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Chapters Five and Six - Death in the Valley
Three months have passed and it's been terrible so far. Only four months left in the season and Thomas can only hope that things get better. But unfazed the trio continued on. It was getting towards the end of the month and time to check the traps. The terrain was intensely wooded and great care was taken to move deliberately. On the way they ran into two parties of British Irregulars. The first inquired if the party wanted to join them but Blue Shirt politely declined. They were a bit more pressing on Thomas and Joshua but to no avail. Later they met up with another party of British Irregulars who were a bit friendlier. But that was all as they made it to the traps and recovered 8 fur bundles. Not bad for the month. This gave them a total of 12 bundles for the season.
Each trapper can carry up to three times their Rep in bundles. This would be a total of 36 that could be carried before they would have to stockpile them somewhere. Only three more months so that didn’t seem to be a problem.
So ended June…
The hunters encounter two PEFs very close to each other, a potentially dangerous situation.
Rain. The middle of July and a freak downpour covered the hunter/trappers as they made their way towards their traps.
“It will get worse before it gets better, “Blue Shirt said as he looked skyward.
“Feu!”
One of the first words Thomas learned in French was the word for fire. So when he heard it he did, at the fellow who was shouting it! But he missed. The French NCO fired at Blue Shirt but struck a tree instead. Joshua fired and missed while another French soldier drew a bead on Thomas and fired….misfire! The last French soldier fired and missed as well.
More French, this time Regulars.
Blue Shirt raised his rifle and shot down the French NCO who tried to charge. The misfiring Frenchman didn’t have the stomach for bayonet work and stayed in place. The last Frenchman charged and stabbed Joshua in the head with a bayonet, sending him to the ground out of the fight.
The second PEF is revealed and three French Irregulars join the fight!
Suddenly three French Irregulars came screaming out of the bush behind the French soldiers. Blue Shirt charged and was cut down by a musket ball in the chest. The other two Irregulars fired at Thomas but both missed.
Thomas turned and headed away from the carnage at a run.
It all went to hell in a hand basket very quickly.
What was an even fight turned into a five to one battle in seconds. Taking stock of the situation I decided better to run away and fight another day. Except in Long Rifle it isn’t that easy. Running from the table only triggers a Chase Encounter. It was just a matter of figuring out how many would be chasing and setting up the table. Okay, I fudged it and used the same set up but entered from a different angle!
Thomas ran and the three French Irregulars gave chase. After a short time Thomas realized he couldn’t out run them and he turned to fight. Pulling out his tomahawk he waited. The three Frenchmen came into view, halted and drew their axes and knives. With a shout they were upon him. Thomas couldn’t remember much but after it was over he found himself, covered in blood, standing over three dead and dying Frenchmen.
After a near run thing three dead and dying Frenchmen and a thirst for vengeance.
I’m not going to bore you with a play by play of what happened but let’s just say that:
1 – Thomas used his once in a lifetime Lucky Bastard attribute.
2 – He ended up with half of his Star Power dice lost for the rest of the Encounter.
3 – And another time he reduced damage from Obviously Dead to Carry On by some damn fine Star Power rolling.
So now it’s time for him to do another Chase Encounter except this time he’s chasing the French soldiers who may or may not have captives.
Thomas headed back to where the fight had taken place. Joshua’s body lay there and the French had left. No time to grieve, Thomas began to track the enemy. After a long chase he caught up to and in front of the French soldiers. As they turned the bend and into sight Thomas fired at the French NCO and missed! He returned fire and missed as well. A second French soldier fired but missed, the third in the rear behind Blue Shirt could not fire.
Thomas confronts the Frenchmen.
Thomas pulled his tomahawk and the French NCO charged, bayonet at the ready. Thud! Thomas buried his tomahawk in the NCO’s chest. As he fell to the ground Blue Shirt surprised the French soldier next to him and broke his neck. The third soldier fired but missed. Thomas charged forward and retrieved his tomahawk. Blue Shirt picked up a dropped musket and readied himself for the attack that never came. The French soldier turned and ran into the brush.
Here's a brief recap of the events as they went to hell. The hunters activate first and move. Then the other side activated and the first PEF moved into sight and it was resolved as three French soldiers. Blue Shirt (Rep 5) ends up going last with zero successes during the In Sight. In fact he couldn’t even act. At least he shot down the NCO when he was charged. Joshua missed his shot and was promptly bayoneted as the French were active and charged into melee. Once the turn ended the other PEFs moved and the next one was resolved as the three Irregulars.
This triggered another In Sight between the hunters and the Irregulars and Blue Shirt went down. That left three Irregulars and two soldiers against me. See ya! The Irregulars ended up pursuing Thomas and I realized that there was no way to escape as they activated first. That’s when it was melee time. Bottom line if Thomas didn’t have the Lucky Bastard attribute and changed the first OD to a miss he would have been dead in the first combat. The only reason he ended up winning was because of that and the Star Power benefits and it was still a very close fight.
It made sense that Thomas could go after them and rolling on the After the Battle Table left Joshua dead and Blue Shirt recovered enough to move. I switched to a Hunt Encounter and used the Tracking Table. It got me to musket range but they went first. Luckily they missed, Blue Shirt took a successful Challenge to get into melee with one of the soldiers and the NCO charged. Thomas could shoot if he was able so I decided to throw the tomahawk. Lucky hit. After that the In Sight was over and the last soldier failed his morale and ran.
This game is pretty intense at times. I counted this as a lost Encounter as for checking traps. Went back and buried Joshua. Got the fur bundles from him as well and we could still easily carry them. We had 12 and the most we can carry is 27. Only two months left in the season. And so ended July…
Chapter Three and Four Too! Thomas the Hunter
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The hunters decided to give it another try. This time they would take more care, staying to the woods whenever possible. Once they reach the edge of the woods they run across the clearing and reach the wooded hill. When they reached the crest they ran into three British Irregulars from the Ohio Valley Rangers. The six spent some time exchanging info, coffee beans and tobacco. The Ranger Leader said that most of the French had been driven from the area. After a rest both parties said their farewells and headed off into different directions.
The first PEF to be resolved were "Friends". Couple of more d6 rolls and it was determined that they were British Irregulars. When you meet friends you swap information and this allows you to count the area at one lower Investment Level for the remainder of the Encounter. This represents info as to where it might be safe or dangerous. As the parties were talking activation moved to the other side. The PEFs were at the other side of the table and now moved. The closest one entered the left edge of the wooded hill and the other followed close behind. Activation dice were rolled and…
Blue Shirt and Thomas kept looking back as they reached the bottom of the hill and into the flat wooded area. "What's the matter?" Joshua asked. "We're being followed," Thomas replied.
Blue Shirt held up his hand. "Better to meet them here than to lead them to our trapping area," he said. The three turned around and held their rifles at the ready. Not obviously aggressive but not at ease either. Three Indians came into view. Blue Shirt and one of the Indians began to speak. Thomas saw Blue Shirt smile and reach into his pouch and hand the other Indian some tobacco. Thomas relaxed. After a few minutes the two groups left in opposite directions. Within minutes the hunter/trappers reached the area they had been searching for and began to set their traps.
The 2nd PEF was revealed to be a party of Neutrals from a neighboring Indian tribe. But just because they were neutral to the hunters didn’t mean that they were hostile to the French. In any case, as with the Rangers before, the interaction with them reduced the Investment Level down by one level to a one. When the Investment Level drops, so does the activity from the PEFs. The hunters easily outdistanced the final PEF, exited the table and could now set their traps. The first Trapping Encounter of the season is only about setting the traps. To see if they caught anything would mean that at least one of them would have to check on them. But I also wanted to do some hunting. Time spent hunting was time not spent checking traps. Maybe I could split the party in two. When this happens you can have more than one Encounter per month but that means someone would have to go alone. That wouldn't be Joshua so it would mean that Thomas would be the one to set out on his own. Well, as the story is about Thomas then let's give it a try. I decided that Thomas would go off to hunt by himself while the others would come back and check the traps. So ended April…
Thomas headed across the river to the north to hunt. Hopefully he would have less chance of meeting anyone. Early on he found some tracks of what appeared to be Elk but these didn’t pan out and the trail disappeared after a hundred yards or so. Thomas continued his hunt and saw some small game but never got close enough for a shot. It is getting late and he is running out of time. He couldn't go back to the others empty handed. Later in the day Thomas spies a pheasant taking wing and brings him down with one shot. As he approaches the bird he spies tracks. "Wolves," he thinks to himself. Thomas follows it around and quickly loses the trail. He heads back towards the downed pheasant and starts to get it ready to transport.
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The first PEF were Elk tracks. In Long Rifle the hunter and the quarry roll d6 and count successes. Depending upon the difference the hunter can get close enough for a shot, the prey can flee, or the hunter can lose the trail, as happened to Thomas. The second PEF was small game and Thomas lost the trail of those as well. The third PEF didn’t move and instead split into two PEFs. The first one resolved was more small game and Thomas got a shot off and killed it. I decided it was a pheasant. Killing small game means the hunt is not a failure but the hunter doesn’t get any Fame Points for it. But at least he wouldn’t lose any either. The last PEF were Wolf tracks, two to be exact. One of the possibilities when tracking is that ferocious prey, if they score 2 or more successes then the hunter will have a chance to ambush the hunter. Wolves, mountain lions and bears are allowed to do this. So when I lost the trail I wasn't too disappointed.
In a Hunt the beginning PEFs are animals but there is a chance for unwanted attention. It has something to do with how many shots you take and even though Thomas only took one shot it generated one new PEF. And it was guaranteed NOT to be an animal.
After each kill it takes a certain number of turns to prepare the kill for transport off the table and to qualify for Fame Points. As Thomas was doing this the PEF moved closer and….
As Thomas is readying the pheasant he hears the brush rustle and a French Irregular steps into view. Realizing that his musket is out of reach and with a tomahawk in hand he charges the Frenchman who fires. Or should I say, misfires! Thomas bowls into the startled opponent and they roll on the ground locked in combat. Evenly matched, the Frenchman rolls away and starts to run down the trail. Thomas retrieves his musket and fires, hitting his target in the leg. Thomas runs over to the Frenchman who is unconscious from the wound. Thomas takes his powder, provisions and axe but leaves him some water. Grabbing the pheasant he starts his trek back to camp.
Okay, this guy is officially lucky. I mean come on, the guy has him dead to rights and the gun misfires? What are the odds of that happening? Okay, they're 1 in 6 but come on. Anyway, it's time for Thomas to get out of here as the shot, you guessed it, generated another PEF. I mean what are the odds? Well with 2 shots it's 1 in 3. If only he can stop shooting. But I've learned my lessons.
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Before setting off Thomas paused to reload his weapon. Thomas definitely hears something, no make it some things, heading towards him. He heads off away from the trail and towards the high ground where it will be harder to be tracked. Thomas picks up the pace as darkness falls.
Not sure what the PEF would have been but glad I got off the table. Lucky for me the PEF didn’t move one time, but it did split into two PEFs. Using PEFs and not knowing what exactly to expect adds a lot of tension, and enjoyment, to the game.
Thomas didn’t gain any Fame Point but he also didn’t lose any thanks to killing the Small Game. No points were gained for taking out the Frenchman. It may seem strange but Thomas chose the Hunter/Trapper profession. If I wanted to get famous killing people I should have chosen Soldier, Indian Warrior or even Irregular where combat is always an option and a way to gain Fame.
I didn’t want to play out a Trapping Encounter with Blue Shirt as after all its Thomas's story. So I fudged it and let them roll on the Check the Traps Table but with 1d6, and not the normal 2d6, for each one. Three sets of traps, three d6 rolled. Two were successful but one had nothing. For the month the hunter/trappers trapped four fur bundles. I realize now why it would be better to trap in a lower Investment Level territory, more animals are about. Another lesson learned!
So ended May…
Chapter Two - Setting the Traps
The table was mostly wooded with a long wooded hill cutting the table in half. All the PEFs were placed behind the hill in three different sections.
They were moving though a clearing and towards some wooded hills. Just over the hills lay the river and the spot where Blue Shirt wanted to set the traps. As the three of them came into sight of the hills Blue Shirt raised his hand, the signal to stop. On the hill to their front were three Frenchmen heading down the slope. "I see three," Blue Shirt said. "Three what?" asked Joshua who was oblivious to the situation."Three Frenchmen," replied Thomas. "It's a safe bet to think they're not friendly."
Blue Shirt and Thomas ducked into the nearby woods to their right as did the Frenchmen. Joshua stood his ground.
"Get in here!" yelled Blue Shirt. Joshua woke up and ran to join his two partners. Thomas couldn't help but think to himself, "Oh no, not again..."
Like the previous adventure the two groups came into sight out of musket range. After the In Sights were taken all of the participants had ducked for cover, the Frenchmen in the woods on the hill while the hunter/trappers into some nearby woods. And like last time the side that could move first would get the advantage. Non-Player forces are moved by the PEF Movement Table even when they become resolved into figures. After two turns where the hunters couldn’t move and the French didn't the three Frenchmen sprinted toward the woods at a fast move as the hunters didn't activate. Next turn the hunters activated first and moved to the edge of the woods causing an In Sight to be taken all around.
The Frenchmen sprint across the clearing hoping to reach the woods before being seen.
Too late! The hunters reach the edge of the woods and all sides take In Sights. A d6 is placed next to each figure than can act during the In Sight. Blue Shirt, Thomas, and one of the Frenchmen will go first.
The three hunters made their way to the edge of the woods and saw the three Frenchmen as they were still in the clearing. One of the Frenchmen dove for the ground as soon as he saw them. One fired at Blue Shirt and missed. Blue Shirt shot him in the chest. Thomas beat the last Frenchman to the shot and fired, hitting him in the chest as well. Joshua fired at the prone Frenchman and missed. But it was enough as the Frenchman didn’t have the stomach to continue the fight and ran back towards the hill.
"Look!" Blue Shirt said, pointing towards the hill that the Frenchman was running for. "I see three more French."
The 2nd PEF is resolved, more French!
"And there," Thomas pointed."To the right of them, there go three Indians." As the hunters watched one Frenchman went over to the Indians. They could see him pointing in their direction.
And the 3rd PEF proves more trouble.
"Let's go," Blue Shirt said matter of factually.
"We could take them," Joshua said as Blue Shirt and Thomas turned to leave.
"No money in that," Thomas replied. "You want to fight? Go join the army."
After the quick exchange of gunfire the second PEF moved over the hill and into sight. This triggered it being resolved. It came up more enemies, more Frenchmen. Almost on cue the final PEF moved and came over the hill. Neutrals, Indians this time. Because the French were close and in sight they had to resolve the interaction with the Indians. Passing a Challenge Test meant that the Indians, at worse, would not get involved and at best join the French. A 2d6 roll resulted in a pass Challenge. I realized that we weren't here to fight but to trap and hunt. I decided it was time to leave. Did I choose an Investment Level that was too high or was I just unlucky? Mathematically I would say unlucky but all I knew is the one Encounter for the month was wasted.
Thomas didn’t gain any Fame Points as the Encounter was to set the traps, not fight the enemy. So ended March…
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Thomas Howard - Hunter/Trapper - Long Rifle AAR
Long Rifle is the black powder period immersion game where players take on one of six different roles. Set during the French and Indian War , 1754, players try to gain experience, fame and fortune in the wilds of North America, while staying alive. This is the first installment of my Star, Thomas Howard, hunter/trapper extraordinaire!
"It's a big world out there Thomas, and you're only a small part of it." - Mrs. Howard, 1735.
Thomas Howard found himself a failure at business and even more so as a husband. Perhaps because he was a bit too young or perhaps because he was a bit too foolish Thomas left his home in Massachusetts and set out for the West. Some said he was an adventurous man, others, his bankers, said he was a no good dead beat, but no matter how or why, Thomas found himself working for an old Indian named Blue Shirt. Blue Shirt wasn't his real name and although Thomas knew a bit of French in addition to his native English, foreign languages were not his strong suit. In fact, Thomas had yet to find his strong suit. but Thomas worked cheap and he was a fast learner. Blue Shirt had seen what was coming down the pike, a war between the two white men tribes and he figured it might come in handy to have one of them as a friend. In return, he offered to teach Thomas how to shoot, hunt and trap. Thomas realized it would be a rough life but the thought of a fresh start and someday working on his own made him embrace the challenge.
After his first full year, 1753, Thomas returned to the East but not his old haunts. No those days were long gone. Thomas had made enough in his first year to make it through the winter and now it was March. He headed west back up the river to rendezvous with Blue Shirt near Potter's Ford. And this is where our story begins…
Thomas is a Star, hunter/trapper, Rep 4, and has the Hawkeye and Lucky Bastard Attributes. The first he chose. This allows him to roll an extra d6 when firing and also on the damage table, choosing the best results. Lucky Bastard would allow him to change an Obviously Dead result to a Miss but only once in his life. This Attribute was rolled at random.
Thomas is armed with a musket and a tomahawk.
Periodically I will post game mechanic comments for clarity but as the campaign progresses they may be less needed. My objective is to get Thomas to Rep 5 and finish a complete campaign year. Hunting and Trapping is allowed from March to September with a chance to visit a trading post in October to trade your furs and gain Fame Points (used to increase your Rep and Personal Loyalty value). The Territory Investment Level would be 3. This is used to determine how much activity that can be expected while moving in the territory. Almost none is 1 while high activity is 5 so 3 would be a happy medium. The previous picture shows the first table that Thomas would move over. This would be the rendezvous where Thomas would meet up with Blue Shirt.The objective was simple, cross the table to the ford then over to the other side where hopefully Blue Shirt would meet him.
The terrain was mostly wooded with the river and Potter's Ford in the upper right hand corner. Coincidentally all three Possible Enemy Force markers (PEFs) started there as well. PEF represent potential enemies, friends, neutrals, animals or absolutely nothing at all. The first two turns Thomas did not activate and two of the PEFs moved directly towards him. On the third turn the PEF entered the woods and…
Thomas heard him before he saw him. It was a French Irregular and not a fellow hunter. The scalp hanging from his belt told him as much. Thomas raised his musket as he came into view and got the drop on the Frenchman. Click! The Frenchman stopped in place realizing too late what had happened. Thomas wasn't a murderer and didn't hold no grudge against the French but he wasn't taking any chances. The Frenchman was quick to surrender. Between the little English of the Frenchman and the even less French from Thomas the Frenchman understood. Thomas shoved the Frenchman's musket into the soft dirt clogging the barrel and took away his tomahawk as well. Then he told him to start walking and count to ten before he turned around and if he didn't he'd shoot him, simple as that. As Thomas watched the Frenchman walk away he hurried off towards Potter's Ford.
The first PEF moved into the woods and into LOS of Thomas. Resolving the PEF resulted in "Enemies".
A few quick die rolls saw that it was a Rep 4 Irregular but only one. As Thomas was in British/Allied Indian Territory that made the enemy French. Both took the In Sight Test versus their Rep and while Thomas passed 3 the Frenchman passed 0. My first instinct was to shoot but that could cause problems later on. So I took a Challenge Test with the success being the Frenchman surrendering and the failure being he could attempt to shoot. Luckily I was successful. The rest was just figuring out what to do in real life. I couldn't take his weapon but I couldn’t have him shoot me either. So I figured just clog the barrel and be off.
Thomas leaves the Frenchman none too worse for wear and perhaps a little wiser. That'll teach the Frenchman to be on the lookout when moving through the woods!
Thomas was looking backward when he should have been looking forward. He heard the blast before he saw the shooter. The ball embedded itself in a tree trunk about waist high. Thomas charged the Indian warrior but was knocked backwards to the ground. As the Indian drew his tomahawk Thomas sat up and fired his musket. The Indian fell to the ground hit in the chest. Thomas drew his own tomahawk and cautiously moved towards the downed Indian who was bleeding badly. The Frenchman had surrendered, this was different. Thomas took the Indian warrior's powder and ball, tomahawk and food. He left him some water and that was about it. "He's in God's hands now," he thought as he headed away. He wondered what the French and French Allied Indians were doing so far south in the valley.
The smoke from the Indian's musket hadn't even cleared away before Thomas was upon him. Just as quickly Thomas was knocked to the ground.
The 2nd PEF was resolved as "Neutrals" and again it was one figure, a Rep 4 Indian. With neutrals there's a chance that if you take a successful Challenge they will be friendly. I failed, we went to In Sights and he scored higher. He fired but lucky for me hit the tree instead of my gut. My action was to charge him (go figure). He whipped my butt in melee and scored a knock down result. I rolled and passed 2d6, Stunned, but used my Star Power to make it a Carry On result. But I also lost 2 Star Power dice doing it. No choice but to fire and I did. I hit him in the chest Out of the Fight. The other PEF still remained in place.
Thomas left the Indian and continued on. He would be leaving the woods and could see Potter's Ford in the distance and a figure crossing the ford heading towards him. They saw each other at the same time. Thomas was out of range so he decided to duck back into the woods. When he peered out he couldn't see the other guy and guessed that he had did the same. Now what?
Both sides could see each other so both took the In Sight and scored the same result so would act at the same time. They could fire but were out of range so both ducked back. Lucky for Thomas as he had forgotten to reload! Okay, so I had forgotten to reload. Activation dice were rolled and…
Thomas began to reload still ducked back behind a tree. When he was ready he peered around the tree and saw the enemy crossing the ford. As soon as he saw Thomas he dove for cover on the bank of the river. Thomas sprinted forward and dove into some bushes closer to the river. It was another French Irregular, he just knew it. He cocked the musket and waited. He didn’t have to wait very long as the Frenchman rose up and made a mad dash towards where he thought Thomas was. His mistake, as Thomas fired and struck him square in the chest, the Frenchman dropped like a rag doll.
Game wise the Frenchman started to cross the ford as Thomas was reloading. The Frenchman activated first on the next turn and reached the edge of the river. Thomas popped out into sight and the Frenchman won the In Sight. As he went first and was still out of range he dove to cover to duck back behind the river bank. Thomas's action, now that there wasn't a target, was to fast move as far as possible. He completed his move by going prone in the bushes. Going prone he still could see and be seen. The next turn Thomas activated first and waited. When the Frenchman popped up from the bank Thomas won the In Sight and fired first, lucky enough to hit him in the chest.
As the Frenchman came in to view Thomas fired and down he went.
Thomas took the weapons from the dying Frenchman as well as his powder, water and food. He then proceeded to bury the extra muskets and tomahawks on this side of the ford. He'd come back and hopefully retrieve them at the end of the season. As soon as he finished he crossed over to the other side of the river. Once there he met Blue Shirt and another hunter/trapper, a young boy named Joshua Sims. As they headed up river Blue Shirt told Thomas of how war had been declared between the Whites. He told the Indian about the two Frenchmen and their Indian Ally. "I heard the shots," Blue Shirt said. "That was you?" Thomas nodded and kept pace as the trio headed towards their first stop. A day or two march and they'd be at a point of the river that would be good to set their traps. It was getting dark…
Thomas meets up with Blue Shirt and the new guy, Joshua Sims.
So ends the first encounter for Thomas. Thomas picked up 2 Fame Points for the two enemies he took out. This time period takes some getting used to what with reloading and melee being a very real possibility. Well, I learned lesson one. Stop and take the time to reload! Make that two. Know what your attributes are and use them! I forgot to use the Hawkeye benefits BOTH times. Well, like I said, Thomas is still pretty new at this.
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Why Can't The Football Team Read: The Student Athlete's Right-To-Know Act And The Growing Threat Of Liability, Chris Truax Jan 1997
Why Can't The Football Team Read: The Student Athlete's Right-To-Know Act And The Growing Threat Of Liability, Chris Truax
Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal
The Title Ix Tug-Of-War And Intercollegiate Athletics In The 1990'S: Nonrevenue Men's Teams Join Women Athletes In The Scramble For Survival, Susan M. Shook Jul 1996
The Title Ix Tug-Of-War And Intercollegiate Athletics In The 1990'S: Nonrevenue Men's Teams Join Women Athletes In The Scramble For Survival, Susan M. Shook
Indiana Law Journal
Drug Testing College Athletes: Ncaa Does Thy Cup Runneth Over, Stephen F. Brock, Kevin M. Mckenna, Rhett Traband Sep 1994
Drug Testing College Athletes: Ncaa Does Thy Cup Runneth Over, Stephen F. Brock, Kevin M. Mckenna, Rhett Traband
West Virginia Law Review
Balancing Due Process And Academic Integrity In Intercollegiate Athletics: The Scholarship Athlete's Limited Property Interest In Eligibility, Brian L. Porto Oct 1987
Balancing Due Process And Academic Integrity In Intercollegiate Athletics: The Scholarship Athlete's Limited Property Interest In Eligibility, Brian L. Porto
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Our commitment to AMR
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BD solutions to combat antimicrobial resistance
What is antimicrobial resistance (AMR)?
Antimicrobial resistance is the ability of microorganisms (such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, or protozoa) to nullify the effects of antimicrobial drugs, resulting in these drugs becoming ineffective1,2 AMR can affect anyone, of any age, in any country.
How does it happen?
There is usually a small number of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics
When taken,
antibiotics kill bacteria causing the illness - but they also kill the good bacteria that protects the body from
The drug-resistant bacteria survive and multiply
Eventually, the drug-resistant bacteria becomes dominant and spreads
SOURCE: The Center for Disease Control (CDC)
1. Antimicrobial Resistance Fact Sheet. WHO. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs194/en/
2. About Antimicrobial Resistance. CDC. https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/about.html
In Canada...
It is estimated that one billion dollars in medical care costs are associated with antimicrobial resistant infections (1)
In 2013, 293 million diagnoses were made by community physicians of which 8% involved an antimicrobial recommendation (1)
For the six most common organisms, resistance rates in Canada can be up to 31% (2)
Each year 18,000 Canadians acquire drug-resistant infections in hospitals (2)
Canada's use of human outpatient antimicrobials was 1.6 times higher than the country with the lowest use (1)
1. Public Health Agency of Canada. Canadian Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System Report. 2015.
2. Office of the Auditor General of Canada. Report of the Auditor General of Canada — Spring 2015: Report 1: Antimicrobial Resistance. 2015.
700,000 preventable deaths worldwide annually
Source: O’Neill (2014) ‘Review on Antimicrobial Resistance. Antimicrobial Resistance: Tackling a Crisis for the Health and Wealth of Nations.
1 out of 6 infections in OECD countries is caused by a resistant organism.
Source: OECD (2018), Stemming the Superbug Tide: Just A Few Dollars More, OECD Publishing, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264307599-en
A continued rise in resistance by 2050 would lead to 10 million deaths and a reduction of 2% to 3.5% in GDP.
Source: O’Neill (2014) ‘Review on Antimicrobial Resistance. Antimicrobial Resistance: Tackling a Crisis for the Health and Wealth of Nations
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Healthcare environment
Healthcare settings are high-risk environments for the spread of organisms that cause infections.
7% to 10% of hospitalized patients and 33% of patients in intensive care units contract at least one healthcare-associated infection.1,2
25% of healthcare-associated infections in long-term acute care settings are caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.1
All healthcare facilities need to implement sufficient cleaning and disinfection protocols and properly dispose of biohazardous waste in order to reduce the potential for spreading healthcareassociated infections. Improving the quality of these practices and use of advanced decontamination technologies are needed.3
1 Review on Antimicrobial Resistance. Infection prevention, control, and surveillance: Limiting the development and spread of drug-resistance. London, England: Wellcome Trust and HM Government; 2016.
2 World Health Organization. Report on the burden of endemic health care-associated infection worldwide. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2011.
3 Boyce JM. Modern technologies for improving cleaning and disinfection of environmental surfaces in hospitals. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2016;5:10.
Healthcare workers and other caregivers can be a source of infection when appropriate prevention and control measures are not taken.
Only 40% of healthcare workers adhere to recommended handwashing practices, although self-reported rates are nearly 100%.1
Consistent hand hygiene is the single most important infection prevention and control intervention in the healthcare setting.4 Antimicrobial hand sanitization products are effective means of hand hygiene that decrease the risk of infection in healthcare settings.5
4 Pittet D, Allegranzi B, Sax H, et al. Evidence-based model for hand transmission during patient care and the role of improved practices. Lancet Infect Dis. 2006;6(10):641–652.
5 Weinstein RA. Controlling antimicrobial resistance in hospitals: infection control and use of antibiotics. Emerg Infect Dis. 2001;7(2):188–192.
Medical devices and surgical procedures are potential sources of infection.
17% of central-line, 14% of surgical-site and 10% of catheter-associated infections are caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.6
Catheter-related bloodstream infections account for 10% to 20% of hospital-acquired infections in the UK and are associated with extended intensive care unit stay and increased mortality.7
Training guidelines for proper central-line and intravenous catheter use need to be followed.6 Appropriate antiseptic agents, skin preparation and sterile dressings minimize the risk of surgical-site infections.8 Closed needleless intravenous access ports reduce the risk of microbes entering the patient’s bloodstream.9
6 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Making health care safer: Protect patients from antibiotic resistance. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services; 2016.
7 Gahlot R, Nigam C, Kumar V, Yadav G, Anupurba S. Catheter-related bloodstream infections. Int J Crit Illn Inj Sci. 2014;4(2):162–167.
8 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Basic Infection Control and Prevention Plan for Outpatient Oncology Settings. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services; 2011.
9 Blake M. Update: Catheter-related bloodstream infection rates in relation to clinical practice and needleless device type. Can J Infect Control. 2008;23(3):156–160, 162.
Patients can be a source of transmission of infectious bacteria to caregivers, to other patients and often, to themselves.
Up to 30% of individuals carry Staphylococcus aureus, a potentially harmful bacterium.10
Up to 7.2% of hospitalized patients can carry methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a strain of the bacteria resistant to commonly used antibiotics.11
Patients' own bacteria cause the majority of catheter-related bloodstream infections and a large proportion of surgical-site infections.12,13
Health systems and healthcare facilities need to establish protocols to screen patients for harmful bacteria using diagnostic tests where available. If patients are found positive for harmful bacteria, then actions need to be taken by healthcare facilities and providers. The spread of infections can be reduced through awareness of outbreaks, appropriate treatment, isolation of patients with resistant microorganisms, adherence to recommended infection control practices and use of personal protective devices and equipment.14
10 Wertheim HF, Melles DC, Vos MC, et al. The role of nasal carriage in Staphylococcus aureus infections. Lancet Infect Dis. 2005;5(12):751–762.
11 Davis KA, Stewart JJ, Crouch HK, Florez CE, Hospenthal DR. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nares colonization at hospital admission and its effect on subsequent MRSA infection. Clin Infect Dis. 2004;39(6):776–782.
12 Maki DG. Infections caused by intravascular devices used for infusion therapy: Pathogenesis, prevention, and management. In: Bisno AL, Waldvogel FA, eds. Infections Associated with Indwelling Medical Devices. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: American Society for Microbiology; 1994:151–212.
13 Wenzel RP. Minimizing surgical-site infections. N Engl J Med. 2010;362(1):75–77.
14 Siegel JD, Rhinehart E, Jackson M, Chiarello L, Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. 2007 Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services; 2007.
Patient evaluation and initial diagnosis
Upon initial examination, patients are commonly prescribed antibiotics that are either unnecessary or ineffective.
At least 30% of antibiotics prescribed in the United States are unnecessary.15
Most infections in developing countries are treated empirically without the benefit of diagnostic tests, leading to even higher rates of unnecessary antibiotic use.16
When assessing the need for antibiotic therapy, clinicians need to combine the observed symptoms and signs with diagnostic tests for direct or indirect evidence of an infection and adherence to clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis and treatment.17 Countries and healthcare facilities with low resources will need support to increase access to and use of cost-effective diagnostic tests.
15 Fleming-Dutra KE, Hersh AL, Shapiro DJ, et al. Prevalence of Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescriptions Among US Ambulatory Care Visits, 2010-2011. JAMA. 2016;315(17):1864–1873.
16 Sosa AJ, Byarugaba DK, Amábile-Cuevas CF, et al, eds. Antimicrobial Resistance in Developing Countries. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.
17 Boyles TH, Wasserman S. Diagnosis of bacterial infection. S Afr Med J. 2015;105(5):419–421.
Microorganism identification
Patients with viral infections are commonly treated with antibiotics, even though viruses do not respond to antibiotic therapy. Diagnostic tests that can distinguish between viral and bacterial infections are either unavailable or not widely used, especially in developing countries.16
Most upper respiratory tract infections are caused by viruses, yet 50% of patients with these infections receive antibiotics.18
Use of diagnostic tests that enable evidence-based prescribing practices needs to become the standard of care. Point-of-care diagnostics that rapidly confirm the type and source of infection can reduce inappropriate over-prescription of antibiotics.16
18 Caliendo AM, Gilbert DN, Ginocchio CC, et al. Better tests, better care: Improved diagnostics for infectious diseases. Clin Infect Dis. 2013;57(suppl 3):S139–S170.
Drug effectiveness
Antibiotic susceptibility testing is important to confirm whether the selected antimicrobial agent is effective or is associated with resistance,19,20 but this testing is uncommon in many developing countries.20
In the poorest countries, < 1% of patients are treated at clinical facilities that have diagnostic microbiology laboratories.16
Susceptibility testing is recommended to determine whether a patient will respond to antibiotic therapy. All countries, including developing countries, need to improve access to basic microbiology laboratory testing and facilities. New automated diagnostics that provide rapid and cost-effective results are needed.19
19 Jorgensen JH, Ferraro MJ. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing: A review of general principles and contemporary practices. Clin Infect Dis. 2009;49(11):1749–1755.
20 Laxminarayan R, Bhutta Z, Duse A, et al. Drug Resistance. In: Jamison DT, Breman JG, Measham AR, et al, eds. Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank; 2006:1031–1051.
Prescription and treatment
Access to antibiotics for patients who need them is essential, yet prescribing practices vary globally, including over-the-counter access in some countries.
In developing countries patients often present with advanced infections, requiring urgent treatment with antibiotics. Expanded access is needed in certain populations, such as treating children for pneumonia. Health systems need to balance these essential access needs with reducing the excessive overuse of antibiotics that occurs in all countries.
Effective antibiotic stewardship and consistent prescribing practices are needed on a global basis. Initiatives to strengthen national laboratory systems, including expansion of laboratory technician workforces and higher access to simple cost-effective rapid diagnostic tests in remote areas, need to be prioritized, funded and supported by governments, public health agencies, foundations and the private sector.16
Infection surveillance and tracking
Surveillance is key to infectious disease management, but it remains underresourced in many countries.
Due to the lack of coordination and information sharing, gaps exist in antimicrobial consumption and resistance in many regions of the world.21
Surveillance tools need to be used to assimilate information generated by a variety of sources in order to streamline identification of patients who have acquired an infection and may require antimicrobial therapy. The near real-time availability of these data can enable clinicians to optimize treatment decisions and antimicrobial use.
21 World Health Organization. Antimicrobial resistance: global report on surveillance 2014. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2014.
Automated outbreak detection
Thorough surveillance can reveal the presence of resistant microorganisms and identify trends and outbreaks.
In many regions of the world, poor laboratory capacity, infrastructure and data management prevent effective surveillance.22
Effective surveillance efforts need to include an early warning system to detect emergent pathogens, resistant clusters and unusual infectious disease events so action can be taken to prevent or control an outbreak.
22 World Health Organization. Worldwide country situation analysis: response to antimicrobial resistance. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2015.
Optimizing therapy selection and delivery
Many areas of the world have access to laboratory data, but the data are not in a format suitable for optimizing surveillance efforts and timely therapy selection.23
Major gaps exist in surveillance data, and treatment guided by such limited data can increase antimicrobial resistance.21
Continuous monitoring of appropriate antimicrobial prescribing is necessary to optimize antimicrobial therapy and patient outcomes. Patient diagnostic information, combined with resistance trends and timely data distribution to healthcare providers, facilitates effective antimicrobial treatment decision-making.23
23 World Health Organization. Surveillance standards for antimicrobial resistance. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 2002.
Tracking and reporting antibiotic use and outcomes
Antimicrobial consumption and resistance data can guide local, regional and national interventions.
Most developing countries do not have systems for monitoring antimicrobial resistance and consumption or evaluating the effect of interventions.24
Robust and comprehensive infection control practices need to include measuring the impact of interventions and the appropriateness of antimicrobial prescribing. Public health authorities need to support infrastructure that promotes transmission of antimicrobial consumption and infection data to facilitate local, regional and national surveillance efforts.
24 World Health Organization. Community-based surveillance of antimicrobial use and resistance in resource-constrained settings: report on five pilot projects. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2009.
BD possesses important capabilities that are instrumental in containing AMR. We offer a wide range of medical products utilized to reduce the risk of infection in healthcare facilities, diagnostic instruments to screen, test and diagnose infection, including drug-resistant strains, and medication management and surveillance to support the safe and proper administration and tracking of medications.
Support infection control guidelines
Comprehensive product and service offerings from BD help clinicians improve patient outcomes through the standardization of care and adherence to best practices.
Expand diagnostic testing
Diagnostic tests classify infections and guide therapies, enabling clinicians to implement effective antimicrobial stewardship interventions.
Advance medication management
A connected medication management system comprised of technologies, analytics, and surveillance tools can help ensure that medications are available and utilized appropriately.
Our commitment to combating AMR
BD commits to helping slow the spread of antibiotic resistance by improving awareness, surveillance, infection prevention, and stewardship. We commit to:
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Improve awareness
by mobilizing the Antimicrobial Resistance Fighter Coalition
Support surveillance and research
by collating, in specific projects, MedMined™ data with the CDC to help better understand resistance in the U.S. and track regional differences in important resistant pathogens and antimicrobial use
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Advance infection prevention practices
by introducing innovative solutions to support infection control and deploying training programs in collaboration with international organizations and professional societies
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through stewardship training and innovative integration of diagnostic testing, microbiology results and medication management workflows
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AMR Event
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What every person can do to combat AMR
Only use antibiotics when prescribed by a certified health professional
Always finish antibiotic prescriptions
Never share or use leftover antibiotics
Don't take antibiotics for viruses, such as the cold or flu (antibiotics only work on bacteria)
Prevent infections by regularly washing hands, preparing food hygienically, avoiding close contact with sick people and keeping vaccinations up to date
Learn more about AMR
Read the real life stories
Faces of Antimicrobial Resistance
Tackling Drug-Resistant Infections Globally: Final Report and Recommendations
Responding to the Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance
Controlling Antimicrobial Resistance: The Need to Mobilize and Coordinate Public and Private Sector Action — The Center For Global Health and Diplomacy
Impact of two-step urine culture ordering in the emergency department: a time series analysis — British Medical Journal
Antibiotic (Antimicrobial) Resistance — Government of Canada
Tackling AMR and Antimicrobial Use: A Pan-Canadian Framework For Action — Government of Canada
Do Bugs Need Drugs?
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HSV1 And Alzheimers: The Link is now Proven
Posted on Sunday, December 7, 2008 by Simon Cooke
The team discovered that the HSV1 DNA is located very specifically in amyloid plaques: 90% of plaques in Alzheimer's disease sufferers' brains contain HSV1 DNA, and most of the viral DNA is located within amyloid plaques. The team had previously shown that HSV1 infection of nerve-type cells induces deposition of the main component, beta amyloid, of amyloid plaques. Together, these findings strongly implicate HSV1 as a major factor in the formation of amyloid deposits and plaques, abnormalities thought by many in the field to be major contributors to Alzheimer's disease.
Why does medicine move so slowly in these areas? I've been saying this for a year and a half now - based in part on this team's earlier research. :)
Glad to see we're making headway though!
Next step: We need to officially tie herpes viruses to all of the other diseases that they cause. My list is here: http://www.accidentalscientist.com/2008/01/public-enemy-1-herpes-viruses-as.html
Meanwhile, if you are at risk for Alzheimer's, do the following:
Ask your doctor to prescribe valcyclovir as an off-label treatment. If necessary, lie and say that you have genital herpes and need it for suppression.
Avoid foods rich in L-Arginine, especially chocolate and peanuts. L-Arginine rich foods encourage the virus to replicate.
Supplement your diet with at least 5mg L-Lysine daily - the virus mistakes this for L-Arginine, and produces inert viral particles as a result.
Take Omega-3 fatty acids. I've found the Eskimo brand to be the most effective - the krill version doesn't seem to work as well, and is more expensive. Omega 3 fatty acids change the structure of the cell membrane, making it harder for viruses to enter and exit the cytosome through the lipid raft.
Take Resveratrol supplements. Studies in rats have shown that Resveratrol interferes with the replication of the virus, and may destroy it.
Take Curcumin supplements (or eat lots of foods containing Turmeric). Curcuminoids also interfere with replication of the virus.
Make sure you're taking a good B-complex vitamin, particularly one with the non-cyanocobalmin form of B12. B12 in particular attacks the virus as it replicates.
The most effective of these is, of course, valcyclovir. The others just slow the virus down.
#alzheimer's, #herpes, #cure, #theory
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Random Chicken Garam Masala Curry
Posted on Friday, December 5, 2008 by Simon Cooke
Tonight, as Darci is out of town in New Mexico visiting her mom, I decided to make some food that she doesn't typically like.
Curry!!!
It turned out great, although it was dicey for a moment there (I decided part way through that it just wasn't working without jalapenoes and diced tomatoes, so I needed to run out and get some). Here's the recipe.
Serves 3-4 (give or take). Total cooking time including prep: About 30 minutes.
1 chicken breast (diced)
1 can diced tomatoes & green chillis
2tsp diced canned jalapenoes
1 medium to large yellow onion (sliced into thin strips about 1.5" long)
5 or 6 fingerling potatoes (sliced into 2cm long chunks)
Rice (to taste)
Boil the fingerling potatoes in some salted water.
Add the coconut oil to the frying pan, and melt over medium-high heat.
Add 2/3rds of the Garam Masala powder to the pan, and stir until it darkens.
Add sliced onions to the pan, and cook until translucent & soft.
Drain oil into a heat-safe container - you'll need it in a sec.
Transfer contents of the pan to a bowl.
Put the oil back into the pan.
Throw the chicken into the pan. Toss the chicken in the remaining Garam Masala powder, and saute until cooked through.
Drain any excess oil remaining (there won't be much) into a can and get rid of it.
Return the onions to the pan.
By this point, the thinly-cut fingerling potatoes should be cooked through, and the remaining cooking will do the rest of the job, so drain them and throw them into the pan as well.
Add the cayenne pepper to the pan and mix well.
Add the jalapenoes, and the diced tomatoes to the pan.
Stir well for a minute or so until everything heats up.
Add coconut milk, stir in, wait for it all to boil while stirring continuously, and then simmer for 5 minutes or so.
Serve with saffron-seasoned basmati rice if you want to. Will make great leftovers.
#cooking, #recipes
New Homepage is up...
http://home.earthlink.net/~simoncooke is the address.
It's nice and Spectrum-y :D
Of course, I still have to redo all of the pages that lead out from there, but it's a start.
#web development
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I Hate Web Stuff - But I'm Doing It Anyway...
Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2008 by Simon Cooke
I've had a homepage on the Internet continuously (well, give or take 2 months when I lost my original host on Jumper.mcc.ac.uk) since 1994.
The last time I revamped it though was 1998, and even then, I didn't do much to it. So it's time for a retread.
The homepage currently looks something like this:
Here's what I'm thinking the new front-page will look like. I'm still working out how I want the rest of it to look - it probably won't be the same theme throughout - but this was too good an opportunity to miss.
The Mara (Movie Screenplay) - The Origins
Posted on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 by Simon Cooke
As a little treat (heh, I guess that depends on your perspective), here's the short story that The Mara (my horror screenplay that I'm redrafting right now) was based on.
Without further ado, I offer for your consideration... Little Miss Litty (originally written in 1996)
Little Miss Litty
“Little Miss Litty, pretty Miss Litty, all drugged up and nowhere to go!” the figure shrieked at her. She tried to shout out from behind the muzzle, to somehow raise the orderly's attention, but all that would come out were incoherent moans. It was back again, and this time she couldn’t do anything to defend herself.
“Fly away Litty, fly away home, your school is on fire, your children are burned!”
She tried to pull at her restraints, but there was no give in them at all, no slack with which to get away. The creature was at the foot of the bed, but it was beginning to make its way closer to her. It gently ran its finger across her ankle, its touch so light it was almost sensuous, and then closed its hand around the strap binding her legs.
Oh God no, she thought through the pentathol haze. Please, not again. Don’t let it happen again. I’ll go insane if it happens again.
“What’s up Litty? Cat got your tongue? Don’t like being tied down like this do you?”
It ran its claws along the inside of the leather restraints and leered at her.
"Jack of all trades, master of none, young Litty fears that her sanity's gone," it chuckled. She could feel herself losing consciousness as it crawled up alongside her, her mind retreating from the grotesque images it was receiving from her eyes.
The thing raked its talons across her face, slashing away the muzzle and gouging deep into the flesh of her cheeks, pulling her sharply back to reality. Blood streamed in rivers down her face and the pain caused her to cry out – the act of crying itself causing her more pain as it opened the wounds further. She began to sob, little moans as tears ran down her face in an increasing torrent, stinging as they seeped into the gashes that the thing had made.
“Couldn’t let you get away that easy, Litty. That would end the game before it begins,” it said with glee. “And I do know how much you like our little games."
“No, please… no… don't," she cried.
The creature waved an admonishing finger at her.
“Little Litty lectern, sitting in the school, now she's broken the golden rule…"
“What do you want from me?" she gasped at it. The creature smiled.
“The game!” it shouted, dragging its claws across each of her arms, cutting her wrist restraints. Arterial blood gushed up from the slits that the talons left. “All I want is the game. You should at least remember that by now. Every time it’s the game. Nothing less, nothing more. The same game I played with little Anna. You remember Anna, don’t you Litty? She was a pretty thing, but she didn’t play fair.” It grinned, showing its glassy, shard-like teeth.
She moaned, the memory of the little girl and what had happened to her proving painful even now after all she’d been through.
“She didn’t play fair Litty. She could have, but she didn’t. And now it’s your turn. Your turn to play the game with me.” As it said this it scowled, its eyes glowing red momentarily. It lashed out. “But … You … Don't … Know … How … To … Play!” it screamed, slicing deep into her body with each word.
She gave a guttural cry from the shock of the action – the pain wouldn’t hit her for some time. All she could feel was a wave of heat emanating from where it had cut her.
Blood welled up from the wounds the creature had made, spreading in a warm crimson pool across her body. It began to soak into the sheets and drip onto the floor from her right arm which lay hanging over the edge of the bed. With every pulse there was a rhythmic splatter as more blood rippled out of her and into the lake forming below.
As the pain washed over her, Sarah Littern slipped mercifully into unconsciousness.
“Awww…” the creature mocked. “Little Litty gone to sleep, joining Bo to count her sheep.”
It looked at her with glints of pleasure in its eyes. Now was the best time, between awareness and death, before it faded, before she slept too deeply to sustain its presence.
It jumped to the floor, landing surprisingly quietly for its apparent size. It put its mouth to the pool of blood and began to drink, its tongue lashing out into the warm liquid.
Sated, it rose and moved to her head. It bent over her, moving its mouth to hers, and then it kissed her, slipping its long, forked tongue into her bleeding mouth. As if hearing something in the distance, its ears twitched and it sat up, breaking off from the kiss. It pressed a finger to its lips and then to hers, sealing the pact.
It grew transparent, then more so, only its jagged smile hanging in the air, and then it had gone completely.
"So, Sarah, can you tell me where you got the razor blade from?" the psychiatrist said to the foetal ball in front of him. It didn't have any effect, the same way that it hadn't had any effect the last ten times that he'd asked her. She just carried on rocking back and forth, making murmuring sounds.
"Sarah, you lost a lot of blood this time, much more than the last. If you keep cutting yourself then a time is going to come when an orderly won't get to you in time, and you'll die. You don't want that, do you."
She seemed to speak, but too quiet to be heard.
"I'm sorry, Sarah. I can't hear what you're saying."
"It's…" she said hoarsely. “It's not me. It's the creature. The creature does it."
She began to uncurl, looking around tentatively as if searching for something.
"You still believe in this creature then, Sarah?" he asked her calmly.
"Yes!" she said emphatically.
"How did it cut you? What did it use?"
Sarah looked down at herself, at the bandages around her arms and wrists. It had been much worse this time.
"It used its claws. It has sharp claws at least two inches long, six on each hand. It scraped them across me and cut me." Her voice wavered as she began to verge on hysteria.
Doctor Forrester shook his head slowly.
"Sarah, if it used its claws on you, why were you clutching a razor-blade in your hand when we found you? Are you sure that you didn’t obtain it somehow off another of the patients here, or one of the orderlies and hide it in your room to use later?”
Sarah shook her head. “No!” she shouted, “No! No! No! It was the creature. I don’t know where this razor came from! You have to believe me! You’ve got to!”
She got up from her seat and started hammering on the table, shouting “It’s real!” over and over. The two orderlies who had been standing back on the Doctor’s orders moved to restrain her, but Forrester waved them away.
“Sarah…” he began quietly, putting his hands on her shoulders. She ignored him and carried on screaming and hitting the table with her fists. “Sarah!” he shouted. “Stop that this minute!”
Oddly, this snapped her back into focus.
“It’ll be back. I don’t want to go back in there alone. It always comes when I’m alone. It’ll want to play the game again, but I don’t know what it is! I just don’t know!”
She began to sob. Forrester made a motion to the orderlies to take her back to her room, and they moved towards her in unison.
“Sarah, we’ll talk about this more when you’ve calmed down a little. But just to make you feel happier, I’ll ask Mike here to keep a close watch on you and make sure that this demon you insist exists doesn’t attack you in the night.”
She nodded slightly, as if she were a small child being told by her father that the boogey-man didn’t exist. It was a nod which had a certain indefinable quality about it, one which explained that even though she didn’t believe what she was being told, she’d play along.
Forrester called one of the orderlies over and whispered to him. “Twenty cc’s of thorazine, another five if she gets restless. Keep an eye on her, Mike? I don’t know where she got that razor blade from, and I know that you turned the place over from top to toe, but she got one in, so she could have got another. I’d feel happier if at least for tonight there was someone watching her.”
He looked over at Sarah and smiled at her.
“Sarah, I don’t believe in this demon of yours, but we’ll see what we can do. It may take time, but we’ll get rid of it eventually. You’ve got to help me though – I can’t get rid of it alone.”
She looked pleadingly at him as she was led off out of the room and down the corridor.
Forrester looked down at his notes. Sarah Littern had been here for nearly a month now, and the incidents had been getting more frequent and more… disturbing. The latest of these had occurred two days ago. She was being taken to a recreation area by Denise Carter – one of the orderlies – when she’d panicked and started to scream about the creature again. She’d wrestled herself free of the woman, and had run down the corridor. When Denise caught up with her she was sobbing, crouched in a foetal ball against one of the doors, blood on the floor nearby. As Denise tried to comfort her, Sarah lashed out, clawing, scratching, kicking and biting. It had taken three orderlies to get her back under control.
Forrester slowly shook his head. It was still touch and go as to whether or not Denise would regain her sight, and she would need reconstructive surgery on her face regardless.
He would have felt a lot better if he could work out where she’d got the razor blade from though. The fact that something like that could be smuggled by an unstable and dangerous patient into a highly secure area was very worrying indeed.
Sarah slept fitfully, even with the drugs in her system. The creature’s image wouldn’t leave her mind. She rolled over in her bed and moaned a little. The orderly at the door heard the noise and opened the viewing panel to find out what the cause was.
Mike looked in through the hatchway and shrugged. Bad dream, he thought. I’m not surprised with what she’s been through. If I’d killed a school full of kids I’d be having them myself.
He closed the hatch and sat back down on the chair with a sigh. A few more weeks of overtime and he’d be able to take his wife on a second honeymoon. But in the meantime, more overtime. Which meant late, solitary nights on corridors in E Ward. Still, at least this one was quiet at the moment. He’d worked on C Ward once – never again. He shuddered at the memory.
In the room, Sarah slipped into REM sleep. Beneath her lidded eyes she began to dream, images flitting across her visual cortex as her brain assimilated the day’s memories and events. With this increased activity the creature, previously dormant, took form, the images providing a hook, a way in while she was still unconscious. Still intangible but not impotent, it delved into her naked brain, pulling and twisting neurons, raking at her ego and id, bringing the precise images it required to the fore. It controlled the show – all Sarah could do was lie back and watch.
With a smirk the creature pulled its presence from her mind, its work done for now. It sat back on the periphery of her subconscious, watching the drama it had invoked unfold.
Sarah screamed. Abruptly she found herself in a dark passageway, the walls damp and dripping, the ceiling impossibly high. She reached out to the wall nearest to her – it was cold and there were handholds, covered in a fleshy moss that pulsed under her fingers. She drew her hand back quickly, not liking the feel of it. It was too much like flesh for her to bear, as if the wall itself were alive. Her breathing, louder now with fear, echoed between the two walls, acoustic reflections confusing her senses. She walked along the corridor, trying to find an end to the walls, but there was none. She looked back – a dead end. Where there had been infinite corridor stretching off into the dark there was now another wall.
She looked in the other direction – darkness to infinity. She looked back. Now the wall was against her side, cold and wet, the stone almost grinding into her shoulder. This was too much. She screamed, turned and ran. Her breathing became hoarse with exertion, but she kept running. She ran until the pain in her legs and chest became unbearable. She bent over, her head down by her knees as she gathered her breath back. The pain in her chest from the running subsided, and she chanced a look back in the direction she had come from.
Her cheek, nose and forehead scraped across the wall. Some of the moss detached as her face rubbed across it, clinging to her lips. She screamed, and as her mouth opened some of the moss fell between her lips. Her screaming increased in urgency and amplitude as the moss began to rhythmically contract and stretch across her tongue, making its way to her throat. She turned from the wall, bringing her hands to her mouth, desperately trying to grab the foreign body before it was too late. She grabbed one end of it, but it was too slippery. Its peristaltic motion increased in vigor at her touch, and it slipped through her larynx, past the opening to her bronchial tract, forcing open her esophagus. She gagged, the moss making her want to vomit as it filled her throat. It slipped down past her heart and lungs, a small writhing body, pushing its way down past the movements of her muscles as she retched.
Sarah doubled up in pain and dropped to the floor as it swelled on its way to her stomach. It made its way in, falling into the cavity. It was unaffected by the acids it found there; in fact, it began to feed on them, growing in size as it ingested the hydrochloric acid. It settled there, a heavy weight on her intestines. She moaned, sobbing to herself, trying to expel the intruder which was raping her body from the inside, trying to bring it up and out of her.
She heard a noise and looked down the corridor. Roughly fifteen feet away from her there were two yellow points in the darkness. She started to try and drag herself away from them, and then realized that behind her was the solid wall. She knew better than to try facing it again – after the last time, she could not begin to imagine what it would be like, what damage it would cause. She curled into a ball in one of the corners, the flesh-moss undulating across her back and neck. The points moved nearer to her, and the moss in her stomach suddenly expanded, causing her to breathe in sharply with pain and to dig her nails deep into her arms where they were folded across her abdomen.
“One, two… buckle my shoe…” the voice behind the lights said. “Three, four… knock at the door…” As the voice began to move into the light, she could make out the form of its owner. “Five, Six… pick up sticks…”
Sarah pushed herself back against the wall as she realized what it was. The moss yielded under the pressure, and then began to creep across her back, probing and following the contours of her flesh.
“Seven, Eight… Litty meets her fate…” the monster said, moving forwards. It was completely visible now, the mottled red of its skin contrasting fiercely with its luminous eyes. “Nine, Ten…” The demon smirked at Sarah, and moved so that its mouth was near her ear. The smell of sulphur was thick in the air as it breathed on the side of her face. She tried to move out of the way, to somehow get past it, but as she did so it grasped her arms and held her fast with preternatural strength.
“Nooooooo!” she screamed. It began to scream in unison with her, mocking her, and then clamped one of its hands firmly across her mouth.
“Nine… Ten… Let’s play the game again!” it shouted gleefully. It released her, leaping backwards away from her into the darkness.
In her stomach, the moss which had temporarily been dormant began to pulsate. Already filling her stomach to capacity, it stretched her stomach lining. Sarah buckled over in pain, clutching at her stomach. Tears streamed from her eyes and she screamed, the throbbing pain increasing with each cycle of expansion and contraction. The lining of her stomach tore, blood and the acid which the moss had not absorbed mixing in her body cavity. The acid began to eat through her intestinal tract and her lungs, the pain amplifying horribly. She did not lose consciousness, rather the pain made her acutely aware of the sensations around her. She began to gag, coughing up blood and stomach acid, mixed with small pieces of the flesh-moss. The moss in her stomach continued to grow, squashing her lungs and internal organs, making it hard for her to breath.
The imp looked on from the darkness at the form of Sarah’s body as she convulsed involuntarily on the floor, blood dribbling down her lips as she coughed it up. It smiled, and clenched its fist.
The flesh-moss which she had coughed up moved together and coalesced into a single entity in her mouth. It pulled itself caterpillar-like along her tongue until it reached her throat, at which point it started to squeeze its way past her palate and into her nasal cavity, seeking her brain.
This was all lost on Sarah, she was concentrating too much on trying to breathe, her lungs being eaten away by acid and compressed by the moss.
In the darkness, the demon reveled in what it had created, but its control over the situation was waning. Sarah’s pain was beginning to awaken her, to override its control over her dreams. Well, it would let that happen. But it would give her something more worthwhile to wake up to first. It drew its hands apart, and then pounded its fist into its palm.
Inside Sarah, the moss stopped its incessant shrinking and growing. According to the demon’s command, now it grew without stopping.
Moss oozed out of her nose as it started to make its way up into her brain, compressing the delicate matter within. In her chest, the moss there expanded also, crushing her heart quickly, reducing her liver and lungs to a pulp. The pressure continued until her rib cage could no longer contain it. The ribs tore apart, splintering as they opened, her sternum still attached to some of them as they ripped through her skin, spraying blood into the air.
The sound of violent choking ripped through the silence that had moments ago enfolded the corridor. Mike ran to the door. Through the window he could see Sarah convulsing violently on the bed. Shit, he thought, not tonight. He grabbed the keys from his belt loop, fumbled briefly with the lock, and ran into the room. A thin trail of vomit ran down Sarah’s neck from her mouth. Quickly, he held open her mouth, feeling for the blockage in her throat. He pulled it out – a strange, pulpy mass – and threw it out of the way. Grabbing her head, he tilted it back so that he could create an airway, and then, bracing himself against the smell of vomit, he blew precious air into her lungs.
Suddenly she coughed, vomit welling up in her mouth, flying up into Mike’s own. He broke away, spitting it out all over the floor, trying to get rid of the invading material. Oh God, he thought – I think I swallowed some.
He checked that she was okay, and went to wash his mouth out. He didn’t notice that Sarah’s stomach had swelled to twice its normal size – nor did he see it quickly shrink to normal size when he left the room.
Inside his stomach, a tiny fragment of glowing, flesh-like moss gently pulsed in the warmth.
Anna was a quiet girl; a golden-haired four-year-old who was kind and generous, and who had the most piercingly blue of blue eyes. She had a face that would light up when she found something funny, and an odd little frown that curled over her forehead when she was doing something that required concentration. All in all, Anna was a cute little princess… you couldn’t help but to like her.
… but for some reason, all of the other children in the class shied away from her. Sarah couldn’t work out why; it was as if they were afraid of something – it wasn’t as if the girl was cruel, or nasty – but no-one would play with her.
Anna smiled up at the teacher, noticing that she was standing over her. “Please Miss… I’ve finished it!”, she beamed.
Sarah looked down to see what she had drawn, her breath halting for a moment in shock. The little girl’s picture was technically brilliant; a drawing of what she assumed was the Cheshire Cat (either that or Garfield) that could have been copied from a wood-cut illustration found in most copies of Alice in Wonderland. All of the elements were there – the grin, the stripes… -- but it was the other things that worried her. Such as that the cat had bulbous yellow eyes with no pupils, and its teeth were covered in red crayon, as if stained with blood.
“Anna… I’m curious sweetheart… what are these?” she asked, pointing to the red… claw marks? … in the middle of the paper.
“That’s where it used its claws,” the girl said, pointing at them. “It likes to use them a lot.”
Anna nodded to her teacher matter-of-factly. “That’s what it does”.
“What do you mean Anna?”
“It wants to play the game,” she said, pausing to look into her teacher’s eyes. “I don’t know what the game is, but it wants me to play with it.”
She picked up another red crayon -- having worn the last down to a small nub – and started to draw more claw marks on the paper.
“But it uses its claws? Anna?”
Possibilities were running through Sarah’s mind about exactly what had happened to the child… had she been abused at home? Some kind of traumatic experience in her past? Children just didn’t draw pictures that looked like something out of a Clive Barker movie… not unless they were terribly disturbed.
“Only when I don’t play the game right.”
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My dream in your probability, your probability in my dream
I got over a mental block and managed to say "this game's done!" in design terms at least, so it was time to introduce Cosmic Zap to some intrigued people at Spelens Hus.
I've decided to collect the characters used in playtest so far, made up by me or by others, as well as a couple more by me, as pick-up-and-play for the game. Original character design is an option for later in the text. That's not because people can't do it - to the contrary, the player-authored characters are generally spectacular - but because I'm trying to cut down on the learning and prep curve drastically for this game especially, and I've observed players to adopt pre-generated characters for it unusually quickly.
So in this case, I brought nine player-character sheets for them to choose from, some of which were altered slightly from forms you've seen already, such as Sweet Jane, Azimuth, and Blue Streak. We began with three players in addition to me, but then Peter joined us. Unfortunately we'd already staged the camera, and due to certain hassles couldn’t re-do it, so he's only partly in-shot throughout.
The learning curve was really steady for this group, beginning with almost complete uncertainty (but willingness) and proceeding to user-interface with each new rules option, because I intentionally introduced them step by step. You can see that we wear out almost entirely near the end, taking a brief break but pretty tapped out, but the system itself was in full blast.
A couple of my mistakes are significant. I mis-handled the ties in the first couple of exchanges, giving the marginal victory to the wrong person.The order of player roles is set up so that no one can be both Featured and Interesting before everyone gets to be Featured, but I screwed it up. I don't know how I managed to think that the Featured Player role proceeds to the left in turn, like a card game, instead of the right way, but that's why William ended up having to wait to long before taking that part. The other errors are minor (if annoying to me), like forgetting that augmented abilities aren't eligible for increases.
The player dialogue was very good, some of which I cut out because it was too mixed up with snacks and other topics to include. People immediately grasped that they could be adverse as the Interesting Player without griefing, and they liked the notion that anyone could choose to play a genuinely adversarial player-character role if they felt like it, but also that no one had to if no one wanted to. I thought their collective grasp of the aesthetic and potential themes was fantastic; it really was like the OMG open for some of the better comics and animated films of this kind.
I'd really like to continue with this group, but my current scattershot, even bonkers play-this-play-that practice isn't helping. It might be time to settle into something for a while as a dedicated group, and this game with these folks would be a top choice.
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The Internality of All Realities.pdf
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Runeslinger
I imagine it is quite a relief to reach this stage of 'done'. I am quite curious about this project, so I am looking forward to viewing the session~
Ron Edwards
My only frustration with the
My only frustration with the session is that it necessarily devotes so much time to introducing and teaching the game, instead of showcasing it through play alone. The HeroQuest system, originally for Hero Wars, is genuinely fascinating and powerful, but (like Circle of Hands combat) seems fiddly because the effort is in unusual positions. It's not actually any more effort than other RPGs and provides more bang per buck than most, in the depth of imagined outcomes, but while you're learning it it seems strange and full of "now subtract this, now compare that" steps.
One of my goals in this session was to introduce the system piece by piece, showing foundational procedures in the first contest situation, then adding a couple of the options in the next, then adding pieces as needed as we go along. We got pretty far - all the way through, I think, with the exception of the Extended Contest mechanic which is very much not for first-session use anyway. My hope is that it was fun enough for these players to want to continue, at which point we'd see things like new abilities popping up all over, which means much more intense setting-and-situation, and a lot of familiarity with one another's sheets as a collective resource.
I would particularly like to see the moment when a player realizes the potential for the Personal keyword content for the Internality of All Realities. I just attached that sheet to the main post, so check it out.
Good to see this move forward
In between the rest of life and gaming, I've been thinking about how to a run a "this-or-something-like-it" game quite a bit. I'm also glad that rules-clarity is evolving - the gap between my personal fiction-joy and rules-joy in the back-then playtest lingers as an annoying memory.
Seriously. For our game
Seriously. For our game especially, in which whole sections changed between sessions.
On the plus side, the histories of all my games, and many good or better ones, are littered with the corpses of teeth-grinding playtest. I maintain that real playtesting is about finding what works in the current design, with the photo-negative presence of what doesn't being all too much more present in our vision. This is exactly the opposite of most playtesting, which presumes excellence and is stress-testing for minor flaws - and for role-playing games, results in absurd or useless engines with plenty of logistically-tight but meaningless parts.
I'm really happy with the current version and I'm pretty sure no actual rules are going to change from here.
The proper order
This is how it was supposed to go. The order of Personal keyword values was Sweet Jane at 20, Azimuth at 17 (but with the tie-breaker score at 1w, or 21), the Internality at 17 (with the tie-breaker score at 18), and the Blue Streak at 13. So that's the order of the Featured player role; position at the table has nothing to do with it.
The Interesting player role begins with the holder of the character with the highest Cosmic keyword value, which in this case was unequivocally the Internality.
So we were correct to begin with Odin (with Sweet Jane) as Featured and Peter (with the Internality) as Interesting. But then the Featured role should have shifted to William, then to Peter, and finally to Nate, with the former Featured becoming Interesting at each step.
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Standing On Shifting Sands
Posted by arts_louisville | Mar 24, 2017 | Theatre | 0
Brent Gettlefinger, Katherine Martn, David Galloway, & Heather Green in Time Stands Still. Photo courtesy The Liminal Playhouse.
Time Stands Still
By Donald Margulies
Directed by Tony Prince
Reviewed by Keith Waits
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Relationships are fluid, organic things. The changes can be difficult to navigate for the most ordinary among us, but the challenges are thrown into high relief when our lives turn on the events of war and tragedy. Sarah (Heather Green) is a photojournalist who survived an explosion in Iraq that killed her guide. Her boyfriend, James (David Galloway) is a journalist who feels tremendous guilt because he had left Iraq a few weeks before the incident. They are welcomed home by their friend and editor Richard (Brent Gettlefinger), and his new, much younger girlfriend, Mandy (Katherine Martin).
Richard and Mandy are in many ways an intentional cliché, the May-September romance, and Mandy is written, in stark contrast to the worldly Sarah and angst-ridden James, as eternally upbeat and optimistic, and played with a fine sense of the balance required by Katherine Martin. Mandy never quite seems to fit in, and Ms. Martin milks the laughs with consummate and endearing skill, but the play and the performance also demand respect for the character so that it doesn’t feel trapped in sophomoric comedy.
It is likely that playwright Donald Margulies would have us imagine Mandy will become more cynical with time, so that the complications that have beset Sarah and James and placed their relationship in jeopardy await her, and by extension all of us, for Mandy is most certainly the audience’s surrogate. There are plenty of raw emotions, as the two further expose their true feelings and insecurities. Sarah is anxious to return to work with all that risk that entails, while James takes a patronizing, overprotective attitude towards Sarah during her convalescence. Infidelity and betrayal are important themes here, allowing us to more readily identify with the conflict.
Margulies uses structure and devices that are common enough: the fish-out-of-water character of Mandy, the slow reveal of history and secrets that illuminate the heart of the issues. We’ve seen such ideas in many plays, but Time Stands Still uses specificity and well-grounded observation to touch on universal experience. It has the taste and good sense to trust the audience to do its part in connecting to these characters, and rewards us with meaningful insight and pathos.
Director Tony Prince has fashioned performances that alternate subtlety and big emotional moments with fair transition. The text charts a shifting dynamic that peels back layers until we are forced to realize that the changes may be inexorable, and Ms. Green, Mr. Galloway, and Mr. Gettlefinger, for in many ways this is a ménage a trois, display a fine understanding of the quicksand these characters find themselves in.
Wes Shofner provides a solid and well-detailed set, and Theresa Bagan lights it perfectly. Shane Estes costume work is most notable in capturing Mandy’s bubbly style and personality. And Liminal makes good use of its secret weapon of Producing Director Richard McGrew’s skills as a composer and musician, once again boasting an evocative original score, simple but filled with portent.
In a conversation after the opening with an actor not involved in this production, we pondered the challenge of serious plays such as this finding audiences for local companies. Do theatregoers imagine that professional companies can only give full justice such material? While the Humana Festival unfurls six new plays with great fanfare and marketing muscle, Looking for Lilith revived its lauded, world premiere production of Robin Rice’s Alice in Black & White to less-than-full houses, and now The Liminal Playhouse gives a Louisville premiere to this worthwhile American play. It might be said that all of Liminal’s choices are not easy to market, but our city can boast several companies devoted to ferreting out some of the best dramatic writing in Western theatre, and players talented enough to fully render them; audiences should give them a chance.
March 23, 24, 25, 30, 31 and April 1 at 7:30 p.m
March 26 and April 2 at 2:00 p.m.Tickets: $18 in advance, $20 at door
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At The Henry Clay Theatre
604 South Third Street
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Keith Waits is a native of Louisville who works at Louisville Visual Art during the days, including being the host of PUBLIC on WXOX-FM 97.1/ ARTxFM.com, but spends most of his evenings indulging his taste for theatre, music and visual arts. His work has appeared in Pure Uncut Candy, TheatreLouisville, and Louisville Mojo. He is now Managing Editor for Arts-Louisville.com.
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Liminal 2017-18 Season Announcement
Posted by arts_louisville | Apr 1, 2017 | News and Arts Education, Theatre | 0
Victoria Reibel & Gerry Rose in the fall 2016 Liminal Playhouse production of Venus in Fur.
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The Liminal Playhouse launched itself three years ago with a name designed for open-ended suggestion. Liminal means, “relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process”, so where does that leave the company as it announces the 2017—2018 season?
With a consistent venue, for one thing. Besides expanding to four full-stage productions, Liminal joins Bunbury Theatre and Pandora Productions in a partnership as the third resident theatre company at The Henry Clay Theatre.
But if the company, led by Artistic Director Tony Prince and Producing Director Richard McGrew, is coming of age, can it still be “liminal”? Certainly the answer must be yes, for any artistic endeavor must be forever moving forward and changing, always liminal. Season three for The Liminal Playhouse, all Louisville premieres, builds on the strong reputation for contemporary plays executed in thoughtful and intelligent fashion.
The season will open with Hir by Taylor Mac running August 31—September 10, 2017. Like Liminal’s currently running production of Time Stands Still, Hir begins with someone coming home from the war in Iraq, but things take a decided turn for the absurd in this dark comedy that explores complex issues such as domestic abuse, transgender identity and PTSD.
Next up will be Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park. Inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking play A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park explores our ongoing struggles as a country to unite and live harmoniously together given our racially divided past…and present. Norris’ uncomfortably hilarious and merciless play spares no one. It won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play. Clybourne Park will run October 26—November 5, 2017.
The third production of the season will be Sex with Strangers by Laura Eason. Eason’s erotic comedy explores complex issues of romance and identity in a world in which our online selves and our physical selves may not be quite the same. Show dates are March 29—April 8, 2018.
The season will close with Philip Ridley’s The Fastest Clock in the Universe running May 24—June 3, 2018. Rarely performed in the United States, it is considered a contemporary classic in Britain, twenty-five years after it shocked London audiences in 1992. Thirty-year-old Cougar Glass is celebrating his 19th birthday…again. Captain Tock is throwing the party, and the only invited guests are Foxtrot Darling (originally performed by a very young Jude Law, his breakthrough performance in London’s West End) and octogenarian Cheetah Bee. The unexpected appearance of Foxtrot’s girlfriend Sherbet Gravel throws a wrench into the works and hilarity and tragedy ensue.
All performances will be at The Henry Clay Theatre, 604 South Third Street, Louisville, KY.
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By Jessica DiNapoli
Westhampton Beach Village Board members could approve the creation of an eruv in the municipality at their next meeting scheduled for Thursday, May 1, despite additional concerns regarding the project that were raised during last Wednesday night’s work session.
“Based on what I have observed, I believe the trustees will adopt the resolution for the eruv,” said Richard Haefeli, the attorney acting on behalf of the Hampton Synagogue, which is proposing the eruv. The synagogue is located on Sunset Avenue in Westhampton Beach.
But at least one board member said she is still undecided about the issue. Trustee Joan Levan said that, as of earlier this week, she was still fielding calls from residents.
“When I hear from everyone and what they’re going to say, I’ll decide,” Ms. Levan said. “It’s a tough decision. There’s people against it and for it.”
Mayor Conrad Teller also said he could not say for certain whether the measure would be approved, though he is leaning toward the board signing off on the project. He added that board members would need a “real compelling reason not to do it, and we haven’t come up with anything like that, nor do I think we want to.”
Mr. Haefeli went on to explain after last week’s meeting that before the synagogue can mount black plastic piping on utility poles within the village—the piping will demarcate the boundaries of the proposed eruv—it must obtain approval from the village. Gaining approval from the local municipality is a requirement in Jewish law that dates back 2000 years, he said.
The Village Board has been discussing the establishment of the eruv, a zone in which Orthodox Jews can participate in certain activities, such as pushing baby carriages and carrying change in their pockets—things they are usually not permitted to do on the Sabbath—since early March.
The black plastic pipes must be mounted on Verizon and Long Island Power Authority poles to demarcate the boundaries of the eruv which, if approved, will be slightly less than one square mile in area. The eruv will run from Montauk Highway south to Sunswick Lane, with Griffing Avenue and Seafield Lane serving as its eastern border and Potunk Lane and Oak Street marking its western border. Synagogue officials have indicated at previous board meetings that they plan on expanding the boundaries of the eruv in the future.
Jacqueline Sprotte, a resident of Dune Road, an area that would not be included in the eruv, asked board members during last week’s meeting to poll residents to see how they feel about the project. She also suggested that any decision on the eruv be postponed for several weeks until the summer residents arrive.
“It’s pointless to have a community vote,” Mr. Haefeli said. “There’s no authority in the law to have a ‘community vote.’” Approval from the village is different from approval from the community, Mr. Haefeli said.
“We don’t need approval from the community. The community votes in the trustees, and the trustees undertake the actions the village undertakes,” said Mr. Haefeli in a interview after the meeting. “The trustees have all the authority, not the individual residents.”
Mayor Teller said the board will not hold a vote. He added that the village will not seek additional input from summer residents.
Linda Dick, a resident of the village since 1972 who noted that she is not Jewish, said she does not support the board dividing the village into sections. “I’m extremely opposed to the village being divided into zones,” she said. “I’ve always found the village low key and laid back and the eruv would change the tone of the village.”
Even though some residents voiced their disapproval of the project last week, Westhampton Beach Village attorney Bo Bishop explained that, based on past court rulings, the village is obligated to allow the eruv to move forward. For example, the Borough of Tenafly in New Jersey was embroiled in a battle for years before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled on the side of a local synagogue there.
“I’ve talked to the mayor of Tenafly, New Jersey, who had a six-year battle over an eruv and has now had an eruv for the past two and a half years,” Mayor Teller stated during last week’s work session. Mayor Teller stated that Tenafly Mayor Peter Rustin told him that his borough did not experience any significant changes following the establishment of the eruv.
Mayor Teller said board members have been encouraging discussion over the proposal to get feedback from residents. In an earlier interview, Avraham Bronstein, an assistant rabbi at the Hampton Synagogue, said synagogue officials want the community to feel comfortable with the proposal.
The issue of the separation of church and state came up during last week’s discussion. Mr. Bishop explained that there are already many religious symbols on display in the village, such as crosses and Christmas trees, and that the village typically makes accommodations for religious events. He likened these symbols and events to the establishment of the eruv.
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The truth of dukkha
TOPIC: The truth of dukkha
The truth of dukkha 24 Apr 2015 14:57 #98473
As long as you draw breath, there is dukkha. It's not because you are doing it wrong. To misunderstand this is to misunderstand Buddhism.
This is my opinion. What is yours?
Kenneth Folk
What this pointer piques in me is a reminder to question motives to use practice to fix my life.
Kacchapa
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I respectfully disagree. I think it is possible to eradicate one's suffering completely while one is still alive. The Four Noble Truths seem to agree. Where is the misunderstanding?
Jake Yeager
I find that I suffer less when I don't have expectations that I can eliminate suffering. It's paradoxical, but not really, because a lot of my suffering came from needing to "fix" myself. This doesn't mean I don't have things I need to attend to. I need medical care, for example. My son needs guidance and positive role models in his life. At all stages of life, people need constructive interactions with others.
Laurel Carrington
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I wonder if these 2 views are necessarily mutually exclusive, or if the former could be a skillful means toward the latter? It's an important point that you raise, I'm really interested. (Laurel, didn't see your post. Yeah, I was wondering if it could be a seeming paradox but not necessarily? But it may also be a legitimate challenge.)
Last Edit: 25 Apr 2015 10:30 by Kacchapa.
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Riffing on the idea of paradox (which means simply something that appears self-contradictory, not something that is self-contradictory), and along the lines of my current ruminations on "what makes the first truth, that of suffering, 'noble' as opposed to simply factual?"
It seems, both in practice and in some of the teaching stories that have been handed down, that we're being invited to look and see if it is not true that everywhere we look, within ourselves and in the larger world, there is gross suffering or subtle unsatisfactoriness. Some of the teaching points to the impossibility of attaining a permanent state of perfection, even if we are lucky enough to have a perfect moment, or a series of them; some of them point to the universality of pain and loss.
Spending time with open eyes and hearts taking in the truth of suffering, paradoxically releases us into compassionate awareness-- the antithesis of a major source of suffering: the tight bonds of "me versus them/it." And it is not a matter of undergoing a rigorous regime to set a wrong right: it is a matter of allowing the snake to un-knot itself, the truth to reveal itself.
Off the top; so far.
Kate Gowen
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Kate, you said what I meant, only more completely.
Jake Yeager:
I think it is possible to eradicate one's suffering completely while one is still alive.
This discussion gets nuanced and thus definitions of our terms are helpful. So, Jake, when you use the term "suffering" what do you mean? My observation is that there are several distinctly different meanings of the word "suffering" so we will need to discern that before we can go much further. This request would apply to Kenneth's original comment, too.
Chris Marti
Last Edit: 25 Apr 2015 13:48 by Chris Marti.
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Jake Yeager wrote:
Hi Jake,
This is one of my favorite discussions, because it cuts to the core of Buddhism. What's more, understanding it has huge implications for pragmatic dharma. In other words, we can reasonably ask what the early Buddhists were trying to say, and whether they were right. If they were right, how can we benefit from their ideas and instructions in our own lives? If they were wrong, how can we improve upon their ideas and instructions?
Here is one interpretation of the Four Noble Truths:
1. There is dukkha.
For the purposes of this discussion, let's translate dukkha as "unsatisfactoriness, stress, suffering."
2. The cause of dukkha is tanha.
Let's define tanha as any sense whatsoever that you'd like this present experience to be other than it is.
3. There is an end to dukkha, namely nibbana.
My working definition of nibbana is absence of experience.
4. The recipe for nibbana is the Eightfold Path.
The Eightfold Path is a fairly comprehensive set of instructions for both getting off the "wheel of death and rebirth" and for mitigating unecessary suffering while one remains living.
I like this simple formulation because it all hangs together. It assumes that the early Buddhists knew what they were talking about, because by these definitions they are not asking me to believe anything I cannot verify in my own experience. My observation is that tanha is an essential component of a living organism. We move toward things that tend toward individual and species survival, and away from things that tend toward individual death and species extinction. We can see this behavior even in bacteria, and we can see a kind of proto-tanha in plants as they move toward the light of the sun. In humans, tanha can be said to be unsatisfactory, stressful, and even suffering. Hence, dukkha. Since this constant reactivity to our environment is baked into us at the very deepest levels, it is implausible to expect it to stop while we continue to draw breath.
When I put all this together, it seems straightforward enough; dukkha and experience are inseparable. So the only way to be free of dukkha is to have no experience. Absence of experience is called nibbana.
This, however, does not leave open the possibility of eradicating dukkha while still living, and this can seem harsh, even offensive to modern sensibilities. Still, I appreciate the elegance of a conceptual framework that is internally consistent.
Finally, there is the fact that I've never met anyone who did not experience unsatisfactoriness, stress, and suffering, even though I've spent a reasonable amount of time in the company of advanced practitioners of Buddhism and other contemplative practices. Contemplative adepts often experience profound changes in the way they experience their lives over time, but they don't eradicate tanha or dukkha. In the rare cases where people have claimed such a thing, further exposure to them has led me to the conclusion that they were mistaken, and perhaps pathologically delusional.
Taken together, this leads me to a very down-to-earth view; awakening is possible and almost unimaginably beneficial for individual humans. There may also be societal benefits. Eradication of dukkha, however, where dukkha means unsatisfactoriness, stress, and sufffering while still alive, was never on the table and could not be, given the basic biology of the human organism. And that is fine with me... or at least I am willing to acknowledge that it is this way, even though I may wish it were otherwise. I would even go so far as to say that the more I am able to acknowledge that things are not the way I wish them to be, the more enlightened I feel, with a nod to the irony that what I used to think of as enlightenment seems a bit cartoonish from my current perspective, and that from that former perspective my current views seem a giant step backwards.
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Here's my (practical) take on the four truths:
Dukkha is having the identity as being "socially inadequate" or "physically wounded"
Tanha is instinctual craving that dependently wants to both "have a problem, so I can fix the problem". This creates an endless stressful cycle of being and wanting and being and wanting which is almost impossible to see in perspective.
Nibbana is the cooling/extinguishing of the assumption that >sensations< of inadequacy or woundedness means an >identity< of inadequacy or woundedness
The Eightfold Path is living in a way that minimizes external "triggers" for feeling of inadequacy or woundedness, to help support practices that investigate and release the confusion of "sensations vs. identity" of inadequacy and woundedness. It can't just be a hobby because we're basically hacking the instinctual survival mechanism of "finding what's wrong and fixing it". Practice helps us see how entire worldviews arise dependent on sensations that imply an identity "I'm afraid because I feel afraid" or "I'm powerful because I feel powerful", etc. When we have insights into the tautology of worldviews and when the sensations of the survival instinct is seen through, we realize that concerns about survival (impermanence), comfort (suffering), and identity (no-self) cannot be fixed, yet they have been seen through so we don't get confused for these drives being our identity. Our survival, comfort, and identity needs are not what we >are<.. Life continues, nothing changes, but everything has changed.
Dang, not bad! That's been ruminating in my noggin for a while... Hope it adds to the conversation!
shargrol
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Kenneth-- I was with you, up to defining nibbana as the absence of experience. Maybe that reflects my lack of study of Theravadin interpretations; in Mahayana and Vajrayana teachings with which I have more familiarity, it is made clear that emptiness/absence of experience is never more than a provisional goal-- access to the "pause" button, if you will, rather than a permanent full stop. Otherwise, there are various ways of achieving oblivion that are more accessible than dharma practice.
My teachers have said that the ultimate nonduality is the nonduality of samsara and nirvana. So far, that seems both true and apprehensible.
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Yeah, I was going to say something along those lines, except that I'm of the "don't know" school when it comes to figuring out what nibbana is. I like what Kate says, even if I don't really understand it.
Chris Marti wrote:
Hey Chris. I would define "suffering" as any emotion that arises due to attachment to the "objective" world. The objective world includes all phenomena that are or can be objectified by the "I," such as the body, sensations, thoughts, mental images, emotions, beliefs, friends, family, the natural world, froyo, etc.
Kate Gowen wrote:
So, it seems we can bypass the question of nibbana given that the Theravada and Mahayana interpretations of the word essentially cancel each other out.
We're left with the question of whether it's possible to walk around without dukkha, which seems to me to be a highly practical question. I think I hear you saying "no, I don't believe that." Am I reading you right? Laurel seems to also be saying "no." Jake says "yes." And Shargrol is defining dukkha in a unique way, but hasn't said whether he believes it's possible to live without it on an ongoing basis given his definition.
I think the word dukka tends to be use in both the sensation sense as well as the identity sense. I can imagine a zen guy saying:
There is dukka that is not dukka,
and there is dukka that is dukka.
The dukka that is not dukka is known as dukka,
whereas the dukka that is dukka is dukka.
My answer to the question "is it possible to live without it on an ongoing basis given my definition?" is sometimes yes, sometimes no. To create a world view where there is an entity called dukka which goes out of experience, exists somewhere where it is not experienced, and comes back into experience again would be a perfect example of creating an entity/identity out of a sensation (the sensation of dukka implying the identity of a entity called Dukka).
Last Edit: 25 Apr 2015 18:07 by shargrol.
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I think emotions, "good" and "bad" and all shades in between, are part and parcel of our humanity. I don't believe we can rid ourselves of them, nor do we want to (having no emotions would rob me of a lot of the beauty of being alive, frankly). That, then, leaves the more practical question of what the Buddha meant when he said that there is an end to dukkha. I know there are many explanations and variants but it appears obvious to me that dukkha is not emotions, per se. So, Jake, I believe I can have emotions of all kinds and not be attached to them or allow them to have me attaching to objects. And... that also squares nicely with my experience.
One more reply:
The objective world includes all phenomena that are or can be objectified by the "I,"...
The "I" is an object (really better described as a whole plethora of objects depending on circumstances) but it's just like all the others you named, so it isn't really the "I" that is objectifying things. This, too, is my experience.
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"We're left with the question of whether it's possible to walk around without dukkha, which seems to me to be a highly practical question. I think I hear you saying "no, I don't believe that." Am I reading you right?"
Um, no, I don't think so. I don't think we define 'dukkha' the same way: you are defining it as a kind of self-existent, problematical 'thing'-- or so it seems to me-- whereas I would say that it is a quality, a coloration, of experience. As such, it can be changed by practice and insight. The way in which it is changed is not by ending it by obliviating, but by opening up our subjectivity to understanding both our own nature and that of experience. Meditation is the means by which this happens: and it effects a transformation in the quality of experience-- even of the same phenomena.
That all sounds-- unfortunately-- extremely abstract, but that reflects more on my own limitations of expression, than the felt texture of experience.
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I think emotions, "good" and "bad" and all shares in between, are part and parcel of our humanity. I don't believe we can rid ourselves of them, nor do we want to (having no emotions would rob me of a lot of the beauty of being alive, frankly).
I was about to write a response to this and then I realized, nah, I don't have the experience so I'll just shut up!
I agree with this. There appears to be objectification going on, but who is doing the objectifying? Using the word "I" here was my clumsy attempt to assign the act of objectification to some "thing," but objectification does not require a "thing" I guess!
I hope I'm not trying everyone's nerves if I persist in responding to this excellent question.
It occurred to me that I can get around the philosophical abstraction quandry if I ground this in the teaching story that came to mind at the outset: the one where a woman whose child had died sought out the Buddha for help...
"The Mustard Seed
The reputation of Buddha Shakyamuni had spread far and wide. Not only was he renowned as a great, compassionate and fully enlightened human being, but also as a skilled teacher and a miraculous healer who could even bring the dead back to life.
One day, a woman approached him after a teaching begging that he do something to restore her dead child to her. The Buddha listened patiently to her plea and saw how great was her despair. He said to her, "Mother, if you bring me just one mustard seed from any household in which no person has died, then I shall revive your child."
The woman was greatly encouraged by the Teacher's words. She traveled from door to door throughout her own village, but could not find even a single residence in which no one had died. She went out of town, wandering to this hamlet and that in search of the tiny seed that the Buddha had requested. Days later, muddy and footsore, she returned to the place where the Buddha and his followers were passing the rainy season.
She was ushered into the Teacher's presence worn out, but not discouraged. "Master, try as I might, I could not locate the token you requested as an offering. But I have come to understand that death visits every household and eventually, every single one of us. I would like now, to 'enter the stream' and work towards the liberation that the teachings provide."
So-- if by 'dukkha' you mean the fact that the child was dead, or that the mother felt grief-- we agree: there is no end to it.
But Gautama must have meant something else when he described the 4 Noble Truths, because he proposed a path beyond suffering, a path that did not include a miraculous change in objective conditions like death, loss, bereavement. Nor did it include a permanent end to experience in toto.
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Kenneth Folk wrote:
I don't think this is so - I don't think the Theravada definition of nibbana is absence of experience, and I'd be interested in being pointed toward any Pali canon reference that would back up that interpretation. For example according to Lily Da Silva backed up by a thicket of canonical references, nibbana is characterized by "happiness, moral perfection, realization, and freedom" (reference here). We can discuss whether these are realistic/achievable but it would be a different question to the present one about dukkha which interprets nibbana as absence of experience.
I concur with Chris that the question here is actually the definition of 'dukkha.' To know what 'Buddhism' thinks about this and what is an accurate understanding of 'Buddhism' - if indeed we could reach such a thing - for me the best question to ask is, what did the Buddha do and say after his awakening? (noting that I come at this question from a Pali canon perspective). He definitely still experienced physical discomfort that he'd prefer to get away from, e.g. when his back was sore after teaching for a long time. He also seemed to find some things a hassle meaning, all things being equal, he would prefer not to do them, as when deciding to teach or not after his awakening ('beings have lots of dust in their eyes and teaching them will be a hassle').
Also, when deciding these questions I find it useful to notice clearly how we order paradigms of truth - e.g. Kenneth in your post above, evolution is given a higher truth status than Buddhist teachings, so when the two conflict, for you evolution ('we are inescapably programmed to go toward what has survival value and away from what doesn't') trumps canonical Buddhist teachings. On this note, it would also be worth asking how the evolutionary paradigm deals with the problem of altruism.
Kenneth, I identify with your point that also for me, my earlier imaginings of what nibbana might be now seem cartoony - basically, the idea that I will never feel negativity or aversion of any kind. However it's slippery, because what I often find these days, wherever I might be on any sort of trajectory (a model that has its own problems), is that states that previously I would have found to fall into this category - sadness, anger, that 'I don't want it!' reaction - are still there, but now are inhabited fully and/or seen as teachings, and sometimes seem even beautiful rather than undesirable. So, are they actually 'the same' as previously, and are they 'aversive'? Hard to say.
I am open, though, to the possibility that other people - maybe rare and exceptional? - actually have the 'cartoony' experience I've described above. But that doesn't seem to be exactly where my practice is leading as it unfolds, nor a good/useful goal for me (indeed, one thing that happens is that goals increasingly drop away). On that note, I concur with the paradoxical quality pointed out by Laurel above - excellent reminder!
every3rdthought
Last Edit: 25 Apr 2015 19:24 by every3rdthought.
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I'm not sure if I'm missing something here or going off-topic, but I'm gonna need some definitions to understand... How are you defining 'awakening' as you use it? How do you define 'getting off the wheel of birth and death', in your own interpretation or even your own interpretation about Buddha's interpretation? And, what's precipitated this change in view about the definition of nibbana?, if you don't mind answering
And, for getting to the bottom of what-this-path's-all-about this table might be useful. As he admits, both are caricatures but I think it might prove useful for this discussion, at least for identifying/examining caricatures of two sides.
meaningness.wordpress.com/2013/10/23/sutra-vs-tantra/
Deklan
objectification does not require a "thing" I guess!
This is actually exactly it, believe it or not. Over time, this insights dawns on us, more and more, until Oh!
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I like this simple formulation because it all hangs together. It assumes that the early Buddhists knew what they were talking about...
Does it have to ‘hang together” and make sense to the logical, rational part of our minds?
What if they deeply and intimately knew exactly what they were talking about but that something was difficult, even for them, to put into words that made sense? Hence a list that doesn’t quite hang together so that there are gaps to slip through into the experience they can point to but not describe?
I'll throw something else out to consider: if no dukkha = having no experience, then there is the question of who is having experiences. I can suggest that stuff can be happening, but not to anyone. For example, in a few minutes I'm going to post on my thread, and there will be a litany of experiences, but they do not seem personal. Yet I don't wish to die (at least not yet). I can't see how "no experiences" is nibbana, or otherwise we would all be advised to die ASAP.
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Lots of great points in this thread and I hope to respond to many of them, but I want to answer this one right away, because it is fundamental to the discussion:
Deklan wrote:
what's precipitated this change in view about the definition of nibbana?
There is no change in my view about the definition of nibbana. This is the only definition of nibbana I ever learned from my Theravada Buddhist teachers, both Burmese and American. Nibbana means extinction. LIghts out. I know this is shocking to many people in modern times, but it's a fairly generic Theravada Buddhist understanding.
Take a look at Thanissaro Bikkhu's translation of several references to nibbana here. Without overlaying any preconceptions about what nibbana ought to be, just take it at face value. The simplest interpretation of nibbana is the end of experience. Any other interpretation requires some dancing.
My point is not to insist that nibbana as extinction is the Right Way to Think, but rather to establish it as one bookend within the conversation. Without this admittedly extreme view, with all its scary implications about the value (or nonvalue) of human existence, I don't believe we can have an informed conversation about Buddhism.
I find that Buddhist teachers often soft-pedal nibbana when speaking to contemporary audiences, especially Westerners. This is understandable given the mind-boggling clash with our pre-existing cultural values. But it does lead to this odd situation in which even people who have identified as Buddhists for years are shocked to learn that nibbana bears no resemblance to Christian ideals of Heaven or Hindu ideals of union with Brahman. I simply would point out that without this bookend concept of nibbana as extinction, nothing about early Buddhism makes sense, and that pragmatic dharma practitioners can learn a great deal by opening to the possibility that the Buddha was almost unimaginably more radical (and scary) than they ever realized.
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Brown dwarfs are extremely low mass stars. They have masses only slightly larger than that of the planet Jupiter. Because a star's temperature depends on its mass (with smaller stars having cooler temperatures) brown dwarfs are extremely cool.
We know that as the temperature of a hot dense object decreases, it glows an ever duller red color. You can see this by watching an electric stove burner when you turn it off.
Are brown dwarfs such a dull red? Well, not quite. They are so cool that dust can condense in their atmospheres and mingled with the dust are sodium atoms. Sodium atoms absorb yellow light very strongly. If you take yellow light away from a dull red star, the star looks purple or magenta.
So brown dwarfs are actually purple!
Formation of High Mass Stars
Astronomers have known for many years that when a high mass star is born, the material falling on to the forming star heats it intensely. The resulting high temperature creates a very intense flood of radiation from the young star that pushes outward, creating a strong radiation pressure. The outward push of the radiation pressure makes it difficult for additional matter to fall on to the star. Thus, the star's mass can not increase indefinitely.
Computer studies of this process show that the radiation pressure is most intense near the star's poles and is relatively weak near the star's equator. Material falling inward, therefore, accumulates in orbit around the star and forms a rotating disk above the star's equator.
This rotating disk grows "spiral arms", much like the spiral arms of some galaxies, but on a much smaller scale. Gas in the disk flows inward toward the star along the arms and can gradually build the star's mass to larger values than were previously thought. Moreover, the disk may develop "lumps", much as we saw occurred in the Solar Nebula when our Solar System formed. In the case of the massive star, the lumps may be so big that they may merge into a second star. Thus, a forming high mass may create a partner star in orbit around it. In fact, a very high percentage of massive stars show exacvtly such a companion.
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Out of the darkness appeared two glowing eyes. It appeared right on the car. "Let her go" the voice broke out of the extreme darkness, the eye had not come alone, it came with a speaking body.
"Who the hell are you" the man said, he let go of Elle and he faced the direction where he had seen the lustrous eyes. Elle scrambled to her feet she held her torn blouse together so it would cover her.
"How dare you stop m....." he was forced to seal his lips as a thick fist scrunched his nose, he fell to the ground holding his nose, the glowing eye had vanished. Blood dripped out of his nose, he attempted standing up but he felt to the ground again, he held his nose hermetically and he laid on the ground for some second, his heart thumped faster, he tried scrambling to his feet but he ended up falling into the ground again, finally he gave up trying. he laid gloomily on the ground.
The street light went on, tega stood a little meter away from where the man had fallen, he took an arched posture, and he gnarled angrily staring at the man. Elle was no where to be found. "Bastard!!!" tega mumbled, he spat out and he walked away.
Zitch sat in a dark a room, it was cold and he seems pleased with the extreme murkiness, his eyes was shut closed. He had gone long, climbing up the meditation ladder. his hands were placed on the arms of the chair he sat on, and his nostrils were flaring.
Out of the darkness appeared the glowing eyes again. "you came late tega" Zitch proclaimed, his eyes were still closed. "sorry lord, I had to take care of something" tega's voice scaled out into the aphotic atmosphere.
Zitch opened up his eyes and the light went on, his eyes shimmered bright. Tega was positioned, hunked on the window frame. he jumped down and he walked towards Zitch. "I have announced my self. My lord, they will be out looking for us as soon as possible." Zitch snarled his ear stood and his hair began to rise, he stared at tega from a long range. Tega walked towards him, he knelt in front of him and he awaited Zitch hands to find it way to his head. He gnashed as Zitch hands fell on his head, it was like something was been extracted out of him. Then he stopped struggling. Tega fell into the ground as Zitch let go of his head. Blood flowed out tega's ear.
Zitch tightened his fist in anger, he closed his eyes and the whole room went out of light again, it was like the whole light had gone into him. He opened up his eyes and it glowed, sharp and bright, it was like he had absorbed all the light flowing into the room "Who is she" he asked glowering. "didn't I warn you not to relate with anyone." Zitch sounded angry. "I am sorry my lord" tega pleaded. "I read her mind, she has a link to the ISG maximum prison, we can reach tega through her".
There was an hush in the atmosphere, Zitch eyes glowed in the dark. "That doesn't mean you should relate with her" Zitch spoke up again, "pardon my lord"tega pleaded he had fallen on his kneels.
The lights went on again, Zitch eyes had gone dark, deep inside of him was terror.
Tega cripped briskly till he was near Zitch and he fitted his head into his open hands. He drooled and his ears kept emitting more blood.
Zitch sat on an old study table, right in front of him was an old brown leather, containing some lines and diagram, it looked like a map, that had been drawn 100 of years ago.
"It is 200 years now, and you haven't been able to decode this map." a young lady on a frame less bed adjacent his table said. "Tega will help me reach his father." Zitch replied "The map would be read and we will find the Gold for our self." he faced the lady then he continued "I trained his father, I received him that night in the coffee shop. I did ever thing for him. Just for him to share me his secret. Then he betrayed me, he refused to read out the map" "then you snatched the map from him, stole away his son and you sold him out to the police. You sold out our weakness to sterl just for a cave of Gold!!!" she exploded. "do you think tega will kill his father, for you." she continued. "Tega is loyal to me, I control him I am in his head. he cant betray me, he is not 20 yet." Zitch snarled. He folded the map, opened a drawer attached to the table and he laid the map in there then he locked it up.
Zitch pushed back the chair stood up and he walked over to the bed. he pulled off his shirt and he laid beside the lady. She placed her head on his chest. She could hear his heart beat. "He has potentials, he bares his father's name. he might betray you like his father did. Remember you once controlled his father." she said in a low and frequent tone. They both closed their eyes and the light in the room went off.
