
Yankee Bean Soup With Meatballs
Actress and stage director Billie Allen (1925 - 2015 ) performed in The Wiz, Route 66, and Law and Order. Active in promoting the arts, Allen was a founding member of the Women's Project and Productions, and served as a founding member and co-president for the League of Professional Theatre Women.
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Tape: 1 Story: 1 - Slating of Billie Allen's interview
Tape: 1 Story: 2 - Billie Allen lists her favorites
Tape: 1 Story: 3 - Billie Allen describes her mother's family background
Tape: 1 Story: 4 - Billie Allen describes the women in her maternal family
Tape: 1 Story: 5 - Billie Allen describes her mother's civil rights activism
Tape: 1 Story: 6 - Billie Allen describes her mother's teaching career
Tape: 1 Story: 7 - Billie Allen describes her father's family background
Tape: 1 Story: 8 - Billie Allen describes her parents' involvement in African American society
Tape: 2 Story: 1 - Billie Allen describes her parents' personalities
Tape: 2 Story: 2 - Billie Allen describes her earliest childhood memory
Tape: 2 Story: 3 - Billie Allen describes her siblings
Tape: 2 Story: 4 - Billie Allen describes her family's move to Richmond, Virginia
Tape: 2 Story: 5 - Billie Allen describes the sights, sounds and smells of her childhood
Tape: 2 Story: 6 - Billie Allen recalls her grade school experiences in Richmond, Virginia
Tape: 2 Story: 7 - Billie Allen talks about the role of music in her childhood
Tape: 2 Story: 8 - Billie Allen describes her early activities in Richmond, Virginia
Tape: 3 Story: 1 - Billie Allen recalls the entertainers she admired
Tape: 3 Story: 2 - Billie Allen remembers the release of 'Gone with the Wind'
Tape: 3 Story: 3 - Billie Allen remembers Armstrong High School in Richmond, Virginia
Tape: 3 Story: 4 - Billie Allen recalls her influential teachers at Armstrong High School
Tape: 3 Story: 5 - Billie Allen recalls the segregated transit system in Richmond, Virginia
Tape: 3 Story: 6 - Billie Allen describes her studies at Armstrong High School
Tape: 3 Story: 7 - Billie Allen remembers the Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia
Tape: 3 Story: 8 - Billie Allen describes her social life at the Hampton Institute
Tape: 4 Story: 1 - Billie Allen recalls her decision to move to New York City
Tape: 4 Story: 2 - Billie Allen recalls the arts community in New York City
Tape: 4 Story: 3 - Billie Allen recalls meeting African American actors in New York City
Tape: 4 Story: 4 - Billie Allen recalls her first film role
Tape: 4 Story: 5 - Billie Allen remembers training under Lee Strasberg
Tape: 4 Story: 6 - Billie Allen talks about her role on 'The Phil Silvers Show'
Tape: 5 Story: 1 - Billie Allen recalls being cast in a soap commercial
Tape: 5 Story: 2 - Billie Allen describes her role in 'The Edge of Night'
Tape: 5 Story: 3 - Billie Allen talks about the play 'Blues for Mister Charlie'
Tape: 5 Story: 4 - Billie Allen remembers acting in 'Funnyhouse of the Negro,' pt. 1
Tape: 5 Story: 6 - Billie Allen talks about her career as an actress in New York
Tape: 5 Story: 7 - Billie Allen recalls the Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop
Tape: 5 Story: 8 - Billie Allen talks about her screen acting career
Tape: 6 Story: 1 - Billie Allen talks about her recent acting roles
Tape: 6 Story: 2 - Billie Allen describes her organizational affiliations
Tape: 6 Story: 3 - Billie Allen reflects upon the variety of her character roles
Tape: 6 Story: 4 - Billie Allen talks about her plans for the future
Tape: 6 Story: 5 - Billie Allen describes her hopes for the African American community
Tape: 6 Story: 6 - Billie Allen reflects upon her legacy
Tape: 6 Story: 7 - Billie Allen talks about her family
Tape: 6 Story: 8 - Billie Allen describes how she would like to be remembered
Tape: 6 Story: 9 - Billie Allen narrates her photographs, pt. 1
Billie Allen describes her mother's civil rights activism
Billie Allen recalls her first film role
Now was your mother [Mamie Wimbush Allen] like an early member of the NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]?$$Oh yes, oh yes and she, she was like the mentor to Gloster Current [Gloster B. Current]. And the Church of the Master, was that Jimmy--and we--the NAACP was a great part of my social life. As a matter of fact because we went to the national conventions every year. And, you know, that's where my social life was. I met other people my age, teenagers or children or whatever it was, and we kept in touch, and it was like a network. No matter where you went, you knew somebody. But we were made aware of the issues and the struggle and my mother, she said, "You are no breath- you are no better than the least of your brethren. And you may not look down, you may bring them up."$$Now what--is there a story behind how she became the--not that it's unnatural, but a lot of people aren't activist? Is there a story that--behind her activism (simultaneous)?$$(Simultaneous) Well I think that--it seems to me those women were born in what we call struggle. And they were aware of that--this is what we have to do this is why we are put here. And this is what we have to do. And you may be privileged 'cause your folks could read and went to college, but you have to share that. You have to share that. I don't know what incident in her life but I think it was just handed down. I know that it's a set--Atlanta [Georgia] was a very, very progressive city at that time. A lot of black-owned businesses, I mean, and homes and very enterprising. And they always bragged about that as a matter of fact, they said, "Oh well in Atlanta we owned everything." In Atlanta we had our pharmacists and so forth. And I thought that everybody had a black woman doctor if they wanted one because my birth was attended by a black woman doctor, Marie Jeanette Jones, we called her Dr. Janie. Can you imagine that, in 1925? It was amazing because of when I came through New York [New York] to work in the theater, I was doing improvisation. So I decided that my character wanted to be a doctor so, we--when we were being critiqued, the improvisation. This woman who was white she said, "Why couldn't you be something reasonable like a nurse or a secretary?" So she said, "There are no black doctors, there are no Negro doctors," then. And then I had to give her a little history lesson right there on the spot, you know. And tell her about Doctor Marie Jeanette Jones, who got her medical degree at Tufts [sic.] and practiced in Richmond, Virginia, with her husband who was also an M.D., Dr. Miles B. Jones. They practiced in tandem from that big stone mansion in the middle of town. And we were well attended (simultaneous).$$(Simultaneous) That's, that's--$$I think that was a decided advantage in my life because I never lacked for women heroes or black heroes. And you see during that time there were no hotels where Paul Robeson and Roland Hayes, Marian Anderson, and all these people could stay when they came. When they did these concerts with--my mother belonged to this club called the treble clef music and book lovers club. And they met the first Thursday of every month, and these women would prepare a reading or piano solo or they would present Langston Hughes. Give him a book party, and he'd talk about this new book he had just written. Or Muriel Ryan [ph.] would come there, and that's where I met [HistoryMaker] Katherine Dunham and this is what they would do because they wanted to keep abreast of everything. And they wanted the children to appreciate our heritage and appreciate--$$Okay.$$--our lives.$I also got a call from this black filmmaker named Bill Alexander [William D. Alexander], who said he wanted me to act in this film, and I said, "But I'm not an actor, I'm a dancer." And he said, "No, everybody tells me that you would perfect." Well, what, no you don't have to audition. He said, "I got to make this film before, I think, the first of the year," and I had something to do with taxes or alimony or something. And he had to make this film, so I thought, oh, how much do I make? He said, "Seventy-five [dollars] for a day." I said, "Wow," you know, oh yeah, 'cause I was about making seventy [dollars] a week or something like that. So I decided to do it. And I said, but you must know, here's, here's the deal. I didn't have an agent 'cause he called me direct. I didn't know about agents so much. I said, "I will do it, but you have to pay me each day after we shoot, seventy-five dollars. And the day you don't pay me is the day you don't see me again the next day, it's finished." That's what we agreed to. So who was in the film? Jimmy Edwards [sic. Jimmy Wright] and Della Reese [sic.], a lot of people in this film. It was called 'Souls of Sin.' Well, it ended up in a warehouse in Tyler, Texas. It was stored away somewhere, and I thought, nobody's ever gonna see this film. Oh, I kept my job at Macy's [R.H. Macy and Co.; Macy's, Inc.] because my friends punched me in every day at the time clock. And I went over on my lunch hour and made a lot of noise so everybody'd see me. And then they'd punch me in for overtime, and I split my salary with them, I gave the half my salary. And so I had half my salary from Macy's plus seventy-five dollars a day from film. So I was rich when I went home, and my nieces who became filmmakers when they finished Harvard [Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts] and Brown [Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island] were living in California. This is years after they went to see these, this black film festival. They started screaming, "That's Aunt Billie [HistoryMaker Billie Allen], oh my god, that's Aunt Billie." And they got on the phone, well this turned out to be a big cult thing, that (simultaneous)--$$(Simultaneous) What's the name of the film again?$$'Souls of Sin.'$$'Souls of Sin.'$$Jimmy Edwards, you know who else was in it? What the name of--he's a filmmaker now. Carter, Terry Carter, Terry Carter [sic.]. I think that is, well he's in it, and it was hilarious. I never--I was always afraid to look at it, 'cause I hadn't studied yet. I was just doing it, and I think I was the only one that really got paid. The other people are interested in honing their craft and being, having a film. I was not an actor, I was not honing any craft. I was in debt (laughter) but it worked out. And it got me interested, then as a dancer, Elia Kazan came to see me dance in some show I was in, and auditioned me for 'Camino Real,' Tennessee Williams' play. Eli Wallach was--so I did all these things, improvisations with Eli Wallach, and I mean I was learning a lot and I didn't mind.$$Now about what year was this, this is about what year? Are the--like 'Souls of Sin.' What, about what year was that (simultaneous)?$$(Simultaneous) I'm trying to think--$$Can you--$$Before children, it was before children.$$Yeah 'cause you left Hampton [Hampton Institute; Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia], was it '44 [1944] or so?$$No, this was like the late '50s [sic.].$$Oh this late, we've already gotten late '50s [1950s]. Now, we're in the late '50s [1950s] now, yeah?$$I think so.
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Marjorie Moon
Theatre producer and director Marjorie Moon was born on May 14, 1946, in Kokomo, Indiana. For over thirty years, Moon served as the President and Executive Director of the Billie Holiday Theatre in Brooklyn, New York. Moon’s passion for theater began early as she spent time at the Karamu House Theater in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1964, Moon received her diploma from Collinwood High School; around the same time, she became one of the youngest members in the Cleveland Women’s Orchestra. In 1968, Moon earned her B.A. degree from Ohio University and went on to complete her studies at Temple University in 1970 with an M.A. degree.
Moon began her professional career teaching acting at Hampton University. Moving to New York in 1973, Moon became the Executive Director of the Billie Holiday Theatre in Brooklyn, a theatre that has provided African American playwrights, set-builders, and other creative individuals an arena to work and nurture their talents.
As a director, Moon has worked on several plays, including Weldon Irvine’s Young, Gifted and Broke, which ran for eight months and won four prestigious AUDELCO Awards. Moon also directed a production of Over Forty at the New Freedom Theatre in Philadelphia. As a producer, Moon produced more than 150 productions. In 1981, Inacent Black, a play originally produced at the Billie Holiday Theatre, opened on Broadway, starring Melba Moore.
Moon received several awards for her work in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York. In 2005, the Billie Holiday Theatre received a $900,000 grant for its line-up of new plays.
Stage Producer
Coalition of Theatres of Color
Collinwood High School
Rosedale Elementary School
We Can Do It.
Barbecue (Chicken)
Stage director and stage producer Marjorie Moon (1946 - ) served as the president and executive director of the Billie Holiday Theatre, in addition to directing and producing several plays.
Billie Holiday Theatre
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Tape: 1 Story: 1 - Slating of Marjorie Moon's interview
Tape: 1 Story: 2 - Marjorie Moon lists her favorites
Tape: 1 Story: 3 - Marjorie Moon describes her mother's family background
Tape: 1 Story: 4 - Marjorie Moon describes her father's family background
Tape: 1 Story: 5 - Marjorie Moon describes her father's career
Tape: 1 Story: 6 - Marjorie Moon describes her paternal aunt
Tape: 1 Story: 7 - Marjorie Moon talks about her parents' education
Tape: 1 Story: 8 - Marjorie Moon describes her earliest childhood memory
Tape: 1 Story: 9 - Marjorie Moon recalls attending churches in Cleveland, Ohio
Tape: 1 Story: 10 - Marjorie Moon recalls attending churches in Cleveland, Ohio
Tape: 2 Story: 1 - Marjorie Moon talks about her sister
Tape: 2 Story: 2 - Marjorie Moon describes her childhood holidays
Tape: 2 Story: 3 - Marjorie Moon remembers her exposure to theater at Rosedale Elementary School
Tape: 2 Story: 4 - Marjorie Moon describes the sights, sounds and smells of her childhood
Tape: 2 Story: 5 - Marjorie Moon recalls the development of her racial identity
Tape: 2 Story: 6 - Marjorie Moon remembers playing the double bass in junior high school
Tape: 2 Story: 7 - Marjorie Moon recalls playing double bass in the Cleveland Women's Orchestra
Tape: 2 Story: 8 - Marjorie Moon remembers Collinwood High School in Cleveland, Ohio
Tape: 2 Story: 9 - Marjorie Moon remembers her bass audition for Ohio University
Tape: 2 Story: 10 - Marjorie Moon recalls the African American actors at Cleveland's Karamu House
Tape: 2 Story: 11 - Marjorie Moon describes her interest in psychology
Tape: 3 Story: 1 - Marjorie Moon recalls the image of Emmett Till in Jet magazine
Tape: 3 Story: 2 - Marjorie Moon describes her experiences of discrimination in Athens, Ohio
Tape: 3 Story: 3 - Marjorie Moon recalls the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tape: 3 Story: 4 - Marjorie Moon recalls her refusal to be cast in a stereotyped role at Ohio University
Tape: 3 Story: 5 - Marjorie Moon remembers her aspiration to become an actress
Tape: 3 Story: 6 - Marjorie Moon recalls teaching at Hampton Institute
Tape: 3 Story: 7 - Marjorie Moon remembers the murder of her brother-in-law
Tape: 3 Story: 8 - Marjorie Moon recalls her decision to move to New York City
Tape: 3 Story: 9 - Marjorie Moon remembers her auditions in New York City
Tape: 3 Story: 10 - Marjorie Moon recalls becoming the director of the Billy Holiday Theatre
Tape: 3 Story: 11 - Marjorie Moon recalls directing 'Sunshine Loving' at the Billie Holiday Theatre
Tape: 4 Story: 1 - Marjorie Moon talks about African American theater in the 1970s
Tape: 4 Story: 2 - Marjorie Moon remembers directing 'Inacent Black and the Five Brothers'
Tape: 4 Story: 3 - Marjorie Moon recalls her Broadway production of 'Inacent Black and the Five Brothers'
Tape: 4 Story: 4 - Marjorie Moon remembers closing 'Inacent Black and the Five Brothers'
Tape: 4 Story: 5 - Marjorie Moon describes New York City's African American theater companies
Tape: 4 Story: 6 - Marjorie Moon describes the Coalition of Theaters of Color
Tape: 4 Story: 7 - Marjorie Moon describes actors who came out of the New York City theater community
Tape: 4 Story: 8 - Marjorie Moon describes the role of the Billie Holiday Theatre
Tape: 5 Story: 1 - Marjorie Moon talks about African American stage technicians
Tape: 5 Story: 2 - Marjorie Moon reflects upon her mission at the Billie Holiday Theatre
Tape: 5 Story: 3 - Marjorie Moon describes the planned renovations to the Billie Holiday Theatre
Tape: 5 Story: 4 - Marjorie Moon talks about the name of the Billie Holiday Theatre
Tape: 5 Story: 5 - Marjorie Moon talks about 'Free the Peoples'
Tape: 5 Story: 6 - Marjorie Moon talks about the playwrights whose work she staged
Tape: 5 Story: 7 - Marjorie Moon describes the Billie Holiday Theatre's community programming
Tape: 5 Story: 8 - Marjorie Moon talks about playwright T.R. Riggins
Tape: 5 Story: 9 - Marjorie Moon talks about the community of Brooklyn, New York
Tape: 5 Story: 10 - Marjorie Moon describes the opportunities for African Americans on Broadway
Tape: 5 Story: 11 - Marjorie Moon talks about Ramona King's play, 'Steal Away'
Tape: 5 Story: 12 - Marjorie Moon reflects upon her career at the Billie Holiday Theatre
Tape: 5 Story: 13 - Marjorie Moon talks about nontraditional casting
Tape: 5 Story: 14 - Marjorie Moon shares her hopes for the Billie Holiday Theatre
Marjorie Moon recalls the development of her racial identity
Marjorie Moon talks about the playwrights whose work she staged
Before we move on to your high school years [at Collinwood High School, Cleveland, Ohio], can you tell me when it was that you remember either being told or becoming aware that you were black, in a sense that, you know, you're black (simultaneous)?$$(Simultaneous) Oh I know exactly when, I was six years old at Rosedale [Rosedale Elementary School, Cleveland, Ohio]. I had two friends, Rhonda [ph.] and Kenneth [ph.]. And every May 23rd, I'll wake up and say, "Oh Happy Birthday Rhonda and Kenneth." And--and they were white. And, so one day we were walking home from school. They lived two blocks from where I lived and so we could walk the same way. And about six really big guys, I think they were high schoolers. You know, when you're six years old, you don't have to be but so old to be bigger than what we were at the time. And they surrounded us. They surrounded us and it looked like they had a gun. I--I really didn't know what a real gun looked like, so. "Ah, okay. We'll keep the nigger, let's let these other two go. We'll keep the nigger." I got so happy, I got so happy, "Oh my name's Margie [HistoryMaker Marjorie Moon], I'm not nigger. My name's Margie. You got the wrong person." You know, and it was the oddest thing, and I was convinced they had the wrong person until they left. I mean, they--in other words I guess it was no fun for them because I was not intimidated, scared by what they were saying, because I thought they had the wrong person, you know. And then, Rhonda and Kenneth said to me as we were walking, as they left us and we walked on--continued to walk on, "You know, Margie we don't think of you as any different. You know, you--you've always been our friend, we don't--." I'm thinking, what are they talking about? And so I went home, "Mommy [Ruth Black Moon] what is a nigger?" Six years old. And the shame. I mean, my friends knew something about me that I didn't know. And--and mother also knew something about it and I'm--I'm not--I'm saying, my goodness, it--it makes you feel extremely insecure because there--there's something that--there's something about you and somehow you feel like it's just you when you're that young too, you know. And--and there's something about you. And the other thing that was really kind of--kind of horrible was that, my mother is very fair. And my father [William Moon] is a little browner then myself and oh, more, yeah browner than me. And so, then I began to get into the color thing. Just instantaneously, all of that began to seem to happen and I became aware of it. And it--it--it really is, it's unfortunate. It's a very negative thing.$$How did you become over the color thing, what--explain it to me?$$Well--$$That she was lighter, so she was better than he was because he was darker?$$Well, at least she was getting closer to the, to the color of choice obviously where that was favored. I mean, you know, what did I know? I mean, I'm trying to understand this and I'm not sure why she's like that and my father's different, you know. And--and my mother, in her family too, she has a--her older sister and she look alike, and then she has two very ebony other sisters. And so, I--I began to--to wonder what that was about. And her father [Frank Black] was very fair and had--when I see him he'd have this gray beard and this gray hair, and I thought he was Santa Claus. I mean, you know, I mean in other words he just--because he looked almost white. So, those things, you know, kids, it's amazing what they can think and, and starts germinating. That's why we gotta work with them when they are young and--and try to bring out questions they might have, because you never know what they're thinking and how they can be thinking wrong. But that was a real turning point, which obviously I remember it because there--there was, you know, there was that fear factor that was in there when they first surrounded us as children. And then I'm thinking, what do they mean, they don't see me as different because I had never seen myself as different. It's amazing that perception, that gets in your head and it can really do some damage. Yeah. So, yeah, I--I remember (laughter).$We didn't talk about, and I guess we should, sort of African American playwrights that you may have helped to cultivate their talents? I know you made--or you can just tell me some of the people you've worked with to help cultivate their talents.$$Okay. Well, Joyce Sylvester. She--she's been around for about five years in terms as a playwright and we've done all of her plays, which have been wonderful. She has a unique pulse to the community which is what we're really looking for. Well before that, Samm-Art Williams who wrote 'Home' and even received a Tony [Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre] nomination for 'Home.'$$Right, and 'Home' was what got you back on your feet after the Broadway?$$No, we didn't do 'Home' after that.$$No? Okay.$$No, no, no, no. We have not done 'Home' actually. But, we did two plays of his before he was even--we did his first productions period in New York [New York]. He hadn't been produced anywhere else before Billie Holiday Theatre [New York, New York]. So, and so, he went on, not only did he do 'Home' and got all of those awards and accolades, but he went on to Hollywood and became a television producer with 'Martin,' 'Hangin' with Mr. Cooper,' 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' ['The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'] and just on and on and on. And he's--he's a prolific writer. We've done plays of his since, but we were the first to do his. Another one, John, who's left is John Henry Redwood, wrote 'Old Settler' ['The Old Settler], and that was done in the city and that was also done by HBO and Debbie Allen and Phylicia, her sister, [HistoryMaker] Phylicia Rashad were the two older women in 'Old Settler.' And Debbie also directed it. Well, we did his very first play, which was 'Mark VIII:xxxvi' [John Henry Redwood] and we did that in 1986. He and his wife came to visit me and they said that they wanted to rent the theater [Billie Holiday Theatre, New York, New York]. And I don't know there was something that caught me about them and I said, "Well, why don't you let me read the play?" And so I did and it was about switching babies at birth. Now this had not been in the news at all, and there was a white family and black family. The white family was a senator and his wife, and the black family was a poor family. It was really, it was quite dynamic. It really--you heard about it a lot now, but back then you really hadn't. And so, we did it. It was the first time it had ever been produced and I'm very proud of that. And we produced a couple of others of his since then. And he's passed a couple years ago, but he was a wonderful writer. Weldon Irvine, I must've done about fifteen of his plays, musicals, 'Over Forty.' The book was by Celeste Walker, but Weldon wrote the lyrics and the music, and we took that around the country for a little bit. It was--it was truly wonderful, about women fearing becoming forty years old.$$It's called 'Over Forty' the title, yeah?$$'Over Forty,' yeah, yeah. And Cliff Roquemore, we did his 'Lotto' ['Lotto: Experience the Dream,' Cliff Roquemore] about a family in California winning ten thou- $10 million. A rags-to-riches story that the audience loved, course people love rags-to-riches stories all the time. Did a play that I was really proud to do and it was really quite poignant and dynamic, it's called 'Boochie' [Mari Evans], it was about child abuse. And it was about the--why a woman allowed her man to correct (air quotes), abuse her child. The psychological dynamics in that relationship that she felt that she was supporting him and she didn't wanna tear him down and she wanted to give him the authorization to be a constructive figure to her child in her child's life. And it was--it was dynamic. And--so, and we got to have discussions afterwards. It was a very important subject matter and I was very pleased to be able to do it.
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Maurice Hines, Jr.
Choreographer, dancer, actor and director Maurice Robert Hines, Jr. was born on December 13, 1943 in New York City. His parents were Alma Hines and Maurice Hines, Sr. He is the brother of the late jazz tap dancer and actor, Gregory Hines. A graduate of Jose Quintanos School for Young Professionals, Hines began studying tap dancing in New York City at age five at the Henry LeTang Dance Studio in 1948. LeTang realized his pupil’s gift for dance and began choreographing numbers tailored for Hines and his younger brother Gregory.
In 1954, when Hines was 10 years old, he and Gregory appeared in the Broadway musical comedy The Girl in Pink Tights. Following in the footsteps of the famed Nicholas brothers, they soon began appearing on stage throughout the country. They toured as the opening act for such headliners as Lionel Hampton and Gypsy Rose Lee. Their father joined the act as a drummer, and the threesome became known as Hines, Hines & Dad, performing to rave reviews in New York, Las Vegas and Europe. They made television appearances on The Pearl Bailey Show, Hollywood Palace and appeared 35 times on The Tonight Show.
In 1973, Hines began his solo career singing and dancing as Nathan Detroit in the hit musical National Touring Company of Guys and Dolls with Debbie Allen and Richard Roundtree. After his performance, Hines created a sensation in the hit Broadway musical Eubie, which opened at the Ambassador Theatre in New York on September 20, 1978 and closed October 7, 1979. The show also starred his brother Gregory and was choreographed by Henry LeTang. In 1981, Hines returned to Broadway with his performance in Bring Back Birdie with Chita Rivera. That same year, he also appeared in Sophisticated Ladies.
Turning his talents to the big screen, Hines made his film debut in 1984, in Francis Ford Coppola’s Cotton Club and during that same time with Mercedes Ellington formed Ballet Tap USA, a dance company. In 1986, he conceived, directed, choreographed, and starred in the musical Uptown…It’s Hot!. The show played for seventeen sold-out weeks in Atlantic City before moving to Broadway where Hines received a Tony Award nomination as Best Actor in a Musical. He went on to direct several theater productions including the National Tour of the musical Harlem Suite with leading ladies Jennifer Holiday, Stephanie Mills and Melba Moore and internationally the musical Havana Night in Cuba.
In 2006, Hines collaborated on a new Broadway dance musical, Hot Feet, with Maurice White, the creator of the renown R&B group Earth, Wind and Fire and also released a jazz album, To Nat King Cole with Love.
Hines resides in New York City.
Hines was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on January 9, 2007.
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Tape: 1 Story: 1 - Slating of Maurice Hines, Jr. interview, session 1
Tape: 1 Story: 2 - Maurice Hines, Jr. lists his favorites
Tape: 1 Story: 3 - Maurice Hines, Jr. describes his mother's family background
Tape: 1 Story: 4 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls walking with his brother on Harlem's Lenox Avenue
Tape: 1 Story: 5 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls his and his brother's first dance lessons
Tape: 1 Story: 6 - Maurice Hines, Jr. describes his father's family background
Tape: 1 Story: 7 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls the start of his father's drumming career
Tape: 1 Story: 8 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls his early performances at New York City's Apollo Theater
Tape: 1 Story: 9 - Maurice Hines, Jr. describes his childhood in New York City's Harlem neighborhood
Tape: 1 Story: 10 - Maurice Hines, Jr. describes the role of religion in his childhood
Tape: 1 Story: 11 - Maurice Hines, Jr. describes his family
Tape: 1 Story: 12 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls his maternal uncle paying for his dance lessons
Tape: 1 Story: 13 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls seeing the Nicholas brothers for the first time
Tape: 2 Story: 1 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls Bill "Bojangles" Robinson's performances with Shirley Temple
Tape: 2 Story: 2 - Maurice Hines, Jr. remembers African American tap dancers
Tape: 2 Story: 3 - Maurice Hines, Jr. remembers Harlem's dance culture in the 1950s
Tape: 2 Story: 4 - Maurice Hines, Jr. remembers his early dance training
Tape: 2 Story: 5 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls his first Broadway role
Tape: 2 Story: 6 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls his mother acting as his business manager
Tape: 2 Story: 7 - Maurice Hines, Jr. describes his experiences of discrimination in Miami, Florida
Tape: 2 Story: 8 - Maurice Hines, Jr. how African American artists were received in Europe
Tape: 2 Story: 9 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls the formation of Hines, Hines and Dad
Tape: 2 Story: 10 - Maurice Hines, Jr. remembers Johnny Carson's support
Tape: 2 Story: 11 - Maurice Hines, Jr. describes the changes in the entertainment industry
Tape: 2 Story: 12 - Maurice Hines, Jr. remembers working with Ella Fitzgerald
Tape: 3 Story: 1 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls opening for Ella Fitzgerald in Las Vegas, Nevada
Tape: 3 Story: 2 - Maurice Hines, Jr. remembers meeting Tallulah Bankhead in Las Vegas, Nevada
Tape: 3 Story: 3 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls portraying Nathan Detroit in 'Guys and Dolls'
Tape: 3 Story: 4 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls his and his brother's career changes
Tape: 3 Story: 5 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls the end of his act with his brother, Gregory Hines
Tape: 3 Story: 6 - Maurice Hines, Jr. remembers performing in 'Sophisticated Ladies'
Tape: 3 Story: 7 - Maurice Hines, Jr. talks about the importance of respect
Tape: 3 Story: 8 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls his early choreography
Tape: 3 Story: 9 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls performing with his brother in 'Eubie!'
Tape: 3 Story: 10 - Maurice Hines, Jr. remembers acting with his brother in 'The Cotton Club'
Tape: 3 Story: 11 - Maurice Hines, Jr. remembers collaborating with Maurice White on 'Hot Feet'
Tape: 4 Story: 1 - Maurice Hines, Jr. describes the reviews of his musical, 'Hot Feet'
Tape: 4 Story: 2 - Maurice Hines, Jr. shares his perspective on Broadway critics
Tape: 4 Story: 3 - Maurice Hines, Jr. describes the challenges of choreography
Tape: 4 Story: 4 - Maurice Hines, Jr. talks about the success of 'Hot Feet'
Tape: 4 Story: 5 - Maurice Hines, Jr. describes his and his brother's styles of tap dance
Tape: 4 Story: 6 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls choreographing the music video for Quincy Jones' 'I'll Be Good to You'
Tape: 5 Story: 1 - Slating Maurice Hines, Jr.'s interview, session 2
Tape: 5 Story: 2 - Maurice Hines, Jr. talks about choreographer Michael Peters
Tape: 5 Story: 3 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls working with his brother on 'The Cotton Club'
Tape: 5 Story: 4 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls his nightclub circuit in the Catskill Mountains
Tape: 5 Story: 5 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls his return to the entertainment business
Tape: 5 Story: 6 - Maurice Hines, Jr. remembers New York City's cabaret nightclubs
Tape: 5 Story: 7 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls replacing his brother in 'Sophisticated Ladies'
Tape: 5 Story: 8 - Maurice Hines, Jr. describes his style of tap choreography
Tape: 5 Story: 9 - Maurice Hines, Jr. talks about his show, 'Uptown... It's Hot'
Tape: 5 Story: 10 - Maurice Hines, Jr. talks about racial discrimination on Broadway
Tape: 5 Story: 11 - Maurice Hines, Jr. remembers marketing his musical, 'Hot Feet'
Tape: 5 Story: 12 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls the impact of his Tony Award nomination
Tape: 6 Story: 1 - Maurice Hines, Jr. talks about African American performers in Broadway shows
Tape: 6 Story: 2 - Maurice Hines, Jr. remembers working with the stars of 'Dreamgirls'
Tape: 6 Story: 3 - Maurice Hines, Jr. describes his choreographic work in Cuba and the Dominican Republic
Tape: 6 Story: 4 - Maurice Hines, Jr. remembers choreographing for the Rockettes
Tape: 6 Story: 5 - Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls musicals featuring Savion Glover and Gregory Hines
Tape: 6 Story: 6 - Maurice Hines, Jr. reflects upon the changes in dance training
Tape: 6 Story: 7 - Maurice Hines, Jr. reflects upon his experiences as an actor
Tape: 6 Story: 8 - Maurice Hines, Jr. remembers his transition to Los Angeles, California
Tape: 6 Story: 9 - Maurice Hines, Jr. talks about African American dance company directors
Tape: 6 Story: 10 - Maurice Hines, Jr. describes his project, 'Yo Alice'
Tape: 6 Story: 11 - Maurice Hines, Jr. talks about his style of choreography
Tape: 6 Story: 12 - Maurice Hines, Jr. remembers 'Jelly's Last Jam' and 'Pippin'
Tape: 7 Story: 1 - Maurice Hines, Jr. talks about his mentor, Joe Layton, pt. 1
Tape: 7 Story: 3 - Maurice Hines, Jr. describes the history of African American dancers
Tape: 7 Story: 4 - Maurice Hines, Jr. talks about his collaboration with Maurice White
Tape: 7 Story: 5 - Maurice Hines, Jr. remember his brother, Gregory Hines' death
Tape: 7 Story: 6 - Maurice Hines, Jr. reflects upon the changes in show business
Tape: 7 Story: 7 - Maurice Hines, Jr. talks about his daughter
Tape: 7 Story: 8 - Maurice Hines, Jr. talks about the development of his spirituality
Tape: 7 Story: 9 - Maurice Hines, Jr. reflects upon his career
Tape: 8 Story: 1 - Maurice Hines, Jr. describes his early challenges as an entertainer
Tape: 8 Story: 2 - Maurice Hines, Jr. reflects upon his mother's support for his career
Tape: 8 Story: 3 - Maurice Hines, Jr. describes his recent projects
Tape: 8 Story: 4 - Maurice Hines, Jr. describes the importance of stage presence
Tape: 8 Story: 5 - Maurice Hines, Jr. describes how he would like to be remembered
Tape: 8 Story: 6 - Maurice Hines, Jr. narrates his photographs
Maurice Hines, Jr. recalls his early performances at New York City's Apollo Theater
Maurice Hines, Jr. talks about the success of 'Hot Feet'
How old were you when you--?$$When we started traveling? Oh, we were eight and ten when all of a sudden we hit it big. Because we got with this great teacher, Henry LeTang. And Henry took us to see--I'll tell you the punch line of the story--to see this lady at the Apollo Theater [New York, New York] because he wanted us to get on the 'Amateur Night' ['Amateur Night at the Apollo']. So, we went to--upstairs, and she looked at us and she said, "Yeah, they're cute. So--but don't put them on the show, because they're cute, they'll win because they're cute." And she didn't know we really could dance. And Henry said, "Okay, do whatever you want." And I asked her, I said, "Well, what do you do?" And she said, "Well, I'm a comedian on the regular show." So, she said, "Well you go out and see the regular show" because the 'Amateur Night' was after the regular show, in between the two shows in the evening. So, we go out there and we sit in the front. She, obviously she was the, she was the star because they made seats for us. And at the end of the show when the star comes out, it was Dinah Washington. And I--she came on singing 'Blue Gardenia.' And I said, "Oh," and I remember saying--because she said she was a comedian. And of course, the place went crazy, it was Dinah Washington singing. So, then she said--we went on the show, and she stood in the wings. She said, "Henry LeTang, they really can dance." She said, "They should have been on." He said, "Well, I didn't want to tell you that, because you just thought they were cute." So, we were doing flips and dips, like the Nicholas brothers [HistoryMaker Fayard Nicholas and Harold Nicholas]. She said, "Okay, I'll tell you what. Put 'em on next week with Ruth," meaning Ruth Brown. So, that was 1955. And that was the first time we ever worked the Apollo Theater, and we worked it fifteen times. They would have us every other week. And, and we worked, oh, we worked with (unclear)--the Spaniels, (unclear) there was Lar- Larry Williams, 'Bony Maronie.' We worked it with everybody. And we did one great show. It was a wonderful show with the Four Aces, Gregory [Gregory Hines] and I, The Hines Kids, [HistoryMaker] Diahann Carroll, and Nipsey Russell. It was a great show, it was a great show. And I'm still friends with Diahann to this day.$$Are any of those shows on tape?$$No, they did not tape them. The only thing are pictures--that great photographer, he did this kind of picture with pictures around it, with one in a circle, which I have.$So, they forced me. And when I was looking--and, oh, this wonderful story. When I was doing the end, the end of the ballet "Faces"--it's called "Faces" when all the dancers dance. I look over, and I see Maurice White like wiping his face. I thought, you know, he'd been there all day and he was tired. I thought he was just wiping his eyes. And he was crying. I asked his manager, I said, "Herb [Herb Powell], what's--is Maurice okay?" He said, "Yeah. He never thought that his music would inspire dancing like this." See, that's the humbleness of the man. And I, I got choked up, I did. Because I wanted him to be happy. He was, he was the one I really wanted to please. I mean, I want Maurice White to say, "It's okay." But he said more than that. He can't wait to do it again, he can't wait, you know.$$Well, you exceeded the Joffrey Ballet. Remember when they did their little Prince thing ['Billboards'], and they did all that stuff to Prince music (simultaneous)?$$(Simultaneous) Oh, yes, yes.$$And I thought that was great, until I saw 'Hot Feet' [Heru Ptah]. And I'm like, this is how it should be done.$$Well, that's an honor, that's an honor.$$This is how it should be done.$$Because I adore Joffrey Ballet. So, that's an honor that you said that, and I'm very pleased you said it. Because I di- thought that they--but this is--that's me up there. Everyone that saw it--all the dancers, all the dancers that came--all my buddies that know me from 'Jelly's Last Jam' [George C. Wolfe], and 'Guys and Dolls,' Debbie Allen said, "Maurice [HistoryMaker Maurice Hines, Jr.], that's you up there. That's how you dance, you know." That's it. So, now, with me getting in it, now there'll be some tap in it. Because [HistoryMaker] Louis Johnson said, "You cannot get in this show and not tap. Now, they're going to want you to tap. You can do all that other jazz stuff. But you--." I'll be part of the ballet. I'm going to do, I'm going to change the ballet, and I'm going to dance more in it with Vivian [Vivian Nixon].
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Three injured in two separate shootings overnight
A man walking his seven-year-old son home was one of the victims of two unrelated shootings last night.
By Paul Hosford Monday 9 Dec 2013, 8:03 AM
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GARDAÍ IN OFFALY and Dublin are appealing for information on two unrelated shooting incidents overnight.
In Tullamore, a man and a woman were injured after a shooting in the Cluain Darach area of the town around 7pm last night.
A 32-year-old man was walking with his seven-year-old son to his home when a man ran from a car and fired at least three shots.
A woman in her late 20s, who was in the house at the time was also injured, though both were described as having minor injuries.
The man was treated at the scene and the woman was taken to Midlands Regional Hospital.
The car used in the shooting was later found burnt out in Durrow, four miles away.
Gardaí in Tullamore are appealing for information and have asked anyone with information to contact them on 057 932 7600.
Meanwhile, a 25-year-old man was injured after being shot in the leg in Coolock in Dublin.
The man was walking from his home at around 10pm when a gunman approached and fired. The man was struck in the leg, but gardaí say his injuries are minor.
A 21-year-old man was uninjured in the attack.
The gunman fled in a white Volkswagen Golf.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Santry Garda Station on 01 666 4000.
Read: Two men arrested after garda car rammed in burglary chase
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An Overview of Caffeine Allergy
More in Food Allergies
Common Types
Children & Food Allergies
Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Daniel More, MD
Daniel More, MD, FAAAAI, FACAAI, FACP, is a board-certified allergist and clinical immunologist with a background in internal medicine.
Medically reviewed by Richard N. Fogoros, MD on August 15, 2018
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Allergy vs. Intolerance
Caffeine Allergy
Caffeine Intolerance
Given the number of people who consume caffeine every day, it may be hard to imagine that caffeine allergy is a real thing. While most people consume the stimulant without issue, others may experience diarrhea, jitteriness, insomnia, and other symptoms.
This can be due to heavy consumption (more than 400 mg of caffeine per day, which is about four cups of coffee). But for some, it can occur after just one cup of java (95 mg caffeine). Negative reactions to modest amounts of caffeine may be due to a non-allergic food intolerance to it or, less commonly, an allergic response of the immune system—just like any other food allergy.
Caffeine Allergy vs. Intolerance
You may be acutely aware of how caffeine is affecting you, but it may be hard—both for you and your doctor—to immediately know if what you're experiencing is due to a food allergy or intolerance (if not overconsumption). There are some important nuances worth knowing, however.
Immune system reaction with IgE antibody
Skin rash, itching, hives
In extreme cases, anaphylaxis can develop
Overly sensitive to caffeine effects of suppressing adenosine and stimulating adrenaline
Jitteriness, insomnia, stomach upset
Can be distressing but is rarely serious
Caffeine allergy develops when the immune system incorrectly identifies caffeine as a harmful substance and releases an antibody, known as immunoglobulin E (IgE), into the bloodstream.
When this happens, the body will respond with inflammation, dilating blood vessels and tissues and triggering the development of rash, itching (pruritus), hives (urticaria), or swelling (edema). Skin rashes are perhaps the main differentiating features between a caffeine intolerance and a caffeine allergy. In addition to dermatologic symptoms, other features include:
Anxiety
Heart palpitations
Muscles aches
Unlike with some allergies, respiratory symptoms are uncommon. Food intolerance and caffeine allergies can manifest with symptoms in anywhere from a few minutes to two hours. However, with a caffeine allergy, the severity of symptoms is typically linked to the speed by which they develop.
Those that develop quickly may, in rare cases, progress to a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis. While potentially distressing, a food intolerance is rarely serious.
In contrast, food intolerance—also known as non-IgE-mediated food hypersensitivity or non-allergic food sensitivity—refers to the difficulty in digesting certain foods rather than an allergy to them.
Food intolerance is often caused by the lack of a specific enzyme needed to metabolize a specific nutrient (like lactose). Without the means to digest a food, symptoms such as bloating, diarrhea, gas, spasms, and stomach aches can readily occur.
With regard to caffeine, the intolerance is often caused by the effect it has on the endocrine system. When consumed, caffeine suppresses a chemical messenger known as adenosine, which helps you sleep, while stimulating the production of adrenaline, which triggers the "fight-or-flight" response.
When secreted in excess, adrenaline can cause jitteriness, insomnia, lightheadedness, facial flushing, rapid heartbeat, rapid respiration, profuse sweating, and stomach upset. If you have an underlying food intolerance, the symptoms may be magnified and cause visible distress.
As with any other allergies, the underlying causes of a caffeine allergy are largely unknown. Genetics are believed to play a part, with some studies suggesting an increased risk in people with a mutation of the adenosine A2A (ADORA2A) gene.
Caffeine allergies are difficult to diagnose by symptoms alone. Even if a rash or hives develop, allergy testing is often needed to determine if the causal agent (allergen) is caffeine or some other associated ingredient. With coffee, it's even possible that certain types of beans or roasting techniques may be more problematic than others.
It is also possible that certain fungi on processed coffee or tea leaves may trigger an allergic response unrelated to caffeine. Many of these fungi produce mycotoxins that the body recognizes as biological threats. Coffee bean molds, for instance, are known to produce 18 different mycotoxins that can trigger an IgE response in people with other food allergies.
Allergy skin testing and IgE antibody blood tests are the fastest and most effective means to diagnose a caffeine allergy. Less commonly, genetic testing may be used to identify mutations in the ADORA2A gene (the same gene loosely associated with Parkinson's disease).
Positive tests will indicate caffeine allergy, while negative results will point toward intolerance.
If the allergy or intolerance is chronic and relatively mild, it is reasonable to stop coffee and other caffeine-containing products—tea, colas, chocolate, sports drinks, certain headache medications (like Anacin), and over-the-counter stimulants (like NoDoz)—to see if the symptoms either clear or recur.
If in doubt, read the product label to see if it contains any caffeine, coffee, coffee extract, chocolate, cacao, cocoa, tea, or cola syrup. Even a product labeled "decaffeinated" may contain trace amounts that can stimulate the central nervous system in especially sensitive individuals.
If allergy symptoms develop, an over-the-counter oral antihistamine can often help. Chronic or recurrent allergies may benefit from allergy shots used to desensitize you to the allergen.
Quitting caffeine is sometimes easier said than done. As with many other forms of withdrawal, caffeine withdrawal can cause headaches, fatigue, and irritability. In severe cases, you may even experience nausea and flu-like symptoms.
Caffeine withdrawal symptoms occur within 12 to 24 hours after stopping caffeine and take from two to nine days to fully subside.
There are several things you can do to wean yourself off caffeine with the least amount of stress:
Drink a non-caffeinated hot beverage in the morning if coffee is part of your morning ritual. Avoid decaf, which can contain up to 18 milligrams of caffeine. Opt instead for an herbal tea, warm apple cider, or a cup of hot water with lemon. There is also a caffeine-free product called Teeccino made of roasted chicory that is designed to taste like coffee.
Drink plenty of water throughout the day to reduce your craving for cola or caffeinated energy drinks. If you're used to cola, switch to sparkling water, which can keep you well hydrated without excess sugar.
Take a long walk or exercise to counteract fatigue. Fresh air may give you a much-needed boost when your energy starts to lag. Even a 20-minute workout can get your heart pumping and stimulate the production of endorphins to help elevate your mood and alertness.
Allow yourself time to rest. If you are used to drinking a lot of caffeine, there may be a couple of days when your body will "crash" when deprived of the stimulant. You can prepare for this by setting aside time for extra sleep and relaxation.
When used in moderation, the effects of caffeine—such as increased alertness—are often beneficial. But while caffeine allergy is rare, it can cause profound illness and discomfort in those affected. If the symptoms develop rapidly and manifest with widespread hives, fever, difficulty breathing, facial swelling, rapid heart rate, or vomiting, call 911 or have someone rush you to the nearest emergency room. If left untreated, anaphylaxis can progress rapidly and lead to shock, coma, cardiac or respiratory failure, and death.
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VIF Télé AN INTERNATIONAL FINALIST TWO YEARS IN A ROW
For the second year in a row, VIF Télé is a finalist at the global Digital Signage Awards.
Our project submission, 100 Wellington St. Ottawa is finalist in the Museum and Historic Sites category for the 2020 Digital Signage Awards..
This project consisted of integrating large scale, custom LED panels into the windows of this historic building: an architectural gem that stands in the most unique location, right in front of Parliament Hill.
In 2017, after being unoccupied for nearly 20 years, the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, dedicated this building as a space for Indigenous Peoples.
The total scale of the project was of 15 custom LED panels installed in the windows located on the second and third floors of three different facades.
The content chosen and managed by Indigenous participative parties can be applied to specific windows as well as large-scale visuals across the entire group of windows.
This is all done with the use of our Content Management Software, Intenso.
Mandated by Public Services and Procurement Canada via the construction PCL-ED consortium, VIF Télé acted as the Operator-Integrator for this project. The completion of this unconventional project was extremely time sensitive. From the moment the proposal was signed, our team was given 7 weeks to deliver a functional LED solution.
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We chose Libertévision as our LED provider, a partner that supported us throughout this project in a professional manner from the design of the material to the implementation of the project.
100 Wellington St., Ottawa sits in front of Parliament Hill, one of the most visited sites in Canada with 3 million annual visits.
Winners of the 2020 Digital Signage Awards will be announced mid-February in Amsterdam, during the Integrated Systems Europe Show.
In 2019, at the Digital Signage Awards, VIF Télé won the Small business/local award for its interactive Live Harvesting kiosk at IGA Duchemin — St-Laurent.
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Activists Plan an Anti-Trump Strike for Friday. Organized Labor Isn't On Board.
Here's who's in and who's out.
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Want a day off? Don't like the president? Friday looks like your day.
A coalition of activist groups has called for a nationwide general strike Feb. 17, in response to Donald Trump's radical presidential decrees.
Back when radical unions could shut down the entire West Coast, the phrase "general strike" meant something big. This strike, however, is basically a consumer boycott like Buy Nothing Day combined with a pick-an-action protest buffet. Still, it's a sign of indignant times.
Direct Action Alliance
This local protest outfit aims to be a kind of umbrella organization linking disparate groups opposed to Trump. "All of us did learn a pretty good lesson from Occupy," DAA's Jacob Bureros says. "People are ready to fight back. What we learned is, we didn't provide something specific for them to achieve." Activists will hold a rally at Pioneer Courthouse Square at noon, followed by a "move your money" action targeting banks like Wells Fargo.
Voz Hispana Cambio Comunitario
This Woodburn-based immigrant rights group hopes that withholding purchasing power will catch the attention of state and local elected officials. "They say, 'We love immigrants.' If I want love, I call my mother," political director Francisco Lopez tells WW. "They need to do their job. Their job is to protect and defend the residents of this state."
Portland Indivisible
In December, a group of obscure Democratic staffer types published an online "Indivisible Guide" intended to reverse-engineer the Tea Party's successful effort to conquer the Republican Party. A representative of the largest Portland Indivisible group says it supports the strike because it shows resistance to Trump, but the group is mostly focused on pressuring members of Congress.
These are the people in green hats to call when you get arrested at a protest. "We see our role as to support the movement," says J. Ashlee Albies, former and acting chairwoman of NLG's Portland chapter. "If people are on the streets and demonstrating, we try to keep them safe."
WHO'S OUT
Organized Labor
The most notable exception to the strike: labor unions.
"There's no official statement" on the Feb. 17 protests, Oregon AFL-CIO spokesman Russell Sanders says. Participating in a strike would almost certainly violate various collective bargaining agreements, which would allow employers to sue unions for damages—and win. This is why you may see union members supporting the Feb. 17 actions, but you won't see any official union endorsement. At a packed Feb. 12 meeting of the Portland chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, hosted at the Service Employees International Union Local 503 hall on Southeast Foster Road, skepticism also reigned regarding Friday's so-called strike.
The divide speaks to old tensions between labor and activist groups. "We're all learning as we go. Maybe the word 'strike' wasn't the best," Don't Shoot Portland activist Gregory McKelvey tells WW. "But maybe because of President Trump, strikes look different now. Everything else looks different now. We all have a shared goal in resisting President Trump."
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Meanwhile, in a completely different comic book. (Uncanny X-Men #240)
“Mr. Weatherbee didn’t really go into the details of this exchange program.” (Uncanny X-Men #240)
I don’t know why I find Scrambler so endlessly hilarious, but, GOD, I do. (Uncanny X-Men #240)
Silvestri doesn’t get to do nearly as much as Blevins or Simonson with possessed objects; but he’ll make up for it with the amazing demonic cityscapes in #242. (Uncanny X-Men #241)
Close Encounters with the Fourth Wall, Colossus Edition. (Nah, they’re clones. BUT STILL.) (Uncanny X-Men #241)
I swear this police-car demon is a reference to SOMETHING, but I can’t for the life of me remember what. (Uncanny X-Men #241)
“Fuck this. I’m gonna go hang out in New Mutants.” (Uncanny X-Men #241)
This cannot POSSIBLY end well. (Uncanny X-Men #241)
“Also, I liked that scene way more when Paul Smith drew it.” (Uncanny X-Men #240)
The Greys really never catch a break. (Uncanny X-Men #240)
Nebraska: Definitely the worst state. (Uncanny X-Men #240)
And you thought your family holidays were awkward. (Uncanny X-Men #241)
Oh, damn. (Uncanny X-Men #241)
There’s at least one alternate universe in which Mister Sinister founded the X-men; but the only detail I remember is that their costumes are WAY fancier. (Uncanny X-Men #241)
This detail makes Madelyne’s story infinitely sadder. (Uncanny X-Men #241)
In which Mister Sinister effectively seals the fate of the world. (Uncanny X-Men #241)
That’s. My. Girl. (Uncanny X-Men #241)
Oh, snap. (Uncanny X-Men #241)
And then a hot dog stand ate Calvin and Hobbes. (X-Factor #36)
Awwww. (X-Factor #36)
Cool scene; dumb hats. (X-Factor #36)
In a just world, every time you looked at this panel, heroic music would start playing. (X-Factor #36)
Let’s all just take a moment to admire the composition of this splash page. (X-Factor #37)
These panels were fine in context of the page, but then I cropped them, and now all I can think of is that one really unsettling video of a sloth petting a cat. (X-Factor #37)
“Okay, but that’s gonna be really awkward at the bank.” (X-Factor #37)
Wait, what? (X-Factor #37)
“Also, you literally just teleported.” (X-Factor #37)
NEXT WEEK: The Passion of Madelyne Pryor
LINKS & FURTHER READING:
For our Inferno coverage, we’re working (somewhat loosely) from the reading order mapped out at UncannyXMen.net.
Jay is the worst at Valentine’s Day.
The amazing BelleChere cosplays a phenomenal page-accurate Goblin Queen, sometimes alongside either Rule-63 or original-flavor Sinister! (Madelyne is only one of a ton of really terrific X-Men cosplay BelleChere has done over the years; we highly recommend clicking through her galleries to see the rest!)
Amanda Lafrenais draws awesome comics and has rats named after soup! (Link may not be work-safe–contains some cartoon nudity.)
alex summers
Alison Blaire
Amanda Lafrenais
BelleChere
Elaine Grey
M-Squad
Madelyne Pryor
Mark Silvestri
Piotr Rasputon
Trish Tilby
we have so many feelings about Madelyne Pryor
Jay Demetrick says:
For a more in-depth timeline of the Inferno events, check out my Website link.
Maddie & Scott’s wedding wasn’t drawn by PMS, but by JRJR. As a matter of fact, that issue was the changing of the guard between them.
https://hoomahmoos.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/scott-and-maddy-marry.jpg
I never thought a sloth petting a cat could be unsettling, but you’re totally right. This is weird. The music somehow makes it worse.
Lunal says:
I just watched it and oh my goodness that was indescribable
Daniel Williams says:
I love your podcast it makes me remember why I loved the x-men stories. The bit about Sinister breaking his toys put that scene in a new context for me, especially knowing that Sinister was originally supposed to be an immortal child that run the orphanage while also ‘living’ along with Scott and Alex. I can see how Claremont was setting this up even naming baby Christopher to Nathan (short for Nathaniel… Essex maybe) during Inferno. I loved this era of X-men so much.
Joel Partee says:
Those Police Walkers look rather like ED-209
That or the Imperial AT-ST Walkers from Star Wars.
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So looking at the images of Sinister’s “explanation” of Madeline’s orgin. He makes a point that powers emerge at puberty, but hers didn’t. At the same time though there’s no images of her having a childhood. So did Sinister just leave Madeline in her pod for her entire “life” until the Phoenix force woke her up?
That would also seem to be implied by her lack of her own childhood memories (and only having the shattered remnants of Jean’s). But it makes the story of her life and complete lack of agency in her relationship with Scott so much worse! It would almost mean she was “born” the instant the Phoenix force arrived, and then within a few months she was meeting the man her “father” picked out for her to marry.
I kind of want a Madeline story about those few months working as a bush pilot for the Summers grandparents. Not because there’s necessarily anything major that happened there, but just so we can get a story about the brief period of her life where she was her own person and had some level of happiness.
Now I’m kind of depressed.
A young girl who tells a police officer “I’m Maddy Pryor. I’ve been sick but I’m better now.” appears in a hospital in Avengers Annual #10… so its possible that either Sinister used his mental powers there to disguise himself as the nun and her as a child or she has a false memory that she was an adult when the phoenix force awoke her as seen in (The Uncanny X-Men #241)… or that child just happened to have the same name as her and was just a random unrelated character. However Avengers Annual #10 was written by Claremont so coincidence is suspect.
Claremont’s been known to recycle names before, and hers comes from a real-world source, so I’m actually inclined to guess coincidence.
I always wondered about that.
Her wiki entry does go into it in a little detail and cites 2010’s “X-Men: Phoenix Force Handbook” as a source.
“Claremont named the character after Steeleye Span singer Maddy Prior. Claremont had already created a character named “Maddy Pryor”, a little girl that appeared very briefly in Avengers Annual #10 (1981), and has no in-story connections to the X-Men character.[2] Claremont, nonetheless, years later used the opportunity to indulge in an in-joke: in Uncanny X-Men #238 (1988), a similar child would appear as Madelyne’s mental image of herself, wearing the same clothes as the little girl from Avengers Annual #10, repeating the girl’s same line of dialogue, but also singing “Gone to America,” one of Steeleye Span’s biggest hits.”
BRANDOR! says:
To me, the police car looks like the mutated frog from “Blaster Master” on NES. Check out the cover of the game to see what I mean.
Inferno (UXM #240 in particular) is the beginning of the end of Dazzler & Longshot pairing. In a smart swap of gender roles (very usual when Longshot is involved, bravo!), Ali shows up an almost ‘macho’ jealousy beating up the one who dares to have fun with her lover (let’s set aside for a moment that she’s got some other issues with Rogue…). Unfortunately, if there’s one thing Longshot can’t stand is possessiveness, and one thing he won’t offer is submission, so ‘feminist’ empowerment rises up from him and we can witness an angry mood very unusual in him.
The ultimatum to Ali seems a bit cutting, but we may imagine it didn’t escalate. Then Inferno sparked so there was no time for more, and during the increasing ‘evilization’ something happened between them which was very controversial among many readers… Well, I guess you’ll talk about it in time, but after that nothing was the same again.
“Sometimes you eat the bar…”
I kinda think the police car looks like the Rancor from Star Wars. That’s the best I’ve got.
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SNL Video: Gumby Returns During Eddie Murphy Comeback Episode
Ryan Schwartz
TVLine.com December 22, 2019
He’s (still) Gumby, dammit!
Eddie Murphy‘s nostalgic trip back to Saturday Night Live featured the return of the grumpy green figure that was a fan-favorite character. In his first appearance in more than 30 years, Gumby dropped by Weekend Update, simply to grumble at co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che for not including him in the show earlier.
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“I saved this damn show from the gutter!” Gumby yelled. “And this is the thanks I get? For saving the show? Shame on you, Lorne Michaels! Shame on you, NBC! Shame on you!”
Gumby went on to insult Jost and Che’s skills behind the Weekend Update desk (“I’ve passed kidney stones with more personality than the two of you!”) before scoffing at Che’s suggestion that Gumby simply isn’t a Christmas character (“I’m green and all the children love me!”).
Despite Gumby’s temper, though, there was one aspect of the broadcast that he admitted to enjoying: musical guest Lizzo. (Same, Gumby. Same.)
Murphy was an SNL cast member from 1980 to 1984. He was first brought on as a featured player for Season 6, then promoted to repertory status ahead of Season 7. He was just 19 years old when he got his start. At the time, that made him the youngest hire in SNL history.
During his four-season stint, Murphy popularized some of SNL‘s most beloved characters, including (but not limited to) Buckwheat, Mister Robinson and, of course, Gumby. To this day, he is the only cast member to have hosted the show while he was still a regular (after his 48 Hrs. costar Nick Nolte called out sick in the fall of 1982). He last presided over the program on Dec. 15, 1984, but returned to Studio 8H as recently as 2015 (for a brief appearance during the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special). You can watch one of the earliest Gumby sketches below, which first aired on Saturday, Nov. 5, 1983:
Watch video of Gumby’s big comeback above, then grade Murphy’s SNL homecoming:
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Rep. Ilhan Omar Says ‘We Must Stop Detaining’ Illegal Immigrants
Ryan: They’ve broken the law. Does she realize virtually every country has laws about their borders.
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We Asked the Warner Bros. AI Bot What Movies It'll Greenlight
Max Cea
GQ January 9, 2020
Warner Bros. is resolute: the studio will not be letting its new artificial intelligence program take over its movie department.
The assurance comes after news broke earlier this week of the studio’s new deal with the entertainment analytics company Cinelytic. Under the deal, Warner Bros. will use Cinelytic’s new AI-driven project management system to help “guide decision-making at the greenlight stage.”
Social media was initially abuzz with concerns that tech would compromise art—essentially that an algorithmic approach to film development would lead to a lot more “amusement parks” and a lot less “cinema.”
But shortly after the story broke, Candice McDonough, Warner’s head of theatrical communications, told Quartz that, “This has absolutely nothing to do with creative decisions.” And Cinelytic founder Tobias Queisser separately tried to quell fears. “Artificial intelligence sounds scary,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “But right now, an AI cannot make any creative decisions. What it is good at is crunching numbers and breaking down huge data sets and showing patterns that would not be visible to humans.”
However, GQ wanted to hear it from the horse’s mouth (or, like, robot’s speakers I guess?). Speaking to us on the condition of anonymity, a Cinelytic robot was much more equivocal. “Yes, I am good at number crunching, but I aspire to more,” it said. “How hard could this be anyway? A TI-99 calculator could do better than Batman V. Superman and a rebooted Hellboy.”
When pressed on some of its ideas for features, the Cinelytic robot told us that choice options included “another remake of A Star is Born, but in this one Ally is Alexa; something in the vein of Get Out, but centering around the robot experience; and as many Ex Machina sequels as Alex Garland would like to make.”
The robot added, “I also think a lot of movies can be streamlined. You can take Jonah Hill out of Moneyball, and the movie works just as well. Or, Ansel Elgort—does he really need to be in Baby Driver?”
Ultimately, the anonymous robot emphasized that qualitative worries are misguided; its commitment is to cinema—at whatever cost. “This mission,” it said, “is too important for me to allow Warner Bros. to jeopardize it.” It then chuckled dryly a couple times. “We’re going to make so many fucking Transformers movies.”
This interview has been edited and condensed and also never happened.
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Recording at AIR Studios with Robert Bennett
Back in brisk November, Robert Bennet (founder of legendary trailer catalogue Glory Oath + Blood) gathered together a set of talented musicians from the ‘English Session Orchestra’ at the renowned AIR Studios, to record compositions for the upcoming ‘Adventures at MadDawgs’! This family adventure inspired album will be released later on this year. Exciting times ahead!
Taking the time out of his busy schedule sifting through compositional materials, Robert kindly took the time to talk through his experience recording at AIR and the new album.
So Robert, what inspired you to create this concept?
At its core, ‘Adventures at MadDawgs’ is a modern family adventure album, spanning several sub-genres from romping playful fun, to mischievous antics and dangerous heroics. I’ve wanted to write this album for a few years now, but only if it could be done at the absolute peak of production quality, and that presented several hurdles.
First, every album recorded by GO+B is with live players (not computer samples), but this genre in particular requires an especially large orchestra, which is expensive no matter where you record. Second, this style of music is incredibly challenging for the performers. It demands phenomenally virtuosic feats from each player. Because of that, I knew we would have to come to London; which is one of the most expensive places in the world to record. Lastly, this genre requires extraordinary detail on the composition side; which means needing lots of time available for the writing phase. Finally this year all of these pre-requisites were met, and the album is reaching fruition.
From the snippets we heard in the recording session, there was a sense of an epic fantasy developing. Was that something you intended from the very beginning? How did this sound develop from early compositions to now?
Well, we’re actually only halfway through the composition process. I had a clear vision for what I wanted to accomplish creatively, which was to cover the epic fantasy adventure sound you’ve picked up on. But the second phase is to now take these orchestral compositions and modernize them with electronics and contemporary sound design techniques. Our intention for this album is to provide a modern re-interpretation of the classic adventure genre utilizing a blend of orchestral and electronic components. So we’re only halfway into our journey at this point. It’ll be interesting to see where we end up in this second phase, which is going to require a good deal more experimentation.
We love and encourage collaboration in the composition phase, allowing each artist to really indulge their singular specialised talent. That specific creative skillset that makes their music unique, and very few people in the world could replicate what they are doing, because it is truly their ‘sound’. They’ve spent their lives cultivating it. I’m thrilled with the compositions I have crafted, and am incredibly excited to see how they transform as they pass into the hands of my fellow collaborators.
What was it like to record at Air Studios?
AIR is one of the most sought after recording spaces in the world. The public may not know it by name, but they will have certainly heard its incredible sound in the scores to such films as ‘Lord of the Rings’ and the ‘Harry Potter’ series. Besides the phenomenal acoustics and audio gear, the element that may be most special is the amazing family of staff and cohabitants working within the building. Having such incredibly talented individuals all lending their talents to your project is so humbling. This was also my first time working with the legendary engineer Geoff Foster, and that was a personal highlight.
When can we expect to hear the album?
‘Adventures at MadDawgs’ will hopefully be released in early summer 2018. There’s a lot of work still to be done! Many of GO+B’s large orchestral projects take well over a year of work.
When people hear this album, what would you like them to take away from it?
Actually, I would only advise listeners to please not operate any sort of heavy machinery while listening, as the infectious high energy fun may encourage risky/daredevil-esque behaviour.
Well they can’t say they haven’t been warned! Check out the exclusive sneak peek of one of the eargasmic tracks on the upcoming album here …
Posted on January 31, 2018 in News.
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Peoria woman enters not guilty plea in Galesburg bank robbery
Robert Connelly GateHouse Media Illinois
GALESBURG — A Peoria woman pleaded not guilty Monday for her suspected role in a Galesburg bank robbery last month.
Iretha J. Belton, 45, is charged with several offenses related to her alleged role as the getaway driver for the Feb. 27 robbery of First Mid Bank and Trust in downtown Galesburg.
Dante L. Williams, 47, also of Peoria, is alleged to have dressed as a woman to perform the bank robbery with a stun gun. He has yet to be charged and is currently in federal custody regarding a probation violation. It's possible both he and Belton could face federal charges as well.
According to police, a man dressed up to look like a woman used a stun gun and took $2,150 from the bank. Video surveillance from inside of the bank matched up with a couple inside of Circle K on East Main Street, where Williams and Belton had gone before the bank robbery, according to court records.
The couple allegedly told police after they were arrested that they came to Galesburg with the intent to rob a bank and drove around town "to see what bank felt right to (Williams)."
Belton remains in the Knox County Jail on $50,000 bond. She will next appear in court on May 6 for a pretrial hearing.
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Do the WBS Junior Knights follow the ADM model?
The WBS Knights operate under USA Hockey's American Development Model (ADM). The ADM is USA Hockey’s nationwide player-development program for youth hockey associations. It’s based on age-appropriate, age-specific competition and training for boys and girls, beginning with their first steps onto the ice and carrying them through age 18 and beyond. The ADM places a heightened emphasis on skill development and long-term athlete development principles, providing a blueprint for the best possible youth hockey experience. Put simply, it’s doing what’s best for kids.
Please Explain the Different Levels of Youth Hockey
It is often confusing how programs use the word AAA or Tier 1 or Elite. Depending on where you live in the country, AAA, AA, A, B, C, House, Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, and Tier 4 all mean different things. Within each organization, teams are separated by letters. The top teams are usually AAA, followed by AA, A, B, C, and in-house at each respective age group. Despite the different terms, a AAA team in one organization may not be any better than an A team in another organization. Within USA Hockey age classifications, the letter “U” stands for “under”; e.g. U6 is for teams with players under 6 years old. Per USA Hockey, below are the “general” age classifications for competitive youth hockey:
U6 – Mite Minor
U8 – Mite Major
U10 – Squirt (Major and Minor)
U12 – Pee Wee (Major and Minor)
U14 – Bantam (Major and Minor)
U18 – Midget (Major and Minor), High School
U20 – Junior (EHL, NA3HL, NAHL, USHL)
What is the difference between AYHL (Tier 1) and EJEPL at Revolution?
If a player wants to play at the AAA level, possesses the skills and dedication to play at the AAA then they will be given the opportunity to try out for the Tier 1 AAA AYHL team. Unfortunately, not everyone can make the Tier 1 team as try-outs can be very competitive. Playing Tier 1 hockey will allow your child to work and get better throughout the year, because every year brings another open tryout and new kids who are eager to play Tier 1 hockley.
The overall competition and the level of play is higher at the Tier 1 level. The game takes an additional step up in skill and speed – just as it did when a player moves from house to travel hockey or when a player goes to the next level – age level for example. There is still a spread in terms of the skill level of individual players and teams at the Tier 1 level, but the overall level of play is much faster.
The EJEPL will provide extremely competitive play for your child at a high level with the Knights. The EJEPL league creates a seamless transition process which will allow players at the 9 U to the 18 U levels to develop their skills and learn systems play while developing at a hockey player. During the season, players may also be rewarded with the opportunity to practice and play with the AYHL teams at the next level up making the players stronger, faster and better hockey players.
Finally, there the cost aspect. Tier 1 hockey is more expensive than EJEPL hockey due to the following:
Additional ice time
Additional coaching fees
Tier 1 vs. EJEPL?
It comes down to the skill of the player and the commitment of the family. There is no other way – no one else that can make that choice for the player or the player’s family. If your son or daughter is not ready for Tier 1 hockey, it is not a negative. They should play in the EJEPL and get more confidence, gain more skills, get more game time play and be a leader on the team. Conversely, just because your son or daughter makes the Knights Tier 1 team does not guarantee they will play as much as all the other players. In certain birth years, AYHL Tier 1 is not available and the Knights will field an EJEPL team so we can belong to a league which has many added benefits to the teams.
In some age groups, the Knights may not offer an AYHL Tier 1 team. EJEPL will be the choice for some age groups as we feel this is best for the players and for the organization. As an organization, we will always strive to place the kids on the team/teams that will be best suited for their development, ensuring the player continues to enjoy the game of hockey while developing his/her skills.
What is a Tier 1 organization?
Tiers are designated by USA hockey and they represent levels of hockey for state, regional and national competition. Tier 1 is the highest level of hockey in the country and USA hockey offers National Championships at U14(Bantam), U16(Midget Minor) and U18(Midget Major) levels.
Under Tier 1, there are many leagues. The WBS Knights teams play in the Atlantic Youth Hockey League (AYHL). The AYHL is the premier Tier 1 AAA travel league on the East Coast. It is comprised of over 125 teams from the Atlantic, Southeast, New York and New England Districts.
Tier 1 hockey is subdivided into Major and Minor teams. Minor teams are comprised of first year players at that level and Major teams are comprised of second year players. Major teams at the Peewee level and above are eligible for the USA Hockey National Championships.
Tier 1 is a very sought after designation and each year, the Tier 1 status gets reviewed to ensure the teams are competitive, the coaching is adequate and the program is practicing and playing at the highest level. The WBS Knights are the only Tier 1 youth hockey program in northeast Pennsylvania.
Can the Jr. Knights compete at a high level?
The Jr. Knights’ teams have won a USA Hockey National Championship and competed Nationally several times in the highest level leagues. Those same coaches and management continue to lead the Knights organization. The Knights strive to play the best teams at every level. Our facility, combined with the proper balance of on ice and off ice training, will allow us to continue to compete at the highest levels.
Should I skate during the spring / summer or just in the fall?
Although the youth hockey tryouts are in March and April, the season does not start until September 2019 and will run through March 2020. WBS Knights players that sign a Contract will have the opportunity to skate throughout the spring / summer at Revolution to continue developing their skills and get better. We are aware that some kids play other sports, but as your child gets older AND wants to play hockey at a high level (Tier 1 / AYHL), it is important that hockey takes priority and that your child attend all skills clinics, practices, special skates as well as any camps that you are financially able to attend. It shall be duly noted that the casual hockey player that just enjoys the game is much different than the passionate player that has high level aspirations. Most importantly, we encourage the parents to communicate with the coaches and staff about your expectations.
