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Let your voice be heard 2020 tax headaches No 🍺🍷 but more 💵 Cut these expenses now
Luxury retailer Jimmy Choo puts itself up for sale
Nathan Bomey
British fashion chain Jimmy Choo said it was considering selling itself, among other moves, adding another company to the list of luxury retailers headed for a shakeup.
Jimmy Choo said it would consider "various strategic options," which comes as the luxury segment grapples with sluggish sales. Upscale retailer Kate Spade recently declared that it would consider similar options, likely including a possible sale.
Jimmy Choo's largest shareholder, JAB Luxury, which owns 66.7% of the company's shares, said it "is supportive of this process."
The seller of high-end shoes, handbags and accessories also reported Monday that sales at stores open at least a year fell 0.8% in 2016 after increasing 1.1% in 2015 and 5.7% in 2014.
To be sure, the company enjoyed a 14.5% revenue bump in 2016 to 364 million pounds, or $465.5 million. And operating profit rose 42.6% to 42.5 million pounds, or $54.4 million.
But when taking out favorable currency fluctuations fueled by the United Kingdom's vote to exit the European Union, revenue increased only 1.6%. The company is targeting China for growth and is renovating some stores to adopt a new format that it says has jolted sales.
Jimmy Choo CEO Pierre Denis said in the company's annual report Monday that he saw"improving retail trends across all regions" despite "increased geopolitical uncertainty."
In the U.S., however, deteriorating demand from department stores is undermining sales. Excluding currency rates, sales in the company's Americas division plunged 13% in 2016.
Jimmy Choo had 150 company-owned stores worldwide and 64 franchised stores as of December 31, and planned to open about 10 locations in 2017.
Jimmy Choo's stock rose 11% to close at 186.50 pounds in London on Monday.
Follow USA TODAY reporter Nathan Bomey on Twitter @NathanBomey.
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University of San Francisco College of Arts & Sciences
Research and Creative Achievement
Energy Systems Management MS
College of Arts and Sciences / Graduate Programs / Energy Systems Management MS / Careers
Graduates will develop skills in strategic management, communication, change management, stakeholder engagement, and critical and systems thinking. These skills will prepare them for jobs with utility companies (electricity and water), government agencies in regulation and compliance, solar power companies and other renewable energy generators, or nonprofits engaged in promoting renewable energy and conservation.
The dramatic transformation in electricity underway today, driven by environmental sustainability, bottom-up decentralization, and rapid technology advances, requires leaders who can bridge engineering, economics, law and public policy to help develop the 21st century grid. This well-designed master's program is building the new wave of energy professionals that the industry desperately needs.
Lorenzo Kristov, PhD
Principal, Market and Infrastructure Policy, California Independent System Operator
After graduating with a BS in Energy Engineering in Brazil, I was looking for a way to have a broader perspective in the energy field. The imminent transition to a cleaner path in the energy sector always intrigued me and I was happy to find Energy Systems Management (ENGY) which allowed me to work with people who have the same goals for a clean energy future. In my first year at ENGY, I developed a critical view about the energy industry in California which helped me land an internship at Tesla. I will be working in the Environmental, Health and Safety department, performing energy audits, waste management and safety within its factory. Being an ENGY grad student gave me the tools to find work at a innovative company that is paving the way for clean transportation."
GABRIELA VOLPATO '20, Environmental, Health and Safety Intern, Tesla
After my first year of studies in USF’s Energy Systems Management program I was hired as a Project Manager with Gridworks, a nonprofit group whose mandate is to 'convene, educate and empower stakeholders working to decarbonize electricity grids.' I have been fortunate to work and collaborate with a variety of energy stakeholders from DER providers, industry associations, researchers and utility personnel since beginning with Gridworks. My studies at USF allowed me to expand my knowledge of energy systems, establish industry connections and develop the necessary skills to succeed in the electricity industry."
ALEX SMITH '19, PROJECT MANAGER AND POLICY ANALYST, GRIDWORKS
I didn't know what possible next step I could take after working at Tesla. I also didn't know what doors USF could open for me. Half the reason I joined the program was to network with top executives and directors in the energy industry, and I knew that I had to capitalize on all of those interactions. What I didn't realize, though, was just how powerful those connections could be.
I'm now a month into a new project finance role at Borrego Solar after making the tough decision to leave Tesla. In some ways it was an easy transition, since my teammate gave a guest lecture in my Energy Economics and Finance course last fall. Through that lecture and course, I gained exposure to project finance and was able to pivot into this type of work. I like to think that my years of solar experience landed me the job, but having the connection and classwork got me that first look. For years, I begrudgingly tried to network for the sake of networking. Now, I've seen the power networking has in creating career opportunities."
MADELEINE BROWN '19, PROJECT FINANCE ASSOCIATE, BORREGO SOLAR SYSTEMS
I transitioned from energy efficiency to CleanPowerSF, the Community Choice Aggregate (CCA) program for San Francisco, after about a year in the Energy Systems Management program. Part of my reasoning for pursuing this degree was to better position myself for this transition, which actually happened more quickly than I expected. The interdisciplinary nature of this program has enabled me to serve as a utility player for the program, which is highly valued by leadership and allows me to work across teams engaging key accounts, monitoring and assessing policy impacts, and performing market analysis."
JUSTIN PINE '19, UTILITY ANALYST WITH CLEANPOWERSF, SFPUC
Midway through the program, and in no small part because of the program’s scope, I find myself working at an ambitious energy storage startup in the East Bay. My role focuses on optimizing installation methods, cost modeling, and (of all things) policy related to energy storage in California. I work simultaneously at a component level (designing customer systems for installation) and coordinating with the California Energy Storage Alliance (CESA) on that organization’s efforts in the legislature and the Public Utilities Commission.
I think that this manifold scope of competency serves to highlight Energy System's Management’s multidisciplinary design: the philosophy of the program is that leaders in the energy sector need to have a baseline working knowledge of policy, economics, and engineering in order to nourish teams and companies that will sensibly impact the inevitable minimization of emissions resulting from energy use and production.
I would encourage those from non-standard academic backgrounds to apply to this program, the industry needs people who can take uncommon perspectives on the business of making electricity. Know, however, that you are in for a rigorous crash course in the elaborate mechanisms (physical, historical, and political) that drive the largest machine on earth: our electrical grid."
MICHAEL LOWELL '19, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER, AMBER KINETICS
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Clean Power SF
Borrego Solar
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Gridworks
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THE SHAPE OF WATER Leads Nominations for 2017 Houston Film Critics Society Awards
Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer in the film THE SHAPE OF WATER.
Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, leads the nominations for the 2017 Houston Film Critics Society Awards with 11 nominations, including best picture and best director for Guillermo del Toro. Winners will be announced at the award ceremony on January 6, 2018.
2017 Houston Film Critics Society Awards Nominations
Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water”
Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”
Jordan Peele, “Get Out”
Timothee Chalamet, “Call Me By Your Name”
James Franco, “The Disaster Artist”
Robert Pattinson, “Good Time”
Andy Serkis, “War for the Planet of the Apes”
Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Brooklyn Prince, “The Florida Project”
Saiorse Ronan, “Lady Bird”
Willem Defoe, “The Florida Project”
Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Patrick Stewart, “Logan”
Michael Stuhlbarg, “Call Me By Your Name”
Holly Hunter, “The Big Sick”
Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”
Dafne Keen, “Logan”
“The Big Sick,” Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani
“Get Out,” Jordan Peele
“Lady Bird,” Greta Gerwig
“The Post,” Elizabeth Hanna and Josh Singer
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Martin McDonagh
“Blade Runner 2049,” Roger Deakins
“Call Me By Your Name,” Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
“Dunkirk,” Hoyte van Hoytema
“The Shape of Water,” Dan Laustsen
“Wonder Wheel,” Vittoria Storaro
Best Animated Film:
“Blade Runner 2049,” Ben Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer
“Dunkirk,” Hans Zimmer
“The Post,” John Williams
“The Shape of Water,” Alexandre Desplat
“War for the Planet of the Apes,” Michael Giacchino
“Evermore” (“Beauty and the Beast”)
“I Get Overwhelmed” (“A Ghost Story”)
“Never Forget” (“Murder on the Orient Express”)
“Remember Me” (“Coco”)
“Visions of Gideon” (“Call Me By Your Name”)
Best Poster:
Best Texas Independent Film Award:
“Mustang Island”
Showtime DocuSeries OUTCRY to World Premiere at SXSW
LUNANA and GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH Win Audience Awards at Palm Springs Film Fest 2020
Watch New Chilling A24 Trailer for SAINT MAUD
Adam Driver to Receive SFFILM Award for Acting
AMERICAN FACTORY and APOLLO 11 Lead 2020 Cinema Eye Honors Nominations
JUST MERCY to Close 2019 Indie Memphis Film Festival
A Ghost Story Blade of the Immortal BPM (Beats Per Minute) Call Me by Your Name Faces Places First They Killed My Father Good Time (2017) I Tonya Jane KEDİ Lady Bird Logan LOGAN LUCKY Loving Vincent Mother! (2017) Mr. Roosevelt Mustang Island Song to Song STEP The Big Sick The Breadwinner (2017) The Disaster Artist (2017) The Florida Project The Secret Life of Lance Letscher The Shape of Water The Square (2017) The Work Thelma Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
25 Films including “4 Little Girls” “Boulevard Nights” Among National Film Registry 2017 Selections
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Juul Is Behaving Differently In The Philippines Than In The U.S., Say Activists
By Nurith Aizenman • Oct 12, 2019
A Juul starter kit sold at a kiosk in a mall in Makati City in the Philippines.
Carlo Gabuco for NPR
Originally published on October 13, 2019 1:03 pm
Almost as soon as the e-cigarette maker Juul launched in the Philippines this past June, Maria Encarnita Limpin started noticing the product in shops all over the capital Manila.
"It's like they mushroomed," she says.
Limpin is a doctor specializing in lung disease and also directs a nonprofit that has helped push though rules preventing the marketing and sale of cigarettes to minors in the Philippines. So she was particularly horrified to see how visible Juul's vaporizers are in areas where children are likely to see them.
At one of Manila's biggest convenience chains, she says, the new Juul displays are often right at the entrance. Then there was the placement of a Juul promotional kiosk in a shopping area. "It was very near Baskin-Robbins," she says, "you know that famous ice cream company?"
Limpin adds that just like Baskin-Robbins, in its Philippine stores Juul is offering an assortment of flavors that seem tailor-made to appeal to teens: "Mango flavor, mint flavor," she ticks them off. Also "creme."
A vaping kiosk in a mall in the Philippines sells Juul e-cigarette pods, including fruit and other nontobacco flavors that the company has pulled from U.S. stores.
In the U.S., Juul is facing a lot of scrutiny. There's widespread consensus that the product's introduction has led to an epidemic of vaping among young people — who are drawn by not just the flavors but the vaporizer's slick, modern design and a sense that vaping doesn't carry the same risks or stigma as smoking.
Authorities have launched multiple investigations and warnings against Juul for marketing to teens and for making unauthorized claims that its product is safe.
Now health advocates like Limpin worry that Juul could make up for the clampdown in the U.S. by shifting its focus to countries that are less wealthy such as the Philippines.
Shane MacGuill studies the tobacco industry for the market research firm Euromonitor International. He says that international expansion is unquestionably "an important part of the business strategy for Juul."
The company is already in 20 countries. Almost all of them are wealthy. But this spring Juul made its first foray into less well-off nations with its entry into not just the Philippines but Indonesia. And MacGuill says Juul has been laying the groundwork to launch in many more by hiring country managers in a slew of nations as well as in cities that will function as regional hubs.
"If you look at where the majority of tobacco and nicotine consumption takes place globally, it is in lower middle income markets," says MacGuill.
For now, adds MacGuill, most consumers in those poorer countries can't afford Juul products. (The vaporizer sells on Juul's Philippines website for about $30. And each two-pack of pods costs nearly $7.) But MacGuill says Juul has been banking on the possibility that eventually incomes in those countries will rise.
"The strategy was really built around making sure that the brand was in a position to access that sort of potential growth," says MacGuill.
So in the medium- to long-term, places like the Philippines could become important markets. And Limpin, the health advocate, says she already sees signs that Juul is behaving very differently in the Philippines compared to the U.S.
For instance, one of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's investigations centers on whether Juul's fruit and other nontobacco flavors constitute illegal marketing to kids and should therefore be banned. In response, Juul has voluntarily pulled these flavors from U.S. stores.
That hasn't happened in the Philippines.
Limpin, says in her country, "There's really no good law that will protect us from these kind of tactics."
In July, the Philippine Food and Drug Administration tried to issue an administrative order that would have prohibited the sale of e-cigarettes to minors and limit how and where they can be marketed. But two Philippine e-cigarette companies have tied up the order in court. So according to Ana Trinidad Rivera, director of the relevant department at the Philippine FDA, the status of the order is now "under discussion by the government lawyers handling the case."
Also at issue: The messages Juul puts out about the safety of its product.
Dr. Albert Rizzo is chief medical officer of the American Lung Association. He notes that while vaping doesn't involve combustion, it does still use chemicals. And "some of these chemicals are carcinogens, very similar to ones that are in regular cigarettes."
The vapes contain a lower quantity of the chemicals, he adds. But vaping is still a fairly new phenomenon. "So we really don't know what mid-to-long term effects inhalation of these chemicals would lead to," says Rizzo.
The lack of definitive information means that under U.S. law, Juul is prohibited from describing its product as safe — or even saying it's safer than smoking. Last month the FDA warned Juul that some of its marketing does just that. The agency ordered Juul to stop immediately.
But the company faces no such constraints in the Philippines. And Limpin says that when, as an impromptu experiment, she sent her 19-year-old son to a Juul kiosk in Manila, the salesperson told him that using Juul is safer than smoking because it won't cause cancer — and made no mention of any risks from vaping.
Limpin adds that this is one of many instances — including public events and hearings in the legislature — where Juul is "actually marketing [its product] like it's not going to cause any problems."
NPR asked officials at Juul why the company's practices around safety messaging and flavors appear to differ between the two countries.
In a statement, Juul officials noted that the company recently appointed a new CEO. And they said both he and "the entire Juul Labs leadership team is continuing a broad review of the company's practices and policies to ensure alignment with its aim of responsible leadership within the industry."
U.S. authorities have launched a slew of investigations in warning against Juul for marketing to teens and claiming that e-cigarettes are safe. But Juul has also recently expanded overseas and into some lower-income countries, like the Philippines, that don't have as many regulations. Health advocates there worry that Juul will make up for the clampdown in the U.S. by ramping up what they say are questionable practices. NPR's Nurith Aizenman reports.
NURITH AIZENMAN, BYLINE: Juul launched in the Philippines this past June. Maria Encarnita Limpin says, overnight, the product was popping up in shops all over the capital Manila.
MARIA ENCARNITA LIMPIN: It's really, really alarming because it's like they mushroomed.
AIZENMAN: Limpin is a doctor specializing in lung disease and director of a nonprofit that has helped push through rules preventing the marketing and sale of cigarettes to minors in the Philippines. So she was horrified to see how visible Juul's vaporizers now are.
LIMPIN: You can actually see them in almost any type of stores.
AIZENMAN: At one of Manila's biggest convenience chains, she says, the new Juul displays are right at the entrance. Then, there was the placement of a Juul promotional kiosk.
LIMPIN: Yeah. So it was very near Baskin-Robbins, you know, that famous ice cream company.
AIZENMAN: And she says just like Baskin-Robbins, in its Philippine stores, Juul is offering an assortment of flavors...
LIMPIN: Mint flavor, mango flavor.
AIZENMAN: ...That seem tailor-made to appeal to teens.
Shane MacGuill studies the tobacco industry for the market research firm Euromonitor International. He says when it comes to international expansion...
SHANE MACGUILL: I think that's an important part of the business strategy for Juul.
AIZENMAN: The company is already in 20 countries, pretty much all of them wealthy. But this spring, Juul made its first foray into less well-off nations with its entry into not just the Philippines, but Indonesia. And MacGuill says Juul has been laying the groundwork to launch in many more.
MACGUILL: If you look at where the majority of tobacco and nicotine consumption takes place globally, it is in lower-middle-income markets.
AIZENMAN: MacGuill says, for now, most consumers in those less well-off countries can't afford Juul products. But he says Juul has been banking on the possibility that, eventually, incomes in those countries will rise.
MACGUILL: The strategy was really built around making sure that the brand was in a position to access that sort of potential growth.
AIZENMAN: And with Juul facing new scrutiny in the U.S., Limpin, the health advocate from the Philippines, worries that over the long term, Juul will end up shifting its focus to countries like hers. Already, she says, the company is behaving very differently in the Philippines compared to the U.S.
LIMPIN: They are making the Philippines as their dumping ground.
AIZENMAN: For instance, in the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether Juul's fruit and other nontobacco flavors constitute illegal marketing to kids and should be banned. In response, Juul has already voluntarily pulled these flavors from U.S. stores, but not the ones in the Philippines. Limpin says in her country...
LIMPIN: There's really no good law that will protect us from these kinds of tactics.
AIZENMAN: Also at issue, the messages Juul puts out about the safety of its product. Dr. Albert Rizzo is chief medical officer with the American Lung Association. He notes that vaping involves chemicals.
ALBERT RIZZO: Some of these chemicals are carcinogens very similar to the ones that are in regular cigarettes - now, maybe lower in content and lower in number.
AIZENMAN: But vaping is still a pretty new phenomenon.
RIZZO: So we really don't know what mid-to-long-term effects inhalation of these chemicals would lead to.
AIZENMAN: That means under U.S. law, Juul is prohibited from describing its product as safe or even saying it's safer than smoking. Last month, the FDA warned Juul that some of its marketing does just that, and the agency ordered Juul to stop immediately. But the company faces no such constraints in the Philippines. And Limpin says when her son approached a Juul kiosk in Manila, the salesperson told him that using Juul is safer than smoking because it won't cause cancer and no mention was made of any risks from vaping.
LIMPIN: They're actually marketing it like it's not going to cause any problems.
AIZENMAN: NPR asked officials at Juul why the company's practices around safety messaging and flavors appear to be different in the two countries. In a statement, Juul officials noted that the company recently appointed a new CEO. And they said both he and, quote, "the entire Juul Labs leadership team is continuing a broad review of the company's practices and policies to ensure alignment with its aim of responsible leadership within the industry."
Nurith Aizenman, NPR News.
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Bluestone Resources
Website: www.bluestoneresources.ca
Primary ticker: TSXV:BSR
Stage of development: Development
Commodity: Gold, Silver
Project to promote: Cerro Blanco Gold Project
Live financials
Bluestone Resources Inc. is a mineral exploration and development company that is focused on advancing its 100%-owned high-grade, permitted Cerro Blanco Gold project located in Guatemala. A Feasibility Study on Cerro Blanco returned robust economics with a quick pay back. The average annual production is projected to be 146,000 ounces per year over the first three years of production with all-in sustaining costs of $579/oz (as defined per World Gold Council guidelines, less corporate general and administration costs).
We are led by a team of professional executives that have a track record of success and are committed to creating value for our stakeholders.
View Research Report by National Bank of Canada on 30 May 2018 View Research Report by Haywood Securities on 26 June 2018 View Research Report by Canaccord on 18 October 2018 View Research Report by Pareto Securities on 2 May 2019 View Q3 2019 Corporate Presentation
Darren Klinck -President, CEO & Director
Darren was most recently Executive Vice President & Head of Corporate Development for OceanaGold Corporation responsible for overseeing the capital markets as well as the mergers and acquisitions strategy. Over the past ten years at OceanaGold, Mr. Klinck’s various responsibilities have also included oversight of project teams managing exploration, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and community engagement programs as well as extensive government relations activities.
Mr. Klinck is a graduate of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and is a highly regarded mining executive with a broad range of international experience.
What is your rationale for attending 121 Mining Investment?
Bluestone Resources is looking to increase our exposure and initiate dialogue with funds and shareholders as we progress towards construction and production at Cerro Blanco. We are rapidly advancing the high-grade, permitted Cerro Blanco and have several upcoming catalysts, including the finalisation of our project financing package, which will include an equity raise component.
What recent news would you like to highlight to investors attending?
04/09/19 – Bluestone Announces Consistent High-Grade Channel Sampling Results in Development Drift – averaging 22.4 g/t over 22 meters along vein
21/08/19 – Bluestone Announces Additional Drill Results – 13.7 meters of 11.2 g/t Au and 78 g/t Ag
09/07/19 – Bluestone Underground Sampling Delivers 20.4 meters at 18.9 g/t Au and 33 g/t Ag (16.7 meters true width)
03/07/19 – Bluestone Drilling Delivers 7.9 meters of 19 g/t Au and 44 g/t Ag and 9 meters of 8.4 g/t Au and 53 g/t Ag
29/05/19 – Bluestone Drills Further High-Grade Intercepts including 5.4 meters of 11.9 g/t Au and 84.5 g/t Ag
What are your key goals for the next 3, 6 and 12 months?
3 Months:
Advancing and finalising our project financing package
Completing a resource estimate and study update
Ongoing drill program results (immediate mine life extension to further enhance NPV and IRR at Cerro Blanco)
Further project derisking activities and project readiness planning
Finalise project financing package
Aiming to kick-off engineering and construction activities at Cerro Blanco
Update resource at the South Zone following drill program
12 Months:
Continue to advance the development and construction at Cerro Blanco
What do you see as the key risks and challenges facing your company at the moment and how are you overcoming these?
Bluestone Resources is continuing to derisk the permitted Cerro Blanco project as we progress towards construction, including completion of a project financing package, evaluation of contractor and surface facilities execution models as well as underground mining contractor options, conversion of resources into mineable reserves, continued HR readiness and CSR efforts.
We see a path forward with the support from our strong shareholder base, the Lundin Family and CD Capital, combined with strong economics and low initial capital to make Cerro Blanco an attractive opportunity in the gold space.
In a sentence, what do you think makes your company such a compelling investment?
Bluestone Resources is rapidly advancing the high-grade Cerro Blanco project, which is permitted for construction and operations with more than $200M invested in project by previous owners, a robust Feasibility Study with strong economics, a strong shareholder base, and has demonstrated exploration success and will generate more free cash flow than the current market capitalization of the company in the first year of production.
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From a painting of the Flying Dutchman in 1887 by Albert Pinkham Ryder. (Smithsonian American Art Museum).
The Legend of The Flying Dutchman.
The Myth of The Flying Dutchman.
Image source: Public domain.
The Ghostly Flying Dutchman.
The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship that can never make port and is doomed to sail the world's oceans forever. The tale of a spectral sailing ship with ghostly lights and it's captain Hendrick Van der Decken is likely to have originated in the 17th century, with reported sightings made years later. Like all myths and legends, they get told and re-told so many times that inevitably changes and additions are made to the original tale. The story of the ghostly Flying Dutchman was probably started by sailors and crews in the port taverns in The Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
The legend says that a sea captain, Hendrick Van der Decken, was doomed by a curse to sail around the Cape of Good Hope until doomsday for exceeding God's bounds and challenging the Heavens. He had been obsessed with sailing around the Cape to continue his planned voyage without waiting for the fierce storms that were raging to subside. His crew pleaded with him to wait until it was safer, and even a voice from Heaven telling him to turn back and seek shelter in a bay were all ignored. Continuing to battle the heavy seas and storms Van der Decken started to become increasingly angry. He finally raced out on deck and shouted at the heart of the raging storm and the Heavens 'May I be damned if I do for I shall be here until the day of judgement!" Shortly afterwards the ship sank with eleven souls going down with the ship. The Flying Dutchman was now doomed to sail the seven seas for all eternity.
The Flying Dutchman is said to suddenly appear out of nowhere. Some reports in the 18th and 19th centuries tell of vessels, particularly those from the Dutch East India Company, being approached by the Flying Dutchman whose crew actually attempt to converse with the astonished saillors and ask for messages to be sent home. When the living sailors tried to deliver the messages they often found that the intended recipients had been dead for many decades.
Amongst the more recent 'sightings' of the Flying Dutchman is the one made by the young Prince George of Wales, the future King George V, who claimed to have seen it in 1881. Prince George and his brother Albert served as midshipmen aboard the Royal Navy corvette HMS Bacchante on a three year voyage, and the sighting recorded by the Royal Navy was witnessed by the officer of the watch and the quater deck midshipman. Altogether, the sighting was witnessed by thirteen people at the time. The following entry in the princes' log was made regarding this pre-dawn sighting on 11 July 1881:
July 11th. At 4 a.m. the Flying Dutchman crossed our bows. A strange red light as of a phantom ship all aglow, in the midst of which light the masts, spars and sails of a brig 200 yards distant stood out in strong relief as she came up on the port bow, where also the officer of the watch from the bridge clearly saw her, as did the quarterdeck midshipman, who was sent forward at once to the forecastle; but on arriving there was no vestige nor any sign whatever of any material ship was to be seen either near or right away to the horizon, the night being clear and the sea calm. Thirteen persons altogether saw her ... At 10.45 a.m. the ordinary seaman who had this morning reported the Flying Dutchman fell from the foretopmast crosstrees on to the topgallant forecastle and was smashed to atoms.
Later sightings include the 1939 story that many people in Cape Town, South Africa, saw the Flying Dutchman heading straight towards the shore under full sail then suddenly disappear just before disaster. In 1942 reports by the world war two Nazi admiral Carl Doenitz claimed that some of Germany's uBoat crews had seen the Flying Dutchman east of Suez and at other locations.
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Discussion in 'Symphony X (Unofficial)' started by EyeballKid, Jul 23, 2015.
Kenneth R. Cináed
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anonym115 said: ↑
Does anyone know what kind of software Romeo uses to make things like Overture? Is it just a DAW with VST/notational support? Anyone know which one specifically?
I imagine you could look at their production videos if they have any recent ones. Likely it's just as you say, he's got a sample library which he arranges and programs for. It's really not very difficult at all, actually a few years ago, the hardest part was making it sound human by manually altering the timing and velocity of individual midi notes. This is becoming no longer necessary as VSTi features improve.
#221 Kenneth R., Aug 9, 2015
anonym115 Member
I never knew they even had production videos in the first place. I wonder which specific program he uses. I'm looking to get back into composition and orchestration now that my life is a little different, but the setup I used to use sounds terrible and massively outdated.
#222 anonym115, Aug 9, 2015
LittleTortillaBoy Member
As far as I know he uses Nuendo.
#223 LittleTortillaBoy, Aug 9, 2015
Neva Kee Member
Since two weeks have passed and I had more time to listen to it, my opinion of the album has changed as I expected
Neva Kee said: ↑
Okay, as many have also done this, I would like to add my intial reaction to Underworld (after two spins, so this will likely change a bit in the future):
The best:
Without You - this transports a lot of feeling and is just a cool and fun song!
In My Darkest Hour - this has really improved and clicked on me - now for me the best song on the album - crisp and melodic with a heartwrenching solo.
The okay ones:
Overture + Nevermore (the groove of Nevermore is very cool and might still grow even more on me, but I constantly have the feeling that this song is so rushed and could need some short licks here and there (a bit like Iconoclast does) to make stuff a bit more interesting / less linear.
Kiss of Fire - the new approach is interesting and one of the harmonies sounds like it could be from Opeth (back when they were doing stuff like that ), I like it and it will probably grow more
Charon - I still have to wrap my head around the rhythm before the chorus, since until now it doesn't make a lot of sense, but since I like the rest...
To Hell and Back - It starts with a very promising and epic theme that is quickly dropped only to be shoehorned in at the end again. I would probably like this more, if the theme was used more during the song, the rest inbetween is okay, though a bit unmemorable and feels a bit puzzled together...
I'd rather call these "The good ones" now, since they have really grown a LOT (even though I still cannot fully wrap my head around the prechorus of Charon )
New additions here are
Underworld - with a little getting used to it, the "evil" vocals and screaming aren't as bad anymore now
Run With The Devil
The meh:
Underworld - could be a lot more interesting if not for the screaming and "evil" vocals, which I don't like at all (so far I generally liked Symphony for "superheavy" but still melodic - but not this...)
In my darkest hour - such a strong refrain with so little interesting happening inbetween, could have been a lot better, if it was made a bit more interesting "in the interest of the song"
Swansong - It sounds too much like Paradise Lost (the song) with a refrain that instantly reminds me of Manowar ballads (that I like, but when I want that I hear Manowar ) disappointed
Legend - the melody (especially the vocal melody) just doesn't incite any feelings in me...sounds uninspired and samey ("typical" Symphony X lines)
The worst:
run with the devil - if not for the instrumental parts, this would be almost a melodic rock song (not that I wouldn't like that in general) and not a very good one, too...bland and powerless
All in all I am not yet convinced of the Album, but that may (hopefully) still change.
No Meh and Worst songs anymore - even though I still think that Swansong is not weak but the weakest song on the album for me.
I really like the album now and I really like how it tells the story through the songs and their order, which reflects in it's current status:
The albums in general I would put in this order:
V > Iconoclast (yes I really like it that much!)> Divine wings > Twilight in Olympus > Underworld = Paradise Lost = Damnation Game = Odyssey (I like only the ballads and the song Odyssey here)
V > Iconoclast = Underworld = Divine wings > Twilight in Olympus > Paradise Lost = Damnation Game = Odyssey (I like only the ballads and the song Odyssey here)
I only hope that the album has staying power for me because at first Odyssey was close to the top when it was released for about half a year before dropping really fast for me.
#224 Neva Kee, Aug 9, 2015
LittleTortillaBoy said: ↑
Eww but at least it's not Logic or ProFools. Surround mixing (I don't know how much SX does of that) is archaic and limited in all of those Daws.
Why Nuendo? That's more of an AV thing. Cubase with some VST orchestral stuff like halion seems more likely.
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He has mentioned using VSL in interviews before. He could've switched to one of the newer, easier to use Kontakt libraries though because there isn't any detailed orchestration on this album with solo instruments etc. I think he did say something about getting new software in a recent interview, but didn't specify anything. And it doesn't really matter what DAW, they all do the same thing.
#227 AsoTamaki, Aug 9, 2015
Workflow is a HUGE consideration. And EVERY program does that differently.
Neva: What don't you like about the prechorus of Charon?
Not really, man. The DAW itself will have little effect on your workflow. We're talking about hosting the software as a plugin. The keyboard shortcuts and the location of menu options will be a little different, but that's about it. It's the interface, engine and scripting of whichever sample library you choose that's gonna determine your workflow.
AsoTamaki said: ↑
And it doesn't really matter what DAW, they all do the same thing.
Only some of them are crippled in some areas and excel in others. And those vary.
I wouldn't say it's an AV thing. Yeah Nuendo has (shitty) video editing, but it's basically the 'pro' version of Cubase. Still has some issues though, and some advantages.
Yep. There is almost no comparison. They're all very different.
If you're doing this, then you really should just use the VSTi standalone GUI instead of a DAW.
#230 Kenneth R., Aug 10, 2015
Alright, I'm going to attempt to list the top 5 corniest Underworld lyric snippets without listening to the album. Feel free to add to 'em!
Nevermore: "Bloodless spirits wept in fear." (really just the word bloodless is plain old irksome here. Rest is fine.)
Underworld: "Demons of DEAAAAAATH!" (still cool though. seasoned popcorn.)
Without You: "Time to face my fears!" (would cringe hard if it wasn't Allen singing it.)
Kiss of Fire: "Destroyer of all dreams." (Wut? Hardly makes sense in the lyric flow even given the phrases right beforehand.)
Kiss of Fire: "Bring down the hammer, with flaming malice!" (I like the furious anger one. Fight me. Flaming malice though?)
#231 anonym115, Aug 10, 2015
the Demons of Death thing is straight out of Savatage + Edge of Sanity
Postulate Have a nice day! :)
I liked, "My strings ring hollow." Nothing else on the album really got me. As for bad lyrics...well, whatever.
#233 Postulate, Aug 12, 2015
I'd go so far as to say they've graduated from the elementary grades. Yeah, it's the best lyrically since The Odyssey. It's all passable stuff. The "Kiss of Fire" bridge was the only part that stood out and it's not as bad as Iconoclast's worst moments anyway. But there's no way you can convince me that he didn't actually record the line as "serious anger" even if the official lyrics say "furious".
Also, I was pleasantly surprised that they somehow avoided mentioning fire and flames any more than on the past two albums. Gotta give them credit for that if nothing else. It seemed inevitable with the theme being the Underworld.
#234 AsoTamaki, Aug 12, 2015
Bear Got Shred??
PrgrsveMetalnChains said: ↑
Dude. Charon is one of the best, if not the best on the album. That Egypt vibe is all over it. Comparing the two is impossible but shit it kicks ass. Legends also...great track. I'm a fan of this album thus far. 2 listens in and I'm ranking it around Odyssey / Paradise Lost quality, maybe better. Will take more listens to decide.
Its my favorite track on the album. Kind of reminds me of Wicked part II lyric wise but better....
#235 Bear, Aug 12, 2015
I think one of the Russes is saying serious anger and the other one is saying furious. If you listen to the "flaming malice" part, it sounds like one of the Russes is saying "slamming malice." Whatever vocal effect they added to his voice makes him sound like he's saying extra "s" letters.
Alien Mantis Galactic Explorer
I listened to this several times through my Sennheiser HD headphones, and I can clearly hear Russ singing "slamming malice".
I also hear him singing "serious anger".
The esses are in there, for whatever reason.
Could be from multitracking the vocals, and it's possible he sang it that way on purpose.
The only way to know for sure, would be to ask Russ himself.
#237 Alien Mantis, Aug 14, 2015
EyeballKid Shyamalan'd
9th & Hennepin
Alien Mantis said: ↑
I think that is the most reasonable explanation of the sound that we are hearing.
I also think Russell would go, "Huh? What? I just sang it."
#238 EyeballKid, Aug 15, 2015
Drunc Member
What a fantastic album. Far better than anything they did before V. Definitely better than anything they recorded since V. Possibly better than V itself. I can't stop playing it.
#239 Drunc, Aug 16, 2015
_Gentleman of_the Snow_ Prog' Drummer
Opening to Hell and Back sounds very similiar to the Y&R theme song (Nadia's theme)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRWWWWrVPAU
...and that's a great thing! I've always loved this theme song. Highlight of the album. And no, I don't watch Y&R.
#240 _Gentleman of_the Snow_, Aug 18, 2015
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Mark Boam 27 Apr, 2018 0 comment(s) Categories: Flipthrough, Prime, Review
The latest edition of the popular Beneath the Lily Banners rules by The League of Augsburg has just been published. The War of Three Kings offers the opportunity for wargames set between 1660 and 1721 with the rulebook covering pike and shot warfare in western and central European theatres.
Note: The text below is the transcript of our unboxing video (for those who would rather read than listen).
The rules begin with a discussion on ground, time and model-to-man scale, handy for those just getting started.
An infantry unit of eighteen models is a battalion and six cavalry models make a squadron. A single gun model actually represents three guns. Consequently, using these formations, the model-to-man ratio works out at between 1 to 30 and 1 to 40.
The rules are intended for use with 28mm figures but work equally well for 15 and 10mm.
This game features both Supreme and Brigade commanders, using four basic qualities of Commander: Gifted, Skillful, Competent and Plodder. These qualities have an influence on how many orders may be given each turn, the number of units that may activate, plus effect how far those units can move.
Order Markers are placed face down next to each unit and the order given must be carried out. All movement is simultaneous, so it is possible for orders to lead to a collision of units or a unit’s order leading to it being at a disadvantage.
However, the fact that the orders are chosen and revealed using markers means that perennial favourite, the ‘Fog of War’, can see a unit get itself into or out of trouble and players must plan out their orders more carefully than in a game which becomes an action and reaction fest right from the word go.
The rules outline the troop types and basic organization of each type of unit, plus the tactics they most often employed. A major change with the new rules from previous incarnations is the re-classification of the types of unit representing their organization and weaponry.
There are now four basic types of infantry unit, Pike; a mob of me n armed with the classic pike and perhaps close combat weapons. Pike and Shot; a mixed unit of troops with pikes and muskets, with more pikemen than the norm. Regulation; an approximate ratio of five musketmen to one pikeman. And ‘All Musket’ which is as the name implies.
Rather than adding plus or minus fire factors, the type of firearm and the ratio of weapons either adds or subtracts one dice of the relevant type to the firing phase.
Cavalry also have two new sub-classifications – they are defined by the terms Blade or Bullet.
Blade cavalry are those that need to get stuck in, swinging swords at the enemy as they charge home, relying upon their speed and the ‘shock of impact’ to carry them through and are quite deadly, with their 5 or 6 to hit the enemy.
Bullet cavalry would be less inclined to charge pell-mell and are more likely to fire from horseback with pistols before contact, needing a 6 to hit. Blade are slightly superior and more likely to win the all-important first turn of a Close Combat round.
The new Troop Quality dimension is another key difference between the first two editions and this new version. There are three main levels of quality, Raw, Drilled and Veteran.
Although Guard troops are available as an optional fourth quality level, this classification of troops means very little during this period –many of the Guards regiments were actually only given the title as honorifics, for political reasons or to ease the often shaky morale of the men themselves.
In the past, D6s and modifiers were used for the all troop qualities. However (and in line with The league of Augsburg popular Donnybrook rule) Three Kings uses different types of dice for each quality level. This reduces modifier lists and provides a base target number for most of the key parts of combat.
Raw troops use a D6, Drilled troops a D8 and Veteran troops a D10. If the optional rules are being used, the very limited number of ‘true’ Guard units available during this period use a D12. The use of these varied dice types provides an automatic differential between the various troop qualities. The main target number to hit for Shooting, for example, is a 6, tough but not impossible for a Raw unit, easier for a Drilled unit on a D8 and even easier for the cold-eyed Veterans using a D10.
Shooting, Close Combat and Artillery fire have all been updated as a result of the unit rules changes, which means that the number of tables to check and cross-check has been reduced or become much easier to obtain results. These changes help to make the game more streamlined than earlier versions and keep the action flowing more rapidly.
As units and armies take casualties, their effectiveness changes. These rules work on the premise that attrition has a cumulative effect on the morale of a unit, which then transfers to the next unit, and the next, until there is a chance that the whole army may become a mob in short order.
Morale is checked at unit level, requiring a 5+ to pass, and is subject to a host of modifiers. The negatives can be offset by proximity to commanders or personalities attached to the unit.
The 3rd edition of Beneath The Lily Banners may have a focus on The War of Three Kings in Ireland but is firmly rooted in fighting battles between the French and their enemies across Europe during the period covered. However, the changing of key rules and the overall streamlining has made it an even easier set of rules to learn and master.
The book itself is well laid out with plenty of good quality examples, including a turn-by-turn AAR and a sample scenario to help clarify a number of points. There is also a plethora of colour images which provide an insight into the spectacle of war presented during the period.
This is a nicely realized update of a rules system which manages to retain the ‘period flavour’ of previous editions whilst offering a more accessible set of rules for anyone looking to game large scale Pike and Shot or early Horse and Musket.
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By John Koleszar
AZBW Special Features Editor
Sportsmen To Lose Again!
'And we will all be much worse off for it.'
August 1, 2016 | View PDF
While the sportsmen and women of Arizona have been patiently waiting for draw results, certain organizations have been using their political clout to remove another massive chunk of real estate from the hunting communities' places to recreate. The following has been in process for a couple of years now, and it appears to be the proverbial train coming down the tracks with not much hope in sight.
Save It From What?
"Do You Want To Save The Grand Canyon?" That banner has been bandied about by such groups as The Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society and others. The sound of possible destruction of one of our most valued treasures brings out the protectionist in all of us. Save the Grand Canyon? Hell yes! But save it from what?
Therein lies the problem. For the past two years there has been a concerted effort by our not-so-friendly environmental groups to have current President Obama sign off 1.7 million acres of land around the Grand Canyon as "National Monument". What does that mean to all of us?
The Big Question: Why?
National Monument designation means a whole lot of things. It means road closures, it means massive reductions in any form of multi use by the public, it means cattle ranching on current grazing allotments could be eliminated. It means that conservation groups will become subject to massive amounts of paperwork filings within the Federal Government for approvals of worthwhile projects for Wildlife. The big question is "Why"?
Agenda Before Truth
If you follow the trail of deceit by the environmental community, you will see that their agenda always comes before the truth. A couple of years ago the Sierra Club continuously harped about how over 70 percent of Arizonans wanted wolves on the landscape.
It did not take long to figure out that the survey that was performed was totally biased, that they only interviewed a few hundred voters in Arizona out of over 6.5 million residents and that the survey was performed by a California group with ties to the leftist groups of the world. Somehow that "survey" became their battle cry. Even the Arizona Republic used it in support of the Mexican gray wolf program.
Enter 2014 and the environmental community has stated on many occasions that we need to protect out natural resources from the evil villains such as bloodthirsty hunters, welfare ranchers, timber barons who scalp the forests to nubs and the dreaded off -road vehicles that created thousands of miles of trails on our public lands. How do they stop what they perceive as wanton use of our natural resources?
Publish A Scare Tactic
Publish a scare tactic about wanting to protect the Grand Canyon from mining and how it will destroy our water supply. Guess what? There is currently a twenty-year moratorium on mining around the Grand Canyon. We are in year four of that moratorium. But hey, throw in the terms "pollution", "damage to our natural resources" and presto, we have concerns.
Then, hire another firm from California. This time it was the company Fairbanks, Maslin, Maullin and Metz. They are "specialists in public policy opinion research". Care to guess who some of their clients are? The Sierra Club, Tree People, The Wilderness Society. Are you catching the drift here?
With A Brief Stroke Of His Pen
The survey they did found that over 80 percent of Arizonans wanted to have the Grand Canyon Nation Monument designation attached to 1.7 million acres of land. How do they get that designation? Enter the King... sorry, President Obama. As his second term winds down, before he leaves office, he can designate certain areas of land as "National Monument" for the protection of areas that he deems necessary under the "Antiquities Act".
The President does not have to get any approval from anyone to do so. With a brief use of his pen, he can sign off whatever he wants to for this basic closure of large chunks of land. In fairness, there is supposed to be local support for this move. Enter the "survey" which states that 80 percent of Arizonans want it. Really? How can 500 people being interviewed with unknown questions that are typically misleading make a fair and accurate assessment?
They Can't; They Didn't
They can't - and they didn't. So folks, some 500 residents of Arizona now totally represent you to the President as he prepares to leave office. Coincidentally, citizens in Utah are also facing the same situation with over 1.9 million acres being designated as "National Monument" in the area known as "bears Ears".
Does this seem like a movement to you? It should. !.7 million acres here, 1.9 million acres there and sooner or later you are starting to talk some serious land grabs by the Federal government with Draconian rules regarding land use.
Game And Fish, Conservationists Fight
The Arizona Game And Fish Commissioners have been fighting against this designation. The conservation community has been fighting against this designation. The ranching communities have been fighting this designation. The champions of this move are the environmental groups who have made a fortune off the American taxpayers through the Equal Access to Justice Act.
They have the money, the zealots who want humans off the land, and the dreams of having a contiguous corridor from Mexico to the Yukon where nature is lived without human intervention.
Be Prepared For The Consequences
If this is your idea of how the country should be, then by all means encourage the President to sign off on both "National Monuments" - but be prepared for the consequences and restrictions that will ultimately follow.
For myself, I would like to know what Arizona residents really think. I would like to let them have all of the facts and then make a decision. I want an unbiased survey to take place.
Sadly, the train is upon us with little hope. Mark my words, early next year there will be a little ceremony at the El Tovar Lodge where former President Obama will sign off 1.7 million acres of land to Monument Designation. And we will all be much worse off for it.
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Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer confirms bid for WrestleMania 34 in 2018 as well
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Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer revealed to the Miami Herald newspaper that the city is bidding for WrestleMania 34 as well in 2018 apart from the one next year.
Dyer said that several years ago when WrestleMania came to Orlando for the first time, he went to Connecticut to meet Vince McMahon and the WrestleMania tea to add more stock to Orlando’s bid. And it paid off as the company awarded the city WrestleMania 24 in 2008. “I don’t think they’ve had many Mayors who have come [to Stamford] to make the pitch for WrestleMania, so there’s some mutual admiration going on,” Dyer added.
Dyer said that they are in competition with a handful of cities for 2017 while also adding that there’s a bid for 2018 as well.
The Orlando Mayor is a huge wrestling fan and he’s hoping that the refurbished Citrus Bowl stadium will help them land one – or both – WrestleManias.
“We’d love to get in a rotation where [WrestleMania] comes here every four or six years,” Dyer concluded.
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The March Public Holiday, also known as Adelaide Cup Day, is a public holiday in the state of South Australia that celebrates the running of the Adelaide Cup. The Adelaide Cup is a 3200m long horse race held at Morphettville Racecourse in Adelaide, Australia. It was first run in 1864, making it one of the oldest horse races in Australia.
The March Public Holiday is observed on the second Monday of March. The day provides a well-needed day off for residents of South Australia.
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The prize money for the Adelaide cup is $400,000.
The Adelaide Cup and the Melbourne Cup are the same length (3200m), however no horse since Subzero in 1992 has been able to win both Cups.
Originally, the race was run over 13 furlongs, then 16 furlongs and with the adoption of the metric system, it was changed to 3200m in 1973.
The race usually begins around 4:00pm in Adelaide.
All the function areas, apart from the beer garden, which is a fresh initiative this year, are sold out - Brenton Wilkinson, chief executive of Adelaide Cup
Public Holiday Top Events and Things to Do
Attend the Adelaide Cup. Get your tickets early because the races, venues and events get sold out quickly.
Wear red. Red is the official colour of the Adelaide Cup and it is recommended that red be worn on Cup day.
Get shopping for an outfit. Race day outfits are very traditional and for ladies, include fancy hats.
Watch a movie about horse racing. Some of our favourites: Racing Stripes (2005), Seabiscuit (2003), Secretariat (2010), The Derby Stallion (2005) and Dreamer (2005).
Spread awareness of the day on social media using hashtags #SAPublicHoliday, #AdelaideCup, #AdelaideCupDay and #AdelaineCupWinner.
Public Holiday References and Related Sites
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This vaccine refrigerator runs on evaporation cycles
Coolar’s solar-powered refrigerators could improve the way vaccines are stored in developing countries
By Lina Hansen
Jonas Holthaus
Julia Römer's refrigerators produce cold from heat. Many medicines - from asthma sprays to insulin to vaccines - must be cooled until moments before they're used. But in large parts of the world, electricity is not readily available. So Römer, a technical-chemistry engineer, asked herself: What if you built a refrigerator that doesn't use electricity? The answer was the catalyst for the startup, Coolar.
In a conventional refrigerator, low temperatures are caused by the evaporation of a coolant. In Römer's solar-powered version, the evaporating liquid is water. Her system uses silica gel to attract water after evaporation and create a cycle: a solar panel generates heat that causes the gel to dry, then the water evaporates and is returned to circulation. The solar chiller needs almost no maintenance and is easy to dispose of since it doesn't contain any polluting substances.
Coolar has four employees working on a prototype. "We have to move to a new workshop soon. The hobby phase is almost over," says Römer, who funded the development with the £40,000 that Coolar won in a startup competition in 2016. Now the team is on the road, looking for investors and suitable pilot projects in countries such as Kenya. Depending on its size, one refrigerator can chill enough vaccines for up to 4,000 people. That's a pretty cool reason for going off-grid.
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Alan Shepard aboard Freedom 7 before launch
Alan Shepard, was close, so, close — he ventured into space 50 years ago today, the first American in space, but a little less than a month too late to be the first human being in space. That honor went to the Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
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As the saying goes, “Close only counts in hand grenades and horseshoes.” Still, it’s important to remember the achievement of America’s first man in space on May 5, 1961 on board the Freedom 7 — an achievement that would eventually lead to the first moon landing. It’s debatable which was the more significant accomplishment (first person in space or first person on the Moon), but no one can argue with the bravery or pioneering spirit of all any of the Astronauts and Cosmonauts risking their lives to take those first steps away from Mother Earth.
For Shepard, this was the culmination of years of rigorous training and a selection process that chose him from amongst the hundreds of other test pilots vying for the distinction to be chosen as one of those with the “right stuff.”
The countdown for the Freedom 7 flight started at 8:30PM the night before, but Shepard did not enter the capsule until 5:15 AM on May 5th, 2 hours before the “planned” take off time, but the lift off would not happen until 9:20 AM. This was the period when Shepard is supposed to have coined what would become know as Shepard’s Prayer “Dear Lord, please don’t let me f--- up”, although Shepard claims the exact words to be “Don’t f--- up, Shepard…” (Do I see a possible orthodoxy war in the far future between Shepard Fundamentalist and Reformist sects?).
With an estimated 45 million people watching him on TV in the United States, he lifted off from Cape Canaveral. Shepard did not achieve orbit as Gagarin did, but he did control his own ship whereas Gagarin was basically just a passenger along on an automated ride. Shepard was able to position his ship, practicing different maneuvers, before finally splash-landing in the Atlantic ocean having traveled 302 miles in just over 15 minutes.
It’s also important to remember Shepard’s other great accomplishment: Besides being the first American in space, Shepard was also the fifth man to walk on the moon, clocking the longest moon walk and also becoming the first (and, as far we know, only) human to play golf on another world.
Before he died in 1998, he and fellow Mercury Astronaut Deke Slayton (who served as Director of Flight Crew Operations throughout the Apollo program) recorded their first-hand experiences in the book MOON SHOT: The Inside Story of America’s Apollo Moon Landing, which is being re-released as an enhanced ebook for the 50th anniversary of his momentous journey. The new version has been updated by noted journalist Jay Barbree, who has covered every American space flight. In the new edition, Barbree includes never-before known or told stories of Apollo missions, embedded video, and Barbree’s thoughts on the state of the American space program today.
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How Do I Choose the Best Canned Crab Meat?
Crab cakes made with canned crab meat.
High-quality canned crab meat is usually not pasteurized.
Expired foods may cause food poisoning.
Crab meat can add protein to green salads.
Written By: Alex Tree
Edited By: Melissa Wiley
To choose the best canned crab meat, determine what grade is needed and whether pasteurization matters to you and ensure that the meat has not expired. All crab meat has a grade based on where it was taken from and its size; for example, broken meat is a lot less valuable than large chunks of crab meat, even though the taste is the same. Pasteurization is sometimes a matter of personal preference, but it can affect the quality of the crab meat to a noticeable extent. Lastly, canned crab meat usually has an expiration date, which should not be confused with a “sale by” date.
Look at your recipe to determine what grade of crab meat is best. Colossal and jumbo lumps are the best sections of meat on a crab, closely followed by super lump. These sections can be used for anything, but they are most often saved for dishes where crab meat is the focus. The next grade is backfin, which is broken pieces of better grades and also suitable for crab cakes and salads. Next is special, which consists of small pieces of crab meat, but the special grade is still very versatile. Lastly, claw meat is brown instead of white and has the strongest flavor, so it is primarily used with dips.
The best canned crab meat depends on what you are planning to make with it. A salad with a sprinkle of crab meat for added flavor can be made with just about any crab meat from a can. Crab cakes should be made with the highest quality canned crab meat available. High-quality crab meat is usually not pasteurized, and the label says to keep it refrigerated at all times. Pasteurization is done to kill harmful bacteria and give crab meat a longer shelf life, but it also kills helpful bacteria and diminishes the taste and texture of the meat.
Make sure the canned crab meat is within its expiration date. Sometimes expired foods are still safe to eat, though not recommended, but expired crab meat should not be eaten. It is possible for expired foods to cause food poisoning or at least ruin the dish they were added to because of their odd taste. While canned crab meat is sometimes expensive, the risk of using expired crab meat is usually not worth it. If the can had already expired by the time you bought it, consider asking the store for a refund.
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All canned crab meat is not created equal. The variety of flavor, color and smell can vary widely. I think the best way to find quality canned crab meat is to look at where the crab is sourced form. Crab appears in many places around the world but some places are known for the quality of their crab. It you can find crab sourced from a quality producer there is a good chance the flavor will be there as well.
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State Rep. Grigsby Out Of Hospital
Updated: 4:19 AM CST Jan 16, 2012
State Rep. Tamarar Grigsby, D-Milwaukee, is out of the hospital.Her office said Monday that her recovery will continue in a private setting as recommended by her doctors.Grigsby was hospitalized last month and was in critical condition.Grigsby has asked that instead of sending flowers, that people instead make a small donation to a Wisconsin organization representing the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."Rep. Grigsby and her family express their heartfelt gratitude for the kindness and respect shown during this incredibly difficult time," spokesman Kevin Bemish said.
State Rep. Tamarar Grigsby, D-Milwaukee, is out of the hospital.
Her office said Monday that her recovery will continue in a private setting as recommended by her doctors.
Grigsby was hospitalized last month and was in critical condition.
Grigsby has asked that instead of sending flowers, that people instead make a small donation to a Wisconsin organization representing the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Rep. Grigsby and her family express their heartfelt gratitude for the kindness and respect shown during this incredibly difficult time," spokesman Kevin Bemish said.
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When Major Cyril Windeler suggested to the Island Sailing Club that it should run a race round the Isle of Wight, it was to him an obvious opportunity for the owners of smaller yachts to enjoy a bigger than usual competition.
Major Cyril Windeler, founder of the RTI
This was the age of Big Boat racing and the beginning of the J Class, but the new race was restricted to vessels of between 5 and 25 tons. The course was challenging, but not too challenging and could be successfully completed in a day from the centre of British yachting – Cowes.
What began as a race for 25 starters in 1931 has grown and grown to a peak of over 1,800 competitors. For many sailors, the Round the Island Race is a once-a year, not-to-be-missed jolly on a summer’s day. For others it is a battle of wits over a complex course, involving changing currents, unpredictable breezes and idiosyncratic tides.
There have been many changes over the years. It is taken for granted now that the race is sailed in a westabout direction, but the second race, in 1932, had the fleet of 32 starting to the east.
Threading the Needles
Until 1955, Bridge buoy had to be left to port and then there were years in which it was possible to ‘thread The Needles’, passing between two of the chalk pillars. Jack Knights did so with great success in a Yachting World Diamond to win the race in 1961, but the practice was frowned upon and from 1963 until 1980 Palm buoy was dropped offshore of the infamous hazards, Goose Rock and the wreck of the Varvassi.
When the entry was extended to boats of more than 25 tons in 1948, the bigger boats raced for the Crankshaw Bowl and had to round the Nab Tower. That practice was dropped after one year. The start line was also the finish line until 1980 when a separate finish was set between Prince Consort buoy and a committee boat to the north – three years later the double finishing line, as used today, was established.
Round the Island facts
First raced 1931
Biggest fleet 1,875 in 2008
Distance 50 nautical miles
Startline Royal Yacht Squadron line, Cowes
Finish Off Prince Consort, Cowes
Last winner of Gold Roman Bowl Contessa 26 High Potential, Ross Applebey
Course record 2h 22m 23s MOD70 Concise 10 Ned Collier-Wakefield (2017)
Fastest monohull 3h 43m 50s Mike Slade, 2013, ICAP Leopard
Most wins Sir Edward Heath, 4, in a succession of Morning Clouds
Yachts are in view the whole way round from vantage points on the Isle of Wight and from Hurst Point and Gilkicker on the mainland
For many years there was no time limit for the race – that changed in 1975 – and nowadays there is no shortened course facility. The reasoning behind this is that there is such a wide range in the boats’ speeds that a call for a shortened course would have to be made within three hours of the start, by which time some of the slower boats might still be in the west Solent and the fastest in the east Solent.
Ghosting along to windward in 1932. The 8-metre Felise leads from Guenora, Cutty Sark and Farewell
And it is at the eastern entrance to the Solent that there have been recent changes. The clearance of the obstruction between No Man’s Land Fort and the Island shore allowed boats inside the Fort, which was, until 2005, a mark of the course, but the practice was actively discouraged.
The critics complain that it gives an added advantage to the smaller boats, but ever since the first race when Peter Brett’s 22ft Cornish fishing boat won on handicap, half the races have been won by boats of less than 30ft LOA.
The pattern changed in the Sixties after a couple of victories by modified folkboats, with the introduction of one-tonners. There were two wins in succession for Sir Max Aitken’s Roundabout and then in the Seventies came the Admiral’s Cuppers, led for three years in a row by Sir Edward Heath’s Morning Clouds – in 1971 and 72 the 40ft Lallow-built S&S version and in 1973 the 45ft Morning Cloud III.
Former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath sailing Morning Cloud IV to victory in 1980. Photo: Beken
The former Prime Minister claimed a fourth win – a record no one has bettered – in 1980 with the Ron Holland-designed 44ft Morning Cloud IV.
Dominating folkboats
However, folkboats do appear to have claimed the limelight, even if some are lightly disguised as Contessa 26s. Builder Jeremy Rogers and his family have scored three victories (only the second skipper to do so) with Rosina of Beaulieu, but it must be recorded that since Edward Donald’s win with Celia Mary in 1999, there have been seven victories for folkboats or their derivatives, making a total of 11, the earliest being H.B. Shaw’s Katrina in 1948.
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Which does tend to point a finger towards the handicap systems used. When the race began, and until 1971, the RORC Rating and time scales, in seconds per mile, were used to determine the winner of the Gold Roman Bowl, the overall handicap prize.
Sir Max Aitkin’s S&S-designed Roundabout in 1971. She won the Gold Roman Bowl twice in the Sixties. Photo: Beken
After that it was the International Offshore Rule (IOR). An unrated class was introduced in 1977 and this quickly became popular, accounting for 761 of the then record entry of 1,813.
In 1984 the Channel Handicap System (CHS) was introduced and in 1999 the IRC which continues to be used to this day.
Notorious hazards
There are a number of notorious hazards to the race that have a nasty habit of fighting back. The list of those who have hit one or other of the obstructions off The Needles is almost endless, but happily there have been no life-threatening accidents. The ‘hairpin’ bend at this stage is tempting in the extreme, and there are Goose Rock and the wreck of SS Varvassi to avoid.
A press of spinnakers as the fleet rounds The Needles in 2006. Photo: Thierry Martinez
In 1990, Bruno Troublé hit the Varvassi wreck in the French Admiral’s Cupper Xeryus and so damaged the boat that it had to be abandoned and sank. Part of the stern was recovered and can still be seen in the Haven Bar in Lymington.
Three years later my Barracuda of Tarrant, with the current editor of this magazine in her crew, was forced too far west at this point and the starboard rudder hit the Varvassi’s boiler, bent the stock and forced the aft edge to pierce the hull. Donning lifejackets, the crew abandoned the boat as it was taken in tow.
Goose Rock has trapped a few too. In 1995, Mike Slade’s Longobarda hit the western end of it and came to a grinding halt. Chris Law, who was steering, went through the port steering wheel. Having warned the crew: “Brace yourselves,” I joined him and the owner through the starboard one.
Surprisingly, Spirit of the North, with vastly experienced Owen Parker in charge, must have seen our dilemma yet still piled onto the eastern end of the rock. Doubtless others will hit these hazards in the future.
Spirit of the North receiving assistance after hitting Goose Rock off The Needles in 1995. Photo: Jamie Lawson-Johnston/PPL
For the majority, the passage will be safe, and for some fast. In 1933, two boats took more than 24 hours to complete the course (there was no time limit until 1976), but when multihulls were allowed to enter in 1961, a new world opened. The race record had stood to the 12-metre Little Astra at 7h 45m since 1948, but Don Robertson’s 36ft catamaran Snow Goose reduced it to 6h 34m. Tony Bullimore in Apricot and Mike Whipp with Rodney Pattisson in Paragon reduced the time further and, in 2001, Francis Joyon, sailing with Pattisson in the 60ft trimaran Dexia Eure et Loire cut it to 3h 08m.
The monohulls got quicker too. In 2001 Mike Slade in Skandia Life Leopard claimed his third monohull record only to shatter it again in 2008 and 2013. Records come only when conditions are ideal – when the wind is due north, for example, and the tide turns in favour at The Needles and the flood is not too strong after Bembridge Ledge buoy.
Any boat entering the Round the Island Race follows in the footsteps of many famous boats. Chris Ratsey’s Evenlode, a Fife-designed 34-footer was twice best on corrected time. Franklin Woodroofe’s 36ft Nicholson design Lothian was a double winner, as was Sir Max Aitken’s S&S one-tonner Roundabout.
Photo: Thierry Martinez / Sea&Co
There have been many other level-raters at the front, including Robin Aisher, with his Yeoman XXV. And in 1988, Harold Cudmore steered the Whitbread maxi Drum for Arnold Clark to win the Gold Roman Bowl. There have been J Class yachts such as Velsheda and hordes of dayboats, Dragons, Etchells, Ultra 30s and South Coast One-Designs such as Marbella, which won the Silver-Gilt bowl in 2007. And there will be many more.
The mystery of the Gold Roman bowls
When Cyril Windeler’s idea for a race was still gestating within the Island Sailing Club, he set about finding a trophy. He spotted a recently recovered Roman drinking vessel in a London goldsmith’s window. This Thames-dredged cup suited Windeler’s style and he commissioned a copy to be made by Mappin & Webb.
The replica, as was the custom of the day, was fashioned in silver and gilded. It wasn’t quite what Windeler had wanted, but it was sufficient for the first race in 1931.
But a second Roman Bowl was commissioned (and hallmarked) in 1937 from S. Blanckensee & Son of Birmingham to be fashioned in gold. It is 112mm in diameter with a single handle of 46mm and stands 72mm above the wooden plinth (fashioned of oak from HMS Victory). It weighs 244g. Windeler also ordered three silver replicas, which bear the hallmark of Blanckensee, but in Chester.
A sporting gesture by Chris Ratsey, who had been declared the winner in 1938 with the Fife-designed Evenlode, but suggested that he might have fouled another competitor and withdrew, led to Windeler presenting him with a silver bowl he had commissioned.
That cup, which is now presented to the boat finishing 2nd on overall handicap, was presented on Ratsey’s death to the ISC and is joined today by another silver-gilt trophy, which goes to the overall winner on ISC handicap rating.
The mystery as to which trophy is which comes from 1984 when what is thought to be the original silver-gilt trophy, bearing a 1931/2 hallmark, was presented to the Royal Lymington YC by the estate of Lionel St Clair Byrne. Byrne had won this bowl in 1953 when Windeler decided it should be awarded as a keepsake to the winner in Coronation year.
Local folklore records that Byrne used the two bowls for cocktail snacks, but decided that the gold one was too valuable to sit on his mantelpiece and took it for safe deposit to the bank. When the time came to return it to the ISC, he discovered he had deposited the silver-gilt one and inadvertently kept the gold one on show in his home.
The silver-gilt one is now the Lionel Byrne Cup and is presented each year to the Royal Lymington YC member with the best performance.
But where is the original Roman bowl dredged from the Thames? Could it be in the Mansion House (the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London) or at the Goldsmiths’ Guild or in some dusty cabinet?
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The Maria James Murder: Answers to Unasked Questions
Tue, 05/15/2018 - 01:20 — james
The previous instalment in this series, The Cover-Up" can be read here
For those wishing to read the series from the beginning, you can go to The Maria James Murder: the curious case of the still unsolved murder that has been solved
ANSWERS TO UNASKED QUESTIONS
The “who” of who murdered Maria James has been answered together with how and why. It is fairly straight forward once the nature of the priests involved has been faced squarely and some logic is brought to bear on the evidence that is now in the public sphere.
The reason it has taken 37 years to solve this case, a police cover-up, is also straight forward once it is known that Maria was murdered by two Catholic priests and that a section of Victoria Police known as existed (and still exists) to cover-up, in collusion with the Church hierarchy, the many serious crimes of the Catholic clergy.
The nonsense spouted by police spokesmen at recent press conferences in 2017, the leads not followed, the known lies accepted (such as ), bogus police reports (Operation Plangere) and the many obvious questions not asked, all confirm the cover-up by Victoria Police.
The Great Unasked Question
But there still remain some puzzling aspects to the case. One of the most puzzling is the failure of the media to ask some obvious questions regarding the friend of the James family who alerted Mark James to the possibility that Adam James had been 'touched' by Anthony Bongiorno.
The obvious question is-
“How did she know that this molestation of Adam James by Bongiorno might have happened?”
Apparently, the Trace program in 2017 did not ask the question nor follow up this lead (3:15min). Was this family friend interviewed by the ABC?
The ABC in a television report in 2014 did not ask this question nor follow it up when the subject arose in an interview with Mark James.
Nor was this question asked when this family friend went to the media years earlier in 2007.
The Invisible Witness
In view of the police cover-up, we can guess as to why the police apparently did not follow up on her testimony. But why has the media not followed up and pursued her story?
In the few days between when Adam James informed his mother about Bongiorno molesting him and the day she died, Maria will have talked to someone about this. She obviously did not talk to her ex-husband about it so it is reasonable to speculate that Maria talked to this family friend who finally suggested to Mark James in 2013 that he ask Adam about being 'touched' by Bongiorno. No one else has come forward saying they spoke with Maria about Adam's molestation by Bongiorno. If this speculation is correct, then the family friend has quite a valuable story to tell. But no one wants to hear it, it seems.
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The Maria James Murder: The Cover-Up
Sun, 03/25/2018 - 04:16 — james
The Maria James Murder – The Cover-Up.
The previous instalment in this series, The Catholic Mafia" can be viewed by clicking on this live link.
