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Adult and juvenile Caspian Terns
In South Africa, Caspian Terns Hydroprogne caspia occur both along the coastline and in the interior. Along the coastline, this tern is found mostly at estuaries; records along the open shore are mostly of birds that are on the move. In the interior, most records are from the highveld, along the major rivers, at dams and in the panveld. Occurrence in the interior is a relatively new phenomenon, with breeding first reported in 1968. Now, some of the largest concentrations of Caspian Terns in southern Africa are here: recently there were 335 at Gariep Dam, along the Orange River in the Northern Cape, and 100 at Barberspan, in the North-West Province. In spite of the apparent increase in range and in numbers, the Caspian Tern was retained in the 2000 Red Data Book, where it was classified as "Near-threatened". It is considered to remain a sufficiently rare species that it needs to be carefully monitored.
Rather little is known about the movements of Caspian Terns. The Review of Ring Recoveries of Waterbirds in Southern Africa, published in 1999, summarizes the available information. There have been only four really interesting recoveries. These are all of birds ringed as nestlings. There have been movements from Port Elizabeth to St Lucia, KwaZulu-Natal (906 km), and to Maputo Bay, Mozambique (1130 km), and two from St Lucia to southern Mozambique (228 km and 384 km). All four of these recoveries were made within nine months of ringing. This tiny sample of records suggests that young birds from colonies in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal move eastwards to "nursery areas" in southern Mozambique (where Caspian Terns have only been recorded breeding once, and that was along the lower Zambezi River, in the 1860s!). We know absolutely nothing about the movements of birds that breed in the interior of southern Africa or those of birds that breed along the southern and western coasts of South Africa or along the Namibian coast.
On 12 December 2000, 19 Caspian Tern fledglings were colour-ringed with leg flags at the De Mond Nature Reserve, just east of Cape Agulhas, in the Western Cape. The ringing was undertaken as part of a Western Cape Nature Conservation Board initiative at the De Mond Nature Reserve. The objective was to see where these young moved to once they had fledged, and how long they remained with their parents.
Resightings of juveniles with leg-flags (Updated by Tony Tree on 23 February 2002)
The following resightings of these birds have been reported:
A newly hatched Caspian Tern chick, at the De Mond Nature Reserve. The Heuningnes estuary within this reserve is one of South Africa's Ramsar sites, proclaimed in 1986
Sightings from the time of ringing up to August 2001
On 28 December, the first of these were seen at the estuary of the Heuningnes River, within the reserve.
On 25 January 2001, one of these fledglings was observed, together with an adult bird, at Cape Recife, Port Elizabeth, by Tony Tree. The birds arrived from the west, rested for a brief time at Cape Recife, and then moved on eastwards. The distance from De Mond is about 500 km, implying an average eastward drift of around 18 km per day. Between 12-15 February he again saw a leg-flagged chick with parent at Cape Recife and this pair was present on most visits up to 10 March but not on many subsequent visits. This was quite possibly the same twosome that were there on 25 January. On 5 May these or another twosome appeared at Cape Recife and remained until 4 July but was not seen subsequently. An adult plus flagged young seen nearby at King's Beach, Port Elizabeth, on 18 May may have been the Cape Recife birds.
Tony Tree found another leg-flagged bird, together with parent, at the mouth of the Kabeljous River, Jeffrey's Bay, west of Port Elizabeth on 15/16 February. This twosome remained in the area until 9 August and were seen on virtually any visit between those dates by several observers.
A flagged bird plus parent were found by Tony at the Kromme River mouth on 20 February and these birds were seen regularly by a variety of observers up until 30 July.
On 20 February Gregg Darling reported an adult, with a faded orange-yellow colour ring, accompanied by a leg-flagged juvenile at Cape St Francis Point. (We have not yet tracked down who put the colour ring on the adult but there is a strong possibility that it may have originally been bred at St Lucia, KwaZulu-Natal, where many birds were colour ringed in the past.)
Overview in August 2001 Thus it would appear that the period of dependence of the fledged young bird on the adult may be as much as seven to eight months, an extremely long period for a tern. In European populations a maximum figure of about eight months is also given. Does such a lengthy period of dependence affect the annual breeding cycle of the adults? Do the adults accompany the juveniles further eastwards or desert the young and return to the natal areas again?
Sightings since September 2001
On 12 December 2001 there were two adults and two juveniles, one with leg flags, at Kings Beach, Port Elizabeth (R. Paton).
On 24 December 2001, there were two Caspian Terns, one with flags, at Cape Recife (A. Taylor).
On 13 and 14 February 2002, Tony Tree saw a juvenile with flags at the Kabeljous River mouth. This bird was observed begging from an adult, which chased it.
Staff of the Western Cape Nature Conservation Board ringing Caspian Tern chicks
Tony Tree's overview in February 2002 The impression that I am getting is that dependence may be more than the seven or eight months suspected earlier and may be up to 14 months. I suspect that the Kabeljous River bird was being chased by its parent who probably thought it about time that its offspring became independent. This then raises the question, do successful breeders breed in the following season? Only seven pairs attempted to breed in late 2001 at de Mond as against the 38 pairs (19 successful) in 2000. Of course not too much can be read into that because it is possible that birds shift colonies between years. The Caspian Tern breeding colony in Port Elizabeth deserted completely last year.