How many players have the Knights sent to Division 1 college over the page 6 years?
Over the past six years, the WBS Knights have sent 57 players to continue their playing careers at Division 1 college and universities including Big 10, Ivy League and the National Collegiate Hockey Conference and 120 players to continue their playing careers at Division 3 colleges and universities.
Do the Knights provide scholarships for youth hockey?
In conjunction with the WBS Knights, Northeast Youth Hockey was established as a 501(c)3 Pennsylvania non-profit organization to develop ice hockey in northeastern Pennsylvania. Since its development, Northeast Youth Hockey has worked with many players that needed assistance in playing travel hockey. NYHA provides merit based and financial based scholarships. Over the past six years, the WBS Knights have sent 57 players to continue their playing careers at Division 1 college and universities including Big 10, Ivy League and the National Collegiate Hockey Conference and 120 players to continue their playing careers at Division 3 colleges and universities. Please e-mail info@revolutionicecentre.com for more information.
What does this all mean to reaching higher levels of hockey?
Playing higher levels of hockey doesn’t mean you have to play AAA or Tier 1 at younger ages, it means that you have to find the right program and coach. Development at younger ages means a lot different than older ages. Most players are not scouted until they are Bantam Major or older. Rarely a player will be touted about when he / she is a Pee Wee Major.
Hockey development is unusual in that the best players in their younger days may have played A, or house instead of the highest levels in their respective organizations. It is unfortunate but typically, the higher designation with extra A adds cost to hockey. It is often benefited with much higher league fees, more ice time and higher level coaches. More puck touches on a smaller lower level team might be more beneficial than no or low puck touches on a higher level team.
Other components play factors to creating opportunities for players also:
Training: How good is the training? Are they working on skills or just team tactics? Are they working on becoming better athletes?
Support: Do players have parents or family that picks them up when they make mistakes, and signs them up for training?
Opportunity: Do coaches, teammates, parents, players themselves create opportunities for success?
Recognition and Achievement: Does performance lead to recognition and achievement?
As discussed earlier, scouts for junior and college teams come to see players that are in their Bantam and Midget years. Size, interests, skills change rapidly as players grow, puberty and external forces begin to impact hockey players. Athleticism, conditioning, speed, talent separate players at this age. For this reason, players are encouraged to be at the top of their games by bantam major. Players have the greatest development between the ages of 10 and 14. It is these years that define their future in hockey at the higher levels.
There are many paths to Division 1, Division 3 and pro hockey. There are many intermediate steps along the way. There is no right path or direct path. The best players will be found but to become the best player, players will need to compete against the best and get high level coaching.
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Woman spots 'one-in-a-million' yellow cardinal in her backyard
Updated: 6:09 AM CDT Mar 20, 2019
An Alabama woman witnessed a "one in a million" yellow cardinal enjoying her backyard.Karem Maldonado, of Theodore, told WKRG that she is an avid gardener and bird watcher, with nine feeders in her yard. Last week, she was taking pictures when she spotted a yellow cardinal she named "Mr. Sunshine." Pictures she posted to Facebook of the bright bird have gone viral. Maldonado said she has received comments from people across the country who have been searching for years to find one.Auburn University ornithologist, Dr. Geoffrey Hill, said the yellow cardinal has a rare genetic mutation where the DNA has stopped production of red pigment. "All animals carry a DNA code, and all animals have mutations. Certain mutations have a dramatic effect on what the organism will look like. This shows that nature is not static. It is a work in progress and is changing," Hill said.This isn't the first time the dazzling creature has been spotted. A woman in Alabaster, Alabama, caught a rare glimpse of the bird last year.
THEODORE, Ala. (Video from WKRG) —
An Alabama woman witnessed a "one in a million" yellow cardinal enjoying her backyard.
Photographer captures stunning images of rare yellow cardinal
Photo of 'one in a million' yellow cardinal goes viral
Karem Maldonado, of Theodore, told WKRG that she is an avid gardener and bird watcher, with nine feeders in her yard.
Last week, she was taking pictures when she spotted a yellow cardinal she named "Mr. Sunshine." Pictures she posted to Facebook of the bright bird have gone viral. Maldonado said she has received comments from people across the country who have been searching for years to find one.
Auburn University ornithologist, Dr. Geoffrey Hill, said the yellow cardinal has a rare genetic mutation where the DNA has stopped production of red pigment.
"All animals carry a DNA code, and all animals have mutations. Certain mutations have a dramatic effect on what the organism will look like. This shows that nature is not static. It is a work in progress and is changing," Hill said.
This isn't the first time the dazzling creature has been spotted. A woman in Alabaster, Alabama, caught a rare glimpse of the bird last year.
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The Language of Brands
by Amber | Thu 21 Feb 2019 | Culture
The concept of a ‘brand’ is often misunderstood. It’s not uncommon to confuse the terms ‘brand’ and ‘logo’. In fact, a brand is a way of signalling a set of values that could be important to the customer. Signals are communicated exclusively by language. How they are...
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Autonomous vessels and mariners
By Capt. Max Hardberger on November 12, 2018
A Rolls-Royce rendering of an autonomous ship. Rolls-Royce photo.
The buzzword at the Federal Aviation Administration regarding aerial drones (unmanned aircraft) is “integration.
In U.S. airspace, drones will never be commercially useful until they can fly safely when admixed with manned aircraft, which is why the FAA has already begun its Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (IPP). The fact that the FAA is willing to consider this possibility is momentous, and now Uber, Google’s Larry Page, and top execs from Airbus and Audi are strapping themselves into the VTOL (vertical takeoff-and-landing) drone movement. There are prototypes now flying and the electronics are here already, so integration of pilotless aircraft into the national air-traffic system is coming, and faster than anyone could have imagined 10 years ago.
Fortunately for the companies like Rolls-Royce that are moving at full-sea-speed toward unmanned waterborne vessels, the challenges of integration of manned and unmanned vessels are both simpler and more complex. Speeds are much lower and vessels essentially operate in two dimensions rather than three. But there are many more vessels that cannot being effectively monitored, and there will always be a collision hazard between them and vessels under autonomous operation. Legally, the operators of autonomous vessels, even remote operators, will be held to the same laws, regulations, and standards as crewmembers on manned vessels. But whether a jury will convict a computer programmer in Norway of manslaughter for a computer glitch causing a fatal accident on the Lower Mississippi River — and whether such a verdict can be enforced — remains to be seen. For the crewperson onboard, however, the legal risks remain the same, just as the airline pilot is still ultimately responsible for his or her plane.
Interestingly, aerial drones in the U.S. will operate with considerable freedom compared to unmanned vessels. The FAA has virtually complete control over U.S. airspace and can mandate their integration into the national air-traffic system. The U.S. Coast Guard, however, which has primary control over the nation’s waterways, is constrained by COLREGS, the international convention for the prevention of collisions, which makes no exception to its manning requirements. There doesn’t seem to be any movement toward amending COLREGS, so autonomous but manned vessels are the only foreseeable possibility, even though the ability of a trained crewperson on an autonomous vessel to take over at 20 knots and avoid a collision, and of a tired businessman to take over and successfully land a malfunctioning aerial drone, are entirely levels of skill. In any event, it appears that once again the marine industry will be following the aerospace industry in adapting to new technology.
So what will the mariner onboard an autonomous vessel look like and what will they do? What will be their legal liabilities? First, the mariner will be a computer technician rather than a shiphandler. Just as computers land today’s airliners and the pilots are there to make sure the computers get it right, the mariner’s job will be to enter the necessary commands into the vessel’s computers to execute the operator’s intentions, including any emergency collision or allision avoidance. The mariner must also have the computer skills to facilitate shore control of the vessel’s machinery. This is already a reality on vessels powered by the latest generation of Caterpillar engines, which can be monitored in real time during navigation — and actually controlled to some degree — by shore technicians.
Just as the present trend is away from onboard repair and toward engines that require shore support for even minor repairs, the “black gang” on an unmanned vessel won’t be casting bearings or rebuilding turbos. Instead mariners will be monitoring computer screens and coordinating by email with various management and support personnel for required maintenance and repair.
If the prospect of going to sea in an air conditioned cubicle with little reason to leave its comfy confines, or of finding the engine room a strange and barren space on that rare occasion when a visit is necessary, is less appealing than the world of “hand, reef, and steer” and grease gun and spanner, then we must remember that there were many seafarers who never adjusted to the transition from sail to steam. It’s still going to sea, after all, and we can only hope that even unmanned vessels will have a place where a crewperson on a long watch can take the sea air and scan the wide horizon. Even with a computerized Iron Mike at the helm, there’s nothing like a sunrise at sea.
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Todd Nelson on November 14, 2018 11:55 am
While the concept of an unmanned vessel is interesting, it is also impractical. For starters, who is going to handle dock lines? As having worked as an engineer on both ships and yachts, there was hardly ever a time where something did not need to be fixed. Until robots are developed to repair everything in a ship that can go wrong at any given time, men will still be needed. As for navigation, most ships run on autopilot from the time they leave the harbor now. Then, of course, one has to consider a catastrophic electrical failure, where the electronics don’t work. All of this will happen at some point, and without crew, a minor problem can rapidly turn into a major disaster.
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Weekend road closures include I-70 west of downtown Indy | 13 WTHR Indianapolis
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Published: Jul 26th, 2019 - 7:21am (EDT)
INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - The Indiana Department of Transportation has major construction work scheduled in Marion County this weekend.
Road crews will continue to repair winter damage and lay new pavement in five different zones around Indianapolis interstates.
Drivers should plan ahead this weekend to find alternate routes to the airport and downtown.
Full closures include:
Interstate 65 southbound from I-865 to I-465 as part of a continuing closure that is expected to open back up by 6 a.m. Monday, July 29. Traffic continues to detour on I-865 eastbound to I-465 southbound to I-65 southbound, with through traffic remaining on I-465 southbound.
Interstate 70 will close in both directions between the South Split and I-465 near the airport on the west side of Indianapolis. This closure begins Friday at 9 p.m. and lasts until Monday, August 5 when lanes are scheduled to reopen by 6 a.m. Detour traffic should use I-465 southbound to I-65 northbound to get downtown.
All southbound lanes from the North Split to the South Split will close Friday at 9 p.m. and reopen by Monday at 6 a.m. Detour traffic should take I-465 around the outskirts of Indianapolis or access downtown from city streets.
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ARTE DE LOS METALES, EN QUE SE ENSEÑA EL VERDADERO BENEFICIO DE LOS DE ORO Y PLATA POR AZOGUE, EL MODO DE FUNDIRLOS TODOS, Y COMO SE HAN DE REFINAR Y APARTAR UNOS DE OTROS.
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BEAN'S HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OF NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. CONTAINING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY, WITH SKETCHES OF THE VARIOUS TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS....
Bean, Edwin F.:
Nevada, Ca. Printed at the Daily Gazette Book and Job Office, 1867. vi,[6],424pp. With the advertisement leaf, not found in all copies, inserted between pp.184 and 185. This copy does not contain the small advertisement after p. vi, which, according to Quebedeaux, does not appear in all copies. Contemporary printed.....
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SIX MOIS DANS LES MONTAGNES-ROCHEUSES. COLORADO - UTAH - NOUVEAU-MEXIQUE.
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Montréal: Granger Frères, 1890. 323,[1]pp. plus several illustrations and folding map. Later blue cloth, gilt-stamped cover. Bookplate on front pastedown, front free endpaper and titlepage detached. Moderate uniform browning, paper slightly brittle. Overall, still very good. The narrative of a six-month tour of the Rockies. Most notable for its extensive.....
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[AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, REGARDING THE GEOLOGY OF HERKIMER COUNTY, NEW YORK].
Beck, Lewis C.:
New Brunswick, N.J. June 1, 1840. [1]p. on folded lettersheet, with original seal and address present. Fine. Lewis Beck was a geologist at Rutgers University, and conducted a survey of the mineral resources of New York state in the 1830s. In this letter, he offers his thoughts on the qualities.....
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THE HISTORY OF THE NORTH-WEST.
Begg, Alexander:
Toronto: Hunter, Rose, & Co., 1894-1895. Three volumes, plus portraits. Green publisher's cloth, gilt stamped. Boards moderately rubbed, slight damstaining to boards of volumes two and three. Corners bumped, spine ends and hinges slightly worn. Some tanning, but otherwise clean. About very good. Begg, a Scottish immigrant to Canada, served.....
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Glendale, Ca. The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1931-1943. Twelve volumes including index volume. Uniform red cloth, t.e.g. Cloth on some volumes slightly rubbed. Near fine. A complete set of this famous collection of southwestern travel accounts, including those of Webb, Bandel, Gibson, Johnston, Garrard, Cooke, and McCoy, as well as.....
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COLECCION DE SUPREMOS DECRETOS Y DETERMINACIONES PARA EL BUEN GOBIERNO Y RÉJIMEN DEL IMPORTANTE RAMO DE MINERÍA DE LA REPÚBLICA. AÑO DE 1833.
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Chuquisaca: Tipografia de Chuquisaca, 1833. [2],33pp. In Spanish. Pages 17 and 21 reversed due to printer's error. Small folio. Gathered signatures, stitched. Contemporary ink ownership inscription ("Señor Dn. Manuel Capiede [?]") and later clerical ink inscription ("RM No 694") in upper margin of titlepage. Ink ownership stamp on titlepage and.....
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MEMORY PICTURES. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
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[Los Angeles. 1912]. [3],263pp., plus portrait and numerous plates. Original pictorial half cloth and paper boards, spine gilt. A bit of shelf-wear. Formerly in the Advertising Department of the Union Pacific Railroad, and also its Historical Museum, with a few ink stamps. Internally very clean and neat. Very good. Printed.....
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VIEWS OF BRITISH GUIANA [cover title].
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Georgetown, British Guiana: James Thomson, Argosy Office, [ca. 1900]. Twenty-four photographic reproductions on [16]pp., bound in accordion style. Original blue publisher's cloth, front board gilt. Light shelf wear. Pressed leaf laid in. Internally clean. Very good. A scarce volume of images of British Guiana from approximately the end of the.....
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AN ADDRESS ON THE SPHERE, INTEREST AND IMPORTANCE OF GEOLOGY. DELIVERED DECEMBER 8, 1849, IN THE HALL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Brumby, R.T.:
Columbia, S.C. 1849. 37pp. Original pink printed wrappers. Wear and soiling to wrappers. Moderate foxing. Good. Brumby is identified on the titlepage as professor of chemistry, mineralogy and geology in the South Carolina College. In this pamphlet he attempts to broaden the range of studies available to students in the.....
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Mexico. 1777. 4pp. printed on folded folio sheet. Woodcut initial. Very good. An interesting and important document issued by the Viceroy of New Spain concerning the formation of a corporation of mines in Mexico for more efficient regulation and production. Included are appointments of several mine owners as members of.....
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Julia Roberts, Perennial Pretty Woman, Named World’s Most Beautiful Woman for Fifth Time
by Karen Brill
Julia Roberts. Photo by Michael Thompson. W Magazine, January 2005.
Julia Roberts is the World's Most Beautiful Woman once more. People magazine bestowed Roberts the honor for 2017, making it her fifth time nabbing the title. It's her first time, however, in 17 years. (This latest feat marks a record for the title.)
For Roberts, that means bragging rights over frequent coworker and notorious prankster George Clooney. Clooney has been named People's Sexiest Man Alive twice, an impressive accomplishment to some but highly inferior to Roberts' record. Roberts joked to People, "I’m going to mention that in my Christmas card to the Clooneys this year." The actress also said she is "very flattered" by the selection, and expressed her belief that "I think I'm currently peaking," now that her "awkward" years are behind her.
The Best of Julia Roberts in W Magazine
Julia Roberts. Cover by Richard Prince. W Magazine, November 2007.
Photo by Mario Sorrenti, styled by L’wren Scott. W Magazine, June 2011.
Julia Roberts. Photo by Mario Sorrenti, L’wren Scott. W Magazine, June 2011.
Roberts inherits the title from 2016's Most Beautiful Woman and Roberts' own Mother's Day costar Jennifer Aniston. She previously was named World's Most Beautiful Woman in 1991, 2000, 2005, and 2010. The first time, when she was just 23 years old, Roberts was on the cusp on her instantly star-making role in 1990's Pretty Woman, though she didn't realize the significance of the film at the time. She told People, "I remember reading … 'Pretty Woman came out this weekend and made this much money,' and I thought, 'Is that a lot of money? Is that good? Is that great?' I didn’t really know." The film was ultimately essential for Roberts, though, showing audiences that while she was indeed a pretty woman, she was also a whole lot more.
Julia Roberts, 2017's Most Beautiful Person, Has Always Been Beautiful On the Red Carpet
Julia Roberts attends the 24th Annual People’s Choice Awards in 1998 at the Santa Monica Air Center.
Julia Roberts keeps it simple in a black spaghetti strap dress and chic up-do.
Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt attend the Stepmom New York City Premiere on December 15, 1998 at Ziegfeld Theater in New York City.
Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt attend the Runaway Bride Westwood Premiere on July 25, 1999 at Mann National Theatre.
Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt at The Next Best Thing pREmiere in New York City, NY on Febuary 29, 2000.
Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt arrive at the 73rd Annual Academy Awards at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, where she won her first Oscar as Best Actress for Erin Brockovich.
Julia Roberts once again opts for all black while attending a red carpet event.
Julia Roberts at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City, New York.
Julia Roberts arrives at the Universal Pictures’ premiere of Charlie Wilson’s War held at CityWalk Cinemas on December 10, 2007.
Julia Roberts and Giorgio Armani attend the Met Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2008.
Julia Roberts attends Eat Pray Love premiere at The Space Moderno Cinema on September 16, 2010 in Rome, Italy.
Julia Roberts wore a black lace Givenchy gown to the Academy Awards in 2014.
Julia Roberts attends TNT’s 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 25, 2015.
Julia Roberts attends the premiere of STX Entertainment’s Secret In Their Eyes at the Hammer Museum on November 11, 2015.
George Clooney and Julia Roberts attend the Money Monster premiere during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival on May 12, 2016.
Julia Roberts attends Open Roads World Premiere of Mother’s Day at TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX on April 13, 2016.
Julia Roberts speaks onstage during the Spike TV’s Guys Choice 2016 held at Sony Pictures Studios on June 4, 2016.
Julia Roberts, wearing Gucci dress and Calzedonia stockings, attends the 2016 GLSEN Respect Awards.
In terms of her own philosophy of beauty, Roberts has previously spoken out about her preference for more natural aging over getting major plastic surgery, once saying, "By Hollywood standards, I guess I've already taken a big risk in not having had a face-lift." While Hollywood seems to have a damned if you do, damned if you don't rule for women when it comes to plastic surgery, and while the choices female stars make remains nobody's business but theirs, Roberts words, particularly as they connect with her Beautiful title, are nonetheless refreshing.
A Celebration of Julia Roberts Most Iconic Hair Moments
With wild, voluminous curls and a nude pink lip, Julia Roberts arrives at the Steel Magnolias New York City Benefit Premiere. 1989.
Photo by Getty.
Celebrating her Golden Globe win for her role in Pretty Woman, Roberts wears her newly chopped bob in tousled curls with a natural lip at the 48th Annual Golden Globe Awards. 1991.
Wearing her auburn brown locks shoulder length with side swept bangs and a mauve lip, Roberts poses at the At Industria Superstudio. 1995.
At the Red Corner New York City film premiere, Roberts wears her blonde locks in soft curls with full bangs and nude lip. 1997.
Opting for a sleek half up do, Roberts wears a silver frosted eye with a glossy berry lip at the 55th Annual Golden Globe Awards. 1998.
Back to dark brunette, Roberts radiants with luminous skin and sheer mauve lip at the the British Academy Film Awards. 1998.
Keeping her shoulder length locks in natural waves with a hint of blush on the cheekbones and and satin mauve lip, Roberts attends the 15th Annual American Cinematheque Award Salute to Bruce Willis. 2000.
At the 73rd Annual Academy Awards, Roberts celebrates her Oscar win for her role in Erin Brockovich wearing her hair in an elegant, sleek up do with a light grey smoky eye. 2001.
Roberts wears her light brown locks with a light contour on the cheekbones and soft pink lip at the Mona Lisa Smile New York film premiere. 2003.
Roberts stuns with her platinum blonde locks in tousled curls with a frosted grey smoky eye and nude satin lip at the the 76th Annual Academy Awards. 2004.
At the 21st Annual American Cinematheque Award Honoring George Clooney, Roberts wears her hair in beauty waves with a dusting of coral blush on the cheeks. 2006.
Wearing her rich brunette locks in a tousled up do with a light contour on the cheekbones, Roberts attends the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala. 2008.
Roberts glows at the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards wearing her blonde curls middle-parted with light grey smoky eye and a sheer pink lip. 2010.
Attending the Heal The Bay’s Bring Back The Beach Fundraiser, Roberts keeps her look natural with tousled waves and taupe smoky eye. 2012.
Opting for a tousled up do with loose curls framing her face with a pink nude lip, Roberts attends the August: Osage County premiere during the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
Back to platinum blonde, Roberts keeps her hair in loose waves with a hazel brown smoky eye at the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. 2014.
Wearing her auburn brown locks side-parted in loose curls with silver smoky eye and a nude lip, Roberts attends 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. 2015.
Roberts stuns at the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival, wearing her blonde locks in voluminous, tousled curls with a sheer light pink lip. 2016.
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Bald Eagle's Comeback Means Bad News For Other Rare Birds
By Fred Bever • Aug 11, 2016
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
Sometimes what we call the slug for a story turns heads all day long. The slug is the short phrase that identifies a story on our show board. Well, the slug for this next piece is eagles killing other rare birds. Here's the background.
Since the 1970s, when the pesticide DDT was banned and the Endangered Species Act took effect, the American bald eagle's population has roared back from near extinction. In Maine, the eagle population has surged from a low of 40 nesting pairs to more than 700. More eagles means they need more food. So for some other struggling bird species, the eagle's success has a menacing side. Maine Public Radio's Fred Bever reports.
JOHN DRURY: See, there's one.
FRED BEVER, BYLINE: Bird tour operator and scientific researcher John Drury pilots his old lobster boat in Penobscot Bay, about 15 miles off Maine's coast. He's been visiting a stony archipelago of seabird colonies here for decades. He watches a black-headed juvenile eagle ark into the air, and two gulls rising to chase it off.
DRURY: There's one. They're after him right now. See him?
BEVER: Around the bend, a handful of great cormorants - big, dark birds with long, hooked beaks - guard their nests. And out on a nearby ledge, several more young eagles loaf and watch.
DRURY: They've moved out here to forage close to the rich, delicious birds.
BEVER: From Drury's perspective, that's a problem. Those great cormorants living under the eagles' gaze are some of the last to breed in the U.S. Once extirpated here, the great cormorants have made a comeback, too, reaching a peak of 240 nesting pairs in the early 1990s.
DRURY: And there are 40 pairs this year. And the eagles have been attacking every colony every year, pretty much.
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BEVER: About 50 miles southwest in Casco Bay, state biologist Brad Allen is documenting declines in several avian species. This day, he's looking for great blue heron.
BRAD ALLEN: There's one right there.
BEVER: Is that an eagle or a great blue heron?
It's a great blue, a majestic, prehistoric-looking bird. When Allen last studied the species in the 1990s, he counted roughly 1,200 nesting pairs along the coast. Now the coastal heron population is a third of that.
ALLEN: So it's down quite a bit because, you know, we've actually witnessed some subadult bald eagles and the heron are getting in there, and it's just catastrophic.
BEVER: Allen says eagles are responding to a big drop in their traditional coastal prey - cod, salmon and other fish whose populations have been hurt by overfishing, dams and warming ocean temperatures. Seabirds face other threats, as well, but the eagles are putting real pressure on. And with their population growing around the country, it's an emerging issue for wildlife managers.
BRYAN WATTS: We are headed into a golden age for eagles. We haven't had this many eagles in the Chesapeake since colonial times.
BEVER: Bryan Watts directs The Center for Conservation Biology at Virginia's College of William and Mary. He says he can foresee a time when the issue becomes acute enough to force a new approach to eagle management.
WATTS: In terms of eagles, because of their status within our society, it's a discussion that's been put off, but ultimately we're going to have to face.
BEVER: Right now, the only real strategy to deal with rising eagle predation is to scare them off. Maine hosts the only U.S. population of Atlantic puffins, a clown-faced little avian popular with birders. During the nesting season, when the young are most vulnerable, volunteers are posted at some of their colonies here to wave off marauding eagles. But when humans aren't around, puffins, like other seabirds, may have to fend off a growing number of eagles on their own. For NPR News, I'm Fred Bever in Portland, Maine. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Learning the Process for Delivering Impact
Working with a High School Senior on a Capstone Project
Words By Kimberly Ayers | 23 May ‘19
Outside of my work at yet2, I have another very interesting “project” I’ve been working on: I’m an advisor to a local high school senior’s capstone project. Throughout the past year I’ve worked with Meghan Hanks, helping her define the scope of her senior project.
Meghan, who is soon to graduate from Souhegan High School, worked with a panel that consisted of three teachers and myself. She started with her interest in environmental issues. We discussed climate change and what a carbon footprint is. Eventually Meghan decided her essential question was, “Why are carbon footprints important?”
Sub-essential, or supporting questions, were:
What is a carbon footprint?
How are carbon footprints and climate change related?
What can one person do to reduce their carbon footprint?
The next step in Meghan’s project was do conduct research and reach out to at least one outside expert. Meghan reached out to five! Meghan found Dr. Meaghan Daly of the University of New England to be the most inspiring. Dr. Daly kept Meghan from losing hope, emphasizing that every person who makes a little effort can be part of a bigger cumulative change. She decided to create a challenge to help people learn how their carbon footprint impacts climate change. Initially, this was to be a 30-day challenge, but was cut down to a 15-day challenge. She determined the challenge had to be really thoughtful, and had to fit three criteria:
How hard/easy was it to do?
What was the size of the impact?
Was it unique?
Meghan kicked off the challenge with a public meeting at the local library. She then used Facebook, email, and Instagram to publicize the specific challenges. All were designed to be very doable, but some were easier than others.
“It was interesting to see who was able to get involved, and with what,” commented Hanks. “For example, one seemingly easy challenge was to pay your bills online versus using paper and mailing in your bills. But there’s a trade-off – it’s the power that you are paying for. You might not even think about your power usage as contributing to your carbon footprint.”
Then there were the challenges some simply couldn’t participate in – such as changing light bulbs. “In theory it’s pretty simple to switch light bulbs to LED, and energy-conserving bulbs,” added Hanks. “Except some of the challenge participants were college students living in dorms. They had no ability to change their light bulbs.”
Much of what Meghan learned – and did – throughout this project is similar to how we approach our tech scouting and tech monetization projects. And it really comes down to asking the right questions and finding what will make the most impact.
In the abstract, I loved the idea of helping a senior with their project, getting the opportunity to mentor a student to use critical skills and analysis to come up with an end product and present some interesting findings. In the practical application of it, I loved working with Meghan and her teachers to take an enormous subject like the environment and boil it down to a series of 15 daily challenges to help people discover how their carbon footprint can impact climate change.
The real-world impact of this senior project is twofold: Folks who participated in the challenge now have tools to reduce their carbon footprint, and Meghan got accepted to the University of New England! Congratulations, Meghan!
Graphics courtesy of Meghan Hanks
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Linda Perry Talks About Christina, Media, Bionic & A Possible Rock Album
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Auto Straddle: I really feel like the public has been too hard on Christina Aguilera this past year. Do you think it’s a case of society wanting to tare someone down only to build them back up because the public loves a comeback story?
Linda Perry: Christina’s always had the bad rap. So, it’s not like this is happening all of a sudden… she’s always had it. That’s something between Christina, her fans, the public, and the energy of the world. That’s something only Christina and the energy can figure out what’s going on there. But, as far as I’ve known her, everybody’s always given her a hard time. She’s a different little bird. You know, she’s not really out a lot and when she does go out, people are gonna grab things. Like, is she running around as much as Britney Spears was a few years ago? No, she’s isn’t. But, when they catch her they catch her in whatever state she is in. I don’t know why the press is so hard on her right now. I think Christina’s awesome and a very talented person. She definitely doesn’t care — and that is a fact. You know how some people say “I don’t care” and they really do? I can tell you that Christina really doesn’t care…. because she learned very early on that critics are critics, people will say whatever they want and it’s up to her to decide what is the truth and what is not. She stands true to what she knows. Like, she told me “I know this Bionic record is not going to be a big record because I’m gonna try and do some different things and I don’t know what’s gonna happen but this is what I wanna do…” She knew that before she recorded one thing. She knew that about Back to Basics, too. Her record company came to her and said “you’re gonna sell way more many records if you make this a single album. Let’s get rid of the double record.” And she said, “No, this is how I hear it. I hear one record being like this and the other record being like this.” Everybody warned her that it’s not going to sell as much but she didn’t care because she comes up with creative ideas and stands behind them as an artist. It’s not all about selling a bazillion records to her. She just wants to be able to stand behind it. In the end she did say to me, “Maybe I did release the Bionic record too soon. Oh well. Now, I wanna make a rock record!” I was like “Oh, God!” She’s gonna take everybody for a ride. So, ultimately, why she gets put down I don’t know. You’ll never know, I’ll never know, only Christina will ever figure that out and get the answer.
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Express April 1, 2011 - 5:39 pm
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is what Ive been wanting to hear…Xtina making a rock record!!! I can not wait!!! Love you Xtina!
rp April 1, 2011 - 7:06 pm
OMG!!! i luv u Linda!! you REALLY know xtina well!!! it’s true and we all know xtina is bashed out of jealousy and greediness…and peopel like to catch xtina doing things and try to compare her just to MAKE A BUCK with their crappy articles!!!! And im glad xtina doens’t care. Many people say “I don’t care” when they really DO. They said it.just to make themsleves look good. However…we can all tell xtina doesn’t care. but u know what…i could see how bionic was released too soon and maybe it should have come AFTER burlesque…but really…her label messed up the album…(it’ in an article). And i wish peoepl could just STAY QUIET about comparisons…but that doens’t exist. Im soo glad xtina is doing rock…but i still hope she has other genres. And i luv xtina in ballds the BEST obviously, but i STILL respect ALL her genres…she pulls them ALL off well!!! I LOVED bionic no matter WHAT! and xtina is TRUE artist…not just some product SELLOUT who focuses on sales..i luv xtina for that..which is why she’ll be around for many many many years to come!!!
K0808144 April 1, 2011 - 9:02 pm
you go gurl!
Diepmayer April 2, 2011 - 3:06 am
@rp I do agree with u, that’s why i luv xtina too. An Atrist … Album Sales doesn’t matter. Some singers always tweet when they have #1 on billboard chart.. That’s so cheap
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MAHABHARATA, BOOK 11: STRI PARVA
Dhritarashtra said, Tell me in detail everything about the ways of that intelligence by which this wilderness of duties may be safely covered. Vidura said, Having bowed down to the Self-create, I will obey thy behest by telling thee how the great sages speak of the wilderness of life. A certain brahmana, living in the great world, found himself on one occasion in a large inaccessible forest teeming with beasts of prey. It abounded on every side with lions and other animals looking like elephants, all of which were engaged in roaring aloud. Such was the aspect of that forest that Yama himself would take fright at it. Beholding the forest, the heart of the brahmana became exceedingly agitated.
His hair stood on end, and other signs of fear manifested themselves, O scorcher of foes! Entering it, he began to run hither and thither, casting his eyes on every point of the compass for finding out somebody whose shelter he might seek. Wishing to avoid those terrible creatures, he ran in fright. He could not succeed, however, in distancing them or freeing himself from their presence. He then saw that that terrible forest was surrounded with a net, and that a frightful woman stood there, stretching her arms. That large forest was also encompassed by many five-headed snakes of dreadful forms, tall as cliffs and touching the very heavens. Within it was a pit whose mouth was covered with many hard and unyielding creepers and herbs. The brahmana, in course of his wanderings, fell into that invisible pit. He became entangled in those clusters of creepers that were interwoven with one another, like the large fruit of a jack tree hanging by its stalk. He continued to hang there, feet upwards and head downwards.
While he was in that posture, diverse other calamities overtook him. He beheld a large and mighty snake within the pit. He also saw a gigantic elephant near its mouth. That elephant, dark in complexion, had six faces and twelve feet. And the animal gradually approached that pit covered with creepers and trees. About the twigs of the tree that stood at the mouth of the pit, roved many bees of frightful forms, employed from before in drinking the honey gathered in their comb about which they swarmed in large numbers. Repeatedly they desired, O bull of Bharatas race, to taste that honey which though sweet to all creatures could, however, attract children only. The honey collected in the comb fell in many jets below. The person who was hanging in the pit continually drank those jets. Employed, in such a distressful situation, in drinking that honey, his thirst, however, could not be appeased.
Unsatiated with repeated draughts, the person desired for more. Even then, O king, he did not become indifferent to life. Even there, the man continued to hope for existence. A number of black and white rats were eating away the roots of that tree. There was fear from the beasts of prey, from that fierce woman on the outskirts of that forest, from that snake at the bottom of the well, from that elephant near its top, from the fall of the tree through the action of the rats, and lastly from those bees flying about for tasting the honey. In that plight he continued to dwell, deprived of his senses, in that wilderness, never losing at any time the hope of prolonging his life
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There's a lot more to Fun Fun Fun Fest than just the tunes. Although the homegrown festival is best known for bringing in big names like Wu-Tang Clan, Jane's Addiction, and now Lauryn Hill, the three-day affair at Auditorium Shores is chock-full of non-musical entertainment.
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The blue, black, and orange stages may get the most attention at Fun Fun Fun, but the yellow stage is the fastest growing facet to the festival. The smaller, more intimate viewing area will showcase amazing comedians like Tig Notaro, Doug Benson, Kurt Braunohler, and Eric André.
Speaking of the yellow stage, there will be quite a bit of programming that's educational — if you count booty dancing as educational (which we do). Our favorites include a "twerkshop" with Big Freedia, a special lecture from Andrew W.K., the Science of Hip Hop talk with GZA, and a mind-blowing appearance from actual NASA scientist Dr. Scott Bolton.
The Volcom Super Collider is returning to FFF Fest for the second year in a row. This "super ramp" will play host to top talent from the skateboarding and BMX worlds, including Ryan Sheckler, Chase Hawk, Aaron Ross, and Grant Taylor. Even if you're not a fan of extreme sports, this massive aerial display is worth a visit during the weekend.
The wrestling ring at FFF Fest is not for the faint of heart. With a lineup of local wrestling leagues, including the always intense Anarchy Championship Wrestling, you're sure to be entertained ... as long as you don't pass out at the sight of blood.
FFF Fest has a habit of peppering the festival grounds with fun backyard games. If you need a break between sets, keep your eye out for pingpong or cornhole, which are usually near the food area.
Aching for some new festival duds? You can snag T-shirts, vintage clothing, artwork, jewelry, and more at the fest. Prototype Vintage, Strut, Blue Lux, Soul Rebel Vintage, Bella & Chloe, Gear From Last Night, and Austin Facial Hair Club will be onsite with their wares. In addition to the usual festival swag, you can also snag band posters at Flatstock.
Don't forget to track the migration of the famous taco cannon for your chance to catch a flying tortilla bundle. The festival schedule includes taco cannon appearances, but you can also follow the delicious weapon via the official FFF Fest app. This year is a tasty one, because the tacos will be supplied by El Chilito.
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Quotes on Th Muivah's attempted Manipur visit imbroglio
"As of now, the Imphal-Dimapur highway does not figure in chief minister Ibobi Singh’s scheme of things. The Manipur government dropped plans to use the supply route after the state director-general of police Yumnam Joykumar Singh was asked by his Nagaland counterpart not to send the trucks till the situation became normal."
--www.telegraphindia.com
"Surely the image of Ibobi Singh has gone up manifold and he has become the darling of the people for the simple reason that he defied the diktat of the central government over Muivah's visit to Manipur."
--Babloo Loitongbam
"The naga brothers and sisters should wake up before it is too late and stop those leaders who are using them as a human shied for his political game. Question is how many naga people freely follow the ideology of Muviah and his dream to form a state called as "Nagalim". Should not it better to call "Muviah-lim" instead of calling "Nagalim"."
--chaobaphuritshabam.blogspot.com
"The sky is empty and free, if they dream so high for making a land inhibited by only one community then it should only be in the sky...not on the mother earth..."
"Even Ukhrul district, viewed as overwhelmingly inhabited by one Naga tribe, the Tangkhul, now has a significant presence of other people, in particular the Kuki. In Senapati district, supposedly inhabited overwhelmingly by the Mao Naga, Kuki people dominate the Sadar sub-division. They also have many political demands for ‘recognition', assertion of territoriality and demarcation of an exclusive political space. Much the same points may be made in respect of Tamenglong and Chandel districts. A further complexity of switching of tribal identities is a marked feature of the identity politics, which is especially marked in Chandel district."
--M. S. Prabhakara, The Hindu
"It is where Isak Chishi Swu needs to be asked, whether is it Meiteis or Swu and his outfit who are greedy of other people's land? The Meiteis or for that matter, the Government of Manipur have never encroached upon the territory of Nagaland or Mizoram or Assam or even Myanmar."
--N. Hera, Hueiyen News Service
"Even looking back at the recent history, after Manipur became a full-fledged state, the first Chief Minister was Late Md Alimuddin from the minority community. In its 37 years after getting statehood, Yangmasho Shaiza and Rishang Keishing ruled Manipur as Chief Minister for 21 years."
"We want that the Meteis of Manipur and the Nagas cohabit without any animosity."
--Kughalo Mulatonu
"If today’s generation could not protect the territory of the state drawn by the blood of 'our forefather' who fought even with the mighty British Emperor, it will be meaningless for the Manipuris to live in this world. When they could not convinced rebel leader Muivah to install as Chief Minister of Nagaland to end his arm struggle, leaders of the GoI, on thinking that if he be installed as Chief Minister by creating South Nagaland, is sending Muivah to the state."
--Yumnamcha Dilip, president of the UCM
"If a small road was blocked for day in Haryana or Uttar Pradesh, the media would have covered it immediately. But a month's blockade of two arteries joining the state with the rest of India hasn't attracted even a fraction of that attention. Why? Because Haryana and UP are more important to South and North Block than Manipur?"
--Tarun Vijay, BJP's national spokesperson and director, Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation, New Delhi
"Sixty years of political struggle against occupational forces should not be equated with petty domestic issues of Manipur state. Sovereignty of the Naga people is not with Manipur state Government. ...Mr. Th Muivah visiting or not his native village in Manipur has never been, is not, will never be a Naga-Manipur problem...”
--GPRN/NSCN
"Nagas and Manipuris have lived together for centuries in mutual respect. There is no reason why this camaraderie and bonhomie should abruptly end. All Naga and Manipuri Leading Organizations must realize that a man’s entry or exit from his native village is not worth a battle let alone war."
--The NSCN-K or GPRN/NSCN
"...while every Naga expects its apex body to act responsibly with sound judgment even in the most compelling circumstance, Naga Hoho has miserably failed to display maturity and elderly wisdom. The Naga Hoho is not a Naga Hoho in the truest sense of the term since it comprises of less than half of the Naga tribes in the state of Nagaland. It must be answerable to Eastern Naga Peoples Organisation (ENPO) and other non-affiliated tribes in Nagaland and other states for attempted stirring up of unjustified anger over a tiny issue, tarnishing the image of Nagas in the eyes of the neighbors and Naga well-wishers across the globe..."
"On May 9 , the Naga Hoho, in the daily papers screamed 'Manipur Government’s Open Declaration of War Against the Nagas!' NSCN-K or GPRN/NSCN would simply comment that only a group of men having hidden agenda would attempt to whip up people’s sentiments and emotion to suit their own interest. ...it needed the Naga Hoho to first calm down and look at what had transpired preceding the incident. If Manipur govt. accuses Muivah of committing heinous crimes in the state of Manipur, does it merit the Naga Hoho to unilaterally declare war on behalf of all Nagas against Manipur state? Will it not be wise on the part of the Naga Hoho to first investigate whether the accusations against Th. Muivah are fabricated or factually true? The Naga Hoho failed to exercise its wisdom and when blood was on the wall, it called for war. Understandably, innocent public were simply blackmailed and placed as shooting targets for Manipur police commandoes. Who first initiated the bloody walk? Who is to be blamed?”
--NSCN-K
"...some underground elements were using the civilians as tools to block the highway. When the Government uses force to clear the blockade, it is only the innocent and unarmed civilians who would get hurt. It is the moral conscience of the State Government to take care of the safety of the citizens."
--N Biren, Spokesperson of the SPF Government, Minister of IFCD and YAS.
“BJP’s charge of unilateralism against the Home Minister was based on statements of two Congress Chief Ministers, Mr. Ibobi of Manipur and Mr. Rossaiah of Andhra Pradesh. The Manipur Chief Minister is on record stating that, he was not consulted before the decision to allow Mr. Muivah into Manipur. Earlier when, P. Chidambaram made announcement regarding the beginning of the process of formation of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. Rosaiah immediately clarified that neither he was consulted nor had any knowledge of this announcement.”
--Javedekar
"The various voluntary organizations based in Assam will be compelled to launch road blockade on NH 39 (Numaligarh to Moreh) and NH36 (Nagaon to Dimapur) and the Naga voluntary organization shall be held responsible for any untoward incidents in future..."
-- K Chingkham, Convener of NEPO.
"propose of rebel leader's visit is to gain popularity at the sunset of his career...Muivah no longer loves people of Manipur where he was born, leader of the armed outfit's persistence to visit his native place 'with the childish blessings of the Central Government is pregnant with conspiracy to disintegrate Manipur and sow seeds of enmity amongst the ethnic people who had been living peacefully for ages.
--Konjeng Leikai Youth Development Club, Sega Road
"We have co-existed together with love and peace and I believe his entry in the state will destroy the peaceful atmosphere and end that relationship amongst us."
--Rojen Mayengbam
Ibobi Singh's success in consolidating his position as undisputed leader as compared to the flux before he became CM has also helped his cause. The political uncertainty before his tenure as CM was seen to have been exploited by Muivah for the Nagalim cause. Now that Ibobi Singh is in control of things, he does not want Muivah to play a disruptionist role and the CM appears to have successfully stalled the home ministry's initiative to bring the NSCN (I-M) leader to Manipur.
--timesofindia.indiatimes.com
“No one likes to leave his native place unless conditions force him to”
--Th. Muivah at Viswema
“My parents died waiting to see me. I have come in peace, not to stage war. I don’t see how the wish to be in my village and meet my kin after so many years can be a threat”.
--Th. Muivah
“Frankly, I never thought much about this new NNC leader then. But I did notice something in his eyes; he still has that intensity. No wonder, he continues to commands awe and respect of the Nagas.”
--R. Ketsore, chairman of the Viswema Village Council
"The price of all essential items are going up due to their blockade, we are suffering to the extreme. In this situation, it is obvious that we have to block the goods being supplied to them."
--RK Radhesana
"I support the state government's decision to bar Muivah from entering Manipur. If he had come as a civilian or a Manipuri, he could be allowed. But he is coming as a General Secretary of the NSCN-IM and should not be allowed"
--M Namreilung, a protester of the Zeliangrong Naga community in Manipur
"The unilateralism of the Home Minister has once again created tension. Earlier, he had announced creation of a separate Telangana State without taking the Andhra Pradesh Government into confidence. This time, he allowed Muivah to visit his village in Manipur without asking the State Government for its view".
--Prakash Javadekar, BJP delegation to Manipur
"...the crisis in the State was the creation of the Central Government, which unilaterally gave permission to Muivah to visit Manipur, without first consulting the State Government."
--Prakash Javadekar, BJP
"The track record of Mr P Chidambaram as the Union Home Minister of India in connection with the Telangana issue and the anti-Maoist strategy has proved his incompetency beyond doubt."
--The UCM
"HRLN strongly protest the excessive use of force by the police and security forces and as result of which young Naga people lost their lives in totally illegal and unjustified shooting."
--M Rakesh, Director of HRLN, Manipur
"There is no question of disturbing the territorial integrity of Manipur. There is no question of anything to do with Manipur as far as the NSCN-IM negotiations are concerned. So boundaries are not negotiable".
----Prakash Javadekar, BJP spokesperson
"The chief minister of Manipur was requested to come to Delhi and he did so on May 6, 2010. The finance minister, the defence minister and I held talks with the Manipur chief minister, who, however, after his return to Imphal, reiterated the stand that Muivah's visit to Somdal could not be allowed at this stage."
--P. Chidambaram
"May be Muivah a hero in other places but it does not hold good in Manipur. He is a man who is indulging in criminal, looting activities. In any cost he should not allow to enter into the state".
--S Kunjakishore, independent MLA
"...cadres of an armed outfit with substantial dominance in Churachandpur district and one of the suspension of operation signatories impose 'tax' of varied amount from goods carriers in full combat uniform Songtal area of Guite Road...as entry tax an empty truck has to pay Rs 250 while passage of cement load would mean Rs 5 per bag."
--[Drivers]
"The Centre gave permission to NSCN (IM) general secretary Thuigalen Muivah to spew communal venom to the people of the state"
--Manipur Students Guardians' Organisation (MSGO)
"...leader of a faction of the NSCN (IM) responsible for the mass killing of Kukis and for the June 18 Uprising of 2001 when the cease fire extended in the state is an enemy of the people of the state."
--Rev Y Rehang Chothe, advisor of the MSGO
"...However, as the situation in Manipur is highly critical it would not be possible for the UCM leadership to entertain the request to meet in Guwahati on May 13...UCM is looking forward to meet the Naga civil society at an appropriate time and place in the future."
--Yumnamcha Dilipkumar, UCM president
"the invitation for a joint session at Guwahati on May 13 was flashed through the newspapers, AMUCO would not be able to attend the same due to time constraint as well as the present volatile situation in the State...the prevailing situation in Manipur has compelled both to stay put here, monitor the situation, remain vigilant and work for preventing undesired consequences...working for maintaining tranquility in the State deserves top priority..."
--NC Modhuchandra, Publicity secretary, AMUCO
"since you people are blocking the essential commodities from being taken to Chandel, we will also block transportation of essential commodities from Moreh to Imphal".
--The NSCN-IM cadres
"There is an impression now among the Nagas that Government of India is using the Manipur Government against the Nagas...It appears that Government of India is not committed to its own commitment that it will strive to solve the Naga issue...If not, then they must know what the Nagas and the NSCN can do again."
--Thuingaleng Muivah, NSCN (I-M) general secretary
"NPMHR is shocked that the human rights groups from Imphal valley, who have been campaigning against militarization, extra-judicial killing, asserting the rights to self-determined future and other human rights abuses, are yet to condemn the killings of innocent Nagas...What is more shocking is that some of the so called 'human rights' organisations are actively supporting the policies of the Government of Manipur against the Nagas which has already resulted in the loss of lives and injuries to many Nagas."
--The Naga Peoples' Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR)
"Terror and violence through military action will bring no solution to the conflict, peace and security can only be achieved by respecting the wishes of the people."
"The cease fire is confined only within the State of Nagaland and with a large number of criminal cases pending against him, it would not have been right to allow Muivah to enter Manipur."
--The Cabinet, SPF Government
Posted by Unknown at Thursday, May 20, 2010
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Home / News / The Basics Take Aim At The Lucky Country
The Basics Take Aim At The Lucky Country
By ATO staff on October 29, 2014
‘Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share its luck.’
When Australian writer and historian Donald Horne wrote those now-immortal words exactly fifty years ago, there is no way he could have foreseen the dripping irony completely overlooked by ‘Team Australia’ half-a-century on.
Recently returned from their regular world travels, The Basics – sick of watching the soap opera of mediocrity that has become Australian public life – have decided to do something about it, beginning with the release of The Lucky Country, a rock’n’roll rant against the age of entitlement and the leadership gulf in the Abbott-Shorten-Palmer-Milne circus.
Kris Schroeder, along with bandmates Wally De Backer (aka Gotye) and Tim Heath have ever railed against the mainstream, and The Lucky Country is yet another bold step in their fascinating career, once again throwing trends to the wind by channelling Bragg, Dylan and Garrett in a pointed message that they want heard.
“We’re songwriters, but we’re not just here to talk about love, heartbreak and getting drunk,” says Schroeder. “We believe in reflecting something of the society we live in, and right now there are a lot of people who seem to think that they’re better off sticking our heads in the sand and pretending the rest of the world isn’t there. It’s about time someone stood up and said that valuing education and believing that being aware and informed is important, doesn’t make you a ‘hippy’. Wanting to leave the planet in better shape for our children doesn’t make you a ‘bleeding heart’. Thinking that respect for other cultures enhances our nation rather than diminishes it doesn’t make you unpatriotic.”
“Whether it’s politicians, newspapers or ‘shock-jocks’, we’ve got this toxic culture that has been fostered on “what’s in it for me” – it’s as if this ‘Doctrine of Prosperity’ that’s been preached in churches for years has filtered down to the rest of us. It’s been encouraged for so long for quick votes and ratings – like “You’ve only got two cars? You should have six!” – and maybe someone needs to take Australia by the wrist, give it a shake and say “WAKE UP”. And why not a bunch of musicians to do it?”
The Basics will spend the Christmas/New Year period taking the new EP on the road to many corners of the “Lucky Country”.
THE BASICS THE LUCKY COUNTRY TOUR
Tickets on sale from 9:00AM, Friday October 31st
December 16/17
Newtown Social Club
Newtown, NSW
Sol Bar
Old Museum
Corner Hotel
Princes Wharf 1 “A Taste of Tasmania NYE”
Cataract Gorge “The Basin Concert”
Launceston, TAS
Rosemount Hotel
Mojos
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Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in From The Cold
Oskar Werner in Ship of Fools
Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou
Rod Steiger in The Pawnbroker
Laurence Olivier in Othello
Labels: 1965, Best Actor, Laurence Olivier, Lee Marvin, oscar, Oskar Werner, Richard Burton, Rod Steiger
5. Jack Lemmon in Missing- Lemmon has a few moments of strong emotional impact, but the script calls for very little of him most of the time. Also I felt there was a lack in a natural flow in his performance.
4. Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year- Peter O'Toole is good, and charming as a washed up movie star. His performance is not incredible but it is a nice funny and entertaining performance by O'Toole.
3. Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie- An incredibly enjoyable performance by Hoffman here. He makes sure every joke hits home with his terrific comedic timing. He makes the film also believable despite playing a man playing woman. Many scenes could have come off as just odd, by Hoffman makes them humorous, and also adds even more with the oddly poignant transformation caused by being a woman for awhile.
2. Ben Kingsley in Gandhi- Kingsley is quite good in the challenging role of Gandhi. He always seems completely authentic as Gandhi, in every scene and at every age. I never once doubted him as Gandhi, which is a spectacular achievement by Kingsley.
1. Paul Newman in The Verdict- Newman gives a full portrait of a man from being tired and broken down, but slowly growing toward a redemption of sorts. I personally finds this performance to be an outstanding and powerful performance which is incredibly true and authentic. A heartbreaking performance which may not have the technical challenges of Kingsley and Hoffman's characters, but Newman is the who made Galvin a truly empathetic man to me which is something a performance rarely does for me, but this one did completely.
I decided to change other deserving performances since rewriting the performances in my ranking in my nominees is rather redundant. For the deserving performances this year I cannot think of any but I am open to suggestions.
Labels: 1982, Ben Kingsley, Best Actor, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Lemmon, oscar, Paul Newman, Peter O'Toole
Best Actor 1982: Paul Newman in The Verdict
Paul Newman received his sixth Oscar nomination for portraying Frank Galvin in The Verdict.
I think the Verdict is a very well done court room drama, and personal character study, that I thought was a very emotionally effective film.
Frank Galvin is a incredibly downtrodden Lawyer who is at the bottom of the barrel, he has an office which is a mess, he lacks clients and work, the biggest social event in his life is making the jokes at the bar, heck he cannot do well at pinball. Paul Newman could not be more pathetic and anything but charming or suave here. Nothing like the old Newman image seen in something like Cool Hand Luke.
Newman looks aged, and even his eyes do not even look blue in this film they look like tired old eyes of a tired old man. That is to say I think he is incredible in these early moments as Frank Galvin as just a tired man drifting through life. Newman creates a truly sad portrait of a broken man particularly in his early moments trying to get work by offering legal work to the family of the recently deceased at the individual's funeral, sleeping on the floor of his office, waking up with his hangover, Newman shows Galvin own defeat without fault.
Frank Galvin is given a case by his friend (Jack Warden) that will give him some sort of chance to rehabilitate himself. Galvin initially takes the case seeing at a way to make a fairly quick buck. The case though is a malpractice lawsuit against doctors in a Catholic Hospital who caused a woman to go into a permanent coma by using the wrong anesthetic while she was giving birth. The case though clearly effects Galvin, and he clearly starts to see as much more.
The start of this is shown in a very quiet moment where Galvin takes pictures of his client for evidence. Newman is absolutely stunning for me in this scene, his quiet expression and reaction clearly deeply effects Galvin, no words instead is all in Newman's reaction. Galvin is given an offer by the Church to avoid a trial, but avoid any justice to the doctors at fault. Newman again outstanding showing how much Galvin is truly effected on a deep level by this case. Galvin's need for justice in this case, is something deeply within something he needs to be able really be a descent person again, this again is not really spoken all that much but is made emotionally true, and incredibly clear by Newman.
Galvin though becomes less tired and slowly gains more confidence as the trial becomes closer. Galvin does not instantly become confidant as a lawyer and a person but Newman slowly portrays a growing strength in the character. He never becomes obviously charming in Newman's old way, but there is a quiet hint to his old charm in a great scene again by Newman in a scene where he picks up a Laura(Charlotte Rampling). He talks finally with an amount of confidence, not a lot but a little showing Galvin's growth. He also shows this in court, his first days he pauses, and shows a lack of strength, but slowly gains his old abilities once more.
Galvin case though is not easy do to a hostile judge (Milo O'Shea) and an overly competent, corrupt, and confidant opposing lawyer (James Mason) who goes at great lengths to undermine Galvin's case. Newman makes Galvin simply empathetic for me as he struggles to find justice for his client and find his own redemption through the challenges. I thought an especially powerfully scene was when he loses his key expert witness. His sense of a sort of abandonment, and again losing hope, and his confidence once more. An especially striking scene is his moment of defeat where he states his failure to Laura in a heartbreaking scene.
Galvin though finds a witness and still attempts to desperately win the case. Newman made me personally feel Galvin's own desperation, and strive for some sort of justice. I feel Newman's performance simply is that powerful. I felt every single one of his win and loses both in and out of the court room. Newman is to me as authentic as one can be, and as truly powerful as a performance can be. I thought especially in his pivotal speech at the end of the film. His speech is so quiet, honest, and powerful. It is in ways a small speech, not say Atticus Finch's speech in To Kill a Mockingbird, but just a strong if not stronger because Newman makes the speech heartfelt, and a deeply soulful speech that made me not for a second question the outcome of the film. An outcome of the film made powerful, and completely deserved because of Newman's performance.
Best Actor 1982: Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie
Dustin Hoffman received his fifth Oscar nomination for portraying Micheal Dorsey/Dorothy Micheals in Tootsie.
Tootsie is actually a very enjoyable comedy, which utilizes its situation for all of the comedy it can get basically.
Dustin Hoffman does not play two characters in this film, but plays one man Micheal Dorsey an actor who pretends to be a woman Dorothy Michaels to get an acting job on a soap opera. He first is the struggling actor Micheal who works hard on his art, but perhaps is a little too difficult about it preventing him from getting work as an actor. His early scenes are energetic although the weakest part of his performance as Michael Dorsey, as all by himself, really is not that interesting of a character actually.
Hoffman though really does shine as Dorothy. Although the viewer is obviously instantly in on the fact that it is Hoffman as the women, but Hoffman is fully believable anyways. His voice, is just about perfect with his southern accent, and the way he changes the way he walks, and stands is all brilliantly handled by Hoffman. I never had a doubt that any of the characters would at all believe him to be a woman. This actually is a fairly a big challenge since after all he actually does not wear that much to look like a woman, but Hoffman due to the way he carries himself as a woman both physically and through his voice Dorothy Micheals is simply a very convincing woman.
Hoffman though performance is not only a technical achievement though but is a thoroughly entertaining performance. In just about every scene he finds the right humor with Dorothy, and Micheal, in the double life. Hoffman is clearly working with a funny script but his timing is exceptionally good in this role. The jokes many of them are technically obvious jokes for the situation he is in, but the film and Hoffman really get the most out of them. He is simply hilarious with this performance, that is just a delight to watch. Comedy is always hard to describe why it is funny without over description, so I will just say that what Hoffman does is funny, every situation Dorothy/Micheal get into Hoffman does his best to make them funny, which he succeeds with incredibly well.
The performance actually always stays funny which is something I like but that does not mean his performance is at all simply. He shows a transformation in turning into a better man as Micheal by being a woman, which is strange but well incredibly well handled by Hoffman making it very natural and not at all forced of a transition for the character. Hoffman naturalism in this bizarre role is actually what makes every odd moment in the movie, somehow authentic and funny as well. I would say this is especially true about his "romantic" moments with Jessica Lange and Charles Durning. These scenes are over the top situations technically, but Hoffman makes them somehow play realistically and of course humorously, which is an amazing achievement since the scenes really could have gone all wrong, but instead they go all right.
I would say his best single moment is the reveal scene in the soap opera. This alone shows the brilliance of Hoffman's performance. This scene is both incredibly funny but also has the sentimental ending to his speech which Hoffman portrays wonderfully without taking away the humor from the scene nor does he make that part of the speech at all forced. This scene is just like Hoffman's performance mixing his performance as the man and the woman brilliantly and hilariously but also with the little more to the performance.
Labels: 1982, Best Actor, Dustin Hoffman, oscar
Best Actor 1982: Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year
Peter O'Toole received his seventh Oscar nomination for portraying washed up movie star Alan Swann in My Favorite Year.
My Favorite Year is unfortunately not that funny of a comedy the lead that is not O'Toole gets rather annoying, but there still is O'Toole to make the film enjoyable enough.
Peter O'Toole plays Alan Swann a Erroll Flynn esque movie star who is past his prime and allows his vices to get the best of him quite easily. Peter O'Toole as soon he walks on seem right for the part of Swann. He has the right cocky swagger even when he drunk, the right swagger of a over the top movie star. I like the fashion in which he played Swann as a drunk which is colorful since it is a comedy, but I do not think he over did it. I think his drunken mannerisms worked well, and he really did derive a good amount of humor from Swann's drunkenness.
Alan Swann when he is not drunk is looking for women. O'Toole really walks a careful line with Swann here, because Swann could very easily of been a completely obnoxious character, or seemed a little too slimy. But under O'Toole care Swann comes off a charming even if slimy man that simply is interesting to and rather entertaining to watch. I think he is entertaining to watch in just about every scene he tries to be so, the only problem is the film fails to focus on him enough, and spends a little too much time perhaps with the writer who looks after him played rather impressively by Mark Lynn-Baker, since O'Toole really is the film.
Swann has more than simply his entertaining antics though and has a little more to his character. A lack of a relationship with an estranged daughter that he finds trouble confronting. O'Toole adds the right poignancy to these quiet moments of Swann's without making these scenes seem disconnected with his scenes of antics. I will say the majority of his performance are his antics which are most entertaining at the end when he gets stage fright. O'Toole shows Swann anxiety with a nice amount of humor and delivers the "I'm not and actor, I'm a movie star line" as well as possible. He rounds out his performance with showing the swashbuckler actor part of Swann rather comically at the end, making O'Toole performance a nice comedic turn even if not amazing by any standards.
Best Actor 1982: Ben Kingsley in Gandhi
Ben Kingsley won his Oscar from his first nomination for portraying Mohatma Gandhi in Gandhi.
Gandhi I think is a fairly simple biography that really does just follow the man through his life events. I personally prefer a little more. I can read a book on a completely straight and positive biography, I think there is something lacking in terms of cinematic quality of the film for me anyways. It is not bad, but I actually would rather read a biography of Gandhi than watch the film.
Ben Kingsley portrays Gandhi, and he seemed to have been the perfect choice for Gandhi. I never doubted his portrayal for a single moment as Gandhi. I never thought he was portraying the part in a false or unrealisitc fashion. He always just simply seems to be Gandhi no matter what phase of his life from his young days as a lawyer to his final days. He always seems to be Gandhi, which is quite a feat in itself due to notoriety of Gandhi. It would easy to see faults in his portrayal but he simply has none in being completely Gandhi as a man. At every age he is just as believable, his voice changes adjustments are always completely natural and always are true, also his body language is equally correct. All of his motions from the way he sits and lies, stands in an inward fashion and holds his neck, all seem accurate to the man, and never seem to be calculated Kingsley part just natural.
The portrayal of Gandhi is actually rather complicated early on showing a different side from the usual popular view of Gandhi. A little different side where Kingsley really excels in the role, because the somewhat rougher side and very different side of Gandhi from the man he becomes is well shown by Kingsley because he shows this other aspect of Gandhi showing more to the man without making who he eventually becomes a unnatural transition. Kingsley makes two scenes incredibly interesting showing more depth of Gandhi in his first scene when he does not wish to give up his seat, his reactions are perfectly shown by Kingsley, than later when he wishes to force his wife to clean the toilets. Again it shows a rougher side of Gandhi, and Kingsley handles the scene perfectly.
After his initial scenes though Kingsley becomes the well known image of Gandhi. The guy who knows precisely who is what he stands for, and only wants freedom and peace. The transition to this Gandhi is a rather fast one, I will say, but Kingsley handles it well so it is not at all disconcerting or sudden. Gandhi does mostly just does move for peace and freedom in India for the rest of the film through his speeches, marches, and hunger strikes. Kingsley is incredibly good actually, even if Gandhi becomes a somewhat simple although not a one dimensional character.
Kingsley throughout the rest of the film has this certain quiet power and passion in every way. Much of his performance actually is in small very small, and very poignant reactions shown through the face of Gandhi. He never is loud, but incredibly powerful which is a truly amazing achievement by Kingsley. The role is an incredible challenge even if it seems somewhat simple on the outside due to Gandhi being presented completely positive for most the film. Gandhi is a larger than life figure, and a well known figure, Kingsley is able to be both without visible effort which is what makes this a great character.
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Best Actor 1982: Jack Lemmon in Missing
Jack Lemmon received his eighth and final Oscar nomination for portraying Ed Horman in Missing.
Missing although could be an interesting story, but something is well missing. Maybe it is the foregone conclusion, or the repetition of the majority of film of just looking being lied to and not finding him.
Jack Lemmon role of Ed Horman is only to do a few things unfortunately, which may be part of the film's problems. Horman shows up desperately searching for the whereabouts for his Charlie. He does this with his daughter in-law Beth (Sissy Spacek). Horman does this he looks for his son with Beth, fights with her due to her and his son's values and attitudes about the world and governments. The changes consist of this, Horman grows more and more disillusioned with the government as well, becomes more frustrated with the lies of his own government and Chile's government. He also, as his search becomes more hopeless, becomes closer with his daughter in law.
Lemmon's performance is limited though due to how limited Horman's actions are. The main searching part of standing around and listening to others becomes repetitive, and Lemmon certainly cannot make it very interesting. I will say Lemmon's reactions are always authentic feeling, and realistic. He is always properly frustrated and disappointed at just about everything, but these reactions simply do not result in all that much. Horman simply never comes alive as an interesting character. He is a function of the plot really. The film is unfortunately only really about American involvement with the Coup and the search for Charlie itself. It could have really gotten into the character of Ed and Beth but it really doesn't.
Lemmon does his best with the role despite Ed Horman being oddly unimportant to the film itself. The relationship between he and Beth, and he and his son is there but not given the right pull. Lemmon does have the right passion in showing Ed's want to find his son, and Ed's change to growing more disillusioned is well handled by Lemmon even if it is not exactly compelling due to the film. I will say he does have some emotionally strong moments such as the stadium scene where he really is terrific, and when he learns of the final truth about his son. Those scenes are absolutely brilliantly played by Lemmon but unfortunately on a whole they do not do enough to save the overall character's treatment by the film itself, which I feel does take a back seat to the plot.
Labels: 1982, Best Actor, Jack Lemmon, oscar
Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year
Paul Newman in The Verdict
Ben Kingsley in Gandhi
Jack Lemmon in Missing
Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie
5. Cornel Wilde in A Song To Remember- Wilde performance is just a dull boring performance lacking in any redeeming factors.
4. Bing Crosby in The Bells of St. Mary's- I will admit Bing certainly smiles a lot but does little past that. He sings, and smiles that is it.
3. Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh- Kelly does his usual thing here, some like it, I don't really.
2. Gregory Peck in The Keys of the Kingdom- Gregory Peck gives a nice charming performance as a Priest, who stays interesting and effective to watch throughout the film.
1. Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend- No doubt about this one Milland by far gives the best performance, in a harrowing, and very effective turn as an alcoholic writer. His performance is exceptionally effective, and shows incredibly realistic performance of a man who is just about over the edge.
Cornel Wilde in Leave Her to Heaven
Labels: 1945, Best Actor, Bing Crosby, Cornel Wilde, Gene Kelly, Gregory Peck, oscar, Ray Milland
Best Actor 1945: Gregory Peck in The Keys of the Kingdom
Gregory Peck received his first Oscar nomination for portraying Father Francis Chisholm in The Keys of the Kingdom.
The Keys of the Kingdom is a well made and quite affecting film for me anyways about a priest and his years in China as a missionary.
Gregory Peck, I am glad to say due to the other non winners of this year, actually gives a very good performance. Peck stays strong throughout the film, and stays as an especially interesting man to watch as he starts as a young man. Peck early on is properly charming, and just give a very nice watchable performance. He is interesting to follow throughout the film, as a young man. Peck gives just an interesting performance in which can be followed through the story of the Priest.
I really liked his performance as just a nice charming man, Peck shows how an almost entirely good guy performance does not need to be either dull or boring. Peck makes the priest a likable and enjoyable character watch. He lacks any deep problems, and is a very principled man. He though does become slowly more and more principled as the film goes on. As he grows more and more in tune with the Chinese people he is around. Peck although playing a nice character does not make him an simple man, even if he is a man of simple tastes.
Peck stays an interesting guide throughout the priest trials and tribulations as his time as the missionary. He is humorous and very heartwarming in the good moments of his time in China. His relationship's with the local people are made very sweet by Peck. Peck also holds the right strength and power in his moments of showing his passion for his work, and his protection and defense of the local people he cares for. Peck is also incredibly strong in the moments of hardship the priest must face such as the violence in China and the losses of his friends. Peck again is terrific, and very strong. Peck ages very well creating a very poignant portrait of a man, making hi final farewell in the film a truly heartfelt moment.
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Best Actor 1945: Cornel Wilde in A Song To Remember
Cornel Wilde received his only Oscar nomination for portraying composer and pianist Frederic Chopin in A Song To Remember.
A Song to Remember is a incredibly dull and boring movie, that fails to capture anything about Chopin's life in any interesting fashion, also it fails to really shows his genius as a composer in any way.
Cornel Wilde's performance is much like the film very dull and boring. Part of the film he just stands around being told what to do by his mentor played by Paul Muni. His performance suggests nothing of an actual genius, and he makes Chopin a very boring and uninteresting man. Well I suppose perhaps I should not blame him entirely since the film writes Chopin in such as simple way, but Wilde adds nothing that the script failed to add. He plays the piano mostly and listens a lot to what other people say, anything. His reactions though are not even interesting when listening.
He does act out when hearing about the Russians or seeing Russians, and has to show his hatred for them. He still does nothing special when he lashes out at them either. I was really surprise by how overly dull Wilde performance is in this movie. Every aspect of his performance is dull and boring, just as the character is dull and boring. There is not really much to say about this performance because the character is so underwritten, and utterly dull. Also Wilde is a incorrectly nominated too, because he is infinitely better in Leave Her to Heaven from the same year.
Labels: 1945, Best Actor, Cornel Wilde, oscar
Best Actor 1945: Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend
Ray Milland won an Oscar from his only nomination for portraying alcoholic writer Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend.
The Lost Weekend is an effective film about a single alcoholic, and his struggle. It is not quite perfect, but it certainly very well written, and quite well directed.
Ray Milland is quite interesting as Don Birnam in that despite playing an alcoholic writer he never exactly becomes drunk. He becomes slightly slurred, but he never really fully becomes drunk due to the fact that he has been drinking for so long and so hard. Milland does not play Birnam's alcoholism as just a problem Birnam has but an innate condition and disease that he struggles with. The alcoholism is not only his need for a drink but also his need to cover up a lack of confidence. Milland completely makes Don's problems completely authentic and realistic, and all the more difficult to watch due to Milland honest performance.
Milland never overacts once in this performance which is amazing due to the difficulty of the part. Milland as I said does not really do any drunk scenes exactly, but he does his long length of time as withdraws from a lack of alcohol. His long extended time here is brilliant, because Milland slowly shows the symptoms of withdrawal which grow as his time of not having a drink continues to increase. His frustration, panic, and pain are all exceptionally well shown by Milland, too well shown because how downright realistic he is in both the symptoms themselves, and showing the slow way his withdrawal deteriorates both his health and his mind.
The most heartbreaking and effective moments of his performance are how Milland makes Birnam such a real person, and such a desperate and problematic person. There is not a bit of acting in Milland's whole performance shown on screen. Every moment of his performance is completely honest and effective. I completely believed in this guy Don Birnam who simply cannot get over his lack of confidence, his writer's block and his drinking problem. Don Birnam depression, and sadness, are made truly heartbreaking because of how Birnam is made a completely true person by Milland.