Maria James' Bookshop circa 1980
It is often the case in history that the crime that brings an institution down is not the original transgression but the subsequent cover-up. The initial crime is often perpetrated by one or more individual members of an organisation but the cover-up, usually rushed and ad hoc, exposes the whole hierarchy as complicit in criminal activity.
Over the last twenty or so years, we have been watching the ongoing exposure of the cover-ups engaged in by that slow-motion-train-wreck otherwise known as the Catholic Church. The Church's co-conspirator organisation in what has become known as The Catholic Mafia, Victoria Police, is now undergoing its own not-so-slow-motion-train-wreck.
The Maria James murder has remained unsolved for nearly 38 years now because of police cover-ups on at least three occasions starting in 1980, then again in 1998 and finally in 2017. It might be argued that all the evidence pointing to multiple cover-ups could be due to incompetence but the incompetence would be so spectacular and so consistent that the odds of it being so approach impossibility.
We will cover only some of the peculiar events and failures that point to a massive cover-up . There are so many things wrong with this investigation that it would take a book to list and explain them all.
We will also briefly look at what the point of all this cover up is: the clear and obvious guilt of two Melbourne Catholic priests of murder.
All the following information comes from the Trace podcasts except in a couple of instances where links are given. It is presumed that the reader has listened to the podcast series and has read the previous instalments of the Maria James Murder on this blog. (Start here)
The ABC's Rachael Brown has done an excellent job of digging up and bringing together a lot of valuable information. The opinions and conclusions from that now publicly available information in the following article are those of this writer.
1980 - Murder Investigation 101
The Urgent Confessant
John James arrived at Maria's shop minutes after she had been murdered and called the police. The homicide squad duly arrived and one of the first things that happened is that Sen-Sgt Rowland Legg took himself off to interview the assistant parish priest, Anthony Bongiorno, at the presbytery around the corner from the shop.
This is the strangest thing. No explanation for this has ever been offered except that Legg thought that the priest might know something about the murder from a confession from Maria or another parishioner. But that does not explain why it was the first thing Rowland Legg thought to do. Did he know Maria was a Catholic? You might think to do that days or weeks after if you have no leads but to seek out a priest straight away, as the Trace program remarked on, is very odd indeed.
It is especially odd when you understand that Legg only sought to interview one of the two priests resident in St Mary's Presbytery who ministered to the Thornbury Parish.
The Maria James Murder: The Catholic Mafia
Fri, 11/24/2017 - 22:27 — james
The previous instalment in this series, "Paul Delianis - The Golden Greek", can be read here
THE CATHOLIC MAFIA - The Honourable Society (with apologies to 'Ndrangheta)
The "Catholic Mafia" were/are a co-ordinated group of police officers who are organised around the principle of protecting Catholic priests from criminal charges and prosecution of their criminal behaviour. This behaviour ranges from traffic violations to the raping of children and, as we will see in further episodes, the murder of a Melbourne mother.
What is clear is that the Catholic Church leadership has for decades controlled the Victorian police force when it suits their purposes. The evidence for this is laid out in the following article.
Denis Ryan was a detective at Mildura in Victoria in 1972 when he was forced through circumstances contrived by Victoria Police leadership to resign. He had the temerity to want to charge and prosecute serial child rapist, Monsignor John Day, Catholic parish priest for Mildura, for his many offences over many years.
Ryan first came across Day when he was a Constable at St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne known widely as the 'red light district' of Melbourne. Day was found in his car in the company of two prostitutes with his pants around his ankles and paralytic drunk. Constable Ryan took Day to the police station and was shocked when he was not charged and was instead released into the company of two young priests who came from the Cathedral after Day managed to make a call to the Cathedral for help. Ryan thought that priests should be held to a higher standard rather than a lower one.
Later that evening, when Ryan approached the senior officer in charge, Tom Jenkins, saying, “Tell me, what's the drill when we lock up priests?”
Tom replied somewhat chillingly, “We don't lock them up. We let them go. Once you've been around for a while, you'll start to learn that the Catholic Church carries a good deal more clout than the local church on the corner.
It's a political organisation. It has wrapped itself around every layer of government. This happens everywhere. All across Australia and probably all over the world. But nowhere does the Catholic Church have more power than it does in the Victorian police force. Short of a murder blue, he'll walk every time.
Nothing would happen to Day. This goes all the way to the top. It's just not the police. It's the judges, lawyers, politicians. I don't agree with it but there are forces at work here that are stronger than you or me. I learnt early on in the job, don't pick fights you can't win.”
http://casefilepodcast.com/case-34-catholic-mafia/ (05:50min)
This is in 1956. Welcome to the Catholic Mafia, a group within Victoria Police that would keep the priests immune from being charged for any crime. The priests had carte blanche.
The next time Denis Ryan would knowingly come into contact with the Catholic Mafia was after he had became a detective in 1958. Det Sgt Fred Russell approached him to join their ranks saying, “There is a group of us who at the request of the Cathedral look into instances where priests have been charged with offences to see if we can have these matters dropped or dismissed so the church's good name will not be brought into disrepute. We know your strong belief. We'd like to invite you to join us.”
A group of police keeping a look out for and protecting priests; the Catholic Mafia.
Ryan declined to join.
The Maria James Murder: The Golden Greek - Paul Delianis
Thu, 09/14/2017 - 14:15 — McJ
If you haven't already, go read the three excellent posts in our 'The Maria James Murder' series. Author and WPC Blogger, James, presents proof based on the readily known facts of this case that Thomas O’Keeffe and Anthony Bongiorno brutally committed the murder of Maria James. He introduces the crime, analyzes and solves it and recreates the logistics of a likely crime scene - here, here and here.
After having read these posts you may find it puzzling that in 37 years, the investigation of this murder by Victoria Police has produced little to no results. And you may find it even more than suspicious that the investigation was recently sent back to square one after revelations of a missing bloodied quilt and a ‘DNA bungle’ involving a bloody pillowslip used as DNA evidence that police say was only recently discovered to be from a different crime scene. How could this be?
Early police reports described the brutal murder as ritualistic. It was reported to Victoria police in 1997 that the pedophile priest Fr Thomas O’Keefe was a member of a satanic cult and that he had been witnessed participating in four ritual murders. At the time of the Maria James' murder, he was the Parish Priest at St. Mary’s and Fr Anthony Bongiorno’s boss. O'Keeffe was never considered a suspect by police nor even a person of interest. He should have been when Bongiorno was questioned as a suspect in 1998. By then, evidence of O'Keeffe's murderous past was in police files. As far as we know, he was not even on their radar until after the ABC Trace broadcasts in 2017 - and notably, just before the official announcement of their missing evidence and incorrect DNA sample. [In a later instalment, we will show how this 'DNA Bungle' could not be the result of "human error" as the heads of Victoria Police have asserted at every opportunity. The latest example is here.]
Assistant Commissioner Stephen Fontana announcing the 'DNA Bungle'
Photo: Joe Armao 13 July 2017 The Age
This post is being included in our series to lay out the background to the Victorian police investigation at the time of the murder. It is a brief look into allegations of crimes and improprieties surrounding the force and specifically the questionable behaviours of Paul Delianis, then chief of the Homicide Squad, in the years around the time of the murder. Delianis was known amongst his colleagues as 'The Golden Greek'.
It follows on from James’ bonus post on the role that psychopathy played in the murder of Maria James as well as the role it played in the institutionalized corruption surrounding the crime.
As you will read below, corruption was endemic within the Victorian Police in 1980. Indeed, corruption within institutional environments was rampant Australia wide. Not only was it endemic in law enforcement but within government itself and within religious, educational and governmental institutions. It is not possible to convey in this short blog post it’s breadth and scope but as an example I was able to find 22 official investigations into crime and corruption that were held in Australia between 1970 - 1989 [see the table at the end of this post]. These included, Royal Commissions, Boards of Inquiry, Ombudsman’s Inquiries, Police Task Forces and Internal Police Investigations into institutional corruption as well as organized crime. And yet, for all these inquiries, nothing seemed to have been achieved in terms of reforming corruption within the Victorian Police. The most notable achievement during this time may well have been the strengthening of the power of the Police Association to protect and support officers charged with crimes or corruption and in the association's ability to put pressure on government NOT to institute reforms.
In further posts, we will show how the widespread corruption within the Victorian police force provided a fertile ground for a group of corrupt catholic policemen, known as the Catholic Mafia, to flourish and how this, in turn, allowed criminal behaviour within the Catholic Church clergy to flourish. The church hierarchy and their Catholic Mafia within the police protected pedophilic priests including Anthony Bongiorno and Thomas O’Keeffe.
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The Maria James Murder: the role of psychopathy
Sat, 09/09/2017 - 02:56 — james
The previous instalment in this series can be read here
SOME POINTS ON PSYCHOPATHY
For the reader who has been following this series of articles on the Maria James murder, and whom I would not expect to know much about psychopathy, I will briefly outline some major points of this condition.
My intention is that this "Bonus episode" will help in understanding the brutal murder itself and in understanding the systemically corrupt institutional environment (subject of the next instalment) in which it happened and facilitated the covered up.
Dealing with professionals who have no clue
For the last year or so, I have been dealing with professionals whom, in turn, deal with corruption in varying ways and in varying occupations. I have been staggered at their lack of knowledge of psychopathy and their disinterest in the subject. A knowledge of psychopathy is essential to understand the corruption, the criminals and their networks. It is also essential to know about to guard against being continually 'blind-sided'.
"Know your enemy" is the first rule in any contest.
Understanding psychopathic prevalence is also necessary to understanding our society and its institutions and to have a chance at successfully navigating your way through them. The estimates of the prevalence of psychopaths vary depending on the researcher and their criteria, but there is a consensus around 5% of the adult population. 1 in 20 will be a psychopath of one sort or another.
The odds shorten considerably from there when dealing with a power organisation and shorten further still when dealing with a person high up in that same organisation. So you are going to meet and deal with them whether you know it or not and whether you like it or not.
It is this 5% that creates 95% of societies' problems. They are our only true enemy. Therefore, it is essential to know and understand them.
The Maria James Murder: Two Murderers - Part 2 UPDATED with Epilogue and Addendum
"The rules of logic are like the rules of mathematics. They are an inherent and immutable property of existence, not opinions." The Rules of Logic
THE MARIA JAMES MURDER: TWO MURDERERS - PART 2
That headline should read "Police Centimeters Away From Murderer"
Yes, that is one of the murderers talking to police within a couple of hours of murdering Maria James inside. He got away with it through a cover-up and an extraordinary run of luck.
The article below from The Age June 18th 1980 accompanied the photograph above-
In Part 1, we introduced the fact that Allan Hircoe's testimony to Victoria Police in 2014 made 3 conclusions logically clear:
Fr Anthony Bongiorno was guilty of the murder of Maria James.
There were two murderers.
Given the first two facts, Fr Thomas O'Keeffe was far and away Bongiorno's most likely accomplice.
The fact that Victoria Police since 2014 could not or would not put these conclusions together and present them to the public raises some important questions. We will be addressing these questions in the following instalments.
This instalment will look further into the logistics of how the murder took place and the movements of the principal characters before and after the murder and what these movements mean. The logistics and the logic behind them will also shore up the case for the three conclusions listed immediately above and that were established in Part 1
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Wars have ruined Britain?
A. Some of Britain's big bosses appear to have little loyalty to Great Britain.
In the 1970s and 1980s "a number of Jewish financial predators including James Goldsmith, Charles Clore, Isaac Wolfson, Maxwell Joseph, John Bentley, and Robert Maxwell, etc, made huge profits closing down allegedly inefficient brutish industries and throwing large numbers of people out of work."
(Terra Firm no.24: The Zionists' Rise to World Domination.)
Many British jobs have now moved to Asia.
"In Bangladesh young women are working for as little as 5p an hour to make clothes for ... Tesco while working up to 14 hours a day for weeks on end."
(6p a T-shirt. 30p an hour for shelling cashews. Supermarkets accused of exploiting women)
British banks have lent vast sums of money to dodgy characters in various foreign lands.
B. The bosses in charge of Britain's military and Britain's foreign policy appear to have no great loyalty to Britain.
Tony Blair acted as if the UK was one of the states of the United States of America.
He got Britain involved in America's costly war on terror, and its costly wars in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The U.K. has one of the largest defense budgets in the world, but this seems to work to the advantage of the USA and Israel.
C. Certain people in local and national government in the UK have appeared to be incompetent and even corrupt.
One of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's most senior cabinet allies "admitted that the priority for the Government in 2008 would be to restore credibility after a series of debacles over lost data and the illegal use of 'proxy' donors to raise Labour funds which could lead to criminal charges.
"We have to knock on the head the appearance of incompetence in the Government," said the minister. "You cannot do that while working next to someone who is breaking the law over party funding or records on 25 million people go missing." (Brown aims to dispel image of government 'incompetence' - UK ...)
One well known Conservative politician was Shirley Porter.
Nicholas Lezard in The Guardian described her as "...the most corrupt British political figure in living memory, with the possible exception of Robert Maxwell". [1]
She retired to Israel in 1993.
D. The only political parties that appear to have the interests of 'the people' in mind are the Welsh Nationalists and the Scottish Nationalists.
The Scottish Nationalists, for example, want to save Scottish jobs and want to avoid costly foreign wars.
The British in Iraq
On 1 August 2009, Stryker Maguire tells us in NEWSWEEK that we can 'Forget the Great In Britain'.
Among the points made:
1. The UK's public debt may rise to 100 percent of GDP over the next five years, according to the International Monetary Fund.
2. Budgets will likely have to be slashed at the Ministry of Defense and the Foreign Office.
3. The IMF believes Britain's economic slump will be deeper and longer than that of any other advanced economy.
4. In a recent paper for the Royal United Services Institute, Malcolm Chalmers estimates that the UK Defense budget will be cut by 11 percent in real terms over the next six years.
Former Liberal-Democrat Party leader Paddy Ashdown has said the annual £35 billion Ministry of Defense budget might have to be cut by almost a quarter.
The future of Britain's nuclear force is uncertain.
54 percent of the British people say Britain should give up its nuclear deterrent.
5. In 2004, the the Foreign Office closed 19 overseas missions out of about 300.
6. Financial centers such as Singapore and Hong Kong may gradually take business away from London.
Posted by Anon at 6:12 AM
Labels: Britain, Economy, Goldsmith, Iraq, Maxwell, SNP, Tesco, War
alan bowie said...
May I suggest you leave comments open to anon users as Google are now employing strange 'SMS' phone procedures to access a Blogger or Google account.
http://shaphan.typepad.com/blog/2006/05/questions_about.html
McGonagall said...
The UK has been lacking leaders of vision and intelligence for over 100 years. The media trumpet Churchill and Thatcher as two great leaders - the one bankrupted Britain by forcing a war with Germany while the other emasculated the country and threw it open to the avarice of international predators.
The EU is now allowed to dominate and direct the UK's future - a future devoid of national identity.
The UK is run by "spivs and speculators" and is now terminal.
Ali.mostaque said...
You going to ignore me?
That confirms you are an MI-5 site, with your titbits of interesting info etc......
Anyways, making the request again, it can't be that hard, but can you download all the stuff you've got on Opium, Heroin and the USA/UK in Afghanistan....and email it to me,
ali.mostaque@gmail.com
I can get the articles from the internet, but why waste all that time when you've got it all already and we have posted each others stuff on our respective blogs not so long ago?
Mostaque....don't be shy now.
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nobody said...
Hee hee, quite right.
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Unknown Karen Marchioni Killer- Massachusetts- 2001 Jun 5, 2018 4:18:07 GMT -5
Post by Scumhunter on Jun 5, 2018 4:18:07 GMT -5
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From masslive.com:
FRAMINGHAM - Jennifer Case walked up to her mother and handed her some flowers. The gift from the then 14-year-old girl was in celebration of Karen Marchioni's 41st birthday.
It was the last time Case would see her mother alive. Two days after a family birthday party, Marchioni was savagely stabbed to death inside her home on Oct. 8, 2001. The case will reach a grim milestone once the calendar hits Oct. 8, 2016, the date that marks the 15-year anniversary of the murder.
"I just remember I gave her flowers," said Case, now 29. "I'm always grateful that was my last encounter with her, her smiling on her birthday. It was the last time I saw her."
Marchioni called 911 around 11:10 a.m. on the day of the killing and said she had just been attacked inside her 14 Nelson St. home. Emergency responders found Marchioni with multiple stab wounds in the face, neck and chest.
"She locked herself in the bathroom and she said I've been stabbed. They came right away," Case recalled. "She was airlifted to UMass in Worcester and she died two hours later."
Questions about who killed her mother and what prompted such a brutal attack remain in Case's mind. At first, the news about her mother's death was surreal. But Case, who still lives in town, remains steadfast in wanting answers.
"I know if the situation were reversed, she would be here fighting for me," said Case, who is Marchioni's only child.
Marchioni was divorced from her first husband and on the way to getting another divorce from her second husband, who was in jail at the time of the murder.
Case said her mother struggled with hard drug use and alcohol abuse and went to rehab several times. Marchioni had also been in abusive relationships after her first marriage. Case said her mother showed up at the home of her ex-husband, Case's father, days before her killing and talked about being afraid to go home.
"It's more important that I feel the authorities care, and I feel that they are not trying. I just wonder if they didn't try because she had substance abuse issues," Case said. "She was a great person and a great mother."
In the summer of July 2005, The MetroWest Daily News quoted a Framingham Police lieutenant who identified a suspect in the killing. The police official said the suspect was Aaron Sutton, who had just been arrested on charges of trying to kill his girlfriend, the newspaper reported.
Framingham Police did not return a call for comment on the case. The Middlesex County District Attorney's Office sent a statement about Marchioni's death, but did not respond to a reporter's question about suspects.
"After 15 years, our office remains committed to solving the murder of Karen Marchioni Henderson and to bringing closure to the victim's family and loved ones," the district attorney's statement said. "While we have made progress, this remains an open investigation."
Case still wonders if enough was done. She hasn't heard from investigators in a while and believes police should be talking to her again. Since her mother's death, Case had heard that more than one person might have been in her mother's home during the killing.
"I 100 percent think they went there with a purpose," Case said. "I don't know if it was planned to get that bad."
Investigators are still holding the jewelry worn by Marchioni at the time of her murder as evidence, Case said. Her mother wore fake nails and some of those were taken too.
The brutal stabbing took from Case and her family a mother, animal lover and woman with a big heart. Case said the killing left her without a mother at an important time in a 14-year-old girl's life.
"That's definitely a crucial age. It was hard not having someone to talk to about boys and relationships. I think it was kind of hard for my dad to play both roles," she said. "She was a huge animal rights person and an animal lover. She had a million cats. She volunteered with the elderly and sat with them and did their nails."
Project Cold Case, an organization that focuses on getting information out about unsolved cases, recently highlighted Marchioni's death in an online post that has been shared across social media. Case hopes the attention will bring more details to light.
"I haven't given up hope," Case said.
Anyone with information on this case are urged to contact the Massachusetts State Police assigned to the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office at (781) 897-6600 or Framingham Police at 508-872-1212.
www.masslive.com/news/worcester/index.ssf/2016/03/almost_15_years_later_brutal_m.html
Project: Cold Case page on Karen's case: www.projectcoldcase.org/2016/03/06/cold-case-spotlight-karen-marchioni/
Thoughts? Project: Cold Case is pretty well-updated and Karen's case is sadly one of Massachusetts' more well-known unsolved murders, so I'm assuming her case is unfortunately still unsolved as of this posting date. (6/5/2018). Hopefully the recent arrest in the case of Lisa Ziegert, whose murder was also a well-known Massachusetts cold case, is a positive sign we may soon see a breakthrough here as well.
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In the God-and-Science-forbidden (as in the phrase "God Forbid") event that investigators dragged their heels in this case, that would call into doubt whether they kept in mind the risk of the killer striking again. It'll be tough to forgive the department if the suspect they capture gets traced back to any more murders since the autumn of '001.
DD12: Esnel Jean, Jorge Walter Nunez-Paz, Alexis Flores, Gilberto Juarez-Hernandez, Juan "Chaquatin" Laureano-Arvizu, Tomas Magallon Gonzalez, Frederick Cecil McLean, Jose Ramon "Angel" Reyes-Sanchez, Emmanuel Polanco Vanderhorst, Taizhi Cui, Tyrom Walter Theis, Fernando Palomino. PE #1: Yaser Abdel Said
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Federal Agents Searching for Fugitive in Adair County
August 6, 2018 by ACCV Editor
Federal agents have been in Adair County since the weekend looking for Shawn Richard Christy, 27 of Pennsylvania. Sources say Christy made threats against the president, other elected officials, and Adair native Dakota Meyer.
A stolen vehicle believed to have been taken by Christy was located near Meyer’s residence close to the Adair/Green County line on Saturday night. Christy has threatened to use “full lethal force on any law enforcement officer that tries to detain me.”
Christy also has multiple state arrest warrants in Pennsylvania for burglary, probation violation, and failure to appear for an aggravated assault case.
Federal agents have been in Adair County since Sunday searching for Shawn Christy. Sources say he made threats toward Dakota Meyer. (Photo courtesy Chuck Brockman.)
Full release and photos of Christy are included below:
A federal warrant was issued June 19 for Christy in relation to Facebook threats to the Northampton County district attorney, stating, “Keep it up Morganelli, I promise I’ll put a bullet in your head as soon as I put one in the head of President Donald J. Trump.”
On Thursday Aug. 2, a 2012 Toyota Tundra was stolen in Poca, West Virginia. That vehicle was recovered Saturday night in Greensburg, Kentucky. Federal agents are considering Christy a suspect in this vehicle theft because Christy is believed to have abandoned a stolen 2008 Dodge Caravan in Nitro, West Virginia on Tuesday July 31st.
The U.S. Marshals have been attempting to capture Christy, who is 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs approximately 160 pounds, is a white male with a light complexion, has a tattoo of a cross on his right upper arm, short dark blonde hair and a beard. Christy also speaks with a noticeable lisp and claims to be a survivalist. Christy is from McAdoo Pennsylvania.
Federal Agents are offering a cash award of up to $15,000 for information leading to the direct arrest of Christy. Any information will be considered confidential. Persons having information should contact the U.S. Marshals at 1-877-Wanted-2 (1-877-926-8332) or the F.B.I. at 215-418-4000. Christy should be considered armed and dangerous, individuals should not attempt to arrest Christy themselves.
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Preschool Screening Information
Adair County Preschool is now located at the Adair County Primary Center, 158 Col. Casey Drive, Columbia. 270-384-3367
If you have applied for preschool you will be receiving a letter for a scheduled day and time for the preschool screening. It is very important that you and your child attend during the appointed time. This letter should arrive within the next week. Applications are still available at the Adair County Board of Education Central Office.
Anita Goode
Special Education Director & Preschool Coordinator
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Huddleston Charged With Promoting Sexual Performance of a Minor Under Age 16
Billy Huddleston appeared before Adair County District Judge Michael Loy on Wednesday alongside his attorney, C.B. Bates, for a pretrial conference in reference to five felony charges of video voyeurism.
Huddleston allegedly filmed five individuals by holding a phone camera above stall walls in the men’s restroom at Columbia Walmart.
Huddleston was presented with three additional charges stemming from the five videos that police officers were able to recover from his phone and was subsequently arrested and lodged in the Adair County Regional Jail on a $150,000 cash bond. Huddleston was previously released on a $10,000 bail. He did not enter into a plea due to his attorney’s request to waive his case to the grand jury.
Arresting officer, Charles Greer of Columbia Police Department, said they were able to identify three of the individuals in the videos and determined that all three are minors under the age of 16.
“These new charges came from investigating his phone at the state cyber lab earlier this week,” said Greer. “We are still going through other digital property that was seized from our search warrant.”
Greer said that the additional charges are for two counts of promoting a sexual performance of a minor under the age of 16, class B felonies, and one count of attempting to promote a sexual performance of a minor under 16, a class C felony.
Greer went on to say that law enforcement will continue working to identify individuals from the two remaining videos recovered from Huddleston’s phone.
When asked about the differentiating circumstances between the charges of promoting a sexual performance of a minor under the age of 16 and attempting to promote a sexual performance of a minor under 16, county attorney Jennifer Hutchison-Corbin would only say that she believes the evidence supports the charges.
“I believe what the videos show meets the charges,” said Hutchison-Corbin. “On the attempting to promote charge, that could mean that there was an attempt to video but was unsuccessful.”
Huddleston’s case has been waived to the grand jury. Formal indictments and additional charges could be forthcoming based on the continued investigation. Be sure to continue to check adairvoice.com for any future updates on the case.
By Adam Capps
adam@bitmetronome.com
Pursuit ends with arrest of Columbia man
A Columbia man was arrested following a short pursuit that started on Campbellsville Road and ended just a few miles down Liberty Road.
Adair County Sheriff Deputies Josh Durbin and Joey Keith attempted to make a traffic stop on a 2002 Chevy operating on Campbellsville Road.
The vehicle failed to stop and fled a short distance down Liberty Road when the driver Carlos Grant, 44 of Columbia, got out of the vehicle and attempted to flee on foot.
After a short foot pursuit, Dep. Durbin deployed his taser, ending the foot chase.
Grant was arrested and charged with rear license plate not illuminated; fleeing or evading police, 1st degree, motor vehicle; fleeing or evading police, 2nd degree, on foot; and operating on a suspended/revoked operators license.
Grant was also arrested on two outstanding warrants.
Dep. Durbin is in charge of the investigation and was assisted by Dep. Keith, Columbia Police Officers Drew Conn and Johnny Dial as well as K-9 Gunner.
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Bryant Pleads Guilty in Child Pornography and Child Sexual Abuse Case
July 25, 2018 by ACCV Editor
William Todd Bryant appeared in Adair Circuit Court on Tuesday and entered a guilty plea to numerous charges related to child pornography and child sexual abuse.
Bryant, age 46, pled guilty to one count of Human Trafficking, a Class B Felony. Bryant also pled guilty to 45 counts of Sodomy in the Second Degree and 250 counts of Possession of Matter Portraying a Sexual Performance by a Minor.
Bryant appeared in Adair Circuit Court with his attorney, Hon. Theodore Lavit of Lebanon, and acknowledged that he was guilty of each of the 296 charges. One count of Promoting a Sexual Performance by a Minor was dismissed.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Brian Wright is recommending that Bryant serve 30 years in prison for these crimes against children.
The charges were the result of an investigation led by Kentucky State Police Trooper Adam Likins that began in May 2017. Likins was contacted by officials with the Department of Community Based Services regarding allegations that Bryant had sexually abused a child.
The investigation by Trooper Likins corroborated the sexual abuse allegations and also uncovered thousands of images of child pornography in Bryant’s possession.
Wright thanked Trooper Likins, the Kentucky State Police, and DCBS for conducting a thorough investigation in this case and helping to secure a guilty plea and lengthy prison sentence for Bryant.
Final sentencing is scheduled for September 25 at 1 p.m., before Adair Circuit Judge Judy Vance Murphy.
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ATAXIA HYPERTEXT LABORATORY
Music I Liked in 2015
2015 was a strong year for music, at least going by what I listened to this year. Here’s a bunch of albums I really liked – let’s start with some honorable mentions and then get to my top ten.
Kasami Washington – The Epic
Certainly a bold move to just come right and title your album The Epic, but this sprawling 3-hour jazz extravaganza certainly qualifies.
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly
Speaking of Kasami Washington. I admittedly didn’t listen to this nearly enough, but it’s a wonderful genre-bending hip hop album.
Colleen Green – I Want to Grow Up
Without question, my favorite album this year from someone I saw play in some high school kid’s garage about 13 years ago.
Aphex Twin – Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt 2
Pretty much what it says on the tin. This EP somehow sounds completely inhuman while dripping with groove. A pretty fancy trick indeed.
Wolf Alice – My Love Is Cool
Just some kickass rock and roll. Why spoil it by over-describing?
Grimes – Art Angels
Grimes took a pop-sounding turn and it’s very compelling. She’s still so weird and unique that even with the pop production values, it’s really anything but.
Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color
Alabama Shakes took their Southern R&B and filtered some garage, even more soul, and even some shoegaze through it, and all to great effect.
Ok, on to the ranked releases.
Tape’s Top Ten of 2015
10. Julien Baker – Sprained Ankle
Julien Baker is only 20 years old and somehow writes and sings like she’s been carrying the weight of the world for 40. I had the same reaction the first time I heard Sprained Ankle as when I first heard Sharon Van Etten: completely devastated.
9. Torres – Sprinter
Mackenzie Scott builds upon the emotional weight of her first album with a new ferocity, almost threatening to swallow the listener at times.
8. Failure – The Heart Is A Monster
Failure returned after 19 years away and didn’t appear to skip a beat. The Heart Is a Monster is the spiritual successor and counterpart to their 1996 magnum opus Fantastic Planet, and while band reunions rarely bear edible, much less appealing, fruit, Failure’s return did not disappoint.
7. Purity Ring – Another Eternity
Purity Ring’s debut Shrines was a revelation when released in 2012, but few bands were more copied in the intervening three years. As such, their followup isn’t nearly the aural innovation as its predecessor, but Corin Roddick and Megan James make up for it with even tighter songcraft and James’ voice which soothes while her lyrics stealthily unnerve.
6. Screaming Females – Rose Mountain
While Screaming Females were always one of the strongest forces in rock this decade and a truly talented power trio, for once they get a recording that really shows off how damn good they are. Melissa Paternoster leads the way with her great voice and is one of the most talented guitarists going, but King Mike’s slick bass grooves really come out into the open on this ripping rock record.
5. Sleater-Kinney – No Cities To Love
I almost can’t believe I have this as low as #5. Sleater-Kinney surprised everyone with perhaps the best-kept secret of the new millennium their new, already-recorded album. Like Failure, Sleater-Kinney picked up almost exactly where they left off and came back with an album perhaps a little older and wiser, but just as vital.
4. Krill – A Distant Fist Unclenching
I have difficulty properly describing Krill, and I think it it’s because of the existential uncertainty I get when I listen to them, somehow imbued with both joie de vivre and ennui. Krill ended their run as one of Boston’s best bands this fall, its members scattering to New York and Austin, and we’re all worse off for it.
Krill forever. Krill, Krill, forever and ever.
3. CHVRCHES – Every Open Eye
This was probably my most anticipated release of the year. Somehow Every Open Eye sounds even more resounding and explosive than their 2013 debut, The Bones of What You Believe. Like Purity Ring’s sophomore effort, CHVRCHES took a sound that had excited listeners, tightened up the writing and arrangements, and in this case gave us an album that will stand out as one of the decade’s best.
2. Carly Rae Jepsen – E•MO•TION
Carly Rae Jepsen announced a small tour of 4 cities in the Northeast, and I was shocked that the Boston venue was the Paradise – a small club with a capacity of barely 900. Didn’t she have a massive hit in “Call Me Maybe”? How could a Pop Star play such a place? No matter. Carly Rae owned that room like few musicians I’ve seen before in my life. In a year full of excellent concerts, Carly Rae Jepsen’s was a pleasant surprise as by far the best of all of them.
Obviously I’m not reviewing concerts here, but that assessment carries over here: in a year filled with great releases, E•MO•TION was one that I anticipated being a pretty nice album but ended up being one of my absolute favorites.
1. Braids – Deep In The Iris
I was first exposed to Braids early in 2014, opening for Wye Oak at that same Paradise. I was so blown away by their performance that I bought all three of the albums they had at the merch table and ate them up for weeks. Interesting and challenging electronic music melded with traditional rock instrumentation and Raphaelle Standell-Preston’s commanding, unique vocals. Deep in the Iris is still an electronic pop record, but instead of sounding futuristic, the sound is somehow warmer and antique even as vocals and synths glitch past. The songs are more clearly written while somehow being more experimental. It definitely feels like the product of years of refinement have resulted in Braids’ essence becoming fully formed, and with it came the most artistically satisfying release of the year.
At least in this one dude’s opinion.
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He stood up all of a sudden, he adjusted his suspender, which held his black trouser down to his waist, he adjusted his tie and he walked out of his office. he walked his way down to the very section where the meeting would be held.
Boris sat still awaiting pale to break the ice, Brown was also on seat, his gaze was on pale who was in front of a black rectangular board fixed to the wall. "everything that will be said here today is going to be confidential" pale bursted.
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That was long before mainland broke out of us and decide to stand alone." pale bit his lips gently, he took time off as he watched the serious look pasted on the faces of the two men who sat in front of him with their hands crossed against their chest. "The war was over after 3weeks, lombres warrior were dangerous, stronger and technical. The general honoured lombres by establishing a long lasting relationship between the two territory. five month later The general was found dead, and that started a wild fire. The two territory were up for war again. Few days later, We noticed The general was working on something unusual, he had spotted an underground cave in lombre filled with gold." "hmmmmmm" Boris sighed. Right there, Brown scoffed and he scratched his head, "can we skip all of this and get to the point" brown mumbled. "Ok" pale scoffed.
"lombre territory are been led by a certain group called the leva group. Every first male child of a Levanes is called Tega, And a tega names his first son Tega. Another group rose up around 1907 they wanted power to be changed, so they started killing all the Tegas. The underground cave was unknown, only a Tega could read the map that could help locate the cave. The Gold had been buried there for over 700 years, General Frederick's research brought the Gold cave under the light.
march 8, 1925 The last tega was thought to have been assassinated, but 9months later they noticed one of his whores conceived a baby. They tried all their possible best to kill the whore but it was late. She had already put to birth. She handed over the baby to Tekin the third day after she had delivered. Tekin had to run away with the baby and he had him sold to a very rich trader named zitch when he was 9. Zitch was a lombrist, a very respected one, he was one of the rare lombrist who had the ability of shedding his skin so he wont grow old, he was also one of the few who knew about the map. Zitch later noticed that tega was in danger, and if he was killed no one would be able to read the map and help find the Gold. All his attempt to make tega read the map for him wasn't successful.
oct18, 1970 Zitch sold out tega to Sterl he gave details on how he could be captured and where he would be captured.
Nov 12, 1970 tega was poisoned and when his body was discovered his wife was no where to be found, fortunately she was pregnant when all this were happening. tega was captured and he was locked up in ISG maximum prison where he would never run away. Are you confused???" pale asked, he notcied boris was trying to tap brown. "yeah, I am. The tega of a thing. it is confusing" boris demonstrated with his fingers. "But the guy we saw doesn't look like someone who was born in 1925." Brown asked, he was already drowning in a pool of confusion. "although they age slowly. but The tega you saw is the son of the Tega we captured." "oops" boris signed he rubbed his chin with his fingers. "So I think Zitch wants the Gold by all means, he knows we know his weakness, he had sold us the secret when he wanted to help us capture Tega. That is exactly why he is using the young boy." "So, why all the stress, since he has the young tega why cant the map be read." brown inquired. "The young tega is not up to 20, so he cant learn how to read the map on his own. he needs to be taught." "so why cant They wait for him to be 20" brown fired again. "Zitch is currently controlling the young tega, but when the young tega clocks 20 the control spell would no longer work. That was the mistake he made with the fomer tega. So he needs the younger tega to break into ISG get his father to read the map by all means or teach him how to read it, and there lies the issue. They dont know how to get through into ISG." pale took a shallow breath, "and that is all we have left to protect. "Zitch has the map, we have the reader. If we catch the young tega we will definitely catch zitch". Brown gulped, he felt bored and he wanted the discussion to come to a close. "so how do we catch him" brown asked. Pale threw a glance at the table right in front of him, he adjusted his tie and he smiled, "we have a special ammo that can weaken them. But they are very strong, fast and tough, they are been powered by lights, and they fight better in the dark, They can control lights. And be careful of their touch, they can read anyone's mind with just one touch. They are dangerous, they can...". A knock landed on the door, pale paused and he looked straight at the door. He waved Boris to get up and check out who the knocker was.
Boris trudged to the door, his feet went numb. he looked grateful for walking the long distance. He slightly opened up the door, and he attended to the guy outside. The slammed the door close and took a deep breath "what's it" pale asked, he had an expressionless look. "your nephew, Elle wants to see you now. I think there is a problem". Pale snorted, Elle had caused him a lot of trouble recently. At first she was spotted on a train heading mainland, and she never took time informing him about the trip. Boris and Brown had linked that out. Now she was back in Sterl she must have caused a lot of trouble in mainland.
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Return of the Soul
by Billy Kung
The exhibition, “Return of the Soul,” currently on view at Prince Claus Fund Gallery in Amsterdam, features works from five selected grantees of the 2014 Arab Documentary Photography Programme (ADPP). Launched in 2014 by the Arab Fund for Art and Culture and the Prince Claus Fund, in partnership with the Magnum Foundation, ADPP supports documentation of important social issues relevant to the Arab region, with a vision to raise the level of creative documentary photography and provide professional development for photographers. Each year, a juror’s committee comprised of Arab and international judges select up to ten photographers to receive financial and professional support to actualize their proposed projects.
Among the diversifying concerns addressed through the work of the five participants in “Return of the Soul,” they all shared a common thread: to document and to reflect upon various pressing humanitarian issues through their own personal experience in the context of a social landscape ravaged by conflict.
The displacement and pathos of Syrian refugees are humorously depicted through the lens of Syrian-born, Beirut-based photographer and filmmaker Omar Imam, while Lebanese-British photojournalist, Natalie Naccache, uses a variety of mediums, including personal archives and diary entries, photography and videos, to explore the psychological effects of Syrian women in exile. Also turning the gaze on women is Jerusalem-born visual artist Samar Hazboun, whose photographs of Palestinian women denied access to hospitals and forced to give birth at Israeli military checkpoints, succinctly addresses violence against women and the problems of women’s rights in the Middle East.
By focusing his observation on urban life in Kuwait, self-taught Kuwait photographer Faisal al-Fouzan’s unusual eye for banal objects and depiction of the subculture of marginalized people stands in contrast to Emirati photographer Reem Falaknaz’s formal and fascinating work chronicling the dwindling population of people who live and work in the Hajjar Mountains in Ras al- Khaimah, in the Northern part of United Arab Emirates.
Although the establishment of ADPP is still in a nascent stage, I am encouraged by the heart and vision of its founders in recognizing the importance and the need for more of this type of support for those who take up the art of documentary photography. The appointment of Susan Meiselas—currently president of Magnum Foundation and an excellent documentary photographer in her own right—as the program advisor will certainly reinforce the reputation of ADDP and its direction. In an interview with Muftah, an online website providing incisive analysis on countries in the Middle East and North Africa, Hazboun’s words echoes perhaps one of the inspired principles behind the birth of this program, “. . . I want to deliver a message through my art, to create more than just a two-dimensional image, to tell the story behind the photo and shed light on important topics. Art should be more than just a beautiful product. Many photographers nowadays forget the importance of using tools and skills for something a bit deeper and more socially resonant.”
“My wife is blind…I tell her the stories of her favorite TV series, and sometimes change the script…to create a better atmosphere for her.” Photo by Omar Imam. Courtesy Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam.
“There was only grass, but I couldn’t pass it through my throat. Yet I forced myself to swallow in front of the children so they would accept it as food.” Photo by Omar Imam. Courtesy Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam.
Beirut, Lebanon. September 22, 2014 – Diana’s mother Souad, a mother of three, from Damascus, sits in her art studio surrounded by her paintings, since the war began in Syria her paintings have gotten progressively darker. Photo by Natalie Nacache. Courtesy Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam.
Jal El Dib, Lebanon. November 4, 2014 — Tala looks over a view of Beirut just after she has a tattoo with the initials of her family on her back. Overwhelmed with work, dealing with a break-up, Tala felt like “a weight had been lifted, it was something I always wanted to do for me, I never used to put me first”. Photo by Natalie Nacache. Courtesy Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam.
Al-Shuhada Street Checkpoint. At least three births have been documented at this checkpoint. Photo by Samar Hazboun. Courtesy Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam.
Kifah was pregnant with her first child when around 4am she started feeling birth cramps. It was a cold night with temperatures around -3 degrees Celsius. In order to reach a hospital, Kifah and her husband had to cross a checkpoint, but were denied permission to pass. As her husband was trying to convince the soldiers that his wife needed to reach the hospital urgently, Kifah fell to the ground and started giving birth. As soon as the baby’s head started coming out, the soldiers allowed them to cross to the other side where an ambulance was waiting. Kifah gave birth to her son at the checkpoint, causing him irreparable brain damage. Photo by Samar Hazboun. Courtesy Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam.
Sharq, Kuwait. 2014 — The satellite dishes provide access to television channels from laborers’ home countries, serving both as a literal and emotional connection to their homeland. Photo by Faisal al- Fouzan. Courtesy Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam.
Salmiya, Kuwait. 2014. — Bangladeshi Mohamed Kayes, 34 years old, used to work as a satellite technician but after the shop where he worked for eight years closed down, he found a job as a lorry driver. Now he picks up goods from warehouses and drops them off to different supermarket branches. Jamal (praying) also from Bangladesh, works as a porter in a super market. Photo by Faisal al-Fouzan. Courtesy Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam.
Wadi Kub, from “The Place of Perpetual Undulation,” Ras al- Khaimah, 2015. Photo by Reem Falaknaz. Courtesy Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam.
Wadi Kub, from “The Place of Perpetual Undulation”, Ras Al Khaimah, 2015. Photo by Reem Falaknaz. Courtesy Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam.
Billy Kung is photo editor at ArtAsiaPacific.
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Mr. Steven M. Hilton, President & CEO of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, led a delegation to Nairobi Kenya to visit with Catholic Sisters participants of the Sisters Leadership Development Initiative (SLDI) program.
When Conrad Nicholson Hilton passed on in 1979, he left a will with a special request ... that the foundation he started should pay special attention to the Catholic sisters for their special work among the poor. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather, Steven Hilton, current President and CEO of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation led a delegation to Nairobi Kenya to visit with Catholic Sisters participants of the Sisters Leadership Development Initiative (SLDI) program. SLDI is the brainchild of Mr. Steven M. Hilton.
The purpose of the site visit was for Mr. Hilton and delegation to asses and witness the results of the work the CNHF has been doing over the last five years on a program, he himself initiated, the Sisters Leadership Development Initiative (SLDI). The overarching goal of the SLDI program is to increase access for management and leadership skill-building for African Sisters through training and education and adaptable to the specific needs and contexts in which the Sisters are working.
The delegation witnessed first-hand the work that the SLDI graduates had done in their communities as well as among the people they serve. The team included, Mr. Steven M. Hilton, President & CEO, Edmund J. Cain Vice President, Shaheen Kassim-Lakha, Director, International Programs, and Brad Myers, Program Officer. Also, Sister Anne Munly, IHM, President of Marywood University and Vice Chair, ASEC, Sister Jane Wakahiu, LOSF, ASEC, Executive Director and Sister Lina Wanjiku, SE, SLDI, Director Eastern Africa, were present. The team visited more than 10 different projects run by the sisters among the poor people of Kenya. They listened to touching stories of those served by the sisters’ projects, from kindergarten children to high school children, rehabilitated street children, the sick in hospital, farm workers as well those living with HIV and AIDS. This was proof of the effectiveness of the skills transferred to the sisters since 2007.
In the outskirts of the industrial town of Thika, the Hilton delegation visited the Assumption sisters of Nairobi where they witnessed the activities being carried out by the Sistersin their expansive Karibaribi community. This community encompasses, the mother house and formation house for the sisters, a coffee farm that goes back to the early 60s, a modern agricultural farm where they are growing all types of food crops, a school beginning from Nursery to high school.
The Hilton team witnessed how the skills gained by Sisters: Susan Wairimu Njoroge in Project Management, Catherine Kanyua and Mercy Florence in Administration, Basila Musyimi in Finance, all working in different stations across the country has transformed the operations of the congregation to a higher level of effectively. The skills imparted on the sisters were evidently in use in the projects they run and in service to their people.
In response to what he had seen, Steve said,
“I am touched by the work of the sisters here, with such little resources they able to minister to so many people. With a little more support I believe you will achieve much more, touch more souls and improve the lives of many more people.”
In Kasarani, the outskirts of Nairobi, the Hilton delegation visited St. Francis Community Hospital, which is part of a whole range of projects run by the Little sisters of St. Francis in an area that is populated people from low income areas who live in the informal settlements around the hospital. The delegation was taken through the hospital, a rehabilitation center for street children and listened narrations of people living with HIV and AIDS who are under the care of the sisters. A seven year old boy Emmanuel John Zachary, a member of the child support group at St. Francis Hospital epitomized the work of the sisters... “I know that I am positive, I have learned to live positively, eat a balanced diet, take my drugs, and work hard at school... my life is the hands of the sisters!!!”
While presenting food items bought with funds from the Hilton Fund for Sisters, Steve said,
“I am gratified to see so many happy faces among these children, happy that the sisters have stood with them at their hour of need. Hilton Foundation will continue looking around for innovative ways in which we will continue to support the sisters in the good work they are doing.”
Mr. Steven M. Hilton distributes foodstuffs to Saint Francis Rehabilitation Home for Street Boys. Sisters are mothers to these boys. Looking on are Sister Schula Waiyiu, Regional Superior and Sister Jane Wakahiu, ASEC, Executive Director and SLDI Project Manager.
Saint Francis Rehabilitation Home for Street Boys, was all joy on receiving food stuffs from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation delegates. Pictured are Sr. Lina Wanjiku, SLDI, East Africa Director, Sr. Anne Munley, IHM, President of Marywood University, Sr. Jane Wakahiu, LSOSF, ASEC, Executive Director and SLDI Project Manager, Sr. Scola Waiyiu, Regional Superior, Mr. Brad Myers, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Mr. Steven M. Hilton, President & CEO, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and the boys.
Steven M. Hilton, President and CEO of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation signing the book.
Steven Hilton is planting a tree
Mr. Steven M. Hilton presentens lanterns to the students of Maria Immaculata Borading Center. Sporadic electric most of the time students are in the dark in the evening, this creates challenges for them to study at night.
Maria Immaculate students dance on receiving the lanterns, one of the students said, “We are so happy, we can now have studies at night even when there is no electricity… we are grateful to God for the gift of lanterns!”
SLDI, Finance Track participants are excited on meeting the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation delegation, Sr. Lucy a participant one said “I am so glad to see and meet with Mr. Hilton and the delegation … their help has enabled me to become acquire computer literacy skills… may God bless the Foundation.”
Mr. Steven M. Hilton presents a bowl of soil during the offertory – A sign of richness of the earth and that the Foundation has facilitated growth of the sisters through imparting knowledge and skills via SLDI program.
Sr. Anne Munley, IHM, President of Marywood University listening to proceeding of HIV/AIDS affected persons at Evangelizing Sisters of Mary in Ongata Rongai, Kenya. Gathered were seventy home health support teams, each of the seventy coordinates a team of twenty persons and their families in Kwale Slums all affected by HIV/AIDS.
In another part of the expansive area of Kahawa West, the Franciscan Elizabethan sisters run chain of Nursery schools within informal settlements surrounding Kahawa Estate. The nursery schools also operate as feeding centers that cater for more than 600 children from poor backgrounds. Their nursery schools have taken on board all children including those living with various disabilities as a way to support them. In addition, the sisters also care for HIV positive children who are neglected by their parents. Other ministries visited during the trip included, Maria Immaculata Center at Maziwa, Evangelizing Sisters of Mary complex at Ongata Rongai that included farming projects, HIV/AIDS program, nursery and apprenticeship school, Kibagare childrens Center in the slums and Maryw Immaculate Hosptial.
Since the initiation of the project in 2007, over 700 sisters have been trained directly in the acquisition of skill in strategic planning, needs assessment, grant writing, financial management, report writing, team building, mentoring and ethical leadership. In the spirit of the founder of the CNHF, to “relieve the suffering, the distressed and destitute” without regard to race, religion, or country, more than 2,300 sisters and co-workers have been mentored across 6 African countries; Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Ghana and Nigeria.
Furthermore the delegation held meetings with partners of the SLDI program including, Association of Sisterhood of Kenya (AOSK); Association of Consecrated in Central and Eastern Africa (ACWECA); Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA); Tangaza College and SLDI facilitators, CORAT Africa, Mungai Wainaina Company and EMD Organization. ASEC is grateful to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation for the SLDI program and the wonderful work and lives transformed by the Sisters in Africa. Hilton’s Legacy continues…
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation delegation, Steven M. Hilton, President and CEO, Edmund Cain, Shaheen Kassim-Lukha and Brad Myers together with SLDI representatives including Sr. Anne Munley, President of Marywood University, Sr. Jane Wakahiu, ASEC Executive Director and SLDI Project Manager, had a meeting with the Association of Consecrated Women in East and Central Africa (ACWECA) representing nine Countries – Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Southern Sudan, Northern Sudan, Eriteria, and Ethiopia. The meeting was held in Nairobi, Kenya at the AOSK center in ChemiChemi.
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation delegation meets the SLDI Instructors at the AOSK ChemiChemi Center in Nairobi, Kenya. Represented were Corat Africa, the EMD Organization, and the Mungai Wainaina Company. Also present were Sr. Anne Munley and Sr. Mary Paul Wamatu, CPS, ASEC Board members.
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Rock Art Colloquium - USA 2018
Developing action plans for public and professional networking
Painted figures from the Fate Bell Shelter in the Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site, Texas.
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Beginning June 24, 2018, the Getty Conservation Institute held a nine-day colloquium with twenty-four rock art scholars, site managers, conservators, and filmmakers at the Getty Center, entitled Art on the Rocks: Developing Action Plans for Public and Professional Networking. The colloquium included discussions and presentations, as well as visits to rock art sites to discuss their management, preservation, research activities, and community issues. Participants visited the complex at Little Lake Ranch and Painted Rock, both in California, and the Lower Pecos River region in Texas.
In 2015 the Getty Conservation Institute published Rock Art: A Cultural Treasure at Risk, which arose from the Getty Conservation Institute's Southern African Rock Art Project and its exchange program among rock art specialists, managers, and custodian communities from southern Africa and Australia.
"I didn't expect so many paintings, the quantity and the quality," said Pilar Fatás Monforte after visiting the rock art on the Lower Pecos River region in Texas.
Rock Art: A Cultural Treasure at Risk outlined a vision for rock art preservation and public involvement and has been the cornerstone for discussions since. Following its publication, the GCI organized a 2017 international colloquium, Art on the Rocks: A Global Heritage, in Namibia. The June 2018 colloquium was a follow-up to that event.
At the June 2018 colloquium, participants addressed two key directives established at the 2017 Namibia colloquium. The first was acknowledgment that to generate awareness for this endangered global heritage, rock art professionals must reach a broader audience. To this end, attendees committed to making greater use of media and to developing content for distribution to a range of audiences.
With greater public enthusiasm for rock art preservation, policy and decision makers who are in positions to enact change will be motivated to do so. The second key directive addressed was the establishment of an informal Rock Art Network through which an exchange of information and intellectual resources can be made among allied professionals. By making connections between those responsible for site management, improved communication can elevate conservation and management practice. Participants committed to formulating tangible action plans to advance the agenda of this informal Rock Art Network.
Paul Taçon at Little Lake.
David Whitley at Painted Rock.
RAN members at Lower Pecos.
Lucero Gutiérrez at Little Lake.
Neville Agnew at Little Lake.
RAN members at Painted Rock.
Little Lake Rock Art
Petroglyphs in eastern California
As part of the third 'Art on the Rocks' colloquium organized by Neville Agnew, senior principal project specialist of the Getty Conservation Institute of Los Angeles, members of the Rock Art Network visited the Little Lake rock art complex in eastern California. The group were guests of Jo Anne Van Tilburg, and assisted by Wendy All plus other members of the interdisciplinary research team of the UCLA Rock Art Archive, along with archaeologist and rock art expert David S. Whitley.
Little Lake is an interrelated complex of rock art loci in the cultural Great Basin. The scratched, pecked, and painted motifs can be found throughout the landscape. Little Lake is related to 3 settlement sites dating back to 6000 BP.
Research in the area has been presented in the publication 'Rock Art at Little Lake: An Ancient Crossroads in the California Desert' by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Gordon Hull, and John C. Bretney. The product of ten years of fieldwork at Little Lake Ranch in the Rose Valley, the southern gateway to the Owens Valley, this book presents the results of intensive rock art analyses carried out by the interdisciplinary research team of the UCLA Rock Art Archive.
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Little Lake contains several petroglyphs &
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Atlatl petroglyph at the Little Lake
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Members of the Rock Art Network visit
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Rock Art at Little Lake:
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White Shaman Panel
Rock art on the Pecos River
Shumla founder Dr. Carolyn Boyd
Members of the Rock Art Network visited the White Shaman Panel and several other major rock art sites in central Val Verde County, Texas, as part of the third 'Art on the Rocks' colloquium organized by Neville Agnew, senior principal project specialist of the Getty Conservation Institute of Los Angeles, and were guests of Dr. Carolyn Boyd and the Shumla Archeological Research and Education Center.
Twenty five rock art experts toured the White Shaman Panel above the Pecos River and the Fate Bell Shelter in the Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site. At the White Shaman, the group listened to a lecture by Shumla founder Dr. Carolyn Boyd, detailing her extensive research into the panel's symbolism and story. "I didn't expect so many paintings, the quantity and the quality," said Pilar Fatás Monforte, Director of the National Museum and Research Center of Altamira in Spain, the site of some of Europe's oldest and best-known cave paintings.
Thomas McClintock, of the Getty Conservation Institute, stated that the Getty has about 30 years of experience in promoting rock art preservation, noting the institute has published a paper titled, 'Rock Art: A Cultural Treasure at Risk'. He went on to explain that this was the foundational document for what we are doing now. The document sets out four pillars for effective preservation, incorporating all of the values of rock art. What we're doing here is discussing among a group of experts how best to promote the values of rock art to the public.
Carolyn Boyd said "I was really, really honored to have the opportunity to share with them, these incredible scholars from all over the world, the precious rock art that we have here. It's been really spectacular to introduce them, because for most of them, it's their first time to see the rock art here. They were just like, 'Wow, just wow, this is simply amazing!'"
Carolyn Boyd has recently published her research at the White Shaman Panel:
The White Shaman Mural:
An Enduring Creation Narrative in the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos
by Carolyn E. Boyd
The prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas and Coahuila, Mexico, created some of the most spectacularly complex, colorful, extensive, and enduring rock art of the ancient world. Perhaps the greatest of these masterpieces is the White Shaman mural, an intricate painting that spans some twenty-six feet in length and thirteen feet in height on the wall of a shallow cave overlooking the Pecos River. In 'The White Shaman Mural', Carolyn E. Boyd takes us on a journey of discovery as she builds a convincing case that the mural tells a story of the birth of the sun and the beginning of time making it possibly the oldest pictorial creation narrative in North America.
Unlike previous scholars who have viewed Pecos rock art as random and indecipherable, Boyd demonstrates that the White Shaman mural was intentionally composed as a visual narrative, using a graphic vocabulary of images to communicate multiple levels of meaning and function. Drawing on twenty five years of archaeological research and analysis, as well as insights from ethnohistory and art history, Boyd identifies patterns in the imagery that equate, in stunning detail, to the mythologies of Uto-Aztecan-speaking peoples, including the ancient Aztec and the present-day Huichol. This paradigm-shifting identification of core Mesoamerican beliefs in the Pecos rock art reveals that a shared ideological universe was already firmly established among foragers living in the Lower Pecos region as long as four thousand years ago.
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Two DCU (Possibly Silver/Bronze Age) Questions
Posted by Figserello on October 7, 2010 at 11:26pm in General Comics Discussions
#1 When did Superman start using the exclamation "Great Rao!", or mentioning Rao as a diety, generally?
Related to this - when did we find out that Krypton's sun was called Rao?
#2 I recently picked up John Ostranders 1995 Gotham Nights II 4 issue miniseries, set largely on Paris Island, an amusement park located off the coast of Gotham (or in the Bay, or whatever.)
When was this 'Paris Island' first mentioned?
Permalink Reply by Eric L. Sofer on October 8, 2010 at 7:28am
My Silver Age Memory tells me that Superman started invoking Rao in the late seventies. However, I don't remember what the specific source of it was, nor when we discovered that the sun god is Rao. (Now, if you want to know where the name of Krypton came from... :) )
No idea about Paris Island, except for the Marine corps station there.
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Permalink Reply by The Baron on October 8, 2010 at 8:22am
Actually, it's Parris Island in South Carolina where the Marines are trained, though I suspect the SAF know that. I never even heard of Batman's Paris Island, and I was reading Batman comics back then.
Permalink Reply by ClarkKent_DC on October 8, 2010 at 9:30am
I expect that Gotham Nights II was the first and last appearance of Paris Island.
I'd be curious as to the first appearance of Blackgate Prison. We always saw Arkham Asylum -- which I believe is an early '70s development -- but it stands to reason that there ought to be a garden-variety penitentiary for those Gotham-area crooks who aren't crazy.
Permalink Reply by Travis Herrick (Modular Mod) on October 8, 2010 at 9:44am
Yeah Gotham seems to have a lot of islands that appear and disappear with regularity. One of the magicians should really look into it.
Permalink Reply by Commander Benson on October 8, 2010 at 10:21am
"#1 When did Superman start using the exclamation 'Great Rao!', or mentioning Rao as a diety, generally?
"Related to this - when did we find out that Krypton's sun was called Rao?"
I didn't get as far with this one as I would have liked. My chief constraint is time. It's a Bronze-Age question, and while I have all the necessary issues, my inductive memory isn't as precise for the Bronze Age as it is for the Silver.
The specifics I do have are these: The first instance that Rao was established as the name of Krypton's god was in, of all places, Super Friends # 47 (Aug., 1981), when Superman told this to Zan and Jayna. However, that information was validated shortly thereafter in a mainstream title---The Krypton Chronicles # 3 (Nov., 1981)
As to when "Rao" was given as the name of Krypton's sun, or when Superman began uttering "Great Rao!" nearly as much as he did "Great Krypton!", I was unable to pinpoint the earliest instance. My memory says that it occurred sometime in the early '70's, after Julius Schwartz took over as editor of the Superman title. Playing a hunch, I started going through the issues containing "The World of Krypton" short stories---that was the most logical place I expected to find it. Mind you, I'm not sure it was a comprehensive scan---as I said, I don't have the time to-day to sit down and go through all of the Superman and Action Comics issues painstakingly. But in the dozen or so I found, I didn't spot a single mention of "Rao" for Krypton's red sun.
That leads me to suspect that it was later---c. 1975-8---that the name Rao originated. But to-morrow, I should have the time to do a more thorough check.
"# 2 I recently picked up John Ostranders 1995 Gotham Nights II 4 issue mini-series, set largely on Paris Island, an amusement park located off the coast of Gotham (or in the Bay, or whatever.)
"When was this 'Paris Island' first mentioned?"
I suspect CK called it when he said that mini-series was the first mention of Paris Island. The closest thing I was able to find was the story "Peril at Playland Isle", from Detective Comics # 264 (Feb., 1959). "Peril . . . " involves a murder case on Playland Isle---an amusement park located on an island off the coast of Gotham City. It's one of the more refreshing Batman tales of that era. No science-fiction elements or bizarre coïncidences. Just a straightforward murder mystery, with all of the suspects restricted to the island. In other words, just the genre that the Batman and Robin were designed for.
Permalink Reply by Luke Blanchard on October 8, 2010 at 11:52am
Rao's name is used as the kryptonian name for God in the wedding sequence at the end of the marriage of the Earth Two Superman story in Action Comics #484.
Permalink Reply by Commander Benson on October 8, 2010 at 12:32pm
Luke Blanchard said:
Action Comics # 484 was cover-dated June, 1978. So it pre-dates Super Friends # 47 handily.
Thanks for catching that. (And I know why I missed it. Since Action Comics # 484 deals with a strictly Earth-Two Superman adventure, I keep it in a different stack than the rest of my Action Comics run.)
Now I am intrigued with the whole thing. So I know how I am spending Saturday.
Permalink Reply by Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod) on October 8, 2010 at 1:11pm
Travis Herrick said:
They're not appearing and disappearing; Zatanna is just constantly wiping and unwiping our minds...
I've got no thoughts on Blackgate, but your question reminded me of another prison, in the Chuck Dixon-created Bludhaven -- a prison called, appropriately enough, Lockhaven. Now Chick Dixon lived in PA for a while -- he might still, for all I know -- and there's actually a town a little north of Harrisburg called Lock Haven. The name probably stuck in his head, as it has in mine for all these years.
Permalink Reply by Philip Portelli on October 8, 2010 at 6:02pm
Paris Island, if not named for the City of Lights, may have been in honor of Charles Paris, a prominent Bat-inker of the 40s & 50s, working with Dick Sprang and Jack Burnley. DC has been giving Gotham landmarks the names of past Bat-creators. Perhaps one day we will be the Morrison Institute of Continuity!
I will not lie to you. I went to my spanking-new Essential Superman Encyclopedia and looked up "Rao". They gave the earliest mention to Superman #248 (F'72). But if it makes anyone feel better, I pulled out that longbox and read it (again).
It does not occur in the main Superman story, which was a great Luthor tale plus the 1st appearance of the Galactic Golem. It's the back-up, "The World of Krypton" by Marv Wolfman and Dave Cockrum. In a story about Kryptonian mutants, "Rao" is uttered four times, all as an obvious counterpart to God. But Rao is also specified as a sun-god, though I can't remember any other Kryptonian deities.
However, when Superman first mentions Rao, Rao only knows!!
Permalink Reply by Luke Blanchard on October 8, 2010 at 6:43pm
According to the The Krypton Chronicles mini (1981) Rao was originally a sun-god, but he was later reinterpreted monotheistically (by a prophet named Jaf-El) and dis-identified with the sun. In the marriage rite depicted in Action Comics #484 the marrying couple invoke Rao, the maker of the sun and moons, while exchanging bracelets. The final issue of The Krypton Chronicles depicts an earlier form of the rite in which the couple invoked "the glory of Rao, the sun" and "the mistress of the moons, Yuda" while exchanging bracelets "representing our two moons".
Permalink Reply by Figserello on October 8, 2010 at 11:29pm
Great responses everyone.
As will surprise no-one, my Morrison reading inspired both questions. We've been talking about Superman as a pop-culture Sun-God himself in the JLA thread. Morrison equates him with Apollo in his pantheon there, and All-Star Superman just about elevates it from subtext to text.
Fascinating that the main deity on his home planet, that he still invokes, was a Sun-God. I'd fancied it was late SIlver Age/Bronze Age that the concept came in. The timing looked like it was put in there by a 2nd generation 'Arts major' writer to cement Superman's sun-deity associations, and Wolfman probably fits that bill. As ever, Morrison is only accentuating what was already there before he came along, and getting big props for doing so.
That's very sophisticated, isn't it? Especially seeing how it ties in references in comics so far apart. On the one hand - yes, highlight his connection to the sun, equate him with Pagan (and alien) sun-gods even, but on the other, the Champion of 'Truth, Justice and the American Way', would have to believe in a monotheistic 'one true (Christian) God' as well.
In any case, the Sun, as ‘source of all light and life, warmth and goodness’ - and indeed, searing fire! - is as close a symbol as you can get to the Christian God.
Jaf-El is just like the early Christians, who co-opted the old religions to sugar the pill of the changeover for the believers. (Like what they did with Jesus' birthday).
I've picked up the Krypton Chronicles recently, so I'll have to read them soon. There’s probably other interesting stuff on Rao, so I’d be interested in hearing anything else that anyone can dig up. The best 'Rao' story I've read so far is in the Sandman Endless Nights collection. It may be the best one in it.
By coincidence, I'd only just picked up Gotham Nights II v cheap on a whim (but Ostrander is always worth a look) when I reread JLA #5. There Batman can't join them because he's fighting the 'Glass People of Paris Island'. That made me think it might have been around longer than a few years by 1997. It looks like Ostrander based it on Playland Isle (thanks Commander), and renamed it after the inker guy (Thanks Philip). Ostrander is a fan of that naming technique, as he named the Seigel-Bailey General Hospital in his Spectre series after the creators. However the island was full of amusement park representations of Parisian landmarks too.
Google kept directing me to the training camp place, but there seems to be a reference somewhere that the Batboat comes out of its tunnel just across from Paris Island. Further confusing things, Dwayne MacDuffie made a Paris Island in Dakota a centre of a lot of his action in the Milestone Universe.
I love how Morrison gives equal weight to most continuity, rather than just using his writing tenures to bring the stuff that was around when he was 12 back into play, and trying to erase the other stuff. Ostrander's Paris Island has a lot going for it: atmospherics, European decadence, old world entertainment values, and it should be used a bit more.
Thinking of the rickety old funpark, it occurs to me that the Earthquake plotline of 90's Batbooks was a silly thing to do, given that Gotham depends on its charm for its old-world buildings. Surely a quake and a year under quarantine would have rendered them all condemned? Gotham should by now look like either Metropolis, or more likely, a concrete Third-world style 'Developers Paradise' .
I wonder did the mega-corporations in the DCU utilise the quake to 'adjust the demographics' in the same way the New Orleans flooding was used?
Now I'm wondering what DCU institute or place would have Morrison's name in the future...?
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Midvalley MegaMall - A Dangerous Exprience - PLEASE READ!!