These resightings are all east of the point of ringing. They suggest that the juveniles are moving in the direction suggested by the four recoveries - eastwards towards northern KwaZulu-Natal and southern Mozambique.
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So, whether you are in this predicted area or not, please check every Caspian Tern you see for leg flags. The picture below shows what you should be looking for. Because of the short projections, leg flags are more conspicuous than ordinary colour rings. Under good conditions, they are also visible during flight. There is a colour for each breeding season, and a colour for each area. Make a note of the colours of the leg flags, and their positions relative to the metal ring. Report this combination, plus the time, date, place and any other relevant information, the South African Bird Ringing Unit (SAFRING).
Although population sizes of Caspian Terns are monitored by the Animal Demography Unit's Coordinated Waterbird Counts (CWAC) project, this provides us with information for only one day in midsummer and one day in midwinter each year. To enable us to get a clearer insight into the patterns of movement of this rare species, and the full set of localities that it utilizes, we need to be gathering more information than this. Any sightings of Caspian Terns at any time of the year should therefore be reported on the Animal Demography Unit's system for archiving interesting records (jump to Bird Sightings.)
This is what the colour leg flags on the Caspian Terns look like. They are more conspicuous than colour rings
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IW Advertiser, Ryde & Ventnor Times 00/05/1880 – Borough Petty Sessions
James Matthews, blacksmith, Arreton, was summoned for the offence of a crowded bedroom. The Inspector deposed that he always found the house overcrowded. Defendant worked for Mr Barton of Heasley Farm, and lived in a house of two rooms, one above the other. The bedroom was 13ft square and badly ventilated and contained only 650 cubic feet of air. The father, mother and five children slept in it. He had been twice summoned for the nuisance, but neglected to abate it either time as ordered. Dr Foster deposed that each individual member of the family ought at the very least, to have 200ft cube of air, while at present each child has less than 190, and had it not been for the extreme cleanliness of the wife, the consequences might have been very serious, not only to the family, but to the district. Mrs Matthews said they had been promised a better house, and the case was adjourned for a month.
George Henry Winscom, a dwarf, who is employed as a shoemaker, was summoned for using abusive and threatening language – Edwin Winscom said he was the father of the defendant and on Saturday 3rd inst he met him on the corner of Mill-street, when he swore at and made use of threatening language towards him. The defendant had frequently made use of abusive and threating language when he happened to meet him. A man named Whittaker gave corroborative evidence. Defendant was fined 2s.6d and 5s. costs.
IW Advertiser, Ryde & Ventnor Times 04/12/1880 – Ryde Borough Police
Two children, Isabel Tammidge and Thomas Saunders, who were said to frequent the company of reputed thieves, were ordered to be sent to industrial schools, on the application of Mr Flux, clerk to the School Board.
IW Observer 25/06/1881 – Charged
Yesterday (Friday) morning Rosina Hawker (nee Redstone), of Oakfield, was charged with stealing a gold watch, the property of Alfred Francis Gibb, of Lyndhurst, and was sentenced to two months’ hard labour.
IW Advertiser, Ryde Times 26 Apr 1884 – Affiliation
Richard Body, a gentleman of independent means, living at Chinfield near Reading, was summoned at Newport on Saturday by Lydia Hawkins, domestic servant, Ventnor, in respect to her illegitimate male child, whom she alleged the defendant was the putative father – it appeared the parties met at Ventnor, the complainant waiting upon the defendant, who resided for some three days at the establishment where complainant was servant. Defendant who had come expressly from Brussels to attend the case was ordered to pay 5s. per week and the costs £1.15s.6d. *
IW County Press 27/12/1884 – Notice
Receiving Order and date of Public Examination: Joseph Duncan Shilling, late of the Marine Hotel, Shanklin, now 1 Sydney Villa, Atherley road, Shanklin, late Hotel-keeper, now out of business, January 14th, Newport and Ryde. Adjudication ditto, dates of orders and petition, December 22nd.
IW County Press 09/01/1886 – County Petty Sessions
Jane Groves of West Cowes, was summoned by her sister Matilda Rhodes, for wilful damage. Complainant stated that on the 19th ult. defendant put her fist through five panes of glass in one of the windows of witness’s house. The damage was 3s. – The parties indulged in some very unsisterly recriminations – Defendant said she was “shoved” through the windows by a man – P.C. Marsh stated that when he served the summons on the defendant, she said “give my love to my sister and tell her I’m ready to do another six months for her”. – The Bench ordered defendant to pay 3s. damage and 9s. costs.