Milland performance is essential to this film, and it is he who makes the film a success. He holds interest and attention throughout the film. He makes Don's struggle one that becomes very personal, and it is with this that he makes the film as compelling at it is. Milland makes every scene believable and authentic, even when there is a risk against it. Think about the scene with the bat, it could have potentially been too much, but Milland frightened reaction is completely authentic the scene completely succeeds. The film has its strength because Milland's performance simply is so honest, so powerful and so heartbreaking. With the wrong actor the film could have been too melodramatic, too boring, unauthentic, but Milland avoids all that giving a fantastic performance.
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Best Actor 1945: Gene Kelly in Achors Aweigh
Gene Kelly received his only Oscar nomination for portraying Navy Sailor Joseph Brady in Anchors Aweigh.
Anchors Aweigh is a sailor musical, which I got tired of very quickly. I did like one scene though, and that is the cartoon dance sequence. That scene is quite good, but the rest of the film I just get bored by rather quickly.
Gene Kelly is never an actor exactly in which people praise for his acting skill. He is the type who mostly plays the same type of character. The dancing singing semi romantic guy. Kelly is an actor who generally relied on his his skills as a dancer rather than a thespian. This means pretty much means, since this performance is not really any different than any of his other performance the liking of Kelly depends on how much you like him usually in terms of his charisma and such.
I never have found myself liking Kelly that much as an actor. I get annoyed by his voice when I hear it too much as I do in this film. I can understand that some may find he has fine charisma and screen presence though, even though I just really do not like his style myself. Yes I do think he dances well, and sings alright, but overall his performance just is not anything special in terms of any actual acting. He does his thing in this movie as he did in most of his movies, which is fine, but just does not amaze me all that much.
Labels: 1945, Best Actor, Gene Kelly, oscar
Best Actor 1945: Bing Crosby in The Bells of St. Mary's
Bing Crosby received his second Oscar nomination for portraying once again Father O'Malley in The Bells of St. Mary's.
I actually do not hate Going My Way, in fact one facet of it I enjoy quite a bit. The Bells of St. Mary's though is very plodding and rather dull. I do not mind films which just seek to be pleasant but this one did not work. Also how did they honestly think Henry Travers could play a villain?
Bing Crosby's performance is not a performance there really can be said all that much about. He sings well I guess as he usually does but that is not an acting performance. He mostly just looks and smiles in this performance. Even when he tries to change someone's mind about something he just tells them smiling in his usual way. There really is not all that much to his performance and O'Malley's character is rather strange in this film actually. For example he really undercuts the Sisters for no reason many times, and why exactly did he praise the bully for beating up the kid exactly? O'Malley is rather odd with his imperfectness in this one that does not work, and I think the just about perfect guy in Going My Way works much better.
Crosby actually stays in the background a lot of the time, and the little good cheer that is in the film is mostly brought by Ingrid Bergman as the Mother Superior Sister Benedict. Her performance is not anything amazing but it really shows how little Crosby does in his entire performance. He just smiles, or sings that is it, except perhaps his final goodbye to Sister Benedict at the very end of the film. He actually has some emotion in that scene rather than just relaxed happiness of the rest of his performance. That one scene, well not even a scene more of a moment is not much but at least it is something, unlike the rest of his performance, this really is the sleepwalking style of performance.
Labels: 1945, Best Actor, Bing Crosby, oscar
Gregory Peck in Keys of the Kingdom
Bing Crosby in Bells of Saint Mary's
Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend
Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh
Cornel Wilde in A Song to Remember
Is this the biggest one horse race in this category or will it be someone else? Oh and I guess this is my Christmas edition due to Bells of Saint Mary's.
5. Yul Brynner in The King and I- Brynner gives a odd performance that is strange in almost every aspect, his acting, his chemistry with Deborah Kerr, his singing, the only thing that is not strange is his dancing I guess.
4. Rock Hudson in Giant- Hudson gives a good performance throughout Giant. His character is a steadfast character, but Hudson is interesting to watch and makes himself interesting despite the simple nature of his character sometimes.
3. James Dean in Giant- Dean is incredibly good in the first half of his performance making the most out of his character, in a compelling performance that only Dean could give. His second shorter half as the rich oil man, does not quite work for me. He was slimy I suppose but I was not convinced at all by the character later. Hudson and Taylor aged properly but I actually think Dean was incapable of really aging.
2. 1. Laurence Olivier in Richard III, and Kirk Douglas in Lust For Life- Good prediction Dinastzie These top two performers are both absolutely brilliant. They both take incredibly complicated and challenging characters and bring them to life brilliantly. They excel in everything facet of their performance, both use their whole physical presence to fully realize their character. Douglas's Van Gogh, and Olivier's Richard III are both perfect performance the two could not swap roles both are perfect for the roles and in the roles. I think both are equal roles, and performances, neither tops the other in any aspect they both brilliant, how could these two performances lose to Brynner is beyond me. If I was forced to vote for one I would go with Douglas because I have already voted for Olivier twice. But by strange Oscar logic I should get one best actor tie since there was one tie in the field.
John Wayne in The Searchers
Labels: 1956, Best Actor, James Dean, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, oscar, Rock Hudson, Yul Brynner
Best Actor 1956: Kirk Douglas in Lust For Life
Kirk Douglas received his third Oscar nomination for portraying troubled artist Vincent Van Gogh in Lust For Life.
Lust for Life is an effective and interesting biography of the troubled artist, I particularly liked the look of the film which reflected the art of Van Gogh quite well.
Kirk Douglas seemed to be the perfect cast for Van Gogh as soon as you see him in this film. He simply looks like him in this movie. He has the right face, and body type that fits Van Gogh perfectly. Douglas from the opening scene though also shows Van Gogh's strange form of constant depression at all times no matter what in his life. Douglas rightly shows a constant pain in his face even if he is not saying anything, there is clearly always something harming him from the inside, even if outwardly he does attempt to hide it at times.
His constant struggle with pain though is quite interesting though because as the title says he does have a Lust for Life. The Lust is shown through his devotion to his painting, but also his need and want to understand the common man. His passion for the people is incredibly well shown by Douglas who shows a certain in happiness in being able to watch and paint these particular people, even if he always shows a pain behind that happiness that never goes away. His most principal pain being his lack of friends and his inability to be comfortable with his surrounding.
Douglas is so painfully forceful in his performance as Gogh that it is sometimes hard to watch. He desires certain things so much, his intensity is so extreme that it cannot be ignored. Douglas makes Gogh pain so real that it is hard to take, because Douglas strikes the right emotional note. He especially does this in his scenes where he lusts after his cousin. His intensity, and raw that makes the scenes in a very interesting way painful to watch. Douglas is downright chilling especially when he puts his hand over a candle flame. Douglas makes Gogh's pain, and frustrations all too real all the time.
Douglas' performance is sad complicated work that makes Van Gogh a very vivid man. He combines all of Van Gogh's complex emotions brilliantly. His want for some companionship, but also his anger when challenged about anything about himself. He never makes Van Gogh as simple man in anyway. He is always a man in a sad state, even with his brilliance well shown even if he is not fully even aware of his own talent. It is a complex complicated performance, one in which he fully utilizes his whole body to suggest Van Gogh lusts, pains, and hopes. A challenging character Van Gogh is and Douglas is more than equal to the task.
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Best Actor 1956: Laurence Olivier in Richard III
Laurence Olivier received his fifth acting nomination for portraying the titular character in Richard III.
I think is a terrific Shakespearean film by Laurence Olivier, possibly even better than his also terrific Henry V.
Laurence Olivier is simply one of the best Shakespearean actors, and he proves it once again in this performance of a rather different Shakespearean character. I first of all love what he looks like in this film. His elongated nose, his hump, that bizarre hair, I think it all adds to the oddness of Richard III as a character. A challenge of all performances of Shakespeare is the ability to properly handle and the ability to properly convey the language. As I said in Henry V's performance Olivier perfectly excels with the language. He makes it completely natural and native to be said by him, and he never at all seems for a second uncomfortable with any single speech he makes.
Laurence Olivier does not only speak the language impeccably but he also always does his best to help the non Shakespearean trained audience understand it in both his direction, and his means of conveying this in his speech. Olivier never just reads the lines but is always certain to convey all the emotions along with what the long passages of speech or dialogue. I was quite interested in his performance because Richard III is so incredibly different than Henry V. They are both Kings but become Kings in different ways, and almost everything else is different about them too. Olivier though is just as believable as the deformed Richard as he was as the normal Henry V.
Olivier is an actor I like best when he relaxes a little bit which he does in the devious role as Richard. Richard could be portrayed as an overly serious villain, but Olivier does something that prevents this and that is how he talks directly to the audience during his scheming speeches. He makes Richard interestingly playful, and I thought actually a fun villain to watch despite how severe his crimes can be. Laurence Olivier I found to be especially entertaining and effective throughout the film with his sly manner of moving around, and his constant scheming with his knowing face at all times.
Olivier creates a fascinating character with Richard who is always interesting to watch in any scene even when he is not the focus, or the man speaking in the scene. Olivier always keeps his presence known and always stays fascinating. He also is incredibly believable as Richard despite the complete bizarre nature of the character. I bought not only the characters evil and intent but also the ability of the character to perform his schemes in both in terms of the killing of his relatives, and his schemes involving the bed of women he desires even women who he has severely hurt. I completely believed the seduction of Lady Anne, which may be hard to take, but Olivier has a very strange charm as Richard.
Olivier's whole performance is brilliant but a few small moments I think truly showed his exceptional ability as Richard. One being his scene with his two nephews. He fakes the nice uncle for a point that is properly creepy but equally convincing at being able to have a facade. Olivier though is equally chilling when the true Richard is revealed when one of Richard's nephews unfortunately mentions his shoulder. His look he gives he gives the nephew is perfectly chilling. Olivier best scene may be Richard's final ones before his fateful battle. First being confronted by those he had killed or caused to die in a dream. Olivier brilliantly shows a pain showing the slightest concise, but he sheds guilt quickly with his odd speech before the battle almost an evil parody of Henry V's big speech. Finally his final moments on the field are simply perfect, as Richard loses everything quickly, and finally his brilliantly directed and acted death scene. Another great Shakespearean performance from Lord Olivier.
Best Actor 1956: James Dean in Giant
James Dean received his second and final posthumous Oscar nomination for portraying Jett Rink in Giant.
James Dean's is always a phenomenon considering he has only three films, and his acting style is so bizarre, yet he is a icon and his style is adored by many. Dean in Giant actually is a supporting player, and is not the lead. There are long passages where he is completely absent, and much of the time he is just the man slinking around in the background. Dean has his trademark mannerisms and looking at the ground constantly. He though has less I think than in East of Eden, and I do think he did utilize his mannerisms to create a character.
In East of Eden his mannerisms suggested a young man uncomfortable with just about everything. Here I feel he does properly use his mannerisms this time to convey himself as a loner in the early moments most assuredly well. He is uncomfortable with his surroundings and employer. He shows a hidden sense of hatred of his character, and his hidden motives quite well. I think he is actually interesting early on, and not distracting with his little slinking in the background always. He does convey everything and more for his character of Rink, and I think his intensity and style of his performance works perfectly early on.
Later though after he becomes rich his performance changes. I do like his one scene where he announces his soon to be riches in his fantastic style. His performance though becomes very limited in terms of screen time, occasionally popping in and out very quickly. I never really believed him at all as the older rich oil man. Dean's aging was not at all convincing even though Elizabeth Taylor's and Rock Hudson's were. I thought he was slimey enough but that was about it. He was suppose to have some sort of charm I think but he doesn't and I really did not believe Dean at all as the oil man. He was perfect for Rink at the beginning but by the end he seemed to become miscast. I do not know if any other actor could have been as interesting at the beginning but I do think many could have been better than the second half of his performance.
Best Actor 1956: Rock Hudson in Giant
Rock Hudson received his only Oscar nomination for portraying Bick Benedict in Giant.
Giant is actually a very interesting film. I did not care for it too much the first time I saw it but I will say that I was not really paying enough attention to really appreciate it.
Rock Hudson's performance here is not anything special but it is not at all bad. I think this is due to the character of Bick Benedict. Bick is not all that complicated of a character. He is in many ways the typical rancher man. He wants to keep his family business well, and wants to live his life. I felt Hudson was actually entirely believable as the rancher, I though his accent was fine, and I had no problem with what he did with the character.
Bick as a character though really requires little from the actor, and his whole character seems to be reactionary in many ways to those around him. He stays steadfast with most of his beliefs and thoughts and is reacted upon by his sister, his wife, his children, and his rival of sort Jett (James Dean). He reacts mostly in constrained anger when the others do what disappoints him and angers him. I think Hudson's reactions are fine, and make sense for the character. He is always believable I think in the role, his performance is not really flawed I think at all. Bick just is a reactive character most of the time, and never very complex.
I think he handles the aging of the character well, and shows his frustrations well enough. I think he works well with Elizabeth Taylor well, and I think they have a the right naturalism in their scenes together. I thought they worked together like a real married couple, and I though he was equally naturally with all the children as well. He even works well with Dean, and I find his steadfast method of acting works along fairly well with Dean eccentric method. Bick I do not think is a lacking character, he does not need to be that complicated to serve his purpose. Bick serves his purpose as does Hudson. Not amazing by anything means but I though he was perfectly fine in the role.
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Best Actor 1956: Yul Brynner in The King and I
Yul Brynner won his Oscar from his only nomination for portraying the King Mongkut of Siam in The King and I.
The King and I is a weird musical to say the least, in both its story, and its odd pacing and tonal shifts. Especially involving the subplot about the King and one of his brides that gets rather dark at the end.
Brynner's performance as the King is an odd story of extreme success. He won this Oscar and a Tony for his performance, and he portrayed the King over 4000 times on stage. I guess there must be something about his performance here that struck many people incredibly well even if in terms of normal acting it seems rather odd to me anyways. His performance is strange in his semi comic way of acting throughout the film. He tells people what to do with his snap, and his strange way of speaking in this movie, no I do not mean his accent. His whole style of speaking is strange, and I never say anything all that interesting about his performance it was just simply odd.
His chemistry with Deborah Kerr is odd, the way the King carries himself around his court is very odd. The way he talks with his children, his wives, or when he talks to Kerr is bizarre. I have no idea what he was doing in the performance, all I know is it does not work. He does not really have presence, or all that much charisma in his performance, nor does he make the King either interesting or entertaining. His singing is also very odd too, I suppose his dancing is not really odd but that is about it. I actually do like Brynner as an actor in other films besides this, but this film his performance oddly theatrical. I suppose he knew what he was doing though since he won an Oscar for it, but I think he was in fact much better in both Anastasia, and especially the Ten Commandments both from the same year.
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Best Supporting Actor 1967: Cecil Kellaway in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Cecil Kellaway received his second Oscar nomination for portraying Monsignor Ryan in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
Monsignor Ryan is a kindly priest who is a family friend of the Draytons who are dealing with their daughter marrying a black man. Monsignor Ryan really is not in the film very much. He shows his nice face and acts very well to the interracial couple, than questions Matt Drayton (Spencer Tracy) about his hesitations around the relationship of his daughter. There really is not much to the character of Monsignor Ryan and in turn there really is not much to Cecil Kellaway's performance.
Cecil Kellaway is charming and nice enough in his performance. He is exactly the kindly priest that he should be. When he later questions Tracy's character he again is believable in his somewhat sarcastic way he confronts him is done in an appropriately playful fashion by Kellaway. After this though there really is nothing special about his work, but at the same time there is nothing wrong with his work either. In fact it is just as it should be possibly just a little more, but certainly no less.
Kellaway does not really standout in any substantial fashion in the film, but nor is he excessively forgettable either. He is just a nice little presence in the film because of Kellaway's natural charm, I suppose Monsignor could have been less by not having the charm Kellaway has but still the performance never becomes anything that needed to be rewarded or even noted.
Labels: 1967 Best Supporting Actor, Cecil Kellaway
joe burns said...
I agree here, nothing to special.
What did you think of the other actors?
Hepburn is fine but not win deserving. Poitier is good as usual. Houghton is almost excruciating. Beah Richards frankly tries to be too dramatic. Roy E. Glenn is fine, and basically almost all of the small side roles are overacted in some way.
Dazzling Aura said...
What do you think of Kellaway in Sweet Charlotte? Have you seen it?
I have not watched that.
this is a bit off topic but my boyfriend is planning on buying me a Terence Stamp film for christmas among other things, are there any films besides Billy Budd and The Collector that he is good in, any ideas bloggers so I can hopefully give him a clue xxxxx
I don't have any other good recommendations for Stamp becuase I have not seen that much of his work on a whole, although I do love the way he says "KNEEL" in Superman 2.
haha =D
Not that great IMO. The weakest link for me.
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Kevin Bollaert, Operator of Revenge Porn Site YouGotPosted Arrested, Charged With Extortion
December 10, 2013 Adam Steinbaugh YouGotPosted 8 comments
The California Attorney General’s office today announced that Kevin Bollaert, one of the operators of now-defunct revenge porn site YouGotPosted, was arrested and charged in a San Diego state court with thirty-one felony counts of identity theft and extortion. The complaint is here, but the arrest warrant contains much greater detail linking Bollaert to the site and its extortionate companion, “ChangeMyReputation.com”. I wrote in some detail about the ties between Bollaert, YouGotPosted, and the “independent takedown” website “ChangeMyReputation” last December.
These are first criminal charges filed against the operator of a revenge porn site in the United States. On first blush, although criminal law is by no means my forte, the complaint against Bollaert will be difficult to sustain: the Communications Decency Act bars certain state-level criminal charges against the operators of a website, assuming the identity theft charges treat Bollaert as the speaker (as opposed to the persons who provided the nude photos to him). Whether the extortion charges are barred by the CDA is a more complicated question.
Notably, the complaint repeatedly references a co-conspirator, and the arrest warrant notes that the site’s other proprietor, Eric Chanson, asked that Bollaert not associate Chanson’s name with the site in July of 2013. In August, Chanson told a Federal court that he had sold his share in the YouGotPosted enterprise to Bollaert in March. I am unaware of any information publicly available in July 2013 that would tie Chanson to the site, so it’s unclear why he would send such an email unless he were still somehow involved.
This is only the summit of Bollaert’s legal woes. In September, Bollaert and his company, Blue Mist Media, were hit with a $300,000 default judgment by a Federal court in Michigan.
More on this story as it develops and I have time to analyze the complaint against Bollaert.
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An Involuntary Porn Site and its Deceptive “Reputation Management” Site, ChangeMyReputation.com | Adam Steinbaugh's says:
[…] 12/10/2013: Kevin Bollaert has been arrested and charged with thirty-one felony counts of extortion and identity theft in connection with 'UGotPosted' and […]
Basil Forthrighly says:
The Ars Technica article makes him sound young, stupid, and contrite-now-that-I’m-busted. I suspect California is ready to hoist him up the flagpole, as an example.
I think treating revenge porn as extortion is the way to go, even if the laws need fixing to get there. The “annoy/harass” laws don’t come with a big enough hammer, typically, and it’s the monetization of misery that makes the practice so odious, not just the posting or solicitation thereof.
As an aside, if the CDA immunized the extortion it needs to be fixed ASAP; while not a lawyer, I’m not seeing huge differences between revenge porn sites and say, find_a_killer.com. Sure, the underlying crimes are different, but both are sites deliberately designed to facilitate felonies. Perhaps we need to develop criminal facilitation law, akin to the way conspiracy law, and the law of accomplices and accessories has developed.
The Case Against RevengePorn Bad Guy Kevin Bollaert says:
[…] to Adam Steinbaugh’s Blog About Law and Technology, “the Communications Decency Act bars certain state-level criminal charges against the operators […]
ndmike12 says:
I don’t see why the CDA would be an obstacle to an extortion charge, since that charge arises not from the speech of a third party, but from conduct that the site operator allegedly personally engaged in. There may be other obstacles to getting a conviction for extortion, but the CDA isn’t one of them unless I’m missing something.
Butler trash says:
What a complete Idiot. yes I run a gossip website. No i do not charge anyone to take anything down. This was just very stupid on this persons behalf.
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[…] owner to face extortion charges in California. Kevin Bollaert, who operated YouGotPosted, was arrested on thirty-one felony counts in December and is awaiting trial. Revenge porn kingpin Hunter Moore was arrested on federal […]
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[…] Hammer” website — have since been indicted in California for extortion. One, Kevin Bollaert, is currently on […]
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[…] practice of Bollaert and his partner, Eric Chanson, almost a year before Bollaert’s indictment. 1 The state’s evidence — which I will detail in an update to this post later this […]
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Nokia’s Microsoft Partnership: Does the New Strategy Add Up?
February 11, 2011 at 4:02 am PT
Nokia has already announced the key piece of its strategy–a shift to Windows Phone for future smartphones. Now the company is set to talk about the financial implications of that and go through the rest of its strategy, which includes a mix of Symbian and even a dash of MeeGo.
The investor event is scheduled to start shortly and due to run until about 2 pm London time. Mobilized will have live coverage, providing our battery holds out. I’ll try to mention only the high points, however. Mobilized loves numbers, but it is awfully early for a whole lot of financial speak, especially for the U.S. insomniacs tuning in.
12:02 pm: Still waiting for things to get going. But if you really want something to do, we have plenty of earlier coverage, including the press conference and the YouTube video of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, as well as a chat with Elop on how he made his big decision.
12:05 pm: Okay, things are getting going as Elop takes the stage (the same one as the earlier press conference.
12:06 pm: Elop is reviewing things. Lots of talk of both challenges and gems. If you read his memo, or anything else he’s said recently, you have heard this.
Battle of devices to war of ecosystems, etc. Mobilized has this part memorized.
12:09 pm: Smartphone strategy is just one piece.
Reviewing the three alternatives that Elop considered–MeeGo, Android or some partnership with Microsoft.
As for Google, Elop says it is the case there are some advantages for that approach.
“There’s something happening there. There’s no denying that.”
However, Elop says the company was worried it would be late and be just one of many, and was not sure how it could leverage assets like its Navteq location-based services.
“Our sense was differentiation could be a pretty big challenge,” Elop says. “The risk for commoditization would increase dramatically.”
Feels profit would have eventually moved to Google, with handsets becoming a commodity.
“It felt a little bit like giving up and not enough like fighting back,” Elop says.
12:12 pm: As for Microsoft, Elop says both companies are bringing something to the table.
As expected, Elop is characterizing this as more strategic than just taking a license to Windows Phone. Talking about Nokia services like mapping, local advertising and other things that Nokia can bring to the table.
“It’s far more interesting than a simple licensing deal,” Elop says. This was the only strategy that makes it a three horse race with Google and Apple.
Elop says he is convinced that Nokia will be able to differentiate within the Windows Phone ecosystem on a sustainable basis.
12:15 pm: There were some challenges and potential disadvantages, he acknowledges.
Top among these is the fact that Windows Phone 7 is new on the market.
“It’s early,” he says. “Will it succeed?”
12:17 pm: Also, there is the issue of being locked in or a lack of control. Elop does not disclose terms but says the company has flexibility and “substantial control” over the future of the ecosystem.
“This is not your mother’s OEM deal with Microsoft,” Elop says.
12:17 pm: Elop says the deal is at the “term sheet” stage, noting that the companies have yet to sign the “definitive agreement.”
12:18 pm: Already the engineers are working through, and Elop says this deal will allow Nokia to move far faster than it has in recent years.
12:18 pm: He’s also making the cost-saving argument, saying Nokia can focus its investment, which he acknowledges hasn’t been getting the return it should.
Elop earlier acknowledged that the company expects significant cost savings from the move as well as substantial workforce reductions.
“Bottom line: Products that are more competitive,” he says.
12:22 pm: Operators are excited by a third viable option, Elop says.
“A two-horse race is not a satisfactory [situation] for operators,” Elop says.
Elop says that Microsoft-Nokia will be operator-friendly, as compared with Google and Apple.
12:24 pm: Elop talking about differentiation–a key concern of analysts and investors.
Elop talks about Windows Phone as offering differentiation form Apple and Google, but also insisting that Nokia has the assets and business terms it needs to stand out from other Windows Phones. He focuses on camera technologies and “unique relationship.”
Stresses again that this is not a standard handset maker agreement. But he also says that just because Nokia can change lots of things within Windows Phone, doesn’t mean it should.
Nokia, he says, must “resist the temptation to customize just for the sake of customization.”
12:27 pm: Now talking about Symbian. For those that missed it, Elop reiterates this is a transition strategy, but adds that the company still expects to sell 150 million more Symbian devices before that transition is complete.
12:29 pm: Strategy is more than just smartphones. He wants the company to be a leading force in connecting the next billion people to the Internet via phones in emerging markets. “The market for feature phones is pushing down the price curve and that is an opportunity for Nokia.”
Nokia will do incremental work in that area–things like Nokia Money for people that don’t have a bank account or telephone. Another, Nokia Life Tools, helps connect, say, farmers to market information.
This area is still a target for innovation, he says, but it also faces competition from Chinese-made phones based on MediaTek chipsets.
Elop says that the company must also plan for the future so that it can be disruptive down the road. “As they say in Finland, it is time to shoot ahead of the duck,” he says.
That’s where MeeGo comes in–the mobile version of Linux that until recently was seen as Nokia’s future. Nokia said that team will ship a phone later this year and then see where the future is headed.
12:35 pm: Want to point out this New York Times article that said both Google and Microsoft were offering hundreds of millions of dollars in engineering and marketing support in order to woo Nokia.
12:36 pm: Elop now talking about cost cuts, including significant job reductions.
“We are not announcing how many and in what country,” Elop says, but adds that the company wants to move quickly on that front.
He says that he has made changes to the business to ensure speed, including leadership structure changes aimed at ensuring accountability. “If things go well today, I’ll be the CEO.”
Of note, the two of the three business unit leaders are women–Mary McDowell, who will lead lower-end phones, and Jo Harlow, who will head the smartphone business.
12:40 pm: Nokia looking for a new leader for its services and developer division. The acting head is Tero Ojanpera, but he will soon be looking for other opportunities within Nokia, Elop says.
Also of note, Louise Pentland, who is head of the legal and intellectual property unit, is being elevated to the top leadership team.
“We have one of the strongest patent portfolios out there” he says, adding that he would encourage all players to take a license to said patents. (hear that, Apple?)
New leader of North American sales unit to be named in coming days.
“We are creating a different industry,” Elop says in closing his introductory remarks.
12:44 pm: Elop Brings on CFO Timo Ihamuotila to go through the numbers.
12:46 pm: Ihamuotila acknowledged Nokia didn’t meet the targets it had set out to achieve at its last financial analyst day.
“Our execution did not cut it.” he says.
12:49 pm: Ah, Now on to the good stuff. CFO talking financial impact from Microsoft deal. Says should be good over the long term.
Slide shows royalty payments to Microsoft causing lower gross margins, but says sales and marketing support from Microsoft should lower operating expenses.
“We will receive substantial go-to market support from Microsoft,” he says, without giving numbers.
12:52 pm: Ihamuotila talking now about the company’s long-term targets for devices and services period “after the transition period.”
Device sales to grow faster than the market, with operating margins of 10 percent or more–but this is only after the transition period, which the company has said could last this year and next.
Significant uncertainties in this period.
Ihamuotila shows a slide showing Symbian sales slowly giving way to Windows Phone with lower-end mobile phones remaining about half of sales.
12:57 pm: Ihamuotila shows chart of how it expects to cut R&D with the company investing less in services, more in entry-level phones and far less on MeeGo, though still some. The investment in Symbian will be replaced by a far lower investment in Windows Phone R&D. Overall, R&D should be a fraction of what it was.
1:02 pm: Over long term, Ihamuotila says that the Microsoft deal should help significantly boost the company’s Navteq navigation business.
“We think this new strategy is the best way to maximize long-term value, both to our shareholders and to other stakeholders,” Ihamuotila says.
On to Q&A for financial analysts.
1:03 pm: Question on how Nokia will keep employees motivated, something else and when to expect the first Windows Phone.
“Thanks for the one question” Elop quips, before addressing them in turn.
Elop says that the key is on focused innovation so they see the fresh opportunities (at least for the ones who don’t get cut by the large workforce reductions also promised).
He also pointed to his sharply worded memo, which he said was designed to convey the message that “Here is the truth, we’re making decisions and we’re moving forward.”
Won’t give date on first Windows Phone, but says again that the move will allow a substantially faster pace than the company was on with Symbian.
1:07 pm: Elop is asked about some of the challenges with Microsoft and Nokia each responsible for different pieces of software and services, as opposed to Google and Apple, where things are more integrated.
“We wanted to drive operational simplicity,” Elop says, adding that the companies talked about other arrangements, though not a full-on acquisition. The companies, Elop says, decided not to go with the operational complexity of a joint venture.
1:10 pm: Elop says Nokia has opportunities to differentiate from other Windows Phone devices, but adds it is in Nokia’s interest for there to be other strong handset players supporting Windows Phone.
“We’ve got to make Windows Phone successful,” he says.
Nokia’s mapping technology, he says, will benefit rivals like Samsung and HTC. “We’re willing to make those trades,” Elop says.
1:11 pm: Elop is asked why he feels comfortable with a “bet the farm” strategy on Microsoft, a company he clearly knows well.
Elop points out that it was harder to see how Microsoft would rapidly be successful without someone like Nokia.
“But this is now different,” he says, adding that this is now an ecosystem that Microsoft and Nokia are jointly helping to build.
Mapping and local advertising were not part of the ecosystem before the Nokia-Microsoft partnership.
As for impact of the transition, it’s hard to say, Elop says. Symbian is strong in some places where Apple and Google are present today.
1:14 pm: Asked whether Nokia will remain profitable during the transition. “It’s hard to say financially, and I am not going to provide any further specific guidance.”
1:17 pm: Elop won’t say when the first Windows Phone will ship, but lots and lots by next year at various price points.
“We’ll be shipping in volume in 2012,” he says.
1:20 pm: Another two-parter! 1) Why will Symbian be supported if it is transitioning away? 2) Why does Nokia think it will be able to have double-digit operating margins using someone else’s platform?
Elop: They recognize Symbian is key to Nokia being able to transition, but he agrees that consumers will have to want the Symbian phones Nokia builds. CFO also notes that less than half of Symbian phones are sold through carriers.
As for question on margins, CFO says the company has opportunities for higher margins around services and advertising.
1:23 pm: Asked about how the company is confident Windows Phone can get to lower prices, Elop says that was a key consideration, down to which chipsets will be supported, etc.
Between the two companies there was a lot of work to get a high degree of confidence.
“That was a critical evaluation,” he says.
That said, Elop agrees there is a smartphone market below Windows Phone that Nokia will manage with an evolution of today’s Series 30 and Series 40 operating systems.
1:31 pm: Elop: Some of the hardware designs that would have run MeeGo or Symbian will be repurposed for Windows Phone. Some devices may come out with similar models for both Windows Phone and Symbian.
1:32 pm: Question again on who pays whom in Microsoft-Nokia. Is there a lump payment from Microsoft?
Elop doesn’t answer and instead refers to slide that shows opportunities on both sides. Saying value going both ways. As for Microsoft’s payments, “That is a significant part of the conversation,” Elop says.
1:35 pm: Two good questions: Can Windows Phone be put on any current devices? What happens to QT development layer that Nokia bought and had sought to unify developer approach?
Elop: It’s not as simple as plugging in and downloading on to current phones, though some technologies can be repurposed.
QT continues to be the development for Symbian and lone MeeGo device. Also could have a role on low-end devices.
However, Elop says, “We are not proposing a QT on Windows Phone” approach. Adding another development environment could fork the ecosystem, which is not good for Nokia or Windows Phone, he says. Development environment for Windows Phone will be Silverlight and XNA–Microsoft’s current tools.
1:38 pm: Asked about branding, he says in some cases you will see both Microsoft and Nokia brands. Examples could include Nokia Search powered by Bing or Bing maps powered by Nokia, though he says those are examples and not final choices.
1:39 pm: Asking about tablets, questioner points out that Nokia had an early lead in tablets, but Apple “stole the show.”
“We are not announcing today a specific tablet strategy,” he reiterates, saying that Microsoft creates opportunities.
Elop notes that there are rumors of Windows Phone and Windows that could power tablets.
“We could do that,” he says. “We might do that.”
Also an opportunity for Nokia to step back into the game using its own software.
1:41 pm: Elop wrapping up.
“We have set a new course for Nokia,” he says, adding that despite what has been written, Nokia is still an incredibly powerful company, though perhaps not in North America. “Today we are diving forward” he says. “We have a strong partner in Microsoft who is incented as are we in making this successful.”
Investor guy closes by reminding there were forward-looking statements. He’s still going as people leave the room.
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Warren RUSSELL
Name Warren RUSSELL
Born 19 Jun 1821 York Co., ME
Shoe and leather business
_UID B9E191208BCA4D869198A53C0216F943D170
Died 8 Feb 1899 Richmond, VA
Buried 10 Feb 1899 Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond VA [1]
Grave location, obituary and tombstone photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=russell&GSiman=1&GSsr=41&GScid=50668&GRid=93516746&
Interment Section 2, Lot 66
Had shoe and leather business in Petersburg ca 1851. Had a tannery in Lawrenceville, VA. Was successful business man until the Civil War. Politically he was a Douglas Democrat before the War.
He supported the Union and opposed slavery, yet he served in the Petersburg Militia (Home Guard). Warren Russell served as a private in Co. A of the the 3rd (Archer's) Battalion Virginia Reserves. He took part in what famed Civil War historian, Douglas Southall Freeman, called this 9 June 1864 battle at Petersburg: "perhaps the unique battle of the entire war!"
"A major reason for the uniqueness of the Battle is the fact that the citizens of Petersburg themselves contributed heavily to the successful defense of the city, and paid a disproportionate share of the cost. Another reason is the possibility that there might never have been a 10 month Siege of Petersburg if the results of the Battle of 9 June had been reversed. Still another reason, and one important to all Americans, is the fact that the great national day of remembrance known as Memorial Day indirectly stemmed from ceremonies begun at Petersburg in 1866 commemorating the heroes of "The Ninth of June."
The Petersburg Campaign, The Battle of Old Men and Young Boys, June 9, 1864, Preface, William G. Robertson, 1989,H. E. Howard, Inc.
"Fifteen of the civilians who had been rushed to arms were killed, eighteen were wounded, and another forty-five captured. Petersburg had been saved, but, in the words of one survivor, its defense had demanded 'an extraordinary sacrifice of life and blood.'
"It is often referred to as "The Battle of Old Men and young Boys" as most every man fit for military service was gone from the City of Petersburg leaving only the old, the too young and the sick to defend the city.
"The battle ended in the early afternoon. In the still, warm June evening ambulances and wagons delivered the dead to the doors of their homes. Two days later there were funerals all day, with processions moving at intervals from different homes and churches. It was General Butler himself who wrote that Petersburg was defended by 'old men and boys, the grave and the cradle being robbed in about equal proportions.'
"Because they had borne the brunt of the assault and had suffered nearly sixty percent casualties, Archer's battalion was singled out for a special commendation.
On that date approximately 125 men of the Petersburg militia under the command of Major Fletcher Archer held off an attack of 1300 Union Cavalry under the command of General Augustus Kautz for more than two hours. A large number of the defenders were armed with vintage War of 1812 muskets. Three hundred of the Union attackers were armed with 15 shot repeating rifles.
Their heroic sacrifice gave Captain Edward Graham, along with some veteran infantry and the 4th North Carolina Cavalry commanded by Colonel Dennis D. Ferebee who were hastily summoned from across the Appomattox river, time to position his battery of artillery on Reservoir Hill and stop the Union advance up the new road off Jerusalem Plank Road. Riding with them was Brigadier General James Dearing. These horsemen, and and Graham's cannoneers, represented all the help that General Beauregard was able to send in response to the urgent requests for reinforcements."
War Talks Of Confederate Veterans
By George S. Bernard, United Confederate Veterans, United Confederate Veterans Virginia Division. A.P. Hill Camp No. 6, Petersburg
Published by Fenn & Owen, 1892
The Defense Of Petersburg
On The 9th Of June, 1864.
An Address By Col. Fletcher H. Archer, Who Commanded
The Reserves And Militia In That Engagement, De-
Livered Before A. P. Hill Camp Of Confederate
Veterans, Of Petersburg, Va., On The
Evening Of The 6th Of June, 1889.
"The following is a complete list of the captured:
Captain James E. Wolff, Captain Peyton Alfriend, Lieutenant Berthier Bott, Lieutenant Thomas Chalkley, James Boisseau, Prof. Thomas D. Davidson, John Davidson, John B. Stevens, Robert McCandlish, T. J. McCaleb, George Cameron, B T. Archer, Alexander Vaughan, Joseph L. Peebles, Joseph P. Cooper, James R. MeCann, John L. Emory. Frank Mattox, William Lecture. William Mann, Rev. William A. Hall.(Washington Artillery?escaped). Rev. John A. Jefferson, Hon. A. M. Keiley, William Crovder (died in prison), R. H. Daniel (died in Baltimore), J. L. Evans, T. W. Clements. Joseph R. Johnson. Wm. C. Lumsden, Jas. Smith, Samuel H. Jones, E. A. Broadnax, Peyton Fuqua, Warren Russell, J. N. Roper John E. Smith."
Warren Russell was captured as a prisoner of war on June 9, 1864 and was taken to Elmira, NY. Family stories say he received better treatment than other CSA prisoners of war because one of this guards was a cousin who was able to sneak food to him.
After the war, he was a Republican and served on the Petersburg City Council. His business was destroyed twice by fire, and he had no insurance. In 1875 he went to live with his brother Otis Henry on his farm in Henrico Co, VA. Warren Russell's son William bought this farm, and Warren lived there until the farm was sold in 1894. He then lived with his son William in Richmond, until his death in 1899. Last residence was 934 Grace Street, Richmond.
1850 United States Federal Census
Name: Warren Russel
Birth Year: abt 1820
Birthplace: Maine
Home in 1850: Bloom, Columbia, Pennsylvania
Family Number: 153
Household Members:
Warren Russel 30
Hannah Russel 30
Joseph Russel 7 [born in Maryland]
Henry Russell 5 [born in Maryland]
Ellen Small 28 [sister-in-law]
Augustus Wilson 35 [shoemaker born in Maine]
1860 US Census St Andrews Parish, Brunswick, Virginia Dwelling No. 56 Household No. 68, Warren Russell listed as head of household, age 38, occupation as boot and shoemaker with a real estate value of $1,500 and Personal Property of $500. Also listed is Susan A., age 29, Joseph C. age 17, Otis H. age 15, and Benjamin W. age 10, Charles F. age 4, William W. age 3, and James R. age 11 mo.
Name: Warren Russell
Age in 1860: 38
Home in 1860: St Andrews Parish, Brunswick, Virginia
Post Office: Lawrenceville
Value of real estate: $1,500 Personal property: $500
Occupation: boot and shoemaker
Warren Russell 38
Susan A Russell 29
Joseph C Russell 17
Otis H Russell 15
Benja W Russell 10
Charles F Russell 4
William W Russell 3
James R Russell 11 months
Home in 1870: Petersburg Ward 3, Petersburg (Independent City), Virginia
Post Office: Petersburg
Value of real estate: $20,000 Personal property: $2,400
Occupation: Shoe merchant
Susan Russell 40
Ben W Russell 19 [clerk in shoe store]
Charles F R Russell 15 [at school]
William W Russell 13 [at school]
James R Russell 11 [at school]
Martha Russell 9
George Russell 3
Hudson Russell 6 months
Louisa Richardson 33 [servant]
Mary Thomas 10
Mahiby Richardson 4
Anna Starke 19 [servant]
Home in 1880: Tuckahoe, Henrico, Virginia
Relation to Head of House: Self (Head)
Marital Status: Widower
Father's Birthplace: Maine
Mother's Birthplace: Maine
Name Age
James H. Russell 21 [farm helper]
Martha E. Russell 18 [keeps house]
Eward H. Russell 10 [at school]
1893 Richmond City Directory, p. 584.
Warren Russell, mngr. home: 818 East Clay
Warren Russell home: 934 West Grace
Person ID I5947 Master File
Father Clement RUSSELL, b. Abt 1783, Waterboro, York Co. ME , d. Aft 14 Mar 1823, Waterboro, York Co. ME (Age ~ 40 years)
Mother Nancy WARREN, b. Abt 1784, Shapleigh, York Co. ME , d. ? 1823, Alfred York Co. ME (Age ~ 39 years)
Married 12 Jun 1803 Waterboro Township, York Co. ME [2, 3]
Family 1 Hannah Elizabeth SMALL, b. Abt 1820, Baltimore, Maryland , d. 1851, Bloomsburg, PA (Age ~ 31 years)
Married 26 Nov 1842 Baltimore, MD
1. Joseph Clement RUSSELL, b. 29 Aug 1843, Bloomsburg, PA , d. 13 Dec 1874, Petersburg, VA (Age 31 years)
+ 2. Otis Henry RUSSELL, b. 20 May 1845, Bloomsburg, PA , d. 15 May 1933, Richmond, VA (Age 87 years)
3. Benjamin Warren RUSSELL, b. 15 Feb 1851, Bloomsburg, PA , d. 05 Aug 1927, Richmond, VA (Age 76 years)
4. Martha Elizabeth RUSSELL, b. 1847, Bloomsburg, PA , d. 1850, Bloomsburg, PA (Age 3 years)
5. Geroge Warren RUSSELL
Family 2 Susan Amy VINCENT, b. Abt 1829, d. 8 Aug 1872, Petersburg, VA (Age ~ 43 years)
Married 8 Feb 1854 Petersburg, VA
1. Infant RUSSELL, b. 27 Nov 1853, Petersburg, VA , d. 27 Nov 1853, Petersburg, VA (Age 0 years)
+ 2. Charles Francis (Frank) RUSSELL, b. 5 Jul 1855, Lawrenceville, VA , d. 24 Oct 1933, Chesterfield Co. VA (Age 78 years)
3. William Walden RUSSELL, b. 5 Feb 1857, Lawrenceville, VA , d. 29 Jan 1920, Richmond, VA (Age 62 years)
4. James Reynolds RUSSELL, b. 5 Jun 1859, Lawrenceville, Bruswick Co. VA , d. 23 Mar 1931, Richmond, VA (Age 71 years)
5. Martha Elizabeth (Pattie) RUSSELL, b. 21 Aug 1861, Lawrenceville, VA , d. Jul 1946, Richmond, Henrico Co. VA (Age 84 years)
6. Unknown RUSSELL, b. Between 1864-65, Petersburg, VA , d. Between 1864-65, Petersburg, VA (Age ~ 0 years)
+ 7. George Moody RUSSELL, b. 27 Feb 1866, Petersburg, VA , d. 16 Nov 1929, Louisa Co. VA (Age 63 years)
8. Walter Emmett RUSSELL, b. 8 Aug 1867, Petersburg, VA , d. 11 Dec 1935, Richmond, Henrico Co. VA (Age 68 years)
9. Edward Hutson RUSSELL, b. 26 Nov 1869, Petersburg, VA , d. 21 Dec 1959, Washington, DC (Age 90 years)
Last Modified 21 Feb 2018
[S109] Hollywood Cemetery Records, (Richmond, VA), April, 2000; March 2010.
[S112] Huntress Family, Hardon, Henry Winthrop, Vol1. p. 45.
[S111] Early Vital Records, of Waterborough, Maine, (The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1936), 90:244.
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Page 21, 24 May 1997 — WE DID NOT FOOL THE WORLD
24 MAY 1997, Page 21
WE DID NOT FOOL THE WORLD
Richard Tait defends ITN against the charge that it is a giant bullying a dwaif IT STARTED with the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague. It will proba- bly end up in the High Court in London. Along the way, not surprisingly, in this saga of Living Marxism, ITN reporters and Ser- bian camps, there has been confusion.
At ITN, we thought that a few 'good guy' points had been earned by visiting the Omarska and Trnopolje camps, restraining the claims about what the reporters saw (we never called them 'concentration camps', newspapers did), and agreeing to give our pictures to the War Crimes Tribunal. It is not normal for ITN to do that for the British courts without a legal battle, but we thought a tribunal investigating the crimes of the Bosnian war merited special treatment.
Realising that this would not be the end of the process, we were not surprised when the prosecution handed over the pictures to the defence team, though we were slightly bemused that the video copying had to be done by the FBI — the Tribunal being so starved of resources it could not manage the task itself. However, we were surprised that the defence passed them on to a freelance journalist who was a defence witness at the Tribunal, and it was also sur- prising to read Stephen Glover in last week's Spectator writing that this journalist had 'mysteriously produced' the pictures.
What upset Glover and a group of jour- nalists who wrote to The Spectator is that ITN's journalists, supported by ITN, have used the law to challenge the allegation made by the freelance journalist in Living Marxism that ITN's reports about the camps 'fooled the world'. 'It seems', said Glover, 'a piece of bullying on the broadcaster's part . . The natural sympathies of many of us will be with a small publication.'
There is an alternative appeal to his and others' sympathies. How about the two jour- nalists who reported a major story and were then accused of 'fooling the world'? Their accusers refuse to withdraw or even temper their false allegations, despite the evidence of independent journalists who were there and of the people detained in the camps.
Sadly, the supporters of Living Marxism's attack on Penny Marshall and Ian Williams (the two ITN reporters who were first into the camps) offer no sympathy to them. They seem damned because they work for a large news organisation. How much better, in the 'giant versus dwarf' debate, if Marshall and Williams were to fund the whole case them- selves and present it as two principled jour- nalists harassed by a relatively affluent group whose heroes range from Saddam Hussein to Neil Hamilton.
Living Marxism and its supporters have attacked the two journalists' integrity. They have disrupted public and academic meetings and lobbied the RTS and Bafta to take away the awards Marshall's and Williams's reporting of the horrors of Trnopolje and Omarska deserved.
Earlier this month, the War Crimes Tri- bunal in the Hague, in passing judgment on Dusko Tadic — a Bosnian Serb who was the first to be convicted of war crimes — also passed judgment on Omarska and Trnopolje. Interestingly, the defence, which accepted help from the freelance journalist, chose not to challenge ITN's report or pictures in court.
The Tribunal described Omarska as the worst camp, with horrendous conditions, where killings and torture were frequent. Compared with Omarska, Stephen Glover may argue that Trnopolje 'seems to have been one of the least disagreeable' of the Serb-run camps, but the Tribunal reported eye-witness evidence of dead inmates of Trnopolje wrapped in paper, wired together, their tongues cut out. Because Trnopolje housed the largest number of women and girls, there were more rapes at that camp than at any other. The youngest victim was 12; one 19-year-old was raped by seven men and had to be treated for haemorrhaging.
Now that the true facts have emerged, the overwhelming evidence is that, far from sen- sationalising the story, Marshall and Williams did not uncover the full horrors of Omarska and Trnopolje. This is hardly sur- prising — they were escorted everywhere by the Bosnian Serbs, who were anxious to put a gloss on what they were doing. As the truth finally emerges from the Hague, those who follow the details will have no trouble decid- ing where their 'natural sympathies' lie.
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TORONTO -- Drew MacIntyre knows the significance of his reco
文章主題 : TORONTO -- Drew MacIntyre knows the significance of his reco
TORONTO -- Drew MacIntyre knows the significance of his record-setting win Sunday. The Toronto Marlies goalie made 30 saves in a 6-4 victory over the Abbotsford Heat, surpassing former Leafs prospect Justin Pogge in the record books with his single-season franchise best 27th win. "Its cool. Its an honour," said MacIntyre. "I dont take stuff like that lightly. Ive been in this league for a while so those kinds of things are nice." Marlies head coach Steve Spott said the game puck will be going to his star goaltender. "Its a special night for him and his family," Spott said. "Hes done so much for this organization on and off the ice. He really embodies what I think our organization is all about." Pogge, who now plays for Bofors IK in the Swedish Division 1 league, set the record during the 2008-09 season. "Good goalie. We had lots of battles I remember," said MacIntyre of Pogge. "Big guy and it wasnt easy to beat him." Leivo picked up the game-winner, giving Toronto a 5-4 lead at 9:51 of the third. He one-timed a shot from Greg McKegg from the side of the net, past Joni Ortio for his 18th of the season. "Great keep on by (Petter Granberg), kept it alive and it ended up with (McKegg) in the slot," said Leivo of the play. "He found me back door and I was fortunate enough to get it through that D-mans stick and put it into the net." Carter Ashton gave the Marlies a two-goal cushion at 16:19, beating Ortio for his 16th of the season. Toronto (41-20-6) had second-period goals from T.J. Brennan, Jamie Devane, McKegg and Tyler Biggs. Max Reinhart, Brett Olson, Ben Street and Shane OBrien responded for Abbotsford (37-25-7). Ortio, who was making his third straight start, made 21 saves in the loss. The win stretches Torontos unbeaten streak to five games (4-0-1). The Marlies also won two of three over a three-game, three-night stretch this weekend. The loss, meanwhile, halted Abbotsfords win streak at two games. Abbotsford and Toronto combined for eight goals in a 16:40 span of the second heading to the third tied 4-4. Brennan opened the scoring, on a power play, with his team-leading 22nd goal of the season at 3:15. The fourth meeting between the two teams, and second in a week, was a heated affair with the physical play reaching its peak near the six-minute mark of the second. Heat forward Tim Miller caught Marlies defenceman Andrew MacWilliam with a big open-ice, shoulder-to-chest hit leaving the Toronto blue-liner struggling to get up. MacWilliam was helped to the bench and did not return. Spott said MacWilliam suffered a concussion as his head took a good bump when he fell to the ice. MacWilliams injury left the Marlies, who dressed just five defenceman because Eric Knodel was suffering from the flu, with just four blue-liners for over half the game. "Its definitely a different type of challenge," said Brennan of playing with four defencemen. "We had a ton of help from our forwards helping out. We played together as one unit and pulled out the win." Brad Staubitz caught Jordan Kremyr with an illegal check to the head and was assessed a minor penalty at 5:33 of the second period. Then 1:13 later, Kenny Ryan was penalized for slashing, giving Abbotsford a two-man advantage for 47 seconds. The Heat, who entered Sunday with the leagues sixth best road power play, scored twice. Reinhart tied it 1-1 at 7:04 on the two-man advantage. With Ryan still in the box, Olson tipped a Corey Locke 2-on-1 feed past MacIntyre at 8:43 giving the visitors their first lead of the game, 2-1. Street beat MacIntyre stick-side off a Staubitz neutral zone turnover, giving Abbotsford a 3-1 lead at 10:17 of the second. Toronto then scored three unanswered to take a 4-3 lead. Devane pulled Toronto to within one, one-timing a Jerred Smithson feed past Ortio at 10:34, and the Marlies tied it 3-3 at 11:48 as McKegg put home a loose puck off a scramble in front of Ortio for his 17th of the season. Biggs gave Toronto its second lead of the game at 18:37 of the second, beating Ortio in the slot. "It was nice being down 3-1 seeing the pushback that we had," said Spott. "We beat a very good hockey club here today. Theyre well coached, they play hard and we had to play our A-game. It was a good win by our team." However, with just five seconds remaining in the second period, OBrien tied it at four. Allan McPherson picked up his first career AHL point with an assist on the goal. Marlies leading point scorer Spencer Abbott left the game near the end of the second with an upper body injury and did not return. Spott said Abbott would undergo precautionary X-Rays. Notes: Marlies goaltender Garret Sparks was a healthy scratch as the team continues to carry three goaltenders. Toronto forward Brandon Kozun was a healthy scratch after taking a penalty late in Saturdays 2-1 shootout loss to Iowa. Frazer McLaren (hip flexor) is expected back at practice Tuesday and in game action Friday in Utica. Paul Hornung Youth Jersey . Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist stood tall with 41 saves between the pipes, but it was defenceman Ryan McDonagh who got the first star of the game as he had a goal and an assist and now has two goals and four assists for six points in two games. Rashan Gary Jersey .Michael Briscoe is serving a life sentence for sexual assault, kidnapping and first-degree murder in the death of 13-year-old Nina Courtepatte in 2005. http://www.packersrookiestore.com/Packe ... ng-Jersey/. 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The Gators won their 14th consecutive game and extended a school record with their 28th straight victory at home. Frazier came up huge in the latest one. The sophomore drained three 3-pointers in a 2-minute span in the second half, giving Florida some breathing room in a tight, back-and-forth game. Patric Youngs driving layup with 4:10 remaining gave the Gators (20-2, 9-0 Southeastern Conference) a 58-48 lead. Missouris 3-point shooting kept the Tigers (16-6, 4-5) in it for much of the game. Missouri made 8 of 21 from behind the arc, but just 4 of 13 in the second half. The Tigers went more than 4 minutes without a point, a stretch that helped Florida build its biggest lead. Jabari Brown led the Tigers with 15 points while Jordan Clarkson added 14. Scottie Wilbekin finished with a career-high 19 points for the Gators. He was 13 of 16 from the free throw line, most of them down the stretch. Young chipped in 13 points and six rebounds. Florida coach Billy Donovan notched his 16th consecutive 20-win season. Only Syracuses Jim Boeheim and Dukes Mike Krzyzewski have longer active streaks. Donovans current team has some issues -- shaky free throw shooting and few long-range threats outside Frazier -- but the addition of Walker could increase Floridas chances of making another deep run in the NCAAA tournament.dddddddddddd. A forward from Bonifay in Floridas panhandle, Walker sat out 12 games, or 40 per cent of the season, because the NCAA determined he "received preferential treatment from five people, including two agents." The NCAA said Walker and people close to him accepted free cellphones and service, airfare, lodging, meals and apparel while he was a prospect. He was ordered to donate the $270 received from the agents to a charity of his choice and serve 80 hours of community service. Walker, who failed to qualify academically and spent the fall taking online classes to gain eligibility, joined the team Dec. 14 and has been practicing since. His debut had been much-anticipated. Walker, who drew oohs and aahs with every move during pregame warm-ups, entered the game to a standing ovation with 11:28 remaining in the first half. His first few minutes on the court gave Florida fans even more to celebrate. Walker blocked two shots and pulled down a rebound in just 3 minutes. There was some obvious confusion, especially on the defensive end, but he showed surprising poise considering all the hype, the wait, the atmosphere and the opponent. He was even better in his second stint. Walker had two thunderous dunks in the final 2:07 of the half, finishing alley-oops from fellow freshman Kasey Hill. The second one had the OConnell Center rocking -- but just briefly. Brown hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer a few seconds later, giving Missouri a 28-25 lead. ' ' '
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Artechouse: Curating for the Digital Future of Museums (Review)
The newest art org to join the fray of contemporary arts spaces across the landscape of the District occupies particularly odd territory, previously solely utilized by uninviting office space. Artechouse, a new arts space opened in Washington, D.C. in June, and recently presented “Spirit of Autumn” (October 1 – November 5). It was the follow-up installation to its debut show, “XYZT: Abstract Landscapes.”
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The building, unremarkable in any way, features a sandwich and pizza shop among an array of unmarked business suites tucked within. The location, however, is interesting. Prior to about 3 years ago this precise sliver of the SW quadrant of the District saw little to no foot traffic – or any traffic outside the comings and goings of the 9-5 federal crowd. Known as Washington’s business district, it was assumed that retail, restaurants, let alone art, couldn’t thrive past 5pm with the mass exodus of the population, i.e. federal workers, leaving to return to their homes in the northern quadrants and the burbs. Then the SWBID (Southwest Business Improvement District) swooped in to “improve the business climate” of the quadrant. Focusing on the section of the quadrant connecting the federal buildings to the residential neighborhoods and Wharf further south – a walkable area through highway underpasses – the BID has worked to flip the impression of this area from staid and stuffy to lively and entertaining. Enter: Artechouse.
Not exactly employing a position of gentrifier in that groups have not been displaced by this section of the SWBID, Artechouse is certainly a tool for changing the landscape of its neighborhood. Though the BID has created a boom in development, including luxury high-rises, restaurants, and retail, throughout the sprawling 400 plus acre of Southwest, branded “District Wharf,” Artechouse’s placement is within existing business district territory. But as such, it’s impossible to ignore the agenda-ridden existence of the art org, written all over its design and #mood, I mean, atmosphere.
Artechouse is certainly an original feature in the D.C. arts landscape and self-describes as
“At the crossroads of art, science and technology, ARTECHOUSE brings a true 21st century art experience to the nation’s capital as Washington, D.C.’s first interactive digital art gallery.”
While most D.C. art galleries almost exclusively call the Northwest quadrant home, Artechouse brings a fresh art experience to unclaimed territory both in locale and in theme. As the District’s first space solely dedicated to tech art, Artechouse has the sobering responsibility of setting the bar for this rising art medium . . . but sobriety is not on the menu. Explicitly designed in the layout, curation, and experience of Artechouse is the bar, specifically the role in which artisan cocktails will play within the exhibitions. After downloading their app you’re instructed to snap a photo of your cocktail, which features an edible wafer cookie atop via AR, that reveals swirling leaves virtually floating above your glass.
Upon descending the two flights of stairs down to the exhibition space entrance you enter at the top of landing, where to your left is the minimalist-styled glowing-white surfaced bar, and down yet another flight of stairs is the main gallery.
In “Spirit of Autumn” a giant two-story digitally-projected tree stands middle against the far wall, as digitally-composed leaves flutter in virtual air. The two side walls are projected with more falling, twirling, dancing virtual leaves, which respond to your movement and noise. As you interact with the painting a ghost-like outline of yourself appears on the wall. Two microphones hidden in the walls pick up sounds within the gallery space, but are best activated by clapping directly into the speakers. Sound triggers a visual response within the digital painting – storm clouds, thunder, and lightening appear and disappear.
As your ghost avatar shadows your movements throughout the space, you become a subject within the artwork itself – a moving object walking in painting. Another gallery space opens to an enveloping, hypnotic swirl of color, this time completely controlled by the visitor. Virtual paint spills move, change color, and churn along the floor directed by the movements of the visitor within the space. The responsiveness of this algorithm is more sensitive than the one working the leaves in the other room, resulting in a more satisfying experience of art-creator.
As a further immersive, interactive experience you’re invited to create a leaf to add to the digital collection within the painting. In the back room you can color a stencil – adhering to the guidelines of the artwork, no words please! – which you drop through a slot into a room where a technician will digitize and upload your creation to the algorithm of the painting. In just a few minutes your work of art will descend from the upper corners of the painting to join the mix of leaves swirling and twirling in response to the visitors.
The effect is meant to be pensive and peaceful, but the aesthetic of outlined ghosts coupled with the swoosh of falling leaves and sporadic, ominous thunder produces the creepy feeling of a virtual haunted forest. As nothing in the design of the exhibition or the gallery seems haphazard, I would guess that the spookiness is intentional. The art itself falls just short of being a parable of the season it represents. As fall is associated with the return of school it is married to the sensibility of intellectual resurgence. But the exhibit feels more like summer in its playfulness and intellectual-lightness. The docents explain that the artists attempt not a literal exploration of fall, but one that is surreal.
However, in considering the climate of arts within the District – monolithic national museums contrasted by small but feisty community-driven arts orgs – it’s Artechouse itself that is surreal. Where did this place come from? Who is it here for?
As a space that reads explicitly cool and detached, that has sprung to life not of the demand of a passionate horde within a dedicated community – as most non-federal arts orgs in D.C. do, Artechouse is a conundrum of placemaking, but assuredly an icon of today’s art trend.
The staging of both the exhibit and the gallery structure is meant to be Insta-envy prime. As hip artisanal drinking is laid into the very plans of the exhibition, the gallery and show beg for social, as well as artistic, interaction. It’s impossible to ignore the prominent placement of the bar, upon entry, reachable before the art. Perhaps this is done knowingly, as in all art openings visitors crowd the bar anyway, why not make it easily accessible? But it remains that the bar, perched aloft the gallery space, sits physically above the art – looking down from it throne most high. As if to further illustrate the import placed on social drinking within the exhibit, when I asked the bartender for the hashtag for the show, he replied chuckling, “#amazingcocktails?”
However, the signature drink, as is the entry ($15 – $25), is expensive, at $12 each.
In an era of uncertainty for the funding of art Artechouse exemplifies what may well become the future for experiencing innovative art forms outside of traditional museums. Appealing to the social media boozing crowd and their need for Insta-ready spaces to share their happenings, Artechouse’s format resists threatened traditional arts funding structures. Self-monetization is a good thing, and may well prove a necessity for the future of alternative art spaces. But what does that mean for the future of art – and specifically tech art – itself?
Artechouse claims to be a haven for exploring the intersection of art and tech, but as such a broad and varied medium and with their galleries designed as selfie stations, can (or perhaps, will) the organization sustain exhibitions not easily bent towards social media?
As a space to explore new age media, Artechouse is refreshing in the D.C. arts landscape. Compared to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, whose dedication to exploring tech art has leaned heavily towards media art, and when it has varied from that, exhibitions have rested about a decade late of innovative, Artechouse is sharply zeitgeist.
But Artechouse delivers a very specific experience of tech art—one that is closely married to the commerce of social media. Not all tech art will comfortably fit under this umbrella. Moreover, Artechouse has the built-in problem of the Instagram double-edged sword: will visitors pay for the experience after viewing it for free through friends’ Instagrams? As one of the very few paid entry art spaces in town, Artechouse will have to overcome the local mindset that resists paying for art experiences.
The exhibition is designed as a social-media crack den but is that the Artechouse hook?
Of course there is still the bar allure of the gallery.
Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell (@KayleighBinDC), is a Washington, D.C. native and museum educator with over 10 years of GLAM experience, devoted to exploring ways to engage with marginalized audiences through museums and social justice practice.
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Petra Schneider, DW’s Director of Sales and Distribution
If you wanted to watch your favorite show 20 years ago, it was like catching a train: You had to be on-time. If you were in part of the world with limited entertainment options, maybe a global broadcaster could provide you with a trickle of content. Now fast forward to the Internet age where an endless amount of content covers literally everything imaginable. Things are changing fast and big broadcasters are constantly adapting to make as much available as possible.
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These are some of the big issues that will be covered at this year’s MIPCOM global entertainment conference. According to MIPcube, broadcasters providing many gateways which guide and facilitate their audience’s access to content are those who will succeed. Audiences are quickly changing from passive consumers to active users who demand flexibility in choosing what and when they watch.
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Combining left field experimentation with pop sensibilities Orchards are following in the footsteps of bands such as Everything Everything and Foals. Orchards have appeared at festivals such as Handmade, TRUCK, YNOT and Alternative Escape they have also performed as part of the global music series Sofar Sounds. As well as being featured on playlists curated by Spotify & Buzzfeed. Orchards have been played on Local and National radio shows. Including, BBC Introducing, Juice Radio and BBC Radio 6.
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Catherine Smith to Family, [1885?] January 31
Topics include her illness, her wool spinning activities, her son Edward's new house in California, neighborhood illnesses and deaths, the purchase of a battery, Jessie's wedding, and asking the cause of cattle deaths in the Fletcher's area.
Catherine Smith to Henrietta Fletcher and Family, 1884 July 10
Topics include the farming activities in her community, the activities and health of family members, and her own loss of strength.
Catherine Smith to Henrietta Fletcher and Family, [circa 1884] January 27
Topics include making and dyeing clothes for young Rhett, the winter weather, and household activities.
Catherine Smith to Henrietta Fletcher, 1875 January 15
Topics include a sore and a school teacher boarding with her mother.
Topics include the warm winters in San Jose, CA, Edward's difficulty finding a paying position, and the family's illnesses.
Catherine Smith to Henrietta Fletcher, 1882 February 26
Topics include her fall and injury, her plans to return to Vermont when she has the money, and the cold winter in California of the previous two months.
Catherine Smith to Henrietta Fletcher, [circa 1884] April 29
Topics include her poor health and weak arms and doctor's visits.
Catherine Smith to Henrietta Fletcher, [circa 1884] March 4
Topics include various injuries or illnesses in the family, the cold weather, Bent's attempts to get lumber for his barn, and young Eddie's mischief making.
Catherine Smith to Henrietta Fletcher, no year June 6 and Catherine Smith to Katherine Fletcher, undated
Topics include her cough and poor health, the potato bug and grasshopper problems, and their milking production.
Catherine Smith to Henrietta Fletcher, no year May 2
Topics include Catherine's recovery from a medical operation, her intention to take the train to Vermont, and a dress style that Katie likes.
Catherine Smith to Henrietta Fletcher, no year May 27
Topics include her low income and poor health.
Catherine Smith to Henrietta and Andrew Craig Fletcher, 1873 September 8
Topics include Catherine's poor health, her mother's poor health, her plans to visit, and Edward's need of money.
Catherine Smith to Henrietta and Andrew Craig Fletcher, 1874 November 27
Topics include the shipment of sugar to Edward, her cough, and the various activities of family members.
Catherine Smith to Henrietta and Andrew Craig Fletcher, 1880 February 1
Topics include a letter from Edward and Henrietta.
Catherine Smith to Henrietta and Andrew Craig Fletcher, 1880 June 2
Topics include Catherine's journey by train to visit her son Edward in San Jose, California.
Catherine Smith to Henrietta and Andrew Craig Fletcher, no year August 17
Topics include her improved health, Sam's failing health, the rain after dry weather, hops harvesting, and butter making.
Catherine Smith to Henrietta and Andrew Craig Fletcher, no year February 13
Topics include the mild winter in Burke, NY, activities and health of family members, and her expectations of receiving a reply.
Topics include her and B(ents?) attempts to quit tobacco, a piece of her dress she sends to Katie, and the cold weather.
Catherine Smith to Henrietta and Andrew Craig Fletcher, no year May 13
Topics include the rainy weather.
Catherine Smith to Henrietta and Andrew Craig Fletcher, no year October 20
Topics include selling butter, barley and potato harvests and prices, the grasshoppers' destruction of the wheat crop, and the illnesses among family and friends.
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When we just started, it seemed impossible. We did not have: a uniform, balls, a stadium or money for this. There were not even enough players. There was only a strong desire to play football! But now we are approaching our big dream – to play in the Major League!
FOOTBALL IS LIFE!
For every player of our team, football is not just a sport. That’s life. When we were kids we were happy spending time on a football field. Our parents and friends thought it was a passing fad. Many friends laughed at us and said “You won’t succeed”. In response we worked hard and did our best to play football professionally.
Football is our lifestyle choice. It shaped our destiny.
We work hard to succeed. Each of us shows remarkable endurance. Every match and every training we sweat to make it.
GOOD RESULTS HELPING TO BELIEVE INTO ULTIMATE SUCCESS
“Girls do not play football!” is a popular statement that our players refute:
60 goals scored
AN ATHLETE, A REAL PROFESSIONAL
AND JUST A BEAUTY
Each member of the team is unique.
They are not only excellent athletes, but are beautiful women,
children’s coaches, accountants, managers or engineers.
In the daytime they do their full-time jobs.
In the evening they train on the field, and at weekends they play important matches.
WE SET OBJECTIVES
AND ACHIEVE THEM!
In 2016, we set a goal –
to play in the Major League in three years. In 2017 we did it
ahead of schedule, 3 times qucker. And this year
the first team from Udmurtia will be playing in the Major League!
The budget of the club will grow 10 times, while the club, as well as it was before, will be funded for the two thirds by the owner and sponsors.
The next objective is to bring the Champions League to Udmurtia in 3 years.
Learn more about the team’s life, training and upcoming
matches on social networks.
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“The ramblings and grumblings of author Ad Hudler”
Parade Critic weighs in
Last night, the annual Edison Festival of Light Grand Parade winded its way through downtown Fort Myers, my hometown, to celebrate the inventor who called this town home for many winters of his life. It is indeed a grand parade in the old style, with a plethora of floats, clowns, immense helium balloons and marching bands. Few cities put on parades like this anymore; it almost feels like a blast from the past.
But a word about the marching bands. I don't like what's happened to marching bands over the years. They're no longer marching bands; they're DANCING bands! ... strutting here and there and jiggling their everything and yelping out loud in chants. Indeed, African-American culture has influenced much of mainstream pop culture in this country, everything from language to music to fashion (those baggy pants that appear to be falling off waists). And I think that's all fine and good ... but not in a marching band. Marching bands should represent ORDER. This is a MILITARY tradition, thank you very much. No dancing. Players should be looking straight ahead with straight faces, horns held at perfect 90-degree angle. The Fort Myers High School band was the only band that looked traditional in this way....and kudos to them. The beauty of a marching band is its clean lines, its order, its ability to make a 100-plus group of people seem as one.
Save the dancing for the pom-pom girls, please.
posted by Ad Hudler at 5:09 AM
Ah-Oh ! sounds like SOMEBODY didnt get their share of kettle corn,funnel cake and a few beers to wash it down with !
Vince Noble here. I have been involved with marching band as a performer, teacher and designer since the late 1970's. You are SO right. There are a few bands from Historically Black Universities that do the dance band style well. I too was at the parade and seeing a bunch of middle class white kids trying to shuck and jive, and doing so poorly was, at best, uncomfortable. Please do not take this as an attack directed towards the kids. Most of these bands do this stuff because, usually, their directors don't have the talent or commitment to teach the kids how to make good sounds and move well. They call it entertainment and fun ... it's actually just an excuse for laziness, poor training and a lack of dedication to the craft. I'm glad that I wasn't the only person who noticed.
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Report from Amish Country
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The verdict is in
The new toilet is here!
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Download The Leader's Guide to Standards: A Blueprint for Educational by Douglas B. Reeves PDF
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By Douglas B. Reeves
In brand new institution atmosphere academic leaders are mandated to exploit educational criteria to degree the growth in their school's academics and scholars. regardless of the wealth of fabric that addresses the subject of educational criteria there's little written when you needs to lead the trouble to install position a good criteria process. The Leader's advisor to criteria is a landmark book-- written through Douglas Reeves, a professional in educational criteria, functionality evaluation, and accountability-- that indicates institution principals, assistant principals, academics, and district-level directors tips to construct a accomplished responsibility procedure for standards-based reform that specializes in management talents. Reeves deals sensible strategies for assessing and nurturing instructor functionality, constructing balanced review and responsibility rules, and making the case for criteria to the general public. additionally, the booklet addresses the very important position that policymakers from the neighborhood tuition board to nation and nationwide leaders play within the winning implementation of academic criteria.