Friday, January 15, 2010 by Unknown ·
Note : Dapat dari forward emel. Tak tau sahih ke tak. Tapi apa-apa pun anda boleh membacanya sebagai peringatan bersama. Mana tau kut-kut anda mungkin berhadapan dengan situasi ni, sekurang-kurangnya anda dah tau apa tindakan yang patut diambil.
LET THIS TRUE STORY SERVE AS A WARNING
To the men : warn your loved ones!
To the women : remember this!
About a month ago there was a woman standing by the Mega Mall entrance passing out flyers to all the women going in. The woman had written the flyer herself to tell about an experience she had, so that she might warn other women.
The previous day, this woman had finished shopping, went out to her car and discovered that she had a flat. She got the jack out of the trunk and began to change the flat. A nice man dressed in business suit and carrying a briefcase walked up to her and said,
'I notice you're changing a flat tire. Would you like me to take care of it for you?'
The woman was grateful for his offer and accepted his help. They chatted amiably while the man changed the flat, and then put the flat tire and the jack in the trunk, shut it and dusted his hands off.
The woman thanked him profusely, and as she was about to get in her car, the man told her that he left his car around on the other side of the mall, and asked if she would mind giving him a lift to his car. She was a little surprised and asked him why his car was on the other side. He explained that he had met an old friend in the mall whom he hadn't seen for some time and they had a bite to eat and visited for a while; he got turned around in the mall and left through the wrong exit, and now he was running late and his car was clear around on the other side of the mall.
The woman hated to tell him 'no' because he had just rescued her from having to change her flat tire all by herself, but she felt uneasy. Then she remembered seeing the man put his briefcase in her trunk before shutting it and before he asked her for the ride to his car.
She told him that she'd be happy to drive him to his car, but she just remembered one last thing she needed to buy. She said she would only be a few minutes; he could sit down in her car and wait for her; she would be as quick as she could be. She hurried into the mall, and told a security guard what had happened; the guard came out to her car with her, but the man had left.
They opened the trunk, took out his locked briefcase and took it down to the police station. The police opened it (ostensibly to look for ID so they could return it to the man). What they found was rope, duct tape and knives.
When the police checked her 'flat' tire, there was nothing wrong with it; the air had simply been let out. It was obvious what the man's motive was, and obvious that he had carefully thought it out in advance.
The woman was blessed to have escaped harm. How much worse it would have been had she waited in the car while the man fixed the tire, or if she had a baby strapped into a car seat. Or if she'd gone against her judgment and given him a lift. I'd like you to forward this to all the women you know.
It may save a life. A candle is not dimmed by lighting another candle. I was going to send this to the ladies only; but guys, if you love your mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, etc., you may want to pass it on to them as well.
Send this to any woman you know that may need to be reminded that the world we live in has a lot of crazies in it..... better safe than sorry.
PLEASE BE SAFE AND NOT SORRY!
JUST A WARNING TO ALWAYS BE ALERT AND USE YOUR HEAD!!!
Pass this along to every woman you meet. Never let your guard down.
SOMETIMES, THAT FEELING IN YOUR GUT IS THE VOICE OF GOD. TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS!!
wondering, y people do crime like that??common Malaysia!let live in harmony lah!
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“Salam Neighbor” Gets Students Thinking, Talking and Acting
TOP PHOTO:
Chris Temple, Living on One, and Gabe Pena, President of the CAS-CASC Student Advisory Board
BOTTOM PHOTO:
Members of the CAS-CASC Student Advisory Board with Chris Temple and CAS Executive Director Karissa Niehoff.
From left to right: Sachi Patel (North Haven HS), Dylan Madden (WF Kaynor Technical HS) Chris Temple (Living on One), Gabe Pena (WF Kaynor Technical HS), Aiden Coyle (North Haven HS), Samantha Plourde (WF Kaynor Technical HS),
Dr. Karissa Niehoff (CAS)
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 with one of the film makers and founders of Living on One, Chris Temple, held at Goodwin College. Introducing the film, Chris underscored the urgency and nature of the crisis,
“This is a critical moment, with more refugees today than any time in the last century,” said Chris. “In Syria alone, more than 4 million people have fled the country to escape the atrocities of war. Right now, we are at risk of losing a generation of youth, destabilizing the region, and perpetuating a cycle of violence and poverty.”
In an effort to better understand refugee life,
Chris and his Living on One colleague, Zach Ingrasci, spent one month this winter living alongside displaced families in the Za’atari refugee camp. As the first filmmakers ever allowed by the United Nations to be given a tent and registered inside a refugee camp, they were able to get a never before seen look into the world’s most pressing crisis.
“Our experience uncovered overwhelming trauma but also the untapped potential our uprooted neighbors possess,” explained Chris. “With the right programs we can support healing, ease the burden on host countries and even empower the disenfranchised by unleashing people’s creativity.”
Through their company, Living on One, Chris and Zach use immersive storytelling to create films, television series, and educational content combined with targeted social impact campaigns to inspire action around pressing global issues.
By engaging a young and social media savvy audience, they have been able to create unprecedented awareness for important issues ignored by mainstream media. On all their films, they work with the best humanitarian organizations in the sector to provide opportunities for our audience to easily make a difference.
Students are already responding to the call to action. They are engaging in dialogue, sharing with friends and family what they learned from the film and formulating strategies they can undertake to spread awareness, to contribute financially and to develop programs in their home schools and communities. One impressive idea from a student will work on ways to ease the transition for refugees and other students displaced and arriving in a new country for a variety of reasons. As their action plans solidify and come into effect, CAS will follow their progress and provide ways for others to get involved. CAS and selected teachers will be working this summer to develop curriculum content to be paired with the film “Salam Neighbor” for use in schools.
Written by Jennifer Buckley, Assistant Director of Student Activities
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Carolina Herrera does it in Grey
Grey is the new black and no one turns out a classic quite like Caro!
Felted Coat & Dress
Posted by Casa Naranja at 11:25 AM 1 comments
Spanish Nights CEO Martini
You know you love being the most original hostess and take special care to provide your guests the most original cocktails, right! We can guarantee you wont be bumping into this beaut of a cocktail at your neighbor's housewarming.
Mediterranean inspiration from Chopin Vodka……. Chopin is handcrafted from naturally grown potatoes and has a full-bodied creamy flavor that works beautifully on its own or in drinks. The Spanish Nights CEO (Chopin Extra Olives) Martini draws from the scents and savories of Spain. Splashed with a light Sherry and topped with three Manchego-stuffed olives wrapped in Serrano Ham, the Spanish Nights CEO is a Tapas party at play in a Martini glass.
• 2 Ounces of Chopin Vodka
• Dry Sherry
• Jumbo-sized Olives
• Manchego Cheese
• Serrano Ham
1. Rinse a Martini glass with dry Sherry & pour out any extra.
2. Place the glass in the freezer for 2 to 3 minutes to chill.
3. Pour 2 ounces of Chopin into a mixing glass, add ice and shake vigorously for 7 to 8 seconds.
4. Strain into the prepared Martini glass and garnish with 3 stuffed olives.
5. Serve in a 6-ounce Martini glass and present with bowls of extra olives on the side.
Olive preparation: Take 3 pitted large green olives and stuff them with a piece of Manchego cheese. Wrap each olive with Serrano ham. Spike with a skewer.
We HEART Lucky Mag!
The shopping geniuses at Lucky Mag have done it again.
The next time your cousin Veronica from Caracas is visiting and asks, "where can i go shopping, aside from Miguelina on Bleecker Street?" you will know exactly where to direct her.
New York City Shopping Guide
More than 100 of the greatest boutiques, plus bonus department stores, indie designers' flagships, and the most shoppable locations of the big chains—all organized by neighborhood. And detailed, printable maps to help you find it all!
THE TOP 181 SHOPS, WITH PRINTABLE MAPS
BIG DESIGNERS
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Que Viva El Merengue
Every so often we need to repost this video, which truly embodies our Dominican roots! Each and every time we view it the same goosebumps come up.
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A NEW HEALTH REPORT FOR LATINAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
from TeamSugar.com
Special Health Report: What Your Body Needs
We scoured the country for the best Latino doctors, acupuncturists, researchers and fitness experts and asked them to give us the health advice they give their friends and familes. So if you read no other health report this year, read this one!
1. ¡Muévete, por Dios!
Hit the gym. Run—or just walk—around the block. Take a dance lesson. Lo que sea. The point is to get your body moving. Repeat after us: There is no being healthy without exercise, no matter how well you control what you eat. It?s the best prevention for some of the worst afflictions facing our community, including diabetes, obesity and heart disease. Need an extra kick in the butt to get off el sofá? Visit flicketyfit.com—a DVDs-by-mail service like Netflix that offers a huge variety of exercise videos, from Pilates for Moms to Merengue Mania.
2. See your doctor
Comedian George Lopez jokes about Latinos avoiding regular checkups ("What if they find something wrong?"). But George himself didn't catch his kidney disease until it was advanced, when he was forced to undergo a transplant. Commit to yearly physicals, including a Pap smear, breast exam, cholesterol-level test and blood-sugar check to test for diabetes. No insurance? Don't let that stop you. To find free and low-cost clinics, call the National Alliance for Hispanic Health at 866/783-2645 or visit ask.hrsa.gov/pc.
3. Hang onto your traditions
Why do Latino immigrants have better mental health and live longer than native-born Americans? Doctors have done a gazillion studies looking into the so-called "immigrant paradox" and found what the Tía Rosas of the world have known all along: Having strong family and social networks is a key to good health. Other cultural habits we should preserve: our positive attitude (immigrants tend to consider themselves lucky) and our biculturalism. "We've found the healthiest people are those who can keep a balance between their culture of origin and the U.S. culture," says Lisa Fortuna, M.D., a Harvard Medical School instructor and health services researcher at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Massachusetts.
4. Follow your instincts
Shortly after giving birth to her second child, New York mom Ivis Sampayo kept feeling a strange warmth in one breast. Her doctor said it was nothing—even after an exam revealed a lump. "If I hadn't insisted on a second opinion, I wouldn't be here today," says Ivis, who now is a 13-year cancer survivor and heads LatinaSHARE, a women's breast- and ovarian-cancer support program. The point? Although many of us were raised not to question doctors? authority, "If you feel something is wrong, you have a right to speak up," Ivis says. "Your life depends on it!"
5. Bust out the manzanilla
"Traditional remedies have been working great for hundreds of years, so there's no need to throw them out now," says Urayoana Trinidad, a Puerto Rican licensed acupuncturist and herbalist in New York City. Gentle over-the-counter remedies are okay to use: Manzanilla and tilo teas are soothing to stressed nerves; raw garlic, radishes and onions in honey can loosen phlegm; and boiled guatapanal (a Dominican herb) calms a sore throat. But for stronger remedies, make sure you consult a trained herbalist. And don't forget to tell your doctor about the yerbas you're using.
6. Get a shot
Latinas suffer from cervical cancer at almost double the rate of non-Hispanic white women. One big reason: We're less likely to get regular Pap smears, which are the key to catching cervical precancers before they turn lethal. The good news: You only need to get a Pap test once a year, according to the American Cancer Society. Even better news: Last year the FDA approved a new vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), a common STD and the most important risk factor for cervical cancer. Doctors say the shot works best on teens who are not yet sexually active, but women ages 19 to 26 may also benefit.
7. Make him use un gorro... la manga... a condom!
We know you know this, we really do. But since the AIDS case rate for Latinas is now nearly six times that of non-Hispanic white women, and the Latino rate of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis infection is two to three times that of non-Hispanic whites—we can't repeat it enough! Even if a partner shows no STD symptoms, that's no guarantee he's not infected. Use a condom, every time. ¡Punto!
8. Keep an eye on your hermanita
Almost one in seven Latina high school students has attempted suicide, far more than any other group of adolescent girls. "The biggest factor we're seeing is family conflict, especially when there's tension between the parents? expectations for girls and what's expected for them in U.S. culture," says Dr. Fortuna, who coauthored a recent article on Latina teen suicide attempts. Good communication between mothers and daughters is the key to reducing this trend. Involving girls in bicultural after-school activities like bailes folklóricos or soccer can help, too. So if you've got a sister or prima who seems stressed, make it a point to talk to her and her mom.
9. Talk about sex
A recent University of California, Santa Barbara, study shows that children of mothers who talked openly to them about sex (including discussing their own experiences) were more likely to hold off on having sex themselves and less likely to engage in unprotected sex. Even if your child is in elementary school, "start talking to her about puberty and her body," says Laura Romo, a professor at the school and one of the study's authors. "Parents sometimes think they don't have influence over their teens, but this study suggests that isn't true."
10. Coge un take-it-easy
Claro, our lives are hectic. But rushing all day without a break can take a toll on your health, Trinidad says. A little relaxation can go a long way: A recent Duke University study showed that just 15-20 minutes of meditation twice a day reduced stress levels. Start by inhaling through your nose and drawing air deep into your abdomen. Then exhale through your mouth, Trinidad says. To clear your mind, silently repeat a calming word or phrase.
Lima Peru: Edited by Mario Testino
Even as Mario Testino has become a royal image-maker in England and in Hollywood, where his portraits define the new glamour for a generation of stars, models and celebrities, he has cherished visions of the elegance and endless beaches of Lima, the city where he grew up. He has always confessed his love: "I'm very proud of being Peruvian, I would not want to be from anywhere else. I've lived in Europe for 30 years, but the moment I see our flag I get soppy." And he confesses it again here, though not in a traditional book of his own photography. For in Lima, Peru Testino make his first foray into the role of photo editor, celebrating the title city through the eyes of its artists, photographers, artisans and photojournalists. Of this project's genesis Testino says, "I wanted to capture Lima's positive chaos...I wanted to find a book which conveyed this--the way Lima's artists and photographers have captured their city's color and complexity, its art, its people and its buildings, its street life and its interiors. But no such book existed, and so I decided to edit one myself."
In Lima, Peru, Testino sets sweeping views of the city's architecture opposite details of its ceramic tiles. He collects observations of the city's natural exhibitionists as well as those who would normally shy away from the camera. He showcases art, parades, religion, sex, football, market life, architecture, interiors, high society, the bourgeoisie, teenagers, soldiers, surfers, priests, bullfighters, brides, hostesses, street sellers, waiters, artists, dancers, musicians and sun-worshippers. This is a shimmering, kaleidoscopic view of the city--a considered, eclectic and detailed composite from a master portraitist.
Earthquake Response - Peru
There is power in unity and in helping those who need it.
Jeremias - Tu
Listen and watch carefully, Jeremias is a star on the rise!
Los Amigos Invisibles at El Museo del Barrio on Thur, Aug 23
Thur, Aug 23
Los Amigos Invisibles
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Ave at 104th St
http://www.elmuseo.org/
Everyone's favorite Venezuelan funk group closes up El Museo del Barrio's Summer Nights series with a bang.
Free--as always--this show will go down rain or shine!
6 to 103rd St
Fares to Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo are now on sale
$399* & up: Super-cheap FARES to BUENOS AIRES, Rio & Sao Paulo from 18 cities (one way). Travel by 12/13
Churros Filled With Fois Gras? In Midtown? Yes and Yes.
from raredaily.com
Toloache Opens
Some people eat Mexican food to live.
And then there are those that live to eat it.
If the sound of sizzling steak fajitas makes your heart beat faster, then you’ll definitely want to hit Toloache, the newest Mexican restaurant in town. Toloache, pronounced “toh-lo-AH-tchay” (it’s a Mexican flowering plant used for love potions) is the culminating work of Executive Chef/Owner Julian Medina (Zocalo, Pampano).
For his first restaurant, Chef Medina went all out: the two-level bistro sports a ceviche and guacamole bar (with seven types of ceviche and three types of guac’), a wood burning brick oven, and a list of more than 100 tequilas and mezcals.
And let’s not forget about the menu highlights (peruse the full menu): fruit guacamole, made of avocado, vidalia onion, mango, quince, apple, Meyer lemon, habanero chile, and Thai basil (who needs a V8?), foie gras-filled churros with a molé dipping sauce, and brick oven roasted pig with habanero-sour orange salsa.
Midtowners, you can start salivating now.
Toloache opens tomorrow (8/23).
Toloache
251 West 50th Street (between Broadway & Eighth Avenues)
toloachenyc.com
Gourmet Magazine September 2007 Special Issue: Latino Food
"Every major American city now has a Latino enclave, and you don't need to travel more than a few blocks to find Latino culture," explains Ruth Reichl in "Food Without Borders" (page 24), her editor's letter for Gourmet's special issue on Latino food, America's fastest-rising cuisine. "There are few places in America where the influence of the people who have come here from Mexico, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru is not being felt."
Gourmet Travels: Gourmet's writers tell us about communities in which they were raised: NY, L.A., Miami, and Chicago
In "He'll Take El Alto" (page 150), Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz undertakes a tour of his neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, profiling restaurants and street food that are well worth a trip uptown. Diaz, a professor of creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of the soon-to-be-released The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, writes: "We Domos have Upper Manhattan on lock. Hard to walk anywhere without being tempted by something delicious." A recipe for Dominican Sancocho is on page 159. A glossary of Dominican food terms is on page 158. "Address Book" (page 198) lists Diaz's favorite Dominican restaurants.
Gourmet magazine September 2007 Special Issue: Latino Food - On Newsstands August 21, 2007 (Photo: Business Wire)
Summertime Family Fun Amidst Spanish Style Luxury
Because nothing says the end of August than a jaunt to Malaga, Spain!
Las Dunas Beach Hotel & Spa
Urb. La Boladilla Baja Ctra. Cadiz, Km 163,5
Estepona, Malaga, 29689
Phone 1: 34 5 279 4345
Visit web site: Las Dunas Beach Hotel & Spa
n Southern Spain, the Costa de Marbella is a region rich in history and beauty and is known for the hospitality of the Las Dunas Beach Hotel & Spa. Refined Old World style with contemporary flair fills the elegant guestrooms and private residences in this exclusive enclave, surrounded by a lush Mediterranean landscape. In this world of its own you can shop for fine jewelry, peruse an art gallery of changing exhibitions and enjoy fine dining at the Lido, whose terrace views gaze past Gibraltar all the way to Africa.
Andalusia lure with great diversity. Drift in healing seawaters at the hotel’s own beach, take advantage of over 40 area golf courses or day trip in sublime style. The hotel offers luxury cars rentals—imagine cruising to Seville in a new BMW or visiting Ronda, home to the world’s oldest bullfighting area, in a Rolls Royce. Whether you’re touring the Alhambra, indulging at the hotel’s Serenity Spa or watching a lively flamenco dance, the hotel will ensure that your every experience is infused with elegance and grace.
Asia de Cuba at Morgans: 3-Course Lunch for $24.07
Cuisine: Pan-Asian, Pacific Rim, South American
Category: Upscale Dining
Neighborhood: Murray Hill, NYC (Madison Ave. bet. 37th & 38th St.)
Great news for devotees of acclaimed restaurateur Jeffrey Chodorow's eatery: the Restaurant Week Lunch Menu is running through Labor Day. The stunning design by Philippe Starck, complete with a 25-foot tall mountain and waterfall hologram, provides the perfect backdrop to the Asian/Latin cuisine, and this is a great time to check it out with this three-course lunch menu for $24.07.
For more details and to get this great deal, click here
Mariposa Movement
WHAT IS MARIPOSA?
Mariposa means butterfly in Spanish.
The TriANGulO
135-141 West 20th Street, #301New York, NY 10010
(between 6th and 7th Avenues) Dial 62 at the door.
Mariposa Movement's mission is to encourage each individual to relax and renew in body, mind and breath, and to emerge out of the cocoon—as light and free as the beautiful butterfly each body and soul has the potential to be. We believe that spirituality and religious beliefs are personal and do not preach.
We seek to provide a means to create a healthy body and mind and feel that from that pure state of consciousness individuals will follow what speaks best to them.
Free Yoga Class
Come fly away on Saturday, August 11 in a free beginner yoga class at 4 PM. Email to reserve your space. (New students only)
Yerba Buena and Amigos Invisibles performing tomorrow August 9th
Gracias a Libardo y SukaLatina.
TOMORROW THU 9: LIVE MUSIC FROM AMIGOS INVISIBLES AND YERBA BUENA !
Yerba Buena and Amigos Invisibles are two of the most prominent “Fusion” bands in New York City; their music is an exquisite blend of Latin music, electronic, lounge, rumba, flamenco, funk and everything you can imagine in between. They both sing in English in Spanish attracting crowds from both worlds. With them will be playing as well Jose Conde y Ola Fresca, acclaim as one of the most exciting new original Cuban roots ensembles.
Don’t miss this great outdoor event at the Hudson River Park.
Pier 54 at 14 Street,
Trains A/C/D to 14 st West Side Highway.
6:00PM NO COVER
Videos and Music of Yerba Buena and Amigos Invisibles HERE
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Cinefest Petrobras- August 5-12
The Brazilian Film Festival is absolutly sizzling, but then again what Brazilcentric event isn't!
Between August 5th and the 12th, Central Park and the Tribeca Cinemas will host the Cine Fest Petrobras Brasil, planned and produced by the Inffinito Group. Brazilian filmmakers, actors and producers will be at the world’s cultural capital to show the most recent Brazilian cinematographic productions. Approximately 30 movies will be showed during the six days of competitive screening, and the presentation of the music show: AfroReggae.
Top Rated Spanish Wines under $20
Spain is emerging as one of the most exciting regions for boldly flavored and inexpensive red wines in the world. Taking advantage of old-vine vineyards planted with Mediterranean varietals such as Grenache, Syrah, Monastrell (Mourvedre) and the indigenous Mencia, there is an explosion of young, talented winemakers making exceptional wines at bargain prices.
Spain isn't just about Tempranillo from Rioja anymore and the critics are certainly taking notice, especially Robert Parker's Wine Advocate. We've compiled a short list of our favorite recently rated top picks. If you're a fan of boldly flavored red wines, put together a mixed case and prepare to be impressed – there is no better region for red wine values than Spain right now.
Check Out Our Short List
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Argentine steakhouse - Caminito
What an auspicious Monday this is turning out to be, another Latin gem of a restaurant to try courtesy of NY Mag.
Caminito
1664 Park Ave., nr. 118th St.;
The Argentine-steakhouse trend continues to beef up, with Gaucho Steak Co. in Hell’s Kitchen, Catch 22 in Williamsburg, and the yearling Buenos Aires downtown. What, exactly, does this South American variant offer that traditional New York steakhouses don’t? Lower prices, Malbec on the wine list, and often, in the great night-before-payday, cheap-meal tradition, gnocchi on the 29th of each month. That’s how it’s been at mainstays like La Porteña and Chimichurri Grill, and that’s how it will be at Caminito, a 45-seat hacienda opening this week in East Harlem. Chef-owner Fabian Manca grills everything from provolone cheese to blood sausage, and procures some grass-fed Uruguayan cuts like skirt, shell, and filet mignon. There are also the customary empanadas and veal milanese, plus perhaps the carnivorous country’s greatest contribution to fast food: French fries pungently bombed with garlic and parsley.
Café Cortadito
(Photo: Jeremy Liebman for New York Magazine)
If you need a more low key version of Socialista with a truly aunthentic Cuban experience we present to you...
Address: 210 E. 3rd St., nr. Ave. B; 212-614-3080
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Monday from 5 p.m.
Prices: Salads and sandwiches, $7.95 to $8.95; entrées, $9.95 to $12.95. I
deal Meal: Avocado salad, churrasco, arroz con leche.
Note: An equally tiny back room accommodates groups.
Juanes new album, La Vida Es…Un Ratico
Start lining up, Juanes is coming out with a new album!!!
La Vida Es…Un Ratico will be released October 23rd, and the lead single, Me Enamora will be out September 4th.
Rayuela+Brunch= Heaven
It appears that we at Casa Naranja are OCDing for Rayuela. Every day there is a new reason to love them and yet another excuse to dine there.
Rayuela has launched a weekend brunch with arepas and poached eggs, churros and Mayan chocolate, and guanabana mimosas plus live salsa music Sundays.
Central Park Summerstage- Sun Aug 5th 7:00 PM: Cine Fest Brasil
Cine Fest Brasil
AfroReggae
Film screening of Zuzu Angel
From 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Central Park SummerStage
The sounds and sights of Brazil will fill up this special concert and screening.
AfroReggae was formed in 1995 in the favela shanty-towns of Rio de Janeiro. Fusing many elements of Brazilian and international music past and present—including mangue beat, rap, samba-reggae, funk, raga, xaxado beats, drum ‘n’ bass, capoeira and candomblé—the 13 member group has established itself as one of Brazil’s most passionate and creative bands. AfroReggae has collaborated with artists like Arnaldo Antunes, Nando Reis and Caetano Veloso, and opened for the Rolling Stones at a 2006 Copacabana Beach concert for a crowd of over 2 million people.
AfroReggae’s performance will precede a screening of director Sergio Resende’s 2006 film Zuzu Angel, which tells the true story of a famous Brazilian fashion designer of the ‘70s, and her political awakening after the military regime kills her son.
Your city. Your park. Your SummerStage.Visit SummerStage.org for upcoming programs.
Juan Fernando Velasco - Sat, Aug 11th Nokia Theatre
Saturday • August 11
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Nokia Theatre Times Square
1515 Broadway at 44th Street
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Amazon Hydroelectrics, the UN Climate Treaty and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) – will greed and corruption derail the international climate negotiations?
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Part II: Amazon Hydroelectrics, the UN Climate Treaty and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) – will greed and corruption derail the international climate negotiations? »
By Steve Schwartzman / Bio / Published: November 8, 2017
Belo Monte Dam under construction on the Xingu River in the state of Pará, Brazil in 2013 | Photo credit: Letícia Leite-ISA
Brazil’s climate policy theater: Brazil climate negotiators fight for carbon credit payout for scandal-plagued national power company Eletrobrás and Amazon mega-hydroelectrics, block carbon finance for ending Amazon deforestation.
Behind the headline-grabbing news about Brazilian political corruption, Brazilian climate change negotiators are busy pushing proposals that could seriously damage important new climate change agreements – and shut the door on much-needed finance for stopping deforestation.
New market mechanisms in the UN Paris Agreement and in the International Civil Aviation Organization’s Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for Civil Aviation (CORSIA) could provide money Brazil needs to protect its rainforest, including protecting heavily threatened indigenous territories twice the size of California. The new mechanisms could also help other tropical countries stop deforestation. That would be great news for the global atmosphere and for the people who live in the forests.
But Brazil’s negotiators are dead set against it. Instead, they’re fighting hard to preserve the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a relic of the Kyoto Protocol. Global climate change champions California and the European Union have largely or entirely shut the CDM out of their markets because they’ve concluded, rightfully, that its claims to environmental integrity have lost credibility.
Brazilian negotiators say the CDM is the gold standard for environmental quality, and reducing deforestation is too risky for carbon credit. A new report by EDF and Brazilian partners – along with a plethora of other analyses — reaches a different conclusion.
Bogus Carbon Credit for Amazon dams
The CDM was created in 1997 by the Kyoto Protocol to allow emissions reductions projects in developing countries to generate tradeable carbon credits, called “Certified Emissions Reductions” (CERs), which, the Protocol specifies, could be used by industrialized countries to help meet their emissions targetsduring the years 2008-2012. But since new targets for these countries didn’t take effect under the Kyoto Protocol, CER prices plummeted for lack of buyers. Brazil has a big portfolio of projects that are generating currently zero-value CERs that could turn into real money if the new market mechanisms of the Paris Agreement and CORSIA accept CDM credits. No wonder they like the CDM.
Three Amazon dams – Santo Antônio, Jirau and Teles Pires – are Brazil’s biggest CDM projects, and say a lot about what’s wrong with the mechanism.
Starting in 2012 affiliates of Brazil’s state power company, Eletrobrás, registered the mega-hydroelectric dams in the Amazon as CDM projects. They said that the dams would reduce greenhouse gas emissions that would have otherwise happened, and that since they were big, risky projects, they wouldn’t be financially viable unless they got the carbon credit. The CDM approved the dams, issued millions of CERs for them, and stands ready to issue hundreds of millions more.
Carbon Credit for Corruption?
But, a little later, these dams were implicated in the “Operation Car Wash” investigation, probably the largest corruption investigation in the world. The investigation first uncovered bid rigging, bribery and kickbacks worth billions of dollars in state oil company Petrobrás. It has now convicted scores of politicians and top executives at Brazil’s biggest companies. Eletrobrás executives engaged in exactly the same schemes in the three Amazon dams and other projects, according to whistleblowers. One former officer of an Eletrobrás subsidiary has been sentenced to more than forty years in prison for bribery, money laundering, obstruction of justice, tax evasion, and participation in a criminal organization, and similar charges are pending against others.
Eletrobrás’s stock price crashed as a result. US investors brought suit against the company, now pending in federal court in New York. They allege that Eletrobrás publicly claimed it was keeping clean books and building legitimate energy projects, while in fact concealing massive corruption and kickbacks. The dams ran up billions in cost overruns (allegedly to pay the bribes and kickbacks) at the investors’ expense.
Meanwhile, while it told the CDM that carbon finance was crucial for the dams to go forward, the company went ahead and built the dams.
Certified Emission Reductions market price crashed after the end of 2012 | Source: eex.com
The dams are operating today with basically zero carbon finance, because the CERs became virtually worthless after the end-of-2012 the price crash. If the dams in fact caused any emissions reductions, they did it without money from the CERs – so they would have happened anyway. But, in fact the dams never caused any emissions reductions – the decision to build them was political, not economic. Opportunities for bribes and kickbacks were by all indications a key factor. It’s not surprising Eletrobrás and affiliates never told its investors that it needed carbon credit for the dams to pay off – the credits were just icing on the cake.
In 2016, KLP, one of the world’s largest investment funds, managing over $36 billion in pension funds in Norway, decided to exclude investments in Eletrobrás, citing “unacceptable risk of gross corruption. According to the company’s financial reports to US authorities, Eletrobrás contracts with suppliers have been overbilled during a period of almost seven years, with the excess funds paid out to Brazilian politicians, political parties and company executives.”
That the CDM approved the dam projects at all is a serious indictment of its rules. Lots of other analyses have concluded that this mechanism needs serious overhaul or phase-out. See my next post for a better approach to international collaboration on climate change mitigation.
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An offbeat look at state and local politics
Manh Nguyen demands apology, plans to fight $10k fine
Posted on July 23, 2015 by Ramona Giwargis
Nguyen, who will take office next month, demands apology letter from the City Clerk
San Jose City Councilman-elect Manh Nguyen wants a written apology from City Hall.
The incoming District 4 councilman wants the City Clerk’s Office to admit — in writing — that it screwed up. He claims the office gave him bad advice about filing his election finance reports, which led to him filing 99 late campaign contribution forms (for donations totaling $271,386) and failing to report an additional $11,634 in contributions.
After a San Jose resident filed a complaint against him, Nguyen was unanimously slapped with a $10,000 fine from the San Jose Ethics Commission.
Now he could find himself in trouble with the state. The California Fair Political Practices Commission is investigating the matter, a spokesman confirmed to IA.
“I ask the City Clerk’s Office to recognize their mistake, apologize, and work with my campaign and other campaigns to ensure that we all have accurate information to provide transparency and clean campaigning to the people of San Jose,” Nguyen said in a prepared statement.
But San Jose City Attorney Rick Doyle says it’s probably not going to happen.
Doyle agreed that Nguyen was given wrong information by the City Clerk’s Office about a reporting requirement, but said it’s still the candidates’ obligation to follow the law. “I don’t know if they’re going to get a letter of apology,” Doyle said. “It’s something they want, but I don’t think they will get it.”
Nguyen said he couldn’t afford hiring a treasurer during his campaign and relied on the City Clerk’s Office. He plans to appeal the $10,000 fine through the county Superior Court. “It is apparent that the Clerk’s duty to provide accurate information regarding election compliance is in serious doubt,” Nguyen said in the written statement.
San Jose City Clerk Toni Taber acknowledged the error in a calendar of deadlines given to candidates, but said all other information in the manual was up-to-date and accurate. Taber denied Nguyen’s accusation that she verbally told his campaign staff they didn’t need to file certain forms.
“That is not accurate. I did not tell him that,” Taber said. “Whenever someone asks me, I tell them they need to call the FPPC. It does hurt me that something I don’t think we did intentionally has grown into something bigger.”
Taber said she hasn’t yet decided if she’ll write the apology letter.
Doyle called the situation “unfortunate,” but said the Ethics Commission made the correct decision and he’s prepared to defend it, if necessary.
“There is a possibility he’ll file a claim against the city,” Doyle said, “and that’s something we’d have to deal with if it gets filed.”
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on December 26, 2001 by Chris Wiegand
Who would have thought that this year's best British film would come from an American director? A witty Agatha Christie-style murder mystery influenced in part by Renoir's “La Règle Du Jeu,” “Gosford Park” is irreverent septuagenarian Robert Altman's first British feature. Fittingly, the Americana portrait painter of “Nashville” and “Kansas City” has created an elegant, awfully English affair--an atmospheric country-house whodunit with a stellar cast and crew from the UK.
One winter weekend in the early 1930s a disparate group of socialites assembles for a shooting party at the country estate of Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) and his snobbish wife Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott-Thomas). Among the guests are the countess of Trentham (Maggie Smith), resentful of yet financially dependant on Sir William; Freddie Nesbitt (James Wilby), who is seeking business assistance from the host; the popular matinee idol Ivor Novello (Jeremy Northam); and an American movie producer, Morris Weissman (Bob Balaban).
Suspicion, blackmail and illicit intimacies run riot among the 14-strong party and they extend to the world ‘downstairs'--the servants' quarters where the guests' maids and valets stay during their masters' visit. Already high, tensions escalate when a murder takes place in the house.
As nuanced and intricate a society portrait as his Los Angeles tapestry “Short Cuts,” Altman's latest feature benefits from the kind of ensemble cast that few modern-day directors can attract. (Woody Allen, Steven Soderbergh and Paul Thomas Anderson also come to mind.) The director follows a quintessentially English cast--including Charles Dance, Clive Owen, Richard E Grant, Stephen Fry and Derek Jacobi--with real flair, his camera effortlessly gliding from the haughty sophistication of the aristocracy upstairs to the frantic subservience beneath. UK screenwriter James Fellowes' superlative script provides plenty of parallels between the two worlds, not least in terms of their inherent snobbery. The cast, of course, delivers the goods, with standout performances coming from Emily Watson and Helen Mirren. The music--as always in Altman's movies--is marvelous and there is some fine cinematography from Andrew Dunn. Starring Maggie Smith, Alan Bates, Derek Jacobi, Helen Mirren, Charles Dance and Jeremy Northam. Directed by Robert Altman. Written by James Fellowes. Produced by Robert Altman, Jane Frazer and David Levy. A USA release. Mystery/Drama. Rated R for some language and brief sexuality. Running time: 136 min
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Can't Live With 'Em
Well, last night was opening night of Can't Live With 'Em, this summer's Boogaloo play, in which I play Benny, a blind roofer.
The opening went more smoothly than we could have imagined, although another actor, who shall remain nameless to protect his dignity, forgot to say his most crucial line, which was critical to establish the storyline for all the scenes that followed. Despite repeated hints, he left the stage, line still unsaid, leaving five actors up there, hanging. Nevertheless, we managed to cover the flub and continue on.
Actually, this is only the third worst thing that can happen onstage (other than forgetting your own lines). Both of the things that are worse than this have happened to me in the past:
> Failed entrance: in Arsenic and Old Lace I played Jonathan Brewster, who is supposed to accost his brother Mortimer when Mortimer bursts onto the set. Except Mortimer didn't do that. Apparently he took a break, and I was left onstage performing an impromptu soliloquy for the benefit of the audience until he could be tracked down and shoved onto the stage.
> Prop/Set failure: in Guys and Dolls I was Nathan Detroit, who ran a floating crap game. This time, the game was set in the sewer*, which meant that actors entering the set did so from a ladder from above. That works pretty well, IF the ladder doesn't collapse, bringing down the set with it. Guess what happened?
This wasn't anywhere near as drastic, and I don't think the audience even noticed.
Check out the song, "In My Memory", which is inspired by the play.
* queue innumerable jokes about floating crap in the sewer.
New Music - 2 new songs
Journalism is dying? Whatever shall we DO!?
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LIGHT + METAL: Meghann Riepenhoff on making work 'For Anna'
photo-eye Gallery LIGHT + METAL:
Meghann Riepenhoff on making work For Anna photo-eye Gallery is very proud to have four works by Meghann Riepenhoff from her series For Anna, Vol. II in LIGHT + METAL – Courtesy of EUQINOM Gallery.
Meghann Riepenhoff, For Anna, Vol. II. Plate 31, 2017,
Dynamic Cyanotype, algae and shoreline debris, 12x9" Image, Unique, $3500
Courtesy of EUQINOM Gallery
photo-eye Gallery is very proud to have four works by 2018-2019 Guggenheim Fellow Meghann Riepenhoff in LIGHT + METAL. Riepenhoff's For Anna, Vol. II is an homage to prominent 19th-century cyanotypist Anna Atkins and a response to her influential book Photographs of British Algae – widely considered to be the first published using photographic illustration.
While viewing an original copy of the publication, Riepenhoff became fascinated with a progression of impressions a previous reader left across the pages. Here, Riepenhoff witnessed a lasting interaction with Atkins' work left for consideration by future readers and responded herself by creating a series of dynamic cyanotypes printed on location, exposed by the sun and developed in the ocean.
Unlike Atkins' traditional photograms, which were produced with dried, manicured specimens, Riepenhoff's images are made with wet seaweed on location, creating an impression of both the object and its environment. Although the prints are unique and sold separately, their naming convention indicates a single volume, a new book for the 21st-century.
We reached out to Meghann for some insight into her process, as well as details regarding the forthcoming release of her monograph, Littoral Drift + Ecotone, published by Radius Books in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Meghann Riepenhoff, For Anna, Vol. II, Plate 15, 2016,
Dynamic Cyanotype, algae and shoreline debris, 12x9" Image, Unique $3500
photo-eye: What inspired you to create the pieces that are included in LIGHT + METAL?
Meghann Riepenhoff: The first female photographer, Anna Atkins, was also a pioneer in botanical/scientific illustration. She used specimens collected from the shorelines and made cyanotype photograms with them. Her minimal, elegant compositions offered a new way of seeing, and a new way of understanding the world. Previously, scientific illustrations were hand-drawn approximations until Atkins’ British Algae introduced a new way to record the environment around us.
pe: Why did you choose to work with the Cyanotype process?
MR: I’m influenced by Atkins’ work, which illustrates the earliest relationship between photography and shoreline. In my work, I revisit the shoreline with cyanotype but make a new kind of image of the landscape, where elements in the environment are both subject and process.
Meghann Riepenhoff, For Anna, Vol II, Plate 28, 2017
pe: What can you tell us about your forthcoming book from Radius?
Littoral Drift + Ecotone
Photographs by Meghann Riepenhoff.
Radius Books/Yossi Milo Gallery, 2018
MR: My book features work from my sister series Littoral Drift and Ecotone. Both series are unique, cameraless cyanotypes made directly in the landscape. We designed the book as a do-si-do (back-to-back binding), so that the series exists as both discrete and connected. The binding style also references cycles, natural forces that are paramount in my work.
The books contain three inserts: one that is full of images of process; one that shows a Littoral Drift cyanotype as it changes over time; and one that is all text. I had the absolute pleasure of having a conversation with Charlotte Cotton transcribed for the bulk of the text, and an introduction from Josh Chuang. Both of these brilliant people have informed my thinking and work, and I’m thrilled to have them as part of the project.
pe: What is your favorite color?
MR: Black is my favorite color, followed closely by Yves Klein blue.
Meghann Riepenhoff making work in the field.
Image courtesy of the artist.
Riepenhoff’s work has been exhibited and is held in the collections at the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), and the Worcester Art Museum. Additional collections include the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which holds Riepenhoff’s 12’x18’ unique cyanotype. Additional exhibitions include the Aperture Foundation, San Francisco Camerawork, the Denver Art Museum, the New York Public Library, and the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston).
Riepenhoff's work has appeared in ArtForum, Aperture PhotoBook Review, The New York Times, Time Magazine Lightbox, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Oprah Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Wired Magazine, and Photograph Magazine. Her first monograph, Littoral Drift + Ecotone, is due in October, as is published by Radius Books and Yossi Milo Gallery.
Riepenhoff is the recipient of a Fleishhacker Foundation grant, residencies at the Banff Centre, Rayko, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and an affiliate studio award at the Headlands Center for the Arts. She is a 2018-19 Guggenheim Fellow.
Riepenhoff is based in Bainbridge Island, WA and San Francisco, CA. She received a BFA in Photography from the University of Georgia, and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. She is from Atlanta, GA.
LIGHT + METAL has been extended at photo-eye Gallery
through Saturday, September 22nd, 2018.
For additional information on Meghann Riepenhoff's work,
and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Staff at
505-988-5152 x202 or gallery@photoeye.com.
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Thank you so very much, we couldn't be happier with the final product and can't wait to have some viewings with our family and friends!
Dani & Rob"
“Cherish Wedding Films produced an incredible wedding video which we are very proud to show to our friends and family. They were very friendly and blended in, at times you hardly knew they were there - GREAT JOB!!!.
Lee & Leanne"
“Hi. We have just received our wedding video from our Wedding on the 1st September.
I'm blown away, especially considering hiring a videographer was definitely not high on my list of priorities. But my wife, thankfully (!), insisted.
The 50 minutes of footage is beautifully put together. Capturing many moments we didn't see during the madness of the day, I cannot speak highly enough of Cherish Wedding Films, who were almost invisible to most people on the day going about their work.
Highly recommend Cherish, worth every single penny!! Thank you!
Zach and Lorna.”
"I would like to thank Cherish Wedding Films for doing such an amazing job on our wedding video. They captured so much and the editing was beautiful. The DVD is extremely high quality and exceeded all my expectations!
I'm so glad I have this to watch back as I had forgotten lots of things from the day. I would definitely recommend Cherish to all my engaged friends and family.
Thank you."
"Dear Cherish Wedding Films,
We just wanted to send you a note of appreciation following you filming our wedding last Saturday. We thought long and hard about having a videographer as neither of us are comfortable in front of a camera let alone a video recorder, but knew it was something wonderful we would be able to look back on. If we'd known then how unobtrusive you were going to be we would never have had those doubts in the first place.
You never once asked us to 'perform' or look in a certain direction, which honestly made us forget you were there – it was only on the odd occasion when we turned around and saw you that we remembered but still you stayed in the background and we never felt uncomfortable for a second. In fact even a number of guests remarked just how polite and professional you were!!
You showed up on time and did more than you said you would do. You sent us a clip within a week and we knew from that how fantastic the finished product would be…and we weren't disappointed!
We would not hesitate to recommend you to any other future brides and grooms and wish you every continued success on your venture in wedding videography – your previous experience in the media shines through in a wonderful way.
With many thanks,
Deryn and Paul"
"Cherish Wedding Films, we would just like to say a "huge" thank you for filming our wedding day. You fitted us in at very short notice and were very prompt arriving well in time to film our guest arriving. You made sure you were with us throughout the day filming all our memorable moments! You even stayed longer than you should have in the evening, still charging us at the same rate quoted which was the cheapest by far!!!
Then we were presented with a fabulous Wedding DVD in a very well presented DVD case with our pictures and information on the covers. It was very touching and the DVD itself was amazing and we are very happy with it and would highly recommend Cherish Wedding Films!!
Love Kathryn & Oliver xx"
"We found Cherish Wedding Films on here very last minute, after deciding we really wanted to have our Wedding on DVD. Without giving them much guidance on what we were after, we left them to it on the day and we weren't disappointed. They managed to capture some great moments from the day and edited them all to our Wedding song and a selection of other chosen tracks. Within a couple of weeks, we received our Wedding DVD through the post, beautiful presented (it looks like a blockbuster movie!!). The film evoked so many emotions that I couldn't help but well up whilst watching it.
Cherish Wedding Films are a fairly new wedding videographers, but produced a highly professional DVD that we will keep forever. I would highly recommend them.
Julia & Kieran"
"I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for producing our Wedding Video.
From the beginning when I contacted you through to receiving the finished product you have been extremely helpful and always responded quickly.
The finished product is amazing! My husband and I were filled with emotion reliving our special day. You managed to capture the ambience and over whelming happiness shared by ourselves and all our guests on our special day.
Clare & Paul"
"Thank you so so so so much, we absolutely love the videos, you've been so brilliant and patient with us, its been a crazy year and we weren't very organised sorting everything out after the wedding so thank you so much again Cherish!!
Ellie & Goerge."
"I am so glad that we found Cherish Wedding Films just before the wedding, it was a last minute thing but I am so happy that we went with them. They were unobtrusive and professional and worked really well with our photographers. They really took on what vibe & feel we wanted for the video and it's exactly what we got.
They captured some real hidden gems of our day, things that we definitely would have missed had he not been there. I felt on the day I could relax a little knowing that they were capturing all I was going to miss, and did they ever!
The Wedding DVD is perfect, from the ceremony, speeches and right up to the first dance, all the key points on our day were there! They used our music choices and blended them in perfectly! Even the DVD cases & DVDs themselves look great!! Everybody who has seen it has said how great it all is. I would recommend a wedding videographer to everyone for their wedding, and I would definitely recommend Cherish Wedding Films.
Abby & Dave"
"I wanted to take the time to say a massive thank you on behalf of myself and Chris for the Wedding Video that you have done for us which will be a priceless memory of our Special Day.
You have been very professional and great to work with. We were both nervous about a Videographer as neither of us like being centre of attention but you weren't in any way intrusive and worked around the schedule of the Day perfectly, which was really reassuring and made us feel very confident about your professionalism.
You captured the atmosphere perfectly and the messages to camera to us from our closest friends were priceless and a lovely surprise as we were unaware of these messages being recorded.
Thank you for keeping us updated throughout the whole editing process and the idea of the demo clip for us was great as it provided us with a snippet of the Wedding Video only a week after the Wedding to view and show friends and family. We can't thank you enough for providing us with our Wedding Video, which we will be able to share with friends and family forever.
from Chris and Louisa"
"We are both over the moon with our DVD. We have already recommended you to several of our friends. The sound and the picture quality are fantastic.
We were unsure of having a Wedding video and you were so discreet we didn't even feel like we were being filmed.
Just like to say a huge thank you!!!
Beth & Andy."
"Hi Cherish Wedding Films, we would like to thank you ever so much for being part of our big day and capturing all of our special moments. I watched the Wedding Video a few days ago and it was just amazing, watching the ceremony made me cry with happiness, seeing how good the day was and it was amazing to see everyone having such a good time (which was a big relief as you never know whether they did or not!).
For anyone who is not sure about hiring a Wedding videographer, it is definitely worth it. I spent hours searching for a good, affordable, reliable company and the end product of what I got was unbelievably magical. They were so good that for the first 3 hours, I didn't even realise the guy filming me was even around, which was nice, as everything was just natural.
Thank you ever so much.
Jenny & Alex."
"We were delighted with the wedding video. Cherish Wedding Films captured the actual happiness, romance, comedy and uniqueness of our day. They didn't just produce a generic wedding video, but something very personal and attentive. We felt the creative editing and soundtrack were excellent.
Throughout the whole process, from first meeting to discuss the video, we always felt well listened to. Their filming style on the day was unobtrusive and a lot of the footage surprised us afterwards as we hadn't noticed it being taken!
The final film is something I will always value really highly. It was also great to receive the full footage, with hours that didn't make it into the final edit.
Jenny & Nick"
"We were very pleased with the outcome of the Wedding DVD Cherish Wedding Films produced for us. My main brief to them was to capture people arriving and walking into the Ceremony, especially seeing people mingle with the Groom and his Best Men which is something as a Bride you don't get to see beforehand and I'm pleased I have!
They managed to capture moments we had missed as a Bride and Groom which was fantastic, and in an unobtrusive manner; guests commented afterwards that they hadn't even seen a Videographer at the wedding - yet they were all at some point featured!
We were equally impressed with the final edit, including when they used footage of a performance from one of my Bridesmaids singing during the Ceremony as background music to that part of the DVD.
Cherish Wedding Films wanted to ensure that we were happy at all times and checked to see if they were using music that we liked on the DVD; as I was so indecisive, they selected some tracks for us based on the music being played at the Wedding that they knew we liked, which was great! As we are both very busy people, having a Videographer with an understanding of your requirements helps so much! The turnaround was also very quick.
Michelle and Justin"
hello@cherishweddingfilms.com
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'Power' fan recap: Murder, mayhem, and Ghost unleashed
by Keisha Hatchett, Community Contributor @Keelime_
Season 2 | Episode 8 | “Three Moves Ahead” | Aired August 1, 2015
'Power' fan recap: Sex all over the city
'Power' fan recap: Who run the world? Tasha
'Power' fan recap: The emancipation of Holly
In Power, you don’t get to be the leader of a drug empire without remaining three steps ahead of everyone. This week, Ghost took matters into his own hands and sacrificed a few friends in order to protect his family. With Lobos in town and the Feds hot on their heels, big decisions needed to be made.
It all began innocently enough, with a relaxing afternoon excursion in the pool with a male prostitute. Lobos was finally ready to clear his head when an assassin, disguised as a maid, brandishes her gun and nearly kills him. Thankfully, she misses … but the femme fatale does end up nailing his entertainment, much to the drug lord’s chagrin. Realizing that New York is not safe, Lobos vows to leave once he gets his money from Ghost. Easier said than done.
Back at the apartment, Ghost convinces Tasha that Angela is after Lobos and not them. He then concocts a brilliant plan to get rid of their flamboyant drug connection so that Angela can end her investigation and finally leave them alone. But what’s the best way to get rid of Lobos? “Kill him,” Tasha suggests. That would mean they lose their connection and send the operation into chaos, but it also gives them an opportunity to start fresh … as long as Ghost doesn’t get caught. There’s just one problem with their plan—Tommy, the loose cannon.
Tommy and Ghost are still on rocky terms, making things all the more difficult. Ghost tells him that Angela is after Lobos, and suggests that they can break free from their troubles by simply killing him. They’ve made enough money, right? Wrong. Tommy vehemently rejects that idea and focuses on Angela. He believes she’s the one that needs to be dealt with, not Lobos.
After spending weeks in parts unknown, Kanan is back and ready to jump into action. He meets with Dre, who reveals that Ghost has taken an interest in him. Kanan orders him to stay close and learn more. With Ruiz also expressing loyalty to Dre, Ghost and Tommy are looking at a possible insurrection.
Angela, taking cues from Creeper Greg, follows Ghost to a fancy department store. Their tense phone conversation reveals distrust on both sides: Ghost lies about his whereabouts, and Angela won’t tell him of her suspicions. However, Ghost is on to her, and disappears when she turns her head for a moment. He’s off to meet Lobos for a lunch date.
Lobos wants him to take more responsibility so he can remain invincible. In other words, Ghost takes on greater risk for more money. There’s just one catch. He must get rid of Tommy, who is basically “dead weight.” Ghost asks for a few days to consider, and Lobos realizes that he doesn’t want money or power. He feels that Ghost is a dreamer, which means he can’t be controlled. He will need to come up with a new plan.
In a one-on-one with Tasha, Tommy vents his frustration and voices his concerns over Ghost’s plan to kill Lobos. Tasha realizes that with Lobos dead, Ghost has nothing left to worry about and could easily run off with Angela. She confronts her estranged husband, who reassures her that he wouldn’t just leave his kids behind. He might be a drug dealer and a cheater—but if there’s one thing Ghost is not, it’s a deadbeat dad.
Kanan and Dre meet with Ruiz to discuss their next move. Kanan proposes a plan to unite all of Ghost’s dealers and approach Lobos themselves. If they go through with this, that would also mean killing Ghost and Tommy. Ruiz agrees with the plan, and they bring Vladimir on board after informing him of Ghost’s part in the attack on his crew. If Kanan makes it to that meeting with Lobos, Ghost is a dead man.
He must have sensed a rebellion brewing because Ghost wrangles up a lawyer named Joe Proctor (played by Entourage‘s Jerry Ferrara), who owes him drug money. Proctor agrees to represent him in exchange for Ghost’s silence about his extracurricular activities. Meanwhile, the Feds prepare to drop in on the big meeting, and we find out what Lobos is up to: He’s gonna kill Ghost.
With multiple bounties on his head, Ghost meets with Angela for what could be their last hurrah. Angela urges him to run away with her immediately, and he declines. Ghosts says he plans to do it, just not today. Hmm. Does Tasha know about this?
It’s game day, and the Feds are waiting at the wrong location, ready to take down air because that’s not where Lobos will be collecting his money. After watching Ghost and Tommy walk in moments apart, Angela informs Greg of the FBI’s mistake. She sends him a picture of Tommy with a duffel bag, eyeing him as Ghost. Tommy is gonna regret not killing her when he had the chance.
Feds break through the door of the room where the drop is supposed to take place, and nab their guy. Lobos is arrested, but so is Tommy! Kanan watches from afar and Ghost is nowhere to be found. That’s because this was all part of his plan; he watched the whole thing go down from inside the hotel. Ghost threw Tommy and Lobos under the bus, and now he’s in the clear.
Shawn, livid, confronts Kanan about Tommy’s arrest and blames him for his mentor’s undoing. Kanan reveals that Ghost was behind his arrest and suggests that he might also be behind Tommy’s capture. After years in the dark, Shawn finally learns that Ghost is responsible for the time he lost with his father. Now fully convinced that Ghost is the enemy, he agrees to take Ghost out. But will Ghost see this one coming?
High off their big arrest, the Feds celebrate at a local bar, but Angela is not in the mood for drinks. She has no idea where Ghost is and hasn’t heard from him since they last saw each other. She steps outside and is surprised by a text from him saying he is ready to run away with her. Taking no time to think, she dumps the phone she used to spy on him and catches a taxi. This reunion doesn’t look like it will be a happy one.
Power airs Saturdays at 9 p.m. on Starz.
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I feel like I'm liberal in so many ways. And then in others, I feel so conservative, like maybe I just have a big stick up my ass and need to loosen up a little. There's really no rhyme or reason to all the whys of how I feel about certain things. I'm just a quirky girl. And that's just the easiest way to describe me.
I picked up my 15 year-old niece this afternoon, and while we were driving back to my house, there was a song playing on the radio, and she knew every lyric. I turned up the volume on the car stereo, and I asked her if this was Flo Rida, feeling all up-and-with-it for even knowing who Flo Rida was. She was all, no this is Jeremih, and it's called Birthday Sex.
And I just felt old because I couldn't help but think, this is legal to play this on public radio??? I mean, I'm all for freedom of speech, but, really? Really, do they need to broadcast a song that promotes getting screwed on your boyfriend's sofa in lieu of a cake with candles and other birthday gifts? Just for the record, kids, CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH BUTTERCREAM ICING IS WAY BETTER THAN SEX.
Within this same hour, there's two men delivering the decking composite to my house. Unsure of where to have them put the lumber, I called my husband at work. Meanwhile, I'd invited one of the men in to the house because it's 90+ degrees outside, and I didn't want him to wait on my front porch in the sweltering heat. So, there I was, standing at my back sliding glass doors, next to the delivery guy, waiting for my husband to answer the telephone call. We were looking out over the backyard, discussing where to put the decking materials.
And I said, "This air sure feels good up my dress." I was standing directly over the air vent, and while those were in fact my very thoughts, I sure as hell should have kept my mouth shut. How very inappropriate, and how embarassing.
I'm 31 years old and still so often trying to figure out who I am as a person, and the more and more I think I know, I always throw myself for a loop when I do things like these, acting like a prudish slut with multiple personalities.
Kate Gosselin & Michael Jackson
Very random thoughts.
Actress Farrah Fawcett died earlier today after a battle with cancer. Later in the day, pop star Michael Jackson died unexpectedly of a heart attack.
As I thumbed through the most recent issue of People magazine, it occurred to me that the next issue would most likely be graced with a large photograph of the legendary moon walker accompanied by a smaller side note mentioning the death of the ex-Charlie's Angels star.
And then it dawned on me. For the first time in over a month, neither Kate or Jon Gosselin would be THE headline news. (After the stress of announcing their plans to divorce on the most recent episode of Jon and Kate Plus Eight, I imagine they need a little break from the spotlight!)
Kate Gosselin is 34 years old, just a few years older than I am, which makes me think she probably grew up watching Charlie's Angels and listening to Michael Jackson. When thinking all this, I could not help but chuckle because do you think she ever in million years thought she'd be making headline news repeatedly, being featured on multiple magazine covers -- only to be replaced by the deaths of such icons?!?
Yes, random thoughts.
Because I'm a Lady Like That
Here's a little conversation that occurred between Eric and me earlier this evening. What prompted this dialogue was me farting. On purpose. Yep, I said it, so there. I'm not one of those people who excuses themselves to go "pass gas" in another room. Yeah, shame on me.
So, we're in the kitchen, and Eric is putting away dinner, and I'm checking e-mail on the laptop while sitting on a stool at our island counter. Here's the conversation prompted by the preceding fart:
Me: I'd better stop doing that in front of Greta because she's gonna figure it out. She's now old enough that she will look at me if I make a noise when I fart.
Eric leans over on the counter, like he's going to tell me a very important secret and gestures with his finger for me to come closer so that I can hear this very important secret.
Eric (in a hushed tone): Guess what? I know what you're doing. I've figured it out.
His way of saying, do us all a favor and don't fart in front of the baby. OR HIM.
Happy Father's Day, Eric
As much as I may bitch about him, I couldn't have asked for a better dad for Greta.
Eleven-Month-You
Dear Greta,
Today you are 11 months and two days old. Your hair is strawberry blonde. In some light, it looks just light brown. To me at least. More times than not, when we're out and about running errands, there's always at least one stranger who comments, "Look at that red hair!"
The red hair comes from my mom's side of the family. Unfortunately, your grandma is quite sick, and we don't talk to her often. Sometimes, I like to reminisce on who she used to be. Old photographs of her captivate my curiosity. I'm drawn to the beautiful pearly white smile, the flawless porcelain skin, and her stunning red hair.
You captivate me even more so.
Your eyes are bright blue, and they dance when you laugh. They're pure and sparkly, and they take me back in time because they're the same blue eyes as my dad's and his mom's. Your grandpa died nine years ago. I miss him. But I see him in you. Completely. The first time I saw you, my first thought was that you looked exactly like my dad. I remember feeling so blessed in that moment and so ... not alone. It's hard to describe, but there I was in the hospital, living thtough one of the most difficult experiences of my life, and there was this new little person who was all mine, and she looked like the one person I missed the most.
You started crawling at the end of April, and you went from zero-miles-per-hour, snail's pace immobile to lightening fast super crawler. You haven't sat still since.
You love to explore. You love to continuously openandshut openandshut openandshut openandshut cabinets, and you love to look out the window overlooking our backyard. Sometimes you lick the glass window pane. And sometimes you carry things in your mouth when you're crawling. You like to play in the dog's water dish, and you have even snuck in a taste or two of her kibble. I sometimes wonder if you think you are a dog?
You love to put everything in your mouth.
You keep mama busy.
Two weeks ago, after much anticipation, two teeth sprouted through your bottom gums. You're now obsessed with running your little tongue over the jagged edges, and sometimes it reminds me of an old lady who forgot to put in her dentures. I mean that in the most endearing of ways. Really.
At this point, pureed foods MUST be fed to you via spoon via Mama or Daddy. Left to your own devices, you'd surely get food everywhere BUT your mouth. You enjoy feeding yourself Gerber dissolvable puffs and other little crunchy foods made for babies. And, each day, you get better and better at mastering drinking from the sippy cup.
You love ice cream. You love yogurt. You're a pretty good eater and do well with trying new foods. When you're full or don't like something, you vigoro usly shake your head "no."
Oh, you like cheese puffs, too.
You like them A LOT.
You hate hate hate when we wipe off your hands after you've eaten. You've learned to squeal in disdain. By the screeching sharp sound emitted from your mouth, one would think we were pinching you with electrically-charged clamps or something. Oh the drama that is involved in cleaning you off after eating.
You don't care much for binkies, and your favorite toy is Sophie the Giraffe. You like to play with my papers and anything else that is just within your reach. You think that EVERY thing is for Miss Greta Laine.
You've learned to pull off the headband bows with which I've decorated and adorned your sweet noggin since you were born. I knew you wouldn't tolerate being dressed like a doll forever.
You like to pull off people's sunglasses and eye glasses from their faces. I bought you your own pair of shades but you've no interest in them. Go figure.
You still nurse. About four or five times a day. Everyone asks when I plan to stop. I don't know. You still take two naps a day. You don't often sleep through the night. You usually wake up about once to eat, but you're pretty-much strictly business because you wake up, cry to get my attention, eat and then fall right back asleep.
Despite my horrible singing voice, you like to be sang to and you love going to music class. I love watching you clap your hands and bob your head and body to the music. And it's super cute to see your face light up when you recognize a familiar song.
You're smart. I stare at you and can see the wheels churning in your brain as you soak up the world.
You're happy. The smiles have turned so big.
I cannot get enough.
You're healthy.
You now weigh 18 and a half pounds, and you've only been sick once.
You're a lover. You never cuddled or snuggled when you were a younger baby, but in the past couple months, you've won me over a million times more so just by laying your little head on my shoulder and wrapping your little arm around my shoulder. Sometimes you'll run your fingers through my hair, and it's just the sweetest thing.
You're intrigued by new people and love to stare at new faces. You're quite the serious child until you warm up and then you're nothing but silliness and love.
This letter is a ramble and not the best-written, but I wanted to write about you, about who you are right now as an 11 month-old baby, learning to toddle, loving to gibber jabber, growing right before my very eyes. I wanted to get these thoughts down on paper because although the thoughts are not fleeting, the moments, unfortunately, certainly are.
What I Do These Days
Chase after
who crawls
and crawls
every where
and stands
and pulls up
on whatever she
can get her little hands on.
And now she walks
around furniture
(not on her own).
Surely, I should have lost about 20 pounds from all this. Alas, I have not.
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The Glass Harmonica, originally named the Armonica was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761 after hearing a concert of 50 tuned water glasses during a trip to Europe. Deeply touched and inspired Ben Franklin did away with water tuning, connecting the glass together, put them on a rotating spit and the Armonica was born. By making the glasses tuned, rather than relying on water, the glass could be put sideways and connected to be able to play faster rhythms and melodies. Playing water glasses, a fancy parlor trick, became a real musical instrument and the first instrument invented by an American (Finkenbeiner).
The Glass Harmonica, originally named the Armonica was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761 after hearing a concert of 50 tuned water glasses during a trip to Europe. Deeply touched and inspired Ben Franklin did away with water tuning, broke off the stems, connected the glasses together, put them on a rotating spit with foot pedals and the Armonica was born. By making the glasses tuned, rather than relying on water, the glass could be put sideways and connected to be able to play faster rhythms and melodies as well as sustain notes. Franklin modernized the musical glasses and turned them not only into an elegant and playable instrument but real instrument as well (Hadlock). Playing water glasses, a fancy parlor trick, became a serious musical instrument and the first instrument invented by an American (Finkenbeiner).
The Glass Harmonica was never produced on a large scale but between the late 18th and the early 19th century 400 works were written for it by composers, including Beethoven and Mozart (Pollack).
The Glass Harmonica was never produced on a large scale but between the late 18th and the early 19th century 400 works were written for it by composers, including Beethoven and Mozart (Pollack). The instrument experienced it's largest fame as Marie Antoinette learned to play and it was featured in the Opera Lucia de Lammermoor fueling Lucia's dramatic descend into madness.
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But the musical glasses predate Ben Franklin and were listed as musical instruments as early 1300 a.d. in the Wen Hsien Tung K'ao, a Chinese dictionary of musical instruments but dates even earlier than this and existed all over the world (King). The musical glasses were valued at having occult magical properties and experiments with different liquids (brandy, water, wine, salt water, and oil) inside the glasses were performed to discover different desired effects. "The diverse sounds produced by the contrasting content of the glasses were thought not only to correspond to the emotions aroused by the four "humours" of the human body." As later proven by Ben Franklin, it was not the contents of the glass bowls that held the emotional effects of the glass music but the glass themselves that contained the power of pitch and vibration (King).
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The Glass Harmonica was named after the latin word for harmony, to imply the harmonic sound it produced but the sound developed a bad reputation of shattering nerves. As Thomas Bloch notes in his introduction to "Glass Harmonica" an album compilation including his own original and modern work, the Armonica was accused of causing, "nervous problems, domestic squabbles, premature, deliveries, fatal disorders, and animal convulsions." The glass music is described as having both shocking and lulling qualities, but the best description I found for the Glass Harmonica is from the children's book titled, "Ben Franklin and his Glass Armonica." "Many people became afraid of the armonica. Some thought it had magical powers. Some said it revived people who had fainted. Others claimed it made people faint. One man said the armonica made his dog chase its tail" (Stevens).