IW County Press 13/02/1886 – Newport Borough Police
Sarah Denness of South street, (on remand) was charged with stealing 2s.6d., the moneys of John Ash of Gunville. The parties it appeared, met at the Antelope and afterwards went to the prisoners house, where it was alleged the theft was committed, but the Bench considered prosecutor’s word unreliable and the prisoner was discharged, though the Bench said the complaints received with respect to her and her house, rendered it necessary that they should caution her.
IW County Press 13/02/1886 – Ryde Borough Police
Ernest Willis. 17, a labourer, South street, pleaded guilty to having been drunk and disorderly in Monkton street on the 2nd inst. – PC Flaherty proved the offence, saying the defendant who was in charge of a horse and cart, was so drunk that he fell under the horse’s legs. He had to be removed in one of Messrs. Pickford’s vans – Defendant, who expressed sorrow for what had happened and promised that it should not occur again; was fined 2s.6d. and 7s.6d. costs.
Thomas Hart Bird, West Cowes, was summoned for selling bread otherwise than by weight – this case was adjourned for a fortnight on account of the defendants illness.
Charles Harding, labourer of Yafford, was summoned to show cause &c. The complainant in this case was Kate Heal, a single woman living at Shorwell. Mr W.H.Wooldridge defended and witnesses having been heard, an order for payment of 1s. a week till the child reached the age of 16, was made.
William John Palmer of Cowes, was summoned by Ellen Shirlaw of Newport, for arrears under an affiliation order. The case had previously been before the court. Mr Colenutt appeared for defendant and said he was willing to pay a reasonable sum, but the order made was too high; – As complainant did not appear, the summons was dismissed.
IW County Press 17/03/1888 – Newport Borough Police – Monday
George Ash, Chain lane, charged with not sending his child to school and whose case has been several times adjourned, was to have attended before the magistrates again today. Mr Frederic Stratton appeared on behalf of the School Board, who he said regretted the action of the Bench in granting so many adjournments, which had evidently not produced a good effect and the Board asked that a penalty might be imposed. As the defendant was undergoing a term of imprisonment for an assault on the child in question, he did not appear and the case was further adjourned for a fortnight.
Frank Fisher, baker, St Thomas’s square, for being drunk and incapable on the previous Saturday evening, was fined 5s. with 5s. costs.
IW Advertiser, Ryde & Ventnor Times 11/08/1888 – Furious Driving
Noah Cooley, driver, Ventnor, has been summond for furious driving – PC Ryal deposed that on Wednesday the 11th ult., while on duty in the Belgrave road Ventnor he saw the defendant driving a horse and carriage. Defendant was going at a furious pace – Cooley stated that he started with two gentlemen who wished to overtake a coach that had just started. He denied the policeman’s allegation of furious driving. In this he was corroborated by another witness who had seen him drive past the Royal Hotel. He was not exceeding 9 miles an hour – He was fined 1s. and 12s. costs.
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Is Singapore’s multiracial, mulitcultural policy successful?
Posted on November 30, 2011 by admin Posted in Social Ills in Singapore
“It is nice to say we have a melting pot of cultures, but it does not lead to a cohesive society. That is a nice place to visit, but not a nice place to live in. A nice place to live in is where the society is cohesive.” – Gerald Ee
You know when we see racial harmony? It is a picture like the one below that I do not see in Singapore these days. French players celebrating after the team’s second goal during the round of 16 football match between France and Nigeria at the Mane Garrincha National Stadium in Brasilia during the 2014 FIFA World Cup on June 30, 2014. — PHOTO: AFP
While Singapore is a multi-racial society, we are still quite far from an ideal Singapore Citizen regardless of race, language and religion (as in the Singapore pledge). On surface, it appears harmonious, the truth it is more avoidance to touch on sensitive subjects rather than true harmony exists a among the races. A reason is the strict law imposed, any one can report to police even for a slightest racist joke and the guy better apologise publicly to avoid spending time in jail. It happens so many times before and still is from time to time. The latest being a SIM Student Justin Wee who created a furor by ranting about racist jokes about Malays and Indians. A blog by Jintai commenting on Sivaraj Pragasm’s open letter summed up well the various stereo types that each race has about each other. Suppression a ticking time bomb is not the solution. A mature society should be able to take jokes and laugh at ourselves. It should be separated from those hate speeches and articles that are truly targetted to stir up emotions with ill intentions. Then we truly have arrived.
Roadblocks to a multicultural Singapore
Source: The Straits Times 12Nov2011
I AGREE with the observation by the National University of Singapore’s Malay Studies department head Syed Farid Alatas (‘Singapore is not yet truly multicultural’; Wednesday).
I was born in London and am of North Indian descent. I moved to Singapore 16 years ago and have since made it home after marrying my Singaporean wife, and taking up citizenship.
Sadly, my experiences with the Chinese, Malay and local Tamil Indians have been far from welcoming, and I feel I have not been truly accepted as a fellow citizen.
The majority of our neighbours are Chinese who have never bothered to mix or get to know our culture, let alone greet us in the common lift.
They have no clue as to our North Indian customs or eating habits and stare at us as if we are aliens.
Our greetings are often returned with stares.