Their eyes glowed in the dark as they opened it up again. "Morlin, boris wife is next on target. with her we can get an access into ISG, get to meet tega, get the map read and get the Gold" "you talk cheap dear, pale will never let that happen. remember he is also after the Gold. He arrested tega, remember. He knows our weakness" "That, I have planned. Young tega is smart enough. You know how strong he his, Tega is not just any name, only the first son of the LEVA clan bears that name, they are strong" "you talk to me like i know nothing about all of this" "I only wanted to remind you." the room went calm as Zitch paused, his eyes glowed in the dark, the lady had her eyes closed. "I will bring an end to the whole LEVA clan and soon no body will bare the name tega. The gold is mine" he chucked and soon it turned into a wild laugh, his eyes shone brighter like a burning fire.
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the Uncanny Valley of user interface design
17 May, 2007 //
There’s a theory called ‘The Uncanny Valley’ regarding humans’ emotional response to human-like robots. From The Wikipedia entry:
The Uncanny Valley is a hypothesis about robotics concerning the emotional response of humans to robots and other non-human entities. It was introduced by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970 […]
Mori’s hypothesis states that as a robot is made more humanlike in its appearance and motion, the emotional response from a human being to the robot will become increasingly positive and empathic, until a point is reached beyond which the response quickly becomes strongly repulsive. However, as the appearance and motion continue to become less distinguishable from a human being’s, the emotional response becomes positive once more and approaches human-human empathy levels.
This area of repulsive response aroused by a robot with appearance and motion between a “barely-human” and “fully human” entity is called the Uncanny Valley. The name captures the idea that a robot which is “almost human” will seem overly “strange” to a human being and thus will fail to evoke the requisite empathetic response required for productive human-robot interaction.
While most of us don’t interact with human-like robots frequently enough to accept or reject this theory, many of us have seen a movie like The Polar Express or Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within, which use realistic – as opposed to cartoonish – computer-generated human characters. Although the filmmakers take great care to make the characters’ expressions and movements replicate those of real human actors, many viewers find these almost-but-not-quite-human characters to be unsettling or even creepy.
The problem is that our minds have a model of how humans should behave and the pseudo-humans, whether robotic or computer-generated images, don’t quite fit this model, producing a sense of unease – in other words, we know that something’s not right – even if we can’t precisely articulate what’s wrong.
Why don’t we feel a similar sense of unease when we watch a cartoon like The Simpsons, where the characters are even further away from our concept of humanness? Because in the cartoon environment, we accept that the characters are not really human at all – they’re cartoon characters and are self-consistent within their animated environment. Conversely, it would be jarring if a real human entered the frame and interacted with the Simpsons, because eighteen years of Simspons cartoons and eighty years of cartoons in general have conditioned us not to expect this [Footnote 1].
There’s a lesson here for software designers, and one that I’ve talked about recently – we must ensure that we design our applications to remain consistent with the environment in which our software runs. In more concrete terms: a Windows application should look and feel like a Windows application, a Mac application should look and feel like a Mac application, and a web application should look and feel like a web application.
Obvious, you say? I’d agree that software designers and developers generally observe this rule except in the midst of a technological paradigm shift. During periods of rapid innovation and exploration, it’s tempting and more acceptable to violate the expectations of a particular environment. I know this is a sweeping and abstract claim, so let me back it up with a few examples.
Does anyone remember Active Desktop? When Bill Gates realized that the web was a big deal, he directed all of Microsoft to web-enable all Microsoft software products. Active Desktop was a feature that made the Windows desktop look like a web page and allowed users to initiate the default action on a file or folder via a hyperlink-like single-click rather than the traditional double-click. One of the problems with Active Desktop was that it broke all of users expectations about interacting with files and folders. Changing from the double-click to single-click model subtley changed other interactions, like drag and drop, select, and rename. The only reason I remember this feature is because so many non-technical friends at Penn State asked me to help them turn it off.
Another game-changing technology of the 1990s was the Java platform. Java’s attraction was that the language’s syntax looked and felt a lot like C and C++ (which many programmers knew) but it was (in theory) ‘write once, run anywhere’ – in other words, multiplatform. Although Java took hold on the server-side, it never took off on the desktop as many predicted it would. Why didn’t it take off on the desktop? My own experience with using Java GUI apps of the late 1990s was that they were slow and they looked and behaved weirdly vs. standard Windows (or Mac or Linux) applications. That’s because they weren’t true Windows/Mac/Linux apps. They were Java Swing apps which emulated Windows/Mac/Linux apps. Despite the herculean efforts of the Swing designers and implementers, they couldn’t escape the Uncanny Valley of emulated user interfaces.
Eclipse and SWT took a different approach to Java-based desktop apps [Footnote 2]. Rather than emulating native desktop widgets, SWT favor direct delegation to native desktop widgets [Footnote 3], resulting in applications that look like Windows/Mac/Linux applications rather than Java Swing applications. The downside of this design decision is that SWT widget developers must manually port a new widget to each supported desktop environment. This development-time and maintenance pain point only serves to emphasize how important the Eclipse/SWT designers judged native look and feel to be.
Just like Windows/Mac/Linux apps have a native look and feel, so too do browser-based applications. The native widgets of the web are the standard HTML elements – hyperlinks, tables, buttons, text inputs, select boxes, and colored spans and divs. We’ve had the tools to create richer web applications ever since pre-standards DOMs and Javascript 1.0, but it’s only been the combination of DOM (semi-)standardization, XHR de-facto standardization, emerging libraries, and exemplary next-gen apps like Google Suggest and Gmail that have led to a non-trivial segment of the software community to attempt richer web UIs which I believe we’re now lumping under the banner of ‘Ajax’ (or is it ‘RIA’?). Like the web and Java before it, the availability of Ajax technology is causing some developers to diverge from the native look and feel of the web in favor of a user interface style I call “desktop app in a web browser”. For an example of this style of Ajax app, take a few minutes and view this Flash demo of the Zimbra collaboration suite.
To me, Zimbra doesn’t in any way resemble my mental model of a web application; it resembles Microsoft Outlook [Footnote 4]. On the other hand Gmail, which is also an Ajax-based email application, almost exactly matches my mental model of how a web application should look and feel (screenshots). Do I prefer the Gmail look and feel over the Zimbra look and feel? Yes. Why? Because over the past twelve years, my mind has developed a very specific model of how a web application should look and feel, and because Gmail aligns to this model, I can immediately use it and it feels natural to me. Gmail uses Ajax to accelerate common operations (e.g. email address auto-complete) and to enable data transfer sans jarring page refresh (e.g. refresh Inbox contents) but its core look and feel remains very similar to that of a traditional web page. In my view, this is not a shortcoming; it’s a smart design decision.
So I’d recommend that if you’re considering or actively building Ajax/RIA applications, you should consider the Uncanny Valley of user interface design and recognize that when you build a “desktop in the web browser”-style application, you’re violating users’ unwritten expectations of how a web application should look and behave. This choice may have significant negative impact on learnability, pleasantness of use, and adoption. The fact that you can create web applications that resemble desktop applications does not imply that you should; it only means that you have one more option and subsequent set of trade-offs to consider when making design decisions.
[Footnote 1] Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a notable exception.
[Footnote 2] I work for the IBM group (Eclipse/Jazz) that created SWT, so I may be biased.
[Footnote 3] Though SWT favors delegation to native platform widgets, it sometimes uses emulated widgets if the particular platform doesn’t provide an acceptable native widget. This helps it get around the ‘least-common denominator’ problem of AWT.
[Footnote 4] I’m being a bit unfair to Zimbra here because there’s a scenario where its Outlook-like L&F really shines. If I were a CIO looking to migrate off of Exchange/Outlook to a cheaper multiplatform alternative, Zimbra would be very attractive because since Zimbra is functionally consistent with Outlook, I’d expect that Outlook users could transition to Zimbra fairly quickly.
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Meet Jeff Hunt: Taylor's heir-apparent
Submitted by Drama Queen on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 16:37
At Saturday's Karl Rove Memorial 11th District Republican convention, no one could answer the question: "Will Taylor step aside?" So, of course, no one would answer the question: "If he does, who will run" against Democrat Heath Shuler?
However when Screwy Hoolie and I finally pinned him down, District Attorney Jeff Hunt, admitted that if 8-term former Congressman Charles Taylor doesn't run in 2008, "I'm at least looking very closely at it."
Watch him discuss his potential candidacy in this short video and hear him talk about why Republicans lost the Congressional seat they'd held for 16 years. You'll want to listen to the end to where he brings up the H-word and proudly compares Republicans to termites.
Also of note: Hunt tops the list of the Board of Directors of a new federal registered PAC called West Wins. Too young to have filed FEC financial disclosure reports, this is from the groups' website:
West Wins is a group of Republican workers who are dedicated to winning the 2008 governorship of North Carolina, winning back the 11th congressional seat, keeping our other congressional seats and our US Senate seats and winning offices from the Courthouse to the White House!
West Wins recognizes the need for Western North Carolina to unite to accomplish these goals. We are currently operating with a skeleton staff and dedicated volunteers. Our expertise and experience is well rooted in successful campaigns of WNC Republican candidates.
In case you're inclined to dismiss this organization due to its youth, consider these facts:
Its board includes Republican leaders from all three Western North Carolina DistrictsIncumbent
5th District Congresswoman Virginia Foxx keynotes their May 5 "Campaign Kickoff Reception and Dinner (i.e., fundraiser)
They've mass mailed donation requests that start at $200 and range up to $2400.
They've instituted a sophisticated district-wide letter-to-the-editor campaign.
And, whether Taylor runs again or not, Hunt clearly plans to continue to be a major player in the upcoming Congressional race. Now one question remains: Will Taylor step aside early enough to give Hunt enough time to build name recognition -- his biggest deficit in this potential contest against the increasingly influential Shuler.
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A swarm of termites
Submitted by momoaizo on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 16:53
eating away at this country's infrastructure. Boy-oh, that'll GOTV. Interesting that they say that Clinton will energize the Republic's to vote....interesting.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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They have no freaking clue
Submitted by Blue South on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 17:01
This is what I was saying to my mom about Elizabeth Dole earlier, and it seems to be doubly true for this guy.
The fact that Bush is still so highly regarded amongst core Republicans is incredibly telling. People like Dole cant fathom that anyone would not support Bush and not support the war, and they are surrounded by people who literally are dumbstruck by the opposition to Bush.
This guy just gave a bunch of reasons why Chucky lost, and not one was an issue or character comment. It wasnt the fact that Chucky was a lying POS. It wasnt Abramoff, or the blue wave or Iraq or anything. Voter Registration??? Seriously? You dont win by that many points with voter registration.
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Great report
Submitted by James on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 17:19
It's good to know who the potential enemy is. And make no mistake, this guy is the enemy.
I had a funny teaser but
it doesn't show up when I click on the post . . . should I edit my diary to include the teaser? I'm confused about the teaser thing. If it doesn't show up what's the point?
News of the 10th district: See Pat Go Bye Bye,
Don't worry I fixed it
It was dull without the teaser stuff. Plus the photo is missing . Oh well. I'll figure it out one day.
I have teaser problems every day
I think I used it once productively . . . the rest of the time it's been more like torture.
I'm glad you said so
I spent so much time on it, I felt really bitchy about it and then wondered if I was burning all my bridges with you guys! I guess I'll just copy the photo to the post and be done with it!
Excellent reporting!
Submitted by NCDem Amy on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 19:32
Did he know you had your camera rolling or was it hidden in a bag? LOL.
He sounded pretty ticked the Democrats turned out the vote---he said, "they may be just one time voters." And, justified why they lost another big chunk of votes saying about how 'about half of those people usually vote for us." Was he referring to Black people, as "those people?"
he was saying independent voters
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NCDem: he meant that
the newly registered Dems might be one-time voters, but for "those" people, he meant unaffiliated types.
He saw the camera. Contrary to rumor, I have never videotaped anyone with a hidden camera OR the camera from a cell phone! I just didn't have time to get the tripod higher so I went with what I had. It was really really close to him. Notice how he zooms in when he says Hilary Clinton's name. It was freaky, he was so close.
Front-paging this one
Submitted by Gordon Smith on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 22:01
any objections?
Scrutiny Hooligans - http://www.scrutinyhooligans.us
That's a good call.
Very interesting. I am convinced that "those people"
Submitted by Ashevillein on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 23:04
is the new code word speak for "black people" and "spanish people" here in the Evil Empire of the People's Republic of Asheville.
I hear that a lot, and from people who mean exactly that.
I do not think it a coincidence that this man uses that phrase.
I also think it is amazing that all these people bad mouth Asheville for our diversity, yet ask one where they are from, and see what answer you get.
Asheville.
I think almost anyone not him
Submitted by Drama Queen on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 00:16
is "those people."
So just the other day
Submitted by cm1165 on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 23:26
I ate lunch with this dingbat. It was at the Western North Carolina Crime Victim Coalition Luncheon that happened in Down Town Asheville. He was up with a big group from his office. I was less than impressed with him then and there. Not to mention, there was a lot of influence, power, and money in that room, and he took no opportunity to work it. It strikes me that he would be a bad match to the fairly likable Shuler.
There was one woman there though that I would bet money on to be running for something at least. She is a former State Rep or Senator (I can't remember which) from, I think Henderson. I unfortunately didn't pay real close attention as I was chowing down on really good food that I was getting for free. (Hey I am a college student, what do you expect). Anyway, this woman apparently stepped down a few years ago, but she was still working the room like a pro. Came over and rubbed all up on Hunt and even introduced herself to us, a group of college students from the hippie school.
Now that I think about it, it makes so much sense now the way that Hunt's face fell when we sat down at his table and told him that we were from Warren Wilson. I guess he was hoping for some Montreat faithful.
The Great appear great because we are on our knees – Let Us Rise!
-- “Big Jim” Larkin
Since I posted this, I've heard that the DA is a "moron, lazy," and has "pissed of a lot of people." He seemed to have an attitude of expectant privilege. He didn't seem to have respect for the rank-and-file Republicans at the event, much less anyone else! I'm sure he didn't think much of you hippie freaks!
So, maybe he would be fun opponent for Shuler. There's just a lot of Republican money floating around to be too complacent.
What else did you learn at the luncheon?
There is not much more to say
Submitted by cm1165 on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 01:22
At the time, I really didn't know who he was. I mean I thought that he was a goober and all, but other than that, I really didn't pay him much attention. All I remember was that he didn't think that it was fair or something that we had come from the east and gotten there on time and "his people" were having to come in from the south and were stuck in traffic. Seriously, that was all he could talk about for, I'm serious here, 20 mins.
Two things: 1) Van Duncan (the new Democratic Sheriff) was very well spoken and seems like he is all business and about actually helping victims while respecting the rights of the accused.
2) Beverly Perdue's General Counsel, Will Polk, was the key note speaker. While I am sure that he has done good work for the crime victims of NC (I think they said he was in the AG's office before he was in the Lt. Gov's) he was not an extremely strong public speaker, and that reflected poorly on the Lt. Gov. even though Mr. Polk had been asked there when he was still in the AG's office. He was fine when he stuck to script, but anytime he tried to get off it, he would wonder off into some far field, frolic with the goats for a while and then wonder back. It was painful, and to be honest I felt a little sorry for him and for the Lt Gov for, as I said, it reflected poorly on her. (I don't mean to be mean spirited here, but I think that Mr. Polk's speech could have been more focused and more concise)
That is about all I got out of it. Take it for what its worth.
Oh PS-- there was a whole lot of fire power in the room, what with all the cops etc. It was most likely the safest place in Asheville for that 2 hour window.
Now it is time to write this 5-8 pager I have been putting off all weekend....
Thanks for the report
I'm glad to hear Van Duncan impressed.
Isn't it amazing how many public officials send bad speakers to represent them? I'm constantly dumbfounded. "Frolic with the goats . . . " You're funny. Have fun with your paper.
Come to Drinking Liberally sometime. It's on Coxe St. near the bus station. It's THursday nights at 7. Or have I already met you there ???
Nope, youve never seen me there
Although in NH in 2004 I met (and actualy shared a room with) the guy from NY that got the whole off the ground a few years ago.
After I get graduation behind me (3 weeks!) I will more than likely start making the rounds.
BTW, you know anyone in Asheville hiring recent college grads to do political organizing? Either that or know any rich folks willing to give me money and let me do as I will with it?
Just thought that I would ask.
Not exactly hiring season
What's your experience? You want to do issues or a candidate? Not that I know anyone or group hiring . . . But you might as well get some practice braggin'
Well let me tell you...
I have done field work for a presidential in NH (Clark), as well as field work for other issues and candidates. To be honest, I like issues better than candidates because to work for a candidate I have to really believe in them. It is easier for me to believe in issues over people. Not to mention issues rarely come back to bite you in the ass. People often do.
I mean I got the whole resume thing going, and I got a couple of possible leads, so I am working it like it is the Sunset Strip.
And keep in touch . . .
I like the lead on the West Wins site. Here is one for our version:
The party of Jack Abramoff, Tom Delay, and Paul Wolfowitz is not the Party for Western North Carolina!
This is fun...lets think of some more. I could list them all day!
I think someone's paying attention
Submitted by Gordon Smith on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 11:11
Scrutiny Hooligans was full of House.gov hits on this post all morning. Thanks for reading!
thanks for doing this
Submitted by Jerimee on Tue, 05/01/2007 - 08:23
thanks for putting this together and posting it
it's great that he was willing to talk candidly
http://twitter.com/Jerimee
I don't think he understood
Submitted by Drama Queen on Tue, 05/01/2007 - 22:04
who we were.
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Remarkable organizations for youths
Mrittika Kabir
publish : 17 Apr, 2016
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We, Bangladeshis have always taken immense pride in our youth. The very creation of our country is largely credited to their valiant efforts and sacrifices. Their invaluable contribution during the liberation war set up a bright example for the youth of the whole world to follow. Even after the formation of the country, the energy of the young people was evident to establish a sound socio economic infrastructure of a war torn country. And today, we see our young generation taking the country forward astoundingly.
As Bangladesh is disaster prone and vulnerable to climate change, the role of our young people in volunteer activities is really mentionable. “JAAGO” is one such volunteering organization which is run by an inspired team of young employees aiming to eliminate poverty from Bangladesh through catering to the educational needs of the under privileged people of the country. Korvi Rakshand, the founder of the organization says that JAAGO moves forward with an aim to establish at least one free of cost JAAGO literacy centre in each of the districts of Bangladesh. Starting with only 17 kids, the incipient tin shed room has turned into a well structured building with a playground. It renders service to 550 students today.
Another such youth driven organization is Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center which is the country's first leadership institute. It work to bridge gaps in society by uniting youth from diverse backgrounds, equipping them with leadership, problem solving, and team building skills, and engaging them in community-service. They intend to remove poverty as well through a team of home grown leaders and are successfully running different programs on that aspect. Last year BYLC has organized literacy programs across Dhaka city with a lot of young people volunteering for the program.
Youth’s Voice is another example of the inflaming growth of youth power. An organization which started with only the function of collection and distribution of clothes among the destitute has now reached a stage where its functions cannot be counted any longer. It advances towards a glorious tomorrow mainly by preaching education and awareness. Whether by distribution of proper meals or of medical treatment, it always bears the condition of the underprivileged in mind. Also it renders days of entertainment to children who are highly deprived of it by miscellaneous arrangements.
These remarkable contributions of the youth of our country give us a lot of hope regarding the prospects of a positively growing nation. It is obviously a good sign that the country is being benefitted so hugely by its youth today. Hopefully, there will come a day when we won't have any more mouths to feed by voluntary service and that can be credited to the young generation of our nation. Long live Bangladesh, long live its indomitable youth.
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Middle School Debate League Hosts First Tournament of the 19-20 Year
By Jennifer Posner, CTMSDL On Saturday, December 14, 246 middle-schoolers from 22 Connecticut schools traveled to Smith Middle School in Glastonbury for the CT Middle School Debate League’s first tournament of the season. Participants debated the motion: This House regrets the worldwide proliferation of surveillance cameras. Proposition prevailed in 49.2% of the debates. The
Student Activities - What's On the Horizon
The CAS student activities division has an extensive calendar of events and activities planned for the 2019-20 year! The activity series is grounded in the research on 21st century skills showing that participation in co-curricular activities increases academic achievement, improves communication skills, and helps students make better life decisions! Please
Ten Schools Receive Citizenship Awards
On June 5th, students, advisors and principals from around the state filled the CAS conference center for the presentation of the 2019 Challenge to Educational Citizenship Awards. These awards celebrate student-organized activities that demonstrate good citizenship, civic awareness and service to others. Representatives from each of this year’s winning schools
CANHS Spring Conference a Rousing Success!
The Connecticut Association of Schools National Honor Societies (CANHS) would like to thank all the participants and contributors who helped to make the 2019 CANHS conference a successful event. The conference, which took place at the Sheraton Hartford South Hotel on May 30, 2019, featured Jonathan Winer (CREC Schools) who
7th Annual Robotics State Championship
Capping a busy season for Connecticut’s high school FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) teams, the Connecticut Association of Schools, in partnership with NE FIRST, hosted the seventh annual FRC High School State Championship on Saturday, May 11th, at the Connecticut State Armory in Hartford, CT. The competition provided FRC teams from
Middle School Debate Tournament Sets New Participation Record
By Jennifer Posner, CTMSDL The CT Middle School Debate League held its largest tournament to date on Saturday, December 1, 2018, at Seymour Middle School! Two hundred seventy-two debaters from twenty-two schools combined into ninety-six teams to debate the motion: This House would allow incarcerated felons to vote. Proposition won 56%
The 2018-19 Middle School Debate Season is Underway!
On October 27, 2018, one hundred fifty-six middle school debaters, nineteen high school debaters, and coaches and parents from eighteen schools braved the elements and traveled to Glastonbury to kick off the CT Middle School Debate League's (CTMSDL) 2018-19 season with a scrimmage at Smith Middle School. Debaters combined into twenty-one
Six Schools Receive Challenge to Educational Citizenship Awards
Pictured above (clockwise from top left): Representatives from Sage Park MS; representatives from Madison MS; representatives from Naugatuck HS; representatives from Naugatuck HS; representatives from Sage Park MS; representatives from Bristol Eastern HS; representatives from Notre Dame HS; representatives from Sage Park MS; and, representatives from John Wallace Middle
CTMSDL Has Strong Showing in Regional Championship
Twenty-one students from the CT Middle School Debate League (CTMSDL) joined peers from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Virginia, Maryland and Colorado to compete in the English in Action Middle School Debate Championship Tournament on May 5 in New York City. The CTMSDL sent one team of comprised of three debaters each from
By Jennifer Posner, CTMSDL The CT Middle School Debate League held its largest tournament to date on Saturday, April 21, at Eastern Middle School in Greenwich! Two hundred twenty-four debaters from twenty-three schools combined into eighty-one teams to debate the motion: This House believes that Artificial Intelligence will do more good
Dave Maloney to be Honored for Contributions to Arts in CT
Our very own Dave Maloney, CAS Director of Student Activities, will be honored by Arts for Learning Connecticut (AFLCT) for his outstanding contributions to arts in education. Dave will receive the 2018 Arts in Education Advocate Award which will mark the first time in its almost 40 year history
CAS-CIAC Pilots Summer Learning Camp
CAS-CIAC is excited to partner with the McMikle Group and the Windsor Public Schools to offer an innovative summer learning camp that combines leadership, athletics and academic enrichment. The D.R.E.A.M. Sports Summer Learning Camp is a six-week youth camp that is open to any Connecticut student in first through tenth grade. Detailed
New Britain Students Hone Leadership Skills at CAS Conference
On January 11, six student leaders from HALS, DiLoreto and Pulaski Middle Schools attended the CAS Middle Level Leadership Conference held at Trinity College in Hartford. On January 11, six student leaders from HALS, DiLoreto and Pulaski Middle Schools attended the CAS Middle Level Leadership Conference held at Trinity College in
Middle School Debate Going Strong!
By Jennifer Posner, CTMSDL On Saturday, January 27, 2018, one hundred sixty-two middle school debaters from sixteen schools combined into fifty-nine teams to debate the motion: This House would eliminate executive pardons and commutations. Proposition prevailed in 48% of the debates. The team of Halle Hunt, Ava Prevey, and Nathaniel Valdivieso
New Initiative Aims to Build Young Leaders
This fall, the student activities division introduced a new leadership initiative at the second and third grade level called “Little Leaders.” Thus far, two “Little Leaders” conferences have been piloted with rave reviews. The first conference took place on October 5th with Joel School (Clinton) joining Totoket Valley and Jerome
By Jennifer Posner, CTMSDL On Saturday, December 2, 2017, a record 218 middle school debaters from 20 schools combined into 78 teams to debate the motion: This House would institute year-round schooling. Proposition prevailed in 62% of the 117 debates. The team of Halle Hunt, Ava Prevey, and Nathaniel Valdivieso from
Middle School Debate League Off to a Great Start!
By Jennifer Posner, CTMSDL The Connecticut Middle School Debate League (CTMSDL) kicked off the 2017-18 season with a scrimmage at Bethel Middle School on October 21st. One hundred seventy fifth through eighth graders from fourteen schools did a fabulous job debating both sides of the motion: This House believes that National Service
Fifth Annual High School Robotics State Championship
Capping a busy season for Connecticut’s high school FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) teams, the Connecticut Association of Schools, in partnership with NE FIRST, hosted the fifth annual FRC High School State Championship on Saturday, May 13th, at Guilford High School. The championship provided FRC teams from the state’s high schools an
Middle Level Debate Ends Year with a Bang!
By Jennifer Posner, CTMSDL On Saturday, April 22, 2017, the CT Middle School Debate League (CTMSDL) held its final tournament of the year at Eastern Middle School in Greenwich, setting a new record for participation! Two hundred eleven students from twenty schools debated the motion: This House would colonize Mars. The proposition prevailed in 47% of
Windsor Middle School Opens Leadership Program To All Students
THE COURANT | FEEBRUARY 3, 2017 6:00 AM | WINDSOR By Steven Goode When officials at Sage Park Middle School started a youth leadership program for black male students last year they were hoping to boost the self-esteem and build confidence to empower young men of color. "As we worked through the program
January Middle Level Debate Tournament Has Repeat Winners
Team and Speaker award winners beam with pride following their victories! The Connecticut Middle School Debate League held another successful tournament on Saturday, January 28, 2017. One hundred sixty-six students from seventeen schools traveled to Middlebrook School in Wilton to debate the motion: This House would eliminate life without the possibility of
"Look for the Good" Going Strong in CT!
Check out these fun photos from recent "Look for the Good" activities in CT! Click here for more information on the Look for the Good Project.
NASSP Announces Awards Opportunities for State Honor Societies
The National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), parent organization of the National Honor Society and National Junior Honor Society, has has announced its 2016-17 awards opportunities for NHS and NJHS chapters. These awards - and scholarship opportunities - provide national recognition to outstanding Honor Society members, chapters, advisers, and
On June 2nd, the CT State Department of Education presented the 2016 Challenge to Educational Citizenship Awards to six Connecticut schools. These awards celebrate student-organized activities that involve service to the school, to the community and/or to those in need. The Challenge to Educational Citizenship (CEC) Award Program began in 1995-96
Middle School Debate Season Closes with Record Turnout
By Jennifer Posner, CTMSDL On Saturday, April 30, 2016, we wrapped up the CT Middle School Debate League’s 2015-16 season with a tournament at Smith Middle School in Glastonbury. Setting a new record for participation, one hundred seventy three students from eighteen schools debated the motion: This House would provide a
"Salam Neighbor" Gets Students Thinking, Talking and Acting
On March 10th, while many were deep into March Madness, 200 students, teachers, administrators and CASC Student Advisory Board members turned their attention towards Syria and got a glimpse into the experience of living in a refugee camp. They attended a screening of the film "Salam Neighbor" and a discussion
December Debate Tournament Results Available
Four hundred thirty-one high school debaters from thirty-five schools competed in the December 12th debate tournaments at Masuk High School, Shepaug Valley High School and Fairfield Warde High School. Many thanks to our hosts Coach Jamie Sherry, Coach Fran Bellinson and Coach Mick McGarry, respectively. The topic was the following. Resolved: Parents
Middle School Debate Tournament Draws Record Numbers
By Jennifer Posner, CTMSDL On Saturday, November 21st, one hundred and fifty nine debaters from fifteen Connecticut schools debated the motion: This House would establish a program to revive extinct species and re-introduce them into the environment. Earning spots in the final round after three rounds of debate were two Greater Hartford Academy
High School Debate Tournaments Draw Near Record Number
Five-hundred two debaters -- our second highest total ever! -- from 42 schools attended our November tournaments at Amity High School, Housatonic Valley Regional High School and New Canaan High School. Thanks to coaches Cara McConnell, John Lizzi and Kristine Goldhawk for their hospitality. The topic was: Resolved: The US should approve
By Jennifer Posner, CTMSDL The Connecticut Middle School Debate League’s 2015-16 season got off to a great start on October 17th. One hundred and three debaters from thirteen schools scrimmaged at Luis Munoz Marin School in Bridgeport. They did a fabulous job debating both sides of the motion: This
2015-2016 High School Debate Season is Underway!
The 2015-2016 high school debate season is underway! The CT Debate Association (CDA) hosted its first tournaments of the new year on October 10, 2015, at Joel Barlow and Westhill High Schools. Three-hundred eighty-four debaters from 35 schools participated in these events. Many thanks to Coaches Randy Smith (Joel Barlow)
The CT Student Activities Conference, in partnership with the very successful high school debate league, is pleased to invite any interested middle school students to participate in the CT Middle School Debate League's (CTMSDL) second year of competition! Middle schoolers are natural debaters. They love to argue and have
Olympian Rod Dixon Talks About Getting Kids Running
Sarah and Dimity welcome two guests to talk about getting kids active and healthy. First up is Olympian Rod Dixon, a father (and grandfather!) runner who founded Kid’s Marathon Foundation, an in-school running and nutrition program that gets kids moving. In his delightful Kiwi accent, Rod shares stories about his
Marathon Man Rod Dixon Brings Inspiration to Harwinton Running Club
By John Nestor | The Register Citizen POSTED: 06/05/15, 4:43 PM EDT HARWINTON -- Students in the Harwinton Consolidated School Running Club are in the home stretch toward reaching an impressive goal. If they were looking for a little extra motivation to accomplish it, they got some this week. Olympic bronze medalist
CT KiDS: Let’s Get Moving in 2015!
Ever since First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move Campaign” was announced, children’s health, and childhood obesity in particular, has taken center stage. And for good reason. We’ve all heard the statistics: one in three children are either overweight or obese, with even higher rates among African Americans, Hispanics and Native
Manchester High Students Gain Confidence At Leadership Conference
By Michael Walsh APRIL 7, 2015, 10:34 PM Members of the Manchester High School Young Men's Leadership Group attended a leadership conference at Trinity College in Hartford on March 16. The students not only attended the Connecticut Student Leadership Conference for Young Men of Color, they also worked closely with the Connecticut
CAS-CIAC Battle of the Fans Finalists Announced
Nine Connecticut high schools submitted entries in the inaugural CAS-CIAC Battle of the Fans competition, producing short videos showcasing the spirit and sportsmanship of their student cheering sections. The submissions have been reviewed and three finalists have been named. Check out the top three videos and stay tuned to learn
Inaugural Middle School Debate Tournament Draws Good Numbers
The first-ever middle school debate tournament was held on Saturday, January 31, 2015, at Wamogo Middle School in Litchfield. Ten schools and over 100 debaters competed in the inaugural event. The Connecticut Debate Association (CDA) extends its heartfelt thanks to Coach Scott Brady for hosting the tournament and to the
National Honor Societies - A Call to Action
The Connecticut Association of National Honor Societies (CANHS), sponsored by CAS, has launched a state-wide fundraising initiative to support the Connecticut Veterans Home located in Rocky Hill, CT. Each member NHS and NJHS chapter is asked to participate. The goal is to raise a minimum of $5000, collectively, which
CTHSS Student Congress Members Participate in Leadership Training
On October 16, 2014, at A.I. Prince Technical High School, the CTHSS’ State Student Congress convened under the direction of CAS (Connecticut Association of Schools) to participate in a workshop, “Leadership in Action.” The activities focused on positive approaches to empowering student leaders to make a difference in their
Plainfield's athletes are setting the right example for everyone
By Mike DiMauro Publication: The Day Published October 02. 2014 4:00AM Updated October 02. 2014 8:43AM Their names are Stevie Jankowski, Liam Jacobs, Jordan Pollard, Isaiah Fort, Reese Griffin, Kade Amster, Julie Jordan, Abby Burdick, Cody Alday, Tessa Marandola, Alyssa McKay and Andre Bergeron. They are the voices of Plainfield High School. They
CASC Student Board Wilderness Retreat: August 15-17, 2014
The CASC board puts leadership and teamwork to the test in the wilderness Members of the Connecticut Association of Student Councils Board immersed themselves in a teambuilding, leadership and personal challenge course at Great Hollow Wilderness School. Board members spent 3 days accomplishing group initiatives, scaling rock faces and exploring
Second Annual High School Robotics State Championship
Featured in the video clip above, which showcases the third game of the fourth quarter-final match-up, are Team 2067 - Apple Pi, Team 155 - Techno Nuts and Team 1699 - RoboCats (Red Alliance) vs. Team 1071 - Team MAX, Team 3525 - Nuts and Bolts of Fury, and Team 228
Rod Dixon, Mayor Neil O'Leary Kick-off KiDSMARATHON in Waterbury
Rod Dixon, Mayor Neil O'Leary Help Launch Kid's Marathon In Waterbury Published by the Waterbury Observer, 03/28/2014 - 08:15 AM Written by John Murray Long-distance running legend, Rod Dixon, of New Zealand, was back in Waterbury Thursday morning to help kick-off the second year of his KiDSMARATHON running program in the city. Dixon won
Greenwich and Ridgefield Win Debate Championships
One hundred seventy four debaters from twenty-nine schools competed in this year's State Finals at Wilton High School. Only debaters who had won a trophy or had gone undefeated in two or more tournaments were eligible to compete, fewer than one in three of those who participated during the year. Thanks
Results of March Debate Tournaments
Four hundred twenty-eight debaters from thirty-eight schools attended the March 1st Connecticut Debate Association tournaments at Darien, Guilford and Pomperaug High Schools. Thanks to coaches Dennis Cummings, Gianna D'Ambrusca and Margaret Hartshorn for their hospitality. The topic was: Resolved: Rich countries should compensate poor countries adversely affected by climate change. The final
CAS Elementary Student Leadership Conferences Surpass Expectations!
By Dave Maloney, CAS Assistant Executive Director Imagine this... The time is 9:30 and a large group of elementary school children is entering your breakout session at the annual leadership conference. You can hear and genuinely feel their energy! But, you are a first-time presenter and a zillion nervous thoughts stream through
Results of January Debate Tournaments
Thirty-five schools and 342 debaters participated in the Connecticut Debate Association's three January tournaments held in Stamford, Fairfield and Ridgefield on January 11th. All in all, this was a slow weekend compared to recent CDA activity, due largely to mid-terms and colds. Thanks to coaches Ian Lear-Nickum, Mick McGarry and
Sacred Heart Hosts First of Four Elementary Leadership Conferences
One hundred ninety six students from twenty elementary schools participated in the first of four all-day leadership conferences yesterday. Students traveled to Sacred Heart University in Fairfield to participate in hands-on activities designed to strengthen their communication, problem solving, decision making and productive thinking skills. As can be gleaned from
November Debate Tournaments Break Another Record
The November Connecticut Debate Association (CDA) tournaments broke all attendance records when 518 debaters from 37 schools came to its tournaments at Amity High School and New Canaan High School. The topic was: Resolved: The United States should imprison only those who commit violent crimes. The final round at Amity was
CYL Sponsors Hands Hallway to Stop Bullying
Members of the Center for Youth Leadership (CYL) at Brien McMahon High School closed October as National Bullying Awareness Month with one of their popular hallway demonstrations. Imagine turning the corner of a hallway and walking into more than 100 students with their arms outstretched. You are kind of thrown a
About CSAC
The Connecticut Student Activities Conference, commonly referred to as CSAC, is a division of the Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS).
CSAC is charged by the constitution of CAS with the responsibility of regulating all interschool activities of a NON-Athletic nature where schools in more than two districts are involved.
“The CSAC Board of Control shall consist of one representative from each of the three high school classifications, two representatives each from the middle schools and the elementary schools and five members-at-large. Two of the five at-large members may be assistant principals. A principal shall serve as Chairperson.” (Article VI, CAS Constitution)
CSAC meets periodically to review and act upon applications for new or renewal activities submitted by schools and outside organizations seeking CSAC sanction. A majority vote decides approval, disapproval or no jurisdiction. CSAC posts a listing of approved activities on the CAS-CIAC website.
Art contests, research projects, essay contests, community parades, marching band contests, quiz bowls, video projects, choir contests, commercial contest that benefit schools with capitol improvement projects, and college fairs are just a few examples of project requests that come before CSAC.
All member schools within CAS come under the jurisdiction of CSAC. Through the annual act of applying for membership in CAS, member schools voluntarily agree to abide by all of the rules and regulations which govern the association’s members. Member schools, therefore, are required to comply with the rulings of CSAC on activities within its jurisdiction.
Sponsors of activities must be established and recognized organizations, institutions, or associations and must be approved by CSAC. Sponsors must submit an online application to CSAC at least 60 days before the proposed date of the activity. In order to be placed on the approved list for the ensuing year, sponsors should submit applications by June 1.
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Do the Math! – a video on the vital role of extra-curricular activities in student success
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CRITERIA USED FOR DETERMINING APPROVED CONTESTS AND ACTIVITIES
Criteria used by the CSAC in evaluating activities include the following:
The activity must be educationally sound, worthwhile and stimulating.
The activity must not place undue burdens or obligations on students, their families, teachers or schools.
The activity shall not be more than minimally commercial in its presentation or promotion, shall not be sectarian, and shall not promote or exploit issues controversial in nature or whose advocacy would be inappropriate for students.
The activity must not exclude any student because of race, handicap, color, creed or gender except where such activities have been developed expressly to compensate for lack of opportunity for members of such groups.
The activity must be well planned and organized and must provide for the adequate supervision and welfare of participating students at all times.
Essay contests, which will be considered on their merits, are limited to those which promote good writing as process, which are properly supervised by educational agencies, and which do not interfere with the sound educational practices of a school. Essay contests approved by the NASSP or sponsored by the Connecticut State Department of Education and by professional educational organizations will be approved. Essay contests judged by the Board to be commercial in nature will be disapproved.
Activities should be scheduled on non-school time. If scheduled during school time, every effort must be made to avoid excessive loss of school time. The loss of more than one school day will be considered excessive. Rare exceptions will be made if the activity is subject- related and provides a learning experience not usually available in the traditional school curriculum.
Adequate and responsible adult supervision approved by the school administration must be provided for all activities.
Reasonable registration or entry fees may be assessed, subject to the approval of the CSAC.
A MEMBER SCHOOL MAY NOT PARTICIPATE IN ANY INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITY WHICH THE CSAC HAS RULED “NOT APPROVED.”
Student activities will not be approved for Sunday under normal circumstances.
School groups may participate in community-sponsored parades at any time at the discretion of the local school administration.
In the case of out-of-state activities approved by a local school system, and upon application to CSAC, approval will be given when schools are invited to participate because of merit/excellence of an outstanding individual/group of students. Any unusual/special circumstances not covered by the above will be reviewed by the CSAC.
It is the responsibility of the principals of member schools to determine the status of interscholastic activities. When in doubt, the principal should contact the Board chair or CAS for clarification.
Requests for application for the approval of an activity or any questions concerning the status of an activity or other matters over which the CSAC has jurisdiction may be addressed by phone or letter to the CAS central office liaison, David Maloney, 30 Realty Drive, Cheshire, CT 06410.(203) 250-1111 Fax:(203) 250-1345.
Application for placement on list of approved contests and activities (for all student activities EXCEPT cheerleading)
Renewal application for placement on list of approved contests and activities (for all student activities EXCEPT cheerleading)
Cheerleading competition application for approval
Dance competition application for approval
Elementary Student Leadership Conferences
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The Look for the Good Project
Middle Level Programs
Middle Level Student Leadership Conference
Middle Level Debate
Debate Format
Handbook of Parliamentary Debate
Arts in the Middle
Connecticut Association of National Honor Societies
Connecticut Debate Association
State Student Advisory Council on Education (SSACE)
Annual Student Leadership Conference
CAS-CIAC Battle of the Fans
High School Cheerleading/Dance
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How could Copper change Hospital Safety Scores?
BY HEATHER CASPI | HEALTHCARE DIVE
5 Key Points on How Copper Impregnated Surfaces work in a Hospital Enviroment
by EOScu Team | 10/27/16 3:09 PM
BY MACKANZIE BEAN | BECKER'S INFECTION CONTROL & CLINICAL QUALITY
Results of world's largest clinical trial of copper-infused products against hospital-acquired infections
BY ELISE BROWN | WVEC 13 NEWS NOW
Sentara Healthcare plans to retro-fit copper-infused products in all patient rooms of its 12 facilities
BY WAVY NEWS STAFF | 10 ON YOUR SIDE
Study shows lower hospital infection rates linked to copper-infused surfaces and linens
BY ELIZABETH SIMPSON | THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
DISEASE-FIGHTING ENVIRONMENT | Temple VA to use copper-infused surfaces to help prevent infections
by EOScu Team | 10/12/16 11:24 PM
Posted on Oct 12, 2016 by Janice Gibbs - FULL ARTICLE
Hospital-acquired infections cause thousands deaths each year and result in additional days in the hospital for thousands of patients.
Researchers and physicians at the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System Olin E. Teague Veterans’ Medical Center have partnered with EOS Surfaces and Wilsonart to reduce infections in hospitalized veterans by using copper-infused solid surfacing in patient rooms at the Temple VA.
EOS Surfaces out of Norfolk, Va., donated the material impregnated with copper that will be used to fabricate the hard surfaces in the acute care, medical, surgical and intensive care beds in the VA hospital. The copper-infused product was used in the VA’s new emergency department as well.
Hard surfaces — which can harbor dangerous pathogens — will be replaced with EOScu. By actively and continuously killing 99.9 percent of disease-causing bacteria in under two hours, EOScu could have an impact on the healthcare-acquired infection rate of this hospital, improving care and out- comes for patients.
This project couldn’t have happened without all the groups working together, said Michael Kilmer, director Central Texas Veterans Health Care Services.
“One of the core missions of the VA is research, and to me, this will be successful if it keeps one veteran from having to stay in the hospital longer because of a hospital-acquired infection,” Kilmer said.
The purpose of the project is twofold, said Dr. Chetan Jinadatha, chief of infectious disease. One was to transform the interior of the hospital surfaces, especially the ones that are frequently touched by veterans and patients, to the EOS-manufactured product, and to improve the aesthetics of patient rooms.
At the same time, research will be done looking at the anti-bacterial properties of the product in a real world setting, Jinadatha said. The research will look at how the product affects the rate of hospital-acquired infections and the antimicrobial properties from a scientific perspective.
“It took a lot of work to get here and we had a lot of partners,” he said.
Norfolk's EOS Surfaces and Central Texas Veterans Healthcare System Announce Clinical Trial Launch
Study will further verify EOScu Preventive|Biocidal SurfacesTM ability to reduce the bioburden and HAI and their associated costs
Norfolk, Virginia – On October 11, 2016, EOS Surfaces, LLC, a leading surfaces technology manufacturer dedicated to innovation that increases patient safety and reduces costs of care, joined lead investigator Dr. Chetan Jinadatha of the Olin E. Teague Veterans’ Medical Center (VAMC) in Temple, Texas to announce the launch of a clinical trial. In June 2016, EOS Surfaces officially entered into a CRADA (Cooperative Research and Development Agreement) with the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System in Temple. A CRADA is a legal "contract" that allows the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to enter into a relationship with a private company in the interest of studying the potential impact of technologies on the care of veterans while not violating the rules that prohibit financial investments or formal endorsements. The study announced Tuesday will further test the efficacy of EOS Surfaces’ copper-infused hard surface, EOScu, in reducing both the bioburden and the hospital acquired infection (HAI) rates in a healthcare setting.
The facility will outfit all 120 patient rooms with EOScu Preventive|Biocidal Surfaces™ (Cupron Enhanced EOS), the company’s hard synthetic polymer surface infused with copper oxide that actively kills 99.9% of disease-causing bacteria* within two hours of exposure. The Olin E. Teague VAMC installation will include all countertops, over-the-bed tables and bed rails in the facility, providing additional protection against bacterial infection above and beyond existing infection control protocols.
Recent studies demonstrate that surfaces play a large role in the transmission of disease-causing pathogens by serving as reservoirs. Bioburden, the amount of microbiological or organic material on an object prior to decontamination or sterilization, has been demonstrated to correlate with infection rates. This earliest phase of the study aims to confirm how EOScu decreases the bacteria on the surface between routine sanitation efforts. The trial will also inculude a longer term study to verify the surface’s ability to reduce HAIs and costs associated with readmissions.
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ConncectedCOPS Awards 2013: Finalists for Social Media Campaign
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This award will go to the law enforcement agency which has met its stated goals with a documented social media campaign. The campaign is designed to address a significant problem or educational issue within the agency’s jurisdiction. Nominations should include a description of how success was measured.
The finalists in the Social Media in Campaign Management category have proactively and strategically designed a campaign with social media having a significant part. They have carried out the plan and achieved the goals set forth.
There are three finalists in this category:
North Yorkshire Police, United Kingdom
The North Yorkshire Police (NYP) were nominated for their success with two separate social media campaigns. With its #TeamNYP campaign, the NYP grew its engagement with citizens significantly. The plan was strategically combined with traditional communication methods to draw more views to the force’s website and other content. A key piece of the project was the redesign of the home page of the force website featuring live social media content. With a separate campaign focused on mobile technology and a goal of reducing burglaries, the NYP created an iBook campaign for iPad users. The iBook is called “Securing your home” and features chapters on bogus callers, burglary prevention, property marking, vehicle security and rural crime. The project was such a success that more iBooks are forthcoming and several other UK forces are looking to the NYP for their leadership.
Waterloo Regional Police, Ontario, Canada
With a goal of engaging youth, building awareness and stimulating dialogue surrounding gang prevention, the Waterloo Regional Police (WRPS) created the “8 Days of SWAG” social media campaign. The campaign and its social media profiles were deliberately branded separate from the Waterloo Regional Police Service based on a perceived notion that if youth knew who would be hosting the campaign, they would be less likely to participate. Each day was assigned a theme, as a way to organize the broad topic of “gangs” and prizes were awarded every day. By the end of the 8 Days of SWAG campaign, the WRPS had engaged over 650 participants which in turn reached more than 83 thousand Twitter accounts. On Facebook, they reached over 5,400 people, of which 68% were between ages of 13 and 24. WRPS received numerous requests from students, asking them to visit their school, as well as requests to continue the campaign next year.
Collier County Sheriff, Florida, United States
In November 2012, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) launched an ambitious multi-faceted public safety campaign aimed at bringing about a law that would make it illegal to text-message while driving in Florida. “Stop Texting & Driving” was a community-based, grass roots movement to address the growing demand for Florida to join the 39 states that have declared it illegal for drivers to text behind the wheel. Through their website, PSA’s and social media, citizens were asked to sign a call to action in support of anti-texting legislation. The Sheriff also invited community members to share their texting and driving experiences on the CSCO social media platforms. More than 150 people posted messages, many of which were heartbreaking, about how their lives had been affected by someone who was text-messaging while driving. Most significantly, Gov Rick Scott signed legislations on May 28th that makes it illegal to text-message while driving in Florida.
Finalists in the other awards categories will be announced throughout this week on this blog. Check back to see the finalists for Top Cop tomorrow. Winners will be announced September 25th at The SMILE Conference™ in Omaha, Nebraska.
Finalists previously announced:
Social Media Investigator
Excellence at a Small Agency
Social Media Event Management
Social Media Civilian Award of Excellence
The ConnectedCOPS Awards were created by LAwS Communications with the intent of recognizing the good work being done by individual officers and law enforcement agencies with social media. The international law enforcement community will be considered for these awards. Any officer or agency anywhere in the world is eligible.
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ET Phone Home: Smartphones and crime prevention
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One of the downsides about any form of new technology is that it is inevitably expensive and attractive to thieves.
Over the years, burglars have focused on Video Recorders, DVD players and, now, Flatscreen TVs. Car thieves have moved from car radios via CD players on to SatNavs, although even those are no longer of sufficient value to interest most opportunists.
In the same way, the advent of mobile phones has been responsible for a sharp increase in the number of muggings, mainly with young people as both perpetrators and victims. This particular crimewave has been revitalised over the last couple of years by the launch of expensive smartphones such as the iPhone, Samsung Galaxy etc. These, along with Tablet computers, retain very high re-sale value and are therefore very robber-friendly.
What got me thinking about this was a helpful conversation I had on the tube earlier this week with a British Transport Police Officer who was kind enough to give me a heads up about using my netbook in such a public place. He told me there had been quite a lot of laptops and iPads snatched on the underground network over the last few weeks. When you’re typing away with your eyes focused on the screen, your peripheral vision and general situational awareness is very low and you make an ideal victim. It’s pretty straightforward for a bunch of ne’er-do-wells to snatch your prized possession out of your hands just before the doors close.
I’ve posted before on this blog on how technology and the advent of social media have been swiftly adopted and adapted both by police services and the criminals they seek to apprehend.
The Fingerprint Branch at New Scotland Yard was created in July 1901 using the Henry System of Fingerprint Classification and it wasn’t long before burglars started wearing gloves. More recently, last August’s rioters outflanked police by their use of the Blackberry Messaging Service whilst police routinely use Facebook to investigate criminal connections and track down those wanted for questioning.
Just as police and criminals adapt, so do technology manufacturers. My British Transport friend told me that he and his colleagues had recently come to the aid of a furious and distraught passenger who had had his iPhone snatched a few stops further down the line. Using the officer’s own iPhone they logged into the victim’s iTunes account and located his phone via the “Find my iPhone” app which he had installed for free.
Sure enough, when they visited the address an hour later, they were able to both recover the phone and make an arrest.
“Find my iPhone” also allows users to remotely lock the phone or wipe it’s data.
I’m hoping that the iPhone5 will take technological crime prevention to the next level.
I’m expecting it to scan any new user’s retina to confirm it has been stolen, and then report the crime itself (by e-mail, text or Twitter), complete with a photo of the thief and current GPS details.
iPhone, Mobile Apps, SM Use
5 Reasons the Army is issuing iPhone and Android Smartphones to Troops
The Army budget morphs that of individual law enforcement agencies, but thinking outside the box seems to be consistent on the battle field. The US Army is going to equip their field soldiers on the front lines with iPhones and or Android mobile device as soon as the Spring of 2011. I originally saw an article on www.digitaltrends.com and tracked the original information to the www.armytimes.com website. As a mobile device evangelist, enthusiast, I find the Army’s action to be an obvious technology progression of both physical mobile devices and web 2.0 technologies. Below are 5 reasons why the Army is issuing mobile devices to troops.
1)Portability- Mobile devices are small enough to slip into a pants pocket, jacket pocket, ruck sack, duffle bag, etc.
2) Powerful- Smartphone’s have become mini laptops in the last year or so and upcoming generations of these devices will boast duo core processors, increased graphics, more HD video capture models and overall more power.
3) Real Time Intelligence- At war smart phones would let soldiers view real-time intelligence and video from unmanned systems overhead. Drones would be able to provide intelligence to field personnel via smartphone. While this certainly already occurs with laptops, laptops are unreasonable to carry individually.
4) Real Time Maps- Track friends and enemies on dynamic maps, this could certainly be life saving.
5) Real Time Information- Soldiers will have the opportunity to use network searches, email, MMS, and get information real time while in critical situations, through individual mobile devices.
My first thought was how are the soldiers going to access a network? Not to worry, the Army has already been working on this with basically a portable or mobile cell tower that would provide soldiers a mobile network in battlefield situations. There really is no argument why this is not a brilliant move by the Army to equip their troops with more information. Does law enforcement see the same benefit as the Army does from mobile devices? I think issuing police officers iPhone and or Android smartphone’s is also a no brainer, what do you think?
This blog post original appeared on 12/19/10 Social Media Five-O by Michael F. Vallez
December, 19
PoliceOne iPhone App Review-Nice Mobile Police News App
PoliceOne.com is one of my favorite law enforcement websites for police news, blogs, and product reviews. PoliceOne, which is also a Smile Conference sponsor has recently come out with an iPhone app. Their iPhone app is a very nice compliment to their website.
The PoliceOne iPhone app opens up to a main or home screen and has a bottom navigation bar with home, news, photos, columns, and tips navigation tabs. The news tab will keep you up to date with the most recent and most popular news articles that have been posted on the PoliceOne website. The Photos section provides a picture with a brief story surrounding each image. The column section is the most in depth allowing users to browse by recent columns or columnists. Lastly, there is a tips tab that provides a potpourri of critical information to help law enforcement officers across the board.
The PoliceOne.com iPhone app is a nice resource for getting the latest police news on the go. The apps functionality is good to great, but it does leave out a few things that I feel would make this iPhone app awesome. Namely, the ability to share articles, pictures, and tips through Facebook, Twitter, and or email. This feature would not only allow PoliceOne getting to get there content in front of a larger audience, but this also allows the user to share content with friends, co-workers, etc. Another great addition to this app would be the inclusion of all the blogs that can be found on the main website. Overall, I give this app a 4.0 out of 5.0 stars and think you will like this iPhone app if you are interested in police news & tips. If you have any questions about this iPhone app or any iPhone/iPad apps please leave a comment or email me at mfvallez@gmail.com.
November, 1
iPhone, Mobile Apps, SM Tools, SM Use
Top Rated iPhone Apps for Cops, and the rest of us- You Will Want These!
Being a retired police officer and and iPhone aficionado I always find myself thinking how apps could have helped me do my job better as a cop. As a police officer you are constantly presented with new situations to have to investigate and hence the need for information. There are also times when communicating documents, evidence, etc would be awesome other than by voice only. First aid is another area that can be taught to police, but ultimately there are so many medical situations a portable reference guide would be great. And what about a mobile “Swiss Army Knife?” Below I showcase 4 Top Rated iPhone Apps for Cops!
Title: Google Mobile Cost: FREE Category: Reference Developer: Google
Probably one of the best tools a cop could have on their mobile phone is Google Mobile. You can search by voice, type in your desired search parameters and experience the very best search results on earth. Specifically, these results are targeted geographically, which is even more relevant for police. There are additionally, a bunch of Google services in the app like Gmail, Google Docs, etc..
All in 1 ToolKit ProCost: $0.99 Category: Business Developer: Kdan Mobile Software
An application that is super useful now as it would be for any road warrior (cops included) is the All In 1 Tool Kit Pro. There are 31 different single programs in one combined application. Spell checker, unit converter, language translator, zip code finder, tip calculator, find my location, and best of all “police sound” complete with blue and red flashing lights (awesome). There is plenty more to this tool too numerous to list in this review.
Pocket Scanner – Documents on the go Cost: $0.99 Category: Business Developer: Kdan Mobile Software
Communicating information, specifically documents on the fly can be a critical part of a law enforcement investigation. This application allows you to take images off your current from your phones library or from a new image capture. You can enhance your images, lock them, and email them effortlessly. There is much more to this mobile tool than meets the eye and that has been explained in this review. A must have for field officers who stumble upon a document intensive investigation or just want to compare a drivers license.
Title: SAS Survival Guide Cost: $6.99 Category: Lifestyle Developer: Trellisys.net
The SAS Survival Guide application is one of the best tools you can have on your smartphone as a first responder. There are multiple features in this application specifically for critical incidents such as terrorism that may occur in urban areas. While not all law enforcement officers work in urban areas is also information regarding rural areas. The most important part of this application is the first aid information. There is a tremendous amount of first aid information for first responders.
These are but a few Top Rated iPhone Apps that you will find in the iTunes Store. CM
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September, 12
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Walmart is now announcing its technological expansion by the use of robotics in their stores / Photo by: Mike Mozart via Flickr
As it partners with Pittsburgh startup Bossa Nova Robotics, Walmart has announced that its push for in-store technological expansion is a go, TechCrunch reveals in a report on how the plans are getting underway.
As writer Brian Heater revealed, Walmart has been proactively working on in-store technology, and it’s got mostly to do with the fact that as Amazon only gets bigger, the competition in retail stores is only getting tougher. To try and catch up with Amazon’s footsteps, Walmart has even set up an out-of-the-way headquarters home to a massive warehouse almost solely dedicated to the goal of improving customer experience via robotics.
Although it’s not aiming for a really big change in its stores, what Walmart intends to roll out instead are “shelf-scanning robots.” This was back in 2017, when they announced that this rollout will come in 50 of the company’s stores.
However, in that area, there has been no other report, even now, two years later. Instead, Walmart has taken to trying out the products more thoroughly in their Steel City warehouse, where the interiors are designed to look like store aisles so as to train these shelf-scanning robots.
Before shelf-scanning robots, though, Bossa Nova has already been in the game, trying and failing with two robotic assistants in supermarkets: the perpetually pregnant, interactive robot penguin “Penbo,” and “Prime 8,” a “programmable gorilla that runs on his two prominent forearms.”
Both of these did not take off as much as Bossa Nova would have hoped, and a big part of this is because it is damn near impossible to “predict the fickle whims of tech-crazy kids.”
The technology that will power the shelf-scanning robots will be a step in the right direction, and the next technological advance to come to stores in a long time when only self-checkout lanes and barcodes were the only innovations.
With these, Walmart will be helped in matters of retail repetitive tasks, which the company aims to turn over to the robots.
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Fortress Movie Review
It has been a long while since I have witnessed a decent World War II film. Fortress follows a story based on true events of a squadron of B-17 bombers making strafing runs in Italy from Northern Africa.
Fortress opens with a fantastic air assault including several formations of planes making the bombing run, while axis forces, make machine gun passes across the formation in small planes. The focal plane is called the Lucky Lass and is hit with small arms fire, loses an engine and a couple of guys die inside, but the plane is landed safely.
For a low budget film I thought the aerial combat and filming were fantastic. I liked the sets, and it is obvious that some time was taken on the outfits, and items used during this time period. The attempt at the softer moments seemed a bit forced, but this was about the action. The story development, and humor was a decent try to establish the characters, but leaves one yearning for the flight sequences. The middle of the film drags a bit. There is some tension between the mechanics and airmen which is the highlight of the downtime between flying.
The final 15 minutes is a full on assault on the senses, a tense melodramatic ballet of bullets and bombs in mid-air. The action is tight and tense, and includes spinning and diving action. The inter-splicing of wide shots and close-ups added to the action by placing the viewer into all angles and stages of the combat.
The acting was consistent, no one person stealing the film, but no one detracting from it. Director Mike Phillips and writer Adam Klein obviously took their time to create this and I hope to see more of their work in the near future.
This film works on many levels, and shows how a lower budget production can be as good quality as a big budget theatrically released film. I rate this film a definite rent and a buy if you like war films. Fortress rates a 6.5 out of 10.
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Ross Boyask Director Spotlight
Above photo: Ross from his Facebook page.
Hailing from the UK Ross Boyask has made his bloody mark on the action film world. He has several films to his credit including Left For Dead, FIXers, and Ten Dead Men. In 2001 he directed the short film Pure Vengeance, an early film in Scott Adkin's career.
IMDB links to a few of his earlier films:
10 Dead Men http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0854679/
FIXers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479214/
Left For Dead http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378238/
In addition to directing Ross a screenwriter, producer, writer. He has a couple of other guys working with him on several projects. The very talented Chris Regan wrote Ten Dead Men and Manor Hunt Ball. Left For Dead was written by a gifted chap named Adrian Foiadelli. Ross knows how to be a man of all trades, but also allows people who work for him and with him the creativity to make the project work.
2012 is set to be a banner year for Ross as he has several films in various stages of Development. First on the agenda is Warrioress, which is set to be ready for screening January 31st. Warrioress is the story of female warriors on a quest. He has completed the script for See You in Hell, he states that the film is "a high octane action horror - Die Hard meets Dawn Of The Dead". Ross is also in the early stages of pre-production of Manor Hunt Ball a film where the high class society folk hunt down the average Joe's for sport. Check IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1733218/ The film is expecting a 2012 release.
Ross's IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1410110/
Ross has a couple of other films in the very early stages of development. Keep reading Dan's Movie Report in 2012 for additional info!
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Actor Spolight
Above pic: Myself, Master Cary-Hiroyuki, and actress Stephanie Cheeva at H.I.M.A.S Banquet in 2003 Photo credit: Kelsey McNeal
Master Tagawa is a multi-faceted actor who has been in dozens of movies and TV shows. Perhaps his most widely recognized role is Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat. Most recently he can be seen on the hit TV series Hawaii 5-0 on CBS. In 2012 he will be featured in a few exciting new films.
Dual of Legends http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0849437/
Dual Of Legends film follows the story of a young boy, whose parents are killed,and was raised by a monk. He must fight to survive and find out who is behind the trafficking of young girls.
Mr. Tagawa is also starring in an epic 18th Century Samurai film called 47 Ronin. In this film a roving band of samurai set out on a quest to avenge the death of their master. Keanu Reeves also stars check IMDB for now, I will post official photos soon as the arrive.
IMDB Link for 47 Ronin: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1335975/
Watch Dan's Movie Report for future news, photos, and interview with Mr. Tagawa in 2012, in the meantime check out his cool official site @ http://www.caryhiroyukitagawa.com/
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Movie Review
Just got back from the 9:01 Pm IMAX showing of Ghost Protocol. My ears are still ringing from the Batman trailer attached at the beginning. Be ready for a new more ominous villain, and some damn loud stunts and action.
Ghost Protocol is a thrill ride that rarely slows down, but the fact that this Mission has a true team effort makes the film thoroughly enjoyable to watch. After the pre-title sequence the film opens with Ethan Hunt (Cruise) in a Russian prison, with the aid of his cohorts he escapes, the very hard way out.
The team is formally introduced and includes Simon Pegg as Benji, Jeremy Renner as Brandt and a very ravishing excruciatingly lethal Paula Patton as Jane. We later find out the connection between team members, but as soon as the action shifts to Dubai, there is no time for pleasantries save for some wisecracks between the team members.
The stunts are jaw dropping in IMAX. The Burg tower is so tall it dwarfs the other structures around it makes for a fitting series of action sequences.
Paula Patton is fun to watch and she matched Mr. Cruise in intensity and intrepidity. Her fight training made it look like she could mix it up with the boys. Her sexiness also became a weapon, the dresses she wears covers several nice non-electronic pieces of equipment haha.
Why should they guys have all the fun! Photo by David James – © 2011 Paramount Pictures.
The film's final act takes place in India, more exotic locations, maniacal action, and a two million dollar prototype BMW. Quite often it was hard to catch my breath, but there was enough talking parts, and futuristic gadgets malfunctioning to keep the story moving even if the plot at times got lost in the action.
The cast all did a solid job with their characters, coming off as natural, not forced. The interplay between the team, the humor, and intensity kept the film flowing. It was nice to see Michael Nyqvist as Hendricks. He is a fantastic actor, and deserves roles in big budget films.
The IMAX production was interesting in that only portions of the film were filmed in the IMAX format, the screen altered in size when IMAX was being used and back to standard size when not. This was very subtle, and did not detract from the continuity and presentation of Ghost Protocol.
Overall I liked it. I think the IMAX format suits an action movie of this magnitude and am glad they chose NOT to do it in 3D. I rate Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol an 8 out of 10. I recommend this in a theater. The film opens December 21st, but is already playing at selected IMAX theaters.
Hostel : Part III Movie Review
All I can say is wow. I had rather low expectations for this direct to video feature of Hostel. This is the first film in the series not directed by Eli Roth, and although it had a much lower budget it really delivered, on the intensity.
The movie opens innocently enough with a nerdy college type kid wandering into a hotel room that was rented by a couple. I won't spoil it but lets just say things are never what they seem in Hostel III.
The main story begins with four friends meeting up in Las Vegas for the bachelor party to end all bachelor parties. The guys are partying, gambling drinking etc. The atmosphere, mood, and settings are all typical. Things start to turn south in a hurry when they are escorted to a place way off the strip.
Hostel III is one of those films you do not want to spoil even a bit, as one thing leads to another, all building to a crescendo at the conclusion. The actors and actresses move through the scenes and their actions have direct correlation to what happens next.
Not all of the girls in Hostel have good intentions!
I will say that this film focuses more on relationship and betrayal rather than the torture, there is some truly terrible slicing and dicing, going on but that is not the main focus of Hostel III. That is what makes this film provocative and fresh.
As a side comment kudos go to the filmmakers for finding the hottest ladies to be in this film. Not to sound sexist here, but there is something for everyone, and some of them even are garment challenged haha. Ladies, don't worry lots of big burly scary men are there as well.
Evelina Oboza as Anka, she does a great job in Hostel III, and is pleasant to look at.
We learn about the characters on the fly but that is fine as the story unfolds. This film had such a well thought out story and the concept behind the torture makes Hostel III stand out in the series.
This film is a must watch. I give Hostel III a 7 out of 10. It is available on DVD Amazon for pre-order and ships Dec 27th.
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Kiss The Abyss Movie Review
Good thing she is chained up! Image (C) RISEN PICTURES
Before I start this review,which will be brief, I have to comment how much I love the title. Unfortunately the film falls rather flat in the execution. The premise is not new, bringing back a loved one from the dead to ghastly results, and in Kiss the Abyss the sweet young lady Lesley brought back turns into a (((Spoiler))) rather blood thirsty savage.
The idea was pretty good, but the acting was kind of wooden and I just could not become engaged in the characters. The lead actress who played Lesley seemed to lack direction, just not full on into the character.
The locations used were very basic, but effective for this type of movie and budget. Although too much time was sent on some locations, like the drawn out beginning, and not enough time on developing other characters, in the context of the scene.
I did like the make-up, prosthetic work, and some crazy aspects during the end of the film. While most of the film's acting falls flat I have to give particular kudos and mention to the ravishing actress who played the feral type creature at the end of the film, cute in a frighting, running away sort of way haha. If everyone gave that intense of a performance in Kiss The Abyss the film would be way more entertaining to watch. See top photo!
I am sure this film will find an audience, however, I just could not get into this film as the acting for the most part bogged it down. I give it a 4 out of 10.
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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol U.K. Premiere from The Big Picture
Above image: (C) 2011 The Big Picture from U.K. Ghost Protocol Premiere
Woke up this morning and had a pleasant surprise in my e-mail in-box. The good folks at The Big Picture send this cool 3 minute blast from the UK premiere of MI:GP. They also produce a 10 minute monthly feature which previews theatrically released films during that time frame.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgHVxbQjL2c&list=UUbJGBu6W9S4bD25q1VgbB5w&index=1&feature=plcp
For more info like them on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/TheBigPictureUK
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Rock of Ages News (C) 2011 Danny Shamon
Rock of Ages Concert sequence (c) 2011 Warner bros. Pictures (Check me out in the bottom left of the pic when click on it and blow it up full sized!)
Rock Of Ages Set Exclusive set report July 18th 2011 © 2011 Danny Shamon
The casting call said to be at Sunlife Stadium in Miami Gardens at 1pm wear all black and dress in 80s style hair and make-up for girls etc. This was an open call, which means anyone could attend. Only hard core fans would go to the stadium on a Monday afternoon in 95 degree weather! They wanted true metal and hard rock fans. I arrived about 12:40pm.
They had a pavilion set up I saw and several school buses lined up. I knew this was going to be a secret private shoot. I was instructed to leave all transmitting electronics in the car and I got to the booth and we were given a raffle ticket, for prizes, and a Black wristband on my right arm.
I was patted down, metal wand searched, and hand searched. Then it was on the bus off to the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Fl! I was ready to rock 80s style!
Buses arrived in order and the earlier you got to the arena the more of the filming you were able to either be a part of or observe. I arrived at the Hard Rock at 1pm.
We were instructed to sit in a certain section, as I entered the arena I was transported back to the 80s as the entire set was massive, huge, thousands of lights and all using 80s technology! It was time to Rock! It was the largest stage I have ever seen at the Hard Rock!
The first sequence was with Julianne Hough and Tom Cruise and they were shooting the singing for Don't Stop Believing by Journey. All aspects of the song were shot different angles.
I moved very close to the stage for this part of the filming. I got my on camera moment when they replaced my obscure 80s band t-shirt with a cool Arsenal, Rock of Ages T-Shirt! I wanted to observe all parts of the set including the second unit groupie shoot so this will be my only on cam moment. Cruise and Hough were smiling throughout all of the takes, I especially liked what Julianne had to say after shooting she said "you guys make me feel what it was like to be a live singer and alive in the 80s and experience it" She kept thanking the audience. This was more than a job it was fun for them. The musical director from Glee Adam Anders was instructing us in the sing along parts. He was very upbeat and honest guy. Liked his style, see why the show is a big hit. He also offered a role on Glee to the one who could scream the loudest at one point later in the shoot.
The Director Adam Shankman proclaimed "He was just a gay Jewish man from L.A. living his dream to ROCK!"
For this segment I decided to step out of the box. During a re-shoot of the main explosive sequence, I decided not to go back into the arena, and saw a small green screen backdrop set with a couple of different sized ladders with cameras attached to each one. Three Cameras in all, at a variety of angles. Also a guy with an ipod cam from a distance.
A group of four or five young groupie girls were screaming at the top of their lungs and moving in different angles. The costumes were perfect, and they hired women of all sizes. This shoot had to be rushed as they were shooting the main sequence inside the arena. The second unit folks were telling the girls to look into this cam that cam and scream and cheer.
It was quite funny, but I kept my distance and observed. The garbage workers at the Hard Rock have seen it all, but even a few of them stopped in their tracks with their little cart for a bit to watch. All of the ladies were smokin' hot, young and just screaming although they were screaming to playback of 80s tunes. Actually it did remind me of the 80s rock scene, being in my 40s I remember it all! A tall blond in thigh high red and white leggings and skin tight mini shorts was stumbling around after her portion of the shoot and damn near fell into me, not the worst thing that could happen, but already have a lady. I was like are you OK? She said she had lost part of her heel, and she quickly stumbled off. After that I had to go, my ears hurt from all the screaming and I was about ready to laugh.
I have to thank my buddies Kantz and Chyna for this tip on the second unit filming!
The massive stage had so many lights, all were original from the 80s. I spoke with lighting director Robert Piecuch and asked him how many. He was like "I have no idea but it took us 18 hours to set up!" His crew deserve credit for this difficult sequence, as this was an epic event. The stage was a bit like the stage from the David Lee Roth Eat Em and Smile tour with the lights rows upon rows. With four huge lighting pods that spelled out the letters Rock of Ages.
The back line of amps were of course a massive wall double stacked of Marshall Amplifiers and cabinets . Everything was original 80s. There was even old school fog machines simulating smoke in the arena.
The crew filmed huge explosions, loud booming noises, smoke, and raining fire from the top of the lighting rig. The explosive aspect slightly misfired first time around. While I was watching the second unit filming (outside the main arena) a I heard a thunderous boom and the doors opened and people poured out while a billowing cloud of smoke arose from the now I felt I was transported back to the 80s where I went to see concerts back at a place called the Hollywood Sportatorium. During the whole shoot smoke detectors in the arena were turned off, the fire engines were ready and we had to exit using the fire doors for safety during the explosive sequence!
Extras were given lighters for some scenes, beer cups with for others. This was 80s rock all the way! This enhanced the shoot, even fog machines in the stands to simulate smoke, as in the 80s you could smoke in all arenas. This was well planned out concert event and I cannot wait to see how it shows on film!
In addition to the camera shots, for added reality the audience was asked to sing parts of the songs for the movie. I thought this was a nice touch rather than can in some recording. Wanted dead or Alive was recorded near the end of the shoot and some of the close-ups of Tom Cruise were filmed, as they brought the dolly cam at an angle that knifed through the crowd, although there were no crowd shots.
I was standing outside the taped area (area of camera path), but they moved (the camera) in even closer and was polity asked to move in towards the center, unfortunately behind the one guy in the crowd taller than me, no matter this was about the audio! The upfront crowd sang the lyrics, and did some screaming. I enjoyed this aspect of the production! A live taping of vocals, now that was cool! Tom Cruise was smiling throughout. He was basking in the glow of being a rock star!
Nearing 50 Tom Cruise seems to be fitter than ever. He had to film a difficult sequence of jumping off the drum riser and landing on a particular spot for the camera to film. Seems easy but with a rather high riser, and the accuracy, needless to see he had to do it several times. Also saw that this was a safe shoot with medics at the ready in case the shirtless Cruise crash landed.
Once he fell really hard on his butt, but he popped right back up and said "I am going to do this again, hopefully I won't fall on my ass this time!" The crowd was cheering and he jumped off a couple of more times just for good measure.
My musician friend Javi had an interesting observation, that many movie stars desired the rock star life, or were musicians who were unsuccessful. I agree with him. The live performer gets the immediate gratification, groupies, tours etc... Tom Cruise fell hard but just kept smiling. At 49 he was living the music of his youth.
Up Next Tom Cruise special fan performance and final thoughts on the 11 hour Rock of Ages Set.
After nearly 10 hours at the Hard Rock live, the crowd had dwindled a bit, but were still enthusiastic. The director yelled that's a wrap but Tom Cruise was still standing on stage with a beer in his hand talking to some folks.
I was about ready to walk out the door and wait for the buses home when someone on the mike announced that MR. Cruise would like to thank you all for coming out, by turning off the cameras and singing a live performance of Def Leopard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me" especially for the fans who stayed through the night.
To bad this was not for the camera, as he put out maximum effort and the band sounded great. He was moving on stage like a natural. Cannot believe he had this much energy after a long day of shooting. At the end of his performance he tossed his glass beer in the crowd old school style and the guy next to me caught it! A true memory of the 80s!
Throughout the day the production staff were giving away ipods, ipads, itouchs and Rock of Ages t-shirts, but at the end of the night after Tom's final performance, the big payoff an entire cast autographed guitar, actually two were given away! Tom was still onstage smiling when perhaps the oldest rocker guy in the room won it and came up the stage to claim his prize. Memorable night all the way around, thanks to the entire cast and crew.
For my final report on Rock of Ages I will point out some of the good and bad parts of being on the movie set for nearly 11 hours. This was a long shoot, and originally called for a 1pm to 8pm call, by 10pm the crowds were dwindling and not as enthusiastic as earlier in the day. For organizational purposes the day should have began earlier say 10 or 11 am, this would have allowed for over runs in time. I did later find out that the were shooting non audience segments earlier, so possibly this was the time they had. During the explosive segment that misfired, being that I was in the top area of the arena, my group and I were lead down the fire escape and out the back. I applauded their safety, however, there should have been some chairs or something makeshift set up outside in case this did happen. It was hot, humid very uncomfortable, and there was no where to site except on pallets, forklifts etc. Small stuff, but I had to point these things out.
Those minor negatives aside this was an amazing experience. An eye-popping jaw- dropping spectacle of 80s hard rock! The production used probably a dozen cameras and a massive street sized boom camera situated right in the center floor of the arena sweeping the crowd and stage. Since we all had wristbands we were free to move about the arena and the entire hard rock area, though it seems like few people took this initiative. The freedom allowed me to write about all aspects of the production and for that I am grateful. I have a new appreciation for the hard work and effort it takes to put on a huge movie like this. Finally the friendliness of the cast and crew was refreshing and fun and made the time go by much faster. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity to watch a behind the scenes private shoot of a movie, and the memories and images will last in my mind forever.
(c) 2011 Danny Shamon Dan's Movie Report
Rock of Ages Trailer drops online! Danny onscreen! Shameless Plug 2!
Image (C) 2011 Warner Bros. Pictures.
Yes Yes that is me click on the pick to enlarge then right click view photo, and use your mouse to supersize it! Blast your browsers to Youtube and F#$K You to the haters!
Another pic, a bit brighter is Below. My face is directly to the left of the text, the arms are of the person behind me. Screen Cap (C)2011 Warner Bros. Pictures-
Link to the official site with synopsis and additional info:
http://rockofagesmovie.warnerbros.com/
Blast your browsers to This site to watch it in Itunes! http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/rockofages/
G.I. Joe:Retaliation trailer online!
Machinima has posted the new G.I. Joe: Retaliation trailer online on youtube @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSX2oxLdcWA
The new film Opens June 29th 2012 and stars Bruce Willis and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Stuntwoman Ming Qiu doubles Elodie Yung. Judging from the balls out trailer there will be many bullets, major ass kicking, slicing swordplay, and one very large, bulky Rock to contend with haha. Watch for Ming interview in 2012! This film looks to kick some serious bottom.
All screen captured images (C) MGM Paramount Pictures 2011
Mercenaries Movie Review
The film Mercenaries is the story of a non military group sent into a hostile Balkan territory to rescue an ambassador, his aid, and capture the war criminal responsible for the crimes against humanity. The military is not allowed to help the group, only monitor and retrieve them at the rendezvous point.
This movie starts off a bit slow. The group of four is soon diverted off course by there conscious while they witness a group of prisoners digging their own graves at gunpoint. A firefight ensues, and one of the group is gunned down.
The remaining remaining three reach the encampment about 30 minutes into the film and that is where the action heats up. There are copious amounts of bullets flying in this film from all angles making every conceivable sound. The director was thinking hey, like, I got a special deal on 10,000 rounds of ammo to make this movie, and I am gonna use all of them!
The scenery in the film was lush. The forest that the group was running through was full of tall thin trees, fall leaves, and green ferns. By shooting much of the film outside the crew was able to make good use of available lighting, and landscape.
Kirsty Mitchell as Beatrice she can shoot and she looks good. HAHA
The bad guys don't speak English, so they need subtitles. The dialogue in the film for the most part is very minor compared to the action. The acting is average, Billy Zane as Colonel Torida is decent, but certainly not one of his standout roles. Kirsty Mitchell as Beatrice the aide gives a good performance and pulls her weight by the end of the film, by killing a few bad guys.
To all of the negative comments, please keep them coming, as long as you are reading, joke's on you ROTFL!
Overall this is an decent film, not great, but worth a rent. I give Mercenaries a 5.5 out of 10
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Warrioress film ready on January 31st 2012, cast and crew screening first.
Cecily Fay photo from her facebook page.
Producer and actress Cecily Fay has informed me that her film Warrioress, which was directed by Ross Boyask is complete and will be ready by January 31st. First up wil be a cast and crew screening. Warrioress has tantalizing, sexy sword action, and should prove a delight to sword fans world wide.
Look for full review on Dan's Movie Report some time in February 2012!
Stuntwoman Ming Qiu has an official site!
Above pic: Alluring and Dangerous Ming Qiu at the 2009 Taurus Awards Show from her official site.
Above pic: Ming and I from the final Dragonfest in November of 2004.
I interviewed Ming For Vengeance Magazine almost 8 years ago! She is an amazing lady with a diverse body of work including several stunt awards and nominations. I spoke with her this evening, she is working on several big movies in 2012 so, guess what, another interview is in the works for 2012!
Ming doubled Lucy Liu in Kill Bill, did the hard hits and falls in the Die Hard 4 (Live Free Die Hard) as the stunt double for Maggie Q, and trained Milla to use a sword for Ultraviolet. Stunt people breath life and make the movies as exciting as they can be. Ming has several decades of martial arts experience and a unique perspective on the industry. She is extremely professional and makes an excellent addition to any project.
Slice your Browsers to her official site @ http://www.stuntming.com/
Rock of Ages Trailer attached to Sherlock Holmes! Shameless Danny plug!
Yeah I worked on Rock of Ages back in the Summer, don't get too excited, I was an uncredited extra haha, but the movie is gonna kick ass! If you like 80s rock, Bon Jovi, Journey etc.. I loved my film experience, helps me understand the process behind the scenes of movie making. My full account of the experience is @ http://dansmoviereport.blogspot.com/2011/08/rock-of-ages-wraps-production-hard-rock.html Scroll down the report follows the news of the wrapping of production!
Rock of Ages opens June 1st 2012, which incidentally is the same Day Snow White and the Huntsman opens. Actress and supporter of Dan' Movie Report is in that film. Please move one, someone flinch and move a date forward or backward! I do not want to have to fight Cecily, I will lose cause she is lethal! HAHA
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Cultural Liberty
Encouraging Learning, Promoting Progress
DMCA: The Cultural Sniper Rifle · Friday November 21, 2008 by Crosbie Fitch
There was a very good article on the Million Music blog yesterday:
http://millionmedia.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/bloggers-vs-majors
This asked why music bloggers had changed from sympathy and tolerance toward major record labels to outright condemnation, and wondered if this had been due to the labels’ recent ‘assertion of their rights’ by exercising their powers under the DMCA that had resulted in people’s entire blogs being taken down rather than just an offending post.
So I commented thus:
Individuals (human beings) have natural rights. Corporations don’t, they have privileges.
Copyright is a privilege that suspends the natural right to cultural liberty (specifically the right to share and build upon published works) in order to grant a lucrative monopoly to publishing corporations.
The DMCA is simply an enhancement of powers granted to copyright holders.
So, the majors are not asserting their rights, but exploiting their privileges.
If anyone was going to assert their rights it would be individuals asserting their right to share copies of published music recordings.
Unfortunately, most file-sharers and people who publish blogs containing mp3 files don’t realise they have a right to do what they’re doing.
Users of Google’s ‘Blogger’ service are reliant upon Google, so really they should host their blogs themselves on their own PCs if they don’t want them taken down by those privileged by the DMCA.
The blogger agreed in a subsequent comment with my moral viewpoint, but invited my further explanation.
So I then suggested in a second comment that if the labels kept on using the DMCA (or EUCD) as if it were a cultural sniper rifle, that eventually they’d have so many victims that they’d prompt a rebellion, that the worms would turn – if they haven’t started already. Cultural participants will either develop bullet proof vests (defenses against the DMCA) or will shoot back (use the DMCA against the labels).
Shortly afterwards it seems (from my referral logs) that someone from Universal Music found the post and its comments so disagreeable that they’ve ‘persuaded’ the blogger to discontinue publication.
Time: 21 Nov 2008 11:06am
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Anonymous said 4073 days ago :
From the Google cache of http://millionmedia.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/bloggers-vs-majors
Bloggers vs Majors
Posted on November 20, 2008 by millionmedia
So, question: How do you turn this…
“Most bloggers share views, opinions and songs that they adore in the hope of bringing that music to the attention of a wider public. Most bloggers are first and foremost music fans who spend a great deal of cash keeping things going.”
into this…
“First and foremost, none of you should ever pay for a Columbia product ever again. Fuck them. If you feel you can’t live without their music then just download the bastard stuff illegally, better yet just live without it, but under no circumstances give these chiselling vipers a cent of your money ever again”
Well, how about deleting blog posts because they feature music from Major labels – so far Universal & Sony BMG appear to be the instigators.
In another round of ‘Copyright vs Common Sense’ the Majors appear to be asserting their rights to issue take-down notices to Blogger.com and demand the removal not just of the offending track, but the entire blog. Not surprisingly, this is getting bloggers rattled and it’s going to get VERY interesting to see who comes out of this worst – anyone want to bet who it will be?
Comment #000242 at 2008-11-25 14:54 by Anonymous
Crosbie Fitch said 4073 days ago :
I thought I’d take the opportunity to see which articles Million Music quoted in their post that they were subsequently ‘persuaded’ to unpublish.
The first quoted article appears to be Dial 999, 911 or whatever the number… posted on the 26th of October by The Vinyl Villain.
The second article (cited by the first) is a very perceptive, if understandably emotional Don’t Be Evil post made on the 23rd of October by SongByToad.com.
Both articles are well worth a read, especially if you question my allusion of the DMCA as a ‘cultural sniper rifle’. There are good pointers and comments too.
It seems that if Google starts being relied upon to both host blogs and maintain archives thereof, that they obtain the power to control the global conversation, at least in terms of discovery and the power of historical revisionism as coveted by such wealthy customers as the record labels and other publishing corporations.
Comment #000243 at 2008-11-25 15:33 by Crosbie Fitch
Tel said 4062 days ago :
No one has any “natural” rights. They have the rights that they are prepared to fight for.
We offer humans certain rights (such as liberty) because in the past someone fought for our liberty, and a mutual decision was made that it was better for all concerned if those rights were granted, and we would be able to live in peace.
I’d kind of like to redesign a WWW that worked a bit like the way “git” does (and p2p), with hash based content addressing. The design would be to make it impossible to retrospectively edit pages without leaving an obvious trace that something had changed, and also make it very difficult to remove the old version.
Comment #000244 at 2008-12-06 22:55 by Tel
Art Outlaws Without Lawful Reward · Thursday March 05, 2009 by Crosbie Fitch
Mike Masnick introduces us to a great new work, the like of which I have not seen since the Grey Album.
Let us wonder why this musician ‘Kutiman’ may not have either prepared his derivative art or even obtained our reward without seeking the permission of all those whose work he sampled.
Even if each of his sampled videos was CC-NC licensed, this mixing artist may not receive a single one of our pennies without theoretically becoming liable to copyright litigation – unless they painstakingly obtain permission from each and every copyright holder.
Why should such permission be required?
Why must this artist’s liberty be so suspended? Why may we not even reward them for their excellent intellectual work? Kultiman has provided attribution and links to each of the constituent works, so it is not as if we’re discouraged in also discovering and rewarding the underlying artists.
Elexis Trinity
Juice Lee
If such art can only be created and rewarded outside the law, then we must look to outlaws for such art, and reward them as outlaws.
Copyright is an unethical constraint on society’s cultural liberty and those societies who choose to remain bound by it choose cultural stagnation and obscurity.
Scott Carpenter said 3970 days ago :
This is pretty cool — thanks, Crosbie. I missed it on techdirt.
Comment #000267 at 2009-03-08 03:58 by Scott Carpenter
Have to amend my comment. This is incredible. I’m blown away by “Mother of All Funk Chords.” What a great art form, and another example of why copyright as we know it is harmful.
It does blow your socks off doesn’t it!? :-)
My immediate thought was “Heck, I want to give this artist my patronage!” rather than “Heck, this artist deserves an advance from a record label given their exploitation of our suspended liberty”
enondengod said 3969 days ago :
Things like this hit me in the stomach and nestles in my heart like pure happiness. How can this do anything other than create something greater than than the sum of parts?
Girl Talk does the same for me.
Comment #000270 at 2009-03-09 14:44 by enondengod
Invasion of the Copy Snatchers · Friday August 21, 2009 by Crosbie Fitch
If you want to understand the nightmare facing the newspaper industry you need look no further for their perspective than that of Donald Sutherland’s character in the movie ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’.
Newspapers had evolved to a harmonious form where each copy was in effect a small, portable version of the world wide web. A little bit of news on any subject you could think of, updated daily, distributed overnight to millions, and the access fee was just a few pennies.
Unfortunately, the world is much larger and more diverse than a newspaper or even several (including more specialist journals and monthly magazines), so in continually striving to maximise revenue each newspaper must maximise its attractiveness to the lowest common denominator of its potential market. As Paul Gillin observes in Blaming the Editors, this makes it a poor competitor to the web with its wealth of well written websites on every subject a news thirsty individual could wish for – no matter how peculiar their interest.
So pity the poor newspaper, feeling that it has a far greater claim to inherit the earth than the invading hordes of individual upstarts, bloggers and tweeters – those aliens who have manifested themselves in their world as recently as ‘last night’ in their time frame. And sympathise at its dismay that each blogger of all those overrunning its territory is a dumb weakling in comparison, with a fraction of the newspaper’s aggregate resources and audience reach. And what’s worse, these blasted bloggers are imposters, pretending to be newspaper journalists.
Everywhere the newspaper goes it finds it and its fellows persistently seduced to “Join us”, “Become part of our web”. So it shouldn’t be too surprising that each time this happens either it runs away screaming in terror, or, if it is canny, it pretends that it has joined the web. It behaves as if it is now fully integrated online, but actually it isn’t, it stubbornly and stalwartly retains its true and original nature. Even now some of us have raised the alarm, “This online newspaper isn’t linking except to itself! It’s not one of us!”.
The newspaper is doomed. It may survive in vestigial form in some underground habitat, but despite its heartfelt belief that it deserves to survive, we will soon see it as an assimilated form, its quaint iconography re-created online as a historical curio of how news was once communicated in the form of ink on paper. Let’s not forget though, even newspapers adopted fonts designed not for mechanised metal type, but for the manual graving by those they displaced.
At the end of it all, if you are a remaining traditionalist looking on at the fall of a newspaper you have grown up with since childhood, the web is an insidious monster to be thwarted in order to preserve that which you love. On the other hand, if you are already an assimilated denizen of the digital domain, you will remain mystified that Luddites persist in their intransigence, looking at everything you say in horror.
Join us. There is no copy.
FACing the Music · Monday October 05, 2009 by Crosbie Fitch
From comments on a P2PNet article entitled We are the walrus. Or, thank you Lily Allen.
Here’s the choice that Billy Bragg and others in the FAC (Featured Artists Coalition) face.
There are two perspectives that one can take with regard to the business of music recordings. Either the artist and production engineers are paid to make a studio recording and that’s the end of their interest in the matter – they have their money, the customer has their recording, OR the artist is a budding monopolist (their own record label) and will begrudge anyone who makes a further copy of their published recording who didn’t pay for it.
It comes down to whether you believe in copyright or not. Are you in the business of performing and recording music, or are you in the business of selling copies and broadcast privileges?
Do you believe that recording artists should be content that they have been amply paid for their studio recording, or would you go further and say that you will not rest until everyone who makes and sells or gives away an unauthorised copy (or performance thereof) is properly punished, and a severe deterrent is thus in place for anyone who even thinks of joining them?
It’s the difference between the equitable exchange of work for money, and the jealous guarding of a lucrative state granted monopoly.
The record labels are the ones in the business of selling copies and broadcast privileges. It is they who pay session musicians and studio engineers for their work, and they who say that should be the end of the matter. It is the labels who are in the business of selling copies and enforcing their monopolies, now to a draconian degree.
I suggest FAC should represent the artists who no longer wish the labels to pretend to represent them. FAC should comprise those artists who are indeed satisfied if they are amply paid for their studio recordings, AND that copyright is neutralised on those recordings such that the audience is then free to share and build upon them, without fear of prosecution or demands for royalty. FAC should comprise those artists in the business of performing and recording music. It should not comprise artists interested in getting into the business of selling copies and broadcast privileges (that business is ending).
FAC’s customer is their audience, their fans. FAC’s customer is not one or more record labels.
Sell your live and studio performances, and the recordings thereof.
That’s as far as you can go.
You can’t sell copies of those performances or recordings without a monopoly that suspends the liberty of your audience to make such copies themselves. It is that 18th century suspension of liberty that is so unethical. The audience and artists among them have a fundamental, natural right to copy and build upon mankind’s culture. It is that right to copy that was suspended three centuries ago and granted as the exclusive privilege of the ‘copyright’ holder. So you should recognise that this right to copy does not belong to the musician, but to the individual, to the members of the audience, to the public, to everyone. Be careful before you start talking quite so possessively in terms of your copyrights.
Sell your recordings. Do not sell uncopyable copies.
You’ve sold your recordings to labels for years, so it’s not like you’re unfamiliar with the concept. Start selling them to your audience instead.
Treat your audience like your new record label. They will take care of A&R, promotion, reproduction, and distribution. That’s why the labels are squealing blue murder – because their customers for copies are now able to disintermediate them and make their own for nothing. However, that shouldn’t upset you because you’re not in the business of making and selling copies. You’re in the business of making and selling music, performances, recordings. Your paradigm shift is that you’re now selling to your audience directly instead of via a record label. But, critically, your audience can’t make your music instead of you. That’s why, unlike the labels, you’re not confronting the inevitable end of your business. So you don’t need a law to prohibit your audience making their own music instead of paying you for it. You certainly don’t need a law prohibiting your audience making and distributing copies. Heck, unlike record labels, your audience aren’t even charging you for that service.
So, what’s it going to be?
Is FAC going to stick to the business of making and selling music?
Or is FAC going to continue this nonsense of ‘educating’ their audience against making unauthorised copies?
What business is FAC in? Music or copies?
Billy Bragg replies:
Crosbie,
Thanks for offering your opinion of the state of play. I have to tell you that I don’t agree.
For instance, you can’t tell me “That’s as far as you can go”, no more than I can tell you you can share these files but no more.It simply doesn’t work like that. Who knows what means I might have of finding a niche where I can sell my work directly to people willing to pay for it? I doubt the new models for doing business will be either/or.
Your stated position is that of a diehard P2P user. In some ways it echoes the comments that FAC get from diehard record industry executives. Both of you expect us to be on one side or the other and are quick to condemn if we don’t show the same dedication as you do. Well, Crosbie, I have to tell you that FAC aren’t one your side to that extent – neither are we on the side of the labels. We seek to represent the third component of this relationship, the voice of the artists. What we want to do, as you’ll see from our website, is to ensure that artists can continue to make a living doing what they love most – making music. I’m talking especially here of new artists. We see it as being in all our interests to open a dialogue between the various parts of the new digital industry. As a result we talk to labels – Big 4 mostly – and we talk to ISPs. We talk to the Musicians Union in the UK and to the songwriters and producers unions too. We have so far never been able to have an ongoing dialogue with the P2P community, which is why Jon’s initiative is so interesting. If we can start to build confidence in this process, I believe that we all will benefit from your input.
Billy, I’m not telling you “That’s as far as you can go” as an edict, but as friendly advice to inform you and others in FAC as to your natural limitations.
I’m trying to help you realise that you can only hope to sell that which people are interested in buying from you.
Of course, you can try and sell copies if you want to. You can even attempt to enforce your monopolies against those who would promote your music to their friends by making and distributing unauthorised copies. You can try to do that, but I don’t recommend it as a business to get into because it doesn’t have a future.
To say you cannot sell snow to Sami, or sand to Saharans, is not a forbidding, but business advice.
I’m trying to tell you in the nicest way possible that you can’t sell copies to your audience.
I vaguely recall there was some ludicrous legislation in a South American country a few years ago that made it illegal to collect rainwater in order to protect the revenues of the local water supply companies, but really, to think that legislation against copying is going to create you a market to sell copies, is something either a pre-schooler or a mafioso would come up with as a viable business model. When the heavies are the state, and only a very few printing press owners can make copies, then perhaps such a protection racket has a hope of working, but those days are over.
If you read my previous comment again, more carefully, you will realise that I’m in complete agreement with you that you can sell your work directly to your enthusiastic audience willing and able to pay for it. But you don’t seem to be able to read that in what I write. All you can see is that I’m telling you that you can’t sell copies of your work.
I neither represent artists nor audiences. I champion individuals and their natural rights, against the anachronistic privileges granted for the benefit of publishing corporations. We are all artists, and all members of audiences of the artists we appreciate. Artists are individuals, as is everyone in an artist’s audience, so I champion all, indistinguishably. All have the same rights. None have rights that others do not. We are all equals on this planet. It is the anachronistic privilege of copyright that interferes with that natural equality. It is that privilege that sets publisher against public, artist against audience, and that privilege that should be abolished.
However, that’s just my position. What is of concern here is the position of FAC and its members.
The choice I’ve suggested that faces you is not whose side you are on, but what business you are in.
Are you in the business of making music, selling compositions, songs, performances, and recordings, OR are you in the business of making and distributing monopoly protected copies and broadcasts thereof?
When you’ve decided what business you’re in, perhaps then it will be clearer to you whether you need to sue your customers for disrespecting your monopoly, or whether you should explore ways of selling your music to your audience instead of to record labels.
It’s one of those red pill/blue pill dichotomies. Bear in mind that the software industry is already well divided by such a schism, and those on each side regard the others as having an alien mindset. That’s how deep the paradigm shift goes.
Don’t write it off as ‘freeloaders wanting stuff for nothing’ – that’s pure propaganda. We’re talking free as in speech, not as in beer. This is the cultural liberty of an emancipated people, not an impoverished and culturally stagnant cultist commune.
So, have you made up your mind yet?
Music or copies?
This two pill thing…. its not such a black and white issue. Many musicians do both and manage to make a living. I know it would make things much more easy for you if you could force me to chose between music or copies, but we’re going to have to be a little more open to debate if we want to create an environment in which P2P is recognised as a powerful promotional tool. That’s what I want from our discussions here. You interested?
Billy, I’m always interested in discussion of the issues and progress toward solutions, especially where solutions restore people’s liberty to share and build upon published works, and enable people to exchange their labour in a free market.
I daresay there are many who would like to portray this clash of perspectives as an encounter between artists trying to make a decent living and a den of thieves. It’s a little more fundamental than that. It’s a conflict between unnatural law that says that information can’t be copied and natural law that says it can. The outcome of that conflict is obvious to anyone familiar with the schism concerning geo vs heliocentricity.
What we’re left with is the problem of a lack of facilities that enable artists to exchange their work for the money of their audience. It’s a problem caused through the neglect of three centuries, a period in which no-one needed such facilities because of the reproduction monopoly known as copyright. Artists sold their work to printers, and printers sold copies that no-one else could legally produce. Copyright didn’t have to be legislated, but it was, and as a consequence the evolution of facilities for exchanges between artists and their audiences ground to a halt.
That’s why I’m trying to be upfront with you that this is the situation. We are all interested in how to buy and sell intellectual work in a world in which one can no longer sell copies at monopoly protected prices. If kids can make copies for nothing, you’re not going to be able to change that through holy fiat, education, or bandwidth squeezing, and so you’re not going to be able to sell them copies. Fortunately, kids can’t make your music (at least not without years of effort), so you can at least sell them that.
If this rapprochement is to discover how to stop kids file-sharing you’re barking up the wrong tree. If it’s to discover how to sell your music to your audience, well, come on up.
Odin Xenobuilder said 3758 days ago :
Their charter and other info is kinda vague, but they sure do seem to come across as pro-copyright. There is vague references about changing with the digital age but most of it seems to say “We want all the money because we don’t need the recording industry anymore”.
Seems like they are pushing for a step in the right direction though, usually small steps are how we get where we need to be. By reading their material, you would think they don’t get it though. I love the perspective you’ve put on it here.
Comment #000332 at 2009-10-06 18:19 by Odin Xenobuilder
Thanks Odin. It’s those small steps that we should indeed look forward to, where artists move away from the mindset they’ve been programmed with by the labels (file-sharers are scum) and toward the realisation that it’s the label’s monopoly that’s the thief, not the members of their audience.
Billy Bragg is quite aware of the long tradition of folk music and how it became radically upended by copyright, with people scouring the countryside for folk music and songs precisely to claim the monopoly of copyright upon them. That is a theft of culture from the people.
What we have now is the people asserting their ownership of their own culture – in considerable conflict with the 18th century monopoly.
It is a pity it is so difficult for musicians to see that it is not their audience who are stealing their livelihoods, but the labels who are paying the musicians to steal their audience’s cultural liberty.
It’s going to be a long and fraught journey for artists and audiences to extricate themselves from the mess they’re in, but they’ll get there.
The audience pays the artist for their art, and the audience gets to keep their cultural liberty. That’s the way it’s been for millennia, and that’s the way it’s reverting to. We just have to put up with the embarrassment of a three century historical aberration in which someone thought it was a good idea to give printers a monopoly.