==Structure of Harmonica==
One full octive (48 notes, two octaves above and below middle C) of finely tuned glass cups were turned on their side and fit within each other almost to the point of touching. They were all mounted on a driveshaft controlled by a motor powered by the users foot and were seperated and secured to the driveshaft by corks inserted into the bottom of the bowls. Sometimes a moisturizer was used spraying the cups lightly at the bottom of the instrument to keep them constantly moisturized. However, most of the time, the moisture came from the players fingertips. This became an improvement on the traditional musical glass arrangement because, "The instrument could be played much more like a piano; chords and faster musical passages would be easier to achieve, since one would not awkwardly have to coordinate turning one's finger around the rim of each glass." (Finkenbeiner 139)
One full octave (48 notes, two octaves above and below middle C) of finely tuned glass cups were turned on their side and fit within each other almost to the point of touching. They were all mounted on a driveshaft controlled by a motor powered by the users foot and were seperated and secured to the driveshaft by corks inserted into the bottom of the bowls. Sometimes a moisturizer was used spraying the cups lightly at the bottom of the instrument to keep them constantly moisturized. However, most of the time, the moisture came from the players fingertips. This became an improvement on the traditional musical glass arrangement because, "The instrument could be played much more like a piano; chords and faster musical passages would be easier to achieve, since one would not awkwardly have to coordinate turning one's finger around the rim of each glass." (Finkenbeiner 139)
===Glass===
[[Image:Glass Harmonica 5.jpg|thumb|right|A Glass Harmonica being played]]
Creating porperly tuned glass bowls was extremely difficult. Each bowl was hand blown making every set different from the others. In fact, only one bowl out of every 100 blown was the proper size and tune. Thus, the completion of an entire four-octave Glass Harmonica was a strenuous and inconsistant task. The glass used also is believed to be one of the reasons for its downfall and disapperance into obscurity. There was a high amount of lead in the glass and many years later it was theorized that people went mad when they played it. The lead would, "Leach through the fingertips into the bloodstream.. causing nerve damage." (Finkenbeiner 140)
Creating properly tuned glass bowls was extremely difficult. Each bowl was hand blown making every set different from the others. In fact, only one bowl out of every 100 blown was the proper size and tune. Thus, the completion of an entire four-octave Glass Harmonica was a strenuous and inconsistant task. The glass used also is believed to be one of the reasons for its downfall and disapperance into obscurity. There was a high amount of lead in the glass and many years later it was theorized that people went mad when they played it. The lead would, "Leach through the fingertips into the bloodstream.. causing nerve damage." (Finkenbeiner 140)
===Foot Pedals and Framing===
===Player===
The housing for the bowls themselves greatly resembled a piano or a table. The bowls were strung through a bar that rested inside a box container with four legs portruding from it. A foot pedal was located on the bottom (much like a piano) that powered the motor that spun the bowls. The player had to sit in front of the instrument with their arms out the entire time. The construction did not take into consideration easy portability or storage.
===Players===
The player had to sit in front of the instrument the entire time. Their hands were held out over the bowls as one would hold their hands over piano keys. If no moisturizer was built into the instrument the player would have to keep their hands wet the entire time in order to create any sound from the bowls. Sometimes players would coat their hands in chalk but most of the time they used water or oil. The amount and consistency of the liquid used changed the sound of the tone. In 1884 "Table Talk" published a quote about men and the Glass Harmonica: "Men are like musical glasses - to produce their finest tones, you must keep them wet.
Women on the other hand were well accustomed to the instrument, that with a foot pedal, was sewing machine like as well as piano-like. This structure makes the armonica, as an instrument, feminine. The sound of the instrument already resembled female singing, but the decorative qualities are emphasized over the technological or mechanical aspects. "To play the armonica was to hold a pose, to present a performance of stillness, balance, and silence. Playing, in short, resembled the "not-playing" depicted in so many contemporary paintings of women seated at keyboard instruments" (Hadlock). The women are present but not engaged. The delicacy and elegance of the glass arranged in size and order, to illustrate the effortless sound, playing, and the fact the instrument requires only "touch" and not other actions like pressing or pulling that imply struggle.
==Music==
The sound of the armonica is mostly described as "ethereal" and "disembodied" but because of the musical quality of the glass the sound is actually double folded. The music seems to be "disembodied" and even spiritual because the armonica has no direct outlet and the music escape from all planes. As the finger scrapes against the glass two sounds are created, "the scrape "underneath" and the pure sound "above," as each tone separates into material trace and abstract tone." When the pitch descends to lower notes on the armonica scale the scraping sound becomes more pronounced and the pitch is muffled. The higher the note, the easier it is for the pitch to escape in a clear crisp sound and needing a lighter touch, hardly a scrape. "Thus the armonica is not simply "bodiless"; rather it makes audible the process of spirit transcending body, the sublimation of rough, corporealized sound into ideal (feminine) voice" (Hadlock).
===Composers===
Inspired by a performer playing musical glasses, Franklin invented the glass armonica. He was not, however, alone in being inspired; various composers created music based on the unique sound produced by this instrument. Some of the most notable music composers of the glass armonica are Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. Though the instrument of the glass armonica is a digital media, with a set number of octaves and 48 notes, to put it into practice is an analog technique. The composer or player of a glass armonica can arrange and rearrange the 48 notes to produce a different melody each time.
'''Healing Qualities'''
While Franklin may not have entirely bought the concept of animal magnetism, he did believe that the glass armonica some special healing quality. In 1772, Franklin went to Prince Adam Czartoryski, heir to the throne of Poland, about his wife who had been suffering of melancholia (Lipowski). She recounts Franklin's visit, saying:
While Franklin may not have entirely bought the concept of animal magnetism, he did believe that the glass armonica some special healing quality. In 1772, Franklin went to Prince Adam Czartoryski of Poland about his wife who had been suffering of melancholia (Lipowski). She recounts Franklin's visit, saying:
"I was ill, in a state of melancholia, and writing my testament and farewell letters. Wishing to distract me, my husband explained to me who Franklin was and to what he owed his fame… Franklin had a noble face with an expression of engaging kindness. Surprised by my immobility, he took my hands and gazed at me saying: pauvre jeune femme ["poor young lady']. He then opened an armonica, sat down and played long. The music made a strong impression on me and tears began flowing from my eyes. Then Franklin sat by my side and looking with compassion said, "Madam, you are cured." Indeed in that moment I was cured of my melancholia. Franklin offered to teach me how to play the armonica - I accepted without hesitation, hence he gave me twelve lessons" (Lipowski 362).
==Modern Harmonica==
[[Image:Picture 1.png|thumb|right| Finkenbeiner's Patent 1983]]
===Remediation and Finkenbeiner's Patent===
The Glass Harmonica now, after its explosive popularity and dramatic fall from grace by vicious rumor and violent symptoms, has not disappeared from the public eye completely. The new armonica's are now made with quartz instead of lead filled glass and the frame features motorized functions. But the model Franklin introduced some 300 years has hardly been improved upon. The structure of the Glass Harmonica is apparently close to perfection in its piano like structure. Franklin did design the instrument to be more playable and less awkward which apparently has worked very well. Glass Harmonica enthusiast, composer, and builder, Gerhard Finkenbeiner invented the modern armonica and filed the patent in 1983. The new armonica's, made with quartz, are improved on very minimal scale. They feature a motor so foot pedals are not needed and a built in mister keeping the glasses consistently wet. Minor improvements that are ultimately arbitrary and seem more trouble than their worth. The glasses can become too wet and with a motor the rhythm becomes less individualized. The music of the glass harmonica are still featured in modern music, "the glass harmonica [is played] on three of Linda Ronstadt's CD's…[titled] ''Cristal: Glass Music Through the Ages'' (Pollack). The remediation of the armonica leaves the instrument altogether and exists electronically and digitally on function keys on electric keyboards, called ''glass harp'' reproducing the glass-like sound without the ethereal or reverberating qualities. Although the electronic sound may lack the qualities are driving people mad and making them think they were dead, "Mrs. Franklin stirred. She was only half awake. When she heard the music, she thought she was dead. She thought the music was angels singing. She thought she had died and gone to heaven" (Stevens), the sound is too far from the wine glass original. The glass harmonica was first just the vibrating rims of wine glasses and now has been transformed and translated to be play on a full scale electronic keyboard piano.
==Works Cited==
Mozart Adagio and Rondo (KV 617) audio clips taken from Culture Mediation International <http://rauscher-kultur.at/seiten/kv617-mozarts-last-chamber-music.htm>
*Bloch, Thomas, "Glass Harmonica" Introduction to album, HNH International, 2001.
*[[Finkenbeiner, Gerhard, and Vera Meyer]], "The Glass Harmonica: A Return from Obscurity." Leonardo, Vol. 20, No. 2, Special Issue: Visual Art, Sound, Music and Technology (1987): 139-142. JStor. NYU. 8 Nov. 2007.
*Gerhard Finkenbeiner, ''Patent on Glass harmonica''Patent number: 4589322, Filing date: Aug 12, 1983,Issue date: May 20, 1986, Inventor: Gerhard Finkenbeiner, U.S. Classification 84402; 84410,International Classification G10D 1308.
*[[Fox, Catherine C.]], "Second Time Around." Smithsonian 01 Feb. 2007. 10 Nov. 2007 <http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/10023801.html>.
*Hadlock, Heather, ''Sonorous Bodies: Women and the Glass Harmonica'' Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 53, No. 3. (Autumn, 2000), pp. 507-542.
*[[Heard, Mervyn]], ''Phantasmagoria: The Secret Life of the Magic Lantern'', (Hastings: The Projection Box, 2006). ISBN 1903000122
*King, Hyatt A., ''The Musical Glass and the Glass Harmonica'', Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 72nd Sess. (1945-1946), pp. 97-122) Oxford University Press.
*[[Pattie, Frank A.]], ''Mesmer and Animal Magnetism: A Chapter in the History of Medicine'', (Hamilton, NY : Edmonston Publishing, Inc, 1994).
*[[Lipowski, Z.J.]], "Benjamin Franklin as a Psychotherapist: a Forerunner of Brief Psychotherapy." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 27 (1984): 361-366.
*Pollack, Michael ''Glass, Wet Fingers and a Mysterious Disappearance,'' The New York Times. December 12, 2001 Wednesday, The Arts/ Cultural Desk, Final edition.
*Stevens, Bryna ''Ben Franklin's Glass Armonica''pictures by Priscilla Kiedowski, Carolrhoda Books inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1983.
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2 Structure of Harmonica
2.1 Glass
2.2 Foot Pedals and Framing
2.3 Players
3.1 Composers
3.2 Other Uses
4 Modern Harmonica
4.1 Remediation and Finkenbeiner's Patent
5 Works Cited
Structure of Harmonica
A Glass Harmonica being played
Foot Pedals and Framing
Mozart's Adagio Media:adagio.mp3; Mozart's Rondo Media:rondo.mp3
Now it's your turn to play the armonica!
As the popularity of the glass armonica increased, professionals and technicians began to utilize its unique sound to produce a variety of effects. Soon, the glass armonica developed a reputation of having calming, even healing, qualities.
Mesmer and His Practice One of the most interesting and creative uses of the glass armonica was by "Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, who employed hypnosis to treat a variety of ills, used the ethereal sound to induce deeper trances in his patients" (Fox). Though the glass armonica did not have a direct impact on any of his treatments, Mesmer had learned that his discovery of animal magnetism was propagated by music (Pattie) as it would "induce deeper states of hypnosis in his patients" (Finkenbeiner 140).
Mesmer's practice began in Vienna, but he was discredited upon the treatment of Maria Theresa von Paradis, a well known pianist who was also blind (Pattie 67). Though she had tried various methods to cure her of her blindness, everything failed aside from Mesmer's animal magnetism. She regained a minimal amount of vision, but nonetheless fell into a bout of depression because she could not readjust herself to the sensory aspects of sight. Her musical talent suffered as well. Upon this failure, Mesmer then moved to Paris, where he experimented on aristocrats, surgeons, and his own right-hand man, Dr. Charles d'Elson (Pattie 103). These treatments were all conducted in a private manner, with minimal lighting and the only noise intrusion being the sound of the glass armonica. And while his discoveries were never really legitimized, they were nonetheless investigated by the Faculty of Medicines, despite the fact Franklin himself did not believe in animal magnetism.
The word "mesmerize" is a direct derivation from Mesmer's practice. As Mesmer himself began to lose credit, "perhaps this use of the instrument was enough to give it a bad reputation, encouraging people to fear it and think it evil" (Finkenbeiner 140).
Healing Qualities While Franklin may not have entirely bought the concept of animal magnetism, he did believe that the glass armonica some special healing quality. In 1772, Franklin went to Prince Adam Czartoryski of Poland about his wife who had been suffering of melancholia (Lipowski). She recounts Franklin's visit, saying:
Phantasmagoria The glass armonica was a one-way communication media. Those who made use of it often had a goal of evoking some sort of emotion in their audience. While its use in medical practices was to induce a tranquility in patients, a man by the name of Étienne-Gaspard Robertson wanted to capitalize on its more harmonic qualities.
Robertson's favorite instrument was the glass armonica. He believed that "it contributed powerfully to the effects of the fantasmagoria, in preparing not only the minds but the very senses for strange impressions by a melody so sweet that it sometimes gave great irritation to the nervous system" (Heard). Thus, he used its haunting melodies in conjunction with the magic lantern to put "thought to sleep; all the ideas seem to concentrate on one and the same object and one and the same impression" (Heard).
While those like Robertson and Mesmer basked in the glass armonica's hypnotic qualities, it was less than half a century when it began to disappear because of public fear of its power. It was "believed that it caused insanity, nervous disorders, convulsions in dogs and cats, marital disputes, and even that it woke people from the dead" (Finkenbeiner 140) and "rumors spread that the music itself could cause mental illness. The author of a 1788 manual on the armonica advised that some people avoid playing the instrument, 'in order that their state of mind not be aggravated'" (Fox). In fact, it was only a matter of time before "people so feared to touch it that a keyboard form of the instrument was devised: by striking a key, a spring would activate a wooden hammer covered with wet leater, which would reach out and make contact with the glass rim, producing a note in the same manner as direct contact with the natural finger would have" (Finkenbeiner 140). The variety of symptoms has led to speculation that the lead in the paint and glass resulted in lead poisoning, it has never been proven (Fox). Therefore, while minute details (such as the paint along the glass rims) may seem to serve no purpose, it is unclear whether or not they in fact hold a greater purpose in the story of the glass armonica.
Modern Harmonica
Finkenbeiner's Patent 1983
Remediation and Finkenbeiner's Patent
The Glass Harmonica now, after its explosive popularity and dramatic fall from grace by vicious rumor and violent symptoms, has not disappeared from the public eye completely. The new armonica's are now made with quartz instead of lead filled glass and the frame features motorized functions. But the model Franklin introduced some 300 years has hardly been improved upon. The structure of the Glass Harmonica is apparently close to perfection in its piano like structure. Franklin did design the instrument to be more playable and less awkward which apparently has worked very well. Glass Harmonica enthusiast, composer, and builder, Gerhard Finkenbeiner invented the modern armonica and filed the patent in 1983. The new armonica's, made with quartz, are improved on very minimal scale. They feature a motor so foot pedals are not needed and a built in mister keeping the glasses consistently wet. Minor improvements that are ultimately arbitrary and seem more trouble than their worth. The glasses can become too wet and with a motor the rhythm becomes less individualized. The music of the glass harmonica are still featured in modern music, "the glass harmonica [is played] on three of Linda Ronstadt's CD's…[titled] Cristal: Glass Music Through the Ages (Pollack). The remediation of the armonica leaves the instrument altogether and exists electronically and digitally on function keys on electric keyboards, called glass harp reproducing the glass-like sound without the ethereal or reverberating qualities. Although the electronic sound may lack the qualities are driving people mad and making them think they were dead, "Mrs. Franklin stirred. She was only half awake. When she heard the music, she thought she was dead. She thought the music was angels singing. She thought she had died and gone to heaven" (Stevens), the sound is too far from the wine glass original. The glass harmonica was first just the vibrating rims of wine glasses and now has been transformed and translated to be play on a full scale electronic keyboard piano.
Bloch, Thomas, "Glass Harmonica" Introduction to album, HNH International, 2001.
Finkenbeiner, Gerhard, and Vera Meyer, "The Glass Harmonica: A Return from Obscurity." Leonardo, Vol. 20, No. 2, Special Issue: Visual Art, Sound, Music and Technology (1987): 139-142. JStor. NYU. 8 Nov. 2007.
Gerhard Finkenbeiner, Patent on Glass harmonicaPatent number: 4589322, Filing date: Aug 12, 1983,Issue date: May 20, 1986, Inventor: Gerhard Finkenbeiner, U.S. Classification 84402; 84410,International Classification G10D 1308.
Fox, Catherine C., "Second Time Around." Smithsonian 01 Feb. 2007. 10 Nov. 2007 <http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/10023801.html>.
Hadlock, Heather, Sonorous Bodies: Women and the Glass Harmonica Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 53, No. 3. (Autumn, 2000), pp. 507-542.
Heard, Mervyn, Phantasmagoria: The Secret Life of the Magic Lantern, (Hastings: The Projection Box, 2006). ISBN 1903000122
King, Hyatt A., The Musical Glass and the Glass Harmonica, Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 72nd Sess. (1945-1946), pp. 97-122) Oxford University Press.
Pattie, Frank A., Mesmer and Animal Magnetism: A Chapter in the History of Medicine, (Hamilton, NY : Edmonston Publishing, Inc, 1994).
Lipowski, Z.J., "Benjamin Franklin as a Psychotherapist: a Forerunner of Brief Psychotherapy." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 27 (1984): 361-366.
Pollack, Michael Glass, Wet Fingers and a Mysterious Disappearance, The New York Times. December 12, 2001 Wednesday, The Arts/ Cultural Desk, Final edition.
Stevens, Bryna Ben Franklin's Glass Armonicapictures by Priscilla Kiedowski, Carolrhoda Books inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1983.
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The stories behind the buildings, statues and other points of interest that make Manhattan fascinating.
Close Call -- The Amputated No. 70 Grove Street
In 1858 John T. Boyd advertised "To Let--The convenient three story house with large yard, No. 70 Grove street." It was most likely being operated as a rooming house three decades later when Colden Robinson, his wife Sarah, and her sister, Elizabeth Whitehurst lived there. Their lives would drastically change on March 30, 1888.
Colden and Sarah apparently became involved in a violent argument. It ended with Colden slashing his wife's throat with his razor, and cutting Elizabeth (described by The Evening World as "a neat-looking colored woman) when she attempted to intervene. Robinson's first-degree murder trial began on the morning of June 27. The first witness called was Elizabeth Whitehurst, who "was dressed in deep mourning." Three days later Robinson was found guilty and sentenced to hang.
The house where the murder occurred sat about midway on the long block of Grove Street, between Bleecker and West 4th Streets. It was purchased by Maria Fossier in 1899. She demolished the old structure and hired the firm of Small & Schumann to design a five story brick tenement with a ground floor store on the site. The construction cost of the 22-foot wide building was $15,000; in the neighborhood of $468,000 today.
The shop was leased to M. Cowperthwait & Co., a furniture retailer with stores throughout the city. The company would remain for several years. Maria Fossier seems to have over-stretched her finances and in April 1901 the building was sold at auction.
At the time major change to the neighborhood was on the near horizon. Around 1904 Real estate agent Charles C. Hickok began lobbying to have Seventh Avenue, which began at 11th Street, extended south to Varick Street. Years of pressure paid off an in 1913 the extension began in concert with the construction of the 7th Avenue subway. Scores of buildings, including the historic 1840 Bedford Street Methodist Church, were demolished. Portions of other buildings, like No. 70 Grove Street, were simply sliced off, their interiors exposed like a child's doll house.
When the project was completed in 1917 fully half of the front facade of No. 70 was lost, leaving only 9.5 feet on Grove Street and an open wound along Seventh Avenue South where the corner had been. Its owner, May C. Fay, had to decide whether to finish the demolition or reconstruct her oddly-shaped property.
On September 27 1919 the Record & Guide reported that architect George McCabe had prepared plans to alter the apartment building. The cost of reparations, which included rebuilding the diagonal Seventh Avenue South wall and installing new beams, was a quarter of a million dollars in today's money. The missing corner was patched with full-width grouped windows and pressed sheet metal spandrel panels with embossed diamond designs.
A subsequent remodeling came only two years later, which resulted in a store on the first floor. The stories above held "non-housekeeping apartments." The term meant that there were no kitchens and no cooking was allowed.
The peculiar looking apartment building was home to middle class renters throughout the 20th century. A renovation was completed in 1972 which resulted in an "eating and drinking establishment without restrictions" on the ground floor, three apartments each on the second and third, and two each on the fourth and fifth floors.
In 1993 Down Beat open in the store space. It was described by New York Magazine on January 3 that year as "an intimate new jazz club;" and on December 31 The New York Times said it was a favorite of "jazz's hard-bop mainstream." A week later the newspaper's journalist Peter Watrous called it "a welcome addition to what is already the jazz capital of the world."
The pedimented entrance is original to the 1899 design.
No. 70 Grove Street's bizarre proportions testify to the close call it survived when a massive urban project destroyed so many Village structures and left others without their corners.
photographs by the author
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Vietnam, Thailand urged to boost stronger cooperation
| vov | December 14, 2019 06:47 PM
Being strategic partners, Vietnam and Thailand need to advance cooperation, especially trade and investment, in which the role of the Ambassador is highly important, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc during a reception in Hanoi on December 13 for Thai Ambassador to Vietnam Tanee Sangrat.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (R) and Thai Ambassador to Vietnam Tanee Sangrat
PM Phuc suggested the two sides incessantly maintain bilateral cooperation mechanisms, thereby adding fresh impetus to deepening their relations.
He consented to bolster trade and investment cooperation between Vietnam and Thailand, saying that Vietnam desires to boost exports to Thailand in order to balance the trade value between the two countries.
Both nations should also further enhance tourism links, the Vietnamese Government leader said, adding that Vietnam wishes to welcome more Thai tourists in the time to come.
He called on the Thai side to open its market for Vietnamese products and facilitate Vietnam businesses’ activities in the country, while emphasizing that Vietnam will offer the best possible conditions for Thai investors and businesses to effectively operate in Vietnam.
For his part, Ambassador Tanee congratulated Vietnam on assuming its role as the ASEAN Chair in 2020 and a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the 2020-2021 tenure.
The two countries are playing crucial roles in augmenting cooperation among countries in Southeast Asia, he said while expressing his hope that Vietnam will consider his nation its trusted partner.
The Thai diplomat suggested stepping up security cooperation, both on land and in the sea, and put forward the idea of electricity generation cooperation between Thailand, Vietnam and Laos or Cambodia.
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No acute pneumonia caused by novel coronavirus reported in Vietnam: Health ministry(01/20/2020)
HCM City continues battling air pollution(01/20/2020)
Hoai Sa to represent Vietnam at Miss International Queen 2020(01/20/2020)
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Canon PowerShot A1100 IS Review
by Brad Soo on April 10 2009
I’ve just published my review of the Canon PowerShot A1100 IS, a 12 megapixel camera with a 4X zoom lens, 2.5 inch LCD and optical viewfinder. There’s the Canon PowerShot A1100 IS photo gallery as well which contains photos from the camera.
DPInterface Canon PowerShot A1100 IS Review
Brad Soo – April 10th, 2009
The PowerShot A1100 updates last year’s A1000 model, a compact camera with a 4X zoom lens, 2.5 inch LCD and optical viewfinder, with a few new things. You must be wondering “but the A1000 was announced in August and now it’s being replaced after less than a year?!” …well, that was what I was thinking too when Canon announced the A1100 in February.
So, what’s new on 2009’s PowerShot A1100 IS? Not much actually – a new 12 megapixel sensor, DIGIC 4 imaging processor, iContrast and new Smart Auto mode. Is the A1100 a worthy successor to the old camera? Find out now.
(188.8) 95.4 x 62.4 x 31.0 mm (155 g) – Canon PowerShot A1100 IS
(197.3) 101.9 x 63.5 x 31.9 mm (185 g) – Canon PowerShot A2100 IS
(163.7) 94.2 x 54.6 x 14.9 mm (112 g) – Casio Exilim S12
(172.5) 92.0 x 57.9 x 22.6 mm (151 g) – Fujifilm FinePix J250
(179.4) 99.9 x 59.5 x 20.0 mm (125 g) – Kodak EasyShare M380
(171.0) 93.0 x 54.5 x 23.5 mm (130 g) – Nikon Coolpix S560
(173.3) 96.1 x 56.6 x 20.6 mm (130 g) – Olympus FE5010
(173.1) 97.0 x 54.4 x 21.7 mm (117 g) – Panasonic Lumix FS7
(175.3) 94.0 x 58.4 x 22.9 mm (138 g) – Samsung SL620
(172.6) 93.1 x 55.7 x 23.8 mm (157 g) – Sony Cyber-shot S980
All the weight figures above show when the camera is empty without a battery or memory card
The Canon PowerShot A1100 is a tad smaller and lighter than its 6X zoom sibling, the A2000. Compared to other cameras, the A1100 isn’t quite as slim but still slips into your pocket with ease.
The Canon PowerShot A1100 IS comes with a decent bundle:
2 AA alkaline batteries
128 MB SD memory card
USB and A/V cables
Camera software CD (Digital Camera Solution Disk)
User’s manual and quick start guide
The PowerShot A1100 IS takes SD, SDHC (SD cards which are 4 GB and above) and MMC (typically slower than SDs) memory cards; and it comes with a 128 MB Secure Digital memory card, a step up from the measly 32 MB card Canon gave out with the A1000. Don’t go jumping around with joy though; it holds just 40 pictures at the highest settings. That means you should still consider getting a 2 GB memory card (or more) with the camera. A high-speed card helps in cutting processing times and speeding up shot-to-shot by a bit.
The Canon PowerShot A1100 uses 2 AA batteries and comes with two non-rechargeable alkaline ones. Rated up to 140 shots, the bundled batteries won’t last long and you’ll find them landing in the trash more quickly than you could imagine. So do yourself and the environment a favor – pick up a set of two, preferably four AA NiMH rechargeable batteries with a decent charger (those with two charging modes: trickle and fast charge, would be good).
450 shots – Canon PowerShot A1000 IS
150 shots – Fujifilm FinePix J250
160 shots – Nikon Coolpix S560
360 shots – Panasonic Lumix FS7
240 shots – Samsung SL620
310 shots – Sony Cyber-shot S980
All the cameras above are rated with rechargeable batteries with LCD on according to CIPA Standard
With a set of rechargeable AA NiMH batteries, the Canon PowerShot A1100 IS lasts 2.5 times as long, though not as long as I would’ve liked. Compared to the old model, the PowerShot A1100’s battery life sees a 22% drop. It could be due to the new 12 megapixel sensor and/or the DIGIC 4 processor. Compared to the whole group above, the A1100 is about average.
Of course, switching off the LCD and using the camera’s viewfinder will dramatically increase the number of shots you can take per battery charge.
The Canon PowerShot A1100 IS also does away with the numerous (conversion lens) accessories that the A-series used to have. The only optional accessories now are an AC adapter, slave flash and various camera cases for the camera.
Camera Tour
The Canon PowerShot A1100 looks identical to the A1000 before it; sharing the exactly same design with good build quality (despite being made entirely of plastic) and ergonomics. The camera also features an optical viewfinder, so you can hold the it up to your eye and steady the camera better when taking photos.
One thing that HAS changed since the previous camera is color selection. The Canon PowerShot A1100 IS comes in your choice of four new colors: gray, blue, pink or green. The model you see here is the pink one.
Aside from the new processor, imaging sensor, iContrast and body colors I mentioned, nothing else on the A1100 has changed from the previous model. The Canon PowerShot A1100 IS sports the same 4X optical zoom lens we’ve seen before, equivalent to 35 – 140 mm in 35 mm terms. The zoom lens has an aperture range of f2.7 – f5.6 and features optical image stabilization to reduce the effects of camera shake on photos.
The A1100’s flash is located to the top right of the camera lens. The flash here is more powerful at wide-angle than the one found on the A2100; at wide-angle and Auto ISO, it covers 30 cm to 4.0 m and the maximum range drops to 2.0 m at telephoto.
Directly above the lens is the A1100’s optical viewfinder window and beside that, you’ll find the autofocus assist lamp/self-timer and the camera’s microphone, used to record voice clips and sound in movie mode.
The Canon PowerShot A1100 IS features a 2.5 inch LCD whose resolution remains unchanged from last year. The screen has just 115,000 pixels but the low-resolution isn’t really noticeable unless you’re viewing it in low-light or if you’ve used higher-res screens before. The LCD has good visibility in low-light and is ‘okay’ in bright light.
For easier image composition outdoors or to conserve power, consider using the optical viewfinder situated directly above the LCD. Sure, the viewfinder is on the small side and there’s no dioptric correction but for some people, it’s better than no optical viewfinder at all. Next to the optical viewfinder are the camera’s two status indicator lights.
To the upper right of the A1100 IS are its speaker and directly playback button (you can turn on the camera using this button too). Next up are the Face Detection and print buttons (the latter can also be assigned to a function in shooting mode).
As we approach the mid section of the column of buttons, there’s the five-way controller used to navigate menus, browse pictures and of course, access these functions directly:
Up – Exposure compensation (+/-2 EV in 1/3 step increments)/Playback jump
Down – Self-timer (Off, 10 seconds, 2 seconds, custom)/Delete photo
Left – Focus mode (Normal, macro, landscape)
Right – Flash setting (Auto, on, off; red-eye reduction and slow sync are turned on/off in the menu)
Center – Function menu/Set
The function menu
Pressing the center button when you’re taking pictures will bring up the function menu which contains a list of several settings you can adjust (most of them are available in program mode):
ISO sensitivity (Auto, 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600)
White balance (Auto, daylight, cloudy, tungsten, fluorescent, fluorescent H, custom)
My Colors (Normal, vivid, neutral, sepia, black & white, custom)
Metering method (Evaluative, center-weighted, spot)
Drive mode (Single-shot, continuous shooting)
Image size and compression
The custom option in the My Colors section allows you to adjust contrast, saturation and sharpness up to +/- 2 in 1/3 increments. Unlike more expensive Canon models, there are no individual color (RGB) and skin tone settings here.
Lastly, we have the DISPlay and MENU buttons. The DISPLAY button toggles on-screen information and switches you between the LCD and viewfinder, while the MENU button brings up the camera menu.
At the top of the Canon PowerShot A1100 IS, you’ll see the camera’s power button, mode dial and shutter button with a zoom controller surrounding it. You’ll also notice from here that the camera is more contoured and thus, has a more substantial grip than the A2000.
Let’s take a closer look at the modes available on the PowerShot A1100 IS, going anti-clockwise around the mode dial:
Program mode
Landscape mode
Night snapshot
Kids and pets
Other scene modes (Night scene, foliage, snow, beach, sunset, fireworks, aquarium, ISO 3200, long shutter)
Movie mode
The Canon PowerShot A1100’s mode dial features your average set of shooting modes plus five directly accessible scene modes. The rest of the scene modes can be found under the “SCN” spot on the mode dial. The PowerShot A1100 IS features an “Easy Mode” which is as easy as things can get – the only setting you can change in Easy Mode is flash setting (flash on or flash off).
Unfortunately, and like the A2000 as well, the A1100 IS has lacks manual controls. The most you’ll get here for exposure control is Long Shutter which has been relocated from the Function menu to the Scene modes section here. Long Shutter allows you to select a slow shutter speed between 1 to 15 seconds.
New to the Canon PowerShot A1100 IS is Smart Auto mode, which detects the scene and the camera automatically selects a scene mode for you.
Nothing here. On the other side of the camera is a mini-B jack, used for both A/V out and USB 2.0 High-speed connectivity, and DC-IN port for plugging in the camera’s AC adapter accessory.
At the bottom of the Canon PowerShot A1100 IS is the camera’s battery/memory card compartment covered by a fairly sturdy door. There’s also a plastic tripod mount here, whose placement will prevent you from swapping memory cards/batteries while the camera is on a tripod.
Taking pictures (Shooting mode)
The Canon PowerShot A1100 IS shares a lot of on-screen information with you – that includes details about exposure (shutter speed and aperture), camera settings and optional composition guide overlays on the screen when you’re taking pictures. You can choose to display a 3:2 guide, 3 X 3 framing gridlines or both overlaid on the screen. There’s no battery indicator or live histogram though.
The Canon PowerShot A1100 IS has a few image resolutions for you to select from, including full 12 MP, 8 MP, 5 MP, 2 MP, VGA and widescreen. The two compression options available on the camera are Fine and Normal; a 2 GB memory card will hold 625 photos at 12 MP, Fine quality.
Most of the camera’s main settings can be adjusted via the Function menu I described in the previous section, but now let’s head on to the other settings in the camera’s main menu. There’s a slight change in menu font face here so you can see text more clearly (but to me, the difference isn’t a lot):
Autofocus mode (Face detection, 9 point AF, center AF)
AF point size (Normal, small) – Choose how size of the camera’s focusing point area
Digital zoom – you should keep this turned off, it lowers picture quality
AF point zoom – magnify the focus point
Autofocus assist beam
Flash settings – toggle red-eye reduction (lamp and software based) and slow sync
Custom self-timer settings – Set the countdown interval and number of shots that the camera should take
Review – This option decides whether the camera will show the image on the LCD screen right after the picture is taken
Review info
Display overlay – Toggle grid lines, 3:2 guide, both or none
IS Mode – Off, Continuous, Shoot-only, Panning
Date stamp – off, date only, date and time
Set print button – customize what this button does in shooting mode; you can assign it as a shortcut to a shooting function
The camera has three optical image stabilization modes which are continuous (the system is always on to make composition easier, which uses up more battery power) or shoot-only, where image stabilization only works when you take a picture, which is more effective. Panning mode is self-explanatory.
You can also assign one of seven “shortcut” functions to the print button I mentioned earlier. Those functions include exposure compensation, white balance, custom white balance, red eye correction, digital teleconverter, toggle grid lines and display off.
The Canon PowerShot A1100 IS features the same great macro mode as its predecessor. At wide-angle, the minimum focusing distance is 3 cm and at telephoto, it’s 30 cm.
There are no changes in the Canon PowerShot A1100’s movie department. The Canon A1100 can record VGA (640 X 480) movies with sound at 30 FPS up to 4 GB or 60 minutes (whichever comes first) per clip. To extend recording times, there’s a Long Play option (which increases compression) and QVGA (320 X 240) 30 FPS setting. A 2 GB memory card will hold around 16 minutes worth of movie at the highest settings.
All movies are recorded in AVI MJPEG format and exposure is automatically adjusted throughout the video recording session. You can also use optical image stabilization and the camera’s 4X digital zoom while recording movies, but you can’t do the same with optical zoom.
Both audio and video quality was about average. The PowerShot A1100 IS can record decent movie clips but obviously cannot rival bridge cameras or dedicated camcorders.
All performance testing of the Canon PowerShot A1100 IS was performed using a high-speed 4 GB SanDisk Ultra II SDHC (90X) card.
The Canon PowerShot A1100 IS takes 1.2 seconds to start up and typically 0.2 to 0.5 seconds to autofocus. In low-light, focusing times are longer – sometimes over a second but at least it manages to focus every time.
Shot-to-shot speed – 1 shot every 1.9 seconds, above average
Flash recharge time using a fully charged battery – 5 seconds on average
The PowerShot A1100 IS also has a decent continuous shooting mode – it’s on par with other 12 megapixel compact cameras but worse than the A1000’s 1.3 FPS. The A1100 is able to take pictures continuously at just 1 frame per second until the memory card fills up (you’d better prepare a fast memory card for that).
The A1100 moves it 4X zoom lens from wide-angle to telephoto very quickly in just one second – but there are only eight, not very precise steps in between though. Power down time is two seconds, with the lens at the telephoto position.
Perhaps it isn’t surprising that things like power on, shut down and flash recharge times of the A1000 versus the A1100 are identical; after all, they’re both virtually the same camera. What HAS changed, however, are other aspects of performance. The A1100 is slower because of the larger 12 megapixel files it has to handle; most noticeably, the drop in the camera’s continuous shooting speed.
I’ve talked about all of the camera’s shooting features… so now let’s have a look at the Canon PowerShot A1100’s ability at taking pictures!
ISO 80 (f2.7, 1/4 sec)
ISO 100 (f2.7, 1/6 sec)
ISO 200 (f2.7, 1/13 sec)
ISO 1600 (f2.7, 1/100 sec)
The Canon PowerShot A1100 IS produces clean images at ISO 80 and 100. ISO 200 is a bit grainier than the first two settings while there’s a bigger step up in noise at ISO 400 (along with a slight drop in saturation).
At this point, if you pull out photo crops in the Canon PowerShot A1000 review for comparison, you’ll notice there’s less chroma noise here thanks to the DIGIC 4 processor’s stronger noise reduction. Sure, photos here are a little softer but that (and potential detail loss) are not big issues here, thankfully.
It’s only at ISO 800 where the REAL loss of details occurs and you might want to save this setting only for emergencies in good lighting only! Image quality at ISO 1600 becomes unacceptable and there’s nothing you can do about it.
The A1100 doesn’t have much lens distortion though like the A1000, I can still spot some low levels of soft edges and chromatic aberration (color fringing). Redeye is not a problem here as the camera’s built-in redeye removal software is very effective (available in both shooting and playback modes)
Despite the increase in megapixels, the Canon PowerShot A1100 IS still managed to produce good image quality usable up to ISO 400 in low-light and up to ISO 800 in good lighting. The DIGIC 4 processor effectively filters out a lot of color noise, leaving images a tad soft (versus the A1000) but the difference is not noticeable in most cases.
Check out full blown photos from the camera in the Canon PowerShot A1100 IS photo gallery!
Compared to the old A1000, the Canon PowerShot A1100’s playback mode adds the iContrast feature but does away with the old camera’s My Category and sound memo features. You can browse through pictures (complete with two transition effects of your choice) and play back video with sound. Basic playback functions such as print marking, image protection, resize and rotation are all here. You can magnify still photos by 10X and pan around using the 4 navigational buttons.
Pictures can be played back as individual photos or in sets of nine thumbnails. You can also use the JUMP feature to skip several photos at a time or to ‘jump’ right to a specific shooting date… not as convenient as the calendar view but it works. There’s also a slideshow function so the camera flips through your photos automatically at a set interval.
Pressing the face detection button in playback mode automatically magnifies faces, if any, in photos so you can check focus easily. Pressing the DISPLAY button will cycle through several display layouts of information; one of them is an image inspection tool which magnifies the focus point(s) of your photos so you can check focus.
The red-eye removal tool in playback mode allows you to pin point redeye in photos and remove them. The new iContrast feature brightens dark areas of your photos at the cost of some additional noise.
You can choose to delete single photos and all photos on the A1100 IS but you can’t select multiple photos yourself and delete them. An “Easy” playback mode (you need the mode dial to be in Easy Mode as well for this to work) simplifies playback just as much as in shooting mode.
The Canon PowerShot A1100 IS shows you shooting details, mode, exposure information (with shutter speed and aperture value) and everything you need to know about your photos in playback – that includes a histogram as well. An overexposure warning feature makes overexposed areas of your photos “blink” to alert you of them.
The Canon PowerShot A1100 IS can be simply put as a 12 megapixel update to the old A1000 with a new processor and a few small changes. It has the same 4X optical zoom lens, 2.5 inch LCD and for most part, functions and features. The A1100 IS comes in your choice of 4 colors, is easy to hold and has an optical viewfinder.
Everything else also remains the same – point-and-shoot operation, quick performance (though there’s a slight drop in shot-to-shot and continuous shooting thanks to larger file sizes) and good image quality. The camera’s new DIGIC 4 uses more noise reduction so the Canon A1100’s image quality is a touch softer but noticeably cleaner than the output from last year’s A1000. In my opinion, that’s a decent trade off since for most part, details are well preserved up to ISO 800. My only gripe with the DIGIC 4 processor is battery life takes a toll here on the PowerShot A1100 – a 22% drop from the previous model, to be precise.
The Canon PowerShot A1100 IS comes with a new Smart Auto shooting mode and iContrast tool in playback but also secretly does away with the old camera’s photo category and sound memo features. So you’re practically sacrificing 2 old features for 2 new ones. The new features may appeal to beginners, but aren’t things that normal users can’t live without.
The Canon PowerShot A1100 IS is a camera that I can recommend but not with a whole lot of enthusiasm. The camera takes good quality photos, has good performance and point-and-shoot feature set, but I don’t think the extra 2 megapixels justify the battery life and slight performance drop versus the old model. After all, 10 megapixels is already enough to make fairly large prints (and I don’t think users of the A-series cameras would be making billboards with their photos). The 12 megapixels here doesn’t bring a significant in detail or total resolution anyway.
What’s hot:
Compact design with a fairly decent right hand grip and viewfinder
128 MB “starter” memory card may be handy for photo newbies
Good image quality with low noise till ISO 800 (with one issue below though)
Smart Auto mode simplifies operation – picks a scene mode for you
Fast picture-taking performance
Effective red-eye removal and low color fringing
What’s not:
No manual controls or conversion lens compatibility
22% drop in battery life from A1000; performance also a tad slower than A1000
Very slight color fringing and edge softness (but I’m nitpicking here)
Reflective LCD needs “correct angle” outdoors, low in resolution
Lacks a battery indicator; lens doesn’t retract if the camera is low on power
Recommended Accessories:
2 GB high-speed SD memory card
Set of 4 AA NiMH rechargeable batteries and charger
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Deen May 15, 2009 Reply
Bought this camera about a month ago, Some images surprisingly exceed my expectations. For the price, not a bad ‘fun’ camera to have.
orrett October 4, 2009 Reply
I am trying to set the date and time on my power shot A1100IS but i cannot do so, please walk me through via email.
Brad October 5, 2009 Reply
Hit the “MENU” button, then right (to the tools icon, which is the setup menu), scroll down to the part where it says date/time, hit SET/Center on the navigation pad, adjust the date and time, hit SET/Center again to confirm. Done! =)
r4 dsi October 7, 2009 Reply
Aside from a couple performance quibbles, the Canon Power Shot A1100 IS provides a good point-and-shoot experience with great pictures as a result.Mixed performance; short battery life.
saeed November 27, 2009 Reply
Hi . I bought a canon camera ( Powe Shot A1100 is ) . But unfortunately it shot down spontaneous and then i couldnot start it . Please guide me soon .
adam325 December 30, 2009 Reply
Hi. I’m going to buy this camera – does it warn when the battery is low or does it stay calm till the end? 😀
adam325 January 8, 2010 Reply
I’ve already bought it and in my camera the lens retracts automatically when the battery is low.
Brad January 8, 2010
That’s good. They must have updated the firmware then, it seems.
MIloR January 6, 2010 Reply
I am having so much trouble using my camera…I cannot access the pictures on the memory card…The booklet that came with the camera is almost useless. I don’t usually have trouble following instructions but I feel like I need lessons on the use of the camera. I really don’t know what to do. Any help will be greatly appreciated. TY
Brad January 8, 2010 Reply
I would recommend trying to use a dedicated memory card reader. Are you sure the pictures you were trying to view were not taken on another camera? If you are trying to view/transfer photos directly from your camera via USB, then you would need to install the included Canon software on the bundled disc first.
Alex June 1, 2010 Reply
Bad focus and not sharp in details in zoom mode while taking lanscape/scene pictures. Portrait, macro, and landscape without zoom is OK.
Randy July 24, 2010 Reply
I’ve had this camera (Powershot A110 IS)about 1 month now and I’ve shot about 1000 images with no problems. I picked it up at Staples on sale for under $100. Other than the poorly designed battery door, the camera seems to function just fine.
One thing I can’t seem to locate is the IS Mode option on my menu screen.
It should be located between the Disp. Overlay and the Date Stamp….but it’s not there.
Maybe it’s a defect.
Linda November 19, 2010 Reply
I have a canon sure shot SD1200 can anyone tell me how to delete the photos off the card/camera
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Australia // Project Updates & Industry Developments
Superliners set to start steaming to Cairns as inlet dredging finishes
Four bookings have been taken for superliners at the Port of Cairns, as a dredging project to widen and deepen Trinity Inlet comes to a close.
The work, which began in July, allows vessels up to 300 metres in length to now access the port.
“Isn’t it wonderful we’re seeing larger vessels already using this new opportunity,” Cairns MP Michael Healy told Tropic Now.
Cairns MP Michael Healy onboard dredging ship Balder R with staff who worked on the project.
“The fact that our port now has a greater capacity puts it in a different category of larger and deeper vessels.”
The first of the cruise ships that previously couldn’t enter the channel arrives next month.
Explorer Dream, formerly based in Hong Kong, will be in Cairns on October the 23rd and return again in March next year, carrying up to 2800 passengers at a time as it sails between Sydney and New Zealand.
She’ll be followed by the 293 metre-long Radiance of the Seas in November 2020 and the 294-metre long Carnival Spirit in December.
The dredging works were delayed for years over concerns about the dumping of dredge spoil.
Eventually, a land-based solution was found.
“Ports North has worked tirelessly over many years to find the balance between protecting the environment and the Great Barrier Reef, and ensuring our Port can facilitate economic growth for the region,” said Ports North Chairman Russell Beer.
“I am very proud of our team.”
Also included in the $127 million Cairns Shipping Development was the construction of a new swing basin at Smith’s Creek to enable future expansion of HMAS Cairns Navy base.
The third and final stage, a $20 million wharves makeover, is now underway and is scheduled for completion in April.
Over the next 22 years, the development is expected to provide for a forecast demand of up to 150 cruise ships through the Port of Cairns.
The State Government predicts such an industry expansion will create 2,700 jobs over the same period.
Source: tropicnow.com.au
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The Grand Master’s Rooftop Table Lodge
October 5, 2013 by Fred Milliken 1 Comment
R to L: GM Wilbert M. Curtis, DGM Michael T. Anderson, GSW “Big” Bryce Hardin, GL Ivory Johnson
The Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Texas recently held the Grand Master’s Table Lodge on an open air rooftop overlooking a view of downtown Dallas, Texas. The event was hosted by Metropolitan Lodge No. 146, Wor. Jerome D. Lacy presiding.
The Table Lodge is a tyled Entered Apprentice Masons Lodge. It harkens back to the Mother Grand Lodge of 1717 where one of the reasons for its formation was to hold the Annual Feast. Soon the Grand Master of that time directed there be installed into the ceremony the old, regular and peculiar toasts and health’s of Freemasons. Over time a Table Lodge became a prescribed ceremony with a ritual all its own.
Table Lodges in Colonial America were quite common as many Lodges actually met in taverns and a full course meal became part of “going to Lodge.” As the decades passed and a new century began, Table Lodges were continued as a way to promote fellowship, kinship and pride in Masonry.
“The Table Lodge had a most unusual pattern. Its entire meeting was conducted around the table, and the helpings of food and beverage were served in such a way they did not interfere with the other concerns of the Lodge. The arrangement of tables resembled a giant horse-shoe, with the worshipful Master in the East, at the center, and both Wardens in the West, at the opposite ends. The Lodge was opened with an invocation and closed with a song.”
“At first, there was an address, followed by many toasts and songs, but as time went by the lecture was omitted and the number of toasts and songs decreased. The final figure that was set for the toasts was seven, and in some Jurisdictions that number is still retained today.”
Under its skillful formula, the names of objects in the room were changed. The table was the Trestle Board, the cloth – the standard, the food – the materials, the glasses became cannons, the beverage – powder, the bottles – casks, the napkin a flag, forks were pickaxes, knives were swords, and spoons were trowels. To fill the glass was to “charge” it, and to drink it was to ‘fire’”.(1)
Today a Table Lodge has its own set of rituals, with its own particular opening and closing ritual as well as a seven course meal with seven toasts, one after each course.
The ritual of The Ceremony of the Seven Toasts is as follows:
Right hand to arms. (The right hand touches the glass).
Ready. (The glass is raised breast high, aim extended forward).
Aim. (The glass is brought to the lips).
Fire, Good Fire, Fire All. (All drink).
Present Arms. (The glass is brought to the second position in unison with the Worshipful Master, then the glass is brought to the left breast, then to the right breast, then again to the second position so that the movement makes a triangle. This triangle is made three times: then the glass is brought to the table in three moves – it is first carried a little to the left, then to the right and finally forcibly in unison to the table).
The Battery, three times three ( clapping 3X right over left, left over right, right over left). (Done)
ALL Vivat, Vivat, Vivat. (Right arm thrust upward with each Vivat).
Advance swords. (Knife is raised breast high, arms extended forward).
Poise swords. (Knife blade is elevated slightly, about 45°)
Salute with swords. (Knife handle is brought to within a few inches of the chin with the blade elevated about 45°)
Swords at rest. (Knife handles are carried in unison forcibly to the table – preferably in a flat position to prevent table damage).
The Battery, three times three. (Done)
ALL Vivat, Vivat, Vivat. (Right arm thrust upward with each Vivat).(2)
Wor. Jerome D. Lacy led us in all the toasts except the one to himself and other Worshipful Masters. The toasts were as follows: To the –
Most Worshipful Grand Master and the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge
The Worshipful Master and all sitting Masters
The Wardens and all sitting Wardens
Other Officers and visiting Brethren
To all Masons where-so-ever spread over the face of the globe
A great meal was had by all. The Table Lodge closed with all Brethren forming the Mystic Chain (arms crossed in front and clasped to the Brother to your right and left) and singing the ancient song written by Scottish Poet Laureate Brother Robert Burns in 1788– Auld Lang Syne.
Should old acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
Should all acquaintance be forgot
And auld lang syne
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet,
For auld lang syne
Grand Master’s Rooftop Table Lodge
(1) HISTORY OF THE “TABLE LODGE” – State College Masonic Lodge No. 700 F&AM – http://www.lodge700.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=46&Itemid=41
(2) How To Conduct A Table Lodge, Phoenixmasonry – http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/table_lodge_history_ritual.htm
Filed Under: The Bee Hive Tagged With: 7 toasts, Auld Lang Syne, Dallas, Freemasonry, Grand Lodge, Grand Master, Master, table lodge, Vivat
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Seaweed Workshop: Tuesday 23 May 2017
A superfood for everyday eating
This is a report written by Charlotte Pike of a Guild Workshop that took place on Tuesday 23 May 2017 at 6.30pm, Upstairs at The Atlas, 16 Seagrave Road, Fulham, London SW6 1RX
We started our evening with a G&T, made with Isle of Harris Gin and Fevertree Tonic. Isle of Harris Gin is made by Isle of Harris Distillers, who have a local botanist who forages for them. It is infused with sugar kelp.
We also tried a sugar kelp tincture made with Isle of Harris sugar kelp, made by Amanda Saurin Apothecary, who have distilled sugar kelp which is really interesting when enjoyed on food and in drinks.
Our first speaker was Kaori O’Connor, a food anthropologist and food writer.
Kaori explained that all over the world, seaweed has been a central food for a long time. Kaori has written about the anthropology and culture of seaweed. The idea that seaweed is a foraged food for bad times is a myth, which may have originated at the time of the Irish famine.
Seaweed has been highly prized for centuries. It was harvested for the Emperor in China, and lugged up to Machu Picchu in Peru. There are wonderful rights and rituals that attest to the value of seaweed. In Japan, on the first day of the New Year, the head priest has to run out first thing with a torch and gather seaweed to put on the altar.
Early man ate shellfish and seaweed – a very early marine paleo diet – it is probably our earliest superfood.
People think that eating seaweed is something only done in Asia. This is not the case – laverbread is an example of this, with its PDO status. Laver is grown on rafts, which is similar to ways seaweed is grown in the Far East. This was developed by Dr Kathleen Drew-Baker, who managed to crack the complicated reproduction cycle of laver, to create nori as a mass market product.
Our next speakers were Fiona Houston and Xa Milne who have written seaweed cookery books and run Mara Seaweed, based in Fife.
They have spent the last 9 years getting seaweed back on to the table with their company, Mara, which sells dried seaweed flakes and powders. They have a crown estate license to harvest seaweed in Scotland. They go out on the full moon or the new moon – the lowest monthly tide – to harvest.
They say there will be seaweed farming in the future in Scotland, as there is in Japan. They have developed a seaweed farm with Loch Fyne in Argyll. The seaweeds in Scotland are similar to those in Japan.
Seaweed flavours pairs very well in savoury and sweet dishes. It is rich in iodine and minerals, with up to 56 types of minerals in some varieties.
There are thousands of different seaweeds. None of them can poison you. Some are tastier than other. Mara uses varieties that have been traditionally used in cooking which are the most delicious.
Seaweed only needs seawater to survive. It has a holdfast that anchors it to the rock. It is cut and regrows straight away – like coppicing – it is beneficial for the plant.
How is seaweed dried? As soon as the seaweed is out of the sea, it goes into a food safe bag, and taken to the factory. At home one can put kelp on the washing line. Don’t wash it – you can give it a quick wash to rinse off any sand, but do not soak it. Dry it on the washing line or an airing rack. Do not let them dry for too long – get it dry within 24 hours. Seaweed can be eaten fresh without being dried.
The final speaker was Japanese food expert Kimiko Barber.
Seaweed is such a familiar ingredient but surprisingly little understood in Japan. Kimiko grew up with it and still eats it every day, but can’t remember her first encounter with it. At 100 days old, a Japanese baby is treated to a grilled sea bream, red adzuki bean rice, pickle and simmered seasonal vegetables.
Clear soup broth would have been prepared with kombu and served with this meal. This is baby’s first taste of food.
Japan has 36000 metres of coastline, and warm and cold currents collide around its coast to provide an ideal habitat for fish and seafood to thrive. In Japan, 1500 varieties of seaweed are eaten, out of 8000 in the world.
Ever since prehistoric times, the Japanese people have been using seaweed. They used to burn or dry seaweed to create salt as there is no rock salt bed in Japan. Seaweed was also considered a precious offering to court. In Hokkaido, people have been harvesting kombu long before it became available on the mainland.
The five most used seaweeds in Kimiko’s kitchen are kombu, which is used to make dashi with bonito flakes, nori, hijiki, tengusa and tsukudani.
Kimiko presented us with a wide range of dried and prepared seaweeds to try. Most are readily available in high quality fishmongers and Japanese supermarkets. The Japan Centre is a recommended supplier of dried seaweeds.
© Charlotte Pike 2017
Guild member John Whiting made a video recording of this workshop and you can see what happened at
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youtube.com/watch?v=FPfSOhpF3zg&feature=youtu.be.
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2014 Xmas Party Break up
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Xmas Party Trip Report 2014
Trip Leader: iananita for Committee
Attendees: Mick & Sal, Boxxy & Mrs Boxxy, Jnr Chook & Team Grandpa, Donkey & Dixie, Eastie, Pig Dog, Wombat & Jay, Cliz, Acco & Mrs, Badnana, Rob & Jane, Charlie & Mrs Charlie, Summa, DJ, Joyboy, Jeff W, Rumpig, Barpen, B2, Fletch & Liz, Jimmy T
Once again the Motley Crew was headed to Canungra Showgrounds for our annual Xmas Party, a weekend of quiet reflecting on the year’s events and a few quiet drinks with friends. It seems that we got most of that over in an hour or so then the party really got started.
We arrived Friday just after lunch and several members had already been camped since mid week. This year we were camped on the oval. Slowly during the afternoon more members arrived after finishing work. It had started to rain by 4pm and we were sitting at the Boxxy palace with added extensions listening to Pink and having a few yellows with Bronnie. By 6pm there was a sudden dash for the showers as we had booked the bus for the Canungra pub. The first bus arrived at 6.30pm and 11 Motleys boarded leaving a few stragglers behind. We were off for a pizza at the pub. It was a quiet night at the pub. The renovations had been finished in the bistro this year but it was quite hot. Most ordered pizza and were stumped by the size of them. I enjoyed a Hawaian pizza this year, just for the record. After the pub we headed back to the showgrounds. A small group of us walked back which only took 15 minutes. We sat under the kitchen veranda and had a night cap before turning in at 10pm.
Overnight there was a light drizzle but as the morning cleared it was quite saltry. The jumping castle for the kids arrived at 8.30am and amused them for several hours. We slowly got organised for the night’s activity. The girls went into town to grab the food from the bakery, IGA and other bottled beverages. By 3pm the games began. First off was the teams of 4 obstacle course which was won conclusively by the males. We then lined up the Suzikis for the Santa Sleigh pull once again won by the boys, woorah. Then came out the big toys with Team Toyota once again taking the prize, Oh What a Feeling. I was on Team Other which involved pulling a Mazada with the hand brake on still beating Team Nissan. The kids did well with their colouring comp thanks to Jay and later after the adult games in their lolly hunt. Once the jumping castle was packed away we set up for the evening and got into our costumes.
This year’s theme was Heroes and Villains. It would seem the most popular hero was Superwoman, but aren’t they all? I guess mine is just Mrs Incredible. It was a fun theme with some great costumes, the band judging Sophia (Princess) and Sam(Robin Hood) as children winners while Carl(cop) and Lianne(robber) scooped the adult prize. Glen and band kept us entertained with Livin’ next door to Boxxy, raffle prizes were mostly won by Simon and the various Motley awards were as follows-
Daniel Lightfoot Award ……………DJ
Biggest Stirrer……………...............Donkey
My Kitchen Disaster Award……….Mrs Boxxy
Having a Laugh Award………........Mick
Christopher Columbus Award……..Cliz
Tow Mater Award…………………Jeff W
The biggest award for the night went to most deserving Motley, Member of the Year was awarded to Jeanette. Congrats Jnr Chook.
The band played well into the evening wrapping up with some Chisel.
Sunday morning dawn and there were some heavy heads but a recovery brekkie was underway with Darren, Fletch and Rob cooking up a storm of sausages, bacon and eggs. The evening’s events were discussed and it was decided that we need to do it all again next year; it was a very successful evening. After breakfast we held the AGM which I will leave for another time. By 1 o’clock we had finished the meeting, were packed up and heading for home. This rounded off the Motley year for me as I do not take Xmas leave. Thanks to all involved it was a great weekend.
Have a Merry Xmas Motleys, stay safe and bring on 2015.
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Victoria High Country April/May 2015 Part 2
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Day 15 Monday 27 April
It was an overcast day and there was a light shower overnight so the canvas on the tent was damp. We would be staying inside next couple of nights so we needed to make sure the canvas was dry. We had too move the tent into periods of sunshine to dry the tent but by 12 noon the tent was dry so we were able to pack up and headed out. Back into Mansfield we headed towards Yea on the Goulburn Highway. This took us through Bonnie Doon of “The Castle” fame. It is a summer meca for Victorians on Lake Eildon. Our final destination was Bendigo. We arrived here at 4.30pm. Bendigo has a tourist tram which was a surprise to drive across the tracks.
We stopped at the Information Centre which was the old Post Office to get some advice on local attractions here. We had decided to stay in a cabin tonight so Anita could get comfortable. After checking in at the A-line Holiday Park we freshened up and headed back into town to dinner at the Foundry Bistro. After dinner we headed back to cabin and called it a night.
Day 16 Tuesday 28 April
It was a fine day with some clouds. After checking out we headed into town to do the talking tram tour. The trams run from the Golden Mine to the Chinese Joss house. The first tram was an Anzac special, a history of Anzacs from Bendigo. The tram ride lasts 1 hour. So once back at the mine we started the normal tour but hopped off at the Fountain, city centre to walk up the tower and look at Ned Kelly's armour currently on display at the Art Gallery here in Bendigo. After this we completed the tram tour and headed up back at the mine. From here we headed to the shops to stock up.
After the shopping done and fridge restocked, beer and meat. I refuelled (diesel 1.29). It was a little cool by now so I put on a jacket which had been lying in the back seat on top of the tent. I felt something crawling under my arm then bam. A wasp stung me. We must have packed this bug up at Fry's Hut yesterday in the tent. The sting was similar to a bee sting and hurt for several hours. Luckily it only stung me once. Tonight we would be staying with Anita's brother Scott who lives in Caroline Springs, outer Melbourne. This would be only 2 hours travel.
It was about 4pm when we drove into outer Melbourne traffic. Caroline Springs is a new outer suburb. Scott and Kellie have been here 3 years and are currently building a new house in another new outer suburb. Melbourne is a very different city to Brisbane. You can see the city centre from the outer suburbs, it is very flat. The city high rise making a distinctive silhouette on the horizon. It was great catching up with Scott and Kellie and little Emily Marie. We had a comfortable warm sleep here.
Day 17 Wednesday 29 April
Scott started work at 7am so he needed to leave at 6am. We got up to see him off. So by the time we had organised ourselves it was 9am. It was a beautiful sunny day. Today we wanted to head to Dargo some 4.5 hours travel. Firstly we needed to get through Melbourne. Once we were on the Western Gateway Motorway through the city centre and onto the Princess Motorway toward Sale. It was just pedal to the metal, flat wide roads.
We continued on the Princess Highway through to Stratford where I refuelled (Diesel 1.30). We could have taken a back road through to Dargo but I followed the GPS another 20km north on the Princess Highway to the turn off to Dargo. It was a pleasant country drive on bitumen to Dargo. It was 3pm when we arrived at Dargo. We had a beer and did some pics at the hotel. While there Phil, the barman informed us that Blue Rag track was closed this week for tree felling. I was disappointed but not much I could do. This is one track I had wanted to do and if we had today's weather when we did it the out look would be fantastic. Phil suggested I go and have a chat to the forestry guys who have an office just down the road. Unfortunately the track was totally closed for tree felling. If the trees go through 2 bush fires without regeneration they need to be removed. We took a quick run out to the closest camp sites on the Dargo River. They were average sites but we had been spoilt so far with Fry's Hut. So back to the pub for another beer and trip replanning from here.
We decided to stay here at the pub. Anita wanted to stay in a log cabin so we did. The cabins can sleep 6, cost $50 per adult. There is an en suite and very basic kitchen but it was warm and comfortable. Dargo is a pretty little town with walnut trees lining the streets. The corner shop sells a little of every thing including fuel and is the local Post Office. The pub of course being the hub of the township. We had dinner here which was a very hearty meal and turned in for the night.
Day 18 Thursday 30 April
We awoke to a heavy fog this morning which did not lift until 8am. It was another beautiful sunny day. We cooked breakfast on the porch and packed up leaving at 10am. Continuing along Dargo High Plains Road we had bitumen until Grant Junction. The dirt roads and tracks here are very rough with a lot of rocks as base. You need to air down as soon as. We continued on Dargo High Plains Road to a small grave called Little Woman's Grave which is a memorial to all the women who lie in unmarked graves in the high country. Here we turned onto Ritchie Road and headed toward Blue Rag track. Knowing that the track was closed I still wanted to see it. We were told we could from Basalt Knob which is where we headed.
Along this track there was evidence of clearance of the dead trees. Ritchie Road loops back as Basalt Knob track which took us back toward Dargo. The tracks were rocky up and down but only 2WD. We turned onto Brewery Creek Road to get out to Mad Dog Lookout. We could look back to Blue Rag and maybe get the same view across the high country mountain tops. It was a beautiful sunny day, there was internet coverage here as well. This track took us down into Old Talbotville, an old mining town now camp site. It was a great spot on Good Luck Creek.
We chose a camp site, in the sun facing north. After some lunch we did a quick drive around the other sites to collect some left over firewood, we expected a cold night.
Two more vehicles arrived to camp here overnight, they soon had a fire going and swags rolled out. We organised dinner and made a large fire. It was a cool damp night with starry skies, I wondered what the rich people were doing. After a few quiet ales and the wood was low it was time for bed. We bunked in for a cool night in the Victorian High Country.
Day 19 Friday 1 May
Temperatures overnight only dropped to 2* but it was very damp this morning. The tent was dripping wet. Thankfully our camp site had sun by 8am but it was not until 12 noon before the canvas was dry. On the road again we headed back towards Dargo on the Crooked River track. There were a few creek crossings the last being wheel deep. This crossing had been notorious for claiming vehicles because the bottom was sandy. We turned onto Randalls track which was a steep climb from the valley floor. Yes, low range second steep with a few ruts to make Anita hold tight. After the climb we were on Hibernia Road which had been recently graded. It was slippery with a loose soft muddy surface thankfully it was just a run along the spur. Once we started to climb again the surface was rocky and easy but we encountered our first tree down across the track.
The tree was rotten so I was able to cut some and drag some off the track. Under way again we turned back onto Dargo High Plains road which was bitumen. Just a short drive down the road we turned onto Upper Dargo Road where the camp sites are located along the Dargo River. It is quite a rough rocky road. We turned onto Jones Road which took us deeper into the mountains. It was a graded dirt road with tight bends in places. We saw our first deer on the road. A large sambar doe ran for some time in front of us before darting off a side track. Jones Road took us to a junction called Seldom Seen Hotel or where the hotel was located. From here we turned onto Baldhead Road which would take us through to Swifts Creek on the Alpine Way.
We continued to Omeo and I refuelled(alpine diesel 1.47). It was now 4.30pm, cold and overcast so we decided to stay here tonight. Our original destination was to be Benambra but there was only a hotel and general store there. So we found some accommodation here Colonial Motel just a stone throw from the Golden Age Hotel. After a quick shower and change we headed there for a meal. Both of us had fish and chips with salad, and this was the first meal on this trip that was disappointing. The fish was flake which I'm not a big fan, and was quite small but I guess we are 150kms from the coast, so I should be thankful for a warm meal. After dinner we caught up on some emails and rang home, we had just heard the news, SE Qld had been swamped. Thankfully Sarah was safe but Renee needed to wait out the flash flooding at her auntie's place.