I have been fortunate to have lived in Canada, Britain and India, where hundreds of diverse languages are spoken and everybody gives and respects each other’s space – not just tolerate one another.
Singapore is far from a multicultural society. ‘Throwing in’ people from different races does not create a multicultural society.
A society evolves over thousands of years and not by setting a quota for a certain race, whether it is in an HDB estate or elsewhere.
How many Indian expatriates, or for that matter expats from elsewhere, bother to mingle with Singaporeans?
By forming their own enclaves, there is no integration but an ever-growing gap instead.
A truly multicultural society does not have ‘guidelines’ to decide who lives where, and therein lies the problem of true integration.
Virdi Bhupinder
Xenophobia, or is it more?
by Vinita Ramani
Todayonline Jun 06, 2012
I am not a xenophobe. Let’s get that out of the way. In recent months, the word “xenophobia” has been used to describe Singaporeans on the issue of immigration.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines xenophobia as “an intense, or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries”. Dictionary.com adds that this extends to “an unreasonable fear or hatred of strangers, or of that which is foreign or strange”.
I used to live in Bahrain, where Indian immigrants like me lived in our communities and interacted with Arab neighbours and colleagues only when necessary. I was eight when we moved to London.
There, I regularly got shoved off the pavement after school by 16-year-old female bullies who told me, “Smelly Paki, go home!”
As an innocent child, I told my mum, “They think I’m Pakistani. But I’m Indian. They’re stupid. They can’t tell the difference.”
It did not end there. In Singapore, neighbourhood secondary school students insulted and ostracised me because I spoke with a different accent and because they thought I acted superior to them.
Years later in Canada, I met racists who told me the Chinese and Indians should be kicked out of Canada because they were taking over the world. I mastered the Canadian accent and tried to pass for something other than Indian, to stay safe when I travelled.
Everywhere I went as an immigrant, I understood that I was different: An outsider who had not yet won the trust of the locals. I understood that “difference” is often perceived as a threat.
But I have come to appreciate another important detail: One or even 10 racist encounters do not represent a nation as a whole. I have loved living in each of these countries. I am fairly certain Canadians and Britons would not want to be described as xenophobes.
There are 3 other issues
Let’s first dilute the explosive nature of this debate on immigration and integration in Singapore by establishing that not all Singaporeans are xenophobic, small-minded people. I do not think the vast majority are. So what is this debate about?
Housing, transport, National Service and employment, commentators have said. But there are also a few other issues.
First, it is also about class differences. People are aggrieved by how the rich perceive and treat poorer people.
In the article “It’s time for China’s newly rich to reflect” (China Daily/Asia News Network, May 30), Mr Gao Zhuyuan made a case for the nouveau riche mainland Chinese to behave with more humility and grace because money cannot buy everything.
But there are both poor and rich Singaporeans and foreigners residing here. We know of many cases of Singaporeans treating migrant and domestic workers as chattel. We also now see instances of wealthy foreigners treating Singaporeans like second-class citizens.
Second, it is about access to information and the space available for reasonable debate.
In the countries I lived in, despite the problems associated with ethnic enclaves, racism and hate crimes, or maybe because of that, avenues existed for foreigners and citizens alike to discuss these issues.
There were town hall meetings, public forums and civil society groups who dealt with racism and culture shock and even academic curriculum that focused on this.
While I applaud the creation of the National Integration Council and the many studies published to better understand the need for immigration and integration, I feel that non-partisan and independent grassroots-initiated forums are missing from the big picture.
We need this. If we were cautious of this before, we cannot afford to wait any more. Otherwise, the racist, anonymous vitriol written online would only worsen.
Third, is it time for Singaporeans, both new and old, to rethink the effectiveness of our efforts towards multiculturalism, given our current circumstances?
I have met Chinese-Singaporeans who never had Indian-Singaporean friends before me. The last time most of my educated Indian- and Chinese-Singaporean friends had a Malay friend was in primary school. Where is our vision of multicultural harmony and integration?
Integration of new waves of immigrants presumes that we are already free of prejudice and that multiculturalism works. But like everything, it must be reviewed and rewritten as circumstances change.
Harmony among different people is possible only if we have the space to first look at ourselves and understand our prejudices, anxieties and needs. Otherwise, we will forever remain fearful of what is “foreign or strange”.
Why sweep sensitive issues under the carpet?
From Makoto Hong Cheng
source: Todayonline Oct 22, 2012
I refer to the letters from Mr Devathas Satianathan (“No hiding from offensive content”, Oct 18) and Mr Jonathan Muk (“Offensive content adds no value to public discourse”, Oct 21). I raise three objections to Mr Muk’s approach.
First, robust censorship of sensitive content might foster the appearance of racial and religious harmony, but may go no further and restrict harmony to mere appearances. National growth and the ability to deal with racial and religious issues cannot be cultivated by sweeping sensitive, sometimes difficult issues under the proverbial carpet.
Second, to argue that respect and discernment for sensitivities in a mature society entails state censorship of racially or religiously offensive materials, albeit in a “discerning” manner, is to suggest that the state should be the key driver behind a mature society.