Maniquí said 3757 days ago :
Really interesting discussion, that touches both the theory and the practice on how the game is changing.
A few quick questions:
1. Couldn’t labels be seen as patronage? I would say “no”, as after funding the artist (and sound recorders, and etc) they pursue some economic benefit. But, hey, it’s about live and let live.
In other words, it’s seems (as for my current mindset) that it would be easier for artists to do their work if they are paid an amount of money in advance so they know they will be able to buy/get some food at the end of the day. Of course, that’s the kind of security that we all have been programmed to pursue (both by our genes and by corporations that play with our natural fears).
Even in this ages, when digital copy is so cheap (if not free), it looks more convenient/easier/realistic to have someone to patronage (and maybe, go a step beyond, profit from) an artist, so he is able to create his art, and then sell copies (yes, ideally without a copyright) of that work to the audience, than expecting the audience to donate/pay/fund/collect the amount of money an artist may want to get by his work to make a decent living.
I think I’ve grasped all the natural right vs artificial/forced suspension of copyright, but then, I ask again: isn’t it a matter of convenience?
Wouldn’t like to take this idea of natural vs un-natural too far, but then, it’s natural to be naked, it’s natural to, well, have sex on the outside, in front of other human beings, if you like it. But it looks there is a “convenience” on not being naked, or not doing nasty things in front of others. Well, at least, we are enforced on not to do so.
I’m using the word “convenience” too much. The question then is: “whose convenience”.
Again, we’ve been programmed to believe/accept a few things, that now, on a digital world which changed all drastically, seem to not make sense at all.
It seems we will have to break the spell.
2. Then, the question also is: is music (or art) something worth of money? is it something even worth of food?
Money is another convenience and another spell we should somewhat break.
Crosbie, thanks for the space and sorry for my english and the somehow loose points I tried to make :)
PD: while we are here talking about music, let me recommend Starstika (I’ve gladly pay them for their music). There is something on their lyrics that may be related to all this mindset changes we are pursuing.
Comment #000335 at 2009-10-07 17:29 by Maniquí
1. Couldn’t labels be seen as patronage?
Labels are 100% mercenary and sell their services to artists. They seduce them with an advance and then nothing further is provided until all costs (including the advance) are recouped. Predictably all the services the label charges the artist for are at very high mark-ups. Only the most wealthy independent artists would ever consider approaching a label for their services at the same price as they charge their contracted artists.
The only risk a label takes on an artist is failing to recover the advance and any other external costs of production and promotion (a risk they are careful to keep very low, and isn’t the same as the advance remaining unrecouped from the artist’s account – a highly probable eventuality).
Imagine a casino offering Tom Jones a $10,000 advance and a 1% royalty for singing each night on condition he pays the going rate to eat, drink and sleep in the casino hotel and the costs of booking the stage and paying the stage crew, until that advance is recouped. The casino could well recover that advance after the first night, but it may take Tom Jones a year before his advance is recouped and he starts receiving any of that 1% royalty on top. Of course, he could walk away at any time, but then his singing career would be over.
Here’s some reading for those who doubt things are quite as terrible as I imply:
The Problem With Music by Steve Albini
Record Companies are Swine by Skippy Stalin
Courtney Love does the math by Courtney Love
The Truth about the Music Industry by Dave Paul
By the power of Satan… by Lee Diamond
THE INTERNET DEBACLE – AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW by Janis Ian
The future for artists who recognise it’s about selling music, not copies, is in selling their work to their audience instead of the producers of copies (labels). So, yes, the audience becomes the artist’s patron, their true customer.
Natural rights are so called because they are the rights that people have naturally, through their natural ability and power. People have a natural ability to protect their lives, their private spaces and possessions, the truth of their actions, and their freedom of movement and speech unconstrained by the will of their fellows.
As individuals we only need that power that nature has given us. We do not need power over others, just as we do not need others to have power over us. An egalitarian government is supposed to only protect this natural power, and not to privilege anyone (or any legal entity) with any unnatural power over anyone else. Monopolies are quite inegalitarian, and have been recognised as such for centuries. Copyright and patent were enacted in an age when egalitarianism wasn’t particularly highly regarded.
The question then is: “whose convenience”.
Copyright was enacted for the crown’s convenience in controlling the press, and the press’s convenience in suppressing uncontrolled competition. It was never intended a means for individuals to control the press (as we see only too well here Edwyn Collins Can’t Give Away His Music ).
Then, the question also is: is music (or art) something worth of money?
Anything you don’t have is worth what you would pay for it. Anything you have or can produce is either worth what you’d sell it for, or what you could obtain for it in a free market. People tend to wait until the market value reaches or exceeds their sale value.
Things don’t otherwise have intrinsic monetary value. It is the moment of exchange when they do. It not the moment of delivery of work, but the moment when someone has agreed a price to pay for it in exchange, and the exchange occurs. We can estimate the market value of something, but that isn’t intrinsic monetary value.
Hard work does not represent intrinsic monetary value. Thus, no-one has a right to be paid for their work. What people have a right to is free exchange and the truth of those exchanges. Thus you agree what is to be exchanged, make the exchange, and given no deceit that is the end of the matter.
It is an attractive idea to be able to publish something and put a price upon it of your own choosing, and be able to prosecute anyone found in possession who did not pay for it, but that’s not a free market. Similarly, it’s attractive to some for a central committee to appraise published works, value them, and then reimburse the publisher from a fund collected through taxation – according to how widely distributed and performed their work is – but this also is not a free market.
In a free market the artist and their audience come to an agreement concerning the exchange of the audience’s money for the artist’s work, and then make the exchange. At the point of that exchange we find out how much the artist’s work is worth in monetary terms. But, remember, neither party is forced to make the exchange if they don’t consider it equitable – the exchange only occurs if both parties find it agreeable.
Barmy Luddites at the British Library · Friday October 16, 2009 by Crosbie Fitch
Someone who perhaps needs to remain anonymous has commented further on Glyn Moody’s article British Library = National Disgrace concerning the British Library’s barmy and luddite attempts to ensure that the knowledge it guards from the great unwashed doesn’t spread beyond its walls any more than momentarily.
The British Library provides one in three electronic documents as Secure Electronic Delivery (encrypted) PDF’s. These documents require the Adobe Digital Editions software for which there is no Linux version currently available.
Why do these documents need to be encrypted?
Why do they need to be locked after 30 days by the adobe software?
Why provide something electronically if you can’t reference it later?
I am disappointed that what should be one of our great British Institutions is hoarding our information and succumbing to corporate influences.
It is my duty as a scientist to share my knowledge. It is the responsibility of the British Library to share the knowledge of others.
British Library SED
You can read, but you can’t copy.
I daresay the monks and other fanatical scribes would have broken any printing presses they could lay their hands on.
The church would also have ‘re-adjusted’ any heliocentric orreries to be properly geocentric.
It’s a matter of religion, not science that has decided that thou shalt not copy.
In other words it is a superstitious affectation that directs the Luddites of the information age, that all likenesses of an intellectual work collapse into a single object, which is the property of a single, ‘rightful’ owner, and theirs to control as they see fit. They believe that readers may learn by reading, but not by copying – as to learn through copying was a pre-renaissance delinquency that technology can now thwart, even against those who’d wheedle the excuse that such theft may be sanctioned for educational purposes.
So, blame human beings for their susceptibility to superstition.
Even those in charge of the British Library must be forgiven for being intellectually inferior to the authors of its contents, the knowledge and learning that might enlighten them out of their superstitious ignorance.
How can one deprogram people out of this modern mental illness that holds unauthorised copying as inherently wrong? Especially people who find themselves in positions where they may attempt to apply their deranged beliefs and implement all manner of measures to impede people’s ability to share and build upon mankind’s cultural commonwealth.
The librarians are lunatics in charge of an asylum and are locking up the books as if the rarity of their contents must be secured from thieves, and provided only on a strictly ‘need to know’ basis.
The individual loonies who make this policy should be named and shamed for posterity. No doubt they will think they’re doing the ‘right thing’ today and believe their anal policy is a thing to be proud of. They need to be given a fricking doubt!
The Wicked Neglect of Orphans · Wednesday October 21, 2009 by Crosbie Fitch
Glyn Moody beseeches Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Orphans?
Clearly, the fundamental issue of preserving our cultural heritage is being neglected in favour of either protecting the privilege of copyright against inexorable, pragmatic dilution, or squabbling over the imagined treasure Google must have scryed in the fruits of scanning vast libraries of printed works.
It’s a combination of Idiocracy and the deplorable destruction of the Ancient Library of Alexandria.
In other words, we’re looking at the moronic perpetuation of a culturally counter productive privilege by morons for morons (publishing corporations), simply because it helps their bottom line and damn the preservation of mankind’s cultural commonwealth.
In the case of orphan works, instead of being unwitting arson, it’s more like the slow fire of rust, i.e. the irresponsible neglectfulness typical of kids who leave their bike out in the rain when they’ve been distracted by something more worthwhile, but who will scream blue murder if they see any other kid lay a finger on it.
Far better to harness the vast information storage resources we have to store great numbers of redundant copies, than to leave the last remaining books or manuscripts at the mercy of ‘Soylent’ caretakers still deliberating as to which shelf should next be emptied to stoke the building’s central heating furnace.
This is why Google’s book scanning should be embraced irrespective of any handwringing angst over the potentially unauthorised copies so made.
What would people prefer in a few decade’s time?
The preservation of unethical legislation that prohibits unauthorised copies, OR
A digitally preserved cultural heritage that also includes printed works?
Sod the printers’ prerogative, what’s the point of them publishing mankind’s knowledge if their petulance prevents its preservation?
We need to have a Fahrenheit 451 day, where in an act of civil disobedience people bring out their book scanners and wilfully take pains to preserve that which a corrupt state has prohibited them from preserving.
Then we’ll see the police come out and burn these unauthorised copies, in just as corrupt a fashion as Amazon withdrew copies of unauthorised books from its Kindle.
Does it really take this sort of symbolism before people recognise that copyright is a corrupt constraint of their culture?
Ibutton77 said 3742 days ago :
Yay, I said something similar in the middle of a slashdot comment rant a couple weeks back :D
slashdot.org/comment…
I’ve been noticing that people get hung up on the idea that “creating original work” is the only means by which value can be created. Google indexing the web is “making money on the backs of everyone else”, and so forth.
People don’t grok that pattern and organization are at least as valuable as raw data is. Of course they might change their minds if you ran a utility that rearranges every byte on their hard drive so as to be sorted in numeric value. All the raw information is still there, but is absolutely meaningless without it’s context of organization.
Comment #000342 at 2009-10-22 05:42 by Ibutton77
It’s a good slashdot comment. :)
I think creating ‘original’ work is great, worthwhile and valuable, however, the value is best determined in a goodwill or monetary free market exchange with the interested audience. Such value should not be presumed and should certainly not constitute sanction to suspend the public’s liberty to share and build upon that work (to profit publishers and the interests of the state in controlling the press).
Spacial or temporal pattern/organisation is information. A rearrangement thus affects the information. If irreversible then information has been lost. If you write a poem in Scrabble tiles and someone then comes along and sorts them into alphabetical order, the information constituting the poem is lost and one must hope the poem is memorised elsewhere. That’s not the same as an information preserving rearrangement, e.g. where a code is used to encrypt the poem.
Yep, my “rearrangement” comment is a jab at philosophical reductionism. A whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts simply because “sum” does not infer the original organisation nor relationship of those parts.
For example a reductionist might argue that a human being is nothing more than a collection of chemicals you can get for a few dollars at a chemistry store. The truth of course being that while there may by no other significant physical ingredients present, the immensely intricate organisation of those ingredients is not only noteworthy but almost exclusively important to the inestimable value of a human person.
By the same token, it is foolish to overestimate the value of “original work” so much as to prefer such work remain forever separated from anyone who may benefit from it than to allow it to be organized.
Be it trillions of web pages with no comprehensive index due to the perceived IP invasion of the indexing process (in a hypothetical past where search engines could legally never get started), or millions of out of print books languishing forgotten in bookstores and libraries scattered over the globe today for precisely the same reason.
Unfortunately, in oberving the value of a selection or index, people believe that some of that value must be due to what is being selected or indexed. However, even if it was (which it isn’t), the thing indexed has already been paid for.
If someone arranges a box of matches into a work of art, the artist has no dues to the match maker, even if the matches remain valuable. Of course, if the match maker had been given the privilege of collecting a royalty should any of their matches be used commercially (as opposed to domestically), they may well still have a claim for a share should the work of art be sold.
It is only the privilege that has value to its holder, and its infringement that seems a loss to them. Those who have grown up with privilege see it as a right, and can’t see the natural right that it violates, and the real cost it represents to others who have lost that natural right.
Everyone should be free to index published works, not just Google.
Everyone should be free to broadcast published music from their radio station or make and distribute copies from their website. And that’s free of royalty or tax.
Similarly, all musicians should be free to exchange their labour of producing new music that builds upon the music of others, with the money of their enthusiastic audience. Those musicians will in turn be among the audiences of those artists whose work they build upon.
To instead suspend people’s liberty, to place constraints on society’s cultural productivity and progress in order to reward and control the press, is an 18th century corruption that should have been abolished along with slavery.
Yes, We Are All Individuals! · Wednesday October 21, 2009 by Crosbie Fitch
The worm is turning from a cultural sloth into a cultural insurrectionist. There is a rebellion afoot, where artists and their fans are now reasserting their natural rights and deciding to do business with each other directly. It is a movement to escape the shackles of the publishing corporations’ unethical privilege of copyright, to escape from the indentured penury of publishers’ deceptive contracts.
This is the end of copyright, and the disintermediation of those who would use it to extort and abuse the people.
This is the beginning of the digital renaissance, a new enlightenment that rediscovers the natural relationship that should exist between artists and those who appreciate them. One that existed until it was corrupted by the cultural constraint of copyright in the 18th century, and is now all but suffocated by the pervasive and insipid pulp produced by the multinational publishing cartels.
And to mark this beginning a new website has arisen, a2F2a.com, a site prompted by the historic rapprochement between Billy Bragg (FAC) and Jon Newton (P2PNet), to discuss, deliberate and document this more natural way in which artists can relate to their fans, and those fans can relate to their artists. A kind of relationship that is prosperous without being exploitative, and one that not only embraces the radically different economics of the digital age, but also necessarily restores the people’s cultural liberty.
However, just as people should no longer be dismissed as couch potato consumers to be fed the lowest common denominator, we must also recognise that we are all artists and all fans. We may well sometimes be fans of more artists than we have fans of our own, but fundamentally we are more than simply an either/or ‘artist or fan’, we are all individuals. The term ‘artist’ or ‘fan’ denotes a role or relationship, not a political status nor a social caste.
As creative individuals, we are all artists and many of us would welcome a financial incentive to produce our art.
As individuals appreciative of creativity, we are all fans and would be pleased to offer our favourite artists a financial incentive to produce their art.
We have to get back to such fundamentals before we can recognise that the traditional recording and publishing industry we see falling into decay and corruption before us had been built upon expedient foundations of 18th century permafrost – the treacherous foundations of unethical privileges that have now melted into a stagnant swamp that impedes all cultural progress.
The structures we build from this day forth to facilitate a more natural and ethically sound relationship must be built back on the same bedrock that mankind’s cultural heritage has been based on since the stone age and as relatively recently as the 14-16th century European renaissance.
We need to get back to an ethical incentive: money for art, liberty for people.
Sounds nice. I cannot see anywhere their stance about copyright. Is copyright an issue this community holds a firm stance on, or a matter they discuss, or gloss over?
As a2f2a.com has only just been launched I think all issues are currently ‘to be discussed’. After all, the ink on their mission statement still smudges.
However, given that this site is a meeting of those interested in exchanging art for money (artists, fans), and those interested in the restoration of their liberty to share and build upon published works (fans, artists), then a ‘stance about copyright’ is inescapable.
If you’re interested I’m sure they’d welcome your participation.
I like the welcome statements at a2f2a. The hostility they mention is always striking to me when I see it at techdirt and elsewhere. All the contempt and fear. (And I can understand the concern. Things are changing. People are afraid of what they imagine is being lost. And something is being lost, for some people…)
On another note — although related in that some of the hostility appears there — have you see this:
diveintomark.org/arc…
Good post and interesting to see how people react.
I think one of the final hurdles people have to overcome in terms of grokking cultural liberty (that is a prominent issue in the article you link to as well as it will be on a2f2a), is the “Well, ok, you can make and share copies of my work, but only for free – if you start making any money I damn well want a cut!” mentality.
It is that mentality that not only causes paradigm shift pains to nouveau copylefters, but also lies at the root of movements to claim royalties on sale of second hand copies (droit de suite).
It surely can only be copyright indoctrination that persuades people that unlike material workers, intellectual workers deserve a share of any earnings the purchasers of their products obtain through their utilisation, adaptation, or value added resale.
Sell your work and move on. Let it go. You’ve made your money, let the purchaser make theirs.
A Natural Right to Sing Billy Bragg's Songs · Sunday October 25, 2009 by Crosbie Fitch
On the new a2f2a website Billy Bragg asks me “Why do you believe you have a natural right to share and build upon the published music you receive without having to seek permission, or pay any tax or royalty?”
To me this is akin to asking me why I believe the Earth is spherical.
It is not an unreasonable question, especially if we simply take what we’ve grown used to at face value as ‘the way things are’. Consequently, for the Earth to be flat doesn’t seem particularly unnatural. However, if you take any time to investigate things in depth, just as you realise that the Earth can’t possibly be flat, you realise that one can’t possibly have a natural right to prevent others making copies of anything that you give to them.
Just as a basket maker has never naturally been able to prevent those who purchase their baskets from making copies or using them to carry silver without a cut, so a songwriter or musician has never naturally been able to prevent those who hear their songs or tunes from singing or performing them, or doing so for money without royalty. It has always taken a potentate and their police force to do such things, e.g. prohibit the wearing of imperial colours or collect a levy on wine. Individuals naturally born as equals are not born with such a privilege of dictating what other people may or may not do with the things they have made, purchased, or discovered (irrespective of similarity to, or provenance from, any other). Even the power of collecting a tithe, levy, tax, or royalty takes the power of a church, baron, or king to achieve.
Natural rights are those powers or abilities to defend their interests that individuals are born with (as equals), i.e. the power to protect their lives (their bodies), their privacy (and the possessions within it), the truth (their apprehension of it against deceit or impairment), and their liberty (against the will of others). Rather than solely relying upon each individual’s physical strength these natural rights are supposed to be additionally and fairly protected by a government empowered by the people precisely for this purpose. Such a government is not empowered to grant privileges (though sadly, by dint of the power they can assume, they do anyway).
In 1710 Queen Anne suspended from individuals’ natural right to liberty their right to copy or perform the original works of others. This right to copy was reserved as a transferable privilege initially attached to each original work, hence ‘copyright’. In effect the individual’s inalienable liberty had been alienated from them by the state to serve both the state’s interest in seeing political expression controlled, and the interest of the stationers’ guild in continuing their members’ monopolies (especially as legally enforceable). Neither state nor guild was interested in their power or profits being undermined by the propaganda or piracy of an uncontrolled press.
Three centuries later, we are still born with the natural right to copy or perform the original works of1 others, but there now exists a privilege known as ‘copyright’ that enables the holder thereof to exclude us from doing so. Government via the police protect our natural rights, but they do not protect privileges. This is why the police aren’t supposed to arrest people for singing songs against the copyright holder’s wishes or making recordings at concerts and selling copies thereof. The responsibility and expense of policing and asserting their privilege is entirely that of the copyright holder. Well, it has been until relatively recently. The publishing corporations are lobbying for their privilege of copyright to become as protected by the state as any natural right of an individual. Such privileges are also known as legal rights, since whilst they appear to recognise a right, that right does not arise in nature (to be protected by law), but arises only from the law itself (protecting the state’s, crown’s, or lobbyists’ special interests).
So, all discussion of the legal rights artists may still need or those that might remain lucrative to them, even if copyright’s ability to exclude unauthorised copies is largely ineffective, are misguided. Ethically, people can only ask for the protection of the natural rights they have, not those privileges they may covet or believe they need to make a living. They should certainly not be tempted to adjust one privilege into another, e.g. if one’s privilege is no longer able to prevent copies made by another, one should be given the privilege of extracting a royalty from another, if their business involves the use of one’s work.
The distinction of natural right from state granted privilege is not new thinking, but was well known even as the US Constitution was being framed in 1787. See the WikiPedia entry concerning the work Rights of Man by Thomas Paine:
Human rights originate in Nature, thus, rights cannot be granted via political charter, because that implies that rights are legally revocable, hence, would be privileges:
It is a perversion of terms to say that a charter gives rights. It operates by a contrary effect — that of taking rights away. Rights are inherently in all the inhabitants; but charters, by annulling those rights, in the majority, leave the right, by exclusion, in the hands of a few . . . They . . . consequently are instruments of injustice.
The fact, therefore, must be that the individuals, themselves, each, in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.
The US Constitution correctly recognised that authors and inventors have a natural exclusive right to their writings and inventions (where exclusive – deriving from the individual’s natural right to privacy). However, while this right should certainly have been secured, it should never have been extended or substituted with the grant of monopolies. It just goes to show how appealing monopolies are to those interested in them that they were legislated anyway (in 1790), in spite of the Constitution.
What we see today is that copyright is not only a privilege that conflicts with individuals’ natural rights (their cultural liberty and freedom of speech), but a privilege that conflicts with the very nature of information and its communication. It is simply not possible (even for the state, let alone an individual), to remotely constrain the distribution of intellectual works, because it is not possible to remotely constrain the communication and diffusion of information (despite the snake oil that is DRM).
So, it is foolish to suggest either that copyright’s term is shortened (to 28 years, 28 weeks, or even 28 days later), or that those whose business may be seen to benefit from the use of another’s work should pay a share of their earnings. Such privilege is preposterous and an offense against both nature and man. It is a protection racket of those already corrupt and powerful, or of those who have become corrupted by unnatural power.
We earn a living from our work by exchanging it with the work of others, voluntarily. Money=work. There’s nothing wrong in exchanging our labour, in selling the music we make or the copies we make of others’. What’s wrong is in being unnaturally able to prevent anyone else doing so, or being able to demand a royalty. What we have a right to is the free exchange of our work or possessions (liberty). We do not have a right to give our work away and then demand payment for its possession, use, or reproduction. Such a ‘right’ would be appealing, but nature has not seen fit to imbue us with it.
Without unnatural monopoly, we’re still left with the natural ability to sell our music, and the ability to make and sell copies of it. However, there is no market for copies that people don’t need to buy (that a monopoly can no longer prevent being made). The market for musicians is in making music that people want to buy (in preference to, or in addition to, making their own).
The market for copies has ended. The market for music continues unabated. There is neither need nor sanction for monopoly or any other privilege.
I and umpteen thousand others may pay you a penny to write or sing a song, and you may consider that an equitable exchange. However, my audience can also pay me to sing that song and I don’t owe you a penny – naturally. That’s how it used to be, and that’s how it should be. We just have the embarrassment of three centuries in which we put up with a state granted privilege that had it otherwise.
1 That’s ‘of’ as in ‘authored by’, not as in ‘owned by’. It is an unfortunate ambiguity of the English language that possessive prepositions and pronouns are used for authorship/paternity as well as ownership or physical possession, especially when there’s considerable interest in some quarters for the meanings to become permanently conflated.
(assuming it gets moderated in) I have commented on this thread:
a2f2a.com/2009/10/19…
Say, Billy mentioned making a new thread for discussing copyright. Do you know how one could find that Crosbie? Also, anywhere there did you link back to the answer you supplied here?
Good comment. The penny rhyme is apposite.
There’s a copyright category and a thread The question of copyright.
I didn’t link back to the answer I supplied here, no.
Approaching Inversion · Thursday November 12, 2009 by Crosbie Fitch
Steve Outing’s article So what exactly is newspaper web ‘premium’ content? Please tell me has generated some interesting discussion relating to the two quests I see these days:
Individual artists/journalists seeking a new source of commission
Dinosaur publishers seeking the philosopher’s stone (the fabled business model that enables them to continue selling that which people can make themselves for nothing).
I describe it as a paradigm inversion: Your readers pay you to write. You don’t charge your readers to read.
Thus the nimble and mammalian journalists will inexorably realise that their future customers and commissioners are their readers, and the dinosaurs will create walled gardens in a futile attempt to charge readers to read – slowly suffocating through a lack of the oxygen of publicity.
In the following comments in the context of newspapers, it’s interesting to see our language (cf Bill Garber) converging, and yet I suspect it remains polarised on either side of the paradigm inversion. So it may well be that the inversion, when it happens is hardly noticed. The Earth’s magnetic field may flip, but we’ll simply change the labels on all the magnets and compasses, so that magnetic north remains where we’re comfortable for it to remain.
What were once thought of as members or subscribers1 charged for access to an exclusive club, will become sponsors or patrons willingly contributing to the funding of the public works that they’re interested in – a relationship that all are encouraged to form. From being ‘charged for access’ to ‘paying for publication’. Instead of the audience coming to the circus and paying to see the performance, the audience pays the circus to broadcast the performance.
What has enabled and caused this change? The Internet.
From having to visit a single location to buy tickets, or purchase a single copy as both product and ticket, the global audience can now purchase tickets at home, and see the performance at home.
The problem is that inversion, the reversal of power roles. The vendor is no longer the only one with the illusion of control. Tomorrow the customers are also blessed with that conceit. The customers unwittingly self-organise into a body that commissions the vendor’s production. The same product is made, the same money changes between the same hands. However, the public is no longer subject to the publishers’ will. It’s the scary situation where both have something the other wants, but a new more equitable deal has to be made where both sides recognise the other as their equal.
The customer is no longer a submissive cow to be milked, where art and news are continually substituted with lower grade filler or content until it ends up being fed with its own offal and faeces.
The artist and journalist is also no longer a captive attraction in a theme park where a robber baron charges saps for access and erases their cameras on exit. It would be wise to consider the inversion where the customer is in the castle that is their home and charges the artist and journalist their labour for access (this ties in with Bill Densmore’s ‘attention’). If you’re an artist or journalist then you’ll be nimble enough to leave the theme park and allow your services to visit the customers interested in purchasing them. If you’re a theme park owner you’re in trouble. You may well believe that salvation lies in making your attractions ever more irresistible, and ever more secret and secure behind ever higher walls, but then there’s not much I can suggest that fits that niche except virtual prostitution. Even massive multiplayer games can operate with free spectators.
It’s a hard enough task trying to persuade artists to leave the meagre security of their captors and deal directly with their audiences, but they’re going to have to do it sooner or later, as their fourth estate crumbles into ruin about them and ceases its ability to provide shelter or serve as an effective marketplace.
The paradigm inversion is underway. Relationships are changing. Solutions are being developed. Pioneers are exploring them. Thousands of flowers will bloom (even if as yet we see only a few pretty daisies in a flower pot). Doc Searls was among the first to recognise and understand this revolution, and he is not charging for access to an exclusive club. Everyone is free to join the cluetrain. For some earlier discussion re Emancipay (formerly PayChoice), see PayChoice for Newspapers. And everything else that’s free.
1 ‘Subscriber’ once meant ‘underwriter, pledgor, contributor or patron’, and that’s a definition it will soon revert to from the one its had for the last three centuries: ‘one regularly charged for use, access to, or a copy of, a publication or broadcast service’. Just as the magnetic pole can flip, so can the meanings of our words. ‘Subscriber’ last inverted in meaning when copyright was enacted in 1710 – from a dominant commissioner to one who submits to a charge. (qv Assurance contracts).
Making Both Ends Meet · Monday November 16, 2009 by Crosbie Fitch
In Transformative Vs Incremental Change Steve Lawson produces a good summation of the crisis facing the recording industry, and why this isn’t a crisis for the artist, but an opportunity (one that publishing corporations do not want artists to take).
When you take an industry that has 4 big costs – recording, manufacture, distribution, promotion – and remove 3 of them, that changes everything.
Costs have been removed from the picture, but this only represents a loss in revenue to the publishing corporations – not to artists. Artists can now take advantage of this all being done for free – instead of signing to a label in order pay them their rates that were inflated in the first place.
Both ends were overcharged. The fan was overcharged for a copy, and the artist was overcharged for the label to produce, promote, distribute, and retail their art.
Now that the extortionate costs have been removed, what will happen when both ends meet directly?
Advertising is completely broken. Recording tech is better and cheaper than it has ever been, fans are more and more willing to talk about and share your music, and far more happy to buy physical product from you than from a third party. Website merch is easy to do, either in short run, big order or even one-offs.
The record industry before the internet was built on the assumption that to have a chance of making it ‘big’, you needed to have deep pockets to risk the kind of gambling collateral needed to have a shot at being in the 0.1% who ended up rich. The labels funded their gambling by owning the services they were charging you for, by keeping you in debt so they didn’t have to pay you, by keeping product prices artificially high, and by perpetuating myths about what it was that we all wanted and needed, as both artists and consumers.
Everything has changed. If you look at the current possibilities as an incremental change to the industry – that is, if you see the infrastructure as still being the same, and see MP3s as ‘invisible CDs’, you are truly truly screwed. It’s awful. That’s why the industry says ‘the sky is falling’. They aren’t willing to let go of that old infrastructure.
If you see the real changes, throw all the cards in the air, and realise that instead of hundreds of artists making millions of pounds, we can how have millions of artists making hundreds of pounds (and a straight, shallow line on the curve up from there), we’re all in good shape.
I think the mechanism behind popular support for copyright that makes the pill you mention here hard to swallow is the old adage that you cannot punish the rich without punishing the dream of the common man.
Even the poor will defend the rich in many capitalistic endeavors, even when the endeavors are outdated or immoral and even when the poor are the ones carrying the litter. They expect they’ll get to ride it next, and many feel as though they deserve to step on the next generation for payback when they got stepped on by the last generation. It’s like fraternity hazing, and it gels people together in a way that is difficult to extricate rationally.
Just imagine smokers, for a moment. US culture has done a strangely successful job at ousting tobacco from the spotlight of fashion. But it was a tough road getting here. Smokers would band together and despise nonsmokers. I’ve heard of places of work where those who did not take smoke breaks with the crew were overlooked for promotions. The lesson I learn here is, “Those who do not share in my follies highlight my own folly”.. like the small child calling out the Emperor on his (lack of) new clothes.
This will be a difficult nut to crack for anyone who has already “inhaled” regarding intellectual property. People who have already invested in potential content monopoly by paying now to record that which they expect to make back later have heavy interest tied into their “back catalog”, which has speculative marketing value so long as you rape culture using copyright, but without copyright it becomes already-published material potentially available for free from anyone who already has a copy. All of that “value” the individual used to “own” and bled so much to create is now no longer fungible. Sure, new works can turn coin at first sale, but old works cannot flow through that turbine.
We need to help artists in positions such as this understand the marketing value of older works. Anyone who seeks to take early advantage of post-copyright business models should “convert” their back catalog from having monetary value into having marketing value.
Follow the example of Monty Python folks, and distribute your works online! Significant monetary value no longer exists in the materials which you have already released to the public. So sacrifice your vain hopes in said monetary value for real dividends in marketing value! :3
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written by Liz May 31, 2018
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Exciting news was announced on May 29th for anyone who plays Pokémon! In a press conference in Tokyo, Nintendo announced 4 upcoming games: Pokémon Quest, Pokémon: Let’s go, Pikachu!, Pokémon: Let’s go, Eevee!, and a main series game that does not appear to have a title yet.
Pokémon Quest is a free to download game that takes place in a world previously unreleased world. Shigeru Ohomri, a developer from Game Freak introduced the game during the press conference. The little cube pokémon are called pokécells and Quest will contain the original Kanto region pokémon, from Pokémon Red and Green (Blue in North America).
Can’t wait to explore Tumblecube Island? Your quest awaits, Trainers—#PokemonQuest is available now! https://t.co/FfXca0aNSz pic.twitter.com/BsRx09VUtB
— Pokémon (@Pokemon) May 30, 2018
Ohmori discusses what makes this games stand out from other games in the series. Aside from the adorable, square, bouncy little pokémon cubes, he believes there are two important aspects to the game.
The first is the simple controls that allow anyone to pick up and play…. The second defining trait is that you can strengthen the pokémon in the way that you like. Pokémon Quest is an action RPG… and you can strengthen your pokémon in just the way you like by equipping these special items…
While I’m excited about the game it looks a bit too much like all the civilization building games, which makes me nervous. Those kinds of games can be a blast, but they can also be a money pit and this being Pokémon, there will be a bunch of kids playing it. The game is already available for download on Nintendo Switch and should be coming to mobile gaming soon.
Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!
This is the one that I am super excited about. I’ve been playing Go since it came out, so seeing it integrated into a system makes me want to actually pick up a controller. Junichi Masuda, the director for these two games, was also heavily involved with the production of Pokémon Go. He explained the intuitive nature of the game play in Go is what opened the game up to players of all ages and that they hope these games will bring that same intuitive feeling to the main series. Where Quest is based on Red and Blue, these games will pull from the Pokémon Gold and Yellow games.
Return to the Kanto region and experience a classic Pokémon journey in a whole new way with Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee! on the Nintendo Switch! Coming November 16, 2018: https://t.co/kXLdxUMjjA #PokemonLetsGo pic.twitter.com/EKzQsTbDuE
The games play look fun and simple and the ability to play with a sort of co-op mode is great. Being able to bring your Pokémon Go catches into the Switch game will be awesome. They don’t show what you will able to do with these cross-over characters, and in the announcement video the Go Pokémon appear to all be in a place called Switch Park.
They also announced the PokéBall Plus. The little Pokéball will function as a control instead of the JoyCon for your Switch if you choose. It will also work in a similar fashion to the Pokémon Go Plus, in that it will link up with your Go account and allow you a different way to catch Pokémon IRL. They mention that if you load a companion into the PokeBall Plus some interesting things might happen which sounds sort of Tamagotchi-ish, which is pretty cool to me.
Pokémon: Let’s go Pikachu and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! are both due on on November 16, 2018.
In his parting words, Masuda acknowledged work on another upcoming game. It will be exclusive to the Nintendo Switch and will not be released until the second half of 2019. So, we all have some time on that one.
So, what do you think about these upcoming games? How do you feel about the new squish cube Pokémon? Have you been playing Pokémon Go? If you have, are you excited about what this means as far as trading goes? If you haven’t, will these new games be enough to get you into it? Let us know in the comments.
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The effects of Cu on the adenylate energy charge of open ocean phytoplankton,
The effects of short-term, acute Cu exposure (6 h) on the adenylate energy charge (EC A) of open-ocean phytoplankton populations (northeastern equatorial Pacific) were investigated. Energy charge remained at ̃0.77 over the range of Cu additions (0.025 - 5.μg l -1), even though 14C uptake and total adenylate levels (ATP + ADP + AMP) were reduced by as much as 60%. These findings suggest that EC A alone is not a sensitive indicator of acute sublethal metal effects on phytoplankton. © 1983 IRL Press Ltd., Cited By (since 1996):1, Oceanography, CODEN: JPLRD, ,
Fitzwater, Knauer, Martin
Improvement of the pre-deployment net closure procedure used with opening/closing plankton nets,
The construction of a closing device to be used during the deployment of phyto-zooplankton nets utilizing General Oceanics-type opening/closing mechanisms is described. This device (the cowl) decreases system set-up time, decreases contamination from ambient particles while waiting for deployment, protects the net from mechanical tears during descent, and increases system reliability., Cited By (since 1996):2, CODEN: JPLRD, ,
Tuel, Knauer
Iron in north-east Pacific waters,
Although Fe is an element of great biological 1 and geochemical 2 importance, little is known about its distribution in the sea. The reasons for this are: (1) contamination is extremely difficult to avoid during sampling and laboratory procedures, not only because of man's wide use of this element, but also because it is fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust (5.63%) 3; (2) the chemistry of Fe is very complex, and its form (or forms) in seawater is poorly known, hence whether one preconcentration technique will work for existing species is questionable. Iron also appears to be very insoluble 4 in oxygenated ocean water, and most (90%) 5 precipitates out in association with dissolved organics during estuarine mixing processes 5-8. Indeed, some argue that truly dissolved Fe does not exist in seawater and that the fraction found in filtrates is totally colloidal 9. We have been attempting oceanic dissolved Fe measurements for the past four years and report here three vertical Fe profiles (Fig. 1) that have the following features in common: Fe is severely depleted (0.15-0.30 nmol kg -1) in surface waters; Fe maxima (up to 2.6 nmol kg -1) occur in association with oxygen minima; and, Fe levels appear to vary little in mid-depth waters (0.5-1.0 nmol kg -1)., Cited By (since 1996):33, ,
Gordon, Martin, Knauer
Zooplankton fecal pellet fluxes and vertical transport of particulate organic material in the pelagic environment,
Fecal pellet fluxes were determined using a series of multireplicate traps set at 35, 65, 150, 500, 750 and 1500 m in the northeast Pacific.Fecal pellets appear to be important contributors to total carbon fluxes. In near-surface waters (35-150 m), pellet fluxes ranged from 2-3 × 105 pellets m-2 day-1. Minimum pellet fluxes were observed at 500m(̃0.4× 105 pellets m-2day-1). In contrast, the 1500 m pellet flux value increased to approximately 0.8 × 105 pellets m-2 day-1 relative to the 500 m depth, and is probably the result of in situ repackaging. Analyses of pellet content suggest multiple sources of "large" particle input throughout the water column. The implications of this phenomenon are discussed in terms of the detrital rain and ladder of migration theories. © 1981 IRL Press Limited., Cited By (since 1996):51, CODEN: JPLRD, ,
Urrère, Knauer
Cobalt in north-east Pacific waters,
Significant understanding has been gained recently about the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in the ocean. This knowledge has mostly resulted from the accurate measurement of dissolved species in oceanic water columns. We report here that cobalt's vertical distribution is similar to that exhibited 1-3 by Mn; that is, its surface enrichment/deep depletion (Fig. 1). However, amounts of Co (1-7 ng 1 -1) are ∼10-20 times less than those for Mn (Table 1), as might be expected from crustal abundance estimates 4 for these elements (Mn=950; Co=25 μg per g). The similarity between Mn and Co profiles implies the same biogeochemical pathways. The Co excess in nearshore surface waters probably results from continental weathering input processes, as suggested by the remarkable Co-salinity mirror-image relationship shown in Fig. 1, and the Co-salinity scatter diagram in Fig. 2a. The steady decrease in Co concentrations also indicates that Co is usually scavenged rather than regenerated at depth, as is the case with Mn (Fig. 1; Table 1). © 1982 Nature Publishing Group., Cited By (since 1996):47 Oceanography, ,
Knauer, Martin, Gordon
Marine snow: Major site of primary production in coastal waters,
Fragile aggregate particles, or "marine snow", were collected by SCUBA from coastal surface waters using trace metal-free techniques, and their primary production (rates of photosynthesis by associated phytoplankton) was determined relative to corresponding water column production. Primary production associated with these particles was found to range from 11 to 58% of total production, indicating that large particles can have an important role as major sites of primary production in the marine environment. Our results suggest that the use of water bottles to collect samples for productivity measurements may not sample large particles adequately in certain conditions, and thus may lead to underestimates of primary production. © 1982 Nature Publishing Group., Cited By (since 1996):10, ,
Knauer, Hebel, Cipriano
VERTEX manganese transport: Manganese transport through oxygen minima,
Manganese transport through a well-developed oxygen minimum was studied off central Mexico (18°N, 108°W) in October-November 1981 as part of the VERTEX (Vertical Transport and Exchange) research program. Refractory, leachable and dissolved Mn fractions associated with particulates caught in traps set at eight depths (120-1950 m) were analyzed. Particles entering the oxygen minimum had relatively large Mn loads; however, as the particulates sank further into the minimum, total Mn fluxes steadily decreased from 190 nmol m -2 day -1 at 120 m to 36 nmol m -2 day -1 at 400 m. Manganese fluxes then steadily increased in the remaining 800-1950 m, reaching rates of up to 230 nmol m -2 day -1 at 1950 m. Manganese concentrations were also measured in the water column. Dissolved Mn levels < 3.0 nmol kg -1 were consistently observed within the 150-600 m depth interval. In contrast, suspended particulate leachable Mn amounts were especially low at those depths, and never exceeded 0.04 nmol kg -1. The combined water column and particle trap data clearly indicate that Mn is released from particles as they sink through the oxygen minimum. Rate-of-change estimates based on trap flux data yield regeneration rates of up to 0.44 nmol kg -1 yr -1 in the upper oxygen minimum (120-200 m). However, only 30% of the dissolved Mn in the oxygen minimum appears to be from sinking particulate regeneration; the other 70% probably results from continental-slope-release-horizontal-transport processes. Dissolved Mn scavenges back onto particles as oxygen levels begin to increase with depth. Scavenging rates ranging from -0.03 to -0.09 nmol kg -1 yr -1 were observed at depths from 700 to 1950 m. These scavenging rates result in Mn residence times of 16-19 years, and scavenging rate constants on the order of 0.057 yr -1. Manganese removal via scavenging on sinking particles below the oxygen minimum is balanced by Mn released along continental boundaries and transported horizontally via advective-diffusive processes. Manganese appears to be very weakly associated with particulates. Nevertheless, the amounts of Mn involved with sinking biogenic particles are large, and the resulting fluxes are on the same order of magnitude as those necessary to explain the excess Mn accumulating on the sea floor. The overall behavior of Mn observed in this, and other, studies strongly suggests some type of equilibrium occurring between dissolved and particulate phases. This equilibrium appears to shift in direct or indirect response to dissolved oxygen levels. © 1984., Cited By (since 1996):29, Oceanography, ,
Martin, Knauer
This paper presents current information concerning the formation, make-up, distribution and transport of biogenic particles in the belief that this knowledge will provide greater understanding of the role of these particles in the cycling of trace elements., Oceanography, CODEN: NCSFD, ,
Knauer, Martin
Trace elements and primary production: Problems, effects and solutions,
The measurement of primary production in the ocean is basic to biological oceanographic processes. Factors which control primary production are varied, but include micronutrients (i. e. , N and P) in sufficient supply, as well as many nanonutrients such as Cu, Mn and Zn. High levels of many of these trace constituents are toxic. Recent studies have shown that ambient concentrations of a number of nanonutrients in sea water are lower by an order of magnitude than previously believed., Cited By (since 1996):1, Oceanography, CODEN: NCSFD, ,
Mytilus californianus as a bioindicator of trace metal pollution: Variability and statistical considerations,
Trace metal variability was evaluated in two populations of Mytilus californianus through the analysis of individual specimens. Samples were collected for two areas in the Southern California Bight and analysed for their Al, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb and Zn content. Analysis of the data revealed that population variability was not the same between the two sites, indicating that variability may need to be evaluated for each population (site) studied. In general, the analysis of 10 to 30 individuals was necessary to yield maximum resolution in terms of trace metal concentrations between population means while maintaining cost effectiveness., Cited By (since 1996):29, CODEN: MPNBA, ,
Gordon, Knauer, Martin
Trace metals in large agglomerates (marine snow),
Marine agglomerates were collected by SCUBA from surface waters of Monterey Bay, California and one coastal site 100 km off Point Sur, California using trace metal clean techniques. Concentrations of Al, Fe, Mn, Cu, Ni, Zn, Cd and Pb were measured for both weak acid soluble and refractory metals and compared to suspend material collected in water bottles at the same locations. Gravimetric analysis of agglomerate and surrounding suspended particulate matter indicated that although agglomerates represented <0.1% of total water sample volume (determined photographically), they contained up to 50% of the total particulate dry weight; trace metal concentrations in the agglomerate fraction were also disproportionately high. Agglomerates collected within Monterey Bay contained large quantitites of inorganic material (>40% dry weight), with most of the associated metals contained primarily within the refractory fraction. In contrast, the offshore station agglomerates contained <0.3% inorganic material with metals primarily associated with the weak acid soluble fraction. Both the metal concentrations and leach characteristics of the offshore station suggest that these agglomerates were comprised of an active phytoplankton assemblage highly enriched in Cd. Metal concentrations in the offshore samples in conjunction with agglomerate abundance indicate that agglomerates may be a major transporter of trace metals out of the euphotic zone. © 1986 IRL Press Limited., Cited By (since 1996):14, CODEN: JPLRD, ,
Hebel, Knauer, Martin
Manganese cycling in northeast Pacific equatorial waters,
Sea water samples collected above, within and below a pronounced oxygen minimum were analyzed for their Mn content. Amounts of dissolved Mn slowly decreased with depth and little, if any, relationship with oxygen was found. In contrast, suspended particulate Mn values increased markedly at the top of the oxygen minimum. Concentrations of weakly leachable Mn probably resulted from microbial oxidation. Labile Mn fluxes, measured with particle interceptor traps at depths of 125, 275, 525 and 900m slowly increased with depth. These rates are the same order of magnitude as those estimated for excess Mn accumulating in open-ocean sediments, which implies that biogenic transport is a major factor in the oceanic cycling of Mn., Cited By (since 1996):5, Oceanography, ,
Silver distributions and fluxes in north-east Pacific waters,
In recent years, significant knowledge has been gained about the oceanic distributions of several trace elements 1,2. However, relatively little is known about amounts of Ag in the ocean, and how this element cycles through it. We report here that Ag levels are relatively low near the surface (∼1 pmol kg -1), and that concentrations more or less steadily increase with depth; for example, 23 pmol kg -1 at 2,440 m, the deepest sample we collected. In general, Ag depth profiles are similar to those observed for Cu (Fig. 1). The near-surface cycles of Ag appears to be involved with particulate organic matter uptake-sinking-regeneration processes. © 1983 Nature Publishing Group., Cited By (since 1996):39, Oceanography, ,
Martin, Knauer, Gordon
VERTEX lateral transport: The lateral transport of manganese in the northeast Pacific,
Vertical distributions (0 to 2000 m) of dissolved Mn were measured at 5 stations on a 3200-km east-west (California to Hawaii) transect during the VERTEX (Vertical Transport and Exchange) IV and V cruises. All profiles shared common features: surface maxima, subsurface minima, maxima associated with the oxygen minimum, and relatively low levels at depth. Particulate Mn fluxes, measured at four of the five stations using free-floating particle traps (∼ 100 to 2000 m), indicated that in situ particulate scavenging was not responsible for the formation of the subsurface dissolved Mn minimum nor was in situ particulate Mn regeneration responsible for the dissolved Mn maximum associated with the oxygen minimum. Thus, these dissolved Mn extrema result primarily from lateral advective transport processes. The Mn minimum is associated with the shallow salinity minimum, a water mass that sinks away from the surface in the North Pacific (∼ 47°N), and spreads to the south and east in our study area. Additional evidence of the onshore flow of open-ocean, near-surface water is provided by the high Pb concentrations (∼ 50 pmol kg -1 associated with this feature. Waters in the oxygen minimum/ Mn maximum appear to have northerly and offshore flow in our study area. Box model estimates indicate that offshore lateral advective velocities must approach 0.4 cm s -1 to balance vertical diffusive losses from the oxygen minimum/dissolved Mn maximum. Maintenance of the subsurface Mn minimum requires onshore lateral transport of water with low Mn content at velocities on the order of 0.9 cm s -1 offshore, increasing to 4.4 cm s -1 inshore. These velocities represent maximum estimates since north-south Mn distribution data were not available. © 1985., Cited By (since 1996):23, Oceanography, ,
Martin, Knauer, Broenkow
Lateral transport of Mn in the north-east Pacific Gyre oxygen minimum,
Accurate measurement of the concentration and fluxes of a wide range of dissolved and participate materials in the water column is need to quantify the global cycling of heat, water and chemical constituents 1. An important aspect of any Global Ocean Flux study is the lateral transport of materials at basin or global scales; to study lateral transport, useful tracers of water-mass movements must be identified. Here we report that Mn is rapidly removed (-0.027 μmol m -3 yr -1) from the north-east Pacific Gyre dissolved-Mn maximum onto biogenic particles sinking through the oxygen minimum (500-1,100 m). To support removal, dissolved Mn must be supplied within the oxygen minimum at net advective horizontal transport rates of ̃0.6-0.9 cm s -1. The high affinity of dissolved Mn for particles, together with the readily discernible differences in inshore/offshore dissolved distributions, indicate that Mn Is a chemical tracer with great potential in future studies of large-scale circulation processes in the ocean., Cited By (since 1996):14, ,
VERTEX manganese transport with CaCO3,
Manganese transport was studied off central California in August and September 1981 as part of the VERTEX (Vertica l Transport and Exchange) research program. Refractory, leachable, and dissolved Mn fractions associated with particles caught in traps set at 11 depths (50 to 2000 m) were analyzed. Through intentional and unintentional CaCO3 dissolution 'experiments', it was learned that the weakly leachable Mn was originally in association with the carbonate phase. Adsorption on surfaces rather than absorption in CaCO3 matrices was indicated by the finding that Mn was not released in proportion to the CaCo3 dissolved, instead it appeared to keep readsorbing to the dissolving surface. Ultimately, Mn went into solution when the particulate CaCO3 was essentially depleted, suggesting that sufficient sites for adsorption were no longer available. Manganese fluxes with CaCO3 were low near the surface (0.1 mg cm-2 ky-1), but increased rapidly in the 50 to 200-m depth interval, and then became more or less constant (1.3 mg cm-2 ky-1 for the remainder of the water column (300 to 2000 m). Rate-of-change estimates indicate that Mn is rapidly scavenged in near-surface waters (-130 ng 1-1 y-1) and slowly regenerated at depth (2.7 ng 1-1 y-1) in our near-shore study area. Residence times for dissolved Mn were estimated at 1.2 y for surface waters and 17 y at depth. The implications of Mn transport with CaCO3 in relation to open-ocean sediment excess Mn are discussed. © 1983., Cited By (since 1996):15, Oceanography, ,
Manganese cycling in northeast Pacific waters,
Particles trapped at depths of 35, 65, 150, 500, 750 and 1500 m in nearshore Californica waters were analyzed for their associated Mn, Al and C content. Although the concentrations of A1 and Mn indicated that the trapped particulates were primarily alumino-silicates, an additional fraction of originally weakly sorbed Mn (5-30%) was found dissolved in the sediment trap salt solutions. The latter Mn was significantly correlated with the trapped particulate organic C and suggests that passively sinking organic detritus is responsible for the removal of dissolved Mn from the water column. The fluxes resulting from this process are on the order of 35 μg Mn/cm 2 kyr in the mid-water column and thus represent an improtant factor in marine Mn balance schemes. Amounts of dissolved Mn in the surface waters of the study area always exceeded those in the mid-water column in spite of surface Mn removal at a rate of 1200 μg/cm 2 kyr. The only Mn source large enough to balance this removal would appear to be continental weathering, either dissolved riverine Mn or Mn released via the weathering of particulate riverine Mn after its introductive into the marine environment. Residence times based on actual flux and water column measurements were 1.8 years for surface waters and 31 years for the upper 1500 m of the water column. © 1980 Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company., Cited By (since 1996):9, Oceanography, ,
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The price of an average three bedroom semi detached house in Wicklow has declined by 1.56% in the past six months to €210,000
The price of an average three bedroom semi detached house in Wicklow has declined by 1.56% in the past six months to €210,000, but the market has remained flat in the first three months of 2015, according to a national survey carried out by Real Estate Alliance.
The Real Estate Alliance Average house index concentrates on Ireland's typical stock home, the three-bed semi, giving a picture of the property market in towns and cities countrywide.
It now takes seven weeks to sell the average house in Blessington, a figure that increased by three weeks since September 2014, while it takes just two weeks to sell a house in the north east of the county.
The average semi detached house nationally, including Dublin, now costs €187,153 the latest REA survey has found – a rise of 16.23% over the past 12 months.
However, the average house has risen by just 1.32%, or €7,005, across the country over the December 2014 figure of €184,713 – and the lack of a supply of suitable housing is a feature of the market across the country.
“There is an acute lack of supply of three-bedroom family homes because it is still not financially viable in many areas for builders to construct homes and make a profit,” said REA Chief Executive Philip Farrell.
“In country and commuter areas where the average value is below €200,000, supply of new homes will remain reduced even if lands become available due to profitability issues for developers who need houses to sell for above that mark.
“This is caused by the current high cost of construction which is exacerbated by the significant taxes which are payable on a new home (28% of the cost) and the recently increased building regulations.“
And while Dublin led the way in the market recovery last year, prices have fallen by -0.28% in Dublin city and county in the opening quarter, where the average semi-d now stands at €352,500.
In a complete shift in the market, the biggest increases over the last year have come from what is termed Tier Three – the country areas, outside of the pale and the major cities, which have gone up by 17.28%, ahead of Dublin city’s 17.18%, and 14.82% when Dublin city and county are combined.
Over the past six months, property price rise rates in the rest of the country (5.1%) have more than trebled that of the capital (1.55%).
In the opening quarter this year, there have been significant increases in Carlow (7.50%) Kilkenny City (7.41%), Waterford City (5%) and Wexford (8%), while the rise in sterling has seen a jump in property prices in Bundoran in Donegal of 7.69%.
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Revenge: Sierra Leone slaps Liberia out of WAFU Tournament
Posted by FSL News | 30 Sep, 2019 | International, National Sport News Sierra Leone | 0 |
Sierra Leone home-based stars are through to the next stage of the WAFU Cup of Nations following a 1-0 win over neighbours Liberia in Senegal.
The contest was postponed due to floodlight failure in the 71st minute on Sunday but continued on Monday at the Stade Lat Dior in Thies, Senegal.
The Leone Stars managed to defend their one-goal advantage in the remaining 20 minutes played on Monday.
Serra Leone victory means they will face the winner of the match between Mali and Niger on Oct. 6 in the quarterfinals of the Cup competition, while Liberia will take part in the Plate quarterfinals and play the loser.
Match Recap:
The game started on Sunday night but was temporarily postponed in the 71st minute with the score at 1-0.
Sierra Leone only goal came in the 40th minutes when Striker Suffian Kalokoh superbly volleyed home from the edge of the box to make it 1-0 at the break.
The Liberians threw players forward in the final 10 minutes, but could not find a goal as the Leone Stars held on for the slender victory.
Sierra Leone will now progress into the quarterfinals of the Cup competition where they will play the winner of the match between Mali and Niger on Oct. 6, while Liberia will take part in the Plate quarterfinals and play the loser.
Its was the third meeting between the two West African Nations this month.
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Employee Spotlight - Mihailo Subotic
Employee Spotlight: Mihailo Subotic
You can find Mihailo working behind the bar, hair pulled back, grinning and making a whole section of customers cackle by quoting a cult classic movie as he casually shucks up to 40 dozen oysters. The all around vibe he gives off is fun and entertaining. Mihailo has been with Fanny Bay Oyster Bar since it’s opening last June, as our primary shucker behind the bar.
Regular customers often call ahead to see if he is working the bar because they love the engaging conversations he holds with them as he works away at making their plate of oysters. Mihailo’s shucking experiences range from across several establishments in the city of Vancouver, including Coast and Fish Shack.
Mihailo got his start shucking with Issac Martin del Campo, the general manager of the Fanny Bay Oyster bar, six years ago at Coast. “It feels like I’ve come full circle, when the guy that taught you shuck hires you to help teach a new restaurant team how to shuck,” said Mihailo.
“My favourite oyster has to be the Kumamoto that we get from Taylor Shellfish. I’ve never had a bad one, they are always impressive and great for shucking.” Mihailo always get a kick out of first time oyster enjoyers at the bar. “It’s great when you see someone who has never had an oyster get opened up to the idea and then they can connect the farm’s story to what they are eating.”
Besides being a skilled shucker, Mihailo is also a skilled photographer and spends his time outside of the oyster bar working on expanding his photo studio’s portfolio and attends art shows across Canada to promote his work behind the lense.
We thank him for his dedication to our new Oyster Bar and the joy he bring our customers.
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INTRODUCTION: "They burned her home. They stole her brother and sister. But vengeance is following.
Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old step father Lamb for company. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own. And out in the lawless Far Country the past never stays buried.
Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. Even worse, it will force them into alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust . . ."
Bursting upon the epic fantasy scene with his superb First Law trilogy, Joe Abercrombie became the "perfect" representative of the "new gritty" epic fantasy for me and his books have not disappointed so far. Best Served Cold was a top 5 sff of mine in 2009 while Before They Are Hanged was my top fantasy in 2007.
So of course Red Country was a huge asap, especially when early comments leaked that Logen Ninefingers will make his return here after more than a decade since we have last seen him in the last paragraph of the First Law trilogy:
"Logen turned over slowly in the air, limbs flailing pointlessly, too scared to scream. The rushing wind whipped at his eyes, tugged at his clothes, plucked the breath out of his mouth. He'd chosen this? Didn't seem like such a clever choice, right then, as he plunged down towards the river. But then say one thing for Logen Ninefingers, say that—
The water came up to meet him. It hit him in the side like a charging bull, punched the air out of his lungs, knocked the sense out of his head, sucked him in and down into the cold darkness…"
OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS (Mihir): I was lucky to get a copy of Red Country from Gollancz and my thanks to Jon Weir for sending it all the way across the pond. To say this book was highly anticipated would be an understatement, once it was announced that this book would be featuring the return of Logen Ninefingers. A character that has been synonymous with the term “bad-ass” along with other famous ones such as Druss, Anomander Rake, Waylander, Oberyn Martell etc.
After reading the ending to the First Law trilogy, many readers were left stymied a bit with it. Most characters had an ending that belied their start however for one particular character the journey was a full circle. People were left wondering what exactly happened to Ninefingers and this book answers the pivotal question of his survival without divulging any particular details as to how. The following review will have some minor spoilers for the previous five books and for this one so be warned for those who haven’t read all the previous titles.
The story begins in a bloody fashion of sorts wherein we are introduced to the main protagonists Shy South and Temple. Shy is a person who has had a rough adolescence and is now learning to live straight. She has her stepfather Lamb to help her out however with his timid behavior it often turns out that she has to step in to take care of situations as they arise. Temple is a jack-of-many-trades, who considers himself a coward of the highest order and is currently working as the legal counsel to Nicomo Cosca and his band of mercenaries.
Both characters have a journey ahead of them thanks to the actions of others and this is where this fantasy western story really explores the arc of each and every character. The story is focused on Shy & Lamb's search for Ro & Pit, the two missing children who have been abducted along with a host of others by an outlaw called Grega Cantliss. Their search however will cross roads with Nicomo Cosca and his band of mercenaries that include Temple and sergeant Friendly (seen previously in Best Served Cold). Cosca is going along with the inquisition to root out the rebels and is actively searching for a specific rebel leader.
For me this book was the best of Joe's standalone books and possibly one, that is great for all those wanting to see and read more about Ninefingers as he returns in a bloody manner as befitting his nature. The story follows a couple of plot threads that start divergently but soon merge in a surprising way that makes the book slightly more streamlined. Shy South and Temple can be said to be the main POV characters among the various ones featured in the book; however the sad part is that we don't get a POV from the character that we want to know about the most.
This part seriously was the biggest downer of the story for me as with everyone else I wanted to know about Logen and what he had been doing after his betrayal by Black Dow. We never get a clear cut idea about whether his so-called berserker state is super-natural or just a part of his mental persona. The author certainly loses points for this move as to not feature Ninefingers as a POV robs the story mightily of its sheen.
The pacing of the story however is spot on and we get a story that is a western as well as a redemption tale. The character arcs explored are very similar to a Stephen King story wherein flawed characters either make it or they don’t but their journey will be one that enthralls the readers and powers the story completely. Plus Logen Ninefingers finally transcends his journey into an iconic one by accepting who he is and what he is not, hopefully the author might provide further illumination by featuring him in more stories.
I was waiting to know all and be enchanted by Logen’s presence in the book but to paraphrase Logen himself “you have to be realistic about these things.” The ending of Red Country is perhaps much more optimistic than of the First Law trilogy and for that I’m glad however it is still as open ended as its predecessor and that might be a sticky point for some. I loved this book and the way the story ends readers will be hoping that we get to know more about what happens next for several characters.
Joe Abercrombie definitely knows how to write a story, he also knows to create memorable characters but his strongest suit is his dialogue and writing copious amounts of black humor. This book is no stranger to these facts and it manages to be the most uplifting of all his standalone books by virtue of twists and turns of this story.
The book is a complete winner for all fans waiting for the return of one of the most iconic barbarians ever, however for fans wanting to know Logen’s inner thoughts they might just have to wait a little longer. Dive in to read another fantastic effort by a veritable fantasy writer who is the first law when it comes to writing dark, bloody, action packed stories.
ANALYSIS (Liviu): "Severed heads,’ Cosca was explaining, ‘never go out of fashion. Used sparingly and with artistic sensibility, they can make a point a great deal more eloquently than those still attached. Make a note of that. Why aren’t you writing?"
The quote above shows Joe Abercrombie at his best and encapsulates why the first half of Red Country was awesome. After that, the insistence of the author to limit himself at least temporarily to the convention of the western leads to a considerable slowing down of the action, as we are treated with cliche after cliche in the frontier town of Crease.
Luckily, either that was a feint to prepare for what comes next, or the author realized that mimicking the "new western" is maybe not such a great idea and the book comes back to roaring life with a great last third of all out action, twists, turns, comedy and tragedy.
Shy and Temple as main leads and with a great role change from the usual stereotype, so she is the "tough guy" and he is the one to be protected, work very well in a book that is the most "personal" of the author, as the stakes are not the world as in the First Law, or various countries as in the two previous standalones, but the fates of the characters introduced here.
However, from the smallest touches - oxen called Scale and Calder (!) - Lamb, the current incarnation of Logen Ninefingers, is the true star of the novel and ultimately the main driver of action too. Yes, we do not get a POV from him and we see his actions at a distance or through the eyes of Shy and the others, but I think the decision was the correct one as it preserved the essential "mystery" at the core of Ninefingers.
On the other hand, I was disappointed in Cosca; excellent in the first half but for what it seemed mostly like authorial intent than something deriving from the story, a cartoon villain with no subtlety in the second half.
The rest of the large cast worked well overall, both known characters like Pike or Friendly and new like Dab Sweet for example - the whole ensemble mixed well and I thought the author did a very good job in balancing the over-the-top and cynical with the ironic and even the earnest on occasion...
I also loved the ending which I found somewhat predictable from a point on, but still very good nonetheless. Overall, Red Country is not quite at the level of the author's signature works to date, Before They Are Hanged and Best Served Cold, but by escaping from the self-imposed shackles of its western sub-genre, it is better than the limited The Heroes and consequently a top 25 of mine for 2012, with its scope almost matching the superb writing and characters that Joe Abercrombie never failed so far to produce.
My opinion about this book is totally different. I've read polish translation and I felt very tired of this book (6 days of reading, seriously...). Imo, Shy South is like Calamity Jane (do u know her?) :))
Well, books generally lose much of their flavor when translated into other languages. I thought it was an excellent book (English of course) and I love Logen. Really want to know if the "Bloody-Nine" is just a psychological problem (massive understatement) or an actual demon possessing Logen.
Francesco La Manno said...
I really liked this book, mainly because of mixing fantasy and westerns and propose a rapid pace and relentless. The only thing that just did not go down is that Jack does not insert the magical element, which is understandable in a novel that belongs to the fantasy genre.
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"A Bordeaux Dynasty" by Francoise Bourdin (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
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"The Laverzac family gathers two times a year around its patriarch Aurélien on their magnificent vineyard in Bordeaux. But this particular summer, while there is a seeming euphoria over their reunion, a storm starts to simmer. One that is far more devastating than any that can beat down on the grapes.
The vineyard’s future is at stake, and Aurélien, who has dedicated his whole life to it, fights to preserve his entire domain by choosing his successor in the face of all opposition. Only Jules, the youngest of the four sons, adopted thirty years earlier, seems to be the viable candidate. Jules possesses all of the necessary qualities to manage such an imposing domain—he is a natural born seducer, an excellent leader, and loves working the land.
But why should the adopted son inherit this colossal fortune? The vineyard is rife with rumors. And Alexander, the only son to have stayed in the area, takes great offense.
Passions will flare, fueled by the rivalry between the brothers, the jealousies of the women in their lives, the demands of the land, and the subtle hierarchy of the region where the only things that count are the grape harvest and the next vintage.
At the heart of the storms and drama, it is up to July alone to confront the ghosts of his past, and to shed light on his own background.
Through this rich story in the heart of the Bordeaux vineyards, Françoise Bourdin explores one family’s drama that threatens the future of its name and estate."
"A Bordeaux Dynasty" is an awesome soap opera - or family drama set in the world of the rich and powerful if you'd rather have the sub-genre named that way, though I really love soap operas when done well and do not think the term derogatory - set in the elite vineyards of Southern France.
The blurb gives a pretty accurate idea of what's what, though it doesn't fully convey the richness of its character cast. First and foremost, there is Jules, the irresistible, moody, mysteriously adopted son - and of course we do not know in the beginning if he is also a natural son of the family patriarch and whose 30th birthday celebration starts the book.
Then then there are Robert the famous and rich Parisian surgeon and a minor celebrity in his own right, Louis-Marie his elder writer brother who got, married and has a daughter with the glamorous Pauline, Robert's former "love of a lifetime" and whom Robert still cannot get over even after six years or so, while it's unclear how Pauline looks at the situation since Robert has stayed away all these years, and the neglected Alexander who wants the wineries too.
By inheritance law all four will get the money and the profits from the land as dividends etc but the estate has to stay united, so only one of them can be the new manager or CEO if you like, and the dominant Jules and meek but resentful - and after all legitimate son - Alexander are the two candidates. Alexander's "homey" wife, Dominique, currently keeps the Laverzac mansion, while Dominique's sister, Laurene now 20, is Jules's natural match assuming the old man allows it as he kinda has a shine to Laurene and almost had an affair with her when Laurene barely of age, started working as his personal secretary for some reasons you will find out, despite her and Dominique being only daughters and heirs of another important wine maker from around, so despite Jules being Aurelien's favorite son, he doesn't want to let go of Laurene....
Throw in the mysterious mother of Jules from 30 years ago, a glamorous lawyer, a secretary who wants to advance, the estate housekeeper/right hand man couple who know all the secrets and some others - not omitting the kids and babies - and you get a truly memorable cast and a great novel to enjoy.
"A Bordeaux Dynasty" has everything you want in such: secrets, betrayals, a few femme fatales and a few irresistible men, illegitimate babies, intrigue and jealousy, rivalry between wine families etc... I really loved the writing and characters as the book has great intensity and makes one turn the pages to see what's next. I also really liked that it is a standalone ending at a great point.
Set in an undetermined present - maybe 1990's or so - and with flashbacks at the events 30 years ago, the tale moves fast and irresistibly and if you like such, I highly recommend "A Bordeaux Dynasty" for a memorable reading experience.
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Flowering Leafy Spurge Detection using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Imagery in Biological Control Sites: Impacts of Flight Height, Flight Time and Detection Method
Xiaohui Yang, Anne M. Smith, Robert S. Bourchier, Kim Hodge, Dustin Ostrander
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2020, pp. 1-39
Leafy spurge, a noxious perennial weed, is a major threat to the prairie ecosystem in North America. Strategic planning to control leafy spurge requires monitoring its spatial distribution and spread. In this study, the ability to detect flowering leafy spurge at two biological control sites in southern Saskatchewan, Canada was investigated using an unmanned aerial vehicle system (UAVs). Three flight missions were conducted on June 30, 2016 during the leafy spurge flowering period. Imagery was acquired at four flight heights and one or two acquisition times depending on the site. The sites were re-flown on June 28, 2017 to evaluate the change in flowering leafy spurge over time. Mixed Tuned Match Filtering (MTMF) and Hue, Intensity and Saturation (HIS) threshold analyses were used to determine flowering leafy spurge cover. The results showed the flight height of 30 m was optimal as the strongest relationships between UAV and ground estimates of both leafy spurge cover (r2=0.76 to 0.90, NRMSE=0.10 to 0.13) and stem density (r2=0.72 to 0.75) were observed. The flowering leafy spurge detection was not significantly affected by the image analysis method (p>0.05). Flowering leafy spurge cover estimates were similar using HIS (1.9% to 14.8%) and MTMF (2.1% to 10.3%) and were in agreement with the ground estimates (r2=0.64 to 0.93, NRMSE=0.08 to 0.25 using HIS and r2 =0.64 to 0.90, NRMSE=0.10 to 0.27 using MTMF). The reduction in flowering leafy spurge cover between 2016 and 2017 detected using the UAV images and HIS (8.1% at site 1 and 2.7% at site 2) was consistent with that based on ground digital photographs (10% at site 1 and 1.8% at site 2). This study shows UAV imagery is a useful tool for accurately detecting flowering leafy spurge and could be used for routine monitoring purposes in a biological control program.
Testing and application of a model for snow redistribution (Snow_Blow) in the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica
Stephanie C. Mills, Anne M. Le Brocq, Kate Winter, Michael Smith, John Hillier, Ekaterina Ardakova, Clare M. Boston, David Sugden, John Woodward
Journal: Journal of Glaciology / Volume 65 / Issue 254 / December 2019
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2019, pp. 957-970
Wind-driven snow redistribution can increase the spatial heterogeneity of snow accumulation on ice caps and ice sheets, and may prove crucial for the initiation and survival of glaciers in areas of marginal glaciation. We present a snowdrift model (Snow_Blow), which extends and improves the model of Purves, Mackaness and Sugden (1999, Journal of Quaternary Science 14, 313–321). The model calculates spatial variations in relative snow accumulation that result from variations in topography, using a digital elevation model (DEM) and wind direction as inputs. Improvements include snow redistribution using a flux routing algorithm, DEM resolution independence and the addition of a slope curvature component. This paper tests Snow_Blow in Antarctica (a modern environment) and reveals its potential for application in palaeoenvironmental settings, where input meteorological data are unavailable and difficult to estimate. Specifically, Snow_Blow is applied to the Ellsworth Mountains in West Antarctica where ablation is considered to be predominantly related to wind erosion processes. We find that Snow_Blow is able to replicate well the existing distribution of accumulating snow and snow erosion as recorded in and around Blue Ice Areas. Lastly, a variety of model parameters are tested, including depositional distance and erosion vs wind speed, to provide the most likely input parameters for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions.
Mental health in UK Biobank: development, implementation and results from an online questionnaire completed by 157 366 participants — RETRACTED
Katrina A. S. Davis, Jonathan R. I. Coleman, Mark Adams, Naomi Allen, Gerome Breen, Breda Cullen, Chris Dickens, Elaine Fox, Nick Graham, Jo Holliday, Louise M. Howard, Ann John, William Lee, Rose McCabe, Andrew McIntosh, Robert Pearsall, Daniel J. Smith, Cathie Sudlow, Joey Ward, Stan Zammit, Matthew Hotopf
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Christopher M. Castille, Ann-Marie R. Castille, Rachel Williamson Smith
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Difference between body composition of formula- and breastfed infants at birth
Hazel Ann Smith, Jonathan O’B Hourihane, Louise C. Kenny, Mairead Kiely, P. Leahy-Warren, Darren L. Dahly, Deirdre M. Murray
Journal: Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease / Volume 10 / Issue 6 / December 2019
Breastfeeding may reduce obesity risk, but this association could be confounded by breastfeeding families’ characteristics. We investigated if body composition differs at birth among infants who were either exclusively breast- or formula-fed. We hypothesized the two groups would differ in body composition, even at birth, prior to their post-natal feeding experience. Healthy primiparous carrying singleton pregnancy were recruited at 15 weeks’ gestation. PEA POD® measured body composition within 72 hours of delivery and infant feeding was prospectively captured. Out of the 1,152 infants recruited, 117 (10.2%) and 239 (20.7%) went on to be either exclusively breast- or formula-fed, respectively. Breastfed infants were heavier at birth, but their percentage fat mass (FM) was lower than that of exclusively formula-fed infants (covariate adjusted β = −1.91 percentage points of FM; 95% CI −2.82 to −1.01). Differences in intra-uterine exposures, irrespective of early diet, may partly explain an infant’s obesity risk.
Are long-term trends in Bewick’s Swan Cygnus columbianus bewickii numbers driven by changes in winter food resources?
KEVIN A. WOOD, JULIA L. NEWTH, KANE BRIDES, MIKE BURDEKIN, ANNE L. HARRISON, STEVE HEAVEN, CHARLIE KITCHIN, LEIGH MARSHALL, CARL MITCHELL, JESSICA PONTING, DAFILA K. SCOTT, JON SMITH, WIM TIJSEN, GEOFF M. HILTON, EILEEN C. REES
Journal: Bird Conservation International / Volume 29 / Issue 3 / September 2019
The north-west European population of Bewick’s Swan Cygnus columbianus bewickii declined by 38% between 1995 and 2010 and is listed as ‘Endangered’ on the European Red List of birds. Here, we combined information on food resources within the landscape with long-term data on swan numbers, habitat use, behaviour and two complementary measures of body condition, to examine whether changes in food type and availability have influenced the Bewick’s Swan’s use of their main wintering site in the UK, the Ouse Washes and surrounding fens. Maximum number of Bewick’s Swans rose from 620 in winter 1958/59 to a high of 7,491 in winter 2004/05, before falling to 1,073 birds in winter 2013/14. Between winters 1958/59 and 2014/15 the Ouse Washes supported between 0.5 and 37.9 % of the total population wintering in north-west Europe (mean ± 95 % CI = 18.1 ± 2.4 %). Swans fed on agricultural crops, shifting from post-harvest remains of root crops (e.g. sugar beet and potatoes) in November and December to winter-sown cereals (e.g. wheat) in January and February. Inter-annual variation in the area cultivated for these crops did not result in changes in the peak numbers of swans occurring on the Ouse Washes. Behavioural and body condition data indicated that food supplies on the Ouse Washes and surrounding fens remain adequate to allow the birds to gain and maintain good body condition throughout winter with no increase in foraging effort. Our findings suggest that the recent decline in numbers of Bewick’s Swans at this internationally important site was not linked to inadequate food resources.
Mental health in UK Biobank: development, implementation and results from an online questionnaire completed by 157 366 participants – CORRIGENDUM
Journal: BJPsych Open / Volume 4 / Issue 5 / September 2018
RETRACTED – Mental health in UK Biobank: development, implementation and results from an online questionnaire completed by 157 366 participants
Journal: BJPsych Open / Volume 4 / Issue 3 / May 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 April 2018, pp. 83-90
UK Biobank is a well-characterised cohort of over 500 000 participants that offers unique opportunities to investigate multiple diseases and risk factors.
An online mental health questionnaire completed by UK Biobank participants was expected to expand the potential for research into mental disorders.
An expert working group designed the questionnaire, using established measures where possible, and consulting with a patient group regarding acceptability. Case definitions were defined using operational criteria for lifetime depression, mania, anxiety disorder, psychotic-like experiences and self-harm, as well as current post-traumatic stress and alcohol use disorders.
157 366 completed online questionnaires were available by August 2017. Comparison of self-reported diagnosed mental disorder with a contemporary study shows a similar prevalence, despite respondents being of higher average socioeconomic status than the general population across a range of indicators. Thirty-five per cent (55 750) of participants had at least one defined syndrome, of which lifetime depression was the most common at 24% (37 434). There was extensive comorbidity among the syndromes. Mental disorders were associated with high neuroticism score, adverse life events and long-term illness; addiction and bipolar affective disorder in particular were associated with measures of deprivation.
The questionnaire represents a very large mental health survey in itself, and the results presented here show high face validity, although caution is needed owing to selection bias. Built into UK Biobank, these data intersect with other health data to offer unparalleled potential for crosscutting biomedical research involving mental health.
Declaration of interest
G.B. received grants from the National Institute for Health Research during the study; and support from Illumina Ltd. and the European Commission outside the submitted work. B.C. received grants from the Scottish Executive Chief Scientist Office and from The Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation during the study. C.S. received grants from the Medical Research Council and Wellcome Trust during the study, and is the Chief Scientist for UK Biobank. M.H. received grants from the Innovative Medicines Initiative via the RADAR-CNS programme and personal fees as an expert witness outside the submitted work.
Environmental Correlates with Germinable Weed Seedbanks on Organic Farms across Northern New England
Richard G. Smith, Sonja K. Birthisel, Sidney C. Bosworth, Bryan Brown, Thomas M. Davis, Eric R. Gallandt, Ann Hazelrigg, Eric Venturini, Nicholas D. Warren
Journal: Weed Science / Volume 66 / Issue 1 / January 2018
The northern New England region includes the states of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine and encompasses a large degree of climate and edaphic variation across a relatively small spatial area, making it ideal for studying climate change impacts on agricultural weed communities. We sampled weed seedbanks and measured soil physical and chemical characteristics on 77 organic farms across the region and analyzed the relationships between weed community parameters and select geographic, climatic, and edaphic variables using multivariate procedures. Temperature-related variables (latitude, longitude, mean maximum and minimum temperature) were the strongest and most consistent correlates with weed seedbank composition. Edaphic variables were, for the most part, relatively weaker and inconsistent correlates with weed seedbanks. Our analyses also indicate that a number of agriculturally important weed species are associated with specific U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones, implying that future changes in climate factors that result in geographic shifts in these zones will likely be accompanied by changes in the composition of weed communities and therefore new management challenges for farmers.
The Medium Dispersion Prism of the UK Schmidt Telescope
R. D. Cannon, J. A. Dawe, D. H. Morgan, Ann Savage, M. G. Smith
Journal: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia / Volume 4 / Issue 4 / 1982
The U.K. 1.2 metre Schmidt Telescope acquired its first full aperture objective prism in 1975. This was a very low dispersion prism (2400 Å/mm at 4300 Å) which has been found to be particularly useful in searching for faint QSO’s.
By Mitchell Aboulafia, Frederick Adams, Marilyn McCord Adams, Robert M. Adams, Laird Addis, James W. Allard, David Allison, William P. Alston, Karl Ameriks, C. Anthony Anderson, David Leech Anderson, Lanier Anderson, Roger Ariew, David Armstrong, Denis G. Arnold, E. J. Ashworth, Margaret Atherton, Robin Attfield, Bruce Aune, Edward Wilson Averill, Jody Azzouni, Kent Bach, Andrew Bailey, Lynne Rudder Baker, Thomas R. Baldwin, Jon Barwise, George Bealer, William Bechtel, Lawrence C. Becker, Mark A. Bedau, Ernst Behler, José A. Benardete, Ermanno Bencivenga, Jan Berg, Michael Bergmann, Robert L. Bernasconi, Sven Bernecker, Bernard Berofsky, Rod Bertolet, Charles J. Beyer, Christian Beyer, Joseph Bien, Joseph Bien, Peg Birmingham, Ivan Boh, James Bohman, Daniel Bonevac, Laurence BonJour, William J. Bouwsma, Raymond D. Bradley, Myles Brand, Richard B. Brandt, Michael E. Bratman, Stephen E. Braude, Daniel Breazeale, Angela Breitenbach, Jason Bridges, David O. Brink, Gordon G. Brittan, Justin Broackes, Dan W. Brock, Aaron Bronfman, Jeffrey E. Brower, Bartosz Brozek, Anthony Brueckner, Jeffrey Bub, Lara Buchak, Otavio Bueno, Ann E. Bumpus, Robert W. Burch, John Burgess, Arthur W. Burks, Panayot Butchvarov, Robert E. Butts, Marina Bykova, Patrick Byrne, David Carr, Noël Carroll, Edward S. Casey, Victor Caston, Victor Caston, Albert Casullo, Robert L. Causey, Alan K. L. Chan, Ruth Chang, Deen K. Chatterjee, Andrew Chignell, Roderick M. Chisholm, Kelly J. Clark, E. J. Coffman, Robin Collins, Brian P. Copenhaver, John Corcoran, John Cottingham, Roger Crisp, Frederick J. Crosson, Antonio S. Cua, Phillip D. Cummins, Martin Curd, Adam Cureton, Andrew Cutrofello, Stephen Darwall, Paul Sheldon Davies, Wayne A. Davis, Timothy Joseph Day, Claudio de Almeida, Mario De Caro, Mario De Caro, John Deigh, C. F. Delaney, Daniel C. Dennett, Michael R. DePaul, Michael Detlefsen, Daniel Trent Devereux, Philip E. Devine, John M. Dillon, Martin C. Dillon, Robert DiSalle, Mary Domski, Alan Donagan, Paul Draper, Fred Dretske, Mircea Dumitru, Wilhelm Dupré, Gerald Dworkin, John Earman, Ellery Eells, Catherine Z. Elgin, Berent Enç, Ronald P. Endicott, Edward Erwin, John Etchemendy, C. Stephen Evans, Susan L. Feagin, Solomon Feferman, Richard Feldman, Arthur Fine, Maurice A. Finocchiaro, William FitzPatrick, Richard E. Flathman, Gvozden Flego, Richard Foley, Graeme Forbes, Rainer Forst, Malcolm R. Forster, Daniel Fouke, Patrick Francken, Samuel Freeman, Elizabeth Fricker, Miranda Fricker, Michael Friedman, Michael Fuerstein, Richard A. Fumerton, Alan Gabbey, Pieranna Garavaso, Daniel Garber, Jorge L. A. Garcia, Robert K. Garcia, Don Garrett, Philip Gasper, Gerald Gaus, Berys Gaut, Bernard Gert, Roger F. Gibson, Cody Gilmore, Carl Ginet, Alan H. Goldman, Alvin I. Goldman, Alfonso Gömez-Lobo, Lenn E. Goodman, Robert M. Gordon, Stefan Gosepath, Jorge J. E. Gracia, Daniel W. Graham, George A. Graham, Peter J. Graham, Richard E. Grandy, I. Grattan-Guinness, John Greco, Philip T. Grier, Nicholas Griffin, Nicholas Griffin, David A. Griffiths, Paul J. Griffiths, Stephen R. Grimm, Charles L. Griswold, Charles B. Guignon, Pete A. Y. Gunter, Dimitri Gutas, Gary Gutting, Paul Guyer, Kwame Gyekye, Oscar A. Haac, Raul Hakli, Raul Hakli, Michael Hallett, Edward C. Halper, Jean Hampton, R. James Hankinson, K. R. Hanley, Russell Hardin, Robert M. Harnish, William Harper, David Harrah, Kevin Hart, Ali Hasan, William Hasker, John Haugeland, Roger Hausheer, William Heald, Peter Heath, Richard Heck, John F. Heil, Vincent F. Hendricks, Stephen Hetherington, Francis Heylighen, Kathleen Marie Higgins, Risto Hilpinen, Harold T. Hodes, Joshua Hoffman, Alan Holland, Robert L. Holmes, Richard Holton, Brad W. Hooker, Terence E. Horgan, Tamara Horowitz, Paul Horwich, Vittorio Hösle, Paul Hoβfeld, Daniel Howard-Snyder, Frances Howard-Snyder, Anne Hudson, Deal W. Hudson, Carl A. Huffman, David L. Hull, Patricia Huntington, Thomas Hurka, Paul Hurley, Rosalind Hursthouse, Guillermo Hurtado, Ronald E. Hustwit, Sarah Hutton, Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa, Harry A. Ide, David Ingram, Philip J. Ivanhoe, Alfred L. Ivry, Frank Jackson, Dale Jacquette, Joseph Jedwab, Richard Jeffrey, David Alan Johnson, Edward Johnson, Mark D. Jordan, Richard Joyce, Hwa Yol Jung, Robert Hillary Kane, Tomis Kapitan, Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley, James A. Keller, Ralph Kennedy, Sergei Khoruzhii, Jaegwon Kim, Yersu Kim, Nathan L. King, Patricia Kitcher, Peter D. Klein, E. D. Klemke, Virginia Klenk, George L. Kline, Christian Klotz, Simo Knuuttila, Joseph J. Kockelmans, Konstantin Kolenda, Sebastian Tomasz Kołodziejczyk, Isaac Kramnick, Richard Kraut, Fred Kroon, Manfred Kuehn, Steven T. Kuhn, Henry E. Kyburg, John Lachs, Jennifer Lackey, Stephen E. Lahey, Andrea Lavazza, Thomas H. Leahey, Joo Heung Lee, Keith Lehrer, Dorothy Leland, Noah M. Lemos, Ernest LePore, Sarah-Jane Leslie, Isaac Levi, Andrew Levine, Alan E. Lewis, Daniel E. Little, Shu-hsien Liu, Shu-hsien Liu, Alan K. L. Chan, Brian Loar, Lawrence B. Lombard, John Longeway, Dominic McIver Lopes, Michael J. Loux, E. J. Lowe, Steven Luper, Eugene C. Luschei, William G. Lycan, David Lyons, David Macarthur, Danielle Macbeth, Scott MacDonald, Jacob L. Mackey, Louis H. Mackey, Penelope Mackie, Edward H. Madden, Penelope Maddy, G. B. Madison, Bernd Magnus, Pekka Mäkelä, Rudolf A. Makkreel, David Manley, William E. Mann (W.E.M.), Vladimir Marchenkov, Peter Markie, Jean-Pierre Marquis, Ausonio Marras, Mike W. Martin, A. P. Martinich, William L. McBride, David McCabe, Storrs McCall, Hugh J. McCann, Robert N. McCauley, John J. McDermott, Sarah McGrath, Ralph McInerny, Daniel J. McKaughan, Thomas McKay, Michael McKinsey, Brian P. McLaughlin, Ernan McMullin, Anthonie Meijers, Jack W. Meiland, William Jason Melanson, Alfred R. Mele, Joseph R. Mendola, Christopher Menzel, Michael J. Meyer, Christian B. Miller, David W. Miller, Peter Millican, Robert N. Minor, Phillip Mitsis, James A. Montmarquet, Michael S. Moore, Tim Moore, Benjamin Morison, Donald R. Morrison, Stephen J. Morse, Paul K. Moser, Alexander P. D. Mourelatos, Ian Mueller, James Bernard Murphy, Mark C. Murphy, Steven Nadler, Jan Narveson, Alan Nelson, Jerome Neu, Samuel Newlands, Kai Nielsen, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Carlos G. Noreña, Calvin G. Normore, David Fate Norton, Nikolaj Nottelmann, Donald Nute, David S. Oderberg, Steve Odin, Michael O’Rourke, Willard G. Oxtoby, Heinz Paetzold, George S. Pappas, Anthony J. Parel, Lydia Patton, R. P. Peerenboom, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Adriaan T. Peperzak, Derk Pereboom, Jaroslav Peregrin, Glen Pettigrove, Philip Pettit, Edmund L. Pincoffs, Andrew Pinsent, Robert B. Pippin, Alvin Plantinga, Louis P. Pojman, Richard H. Popkin, John F. Post, Carl J. Posy, William J. Prior, Richard Purtill, Michael Quante, Philip L. Quinn, Philip L. Quinn, Elizabeth S. Radcliffe, Diana Raffman, Gerard Raulet, Stephen L. Read, Andrews Reath, Andrew Reisner, Nicholas Rescher, Henry S. Richardson, Robert C. Richardson, Thomas Ricketts, Wayne D. Riggs, Mark Roberts, Robert C. Roberts, Luke Robinson, Alexander Rosenberg, Gary Rosenkranz, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Adina L. Roskies, William L. Rowe, T. M. Rudavsky, Michael Ruse, Bruce Russell, Lilly-Marlene Russow, Dan Ryder, R. M. Sainsbury, Joseph Salerno, Nathan Salmon, Wesley C. Salmon, Constantine Sandis, David H. Sanford, Marco Santambrogio, David Sapire, Ruth A. Saunders, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Charles Sayward, James P. Scanlan, Richard Schacht, Tamar Schapiro, Frederick F. Schmitt, Jerome B. Schneewind, Calvin O. Schrag, Alan D. Schrift, George F. Schumm, Jean-Loup Seban, David N. Sedley, Kenneth Seeskin, Krister Segerberg, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Dennis M. Senchuk, James F. Sennett, William Lad Sessions, Stewart Shapiro, Tommie Shelby, Donald W. Sherburne, Christopher Shields, Roger A. Shiner, Sydney Shoemaker, Robert K. Shope, Kwong-loi Shun, Wilfried Sieg, A. John Simmons, Robert L. Simon, Marcus G. Singer, Georgette Sinkler, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Matti T. Sintonen, Lawrence Sklar, Brian Skyrms, Robert C. Sleigh, Michael Anthony Slote, Hans Sluga, Barry Smith, Michael Smith, Robin Smith, Robert Sokolowski, Robert C. Solomon, Marta Soniewicka, Philip Soper, Ernest Sosa, Nicholas Southwood, Paul Vincent Spade, T. L. S. Sprigge, Eric O. Springsted, George J. Stack, Rebecca Stangl, Jason Stanley, Florian Steinberger, Sören Stenlund, Christopher Stephens, James P. Sterba, Josef Stern, Matthias Steup, M. A. Stewart, Leopold Stubenberg, Edith Dudley Sulla, Frederick Suppe, Jere Paul Surber, David George Sussman, Sigrún Svavarsdóttir, Zeno G. Swijtink, Richard Swinburne, Charles C. Taliaferro, Robert B. Talisse, John Tasioulas, Paul Teller, Larry S. Temkin, Mark Textor, H. S. Thayer, Peter Thielke, Alan Thomas, Amie L. Thomasson, Katherine Thomson-Jones, Joshua C. Thurow, Vzalerie Tiberius, Terrence N. Tice, Paul Tidman, Mark C. Timmons, William Tolhurst, James E. Tomberlin, Rosemarie Tong, Lawrence Torcello, Kelly Trogdon, J. D. Trout, Robert E. Tully, Raimo Tuomela, John Turri, Martin M. Tweedale, Thomas Uebel, Jennifer Uleman, James Van Cleve, Harry van der Linden, Peter van Inwagen, Bryan W. Van Norden, René van Woudenberg, Donald Phillip Verene, Samantha Vice, Thomas Vinci, Donald Wayne Viney, Barbara Von Eckardt, Peter B. M. Vranas, Steven J. Wagner, William J. Wainwright, Paul E. Walker, Robert E. Wall, Craig Walton, Douglas Walton, Eric Watkins, Richard A. Watson, Michael V. Wedin, Rudolph H. Weingartner, Paul Weirich, Paul J. Weithman, Carl Wellman, Howard Wettstein, Samuel C. Wheeler, Stephen A. White, Jennifer Whiting, Edward R. Wierenga, Michael Williams, Fred Wilson, W. Kent Wilson, Kenneth P. Winkler, John F. Wippel, Jan Woleński, Allan B. Wolter, Nicholas P. Wolterstorff, Rega Wood, W. Jay Wood, Paul Woodruff, Alison Wylie, Gideon Yaffe, Takashi Yagisawa, Yutaka Yamamoto, Keith E. Yandell, Xiaomei Yang, Dean Zimmerman, Günter Zoller, Catherine Zuckert, Michael Zuckert, Jack A. Zupko (J.A.Z.)
Edited by Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Book: The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
Published online: 05 August 2015
Print publication: 27 April 2015, pp ix-xxx
By Rony A. Adam, Gloria Bachmann, Nichole M. Barker, Randall B. Barnes, John Bennett, Inbar Ben-Shachar, Jonathan S. Berek, Sarah L. Berga, Monica W. Best, Eric J. Bieber, Frank M. Biro, Shan Biscette, Anita K. Blanchard, Candace Brown, Ronald T. Burkman, Joseph Buscema, John E. Buster, Michael Byas-Smith, Sandra Ann Carson, Judy C. Chang, Annie N. Y. Cheung, Mindy S. Christianson, Karishma Circelli, Daniel L. Clarke-Pearson, Larry J. Copeland, Bryan D. Cowan, Navneet Dhillon, Michael P. Diamond, Conception Diaz-Arrastia, Nicole M. Donnellan, Michael L. Eisenberg, Eric Eisenhauer, Sebastian Faro, J. Stuart Ferriss, Lisa C. Flowers, Susan J. Freeman, Leda Gattoc, Claudine Marie Gayle, Timothy M. Geiger, Jennifer S. Gell, Alan N. Gordon, Victoria L. Green, Jon K. Hathaway, Enrique Hernandez, S. Paige Hertweck, Randall S. Hines, Ira R. Horowitz, Fred M. Howard, William W. Hurd, Fidan Israfilbayli, Denise J. Jamieson, Carolyn R. Jaslow, Erika B. Johnston-MacAnanny, Rohna M. Kearney, Namita Khanna, Caroline C. King, Jeremy A. King, Ira J. Kodner, Tamara Kolev, Athena P. Kourtis, S. Robert Kovac, Ertug Kovanci, William H. Kutteh, Eduardo Lara-Torre, Pallavi Latthe, Herschel W. Lawson, Ronald L. Levine, Frank W. Ling, Larry I. Lipshultz, Steven D. McCarus, Robert McLellan, Shruti Malik, Suketu M. Mansuria, Mohamed K. Mehasseb, Pamela J. Murray, Saloney Nazeer, Farr R. Nezhat, Hextan Y. S. Ngan, Gina M. Northington, Peggy A. Norton, Ruth M. O'Regan, Kristiina Parviainen, Resad P. Pasic, Tanja Pejovic, K. Ulrich Petry, Nancy A. Phillips, Ashish Pradhan, Elizabeth E. Puscheck, Suneetha Rachaneni, Devon M. Ramaeker, David B. Redwine, Robert L. Reid, Carla P. Roberts, Walter Romano, Peter G. Rose, Robert L. Rosenfield, Shon P. Rowan, Mack T. Ruffin, Janice M. Rymer, Evis Sala, Ritu Salani, Joseph S. Sanfilippo, Mahmood I. Shafi, Roger P. Smith, Meredith L. Snook, Thomas E. Snyder, Mary D. Stephenson, Thomas G. Stovall, Richard L. Sweet, Philip M. Toozs-Hobson, Togas Tulandi, Elizabeth R. Unger, Denise S. Uyar, Marion S. Verp, Rahi Victory, Tamara J. Vokes, Michelle J. Washington, Katharine O'Connell White, Paul E. Wise, Frank M. Wittmaack, Miya P. Yamamoto, Christine Yu, Howard A. Zacur
Edited by Eric J. Bieber, Joseph S. Sanfilippo, University of Pittsburgh, Ira R. Horowitz, Emory University, Atlanta, Mahmood I. Shafi
Book: Clinical Gynecology
Published online: 05 April 2015
Print publication: 23 April 2015, pp viii-xiv
By Cecil S. Ash, Paul Barach, Ulrike Buehner, M. Ross Bullock, Leonardo Canale, Henry G. Chou, Jeffrey A. Claridge, John J. Como, Armagan Dagal, Martin Dauber, James S. Davis, Shalini Dhir, François Donati, Roman Dudaryk, Richard P. Dutton, Talmage D. Egan, Yashar Eshraghi, John R. Fisgus, Jeff Gadsden, Sugantha Ganapathy, Mark A. Gerhardt, Inderjit Gill, Joseph F. Golob, Glenn P. Gravlee, Marcello Guglielmi, Jana Hambley, Peter Hebbard, Elena J. Holak, Khadil Hosein, Ken Johnson, Matthew A. Joy, George W. Kanellakos, Olga Kaslow, Arthur M. Lam, Vanetta Levesque, Jessica Anne Lovich-Sapola, M. Jocelyn Loy, Peter F. Mahoney, Donn Marciniak, Maureen McCunn, Craig C. McFarland, Maroun J. Mhanna, Timothy Moore, Cynthia Nguyen, Maxim Novikov, E. Orestes O’Brien, Ketan P. Parekh, Claire L. Park, Michael J. A. Parr, Elie Rizkala, Steven Roth, Alistair Royse, Colin Royse, Kasia Petelenz Rubin, David Ryan, Claire Sandstrom, Carl I. Schulman, Rishad Shaikh, Ranjita Sharma, Jeffrey H. Silverstein, Peter Slinger, Charles E. Smith, Christopher Smith, Paul Soeding, Rakesh V. Sondekoppam, P. David Soran, Eldar Søreide, Elizabeth A. Steele, Kristian Strand, Dennis M. Super, Kutaiba Tabbaa, Nicholas T. Tarmey, Joshua M. Tobin, Kalpana Tyagaraj, Heather A. Vallier, Sandra Werner, Earl Willis Weyers, William C. Wilson, Shoji Yokobori, Charles J. Yowler
Edited by Charles E. Smith
Book: Trauma Anesthesia
Print publication: 09 April 2015, pp vii-x
By Nic Beech, Chris Bilton, Alan Bradshaw, Stephen Broad, Shiona Chillas, Martin Cloonan, Kevina Cody, Christine Coupland, Stephen Cummings, Ann Cunliffe, Chris Cusack, Jane Donald, Martin Dowling, Michael Downes, Celia Duffy, Charlotte Gilmore, Lance Green, Gail Greig, Elizabeth Gulledge, Chris Hackley, Martin John Henry, Paul Hibbert, Casper Hoedemaekers, R. M. Hubbert, John Hunt, Peter Keenan, Nod Knowles, Gretchen Larsen, Johnny Lynch, Raymond MacDonald, Robert MacIntosh, Katy MacKintosh, Donald MacLean, Katy J. Mason, Alan McCusker-Thompson, Lloyd Meredith, Louise Mitchell, Davide Nicolini, Daragh O’Reilly, Jill O’Sullivan, Cliff Oswick, Marco Panagopoulos, Jim Prime, Jenny Reeve, Simon Rose, Michael Saren, David Sims, Ian Smith, Duglas T. Stewart, Chris Stout, Dimitrinka Stoyanova Russell, Antonio Strati, Ben Talbot Dunn:, Robyn Thomas, Lori Watson, Simon Webb, Richard Wigley, Sierk Ybema, Matthew Young, Carlo Zanotti
Edited by Nic Beech, University of Dundee, Charlotte Gilmore, University of Edinburgh
Book: Organising Music
Print publication: 05 February 2015, pp xii-xxviii
Comorbid medical illness in bipolar disorder
Liz Forty, Anna Ulanova, Lisa Jones, Ian Jones, Katherine Gordon-Smith, Christine Fraser, Anne Farmer, Peter McGuffin, Cathryn M. Lewis, Georgina M. Hosang, Margarita Rivera, Nick Craddock
Journal: The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 205 / Issue 6 / December 2014
Individuals with a mental health disorder appear to be at increased risk of medical illness.
To examine rates of medical illnesses in patients with bipolar disorder (n = 1720) and to examine the clinical course of the bipolar illness according to lifetime medical illness burden.
Participants recruited within the UK were asked about the lifetime occurrence of 20 medical illnesses, interviewed using the Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN) and diagnosed according to DSM-IV criteria.
We found significantly increased rates of several medical illnesses in our bipolar sample. A high medical illness burden was associated with a history of anxiety disorder, rapid cycling mood episodes, suicide attempts and mood episodes with a typically acute onset.
Bipolar disorder is associated with high rates of medical illness. This comorbidity needs to be taken into account by services in order to improve outcomes for patients with bipolar disorder and also in research investigating the aetiology of affective disorder where shared biological pathways may play a role.