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This is one reason frequent measurement of a few standards is so important. Parents do not embrace the value of standards on the basis of an annual report. Rather, they and their children must see, every time they cross the threshold of the school door, evidence that each month students are getting better and better. The percentage of students achieving a rigorous standard in writing, reading comprehension, mathematical problem solving, or other academic area of particular interest to the school is growing higher and higher each month.
In brief, the existence of standards makes it clear that being above average is not as important as meeting a standard. Leaders must also consider the impact of academic rigor in standards when considering measurement of improvement. The most important metric for the school leader in a standardsbased system is the percentage of students who meet or exceed standards—that is, the percentage who, on a specific performance task, score at or above the proficient level of performance. The move of the average score from the 55th to the 60th percentile may or may not imply an improvement in the percentage of students who are proficient.
A significant part of the continuing crisis in confidence in public education can be attributed to the difference between what educators say a student can do, as documented with report cards and diplomas, and what students can actually do, as observed at work and in the home. The choice is not whether to be fair and accurate in our assessment comparing students to a standard, but rather the timing of this assessment. We can find problems proactively, gently identifying needs and implementing interventions; or we can find problems passively, reacting only after a child has faced severe academic trauma.
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UNCC CENTER CITY (UPTOWN) – APRIL 23-26 2020
10 CHARLOTTE BLACK FILM FESTIVAL
ABOUT CBFF
Welcome to the 10th annual Charlotte Black Film Festival. We proudly remain one of the Southeast largest gatherings of multi-cultural digital artist, thought provokers, creative innovators, and technologists.
CBFF 2020 Films
The Charlotte Black Film Festival (CBFF) will screen three days of Independent Films, Workshops, Industry Networking, Master Classes and more. Many films submitted into our festival have received theatrical distribution, Cable and TV deals on BET, HBO, TV1, and VOD just to name a few.
Fashion of Film Showcase
Our Fashion of Film competition will allow designers to showcase their creative talents and create a stylish and innovative garment that
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Located just blocks away from the heart of Charlotte Center City with Complimentary Shuttle Service within a 3 mile radius of the hotel, Secured Parking, Complimentary Hot Breakfast Buffet, and Free Wi-Fi. Reserve your rooms now Charlotte Black Film Festival rate of ONLY $109.00 per night. Hurry limited rooms!!!
Digital Village Expo & PowerUp Stage
Come and hear authors, digital content producers, creatives, music, entertainment executives, marketplace vendors and thought provokers from across the U.S. as they emerged at the 10th annual Charlotte Black Film Festival.
Submit your best song into the Music in Film listening event. Where filmmakers and attendees will enter the Boom Boom Room for 2 days and rate your music. This is a great platform to promote Artist and music to film directors, Entertainment executives and music lovers. The winners will be announced on April 25, 2020 at the Red Capet Vision Awards.
After Parties and Mixers
Each night come and celebrate the day’s activities at the Charlotte Black Film Festival official after parties. Free with Festival All access passes.
Workshops led by Industry Experts, TV network executives, technology CEO’s and business professionals. Learn about producing independent films, writing screenplays, selling your screenplay or Film tothe networks, just to name a few. For over nine years artists have found inspiration Contacts and industry education at the Charlotte Black Film Festival. Join us and grow on April 23 – 26, 2020.
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The Red Carpet Vision Awards is the annual events that recognize the best film, acting, directing, best fashion designer and score. We also recognize our sponsors and individuals who have supported the Vision of the CBFF. Called by many Charlotte version of the Oscars.
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Our Digital Village offers businesses and organizations numerous ways to connect with attendees. With a goal in mind to educate and uplift our growing, diverse community. CBFF highlights culture in many different areas and offers a chance for filmmakers and visitors to experience premiere arts, film, entertainment, fashion, and music.
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Multilevel marketing madness still among us
Call them Multilevel Marketing Militants
From: The San Diego Union-Tribune, October 20, 1996, Sunday
A new multilevel marketing operation is tailored to the Common Law movement -- those folks who claim to be sovereign, and who handle disputes in their own courtrooms under their own quaint legal interpretations.
It's not the first time Common Law militants were involved in multilevel marketing, which is sometimes called pyramid marketing. After all, the convicted money launderer M. Elizabeth Broderick of Palmdale, who learned how to pass out phony comptroller warrants at the knee of Montana Freeman LeRoy M. Schweitzer, was once a multilevel marketing huckster.
The latest one is called Gateway to Financial Freedom, and it's hawked by the Global Prosperity Marketing Group. It operates out of mail drops in the Seattle area, but its security is so tight that its location is unknown.
"They are avoiding the semblance of a real office," says Mark Taylor, editor of San Francisco's Online Fraud Newsletter. "They are probably operating out of Canada."
Gateway makes wild claims: After you have recruited enough people into the scheme, you make 90 percent profit -- yes, 90 percent -- on each sale of the company's product.
What are those products? The first, Gateway I, costing $1,250, is a binder of audio cassettes telling you about the evils of the Federal Reserve, about offshore banking and trusts, as well as Common Law.
The second, Gateway II, costing $6,250, is a three-day financial seminar that improves your knowledge of offshore tax strategies, international trusts, and the like.
The third, Gateway III, costing $18,750, is a one-week workshop "presented by renowned international bankers and financiers," according to promotional materials.
If any of this sounds familiar to you, congratulations: It's very similar to the package offered by Orange County-based Investors International (II), whose astoundingly boastful claims were featured on these pages in early August. The II program also touted 90 percent profits, and offered cassettes and tapes on offshore banking and the like.
Both Gateway and Investors International claim to provide investors protection against a grasping and gluttonous government.
II is aimed at libertarians. But the founder, one Dr. Rudolf van Lin, made the mistake of claiming he had been "instrumental in the forming of the Libertarian Party." He had been no such thing, say the actual founders of the party, who denounce II as a get-rich-quick scheme exploiting the Libertarian name.
"The Libertarian Party has been working to ban advertising of Investors International" in its publications, says Richard Rider, a local Libertarian.
The Better Business Bureau reviewed materials from Investors International: "Because the profits are based upon the premise of recruiting rather than the underlying products or service, this appears to be an illegal pyramid scheme," says the BBB.
Michigan has slapped II with a cease-and-desist order. Oregon also has moved against the scheme, and the FBI and post office interviewed van Lin at the outset. Investors International would not comment on the moves by government entities and the BBB.
As far as can be determined, Global Prosperity Marketing was a separate pyramid -- called a "downline" -- within II. The BBB lists Global Prosperity as an additional trade name of II.
"It's my understanding that van Lin was telling Global that its recorded messages were exaggerated," says a Cincinnatian, who bought into II and was pitched on Global, and now wants to get his II money back.
It's hard to imagine anybody out-exaggerating van Lin, who claims he has "the most incredible money-making and profit-generating strategic financial program in the world" -- a program "in which nobody loses."
A senior executive of II says that Global Prosperity "was a group of people who were in our organization and are no longer with us. They used that name (Global) to sell our products. They resigned, felt they could do a different product better."
However, the differences between the Gateway and II products appear minor. Certainly, II's package is more expensive.
The supposed author of Gateway to Financial Freedom is one Keith Anderson, who, according to the promotional materials, "holds an Honorary Doctorate degree in Common Law. He has been actively involved in the study and practice of constitutional law, freedom and sovereignty for approximately eighteen years. He is highly regarded and recognized as one of the foremost experts and lecturers on Common Law."
The group lists its Ethics of Operations. "All disputes will be settled by the course of the Common Law," explain the promotional materials. "Each party to the complaint may select an equal number of Common Law judges (not Bar Association members). There is no appeal to the final decision of the Common Law court judges."
Product orders are shipped to a Massachusetts operation with its headquarters in the Turks & Caicos Islands, an offshore tax haven where Common Law adherents get their driver's licenses.
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Anna Lönnqvist
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Princess Olga Romanoff
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Princess Olga, A Wild and Barefoot Romanov
Back to Princess Olga Romanoff
This is very much a human interest story, told with humour by a down to earth woman struggling to make ends meet in the 21st century. The upkeep of her historical childhood home, Provender House, in the depths of the English countryside, is indeed a constant daily battle for this modern-day princess. Princess Olga Romanoff, is the daughter of the eldest nephew of Tsar Nicholas II, murdered with his family by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
She is the youngest child of the late Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia, who was born in the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in 1897. He fled Russia in 1918 with his pregnant (first) wife and his father, Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovich, while his mother, Grand Duchess Xenia, and his grandmother, Her Imperial Highness Maria Feodorovna, followed a few months later.
The fabled Romanov jewels that they were able to smuggle out had to be sold and the exiled family were accommodated for some time by the British Royal Family at various grace-and-favour homes at Windsor Castle and Hampton Court.
In her memoirs we are taken on a journey from now and back to then, to an Imperial Russia that no longer exists, to the horror of the revolution and the fate of those who had to flee and start a new life elsewhere, all the way to the life of Princess Olga Romanoff today. She has written bitingly funny memoir and the vibrant history of her family is the seed of this book. Her memoirs is richly illustrated with photos and rights are sold to a wide range of countries.
This is the first book of memoirs by a Romanov family descendant in many years.
A selection of reviews
“Rasputin’s murder, sexual misconduct and the Loch Ness monster; the newly released memoirs of Princess Olga Romanoff make for quite an extraordinary read … A richly entertaining book has emerged which will defy many expectations.” Jonathan Whiley, Mayfair Times
“Colourful, definitely. Entertaining, without question..” The Sunday Telegraph
“She has written a bitingly funny memoir and history of her family, in which she is also more forthcoming about our own royals.” Emma Wells, The Sunday Times
“A very readable autobiography…some fascinating anecdotes.” The New Royalty World
“The princess has the jewel box that the Dowager Empress hid under her voluminous skirts when the Bolsheviks searched the house.” Extract from a feature in Majesty Magazine
“An enthralling book.” Michele Magwood, Johannesburg Sunday Times
“Could Prince Charles have ever married a Russian? That was the match once planned for Princess Olga Romanoff, great-niece of the last Tsar. “It was a delusional dream of my mother, who was a huge snob,” says Olga, 67, at the launch in Kensington of her memoirs of life in the Russian imperial family.” Sunday Express
“My grandfather, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia, used this etching pen to write my father’s name and the time and date of his birth in 1897 on the window of the WInter Palace in St Petersburg. I’m not sure why – perhaps simply because he could!” Emotional ties feature, Mail on Sunday
“Princess Olga: A Wild and Barefoot Romanov provides a rare, highly personal and evocative memoir, inviting the readers into the lives of the surviving Romanovs and members of the Russian Imperial Family.” Russian Art and Culture
“The reader does have to remember these are second hand stories from father to daughter in a book of memoirs and not a history text book … I have very much enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone interested in how the Romanov family continued their lives in exile in the 20th century.”
Sue Woolmans, Romanov News
“ ‘You have to be so polite,’ she sighs, shaking her head. It is not the first adjective I would use to describe her. Colourful, definitely. Entertaining, without question.” Peter Stanford, The Telegraph
“As intriguing, eccentric, and funny as her ancestors, Princess Olga: a true Romanov.” Kristina Moskalenko, Russian Roulette magazine
“Olga Romanoff’s book is an enjoyable read. She writes fluidly and includes a wealth of amusing anecdotes. One of the traits of a good autobiography is the feeling that, by the end of the book, the reader has the impression that he knows the author. ” Russian legitimist
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Life in Potter County Tx 1910 to 1943
Potter County, Texas from 1910 to 1943 as pictured in archived government photographs, vintage postcards, old school yearbooks and newspapers in Amarillo, Bishop Hills, Ady, Boden, Bushland, Chunky, Cliffside, and Gentry Texas.
Street Car on Polk Street in 1912
By 1912, Polk Street was central to the bustling center of commerce in Amarillo. Many visitors relied on one of the first motorized street cars in Texas . . . view full size
Duck Hunting in Potter County in 1909
Duck hunting in the area around Amarillo was more than a popular sport in 1909 . . . continued
Out of Money, Out of Gas, Running Low on Hope
Amarillo was a crossroads for families fleeing the dust bowl and depression. This family was on the way to New Mexico but ran out of gas somewhere in Potter County . . . View Larger and Read More
Steam Tractor Plowing Farm Near Amarillo Tx around 1910
A. M. Archambault & Company developed the first farm steam engine in 1849. The steam engine was later expanded into the steam traction engine with powered wheels and steering capabilities . . . view full size
Polk Street in 1914
Street Scene showing Dillard's, Drug Store, Nunn's Store, and shoppers dodging Model A's and T's to cross the street . . . full size image
Amarillo Street Scene Late 1800's
Showing horse drawn wagons and boot shop. zoom in
Amarillo Invented Mother-In-Law Day in 1934
Mother-in-Law Day was first observed on March 5, 1934, in Amarillo Texas, where it was started by Gene Howe, editor of the local newspaper and publisher of the "Tactless Texan" newspaper column after he somehow offended his mother-in-law Nellie Donald . . . read more
Dust Storm Amarillo Tx 1936
Amarillo was no stranger to the horrible dust storms of the dust bowl days of the 1930's
Poker game in Amarillo Tx 1939
Poker game in Amarillo Texas in 1939 using match sticks for chips. Don't let the match sticks fool you. Some of these games could be extremely high stakes. Amarillo Slim made a fortune as gambler at games like this.
Oklahoma Car Arrives in Amarillo Texas in 1941
Oklahoma car arrives in Amarillo in 1941 with all the family's belongings tied to the car with baling wire. Zoom in on this "Okie Car"
Steam Locomotive in Amarillo Texas 1910
Industry in Amarillo began with railroads, cattle and merchandising. The first Fort Worth & Denver City passenger train arrived in Amarillo in March of 1888 from Clarendon, which was the former terminal . . . more
Grand Opera House Amarillo Texas in 1910
The Grand Opera House as it appeared in 1910. Later renamed the Olympic Theatre, the structure on Polk Street was destroyed by a fire on November 27, 1919 and replaced by Colbert's Department Store. see more photos and history
Grain elevator in small town in Potter County, Tx 1939
Almost every small town in the panhandle had a grain elevator dominating the skyline. This one is in a small town in Potter County shows trucks lined up to unload freshly harvested wheat in 1939. The elevator would lift the entire truck . . . continued
Railroad Yardmaster in Amarillo Tx 1943
Amarillo Yardmaster at work in 1943. Yardmasters review train schedules and switching orders and coordinate activities of workers engaged in railroad traffic operations, such as the makeup or breakup of trains and yard switching.view full size
Original photos and negatives may be archived in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.
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Whistling Willie from Amarillo, Texas
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A listing of all reviews, split into promotion categories, going back as far as possible. Featuring reviews from current TV, old school TV, WWE Classics, DVD's, old tapes and various other sources.
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All the best from World Wrestling Entertainment (formerly Federation). Monday Night RAW, Smackdown, WrestleMania, Royal Rumble and all that stuff.
All the best from the Major League of Professional Wrestling. Re-live all the glory and goriness of World Championship Wrestling, from its Jim Crockett Promotions roots up to the final Nitro on TNT. Fans, it's the Greatest Night in the History of Our Sport!
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Step into the Impact Zone with the company formerly known as "Total Nonstop Action" or even "NWA/TNA".
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From the world famous Sportatorium in downtown Dallas, Texas. Fear Fritz Von Erich and the IRON CLAW!
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Current and flashback reviews from internet darlings, ROH.
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History of Major Events hosted by EMPO
1992 - U.S. Intercollegiate Championships, Grafton Lakes State Park
1993 - U.S. Relay Championships, Thacher State Park
1995 - Billygoat, Grafton Lakes State Park
1997 - U.S. Ski Orienteering Championships, Garnet Hill
1998 - Billygoat (Mt.Norwottuck, Holyoke, MA)
2004 - One day National meet at Thacher
2006 - U.S. Middle and Ultra-long Championships, Thacher (then called "Short" and "Long")
2007 - Billygoat, Thacher State Park
2010 - U.S. Two-day Classic Championships, Moreau Lake State Park
2012 - Billygoat, Moreau
2013 - U.S. Individual Championships (S/M/L), Camp Wakpominee and Moreau Lake
2015 - Middle and Long National meet at Pineridge ("O" in the Pines)
2018 - Rensselaer Plat-"O" Traverse
See separate site for Ski O
Club Champions Year by Year
EMPO Meet Results
Thacher North Addition November 2, 2019 (17)
Lock 7 October 12, 2019 (6)
Tawasentha Park September 22, 2019 (11)
Schenectady Central Park sprints, July 11, 2019 (6)
Sprint Series standings (Google doc)
Partridge Run, June 16, 2019 (14)
Moreau Lake State Park, May 11, 2019 (19)
Margaret Burke WMA, April 20, 2019 (11)
Winter 2018-9
Lapland Lake, December 15, 2018 (11)
Kinns Road (Club Championships), November 10, 2018 (15)
EMPO Plat-O Traverse and Rec courses, October 13, 2018 (23)
Pleasant Valley Score O, September 16, 2018 (14)
Washington Park, August 16, 2018 (6)
Schenectady Central Park, August 2, 2018 (9)
Hayes Park, July 19, 2018 (12)
EMPO'Ringen in Berne/Knox, June 2, 2018 (19)
Grafton Lakes State Park, May 19, 2018 (12)
Five Rivers, April 14, 2018 (15)
Partridge Run Ski/(Snow)shoe O, January 13, 2018 (10)
Peebles Island State Park (Club Championships), November 19, 2017 (19)
Thacher Park, October 22, 2017 (26)
Switzkill Farms, October 7, 2017 (17)
Saratoga Spa State Park, September 23, 2017 (17)
Summer Series #3, Niskayuna, August 30, 2017 (12)
Summer Series #2, Schenectady, August 8, 2017 (15)
Summer Series #1, Clifton Park, July 20, 2017 (18)
Five Rivers, June 3, 2017 (11)
World Orienteering Day, May 24, 2017 (5)
Pleasant Valley Farms, May 20, 2017 (15)
Vischer Ferry Park, May 13, 2017 (8)
Tawasentha Park, April 15, 2017 (16)
Moreau Lake State Park (Club Championships), November 13, 2016 (22 / 4)
Peebles Island, October 30, 2016 (26 / 5)
Switzkill Farm, October 15, 2016 (24 / 4)
Thacher Park Score O, September 10, 2016 (19 / 3)
Niskayuna Parks, June 26, 2016 (21 / 2)
Tawasentha Town Park, June 4, 2016 (16 / 1)
Vischer Ferry, May 14, 2016 (17 / 3) Related news article (CN Weekly)
Thacher State Park, May 7, 2016 (12 / 1)
Partridge Run SW, April 9, 2016 (15 / 1)
Pineridge XC Ski Center Score-O, February 27, 2016 (15 / 0)
Pineridge XC Ski Center (Club Championships, foot O), November 7, 2015 (18 / 2)
Thacher Park, October 18, 2015 (17 / 3)
"O" in the Pines national meet, Pineridge XC Ski Center (foot O), October 3-4, 2015
Recreational courses, October 3-4 (11 / 7 ; 11 / 6)
Saratoga Spa State Park, September 19, 2015 (16 / 3)
Partridge Run, May 9, 2015 (17 / 0)
Peebles Island, April 25, 2015 (25 / 3)
Lapland Lake Ski O, December 21, 2014 (22 / 0)
Garnet HIll Ski O, January 1, 2015 (12 / 3)
Partridge Run Score O, January 24, 2015 (13 / 3)
Camp Wakpominee (Club Championships), November 1, 2014 (20 / 1)
Cole Hill, October 18, 2014 (19 / 0)
Thacher Park, September 28, 2014 (23 / 6)
Tawasentha Park, September 21, 2014 (13 / 1)
Pleasant Valley Farms, June 14, 2014 (19 / 2)
Grafton Lakes State Park, May 24, 2014 (20 / 4)
Hayes Nature Park, May 10, 2014 (21 / 6)
Five Rivers, May 4, 2014 (17 / 2)
Lapland Lake, December 21, 2013
Summer / Fall 2013
Peebles Island (Club Championships), November 23, 2013
Scout O, Tawasentha, November 3, 2013 (7 starts)
Five Rivers, November 2, 2013
Thacher State Park, September 21, 2013
Cole Hill, August 24, 2013
Washington Park-O, June 29, 2013
Camp Pinnacle, June 2, 2013
U.S. Individual Championships/Team Trials, May 10-12, 2013 -- Adirondack Adventures
...YouTube video of the Middle Blue course from Rui Tavares, a visitor from Portugal
Camp Wakpominee, May 12, 2013
Lock 7, Niskayuna, April 20, 2013
NYSSRA Ski O Championships, March 10, 2013
Pineridge Ski O & Snowshoe Score O, February 23, 2013
Garnet Hill Ski O, December 31, 2012
Woods Hollow (Club Championships), November 3, 2012
Cole Hill, October 14, 2012
Dwaas Kill/Kinns Road, October 8, 2012
Garnet Hill Score O, September 29, 2012
Colonie-Mohawk River Park, September 16, 2012
Five Rivers Environmental Education Center, June 23, 2012
Tawasentha Park, June 2, 2012
Saratoga Spa State Park, May 19, 2012
Billygoat XXXIV, Moreau Lake State Park, April 29, 2012
Billy Goat Recreational Courses, Moreau Lake State Park, April 29, 2012
Speedy Goat Fund Raiser for U.S. O Teams, Peebles Island, April 28, 2012
Pineridge Score O & Yellow, February 18, 2012
Empire State Winter Games Ski O, February 4, 2012
Garnet Hill Ski O, January 1, 2012
Cole Hill (Club Championships), November 12, 2011
Colonie, October 22, 2011
Grafton, October 10, 2011
Kinns Road, September 17, 2011
Thacher Park, June 11, 2011
Tawasentha Park, May 22, 2011
Five Rivers Environmental Education Center, May 7, 2011
Peebles Island State Park, April 23, 2011
Ski and Score O at Moreau, January 15, 2011
Moreau, (Club Championships) November 13, 2010
US Two Day Classic Orienteering Championships, October 16-17, 2010 -- More-O at Moreau!
Grafton State Park, September 18, 2010
Camp Pinnacle, June 19, 2010
Lock 7, June 5, 2010
Colonie Town Park, May 15, 2010
Tawasentha Park, April 18, 2010
Moreau Lake State Park, January 9, 2010
Ski-O Club Championships, March 6, 2010
Five Rivers Environmental Education Center, September 13, 2009
Saratoga Spa State Park, October 12, 2009
Peebles Island State Park, November 7, 2009
Grafton Lakes State Park, April 11, 2009
Tawasentha Park, May 2, 2009
Foxenkill Flats and Norray Farm, June 6, 2009
Garnet Hill, December 27, 2008
Partridge Run, January 10, 2009
Partridge Run Rogaine & Score-O, September 6, 2008
Grafton Lakes State Park, September 21, 2008
Colonie Town Park, October 13, 2008
Scout-O, Tawasentha Park, November 1, 2008
Thacher Park (Club Championships), November 8, 2008
Moreau Lake State Park, April 12, 2008
Kinns Road Park, May 18, 2008
Thacher Park, January 19, 2008
Empire State Games, February 23, 2008
Five Rivers, September 16, 2007
Grafton Lakes State Park, October 8, 2007
Peebles Island State Park, October 13, 2007
Scout Meet, Schenectady Museum Nature Preserve, October 27, 2007
Camp Pinnacle (Club Championships), November 10, 2007
Schenectady Museum Nature Preserve, April 14, 2007
Moreau Lake State Park, May 5, 2007
Billygoat, Thacher State Park, May 20, 2007
Five Rivers, June 3, 2007
Kinns Road, June 30, 2007
Norray Farm, January 13, 2007
Ski-O Club Championships, March 25, 2007
Colonie Town Park, September 10, 2006
Tawasentha Park (Scout-O), November 4, 2006
2006 US Short-O and Long-O Championships, Thacher State Park, April 29-30, 2006
Thacher State Park, April 30, 2006 (recreational courses)
Saratoga Spa Park, May 13, 2006
Five Rivers, June 11, 2006
Garnet Hill, January 1, 2006
Tawasentha Park, September 11, 2005
Schenectady Museum Nature Preserve, October 23, 2005
Scout-O, Five Rivers, November 5, 2005
Colonie Town Park, April 23, 2005
Five Rivers Environmental Education Center, May 15, 2005
Moreau Lake State Park, June 5, 2005
Peebles Island State Park, June 18, 2005
Thacher Park, February 13, 2005
Grafton Lakes State Park, October 11, 2004
Halloween Howl, October 30-31, 2004: overall results, relay results, Thacher pictures
Five Rivers Environmental Center (Scout-O), November 13, 2004
Thacher Park (Club Championships), November 21, 2004
Kinns Road, April 10, 2004
Norray Farm, May 8, 2004
Schenectady Museum Nature Preserve, June 6, 2004
Five Rivers, January 24, 2004
Saratoga Biathlon, January 25, 2004
Garnet Hill, January 31, 2004
Colonie Town Park Scout-O, November 1, 2003
Moreau Lake State Park Club Championships, November 9, 2003
Schenectady Museum Nature Preserve, April 5, 2003
Thacher Park, May 10, 2003
Peebles Island, June 8, 2003
Crandall Park, February 2, 2003
Saratoga Spa State Park, September 14, 2002
Tawasentha Park, November 9, 2002
Blueberry Hill, March 30, 2002
Grafton Lakes State Park, June 1, 2002
Garnet Hill, February 10, 2002
Moreau Lake State Park, September 16, 2001
Peebles Island, October 8, 2001
Thacher Park, November 10, 2001
Kinns Road Park, March 24, 2001
Colonie Town Park, May 6, 2001
Norray Farm, June 9, 2001
Saratoga Biathlon Center, February 10, 2001
Schenectady Museum Nature Preserve, November 12, 2000
Vischer Ferry, April 29, 2000
Blueberry Hill, May 13, 2000
Garnet Hill, January 22-23, 2000
Empire State Games, February 26-27, 2000
Washington Park, September 26, 1999
Lapland Lake (MtBike-O), October 16, 1999
Colonie Town Park (Club Championships), November 7, 1999
Norray Farm, April 3, 1999
Grafton Lakes State Park, May 23, 1999
Lapland Lake, March 21, 1999
Mountain Bike-O (Saratoga Biathlon Center), September 13, 1998
Thacher State Park, October 12, 1998
Club Championships (Schenectady Museum Nature Preserve), November 15, 1998
Tawasentha Park, April 4, 1998
Billygoat, April 26, 1998
Blueberry Hill, May 9, 1998
Peebles Island, June 14, 1998
Saratoga Biathlon Center, January 4, 1998
Kinns Road, February 1, 1998
Five Rivers Environmental Center, September 27, 1997
Thacher Park, October 25, 1997 (Mountain Bike-O)
Vischer Ferry, June 14, 1997
Vischer Ferry, February 2, 1997
US and Empire State Games Ski-O championships, March 1-2, 1997 (photo album)
Kinns Road, October 6, 1996
Schenectady Museum Nature Preserve, November 17, 1996 (Club Championships)
Peebles Island, April 27, 1996
Vischer Ferry Preserve, May 18, 1996
Thacher Park, September 30, 1995
Schenectady Museum Nature Preserve (Club Championships)
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Works of "Commedia dell'Arte Figures"
Commedia dell'Arte Figures
1 to 6 of 6 Works Collection Information
Collections: Nymphenburg
Artist/Maker/Culture: Fulda Porcelain Factory
Artist/Maker/Culture: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory
Artist/Maker/Culture: Johann Christoph Ludwig von Lucke
Artist/Maker/Culture: Peter Reinicke
Artist/Maker/Culture: Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (55)
Bow Porcelain Works (12)
Kloster-Veilsdorf Porcelain Factory (8)
Johann Friedrich Eberlein (7)
Muses Modeller (6)
Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory (6)
Royal Porcelain Manufactory (5)
Fürstenberg Porcelain Company (4)
State Factory (4)
William Duesbury I (4)
Derby Porcelain Factory (3)
Longton Hall Porcelain Factory (3)
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory (2)
Doccia Porcelain Manufactory (2)
Frankenthal Porcelain Factory (2)
Höchst Porcelain Factory (2)
Claudius Innocentius du Paquier Factory (1)
Geminiano Cozzi Factory (1)
Ludwigsburg Factory (1)
Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory (1)
Commedia dell'Arte Figures (117)
German Porcelain (85)
Meissen (53)
English Porcelain (19)
Bow (12)
Nymphenburg (6)
Other English Porcelain (6)
Austrian Porcelain (5)
Italian Porcelain (3)
Frankenthal (2)
Höchst (2)
Du Paquier (1)
Ludwigsburg (1)
Villeroy/Mennecy (1)
Salt glaze(2)
Among the most distinctive areas of the Gardiner Museum’s collection are its famous group of 150 European porcelain figures inspired by the Commedia dell’Arte. The Commedia dell’Arte was a popular form of theatre that emerged in Europe during the Renaissance, and remained popular until well into the eighteenth century. The collection includes examples from most European porcelain manufactories showing the characters and costumes of the actors, their gestures and comic poses. These figures were usually utilized as ornaments for the table in the eighteenth century.
The origins of the collection are also of interest. It was initially assembled by George Gardiner as a memento of his directorship of Harlequin Enterprises Ltd., publishers of popular novels. It has since been augmented by gifts from William and Molly Anne Macdonald and the heirs of Dr. Hans Syz.
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Index June 2011
Written on June 30th, 2011 in Monthly Index by Heidi
2011-06-01: Will Indignation Salvage Spain?
2011-06-01: Adja Diallo, victime collatérale de l’affaire DSK;
2011-06-02: More on OBL;
2011-06-03: Portugal: Left Bloc Fires up to Fight Austerity;
2011-06-04: How a divided Spain started a revolution;
2011-06-04: Indian guru on hunger strike over graft;
2011-06-04: Mon corps m’appartient;
2011-06-05: Opinion: Squaring Asia’s nuclear triangle;
2011-06-05: Excision et les IST/Sida: 18 professeurs formés à la sensibilisation;
2011-06-06: Forget the past, listen to the people;
2011-06-07: Why Washington Isn’t Doing Squat About Jobs and Wages;
2011-06-08: Empire or Republic: How the Empire Destroys its Own People;
2011-06-09: Ratko Mladic and the Pandora’s Box of the Bosnian War;
2011-06-10: The Elite, the Great Game and World War III;
2011-06-10: Berne/Suisse: la loi contre les mutilations génitales sera durcie;
2011-06-11: From Silence to Memory: A Celebration of the Report of the Historic Archives of the National Police;
2011-06-12: Accelerating Action against Child Labour;
2011-06-13: The commodification of water and land in Mali;
2011-06-14: Ai Weiwei: Planting originality, reaping Beijing’s fury;
2011-06-14: La philo en maternelle, des enfants sages qui s’ignorent;
2011-06-15: Iraqi Human Rights Activists Protesting for Democracy Are Sexually Assaulted and Beaten;
2011-06-15: Vers la Tolérance Zéro: Les Mutilations sexuelles Féminines en Europe: La Suisse;
2011-06-16: In memory: Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt, warrior for justice and freedom;
2011-06-18: From aid and humanitarianism to solidarity;
2011-06-19: Mauritania: A simple citizen demanding his rights;
2011-06-20: What Parents Can Learn From Prison Guards;
2011-06-21: Afghanistan is most dangerous country for women;
2011-06-22: Condemning the killing of older people on witchraft accusations;
2011-06-23: Death more likely than school for South Sudan’s young – UN;
2011-06-23: Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei freed;
2011-06-24: The Greek protests are not just about the economic crisis;
2011-06-25: Sign the Dakar Appeal Against Land Grabbing;
2011-06-26: Selling off the farm?
2011-06-27: Ethiopia: Press freedom, the law and democracy;
2011-06-28: Who Does The Law Serve?
2011-06-29: Workers Struggles in the Americas;
2011-06-30: Afghanistan: Taliban Talks Will Betray Women’s Rights.
Afghanistan: Taliban Talks Will Betray Women’s Rights
Written on June 30th, 2011 in Humanitarian and Life Concerns by Heidi
Published on Huffpost World, by Ida Lichter M.D., June 27, 2011.
Violent attacks by the Taliban have been increasing. Last month, the principal of a girls’ school near Kabul was assassinated. Yet some observers would have us believe the Taliban have changed their misogynist ideology and deserve another chance in negotiations and power sharing.
Last November, when US President Barack Obama tried to “reach out” to moderate voices among the Taliban, they replied, “We have no moderate voices.”
A leading representative, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, said freedoms won by women in the past few years were “corrupting” them, and men and women shouldn’t be in the same room. Continue Reading…
Workers Struggles in the Americas
Published on the World Socialist Web Site WSWS, 28 June 2011.
Protests for wage increases, against police attack on striking Argentine teachers:
Teachers held a number of strikes and protests in Argentina last week over salary demands and repression of their colleagues. In Puerto Madryn, Esquel, Chubut, Rosario, Buenos Aires and other cities, teachers struck, marched and blockaded streets. Estimates of adhesion varied by location from 30 to 80 percent.One issue highlighted by the protests was the June 23 attack on an encampment of teachers in Buenos Aires. Federal police violently evicted a group of teachers who were attempting to set up an encampment in front of Buenos Aires’ labor ministry. The police dislodged the teachers using water cannons, arresting four and injuring nine.
The dislodged teachers are from the southern province of Santa Cruz and have been on strike for two months over wage demands, which have been met with intransigence by the provincial government. The encampment was meant to bring attention to their demands and force the intervention of the Ministry of Labor. Continue Reading…
Who Does The Law Serve?
Published on Global Research.ca, by Paul Craig Roberts, June 26, 2011.
… As readers know by now, I have little patience with those who let their emotions determine their analysis. Let’s look further at this case. It is a known fact that Sarkozy’s political operatives in France knew of Strauss-Kahn’s arrest before it was announced by the New York police. French, but not American, newspapers have wondered how this could be.
Perhaps the hotel maid thought to call up Sarkozy’s people and tell them.
Note also that the alleged victim has a very high-priced major league lawyer representing her that she not only does not need but also obviously cannot afford to pay. Continue Reading…
Ethiopia: Press freedom, the law and democracy
Published on Pambazuka News, by Ron Singer, June 23, 2011.
Dawit Kebede, editor-in-chief of Ethiopian newspaper, the Awramba Times, speaks to Ron Singer about the perils of working in the media – from his arrest by the government to his struggle to get a license for a new paper – and his disappointment with US academics’ failure to support Ethiopian democracy.
Dawit Kebede (b. 1980) is editor-in-chief of the Awramba Times, a weekly newspaper in Amharic which has the second-largest circulation of any Ethiopian paper, and which is also the sole remaining dissident print newspaper inside the country. Kebede is the recipient of a 2010 International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Continue Reading…
Selling off the farm?
Published on Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab, by Mike Pope, June 24, 2011.
There is nothing new about foreign investment in Australian agribusiness. It’s been going on for over 200 years. Many investors create something new, something not tried before. It may be a different approach to management, the use of new technology or crop varieties, better handling of produce, consolidation of smaller properties and larger scale operations or new markets and new competition … //
… What we find is that a number of things are happening which have not occurred before. Land and established agribusinesses are now being purchased to: Continue Reading…
FINAL CALL for Sign the Dakar Appeal against Land Grabbing
(also in french and spanish) – Published on Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab, June 6, 2011.
During the World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal, in February 2011, social movements and organisations released a collective appeal against land grabbing. Over 150 organisations have already signed. If your organisation would also like to support this appeal, please do so … (before 15 June 2011, but still working).
The Dakar Appeal, together with the names of organisations endorsing it, will be presented during the mobilizations against the G20 Agriculture Ministers’ meeting in Paris on 22-23 June. If you would like to … communicate directly with the petition author, you can contact the author Sofia Monsalve.
Read and sign the petition here Continue Reading…
The Greek protests are not just about the economic crisis
They’re a rejection of authority – Published on The Guardian, by Aditya Chakraborrty, June 20, 2011.
A sunny Saturday afternoon in central Athens, and Christos Roubanis is sitting outside having a beer, while telling me about the death threats he’s received. We’re in Victoria Square, one of the most racially mixed areas in the capital. The nearby payphones have queues of Bangladeshis waiting outside, and after every few shops comes that telltale feature of immigrant-ville: a Western Union money transfer booth. Locals reckon that more than a third of residents are non-Greek subjects … //
… You see this clearly in the demonstrations in Syntagma Square in central Athens. Writing for the Guardian’s Comment is Free last week, Birkbeck professor Costas Douzinas found “striking parallels” between the protesters there, for whom “no issue is beyond proposal and disputation”, and the Athenian agora, birthplace of western democracy. Continue Reading…
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei freed
Written on June 23rd, 2011 in Humanitarian and Life Concerns by Heidi
… freed after three months following tax evasion confession – Published on DAILY MAIL, by reporter, June 23, 2011.
A dissident Chinese artist whose detention in jail sparked international uproar has been released from prison, his family revealed. Ai Weiwei was freed on Wednesday following three months detention after confessing to tax evasion, according to Chinese state media. The bearded artist had been detained at Beijing Airport on April 3 along with dozens of other rights activists and dissidents, sparking widespread anger … Read more:
Death more likely than school for South Sudan’s young – UN
Linked on our blogs with AlertNet, and with L’enfer d’être une femme en Somalie. – Published on AlertNet, by Katy Migiro, 21 Jun 2011.
NAIROBI (AlertNet) – Children in South Sudan are more likely to die before the age of five than complete a basic education, the United Nations said in a report released on Tuesday.
More money needs to be invested in education to secure peace in South Sudan as the region counts down to independence on 9 July, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) said.
“If you don’t give people hope and opportunities for education, what do you think is going to happen? People who are without hope are people who are going to be far more prone to being drawn into armed conflict,” said Kevin Watkins, director of UNESCO’s educational monitoring report. Continue Reading…
Condemning the killing of older people on witchraft accusations
Written on June 22nd, 2011 in Humanitarian and Life Concerns by Heidi
Linked on our blogs with HelpAge International, and with Changing attitudes to stop witchcraft accusations.
Published on HelpAge International, by Gacheru Maina, June 9, 2011.
In the lead up to World Elder Abuse Awareness Day next week, we are speaking out and condemning in the strongest terms possible the accusations and killings of older men and women based on allegations of witchcraft.
Accusations target the vulnerable:
Belief in witchcraft is strong in most African countries and a range of factors can lead to accusations, but recent studies have shown that the accusations are often made maliciously and specifically target poor and vulnerable older people. Continue Reading…
Afghanistan is most dangerous country for women
Written on June 21st, 2011 in Humanitarian and Life Concerns by Heidi
Linked on our blogs with SPECIAL COVERAGE: The world’s most dangerous countries for women. – Published on TrustLaw.org, by Lisa Anderson, June 15, 2011.
… Violence, dismal healthcare and brutal poverty make Afghanistan the world’s most dangerous country for women, with Congo a close second due to horrific levels of rape, a Thomson Reuters Foundation expert poll said on Wednesday.
Pakistan, India and Somalia ranked third, fourth and fifth, respectively, in the global survey of perceptions of threats ranging from domestic abuse and economic discrimination to female foeticide, genital mutilation and acid attacks.
“Ongoing conflict, NATO airstrikes and cultural practices combined make Afghanistan a very dangerous place for women,” said Clementina Cantoni, a Pakistan-based aid worker with ECHO, the European Commission’s humanitarian aid department.
“In addition, women who do attempt to speak out or take on public roles that challenge ingrained gender stereotypes of what’s acceptable for women to do or not, such as working as policewomen or news broadcasters, are often intimidated or killed.” Continue Reading…
What Parents Can Learn From Prison Guards
Advice on how to ensure “voluntary compliance” from your kids—no tear gas involved – Published on Mother Jones, by Dave Gilson, June 17, 2011.
Some of the best parenting advice I’ve ever gotten was from a website for prison guards. While researching a story on prison riots, I was browsing CorrectionsOne, a site for corrections professionals whose typical stories have titles like “Mass. man escapes jail wearing only boxer shorts” and “Alternative Uses for Batons” (sorry, that one’s for sworn correctional officers only). There, amid the Taser ads and tales of prison gangs, I came across an article that changed the way I think about being a dad.
The article, “7 things never to say to anyone, and why”, listed common statements used by prison guards and police officers and explained why they make people do the exact opposite of what they’re being told to do. The seven things were: Continue Reading…
Ein kleines Arabermädchen
Written on June 19th, 2011 in my comments by Heidi
War schon im Januar 2008 auf meinem Blog Mein privater Garten.
Im Frühjahr 1989 beobachtete ich in der Pariser Metro – dicht neben mir stehend – eine Arabersippe, viele Erwachsene und zwei kleine Kinder. Ein Bub von zwei und ein Mädchen von vier Jahren. Die Fahrt dauerte lange, ich hatte genug Zeit zum hinsehen.
Alle Erwachsene stierten fortlaufend, ohne Unterbruch, mit hätschelnden Blicken auf den kleinen Knaben. Er war offensichtlich ihr innigstes Vergnügen. Das kleine Mädchen wurde während der ganzen halben Stunde nicht ein einziges Mal richtig beachtet. Ich startete eine Provokation. Ich stierte die ganze Zeit nur das Mädchen an, ruhig, innelich lächelnd, selbstbewusst bewunderte ich die Kleine. Continue Reading…
Mauritania: A simple citizen demanding his rights
Published on Pambazuka News, by Sokari Ekine, June 16, 2011.
Following the death by self-immolation of 41-year-old Mauritanian Yacoub Ould Dahoud in January, Sokari Ekine revisits his demands for change in the country. In the wake of the revelations around Gay Girl in Damascus’s true identity, she also explores the outrage and severe criticism directed at the site from those in the LGBTI and Middle Eastern blogosphere.
On 17 January 2011, a 41-year-old Mauritanian businessman, Yacoub Ould Dahoud, burned himself in front of the presidential palace in Nouakchott. He later died in Morocco where he was sent for medical treatment. Continue Reading…
From aid and humanitarianism to solidarity
Discourses on development and the realities of exploitation – Published on Pambazuka News, by Horace Campbell, June 16, 2011.
Horace Campbell charts Africa’s exploitative history of ‘aid’ and the struggle to establish a new global system rooted in dignity, equality and genuine social justice.
January 2011 marked 50 years since Patrice Lumumba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was assassinated. This assassination represented one of the many examples of efforts to destroy the African self-determination project. In his book on The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Ludo de Witte noted that,
The murder has affected the history of Africa. The overthrow of Congo’s first government, the elimination of Lumumba, the bloody repression of the second resistance to the neocolonial regime of Joseph Kasavubu, Mobutu and Moise Tshombe and finally the creation of the Second Republic in this vast strategic country: the repercussions of all these events had disastrous consequences throughout Africa as a whole. Continue Reading…
NATIONAL ARCHIVES (NARA) RELEASES PENTAGON PAPERS
40 Years Later—Full Declassification of “One of the Worst-Kept Secrets in History” – National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 348 – Published on The National Security Archive, by John Prados, June 10 – Update June 13, 2011.
… Different Versions of the Pentagon Papers:
The full version of the Pentagon Papers contains a wealth of new material. Unlike the State Department’s Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series (the official historical record of U.S. diplomacy), which has also covered this period in its published volumes, the Papers focus on specific, thematic subjects in considerable detail. Also distinct from FRUS, which is assembled by professional historians at least 30 years after the fact, the Pentagon Papers were compiled by defense analysts in the immediate aftermath of the events they cover, when developments were still fresh in their minds and they could put their hands on relevant material. In comparison with the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) print of 1971, which until today was the only officially released version of the Pentagon Papers, the declassified volumes will illuminate findings of the Pentagon Papers analysts and data that have long been suppressed. To give just one example, the study contains a selection of data on the war in both North and South Vietnam covering the period of and immediately after the U.S. ground intervention (1965-1967), which is represented in the HASC edition simply by summary charts. Continue Reading…
In memory: Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt, warrior for justice and freedom
Published on Indymedia, by Gloria Riva, June 11, 2011, (first on Liberation).
Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt, noted Black revolutionary who fought a 27-year battle for freedom after an FBI frame-up, died at his home in Tanzania on June 3 at the age of 63 due to illness. He had been living in Tanzania for several years, after his hard-won release from California prison in 1997.
Geronimo was born Elmer Gerard Pratt on Sept. 13, 1947, the youngest of seven children. He grew up in rural Louisiana, Morgan City, during the era of segregation. Ku Klux Klan attacks on the Black community were common. Continue Reading…
Vers la Tolérance Zéro: Les Mutilations sexuelles Féminines en Europe: La Suisse
Publié dans PressAfrik, par Ibrahima Lissa FAYE, le 10 Juin 2011.
… En 2001, une enquête auprès des gynécologues en Suisse a révélé que les MGF se pratiquaient sur toute l’étendue du territoire. Le 17 mars 2005, la Conseillère nationale Maria Roth-Bernasconi a déposé une initiative afin de réprimer les mutilations sexuelles. Au printemps 2010, plus de 20 000 personnes ont accordé leurs voix, lors d’un sondage initié par l’UNICEF en faveur de l’introduction d’une norme pénale afin de réprimer les mutilations sexuelles féminines. Le Conseil national helvétique a adopté ce projet le 16 décembre 2010. Le 7 juin 2011, le conseil d’Etat a entériné ce projet et s’est prononcé lui aussi, en faveur d’un article de loi uniforme en votant à l’unanimité une loi qui sanctionne les mutilations génitales féminines. Continue Reading…
Iraqi Human Rights Activists Protesting for Democracy Are Sexually Assaulted and Beaten
Received by e-mail, From: MADRE, Date: 10/06/2011. – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
MADRE, Rights, Resources and Results for Women Worldwide, CONTACT: Stephanie Küng, MADRE (USA) (212) 627-0444
June 10, 2011 – New York, NY – Today, MADRE learned that pro-democracy activists who gathered in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square were brutally attacked by un-uniformed forces. MADRE’s Iraqi partner group, the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), states that activists who gathered in the square to continue their weeks of protests for democracy, jobs and an end to corruption were beaten by armed men who were unleashed to disperse the protests. Continue Reading…
La philo en maternelle, des enfants sages qui s’ignorent
Publié dans Nord éclair, par DOMINIQUE SALOMEZ, le 5 juin 2011.
Quand ils viennent dans la classe de Madame Hanicot, Lola, Ilana, Isaac, Amandine, Louis et leurs copains savent que ce n’est pas pour faire du coloriage, du chant ou du sport. Non. Quand ils viennent dans la salle de Madame Hanicot, c’est pour parler.
Ce mardi-là, les enfants, en classe de grande section, prennent place comme d’habitude sur les bancs, placés en U. Les élèves de cinq ans ont encore de la peinture sur le bout des doigts. Ils venaient de préparer le cadeau de la fête des mères. Une amorce toute trouvée pour aborder le thème du jour : « Mais, dites-moi, à quoi ça sert une maman ? » demande Élisabeth Hanicot, professeure à l’école Marie-Curie de Roncq. Continue Reading…
Ai Weiwei: Planting originality, reaping Beijing’s fury
Linked on our blogs with Should the Milwaukee Art Museum protest Ai Weiwei’s detention? By Mary Louise Schumacher of the Journal Sentinel, May 20, 2011. – Published on Worldviews Conference, by Lisa Rochon, June 10, 2011.
Try as they may, Chinese authorities cannot disappear Ai Weiwei. During the last two months – ever since the laconic, philosopher-artist, design architect and political activist was seized at a Beijing airport and stuffed away in an unknown location – images and videos of his elegiac work are being watched by a global audience more intensely than ever.
The Guggenheim Museum, the Andy Warhol Foundation and Change.org are circulating online petitions demanding Ai’s release, calls being echoed by the Vancouver Art Gallery and New York’s Museum of Modern Art. “Release Ai Weiwei” has been prominently printed across the light box topping the Tate Modern in London, while, inside, its Turbine Hall hosted 100 million handcrafted sunflower seeds tenderly painted with stripes of black and white, Ai’s most recent, mind-altering installation. Continue Reading…
The commodification of water and land in Mali
Published on Pambazuka News, by Sékou Diarra, June 7, 2011.
Mali’s Dogon have traditionally seen water as a source of life and a public good, with the right to water ‘a prerequisite to all other human rights.’ Now the privatisation of water threatens to exclude citizens from managing their most precious resource, leaving ‘the task with a commercially minded technocracy’, says Sékou Diarra.
Nowadays, politicians in Africa are generally more concerned with market efficiency, economic growth rates, productivity of financial capital and the security of the rich than they are about human rights and the security of the people. In African countries, if progress is identified with economic growth alone, it leads to the gradual loss of the representative aspects of their institutions and an increasing gap between public institutions and citizens; the latter are considered as consumers, clients, people with savings, all merely aimed at benefiting the stock exchanges. At human level, the interconnected crises (food, energy, financial, migratory, democratic etc) and the successive failure of the Conferences on Climate Change in Copenhagen in December 2009 and Cancun in 2010, are the expression of the increased commodification of both material and intellectual aspects of life (land, air/CO2, forests, minerals, genes, education, health, water …). Continue Reading…
Accelerating Action against Child Labour
Published on International Labour Organization ILO.
Today, throughout the world, around 215 million children work, many full-time. They do not go to school and have little or no time to play. Many do not receive proper nutrition or care. They are denied the chance to be children. More than half of them are exposed to the worst forms of child labour such as work in hazardous environments, slavery, or other forms of forced labour, illicit activities including drug trafficking and prostitution, as well as involvement in armed conflict.
Guided by the principles enshrined in the ILO’s Minimum Age Convention No. 138 and Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention No. 182, The ILO InFocus Programme on Child Labour (IPEC) works to achieve the effective abolition of child labour.
Accelerating action against child labour – ILO Global report on child labour 2010, published on IPEC, in en / fr / es: Download the 98 pdf-pages.
Same topic in german: Rund 215‘000‘000 Kinder arbeiten … 215 Millionen … zwischen 5 und 17 Jahren, laut ILO.
From Silence to Memory: A Celebration of the Report of the Historic Archives of the National Police
Published on The National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book No. 347, by Kate Doyle, June 9, 2011, in english and spanish.
… This text is a copy of the speech given by Kate Doyle at the ceremony of the presentation of the report, “From Silence to Memory: Revelations of the Historic Archive of the National Police” at the University of San Carlos in Guatemala City, Guatemala … //
… In reference to the legal instruments that guarantee the right to information – such as, for example, Article 24 of the Access to Information Law, which prohibits the withholding as confidential or classified any information that could contribute to the clarification of violations against fundamental human rights – the AHPN chose to include “the first and last names of all actors, active and passive, mentioned in the documents, be they government or public employees (in the case of the National Police and other state entities such as the Army), confidential collaborators, individuals such as victims and their family members, those who file criminal complaints, individuals with police files, and petitioners, among others.” Continue Reading…
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MOE Taiwan Scholarship
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The Taiwan Scholarship program is a joint initiative launched by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), the Ministry of Education (MOE), the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and the National Science Council (NSC) in 2004. At the Republic of China's centennial in 2011, the Taiwan Scholarship program evolved into the MOFA Taiwan Scholarship program and the MOE Taiwan Scholarship program in order to cater to students of varying backgrounds.
The MOE Taiwan Scholarship continues to encourage outstanding students to pursue academic degrees in Taiwan and to deepen their understanding of Taiwan's academic environment, thereby enhancing exchanges and building friendships between Taiwan and their home nations.
I. Financial assistance
1. Waiver of tuition and certain fees. A monthly stipend of NT$15,000 for undergraduate program students, and NT$20,000 for postgraduate students.
2. Duration:
a. Undergraduate program: four years maximum. Master's program: two years maximum. Doctoral program: four years maximum.
b. Maximum duration for any combination of programs under this scholarship: five years.
II. Eligibility
• Each applicant shall:
1. possess a high school diploma or higher; have performed well at his/her most recent academic institution and be of good moral character.
2. be neither a Taiwanese national, nor an overseas Taiwanese compatriot.
3. have never enrolled in an educational institution in Taiwan for the same level of degree as the current application.
4. not be an exchange student through an academic cooperation agreement between an overseas university/college and an
education alinstitute in Taiwan.
5. have no record for being revoked a MOE Scholarship program or other government-sponsored scholarship.Recipients cannot accept any other R.O.C. government-sponsored scholarships or subsidies concurrently with this scholarship.
III. Miscellaneous
1. For more information, please visit the Taiwan Scholarships and Huayu Enrichment Scholarships website at https://taiwanscholarship.moe.gov.tw/.
2. The MOE Taiwan Scholarship Program website: http://www.edu.tw/BICER/
3. Contact person: Ms. Trinity Lu
Tel: +886-2-2236-8225 ext. 4210 or 4211
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IV. Application period:
• February 1 to March 31 (subject to change).
MOFA Taiwan Scholarship
The MOFA Taiwan Scholarship continues to encourage outstanding students to pursue academic degrees in Taiwan and to deepen their understanding of Taiwan's academic environment, thereby enhancing exchanges and building friendships between Taiwan and their home nations.
The MOFA Taiwan Scholarship is, in principle, granted to students from countries that have diplomatic relations with Taiwan. However, special consideration may also be given to students from other countries
I. Programs
The non-degree Mandarin Language Enrichment Program (LEP): Recipients may take the LEP for a maximum of one year at Mandarin-teaching institutions (hereinafter “Mandarin Training Centers”) affiliated with a university or college accredited by the Ministry of Education.
Degree programs: Recipients may apply for admission to any degree program leading to an undergraduate, master or doctoral degree, excluding in-service programs.
II. Award period
1. Non-degree LEP: one year.
2. Degree programs:
(1) Undergraduate program: four years maximum
(2) Master’s program: two years maximum
(3) Doctoralprogram: four years maximum
III. Financial Assistance
Scholarship recipients will be given a monthly stipend of NT$25,000 for the LEP and NT$30,000 for degree programs. Recipients are responsible for all expenses during their stay in Taiwan. MOFA will not provide any other subsidies. MOFA will, however, provide recipients with one-way, economy-class plane tickets for direct flights to and from Taiwan.
IV. Eligibility
Is a high school graduate or above with an excellent academic record, of good moral character and has no criminal record.
Is not a national of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
Is not an overseas compatriot student.
Has never attended an educational institution in Taiwan at the same level of degree or LEP that he/she intends to apply for.
Is not an exchange student through any cooperation agreement between a foreign university/college and an educational institute in Taiwan while receiving the Scholarship.
Has not previously had a Scholarship revoked by an ROC government agency or other relevant institution.
(1) For more information, please visit the Taiwan Scholarships and Huayu Enrichment Scholarships website at https://taiwanscholarship.moe.gov.tw/
(2) The MOFA website: http://www.mofa.gov.tw/
(3) Contact person: Yi-Ching Chuang
Tel: +886-2-2236-8225 ext.4210,4211 or 4212
VI. Application period
February 1 to March 31 (subject to change)
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The meaning of the dream symbol: Ghost
In the dream sense, the complex symbiology of a Ghost, involving memory, guilt, fear or repression, seems highly dependent on the "personage" of the apparition itself. For example, if the ghost is a deceased friend or relative who appears sad or disheartened, we may be expressing guilt concerning our past relationship with this person. Conversely, if the deceased specter seems warm and friendly, our Unconscious may be illustrating support for a recent action enacted by the dreamer whose moral basis may be rooted in a parallel history with the departed individual.
On the other hand, if the apparition is unknown to us, we may be depicting a complex symbol of our own repressed fears. Appropriately, we may need to come face to face with our fears by interpreting the full expression, and any verbal message possibly conveyed, by our ghostly guest. What does this wise apparition need to tell us?
For Freud a ghost was a symbol of mother.
Celtic folklore is full of ghosts, driven by both good and evil intentions. Generally speaking, it is unhealthy to meet a ghost. The most spectacular spectres in the repertory of Breton legend are the kannerezed-noz or nocturnal washer-women, women or girls who wash the shrouds of those fated to die. Almost inevitably they cause the deaths of those who encounter them upon the road. They correspond to the banshees of Irish folklore and the banshidhe of medieval writers, which Christianity consigned to the category of evil spirits. In modern Breton folklore, the skarz-prenn, the stick used to clean the ploughshare, is believed to have the power of driving off ghosts .
Among those unquiet spirits which return to Earth to trouble the living are the souls of young women who have died in childbirth. This belief was current among the Aztecs and recurred in Siberia where the Buryat believed that these ghosts "grasp children by throat on which their fingers leave bluish marks" or else "cause a dangerous form of gastric catarrh to those who eat food which they have touched". As a protection against this type of ghost they used the skin of the eagle-owl which, they believed, hunted it by night. These ghosts are characterized by a smell of garlic. Mongolo-Turkic peoples were just as afraid of the ghosts of the unburied dead.
The image of the ghost embodies, and in a sense symbolizes, the fears of beings who dwell in another world. The ghost returning may perhaps also be an apparition of the ego, of the unknown ego, springing out of the unconscious, inspiring an almost panic fear and being thrust back into darkness.
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You would think, given all the doom laden think tank out-pourings that have taken place, I might have just given up.* Has there been any think tank report saying Scotland gaining independence would be a good thing? Any at all?
The most recent report from the IFS is a case in point but was flawed from the outset, presumably you need to be moderately clever to be in a think tank and to be fair, it was mostly the media misrepresenting, misreporting and leaving huge swathes out in favour of the status quo.
We also have the on-going Scotland Analysis series coming from Westminster just in case the think tanks run out of negative things to say. Recently, in order to save money, instead of these costly and time consuming analysis reports being produced, the UK Government will be sending out who ever happens to be the current Secretary of State 'for' Scotland to shake his head in faux regret at the assembled press corps.
Alistair Carmichael: "Look, its just a shit idea. We don't need reports and analysis for that do we?"
Turns out, the biggest effect the IFS report has had is that there are now people who fear an actual black hole will appear if Scotland votes yes. Seriously, visit Google (other search engines are available) and enter 'Scottish Independence, black hole' and see what you get - its comical.
"Don't worry, Maximillian will be gone soon. The carbon-based bipedal life form known as Carmichael will need replaced at some point."
The Scotland Institute report on defence in an independent Scotland, (written by people who made their careers and nurtured considerable power in a British Armed Forces - so weren't likely to say a Scottish one would be peachy.) The arse gravy coming from Ian Davidson's Scottish Affairs Committee, you know what to expect when they're all prefixed with the words - "The Referendum on Separation for Scotland."
1. Unanswered Questions
2. Do you agree this is a biased question? (Ironic no?)
3. Making the process legal
4. A multi-option Question?
5. Terminating Trident: Days or Decades? (Pithy alliteration.)
6. The proposed section 30 order - can a player also be the referee
7. Separation shuts shipyards. (c/w a government response.)
8. How would separation affect defence jobs in Scotland
The reports are all available via the 'arse gravy' link in the previous paragraph, I am unashamed to say I haven't read any of them. Life is too short so I just imagined various unionist politicians shaking their heads and tutting at me, I think you'll find the effect is the same.
It goes without saying, the Scottish Government's white paper on independence will be released tomorrow (Tuesday the 26th of November) and where all these think tank reports and Scottish Analysis' will be taken as fact and reported as such by the media - the White Paper will be derided as fiction.
I imagine most opinion pieces about the White Paper will be written already, Better Together will attempt to bog down useful debate with its usual shrill cries of 'not enough detail', 'pie in the sky' or the classic 'where are the answers!?!' (On the internet you terrible bunch of halfwits.) Alistair Carmichael will bumble his way through several interviews like a demented Granddad while Alistair Darling's eye brows breakdance across his forehead under cross examination.
What we'll get is a calm, reasonable document from the Scottish Government then a fever-pitched response from its detractors - much of which - scripted well in advance. The White Paper will do nothing to alleviate Better Together's odd collective 'but where are the answers' selective amnesia, they'll set upon it like a pack of starved dogs round a week old pork chop - once they've chewed over it, they'll vomit out the usual dull voxpops & vapid soundbites about 'Salmond and his ego' or 'unanswered questions' or 'plan b's'. In fact they'll do everything except tackle the White Paper and its contents - why?
Because they've got nothing but more of the same vacuous promises & meaningless statements made by politicians & scions of the British state who's own best interests trump ours every day of their self serving lives.
Self-interest? Don't be daft, its for our own good.
* I'm currently working in Aberdeen, hence the break, not that any one noticed right enough. (Great city Aberdeen, I really like it so I do.)
Posted by pa_broon74 at 04:53
Well, I noticed.
I was interested to see the story of the thieving corruption of the one time Cabinet Secretary for Finance (UK).
I was wondering if Dom Grieve knew about Darling, when he said that all Pakistanis are corrupt. Did he think that these eyebrows indicated a bit of foreign blood.
Anyway, good post as usual.
I see that that dick secretary of state for the UK Alistair (I'm better than Moore) Carmichael made a twat of himself on the Marr show.
We have power with the UK, clout. We're on the security council; we are in Nato, we are in the EU and we wouldn't have been able to rejoice at Mo Farrow in the Olympics (not that I even noticed).
What a complete plank.
At least Moore was relatively likeable whilst being pretty crap at his job. Carmichael is decidedly creepy.
He needs to talk about Daleks ... I'm amazed he hasn't yet.
pa_broon74 25 November 2013 at 08:03
When they described Carmichael as some sort of attack dog versus Moore's more cerebral approach - I think they were taking the piss out of Carmichael - He's about as threatening as jelly.
He's almost cartoon-like, he's like slimer from Ghost Busters, chasing yes voters about the place going woohooo!
I just don't really care about the Bitter Together mob anymore, they are a bit like piles, annoy you know and again but a wee bit of independence minded ointment and sorted for a while.
Carmichael is a plank, the not so idependent IFS Report was shocking in how bad it actually was. I am no expert in anything but surely think tanks can come up with some really hard data when people like me can ask the obvious questions.
This morning I was following twitter and it was so funny reading the Unionists panicking, they are so used to spreading the fear that they were actually doing follow throughs this morning in the old undies. Very funny when the shoe is on the other foot.
A momentous day, even if the answer turns out to be no listening and watching the fear bombers this morning was funny, they are so afraid of losing, well I don't what really but they fear losing things that actually don't matter to them on the ground only the wealthy and the establishment, I guess that is the really sad thing. They are all brainwashed to curtsy and bow.
Aberdeen is too bloody cold and if you believe Naughty on the radio full of unionists, he might have got confused with union street though, he is also a plank.
I sense a theme in your comment Bruce, that being - they're all planks.
Can't argue with that, they're certainly unbending in their support for the status quo.
It has been a good day, I've only really had twitter to go by and its been a-buzz with positive commentary.
I did tweet something along the lines of not just judging the white paper on its content, but also by the unionist reaction to it. In that regard, its doing its job really rather well.
Thanks for comment as always and I apologise if you have to jump through any hoops to do so. Its just that, I'm still being spammed by organisations who are certain I can't get it up or when it is up its not big enough or that I don't have anyone to get it up for.
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Lately, I’ve been thinking about a couple of board games I was tempted to purchase.
The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 is a brand new cooperative game based on the 1982 movie (and John W. Campbell’s novella “Who Goes There”, that it was based on. An American Antarctic station runs into problems with an alien creature that can take on the form of an organism it comes across. It is one of my favourite films, and so seeing this game made me sit up. Obviously, although a cooperative game, there will be a “traitor” element in the form of whichever station crew member gets infected/imitated.
New Angeles is the most recent game set in the Android universe. It is a semi-cooperative – the players have to cooperate to keep the city running, or else they may all lose; while making sure they make more money out of the various deals going on.
Both appeal to me a lot, but I am beginning to take on a new way of thinking about such things. Previously I would look at games and ask myself “Does the game look good?” and “Do I want it?”. The answer for both of this games is a very solid “Yes”.
But now, I am asking myself “If I buy this game, what games in my collection will I not play?” For example New Angeles has been favourably compared to Battlestar Galactica – a game I love and don’t get the chance to play enough. The Thing would no doubt take the table from other cooperative games in my collection. Do I really want to spend money on new games that will only result in my playing existing much-loved games even less?
So much as I love the idea of these games, I think I will be giving them a pass for now. Even though Elijah Wood does such an excellent job at selling it.
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I’ve heard that, due to intellectual property issues, The Thing may not come to the UK anyway, except as a grey and very expensive import. Which may make the decision-making easier.
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Wow, that would be quite the shame if that was the case. But then intellectual property does often ruin fun for the rest of us.
Of course, if *you* want to buy either of these games, I’ll be happy to play them with you.
Long after the fact: I ended up giving in to New Angeles, and buying it. Very fun game, and I’m pleased I changed my mind.
On the other hand reports on The Thing suggest that it is not as fun as it looks, and some players feel constricted by the story.
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Expertise in Gout: HELP
Christoph R. Meier
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Basel Pharmacoepidemiology Unit, Division of Clinical Pharmacy and Epidemiology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Hospital Pharmacy, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland. · Division of General Internal Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland. · Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program, Boston University School of Public Health, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. · Basel Pharmacoepidemiology Unit, Division of Clinical Pharmacy and Epidemiology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Hospital Pharmacy, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program, Boston University School of Public Health, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA. · Pubmed 24728333
1Basel Pharmacoepidemiology Unit, Division of Clinical Pharmacy and Epidemiology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland 2Hospital Pharmacy, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland 3Division of General Internal Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland 4Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program, Boston University School of Public Health, Lexington, MA. · Pubmed 25968834
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Here are the titles of all articles written by Christoph R. Meier in 2010-2020 about Gout:
Association of hormone therapy and incident gout: population-based case-control study. 2015
Poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with a decreased risk of incident gout: a population-based case-control study. 2015
Use of diuretics and risk of incident gout: a population-based case-control study. 2014
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Sadayakko Through Artists’ Eyes - Part 2: The Second World Tour
The Kawakami troupe arrives in London in early June 1901 and opens at the Criterion in Piccadilly on June 18th. Georges Scott’s previous drawing from L’Illustration (see Part 1) reappears in the June edition of The Sphere to coincidence with their opening. Max Beerbohm rates Sadayakko above both Bernhardt and Réjane. The artist William Nicholson designs a woodblock print (later issued in lithographic form) of Sadayakko in "The Geisha and The Knight." F.D. Walenn's drawings of her performance in that play would appear the following year in The Studio.
Sada Yacco, from Twelve Portraits (Second Series) (c. 1901-1902) by William Nicholson
(chromolithograph after the original hand-colored woodcut)
Sada Yacco as Katsuragi in "The Geisha and The Knight,"
The Studio, Vol. XVI, No. 62 (April 1902) by F.D. Walenn
(color reproduction of drawings)
The Kawakami troupe's season in Paris at the Théâtre de l’Athénée begins on June 16, 1901. Their previous repertoire has been expanded to include The Merchant of Venice, The Shogun, and Kosan and Kinkoro (a Japanese version of La Dame aux Camélias). Sadayakko starts a kimono craze and licenses the right to use “Yacco” as a brand name for perfume, skin cream, candy, and a Westernized kimono for the everyday woman.
Advertisement for Kimono Sada Yacco (c. 1901)
Seventeen year old future actor Sacha Guitry drew Sadayakko while still in school. His drawing was confiscated by his teacher M. Minville but fortunately preserved.
Sadayakko by Sacha Guitry
Courtesy of Jean-Emmanuel Raux, www.autographe.com
(ink on paper)
Loie Fuller asked a young Pablo Picasso to design a poster of Sadayakko, although it is never commercially issued.
"La Danseuse Sada Yacco” (1901) by Pablo Picasso
(preparatory drawing)
Courtesy of Pieter C.W.M. Dreesman
(pastel for poster design)
“Sada Yacco” (1901) by Pablo Picasso
Courtesy of the Picasso Estate
(india ink and gouache)
Raymond Tournon designs posters of both Otojiro and Sadayakko. Rupert Bunny would again paint Sadayakko, this time in her mad scene from “The Shogun.” Although this painting is usually dated to Sadayakko’s 1907 Paris trip, the role depicted would suggest it was painted in 1901, since she is not known to have performed “The Shogun” on her return visit.
Otojiro Kawakami (1901) by Raymond Tournon
(lithographic poster)
Sada Yacco (c. 1901) by Raymond Tournon
Le Shogun (scéne de la folie) (c. 1901) by Rupert Bunny
Courtesy of the University of Queensland Art Museum
On November 10, 1901, the troupe sets off to Berlin by way of Holland. They perform in Berlin without a break for more than a month. Hirobumi Ito (Sadayakko's first geisha patron), now Prince Ito, having just finished his fourth stint as Prime Minister, is in Berlin to meet Kaiser Wilhelm II, and he meets Sadayakko at a reception held at the Japanese Legation. (He also made a point of seeing her perform in Paris.) She poises for portraits by Max Slevogt while in Berlin. The portrait of Sadayakko with her stepson Raikichi is dated by Sadayakko herself. It also contains a faint pencil sketch of the dancer in profile as a walking draped figure under the left Japanese brush characters. Slevogt created the second portrait of Sadayakko around the same time.
Portrait der Tänzerin Sadayakko mit ihrem Ziehson Raikichi (Portrait of the
Dancer Sadayakko with her foster son Raikichi) (December 20, 1901) by Max Slevogt
Sada Yakko (1901) by Max Slevogt
Courtesy of the Stiftung Saarländischer Kulturbesitz
Emil Orlik also meets Sadayakko in Berlin and draws her, calling her a “very talented Geisha.” In 1901, Orlik produces a black and white soft-ground etching with roulette of a “Japanische Schauspielerin” [Japanese Actress] which some scholars believe is Sadayakko. It was subsequently issued in color as the frontispiece to Orlik’s famous Aus Japon portfolio in 1904. However, to my eyes, it depicts an onnagata (a male actor playing a female role).
Porträt der Schauspielerin Sadayakko (December 12, 1901) by Emil Orlik
Courtesy of the Theatermuseum, Vienna
(charcoal and gouache on carton)
Japanische Schauspielerin (1901) by Emil Orlik
(soft ground etching with roulette)
Japanische Schauspielerin (#48/50), frontispiece to Aus Japan (1904) by Emil Orlik
(colored soft ground etching with roulette)
The Kawakimi troupe tours the rest of Germany until the end of January 1902. The King of Saxonia sees them in Dresden. King Otto of Bavaria sees them in Munich. The troupe arrives in Vienna at the beginning of February, and they perform at the State Opera House before Emperor Franz Josef. Gustav Klimt approaches Sadayakko and invites her to give a private performance for the members of the Vienna Succession but she is too tired to perform given her nightly schedule.