However, the hallmark of a mature society is the exact opposite: Different racial and religious groups negotiating their own modus vivendi, with the state gradually relinquishing its interventionist role and assuming a supervisory one.
Third, to disallow racially or religiously offensive material on the assumption that they add no value to public discourse is to assume that conflict has no value in building consensus.
The reality is that the state can always guillotine “anything remotely harmful” if the decision is justified on the basis that offensive materials have no value.
While convenient, hiding behind a semantic shield precludes closer scrutiny of the weaknesses in our existing state of racial and religious harmony.
Granted, the very nature of the issues in question necessitate that censorship must be relaxed incrementally. As a starting point, however, the argument that a mature society may be founded upon censorship is non sequitur.
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Up at 1000 feet where we wake our heads are in clouds that condense into tears on our faces. But Accolay, where we start walking, is only 360 feet above sea level and the clouds here are resolved into plaques that shade from white to gunmetal grey. The sky is like Navy camouflage but despite the predictions, it isn’t raining.
At the edge of Accolay is a giant, dirty white pierced vase. It stands more than 12 feet high and is explained by a panel describing the arrival, in 1945, of three avant-guard ceramicists who built a trade here that flourished until the early 1970s. Then it died and the alarming, angular, fading concrete structure out on the main road turns out to have been their shop rather than a petrol station; now long relinquished to weeds and urine.
We pass on the left a gracious Belle Époque villa with a baby pigeon loft at the bottom of a field. It is one of those French manor houses that you long to own and renovate until you realise it sits inches from a main trucking road. Across that road, we start a slow, steady climb up a dirt farm track between fields of young oats. The air pressure is heavy but it is warm, 12ºC, and I feel dozy. A cuckoo, a falcon mewling, a patch of coltsfoot each rouse me momentarily. Then David, a few paces ahead, cuts short an exclamation, and I stride forward to look. A long, thin shape snakes across the path in browns and yellows, but its edges are ruffled. A sloughed snakeskin? And yet it is moving. At the second blink we see it is a caterpillar train: twenty-eight identical caterpillars each an inch or so long, feeling their way nose to tail across the stones of the path. Occasionally one slows and breaks the chain, but it panics to catch up. I’ve never heard of this behaviour yet it makes sense: from the air the tiny creatures will look like a snake, far too large for a blackbird or starling to tackle.
Further along, we see for the first time low purple flowers with bright yellow centres. The leaves and buds remind me of poppies, but the flower petals are pointed and protective like a bell – a kind of anemone, know here as “barbe de chèvre”. It is still before eleven, but with the gentle climb I am already warm and stop to strip off a layer. As I do so, I realise we are back with the vines: a few small parcels here and there on the slopes, the southern edge of the Burgundy region.
Despite nine days’ break from walking our bodies have already found their rhythms: stride follows stride, the poles swinging our arms forward with each step. We can scarcely walk without the metronome the poles provide anymore. At moments like this, when the ground rises, they lever us uphill just as much as they regulate our pace, keep us from slipping or channel the pack weight away from our backs. I see them in my view, as I see my feet. While watching out for stones and ruts, sometimes it seems our feet and the ground immediately around them are all we see of this trek.
We crest the hill on the pale track between low crops and pass alongside a wood. Relief! A place to shelter for a loo stop. Sometimes it’s not easy to be discreet. The heavy air is starting to peel back, too, and I feel fully alive to the views and the smell of apple blossom. But that doesn’t stop my mind wandering now and then to thoughts of last week and the visitors we had. There’s something about the constant pacing that mesmerises and lets the mind wander. I remember Owen waiting patiently for the red squirrel to reappear, and the faces of Charlie and Amelia as they run towards us full of their climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower. I wonder if they all got home ok.
A party of four older Germans are going the other way. In front, with a guidebook held like a shield, is a barrel-shaped man with a beard and a grey brimmed hat. They are all in shorts and look energetic, like gnome-scouts. They call out to us that Compostela is the other way. We laugh and call back that it is a long story …
We drop down through the neat edges of Cravant, a large village. We’ve seen the Romanesque arches of the tall church tower getting close, and now we can see the ornate carvings around those arches. Too ornate for Romanesque. Someone has given it a Renaissance going-over. But first there is a “lavoir” with considerable presence to duck into. Stone walls pierced with arches to echo the church, and the tricking of water into the large pool between shaded benches. From Normandy onwards, so many villages, even towns, have had their “lavoirs” – called “lavau” in the Morvan. Nearly all are well maintained with solid roofs, though I’ve never seen anyone using them. Now, for the first time, I grasp what a cool, shady place they must be to sit and chat on a hot day. Do people use them like that, for peace, shade and company? Or is the memory of the hard work they represent too strong a disincentive? The only picture I’ve seen of women washing clothes by hand was not in a “lavoir “but in a photo of the banks of the Seine in Paris, in 1956.