By Andy Aitchison, Henrik Anckarsäter, Ilias Bantekas, Tova Bennet, Brian Cutler, Dionysios Demetis, Dermot Groome, Kristian Lasslett, Rod Lindsay, Amissi M. Manirabona, Jeffrey Stevenson Murer, Emmanouela Mylonaki, Thomas Nilsson, Olaoluwa Olusanya, Susanna Radovic, Jonathan J. Rusch, Andrew Smith, Jo-Anne Wemmers
Edited by Ilias Bantekas, Brunel University, Emmanouela Mylonaki, South Bank University, London
Book: Criminological Approaches to International Criminal Law
Print publication: 06 November 2014, pp ix-xiv
Emergency department visits for children with acute asthma: discharge instructions, parental plans, and follow-through of care—a prospective study
Pat G. Camp, Seamus P. Norton, Ran D. Goldman, Salomeh Shajari, M. Anne Smith, Susan Heathcote, Bruce Carleton
Journal: Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine / Volume 16 / Issue 6 / November 2014
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 March 2015, pp. 467-476
Communication between emergency department (ED) staff and parents of children with asthma may play a role in asthma exacerbation management. We investigated the extent to which parents of children with asthma implement recommendations provided by the ED staff. Method: We asked questions on asthma triggers, ED care (including education and discharge recommendations), and asthma management strategies used at home shortly after the ED visit and again at 6 months.
A total of 148 children with asthma were recruited. Thirty-two percent of children were not on inhaled corticosteroids prior to their ED visit. Eighty percent of parents identified upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) as the primary trigger for their child’s asthma. No parent received or implemented any specific asthma strategies to reduce the impact of URTIs; 82% of parents did not receive any printed asthma education materials. Most (66%) parents received verbal instructions on how to manage their child’s future asthma exacerbations. Of those, one-third of families were told to return to the ED. Parents were rarely advised to bring their child to their family doctor in the event of a future exacerbation. At 6 months, parents continued to use the ED services for asthma exacerbations in their children, despite reporting feeling confident in managing their child’s asthma.
Improvements are urgently needed in developing strategies to manage pediatric asthma exacerbations related to URTIs, communication with parents at discharge in acute care, and using alternate acute care services for parents who continue to rely on EDs for the initial care of mild asthma exacerbations.
By Michael H. Allen, Leora Amira, Victoria Arango, David W. Ayer, Helene Bach, Christopher R. Bailey, Ross J. Baldessarini, Kelsey Ball, Alan L. Berman, Marian E. Betz, Emily A. Biggs, R. Warwick Blood, Kathleen T. Brady, David A. Brent, Jeffrey A. Bridge, Gregory K. Brown, Anat Brunstein Klomek, A. Jacqueline Buchanan, Michelle J. Chandley, Tim Coffey, Jessica Coker, Yeates Conwell, Scott J. Crow, Collin L. Davidson, Yogesh Dwivedi, Stacey Espaillat, Jan Fawcett, Steven J. Garlow, Robert D. Gibbons, Catherine R. Glenn, Deborah Goebert, Erica Goldstein, Tina R. Goldstein, Madelyn S. Gould, Kelly L. Green, Alison M. Greene, Philip D. Harvey, Robert M. A. Hirschfeld, Donna Holland Barnes, Andres M. Kanner, Gary J. Kennedy, Stephen H. Koslow, Benoit Labonté, Alison M. Lake, William B. Lawson, Steve Leifman, Adam Lesser, Timothy W. Lineberry, Amanda L. McMillan, Herbert Y. Meltzer, Michael Craig Miller, Michael J. Miller, James A. Naifeh, Katharine J. Nelson, Charles B. Nemeroff, Alexander Neumeister, Matthew K. Nock, Jennifer H. Olson-Madden, Gregory A. Ordway, Michael W. Otto, Ghanshyam N. Pandey, Giampaolo Perna, Jane Pirkis, Kelly Posner, Anne Rohs, Pedro Ruiz, Molly Ryan, Alan F. Schatzberg, S. Charles Schulz, M. Katherine Shear, Morton M. Silverman, April R. Smith, Marcus Sokolowski, Barbara Stanley, Zachary N. Stowe, Sarah A. Struthers, Leonardo Tondo, Gustavo Turecki, Robert J. Ursano, Kimberly Van Orden, Anne C. Ward, Danuta Wasserman, Jerzy Wasserman, Melinda K. Westlund, Tracy K. Witte, Kseniya Yershova, Alexandra Zagoloff, Sidney Zisook
Edited by Stephen H. Koslow, University of Miami, Pedro Ruiz, University of Miami, Charles B. Nemeroff, University of Miami
Book: A Concise Guide to Understanding Suicide
Print publication: 18 September 2014, pp vii-x
The jet of the quasar 4C+21.35 from parsec to kiloparces scales and its role in high energy photon production
Svetlana G. Jorstad, Alan P. Marscher, Daria A. Morozova, Vishal Bala, Ivan Agudo, José L. Gómez, Anne Lähteenmäki, Valeri M. Larionov, Paul S. Smith, Merja Tornikoski
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 10 / Issue S313 / September 2014
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 March 2015, pp. 33-38
We present an analysis of the parsec-scale jet structure of the quasar 4C+21.35 with a resolution of 0.1 milliarcseconds based on 63 epochs of Very Long Baseline Array observations at 43 GHz from 2007 June to 2014 May along with the Fermi LAT γ-ray light curve and multi-frequency optical photometric and polarimetric data. We find that the innermost jet of the quasar consists of a very compact core of size ~0.03 mas, as well as feature A1 located 0.16 ± 0.03 mas from the core. The distance of A1 remains fairly stable, but its position angle with respect to the core changes from -10 to +10 deg. We detect 4 superluminal knots in the inner jet with apparent speeds ranging from 10c to 20c. The first two components appeared in the jet during the high γ-ray state of the quasar from mid-2010 to early 2011, while the fourth knot appears to be connected with the γ-ray active state in late 2013 - early 2014. The first knot can be associated with the dramatic VHE flare in 2010 June and possesses an extreme Doppler factor ~60. We find that maxima in the γ-ray light curve coincide with epochs of interaction between the moving knots and the core and feature A1. This suggests that the core and A1 are recollimation shocks where γ-ray flares occur. The Chandra 0.5-6 keV image reveals the existence of X-ray emission in the kiloparsec scale jet of the quasar that can be explained via inverse Compton scattering off the cosmic microwave background by relativistic electrons if no deceleration occurs between the parsec- and kiloparsec-scale jets.
By Hart Blanton, Peter J. Burke, Edward Burkley, Melissa Burkley, Armand Chatard, Julie Juola Exline, Amber M. Gaffney, Frederick X. Gibbons, Serge Guimond, Michael A. Hogg, Heejung S. Kim, Deborah M. Ko, Zlatan Križan, Kenneth D. Locke, Penelope Lockwood, Rebecca T. Pinkus, Joni Y. Sasaki, Richard H. Smith, Jan E. Stets, Anne L. Zell
Edited by Zlatan Križan, Iowa State University, Frederick X. Gibbons, University of Connecticut
Book: Communal Functions of Social Comparison
Print publication: 21 March 2014, pp ix-xii
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In vitro capacitation of bull spermatozoa by oviductal fluid and its components
Ann-Sofi Bergqvist, Joan Ballester, Anders Johannisson, Marta Hernandez, Nils Lundeheim, Heriberto Rodríguez-Martínez
Journal: Zygote / Volume 14 / Issue 3 / August 2006
Sperm capacitation is crucial for fertilization. However, debate continues on exactly how, where and when capacitation is elicited in the bovine female genital tract. In this study we used merocyanine-540 and the chlortetracycline (CTC) assay to test how capacitation of bull spermatozoa is affected in vitro by exposure to oviductal fluid (ODF) collected in vivo, various glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) or bicarbonate. Following different durations of exposure, spermatozoa were stained with CTC or merocyanine-540, and evaluated with epifluorescent light microscopy or flow cytometry, respectively. Incubation time did not significantly affect capacitation. Exposure (30–120 min) to ODF capacitated (p < 0.05) bull spermatozoa as measured by either merocyanine-540 or CTC. Hyaluronan was the only GAG that induced a significant increase in B-pattern spermatozoa (capacitated; p = 0.012) compared with controls. Dermatan sulphate also induced capacitation (merocyanine-540 high fluorescence; p = 0.035). Exposure to bicarbonate-enriched media also yielded an increase in merocyanine-540 high fluorescence (p < 0.0001). When bicarbonate was added to the other treatments (ODF or GAGs) an equal increase in merocyanine-540 high fluorescence was noted (p < 0.0001), compared with before addition of bicarbonate and independent of the treatment before exposure. There was no significant difference in the number of B-pattern spermatozoa when bicarbonate was added, but an significant increase in spermatozoa with an acrosome-reacted (AR)-pattern (p < 0.0001) was observed. Exposure of spermatozoa to solubilized zonae pellucidae significantly increased the AR-pattern spermatozoa (p = 0.016). In conclusion, ODF was more potent in inducing capacitation of bull spermatozoa than the individual GAGs. Our results also indicate that bicarbonate is an effector of bull sperm capacitation.
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Stakeholder Engagement in Methodological Research: Development of a Clinical Decision Support Tool
Denise H. Daudelin, Robin Ruthazer, Manlik Kwong, Rebecca C. Lorenzana, Daniel Hannon, David M. Kent, Timothy E. McAlindon, Norma Terrin, John B. Wong, Harry P. Selker
Journal: Journal of Clinical and Translational Science /
Scientific Review Committees as Part of Institutional Review of Human Participant Research: Initial Implementation at Institutions with Clinical and Translational Science Awards
Harry P. Selker, Lisa C. Welch, Elizabeth Patchen-Fowler, Janis L. Breeze, Norma Terrin, Anshu Parajulee, Amy LeClair, Arash Naeim, Rebecca Marnocha, Julie Morelli Novak, Christine Sego Caldwell, Philip A. Cola, Jennifer A. Croker, David X. Cifu, Kirsten M. Williams, Denise C. Snyder, Darlene Kitterman
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2019, pp. 1-37
Implementing Common Metrics across the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) consortium
Denise H. Daudelin, Laura E. Peterson, Lisa C. Welch, Redonna Chandler, Mridu Pandey, Farzad Noubary, Philip L. Lee, Harry P. Selker
Journal: Journal of Clinical and Translational Science , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 September 2019, pp. 1-6
The Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Consortium and the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) undertook a Common Metrics Initiative to improve research processes across the national CTSA Consortium. This was implemented by Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the 64 CTSA academic medical centers. Three metrics were collaboratively developed by NCATS staff, CTSA Consortium teams, and outside consultants for Institutional Review Board Review Duration, Careers in Clinical and Translational Research, and Pilot Award Publications and Subsequent Funding. The implementation program included training on the metric operational guidelines, data collection, data reporting system, and performance improvement framework. The implementation team provided small-group coaching and technical assistance. Collaborative learning sessions, driver diagrams, and change packages were used to disseminate best and promising practices. After 14 weeks, 84% of hubs had produced a value for one metric and about half had produced an initial improvement plan. Overall, hubs reported that the implementation activities facilitated their Common Metrics performance improvement process. Experiences implementing the first three metrics can inform future directions of the Common Metrics Initiative and other research groups implementing standardized metrics and performance improvement processes, potentially including other National Institutes of Health institutes and centers.
The CODATwins Project: The Current Status and Recent Findings of COllaborative Project of Development of Anthropometrical Measures in Twins
K. Silventoinen, A. Jelenkovic, Y. Yokoyama, R. Sund, M. Sugawara, M. Tanaka, S. Matsumoto, L. H. Bogl, D. L. Freitas, J. A. Maia, J. v. B. Hjelmborg, S. Aaltonen, M. Piirtola, A. Latvala, L. Calais-Ferreira, V. C. Oliveira, P. H. Ferreira, F. Ji, F. Ning, Z. Pang, J. R. Ordoñana, J. F. Sánchez-Romera, L. Colodro-Conde, S. A. Burt, K. L. Klump, N. G. Martin, S. E. Medland, G. W. Montgomery, C. Kandler, T. A. McAdams, T. C. Eley, A. M. Gregory, K. J. Saudino, L. Dubois, M. Boivin, M. Brendgen, G. Dionne, F. Vitaro, A. D. Tarnoki, D. L. Tarnoki, C. M. A. Haworth, R. Plomin, S. Y. Öncel, F. Aliev, E. Medda, L. Nisticò, V. Toccaceli, J. M. Craig, R. Saffery, S. H. Siribaddana, M. Hotopf, A. Sumathipala, F. Rijsdijk, H.-U. Jeong, T. Spector, M. Mangino, G. Lachance, M. Gatz, D. A. Butler, W. Gao, C. Yu, L. Li, G. Bayasgalan, D. Narandalai, K. P. Harden, E. M. Tucker-Drob, K. Christensen, A. Skytthe, K. O. Kyvik, C. A. Derom, R. F. Vlietinck, R. J. F. Loos, W. Cozen, A. E. Hwang, T. M. Mack, M. He, X. Ding, J. L. Silberg, H. H. Maes, T. L. Cutler, J. L. Hopper, P. K. E. Magnusson, N. L. Pedersen, A. K. Dahl Aslan, L. A. Baker, C. Tuvblad, M. Bjerregaard-Andersen, H. Beck-Nielsen, M. Sodemann, V. Ullemar, C. Almqvist, Q. Tan, D. Zhang, G. E. Swan, R. Krasnow, K. L. Jang, A. Knafo-Noam, D. Mankuta, L. Abramson, P. Lichtenstein, R. F. Krueger, M. McGue, S. Pahlen, P. Tynelius, F. Rasmussen, G. E. Duncan, D. Buchwald, R. P. Corley, B. M. Huibregtse, T. L. Nelson, K. E. Whitfield, C. E. Franz, W. S. Kremen, M. J. Lyons, S. Ooki, I. Brandt, T. S. Nilsen, J. R. Harris, J. Sung, H. A. Park, J. Lee, S. J. Lee, G. Willemsen, M. Bartels, C. E. M. van Beijsterveldt, C. H. Llewellyn, A. Fisher, E. Rebato, A. Busjahn, R. Tomizawa, F. Inui, M. Watanabe, C. Honda, N. Sakai, Y.-M. Hur, T. I. A. Sørensen, D. I. Boomsma, J. Kaprio
Journal: Twin Research and Human Genetics , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 July 2019, pp. 1-9
The COllaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins (CODATwins) project is a large international collaborative effort to analyze individual-level phenotype data from twins in multiple cohorts from different environments. The main objective is to study factors that modify genetic and environmental variation of height, body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) and size at birth, and additionally to address other research questions such as long-term consequences of birth size. The project started in 2013 and is open to all twin projects in the world having height and weight measures on twins with information on zygosity. Thus far, 54 twin projects from 24 countries have provided individual-level data. The CODATwins database includes 489,981 twin individuals (228,635 complete twin pairs). Since many twin cohorts have collected longitudinal data, there is a total of 1,049,785 height and weight observations. For many cohorts, we also have information on birth weight and length, own smoking behavior and own or parental education. We found that the heritability estimates of height and BMI systematically changed from infancy to old age. Remarkably, only minor differences in the heritability estimates were found across cultural–geographic regions, measurement time and birth cohort for height and BMI. In addition to genetic epidemiological studies, we looked at associations of height and BMI with education, birth weight and smoking status. Within-family analyses examined differences within same-sex and opposite-sex dizygotic twins in birth size and later development. The CODATwins project demonstrates the feasibility and value of international collaboration to address gene-by-exposure interactions that require large sample sizes and address the effects of different exposures across time, geographical regions and socioeconomic status.
5 - Assembling Planetesimals and Planets
Harry Y. McSween, Jr, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Jeffrey E. Moersch, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Devon M. Burr, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, William M. Dunne, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Joshua P. Emery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Linda C. Kah, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Molly C. McCanta, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Book: Planetary Geoscience
Published online: 25 June 2019
Print publication: 11 July 2019, pp 80-99
14 - Planetary Fluvial and Lacustrine Landforms:
Print publication: 11 July 2019, pp 242-257
6 - Planetary Heating and Differentiation
3 - More Toolkits for the Planetary Geoscientist:
4 - Solar System Raw Materials
11 - Impact Cratering as a Geologic Process
7 - Unseen Planetary Interiors
8 - Planetary Geodynamics
1 - Exploring the Solar System
Print publication: 11 July 2019, pp 1-17
13 - Planetary Aeolian Processes and Landforms
Print publication: 11 July 2019, pp ix-xiv
Print publication: 11 July 2019, pp i-vi
15 - Physical and Chemical Changes:
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Actually Cool Things to Do in Detroit When Someone Visits
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By KIRSTEN CAREY and MEGAN FRYE
By KIRSTEN CAREY
Detroit holds its secrets well, and its citizens hold them even tighter; anyone who tells you there’s nothing to do either didn’t bother looking, or they’re leading you astray. It doesn’t have to be that way, though: having friends visit should be an excuse to spill all the insider info you’ve collected over the years, as well as try out the fun touristy stuff you’ve shunned in the past. We’ve rounded up some wildly fun and interesting things to do with your guests below -- things that you probably don’t even take advantage of yourself, or maybe even haven’t heard of yet. You can reach just about every place on this list using @RideDDOT or @smartbusorg buses, especially now that they have the four-hour and 24-hour DART passes. Detroit’s packed with excellent activities… here are our favorites.
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Watch the sunset from Belle Isle
Belle Isle Park
For the quintessential Detroit sunset photo, hit the southern tip of Belle Isle; lying in the middle of the Detroit River, this island is now a protected state park with all manner of wildlife and activities. You can take a dip in the river or hike around to the north end of the island. If you live in the city, it’ll feel good to get out into nature. For your guests, they’ll be impressed at the magnitude of the island and the impressive river encompassing it. Not to mention the fact that there’s some beautiful architecture to be found on Belle Isle, from the James Scott Memorial Fountain to the lighthouse to a defunct casino, all designed by the same landscape architect who designed New York’s Central Park: Frederick Law Olmsted. Plus, the gorgeous conservatory is even open on weekends in the winter, for when you want to remember what a “flower” is.
Hop across the border into Canada
Downtown Detroit (Tunnel) and Southwest Detroit (Bridge)
While Canada is lovely to gaze upon from afar, why not pop over and check it “oot”? Windsor is loaded with bars and restaurants, including some Italian, Ethiopian and Vietnamese standouts. The youngins (legal drinking age in Canada is 19, if you didn’t know) usually find the numerous full-nude, booze-slinging strip clubs to be enticing. I mean, who doesn’t? But you should know that the sweetest view of Detroit can be seen from the parks that line Windsor’s waterfront along Riverside Drive. Just bring money for the bridge and tunnel tolls -- oh, and a valid passport or enhanced driver’s license to get across the border.
View outdoor art installations unlike any you’d find elsewhere
Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum / The Heidelberg Project
The mass exodus from Detroit was part of a very difficult, tumultuous chapter of our city’s history. As a way of working through that hardship, two large-scale outdoor art installations arose in abandoned or destroyed areas. One is Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum, which -- in addition to the already-impressive African Bead Gallery, N’Kisi Iron House, and African Language Wall -- contains a Sculpture Garden of 18 buildings. The other is the Heidelberg Project, which was started when artist Tyree Guyton returned to his childhood home in 1986 and found the whole area in shambles. Believing art could be medicine, The Heidelberg Project grew to incorporate the houses, sidewalks, trees, and everything else into a giant, immersive installation.
Dime Store | Yana Benjamin
Grab an unforgettable brunch
Brunch is a big deal everywhere, and you might be tempted to say that if you’ve had brunch in one city, you’ve had it everywhere. This is, of course, complete foolishness: Detroit’s brunch scene is undeniably powerful -- myriad local influences combine to make something greater than the sum of its Benedicts. Hit up Sweet Potato Sensations or Kuzzo’s for some chicken & waffle goodness, Townhouse for sourdough French toast, Red Dunn for almond-ricotta pancakes, The Dime Store for a Cheesesteak Benny, or Toast for some… well, toast. Or just check out our brunch guide for more inspiration.
See what a million books looks like
John K. King Used & Rare Books
John K. King Used & Rare Books is housed in a gigantic, four-story building that used to be a glove factory -- and its collection of over a million books actually fills it. In fact, John King (the proper one, not the outlets) is the fourth-largest bookstore in the world. The collection, which features some truly rare treasures, is so sprawling and impressive that you'll be handed a map by an employee the second you walk in. Definitely plan to spend the whole afternoon here.
Check out an outdoor music festival...
All across Detroit
Free-$$$
With a population of roughly 700,000, we may be a small potato in the greater scheme of American cities, but there is always a festival going on. Spring and summer abound with options, like the Detroit International Jazz Festival (which is FREE by the way), Movement (very not free), Concert of Colors, Dally in the Alley, and more. There’s even indoor ones before the weather’s reliably warm, like the Hamtramck Music Festival and the new Ferndale Spring Fever. The list goes on, and it’s extensive -- for a full rundown, definitely check out our outdoor festival and concert guide.
Cliff Bell's
... or listen to some indoor live music
Free-$$
Detroit has a long history of being a music city, and it’s well deserved. Aside from being the home of Motown, techno, J Dilla, and some choice blues and R&B, it’s also known as a garage rock mecca, and has a rich jazz history. Check concert listings and see what’s coming up; huge artists are always passing through, and the local scene is well worthing checking out. For a totally unique Detroit experience, pay a visit to Cliff Bell’s, Small’s, El Club, Marble Bar, the Ghost Light (part of Planet Ant), Deluxx Fluxx, Baker’s Keyboard Lounge, or Trinosophes.
Eat some excellent Middle Eastern food
You’ll find excellent Middle Eastern cuisine all around suburban Detroit, thanks to the area being home to the largest population of Arabic peoples in the country. If you’re committed to sticking to the city, try one of the Bucharest Grill locations, or sample the Yemeni cuisine in Hamtramck. If you’re willing to venture just a skip to the west, though, you’ll find the fabulous city of Dearborn: home of Ford Motor Company, and arguably the shawarma capital of the United States. The best thing is, you pretty much can’t go wrong. Every place is good.
Eastern Market Corporation
Visit Eastern Market
A trip to Eastern Market is a tour of historic Detroit; the late 19th- and early 20th-century architecture shows a city that was once on the verge of a boom, and you can shop there for everything from antiques to the best cuts of meat in town. On Tuesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays (and some Thursday evenings), the open-air market explodes with fresh (seasonal) produce, meats, flowers, trees, coffee, sweets -- all locally produced, and all for sale at fair prices. There are also excellent dining options if you’re into pizza or BBQ, and if you wanna say “eff all that noise” and just do some kung fu, well, you can do that too.
Check out the Diego Rivera murals at the DIA
Free to residents of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb County
Mexican muralist Diego Rivera was one of the most sought-after artists of his time, but there’s only one work Rivera claimed to be the most successful of his career -- and it’s in the Detroit Institute of Arts’ atrium. Rivera came to Detroit with his wife (another mildly noteworthy painter named Frida Kahlo) shortly after painting a Marxist mural for the Rockefellers in New York, which was soon chiseled off the wall. The couple spent 11 months living across the street from the DIA at the Park Shelton apartments, with Rivera taking frequent trips to the Ford complex. The end result is the 27-panel mural Detroit Industry which completely engulfs the atrium. It’s a sight to behold, and a National Historic Landmark to boot.
Go see a movie in a unique theater
From classic box office hits to arthouse and independent films, you’ve got a few choices to select from that deviate significantly from the norm. Few theaters in the country can beat the majesty of the impeccably preserved Redford Theatre, which was saved from demolition for its unique 1928 pipe organ -- get to any Redford show early for a concert! The Senate Theatre is also well-preserved and pipe organ-touting. If you want international and indie films, head to the auditorium-style Detroit Film Theatre, to the Main Art Theatre, or to Cinema Detroit, which sells Faygo. In bottles.
Visit a brewery...
Around Detroit and the suburbs
Michigan’s arguably the best beer state in the country -- the now nationally famous Bell’s Two-Hearted is just the tip of the iceberg. Go anywhere, and you’re bound to find great craft beer being made. A number of those wonderful breweries are located around Metro Detroit, or have opened outposts here. Check out Atwater Brewery, Jolly Pumpkin, Founders, Motor City Brewing Works, Batch Brewing Works, and others (the list keeps growing). Or go to Hopcat and sample beer from across the state.
... or visit a distillery
Around Detroit
If small-batch whiskey, gin, and vodka are more your thing, you’ve got options too. We like our booze in this town, and despite the downfall of manufacturing, that urge to create is still very much in the hearts of Detroiters. Check out Two James Spirits, Our/Detroit, The Whiskey Factory, and Detroit City Distillery, or take a trip up Woodward and visit Valentine Distilling Company in Ferndale. You won’t be disappointed.
... or discover a world-class meadery
Lastly, did you know that metro Detroit is largely considered the best place to get high-quality mead in the country?! If you’ve never had mead, you’re in the right place to try it -- and mead is made by fermenting honey, so why wouldn’t you want to give it a go? Head to B. Nektar, Cellerman’s, or Schramm’s Mead for some truly unique creations and sweet bubbly delights.
Guardian Building
Take a tour of the Guardian Building
This is more of a self-guided pop-in than a formal tour, but you get the picture. The Guardian Building is a reflection of the style of the Roaring '20s, as well as of Detroit’s affluence and prominence as an international commercial powerhouse during that time. The 40-story building was completed in 1929 and features impeccable craftsmanship and exquisite tilework that honor the artistic stylings of Native Americans and Aztecs.
Attend the coolest events of the season
Beyond outdoor music fests and indoor concerts, there are plenty more worthwhile events going on in Detroit throughout the year, like Hamtramck Labor Day Festival, the MLK Jr. Day Peace Walk, the Thanksgiving Day Parade, (just to name a few). How can you keep on top of all these events? Simple: check out our must-do events calendar, updated seasonally and stacked with powerhouse activities.
Kayak the Detroit River
Fisherman’s Marina
Detroit River Sports first became famous for its guided tours of the canals around historic mansions, as well as its full moon tours and paddles through Belle Isle. It’s a unique way to see the city, and ideal for anyone looking to get their heart rate up while they learn about Detroit.
Go to literally any sports game
We now officially have major league baseball, hockey, football, basketball, and minor league soccer games happening all within walking distance. Pretty impressive. The relatively new Detroit City Football Club has given soccer lovers an outlet for their passion, while fans of the Tigers, Red Wings, Pistons, and Lions stay true to their colors regardless of the outcomes. Out-of-towners love a chance to see the local teams in action, and if you’re a local who hasn’t caught a live sporting event here yet... well, what are you waiting for?
Visit Detroit's greatest bars
Detroit’s known for its rich spread of classic dives, like Jumbo’s, Whiskey in the Jar, or the oldest bar in Detroit, The 2-Way Inn, which has been open since 1876. We’ve got our share of creative cocktail bars as well, such as Chartreuse Kitchen & Cocktails, Standby, and The Sugar House. Or go to The Ghost Bar for an excuse to check out the insanely lavish interior of the Whitney. We’ve highlighted the best of the best watering holes in our Detroit bar guide -- there’s bound to be a place you haven’t tried on there, so go ahead and try it already!
Go vinyl shopping
If there’s one thing Detroit’s not lacking, it’s music addicts -- specifically, vinyl addicts. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more knowledgeable and well-rounded group of music snobs and elitists than the ones you’ll see digging through the crates at places like UHF, Hello Records, Found Sound, Peoples Records, Record Graveyard, Dearborn Music, or Stormy Records; I’d write more, but it’s a never-ending list.
... or press your own vinyl at Third Man Records
When Jack White pondered where to place the second store for his record company, Third Man, he naturally chose his hometown. Beyond the cool record selection and merch to peruse, there’s a record booth that allows you to make a 2-minute long, 6-inch phonograph disc, which shoots out to you right when you’re done recording. If you write songs like the Misfits, that might be enough time for you, but some people use it as an audio postcard, or just as an excuse to hear the sound of their voice or instrument.
Get a photo taken of your aura
Southwest Detroit
Aura Aura does some magic. “Through a double exposure process of capturing your bio-magnetic, vibrational energy, we make the metaphysical visible, resulting in awe-inspiring, one-of-a-kind portraits,” as their website reports. What this means is that you get a photo of yourself surrounded by your aura, or energy field. Check out the #humanatmosphere hashtags on Instagram to see what to expect.
Roam around town on a bike
All around Detroit
Detroit is a very flat city, with very little traffic. Its streets are also intuitively designed for transport, in either a wheel shape or perfect parallels that make it very difficult to truly get lost. Cycling the city is a great way to see hidden treasures and notice things you normally wouldn’t as you dodge potholes in your car. Pick a destination, or just meander. But you should definitely have a patch repair kit and know how to use it, speaking from experience.
Buddy's
Eat Detroit-style pizza
Detroit-style is typically square, thick (but not as deep as Chicago’s deep-dish), crunchy, and delicious; that’s the kind of pie you’ll find at Buddy’s, Loui’s, Green Lantern, and Niki’s Pizza. Hell, even the fast take-out version you'll get at Jet’s is good. Sit back, get ready to pack on a few pounds, and enjoy a unique pizza experience.
Savor the best soul food you've ever had
Detroit saw an influx of black southerners who came for work in the auto factories during the early 20th century, and the food they brought with them has become one of the city’s most underrated treasures. You haven’t lived until you’ve had fried pork chops with collard greens and mac & cheese ordered through the bullet-proof glass at Motor City Soul Food. Nor have you lived before you’ve stopped on the side of a random westside street for some fresh grilled BBQ pork ribs and homemade cornbread -- soul food restaurants are open year round, but families also make a bit of extra cash by cooking up the classics streetside. Just look for the smoke rising and the sweet, unmistakable smell of barbecued meat. There’s even the highly lauded Detroit Vegan Soul for… well, vegans.
See some amazing street art
There are new commissioned and non-commissioned works going up all the time, so even if you’ve checked out Detroit’s street art before, odds are the landscape has changed since then. Eastern Market is well known for its Murals in the Market tour -- though you can easily walk around on your own and admire the jaw-dropping, touring murals on the buildings. There’s also murals lining The BELT, a newly revitalized strip tucked away downtown. Read our article on the subject for more info, or get in your car (or on your bike) and do some exploring on your own.
Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Company
Drink some fantastic coffee
The Detroit coffee scene has exploded in recent years -- and many of the best coffee houses typically have some excellent eats as well. Grab some caffeinated gold at Trinosophes, Astro, Germack, Motor City Java House, Chazzano, Red Hook, Roasting Plant, Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Company -- the list goes on and on.
Eat Coney Island dogs
Coney Island restaurants are one of those ubiquitous, completely unique Detroit institutions. Coney Dogs were (almost certainly) created in Michigan, so you can’t visit (or live in) Detroit without downing a luscious, loaded, and cheap Coney: a hot dog loaded with chili on top. Unless you’re vegetarian or vegan, I guess. Barring that, you can have an impromptu Coney judging contest by visiting American, Lafayette, Red Hots, or Anthony Bourdain’s favorite, Duly’s Place, though there are many, many Coney Islands to check out around the city.
Eat at the best restaurants in Detroit
Detroit has always had great restaurants, but times have changed and many closed. Years later, during what some call the city’s renaissance and others call gentrification, we have been witnessing a lot of new restaurants with relatively high price points opening up. And they’re really, really good. There’s Lady of the House, Grey Ghost, Wright & Co., The Dime Store, The Apparatus Room, etc.
Stroll the expanded Dequindre Cut
Eastern Market to Detroit Riverfront
The Dequindre Cut is a two-mile greenway leading from north of Eastern Market down to the Detroit River. It’s a place to walk, ride your bike or run, skate, whatever. The point is, it’s lovely, it’s outside, it’s clean, it’s safe, and it’s free. With commissioned street art from some of the best artists in Detroit (and beyond) lining the walls, this magnificent use of an old railway is just another excuse for you to show off Detroit’s multifaceted beauty to your friends.
Visit cool museums unique to Detroit
Around Detroit and Dearborn
Detroit’s museum game is strong even beyond the world-class DIA. Chief for music fans is Hitsville USA, aka the Motown Museum, where you’ll get to stand inside the studio where the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye made their first hits. The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History touts among its collection the impressive 22,000-square-foot interactive exhibit “And Still We Rise: Our Journey Through African American History and Culture,” which is unlike anything you’ll see outside of Detroit. At The Henry Ford Museum complex, you can go to old-timey Greenfield Village, take a tour of the Rouge auto plant, or see the bus where Rosa Parks made her infamous protest. Then there's the Detroit Historical Society, which has a painstaking recreation of the Streets of Old Detroit in its lower level.
Detroit’s packed with excellent activities… here are our favorites.
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Peanut Butter Shoggoth
by Erik Amundsen
Every night, I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Every day that followed, I left it on the stack of its fellows in the locker and the oily brown thing between the walls ate them, in their turn, days later, sandwiches later, when they’d aged to its liking. It also ate the bags.
Every night, I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and left it in the refrigerator overnight, so it wouldn’t spoil. Peanut butter, raspberry jam, the wheat bread with the metallic tang that comes in the yellow bag, you know the brand, even if you don’t know the taste. I never ate them the next day, because I didn’t like what spending the night in the fridge did to the bread. I never liked the feel of it in my mouth. I never made the sandwiches in the morning, always the night before.
Sometimes, I checked the peanut butter and an eye, black and rainbow film, would open in the jar. I put it aside. There was always a fresh jar in the cupboard, a foil-hymened virgin jar. I don’t remember where I read it, but the first carve into a jar of new peanut butter was the first thing I ever learned of fetishes. The old jar always got off to somewhere while I made the sandwich and wondered if that fetish was one of mine.
Every night, I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Every day that followed, so it followed. You think of these things years later and wonder why you never noticed. The stack of the blue and black and hard old sandwiches fetched up to 3 feet one time. I feared my responsibility was off the sandwiches; that it had gotten off to somewhere. Turns out, it wasn’t always hungry. I had to throw out the ones that were past their due.
If you have a secret, then you have a responsibility. You keep a secret. I kept mine in the wall behind the locker with the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches I made every night. I don’t think my secret was always so discriminating about what it ate; the sandwiches were my own stroke of fortune. At night, sometimes, I would dream of passing through the narrow threshold of that blue steel locker, caught on the first try, caught on the second try, turned sideways and pulled through to where the oily brown thing lived. Turned sideways, so I could see the door closing after me. The sandwich sat in the bag in the fridge, the bread taking on that consistency.
I never liked the way the bread felt in my mouth. Not even when it was fresh. The first bag, I bought because it was the cheapest and I didn’t know better.
Every night, I made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Every day, I dropped it on the stack in my locker. When I had the cash to spare, I bought a paper bowl of the pasta with homeopathic quantities of meat and cheese. Ritual starts as a successful formula and a fear of further experimentation. Removed from the source of the fear, you can strip it all to its essentials, but on the other side of that little door was the sound of the breathing from greasy spiracles the size of my fist, the quivering of a maw created on the spur of the moment for a single instance of use, and then forgotten.
I’ve never forgotten my mouth.
Erik Amundsen , taken broadly, has had an interesting life; he’s been a baker, an itinerant schoolteacher, worked for two governments and gotten in bar fights overseas. He now lives at the foot of a cemetery in central Connecticut where he writes nasty little stories and poems that shuffle around in the night when he’s not looking. Or at least he hopes it’s them; something’s got to be making those noises and it’s not the furnace.
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Tom explains how he got his start in Australian Rules football and how it taught him the core basics of Punting. Tom explains the difference between American Football and Australian Rules. Tom talks about his pro day and his experience at the NFL Combine, and trying out for the New York Jets.
Tom talks about the importance of ‘Timing,’ when joining an NFL team and his plans for the future. Sascha talks his theory dubbed the “Bogut Effect”, referencing the rise in Australian athletes in the state of Utah including Dante Exum with the Utah Jazz and Andrew Bogut.
Tom talks about the difficulty of living in a different country, getting in football shape, and adjusting to the culture of Utah and Salt Lake City. Tom mentions his new position as an intern at ESPN 700 and talks about a potential career in media.
Sascha reveals to Tom the reason for having him on the show. Tom and Sacha have a history leading back to a 2013 football game! In the pregame warm-ups Tom struck Sascha with a football while Sascha was on a ladder. It’s hilarious!
Johnny asks about the story behind Tom’s speech about BYU and winning the Ray Guy Award.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5hECvolbHg – Tom Hackett “I’m fat”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R1SsQusTOc – Tom Hackett “”It’s Utah’s world and BYU’s living’ in it”
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The Texas Legislature adjourned for its year-and-a-half hibernation on June 1, confounding many observers who expected a productive session after Republicans secured historic majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Unlike the fireworks of 2013, the 84th Legislature was a relatively staid affair characterized by, in the words of the Texas Tribune’s Ross Ramsey, “small visions and small results.” While Democrats breathed sighs of relief that some controversial topics were left on the back burner, many bills that would have strengthened Texas’ food system also fell victim to the Legislature’s inertia.
Despite the support of both the Austin-based Sustainable Food Center and the Capital Area Food Bank, House Bill (H.B.) 1616, which would have provided incentives for SNAP (formerly known as food stamps) recipients to shop at farmers markets, was left languishing in the House Agriculture and Livestock Committee. Similarly, bills that would have encouraged farm-to-cafeteria initiatives and eased some of the regulations faced by small-scale and organic farmers also failed to emerge from committee. Heavy-hitters in the public health world also came up short.
Of the 26 bills that the Michael and Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living supported, only one became law—schools are now allowed the option to develop and implement locally-funded programs to provide free or reduced-price school breakfast instead of utilizing the national school breakfast program. The most frustrating moment of the session, however, occurred on May 15, when a bill by Rep. Eddie Rodriguez (D-Austin) that would have provided incentives for grocery stores to open in underserved “food deserts” appeared to have passed the House by a vote of 69-67, only to fail 64-67 when the vote was re-counted.
Despite setbacks for proponents of sensible food policies, the 84th Legislature was not without its bright spots. Two tea party-backed freshmen, Sens. Lois Kolkhorst (R-Brenham) and Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe), showed an interest in supporting both family farms and conservation stewardship programs. Creighton, a no-nonsense rancher, revealed a soft spot for small-scale beekeeping and championed a successful bill that allows beekeepers to market value-added products directly to consumers without having to jump through the regulatory hoops to which larger producers are subject. Similarly, Sen. Eddie Lucio (D-Brownsville) and Rep. John Cyrier (R-Lockhart) succeeded in passing Senate Bill (S.B.) 1978, which bolstered “Hunters for the Hungry,” a program that donates venison to food banks that would otherwise be unable to offer lean protein options to their patrons.
While a genuine coalition in support of sensible food policies failed to coalesce during the 84th Legislature, the champions of “Hunters for the Hungry”—a Democrat representing a district with high levels of obesity and a Republican representing a district replete with small farms and hunting enthusiasts—offered a glimpse into the kind of partnerships that need to occur if the 85th Legislature, which convenes on January 10, 2017, is to be more successful than its predecessor.
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Applying behavioural science to refugee integration
Sanders, Jet Gabrielle Gabrielle, Castle, Elizabeth, Tan, Karen and Jenkins, Rob (2019) Applying behavioural science to refugee integration. In: Kehoe, S. Karly, Alisic, Eva and Heilinger, Jan-Christoph, (eds.) Responsibility for Refugee and Migrant Integration. De Gruyter, Berlin, GER, 165 - 182. ISBN 9783110623369
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Successful refugee and migrant integration has been shown to generate novel opportunities for development, and to enrich countries economically, socially, and culturally. Nonetheless, integration is one of the most complex issues of our time. Here we review this problem from a behavioural science perspective. Behavioural science brings together insights from psychology, behavioural economics, neuroscience, and sociology to devise and improve population-level interventions and to develop more effective policies. One approach in behavioural science is commonly referred to as ‘nudging’. Recently there has been a growing interest in nudge strategies among both practitioners and academics, in part because the strategies are cheap to implement. Here we provide an overview of such strategies and their applicability to refugee integration. By addressing two sectors of society where behavioural science is currently applied (education and employment), we examine how behavioural evidence may be used to bypass barriers and facilitate drivers of integration. Our review (i) reveals that few interventions aimed at refugee integration use a behavioural science approach, (ii) highlights areas in which this approach could be especially effective, and (iii) identifies some behavioural science techniques that may be counterproductive.
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Brainfarm Cinema's "Art of Flight"
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"The Art of Flight"
In early 2011, there were two films I was extraordinarily excited to see. Both were years in the making. It was elementary to anticipate that both films would surely have a serious, positive impact on the arts of cinematography and filmmaking. The first was Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life." The second was Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson's "Samsara", the followup to their 1992 masterpiece "Baraka." I had been anticipating and following the production of these films for years. Without doubt, 2011 was going to be a year long remembered in cinema! But little did I know, there was a third film on the horizon. In early 2011, I came across a trailer for a movie called "Art of Flight," ostensibly a snowboarding film. From the first few seconds of the trailer, I could tell this was something different, some different kind of filmmaking. The use of technology and the music and editing instantly announced I was looking at something different and new here. I must have replayed the "Art" trailer five times that first night I came across it. I was like, "Wait, who the fuck are these guys?? 'Brainfarm'?"
In looking back, I had already seen a little behind-the-scenes featurette with Brainfarm director Curt Morgan, but I didn't really know who they were at the time or what they were working on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIWQWCxOyw4 At some point in 2009/2010 I had become obsessed with camera stabilization systems like the Cineflex V14HD (half a million dollars) and the 1,000-frame-per-second Phantom high-speed camera (quarter of a million bucks). And here were these dudes in Wyoming actually using these systems right now in a similar way to how I had dreamed of using them. The "endless dolly" idea fascinated me, especially as I had been experimenting with new ideas for shooting "traveling timelapse", including "astro-boatlapse" shots from moving boats, etc. These were tools I would have killed for.
Fast forward a year or so, and the "Art of Flight" trailer drops. Suddenly I put two and two together: "Ah, so THAT'S what those guys in Wyoming with the Cineflex and Phantom have been up to!" Since then, "Art of Flight" took its place alongside "Tree of Life" and "Samsara" as the films I was most looking forward to.
A couple nights ago, I finally had an opportunity to see "Art of Flight" for the first time, on the big screen, in Newport Beach.
In the world of filmmaking and cinematography, there are legions of people who talk the talk, and a tiny handful of people who walk the walk. Curt Morgan, the director of "Art of Flight", walks the walk. He's the real deal. I was actually super stoked to even come across him and know that he existed, because frankly, without Curt, no one else would even be doing this right now.
The film starts out with an entrancing snowboarding sequence set to the dubstep track "Ghosts N Stuff" by Nero and Deadmau5. To be perfectly honest, I could have watched this combination of music and helicopter-born Cineflex shots for like 20 minutes straight. It was mesmerizing. I wanted this sequence to go on and on. Maybe Curt Morgan should think about putting out a 20-minute "Dubstep Remix" of "Art of Flight", just for the fans to enjoy. I can say, without doubt, it would be playing on the plasma here at my house during every party I throw. What can I say about the shots in "Art" that hasn't already been said? You can see just from these screencaps how fucking epic it is. One thing I can say is that it takes ridiculous amounts of talent to get shots like these, but the secret ingredient to this type of filmmaking is dedication. When people ask me about timelapse, they often mention that I must have a lot of patience. True, I do. But that's not what gets you up at 3am to move a motion-control dolly in the freezing cold and darkness. It's not patience, it's dedication. "Art of Flight" has dedication written all over it, whether we are talking about the filmmakers, or the subjects of the film.
I don't want to ramble on too long about this film. You should buy it on Blu-Ray or iTunes and see it yourself. http://artofflightmovie.com
Though it's probably a longshot, I sincerely hope that Curt Morgan and Brainfarm will get an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature for "Art of Flight." Maybe Best Cinematography and Best Editing as well! Did I even mention the Tarantino-esque use of music in the film? But whether the establishment in Hollywood recognizes "Art" or not, the people who made this film can be proud in knowing that they significantly advanced the art of filmmaking.
LMAO, visionary director Curt Morgan from Brainfarm.
EricHinesNWI
Re: Brainfarm Cinema's "Art of Flight"
Excellent write-up, Tom. I wish I had been able to experience this on a big screen. Even on my TV, this film blew me away. The cinematography is beyond excellent, the angles were insane, and the camera moves had me scratching my head the whole time. I loved it, and it was hugely inspirational. I don't think I can ever look at a "snowboard film" in the same way ever again.
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This movie gave me chills throughout the entire film. Literally. From the amazing soundtracks, to the endless mountain ranges, The Art of Flight is insanely epic! Well said write-up Tom.
matt b
There is snow-boarding ......... and then there is SNOW-BOARDING!
(The chopper pilots are pretty insane as well.)
They have raised the bar at which extreme sport films should be made, which actually sucks cause that bar is way way overhead for many. You guys have to check out there first film "that's it that's all" as well. Amazing.
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When Tom posted the trailer on Twitter I watched the trailer and all I can say is Wow. It makes me underwhelmed with any Warren Miller stuff I've seen in the past (which is great in it's own right), but this is different.
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marcrleonard
I thought it was a beautiful movie, but here is another VERY interesting take on it:
http://biglines.com/articles/art-flight ... vie-review
It kind of tarnishes the mysticism of the movie, but I think they make some valid points.
I haven't seen it yet but there's all ways going to be haters. That guy complaining that they spent too much money, it's nothing compared to what they spend in Hollywood. If you can do it, why not. Respect to curt Morgan and the crew.
Owen.
marcrleonard wrote:
As someone who just spent 18 months on the road filming, I can tell you that conditions play a HUGE role in this type of filmmaking. They are part of the story. To complain that conditions weren't perfect for all of the filmmaking doesn't make sense to me. There were many times that me and my crew on "TimeScapes" had to sit on the sidelines due to weather conditions. This is cutting-edge stuff they are trying to do in "Art". Extremely reliant on -- and tied to -- weather.
agour
Watched it last night.. it was absolutely amazing. There was so many points when I'd literally say out loud 'what the fuck'. Some of the lines they rode were just mental, but I equally enjoyed the story aspect of the film (such as seeing the helicopter get stuck on the mountain).
The only regret I have is not watching it on a decent full HD tv.
Commercial time lapse: https://www.timepluslight.co.uk/
samoakes
"The Art of Flight" is an amazing film, that cineflex produces some crazy images, however I still believe the bar for action sports was set by "Life Cycles" last year, if there was a way to use a cineflex in the forest I'm sure they would have done so. I know I might be biased being a mountain biker and prefer Life Cycles but the storyline, the ebb and the flow of the film is fantastic, so check it out as well if you haven't seen it.
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samoakes wrote:
Trailer looks pretty cool, how good is the last shot where it changes seasons as he rides through, how to do that anyone?I don't think it compares to art of flight though (budget and use of technology wise), maybe story but I haven't seen it. Is this film made by the same guys that made seasons ? I saw that a few years ago and I thought that was a game changer.
Owen wrote:
just shoot a 6 month timelapse from the tree, then use some masking in post to draw the season change in behind the rider
A large majority of the first section of the film has the season changing shots, it even changes to snowy winter at points. For sure the budget isn't on the same level as The Art of Flight, but use of the RED ONE throughout and some shots with the Fastec for slow motion as far as I am aware, makes for some beautiful eye candy.
Tom Guilmette did a reviewon it a while back which is significantly more insightful than my ramblings, so check that out and you'll get the idea.
As far as I could tell I believe the changing seasons shots were fixed camera mounts left in the woods and returned to each season, then brought together in post.
iamekim
This film's just superb, stunning images..
Rookies. http://www.timelapseph.com/
That's exactly what they did. One of the benefits of watching it in bluray on a big screen is that you can recognize the AE style masking
Sweet movie for sure. But just the nature of each sport and what is involved logistically, what brainfarm is accomplishing still blows away anything else in my opinion. Not that lifecycles isn't great, just shot composition alone is so good in that movie...... If you could mix brainfarm's dynamics with lifecycle's attention to framing and color the world as we know it would end But that's the nature of each beast: it's so much easier to do retakes with bikes until you get it right....which is why the brainfarm crew is so amazing, cameras and athletes alike.
Fortunately they're two different sports so I'm stoked to watch what comes out of both the next few years without too much of 'so and so was a better snowboarding movie/bike movie'
Anyone else following these sports flicks should check out 'All I Can' from sherpa cinemas this year if you haven't already. Some really beautiful, dynamic shots in there as well. Plus some more seasonal camera trickery. I wanted to slap the eyeballs out of the editor's face the first time I saw it though. Way too spastic in my opinion. Considering it's their first 'big' release I image they'll get more and more fine tuned in the future.
MrJash
Ive been watching snowboard films since VHS seeing MackDawg dominate the scene with Technical Difficulites and Simple Pleasures-pretty basic run and gun shots with rockn music. The big step up was True Life where the riders had a lot of input in there "section" and the music and filming started to flow better. For years the quality stayed basically the same as far as how the films were put together until Brainfarm came into the scene with Thats It Thats all. Travis Rice (snowboarder and recent win in the RedBull Supernatural also using Brainfarm for filming) has been very influential in this filming and getting some amazing rider footage with Brainfarm. Those guys are amazing filmakers and with the Art of Flight there is no comparison out there. Brainfarm is full of great ideas and Im glad to see there work in more popular (extreme sports). Thanks Tom for sharing your insight on there filmaking and equipment.
So check out Thats It Thats All (the first Blur Ray I ever bought).
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Addictions and National Addictions Awareness Week – November 13 – 19, 2016.
Sometimes the biggest mistakes we make in life are the biggest learning lessons. Can you imagine if you fell down and the world judged you, how would you feel? You couldn’t find employment despite your efforts and intentions. Then, you have to tap into social service, which in itself creates a whole other dynamic of judgment. So, if someone is knocking on your door saying “here I am, I need your help”; open the door and remember that if they are knocking, they have already started on the road to recovery, to heal and re-gain their self respect.
The commonly held misconception that addiction and substance abuse is not a genuine health issue, creates a damaging stigma that denigrates those affected and prevents them from seeking or getting help. So, in Canada to effectively tackle addictions problem, there needs to be a shift in how these issues are perceived; a realization that they do come under the spectrum of mental health and that those affected need care, support and access to resources.
Addiction is defined as compulsive and persistent need for and use of a habit-forming substance, despite harmful consequences. Addiction is characterized by tolerance and well-defined physiological symptoms apparent upon withdrawal.
The abuse of illegal and prescription substances, has recently been publicized, and includes drugs such as: strong narcotic painkillers, Oxycodone and Fentanyl. Recent deaths have been associated with Fentanyl misuse.
So here are some noteworthy points:
• Alcohol remains the most widely-used drug in Canada, with close to 80 per cent of British Columbians reporting drinking in the past year
• Addiction is only disease that allows the addict to live in denial and the denial also spreads outwards towards families and communities, often through shame,
• Addiction has huge ramifications on personal, family and community,
• Addiction has many faces ; alcohol, drugs, smoking tobacco, gambling, shopping, over exercising, eating disorders, Internet, homelessness, etc
• The shame and loss of self dignity associated with addiction is one of the biggest barriers to people getting help, following the stigma attached to addiction
• Acute and sudden alcohol withdrawal is known to be fatal.
Each year, the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) joins organizations across the country in observing National Addictions Awareness Week (NAAW). Led nationally by CCSA, NAAW highlights issues and solutions to help address alcohol- and other drug-related harm. It provides an opportunity for Canadians to learn more about substance abuse prevention, to talk about treatment and recovery, and to bring forward solutions for change.
Addiction and Employment
There’s a monster at your workplace that nobody wants to look at. Everybody knows it exists. That it’s big. It’s ugly. And it’s dangerous. We’d rather cover our eyes and pretend it’s not there. Maybe we’ll peek out once in a while to see if it’s gone away yet. The bad news is that it’s not going anywhere. As a matter of fact, it’s growing!
Approximately 77% of individuals struggling with addiction are employed. Employees suffering from an addiction function at about two thirds of their capacity and are 3.5 times more likely to be involved in a workplace accident.
The Canadian Human Rights Act (the Act) prohibits discrimination in employment on a number of grounds and permits employers to accommodate an employee with a disability. The Act considers both mental illness and drug and alcohol dependence as disabilities. The employer needs to know how the employee’s condition affects their work. The employee does not have to disclose information about the diagnosis, the history of the illness or its treatment. It’s also okay for an employer to ask an employee or applicant to provide supporting documentation from a health care provider.
How can Substance Abuse be a problem at work?
• An impairment can cause serious accidents or death,
• Interfere with the work accuracy and efficiency,
• Absenteeism, illness, and/or reduced productivity,
• Preoccupation with obtaining and using a substance interferes with attention/concentration,
• Illegal activities at work including selling illicit drugs or stealing,
• Workplace conflict, staff turnover, disciplinary procedures and low staff morale,
• Psychological effects on a person due to substance abuse by a family member,
• Are there elements of work that may contribute to abuse of substances?
Elements of work that can play a major role contributing to substance abuse:
• High stress or fatigue,
• Low job satisfaction,
• Long hours or irregular shifts,
• Repetitious duties or periods of inactivity or boredom,
• Isolation or irregular supervision
• Easy access to substances.
Work can be an important place to address substance abuse issues. Employers and employees can collaborate on policies which outline what is an acceptable code of conduct. Employers can help troubled employees by establishing resources and programs such as an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) or provide referrals to community services.
Youth and substance abuse
Increasing number of Canada’s youth are experiencing issues with substance abuse which is a growing problem, especially prescription drugs. Canada is now the second-largest per capita consumer of prescription opioids (exceeded only by the United States), according to the International Narcotics Control Board (2013). These drugs can be diverted and misused by youth and public.
Canadian Executive Council on Addictions and Interim Executive Director of Provincial Addiction and Mental Health Services at Alberta Health Services is quoted as saying; “Youth may think that prescription drugs are safe because they’re taken out of their parent’s medicine cabinet, but they can cause significant harm. “The average child takes their first drink at thirteen and, by the time they’re in grades 10 – 12, half say they’re binge drinking and this is damaging brain development because there are many areas of the brain that don’t fully develop until the early and mid-twenties.”
Another troubling situation in Canada is the relationship that our youth are developing with alcohol. Young people are drinking from an earlier age and many are now binge drinking as a social norm.
In keeping with other risk taking behaviors, there are also significant physical and sexual risks associated with youth binge drinking.
Substance Abuse, Stigma and Barriers to Treatment for Women
In the forefront of psychosocial influences on women, is the misuse of alcohol and other drugs plus the stigma arising from societal attitudes towards women. This stigma causes women to feel considerable guilt and shame as their substance use/misuse which creates a sabotaging sequence of events continuing and creating barriers to their accessing help.
The stigma associated with women substance abuse affects service providers as well. Women often encounter misinformation, denial, inaction and even punitive attitudes towards their substance use by professionals in a position to intervene or position of authority and thus they may not be identified as needing help.
Addiction Awareness in New Westminster
There are several treatment centers for men, youth and women here in New Westminster. It covers all possible demographic, including services for people released from the justice system. There are excellent Youth programs, including services for Aboriginal youth as well as Immigrants. There are Homeless Shelters and services available to Women who have undergone abuse.
Summarising, New Westminster is a hub of activity, in terms of addiction services and related employment services, resources and access to Service Canada and Ministry offices.
Acknowledgements and Thanks:
Government of BC
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety Substance Abuse in the Workplace
Vancouver Coastal Health
Charity Village
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
BC Womens Hospital
BC Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
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Masonic Education vs. Practicing Freemasonry
July 13, 2010 by Masonic Traveler 3 Comments
I’ve been in recent mental debate over the place of Freemasonry in academia (more here) and the practice of Freemasonry in the real world.
More specifically, how Masonry is perceived in the academic sphere in a past and present light, vs. the contemporary practice of Freemasonry itself, what the fraternity is doing as a whole in creating or generating ideas and philosophy.
One of the limiting aspects of studying the Fraternity is that it has to focus on specific elements: i.e. lodges, meetings, minutes, attendance, composition of lodges in a particular area and the correspondence to and from the lodge. What it doesn’t take into account is what ritual that particular lodge is practicing, which I would suggest, dictates the ideology that is coming out of a particular area.
This becomes less of a concern as you enter into the North American Freemasonry that puts its practice squarely under the United Grand Lodge of England. With a homogenized ritual (Webb-Preston) and a stuff Grand Lodge leadership, innovation is virtually wiped clean from unique practice developing lodge to lodge. Yes, the ritual does vary state to state to some degree, but there is little change to its core metrics. As standardization goes, this is a boon for inter-recognition, but a bust ti innovating new rituals, new philosophy, and new creativity.
How I see this as relating to academia is that as more and more scholarly institutions start to come on line to study Freemasonry, what they may see is the early contribution to civil society (see Bullocks’s Revolutionary Brotherhood Jacob’s Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe , and Harlan-Jacob’s Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism ) but little by way of the need to innovate in a tamed and civilized world. Rather, what will be evident is the process by which the different groups (lodges and grand lodges) work to form a network of laws (jurisprudence) to say who is and who isn’t in the main. I see this as a corporation making contractual deals to say who they “recognize” and who they “do not recognize” which is less about philosophical development, and more about partnerships and networks.
(This is a good explanation of what civil society is and how it relates to Freemasonry from the University of Antwerp)
Yet, perhaps these types of partnerships are in fact the foundation of how Freemasonry set about to (inadvertently) shape society. Imagine just such a an agreement today between a masculine Grand Lodge and feminine Grand Lodge, recognition not on principals, but on necessity, which in turn creates a new principal.
Of greater interest to me, however, is the variation of ritual which preceded the dominance of Grand Lodge Masonry (still at play in European Masonry in the milieu of Grand Lodges and Masonic Confederations like Clipsas and Lithos), where the diversity of ideas, practice, and culture become the foundation stones of the fraternity rather than a bane to it.
In many ways, I see this as the practice of Freemasonry in that it exceeds the idea of a lodge business meeting and puts it into an amplified mode of constructive operation.
I hope that academia will be able to pick up on that subtly and explore the internal mechanisms that generate its ability to make such a contribution to the creation of civil society.
In short, the question that comes to mind is as much rich history there is from the past, what is being created today that will be studied by academia tomorrow. How is Freemasonry contributing to the creation of civil society now?
Filed Under: Masonic Traveler Tagged With: academia, civil society, Clipsas, Lithos, margaret jacob, philosophy vs. practice, scholarship, Steven C. Bullock, ucla
Masonic History and Scholarship
March 14, 2009 by Masonic Traveler 1 Comment
This piece comes from deep in the archives about a guest on the Masonic Central podcast. It was originally assembled for episode 30 (circa 2009), yet remained unpublished.
Some say that history is written by the victors. That triumphs are in fact triumphant, and the losses are only momentary set backs in a progressive path to the eventual story that you read in the history books.
But at times some histories run concurrently with others, and that there isn’t really a victor or vanquished, but instead parallel paths where points merge and blend together. Freemasonry, it would seem, is just one of these histories where its various paths of existence seem to weave in and out of society and with other branches of itself.
For many years the fraternity has sprouted its own cadre of story tellers, its own historians. From Anderson’s early mythologies of its existence, to Yarker and Pike to name only a few, none have ever really stepped out of the box to understand the intricate workings as it relates to society. Robinson tried to do some justice, as did Ridley in his historical work, but neither brought the study of the Freemasons out of the realm of the speculative and in to academia, at least not in any meaningful way.
Dr. Margaret C. Jacob
It wasn’t until the last decade or two that the study of Freemasonry took on a more meaningful study where today the craft stands at a turning point in the broader study of civil society. At the helm of that change is the scholarship of UCLA professor, Dr. Margaret C. Jacob.
Jacob, at the time of the interview, was one of the eminent scholars of Freemasonry, studying the role of the fraternity looking for its context within the world it inhabited. One of the interesting subjects covered was the Masonic ephemera horde amassed by the Nazis in WWII, and confiscated by Russian allied troops and taken back to Moscow and recovered in the post Cold War era, a topic Jaconb covers in her book Strangers Nowhere in the World .
Masonry still has its arm chair and library historians, but Dr. Jacob has elevated the speculative history of our gentle craft to the hallowed halls of the university, and its from this study that our understanding of the fraternity today has far exceeding beyond what our understanding was of it before.
In this episode of Masonic Central, Dr. Jacob explored with us how she become the eminent Masonic scholar that she is today. And in that conversation we look behind the veil of time to learn about her ideas on the past, present, and future of Freemasonry. This was a unique opportunity to hear from the top American scholar on the subject, and a program I strongly recommend that you listen to. Give a listen to this 2009 interview with Dr. Jacob and decide for yourself how far Freemasonry has stretched from the armchair into academia.
You can read more on Dr. Jacob on her UCLA biography.
Works concerning Freemasonry by Dr. Margaret C. Jacob:
Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe – 1991
The Origins of Freemasonry: Facts and Fictions – 2005
The Radical Enlightenment – Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans – 2006
Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe – 2006
Filed Under: Masonic Central, Masonic Traveler Tagged With: historian, history, interview, margaret jacob, Masonic Central, pod cast, ucla
Dr. Margaret Jacob on Masonic Central
March 12, 2009 by Masonic Traveler Leave a Comment
Origins of Freemasonry by Margaret Jacob
Some say that history is written by the victors. Triumphs are in fact triumphant, and losses are only momentary set backs in a progressive path to the eventual story that you read in the history books.
But at times some histories run concurrently with others, and that there isn’t really a victor or vanquished, but instead parallel paths that points merge and blend together. Freemasonry, it would seem, is just one of these histories where its various paths of existence seem to weave in and out of society and with other branches of itself.
For many years the fraternity has sprouted its own cadre of story tellers, its own historians. From Anderson’s early mythologies of Freemasonry’s existence, to Yarker and Pike to name but a few, none have ever really stepped out of the box to understand the intricate workings as it relates to society. Robinson has done some justice, as has Ridley in his work, but neither brought the study of the Freemasons out of the realm of the speculative and in to academia, at least not in any meaningful way.
It wasn’t until about a decade or so ago that the study of Freemasonry took on a more meaningful study, where today the craft stands at a turning point in the broader study of civil society. And, at the helm of that ship is the scholarship of Dr. Margaret Jacob.
On Sunday, March 15, 2009, Dr. Margaret Jacob, the distinguished professor of History at UCLA, sat down with Masonic Central to discuss her academic study of Freemasonry, as recorded in her books: The Origins of Freemasonry: Facts and Fictions , Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe , and The Radical Enlightenment – Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans .
Additional topics to include: the Paradox of Masonic Secrecy in the 18th Century, Freemasonry in academia, and the role that Freemasonry occupies in the broader study of Civil Society.
It was a very interesting evening of discussion with the pre-eminent scholar of American and European Freemasonry.
If you’ve never had the opportunity to attend a lecture given by Professor Jacob, or have heard said that you should, this is the program for you. Dr. Jacob has a unique unbiased insight to our Masonic institution as her academic endeavors come from outside of the fraternity, rather than the inside.
Filed Under: Masonic Central Tagged With: civil society, Freemasonry, history, interview, margaret jacob
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Photo: Bloor West Villager
Purple Martins (Progne subis) are voracious eaters of flying insects. Like many other birds with similar feeding habits, their population has been declining in Ontario. Historically they nested in cavities created by woodpeckers, but now they rely mainly on human-supplied housing.
For more information: http://www.purplemartin.org
2015-2017 UPDATE - No confirmed breeding activity but some adults were seen flying over Grenadier Pond, perhaps nesting elsewhere nearby.
2014 UPDATE - PURPLE MARTIN HOUSE UP AGAIN After some minor repairs and a new paint job (thanks to Ray and Mike, and Sherwin Williams at Keele & St. Clair for the supplies), the Purple Martin house is up again. Two females were seen checking it out as soon as it was erected.
2013 UPDATE - NEW PURPLE MARTIN HOUSE Purple Martins have a new High Park home because of the talents of a few Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton Catholic Secondary School students. READ BLOOR WEST VILLAGER ARTICLE
At least two nest-holes were occupied this year and several young were fledged.
2012 UPDATE During a brief storm in late June, the nest box was torn off its post by the wind and later recovered from the nearby marsh. No young were seen after this event, so likely the two broods were lost.
2011 UPDATE - A pair of purple martins have once again occupied the nest box at the south end of Grenadier Pond, same hole as last year. Another nest hole was used on the pond side of the box, so at least two pairs bred here.
2010 UPDATE After an absence of eight years, the Purple Martin , North America’s largest swallow, has returned to High Park thanks to the erection of a new nesting house, part of an ongoing restoration program designed to improve aquatic and terrestrial habitats for birds and other wildlife in the park.
While the species used to be a regular visitor to the park, breeding at the pond for many years, a sudden cold spell across much of southern Ontario in May 2002 killed off their food supply (flying insects) and left many Purple Martins dead from starvation. To make matters worse, the old nesting house on the east shore of Grenadier Pond erected by Toronto Field Naturalists in the 1960s had become hemmed in by trees and was taken over by house sparrows.
Noting these changes, the High Park Natural Environment Committee recommended to park staff that a new nesting house be erected at an unobstructed site on the south shore of the pond. In spring 2007, as part of a shoreline restoration project, the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority erected a new house that could be lowered easily for regular cleaning and maintenance. While bird enthusiasts were disappointed that no Purple Martins nested there in 2008 or 2009, this May (2010) saw two pairs of the bird establish nests there.
Read 2010 articles: Toronto Star, Inside Toronto, Town Crier.
Ray cleaning the nest box
In fall 2010, two volunteers, Ray Bielaskie and Michael White, took on the task of cleaning the purple martin house. They lowered the house, scraped out the remains of nests, and washed the whole house down with a weak solution of bleach before reassembling and re-erecting it to await next spring's migrants.
The house rebuilt in 2013 has been designed with removable sections to make cleaning easier.
Purple Martin (male)
Karen Yukich
Purple Martin (female)
Miguel de la Bastide
Purple Martin (immature male)
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"GHOSTBUSTERS DAY" News plus Five All-New "Character Vignettes" Videos
GHOSTBUSTERS DAY: JUNE 8, 2016
In celebration of GHOSTBUSTERS:
The Original Cast Reunites and Joins the New Cast on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” as
Moviegoers Celebrate the Franchise with Screenings of the Original Film, a Sneak Peek at the New Film, Fun Events, a Contest, and More
CULVER CITY, Calif., June 3, 2016 – In anticipation of the release of Ghostbusters, which brings the legendary franchise back to theaters with a new team fighting the paranormal on July 15, Sony Pictures and moviegoers across the country will celebrate the classic franchise with Ghostbusters Day on Wednesday, June 8 – the anniversary of the release date of the original 1984 film.
On Ghostbusters Day, the cast of the original classic Ghostbusters – including Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, and Annie Potts – will reunite and join the new Ghostbusters – Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones – as they honor the franchise that evening with an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” “Jimmy Kimmel Live” airs weeknights at 11:35pm Eastern and Pacific / 10:35pm Central on ABC.
Fans will also be able to join in the celebration by seeing a sneak peek of the new film as part of the Fathom Events presentation of the original classic in more than 800 cinemas nationwide on June 8, with encore showings on Sunday, June 12. In addition, in Brooklyn, BBQ Films will present the world’s only official immersive screening of the classic Ghostbusters – a transportive experience built around the classic movie called GHOSTBUSTERS HQ.
Participating theaters will also join in the fun with sweepstakes. Cinemark is giving fans the chance to score one of ten signed posters for the new film through a social media giveaway and as a collectible reward in their all-new app-based loyalty program, Cinemark Connections. And when Regal Cinemas Crown Club Members buy a ticket to the classic movie, they will be entered for the chance to win a flyaway to the premiere of the new Ghostbusters film in Los Angeles, plus a $2500 gift card for travel and accommodations.
Guests of BBQ Films to GHOSTBUSTERS HQ in Brooklyn on the 8th will not only get a 360-degree interactive experience, but also an exclusive first chance to play the new Ghostbusters console game and the mobile game, Ghostbusters: Slime City, both from Activision. Fans will have the chance to record their unique spectral encounters using special GIPHY Cam filters, and enjoy Hi-C Ecto Cooler beverages at the bar. New shows have been added, including a family show. More information is available at www.bbqfilms.com.
Fans will be able to check out the Ghostbusters’ ride, the Ecto-1, with national and local appearances.
The studio will also launch the Ghostbusters Twitter Mission Sweepstakes on Ghostbusters Day. The sweepstakes will award cool prizes, like custom Ghostbusters uniforms, every week leading up to the release of the film to users who retweet contest messages. Twitter users can join in the fun by following @Ghostbusters.
Fans can also follow the movie at @Ghostbusters on their favorite social networks, as the day will be documented via Facebook Live, Periscope, Snapchat Live Stories, and other social coverage.
In addition, moviegoers can now hear Elle King’s “Good Girls,” from the film’s original soundtrack, which is available now at all digital providers. Click here to listen. “Good Girls” was written by Elle King and Dave Bassett and produced by Bassett. The soundtrack will be available on July 15th.
Ghostbusters makes its long-awaited return, rebooted with a cast of hilarious new characters. Thirty years after the beloved original franchise took the world by storm, director Paul Feig brings his fresh take to the supernatural comedy, joined by some of the funniest actors working today – Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and Chris Hemsworth. This summer, they’re here to save the world! The film is produced by Ivan Reitman and Amy Pascal, and written by Katie Dippold & Paul Feig, based on the 1984 film “Ghostbusters,” an Ivan Reitman film, written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.
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IRL (In Real Life) »
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Florida deserves its own thread
Author Topic: Florida deserves its own thread (Read 32728 times)
besilarius
ringmaster at circus amateur night
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3237813/Florida-woman-arrested-500-weapons-fake-body-parts-mobile-home-including-machete-used-attack-police-officer.html
“Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out until too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along”. Terry Pratchett.
During filming of Airplane, Leslie Nielsen used a whoopee cushion to keep the cast off-balance. Hays said that Nielsen "played that thing like a maestro"
Tallulah Bankhead: "I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me."
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Master Chiefs are sneaky, dastardly, and snarky miscreants who thrive on the tears of Ensigns and belly dancers. Admiral Gerry Bogan.
Nefaro
Re: Florida deserves its own thread
"Ohhh sweet Satan! Thank you for your gift of arts & crafts!"
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Co Butt-Kicker-For-Goodness of Minsc and Boo
Thank God she got all those dangerous and perverted objects off the street and out of the hands of someone not mentally stable. And on a related note, looks like I'll know where to go Yard-Sale Shopping.
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.
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It's always good to get a reminder that what I think was a bad week wasn't so bad in comparison.
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Quote from: panzerde on September 18, 2015, 03:47:14 PM
They put the straight jacket on too tight for the week?
Had my underwear on backwards the whole time.
you wear underwear?
Damn, I guess that was the root problem then!
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...uh, I mean Florida having its own thread / tag. Not... whatever underwear sidequest y'all are getting off on.
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Oh, dear.
Two years ago, Augustus Sol Invictus walked from central Florida to the Mojave Desert and spent a week fasting and praying, at times thinking he wouldn't survive. In a pagan ritual to give thanks when he returned home, he killed a goat and drank its blood.
Now that he's a candidate for U.S. Senate, the story is coming back to bite him.
The chairman of the Libertarian Party of Florida has resigned to call attention to Invictus' candidacy in hopes that other party leaders will denounce him. Adrian Wyllie, who was the Libertarian candidate for governor last year, says Invictus wants to lead a civil war, is trying to recruit neo-Nazis to the party and brutally and sadistically dismembered a goat.
source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/05/florida-senate-candidate-sacrificed-goat-drank-blood/?intcmp=hpbt4
Quote from: LongBlade on October 05, 2015, 04:21:10 PM
I politically lean Libertarian more than anything, but the American Libertarian party is a joke. It's full of Isolationists and other assorted nutjobs. This article certainly doesn't refute that, either.
Centurion40
Wasn't there a poster over at the WG called Sol Invictus?
Any time is a good time for pie.
Now that you mention it, I think there was.
I wondered why that sounded familiar.
Sol Invictus was a Roman Legion-favored deity worshiped by soldiers, much in the way Mithras was also favored as a martial god.
Sol Invictus was also a UK band that was controversial because it's founder had been part of the National Front. He later renounced any interest in the Front.
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Web Only / Features » June 28, 2019
The Democratic Debates Showcased the Most Dangerous Form of Climate Denial
By failing to recognize the urgency of the crisis, most candidates are helping bury it.
BY Thea N. Riofrancos
Democratic presidential candidates take part in the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate on June 27, 2019 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
An ongoing forest fire has ravaged more than 42,000 acres of the Florida Everglades. Forest fires are a natural occurrence, but they are expected to get worse as climate change lengthens the fire season and reduces rainfall. About 40 miles south of the blaze is Miami, a coastal city of half a million resting on a foundation of porous limestone, which floods on sunny days and could be partly underwater by 2045.
The first Democratic Primary Debates of the 2020 election unfolded in Miami amid this climate chaos. Climate change will transform the future in unforeseeably ways. But this transformation is already happening all around us. The next decade is the time to embark on a just transition to climate safety: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report says that we need to cut global carbon emissions in half in this timeframe to have any hope of staving off a climate crisis that would existentially threaten human society. Alarmingly, most Democratic candidates have made it clear that they have little understanding of the magnitude of the threat and the response required to meet it. And moderators curated debates devoid of the urgency this moment demands.
On Wednesday, the first debate devoted a total of seven minutes to the existential threat of global warming. The moderators evidenced paltry knowledge of the subject: Chuck Todd confused the key terms “mitigation” (reducing emissions) and “adaptation” (increasing resiliency), and echoed right-wing talking points about the “cost” of addressing climate change. None of the 10 candidates mentioned the Green New Deal. On Thursday, it was eight minutes spent on climate, and three candidates referred briefly to the Green New Deal. One of them was John Hickenloper, who cited it as an example of why candidates shouldn’t identify as socialists.
Of course, it’s far more important to look at what candidates actually do beyond the debate spotlight. Jay Inslee stands out for convincingly campaigning on climate change as his number-one priority. His plans for sector-by-sector decarbonization and phasing out the fossil fuel industry are impressively detailed—and even suggest using state power to decommission oil, gas and coal assets.
Elizabeth Warren has multiple plans for that, and aspects of them, like the call for a concerted industrial policy and mass job creation, are good. But a worrying thread of “economic patriotism” unites those plans: She sees the global market for green technology as a way for the U.S. to reassert its manufacturing prowess, a quest for dominance that would undermine global cooperation.
At last night’s debate, Todd did a slightly better job presenting his climate question, framing climate change as a “major concern for voters” and asking for policy details. But candidates’ responses left much to be desired.
Kamala Harris referred to the “climate crisis” as an “existential threat” and voiced support for a Green New Deal, but quickly pivoted to other supposed threats—Trump, King Jong Un, and Putin—thus undercutting the punch of her initially bold statement.
Joe Biden waxed nostalgic about the Obama administration’s achievements, emphasized the need for electric-vehicle-recharging stations, and discussed jobs and the Paris Accord before pointing the finger at the “85 percent of the world makes up the rest” of carbon emissions.
Hickenloper, a man who once claimed he drank fracking fluid to prove it was harmless, said working with the oil and gas industry will help address climate change. But those industries are to blame both for climate change and for fostering the dangerous negligence of our political system; they must be dismantled and their executives prosecuted.
Pete Buttigieg called for “aggressive and ambitious measures.” His first example? A “carbon tax and dividend”—the posterchild for the gradual, technocratic, market-oriented proposals that have failed to gain political traction or avert climate chaos.
Of the 20, only Bernie Sanders seemed to grasp—and relish—the need to confront the fossil fuel industry, and to divert the “trillion and a half dollars” we spend “on weapons of destruction” to transform our energy systems. It’s less the dollar amount that sets him apart, and more the way he links international cooperation and U.S. demilitarization—and doesn’t shy away from naming climate change as our “common enemy.” Yet he didn’t mention the Green New Deal, even though it is an element of his campaign platform.
Weeks earlier, Tom Perez, chair of the Democratic National Committee, rejected calls for a debate centered on the climate emergency. His reasons, which framed the climate crisis as one narrow “issue” among many others and concern-trolled about breaking the previously-devised rules governing debate procedure, were cringeworthy. He also threatened any candidate who participates in a unsanctioned debate with exclusion from the official ones.
By doing so, he offered an on-the-nose illustration of how the political establishment is aiding and abetting the crimes of fossil capital. Perhaps Democratic Party elites believe that ignoring climate change is somehow necessary to winning over some slice of voters against Trump next November. But they're wrong on the politics: People know that action is necessary. According to recent polls commissioned by Data for Progress, 64% of registered Democratic voters want a climate debate and 71% support a Green New Deal.
On Tuesday, hundreds of Sunrise Movement activists descended the DNC headquarters, demanding a climate debate. As of Thursday, dozens remained, having camped out overnight. Their persistence matches the depth of the crisis. As Sunrise co-founder Varshini Prakash said in a statement released Tuesday, “Business as usual is a death sentence.”
The most dangerous form of climate denial is no longer Senator Jim Inhofe throwing a snowball on the Senate floor to prove that global warming isn’t real, or Trump calling climate change a Chinese hoax. It’s liberal and centrist politicians who should know better appealing to “bipartisan consensus,” immediately shifting the blame to other countries when the U.S. has among the highest per-capita emissions in the world, or asking, “How will we pay for it?”
Moderators shouldn't wait roughly an hour and 19 minutes, as they did at last night's debate, to ask the first question explicitly about climate change—and Democratic candidates shouldn't wait for them to do so either. Climate change shapes every other political question. It does not belong on a laundry list of topics, because we can’t build a better world without a livable planet.
Thea N. Riofrancos
Thea N. Riofrancos is assistant professor of political science at Providence College and serves on the steering committee of the Democratic Socialists of America’s ecosocialist working group. Her forthcoming book is Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador.
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William P. Stoneman
Leaf from the Tarleton Book of Hours
Paris, ca. 1430
This leaf illuminated with an initial of St. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read contains the Suffrage of St. Anne from the Tarleton Book of Hours. Houghton acquired the leaf at auction as an example of the work of the Master of the Harvard Hannibal, named by the art historian Millard Meiss after the illuminator’s work on the large frontispiece miniature depicting the Coronation of Hannibal in volume II of Houghton Library’s MS Richardson 32, a medieval French translation of Livy.
The Tarleton Hours was severely trimmed along its upper edge in an early rebinding. It remained in the Tarleton family from at least 1784 until 1951 when it was sold and dismembered; it originally included 35 miniatures. The acquisition of this and a second leaf from the Tarleton Hours, MS Lat 451, acquired at the same sale and depicting Christ before Pontius Pilate illustrating Lauds in the Hours of the Virgin, not only gives students an opportunity to examine at first hand the full range of the Master of the Harvard Hannibal’s work, both religious and secular, but also provides a basis for the experimental digital reconstruction of the manuscript, a topic of considerable current scholarly interest.
MS Lat 450, Richard S. Chute Library Fund for Medieval English Collections and the Henry Saltonstall Howe Fund, 2014
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How You Can Get “Burned” By A Little White Lie
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Guy Winch, Ph.D.
What you don’t know about a little white lie can harm you
We’ve all told the occasional little white lie, whether to spare someone’s feelings or to avoid troubling them. But now a new study reports that doing so can impact on our own feelings in ways we don’t anticipate. Telling white lies can even cost us money.
Waiter, There’s a Fly in My Soup
Researches Jennifer Argo and Baba Shiv wanted to examine what happens when we tell white lies to gloss over the minor dis-satisfactions we encounter as consumers. Most of us make informed decisions as to when to complain about minor customer service infractions and when to let things slide. The vast majority of us do not speak up in such situations because our general complaining psychology has become extremely defeatist. When it comes to our complaints, we feel much more comfortable expressing them to our friends than to the companies and businesses that can actually resolve them.
Specifically, we convince ourselves that complaining will be more trouble than it’s worth and that even if we did complain, we would be unlikely to get a satisfying resolution. So we say nothing. Of course by doing so, we set into motion a self-fulfilling prophecy as by not speaking up, our dis-satisfactions indeed remain unresolved.
Waiter, There’s no Fly in My Soup
But what happens if we not only fail to speak up but actually tell a white lie in such situations? Although it might seem as though no harm could come from telling a waiter our meal is fine when we don’t love it, or telling a hairdresser we like our new do when in fact we’re not thrilled with it, Argo and Shiv discovered that such is not the case.
For example, they found that 85% of diners in restaurants admitted to telling white lies when their dining experiences were unsatisfactory (i.e., claiming all was well when it wasn’t). However the real interesting finding was that diners who told white lies to cover up their dissatisfactions were then likely to leave bigger tips than those who did not. Why would diners who were less satisfied with their meals and who lied to their server about it leave an even bigger tip as a result? The researchers propose that cognitive dissonance was at play.
Waiter, the Fly in My Soup Was Delicious
Cognitive dissonance refers to situations in which our actions do not match our beliefs, creating a state of psychological and emotional discomfort. We tend to resolve cognitive dissonance by making efforts to align our actions with our beliefs by tinkering with one of them (either the action or the belief). Cognitive dissonance tends to operate unconsciously and not in a premeditated manner.
As to the current study, we all have an acceptable range of dishonesty. When our white lies fall outside that range it can trigger cognitive dissonance as we feel uncomfortable about our dishonesty. We might then try to reduce our cognitive dissonance by engaging in behaviors that actually favor the wrongdoer (as by doing so we ‘make up’ for our dishonesty). As a result, we not only tell the waiter the soup is delicious when there was a (metaphotical) fly in it, we then tip them even more to make up for our lying.
Seeing Through Others’ White Lies
Interestingly, 95% of the servers in the study indicated they knew when customers were lying about such things (i.e., saying the food was satisfactory when it wasn’t) and 100% of the servers (none of whom were trained as lie detectors or as psychologists) believed such lies translated into bigger tips.
In a previous post I discuss the many negative psychological, relationship and financial consequences we encounter by succumbing to our defeatist complaining psychology. Here is one more price we pay for being ineffective complainers-we leave bigger tips when we fail to speak up about an unsatisfactory dining experience. Learning effective complaining skills can benefit us in many ways and it would certainly help reduce our cognitive dissonance in situations of consumer dis-satisfaction. Or we could hope to develop a fondness for flies in our soup…
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Reference: Argo, J. & Shiv, B. Are White Lies as Innocuous as We Think? Journal of Consumer Research. April 2012 Vol. 38
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Guy Winch, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, keynote speaker, and author whose books have already been translated into thirteen languages. His most recent book is Emotional First Aid: Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries (Hudson Street Press, 2013). The Squeaky Wheel: Complaining the Right Way to Get Results, Improve Your Relationships and Enhance Self-Esteem (Walker & Company) was published in January 2011. Dr. Winch received his doctorate in clinical psychology from New York University in 1991 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in family and couples therapy at NYU Medical Center. He has been working with individuals, couples and families in his private practice in Manhattan, since 1992. He is a member of the American Psychological Association. In addition to the Blog on this site, Dr. Winch also writes the popular Squeaky Wheel Blog on Psychology Today.com, and blogs for Huffington Post.
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Types of site changes brought on by splogs
Date Fri 10 May 2019 Tags reporting / marketing
Think PowerPoint style, not essay. The sites that Google will rank highest for a particular search term are the ones that appear the most relevant and that have the best content and best design. At the same time though, they will also be the ones that have the most trust. This means that Google considers them an authoritative resource and expects the information on their site to be accurate and well-written. Smartphone users have Cortana, Google Now, and Siri to help them while they are on the go. Whilst Search Engine Optimisation is indeed a powerful form of digital marketing, there are other types of marketing which can be advantageous to use alongside SEO marketing. For example, PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising and social media marketing can be very useful alongside a SEO campaign.
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Once you have completed your initial keyword research, review your keywords to identify which are most relevant for your business and which have the highest volume. Not everyone can be an ICANN registrar. This means that searches are now much more focused on the area in general. The Google search results page is a beautiful menagerie of links and blurbs and information and value, and any advantage your content can get in order to rank higher is worth pursuing. Google authorship is a clear advantage. With authorship, you receive a boost in visibility, clickthroughs, and influence, and you get ownership over what you create.
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Right now, social media share and likes are the activity which is most rewarded by Google and other search engines. especially for subjects that are currently relevant. So long as the brand or website name is used, a brand name or citation is created. You can't expect Google to see you as an expert on a certain topic when you have only written two sentences about it. This indicates to Google that your page probably isn't the best result to match the search query. There was a time when SEO worked because a lot of big companies didn't understand how important it really was. That opened up a lot of opportunities for smaller companies to make quick advances up the rankings.
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Website crawl-ability and making a website searchable goes beyond making sure Google can "crawl" the website. Understanding how a website's users (including Google) are navigating a website is key to building an information architecture. Building the information architecture in a way that mirrors their thought processes will help both user types discover information on a website. The voice can be one of an authority or expert in the brand's industry or it can be in a friendly, lovable, and empathetic tone. Visual content shared on Pinterest has a longer lifecycle compared to other content formats. Pins receive 40 percent of all the clicks within the first day and 70 percent take place in the first two days, the last 30 percent of clicks within the course of a month. According to Gaz Hall, a UK SEO Consultant : "Besides link building, social media and social bookmarking can help improve a website's search engine standing."
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Measuring the performance of Islamic banks using maqāsid based model
Mohammed, Mustafa Omar and Tarique, Kazi Md and Islam, Rafikul (2015) Measuring the performance of Islamic banks using maqāsid based model. Intellectual Discourse, 23. pp. 401-424. ISSN 2289-5639 (O), 0128-4878 (P)
The vision and mission of Islamic banks were supposed to reflect the adherence of their activities and aspiration to Maqāṣid al-Sharī‘ah. However, there are contentions that Islamic banks have been converging towards conventional banking system. Efforts have been expended to reverse the tide and harmonise Islamic banking to its Sharī‘ah objectives. Hitherto,the existing conventional yardsticks have failed to measure the impact of the harmonisation exercise on Islamic banks’ performance. Therefore, using maqāṣid based yardstick to measure the performance of Islamic banks becomes imperative. This study has made use of al-Imām al-Ghazālī’s theory of Maqāṣid al-Sharī‘ah and Ibn ‘Āshūr’s reinterpretation, adopting content analysis and Sekaran (2000) behavioral science methods to develop a Maqāṣid Based Performance Evaluation Model (MPEM) to measure the performance of Islamic banks. Experts’ opinions have validated the model and its acceptability. Suggestions are provided to policy makers and future research. Keywords: Harmonisation; Islamic banks; Maqāṣid al-Sharī‘ah; performance evaluation; Sharī‘ah.
harmonisation; islamic banks; maqāṣid al-Sharī‘ah; performance evaluation
H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory > HB131 Methodology.Mathematical economics. Quantitative methods
H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory > HB846 Welfare theory
Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences > Department of Economics
Dr. Mustafa Omar Mohammed Banki
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Selected heavy metals content in commercial fishes at different season landed at Fisheries Development Authority of Malaysia Complex (LKIM) Complex, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia
Ong, Meng Chuan and Abd Aziz, Norhazirah and Mohamad Shazili, Noor Azhar and Yunus, Kamaruzzaman (2018) Selected heavy metals content in commercial fishes at different season landed at Fisheries Development Authority of Malaysia Complex (LKIM) Complex, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. Journal of Sustainability Science and Management, 13 (Special Issue 5). pp. 29-38. ISSN 1823-8556
Official URL: http://jssm.umt.edu.my/wp-content/uploads/sites/51...
Fish is a common table food consumed by people for protein nourishment in Kuala Terengganu state. Therefore, a study was carried out to determine the bioaccumulation level of selected heavy metals; copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) in muscle of four most popular and landed fish species which are Nemipterus furcosus (Fork-tailed threadfin bream), Katsuwonus pelamis (Skipjack tuna), Decapterus macrosoma (Shortfin scad) and Atule mate (Yellowtail scad) which were caught at different season and landed at Fisheries Development Authority of Malaysia Complex, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. A total of 30 individuals for each species were collected during monsoon (December 2015) and non-monsoon season (September 2016). Concentrations of these heavy metals (Cu, Zn, As, Cd and Pb were determined by using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) after 0.05 g of dried samples were digested with 1.5 mL of Suprapur nitric acid. The average concentrations of Cu, Zn, As, Cd and Pb for samples of non-monsoon season are 3.31±0.26 mg/kg dry wt., 14.9±2.68 mg/kg dry wt., 9.12±3.45 mg/kg dry wt., 0.05±0.01 mg/kg dry wt. and 0.23±0.08 mg/kg dry wt., respectively. On the other hand, the average concentration of the same metals in samples of monsoon season are 5.25±1.23 mg/kg dry wt. for Cu, 32.7±9.67 mg/kg dry wt. for Zn, 24.9±6.77 mg/kg dry wt. for As, 0.11±0.07 mg/kg dry wt. for Cd and 0.66±0.21 mg/kg dry wt. for Pb, respectively. Generally, the average metals concentrations in this study were below the permitted levels set by Malaysian Food Act 1983 and Food Regulation 1985 except for As and Cd. However, the provisional tolerable weekly intake (PTWI) have been calculated for each metals and found that the PTWI value for Cd in K. pelamis caught during monsoon season was exceeded the permitted level set by FAO/WHO. This study would be useful for creation of guidelines to protect the public from the harmful effects of the toxicant present in the fish that is consumed by Kuala Terengganu people.
Heavy metals, toxicology, fishes, muscle, season, permitted level
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Fletch’s new Christmas Song – an interview with hubby
Awash with the Christmas spirit
While I do take my journalistic profession quite seriously, I have to admit it to having a bout of the giggles while interviewing my own husband. I mean, it does feel a bit ridiculous, after all, when you’ve been married for more than twenty years – to put a taping device between the two of you to start a process of ‘formal’ questioning…
Fletch wasn’t enamoured with the idea either. He even tried fobbing me off with a press release instead! Are you kidding? His own wife? There isn’t a self-respecting journalist on the planet that would do a story on the back of a mere media release. Well, except for the super-lazy and disinterested. I’ve got plenty of faults, but I’m not those.
This was an interview that HAD to be done properly. It’s all about Fletch’s new Christmas song – If You Want A Happy Christmas – out today on ITunes for a teensy-weensy $1.69. https://itun.es/i6Fb88M #iTunes
Christmas single – now available on I-Tunes
It’s an upbeat, catchy tune that will put you in the festive spirit, plus all the profits from the song will go to a wonderful charity, Blue September, to aid cancer research.
Fletch recorded the song with harmony singing sensations, The Pacific Belles, who also feature prominently in the video which can be seen on You Tube. The clip has already had more than 9,000 views. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMeRu-0q8E8
He even called on help from his ‘neighbours’ to take part in the video – with actors and great friends Stefan Dennis, Chris Milligan and James Mason joining in the shenanigans, playing the roles of a rather funky Santa and a couple of cheeky elves.
Christmas Video shoot
But enough from me. Let’s get straight into that interview. And just for the record, I call him ‘ALAN’, not Fletch in this interview, because I am, after all, a complete professional.
JEN: So tell how you came up with the lyrics for your new song?
ALAN: I’m happy to, but I’m only going to give you one shot at this because I know you’re very, very unreliable with recording interviews. So have you got a back up plan here?
(Okay, so maybe there have been technical glitches with a couple – just a couple – of interviews I’ve recorded on my IPhone that have had to be re-recorded…)
JEN: (laughter) Ah, only my fantastic memory.
ALAN: Okay then, we’ll see how you go.
JEN: So, the lyrics?
ALAN: The lyrics? Oh yes, right. Well, I personally am not a huge fan of the commercialisation of Christmas and so when I came to write a Christmas song, I wanted to do something that was fun but I wanted it to have a little bit of a message as well, and to shift the focus away from present-giving and back on to connecting with the ones you love.
JEN: Is this just a really elaborate way of you saying you’re NOT going to be buying me a present this year?
ALAN: Yes. Yes, you’re getting nothin’ but a big, big smooch right under the mistletoe.
JEN: But what about the diamond hoop ear-rings I really want? (much laughter as of course, I would never expect something so expensive from my very un-materialistic husband)
ALAN: Well, there’s plenty of rich bastards out there who will buy their wives diamond hoop ear-rings but that won’t get them anything. And you’re not going to get any.
JEN: Well, that’s just mean.
ALAN: Move on.
JEN: Why were you reluctant to be interviewed by me?
ALAN: Because you’re too invasive as an interviewer and you have a reputation for running with sleaze.
JEN: Rubbish! Give me an example.
ALAN: Your cosmetic blogs. They’re full of sleaze.
(I have no idea what he is talking about…)
JEN: Well, what about your song with the line in it about kissing under the mistletoe with a MERRY HO? What does that mean? You want to pash a drunken whore under a green leaf?
ALAN: Would you stop wasting my time?
JEN: No, this is my interview and I’m running it so just answer the question. Do you really think it’s appropriate we should be singing about drunken whores to our children at Christmas time?
ALAN: Well, it’s better to sleep with a drunken whore than a sober one.
JEN: Why?
ALAN: Because they won’t remember you the next day.
JEN: Time to move on. So what measure of success do you need from this song to make all the hard work worthwhile?
ALAN: I’d like it to have widespread distribution and recognition over the years – not just this year – and that I don’t make a loss.
JEN: So you want it to be played in shopping centres, at carols nights etc..?
FLETCH: I would like it to be played wherever people feel festive. I think it’s a festive song with a really good hook and I think people will enjoy it.
JEN: It’s already being touted by the Daily Mirror as a potential Number One hit. That’s a good start, isn’t it?
ALAN: That was very kind of them and if reaches Number One on the charts, I will be sending them a massive crate of French champagne.
JEN: Will I get any French Champagne?
ALAN: You never said it was going to a Number One Hit. You told me it sounded like a Wiggles song.
JEN: The Wiggles are very successful. Do you think it would sell better if you’d made a whole album of Christmas songs?
ALAN: And where the hell would I have found the time and money to do that?
JEN: Good point. It’s a very catchy song. Do you find it stays in your head?
ALAN: I can’t stop singing it. I wake up singing it, I go to sleep singing it…
Alan and The Pacific Belles
JEN: Does it haunt you?
ALAN: It haunts me.
JEN: Do you hate it now?
ALAN: I don’t hate it, but it haunts me. And everybody I have played it to has had the same reaction.
JEN: That’s called an earworm. Do you know that term?
ALAN: I think you mean brain worm.
JEN: No, it’s an ear worm.
ALAN: Okay, it’s an ear worm. Nice. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not.
JEN: I suppose you have to put the challenge out to everyone.Can you listen to this song twice without it being stuck in your head?
ALAN: So that’s going to be the focus of you blog?
JEN: No, it’s going to be ‘Is he Mr Scrooge or Mr Christmas?’
ALAN: (laughter, rolls on the couch and falls off)
That’s the end of our interview. I quite enjoyed it. I should also mention that If You Want A Happy Christmas was performed by Steve Purcell’s Pearly Shells, written by Alan Fletcher/Tim Smith, produced & mixed by Robin Gray, and recorded at Allan Eaton Studios in Melbourne, Victoria.
So why not buy it today, help Fletch reach Number One on the charts and help a great cause at the same time? Oh, and let me know if you DO think this song really is an ear worm!
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Notes from December 2018 Jisc Elsevier Open Science Forum
By Neil Jacobs April 29, 2019
With apologies for the delay in getting these online, here are the notes from the December meeting of the Jisc-Elsevier open science forum. The forum next meets in September and December 2019.
Posted by Neil Jacobs on April 29, 2019 in Uncategorized.
Jisc and Elsevier agree specific areas of collaboration
By Neil Jacobs February 22, 2019
The 2017 infrastructure agreement between Jisc and Elsevier noted that priorities existed that were not documented in that agreement, but that both parties would identify and prioritise via a ‘statement of intent’ that documented clearly their common interests and intentions to act. That document is now agreed and available here.
Statement of Intent – Jisc-Elsevier Open Science Forum.
The statement of intent is a good start, but we expect to find further areas of collaboration through the Jisc-Elsevier open science forum and therefore the document remains open, so further measures can be incorporated as they are identified.
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Jisc Router integrates ScienceDirect APIs to ingest and deliver article metadata more effectively across UK research institutions
By Neil Jacobs November 28, 2018
Jisc, a not-for-profit organization committed to providing UK universities and colleges shared digital infrastructure and services, and Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, have signed an agreement setting out how they will work together to support institutions to comply with UK open access policies, as part of their Open Science partnership, agreed in 2016 as a component of the UK Elsevier ScienceDirect renewal.
Both Jisc and Elsevier share the goal of making academic research and its contribution to scholarship, education, and social and economic development visible, and to support the successful and efficient, implementation of funder open access policies. In particular, Jisc and Elsevier share a commitment to help institutions implement the open access eligibility criteria for the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF).
With timely access to Elsevier’s ScienceDirect article and journal-level metadata, for example article acceptance date, embargo date, and grant/funder IDs, Jisc’s Publications Router service will be able to support UK institutions more efficiently and comprehensively identify UK-published articles at various stages of the publication process. UK institutions will be able to access this metadata via Elsevier’s APIs directly within their institutional repository or can get tailored feeds via the Jisc Publications Router. Subsequently institutions can ingest metadata into library systems and repositories giving institutions greater insight into their researchers’ publishing activities-empowering them to take steps to comply with open access policies.
Elsevier publishes 17 percent of UK authored papers and so this agreement marks a significant contribution towards helping UK universities identify publications and contribute towards REF compliance. This agreement boosts Router’s input coverage of UK authored papers from 63 percent to 74 percent, taking into account some overlap with sources already used by Router.
Jisc and Elsevier anticipate further opportunities for this kind of collaboration will be identified by the Jisc-Elsevier Open Science Forum, an additional outcome of the 2016 UK ScienceDirect agreement between Elsevier and Jisc Collections.
“This kind of interoperability between Jisc and Elsevier services makes a real difference to open science, easing its implementation and helping funders realize their aspirations,” said Professor Mark E. Smith, Vice Chancellor of Lancaster University and Chair of the Forum. “I hope the Forum will continue to provide a strong basis for collaboration of this kind, across the research lifecycle.”
“This agreement marks an expansion of our existing partnership with Jisc by working with them on another area of importance to UK institutions,” said Gemma Hersh, Vice President of Global Policy, Elsevier. “We are committed to working with all stakeholders to support platform interoperability and compliance with open access policies and are pleased to be able to use our technology infrastructure to enhance the discoverability of research outputs.”
“Integrating ScienceDirect APIs into the Jisc Publications Router automates and accelerates what used to be a very manual and cumbersome process,” said Bill Hubbard, Head of Scholarly Communications Support at Jisc. “The Router supports UK institutions to more easily comply with the approaching REF21 assessment – as well as with open access and funding body compliance more broadly. This project addresses several of our most pressing needs around identifying and gathering article metadata across UK research institutions. We’re pleased to work with Elsevier to deliver this service to our members.”
Posted by Neil Jacobs on November 28, 2018 in Uncategorized.
Introducing the Jisc-Elsevier Open Science Forum
By Neil Jacobs November 9, 2018
The Jisc-Elsevier Open Science (OS) Forum was formed to identify and undertake areas of joint activity that could improve the implementation open science and address some of the challenges. The formation of the Forum followed the November 2016 ScienceDirect agreement in the UK, where it was agreed that Jisc and Elsevier should work with the Higher Education sector to find ways to improve conditions for open science more generally outside of the negotiations. OS covers a wide range of activities, however, activity will initially focus on open access, open research data and open metrics and indicators.
The terms of reference and initial membership of the forum are available here [pdf]
On this site we will publish the papers and notes from the Forum meetings (two or three per year), and information about the joint activity that Jisc and Elsevier pursue through this collaboration.