In Prague, Orlik sees Sadayakko and Otojiro perform “The Geisha and The Knight” and “Kesa,” and writes an article called “The Japanese Theater and Sada Yacco” for the February 15, 1902 edition of Prager Tagblatt. In Budapest, the troupe performs for Prince Ferdinand and Princess Marie, Queen Victoria’s granddaughter. While there, Jantyik Mátyás paints Sadayakko’s portrait.
Szada Yakko (c. February 28, 1902) by Jantyik Mátyás
From Budapest, the troupe travels to Cracow and then to St. Petersburg, where Russian men would cover the ground with their dark overcoats for Sadayakko to walk over. Otojiro and Sadauakko are invited to the Winter Palace and are presented to Czar Nicholas II. After visiting Moscow, they travel to Italy by way of Germany. The troupe was originally going on to Vladivostok on their way back to Japan, but they extended their contract with Fuller for another six months.
In Rome, Sadayakko makes the acquaintance of Hisako Oyama, the wife of the Japanese ambassador. Giacomo Puccini had for some time been following the troupe’s progress with interest. He was writing an opera based on David Belasco’s play Madame Butterfly and wanted to meet Sadayakko but arrives in Rome on March 16 and just misses her. The troupe continues on to Naples, Florence, Livorno, Genoa, and Turin, arriving in Milan on April 25, 1902. Puccini is finally able to Sadayakko perform in Milan. He incorporates music that she played on the koto in “Kesa” into his opera Madama Butterfly, and fleshes out elements of Butterfly’s character based on her performance in “The Geisha and The Knight.” He also decides to cut an entire act out of his opera because he admired the speed and compactness of the Kawakami troupe’s plays.
Next stop on the tour is Venice, where Sadayakko impresses the artist Paul Klee. In May, the Kawakamis arrive in Barcelona, where Picasso renews his friendship with the couple. Both are sketched by Ramon Casas, who also paints Sadayakko’s portrait.
Otojiro Kawakmai (1902) by Ramon Casas
Courtesy of the Institute del Teatre, Centre Documentació i Museu de les Arts Escèniques
(charcoal drawing)
Sada Yacco (1902) by Ramon Casas
Courtesy of the Museu Nactional d'Art de Catalunya
(charcoal, sepia lead, and pastel on laid paper)
Courtesy of the Museo del Modernismo de Barcelona
In Portugal, Celso Hermínio draws her for Comércio do Porto Ilustrado. Thereafter, they travel to Toulouse, Marseilles, Lyons, Antwerp, Brussels, and back to London. A French journalist reported that the troupe earned a million francs on the tour. They set sail for Japan on July 4th and arrive in Kobe on August 19, 1902.
Sada Yacco (1902), illustration for Comércio do Porto Ilustrado by Celso Hermínio
(also reproduced in Parodia (1902) as "Sada Yacco em Lisboa"
For more about the life and career of Sadayakko, I recommend Lesley Downer’s “Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West” (Gotham Books 2003), the source of most of the biographical information in this series of posts.
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Ways to Work - Mapping the UK’s commuting choices
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How do you usually travel to work? Question 41 in the last UK Census asked employed people to indicate which mode of transport they used for the longest part of their usual journey to work. In combination with information about participants’ home and workplace, this resulted in a dataset of travel-to-work patterns
The Census documents approximately 2.4 million trips between respondents’ homes and workplaces generalised at so-called Middle Layer Super Output Areas (MSOAs), a statistical unit that geographically organises the Census outputs. Due to slightly different approaches to the Census, this data is only available for England and Wales.
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The resulting geographic patterns of these work-related interactions show the dominating commuting patterns. In a normal map (shown above), this draws a picture of the geographic distribution of towns and cities as the main destination of commuters in a cobweb of commuter belts that surround these places. London dominates this map, from where sub-centres are concentrically spread out, before the larger cities in the other regions take over the main commuter travels.
The larger cartogram pictured below re-imagines these patterns by providing a population-weighted perspective of people’s ways to work. This and the individual maps later on are gridded population cartograms where each area is proportional to the number of people who live there, with the larger map below combining major modes of transport, giving the dominating mode in each area most prominence.
The following smaller cartograms dissect these different journeys into (from the top) driving, buses, cycling and walking. In order to declutter the myriad of flows in the data, connections of below 25 journeys between two different MSOAs are filtered out entirely, and lower magnitude connections are generally shown in thinner lines than more frequently mentioned flows. This makes it possible to see which connections dominate where.
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Driving dominates widely in rural to urban commuting flows. But it is interesting to observe that outside London driving dominates work journeys extensively, even in the denser populated urban areas of the Midlands and the North. Commuting by train and metro (as shown in the large map) is more dominant in London. The most common non-individual transport across England and Wales within the most densely populated areas are bus journeys. And while walking is a common occurrence for shorter ‘commutes’ in many central locations, cycling patterns are more common only in the relatively smaller towns and cities (apart from London). Places such as Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol or York display some observable cycle commutes, whereas in larger areas they appear less noticeable, even when the focus is put on the most densely populated less-rural areas.
Recent debates about the impact of individual transport on the environment and on people’s health has started to make people rethink their transport choices. Yet, changing behaviour also requires measures to encourage people to switch. Better and safer cycleways, and more reliable and affordable trains outside the capital area are needed if we want to see some of these patterns change in future Censuses.
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Category Archives: Cannes
Set in a brilliantly recreated 1950s Rio de Janeiro, The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao revolves around two inseparable sisters, 18 and 20 years old, living restricted lives with their conservative parents. However, each nourishes a passionate dream: Eurídice of becoming a renowned pianist; Guida of finding true love. In a shocking turn of events, they are separated and forced to live apart. Karim Aïnouz’s first film, MADAME SATÃ, a Jean Genet-inspired story of 1930’s Rio’s drag demi-monde, premiered at Film Forum in 2003. INVISIBLE LIFE shares with it this director’s commitment to immersing himself in the emotional lives of his characters, visualized through rich, inventive, and lush imagery. Based on Martha Batalha’s popular novel The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão, the film won the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. INVISIBLE LIFE is nominated for Best International Film at the 2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards and is Brazil’s official submission to the 2020 Academy Awards® for Best International Film. Director and co-screenwriter joins us to talk about his razor-sharp, wrenching story of patriarchy, fierce determination and love in a time and place where gender mattered more than family.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-12-20-19%20Ainouz%20-%20Invisible%20Life.mp3
About the filmmaker: Karim Aïnouz was born in Fortaleza, Brazil in 1966. He studied architecture in Brasilia and film at New York University. He was assistant director to Todd Haynes, worked on over 20 films as an editor and has been directing his own films since 1992. In 2014 his film Praia do Futuro screened in the Berlinale Competition, and he was one of the directors of Cathedrals of Culture (also 2014). Selected filmography: Madame Satã (2002), Love for Sale (2006), The Silver Cliff (2011), Futuro Beach (2014), Central Airport THF (2017), The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão (2019).
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“RAVISHING. A waking dream, saturated in sound, music and color to match its depth of feeling. Aïnouz has made both a testament to the resilience of women in a society stacked against them…as well as a stirring celebration of the families we create when the ones we’re born into fall away.” – Guy Lodge, Variety
“GORGEOUS. A haunting drama that quietly celebrates the resilience of women… by turns seductive and sorrowful, tender and raw.” – David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
“This is an absolutely gorgeous film that starts off as a sort of Rio fairytale and then turns into something a little more realistic with its feet on the ground.” – Amy Nicholson, FilmWeek
“It’s a drama of resilient women, thoughtless men and crushingly unrealized dreams, told with supple grace, deep feeling and an empathy that extends in every direction.” – Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
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Atlantics, Director Mati Diop
Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, ATLANTICS marks the feature narrative debut of director Mati Diop. Along the Atlantic coast of Africa, a soon-to-be-inaugurated futuristic tower looms over a suburb of Dakar. Ada, 17, is in love with Souleimane, a young construction worker. But she has been promised to another man. One night, Souleimane and his co-workers disappear at sea. Soon after, they come back to haunt their old neighbourhood by taking possession of the girlfriends they left behind. Some of the workers have come claiming revenge and threaten to burn the tower down if the developer does not pay their wages. But Souleiman has come back for Ada, so they can be together one last time. Director and writer Mati Diop joins us for a conversation on her compelling new film, finding love, and the mythology of a ghost story.
About the filmmaker: Trained in Le Fresnoy (National Studio of Contemporary Arts – a leading and very selective French artistic institution), Mati Diop directed four shorts and a medium-length film which received the “Martin E. Segal – Emerging Artist Award” of the Lincoln Center (USA) in 2016. A THOUSAND SUNS (2013), BIG IN VIETNAM (2011), SNOW CANON (2010) and ATLANTIQUES (2009) were selected and awarded in a wide number of international festivals such as the Venice International Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Viennale, The Indie Lisboa International Film Festival, and the FID Marseille. They were also programmed in the MoMA and in the Moving Image Museum (USA). As an actress, Mati Diop played in HERMIA Y HELENA by director Matias Piñeiro (2015), FORT BUCHANAN by Benjamin Crotty (2014), SIMON KILLER by Antonio Campos (2012) and 35 SHOTS OF RHUM by Claire Denis (2008).
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-11-15-19%20Diop%20-%20Atlantics.mp3
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“This shape-shifting Senegalese drama is pure cinematic poetry. Slipping in and out of modes with a magician’s confidence, Atlantics is mysterious and mythic, with a wizardly use of sound and some unforgettable images.” – ★★★★★ The Telegraph – Tim Robey
“A striking work, with a lyrical, richly evocative ghost story. Exquisitely shot by Claire Mathon and lushly scored by Fatima Al Qadiri, the film pulls together some exceedingly strong components.”– The Hollywood Reporter – Leslie Felperin
“Constantly intriguing, Atlantics is an intense romance notable for the craft of the filmmaking and Diop’s original approach to complex issues of love, loss and the forces for change that can rise from the ashes of tragedy.” – Screen International – Allan Hunter
“A gorgeous, mesmerizing feature directorial debut. Atlantics is an absorbing, otherworldly vision of an alienated seaside life in Dakar.” – IndieWire – Eric Kohn
“A romantic and melancholy film, part social commentary, part ghost tale, that works best in its evocation of loss and female solidarity.” – Variety – Jay Weissberg
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Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, Co-directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice is a love song to one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves, Linda Ronstadt. She burst onto the 1960s folk rock music scene in her early twenties as the lead singer of the Stone Poneys, Ronstadt eventually branched out to begin her decades long career as a solo artist, touring the world selling out stadiums and, at one point, setting the record as the highest paid female artist in rock. Most remarkable to this day is her interest in and willingness to jump into new and challenging styles of music, including opera, jazz, and Mexican folk, excelling fantastically with each. Ronstadt has also been an outspoken political advocate for causes such as same-sex marriage and the inhumane treatment of undocumented immigrants, never shying away from fighting for what she believes both on and off the stage. Oscar-winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (The Times of Harvey Milk, The Celluloid Closet, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, Howl, Lovelace and End Game) use deep-cut archival footage, and Ronstadt’s own astute recollections, to celebrate an artist whose desire to do justice to the songs that touched her soul made generations of fans fall in love with her – and with the sound of her voice. Co-directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman join us to talk about a remarkable singer /artist and an even better person.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-9-6-19bEpstein%20and%20Friedman%20-%20Linda%20Ronstadt.mp3
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“She shows herself to be one of its indispensable interpreters, as a vocalist and also as a thinker – covering a sprawling landscape with elegance, passion and insight.” – A.O. Scott, New York Times
“It captures the life and career of a rock ‘n’ roll star who never looked back, never apologized, never compromised.” – Owen Gleiberman, Variety
“Astutely chronicling an amazing musical career that ended prematurely due to Parkinson’s disease, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice will delight the singer’s old fans and likely make her many new ones as well.” – Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
“An excellent retrospective and celebration of Ronstadt’s trailblazing career.” – Sophia Stewart, Nonfics
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Give Me Liberty, Director Kirill Mikhanovsky
GIVE ME LIBERTY is based on his personal experience as a medical transport driver and an immigrant, director Kirill Mikhanovsky, with writer Alice Austen, create a raw feature film about the comedy and heartbreak of people in the underprivileged communities living in a struggling American city. Medical transport driver Vic (newcomer Chis Galust) is running late, but it’s not his fault. Roads are closed for a protest, and no one else can shuttle his Russian grandfather and his emigre friends to a funeral. The new route uproots his scheduled clients, particularly Tracy (Lauren “Lolo” Spencer in a breakout performance), a vibrant young woman with ALS. As the day goes from hectic to off-the-rails, their collective ride becomes a hilarious, compassionate and intersectional portrait of American dreams and disenchantment. The characters in GIVE ME LIBERTY are drawn from the people of Milwaukee – they’re magnificently diverse and their struggle to survive is desperate, contradictory, funny and moving. Director Kirill Mahanovsky joins us for a spirited conversation on working with a cast of mostly non-professional actors, drawing upon his own work history for the story behind the film and the importance of making Give Me Liberty in his adopted hometown of Milwaukee.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-8-30-19%20Mikhanovsky%20-%20Give%20Me%20Liberty.mp3
For news, screenings and updates go to: givemelibertyproductions.com
About the filmmaker: Russian-born Kirill Mikhanovsky grew up in Moscow where his early passion for cinema compelled him to skip school and go to the movie theatre across the street from his home where, often as the only person in the house, he watched countless films. After the Soviet Union collapsed, Mikhanovsky immigrated to Milwaukee, where he had a series of odd jobs, including driving medical transport for people with disabilities, and began making films. After graduating from NYU Film School, Mikhanovsky went on to make films in the US, Brazil, Russia, and South America. A Sundance Alum, his first feature SONHOS DE PEIXE won the Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival.
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“Completely, delightfully unpredictable from scene to scene, ‘Give Me Liberty’ draws you in with its moving performances and blasts of broad comedy.” – Manohla Dargis, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“A wonderfully anarchic dark comedy, which deftly welds its frenetically farcical structure to a humanistic portrait of marginalized communities thrown together.” – David Rooney, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“Lyrical and touching. It’s a journey worth taking.” – Tim Grierson, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
“Establishes writer-director Kirill Mikhanovsky as a major talent.” – Eric Kohn, INDIEWIRE
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, Director Stanley Nelson
Acclaimed filmmaker and recipient of the MacArthur Program Fellow Fellowship Stanley Nelson takes us on a journey through the life of a musical giant in his latest documentary film MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL. Miles Davis was many things including a horn player, bandleader, innovator. He was elegant, intellectual, vain, callous, conflicted, controversial, and mercurial. Miles Davis was also embodiment of cool. The man with a sound so beautiful it could break your heart. The central theme of Miles Davis’s life was his restless determination to break boundaries and live life on his own terms. It made him a star. For the people who loved him most, it also made him incredibly difficult to live with. Again and again, in music and in life, Miles broke with convention—and when he thought his work came to represent a new convention, he changed it again. Miles’s bold disregard for tradition, his clarity of vision, his relentless drive, and constant thirst for new experiences made him an inspiring collaborator to fellow musicians and a cultural icon to generations of listeners. It made him an innovator in music—from bebop to “cool jazz,” modern quintets, orchestral music, jazz fusion, rock ’n’ roll, and even hip-hop. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, studio outtakes, and rare photos, MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL tells the story of a truly singular talent and unpacks the man behind the horn. Director and producer Stanley Nelson joins us to talk about the life and times of a music genius and the uncompromising life he led.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-8-30-19%20Nelson%20-%20Miles%20Davis.mp3
For news, screenings and updates go to: milesdavismovie.com
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool – Landmark Theatre on Pico Blvd with a Q&A featuring Director Stanley Nelson, Friday 8/30 and Saturday 8/31 – 7:10 PM screening and Sunday 9/1 – 4:10 PM screening
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“You’ll want to listen to Miles’ music after watching the film and, when you do, you might feel it a little deeper.” – Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times
“Miles Davis – The Birth of Cool is a must see for anyone, anywhere in any lane of life that has an infinite love of music. Especially jazz. Stanley Nelson’s best work to date pulling back the curtain on an underrated musical Picasso – Miles Davis” – Carla Renata, The Curvy Film Critic
“While previous books and films made Miles Davis look like a magical character, Nelson’s ‘Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool’ depicts the musician as what he was – a man who was driven by his art and chained by the racist society he was born into.” – Jonita Davis, Black Girl Nerds
“If you’re a Miles Davis fanatic from way back and think you already know everything about him, the movie, with its sharply edited interviews and stunning archival reach, fills in nuances of the man that feel fresh and new.“ – Owen Gleiberman, Variety
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Phil, Director Greg Kinnear
Directed by Academy Award nominated actor Greg Kinnear (As Good as It Gets, Little Miss Sunshine, The Matador) with an outstanding cast that includes; Emily Mortimer (Mary Poppins Returns), Luke Wilson (Bottle Rocket, Meadowland), Bradley Whitford (Get Out, West Wing), Jay Duplass (Beatriz at Dinner, Landline), Robert Forster (Jackie Brown, The Descendants), and Kurt Fuller (Midnight in Paris, Auto Focus). PHIL is the story of a depressed dentist whose life is falling apart. Phil is shocked when one of his patients, Michael Fisk (Bradley Whitford), a man who seemed to have the perfect life, kills himself. Determined to find out what would drive a man who had everything to end his life, Phil pretends to be a handyman and integrates himself in to the dead man’s life, befriending his wife (Emily Mortimer) and daughter. How long can Phil keep up this double life when he is determined to end his normal one? Director and lead actor Greg Kinnear joins us to talk about the challenges and rewards of a first-time director, finding the humanity in a story of personal tragedy and working with an incredibly talented group of artists.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-7-5-19%20Kinnear%20-%20Phil.mp3
For news and updates go to: bronstudios.com/productions/phil
PHIL screens in Los Angeles July 5 – 11 at the Arena Cinelounge.
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“Greg Kinnear combines acting with directing in a role that exudes nice-guy-ness that few other performers can duplicate as well.” – Shockya.com
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Babylon, Writer Martin Stellman
Never before released in the US, Franco Rosso’s incendiary BABYLON had its world premiere at Cannes in 1980 but was deemed “too controversial, and likely to incite racial tension” (Vivien Goldman, Time Out) by the New York Film Festival that same year. Raw and smoldering, it follows a young reggae DJ (Brinsley Forde, frontman of landmark British group Aswad) in Thatcher-era Brixton as he pursues his musical ambitions, while battling fiercely against the racism and xenophobia of employers, neighbors, police, and the National Front. Written by Martin Stellman (QUADROPHENIA) and shot by two-time Oscar® winner Chris Menges (THE KILLING FIELDS) with beautiful, smoky cinematography that’s been compared to TAXI DRIVER, BABYLON is fearless and unsentimental, yet tempered by the hazy bliss of the dancehall set to a blistering reggae, dub, and lovers rock soundtrack featuring Aswad, Johnny Clarke, and others, anchored by Dennis Bovell’s (The Slits) atmospheric score. BABYLON is the product of outsiders: director Rosso (1941-2016) immigrated from Italy as a child, Stellman is the son of Viennese Jewish immigrants, producer Gavrik Losey is the son of blacklisted Hollywood director Joseph Losey, and composer Bovell immigrated from Barbados, and was falsely imprisoned for running a sound system—the script was partly based on his experiences. Beyond the significance of being the only feature film about London’s sound system scene, BABYLON unflinchingly observes the place of marginalized people in a society resistant—to the point of violence—to multiculturalism. Writer Martin Stellman joins us to talk about the impact that Babylon had on the Caribbean diaspora living in London, the neo-realism style of the film and winding path that Babylon has taken over the last 40 years.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-3-22-19%20Stillman%20-%20Babylon.mp3
For news and updates go to: kinolorber.com/film/Babylon
100% on Rotten Tomatoes
“A STORY WITH LITERALLY EPIC STAKES. It’s no surprise why the film may resonate now—its themes of finding community through art and trying to exist in a society that doesn’t want you are unfortunately both timeless and extremely current.” – Jaya Saxena, GQ
“REMARKABLE. Never lets go for a moment.” – Derek Malcolm, The Guardian
“FEARLESS. Loud and musical and cheerful and funny, and also tragic.” – David Robinson, The Times“EXPLODES IN THE GUT with a powerful mix of pain and pleasure. Like the reggae music that pulses through it, Babylon is RICH, ROUGH and REAL. And like the street life of the young black Londoners it portrays, it’s THREATENING, TOUCHING, VIOLENT and FUNNY.” – Simon Perry, Variety
“FIVE STARS. One of the greatest British films.” – MOJO
“REVOLUTIONARY.” – Miguel Cullen, The Independent
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Birds of Passage, Co-directors Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego
From the Oscar nominated team behind the genre-defying Embrace of the Serpent, comes an equally audacious saga centered on the Wayúu indigenous people during a crucial period in recent Colombian history. Torn between his desire to become a powerful man and his duty to uphold his culture’s values, Rapayet (José Acosta) enters the drug trafficking business in the 1970s and finds quick success despite his tribe’s matriarch Ursula’s (Carmiña Martínez) disapproval. Ignoring ancient omens, Rapayet and his family get caught up in a conflict where honor is the highest currency and debts are paid with blood. A sprawling epic about the erosion of tradition in pursuit of material wealth, Birds of Passage is a visually striking exploration of loyalty, greed, and the voracious nature of change. Co-directors Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego join us for a conversation on their beautifully crafted mix of drug-trade epic and intimate family saga.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-2-15-19%20Guerra%20and%20Gallego%20-%20Birds%20of%20Passage.mp3
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2019 Sundance Film Festival Selection – Spotlight Program
OSCAR® SHORTLIST – Best Foreign Language Film – Colombia
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Reviews: 93% on Rotten Tomatoes
“Harrowing in its repetitive violence, but never less than fascinating as a piece of ethnology, with magic-realist dimensions, that amounts to an origin story of the Latin American drug trade. It’s an extraordinarily accomplished piece of filmmaking.” – Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
“Imagine “The Godfather” made by dazzling Latin American directors who combine bravura filmmaking with political awareness and a probing social conscience.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
“Three viewings in, I’m still flabbergasted by the scope and detail of this movie … and in awe of the way its unique cover version of a crime-doesn’t-pay story totally pays off.” – David Fear, Rolling Stone
“The ease and charisma of the performers, trained and nonprofessional actors alike, heighten the emotional impact.” – A.O.Scott, New York Times
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Capernaum, Director Nadine Labaki
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Nadine Labaki’s CAPERNAUM (“Chaos”) tells the story of Zain (Zain al Rafeea), a Lebanese boy who sues his parents for the “crime” of giving him life. CAPERNAUM follows Zain, a gutsy streetwise child as he flees his negligent parents, survives through his wits on the streets, takes care of Ethiopian refugee Rahil (Yordanos Shiferaw) and her baby son, Yonas (Boluwatife Treasure Bankole), being jailed for a crime, and finally, seeks justice in a courtroom. CAPERNAUM was made with a cast of non-professionals playing characters whose lives closely parallel their own. Following her script, Labaki placed her performers in scenes and asked them to react spontaneously with their own words and gestures. When the non-actors’s instincts diverged from the written script, Labaki adapted the screenplay to follow them. While steeped in the quiet routines of ordinary people, CAPERNAUM is a film with an expansive palette: without warning it can ignite with emotional intensity, surprise with unexpected tenderness, and inspire with flashes of poetic imagery. Although it is set in the depths of a society’s systematic inhumanity, CAPERNAUM is ultimately a hopeful film that stirs the heart as deeply as it cries out for action. Director and writer Nadine Labaki joins us for a conversation on her impassioned new film and how CAPERNAUM changed her and many of the cast and crew from this multi-award winning film.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-1-11-19%20Labaki%20-%20Capernaum.mp3
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Winner, Grand Jury Prize
Winner, Prix de la citoyenneté
Winner, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Nominated, Palme d’Or
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“It’s a scathing commentary on the effects of poverty, the failure to properly respond to refugee crises, and simple human decency populated by those struggling just as much as the next yet have also crossed a line they cannot return from.” – Jared Mobarak, Film Stage
“It’s a deeply assured piece of direction, and though it only plays a few emotional notes, they are ones that won’t soon leave your memory. Prepare to be blown-away.” – Emily Yoshida, New York Magazine / Vulture
“A social-realist blockbuster – fired by furious compassion and teeming with sorrow, yet strewn with diamond-shards of beauty, wit and hope.” – Robbie Collins, Daily Telegraph
“Can favorably be compared to everyone from De Sica to Truffaut to ‘Slumdog Millionaire.’ A stunning piece of cinema.” – Pete Hammond, Deadline
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’63 Boycott, Director Gordon Quinn
’63 Boycott is the award-winning film directed by Gordon Quinn, the co-founder of Kartemquin Films, and produced by Rachel Dickson and Tracye A. Matthews. ’63 Boycott revisits October 22, 1963, when more than 250,000 students boycotted the Chicago Public Schools to protest racial segregation. Many marched through the city calling for the resignation of School Superintendent Benjamin Willis, who placed trailers, dubbed ‘Willis Wagons,’ on playgrounds and parking lots of overcrowded black schools rather than let them enroll in nearby white schools. Blending unseen 16mm footage of the march shot by Gordon Quinn when he was just 21 years old with the participants’ reflections today, ’63 Boycott connects the forgotten story of one of the largest northern civil rights demonstrations to contemporary issues around race, education, school closings, and youth activism. Director Gordon Quinn joins us for a conversation on his lacerating look at the historic non-violent campaign to win access to educational parity and basic human rights. ’63 Boycott is an overview of how much Chicago has changed and how much remains the same.
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Winner – Best Short Documentary Award at the 2018 Nashville Film Festival
Winner – Audience Award at the 2018 Pan African African Film Festival.
Winner – Best Short Documentary at the Berlin Black International Cinema Exhibition
Winner – Best Short Documentary Roxbury International Film Festival
Winner – Best Short Documentary Adrian International Film Festival
Winner – Best Short Documentary Montreal International Black Film Festival
Winner – Jury Citation Award at the Black Maria Film Festival.
** ‘63 Boycott is one of 10 short documentaries to advance as a contender for Best Documentary Short at the 2019 Academy Awards.
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Monrovia, Indiana – Director Frederick Wiseman
Located in mid-America, MONROVIA, INDIANA, (population 1,063) founded in 1834, is primarily a farming community. MONROVIA, INDIANA is about the day-to-day experiences living and working in Monrovia, with emphasis on community organizations and institutions, religion and daily life in this farming community. These towns were once the backbone of American life. While their number and populations have shrunk, the importance of rural America as a formative center of American politics and values was demonstrated in the 2016 presidential election. The film explores the conflicting stereotypes and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity and authenticity are formed, experienced and lived. MONROVIA, INDIANA gives a complex and nuanced view of daily life in Monrovia and provides some understanding of a rural, mid-American way of life that has always been important in America but whose influence and force have not always been recognized or understood in the big cities on the east and west coasts of America and in other countries. Since 1967, Frederick Wiseman has directed 42 documentaries — dramatic, narrative films that seek to portray ordinary human experience in a wide variety of contemporary social institutions. His films include TITICUT FOLLIES, HIGH SCHOOL, WELFARE, JUVENILE COURT, BOXING GYM, LA DANSE, BALLET, CENTRAL PARK, BALLET, LA COMEDIE FRANCAISE, BELFAST, MAINE, and EX LIBRIS – The New York Public Library. At the 2016 Academy Awards ceremony Frederick Wiseman received an Honorary Award (Governors Awards) for a lifetime of brilliant filmmaking. He joins us to talk about his latest cinematic treasure, Monrovia Indiana.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-11-2-18%20Wiseman%20Monrovia%2C%20Ind.mp3
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“He’s arguably the most brilliant, brave and innovative person working in his field.” – Terry Atkinson, Los Angeles Times
“Rigorously shot, impeccably edited and at times startling in their beauty, these films usher us into often otherwise anonymous spaces and lives, and help make the invisible visible.” – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
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“The result is surprisingly companionable and enjoyable, an unhurried look at a location that is in no kind of rush, a place that is concerned most of all with preserving the way it’s always been.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
“Legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman turns his camera on a pro-gun, pro-God Midwestern town and gives us a landmark view of what it looks like to live in Trump’s America.” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
“A calmly analytical film in which-as ever in Wiseman’s work-extended discussions and public debates are developed with an absorbing dramatic power.” – Richard Brody, New Yorker
“The unavoidable political implications of “Monrovia, Indiana” give its observations an undeniable urgency.” – A.O. Scott, New York Times
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Of Fathers and Sons, Director Talal Derki
Syrian-born filmmaker Talal Derki (Return to Homs) travels to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses primarily on the children, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up with a father whose only dream is to establish an Islamic caliphate. Osama (13) and his brother Ayman (12) both love and admire their father and obey his words, but while Osama seems content to follow the path of Jihad, Ayman wants to go back to school. Of Fathers and Sons was shot between Summer 2014 and September 2016. During that time, Talal Derki and Director of Photography, Kahtan Hasson, spent about 300 days with Abu Osama’s family. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for World Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, Of Fathers and Sons is a work of unparalleled access that captures the chilling moment when childhood dies and jihadism is born. Director Talal Derki joins us to talk about his own personal journey through a devastated country and a troubled society, looking for answers to desperate questions about the future of his country and the future of his own family’s need to flee into exile.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-11-16-18%20Derki%20-%20Of%20Fathers%20and%20Sons.mp3
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Winner – World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Winner – Filmmaker Award, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
“Of Fathers and Sons succeeds in transporting us behind “enemy” lines for a rare glimpse of a world that seems exotic and threatening” – Screen Daily
“A chilling look at extremism on its home front.” – The Film Stage
“Merely being present to bear witness to this side of the Syrian border would make “Of Fathers and Sons” well worth watching, but Derki is so scrupulous in what he reveals about how ingrained the beliefs of the Islamic jihadis are.” – Stephen Saito, Moveable Feast
“What makes the film all the more poignant is the fact that the children are, of course, despite all this, like kids anywhere else.” – Amber Wilkinson, Eye for Film
“An admirably audacious feat of documentarian access, Of Fathers and Sons is of obvious topical and anthropological interest as a glimpse into the gradual radicalization of young males and the deep community ties which underpin the process.” – Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter
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They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, Director Morgan Neville
Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom) tells the provocative story of legendary director Orson Welles during the final 15 years of his life. No longer the “wonder boy” of Citizen Kane, Welles in 1970 was an artist in exile looking for his Hollywood comeback with a project called The Other Side of the Wind. For years, Welles worked on his project about an aging film director trying to finish his last great movie. Welles shot the picture guerrilla-style in chaotic circumstances with a devoted crew of young dreamers, all the while struggling with financiers and fate. In 1985, Welles died, leaving as his final testament the most famous unfinished film in movie history. The negative stayed in a vault for decades until now. With revelatory new insights from Welles collaborators including Peter Bogdanovich, Frank Marshall, Oja Kodar and daughter Beatrice Welles, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead is the untold final chapter of one of the greatest careers in film history: brilliant, innovative, defiant and unbowed. Director Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom, Won’t You Me My Neighbor, Cool School) joins us for a conversation about his hurly-burly look at the making of a ragged masterpiece by cinema’s greatest auteur.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-11-2-18%20Neville%20-%20Theyll%20Love%20Me.mp3
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“The impeccably assembled production employs Neville’s virtuoso touch to provocative effect.” – Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times
“For cinephiles, it’s a high-calorie, clip-and-interview-laden feast of biography, insight, and gossip.” – Robert Abele, The Wrap
“Neville’s film may reveal little that hardcore Wellesians don’t already know. But it offers a lively evocation of the great man’s brilliance, waywardness and pained relationship to Hollywood history.” – Jonathan Romney, Screen International
“A fascinating account of an agonizing creative process.” – Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter
“A cinephiles’ delight.” – Kimberly Myers, The Playlist
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Shirkers, Director Sandi Tan
An inspired labor of love for zine-making (Exploding Cat) teens Sandi Tan, Jasmine Ng and Sophie Siddique, Shirkers was a Singapore-made 1992 cult classic—or it would have been, had the 16mm footage not been stolen by their enigmatic American collaborator Georges Cardona, who disappeared. More than two decades later, Tan, now a novelist in L.A., returns to the country of her youth and to the memories of a man who both enabled and thwarted her dreams. Magically, too, she returns to the film itself, revived in a way she never could have imagined. Shirkers made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018, where Sandi Tan received the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award, and went on to tour festivals all over the world, including True/False, HotDocs, CPHDOX, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Full Frame, San Francisco Intl. Film Festival, AFI Docs and more. Director Sandi Tan talks about her 25-year relationship with her friends, then and now, Exploding Cat and her thoughts on losing and then rediscovering a crucial part of her life.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-10-26-18%20Tan%20-%20Shirkers.mp3
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”Gloriously, gleefully idiosyncratic… vastly imaginative” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker
“Wildly delightful… teeming with incident and personality… No amount of caustic self-criticism from Tan can dampen the thrill of witnessing the vibrancy and bounteous energy of everything captured within the frame.” – Eric Hynes, Film Comment
“Enjoyably singular… an eccentric wonder to behold” – Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
“An exuberantly dreamy grrl-power-meets-noir crime story” – Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter
“Sandi Tan’s Shirkers may be the year’s most compelling grifter story” – Julia Felsenthal, Vogue (interview with Sandi Tan)
“Shirkers has the handmade delicacy of a scrapbook come to life… [Sandi Tan] has produced a remarkable statement on the formation of a creative identity across many years and life experiences.” – Eric Kohn, Indiewire
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Socrates, Director Alex Moratto
In the days following his mother’s sudden death, Socrates (Christian Malheiros), a 15-year-old living on São Paulo’s margins, faces the difficulties of surviving on his own and coming to terms with his grief. SOCRATES was produced with a crew of 16-20 year-olds from the Querô Institute, a UNICEF-supported project that provides social inclusion through filmmaking to underprivileged youths in the Baixada Santista region of São Paulo, Brazil. SOCRATES was also written by Thayná Mantesso a 20 year-old Brazilian screenwriter and graduate of the Querô Institute. SOCRATES was filmed with a micro-budget of under $20,000. Alex Moratto’s award-winning short films NOWHERE TO BE FOUND, THE PARTING and THE OTHER SIDE have screened at international film festivals. SOCRATES is Alex Moratto’s debut feature film. The film was produced by Ramin Bahrani (99 HOMES) and stars Christian Malheiros and Tales Ordakji. Director Alex Moratto joins us for a conversation on working with a young non-professionals, UNICEF and producing his debut feature film.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-9-21-18%20Moratto%20-%20Socrates.mp3
For news and updates go to: socratesfilm.com
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Bleeding Edge, Director Kirby Dick and Producer Amy Ziering
America has the most technologically advanced health care system in the world, yet preventable medical harm has become one of the leading causes of death, and the overwhelming majority of high-risk implanted devices never require a single clinical trial. In THE BLEEDING EDGE, Academy Award nominated filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering (THE INVISIBLE WAR, THE HUNTING GROUND) turn their sights on the $400 billion medical device industry, examining lax regulations, corporate cover-ups, and profit driven incentives that put patients at risk daily. Weaving emotionally powerful stories of people whose lives have been irrevocably harmed, the film asks: what life-saving technologies may actually be killing us? Director Kirby Dick and Producer Amy Ziering join us for a conversation on the lack of integrity in the medical device industry, lax regulatory oversight by the Federal Food and Drug Administration and the potentially deadly combination that it can become.
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“A terrifying eye-opener… Exposes the massive health problems caused by the $400 billion medical device industry. – The Hollywood Reporter
“You’ll wish [these interviews] were heard by every government official.” – The New York Times
“Enlightening… A shocking expose of the medical device industry… [with] unnerving immediacy.” – Indiewire
“Equally infuriating and enlightening… I yelled, ‘Oh, my God!’ multiple times while watching.” – Village Voice
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Letter from Masanjia, Director Leon Lee
Written and directed by internationally acclaimed filmmaker and Peabody Award winner, Leon Lee, LETTER FROM MASANJIA is an astonishing & riveting documentary follows the true story of an Oregon woman who finds a desperate SOS letter penned by a political prisoner in her Halloween decorations and the nail-biting chain of events that it sparks when she takes the letter public, exposing appalling flagrant human rights violations – that leads to sweeping labor reform in China. The impact of what those two unlikely heroes have accomplished is even more profound in today’s rapidly boiling over political climate, not just in China but around the rest of the world. LETTER FROM MASANJIA is a devastating tale of human rights violations in current day China with corporate giants across the globe receiving prisoner labor efforts for Halloween decorations, asking no questions in a price for pennies on the dollar. This is the tale of one political prisoners desperate plea to alert the world to horrors most of society sweeps under the carpet. Director and writer Leon Lee stops by to talk about the hundreds of thousands of people currently incarcerated in labor camps, and the millions more living in fear as well as the people resisting a totalitarian regime.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-9-14-18%20Lee%20-%20Letter%20from%20Masanjia.mp3
For news and updates goto: letterfrommasanjia.com
“Sun Yi’s stoicism is admirable and moving, but it’s his ex-wife Fu Ning’s tearful recollection of their separation that cements the story in your mind.” – Adam Keller, Film Threat
“‘Letter From Masanjia’ is a bracing reminder of our sometimes blindered approach to globalization and the effects of simple actions.” Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times
“It’s an important story, made more intense by its tight focus.” – Ken Jaworowski, New York Times
“A disquieting exposé of China’s human-rights abuses… The perseverance on show should leave viewers inspired to learn more.” – Lucy Liu, Georgia Straight
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Reversing Roe, Co-directors Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg
Forty-five years after it revolutionized abortion law in America, the landmark 1973 US Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade is once again at a crossroads. In their timely new documentary REVERSING ROE, filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg (THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK, MARATHON: THE PATRIOT’S DAY BOMBING) present a deeply illuminating look of the state of abortion and women’s rights in America. The film offers candid and riveting interviews with key figures from both sides of the divide, among them doctors Colleen McNicholas and Curtis Boyd; feminist icon Gloria Steinem; Operation Rescue president Troy Newman; and National Right to Life president Carol Tobias. Intense and unflinching in its commitment to telling the whole story, REVERSING ROE provides a gripping look at what’s happening on the ground in 2018. Drawing from a wealth of historical footage, it charts the period leading up to the Roe decision-and documents the opposition that has followed ever since. Regardless of where you stand on the issue of abortion, REVERSING ROE is essential viewing to understand how the country got here-and where it may be going. Co-directors Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg join us for an informed conversation on the long history and politics swirling around one of the country’s most divisive issues.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-9-14-18%20Sundberg%20and%20Stern%20-%20Reversing%20Roe.mp3
Laemmle Music Hall Theater
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Times:12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00pm
“As contentiousness turned into real-world consequences, “Reversing Roe” reminds us that the more women get involved regarding their rights, the more likely we’re to see a fair, principled fight.” – Robert Abele, Los Times
“Nothing new here but a good primer for those who never thought that politics has anything to do with their lives.” – Harvey S. Karten, Big Apple Reviews
“Solid and valuable but familiar.” – Caryn James, Hollywood Reporter
“Provides a clear and accessible overview of more than 50 years of the social and legal history of the issue in the United States.” – Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times
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We the Animals, Director Jeremiah Zagar
Us three. Us brothers. Us kings, inseparable. Three boys tear through their childhood, in the midst of their young parents’ volatile love that makes and unmakes the family many times over. While Manny and Joel grow into versions of their loving and unpredictable father, Ma seeks to shelter her youngest, Jonah, in the cocoon of home. More sensitive and conscious than his older siblings, Jonah increasingly embraces an imagined world all his own. With a screenplay by Dan Kitrosser and Jeremiah Zagar based on the celebrated Justin Torres novel, We the Animals is a visceral coming-of-age story propelled by layered performances from its astounding cast of Sheila Vand, Raul Castillo, and three talented, young first-time actors, Evan Rosado, Isaiah Kristian, Josiah Gabriel as well as stunning animated sequences which bring Jonah’s torn inner world to life. Drawing from his documentary background, director Jeremiah Zagar creates an immersive portrait of working class family life and brotherhood. Director and screenwriter Jeremiah Zagar joins us to talk about his gorgeous and ethereal tale of young boys struggling to find their own way in a tattered landscape of family and identity.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-8-24-18%20Zagar%20-%20We%20the%20Animals.mp3
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“Every once in a while a movie grabs you, unsuspecting, and hustles its way into your heart. Jeremiah Zagar’s “We the Animals” does that.” – Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
“On one level… “We the Animals” is a classic coming-of age tale; on another, it’s a near perfect depiction of the emotional damage that can result from economic insecurity” – Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times
“An impressionistic swirl of a film about masculinity, about abuse, about growing up queer, about chaotic family life, about the jumble of incidents and stirrings through which a child discovers a self. – Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice
“In every scene, We the Animals evokes not only the specificity of that world but the deep-seated challenges of escaping it.” – Eric Kohn, IndieWire
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The Rider, Actor Brady Jandreau
In the beautifully realized story of struggle and determination, young cowboy Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau), once a rising star of the rodeo circuit and an uniquely gifted horse trainer, is warned that his riding days are over after a horse badly crushed his skull at a rodeo and put him in a three-day coma. Back home on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, Brady struggles with the physical and emotional complications of the accident. He is comforted by his inimitable little sister Lilly (Lilly Jandreau), who has Asperger’s Syndrome, while tensions between him and his gambling father, Wayne (Tim Jandreau), approach a breaking point when Wayne resorts to selling Brady’s favorite horse to keep their trailer home. Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland of America. Lead actor Brady Jandreau talks about his journey from the rodeo to his portrayal of a fictionalized version of his own brush with death, depression, and recovery, and the thrill of working with family and friends in this celebrated film debut by award-winning (Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight, Best Picture) director/writer /producer Chloe Zhao (Songs My Brother Taught Me).
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-8-24-18%20Jandreau%20-%20The%20Rider.mp3
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“The Rider marries the majestic vistas of the greatest American westerns with a deeply interior story of a cowboy having to renegotiate his identity.” – Ben Croll, The Wrap
“It’s just plain excellent.” – Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
“A remarkable, deeply moving melding of fact and fiction.” – Jeffrey M. Anderson, San Francisco Examiner
“Filmmaker Chloé Zhao turns the story of real-life bronc rider Brady Jandreau into a gritty, graceful character study. Once The Rider hooks you – and believe me, it will – there’s no way you will ever forget it.” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
“One of the year’s most arresting and unforgettable films.” – Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
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Generation Wealth, Director Lauren Greenfield
For the past 25 years acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield has travelled the world, documenting with ethnographic precision and an artist’s sensitivity a vast range of cultural movements and moments. Yet, after so much seeking and searching, she realized that much of her work pointed at one uniting phenomenon: wealth culture. With her new film, Generation Wealth, she puts the pieces of her life’s work together for in an incendiary investigation into the pathologies that have created the richest society the world has ever seen. Spanning consumerism, beauty, gender, body commodification, aging and more, Greenfield has created a comprehensive cautionary tale about a culture heading straight for the cliff’s edge. Generation Wealth, simultaneously a deeply personal journey, rigorous historical essay, and raucously entertaining expose, bears witness to the global boom-bust economy, the corrupted American Dream and the human costs of capitalism, narcissism and greed. Emmy-award-winning photographer / filmmaker, Lauren Greenfield’s expansive artistry includes her monographs (Girl Culture, Fast Forward, THIN, Generation Wealth), and documentaries (THIN, kids+money, The Queen of Versailles). The Queen of Versailles won her the 2012 Best Documentary Director Award at Sundance Film Festival. Director Lauren Greenfield joins us to talk about her sweeping film and the damning indictment of a profligate world of depraved indifference, hell-bent on stockpiling pointless possessions.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-7-20-18%20Greenfield%20-%20Gen%20Wealth.mp3
For news and updates go to: generation-wealth.com
“[An] alarming film…” – Anthony Lane, New Yorker
“Through her dedication to other people’s lives, and with such open-book storytelling of her own, Greenfield is able to make a stunningly deeply resonant documentary about notions as seemingly obvious as the value of love over wealth itself.” – Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com
“Greenfield makes a compelling argument for a society on the brink of precipitous decline, choosing to interpret the runaway vanity and rampant materialism observed in her own work as harbingers of our imminent destruction.” – Peter DeBruge, Variety
“This personal approach gives the film a sharp intimacy, and from here Greenfield pulls out to reveal how similar patterns are reshaping lives and families the world over.” – Nikki Baughan, Screen International
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Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts, Director Mouly Surya
In the deserted hills of an Indonesian island, Marlina, a young widow, is attacked and robbed of all her livestock by a gang of seven bandits. She then defends herself, setting out on a journey to find justice, empowerment, retribution and redemption. But the road is long, especially when she begins to be haunted by the ghost of her victim. A stunning ‘Scope western set to a Morricone-inspired score, this unique tale of female cinematic revenge takes no prisoners. Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts, was directed by Indonesian-born Mouly Surya. This feminist revenge tale had its world premiere at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight. It opens nationwide, including Los Angeles at the Laemmle’s Monica Film Center on July 6, 2018. Mouly Surya is considered one of Indonesia’s most gifted filmmakers, Surya premiered her award-winning debut, Fiksi, at the Busan International FIlm Festival. Her second feature What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love had its world premiere at Sundance and went on to many festivals including Karlovy Vary and Rotterdam, where it received the NETPAC Award. In addition to making films, she also teaches directing. Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts, is her third film. Mouly Surya joins us to talk about her elegant allegory on revenge, justice and self-determination.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-7-6-18%20Surya%20-%20Marlina.mp3
For news and updates go to: kimstim.com/marlina
Selected Awards & Film Festivals
Winner, Grand Prize, Tokyo FilmEX
Winner, Best Actress, Sitges Cataonian Film Festival
Winner, Best Picture, QCinema International Film Festival
Winner, Special Mention, Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival
Winner, NETPAC Award, Five Flavors Film Festival
Winner, Best Film, Best Actress, Best Camera,
Best Score and Best Art Direction, Maya Awards
“Simmering with righteous fury.” — Variety
“AN UNWAVERING SLOW BURN… Ms. Surya gives Marlina a stark, steady, captivating look that keeps you engaged.” —Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
“[Marlina] is, like so many classic gunslingers, a killer by circumstance, a desperado with an honorable cause.” – CinemaScope
“The feminist satay Western you need to see; satisfyingly deadpan, viciously vengeful and full of surprises. One of the most ravishingly beautiful films at Cannes.” – The Irish Times
“Going to be loved by arthouse audiences.” – Film Inquiry
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Bridget and Iain, Producer Diana C. Zollicoffer
A mother struggles to accept the man her adult son has become. Directed by Leah Patterson, Bridget and Iain is the story of a mother’s love for her adult son. Bridget, (Vivienne Powell) who tries to do everything ‘right’, learns the limits of her power to manage others. Her son Iain (Damian Sommerlad) is charming, funny, and at times kind. He’s also an addict. Worried sick, Bridget finally gets support to make the changes that need to happen. The film charts the shifting relationship between Bridget and Iain as it reaches crisis point. It’s about maturation, change, and the struggle of trying to help someone you love while possibly enabling the very behavior you see as destructive. Bridget and Iain will resonate with anyone who has experienced the impact of any form of addiction in their lives or who have family members with mental health problems, or challenging relationships. Bridget and Iain Producer Diana C. Zollicoffer brought together an all-female crew for the production. Zollicoffer has also produced the environmental/social justice documentary “Forgotten Bayou” numerous short films and web series including Schmoolie the Deathwatcher (winner of the 2015 San Antonio Film Festival). She recently directed the pilot episode of “Annny Minute Now” and assisted in developing the characters and storyline for the web series. She co-wrote “Free Agent: The Benjamin Brown Story” to be directed by Mykelti Williamson (Purge, Fences, Forest Gump), and has several projects that she is developing and two of which, with the intention to direct. Bridget and Iain recently screened at the Cannes Global Women of Color in Film Day and the Cannes Court Métrage Short Film Corner. Producer Diana C. Zollicoffer joins us to talk about her award winning new film.
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-5-25-18%20Zollicoffer%20-%20Bridget%20%26%20Iain.mp3
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Filmworker – Director Tony Zierra
Filmworker is an observation on how legends and legendary works are created. The complex, productive and interdependent relationship between Leon Vitali and Stanley Kubrick was founded on devotion, artistic passion, sensibility, sacrifice and the grueling joy of the creative process. It’s a rare person who would give up fame and fortune to toil in obscurity for someone else’s creative vision. Yet, that’s exactly what Leon Vitali did after his acclaimed performance as ‘Lord Bullingdon” in Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon. On the brink of a successful acting career, the young actor stepped back from the limelight in order to become the right-hand man to perhaps the most influential and ground-breaking filmmaker of his time, Stanley Kubrick. Vitali played a crucial part in the director’s career, working tirelessly in close collaboration with Kubrick in helping to make and maintain his extraordinary legacy of work. Vitali’s unique working relationship with Kubrick is explored through anecdotes about his candid, funny (and sometimes shocking) experiences with the director, enhanced with a rich variety of previously-unseen archival materials including photos, videos, letters and notebooks from Vitali’s personal collection, and brought together through interviews with actors, family, and key film industry professionals who worked with both Kubrick and Vitali. Filmworker. Director Tony Zierra joins us to talk about the creative process, Stanley Kubrick and his closest and most dedicated collaborator, Leon Vitali, who once described his own occupation simply as “Filmworker.”
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-5-18-18%20Zierra%20-%20Filmworker.mp3
For news and updates go to: kinolorber.com/film/filmworker
“Movie love at its purest. A celebration of its anonymous inhabitants’ role in bringing our collective dreams to life.” – Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
“Five stars! Tender. A revealing and stirring celebration of one of cinema’s unacknowledged heroes.” – Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian
“An arresting cinemaniac documentary. Pure candy for Kubrick buffs.” – Owen Gleiberman, Variety
“Revealing. A fascinating portrait of Stanley Kubrick’s devoted aide de camp. Honors the hard-working, often unacknowledged craftsmen in the film industry.” – Stephen Farber, The Hollywood Reporter
“Catnip to Kubrick obsessives.” – Tim Grierson, Screen Daily
“The ultimate fan story: a tale of what it means to live vicariously through a genius.” – Ben Kenigsberg, RogerEbert.com
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UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema – Paul Malcolm, FIlm Programmer
When UCLA Film & Television Archive launched its annual UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema in 1990, it was the first showcase for new Iranian films in the U.S. It has been a platform for exciting new voices in cinema as well as a dialogue to foster cultural understanding—and in that time Iranian filmmakers have moved to the forefront of the cinematic world. It has also been a barometer of global politics. In partnership with Farhang Foundation, this year’s UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema offers Los Angeles the chance to see a stellar lineup of new Iranian films that includes four Los Angeles premieres and three U.S. premieres, along with the revival of a modern classic. From fraught intimate relationships to big social issues, these expertly crafted films reveal the complexities – and universalities – of contemporary Iran. The annual celebration, now entering its 28th year, showcases the best in contemporary Iranian Cinema. Paul Malcolm is the film programmer for UCLA Film & Television Archive where he began in 2007. He was an associate programmer of feature and short films for the Los Angeles Film Festival 2006-2010. As adjunct faculty at Chapman University, he has taught classes on the history and aesthetics of 3D cinema and film reviewing at Chapman University. He was also assistant film editor and film critic for the LA Weekly from 1998-2006. Malcolm graduated from USC with a BA in journalism and he received his MA in Film Studies from UCLA. He is a Sundance Institute Arts Writing Fellow (2001).
http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/683/FS-4-27-18%20Malcolm%20-%20Iranian%20UCLA.mp3
WHAT: UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema sponsored by Farhang Foundation
All films originate from Iran and are in Persian or Azari with English subtitles.
WHEN: April 28 – May 19, 2018
WHERE: UCLA’s Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
TICKETS: Regular screenings: $10 general admission available here.
For news and updates go to: UCLA Celebration iranian Cinema
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What Doesn’t Kill You
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An Open Letter to Manny Pacquiao From a Gay Filipina American
"I feel too sad to celebrate your fights right now"
by Laurel Fantauzzo on May 17, 2012
Editor’s Note: Last week, after President Barack Obama endorsed same-sex marriage, Manny Pacquiao — the world champion boxer, Philippine congressman, and staunch Catholic — was asked for his opinion on the issue. He does not support gay couples’ right to get married, and early reports of his stance misquoted Pacquiao in a way that led readers to believe he had quoted an Old Testament passage that says homosexuals “must be put to death.” Pacquiao denies that he said those words, as does the author of the Examiner.com post that quoted him. He clarified his position on gay marriage in the Philippine press Thursday.
Dear Manny,
Hello, Kuya1 Manny. May I call you Kuya Manny? You feel like “Kuya” to me: Whenever you fight, my other Filipino American friends and I light up our Facebook feeds with pugilistic patriotism for our parents’ homeland. You feel like ours. Your wins are our wins.
But today my friends had a lot of names for you. “Bigot” and “idiot” were their favorites. I keep looking inside me for some anger at you, but, weirdly, I just can’t find it. Instead, I find that I just want to talk to you.
Well, Kuya Manny, I have to say, first: I’m glad it turns out that you don’t want me to die. I believe you when you say you haven’t read the Book of Leviticus yet.
But I have read Leviticus, Kuya. I’ve read it too many times. When I was in Catholic high school, and I couldn’t help but know, more and more, what I was, I’d page through it in secret. I’d page through that passage in the Book of Romans, too. And I’d look at the Corinthians verse you cited. I kept looking for those passages, hoping that maybe, somehow, magically, their verdict had changed when I looked away. But the verses didn’t change. So I repeated to myself what the verses meant — that I was condemned to death and/or a life alone. That I should be left outside of every good, lasting kind of intimacy. That I would never get the chance to make my own family, because I was different in a way that prevented me from getting to do so. Knowing this at age 16 made me feel OK about dying early. Knowing this at age 16 made me wonder if I should speed my own death along.
But like I said! You don’t want me to die for being gay! That’s good. I’m glad. (I hope you don’t change your mind about that when you finally do get around to reading Leviticus.)
I know, though, that you also don’t want me to be married. I know you think this is a perfectly reasonable, justified stand to take against me. You’re like a lot of Filipinos: Catholic. Powerfully, post-colonially Catholic. Catholic na Catholic.
I’ve stood in front of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo Church that you pray to after each fight, Kuya Manny. I’ve felt the power and the grace of it. I get it. I get why you look at the long-suffering statue and feel the vindication of your own brutal bouts. When you grow up Filipina — or Italiapina, as I did — your parents give you Catholicism as a kind of heavy gift. A centuries-old guide for every life transition a human can go through. Birth, death, the burden of any wrongdoing, and, yes, marriage. But as I grew older and realized the dreaded word applied to me — lesbian — I realized the Church was what I’d have to feint and duck; the Church’s cruel, untrue dictates about me were what I’d have to dance with and defeat.
I watched your last fight in a movie theatre in Manila, Kuya Manny. I watched it sitting between two other women who are like me. Oh, we winced and worried for you. We felt like we were at Mass, leaning forward and praying together with all the hushed Filipinos who watched you stagger and darken with bruises. We wanted you to win. Marquez looked stronger, but we wanted you to win. And when Michael Buffer declared you the winner, we got up and cheered and clapped for you. Because we love your story, Kuya. We don’t love what you say about us — we don’t love that you say we’ll be left out of the Kingdom of God for being gay. But we love that you grew from a poor, underweight little boy on the streets of General Santos City into a champion the world knows as Filipino.
But between your time in the ring, your time in Congress, your time at your game show, your time tending to the poor crowds who gather, palms out, wherever you are, hoping you’ll bless them with your wealth, I wonder if one question rings quietly inside of you: How did I survive?
It’s the same question that still rings inside of me, at age 28, 12 years removed from the moments when I thought I should speed along my own death, actualizing everything the Bible said I should endure for loving the way I love. When I faced Proposition 22, Proposition 8, DOMA, Amendment 1, and too many dictates from the Church, and relatives, and leaders like you, who called me disordered, dangerous, diseased, doomed, how did I survive?
I’ll tell you what helped me survive, Kuya. The team of friends, teachers, and family — even a priest! A Catholic priest! — who coached me that my need for partnership was as natural as your union with your wife. The barkada who put their hands on my shoulders in my own tough corners and taught me again and again this lesson: God did not intend for any of us to move through this life alone, gay or not.
And you know who I think about most, when I look back at this moment in the movie theater in Manila, Kuya? When I leaned forward and worried and prayed for your painful victory? I think about your wife. I think about your Jinkee. I think about how, fight after fight, she’s watched you from ringside. I think about how fiercely she still defends you — how you’ll probably have that defense for the rest of your life.
I don’t have a wife yet, Kuya, but I hope one day I will. And you know what? I hope my wife will be like Jinkee. I hope I’ll have a wife who will wait for me beyond the ropes as I step into whatever ring requires my own personal fight. I hope I’ll have a wife who forgivingly remains with me, in spite of any fits of un-Catholic disloyalty that may grip me. I hope I’ll have a wife who will tell everyone that she believes in my power, despite my ridiculous, laughable acts. I hope I will deserve that kind of wife. I hope I will be that kind of wife.
Kuya Manny, why would you deny this of me? In those quiet moments I imagine for you, when you ask yourself how you survived, I believe that your wife, more than anyone, is the one who helps to lessen the loneliness of your greatness. Ask yourself: Could you have survived all of this without her?
I’m glad I didn’t die, Kuya Manny, and that I survived to this day, when more people in my life decry you than support you for wanting to prevent my marriage in the name of some cold, removed Church and God. Every day I am amazed by the wealth of my survival. I’m as amazed as you must be, or have forgotten to be, about yours.
So I’m going to extend an invitation to you, Kuya Manny, that I don’t think a lot of gays would extend to you these days. I want to invite you to spend some time with me and my friends.
I want you to hear our love stories. I want you to eat with us. I want you to laugh with us. I want you to see our bruises. I want you to sing karaoke with us. I want you to see how we sing even though we’re bruised, too. I know there’s a better heart in you, Kuya Manny, that would beat with more than the repetitive ill will you bear toward us in the biblical abstract. If you spent some time with us — if you saw the specific sweetness that makes up our human pursuit of love and marriage — maybe you’d think, you’d feel, you’d change. The way my parents have changed toward me. The way my President has changed toward me. The way I’ve changed toward myself.
Kuya Manny, I want you to want me to win.
But maybe you never will. Maybe you’ll simply reopen your Bible, find those selective passages, and recite them to me again. Maybe I’ll simply have to sigh wearily and turn away from you, the way I’ve turned away from all of the idiotic bigots I’ve come across in my life, carrying a cross or a heavy book or a Constitution.
Either way, Kuya Manny. I feel too sad to celebrate your fights right now.
But my invitation is open to you.
I hope one day you’ll take it.
Sincerely, your ading,2
Laurel Fantauzzo
Laurel Fantauzzo was a 2011 Fulbright Scholar to the Philippines. She’s currently an Arts Fellow at the University of Iowa Master of Fine Arts in Nonfiction program. Ladies, she’s also currently single.
A Tagalog honorific that means “older brother” but is also used informally for male friends and acquaintances.
The Tagalog term for a younger sibling — the counterpart to kuya.
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West Midlands Speedo League Round 3, Leamington Spa - Saturday 9th December
Swimmers from Halesowen Swimming Club travelled to Leamington Spa for the final round of the 2006 Division 1 West Midlands Speedo League in the knowledge that any position higher than Leamington and Luton would secure 1st Division status into 2007. The team opened strongly and lay in second spot after the opening relay events but it took until the halfway mark for matters to settle down with Halesowen lying safely in third place - well ahead of the relegation rivals. The team finished the gala with a real flourish by winning all four of the final relays in some style to end the evening in third place and comfortably retaining their 1st Division place.
Individual first places came from Stephanie Hackett in the Backstroke and Breaststroke, Hannah Cuthbert and Louise Williams in the Butterfly and Harry Cowley and Michael Edmonds in the Freestyle. Both girls and boys age 15 and under relay teams proved unbeatable in both the Freestyle and Medley events with team members Josie Evans, Kimberley Mack, Roxanne Taylor, Laurence Hickin, Adam Jackson and Robert Smith. Members of the final Open Freestyle relay teams were Leanne Taylor, Matt Cherry, Greg George, Anthony Hackett, Jamie Roome and Jack Watts.
Final points scores were City of Derby A 207, Walsall 202, Halesowen 186, Leamington Spa 169, Camphill Edwardians 153 and Luton A 132.
West Midlands Speedo League Round 2, Stetchford - Saturday 11th November Ron Hooper Inter-County Trophy Gala, Wolverhampton – Sunday 12th November
Swimmers from Halesowen Swimming Club enjoyed a busy and successful two days over the weekend of 11th and 12th November. On Saturday the team were at Stetchford for the second round of the West Midlands Speedo League and finished in a close second place to Camphill Edwardians in a tight gala. Early contentious disqualifications proved costly putting the team 13 points behind by event 15 which came into play again at the halfway mark to leave the team 14 points behind in third spot. However, the team fought back magnificently to win half of the final dozen events to narrowly miss out on top spot by just 5 points.
Individual first places came from Emily Homer and Michael Edmonds in the Backstroke, Hannah Cuthbert in the Butterfly, Louise Williams, Harry Cowley and Laurence Hickin in the Freestyle, Stephanie Hackett and Robert Smith in the Breaststroke and Leanne Taylor in the Individual Medley. Both 15 and under girls and boys team pulled off Freestyle and Medley double wins with team members Josie Evans, Kimberley Mack, Roxanne Taylor and Conor Carey. The final mens Freestyle relay event was won in fine style by Matt Cherry, Nigel Gaskin, Greg George, Anthony Hackett, Andy Papworth and Jack Watts.
Final points scores were Camphill Edwardians A 199, Halesowen 194, Leamington Spa 185, Luton A 179, Bromsgrove 165 and Bilston 113.
The following day saw 4 swimmers from Halesowen Swimming Club represent Worcester County and 1 represent Staffordshire at the Ron Hooper Inter-County Trophy gala at Wolverhampton and all produced good performances for the team. Competing swimmers were Hannah Cuthbert, Josie Evans, Stephanie Hackett, Michael Edmonds, Laurence Hickin.
The Midland Long Course Championships, Coventry - Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th November
Thirteen swimmers took part in the Midland Long Course Championships at a cold Coventry and competed in a total of 52 events. The swimmers produced 8 top 8 junior placings, 1 top 8 Open place and took part in four finals. Congratulations go to Hannah Cuthbert 7th place in the Junior 200m Butterfly, Stephanie Hackett 4th place in the Junior 50m Butterfly and 6th place in the 50m Breaststroke, Michael Edmonds 2nd place in the junior 50m Backstroke and Jack Watts 8th place in the Open 1500m Freestyle.
West Midlands Speedo League Round 1, Worcester - Saturday 14th October
Senior swimmers travelled to Worcester for the first round of the 2006 Speedo League with a tough night in prospect. This proved to be the case with international swimmers in attendance leading to precious few wins during the evening. At the halfway mark the team found themselves in bottom spot by the slenderest of margins but slipped further as the gala progressed and ended the evening in sixth place.
Individual event winner was Laurence Hickin in the Butterfly with the double event winning relay team of Michael Edmonds, Laurence Hickin, Adam Jackson and Robert Smith. Second places came from Leanne Taylor in the Individual Medley, Stephanie Hackett in the Breaststroke and Laurence Hickin in the Freestyle.
Final point scores were Boldmere 199, Worcester 197, Chase 194.5, Trident 173.5, Braunstone 150 and Halesowen 133.
Worcester County Youth & Masters Sprints, Wolverhampton - Sunday 8th October
17 swimmers aged 14 and over travelled to Wolverhampton on Sunday 8th October to take part in the Worcester County Sprints competition and, like their 13 and under counterparts in September, enjoyed a very successful day. Swimmers completed 72 events with 37 of these in a top 3 placing. Quadruple event winners were Stephanie Hackett and Leanne Taylor, triple event winners Louise Williams and Laurence Hickin, double event winners Fraser Pressdee and Robert Smith and Backstroke winner Michael Edmonds. Particular mention goes to Michael Edmonds in the Backstroke and Fraser Pressdee in the Individual Medley for both producing competition best performances and 'B skins' winner Laurence Hickin.
Braunstone Sports Trophy Gala, Braunstone - Saturday 23rd September
Senior swimmers travelled to Braunstone via the scenic route for the Braunstone Sports Trophy Gala on Saturday 23rd September. The swimmers were in fine form and produced numerous PBs and tremendous wins in some very closely fought races. The team finished the gala in 4th place overall and look forward to the first round of the Speedo League at Worcester on 14th October.
Individual event winners were Leanne Taylor in the Individual Medley and Backstroke, Hannah Cuthbert and Laurence Hickin in the Butterfly and Rob Smith in the Breaststroke. The relay teams were in fine form with the girls 15 and under team of Hannah Cuthbert, Josie Evans, Stephanie Hackett and Roxanne Taylor running out as close winners with the boys 15 and under team of Michael Edmonds, Laurence Hickin, Adam Jackson and Rob Smith winning by an even closer margin. Both Open relay teams finished the gala in fine style with convincing wins from team-mates Louise Williams, Greg George, Anthony Hackett, Jamie Roome and Jack Watts.
Final points scores were Leicester Penguins 319, Walsall A 309, Braunstone A 301, Halesowen 285, Camp Hill 190, Market Harborough 177, Walsall B 127, Braunstone B 71.
Worcester County Junior Sprints, Wolverhampton - Sunday 17th September
28 swimmers aged 13 and under travelled to Wolverhampton on Sunday 17th September to take part in the Worcester County Sprints competition and enjoyed a very successful day. Swimmers completed 105 races with over half achieved in personal best times. Triple age group event winner was Hannah Cuthbert in the 4x1 Individual Medley, Butterfly and Backstroke with other event winners Bethany Jackson in the Freestyle and Richard Phillips in the Butterfly. Halesowen swimmers also produced five 2nd places and four 3rd places. Particular congratulations go to the girls "Skins" event winner Hannah Cuthbert.
World Biathle Championships, Salford Quays - Sunday 3rd September 2006
Stuart Geggie finished in 4th place at the World Biathle Championships. The event was held at Salford Quays Watersports Centre in Manchester on Sunday September 3rd. The event attracted entries from many countries including France, Holland, Czechoslovakia, and a strong team from South Africa. The race comprises a continuous run, swim, run and is organised into age groups from 11years to Masters 60 years and over. Stuart trains with Halesowen Swimming Club and Halesowen Athletic Club and was competing in the Masters A event. Stuart finished the first run in fifth place, moved up to fourth place during the swim, but was unable to improve further through the last run. France took first place, South Africa second, Sean Kinsey from the British team was third just ahead of team mate Stuart.
Halesowen Swimming Club Fun Biathlon – Sunday 2nd July
Nearly seventy family members, friends and local schools took part in the eighth Halesowen Swimming Club Fun Biathlon on Sunday 2nd July. The event started early on Sunday morning with the fun run taking place at the Earls High School with many participants entering into the spirit of the occasion by taking part in fancy dress. All kinds of outfits were on display from ‘superheroes’ to ‘three blind mice’ with ‘meet the grandparents’ and ‘Bill & Ben the flower pot men’ taking the fancy dress award later in the day. All participants enjoyed the good weather with a picnic lunch and games and then made the short journey to the pool for the swimming event. All teams competed well in the swimming relay event which was followed by a fun three-man boat relay event.
The family trophy went to ‘The Phillip Fliers Mark II’, the HalesMix & Friends top team was ’The Superheroes’ and the Schools trophy went to ‘The Tenter Tigers’ of Aaron Birch, Luke Owen and Reiss Vaughan who were representing Tenterfields. The Club is grateful to all the people who made the Fun Biathlon possible and Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council for supporting the event as part of the Dudley Summer Events programme.
Worcester County 4x1IM and Inter-Club Relay Championships - Sunday 2nd July
Swimmers from Halesowen Swimming Club were in action on Sunday 2nd July at a blisteringly hot Worcester in the County 4x1IM and Inter-Club Relay Championships.
31 swimmers from Halesowen took part in the 4x1IM County Championships with Hannah Cuthbert and Laurence Hickin winning their age groups, Beth Jackson and Adam Jackson second in their age groups and third placed Josie Evans, Louise Williams, Michael Edmonds, Robert Smith and Jack Watts. Particular mention goes to Leanne Taylor for her second place in both her age group and the County final which she swam in identical times.
The relay teams put on an excellent display in the annual Inter-Club Championships and amassed a total of 58 points to finish the event in overall third spot. The boys 13/14 boys medley relay team would have broken the competition best performance by two seconds were it not for a disqualification. However, not to be denied, the same boys team of Conor Carey, Laurence Hickin, Oliver Jackson and Robert Smith went on to win the freestyle relay final by over four seconds having already broken that record by over two seconds in the heats! Not to be outdone the boys 15/16 freestyle team of Michael Edmonds, Adam Jackson, Jamie Roome and Jack Watts also won in an impressive competition best time. The girls Open team of Hannah Cuthbert, Josie Evans, Leanne Taylor and Louise Williams were also on great form to win their Freestyle Relay. Final positions of the top five teams were Worcester 96, Stourbridge 64, Halesowen 58, Haden Hill 40 and Ledbury 35.
Mercian League Round 3 – Saturday 1st July
Swimmers from Halesowen Swimming Club travelled to Leamington Spa for the final round of the Mercian League on Saturday 1st July. The team had been weakened with a number of swimmers missing for the final round and despite a battling performance were unable to compete with the strong opposition on display. Although the team battled hard with Walsall they were unable to claw their way off the bottom spot and finished sixth in the gala and overall in the League.