Cravant’s church is surrounded by the grass of a little esplanade with benches and pollarded trees. That’s how we know the village is more prosperous and proud than many we have seen in all these months. A grandfather is walking there with a child, and they wave to us. We pick our way through the village. It’s no wonder we wander in the middle of roads these days. In silent stone streets like these there are rarely any pavements and if there are, their twenty-centimetre width is occupied by parked cars. Away from the main road though, there’s rarely anything moving except us.
We decide not to stop at the advertised bar for a coffee, but carry on through the back of Cravant where two women with shopping bags stop their gossip to stare at us and then look away. I feel it is on their tongues to point out we are going the wrong way for Compostela. The red and white stripes of the Grand Randonée markings are on a fence post behind them, showing the way uphill past another church. The route has been well-signed today so far; there’s little need to study the map.
Like the other church – like most churches unless they are touristic highlights – this one is locked. We’re out of the habit of trying the doors of most churches; but just occasionally we do and are sometimes rewarded with the magic of some humble interior with mossy walls and dirty cracked tile floors, or sometimes a delicately carved capital or a gentle statue. In such places it is a parishioner who bothers to keep the church open, leaving fading notices in school-perfect handwriting to point out the aspects they are most proud of. If there is a box inviting donations for the church or for keeping it open, I’m so grateful I always drop money in. The boxes invariably sound empty.
This is a steep tail-end of a street and I’m conscious of my hip grinding as we go. But not too badly; it will probably wear off. And we quickly slant long and gently across the contours through more vineyards. We have the impression that vineyards are a meaner employer here. We see only three people working in the whole area, although they look up and wave to us. In place of people, the vines are brought to life by colour. Strips of fruit orchards alternate and scatter white blossom onto the brown rows. Between the rows blue is painted in by grape hyacinths, or pale mauve by alyssium. Even invasions of dandelions become attractive.
The day and the pace resolve into a succession of newly-blooming flowers that go beyond my knowledge; of buzzards hunting overhead and of butterflies. We take photos and leave the naming of them to research in books back home.
We’re still on chalk tracks, easy walking. After climbing steadily we level out and even drop slightly. We’re making a big loop around a hill called “Belle Vue” – a diversion from where we will end up, but the plotters of the GR obviously think the views will be worth it. And they are. The valleys on our left open out to the narrow plain of the weaving Yonne river below, studded by towns and the occasional smoke billow. Each hillside is a palimpsest of green, of orchards, vines and small woods. Now that all the trees are clad in a shimmer of leaf, we can see how each species has its own shade, height and silhouette. The fruit trees briefly make me think of the apple orchards below the Střahov monastery on Petřin hill above Prague.
We make a sudden turn to the right and after all that lazy gazing out into the distances my head goes down, my arms start pumping and my knee immediately twinges: it has seen the long, steep climb up the stony side of the vertical vineyard. I pant and I plod. Plod and pant. David is behind me, preventing me from slacking. Mid-pant, I reach and put on my sunglasses against the brilliance of the chalk. At the top, in a hollow of bushes, I wheeze and take a big glug of water. It is warm from my back, but welcome.
Now we skirt the hill on a narrow, winding path between scrubby bushes. The path is over-full of the white chalk stones cleaned from the fields. Our feet twist and tilt on them, bruised; and chippings work their way down between our socks and the boot leather. There are no vines here, just grass or plump green crops. I have a passing image of the North Downs Way, heading east. The land falls away on our left where the Yonne widens out into a marsh of small lakes, glinting between trees.
When the path leads down again we enter Irancy, a lovely small wine village concentrated in a horseshoe valley. It is less claustrophobic than the Champagne villages; houses have gardens, even courtyards that give glimpses of the family orchard beyond. Instead of dusty plaster walls sheer from the road, the buildings here are in stone with carved touches dating from Renaissance times. We sit in the sun on the Mairie steps to eat our sandwiches. Walnut bread and the tangy shock of Bleue d’Auvergne cheese. I drool with joy. An old woman leans out between her brown shutters, sees us and says hello. Stopped, no one can tell we are going in the wrong direction. Down the street a tiny poodle and a matching long-haired terrier cross and re-cross the stillness, kings of the village. After an apple, there’s the Restaurant-Bar-Tabac “Le Soufflot” to visit for a warming coffee and toilet stop. A buzzing place, it has a smart, glass-roofed courtyard where respectable people eat and a down-to-earth bar where we, dusty decorators and slick office-workers who drove up in sports cars are equally comfortable. The barman has pined up an email from a local off travelling the world. There’s a poster extolling the Irancy AOC wines, made from Pinot Noir grapes and two ancient local varieties, César and Romain. I like Irancy. I’d like to come back. It has beauty, it has some life. Or maybe it just has sunshine and coffee. As we climb out, we see the way it snuggles into its vines. Then we see an old wooden cart, once updated with rubber wheels but now abandoned. And we see orchids. Irancy is behind us.
Just before we enter a wood, two women and a child walk towards us, lean and fast. It’s ok, they’re not carrying packs; they can’t be pilgrims. But that doesn’t stop them telling us Compostela is the other way. This time David tries to imply we’re on our way back, while I just laugh and pretend not to understand. We’re too embarrassed to stop and explain the whole thing, so leave the m with an odd impression of unfriendly ex-pilgrims, clearly unaffected by the spirituality of having once reached Compostela.