Posted by Neil Jacobs on November 9, 2018 in Uncategorized.
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by Joan Kelley Walker Dani and John with pictures of the children they sponsor through World Vision. Photo courtesy of the Gattinger family. There's nothing I admire more than a couple with an enduring love and a commitment to giving back. Such is the case of John...
Youth Leaders Are Helping Cambodian Children Grow Up Healthy
by Joan Kelley Walker Photo: World Vision As a child advocate, I recently had the opportunity to travel to Cambodia to see some of the work World Vision is doing to make a difference. It was also the first time I took my sons to see how...
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="630"] BEN HEYS VIA GETTY IMAGES[/caption] I got to meet eight-year-old Sileap and his family in their home. Photo: Joan Kelley Weisshaar Walker As a child advocate, I recently had the opportunity to travel to Cambodia to see some of the work World Vision...
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Sesame Workshop named MacArthur grant finalist
The organization has been named one of four finalists for the MacArthur Foundation 100&Change US$100-million grant competition.
Sesame Workshop has been named one of four finalists for the MacArthur Foundation 100&Change US$100-million grant competition. More than 1,900 foundations applied, and the winner will be announced in December.
If selected as the recipient, Sesame Workshop plans to use the money to bring early education to refugee children in the Syrian response region. It will work with the International Rescue Committee to bring educators into the area equipped with Sesame’s educational content. The aim of the partnership is to reach more than nine million children through broadcast in the region and bring direct services to the 1.5 million who are most vulnerable.
The other finalists include the Catholic Relief Services with its plan to improve orphanages in Guatemala, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lebanon and Moldova; Harvest Plus with the plan to fortify staple crops in Africa to end hunger in the region; and Rice 360 Institute for Global Health seeks to improve newborn survival in Africa.
All of the finalists will be answering public questions online weekly starting on September 29, then each will present their proposals during a live stream on December 11. The money will be distributed to the winner over six years.
100&change, macarthur foundation, Sesame Workshop
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Enhancing Location Estimation and Reducing Computation using Adaptive Zone Based K-NNSS Algorithm
Sung-Hak Song,
Chang-Hoon Lee,
Ju-Hyun Park,
Kyo-Jun Koo,
Jong-Kook Kim,
Jongsun Park,
Vol. 3, No. 1, February 22, 2009
K-NNSS
location-based-Service
location estimation
The purpose of this research is to accurately estimate the location of a device using the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of IEEE 802.11 WLAN for location tracking in indoor environments. For the location estimation method, we adopted the calibration model. By applying the Adaptive Zone Based K-NNSS (AZ-NNSS) algorithm, which considers the velocity of devices, this paper presents a 9% improvement of accuracy compared to the existing K-NNSS-based research, with 37% of the K-NNSS computation load. The accuracy is further enhanced by using a Kalman filter; the improvement was about 24%. This research also shows the level of accuracy that can be achieved by replacing a subset of the calibration data with values computed by a numerical equation, and suggests a reasonable number of calibration points. In addition, we use both the mean error distance (MED) and hit ratio to evaluate the accuracy of location estimation, while avoiding a biased comparison.
S. Song, C. Lee, J. Park, K. Koo, J. Kim and J. Park, "Enhancing Location Estimation and Reducing Computation using Adaptive Zone Based K-NNSS Algorithm," KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 119-133, 2009. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2009.01.007.
Sung-Hak Song, Chang-Hoon Lee, Ju-Hyun Park, Kyo-Jun Koo, Jong-Kook Kim, and Jongsun Park. 2009. Enhancing Location Estimation and Reducing Computation using Adaptive Zone Based K-NNSS Algorithm. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 3, 1, (2009), 119-133. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2009.01.007.
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Compañías que están usando células de niños abortados para crear endulzantes artificiales de sus productos
Fuente: seattleorganicrestaurants (punto) com/vegan-whole-food/aborted-fetus-cells-artificial-flavors (punto) php
Title: Aborted human fetal cells for stimulating artificial flavors
Biotech companies have been using aborted human fetal cells for testing the effectiveness of different flavoring agent in their products. Last year the news came out that a biotech company in CA called Senomyx has been using aborted human fetal cells in foods and beverages.
A pro-life watchdog group called Children of God for Life (CGL) has been calling the marketing scheme of the biotech companies deceptive and use of aborted human fetal cells unethical and immoral. Debi Vinnedge, the director of CGL in an interview mentions that why the biotech doesn’t come out clean and tell the public that they are using human embryonic kidney cells (HEK-293) taken from aborted babies to produce human taste receptors?
The HEK 293 is the code for aborted human kidney cells that are used to generate taste receptors that can stimulate a type of protein known as G protein familiar to human’s taste.
Beside Synomyx, PepsiCo also continues to use aborted human fetal cells in their drinks. Last year the shareholders of PepsiCo signed a petition that required the company to adopt ethical ways to enhance the natural flavoring of their drinks and stop using human aborted fetuses. However, the Obama administration shut down the proposal and gave their blessing to PepsiCo to continue the use of aborted babies as flavor enhancer in their drinks which means business as usual.
In an interview Debi Vinnedge, the director of CGL also mentions how the biotech has taken the whole thing into a new level by even exploiting the aborted fetuses for profit.
Based on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) the dead human tissues are also found in flu vaccines beside other substances like aluminum, formaldehyde, monosodium glutamate (MSG), mercury and antibiotics.
According to Right Life of Michigan, at least eleven most common vaccines in the US have aborted human fetal cells and currently there are no requirements for labeling dead human tissue in vaccines and foods.
At the same time despite the attempts by the mainstream media and the big pharma to hide the truth, many independent researchers and concerned scientific community like Dr. Andrew Wakefield, have been talking about the correlation between vaccines and autism in children. As clear as it sounds, there have been no scientific studies that show correlation between autism and vaccines.
The aborted human fetuses are also used in some makeup and cosmetics including creams and lotion.
Products of companies like PepsiCo, Nestles, Kraft, Cadbury Adams LLC Candies, Senomyx, Neocutis cosmetics and even some vaccines and medications like Pulmozyme and Enbrel have aborted human fetuses in them.
There is no end to this rat race of corporate greed and prioritizing profit even at the expense of destroying the young fresh minds of the future generation by any means even if it’s aborted human fetuses.
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A Guide to the UT College of Fine Arts Records
Creator: UT College of Fine Arts
Title: UT College of Fine Arts Records
Dates: ca. 1940-1999
Abstract: Official records of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin.
Extent 2 ft., 10 in.
Language Materials are in English.
Repository Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Established by the Texas State Legislature in 1937, the College of Fine Arts is one of the 15 integrated colleges that comprise the University of Texas at Austin. The College of Fine Arts includes the departments of Art & Art History, Music, and Theatre & Dance.
Official records from the University of Texas College of Fine Arts, including newsletters, press releases, faculty files, publications, correspondence, etc.
Some personnel files contain sensitive information which requires archivist review. Contact repository for more information.
See also UT College of Fine Arts Programs, 1963-1964
UT College of Fine Arts Records, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
2.325/G11 College of Fine Arts newsletters and press releases, 1970-1971
Faculty files, miscellaneous
Newsletter photos, 1970
Programs and clippings
Brochures from other schools
Staff and student news
Ex-Students
Newsletters and press releases from UT and other schools
2.325/L72 Faculty files:
E. William Doty, Music
B. Iden Payne, Drama
James W. Moll, Drama
F. Loren Winship, Drama
Constance Forsyth, Art
Edra Amanda Gustafson, Music
Verna Harder, Music
Laurene Turnbull Heimann, Music
Janet Mary McGaughey, Music
2M230 Department of Drama files
Playbills, 1976, undated
Posters and playbills, 1942-1976
Playbills, 1950
Playbills, 1950-1959
Cabaret Theatre playbills, 1979-1981
Workshop for Playwrights
The Laboratory Theater, 1940-1959
MFA Thesis Series/MFA Workshops, 1969-1983, undated
Opera Theatre, 1972-1994
Newspaper clippings, playbills, [ca. 1930s]
Miscellaneous programs, 1932-1938
2.325/U146 Department of Music
Faculty Concert Series, 1953-1973
Fine Arts Festival, 1949-1974
Great Artist Series, 1959, 1969, 1973
Great Musicians Series, 1976-1980
International Piano Series, 1978-1980
Solo Artist Series, 1964-1979
Student Recital Series, 1958-1986
Various Performances, 1947-1980
Actors Repertory of Texas, 1999
Department of Theatre and Dance, 1997
Performing Arts Center Programs, 1994/1995-1997/1998
Performing Arts Center/Bass Concert Hall Programs, 1982-1985
Performing Arts Center, Season Schedules, 1981-2000
Performing Arts Complex, Season Schedules, 1987-1989
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Effectiveness of Population-Based Service Screening With Mammography for Women Ages 40 to 49 Years Evaluation of the Swedish Mammography Screening in Young Women (SCRY) Cohort
Numan Hellquist, Barbro
Umea University.
W Duffy, Stephen
Queen Mary University London.
Abdsaleh, Shahin
University Uppsala Hospital.
Bjorneld, Lena
Sahlgrens University Hospital.
Bordas, Pal
Sunderby Hospital.
Tabar, Laszlo
Falun Central Hospital.
Vitak, Bedrich
Östergötlands Läns Landsting, Centre of Paediatrics and Gynecology and Obstetrics, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Linköping. Linköping University, Faculty of Health Sciences.
Zackrisson, Sophia
Nystrom, Lennarth
Jonsson, Hakan
2011 (English)In: CANCER, ISSN 0008-543X, Vol. 117, no 4, p. 714-722Article in journal (Refereed) Published
BACKGROUND: The effectiveness of mammography screening for women ages 40 to 49 years still is questioned, and few studies of the effectiveness of service screening for this age group have been conducted. METHODS: Breast cancer mortality was compared between women who were invited to service screening at ages 40 to 49 years (study group) and women in the same age group who were not invited during 1986 to 2005 (control group). Together, these women comprise the Mammography Screening of Young Women (SCRY) cohort, which includes all Swedish counties. A prescreening period was defined to facilitate a comparison of mortality in the absence of screening. The outcome measure was refined mortality, ie, breast cancer death for women who were diagnosed during follow-up at ages 40 to 49 years. Relative risks (RRs) with 95% confidence intervals (Os) were estimated. RESULTS: There was no significant difference in breast cancer mortality during the prescreening period. During the study period, there were 803 breast cancer deaths in the study group (7.3 million person-years) and 1238 breast cancer deaths in the control group (8.8 million person-years). The average follow-up was 16 years. The estimated RR for women who were invited to screening was 0.74 (95% Cl, 0.66-0.83), and the RR for women who attended screening was 0.71 (95% CI, 0.620.80). CONCLUSIONS: In this comprehensive study, mammography screening for women ages 40 to 49 years was efficient for reducing breast cancer mortality. Cancer 2011;117:714-22.
John Wiley and Sons, Ltd , 2011. Vol. 117, no 4, p. 714-722
mammography, screening, breast cancer, mortality
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-66313DOI: 10.1002/cncr.25650ISI: 000286966500009OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-66313DiVA, id: diva2:403226
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics in LinköpingFaculty of Health Sciences
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Dead Ice by Laurell K. Hamilton
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Title: Dead Ice
Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter 24
Pairing: M/F, F/F, Poly
Rating: Three Petals
http://www.laurellkhamilton.com/book_series/dead-ice/
Anita Blake has the highest kill count of any vampire executioner in the country. She’s a U.S. Marshal who can raise zombies with the best of them. But ever since she and master vampire Jean-Claude went public with their engagement, all she is to anyone and everyone is Jean-Claude’s fiancée.
It’s wreaking havoc with her reputation as a hard ass—to some extent. Luckily, in professional circles, she’s still the go-to expert for zombie issues. And right now, the FBI is having one hell of a zombie issue.
Someone is producing zombie porn. Anita has seen her share of freaky undead fetishes, so this shouldn’t bother her. But the women being victimized aren’t just mindless, rotting corpses. Their souls are trapped behind their eyes, signaling voodoo of the blackest kind.
It’s the sort of case that can leave a mark on a person. And Anita’s own soul may not survive unscathed...
Maggie's Rating: Three Petals
I don't think anyone that reads this series can deny that about fifteen books ago it took a very strange turn. What had once been a very interesting paranormal horror detective series suddenly became strictly romance with an emphasis on graphic sex. The total one-eighty threw me. I felt the series had suddenly lost all focus and the books quickly became less about solving the mystery and more about figuring out who to have sex with next and in what strange way. I appreciate the fact that Hamilton doesn't discriminate. Anita will have sex with men, women, and gender fluid characters, however it felt like Hamilton was shoving this new sexual revelation down my throat. I seriously considered putting this series down, but something kept me coming back with each new book published.
Dead Ice finally has Anita doing detective work and zombie raising again. Instead of only hopping from bed to bed, she's also hopping from crime scene to crime scene. It's a refreshing change. Hamilton has finally started to find the balance between including a ton of sex and making sure there's still plot to go along with it. She's also ensured the horror aspect of her series is in full effect.
Someone has been kidnapping zombies and using them for porn videos, which sounds about as nasty as it's described in the book. The only problem is that someone is also trapping their souls in their decaying bodies. Anita has to save the zombies and stop the bad guy, all while dealing with a new spike of power in her own necromancy. The layers of plot were well written with twists and turns that were difficult to see coming. The sex was still present and graphic, but it was balanced by the equally graphic descriptions of the crime scenes. Overall, this book finally felt like it was in proportion again.
This is the first book in a long while in this series that I feel I could actually recommend. This book returns to having actual plot, including crime scenes and difficult zombies. I would also classify it as a paranormal horror story, rather than a cheesy vampire romance. I have to applaud Hamilton for finally taking control of the story back from the excessive amounts of mindless sex and finding a balance between Anita's sudden sexual awakening and the mystery solving bones this series was originally built on.
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fire-climate relationships fire weather index hindcast length industria Limited Area Models LRM master network process-conditioning Scientific Gateway
An R Framework for Climate Data Access and Postprocessing
Brief (four pages) description with worked out examples presented at the 8th International Workshop on Climate Informatics, 2018 [PDF]
climate4R is a bundle of R packages for transparent climate data access, post processing (including bias correction and downscaling) and visualization. climate4R builds on two main data structures (grid and station, including metadata) to deal with gridded and point data from observations, reanalysis, seasonal forecasts and climate projections. It considers ensemble members as a basic dimension of the data structures. Compatibility with some external packages has been achieved by wrapping packages, thus enhancing climate4R with new functionalities: extreme climate indices, etc. A number of datasets (observations, reanalysis, seasonal predictions and climate change projections) are used to provide worked-out illustrative examples. Moreover, climate4R is transparently (and remotely) connected to the User Data Gateway (UDG, a service from the Santander Climate Data Service), offering several state-of-the-art datasets for climate analysis.
climate4R is formed by four main packages (loadeR, transformeR, downscaleR and visualizeR. These components are described below:
loadeR is an R package for climate data access in a user-transparent way building on NetCDF Java. It allows loading either local or remote data (from OPeNDAP servers) and is fully integrated with the User Data Gateway (UDG). This package has been conceived to work in the framework of both seasonal forecasting and climate change studies. Thus, it considers ensemble members as a basic dimension of the two main data structures (grid and station). Moreover, loadeR is enhanced by the loadeR.ECOMS package which allows to remotely access harmonized data from several state-of-the-art seasonal forecasting datasets stored at the ECOMS-UDG.
transformeR is an R package for climate data manipulation and transformation including subsetting, regridding, and data conversion. This package is a dependency for downscaleR and visualizeR and includes illustrative datasets for the climate4R framework.
downscaleR is an R package for empirical-statistical downscaling focusing on daily data and covering the most popular approaches (bias correction, Model Output Statistics, Perfect Prognosis) and techniques. This package has been conceived to work in the framework of both seasonal forecasting and climate change studies. Thus, it considers ensemble members as a basic dimension of the data structure.
visualizeR is an R package for climate data visualization, with special focus on ensemble forecasting and uncertainty communication. It includes functions for visualizing climatological, forecast and evaluation products, and combinations of them.
climate4R is also compatible with a number of R packages for impact studies (e.g. ecological niche models and fire danger), thus allowing the transparent use of climate data in these fields.
Figure 1. Schematic illustration of climate4R, which builds on NetCDF-Java (and the THREDDS Access Portal, TAP) for climate data access, and includes several packages for data transformation, bias adjustment, downscaling and visualization. climate4R is also compatible with a number of R packages for impact studies, thus allowing to transparently used climate data in these fields. Compatibility with some external packages has been achieved by appropriate wrappers. Arrows indicate data flow and blue shading indicates in–house developments. climate4R capabilities are further extended by providing support to physical units handling, geoprocessing and semantic provenance description of products. The climate4R Hub, a specific cloud computing facility, allows to use remotely the full capabilities of the climate4R framework.
License and installation:
All components are distributed under GNU General Public License and the sources are available from the SantanderMetGroup GitHub. The packages of the different components can be installed from R as follows (more details and known problems at the loadeR GitHub wiki):
> library(devtools)
> install_github(c("SantanderMetGroup/loadeR.java",
"SantanderMetGroup/loadeR",
"SantanderMetGroup/transformeR",
"SantanderMetGroup/visualizeR",
"SantanderMetGroup/downscaleR"))
Alternatively, the climate4R framework can be installed via conda:
~$ conda install -c conda-forge -c santandermetgroup climate4r
References (all including worked out examples):
[General description of the climate4R framework] Iturbide et al. (2019) The R-based climate4R open framework for reproducible climate data access and post-processing. Environmental Modelling and Software, 111, 42-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.09.009
Check out the companion notebooks for the two examples [GitHub]
[Statistical downscaling] Bedia et al. (2019) Statistical downscaling with the downscaleR package: Contribution to the VALUE intercomparison experiment Geoscientific Model Development Discuss.. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2019-224
[Seasonal forecast component] Cofiño et al. (2018) The ECOMS User Data Gateway: Towards seasonal forecast data provision and research reproducibility in the era of Climate Services. Climate Services, 9, 33-43. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2017.07.001
[The visualizeR component] Frías et al. (2018) An R package to visualize and communicate uncertainty in seasonal climate prediction. Environmental Modelling and Software, 99, 101-110. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.09.008
[Semantic provenance description] Bedia et al. (2019) The METACLIP semantic provenance framework for climate products. Environmental Modelling and Software, 119, 445-457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.07.005
[A sectoral application (fire danger)] Bedia et al. (2018) Seasonal predictions of Fire Weather Index: Paving the way for their operational applicability in Mediterranean Europe. Climate Services, 9, 101-110. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2017.04.001
[A sectoral application (species distribution models)]
Iturbide et al. (2018) Tackling Uncertainties of Species Distribution Model Projections with Package mopa. The R Journal, 10(1), 122-139. https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2018/RJ-2018-
Product Type: Free software
Web: climate4R
Bedia, J., Iturbide, M., Manzanas, R., Herrera, S., Gutiérrez, J.M.
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Michael Seaver
writer and musician
Irish Theatre Magazine
Tanz / Ballet-Tanz
Irish writer on dance, politics and culture. Dance critic with The Irish Times. Contributor to newspapers, journals, magazines and encyclopedia. Former correspondent with the Christian Science Monitor. Principal clarinettist with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Co-founder of the Crash Ensemble. Member of Haenjo Trio. Currently studying Politics and IR externally at LSE/UoL. Lives in Dublin with his wife and two children.
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How to be a Lad(y)
September 12, 2013 · by admin · in Dance, Reviews, The Irish Times
The new group Ponybois might be a chip off the Ponydance block, but with none of the ironic charm, quirky characters and carefully crafted digs at contemporary social life. Instead of providing uncontrollable belly laughs, How to be a Lad(y) has to work hard to get a reaction from the audience sitting with gritted teeth, pining for Paula and Leonie and the other crazy Ponydancers. Gags are as blunt as dragging an audience member up to dance or receive a lap dance, stripping behind a backlit sheet and hiding someone’s costume so that they’ll have to appear on stage half-naked. Constant depictions of onstage rivalry and incompetence quickly tire, and the gyrating gender-bending is pretty vanilla compared to stuff going on elsewhere in the Fringe. Ponybois might have some good moves, cheesy sounds and crackling energy, but it needs sharper wit within its succession of set-pieces.
← Bunk
Fit / Misfit →
Copyright © 2020 Michael Seaver
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About Skeet Shooting
A practice or competition event will consist of shooting two 25 target rounds for a total of 50 targets from eight different stations on a skeet field. Up to 5 shooters (squad) will occupy the stations on a skeet field. Station one is assigned the “squad leader.
Ammunition Recommendation
Typical ammunition used for skeet shooting:
Gauge Shot Shot Size
12 1-1/8 oz. #9 or #8
20 7/8 oz. #9 or #8
Skeet Field
The shooter shoots from seven positions on a semicircle with a radius of 21 yards, and an eighth position halfway between stations one and seven. There are two houses that hold target throwers that launch the targets, one at each corner of the semicircle. The traps launch the targets to a point 15 feet above ground and 18 feet outside of station eight. One trap launches targets from 10 feet above the ground (“high” house) and the other launches it from three feet above ground (“low” house).
Targets At Each Station
Shooting procedures for skeet are very similar to trap shooting except for station assignments, number of targets shot, and station rotation. All squad members take turns at the same station and then move together after all squad members have shot the assigned targets at each station. Squad members need to stand at least at least five feet behind the shooter and always behind the shooter’s muzzle.
At stations one and two the shooter shoots at single targets launched from the high house and then the low house, then shoots a double where the two targets are launched simultaneously but shooting the high house target first. At stations three, four, and five the shooter shoots at single targets launched from the high house and then the low house. At stations six and seven, the shooter shoots at single targets launched from the high house and then the low house, then shoots a double, shooting the low house target first then the high house target. At station eight the shooter shoots one high target and one low target. No shooter will move to the next station until the last target in a round is completed.
Optional Shot
The shooter must re-shoot his/her first missed target from the same station and at the same house immediately following a lost target. If no targets are missed in the round, the shooter must shoot his/her 25th shell at the low house station eight.
Frequenly Asked Questions (FAQs)
Click on a question to expand and reveal the answer.
Where can I learn more about skeet shooting?
Information regarding skeet shooting can be found in the League Policies and Procedures manual.
Do I need to purchase another shotgun to compete in skeet shooting?
Most trap shooting shotguns will also work for skeet but you should always consult with your coach before making any purchases.
Can I compete in both trap and skeet in the same season?
Yes! The League offers student athletes the option to choose trap, skeet, and/or both at the time of registration.
Is there an additional fee to compete on a skeet team?
The League fee for skeet is $35. If a student athlete chooses to participate in both trap and skeet, then they would be responsible for the League fee for each sport.
Is skeet shot on a different day then trap?
Check with your team’s Head Coach regarding season schedule.
Will I have to shoot skeet rounds at a separate shooting range?
You will need to shoot skeet rounds at a range that has specifically designed skeet fields.
How can I start a skeet team at my school?
Check with your current team’s Head Coach for availability. If your school does not already have a team in the League, you can inquire about starting a team with the school’s Activities Director.
What is the minimum number of athletes needed to start a skeet team?
Five. Each team must have five student athletes to be eligible to compete.
Do I need to be certified to compete in skeet shooting events?
As in trap, all student athletes are required to complete and submit certificates for either one of two League-approved firearm safety certification programs – a state-approved hunter education certificate or the League’s SAFE certificate. Teams should verify the firearm safety training certification requirements with the shooting range where they will be conducting League events. View certification details by visiting the firearms safety training page under the Rules section on this website. Safety remains the League’s number one priority.
Will there be a Skeet State Tournament?
Skeet State Tournament information will be listed on the website once the time and location has been determined.
Who can compete in the State Tournament?
Every League participant is invited to attend. Participants compete against student athletes in classifications based on similar shooting abilities determined by their season average score. The participation fee for the State Tournament is $30 which includes targets and a t-shirt. Participants are responsible for providing their own ammunition.
Can I compete on another school’s skeet team if my school only has a trap team?
No. If your school already has a team in the League, you must compete with your school’s team. If they don’t have a skeet team yet, it only takes five student athletes and a coach to get one started. Talk to your head coach today.
I’ve decided to compete only in one discipline, but my coach has added me to both the trap and skeet team rosters. What do I do?
When completing your League registration in AMS (Athlete Management System), check only the box of the discipline in which you will be competing. Leave the other blank. You will then be directed to the payment screen where you will only be charged for the discipline(s) that you have just selected.
I’ve decided not to participate in the League after registering and paying. Can I get a refund?
Refunds are only issued if you decide not to compete and notify the League prior to the end of athlete registration. Please contact the League at support@usaclaytarget.com to request your refund.
What is Fun Squad? And can I participate?
The Fun Squad is a fun way to participate in the League. Scores will be tallied weekly for randomly selected squads of student athletes from throughout America! The top winners each week will be awarded a prize. Right now, the Fun Squad is only available for trap shooters.
Additional FAQs can be found under Rules in the Menu or by clicking here.
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Walter Cronkite TV Show: "The 21st Century" March 12, 1967
What will life be like in the 21st century? Over fifty years ago, here's Walter Cronkite with some retro speculation:
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1950s TV: "Let's Draw" with Television Cartoon Artist Frank Webb
1980s Video: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons on Watchmen
From the Canadian 1980s comic book interview show "Prisoners of Gravity:"
A Milt Gross Cartoon: "Jitterbug Follies" 1939
Here is an animated MGM short in which Milt Gross' characters Count Screwloose and J.R. The Wonder Dog organize a talent contest in hope of snagging the prize money.
Jim Rugg " ... [I]t's like I'm looking for something. I don't find it, so I'm going to try to make it myself."
Comic book artist Jim Rugg and Cecil Castellucci talk to NPR about the release of the new hardcover edition of "The Plain Janes." The comic book series started as a graphic novel about female high school girls in 2007. One of the first popular graphic narratives about teen girls, the series was ahead of its time. Bill O'Driscoll interviews them.
JIM RUGG: I had just grown very dissatisfied with what I was seeing at the comic book store, which was mostly, you know, Punisher, Batman, 30 or 40-year-old white male protagonists. And they all just felt like the same.
O'DRISCOLL: This was around 2003.
RUGG: A lot of the stuff I make tends to be that way, where it's like I'm looking for something. I don't find it, so I'm going to try to make it myself.
The audio and transcript are here.
From the Dick Buchanan Files: The Old Joke Cemetery
From the amazing cartoon clip file of Dick Buchanan, here is a selection of moldy oldies. There are over two dozen of these old bon mots, these groaners, these dreadful old jokes. You have been warned! But, hey, if you haven't heard these before, then they are all new to you. Thanks and take it away, Dick:
THE OLD JOKE CEMETERY
Laugh In Peace
In 1922, Fred Allen commissioned comic-strip artist Martin Branner (Winnie Winkle) to cover a theater curtain with an elaborate mural painting depicting a cemetery with a punchline on each gravestone and crypt. This was the "Old Joke Cemetery," where overworked gags go to die.
Sadly, Fred Allen’s curtain no longer exists. But, thanks to the Old Joke Recovery Act of 1953, the Old Joke Cemetery has been revived by the Cartoon Clip File. Today it consists of an assemblage of vintage gag cartoons clipped from old magazines and haphazardly pasted on the walls of Cartoon Clip File headquarters.
These are the gag cartoon versions old jokes now interred in the Old Joke Cemetery. No one recalls when or where these gags first appeared but they did and they’ve been with us ever since.
Here’s a chance to say goodbye to some favorite old jokes now interred in the Old Joke Cemetery . . . and keep in mind, some of these old jokes are merely resting and will likely re-appear now and again.
1. AL JOHNS. The Saturday Evening Post December 22 – 29, 1962.
2. SYD HOFF. True Magazine June, 1952.
3. WALTER GOLDSTEIN. The Saturday Evening Post October 16, 1951.
4. PHIL INTERALNDI. Look Magazine December 31, 1962.
5. KAZ. Larry Katzman’s Nurse Nellie cartoons appeared in magazines, book collections and greeting cards. The Saturday Evening Post May 27, 1961.
6. MARTHA BLANCHARD. Look Magazine May 9, 1961.
7. GLEN BERNHARDT. Bernhardt was a West Coast cartoonist who founded the Northern California Cartoon & Humor Association in 1954. Collier’s May 20, 1950.
8. GARDNER REA. Look Magazine April 9, 1963.
9. NED HILTON. Collier’s March 11, 1950.
10. WILLIAM von RIEGEN. Collier’s November 4, 1950.
11. GLEN BERNHARDT. American Magazine June, 1953.
12. BORIS DRUCKER. The Saturday Evening Post June 11, 1949.
13. MICHAEL BERRY. Collier’s December 21, 1946.
14. BRAM. Martin Brammier, Jr. The Saturday Evening Post June 11, 1960.
15. JERRY MARCUS. Here! December, 1951.
16. SYD HOFF. Collier’s March 19, 1949.
17. HERB GREEN. The Saturday Evening Post July 20, 1957.
18. CHON DAY. Collier’s July 18, 1953.
19. PETER WYMA. The Saturday Evening Post April 18, 1959.
20. KATE OSANN. Collier’s April 15, 1950.
21. TUP. Bob Tupper was a popular “men’s interest” magazine cartoonist. a-Laugh-a-Minit January, 1956.
22. GARDNER REA. Collier’s June 26, 1948.
23. JEFF MONAHAN. 1000 Jokes Magazine March-May, 1958.
24. BILL KING. American Legion Magazine May, 1949.
25. JOHN NORMENT. The Saturday Evening Post June 15, 1957.
How to Draw Graphic Novels Class
The graphic novel class that I taught at the Conway (NH) Public Library has come to an end. We started in September and ended just this Wednesday, meeting once a week (except for holidays). This class was in addition to the History of Comics class I was teaching at the Institute of Art and Design at New England College.
It was an honor and great fun to teach the talented cartoonists who attend the Kennett Middle School. The three students created about sixty pages of sequential narrative with their own plots and characters.
There are stories about
a playground that brings friends together,
a battle between housepets and squirrels, and
a lonely doll who finds love.
All of these stories will soon be on display in the library.
Yes, there is talk of doing another class this fall!
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Arkansas Press Association > Discussion Board > Arkansas Newspaper Foundation Forum
Molding future newspaper people now rather than later
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Arkansas Newspaper Foundation’s internship program
by ANF Board President, Byron Tate
The deadline is approaching for applying for the Arkansas Newspaper Foundation’s internship program, and we hope the process will be easier with the changes made in the application process.
The foundation board recently and discussed ways of getting more students and newspapers involved. The way the process was geared before required newspapers to apply and for students to apply, and then the foundation tried to put the two together. More times than not, it seems, the matchmaking efforts failed.
What was happening was that newspapers that wanted to be a part of the program couldn’t find students who wanted to work as interns in those locals. In the end, interested newspapers would be unable to participate basically due to a lack of interest from the crop of available students.
All of the above is still part of the program — newspapers still have to apply and will be chosen on a first-come, first-served basis, and students may still apply. And we at the foundation will still try to put interested students together with interested newspapers.
What’s changed is that newspapers also can locate their own student interns rather than applying for the internship program and hoping a student somewhere out there wants to work for them.
If you know of a student who is coming back home for the summer from college, for instance, and you want to put her to work as an intern in some part of your operation, that’s fine. In the past, the foundation required that an intern be in college, but we’ve broadened that to include students just out of high school who are planning on attending college.
We realize that “planning on attending college” is a bit shaky in terms of verifying college attendance, but the foundation trusts that newspaper executives will look for and find the most qualified candidates for these positions, and we’re not going to ask for a refund if Joe College, who is right out of high school and who had every intention of going to college in May, decides in August not to go. See, we’re really trying to make this easy.
If you are able to identify a student intern on your own, we’ll need that person to get in touch with us so the student can fill out an application.
The money basics haven’t changed. The foundation will provide $1,500, which is to be matched by at least $1,500 from the participating newspaper. We say “at least” because newspapers are certainly allowed to kick in more than $1,500. Out of that $3,000 (or more), newspapers are responsible for setting the pay and scheduling the student to work between eight and 10 weeks. At one newspaper last summer, the intern wanted to be paid a little less per hour so he could work longer and not extend past the total of $3,000 in compensation. Again, you are more than capable of working out the details.
Our goal is to put students who are interested in the newspaper industry as a profession into that line of work for the summer. The students gain valuable experience and maybe even decide if that’s what they really want to do, and the newspaper gets some needed help during the summer and maybe identifies someone it may want to hire full time down the road.
But you have to apply, and there are just four slots; so if you’re interested, get busy.
About the intern mentioned above — he graduated from college in December and is now working full time where he interned. Occasionally, our matchmaking efforts work rather well! Contact Karen Brown at karenb@commpub.com or download the host newspaper application form at http://www.arkansaspress.org/internships. Please disregard the deadline.
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Daigle running circles around Mansoor in the race for the 74th A.D.
Posted on March 16, 2012 by Art Pedroza Posted in 2012 Elections, Allan Mansoor, Costa Mesa, Democratic Party, Leslie Daigle, Newport Beach, Republican Party, Robert Rush 1 Comment
Some Republicans are trying to make a case that the entrance of Democrat Robert “Bob” Rush into the race for the 74th Assembly District is somehow going to translate into a loss for Newport Beach Council Member Leslie Daigle, who is running against her fellow Republican Allan Mansoor. I am not buying that. Rush doesn’t even have a campaign site! The guy is a City Council gadfly. I can’t see how anyone would take him seriously.
Mansoor is trying to make a case that he is the incumbent, but he isn’t. He currently represents the 68th Assembly District. Because of redistricting, he is now running for a different district, the 74th. How in the world does that make him an incumbent?
Moreover, Daigle is the only woman, in an open primary, versus two male candidates. That works in her favor. And if you compare her campaign website to Mansoor’s the difference is startling. Mansoor’s website looks like it was put together by a rank amateur, while Daigle’s looks professional. That means something to the well-off, educated voters in the 74th A.D.
And community leaders are lining up behind Daigle too. Several former Newport Beach Mayors announced their endorsement of Leslie Daigle for State Assembly today, according to a campaign press release.
Here are a few more excerpts from that press release:
“Leslie Daigle is a problem solver who thinks for herself,” stated former Newport Mayor Evelyn Hart. “Sacramento is full of legislators who take their orders from party leaders and the results have been disastrous. Leslie isn’t afraid to stand up to party leaders and special interests to get things done. She will be a breath of fresh air in the Assembly.”
Hart highlights a common sentiment among voters who regularly give current legislators approval ratings even lower than the Congress. Local leaders fare far better in similar polls and today’s endorsements will swing the momentum in Daigle’s favor.
Hart is joined by former Newport Mayors Clarence “Bus” Turner, Dennis O’Neil, Jan DeBay, Mike Henn, Steve Rosansky, John Cox, Milan Dostal, Tod Ridgeway, John Heffernan, John Noyes and Centenniel Mayor Don Webb. The City of Newport Beach is 106 years old.
But wait, there’s more! Daigle is also picking up a slew of endorsements from public officials involved with education, according to another campaign press release. Here are a few excerpts:
Education leaders in the Newport Mesa Unified School District, which over sees educaiton in both Newport Beach and Costa Mesa, have come out in overwhelming support of Newport Beach Councilwoman Leslie Daigle’s candidacy for the 74th Assembly District.
Daigle’s endorsements include Newport Mesa School Board Trustees Martha Fluor, Judy Franco, Karen Yelsey, Dana Black and Walk Davenport. Former Trustee and long-time school principal Serene Stokes has endorsed Daigle as well as former trustee and current Costa Mesa City Councilwoman Wendy Leece.
Daigle’s support extends into Irvine where education is paramount. Carolyn McInerny and Gavin Findlay-Hunter of the Irvine Unified School District are backing Daigle as is former Irvine school board member and current Councilman Dr. Steven Choi, PhD.
Mansoor has yet to pick up any of these endorsements. He appears in fact to be running a horrible campaign. This is an open primary in a district that is not as hard core red as his last campaign. It is a Republican district, but there are a lot more moderates in the 74th, as compared to the 68th.
Ultimately voters will have to face facts. Mansoor has accomplished nothing. He is an under-educated Mexican basher, with only a two year community college degree. And before he was elected to the State Assembly, he was a government worker – a lowly O.C. prison guard. What a joke!
A Daigle victory will be a real black eye to the OC GOP machine – and a well-deserved one at that.
74th Assembly District Allan Mansoor Costa Mesa Leslie Daigle Newport Beach Robert Rush
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martin mansoor says:
Anyone with a half a brain is a better choice than a bigot trapped in the closet.
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Introduction Brazil
Following three centuries under the rule of Portugal, Brazil became an independent nation in 1822 and a republic in 1889. By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil overcame more than half a century of military intervention in the governance of the country when in 1985 the military regime peacefully ceded power to civilian rulers. Brazil continues to pursue industrial and agricultural growth and development of its interior. Exploiting vast natural resources and a large labor pool, it is today South America's leading economic power and a regional leader. Highly unequal income distribution remains a pressing problem.
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Geography Brazil
Eastern South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean
Geographic coordinates:
10 00 S, 55 00 W
Map references:
total: 8,511,965 sq km
land: 8,456,510 sq km
water: 55,455 sq km
note: includes Arquipelago de Fernando de Noronha, Atol das Rocas, Ilha da Trindade, Ilhas Martin Vaz, and Penedos de Sao Pedro e Sao Paulo
Area - comparative:
slightly smaller than the US
Land boundaries:
total: 16,885 km
border countries: Argentina 1,261 km, Bolivia 3,423 km, Colombia 1,644 km, French Guiana 730.4 km, Guyana 1,606 km, Paraguay 1,365 km, Peru 2,995 km, Suriname 593 km, Uruguay 1,068 km, Venezuela 2,200 km
Coastline:
Maritime claims:
territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
continental shelf: 200 nm or to edge of the continental margin
mostly tropical, but temperate in south
mostly flat to rolling lowlands in north; some plains, hills, mountains, and narrow coastal belt
Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m
highest point: Pico da Neblina 3,014 m
Natural resources:
bauxite, gold, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, platinum, tin, uranium, petroleum, hydropower, timber
Land use:
arable land: 6.93%
permanent crops: 0.89%
other: 92.18% (2005)
Irrigated land:
29,200 sq km (2003)
Total renewable water resources:
8,233 cu km (2000)
Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
total: 59.3 cu km/yr (20%/18%/62%)
per capita: 318 cu m/yr (2000)
Natural hazards:
recurring droughts in northeast; floods and occasional frost in south
Environment - current issues:
deforestation in Amazon Basin destroys the habitat and endangers a multitude of plant and animal species indigenous to the area; there is a lucrative illegal wildlife trade; air and water pollution in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and several other large cities; land degradation and water pollution caused by improper mining activities; wetland degradation; severe oil spills
Environment - international agreements:
party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
Geography - note:
largest country in South America; shares common boundaries with every South American country except Chile and Ecuador
People Brazil
note: Brazil conducted a census in August 2000, which reported a population of 169,799,170; that figure was about 3.3% lower than projections by the US Census Bureau, and is close to the implied underenumeration of 4.6% for the 1991 census; estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2007 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 25.3% (male 24,554,254/female 23,613,027)
15-64 years: 68.4% (male 64,437,140/female 65,523,447)
65 years and over: 6.3% (male 4,880,562/female 7,002,217) (2007 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.008% (2007 est.)
Birth rate:
16.3 births/1,000 population (2007 est.)
Death rate:
Net migration rate:
-0.03 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.983 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.697 male(s)/female
total population: 0.976 male(s)/female (2007 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 27.62 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 31.27 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 23.78 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
Total fertility rate:
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.7% (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
660,000 (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
15,000 (2003 est.)
noun: Brazilian(s)
adjective: Brazilian
Ethnic groups:
white 53.7%, mulatto (mixed white and black) 38.5%, black 6.2%, other (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian) 0.9%, unspecified 0.7% (2000 census)
Religions:
Roman Catholic (nominal) 73.6%, Protestant 15.4%, Spiritualist 1.3%, Bantu/voodoo 0.3%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.2%, none 7.4% (2000 census)
Portuguese (official), Spanish, English, French
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
Government Brazil
conventional long form: Federative Republic of Brazil
conventional short form: Brazil
local long form: Republica Federativa do Brasil
local short form: Brasil
Government type:
name: Brasilia
geographic coordinates: 15 47 S, 47 55 W
time difference: UTC-3 (2 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins third Sunday in October; ends third Sunday in February
note: Brazil is divided into four time zones, including one for the Fernando de Noronha Islands
Administrative divisions:
26 states (estados, singular - estado) and 1 federal district* (distrito federal); Acre, Alagoas, Amapa, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceara, Distrito Federal*, Espirito Santo, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Para, Paraiba, Parana, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondonia, Roraima, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo, Sergipe, Tocantins
Independence:
7 September 1822 (from Portugal)
National holiday:
Independence Day, 7 September (1822)
Constitution:
Legal system:
based on Roman codes; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
Suffrage:
voluntary between 16 and 18 years of age and over 70; compulsory over 18 and under 70 years of age; note - military conscripts do not vote
Executive branch:
chief of state: President Luiz Inacio LULA DA SILVA (since 1 January 2003); Vice President Jose ALENCAR (since 1 January 2003); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government
head of government: President Luiz Inacio LULA DA SILVA (since 1 January 2003); Vice President Jose ALENCAR (since 1 January 2003)
cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president
elections: president and vice president elected on the same ticket by popular vote for a single four-year term; election last held 1 October 2006 with runoff 29 October 2006 (next to be held 3 October 2010 and, if necessary, 31 October 2010)
election results: Luiz Inacio LULA DA SILVA (PT) reelected president - 60.83%, Geraldo ALCKMIN (PSDB) 39.17%
Legislative branch:
bicameral National Congress or Congresso Nacional consists of the Federal Senate or Senado Federal (81 seats; 3 members from each state and federal district elected according to the principle of majority to serve eight-year terms; one-third and two-thirds elected every four years, alternately) and the Chamber of Deputies or Camara dos Deputados (513 seats; members are elected by proportional representation to serve four-year terms)
elections: Federal Senate - last held 1 October 2006 for one-third of the Senate (next to be held in October 2010 for two-thirds of the Senate); Chamber of Deputies - last held 1 October 2006 (next to be held in October 2010)
election results: Federal Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PFL 6, PSDB 5, PMDB 4, PTB 3, PT 2, PDT 1, PSB 1, PL 1, PPS 1, PRTB 1, PP 1, PCdoB 1; Chamber of Deputies - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PMDB 89, PT 83, PFL 65, PSDB 65, PP 42, PSB 27, PDT 24, PL 23, PTB 22, PPS 21, PCdoB 13, PV 13, PSC 9, other 17; note - as of 1 January 2008: Federal Senate - seats by party - PMDB 20, DEM (formerly PFL) 14, PSDB 13, PT 12, PTB 6, PDT 5, PR 4, PRB 2, PSB 2, PCdoB 1, PP 1, PSOL 1; Chamber of Deputies - seats by party - PMDB 90, PT 83, PSDB 64, DEM (formerly PFL) 62, PP 41, PR 34, PSB 28, PDT 23, PTB 21, PPS 17, PV 13, PCdoB 13, PSC 7, PAN 4, PSOL 3, PMN 3, PTC 3, PHS 2, PTdoB 1, PRB 1
Judicial branch:
Supreme Federal Tribunal or STF (11 ministers are appointed for life by the president and confirmed by the Senate); Higher Tribunal of Justice; Regional Federal Tribunals (judges are appointed for life); note - though appointed "for life," judges, like all federal employees, have a mandatory retirement age of 70
Political parties and leaders:
Brazilian Democratic Movement Party or PMDB [Federal Deputy Michel TEMER]; Brazilian Labor Party or PTB [Roberto JEFFERSON]; Brazilian Renewal Labor Party or PRTB [Jose Levy FIDELIX da Cruz]; Brazilian Republican Party or PRB [Vitor Paulo Araujo DOS SANTOS]; Brazilian Social Democracy Party or PSDB [Senator Sergio GUERRA]; Brazilian Socialist Party or PSB [Governor Eduardo Henrique Accioly CAMPOS]; Christian Labor Party or PTC [Daniel TOURINHO]; Communist Party of Brazil or PCdoB [Jose Renato RABELO]; Democratic Labor Party or PDT [Carlos Roberto LUPI]; the Democrats or DEM (formerly Liberal Front Party or PFL) [Federal Deputy Rodrigo MAIA]; Freedom and Socialism Party or PSOL [Heloisa HELENA]; Green Party or PV [Jose Luiz de Franca PENNA]; Humanist Party of Solidarity or PHS [Paulo Roberto MATOS]; Labor Party of Brazil or PTdoB [Luis Henrique de Oliveira RESENDE]; Liberal Front Party or PFL (now known as the Democrats or DEM); National Mobilization Party or PMN [Oscar Noronha FILHO]; Party of the Republic or PR [Sergio TAMER]; Popular Socialist Party or PPS [Federal Deputy Fernando CORUJA]; Progressive Party or PP [Francisco DORNELLES]; Social Christian Party or PSC [Vitor Jorge Abdala NOSSEIS]; Workers' Party or PT [Ricardo Jose Ribeiro BERZOINI]
Political pressure groups and leaders:
Landless Workers' Movement or MST; labor unions and federations; large farmers' associations; religious groups including evangelical Christian churches and the Catholic Church
International organization participation:
AfDB, BIS, CAN (associate), CPLP, CSN, FAO, G-15, G-24, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA, Mercosur, MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, NAM (observer), NSG, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, RG, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNITAR, UNMEE, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
Diplomatic representation in the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar PATRIOTA
consulate(s) general: Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco
Diplomatic representation from the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Clifford M. SOBEL
embassy: Avenida das Nacoes, Quadra 801, Lote 3, Distrito Federal Cep 70403-900, Brasilia
mailing address: Unit 3500, APO AA 34030
telephone: [55] (61) 3312-7000
FAX: [55] (61) 3225-9136
consulate(s) general: Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo
consulate(s): Recife
Flag description:
green with a large yellow diamond in the center bearing a blue celestial globe with 27 white five-pointed stars (one for each state and the Federal District) arranged in the same pattern as the night sky over Brazil; the globe has a white equatorial band with the motto ORDEM E PROGRESSO (Order and Progress)
Economy Brazil
Economy - overview:
Characterized by large and well-developed agricultural, mining, manufacturing, and service sectors, Brazil's economy outweighs that of all other South American countries and is expanding its presence in world markets. Having weathered 2001-03 financial turmoil, capital inflows are regaining strength and the currency has resumed appreciating. The appreciation has slowed export volume growth, but since 2004, Brazil's growth has yielded increases in employment and real wages. The resilience in the economy stems from commodity-driven current account surpluses, and sound macroeconomic policies that have bolstered international reserves to historically high levels, reduced public debt, and allowed a significant decline in real interest rates. A floating exchange rate, an inflation-targeting regime, and a tight fiscal policy are the three pillars of the economic program. From 2003 to 2007, Brazil ran record trade surpluses and recorded its first current account surpluses since 1992. Productivity gains coupled with high commodity prices contributed to the surge in exports. Brazil improved its debt profile in 2006 by shifting its debt burden toward real denominated and domestically held instruments. LULA DA SILVA restated his commitment to fiscal responsibility by maintaining the country's primary surplus during the 2006 election. Following his second inauguration, LULA DA SILVA announced a package of further economic reforms to reduce taxes and increase investment in infrastructure. The government's goal of achieving strong growth while reducing the debt burden is likely to create inflationary pressures.
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$1.838 trillion (2007 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate):
GDP - real growth rate:
GDP - per capita (PPP):
$9,700 (2007 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 5.1%
Labor force:
99.47 million (2007 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 20%
Population below poverty line:
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 0.9%
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
56.7 (2005)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
Investment (gross fixed):
17.9% of GDP (2007 est.)
revenues: $244 billion
expenditures: $219.9 billion (FY07)
Public debt:
Agriculture - products:
coffee, soybeans, wheat, rice, corn, sugarcane, cocoa, citrus; beef
textiles, shoes, chemicals, cement, lumber, iron ore, tin, steel, aircraft, motor vehicles and parts, other machinery and equipment
Industrial production growth rate:
Electricity - production:
396.4 billion kWh (2005)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 8.3%
hydro: 82.7%
nuclear: 4.4%
other: 4.6% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
Electricity - exports:
160 million kWh (2005)
Electricity - imports:
39.2 billion kWh; note - supplied by Paraguay (2005)
Oil - production:
1.59 million bbl/day (2006 est.)
Oil - consumption:
2.1 million bbl/day (2006 est.)
Oil - exports:
278,400 bbl/day (2005)
Oil - imports:
Oil - proved reserves:
11.24 billion bbl (1 January 2006 est.)
Natural gas - production:
9.37 billion cu m (2005 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
17.85 billion cu m (2005 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2005 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
8.478 billion cu m (2005)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
312.7 billion cu m (1 January 2006 est.)
Current account balance:
$10.2 billion (2007 est.)
Exports:
$159.2 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Exports - commodities:
transport equipment, iron ore, soybeans, footwear, coffee, autos
Exports - partners:
US 17.8%, Argentina 8.5%, China 6.1%, Netherlands 4.2%, Germany 4.1% (2006)
Imports - commodities:
machinery, electrical and transport equipment, chemical products, oil, automotive parts, electronics
Imports - partners:
US 16.2%, Argentina 8.8%, China 8.7%, Germany 7.1%, Nigeria 4.3%, Japan 4.2% (2006)
Economic aid - recipient:
$191.9 million (2005)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$178 billion (24 December 2007)
Debt - external:
$230.3 billion (30 June 2007)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
$214.3 billion (2006 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
$99.99 billion (2006 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$711.1 billion (2006)
Currency (code):
Currency code:
reals per US dollar - 1.85 (2007 est.), 2.1761 (2006), 2.4344 (2005), 2.9251 (2004), 3.0771 (2003)
Fiscal year:
Communications Brazil
Telephones - main lines in use:
38.8 million (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
99.919 million (2006)
Telephone system:
general assessment: good working system; fixed-line connections have remained relatively stable in recent years and stand at about 20 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone density has risen to nearly 55 per 100 persons
domestic: extensive microwave radio relay system and a domestic satellite system with 64 earth stations; mobile-cellular usage has more than tripled in the past 5 years
international: country code - 55; landing point for a number of submarine cables that provide direct links to South and Central America, the Caribbean, the US, Africa, and Europe; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean region east), connected by microwave relay system to Mercosur Brazilsat B3 satellite earth station (2007)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 1,365, FM 296, shortwave 161 (of which 91 are collocated with AM stations) (1999)
Radios:
71 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
Televisions:
Internet country code:
Internet hosts:
8.265 million (2007)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
Internet users:
Transportation Brazil
Airports - with paved runways:
over 3,047 m: 7
2,438 to 3,047 m: 25
1,524 to 2,437 m: 167
914 to 1,523 m: 467
Airports - with unpaved runways:
914 to 1,523 m: 1,555
under 914 m: 1,907 (2007)
Heliports:
Pipelines:
condensate/gas 244 km; gas 12,070 km; liquid petroleum gas 351 km; oil 5,214 km; refined products 4,410 km (2007)
Railways:
broad gauge: 4,932 km 1.600-m gauge (939 km electrified)
standard gauge: 194 km 1.440-m gauge
narrow gauge: 23,773 km 1.000-m gauge (581 km electrified)
dual gauge: 396 km 1.000 m and 1.600-m gauges (three rails) (78 km electrified) (2006)
Roadways:
total: 1,751,868 km
paved: 96,353 km
unpaved: 1,655,515 km (2004)
Waterways:
50,000 km (most in areas remote from industry and population) (2007)
Merchant marine:
total: 135 ships (1000 GRT or over) 2,020,182 GRT/3,039,015 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 20, cargo 21, carrier 1, chemical tanker 6, container 9, liquefied gas 12, passenger/cargo 12, petroleum tanker 47, roll on/roll off 7
foreign-owned: 16 (Chile 1, Denmark 2, Germany 7, Mexico 1, Norway 1, Spain 4)
registered in other countries: 5 (Bahamas 1, Ghana 1, Liberia 3) (2007)
Guaiba, Ilha Grande, Paranagua, Rio Grande, Santos, Sao Sebastiao, Tubarao
Military Brazil
Military branches:
Brazilian Army, Brazilian Navy (Marinha do Brasil (MB), includes Naval Air and Marine Corps (Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais)), Brazilian Air Force (Forca Aerea Brasileira, FAB) (2007)
Military service age and obligation:
21-45 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation - 9 to 12 months; 17-45 years of age for voluntary service; an increasing percentage of the ranks are "long-service" volunteer professionals; women were allowed to serve in the armed forces beginning in early 1980s when the Brazilian Army became the first army in South America to accept women into career ranks; women serve in Navy and Air Force only in Women's Reserve Corps (2001)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 19-49: 45,586,036
females age 19-49: 45,728,704 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males age 18-49: 1,785,930
females age 19-49: 1,731,648 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
Transnational Issues Brazil
Disputes - international:
unruly region at convergence of Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay borders is locus of money laundering, smuggling, arms and illegal narcotics trafficking, and fundraising for extremist organizations; uncontested dispute with Uruguay over certain islands in the Quarai/Cuareim and Invernada boundary streams and the resulting tripoint with Argentina
Illicit drugs:
illicit producer of cannabis; trace amounts of coca cultivation in the Amazon region, used for domestic consumption; government has a large-scale eradication program to control cannabis; important transshipment country for Bolivian, Colombian, and Peruvian cocaine headed for Europe; also used by traffickers as a way station for narcotics air transshipments between Peru and Colombia; upsurge in drug-related violence and weapons smuggling; important market for Colombian, Bolivian, and Peruvian cocaine; illicit narcotics proceeds earned in Brazil are often laundered through the financial system; significant illicit financial activity in the Tri-Border Area
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Australian local council avoids naughty word: "Christmas"
Sunshine Coast Council has defended its decision to exclude the word "Christmas" from its 2009 corporate Christmas cards. Mailed and emailed cards wish their recipients "seasons greetings" and "all the best for the festive season and the New Year", but no reference to Christmas.
Defending its generic message, council initially said it had no policy to remove Christmas but was "mindful of people’s different backgrounds and beliefs". A further statement added: "Council’s vision is to be Australia’s most sustainable region vibrant, green, diverse. With diversity of belief and cultural background in mind council seeks to promote goodwill and peace during the festive season."
Noosa Christian Outreach Centre pastor Michael Clift said he was baffled as to why council would choose not to acknowledge the very season that provided the reason for it to mail cards. "I’d also then ask why they are sponsoring our Christmas carols concert?" Pastor Clift said. "Dear me, at the end of the day why sponsor that event as they do every year when we will be giving Christmas one heck of a belting?"
He said anyone offended by use of the word Christmas should not take a holiday on December 25. "Rock up to work on Friday the 25th and, for goodness sake, don’t have the following Monday off as that would really be hypocritical," he said.
"If the ethos is to avoid offending people then they’ve already done it. "I’m offended they’ve not had the courage to encourage Christmas."
Noosa District Catholic Parish Father Mark Franklin was similarly perplexed. "It sounds a little crazy if you ask me," he said. "I cannot see the sense in sending cards to wish people a happy or merry anything unless it is about Christmas, seeing that is why we have a holiday. "I know that lots of people from our church would find this strange."
Rev Scott Ballment of Tewantin and Sunrise Beach Uniting Churches said it was a shame Council had taken the stance it had, but he added that it would not stop his congregation celebrating Christmas. "It does seem strange that if you’re sending out Christmas cards to only use season’s greetings," he said. "It’s certainly somewhat odd. It’s a shame they’ve removed it but we will still be celebrating in full force."
A former Noosa Council staffer told The Noosa Journal the old council had no policy against use of the word Christmas and had used the word on cards in previous years.
University of the Sunshine Coast lecturer in public relations Dr Amalia Matheson said companies and councils ran the risk of being "bland" in their corporate messages in a bid to try to please all sections of the community with their choice of words. "At least they have not gone for the American `happy holidays’," she said.
British Health and safety killjoys remove village Christmas tree... "in case it distracts motorists"
Highway officials have been branded festive killjoys today after removing a village Christmas tree because it could distract passing motorists. The 8ft tree, which was covered with decorations, had been placed in the middle of a drab roundabout by residents in Dobwalls, Cornwall. But officers from the Highways Agency moved in overnight and took the fir down claiming it was an 'unauthorised item'. They said they had taken the tree away over health and safety fears.
Initially, residents thought that their new tree, complete with baubels and tinsel, had been stolen, but the agency confirmed it had taken it away to a depot. Sylvia Crome, who helped erect the tree, branded the agency 'Scrooges'. She said: 'It's Christmas and with all the terrible things happening in the world they have to do something like this.
'A Highways Agency van drove past us when we were putting it up and they took it away in the dead of night two days later - they didn't even tell us. 'I think they are being quite petty, they have no Christmas spirit. 'I think it's absolutely pathetic, I really don't believe it.'
Peter Scott, 56, who runs Heads or Tales newsagents, added: 'We thought we'd try to brighten up the roundabout for Christmas and put up the tree, complete with baubles and tinsel. 'We tried to make an effort to brighten things up. It is just unbelievable it has happened - the tree was doing no harm to anyone and certainly wasn't any sort of risk.'
He added that the 8ft Norwegian Spruce, which was donated by a farmer, was wedged securely two feet into the ground and that all the decorations were tied on with cable ties. He said: 'We were very careful not to put anything in there that wasn't securely attached and we didn't want anything that was a hazard in any way. 'The tree itself was two feet in the ground and was wedged into the ground. The wedges were driven in with a sledgehammer.' Robert Newton, chairman of the parish council, said: 'It's supposed to be the season of goodwill - where is theirs?'
The tree was put up on Sunday night by villagers, but had disappeared by 6am yesterday morning. A Highways Agency spokesman said the tree could be a danger to road users. He said: 'Our policy is to ensure the safety of road users by removing any unauthorised items placed on our roundabouts or roads. 'Anything that causes a distraction or impairs visibility presents a real danger to motorists on high speed roads.
'The tree has been taken to a nearby depot, where it can be collected by the owner. 'Alternatively, if the owner wishes, we can arrange to have the tree taken to a suitable site, where it can be enjoyed safely by the local community.'
Investigate EVERY crime report, British police are ordered in new crackdown on 'no crime' scandal
A political force to become a real police force? This is going to cut into the time they have for their more favoured pursuits -- such as harassing photographers and Christians
Police are to be forced to investigate all crimes reported by the public. Tough new rules will end the scandal of officers writing off thousands of assaults and thefts under the heading 'no crime'. This happens when police dismiss a person's report of an offence without making even cursory inquiries, in effect deciding the victim is either wrong or lying.
There was an outcry when it emerged in October that up to 6,000 cases of serious violence had been wrongly 'no crimed' - denying victims the chance of anyone being punished. They included a woman left battered and bruised after her partner slapped her, grabbed her by the neck and threw her on the floor, and a man who needed six stitches in a head wound after a street attack.
One force - Devon and Cornwall - admitted that an internal audit had found 40 per cent of violent incidents marked 'no crime' should not have been. Overall, it is estimated that around 200,000 complaints are 'no crimed' each year.
Now ministers have ruled that, in future, crime reports can not be written off unless there is hard proof the offence did not take place. This could include CCTV footage showing that it could not have happened - for example film of a drunk falling before claiming he had been assaulted. Home Secretary Alan Johnson said in a statement that 'no crime' rulings must have 'hard' evidence such as CCTV footage. 'Soft' evidence, like an officer's belief that the complainant was lying, was not enough.
The ruling will delight campaign groups, who say victims have for too long been ignored by the police and Government. But police are concerned it will burden them with even more bureaucracy, and that time which could be spent on patrol will be spent trawling through CCTV footage.
Simon Reed, vice-chairman of the Police Federation, said: 'We are going to end up investigating every incident to prove no crime has happened. 'We need to trust the officer's discretion. All we are doing is making the process more bureaucratic.'
Critics questioned the timing of the Government's announcement, which follows a blistering report on 'no criming' by Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary. It is likely to lead to a rise in crime figures as cases which were previously written-off are included in official statistics. But this will not happen until after a General Election.
The ruling will also do nothing to end the separate police practice of 'screening out'. This happens when officers accept a crime has taken place, but decide there is little or no chance of securing a prosecution. As a result, they do not bother to carry out a full investigation. Last year, police chose not to investigate 1.5million reported crimes under this system including sex attacks, robberies, drug use, fraud and thefts.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: 'This Government's reputation over its use of crime figures is so shot to pieces that frankly most people will think that Labour Ministers are engaged in yet another attempt to massage figures.'
A spokesman for Victim Support said: 'We are glad the government is taking this issue seriously, because if victims feel their experience of crime is being dismissed that risks adding insult to injury. 'But as well as making sure crimes are recorded properly, the police need to do more to promote the help available to victims and witnesses.'
You're not worthy: Council snubs move to honour British Army's most decorated regiment
The usual Leftist hatred of the military
They have fought bravely in Iraq and Afghanistan and count Victoria Cross hero Johnson Beharry among their number. But the troops of the most decorated regiment in the British Army are the victim of an extraordinary snub by a council in Surrey, which says they are not 'appropriate' recipients of a public honour.
More than 2,000 people in Epsom have signed a petition to hand the freedom of the borough to the soldiers of the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, which has won 57 Victoria Crosses in its 350-year history.
But a furious row has erupted after Liberal Democrats and independent councillors united to block the move - which would not cost taxpayers a penny - because the regiment, based in nearby Guildford, is 'not local enough'.
The regiment said it would be a 'huge honour' to have the freedom of the borough and march through the streets of the town when they come home from fighting the Taliban. More than 30 other councils have bestowed the same honour on the regiment, including Tunbridge Wells in Kent, 50 miles away.
Guest of honour at a homecoming parade in Tunbridge Wells was Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry, who won the Victoria Cross in 2004 for saving 30 colleagues by guiding them through an ambush in Iraq.
The Epsom and Ewell council committee that voted to snub the soldiers last conferred the freedom of the borough on their own retiring chief executive, while other previous recipients include a man who ran Epsom buses, the wife of a leading trade unionist, and two local businessmen.
Critics said the objection was rooted in political prejudice, because the move was proposed by a Tory councillor, and bureaucracy. On Tuesday night the council agreed to hold a special meeting to make a final ruling in the coming weeks but it will not be open to the public, and councillors are overwhelmingly opposed to the idea. Jean Steer of the Residents Association council group conceded that the regiment regularly signs up recruits from Epsom but said that granting them the freedom of the borough would be 'inappropriate'. 'It would be a nice thing to do but it's a high honour,' she said. 'I would love to see them marching through the borough but I don't think they should be given the honour. It has to be appropriate.'
Sean Sullivan, the Tory councillor who is pressing to honour the troops, said: 'The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment contains what used to be the East Surrey regiment. This is a local regiment. 'It would be wrong and downright offensive to refuse to honour this regiment.'
Three soldiers in the PWRR were killed during the Iraq War, including Private Lee O'Callaghan, 20, of London, who was killed in Basra during an attack by insurgents in 2004. Last night his mother Shirley said: 'To refuse them this honour seems so petty and shows a lack of gratitude for what they are doing.'
The PWRR, also known as 'The Tigers', has a long and illustrious history in Britain's Armed forces. It has been involved in virtually every theatre of war since The Battle of Tangier in 1662. For recent service in Iraq soldiers have also been awarded three Conspicuous Gallantry Cross medals, two Distinguished Service Orders and 16 Military Crosses.
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Another disgusting Muslim
A New Jersey woman who was molested while she slept by a male passenger on a 13-hour flight testified Monday in court about the shocking incident where she woke up to find that her body and private parts were covered with hand lotion.
The 25-year-old victim recounted the horrifying incident that took place on an Emirates flight from Dubai to Kennedy Airport last October.
The woman, who is only known to the jury by her first name, Stephanie, had to identify the dress and the thong underwear she had been wearing as well as the bottle of Nivea lotion during court on Monday, The New York Daily News reported.
Nadeem Memhood Quraishi has been charged with sexual contact without consent and could be deported back to Pakistan if he is convicted.
Stephanie, who had taken an anti-anxiety medication after boarding the plane and fell asleep, said that Quraishi sat in the seat next to her on her right side.
She testified that 'I love you, you're pretty' was whispered in her ear before she woke up. He also asked her if she had 'slept well.'
'My entire body felt sticky. I could smell the lotion,' she testified in Brooklyn Federal Court according to the Daily News. 'I was shocked. My heart dropped into my stomach.'
She immediately got up and went to the bathroom on the plane, where she noticed that her thong had been pushed aside as lotion covered her shoulders, breasts, arms, inner thighs, calves and vagina.
In addition, she said that her 'vaginal area was sore', according to court filings.
When she returned to her seat, the woman asked Quraishi where her lotion was. When the man handed her to bottle, she alerted the crew that something happened to her while she slept.
The court documents stated that when flight attendants asked Quraishi about what happened, he allegedly admitted to rubbing lotion on his fellow passenger’s 'arms, shoulders, and legs, and used the lotion in her vaginal area.'
The 42-year-old Staten Island man, who reportedly manages a Subway eatery, allegedly told the cabin crew he thought the woman 'needed it' and 'enjoyed it.'
'The defendant also told the flight attendants that he liked it and that it happened to him as a child,' the complaint read.
During the court session, his defense lawyer Mark Macron questioned Stephanie about the medication she had taken on the flight and how it was possible for his client to rub lotion on her body while she wore a belted dress, was covered by a blanket and had her seat belt on.
However, Gunjon Mangia, a flight attendant working during the flight, testified on the stand that Quraishi admitted that he applied the lotion on the victim's body, the Daily News reported.
'When I asked him why he did such a thing, he said, 'Well, I thought she needed it and she didn't offer any resistance so I thought she enjoyed it,'' Mangia said in court.
James Woods: 'The World is Fighting Islamic Terrorism... Democrats are Fighting for Men to Pee in Ladies' Rooms'
Actor James Woods thinks that while there are global issues of terrorism, starvation and disease to address, "democrats are fighting for men to pee in ladies' rooms."
On April 17 Woods tweeted:
The world is fighting Islamic terrorism, starvation, and disease, but democrats are fighting for men to pee in the ladies' room. #insanity
In recent weeks there has been a debate in several states about "bathroom bills" that would require a person to use the restroom that corresponds with their biological gender. Critics have characterized the bills as hostile to transgender people, while defenders argue that the bills are necessary to keep people safe from predators.
The Washington Post recently reported that when lawmakers in North Carolina passed such a bill, "incensed state Senate Democrats walked out of the vote in protest." On March 31, the International Transgender Day of Visibility, DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) released a statement:
As we celebrate the International Transgender Day of Visibility, we need to recommit ourselves to fighting against the discriminatory laws that Republican-controlled legislatures have passed or are trying to pass. Our nation has worked too hard to distance ourselves from the ugliest chapters in our history when discrimination was codified by our laws. We cannot move forward as a people or as a nation if we design laws that seek to diminish or demean people because of who they are or who they love.
Gov't Admits Violating Little Sisters' Religious Freedom
The Little Sisters of the Poor scored a significant point before the Supreme Court when the Obama administration essentially admitted that it could have respected the nuns' religious liberty and not required the group to buy an insurance plan that also funded contraception. It took the government long enough. As Heritage Foundation’s Sarah Torre notes, the plight of the Little Sisters — which has the potential to give the government the ability to decide just how someone can practice their faith — has cost the group five years of legal battles in the face of a state that will not relent. But after the two sides made oral arguments, the justices made a request that they haven’t made since 1953: They asked the two sides to propose compromises.
In the brief it submitted in April, the government beat around the bush and finally admitted that yes, it probably violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) by threatening millions of dollars in fines if Little Sisters didn’t cave into Big Brother’s demands. The Supreme Court is probably looking for a solution to the case to avoid a 4-4 decision, according to Stanford University law professor Michael McConnell. The professor writes that an initial compromise could have been very simple: Allow Little Sisters and any other organization who hold religious objections to contraception coverage to purchase contraception-free plans. If one of their employees wants that feature with their health care coverage, they shop on the ObamaCare exchange.
The government’s arguments before the highest court in the land don’t look good — especially because it was Little Sisters who the government pressured. As another petitioner in this case pointed out, large companies like Chevron, Exxon, Pepsi and Visa received exemptions from the government to exempt abortifacients from their health care coverage. Why not a group of nuns?
Leftist misrepresentation of slavery support
Walter E. Williams
During Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign visit to Liberty University, he told the students that our nation was created on racist principles. Students at a Christian-based university, such as Liberty, do not often hear the founders-as-racists argument. But it is featured at many other universities, as well as primary and secondary schools. Most often, the hate-America teachings are centered on the fact that slavery is a part of our history. What is left untaught is: Slavery was a routine part of human history. Blacks were the last people to be enslaved. Plus, our Founding Fathers struggled mightily over the issue of slavery. Let us look at some of that struggle.
George Washington said, "I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it." Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, Patrick Henry and others were highly critical of slavery, describing it as a "disease of ignorance," "an inconsistency not to be excused" and a "lamentable evil." George Mason said, "The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind." James Madison, in a speech at the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, declared, "We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man." Benjamin Rush said: "Domestic slavery is repugnant to the principles of Christianity. … It is rebellion against the authority of a common Father."
In their effort to create a union, the delegates at the Constitutional Convention had to negotiate many contentious, deal-breaking issues. Slavery was chief among them. Southern states made clear that they would not vote to ratify a constitution that abolished slavery or ended the slave trade. Northern delegates wanted to end slave trading and did not want slaves counted at all for congressional apportionment. Southern delegates wanted slaves counted as whole people. That would have given the South greater political power in the House of Representatives.
Convention delegate James Wilson offered a compromise whereby each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of determining the number of representatives a state would have in the House. This rule applied only to slaves. Freemen, whether black or white, would be counted as whole people. Another compromise was to set 1808 as the year to abolish the slave trade.
Contrary to what academic hustlers teach, the Three-Fifths Compromise was not a statement about human worth; it was an attempt to reduce the pro-slavery representation in Congress. By including only three-fifths of the total number of slaves in congressional calculations, Southern states were actually being denied a greater number of representatives in Congress and hence electoral votes for selecting a president.
There’s little question that slavery is an abomination and a gross violation of human rights, but the founders had to decide whether there would be a union or not. Had morality been their sole guide, they might have taken a hardened, nonnegotiable stand against slavery, but then the Constitution would have never been ratified and a union would not have been formed.
A question that we might ask those academic hustlers who use slavery to attack and criticize the legitimacy of our founding is: Would black Americans, yesteryear and today, have been better off if the Constitution had not been ratified — with the Northern states having gone their way and the Southern states having gone theirs — and, as a consequence, no union had been created? I think not.
Ignorance of our history, coupled with an inability to think critically, has provided considerable ammunition for those who want to divide us in pursuit of their agenda. Their agenda is to undermine the legitimacy of our Constitution in order to gain greater control over our lives. Their main targets are the nation’s youths. The teaching establishment, at our public schools and colleges, is being used to undermine American values.
For more postings from me, see TONGUE-TIED, GREENIE WATCH, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC, AUSTRALIAN POLITICS and DISSECTING LEFTISM. My Home Pages are here or here or here. Email me (John Ray) here.
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Xbox 360 Wont Play Games But Plays Dvds
The Xbox 360 is the next generation of gaming. An XBox controller in. Page 1 of 4 - Xbox 360 can't find my PC - posted in Console Games: Hey! and thanks for stopping to read this. My Xbox 360 is connected to my computer using the CAT-5 cable included with it. Experience the freedom to play your games wherever you want with Xbox Play Anywhere. To start: Insert a DVD into the disc drive of the Xbox 360 console and turn on the console. I couldn't easily find how to do it. Since Xbox is a multimedia device, users use it to play DVDs, but sometimes errors while playing DVDs can occur, and today we're going to show you how to fix those errors. Finally, when you purchase a digital game, you can start playing even before the entire game downloads. When I insert a game disk or dvd though it either does nothing or it gives the error: "Eject the disc, then try again. However, if you're like me and don't play but one or two store-bought games, this may be a worthwhile option. Xbox is more than a gaming console, it's a multimedia device that supports wide range of media. I think that the only game that xbox 360 and pc gamers to play together is Shadowrun, however, this game is quite old and nobody plays it anymore. Usually it does say play game with no picture, if it's the wrong key, but yes sometimes will say play dvd instead. Take usb cord supplied and hood up to xbox 360 and hd drive. I will check out PS3 Media Server. I use that set up to watch streamed divx from my wireless laptop to my 360 in the other room. However, after dubbing the footage to DVD's and finalizing, the discs won't play in any of my LG DVD or DVD/Blu-Ray drives, or in my Xbox 360. The Bottom Line The Xbox 360 HD DVD player is an inexpensive way for 360 owners to get high-def movies, but nonowners and audiophiles should stick with standalone HD players. But if you take away the console, okay you lose £160 but you can gain over £800 from the regular gamer as they will need to buy the components necessary to run the recommended specs. Xbox One backwards compatibility of Xbox 360 games was Microsoft's big surprise at E3 2015, and since debuting the feature later that year, the publisher has been hard at work rolling out new. He was the original owner and didn't modify it at all. Additionally, you also can rip DVD to digital format that Xbox One supported then play DVD movies on Xbox One bia USB port without internet. Be among the first to play the latest titles from Xbox Game Studios and [email protected], available to Xbox Game Pass members the same day as their global release. I took the HD DVD back and got a new onesame problem. Unlike the PS3 version, which ships on a single Blu-ray disc, the Xbox 360 version ships on two DVDs, one the "install" and the other the "play" disc, each roughly 8GB in size. 99 for 24 months, coming out to about $479. Does the XBOX 360 constantly ping online during game play? This seems very weird too me. But the fact is that you can play DVDs on Wii U console or Nintendo Wii as long as you get the correct method. These are the only ways to play other region games on an Xbox 360. Hence, first establish which codecs are playable on your DVD player. new games like BO K&L 2 DD dont need it. is it possible to buy an extra copy for xbox one and then play on xbox one with the same xbox live account? its very important for me that i can play sometimes on xbox 360 and sometimes on xbox one? are there different stats on xbox 360 and xbox one? or is only upgrade possible and then it is not. You may want to play DVD on Xbox One/Xbox 360, but like a DVD player, Xbox is also under region restrictions. Different Xbox 360 consoles have different dashboard appearances, but all game consoles will feature a “Media” area. I’ve had this problem myself in the past, and thought I’d try and help by offering these free tips/guides from my own experiences, as well as providing some information I have found through research. My XBOX 360 HD DVD Drive was working great with all movies and three days ago it suddenly stopped playing HD movies it still plays regular dvds but whenever I put a HD movie the screen goes black and I have to shut down or it returns me to the dashboard. It plays misic good but saids"unplayable disk" when I put a game or DVD in it. Xbox 360 provides with some of the best games that you can play on a gaming console. Look for the region code on the disc or DVD packaging. My Xbox 360 is about 4years old. Xbox head Phil Spencer gave a talk about how Microsoft wants to bring the PC and Xbox platforms closer together. In spite of that, do not give up your desire to watch high-quality Blu-ray movie on Xbox 360, you still have another possible solution to solve it. Insert a DVD Movie or an XBOX/XBOX 360 game into the "Original/Broken Hitachi DVD drive". However, if you're like me and don't play but one or two store-bought games, this may be a worthwhile option. He was the original owner and didn't modify it at all. The blu ray player isn't defective. If your disc won't read or the disc tray becomes stuck, follow these steps. In 2015 Microsoft announced that it had modified Xbox One to be compatible with older Xbox games. FAQ: How to play Xbox games on the new Xbox 360. The xbox will play every ORIGINAL xbox game but not a single 360 game, it will play dvd's and cd's as well. Used dvd player for sale in Dayton - dvd player posted by Matthew Coppock in Dayton. It is pity since MKV is an open standard free container format and very popular so far. None of my DVDs or or Xbox 360 game disc work anymore. Sponsored Links. Each console follows international standards and is manufactured under a specific DVD region. Square Enix has graced us with a brand-new trailer of Marvel's Avengers. If other discs load and play properly, you may need to replace the disc that cant load and play. I put the game in and it says "reading" then makes a noise like it will start up then dosent and it says "open tray". When you click Play in the Steam interface, to begin the game, nothing happens. 0x, depending on what speeds your burner support. but no dice. However, after dubbing the footage to DVD's and finalizing, the discs won't play in any of my LG DVD or DVD/Blu-Ray drives, or in my Xbox 360. It is an accessory for Xbox 360 device. This disc contains some emulators. The big difference between PS3 and 360 is that Sony is actually making their games on Blue-Ray disc and 360 won't be able to till the next generation of Xbox system. Xbox One is a pretty good game console which has a slightly better roster of exclusive games going into 2015 compared to that of the PS4. Around a week ago, I downloaded the Minecraft Demo for Xbox 360 (I have the black one, by the way) because my friends always play it. i have an hp laptop with windows 8. XBOX ONE Will read DVDs just fine, but struggles to read game discs and blurays. The Xbox app brings together your friends, games, and accomplishments from across your devices. The videos include Blu-ray movies, standard DVD movies, and vario. The optical drive seems to have failed. Explore Top and Best Xbox 360 Racing Games of All Time! Our Top video games list will aid you in choosing the ideal game for you. If you have lots of VOB files and Xbox 360 or Xbox One device, chances are you want to play VOB files on Xbox 360/Xbox One. I install all of my games to the hard drive so it is rarely used. The Xbox is not only a good game console, but also a great media player. If I press the eject button I get the Xbox dashboard, but once it reads the disc it boots up the game again. 1 day ago · Looking for Top 5 Best Portable DVD Player With Built-in Games In 2019 Review (November Update). For example, if you bought your Xbox 360 console in the United States, Canada, or a U. and it has a picture of a metallic xbox with controller on the back and on the front it has red and grey colors. So today we will talk about how to play Xbox 360 games on PC laptop. it works fine. Since Xbox is a multimedia device, users use it to play DVDs, but sometimes errors while playing DVDs can occur, and today we're going to show you how to fix those errors. And that's assuming you'd even want to. Plays standard DVDs, allowing you to have a game and a movie ready to play at all times; Provides an additional USB port for your Xbox 360 and includes USB 2. Using any one of the methods above, you can play Blu-ray/DVD (ISO) movies on Xbox One free without buying videos on Xbox Live. Game Dude is recommended by BargainsLA. (Links to all the specific devices are at the end) When I put in. Re: Playing with an xbox 360 controller? Some classes at low level play ok with a xbox controller, such as hunters and champs, but once you get to about level 20 there is simply too many options to handle on the controller. The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player is the most affordable way to jump into the next generation of DVD technology, along with the flexibility to enter when you are ready. Try to get a boot disc or sumthin like that. So i own my xbox games, i didn't download them or steal them or what not. Re: xbox 360 wont play the games but will play cds and Guys have you tried downloading the games you have onto your hard drive. But as long as your games play, you may choose not to do it, and just play DVDs on another device. When you burn movies as data DVD, the Xbox 360 won't read it because data DVDs are basically for storage or transfer of files for computer use. I'm running into a problem with my Xbox 360 HD DVD drive being able to play 'The Departed' HD DVD side. You can author DVDs that are widescreen and look correct on a widescreen or 4:3 TV without any 'hacky' tricks like what OPs player is using. Yes, you can play orginal Xbox 360 games on a flashed 360. The newest version is iXtreme LT+ 2. Can Xbox 360 play MP4 videos? Although it's officially claimed that Xbox 360 supports the MP4 files, we might occasionally have troubles in playing an MP4 file on the Xbox 360. Games → Video and PC games → Microsoft game platform → Microsoft Xbox 360 M y xbox 360 wont play games only dvd's and the tray opens and closes by itself. Some games don't work? If it is past 2. If you have Xbox 360, you probably don’t need a separate DVD player. Q: What tutorial should I. Your Xbox 360 console menu will list all PCs on your network. You can see lists of compatible games or games with known issues. Xbox 360 consoles do not support Blu-ray disc playback. The HD player plays SD. Some games don't work? If it is past 2. 10 Games Every Xbox One Player Needs Microsoft's gaming console has a lot going for it, thanks to upgraded hardware, backward compatibility, a Netflix-style subscription service, and good. The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player is the most affordable way to jump into the next generation of DVD technology, along with the flexibility to enter when you are ready. Every Xbox 360 can play DVD movies right out of the box — with no additional parts necessary. On the other hand, only when the DVD region matches the region of your Xbox console can you play DVD via Xbox 360 on 4K TV which you can't play a DVD purchased in United State on your Xbox 360 bought in U. As the replacement to the original Xbox, it is the second reliever in the Xbox series. It will also be your DVD player (5. The HD player plays SD. If you have lots of VOB files and Xbox 360 or Xbox One device, chances are you want to play VOB files on Xbox 360/Xbox One. An XBox controller in. But if you find yourself with a dirty laser lens begging to be cleaned, look no further than CleanDr for Xbox One. 264 and MPEG-4 are compatible with Xbox 360. Or perhaps you're keen to test your skills (and patience) by playing Ninja Gaiden. It is recognized by the emulator, i picked number 2 on the drop down menu, and it should work. Xbox Game Pass is an Xbox One, Xbox Play Anywhere, and Xbox 360 backwards compatibility game subscription for Xbox One; an active subscription is required to play games. So my son and I were the first ones to open the xbox 360, it looked like it too, as it was very dirty inside. A new article says that the Xbox One can play content that has been burned on DVD-R discs but not on recordable Blu-Ray (BD-R) disc mediums, which leaves out legitimate content burned on those discs. Either the screen would suddenly go snowy/blank with a bluish-gray tinge, or it would freeze/lock up but keep displaying the last ‘frame’ of whatever was happening. Note: Studios have announced that no new titles will be released on the HD DVD or the HD DVD Combo format. XBOX One only plays Blueray disks. You will also remember the Xbox 360 Games with Gold. Use Verbatim Dual-Layer disks so there are no coasters or bad burns. are fist launched on Xbox. The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player is the most affordable way to jump into the next generation of DVD technology, along with the flexibility to enter when you are ready. I will check out PS3 Media Server. Burned DVD won't play in DVD player? Don't worry, in this article, we're going to introduce how to solve the burned DVD won't play in DVD player problem with Wondershare DVD Creator, and this article also introduces several helpful tips that can help you to get rid of the DVD playback issues. Why Won't the Xbox 360 Playback MP4 Video? Xbox 360 only plays two kinds of MP4: H. The Xbox One and Xbox 360 only support AVI files encoded with DivX or XviD codec. Every single one of them can play DVDs and CDs as well. Thing is games, DLC, and online play all work fine and should work going forward. Installing and using the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive (with video!) Ryan Block, @ryan. This does involve taking your console apart, and opening your DVD drive. This is crucial, if this is not set the game will not burn properly or play on your 360. A dialog box from the DVD itself: Says that your DVD player (the Xbox 360) has parental controls running and gives you the option to stop playing the DVD (kicking you out to the Dashboard). It will automatically play. I would recommend getting another xbox, flashing it, and playing single player games offline and keep the one you have for multiplayer/online. If your Xbox One won’t read discs, you can’t just point your fingers at the console’s maker anymore. 264 and MPEG-4. Many of the games released for the original Xbox are. The Xbox 360 HD DVD Player is the most affordable way to jump into the next generation of DVD technology, along with the flexibility to enter when you are ready. Microsoft XBOX Console Instruction Manual. If you are an Xbox 360 owner that has unfortunately tried to play a game and it wouldn't start, you are in the right place. Microsoft just dropped a bomb on the game industry, announcing that the Xbox One will be able to play Xbox 360 games — making its newest console backward-compatible with titles originally. Help! My son cannot play the spit scren multiplayer on the xbox 360. Most games give you the option to choose which difficulty to play on. Backup copy and burn dvd gamez. XBOX ONE Will read DVDs just fine, but struggles to read game discs and blurays. Unless you install frequently used games to the hard drive, the 360 spins the optical disc all the time during gameplay which, IMO, really compromises the life span of the unit. Xbox One has been pitched as an all in one media device with deep TV integration, Blu-ray playback and gaming. How to properly burn Xbox 360 games. when i want to play a game it comes up with a white screen with a message saying "please load disc into an xbox 360 console" ( i thought it was a 360 console lol) my 360 is an. If your disc won't read or the disc tray becomes stuck, follow these steps. Games with bundled DLC should work properly. The Xbox One Blu-ray drive has a laser that can read both types of disc, however, it sounds to me like the part of the drive that reads DVD discs is faulty (Xbox 360 games are on DVD disc format). However, MS has converted many 360 games already. This page contains a list of co-op games for the Xbox 360. For other players the game stuck at the launch screen. hallo, i bought a disk copy of battlefield 4 for xbox 360 and the premium package on xbox live. Burning Xbox 360 discs will allow you to have an infinite amount of copies of the game that you love. Minecraft - Xbox 360 is an amazing game that will give you 100's hours of entertainment. XBOX ONE Will read DVDs just fine, but struggles to read game discs and blurays. #3 The Crew Game Won’t Start. Call of duty could be the same game on both systems, but the servers that you play on cannot link 360 and pc games together. Actually I tried two new burners and neither one worked. Purchase and install Power CD+G Filter on your PC TVersity will not read MP3+G files natively, so you'll need to install the Power CD+G filter in order for TVersity to recognize and decode the file format. It plays misic good but saids"unplayable disk" when I put a game or DVD in it. Your Xbox 360 console menu will list all PCs on your network. It is an accessory for Xbox 360 device. Either the screen would suddenly go snowy/blank with a bluish-gray tinge, or it would freeze/lock up but keep displaying the last ‘frame’ of whatever was happening. You can buy the DLC on the Xbox Store and it will "just work" in the backwards compatible game, as if you were playing the game on an Xbox 360. :( It's been failing like this for a while now, but I think it's finally given up the ghost. At present, only the following burners support this function: RICOH, BENQ, BTC, LITE-ON, LG and PLEXTOR. Xbox 360 using Media Center refuses to play Xvid. I have a question I fixed the red ring issue with my xbox, but now my dvd player says when I put in a game that I have to insert the game into a xbox 360. Can Xbox 360 Play MKV Files? Xbox 360 has strict requirement for the input formats and only WMV, AVI, H. To start: Insert a DVD into the disc drive of the Xbox 360 console and turn on the console. I have burned movies on DVD-R's and they play fine but the wedding stuff won't play. 264 and MPEG-4 are compatible with Xbox One and Xbox 360. free copy game of our burn game software. I think that the only game that xbox 360 and pc gamers to play together is Shadowrun, however, this game is quite old and nobody plays it anymore. The Game console appears on the TV and I can play games, but it won't let me movie DVDs. I opened it up to see if cleaning would help. Besides, the DVD disc will be scratched or damaged due to repeat use. dk ApS privacy. For information about disc formats and regions, see Supported regions, formats, and discs. This app also allows you to Play Touch ONLY based Games(with No Native Gamepad Support) with ANY Gamepad of your choice. Since Xbox is a multimedia device, users use it to play DVDs, but sometimes errors while playing DVDs can occur, and today we're going to show you how to fix those errors. If you have lots of VOB files and Xbox 360 or Xbox One device, chances are you want to play VOB files on Xbox 360/Xbox One. My xbox 360 will play Music CD's but wont play games or DVDS why? My Xbox 360's warranty is void it was dropped down stairs and came upen So calling microsoft is not an option. This allows your Xbox 360 to play burned games. With Pavtube BDMagic, you can also convert Blu-ray to other media players, like AC Ryan Media Player , Asus O!Play Mini Plus , or Zune/Zune HD for playback. A lot of the potential issues with a new gaming system can be avoided. It's an arduous process and isn't easy at all. Xbox 360 consoles come in a variety of formats including different memory sizes to store game progress and data. 0 and you are playing copied games then chances are you have one of the newer firmwares. Just to make sure it wasn't scratches on the disc i played a dvd i owned and played on my 360 before and has no scratches and it did the same thing. A replacement PC DVD-ROM drive will not let you play those games. Integrated with a Blu-ray drive, the Xbox One S can accept Blu-ray disc and DVD disc. When you try to do this, you'll find it's very difficult to do the job. Step 3 Stream media files to Xbox 360 for playback Hover your mouse over the just added videos and you'll see a Wi-Fi like icon in the middle. And the most exciting thing is Xbox 360 works as a DVD player in a pinch. How To Copy XBox 360 Games. Start playing music track from step 1 before launching the game (push Xbox button > menu Media > Play button). hi my xbox 360 is playing most of the older games but alot of the new games dont work. Is there a way to play the games on my HD without inserting the disk, kind of like a no cd patch on the PC?. Discover amazing deals on Xbox One video games while browsing our selection of thrilling games including new releases, best sellers, and pre-orders!. But it plays dvds and cds fine does anyone know what wrong with it and about how much it would cost to fix. Following are the Modifications (MODs) that can be made to the XBOX. Xbox One Will Soon Play Some Old 360 Games. Date May 4, 2016 Author Catherine Category DVD Tips, Microsoft. • Switch the console power on with a DVD in the drive If you have a. I install all of my games to the hard drive so it is rarely used. Delete System Update will appear, make sure there is no media in your disc. My first attempts failed, so I determined that it was because it hadn't been updated so I burned the Fall 2008 Update to DVD and updated the system. When it comes to how to play DVD on Xbox 360, it is a little different with Xbox One. • Switch the console power on with a DVD in the drive If you have a. If your Xbox One won't read discs, you can't just point your fingers at the console's maker anymore. So this article shares an easy solution to revolve the DVD not playing problem on PS4. More Reports All Movies > In Theaters Coming Soon New to DVD & Streaming Best of Netflix Best of Amazon Best Movies of All Time Browse Movies by Genre Games This Month's Free Games More Reports All Games > PS4 Xbox One PC Switch Wii U 3DS PS Vita iOS Legacy TV. Modern DVD players are able to play Xvid/Mp3 combination format. my ps2 is cracked with matrix infinity v1. Video Game Talk - Xbox 360 HD-DVD player won't play HD-DVD's - Hey guys I have a buddy who just got the add on for his 360. Turn off xbox 360, turn back on, and that's it! OK, one more install. Like physical media, you can also play many digitally downloaded games without being online, although experiences will be best when connected to the internet and Xbox Live. Make sure you're using an xbox one game, a music cd or a movie on blu-ray. On my 3rd 360 (an elite) and its started playing up a mere 5 months in. The Game console appears on the TV and I can play games, but it won't let me movie DVDs. The drive plays standard DVDs in addition to HD DVD titles; however it does not read Xbox or Xbox 360 game discs, Audio CDs or mixed media CDs. I asked if they had tried to replace the optical drive knowing abuot the board and key but they said no. If you like playing games online, it’s definitely worthwhile, because that’s the only way you’ll be able to play online with Xbox One or Xbox 360. It's preconfigured for most game titles and controllers. This Xbox 360 Gamerscore are only Emulate. Microsoft claims that Xbox Game Pass offers over 100 games to play, however in reality, the subscription model barely squeaks past that limit (71 backward-compatible Xbox 360 titles combined with. failing authorize disc – usually at game start screen), you can stop playing your music (push Xbox button. So today we will talk about how to play Xbox 360 games on PC laptop. For information about disc formats and regions, see Supported regions, formats, and discs. This will install the Blu-ray Player app that will allow you to watch DVD's and Blu-rays on your XBox One. What this means is, you can stream and play your Xbox One games such as Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and Forza Horizon 2, to a PC or tablet running Windows 10. I had no problems before and played all my disc, DVD format and BluRay no problems. https://nordic. Q: What tutorial should I. Most games give you the option to choose which difficulty to play on. Titles and number of games included may vary over time and by country, and may not be available in all countries. However, after dubbing the footage to DVD's and finalizing, the discs won't play in any of my LG DVD or DVD/Blu-Ray drives, or in my Xbox 360. When it comes to Copying Xbox 360 games there are many little nuances you must overcome. No Xbox 360 with a built-in HD DVD drive was ever released. It is an accessory for Xbox 360 device. When it comes to how to play DVD on Xbox 360, it is a little different with Xbox One. Every time i want to play a game, which WAS NOT in the XBOX's DVD tray, i would turn on the console by EITHER: My Xbox 360 won't read DvDs or Games. i tried looking around for an answer, but it's a dead trail. To get this corrected you'll have to send your console to Microsoft for a repair. Not all games have an online component, but many do. Zombies in March These are the games you can play for free on Xbox Live Gold in March 2019 | Stuff. My Xbox's DVD Drive has been playing up for a while now. If you have Xbox 360, you probably don't need a separate DVD player. This seems like it should be possible, since the Xbox 360\'s 512 megabytes of RAM should be more than capable of handling the caching needs of a less demanding Xbox title. Let's take a look at how to play DVDs on your Xbox 360 and One. When you burn movies as data DVD, the Xbox 360 won't read it because data DVDs are basically for storage or transfer of files for computer use. I can't get my computer to Connect to Xbox 360. You are allowed to play HD DVDs upscale to 720p or 1080p with this Xbox 360 HD DVD Player. The Xbox plays DVDs fine, and the game show more Someone gave me an Xbox 360 that was working fine just a few months ago. When you click Play in the Steam interface, to begin the game, nothing happens. 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Paul Dailly at April 23, 2019 9:00 am .
ABC's Modern Family is currently airing its penultimate season.
How will Modern Family Season 10 conclude and set up the show's last-ever season?
The Alphabet network has dropped the first details about Modern Family Season 10 Episode 22, and it sounds like a different direction for the hit comedy series.
Titled "A Year of Birthdays," the installment will take viewers on a trip down memory lane to find out how the family members celebrated their birthdays.
Here's the press release from ABC:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY? ABC’S ‘MODERN FAMILY’ SEASON FINALE AIRS WEDNESDAY, MAY 8
“A Year of Birthdays” – As the birth of Haley and Dylan’s twins approaches, we take a look back at how each family member celebrated their birthdays this past year on the season finale of “Modern Family,” WEDNESDAY, MAY 8 (9:00-9:31 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network, streaming and on demand.
“Modern Family” stars Ed O’Neill as Jay Pritchett, Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy, Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy, Sofia Vergara as Gloria Pritchett, Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell Pritchett, Eric Stonestreet as Cameron Tucker, Sarah Hyland as Haley Dunphy, Nolan Gould as Luke Dunphy, Ariel Winter as Alex Dunphy, Rico Rodriguez as Manny Delgado, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons as Lily Tucker-Pritchett and Jeremy Maguire as Joe Pritchett.
Related: Modern Family: ABC Series Ending After 11 Seasons
Guest starring is Reid Ewing as Dylan, Chazz Palminteri as Shorty, Hillary Anne Matthews as Sherry and Matthew Risch as Jotham.
“A Year of Birthdays” was written and directed by Steve Levitan.
It certainly sounds like the twins will be arriving during the season finale, so that will surely give long-time viewers some great scenes.
As for the birthdays, there are a lot of family members, so it would make sense to tell this story over the course of an entire season.
We kid, mostly.
ABC renewed Modern Family earlier this year for an eleventh and final season, despite reports that the current tenth season would be the end of the line for the popular series.
There's no definite episode count at this moment in time, but given that the show is ABC's third highest-rated scripted series in the demo, it makes sense to keep it around for a little while longer.
Before the season finale, we have Modern Family Season 10 Episode 21.
"Cam is finally getting a chance to shine when he is asked to preside over the high school graduation ceremony at the last minute, while Jay gives the commencement address," reads the official logline.
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"Meanwhile, Claire runs into her former high school rival who brings out the worst in her."
That episode airs Wednesday, May 1.
What are your thoughts on these finale teases?
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Otto Wilhelm Rahn (n. Michelstadt, 18 de febrero de 1904 - 13 de marzo de 1939) fue un escritor alemán aficionado al esoterismo, la historia y el medievalismo. Miembro del Partido Nazi y Obersturmführer de las SS, su figura está asociada a las creencias esotéricas del ocultismo nazi extensamente difundidas en dicho cuerpo militar. Nació y se crio en el seno de una familia de clase media. Por influencia de su padre, juez en la ciudad de Maguncia, inició estudios de Derecho, aunque también le agradaba la música y era un buen pianista. Durante 4 años (de 1922 a 1926) estuvo matriculado en las facultades de Derecho de Giessen, Friburgo y Heidelberg.
What is the Grail?
The Grail. Between 1190 and 1240, it formed the central theme of a series of literary works that spoke of, and appealed to, a new social class, that of the knights and warriors and the adventures they encountered on their travels. In recent decades, it unleashed Indiana Jones on one of his death-defying treasure hunts and was the central ingredient of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, one of the biggest bestselling novels ever.
For Richard Barber, in The Holy Grail: The History of a legend, “it is, in all its forms, a construct of the creative imagination”. However, for dozens of other authors, the Grail is not a literary invention, but a veritable treasure, out there, somewhere. Unfortunately, in general, studies trying to identify and trace the physical Grail have taken on flights of fancy. The Grail has been linked with countries from the Middle East to America, as well as with the persecuted Cathars and even extra-terrestrial beings. It has been labelled a code word for the Ark of the Covenant, after the Templars allegedly transported it from the Middle East to a new hiding place in France.
The wooden book of Montségur
In the early 20th century, a series of palm leaves, containing anomalous writing, were apparently discovered within a hidden cache of the walls of the Cathar castle of Montségur. Though without any intrinsic value, the “wooden book” – as it became known – would become the centrepiece of the esoteric and metaphysical community; its discoverers even labelled it “the Oracle” and said it was able to contact the hidden masters of Agharta.
Montségur is seen as the final stronghold of the Cathar faith, a bastion of true devotion besieged by the worldly ambitions of the papal troops. In March 1244, the Cathars that had been locked inside the castle for months finally surrendered; approximately 220 were burned en masse in a bonfire at the foot of the pog when they refused to renounce their convictions.
Otto Rahn: A Hero's Journey
I recently visited the former South of France residence of the legendary Grail hunter Otto Rahn, only to discover that it was scheduled to be demolished, thus ending an era, and prompting this memorial.
I believe Otto Rahn (1904-1939) was a hero; the real Indiana Jones and prototype for Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon character. A tireless explorer, Rahn was a gifted researcher, committed to the quest like no one before, or since. Quite simply, he was a grail hunter extraordinaire.
Rahn was obsessed with the Cathars, and was convinced that their treasure remained hidden in the shadowy crevasses of the Pyrenees. His research led to Montségur, which he believed to be Munsalvaesche, the Mountain of Salvation of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s epic grail romance, Parzival. Not surprisingly, the entire region around Montségur soon became Rahn’s esoteric playground.
Rescanières: another unsolved death?
A memorial slab
Stand in the covered hallway that is in front of the church of Rennes-les-Bains, and you will find that the community indeed had respect – more so than for the other priests that served the community, it seemed – for Boudet. That in itself should be remarkable. However, there is also another name on the memorial slab: Rescanières.
The interesting thing is that Rescanières only served as priest of Rennes-les-Bains for one year: 1914 to 1915. It left him little time to leave an impression, it seems, but apparently he did. And the reason why and how he did so, has to do with his sudden, unexpected – and premature death: Rescanières was only 47 years old when he died. Might it therefore come as a surprise that some believe that he was murdered?