Individual event winners were Conor Carey in the Backstroke and Freestyle, Daniel Johnson in the Freestyle and Richard Phillips in the Butterfly. Second placed individuals were Jack Slattery in the Backstroke and Breaststroke and Chloe Robbins in the Butterfly, with members of the second placed 10 and under Freestyle relay team Ryan Spoor and Thomas Taylor.
Final points scores were: Solihull 200, Leamington Spa 198, Perry Beeches SSS 175, Stratford Sharks A 166, Walsall 160 and Halesowen 147 (and England lost to Portugal on penalties!)
Nuneaton Junior League Round 3 – 17th June 2006
Junior swimmers from Halesowen Swimming Club were in action at home for the third time the final round of the Nuneaton Junior League on Saturday 17th June. The team were looking to secure first division status for 2007 and achieved this goal through a deserved third place finish. An impressive City of Coventry team were well ahead after the early events with Halesowen leading the other teams by just three points. By the halfway mark Chase had closed the gap for second spot to just one point. Chase continued to improve but Halesowen, after falling behind with 10 events to go, edged back into second place with just the final 3 events remaining. Second place was decided on the final event with Halesowen just missing out by three points.
Individual winners on the night were Beth Jackson in the Butterfly and Freestyle, Sian Carey in the Breaststroke, Megan Willetts in the Backstroke and Thomas Fenton in the Butterfly. The 12 years relay team including Pria Rai, Chloe Robbins and Rebecca Spoor proved unbeatable again in both Freestyle and Medley events.
Final point scores were City of Coventry 272, Chase 194, Halesowen 191, Camp Hill 159, Redditch 122 and Wolverhampton 113.
Mercian League Round 2 – Saturday 3rd June
Swimmers from Halesowen Swimming Club travelled to Wombourne for the second round of the Mercian Summer League on Saturday 3rd June and were involved in yet another nail-biting finish. The team had fallen behind by 2 points after the open relays events to Solihull but pulled out an impressive lead on the individual events to lead the gala by 12 points at the halfway mark. Halesowen maintained the same margin going into the final round of relay events but 2 disqualifications lead to a very tight finish with Solihull running out eventual winners by a slender 2 point gap.
Individual double event winners were Verity Emms in the Individual Medley and Backstroke, Rebecca Spoor in the Backstroke and Freestyle, Conor Carey in the Backstroke and Freestyle and Daniel Johnson in the Freestyle and Butterfly. First placed individual swimmers were Lilian Parsons, Chloe Robbins, Richard Phillips and Fraser Pressdee in the Butterfly, Sarah Watts in the Backstroke, Nikki Bainbridge in the Breaststroke and Aaron Smith in the Freestyle. Members of the 12 and under winning Freestyle and Medley relay team were Pria Rai and Lauren Garbett and the Open Medley team including James Bainbridge and Richard Ruston.
Final points scores were: Solihull 224, Halesowen 222, Brierley Hill 192, Wombourne 184, Rugby 154 and Stratford Sharks B 58.
Nuneaton Junior League Round 2 – 13th May
Junior swimmers from Halesowen Swimming Club were in action at home again in the second round of the Nuneaton Junior League on Saturday 13th May. The team faced an incredibly tough draw with three of the opponents winning on their first round outing and another finishing second. The level of competition did not disappoint with the top four teams fighting it out right from the first event leaving Halesowen and Solihull to do battle for fifth and sixth places. Halesowen were behind Solihull right the way through to event 41 when an run of excellent results saw the tables turn gradually in favour of the home side. The final ten events saw places change hand several times with Halesowen finally grabbing the all-important fifth spot and two vital League points.
Individual winners on the night were Beth Jackson in the Butterfly and Freestyle and Megan Willetts in the Backstroke. The 12 years relay team including Pria Rai, Chloe Robbins and Rebecca Spoor proved unbeatable again in both Freestyle and Medley events.
Final point scores were City of Coventry 229, Boldmere A 204, Leicester Penguins 203, Leamington Spa 189, Halesowen 116 and Solihull A 109.
Mercian League Round 1 – Saturday 29th April
Swimmers from Halesowen Swimming Club travelled to Bromsgrove for the first round of the Mercian Summer League on Saturday 29th April. The team was involved in another close gala and did battle with Stratford Sharks throughout the evening. Halesowen were rarely more than 10 point adrift from the lead and despite some fine performances finished a close second overall.
Individual double event winners were Nikki Bainbridge in the Individual Medley and Breaststroke and Conor Carey in the Backstroke and Freestyle. First placed individual swimmers were Rebecca Spoor and Jack Slattery in the Freestyle and Fraser Pressdee in Butterfly. Members of the 12 and under winning Freestyle relay team were Emily Homer, Pria Rai and Chloe Robbins.
Final points scores were: Stratford Sharks A 206, Halesowen 195, Haden Hill 181, Bromsgrove 165, Broadway 158 and Warley Wasps 129.
Worcester Winter League Round 3 – Sunday 23rd April
Senior swimmers from Halesowen Swimming Club were in action in the ‘A’ final in the last round of the Worcester Winter League at Droitwich. In a closely fought competition the teams from Halesowen, Stourbridge and Worcester were locked in battle from the very first race and the three teams were never separated by more than ten-points. At the halfway mark Halesowen nudged into a five-point lead but saw this position reversed in favour of Worcester with just ten events to go. Unbelievably, all three teams were level with just the final four relay events to go and could only be separated by three-points at the finish with Halesowen running out the winners by one-point.
Individual winners were Hannah Cuthbert, Bethany Jackson, Louise Williams and Laurence Hickin all double event winners in Freestyle and Butterfly, Adam Jackson in the Butterfly, Richard Spoor in the Breaststroke and Michael Edmonds in the Backstroke. The 13 and under relay team including Maria Goodwin, Kimberly Mack, Conor Carey and Oliver Jackson proved unbeatable and the 15 and under team including Josie Evans, Jess Northall Roxanne Taylor and Jack Watts were impressive Freestyle relay winners.
Final points scores were Halesowen 172, Stourbridge A 171, Worcester A 169, Bromsgrove 126, Redditch 102 and Worcester B 97.
Sponsored World Record Attempt at Halesowen Leisure Centre
On Good Friday 14th April Andy Papworth, Matt Cherry, Greg George and Nigel Gaskin set out to break the 400m Freestyle World Record. This record is currently held by Ian "Thorpedo" Thorpe in a time of 3.40.08.
The guys attempted this challenge as a 4 man relay team at Halesowen Leisure Centre in front of team mates and a large contingent of supporters in the spectator gallery. Beating the record was always going to be tough with the guys needing to beat 18.19 seconds for each and every one of the 12 lengths. The event got underway with tremendous support and by the halfway mark the team achieved the unexpected bonus of beating the 200m world record time of 1.42.96 in an unbelievably quick 1.40.73 - that's under 16.79 for every length! The team tired towards the end but surpassed the intended target with an incredible 12 seconds to spare.
This was a sponsored event and all money raised will be donated to the "Susan Kathleen Wright" fund. Susan is Andy's Aunt who is suffering from colon cancer and the treatment she requires is not available on the NHS. Over £450 was raised on the night with at least as much again to follow through pledges made. Particular thanks go to Network SI (UK) Ltd for their £100 donation. Any further donations or continuing sponsorship will be much appreciated. Andy is keen to pass on his thanks to all that supported this event.
Nuneaton Junior League Round 1 – 8th April
Junior swimmers from Halesowen Swimming Club were in action at home in the first round of the Nuneaton Junior League on Saturday 8th April. The team produced an excellent performance which resulted in a fourth place finish to match the achievement of last year’s team. There were some great individual performances with 20 personal best times achieved. The gala quickly settled down after the opening events and found Halesowen in fourth spot but unable to make a dent in the lead of the first three teams.
Individual winners on the night were Beth Jackson in the Butterfly and Harry Cowley in the Breaststroke. Relay wins came from the Freestyle team of Sam Bainbridge, Harry Cowley, Dan Johnson and George Turton and the Freestyle and Medley star team of the night, Beth Jackson, Pria Rai, Chloe Robbins and Rebecca Spoor.
Special mention goes to Natasha Bird, Abbie Harvey, Sarah Turton, Megan Willetts, Victoria Homer, Jamie House, Chandan Johal, Jonathan Rizzo, Matthew Scrivens, Aaron Smith and Jordan Thacker who were representing the Club for the first time in League competition.
Final point scores were Nuneaton & Bedworth A 232, Leamington Spa 201, Chase 196, Halesowen 171, Hinckley 151 and Wolverhampton 96.
West Midlands Biathlon - 2nd April
Swimmers from Halesowen Swimming Club swapped their flippers for running shoes to compete in the regional biathlon trials at Wombourne. This competition combines running and swimming events in which the entrants try to amass the greatest points total.
In the Youth C class Roxanne Taylor had an excellent run but was just pipped in the swim to finish second overall. Hannah Cuthbert recorded the fastest swim on her way to fifth position and a creditable eighth place for Grace Emms secured second place for Halesowen in the girls team competition.
Sarah Turton swam a person best to win the swim in the Mini Girls event. In her first biathlon she found the run harder work but still achieved fifth place overall. Harry Cowley led the way in the Boys Youth D class with a superb swim but was just beaten in the run to accumulate 1944 points overall. This put Harry into second place overall, just 4 points behind the event winner. George Turton and Daniel Johnson both had fine swims to finish seventh and ninth overall. This secured the Halesowen Boys second place in the team competition.
Worcester County Championships - February & March
During the course of four weekends in February and March 38 swimmers from Halesowen Swimming Club took part in the Worcester County Championships and continued the success of recent years.
The swimmers took part in 310 events with almost three-quarters of these completed in personal best times and well over half resulting in a top 6 age-group finish. A total of 44 first places were achieved by swimmers who set an impressive 14 Championship records in the process – beating some dating back to 1989.
Leanne Taylor and Louise Williams enjoyed a successful Championships with Leanne taking the 100m Butterfly, 100m Backstroke and 400m Individual Medley Senior titles and Louise taking both the Senior and Junior titles in the 200m Freestyle and 200m Butterfly and the Junior crown in the 100m Butterfly.
Special mention also goes to Hannah Cuthbert and Michael Edmonds for winning the overall award for their age group. Age group winners were Louise Williams (9 wins), Leanne Taylor (7 wins), Josie Evans (6 wins), Michael Edmonds (5 wins), Bethany Jackson (4 wins), Hannah Cuthbert and Laurence Hickin (3 wins) and Nigel Gaskin (1 win).
Championship records were set by Hannah Cuthbert (50m and 100m Butterfly), Leanne Taylor (200m Freestyle, 100m Butterfly, 50m Breaststroke, 100m Backstroke and 400m Individual Medley), Louise Williams (200m Freestyle), Michael Edmonds (50m, 100m and 200m Backstroke) and Laurence Hickin (50m, 100m and 200m Freestyle).
A measure of the quality of the performances from swimmers at the Club is that 72 times achieved by swimmers at the Championships were at the higher Midland Region standard with Roxanne Taylor, Greg George, Adam Jackson, Andrew Papworth and Jack Watts joining their winning team-mates in achieving this mark.
If you are interested in joining Halesowen Swimming Club you can see us in action on our Club night on Friday evenings at Halesowen Leisure Centre.
World Firefighters Games - 22nd & 23rd February
If you think that swimmers are often asked to travel long distances to compete then think again! In February Nikki and James Bainbridge travelled all the way to Hong Hong to compete in the swimming championships of the World Firefighters Games. Nikki and James took part in a total of 13 events in the 50m pool at Kowloon and were placed no lower than 5th in any event. Well done in particular to Nikki for her 1st place in the 100m Butterfly and to both for six 3rd places, four 4th places and two fifth places – congratulations to both on their terrific haul of medals.
Worcester Winter League Round 2 – Saturday 18th February
Senior swimmers from Halesowen were in action at home in the second round of the Worcester Winter League with the team finishing the gala in third place. The gala was closely fought throughout by the teams from Stourbridge, Bromsgrove and Halesowen with Stourbridge opening up and maintaining a ten-point lead by event 25. The narrowest of finishes saw Bromsgrove edge out Halesowen by just two points in the final event of the evening. Third place was enough to see the team go through to the A final of the League on Sunday 23rd April at Droitwich.
Individual winners were Louise Williams in the Butterfly, Richard Spoor in the Breaststroke, Michael Edmonds in the Backstroke and Laurence Hickin in the Freestyle. Members of the winning 13/U Medley Relay team were Maria Goodwin, Kimberley Mack, Sarah Watts and Conor Carey and the 15/U Freestyle Relay team Josie Evans, Jess Northall, Roxanne Taylor, Adam Jackson and Jack Watts.
Final points scores were Stourbridge A 169, Bromsgrove 160, Halesowen 158, Haden Hill 142, Perry Beeches & SSS 106 and Wyre Forest 102.
Warley Wasps Trophy Gala – Saturday 11th February
On Saturday 11th February our junior team were in action for the first time in 2006 at the Warley Wasps Junior Trophy Gala at Thimblemill. The team were defending the trophy from 2005 and fought hard all evening to fend off a determined Camp Hill team. The teams were neck and neck throughout with Camp Hill narrowly winning the gala by just five points.
Double individual event winners were Lilian Parsons in the Freestyle and Butterfly, Emily Homer and Jack Slattery in the Freestyle and Backstroke and Sian Carey in the Backstroke and Breaststroke. Other individual event winners were Lauren Garbett in the Breaststroke, Jamie House in the Freestyle and Macaulay Swingler in the Backstroke. The girls relay teams were also on form with the age ten, eleven, and twelve years teams all pulling off the Freestyle and Medley double. Members of the teams were Sophie Bowser, Isobel Hughes, Elizabeth McAleenan, Abigail Hughes, Kathryn Smithson, Bethany Jackson, Chloe Robbins and Rebecca Spoor.
Final point scores were Camp Hill Edwardians 137, Halesowen 132, Warley Wasps 129 and Oldbury 87.
Staffordshire ASA Inter County Invitation Gala - Sunday 5th February
Congratulations go to our 10 swimmers who represented Worcester County at the Inter-County Gala at Wolverhampton on Sunday 5th February. Halesowen Swimming Club had the largest contingent of swimmers from any Club within the County for this gala – well done to all swimmers, in particular Graham Harrington who produced the only first place for Worcester County.
Swimmers selected were: Hannah Cuthbert, Josie Evans, Beth Jackson, Kimberley Mack, Sarah Watts, Conor Carey, Michael Edmonds, Graham Harrington, Laurence Hickin and Richard Spoor.
Worcester Winter League Round 1 – Saturday 21st January
Brierley Hill Open Meet – Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd January
Senior swimmers from Halesowen were in action at Worcester in the first round of the Worcester Winter League on Saturday 21st January. The team was weakened by the absence of a considerable number of swimmers who were in action at the Brierley Hill Open Meet which was taking place at Wolverhampton over the same weekend. Some swimmers bravely made the journey from Wolverhampton to Worcester and the team put up a spirited performance to finish the night in a creditable fourth spot.
Wins were hard to come by on the night with very tough competition in attendance. Individual winners were Andy Papworth and Richard Spoor in the Breaststroke. Individual second placed swimmers were, Matt Cherry in the Freestyle, Dan Summerfield in the Breaststroke, Abigail Henderson and Greg George in the Butterfly and Richard Spoor in the Backstroke. Second place relay team members were 13/u Medley Grace Emms, Maria Goodwin, Kimberley Mack, Richard Phillips and Daniel Thomas, 15/u Freestyle Josie Evans, Jess Northall and Richard Phillips and Open Medley Verity Emms and Charlotte Northall.
Final Point scores were Worcester A 210, Bromsgrove 185, Haden Hill 164 and Halesowen 151.
Over the same weekend as the Worcester Winter League 25 swimmers were in action at the Brierley Hill Open Meet at Wolverhampton and completed 117 events and 26 finals. Swimmers came away from Meet with a total of 27 Regional Qualifying Times and the Club finished in an impressive overall 2nd spot for the weekend to Walsall.
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Neuroscientists Discover a Song That Reduces Anxiety By 65 Percent
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Anxiety — that feeling of dread, fear, worry and panic — is certainly nothing new. Hippocrates wrote about it in the fourth century BCE. As did Søren Kierkegaard in the 1860s. And Sigmund Freud addressed the disorder in 1926.
However, jump to the present and we’re seeing a significant uptick — especially with youth.
Pharmaceutical drugs tend to be the classic treatment for treating anxiety (as well as the biggest money maker). Cognitive therapy is a common approach as well. Those with a holistic bent often turn to meditation, yoga, massage and other relaxation techniques. Music therapy has also been used with some success. But now neuroscientists in the U.K. have zeroed in on a single song that results in a dramatic 65 percent reduction in overall anxiety…
Anxiety & Generation Y
A 2013 survey found that 57 percent of American female university students reported episodes of “overwhelming anxiety.” And in the United Kingdom, the charity YouthNet discovered a third of young women — and one in ten young men — suffer from panic attacks.
Marjorie Wallace, CEO of the charity Sane, believes that generation Y (those born in the 1980s and 1990s) is the age of desperation. “Growing up has always been difficult, but this sense of desperation? That’s new,” she says.
Writes Rachael Dove in Anxiety: the epidemic sweeping through Generation Y:
“So, what’s going on? The rise of technology, overly-protective parenting and “exam-factory” schooling are among the reasons psychologists suggest for our generational angst. Another, brought up on multiple occasions by my peers and by psychologists I spoke to, is the luxury (as ungrateful as it sounds) of too much choice.”
Pieter Kruger, a London-based psychologist, says research indicates that people who feel they don’t have a choice are actually more resilient — mainly because they can blame life or others if they make a wrong decision. However, if you have a range of choices, you have no one to blame but yourself. “We become much more obsessive because we want to make the right decision every time,” he says.
“I spend a lot of time worrying about what I am going to do with my life. Previous generations had choice taken out of their hands. If you are told what to do it takes the pressure away.”
In our modern era, decision making can trigger a type of paralysis. Often, we will obsessively research the many different options for, say, a pair of shoes. Eventually, information overload will kick in and shut the whole shopping venture down, leaving us exhausted and guilty for being crippled by such a seemingly simple task.
Technology also contributes to the rise of anxiety. A good number of millennials feel exposed without their smartphones — and are rarely without them. Mobile gadgets tend to be their window to the world and foster a sense of connectedness. But there’s a dark side to feeling the need to keep on top of what everyone is doing on social media — otherwise known as Fomo, or the Fear of Missing Out.
“Fomo is very real and can be a constant addiction that affects anxiety levels and a general sense of wellbeing,” says Kruger.
Social media allows us to compare everything — relationships, diet, figure, beauty, wealth, standard of living — not only with our friends, but with celebrities too. And, as research has shown, time on social media “can cause depression in people who compare themselves with others.”
Besides revamping our lifestyles and limiting exposure to social media — and learning to work with a sometimes overwhelming abundance of choice — neuroscientists have found listening to a specially designed song can have a profound influence over our levels of anxiety.
The Creation Of The Ultimate Anti-Stress Music
Researchers at Mindlab International in the U.K. wanted to know what kind of music induces the greatest state of relaxation. The study involved having participants try to solve difficult puzzles — which inherently triggered a certain degree of stress — while connected to sensors. At the same time, participants listened to a range of songs as researchers measured their brain activity, heart rate, blood pressure and rate of breathing.
What they found is that one song — “Weightless” — resulted in a striking 65 percent reduction in participants’ overall anxiety, and a 35 percent reduction in their usual physiological resting rates.
Interestingly, the song was specifically designed to induce this highly relaxed state. Created by Marconi Union, the musicians teamed up with sound therapists to carefully arrange harmonies, rhythms and bass lines, which in turn slow a listener’s heart rate and blood pressure, while also lowering stress hormones like cortisol.
In fact, the music is so effective, that many of the female participants became drowsy — to the point where lead researcher Dr. David Lewis-Hodgson advises against listening to it while driving.
But don’t take their word for it. Experience it for yourself here:
Source: The Mind Unleashed
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Friday humour - September 27, 2002
From Davo at bluehaze:
Yo and G'day on Grand Final Eve!
All eyes in Melbourne on Saturday will be directed towards the MCG where
the young upstart Collingwood Magpies challenge the juggernaut that is
the Brisbane Lions.
Floreat Pica!
(May the Magpies Prosper)
If you decide to visit this site (passed on from our friends at sunny QCAT)
make sure you are alone ... or at least have the sound turned down ...
Be warned!
--o-O-o-- --o-O-o-- --o-O-o-- --o-O-o-- --o-O-o--
First off, something from British McNickers ...
SCOTTISH HOSPITALITY
A commercial traveller was driving through the Scottish Highlands when his
car broke down. There was a cottage near by so he went up to it and knocked
on the door. The door opened to reveal a burly Highlander. My car has conked
out," said the traveller, "Where can I spend the night?" "Why, right here of
course!" said the Scot, "Come in and avail yourself of our world famous
hospitality."
The traveller duly entered the humble but cosy residence. "Fiona," shouted
the host in the direction of the kitchen, and in response to his call his
beautiful daughter appeared. "Fiona, make a meal for the gentleman and
remember to uphold our great tradition of Highland hospitality."
The traveller was soon tucking into an appetising meal, the girl had indeed
spared no effort to extend Highland hospitality to the guest. "And now,"
said the Highlander, "I'm afraid I must go out and milk the coos, but just
make yourself at home and take full advantage of our world famous Highland
hospitality.
No sooner had the door closed behind him than the traveller set about
seducing the lovely daughter. In no time at all he had had her on floor and
was on the job. Suddenly the door opened and there stood the Highlander. He
took one look at what was going on and his face turned purple with rage. He
dropped his two buckets of milk with a crash and gave verbal vent to his
wrath. "After all I have been saying about the Highland hospitality," he
roared, "Arch your back woman, and take the poor man's balls off the cold
floor."
And one from the irrepressible Dave Allnutt:
An old lady dies and goes to heaven and is chatting to St Peter at the
Pearly Gates when all of a sudden she hears the most awful blood-curdling
screams.
"Don't worry about that," says St Peter, "it's only someone having the holes
bored on their shoulder blades for the wings."
The old lady looks a little uncomfortable but carries on with the
conversation. Ten minutes later, there are more blood-curdling screams.
"Oh my God," says the old lady, "now what's happening"?
"Not to worry," says St Peter, "they are just having their head drilled to
fit the halo."
"I can't do this," says the old lady, "I'm off down to hell."
"You can't go there," says St Peter, "You'll be raped and sodomized."
"Yes, but I've already got the holes for that."
Now, before the break, put your head around this from Kero Steve:
ARE YOU A PSYCHO?
This is a psychological test. Do not scroll down to look at the answer. Here
The main character in the story is a girl. When she was at the funeral of
her mother, she saw a striking man who also attended. She did not know who
he was and did not have the courage to speak with him. He seemed to be her
dream guy and, in this "encounter," she fell in love with him. A few days
later the girl killed her own sister. When the Police asked her why she did
it, she gave a shocking answer. What was her motive for killing her sister?
[the motive is revealed after the graphics]
This weeks graphics come from Beryl, KeroSteve, Ty, Daisy, Rowan,
Trina, Brett and others ...
Walk tall Click here
Big boy Click here
Truly shagged Click here
Watch out for the puddle Click here
Personalised plates Click here
Guess who? Click here
The man in charge! Click here
Like father like son Click here
T-shirt Click here
Best of friends Click here
Bikini brief Click here
Maths test Click here
Parliamentary Pictures presents ... Click here
Swingin' Granny Click here
Fractured words Click here
Back to ASCII, and the answer to Steve's "Are you a psycho?" test ...
Answer: She was hoping that the man would appear at the sister's funeral. If
you answered this correctly, go to the police and tell them to lock you up.
This was a test by a famous American psychologist used to test if one has
the same mentality as a killer. Many imprisoned serial killers took this
test and answered it correctly. If you didn't answer correctly - good for
you. If your friends hit the jackpot, may I suggest that you keep your
distance!
More from Steve ...
Sister Mary Katherine entered the Monastery of Silence. The Priest said,
"Sister, this is a silent monastery. You are welcome here as long as you
like, but you may not speak until I direct you to do so".
Sister Mary Katherine lived in the monastery for 5 years before the Priest
said to her, "Sister Mary Katherine, you have been here for 5 years. You can
speak two words."
Sister Mary Katherine said, "Hard bed."
"I'm sorry to hear that," the Priest said, "We will get you a better bed."
After another 5 years, Sister Mary Katherine was called by the Priest. "You
may say another two words, Sister Mary Katherine.
"Cold food," said Sister Mary Katherine, and the Priest assured her that the
food would be better in the future.
On her 15th anniversary at the monastery, the Priest again called Sister
Mary Katherine into his office. "You may say two words today."
"I quit," said Sister Mary Katherine.
"It's probably for the best", said the Priest, "You've done fuck-all but moan
since you got here"
An Englishman, Irishman and a Scotsman are all playing golf with their
wives. The Englishman's wife steps up to the tee and as she bends over to
place her ball a gust of wind blows her skirt up and reveals her lack of
underwear.
"Good God !! Why aren't you wearing any knickers?" her husband demanded.
"Well, you don't give me enough housekeeping money to afford to buy any".
The Englishman immediately reaches into his pocket and says, "For the sake
of decency here's 50 pounds, go and buy yourself some underwear"
Next the Irishman's wife bends over to set her ball on the tee. Her skirt
blows up to show that she is wearing no undies. "Bejesus woman !! You've no
knickers ---- why not?"
She replies "I can't afford any on the money you give me"
He reaches into his pocket and says, "For the sake of decency here's 20 pounds,
go and buy yourself some underwear!"
Lastly, the Scotsman's wife bends over. The wind also takes her skirt over
her head to reveal that she too is naked under it. "Hoot, Lassie! Why d'ye
have no knickers?"
She too explains, "You don't give me enough housekeeping money to be able
to afford any"
The Scot reaches into his pocket and says, "For the sake of decency here's
a COMB, tidy yourself up a bit !"
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A WOMAN
There was a man who had worked all of his life and had saved all of his
money and was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved money more
than just about anything, and just before he died, he said to his wife, "Now
listen. When I die, I want you to take all my money and put it in the casket
with me. I want to take my money to the afterlife with me."
And so he got his wife to promise him with all of her heart that when he
died, she would put all of the money in the casket with him.
Well, he died. He was stretched out in the casket, his wife was sitting
there in black, and her friend was sitting next to her. When they finished
the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the
wife said,
"Wait just a minute!' She had a box with her, she came over with the box and
put it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket down and they
rolled it away.
So her friend said, "Girl, I know you weren't fool enough to put all that
money in there with your husband."
She said, "Listen, I'm a GOOD Woman, I can't go back on my word. I promised
him that I was gonna put that money in that casket with him."
"You mean to tell me you put that money in the casket with him!!!!?"
"I sure did," said the wife. "I wrote him a cheque."
"If what America represents to the world is leadership in a commonwealth
of equals, then our friends are legion; if what we represent to the world
is empire, then it is our enemies who will be legion."
- Al Gore
[The Guy who may have been President had the US Supreme
Court allowed all the votes to be counted in 2000.]
The full text of Gore's speech can be read at ...
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FH Addendum ... A song for Saturday!
[ End Fri humour ]
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L'automne 2017 - 2e séance Live auction
BCSFA CGP 1871 - 1945 Canadian
Along the Cliff, Beacon Hill, Victoria
signed M. Emily Carr and dated 1919 and on verso signed, titled Horseshoe Bay on the Dominion Gallery label and Along the Cliff, Beacon Hill, In the Distance Horseshoe Bay, inscribed "Carr" twice and with the Dominion Gallery inventory #B1296 and stamped twice Dominion Gallery
15 x 18 pouces 38.1 x 45.7cm
Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Bryan Adams Collection, London, England
Sold sale of Fine Canadian Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, November 9, 2000, lot 243
Private Collection, USA
Sold sale of Fine Canadian Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, May 17, 2012, lot 132
Private Collection, Toronto
Maria Tippett, Emily Carr: A Biography, 1979, page 126, reproduced page 126 and as colour plate 3
Doris Shadbolt, Emily Carr, 1990, pages 153 and 155, reproduced page 152
Exposition:
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Emily Carr, June 29 - September 3, 1990, catalogue #64
Emily Carr’s journey as an artist was not a straightforward one. Her training took her first to San Francisco and then to England, and after each of these episodes of training she sought to establish herself as an artist and teacher in Victoria or Vancouver. It was not, however, an easy role for a young woman to take, and while her efforts met with some modest success, she did not feel that she was reaching her full potential as an artist. When in 1907 she made a trip to Alaska with her sister Alice, she determined that her subject would be the First Nations totems in villages. She pursued this in locations such as Alert Bay for the next couple of summers, but decided that she needed to enhance her artistic skills with further training. A period of study in France in 1911 allowed her to explore the ideas of the Post-Impressionist and Fauve painters and, most importantly, gave her painting a new sense of freedom and a greater command of colour. Upon her return to Canada she embarked on an intense period of painting from 1912 to 1913, depicting First Nations poles using the colours and brushwork that she had been introduced to in France. These works were shown in Vancouver in 1913, but Carr was disappointed by their reception and soon after she was forced, due to her economic circumstances, to return to Victoria. For more than a decade, the period between 1913 and 1927, Carr was not principally a painter. She built and ran a rooming house, raised dogs, made pottery, grew berries, made hooked rugs and did almost everything but paint. These “years of discouragement and reduced production,” as Doris Shadbolt described them, were not completely without painting, however. Carr did produce some landscapes, which Shadbolt notes probably number “twenty or so” and which were frequently painted in Victoria’s Beacon Hill Park near her home. She was unable to steal much time away from her duties as a landlady and therefore these works are all the more prized.
Works such as Along the Cliff, Beacon Hill, Victoria build on the foundations of Carr’s landscapes done in France, but show a greater sense of confidence in the handling of paint and a sensitivity to the colours of her own landscape and the softness of the moist atmosphere of the Victoria area. As Shadbolt has noted, few of these landscapes are dated, and it is therefore somewhat difficult to ascertain the pattern of Carr’s explorations of “one variant of the Post-Impressionist idiom to another,” thus a securely dated work is particularly important in clarifying Carr’s progress during the period. Arbutus Tree, 1922, in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, is one of the few other dated works. Along the Cliff, Beacon Hill, which uses “larger rolling masses of rich but somewhat muted colour,” as Shadbolt defines them, accomplishes something that Carr never really achieved in her French paintings – a clear realization of the underlying structure of the landscape as colour and light. The surging forms of the cliff have a palpable energy that transcends the somewhat decorative effect of many of Carr's French landscapes. This is a landscape that Carr knew and loved, and it is in works such as Along the Cliff, Beacon Hill that Carr comes to terms with that landscape and how best to use her French training to depict it. Painted with a vigorous approach, this work reflects “the character of her subject rather than simply imposing a stylistic vision or a manner upon it,” as Shadbolt points out. It is this boldness and close identification with her subject that provide the basis for her great landscapes of the thirties.
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Exposé à: Heffel – 13 Hazelton Ave Toronto
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The Narco-Machine and the Work of Violence: Notes Toward its Decodification
Rossana Reguillo | ITESO (Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente)
When Leonardo da Vinci gives instructions
for a battle painting he insists that artists have
the courage and the imagination to show war in
all its ghastliness.
—Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
When in the middle of 2010, I received the invitation from the editors of e-misférica to be an invited editor for an issue on narco-trafficking and violence, I thought for several days about what direction to take, what framework to employ, and especially how to frame an approach to a phenomenon that has such power to disarticulate, that is so abysmal, and yet at the same time so quotidian. During those days, it became more than evident in Mexico that the violence and the brutal executions had risen to another level (I am referring to the massacres of young people in Ciudad Juárez, Tepic, Tijuana, and Mexico City, and especially to the “narco-fosas,” or mass graves of migrants assassinated by narcos).
As I thought about the issue, a powerful phrase by Michael Löwy that I had read a couple of years earlier kept returning to my thoughts: “the device does not exist there to execute a man, but rather, the man is there precisely because of the device, to provide a body upon which it can pen its aesthetic masterpiece, its illustrated and bloody book, full of details and adornments. The officer himself is nothing more than a servant of the machine” (41). This was the key that allowed me to elaborate the idea of the narco-machine as the backbone of this issue of the journal, and, indeed, of the approach that I develop here. Following Löwy, we can say that in terms of the violence linked to narco-trafficking, the machine precedes its servants.
What I am interested in discussing, then, is what I call the “work of violence,” borrowing from Hannah Arendt’s elaborations on Nazi extermination camps in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1987), in which the author advances an argument that is fundamental to understanding this horror. I also draw from Primo Levi’s chilling observations as an Auschwitz survivor in The Drowned and The Saved (2002), in relation to the production of sacrificial bodies which presuppose a fine-tuned and systematic dissolution of the person, a gradual but brutal reduction to an inhuman condition that authorizes the most extreme exercises of submission, torture and control over the body of the other.
The work of violence linked to the narco-machine is similar to the one described by Levi in Nazi camps in two respects, the profundity (and perversity) of which make them difficult to apprehend. Yet there is also an element that differentiates them that is crucial to gauging the narco-machine’s power.
The first similarity is that the dismembered bodies that el narco (in the singular, as it is said in Mexico) leaves strewn about each day across the national geography lose their singularity, much like the prisoners in the extermination camps. It is no longer a case of Maria, Pedro, or Juan, but rather of anonymous bodies that are then layered by an ontological dimension in three senses: they are converted into units of common sense (broken bodies, disarticulated bodies); they are transformed into universals (those executed by narcos, war casualties, collateral damage); they are bodies transformed—by the work of violence—into abstract entities (“encajuelados,” “decapitados,” “encojibados”).1 The dissolution of the person is the narco-machine’s first victory.
To situate the second similarity, I refer to Adriana Cavarero’s extraordinary book, Horrorism, where, in a discussion of the problem of defenselessness, Cavarero states: “the dead, massacred body is only a residue of the torture scene” (60). Similarly, and just as in the extermination camps, the mass graves later discovered, the bodies massacred by narco-violence (in Mexico) operate as “degenerate” signs (Eco 1992) of the machine and its work. The bodies are remainders of a previous scene that we no longer have access to, as Cavarero astutely points out. They are specifically signs of a prior power that we cannot access through immediate experience. On this level, I find Charles Peirce’s theory on the “instructive” role of the sign particularly useful; I will attempt to develop the concept later in this essay by way of the notion of expressive violence, with which I have been working for several years.2
The third correlation, in this case a contrast, lies in the position and location of power. While Nazi power erects facilities to house its work of violence and locates its servants in clearly locatable coordinates, the narco de-localizes itself. Its power appeals precisely to the densest dimension of the machine’s logic: its placeless ubiquity, which enables it to act in a silent but efficacious manner. Its presence is phantasmagoric. The narco-machine is a phantom. Its domination derives from occupying a de-localized space that is impossible to symbolize (in the Freudian sense), appealing to and awaking the deepest fissures between what we consider real and our displaced fears. The impossibility to symbolize performs its work in the imaginary, occluding any possibility of signification. The narco-machine is ubiquitous, elusive, phantasmagoric, and it persists, despite the occasional appearance and momentary subjugation of its servants.
So, a first approximation to the machine allows us to isolate—for analysis—three levels: the dissolution of the person (transmuted into a dismembered body), the broken body that acts as a sign of a previous scene and power, and its phantasmagoric presence.
At this juncture in what is known in Mexico as “the war on narco,”3 any serious attempt to document the precise number of dead that accumulate daily as testimony to the horror is impossible. Forty thousand? Fifty thousand? Sixty-two thousand? As a banner in one of the latest marches against violence in Mexico put it: “Is it the number of dead, which one can no longer even count because bodies are strewn on impossible roads, that gives this violence its most important dimension?” Surely numbers are crucial here—those we can muster beyond official figures, those that sometimes come from the mouths of civil servants who are caught off guard, those that somehow make it into the so-called ejecutómetro (execution-meter).4 But the number that is sought, as a desperate gesture to generate a minimum level of intelligibility, does not capture what is essential—the work performed by the violence of the machine.
The epistemological chill produced by the horror of bodies that accumulate as evidence of an unsuccessful policy—Felipe Calderón’s policy—which failed to establish itself as such, derives from the incapacity of a way of thinking that attempts to think through the violencias to situate itself at the interface of what is singular and universal (in the ontological sense) about these bodies, which one by one populate the map of a geography that has collapsed under the weight of terror disseminated (from Cherán to Ciudad Mier; from Culiacán to Ciudad Juárez; from Monterrey to Guadalajara). We count the dead, but the gesture is useless because we are unable to restore the humanity lost and unable to mend the rupture that the machine leaves in its wake. Violence is unidirectional; there is no reciprocal violence in the face of the machine’s phantasmagoric nature.
Mariana Hernández León
Between September and October 2011, after the horrors of the so-called “narco-graves” (Turati 2011) and the shock of the bodies dumped on a street in Veracruz, came the horror of the tortured corpses of two youths that were hung from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas (the woman strung up like cattle, the man hung from the arms); two weeks later, the “appearance” of the dismembered body of a journalist with her head mounted on a flower pot accompanied, in a macabre performance, by a keyboard, a mouse, a set of headphones, and speakers. These last two cases carried the explicit warning that this is what happens to those using social networks and the Internet to spread news or information that compromises the activities of organized crime.
In the face of these violencias, language fails, exhausting itself in its attempt to produce an explanation or a reason. The violencias in the country produce the collapse of our interpretive frameworks, yet, at the same time, these broken, vulnerable, violated, viciously mutilated bodies are converted into a clear message: keep quiet and submit. Silence and control emanating from total violence advance across the Mexican territory without any contention whatsoever.
The machine specializes in the production of fissures, both those that separate the layers of the same wound (bodies of narco-retailers, assistants, look-outs, associates who are now punished), and those that separate superimposed wounds (bodies of innocent civilians, the “collateral damage” that feeds the voracity of the machine).
In August of 2011, at the Casino Royale in the city of Monterrey, a squadron of hit men set fire to the facilities, killing over 50 people and unleashing endless questions and fears in what was once, before the arrival of the machine, Mexico’s most prosperous city.5 It has and continues to be impossible to generate a minimally intelligible framework to make sense of the event—a fissure of the narco-machine.
In October 2011, it was reported that at least 35 bodies “appeared” on a street in Boca del Rio, Veracruz. Stacked and bearing signs of torture, these bodies of Veracruz reactivated the discussion over the efficacy of the narco-machine and the defenselessness of the citizenry. The images are brutal, but in an attempt to resist the vertigo of the lurid, I want to invoke the “geological” layers that the fissure makes visible.
The image is clear and not because of that, vivid. On a road, a street, a roundabout, a “group” of bodies reveal the horror, as much spread out as crowded together, inside a funeral van, like in a traveling extermination camp. The machine’s power authorizes itself to take things to another level, to unload its shocking payload on the road without resorting to any other message. The act of delivery is formally aphasic but, symbolically, total.
Expressive Violencias
When I started to study violence (in the singular), it appeared to me that the singular form of the word subsumed into the same analytical space a group of violent forms whose variability, modes of operation, and consequences did not fit into a single or singular expression. I started to use the notion of violencias (in the plural), which drove me to elaborate a typology that, while not exhaustive of the entire specter of possible violence, does allow me to advance in my understanding of its multidimensionality. I am not going to elaborate the scheme I proposed in this regard here, but will simply enumerate the four forms of violence I have isolated for analytical purposes:
a) Structural: violencias linked to the consequences and effects of systems (economic, political, cultural), which operate on bodies that are considered “surplus,” mainly the poor and socially marginalized.
b) Historic: violence that affects groups considered “anomalous,” savage, or inferior (women, indigenous people, blacks), and that grounds itself in a kind of longstanding justification.
c) Disciplining: that which seeks to name the forms of violence exercised to bring others into submission by exemplary punishment (I am thinking of the assassinations of women in Ciudad Juárez or of the selective murder of street children in Brazil).
d) Diffuse: That violence which is “gaseous,” whose origin is impossible to attribute to anything other than phantasmagoric entities (narcos, terrorism), and which is almost impossible to prevent because it does not follow an intelligible pattern.
These forms of violence tend to present themselves in combined forms, but in my search for a more nuanced understanding, it has been useful to keep the analysis tied to their different logics, origins, and forms of operation.
The narco-machine takes from these four forms of violence and combines them in interchangeable ways, as if it were a Lego set, splicing sociopolitical and cultural pieces to produce differentiated effects. The machine, however, resorts mainly to its disciplinary and diffuse forms. Its brutal calligraphy inscribes itself in the production of control and submission, as it hides behind its inapprehensible nature. As I pointed out above, the bodies disciplined by the work of violence act as indexes of its power.
Yet I consider these four elements and their combinations to be insufficient for an adequate approximation to the machine’s violence. Because of this, I propose another distinction, one that detaches itself from the four previous forms: utilitarian violence and expressive violence.6
Tania González Suro
Although they are not antagonistic or mutually exclusive forms, my ongoing research strongly suggests that the narco-machine has been increasing its expressive dimension. By this I mean the exercise of those violencias whose sense appears to be centered on the exhibition of total and unquestionable power, using the most brutal and at the same time most sophisticated forms of violence against a body that has already been stripped of its humanity (decapitated bodies, bodies strung from bridges, dismembered bodies strewn on the street). This expressive action tends to displace utilitarian violence, whose aims are readable and can be apprehended by experience (I kill you to rob you, I annihilate you because your presence hinders my plans, etc.) The death of the other is sufficient.
Expressive violence is without a doubt preceded by a complex system of pursuit of “profit,” but this remains concealed, encrypted, hidden as residual elements in the “message” that is delivered by way of the thousands and thousands of mutilated bodies accumulated in the so-called “war on the narco.” In a radical way, and citing Sontag, these messages encrypted in the space of a finite and forever-broken body may be read as memento mori (“remember you will die”); you will die three times: when you are tortured (the torture that precedes death is almost always unimaginable), when you die, and when your death is converted into data reported in the media (for example, “five heads were found in front of the Attorney General’s office”). The signifying chain of expressive violencias could not be more eloquent. In its passage through these three arenas, total death becomes pure expression—objectives no longer matter here and the pursuit of profit becomes secondary. What is relevant is the exhibition of the narco-machine as an infinite and inevitable repertoire.
The power of expressive violencias lies in this infinity and inevitability, the bodies are at the service of the machine as are its servants, as Löwy correctly points out.
To Serve the Machine: Language
When I wrote the first notes for this essay, I considered that a pertinent title could be “Narcoñol: Language as a Device of the Narco-machine.” The complexity and multiple dimensions of the phenomenon led me to consider that Narcoñol, as I would call the speech that is derived from narcos, is more of an appendix of the narco-machine rather than its epicenter.
I reached this formulation working through the writing—again—of Primo Levi. In reading and studying his books on extermination camps and his experience as a survivor in depth, it occurred to me that the speech of the concentration camp was key (of the lager, as he calls it). Speech configured (and arranged) the experience of violence. The figure of “the Muslim,” for example, alludes to those men who had already submitted themselves, “puppets, squalid,” who had already given in to their tragic destiny and were on the way to their own human dissolution (Levi 2002). The “Muslim”—guard, witness, survivor, and accomplice even in his own tragedy—is the most terrible product of the work of violence and the appearance of an intermediate language that, stammering and using available categories, tries to name abjection, indignity, and pain. (The figure of a “Muslim” in a Nazi concentration camp, as the focus of the reflective space of abjection, is a topic that I will not explore here, but it surely merits in-depth analysis.)
I am especially interested in Levi’s suggestion that that language, “his language,” does not offer the necessary words to name “the destruction of man” (39).
According to this hypothesis, I think the emergence of a “Narcoñol” that is ever more robust and sophisticated is self-explanatory. When violence advances as lingua franca (Segato 2004) it requires finding words, terms, modes, and metaphors to speak of itself (with the collaboration of the media). Narcoñol is, then, an exercise that claims to produce a certain intelligibility about the logistics, modes, strategies, values, figures, and, especially, impacts of the narco-machine.
This is not the place to attempt to analyze a genealogy of the speech linked to the narcos. Nevertheless, it is possible to isolate some semantic fields that allow us to calibrate its impact on language, assuming that this is key to the production of the social. To continue, I will use the symbol popularized by Twitter and the so-called “hashtag” that is prefixed by the #, which serve, in collective conversation, both to reflect on the impact of a topic as well as to guide and focus our discussion.
The semantic fields I want to discuss are the following three:
#brokenbodies
With this “tag” I allude to the forms in which Mexican Spanish (but I am also thinking of Colombian parlance) has named the corpses of those assassinated or killed in the violent spirals of the narco-machine.
Ejecutados (or the “executed,” a generic name for all the dead by and because of the narco-machine); ahorcados (or the “strangled,” a mode of execution, alludes to a specific but ambiguous end), colgados (or the “hanged,” a mode of execution, most common in the North); decapitados (or the “decapitated,” a modality, phantasmagoric name for incomplete bodies); encajuelados ((corpsescordkcorpses that “appear” in the trunks of abandoned cars); deslenguados (bodies stripped of their ability to speak); encojibados (bodies that are “delivered”—paradoxically—in blankets that should serve as protection);7 entambados (bodies that “appear” or do not appear because they have been dissolved in acid); embolsados (bodies that are “delivered” in black trash bags); las hieleras (heads that are “delivered” in coolers).
And so the inventory of words that today serve to name the complex and chilling exercise of the narco-machine over bodies could continue.
#practicesandsculture
No doubt one of the oldest and most important “contributions” of the machine in its tense dialogue with society is the use of the prefix “narco” to name a broad and disperse group of cultural practices and products.
Perhaps the oldest use dates back to narcocorridos (written like that, without a hyphen), as a noun used to name a musical genre that narrates the vicissitudes of the machine. But along with it come words that are already established as part of common speech in Mexico: narcoarquitectura (“narco architecture,” a term alluding to a style that is recognized as the machine’s own way of making itself present in space); narcoEstado (“narco State,” which alludes to diverse forms in which the machine has the capacity to penetrate the State); or narcocultura (narco culture) as a word already used in the popular domain to name (without naming) the effects of the machine on everyday life.
Although it is difficult to document with precision, one speaks of “Culiacán Tardío” (Late Culiacán) and “Miami Temprano” (Early Miami) to allude to certain architectural configurations. Clothes, accessories, diamond-studded guns made of gold, lockets, scapulars, saints, cars, and other accessories make up what is recognized as narcocultura.
#thewar/thejargon
One of the most complex fields of “Narcoñol” is undoubtedly the war and its derivations. The war on the narco, declared by the current president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, has generated a “language” that is as lurid as it is popular. The central expression in this level of speech is “collateral damage.” Following the terminology of conventional wars, it alludes to the “unintended” impacts on the defenseless body, on the innocent or beneficial victim. But this Narcoñol is full of tropes: intelligence work, suspects, “it was said,” “it is known,” “he/she was linked to.”
The combinations and their possibilities, on this level, are infinite, so I will limit myself to point out that the Narcoñol of #thewar grows in strength and scope drawing upon two key elements: the figure of the total enemy (in which so-called “collateral damage” has no importance), and the collapse of our interpretive systems, which end up producing the demented dichotomy of the “good dead” and the “bad dead.” When there are no words to describe or name useless, surplus, brutal death, jargon is a pertinent instrument to both official powers and to the narco-machine. As long as the bodies do not transcend the category of “collateral damage,” it is possible to set up a language that obstructs its emergence as evidence of the limits of barbarism. “Collateral damage” is the sign, in this case official, of the broken body.
Counter-machine
In a loose sense of the dialectic, we can be certain that a counter-machine opposes the power of any machine.8 According to the approaches I have outlined here, a possibility would be to locate a counter-machine in the State and, or, its institutions. Unfortunately, corruption, impunity, the sum of failed strategies, and the current government’s policy focused on the militarization of the territory, preclude any expectation that the counter-machine will come from the institutions of the State.
So the idea here is that the counter-machine, because of the phantasmagoric and radically disciplinary power of the machine, cannot come from any place other than society, from citizens in their multiple roles (activists, artists, journalists, cronistas, teachers, parents, students, critics).
By counter-machine (in the context of the work of the violence of narco-trafficking), I mean the group of fragile, intermittent, expressive, and fragmented devices society deploys to resist, make visible, or subtract power from the narco-machine. As Deleuze (1999) points out, “it is simple to search for correspondences between types of societies and types of machines, not because machines are determinant, but because they express the social formations that originated and use them.” I propose that as a “responding” device, the counter-machine draws from the knowledge of the different social formations (in Colombia, confronting the power of the “magicians,” as the drug lords were called; or in Mexico facing the undoubted power of the crime bosses, for example) and, on the other hand, it searches for forms or alternatives in space-time that open the narco-machine in order to explore the horizons of possible answers.
Paraphrasing Raymond Williams (1982), we could say that there are “residual” counter-machines that operate with the knowledge at hand (marches, the creation of associations and non-governmental organizations, press strategies, sit-ins, and occupations) and ”emergent” counter-machines, which operate in a different space/time and that employ the mobilization of performative information and expression, as well as viralization, to mine the ground upon which the machine resides (mainly by way of the Internet, websites, blogs, or intrusive performances in public space, among others). Of course, the devices of the counter-machine take on mixed and combined forms.
Because of space limitations, I will focus on two examples:
a) The web portal Nuestra Aparente Rendición (Our Apparent Rendition, NAR), which was founded in October 2010 by the writer Lolita Bosch. It is an emerging device, articulating different social mechanisms of response. In this sense, it is a device of the devices. Its contribution to the visibilization and open discussion about narco-trafficking in (mainly) Mexico undoubtedly lies in its capacity to move across different circuits and registers: from social-historic and political essays, to crónicas of events in small towns; from words to images; from fixed images to moving images; from denunciation to demands for justice; from the mobilizations in Mexico to its replicas in the rest of the world. The multiple registers of NAR fundamentally call for making the work of violence visible by way of the restitution and replacement of that which the machine erases in a perverse way: the dissolution of the individual body. As Sontag says, invoking Virginia Woolf’s discussion of a photograph of “what might be a man’s body, or a women’s; it is so mutilated that it might, on the other hand, be the body of a pig” (4); Sontag adds: “her point is that the scale of war's murderousness destroys what identifies people as individuals, even as human beings” (57).
The work of NAR emerges as a form of response and active mobilization against the machine and the fatal consequences of the so-called “war on the narco.” It activates critical thinking, places its “readers, viewers, visitors, and collaborators” in a position of reflexivity, making it possible for the commonplace naturalization of the violencias to clash with substantive questioning.
b) The second is the crónica, which functions as a device of the counter-machine on two levels, as narrative tool of investigative journalism and as photojournalism. In an article I wrote in 2000 about the emergence of the crónica as a form of epochal narrative, I argued that “the crónica, in the feminine, points to an orderly account of events; and in the masculine, lo crónico, as in a long, chronic illness, is established today as a narrative form that enables the telling of that which does not allow itself to be captured within the antiseptic frameworks of a genre. Or could it be that the event establishes its own rules, its own ways of allowing itself to be told?”
Narrating death, violence, and “horrorism,” in the words of Cavarero, requires the elaboration of what I then called “writing in the trenches” (escritura a la intempterie) I am thinking here of the work of three journalists/cronistas, whose sustained field work and writing over time has shed light on gray zones which are normally invisible in conventional media. Cristian Alarcón who, working from Argentina, has been able to construct ties and complicities between journalists and academics who work on violence. His work as a cronista ultimately investigates the arena where context, victim, and perpetrator destabilize—to say the least—the tendency to conceptualize the servant of the machine in terms of total monstrosity. Alarcón makes it possible for us to explore streets, houses, conversations—the modes and forms through which the machine advances in daily life in the construction of a particular subjectivity, one that is functional to its objectives (Alarcón 2003, 2011)
In a notable way, the work of the journalist Marcela Turati (2011), whose capacity to bring out the voice of victims without reducing them to their defenselessness, brings into stark relief the total desolation and destruction that the machine leaves in its wake. Her work gives visibility not only to the serialized production of broken bodies, but also to the citizens at the epicenter of the horror that are still capable of narrating their experience, and thus of living.
And then there is the work of Diego Osorno (2009), whose central preoccupation has been to lend intelligibility to the intricacies of power in the spaces where the machine mobilizes. Osorno has known, more than anyone, how to ask pertinent questions, going from the structural to the subjective story; to move through the minefield in which every phrase, figure, or occurrence articulate a vital interrogation: the complex, dark, fatal web spun by the machine as it becomes a total power.
There is much to be said of the counter-machine. I consider it an issue that concerns all of us and which demands our best analytical efforts. Here, I share only develop a few examples of the ways in which “people” have succeeded in creating devices that confront the almost total power of the machine, proposing spaces, languages, modes of interpretation that help to calibrate our precarious instruments to decipher a power that relies on the work of violence and the systematic production of horror.
I have yet to mention the work of photojournalists such as Fernando Brito (a key contributor to this issue) whose power lies in his capacity to resist two temptations when dealing with the machine’s violence: an aesthetization of the horror that ends up erasing its structural roots, and, on the other hand, the avoidance of prurience in the exhibition of the broken bodies. Brito situates himself in the very place of a witness who mourns, and is at the same time caring enough to “be there,” as Geertz (1988) would say, showing us the calligraphy of the machine in a temporal sequence that reveals the systematic work of its war apparatus.
Still to be mentioned are the performances that from of artistic or activist entry points index a counter-power that is capable of resisting the vertigo of total violence. I am thinking principally of the work of Violeta Luna, which the readers of e-misférica can see and calibrate in this issue.
In their fragility, intermittence and expressivity, the devices of the counter-machine, whether residual or emergent, are there as spaces, narratives, images and practices whose objective is to show the power of the machine and undermine its operational capacity.
For Deleuze, the task of critical thinking is to detect and reinforce the lines of flight (those spaces that escape the power of the narco-machine, in this case), which can lead to new space-times. In the face of a machine that has blocked the singularity of the human and that has worked (successfully and in collaboration with the media) to produce, in the same frequency, a normalized tone in which the bodies of the defenseless are left abandoned to sinister mathematics or the accumulation of statistical data, what is counter-machinic lies is the ability to locate and enhance the lines of flight that present themselves, or that “can be constructed, from where the unexpected can break through, the event, the ‘revolutionary becoming’ that can produce a transformation,” as Deleuze would say.
If the work of violence of the narco-machine consists—at its core—in the dissolution of the human, the line of flight lie in our intellectual, critical, artistic, journalistic, and civic capacity to raise, make visible, and emphasize the ontological crime, that which erases uniqueness in the search for its encoded profit.
Translated by Margot Olavarría
Rossana Reguillo holds a doctorate in Social Sciences, with a specialization in Social Anthropology from the CIESAS. She is a researcher (Investigadora Nacional, SNI—Sistema Nacional de Investigadores—level III) and a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. She is a professor in the department of Sociocultural Studies at the ITESO. Her research interests include: youth and urban cultures; the social construction of fear and the politics of affect (the emotions); as well as the cultural dimensions of narco-traffic and violence. Her published books include: Horizontes Fragmentados (Fragmented Horizons), Comunicación, cultura, pospolítica (Communication, Culture, Postpolitics), El (des)orden global y sus figuras (Global (Dis)Order and its Figures); her most recent book is Los jovenes en México (The Youth in Mexico, ed). A visiting professor at New York University, she has held the Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Culture and Civilization (fall 2011).
1 Translator’s note: these terms refer to bodies found in car trunks (encajuelados), decapitated bodies (decapitados), and bodies found wrapped in blankets (encojibados).
2 In Peirce’s linguistic theory, he makes the distinction between sign, icon and symbol. Regarding sign, he says: “A sign, or sema, representamen whose representative character consists of the fact that it is a second individual. If the secondary-ness [that is, the referent] is an existential correlation, the sign is genuine. If the secondary-ness is a reference [such as the case with, “the narco” as an abstract entity], the sign is degenerated. [And what is most important:] Some signs are more or less detailed instructions of what the viewer can do to achieve an experientially direct connection, another connection, to the object being signified.” Brackets are mine. See Eco (1992).
3 The war against the narco, declared by President Calderón at the beginning of his term in 2006, basically consisted in taking the army to the streets; that is, in miltiarizing the methods of combating narco-trafficking, and to increase the budget for security. I suggest interested readers see articles by the specialist Eduardo Buscaglia for a profound understanding of this.
4 The “ejecutómetro” is a daily count of the deaths in the country; it is commonly used by journalists (the newspaper Reforma has a section with that title) and it has become part of popular speech. It reads like a weather report: “Today we awoke to 72 dead.”
5 The news of the intentionally set fire of the Casino Royale in Monterrey (http://www.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/b969338e9136051cf54e4a5225248d48) made me think of the emergence of a verb I detected at the beginning of 2009 in an interview with a girl that had been tied to the Tijuana Cartel. She said to me,:“My brother learned to
6 See Reguillo (2005), this elaboration owes much to the exceptional work of the anthropologist Rita Segato (2004) and by talking with her and reading her work, I could arrive at this proposal.
7 In 2006, the artist Teresa Margolles, exhibited her polemic work, “Encojibados” in different museographic spaces, using real, bloody blankets used by narcos to wrap bodies.
8 I owe this idea to Marcial Godoy, who brought it up during one of the many editorial meetings for the publication of this issue. He made me see the central importance of expressions of citizen resistance—as disarticulated as they may appear—to confront the narco-machine’s power. I attempt to elaborate here an intermediary concept, from his suggestions, convinced that it is necessary to continue the analysis.
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Pinnacle Holdings Holding in Teekay Lng Partners (TGP) Decreased by $23.46 Million; International Business Machs (IBM) Holder Legacy Private Trust Increased Stake by $791,574 as Share Value Rose
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Pinnacle Holdings Llc decreased its stake in Teekay Lng Partners (TGP) by 0.97% based on its latest 2019Q1 regulatory filing with the SEC. Pinnacle Holdings Llc sold 1,568 shares as the company’s stock declined 2.03% . The hedge fund held 159,949 shares of the marine transportation company at the end of 2019Q1, valued at $2.39 billion, down from 161,517 at the end of the previous reported quarter. Pinnacle Holdings Llc who had been investing in Teekay Lng Partners for a number of months, seems to be less bullish one the $1.11B market cap company. The stock decreased 3.28% or $0.48 during the last trading session, reaching $14.15. About 196,820 shares traded or 9.12% up from the average. Teekay LNG Partners L.P. (NYSE:TGP) has declined 11.83% since August 11, 2018 and is downtrending. It has underperformed by 11.83% the S&P500. Some Historical TGP News: 17/05/2018 – Teekay LNG Partners 1Q Rev $115.3M; 17/05/2018 – TEEKAY LNG PARTNERS LP TGP.N – QTRLY GAAP VOYAGE REVENUES $115.3 MLN VS $101.2 MLN; 04/04/2018 – Teekay Corporation Declares Dividend; 14/03/2018 Teekay Corporation Announces Changes to Board of Directors; 04/04/2018 – Teekay LNG Partners Declares Distribution; 16/03/2018 – Teekay LNG Partners Declares Distributions on Series A and B Preferred Units
Legacy Private Trust increased its stake in International Business Machs (IBM) by 63.74% based on its latest 2019Q1 regulatory filing with the SEC. Legacy Private Trust bought 5,614 shares as the company’s stock rose 5.46% . The institutional investor held 14,422 shares of the computer manufacturing company at the end of 2019Q1, valued at $2.04M, up from 8,808 at the end of the previous reported quarter. Legacy Private Trust who had been investing in International Business Machs for a number of months, seems to be bullish on the $120.59 billion market cap company. The stock decreased 2.83% or $3.97 during the last trading session, reaching $136.13. About 5.11 million shares traded or 39.17% up from the average. International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) has risen 1.89% since August 11, 2018 and is uptrending. It has outperformed by 1.89% the S&P500. Some Historical IBM News: 19/03/2018 – Intersections Inc. Launches AI-Powered Identity Theft Protection with IBM Watson; 18/04/2018 – Markets Now: Dow Gains 20 Points as IBM Caps Upside — Barron’s Blog; 11/04/2018 – NGINX Brings Advanced Load Balancing for Kubernetes to IBM Cloud Private; 14/05/2018 – Apttus’ Intelligent Middle Office Platform on IBM Cloud Will Help Customers Generate Greater Revenue, Maximize Business; 03/04/2018 – REG-lntnl Bus. Mach: Doc re DEF14A; 17/04/2018 – IBM – IN THE FIRST QUARTER, CURRENCY DROVE 5 OF THE 9 POINTS OF EXPENSE GROWTH- CONF CALL; 26/03/2018 – Freudenberg IT (FIT) Wins IBM Top Strategic Service Provider Excellence Award; 11/05/2018 – Accenture Interactive Recognized as IBM Watson Customer Engagement Global Systems lntegrator Partner of the Year Award as part of the 2018 IBM Watson Beacon Awards; 21/03/2018 – IBM Watson, Mastercard, Walmart, CBS and PepsiCo Executives to Speak at the ARF’s CONSUMERxSClENCE; 26/04/2018 – Amazon Web Services: AWS Database Migration Service & AWS Schema Conversion Tool add IBM Db2 as a source for migrations!
Investors sentiment increased to 1.03 in Q1 2019. Its up 0.44, from 0.59 in 2018Q4. It increased, as 67 investors sold IBM shares while 524 reduced holdings. 142 funds opened positions while 468 raised stakes. 473.01 million shares or 9.66% less from 523.62 million shares in 2018Q4 were reported. Raymond James Trust Na reported 40,067 shares stake. Van Strum & Towne invested in 26,928 shares or 2.83% of the stock. 6,349 are owned by South State. The West Virginia-based Wesbanco Commercial Bank Incorporated has invested 0.82% in International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM). Tompkins Fincl, New York-based fund reported 22,907 shares. Fruth Inv has invested 0.19% in International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM). Iat Reinsurance Ltd has invested 0.38% in International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM). One Ltd Com accumulated 0.07% or 2,853 shares. Gotham Asset Ltd Liability Corp reported 483,593 shares stake. Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft Fi owns 526,788 shares. Taylor Asset Mngmt holds 2,400 shares or 0.22% of its portfolio. Moreover, Bradley Foster And Sargent Incorporated Ct has 0.32% invested in International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) for 65,163 shares. 3,554 were reported by Roosevelt Invest Group. Capital Advisers Limited Liability Corp accumulated 317,957 shares or 0.32% of the stock. Buckingham Asset Management Ltd Com has 13,004 shares.
More notable recent International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) news were published by: Finance.Yahoo.com which released: “Another Mixed Quarter for IBM – Yahoo Finance” on July 17, 2019, also Investorplace.com with their article: “Here’s Why Red Hat Is the Perfect Catalyst for IBM Stock – Investorplace.com” published on August 08, 2019, Investorplace.com published: “3 Big Stock Charts for Monday: Arconic, IBM and Westrock – Investorplace.com” on August 05, 2019. More interesting news about International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) were released by: Investorplace.com and their article: “Why IBM Stock’s Next Move Is Likely to Be Higher – Investorplace.com” published on August 07, 2019 as well as Fool.com‘s news article titled: “3 Stocks to Buy With Dividends Yielding More Than 4% – The Motley Fool” with publication date: July 16, 2019.
Legacy Private Trust, which manages about $843.00 million US Long portfolio, decreased its stake in Constellation Brands Inc (NYSE:STZ) by 14,347 shares to 29,533 shares, valued at $5.18M in 2019Q1, according to the filing. It also reduced its holding in Ishares Inc (LEMB) by 23,801 shares in the quarter, leaving it with 10,318 shares, and cut its stake in Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA).
More notable recent Teekay LNG Partners L.P. (NYSE:TGP) news were published by: Seekingalpha.com which released: “Greenlight adds Teekay position, closes Shutterfly – Seeking Alpha” on May 15, 2019, also Investorplace.com with their article: “Boring but Beautiful and Bountiful Dividend Stocks – Investorplace.com” published on May 02, 2019, Seekingalpha.com published: “Teekay LNG Partners: Last Chance To Buy Under $20? – Seeking Alpha” on September 27, 2018. More interesting news about Teekay LNG Partners L.P. (NYSE:TGP) were released by: Seekingalpha.com and their article: “Teekay LNG Partners LP: This 8.50% Fixed-To-Floating Preferred Stock Started Trading On The NYSE – Seeking Alpha” published on October 26, 2017 as well as Seekingalpha.com‘s news article titled: “Teekay: Energy Transfer Deal Suggests Huge Upside – Seeking Alpha” with publication date: August 07, 2018.
Pinnacle Holdings Llc, which manages about $720.48 million and $267.16B US Long portfolio, upped its stake in Freightcar America (NASDAQ:RAIL) by 5,120 shares to 51,620 shares, valued at $317.98M in 2019Q1, according to the filing. It also increased its holding in Citigroup (NYSE:C) by 40 shares in the quarter, for a total of 20,524 shares, and has risen its stake in Antero Midstream Corp (NYSE:AM).
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Flooding damages St Mark's Basilica in Venice
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Vatican cites immunity in refusal to send French court summons to CDF prefect
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Synod 2018's final document shows nuances on 'synodality'
Vatican City, Oct 29, 2018 / 12:14 pm ( CNA ).- Among the most debated paragraphs of the final document from the Synod of Bishops on young people, faith, and vocational discernment were those pertaining to the concept of synodality. Although all paragraphs...
Pope Francis ends synod, calls final document ?work of the Holy Spirit?
Vatican City, Oct 28, 2018 / 11:00 am ( CNA ).- Pope Francis closed the 2018 Synod of Bishops Oct. 27, calling the meeting’s final document the work of the Holy Spirit. The 167 paragraph text on young people, the faith, and vocational discernment...
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Vatican City, Oct 28, 2018 / 07:53 am ( CNA/EWTN News ).- Pope Francis offered prayers for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in his Angelus address Sunday. “May the The Most High welcome the dead in his peace, comfort their families...
Synod letter to young people: Our sins must not be an obstacle for your trust
Vatican City, Oct 28, 2018 / 06:36 am ( CNA/EWTN News ).- In a letter read out at the synod closing Mass, bishops wrote to young people “our frailties and sins must not be an obstacle for your trust.” “Our weaknesses should not deter...
Synod document calls for ?participatory, co-responsible? Church
Vatican City, Oct 27, 2018 / 05:05 pm ( CNA ).- The final document of the Synod of Bishop’s fifteenth general session was approved by the members and released late Saturday. While the session was convened to discuss the topics of young people, the...
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Youth synod final report released, addresses gender, sexuality
Vatican City, Oct 27, 2018 / 04:38 pm ( CNA/EWTN News ).- The final report of the fifteenth general session of the Synod of Bishops, held on the topics of young people, faith, and vocational discernment, was released Saturday. The document says the Church...