The greater part of today’s walk circles the heads of three valleys, tributaries of the Yonne. As the day grows and we tire, it helps us to imagine the day into thirds, punctuated by cafés, and therefore to pace ourselves. The second café is at Champs-sur-Yonne, just after we miss our way through an excess of enjoying the walking and peering at orchids. We earn an additional 2 kilometres along a busy road as a forfeit, so deserve a rest. The pretty café near Champs-sur-Yonne’s main esplanade is closed, without reason given. But at the back of the town is an ugly commercial complex, a concrete square of supermarket, DIY depot and carwash; and a tabac that is open. One of our faithful PMUs, with the usual silent bartender who is persuaded to serve us Oranginas and to point to the toilets. After walnut and blue cheese sandwiches, cold Orangina is my second favourite sensation of the day.
So far we’re lucky with the weather. The sky is full of clouds but somehow wherever we turn a channel of sunshine opens up to lead us through. Now we turn to the river and for the rest of the day we know the path will be flat. It’s an actual riverside walk, not one that hangs above the river on a cliff. There are chalets and cottages on our other side, tree-shaded and dishevelled in their overgrown gardens. One is new: we eyeball a glass wall through which we can almost stroke the lacquered doors of the fashionable kitchen.
At Vaux our luck changes. The clouds close over and remove our energy source, while the river is impassable. The bridge is a-crawl with workmen, netting, dust and sparks. We think about blagging our way across but see it is too dangerous. If we were in a car we could follow the diversion, but no one thinks of walkers, so the end of the day is a foot-mashing six kilometres along roads. We’re tired now, coming up to twenty-five of what ends up being a thirty-one-kilometre (or over nineteen miles) walk that has included lots of climbing. It was only meant to be twenty-four kilometres in total, but we’re too tired to figure out how that happened. I switch off and retreat into myself. It’s all about slogging it out to the finish now, like the ends of so many days are. Just getting it done, getting there, fills my thoughts. ‘There’ being a shower and a bed to stretch out on. Even when there’s a chance, today, to go back onto the riverside path from the road, we’re too tired to bother at first. The ill-named “Rue de l’ile de Paradis” squeezes us between a building site and the railway, while angry Doberman dogs stake us out.
And then, just at the end where we succumb once more to the river path, a final reward. We see a different side to Auxerre from the medieval cobbled city inside its wall that was closed and silent on a rainy Sunday afternoon. This Auxerre is a city of football practice, of joggers and cyclists, archery and canoeing clubs.
A record day for length and almost for ascent, and although tired we’re not too beaten up. But I can tell I will regret this evening staying in a cottage with stairs.
Day distance: 19.3 miles / 31.1 km
Overall distance: 801 miles
Time walking: 6 hours 16 minutes
Average speed walking: 3.1 mph
Total ascent for the day: 1437 feet / 437 m
Spilling over
When I look back over these six days, in my mind is a brown hessian sack slung over a red shoulder. It’s a full sack – over-full you might say – and the shoulder belongs to Father Christmas. His sack is lumpy with odd-shaped packages, some squashy and rounded, others whose sharp corners tear through the weave of the bag. Each one is thrilling and although the sack is awkward, Father Christmas carries it along expectantly.
The party was in the light-hearted Hotel Ibis on the edge of Troyes’ magical centre, all cobbles, half-timbered buildings and improbable gravity. We two arrived peacefully last Monday morning and by five o’clock we had become six when Cathy, Andy, Owen and Bryn arrived from Gloucester in time for tea. Two days later we swelled to ten with Kevin, Chris, Charlie and Amelia down from Chipstead. A gathering of directions in a town we might never have visited but for the coincidence of school holidays and long-promised journeys to find us.
Some packages inside the sack were teasing and some were absorbing and educational. They were cuddly and quizzical. They were loud and colourful. There were party poppers and dull socks. There was chocolate but also apples and oranges, at a picnic table by the Lac d’Orient:
Owen quietly prowled behind and around us, camera in hand, weighing the shots and taking them unobtrusively like a true photographer. Tall and lean as a telephoto lens.
Amelia’s daintiness and old-fashioned style. A perfect mini Parisienne in her belted mac of bright flowers, tripping in summer frocks whatever the weather.
Bryn the detective, following the children’s tourist trail of a mammoth thirty-three questions. No matter that it was all in French: with remembered words and sprinkling of help he leapt like a born linguist from the French to something similar in English and worked out the sense and the answers to them all.
Cath delighting in the absurdities of shoe fashion in the shop windows, from the frankly frumpy to the delectably insubstantial.
Charlie speaks the French he knows but his awareness of ‘foreign’ equals his awareness of ‘shy’. There are policemen, museum guides, hotel staff, waiters and random passers-by throughout Troyes whose baffled faces greeted his life story and ambitions.