Himmler and Otto Rahn's Cathars
Once a faithful Roman Catholic, Heinrich Himmler rejected religion at about the time that a parliamentary decree robbed him of his aristocratic title. Stripped of both his faith and social status simultaneously, Himmler, like the fictional Dieter Bachman of The Blood Lance, threw himself passionately into the Nazi cause. At the same time he became interested in all aspects of the occult.
Himmler does not seem to have been an especially brilliant man but he was educated, sophisticated, and notoriously energetic. As the leader of the SS, he oversaw the activities of the Gestapo; he ran the concentration camps; he provided Hitler ultimately with twelve divisions of elite armoured troops, and he built a massive civilian organisation devoted to German culture. It oversimplifies matters to suggest the SS was Hitler's Praetorian Guard, with Himmler in the role of Tiberius' Prefect, Aelius Sejanus. Likewise, it misses much of the complexity of the SS to say they are like the Knights Templar of the Crusade era. The similarities between the two organisations are probably not accidental, but it was the civilian side of the SS that made the Order of the Skull Himmler's own creation. It was into the civilian branch of the SS that Himmler recruited Otto Rahn.
Otto Rahn: To Rennes or not to Rennes?
“The Emerald Cup-Ark of Gold: the Quest of SS Lt Otto Rahn of the Third Reich”, Colonel Howard Buechner claimed that Otto Rahn visited the Corbières in 1937. This visit is not substantiated. However, there is little doubt in my mind that there is a strong connection between Rahn and Rennes-le-Château. I found these connecting links:
- Rahn’s link to the Cathars whom he loved with great passion;
- The war waged against the Cathars by the Church and the French King, a war of such ferocity that it brings into question the true nature of the cause for which the crusade against Albigensian and Cathar was really launched;
- Rennes-le-Château is seated in the Cathar heartland; Saunière discovering something linked to the “real” story of Catholic geopolitical involvement in the West over the centuries;
- The Vatican not speaking out against the Nazis until close to the end of WWII. What was the Church afraid of?
- Jules Massenet and his librettist Henri Cain for the opera: Don Quichotte and the metaphysical concepts of the necklace image and of the Island of Dreams;
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Отто Вильгельм Ран (нем. Otto Wilhelm Rahn (18 февраля 1904, Михельштадт — 13 или 14 марта 1939, гора Куфштайн близ городка Куфштайн, Тирольские Альпы, Австрия) — немецкий писатель и исследователь, археолог-любитель, сотрудник Аненербе, оберштурмфюрер СС.
Otto Wilhelm Rahn (February 18, 1904—March 13, 1939) was a German medievalist and a Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant) of the SS, born in Michelstadt, Germany.
Speculation still swirls around Otto Rahn and his research. From an early age, he became interested in the legends of Parsifal, Holy Grail, Lohengrin, and the Nibelungenlied. While attending the University of Giessen he was inspired by his professor, the Baron von Gall, to study the Albigensian (Catharism) movement, and the massacre that occurred at Montségur. Rahn is quoted as saying that "It was a subject that completely captivated me''".
A review of Otto Rahn’s Lucifer’s Court by John J. Reilly
This book and its companion volume, Crusade against the Grail, are about as close as we can get to an “authoritative” statement of the esoteric dimension of the Nazi regime in Germany. The publication of the Crusade book in 1933 persuaded SS leader Heinrich Himmler to invite its author, Otto Rahn (1904-1939), to work for the SS as a folklorist. As the book under review here also does in part, that work developed the thesis that the doctrines of the medieval Cathars of Provence were encoded into Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach’s 13th-century version of the Grail legend. Rahn later became a member of the Ahnenerbe (“ancestral heritage”) bureau of the SS, in whose employ he finished Lucifer’s Court.
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Is Cape Town an “African” city? : An interview with South African travel writer Dawn Jorgensen
Dawn Jorgensen is a travel writer and photographer based in Cape Town. Her travel blog, The Incidental Tourist, has acquired a huge following in Cape Town and around the world, and she recently spearheaded the first Travel Massive meet up in Cape Town as part of a global initiative to connect people in the travel industry locally, bringing together travel brands, travel startups, and travel bloggers and travel professionals.
Dawn has spent a great deal of time traveling throughout South Africa and the continent, with trips to Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Madagascar. She sat down with Our Future Cities and shared her perspective on Cape Town as an “African” city and why she is proud to call it her home.
Dawn Jorgensen in Johannesburg (photo by Dawn Jorgensen)
Question: What is your favorite city and why?
Answer: I know I am only meant to have one favorite, but I love so many cities, especially African cities. If I can go anywhere in the world, I would choose an African destination. Last February, I was in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, and we hired a guide on a motorbike. We toured the city from 9 am to 6 pm, all on a bike, going to ten different places throughout the city. We rode through the streets and the markets. I get this sense that in African cities, you are not shielded from anything, you just get the best and the worst sounds and smells and experiences, and its all just out there. There is also this kind of organized chaos, where everything works and it works so well, and the taxi rank has got hundreds of taxis and they all have purpose and structure, and even though I don’t understand it, somehow it all works.
Q: Many people say that Cape Town is not an “African” city. Do you agree or disagree?
A: I think Cape Town is very cosmopolitan, but it depends on how you navigate the city. There is an African quality to the city, but a lot of people decide to protect themselves from that. If you want to feel the African flavor of Cape Town, go downtown, walk the streets, mix in different areas, and don’t just hug the Atlantic Seaboard. Go into the coffee shops, go into the Bo Kaap and taste Cape Malay food. There is so much to do here, and a lot of it is free. It’s the same as when you travel somewhere as a tourist: you can have a superficial glossed over experience, or you can get to the core and soul of your destination.
Q: How do you think people could be encouraged to experience other parts of the city?
A: Take a look at Cape Town over the last ten years and the way that Capetonians have taken back downtown or the CBD. Cape Town has really become a city that you can explore by foot. Today I can walk from my studio in Vredehok, down Long Street, to the Waterfront and I feel totally safe to do that. But one has to make the effort to not just take the car out and drive from the Southern Suburbs to the Waterfront.
Q: Would you recommend guided tours for Capetonians who want to explore other neighborhoods?
A: Absolutely. For example, although township tours unfortunately have not always been done with the correct philosophy, there are community projects emerging there that can guide you on your visit. There are tours to Langa that can take you to the art galleries there, and the winery, where individual women are given vines to grow in the gardens so that they can contribute to the business. There are amazing micro businesses and initiatives everywhere you go in Cape Town, and I completely advocate being a tourist in your own city.
But I also believe that it can be hard for tour guides to portray information in just a few hours, which is why I think that travel bloggers play such an important role. They can bring different aspects of the city to life from a personal perspective, and can introduce you to places that you may not have thought of visiting before, even in your own city.
Q: After having traveled to cities all over the world, what do you think Cape Town could learn from other urban areas?
A: I think that Cape Town really needs good and extensive public transport. For me, I love being able to go to a city where I don’t need a car. In London, you can walk out of your hotel, and go anywhere using solely public transport. What Cape Town is doing with the My Citi bus is making a huge difference, but I think we still have a long way to go.
Q: What do you love about Cape Town?
A: In Cape Town, we are spoilt by our connection with nature. Even when we navigate, we give directions along the mountain, behind the mountain over the mountain, along the coast. We are always in touch with nature even though we are in a city. Cape Town really is amazing in this way, and there is no other place in the world where I would rather live.
My love of the people and places of this city are also completely intertwined. I find that the places that I end up spending time in are all about people fulfilling their dreams and following their passions. I will drive all the way out to Tribe Coffee in Woodstock, just because I love the people. Maybe its people who have given up their corporate jobs to follow their dream, such as roasting coffee, or sourcing ethically produced meat, or make a business out of producing artisanal chocolate. That is where my favorite spaces are in Cape Town, where you can find these individuals, and their stories.
You can read more about Dawn’s travels here.
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DWM speaks to Chris Achilleos, the first regular artist on the range, establishing a new visual style for Doctor Who…
“I didn’t need direction – I knew how to do a cover,” he explains today. “I was always very aware that a book cover needs to be attractive – almost interactive, in a way – so that you’re drawn to pick it up in a shop. I still think they work as good punchy covers.”
Target book fan and modern-day Doctor Who writer Mark Gatiss has much affection for the artwork: “The Three Doctors was my first and perhaps still my favourite,” he says warmly. “The incredibly evocative orange and green luridness of Omega’s deadly fingers, the Doctors themselves in grave monochrome. I still get a Proustian rush from seeing these images.”
ALSO INSIDE THIS ISSUE...
Doctor Who’s executive producer Brain Minchin tells DWM about the operation to reveal the identity of the Doctor's new companion…
WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER?
DWM investigates what it is to be immortal in the Doctor Who universe.
NIGHT TO REMEMBER
Ahead of a very special Fact of Fiction next issue on The Day of the Doctor, DWM looks back at the most unexpected Doctor Who story of all time…
BACK IN THE SISTERHOOD
We ask Clare Higgins, High Priestess of the Sisterhood of Karn, if Ohila could be the Doctor’s mother?
THE WITCH IS FAMILIAR…
… in the third part of our brand-new comic strip adventure, Witch Hunt, written by Jacqueline Rayner and illustrated by Martin Geraghty.
DRESS FOR THE OCCASION
Jacqueline Rayner talks about the challenges of dressing her boys up as the Doctor, in her column, Relative Dimensions.
DOCTOR, I MARRIED HIM!
An increasing number of couple are incorporating Doctor Who into the most important day of their lives. But why? DWM investigates...
FISHY BUSINESS
There’s something fishy going on under Venice, as the Time Team watch The Vampires of Venice...
GATEWAY TO THE UNIVERSE
The Fourth Doctor, Romana, Adric and K9 try to find a way out of E-Space in this month’s Fact of Fiction on 1981's Warriors' Gate...
DWM previews all the latest Doctor Who CD and book releases.
Russell T Davies return to BBC Wales with his production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream...
All the latest official news, reviews, competitions and The DWM Crossword.
+ Doctor Who Magazine Issue #499 is out on Today, priced £4.99.
Kev Heritage - Blue Into The Rip & Author Interview
As fans of science fiction, we're often introduced to a wide range of related books, dvds and audios, and every now and again, one comes along that blows us away! If you haven't heard of him already, Kev Heritage is an author whom we were introduced to about a year ago, and his books are engaging, gripping and of huge interest if you happen to be a Doctor Who fan (which, if you're reading this, we rather suspect you are) :)
Heritage's first book Blue Into The Rip, focuses on Blue - a teenager who is 'ripped' hundreds of years into the future. Blue is enlisted in the space corps where he gradually learns the truth about his past.
We caught up with Kev to discuss his books, his love for scifi and - perhaps more importantly - if he was a fan of Doctor Who!
What got you into writing and were there any authors who have influenced or inspired you?
The headline is… I think way too much. So much so that it can become a little crippling when trying to deal with the real world.
I have an over-active imagination, which means that given the time and the inclination (and without something to keep my mind occupied) I can convince myself of pretty much anything - and it all makes perfect sense! As you can imagine, overthinking in this way can be quite a serious flaw to a happy productive life.
Writing is a perfect heat-sink for all of that extra thought-time I seem to need. Instead of worrying about imagined illnesses, plane crashes, bills, social situations and the strange green mold growing under my bed, I use my thinking time to come up with the next cool idea, solving plot problems and trying to make sense out of the nonsense of my first draft.
Writing, was and is, always a way to escape from myself and to think about the other people—the characters in my books—who, thankfully, lead a far more interesting life.
I suppose, even now, I’m a little bit disappointed with real life as it never lives up to the fantasy world buzzing around inside my head. But the way I can get closest to making that real is by writing. No matter how annoying, frustrating or sometimes depressing, life can be, writing always delivers. I can escape into those worlds and live inside of them for a while. For me, it’s a magical experience.
Don’t misunderstand, my life is not mostly annoying, frustrating or depressing, but perhaps in the way people like to disappear inside a soap, a movie or a book, I like to enter worlds of my own making… whilst trying my best to not sound pretentious!
The authors who inspired me? I’m sort of inspired by everything I manage to read till the last page (I do give up on a lot of stuff half-way through). But at age ten to twelve I discovered Robert E. Howard, Philip K. Dick, Heinlein, Vonnegut, Asimov, Clarke, Tolkien, Frank Herbert—the list goes on. I was astounded by the imagination behind these novels. They contained worlds undreamed of.
When it comes to writing though, inspiration and creativity are a small part of the process. The hard part is slogging through to the end.
Just reading the opening blurb from the first in your ‘Into The Rip’ series, our interest was genuinely piqued! It’s one of those descriptions that you simply can’t let slide without wanting to delve in and find out more. We have a number of our visitors who love to write and I’m sure they’d love to know how you pulled all the elements of the story together? Did the time travel element come first, or did you have a clear idea of the main character before adding in the variables?
The novel is certainly a thrill ride. Blue is a misfit with a ‘gob on him’—as we say in Derby where I’m from. He’s arrogant, cocky—a typical mixed up teen. Except that it’s not just his emotions that are mixed up, but also his genetics. He is an artificially created human living in the past with mysterious hippy parents. And nothing is as it seems. He gets ripped forward in time and well… you need to read the story to find out what happens to him. And A LOT happens to Blue and his new friends. So go buy the book!
But I digress…. Blue into the Rip came about after I was flipping through a notebook (years old) to see if I’d had any good ideas (I hadn’t), but scribbled at the top of one page were the peculiar words: Blue Into The Rip. I have no idea what I was thinking when I wrote that phrase, yet it stuck in my mind. I started to wonder what it could mean. Blue became a character name and The Rip some kind of tear in the fabric of time and space. The story sort of jumped out from there.
At the outset, all I knew was that Blue would be transported to the future, meet some cadets, visit a flooded London, live under the remains of the Amazon Rainforest and visit a spacestation with the story ending with him floating over the Rings of Saturn (although I had no idea why, I just thought it’d be cool) and that was it.
That…and a terrific twist!
And as soon as I discovered Blue was the result of genetic experimentation, the back story leapt fully formed into my mind and I knew it would take more than one novel to tell that story, so the series was born.
But as I’m not a fan of cliffhangers, each story is a standalone mystery.
I’m very proud of Blue Into The Rip– but the finished novel bears very little resemblance to the absolute mess of the first draft.
Writers are either pantsters (writing by the seat of their pants) or plotters. I’m a pantster all the way. I have no firm ideas about plot or characters. I put pen to paper (or fingertips to plastic) and we’re off! I let the characters guide me. I write down whatever they want to do, or act like, or say. No constraints. I have no idea who the ‘goodies’ or the ‘baddies’ are until they reveal themselves to me. When I’m about two thirds in, I restructure, work out an ending and fill in the gaps. This gets me to my first draft.
The Ying Yang of my process: first absolute chaos, then enforced order.
I cannot write any other way. Believe me, I’ve tried, but any kind of planning kills my writing. I wish it were not like this because I can spend weeks stuck in plot cul-de-sacs with no idea how to continue. But I wake up one day and blam!—there’s the answer…Mostly.
The next drafts are pure hard work. Subbing. Refining. Plotting. Adding better concepts and ideas. Pruning. I keep going until my gut feeling that ‘the novel needs more work’ goes away. I often ‘finish’ but become consumed with niggling doubts. My subconscious doing its job. I push on again until it sort of becomes something I almost, conceivably, maybe think is sort of perhaps okay. Possibly.
Learn more about the first book in the series, Blue Into The Rip: http://www.kevheritage.com/blue-into-the-rip/
What Science Fiction books, movies or TV shows are essential to you and what would your favourite be from each of those categories?
Red Dwarf has helped me through many a crisis. There was a time around 2003/4 where the series were released every month or so as DVDs with documentaries and cast commentaries. It didn’t save my life, but it got me through a very difficult time. I have a lot of love for that show and still watch occasional episodes and force them on friends. I hold it with the same level of affection I have for Doctor Who.
As for favourites... that’s not my thing at all. It’s impossible to decide. Out of all the formats though, books are the best. Sure, I love a good sci-fi movie, particularly Aliens, but books always win out. Imagination is a great tool and reading exercises my imagination like nothing else.
What is your earliest memory of Doctor Who and do you have a particular favourite episode?
For me it was the original music. Outer-worldly and terrifying. I’m not sure that’s appreciated today, but the intro to Doctor Who was ground-breaking in many ways. It’s an astonishing composition. To my kiddie ears, it was like nothing I’d ever heard before and symbolised terror and excitement. That and the sound of the TARDIS materialising (with its brakes on as we now know!).
I can’t remember any particular scene. I know the Daleks scared the living sh*t out of me and I used to watch from behind the sofa. Literally. And then there were the Cybermen. There was one incarnation where they wore black balaclavas with a sort of sown-in metallic mouth. They’d open and close their mouths, but their words didn’t sync up with their mouth movements. For some reason, I remember that very clearly. It was utterly horrifying.
There are too many moments from the original shows but here’s a few of my favourite stories…
The Ark in Space (This scared me silly. Watched it recently… wasn’t as scared this time around. But it’s a cracking story.)
The Robots of Death
Caves of Androzani
The Time Warrior
From the New:
A Christmas Carol (I love, love, love this).
The Girl in the Fireplace (This is so excellently paced and the ending has real pathos)
The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances
If you could take a round trip in the TARDIS, anywhere in time and space, where would you go and why?
I’d like to go back and find the person who created the very first bacon, egg and brown sauce sandwich and shake him or her by the hand.
After that... it would have to be go and meet the most extraordinary person who ever lived. Isaac Newton. He came up with the concept of gravity. That has to be just about the most amazing idea any human has ever had (after bacon sandwiches and tea of course). The guy was a genius and quite bonkers. If you don’t know much about him, you need to go find out.
+ Coming Soon... we catch up with Kev regarding his latest book VATIC!
+ Blue Into The Rip is available as a paperback for £8.99 or eBook for £1.99.
+ ORDER 'Blue Into The Rip' from Amazon.co.uk!
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Vintage Doctor Who Toys And Props From Toybox Treasures
Our friends over at Toybox Treasures have recently had a revamp of their fantastic site, where you can find a wide range of vintage Doctor Who Toys and Props for sale.
From Dapol Daleks, 1960's Toys and Games to full size Daleks, Toybox Treasures have a fantastic selection of products, and despite the Doctor Who connection, the prices aren't astronomical :)
Matt Doe, owner of Toybox Treasures tells us what made him start the business:
“I started the business to be able to touch and feel some of the rarest Doctor Who memorabilia in the world. With some items with less than 10 left from the Dalek wouldslate, Dalek stencil set to a Dalek Exterminator Bazooka. I couldn't afford these for my own collection so why not get these in for others.
Some of our recent acquisitions include a black Codeg Dalek, Dalek skittle, screen used dalek trooper costume from revelation of the Daleks, Dapol Dalek used in the title sequence of the Doctor Who antiques roadshow special and also a near full box of cadet sweet cigarettes including display box”
Whilst there may not be a massive selection of merchandise on the online store, the team are constantly on the lookout for items. If you have a specific product you are looking for, get in touch with the ToyboxTreasures team via their website as they offer a toy hunting service!
+ Check Out Toybox Treasures: www.toybox-treasures.co.uk
+ Follow @DrWhoToyBox on Twitter!
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Geeky Gifts From The Geek Gallery
Our friends over at The Geek Gallery, have an amazing range of jewellery and home accessories, fit for any geeky home or to wear your favourite fandom everyday.
From time travellers, magic or demon hunters you will find it all over at The Geek Gallery.
From necklaces, rings and pin badges to pillows and handmade bags, even a new range of hand stamped jewellery to join the other amazing items is coming soon.
You will even find geek designed tote bags over at The Geek Gallery fit for any shopping day, You can even have them personalised. The bags are hand printed in the UK by Charley from The Geek Gallery.
Show your geek side with pride, whether you are a demon hunter, a magic school wanna be or a multi fandom lover they have it all.
Prices start from just £4.99 and includes UK shipping!
The Geek Gallery also run competitions on their Facebook page to win pieces of their jewellery, why not pop long to the page or shop to join in and wear your fandom with pride.
+ Check Out The Geek Gallery on Etsy: thegeekgalleryshop.etsy.com
+ Follow @TheGeekGallery on Twitter!
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GeekGear Subscription Box
Our friends over at GeekGear have just launched their brand new geeky subscription box service. GeekGear design their boxes according to the monthly theme and the cut off date for subscribing is the 20th of every month, with all boxes being shipped out a few days after.
Each Box will have 5–10 items and you get back at least 2–3 times the value that you paid - or more!
When choosing the option to subscribe, you can get the following benefits:
1 x Month Subscription - £19.99
- Subscription renews every month
* Price is exclusive of postage charges
- Subscription renews every 3 months
6 x Month Subscription - £113.99
- 1 x Extra Geeky item in every box!
12 x Month Subscription - £219.99
- Subscription renews every 12 months
- 2 x Extra Geeky items in every box!
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Funko & Playmobil Team Up For New Figure Range
Funko have announced a historic partnership with Playmobil, which will pair the classic articulated, 6-inch ABS figures with exciting pop culture and entertainment licenses for a collector-focused line, and Doctor Who will feature as one of its brands.
As Playmobil’s first official licensee, Funko will have the opportunity to bring new and beloved characters to Playmobil’s nostalgic frame.
Funko CEO, Brian Mariotti said:
“We’re honoured and thrilled to create the first ever cross-license with Playmobil and bring their unique style to the hip and trendy pop culture licenses Funko is known for. It’s an amazing opportunity, and we know fans of both styles are going to love these figures.”
Funko’s first wave of Playmobil 6 inch, 200% figures will include characters from Doctor Who, Sherlock, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Ghostbusters and Back to the Future, with many more forthcoming. Figures will retail for $14.99 and be available in stores from Summer 2016.
The 11th Doctor and The 4th Doctor are the first to be revealed, and you can view the image in the panel to the right.
Doctor Who Magazine exclusively interviews Sir John Hurt, who played the mysterious incarnation of the Doctor in 2013's 50th Anniversary Special The Day of the Doctor – and asks him about his return in his brand new Doctor Who audio series!
What was John’s first reaction when he was offered the part of the Doctor’s secret incarnation?
“Well, I said, ‘Doctor Who? I don’t think that’s really my sort of stuff.’ But my wife was listening, and when she heard that it was the 50th anniversary, she said, ‘You’ve got to be f***ing joking! You’re doing it! So I’ve really for her to thank. I’m really pleased I did it, because it opened up a whole new era for me. A whole new era.”
On returning to the role for Big Finish's audio adventures, John explains:
“I was often asked, ‘Are you going to do anymore? And I said, ‘Well, I don’t think so. I’m not ruling it out, but unless somebody comes up with a real stonker of an idea that would involve him again… But the thing is that you can’t plan careers. You think, ‘That’s the way to play it’, but it’s not necessarily the case at all. If you follow your nose, that’s often the way to play it. And that’s exactly how I feel about this. I mean, I really have enjoyed every second of it. I mean it.”
ALSO INSIDE ISSUE 496...
ASK STEVEN MOFFAT
Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat answers readers questions about some of the show's most recent episodes...
THE WAR DOCTOR ON AUDIO
The writers of the exciting new audio series chat about writing for the Doctor's most dangerous incarnation.
A TRIBUTE TO ANTHONY READ
Doctor Who Magazine pays tribute to the late Doctor Who writer and script editor, who died in 2015, with contributions from his colleagues and previously unpublished quotes from interviews conducted in 1990 and 2008.
PIXEL POWER
Following the recent success of LEGO Dimensions and Doctor Who Legacy, we uncover three decades’ worth of Doctor Who videogame projects.
NEVER FORGET?
The Time Team continue their quest to watch every episode of Doctor Who in order with Matt Smith’s second story, The Beast Below.
WELCOME MY DEMONS
This issue’s Fact of Fiction delves into the world of King John and Magna Carta in the 1983 Fifth Doctor story The King’s Demons.
A TRIP TO THE THEATRE
The Doctor meets his old friend Harry Houdini and encounters some trouble at the theatre in a brand-new comic strip adventure, Theatre of Mind, written and illustrated by Roger Langridge.
STAR WARS vs DOCTOR WHO
Jacqueline Rayner wonders if it’s possible to enjoy Star Wars: The Force Awakens without feeling like you’re cheating on Doctor Who, in her regular column, Relative Dimensions.
PLUS! All the latest official news, reviews, competitions and The DWM Crossword.
Doctor Who: Series 9 Steelbook Blu-ray [Amazon Exclusive]
BBC Worldwide have informed us that Amazon.co.uk will be releasing an exclusive steenbok Blu-ray for Series 9 of Doctor Who.
The 6-disc release will have exactly the same content as the standard DVD & Blu-ray but will feature exclusive artwork design by Alice X Zhang, who was personally selected by Peter Capaldi to create the designs.
+ The Complete Series 9 Steelbook is released on 7th March, priced £39.99.
+ PREORDER this Blu-ray from Amazon.co.uk!
+ Discuss all the Doctor Who DVD & Blu-ray releases in the DWO Forums.
[Sources: BBC Worldwide]
Doctor Who Magazine finds out what happens when River Song runs into the Eighth Doctor in the new audio series The Diary of River Song – and interviews both Paul McGann and Alex Kingston!
“River has to interact with the Eighth Doctor to save him, to help him,” explains Alex. “When she’s figured out how she can do that without having to be physically present in front of him, alongside helping him, she can then tease and flirt a little bit, because she knows she’s safe, and she knows she hasn’t overstepped a boundary, or changed his or her future in any way by that actual physical interaction. So she can then have fun! She’s in control.”
And what does the Eighth Doctor make of River?
“What the Doctor says to River when he realises her acumen, her calibre, is ‘Wow, hang on a minute – where did you pick up all this?! For an amateur, you ain’t half clever’,” chuckles Paul. “He says, ‘Any time you fancy joining me, I could always do with a pair of hands’. He realises, almost instantly, how clever she is. ‘If you’re ever stuck for a trip round the universe helping me out, you’re on.’ So there’s that lovely playfulness as well. Of course, he’s doing it in blissful ignorance. And she’s trying not to appear too clever, and give the game away, but of course she has to save his life. So it’s great. It’s childish, but it’s great fun.”
Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat answers readers questions about the recent episode Heaven Sent – and find out whether the Doctor ever had to run around the castle naked!
THE DRAGON LORD
The latest comic strip adventure continues with Part 2 of The Dragon Lord, written by Steve Lyons, with art from Adrian Salmon.
Doctor Who fans of the 1970s will get nostalgic, as we take a trip down memory lane and meet the artist behind Weetabix’s series of artwork cards, which were launched in 1975, and given away with packets of breakfast cereal.
THE ELEVENTH HOUR APPROACHES
The Time Team returns to watch the first adventure of the Eleventh Doctor – The Eleventh Hour. What will they make of the new Doctor, Amy Pond and Prisoner Zero?
WREAKING HAVOC
A tribute to stuntman Derek Ware, who worked on Doctor Who during its first decade, and has recently passed away at the age of 77.
THE EXXILON FACTOR
The Fact of Fiction takes an in-depth look at the 1974 Third Doctor adventure Death to the Daleks.
THE DWM REVIEW
DWM reviews the recent Christmas Special, The Husbands of River Song. We also take a look at the latest books and audio and revisit 1968’s The Wheel in Space and 1977’s The Face of Evil.
THE DWM SEASON SURVEY!
Vote for your favourites of the most recent series, plus the book and audio releases from the past 12 months!
PLUS! All the latest official news, previews of upcoming releases, competitions, the answers to The Watcher’s Fiendishly Festive Christmas Quiz, The DWM Crossword and much more!
Genki Gear's Awesome Range of Geeky Clothing
Our friends over at Genki Gear are celebrating 10 years of trading this year, and they are celebrating in style by launching a brand new range of 10 designs priced at only £10 each.
The range encompasses and celebrates all that is great, weird and cute about Genki Gear unique original designs and is a big thank you to all their customers and friends who have made the last 10 years possible.
Genki Gear produces original t-shirts that stand out amongst the crowd! They take their influences from Japanese culture, Anime, gaming and science fiction and add to it a dash of unique humour, which has become their trademark.
All their printing is done in the UK and they print their designs across a full range of styles so there’s always a Genki Gear t-shirt or gift for you.
All Genki Gear’s ranges are ethically produced and of the highest quality so you can wear you Geek with Pride!
+ Check Out the Genki Gear website at www.genkigear.co.uk
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New Doctor Who Titles From Hasslein Books
Our friends over at Hasslein Books have two, exciting new Doctor Who titles, now available to buy.
Who Beyond 50: Celebrating Five Decades of Doctor Who
Few television series have remained in production for decades. Fewer have come back from cancellation to spawn multiple spinoffs. And even fewer have thrived following the loss of their lead actor. Amazingly, Doctor Who can proudly boast all three claims.
Brian J Robb and Paul Simpson have assembled 50 thematic, chronological essays covering a wide variety of Who icons over the past five decades. The long-time collaborators posted preliminary versions at Sci-Fi Bulletin, but have delved into far greater detail for this collected edition, examining not only the show itself, but the background of each actor to play the role of the Doctor and each showrunner who helped keep the show alive, as well as the novels, the audios, the monsters, the companions, the music, the effects, fandom, and much more.
But Who Beyond 50 is more than just another TV retrospective. It's a grand exploration of one of the most beloved series of all time. It's a celebration of Who's surprises and successes, and an honest account of its faults and failures. It's all here. And it's about time.
+ ORDER this title from Hasslein Books, here!
Lost in Time and Space: An Unofficial Guide to the Uncharted Journeys of Doctor Who
BBC’s immensely popular Doctor Who series is a significant part of British pop culture and a cult favorite worldwide; the televised episodes, however, are just the tip of the iceberg, as the Doctor has referenced countless encounters never expanded upon onscreen. RiffTrax.com writer Matthew J Elliott has accepted the Herculean task of chronicling those “stories between the stories” in Lost in Time and Space: An Unofficial Guide to the Uncharted Journeys of Doctor Who.
Every character the Doctor met off-screen, every place he visited between episodes, and every event he witnessed while the cameras were turned off are meticulously mapped out on a timeline spanning the entire 50 years of Doctor Who, from long before the Doctor “borrowed” the TARDIS until the last days of his eleventh incarnation. This is not a typical Doctor Who project--but, then, Matthew is not a typical Doctor Who fan.
After five decades of time-traveling adventures, you might imagine you knew all there was to know about the greatest hero in all of time and space, but it turns out he was living another life entirely while we weren't looking. This is the story of that life.
Lost in Time and Space, a softcover volume spanning 350 pages, features an insightful foreword by Alan Barnes, the author of the animated Tenth Doctor adventure The Infinite Quest, and a writer and editor for Big Finish Productions' audio dramas featuring five of the Doctor’s earlier incarnations.
[Source: Hasslein Books]
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Threshold launches SEAC as a national movement
Twenty years after we both spent countless hours helping to organize Threshold in our first semester at UNC, C-line and I sat down to reminisce and remember about SEAC's early days. We thought about touching down at the Forest Theatre, where Threshold concluded in an emotional ceremony on Sunday, October 29, 1989. But it was otherwise occupied by the Paperhand Puppet Intervention, performing one of their annual late summer shows. So we traveled a few hundred yards down the road, and ended up at the curved stone bench behind Gimghoul Castle that overlooks the far edge of Battle Park.
At the first SEAC organizing meeting of the fall semester '89 (in Hamilton 100), Jimmy Langman convinced us all that Threshold was going to spark a national movement, and Ericka Kurz gave a fiery, impassioned speech wearing a cool black leather jacket. Besides Jimmy and Ericka, SEAC O.G.'s who were running the show included Alec Guettal, Blan Holman, and Don Whittier. They were all juniors, seniors, even recent grads, but nobody past their early twenties. Still, as C-line put it, "They seemed so old. And we said, tell us what you need us to do!"
The nuts and bolts work of actually organizing a nationwide conference in the pre-internet era was a little less romantic. Working alongside dedicated souls like Lisa Abbott, Chris van Daalen, Celeste Joye, Yu-Yee Wu, Raj Krishnasami, Mark Chilton, Quaker Kappel, Ruby Sinreich, Dave Ball, and a bunch of other SEAC'ers, we prepared mass mailings, entered hundreds of pre-registered attendees' names into ancient Mac computers, lined up crash pad arrangements with hundreds of UNC students, and using a primitive device known as the landline telephone, called up folks who wanted more info to convince them to make the trek to Chapel Hill. And my favorite part, sitting around in endless meeting circles on the second floor of the Campus Y, arguing over one minor detail or another until the WHOLE GROUP reached a consensus.
Threshold ad from Oct. '89 issue of Music Monitor.
The conference succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams. Over 1,700 folks showed up from around the country, representing 43 states and 225 schools. It was the largest gathering of student activists since the heyday of SDS in the late 60s. And it launched SEAC as a national student and youth-led environmental movement.
On a personal level, my involvement with SEAC convinced me I wanted to be an organizer, and laid the foundation for all my political work that's followed. I became good friends with C-line, and our adventures have continued ever since. I worked on my first winning political campaign thanks to SEAC, when we helped elect Mark Chilton to the Chapel Hill Town Council two years later. And if I hadn't bonded with fellow SEAC'er Raj K., we wouldn't have agreed to live together (along with Clint Curtis) in the spring of '91, which started our search for off-campus housing that eventually led to the Pink House.
Labels: Alec Guettal, Blan Holman, Campus Y, Caroline Philson, Chris van Daalen, Ericka Kurz, Forest Theatre, Indigo Girls, Jimmy Langman, Mark Chilton, Raj Krishnasami, Ruby Sinreich, SEAC, Threshold
Back in the Spring of '89
I'm home for a week's vacation in RI. Taking things slow and easy. Right. Anyway, so my folks have me on trash detail, going through piles and secret stashes of all kinds of long-forgotten shit that's accumulated as a result of my adventures and travels. Naturally, there's lots of treasures and funky stuff. So I come across the 57th pile, and check it, turns out to be DTH's and other campus publications that I hoarded when first coming down to check UNC out back in the spring of '89.
What's going on in that world? It's a wild one, with places like Fowler's, Colonel Chutney's, and the Carolina Theatre on Franklin Street still in full effect.
The Cradle has just re-opened its doors in February in its "new" location across from Hardee's. SEAC members are staging a protest against dolphin-killing tuna expeditions, with Don Whittier at the helm. Brien Lewis has just defeated Trey Loughran in an SBP runoff election. Outgoing BSM leader Kenneth Perry is shaking things up by saying some pissed off things that white Carolina students don't want to hear.
This woman named Kasey Jones is producing controversial lab! theater plays. Some cat named Ian Williams is writing funny columns for the DTH. Dave Suroweicki is the DTH assistant photo editor coming on strong. Ed Davis, or Ruffin Poole, or whoever the fuck that kid was, is cutting up as editor of the Phoenix. Speaking of Davises, there's this media whore named Gene who seems to get his ass quoted in every freaking DTH article published.
And there's even a radical new voice on the scene, some kid named Dana Lumsden (and yes, he is a male) writing guest columns about how George Bush needs to stop helping his friends profit off the arms trade while he's hypocritically leading a hyped up War on Drugs.
- e-mail to Dana, 7/23/98
Labels: BSM, Carolina Theatre, Cat's Cradle, Colonel Chutney's, Dana Lumsden, Dave Suroweicki, Donald Whittier, DTH, Fowler's, George H.W. Bush, Ian Williams, Kasey Jones, SEAC
George Bush should kill less wildlife and save more human life
"The word on the street is disrespect," Daily Tar Heel, 3/1/89
By DANA LUMSDEN
It used to be that people could insult each other, even have fistfights, without a weapon of some sort being produced. As access to the very weapons that the president promotes increases the amount of thought urban teenagers spend before pulling the trigger decreases. Some of you may ask what the president's hunting hobby has to do with the amount of gun deaths. Believe it or not, the president is a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association, an organization that not only promotes the freedom of Americans to hunt but opposes any restrictions on guns. Eager on the campaign trail to prove his opponent's guilt-bv-association as a "card carrying member of the ACLU," George should be held accountable for his membership in the not quite one man one vote NRA.
The president is fond of talking, and specifically, "talking tough" on drugs. He supports using the military to stem the drug traffic and a mandatory death penalty for "drug kingpins." If there were tougher gun control laws, the police wouldn't be outgunned (most police departments don’t have Israeli assault rifles or Chinese AK-47s) and we wouldn't have to use the military.
This new image, the image of the masculine president, is not really George's at all. (Does George have an image that is uniquely his? Rhetorical question.) Reagan started this image eight years ago when he decided it was essential that the American presidency appear masculine. Although there were reports of Reagan's sleeping through Cabinet meetings, we knew he was alert on the hunt. Besieged by accusations of wimpiness, George started early in the campaign creating the image of "Sport Poppy." As far as the American public was concerned, "Sport Poppy" was raised up among guns and fishing. We were led to believe that gun handling was an everyday thing at Andover and Yale.
As George promotes this new image, there is another sort of hunting going on in America's big cities and suburbs. People are killing each other. Most of these urban crimes are not the result of drugs (newspeople are fond of blaming drugs for every death among minorities) but rather of "dissin'" or "disrespect." In Boston, for instance, a student at MIT was shot two times at a party. When asked the motive, the assailant replied, "He was dissin' my girlfriend."
Certain changes come with a new presidency. Most of these changes are to be expected. Usually they consist of various ceremonies, the swearing in of new Cabinet officials, some scandal, ridicule and a lot of promises. Lately, though, presidents have left much more of a personal image on the tapestry of American life. Some presidents try to define themselves during the first month. Jimmy Carter, who was buried in the "energy crisis" and "the oil decade," chose to turn off all the lights. Ronald Reagan peddled his gung-ho image and the importance of being earnest; now we must assess George.
I call the president George not for lack of respect but because I believe he wouldn't have it any other way. Charming, funny, smart (Phi Beta Kappa from Yale ain't bad), he's everybody's Uncle George. Lately though, George has taken to huntin', and it is the rage of his new cabinet. Suddenly all Washington's power brokers are putting on their gear, packing toilet paper and heading for the woods in pursuit of wild game. Secretary of State James Baker owns his own turkey hunting land in Texas, where he invites all his political buddies and even an occasional reporter to partake in such macho activities as shooting at birds. Studying top-secret documents, making analogies between turkey hunting and Washington politics, he's James Baker, high-level Cabinet member, millionaire, scholar and good ole' boy. George should spend less time killing wildlife and more time saving human life.
Dana Clinton Lumsden is a freshman political science / journalism major from Boston, Mass., and yes, he is a guy.
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I never hear any protest of the situation in America
"Activists can find problems at home, too," Daily Tar Heel, 1/20/89
By DANA LUMSDEN, Staff Writer
I ran into a couple of those "trendinis-tas," liberals, campus radicals, socially conscious Americans, or troublemakers (it depends on whom you ask) yesterday. They appeared to be good college students (they were clean, dressed and sober). I just couldn't understand how they could be the subjects of so much debate and the focus of so much attention. How could anyone dislike people who seem to be so altruistic and motivated to expose and eradicate the injustices of the world?
I began to think, though, about some of the causes that these people seemed to hold so dear that they would risk being expelled. Some were concerned about animal rights, others were concerned about people incarcerated in Third World prisons, South Africa and the destruction of the environment. It would be wrong for me to classify or rank these causes in order of importance because all of these problems are meaningful. Who's to say the situation in South Africa is more significant than the situation in El Salvador?
But I never hear of any protest of the situation in America, the situation in America's big cities, the situation in Chapel Hill, the situation here at UNC. These farsighted students are convinced that America remedied all her wrongs during the "turbulent sixties" and have set their sights on bigger and better causes. Like modern day Macbeths, they are so ambitious and self-righteous that they cannot see what is plainly before their eyes.
While they protest the terrible apartheid in South Africa, their eyes block out the "apartheid" in America, Western Europe and Australia. The majority of America's cities are segregated, except for an occasional gray area where blacks and whites live together. For the most part, blacks cannot even walk in certain places without being harassed by the police if not by the area's residents.
The enrollment of black men is decreasing in our colleges. If America's educational institutions were as aggressive in recruiting and nurturing promising black scholars as they are in recruiting promising black athletes, this would be no problem. Here in Chapel Hill, blacks supply most of the jobs that require manual labor. An overwhelming majority of the black students at UNC live on South Campus (mostly by choice) while the University hedges on whether to expand a Black Cultural Center (a mainstay on most campuses) the size of a snack food place.
A good method of gauging the attitude of a democratic country is to see how it votes. Politicians of the day have found a new error-proof way of winning an election: racial politics. Who can forget the infamous Willie Horton ads, and the frequent allusion to "American values" (translate: the values of the white middle class) by the Bush campaign. Big-city elections are polarized by the subject of race. Even as people protest about the subhuman conditions of prisons in certain South American countries, American offenders predominantly minorities are crowded into already over-populated prisons.
As we honor one of the nation's greatest leaders and celebrate Black History Month, there will be a whole lot of soul-searching specials on the civil rights movement reminding us to "Keep the Dream Alive" and our "Eyes on the Prize." As we look at the past and dream about the future, we often forget to make the present better for ourselves. The "socially conscious," who are fond of throwing stones, at Nicaragua and South Africa, should be reminded that America is but a glass house.
Dana Clinton Lumsden is a freshman journalism / political science major from Boston, Mass.
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Accusations against Palin imploding, media ignoring key facts
First off, my apologies for not picking up this story earlier, I have been very getting ready to move and have had very little time for the blog. That said, the "Troopergate" story has reared it's head in the national media again, and lots of new information is being released. So I figure that now is the time to shove another nail into this story's coffin and make a concerted effort to get the facts out. The Associated Press article was relatively even handed, but it was not a full accounting of the facts, and the Alaskan media has been downright horrible. I will be updating this post this story to add detail. But for now, I wanted to give a quick rundown of of the developments that have occurred and the facts that I would like to see reported.
Gov. Palin held a press conference Wednesday announcing the results of her administration's internal audit regarding the situation. They did find several unauthorized calls made by Palin's staff regarding Trooper Mike Wooten, but no involvement by Gov. Palin, and all of the information will be willingly turned over to Investigator Steve Branchflower. This is an unprecedented level of openness and transparency for an official involved in such a situation.
The key item released was the audio of a recorded phone call by Frank Bailey, a member of the Governor's staff, to the Public Safety Department. The phone call was condemned by the Governor, and I will be detailing later how the audio clearly shows that Bailey was not authorized to make the phone call and not speaking for the administration. That said, Bailey raises some interesting concerns about Walt Monegan in the call, which I will detail later.
For now, I'll let you watch the press conference and listen to the phone call, I'm interested in hearing your comments. Personally, I think Palin is doing a bang-up job handling his.
Facts that have yet to be reported in any media
1. Investigator Steve Branchflower has a GLARING conflict of interest. Not only did he work closely with Walt Monegan's Anchorage Police department for years in the District Attorney's office, but his wife was a detective in that department, including after Monegan became chief. She was even quoted singing Monegan's Praises to the Anchorage Daily News when he was hired as chief. ("New Chief" by Lisa Demer, Anchorage Daily News, Jan. 31, 2001).
2. Todd Palin was ORDERED by the head of the Governor's secutity detail, Special Agent Bob Cockrell, to discuss Trooper Wooten with Walt Monegan, as Wooten presented a credible threat to the Governor's safety. Here's a direct quote from Special Agent Cockrell, who is now providing security for his sixth consecutive governor:
“When made aware of the security concerns regarding a state trooper, I instructed the First Gentleman to contact the commissioner of Public Safety. It is standard protocol to ask every governor about any threats they perceive or have realized. I will not hesitate to set the record straight in answering these false allegations by former Commissioner Monegan.” (emphasis added)
3. State records show that Monegan lied about the number of times he met with the Governor during his tenure. While Monegan claims that the Governor was inaccessible and only met with him four times, records indicate that he had more than two dozen meetings with Gov. Palin, including.
Kristofer said...
“ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin (R), whose name has been floated as a potential running mate for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), said she has submitted some paperwork to national Republicans, but added she thinks it is unlikely she will be tapped to be McCain’s vice presidential pick.”
the "original" ted said...
Where is Wooten??? Still at an undisclosed location out of the country? Why?
Campaign Team Obama's Alaska Chief, State Sen. Hollis French, with the help of the left-leaning media, is leading a full course press to endeavor to stop Palin (knowing full well that the Dems have no chance in November with Palin on McCain's ticket). Where is the investigation of French's 'investigator' Branchflower's (his wife's)connection to Monegan? Now THERE'S a story, not troopergate, but Branchflower-French-Obama Campaign-Monegan-gate.
original Ted, did you see what I wrote?
"said she has submitted some paperwork to national Republicans"
This is great news! This suggests she's interested and we are halfway there!
Contact McCain campaign right now, I've already did my rounds :)
BTW: Why not join the discussion here?
http://www.palinforamerica.com/index.php?option=com_jfusion&view=wrapper&Itemid=113
BigRob-68 said...
This story just never seems to catch fire despite the best attempts of those who oppose Palin and reform. It just has a certain emotional Hooterville or Mayberry feel to it rather than actual malfeasance or "abuse of power" as the ADN puts it. Like CNN AC360 last week, when investigators dig into the story it falls apart.
kristofer--Do you have url for the quote up top?
Since it now looks that Romney, Ridge and/or Pawlenty are the main alternatives to Palin for Team McCain, need we remind Team McCain that (1) Romney's own health care program he began as Governor of Massachasusetts is a financial disaster only getting worse (and entirely conflicts with McCain's views), (2) virtually every time Romney's name comes up, the flip-flop, slick, issue emerges and is jumped on by media and Dems who are salivating for McCain to name Romney, (3) Pawlenty no excitement whatsoever to conservative base (with Palin more likely to carry Minnesota for McCain than Pawlenty), (4) Ridge boarrrrrrring, not conservative, pro-choice.
Rush Limbaugh now absolutely bashing Ridge (pro choice) and Lieberman (a domestic Democrat).
Rush more than emphasizing need to excite conservative base. The UNIQUE BEAUTY OF PALIN is that she wow's both the conservative base and many of the Hillary and moderate voters!!!
For McCain NOT to pick Palin, he'll have to plead temporary insanity!
TC said...
Hey original Ted, here is the link to kristofer's quote. It's from Roll Call. The title is "Palin says she isn't being vetted," which means one thing, she's being vetted.
http://www.rollcall.com/news/27427-1.html
Right you are, TC!
Note how the title LIES about what Palin says.
<< Gov. Sarah Palin.... said she has submitted some paperwork... she thinks it is unlikely she will be tapped....”>>
-She's sent in paperwork: that's FACT.
-She won't be picked: that's her GUESS.
-But she does NOT say she isn't being vetted; in fact, she's revealing here, for the first time, that she IS being vetted---or why would they have asked her to submit paperwork?!
Yet the title to this article states:
"Palin says she isn't being vetted"
HUNH? Palin said no such thing!
Now WHY would the article's title misrepresent what Gov. Palin said?
Because the liberal press hopes to GOD that Palin isn't being vetted and won't be picked.
PRAY that McCain will select Sarah Palin as his VP, so he'll be elected!
And I think McCain will just cause a REBELLION if he does not select a pro-life VP! How can McCain even THINK of betraying Republican moral values?
McCain is not picking a pro-choice VP. I think he wants to keep everyone guessing and also show respect to strong supporters such as Lieberman and Ridge, but in the end, he's picking a strong conservative. I will also say the floating of Eric Cantor's name is also likely a ruse -- I just don't see it -- and Romney is unlikely. I feel it's exactly where it was a month ago -- either Palin or Pawlenty. I like both, but much prefer Sarah.
I agree with Scott--I believe the choice is down to Pawlenty and Palin. Pawlenty is, perhaps, the "safe" choice of the two and would appeal to the conservative base. But I believe the most recent Pew Research poll indicated that most of the conservative base is already behind McCain. He needs to court the swing and I think Sarah Palin is perfect for that.
I mentioned to Adam that he might consider posting reader articles re: Sarah Palin on RealClearPolitics.com--letting us know so that we can vote on them to appear on the main page. Now is not the time--but once Obama announces....
PS. "original" Ted--I am your biggest fan! Really appreciate your optimism.
You guys have figured out I'm a woman, so I will give my bias on the vetting thing. One, the MSM views the Repub Party as a white male wealthy party, and thus do not believe repubs will seriously consider a woman unless it is someone like Hillary Clinton who has a huge history. Two, the media is sexist. Why would they run Jindal's name constantly, who is really just flat out too young and arguably less experienced, and not Palin? I do think being from Alaska is a bit of a handicap, but I do not think it is enough to explain how much more coverage he gets than she. And the little investigation snafu has the MSM jumping to the conclusion that she's off the list, without I would add, looking into the seriousness (or in this case, lack of) the investigation. That, and the gal is just really good of responding with a "deer in the headlight" look when asked about vp.
dr. v
Frank Bailey is still a member of the Governor's staff.
I find that to be extremely odd. Don't you?
Mongo Mere Pawn said...
You wanted an honest assessment of the telephone call. I listened to the entire call, and I find myself troubled by its implications.
Bailey sure sounded like he was calling on behalf of Governor Palin, especially when he indicated he was "relaying" information, as though he was handing over a baton handed to him by Governor Palin and her husband. Lt. Dial clearly took it that way because he proceeded to confirm each and every piece of information so relayed by Bailey concerning Trooper Wooten, and told him to tell the Governor that he would look into it (without actually committing to do anything).
It also looks like Bailey contacted Lt. Dial with a cover story that took the first six minutes of the call, just in case anyone asked about it. Passing along confidential employment information on Wooten also looks like an abuse of executive authority. And at least once he used the old, "Governor Palin really likes Walt, but ...."
Based on this telephone call alone, there is sufficient evidence to get to a jury and for the jury to infer Bailey acted on instructions from Governor Palin or her husband. And we haven't even heard the other phone calls.
But getting to the jury and having the jury actually draw the inference Governor Palin's opponents want them to draw are two different things.
Recall my comment about Henry II and Thomas a' Becket yesterday. It is quite possible that this was enough of a burr under the Governor's saddle for her to say something that led her assistants to take action, on their own, on her behalf. She essentially concedes that this is what happened.
And that is what leads me to believe her version of events. I am unfamiliar with how things are done in Alaska, but if you are going to pressure a government official to terminate an employee, especially one that virtually everyone in the state already knows you don't like, why in the world would you go through so many back channels and create so many witnesses? That's just stupid, and Governor Palin does not strike me as stupid.
Either you press your point with Monaghan directly in a true "he said/she said" situation, or you have someone you trust make the approach in a similar situation, discretely. There is absolutely nothing discrete about Bailey's telephone call.
By getting out in front of this call, and by admitting that it looks like what her opponents want the public to think it is, Governor Palin is doing the only thing she can do to retain or regain her credibility. Whether it ends up disqualifying her for VP, who knows. I sure hope not. I would like to hear more of your defense.
To K2:
I'd also heard that certain polls were showing that conservatives have already decided to vote for McCain. But I've also heard that McCain is therefore assuming that to get the "swing vote" (ie., independents or Hillary supporters, etc.), he'd better NOT choose a pro-life supporter for his VP. That's why he's leaning toward Ridge or Liebermann.
Sorry, K2 et al.
I must have hit the POST button twice, not to mention fail to delete K2's remarks, which appear at the bottom of mine.....
Palin for America said...
PalinforAmerica.com Forum Update!!
Ok so there were some technical difficulties with the forum so I've decided to forgo the registration process on the main page.
Just click on Forum link at the top and post away!
PalinforAmerica.com
OK here is the scoreboard on the Republican VP finalists and what groups they would appeal to (or anger):
Joe Lieberman:
Conservative hawks, Independents and undecideds but will have social and fiscal conservatives seething bullets and likely causes a revolt at the convention-but a good choice for secretary of defense where he will have zero say in picking Supreme Court Justices
Tom Ridge: At least he is CONSISTENTLY wrong on abortion which is more respectable than Romney. Pro-choice Republicans, Libertarians who dislike Bob Barr.
Tim Pawlenty: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
zzzzzzzzzzz....No Doze
Mitt Romney:
Mormons who flip-flop on abortion,
Investment bankers, mannequins
Sarah Palin: Fiscal conservatives, social conservatives, military hawks, maverick senators (very important), Hillary supporters, 2nd amendment supporters, Drill ANWR now crowd
(Good luck trying to get this assortment of groups to agre on anything else than the time of day)
UPDATE: 5:53pm Friday and Frank Bailey is still a member of the Governor's staff.
mongo and the anon who keeps bring up Bailey, YOU ARE MISSING ONE THING, EVEN IF THERE WAS IMPLICIT PRESSURE (while nothing ever expressly said BY GOV PALIN to fire Wooten), BIG F_ _ C K I N G D E A L !!!!
What a mountain out of a molehill! Moreover, put yourself in Gov Palin's place and an ex-brother-in-law threatened to kill her dad, and the Palin's were told to report this to the State Police. sheeeeeeeze, she did the only right thing -- carefully not to stop concern from being shown yet never herself ever expressing to the people with authority to fire Wooten that they must fire Wooten. Actually, when you examine this whole thing, Gov Palin acted perfectly and more than appropriately under the circumstances!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
An Alaskan in Alaska said...
"original" ted - The allegations you mentioned were reported by the Palin/Heath clan in 2005. Wooten was given a 5 day suspension for tasing the 11 y.o. The "death threat" was found to be unsubstantiated.
You obviously don't know what you're talking about.
alaskan in AK, you are dead wrong if you're saying or implying what I say has no direct relevence, whereas your 2 points have been more than fully addressed.
Go to Adam Brickley's Saturday, July 19, 2008 Video response to Andrew Halcro's allegations. Go back to the palinforvp 7/19/08 posting and watch the videos yourself. Would be easier than repeating everything here.
Adam B. writes:
"Here is my full video response to Andrew Halcro's salacious allegations against Gov. Palin. Part 1 is an introduction to the situation, while Part 2 details several key aspects of the case. I am on an extreme time crunch at the moment, so I will have to post all of my supporting documentation this afternoon. However, you can find all of the documents cited at KTVA.com (yellow box on the sidebar)."
alaskan in AK, I just went back and reviewed.
IN FACT THE DEATH THREAT BY WOOTEN WAS SUSTAINED!!!!!
Are you lying or just wrong, Ted?
The governor's husband says the family was concerned about the governor's safety. The Palins say that Wooten threatened to kill Sarah Palin's father and made vague threats to her that he would "bring me down."
Monegan said he told Todd Palin that he would look into Wooten. The then-commisioner, though, found that the allegations had already been investigated with an internal trooper investigation in 2005. All but two -- an illegal moose killing and a Tasering of an 11-year-old -- were found to be unsubstantiated. Wooten was disciplined.
www.adn.com/politics/story/469135.html
flapper said...
I agree. It's Palin or Pawlenty.
palin for america,
I had no trouble registering. If we move over there, the haters, losers and trolls will follow.
Haters, Losers and Trolls! Oh My!
alaskan ak, no you're wrong, the death threat was "sustained"
Apparently you are a liar, Ted. That's a shame.
Here's my proof. Where's yours?
All but two -- an illegal moose killing and a Tasering of an 11-year-old -- were found to be unsubstantiated. Wooten was disciplined.
To anonymous and alaskan in AK:
1. Why was Mike Wooten not fired after suffering a "sustained" complaint of threatening to make Chuck Heath "Eat a f***ing lead bullet”? (see document: http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site163/2008/0717/20080717_062016_641.pdf) 2. How does a miniscule ten day suspension compensate for 11 "sustained complaints", including a credible death threat? 3. Why did Walt Monegan reduce Mr. Wooten's suspension to five days after such an egregious violation? (see article: http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?s=8695727) 4. Why was Union Representative John Cyr, while sitting in on Officer Wooten's interview regarding the allegations, allowed to demand that the tape recorder be turned off for 30 minutes in the middle of the interview because he didn't like the line of questioning that the interviewer was pursuing? (see document: http://www.ktva.com/CommissionerControversy) 5. Why, after being told in 2005 that "any further occurrences of these types of behaviors or incidents will not be tolerated and will result in your termination", was Officer Wooten not immediately terminated last week after his ex-wife had to call 911 to get him to return her children? (see document: http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site163/2008/0717/20080717_061601_637.pdf) So, yes, I really want an investigation. Lets investigate why it looks like the Public Safety Department is placing the personal interests of Mr. Wooten and/or the PSEA above the safety of the citizens who they are supposed to be protecting. If you want to investigate Sarah Palin while you're at it, be my guest; I doubt that you'll turn up anything. However, it is massively hypocritical to demand an investigation of Palin while not wanting to investigate the fact that Wooten (an obvious threat to public safety) is still wearing a badge.
anon and alaskan in AK, go to --
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/comment/reply/805/3327
Once there, you can get to the pdf's
#1) Because the dad wasn’t anywhere around when Wooten made that comment.
#2) I assume they didn’t really think Wooten was a threat. The news reported here that all the allegations were from the Palin and Heath family around the time of a messy divorce.
#3) Monegan wasn’t the Commissioner when Wooten’s suspension was reduced.
#4) Who knows? Apparently they can do that.
#5) Who knows? Maybe there was an acceptable excuse.
The fact remains, Palin is the one being investigated. Not Monegan or Wooten.
AND THE QUESTION REMAINS:
AND THE FACTS DO REMAIN:
Wooten was at the Governor's picnic in Wasilla last month. I saw him there.
The Legislative Council is a bipartisan, 14-member panel made up of seven senators and seven House members. They voted 12-0 to investigate Palin.
Face it, Ted. This has nothing to do with the Dems or the left-leaning media trying to "stop" Palin. The media here in Alaska loves Palin because she's all about increasing taxes and growing government.
Most reasonable people realize Palin isn't being considered a VP possibility. Sorry to burst your bubble.
alaskan in ak, Wooten wasn't at any picnic in Wasilla last month. Can you site any media or any documentation whatsoever?
Your last comment reveals you're really bogus!
"Wooten showed up at the governor's picnic in Mat-Su on Friday."
Who's bogus now, ted?
to an alaskan in alaska--
How can Alaskans feel safe with somone like Wooten in the public safety department?
How can anyone be defending him and his group "birds of a feather flock together".--a former Wasilla Alaskan.
alaskan in ak, re Wooten showing up at the picnic, that was in mid July when the bruhaha was first launched re Monegan and Halcro. Since then, Wooten is no where that can be found, reportedly at an undisclosed location out of the country. Where is Wooten? Where has he been since the picnic? Why hasn't the media or any one or any investigator gone to seek or question Wooten? Because he's reportedly out of the country and can't be contacted.
Anonymous - Wooten hasn't done anything illegal, why should anyone fear him? The Palin's are the people to fear. If I were Wooten I would get a restraining order to keep them from stalking me. The Palin's were way too involved in their divorce.
"original" ted - I have no idea where Wooten is. Where did you hear he was out of the country?
In the state where I live, and that is in one of the 50 states of the USA, if you threaten to shoot someone in the head, you are charged and incarcerated.--a former Wasilla Alaskan
"a former Wasilla Alaskan" - The "death threat" was determined to be unsubstantiated. Period.
Just because Sarah Palin was elected Governor does not give her the right to circumvent the law. That's illegal.
The Governor doesn't get to pick and chose which laws to uphold. She took an oath to uphold ALL the laws.
I believe it will be determined that she tried to abuse her power. And that's a shame.
I believe it was the summer of 2001 when Anchorage Mayor Wuerch cracked down on the drunk drivers. That one fellow had 9 DUI's when he killed 3 people and 2 other multi violators each killed 1 person that summer. So, 5 people lost their lives to drunk drivers. Now, you people want to defend a state trooper drinking and driving a state vehicle.--a former Wasilla Alaskan.
Anon - "Now, you people want to defend a state trooper drinking and driving a state vehicle.--a former Wasilla Alaskan."
That allegation (from the Palin family) was also unsubstantiated.
I lived amongst you people for over 10 years, so I know how some of you all do. Why don't you all leave our blog alone. Comment on your own blog, as we all here fully support Governor Sarah.--a former Wasilla Alaskan.
To: former Wasilla Alaskan - Are you saying that you fully support a politician that abuses their power?
If so, that is disturbing news. God help us.
Monegan was offered the position of Alcohol Commissioner. He was not fired. 2 of my co-workers were asked to transfer to different positions. They would have rathered kept their positions, but transferred. They didn't put up a ruckus.
You people have all fabricated this story against Governor Sarah.
We all love Governor Sarah in my state. And, we don't live in fear as we can trust our state troopers. Alaska's public safety department needs a cleaning up; it's history is not a good one.--a former Wasilla Alaskan.
Monegan was asked to transfer to the position of Alcohol Commissioner to clean up the problem of boot legged liquor in the villages.
Just this past week a mayor from one of the villages was found with illegal liquor in his luggage.
So, what is the underlying reason why Monegan would not want to be in charge of cleaning up this problem.--a former Wasilla Alaskan.
Everyone knows Walt Monegan was fired. Only the Palin spin masters say otherwise.
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Sarah Palin is under investigation for abuse of power.
This is one of the qualities of Palin I like. She is not afraid to fire an ineffective DPS head, who clearly has his own agenda.
Sorry, but I just don't understand how it is an abuse of power for a sitting governor to suggest to HER DPS head to dump an out of control trooper: 4 marriages, drinking in patrol vehicle, the list goes on and on.
And, if Wooten is such a great guy, why is he being hidden out of the country? He's a maggot.
If that punk threatened my family while I was governor, he'd be off the force long ago and sent packing. He is a disgrace to the uniform he wears.
4 wives? You have to be kidding. What a psychopath.
anonymous/ "a former Wasilla Alaskan" says: "The "death threat" was determined to be unsubstantiated. Period."
NOT TRUE, IT WAS SUSTAINED. Here verbatim are the words from the official State of Alaska Memorandum of Findings on Michael Wooten, dated 10-29-05:
"Molly McCann, Sarah Palin and Track Palin allege that on February 17, 2005, Investigator Wooten made a comment to Molly McCann that he would shoot her father if he hired a lawyer for her. McCann advised that Investigator Wooten made this comment to her, and that Sarah and Track Palin who were listening over an open telephone line overheard it. Investigator Wooten was questioned about the comment and denied ever making the statement. Although McCann, Sarah Palin and Track Palin all recalled hearing the statement, a statement or implied threat to a non-present third party is not a crime. Although McCann and Sarah Palin felt that their father's life was in danger by the statement, neither mentioned the threat to their father for several weeks. Nevertheless, a statement of this sort by a trooper reflects badly on AST.
OPM 101.070(A) Unbecoming Conduct. Sustained.
OPM 101.070(B) Personal Conduct. Sustained.
OPM 101.070(C) Conformance to Laws. Not Sustained."
to the "original" Ted--
Ted I am the former Wasilla Alaskan and I fully support Governor Sarah heart and soul. That was someone's reply to my comment.--a former Wasilla Alaskan.
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Defeat proxies in Kashmir, save state’s Muslim majority character: Mehbooba
By Precious Kashmir on 05/04/2019 Comments Off on Defeat proxies in Kashmir, save state’s Muslim majority character: Mehbooba
Uri, Apr 5: Reiterating that the coming elections will be crucial in determining Jammu and Kashmir’s future, Former Chief Minister and President Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti said on Friday that coming elections provide an important chance to the people of the state to safeguard Jammu and Kashmir’s Muslim majority character and its core interests.
Addressing party worker’s convention in north Kashmir’s Uri, Mehbooba cautioned the people about sinister motives of the BJP to fragment people on the basis sects, communities and regions. She said that a very dreadful trap is being laid by the BJP so that it could divide residents of Jammu and Kashmir into Paharis, Gujjar Bakerwal, Shia, Sunni and Barelvis.
“They want to give an impression that only kashmiri speaking people of the valley are for special status of the state. While the fact remains that every single citizen of the state irrespective of his religion, language & sect holds our special status dearer than life. These nefarious designs are being implemented in the state so that it could deprive us of our special status and unique identity besides altering state’s Muslim majority character,” Mehbooba said while asking people to stay alert and not to allow the divisive and communal elements succeed in their villainous motives.
She said that while the state is going through tough times, people are knowledgeable enough to know what are the threats and the stakes involved and how proxies are being fielded in Kashmir so as to erode the special status and scrap Article 35-A.
“Stay cautious and don’t get caught as mesh is of the same colour as the ground. We must all resolve to defeat proxies and send a strong message to the world about how dear the unique identity of the state is to us,” Mehbooba said.
Mehbooba asked workers, to come forward in droves to support PDP’s candidates so that the party with greater force could thwart the assaults being launched against core interests of the state.
Recalling PDP’s pro-people initiatives and series of Confidence Building Measures, Mehbooba said that PDP as the largest political party of the state has always strived for the resolution of the problems through peace and empowerment of people.
“It is URI that mufti sahib made the very basis of proving how sincerity of purpose and strong resolve can make it possible to move forward on resolution of the issue of Kashmir”, she said.
Others PDP leaders who spoke on the occasion include Dr Mehboob Beg, Safina Beigh.
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Congress releases manifesto for Odisha elections
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Bhubaneswar, Apr 7: Odisha Congress on Sunday released its manifesto for the upcoming polls making a slew of promises, including waiver of crop loans up to Rs 2 lakh per family and 33 per cent reservation for women in government jobs, parliament and assembly.
With a focus on farmers, youth, women, tribals and dalits, the 32-page document titled “Your Voice Your Choice” also promised to give Rs 72,000 each to five crore poor families under the ‘Nyay’ scheme as announced by the AICC.
With Odisha going for simultaneous assembly election and Lok Sabha polls, the state unit of the party released the separate manifesto which promised concrete steps to address issues such as unemployment, farm distress, safety and empowerment of women besides uplift of tribals and dalits.
Releasing the manifesto in the presence of senior party leaders here, Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Niranjan Patnaik said, an assistance of Rs 6,000 per month under the NYAY scheme, would be transferred directly to the account of the woman of an eligible family.
Promising employment for all, the manifesto said one person in every family will have a job, either in the public or private sector, while the jobless will be entitled to an unemployment allowance of Rs 3,000 per month.
All contractual workers in the public sector will be regularised while there shall be no contractual employment in teaching, healthcare and social security services, the manifesto said.
It also promised land to the landless and home to homeless. A five-year plan will be unveiled to provide homestead land to every landless family in a village and shelter for every urban homeless family.
Noting that Congress is committed to give the farmers their due, the manifesto said crop loans up to Rs 2 lakh per family will be waived within the first 10 days if the party is voted to power, while loans repaid after March 31, 2018 would be reimbursed.
Announcing a minimun support price of Rs 2,600 per quintal for paddy, the manifesto said every farming family will get a special financial assistance of Rs 10,000 annually for the next three years.
There will be guaranteed remunerative price for all major farm and forest produce, it said.
Access to irrigation, affordable electricity and seeds would be provided for all and farmers above the age of 60 years will get a monthly pension of Rs 1500.
On women empowerment, the manifesto promised to enforce 33 per cent reservaton for them in central and state government jobs in addition to a quota of 33 per cent in parliament and state assembly.
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W: C. Poche (1-1) L: G. Canning (2-3) S: D. Castillo (7)
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Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida Attendance: 20,508
Rays survive 9th inning Angels' rally, win 6-5
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By MARK DIDTLER
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) The Tampa Bay Rays dodged a scare from Mike Trout, and now they're headed to the Bronx for a most crucial division showdown.
Yandy Diaz hit an RBI single during Tampa Bay's two-run eighth inning, and the Rays held off Los Angeles' late rally to beat the Angels 6-5 Sunday.
Trout hit a two-run homer off Diego Castillo in the ninth to make it a one-run game. After Shohei Ohtani singled and went to second on Albert Pujols' grounder, Castillo completed his seventh save by striking out Kole Calhoun.
"It's always good to get a win before you're heading on a plane," Rays manager Kevin Cash said.
The Rays are a half-game behind the New York Yankees in the AL East with a three-game series between the teams starting Monday night. The clubs are scheduled to play each other 11 times over the next 33 days.
"It's always a hostile environment over there," Rays center fielder Kevin Kiermaier said. "Those fans, they let you know what they feel, trust me. But it's also a great thing quieting that crowd anytime you can."
"Their fans are going to know that we're head-and-head with their guys," Kiermaier added. "It's going to be an electric atmosphere, and we look forward to playing in that."
Tommy Pham put the Rays ahead 4-3 with a solo shot against Griffin Canning (2-3) in the fifth. The lead grew to 6-3 in the eighth when Diaz got his run-scoring hit and another run scored on wild pitch.
David Fletcher had two RBIs for the Angels (35-37), who haven't been at .500 since April 15.
"We split a series with a good team, which I think is pretty good," Los Angeles catcher Jonathan Lucroy said. "We could easily have taken three out of four from these guys."
The Rays used opener Ryne Stanek and five other relievers to complete a 3-4 homestand.
After Brandon Lowe hit a solo homer in the first, Kiermaier played a pivotal role during a two-run second that put the Rays up 3-1.
Kiermaier drove in a run with a triple and beat Pujols' throw to the plate after the first baseman caught Avisail Garcia's foul ball near the bullpen.
Canning allowed four runs, six hits and struck out seven in six innings. He joined Masahiro Tanaka, Herb Score and Orlando Hernandez as the only American League pitchers to have five-or-more strikeouts in at least nine starts to begin their career.
Los Angeles loaded the bases with no outs in the first but scored just once on Pujols' sacrifice fly.
Fletcher had a bases-loaded sacrifice fly with one out in third and a fifth-inning RBI single to tie it at 3-all.
"Obviously when you have guys on base, you feel like you've let some potential runs slip away," Angels manager Brad Ausmus said. "But give them credit, too, they pitched pretty well."
Angels: Ausmus expects OF Justin Upton, who hasn't played this season due to left foot turf toe, to be back Monday. ... 2B Tommy La Stella started after missing two games with left forearm tightness. ... INF Andrelton Simmons (sprained left ankle) will face live pitching in the next couple days and could be back late this week. ... RHP Trevor Cahill (right elbow inflammation) threw 20 pitches in his bullpen session and will do it again Tuesday.
Rays: INF Matt Duffy (strained left hamstring) ran the bases and worked out at both third base and shortstop.
ALVARADO UPDATE
Rays LHP Jose Alvarado is back after spending time in Venezuela dealing with a personal matter and will begin a throwing program at the team's minor league complex in Port Charlotte, Florida. He has been gone since June 2.
FIRST VICTORY
Although Rays RHP Emilio Pagan got two outs to end the top of the fifth, he was not awarded the win despite Pham's homer in the bottom of the inning due to a rule interpretation by the official scorer. Instead, Colin Poche (1-1), who entered in the sixth and went two scoreless innings, was credited with his first big league win.
Angels: RHP Felix Pena (4-1) will follow an opener Monday night at Toronto. The Blue Jays will start RHP Edwin Jackson (1-4).
Rays: RHP Yonny Chirinos (7-2) will go against Yankees RHP Masahiro Tanaka (4-5) Monday night. Due to a taxed bullpen, Chirinos will make his fifth consecutive start instead of following an opener.
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Shahid Kapoor dedicated one fourth of his career to Mausam
Shahid dedicated one-fourth of his career to ‘Mausam’!
Mumbai: Actor Shahid Kapoor has been in the industry for eight years now and he has significantly devoted one-fourth of his career to one film, ‘Mausam.’
It is his father and acclaimed actor Pankaj Kapoor’s directorial debut. “This film is awesome. It was very challenging for me from a performance point of view,” he said to a daily.
Shahid had to turn down a few films since he was absolutely devoted to working full time on ‘Mausam’. He confessed, “Of which one or two were real good projects.”
He also added, “But I believe that once you commit yourself to something, you must fulfil it. Offers keep coming, and who knows what will work and what will not work in this unpredictable industry. So, no regrets.”
‘Mausam’ is produced by Sunil Lulla and Sheetal Vinod Talwar, it is a love story that has Sonam Kapoor in the female lead.
The film is based on the 10 years journey of the male protagonist so the project needed that kind of time said Shahid.
He plays the role of an air force officer in the film. “I have many different looks in the film. And it takes time to grow the moustache, beard... at times I would be required to look thin, at times muscular. And perhaps dad was bored seeing me in funky clothes. He wanted to see me like a man and hence wanted me to play an air force officer. Dad believes that on the big screen, if you play a man, it always looks very attractive,” laughs Shahid.
Well, we are sure your hardwork will pay off Shahid and we wish you luck.
‘Mausam’ is scheduled to release on September 16.
Shahid Kapoor has two sides!
Shahid Kapoor and Simi Garewal
Actor Shahid Kapoor talks about how his on screen characters
Simi Selects India's Most Desirable on Star World mostly have Bollywood celebrities appearing on the show ranging from Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Sonakshi Sinha, Abhay Deol, Anushka Sharma to Ranveer Singh and this week is none other than heratthrob of millions and many Bollywood girls, Shahid Kapoor.
During the show, Simi told Shahid that when she asked women that what was the most desirable thing they were looking in a man 'sensitivity' topped the list, and his role in the film Jab We Met and Vivah fitted the bill perfectly. She wanted to know that in real life how similar is he to his character? "They were beautiful characters and I connected with them. I understood them and probably learnt a little from them. There is a part of me in both the characters. I am not the same person in real life but but there is a part of me in my characters," says Shahid.
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There is nothing like a bit of controversy to whip up publicity. And actor Shahid Kapur knows that pretty well. But the suave, 30-year-old, who has enjoyed the burst of popularity with link-ups with most of his co-stars says, "Maybe because I never talk about my private life, never tell who I am in a relationship with. I love to enjoy the company of friends but have learnt to ignore these reports".
From ex-beau Kareena Kapoor, Vidya Balan to Priyanka Chopra with whom he shared Kaminey a film that shook up his critic, is also known for his ways with the ladies.
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Sailor Moon Crystal Act 27, Infinity 1 – Premonition – First Part, review
Posted on April 5, 2016 by Adam
Sailor Moon Crystal is finally back! Act 27, Infinity 1 – Premonition – First Part, aired on Japanese TV April 4th at 11pm Japan Standard Time. Shortly after this, around 10:45am Eastern Time, the show was available to stream for free on Crunchyroll, Hulu and Neon Alley. It seems that the show was only available to Hulu Plus users at first but could be viewed right away with commercials on the Viz web site Neon Alley. Keep this in mind in the future if you for whatever reason don’t like watching it on Crunchryroll.
I guess we finally know what the episode title will be. Act 27 is split into two parts, aptly named “First Part” and “The 2nd Part”. Yes the subtitles do indeed inconsistently spell out first but write 2nd with a number. Hulu calls the episode “Part 1″ but the subtitle for the title is consistently “First Part”. As mentioned previously the season will have 13 episodes. Sailor Moon Crystal follows the later chapter break up of the manga which has the Infinity arc covering 12 manga chapters, meaning this is likely going to be the only episode which is split in two.
The first thing which strikes me about this episode is the change in animation. Like it or not, it’s different. This seems like a totally different show. I personally think this new animation is fantastic as I’m going to appreciate anything that’s novel at this point. Not only is the style different but I all around get a sense that there has been a significant improvement in the quality of the animation. Perhaps more time and money have gone into these episodes. We should be happy for the delay if it means getting something that looks this good. There is also a lot of funny animation, which we’ve seen off and on earlier in the series. I hope this kind of thing keeps up. As always the show continues to be a faithful adaptation of the manga, so no big change there.
Act 27 starts the new Infinity story arc which is all about Sailor Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and the Death Busters. We see only a glimpse of Hotaru and Kaolinite this week, but we do see quite a bit of Haruka and Michiru. Haruka is such a fascinating character. She is described using male gender specific pronouns in the subtitles. This is a bit of a complicated issue. Haruka is female, but at this point in the manga all characters, including the reader, are meant to assume that she is male. She’s not trans but is probably more accurately described as gender fluid. I have mentioned before that I don’t speak Japanese, but my understanding is simply that gender specific pronouns aren’t commonly used in the Japanese language. This leads to common situations in Japanese fiction, like anime and manga, where a character’s identity is confused but the person can still be openly spoken of without it leading to confusion like it might in English when a gender specific pronoun like he or she would come up to clear things up. And so Haruka wears men’s clothes and is fawned after by girls, including Usagi, Minako and Makoto who assume she is a man. Some of them of course will continue to be attracted to her when they learn she is a woman, which is just part of what makes this series great.
Diana returns! She came to the present with Chibiusa from the 30th century, something which occurs in the manga but does not happen in the original Sailor Moon anime until late in the next story arc. Diana has a red collar in the original anime but her collar is grey in Sailor Moon Crystal. I only noticed this watching this episode but her collar was grey in the last story arc as well. Chibiusa seems to have no problems letting Diana sit on the dining room table. This isn’t something that bothers me much but I keep expecting my girlfriend to pop on to the screen and push her down.
Speaking of cats, check out how much Luna and Artemis have changed. Their faces are shaped a lot differently that what we’re used to. One of the many changes in character designs.
The gang play a fake video game called Battle Lap. Or is it Speed Racer? It says Speed Racer on the side of the machine but it is clearly referred to as Battle Lap in conversation, which is the name of the game in the manga. I don’t know much about car racing but apparently in the Sailor Moon world being good at real car racing translates to being good at video game car racing! I am personally a terrible driver and I am also very bad at Mario Kart, so perhaps this is legit! Usagi mentions that she can’t tell how fast she’s going because of her helmet which Haruka seems to think is the sign of a good racer. I guess I will have to wear a helmet when I play Mario Kart from now on. This helmet peripheral doesn’t actually seem to have any in game functionality, unless it beats you up when you virtually crash.
Fighting ensues! A Daimon comes out of a girl from Mugen Acamdemy, the school where all the scary stuff is going on, and this fight is much more than the few pages we get in the manga. This is probably why the chapter is split in two. We needed to reintroduce all characters and give everyone a full transformation sequence. These new transformation sequences look great, and are nearly identical to those from the original Sailor Moon anime.
We get some cool attacks. Sailor Venus uses her Wink Chain Sword which now features an actual sword! How cool is that? I mean she doesn’t actually hit the enemy with her sword but there is a sword in there. You know like the one she used to kill Queen Beryl. Oh that’s right…
Next week is Act 28, Infinity 1 – Premonition – The 2nd Part. No really, we’re not calling it Infinity 2? How confusing. At least we will be able to easily follow the manga titles even though the Act numbers will change. The preview has a border around it so I can’t be lazy and use these screenshots when the new episode comes out. Next week Usagi will disguise herself as a Mugen Academy student and try to sneak in. Looking forward to seeing if they draw all of Chibiusa’s friends like small version of the men of the series. Kyuusuke looks like a tiny Mamoru but in this coming story we have a tiny version of Asanuma and Umino. Or is it Amano? I guess Naoko Takeuchi got lazy! More importantly we will see Sailor Uranus and Neptune for the first time. Keep an eye out for Act 28 on Monday April 11th some time around 10:45am Eastern Time on Crunchyroll, Neon Alley and Hulu.
Keep reading for more screenshots from this episode and the next episode preview.
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74 thoughts on “Sailor Moon Crystal Act 27, Infinity 1 – Premonition – First Part, review”
Wayne harrison on April 5, 2016 at 6:03 pm said:
cool cant wait so this means we get new episode every week right and any news on the english dub or that coming later
is season 3 split like the first crystal so 13 episodes this time then we get like a second season of the death busters????????
Jorge on April 5, 2016 at 6:29 pm said:
The first season of Crystal was 26 episodes because it was 2 arcs, so there were about 13 episodes per arc. This season will follow the same pattern and the Death Busters arc will be 13 episodes. I’m assuming that they’ll also make a Dead Moon circus arc that is also 13 episodes. So to answer your question, no. there won’t be 2 seasons of the Death Busters because in reality all the arcs will only have one season.
Also, they aren’t done releasing the dub for the 2nd arc of Crystal. That was released like 8 months ago so the dub for this arc might take a long time.
wayne on April 6, 2016 at 12:40 pm said:
Hi Jorge and thanks for the info
Leo on April 5, 2016 at 6:34 pm said:
Anyone who lives in Canada or other states than USA can watch the episodes of Sailor Moon Crystal Season 3 in kissanime (in the link): https://kissanime.to/
Kissanime is the best site to watch every single anime and everything about that anime,you can watch anime without commercials,without paying to watch them,full hd and everywhere you are
Emily on April 5, 2016 at 7:43 pm said:
SMC is covering the revised manga, isn’t it? Infinity Arc in revised manga has 12 not 11 chapters. That means there won’t by any other split episode. Admin should change this factual mistake.
saintfighteraqua on April 6, 2016 at 12:07 am said:
But there are thirteen episodes. So they must be planning on splitting one more.
Emily on April 6, 2016 at 7:28 am said:
No so let’s just count with me
1 Infinity 1, Premonition Part 1
3 Infinity 2, Ripples
4 Infinity 3, Two New Soldiers
5 Infinity 4, Sailor Uranus Haruka Ten’ô, Sailor Neptune Michiru Kaiô
6 Infinity 5, Sailor Pluto Setsuna Meiô
7 Infinity 6, Three Guardians
8 Infinity 7, Transformation Super Sailor Moon
9 Infinity 8, Infinite Labyrinth 1
10 Infinity 9, Infinite Labyrinth 2
11 Infinity 10, Infinite – Upper Atmosphere
12 Infinity 11, Infinite – Judge
13 Infinity 12, Infinite – Journey
Adam on April 6, 2016 at 11:12 am said:
You’re absolutely right. I must have miscounted. I will correct my post.
Well looks like we will see Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune transformations on Act 31 if not for sure on Act 32 and that’s weeks away!
All I’m saying is, their theme music is A1
saintfighteraqua on April 6, 2016 at 12:14 pm said:
Hmm, I wasn’t aware they had split the labyrinth chapter.
John on April 6, 2016 at 5:46 pm said:
Apparently.
Also, does anyone know if the last episode of the Infinity Arc called Journey, connects with the Dream Arc at all like towards the end or anything?
Leo on April 7, 2016 at 12:44 pm said:
Yes it is conected because in that the eclipse happends and pegasus shows up and ask usagi and chibiusa for help
zackc on April 7, 2016 at 8:34 pm said:
john, that is a Great question, i am assuming no doubt, which also gives me the expectation theyre definitely doing dream arc (which is most important with stars being that the original anime didnt utilize the manga for a lot of events) i would have been fine if they did re-did superS and stars tbh
I dont know if somebody will read this because this post is pretty old but still I have to write this… IT IS NOT TRUE that Pegasus appear in the last Infinity Arc… There is NO connection between Infinity Arc and Dream Arc… And I also have to say that in the first Manga edition there were also two arcs covering the Labyrinth, two Labyrinth arcs is not difference between first edition and revised edition in terms of arcs, the difference is that in the first edition there was Act 11 Infinite which consist of all last three arcs in the revised edition = Upper Atmosphere, Judge, Journey
Viridian on April 9, 2016 at 3:31 am said:
according to http://www.missdream.org —
Act 38: Infinity 12 – Infinity – Beginning of a Journey
Pegasus made an appearance.
It is only a cameo appearance in that act… But OK
That’s what i said. I said in the last act of infinity pegasus show’s up. What is wrong with you people
Starscream Gaga on April 5, 2016 at 8:37 pm said:
I really, really hated Crystal Season 1 and 2 but I actually loved this episode. Maybe its because the Infinity Arc was the only Arc that I can honestly say was decently written in my opinion in the manga, but I thought this was a huuuuuge step up. I love the new animation too and I love that the characters actually have proper emotion.
The sword that Venus uses in Wink Chain Sword’s animation is actually the very same sword from the Dark Kingdom arc that in the manga Venus used to kill Beryl. I guess they decided that she needed it in some way considering her previous use of it was given to Moon in Crystal. I also love the animation for it! “Venus Wink Chain Sword” is such a nonsense name and the manga never clearly shows how attacks work, but I feel they actually turned that silly name into a fairly believable attack. Same goes for Coconut Cyclone.
Luke Yannuzzi on April 5, 2016 at 9:23 pm said:
In the next episode, I wonder if Rei still doesn’t trust men?
Rami on April 5, 2016 at 9:37 pm said:
I love the animation! You’re right, the quality of the animation is top-notch. They definitely did do better this time around. It also seems a little more anime-ish than the first two seasons, which I’m fine with. While I liked the first season’s animation, it did seem a little stiff to me. Another thing I like is that not every girl is wearing lipstick. I mean, I can get Usagi and the other girls her age wearing lipstick–teens do wear some make-up and experiment with it–but Chibiusa had lipstick last season! Why? She may be 900*, but as small as she is she does not need any make-up!
I definitely found it interesting how Haruka was referred to by male pronouns and the like. Perhaps Haruka is gender fluid, it would make a lot of sense, considering that Michiru refers to Haruka as having a little bit of male and female in him/her. I don’t think gender fluid was a term in any language back in the 90’s (the closest to it would be androgynous), so I wonder if s/he’ll be called that in the new seson? We’ll have to wait till Monday and see.
*Since people in the 30th century live to around a thousand years old, do you think since Chibiusa is 900, she’ll only have 100 years left? Or did she kind of become frozen in time and she still has about 990 years left to grow up, rule, have a family, and everything?
Madd on April 5, 2016 at 9:48 pm said:
I didn’t watch the episode only bits and pieces so I cannot comment on the whole episode. Waiting for the English dub. The animation is so much better. Everything is more fluid and for the most part it isn’t sloppy. It’s a big improvement animation wise. Character design I still prefer the flowing designs of season 1 and 2. Although I will say the new character design varies. Sometimes the characters look older like in their transformations. When they are battling or just doing regular things they look young but sometimes almost too child like. They look younger than 14. They have that youthful pretty cute look that works and sometimes they look too young.
I hated Ami’s baggy school sweater uniform so that is one thing I don’t miss from crystal season 1 & 2. I was hoping they would create new planet transformation pens even though they didn’t have any in the manga. Having the inner soldiers use the star pens again was disappointing. Also they took out the subtle designs for the hands in the transformation from season 1&2 and took the exact same look of the star transformation for the beginning. Wish they drew planet power pens because the star they drew looked off. It’s interesting that a lot of the transformation sequences are similar to the season 1&2 cg transformation but because it’s 2D(for the most part) in season 3 it just looks better, to me anyway.
Even without the new transformation pens I’m glad they got new attacks! The animation for those attacks even though it seems like stock footage is amazing! Now the attacks themselves were kinda underwhelming. Venus throws the sword and I was hoping that the sword would attack/stab the enemy but instead it chained it from moving? Too similar to how Venus love me chain is used. Jupiter coconut cyclone I was hoping for a gust of electricity because with how they redid sparkling wide pressure like the 90’s anime attack sequence both attacks look similar. Also wish they didn’t use CGI for the attack or monster dying but I guess they will not take out CGI completely.
Overall animation was a big improvement even if I am not a fan of the Pretty Cure character designs, and I’m sure they now realize they can’t just do some low budget series. I hope.
Mippa on April 5, 2016 at 10:42 pm said:
So in the original Japanese people are referring to Haruka as “kare” and “aitsu.” The former being a distinctly male pronoun. “Aitsu” is typically used on males–rarely on females.
Thank you for the explanation. That gives interesting context.
Janessa D on April 7, 2016 at 11:17 pm said:
FYI, as usual, Viz’s subtitles suck. They refuse to allow the Japanese script to have too much influence on their “translations”.
Among other things: “Aitsu” (which they used a lot in the Japanese) is completely gender neutral, and referring to Haruka as “kare” doesn’t necessarily mean the characters think she’s a boy. This is not to say those characters DON’T think she’s a boy – it’s just that there’s intentional ambiguity in the dialogue and it should have been respected. For most of the comments about Haruka, the correct solution would have been to write the lines without using third-person pronouns at all.
Adam on April 11, 2016 at 10:54 am said:
We just don’t have the same commonly used language for that. When someone refers to someone as “they” or intentionally avoids certain words in English, it’s an indication that something is up.
I recall an episode of Jerry Springer where a man was admitting to his girlfriend that he’d been cheating. It was with a man but he was being intentionally vague waiting for the big shock for the audience. He refer to him as “they” and his girlfriend said “They? How many of them are there?”.
There are terms that can be used, but they seem forced when gender specific ones are so common that it hints at something and in this case would similarly spoil the reveal.
I believe the characters will refer to Haruka as “She” when the truth will be revealed.
I’m sure you are right…that’s how it happened in the original, if I’m not mistaken and definitely how they handled it even in the old Cloverway Dub and Tokyo Pop/Mixx manga.
They issue is, they should have respected the intentional ambiguity of the Japanese dialogue and avoided gender-specific pronouns altogether.
Yes, absolutely you’re right!
Ida on April 6, 2016 at 10:41 am said:
i agree, the animation looks a lot better in this season and the music is just as good in this one if not even better than the other ones. However having watched the first episode I have a few questions. so SPOILERS for those who havnt seen it.
1. Did mamo-chan tell to both Umino and Naru that Usagi is Sailor Moon
2. They transferd in a busy street, clearly visable for everyone close by. Were they spotted? if no, how?!
3. Noone in the audience (yes there is one once the monster is gone) seems surpriced to see the sailor senshi fighting, more like “oh nice, I like this part of my day, lets watch some”. So how common is it for them to be seen?
4.WHY did they revert to stockfotage attacks? In the previous seasons we could see them fighting in the surounding enviorment. Here its like in the original anime, stock fotage like combat wich is a downer to me.
1. and 2. and 3.
I really wondered that too. Even if he took them away from the battle, they would have to wonder why the heck he abandoned his girlfriend and her friends…and also, if everyone else saw them fight, why keep Umino and Naru in the dark? That part was so odd to me and seemed to imply that everyone just knows Usagi’s identity as Sailor Moon at this point. That’s weird, since no one seems to comment on it at all…and we do know some major characters do not know at this point…so I’m not sure what just happened here.
4. I like the stock footage as long as they maybe mix it up from time to time with the real time action scenes in the actual environment.
Ida on April 6, 2016 at 2:35 pm said:
well the stock fotage attacks looks amazing so I dont mind but it kinda feels like a step back to me. Why not mix them up with jusing the attack but without the stockfootage background and instead use the scenes background? That would feel a lot better to me
Aurelia on April 6, 2016 at 2:27 pm said:
The questions 1, 2 and 3 can’t stop haunting me, too :/ . I suppose Toei simply messed up here.
most likely. But sailor moon is such a massive show that the pressure is imense, I would probably slip up as well XD
Aurelia on April 8, 2016 at 11:54 am said:
Haha I love your words, and we could add : “The pressure is so immense for Sailor Moon and her friends, and that’s why they can slip up sometimes by transforming in a crowded street” XD .
It’s hard to be a super hero !
Ida on April 9, 2016 at 5:59 am said:
compleatly true.
Those eye catches are so pretty. I really hope they do them for the other senshi, too. I was so disappointed that there were only two in the first two seasons.
This is kind of out of place, regarding the nude scene of Hotaru and Chibiusa in the opening sequence. It really did happen in Act 35, when Hotaru is protecting Chibiusa’s soul and silver crystal from Mistress 9. I just saw it right now.
John on April 7, 2016 at 8:03 am said:
Why would you just throw a spoiler like that? And on top of that, you look like you smell like sour cream.
Viridian on April 7, 2016 at 10:34 am said:
Read the Manga!
Have you noticed that you can say that to people over and over and over but they still refuse to even acknowledge that Sailor Moon comic books EXIST??
Ashley on April 7, 2016 at 5:51 pm said:
Oh noes, a spoiler from a manga that’s over 20 years old! The nerve of some people.
Doesn’t matter if it’s 20 years old there’s book that are over a 1000 years old so what’s your point?
My point is that there are some people who purposely do not read the manga, to get a surprise when watching the episode.
During the first two arcs, I read all Acts and sometimes days prior to the premiere of the episode, so I knew what to expect.
This time around, I’m actually excluding myself from that and let me tell you it’s much more enjoyable this time getting surprised.
For example, I was mad happy to see Sailor Venus and Neptune finish off an enemy versus the usual Sailor Moon. That was nice for a change. That is my point.
Also, that guy still smells like sour cream. Goodbye.
Jupiter, not Neptune.
Ah, so everyone should avoid talking about a 20 year old publication, rather than you avoiding reading places where spoilers might lurk. That makes total sense. You should complain about it some more.
saintfighteraqua on April 8, 2016 at 1:27 pm said:
I’d forgotten about that!
And ignore the haters. If you are sour cream, he no doubt smells like onions.
There are some very rude people on here and I’ve noticed all but one of the rude ones are missing an icon…It’s about time they start getting called out. Frankly, John is one of the more tame rude people.
But the rest definitely need to take a chill pill. If comments on a Sailor Moon blog can make them so angry, they will be lucky to get through life without some serious health issues,
I like sour cream but onions I can’t bear unless it is cooked.
Anyway, Haters makes my life so fun. But I guess this angry dude does not have a life.
Why say goodbye if you will still lurk here, I am always here reading. LOL
No doubt you are right.
I probably smell like pickles, myself.
Aurelia on April 9, 2016 at 9:56 am said:
I totally agree with you. I think I’m only rude towards the rude people here (they sometimes need to be severely repressed), but most of the time I think I’m a kind woman, or at least I hope I am. I mean, why can’t we be cool to each other ? Why can’t we stay cool when we disagree with someone ? Why can’t we prevent ourselves from insulting someone who wrote a comment on Sailor Moon we didn’t like ?
Internet and Sailor Moon News allow people from all over the world to talk all together about Sailor Moon. And this is wonderful. We don’t know each other, we will surely never meet each other, but we are here having fun conversations. But maybe the “haters” here are too young to realize that not so long ago, such great possibilities didn’t exist… They don’t know how lucky they are, and so, they are using Internet in the purpose of being wicked to the others, for free. But yes, you and Viridian are both right : they are only harming themselves.
I agree, if someone has information someone else lacks or they spot misinformation, there is nothing wrong with correcting or informing, but some of the clowns in these comments attack anyone they disagree with or heaven forbid, post something they are not sure about or ask an innocent question.
Whatever their reasons, they need to check themselves and realize this isn’t 2008, trolls are no longer funny and manners still apply even online.
Viridian on April 10, 2016 at 1:34 am said:
I couldn’t agree more. Kudos to the other level headed posters, aurelia, ashley etc
Aurelia on April 10, 2016 at 7:49 am said:
Thank you to both of you, guys .
Gery on April 10, 2016 at 12:47 pm said:
Fuck you all who says bad things for “haters”. We are not haters we just express our opinion we say what we want and what we think it’s right and nobody shouldn’t criticize us about that. We say what feels right to say because we have that chance to say it and you know why , because it’s 21 sentry , it’s all democracy so we can say what we want, what we feel, what we think. Nobody should or could tell us what to to or what to say BITCHES
I meant “to do” not “to to” (I get very emotional in these stuff)you see what you guys did to me
saintfighteraqua on April 10, 2016 at 1:49 pm said:
And here’s one now…
Don’t get offended when you try to be offensive.
It’s reflects poorly on you.
Gery on April 10, 2016 at 3:33 pm said:
Did I ask for your opinion, no, so SHUSH
Actually you did when you butted into a conversation to prove you were exactly the kind we were talking about.
And as Aurelia said, democracy is NOT the same thing as anarchy and if you can’t act civil, expect people to call you out for it.
Aurelia on April 10, 2016 at 5:07 pm said:
“because it’s 21 sentry , it’s all democracy so we can say what we want, what we feel, what we think.”
Ah, that fallacious argument again. Democracy doesn’t justify, doesn’t mean the verbal and gratuitous violence you manifest in every of your comments. Democracy doesn’t mean anarchy, actually.
Besides, this fallacious argument that you are applying to yourself, can also be applied to us (saintfighteraqua, Viridian and I, etc.), because it is very impersonal and interchangeable : “We are not haters we just express our opinion we say what we want and what we think it’s right and nobody shouldn’t criticize us about that.”
I’m wasting my time with you and I know it, whoever you are. Before I put an end to this comment, I will learn you something : “direct democracies” can only exist at local scales (city-states as seen in ancient Greece for example). Countries like USA, France, etc., are… representative democracies. As an eligible citizen, you vote on representatives to pass laws for you. But once these representatives are elected, they can do what they want because they are almighty, and say “fuck” to the promises they made to the people who voted for them. In other words, yourself have surely already voted for corrupted politicians who betrayed the hopes you had put into them .
Great, isn’t it ? Ah, democracy…
As a gentle bitch, allow me to blow you a kiss .
PS. None of us ever offended you first, while your only comments on this website are made of “bitches”, “fuck you”, etc., without any reason. So think of your behavior, my friend… If someday you try to prove us you are able to communicate without any verbal violence, then maybe we’ll change our minds about you and begin to be kind to you.
PS. 2. You didn’t ask for our opinions ? Then think we didn’t ask yours in return. Let me quote your words : “”because it’s 21 sentry , it’s all democracy so we can say what we want, what we feel, what we think. Nobody should or could tell us what to to or what to say BITCHES.” Ah, still those interchangeable, fallacious arguments… so please Gery, don’t tell us what we should think or say about you, and don’t even try to forbid us to do it .
Keep it coming. We are very good at ‘rebuttals’ ROFL
And I really love it ^^ , even if I know that using of rebuttals is a waste a time with these kind of guys.
“You know like the one she used to kill Queen Beryl. Oh that’s right…”
Anybody who didn’t get that joke: READ THE D@MN COMIC BOOKS ALREADY.
Yes, we know that in the manga Venus kills Queen Thirsty with the Holy Sword but mind you of the audience watching it and you’re not about to watch a bitch get stabbed with blood everywhere.
I too wish Venus would have killed Queen Beryl.
Luke Yannuzzi on April 10, 2016 at 12:54 am said:
Let me get this straight. Is Rei still nice to Usagi in this episode?
Adam? I noticed you do not have comments in here.
Specifically? Not really interested in getting into the Flame Wars! I’d appreciate if everyone be respectful but I’m usually not going to go around deleting comments unless they’re overly offensive (threats…) or spam.
There he is!! GET HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Adam on April 11, 2016 at 2:00 pm said:
Viridian on April 11, 2016 at 4:05 pm said:
as you like boss
Luke Yannuzzi on August 26, 2016 at 10:56 am said:
When Rei said to Usagi that she thought she’d be the last here anyway, is she a total jerk to her again as she was in the classic anime of the ’90s?
Luke Yannuzzi on January 19, 2017 at 1:20 pm said:
What the fuck is wrong with Rei Hino?! She’s not supposed to be bullying Usagi! :'(
Luke Yannuzzi on February 19, 2017 at 2:50 pm said:
I’m serious, Rei! Stop saying hurtful things to Usagi like The Academy of Geniuses! She has every connection with it! So stop being mean!
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Sirius XM Makes Biggest Mistake of the New Year
January 5, 2009 (4:49 pm) By Charles LaRocca
Those who were excited about Bubba The Love Sponge returning to Sirius XM for his new two year deal, tuned in today only to be unbelievably disappointed. No longer will the LOYAL fans be able to hear Bubba's raw and uncut radio show on Howard 101, instead, the once great show has been replaced by a replay of his watered down morning drive terrestrial radio broadcast.
After months of wondering, fans were finally assured that The Bubba The Love Sponge show would be returning to the Sirius XM airwaves January 5th by the likes of Scott Greenstien, Howard Stern, and Bubba himself. Why would not one of them mention something as important as the terms of this new deal? Looks like the joke is on us.