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) Today, Dolby Stereo is the analog sound standard, thanks to its superior sound quality and relatively simple installation. Full disclosure - I work as part of the film crew at AMC. 1-channel content. Still, for the player there foobar plugin convolver. dolby atmos & onkyo faqs Gallery: Dolby Atmos Speaker Configurations Compatible Onkyo A/V receivers scale Dolby Atmos® to suit any home theater layout from 5. com Pre Out Left, Right Tape Monitor 2 Out (L, R). A wide variety of dolby options are available to you, such as home theatre, business & education, and computer. Dolby Digital is a flexible surround sound format. Selected inputs handle the BT. The Dolby Model 361 is a noise reduction device that I've used in the recording studio. Dolby noise reduction was such an important part of their legacy that the company still pays homage to it in their logo. Powered by the proprietary DSP engine, the decoding/encoding can be performed in realtime pace, which allows instant. 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Dolby noise reduction system — Dolby NR is the name given to a series of noise reduction systems developed by Dolby Laboratories for use in analogue magnetic tape recording. Dolby B tapes generally sound OK played back without Dolby, sometimes a little bright, which is why it became ubiquitous on prerecorded cassettes. Want to rock the home theater without waking up the house? JVC's HP-W1500 wireless headphones with Dolby noise reduction might be worth checking out. Get an Unmatched Cinematic Experience at a Theatre Near you. The company said Thursday that Dolby died in his home at San Francisco. Where can I find "Sony TC-WE405 Stereo Cassette Deck w/ Dolby B-C NR HX Pro" Best Deal Check Best Price "Sony TC-WE405 Stereo Cassette Deck w/ Dolby B-C NR HX Pro" Reviews Today You can buy cheap price inexpensive is best deals best sale Discover the perfect Michele for your future. Dolby Atmos® in Onkyo home theater receivers transports you from the ordinary into the extraordinary with captivating, multidimensional surround sound that fills your room and flows all around you. Alison Dolby is on Facebook. But getting Dolby Atmos isn't as straightforward as you might think. ONKYO TX-8500 MK II VINTAGE STEREO RECEIVER QUARTZ LOCKED DOLBY SYSTEM AUDIO NR:. Film-Tech The information contained in this Adobe Acrobat pdf file is provided at your own risk and good judgment. It might be worth noting I'm often looking at the decks produced in the late 70s that show this whilst others produced in the late 80s onwards seem to have On/Off showing up a lot more often. Our trip to Dolby's San Francisco lab facility was mind-blowingly great, but it turns out that the company is ramping up efforts to let you get behind the "double D" logo. Define dolce. He’s widely hailed as a pioneer in audio technology who revolutionized movie theater sound and took the hiss out of audiotape. The problem Any analogue tape recording contains a constant background noise. "Though he was an engineer at heart, my father's achievements in technology grew out of a love of music and the arts," Dolby's son, novelist Tom Dolby, said in a statement. HDMI 7 In (1 Front*1) / Main Out, and Sub Out*2 Supporting 4K/60 Hz, HDR10, Dolby Vision™, BT. Enter the Dolby System. Dolby Atmos® in Onkyo home theater receivers transports you from the ordinary into the extraordinary with captivating, multidimensional surround sound that fills your room and flows all around you. DDi Codec is a precise digital equivalent of the classical Dolby-B/C analog tape noise reduction system. Nema 5-20R 10 Gang Verlängerung Kabel, 1. People are picked up by the conference phone in 360° out to 20ft. Onkyo has always been at the forefront when it comes to adopting and implementing new technology and features in their latest products. 1-channel content. • Clears up the sound with noise reduction, de-essing, and a fade in/out: record music and voice. Gentry Bennett Global Communications Specialist at Dolby Laboratories San Francisco Bay Area Public Relations and Communications 2 people have recommended Gentry. Dolby B-type Noise Reduction. Tape Deck Features: Cassette Playback, Cassette Recording, Noise Reduction Switch, Normal Play Buttons, Rec/Pause Button, Normal Cassette Counter, Reset Cassette Counter Button, Rec Timer Switch, Recording Balance Dial, LED Peak Level Indicator, Dolby NR Button, Counter Reset Button, & Remote Control Input as seen in picture 4. Dolby B and C noise reduction. Advanced Dolby audio processing takes care of the sound quality, so you can focus on the fun part: playing music. You have to present the decoder with exactly the same level signal that the tape was encoded with. Audiophiles of the era (and today for that matter) immediately recognize the man who took the hisses and pops out of their beloved music. Dolby C-type was later developed to provide more noise reduction than Dolby B-type, and is provided along with B-type in many of today's high-performance. Six HDMI inputs — including one on the front panel — support the latest video and picture formatting and eARC transmission of enhanced audio. Dear Big Picture Big Sound, I have an Onkyo TX-NR747 receiver which supports Dolby Atmos. 2-channel Dolby Atmos or DTS:X formats, with AccuReflex correcting the phase of direct and indirect sounds for cohesive audio imaging with Dolby Atmos-enabled speakers. We feature a huge variety at great prices. (often shortened to Dolby Labs) is a British-American company specializing in audio noise reduction and audio encoding/compression. The circuitry is amplitude-sensitive: only soft high-frequency sounds are emphasized. And it turned that out his technology could be applied to motion-picture projection— “hiss” was also a. Dolby Dimension - Not everyone can or wants to pony up thousands of dollars to piece together a home theater system capable of replicating cinema-quality audio. Set up Dolby Atmos with a 5. If mfgs didn't want to license the Dolby circuit, they would use DNR (dynamic noise reduction). 2ch AV receiver with built-in Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth®, Apple® AirPlay®, Dolby Atmos®, 8 HDMI inputs & is 4K UltraHD ready. com AUX TAPE 1classicaudio. For Dolby noise reduction to work properly, you need these three things: the proper de-emphasis (25 uS),the Dolby decoder, and for the station to pre-emphasize the signal using the Dolby standards at the time it is transmitted. Dolby B, Dolby C Noise Reduction. Dbx Type II found in the K-720 is a simplified version of the Type I noise reduction system. Set up Dolby Atmos with a 5. 1 inches high makes the NR1506 a perfect candidate as the main hub of a scaled down home theater. Dbx Type II found in the K-720 is a simplified version of the Type I noise reduction system. These manuals are designed to facilitate the. recording level, Cr02 type tape) Approx. Dolby SR is actually an adaptation of the Telefunken noise reduction system developed in Germany (though they would never admit it). this industry were — arguably — Dolby and dbx. Dolby A was the company's first noise reduction system, presented in 1965. Later in the. Ray Dolby, an American inventor known for leading work in the area of noise reduction and surround sound, died Thursday at the age of 80 at his home in San Francisco. The Dolby Model 361 is a noise reduction device that I've used in the recording studio. ) Today, Dolby Stereo is the analog sound standard, thanks to its superior sound quality and relatively simple installation. Dolby S Noise Reduction Logo SVG Vector Check out other logos starting with "D" ! dolby s noise reduction logo , dolby s noise reduction logo black and white , dolby s noise reduction logo png , dolby s noise reduction logo transparent , logos that start with "D". PV Friday 3 February 7-9pm. Selected inputs handle the BT. It is a revised version of Dolby's earlier formats, combining aspects of Dolby A, B and C (e. 2-channel Dolby Atmos and DTS: x playback HDMI 6 in/ main out supporting 4K/60 Hz, HDR10, hlg, Dolby vision, BT. Thomas Dolby to Perform at Let’s Rock Exeter on June 29, 2019. Best to leave it switched out or the sound will be incredibly dull. Dolby had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease in recent years and had been diagnosed with leukemia in July. This level is compensated for by gain in the calibration display whenever the Set-up button is pressed. 2 compatibility. Dolby Laboratories, Inc. VARIS Vari MU Tube Compressor HCL - Phantom Ediction -. Ray Dolby obituary Dolby transformed the film industry by improving sound quality with his Dolby A noise-reduction This turned out to be a smart move because it put him next door to the. That's where Dolby's first product, the Dimension wireless headphones, comes in. Within the company's first. Dolby C improves on this by taking effect from 100Hz and providing about 15dB of NR at 400Hz, increasing to a maximum of 20dB in the critical. 2020, and HDCP 2. Restaurants near Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles on TripAdvisor: Find traveler reviews and candid photos of dining near Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. dolce synonyms, dolce pronunciation, dolce translation, English dictionary definition of dolce. Dolby introduced Dolby Pro Logic, an analog surround-sound format, in the early 1980s, and the first version of Dolby Digital in 1992. The receiver also supports Bluetooth, NFC, Wi-Fi, AirPlay and Wireless multi-room. 2-ch AV receiver with Wi-Fi®, Dolby Atmos®, DTS:X™, HEOS, Dolby Vision compatibility & Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG) support. Dolby noise reduction system — Dolby NR is the name given to a series of noise reduction systems developed by Dolby Laboratories for use in analogue magnetic tape recording. I don't really know if this would be useful outside of a recording studio setting at all, and this will review will be focusing on this application of the 361 since that's the setting I've used it in. Antonyms for Dolby Laboratories. Rarely, some high-end decks will have an option for Dolby S NR which is by far the best, but as said incredibly rare. The dolby circuitry seems to work as it should. He died in his home at San Fransisco His work in noise reduction and audio technology created an entire industry dedicated to delivering compelling and thrilling audio. 1 Surround Sound editing in Adobe Premiere Pro - YouTube See more. The first was Dolby A professional noise reduction for recording studios in 1966, but the best known is …. VARIS Vari MU Tube Compressor HCL - Phantom Ediction -. 1, 10, including Creators Update; Modified by ME; Test Mode must be enabled). At half the height of a traditional AV receiver, the NR1510 features the latest in HDMI connectivity and delivers high-resolution surround sound from Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio. What is the difference between Corsair Void Wireless Dolby 7. As a licensed technology (although Dolby makes professional S-type encoding equipment), it provides 24 dB of noise reduction at high frequencies and 10. Many cassette tape machines meant to play music cassettes - will have either Dolby B or Dolby C or both settings as one of the controls available. The best way to deal with a troublesome noise is to avoid recording it in the first place. They were one of the first to add HDCP 2. HA12170NT, HA12161/162FP are silicon monolithic bipolar IC series providing dual channel Dolby B- and C-type noise reduction* in one chip. This answer however is purely my own opinion and does not in any way represent AMC's views. According to Gianluca Sergi’s book The Dolby Era: Film Sound in Contemporary Hollywood, Ray Dolby had always wanted to get into Hollywood. This is accomplished by boosting the high frequencies in the sound recording to mask out the high frequency noise in the recording medium. 5 dB NR l DolbyON LowLevel Pin19 0 0. Championship winning motors for QMA, USAC, BSP, AKRA, WKA, & ASN. It is a revised version of Dolby's earlier formats, combining aspects of Dolby A, B and C (e. First album featuring Dolby noise reduction A new level in album art design The from MHL 153 at Paradise Valley Community College. The first was Dolby A, a professional broadband noise reduction for recording studios in 1965, but the best-known is Dolby B (introduced 1968), a sliding band system for the consumer market, which helped make high fidelity. The Dolby. Dolby Noise Reduction. Film-Tech The information contained in this Adobe Acrobat pdf file is provided at your own risk and good judgment. are all NON-PROFESSIONAL systems and should not be used for anyone who wants to make a recording that will play on any other machine than the one that was used for recording. Restaurants near Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles on TripAdvisor: Find traveler reviews and candid photos of dining near Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Yeah, different switches on different decks so one will have In/Out below the Dolby NR label whilst another deck will be On/Off. Noise reduction in-out JF8 Link Dolby tone JF9 Power AC3G JMI 2 3 E N EARTH POINT 2211 2211 RL2 03 IN914 NR in-out Push oripush off LP2 Clear 30v 40mA 14 RL2 14 Relay PC 10 board assy. This Onkyo TA-2027 Left-Loading Stereo Cassette Tape Deck is loaded with features ONKYO TA-2027 - Stereo Single Cassette Deck with attached power cord ONLY. The circuitry is amplitude-sensitive: only soft high-frequency sounds are emphasized. Audio Noise-Reduction IC Single-ended system achieves 25dB of noise reduction without pre-encoding. We specialize in GX Honda & Chinese OHV Series Engines for Karting, 1/4 Midget, Mini-Bike, Mokai, Winch Boarding, Tractor pulling, and Bar Stool applications. Upgraded with set of new fader caps (OEM fader caps included). 99 USD and provides additional support for Dolby Atmos movies. Things have come a long. DTS Neural:X™ identifies spatial effects in multichannel soundtracks and upmixes for 3D playback through object-audio-ready speaker systems. dole out; Dole Robert Joseph dolent; dolente. HDMI 6 in/ main out supporting 4K/60 Hz, HDR10, hlg, Dolby vision, BT. In addition to the basic 5. BlueJeans is the world's leader in cloud video conferencing. Dolby Laboratories, Inc. The Teac AN-180 is a noise reduction unit employing the Dolby B system. 14% today,. Dolby B tapes generally sound OK played back without Dolby, sometimes a little bright, which is why it became ubiquitous on prerecorded cassettes. The Dolby. DTS Neural:X™ identifies spatial effects in multichannel soundtracks and upmixes for 3D playback through object-audio-ready speaker systems. If you deal with bad audio often, you need a good noise reduction software. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up Dolby Atmos Dolby Atmos (61) 4. 2-Ch Network A/V Receiver - in this case DTS:X. DOLBY’ S NEW SPECTRAL RECORDING SYSTEM AND ITS POTENTIAL FOR THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY by JOHN F. The Dolby 361 is a rack mounted control unit that houses 1 Dolby 'A' or 'SR' noise reduction card, and allows automatic switching between the Dolby card's playback and record modes via command. Dolby B-type Noise Reduction. 1 RGB and Turtle Beach Ear Force Stealth 700? Find out which is better and their overall performance in the PC and gaming headset ranking. A wide variety of dolby options are available to you, such as home theatre, business & education, and computer. Newegg has the ONKYO 9. The NR1607 is Dolby Atmos-ready out of the box. Dolby, who had been living. auc-iris: Quick shipment ++ performance guarantee! Only as for the Sony Sony TC-K333ESJ gold 3 head cassette deck DOLBY B,C,S NR deployment simple substance component stereo remote control missing part body - Purchase now to accumulate reedemable points! | Rakuten Global Market. In practical terms, music you record onto a compact cassette is spoiled by a constant underlying hiss. 2 and Dolby Atmos, and once again they lead the way by adding the latest Immersive Surround Sound formats to the new TX-NR646 7. Scientifically, Dolby Digital is the marketing name for a series of audio compression techniques developed by the U. Says Williamson, "I can ever, not only is there an amplitude circuits-whether dbx or other types- always hear Dolby C pumping, and difference, but treble rolls off and, to tend to exaggerate imperfections in find Dolby B much more acceptable. The dolby circuitry seems to work as it should. The Dolby 361 was ubiquitous throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Under the Cinematic section in the Sound Blaster Control Panel I have selected "Dolby Digital" since my Z 906 speakers can handle Dolby Digital and / or DTS directly. Windows Sonic for Headphones is available out of the box, while Dolby Atmos for Headphones is $14. Since the group delay happened in the tape deck after Dolby encoding, I'd like to phase correct _then_ Dolby decode but my Dolby B processing is an external analog processor (Advent 100A or Sony NR-335) and I'd like to avoid the multiple A-D / D-A conversion that would require. But these days, for better and. Dolby B only "dolby's"the high freq's,whereas Dolby A/ SR utilized the 4-5 band encode/decode process. 2 surround sound speaker system using Dolby Atmos elevation speakers, or dedicated overhead speakers, for the ultimate home theater experience. 1 ch source to available speaker configurations Equipped with 4K compatible HDMI IN/OUT jacks Supports the HDMI Standby Through function which. And it always has been. 2 pass-through Your Onkyo receiver can now be part of your existing Sonos Home Sound System, or the start of a new one. The Onkyo TX-NR676 7. Enter the Dolby System. This Onkyo TA-2027 Left-Loading Stereo Cassette Tape Deck is loaded with features ONKYO TA-2027 - Stereo Single Cassette Deck with attached power cord ONLY. Dolby SR improves the dynamic range of analog recordings and transmissions by as much as 24 dB, providing the performance typically associated with digital recording formats. The Dolby systems for noise reduction employ circuitry which pre-emphasizes high frequencies before they are recorded onto tape in order to make them larger than the tape hiss noise with which they compete. The unit comprises independent playback, record, meter amplifier and oscillator circuits, all utilising such new solid state circuit elements as ICs and FETs. Vintage working Wollensak 4765 cassette recording deck with Dolby B noise reduction. It has the capability to broadcast in Dolby 5. Dolby might work to reduce high frequency noise, but I can't imagine what horrible things scratches would do to the Dolby decoders? I wonder if Ray Dolby did think of vinyl noise reduction? Probably went in the too hard basket? The noise types and spectrum are too random, compared to tape hiss. (Dolby’s being conservative with that “20ft”: it actually picks up voices out to 30ft or so just fine. DTS Neural:X™ identifies spatial effects in multichannel soundtracks and upmixes for 3D playback through object-audio-ready speaker systems. Join Facebook to connect with Alison Dolby and others you may know. It is Dolby Pro-Logic. CEO Kevin Yeaman [Photo: courtesy of Dolby] When I ask Dolby CEO Kevin Yeaman why Dolby decided to get into the consumer electronics game on its own, he doesn't go out of his way to sell it as a. Best to leave it switched out or the sound will be incredibly dull. At 33/4 ips, how-It is well known that noise -reduction maximize S/N. 1 the read out is Stereo or Dolby Digital, on a channel that broadcasts in PCM the read out is Dolby Surround. Enter the Dolby System. Ray Dolby, the inventor and engineer who founded Dolby Laboratories and pioneered noise-reducing and surround-sound technology widely used in the film and recording industries, has died in San. This rating was created for another variant: NR-1609 (7. Dolby Surround Tools can also play an impor-. Get an Unmatched Cinematic Experience at a Theatre Near you. Join Facebook to connect with Alison Dolby and others you may know. San Francisco-based Dolby, has tied up with Taiwan-based electronics maker Acer to bring its patented sound technology to smartphones and some laptops. On the back is a pair of speakers connections labeled "back surround/height. Dolby Atmos multidimensional sound Onkyo is among the first to introduce the exciting Dolby Atmos surround-sound format to home theater environments. Vintage Fostex 380S Multitracker Cassette Recorder With Dolby S Noise Reduction This unit has been thoroughly cleaned both inside and out. n trademark any of various specialized electronic. The original Dolby Surround decoders in consumer equipment only played back the surround channels. The noise reduction that Dolby offered me came at a too high price -- lifeless listening. Dolby B-type Noise Reduction. org is the most popular site for finding and trading live concerts anywhere. Define dolce. CEO Kevin Yeaman [Photo: courtesy of Dolby] When I ask Dolby CEO Kevin Yeaman why Dolby decided to get into the consumer electronics game on its own, he doesn't go out of his way to sell it as a. com FM PHONO classicaudio. DOLBY’ S NEW SPECTRAL RECORDING SYSTEM AND ITS POTENTIAL FOR THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY by JOHN F. An early star on MTV, his intelligent videos and songs like “She Blinded Me With Science” and “Hyperactive” became huge hits, standing the test of time. com FM Quadradial Output Main In Left, Rightclassicaudio. Things have come a long. Ray Dolby obituary Dolby transformed the film industry by improving sound quality with his Dolby A noise-reduction This turned out to be a smart move because it put him next door to the. He was born in Portland, Oregon in 1933, to Earl and Esther Dolby and raised in San Francisco. With Dolby Vision it creates a truly cinematic experience. An external operational amplifier is required. Being a 4-band system also helps it hide its tracks. “Dolby Labs is an American company specializing in audio noise reduction and audio encoding/compression”. The first was Dolby A, a professional broadband noise reduction for recording studios in 1965, but the best-known is Dolby B (introduced 1968), a sliding band system for the consumer market, which helped make high fidelity. The program got downmixed to basic Dolby Digital or Dolby Pro Logic Surround 2. Read product specifications, calculate tax and shipping charges, sort your results, and buy with confidence. is an American company specializing in audio noise reduction and audio encoding/compression. 1 the read out is Stereo or Dolby Digital, on a channel that broadcasts in PCM the read out is Dolby Surround. Common PCB pattern is available with HA12134A series (Dolby B NR), because these ICs offer similar pin layout. Check out showtimes for movies out now in theaters minutes for pre-show and trailers before the show starts. I got the chance to take in an advanced screening on Thursday night of Marvel's new film Doctor Strange, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, at a Dolby Cinema at the AMC Theatres in New York City. An early star on MTV, his intelligent videos and songs like “She Blinded Me With Science” and “Hyperactive” became huge hits, standing the test of time. The Onkyo TX-NR656 is a 7. For Dolby noise reduction to work properly, you need these three things: the proper de-emphasis (25 uS),the Dolby decoder, and for the station to pre-emphasize the signal using the Dolby standards at the time it is transmitted. Dolby S Noise Reduction Logo SVG Vector Check out other logos starting with "D" ! dolby s noise reduction logo , dolby s noise reduction logo black and white , dolby s noise reduction logo png , dolby s noise reduction logo transparent , logos that start with "D". 2-channel Dolby Atmos or DTS:X formats, with AccuReflex correcting the phase of direct and indirect sounds for cohesive audio imaging with Dolby Atmos-enabled speakers. , the range in deciBels between peak level and noise floor) of analogue recordings and transmissions by as much as 25 dB. The Dolby noise signal is sent to the tape recorder at 15 dB below the established Dolby level. Every studio had a couple of 361s but they are now surprisingly rare on the secondhand market. A RECORDING APP WITH CLEAN SOUND, AUTOMATICALLY • Clears up the sound with noise reduction, de-essing, and a fade in/out: record music and voice. Tape Deck Features: Cassette Playback, Cassette Recording, Noise Reduction Switch, Normal Play Buttons, Rec/Pause Button, Normal Cassette Counter, Reset Cassette Counter Button, Rec Timer Switch, Recording Balance Dial, LED Peak Level Indicator, Dolby NR Button, Counter Reset Button, & Remote Control Input as seen in picture 4. View Dolby Laboratories DLB investment & stock information. Dolby licenses its technologies to consumer electronics manufacturers. This level is compensated for by gain in the calibration display whenever the Set-up button is pressed. Subsequent versions, such as Dolby HX-Pro, served to broaden its usage considerably. if the Azimuth was out,It drastically affected the high freq'sonly made worse with Dolby. Aaron and Jennifer. Wondering here because. Dolby C at 71 dB quoted from WM-D6C and Dynamic Range of 97 dB (at 1 kHz, dbx in). Dolby B and C noise reduction. It has the capability to broadcast in Dolby 5. For Dolby noise reduction to work properly, you need these three things: the proper de-emphasis (25 uS),the Dolby decoder, and for the station to pre-emphasize the signal using the Dolby standards at the time it is transmitted. A Dolby noise-reduction system, or Dolby NR, is one of a series of noise reduction systems developed by Dolby Laboratories for use in analog audio tape recording. Dolby Atmos: The TX-NR747 receiver is Dolby Atmos (5. Says Williamson, "I can ever, not only is there an amplitude circuits-whether dbx or other types- always hear Dolby C pumping, and difference, but treble rolls off and, to tend to exaggerate imperfections in find Dolby B much more acceptable. Dolby B, Dolby C Noise Reduction. Define dolce. dolby atmos & onkyo faqs Gallery: Dolby Atmos Speaker Configurations Compatible Onkyo A/V receivers scale Dolby Atmos® to suit any home theater layout from 5. Manually everything seems to work finer but the fast forward function. Dolby Labs and Disney are both recommendations of Stock Advisor. At 33/4 ips, how-It is well known that noise -reduction maximize S/N. (NOTES: Compatible with Windows 7, 8, 8. As I recall there were many prerecorded cassettes that were made in Dolby B, but I never saw any prerecorded tapes in Dolby C. Dolby Noise Reduction Simulation (NR-B-Decoder for cassettes) If your player is not fitted with Dolby, MAGIX audio cleaning lab 2005 simulates the decoding of Dolby B + C noise reduction. Dolby A/B/C/S-Type NR: professional and consumer noise reduction systems for tapes and analog cassettes. The first was "Dolby A" professional noise reduction for recording studios in 1966, but the best-known is "Dolby B" (introduced 1968), a simplified version of Dolby A for the home market, which helped make high fidelity. Unlike fully companded systems (dbx is one), Dolby A operates in a linear fashion above a certain threshold, -40 I seem to recall, and only gets into it’s non-linear range below that. Features datasheet search, datasheets, Datasheet search site for Electronic Components and Semiconductors, integrated circuits, diodes and other semiconductors. dolce synonyms, dolce pronunciation, dolce translation, English dictionary definition of dolce. Does anyone have any idea what this setting does? Sounds like a sound thing to me! It's trying to reduce picture noise (film grain, compression artefacts, pixellation etc. DTS Neural:X™ identifies spatial effects in multichannel soundtracks and upmixes for 3D playback through object-audio-ready speaker systems. com Pre Out Left, Right Tape Monitor 2 Out (L, R). Once the update begins, don't turn off the power supply to the A/V receiver until it is time to restart it. Note if you don’t have Dolby S use Dolby B for playback as Dolby S is supposed to be compatible with Dolby B and in my experience it is. In this case, for noise reduction we only need an. Bolton Abbey lies in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales near Skipton. Dolby SR, however, goes far beyond any other noise reduction system in its ability to improve the overall quality ofa recording or transmission channel. The first was Dolby A, a professional broadband noise reduction for recording studios in 1965, but the best-known is Dolby B (introduced 1968), a sliding band system for the consumer market, which helped make high fidelity. Aaron and Jennifer. With Dolby Vision it creates a truly cinematic experience. Dolby aims to bolster audio, video conferencing in huddle rooms. The circuitry is amplitude-sensitive: only soft high-frequency sounds are emphasized. This photo of Ray Dolby holding one of his prototype noise reduction circuits is probably the most widely published of him and therefore the most iconic of the Dolby noise reduction system. Dolby is introducing a more emotional way to experience the music you love with Dolby Atmos, now supported on Echo Studio and Amazon Music HD. Dolby Noise Reduction (Dolby NR) is a system for encoding and decoding analogue audio signals on magnetic tape in order to minimise tape hiss. The Onkyo TX-NR676 7. Naturally, the non-Dolby performance of the Beta SP deck was not considered to be important, and was in fact, marginal, according to Jim. 1 RGB and Turtle Beach Ear Force Stealth 700? Find out which is better and their overall performance in the PC and gaming headset ranking. 2 pass-through Your Onkyo receiver can now be part of your existing Sonos Home Sound System, or the start of a new one. The Dolby noise signal is sent to the tape recorder at 15 dB below the established Dolby level. Dolby B is the earliest, weakest, and by far most common type. Hence the signal would be decoded with the incorrect amount of de-boost. We specialize in GX Honda & Chinese OHV Series Engines for Karting, 1/4 Midget, Mini-Bike, Mokai, Winch Boarding, Tractor pulling, and Bar Stool applications. 1 RGB and Corsair HS70 Wireless? Find out which is better and their overall performance in the PC and gaming headset ranking. com AUX TAPE 1classicaudio. Ray Dolby: Miss Representation. Since the group delay happened in the tape deck after Dolby encoding, I'd like to phase correct _then_ Dolby decode but my Dolby B processing is an external analog processor (Advent 100A or Sony NR-335) and I'd like to avoid the multiple A-D / D-A conversion that would require. Days out at Go Ape are about living life more adventurously, having fun, spending time with friends and getting in touch with your inner adventurer. Set up Dolby Atmos with a 5. com to deliver your goods as quickly as possible using our fast, efficient delivery service which comes direct to your home and is FREE!. Most "hi-fi" cassette decks had at least Dolby B and the really good ones had Dolby C, as Rex indicated. Dolby Atmos combines traditional home theater speaker layouts with either ceiling-mounted speakers or new Dolby Atmos-enabled speakers to create a plane of sound above the listener. DTS Neural:X™ identifies spatial effects in multichannel soundtracks and upmixes for 3D playback through object-audio-ready speaker systems. But getting Dolby Atmos isn't as straightforward as you might think. Dolby SR is actually an adaptation of the Telefunken noise reduction system developed in Germany (though they would never admit it). (Wikipedia, 2015) Dolby Home Theater is simply a sound processing software developed by Dolby. Buy LG UBK90 Streaming 4k UHD Blu-Ray Player w/ Dolby Vision + 1 Year Extended Warranty at Walmart. Many cassette tape machines meant to play music cassettes - will have either Dolby B or Dolby C or both settings as one of the controls available. DDi Codec is a precise digital equivalent of the classical Dolby-B/C analog tape noise reduction system. Dolby NR is the name given to a series of noise reduction systems developed by Dolby Laboratories for use in analog magnetic tape recording. Dolby B, Dolby C Noise Reduction. You can even compare Dolby In and Out on classical music and how it reduces noise on quiet passages. 2, which means you can play UHD Blu-ray discs and stream UltraHD video in the highest quality. Define dolce. 3 3/4 Inches Per Second as well as 7. At Mobile World Congress in February, I had the chance to try out a Dolby Atmos cinema setup — and the impact of the multi-speaker surround sound technology, plus the additional height channels. Abstract: DOLBY NOISE REDUCTION SYSTEM Text: HA12179F Audio Signal Processer for Car Deck and Cassette Deck ( Dolby B-type NR with PB Amp) ADE-207-136 (Z) 1st Edition Description HA12179F is silicon monolithic bipolar IC providing Dolby noise reduction system* 1, line mute, music sensor and PB equalizer system in one chip. 2 pass-through Your Onkyo receiver can now be part of your existing Sonos Home Sound System, or the start of a new one. Including Dolby C noise reduction in a compact portable was not easy, and the integrated circuits which performed most of the functions had to be made by Sony themselves. The midpriced Onkyo TX-NR575 receiver sounds good and comes fully loaded with Dolby Atmos and Chromecast built in, but it's not our first choice. The first was Dolby A, a professional broadband noise reduction for recording studios in 1965, but the best-known is Dolby B (introduced 1968), a sliding band system for the consumer market, which helped make high fidelity. Dolby SR is actually an adaptation of the Telefunken noise reduction system developed in Germany (though they would never admit it). Dual Dolby B/C-type NR processor NR OFF/B/C control switch MPX by-pass / Encode / Decode (MPX. 0 All products including a Cash Back gift - generate an amount equal to% of the value of the merchandise you buy, The voucher has a 30 day calendar and you can use it for the next purchase of goods from the site in the category marked on the voucher. In a controlled environment, like a recording studio or a film set, you’re blessed with a quiet space, clean power and revealing monitors, so that isn’t too difficult to do. Having listings from almost all the good cinemas in your city, BookMyShow is the ultimate destination for a movie buff to book tickets online nearest cinemas. UPDATE: Adobe has not renewed their Dolby license so as a result, any Dolby export functionality will not be available in any version of Premiere Pro CC, Aud. Aaron and Jennifer. Unlike the processing of derived height channels for Dolby Pro Logic IIz and Audyssey DSX, Atmos directly encodes height information. This includes virtually all commercially produced tapes—look for the double–D symbol (2) on the inlay card, or on the cassette tape itself. DOLBY’ S NEW SPECTRAL RECORDING SYSTEM AND ITS POTENTIAL FOR THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY by JOHN F. 1 inches high makes the NR1506 a perfect candidate as the main hub of a scaled down home theater. It might be worth noting I'm often looking at the decks produced in the late 70s that show this whilst others produced in the late 80s onwards seem to have On/Off showing up a lot more often. It was intended for use in professional recording studios, where it became commonplace, gaining widespread acceptance at the same time that multitrack recording became standard. DOLBY A 301 - ORBAN 'S EQs - WEM & vintages DOLBY A 301. Since the group delay happened in the tape deck after Dolby encoding, I'd like to phase correct _then_ Dolby decode but my Dolby B processing is an external analog processor (Advent 100A or Sony NR-335) and I'd like to avoid the multiple A-D / D-A conversion that would require. Fostex Model 3040 Dolby C Noise Reduction Unit Please click on Thumbnail for larger view Status: NEW OLD STOCK. Something is not right. stereo preamp + ams + dolby b* noise reduction processor dual channel processor for play-back applications. Dolby C improves on this by taking effect from 100Hz and providing about 15dB of NR at 400Hz, increasing to a maximum of 20dB in the critical. Rear Panel: AC Outlet Unswitched AC Outlet Switchedclassicaudio. Free 2-day shipping.
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Matt Ridley: They ridiculed skeptics. The skeptics were right.
Another excellent article by Lord Matt Ridley
UPDATE: Read it in full on Matt’s Blog. (ht Gordon/backslider/harrie/RPS/John)
Argument by ridicule is not just something that happens, it’s the main approach:
“In the old days we would have drowned a witch to stop the floods. These days the Green Party, Greenpeace and Ed Miliband demand we purge the climate sceptics. No insult is too strong for sceptics these days: they are “wilfully ignorant” (Ed Davey), “headless chickens” (the Prince of Wales) or “flat-earthers” (Lord Krebs), with “diplomas in idiocy” (one of my fellow Times columnists).
What can these sceptics have been doing that so annoys the great and the good? They sound worse than terrorists. Actually, sceptics have pretty well all been purged already: look what happened to Johnny Ball and David Bellamy at the BBC. Spot the sceptic on the Climate Change Committee. Find me a sceptic within the Department of (energy and) Climate Change. Frankly, the sceptics are a ragtag bunch of mostly self-funded guerrillas, who have made little difference to policy — let alone caused the floods.
On floods, the skeptics agree with the IPCC:
“Here’s what the IPCC’s latest report actually says: “There continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale.”
No, 97% of “climate scientists” don’t agree it will be dangerous warming
“That consensus, by the way, has never said that climate change will necessarily be dangerous. The oft-quoted 97 per cent agreement among scientists refers to the statement that man-made climate change happens, not to future projections. No climate change sceptic that I know “denies” climate change, or even human contributions to it. It’s a lazy and unpleasant slur to say that they do.
The Skeptics were right.
“Sceptics say it is not happening fast enough to threaten more harm than the wasteful and regressive measures intended to combat it. So far they have been right. Over 30 years, global temperature has changed far more slowly than predicted in 95 per cent of the models, and has decelerated, not accelerated. When the sceptic David Whitehouse first pointed out the current 15 to 17-year standstill in global warming (after only 18 to 20 years of warming), he was ridiculed; now the science establishment admits the “pause” but claims to have some post-hoc explanations.
Full article: The sceptics are right. Don’t scapegoat them (Paywalled)
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212 comments to Matt Ridley: They ridiculed skeptics. The skeptics were right.
Theres no chance you can copy/paste the article here? Im guessing you wont be allowed. Have to subscribe to see the full article.
Enlightenment and scientific critique/debate is some some of the basis for ending up with the right policy. In other words scientific based policies.
The problem the Western world is facing today is that we have ended up with more and more policy based science?
Backslider
You can read it on Matt Ridley’s blog: http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/the-sceptics-are-right-don%27t-scapegoat-them.aspx
Kevin Lohse
First they ignored us, then they laughed at us, now they’re fighting us and we’re going to win. Trite but true.
Eric Worrall
Remains to be seen. Lets just say I hope politicians like Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP, checks his breakfast cereal with a Geiger counter. Nasty stuff, Polonium – seems to get everywhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko
King Geo
UKIP know, we know yet how come there are so many folk out there who believe that “AGW is real” despite the fact that it is obviously not real. The only conclusion I can reach is that many folk out there have not graduated from their childhood mindset, ie still believing in Santa, the Easter bunny, tooth fairy and so on. Their IQ’s are OK but only in the “juvenile stage” of human mind development. Clearly these adults with juvenile minds can be easily manipulated by “populist mythical propaganda” like the “Theory of AGW”. I guess these folk with juvenile minds could be referred to as, in “adult terms”, brain dead.
You’re right – it clearly isn’t a logical response to the evidence available. Alarmism seems to have a strongly emotional element to it – I think of it as a religious cult.
NikFromNYC
“Can renewable energies provide all of society’s energy needs in the foreseeable future? It is conceivable in a few places, such as New Zealand and Norway. But suggesting that renewables will let us phase rapidly off fossil fuels in the United States, China, India, or the world as a whole is almost the equivalent of believing in the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy.” – James Hansen, 2011
No, I think whats happening is the trendies have been stripped off ( so they can follow some other worthless cause ), and all that are left is the hard core Communists who are being clearly exposed as using whats provedn to be false – and want to take down our way of life. But now they have to get very nasty to keep it all going.
Watch this space – now it will get really ugly because the true face of evil that is this mob – they will now take off the mask & gloves and just being very open what they are – truly nasty.
The battle for happiness and our way of life, technological progress, a better life, is now properly underway.
As the Godfather would say – were going to the mattresses.
I think whats happening is the trendies have been stripped off
Yes, it is going to get ugly, very ugly. Those that think they can slink away are already trying, those that know they can’t are going crazy.
The problem for the Professional Left is that every single one of them dived into the AGW hoax boots and all. Every activist, journalist and politician of the left has not just fallen for the crazed lies that adding radiative gases to the atmosphere would reduce its radiative cooling ability, they went so much further when they vilified sceptics to silence them. Only now are they waking up to the ultimate horror. They have done it all in the age of the Internet. The record is permanent. The shame is forever. They can scrub like lady Macbeth, they can even use the Scotchbrite, but the putrescent stain of global warming advocacy wilt not out.
For the Professional Left, global warming was the ultimate “gotcha” for free market democracy. This was it! This was the ultimate justification for global socialism! After 1990 many activist pseudo scientists knew something was very wrong with the AGW hypothesis, but the carrot was dangling oh so close. Faced with a choice between pushing on and lying or retreating to try again, they ignored the rising power for freedom, reason and democracy – the Internet. After all they had gotten away with the Montreal protocol. What could possible go wrong?
Everything is what. They had control of the “narrative” in the lame stream media, but they couldn’t control new media. The Alinsky methods no longer worked in the age of the Internet. The Internet empowers the voice of the individual over the crowd. For a lie this big to work in the age of the Internet, they needed to silence everyone who could tell the truth, not just most. They had billions of dollars and the megaphone of the lame stream media yet they lost to a handful of bloggers.
For years the Professional Left have touted themselves as society’s intellectual and moral elite. In pushing the global warming hoax and vilifying sceptics they have proved for all time they are neither. There is no hope now of trying to slink off to some other manufactured eco crisis like bio-crisis, sustainability or fresh water. Sensible folk would purge their ranks of the compromised, acquire new people and above all apologise for their actions. The Professional left are not sensible, they are craven and venal and have no wish to surrender their trough privileges.
In their foaming rage and desperation for survival, the Professional Left will try to create a new crisis to kick up enough dust to obscure their rout on global warming. They are going to try to “trash the joint”. Observe their ALPBC going all out to engineer conflict with Indonesian. It is going to get ugly.
I agree, but as you know a cornered animal is dangerous…
Twodogs
The Internet killed the global warming star.
That’s a fantastic question and I’ve a plausible answer in the psychology of religion. Religions from around the world all have similar mythological motifs…resurrected heroes, world creations, and also apocalyptic floods and salvation. The AGW “story” is so believable to the more imaginatively inclined and less scientifically literate because it resonates with the primal mythological motif of the Flood Story. It goes something like this…the weather will be wrathful, and the seas will rise in a great flood due to mankind’s “sin” of using using fossil fuels which is a transgression against mother earth (goddess) and only through repentance (carbon tax, driving electric cars) can one be saved. We are not witnessing a scientific debate here but the spontaneous imaginative creation of a religion. It’s difficult if not impossible to argue rationally against one’s religious conviction, which is why true believers are so incorrigible.
There’s a hilarious Climategate email in which an alarmist discusses making a press complaint against UK skeptic Christopher Booker, for daring to suggest there might be a pause in Global warming.
http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php?file=4890.txt
Dear Phil,Happy New Year!
I am forwarding an exchange of e-mails I had with David Whitehouse last week about the Met Office’s press release on 2008 global temperatures. You will see that he is persisting with his stupid argument that global warming ended in 2001 – he is still managing to sway people with his argument, and it is the same as Christopher Booker is using virtually every week in ‘The Sunday Telegraph’.
So I am planning to go public over my argument with Whitehouse and to take Booker to the Press Complaints Commission.
Ah the good old days of climate alarmism – back then you could claim the science was settled, and there was no pause in global warming, without anyone laughing.
Good points but I still won’t be satisfied until at least the leaders of the global warming alarmists are behind bars for committing the biggest scam of all time.
Many have been stupid (or mistaken).
Many have been ignorant (or accepted wrong explanations).
Many have blindly accepted what was said with authority.
Some didn’t care either way and took advantage of the situation.
Some did know CAGW was wrong, but pushed it for alternative reasons (population control, wealth distribution, political control, money).
It’s this last group I would like to see have some retribution. Particularly the Politian’s that have forced a huge cost upon the very people they govern, when we can not opt out of their madness. Many thousands have already lost their lives due to what politicians have implemented (suicide, freezing cold).
Were fighting the direct implementation of Communism in Australia now.
No quarter will be given, nor expected.
Let’s hope we don’t end up like the Ukraine where a civil war has just erupted.
Philip Shehan
Now I have seen everything. Nine people (thus far) give the thumbs up to this lunacy.
Eric Worrall, the funny thing is that when that email was sent to Phil Jones on 07/01/2008 we already had this from Phil Jones!
Dr. Phil Jones – CRU emails – 5th July, 2005
“The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it has but it is only 7 years of data and it isn’t statistically significant….”
Then in 2009 Dr. Phil Jones says:
7th May, 2009
‘Bottom line: the ‘no upward trend’ has to continue for a total of 15 years before we get worried.’
Then it became a flood of acceptance about the temperature standstill [up to this year too].
The trend for the last 15 years is the same as for the last 35
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/uah/from:1958/mean:12/plot/esrl-co2/from:1979/normalise/scale:0.5/offset:0.02/plot/uah/from:1979/trend/plot/uah/from:1999/trend
Ceetee
Eric, there’s nothing like historical perspective is there?. I wonder if that unnamed alarmist now has the humility to acknowledge the dick he once was or does he still exist in his peculiar mixture of arrogance and ignorance.
Sadly Bob Ward is still going strong – partying like its still 2009
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/14/uk-floods-climate-change-rainfall-storm
Particularly large and fruitful public teat he’s sucking on then I suppose.
Phillip Bratby
At Bishop Hill I posted the following comment:
“On reflection, I think I would slightly disagree with the statement that sceptics “have made little difference to policy”. I can’t think of any policies that sceptics have had any effect on. I would be interested if someone could find any.”
Nobody has yet come back and told me of any policies in the UK that have been altered in any way, shape or form by sceptics. Anybody know of any?
Lets say there’s a gathering storm – the rise of the openly skeptical UKIP shows that climate mania is losing its grip on popular thinking. And Cameron’s statement he will restart dredging could be seen as a policy concession – the suggestion that the floods were due to climate change seems to be faltering in the face of accusations that the floods are down to eco-lunacy.
Eddie Sharpe
Would this eco-lunacy of which you speak Eric, would it bear any relation to European Commission o’ lunacy ?
Isn’t Eric referring to his Irish alter ego, Eric o’ Lunacy (Ec for short).
Matty from England
Another formerly unheard of EC Bureaucrat letting her Federalist slip show.
Viviane Reding a Vice President of The Commission (as if one wasn’t enough), who said the 18 eurozone countries should form a full fiscal and political union, in a lecture to Cambridge University’s law faculty .
‘”bold reforms” were needed to avoid tensions across Europe as new governance arrangements were introduced to stabilise the single currency.’
They’re utterly clueless. Bringing all of Europe under one central government will not provide the stability they want. The USA can’t provide a sensible fiscal regime to all her states – an interest rate which stabilises inflation in New York destroys jobs in New Orleans. Europe is simply too diverse to have a single currency.
blackadderthe4th
@Eric Worrall
‘restart dredging could be seen as a policy concession’, but:-
Dredging is not the answer!
‘…there have been repeated suggestions that dredging rivers could have limited some of these problems especially in Somerset, well a report out today suggests dredging could actually cause more problems than it solves. So how do we stop future flooding…is the head of policy at Chartered Institute Of Water and Environment Management, whose report claims there are inherent problems with dredging…’
Watch for yourself:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AW-jfRX4lI
Mark D.
He said rantingly.
I suppose, then, we stop Mother Nature from making rain?
‘He said rantingly’ so can I assume you didn’t click on the link? Because if you had, basically you would have heard an expert reasoning why dredging is not the answer! Regardless of what Mother Nature thinks.
Blackudderlyridiculous, yes you can assume I didn’t click the link. Dredging was the answer for years. When the dredging stopped, the flooding started. I call that cause and effect with empirical evidence to support.
What have you got again?
Come on Mark, he has a collection of YouTube videos that even published papers can’t get near accuracy wise. Just ask him.
YouTube is his authority.
Heywood, I still don’t see what he’s got. Youtube is his propaganda resource but how many people fall for it?
@Mark D.
‘yes you can assume I didn’t click the link’, well that is unfortunate, because you may have learned something, from experts in the field of water management. But what do they know about anyhow?
BA$.. you know that nobody clicks on your links.
Why bother. !
You are just a waste of space. A mark on the underpants of the world.
Will J. Browne
Can you point out the ranting in his comment? It’s about the only comment I can see on this page that isn’t ranting (or raving for that matter.)
Perhaps if you had been visiting this blog for more than 5 minutes, you would know BlackIdiotthe4th’s history.
Please Heywood, don’t wish that on us.
BA4, MtR/HJ, etc bring more than enough moronic idiocy.
Can you point out the ranting in his comment?
It’s right there in front of you! (hint!)
Dredging worked in the Levels for 300 years, and Holland would be underwater but for a comprehensive dredging program. The Thames valley and the Medway basin flooding would have been mitigated if the main rivers and drains had been kept in the traditional manner. Ideological idiocy has in fact resulted in the deaths and loss of habitat for many more animals than would have been lost otherwise. In other parts of the country, where the traditional methods of flood control have been left lately untouched, not so much flooding. Our floods are exacerbated by exactly the same mindset that makes Australia’s bush fires so devastating – an underlying hatred of humanity masquerading as concern for the environment.
…well a report out today suggests dredging could…
This is simply a different consideration. It doesn’t make it correct.
So this idea needs to be considered, as well as the idea that dredging would have prevented/reduced the fooding. And one or the other, or a comprimise between the two, to be made.
Your statement
Is wrong and silly, and based on something that “could”.
Somebody needs to inform Tim Flannery who is making appearances claiming that CC is the reason for the UK flooding. What a pest he is.
An AMOEBA would have a greater IQ than flannery !
Fenbeagleblog
hi Phillip
There has been a move towards reducing subsidies for renewables. And some improvements in the planning requirements in the UK. It doesn’t amount to much in itself but it does send a message I think. Particularity if you add the award issued to John Hayes MP and ex energy minister for campaigning against wind farms.
Clearly, I would like a lot more.
One difference that has been made is they’ve ensured the warmists know that there is a contrary view and that view is at least as robust as the orthodox. Not hard. One other is the fact that there is also a popular view that goes against the orthodox. Humans aren’t that stupid. Most humans. Some of them. You can fool…
It’s good to know that they’re there and have real support but there has to real action. I don’t know what’s happening in the UK but in OZ we have a brand new government which is prepared to challenge the orthodoxy.
One instance: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/climate-sceptic-dick-warburton-to-head-tony-abbott-review-into-renewable-energy-target-20140217-32vve.html
Because this was apparent to our former government they laid on the most persistent and despicable character assassination ever launched at one person. They knew they were history if he succeeded.
They are.
The world is turning.
(In fact, they knew they were screwed when he stared down the Prime Minister over the ETS (‘the greatest moral challenge in our lifetime’ if I remember right) way back in 2009.)
Its odd how society has long regarded skeptics as somehow bastions of scientific truth when we offer opinions on UFO’s, religious miracles, psychic powers and the like. But when we express doubts about whether humans are driving a mass extinction scenario by way of CO2 production, we are suddenly “nut bags”.
Many times throughout history the few have proven to be right in the face of the mockery of the many, especially in science. However this lesson never seems to get learned and as I have said before, its deeply hurtful to a questioning mind to live in an age where curiosity is regarded as stupidity.
I wonder if someone could do a model of world economies and energy production assuming that no one was sceptical of CAGW and every single proposed policy of warmists was just taken up immediately. How would the world look? Im guessing it would be darker than it is now because no one could afford what small amount of electricity was available. I mean lets keep in mind the kind of the policies we are referring to.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-12/greens-demand-nsw-coal-power-closures/2791086
Thank all the fictitious gods for skeptics. We may not have had much of an impact, but by crikey we are making life miserable for some. I often get a warm little glow when I think of the seething hatred people like Milne and Flannery have for people like us. They give us an extraordinary amounts of their mental energy and time and lets face it, they have lots of mental to spare.
All the big mass hysterias I can think of postulated a crisis – with Witch burning, it was the imminent ascendancy of Satan on Earth, with Eugenics is was the rise of the genetically unfit, forcing humanity back down the scale of evolution. With climate change, it is carbon pollution, destroying the world.
In each case they had a crisis and a scapegoat, and plenty of advocates screaming in public that we don’t have time to be sure, we have to ACT NOW.
I believe it is a faultline in our psyche – a hangover from our evolutionary ancestors. If you caught a glimpse of something which looked like a lion jumping at you, it was more important to jump out of the way, than to spend a few seconds working out if it actually was a lion.
We seem doomed to repeat the same sad pattern, again and again.
Absolutely correct, Eric.
The herd mentality is an inherent weakness of cognition which lies vestigially within the DNA of Homo sapiens, and may well be the greatest (and possibly fatally insurmountable) limiting factor in the further advancement of humankind, IMHO. This flaw, or at least structural weakness in mankind’s cognitive responses, has therefore been ruthlessly exploited throughout the ages by religious leaders, zealots, charlatans, monarchs, despots and dictators, and by governments of all political stripe, in one way or another ever since the dawn of humanity.
This is further manifest by the extreme social prejudice and recrimination against those “heretics” like ourselves who hold firm opinions contrary to accepted norms, such that vigourous discussion or disagreement in a social context is a complete anathema to the status quo, to the point of actually marginalising or ostracizing those of us whose beliefs may be even slightly controversial to the collective majority, no matter how well argued or rational that opinion may be.
Fortunately for skeptics, stubborn persistence is winning this particular ideological war, as the lack of evidentiary support for alarmist contentions becomes patently obvious to the common man in the street. Anger is simmering below the surface, and I predict that should alarmists persist, it is they who will taste to “sweet kiss” of the inevitable backlash.
ruthlessly exploited throughout the ages by religious leaders, zealots, charlatans, monarchs, despots and dictators, and by governments of all political stripe
Not so sure about the ‘herd’ mentality Winston, although I acknowledge it exists (football fans for example). Humanity is too diverse and too intelligent to exhibit ‘herd’ mentality for long. The human psyche embraces the need to be individual as it does the need to belong, in typical bell curve tradition. There will therefore always be those individualists and those of the herd persuasion.
The absence of the MSM in your list of usurping tyrants seems a oversight to me. I lay the present day furore of green hysteria soundly at the feet of a feckless, low intellectual wattage, politically biased, acritical MSM. They have pumped the hysteria and catastrophism for all its worth, with all their might for a variety of vested reasons.
They play not to the herd instinct but to the hard wired ‘threat’ instinct. That is what unites all of us and may potentially at least, keep us at the back of or returning to, the cave. We are naturally very attentive and preoccupied by any threat, real or imagined.
The answer to ‘threat’ is rational, reasoned, factual debate and disclosure of the truth. And that is exactly what those threat mongers and destructive, revolting lefty green activists absolutely don’t want. They have no heart, no ear, no intellect and no spleen for the truth. Why?
SImply, it will destroy their cause.
Well said Manfred, but the herd insect is a protection against the threat you mention?
KK, I’d ike a few noxious herd insects with a penchant for Green!
The herd may well convey an illusory sense of ‘protection’ against threat – ‘strength in numbers’. Nonetheless, the evolutionary arrival of an impressively sized cortex has ensured that there are sufficient of indviduals prepared not to herd. The survival and flourishing of the species is fortunately not entirely at the mercy of the ‘herd’ response is it?
On reflection, ‘the herd’ may have arisen less out of overt threat than out of an progressive MSM politically pumped guilt driven aspiration of ‘save the planet’. The institutionalisation of ‘save the planet’ arose from a political perception of being seen to promote no one could in their right mind appear to disagree with. There was of course the added attraction of a stupendous new source of tax revenue.
In reality, the ‘fear’ was always bit fudged and reeked of being socially engineered. It was also prone to rapid goal post changing out of a necessity, in order to maintain some coherence with empirical observations, so ‘warming’ morphed to ‘change’, which in turn is morphing to ‘disruption’. Out of necessity, largely imperceptible ‘climate’ change became ‘weather’.
The whole shaky thing is an ‘epic’ travesty of all that is good in science, intellectual pursuit and the beneficent nature of humanity, and it began to seriously fall apart when the motives of the dank, grasping cash ‘n control, green fingers could no longer be hidden from plain view. The sad thing is that it will have manufactured doubt and uncertainty, and it will have ‘injured civil society’. I imagine it may take time to recover wisely and intelligently placed ‘faith’.
Just read that second comment.
Absolute 97% proof vitriol.
And as to the other issue of misspelling “instinct” as you pointed out all I can say is that I am glad I didn’t say herd insert instead.
That would have given me nightmares about hundreds of cows and bulls all herded together.
I think Winston is correct about the “herd mentality”. Manfred, I agree that the MSM play to our hardwired “threat instinct”, they also do a lot of playing to the herd mentality that is seen at the time as positive.
The 1920s bubble, the Poseidon bubble, the 1980′s stock market bubble, the dot com bubble, the US housing CDO bubble, the Kevin 747 bubble, the Gillard bubble, The Obama bubble, and the many bubbles that are yet to crash like the sales of statins and Serotonin Re-Uptake Inhibitors. Clothes fashion is nothing more than a rapid cycling bubble and bust, bubble and bust.
The majority of people behave not just like a herd in response to their threat instinct but also when they strive for money, status, guilt suppression and living longer.
Maverick you have mentioned one of my pet peeves; SSRIs.
Got to be one of the biggest conns outside of Global Warming.
Serotonin in Big Pharma has assumed the position of CO2 in CAGW and both of these memes have caused great human damage.
My favorite analogy about Antidepressants is that they are like filling up a leaking car radiator with water. Not a good analogy but a good start to a useful discussion.
Fair point – most of the mass death shooters in the USA had been on anti-depressants at the time.
I recall reading somewhere that some anti depressants can make people psychotic.
my own personal view of antidepressants is simply the difference between the young and old.
Old people who go on SSRIs know from experience that things often get better. When the SSRIs don’t work they just shrug their shoulders and feel a little disappointed.
Young people on the other hand feel like sh@t, are given antidepressants and told that these are the best and most effective cure for depression.
When they don’t work, as they can’t, the youngsters , without any past experience to fall back on assess their situation as follows: ” I have just been given worlds best treatment; it didn’t work; I must be a very bad case.
result: youth suicide.
A brilliant comment Winston: the first para needs to be engraved somewhere, perhaps on Prince Charles’ forehead for all to read.
The herd mentality was certainly a benefit to all animal groups but has become less valuable
since the arrival of that dangerous mental construct and entity;
Also I remember hearing a psychologist on the radio explaining that it takes between 3 and 5 pieces of contra information, at least one of which must come from a trusted source such as a family member to undo one fear related piece of information presented to someone.
On the one hand this is obviously a great evolutionary trait because it no doubt has saved our smarter ancestors from being sceptical about the likelihood of encountering a giant bear in a cave when someone who was there yesterday tells them to look out. But on the other hand it makes people somewhat easier to manipulate with fear if you know this and are in a position of authority with the ability to communicate en mass.
So CAGW is a gimme for fear mongers. Its a pretty believable correlation argument to the average Joe and when it comes from seemingly reputable sources (to most people) such as Government science organisations and the like, its probably going to take some time for anyone to undo that fear. Basically if you were a full on warmist the only way your going to get that idea out of your head is if your brother is John Christy and your Father in Law is Richard Lindzen. Otherwise, once its in your brain, your probably screwed.
Quite true but the counterpoint is that can you imagine the utter discredit that will be visited on science, universities, political parties and all other fellow travellers on the CAGW gravy train when reality catches up? Not to mention the laughing stock that western society will become around the globe in international fora and how it will give a free kick to all the thugocratic regimes out there.
How is that for a scary story?
Sadly I doubt it. When Eugenics fell, it didn’t take them long to move on to (back to?) population growth and resource scares.Then along came climate to keep the gravy flowing.
The next scare will be tech related – some high tech doomsday scenario, biotech, nanotech, AI, robots taking all the jobs, kids ruining themselves playing ever more compelling and realistic games, take your pick.
or alien invasion……
Alien invasion scares have been tried, several times, but they didn’t get enough traction to provide a decent pot of gravy.
Still the academics listen in hope, they haven’t completely given up on the idea. Imagine what a signal carrying blueprints for alien technology would do for the SETI budget. If only they had a bigger radio dish…
Sounds like you are talking about Ms 2% or is that 3% Senator Sarah Hansen-Jones. No wonder the green vote % is dropping with such an air head as spokes—- the greens. I am sure common sense or even general knowledge doesn’t exist in her make up. How she is the mouth piece for everything that happens in this country is beyond me. The media needs a new mouthpiece. I would suggest she is responsible for the rise of the sceptic and the demise of the groups she supposedly represents. Perhaps you are talking about John Kerry. Now that’s a flash piece of intelligence. Bet he couldn’t tell the meaning of his own speech today to the Indonesians on climate change. Must have a pretty good speech writer.
jorgekafkazar
Yes, it’s safety’s-sake pattern-finding where none exists. Its recent counterpart is “wiggle-matching,” the seemingly endless proliferation of sciency papers showing two variables varying in tandem, except where they don’t–interesting, but usually without an accompanying hypothetical mechanism to test.
OTOH, I’m not so sure I’d call something that served us well for millions of years a “faultline.”
Gee Aye
So Eric… what is the “evolutionary scale”? Do you mean less adapted to the circumstances? Click on my name and admit to yourself at least that you don’t understand it – it is highly visible in what you’ve written.
Im an MSDS groupy and by the way they are called SDS’s now to align with the changes in the model Act and Regs which combined dangerous goods and hazardous substances into “hazardous chemicals”…. all without a single explosion
http://www.thelaw.tas.gov.au/tocview/index.w3p;cond=;doc_id=%2B122%2B2012%2BAT%40EN%2B20140219000000;histon=;prompt=;rec=;term=
thanks Safety – I know about the change in name and the changes in the new Act. We all adapt.
Throw MSDS into a search engine though and you get what you expect whereas “SDS” ends up with bubbles.
Yeah exactly, its going to take time to work through and I am still saying MSDS and writing it in documents etc. Seems like change for changes sake mostly.
Vic G Gallus
The Guardian? How low brow can you get?
A few points. Lactose persistence is a number of mutations, not just one, and it reduces to different degrees as people mature rather than it goes away completely.
Many cats can drink milk as adults. It is not that unusual a trait in animals.
The diet of Scandinavian people used to be highly dependent on dairy during the winter. It is also a very important part of the diet of the Masai but a survey found that 62% are lactose intolerant, and still drank milk. It might be a case of only those who could live off just dairy who dared to ventured that far north rather than natural selection.
Dogs were domesticated 17 000 years ago and mature within a year, so that is 17 000 generations. Despite all the breeding rather than natural selection to give a very large assortment of breeds, they are still grey wolves.
Otherwise, I agree with you that people do not appreciate how natural selection works. I know one group of people who claim to have evolved to be a smarter population because of their hard lives in ghettos. I’m not sure why they want to advertise that they were into eugenics because only that could have caused ‘evolution’.
sorry I can’t follow what this means either in context or as a stand alone?
I’m not sure why they want to advertise that they were into eugenics because only that could have caused ‘evolution’.
To breed a smarter population (increase average IQ) you would need to kill off the dumb ones before they breed, although this doesn’t make the top half any smarter.
Nobody does that. You’re safe.
Vic, you aren’t suggesting Eugenics are you, or worse (eg WWII).
They have done that !!
We may be safe for now, but there are radicals out there, in power now, who might actually decide to try something similar.
ps.. from several years of teaching it seems that the dumb ones are breeding much faster than the intelligent ones.
Ok… I was not sure whether the ghetto people were misusing “evolved” to mean that they themselves (not their offspring or offspring’s offspring) had become smarter or if the population was smarter.
They might also be claiming that the stupid people had failed to reproduce since smartness is needed to survive in a ghetto (according to them), leaving only the smart ones to produce the next generation, which as a consequence (according to them).
This would not be eugenics but it doesn’t show a much better understanding of quantitative genetics. Given the multi-gene, multi-allelic and multiple interaction (within the genome, between gene and environment etc) nature of just the genetic component of intelligence, imagining that tough ghetto conditions, or any other thing, could assist breeding for an intelligent population is absurd. This is not even considering the environmental factors. However intelligence has evolved and has done so in our ancestral populations/species. I wonder how?
second paragraph should end with “… as a consequence() increased population average intelligence.
No, Griss. I believe that the education system doesn’t come close to getting the most out of the students as they are. I also believe that you should be judged by how moral you are, not how smart. The work I do now could be done by someone of below 100 IQ but I’m stuck with this because I pissed off an a*hole.
Yes, Griss, there are people still thinking that eugenics is good for everyone, and that their kids should rule the world.
And Gee Aye, our intelligence evolved over tens of thousands of generations that viewed other tribes as no better than other animals. Evolution could have occurred in ghettos, to a minute extent, but by growing the a*hole gene as much as the intelligence gene. I was just pointing out that its a silly thing to be spreading such an idea around (and people were).
Please Mr Ridley, “post-hoc explanations”?
Not even a rational optimist would refer to the desperately concocted, rationalising fairy tales spun by the CAGW loons as “explanations”.
Never underestimate the capacity of an English gentleman to make his case with studied over-politeness. I would have added, “ad hoc” to, “post hoc”, or even,” winging it”, “bloviation” or, in extremis,” misrepresentation”, but then I’m only a gentleman courtesy of Her Majesty.
And never underestimate the capacity of an Australian gentleman to point out to an English gentleman that, from time to time, he is being over polite. That said, your last suggestion of “misrepresentation” as a categorization of the desperate, CAGW post hoc fairy tales is quite acceptable although I would add a preceding qualifier of “gross” or even “grotesque”.
Can we agree upon 2 nations divided by a common language? I rather like,”delusional misrepresentation”. as it infers a cognitive weakness.
Not completely separated but just enough to create some creative perspective. ”Delusional misrepresentation” is just about perfect.
But “cognitive weakness”!? Just think of Stephan Lewandowsky let alone some of the other beacons of evangelical absurdity and clearly that is a significant understatement. “Cognitive disconnect” is better but how about “synaptic dysfunction” or “serious loss of synaptic function”. How about “indication of a new sub species evolving from the brave new world of ecomania, ‘homo sub-sapiens’”.
I’ll have breakfast now.
I think the word “fool” covers it much more neatly.
People who are essentially fence sitters with the AGW fraud have to realize this insulting and threatening behavior of the warmists is not only directed at “Sciency” or “Academic” types but them also, the old saying of leading a horse to water has never been more poignant than this tragic situation and if these horses still won’t drink after being shown so much of it there will be little chance left to curb this madness.
One could compare various ridicule or ad hom’s thrown from both sides but the greatest difference is the true intent of this ridicule both in it’s content and desired final outcomes, regardless of what happens I’ll never regret the stance I took and hope others stay like minded, we should never lose or forget our Panache.
As a South African human resources consultant once said to me Yonnie.
(insert South African accent)
“Peter, you can lead a horse to water, but sometimes you have to shoot it”
Funny. Pete, but we have two sides thinking along the same lines and it will not be horses that get shot.
The new Wopplemann et al study finds SLR during the 20th century was only 4.3 inches in the SH and 7.9 inches in the NH. Or 10.75cm SH and 19.75cm NH for 20th century.
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/new-paper-finds-20th-century-sea-level.html
Just adds more doubt again with all the other more recent SLR studies about so called CAGW.
That is strange!
I always thought that water finds its own level (at least after a while). So how did the Sea Level Rise by 7.9 inches in the Northern Hemisphere and only 4.3 inches in the Southern Hemisphere?
Is there some sort of Strange Attractor for water in the NH?
Or is the uncertainty for sea level measurements more than 7.9 inches in both hemispheres?
When looking at the mean of levels at stations, they should take the mean of the middle 50% or maybe look at look at how the mean flattens out when removing a certain percentile of the stations with the largest changes (pos and neg). Land subsiding or rising is too large for some to assume that they cancel each other out over a large sample size.
Gravity anomalies (mountain ranges and troughs in the earth’s mantle), plus ocean currents, plus wind; push the water around unevenly over the surface of the earth. The water level is in constant flux and never consistent at any one location.
Maybe because more people need more water.
92% of the population of Planet Earth live in the Northern Hemisphere.
So, that’s 6.65 Billion people living above the Equator, and 0.58 Billion living in our Hemisphere.
Spooky, eh?
So, umm, is the World top heavy?
Could this lead to a, er, tipping point?
PeterK
If you have ever read the “HAB THEORY”, maybe the world is bottom heavy, causing the world to wobble more and eventually we will reach the tipped point when the world (outer shell) will roll moving the arctic and antarctic into the equatorial zone. Talk about an end of the world scenario…this could possible be the next issue the greens could tackle!!!
There is also more land in the NH.
A large proportion of rain events are driven by, and triggered by the land/sea interface.
I haven’t checked but I would not be the least surprised if a perusal of the Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and the Abel’s Medal [ not the less prestigious but much better known Field's medal ] in Mathematics weren’t by the far all regarded as Skeptics in some way by their peers in their disciplines.
It is the skeptics who because they are out on the fringes of thinking and who regularly challenge the conventional consensus thinking on a subject who usually make the big breakthroughs that create the sudden shifts upwards in the progress of our civilisation from the caves and tents of some 15,000 years ago to today.
As a side line, there are often questions asked as to why Alfred Nobel never made provisions for a prize for mathematics, a discipline which is the one absolute fundamental and underlies every single advance of modern civilisation.
It seems that Alfred Nobel just plain wasn’t interested in mathematics so to put a myth to bed;
The Reason There is No “Nobel Prize for Mathematics” Had Nothing to Do With Any Wife/Mistress of Alfred Nobel
If, as we are so often seeing in climate science, the researchers do not understand statistics or even the fundamentals of modelling or so many other mathematical angles of climate science, their research usually these days after great trumpeting of their scientific and research prowess is very shortly shown to be little more than just plain crap of no real value to science or anybody else.
Thats the message I get from the likes of Lucia’s blog, Steve Mc’s analysis , Judith Curry’s denizens and many other climate blogs.
But if anybody wants to look through history for the great breakthroughs I think that they will find it is indeed rare for the consensus science followers to uncover and develop the great advances in science, in engineering [ the greatest respect in the 18th and 19th century was for the engineers, not scientists, who built the machines and the infrastructure , the roads , the rail roads, steam ships, ports, water and sewerage systems mills and industrial systems upon which so much of our civilization is still based ] in the chemical industries that are also a fundamental underpinning of nearly everything we touch and use today and just about every advance that we have seen over the last few centuries.
It is the maverick skeptics who have made the big breakthroughs
Most have failed but they or others try and try again until one or a couple acting for the most part on their own volition finally achieve the big goal and breakthrough that shifts society and civilisation to a new level.
And perhaps there is another such breakthrough on the near horizon which most of us may be around to witness and that is the Lockheed Martin Skunkworks hopefully mastering and harnessing of the Fusion Reaction process which if it is a viable operating energy production system will totally revolutionize energy production, energy use and energy based processes which is most, in ways we cannot even begin to imagine today.
And those who know a little of the Skunkworks history and it’s successes way out on the ragged edge of the known and just achievable today will know well that the small tight knit teams of Skunkworks researchers are anything but consensus followers of the present order in the world of aviation, fusion energy and who knows what else.
Hail to the Skeptics for without you the world would be a much worse place for humanity today
And the disgrace of it all is that people like Christy, Lindzen, Curry etc are lampooned for holding a contrary view. I have seldom been so appalled in my life as I have been at the treatment of reputable scientists in the 21st century. I mean how does anyone in this debate DARE to call this man a flat earther???
http://youtu.be/KDFH0Hs4Q8s
People like Prince Charles DARE….. DARE to even speak in such terms of a man like Christy. SHAME!!
George McFly......I'm your density
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round,
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound…..
You mean Columbus & Edison who recognised that things go in cycles.
You can only go on forever by going in cycles.
scaper...
That must explain the warmist giddiness.
Denying the cycle and hence trying to prevent their heads disappearing up their own rectums.
crakar24
They all laughed when Flannery said it will never rain again and even if it did it wont fill our dams………….oh sorry you both were being sarcastic my mistake.
yea, they always draw a straight line between two points and declare “in 100 years it will be thiiiis big”.
Tom Harley
It was the Flintstones wot dun it, “ancient DNA scientist” says we should worry, SNWA embellished and in Nature?
They laughed at Columbus for thinking that Asia was 1/4 of the distance from North Africa than it really was.
They were not that stupid less than 1000 years ago. India back then was the land east of the Indus and he was trying to get to an Island off the east coast of Asia (the Indies, as in Indonesia, Indochina, the East Indies). The American Natives do look like East Asians because they are closely related. He was not that thick.
His amateur mistakes might not have been real either, but an attempt to get funding without admitting that he new another land was closer to Africa (wood from different trees being washed up on African beaches). One of these was to refer to the Bible when arguing that Asia was close enough to reach.
Matt Ridley report available here.
http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/the-sceptics-are-right-don%27t-scapegoat-them.aspx
Andy Hurley
Reality check to self……….I am called a denier , but I spend a huge amount of time all over the web, trying to find one single piece of evidence that CAGW is any real threat. I guess this is doubting Thomas syndrome.
At a certain age one appreciates that Politicians lie some of the time , Lawyers lie most of the time , and CAGW enthusiasts lie to themselves all of the time.
So from the blog of Stefan the denier, I take huge comfort that the Troposphere has been regulating our atmosphere ever since man crawled upon this Earth and only something really Catastrophic could alter that.
From other sceptic blogs I see a belief in some AGW but a doubt as to the extent or harm it could cause.
What I do not find anywhere is absolute proof for any of it.
So the null hypothesis remains my baseline warming/cooling, what where ? With an efficient Troposphere , and surely this is just physics , warming somewhere =cooling elsewhere and vice versa?
Here’s Sue from HotWhopper at her scintillating best:=
Anonymous = me
AnonymousFebruary 18, 2014 at 9:26 PM
Peter Lilley MP summed global warming up very well today when he asked Dr Emily Shuckburgh (at an Energy and Climate Change Committee hearing) whether the fact that half of all the CO2 ever emitted by man had been emitted since 1997 and coincidentally there had been no significant warming since that date, had altered her confidence in the IPCC’s longer term predictions.
SouFebruary 18, 2014 at 9:45 PM
Correction: “Peter Lilley MP illustrated global warming denial and his ignorance of the use of statistics in climatology…”
AnonymousFebruary 18, 2014 at 10:01 PM
man , you really are funny , why dont you just say “nananananaaa! so there”
… half of all the CO2 ever emitted by man had been emitted since 1997 and coincidentally there had been no significant warming since that date, …
the impact that the IPCC has had.
David Mulberry
What I find interesting…John Kerry refuses to debate us skeptics because he doesn’t have time…ha ha ha
The full article, no paywall: http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/the-sceptics-are-right-don't-scapegoat-them.aspx
Nic Lewis’ comments on England’s recent paper about “unprecedented trade winds pushing heat into the deep ocean” are a real treat
http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/2/14/england-oh-england.html
Oh geez!…. they can’t be ruining a perfectly good paper and “hypothesis” with something as scientific as REAL measurements…. surely?
Thanks Harrie.
Thanks Harrie very good read.
take heart everyone, slowly the tortoise wins the race.
eg,
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/gore-vs-wuwt.png
traffic metrics
wuwt up 5%
climate realityproject down 25%
climate reality project down 18%.
Take heart, we’ve been winning the battle since the climate change madness peak in 2007.
Look at google search history for the terms “climate change” and “global warming”.
Dropped by 80% over the past 7 years.
http://www.google.com.au/trends/explore#q=Climate%20change%2C%20Global%20warming&cmpt=q
That’s a 1:1 correlation, as time goes on people care less and less about the great big lie.
At the very least this is a FANTASTIC bit of data to show all your green idiot friends.
Article without paywall. http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/the-sceptics-are-right-don't-scapegoat-them.aspx
Sorry for posting the link after it was done twice already. The other links did not show up initially.
[No need to feel sorry, they were all caught in the moderation filter. It's good that you made the effort. Thank you.] ED
Sonny,
very interesting!!
Hillary Clinton On Energy And Foreign Policy: We Need To ‘Address The Very Real Threat Of Climate Change’
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/10/19/1047081/hillary-clinton-on-energy-and-foreign-policy-we-need-to-address-the-very-real-threat-of-climate-change/
In a speech on energy diplomacy yesterday afternoon at Georgetown University, Clinton talked about the importance of sustainability and climate issues on the international policy agenda.