Day 20 Saturday 2 May
It is always good to get a warm comfortable sleep. It was cold and overcast today, thermometer said 4*. We had planned a shorter day today hoping to make Dogmans Hut. So before leaving Omeo we walked around town. It was an old gold mining town with several old brick buildings still standing. Omeo had been devastated during the Black Friday bush fires in 1939. Most of the town was burnt. The brick buildings being able to be rebuilt.
From Omeo we headed to Benambra then onto Beloka Road then Mount Hope Road which leads to Tom Groggin track. The track is rutted and not well maintained in spots but an enjoyable drive. Once we arrived at Dogmans Hut we drove down to the Murray River crossing to check it. The crossing is shallow in an arc but deeper straight across. The water was freezing as I walked it only half way up my shins. We will cross tomorrow. So back to set up camp at Dogmans Hut which is on the Victorian side of the Murray River. This hut was built by the Lands Department for the dog men in 1964. Hut was a year old than me.
The camp area Tom Groggin is on the NSW side of the Murray River. The area gets its name from the cattle station located here which has been derived from an aboriginal name of a water spider.
So we settled in, built a fire and enjoyed the cool starry night. About 7.30pm a couple from Canberra arrived, Rich and Kylie. They were camped at Geehi Hut on the other side of the Murray. Rich was a keen hunter and wanted to show Kylie this hut. We chatted about Rich's hunting and fishing areas which includes Imbil, there are deer around Borumba Dam. He is currently working in Canberra on a construction site but gets into the high country at every opportunity. When they left I followed him out to watch him cross the river in a stock 4wd Hilux ute in the dark. He probably took a more direct line which was headlight deep but he made it look too easy. It will be my turn in the morning.
Day 21 Sunday 3 May
It was quite foggy this morning and once again every thing was very wet. After breakfast it was chasing the sun to dry the tent and slowly pack up. This would be our last couple of hours in Victoria. By 11am we had every thing packed into the car but the tent fly was still slightly damp. We headed down to the Murray River crossing, I tied the fan, second low and away we went.
Having crossed the Murray we were now in NSW. The camping area here is called Tom Groggin. It is accessed from Alpine Way. It is a great spot and I will return to camp here. On the Alpine Way we headed towards Threadbo then to Jindabyne. What a spectacular town, situated on the lake with mountains all around. There are some beautiful spots here. On the road again to Cooma, I refuelled here(diesel 1.37 ) and had we some lunch at a local cafe which was previously a Commonwealth bank.
Anita wanted to do the Grand Pacific Drive which starts in Nowra so that would be our destination tonight. So from Cooma we took the more direct route to Nowra through some national parks, some of these roads are dirt. Once again being recently graded, they are quite slippery. We arrived at Nowra by 6.30pm and checked in at the Pleasant Way motel because the caravan parks were full. It was a catch up with emails and facebook night.
Day 22 Monday 4 May
Being a motel we were not able to cook our own breakfast so we got away by 9am and started the Grand Pacific Drive toward Shoalhaven Heads. It was overcast and by now temperatures were only mild 15* minimum. This drive would take us along the coastal villages of southern NSW to finish in Audley on the outer edge of Sydney. We stopped at Gerringong for breakfast in a cafe that overlooked the beach. It was a very pretty location.
Continuing on we made Kiama which has a blowhole. It was one of the best I'd seen, currently with high tide the water spray was quite high.
From Kiama you enter the Princess Highway until Shell Harbour where the drive takes the more coastal route to Wollongong. After Wollongong there is the Sea Cliff Bridge which is a 650m section of the road built out over the sea. The bridge was constructed in 2005 because the original road on the cliff was getting to costly to maintain and unsafe. It looks spectacular in the pictures we had seen and having done it, I guess it was not all that big a deal.
Once we got to Bald Hill, the hand gliders and Paragliders were amazing to watch as they soared with the rising wind currents. This is where Lawrence Hargrave(who?) the bloke on the old paper $20 note, took his first flight. The look out here is well worth the stop. From here the drive enters the Royal National Park, apparently the second oldest in the world, established in 1879. The drive winds and curls through the park for 42km. The drive is through thick jungle vegetation which looks to have taken a hammering from the wild weather Sydney experienced last week. The drive finishes back on the Princess Highway at Audley so I needed to set the GPS to find the address for tonight. I refuelled here (diesel 1.32).
Anita had booked a small flat through Airbnb, a website where people can advertise rooms for letting privately. We got our Tasmanian unit in Hobart through the website in September, it was a good experience. The unit was located in Lawson which is 20 minutes east of Katoomba. We drove through Lawson at 2pm so decided to drive onto Wentworth Falls. This was a planned attraction we wanted to see. The falls are one of the main attractions in the Blue Mountains. Once again NSW Parks have done a magnificent job with infrastructure at these spots. There is a large picnic area here but I will say the car park spaces are quite narrow.
From the car park there is a look out over the Jamison Valley. A short walk to the falls lookout gives the best view of the falls as Jamison Creek cascades over the escarpment in two sections.
From here there are numerous walks. We headed down the Over-cliff track, it was well formed but still quite wet and soggy. This takes you the top of the falls. From here we headed down again to the Under-cliff track which is just that. The track meanders along the cliff with sections overhanging the track. The vegetation is quite topical with ferns and tree ferns. It was still quite wet with a lot of seepage in this section. After doing some of the walks here we headed into Katoomba to view the Three Sisters. The attraction is viewed from Echo Point which is basically at the end of town. You need to pay for parking here and walk 5 minutes to the viewing platform. There are bus loads of tourists but to see one of Australia's most iconic natural attraction was worth it. After some shopping in Katoomba, which is quite hilly, we headed back to Lawson and found our flat. We walked to the local pub called Blue Mountains Hotel for dinner, it was another busy day with lots of sight seeing. It was quite foggy tonight as we walked home.
Day 23 Tuesday 5 May
We had a comfortable sleep overnight. Today we had planned to spend at Scenic World in Katoomba. Scenic World is a tourist attraction here with 3 separate rides to experience the Blue Mountains and Katoomba Falls. There is the steepest railway in the world here which was the first attraction built here. The original railway was used to haul coal from a mine on the side of the cliff up to Katoomba in 1836. It technically is not a railway train but a cable car which runs on tracks but the slope is 52* which is steep.
It was a beautiful sunny day but windy. So we headed to Scenic World. We paid for the unlimited day pass which was $35 each. The wind made the Sky Way more exciting because of the slight sway with the wind. This cable car gives the best view of Katoomba Falls and with the glass bottom you get a good look at the tree canopy below in Jamison Valley. We rode the Scenic Railway down and up, it is steep and I would liken it to a roller coaster. For the record Anita closed her eyes going down. There is a board walk on the valley floor which you can walk down to or take the Cable Way, guess which we took. We spent most of the day here walking the board walks.
There is currently a sculpture display set up around the board walks which we were not interested in but walked through anyway however the highlight for me was seeing a lyre bird scratching around in the leaf litter not worried by us at all. It was wonderful to see. On our way home we stopped at another look out which gave us a look at the back of the Three Sisters call Sub-lime Point, it was not that spectacular. Once we got home Anita caught up on some washing and I tried planning our route home. We walked to the pub for another meal and few beers.
Day 24 Wednesday 6 May
We started the day early because we needed to get to Jenolan Caves a 1.5 hour away. It was a beautiful sunny day again with some wind. Some we set sail west to Jenolan Caves. The road into the caves is very narrow and steep. It is only one way in between 11am and 1pm for the tour buses. The road winds through the Grand Arch to the visitor's centre and hotel complex.
We arrived at 9.30am so the first cave tour we could do was the Imperial Diamond Tour at 10.30. This costed $32 each and lasted 1.5 hrs. The tour guide Barry had been working here for 44 years, he was very informative. The caves are quite massive but there are sections where you need to bend down. The caves are well lit and have been since 1880.
After the guided tour, we did the self guided tour through the Nettle Cave which is an open cave so called because of the stinging nettles here. The tour lasts 1 hour and tells of the caves history. There are several stairs through the cave. White man has been visiting the caves since 1830's. By 1pm we were on the road again hoping to make Mudgee tonight. There was just one more stop Bathurst. I guess most Aussie petrol head males would know Bathurst and try and make the pilgrimage at some stage. So we headed for Mount Panorama and drove the track in less than record time but enjoyed every moment. The road is speed limited to 60km/hr.
From here it was just a drive up the road to Mudgee. We checked in at the Riverside Tourist Park and refuelled (diesel 1.34). Mudgee like so many townships developed with the gold rushes in the 1800's. The Red Heifer Bistro, hotel where we ate had plenty of memorabilia on the walls from this era.
Day 25 Thursday 7 May
Another sunny but cool day. Today was just travelling chasing the sun north. After loading the Jack we headed north to Gulgong. We wanted to make Glen Innes today and head home via the New England Highway. So we headed for Coolah to Mullaley and onto Tamworth which put us on the New England Highway. We stopped at Tamworth to stretch our legs. Once under way again we stopped at Uralla to refuel (diesel 1.37) from here it was a just drive to Glen Innes where we arrived at 4pm. We checked in at Popular Caravan Park for our last night on the road. We walked into town for a feed which I must say was the best I had while being away.
A beautiful sunny morning but cool. After breakfast, packed the Jack we were on the road by 9am. Anita wanted to pick up some produce, eggs, potatoes & strawberries before we left which we did. The eggs were only $3.20 per dozen and fresh that morning. We had reached Tenterfield by 12 noon and while driving down the Main St passed another Motley, Peter and Esther who now have a property down this way. It was a friendly wave but we kept going. I wanted to stop in a Bald Rock National Park to check out the camp ground. It has a vehicle entry fee $7/day and camp fees $10 per adult per day. There are fire pits with fire wood provided, pit toilets and tap water in the camp ground. The camp sites are compressed granite areas similar to Girraween, I'll be back.
Through Stanthorpe and Warwick refuelled here (diesel 1.28) onto Capalaba to collect Anita's car. I arrived home at Redcliffe by 3pm to find Sarah in a flurry cleaning the house before mummy arrived home. So the unpacking began and the adventure had come to a finish.
Here are some final figures and thoughts.
Total Distance travelled 5414 km
Total Fuel used 724.16 L (average 13L/100km)
Total Fuel cost $967
Accommodation Costs $1213
Food & Drink $1649
Other $507
My highlight was crossing the Murray River at Tom Groggin.
I'm thankful that Anita braved the cold and closed her eyes when we drove the slopes.
In future I would take a chainsaw and tour between the camp sites. There are many beautiful spots.
« Last Edit: May 17, 2015, 04:32:04 PM by iananita »
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Re: Victoria High Country April/May 2015 Part 2
Looks like a great trip!!!
Rumpig
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Look who's a smarty pants having his trip report completed so quickly...lol...a nice read mate, a few more pics would be nice though Sounds like you both had a great trip
Next time you're in the Blue Mountains, go visit the Three sisters after 5.00 p.m...we went there many years ago and left quickly due to all the tour buses and crowds there. Later that afternoon we grabbed some fish and chips for dinner from a local shop, and went it ate it at the lookout with only a couple of other people about the place...it was a much nicer place to be at that time of day then earlier was. Maybe when you plan to head to Bald Rock make it a Motley trip mate, i climbed the rock with Makensie in a back pack many moons ago, the views from the top are stunning...same goes for The Pyramid at Girraween National Park also.
Just a heads up...Jeff has changed his signature due to being foolish enough to leave his account logged on when he borrowed my phone.
I preferred his signature i'd written there myself before he changed it...lol
Nice try Grasshopper!!!!!
Thanks Kris
Thanks Mal, I have been enjoying your adventures. Yes, I have 700 pics from the trip.
Bald Rock can do as Motley trip, like you suggested maybe drop in on Peter + Esther as well.
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Update News December 23, 2016
Trade Minister Inaugurates Batang Wholesale Market
Rupiah Expected To Stabilize Ahead Of Christmas, Year-End Holiday
Sri Mulyani Welcomes Credit Rating Improvement
Indonesia Studying India's, Switzerland's Trade Measuring Instruments
Jasa Marga Launches JMCare App for Toll Road Users
Jakarta’s MRT Project Secures Electricity Supply From PLN
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Tempo, 23 December 2016
Trade Minister Enggartiasto Lukita inaugurated the Batang Wholesale Market in Batang District, Central Java, on Thursday.
The Batang Wholesale Market sits on an area of 14,710 square meters and was developed in two years with Rp67 billion in funds taken from the regional governments budget.
In his address during the inauguration, Minister Enggartiasto said even though the funds for the development of the market had come from the regional governments budget, the central government would continue to focus on market development and traders in the region.
"Markets and traders have been given priority. The construction of buildings must continue, so the market must be well maintained," the minister remarked.
He underlined the governments guarantee that basic commodity supplies would always be adequate, particularly during the Christmas and New Year holidays.
The minister claimed he had discussed the matter with entrepreneurs to ensure the smooth supply of commodities.
Enggartiasto said the development of markets by regional governments should always be adjusted to the Indonesian National Standardization (SNI) program.
Regional governments have the authority and obligation to meet the SNI requirements in adopting the SNI standard.
Meanwhile, the central government only determines the norms, standards, procedures, and criteria (NSPK) for development.
"Our policy is to establish 44 parameters in the SNI. We want the regional governments to refer to these parameters, particularly with regard to the physical parameters," the minister stated.
Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati positively welcomed the decision of international rating agency Fitch Ratings to improve the Indonesia's outlook sovereign credit rating from 'stable' to 'positive'.
"I'm glad to hear that Fitch's assessment [on Indonesia's credit rating] improves from normal to positive. I think this is a positive thing, and I hope that it will be well-translated in terms of our rating improvement," Sri Mulyani said in Jakarta on Thursday, December 22, 2016.
Sri Mulyani said that she would leave the rating improvement decision to Fitch, but she pledged to convince Fitch with data that Indonesia has sound economic fundamental and policies.
With government endeavors to minimize domestic and foreign risks, Sri Mulyani believes that Fitch view Indonesias economic management highly.
"It will lead to trust in the form of positive outlook, and hopefully it will be upgraded," Sri said.
Earlier, Fitch suggested that Indonesia could improve its rating next year by strengthening its external resiliency. In addition, Fitch suggested the government to boost investment climate and raise the its good governance standards. Indonesia is believed to more capable in maintaining its economic growth compared to other neighboring countries.
The rupiah's exchange rate is expected to stabilize ahead of the Christmas and New Year's holiday. The prediction is based on the consistent flow of funds to the state bond (SUN) market.
This morning, the rupiah weakened to trade for Rp13,473 per US dollar amid the greenback's strengthening against Asian currencies.
"Additionally, there is a strong capital outflow from the stock market. The Jakarta Composite Index (JCI) took a deep plunge during yesterday's trade," Samuel Sekuritas analyst Rangga Cipta said in a written statement Friday, December 23.
According to Rangga, commodity prices that are still high will secure investors' trust in Indonesia's dollar liquidity prospects and help prevent the rupiah from being corrected too deep.
"The [government's] decision to ease mineral exports also helped increase expectations for higher surplus and 2017's growth prospects," he said.
The US dollar has been on a slight uptrend following the country's economic growth revision, which is raised to a number that exceeds market expectation.
The greenback gain is also followed by an increase in the US Treasury yield, which spreads to other developed countries' treasury markets. On another note, Rangga said that crude prices are still on an uptrend along with other major commodities.
The Jakarta Post, 23 December 2016
The Industry Ministry is studying the implementation of the Minimum Import Price (MIP) and Price Competitiveness Measure (PCM) trade measuring instruments adopted by India and Switzerland, respectively, to analyze whether they are feasible to maintain local industry's competitiveness.
The ministry's director general for industrial resilience and international access development, Harjanto, said MIP regulated the price of imported goods so prices could not be lower than locally produced goods. India implemented MIP for its steel industry in February.
"If India can implement it in their steel industry, why don't we?" he said on Thursday.
Providing an illustration, Harjanto said state-owned steel maker Krakatau Steel had been struggling with low steel prices due to the inflow of imported steel from China.
The PCM, meanwhile, was implemented by Switzerland for agricultural products. The import tariff was charged based on the availability of domestic products in the market.
"If domestic stock is abundant, they will increase the import tariff, but if they need to import, they will lower the tariff again," Harjanto said.
Indonesia currently has only 272 non-tariff measures (NTM), a relatively small number compared to its neighbors, including Malaysia and Thailand, which have 313 and 990 NTMs, respectively. Industrialist countries like Japan and China have 1,294 and 2,194 NTMs, respectively.
PT Jasa Marga has launched an application called JMCare which provides traffic information for toll road users during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays.
“The application has two main features for road users, which are the notification and the information features,” said the Assistant Vice President Corporate Communication PT Jasa Marga, Dwimawan Heru, on Friday, December 23, 2016.
According to him, the notification feature is a push notification message-based that provides traffic information in real time. “It’s for road users that use GPS on their mobile phone.”
Road users can easily look for information based on their needs. The feature is connected to Jasa Marga Traffic Information Center (JMTIC) that can be contacted at 14080. The line is available for 24 hours and is equipped with a live video streaming that is connected to Jasa Marga’s toll road CCTV cameras. The feature is also linked to Twitter.
Heru said the application can be downloaded at Play Store starting from today from any Android-based mobile phones. “And will follow soon for iOS devices on January 1, 2017.”
Jasa Marga will add other features to the app. One of them is the Smart Assistance, which can provide quick alternative routes. There is also a tow truck feature that can help the road users to request a towing assistance to the closest toll road exit.
Mass Rapid Transit Jakarta has said state-owned electricity firm PLN will guarantee electricity supply to the major infrastructure project.
“The electricity distribution during the MRT’s operation will be guaranteed, without any disruptions,” MRT Jakarta director William Sabandar said on Thursday (22/12).
The guaranteed supply was established through the signing of electricity power purchase agreement, or SPJBTL, between both companies earlier on Wednesday.
William added that to ensure the fulfillment of the electricity supply during the operational phase, the company has procured a "premium silver service" from PLN, with higher quality of connectivity.
Next, PLN will distribute power to MRT Jakarta with a new connection of 60,000 kVA. The company is also constructing a 150 kV main electric substation in South Jakarta, along with a high voltage connection, or SKTT, to two of PLN’s main substations in Pondok Indah and CSW areas. According to the agreement, the energizing of MRT electric substation will start in December 2017.
Antara News, 23 December 2016
The Indonesia government is eyeing two Irans gas fields of Ab-Teymoura and Mansouri.
"I hope a team from here would soon make preparation to the Iranian counterparts that operation of the two oil fields would be awarded to Indonesia," President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said in a limited cabinet meeting here on Thursday discussing the result of his state visit to that country earlier this month.
Jokowi said in addition to oil sector, the two countries could cooperate in the development of power plants and possible imports of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) at a more reasonable price from Iran.
He said during the visit, Indonesia and Iran agreed to build an oil refinery in Indonesia at a cost of US$5 billion with a processing capacity of 300,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
In addition, Jokowi wanted to hold follow up talks on cooperation agreement with India to increase Indonesian exports of coal and crude palm oil to that country.
Jokowi also reached an agreement with Indian leaders cooperation in the development of industry producing pharmaceutical basic materials.
The president visited India and met with leaders of that country before flying to Iran. A meeting between Jokowi and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi resulted in a agreement to hold negotiation on regional comprehensive economic partnership.
The agreement could also be followed up by related ministries or agencies, Jokowi said. Jokowi invited Indian investors to do business in Indonesia in pharmaceutical , technology and automotive sectors.
He said related ministers to go immediately to India to discuss the agreements in details with Indian counterparts.
State-owned oil company PT Pertamina (Persero) and Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) have finally agree on Cilacap refinery joint venture. The agreement was signed yesterday by Pertamina president director Dwi Soetjipto and Saudi Aramco president director Amin Naseer in Jakarta.
Both had previously expected to sign the agreement on November.
According to Dwi, the signing was suspended as both parties could yet agree on four issues: crude oil supply, control management, asset valuation and lifting.
On crude supply, he explained that both have agreed that Saudi Aramco will get 70 percent of supply. On management control, Pertamina will appoint three members of the board of directors, while Saudi Aramco will appoint two. On lifting, domestic refining will be handled by Pertamina and export may be carried out by both.
Dwi said that cooperation between Pertamina and Saudi Aramco is expected to boost refining capacity. At present, Cilacap refinery’s capacity is 348,000 barrel per day (bpd), which will be stepped up to 400,000 bpd.
Dwi further said that US$5 billion or Rp65 trillion has been invested to develop Cilacap refinery. Pertamina will hold 55% stake and Saudi Aramco will hold 45% stake.
Cilacap refinery development is part of the Refinery Development Master Plan Pertamina (RDMP) to meet national energy demand. Aside from Cilacap, the RDMP is rolled out in the refineries of East Kalimantan’s Balikpapan, Riau’s Dumai and West Java’s Balongan.
The Indonesia Bioenergy Electricity Producer Association (APLBI) predicted that investments in the biomass power plant projects will remain stagnant if the government decided to reduce feed in tariff for clean energy.
The Association asserted that biomass energy business will lose its appeal compared to fossil energy if it is being sold very cheap.
"Biomass electricity producers will stop [doing business]. Because they would be powerless, unable to compete with other energy [producers]," said Jonathan Handojo, a member of APLBI Advisory Council in a discussion on renewable energy held by Tempo in cooperation with the Energy and Mineral Resources on Wednesday, December 21, 2016.
Jonathan asserted that biomass power plant developers are currently facing troubles because of a policy applied by the State Electricity Company (PLN), who refused to purchase biomass-produced electricity at US$13.5 per kilowatt hour (kWh). Jonathan explained that the price will allow developers to apply for a loan from banks.
Jonathan said that his company had developed eight biomass power plants with a capacity of 15 Megawatts (MW) since 2008. Jonathan added that he will cancel his investment on power plants in North Minahasa next year if the government decided to cut down biomass electricity subsidy.
"If [reduction] happens, we will [sell] the land that we have purchased," Jonathan said.
Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Ignasius Jonan said that he is currently in the process of revising a regulation on selling price of electricity generated using new and renewable energy. Jonan argued that the initial price of US$22 per kWh was too expensive.
"All new and renewable energy must be able to compete with fossil fuel. Selling prices must be competitive," Jonan said.
The Jakarta Globe, 23 December 2016
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has called on his ministers to evaluate the country's membership in 233 international organization, citing budget constraints and concerns over productivity.
“I would like to emphasize that Indonesia’s memberships in international organizations should be based on the benefit to our national interests,” Jokowi said during a cabinet meeting on Thursday (22/12).
“I want a full evaluation on how far our membership goes in these 233 international organizations."
The president said Indonesia should not be a member of organizations simply to have its name listed while not providing and positive contribution to the global community.
“I do not want our memberships to be only as ‘followers.’ We have to remain steadfast to our ‘free and active’ foreign policy,” Jokowi said.
Indonesia temporarily resigned from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) while the country suspends the export of raw oil.
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Shared Hardships Bind the Fates of Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Haitians
Wednesday, 09 January 2013 14:22 Roger Annis Editorial Dept - Human Rights
A social and political rights movement of Indigenous people is rising across Canada and making international headlines. Protests by the 'Idle No More' movement began last month and continue to grow.
The movement has rallied daily across the country in shopping malls, at U.S. border crossings and on major railway lines. Three days ago, it compelled Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to climb down from his refusal to meet with Indigenous leaders to discuss the very deep concerns of Indigenous people. He has agreed to meet a delegation on Friday, January 11.
It remains to be seen if anything will issue from this gathering, but it is a significant political victory nonetheless. Protests will continue in the meantime, including an international day of solidarity action called for the day of the planned meeting.
The social conditions and concerns that have given rise to this movement in Canada are strikingly similar to those in Haiti. In both cases, a long history of political interference, violations of national sovereignty and failed or harmful social policies are sparking firestorms of protest.
Omnibus Legislation Bulldozes Democratic Consultation
Two overriding concerns have sparked the Idle No More movement. One is the “omnibus” federal budget legislation, Bill C-45, that was approved by the Conservative Party-controlled Parliament and Senate last month.
Bill C-45 significantly amends laws in ways that further degrade sovereign and social rights of Indigenous peoples as well as the natural environment. The amended laws include the Fisheries Act, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, the Navigable Waters Protection Act and the Canada Labour Code.
“Bill C-45 will not be enforced or recognized by First Nations,” declared a December 14 statement by the Chiefs of Ontario Political Confederacy. The statement echoes Indigenous opinion right across the country. The Confederacy includes the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, Anishinabek Nation, Grand Council Treaty No. 3, Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians and Independent First Nations. These sovereign bodies represent 250,000 people.
Ontario Regional Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Stan Beardy, a signator of the statement, commented on the adoption of C-45 in saying, “The Canadian government just gave birth to a monster.”
Indigenous leaders are also sounding the alarm about a further wave of legislated changes that the federal government is pressing forward. These would deeply alter the funding and management of education and fundamentally degrade communal property laws and traditions on Indigenous territories.
Housing and Social Rights Uprising
The second spark to the Indigenous uprising is the calamitous social conditions on most Aboriginal territories. One community in northern Ontario, Attawapiskat, has come to symbolize the calamity. It blasted into national news headlines more that one year ago when its leaders declared a state of emergency over the chronic lack of housing, potable water, economic development and other social woes. Years of failure by the federal government to adequately fund social services in that community created conditions where some individuals and families were living year-round in tents or in construction trailers converted into single room dormitories.
One member of Parliament as well as national media undertook to report and publicize the deplorable conditions at Attawapiskat. The emergency declaration and resulting publicity galvanized similar, unresolved grievances right across the country.
Notwithstanding government promises one year ago to begin to address the concerns at Attawapiskat, next to nothing was done. So last month, Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence began a hunger strike in Ottawa that has made national and international headlines.
The key demand of her hunger strike has been that the federal government undertake meaningful discussion with Indigenous leaders to address longstanding and deepgoing concerns. She will be in attendance at the January 11 meeting but has warned there may not yet be enough pressure on the government to bring about meaningful policy changes, the problems are so widespread and long-standing. That's why protests are continuing unabated.
For example, more than 2,000 people from north-central Manitoba are still living in makeshift housing in the city of Winnipeg, capital of Manitoba, almost two years after their communities were deliberately flooded in order to divert spring, snow melt water from the capital.
In a 2006 report, the International Housing Coalition cited estimates by the Assembly of First Nations that 80,000 housing units are needed in Canada's 630 Indigenous communities. According to the 2001 Canadian census, 54 per cent of housing units on Indigenous territories were substandard. Many of those were a danger to human health.
According to the National Aboriginal Housing Association (NAHA), one in five non-reservation, Aboriginal households are in core need of housing, compared to one in eight in the general population. In 2006, Aboriginal people made up 0.5 per cent of the population of Toronto but 26 per cent of its homeless. In Edmonton in 2008, the corresponding figures were five per cent and 40 per cent.
NAHA represents non-reserve Aboriginals. According to the 2006 census in Canada, 60 per cent of the Indigenous and Metis population of some 1.2 million (four per cent of the population of the country) are urban residents. Many have moved to urban settings to escape the dire poverty prevalent on most Indigenous territories.
Drinking water contamination and proper sanitation are also critical concerns in many Indigenous communities. In November 2011, CBC News reported on a federal government-commissioned assessment of water and sewer services on reserves that was released in April 2011. It looked at the water and sewer systems of 571 First Nations with 112,836 dwellings and a total population of 484,321. Thirty nine per cent of systems examined were deemed “high risk” to human health.
Mirror of Haiti
The parallels between Canada's failure to adequately assist in housing its Indigenous population and the inadequacies and failings of its post-2010 earthquake aid to Haiti are striking. In Haiti, too, popular demands for a meaningful housing policy and for clean water and sanitation systems have been ignored and, as a result, protests are on the rise. Close to 400,000 Haitians are still living in harsh, displaced person tent camps with next to no services. Hundreds of thousands more have crammed into damaged buildings, into the homes of friends and relatives, or into informal shelter settlements, including very large settlements on the outskirts of Port au Prince.
In both circumstances, millions and billions of dollars are thrown at the problems and nothing seems to get done. Poor understanding of the plight of the victims and why the aid efforts fail, and the weakness or absence of advocacy on victims’ behalf opens space for prejudicial and racist interpretations of the problems to fester.
Racism is on the rise against the Idle No More movement as opponents of Indigenous rights and sovereignty strike back. Accusations of corruption, favoritism and incompetency against Indigenous communities and leaders are tossed about in ways that mislead and miseducate about the real sources of the policy failures in Indigenous communities.
Haiti received a dose of this treatment last Thursday from none other than Canada's Minister of International Cooperation, Julian Fantino. Using his brief and only visit to Haiti last November as his prop, the minister blamed Haitians for their plight in an off-the-cuff, telephone interview with a journalist at the Montreal daily La Presse. The minister was newly appointed last year and has no international development experience.
Minister Fantino said Haitians can't be bothered to organize themselves to clean up their cities and neighbourhoods. They can't get a national government in place to get meaningful economic development going. They are simply looking for international handouts to solve their problems. “We [Canada] are not a charity foundation,” he said.
The minister used the interview to announce that Canada will freeze all new aid projects in Haiti. The Haitian government learned about the announcement through subsequent news reports.
Fantino's comments join a string of recent, damaging decisions by Canada concerning Haiti, including sending more Canadian police and soldiers to the country, issuing a travel advisory warning just as Haiti is trying to launch tourism initiatives, and announcing that henceforth, international aid spending will serve first and foremost to promote Canadian business interests.
In Haiti as in Canada's Indigenous communities, much of the millions and billions of dollars that are said to have been directed toward needy recipients have in fact remained entirely in the control of the donors, be they foreign governments or outside aid agencies. The funds could not be misspent by the recipients because they were never in their hands in the first place. Furthermore in Haiti's case, half of the funds that were raised or promised for earthquake aid and recovery have not been spent and are not committed to future projects.
The failings or absence of housing and other social policy in Haiti and in Aboriginal territories in Canada can be traced to the deliberate and systematic weakening of political sovereignty and democratic institutions of the affected peoples. The fight to regain that sovereignty is a growing struggle that links the fate of the peoples of the two countries and is a key to their survival and progress.
Watch a one and a half minute video of the Idle No More march at the U.S.-Canada border at Cornwall, Ontario (Akwesasne) on January 5, 2013. Listen to an informative, 20-minute interview on CBC Radio on January 7 with Idle No More spokesperson Pam Palmateer and former vice-president of United Native Nations in British Columbia, Ernie Crey.
CHAN statement: “Three years after Haiti's earthquake.”
Roger Annis is a coordinator of the Canada Haiti Action Network. He can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . This article first published on the rabble.ca website.
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This paper discusses key findings of the Detailed Assessment Report on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) for the Republic of Belarus. The assessment reveals more...
Republic of Belarus : Selected Issues
The analysis of inflation developments in Belarus is hampered by widespread price controls. Persistence of common inflation is generally higher than that of actual inflation. Factor analysis assumes more...
This Statistical Appendix for 2001–05 for the Republic of Belarus highlights the GDP; capital investment by sector; industrial production; inventories; production and consumption of energy; more...
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This Detailed Assessment of Compliance—Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision on the Republic of Belarus reviews principle-by-principle assessment and authorities’ more...
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Robert Bauval | Special Bulletin 'Zahi Hawass Breaking News', December 11, 2013
Labels Ancient Egypt, Egyptian Mysteries, Robert Bauval
Source: jamesswagger.com, myblog.robertbauval.co.uk, dailygrail.com
(Germans working for an Egyptian Jew in Belgium stole Khufu cartouche in April 2013) Dr Zahi Hawass, ex Minister of State for Antiquities, revealed that the robberies of King Khufu's cartouche was done on behalf of, Robert Bauval, an Egyptian Jew working in Belgium, who has been trying by every means to prove that the pyramid is 'a Jewish and not Egyptian product'. Hawass said in a special statements that Muhamed Ibrahim, the Minister of Antiquities has said in one of his media interviews that Khufu's cartouche had was stolen in 2006, which is not true, as the inspecting agencies and the police have proved that the robbery took place in 2013, and the the passports of the Germans showed that they entered Egypt last April.
Hawass wondered 'how the theft could have taken place in 2006 while the investigations were conducted with current officials and not those responsible for the pyramid area at the time? While the investigation result came to confirm my words, and all those responsible for the have been removed from the pyramid area after their involvement, one way or the other, has been proven'.
He added: "I would like to make it clear that the foreign vandals are led by an Egyptian Jew living in Belgium, who had previously sent more than one person, who were all forbidden completely, and with whom I have had many battles, and he wrote a book before trying to prove that the pyramid was not Egyptian". Hawass confirmed that "it was not permitted to enter the pyramid except through tourist companies in order to make control, which is the opposite of what is happing now; which allowed the samples to be smuggled".
He (Hawass) pointed that "the German laboratories attempted to demonstrate, through the red colour found in the rooms, that the pyramid dates to 15 thousand years (ago), which means that this was the time it was built, but the fact which is confirmed by both Egyptian and foreign scientists is that Khufu sent in his Year 27 a mission to bring the red colour from the Western Sahara, from Mast stone in which the cartouche was written, which means that it was the quarry from which the colour was brought who dates 15 thousand years ago and not the pyramid".
He (Hawass) stressed on "the need for those responsible for antiquities to look to what is happening of destruction and vandalism in some areas, not just remove accusations from officials or trying to deny responsibility for a great disaster like breaking into the pyramid and stealing Khufu's cartouche, as the present minister does".
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Amethist S. Finch author; William B. Davis -author; Steven Edward Rokita -author; U.S. Army Research Laboratory, issuing body.
Adelphi, MD : Army Research Laboratory 2013
The Addicted brain KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm); Films Media Group.; KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
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The alpha-helix concept : innovative utilization of the space station program : a report to the National Aeronautic and Space Administration requesting establishment of a sensory physiology laboratory on the space station / principal investigator: Robert S. Bandurski, co-investigator: Neelam Singh.
Robert S. Bandurski author; Neelam Singh -author; Michigan State University. Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, issuing body.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, sponsoring body.
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Alternative crop and forage production systems for improved nutrient management ... annual report.
Agricultural and Industrial Byproducts National Program (U.S.); United States. Agricultural Research Service.
Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service 2009
Aminergic hypotheses of behavior, reality or cliché? / edited by Bruce Kenneth Bernard.
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Rockville, Maryland : National Institute on Drug Abuse 1975
Bio-inspired materials and devices for chemical and biological defense / James J. Valdes and Erica R. Valdes.
James J. Valdes author; Erica R. Valdes -author; National Defense University. Center for Technology and National Security Policy, issuing body.
Washington, DC : Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University 2010
Biochemical production of ethanol from corn stover : 2007 state of technology model / Andy Aden.
Andy Aden ; National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)
Golden, Colo. : National Renewable Energy Laboratory 2008
Biochemical production of ethanol from corn stover : 2008 state of technology model / D. Humbird and A. Aden.
David Humbird ; Andy Aden; National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)
Golden, CO : National Renewable Energy Laboratory 2009
Biochemical refining of lignocellulose to biofuels : status and prospects / James D. McMillan.
James Douglas McMillan ; American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Annual Meeting (2010 : Salt Lake City, Utah); National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)
Biochemistry of red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) from different locations in Alaskan waters / Kermit D. Reppond.
Kermit D Reppond ; United States. National Marine Fisheries Service.
Silver Spring, MD : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service 2009
Biogeochemical processes influencing formation and stabilization of soil organic matter and soil structure ... annual report.
Soil Resource Management National Program (U.S.); United States. Agricultural Research Service.
Biological mechanisms and perinatal exposure to abused drugs / editor, Pushpa V. Thadani.
Pushpa Thadani; National Institutes of Health (U.S.); National Institute on Drug Abuse. Division of Basic Research.
Rockville, MD : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Division of Basic Research 1995
Biomarker Benchmarks : reproductive and endocrine biomarkers in largemouth bass and common carp from United States waters / by Steven L. Goodbred [and others].
Steven L Goodbred; Geological Survey (U.S.)
Reston, Va. : U.S. Geological Survey 2007
Biomarkers for dementia detection and research.
Alzheimer's and Related Dementias Education and Referral Center (National Institute on Aging), issuing body.
Silver Spring, Maryland : National Institute on Aging, Alzheimer's and related Dementias Education and Referral Center 2018
Biotransformation and chemical form of mercury in plants / by Don D. Gay.
Don D. Gay author; United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and Development, issuing body.; Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory (Las Vegas, Nev.). Monitoring Systems Research and Development Division.
Las Vegas, Nevada : U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory 1976
The Body Machine. Part 2 Maintenance of the Human System / Acorn Productions.
Acorn Productions.; Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm); Films Media Group.
BOREAS RSS-19 1996 CASI at-sensor radiance and reflectance images / John Miller, Jim Freemantle.
John Miller ; Jim Freemantle; Goddard Space Flight Center.
Greenbelt, Md. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center 2000
BOREAS RSS-4 1994 jack pine leaf biochemistry and modeled spectra in the SSA / Stephen Plummer, Terry Dawson.
Stephen E Plummer ; Terry Dawson; Goddard Space Flight Center.
Greenbelt, Md. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center ; Hanover, MD : Available from NASA Center for AeroSpace Information 2000
BOREAS TE-10 leaf optical properties / Stephen S. Chan and Elizabeth Middleton.
Stephen S Chan ; Elizabeth Middleton; Goddard Space Flight Center.
Greenbelt, Md. : NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 2000
BOREAS TE-9 NSA canopy biochemistry / Hank Margolis, Martin Charest, and Mikailou Sy.
Hank Margolis ; Martin Charest 1964-; Mikaïlou Sy 1963-; Goddard Space Flight Center.
Cardiovascular toxicity of cocaine : underlying mechanisms / editor: Pushpa Thadani.
Pushpa Thadani -editor; National Institute on Drug Abuse, issuing body.
Rockville, MD : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute on Drug Abuse 1991
The chemical basis for the origin of the genetic code and the process of protein synthesis : final report / [James C. Lacey].
James C Lacey ; University of Alabama at Birmingham. Department of Biochemistry.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Birmingham, Ala. : Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham ; Washington, D.C. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Springfield, Va. : For sale by the National Technical Information Service 1990
The chemistry of health / [written by Alison Davis].
Alison Davis 1966-; National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U.S.)
Bethesda, MD : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences 2009
The chemistry of health.
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U.S.)
Bethesda, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences 2006
Clinical proteomic technologies for cancer : annual report.
Bethesda, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute -2009
Comparison of Opa Locka Tower with other ATC facilities by means of a biochemical stress index / C.E. Melton [and others].
C. E Melton; United States. Office of Aviation Medicine.
Washington, D.C. : Office of Aviation Medicine, Federal Aviation Administration 1974
Complex systems science for subsurface fate and transport : report from the August 2009 workshop.
United States. Department of Energy.; United States. Department of Energy. Office of Biological and Environmental Research.; United States. Department of Energy. Office of Science.; United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information.
Washington, D.C : United States. Dept. of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research 2010
Detecting Alzheimer's with Peanut Butter / American Institute of Physics.
American Institute of Physics, production company.; Films Media Group, film distributor.
American Institute of Physics ©2015
Dissolved oxygen, temperature, survival of young at fish spawning sites / by John J. Peterka, James S. Kent.
John J. Peterka author; James S. Kent -author; Environmental Research Laboratory (Duluth, Minn.), issuing body.; North Dakota State University. Department of Zoology.
Duluth, Minnesota : Environmental Research Laboratory--Duluth, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1976
Dose-response information to support drug registration.
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (U.S.); International Conference on Harmonisation.
Rockville, MD : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research 1994
Dose-response issues concerning the relations between regular physical activity and health.
President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (U.S.)
Washington, D.C. : President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports 2002
E 16 genomic biomarkers related to drug response : context, structure, and format of qualification submissions.
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (U.S.)
Rockville, Md.? : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research 2009
The effects of a 12-hour shift in the wake-sleep cycle on physiological and biochemical responses and on multiple task performance / E.A. Higgins [and others] ; Civil Aeromedical Institute, Federal Aviation Administration, Oklahoma City, Okla., Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFSC) Arlington, Va., Human Studies Branch, NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
E. A Higgins; United States. Office of Aviation Medicine.; Civil Aeromedical Institute.; Ames Research Center.
Washington, D.C. : United States Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aviation Medicine 1975
The effects of physical fatigue and altitude on physiological, biochemical, and performance response / E. Arnold Higgins ... [et al.] ; prepared for U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aviation Medicine.
E. A Higgins; United States. Office of Aviation Medicine.
Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aviation Medicine 1982
Environment of calcium carbonate deposition west of Andros Island, Bahamas / by Preston E. Cloud, Jr.
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Washington : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey 1962
Evaluation of conceptual models of natural organic matter (humus) from a consideration of the chemical and biochemical processes of humification / by Robert L. Wershaw.
R. L Wershaw ; Geological Survey (U.S.)
Reston, Va. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey ; Denver, CO : U.S. Geological Survey, Information Services distributor 2004
Exercise for dogs / Janice C. Swanson.
Janice C Swanson ; National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
Beltsville, Md. : National Agricultural Library 1991
Explosion at biochemical facility : liquid nitric oxide release : ISOTEC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, Miami Township, Ohio, September 21, 2003 / U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.
United States. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.
Washington, D.C. : U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board 2004
Fluid inclusions and biomarkers in the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district : implications for the fluid-flow and thermal history of the Illinois Basin / by E.L. Rowan and M.B. Goldhaber.
E. Lanier Rowan author; Martin B. Goldhaber -author; Geological Survey (U.S.), issuing body.
Washington : United States Government Printing Office 1996
The future of diving : 100 years of Haldane and beyond / Michael A. Lang and Alf O. Brubakk, editors.
Michael A Lang; Alf O Brubakk; J. S Haldane (John Scott), 1860-1936.; Smithsonian Institution.; United States. Office of Naval Research.; Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet.
Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press 2009
Genetic and biological markers in drug abuse and alcoholism / editors: Monique C. Braude, Helen M. Chao.
Monique C. Braude 1925- -editor; Helen M. Chao -editor; National Institute on Drug Abuse, issuing body.
Rockville, Maryland : Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute on Drug Abuse 1986
GQuery : global cross-database NCBI search.
National Center for Biotechnology Information (U.S.)
Bethesda, Md. : National Center for Biotechnology Information 1996
Guidance for industry : errors and accidents regarding saline dilution of samples used for viral marker testing.
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (U.S.)
Rockville, MD : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research 1998
Hematological and nutritional biochemistry reference data for persons 6 months-74 years of age : United States, 1976-80 / by Robinson Fulwood [and four others].
Robinson Fulwood -author; National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), issuing body.; National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (U.S.)
Hyattsville, Md. : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Center for Health Statistics 1982
Identification of a small heat-shock protein associated with a ras-mediated signaling pathway in ectomycorrhizal symbiosis / Shiv Hiremath, Kirsten Lehtoma, Gopi K. Podila.
Shiv Hiremath ; Kirsten J Lehtoma; Gopi K Podila; United States. Forest Service. Northern Research Station.
Newtown Square, PA : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station 2009
Identification of catalysts and materials for a high-energy density biochemical fuel cell : cooperative research and development final report.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.), issuing body.
The Immune Response How the Body Defends Itself / Video Education Australasia.
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm); Films Media Group.; Video Education Australasia.
Impact of soil resource management on soil biochemical and chemical processes ... annual report.
Improving biochemical processes for the production of sustainable fuels and chemicals ... annual report.
ARS Bioenergy Program (U.S.); United States. Agricultural Research Service.
The influence of citrus liminoids on blood concentration of cholesterol and inflammatory responses in humans ... annual report.
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Single family homes have changed a lot in the last 20 years. While it might seem that things haven’t changed in the world much in 20 years, the real estate market in America has changed quite a lot. The most notable change is in the price of homes in America- the average price has ballooned nearly $200,000 from $154,000 in 1994 to $345,000 in 2014. The average home price has more than doubled in 20 years.
Though the price has doubled, the average square footage has remained steady at between 1800 and 2399. However, builders are squeezing more into these spaces. The average number of bedrooms went from 3 to 4 in that period, and the average number of bathrooms went from 2 to 3. Apparently people really don’t want to share any spaces anymore. Learn more about the evolution of the American home from this infographic.
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Renovation of Qiao's Family Courtyard
Qiaojiayuan Scenic Spot was cancelled the quality level of the biggest impact is the brand of the scenic spot, the impact is very bad, the overall passenger flow has declined, but the extent is not large. Qiaojiayuan scenic spot was delisted "5A" after the first National Day holiday, ushered in 1437,000 tourists.
One of the most criticized problems in Qiao's courtyard scenic area before is "over-commercialization": the goods sales and the dense stalls on both sides of the 260-metre road can be seen everywhere in the scenic area. Coming to Qiao's courtyard during the National Day holidays, it is very difficult to see shops selling goods in the scenic area, only a few Wenchuang stores are still selling outside. The pedestrian road at the exit has also been changed. The road where the stalls were placed has been cut off by a newly planted green plant, and no stalls can be seen. Instead, a creative block called "Fusheng City" was built outside the main entrance of the scenic spot, and a street connecting the scenic spot and the new parking lot opened. The prominent location of the roof has huge investment calls. According to the data of Qixian Wenlu Bureau, Fusheng Creative Street has 62 pavements and 45 are now open.
Staff of the Propaganda Department of Qixian County Party Committee said that some tourists complained about the sudden disappearance of selling things and that they could not buy anything to eat in the scenic spots. Reporters saw at the scene, the scenic area has added a new self-service beverage vending machine, but the number is small, the price of goods is the same as that of ordinary shopping malls vending machine.
In addition to the problem of over-commercialization, the problems pointed out in Qiaojiayuan scenic spot include five aspects: comprehensive management of scenic spot needs to be improved, inadequate traffic and tourism, inadequate resource protection, inadequate investment in safety and health, and single type of tourism products.
After the completion of the renovation, there are bushes on both sides of the Ningbo Road in the scenic area center for visitors to sit down and rest, and there are additional tourist rest areas in the scenic area. There are also benches and drinking water, mobile phone charging and other equipment in the tourist center. Three new tourist rest areas have been added to the scenic spot, with 180 new seats of various types; 462 old signs and signs, such as tourist guide maps and safety signs, have been updated; and 69 tour guides have all been publicized.
Qiao's courtyard is the leader of Qixian's tourism. This time, the quality level was cancelled, which sounded an alarm to them. In terms of quality and standards, we should intensify construction efforts. First, we should strive to make hardware and software meet the 5A standard, and strive to restore the 5A rating in one year. Qiaojiayuan Scenic Spot was cancelled the quality level of the biggest impact is the brand of the scenic spot, the impact is very bad, the overall passenger flow has declined, but the extent is not large.
Qiaojiayuan Scenic Area has set up a new team of experts specializing in solving the problems of single and outdated tourist products in the scenic area, and is promoting the second promotion of scenic area exhibition. The scenic spot is also upgrading barrier-free facilities, barrier-free access and building beautification projects, and other upgrading work in the scenic spot is continuing.
Fan Wei, chairman of Shanxi Qiaojiayuan Tourist Co., Ltd. introduced that after the renovation of the scenic spot, a questionnaire survey was set up at the exit location. From the preliminary survey results, the satisfaction of tourists is very high, and the scenic spot also hopes to hear more suggestions for improvement.
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| image=[[File:Christopher Tolkien - Map of Doriath.jpg|250px]]
| name=Doriath
| pronun=
| othernames=''Eglador'', [[Quenya|Q]]. ''Lestanórë'', The Guarded Realm, The Hidden Kingdom
| location=Forests in central [[Beleriand]]
| capital=[[Menegroth]]
| towns=
| regions=[[Neldoreth]], [[Region]], [[Nivrim]], [[Brethil]], [[Nan Elmoth]]
| population=[[Sindar]]<br>Few [[Laiquendi]]
| language=[[Doriathrin]]
| govern1=[[Thingol]] and [[Melian]]
| govern2=Later [[Dior]]
| govern3=
| currency=
| holiday=
| precededby=
| event1=Thingol awakes
| event1date=c. {{YT|1152}}
| event2=Building [[Menegroth]]
| event2date={{YT|1300}}
| event3=[[Girdle of Melian]] established
| event4=[[Dior]] becomes King
| event4date={{FA|503}}
| event5=Abandoned
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'''Doriath''' was the land of the [[Sindar]]. It was called the Fenced Land (Dor-iath), for its queen, [[Melian]], put a girdle of enchantment about it, so that nobody could enter without King [[Thingol]]'s permission.
'''Doriath''' ([[Sindarin|S]], pron. {{IPA|[ˈdorjaθ]}}) was the land of the [[Sindar]]. It was called the Fenced Land, for its queen, [[Melian]], put a girdle of enchantment about it, so that none could enter without King [[Thingol]]'s permission.
Doriath was a realm of forests about the great river [[Sirion]], with in it the forests ''Neldoreth'' (also ''[[Taur-na-Neldor]]'', the northern beech forest), ''[[Nivrim]]'' (also West-march, an oak forest), and ''[[Region]]'' (pronounced Reh-gi-on, the main forest). Additionally, the forests of ''[[Brethil]]'' and ''[[Nan Elmoth]]'' were held as part of Doriath, but these last two lay outside the Girdle of Melian. King Elu [[Thingol]] of Doriath, also High King of the Sindar, saw all of Beleriand as his realm, from the [[Gelion]] to [[Belegaer]].
==Geography==
Doriath was a realm of forests about the great river [[Sirion]], being composed of the forests ''Neldoreth'' (also ''Taur-na-Neldor'', the northern [[Beeches|beech]] forest), ''[[Nivrim]]'' (also West-march, an oak forest), and ''[[Forest of Region|Region]]''. Additionally, the forests of ''[[Brethil]]'' and ''[[Nan Elmoth]]'' were held as part of Doriath, but these last two lay outside the Girdle of Melian. King Elu [[Thingol]] of Doriath, also High King of the Sindar, saw all of Beleriand as his realm, from the [[Gelion]] to [[Belegaer]].
The [[Vanyar]] and [[Ñoldor]] had passed by it on the [[Great Journey]], and had been ferried across on [[Tol Eressëa]] by the time the [[Teleri]] arrived. Then their lord [[Elwë]] was lost in Nan Elmoth, and when [[Ulmo]] returned for them a part remained behind. They became known as the Sindar or Grey Elves, and when Thingol returned he became their king, ruling from Doriath.
===Establishment===
The [[Vanyar]] and [[Noldor]] had passed by it on the [[Great Journey]], and had been ferried across on [[Tol Eressëa]] by the time the [[Teleri]] arrived. Then their lord [[Elwë]] was lost in Nan Elmoth, and when [[Ulmo]] returned for them a part remained behind. They became known as the Sindar or Grey Elves, and when Thingol returned he became their king, ruling from Doriath.
Doriath was originally named '''Eglador''', meaning either "Land of the Forsaken" or "Land of the [[Elves]]", but in the last years before the [[First Age]] attacks by [[Melkor]]'s creatures ([[Orcs]]) began to increase in Beleriand, and Melian fenced the forests of Neldoreth, Region, and Nivrim. Thingol then called all the [[Sindar]] to Doriath, but many remained in the wild. After the [[First Battle of Beleriand]], many [[Laiquendi]] removed to Doriath.
Doriath was originally named '''''[[Doriath#Etymology|Eglador]]''''',<ref name=Sindar/> but in the last years before the rising of the [[Sun]], attacks by [[Orcs]] and other [[Morgoth|Melkor]]'s creatures began to increase in Beleriand, and Melian fenced the forests of Neldoreth, Region, and Nivrim. Thingol then called all the [[Sindar]] to Doriath, but many remained in the wild.
[[Eöl]] the Dark Elf leased Nan Elmoth from Thingol, having paid the sword [[Anglachel]] for it.
On Melian's advice, Thingol became an ally of the [[Dwarves of Belegost]], who carved the caverns of [[Menegroth]] for him, that became the capital of the realm.<ref name="Sindar"/> Probably in those years, [[Eöl]] the Dark Elf leased Nan Elmoth from Thingol, having paid the sword [[Anglachel]] for it.
The [[Dwarves]] of [[Belegost]] and [[Nogrod]] were contracted to build the halls of [[Menegroth]], which became Thingol's capital.
===First Age===
In {{YT|1497}}, after the [[First Battle of Beleriand]], many [[Green-elves|Laiquendi]] removed to Doriath.<ref name="Sindar">{{S|10}}</ref> After the First Battle of Beleriand, Doriath was encircled by the [[Girdle of Melian]], an impenetrable fence of enchantment that guarded the kingdom.<ref name="Sindar">{{S|Sindar}}</ref> While his own kingdom was protected, Thingol was still loath to surrender any other lands in Beleriand to the Noldor as he was suspicious of the aggressive new lords in Middle-earth.<ref name="Return">{{S|Return}}</ref> King Thingol's relations with the Noldor were strained, and grew worse decades later when he learned the truth of the [[Kinslaying at Alqualondë]]. Thingol banned the use of [[Quenya]] in his lands, which led to [[Sindarin]] being the common Elven tongue in Middle-earth. The King of Doriath refused to aid the Noldor in the war against Morgoth, and took little part in the ongoing struggle.<ref>{{S|Noldor}}</ref>
When the Ñoldor returned to Middle-earth at the beginning of the First Age, Thingol refused to allow them in Doriath, with the exception of the children of [[Finarfin]], who were related to him by his brother [[Olwë]].
When later [[Men]] arrived in Beleriand, they were also refused entry, however at [[Finrod]]'s request the [[Haladin]] were allowed to live in [[Brethil]].
When later [[Men]] arrived in Beleriand, they were also refused entry, but at [[Finrod Felagund|Finrod]]'s request the [[Haladin]] were allowed to live in [[Brethil]].
[[Beren]], son of [[Barahir]] and lord of the [[House of Bëor|First House of Men]], passed through the Girdle as Melian had foretold, and arrived in Neldoreth. There Thingol's daughter Lúthien fell in love with him. After the Quest for the [[Silmarils|Silmaril]] the Wolf [[Carcharoth]] also breached the Girdle, but Thingol, Beren, and Thingol's captains [[Beleg]] and [[Mablung]] hunted and killed the beast.
[[Túrin]] was sent to Doriath, and lived there until he came of age, when he fled from the land. Later his mother and sister, [[Morwen]] and [[Nienor]] lived there, until they were lost.
===Nauglamír===
[[File:Henning Janssen - Nauglamir and the Doom of Thingol.jpg|thumb|"Nauglamir and the Doom of Thingol" by [[Henning Janssen]]]]
In {{FA|502}}, some time after Túrin's tragic death, [[Húrin]], Túrin's father and now an old man, was allowed to enter Menegroth with a band of outlaws, where in anger he threw the [[Nauglamír]], the treasure of [[Nargothrond]] before King Thingol and "thanked" him for aiding his son. This infuriated the outlaws, who tried to take the gold back but were killed by Thingol's guards.<ref>{{LT2|IV}}</ref> Melian finally pierced through Húrin's madness and grief; shamed by his actions, he left Menegroth a broken man.<ref name="Doriath">{{S|Doriath}}</ref>
Doriath was briefly restored under Beren and Lúthien's son [[Dior]], but he was attacked and killed by the [[sons of Fëanor]] in the [[Second Kinslaying]]. Afterwards Doriath remained abandoned until it was sunk along with most of the rest of Beleriand.
At that time a desire came into Thingol's heart to take the Nauglamír and place the Silmaril in it, thus melding together two of the greatest creations made by the Elves and the [[Dwarves]]. He hired some [[Dwarves of Nogrod|Dwarven craftsmen]] to do it for him. But by the time the Dwarves were finished they had become obsessed with the Nauglamír and asked for it as a payment for their labour. This infuriated Thingol realizing they were coveting the Silmaril. The Dwarves were angered by his harsh words, and killed him. This led to the [[Battle of the Thousand Caves|sacking of Menegroth]] in {{FA|503}} and the eventual [[Second Kinslaying|destruction of Doriath]], which scattered its people.<ref name="Doriath"/>
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In {{FA|503}}, Doriath was briefly restored under Beren and Lúthien's son [[Dior|Dior Eluchíl]].<ref name="Doriath"/> Learning that the [[Silmaril]] is in Doriath, the [[Sons of Fëanor]] sent message to [[Dior]] requesting the return of the Silmaril. Dior does not answer.<ref>{{WJ|Years}}, p. 351</ref> Thus, in {{FA|506}}, Dior was attacked and killed by the [[Sons of Fëanor]], along with their followers. They assaulted Doriath with a surprise attack, in the middle of winter, and fought with Dior in the [[Menegroth|Thousand Caves]]. This was the Second Slaying of Elf by Elf. In that battle, Dior slew [[Celegorm]]. [[Curufin]] and [[Caranthir]] also fell. Dior was also slain along with his wife Nimloth. [[Eluréd]] and [[Elurín]] were seized, taken into the forest, and left to starve by the cruel servants of Celegorm.<ref name="Doriath"/> Maedhros repented of this act of vengeance and cruelty against the children, and he long sought for them in the woods, but "his search was unavailing," and the fate of Dior's sons is not known.<ref name="Doriath"/> By {{FA|507}}, Doriath was utterly destroyed following the [[Second Kinslaying]].<ref name="Doriath"/>
==Etymology and names==
''Doriath'' is a [[Sindarin]] name meaning "Land of the Fence"<ref name=silmindex>{{S|Index}}</ref><ref name=WJ/> or "Land of the [[Girdle of Melian|Girdle]]"<ref name=Sindar></ref>. The name consists of the elements ''[[dôr]]'' ("land") + ''[[iâth]]'' ("fence").<ref name=WJ>{{WJ|Quendi}}, pp. 370, 378</ref>
The earlier name of Doriath, ''Eglador'', probably means either "Land of the Forsaken"<ref name=silmindex/> or "Land of the [[Elves]]" in [[Ilkorin]].<ref>{{LR|P3}}, entries "[[AR]]", "ELED", "GAT(H)"</ref>
The [[Quenya]] name is ''Lestanórë'', also meaning "Land of the Girdle".<ref>{{WJ|A}}, p. 369</ref>
==Other versions of the Legendarium==
'''Artanor''' ("The Land Beyond") was in early versions of the [[legendarium]] the name for what was later called Doriath.<ref>{{LT2|Appendix}}, entry "Artanor"</ref>
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[[Category:Realms]]
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[[Category:Elven Kingdoms]]
[[Category:Sindarin locations]]
[[de:Doriath]]
[[fi:Doriath]]
[[fr:encyclo:geographie:royaumes:doriath]]
Other names Eglador, Q. Lestanórë, The Guarded Realm, The Hidden Kingdom
Location Forests in central Beleriand
Regions Neldoreth, Region, Nivrim, Brethil, Nan Elmoth
Population Sindar
Few Laiquendi
Language Doriathrin
Governance Thingol and Melian
Later Dior
Thingol awakes c. Y.T. 1152
Building Menegroth Y.T. 1300
Girdle of Melian established Y.T. 1497
Dior becomes King F.A. 503
Abandoned F.A. 506
Doriath (S, pron. [ˈdorjaθ]) was the land of the Sindar. It was called the Fenced Land, for its queen, Melian, put a girdle of enchantment about it, so that none could enter without King Thingol's permission.
2.1 Establishment
2.2 First Age
2.3 Nauglamír
3 Etymology and names
4 Other versions of the Legendarium
Doriath was a realm of forests about the great river Sirion, being composed of the forests Neldoreth (also Taur-na-Neldor, the northern beech forest), Nivrim (also West-march, an oak forest), and Region. Additionally, the forests of Brethil and Nan Elmoth were held as part of Doriath, but these last two lay outside the Girdle of Melian. King Elu Thingol of Doriath, also High King of the Sindar, saw all of Beleriand as his realm, from the Gelion to Belegaer.
The Vanyar and Noldor had passed by it on the Great Journey, and had been ferried across on Tol Eressëa by the time the Teleri arrived. Then their lord Elwë was lost in Nan Elmoth, and when Ulmo returned for them a part remained behind. They became known as the Sindar or Grey Elves, and when Thingol returned he became their king, ruling from Doriath.
Doriath was originally named Eglador,[1] but in the last years before the rising of the Sun, attacks by Orcs and other Melkor's creatures began to increase in Beleriand, and Melian fenced the forests of Neldoreth, Region, and Nivrim. Thingol then called all the Sindar to Doriath, but many remained in the wild.
On Melian's advice, Thingol became an ally of the Dwarves of Belegost, who carved the caverns of Menegroth for him, that became the capital of the realm.[1] Probably in those years, Eöl the Dark Elf leased Nan Elmoth from Thingol, having paid the sword Anglachel for it.
First Age
In Y.T. 1497, after the First Battle of Beleriand, many Laiquendi removed to Doriath.[1] After the First Battle of Beleriand, Doriath was encircled by the Girdle of Melian, an impenetrable fence of enchantment that guarded the kingdom.[1] While his own kingdom was protected, Thingol was still loath to surrender any other lands in Beleriand to the Noldor as he was suspicious of the aggressive new lords in Middle-earth.[2] King Thingol's relations with the Noldor were strained, and grew worse decades later when he learned the truth of the Kinslaying at Alqualondë. Thingol banned the use of Quenya in his lands, which led to Sindarin being the common Elven tongue in Middle-earth. The King of Doriath refused to aid the Noldor in the war against Morgoth, and took little part in the ongoing struggle.[3]
When later Men arrived in Beleriand, they were also refused entry, however at Finrod's request the Haladin were allowed to live in Brethil.
Túrin was sent to Doriath, and lived there until he came of age, when he fled from the land. Later his mother and sister, Morwen and Nienor lived there, until they were lost.
Nauglamír
"Nauglamir and the Doom of Thingol" by Henning Janssen
In F.A. 502, some time after Túrin's tragic death, Húrin, Túrin's father and now an old man, was allowed to enter Menegroth with a band of outlaws, where in anger he threw the Nauglamír, the treasure of Nargothrond before King Thingol and "thanked" him for aiding his son. This infuriated the outlaws, who tried to take the gold back but were killed by Thingol's guards.[4] Melian finally pierced through Húrin's madness and grief; shamed by his actions, he left Menegroth a broken man.[5]
At that time a desire came into Thingol's heart to take the Nauglamír and place the Silmaril in it, thus melding together two of the greatest creations made by the Elves and the Dwarves. He hired some Dwarven craftsmen to do it for him. But by the time the Dwarves were finished they had become obsessed with the Nauglamír and asked for it as a payment for their labour. This infuriated Thingol realizing they were coveting the Silmaril. The Dwarves were angered by his harsh words, and killed him. This led to the sacking of Menegroth in F.A. 503 and the eventual destruction of Doriath, which scattered its people.[5]
In F.A. 503, Doriath was briefly restored under Beren and Lúthien's son Dior Eluchíl.[5] Learning that the Silmaril is in Doriath, the Sons of Fëanor sent message to Dior requesting the return of the Silmaril. Dior does not answer.[6] Thus, in F.A. 506, Dior was attacked and killed by the Sons of Fëanor, along with their followers. They assaulted Doriath with a surprise attack, in the middle of winter, and fought with Dior in the Thousand Caves. This was the Second Slaying of Elf by Elf. In that battle, Dior slew Celegorm. Curufin and Caranthir also fell. Dior was also slain along with his wife Nimloth. Eluréd and Elurín were seized, taken into the forest, and left to starve by the cruel servants of Celegorm.[5] Maedhros repented of this act of vengeance and cruelty against the children, and he long sought for them in the woods, but "his search was unavailing," and the fate of Dior's sons is not known.[5] By F.A. 507, Doriath was utterly destroyed following the Second Kinslaying.[5]
Etymology and names
Doriath is a Sindarin name meaning "Land of the Fence"[7][8] or "Land of the Girdle"[1]. The name consists of the elements dôr ("land") + iâth ("fence").[8]
The earlier name of Doriath, Eglador, probably means either "Land of the Forsaken"[7] or "Land of the Elves" in Ilkorin.[9]
The Quenya name is Lestanórë, also meaning "Land of the Girdle".[10]
Other versions of the Legendarium
Artanor ("The Land Beyond") was in early versions of the legendarium the name for what was later called Doriath.[11]
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Sindar"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Return of the Noldor"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Noldor in Beleriand"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "The Nauglafring"
↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Ruin of Doriath"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Three. The Wanderings of Húrin and Other Writings not forming part of the Quenta Silmarillion: V. The Tale of Years", p. 351
↑ 7.0 7.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Index of Names"
↑ 8.0 8.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Four. Quendi and Eldar", pp. 370, 378
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, "Part Three: The Etymologies", entries "AR", "ELED", "GAT(H)"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Four. Quendi and Eldar: A. The principal linguistic elements concerned", p. 369
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "Appendix: Names in the Lost Tales – Part II", entry "Artanor"
The Kinslayings
First Kinslaying (Alqualondë) · Second Kinslaying (Doriath) · Third Kinslaying (Havens of Sirion)
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Ka`u News Briefs Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013
Ulu Makuakane, Miss Hawaiian Islands and the first Ka`u Coffee queen, dances at Ka`u Plantation Days yesterday.
She heads to the Solomon Islands to represent Ka`u and Hawai`i in the Miss South Pacific contest in early December.