Why Sirius XM thinks that this is OK and that their subscribers will pay for non exclusive content that they can just as easily get for free is totally beyond me… let the call center storm begin. As a matter of fact, lets digg it, and make sure that the world knows that Sirius XM is now just replaying terrestrial radio.
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28 Responses to “Sirius XM Makes Biggest Mistake of the New Year”
Lets give it a week–Is he on vacation? A repeat perhaps? Maybe a feed problem? Im sure we will find out the story shortly but lets not jump to conclusions this fast(Im not a huge listener of Bubba but that would be a rather stupid move on Sirius part–You might as let him go then)
SyNiSt3r says:
SiriusXm call center is about to explode if this is true. There is no way people are going to pay
for filtered content. Not going to happen.
He might still be on break or something as gary has said. I dont know. What i do know is siriusXm screwing with the music channels made alot of people mad, Now this??
Can they afford to keep doing stupid things like this?
Give it a week? Its a replay of the morning show complete with bleep censors. Tune in and listen for yourself.
coolbreeze says:
A broken bleep inhibitor perhaps…? 😉
I agree with Gary on waiting for some sort of official announcement before shouting “Fire!”
siri5200 says:
hes been doing the same thing for a while now that i know of he does his morning for reg radio then does his sirius show which is a complete difference, he must be on vacation.. because a while ago he was talking about having to do 2 shows in a day because someone called in talking about the situation..
This is quite possible a replay as they have things to do.
I feel cheated and abused at this point, feel Bubba has/had a better program than Howard have been a fan since he came to Philly.
The wife has also told me to calm down as well.
Still, this article is not a corporate release, but a guys opinion.
Tuesday or Friday will tell the tale.
Sworntwofun says:
Bubba does have a good show…. but lets not get carried away and compare him to Howard Stern The KING of ALL media… Howards Celebrity Interviews alone are some of the greatest EVER 2nd to none….Nobody interviews anybody better and thats fact…
This is not opinion, this is a fact. There will be a live uncensored show on Friday and totally watered down terrestrial radio the rest of the week.
Demonotaku says:
Most Likely their updating his Sirius Studios
He doesn’t work from the Sirius Studios, he has his own studio.
where’s your source?
did they mention it on the show?
how do you know this?
once does not make a rule….
I have a very credible and reliable source.
charles knows brent he was on the radio show,this sucks if true
is this because off so many crybabies called cancelation bluff so they gave us bubba cooked not raw
Threader says:
Never cared much for Bubbba mostly Howard for me. If this is true and there was a cost savings associated with this without too much revenue loss to offset the programming savings then I’m all for it.
You’re “all for” censoring Howard Sterns channel? Is that why you pay a premium for this service? You don’t think this is a horrible precedent?
Why buy the cow when you can get the watered down milk for less.
Plus, Bubba manipulated a bunch of listeners to complain, so he can get paid by Sirius and work WAY fewer hours. Will Brent update you on the financials of the deal? Probably NOT. Well played, well played indeed!
Besides Tampa is their only market with top ratings.
Don’t let your love for the show cloud your vision, especially since you don’t know the price tag.
He is actually expanding into more terrestrial markets… as of today. So, he must be doing something right.
This has nothing to do with my love for the show. They are setting a horrible precedent and have made a very poor business decision for the company.
If they paid $1 that was $1 to much IMO. If these were the terms, I would have left them at the table. I would rather not have this censored regurgitated terrestrial replay on Sirius XM at all. Dump the show all together.
Demian says:
Do you really think that this is Sirius’ biggest mistake of the year?
Really? 5 days in and you can think of a bigger mistake? They are playing censored non unique content on a service that people pay for. You think that is good for business? You think this is going to be good PR? Give the call center a call and talk to them about how many calls they are getting. I did and they are going out of their way to lie and soften the blow.
PCSTEL says:
Hey, Don’t worry. Bubba can always go to the competition. If Sirius doesn’t want to play ball, then he can always go to XM and take his subscribers with him…. Oh! Yeah! I forgot. There is no longer XM or a suitable competitor for Sirius XM, because there is only ONE SDARS service. The merger that everyone here opined for, and received, closed that option.
But that can’t be right.. After all.. Everyone pointed out the countless options to SDARS.
IPOD’s,
Internet Radio,
Terrestrial Radio,
HD Radio.
Maybe you guys can get Bubba uncensored Live in your car everyday on your IPOD, or Terrestrial Radio, or Internet Radio??? But, then again.. Maybe not. Oh! Well… Too Bad!!!
Well, this merger thing is certainly working out to be a great thing for the public interests. Remember what they promised you.. Greater choices, and Lower Costs. Hope everyone that opined in favor of the merger is happy… Because, you got exactly what you deserve.
And so it goes,
PCSTEL
Oops, I was thinking in the terms of the last year – not in the last 5 days of this new year……..my bad.
Bubba_Screwed says:
Look at the bright side…If Bubba did in fact screw his listeners like this, He only has 2 years left in the Radio Business, cause this will never be forgotten.
Qsela says:
I was just ranting and raving today about rap channel 40 being censored. Just thinking about it now digusts me.
If this new info is true, and they are trying to serve us more censored garbage..well I don’t know what to say.
I am an invester also, but I was a listener first…I have come to terms with my money invested in this company, if the pps goes up, great. But if they take away the uncensored, unapologetic, real, raw, music and talk that I originally subscribed for…then I will be crushed.
The first censored song I heard on channel 40 brought a feeling of embarassment over me. Embarassment for recommending this “awesome experience” to so many people. If this is true..then what do we have left?
There is no such thing as a little censorship in my opinion.
I am not a fan, and really don’t care. Maybe, he was just asking way to much for his raw feed. With the situation at Sirius Xm (fianancials) it really would be totally iresponsible of Mel to sign him for tons of money. However, at this point, you have to wonder if airing his “cooked” show benefits Sirius Xm at all. ( I doubt it!)
4rilla says:
“No More Bullshit” my ass!!
Bubba, Stern, Greenstein and Sabien screwed over loyal listeners royally on this on. SIRI did not disclose terms because they knew that people would cancel in mass right before year end and screw with their numbers.
I have been listening to Stern for over 15 years and the fact that he did not disclose this first thing this morning totally reeks. I could not believe my ears when I heard this BS this afternoon.
I spend 40 hours a week commuting and I am pretty close to canceling due to this screw job!
beeeeeep!!!!!!!!!!!! says:
Why do I want to pay for something I can here on the radio. His show is just an average show that I can hear in my own state. It is stupied to pay for that garbge!!!!!!!!!!!!
ya it sucks that everynow and then it might be a watered down show or w/e, we all paid for uncensored material, but i dont see a lot of canceled subs over bubba if for some stupid reason there is. ya this sucks but sat radio even with a censored show has a lot of programming for 12.99 in my opinion it should be a lot higher for the quality programming besides the censoring bubba (becuase hes so damn good right) <<sarcasm..
I cancelled my subscription today. I tried to make it through 3 of the newly formatted shows and just could not do it. The fact that he now takes a commercial break every 15 minutes and that the show is done as a morning show makes me cringe. The news stories are dated by the time we hear them and it just sounds like a bunch of dudes sitting in church bullshitting. I’m out when it comes to satellite radio and I will never be back. Fuck this place it’s bullshit I’m outta hear is the story of my satellite radio days……
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Mad Men, "The Fog": Waiting for my real life to begin
Spoilers for "Mad Men" season 3, episode 5, "The Fog," coming up just as soon as I steal a credenza...
"You have everything... and so much of it." -Peggy
I've been getting a sense from some critics and "Mad Men" fans that, while they've enjoyed season three in isolated moments, the lack of a major story arc akin to Duck vs. Don, or a secret to be revealed (Dick Whitman, Peggy's baby) has made this season feel oddly lacking compared to the first two.
I don't agree, but I at least understand where those complaints are coming from. And now that we've seen "The Fog" - an episode that had almost everything people have been asking for, and so much of it - it almost feels like the first four episodes were just an extended prologue, and the story of season three genuinely begins here.
In the space of an hour, we get the return of Duck and his attempt to woo Pete and/or Peggy away to a rival agency; more overt signals that Don is attracted to Sally's teacher (and, especially, vice versa); the conflict between Don and Lane Pryce coming to the forefront (and complicating the Peggy situation); and, of course, the birth of baby Eugene Scott Draper, whose arrival takes over the middle portion of the episode, in the same way he's about to take over Betty's life.
And with the birth of the new Gene (so soon after the death of the old one), the episode is as important for what doesn't happen as what does. Since the season began - really, since the final scene of season two - we've seen that Don and Betty are each making more of an effort at closeness in their marriage. Don's doing it because he realized in California he wanted to stop being a bystander in his own life. Betty, on the other hand, has been doing it for this baby. She doesn't want to be a single mother to an infant, and it's become increasingly clear over the past few episodes that Betty has convinced herself, as many expecting parents in problematic marriages do, that the kid is going to fix everything. But when she's under the influence of the anesthetic, she's able to articulate her true fears about Don: "He's never where you expect him to be!" And in director Phil Abraham's beautiful final shot of the episode, we see her stand in shadow in her bedroom, shoulders slumped, bracing herself to deal with a crying infant, and she realizes that nothing is better. (And with her father dead and Carla gone to be with her own family for a while, things will probably get worse; Gene may have been losing his marbles, but at least he was available to drive the kids to school when needed.)
Things will get particularly bad if Don acts on whatever is going on between himself and Sally's teacher, Suzanne Farrell. When Don stroked the grass while watching Miss Farrell dance barefoot on it at the end of "Love Among the Ruins," some of you speculated that he was attracted to her and trying to connect in the only way he could. I assumed that Don is too intensely private and compartmentalized to relieve himself where he eats, so to speak. But it's clear during their meeting at Sally's school (with Don managing to look anything but childlike while seated at a kid's desk), and especially during their phone conversation, that they have the same kind of connection Don had with Midge, and Rachel, and even Bobbi. Her proximity to his home life aside, Miss Farrell ticks all the boxes for Don - smart, independent and ahead of her time (she believes in a different, more nurturing model of childcare than what Don and Betty are familiar with) - and they both know what it's like to lose a parent (or in Don's case, two parents) at a very young age. And it's even clearer during that call that Miss Farrell wants to, and likely will, have a more private, clothing-optional parent-teacher conference with Don. What is it that Chekhov wrote? I think it went something like, "If you put a drunk woman with a half-buttoned blouse and a dangling bra strap on screen in episode five, she's going to have sex with Don Draper by episode nine." Right?
Because of the long birth sequence and the visit to Miss Farrell's classroom, we spend little time at Sterling Cooper this week, but Kater Gordon's script makes every second there count.
We knew from the MSG incident in "Love Among the Ruins" that Don and the Brits don't exactly see eye-to-eye, but the conflict becomes starker with Pryce's expense account witch hunt. Their refusal to do the MSG deal was absolutely penny-wise and pound foolish, and Pryce's "Pennies make pounds!" rant just confirms that they have no eye on the long-term, and that this will continue to cause problems between the two.
Yet this isn't a straight rehash of Don vs. Duck. For one thing, Don has become much more important at Sterling Cooper than ever before - work essentially stops while he's at the hospital, because too many decisions now require his approval - and Lane can only afford to fight the firm's star so much. For another, we see later in the episode that Lane (who, despite his background in finance, doesn't seem to resent Don's position in the same manner as Duck) isn't completely reactionary and inflexible, as he's willing to consider Pete's ideas about marketing across racial lines. As written, and as played by Jared Harris, Pryce still remains an enigma. While he could certainly turn out to be the Richie Aprile of this season, I hope Matt Weiner has something more complex - and, yes, long-term - in mind for the character.
But the tension over expenses in turn puts Don in a bad spot when Peggy comes to him to ask for a raise. (This is the second time this season where Peggy has unwittingly tried to get something from Don while his thoughts are occupied with a conflict with Pryce.) We know, of course, that everything Peggy says about equal pay for equal work is right - even as it's sadly amusing to hear her describe the concept as such a novelty - just as we know that Don doesn't have the juice right now to fight this battle for her. And what makes this scene - one of the best Jon Hamm and Elisabeth Moss have ever played together - sing is how well we understand each position, even as the characters are only somewhat aware of what the other is dealing with.
But the scene becomes more than just two characters talking past each other when Don catches Peggy's gaze lingering on the baby booties. Just as Peggy has seen the face of Dick Whitman, Don has seen Peggy suffering from post-partum delusions. These two know each other so well, and care about each other so much, that it hurts to see them at cross purposes like this. Though she doesn't intend to, Peggy cuts Don to his core when she points out how much she envies him - Don can't stand to hear that this life he finds empty seems so bountiful when viewed from the perspective of somebody who isn't really Dick Whitman - and Don in turn lets her down when he fails to make even a token attempt to get her more money.
And outside Don's office, Peggy comes face-to-face with Pete, another man she's wounded deeply, even if she doesn't understand how much she hurt him - or, for that matter, that Pete is capable of being so hurt. Though he's as petulant and childish with Peggy as he was with Duck when he stormed out of the recruiting lunch, when he says "Your decisions affect me," it speaks volumes. Now we understand why Pete and Peggy haven't had any significant one-on-one interaction this season, why Pete was so unhappy in the premiere to get so many accounts that Peggy works on, why he's so often working with Paul, and, for that matter, why he and Trudy suddenly seem like such a functional unit. Peggy had Pete's baby and gave it away, all without telling him, and while he likely wouldn't have been much help if she had told him, he feels betrayed. He wants no part of Peggy, which has driven him away from her at work and driven him towards Trudy at home.
I certainly can't imagine Pete going to work for Duck if Peggy's part of the deal, but given that meeting with Don, would Peggy go on her own? Knowing Duck, he's selling Peggy (and Pete) a bill of goods in order to hurt Don and Sterling Cooper (though if he had to poach two SC employees, these would be the right two). Should Peggy go to Grey, things likely wouldn't turn out to be any more enlightened than the frat house she'd be leaving. But it feels like she needs to leave the nest at some point, doesn't it?
Because most TV shows try to maintain the status quo at all costs, I could see some resistance to having Peggy or Pete jump ship to a rival firm. But if this season, and this series, are about showing how much things changed (and how much other things didn't) during the 60s, then does it really make sense to have all the same characters working at the same place for however much of the decade we cover? Isn't it only logical that someone like Peggy would try to branch out? Or that Ken would hop from agency to agency?
For that matter, wouldn't Don sooner or later get fed up with working under the authority of men who don't share his values and vision and consider opening his own shop? I don't know that you can plausibly bring everybody on board in that scenario, and I would hate to have to say goodbye to, say, Roger Sterling as a regular character. But Duck's attempt to sow discord at Sterling Cooper is just a reminder of how unlikely it is that all these characters will continue to work together for however long a period "Mad Men" ends up covering.
Because Weiner isn't generally in any kind of hurry to tell his stories, we'll get a few episodes a season where the plot is put aside for a long interlude, like the election party in "Nixon Vs. Kennedy," or Betty playing house with Glen Bishop in "The Inheritance," or the lengthy hospital sequence here. If "Mad Men" had been more plot-driven once upon a time, passages like these might feel self-indulgent, but from the start, the show has been as much about taking a snapshot of the era as it is about showing us the adventures of Don Draper, mad man.
The birth of the new Gene is important to the larger story of Don and Betty's marriage, but it's also a window into a very different time from the one we know. When my daughter was born, there wasn't even a question that I'd be in the delivery room to provide moral support (and snap a ton of photos once the baby came out). Don, on the other hand, is told "Your job's done" as soon as he drives Betty to the hospital, and he spends the entire birth getting drunk in the waiting room with prison guard Dennis Hobart, while Betty is left alone with a cheerfully condescending nurse who has no patience for the overgrown child in her delivery room. As Don was told by a nurse during Sally's birth, "Your wife's on a boat. You're on the shore."
Abraham's direction and January Jones' performance do a great job of capturing the fog of the title (which I initially assumed was referring to another trip to the London Fog plant in Baltimore). Cut off from her husband, under the influence of anesthesia, failing to get the sympathy of her own Nurse Ratched (or even to get a return call from her regular OB/GYN) as she experiences labor pains, Betty feels lost in a fog, disconnected from her body, and her life. Even after the baby comes, she's still mostly alone, forced to wave to the kids from the distance of her second-story hospital room window. And in the dream she has under the anesthesia's influence, she sees her late father, and her mother (comforting civil rights activist Medgar Evers, who was murdered on June 12, the day after Grandpa Gene died in the "Mad Men" universe) and is again infantilized by them both. Gene tells her she's a housecat with little to do, while her mother points to Evers and warns Betty, "You see what happens to people who speak up? Be happy with what you have."
But Betty's not happy with what she has, and despite his best efforts, Don isn't, either. Jon Hamm is so terrific at showing how anxious, and ambivalent, Don is about all of this. As Dennis talks and talks about what he's going to do with his own child, you can see Don thinking of all the ways in which he's let his own kids (and his wife) down, and yet he's also still not sure this is the life he wants, no matter how much he tries to dedicate himself to it. He's noticeably uncomfortable when Dennis insists on telling him how little baby Hobart is going to change his life - "This is a fresh start. I don't know who's up there. I'm going to be better. I'm going to be a better man." - because Don know how often he's made those promises to himself, and how hard they are to live up to.
In many ways, "The Fog" is a fresh start to this third season. Until now, the characters have all been in a holding pattern. Betty's been hoping the baby's arrival will make everything better. Peggy has been working hard and assuming her effort and talent will allow her to keep rising. Pete's been avoiding the woman who gave away his son. Don and Lane have been trying to avoid locking horns. But by the end of this great episode, they all know none of that's possible. The baby can't fix the Draper marriage on his own, Peggy still has a glass ceiling to break through, Don's going to keep chafing under Lane's authority, etc., etc.
And now that everyone has had their own emotional fog lifted and can see clearly the position they're in, what are they going to do about it?
Some other thoughts on "The Fog":
• Pete proves himself worthy of Duck's interest with his attempt to convince the Admiral execs to market their TVs to the black community. It's easy to see why Hollis might take Pete for a bigot - he's snooty and class-conscious, and in the season one episode where he and Peggy had a morning quickie in his office, he acts annoyed when Hollis lets a black custodian board the elevator - but we also know that for all his faults, Pete is the most forward-thinking guy at Sterling Cooper. If there's money to be made by marketing to a new demographic, Pete has no problem trying to make that money. But it's interesting to see that even after Hollis drops his guard, he's still not all that interested in who made his TV or why he bought it. With Evers' murder so fresh in everyone's memory, it's not surprising Hollis might find it frivolous to think about "The Beverly Hillbillies." Pete's dream of a homogeneous, integrated America where blacks and whites can have the same lifestyle, and the same aspirations, isn't necessarily Hollis' dream. On the other hand, Pete's right that Hollis watches baseball; when Marilyn Monroe died last season, Hollis was the one to note, "I keep thinking about Joe DiMaggio."
• Don's midnight snack with Sally was another suggestion that Don and Miss Farrell will hook up (Sally: "That's what Miss Farrell said." Don: "Then I guess it must be true."), but it also showed what a good dad Don can be when he's both present and not busy trying to be supportive of Betty when she's having one of her moods.
• Is it unfair to Yeardley Smith (who played the nurse who kept updating Dennis) that she's the one "Simpsons" voice cast member who I can't see in another role without automatically envisioning her Springfield alter ego?
• The camera lingers on Betty's feet during her anesthetic fantasy. If Matt Weiner hadn't said in our interview that the image of Don's bare feet is "the story of the season, in a way" (suggesting the pained man underneath the impeccable suit), I might start wondering if he had hired Quentin Tarantino as his new director of photography.
• It's nice to have Mark Moses back as Duck, and I made sure to take note that Duck was having coffee while Peggy pondered her Bloody Mary. Also, Grey is still in business today. Judging by Pete's comment - "Two months at Grey and you're already having a nosh?" - Grey was a lot more friendly to Jews back in the day than Sterling Cooper.
• Dennis, like the car salesman last year, has no idea how to read Don. The salesman assumes Don is comfortable in his own skin, while Dennis, the alleged expert on criminals, stares at the identity thief in front of him and declares him to be an honest guy.
• Miss Farrell is played by Abigail Spencer, and it's been bugging me where I knew her from ever since she appeared in "Love Among the Ruins." Turns out I know her from a bunch of shows (including a Lifetime drama where she was the lead), but was thinking of her both as the Carrie Bradshaw stand-in from the "D-Bag in the City" episode of "My Boys," and as Ted's girlfriend Blah-Blah on "How I Met Your Mother."
Comments continue to mushroom, and again, I commend most of you for being both damn insightful and damn respectful of each other, but for the small few who need a reminder, here are the commenting rules. Read them. Know them. Then discuss "Mad Men." That is all.
I thought Pete's scene with Hollis was an echo of the opening scene from the pilot. As with everything else,Don was a lot smoother about it than Pete.
I couldn't understand the look that Dennis Hobart (when he was pushing his wife in a wheelchair) gave to Don - it looked like he was disgusted with him. Did I miss something or was he just embarrassed to have shared feelings with another man?
Whether or not this becomes an issue in upcoming episodes, but here's the Wikipedia note about scopolamine, the drug used to put Betty into her twilight sleep: "Scopolamine was used from the 1940s to the 1960s to put mothers in labor into a kind of "twilight sleep" that did not stop pain, but merely eliminated the memory of pain by attacking the brain functions responsible for self-awareness and self-control. Often, this caused a kind of psychosis, followed by post-traumatic stress-like memories in thousands of new mothers." - my own mother had LSD-like flashbacks after being administered scopolamine during childbirth.
Damn, Alan, this was one of your best reviews yet. You analyzed everything!
This is weird, but I'm glad to see Duck is doing okay and appears to be on the wagon. I realize he's a fictional character, but this show makes you care about them that way.
Peggy seems most likely to leave S-C, but could change if she eventually gets her way. Pete seems so desperate for the old guard's approval that he'd stick around the second they indicated they wanted him.
Don is going to get with the teacher, and frankly, she might make a better mother to Sally. Unless this is just par for him having another epiphany.
Poor, poor Gene 2.0. Or Gene #2 2.0. This is confusing.
This season is definitely clicking into gear.
Boudica said...
I got the impression from the scene with Dennis and his wife that their baby had died. Since he was wheeling his wife without the baby in her arms.
I was also confused by Dennis' look in the hallway. My first thought was that something happened to Betty or the baby, Dennis knew and felt bad for Don but didn't want to break the news. But Linda's idea makes sense. Two guys got drunk and exchanged personal feelings and now Dennis feels ashamed while Don thinks nothing of it.
Cassandra Marcella said...
I loved that they used the soundtrack from the movie Sex and Lucia for Betty's dream sequences. If you've not seen it, it's a movie about a writer, for writers. Plays with narrative but not in an annoying, I-can't-follow-this, post-modern way. Beautifully lyrical, but I love that it's used here. Pitch perfect.
I also wondered how much of Betty's hesitation to go into the baby's room in that last scene had to do with the fact that just a couple of weeks ago it had indeed been "Grandpa Gene's room."
Laura R. said...
Maybe it's just me, but I felt like this episode - though chockablock with interesting developments - was considerably less cohesive than any of the others this season. I'm not sure if the issue lay with the writing or the editing (I'm guessing the former) but something just felt...off.
One thing that really bothered me was the opening scene in the classroom. I'm not a fan of the actress cast as the teacher (I vaguely recall not liking her in HIMYM either, but I'll chalk that up to the character she was playing); her line delivery felt kind of choppy. And what was with the random jump-cut to Sally wiping blood on her face? That seemed like it came from an entirely different show.
That said, the too-brief scenes with Don and Sally in the kitchen, as well as Don's conference with Peggy, more than compensated for the rest of what I perceived to be a messy episode. I'm not really able to articulate the other problems I saw tonight (plus I want to read everyone else's thoughts), but I hope I'm not the only one who wasn't thrilled.
Nice Colin Hay reference in the title! And the teacher is BlahBlah? Wow!
Linda - I wondered if something had gone wrong with the other couple's baby, because of the breached birth...
Alan, I'm not sure how forward-thinking Pete is. Pete's not necessarily unbigoted or progressive; he just thinks that when there's money to be made, it doesn't matter from whom it comes. He might be getting a little more polish in his comments about the blacks and Jews, but hes still making them, and he's still completely unpolished. I thought a really significant moment was how surprised both Bert and Roger were at the thought that something is happening in the country, race-related...
Also, "get your nails dirty with Bert Cooper and Harry Crane" -- Harry's importance has increased exponentially this season, yet he's not really doing anything on-par with his increased importance yet.
Suzanne Farrell. Ha! The young, beautiful, brunette, early '60s elementary school teacher who dances is named Suzanne Farrell! Will we see her moonlighting at NYC Ballet? Interestingly, like Don Draper, the real Suzanne Farrell originally had a much more down-home name: Roberta Sue Ficker.
I loved Hollis' pun, "Every job has its ups and downs."
ZackHandlen said...
I thought it was remarkable, strongest episode of the season so far. I love how deeply disturbed Betty is--she's essentially a high functioning child who keeps stumbling towards self-awareness, only to be thrown backwards by the people and systems she relies on to keep her safe.
I found it interesting how Don resisted Eugene as a name; happy to see that Betty got her way in the end, even if the kid is probably going to wreck her life for a while. (I can't think of another show on TV that has so much dread in its silences; there's been hardly any real violence or horror on the show to speak of, and yet it always feels like doom could break at any moment.)
Oh, and in regards to Don's crush on the teacher--she's emotionally unbalanced, and I see bad times ahead if he's foolish enough to get involved with her.
Alan, I'm not sure how forward-thinking Pete is.
He understood the appeal of JFK to young voters when everyone else at Sterling Cooper didn't think Kennedy had a chance. Though he's not OF the youth culture of the '60s, Pete has generally seemed more willing to acknowledge it than a lot of the people he works with.
Weiner likes to say that, whatever Pete's faults are as a person, at work he's almost always right in his opinions.
Also confused about the look the other father gave Don. But their baby not having a good outcome seems plausible to me. Sad. That guy liked his wife and baby.
Poor Gene, Sally will always hate him for trying to replace her grandfather.
Sally and Don were really cute.
But gah Sally's teacher. I don't expect Don to keep it all zipped up. I would have expected him to keep it in the city, but Sally's teacher going after a man who has a heavily pregnant grieving wife? Ouch.
Peggy, take the job with Duck. You'll never get equal pay at SC (not that in a different time Don wouldn't be ameanable to it) but seriously, if Duck's offering equal pay, take the job..
And Pete, typically awkward but he's trying.... I like that.
"Every job has its ups and downs," says the elevator operator. Oh, Kater. Well, I guess wouldn't be able to pass on that cheap joke either.
Maybe you guys right about the Hobart baby. That exchange, or lack thereof, between the two men confused me.
I thought Hobart's fresh start speech in the waiting room was a tad heavy handed.
When Betty paused in the baby's nursery, shadows were cast on her back providing the effect of stripes - made me wonder who were the prisoners and who were the guards in this episode? Betty's locked in with the baby, Peggy may or may not be locked in with Sterling Cooper, Don's always looking for an escape, Pete's locked into his position and his sense of loss of control related to Peggy's adoption decision . . . and on and on. Prisoners/guards, Blacks/Whites, jailer/criminal, employers/employees, advertisers/clients all locked into their dynamics.
I think naming the hot dancing teacher Suzanne Farrell is a little ham-fisted, and I feel a little the same way about the dream with Medgar Evers (although it *looked* great - I just generally feel that way about dream sequences) but Pete and the Peggy/Don conversation made up for it. And Yeardley Smith and any _Sex and Lucia_ music, too.
Ofc. Hobart is a hard man, professionally, and he was afraid that Don would reveal anything about his weaknesses.
Thinking about Duck. So glad to see him, because he doesn't ever pretend that changes are easy or safe. I missed him so, and will never forgive him about Chester, but still, he's welcome.
I think Duck correctly assesses that the horserace has been won, by Cosgrove and Kinsey, and now it's time to pick up talent cheap. The only thing that could happen would be for Peggy to go alone -- despite his ongoing humiliations, Pete will never leave Sterling Coo as long as Cooper's alive. He needs that connection to Bert's social status, now that his family's is hollowed out.
No comment about the Admiral mishegas. Who's to say Admiral isn't right, considering the damage TV dealers will face during the season of riots? Offering opportunities to purchase goods to an oppressed people is no substitute for them winning their full civil rights. That confusion in our culture's led to a lot of damage -- it's also why in Betty's dream she's surrounded by nice homes, nice things, but still feels superfluous as a housecat.
The only drawback with Peggy leaving is that she's done no homework. What other women work at Gray, and what equality do they actually have?
Thank you Alan for your review (as always). Maybe I'm the only person who had this feeling, but I thought that something was going to go wrong during Betty's delivery and that she would not make it through. Did anyone else get that feeling?
SuzMiCo said...
I loved that this episode finally brought the internal politics at SC into stark relief.
A couple of nice touches that I noticed:
- I loved that when Don was talking to Dennis about Dennis' fears, he repeated the Balzac quote that Sal had used with the London Fog people in the premier about our greatest fears lying in anticipation. Given Don's history, it was an utter lie, but I'm sure that it was the most comforting thing Don could think of. Don knows as well as anyone about a father's inability to love his child due to the circumstances of his birth.
- Suzanne Farrell is also the name of a prima ballerina I used to idolize when I was a little girl with two left feet.
So, scopolamine's like rohypnol, affecting conscious memory but leaving the memory of trauma resident in the subconscious?
And in the maternity ward, just before commercial? The screams were freaking me out.
hipo said...
Great episode and great review, both had everything. What I love about this show is that it doesn't give you everything you want when you want it, but then in one episode it will give you way more than you expect.
Though short, the scenes between Pete and Peggy and Don and Peggy were fantastic. Best line of the episode was Pete's, "Your decisions affect me." This has been a great season for Vincent. Pete has become one of the few characters that seems to have a grip on reality. The problem with Pete is he assumes that everyone else does too. That is what will keep him from really succeeding.
@ Carmella - That's interesting, because I remember Sex y Lucia as being rife with daddy issues, and those were sort of overbearing here. It's interesting that Betty would use her child's name to drive a wedge between herself and her husband; the schoolteacher, having lost her father at a young age, would have an additional draw towards Daddy Don.
I haven't cared so much about plot arcs as thematic ones, and have been having trouble figuring out what all the Brit stuff's about this year in a larger societal picture. If the first season was Don's and was about post-war male existential dissatisfaction and season two belonged to the women and explored their self-awareness of their roles, this season is...? It feels like a sort of aimless batch of plot extensions. Thematically there's been an emphasis on generational shift, and a sense of slipping control... but the reason for the Brits' presence eludes me.
gma said...
Sally's teacher's name is Suzanne Farrell? Suzanne Farrell is a former NY City Ballet principal dancer, who choreographer George Balanchine "worshiped" ... is this a coincidence?
The part where Don brings Sally and Bobby to the hospital where they get to see Betty and the baby stand by the window -- I remember doing that for my grandfather and aunt when they were in the hospital - another period detail done so well.
Great review, Alan, especially about Don and a "fresh start." Anyone wonder if they will call the baby "Scott" and not Gene? (Eugene Scott Draper) The final shots of Pete, so small against the door to Cooper's office, and the poignancy of Betty - not Don - waking up to the crying baby - great film making.
Loretta said...
Agree with georgekaplan on the Suzanne Farrell thing. Her career with New York City Ballet began taking off in 1963 and, from what I understand, she was actually a topic of conversation in the 1960s--a name many New Yorkers would have known by the end of the decade.
But I suppose whoever named her probably figured that America's memory was short, and most people watching Mad Men wouldn't get the reference. To be honest, very few people probably did.
As for the Hobarts' baby, didn't the nurse say it was already in the nursery? If the wife was so weakened by blood loss that she needed a transfusion, she wouldn't be strong enough to hold the baby right away.
I'm not going to assume anything a dead baby, because that would be too fricking sad.
I finally saw Revolutionary Road this weekend. Betty's delivery made for a poignant bookend to that sad tale, though of course she'll suffer all the miseries that April couldn't bear to face.
I know that this show is a drama, and there are moments of humor ('cos every job has its ups and downs) but a friend of mine has stopped watching because it's too depressing to watch this many lives in misery, every week.
How did you know it was Medgar Evers?
Tesswpfd17 said...
Quick note... Did Sterling Cooper lose the Lucky Strike account? The cigarettes bought in the Hospital were L&M's. That style of cigarette machine sells many differnet brands and varations of them were used into the 90's at least they were here in NY.
Disgust was rife in this episode. Yes we have the opening of the Guard to Don. We have the completely selfcentered disgust of Pete to Peggy.(Kodos to her for putting him in his place I believe the line was do you want to follow me in there too or something to that effect) The disgust of the Admiral TV people towards Pete's headlong tilt at intergration of the ads. (You would have thought to fall back and punt with regard to ok double the ads or artwork with different inks for skin tone). The Disgust of the partners at Pete although I do believe Don would have made the statement or said something to the effect of what Pryce said. Pete was deffinately disgusted at Duck I mean there is no good way for him to know that Pete has at least in Pete's mind has been kicked in the teeth. If it was a one on one meeting after the Admiral fiasco Pete is gone in my opinion.
OK secretly was I the only one that hope that Yeardley Smith would say "Don't have a cow man" ( ok ok bad joke)
Hollis by the way is a black neighborhood in Queens NY.(actually it is where Run DMC is from)
Also the prisoners at Sing Sing wear not stripes but gray clothes the goes back to the War Between the States (1861-1865) The vicotrs being the union army and the defeated being The Confederacy. At least that is what an old retired guard told me when I lived in Briarcliff Manor NY(next town over from Ossining were amusingly enough I spent the weekend because of a class reunion)
I'd really like to hear any opinions people have on the "show down" between Pete and Ken. Just a few episodes ago Ken was very calm and interested, now he's getting cocky and flashy. Does anyone think they know Pete's most likely better, but are seeing if indeed Ken will succumb to the flash as they think he might? I mean, it does seem that Pete has the harder set of accounts and yes, he is babyish about it, but I think he's very astute and can ultimately handle them. A character like Cosgrove would not handle them well and can only do well when given the full blossom clients. Anyone think this is true? If so, why? I'm just curious to get people's thoughts on this without berating either character.
I noted so many references to time, beginning with one of the chipmunks wearing a watch (from a client?), the question "What time is it?"...answer: "What time isn't it?" The prison guard also mentions not being able to wear a gold watch, Duck telling Peggy, "This is your time." Peggy saying to Don, "What if this is my time?" Betty saying to Don, indicating she needs to go to the hospital, "It's time." There were more I was aware of as I was watching, but I'd have to rewatch the episode to recall everything. It seemed like deliberate symbolism on Weiner's part. Was anyone else struck by this?
OH, and in the wheelchair, Mrs. Hobart is smiling and calm. 'nuff said.
Jeff K. said...
@Boudica - We're with you -- the baby didn't make it. No baby in the mother's arms as she's being wheeled out.
(Also, Alan, I think you mean "delivery room" in your review, when you typed "waiting room" -- tho at times, they felt like the same thing to me. :-)
Captcha: YINGEL. 1. The feeling right after your hand wakes up from being asleep. 2. The opposite of yangel.
cgeye: Maybe due to the breach birth, the Hobart baby has to stay in the hospital for some care before they can take the baby home. At least this is what I'm hoping for....
Thanks for such a quick but thorough review and great comments. My comment is about Roger; though his screen time was short this week, I thought the writers used the opportunity to pull him back from total caricature (which he was, literally, last week) and uselessness. His first scene continued his slide into silliness, with him on the phone with Don, reminding Don how powerful Don was (and, without saying so, how powerless Roger himself was), all the while eating a giant hot fudge Sunday with a big bib around his neck like a toddler. But then, in the scene in Cooper's office where they ripped Pete, he showed through his anger much more real professional interest than we've seen this season (for example, his cavalier and mentally absent performance during Bert Peterson's firing) -- and he indicated that his function was actually quite an important one. Saving shaky accounts is critical, and it's a pretty big part of any Managing Partner's job in a service firm. Anyway, I just found it interesting that Roger went from clown last week to baby this week but then all the way back to grown-up.
"when my daughter was born, there wasn't even a question that I'd be in the waiting room to provide moral support (and snap a ton of photos once the baby came out). " I assume you meant to type delivery room, or I need to re-read the surrounding context
Glad the days of shaving and aenemas are gone!
Peggy and Don scene was so well done.
With regard to Pete and race he was one of the people that did not enjoy the blackface act that Sterling put on in My Old Kentucky Home.
Also forgot the digust on Peggy's face when dealing with Don.
Also did you see the regret on her face looking at the baby booties. Alittle self pity or intropective disgust?
I must be in the minority but I didn't think Don was pursuing Sally's teacher romantically at all - rather, during their phone conversation, he seemed to be humouring and placating her, the silly drunk teacher.
Of course I don't except Don to keep it in his pants for much longer, though.
During the scene in the elevator with Pete and Hollis I kept thinking of Gil Scott-Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". But I guess that's a few years away.
Even during the parts of the birth events that were not obviously dream sequences, I was wondering how much was real and how much may have been hallucinations from drugs or otherwise. Some of the interactions with the nurse had almost a surreal quality.
Alan - I guess I associate forward-thinking with more idealism, less pragmatism. Although his speech in the elevator has the line about the American dream, it's undercut -- purposefully -- by the "don't tell me you don't watch baseball". He's pragmatic, not pro-civil rights for ideological conviction; he sees which way the wind is blowing, and jumps in.
I know Mo Ryan wrote in her review last week, "I was thinking, what mitigating qualities does Betty possess that will make me truly care about what happens to her?" I think I may have reached that point as well; I know Betty is in pain, I know she has deep-rooted parental issues and that Don is not a great partner to her, but she is so utterly indifferent to her children and the people around her, and spreads her pain so wifely, that I don't think I can care about her anymore. I'm surprised Carla won't be there; I can't imagine Betty wanting to be a primary caretaker.
Also, a brilliant moment: When Peggy says, "maybe this is my time," she delivers the line as though she's making a grand statement. Don says nothing in response. The way Peggy's eyes shift, as though she wonders how stupid she must be sounding -- so true to life.
Mart said...
There were several funny lines this week. After Bert Peterson says something to the effect of "that's enough flogging" (when castigating Pete), Roger said "That's never as fun as you think it will be."
Okay I'm old enough to remember waving at my mom from a hospital sidewalk, wow, that was great how MM got that.
I had the vibe Mrs Hobart was wearing a bed jacket and being wheeled to the nursery to see the baby. I did not see her purse. They did not seem upset. I thought I saw a glimpse of a grin on Dennis's face, that vanished when he saw Don. Dennis felt embarassed. He was oogling a novice nun/candy striper for God's sake. He's a scum bucket.
Weiner's accurate portrayal of race relations in this episode was brilliant. Hollis was terrified of getting into trouble - blacks were seen and not heard during this period and the actor's body language in the scene was suberb. Though Pete marketing acumen is sharp he is still very much out of touch as it relates to dealing with blacks as evidenced by the conversation. He had no care how Medgar Evers' death affected blacks. Also, had he actually talked to Hollis instead of talking at him (explaining a bit better why he was asking about decisions in purchasing, etc.) he may have gotten the information he was after.
Finally, ironic that the Admiral Execs dismissed the reality that they ignored a large market segment (many companies did) and had they not, would have put them miles ahead of the competition in terms of profit.
Great episode.
Thanks to those of you who pointed out that I wrote "waiting room" when I meant "delivery room." That's the kind of error that's hard to catch with either spell-check or (in a 3000 -word post) with the naked eye. Fixed.
A few small points:
- I still have the HIMYM Hot/Crazy Scale pop up front and center in my mind when I saw BlahBlah and Don Draper in the classroom by themselves.... I watch waaay too many Sepinwall covered shows, but as they said in the Chuck video "Sepinwall will destroy us!", so I feel like I need to watch the shows lest I get in trouble :)
- I have expected someone in the room to say "Bobby, don't touch the soft spot!!!" but once again, parental indifference shows thru, and no one lets Bobby know not to do that. With Carla away, the Draper household will fall apart at the seams
Buchholz Surfer said...
It was interesting that the last thing said to Pete in the meeting was Cooper saying "You can leave."
Pete just had a meeting with another agency that was hoping to hire him away, and he might change his mind and leave SC after getting ripped by the partners, especially if Peggy doesn't go to Grey.
I could see Peggy getting an offer from Grey, and giving SC one last chance to match it, and they find a way to do it. And then Campbell going to Grey himself.
I have to say, I wasn't really a fan of this episode for a number of reasons that other people have mentioned:
- I'm kind of weirded out by the Don/teacher budding romance. I'm not sure if it is because she is Sally's teacher, or if it is because the actress is pretty weak (she needs to go to the John Hamm school of "less is more" acting). I think that Don/John deserves a better actress.
- My least favorite moments of "The Sopranos" were Tony's dream sequences, and I actually thought to myself a couple of weeks ago that I am glad Mad Men hasn't gone to that well. We've had Don reminisce/daydream, but I thought that was acceptable within the context of which it was used. I understand the point of the Betty delirium, it just felt too jarring for this show.
- I found Dennis' speech to Don about being "an honest man" to be a blunt, oratorical whack to the head. For a show which is remarkable for its writing, this lack of subtlety was kind of disappointing.
- My favorite parts of the episode were the Pete and Peggy story lines, yet they were so minimal. I understand that this is just the beginning, but I still would have preferred a few more minutes with either (or both) of them.
Mind you, a bad episode of Mad Men is still much better than 95% of anything else out there.
dylanfan said...
Might as well go ahead and change the "You're" in the next sentence to "Your job's done" ... Miss Farrell would approve.
What's the music at the end?
Even more than usual to think about in this one -- looking forward to reading more comments!
Jillian Butler said...
I too was very struck by Don's look to Dennis in the hallway--it seemed to imply (to me at least) that Don too had been in a fog of sorts (a pre-baby, post-jitters fog that's helped along by the hooch). His face seemed like he barely recognized Dennis when they crossed paths. Also, even in her brief appearance, Dennis' wife looked old enough to be his mother.
Sigh. Sometimes I don't know whether to worship or whiplash Matt Weiner for making us work so hard to parse these moments out.
In chastising Pete for his suggestions to Admiral, Bert Cooper showed the limits of his Randian beliefs, which I thought was an interesting revelation about him.
Mr. Thinker said...
Anonymous @ 12:01am:
The only force in American history that has been able to stop capitalism is racism (see redlining).
Cantara said...
Suzanne Farrell -- thought I recognized the name. Saw her dance when I was Sally Draper's age.
Hollis's "up and down" line was great, but equally good was the line about how Admiral didn't want to make "colored TVs."
My favorite part was the brief shot of a wall with black stripes, presumably shadows from blinds, stretching and shrinking across it to show the passage of time while an ominous drone rose. It was magnificently Lynchian, like something from "Inland Empire."
The Peggy and Pete scenes were terrific. Aside from Don, they are far and away the most complex and interesting characters on this show, and the ones I am most interested in seeing develop.
Pete in particular, is something so strange you can spend all day trying to figure out and never do. He's more aware of coming social change than any other character - even more than "Marx wasn't so bad" Paul, but he is so totally detached from other people that he barely cares. Its like he's watching something unfold that has no connection to his own life.
What can make Pete scary, in a way, is that he sees which way the wind is blowing, and yet, has no other interest in it other than figuring out how to exploit it. He's like some sort of profiteer in the cultural wars, like last weeks shipping magnate, and I have to think that guys like him will be the real winners of the 60's. After all, it must of been some sort of real life Pete Campbell that thought of the idea of using singing hippies to sell coca-cola, with some real life Peggie writing the ad, of course (it is her time after all).
The Admiral problem was delicate, as was the whole problem of race to the corporate world.
The Admiral numbers probably reflected that the Admiral brand was the low cost leader, and therefore the urban poor was its prime demographic. More Admirals were probably on sale in inner city stores than higher priced RCAs. Pete's ideas to focus on this market would lead to larger sales, but might also lead to perceptions. Perceptions that Admiral was a "colored" brand. And that perception would sink it in their other markets, like the Deep South.
The execs might not even be bigots just market conscious. Ethnic targeting of African-Americans wouldn't be implemented on a national scale for a decade or two.
I think it does point out how the views of a minority can be magnified by the response of the corporation.
I'm sure Alan is right that some of the protagonists will leave Sterling Cooper. But that doesn't mean the show will stop following them. Even a peripheral figure like Duck is back. In real life, Peggy and Pete are indeed the most likely to leave - or Don. These are the people with various degrees of acumen and ambition (some more of one than the other) who would leave if offered more of what they're looking for. I expect that at least one of them will move on - and the show will go with them.
@Tesswpfd17 - Thanks for pointing this out. During the blackface scene, I thought it was so telling that Pete's initial facial expression was disgust...until he he glances at his wife and notices she's laughing, and then he plasters a smile on his face to pretend he also finds Roger's antics amusing. I think in his heart, Pete is a lot more progressive than others at Sterling-Cooper, but his upbringing and his total lack of social skills get in the way.
Though Pete marketing acumen is sharp he is still very much out of touch as it relates to dealing with blacks as evidenced by the conversation.
Absolutely. The look Hollis gives Pete after his "But everyone's going to have the American Dream" comment was brilliant.
Hobart's reaction to Don -- I assumed that he'd already fallen short on those 'new man' promises.
Did Don go an buy a new car? In the waiting room he ripped an ad for a car out of a magazine. Was that the car he took Betty and Gene home in?
smarty said...
@ Jaye Berman: I was also quite struck by the references to time, the passage of time. The episode spends much of its 'time' watching people waiting, Don and Dennis in the waiting room, Betty in delivery. Also, Don says to both Sally's teacher and to Peggy, "this is not a good time."
What a great, and hard episode. Watching Betty give birth was very painful. It reminded me of the stories my mother told about 'twilight sleep' and tough nurses and being so alone through the process. When Betty was thrashing about in the delivery room, I wanted her to punch someone (still thinking of her with that gun, cigarette dangling from her lips, when she had it in for the pigeons).
I loved the scene with Don and Sally ("I didn't know you could cook.") For the first time, as she talked, I realized how Sally looks a bit like Betty. Good casting.
I also loved the writing of the scene between Hollis and Pete. So much was conveyed, with efficient words.
And Roger's line, after being asked if the flogging was over, that it's never a good as you imagine (or something like that). I will SO miss Slattery if his character is off the show.
And Peggy's fingering the booties on the gift. Could she have been doing that intentionally to pull at Don's heartstrings? She surely has little emotion or thought towards that baby (that we've seen). She may have been thinking of her loss when she gave Don the line about how much of everything he has; but she also might have been trying to manipulate him. Either way, her timing was lousy (though she was right to ask). I'm wondering though, why she didn't reference Duck's lure to Grays. Its' the standard ploy and Don would have had something to go to the Brits with.
And finally, can I just say how much Sally's classroom was JUST like my own 3rd grade class? I adore the attention to detail in this show.
Boresville said...
Your recaps are killer, Alan. I think the ad Don clipped was for a G.T.O.. Excitement, anyone?
Speaking of the waiting room, I think the conversation with that guard was a figment of Don’s imagination. He looks identical to the cop that informed the Drapers of Gene’s passing. He brings a bottle. He knows Don dreams of ending up in Sing Sing. He talks about the baby being a new start. This would explain the odd moment in the hallway, when the guard failed to acknowledge Don.
This episode has confirmed what I have always suspected . . . Duck Phillips has always appreciated Peggy's talent. Which is not really surprising. He has never expressed discomfort or hostility toward her role as a copywriter. And he has always accepted her presence at Sterling Cooper without any attitude. And whatever flaws he has, Duck has always been about moving foward. He sees nothing wrong in a woman wanting a career. Well . . . at least a single woman.
When Sterling Cooper has clients like Admiral, it's time for Pete to leave.
I have enjoyed this season but this episode was really the first that grabbed me like my favorite episodes in the past of Mad Men have.
It totally felt like a shift in the season (in terms of all the characters) and I would say one of the biggest shifts was Betty having the baby.I feel like something is coming between her and Don...and I'm just waiting until it comes to a head.
Loving the storyline with Duck trying to woo Peggy/Pete.I feel like this season has been fantastic for Peggy...lots of character development.I have missed seeing Peggy/Pete interacting so I was glad to see that again.
But best of all,I was reminded how much I adore any and all Peggy/Don scenes.The actors play off each other so well and as Peggy considers leaving SC,I feel like this may have an effect on their relationship.Should be interesting to watch.
Overall,I just love how no matter what,Mad Men has the best and most realistic character development of any show (in my opinion).This was a perfect episode to showcase the wonderful characters.You were able to see the good and bad in many of them this week,especially Don/Betty/Peggy/Pete
As Peggy said, Don has everything, including a new healthy baby boy.
Envy would be why I think Dennis gave Don that look.
Betty's story is an arc of her life, and the life to come. I felt her entire episode was a summary of Wolff's "Mrs. Dalloway," where a woman livess her entire life in a day. Her first shot is one of (pregnant) glamour...and each successive scene she loks more and more disheveled, and haggard, (except for the dream sequences, which Mrs. Dalloway also contained.) Then, after birth, she returns to radiance, if only briefly, and finally makes her peace with -- yes -- this is her life. She won't change with the decade...she is one of those brittle 60's women who didn't change, and bought into the cluture they live in and didn't look back until they bought the farm.
Jillian Leigh, esq said...
I too was very struck by Don's look to Dennis in the hallway--it seemed to imply (to me at least) that Don too had been in a fog of sorts (a pre-baby, post-jitters fog that's helped along by the hooch).
Because it didn't actually happen.
Mad Men has a jarring effect on its flashbacks or dream sequences (for example, when Don is in California, Mrs. Draper leaves and returns in Christmas a decade earlier - it through my mom, so I'm taking some generalization).
When we first see Don in the room, there are more people in the room. Then a bottle of booze comes out, Hobart works in a prison (well isn't that convenient as Don awaits his child!), and Don is incredibly forthcoming, which seems to be a new hobby of his this season. Hobart's first line, "this is not how I pictured it."
Then, after they're drinking in those little cups, he asks Don if he throws the ball around with the boy (in an almost pointed way). Don looks down, says "not enough," a brief moment of clarity. Immediately it cuts back--again, almost jarringly since there is no real transition, just a straight cut--to Don reading his magazine without a cup in his hand, Hobart facing the other direction.
These men were never talking. Look at their positions; they are totally indifferent to each other, just like two strangers in a waiting room would be. When Don rips out the ad, Hobart looks around, takes a second to look at Don, then turns back around like nothing happened. Why? Why would he suddenly be so cold to Don, and then revert back to the chummy nature they shared while pouring out the Red Label?
This is the idealized situation, especially for a man who "watches everything." A young nurse! Wacky shenanigans getting cigarettes! Drinking! Lots of Drinking! In essence, this is the Don version of Betty's fog.
And then it gets very blunt. "I'm going to be a better man. Tell me you heard me." This is all Don trying to sell himself, again, on that idea, that this child will be the one he will make the change for. An ad man has to try and sell himself on an ideal he can't seem to get on his own.
Finally, the look on Hobart's face when he was with his wife was one of confusion. He's sharing a moment of joy with his wife, looks up, and sees a man in a sharp suit beaming right back at him. For Don, Hobart has given him a lesson, a friend. For Hobart, he's a stranger who is oddly smiling at him. He reacts by politely acknowledging and dipping his head, like any of us have done on a subway car. Don's best relations are illusions with strangers.
Brings the Connie discussion a few episodes ago into another light, certainly.
Which brings us back to the original postL
I'm building him a bronze statue. Anybody wanna chip in?
I see Dennis and Betty having similar reactions w/r/t having a baby.
In the waiting room Dennis is all ebullient (drunk) about how having this baby will be a fresh start. But considering his other comments about how he NOW has to be careful not to bring work home, and how he can't believe their (his and Don's and husbands in general)wives put up with them, and his generally napoleonic behavior ("It's like I'm God!", I think it's pretty clear that Dennis is a wife-beater. When Dennis makes his statement about a fresh start, he makes it to Don after looking up and saying "I don't know who's up there, but I'll say this to you" as if giving Don equal weight to god. When the men pass in the hall the next day, I think that Dennis' fog of drunkenness and anticipation has worn off, and he realizes that Don is just some dude, and that he (Dennis) has not really fundamentally changed.
Betty awakes from her pregnancy fog with optimism. When she and Don arrive home, they are a ridiculously perfect tableau: the perfect car, the perfect house, both husband and wife dressed and coiffed perfectly, with perfectly well behaved children waiting inside. Betty rides this optimism by thinking she will not need the help of a replacement for Carla, but as soon as that baby cries, she, like Dennis realizes that nothing has really changed for the better.
One last thought: I actually think that Pete handled his market research with a black person much better than Don did in the pilot. While DOn was undoubtedly smoother, Pete seemed to be able to be more natural and have a more human connection with Hollis in the end.
I hope Don doesn't get involved with the teacher because it would be monumentally stupid of him. If he can't keep it in his pants, he can at least keep it in the city.
Also, who was the woman who was taking care of the kids at the end of the episode - I did not recognize her as one of Betty's regularly appearing friends?
I feel like you are trying to excuse the self-indulgence of this season and lack of quality by saying that it just b/c of a lack of a larger plotline. I think in reality the reason is that there has been nothing new. We have seen (wonderfully done) in the first 2 seasons that people were racist, sexist, and smokers. We have seen that people are alienated, childish, and petty. It is time to show us something new and different (whether by means of plot or character); it would also be nice to show us more about the workings of S-C or advertising scenes (something that there used to be more of).
Also, the dream sequence felt like a cliche and left me cold.....
Loved the episode. What is the green worm in Betty's hand supposed to be? Threw me off kilter.
Times and new beginnings...tonight's theme...Potential?
EC said...
I find the teacher's comments about Sally asking questions about Medgar Evers in school interesting because it demonstrates that Sally is absorbing and is pretty traumatized by all of the TV news that she's watching. Betty can't deal with the teacher mentioning bad news such as the Evers assassination (and interrupts to use the lady room), but doesn't protect her own daughter from such news.
Milaxx said...
I guess it comes from years of watching The Wire, but I haven't had a problem with there not being one giant story arc so far this season. I just assumed everything will come together by the end of the season, so I've been trying to note everything that may take on new meaning by the end.
The topic of race relations has been a good example of this. SInce we only see it from the POV of the Caucasian characters, the topic of race has been slow build. I suspect it will continue so until it is too obvious for them to ignore, uch like Pete's clients who refuse to tap into the AA market.
Neither the very artificial first dream sequence nor the very un-Mad Men-like insert shot of Sally smearing blood on her face worked for me. I'm not opposed to innovation and experimentation, but both struck me as derivative and out of place.
That said, the episode did have a number of great moments and seems to kick in motion a lot of promising plot points. Plus it's always nice to see more Anne Dudek.
Sally's asking questions about the Evers assassination because she's lost somebody close to her and it's a good way to bring up questions that she has.
I'm not sure that she's traumatized by all the tv news she's watching but rather that the subject of death is weighing on her and so the evers assasination hits close to home.
Should it be something she's talking to her parents about, sure. But her parents don't talk.
I'm not defending Betty as a good parent. But I'm unsure what Betty is supposed to do to protect her daughter from a major news story.
Jakie O died the same week my grandmother did and my 90 something grandfather was traumatized by news coverage of that but it was hardly something that could have been predicted.
I do think it's interesting that Betty left because she was upset by the Evers mention. I had assumed it was early labor because of the "I can't help it".
But childlike Betty unable to deal with a real world death, I buy that. Interesting.
Scott J. said...
The comment from sara already said very well much of what I wanted to. It's shame on Dennis' face when he sees Don again in the hall, as Dennis has realized that he's no better a man now than before the baby came. He put Don in the place of God when he made that promise, and now that he knows he can't keep it, he can no longer look Don in the eye.
heleneharris said...
Random thoughts after reading all the other comments -
1. did anyone find Duck's desk/office noticeably bland/sterile? As in, does he really have a position of any importance at all at Grey? Was it even an office at Grey?
2. I found Sally's greeting to Betty - "mommy,i missed you so much" - absolutely heartbreaking. Betty's parenting leaves so much to be desired yet Sally still worships her. And then her kiss on the top of Sally's head made you hope against hope that there's a chance here (but probably not).
3. I totally agree with the two posters who suggest Don didn't really have an interaction with the prison guard (dennis?) Makes total sense now that you think about it.
Random tidbit: I was floored when Pete received Duck's first call. Just a really great scene, and I like that we see Duck's ducks in his office as well. It really tickled me, that scene.
I enjoy the return of Duck, but as far as I remember, Duck wasn't a guy who cared about creative much last year, so I'm not sure what to think of his courting Peggy over. Was there something to him thinking that Pete and Peggy had something that led him to wanting to bring Peggy over (as an incentive for Pete, not knowing that P/P had a fallout)? I'm getting the feeling that Duck would actually want Pete, a good accounts man, more than Peggy, creative.
I'm really enjoying Pete. I think Pete is starting to get a grasp of who he is, finally, and I like that. I think the loss of his child with Peggy (and since Trudy can't conceive, the end of him ever having any children that's truly his) has actually affected him a lot more than I've realized.
But, glad to see I wasn't wrong thinking previously that it might be time for Peggy to branch out.
I'm not really feeling the teacher much. She holds no intrigue or interest for me for now, and while they might have bonded over losing parents while young, I don't really see much of any chemistry between the two.
I mean, Don and Peggy had way more chemistry (not that I want them to go there, at least not yet) in that heartbreaking scene than with that teacher. It's nice that Peggy doesn't have to be fun roommate gal pal or someone really hard to put up with how people treat her at the office, she can be her real self with Don.
Oh, I forgot:
I thought it was pretty clear that Don projected his interaction with the prison guard, given what he says to Don towards the end,so I agree with some others that the whole interaction was Don's fog.
Another thing is that I was wondering about Peggy's pay vs. Joan's pay in last week's episode, and here, I guess I got my answer - it's very likely that the difference between the two wages is very small (given Peggy only makes 70 more than her (most likely least paid) secretary, while Joan is the head secretary office overseer person), if at all.
"I do think it's interesting that Betty left because she was upset by the Evers mention"
Betty left to go to the bathroom because she had a baby pushing up against her bladder. Pregnant women need to pee all the time!
Was that the Song of India being played again at the end of the episode? I remember it being used in For Those That Think Young when Betty was descending the stairs on Valentine's day.
Doug S said...
Manton's comment above will force me to re-watch this episode...fascinating idea, thanks.
For me, this episode struck me as the first MM that felt like a Sopranos episode, though I'm hard-pressed to specify why. The overall feeling it had, maybe the dream(s?) - whatever, it just hit me.
A small addition: I interpreted the comment about Carla's absence to mean she wouldn't be staying overnight with Betty to take care of the baby, not that she wouldn't be around at all. Guess we'll see.
And Alan, I continue to marvel at your ability to crank out these incredibly thoughtful, in-depth posts in such short time. Thanks.
Very interesting that some of you thought the conversation between Hobart and Don was in Don's own imagination...I didn't think so when I watched but it actually makes sense.
Anyone else think that Betty squished the caterpillar in her hand? She seemed to have a bizarre look on her face when she closed her fingers around it.
I also thought there was something strange in Betty's eyes (kind of like a widening) that I also interpreted as hostile to the caterpillar. Is something bad going to happen to little Gene?
There's this part during Duck's luncheon with Pete and Peggy, where they both denied their secret relationship and then they looked at each other really quickly at the same time that I loved watching over and over again. How did the actors manage to time it so it's exactly the same time? Wow.
I'm going to go back and rewatch the Don/Dennis scenes sometime later today, but having watched the episode twice already, I didn't see any of the visual cues that the show uses to signal a flashback or dream sequence. As Manton notes, the series has very specific visual rules for this sort of thing, and the transitions in, say the California episode were much more blatant than anything that happens between Don and Dennis in the waiting room.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one to pick up on the Suzanne Farrell allusion--funny that, when we first met her, she was dancing. Although I do think that naming the teacher after someone that well-known takes the viewer out of the story a bit.
I loved Betty's "twilight sleep" hallucinations, but that's probably because they reminded me so strongly of a favorite book of mine, Good Morning, Miss Dove, which features a stern schoolteacher who has similar hallucinations during a hospital stay. Even more appropriate that the first indication of the onset of her hallucination was Nurse Ratched referring to Chapter 12 in a textbook. I didn't get that Ruth Hofstadter was standing with Medgar Evers (how did everyone figure that out??), but I liked Betty crushing the green caterpillar before it could become a butterfly.
It's confusing to me that I can be so continually ticked-off at Betty for acting like such a baby (shutting down Gene's end-of-life planning talk was particularly egregious), but when the horrible nurse treated her like a badly-behaving child it really pissed me off.
I'm intrigued by others' suggestions that the entire relationship between Dennis and Don in the waiting room was Don's hallucination, but I'm not convinced. I feel that if that were the case Weiner would have been a bit more explicit about it--and that Alan would have remarked upon it. I'm also not convinced that Dennis was already not making a "fresh start"--a day later??--and that his not meeting Don's eye was shame. I've not yet seen an explanation for that odd hallway scene that satisfies me.
Alan, can you help out?
Like Jenny, I also thought that Betty's pregnancy was doomed, particularly when Gene was mopping what looked like blood in the dream sequence.
The green caterpillar in Betty's dream reminded me of metamorphoses. The caterpillar is the first stage or larva stage. Betty is locked in a childlike state due to her family dynamics, but also, Don doesn't treat her like an equal--he isn't real with her. Finally, of course, society at the time treated housewives as not much more than capable children. No wonder she seemed to want to squish the caterpillar in her hand.
The thing about a caterpillar though is that it is destined to be a butterfly. To me, this brought to mind the coming consciousness raising for women.
re: the Don/Dennis dream sequence - While it would be interesting, I do think the interactions actually happened. Over my years of traveling, I have had loads of what I call Temporary Friendships. Quick, fast friendship formed in airplanes, airports, waiting rooms. I have had some fairly deep, intense conversations, then went about my life. I think Don and Dennis were uncomfortable with having to face each other again.
re: the Caterpillar - I think the caterpillar represented Betty and her chance at a new start, a new life - a complete metamorphosis. I do think she squashed the caterpillar as a symbol of her choice to not move forward, to not change.
Great review as always, Mr Sepinwall. I have tried to writ my own blog but it feels so weak compared to your reviews. That is what separates the professionals from the rest of us.
I thought that the Hobart baby had died since the shot opened with a focus on Don carrying the flowers to Betty. No one brings flowers to the mother of a dead baby. I assumed that Hobart was angry/jealous of Don's successful delivery. It seems to parallel Peggy's line to Don, "You have everything, so much of it." Hobart just wants a son and Don has two sons and a daughter.
I tried to read through the comments and I don't think this is redundant but, am I the only one scared by dream sequences? I am scared of them because The Sopranos ruined them for me in latter seasons. When Big P talks through the fish's mouth to Tony it was great television. In the final two seasons there were entire episodes that were dreams. It always seemed like an easy plot device and those are some of my least favorite episodes. I am happy they didn't linger too long on them in Mad Men and I hope they do not continue to use them very often.
Bollocks to those who think this season ain't up to snuff, Alan. Seriously. To be blunt, this was not only the best ep of season 3 so far, but one of the best of he series. Christ, doe this show reward true fans.
Does anyone have any idea how effin hard it is to decide whether Jon Hamm or Bryan Cranston is the best actor on TV. they both do these great things with their faces that tell so much with out uttering a word.
We've come to a realm of acting "at a glance" and it is just amazing.
Come on, could ANYBODY turn down that sexy teacher? Don has to bang her! On principle!
Someone said betty Draper is the new Livia Soprano and I think they might be right.
Vincent K. had the best line of the night with his "of course, I work in advertising."
Did anyone else think that Dennis the prison guard's newbon son died? The way he avoided looking at Don in the hallway?
Lisabeth Laiken said...
This episode was definitely firing on all cylinders! As the posters have said time and prison, dark and light, conscious and unconscious, the big themes being subtly positioned and explored as the show keeps moving forward to JFK's assassination.
The two things that I noted that haven't been mentioned yet is how precisely we are being kept to the calendar this season. They are practically counting down the days having already set up Rodgers daughters wedding to be the weekend after the shooting. Which just makes everything that much more wrought for me.
And with all the comments about Pete and whether he is acting out of social or monetary acuteness, I thought it was interesting that in the scene where he was called on the carpet the top button of his suit was undone and made it seem like it didn't fit. They are so precise about the costuming that it had to be intentional. So often it does look like Pete is play-acting wearing his "adult" clothes.
That earlier post, I didn't mea to put out there that only one of those two actors could be "the best." they're both aces in my book.
"Isn't it only logical that someone like Peggy would try to branch out? Or that Ken would hop from agency to agency?"
Alan - In light of the fact that you speak with Weiner from time to time, it's entirely inappropriate and dishonest of you to write things such as the above quote.
Every time I speak to Weiner, I write about it. The last time I talked to him was at press tour, after having seen the first episode, and you can read that entire conversation here. I know no more about what's coming than you do. It just seems obvious to me that, whether or not this is where the show is going, it's where it should go.
To me, everyone is in their own prison and their individual clocks are ticking...
I believe that the interaction between Dennis and Don did take place. When confronting Don again in the hallway, Dennis was a bit embarrassed...the drink had caused him to share more with another person than he was comfortable with.
Anonymous 9:51, I have no idea what you might be objecting too. This is Alan's blog and what we come here for is his opinions and analysis (as well for as the group discussions).
If Alan was sharing thoughts or conjecture about Ken and Peggy, I don't see the problem with that. If Alan had specific information about Ken or Peggy job-hopping, I very much doubt he would share it in this context -- he is known to be anti-spoiler.
Besides, whenever Alan speaks to Matt Weiner, he publishes the entire transcripts of those talks soon after they occur. He's not holding back spoilery bits to spring on people in his weeky posts. That is not his modus operandi at all.
In short, I think your comment is uncalled for.
bsangs said...
I found the scene with Roger calling Don to be another strong indication of how far their relationship has fallen.
Roger used to pop into Don's office to discuss the most mundane, silly issues, but Don has a child and all Roger does is call? From down the hall? Wow.
I noticed above that somebody mentioned the Roger character possibly leaving the show. Has there been any indication Slattery is departing? I read he signed on to do something else in another show or movie, but didn't think it'd mean the end of Roger Sterling. Because faults and all, he is far and away my favorite character.
JasonR said...
Put me in the group that has thoroughly enjoyed the episodes leading up to this one. Unfortunately, I did not find this one that enjoyable. The fact that I abhor almost all dream sequences has a lot to do with it. And as much as a I am aware that Betty is a product of her upbringing I still find her utterly unlikable, and therefore almost bored watching her dream/fog.
I also think that Manton's idea that the waiting room was a dream sequence is wrong, but perfectly points out why it did not work. The whole thing was too on the nose for me and would have worked better as a dream sequence (even though I hate them!).
Otherwise, a pretty good episode - I appreciate some plot movement.
I wonder if Paul Kinsey took the credenza home to go along with the typewriter he stole.
Another amazing performance by January Jones. I agree with another poster who said she visited the ladies' room because the baby was pushing on her bladder. She told Miss Farrell she wasn't as upset as she appeared. Isn't that the truth! She just wanted to get the problem with Sally behind her so she could go back to pretending things were perfect. It was unusual for Don to go to school, as the teacher was impressed he was there. Dads didn't show up at school back in the day, as I recall from my own childhood. (I was 5 in 1963.) I loved seeing Betty's mother, and the interaction we saw between the two helped me understand Betty better.
Interesting observations from those who said the interaction
in the waiting room was a dream, especially the poster
who said the men were there together but not talking. That never occurred to me, and I still am not sure how to interpret those scenes.
Miss Farrell is no longer Sally's teacher now that it is summer vacation. I agree she is similar to Midge, Bobbie and Rachel. They are all strong brunettes ahead of their time. She is also the aggressor, calling him. I enjoyed Alan's remarks that top partially unbuttoned, bra strap falling down, that it's only a matter of time. Don Draper would be irresistable to many.
Good episode, if not quite up to the standard set by the previous two, IMHO. Some interesting plot developments, though....
One note: Paul has finally and indisputably established his douchebaggerhood. I'm referring to the scene where Pete pores over Admiral TV sales, his privileged brain trying to grasp what X-factor could possibly link the cities of Chicago and Detroit and St. Louis and Kansas City and New Orleans... "Great jazz towns," Paul simpers, unable to break out of his own self-indulgent cocoon and realize this is a chance to actually APPLY what he digs in a useful way.
Having Paul clean his own pipes during the scene was a great piece of stage business.
One tantalizing little bit laid out there...when his British Overlord barged in with the minutes of his bean-counting meeting, Don was dictating a response to London Fog's suggestion that they manufacture products for women and children. We never do hear whether or not Don thinks it's a good move to, you know, extend the brand...but, given what he said during the Baltimore trip, he's probably agin it. Proving once again that he's really pretty terrible at his job...but he's no longer able to mollify the boss or his more talented underlings with a bowl of scotch and a seductive flash of intimacy.
Okay, I watched the scene again, and I see the jarring edit you're talking about, but it plays to me more like a bad match - like that was a shot from earlier in the scene they put at the end, perhaps because they didn't want to close the moment on the shot of Don saying "Not enough," and they didn't realize how it didn't fit the previous shot - than it felt like an M. Night Shyamalan clue.
Yes, Mad Men at times is incredibly subtle. But for something like your theory, I believe Weiner and company would have made damn sure it was clear this was all in Don's head, in the same way they spelled out the transitions from 1962 Don to 1950s Don in "The Mountain King," or how they cue us to the usual transitions between Don's real life and his daydreams of childhood as Dick Whitman.
And I think Dennis is cold to Don in the hallway simply because he's embarrassed to have revealed so much of himself to a total stranger. He even put his hands on Don's face, which just wasn't done between grown men in those days.
"He even put his hands on Don's face, which just wasn't done between grown men in those days."
Is that done today?
Probably a tiny bit more, but you're right. The larger point is that Dennis exposed his soul to another guy in a way that just wasn't done for a man like himself.
Were we supposed to see the string that brought down the caterpillar into Betty's hand? Technical gaffe or not?
54cermak said...
First time commenting here. An anon poster above mentioned that he/she felt like the show had already done everything it could by showing how people used to be more racist, sexist, callous, etc than they are today.
I think thats the wrong way of looking at it.
This show is more than any other period drama thats existed to date - a history of a time as much as it is a scripted show with stories to tell.
The 60s just didnt happen all at once where one day you had the world of SC and then the Beatles landed in America and everybody just changed overnight. The attitudes of people in that decade changed at different rates and from different angles and in some cases didn't change at all. Some folks changed in the opposite trajectory from what we typically think of as embodying the 60s.
(Forgive me if I'm treading too deeply into politics here)
We saw last season how Randite Bert Cooper was taking Harry Crane under his wing. We've also seen how Harry has morphed from the most soft hearted and likable of the chipmunks to his lecturing the others about losing the work incentive based on the marginal tax rate. Harry is going to be the backlash vote that Nixon capitalizes on 68 and is just as vital to telling the story of this decade as Paul Kinsey's trip to Alabama was or Sally Draper's (presumed) metamorphosis into hippie-dom.
The joy of this show is watching how all this unfolds and how the societal changes of the era transformed and shaped (often unknowingly as we're starting to see with Pete) different people in different ways.
I always enjoy your reviews, Alan, as well as the comments. Manton, I never considered that scene to be a dream sequence -- I just assumed that Hobart was embarrassed at having let his guard down (pun sorta intended) with Don. Much to think about now. I also felt the whole imprisonment vibe -- Hollis stuck running an elevator for Mr. Businessman, e.g., and Betty's squashing the caterpillar before it could grow wings and fly away. I also think that Peggy is imprisoned -- she's trying so hard to be an independent career woman, but the insecure girl who went to secretarial school seems to seep out of her pores any time she tries to assert herself.
I'm hoping that the Don-Ms. Farrell attraction is one-sided for a change, with Don resisting her advances for once.
Two unrelated thoughts:
1. The appearance of Medgar Evans in this episode has to be counted as one of the most surreal moments in TV history.
2. The bit speech by the nurse (a great part, btw) just before Betsy goes under, with the dada-esque reference to the Hebrides, was brilliant.
Discovered this blog (googling for the exact "nosh" line) around midnight and stayed up well past two reading all the Mad Men comments.
I know very little about the childbirth process, but it seems to me that Betty's dream relates to Betty's real task at the time. If you leave a caterpillar alone, it will naturally transform into a butterfly. If you clutch it in your hands - well, the musical Zorba has a whole song about not rushing that process.
So, under the influence of drugs, Betty sees herself clutching the caterpillar. If she can just stop holding on, the new life will begin. Which happens.
srpad said...
I really enjoyed this episode! A few points:
I was also confused by the dour look Don got from the other couple. The theories I have read here are intersting. I have decided I think Alan is right: it was nothing more than the other gentleman regreting how he acted. the emotions of the momment put him, too, into a "fog".
I absolutely *loved* Don just getting up and walking out of the meeting. His saying nothing spoke volumes.
I also really liked the quiet midnight snack scene. I think that was the most parenting Sally has gotten in the series to date.
The shot of a sweat-drenched Betty (the one you used for your screen shot) made me think of the Twilight Zone. It reminded me of similar shots in the episodes "Eye of the Beholder" and "Midnight Sun" and some others. I know it wasn't intentional but the fact that it would fit the era made me enjoy the coincidence.
Um, caterpillars spin silk out of their bodies to make cocoons. They have been known to descend on those strings of silk.
Wasn't Rush Blog uninvited from commenting on the blog?
Yup. Just hadn't had a chance earlier in the day to deal with that.
heleneharris, good thought on Duck and his relationship to Grey. It did not look like a normal desk. It could have been a conference room table. Maybe he isn't employed at Grey but is trying to get a job there and having Peggy and/or Pete in tow might increase his chances. He was less than honest with the Brits and then with Bert and Roger when putting together the merger to enhance his career. He is a manipulator and not in a good way.
Great blog, as usual - as are the comments! I too, recognized Suzanne Farell's name. I don't know why they would pick such an iconic name. This didn't take me out of the show as much as the guest appearances that we've had this season. The first was when Embeth Davis appeared as Pryce's wife - that was a huge distraction for me. This has all been covered before, but it is still bothering me. I'm sure a lot of name-actors would love to do a cameo on MM, but IMO, the show works much better without them.
Now that is out of the way, I want to comment on Pryce's reaction to the "dressing-down" meeting of heads of SC and Pete. I found his reference to himself as a "stranger in a strange land" very interesting (I wondered if he had read the book by Heinlein, which was first published in 1961. He certainly seemed to "grok" the racial issues in America better than the American's in the room!)
Right after watching that scene, I got the chorus of Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man" in my head (unfortunately, the song wasn't published until 1965, otherwise, I'd love to hear it integrated into the soundtrack!).
"Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?"
To me, it just sums up so much of not only the ignorance of the SC people to understand the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement, but also so many other aspects of the show! Sometimes I just want to yell at some of the characters, lol.
I also laughed so hard at Pryce's "meeting" about office supplies, etc. When he referred to the theft of a credenza as a "conspiracy", I almost spit out my drink!
So much to say, but so much has already been covered by other posters. I will say that though it is an interesting theory that Don and Dennis's conversations weren't real, I think there would have been some kind of clue if that were the case. Frankly, I was also confused by their weird exchange (or lack thereof) later in the show, but I think that that perhaps Dennis was sobered up, literally, by the reality of what his "girl" went through and maybe even felt ashamed for trying to turn the waiting room into a party. He was also probably embarrassed that he had shared so much with this other man, and maybe didn't want his wife to think that while her life was hanging in the balance, he was off drinking and making new friends. Still, it was odd, and it would be nice if we saw him again to get some insight into what that was about.
from a stolen pen to a velvet glove said...
@cgeye
Re: Calling Duck's dog "Charley"
CHAUNCY! Your dog's name is CHAUNCY! ;)
If anyone is interested you can read the August 1963 issue of Ebony at google books to check out who was advertising in the magazine back then:
http://books.google.com/books?id=3fQqJPg1QeIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Hayden Childs said...
I'm fairly certain that the line about the wife being on a boat and the husband being on the shore is verbatim from Robert Bradley's book on husband-coached childbirth. I don't have a copy with me to confirm, but having had two children using the Bradley method (more or less), I've read the book twice, and that line has stuck with me. Bradley's book is from the late 60s, and he spends quite a bit of time documenting the horrors of twilight birth.
gypsy howell said...
I'm taking it as a bad sign that he lied to Betty about who was on the phone.
I’d like to share a few thoughts on last night’s episode of MM:
Smeared blood on Sally’s face: I interpreted Sally’s face smeared with blood as evidence of her misdeed at school that prompted the parent-teacher conference. Was she in a fight with another student? I forget the details stated by the teacher.
Re: the look Dennis (the expectant father/prison guard) gave Don in the hospital hallway: I don’t think that anything happened to the Hobart’s baby because the nurse had announced that both Dennis’s wife and baby boy were fine & doing well when she congratulated him in the waiting room. Also, I agree with another post that his wife didn’t appear to be dressed for leaving the hospital. I think that the exchange we were seeing in the waiting room between Don & Dennis was between two men sharing the same experience from very different perspectives. For Dennis, it was his 1st baby & he clearly was swept up by the emotion of the experience & the introspection that such a profound transition brings. For Don, however, this was his 3rd child, he could relate to Dennis’ position but was experiencing his upcoming birth from a much more jaded perspective, knowing how transient are those new father feelings of becoming a better man & that the novelty wears off & life returns to normal (at least for the fathers). In the hospital hallway, I believe Dennis, a normally tough man, was embarrassed at having shown so much emotion and soul-baring to Don in the waiting room. Remember, in those days didn’t men essentially communicate through sports talk –especially with strangers?
Duck commenting on Pete & Peggy’s relationship: I thought it was odd that Duck verbalized his suspicion that Pete & Peggy had a “relationship.” It seemed out of place for that occasion & setting.
I’m wondering if Duck has as much power & control at his new firm as he implies. I think it would be an uncharacteristic risk for normally pragmatic Peggy to leave SC, where she has worked so hard to carve out a niche, for Duck’s firm.
Grandpa Gene mopping: I’m glad someone finally pointed out that Gene was mopping up blood off Betty’s kitchen floor. That was one of several ominous clues that seemed to signify impending tragedy. Another was the caterpillar. Let’s face it, whatever one thinks of Betty, she doesn’t seem like the type of woman who would embrace a fallen caterpillar –I definitely felt she crushed it.
Betty’s homecoming: One post mentioned the kiss Betty gave Sally as the child hugged her mother & said how much she missed her. I felt that Betty definitely gave Sally a very dismissive little peck on the head which showed her discomfort & irritation with Sally’s display of affection.
Didn’t anyone else feel a sense of dread building regarding Betty & the baby? At the end when Betty awoke to the crying baby, I was sure her pause signified some profound contemplation about whether she was going to commit to this new responsibility or not. The lighting, the upset baby, the sleeping Don, all seemed to point to a moment where Betty was going to finally come unhinged & either harm the baby or leave.
I have one comment regarding a season 2 episode that I have yet to see in any other posts. I wondered if the reason Peggy’s sister appeared pregnant while visiting Peggy in the hospital was because she was making it look as if she were the pregnant one so that the family could save face when the baby suddenly appeared. If you think about the months involved, given that noone mentioned they were expecting in those days until they began to show & that Peggy was hospitalized for an additional 3 months, a faked pregnancy on Anita’s part would possibly allow her to fool the community into thinking the new baby was hers rather than unmarried Peggy’s. It would certainly have made explaining the little one’s first arrival in church much easier! Just a thought.
Thanks Alan for thought-provoking recaps –watching Mad Men is definitely even more enjoyable after reading your summaries.
Ha, there's an ad (featuring photographs of black faces) for Johnny Walker Red, the scotch that Don and Dennis drink.
And a LOT of well-known to ubiquitous brands also showing black faces in their ads. I don't really see any "integrated" ads, though, if integrated means the ad would show both white and black people. Some don't show people at all and seem mostly race-neutral.
I find that Arrid ad, with its explicit talk of "sex perspiration" rather shocking!
Chicken Pizza? said...
More and more Betty reminds me of Janice from Updike's Rabbit books.
This is, of course, another bad omen for baby Gene.
I dunno... Anyone here suspect little Gene might have a birth defect that doesn't show up for a few episodes -- or even not until next season?
When I see Yeardley Smith in human form, I think first not of Lisa Simpson, but of Square One. Man, I loved PBS as a kid.
gypsy, I had the same feeling when Betty asked who was on the phone and Don said, "No one." Back when Don stroked the grass, I thought of him putting his hand up Bobbie Barrett's skirt at the restaurant. He is definitely attracted to Miss Farrell, although she seems to be pursuing him. Also it could have been he didn't want to upset Betty as she was on her way to the hospital since she had said she wanted to put Sally's problems at school behind her. He did say it was "no one" and I think that is the misogynist in him dismissing a woman as no one. With the exception of Peggy, Don in general is. disrespectful and dismissive of women.
Also: the pineapple reference. Pineapple was considered a food that might lead to miscarriage.
Imamarilyn, that was my more charitable explanation as well - he didn't want to upset Betty on the way to the hospital.
Still....
@gypsy howell - you may be right. I just took it, at the time, to mean that it wasn't worth getting Betsy upset. I just think it would be interesting to see Don rejecting an advance, even if it's just for a few episodes.
Great comments about Betty and her being the caterpillar. Really interesting takes.
I read Alan's response and have watched the scene for, oh, about an hour now. I can see that it's possible to have misplaced that particular clip in the timeline of the show (it would have to be placed after the establishing shot but before Nurse Lisa Simpson enters the room).
This would be possibly the worst editing of a show I've ever seen. It's too haphazard, too loose, especially for a show this meticulous.
The best literal clue you can find is the man in the background, sitting next to the tv. If you follow his trajectory, he is present in the establishing shot, then vanishes, then re-appears when Don pulls the ad out at the end of the scene. So, it's possible that they just haphazardly threw an early part of the scene at the tail.
However, I'd be remiss if I didn't go back and further analyze the scene as not entirely "real" and "true.". What kind of film school grad would I be?
Why would they go back and throw on that new tail to the scene when they have such a great out when Don is resigned and looks away? It's perfect.
The ambience is slightly different throughout the cuts, which might be a sonic clue. The TV is talking about the Metropolitan weather as Don pulls the ad out (two people going on a trip in a car, just like Hobart and Don?) while in the establishing shot they discuss mourners for "Negro...Edgar Evers." The sound volume actually kicks up a little bit from the establishing shot to when Don pulls out the ad, with a loud ringing phone and voice over from the hospital speaker. They don't exactly seem to jive, and wouldn't necessarily if they were in proper sequence, like brought up above. The other way we can track the scene is through the magazine in Don's hands, and the pages don't match.
What the two talk about is also up for discussion. All of Hobart's line are so specific not only to Don, but of Don's situation, that it's fishy. Earlier, Hobart says, "like the prison can't run without me," when Don gets back to work, Roger says that everything came to a standstill without him there. When they come back to Don and his new friend, Don hits his watch, saying, "Well the good news is time has stopped." Again, something you can say in that situation in real life, but it lends itself to this discussion.
The rest of their interaction is similar. Hobart describes being a jailor roughly in equal terms of Don's running of his house, but especially his job. Some good ones, some bad ones, how he is like "the King," and how they don't do anything because they respect the badge, or in Don's case his talent and reputation. Finally, "they're all in stripes," possibly referring to pinstripe suits? You probably think I'm reaching here, so I'll digress....
Mad Men doesn't do on the nose like this. And, in an episode with the incredible "your decisions affect me," these are just too specifically tailored to Don. Earlier, Hobart says, "like the prison can't run without me"; when Don gets back to work, Roger says that everything came to a standstill without him there.
So...in my estimation, it's either some sort of dream sequence (possibly it's based in reality, but veers off into non-reality, such as the break from the guys getting cigarettes out of the machine and then Hobart completely changes direction and gets emotional for no reason whatsoever other than to drive story points home for Don) or really, really terrible editing which goes in line with this season, for whatever reason.
If that were the case, and I was Mr. Weiner, heads would roll. And they should. Mostly because of how much time I just threw away!!
I just think it would be interesting to see Don rejecting an advance, even if it's just for a few episodes.
Progress in baby steps, as they say.
A couple of minor things to add:
Typical very nice Mad Men touch that working-class Dennis was planning to celebrate the birth of his first child with Johnnie Walker RED (the cheap JW).
Also liked the casual reveal (for the first time?)that old, lovable, eccentric Bert Cooper is racist to the bone.
Mad Men doesn't do on the nose like this.
Hey, I love "Mad Men" enough to write all that I write about it every week, but it is very much guilty of being on the nose at times, and was for a lot of this script (Hollis' ups/downs line, for instance). Most of the time, the show is so subtle that it can get people to look for meanings and plot developments that might not actually be there, but there are other times when the show puts a big blinking neon sign above its thematic moments. Don's conversation with Dennis was one of those times.
Since I think you're going down a rabbit hole on this, Manton, I'll just ask two questions and let the subject drop:
1)What do you feel is added to the episode by making Don and Dennis's interaction take place entirely inside Don's head? And, particularly, by doing it in such an apparently subtle way that you would need some basic knowledge about how film editing works to understand the one and only clue that it wasn't real?
2)Assuming that your thesis is right, and Dennis never talked to Don in the waiting room. If he and Don never spoke, why would the happy mood that he's in as he wheels his wife down the hall (presumably to see their son in the nursery) disappear? Why would his face turn ashen at the sight of a total stranger carrying flowers to some other new mom in the maternity ward? Wouldn't he either return the smile or, at least, not change expression? Isn't the only sensible explanation that he reacts to Don's presence because he knows Don and is thinking about the circumstances under which he knows him?
Great recap and helpful comments everyone.
This ep was 60s deja vu for me in so many ways, e.g., my dad making eggs and hash for just me and him, having to wave to my mother from the grass outside the hospital when my younger siblings were born, etc., wow.
Poor Peggy, even after 4 decades there's still not equal pay, at least where I worked for 32 years.
LOL about the Tarantino feet. I also thought it was very QT with that flash of Sally wiping the blood on her face.
For a sec there, I thought that Betty was going to go smother the baby in post partum depression, yow.
I also thought of the brief relationship aspect in the waiting room -- even before the scene in the hallway I thought, "those two will never speak again." It's just how those momentary sympatico things go sometimes. But that's not to say that I'm right. :-)
I like Hollis a lot.
Also it could have been he didn't want to upset Betty as she was on her way to the hospital since she had said she wanted to put Sally's problems at school behind her.
I think that Betty meant Gene's death.
I'm beginning to suspect that many fans view Betty Draper the same way her parents did. In a superficial manner. Why do a lot of fans expect her to be an ideal mother and yet, tolerate the flaws of other characters?
Someone had seen the final scene as a hint that Betty might become unhinged and harm the baby. Yet, many fans have failed to see her as a prisoner of her upbringing, her marriage and the expectations others have of her. Is this due to the fact that Betty is merely a houswife and not a professional like Peggy and Joan?
Betty's brand of motherhood does not strike me as monstrous or neglectful. It seems typical of her era. Yet, she seemed to be judged bu 21st century sensibilities because she interacts with children and is a woman. On the other hand, Don does not receive that many criticisms when it comes to his children. Yet, I feel that he is not really much of a parent, even based upon mid 20th century sensibilities.
I had asked several people who are part of Sally Draper's generation if parents were automatically expected to inform teachers about traumatic family events back in the 1960s. Those I had asked, never heard of such a thing. Which makes me wonder why Matt Weiner had allowed Miss Farrell to admonish the Drapers about failing to inform her about Gene's death.
K. said...
Susan: I can’t agree that Peggy is being manipulative or self-pitying as she touches the baby booties in Don’s office. I saw it as a moment of self-doubt more than anything else … sort of like, “Really? So the baby was what I was supposed to want, and not my career?” While Peggy’s career has been (and no doubt will continue to be) marked with moments of ambivalence like this, it’s important to remember she’s traveling a path where very few women have gone before her. She’s got a mentor or sorts in Don, but in this scene he had just let her down rather dismissively. She’s got a mentor of sorts in Joan, but she’s just as confused about the role she wants versus what she’s supposed to want as Peggy. In short, Peggy has a lot to figure out at a very young age, and it’s completely understandable to see her doubting herself and her decisions from time to time.
54cermak, I couldn’t agree more with your comment about the various methods and paces of change afoot in the 1960s. Socially, culturally and politically, the 1960s didn’t even begin in 1960 nor end in 1970, so to expect a television drama to neatly encapsulate all of the changes underway is, I think, a bit unrealistic.
I didn’t think Betty crushed the caterpillar, but that she clutched it in such a way that it couldn’t escape. I thought it was interesting that she was NOT pregnant during that part of her dream. Overall, I felt such sadness surrounding the birth and homecoming. Giving women a drug to help them “forget” the experience of childbirth, and then sending them home with a newborn with the expectation that now happily-ever-after-time begins, is misogyny bordering on cruelty. I think Betty’s in for a major bout of postpartum depression … of course, at a time when such a thing wasn’t even acknowledged. Talk about the deck being stacked against you.
Oldmandeac said...
There was a lot to Pete's scenes that should be mentioned -
In the elevator scene, Hollis says, "My name is Hollis, Mr. Campbell". Pete never offers his first name. Even though he wants Hollis' opinion and his demographic's money, it was an indication that Pete did not consider Hollis an equal - hence not on a first name basis.
Pete has always seen himself as an equal or superior to Don. Yet, his inability to sell Admiral on his mixed race ads and his being left speechless and looking silly is something you never would see in Don Draper. Don would have sold the idea, if it were his.
Pete has always seen himself as superior to Peggy, yet Peggy always upstages him. Peggy goes to her superior (Don) and pitches her value. Pete gets summoned by his superior (Roger with the others) and gets his head handed to him.
"And I think Dennis is cold to Don in the hallway simply because he's embarrassed to have revealed so much of himself to a total stranger. He even put his hands on Don's face, which just wasn't done between grown men in those days." [Alan]
Absolutely. I'm rather surprised that several people are getting rather carried away with the notion that Don's talk with Dennis could be a dream sequence, purely on the basis of the placement of a cup. I know we have come to expect only the best from Mad Men in terms of production values. But with the pressure of getting out weekly episodes on schedule (from all we've heard, mad Men is successful at this: no suggestion anywhere of schedule or cost overruns such as led to Aaron Sorkin leaving West Wing), there is bound to be the occasional slip up.
Here there might indeed have been a very, very minor error in editing, using a take they actually shot earlier later in the scene without due regard for cup holding. I can't imagine very many people are going to notice that (I didn't). In the same way they slipped up with the Compact Edition of the OED making an appearance before its publication date. These things happen. This is far more likely than a dream sequence that is not clearly tagged as such, as Mad Men always does. The idea of a narrative sequence later being exposed as a dream sequence that never really happened is not believable to me. Mad Men is not Dallas.
A lot of this episode felt to me like, “look, this is what it was like to give birth in 1962!” The drugs, the dad in the waiting room, the waving from the sidewalk. I found myself having more of a distant reaction to it because it felt so clearly “period detailed." Like, I was thinking less about Betty being alone in the room, distant from her waving family, and more wondering about whether they kept kids away from the baby in 1963 due to germ fears.
I think the "Hobart was a dream" thoughts are interesting, but I don't buy it. Perhaps his comments were a bit heavy-handed in relation to Don's situation, but that's a writing/plot flaw. I read the look in the hallway to mean that this supposedly tough guy was embarrassed that he confided his fears and hopes about fatherhood to a complete stranger, in the middle of the night, drunk.
I wonder if Duck is struggling at all at Grey. When the going got rough for him at Sterling Cooper, his response was to look to his last employer to step in. Perhaps that’s what he’s doing again, poaching from his last employer to save himself.
I also found that quick shot of Sally wiping the blood on her cheek to be odd and out of place. It reminded me of the shot of Joan spraying the ants last week, which also came and went so quickly that I was confused and taken out of the moment.
@jamfan, re: “Anyway, I just found it interesting that Roger went from clown last week to baby this week but then all the way back to grown-up.”
I didn’t think Roger seemed that grown up in the scene with Pete. It was Lane who asked if they could finish the “flogging” of Pete, and Roger said something like, “It’s never as fun as you think it’s going to be.”
Paul Outlaw said...
Grandpa Gene mopping: I’m glad someone finally pointed out that Gene was mopping up blood off Betty’s kitchen floor. That was one of several ominous clues that seemed to signify impending tragedy.
I would not say "impending" tragedy, but "recent" tragedy. If you look at Medgar Evers in that dream sequence, it seems clear from the blood on his clothing that it is his blood that Gene is mopping up.
Juanita J, Thank you, thank you for making these points about our current day filter of Betty. Thank you January Jones and Matt Weiner for your comittment to showing her story.
dc said...
Great blog, Alan... I've been poring over it every week since the start of Season 3. The only drag is I get my iTunes delivery at 4 AM, so I'm never in time for the initial discussion... hopefully people will scroll down this far...
I'm in agreement with Tesswpfd17 that Pete's dubious expression during the blackface performance indicates that he has a somewhat progressive attitude on race, or one that at least wouldn't have been seen at the time as especially bigoted. That said, it's still extraordinarily ham-fisted of him to corner Hollis in the elevator and demand that he be spokesperson for African America on the subject of television purchases. It reminds me of the first episodes with Peggy as copyrighter in season 1, where she was assumed to be representative of all women, everywhere.
I find myself beginning to understand Mad Men's trajectory on the topic of race. It looks like it's going to be an extraordinarily slow build, with civil rights themes only coming to the fore in seasons 4 or 5 (should we be so fortunate as to see those seasons). The effect will be pretty dramatic, as it gives Weiner the opportunity to demonstrate how much terrain separates the freshly-scrubbed, apple-cheeked optimism of 1960 from the turbulence of even just a couple of years afterwards. In that respect, the impact of this episode is pretty intense; we're moving into territory a little thicker than Paul Kinsey's flirtation with interracial dating in season 2.
I'll leave people with my lone complaint about the episode: if Duck is going to try to woo Peggy and Pete away from Sterling Coo, shouldn't he sport something a little less dowdy than that awful turtleneck? He was *not* dressed for a power lunch.
How do we know the black man in Betty's dream was Medgar Evers? Along with the date and the mention of Sally's questions about him (which Betty heard), the real Evers was shot by a sniper through the window of his house (cf. the film Ghosts of Mississippi) and the Mad Men Evers had the back of his bloody head to the window.
Name-check of Suzanne Farrell? Don't forget that Bert Cooper's sister is named Alice. The temptation to have fun with names like that must be irresistible.
"Stranger in a Strange Land"? Lane is more likely referring to the Bible verse from which Heinlein took his title, rather than the title itself. He probably sat through lots of Bible readings in the sort of English school he attended.
And yeah, many kinds of real caterpillars descend on visible strings.
WV: "verio" -- a misspelled songbird
if Duck is going to try to woo Peggy and Pete away from Sterling Coo, shouldn't he sport something a little less dowdy than that awful turtleneck?
I think the look Duck was going for was "swingin' 60s avant garde."
It did make Pete look stuck in the past by comparison.
(And could Trudi please help Pete pick out a decent suit that fits?)
It's fun in the rabbit hole. At the top, I'll just say that the edit sucked regardless, even if it was real (which is probably what happened). Like really, really sucked. It didn't match, at all. So again, boo the editing this season.
To your questions...
1)What do you feel is added to the episode by making Don and Dennis's interaction take place entirely inside Don's head?
Because it's a device that allows the audience to see Don's thinking, like any dream sequence. More so, we would see the two sides of Don's head: the way he wants to see his life, his family, the new baby (embodied by Hobart) and the reality of who he really is.
Why did they specifically needed a dream sequence? Things that have been brought up earlier: out of character for both men at the time to be so open, how pointed and specific it is to Don and seemingly Don alone, and the last part with Hobart making sure Don said that he'd be a better man, too. Maybe you would do that after polishing off a bottle of Red Label, but I'm not totally sure.
This one comes down to perception of human interaction, so we might never disagree on this specific point. If you do the converse, why would he be so ashamed, especially with the emotions of having a child and drinking so much, to see Don? Why didn't he at least return the smile and put his head down?
I think it's logical that someone smiles at you and you avert your eyes. It's happened to me on the subway, walking in the street, etc. It's odd to match the emotions of a stranger at times.
I think you can enforce my position by how Don takes it, confused as to why he didn't respond. Wouldn't the scene say everything it needs to with the non-reaction and a cut to Don walking into the room? Plus, with Betty having hallucinations, is it so crazy (sorry for word choice) to think that the show would have Don reciprocate and get into his own head as well?
Now does this argument change the story? No, not at all. But what if this was a dream sequence, and it's revealed as such later on. That certainly shades the Don Draper character another way: he's so good at lying, he can now convince himself. And we know how this show favors character over story....
In the end, I'm happy to be part of provoking such an exasperated tweet :) Thanks for the conversation, the space to do it, and the great review, Alan.
@Manton = Stop thinking so hard. The whole dream sequence theory hinges on the fact that a piece of an extra's leg wasn't shown for a few frames - maybe he'd gotten up and went to the bathroom?
Mad Men has very specific rules and procedures that are followed to denote dream sequences. It is meticulously done, as you noted before - that's why it's so great!
Occam's Razor is always applicable in times like these: most people that occur on screen are, in fact, real people. Especially when we see them appear later on in the episode.
@sepinwall
Excellent review, as per usual. Having watched this show from the beginning, I am just as amazed as you by people complaining about the "lack of action/development" so far this year. I think that people who make comments like these are generally those who picked up the show late. They had the luxury of watching 4 or 5 episodes in a row on DVD; having whole story arcs hashed out for them in a day or two. But the true Mad Men fan knows it doesn't work like that. Week after week, developments and trickle little by little, until the dam breaks. Then a year or some unspecified amount of time goes by and it starts all over again. We see drips with Hollis and Pete in the elevator, drops of Medgar Evers...all the while knowing the flood is coming with the I Have a Dream Speech. Same re: Roger's invitations and Kennedy.
It's been a wonderful season so far, and the fact that your meticulous reviews are on par with the show's attention to detail belies your own fascination.
PanAm53 said...
I am trying to keep up with all these great posts, while attempting to get ready to leave for a 10 day vacation tomorrow.
However, this episode was so strong that I felt I must take the time to post. In my opinion "The Fog" is thus far the best episode of Season 3.
They got the birthing experience of the 60's so spot on, that I will allow a little poetic license for some minor details.
Re the Hobarts' baby: Mrs. Hobart was not going home when they passed Don in the hall. She seemed to be dressed in a long robe. Also, if she was being discharged, a staff member would have been pushing the wheelchair. No, the Hobarts were going down to the nursery to view their son through the nursery window. At that time, babies were only brought to the mother's room for feedings. There were very strict visiting hours...no visiters, including fathers during feeding times. The father only saw the baby through the nursery window. I strongly agree that the interaction between Don and Dennis was real, and that Dennis later regretted it.
You're right, gypsy howell; I guess I'm so enamored of the "rat pack" look sported by the Sterling Coo regulars that I forget how backwards it would come to look in a couple of years, when everyone starts dressing like the Byrds or the Stones.