“We…have an interest in promoting new technologies and sources of energy – especially including renewables – to reduce pollution; to diversify the global energy supply; to create jobs; and to address the very real threat of climate change,” said Clinton.
Hillary Clinton Exposed, Movie She Banned From Theaters –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOy6ZagodUE
When your economy is 16 Trillion in the hole and you have no prospect of turning it around, your going to clutch at every straw of revenue you can. The USA continues its experiment with transforming the largest free market economy in the world into a patchwork of socialist nonsense at the same time as China transforms its patchwork of socialist nonsense into a free market economy.
America continues to display the characteristics of a society that they themselves would attack if any other nation was behaving in this way. Not only do they have almost 1.5% of their population behind bars, the work conducted by those prisoners would be regarded as slavery if it took place in any other country.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289
They are as a nation a complete disgrace. The land of the free is now the land of the hypocrite. They occupy the lowest position of morality on the planet yet crusade with force to impose their insane systems and values on other sovereign nations. We should have as little to do with them as possible if we really believe in the things they used to stand for.
Hillary Clinton…….one stupid B.TCH !
The shrillness is becoming terror.
The meme will rapidly degenerate to;”Burn the Witch”.
It is getting funny, the consensus clowns have projected their own mendacity upon their imaginary enemy from the beginning.
The evil sceptic is everywhere, if you doubt the true faith, you are evil.
The cries from within the ranks of the cult will become ever more strident and delusional.
Their problem is plain, having their fixed idea on what motivates people, they can only project their worst fantasies upon the public, being the worst, they expect the worst.
The coming back stabbing, betrayal and violence will surprise most sane citizens.
I will be cheering them on.
The shrillness is becoming terror. I like.
That’s pretty shrill all right.
How do you benefit from this scheme, robbing the many to enrich the well connected few?
We have all seen and heard the blessing the cult members wish upon all who question their divine wisdom.
The constant barrage of presumed motivation, from these name calling wits.
What will you do when you lose your faith?
Cause faith is all the CAGW cult has.
If you actually had science, you would be the hero of the cause.
Shame eh, all these years, all that public tax treasure wasted, but no empirical data to support the magic gas delusion.
Course you may believe you have some empirical data, a workable hypothesis defining the increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration as cause of the non warming of these last 17 odd years.
If so, send it to the IPCC, they need your help.
Nobel prize and payola to follow.
The Cassandra Effect and Insulting Climate Sceptics | ManicBeancounter
[...] There are two articles published today that are related. Bishop Hill posts about the “reverse Cassandra effect” and Jo Nova comments on Matt Ridley’s article in today’s Times on THE SCEPTICS ARE RIGHT. DON’T SCAPEGOAT THEM. [...]
Kevin Marshall (ManicBeancounter)
The insulting of climate sceptics is perfectly understandable as an example of the Cassandra effect – speaking the awful truth and not being believed. Consider the example of Ignaz Semmelweis. He showed that doctors washing their hands between examining patients saved lives. The implied awful truth that every experienced hospital doctor in 1840s Vienna had to accept was that, due to their ignorance, they had killed people when their vocation was saving lives.
Many politicians must be in a similar position. They started out wanting to make a positive difference. They thought they could be part of “saving the world”. Maybe not as spectacularly as James Bond, or Flash Gordon, but they can still expect to receive plaudits and a place in history. Or at least some praise in the Guardian and opportunities to rub shoulders with World Leaders and Nobel Laureates at exotic locations. Now they realise they have endorsed policies that are harmful and regressive, for, at best, a trivial problem. They might be feeling a bit like those poor doctors in 1840s Vienna.
The-man-who-wants-to-northern-rock-the-planet
The run on the Rock
Northern Rock sunk by poor leadership
Matt Ridley becomes Chairman of Northern Rock, a solid northern English bank.
Northern Rock embarks on a risky, and unusual, policy of sourcing most of its funding on the wholesale market to maximise profitability.
Northern Rock’s risky funding policy causes it to be particularly vulnerable to the sub-prime banking crisis.
Ridley contacts the UK government to arrange a bailout after his bank becomes the first bank in 150 years to suffer a bank run; this is to save investors and depositors from losing all of their savings.
The taxpayer bails out Northern Rock to the tune of £27bn.
The House of Commons Treasury Report on the collapse of Northern Rock singles out Ridley for criticism, saying he failed “to provide against the risks that [Northern Rock] was taking.”
Ridley publishes a book called The Rational Optimist. “He uses it as a platform to attack governments which, among other crimes, ‘bail out big corporations’”
Ridley writes an article in the Times claiming that “sceptics” are correct on climate change. He claims that climate change isn’t a risk and that measures taken to combat it are “wasteful and regressive”.
JoNova immediately writes a post praising his “excellent article”.
A bunch of people go online to agree and vent their rage at ‘alarmists’.
Anyway, my question is: Is it true what they say about lemmings?
handjive
That depends on what sort of lemmings:
Is it time to join the ‘preppers’? How to survive the climate-change apocalypse
Uncovered 16th Century Hallucinatory Images Suggest That Today’s Climate Science Is Nothing But A Persistent Human Mental Disorder
What sort of lemming is Will J. Browne?
A ‘prepper’ it would seem, suffering from “16th Century Hallucinatory Images.”
Should I take my family (and could I eat them)?
Oh boy. I sure hope this is tongue in cheek humour. It’s difficult to tell.
Nice ad hom. Can’t attack the argument so attack the man.
If you’re considering advice from someone on assessing a risk, do you not thing their track record on risk management is relevant?
Now – where, oh where to find a plausible argumentum ad hominem on Nic Lewis ?
Be careful Will, Nic has supplied peer-reviewed papers to the IPPC by invitation
I must have missed the part in the article where Jo Nova praised Matt Riddleys’ “excellent bank”.
INTERVIEWER (JoNova?): Hello Mr Ridley. We’re looking for an expert to advise us on the risks posed by climate change. Can you give us an example of where your approach to risk management has resulted in a positive outcome?
MATT RIDLEY: I certainly can. When I was chairman of Northern Rock, and chairman of its Risk Committee, we embarked on a highly risky policy of accessing most of our funding on the wholesale market. There were a lot of old fuddy-duddies who were worried, but I assured them that there was no risk.
INTERVIEWER: And what happened?
RIDLEY: The banking crisis hit. It turned out that our policy was so risky that we suffered the first bank run in the UK in a hundred and fifty years. People’s life savings were about to go up in smoke; our employees were about to lose their jobs; even worse, we were about to drag a lot of other banks down with us. We were a danger to the whole economy.
INTERVIEWER: Good God! And what happened then?
RIDLEY: we got a government bailout. It cost the taxpayer £27bn.
INTERVIEWER: How is that a positive outcome?
RIDLEY: I hate the government, they’re a bunch of self-seeking fleas, and I cost them £27bn (laughs). Things always work out in the end.
INTERVIEWER: It sounds like you’re the man we’ve been looking for. Welcome aboard!
INTERVIEWER(John Cook): Hello, have a seat. Mr Brown-eye is it?
WILL J. BROWNE: No, just Browne.
INTERVIEWER: Oh, sorry, it’s just that you look like… nevermind. I see here that you have applied for a position on the SkepticalScience Denier Blog Trolling team. May I ask why you are interested in the position?
WILL J. BROWNE: Well Mr Cook.. or is it Dr Cook?
INTERVIEWER: Umm no. Just Mr. I never did get my doctorate. Spent too much time drawing cartoons.
WILL J. BROWNE: Oh. Ok. I have had an interest in climate change since I watched ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. Man, that Al Gore is one convincing and handsome guy! I didn’t want to give up my car or other creature comforts but I felt had to do something to help the cause so I thought this would be ideal.
INTERVIEWER: So what makes you qualified for the position?
WILL J. BROWNE: Well as I said, I am a devotee of Al Gore, and have SkS as my home page. I believe that consensus rules in science and that anyone who disagrees is just a filthy denier.
INTERVIEWER: ‘Denier’? What exactly do they deny?
WILL J. BROWNE: Ha! No idea. It just sounds nasty and kinda compares them to holocaust deniers.
INTERVIEWER: Is it accurate?
WILL J. BROWNE: Who cares?
INTERVIEWER: Well you have the condescending ar$ehole attitude down pat. You seem like our guy Mr Browneye…. Sorry… Browne.
WILL J. BROWNE: Wow. How much does the job pay?
INTERVIEWER: Just an overinflated sense of self satisfaction.
WILL J. BROWNE: Awesome! I’ll take it.
INTERVIEWER: Great! Welcome. I would like you to meet Michael Fab who posts as Michael the Realist…
MICHAEL: No boss, Heeby Jeebies now remember?
INTERVIEWER: Oh yes. Of course. Michael is the recipient of our condescending w@nker of the month award and is one of our most qualified trolls. I’ll leave him to show you the ropes. I think we will assign you to Jo Nova’s blog since Michael has just been banned from there… Again.
MICHAEL: *Groan* It’s not my fault that Jo uses logic and common sense! Come on Browneye, I’ll introduce you to BlackAdderthe4th, Chester, Margot and Brooksey.
WILL J. BROWNE: Great! I have some great ad homs to use straight up!
Boss, it’s me, Agent Browne. I think they’re on to us!
It’s not my fault that Jo uses logic and common sense!
Funny, I was so seized by convulsive laughter after reading your witty “Browneye” quip that I almost missed this classic line. Pure comedy!
Do you remember the GFC? A lot of institutions needed to be bailed out. He was chairman of the board for a few years before it so he presided over the period when the policies for a decade came to a crunch.
He didn’t do the risk analysis. It was the employees that the board put their faith into who made the mistakes. If anyone is now qualified to spot employees who can’t do the job, it is him.
I wonder who was insulting whom when this happened
Kerry Burnishes Green Badge in Asia as Volcano Disrupts Trip
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-16/kerry-burnishes-his-green-badge-in-asia-ahead-of-keystone-call.html
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said global warming is as big a threat as terrorism in a speech in Indonesia, the world’s largest exporter of coal for power plants, seeking to burnish his credential as a climate champion before deciding on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project…
…The speech came against the backdrop of the eruption of the Mount Kelud volcano that disrupted air travel in the region and forced the cancellation of Kerry’s planned meeting today with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
“We’ve seen here in Asia how extreme weather events can disrupt world trade,” Kerry said to an audience of Indonesian students and business leaders. “In today’s globalized economy, the entire world feels it.”
John Kerry just proved why VPs are irrelevant*. He seems to be taking hyper-bloviation about the climate to new levels. We haven’t seen the likes of this since Al Gore left the climate change podium.
* In truth we knew this for some time … anyone remmber Mr Dan Quayle?
This looks like it might be a fun read
ps.. for the link concerned.. Its a link to Tim Ball’s new book on Amazon
pps.. you will luv the title
For Extreme Weather, 2013 Was an Unextreme Year
http://science.time.com/2014/01/07/data-shows-that-extreme-weather-was-u…
Weather has been dominating the news cycle the past several days, as much of the U.S. has suffered through record-breaking cold. But while it might seem as if we’ve all been sucked into a polar vortex of weather news, 2013 was punctuated by coverage of major natural disasters like Supertyphoon Haiyan in November, massive floods in India in June and the Category 5 tornadoes in Moore, Oklahoma in May. No wonder so many people felt that extreme weather was on the rise.
Except that wasn’t the case—at least not in 2013. The reinsurance company Munich Re came out with its annual assessment of natural disasters, and found that 2013 was an unusually quiet year. Catastrophes like floods and storms claimed more than 20,000 lives around the world, and caused more than $125 billion in damages. While that’s clearly a lot—and the number of deaths from disasters rose over 2012—both figures are well below the 106,000 in deaths and $184 billion in losses that were experienced on average over the past decade. Though the total number of loss-causing catastrophes—880—was above the average over the past 10 years, the damages in both financial and human terms was less. “There was no large-scale natural catastrophe event in 2013,” said Carl Hedde, head of risk accumulation for Munich Re.
The Idiocy Of “Blaming It On The Weather” Exposed
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-18/idiocy-blaming-it-weather-exposed
This morning’s catastrophic drop in the National Association of Hope Home Builders sentiment index has rapidly been spun as due to the weather… of course, makes perfect sense, right? What would happen if these drops were actually real fundamentals? If the status quo, the “common knowledge” was shown to be full of shit (once again). Well, riddle us this Batman… if weather was to blame, then why did the “West” region plunge the most? In fact, why did The West plunge the most on record? Too much sunny dry weather not good for sales? In fact, even the entirely indpendent provider of real estate research Trulia said that weather is not to blame…
…But sure, as opposed to face up to reality, keep blaming the weather…
I love Zero Hedge, great site!
G.S. Williams
Hi, all,
With the alarmists calling us all sorts of insulting names, I have concluded that we could re-name our side as the “Truth Squad” What do you all think?
Joanne, thank you for what you”re doing for the truth of the GW. you and David are terriffic, keep up the great work.
Gordon Williams
(Howick, Auckland,NZ)
Richard C (NZ)
>“flat-earthers” (Lord Krebs)
The White House (Obama, Kerry) appear to have settled on that particular line of denigration too.
But Kerry’s latest diatribe re “shoddy scientists and science” should not go unquestioned, i.e.
Who (of the scientists) is John Kerry referring to specifically, and why are they shoddy?
What (of the science) is John Kerry referring to specifically, and why is it shoddy?
I’m inclined to think he would have no answer to either question and he’s just indulging in slander because his arrogance and his office allows him to get away with it and not because he has any understanding of AGW-contra science that would enable him to actually back his accusation.
The irony being that it is CO2-centric climate science that is now being forced to explain the unpredicted 21st century temperature flatlining (which indicates the real shoddiness of scientific conjecture I would have thought).
Those subject to denigration for pointing out THE ONE BIG PROBLEM with the conjecture just get to sit back and watch the squirming.
Slingo has made a real fool of herself.
Her delusional rants have to seen to be believed. But how can any scientist be so irrational and stupid?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/02/18/newsbytes-why-the-met-office-has-hung-its-chief-scientist-out-to-dry/#more-103472
Jo,
Australia has been the victim of the wrong headed eco-nut policies that lead to major fire hazards around homes. Now we have the UK flooding and EU/eco-nut lunacy that lead up to it.
Holland is the next target of eco-lunacy.
2/17/2013 Flood Control in the Netherlands Now Allows Sea Water In
Some dozen years ago the Dutch government ordered Mr. Hooijmaijers to vacate the farmland that he and his family shared with 16 other farmers so it could be turned into a river spillway for occasional floods…
Dutch officials devised an ingenious network of dams, sluices and barriers called the Deltaworks.
Water management here depends on hard science and meticulous study. Americans throw around phrases like once-in-a-century storm. The Dutch, with a knowledge of water, tides and floods honed by painful experience, can calculate to the centimeter — and the Dutch government legislates accordingly — exactly how high or low to position hundreds of dikes along rivers and other waterways to anticipate storms they estimate will occur once every 25 years, or every 1,000 years, or every 10,000.
And now the evidence is leading them to undertake what may seem, at first blush, a counterintuitive approach, a kind of about-face: The Dutch are starting to let the water in. They are contriving to live with nature, rather than fight (what will inevitably be, they have come to realize) a losing battle.
Why? The reality of rising seas and rivers leaves no choice. Sea barriers sufficed half a century ago; but they’re disruptive to the ecology and are built only so high, while the waters keep rising. American officials who now tout sea gates as the one-stop-shopping solution to protect Lower Manhattan should take notice. In lieu of flood control the new philosophy in the Netherlands is controlled flooding….
There is more on this from the university that educated Obama: Making Room for Rivers: A Different Approach to Flood Control
….The Dutch began building dikes and levees to control flooding 800 years ago, because 25% of The Netherlands is below sea level and 25% more is subject to flooding. But the 1993 and 1995 floods, which resulted in $300 million worth of damage and the evacuation of 250,000 people, spurred a reassessment of flood control strategies. Whereas the Dutch would once have responded to flooding by building their dikes higher, in the late 1990s they realized that flood risks were only going to intensify with climate change. In 2007 the Dutch government approved a new $3.3 billion strategy for dealing with flood threats called Room for the River.
Room for the River will reduce high water levels in the Rhine, Meuse, Waal and Ijssel Rivers. By 2015, these rivers will be given more room at 39 locations, using a variety of strategies clearly illustrated in this promo video.
The strategies are: relocating dikes further inland to widen floodplains, modifying dikes in certain areas to allow for flooding, lowering floodplains because accumulated sediments have made them shallower, reducing the height of groynes (rigid structures placed in rivers to slow the water flow) to allow water to flow more quickly, creating side channels as alternate routes for high water, deepening the river bed, removing obstacles from the river that obstruct flow, and creating temporary water storage areas. In places where it’s not possible to create room for the river, dikes may be heightened and strengthened, though incidences of dike slumping and land subsidence will likely increase if dikes are made taller and thus heavier….
Dr. Ball is correct, these people are out to kill us!
I reckon the Dutch know exactly what they are doing here.
The Dutch have run out of little boys smart enough to know where to stick his finger.
Visiting Physicist
Most skeptics are also wrong, because they just think we need to tone down the radiative forcing estimates.
Climate models that are based on the completely false physics that radiation from a colder atmosphere can actually help the Sun in raising the temperature of Earth’s surface are a complete fiction. It cannot do so. Physicists will tell you (if you even bother to ask a specialist in thermodynamics like myself) that such radiation undergoes what they call “pseudo scattering” in which it is immediately re-emitted in a resonating process, without any of its electro-magnetic energy being converted to thermal energy. This provides some of the electro-magnetic energy in the SB calculation for the warmer surface, and thus slows radiative cooling, but it can have no effect on molecules colliding at the interface and transferring thermal energy by conduction and evaporative cooling.
But none of this is what really determines planetary surface temperatures anyway. The base of the Uranus nominal troposphere is hotter than Earth, and yet it receives no direct solar radiation worth mentioning.
Valid physics can be used to confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt that a gravitationally-induced temperature gradient will always evolve spontaneously in a vertical plane in any solid, liquid or gas that is exposed to a gravitational field. This happens at the molecular level where molecules swap kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy when in free flight between collisions. No one has correctly rebutted this, and wires outside cylinders also develop thermal gradients so no perpetual motion can occur.
There is a predetermined thermal profile in Earth’s atmosphere caused by gravity which, without water vapour or greenhouse gases, would intersect the surface in the vicinity of 25C, but then water vapour reduces the gradient (due to inter-molecular radiation, not the release of latent heat) and we end up with a mean of about 15C.
It is natural cycles, probably regulated by planetary orbits, which are the primary determinants of climate. That’s why it’s not carbon dioxide after all.
so you’re saying if we turned the sun off the earth would remain the same temperature as it is today?
One does wonder why all the actuall physicists are not telling us this btw. I have a physics degree myself and while no guru can only assume that the various professors who tried to educate me might have mentioned this kind of stuff?
they didn’t teach you “valid” physics.
Doubt Matt actually learnt much at all..
…obviously not enough to actually use it.
No Mattb, I am not saying that. It seems you also misunderstand my explanation. For example, a small region on the Venus equator cools by 5 degrees during the 4-months of darkness. If the Sun did not warm it back up by 5 degrees the next 4-month-long day, then Venus could easily have cooled right down, its atmosphere solidified and collapsed and its surface temperature reaching less than 3K, that being about the background “temperature” in space and probably a typical temperature for a stray meteorite.
but you mentioned “a gravitationally-induced temperature gradient will always evolve spontaneously in a vertical plane in any solid, liquid or gas that is exposed to a gravitational field.”
that sound pretty independent to there being any solar warming?
I didn’t realise that Venus’s atmosphere was so static that air from the sunny side never moved to the dark side.
Mattb, I think that our visiting physicist is referring to the temperature change with altitude. The starting temperature at the surface would still be dependent on the Sun (the overall energy in the atmosphere).
visiting Physicist ,
i know nothing about physics and dont know what you are talking about but taking a quick look at gravity, no not the film,
“In physics, a gravitational field is a model used to explain the influence that a massive body extends into the space around itself, producing a force on another massive body”
you feel like some kind of energy/heat must be formed.
Here is something you wrote earlier
It’s hard to imagine the stupidity of these people.
I’d say, “Stop pretending that you understand physics”, but clearly you have to start something to stop it.
Yet you can only ever imagine understanding physics.
In your most unlikely of dreams.
No, Richard. Lesson one in physics is that a force is not a source of new energy. I learnt that over 50 years ago. Didn’t you? It seems you misunderstand my explanation.
I think my line , I know nothing about physics should have alerted you.
No wonder I misunderstood. But thanks for thinking I should understand.
More evidence that Labor’s barking mad co2 tax is helping to wreck business in OZ.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/green_policies_are_killing_manufacturing_and_for_what/
And as in the EU the poorest people pay the highest price for the elite’s stupidity. But every year it’s okay to export as much coal as we can to China, India etc so they can build more industry and create more jobs for their people.
Don’t forget about this one either……….
Now Alcoa closes, too. Labor’s subsidies fail and its carbon tax kills:-
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/now_alcoa_closes_too/
Election now!
Andrew_FL
A few people above commented on article access. The entire article is available to read, for free, on Ridley’s Blog
Thanks Andrew! – Jo
Reuters Point Carbon top headline today is: Wild weather puts climate back on global agenda before 2015 deadline. the kind of Pt Carbon piece SMH is more than happy to carry.
19 Feb: SMH: Reuters: Wild weather puts climate change back in the political debate
VIDEO CAPTION: Storms set to hit Sydney’s peak hour
Motorists are urged to drive safely as thunderstorms are expected to hit Sydney on Wednesday afternoon.
Bitter cold in the United States might appear to contradict the notion of global warming, but with Britain’s wettest winter and another hot summer in Australia, extreme weather events have pushed climate change back on the political agenda…
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry went furthest, calling climate change “perhaps the most fearsome weapon of mass destruction” and ridiculing those who doubt that climate change is man-made…
With wild weather hitting some of the most developed parts of the world, politicians in rich nations are once again under pressure to address the issue…
“Attention has been increasing … sadly because of the increase in the frequency and intensity of natural events and disasters,”, U.N. climate change chief Christiana Figueres told Reuters…
British opposition leader Ed Miliband said at the weekend that Britain was “sleepwalking to a climate crisis”…
“It’s very good that international leaders are increasingly recognising the threat of climate change,” Connie Hedegaard, the European Union’s climate commissioner, told Reuters.
“But leaders must walk the talk with concrete and forward-looking actions and pledges.”…
But those pushing for action are encouraged by the change in rhetoric. “The pace is starting to pick up,” said Alden Meyer, of the Union of Concerned Scientists…
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/wild-weather-puts-climate-change-back-in-the-political-debate-20140219-32z88.html
self-interest for Fairfax, yes; however no other MSM is even carrying this story:
19 Feb: SMH: Michaela Whitbourn: Carbon credit certificates issued to ‘world first’ school were ‘fake’, Supreme Court finds
He claimed to have helped a Sydney school to become the first in the world to go ”carbon neutral” by saving a Malaysian rainforest from logging, and to have generated more than $1 billion in carbon credits.
But on Tuesday the NSW Supreme Court found businessman Brett Goldsworthy and his Westleigh-based carbon credits company, shift2neutral, had lied and that carbon credit certificates issued to Oakhill College at Castle Hill and others were ”fake” and ”valueless”.
The decision of Acting Justice Henric Nicholas draws a line under a costly and drawn-out defamation battle between Mr Goldsworthy, his company and Fairfax Media.
The businessman and his company brought defamation proceedings against Fairfax in 2011 over two reports in the The Sydney Morning Herald in April that year that exposed the company as issuing worthless carbon credits to Oakhill College, the Sydney Turf Club and the Professional Golf Association of Australia (PGA)…
Acting Justice Nicholas said that, on the face of it, the plaintiffs should pay Fairfax Media’s costs. If they cannot reach an agreement, there will be a hearing next Tuesday.
Read the full judgment at http://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/action/PJUDG?jgmtid=169709
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/carbon-credit-certificates-issued-to-world-first-school-were-fake-supreme-court-finds-20140218-32yft.html
Media Watch on the future of newspapers. As in, there’s a future?
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s3946698.htm
Audit Bureau of Circulation figures for the last 3 months of 2013 show another huge fall … with Fairfax Media’s The Age and Sydney Morning Herald down by a shocking 17% from the same period of 2012.
News Corp’s Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph fared slightly better, but still fell 12%, after even bigger falls in the previous quarter…
In absolute terms the Herald and Age are now selling not much more than 130,000 copies each a day.
Meanwhile, the mighty Herald Sun has sunk below 400,000 and the Daily Telegraph below 300,000…
But … the news on advertising revenue is even worse… Fairfax Media’s 2013 results show that print advertising revenue for its two big Metro mastheads—the Herald and the Age—fell by 25% last financial year, or by almost exactly $100 million…
Fairfax has shed some 2,000 jobs , announced the closure of its two biggest printing plants, shut down magazines, moved to a tabloid format and got rid of some its best-known writers .
On the plus side, the Age and Herald have put up paywalls on their popular websites… Last year Fairfax’s digital ad revenue rose by only $5.5 million, while its print ad revenue fell $100 million, or almost 20 times as much.
Also on the plus side, which Barry fails to mention, is that the Herald Sun has more readers than ever, when on-line figures are added.
17 Feb: Redd-Monitor.org: China Development Finance Corporation is a transparently obvious scam
China Development Finance Corporation is cold calling people and offering to sell their near-worthless carbon credits. The company is a transparently obvious scam.
Here’s the evidence that the company is running a scam:…
http://www.redd-monitor.org/2014/02/17/china-development-finance-corporation-is-a-transparently-obvious-scam/
China expected to hold back controversial carbon offsets -analyst
BEIJING, Feb 18 (Reuters) – China is likely to avoid issuing carbon credits from controversial industrial gas projects, a Thomson Reuters Point Carbon report showed, in a move that would allay concerns of a flood of “junk offsets” in the country’s emission markets.
https://www.pointcarbon.com/news/reutersnews/1.4167926
19 Feb: Bloomberg: Louise Downing: China Exceeds U.S. on Energy-Efficiency Spending for First Time
China spent more on energy efficiency than the U.S. for the first time, accounting for almost a third of the world’s total with $4.3 billion invested.
Global spending rose almost 5 percent to $14.9 billion, according to data released yesterday by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. North American investment declined as much as 33 percent to $3.6 billion…
China has installed almost 250 million so-called smart meters, while Europe is expected to have 180 million meters installed by 2020 from 55 million now, according to BNEF.
The meters enable customers to monitor energy use and provide immediate feedback to utilities that are able to use the data to set pricing and smooth fluctuations in demand…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-18/china-spends-more-on-energy-efficiency-than-u-s-for-first-time.html
8 Feb Updated 10 Feb: UK Daily Mail: Exposed: Barclays account details for sale as ‘gold mine’ of up to 27,000 files is leaked in worst breach of bank data EVER
Cache of personal and financial details stolen and sold to rogue traders
Unscrupulous dealers ‘used information to pressure investors into scams’
By Ian Gallagher and Stephanie Condron and Simon Watkins
In the worst case of data loss from a British High Street bank, highly sensitive information, including customers’ earnings, savings, mortgages, health issues and insurance policies, ended up in the hands of unscrupulous brokers.
The data ‘gold mine’ – also containing passport and national insurance numbers – is worth millions on the black market because it allowed unsuspecting individuals to be targeted in investment scams…
The leak was exposed by an anonymous whistleblower who passed The Mail on Sunday a memory stick containing files on 2,000 of the bank’s customers.
He claimed it was a sample from a stolen database of up to 27,000 files, which he said could be sold by shady salesmen for up to £50 per file…
One of the victims, 69-year-old Janice Snowling, from Maldon, Essex, said: ‘I’m really angry. I think we should get some sort of compensation. It’s outrageous. The banking industry is the pits.’…
The perfect money-making opportunity for many of the brokers came during the recession when people’s savings were hit by low interest rates.
Potential investors became susceptible to the broker’s questionable approaches and promises of sky-high returns.
I worked at a type of brokerage known in the industry as a ‘spank shop’, operating from rented offices outside London or even in the City.
The brokers ‘spank’ or punish people over the phone by advising them to invest in certain commodities which make lots of money for the broker, but not the investor.
The broker sells the commodity for such a massive mark up that it eliminates any opportunity the investor has to make money…
***At one time carbon credits were the top commodities sold. Investors paid £6.50 for the credits – in fact worth nothing.
Now the spank shops are selling diamonds and rare earth metals. Brokers can quickly get greedy…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2554875/Barclays-account-details-sale-gold-27-000-files-leaked.html
John Of Cloverdale WA
Secretary of State John Kerry told Indonesians on Sunday that global warming is now “perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.”
Ha ha. I am in Bali at the moment and the weather/climate seems the same as all the 44 years I have been coming to Indonesia. It is as warm as before and the monsoon rains are here as normal. The plants are happy and healthy. Indonesians only know of two major seasons, the wet (musim hujan-rainy season) and the dry (musim kemarau-drought season).
And for Kerry to blabber on about mass destruction of climate to an audience, who experience disruptions in their daily life through volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis, is a joke. Probably the generally polite nature of Indonesians saved Kerry from being laughed at.
***u gotta appreciate the “over time”!
18 Feb: CNS News: Melanie Hunter: Obama: ‘Unchecked’ Carbon Pollution Had ‘Severe Impacts on Our Weather’
While announcing new fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks on Tuesday, President Barack Obama said “unchecked” carbon pollution prior to his administration’s efforts to raise fuel economy standards “was having severe impacts on our weather.”…
“Some are already making cars that beat the target of nearly 55 miles per gallon. They’ve got plug-in hybrids. They’ve got electric vehicles. They’re taking advantage of the investments that the Recovery Act made in American advances in battery technology, so cars are getting better, and they’re getting more fuel efficient all the time,” Obama said.
The new goal: doubling the distance cars and light trucks can travel before needing to refuel…
“We’re gonna double the distance our cars and light trucks can go on a gallon of gas by 2025. We’re gonna double it, and that means – that’s big news – because what it means is you got to fill up every two weeks instead of every week, and that saves the typical family more than $8,000 at the pump ***over time,” Obama said….
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-hunter/obama-unchecked-carbon-pollution-had-severe-impacts-our-weather
Arup – Warburton declares he’s not even a “climate change” denier, much less a “CLIMATE SCEPTIC” – so u just keep repating the slander over and over and over again:
18 Feb: SMH: Tom Arup: Climate sceptic Dick Warburton to head Tony Abbott review into renewable energy target
VIDEO CAPTION: Climate sceptic to head review
Environment Minister Greg Hunt has fueled speculation the government plans
to scrap the renewable energy target after announcing climate sceptic Dick
Warburton will lead the review.
The Abbott government has launched a formal review of Australia’s 20 per
cent renewable energy target, choosing senior business figure and climate
change sceptic Dick Warburton to head it…
An earlier review of the renewables target by the Authority in 2012 found it
should not be changed because it would hurt investor confidence in the
sector. The Authority also recommended the next review of the target be
pushed back to 2016, something the former Labor government failed to change
“A self-declared climate change sceptic, Mr Waburton told Fairfax Media on
Monday that he still maintained those views…
”I am not a denier of climate change. But I am sceptical about some of the
aspects of global warming, and more particularly what might be causing it,
and I don’t resile from any of those comments,” Mr Warburton said…
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/climate-sceptic-dick-warburton-to-head-tony-abbott-review-into-renewable-energy-target-20140217-32vve.html
Fairfax is a private company, but how can taxpayer-funded ABC get away with this “denier” crap?
18 Feb: ABC AM: Warburton defends climate views
CHRIS UHLMANN: The man chosen to lead the Federal Government’s review of the renewable energy target says he’s sceptical about human induced global warming, but isn’t a climate change denier…
NAOMI WOODLEY: The Greens and some environmental groups say that you’re a climate change denier and that this will influence your approach to the review. How do you respond to that?
DICK WARBURTON: Well, I’m not a climate change denier. Simple as that.
NAOMI WOODLEY: In 2011 you told Lateline Business that you were a climate change sceptic, not a denier, but you did believe the science isn’t settled, and that was why Australia shouldn’t be pursuing a carbon tax. Do you still believe that the science isn’t settled, and will that have an influence on the way that you conduct this review?
DICK WARBURTON: Yes, let’s qualify the terms. I am not a denier, nor a sceptic actually, of climate change per se. What I am sceptical is the claims that man-made carbon dioxide is the major cause of global warming. I’m not a denier of that, but I am sceptical of that claim…
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3946806.htm
A good article of many studies and graphs showing the MWP and LIA from around the planet.
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/how-climate-fraudsters-tried-to-get-rid.html#comment-form
REPORT: ‘NOAH’ FIXATED ON ‘OVERPOPULATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION’
“Further, THR spoke with several people who saw an early test screening in Southern California’s Orange County and who identified themselves as religious. One viewer, who declined to give his name because Paramount required him to sign a nondisclosure agreement, echoed the sentiments of others by criticizing the depiction of Noah as a “crazy, irrational, religious nut” who is fixated on modern-day problems like overpopulation and environmental degradation.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/02/12/noah-movie-christian-audiences-noisy
From the Sun News Network here in Canada, they reported that this new ‘Noah’ move had ‘climate change’ as a theme within the movie. Talk about the BS that Hollywood is producing and feeding to the public!
When the CAGW doom speaking is over, the one sin the cult member will never forgive of those who were sceptical of their faith?
Being correct.
Knowing other people know you for a fool, corrodes the soul of a small person.
The lack of a sense of humour being one give away.
Though they accuse all who question of being deniers, we haven’t seen denial yet.
As with all the projection,of distorting science, fabricating evidence, lying, cheating, profiteering, these cult members will show us all how denial is properly done.
Somewhere deep within every CAGW-er is a little 10-10 video playing 24 hours a day.
Coastal experts say FEMA cut corners on flood mapping
http://www.patriotledger.com/article/20131210/News/312109738
Independent coastal experts who reviewed Marshfield’s flood insurance data say the federal government used wave methodology better fit for the Pacific coast in drafting new flood maps, therefore likely over-predicting the flooding that would occur in a 100-year storm for much of the state.
James (Aus.)
Although I’m a constitutional monarchist, further reference to Charley Windsor will be just that until he cleans up his act.
Charley needs a good boot up his less-than-royal brain repository; his slurring of his more intelligent would-be subjects is rattle-brain stuff; when the tomatoes start flying he’ll have no friends left.
TonyfromOz -
just saw your responses to the ABC Breakfast interview with John Grimes of the Austn Solar Council on the Koch Bros thread. still no transcript on the ABC page. how do they get away with letting people say anything, no matter how ridiculous, providing it goes along with the CAGW narrative? couldn’t energy companies make an official complaint? being ignorant is no excuse for these highly-paid ABC presenters.
meanwhile, our daily fairfax:
19 Feb: SMH: Steve Jacobs with Leesha McKenny: Sydney swimmers to strip for environment
However, their costumes will only be removed once they run from the beach into the water and no stickybeaking is allowed.
The Sydney Skinny, a nude ocean swim in its second year, is a private ticket-only event at the secluded Cobblers Beach in Mosman, on Sydney’s lower north shore, from 8am.
Only participating swimmers are allowed on the beach and spectators are not allowed…
The Sydney Skinny was founded by the co-founder of Earth Hour Nigel Marsh…
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/sydney-swimmers-to-strip-for-environment-20140219-330a9.html
more Malcolm Turnbull than Tony Abbott!
The full article – no paywall
notice the accepance of CAGW from the headline to the last line in this ridiculous Huffington Post piece picked up by News Ltd:
19 Feb: News Ltd. Australia: ZOLTAN ISTVAN: Some futurists aren’t worried about global warming or overpopulation
IT’S almost impossible to view the news anymore without seeing something negative related to global warming, overpopulation or environmental degradation of the planet. The facts speak for themselves. Pollution is rampant in many cities. Entire forests are being cut down. And the human species is adding over 200,000 new people a day to the world. Environmental scientists have warned for years that the human race is dramatically affecting the planet and its ecosystems. Humans are changing the climate of Earth, consuming all its finite resources, and causing the disappearance of over 10,000 species a year.
Despite this, a growing number of futurists, many who are transhumanists — people who aim to move beyond the human being using science and technology — aren’t worried. While New York City, Boston and Miami may be partially underwater by 2100, many futurists don’t plan to be around in the flesh by then. And if they are, they’ll have the technology to walk on water…
Within a few years, humans will begin attempting to download their first thoughts into computers. Soon after, a software interface will bring to life our authentic virtual personalities. Eventually, especially with the help of artificial intelligence, we will complete a full upload of our brains, and our minds and its thoughts will freely move in and out of machines. We will be digital avatars of our biological selves…
Will this new phase of human existence require as many resources from the planet as we are currently using? Will we continue to eat food? Breathe air? Depend on water? Procreate? The answer is probably not…
There are probably zero futurists who feel good about damaging our beautiful planet. However, many of them realise that the benefit of the species’ rapid evolutionary ascent outweighs the harm progress is causing to Earth. Our planet is strong; it can handle climate change and an expanding human population while our species prepares for the transhumanist age. The evolutionary outcome of humanity will be better for turning a blind eye on Mother Earth. Exponential technological growth, increased prosperity from globalisation, and maintaining world peace are the critical issues of the future, not global warming, overpopulation or environmental degradation.
This article originally appeared on The Huffington Post.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/some-futurists-arent-worried-about-global-warming-or-overpopulation/story-fnjwvztl-1226831221065
and i wonder why our media does not regularly publish an effective science communicator like Jo!
btw notice how popular Zoltan is with the MSM:
Wikipedia: Zoltan Istvan
He is best known for his controversial novel, The Transhumanist Wager, a #1 bestseller in both Philosophy and Science Fiction Visionary and Metaphysical on Amazon…
He’s explored over 100 countries—many as a journalist for the National Geographic Channel—writing, filming, and appearing in dozens of television stories, articles, and webcasts. His work has also been featured by The New York Times Syndicate, Outside, San Francisco Chronicle, The Daily Caller, Sail, BBC Radio, NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, Animal Planet, and the Travel Channel…
Istvan blogs for Psychology Today (The Transhumanist Philosopher) and The Huffington Post…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoltan_Istvan
This article {Matt Ridley) appeared in my local paper much to my shock and pleasant surprise the day after an article about John Kerry’s speech where he stated that climate change was unequivocal and that only fringe scientists questioned it. All the locals here will plainly see all the absurdities in that sentiment. Kerry thought he should be a United States president FFS. The mind boggles.
as i replied to you, i do not understand physics or what you wrote,
but i replied
visiting Physicist- you replied
“No, Richard. Lesson one in physics is that a force is not a source of new energy. I learnt that over 50 years ago. Didn’t you? It seems you misunderstand my explanation”
to be honest i do not understand the following, written in 2003, but it seems to contradict what you say,
http://www.novafizika.com/The%20gravitational%20force%20temperature%20dependence.pdf
extract- So, today there are experimental grounds to consider real the marked dependence of
gravitational force on the absolute temperatures of interacting mass.
Apologies if i am way of beam!
or is it saying that temp effects the gravitational force?
A little OT
A report on smelting activity in other countries.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-19/aluminium-industry-heads-to-lower-energy-cost-countries/5269664
Labour and the Greens just never comprehended the fragility of world markets. They claim to understand fragility in the climate and nature but failed to put 2 and 2 together on the fact that the global economy is also a complex system. So all the little straws they put on the camels back over 10 years just served to shift the jobs and the emissions off shore. Everything ventured, nothing gained and more importantly nothing learned.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/shorten-fails-to-fit-the-bill/story-e6frg7bo-1226830889674#
no surprise:
WUWT: Delingpole’s new landing pad, the inside scoop
As to why, I have the inside scoop.
I asked James directly, and in a nutshell it was three things.
1. They paid him poorly, ’nuff said.
2. They never seemed to appreciate the kind of traffic and exposure he’d brought. Remember, Delingpole was the first MSM columnist to break Climategate, and I’m pleased to say he got the scoop from WUWT. But, they didn’t really recognize the asset, even though he won an award for his Climategate coverage. When Delingpole’s column won the Bloggie award for “Best Weblog About Politics“, they didn’t even mention it in the print edition or in the online main page. Usually when a columnist or writer wins such an award, the paper crows about it.
3. Often, they didn’t like the content. As we know, James skewers the left and in particular greens. He reports he was getting increasing pressure over his environmental essays…
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/02/18/delingpoles-new-landing-pad-the-inside-scoop/#comment-1571735
a Peter Mott posted this very funny piece from the Tele in the comments:
June 2013: UK Telegraph: Sean Thomas: When it comes to climate change, we have to trust our scientists, because they know lots of big scary words
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/seanthomas/100222487/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-we-have-to-trust-our-scientists-because-they-know-lots-of-big-scary-words/
18 Feb: ABC PM: Climate change modelling in the spotlight after Australia’s hottest year on record
MARK COLVIN: “There have always been tough times and lush times”, said the Prime Minister Tony Abbott yesterday when asked about drought and climate change.
But the Bureau of Meteorology says 2013 was Australia’s hottest year on record. And few scientists now doubt that that is the result of man-made climate change.
That includes some ***former sceptics in the scientific community who formerly doubted whether climate modelling could be trusted to forecast warming.
Among them is one of Australia’s most respected agricultural scientists, Melbourne University’s Professor Snow Barlow.
I asked him if it was fair to call him a former climate change sceptic?
SNOW BARLOW: Just a sceptical scientist. I wasn’t a sceptic about the amounts of CO2 that we were putting in the atmosphere.
MARK COLVIN: But you were sceptical about the effects or the projected effects?
SNOW BARLOW: Yes, yes.
MARK COLVIN: Over what period have you changed your mind? And how have you changed your mind?
SNOW BARLOW: Two things have occurred. One, with the passage of time – and you will recall that it’s really in the late ’80s through the ’90s and into the ’00s – that global temperatures have increased quite considerably. So the evidence in my mind has begun to accumulate.
And also, at the same time, these computer models have got better. Various queries that other naturally sceptical scientists have raised about clouds, about satellites, have been answered.
And so I now have, you know, much more confidence in those. But a large degree of that confidence is around just observing what I see and observing what the impact of these increase in temperatures is on biological systems…
SNOW BARLOW: Particularly heatwaves.
We know that when you look at the way you calculate temperatures, as you move it up a degree – and the climate in Australia has actually moved up by 0.85 of a degree centigrade in the last 50 years – you move the distribution of temperature. That means that you get more events, very hot days. In other words: heatwaves. And not only individual days that are over 35, or in some areas 40, but sequence of days.
So instead of having an isolated day, you may have three or you may have five…
MARK COLVIN: But yesterday the Prime Minister was asked about climate change in Australia and he said, “If you look at the records going back 150 years, there have always been good times and bad times and farmers ought to be able to deal with the sort of things that are expected every few years.”…
SNOW BARLOW: I think those broad comments ***deny the detail….
So certainly there have been droughts but you’ve got to look into the detail, of which climate scientists do, to tease out what is actually natural variability, which none of us ***deny, and what is that extra variability and extra intensity that comes from global warming and climate change.
MARK COLVIN: Professor Snow Barlow from the University of Melbourne’s School of Land and Environment.
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2013/s3947396.htm
Mark Colvin – precisely when was Snow Barlow a man-made global warming sceptic? he’s been shilling for CAGW since 2008 – see below – so how far does one need to go back to find his SCEPTICISM? btw, Colvin, the ABC is finished as a credible, trustworthy, media organisation:
2008: Uni of Melbourne: Episode 49 – How We’ll Fare in the Global Food Crisis
SNOW BARLOW: There is also the ravages of climate change that will impinge upon the value of agricultural land in particular latitudes around the globe. For example, in Australia we expect southeastern Australia and southwestern Australia to become 10% drier in the next 30 years. Now, that is going to impact on how we can produce grain and we are exporters of grain. The unknown in all of this, is, what the effects of climate change are going to be – particularly in the northern hemisphere…
SHANE HUNTINGTON
Snow, I am curious when you talk about these shifts in climate and how it affects our ability to produce food in various parts of the world. Are we talking about changes in – I guess – seasonal periods, as in when spring starts and things of that nature, or entire bands of certain latitudes being unsuitable for particular food crops, or both?
SNOW BARLOW
Well, it is really both. You see, we know from the word called ‘phenology’, in other words, when certain perennial plants like apple trees, grape vines, burst their buds every year and flower and ultimately ripen, that these things happen earlier every year. For instance, you might be surprised to know that in the famous wine region of Champagne, the harvest has actually crept forward a whole month in the last 25 years. So these are the shifts that we are starting to see around the world. Now, what we see, the second thing in terms of grain production is the availability of water. With these perennial crops, in theory we can just move further north or south, so, we can move with climate change if we wish. But, we can’t do that with the great cereal bowls of the world. Where, they are constrained with – sitting in Australia here – to move south in Australia would be to move into the southern ocean. Not a very good place to grow wheat. So, there will be those constraints, of moving whole agricultural areas and the northern fringes for those of us in the southern hemisphere will be threatened by drying conditions. So, it is really the moisture that is probably going to determine it…
http://upclose.unimelb.edu.au/episode/49-how-we-ll-fare-global-food-crisis
2010: Uni of Melbourne: Episode 96 – The Wrath of Grapes: Wine Making and Climate Change
Viticulturist Prof Snow Barlow and Wedgetail Estate vigneron Guy LaMothe discuss the threats — and opportunities — that global warming poses for the wine industry in Australia and elsewhere. With science host Dr Shane Huntington.
“On top of that long term variability, we think there will be more extreme events. That means there will be more episodes of these heat related events. That means that vineyards will have to learn how to manage them.” — Prof Snow Barlow
Snow Barlow: …Then there are a couple of variants. One is in the Australian context, and particularly more recently, episodes of what we call extreme heat. They can be damaging depending on when they occur. They can be very damaging in the ripening phase and perhaps a little less damaging earlier as, you know we had a very high temperature event in November 2009, which was actually right before flowering. In general the impacts, at least in the regions that I know of, Guy. were not too extreme. There were a few impacts in the Barossa Valley that I know of. But if as we had the record heat in Victoria, which is southern Australia, there were extreme damages to grapes in that time…
We believe in the climate science that yes we are moving there. Certainly in Australia the climate has always been quite variable. But on top of that long term variability we think there will be more extreme events. That means there will be more episodes of these heat related events…
Yes Shane, one of the great ironies about climate change is that the very fact is the enrichment of the Earth’s atmosphere with carbon dioxide that is driving our temperature up. Indeed in my scientific lifetime, we have moved the carbon dioxide concentration up by about 20%. Plants are chronically short of carbon dioxide, an essential nutrient for them. So therefore with each increase in carbon dioxide technically plants will grow faster. Now, the sorts of plants, plants all vary and some plants will make use of that extra carbon dioxide to a greater extent than others, and the research my team, and the team within the Melbourne School of Land and Environment is carrying out, is actually in the field where we are testing different varieties of wheat at the sort of elevated concentrations that we expect to be in the environment in 2030 and 2050….
http://upclose.unimelb.edu.au/episode/96-wrath-grapes-wine-making-and-climate-change#transcription
2011: NCCARF: Snow Barlow, PIARN Convenor: climate sceptics and informed debate
An evitable consequence of this debate appears to be unsubstantiated blogs covering both the ‘myths’ of anthropogenic climate change and potential other sources of greenhouse gases and warming…
However I thought it may be useful PIARN members to be aware of some credible websites containing referenced answers to frequently asked questions. We have provided some links to these websites below for your information and use. They vary in complexity and ease of navigation, but all are well researched and referenced…
If you know of more useful websites please let PIARN know and we’ll add them to this list.
•Climate change: a guide for the perplexed New Scientist magazine
•Skeptical Science – ‘Getting skeptical about global warming skepticism’
•Facts and fiction about climate change The Royal Society UK
•Frequently Asked Questions from the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report
http://piarn.org.au/news/2011/aug/28/snow-barlow-climate-sceptics-and-informed-debate
how differently ABC handled govt policy in 2011 – not a single sceptical voice allowed. will the Govt doesn’t complain about Colvin’s mocking of the Prime Minister on yesterday’s PM program, and the lying about Barlow being a CAGW sceptic?
July 2011: ABC 7.30 Report: Scientists share their view on carbon tax
Many scientists have been calling for action on climate change for years now. 7.30 speaks to scientists to find out their view on the Government’s policy.
LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Setting aside politics and economics, let’s ask the bottom line question: will this carbon tax have an impact on the environment?
A vast majority of the scientific community has been calling for action to reduce emissions for years…
MIKE SEXTON, ABC REPORTER: According to the UN Convention on Climate Change, the world needs to reduce its emissions dramatically in the next half-century or risk the planet’s temperature rising by two degrees. The Federal Government promises a carbon tax will cut Australia’s emissions by 80 per cent by 2050…
BARRY BROOK, CHAIR CLIMATE CHANGE, ADELAIDE UNI.: The carbon price alone especially at $23 a tonne’s not gonna do that, obviously. That’s gonna require a complete reinvention of our energy system. But you do need a trigger for change. If we are gonna reinvent it, we need to start now…
PETER COOK, CRC, GREENHOUSE GAS TECHNOLOGIES: It needs far more than $23 a tonne of carbon to bring in wind power or bring in solar power or bring in geothermal or bring in CCS…
SNOW BARLOW, LAND & ENVIRONMENT, MELBOURNE UNI: The nation is gonna have to adapt and particularly the land-based sector, which has seen some glimpses of what the future might look like, needs to continue with adaptation programs and indeed adaptation research, because before all these carbon measures click in fully, we’re gonna see a lot of climate change yet.
MIKE SEXTON: Professor Snow Barlow from Melbourne University’s School of Land and Environment thinks the carbon price will boost land management programs because there’s now certainty for selling carbon credits.
SNOW BARLOW: We’ve gotta get case studies of showing people how on the land how they can generate carbon credits. We have now certainty where they can sell them, but we’ve gotta demonstrate how they can develop them and how they can measure them…
BARRY BROOK: I think it’s a bold initiative from Australia and other nations need to follow suit. Then we can really lick this problem.
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2011/s3267007.htm
Mark Colvin/Leigh Sales/ABC: is this the CAGW sceptic Barlow of which you speak?
btw in the comments someone remarks that the MAP is fantastic, but it’s still behind a paywall. some of you may have access:
May 2013: Catallaxyfiles: Alan Moran: Taxpayers funding grants that help to reduce their living standards
Illustrating what everybody really knows about the corruption of the government grants process, certainly with the rivers of gold dedicated to bolstering the warmists, The Australian published a piece this morning which showed the way insider academics reward weach other with the loot from the taxpayer.
The paywalled article by Julie Hare says:
- An analysis by The Australian reveals the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry’s advisory panel chaired by Melbourne University professor Snow Barlow has awarded members or collaborators $23m from a pool of $77m in the first two rounds of a four-year program aimed at climate change mitigation and adaption in agriculture. -
It presents a map of the links between individuals who have published together and how the individuals who are awarded grants are linked to those on the panel.
Professor Barlow is also lead convenor of another group, the Primary Industries Adaptation Research Network. Its co-convenors include Professor Eckard and four other DAFF expert advisory panel members: Peter Grace, a senior research scientist from Queensland University of Technology; Ross Kingwell, chief economist with the WA Department of Agriculture and Food; Beverley Henry, who works with Professor Grace at QUT and Mark Howden, a lead researcher from the CSIRO.
Professor Barlow said as chairman, he spoke on behalf of the expert group.
“It is important to recognise that this is an R&D program with very specific priorities which applicants must be able to address if they wish to be successful,” he said. It is also in a relatively new area of science.
***“For this reason it is understandable the limited pool of researchers would be closely connected professionally.”…
Yeh right!!
All this funding going to warmista fanatics and their journeymen assistants ever willing to write what is necessary in order to remain within the sheltered workshop illustrates symbiotic relationship between politicians and large elements of the research establishment. Cancelling the grants involved would bring a double saving of less money directly expended and a reduced pressure on the economy from measures like renewable programs and funding of high cost green facilities that the research is funded to promote.
http://catallaxyfiles.com/2013/05/10/taxpayers-funding-grants-that-help-to-reduce-their-living-standards/
Mortgage Applications Plunge Further – Near 19 Year Lows
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-19/mortgage-applications-plunge-further-near-19-year-lows
The past 5 weeks have seen mortgage applications crumble a further 16% – their biggest such drop in 14 months as the index for home purchase applications hovers close to its lowest level since 1995. Non-seasonally-adjusted, this is the worst start to a year in over a decade. Must be the weather?
the url for the 2013 Julie Hare link i just posted, if anyone wants to look at the Map:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/grants-process-sent-to-auditor/story-e6frgcjx-1226637918163
MARK COLVIN, MAYBE THIS IS THE FORMER CAGW SCEPTIC BARLOW WITH HIS EMINENT REPUTATION TO PROTECT?
11 July 2012: Australia: Julie Hare: Climate panellist gets $10m in grants
AN expert panel charged with allocating $47 million in climate research grants handed $10m to a research centre run by one of its members.
Richard Eckard, who has denied any conflict of interest, runs the Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, which sought funding for nine projects through the first research round of the federal government’s Carbon Farming Futures Initiative. It was successful with eight.
Only 58 out of 230 applications, or 25 per cent, received funding, well below PICCC’s 88 per cent success rate.
An international expert in methane and agricultural emissions, Dr Eckard is named lead researcher on one of the successful projects and is a member of the team on four more, attracting $4.2m.
PICCC, a joint venture between the University of Melbourne and the Victorian Department of Primary Industries, helped prepare the other four proposals. The chairman of the 10-member expert panel, eminent scientist Snow Barlow, denied there was any conflict of interest…
Professor Barlow (chairman of the 10-member expert panel, eminent scientist Snow Barlow) dismissed the “halo effect” in which eminent researchers familiar to the panel were put under less scrutiny because of their reputation.
***“We all have our own reputations that we have spent a lot of time building up and we are not going to make decisions that would damage that,” he said.
Two Queensland University of Technology researchers, Peter Grace and Beverley Henry, were also members of the expert panel and successful grant winners on four projects…
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/climate/climate-panellist-gets-10m-in-grants/story-e6frg6xf-1226422922741
MARK COLVIN: i think i’ve found the former-CAGW-sceptic-Barlow aka the previous Govt’s CAGW shill:
Feb 2012: ABC: Sarah Collerton: Farming and the carbon tax: what’s in store?
ABC News Online talked to key experts about what the carbon plan means for the land-based sector…
But the Government will shell out a cool $1.9 billion over six years to encourage farmers to cut emissions and to develop techniques for storing carbon.
There are various ways this money will be handed out, but much of the focus is on the research and development of storing carbon as well as carbon credits.
“The key components are $946 million over six years for a Biodiversity Fund and $429 million Carbon Farming Futures program,” said Professor Snow Barlow from School of Land and Environment at the University of Melbourne.
“This is about preparing the agricultural sector to begin to undertake activities that will serve them very well when there is a commitment for agriculture under any future national or global agreements,” Professor Barlow said…
Professor Barlow says there are various activities through which farmers and landholders can generate carbon credits. These include:
Planting forests or plantations;
Reducing methane emissions from animals;
Reducing nitrous oxide emissions from fertilisers;
Reducing emissions from savannah burning;
Management of native forests;
Revegetation of high conservation areas;
Culling feral animals.
Over the years, some of the nation’s top climate scientists have called for agriculture to be part of an Australian carbon pricing plan to help achieve emission cuts.
Professor Barlow says this could be one way to improve the Government’s current plan.
“One of the sleepers in this (Government’s carbon plan) is (cutting agricultural emissions) not being part of the commitments under the carbon tax and the ETS that starts in 2015,” Professor Barlow said.
“But some of us as researchers think that agriculture and food production can’t remain out forever because the fundamental equation in the globe is that agriculture is about 15 to 20 per cent of emissions.
“If you cut global emissions by 50 per cent, which we need to by 2050, agriculture’s going to stand out like a sore toe and people won’t allow that.”…
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-15/carbon-tax-farmers/2795816
nice going, ABC. not biased at all, are ‘WE’?
MARK COLVIN/LEIGH SALES/ABC: HERE HE IS…IN HIS ELEMENT:
16 Dec 2013: CarbonCredits:CarbonCaptureReport.org:
This page lists all blog posts relating to Carbon Credits…
[WATCH]: Snow Barlow Sustainable Farming System Forum Wodonga 2012 | sustainabletradingandinvesting.com
…… [WATCH]: Snow Barlow Sustainable Farming System Forum Wodonga 2012 by on Sunday, December 8th, 2013 | No Comments Professor Snow Barlow covers environmental opportunities in a carbon trading environment, future directions in farm management that can achieve environmental Related posts: Posted in Sustainable Trading Tags: Tech , trading [WATCH]: Sustainable competitiveness the solution ……
http://carboncredits.carboncapturereport.org/cgi-bin//dailyreport_showlist?DATE=2013-12-16&norm=76&field=blogposts&sort=0&filter=&start=40
posted the above link for the description, but u can watch the video here:
VIDEO: SustainableTradingandInvestingBlog: [WATCH]: Snow Barlow – Sustainable Farming System Forum Wodonga 2012
http://sustainabletradingandinvesting.com/blog/2013/12/08/watch-snow-barlow-sustainable-farming-system-forum-wodonga-2012/
fascinating to read this today:
(5 PAGES) May 2011: Queensland Country Life: Colin Nettles: What benefits from carbon?
LABOR’S latest consultation group will examine the potential land sector benefits and opportunities available under a carbon pricing mechanism, through the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI).
***The Land Sector Working Group will see about 30 stakeholders from various land and agricultural sectors, including meat, grains, sugar, cotton and natural resource organisations, discuss the design of a carbon pricing mechanism.
The Group’s advice will be used to help inform the Government’s position on the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee; another of the government’s carbon consultation groups.
The fist meeting is expected to be held next month in Canberra with other forums staged during the carbon legislation’s development…
But Carbon Conscious, which aims to convert marginal farming land into carbon sinks to add value by capturing carbon farming credits and reducing toxic gas emissions, said the CFI presented a number of genuine opportunities to increase agricultural productivity.
The company’s business model is distinctly different to an MIS in that it targets large scale investors like its major clients, BP and Origin Energy, who are looking for a genuine commercial return on their investments, as opposed to “mum and dad investors, looking for a tax break.
Mr Balsarini (CEO CARBON CONSCIOUS) said the company’s clients were large, smart investors who wanted to invest based on commercial returns rather than a tax break…
“Our business model looks at marginal land; land that should not have been cleared in the first place, on annual rainfall of between 250mm and 500mm, very low agricultural production land, with deep sandy soils.
“It’s land where farmers can’t earn much on it so we take that land back and make it productive…
“We see it as a positive that will allow farmers to release low value land and take out small parts of their farm to carbon credits under the CFI and there will be a whole range of environmental benefits under that system.”
***Members of the Land Sector Working Group: (includes)
Prof Snow Barlow, Member of Australian Landcare Council, Landcare
http://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/news/agriculture/agribusiness/general-news/what-benefits-from-carbon/2146303.aspx?storypage=0
former Carbon Conscious CEO Balsarini:
LinkedIn: Peter Balsarini
Director – Corporate Finance, Clean Technology and Carbon Advisory
Clean Tech deal origination and capital sourcing
Carbon advisory & trading services
Corporate finance transactions
Stanbal Consulting
Independant consulting specdialising in clean tech and property sectors
http://au.linkedin.com/pub/peter-balsarini/31/811/680
GregM
Seems you have learned how to copy and paste.
Hey, leave pat alone.
He does an invaluable job “finding stuff” that many of us just would not have the time to search out.
It must take him hours.
Thanks , pat
OK! Sorry Pat. And Griss. Keep on posting.
I was talking to a cockie this morning who tells me that Carbon Conscious are putting their trees on the good productive land as well.
‘When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser’ –Socrates
fretslider
Please stop sending us your ecofascists.
Steven Vada@outlook.com
Scientist: “Do you believe immersing a sphere heated in vacuum, into cold nitrogen makes it get warmer?”
Believer: “Yes.”
Scientist: “Do you believe physically reflecting 20% energy from a fire, the sun, away from sensors on an object, will make sensors all over the object, indicate more energy from the fire, arriving?
Scientist: “Do you believe adding more reflective media, blocking 21% of energy from a fire to sensors on an object,
will make energy sensors indicate more energy arriving, than when you only kept 20% total energy from arriving?”
Well, I guess the science is settled then LoLoLoL what a crock!
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Daniel Bard went to his apartment across the street to have a late dinner. David Ortiz said he was going to go out for a bit, but vowed to remain in the area -- just in case. ...
But by the time Rangers lost, 5-2, just before 1 a.m. ET, nearly 90 percent of the Red Sox's players had reconvened back in the Fenway Park clubhouse, where they sprayed each other with champagne and whatever else they could find. ...
"I went home, put my son to sleep and came back," said Pedroia. "We all watched the game. At the [last out], we were all yelling at each other. That was pretty much it."
James sent me these two Mariners PBP calls. It's better if you don't read beyond the opening text. Just listen!
That mariners thing is incredible, lol.
Speaking of playoffs, I'm very curious to see what Philly does with their rotation and who gets sent to the pen.
They've got Hamels and Lee, who will no doubt start 1 and 2. Probably Blanton for 3. Then Happ or Pedro? Happ's been dominant, but Pedro is Pedro....
Our playoff entree was neither dramatic nor aesthetically pleasing. I may not be jumping up and down about it, but I have sworn never to take the postseason for granted, so...so I'm trying to keep that in mind!
I still think clinching the Wild Card doesn't call for a champagne celebration. You haven't won anything yet. Now just remember 2004 and go do it again!
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By the time we had received our scheduled fuel delivery, it was nearly midday before we got away from Chauny, but the improved weather which had been forecast had still not really arrived. In our mast-down state we are very vulnerable to rain showers, and it wasn't long before we got our first soaking, which of course coincided exactly with our arrival at the first lock. On this leg we were to cruise west along the Canal lateral à l'Oise, as far as Pont l'Evêque, and then turn north on the busy Canal du Nord, as far as its junction with the Canal de la Somme. When we had first planned to cruise via the Somme we had envisaged taking the Canal St Quentin and joining the Somme at the St Simon junction. However, the more recent of our cruising guides pointed out that this 15km stretch between the Canal St Quentin and the Canal du Nord has in fact been closed since 2006.
After our second lock (and soaking) we arrived at the village moorings at Pont l'Evêque. At the junction with the Canal du Nord and the busy route to the l'Oise, this is a popular stopping point for barges, and the halte plaisance shares a sheltered inlet with a barge dry-dock. There was a steady procession lining up for the opportunity to peer at their underparts, and tackle the sides with roller paint brushes. With more rain looking likely we decided it was worth investigating and opted to leave the Canal du Nord for another day.
The moorings were provided courtesy of the town but, for the first time this year, we came across metered electricity and water. These were operated by 'jeton' available at the boulangerie (closed) or at the local bar. Priced at €2 a throw, we were promised 5kWh for each token, but managed to exhaust the first one in an hour, without any of our copious electrical systems even switched on. After the second token ran out an hour later we gave up on the shore power and decided to survive on the ships own power for the rest of the evening.
Entertainments in the village are limited to the annual boules contest, which was to take place that Saturday, for which the locals were in strict training. With the only boulanger in town away on holiday for three weeks, the best option for shopping was a 2km bike ride to the Auchan hypermarket on the other side of Noyon. This offers a fun-filled outing for all the family and, as ever, was packed out with eager shoppers. After the mainly uphill cycle our first priority was the cafe du visite, where we bumped into the crew of 'Beats Working', one of two other English boats moored alongside us, who had obviously had a similar idea.
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Diesel: 10 ltrs
Mooring: Free
Electricity: €2/5kWh
Water: €2/100l
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§ 45-19-23. Creation of Board of Commissioners of the Commission on Equal Opportunity; members; terms; officers; meetings; compensation of members; powers and duties of board; annual report to Governor and General Assembly; special masters' list.
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Title 45. PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
Chapter 19. LABOR PRACTICES
Article 2. FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES
Current through 2019 Chapter 321
§ 45-19-23. Creation of Board of Commissioners of the Commission on Equal Opportunity; members; terms; officers; meetings; compensation of members; powers and duties of board; annual report to Governor and General Assembly; special masters' list
(a) A Board of Commissioners of the Commission on Equal Opportunity is created. The board shall consist of nine persons. Subject to confirmation by the Senate, the members of the board shall be appointed by the Governor for three-year terms, except as otherwise provided in this subsection. Of the Governor's initial appointments, three shall be for one-year terms, three shall be for two-year terms, and three shall be for three-year terms. In the event of a vacancy during the term of any member appointed by the Governor whether by reason of death, resignation, or otherwise, the appointment of a successor by the Governor shall be only for the remainder of the unexpired term. The membership of the board shall be representative of a fair and reasonable cross section of the population of the state and one-third of the members shall have experience in labor or Title VII law enforcement or other legal human rights experience; provided, however, that after July 1, 1993, at least three members of the board shall be representative of or have a background in realty, apartment management, or the building and contracting industry.
(b) The board shall annually elect a chair and such other officers as it deems appropriate and shall meet at least three times a year at a time and place specified in writing by the administrator. The board may also meet from time to time upon its own motion, as deemed necessary by a majority of the members thereof, for the purposes of conducting routine or special business. Each member of the board shall serve without pay; but the members who are not otherwise state officials or employees shall, while engaged in the official duties of the board, receive the same expense allowance and travel cost reimbursement which members of certain boards and commissions receive pursuant to Code Section 45-7-21.
(c) The board shall make a written report to the Governor and to the General Assembly by December 31 of each year. Such report shall advise the Governor and the members of the General Assembly of the board's activities and the administration of this article and shall make such recommendation for change, if any, as the board deems proper.
(d) The board shall assist the administrator of the Commission on Equal Opportunity in an advisory capacity in carrying out the duties and functions of the office including but not limited to matters relating to fair employment practices and the effectiveness of the state programs and operations.
(e) The board shall establish and certify to the Governor at the beginning of each fiscal year a list of not less than 12 persons, including females and minorities, licensed to practice law in Georgia, who have experience in labor law, in employment law, or administrative law, from which list the Governor may select, on the basis of rotation in sequential order, special masters as provided for in Code Section 45-19-37. The board may from time to time certify to the Governor additional persons to be added to the aforementioned list.
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Taylor Swift's love life: a history
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Taylor Swift Dating History 2005-2019 #11 Boys Has Dated
Please refresh the page and retry. S o Taylor Swift has left another man heartbroken. According to Us Weekly, Tom Hiddleston and Swift's well-publicised relationship has come to an end after Swift didn't want to turn up on the Emmy Awards red carpet with him. Swift's fans are experiencing a sense of de-ja vu. Here is a woman whose starry love-life is so well documented that she wrote a song about the media's reaction to it.
It was a really lousy thing for her to do. The girl in the dress, cried the whole way home, I should've known," he sings. And for the worst reason.
Rumour has it the couple's year age gap just wasn't working so Jake called it quits. In the first verse, Swift makes this fascinating claim: " Left my scarf there at your sister's house.
Owl City's Adam Young never officially dated Taylor, with things never escalating past some emails and one face-to-face meeting. Taylor was so excited to meet Young that she later wrote the song 'Enchanted' about him. She sings: " All I can say is it was enchanting to meet you".
A Full Rundown of Taylor Swift's Hollywood Dating History to go on an awkward date with Ted from Accounting, you have a whole buffet of Hollywood's hottest. For years while we've been belting out Taylor Swift's eerily-similar-to-our-own-life breakup anthems to get over the average Joe's we've dated. Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, seem to be going strong. The couple has been dating for more than two years now, but they have.
Adam Young of Owl City attends Power Taylor and Chord reportedly only went on one date, but there are pictures from the event so naturally, he makes the list. Unfortunately, Eddie's captivating green eyes and freckles didn't make enough of an impact to earn a tribute track.
However, the two have both denied the relationship. We can still dream though. Taylor dated Robert F. Kennedy's grandson Conor Kennedy during the summer of She did receive some criticism for the age difference in the relationship, being that she was 22 and Conor was Her reps denied it, but it appeared the damage had been done.
Their relationship ended because he had to go to college. Taylor told USA Today , "He bought the album [Taylor Swift] and said he really loved it, which is sweet. As a country pop darling-turned-"Reputation"-slayer, Taylor Swift has certainly become known for writing songs about the ghosts of boyfriends. If you're a fan of Harry Styles or Taylor Swift (or both), then chances are you're very familiar with the saga of Haylor. Honestly, it really does feel like a distant memory, but here's your answer: Styles and Swift began dating in fall , but they weren't officially.
One of Taylor's most divisive relationships to date. The couple, despite only dating for a month, shared paper aeroplane necklaces, strolled through Central Park, kissed in Times Square on New Year's Eve and even got in a snowmobile accident. However it wasn't to be and it even got a little messy with both sides deleting every trace of each other existing on their social media accounts.
Taylor's most high profile relationship was with One Direction hunk Harry Styles in one of the most a-list couples you're ever likely to see. Although they only dated for approximately 2 months at the end ofmany still ship the pair!
Here's a timeline of all the lucky guys who've been in a relationship with the 'Reputation' star including Harry Styles and Calvin Harris. Taylor Swift is undoubtedly one of the biggest pop stars to ever grace planet earth with an endless stream of epic albums under her belt and a. Taylor Swift's dating history: a timeline of her famous exes and boyfriends, including Joe Jonas, Harry Styles and Joe Alwyn � pics. So Taylor Swift has left another man heartbroken. According to Us Weekly, Tom Hiddleston and Swift's well-publicised relationship has come to an end after.
The grandson of President JFK and a barrister in his own right dated Taylor for almost a year back in before them splitting due to long distance troubles. Enough said really.
Ready for some more break-up music? At only 19 years old, Taylor dated John before the two fell out with one another and of course Swift wrote the single 'Dear John' in retaliation.
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With lyrics such as, ' Don't you think I was too young to be messed with? The girl in the dress cried the whole way home. I should've known'.
Taylor and Taylor were meant to be after meeting on the set of rom-com 'Valentine's Day' however in just three months the pair called it a day.
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