Photo by Julia Neal
KAMILO HAS A NEW HOME ON NI`IHAU. The monk seal, born in Ka`u earlier this year, had joined swimmers along Hawai`i Island’s west coast and Ironman triathletes during their practice swims in Kona, raising concerns that interaction with humans may jeopardize his chances for survival. Michelle Barbieri, a veterinarian with the Marine Mammal Center, oversaw Kamilo’s relocation to the privately owned, sparsely populated island in hopes that he will interact with the larger population of monk seals there. Compared to only five to 10 monk seals on Hawai`i Island, Ni`ihau has a population of between 50 and 100, including over a dozen youngsters.
Ni`ihau's population of monk seals is 10 times larger than Hawai`i
Island's. Photo from Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program
Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program’s facebook page addresses some of the concerns raised regarding relocation of monk seals. Regarding separating Kamilo from his family, HMSRP explained that monk seals do not form close bonds, and when they do interact, it is for short times. “Younger seals tend to socialize more, which is part of the problem with (Kamilo) in Kona; he has no young seals to play with.”
To the question, “Why not remove the triathletes” and other swimmers instead of the seal? HMSRP responded, “If you cleared out the swimmers from one bay, he would get bored and swim to the next bay. Do you clear out the swimmers of that bay, too? Or the next one? This is the problem with people not respecting wildlife from the beginning – the repercussions shift to the seal because you can’t clear the ocean of tens of thousands of people.”
“We are still optimistic that, because (Kamilo) is so young, we will be able to find a solution that will keep him wild and have him acting like a normal seal,” HMSRP said. “National Marine Fisheries Service and their partners are balancing the welfare of the seal, the desire to keep it wild and human safety in their decision making.
“Keep seals wild and admire them from a distance. If you see someone feeding, playing with, or harassing a seal, let them know that is not okay and why, HMSRP said.”
Kachi kachi band El Leo performed at Ka`u Plantation Days.
The public must keep a minimum distance of 150 feet from monk seals. Violations, as well as sightings of monk seals, can be reported at 220-7802.
For more information, see marinemammalcenter.org or facebook.com/HMSRP.
To comment on or “like” this story, see facebook.com/kaucalendar.
KA`U PLANTATION DAYS drew hundreds of people to Pahala yesterday and a commitment from the Ka`u Multicultural Society to continue the celebration next year, with a date set for Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014 with a parade on the streets of Pahala and a celebration at Pahala Plantation Manager’s House. Ka`u Multicultural Society president Darlyne Vierra said that she was very happy with the hundreds of people who turned out to celebrate Ka`u’s history and the evolution of the multicultural community.
Marion Villanueva celebrated Ka`u's Puerto Rican heritage at Ka`u
Plantation Days. Photo by Julia Neal
Native Hawaiian Ulu Makuakane, who will represent Ka`u in the Miss South Pacific contest in the Solomon Islands in December, was a Miss Ka`u Coffee and danced hula with her sister. Members of cultural groups and families displayed the many historical photographs of ranches, sugar plantations and life in Ka`u. For the first time at Plantation Days, Puerto Rican heritage was represented with a display put together by Marion Villanueva, who also invited the band El Leo to entertain with kachi kachi music at the end of the day. Halau Hula O Leionalani, fresh off the boat from a cultural exchange on Lana`i, the Hawaiian Civic Club’s hula troupe and many musicians performed, including Hands of Time, Ty Chun, Demetrius Oliveira and Gene Beck and Keoki Kahumoku’s `ukulele kids.
Ka`u's Sen. Russell Ruderman plays guitar with El Leo at Ka`u Plantation
Days yesterday. Photo by Julia Neal
Ka`u Chamber of Commerce’s winning cover art for The Directory 2014 was on display with the ipu art of Susan Condie Jennings and sold on site for $500.
Parade emcee Clyde Silva talked about the ranching families and paniolo represented in the parade of horses and riders. He also described the many blossoms, foliage and other gatherings used for lei for horses and riders. They ranged from green and purple sea grapes and their leaves fashioned by Merle Becker for Aikane Plantation and Kapapala Ranch’s Leon Chow to lei made of shells to represent Ni`ihau and lei using small pink roses to represent Maui.
HAWAI`I IS NUMBER TWO AMONG STATES in progress made for women, according to a recent report by the nonpartisan Center for American Progress. The report ranked Maryland as number one.
Entitled The State of Women in America: A 50-State Analysis of How Women Are Faring Across the Nation, the report ranks each state based on 36 factors in the categories of economics, leadership and health, as well as an overall national ranking. Hawai`i also received an overall grade of “A.”
“The Aloha State has benefited from the strong leadership of women at every level including government,” Gov. Neil Abercrombie said. “Hawai`i’s own Congresswoman Patsy Mink championed Title IX legislation that transformed the way our entire nation addresses equality in education, which was a catalyst for ensuring further equity throughout our society.”
Top 10 states in progress made for women, including Hawai`i,
are shown in dark green. Map from americanprogress.org
That legacy is continued by this administration, in which more than half of the appointed Cabinet and staff positions are held by women.
“Since this report was conducted, additional progress has been achieved this year,” Abercrombie added. “In collaboration with the Hawai`i Women’s Legislative Caucus and Commission on the Status of Women, we are addressing a wide variety of issues including early childhood education, protections for domestic workers, human trafficking and recognition of the societal and health benefits of breastfeeding. These advancements are the result of the community investing in our future by getting involved in state government to protect the rights and well-being of women.”
Catherine Betts, executive director of the Hawai`i State Commission on the Status of Women, is hopeful following the findings of the report. “This comes after years of advocacy from our women’s community and leadership in government that recognize the worth of Hawai`i’s women and girls,” she said. “Our women’s health community has been especially active in safeguarding our access to reproductive health care and ensuring our constitutionally protected rights remain intact. It is also timely to see how women fare in terms of paid family leave and an increase in the minimum wage – two policies that the commission is actively seeking to change.
Abercrombie acknowledged that this study serves as a reminder that, while Hawai`i is doing well for women and girls, there is room for progress. “I am confident that our ranking will improve,” he said. “We will continue to pursue transformative initiatives, ranging from early education to minimum wage, to benefit the people of Hawai`i.”
The report is available at americanprogress.org.
Ka`u residents can participate in Tuesday's special County Council
meeting via videoconferencing at Ocean View Community Center.
PROHIBITION OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS is the topic of a special meeting of Hawai`i County Council Tuesday, when the Council discusses Bill 113, introduced by Kohala Council member Margaret Wille.
As currently amended, the bill “prohibits open-air cultivation, propagation, development or testing of genetically engineered crops and plants. Exempts persons currently engaged in these practices in locations where such activities have customarily occurred, provided those locations are registered within 90 days of the effective date of this ordinance. Also exempts current and future genetically engineered papaya cultivation, propagation, and development, provided the locations of such activities are registered as provided in this ordinance. Requires all persons engaged in any form of cultivation, propagation, development, or indoor testing of genetically engineered crops or plants to register annually and to pay a registration fee for each location annually, beginning within 90 days of the effective date of this ordinance.”
The meeting at West Hawai`i Civic Center in Kona begins with statements from the public at 4 p.m. Ka`u residents can participate via videoconferencing at Ocean View Community Center.
Agenda is available at hawaiicounty.gov.
HAWAI`I COUNTY ENCOURAGES KA`U RESIDENTS, especially persons of low or moderate income, minorities and non-English speaking persons, as well as persons with disabilities, to attend and share their views and comments at a public hearing tomorrow, Monday, Oct. 14, regarding the Community Development Block Grant program. The purpose of the hearing is to listen to views and comments on housing and community development needs and past performance of the program.
After the public hearing, Office of Housing and Community Development staff will be available to discuss procedures and guidelines for applying for the county’s 2014 CDBG program.
OHCD anticipates a 2014 allocation of approximately $2.5 million in CDBG federal funds. All projects using the funds must benefit low- to moderate-income persons within the county.
Tomorrow’s hearing begins at 10 a.m. at Pahala Community Center.
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Giving a Speech on The Combating Autism Reauthorization Act
In late September, The Combating Autism Reauthorization Act (CARA) was passed through Senate and was then signed into law by our President Barack Obama. One of the champions in Senate who helped us get there was New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez. Almost 2 weeks ago he came to an autistic school called Regional Day in my hometown of Jersey City, New Jersey to give a speech about the significance of the act. What I was amazed at though was when I received a call from his office to speak at the event! In front of countless media, family, and friends I spoke about my story with autism and what the impact an act like this will have not only for me but for countless others who are affected by autism.
The Combating Autism Reauthorization Act as some may recall will grant 693 million dollars to the autistic community for the next 3 years. Even though this is a great feat we still most continue to push forward as I stress in my speech as autism never takes a vacation so neither can we.
Below is a Youtube clip of me speaking at the event that I hope you all enjoy. Thank you!
This post originally appeared on Autismspeaks.org here.
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Netflix orders half a dozen new animated projects
Two feature films and four original series from the likes of Breadwinner director Nora Twomey and Powerpuff Girls creator Craig McCracken have joined Netflix's animation slate for kids and families.
By Jeremy Dickson
Backed by some juggernaut talent, streaming giant Netflix is expanding its kids animation slate with four new original series and a pair of feature film adaptations.
First up on the originals front for 2019 is Go! Go! Cory Carson, a preschool series from Kuku Studios in California based on VTech Electronics’ popular Go! Go! Smart Wheels toy line. It will be executive produced by Alex Woo (Wall-E, Ratatouille), Stanley Moore (Finding Dory, Monster’s University) and Tone Thyne (Wonder Pets!, The Adventures of Napkin Man!).
Kid Cosmic and Trash Truck are both currently in production, with rollouts planned for 2020. A fantasy-adventure show from Powerpuff Girls creator Craig McCracken, Kid Cosmic is about a young boy struggling with his newfound hero status after discovering a set of powerful cosmic stones. And Trash Truck comes from Max Keane, who was the production designer on Oscar-winning animated short film Dear Basketball. This series stars a six-year-old boy and his larger-than-life garbage truck best friend. Glen Keane, director of Netflix’s upcoming inaugural feature Over the Moon, and Gennie Rim (Dear Basketball) are executive producing alongside Max Keane.
Rounding out the new series slate is Maya and the Three (pictured), which is set against a mythical Mesoamerican-inspired backdrop where a story unfolds about a warrior princess on a quest to find a trio of fighters to help save the world of men and gods. Created, written and directed by Jorge Gutierrez (The Book of Life), with Silvia Olivas (Elena of Avalor) co-writing and co-executive producing and Jeff Ranjo (Moana) serving head of story, this limited series is expected to roll out in 2021.
Padding out its feature film pipeline, Netflix has partnered with Vancouver’s BRON Animation on The Willoughbys, a CGI-animated pic currently in production from writer/director Kris Pearn (Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2). Based on the same-name book by Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry, The Willoughbys is about four young siblings who are forced to adapt to the modern world after being abandoned by their selfish parents. It will feature an all-star voice cast including Ricky Gervais, Maya Rudolph, Will Forte, Martin Short, Alessia Cara and Jane Krakowski.
Also in production is My Father’s Dragon, a 2D-animated family film from acclaimed Irish director Nora Twomey (The Secret of Kells and The Breadwinner). Based on a collection of children’s novels by Ruth Stiles Gannett about a young run-away on a journey to find a captive dragon, this movie will be produced by Cartoon Saloon’s Paul Young and Tomm Moore, alongside Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn of Mockingbird Pictures, featuring a script penned by Meg LeFauve (Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur).
Netflix’s latest announcement of new projects follows yesterday’s news that the streamer is in production on another new CGI-animated feature film called Jacob and the Sea Beast (2022) from Moana director Chris Williams. And it has also recently slated an untitled musical inspired by the life of Fugees singer Wyclef Jean; stop-motion musical Pinocchio from Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro; 2D-animated holiday movie Klaus (2019) from Despicable Me co-creator Sergio Pablos; and demon teen-themed Wendell & Wild (2021) from writer/director Henry Selick (Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline).
Keeping all of these new productions on track is a growing team that has recently welcomed former Cartoon Network exec Curtis Lelash as director of kids and family in LA, and ex-Nickelodeon International animation exec Alexi Wheeler in an undisclosed kids and family international originals role in London.
Netflix reported a 34% increase in revenue for Q3 2018 to US$3.99 billion, netting seven million new subscribers worldwide.
Craig McCracken, Go! Go! Cory Carson, Kid Cosmic, Kuku Studios, Maya and the Three, My Father's Dragon, Netflix, Nora Twomey, The Willoughbys, Trash Truck
Jeremy is the Features Editor of Kidscreen specializing in the content production, broadcasting and distribution aspects of the global children's entertainment industry. Contact Jeremy at jdickson@brunico.com.
Centaurworld charges onto Netflix
Netflix partners on trio of animated preschool series
Netflix locks in overall deal with Kuku Studios
Netflix adds to children’s slate with Scholastic deal
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Iceland Meditations
Thomas Square
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In 2004 the Gentrification Task Force identified the Thomas Square neighborhood as one of five Savannah neighborhoods undergoing effects of gentrification. Their conclusion is based on a set of primary indicators including, but not limited to, increases in household income and increases in home values. Through these seemingly natural processes, gentrification can undermine a community’s social and economic fabric often reducing the community’s cultural diversity.
I do not take a stance for or against gentrification, but acknowledge its existence and potential impacts, both positive and negative. This project serves as in inquiry into the gentrification issue, and in the fall of 2009 I sought to visually document to compose a portrait of Thomas Square, highlighting its cultural diversity, its evolution from past to present and the underlying relationship between the people and the community. It is an effort to define a place.
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Exploiting Peckinpah: the Straw Dogs Remake
“Dueling Banjos” must be expensive music to license. It is about the only thing missing from the formerly indie Rod Lurie’s red state-phobic remake of Sam Peckinpah’s career-defining film, Straw Dogs. Transferred from the English countryside to the Deep South, the once edgy examination of violent human nature is now a standard issue killer hillbilly movie (trailer here), which opens today nationwide.
The prodigal television ingénue Amy Sumner tells her screenwriter husband David her hometown of Blackwater, Mississippi is properly pronounced “Backwater.” There you have the film’s flash of wit. It also tells viewers what to expect of the locals. Everyone watched her canceled show, including her former high school beau Charlie Venner, whom her husband hires to fix their hurricane damaged barn. In retrospect, this is a bad idea.
Venner, his brother Darryl, his other brother Darryl, and their wacky next door neighbor, the unmistakably psychotic Norm, do not exactly hustle on the job, taking plenty of breaks to leer at her and deride his manhood, such as it is. Things quickly escalate when one of the good old boys strings up the family cat in their closet. Yet, Sumner will not confront them directly, preferring to confuse them with his cryptic beating around the bush. Eventually though, things get way out of hand, forcing Sumner to defend home, hearth, and Jeremy Niles, a developmentally disabled grown man with an implied history of inappropriate behavior, whom the gruesome foursome and their former football coach, Tom Heddon, are out to lynch.
Strangely, Lurie’s adaptation hardly ever deviates from the basic structure of Peckinpah’s original, yet he clearly has no clue what made it so effective. For one thing, the 1971 film pulled a cultural reverse, unleashing a violent maelstrom against the picturesque backdrop of Cornwall, while casting a Yank as the pacifist victim. However, a city slicker terrorized by a pack of southern hicks is a real dog-bites-man story in Hollywood.
As a nebbish mathematician, the responses of Dustin Hoffman’s Sumner also made more sense in the context of Peckinpah’s film. It is not hard to imagine he might have been bullied before and is reverting to old survival strategies in his attempts to befriend his antagonists. In contrast, James Marsden’s snobby jag-driving outspokenly atheistic screenwriter never seemed to have a bad day in his life before he got to Blackwater. Frankly, Venner might be a knuckle-dragging neanderthal, but he has a point when he tells Sumner it was rude to walk out during the pastor’s sermon. Of course, in real life he should not be brutalized for such boorishness, but in a sleazy exploitation film (which is really what the new Straw is) it is a close call.
There is no question Lurie is demonizing the gun-and-religion clinging Red-Staters, but at least he refrains from playing the race card in his Straw. Though savage, Venner and his crew are really not portrayed as racists, per se. In fact, they more or less respect the town’s African American lawman, Iraq War hero John Burke. Of course, as an authority figure, they still have problems with him.
At least Lurie gets down to business during the climatic siege, delivering the old school payback with efficient directness, though again he more or less replicates the methods of execution employed in the original film. He also includes the notorious rape scene as well, but the reactions of Kate Bosworth’s Amy Sumner are never ambiguous (indeed, it is hard to blame him for “wimping out” in this respect).
Marsden and Bosworth make a pretty dull, unlikable couple. Alexander Skarsgård is not a particularly flamboyant villain either, but at least he adds an intriguing dimension, hinting at Venner’s possible sense of remorse. Naturally, it is up to James Woods to ham it up something fierce as Coach Heddon, a mean drunk if ever there was one.
It is hard to understand why this film was produced. If Lurie wanted to make a southern fried grindhouse movie, he should have done so without invoking comparison to such a controversial (and superior) film. Faithfully violent but often outright silly, Lurie’s Straw is just about what you think it is. Not recommended (except perhaps as an ironic trip to the drive-in for fly-over country), it opens today (9/16) in several New York theaters, including the Regal Battery Park.
Labels: Killer hillbillies, Remakes, Rod Lurie, Sam Peckinpah
Tykwer’s 3
Happy, Happy: Domestic Bliss in Norway
Very White Russians: Silent Souls
Street Crime on DVD: The Exterminator
Street Crime in TX: Bang Bang
Shut Up Little Man: The Curse of Peter & Raymond
Bruegel & Majewski’s The Mill and the Cross
Music and Textiles: A Weaverly Path
Love in Space and Other Points
My Kingdom: The Art of Stage Fighting
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Sampler platter
Thanks to recent articles on Massively and mmorpg.com pointing to my blog, there have been a ton of new visitors lately. My average hits per day have pretty much doubled. So I thought it'd be fun to write a little introductory piece. If you're new here, welcome!
This blog was originally started as a platform for my run for EVE Online's CSM6. Unfortunately, I lost that run, coming in 15th (out of 14 slots, boo). Still, by the end of the election, I decided that I was enjoying the process of blogging. I was enjoying it so much, in fact, that I was going to continue the blog about my search for a new MMO even when I had decided to unsubscribe from EVE Online. However, I recently reversed that decision, resubbed, and will be continuing to play EVE. So, while this is an "EVE blog", from time to time, I'll be delving into other MMOs. Comparisons will probably ensue. ;-)
I do things a little differently from most EVE blogs. For one thing, I post much more frequently than most. It won't be unusual to have two or three new posts per day here, except on weekends, where I might post once a day. I have regular weekly features, like the Fit of the Week and the Quote of the Week. And I have a wide range of play-styles in game. I've tried just about every play style there is in-game, in fact, and I like to talk about all of them.
So, what do I write about here?
The Big Picture in EVE
A lot of my posts focus on CCP's business model, or internal factors in the game that affect CCP's business. Examples of this:
Not all curves are pretty (Hard data on how many people actually play EVE Online)
We suffer for our art (What the CCP Art Team is doing instead of spaceships)
Pebble (The Fearless newsletter leak)
The die is cast (Why CCP might sell out EVE's current players)
Learn how to fly (Why EVE's current players might want to help them)
EVE Economics
Yet more posts look closely at factors affecting EVE's in-game market. Examples of this:
Key non-conformance indicators (Metrics and why CCP might have stopped publishing QENs)
Nocxium (What the hell is happening to the Nocxium market?)
Chasing the needle (Chasing the EVE commodity market is dangerous)
Target audience (Why the NeX store prices won't drop significantly)
The underwear index (The item to watch to see if EVE goes into a recession)
EVE Politics
I love to delve into various aspects of EVE's in-game politics. Examples:
Spy for the Quote of the Week (Mostly Harmless's death throes)
Canary in the coal mine (Will the blob take over every part of 0.0?)
Bargain basement (Why the sanctum/haven nerf will kill EVE's small alliances)
Hit 'em where it hurts (How to hurt Pandemic Legion)
CSM Watcher
And in a similar fashion, I pretty frequently comment on what EVE's Council of Stellar Management is up to. Examples of this:
Hole-hearted outrage (Why the CSM is wrong about ABC in low-class wormholes)
The quiet men (CSM6's surprisingly subdued first visit to Iceland)
Macro-transactions (Overview of what went right and wrong in the CSM6 election)
Tapestry (The eight most important 0.0 elements CSM6 has to help CCP understand)
Onward Mittens soldiers (CSM6's first fireside chat)
Stuff I'm doing in game
I actually play EVE Online and weirdly, sometimes I write about it. ;-) Examples of this:
Never too late to make a first impression (My first Incursion fleet)
I was there (Small-gang PvP warfare)
When carebears attack (Themed roam against Pandemic Legion)
Massive waste of time (My early battles against Planetary Interaction)
As I mentioned, I like to compare EVE to other MMOs and in the process, I usually get philosophical about game design. Examples of this:
Upper limit (How EVE's skill point system breaks the game)
Practice targets (Why Global Agenda's AI is awesome and EVE's is not)
The next morning (I cheat on EVE with Perpetuum Online)
Don't stand so close to me (Awesome Perpetuum innovation which EVE should steal)
Various other stuff
There are categories of posts that don't really fit anywhere else. Examples:
EVE Player Guides (Player guides about the "how" of various EVE mechanics)
Global Agenda Player Guides (I do the same for Global Agenda, a FPS MMO that I enjoy)
Fits of the Week (I do a deep dive on a particular ship fitting every week)
Proposals (Sometimes I go nuts and make pie-in-the-sky game proposals)
Enjoy your visit. :-)
Posted by Jester at 11:40 AM 1 comment:
Labels: Jester, Meta, Press
Comment of the Week: Fun and rewarding
From the EN24 posting of "Canary in the coal mine", a comment from Bitter Newb that really drives to the heart of the issue:
"Relevant" , "important", and "matter" are a funny terms to describe Eve alliances. To most, they mean "capable of affecting the 0.0 landscape." The thing is, who really cares about affecting nullsec politics and sov? Mostly it's a few egoist empire builders and the rest are carebears. PVPers are just along for the ride because they feel they have to blob to be successful.
Alliances like Merciless don't really care about being relevant; they really do just want the cliche'd "good fights". I think Jester mentioned Merciless because they are one of the few new alliances in this category that have had some success. Previously extant ones include Rooks & Kings, Black Legion, Darkside, Agony, C02, Hydra Reloaded, etc. Just because these alliances aren't building pixel empires doesn't mean they are shit. It means they want to have fun flying their internet spaceships instead of dealing with sov and politics.
These alliances have discovered something that most nullsec residents don't realize: you don't have to blob to be successful or have fun. It's more rewarding to be good at what you do, to fight outnumbered, to innovate tactics, to bond with a smaller group, etc. I would much rather watch a RNK video, or see Hydra in the Alliance Tournament, or read a Merciless battle report, than click refresh on the influence map and read troll posts about which corp jumped from one blobby alliance to another so they could PVE in peace.
Yes, this. EVE is supposed to be fun, remember?
Labels: 0.0, COTW, EVE Online
Riverini from EVE News 24 made me a syndication offer for posts on my blog, which I've accepted. He'll be syndicating four posts a month, likely concentrating on my null-sec musings (since that's EN24's focus). So, from time to time, you might see EN24 commenters here or I might respond to comments that are posted there, here. ;-)
The first post chosen was my musing yesterday on the future of EVE's small-gang PvP alliances.
For those who want to yell "sell-out", sure: guilty. I like ISK as much as the next guy. ;-) I will say in my defense that I told Riverini right up front that while I think EN24's the most successful EVE news site out there right now, I also said:
You run a good site. A little biased sometimes, but there isn't an EVE news site that isn't.
It's kind of an interesting question: could there ever be such a thing as an unbiased EVE news organization? And no, ISD isn't it. They're just as biased. Their bias just happens to be "show EVE in a dramatic light."
Labels: EVE Online, Jester, Press
"Reinforced" is a state that an EVE Online POS can get into if it comes under attack. If you understand how this mechanic works, you can skip the next paragraph and rejoin me with the third.
When a player-owned station first comes under attack, the attackers can continue damaging it until it takes a single point of armor damage. This happens at about 25% shields. At that point, the POS stops consuming its regular POS fuel and begins consuming an alternative fuel (in a second bay) with the ridiculously over-complicated name Strontium Clathrates. "Stront" is consumed by the hour at a rate depending on the size, quality, and location of the tower. During this time, the tower is invulnerable. It can't be destroyed, but it can't be repaired either. Once there isn't enough stront to fuel the tower for a full hour, the tower "comes out of reinforced" and only then may it either be repaired or can be destroyed the rest of the way, depending.
Reinforcing a tower, therefore, puts it at a tipping point. The critical battle for a tower doesn't take place when it's being reinforced. The critical battle takes place when the tower comes out of reinforced. Both the attackers and the defenders gather, and that's when the fate of that tower is decided: will it be repaired or will it be destroyed?
I'm going to say something that I think a lot of EVE players subconsciously realize, but nobody's put into words yet:
EVE Online is a tower that has been reinforced.
We're approaching the tipping point. The battle for this game's future will happen very soon, and either the game will be repaired, or it will be destroyed.
Just in the last 120 days, we've had drama after drama, most thanks to CCP:
the Sanctum/Haven nerf;
the new forums debacle;
Alliance Tournament IX final match;
:$99: "Commercial licenses";
Incarna over-utilizing and overheating graphics cards;
the Incarna "off button" and "show them the door" meme;
Monocles, and the "space-barbies" meme;
Gordon Gecko;
Scorpions for Aurum; and,
the Jita riots (related to the three above).
And that's just what I can think of off the top of my head. There's probably more that I'm forgetting. CCP can't seem to stop the flood. It's gotten to the point that when they speculate about making changes to Local in the CSM May Summit, they have to make sure to insert a bolded, italicized, underlined disclaimer in the minutes to make it clear that they're speculating! (It's on page 7 of the minutes.)
Even more than that, though, there's very good reason to be distressed about the directions that they're developing the game in, and the impact that it's having on the player base. The "Curves" post from a week or so ago is far and away the most visited post I've ever made on this blog; more than 2500 people have read it. And that curve is worrisome as hell. I used to have a good number of RL friends playing EVE. The last one quit a couple of weeks ago because he's tired of sov warfare and wasn't impressed by the Incarna expansion.
When I posted that I myself was going to quit EVE and maybe come back to it in a couple of years to see how things had developed, that showed rather a lot of confidence on my part that there would be an EVE Online in two years to come back to. I'm starting to worry that this might not be the case.
EVE dying is not something I want to have happen. At the end of the day, I've got a lot of fond memories of this game, and I enjoy a lot of aspects of it. It's clear to me now that if I want there to be an EVE to come back to, and I want that EVE to again resemble the game I loved, then sitting out the fight when EVE comes out of reinforced is not an option. As I've said before, it's hard to influence an environment from the outside.
So, consider me resubbed, and X'ing up for the fight to come.
P.S. Dumbest reason for resubbing ever, I'll bet. ;-) -J
P.P.S. I suppose this means I'll need to find a corp. -J
Labels: EVE Online, Geek Philosophy, Jester, Meta
Back in March, I predicted that the sanctum/haven nerf was going to be disastrous for the small sov-holding alliances in EVE. Let's see how that prediction is playing out, shall we?
Yes, I'm being sarcastic. ;-)
I don't think I have to lay it down for most of you: the last four months have been an unmitigated disaster for anyone not part of a 1500-ship blob. The only small alliance winners this summer have been CVA, who -- thanks to the near-worthlessness of Providence -- have retaken much of their pre-Dominion holdings and look set to reestablish a NRDS coalition in this area. They're back over 1000 pilots and apparently doing fine. Delve/Querious is also -- somewhat surprisingly -- turning into a hot-bed of smaller-gang PvP activity. Catch and Period Basis are also doing pretty well in this regard.
These days, the message is clear: if you want small-gang fights, run southwest as fast as your warp drive can carry you.
For surrounding these five regions are the blob. From Fountain in the southeast, clockwise north through Deklein, east through Tribute into the drone regions of the northeast, south through the Great Wildlands and Scalding Pass, down into the southern Russian and AAA space in the southeast and far south, the latter touching into the southern parts of Catch, the blob holds sway.
On paper, separate alliances hold these regions, but the way they fight is the same. Goonswarm is over 7000 members at this point, and their pets push them well over ten thousand. I shall henceforth be calling the residents of the north "NC Reloaded." They might object, but there were 5000 rat kills in the 52-JKU constellation in Tribute in the last 24 hours. That makes any objections they might make laughable and hollow. Mord Fiddle declares them pets of the Russians, and I don't see any particular reason to argue that conclusion at this time. My opinions of the Russians across the eastern half of the map remain unchanged. Hell, I've pulled all of my PvP stuff out of the regions bordering Scalding Pass and the Great Wildlands over the last few days. It's clear that unless I care to learn Russian or play EVE during the U.S. work-day, I won't be visiting my old stomping grounds there ever again.
EDIT (28/Jul/2011): Just to be clear, now that I read this again, it reads like I'm including GS as part of NC Reloaded. I'm not. NC Reloaded = Raiden/Ev0ke/NCdot and their subsidiaries, potentially including PL (though I'm willing to be convinced otherwise on that last one).
Will AAA be next? We'll see over the next few months. The most recent fight was in Tenerefis. The only winner of that fight was lag.
Mord at Fiddler's Edge and corelin at Haberdashers Run Amok are chatting about what the null-bears are going to do, but that isn't a difficult (or honestly, an interesting) question for me. Wildly Inappropriate is now a single corp in Goonswarm. That says all that really needs to be said on that topic, honestly. Hell, it might say all that needs to be said about null-sec politics in 2011.
But no, the next canary in the coal mine are the small unbounded PvP alliances. Not mercenary, not particularly sov-holding, these alliances have been the drivers for small-gang PvP in null-sec. For my money, the most important alliance to EVE's future right now is Merciless., currently living in Venal and holding down a small section of Tribute, spoils of war captured when NC Reloaded pushed the old NC out of that region. It's tempting to just dismiss them as part of NC Reloaded. But it also feels wrong to do so. Merciless are a very solid small-gang PvP bunch that have moved around the EVE map pretty freely, as the winds of PvP have carried them since the alliance's creation about ten months ago. They have a few super-caps at their disposal, but are not what you would call a super-cap alliance.
From the outsider's perspective, Merciless. seems to be suffering. Their member count is down 30% -- to about 500 -- in the last month, in part due to a slow bleed, in part due to a few member corps apparently seeking their fortunes elsewhere. Garst Tyrell, the lader of Merciless., says 100 of those lost members were a corp they had leadership issues with. I know Garst has little to no interest in holding sov. And Garst both leads the alliance, and the alliance's founding corp, No.Mercy (down 25%, to 60 members). The job of renting out or selling their few sov systems in Tribute seems to be in progress.
So what does the future hold for Merciless. (and by extension, similar small PvP alliances in EVE)? It's hard to say. I have no predictions for you this time.
A few days ago, Garst announced they would be resetting virtually all of their blues. That strikes me as a good place to start. ;-)
Posted by Jester at 12:16 PM No comments:
Labels: 0.0, EVE Blogs, EVE Online, Meta, Syndicated
Fit of the Week: POS-bash Apocalypse
[Apocalypse, Tower]
Adaptive Nano Plating II
Heat Sink II
1600mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
100MN MicroWarpdrive II
Cap Recharger II
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range
Mega Pulse Laser II, Scorch L
Large Trimark Armor Pump I
Garde II x2
These days, if a null-sec alliance wants to take down a tower and the associated mods, they call in their Titan/Super-Carrier fleet to do it, with maybe a few Dreadnoughts in support.
But what if you don't have 30 or 40 Titans, or God forbid, the tower is in high-sec? What if, even worse, the tower is in a cyno-jammed system? Well, in these cases, you'll need a battleship fleet. The best anti-tower battleships are a) relatively cheap, b) high DPS, and c) have at least 100,000 EHP buffer as measured in EFT. You could use Hellcats, but they don't really pass tests (a) or (b). You could use alpha Maelstroms, but they don't really pass tests (a) or (c). So you might want to look into a tower-bashing Apocalypse instead. This fitting is my favorite version of that ship.
Most tower bashes take place at the 30-35 kilometer range band, and this Apoc does about 750 DPS in that range band with cheap faction Multifrequency crystals and a couple of sentry drones. Even better, unlike a lot of tower-bashing ships, this one is cap-stable while doing it. Dual Tracking Computers are a player favorite for pulse laser ships, and allow either greater optimal range or greater tracking against defense ships, particularly bombers. When bashing the tower, you can keep one of them off-line with a tracking speed script loaded in case of the latter contingency, or even run them both unscripted.
Like most Amarr ships, Apocs generally have plenty of grid but tend to run low on CPU. You will need Weapon Upgrades V to fit this ship, but don't need Advanced Weapon Upgrades V. Most of your lows (and a lot of your CPU) are going to your tank, and Adaptive Nano Plating II mods both use no CPU and are extremely cheap. You can even use dead-space C-type ANPs if you like. They're not too terribly expensive and work nearly as well as an Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II. If you find yourself with some spare CPU headroom (if you can't use the T2 Mega Pulses or the T2 Tracking Computers, for instance), feel free to replace the ANPs with additional EANMs. You can also use an active explosive hardener if the tower you're going to go after is a "death star" with lots of artillery and auto-cannons.
Carry three types of crystals in cargo: the Multifrequencies for close-range, the excellent Scorch ammo for long range, and a mid-range option. I like X-Ray for that. Then carry non-faction MFs and X-Rays in the unlikely event your faction crystals burn out. There's little to no need to carry Standard or longer-range crystals. The Scorch ammo has both longer range and higher DPS, and you won't need the cap savings of the longer-range ammo. So carry an extra Scorch crystal or two in case those burn out. Finish filling out your drone bay with either a flight of Hornet ECM drones or a third sentry if the danger is truly minimal.
The nice thing about this ship is that it's high DPS, cheap to replace, and cap-stable for a long POS bash. Hell, you could practically AFK the bash if you wanted. But if the defenders show up and a fight does happen, this Apoc is also a pretty fair PvP ship thanks to its high DPS, fast tracking and solid buffer. As long as there are a couple of Guardians nearby, you won't die quickly.
Happy POS-bashing!
Posted by Jester at 11:45 AM No comments:
Crowdsourcing choices
Epileptic Rift, Poetic Stanziel, and Rhavas have all listed the items they voted for in Trebor's CSM Crowdsourcing activities. It's a great idea, so here are the choices I made and why. If you care to vote, you do it on the EVE Online forums.
I chose to vote for 10 items, giving each two points. I decided against down-voting any of the proposals, though I came pretty close on one of them.
1. AFK/Busy/Available Indicator. There's nothing more annoying in an alliance than to see 50 people docked when a home defense op is called and wonder why only 10 X up for the fleet. This one is long overdue.
8. Assault Frigate 4th Bonus. Please, for the love of God, fix assault frigs. These things could be so awesome and would go a long way toward spreading cheap PvP. But as a class, I'll bet they're the third least-used ships after EAFs and Black Ops. Yet, every PvP pilot has the skills for them. I would totally settle for just the AB boost that was proposed oh-those-many-moons ago.
12. Balance self-destruction. Self-destruction should generate a kill-mail crediting anyone who was shooting at the ship in the last minute, and should drop loot like any other destroyed ship. It's really just that simple. Still, this is my least-important vote.
15. Boost Nighthawk. It's the only field command ship that sucks. Even the Astarte is better, and that's saying something. More than this, though, there should be more T2 battle cruisers, because BCs rock. Yet more PvP opportunity.
27. Corporation Bookmarks. Why are we even talking about this? Fucking make this happen, CCP. The crap that corps, particularly WH corps, have to go through to get standardized bookmarks to their members is stupid. My most important vote.
31. Destroyer Improvements. Sensing a pattern? EVE desperately, desperately needs more ship balancing. I've written at length about this before.
41. Factional Warfare - Lack of Development Part 2. Remember that iteration thing that Seleene was gonna push as part of the CSM? Start from here, please. FW and low-sec in general needs some love. My second-most important vote.
56. Improve Overload User Interface. Gods, yes. I am filled with so much hate for those tiny, tiny, tiny buttons.
74. Modifiable corporation orders. Those of you who grok this know what I mean, and why I voted for this. Those who don't will never get it.
84. Personal wallet divisions. Gosh, wouldn't it be nice if you were immune to scamming yourself thanks to EVE's crappy market interface sometimes managing to take money away from you? This is the very smallest thing that personal wallet divisions would fix.
Runners up: 28. Coporation and Alliance tool overhaul: not chosen because it only affects a small number of people, but yes, it'd be nice. 3. Character Switching Without Logoff: yeah, this is annoying. -143. War-dec mechanics: note the minus! If I were gonna vote one of the current proposals down, this would be the one. 80. Neutral Orcas in high-sec wars: that said, this isn't cool. 35. Drone improvements: it'd be cool if there was a viable 4th type of combat, and it'd be a functional Gallente buff, both of which I approve of. 140. Unnerf the bio length: I feel like this one is inevitable.
A surprising number of the items on the list have already been implemented, leading one to believe that CCP actually reads this list from time to time. ;-) So go ahead and vote!
Labels: CSM6, EVE Blogs, EVE Online, Proposals
The Ditanian Fleet
As implied by the previous post, I spent some more time in New Eden over the weekend, but I wasn't anywhere near Deklein. ;-)
Instead, I wanted to spend some more time playing around with the incursions feature in EVE. Specifically, I wanted to join an armor fleet, since I had spent all of my incursion time the previous week in shield fleets. I was also hoping to try out some Assaults, the middle level of incursion site between Vanguards on the low-end and HQs on the high-end.
The first thing that I discovered is that the armor fleet side of incursions isn't quite as well-organized as the shield fleet side is. They do have an in-game channel to organize fleets: "The Ditanian Fleet". However, it was neither so well-populated nor as well set up as the shield channel. It didn't identify the "focus" area for armor fleets, for one thing. Active incursions were happening in Amarr and Khanid space, so I guessed (correctly, as it turned out) that most of the armor fleets would be in Khanid space and based there. I decided to stick with playing Logistics, since they were clearly in every bit as much demand for armor fleets as for shield fleets.
That led me to start with my favorite 1600mm plate Guardian. But I figured the single medium repper wouldn't go over well, so I said "what the hell" and built myself a Medium Ancillary Current Router II. Fitting this rather expensive piece of hardware onto one of my PvP Guardians solved the grid problem preventing me from using a fourth large repper, so I made the swap. Trading the Hornet ECs for T2 rep drones and the ECCM for a Tracking Link gave me additional flexibility and a combat role. So refitted, I decided to bide my time a bit, wait, and see if I could spot an active Assault fleet rather than randomly advertising and perhaps ending up in a Vanguard.
My patience soon paid off. An active Assault fleet advertised for a replacement logi. I dropped my fitting into channel and was in fleet ten seconds later.
I again neglected to mention that this was my first Assault ever and my first incursion ever in an armor fleet. ;-) Still, I'm just as experienced in a Guardian as I am in a Scimi, so the transition was pretty easy. I got into the logi channel, declared myself as having Logi 5 skill, picked up a primary and back-up cap partner, and I was all set. Assault fleets receive their maximum bonus at 20 pilots, and I guessed (again, correctly) that six of them would be Logistics pilots like myself. Unsurprisingly, all six were Guardians (will the poor Oneiros ever get some love?). I received a compliment on my fit and some advice on how to make it even better for future incursions, which I filed away.
First up, a Nation Commander Stronghold.
I'm not sure what I was expecting, but my first NCS was not it. I'd heard that Assaults were not as profitable as Vanguards, but hadn't heard why. But overall, I think I was expecting something somewhat less difficult than the fast-moving Vanguards. What I got was the hardest incursion site I'd experienced to date: more than 20 ships in the initial wave throwing an absolutely terrifying amount of DPS. The first ship aggressed, even with 24 large reppers working on him full-bore, quickly dipped into deep armor. It was like the Guardians weren't repping him at all! I peeled the logi drones off my cap partner and threw them into the fray, finger hovering over the overheat button, just in case. Our fleet's DPS ships, containing T2 and faction Apocs in what seemed like every color of the rainbow (with a few non-Apoc hulls here and there for variety), started working on the rats.
And slowly... the aggroed member of the fleet stabilized, then started to recover, and I started to breathe again.
After the site, I learned that a couple of logis and a couple of DPS ships had been slow entering the field, so what I saw that first NCS wasn't quite typical. Still, I can only assume there's some kind of spawning bug in the Nation Commander Stronghold that hasn't been addressed yet, because the initial alpha that site throws is tough! Trust EVE players to learn how to manage it, though.
Later that weekend, this time as part of a shield fleet, I got to experience that initial NCS alpha first-hand in my Scimi... and very nearly lost the ship for my trouble. The number of battleships in that initial wave is scary enough, but the initial spawn also includes heavy neuts and a silly number of webs. My Scimi was doing fine until those webs hit. That dropped my speed and transversal to near-nothing, the neuts all but killed my hardeners, and the battleships then very nearly ate me alive. Thanks to my fellow logis and a strategic bit of hardener overheating at the right moment, I escaped in 33% armor... not where you want to be in a Scimi.
So, when you go into a Nation Commander Stronghold, keep it in mind: those first 60 seconds are the worst. After that, player DPS takes hold, reducing the amount of damage the site can produce. Happily, though there is a second wave to the NCS, you can skip it by killing the correct target. The remaining ships in the second wave then warp off.
That's the good news. Even better, a fleet that's on the ball can complete the NCS in about 15 minutes with a pay-out of a little over 18 million ISK for a high-sec incursion. This makes 75 million ISK/hour routine if you can find a steady flow of NCSs.
The bad news is that you probably can't. ;-) I quickly discovered why Assaults are regarded as inferior to Vanguards. Of the three Assault sites, only the NCS is considered worth blitzing. Another Assault site, the Nation Consolidation Network, is not considered worth doing at all. The site splits the fleet in half for most of the site. This requires a great deal of coordination between the two halves of the fleet and a careful balance of DPS, Logistics, and attack orders. It's a cute idea in theory, but in practice soon becomes a giant pain in the tail. The remaining site, the Overwhelmed Civilian Facility, is considered somewhat sub-par, particularly for armor fleets.
As a result, the Assault fleet I was in ended up doing a bit more traveling around than the HQ and Vanguard fleets, since it was considered worthwhile to do NCSs as much as possible even if the fleet had to occasionally change systems to find them. So, in practice, the pay for Assaults turned out to be somewhat less than the easier Vanguards.
After about two hours, the armor fleet that I was in lost enough members that the FC decided to downshift to Vanguards. This gave me the opportunity to see the armor fleet in action against these frigate- and cruiser-heavy sites. Surprisingly, it did quite well! By that time, we were down to a pair of Paladins, a pair of Amarr faction battleships, and a trio of Legions, plus our Logis. The longish-range, fast-tracking pulse lasers -- all using faction crystals, of course -- fit by these ships absolutely devastated the Vanguard sites, with the large Amarr drone bays taking up any slack created by our four battleships and their large guns. We completed ten Vanguards in a bit under 85 minutes, somewhat faster than a comparable shield fleet.
I was able to participate in a couple of other armor fleets over the weekend, and their performance was similar. However, getting into an armor fleet was a bit tougher; there were fewer of them roaming around. Part of this was the lack of use of the official armor channel; I later learned that it averages about 3/5 the number of players of the shield channel. The rest can probably be attributed to the lower popularity of armor-tanked ships for PvE compared to their shield-tanked brethren.
So, overall, an interesting couple of days! I learned a lot. Thanks to the guys that let me fly with them!
Labels: Empire, EVE Online, Incursions, PvE
I'll make this quick.
What is the difference between a good MMO GM team and a poor GM team?
A good MMO GM team is responsive and pro-active. Being pro-active means keeping track of what's going on in the politics and in the "outside world" of your game and preparing for the logical outcomes of events in advance. One of the things I mentioned in my "good things about Perpetuum Online" post the other day was the fact that a PO GM contacted me about 30 minutes after I started playing the game to let him know if I had any questions. I did, in fact, have a few, and the GM was quick to respond to those questions as I raised them. My first question was very basic, in fact: how do I open the cargo bay of my Arkhe when deployed? It was a simple UI question and the GM handled it.
Even more than these sorts of simple questions, though, the Perpetuum GMs (and later, the devs) reacted quickly and efficiently to the influx of new EVE players that hit their servers. They were also very responsive when that influx itself caused problems. They had what fighter pilots call "situational awareness": they could see outside factors influencing their area of responsibility and pro-actively responded to those factors, reinforcing the positive outcome of better game servers and limiting the fallout of negative outcome of potential player rage.
Over and over again, in forum after forum, I'm reading stories about pro-active and responsive Perpetuum Online GMs. Even though I found the game itself to be a bit second-rate, there's no question that those involved in the making and supporting of it are enthusiastic and on top of things. More than one EVE player has described it as reminiscent of EVE back in 2003. And those GMs and devs are being rewarded: more than one such EVE player has urged others to support PO and to encourage their GMs and devs to retain this level of involvement. They recognize the game is weak but also recognize that money and support will improve it. That's what good situational awareness buys you: an involved, positive player base.
Compare and contrast with EVE Online, particularly in the area of being pro-active.
There are only a few areas of New Eden that are active from a 0.0 large bloc warfare stand-point right now. There's some fighting going on in Delve, certainly, between the Nulli Secunda bloc and various enemies. There's also large battles going on in Catch/Provi between -A- and White Noise. Still, in the new era of 0.0 warfare, these are currently no bigger than skirmishes, mostly with only a few dozen pilots, with perhaps as many as 200 pilots on each side for the largest battles.
The biggest 0.0 hot-spot over the weekend was unquestionably VFK-IV in Deklein. Goonswarm had trapped and rape-caged a flock of "New NC" super-caps at POSs in orbit of three moons in that system. The Goons were keeping hundreds of people in that system 24/7 to keep those rape-cages up and active. Only a complete 0.0 moron could fail to notice this. The system was showing up like a freakin' cyno beacon on the in-game map for days, with a population blob color to rival the most active systems in high-sec. There was no way in hell the New NC was going to leave those super-caps there to rot. There would definitely be a rescue op, and it would come sooner rather than later.
And the EVE Online GMs, obviously anticipating that this action would take place... did absolutely nothing at all.
When the hammer dropped, it dropped on an unreinforced node.
Hundreds of players ended up jumping into the dreaded black screen and having to relog in order to play. Before it was over, there were near 1200 pilots in system, something that was entirely predictable given the size blobs that both groups can field. When players did get on grid, lag swiftly reached soul-crushing levels. And in the middle of all of this:
A gm was seen in local saying that CCP was not notified about the extra load the node was to experience.
Nice. Real nice. Way to blame the victim.
Granted, there's a fleet fight form to warn GMs about upcoming large battles(1). But you know, EVE GMs, it would have been nice if you'd shown the tiniest bit of awareness about your game and pro-actively reinforced this node until the situation stabilized. Are there that few servers that can be shuffled around for reinforcing nodes? Were they that busy?
Show some situational awareness, please.
(1) But the form, of course, assumes that players will use the form when it's appropriate to do so. The Goons had no reason whatsoever to do so, even though they knew the battle would take place. Soul-crushing lag would generally work to their advantage, so why would they fill out the form?
Labels: 0.0, CCP, Comparisons, EVE Online, Meta, Perpetuum Online
Guide: Basic Incursion Tagging
Introduction and Definition
In a traditional PvP fleet, the FC will declare this target or that target as "primary", designating targets as primary one-by-one until they are all destroyed. However, this results in very little communications bandwidth for chit-chat, which is the only thing that makes repeating the same few incursion sites over and over again bearable. ;-) As a result, nearly all incursion fleets instead rely on Overview tagging of targets to designate which targets should be fired on.
This also introduces an element of increased flexibility for an incursion fleet, since there are several types of tags -- alpha and numeric -- that can be used to designate different types of targets. An incursion fleet includes different types of ships in different roles, so this differentiation of targets is important, particularly in the higher level Assault and HQ incursion sites. Before joining an incursion fleet for the first time, it is important to understand how these tags work so that you can direct your fire properly.
This guide will also cover the basics of how to tag an incursion site so that you can understand the theory behind what you are being asked to do.
To see and use tags in incursion sites, the first thing you're going to have to do is make them visible on your Overview. Click the lined box on the upper left hand corner of your overview to open the menu, then select "Open Overview Settings". Once you're in, you want the tab marked "Columns", as shown. Make tags visible by clicking on the "Tags" checkbox shown at left. A lot of players find it useful to move the Tags column to either the far left or the far right of their Overview, so use the "Move Up" and "Move Down" buttons as needed to make that happen.
It's also very helpful in incursions to filter your Overview such that fleet members do not appear on the Overview. This is done on the Filters tab, in the States setting, by unchecking the "Pilot is in your Fleet" checkbox. This will cause members of your fleet to disappear from your Overview. Since you will be fighting in incursions with between nine and 70+ other fleet members, your Overview will be much more manageable and less cluttered if your fleet members do not appear.
As your fleet's tagger works, tags will appear in the Tags column using numbers (0-9) and letters (A-J, X-Z). You will be shooting at tagged targets in either alphabetical or numerical order depending on your role in the fleet. As a result, many players in incursion fleets like to sort their Overview by tag while they are doing incursions. To do so, click the Tag column until it is in the desired order.
Fleet Roles
To understand how tags will work in incursion fleets, you need to understand the roles in an incursion fleet. There are five roles: FC, tagger, logistics, DPS, and sniper. There is a sixth role that might or might not be used in your fleet: drone FC. The FC will act as any other fleet FC will do, issuing orders which should be immediately followed. The tagger's role is to place tags for all fleet members to see on their Overview. Every fleet will have someone in the tagging role, even if that person is the FC doing his or her own tagging. Your role will depend on your ship type, and this guide assumes that you are either in a DPS or sniper role.
DPS are defined as ships that have good damage and tracking out to about 50 kilometers or less, depending on ship and weapon type. There will likely be a mix of both close-range DPS (most Minmatar ships, most Gallente ships) and medium-range DPS (most Caldari ships, many Amarr ships) in your fleet. Snipers are defined as ships that have good ranged damage from 50 to 150 kilometers (in shield fleets, for example, most will be Ravens, Scorpions, Maelstroms, and Nightmares). Your ship fitting will determine which of these roles you will take.
If your fleet has a drone FC, as soon as you enter the site, you will launch your drones and then assist them (not Guard, Assist) to the drone FC. This will cause your drones to automatically attack the targets attacked by your drone FC.
Tag Types and Uses
There are five types of tags:
Full Fleet tags: 0 and 1
DPS tags: 2 through 9
Sniper tags: A through I
Drone tags: X through Z
Trigger tag: J
"Full Fleet" tags, 0 and 1, represent targets that the FC or tagger has designated for all available DPS. This means that DPS ships and sniper ships will both attack targets with these tags. The drone FC (if your fleet is using one) will also attack these targets. If you are controlling your own drones, it is generally accepted that you will put your drone DPS on tags 0 and 1 as well (though this varies a bit by fleet). In addition, any time that a target is tagged 0 or 1, no matter your role and what you are attacking, you will shift your fire to the newly-designated 0 or 1 tag. This will most often happen when a new spawn enters the field.
Otherwise, if you are a DPS ship, you will be shooting at targets in numerical order, starting with target 0 and ascending to target 9. Once target 9 is destroyed, you will continue with the lowest number target, whatever that may be. Watch for the creation of new tag 0 and 1 targets if they are created. In addition, listen to the FC for change of orders, which may happen occasionally, particularly in higher level or Sansha Mothership sites. In addition, you may occasionally be called upon to fire on sniper targets "until they are out of range." If that is the case, use the optimal ranges of your weapons as a guide to determine when that is.
Snipers will shoot targets 0 and 1 as needed, but will then attack targets in alphabetical order, from A through I. Again, watch for the creation of new tag 0 and 1 targets and redirect fire as needed to those targets.
If you have a drone FC, he will direct your drone damage to targets X through Z in order. Otherwise, assign your drones to attack targets X through Z in order. When target Z is dead, either direct your fire to the new X target, or -- if there are no targets tagged X through Z -- onto the current DPS target.
Do not attack target J until directed to do so! If a target is tagged J, this represents the trigger target that will cause a new wave to spawn. Attacking triggers out of order is the quickest way to be black-listed and prevented from attending future large incursion fleets.
Basic Tagging
Now that the basics are understood, let's look at tagging for a typical incursion site. As our example, we'll use the first and main wave of the Nation Commander Stronghold, the most difficult and most profitable of the incursion Assault sites.
The NCS includes an initial wave of more than 20 ships, which can be overwhelming to the beginner. Still, the mechanics of the targets are very well understood at this point, as shown from the Incursion Guide article above. Each of the nine types of incursion sites has such a page on the Incursion Guide website, and each divides the ships in each wave by the type of DPS that should be applied to the target. Review the article closely, and you'll find that these 20+ ships have been split into four categores: "full fleet", "damage", "sniper", and "drones." Like many incursion sites, the NCS has initial targets that the full fleet DPS should be applied to to knock them down as quickly as possible. After that is done, the player fleet can then split DPS by type to take down individual objectives.
The tagger should recognize right away from the guide that the Arnon Epithalamus and Mara Paleo are targets for the full fleet DPS. As the tagger enters the field, he should tag the Arnon with the "0" tag right away, followed by "1" and "2" tags for the two Maras. That will get landing ships busy. This wave also features a Niarja Myelen, an annoying jamming frigate that will make life difficult for the player fleet's logi pilots. That should be tagged with an "X" next, followed by a "Y" for the Schmaeel Medulla.
At that point, damage and sniper tags can be applied as tags 0, 1, and 2 are destroyed, starting with an "A" through "D" tags for the Yulai Crus Cerebi, then a "3" for the Auga Hypophysis, and so on until the entire site is tagged. Once near-complete, the tags you deploy will be:
0 Arnon Epithalamus
1 Mara Paleo
3 Auga Hypophysis
4 Intaki Colliculus
6 Ostingele Tectum
8 Romi Thalamus
A Yulai Crus Cerebi
B Yulai Crus Cerebi
C Yulai Crus Cerebi
D Yulai Crus Cerebi
E Antem Neo
F Antem Neo
G Antem Neo
X Niarja Myelen
Y Schmaeel Medulla
Z Eystur Rhomben
This will leave a couple of untagged Romis and Renyns on the field. As the fleet destroys targets "2", "3", "X", and "Y", these tags can then be applied to the remaining ships. Your FC should remind the DPS ships that after they complete tag "9", they should proceed to tag "2", and that as soon as tag "Z" is destroyed by drones, they should move those drones to the new tag "X".
Tagging is an important role in an incursion fleet, nearly as important as the FC's role. A good tagger will make the jobs of both the players and the FC much easier, and allow the FC to keep the communication channel open for general chit-chat. Doing so makes incursions much more friendly and fun, sicne most of the fun in doing incursions comes from the social aspect of being mixed and matched with various other types of EVE players. Without a good tagger, this social interaction doesn't happen and doing incursion fleets becomes just another boring grind.
Don't forget to thank your tagger at the end of a fleet. Tagging is a thankless job, but the difference between a good tagger and a bad one will be all the difference in the world...
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Labels: EVE Guides, EVE Online, Incursions, PvE
Key non-conformance indicators
I'm going to delve a bit into the technical aspects of metrics. Hang on tight.
In the business community, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are the important metrics that you use to measure how well your business is doing if your piece of the business is not directly financial in nature. Let's say we're building iPhones for Apple to sell. In manufacturing, three important KPIs are the availability, performance, and quality of your manufacturing lines. The first measures how many hours per day your manufacturing line can run. The second measures how many iPhones your manufacturing line can produce when it is running. The third measures what percentage of those iPhones meet quality standards once their manufacturing is complete. Simple enough so far?
KPIs are important, because they make it easy to see the "levers" that can be used to improve your business. If you can manufacture 5000 quality iPhones per day, it's easy to see where you can make changes to make that 6000 per day. You can increase availability (unless it's already at 24 hours/day), or you can increase quality (unless it's already at 100%), or you can increase performance.
Or you can open a second factory.
Once your metrics are in place, changing the underlying assumptions underneath them can make it a lot harder to compare historical data. If you open a second factory, do you combine the metrics from your second factory with your first? This will create a large change in the data that you will have to explain every time you show your metrics. Or do you measure separately? And if you do that, what happens if one factory (because it is newer, say) has significantly higher performance than the other? How do you explain the difference month after month?
Things really get tricky if the data start showing things that you don't want to share. To get to 6000 iPhones manufactured per day, suppose you greatly upgrade your factory's performance at the cost of its quality. You're producing more sale-ready iPhones, but you're also producing many more defective iPhones that will need rework before they can be shipped. That's data you might not want to share with Apple. So one month, you might not publish your quality data. You publish and highlight your performance data instead, showing the large increase in output, explain the historical difference, and keep the quality data to yourself.
And hopefully, Apple doesn't ask. And if they don't, it's easier to keep that quality data to yourself next month, too.
Which brings us to today's EVE Online devblog.
Dr EyjoG, CCP's economist in charge of EVE, has traditionally published Quarterly Economic Newsletters about 45 days after the end of the quarter. I've spoken of them in this blog many times, and the 4Q 2010 was great fodder for two or three blog posts looking at different aspects of the EVE economy. I've been waiting impatiently for the 1Q 2011 QEN, because I thought it would contain excellent baseline data to compare to the 2Q QEN. That was important because the biggest economic change to EVE Online since Dominion was made the first week in April, with the sanctum/haven nerf. That presumably hugely reduced the amount of ISK moving in the game and I was really looking forward to seeing the numbers.
Only, it looks like we're not going to get QENs in the future.
The devblog itself is a complete waste of your time... a little piece of nothing-fluff comparing the four established EVE price indices. Each index supposedly measures a different aspect of the EVE consumer economy, but as I've written before, the quarterly slices make this data practically useless. It doesn't help that EVE's Consumer Price Index contains more than 4000 items which range from ships to POSs to ammo to PLEXes: in short, items from durable goods to consumables and back. It's worthless as an economic indicator. The graph that accompanies the devblog confirms it showing (as it does) the CPI being completely flat for the last four years.
Despite massive changes to EVE's consumer goods in that time, the CPI graph is flat because there are so many items in the CPI, that big changes to one item are damped down by stagnation in other items. It's one of the reasons that I wish EVE had a "durable goods index" containing items that are rarely destroyed like Hulks and capital ships. Taking these items out of the CPI would reduce this stagnating factor.
So, as I said, the devblog is practically worthless. An EVE player was quick to ask: "is this blog a replacement for the QEN?" Dr EyjoG was good enough to answer, and his answer isn't comforting:
We will change the format of the QEN but this devblog and the data that comes along with it is an addition to other economic information available to the players. This is a part of a larger plan to give more data directly to players so that they can do their own analysis. And yes, this will continue in the future.
We have not published QENs for 2010 (sic) and will most likely not publish them in the previous format but rather moving the Economic Newsletters to more of an annual report. The frequency of the publication is though still being discussed.
In other words: "yes", this useless crap is replacing the QENs, with some other "annual report" data and "more data directly to the players" being discussed for the future. In short, I think we can safely assume that the Q1 QEN metrics showed some data that CCP is not in a hurry to share.
Labels: CCP, EVE Online, In-game Money, Syndicated
Highway larceneve
Back in April, I predicted that EVE's first trillion ISK theft would happen this year. Either I was 100 million off, or there's a still bigger theft coming before December 31.
Or I was 400 million off. Or I was some amount off. With a theft this big, it quickly becomes impossible to determine just how much was stolen. In the meantime, you can read about the new record holder.
Labels: EVE Online, In-game Money, Meta
Despite myself...
I'm gonna bow to reality and move EVE back up to the list of "Current MMOs" on the right for a while. I'm still unsubbed, with 30-odd days to go on most of my accounts. But I've spent more time in EVE in the last couple of weeks than in the previous couple of months, most of that in high-sec incursion fleets, learning how this element of EVE works.
What I'm learning: I'm enjoying the incursion fleets far more than I should be, given EVE's terrible, terrible PvE.
But the PvE part is entirely incidental. What I'm enjoying is the very friendly, sociable, knowledgeable players that are in the incursion fleets. It seems like a good, solid half of them are ex-0.0 players like I am, but with the refreshing attitude that they're not interested in going back to 0.0 in the future. They've done it. They've survived it. And they're no longer interested in it. Another quarter are alts for current 0.0 players taking a break from 0.0 to make some ISK. As a result, the level of derp in an incursion fleet is surprisingly low.
Targets are identified by tags in the overview (I'll post a guide for them this weekend sometime, I think), which means that actual fleet communication in voice chat is usually fairly rare, except for the occasional "Watch your tags!" or "Niarja on the field, retagging." or "Everyone watch out; new bomber spawn." The shooting is pretty boring and routine, which leaves a lot of time open for chit-chat with friendly, knowledgeable EVE players. And you get a new batch of them to talk to every time you log in.
It's quite refreshing.
Even better, there's very little waiting involved (or at least, that's been my experience). You log in, you X up for a fleet, and as long as you follow the right procedure and your ship fitting is good, you're out flying within ten minutes or so. And the better your ship, the shorter that amount of time. Which means that incursion fleets are a true meritocracy. If you don't know how to fit or fly a ship in EVE, you won't get picked up. You learn or you don't get to play. There is little to no, "I don't care what you think. I like this fitting and I'm using it." If your fitting is bad, you'll be using it by yourself.
This pushes the level of derp in an incursion fleet even lower.
Most surprising of all (though I guess I should have expected this), since there are eight times as many people in high-sec as there are in 0.0, there are incursion fleets going at all hours... including hours friendly to those of us in California. ;-) I've had a couple of nights where I struck out, but most of the time, even if I have only a couple of hours to do this, it's available to me.
So... yeah. I seem to be enjoying a part of EVE again despite myself. Still going to Global Agenda for my PvP needs, though.
But wouldn't it be nice if CCP could find a way to create PvP like this -- little or no waiting, knowledgeable players, monitored ship fittings?
Think of a medieval tournament.
You probably thought of jousting, didn't you? This is the modern audience's romanticized view of medieval tournaments: two heavily-armored knights on horseback, charging at each other, lances in their hands. The winner takes on someone tougher in the same contest. Repeat until only one knight remains. But for most of the 300 or so years that tournaments happened in Europe, the joust was among the least important events. There were other events: contests of swordsmanship, horsemanship, and archery among them. But the main event of the tournament was actually the French-originated mêlée, simplified to the English word melee.
In the melee, dozens or hundreds of knights would be divided into two teams and they would simulate a full battle, often taking all day! This was a hugely popular event. It would open with both sides charging at each other on horseback with lances (the origin of jousting). Those that remained on horseback continued fighting that way until knocked or dragged from their saddles. Those unhorsed would fight on foot until they were injured, exhausted, or killed. The melee would continue until one side or the other was victorious, or until the sun went down. Though it was a "game", the tournament melee was often soon indistinguishable from a real battle, with knights from rival kingdoms taking advantage of real-life rivalries or attacking real-life enemies. Often, knights were captured in the melee and held for ransom -- it was considered among the valid rewards for the victors of the melee.
And ambushes and accidents happened. It was not at all uncommon for a knight on team A to be focused on attacking a knight on team B in front of him, tiring but close to victory, only to be brained from behind by a second knight on team B with a mace. Serious injury or death would be the result, and it wasn't always unintentional.(1) Ganging up was also common. A lord might enter the tourney field with his tenant knights around him, protecting him from harm so that he could come through the entire melee as the victor, not unlike what happens today in competitive cycling.
Black Prophecy PvP is a lot like medieval tournament melees.
At the end of a long string of required PvE missions, where you are introduced to the game mechanics, your ship, the story, the players, the crafting system, and everything else about the game, you are finally required to "choose a side." The two sides are the Tyi, a human race off-shoot that has chosen to augment themselves with technology (think cyborgs) and the Genides, a second off-shoot focused on biological enhancements (think splicers from Bioshock).
At the lower level of play, it doesn't seem to matter very much which side you choose. Your ship stats don't even change very much; the previous upgrades that you've bought or crafted for your previous non-Tyi/non-Genide ship are just transferred over with no changes. This might or might not change at higher levels of play. The U.S. beta of Black Prophecy doesn't really work well past level 12 or so, so I can't say.
Once you choose a side, though, you are transferred from the starting all-PvE areas to a new set of mixed PvE/PvP areas. And when I say mixed, I mean truly mixed. If you accept a PvE mission, you'll be going into a PvP area to complete that mission. Others in that area might be completing PvE missions, or they might be there specifically to hunt people trying to complete PvE missions. They might be on your side, or they might be on the other side. They might be there to hunt the hunters. And maybe they have three or four of their friends logged in to help them. Or just maybe they're in the area just to test a new ship fitting by shooting a few rats. Or a few other players. The guy attacking you might be level 6 and be unable to penetrate your shields, much less your armor. Or maybe he's level 12, with a plasma-based weapon that can kill you in five or six shots. People on your side might jump in to defend you if you get attacked, or they might take the opportunity while you're keeping the hunters busy to complete a PvE mission themselves instead.
"Chaotic" doesn't even begin to describe it. ;-)
It's definitely not how I would have designed things. In a way, it reminded me of the old Crimson Skies Xbox game, and is also in some ways similar to Global Agenda PvP. But in both Crimson Skies and GA, you are at least guaranteed an equal number of combatants and similar levels of weaponry. Black Prophecy makes no such promises. There's a huge difference between a level 6 player and a level 12 player in BP. In that way, it's similar to World of Tanks, but again, WoT at least gives you relatively equal teams that will hopefully work together.