"But what if this was a dream sequence, and it's revealed as such later on." [Manton]
They don't do that - thank God. They occasionally set things up to allow us to jump to conclusions (is that Peggy's baby?...no) which are put right later on, but to trick us with a narrative sequence that later on is shown to be a dream? You're just making that up. It's never happened in this show, and would pull the rug from under its own feet, not only ours. The show is grounded in reality, not nonsense. As I said above, Mad Men is not Dallas. Enough.
@Manton: ...out of character for both men at the time to be so open...
But not at all out of character for Don to open up to a stranger. That's often when we get the most revealing tidbits about his life. I don't think it was a dream, if only because I don't see what purpose it would serve to make it that complicated.
"the fact that your meticulous reviews are on par with the show's attention to detail belies your own fascination." [Coleman]
Did you really mean "belies", Coleman? "gives false impression, shows to be false" [Encarta]. Not the opposite (underlines, confirms)? I'm a bit puzzled.
I forget how backwards it would come to look in a couple of years, when everyone starts dressing like the Byrds or the Stones.
I'm really kind of dreading the day we have to see Don in white bell bottoms, electric blue nehru jacket and long sideburns. {{{shudder}}}
Roger does have the best bang for the buck lines. His Ann-Margaret line from last week.
This week's line about flogging an underling not being as fun as one thinks made me think of HBO's Rome where they would routinely and casually have the roman aristocrats flogging slaves as they casually held conversations with other aristocrats. They also would casually throw out lines like that.
I never got that opinion. I find the idea of Pete considering himself superior to Don, while longing for the older man's approval rather hard to accept.
Looking back, I took the comment from the guard about Don being an honest man fitting, because it seemed like the male bonding equivalent of a junior high school girl telling a fast friend "you're my best friend."
Between the drinking, smoking, and the harrowing/stressful delivery conditions, it's a wonder babies ever came out right back in the day!
@berkowit28
oops, you're right.
shame on me.
...and i deleted it the first time I posted because of a spelling error. Then I did it again by spelling your name wrong. I hope this last one is error-free...
dcesq said...
I may not be remembering this correctly, but I thought that during Season 1, Betty said something to Don about walking around all day "in a fog" thinking about him (brushing her teeth, drinking her milk...). If I'm right about that, seems like this title and concept was an interesting way of bringing us full circle back to Season 1 and showing that very little has truly changed in the Draper home...
To be respectful to others who don't get the inside references (I hate it when I am the one not getting the joke), I thought I would provide the links to the Blah Blah reference:
How I Met Your Mother Hot/Crazy Scale:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OAHvQKDddU
With Teacher Blah Blah drunkenly calling Don at Home in the Chekovian manner Alan described, she is not only Blah Blah, she is on the Hot/Crazy scale that Barney talks about and what Don is often attracted to (season 1, throw TV out the window type of crazy)
At the Chuck session at Comic Con 2009, the producers of Chuck made an intro video for the panel that Alan himself was moderating that used the line "Sepinwall will destroy us" at 6:07ish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwp0XGPtZ2w
When Chuck was renewed for a third season after much anguish, NBC president said on the conference call with critics and reporters that it was in part because of Alan's efforts. I believe he is no longer the president of NBC, such is the Kaiser Soze like influence of our Alan.
Love MM, Love the Blog, Love the comments and discourse
RachelP said...
Even though I know this show is fiction, I like to imagine that somewhere, out there, there is an impossibly handsome 46 year old man who prefers not to tell people that his first name is "Eugene."
Mrs. H. said...
Yes, thank you for commenting on and defending Betty. She's a complicated cat.
The closing scene with her in the shadow of bars created by the banister reminds me of Susan Minot's Monkeys. Parenthood as prison. Oh, those middle of the night feedings. And she, like so many mothers of the era, is not breast feeding so she'll be warming innumerable bottles and changing all of those presumably cloth diapers. Just when she was getting some freedom back (children in school, ability to take up riding again, even telling Don Juan to beat it for a while) it's back to nappy duty, sleep deprivation and tedium.
While she may be childish in the ways that she deals with things, let's not forget that she has a Bryn Mawr College degree as well as years in NYC as a model under her belt. I don't know what she majored in but it certainly wasn't Home Ec at a state school (sorry, Mom) so there must be more knocking around that head than we see as she plays her role of Mother/Wife.
And Betty's example for motherhood and wifely duties is straight from a Victorian era. The way her mother looked and spoke to her said volumes.
She is the female Pete - the Dartmouth grad for whom everything came easily. Then, the end of his adolescence arrives in that he has to prove himself to the made men (and women) who surround him. Maybe this third child and her being without parents will represent the end of her rather prolonged adolescence.
Finally, my husband wants me to get a dress like the one she wore in her caterpillar dream sequence.
You're right Susan, kids were not allowed in the hospital rooms to visit poeple back then due to the germs, or at least that's what they told us kids. In addition to not being able to visit my mother after giving birth, my dad was in the hospital a couple times and we couldn't visit him either. Most of the time we didn't even get to go into the lobby. I'm glad times have changed in that way.
Betty's behavior isn't really typical of the era, but perhpas it was for her WASPy class or station. The regular middle class moms were much more in touch with their "careers" at home (altho they were sometimes susceptable to that "19th Nervous Breakdown"). A very accurate contemporary portrayal of wives/moms back then is the 11th episode of "From The Earth To The Moon", which shows the astronauts' wives holding down all aspects of the homefront like cheerful octopuses, understanding that their family's well being depended on them keeping it all together while Dad worked most of the time, which was not unlike the average 60s housewife with commuting husbands. Granted, the astronaut wives had their own issues that degraded their psyche, and the difference is well described by the wives in "The Right Stuff", in the comment about the difference between "cut-throat" office jobs vs the perils of test flights.
I agree about telling the teacher personal family business as being pretty odd, people were much more private then, than they are now. Always TMI nowadays.
Now I've only watched this episode once, but I'm pretty sure Hobart had a black eye when he was wheeling his wife down the hall. Although all of the "dream" theories are interesting, I think there's a bit of over-analyzing going on. Hobart said he wanted a new start and to be better for his child.The black eye is a big red flag that says he's still getting in trouble.
Yet, many fans have failed to see her as a prisoner of her upbringing, her marriage and the expectations others have of her. Betty's brand of motherhood ... seems typical of her era. Yet, she seemed to be judged by 21st century sensibilities... Don does not receive that many criticisms when it comes to his children...he is not really much of a parent, even based upon mid 20th century sensibilities.
In response to Juanita's Journal, I completely agree with your take on Betty as a product of her upbringing. As a child of the 60's I would like to say that women were given a clear message by their doctors (& their husbands) that childrearing, like the rest of society's aims (remember this was the Sputnik era –the dawning of science/technology as the cure for all society’s ills)was to be viewed objectively, not emotionally. Women were told that the scientific, medical establishment (i.e. all male) knew more about raising children than mothers. Overindulged, emotional, "intuitive" parenting was considered wrong – as a parent now, I often joke with others who grew up in the 60’s, about where the adults were in our lives –mothers were all at home but not interacting with the kids, dads were in the city working, & teachers were never out on the playground during our 1+ hours of recess. Just like Sally, there was an unwritten expectation that children of any age were to solve (or more often, ignore) their problems. Also, there was a clear difference re: the freedom given to boys versus girls. From what we’ve seen of Gene, & Betty, I’m sure she grew up extremely sheltered. It was not uncommon for someone of Betty’s social strata to have worked for a year or 2 as a means of getting out in the world (the better to find a husband) or possibly to go to a strict 2-year college before marrying. Therefore, Betty was probably only a working model for a few months to a year or 2. This means that she was most likely only 20 or 21 when she married Don & found herself thrust into the responsibilities of being a wife & then a parent, after a lifetime of being “daddy’s little girl.”
Didn’t Betty say to her psychiatrist that she was angry at her mother –the woman who had so much advice regarding finding a husband - for dying before telling her what to do afterward?
I’d also like to offer the opinion that what viewers are reacting to so strongly is not so much Betty’s behavior toward her kids but the lack of emotion behind it. Neglect, at least compared with today’s parenting standards, may have been part of growing up in the 60’s, but most of us knew our mothers loved us & were conflicted by the advice they received re: not overindulging our emotional needs. Clearly, Betty, is missing the maternal love we would like to see. This, probably, adds to her guilt & feelings of isolation.
After all, from Betty’s perspective she played the game by all the rules. She grew up to be sweet & beautiful –didn’t get fat as her mother predicted –landed a successful, handsome, smart man who could provide for her as her father had. She keeps her house clean, takes care of her kids, has dinner on the table when (or if) Don arrives home, has sex when he wants, doesn’t outshine him in any arena, doesn’t cheat on him, and yet her life is not being lived “happily ever after,” as all the books, TV shows, & Disney movies of the era indicate is due to women like her. This realization is what. I think, spawned the women’s lib movement that grew throughout the 60’s & 70's.
Sorry for making this so long – I think we need to view Betty as either a young “work in progress,” or, hopefully not, a casualty of the time when Valium was becoming popularly known as “mother’s little helper.”
McMann & Tate.... Darren Steven's office in Bewitched????
If you don't read all the comments, you don't get to comment, Pamela. Them's the rules.
Baby steps, indeed, gypsy. Don is allowing Miss Farrell to pursue him. Don seemed ambivalent in his encounter with the stewardess in episode 1. Either he wasn't all that interested in her (too much like Betty) or he was making some kind of effort to control himself. Even in the hotel room, he seemed to lack passion and I think it's possible they didn't even have sex, the fire bell being a welcome interruption so that Don had an excuse to just move on. I get the sense that he knows he needs to be more "respectful" of Betty, but it's tough. Ridiculously handsome, successful, powerful, rich, Don could have his pick of women.
I think that Don and Betty's marriage is so troubled that sex is unlikely satisfying for either one of them. I also believe Don views his wife in the classic Madonna scenario where he can never truly get into it with his with her. His remarks last season when she lost her modeling job were a reference to what a beautiful, loving mother he thinks she is and he would have given anything to have had a mother like that when he was a kid. He needs to see her that way and this inhibits their sexual relationship. When they were in a hotel on Valentine's Day and he seemed to have trouble performing, she made excuses for him (we had too much to drink) and also said she wished he would tell her what to do. They are out of touch with each other in a number of ways.
He gravitates toward strong women (Betty is definitely weak) who are ahead of their time (Betty is definitely a throwback.)
Don's infidelity (and Betty's for that matter) is more about the state of their marriage than it is a character flaw with Don. I don't believe he is a serial adulterer.
7s Tim said...
Just wanted to highlight a couple of my fav parts that haven't gotten much attention here, what with diversions into possible dream scenarios. Roger's every line in this episode was funny, from "Dada" to "hand-job" to "never as much fun". But the best line still goes to Dream Betty, when, like a little child, she informs her mother "I left my lunchpail on the bus...and I'm having a baby." just great. I really liked the drug fueled dreams Betty was having, especially the way Gene was shot to look so big, like to a child.
Oh, and I prefer to think of Betty's bug friend as an Inchworm, which granted is a caterpillar.
The best thing this episode did was have people (either real or hallucinatory) remind both the Drapers and us the viewers, that the problems that Don and Betty each have are essentially the same: their inability to be happy. Betty's dead parents tell her to be thankful for what she has, and Peggy is blatantly jealous of the life Don leads (although perhaps partially since it is so denied herself), yet the Drapers only see the prison they are in (to steal the episode's own motif). Good episode, even if the poor editing choice in the waiting room left the possibility fro some confusion. And even though it was a bit out of place, the flash to a blood smearing Sally was just kinda kick ass.
jenae said...
This blog is better than the AMC one, I think. I found it by googling "Mad Men" and "Suzanne Farrell." (Doesn't it seem off to give the name of a famous ballerina of the mid-sixties to Sally's teacher?)
I thought Alan's joke about Chekhov was very funny. (It’s nice to see a funny joke that's free of malice.) Also Zack H.'s comment about Betty is insightful.
I've been reading the AMC blog with trepidation. While Roger is not a deep fellow and so far we haven't seen great depth from Jane either, I have been hoping and sort of trusting Weiner et al to deal with their relationship in a three dimensional way. (If you listen to the commentary that accompanies their hotel room scene in season 2, you’ll hear that in Matt’s view they are really attached to each other and he loves exploring that dynamic, going outside the stereotype.) I myself have been married for 15 years to someone older than myself (unlike Roger he didn't abandon anyone to be with me, his romantic history in fact is one of loyalty and not being the one to leave)--anyway, I have a personal interest in whether they will develop the relationship of R & J in a three dimensional way. Clearly she's not mother Theresa or a rocket scientist, but when posters on the AMC blog start referring to her as "nothing but a bimbo" I think and hope they will be surprised as the show evolves, simply because the mad men team is too smart to think that anyone is "nothing but a (fill in flimsy label)". All personalities are complex; even someone as shallow as Rodger is complex in his contradictions. (E.g. he clearly, visibly got in touch with his love for Mona after the heart attack, then a stray train of thought about how nice it would be to fall in love again led him to overturn his whole life in such a haphazard way.)
I'm glad to find a blog where people are discussing the show with the same kind of depth the creators bring to writing it.
Good thoughts on Roger. He may get the lion's share of the best lines in Mad Men. His comment to his attorney that he didn't want to die with that woman (Mona) showed me that his health problems scared him to the point he realized time is short, life is too short to be unhappy, and if he thinks a 20-year-old secretary is going to make him happy, he is going to go for it.
Tim had an interesting thought that Betty and Don are unable to be happy. Very good way to describe them. Roger Sterling, on the other hand, is able to be happy.
I don't believe Jane is a completely shallow person. Remember the words she wrote lying in bed that one day? Roger asked her who wrote it and she told him not to be surprised that she had, it was insulting to be treated that way. There are no one dimensional characters on Mad Men. They are all complex as real people tend to be. If they appear shallow, it's simply because we haven't seen enough of them yet.
wescovington said...
I remember even back in 1975, the doctors had to make a special exception to allow me (who was just 10) to visit my mom in the hospital on Christmas Day. She had been hospitalized for detached retina surgery.
I recall that it was a very big deal for the hospital to allow this.
My mother also gave birth to rather large babies (who grew up to be rather tall adults). My brother born in 1962 was a few ounces shy of 10 lbs and was 22 or 23 inches in length. As my mom looked at him through the nursery window, another mom remarked "I would hate to have been the one who gave birth to that thing."
My mother was also denounced by some as "a cavewoman" for choosing to breastfeed her children.
I think by the time I came around in 1965, there was less of a stigma.
dez said...
I thought Hollis was saying that to cut off Pete, who seemed about to say, "Call me 'Pete.'" IIRC, Hollis emphasized the "Mr. Campbell" when he spoke, as if he wanted to keep the barrier between them intact. This is based on one viewing, mind you.
To whoever asked above: That was Betty's friend Francine (Anne Dudek) helping out at home.
Anyone wonder if they will call the baby "Scott" and not Gene? (Eugene Scott Draper)
As long as they don't call him "Dr."...
Yes, I agree with imamarilyn, Mad Men generally finds the nuances of all the characters. I didn't mean to say that Jane was especially shallow. I'm wary of making any claims for them as individuals or as a couple, as people can be so harsh when there's a so-called May / Dec situation.
I think it's very unfair but all too common that if a woman is beautiful and young, she's assumed to be a bimbo, and then she has to be a paragon of intelligence and virtue to shake off that stigma. Jane isn't a paragon of intelligence and virtue, but she isn't evil and stupid either (as younger wives are so often portrayed to be). She's a fairly normal young woman who happens to be exceptionally beautiful. And her beauty caught the eye of Roger.
I think her infatuation / love for him is real, though since he really is not a very consequent or thoughtful person (in my opinion), I doubt that what I would call true love could evolve between them, unless he changes. She's young and assumably will change. I hope the show will deal with them in a sensitive way. Not hide their flaws--that absurd black face scene, for instance--but not allow them to become less fully human than all the other characters. The depth of characterization is the great strength of the show. Don's character, and his rather tortured journey, especially is I think one of the most complex and moving in the history of TV.
I can see that this blog could quickly get addictive, Especially if one tries to follow The Rules. Feel like I'm playing hookie; may have to go cold turkey.
I think Juanita's Journal has it wrong. It's always a bad idea to generalize about how people are thinking, and accusing people of looking at Betty superficially just because they don't agree with you is beneath the level of discussion at this site.
I thought this episode was weaker than the last two because it focused on Betty, but it's not because I filter Betty through a 21st century lens. It's because she is uninteresting and I don't care about her, which is how quite a few people feel. At some point her simplicity becomes a dead end, and that happened last year.
I also thought the dream sequences felt too Soprano-ish to succeed. That they were Betty's didn't help.
I happy if they tread water if they have episodes as strong as the previous two, which clicked beautifully.
Thanks to one of the posters above who posted the link to a 1960s Ebony magazine. It was very interesting to peruse some of the writings as well as the ads of the time. Thanks!
And I don't know about Jane. She wanted to be Don's mistress before she settled with the older guy Roger. I doubt her love for him is that genuine.
What I do miss is Roger and Joan scenes.
And, glad to know I'm not the only one who still cares about Betty. There's something so inherently sad about Betty that is fascinating and tragic to watch. While I wouldn't ask her to babysit my kids anytime soon, I don't think her particular mode of motherhood is all that outrageous or different from other mothers of the time. And Betty has no (or doesn't realize she has in the eyes of the society an) escape - she has no other life other than her being a mom. It's one big fog. I'd go crazybadmom too on my kids if that were me stuck in that time.
I don't think it was in this comments section, you're all much too bright... But somewhere someone posited the idea that Dennis scowled at Don because he suspected that their babies were switched! Which brings me to ask you all: Anyone else remember the hilarious "That's My Boy?" episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show that was aired in September, 1963? Remember the punchline? I was Sally's age when I saw it first-run, and Rob Petrie's face when he opens the door still makes me laugh out loud to this day...
TimmyD said...
The whole Don/Dennis dream sequence is interesting and reminds me of the discussion over at House Next Door from last year about whether a date given on the episode "Three Sundays" was a mistake or purposeful (which would have made a few scenes out of sequence).
Alan posted that he talked to some Mad Men people and it was just a plain mistake. Makes me realize that no matter how good this show is they do make mistakes. So a bad edit isn't out of question. I remember thinking there was no way Matt Weiner would let the show air with a wrong date and it must have been intentional but I was wrong. Mistakes are mistakes.
Here's the link to the episode review by Andrew Johnston.
http://www.thehousenextdooronline.com/2008/08/mad-men-mondays-season-two-episode-4.html
People, it's obvious why Hobart scowled at Don in the hospital hallway. After Don got the call that his baby had been born, Hobart must have returned to the waiting room, where he began to read the magazine article that ended on the back of the car ad Don ripped out. Destroying waiting-room reading material is the sort of antisocial behavior that can really get you snubbed. Just ask Dr. Melfi.
[meta-comment]
So if Pamela Jaye starts her next attempt to comment with "I have now read all the comments amd still feel that..."it will be allowed to stand, yes? Rather than (presumably) defending why she can't be bothered to read. (I've missed the originals after her first attempt.) Just checking whether people get automatically removed after a first lapse of the rules. If not, they can "sneak one in" for a time. If so, they may not get a chance to atone (or would they be posted after review)?
RE: Peggy's raise
While Peggy undoubtedly deserves to be paid more if she's not making much more than her secretary, she still wouldn't be in line to make as much as Kinsey even in today's day and age. Not only has been a copywriter longer (and a Sterling-Cooper employee longer), he's also a Yale graduate while she's a secratarial school grad. So while there's definite sexism going on here, there's also legitimate reasons for Peggy to be lower on the pay scale.
I'm not sure if that's appropro of anything, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
I think I have the explanation why Hobart looked away from Don. I actually thought of it after I saw the scene but haven't seen anyone mention it elsewhere so I started to have my doubts. Here it goes:
-Hobary tells Don he can spot "Criminals" and the like and instantly knows Don is an "honest" man.
-When Betty is heavily medicated she tells the nurse that Don is never to be found and asks the Nurse if she's "been with" Don. In the background we hear ANOTHER woman yelling in potential childbirth. This would be Hobart's wife (we see no other husbands in the waiting area).
-I think Hobart's wife heard everything that Betty said. Who knows what else she said about Don while she was drugged?
-Hobart's wife just relays that juicy gossip to her husband ("you woundn't believe what that woman was saying about her husband.." or the like).
-Hobart knows he's been duped. Don's a cheater and an awful husband. So much for him being able to judge a person's character or truthfullness.
-Consequently, we see Hobart very happy when he's with his wife. However, when he sees Don, he feels like he was duped and hence the look of shame and disappointment. Also, he ain't exactly going to give a high five to Don. After all, his wife knows he's a cheating, absent husband and his wife wouldn't approve.
I'd be very surprised if the reason Hobart looked away from Don was anything other than shame and embarrassment from having been too open with Don while they were both drunk. I understand the impetus for looking for deeper meaning when it comes to "Mad Men," but I think some of the theories posited simply aren't supported by what we saw onscreen.
Captcha: yalfun - fun with y'all :-)
@Manton
I don't usually pick up on continuity errors, but back in season 1 when Don was agonizing over how to market Israeli tourism, during his lunch with Rachel, his old-fashioned move around the table every time the perspective shifted. I chalked it up to the scene being shot out of sequence and edited as a conversation. By your logic, the moving cup should have clued me into the slipping into and out of a dream state.
Re Duck, he may be struggling, but that is surely his office if they're letting him hang his ducks there.
I agree with dez as to why Hobart looked away (though the gossip explanation is interesting).
Did Jane want to be Don's mistress? I see now what you mean, the attempt to get candid with him over his stay at the Roosevelt while fighting with Betty.
I guess I'm following M.W.'s lead, as he narrated the hotel scene between R & J by repeatedly saying they were "really attached to each other" and that Jane's "not a gold-digger." However, this is not the May / Dec story I would be telling myself. I'm writing a series of such stories (both directions, older women with younger men also) and my heroines are generally more clearly earnest and introspective than Jane, who, other than her young-sounding but sweet and good-enough for a 20 yr old poem and fairly sophisticated comment that Roger shouldn't underestimate her, has in fact been a bit bimbo-ish, e.g. in her willingness to use Roger's initial attraction to her to save her job. But I applaud the show for making her a normal, flesh and blood person, not a raving caricature.
The question of whether Betty is interesting in her underdeveloped plight is a good one. I’m on the fence. I had hoped something more would come of her confession to her analyst in season one, that she would teach him to forget Freud and learn about her actual concerns and he'd help her find herself, that they'd become allies. I was very moved by that idea.
I think don has at least a vague idea of who he is but is crippled by the fact that he thinks he can tell no one (his secrecy drove his brother to suicide, and he has never confided that terrible event to anyone, not even his one confidant, Anna). Betty's problem is that she doesn't have even a rudementary idea who she is. If these two could talk to each other, they could find themselves together, but everything is against them ever doing that.
I said cold turkey, huh? Well, I'm sick today, so I guess it's okay. (But no more!) Maybe I'll have to unsubscribe ‘til next week. Think I’ll do that, and not bend your collective ears any further. ;)
I missed Joan.
As a mother, I find Betty/Bets/Elizabeth's scenes fascinating. Every scene after Don is sent to the waiting room felt so desolate to me. She was even having to fill out her own admission paperwork? That just ain't right! :)
I felt so sorry for Betty when she was alone in the delivery room, listening to the patient in the other room scream through her own delivery. I cannot imagine sitting there, knowing what pain awaited you and not having anyone with you to give you comfort. It didn't even seem like the drugs were very comforting. I could see the fear, and maybe a smidgen of anger at what she was about to have to go through, on January Jones' face. Great acting.
There was also a subtle reminder when she corrected the nurse about the mountains/islands that, no matter how inmature Betty is, or how bad of a mother/wife the viewer might think she is, the woman has a brain.
The scene that broke my heart was when Betty and Don got home with the baby and Sally plopped down as close as possible to her mom. Betty looked at her (down her nose, I might add) and continued her conversation with her friend.
Someone mentioned that Betty will be the woman that doesn't change with the 60's. I believe the adjective used was 'brittle.' (Please don't make me find the comment; I promise I read them all!) I disagree. I would think, between Betty and Don, she would be more likely to embrace change than Don.
I was thinking the other day that it is unrealistic for Sterling Cooper to retain the same employees for an entire decade. That the lineup has stayed mostly the same for 3 years is, in itself, amazing. Don starting his own shop, or Peggy or Pete leaving seems very likely. In fact, the three of them leaving to start one together is a very appealing idea to me.
I would think, between Betty and Don, she would be more likely to embrace change than Don.
I need to add to my own comment: especially when you consider how restricting and unsatisfying her life has turned out to be.
Also, I think Don didn't tell Betty who called and why because 1) how the conversation at the school upset Betty 2) why upset her when she's in labor? I saw this as him protecting Betty instead of him being deceitful. I don't want to see him sleep with the teacher but I'm sure it's an inevitability.
I agree with belinda that Betty is tragic. She is my favorite character because she so perfectly embodies the upper middle class housewife of the day. January Jones does a fabulous job with this very complicated character. She is intelligent but very emotionally stunted and immature. Seeing Ruth last night and hearing her words, "This is what happens to people who speak up" helped shed more light on what Betty is all about. And she passes it down to Sally who was in so much pain over losing her grandfather in episode 4. Sally had an outburst which Betty deemed hysterical" and was sent off to watch tv. Betty is so cold to
her children, even by the standards of that day, yet she is
never an evil caricature.
From Jan:
I agree with Gypsy Howell at 1:00 PM that the fact that Don tells Betty that "no one" was on the phone is suspicious. Also, just before his wife called him, he had a very relaxed, sexy, flirty tone when she apologized and he said something like, "You're all right." Then as soon as his wife called him, he quickly hung up. I think he's attracted, and she certainly is. Where it will go, who knows?
Re the name Suzanne Farrell: while there was a famous dancer by that name, it's not inconceivable that someone named Farrell might name a baby Suzanne just because it sounded good together. I teach, and every so often I run into a name of a person who is now famous, but who wouldn't have been when the name was given.
I agree with the earlier poster that the details of the classroom were spot on. Oh, I remember the Palmer method of handwriting, and I had a desk just like those in some grade school classroom. Brings back memories of eating paste, which we all loved to do in those days.
At first I thought that something had happened to Dennis's baby, but the nurse had said everything was fine, so maybe not. Certainly many people reveal the most intimate details of their lives to complete strangers on a bus or plane. The safety is that you will NEVER see those people again. Then if you were to meet someone in another context after being so revealing, it would be very uncomfortable for at least one of the parties. I'm with those who say the waiting room was not a dream sequence, BTW.
And the details of childbirth also brought back memories I'd rather forget. Fathers weren't allowed in the delivery room at all, and women were kept in the hospital for several days--not up to two weeks, as they had been in the past, but in 1960 the average stay was 5 days. I was in for a week because of toxemia, and I'm sure that wasn't unusual. Although I don't know how much time had passed since the birth when we saw them going down the hall, I had the impression that it hadn't been that long, and his wife certainly wouldn't have been going home so quickly.
Great comments from everyone. I'm in the process of watching the episode again, and it's interesting how much more I pick up after reading the blog and all the comments from others. This time I noticed more stripes with the shadows from the blinds in the hospital room--lots and lots of bars in this episode.
A comment about the quick view of Sally smearing blood on her cheek. I agree it was an out of "character" scene for Mad Men, but it fit into this episode if you imagine it was a hallucination of Betty's upon hearing about Sally's actions. Betty seems to be going slightly mad throughout this episode even before she is injected with drugs. For instance, while she is being wheeled into the hospital room, she sees a man mopping and calls out "daddy". (And then sees him mopping again, this time blood, in the twilight sequence.) Her hands got numb as they did in season 1, again before the drugs.
I found it amazing how put together she managed to look on going to the hospital, and on the return home in her pink suit. She always looks so perfect on the outside, even when she claims to look upset.
On another topic -- maybe Duck's office looked fake to avoid the need for an entire new set just for that one scene.
Hannah Lee said...
Though Pete's marketing acumen is sharp he is still very much out of touch as it relates to dealing with blacks as evidenced by the conversation with Hollis.
I think you could take the word "blacks" and replace it with "anyone" and you still would have a pretty good description of Pete. Poor guy just doesn't know how to relate to anybody. He does seem to have a good opportunistic business sense; maybe he just didn't get the "emotional intelligence" chip in his robot firmware set. Maybe he'll get an upgrade some day.
The dream sequences reminded me of The Sopranos also, but reminded me of Six Feet Under even more...just something about the way they were shot and the way Gene was mopping the floor and Medgar Evans was sitting calmly at the kitchen table while Betty's dead mother dressed his wounds. (Maybe Peggy's moment fingering the tiny bootie brought SFU to mind, too?)
Yes...she's a very important housecat, after all. In her dreams she admires a pretty creature, and then pounces on it and crushes it...like a housecat let outdoors nabbing birds under a feeder. Not malicious or with emotion, just reflexive, instinctual. To be honest, though, I really didn't get that scene of her floating down the sidewalk. The dream sequence of her in the kitchen was a little easier to make sense of.
Everyone has gotten so fixed on Betty and the Don/Hobart scene that I don't think the Duck poaching his prior employees has gotten enough ink. Remember Duck? - his strength was always in his contacts, whom he knew, never any latent talent or abilities of his own. (And those contacts rarely worked out to the level of his bragging.) His sad, sterile office telegraphed to me that he's not doing well at all, so he's falling back on old tricks: trying to elevate himself by virtue of being the entree to this fab new talent. And he's sunk to the point he can only approach youngsters? And this being Duck, neither side is going to profit as much from the interchange as he professes they will. If Peggy or Pete go to Duck's new agency, they will NOT be the hot shots he promises; if his agency hires them, they will NOT be bringing the long list of clients Duck has undoubtedly said they will.
I like this season better than the first 2. I think the show has earned the hype it gets, even though it still irks me that a show about whites in the 1960s gets so much love while The Wire was never even nominated for best drama.
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After a year and a half of relentless gigging with no recorded music to their name, Bristol’s indie rockers IOTA have finally released their debut single ‘My Enemy’. This strident critique of life in a society ‘brainwashed’ by the media neatly captures the spirit of the band, preserving the polished-yet-raw spark the group radiates in live shows. It has serious grunge sensibilities, with its soft, eerie verses framing a heavy guitar-driven chorus. ‘My Enemy’ still sounds fresh and modern, though, with its catchiness giving it potential for mainstream rock radio play. It comes as no surprise that the track has already been spotted by Classic Rock Magazine and featured in its weekly new music playlist amongst names like Pixies and Perry Farrell.
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Bulgaria Employs Online Tools to Ensure Safe and Fair Elections
BY Jessica McKenzie | Thursday, May 9 2013
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While some activists threaten violence in the run up to Bulgaria’s upcoming election on May 12, others have created online tools to help inform voters and safeguard the electoral process.
The election was supposed to take place in July, but it was bumped up after Prime Minister Bokyo Borisov and his center-right GERB party resigned in February following mass protests over low living standards, high utility bills and corruption. In spite of the demonstrations, it seems as though the GERB will be voted back into the Bulgarian parliament, which has some Bulgarian activists planning protests for Sunday’s election.
Many Bulgarians are disenchanted with their country’s politics entirely. Deyan Enchev, a student Reuters interviewed in Sofia, said, “I already voted at the previous elections and I saw that nothing changed. On the contrary, it got worse.” Global Voices Online chronicled other examples of voter skepticism and disillusionment.
There are also questions regarding the fairness of the upcoming election, says Global Voices Online, and in response at least four online tools popped up to deal with voting issues.
The Institute for Public Environment Development, a Bulgarian nonprofit that promotes citizen participation in government, created a mobile app called “I vote.” The platform informs users of their voting rights and obligations and will let them monitor the fairness of the election – no specifics (at least in English) on what the monitoring will involve.
An Ushahidi-powered crowdmap “For Fair Elections” will gather reports of violations submitted via Facebook, Twitter and email. To date there are already 28 reports. A website titled Public Campaign Against Buying and Controlling the Vote will collect election-related news and updates and also inform visitors on how to combat corruption. The website makes use of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Finally, in addition to the three online or mobile tools, Global Voices points out that netizens can share information about the election by using the following hashtags: #bgizbori2013, #izbori2013 and #izbori.
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So it's been a little while since I've put up one of these, huh? Sorry about that! I lent my camera to my in-laws so they could take pictures of all the hurricane damage in their house for the insurance companies and so I couldn't take pictures. I know, that's really know excuse because the internet does have pictures on it that I could have used (and it's not like I used real live photos every time either).
But, I got a little overwhelmed. And then the more I'd wait, the more books I'd get and then it just sort of snowballed from there. So here's a selection of what I've been finding room for on my shelves for the past, oh, month or so.
Click here to see my previous indulgences.
The Fire Horse Girl
by Kay Honeyman
I'm still not sure if this is the right book for me. The description begins with, "A fiery and romantic adventure, perfect for fans of Grace Lin, Kristen Cashore, or Lisa See!" And I am TOTALLY down with "a fiery and romantic adventure" but I have no clue who Grace Lin is, Kristen Cashore and I are on mixed terms, and Lisa See makes me think of boredom.
Still, it IS historical fiction, the MC sounds like she has sleepover potential, and I am pretty curious to find out about that "betrayal that destroys all her dreams." Plus, a sizzling romance that develops on the journey to America? And they DON'T hit an iceberg and die along the way? Yes, sign me up, please. (Although, Sterling Promise? Really? I'm not sure I can swoon for a guy named Sterling Promise).
Also, is it just me, or does that cover make it look like this will be a girl-dresses-as-boy kind of book? I don't think that's in the book.
Unsolicited review copy from Scholastic.
Lincoln's Grave Robbers
by Steve Sheinkin
I'm still not clear on whether this is historical fiction or non-fiction, but either way I'm excited. All the librarians and list makers are buzzing over how thrilling and interesting and you have to read this book, and I'm totally sucked into the hype.
I mean, it's about an attempt to steal Lincoln's body! And it's based on real actual truth!
Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality
by Elizabeth Eulberg
Contemporary that I'm hoping leans more "romantic comedy" and less "issues book." Given the books the author has already written, I think I'm pretty safe.
Prisoner B-3087
At first I was all, "Not another holocaust book!" because grade school pretty much saturated me with holocaust books. But this one really does sound different. Based on a true story, we follow a young boy as he survives ten different concentration camps. I admit, I'm curious.
Finding Zasha
by Randi Barrow
Yes, another holocaust book. But what's hooked me about this one is that it seems more like a boy-and-his-dogs survival adventure.
by Patrick Matthews
I'm a little confused about the title (is it Powerless or Dragon Run?) but that cover has convinced me that this is a book I need to read. It sounds a little like Ordinary Magic with a kid from a magical land getting ranked with basically no magical powers and forced to run from people who want to kill them. But more adventurous.
The Dead and Buried
by Kim Harrington
Kim Harrington of Clarity fame, ghosts, and mystery. How could I NOT want to read this?!
What did you get this week? Are you interested in reading any of these books? What did you think of them if you've read them already?
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Book Review: The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
Series: #1 in the The Darkest Minds series
Received: ARC from Ruby!
From me, because the book blurb tells you the entire story:
Horrible disease of unknown everything spreads and kills kids when they reach, surprise surprise, puberty! Those who managed to survive end up developing superpowers. YAY! But they're rounded up and sent to concentration camps where they're sorted into color groups based on the nature of their powers. Less yay.
Ruby, our wishy-washy heroine, is really a majorly dangerous Orange (mind control!) but she has a rare moment of decisive intelligence and uses her power to make her captors think she's a benign Green (codebreaker extraordinaire). When they start to catch on to her deception, she manages to escape with the help of a shady group of rebels!
Soon after, she meets up with a stereotypical but lovable group of motley runaways, including The Smart One, The Cute Shy Kid, and The Hot One. Thus begins a periodically slow but also occasionally rollicking quest to find the Slip Kid, the rumored leader of a superpower utopia who can help them find their families.
Why isn't this the sequel to Brightly Woven?
Ok, I'll admit, right off the bat I was disappointed with The Darkest Minds. And this is totally unfair of me, because I hadn't even possessed a copy of the book yet, let alone read a single word in it.
It's just, I loved Brightly Woven, Alexandra Bracken's first book, so darn much and I've had a hard time accepting the fact that she wrote another book and it 1) isn't a sequel and 2) isn't even a high fantasy.
It's a dystopia, and we all know I have a rocky relationship with that genre.
But, it's Alexandra Bracken! So I was cautious, but my hopes were still pretty darn high.
So, what kind of dystopia is this anyway?
Not the great kind. But not the bad kind either. It's kind of a middling dystopia with an interesting premise that miraculously focuses neither on romance nor that excruciating, slow, and totally stupid "slow awakening" that takes hundreds of pages to basically say, "duh, this world sucks." So, yay!
Ruby knows from the get-go that her world is messed up (hey, she grew up in a concentration camp). This journey is faster paced than most Book 1 dystopias since Ruby spends the majority of it running away from various bad people out to either harm her or use her for her powers.
The only downside is, despite her awesome superpower, she doesn't actually do a whole lot of fighting back. And the few times she does? It's straight to the fetal position of shock and shame for our hero. So don't expect Buffy.
Alexandra Bracken's world is also sort of a dystopia/post-apocalyptic cross, which upped its awesome points because I love post-apoc stories.
There's a government that sends its children to concentration camps and kills A TON of people because they're super duper evil like that. And, really, let me stress A TON. Dead. This evil government is actually hardcore evil with a body count to match the dystopia genre tag. Bracken's not playing around here.
On top of that, most of the population was convinced that this move was the right thing to do, and the fact that they felt this way actually made sense (unlike some YA dystopias). At this point I was so happy to have a dystopia grounded in plausible reality that I was almost ready to forgive Alexandra Bracken for not spending her every writing moment penning me more Wayland North scenes. Almost.
Even better, most of the book follows main character Ruby (concentration camp escapee) and her rag-tag group of similarly superpowered youths as they travel across the country trying to survive in the post-apocalyptic land while being pursued by multiple groups of baddies all out to get them.
Did you get all that? Here, let me break down the awesome for you:
1) Kids with superpowers! Have I mentioned how much I love this plot point? The superpowers in The Darkest Minds were a little more joy-suck ala Rogue-can't-touch-people-without-killing-them and a little less wish-fulfillment than I'd like, but superpowers are still superpowers and you can never go too wrong by adding them to any plot.
2) Road trip! Another plot point that automatically elevates a storyline. There's even a sort of quest to find a mythical utopia for superpowered kids that can only be located by first finding and then cracking a code, which is pretty much another sentence packed with win right there.
Though I could have done with a cooler road trip vehicle than a minivan. For crying out loud.
Seriously YA authors, what gives? First we get Edward's decidedly uncool "Safety First" Volvo, and now this?! Have you not seen The Omega Man? Mad Max? If I ever find myself cruising around in a post-apocalyptic land, you'd better believe I'll be driving in V8-muscle style.
3) Pursuit. Always gets the heart racing.
4) Multiple groups of baddies. It would have been fine if Alexandra Bracken had created a bad government and left it at that. But multiple groups? That makes A LOT more sense. This world is fractured, so it's totally logical that there would be more than one group with an agenda running around. It could have been SO easy for Alexandra Bracken to have divided her lines across stark good and bad, government versus anti-government and called it a day.
But she didn't, and I love her for it. The development of different groups with their sometimes aligned and sometimes at odds agendas make perfect sense and kept both Ruby and myself on our toes. Who can we trust? Anyone? No one? I'm still not sure where to put my loyalties, if anywhere, but I know I want to find out more about all of them.
And one final good
Chubs. Ah, I love this guy. He's part of Ruby's group of runaways and while he spends a good part of the book annoyed with her, he's a total genius and a softie and I love him.
Fortunately, he's not Ruby's love interest. I know, totally weird thing for me to say, right? But it's true.
He's a great guy and he has great chemistry with Ruby whether they're fighting or friendly, but it's purely on a friend level. And that's where I want it to stay. It's like Anne and Diana or Kirk and Spock (and while some fan fictions might go there, that's just wrong). Their friendships are perfection and I love that an author actually focused on developing a meaningful friendship instead of romance.
But that cliffhanger of an ending? All I'm going to say is that IT BETTER GO MY WAY.
*cough* and the bad
You knew this wasn't going to be all yays and points. There is a whole star and a half missing here, and unfortunately I have more than a few reasons why.
First off, I read an ARC, and oh lord do I hope the finished version has had a lot more work done to it. Plot holes! Incoherent superpowers! Wandering plot! Shoddy world-building!
A lot of The Darkest Minds was just a hot mess. It felt like a rush-job that was put out there before it was ready. I feel like it makes so much more sense in the author's mind and it's really totally developed and even intricate...but only about 70% made it to paper. I want to read the 100% version, because that would be awesome.
Add to that the flat characters, survival stupidity, and pity party main character, I'm sometimes surprised by how much I actually did like this book.
The ideas were good, and I think I ran with that, even while part of me was sitting there thinking, "wait, what? NO, this is only half-baked!"
And Ruby. Boy, did I want to like her. Sadly, she commits two of my biggest MC pet-peeves. First, she spends the entire (long) book moping in timid indecision, internally whining over how everyone will hate her if they find out the truth about her. Honey, *I* was starting to hate you, and it had nothing to do with your superpower.
Which leads me to grievous MC sin number two: Superpower squandering. Ruby would rather take the LALAALALA-I'M-NOT-LISTENING approach to her powers instead of actually, you know, using them. I don't read a book about people with superpowers so I can listen to them cry about how woe-is-me they are for having them and ignore their power because it is oh so scary.
Now, fine, Alexandra Bracken at least gives Ruby a pretty legit reason to be afraid of her powers and it did totally tug at my heartstrings and even make me tear up a little, but I really don't care. Superpower squandering is unforgivable.
Ok, let's get down to what's important here
While I'm not sure if this is entirely fair on my part, I have to admit I was disappointed. To be frank, I was gunning for Wayland North Does Post-Apocalyptic Dystopia, and I know that's slightly unrealistic.
I mean, wouldn't it be a source of complaint if Alexandra Bracken basically took the same Brightly Woven characters, gave them modern clothes, and called it a day? Wouldn't that be considered lazy? Uncreative? Yeah, probably. But that's what I wanted. Because I'm still pining for Wayland North.
And Liam? He's no Wayland North.
Liam is nice. In real life, I'd probably love him. He makes a good mental picture, has a hot Southern accent, and he's a total gentleman.
He's also super boring. Where was the swagger? The charm? The, I don't know, personality? Basically, I wanted Han Solo and instead I got Luke Skywalker (though hotter, there's that).
And the other guy? (Yeah, we take an annoying detour down that path). All I can say is UGH BARF NO. From the very beginning.
I don't know if I like being emotionally manipulated like that
There were a few gut-punches thrown in there and I'm still not sure how I feel about them. On one hand, they totally worked. I was crying and mentally screaming, "NO NO NO THAT CAN'T HAPPEN STOP NOW!!" which is a definite mark in the win column.
But, eeeeh, did we need to resort to emotional manipulations? Or, maybe I would have liked them more if the rest of the book felt as raw and spectacular as those scenes. As it was, it felt like I was snoozing through a fog of emotional detachment because, while they were nice enough, I really couldn't have cared less about the characters (Chubs excepted).
And then, BAM suddenly I did!
Or did I? Did I care about them, or was their plight just so emotionally transcendent that I'd have to be darn near inhuman not to feel for them (whoever the heck they are)? I think it's the latter. The events made me think how heartbroken I would feel if *I* were the one going through them, or even just how devastating they were conceptually. But they didn't make me feel for Ruby.
So even while I was reeling from all the emotions and loving the fact that Alexandra Bracken went there and that was awesome and amazing and took The Darkest Minds to that great IMPACT level most YA dystopias lack, it still feels kinda like a cheap shot.
The Darkest Minds is not the book I was hoping it would be. Part of that is my own fault for wanting to make it into something it wasn't (and stubbornly refusing to accept it for what it was).
But even accounting for that, this one seems like it needed to spend more time in development. A little more editing, (A LOT) more coherent world-building, and a MC who isn't so wishy-washy would have gone a long way to making The Darkest Minds one of the rare really good YA dystopias.
But, whatever. It falls short. That's ok. It's still an absorbing read that will likely appeal strongly to dystopia fans. Definitely something I'll be ordering for my library teens (probably too hardcore for tweens...unless they're already reading The Hunger Games), even if it isn't something I'll keep in my own personal library (so, trade?).
Will I read the sequel? Maybe, maybe not. I still haven't decided.
Also, cliffhanger warning. Total cliffhanger.
On an unrelated note, I wish they had kept the original title Black is the Color. It's so fresh and original and striking. The Darkest Minds is so bland, been-there-done-that, and lame. Plus, it never fails to make me think of Michelle Pfeiffer bringing the joy of education to dangerous, misunderstood youths.
Do you have any questions about The Darkest Minds that I haven't addressed?
Click on the covers to go to my reviews.
Labels: Alexandra Bracken, Book review, Rating: Three 1/2 Stars
Undead by Kirsty McKay
#1 in the Undead series
Publisher: The Chicken House (Scholastic)
Out of sight, out of their minds: It's a school-trip splatter fest and completely not cool when the other kids in her class go all braindead on new girl Bobby.
The day of the ski trip, when the bus comes to a stop at a roadside restaurant, everyone gets off and heads in for lunch. Everyone, that is, except Bobby, the new girl, who stays behind with rebel-without-a-clue Smitty.
Then hours pass. Snow piles up. Sun goes down. Bobby and Smitty start to flirt. Start to stress. Till finally they see the other kids stumbling back.
But they've changed. And not in a good way. Straight up, they're zombies. So the wheels on the bus better go round and round freakin' fast, because that's the only thing keeping Bobby and Smitty from becoming their classmates' next meal. It's kill or be killed in these hunger games, heads are gonna roll, and homework is most definitely gonna be late.
Calibrate your expectations
This is not a deep book. At all. It's not swooningly romantic, it's not heart-pounding exciting, and it's not super funny.
What it IS is a light, fun read that's worthy of a few chuckles, has a breezy romance, and held my interest throughout. Undead should be well received, just so long as readers don't set the expectations bar super high.
Also, while I don't normally associate zombie books with good winter reading, Undead's blizzard setting makes it a perfect book to read now.
Bobby, the girl I thought was a boy
I spent the first chapter or so focusing just as much on whether or not main character Bobby was a boy or a girl as I did on the plot. I don't like narrator gender-ambiguity. It's frustrating and unfortunately pretty indicative of the depth of Bobby's characterization.
On the plus side, Bobby's narration is sufficiently gender-ambiguous that I can totally give Undead to boy readers! So, silver lining?
Back to Bobby. She's likable and has a pretty snarky sense of humor. She's also fairly capable, which is always a plus when reading zombie/survival books. She wasn't exactly Rambo, but she gamely rose to all the decapitating challenges when presented.
Basically, I wouldn't kick her out of my zombie survival group.
But those other characters?
Yeah, none of them are getting invites.
The main guy Smitty was ok, but pretty immature. Not in the, "cute MG level" type of immature, but more in the give girls wedgies and harp on 5th grade level humor kind of immature. So while he was nice and ultimately a decent guy, he was also annoying. Then again, I'm OLD, so what do I know?
There's also the smart character, and while smart characters usually make my auto approve list for zombie/post-apoc catastrophes, this one had me seriously weighing their usefulness versus their irritating personality. At certain points I would have definitely opted to take my chances without that know it all. But, again, not all bad.
And finally, what would a zombie Breakfast Club be without the popular girl? She's entirely stereotypical and there really isn't much else to say about her than that.
Taken all together, the motley group was at times funny and endearing, but also frequently irritating. Though it was a mild irritating, so there's that.
The thing is, the characters don't need to be all that great. Do you look for likable characters with incredible depth when watching horror movies? No!
Undead is not supposed to be a deep book and the characters aren't supposed to be super developed or likable (think fairy tale characters). The plot is what's important here, and the plot is pretty decent.
Everything moves at a brisk enough pace and the setting changes often enough that I never got bored with where we were or what we were doing. It was predictable in some regards (obviously Smitty and the MC will fall for each other), but I was surprised several times by the direction the plot took. In a good way.
And even though I didn't love any of the characters, I was attached enough that I cared what happened to them. There were a few times where I was at the edge of my seat wondering what would happen next and if everyone would make it out okay.
Sometimes what did happen next was kind of far fetched verging on ridiculous, but I thought that was part of the charm of Undead. This isn't a book that takes itself seriously, and I had a lot of fun with that.
Undead won't be making it on the top adolescent literature lists anytime soon, but I can already hear the giddy buzz brewing among my tweens (girls AND boys!). I have a feeling this one will get passed around my library and school district through lots of word of mouth.
The zombies are more of the Evil Dead gross but funny variety, so scaredy cats like myself needn't worry. Among my readers, I think this will be more popular with the tweens, but I know at least a handful of teens will also enjoy it.
For myself, I had fun with Undead. I wouldn't rush out to buy it, but I'd check out the sequel or another book by the author if it came into my library system. The ending most definitely leads into a sequel and readers who become attached to the story will probably be pretty desperate to get their hands on the next book. Me? I'm okay waiting, but I'm still curious to find out what happens next.
Do you have any questions about Undead that I haven't addressed?
Labels: Book review, Kirsty McKay, Rating: Three Stars, Scholastic
Book Review: Princess of the Silver Woods by Jessica Day George
Princess of the Silver Woods
#3 in the Princess series
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
When Petunia, the youngest of King Gregor's twelve dancing daughters, is invited to visit an elderly friend in the neighboring country of Westfalin, she welcomes the change of scenery. But in order to reach Westfalin, Petunia must pass through a forest where strange two-legged wolves are rumored to exist. Wolves intent on redistributing the wealth of the noble citizens who have entered their territory. But the bandit-wolves prove more rakishly handsome than truly dangerous, and it's not until Petunia reaches her destination that she realizes the kindly grandmother she has been summoned to visit is really an enemy bent on restoring an age-old curse.
The stories of Red Riding Hood and Robin Hood get a twist as Petunia and her many sisters take on bandits, grannies, and the new King Under Stone to end their family curse once and for all.
Oh, expectations...
I loved Princess of the Midnight Ball, the first installment in this series, so much that I'm always trying to shove it into some unsuspecting reader's hands. The second book, Princess of Glass was enjoyable, but I didn't love it as much as the first. Still, it's fun and both can be read as standalones, so I'm often recommending both to my tween and teen readers.
Sadly, and after much bated-breath anticipation, I have to come to terms with the fact that Princess of the Silver Woods is the weakest of the bunch for me. I'll still order a copy for my library, but I don't think it will get passed around as much as the other Jessica Day George books I've ordered.
Who do I give this book to?
First, there's the question of age. The two earlier books were sweet and light enough that I can easily give them to middle grade readers. They're also both layered enough that they hold the interest of teen and older readers (particularly the first book centering on eldest sister Rose).
Princess of the Silver Woods reads much younger. I'm not sure many of my teen and older readers would enjoy it as much as they did the earlier installments. I'm thinking I'll be passing this to tweens more often than teens. And as for myself, I was definitely feeling the, "This book is for younger readers and I'm bored now" vibe. (And for the record, I hate that vibe because it makes me feel old.)
The second question is whether or not I should give it to readers who have not read the earlier books in the series. And, ok, it's not much of a question because of course I'll provide the earlier books, if for no other reason than they're good books that should be read. But, is it necessary to read them in order? I'm not so sure it is.
I'm of course coming from the perspective of having read the earlier books, but I think Jessica Day George does a more than adequate job of recapping previous events, especially the events from the first book (and the events from the second book don't have much of an impact on this story). Readers unfamiliar with books one and two shouldn't have much difficulty understanding and enjoying book three.
I might even go so far as to say that readers who haven't read the first book may even enjoy Princess of the Silver Woods more than those who have read the whole series. Which brings me to one of my biggest complaints.
Haven't I already read this book?
In the first book, the King Under Stone is wreaking havoc on the sisters' lives by magically forcing them to travel to his kingdom every night and dance with his sons, to whom the princesses are bethrothed. The princesses fight this evil with the help of a handsome man who falls in love with oldest sister Rose.
In Princess of the Silver Woods, the new King Under Stone is weraking havoc on the sisters' lives by magically forcing them to travel to his kingdom and dance with his brothers, with whom the princesses are expected to have children. The princesses fight this evil with the help of a handsome man who falls in love with youngest sister Petunia.
Notice any similarities? Now, ok, not everything is exactly the same, but it felt way too similar to Princess of the Midnight Ball to really hold my interest. I was expecting a whole new story, not a reworking of a story I had already read.
Other disappointments
The characters felt really under-developed. I had very little idea of what set Petunia apart from her sisters (none of which were particularly distinct) and while Oliver felt a little more defined, his personality didn't seem entirely consistent (he lays down everything to protect his people and then tosses it all away in a second because of love for a girl he just met??)
The only solid character trait I could come up with for Petunia is that she's frustratingly slow when it comes to puzzling things out. Though I would love to attribute that complaint to my super awesome powers of deduction, I don't think I can take credit here. The bad guy was RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER FACE and she kept saying, "Oh no, but they're so nice!" and then not even investigating things (how do you not investigate things?!).
And, I mean, it's not like we needed Nancy Drew to solve this mystery. It was pretty much stated as fact. I'm totally baffled as to why Petunia refused to consider the possibility, let alone actually acknowledge the obvious truth. I didn't like feeling so exasperated with her and I really didn't like reading her repetitive denials throughout the whole book (right up until she did something REALLY dumb, and for an equally incomprehensible reason).
So where did the stars come from?
Because I love Jessica Day George's books. They're just so fluffy and sweet. I may not have been able to tell the sisters apart, but I loved their banter and the way they always supported one another. Her books are easy to read and they make me happy. Jessica Day George is the ultimate comfort read author.
They're like the book equivalent to a puppy. Even when puppies do something bad or are kind of scruffy looking, they're still adorable puppies and I can't help but love them.
Not the strongest book and not something I'll buy for myself. I do think it will be popular enough with my middle grade girls to warrant placing a library order though.
Read it as a standalone or as a part of the series. Skip the middle book or read all three. Just don't expect something BRAND NEW or super deep and Princess of the Silver Woods should still be able to deliver as a quick, fun, sweet comfort read.
Do you have any questions about Princess of the Silver Woods that I haven't addressed?
Labels: Bloomsbury, Book review, Jessica Day George, Rating: Three Stars
Duchessina: A Novel of Catherine de' Medici by Carolyn Meyer
#5 in the Young Royals series
Received: Library
Young Catherine de' Medici is the sole heiress to the entire fortune of the wealthy Medici family. But her life is far from luxurious. After a childhood spent locked away behind the walls of a convent, she joins the household of the pope, where at last she can be united with her true love. But, all too soon, that love is replaced with an engagement to a boy who is cold and aloof. It soon becomes clear that Catherine will need all the cunning she can muster to command the respect she deserves as one of France's most powerful queens.
Catherine's boring
She's nice enough, but not in a good way. She's nice the way where I use "nice" to describe an inoffensive person when I can't think of anything else to say about them. Maybe I could also throw in bland and meek? That isn't helping matters, is it?
There just wasn't much to her. I also get the feeling that I don't have a clue what the real Catherine de' Medici was like. Catherine, the historical figure, is described in lots of very NOT nice ways, but there wasn't anything in Duchessina to even hint at any of that.
The plot is dreary
This isn't really Carolyn Meyer's fault. I mean, if she tried to spice things up by deviating from history I'd start complaining about that, so really, I can't hold this against her. Much.
Catherine's childhood is mostly a bunch of moving around from one convent to another. She's cut off from most of the world and, when she finally gets to France, she isn't given any political power (until after the book ends). So, yeah, kind of dull.
I'm not entirely convinced this couldn't have been made more interesting, though. Lots of political stuff was going on around Catherine, and I don't see why it couldn't have been integrated into the story more. I would have liked more details about the wars, battles, conspiracies, strife, and upheaval. Basically, all of the things that caused Catherine to have to move and go into hiding.
Also, her life is sad. Again, not Carolyn Meyer's fault. Catherine's childhood was full of death, failure, abandonment, starvation, and sadness. This was not a particularly uplifting book.
Maybe if I had cared more about Catherine I could have at least gotten into all that sadness. I mean, I went through a Lurlene McDaniel phase in my tween years and I'm a diehard Beaches fan, so it's not like I'm totally opposed to a good cry-fest. But I shed nary a tear for boring Catherine. I just couldn't muster up a care (and to put this in perspective, Carolyn Meyer had me sobbing at the end of her book about Marie Antoinette).
Everything's all uneven
I like a well-plotted book with a clear purpose and progression of events. I don't like slow paced books, but I also don't like unevenly paced books. Duchessina was both.
The slowness comes from the lack of really anything happening. There weren't even a ton of historical factoids to keep me occupied. Nothing propelled me to keep reading other than the fact that the book didn't have many pages and I didn't dislike it enough to stop. Also, I wasn't sure what I wanted to read next.
The uneven pacing is something I've also complained about with the Cleopatra book in this series. As in Cleopatra Confesses, Duchessina focuses on Catherine's childhood and stops just as things are getting good. I guess it is nice having a chance to get to know Catherine's life before she became the great historical figure, but it was frustrating to have Carolyn Meyer hint at Catherine's reputation and then never back up those hints with anything.
I also didn't appreciate the rush at the end. If we're stopping the story at a point other than Catherine's death, then just stop the story, please. Instead, I got a rushed synopsis of Catherine's life from the events at the end of the book up until her death. It was like watching a movie of her life and then getting bored partway through and watching the rest with the fast forward button pressed.
I love the idea of this series, but the reality isn't measuring up to my expectations. I feel like the Young Royals series is getting the, "Oh it's just YA" treatment, which I equate to sloppy stories with weak character development and little regard for accuracy. Young adults demand better, and it would be nice if authors and publishers took note.
So I'll be passing on ordering this one for my library. I did order and highly recommend The Bad Queen about Marie Antoinette, so I won't give up on the Young Royals series just yet!
Do you have any questions about Duchessina that I haven't addressed?
Click on the covers to go to my reviews. Heads up, The Queen's Vow is adult fiction.
Labels: Book review, Carolyn Meyer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Rating: Two 1/2 Stars
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Bill Peterson
Harpers Public House, Hopkins Street, LBJ Drive
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Bill Peterson's Blog: Cars on the square
By BILL PETERSON
From our vantage point at Newstreamz World Headquarters, high above Harper’s Hall, one gains a low-riding bird’s eye view of traffic behavior on the courthouse square in downtown San Marcos.
During the winter, one could pass hours watching drivers turn left from Hopkins Street to North LBJ Drive, never losing wonder at their close calls against on-coming traffic. It’s summer now, of course, we have trees on the square, and that view is mostly obstructed.
But the wonders have doubled, for local drivers in the heat of summer have assumed frightening behaviors that have miraculously, thus far, issued no terrible accidents. But it’s only a matter of time.
About least twice per day, a fellow who spends just a couple hours on our balcony notices death defying acts behind the wheel. It seems that local drivers suddenly have begun to believe that the center lane on northbound LBJ is permissible for left-hand turns onto Hopkins Street. This comes as rather shocking news to drivers in the left-hand lane on LBJ, which is the only legal lane for making that left turn onto Hopkins.
Going on a dozen times in the last three weeks, one casual observer has seen drivers in the LBJ center lane make that left turn onto Hopkins, cutting off the driver in the proper left turn lane. In each case, the driver operating correctly has stopped short of smashing into the center lane cheater, thus sparing that cheater her life. One suspects, though, that it won’t be long before the driver in the correct left turn lane, rightly expecting no interference, will smash into the cheater and forever regret hastening the cheater’s demise despite merely following the traffic laws.
Another cheat of increasing frequency is drivers going east on Hopkins and turning across two lanes of on-coming traffic to seize parking spots angled west on the north side of Hopkins, in front of The Coffee Pot and Harper’s Hall. This practice is rife with peril, as it increases the possibility for rear-end collisions. It’s hard enough to back out of a diagonal parking spot just accounting for the traffic behind you. Now, you have to worry about some slob coming from the other direction and trying to swipe a parking spot that he is not legally entitled to pursue from his position on the road. Because that cheater is concentrating on his ill-gotten parking spot, he’s not attentive to people backing out of the spot right next to it. Again, it’s just a matter of time before we get a rear-end collision.
The summer is uncomfortable, tempers are sure to flair and people are likely to act hastily. But please remember that the traffic laws aren’t merely laws. They regulate expectations for law-abiding drivers.
The person turning left from the LBJ left lane onto Hopkins Street shouldn’t have to anticipate that some muffinhead in the LBJ center lane will try to make an illegal left turn, endangering others of whom she is apparently unaware. The driver backing out of a diagonal spot on the north side of Hopkins Street, slowly inching backwards before finally establishing that there is no traffic behind her, ought to not have to worry about being rear-ended by some jerk trying to slick his way into a parking spot from the other side of the street.
It hasn’t been such a big deal, so far. But when it becomes a big deal, it’s going to become a terribly big deal. So, watch it.
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Larry Rasco on 07/12/2009 at 12:14 pm said:
It is too bad you could not observe the intersetion of LBJ and San Antonio from you vantage point, you would really be amazed. The most dangerous aspect of that intesecion is that the yellow light on the stop light facing LBJ is no longer than any other stop light, yet because of the dog leg that San Antonio makes, it takes at least twice as long to clear that intersection. Anyone traveling north on LBJ that enters the intesection after the yellow light turns will run the red light. I bet you there are a hundred red light runners a day at that intersection.
I have been on the sqaure for 6 years now, and it is really amazing how few accidents I have seen. When you drive through the sqaure you should go no faster than 20 mpg, and always anticipate that someone is going to be backing out of parking space in front of you.
Kelli on 07/14/2009 at 2:15 pm said:
And what about those morons driving the wrong way down a one-way LBJ?
Jenn on 09/12/2009 at 8:48 am said:
As a cab driver here in San Marcos, I have seen it all. At least once a week I am frantically flagging to someone that they are driving in the wrong direction on either LBJ or Guadalupe. Further down past the square, at the intersection of LBJ and Cheatham, I have been witnessing an increasing amount of people cutting down the one way street to get to whatever establishment they are trying to get to despite oncoming traffic. At first I thought it was a mistake, they didn’t know, until after a few times flagging them they were going the wrong way, they pointed at wherever they were trying to get to and smiling and waving. Apparently the police have noticed the increase in idiots doing this, and what do they do? They follow the cheating car, down the wrong way with cars swerving out of the way, to ticket the cheating car. I find this just as irresponsible as the idiot that did it in the first place. They don’t even attempt to wait for traffic to clear before doing such an irresponsible move.
Jesse B on 09/12/2009 at 8:05 pm said:
Speaking of one way streets, I recently witnessed a young (freshman?) student turn out of the dorm parking lots on Moon, past all the signs that would inform her that the street was one way in the other direction, nearly hit me because she was talking on her cell phone, and then stop in the middle of University to blame her misdirection on her GPS. Because it told her to turn right. GPS is not a brain replacement people…
People ignoring signs aside, it would help if the city would use street paint that lasted more than 6 months. It nearly impossible to see the arrows on the streets in many places.
Jenn on 09/13/2009 at 10:56 am said:
Or how about just getting rid of one ways all together? I see absolutely no point in them. All they do is confuse the morons even further and put everyone else at risk. Would it really be so bad if LBJ and Guadalupe became two way streets?
Dave Newman on 09/13/2009 at 2:00 pm said:
The transition back to two-way streets downtown is being discussed/planned for recommendation to City Council, presently in the Main Street Board meetings.
Allegedly, the streets downtown used to be two-way,…. but according to several sources, they were converted to one way streets back in the ’60s to facilitate an evacuation, in the event of a nuclear attack (I’m serious!).
Not that it is totally an impossibility these days, but people are not installing bomb shelters in their backyards anymore,…. so the perceived threat of nuclear holocaust might today be outweighed by the economic and immediate safety benefits of reversing that (outmoded?) decision.
Most people, including the merchants downtown seem to favor two-way streets,….so maybe it will be possible to convince City Council to make a decisive move to enable that end result.
Ted Marchut on 09/13/2009 at 6:42 pm said:
LBJ is not really built to handle half of the traffic that Guadalupe carries to IH 35. Once you get south of Cheatham, it becomes much narrower. If Guadalupe became 2-way, then it would have 1/2 the capacity to carry traffic out of downtown. Either that would make it more congested, or it would move some southbound traffic to LBJ. South LBJ would need some fairly significant improvements to handle that traffic.
I am not sure how that would sit with the people on South LBJ, but they certainly ought to be given as much weight as those who are downtown.
The change to 2-way would also mean dumping more people at an uncontrolled intersection with IH 35.
The alternative, I suppose, is to have LBJ 2-way until Grove Street and then carry them over to Guadalupe, but the further south the one-way traffic goes, the more cars you will see going the wrong way, once the 2-way section ends.
Two-way traffic on LBJ and Guadalupe will also lower the level of service of those streets (according the reports given to the Transportation Advisory Board), essentially offsetting any gains seen from the computer-controlled lights that we paid so much for.
So, it is not as simple as many people would like it to be. To date, the TAB has not been contacted since making our recommendation against this change. I would hope that we would be brought in for at least a brief discussion, if our recommendation is going to be disregarded.
Dave Newman on 09/14/2009 at 12:45 am said:
Yes,…it would be good to get all heads together on this. And you make good points about the traffic lights, flows, etc. It would have been good to perhaps formulate a final plan before spending all of that money,…but there is an infinite supply of that, right? (not!)
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Bobcats seeded third in Sun Belt volleyball meet
The Texas State volleyball team will go to the Sun Belt Conference Tournament at Troy this week as the third seed after losing their final match of the regular season in five sets at Arkansas State.
Bobcat volleyball could still finish second
The Texas State volleyball team registered a big win in Little Rock Friday and now is positioned to, perhaps, enter the Sun Belt Conference Tournament next week as the No. 2 seed.
Bobcats sweep again in Louisiana
The Texas State volleyball team went to Louisiana during the weekend and didnt lose a set in two matches.
Bobcat volleyballers sweep past ULM
The Texas State volleyball team claimed sole possession of third place in the Sun Belt Conference Friday night, winning a three-set match at Louisiana-Monroe (ULM), which was eliminated from postseason play.
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The regular season championship in the Sun Belt Conference probably is out of reach by now for the Texas State volleyball team, but they have six regular season matches remaining and plenty of opportunity to move up...
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Texas State's volleyball team lost a second consecutive five-set match Friday night, falling at Strahan Coliseum to Arkansas State after winning the first two sets.
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The Texas State volleyball team swept Louisiana-Lafayette in three sets Friday at Strahan Coliseum.
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Texas State's volleyball team won in five sets at Texas-San Antonio (UTSA) Friday night, improving to 10-5 this season.
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The Texas State volleyball team lost a heartbreaker at home Tuesday night against Texas Tech, winning the first two sets and dropping the next three.
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Colorado - Supreme Court upholds ban of smoking on stage..
December 17, 2009 - In the first decision of its kind, the Colorado Supreme Court on Monday, December 14th extinguished hopes that theater actors would be exempted from a statewide smoking ban after all but one justice voted to uphold lower-court decisions barring cigarette use in performances.
Colorado Supreme Court -- December 14, 2009 No. 08SC351. Curious Theatre Company v. Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
The move ends a three-year state fight in which a coalition of state and national theater groups argued in multiple courts that the ban infringed on free-speech rights and interfered with their abilities to accurately produce plays.
Six justices found that regardless of whether onstage smoking is a form of expression, the ban on smoking in public places is constitutional because it aims to promote public health rather than stifle free speech.
No other state supreme court has decided a case involving a free-speech opposition to a state smoking ban, according to attorney A. Bruce Jones, who said his theater-company clients have not ruled out seeking a U.S. Supreme Court decision on the topic.
Denver's Curious Theatre Company is one of the handful of local theaters now considering their next move, said artistic director Chip Walton. "Obviously, we're very disappointed and don't agree with the decision," Walton said. "It doesn't appear that the court recognizes the negative impact this smoking ban has on live theater."
Because the decision by Colorado's top court could impact similar cases elsewhere in the country, the fight has drawn both national attention and support from theatrical and civil-rights groups such as the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, the Dramatists Guild of America and the American Civil Liberties Union.
The courts heard testimony suggesting Colorado's 2006 anti-smoking rules are more stringent than in other states, many of which either exempt artistic performances or allow onstage smoking of non-tobacco cigarettes. (On Saturday, July 1, 2006 Colorado became the 13th state in the nation to ban smoking in bars, restaurants and most workplaces. Some cities, such as Pueblo, Boulder and Fort Collins, already had local bans in place. Colorado Smoking Ban Now In Effect, DenverChannel.com, 7/2/2006)
The defense, led by state Attorney General John Suthers, argued that actors can and do use fake cigarettes as an adequate alternative. Suthers, for example, attended a Rat Pack homage recently and found the bad-boy musicians all puffed mechanical stand-ins. "You can accomplish the expressive content by using (a) fake cigarette," Suthers said. "A lot of people are."
But in a dissenting opinion, Justice Gregory Hobbs called alternative devices "untenable and even laughable" and stated that onstage smoking is critical to setting mood and developing characters. "The characters and plots would lack depth and expressive force without the hovering smoke on stage, the poignant exhale of a puff of smoke and even the ability or inability to smoke," he wrote.
Even so, lawmakers intended the band to extend to artistic performances, said former state Rep. Mark Larson, who carried a similar bill in 2005 and supported it in 2006, the year it passed. A theater exemption was briefly amended into the bill but taken out of later versions, Larson said. "Acting is acting," Larson said. "Why not having a fake cigarette? What . . . difference does it make? Come on."
Reference: Colorado Supreme Court upholds ban of smoking on stage by Jessica Fender (jfender@denverpost.com), The Denver Post, 12/15/2009.
From left to right: Uta Hagen, cigarette in hand, Arthur Hill, Beverlee McKinsey and Richard Easton in the London production of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf,' at the Piccadilly Theater in London in the early 1960s. This scene cannot take place as written in Lincoln, Neb.; Colorado; Scotland; or, starting April 2, in Wales. Smoking bans are so strict in these places that actors cannot legally light even herbal cigarettes onstage. (NYTNS | NYT)
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Board and miniature wargamers located in, around or near Sacramento California.
Your introduction to consim gaming:
I've been gaming since 1976. I started in boardgaming (3rd Reich and Panzer Leader) then into RPG's. After that I got into miniatures and now play miniatures and boardgames. I generally game on Saturdays at A1 Comics Roseville and at the Miniature Wargame Society of Sacramento meetings.
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Combat Commander, Command and Colors, Battlecry, Up Front!, Race for the Galaxy, Atlantic Storm, Not War but Murder...lots of miniatures games and periods including AWI, SWY, Ancients, Blitzkrieg Commander
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want to play The Fires of Midway and Beda Fomm. Playing ASL, DiF and anything else that catches my eye.
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Race for the Galaxy, Combat Commander, ASL, Battle Lore, Down in Flames
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6-10 hours a week, when I can
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Reside in the Sacramento CA area and am a member of the Miniature Wargaming Society of Sacramento (not a strictly miniatures club)
I am a 50 something male (born in 1960) who games both boardgames and miniatures. I generally game at least twice a week. I also hit about three cons a year. I am the surviving founding member of the Miniature Wargaming Society of Sacramento (started in 1986) M_W_S@yahoogroups.com
I play almost any kind of game. I play a lot of Combat Commander, Race for the Galaxy, Up Front!, 1960 Making of an election and just about any other game our group can buy. In miniatures I generally play Ancients, AWI, WWII, Moderns, Vietnam, Necromunda and other SF oriented games.
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Besides gaming I read a lot of Science Fiction, Military history, Modern Gothic novels (Jim Butcher, Charlene Harris, Charlie Huston). I am a member of Netflix and average a movie a week. I am currently hooked on Torchwood and Dr Who.
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I haven't checked in on this page in a while. Sorry it took so long to accept your friend request.
At 11:43am on September 18, 2010, Mike O'Brien said…
Played ASL "Strangers in a Strange Land" at Pacificon. Played Horus Heresy last week. Looks like I might not get in a game this Saturday but will be playing miniatures on Sunday at the Miniature Wargaming Society meeting.
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Hmmm! Did I never reply to this comment? If not, I'm sorry. The stuff I have left to give away can be seen at http://social.consimworld.com/photo/giveaway3-1?context=user.
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At 11:23pm on November 7, 2009, Mike O'Brien said…
Been playing a LOT of ASL lately. Played Friday the 13th today. Lost as Soviets. Very tight scenario. Worth playing again.
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Thanks for the welcome Mike. I'm just starting getting back into ASL through ASLSK although I do have most of the official modules.
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Back frm GMT West. Played Successors, Epic Command & Colors, Atlantic Storm & Dominion. Spent $ on Paths of Glory, Kutuzov, Operation Norway, Command and Strategy magazines with Operation Kadesh and a few other games. I got a chance to check out Chad and Kai Jensen's latest effort. Interesting stuff...
GPS in the phone wouldn't let me choose to drive back up I5 so had to go up 99. We played "What's that smell?" on the way back up. We were able to identify skunk and manure but a few odors defied description.
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Origins is worth your time. Bring her along!
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PS - Smitty says very nice things about GMT :)
You going to Origins this year? I like gamers - the odd wife/hottie(?) out that way :)
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Swine Flu: the real dangerous swine wear suits
With deaths mounting in Mexico authorities warn of a swine flu pandemic. Mike Davis argues that governments, pharmaceutical companies and agribusiness create the conditions for these health crises
The Spring Break hordes returned from Cancun this year with an invisible but sinister souvenir. The Mexican swine flu, a genetic chimera probably conceived in the fecal mire of an industrial pigsty, suddenly threatens to give the whole world a fever. The initial outbreaks across North America reveal an infection already travelling at higher velocity than the last official pandemic strain, the 1968 Hong Kong flu.
Stealing the limelight from our officially appointed assassin, the vigorously mutating H5N1 (also known as bird flu), this porcine virus is a threat of unknown magnitude. Certainly, it seems far less lethal than the SARS respiratory disease in 2003, but as an influenza it may be more durable than SARS and less inclined to return to its secret cave.
Given that domesticated seasonal Type-A influenzas kill as many as 1 million people each year, even a modest increment of virulence, especially if combined with high incidence, could produce carnage equivalent to a major war.
Meanwhile, one of swine flu's first victims has been the faith, long preached in the pews of the World Health Organisation (WHO), that pandemics can be contained by the rapid responses of medical bureaucracies, independent of the quality of local public health.
Since the initial H5N1 deaths in Hong Kong in 1997, the WHO, with the support of most national health services, has promoted a strategy focused on the identification and isolation of a pandemic strain within its local radius of outbreak, followed by a thorough dousing of the population with anti-virals and (if available) vaccine.
An army of sceptics have rightly contested this viral counter-insurgency approach, pointing out that microbes can now fly around the world (quite literally in the case of avian flu) faster than the WHO or local officials can react to the original outbreak. They also point to the primitive, often non-existent surveillance of the interface between human and animal diseases.
But the mythology of bold, pre-emptive (and cheap) intervention against avian flu has been invaluable to the cause of rich countries, like the US and Britain. They prefer to invest in their own biological Maginot Lines rather than dramatically increasing aid to epidemic frontlines overseas. They hand money to Big Pharma, which has long battled Third World demands for the generic, public manufacture of critical anti-virals like Roche's Tamiflu.
The swine flu, in any case, may prove that the WHO/Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) version of pandemic preparedness - without massive new investment in surveillance, scientific and regulatory infrastructure, basic public health, or global access to lifeline drugs - belongs to the same class of Ponzified risk management as AIG derivatives and Madoff securities.
It is not so much that the pandemic warning system has failed as that it simply doesn't exist, even in North America and the European Union.
Perhaps it is not surprising that Mexico lacks both capacity and political will to monitor livestock diseases and their public health impacts. But the situation is hardly better north of the border, where surveillance is a failed patchwork of state jurisdictions, and corporate livestock producers treat health regulations with the same contempt with which they deal with workers and animals.
Similarly, a decade of urgent warnings by scientists in the field has failed to ensure the transfer of sophisticated viral testing technology to the countries in the direct path of likely pandemics. Mexico has world-famous disease experts, but it had to send swabs to a laboratory in Winnipeg (which has less than 3 percent of the population of Mexico City) in order to identify the strain's genome. Almost a week was lost as a consequence.
But no one was less alert than the legendary disease controllers in Atlanta. According to the Washington Post, the CDC did not learn about the outbreak until six days after the Mexican government had begun to impose emergency measures. Indeed, "US public health officials are still largely in the dark about what's happening in Mexico two weeks after the outbreak was recognised."
There should be no excuses. This is not a "black swan" flapping its wings. Indeed, the central paradox of this swine flu panic is that, while totally unexpected, it was accurately predicted.
Six years ago Science dedicated a major story (reported by the admirable Bernice Wuethrich) to evidence that "after years of stability, the North American swine flu virus has jumped onto an evolutionary fast track".
Since its identification at the beginning of the 1930s Depression, H1N1 swine flu had only drifted slightly from its original genome. Then in 1998 all hell broke loose. A highly pathogenic strain began to decimate sows on a factory hog farm in North Carolina and new, more virulent versions began to appear almost yearly, including a weird variant of H1N1 that contained the internal genes of H3N2 (the other type-A flu circulating among humans).
Researchers who Wuethrich interviewed worried that one of these hybrids might become a human flu (both the 1957 and 1968 pandemics are believed to have originated from the mixing of bird and human viruses inside pigs). They urged the creation of an official surveillance system for swine flu: an admonition, of course, that went unheeded in a Washington prepared to throw away billions on bioterrorism fantasies while neglecting obvious dangers.
But what caused this acceleration of swine flu evolution? Probably the same thing that has favoured the reproduction of avian flu.
Virologists have long believed that the intensive agricultural system of southern China - an immensely productive ecology of rice, fish, pigs, and domestic and wild birds - is the principal engine of influenza mutation: both seasonal "drift" (its tendency in mammals to evolve into different strains each year) and episodic genomic "shift" (when mutations allow the virus to jump across the species boundary). More rarely there may be a direct leap from birds to pigs and/or humans - as with H5N1 in 1997.
But the corporate industrialisation of livestock production has broken China's natural monopoly on influenza evolution. As many writers have pointed out, animal husbandry in recent decades has been transformed into something that more closely resembles the petrochemical industry than the happy family farm depicted in children's school books.
In 1965, for instance, there were 53 million American hogs on more than 1 million farms; today, 65 million hogs are concentrated in just 65,000 facilities - half with more than 5,000 animals. This has been a transition, in essence, from old-fashioned pig pens to vast excremental hells, unprecedented in nature, containing tens, even hundreds of thousands, of animals with weakened immune systems suffocating in heat and manure while exchanging pathogens at blinding velocity with their fellow inmates and pathetic progenies.
Anyone who has ever driven through Tar Heel, North Carolina, or Milford, Utah - where Smithfield Foods subsidiaries each annually produce more than 1 million pigs as well as hundreds of lagoons full of toxic shit - will intuitively understand how profoundly agribusiness has meddled with the laws of nature.
Last year a distinguished commission convened by the Pew Research Center issued a landmark report on "industrial farm animal production" that underscored the acute danger that "the continual cycling of viruses...in large herds or flocks [will] increase opportunities for the generation of a novel virus through mutation or recombinant events that could result in more efficient human to human transmission."
The commission also warned that promiscuous antibiotic use in hog factories (a cheaper alternative to sewer systems or humane environments) was promoting the rise of resistant infections while sewage spills were producing nightmare E coli outbreaks and Pfiesteria blooms (the doomsday organism that has killed more than 1 billion fish in Carolina estuaries and caused sickness in dozens of fishermen).
Any amelioration of this new pathogen ecology, however, would have to confront the monstrous power exercised by livestock conglomerates such as Smithfield Foods (pork and beef) and Tyson (chickens). The Pew commissioners, chaired by former Kansas governor John Carlin, reported systemic obstruction of their investigation by corporations, including blatant threats to withhold funding from cooperative researchers.
Moreover, this is a highly globalised industry with equivalent international political clout. Just as Bangkok-based chicken giant Charoen Pokphand was able to suppress enquiries into its role in the spread of bird flu throughout South East Asia, so it is likely that the forensic epidemiology of the swine flu outbreak will pound its head against the corporate stonewall of the pork industry.
This is not to say that a smoking gun will never be found: there is already gossip in the Mexican press about an influenza epicentre around a huge Smithfield subsidiary in Vera Cruz state. But what matters more (especially given the continued threat of H5N1) is the larger configuration: the WHO's failed pandemic strategy, the further decline of world public health, the stranglehold of Big Pharma over lifeline medicines, and the planetary catastrophe of industrialised and ecologically unhinged livestock production.
Mike Davis is the author of The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu
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A comparison between in-field and in-laboratory 50 km ultralong Erbium-doped fiber lasers actively mode-locked
Lúcia A. M. Saito and E. A. Thoroh de Souza
Lúcia A. M. Saito* and E. A. Thoroh de Souza
Grupo de Fotônica, Univ. Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Rua da Consolação 896, São Paulo/SP – 01302-907, Brazil
*Corresponding author: lucia.saito@osamember.org
L Saito
E Thoroh de Souza
Lúcia A. M. Saito and E. A. Thoroh de Souza, "A comparison between in-field and in-laboratory 50 km ultralong Erbium-doped fiber lasers actively mode-locked," Opt. Express 20, 17001-17009 (2012)
Lasers and Laser Optics
Continuous wave operation
Raman fiber lasers
Ring lasers
Pulse propagation and temporal solitons (060.5530)
Lasers, erbium (140.3500)
Lasers, fiber (140.3510)
Lasers, ring (140.3560)
Mode-locked lasers (140.4050)
Original Manuscript: May 15, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: June 28, 2012
We present a comparison between an in-field and in-laboratory 50 km ultralong Erbium fiber lasers actively mode-locked with repetition rate varying from 1 to 10 GHz generating pulses from 35.2 to 68.7 ps. The pulse widths generated at higher frequencies are in agreement with Kuizenga-Siegman theory. However, for lower frequencies the pulses have higher intracavity peak power which allows the soliton effect to take place. Depending on the pump power level, the repetition rate and the cavity length both lasers can operate in active mode-locking or under the influence of the soliton regime that locks the pulse duration according to the dispersion and cavity length. Due to the soliton robustness, this condition eliminates most of the environmental influence in the in-field mode-locking regime and makes both lasers very similar.
©2012 Optical Society of America
Stable multigigahertz pulse-train formation in a short-cavity passively harmonic mode-locked erbium/ytterbium fiber laser
B. C. Collings, K. Bergman, and W. H. Knox
Opt. Lett. 23(2) 123-125 (1998)
Tunable and switchable harmonic h-shaped pulse generation in a 3.03 km ultralong mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser
Junqing Zhao, Lei Li, Luming Zhao, Dingyuan Tang, Deyuan Shen, and Lei Su
Photon. Res. 7(3) 332-340 (2019)
Stabilization of actively mode-locked Er-doped fiber lasers in the rational-harmonic frequency-doubling mode-locking regime
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Fig. 1 Experimental setup of the 50 km ultralong Erbium fiber lasers (a) in-laboratory and (b) in-field by the use of KyaTera network installed in the Sao Paulo city connecting Mackenzie University and University of Sao Paulo.
Fig. 2 (a) Average output power of the ultralong Erbium fiber laser by using spools in laboratory and by using the KyaTera network. (b) Output spectrum in both cases: in-lab setup and KyaTera network.
Fig. 3 (a) Output pulse widths at modulation frequency of 1 GHz in actively mode-locking regime: In-laboratory (blue curve) and In-field fiber laser (red curve). (b) Output spectra at the modulation frequency of 1 GHz in actively mode-locking regime: In-laboratory (blue curve) and In-field fiber laser (red curve).
Fig. 4 Output pulse width as function of modulation frequency for in-laboratory (blue curve) and in-field (red curve) laser.
Fig. 5 Intracavity and soliton peak power versus modulation frequency for (a) In-lab and (b) In-field fiber laser.
Fig. 6 Output spectra of the in-laboratory laser with modulation frequency varying from 1 to 10 GHz (span of 1 nm).
Fig. 7 Output spectra of in-field laser with modulation frequencies varying from 1 to 10 GHz (span of 1 nm).
Fig. 8 (a) Pulse width and (b) Spectrum at the modulation frequency of 1 GHz after 25 km of SMF for in-laboratory laser.
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!!> Ebook ➭ The Oysterville Sewing Circle ➮ Author Susan Wiggs – Survivingtheholocaust.us
The 1 New York Times Bestselling Author Brings Us Her Most Ambitious And Provocative Work Yet A Searing And Timely Novel That Explores The Most Volatile Issue Of Our Time Domestic Violence At The Break Of Dawn, Caroline Shelby Rolls Into Oysterville, Washington, A Tiny Hamlet At The Edge Of The Raging Pacific.She S Come Home.Home To A Place She Thought She D Left Forever, Home Of Her Heart And Memories, But Not Her Future Ten Years Ago, Caroline Launched A Career In The Glamorous Fashion World Of Manhattan But Her Success In New York Imploded On A Wave Of Scandal And Tragedy, Forcing Her To Flee To The Only Safe Place She Knows.And In The Backseat Of Caroline S Car Are Two Children Who Were Orphaned In A Single Chilling Moment Five Year Old Addie And Six Year Old Flick She S Now Their Legal Guardian A Role She S Not Sure She S Ready For.But The Oysterville She Left Behind Has Changed Her Siblings Have Their Own Complicated Lives And Her Aging Parents Are Hoping To Pass On Their Thriving Seafood Restaurant To The Next Generation And There S Will Jensen, A Decorated Navy SEAL Who S Also Returned Home After Being Wounded Overseas Will And Caroline Were Forever Friends As Children, With The Promise Of Something Until He Fell In Love With Sierra, Caroline S Best Friend And The Most Beautiful Girl In Town With Her Modeling Jobs Drying Up, Sierra, Too, Is On The Cusp Of Reinventing Herself.Caroline Returns To Her Favorite Place The Sewing Shop Owned By Mrs Lindy Bloom, The Woman Who Inspired Her And Taught Her To Sew There She Discovers That Even In An Idyllic Beach Town, There Are Women Living With The Deepest Of Secrets Thus Begins The Oysterville Sewing Circle Where Women Can Join Forces To Support Each Other Through The Troubles They Keep Hidden.Yet Just As Caroline Regains Her Creativity And Fighting Spirit, And The Children Begin To Heal From Their Loss, An Unexpected Challenge Tests Her Courage And Her Heart This Time, Though, Caroline Is Not Going To Run Away She S Going To Stand And Fight For Everything And Everyone She Loves.
10 thoughts on “!!> Ebook ➭ The Oysterville Sewing Circle ➮ Author Susan Wiggs – Survivingtheholocaust.us”
Katie B Katie B says:
3.5 starsThis was my first Susan Wiggs novel and I liked this one enough to want to check out her other books I appreciate her attempt at exploring some heavy subjects in this story however there were a few things in the book that I felt weren t developed to their potential This has been a common thing with books I have read recently Just because I know early on how it will probably end, I still need to feel like everything unfolds naturally rather than rushed or glossed over Don t get me wrong though this was still a good read.The fashion world might be glamorous but it is also cutthroat, a fact Caroline Shelby is well aware of having worked in the industry for 10 years in New York City She decides to return to her hometown of Oysterville, Washington not only because she is unemployed but also because she has recently become legal guardian of her deceased friend s children and she s going to need the help of her parents and siblings But returning home will mean she will have to face her past, both the good, and the bad Given the size of the town it will be difficult to avoid running into Will Jensen, a friend from her childhood who broke her heart when he married her best friend, Sierra When Caroline decides to form a women s support group, she learns that she s not the only one with a deep secret.There s a lot of heavy subjects in the story like domestic violence, addiction, and sexual assault so I would take a pass on this one if you are just in the mood for a light and breezy read Unfortunately because there was a lot of different things going on , I thought the story as a whole suffered because nothing felt fully developed It s like the story would focus for while on the sewing circle, and then bounce to the whole love triangle thing, then briefly mention the kids I feel like you get to the endpoint and it s not as entirely satisfying as you hoped because many parts of the story just felt glossed over Keeping that in mind, I m not saying this isn t a good book, rather because of these things, it didn t hit the great or awesome mark for me Still recommend especially if you like books about women supporting other women.Thank you to the publisher for sending me an advance copy in exchange for a review
DJ Sakata DJ Sakata says:
Favorite Quotes Since she had left home right out of high school, she had dutifully visited a few times at Christmas That seemed to satisfy the family and also preserved her status as the official black sheep Every family needed a pet, her brother Jackson used to joke.I ve had my heart broken so many times, it s all scar tissue Turns out my perfect husband pulled the oldest trick in the book He took up with an associate at the law firm, plotted a slick exit, and brought my life to a screeching halt She s awful, too one of those phony Christians who claimed she was saving herself for marriage I guess you should have asked whose marriage, His eyes were as blue as her favorite color of gumball As a general rule, she didn t like boys With two younger brothers, she was well aware of their shortcomings Boys were noisy, and they smelled like hamsters, and they had an incomprehensible habit of wearing the same dirty shirt day in and day out until someone made them change.My Review This was a slowly evolving, relatable, and thoughtfully written story in which every woman from most any culture will find something that resonates for her While predominantly fitting the genre of women s fiction, it could also be considered a second chance and small town romance The realistic storylines were easy to follow, highly assessable, relevant, and cast with a wide variety of unique and endearing yet flawed characters The writing was engaging and easy to follow yet slyly emotive and stung my eye sockets several times Susan Wiggs has earned a permanent spot on my list of favorite authors.
Elizabeth of Silver& Elizabeth of Silver& says:
Caroline never thought she would be returning to her childhood home of Oysterville and definitely not with two children that weren t her own.Caroline had wanted to leave as badly as any young person and head to New York City Caroline did make it big in New York until a famous designer stole her clothing line.Her loss and the death of her friend had Caroline returning with her friend s two children because Caroline had no idea how to take care of a child let alone two.Caroline had a loving, supportive family to help her and ideas on how to help women of domestic abuse since that is what took her friend who left her the two children.We get a glimpse into Caroline s life as a teenager as well as her life now Her teenage years were just as full of love as her adult life with her family.THE OYSTERVILLE SEWING CIRCLE was a sweet, beautiful read with lovable characters and a setting you will want to make your own.If you enjoy sewing, the fashion world, being on a beach setting, learning about running a restaurant, being with loving characters, and seeing women helping other women, THE OYSTERVILLE SEWING CIRCLE will be a wonderful addition to your reading stack.A truly cozy, heartwarming read for readers of women s fiction 5 5This book was given to me by the publisher as an ARC via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
Lori Tatar Lori Tatar says:
I thoroughly enjoyed The Oysterville Sewing Circle Believe me when I say, it is not what it appears at first glance, and that is by design It handles some pretty heavy topics, primarily domestic abuse, in a way that is easy to take in and not feel overwhelmed by the message This is a story for women, about women and about love, and not just following our passions, but finding them as well It illustrates how our lives are our own, even when they are not This was a great read
Christopher Christopher says:
Caroline Shelby was a rising star in the fashion world, on the cusp of living the dream she sat out to achieve a decade ago However, after a famous designer sabotages her career and her best friend dies, leaving Caroline as guardian to her two children, she s left scrounging for a way forward professionally and personally And while she never thought she s return to her childhood home of Oysterville, her family and old friends might be the only people who can help her navigate the new life thrust upon her But settling into the flow of her former life also means digging up small town ghosts, good and bad.At the start, Caroline is pushing through perhaps the lowest point in her life Author Susan Wiggs expertly navigates these early chapters, raising Caroline as someone on the verge of getting everything she s ever wanted And yet, through no fault of her own, it s all ripped away Between the downward spiral of her career at the hands of a rotten designer and the death of her friend, Angelique, she s forced to change her life This beginning is beautifully understated, with a careful friction placed against Caroline s wants with a massive independent streak, it s not the kind of life she ever anticipated for herself, but she still commits to the two children she s now responsible for, Addie and Flick.Of course, Caroline is the main reason Wiggs s work clicks together Though Wiggs plays with alternating timelines, dragging up complicated relationships, forgotten feelings, and a community in flux, the focus is Caroline Determined and with passion, she drives the action forward and the narrative draws parallels between her previous and current lives really, she becomes two complex characters rolled into one.Wiggs doesn t shy away from difficult topics, including race, immigration, and domestic abuse ultimately, Caroline forms a support group for survivors However, she treads lightly, pulling away from the heaviest details while maintaining her point It s a balancing act, and Wiggs succeeds in showcasing harsh realities without them becoming too overwhelming or sterile.Ultimately, Wiggs has crafted an intimate book with immense heart Most importantly, it feels believable.Note I received a free ARC of this book through NetGalley.Review also posted at
Karol Karol says:
First of all, I won this book from Goodreads So thank you Now on to the review Warning, some minor spoilers ahead I thought this book was decent, but not a great read It was very repetitive and not as deep as I would have liked I think the subject matter domestic abuse, drug abuse, sexual assault is important and am glad Susan Wiggs tackled it, but I wish she d gone deeper I also wish that some of the characters in the book that were in the Sewing Circle abuse victims had been men it happens than people admit I would have loved to see a inclusive and nuanced group of survivors They honestly all felt a bit one dimensional and cliched Plus, this book made it seem like pretty much every woman ever has been a victim of some form of abuse or assault or harassment It wasn t as realistic as it could have been.As for the main story line with the protagonist and the guy she s loved since childhood, I enjoyed the parts that flashed back to their childhood summers, but felt the present day story was lacking and uninspired She makes a ton of bad choices, lets people walk all over her, and then we are supposed to root for her I just found it hard to care about her And he gets over his perfect marriage quite quickly and easily I found myself not really caring if they got together, because it felt like they purposely kept making choices that kept them apart All they had to do was actually talk to each other and say how they felt, but that was apparently too hard for them.Another issue I had was that the kids she basically adopts felt like an afterthought Their story just wasn t fleshed out enough I wanted to know about these kids, to understand what they were going through But it was all a bit too surface, not enough substance All in all, I thought it was a decent read, but it didn t stay with me, and I won t remember much of it in a year.
Kris - My Novelesque Life Kris - My Novelesque Life says:
RATING 3.5 STARS2019 William Morrow HarperCollins Canada Review Not on Blog I was interested in knowing about the Oysterville Sewing Circle, and was disappointed how little of it was actually in this novel While waiting on finding out about the OSC, I sort of read the rest of the story in passing I enjoyed this novel but also felt like there was something lacking due to my previous statement I found that Wiggs handled domestic violence well for a lighter book I have been a fan of hers since a friend lent me one of her novels, and I loved her Lakeshore Chronicles so much so I cannot read the last novel in the series, lol I received an eARC from EDELWEISS
The Oysterville Sewing Circle is the second of Susan Wiggs books that I have read in the last year and I find myself wondering why I haven t read TOSC was important without being preachy and informative without being textbook like Touching on issues such as domestic violence ranging from date rape to spousal abuse and beyond and addiction, and the wake of destruction that can be found in the aftermath, I found this book taking me on a rollercoaster of emotions and finished the last page saying wow I m a bit surprised looking at reviews that I am in the minority on this, but if you find yourself having similar taste to me, this is one I wholeheartedly recommend Thank you to William Morrow for a review copy All opinions are my own.
Asheley Asheley says:
4.5 5While I was reading, I kept thinking about how this is a story about change Major life circumstances push Caroline Shelby to both leave her beloved job as a fashion designer in New York City and move back home to her parent s house in tiny Oysterville, Washington She has one of her best friend s children with her after a quick and necessary decision to become their legal guardian Caroline has no experience with parenting, but she is certain that she wants 5 year old Addie and 6 year old Flick to feel loved and safe Her parents and siblings open their hearts and arms to Caroline and the kids, and the three of them start healing process that comes with great losses There are a lot of things going on in this story Major career change, moving across the country, new parenting issues, and domestic violence all pop up on these pages All of that sounds really heavy, but I didn t feel heavy when I closed the book Yes there is some heartache, but many of the characters gain confidence and strength as they make changes to their life, and I loved seeing good things happen to all of these characters The book is called The Oysterville Sewing Circle because Caroline sees a need for a support group for women that are or have been victims of domestic violence, and this is what she calls it I won t tell you why or how they decided on that name very cool but I ll say that I wasn t sure how this group would work when Caroline sat waiting for women to show up at the first meeting It took no time at all for the women in the group to win my heart, and I love every single thing that they brought to the table They all played pivotal roles in Caroline s life, and in the lives of Addie and Flick I trust Susan Wiggs so completely when I sit down with her stories It doesn t matter what the themes may be, I always find them to be some of my most enjoyable reads She is so great at characterization I felt like I could see and hear each of these characters perfectly based on how she wrote them into the narrative I also love her setting choices Small, waterfront towns are always some of my favorite settings.Addie is such a great example of strength and stepping up to do something that is hard in her desire to raise these children as her own I love that she takes them to her home immediately, because she has such a good, supportive family and it is clear that they ll likely be able to help provide the safety and security to these young kids I loved watching the kids open up to their new life, in their new environment, which was totally opposite from the hustle and bustle of New York City In Oysterville, Addie and Flick were able to experience the ocean, a yard in which to play, home cooking, and a huge network of people that they could trust I felt astounded at the decisions that Caroline has to make in terms of parenting and putting the kids first, and I love that the story shows that decisions involving kids often are not very glamorous and require tons of sacrifice There is a romance in the story and it comes with complications I think it added so much to the story and while I was gritting my teeth and crossing my fingers for a while over this relationship, I did end up very happy at the end I always love spending my time in the pages of Ms Wiggs stories, and every time I finish one, I can t wait until I get the chance to pick up another one I still think Between You and Me is my favorite by Ms Wiggs, but they re all SO good Readers that love stories about women making big decisions and women supporting other women will probably love this one It s such a great story so sweet and full of hope I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review Thank you, William Morrow Books Find this review and like it on my blog, Into the Hall of Books
Anna Anna says:
Caroline Shelby left the quaint town of Oysterville, Washington for NYC with the dream of making it big in the fashion industry After ten years of hard work, her career was about to take off when it was sabotaged by her boss She s struggling to get back on her feet when her best friend, Angelique, a beautiful model, comes to her for help After a tragic moment, Caroline finds herself guardian of Angelique s two young children, Addie and Flick To do what is best for the children, Caroline returns to Oysterville to give them the opportunity at the wonderful childhood she experienced Old feelings are reignited when she runs into Will Jensen, her first love He s now married to her childhood best friend, Sierra Caroline had never told Sierra of her feelings for Will Despite being a bit strained, they are able to resume their friendship.Caroline was excited to see Lindy Bloom, the owner of the fabric shop where Caroline was first inspired to design When Lindy reveals a secret she had kept for most of her adult life, Caroline realizes domestic abuse can happen to anyone She decides to form a support group to give women a place to feel safe in sharing their storiesAs Caroline and the children begin the healing process, new possibilities open up in all their lives.A wonderful story of friendship, family and love.
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