But, on the flip-side, Black Prophecy practically enforces socialization. It's a survival technique. If you enter the melee with a half-dozen of your friends around you, you can take control of and dominate one of the zones. Once you're in control of it, you can either PvP to your heart's content against anyone silly enough to enter "your" zone, or you can use that control of the zone to complete PvE missions in relative peace. When your gang breaks up and your control over that zone fades, it returns to its natural chaotic free-for-all state.
So, from that perspective, it's an interesting choice in terms of game design.
But is it the correct choice? I'm not sure yet, but I'm leaning toward "no". The difference in level is the biggest factor for me. The difference between L6 and L12 players in this game really is huge. Maybe if there were three zones for levels 6-9, and three more for 10-12? But the difference in team sizes is also a bigger factor. You don't know until you enter a zone and try to accomplish something in it if that zone is being controlled by your side, the other side, or nobody at all.
(1) George R.R. Martin, author of the A Song Of Ice And Fire series of books, missed a real trick when describing tournaments on Westeros. While he mentions melees in passing, apparently jousting is the popular event there. How much more fun would it have been had he made melees the popular event? A few dozen Lannisters and Starks and Tullys and Baratheons and Freys taking their mutual antagonisms out on each other on a simulated battlefield where "accidents" can happen? Would have been awesome. Big miss there, GRRM.
Labels: Beta, Minor addictions, PvP
Fit of the Week: Bulldog Enyo
[Enyo, Bulldog]
Small 'Accommodation' Vestment Reconstructer I
Tracking Enhancer II
Catalyzed Cold-Gas I Arcjet Thrusters
J5b Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler I
Light Neutron Blaster II, Null S
[empty high slot]
Small Hybrid Burst Aerator II
Small Anti-Explosive Pump I
There was about a 45-minute period in EVE when this was a really good ship. I post it now for historical value. But who knows, maybe someone will get some use out of it.
This was my favorite heavy-hitting faction warfare Enyo, circa late 2009. At the time, I was heavily into Gallente boats with Ripard. I loved all things green and covered with blasters. Small rigs had come out recently, and were cheap and easy to build. This is a super-tight fit, and I make no apologies for that. At the time, Ripard was also heavily optimized for flying T2 frigates and that's where I got the bulk of my early PvP experience. You will need Advanced Weapon Upgrades V, Hybrid Weapon Rigging IV, plus a CPU implant to fly this. I kept a CPU +3% in Ripard's head 24/7 (and still do to this day, where it continues to help with my second-favorite Claymore fit).
Still, if you can make this fit work, this Enyo is cheap, fast (for an AF) and hard-hitting. With Null ammo, 200+ DPS will be the norm, and you'll find that you can effectively kite many other type of frigates, with an effective range on your weapons right out to the limit of your scram range. Few will expect that of a frigate-class blaster boat. Or, if you want to hug something big close, swap out for faction Antimatter and you'll do 250+ DPS in a tight orbit. The Tracking Enhancer helps with both.
I got into the habit of putting my empty slot in the middle of the rotation with this ship. Overheating heat damage is supposed to "wrap around" from the top to the bottom slots, but I find in practice that this doesn't always happen. As a result, even today, if I have a utility high, I tend to put it in the middle of the guns rather than on one end or the other. When flying this ship, I would often charge into battle and then hit all three "overload rack" buttons, then see what threatened to burn out first (hint: it was invariably the MWD). So... yeah. Carry some paste. ;-) 100-150 units will be enough.
The rest of the fit is pretty straight-forward for solo work. Fitting a repper was something I started doing after finding how much I liked it on my Taranis fit and becoming uneasy because the slightly bigger Enyo didn't have it, too. ;-) You can use a faction repper instead if you like. But I tended to fly Enyos as throw-away ships, particularly in LOL-T1 cruiser fleets where they excelled as tackle. An Enyo fit in this manner costs about the same as a T1 cruiser, if the cruiser is T2 fit. Even the T2 rig isn't very expensive, but I built those myself. For a while, my favorite ship for T1 cruiser roams was a Kitsune, but with the spread of HACs, those became way too fragile. The Enyo is much tougher, and at the end of the day, much more effective.
And of course, if you're badly outnumbered, a frig in the middle of a bunch of T1 cruisers will probably get away whereas a Rupture might not. ;-)
So, in today's EVE, consider this ship for what it is: cheap, disposable heavy tackle, fun for learning light ship tactics and maintaining transversal velocity. Take it out on your corp or alliance's next LOL-T1 cruiser roam and I think you'll be pleased.
Fly suicidal. ;-)
One man can make a difference
Warning: there isn't much of a point to this post. ;-) It's just some musings that probably don't mean anything. You have been warned.
Early in World War II, there was a period that Winston Churchill calls the Twilight War, but which most historians call the Phoney War. Wikipedia incorrectly dates it from 3 September 1939. It really started about a month later, in early October. It lasted about six months. Poland had just fallen, and there started an almost amusing philosophical argument among the combatants about what should happen next. After all, though the UK and France had declared war on Germany, those war declarations were just an automatic response to the military alliances and guarantees that both countries had given Poland earlier in the year. Neither country sent Poland so much as a scout plane. The UK contented itself with a few bombing raids, most of which dropped fliers. France invaded Germany.
Oh yes, they did. On 7 September, they had more than 40 divisions on the German border, with 50 more available. The Germans had less than half of that, and their true striking power was in Poland. The French struck into Germany toward the Rhine valley. Over the next five days, the French army penetrated about five miles into Germany, meeting only light resistance. On 12 September, they met with their British allies in council. What happened at that meeting, nobody seems to know. But the next day, France declared that their invasion had succeeded in its intent of drawing some German divisions out of Poland -- which was untrue -- and they fell back a few days later. That invasion is now forgotten.
Poland finally fell after more than four weeks of hard fighting. And for the next six months, the UK and France continued to not attack Germany.
Hitler gave some speeches asking for peace, which were roundly rejected by the democratic countries at war with him. But then, those very same democratic countries weren't exactly covering themselves with glory, either. In the democracies, the philosophical argument soon erupted around whether autocratic systems -- the National Socialism of Germany and the Communist dictatorship of Russia -- were inherently superior to democratic systems, particularly in their ability to fight wars. After all, in an autocratic system, it all came down to one man. Hitler said invade Poland, so Germany invaded Poland. To attack Germany, meanwhile, required a lot more people to agree on just how to do it, and indeed whether they could or should do it at all. Hitler was only too happy to fuel these doubts with a series of veiled implications in his own speeches.
Which brings me to the amusing spectacles over the last week or so in VFK-IV.
It's been kind of entertaining from an outsider's perspective to watch the NCdot/Raiden/Ev0ke/PL blob face-plant in Deklein. Their attack on Goonswarm territory was just about as effective as France's invasion of Germany. Why has their attack been so ineffective, and why are they giving up on the campaign so soon? After all, this same coalition took severe losses in their initial attack on Geminate during the early invasion of the NC but kept going despite those losses. Presumably, others will look into this. For myself, I'm content to sit back and chuckle at the spectacle.
But I'll bet a good portion of the problem is that as the supply lines stretch, it's becoming harder and harder for the four major alliances attacking Goonswarm to coordinate their actions and attacks. Goonswarm is quite a bit more autocratic. Mittens himself has written that an autocratic system is the only one that makes sense in EVE Online, and that's a position that I happen to agree with. I've been part of both democratic and autocratic alliances in EVE, and the autocratic ones are always, always superior.
Unless the autocrat quits EVE, in which case that alliance has a major problem on its hands.
This topic came up in my thoughts because in his victory-but-let's-keep-fighting message to his own troops, Mittens brought up my most recent 0.0 alliance, Get Off My Lawn:
LAWN and FCON will finally be given rights to their local territory; LAWN will expand from one tech moon to six, and FCON will receive the four tech and six neos – rights denied them in their own space by the NC. SMA will be restored to its pocket and its moons. I do this primarily out of the kindness of my heart; the statistics of the Battle of VFK showed barely 1% attendance from the Pure Blind holders. Having been notified of my displeasure we have already seen better attendance; those who show up in the right ships at the right time will be showered with love and riches (like TNT and FA); those who do not show up will meet the same fate as OWN and BCA. We are not the NC – fight and die with us or get the fuck out.
And yes, it's true that my old friends from LAWN weren't exactly asserting themselves. In the battles of July 16, 17, and 18, LAWN never fielded more than about a dozen ships, and fewer than five ships was more typical.
When I was in LAWN, it was more typical to have 40 or more ships for a fleet. And when a battle was guaranteed and on a good day and time, such as the fight on the 16th? LAWN could field a fleet of 60 without any trouble. Nor were expensive or high-skill ships a problem for LAWN; the last major battle I fought with them in early April, we brought 60 ships, more than 40 of which were T2-fit alpha Maelstroms of just the type the Goons are looking for. After these fleets were over, we'd look over the participation from various entities and pride ourselves as being one of the top contributors in terms of both total ships and ships of the right type.
So what happened? As I said, this blog post doesn't have much of a point. ;-) You were warned. All I will say is that after Gentlemen's Club lost Mya ElleTerego to RL commitments, GC's typical fleet sizes were cut in half, then cut in half again. GC was swept from Scalding Pass soon after. Some alliances rely heavily on their alliance leaders.
One man can make a difference.
So, congratulations to my friends in LAWN on the new tech moons. But I sure hope you guys can get it together to actually defend them.
Labels: 0.0, EVE Online, Geek Philosophy, History
Not all curves are pretty
On Failheap yesterday, Trebor from the CSM asked if someone could put together 7-, 30-, 90-, and 180-day rolling averages of the number of EVE players logged into the game based on data that's available on the EVE Offline website. That website's primary purpose is to act as a check-point so you can see -- if you can't log into the game -- whether that problem is just you or the server itself is down. But as a side effect, it tracks the availability of the EVE API by querying for the number of players logged in at any given time... and then as a second side effect, publishes daily averages and maximums.
Liang Nuren managed to download that data and put it into a CSV spreadsheet. On a whim, I took that spreadsheet, collated the data, and generated a graph of the rolling averages that Trebor asked for. Batolemaeus then took my graph and drew lines to indicate when various EVE expansions were released. Here's the final product (click to embiggen):
The raw data behind this analysis is available if you want it, too. You can ignore the places where the dark blue (7-day average) briefly bottoms out. Those represent gaps in the data provided by EVE Offline and don't materially affect the longer-term trend lines. And keep in mind, this data just reflects the number of people logged into the game, not the number of active accounts.
In particular, the big dip that takes place during the Apocrypha expansion, around June 24, represents the "Unholy Rage" implementation: CCP permabanned the accounts of about 6000 botters (logged in 23/7) that day.
The more I looked at this chart, the more it bothered me. I finally took some more time and put together a table that looked at the data in a different way. This time, concentrating on the 30-day rolling averages, I decided to look at three numbers: how much did the average number of players change 30 days after each expansion was released? How about 60 days? And finally, how about taking that metric from the day of that expansion to the release of the next expansion, whatever it was? I figured the first number would reflect people trying out the new expansion, and the second number would represent those same people sticking with the expansion, plus telling their friends "hey, look at this, this is pretty cool." The third number would at least partially reflect the overall success of that expansion: had it drawn in new players to the game, who in turn kept playing?
When I looked at the data in that way, I got this:
Expansion Feature +30D +60D +Next Result
RMR/Bloodlines T2s, Carriers -4.6% +7.0% +11.9% Success
Revelations I Invention, rigs +4.3% -0.1% +17.6% Major success
Revelations II Sov changes +0.8% +6.4% -2.6% Failure
Trinity New graphics +2.4% +29.0% +19.5% Major success
Empyrean Age Faction war +0.5% +7.1% -8.5% Major failure
Quantum Rise Nano nerf +18.5% +30.5% +24.7% Major success
Apocrypha Wormholes +11.4% +10.7% +5.7% Success
Dominion Sov changes +13.6% +13.5% +6.4% Success
Tyrannis PI +6.1% +2.6% -0.6% Failure
Incursion Incursions +8.9% +16.8% -5.0% Failure
Incarna CQ -1.8% ??? ??? ???
"Feature" is just a one or two word indicator of what that particular expansion is now best known for. By this metric, Trinity is one of the most successful expansions written for EVE, and it's not hard to see why: Trinity made the game much, much prettier. The +29% growth of average players logged in after its release shows the "hey, this is pretty cool" factor at work. The numbers for Quantum Rise are a bit tougher to justify. Three years later, this expansion is mostly known for being the infamous "nano nerf" expansion that cut the speed of every ship in EVE and every mod or rig that was being used to help players speed tank. However, Quantum Rise also introduced the new scram mechanic (scrams shutting down MWDs) which made PvP in EVE a lot more interesting, so that might have had something to do with the big increase in log-ins this expansion brought. In addition, CCP did a lot more marketing (including TV advertising on SciFi in the U.S.) during this period, which probably brought in a lot of new players. There were also a couple of fairly major meta news items affecting EVE at that time: Band of Brothers was disbanded in February 2009, for example. That probably attracted a few more players still.
Apocrypha can also be regarded as very successful. Despite showing only a +5.7% long-term increase in players, Unholy Rage took place in the same period. Normalized for that, Apocrypha would have actually boasted about a +24% increase in logged-in players.
And by these metrics, Empyrean Age, Tyrannis, and Incursion have been failures. Empyrean Age brought in new players to try faction war, but the overall dip in players by the time Quantum Rise was released showed that very few players stuck with the game after trying it. Tyrannis had the same impact for PI. Incursion had the same impact for Incursions (though the number of players in high-sec Incursions apparently recently took a huge jump). The Incursion +60D number is probably an outlier; Incursion also released a lot of skill points from Learning skills back to the players and for a while there were a ton of people playing with the new ships these SP gave them access to.
Expansions like Revelations I and Dominion are in the middle. Dominion is mostly known for its massive changes to the 0.0 sov system (including system upgrades), but it also included a ton of other new features, such as pirate ship buffs, an auto-cannon buff, a super-carrier buff, and pirate faction mission arcs. Revelations I had pretty much no cool factor at all, but the combination of its incremental upgrades and the fact that players at this time were really getting into capital and super-capital warfare (introduced in RMR/Bloodlines, the previous expansion) likely kept players logging in.
But the overall worrisome indicator on this table? By this metric, EVE has not had a truly successful expansion since Dominion, almost two years ago. Which leads to...
One last thing: this chart seems to prove what a stagnant state EVE is in at the moment: other than the +60D peak after Incursion, the 30 day rolling average number of players logged into EVE has not changed from 30,000 in 27 months.
It will be interesting to see what this kind of metric shows for Incarna. We're only about +35D or so into Incarna at this point, and of course it's a long long way to the next winter expansion. However, the curve so far is not pretty.
Labels: EVE Online, Meta, POTW
Comment of the Week: Chain reaction
One or two anonymous posters pointed me at another Perpetuum Online anti-blob mechanic that is, if possible, even more awesome than the mechanic I talked about the other day.
Not only does standing too close to another robot increase your targeting time against your enemies, but if that robot gets blown up, it has a "death AoE" attack that will damage or even destroy other robots nearby! At first, I thought this might be a joke or a troll, but it's real enough. This mechanic only operates on Beta (PvP) ground. Here's a video of it in action, a chain reaction that seems to take out five friendly Arkhes at once... and here's someone on Failheap explaining some of the mechanics.
This rocks so much. :-)
It also opens some interesting new mechanics, such as intentional suicide bombing.
I can't see it working in EVE, though. Destiny (the app module in EVE that, as I understand it, handles "commitments" such as what to do when a ship gets blown up) is badly overloaded already and wouldn't be able to handle multiple AoE attacks in close proximity, particularly if those multiple AoE attacks could cause chain reactions. EVE has a hard enough time when a small squad of bombers does its thing.
Still, it's another great innovation to Perpetuum. Love it! It's not enough to keep me subscribed, though.
Thanks to both anonymous commenters!
Labels: Perpetuum Online, PvP
Quote of the Week: Global warming solution
The other day, I snarked a bit about CSM members advocating the removal of ABC minerals from C1 and C2 wormholes. Failheap has also picked up the discussion, which was proceeding in pretty much the same direction as my blog post, ie., "It'd be nice if CSM members kept their mouths shut about things they know nothing about." Then Meissa Anuntheil, CSM-for-life, decided to jump into the discussion.
And his response has got to be the longest post Meissa has ever made about any subject, on any forum.
In the post, he reveals himself as the champion for the "remove it" position. Among other things, he also states that he believes getting ABC out of a C2 using an Orca is "trivial." Speaking as someone who's done it, my response is "Oh? Try it." But in short, Meissa's main argument around this seems to be that getting even one unit of arkonor out of a class 2 wormhole is too much, further reduces the demand for 0.0 mining, and that all such minerals should be provided from 0.0 sources.
Meissa is a 0.0 miner and industrialist, but I'm sure that doesn't influence his opinion on this matter in the slightest, nope.
Needless to say, this kicks off a firey back-and-forth argument on the matter, but after correctly characterizing the CSM's reaction on this as "knee jerk", Kate Yeats destroys Meissa's argument in one sentence, then adds a bonus double-helping of snark (which, as always, I approve of ;-) ):
CSM's suggestion for combating global warming is to sew up everyone's asshole because they fart methane and that contributes, right?
Bonus is it sounds like it'd effectively silence certain CSM members.
If you're interested in the discussion, you can pick it up from Meissa's post. It goes on for about three pages before turning to other topics.
Labels: CSM6, EVE Online, QOTW
Irony, like gold-y or bronze-y, except with iron
So, the latest State of the Goon speech is public.
It's a good speech: short, to the point, reasonably witty. It's also self-congratulatory, but Mittens wouldn't be Mittens if he wasn't self-congratulatory. It's his defining personal characteristic. The speech covers the situation GS finds itself in: the NCdot/Raiden/Ev0ke/PL blob, having slowly pushed east to west throughout the entire northern half of the 0.0 map, is going for the hat trick by finishing the job in Pure Blind and Deklein. And why not? There really isn't much else for them to do. Presumably, if they succeed in Dek, they'll turn south and head for Cloud Ring and Fountain next.
Still, there's an amusing bit where Mittens belittles his enemies by stating that they've become what they hated. They attacked the NC, in public because the NC were horrible blue-setting, blobbing, stagnant, lag-fest combatants that used weight of numbers instead of skill. Yep. That's all true. And it's true enough that's what's happened to NCdot/Raiden/Ev0ke/PL as well. So Mittens riffs on this theme for a while, how ironic it is that this "new northern coalition" has become what they hated.
But... isn't becoming what you hate sort of the definition of success in New Eden?
Let's look at another EVE entity. One that...
is huge,
lives in a single and most distant region in EVE space,
(which is the richest part of EVE space),
and comes out only occasionally to terrorize the local populace,
using tactics that were great a couple of years ago but which are now probably out-dated,
but otherwise sits back and congratulates themselves on their past accomplishments, and
all the great things they've done for the game,
creating terrific propaganda,
while they surround themselves by a small number of pets,
which they have a cute nickname for,
all while glorifying a single semi-charismatic Internet spaceship nerd.
Does this remind anyone of anyone we know... ummm... knew?
Posted by Jester at 9:50 AM 6 comments:
Labels: 0.0, EVE Online, Meta
Don't stand so close to me
Take what you like and leave the rest
We suffer for our art
Preach, brother!
Fit of the Week: Incursion Basilisk
Never too late to make a first impression
Hole-hearted outrage
Bloodthirsty ally to the Quote of the Week
Quote of the Week: The logs show nothing
Don't say anything at all
Commendation for original thinking
Global Agenda Recon PvE Guide
Emergent gameplay
A year's work
Spy for the Quote of the Week
Fit of the Week: Standard MSE Dramiel
Set the hook
Quote of the Week: CQ's good for something
Reach for the Skype
CCP pays for some overtime
You're mocking me, aren't you.
Failure to communicate
Fit of the Week: Endgame PvE Machariel
Behold! The future of EVE!
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World Markets Live - June 30
Welcome to the World Markets Live Blog, here are your headlines:
US stocks catch the bond market's cold, with the big tech names dragging the major averages lower and the Nasdaq on pace for its worst week of the year. The CEO of Morgan Stanley tells CNBC we could see the sell-off last.
BUT equities still look poised to lock up a bullish performance year-to-date, with the Nasdaq set to post its best first half since 2009, while oil comes out as one of the big losers, with WTI on pace for its third negative year.
Nike strikes a deal it has long avoided, selling its sportswear on Amazon and sending its shares more than 7 percent higher in after-hours trade.
Blue Apron serves up a less than appetizing performance in its market debut, as the meal service vastly underperforms 2017's other big IPOS.
Investors have digested economic data out of Japan and better-than-expected official PMI data out of China butTech stocks in South Korea and Japan sold off, following the fall in tech stocks stateside overnight.
The dollar traded at a fourteen-month low against the euro overnight on expectations of other central banks turning hawkish.
This all following U.S. markets which fell Thursday as technology's latest drop washed out strong gains from the big banks.
Shares of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Apple and Google-parent Alphabet all dropped more than 1 percent. Chip stocks also fell, with Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices closing 3.3 percent and 4.8 percent lower, respectively.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 168 points with Apple, Boeing, and 3M contributing the most losses. The 30-stock index briefly fell more than 250 points earlier int he session.
The S&P 500 pulled back 0.9 percent, with information technology sliding 1.8 percent. The S&P also traded below its 50-day moving average for the first time since May 18.The Nasdaq composite lagged, falling 1.4 percent.
James Bullard, President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank is on set with Karen and Steve.
Bullard: I have a flat rate path compared to rest of committee
Bullard has been the St Louis Fed president since 2008 and is currently a non-voting member. He has been described as a "deflation hawk" for favoring policies that would raise inflation to a target of 2 percent per year.
Bullard tells Steve that the Fed committee has been "too hawkish for the data" over the last 90 days or so.
The narrative of the committee has been that inflation is creeping back to 2 percent and you can see that in some of the data but since Spring you can see it has gone in the opposite direction.
Bullard says right now he is "the most dovish member" of the Fed committee.
by david.reid edited by luke.graham 6/30/2017 6:09:40 AM
Some European stock calls from JP Morgan.
The bank has cut the price target on both U.K. brewer and pub chain owner Greene King as well as retailer Debenhams.
JP Morgan has raised its price target on Portuguese food group, Jeronimo Martins.
A barmaid pulls a pint in The Harp pub in England.
French inflation data has shown a June CPI reading of 0.0 percent month-on-month, equating to 0.7 percent year-on-year.
That matching forecasts.
The consumer spending price data for May rose 1.0 percent month-on-month versus a forecast 0.5 percent.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that European countries will work at the upcoming G-20 summit to find "joint solutions" with the US on climate change and other issues.
Merkel told reporters in Berlin that the "US is an important part of the G-20" and that even though the European summit participants are united in standing by the Paris climate accord, even after the Trump administration has decided to pull out, they would work to find "joint solutions".
The leaders are meeting ahead of the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg.
The comments came after meetings with her counterparts from France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Norway, and EU representatives.
Merkel said European G-20 participants are united behind the Paris climate accord despite the American decision to pull out of the deal.
Regarding the fight against climate change, we talked about it today that we are all standing by the Paris agreement, this is also a very important message to the developing countries. We regret, and I am least speaking for Germany, that the US pulled out of the Paris agreement, but we will of course discuss these questions of climate change in Hamburg.
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaking at a news conference on Thursday after meeting other EU leaders.
James Bullard, President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, shared his thoughts on the Bank of England’s approach to monetary policy.
They’ve been trying to get to a good policy and I think you;ve got to judge them by results. Are you happy with the inflation rate in the U.K. over the last five years? Are you happy with the economy’s performance?
I think they came through Brexit pretty well, at least for the first year. There may still be repercussions, I don’t know. I think overall the track record seems pretty good.
Earlier this week, BOE Governor Mark Carney signalled that the central bank may need to start removing fiscal stimulus, depending on factors such as wages, inflation and economic reactions to Brexit negotiations.
European markets are now open, with the Stoxx 600 moving cautiously higher at the start of Friday's session.
A profit warning.
Bayer has announced its crop science division will have to adjust its business forecast for the fiscal year. It says this will have a one-time impact of 300 million to 400 million euros on earnings for full year 2017.
Bayer adds that stocktaking revealed unexpectedly higher inventories in Brazil. This will also result in adjustments to its forecasts for group sales and earnings.
Shares in the company are sharply lower on the news.
The chemicals sector is currently the worst performing sector on the Stoxx 600.
On set Covestro CEO Patrick Thomas , Thomas says with cash so cheap people are paying ridiculous multiples for assets in his space and they are going to suffer in years to come.
I have seen it before in the cycle, where the chemical industry has made some mega acquisitions in the past and some of those companies no longer exist.
James Bullard, President, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank says he is sympathetic with the view that asset prices are inflated because of monetary policy.
But he checks that but pointing out that the question of whether there are bubbles in the market needs to be continuously reviewed.
Covestro is a German plastics and chemicals group is on the lookout for a merger.
The company has announced that it will return cash to shareholders if it can't find a suitable takeover target within 2 years.
Patrick Thomas told shareholders in a statement that Covestro has no reason to hoard liquidity as it eyes 5 billion euros in total operating cash flow.
Thialand's current account for May came to $1.13 billion, according to the country's central bank.
Exports increased 10.6 percent on the year in May, while imports rose 18.2 percent. It's trade surplus came to $2.23 billion.
The central bank's international reserves did dip slightly to $184.4 billion for the week ending June 23 from 184.5 billion the previous week.
Just over half an hour of Friday session trade has occurred. Here are the shares at the top and bottom of the Stoxx 600. The pan-European index is broadly flat.
These are the top headlines this hour:
A muted start for European equities after a weak finish from major U.S. averages.
Bayer's stock drops as it warns of lower profits. The firm cites challenges in its crop science and consumer health divisions.
A hunger for going public. Food takeaway service Delivery Hero rises in its Frankfurt stock market debut.
Delivery Hero has arrived on the market. Shares have risen in its Frankfurt debut, as the takeaway start-up is on track to raise around 1 billion euros. The IPO values the company at 4 billion euros.
Niklas Östberg, CEO of Delivery Hero, says the company has got off to such a good start because they have built a great service.
He was asked about his company’s IPO compared Blue Apron, shares of which rose by 1 percent in what was a lacklustre market debut by the U.S. meal-kit provider.
It’s hard to compare to another company, I know them too little. I know that the investors looking into us were very excited about the strength of the business, about the strength of the growth that we’re having.
I think people are very excited. We were oversubscribed more than 10 times.
Bank of American Merrill has lowered its WTI crude forecast to an average of $47 a barrel this year and $50 per barrel next year. It has also cut Brent to $50 this year and $52 next year.
The bank said "with ouput set to rise and oil demand disappointing, global balances point to deficits of 210,000 barrels per day in 2017 and 90,000 per day in 2018."
"We now believe oil stays in contango by year-end, but see a WTI forward anchor at $45-50 and $5 backwardation by next summer."
Despite this cut, oil prices are improving today.
U.K. GDP growth for the first quarter is confirmed at 0.2 percent quarter on quarter and 2 percent year on year, unchanged from estimates.
Q1 services growth was revised up 0.1 percent.
Also, the country's current account deficit increased to £16.895 billion in the quarter from £12.088 billion, equivalent to 3.4 percent of GDP. This was less than the expected deficit of £17.25 billion.
Business investment increased increased 0.6 percent over the quarter.
The flash estimate for euro area inflation for June has been released.
The inflation rate is seen at 1.3 percent year on year. It was forecast at 1.2 percent. It was 1.4 percent year on year in May, according to Eurostat.
Core inflation, excluding unprocessed food and energy, came in at 1.2 percent versus 1.0 percent in May.
Meanwhile, Greek May producer price inflation at +3.9 percent year on year from +7.9 percent in April.
The euro is extending losses against the dollar following the euro zone inflation rate data.
The common currency is now down almost 0.4 percent against its U.S. counterpart.
Euro zone government bond yields have extended falls today following the inflation data released earlier today.
Yields on German, French and Italian yields are down around 2 basis points.
The Stoxx 600 has responded positively to the inflation data, ticking up to around 0.4 percent gains for the day.
Sky has announced it has agreed to a new five-year partnership with the England and Wales Cricket Board that includes live rights to all international and county cricket from 2020 until 2024.
This is the third decade of Sky's partnership with the board. It will also work with the board to develop a new approach to help deliver the board's ambitions of growing the game at all levels.
The cost of the deal was not disclosed, and shares in the broadcaster are trading lower.
This comes a day after the U.K. government announced it may refer the 21st Century Fox take over bid of Sky the Competitions and Markets Authority.
UBS analysts Polo Tang, Michael Hill and Doug Mitchelson said Fox has until July 14 to present solutions to the U.K. government's concerns.
The U.K. government will then decide whether to proceed with the CMA review or to enter into direct negotiations with Fox over undertaking/remedies. The latter approach was adopted by the government in the original News Corp bid for Sky in 2010/11 and this precedent would suggest deal completion towards the end of calendar 2017 – with Sky shares at an 8 percent discount to the 1075p offer price this is an attractive annualised return.
Fox state a CMA review would lead to deal completion by June 2018, but we think Fox would be keen to avoid this outcome with the main risk being a new general election that could result in a Labour led government who could be more minded to block the deal.
The analysts suggested one solution to the concerns is to spin off Sky News, or introduce "legal separation" of Sky News where it has its own board but is owned by Sky News.
Britain's Lloyds Banking Group says the Qatari riyal is no longer available for sale or buy-back at its high street bank.
This comes at the same time the UN Human Rights Commissioner Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein says the demands by Saudi Arabia and Arab allies to close down al-Jazeera is an "unacceptable attack on the right to freedom of expression and opinion."
U.S. stock markets are called higher, according to future values. The markets look set to recover slightly from yesterday's sharp falls (the Dow closes 168 points lower).
The S&P moved below its 50-day moving average for the first time since May 18.
On a brighter note, Nike shares are called more than 6 percent higher in premarket trade. The company reported Q4 earnings which beat expectations and confirmed it would begin to sell some products through Amazon.
by luke.graham 6/30/2017 10:03:48 AM
Portugal reports its monthly unemployment rate came to 9.4 percent in May.
The Portuguese stock market is up around two thirds of a percent today, although is down for the week.
A spokesman for U.K. Prime Minister May says 149 high rise building in 45 local authorities have failed safety tests with a 100 percent test failure rate.
The spokesman also said the government's position on the public sector pay cap remains unchanged.
Chile's finance minister Rodrigo Valdés says he wants to negotiate a new trade deal with the U.K. as soon as possible, and could do so in conjunction with other countries.
That will be good news for fans of Brexit, although the U.K. still cannot negotiate new trade deals until it has left the European Union.
Rodrigo Valdés adds that Chile and Latin America are much better prepared than in the past for higher global interest rates. He also said the Chilean government has all intentions to complete pension reforms before the next election.
Fabio Fois, analyst for Barclays, has weighed in on the euro zone inflation data, which eased to 1.3 percent in June from 1.4 percent previously.
At the non-core level, the downward correction of unprocessed food and energy inflation continues. Fresh food prices declined to 1.0% y/y in June, from 1.6% in May, 2.2% in April, 3.1% in March and 5.3% in February. Energy inflation's downward correction also accelerated, falling to 1.9% in June, from 4.5% in May and 7.6% in April. We believe that improved weather conditions and recent oil price moderation explain these trends.
At the core-level, meanwhile, services inflation rebounded to 1.6% in June, from 1.3% in May and 1.8% April. In our view, the sharp rise was essentially driven by package holidays in Germany, which surged 13% m/m, possibly anticipating the seasonal large move that usually takes place in July. Therefore, we do not rule out that the component may turn into a dragging force next month.
Fois says that Barclays is sticking to its call that it expects inflation pressures to remain weak over the coming months. The bank forecasts inflation to average 1.6 percent this year and 1.3 percent next year.
More and more parts of an aircraft cabin will soon be 3-D printed, according to one firm working with airlines and plane makers.
Stratasys is a 3-D printing manufacturer that, among other industries, prints tools and parts for cars, planes and medical products.
In 2014, the U.S.-Israeli firm said that its production system had been used to make "more than 1,000 flight parts" for the Airbus A350 XWB aircraft.
3-D printed parts are making their way into your aircraft cabin
CNBCThe 3-D printing industry is looking to manufacture more and more elements within commercial aircraft.
by Spriha Srivastava 6/30/2017 11:13:20 AM
U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Friday after a sharp sell-off led by technology stocks. Dow futures rose 48 points, while S&P and Nasdaq futures gained 6 points and 24.25 points, respectively.
Sinn Fein calls on British and Irish leaders to become directly involved in Northern Irish talks. That's according to Reuters citing Sky News.
by Spriha Srivastava 6/30/2017 12:10:19 PM
Check out which companies are making headlines before the bell:
Bank of America – Berkshire Hathaway will exercise warrants to buy 700 million common shares of Bank of America, using its $5 billion in preferred shares as consideration. Its exercise price is just above $7.14 per share, well below where Bank of America is currently trading.
Nike — The athletic apparel and footwear maker posted quarterly profit of 60 cents per share, 10 cents a share above estimates.
Blue Apron – Blue Apron is on watch once again today, after the meal-kit company's stock closed Thursday at its initial public offering price of $10 per share and then dipping below that mark in after-hours trading.
Microsoft – Microsoft will announce a major reorganization on July 5, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal. The paper said the reorganization would better align the company with its cloud business.
Coach – Canaccord Genuity began coverage on the luxury goods maker with a "buy" rating, with a particularly upbeat take on the benefits of Coach's pending Kate Spade acquisition.
Tesla – When asked about the possible release date for the automaker's Model 3, CEO Elon Musk simply tweeted "News On Sunday" without elaboration. In the past, Musk has said the Model 3 would be unveiled in July, but has never mentioned a specific release date.
Click here to see the full list of companies.
US personal income rose 0.4% in May vs 0.3% increase expected
The data was forecast to rise 0.3 percent in May, after increasing 0.4 percent a month earlier.
Kraft Heinz has signed an agreement with Upstate Niagara Cooperative to sell its Campbell, New York facility.
The deal guarantees 125 jobs at the facility, growing to 150 within a year.
It was not reported how much Upstate Niagara will pay for the facility, although the deal is expected to be completed within the next 30 to 60 days.
As part of the deal, Kraft Heinz will pay an ongoing $3 to $5 million to improve and maintain the facility.
by luke.graham 6/30/2017 1:06:05 PM
The French foreign ministry says a watchdog report on chemical weapons use in Syria "unequivocally" proves that sarin gas was used in April.
The Dow, S&P and Nasdaq are set to finished the week lower, but the Dow and S&P are set to record their 7th straight quarter of gains.
Nearly all stocks on the Dow are higher, with Nike leading the index after it posted a Q4 earnings beat and reported it would start selling some products on Amazon.
Dow jumps 100 points on last day of quarter as banks rise
CNBCU.S. equities opened mostly higher — the last day of the quarter — as banks continued to build on this week's strong gains.
by Spriha Srivastava 6/30/2017 1:47:17 PM
A "state actor" was behind the cyberattack that hit over 12,000 devices in around 65 countries on Tuesday hitting major industries from advertising to oil, according to NATO.
The "Petya" ransomware attack encrypted files on a computer and demanded $300 worth of the cryptocurrency bitcoin in order to unlock them. Kaspersky Lab estimates at least 2,000 targets were affected, mostly in Russia and the Ukraine, but attacks were registered in several other countries, including Germany, the U.K. and China.
NATO says a 'state actor' was behind the ransomware attack and could trigger military response
CNBCA "state actor" was behind the cyberattack that hit over 12,000 devices in around 65 countries on Tuesday, according to NATO.
University of Michigan consumer sentiment index at lowest since November 2016. That's according to Reuters.
Several British banks said on Friday they had stopped dealing in Qatari riyals, as the diplomatic crisis surrounding the tiny Gulf country disrupted overseas trading of its currency.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt severed diplomatic and travel links with Qatar on June 5, accusing it of supporting terrorism and courting regional foe Iran, in allegations that have ignited a regional crisis between the U.S. allies.
Several UK banks stop selling Qatar riyals as diplomatic crisis mounts
CNBCOffshore trade of the riyal has become increasingly volatile and illiquid as a result of the spat.
European markets move higher; tech stocks higher; Bayer down 4.3%
CNBCEuropean bourses were higher on Friday as major central banks suggested the era of cheap money may be coming to an end.
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Home Blog On-demand bus services in Yamagata
On-demand bus services in Yamagata
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Back in 2015, I spent about two weeks travelling from Morioka in the North of Japan via the slow and picturesque local train network back down to Tokyo. After experiencing the seafood and beef delicacies of Sendai, I wove my way through the mountainous interior on the Flower Nagai railway line before branching west towards the Sea of Japan near the town of Kawanishi. Without knowing it, I was passing by one of the longest-running on-demand mobility bus service program in Japan.
For this town with a population just shy of 19,000 and 30% of the local population classed as elderly, running the local bus network has been a difficult operation with just one bus line (the Chomin bus line) generating losses of over 1% of the town’s yearly revenue. Another bus line, the Higashisawa bus line was closed in 2006 due to ongoing losses considered irrecuperable. Earlier that year, the Ministry of Land and Transport kickstarted a scheme to revitalize local mobility by revamping the local bus network from scratch. The idea: using local taxi company personnel downtime (ie when taxis are idling at the depot) to ferry people on-demand instead of buses on a rigid schedule yet at a similar price (one ride = $5). According to a 2009 analysis by the Japan Transport Research Institute, the system allowed to slash the losses to half.
Two 5-passenger buses and one 10-passenger bus (and sometimes taxis) were hired out, and registered local citizens would call into the taxi call center (from 8.30am to 4pm) to make a reservation. The on-demand service would recruit idle drivers who would head out and pick up multiple citizens, and take them on to their respective destinations. Surprisingly the three taxi companies each needed to pay a $1,000 license to operate, and vehicle hire prices were rather steep ($110-130/day = $17/hour!). The cost of the operator was only $4.6/hour which is below most regular personnel rates. So in this case, (1) operator costs = $4.6/h x 7.5h/d x 20d of operation x 3 vehicles = $2,070/mth, (2) vehicle costs = $120 x 20d of operation x 3 vehicles = $7,200/mth. Actual costs of the program over the first 9mths of the service was $9,000/mth, while revenue was only $2,500/mth, meaning our back of the envelope cost assumptions are overall correct.
So it is no surprise this on-demand system is more of a cost improvement than a solution to the problem facing Kawanishi. While the cost of the buses etc could be halved, it’s going to be difficult to reduce hiring prices to zero. In the end, if $5 is the only price that can be realistically paid by families/elderly in the community for a ride, then it means that both vehicle and operator costs essentially need to come down 72%, or service is reduced to 5 days/month to meet the payable amount, or both. A recent pamphlet online for the service limits the time when the service can be used to nine hourly slots any day of the week, but I wonder if this is really economically feasible.
To reduce vehicle hire cost to zero there may need to be a mandatory regulation of personal and commercial vehicles to be used during office hours (or when owner is at the office/vehicle is idling) as automated pickup vehicles, where those needing it would punch in their request, wait for the vehicle to arrive, jump in and be driven to their destination. Considering personal vehicles are idle 92% of the time at a minimum, such regulation would help remove the vehicle hiring cost component and automation the remaining operator component, excepting fuel & repairs/insurance which would be covered by the $5 fee. It would be guaranteed by the local authority to remove costs regarding operating licenses that would make it more expensive for the user (creating in effect an indirect tax). Taxis would still be used for life-threatening/critical needs such as acute hospital treatment, food etc, but the town hall supported by data analytics would help citizens plan forward their trips as much as possible to keep their prices down.
Even assuming full automation, it is a difficult balance between offering mobility as a right to all citizens (that should be supported in cases of economic losses for the most needy via taxation prioritization) and recognizing that a service no matter how efficient will always generate a cost that needs to be fulfilled by the user. Should total cost of mobility be taken into account and regulated as such? In other words, reducing costs of not just the transportation part but hospital cost, fuel cost, food cost etc, to spread the burden of the support more evenly across the mobility chain from the point of view of the mobility consumer? Maybe disposable income could be kept at a fixed floor, with services free beyond a certain point (eg OAP coupons and free bus passes), and a fixed percentage above the floor (to ensure that non-transportation costs don’t eat into the citizen’s disposable income = economic breathing space). With so much money used in shoring up the banking system since the economic crash of 2008, the governments of the world may find it politically expedient to their regional constituents to shore up their rural transportation system before it deteriorates completely in the next decade stranding voters in their own homes.
Another alternative to mandatory regulation would be to invest in a fleet of first-hand and second-hand refurbished automated pickup vehicles that would serve that purpose, with basic costs covered by users and supported by technology. The service should not be restricted only to the elderly/rural areas, but also to economically active parents in both rural and city areas who need to eg drop off their kids to daycare/bring them back home safely. It keeps them in work, their kids active & safe, and the system humming. But it would mean revamping the entire way we look at private vehicles and public transportation. Not as a choice for personal mobility vs others, but rather as a single safety net for the entire community across all their needs.
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There are various wrong depictions of the medieval Muslim culture in historical paintings by French and also American artists. Most glaring misrepresentation is the Western artists' concept of the ""Harem"" portrayed as a virtual whorehouse within a rich household peppered with half naked women. Unfortunately this myth is taken as 'factual history' by many Westerners for which the ignorance or cunning of medieval artists is entirely responsible. All such paintings are pathetic nonsense.
Other hugely discrepant depictions include Arab Muslim medieval children with shaven heads wearing Turkish caps, Arab men / women sitting with shoes on carpets or beds, books placed on carpets or floors below the rehal (رِحال ), Muslim women wearing ankle jewellery, plunging necklines, veiled Muslim women wearing see-through clothing beneath the veil etc.etc. These practices never existed nor do they exist at present in the culture oriented circles within the Muslim society.
Most of those medieval artists, despite their talent in art, didn't have the best of education nor sufficient knowledge of authentic history. They often mixed up vastly different eastern cultures (from Morocco to China and India) in their works. Some also indulged in cultural propaganda through their paintings.
Let us look into a stack of interesting information busting the bizarre tales and fantasies surrounding the "Harem" embedded in Western minds. It needs to be defined as part of the Western traditional folklore that originated from the stories of Western travelers visiting the Arab/Muslim world centuries ago. Unfortunately the myth still persists, providing fodder to writers and movie makers producing exotic fictions for box-office hits and in the process grossly misinterpreting the medieval Muslim society.
Please take the time to read the following set of passages from well-read writers (along with hypertext links) on how this practice of tale-telling began and the depth of its inaccuracy. Ironically many of these passages confirming the mythical Western concept of "harem" are from Western authors and observers themselves.
Quoting "Shohreh Gholsorkhi from Pari Khan Khanum: A masterful Safavid Princess"
"The royal harem is perhaps the most misunderstood institution of the Islamic social order. Myths surrounded harems originated primarily in the west fomented by European travelers over a period of several centuries. As is well known, Islamic empires at their zenith attracted numerous European merchants and traders as well as adventurers, emissaries and missionaries. Many of them took up residence in Muslim countries, some for a short time and some for many years. They toured cities and saw the countryside and got acquainted with the local people. In several instances, some made their way into the royal courts. Many of these travelers kept extensive notes about their journeys and left careful sketches of various aspects of the society with which they came in contact. Often, upon their return home, many made their narratives available at courts and sometimes to the public. There are numerous references to royal harems that some of the European visitors encountered. While these visitors (most of them men) could observe city women on the streets (in their covers and costumes or even in the case of village women without headcover) , they were prohibited from making contact with women of the royal household. This prohibition with its mystery and hint of forbidden pleasures merely served to intrigue the traveler. The typical traveler’s portrayal of the harem was based largely on hearsay, gossips and embroidered stories from the natives in addition to the accounts of other travelers, or in some cases, even their own wild imagination. Gradually the image grew. To the western traveler, the harem became a pleasure palace kept solely for the king with beautiful women scantily clad and heavily perfumed languished as they awaited the call of their master. This image remained intact for centuries partly because it conformed to earlier notions, the main one being that women in Islamic societies were relegated to a subservient status vis-à-vis men. Although modern scholarly research in on the role of women in Islamic societies remains slim, recent scholarship has modified many earlier tenets.
Quoting from Dismantling Arab Stereotype: What is Oreintalism?
"Orientalism” is a way of seeing that imagines, emphasizes, exaggerates and distorts differences of Arab peoples and cultures as compared to that of Europe and the U.S. It often involves seeing Arab culture as exotic, backward, uncivilized, and at times dangerous.
According to Edward E. Said, Orientalism dates from the period of European Enlightenment and colonization of the Arab World. Orientalism provided a rationalization for European colonialism based on a self-serving history in which “the West” constructed “the East” as extremely different and inferior, and therefore in need of Western intervention or “rescue”.
The paintings, created by European artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, depict the Arab World as an exotic and mysterious place of sand, "harems" and belly dancers, reflecting a long history of Orientalist fantasies ….
France colonized Algeria from 1830 to 1962. From roughly 1900 to 1930, French entrepreneurs produced postcards of Algerian women that were circulated in France. While Algerian women are portrayed in these photographs as if the camera is capturing a real moment in their everyday lives, the women are actually set up in the photographer’s studio. ...... these photographs were circulated as evidence of the exotic, backwards and strange customs of Algerians, when, in fact, they reveal more about the French colonial perspective than about Algerian life in the early 1900s. This is an example of how Arab women have been exoticized and eroticized for the pleasure of the European male voyeur, as these photographs make visible French colonial fantasies of penetrating the harem and gaining access to Arab women’s private spaces."
Quoting an excerpt from the works of Nadine Sultana d'Osman Han (Kadjar) - 'Ottoman Harem:
"Contrary to prevailing opinion, the harem at the time of the Ottomans was not a place of unbridled desire nor a prison for helpless women guarded by fierce eunuchs for the pleasure of lascivious sultans. As with many institutions that are foreign to the experience of the West and different from its own traditions, the harem in Islamic culture has posed a twin problem of simultaneous fascination and attraction and criticism and derision for the Western mind. These positions stem largely from a MISUNDERSTANDING of the reality of the harem on the one hand, and the very real impossibility of a closer scrutiny on the other ....
The harem of an Imperial Princess means her own private home. Here, even her husband (in this case Damat Mahmut Bey Pasha) had to ask the Princess for permission to enter. But as has been pointed out, the Harem of an Imperial Princess did not house concubines. Adultery (or multiple wives and favorites) was not permitted to the husband of an Imperial Princess. …."
An excerpt from Encyclopedia of Islam:
"New historical studies of Ottoman, Mughal, and Persian harems of the 16th and 17th centuries have yielded valuable insights about what harem life was actually like and helped dispel myths that have captured the Western imagination. This research has shown that royal harems were highly organized complex communities that assumed different characteristics at different moments in history, depending on local circumstances, personalities, and configurations of power. They often included non-Muslims as well as Muslims. Upper-class women and children were educated and trained in arts and crafts there. Harem women exercised considerable political influence in dynastic affairs and were not always secluded from the wider society. A ruler's mother, wives, daughters, and servants were involved in raising his sons and participated in the politics of arranging royal marriages and the succession. Indeed, some harem mothers and wives, such as Hurrem (also known as Roxelana, d. 1558) in Ottoman Istanbul, Pari-Khan Khanum (d. 1578) in Safavid Isfahan, and Nur Jahan (d. 1645) in Mughal Delhi, played central roles in affairs of state."
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Informative excerpt from Phillip Emeritz’s “Feminine power in the Ottoman harem.“
"The harem was not a prison for women. It was simply another stage for political power.
The term "harem" comes from the Islamic root h-r-m which denotes a sacred area with no gender specifications. It is only through rumor and misinterpretation that the Western world has assigned such a confined, erotic image of this social structure. It cannot be questioned that women were unequal with men in society, but women commanded a surprising amount of influence and presence despite their limitations.
The harem has been described by historians as a political arena for women as early as between the 4th and 11th century.
Another Western misconception about the harem is that it was gender specific, when it actually referred to male as well as female spaces. The imperial harem, "hrm-i humayun" was the name given to the third and innermost courtyard of Topkapi palace, which was reserved specifically for males. The women’s quarters also received the title of imperial harem, but the name was because of the sultan’s presence rather than that of the women. The palatial space was divided into the harmlik, the area allocated for women, and the selamlik, the area prescribed to men. Gendered quarters were separated in the palace, but women were secluded from men almost as much as men from women. In fact, the seclusion of women to their own space resulted in the development of a private society. Women established their own community in the harm ….."
Therefore, please note. The word is "hrm" (حرم), NOT "harem" which is the European/English distortion of the Arabic word "hrm." Hrm in Arabic simply means room or quarters or a cubical. Thus, even the Holy Kaa'ba is known as Harm Shareef (حرم شريف), meaning a room for the worship of Allah Almighty.
Finally a very upfront extract from Wordpress blog: Medieval Misconceptions - Harem Harlots:
"There’s always been a cult-like myth about the idea of a harem. These myths come from the Western world – showcased in Western art and in the Hollywood ‘Orientalizing‘ of characters from the ‘Middle East.’ Such images are invariably of half-naked women wearing “I Dream of Jeanie” silk and gossamer fabrics through which curvaceous bodies can be seen. These fantasy Harem girls dance like nymphs in seductive motions bordering on vulgarity. Their large bedroom eyes with sooty, foot-long lashes generally end up wooing some White Western hero who has gallantly rescued her from a tyrannical Arab Sheik. Make no mistake about it, peops – this over-sexualization of harem women exists only in Western minds and movies.
This perverted myth of harem women originated in the minds and works of early Orientalist scholars. One of the most famous is the early 1700’s French translation of the “One Thousand and One Nights,” followed by many different English versions which titillated Western minds and became hugely popular. ..... Orientalist scholars also depicted harem women as helpless captives, or ravenous harlots feeding on their master Sultan. As documented in renown author and lecturer Asli Sancar’s book Ottoman Women: Myth & Reality: “Foreign men were never permitted to enter an Ottoman harem, so there were no eye-witness reports to contradict the myth.” It wasn’t until the wife of a British ambassador, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, was invited inside a harem that the myth was finally challenged."
Some realistic and down-to-earth paintings of the hrm, which is basically the women's (or the zanana) section of the household, very different from the symbolic fictional fantasy connecting "harem" and semi-nude women.
Source of following paintings with names of artisits: rceliamendonca wordpress/pintura-orientalista
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Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! Great info and lovely paintings with true representations of the women's private apartments or the zananna. Actually the kind of harems which the Western authors and movie makers have in mind existed not only in their minds but also in their countries in the medieval years .. and also in modern times. If by 'harems' those goats mean a place for sexual activities, there used to be plenty harems in Western and non Muslim worlds .... in the Roman society and among the Greeks. This also reminds me about Japan. The way the West has misinterpreted the harem in the Muslim world, they have also misinterpreted geishas in the Japanese society. The Japanese people insist that a geisha is not a sexual partner of a man but a hostess during occasions like formal parties and official get-togethers. These hostesses are supposed to be like entertainers who are skilled at arts such as classical singing, playing musical instruments, games requiring intelligence like bridge etc. However, in Western movies geishas are always shown more like mistresses of the men they're supposed to serve as hostesses.
Btw, another misguided Western idiotic view is that the flute being played in the harem is a romantic or sexual symbol. Total nonsense! Back in those days they didn't have televisions, no internet, not even radios or record players nor CDs etc. So they passed time listening to live music played by whoever was skilled enough in the art.
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Extremely interesting post. Particularly that part was very well explained. The pronunciation and spelling "harem" is itself an error by the West. In Arabic there is no such word as "harem." The word indeed has its root in the Arabic term "hrm" or "هرم" . The word "harem" entered the English language as a distortion of "hrm." It simply refers to a private space set aside for use either by men or women or both and thus hrm has no gender specification. So correct, the term "Hrm" (Hrm Sharif) is also applied to the Kaaba in Mecca denoting it as a special sacred place designated only for the worship of One Allah.
In the medieval era several extended families residing together was very common. Private homes even of middle-class families used to be quite huge and the ethical values were different. Therefore, obviously, separate spaces had to be provided to the male and female members of various extended families living under one roof. In a single household, there could be over a dozen young female cousins and more than 20 male cousins. They would meet in family get-togethers every day, like meal times and other daily or weekly occasions. But during informal leisure hours, they had separate spaces for privacy and were usually attended upon by different set to servants of the household. The purpose of hrm for both men and women was primarily to provide privacy to both genders separately.
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So true brother TS .. very accurately perceived. The actual word is 'hrm.' Another problem with Westerners is that they love to distort foreign words and then make that distortion a part of their language. So the mispronunciation and misspelling, "harem," has become a place for sexual pleasure according to their idiocy. Bums!
Furthermore, brothels that exist all over the world today (more in non Muslim lands where they are operating legally) are the same as the distortion of a harem in the twisted Western minds. Many of these "harem"-brothels treat their prostitutes like slaves with no respect. Many of the females in these brothels are kidnapped and brought through human traffickers. How come the West misses out this issue in their 'fantasy' for harems?
Exactly .. lol. And what about that lewd Italian male tramp, Silvio Burlesconi? He began recruiting a den of call girls, throwing parties inviting these prostitutes to serve & sleep with the men to come as guests. His lowly character also led to his wife divorcing him. But Europe won't call it Berlusconi's harem.
Here is the link about that degraded womanizer Burlesconi and his cheap filthy women.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2038055/Silvio-Berlusconi-recruited-harem-models-actresses-bunga-bunga-parties.html
Quote from: Truth Seeker on September 21, 2014, 12:29:16 pm
What a sick bugger !! This is a true harem which the West has in mind.
Pleasure reading all of your views. Burlesconi is the real "harem" man.
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Re: Myths and Misconceptions About the ""Harem"" | Western fantasy of orientalism
Super good stuff. Don't know how I missed this for so long. I was directed to it after enjoying the MV's Pinterest board Paintings Medieval Islamic Era. I'm so sick of some of those artists, mainly the French, humiliating Muslim women with utterly false portrayals of naked belly-dancer-sort of frivolous whory women. Several of their works show women in the so-called harems totally nude even in front of the menservants coming to serve tea or coffee. How viciously ridiculously, distorted and fictitious!! No different from the Hadith mentality.
You folks are absolutely right. Hrm plainly refers to the zanana (female) space of the household where the womenfolk of a large family (that is, female members of several extended families) could relax and loll informally without the presence of non-mehram male members of their families. This doesn't mean they used to be naked. It meant they would keep aside their veils, hejabs, or the loose outer garment. Even if the lower garment got stretched a bit above the ankles it wouldn't matter. When they came out of the zanana harm and went to the larger, common living room, they made sure their appearance was in better order. That's all. Westerners, particularly at present, cannot understand this aspect because even during (their kind of) conservative times, there was no gender segregation anywhere in society. And of course, about the present, the lesser said the better. They don't mind walking half naked (some wouldn't mind full naked) even before strangers. In the Muslim culture women and girls who reach puberty are supposed to take care of their modesty before all non-mehram males including those of extended families. As brother TS alluded, back in those days the joint family residences were common among wealthy Muslim households. So everyone needed their privacy, also the men. They too had their separate residential section for informal get-togethers of male family members. It was also a hrm, hrm for men, where the guys could chill out smoking water pipes or simply enjoy a brief afternoon siesta amidst their chatting.
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Exactly Sister Ruhi. That's why we have to take special care selecting the historical images for our MV Pinterest board on Islamic paintings. The ones by Turkish and northern Arab artists are okay. It's the Western artists into "orientalism" who unexpectedly display strange blunderous mischief in their works. I wouldn't say all of them, but several. And like I said, their fallacious portrayals aren't only regarding the "harem," but also of other social issues. One really needs to study every painting by an European or American orientalist artist prudently and attentively to determine its cultural authenticity before selecting it for an Islamic board. Otherwise the misrepresentations through art will only add to the misunderstandings of Islam.
Spot on Sister. Couldn't agree more.
Yesterday in our monthly discussion session, our agenda was the so-called harem, how many thought it was true and how many knew the hoax behind it. I printed this post and took it with me. It was greatly helpful and was liked immensely by all.
Btw, the Italian artist Fabio Fabbi has probably created the largest number of fake harem paintings that are absolutely bizarre and unauthentic.
You're right brother, that pea-brain Fabio Fabbi is the master liar on the propaganda of this myth. But there are many others too who have indulged in this falsehood painting similar fables as Fabbi; the bugger chose the right name for himself.
Furthermore, for instance, recently in one of my research works I came across the painting below by John Frederick Lewis (1805-1876) titled "Beauty of Harem, Indoor Gossip." It's a pure (not impure but pure) myth and a thundering misconception. This is a decadent western fantasy of Muslim orientalism. There was never any such thing as a "harem" consisting of mistresses huddled up in a specific part of a household like doggies in a kennel waiting for their master to arrive every f---ing evening. Details enumerating the origins of this big fiction and all of these "old wives' tales" have already been exposed in the original post by Sister Zeynab directly via reliable sources.
Such lies are plainly sickening
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The Other Brother Documentary and Art Exhibition – Overview
The Other Brother: The Art of Jesse and Tom Flowers
The Other Brother film & art exhibit intertwines familial love & loss
while confirming the profound influences of art on all our lives.
Feature Documentary
Completion Date: Sept 4, 2014
Run Time: 71 minutes Format: DVD
Director & Editor: Kristy Higby
Producer: Mark Flowers
Associate Producer: C. Matthew Taylor
Original musical score: Geoffrey Weeks with Logan Trask
Voice work by Paris Peet
“Fantastic premise for an epic movie. This concept is so beautiful especially during this age of increasing fear and separation through the digital realm, etc. Art has saved my life and helped me carry on through this surprisingly intense journey. Thank you for taking the time to create this heart-warming picture within pictures.” –Sage Neri, Visual Designer
The Other Brother was screened at:
Santa Fe Film Festival, Santa Fe, NM
Bare Bones International Film and Music Festival and Bacone College in Muskogee, OK
Upstairs Artspace in Tryon, NC
if ART Gallery in Columbia, SC
Coligny Plaza Theatre, Hilton Head Island, SC (sponsored by Picture This Gallery)
Intuit: the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago, IL
NAMI SC National Alliance for Mental Health in Columbia, SC
Fine Arts Center, Greenville, SC
USC Upstate, Spartanburg, SC
Florence County Museum, March 26, 2016, Screening and Exhibit
Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio, October 2017
The National Gallery of Art has added the film to its viewing library of art films.
Jesse and Tom
“The screening of The Other Brother surpassed my high expectations. The response to this magnificent piece of work was profound with the audience being genuinely moved by the story — a story that presents specifics about two people, artists both, and their family while inevitably touching on larger issues. The audience’s engagement was evident during the Q&A with filmmaker Kristy Higby, producer and other-brother son Mark Flowers, and the latter’s other-brother father Tom Flowers. An exquisite score with surprising music, including original music that most will not have heard before, complements the poignant narratives and interviews, and the passages from letters from the other brother, Jesse. I had been looking forward to screening this film at my gallery and I am so glad I did. It really was a memorable evening.” -Gallery Director, Wim Roefs, if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
The Other Brother, Traveling Art Exhibition
Following a successful Kickstarter project that allowed us to share The Other Brother documentary with audiences this past year, it became clear from viewer feedback that this project should have a Part II in the form of a traveling art exhibition
We would like to share the brothers’ original artwork with museums, galleries, and art institutions that choose to screen the documentary and/or host the exhibition.
Mark and I have made a life in the visual arts; creating, exhibiting, and teaching. We know the value of exhibiting our work and want to create a formal opportunity to share Jesse and Tom’s artwork. There is no substitute for the real thing–original artwork professionally framed, with correct lighting, and hung in a space designed for that purpose. We think it would please Jesse to know that his work had an audience, and Tom is excited about the opportunity to exhibit side-by-side with his brother.
Please help us share this special story and art exhibition with more audiences.
The exhibit will include a total of 37 works. Each brother will be represented by 12 framed works of art. In addition, there will be 12 framed archival prints from the “Side-by-Side” sequence in the documentary, plus one framed print of the poster promoting the film.
Here are three slide shows of the artwork:
Tom Flowers Artwork from Kristy Higby on Vimeo.
Jesse Flowers Artwork from Kristy Higby on Vimeo.
Side by Side Sequence from Kristy Higby on Vimeo.
“The Other Brother: The Art of Jesse and Tom Flowers is an extraordinary exhibition that will linger in the minds of those people lucky enough to experience it. Both the film and exhibition work together to give the viewer a fascinating look into the lives of Tom and Jesse Flowers, whose artwork forms a significant and tender connection between the two estranged brothers. Kristy Higby and Mark Flowers of Mountain Tea Studios in Asheville, North Carolina, have organized what promises to be a beautiful and intriguing exhibition of carefully selected works of art by the Flowers brothers as seen in the film. Off the screen and on the walls, exhibition visitors will have the unique opportunity to see and study these works in person, which is undoubtedly the best way to get a true sense of the art and all of its subtle nuances. Perhaps new observations will be made and shared, inciting an ongoing dialogue about artistic expression and sibling relationships.” -Liz Miller, Curator, Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapman Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC
Themes for Educational Programming:
the ‘genetics’ of art
the lost art of letter writing
education granted/denied
In addition to the impact of the Side by Side sequence in The Other Brother, the ‘connection’ between their art shows up in the shots of Jesse’s photographs beside Tom’s landscape paintings – I would say that comes from their ‘culture’ as raised in a place with access and appreciation for that landscape. After that it is all about the difference.
Their art in general is radically divergent. Jesse is, as is said, a natural. Everything in the external world that he sees and feels is incorporated into his inner fertility. His hand is direct and unrestrained, yet naturally disciplined. His art has a direct line back to the early cave dwellers. The ‘crowded’ characteristic of his surfaces is not really crowded, just insistent richness and an instinct that was unbounded by educated ‘taste,’ only the edge of the envelope or the edge of the paper or the need to insert an address brings it to a conclusion.
I would not say Tom is so much ‘contemporary’ as he is ‘educated.’ U of Iowa shows all over his work. Where Jesse was so dependent on what he felt, Tom depends upon what he learned. Jesse’s work is immediate; Tom’s is mediated by the world of art as understood by urban civilization and passed on through the educational process. Jesse is limited to just what his individuality allows, Tom expands beyond his own take on things. I found myself thinking Tom’s work ultimately might have been diluted by the expansion his education afforded him, but whatever, Tom’s is much broader in range than Jesse’s.
The best urban art usually gets to a higher place than the best primitive art. As a matter of ‘type’ I generally prefer urban art to primitive art. So Tom chose the more ambitious path. But it is a treacherous path and no sure thing. In the many direct comparisons the movie presents, my eye consistently went for Jesse’s work over Tom’s.” -John Link, Visual Artist, Art Educator, Art Critic
Mark and I would like to thank Liz Miller at the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum in Myrtle Beach, SC, for her early support of the film and for lending her expertise in coordinating this exhibition.
We welcome the opportunity to share this film and exhibition with your community.
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Big Finish Announces New 10th Doctor & Donna Audio Series
Yesterday, Big Finish posted a teaser image [pictured right] with the caption "Get ready... 10:00am 26/10/15". The image featured the 10th Doctor's TARDIS with a glimpse of an old-like creature, and a small swatch of what appeared to be the 10th Doctor's brown, pinstripe suit.
This morning the company have confirmed suspicions that a whole new, exciting range of adventures with the 10th Doctor and Donna has been commissioned.
Below is this morning's press release in full:
David Tennant is returning as the Tenth Doctor alongside Catherine Tate as his companion Donna Noble in three Doctor Who Audio Dramas!
David Tennant portrayed the Doctor on screen from 2005 until 1 January 2010, returning to play alongside Matt Smith and John Hurt in the 50th Anniversary special The Day of the Doctor in 2013. Catherine Tate made her debut as Donna in December 2006, and after a series and two festive specials she made her last appearance alongside David on 1 January 2010. Their on-screen partnership is generally regarded as one of the great high-points of the enduring science fiction phenomenon.
'I still remember the sense of joy I had when I heard that David had been asked to play the Doctor,' says Big Finish executive producer Jason Haigh-Ellery. 'We were all so pleased for him — as we knew how much Doctor Who meant to him. And now David comes full circle, back doing Doctor Who with Big Finish — except that this time he’s playing the Doctor! It’s the same but different — it’s wonderful to have him back!'
Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures will be released in May 2016 and comprises three thrilling full cast audio adventures.
The series opens with Doctor Who – The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Technophobia by Matt Fitton, which is set in a London slightly in the future, where mankind is gradually losing its ability to use everyday technology. Could there be an evil force at work?
In Doctor Who – The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Time Reaver by Jenny T Colgan the Doctor and Donna arrive on Calibris - ‘An entirely mechanical planet. Catch, hitch, fuel, fix, buy, pretty much any kind of transportation in existence.’ It’s also a world full of scoundrels, where a deadly black market has opened up in a device known only as the Time Reaver.
Finally, in Doctor Who – The Tenth Doctor Adventures: Death and the Queen by James Goss, Donna is swept along in a fairytale romance and meets the man of her dreams in the beautiful land of Goritania. What can possibly go wrong? And why has the Doctor never heard of Goritania?
'I’ve enjoyed working with all the Doctors on TV, but David is on the only one I’d known before he became the Doctor,' says executive producer Nicholas Briggs. 'I’d worked with him on our Dalek Empire series for Big Finish and had such fun. So along with the excitement of directing new Tenth Doctor adventures, I’m so happy to be working with an old chum again.'
Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures is produced by David Richardson, script edited by Matt Fitton and James Goss and directed by Nicholas Briggs.
'This is one of those dream projects where I’ve spent months pinching myself. I’m covered in bruises,’ says David. ‘With two major international stars in place, and the legacy of this era of the TV show to live up to, we’ve worked our socks off to try and make some very special stories for this box set. Expect adventure, fun, scares... and some tears too.'
Doctor Who – The Tenth Doctor Adventures will be released in May 2016 - exclusively on the Big Finish website. Each of the three titles are available to pre-order separately today for just £10.99 on CD or £8.99 to download.
All three stories are also available in the Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures Volume 1 – Limited Edition set. Limited to just 5,000 copies and available exclusively from bigfinish.com, and the lavish book-sized box set includes exclusive artwork, photography, articles and a one-hour documentary featuring interviews with the stars and production team. You can pre-order the set today at the special price of £30 on CD or £25 to download – offering a £5 discount against the standard price!!
Watch a brief interview with David & Catherine, regarding the new audio series, in the player below:
Exclusive Script Extract & Print Set From ‘An Unearthly Child’
Friend of DWO and Doctor Who fan / designer, Jason Charles Onion, has made available a brand new, exclusive script extract and print set from ‘An Unearthly Child’.
There are ten prints, six are A5 size page extracts from the scripts and one is a promotional piece of A5 size artwork, one of these has been signed by the 6th Doctor Who himself - Colin Baker. The other three are A4 concept clock artwork prints designed by Jason Charles Onion in 1997 for the then BBC Enterprises and are signed and numbered to a limited run.
These are from Anthony Coburn's first drafts from the genesis of the show from 1963 of 'An Unearthly Child' They were discovered in 2013 in 'Herne Bay' in the lead up to the 50th Anniversary. Further information here - https://vimeo.com/132858357
Fans can order them directly from Jason’s eBay page, here, for just £29.99, and for a limited time, postage and packaging is FREE!
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LEGO® Ideas Doctor Who Set Unveiled
LEGO® Ideas have unveiled the brand new Doctor Who TARDIS set where fans can role-play the Doctor’s time-travel adventures!
Created by fan-designer Andrew Clark and selected by LEGO Ideas members, the set is based on the BBC’s popular and long-running television series about a Time Lord – The Doctor – exploring the universe in a blue police box. Due to trans-dimensional engineering, the TARDIS is bigger on the inside than the outside and this cool multifunctional set includes the console room that houses all the controls.
Featuring an opening TARDIS, detachable interior console room, exclusive graphic details and steps, fans can regenerate the Doctor and defeat the evil Daleks or Weeping Angels with the help of his extraordinary companion Clara. Once the doors of the TARDIS are closed, prepare to launch into dimensions light years away from Gallifrey!
Measuring over 5” (14cm) high, 6” (16cm) wide and 9” (23cm) deep, the model contains 623 pieces to build an authentic replica. At £49.99 RRP, the set [#21304] includes four minifigures: The Eleventh Doctor, The Twelfth Doctor, Clara Oswald and a Weeping Angel, plus 2 Daleks and assorted accessory elements such as the Doctor’s signature Sonic Screwdriver.
Check out DWO's exclusive unboxing & product spotlight of the set in the video, below:
+ Fans can PREORDER the set shortly from the LEGO Shop, priced £49.99.
The Underwater Menace - DVD Cover & Details
BBC DVD have sent DWO the DVD cover and details for the upcoming 2nd Doctor release of 'The Underwater Menace'.
The Underwater Menace is the fifth serial of the fourth season, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 14 January 1967 to 4 February 1967. The story introduces Jamie McCrimmon's (Frazer Hines) on his first journey with the Doctor as a travelling companion. This special release will contain the two re-mastered existing episodes, with the two missing episodes represented with restored audio and surviving stills, as well as over an hour of extras.
· Commentary - For episode 1, Interview with actor Michael Troughton Part 2 (from Ice Warriors). For episodes 2 and 3, a commentary with actors Anneke Wills, Frazer Hines and Catherine Howe, special sounds supervisor Brian Hodgson and floor assistant Quentin Mann. For episode 4, archive material featuring Patrick Troughton, directors Julia Smith and Hugh David, and producer Innes Lloyd. Moderated and linked by Toby Hadoke.
· A Fishy Tale (Feature, dur. 28’ 30”) – cast and crew look back on the making of the story. With actors Anneke Wills, Frazer Hines and Catherine Howe, AFM Gareth Gwelan, production assistant Berry Butler and new series writer Robert Shearman. Narrated by Peter Davison.
· The Television Centre of the Universe – Part Two (dur. 32’ 10” ) – Yvette Fielding continues her tour of BBC Television Centre in the company of actors Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Mark Strickson, with contributions from former colleagues along the way. With senior camera supervisor Alec Wheal, AFM Sue Hedden, former BBC producer and writer Richard Marson, exhibitions assistant Bob Richardson, production assistant Jane Ashford and videotape engineer Simon Anthony.
+ The Underwater Menace is released on 26th October, priced £20.42.
+ PREORDER The Underwater Menace DVD from BBC Shop for just £13.99!
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Doctor Who: The War Doctor - Coming To Big Finish This December!
In December 2015, the Time War will rage and only one man can save us. John Hurt is The War Doctor!
John Hurt, the world-renowned star of film and television, is returning to the role of The War Doctor, in twelve full-cast Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish.
The War Doctor was introduced for Doctor Who’s Fiftieth Anniversary, and played a key part in the record-breaking television special The Day of the Doctor, alongside David Tennant and Matt Smith’s Doctors. He is the secret incarnation of the Time Lord — but he has shunned the title ‘Doctor’ in order to fight in the Time War against the Daleks.
Big Finish executive producer Jason Haigh-Ellery says:
“I have been a huge fan of John since first seeing him in the repeats of I, Claudius in the 1980s and in his Oscar-nominated role as the eponymous The Elephant Man. Watching his performance in The Day of the Doctor I did find myself fantasising that some far off day we might have the chance to work with him on the audio adventures of Doctor Who and now two short years later it’s happened! John wove a fantastic character together from a great script by Steven Moffat. Now we have the chance to get to know that character more and hear John stretch in the role. We’re all in for a hell of a ride as the War Doctor engages in battle. But who are the greater threat - the Daleks or the Time Lords?”
The audio adventures of The War Doctor will be told over four box sets, each containing three linked hour-long episodes. The first box set is entitled Only The Monstrous, and is written and directed by Nicholas Briggs, whose many successes for Big Finish include the BBC Audio Award-winning masterpiece Doctor Who: Dark Eyes.
Nicholas Briggs says:
“The story of the Doctor who refuses to call himself the Doctor in order to do the unthinkable upon the ultimate battlefield — all of space and time — was irresistible to me. Such a deeply disturbing and engaging character created by the formidable talents of writer Steven Moffat and actor John Hurt. It’s such a privilege to be working on this.”
The cast of The War Doctor also includes Jacqueline Pearce, who plays Time Lord Cardinal Ollistra — an arch manipulator who is waging the Time War against the Daleks. Jacqueline’s work includes The Avengers, Callan, Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time, Moondial and Russell T Davies’ Dark Season, and she is known to many science fiction fans for her role as Servalan in the cult classic Blake’s 7.
Only The Monstrous will be released in December 2015, and will be followed in February 2016 by the second volume, Infernal Devices, which is written by John Dorney, Phil Mulryne and Matt Fitton. Volumes Three and Four are currently in pre-production.
Big Finish Producer, David Richardson says:
“What an utter privilege it is to work with such an iconic actor, playing such a brilliantly devised role. This is Doctor Who at its darkest — the era in which our hero casts aside his core values in order to try and save the galaxy in its most terrible hour. We promise bold and brilliant story-telling with gripping character drama, and epic and cinematic audio productions.”
In addition to The War Doctor, November 2017 also sees a prequel box set to the saga, Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor — The Time War, which will follow the early stages of the Time War from the Eighth Doctor’s perspective. Paul McGann stars, alongside characters first introduced in the War Doctor box sets.
Character Options Announces Limited Edition Missy Action Figures
Character Options has today unveiled details of a brand new Limited Edition Doctor Who 5.5” scale action figure. Images of the Missy figure, first in a new range of scale Doctor Who Collector Series toys, were revealed by Alasdair Dewar, Product Development Director, today via video on the Character Options’ website.
Missy, played by Michelle Gomez, is a villainous Time Lady who recently revealed herself as the Doctor’s arch enemy, the Master! Missy has been firmly established as a new fan favourite character, and as a collector’s figure, she is truly a must have.
The Missy figure will be available in two variants; a purple outfitted version with hat from the series finale episodes; and alternatively in her ‘Heaven’ outfit, hatless with black jacket and manic grin. The Missy figures each have 18 points of articulation and are highly detailed and decorated. Each figure head can also be swapped so that both heads can be incorporated with either outfit, and they both come with accessories. The bespoke UK Collector Series packs are perfect for display and for the first time are re-sealable, so that the figures can be enjoyed in or out of packaging without losing their collectability.
Only 4,000 units of each of the two figures are available in exclusive UK packaging at www.character-online.co.uk for the price of £19.99 each (excluding P&P). Delivery will be made to customers by early November.
Al Dewar states:
“Character Options has been designing, manufacturing and marketing Doctor Who toys since 2005, so as true fans of the brand we wanted to tell collectors the latest news in the most direct, if informal way, which is why I made the announcement in person not he website. Missy is the first of a potential new line of highly sought after 5.5-inch action figures so we expect interest to be high and we are all very excited to share this with fans and collectors alike.
Working with Michelle Gomez was great fun and she was the best subject we ever 3D scanned, patiently holding her facial expressions including her trademark Missy “sneer” for long periods of time. We know that many collectors have been eagerly waiting to see if Missy would at some point be included within our figure range, and at last, here she is.”
+ PREORDER the Missy in Purple outfit figure from Character Options, here!
+ PREORDER the Missy in Black outfit figure from Character Options, here!
[Source: Character Options]
The Underwater Menace DVD Up For Preorder On BBC Shop!
BBC Shop has added the 2nd Doctor adventure 'The Underwater Menace', back onto its DVD listings, finally giving confirmation to the fact that the much-anticipated title, will actually be released.
It is likely that the cover (pictured right), which appeared in a recent issue of Doctor Who Magazine*, will still be used.
The DVD will be released on 26th October 2015 and we hope to have full details shortly.
+ PREORDER 'The Underwater Menace' DVD from BBC Shop for just £13.99!
H.G. Wells' The Coming of the Martians - [Kickstarter Campaign]
Our friend Martin Johnson over at EverybodyElse Productions has been in touch with details on his new Kickstarter campaign for an exciting new SciFi audio drama.
H. G. Wells’ famous novel The War of the Worlds has been adapted many times in various forms. However, none of these adaptations have been truly faithful to the original story.
Everybodyelse Productions has launched an exciting new Kickstarter campaign, running from 1st August 2015 - 5th September 2015, with the hope of bringing the original novel to life as a cinematic audio drama that promises to be faithful to the source material. Keeping the Victorian setting of southern England, this adaptation will retain the dark, scary and often horrific elements of the story that sets it apart from all previous adaptations.
The 2-hour full-cast audio drama production of H. G. Wells’ The Coming of the Martians, to be directed by Big Finish stalwart Lisa Bowerman and adapted on audio by Nick Scovell, will be produced in 5.1 surround sound with Dolby Pro Logic II surround sound encoded stereo for the CD and digital releases.
Martin Johnson, Producer of The Coming of the Martians comments:
“It has been a life-long dream of both myself and Nick to bring the original alien invasion story to life in a way it has never been done before. There is a huge audience out there just waiting to hear the spine-chilling Fighting Machines stride over them in a realistic, atmospheric soundscape and experience Victorian artillerymen battle these giant metal tripods on the river like never before. We aim to create this unique surround sound production utilising best the audio format has to offer. No silly voices, no cartoon style zaps and certainly no singing.”
Script Writer Nick Scovell adds:
“No updating, no switching continents, no re-imagining - this will be the real deal! H. G. Wells’ terrifying vision of the collapse of civilization is coming to life as he envisaged it.”
Director Lisa Bowerman says:
“When it comes to the story of The War of the Worlds there’s quite a legacy of previous adaptations, most famously the Orson Wells radio adaptation back in the 1930’s. What makes this particular adaptation different is that we’re going back to the original source material, bringing in the terrifying darker elements that the novel is famous for.”
If successfully funded, the production will be released to backers in January 2017, when EU copyright on the novel expires, and to the general public shortly after.
+ Help Fund this project at Kickstarter!
[Source: EverybodyElse Productions]
Doctor Who LEGO Dimensions - DWO Exclusive Image
Further to Thursday's press release and trailer, LEGO Dimensions and Warner Bros. have sent DWO an exclusive Doctor Who image.
The image, which you can view int he right-hand column, features The Doctor, Clara and The Cybermen.
Watch the official trailer for Doctor Who LEGO Dimensions in the player, below:
[Sources: LEGO Dimensions; Warner Bros.]
The Time Lord Nixie Clock By Bad Dog Designs
Hot on the heels of their 'Gemini' clock, our friends over at Bad Dog Designs have created a Doctor Who inspired Steampunk Nixie Clock.
Below are the product details from the Bad Dog Designs website, and you can view the clock in the image panel to the right:
The Gallifrey Time Lord Clock, made to look like it came out of The Doctor's TARDIS. A lot of time and effort went into the production of this specially made clock
The Brass top plate has Gallifray script engraved on the top which spells out the Dr's Name when viewed from above. The central blue light fades out once every 5 seconds, just like the one on top of the Tardis.
There will be a limited run of 10 of these clocks, they will all be slightly different but feature the same top plate and all signed as limited edition. 2 already sold, leaving 8 remaining. Various options can be added sonic screwdriver stands, sound chips, glowing coils. Pricing starts from £395 for the base model.
Each made to order, drop Paul a line - paul@bad-dog-designs.co.uk if you want to reserve one!
Check out the clock in action in the video player, below:
+ Check out Bad Dog Designs range of clocks at: http://www.bad-dog-designs.co.uk
Robert Harrop Doctor Who Statues Now Available From The Gift Shop
Our friends over at The Gift Shop have just taken delivery for the next wave of the exciting new range of Doctor Who statues by Robert Harrop.
The figures are each made as a limited edition, high quality, hand-painted figure. Each figure is individually numbered and presented in branded packaging, and the best part of all with these BBC licensed products, is that they are all designed in the UK.
All statues are available to order now at The Gift Shop website, with preorders up for the forthcoming wave.
All items get FREE UK delivery with worldwide delivery options also available!
+ Check out The Gift Shop website at: www.thetraditionalgiftshop.com
[Source: The Gift Shop]
Doctor Who Heads Into Another Dimension With LEGO
Imagine an incredible world where The Doctor teams up with Batman, Gandalf and Wyldstyle to defeat his evil foes; where The Doctor can dance down a yellow brick road or travel in The Mystery Machine with Scooby Doo. LEGO Dimensions is the new Toys-To-Life game from Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment and features the biggest brand mash ups the gaming world has ever seen – now including Doctor Who.
This all-new entertainment experience which merges physical LEGO brick building with digital gameplay and launches in the UK on 29th September.
Peter Capaldi comments:
“It’s fitting that Doctor Who now sits alongside some of the most iconic film and TV shows ever made. So go forth and help The Doctor make new friends on his quest to vanquish Lord Vortech!”
Batman, Gandalf and Wyldstyle will team up with Doctor Who, The Simpsons, Ghostbusters, Jurassic World, Back to the Future and many more fan favourites in a mission to thwart Lord Vortech’s evil plan to collide all dimensions into one.
Using an interactive LEGO Toy Pad which will plug into games consoles, gamers can place up to seven physical toys into the game through the toy pad. This allows gamers to embark on an adventure which merges the worlds of their favourite TV and film franchises.
The LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack includes three Doctor Who levels, where you can battle the Daleks and Cybermen, complete with a cameo from the Twelfth Doctor. From November you will be able to purchase an additional Doctor Who pack enabling gamers to play as the Doctor. The pack will also introduce new buildable characters, including the TARDIS and K-9, unlocking compelling game content with mission-based levels and unique in-game abilities. The Doctor Who level pack will provide players the opportunity to use everything interchangeably, anywhere throughout the game.
LEGO Dimensions will be available for Xbox One, the all-in one games and entertainment system from Microsoft and the Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation4 and PlayStation3 computer entertainment systems and the Wii U system from Nintendo.
Doctor Who’s Intergalactic Homeware At HintonsHome.com
Brought into our lives to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the eccentric yet compassionate time lord and most loved television series, the collection of vibrant and extra-terrestrial Doctor Who homeware and gifts at HintonsHome.com is the perfect gift for any die-hard Doctor Who fan.
Happily, the guys at HintonsHome.com, stock a range of Doctor Who gift ideas and are proud to be an official stockist of the very first Doctor Who range from the BBC that was created with a design partner. Unlike the other internet retailers, Hintons isn’t one of the big multiples but an independent family business selling to their loyal customers in Dorset and now across the world with their rather jazzy website. What’s special about Hintons, is that they totally understand service and value are vitally important when it comes to the more exciting and stylish ranges, like the Doctor Who collection.
They really love the products and care about their customers too. The stylish graphic Doctor Who print designs are used on a range of homeware and kitchen items from Dalek teapots, Cyberman mugs, exterminate oven gloves, police box notepads and even some rather awesome duvet sets and cushions. So you can literally tuck yourself into the Tardis at night, who knows where you could time travel to in your dreams!
This colourful selection of Doctor Who merchandise, all officially licensed by the BBC, makes ideal birthday or Christmas gifts for all ages but in particularly Doctor Who fanatics.
So, allons-y and discover the pick of stylish Doctor Who gifts at Hintons.
+ Order online at HintonsHome.com for delivery to any address in the galaxy!
[Source: Hintons Home]
Twelfth Doctor’s Sonic Screwdriver Remote Control By The Wand Company
The Twelfth Doctor’s Sonic Screwdriver Remote Control is finally here to give Doctor Who fans what they have been asking for: a brand new, hero prop replica which is a superb recreation of the Sonic Screwdriver used by Peter Capaldi in Series 8. A limited run of 168 laser-etched numbered Sonics will be available exclusively to purchase on the BBC AMERICA booth (#4129) for the first time at San Diego Comic-Con (8th-12th July 2015) prior to general sale from 7th September from www.BBCShop.com.
The new Twelfth Doctor’s Sonic Screwdriver is a fully functioning gesture-based universal remote control which can control your TV and other home entertainment equipment. Learning the gestures and programming the Sonic Screwdriver is easy, and the intuitive gestures allow the user to become the Doctor. Flick it open and the clasps extend with a satisfying clunk; press the grip mounted button for instant light and sound action or use the Any-TV-Off function just for fun!
The Twelfth Sonic has been made in direct response to the huge number of requests that The Wand Company received from fans all over the world asking for an extending version of their famous Eleventh Doctor’s Sonic Screwdriver.
Chris Barnardo, co-founder of The Wand Company said:
“Since our Eleventh Doctor’s Sonic went on sale, we have had a constant stream of requests from fans of all ages asking us to make an extending version. It wasn’t easy to engineer a solidly reliable device that can withstand being repeatedly flicked to extend it, but we’ve been able to do it, and I’m certain that any fan of Doctor Who is going to love it,”
Jason Easy, Senior Licensing Manager at BBC Worldwide, said:
“The Wand Company continually exceed expectations with their range of Sonic Screwdrivers, and the Twelfth Doctor’s Sonic is no exception. The Sonics are not just technologically sophisticated, but also beautifully made and have exciting features that delight fans.”
The Wand Company’s new extending Twelfth Doctor’s Sonic Screwdriver universal remote control prop replica contains the following features:
- 1:1 scale replica of the Series 8 Sonic Screwdriver hero prop
- Highly authentic flick-to-extend action
- Grip-mounted action button
- Press and hold button to make Sonic buzz and tip light in FX Mode
- Any-TV-off function that turns off any television at the press of a button, without having to program the Sonic first
- Stores up to 39 remote control commands
- Customisable personal lock code
- Ivory-coloured handle with subtle fleck
- Redesigned copper-plated handle end
- Gallifreyan stand for vertical presentation
- 12 new secret Morse-coded Twelfth Doctor phrases
- 12 different sonic screwdriver sound effects
More New Series Doctor Who From Big Finish
Big Finish have today announced a new range of boxsets, featuring heroes and monsters from the New Series of Doctor Who.
Leading this new wave of adventures is Alex Kingston as River Song, the beloved Time Lord archaeologist who first appeared in 2008's Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead.
River will be stepping into the era of the Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann) for Doctor Who: Doom Coalition 2, alongside Liv Chenka (Nicola Walker) and Helen Sinclair (Hattie Morahan). But how can River help her husband if, in this incarnation, she must never actually meet him?
“The idea of River meeting previous Doctors was actually proposed by Steven Moffat,” says producer David Richardson, “and it's just irresistible, isn't it? Alex embraced the idea of returning to the role, and so she will be starring in no less than two box sets next year. And yes, we are still pinching ourselves!”
River will then return later in 2016 in Doctor Who: The Diary of River Song, an epic four-hour adventure that takes River across space and time, seeking out the secret rulers of the universe. Paul McGann will reprise the role of the Eighth Doctor in the final instalment.
The New Series adventures will continue in Doctor Who: The Churchill Years, in which Ian McNeice returns as the indomitable Winston Churchill. In the four-hour saga, Winston relates a number of encounters with the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors in his memoirs, battling alien incursions, metamorphosing creatures... and a Dalek! The stories are told by Ian McNeice, supported by a full cast of guest actors, including Danny Horn as Kazran Sardick, in a story taking place within the 2010 special A Christmas Carol.
“Ian has played Churchill in just four episode on TV, and yet it feels like it was many more,” says executive producer Nicholas Briggs. “It was such a brilliant, definitive performance, and how wonderful that we will be continuing Churchill's adventures with the Doctor on audio.”
Finally, the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors will face a new generation of monsters in Doctor Who: Classic Doctors, New Monsters, a brand new, four-story run featuring creatures from the New Series. Peter Davison takes on the Weeping Angels, Colin Bakerencounters the Judoon, Sylvester McCoy will meet the Sycorax... and Paul McGann will face a new clone batch of Sontarans on the edge of the Time War....
“It's the ultimate mash-up,” says executive producer Jason Haigh-Ellery, “and we have some great scripts lined up for these landmark stories. There is no doubt that 2016 is going to be a brilliant year for Big Finish!”
All four boxsets will be released across 2016, and are available to pre-order today from the Big Finish website. Doctor Who: Doom Coalition 2 will be released in February, and is available as part of a special bundle of all four Doom Coalition boxsets.
Doctor Who: The Diary of River Song, Doctor Who: The Churchill Years and Doctor Who: Classic Doctors, New Monsters can be pre-ordered for just £20 each on CD or Download, and are also available as part of our Doctor Who New Series bundle.
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Tuesday, September 16, 1930: Dow 236.62 -3.72 (1.5%)
Today is 10th anniversary of deadly bombing at Wall and Broad Streets; bomb exploded 12:01PM, closing Stock Exchange and almost all financial operations.
German elections result in National Socialist (Fascist) party gaining sharply to 107 seats vs. 12 formerly, and Communists 76 vs. 54 (total seats in Reichstag are about 576, and largest party is Social Democrats with 143). German observers were pleased Communist gains relatively modest. Gain in radical parties seen as result of depression. Communist party is affiliated with Moscow, while National Socialists are “anti-Republican, anti-Parliament, anti-Young Plan, ... anti-League of Nations, anti-Semitic, and anti-capital,” advocating establishment of “extreme dictatorship with socialist features.”
Editorial: Result of German election is hopeful. Two radical parties have made gains; if they took power, parliamentary rule could end, as well as reparations; this would create worldwide business unsettlement. However, radical parties are still in minority, and strongly oppose each other. There are several moderate parties that could form a coalition to continue the present govt.; this would ensure business has no cause for fear.
W. Graham, Pres. British Bd. of Trade, warns League of Nations Britain may withdraw from tariff truce in March; blames current economic crisis on US.
American Motorists Assoc. estimates car accident deaths for 1930 at 36,000, vs. 33,060 in 1929.
First Japanese sound film being made in Hollywood; to be shown in Japan and in the many Japanese areas in California.
623-year old lawsuit between Romanian cities of Feldioara and Sorkutza over possession of grazing land adjourned for new testimony.
Market wrap: Weakness in wheat market translated to pressure on farm-related stocks including J.I. Case, Sears, Woolworth. Weakness spread to the leading industrials including US Steel, Westinghouse. Volume again dried up on declines, and liquidation wasn't apparent. Banks weak, insurance stocks firmer. Technicolor and Diamond Match hit new yearly lows. Some late rallying took place off the day's lows. Bond market very dull; US govt. higher, foreign govts. firm except for substantial declines in German issues; convertibles weak.
Aside from commodity price weakness, business outlook continues encouraging; recent merchandising and transportation conditions point to further improvement in coming weeks, and steel industry reportedly will make a concerted effort to raise product prices. Aside from technical setbacks, market recovery is seen continuing at least another month, until it's apparent how strong the seasonal recovery is.
A large number of market students are “watching the trading for a sign that a turn has come.”
Reports of depression are difficult to square with ever-increasing numbers of stockholders, strong bond prices, and last but not least “the unabated rush in the subway. ... Business has fallen off, but the country is now so rich that 1930 will probably go down in history as a 'good bad year.'”
Recent renewed confidence in market outlook has brought back some of the operators who sponsored stocks during the Coolidge (1920's) bull market; among the stocks they have been quietly accumulating are Radio, Vanadium, Montgomery Ward, National Cash Register.
A. Robertson, Westinghouse Chair., sees slow, orderly return to normal conditions in business.
Fed. Reserve member banks weekly report Sept. 10 shows “all other” (commercial) loans up $16M to $8.462B, loans on securities down $32M to $8.351B.
Call money dropped back to 2% from 2 1/2%; prime commercial paper is at 3%; bankers' acceptances are at 2 - 2 3/8%.
Bond market showed strength in all classes in August; Dow Jones combined bond index closed Aug. at 82.93, highest since Nov. 1928. Low point for the past several years of 77.23 was reached in Sept. 1929.
New life insurance purchases in Aug. were down 8.7% vs. 1929; first 8 months were up 0.3%. Number of $1M policies was 357, up 45 from 1929.
Automotive exports in July were $19.0M, down 17% from June and 62% from 1929; first 7 months were $215.1M, down 46% from 1929.
Companies reporting decent earnings: General Foods, Jewel Tea (careful buying of coffee inventory).
Storm over Asia, directed by Pudovkin. “Another striking example of the Russian film producers' brilliant knowledge of the peculiar art of the cinema.” Sweeping film with beautiful photography”; story concerns Mongolian revolt against army of intervention; “the bourgeoisie are again bitterly lampooned”; film closes with wave of revolt symbolized by storm sweeping over Asia.
Former French Pres. Poincare says regardless of German election outcome revision of the peace treaty is out of the question.
Berlin market opened sharply lower, with some recovery during the day; other European markets were generally lower. However, there was no panic selling and marks held up well - seen as signs of belief in German stability in informed circles.
W. Graham of Graham Engineering accuses British oil interests of overthrowing Pres. Legula of Peru to prevent granting of oil concession to 3 US companies.
B. Delgass, former VP Amtorg Trading, charges Amtorg with diverting Russian trade from US to force recognition of Soviet govt.
Editorial: United Textile Workers proposal of a 30-hour workweek to combat unemployment would increase production costs and ultimately reduce employment.
State Farmers Convention in North Carolina attended by 1,200, of which 70% were women.
“Never before in history has the country emerged from a period of depression with its banking resources not only showing no signs of impairment, but in a position of impressive strength. For this reason, experienced economists are gradually veering around to the view that the recovery in stock prices may set a more rapid pace in the autumn and winter than the revival in trade.”
Col. L. Ayres of Cleveland Trust says low point of depression so far seems to have been reached at end of July. There have been gains since in most important industrial activities, including freight loadings, construction, and steel output. This advance may ultimately be “disappointing, like that of last spring, but there are reasons for believing that it is not likely to”; other economic indicators are also signalling recovery, including the stock and bond markets.
Conservative observers continue to advise staying out of the market and using rallies to take profits.
Commodities weak. Grains generally down; wheat touches 16-year low below 80 cents/bushel, closes about 80. Cotton little changed. Some copper sales at 10 1/2 cents, major producers asking 10 3/4 cents, but with no takers.
Production of wheat in 1930 in 27 countries was 2.778B bushels, up 6.6% from 1929; corn in 9 countries was 2.306B bushels, down 24.6%.
Canadian news: July imports were $84.5M vs. 114.2M in 1929, and exports $77.9M vs. $98.3M. July average daily output of central electric stations was 45.630 GWHr vs. 47.481 in June and 45.506 in July 1929. Total net debt Aug. 31 was $2.145B, down $4M from 1929. Royal Bank of Canada, in Sept. letter, says Canadian business is generally down as a result of the depression, but “there are few countries which have come through this trade reaction as well as Canada.”
International Steel Cartel extended to end of year with further production decrease of 15%, making total of 25% for the last quarter.
Gasoline in Chicago wholesale market was 6 3/8 - 6 1/2 cents, up from 6 1/4 - 6 3/8.
California expected to cut allowable oil production to 550,000 barrels/day from current 608,800.
Shell Oil matches 1-cent/gallon increase by Standard of Calif.; Union Oil and Rio Grande Oil will also match the increase.
Nelson, Hunt, & Co. report new realty financing in first 8 months was $144.7M vs. $428.6M in 1929, decrease of 66%.
Exports of machinery in July were $38.0M vs. $56.8M in 1929; first 7 months were $352.0M vs. $361.6M. Largest category is agricultural machinery.
Conferences are ongoing concerning merging NY City transit lines with the BMT; valuation is a problem, with a wide range of suggested offers. Recently a BMT-affiliated group has gained some seats on the IRT board; this has raised hopes for IRT joining unification, and stimulated traction (mass transit) shares generally.
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Friday, September 19, 1930: Dow 234.18 -3.56 (1.5%...
Tuesday, September 16, 1930: Dow 236.62 -3.72 (1.5...
Monday, September 15, 1930: Dow 240.34 -0.83 (0.3%...
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[AsiaNet] Rising to challenges: Shunde in Guangdong upgrading its village-
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(SHUNDE, China, Dec. 13, 2019 AsiaNet=연합뉴스) In 2019, significant progress has been made and great resolve demonstrated by Shunde, a district of the southern Chinese city of Foshan in Guangdong province, in upgrading village-level industrial parks. 1,030.7 hectares of land have been consolidated and 114 hectares turned into reclaimed and afforested areas. And 7 million square meters of new factories have been built and 4,178 backward and unreliable companies closed. 382 village-level industrial parks are planned to be replaced by 20 modern industrial clusters. With that, a scatter of small, underdeveloped factories becomes history and a new manufacturing landscape in Shunde that features a coordinated and orderly industrial ecosystem emerges.
According to the Office of Village-Level Industrial Park Upgrading in Shunde District, with two-month effort led by 15 groups of people visiting over 2,500 households in the Huaxi village of Shunde, the major upgrade to the village-based Baochong Industrial Park finally makes progress, with 98.8% voting in favor.
This, however, is but a common example of the upgrading of 382 village-level industrial parks taking place in Shunde.
Shunde has decided to make such upgrading a top priority, as resources for development runs short and the path for growth is not clear, the renovating effort will enable Shunde to reform institutions, upgrade industries and shape another pattern, therefore delivering more opportunities for quality development.
In the 1990s, the village-level industrial parks led by township enterprises in Shunde sprang up. Tremendous productive forces were unleashed, a passion for entrepreneurship inspired, and a complete industrial chain fostered. It was the resulting business climate that created the Fortune Global 500 companies of Midea and Country Garden and turned Shunde into a renowned manufacturing center.
Yet these parks have now become a drag on industrial upgrading. A myriad of problems they involve, such as the complexities of land ownership, serious safety issues, and inefficient operation, have slowed the influx of talents and innovation factors and hampered Shunde's growth.
"In the pursuit of quality development, the village-level industrial parks represent the toughest nut to crack. An all-out effort must be made to win the battle since there are no two ways about it," said Guo Wenhai, secretary of the CPC Shunde Committee.
Upgrading these parks is the only way out for Shunde. These parks that once led the district to prosperity are still the key to its future.
The solution to the upgrading of village-level industrial parks can only be obtained through practice since there is no precedent to follow. Shunde is resolved to press ahead despite difficulties. If success is made in this pursuit, the district will be not just an epitome of the development of the Pearl River Delta (PRD), but also a fine example of the industrial upgrading of the PRD and the quality economic growth of the country. A new era calls for a new round of reforms. As quality development represents the trend of our times, the upgrading of village-level industrial parks will provide an opportunity for Shunde to accelerate the shift of the growth model and embark on a new journey of development.
Source: The Office of Village-Level Industrial Park Upgrading in Shunde District, Guangdong
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CDC: Springfield In Top 60 U.S. Cities for STDs
Drury Cheer Wins National Championship
Red Cross Announces Type O Blood Shortage
Long Time Springfield Restaurant Owner Anton Tasich Dies at 88
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Yadier Molina Talks Injury Recovery & Helping Young Players
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St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina struck out in his first three at-bats in a rehab assignment with the Springfield Cardinals, but the nine-time All Star was still encouraged by his performance.
“[The thumb feels] really good,” Molina told reporters after the game. “It’s improving. I don’t feel no pain so that’s a good thing.”
Molina was more impressed with the fans who gave him rousing ovations every time he stepped to the plate.
“Every time they would cheer for me even if I strike out three times,” Molina said. “It’s just a great honor to be here.”
Molina laughed when a reporter asked if fans were that nice in St. Louis and said fans were great in both cities.
Molina shows a veteran’s wisdom when asked about how much he would like to be back with the parent club in St. Louis.
“I can’t wait but at the same time I need to get the thumb right,” Molina said. “I need to get into baseball shape. Right now I’m in pretty good shape, I’m at a good weight, so hopefully soon I can go back and help the team win.”
Molina talked about his tradition during rehab assignments of treating the team to lobster or steak dinners.
“I remember when I was in the minor leagues, how tough it was,” Molina said. “I’m just trying to help these guys eat the right food.”
Molina said he will be in Springfield through Sunday.
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Wainuiwhenua
Wainuiwhenua is a community-led group working with local iwi to achieve the best future uses of surplus Transmission Gully land for the Kāpiti District. At around 450 hectares, these lands form the hinterland around Paekākāriki village and will frame the entrance to the Kāpiti District.
Jenny Rowan, co-chair
There has been great progress for Wainuiwhenua in the last few weeks, the result of a lot of hard work by a lot of people, in a relatively short time. There are three significant developments I want to make sure you know about:
1. Hui endorsement
On November 17, 75 people came to a Sunday afternoon hui to consider the consultation document which had been circulated. After lively discussion, they unanimously endorsed all the recommendations.
“Noting the purposes, proposals and issues presented by the Wainuiwhenua Working Group at the hui on 17 Nov 2019,
and the working group’s commitment to stay engaged with and responsive to Ngāti Haumia ki Paekākāriki and the community,
the members of the Paekākāriki community attending the hui support the Wainuiwhenua proposals as presented.”
(The full consultation document along with a short version are linked below)
2. Paekākāriki Community Board endorsement & request that Kāpiti Coast District Council joins effort
On On December 4, the new Paekākāriki Community Board considered the Wainuiwhenua project and unanimously endorsed it. Significantly, they encouraged the Kapiti Coast District Council to join in this project. Their resolution, in full:
“That the Paekākāriki Community Board fully endorses the aims of the Wainuiwhenua Working Group to keep surplus land from the Transmission Gully project, as detailed in their discussion document, to ensure this land is kept in public hands and to achieve the Group’s vision of environmental and public benefit activities.
That the Paekākāriki Community Board actively encourages the Kāpiti Coast District Council to join with the Wainuiwhenua Working Group in the next stage of investigating the feasibility of this project and that this relationship be formalised with a Memorandum of Understanding.
That the Wainuiwhenua Project become a separate Matter Under Action item on the Community Board agenda to keep the community involved and updated on the progress of this project.”
This is an important landmark – a resounding community endorsement, and a formal call to the KCDC to take it forward.
3. Survey Results: Solid environmental commitment
On December 3, the results of the online survey about Wainiuwhenua were released. The full results, including all the comments given, are linked below but the key points are:
There were responses from 248 people. This is not just a Paekākāriki issue — 36% of the responses came from elsewhere.
All of the proposals in the survey are supported by more than 80% of respondents (answering either “strongly support” or “somewhat support”).
The strongest support is for the environmental protection proposals, with at least 90% of respondents strongly supporting the reservation and revegetation of the hill country and wetland and stream protection.The full report, complete with all the comments, is very encouraging – do have a look at it below.And now…..There’s a great deal still to be done, but the foundation of strong community support is clear and documented, and there is a formal call for the KCDC to join in investigating how to make this vision a reality.Thank you to everyone for all the work in putting this together and placing it solidly on the agenda of our elected bodies, and in the hearts and minds of so many.Jenny Rowan, co-Chair
Online survey results:
Paekākāriki Community and Iwi proposal for the protection and development of the Wainuiwhenua lands, waters and ecosystems:
The completion of the Transmission Gully motorway will create a one-off opportunity for Paekākāriki and the wider Kāpiti district to secure about 450 hectares of land owned by New Zealand Transport Agency, and so maximise environmental protection and enhancement, mitigate hazards, and optimise the opportunities for social and economic development.
The Wainuiwhenua Working Group, co-chaired by Mayor Gurunathan and ex-Mayor Jenny Rowan and made up of community stakeholders, mana whenua and Community Board members, has drafted a proposal as a key contribution to the land disposal process.
We are seeking your views on two parts of the report in particular:
Do you support or oppose the draft proposals?
What responses do you have to the outstanding issues and questions?
We also seek any other comments you may have.
See the full version of the proposal for maps and description of the land, history of this proposal, Ngāti Haumia ki Paekākāriki’s position, how the proposal can be achieved and a fuller discussion of issues.
Listen to Keith Johnson’s interview on RNZ here.
Read the Groundtruth NZTA Land Scoping document
The group includes a governance group and three working groups.
The governance group includes a number of local community and iwi leaders, working group leads and the Kapiti Coast District Council.
The three working groups include representatives from across a number of local community groups and local residents.
Co-chairs:
K Gurunathan, Mayor, KCDC & Jenny Rowan, Chair, Wellington Conservation Board
Working Group leads:
Environment: Andy McKay
People (land use): Tina Pope
Land (secure): Keith Johnson
Business model (land subgroup): Pete Handford
Ngāti Haumia ki Paekākāriki
Paekākāriki Community Board
Paekākāriki Community Trust
Paekākāriki Housing Trust
Ngā Uruora
Friends of the Streams
Paekākāriki Orchards and Gardens
Wellington Gateway Group
Grow Paekākāriki
Wellington Hang Gliding and Paragliding Club
Crown agencies:
New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA)
Department of Conservation (DoC)
Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI)
Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Housing New Zealand
Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC)
Kiwirail
Walking Access Commission
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CONVENTION ON THE CONSERVATION OF MIGRATORY SPECIES OF WILD ANIMALS (1979)
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Article XX
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The Contracting Parties,
Recognizing that wild animals in their innumerable forms are an irreplaceable part of the earth's natural system which must be conserved for the good of mankind;
Aware that each generation of man holds the resources of the earth for future generations and has an obligation to ensure that this legacy is conserved and, where utilized, is used wisely;
Conscious of the ever-growing value of wild animals from environmental, ecological, genetic, scientific, aesthetic, recreational, cultural, educational, social and economic points of view;
Concerned particularly with those species of wild animals that migrate across or outside national jurisdictional boundaries;
Recognizing that the States are and must be the protectors of the migratory species of wild animals that live within or pass through their national jurisdictional boundaries;
Convinced that conservation and effective management of migratory species of wild animals require the concerted action of all States within the national jurisdictional boundaries of which such species spend any part of their life cycle;
Recalling Recommendation 32 of the Action Plan adopted by the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm, 1972) and noted with satisfaction at the Twenty-seventh Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations,
Have agreed as follows:
Article I Interpretation
1. For the purpose of this Convention:
a) 'Migratory species' means the entire population or any geographically separate part of the population of any species or lower taxon of wild animals, a significant proportion of whose members cyclically and predictably cross one or more national jurisdictional boundaries;
b) 'Conservation status of a migratory species' means the sum of the influences acting on the migratory species that may affect its long-term distribution and abundance;
c) 'Conservation status' will be taken as 'favourable' when:
(1) Population dynamics data indicate that the migratory species is maintaining itself on a long-term basis as a viable component of its ecosystems;
(2) The range of the migratory species is neither currently being reduced, nor is likely to be reduced, on a long-term basis;
(3) There is, and will be in the foreseeable future sufficient habitat to maintain the population of the migratory species on a long-term basis; and
(4) The distribution and abundance of the migratory species approach historic coverage and levels to the extent that potentially suitable ecosystems exist and to the extent consistent with wise wildlife management;
d) 'Conservation status' will be taken as 'unfavourable' if any of the conditions set out in sub-paragraph (c) of this paragraph is not met;
e) 'Endangered' in relation to a particular migratory species means that the migratory species is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range;
f) 'Range' means all the areas of land or water that a migratory species inhabits, stays in temporarily, crosses or overlies at any time on its normal migration route;
g) 'Habitat' means any area in the range of a migratory species which contains suitable living conditions for that species;
h) 'Range State' in relation to a particular migratory species means any State (and where appropriate any other Party referred to under subparagraph (k) of this paragraph) that exercises jurisdiction over any part of the range of that migratory species, or a State, flag vessels of which are engaged outside national jurisdictional limits in taking that migratory species;
i) 'Taking' means taking, hunting, fishing capturing, harassing, deliberate killing, or attempting to engage in any such conduct;
j) 'Agreement' means an international agreement relating to the conservation of one or more migratory species as provided for in Articles IV and V of this Convention; and
k) 'Party' means a State or any regional economic integration organization constituted by sovereign States which has competence in respect of the negotiation, conclusion and application of international Agreements in matters covered by this Convention for which this Convention is in force.
2. In matters within their competence, the regional economic integration organizations which are Parties to this Convention shall in their own name exercise the rights and fulfil the responsibilities which this Convention attributes to their member States. In such cases the member States of these organizations shall not be entitled to exercise such rights individually.
3. Where this Convention provides for a decision to be taken by either a two-thirds majority or a unanimous decision of 'the Parties present and voting' this shall mean 'the Parties present and casting an affirmative or negative vote'. Those abstaining from voting shall not be counted amongst 'the Parties present and voting' in determining the majority.
Article II Fundamental Principles
1. The Parties acknowledge the importance of migratory species being conserved and of Range States agreeing to take action to this end whenever possible and appropriate, paying special attention to migratory species the conservation status of which is unfavourable, and taking individually or in co-operation appropriate and necessary steps to conserve such species and their habitat.
2. The Parties acknowledge the need to take action to avoid any migratory species becoming endangered.
3. In particular, the Parties:
a) Should promote, co-operate in and support research relating to migratory species;
b) Shall endeavour to provide immediate protection for migratory species included in Appendix I; and
c) Shall endeavour to conclude Agreements covering the conservation and management of migratory species included in Appendix II.
Article III Endangered Migratory Species:
1. Appendix I shall list migratory species which are endangered.
2. A migratory species may be listed in Appendix I provided that reliable evidence, including the best scientific evidence available, indicates that the species is endangered.
3. A migratory species may be removed from Appendix I when the Conference of the Parties determines that:
a) Reliable evidence, including the best scientific evidence available, indicates that the species is no longer endangered, and
b) The species is not likely to become endangered again because of loss of protection due to its removal from Appendix I.
4. Parties that are Range States of a migratory species listed in Appendix I shall endeavour:
a) To conserve and, where feasible and appropriate, restore those habitats of the species which are of importance in removing the species from danger of extinction;
b) To prevent, remove, compensate for or minimize, as appropriate, the adverse effects of activities or obstacles that seriously impede or prevent the migration of the species; and
c) To the extent feasible and appropriate, to prevent, reduce or control factors that are endangering or are likely to further endanger the species, including strictly controlling the introduction of, or controlling or eliminating, already introduced exotic species.
5. Parties that are Range States of a migratory species listed in Appendix I shall prohibit the taking of animals belonging to such species. Exceptions may be made to this prohibition only if:
a) The taking is for scientific purposes;
b) The taking is for the purpose of enhancing the propagation or survival of the affected species;
c) The taking is to accommodate the needs of traditional subsistence users of such species; or
d) Extraordinary circumstances so require; provided that such exceptions are precise as to content and limited in space and time. Such taking should not operate to the disadvantage of the species.
6. The Conferences of the Parties may recommend to the Parties that are Range States of a migratory species listed in Appendix I that they take further measures considered appropriate to benefit the species.
7. The Parties shall as soon as possible inform the Secretariat of any exceptions made pursuant to paragraph 5 of this Article.
Article IV Migratory Species to be the Subject of Agreements: Appendix II
1. Appendix II shall list migratory species which have an unfavourable conservation status and which require international agreements for their conservation and management, as well as those which have a conservation status which would significantly benefit from the international cooperation that could be achieved by an international agreement.
2. If the circumstances so warrant, a migratory species may be listed both in Appendix I and Appendix II.
3. Parties that are Range States of migratory species listed in Appendix II shall endeavour to conclude Agreements where these should benefit the species and should give priority to those species in an unfavourable conservation status.
4. Parties are encouraged to take action with a view to concluding agreements for any population or any geographically separate part of the population of any species or lower taxon of wild animals, members of which periodically cross one or more national jurisdiction boundaries.
5. The Secretariat shall be provided with a copy of each Agreement concluded pursuant to the provisions of this Article.
Article V Guidelines for Agreements
1. The object of each Agreement shall be to restore the migratory species concerned to a favourable conservation status or to maintain it in such a status. Each Agreement should deal with those aspects of the conservation and management of the migratory species concerned which serve to achieve that object.
2. Each Agreement should cover the whole of the range of the migratory species concerned and should be open to accession by all Range States of that species, whether or not they are Parties to this Convention.
3. An Agreement should, wherever possible, deal with more than one migratory species.
4. Each Agreement should:
a) Identify the migratory species covered;
b) Describe the range and migration route of the migratory species;
c) Provide for each Party to designate its national authority concerned with the implementation of the Agreement.
d) Establish, if necessary, appropriate machinery to assist in carrying out the aims of the Agreement, to monitor its effectiveness, and to prepare reports for the Conference of the Parties;
e) Provide for procedures for the settlement of disputes between Parties to the Agreement; and
f) At a minimum, prohibit, in relation to a migratory species of the Order Cetacea, any taking that is not permitted for that migratory species under any other multilateral Agreement and provide for accession to the Agreement by States that are not Range States of that migratory species.
5. Where appropriate and feasible, each Agreement should provide for but not be limited to:
a) Periodic review of the conservation status of the migratory species concerned and the identification of the factors which may be harmful to that status;
b) Co-ordinated conservation and management plans;
c) Research into the ecology and population dynamics of the migratory species concerned, with special regard to migration;
d) The exchange of information on the migratory species concerned, special regard being paid to the exchange of the results of research and of relevant statistics;
e) Conservation and, where required and feasible, restoration of the habitats of importance in maintaining a favourable conservation status, and protection of such habitats from disturbances, including strict control of the introduction of, or control of already introduced, exotic species detrimental to the migratory species;
f) Maintenance of a network of suitable habitats appropriately disposed in relation to the migration routes;
g) Where it appears desirable, the provision of new habitats favourable to the migratory species or reintroduction of the migratory species into favourable habitats;
h) Elimination of, to the maximum extent possible, or compensation for activities and obstacles which hinder or impede migration;
i) Prevention, reduction or control of the release into the habitat of the migratory species of substances harmful to that migratory species;
j) Measures based on sound ecological principles to control and manage the taking of the migratory species;
k) Procedures for co-ordinating action to suppress illegal taking;
l) Exchange of information on substantial threats to the migratory species;
m) Emergency procedures whereby conservation action would be considerably and rapidly strengthened when the conservation status of the migratory species is seriously affected; and
n) Making the general public aware of the contents and aims of the Agreement.
Article VI Range States
1. A list of the Range States of migratory species listed in Appendices I and II shall be kept up to date by the Secretariat using information it has received from the Parties.
2. The Parties shall keep the Secretariat informed in regard to which of the migratory species listed in Appendices I and II they consider themselves to be Range States, including provision of information on their flag vessels engaged outside national jurisdictional limits in taking the migratory species concerned and, where possible, future plans in respect of such taking.
3. The Parties which are Range States for migratory species listed in Appendix I or Appendix II should inform the Conference of the Parties through the Secretariat, at least six months prior to each ordinary meeting of the Conference, on measures that they are taking to implement the provisions of this Convention for these species.
Article VII The Conference of the Parties
1. The Conference of the Parties shall be the decision-making organ of this Convention.
2. The Secretariat shall call a meeting of the Conference of the Parties not later than two years after the entry into force of this Convention.
3. Thereafter the Secretariat shall convene ordinary meetings of the Conference of the Parties at intervals of not more than three years, unless the Conference decides otherwise, and extraordinary meetings at any time on the written request of at least one-third of the Parties.
4. The Conference of the Parties shall establish and keep under review the financial regulations of this Convention. The Conference of the Parties shall, at each of its ordinary meetings, adopt the budget for the next financial period. Each Party shall contribute to this budget according to a scale to be agreed upon by the Conference. Financial regulations, including the provisions on the budget and the scale of contributions as well as their modifications, shall be adopted by unanimous vote of the Parties present and voting.
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In terms of pleasant sound and being an enjoyable instrument to play, most brass teachers would rate the Euphonium highest and the Tenor Horn lowest.
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Donald Trump as a Cultural Revolt Against Perceived Communication Restriction: Priming Political Correctness Norms Causes More Trump Support
By Lucian Gideon Conway, Meredith A. Repke, Shannon C. Houck
Donald Trump has consistently performed better politically than his negative polling indicators suggested he would. Although there is a tendency to think of Trump support as reflecting ideological conservatism, we argue that part of his support during the election came from a non-ideological source: The preponderant salience of norms restricting communication (Political Correctness – or PC – norms). This perspective suggests that these norms, while successfully reducing the amount of negative communication in the short term, may produce more support for negative communication in the long term. In this framework, support for Donald Trump was in part the result of over-exposure to PC norms. Consistent with this, on a sample of largely politically moderate Americans taken during the General Election in the Fall of 2016, we show that temporarily priming PC norms significantly increased support for Donald Trump (but not Hillary Clinton). We further show that chronic emotional reactance towards restrictive communication norms positively predicted support for Trump (but not Clinton), and that this effect remains significant even when controlling for political ideology. In total, this work provides evidence that norms that are designed to increase the overall amount of positive communication can actually backfire by increasing support for a politician who uses extremely negative language that explicitly violates the norm.
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Creepy New Sprite Commercial Sells Transgenderism and Breast Binding, Not Soda
In an inexplicable move, Sprite has released a new commercial that has nothing to do with soda and everything to do with force-feeding the public transgender theology dressed up as love and acceptance. What this has to do with quenching thirst, I have no idea.
Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire makes an interesting point. "Someone please explain the ethical difference between an ad that promotes breast binding and an ad that promotes anorexia. I bet you can't." First, both conditions are mental disorders. Body dysmorphia is nearly indistinguishable from gender dysphoria. Both people look into a mirror and see something that is not there, but only one will be treated properly for it. The other will be sent off to butchers who will remove healthy body parts to indulge the patient's delusion. Worse, minor children suffering from gender dysphoria are given sterilizing drugs that are not fully understood nor studied.
Corporations that get on the LGBTQWTF bandwagon are not new. Every June we must put up with the endless rainbow logos and virtue-signaling that takes over everything. But the choice to release this commercial in November, several months after Pride Month, is one more signal that the Transgender Mafia is stepping up their game and you will not be getting a reprieve for the rest of the year.
It's not enough to inundate people with transgender propaganda in the month of June. We must be subjected to it every single day of the year until we all conform and celebrate mental disorders. Those who suffer from similar disorders don't think this approach of accepting and celebrating illness is helpful.
"I have anorexia. Currently under control but in my 20's it nearly killed me...If a surgeon had decided the best way to treat me was to cut my body to match my diseased self-image, I'd obviously be dead. Why accept the same madness for gender dysphoria?" wrote a responder. It's a very good question and one that doctors should be asking themselves before rushing to treat an illness that has deep psychological roots with hormones and surgery.
Perhaps the most disturbing message this commercial is sending, as subtle as a sledgehammer through glass, is that parents should be affirming and helping their children hurt themselves. In one scene, a mother is helping to bind her daughter's breasts. This is a practice that can cause internal injuries and tissue damage. Telling parents they should assist their children in inflicting self-harm is the sickest thing I ever saw. Full stop.
Watch it on mute so the happy music doesn't blind you to the absolute evil on display here. And as for Sprite, it's is a crappy drink anyway that will give you diabetes, so toss it in the garbage and pass it up at the store.
This Web Designer Shouldn’t Have to Wait to Be Free to Create
They say anything worth having is also worth waiting for. We should know. We waited over three years for the Arizona Supreme Court to rule that the city of Phoenix cannot use fines and jail time to force us to create custom artwork that violates our beliefs.
Issued in mid-September, that court decision was a major win not just for us and our Arizona-based art studio (Brush & Nib Studio), but for the freedom of all Americans.
As the Arizona Supreme Court recognized, our art studio serves everyone regardless of who they are. We just can’t convey certain messages or celebrate certain events, no matter who asks us to.
Other creative professionals exercise that freedom on countless subjects all the time. We just wanted the same freedom for the subject of marriage.
Our art studio decides what art to create based on the message of the requested art, not the requestor’s personal characteristics. But when we realized that Phoenix’s ordinance ignored this distinction and would force us to create artwork promoting same-sex marriage in violation of our beliefs, we had no choice but to file suit.
The Arizona court ruled in our favor because it recognized that disagreement with certain views is not discrimination against a class of persons. Yes, we can disagree on certain things and still respect and serve each other. And yes, we can disagree with each other without the government forcing us to say things that violate our core convictions.
The Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of artistic freedom sent an unmistakable signal to courts all over the country that “the guarantees of free speech and freedom of religion … are for everyone.” These are timeless principles that should apply coast to coast.
Yet, even in the midst of our victory, we are reminded that some, like our friend Lorie Smith, are still waiting for their turn for freedom.
Lorie is a wife, mother, artist, and entrepreneur in the Denver area. For over a decade, Lorie has offered her graphic arts and web design services through her web design studio, 303 Creative.
The Colorado Civil Rights Commission holds that Lorie Smith can’t explain, on her own website, her religious beliefs about marriage and why she can’t create websites celebrating same-sex marriage. (Photo: Alliance Defending Freedom)
As a Christian, Lorie takes great joy in working with all kinds of clients. She serves all people, but she cannot create all messages that are requested of her.
For example, she states on her website that she is “always careful to avoid communicating ideas or messages, or promoting events, products, services, or organizations, that are inconsistent with [her] religious beliefs.”
So if a local pro-life pregnancy center reached out to Lorie to design a website discussing the group’s pro-life views, she’d be more than willing to take on the project. If, on the other hand, Planned Parenthood requested a website promoting abortion, she would politely decline.
She just wants that same freedom to choose what messages she conveys about marriage. Because Lorie believes that marriage is between one man and one woman, she only can lend her artistic talents to create websites celebrating that view. Yet the fact that Lorie wants to make artistic decisions consistent with her faith makes her a target for punishment by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission.
Yes, that Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The one that sought not once, but twice, to punish Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips under the very same law.
Because of the way the commission reads the law, Lorie must be willing to design and publish websites celebrating a same-sex wedding if she creates websites celebrating an opposite-sex wedding.
In fact, the commission even reads the law to ban Lorie from explaining, on her own website, her religious beliefs about marriage and why she can’t create websites celebrating same-sex marriage. So the website designer is no longer free to speak on her own website.
Lorie doesn’t want the commission punishing her as it did Jack Phillips. That’s why she chose to challenge the state’s interpretation of its law. Her next step is an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, which her attorneys at Alliance Defending Freedom filed Oct. 25. (Alliance Defending Freedom also represented us.)
You don’t have to agree with Lorie’s views to see that your freedom is at stake along with hers. “After all,” as the court in our case put it, “while [y]our own ideas may be popular today, they may not be tomorrow.”
So a government that can threaten Lorie today can threaten you just as easily tomorrow. That’s not freedom, and that’s why Lorie will continue to seek a just ruling in court.
We are hopeful her journey ends the same place ours did—a place with freedom for everyone.
Australia's religious freedom bill expands cover to protect hospitals, aged care providers
Christian Porter will grant religious hospitals and aged-care providers the same protections as faith-based schools and organisations to employ staff according to their beliefs in his final religious discrimination bill.
Speaking at the National Press Club on Wednesday, the Attorney-General confirmed he will apply the same level of protections for religious health and aged-care companies, which were not included in the draft bill released on August 29.
Mr Porter, who has held two-hour consultation meetings with more than 90 stakeholder groups since releasing the draft legislation, said religious hospitals and aged care providers should have the “ability to take into account religion in staffing decisions”.
He said religious hospitals and aged care operators had stressed the importance of retaining a “religious ethos and culture” within their organisations and had “reasonably sought an exception to the general prohibition on religious discrimination in employment that allows them to make staffing decisions in accordance with their faith”.
“The religious hospitals and aged care providers themselves recognise that competing objectives of providing access to health services and maintaining a faith-based identity must be reconciled, and seek to maintain the balanced position they themselves have arrived at reflected in the bill,” Mr Porter said.
“In the Bill that will be introduced, I can flag that one significant change from its first draft will be that religious hospitals and aged-care providers will be given protections equivalent to those given to other religious bodies, in relation to employment of staff.”
Mr Porter said consultation with religious hospitals and aged care providers had made clear that they do not “make decisions about the admission of patients based on any given patient’s religion or absence of religion, and do not seek to do so”.
“Likewise for aged care providers (with very few exceptions) they do not appear to consider religion or lack of religion before making a decision to accommodate a person,” he said.
No deadline for final vote as Senate inquiry looms
Mr Porter, who will table his final bill in parliament before December 5, confirmed he had no deadline for a final vote in parliament to push through the religious discrimination bill.
The Australian understands the legislation is likely to be referred to a Senate inquiry, and drag well into next year.
Responding to criticism from the nation’s most powerful religious groups, Mr Porter said he was seeking a “stable result and better outcome than the circumstance we have at the moment”.
“It would be a bad outcome if everyone felt that they got everything that they wanted out of this process. It is ultimately the most grinding process of balance and compromise.”
Mr Porter said he didn’t expect all religious groups and stakeholders to be “deliriously happy” once the process was finalised.
“If you imagine a continuum of happiness that goes from very unhappy to deliriously happy somewhere on that continuum is endorsement. Where while the bill doesn’t do everything that everyone might like, people nevertheless think that it’s at a reasonable point that’s worth supporting.”
Discretion ‘not viewed as discriminatory’
Mr Porter said a “particular challenge in the religious context is freedom of association”.
“Where we seek to protect people from being excluded because of their religion, we equally recognise that for religion to exist at all; religious bodies must be able to maintain a chosen level of exclusivity to their premises or composition or services.”
“For instance a religious school may admit students of many faiths or it may prefer students only of its own faith; but that discretion is not viewed by other faiths as discriminatory because they understand and accept its existential importance to all faiths.”
Mr Porter, tasked by Scott Morrison to deliver the Coalition election pledge to deliver the religious discrimination bill, said the draft legislation had adopted a “broad approach” informed by the exception in section 82 of the Victorian legislation.
“The effect is to preserve the status quo whereby a defined religious body can, in dealing with the exclusivity of its premises or composition or services, apply its own determination of the best application of its own doctrines and beliefs; and does not discriminate by acting in good faith on that basis.”
“So, for example, in Victoria it would not be discriminatory for an Islamic school to decline to employ catholic teachers (or vice versa). Or for the same school to decline to employ an irreligious person.
“For the avoidance of any doubt it cannot be stressed enough that this type of exception for religious bodies applies only in respect of decisions on matters of religious doctrine that pertain to people of different religious beliefs.”
Mr Porter confirmed his bill did not “affect the current exemptions that exist for religious bodies within other Discrimination Acts, at either State or Commonwealth level”, which has attracted criticism from religious and other groups in their submissions to the Attorney-General’s Department.
‘People will disagree’
He said religious groups had stressed to him during the consultation process that the “definition of religious body is important because of the reasonable autonomy it provides any organisation that falls inside its ambit”.
“One thing is clear, people will disagree on which rights are more important than others and where to draw the lines between them. Consultations, while constructive, inevitably end at a point where it is factually obvious that freedoms collide.”
“The unavoidable fact is that the colliding nature of rights means there is simply no way to exhaustively define their boundaries with each other in a way that sees them perfectly contour with neighbouring rights.”
Mr Porter said freedoms to associate would need to be balanced “against the right for individuals to access places and institutions free from the arbitrary exclusion of others”.
“In a structural sense the four existing Commonwealth Discrimination Acts dealing with race, sex, disability and age actually give expression to the most traditional conception of rights.” “That laws should protect us from others infringing on our natural rights as far as is reasonable.”
He said a balance needed to be struck “between anti-discrimination clauses of any type and other rights including rights to free expression and free association”.
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Saturday 9: Best Song Ever
Unfamiliar with this week's song? Hear it here. (This is their official video and it begins with a skit; music starts at 2:25.)
1) Dancing all night to the best song ever would be good for the cardiovascular system. When is the last time you exercised? Did 25 mins. on the treadmill and a few reps on some Nautilus machines just yesterday. So far I've managed to maintain that resolution of working out 3x/week.
2) The girl in this song is the daughter of a dentist. "Dentophobia" is fear of dentists. How do you feel about going to the dentist? It doesn't upset me.
3) One Direction performed this on Good Morning, America. Do you watch morning TV? If so, which show? Morning Joe on MSNBC. I like hearing both sides in an atmosphere that's friendly and respectful. Learning something is a good way to start the day.
4) Listening to upbeat pop songs like this one makes Sam feel young. When is the last time you participated in an activity commonly connected to childen (like swinging on a swing, drinking chocolate milk, playing a board game, etc.)? I just had a pudding cup yesterday.
5) One of the boys, Louis Tomlinson, was an actor before joining the band. How many different professions have you tried? What were they? I have been a receptionist, an admin, a telemarketer, a copywriter, a creative director and (now) an associate creative director.
6) The fans that have made One Direction millionaires are also the target audience for series like The Hunger Games, Harry Potter and Wimpy Kid. Do you read Young Adult literature? Nope. They seem to be in the sci fi/fantasy genre and that just doesn't float my boat.
7) If this is the "best song ever," what song do you consider the worst? Tell us which song just sets your teeth on edge. Just about everything by Barry Manilow. "Mandy," "Can't Smile Without You," "Copacabana" … shudder.
8) One Direction performed at the Royal Variety Show for Queen Elizabeth. If you found yourself presented to Her Majesty, what would you say? I'd probably be all tongue tied and overwhelmed by protocol. But if I could screw up the nerve, I'd ask her about the Helen Mirren movie.
9) Right now, is your life moving in the right direction or are you feeling a bit aimless? I do feel like I'm in a holding pattern now, waiting for something to happen.
Labels: meme, Saturday 9, TV
The Fourth Estate Is Worth Preserving
Rachel Maddow wrote this terrific editorial, which I read -- actual newsprint on paper -- en route to work this morning. It's about the importance of local news coverage, and the timing could not be more appropriate.
Not just because it was local reporters who broke the current Chris Christie scandal. But because I'm looking at a bill right now from The Chicago Tribune.
It costs me nearly $400/year to get the Trib delivered Monday-Friday. I try to read it every morning when riding the el. But it's hard. The edition that's home delivered is still a big old broadsheet, which is difficult to maneuver on a crowded train -- especially when I'm surrounded by selfish space hogs who take more than one seat for their tote bags or backpacks.
But that's a superficial reason to give up an opportunity to be better informed about neighborhood and my world, and to support the institution that keeps the power brokers honest. As Ms Maddow writes:
It’s annoying to pay for information — I know. But if you don’t subscribe to your local paper or pony up to get behind its online paywall, who’s going to pay reporters to cover the news where you live? A free press isn’t that kind of “free.” An accountable democracy doesn’t work without real information, gathered from the ground up, about people in power, everywhere. Be inspired by the beleaguered but unintimidated reporters of Chris Christie’s New Jersey: Whatever your partisan affiliation, or lack thereof, subscribe to your local paper today. It’s an act of civic virtue.
Labels: Current affairs
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