The feathered and beaked heads of the chickens and ducks nestled coyly by their naked bodies on the market hall counters. Those heads disturbed no-one; but the crab stuck upside down on the oxygen bubbles in the vast lobster tank was too much for tender-hearted Amelia.
Andy’s enjoyment of the way old Troyes architecture was echoed in modern and refurbished buildings, bringing to life for us the wooden slats and tiles and the geometry of natural colours.
Bryn, introduced to espresso coffee by David, having to be bodily restrained from imbibing two double-shot cups before 10 am.
Owen bridging the ages on our ambles to and from the restaurant in the evenings. The open piazzas of polished cobbles were too tempting for the young ones, but Owen was always alert to bring them to a halt before the pavement ran out.
Amelia’s dedication to keeping a low volume all morning to earn the joy of a ride on the mermaid ‘with the big boobies’ on the carousel.
The long minutes with Owen and Bryn watching the sci-fi ugliness of a cock turkey who was too stupid to figure out the persistent meekness of his hen. We adults holding our breath at the kitchen sink drama.
Charlie transfixed and silent only when reading or creating worlds of adventure round the toys in his hands. A totally different boy to the one who shouts so loudly he takes the precaution of putting his fingers in his own ears.
Chris slipping from her chair with giggles when I accidentally introduced a B word into the pirate story I was reading to Amelia.
Kevin’s thriving schoolboy humour finds its outlet in the dreadful jokes he whispers for the twins to repeat out loud. After the groans and chuckles, Chris’s deadpan timing with “Do the children still find you funny” earned roars.
The first sip of lager in the Latin Quarter restaurant as our day in Paris ended. A steamy and cacophonic day of Eiffel Tower queues, perplexing pyramids, traffic-versus-child races, double-decker metros, springy spiral staircases, toilet trips and broken water beakers had finally paused to let us catch up.
Bryn, David, Owen and Andy in endless Top Trumps challenges as we picnicked in the bedroom while Troyes, Cathy and I went to sleep over lunch. Jabba the Hut’s Sailbarge was the winning card.
Owen, edging close to the time he’ll be off to University and adulthood, is mature enough already to enjoy sharing our carafe of wine or to choose to stick to water, as he sees fit.
Bryn’s perfectly logical sulks and “Why ask me what I want if you won’t let me have it?” on learning he could not order the vodka-laced ice cream like David.
The avenues of mud and water-filled moats on our walk through the Forêt d’Orient. Bryn chose pole-vaulting but for us it was log-balancing or falling in: Andy was resignedly exasperated to learn Owen had brought only one pair of shoes …
In turns the lounge and large bedrooms of the hotel, the restaurants in the old “maisons a pans de bois” near the main square, the whole of Troyes’ “bouchon de champagne” district bounded by avenues and the river in the shape of a champagne cork became the sack that was filled to bursting with laughter, stories, colours, music, conversation, competitions and, like those hard corners pushing out of the sack, sometimes with screams, tears, jealousies and misunderstandings. Like a Christmas holiday, the atmosphere was special, the food rich and the treats overdone. As we waved goodbye to the final four this morning David and I turned back to the silent hotel and sighed, at once lonely and calm; unsure how to entertain ourselves but relieved at the thought of plain food and housework.
Joey: a story
Not many people come down this lane. Not much happens here at all, really. The odd car puffing out dust as it slams in the potholes. Sometimes a mother with a toddler in tow, both too bored to stay at home and out looking for something to stare at. If they catch sight of me, I’ll do.
So if there is some movement I’ll glance up. Of course I will, it’s only natural. If I’m awake. It might just be the woodpigeons come to brag on the wires. But it’s something.
I can’t remember how long I’ve been living here. Four years? The days run together and so the years slip by. It’s not a bad place, in itself. Spacious. But when the wind howls across the plain beyond the village and whips rain around the eaves, I can’t help shivering. So I know when the seasons change. When I first came here I could get about quite well, but recently my feet have been getting me down. They throb, and I can’t seem to put them down with the confidence I used to. They’re unsteady and all I can do is hobble. Sometimes it’s too much of an effort to go and get something to eat even. Maybe that’s why I sleep so much these days.
The truth is, I don’t mind being left alone and forgotten. Far better to be left in peace to fend for myself as best I can than have to put up with a constant mothering by a crowd of folks. Being tapped so gently and pityingly, my hair smoothed. Always asked, how am I? Told I’m doing fine. Being patronised like a youngster. Wanting to keep me clean, make me take exercise. Or having to behave how they think is right. Having to be friendly and accommodating, sunny-tempered. No: better to be left alone that to put up with any of that.
When I hear a car door slam and men’s voices, I look up. It’s one of those upright cars with high tyres that the farmers round here seem so fond of. One of the men looks familiar, the one with white hair and a face mottled purple by cold and drink. He’s wearing old brown cords and a blue anorak and his hair is flying in the damp wind. He looks impatient. What you’d call cheesed off. For some reason he’s carrying a bundle of old ropes in his hand. With is other hand he slams the car door shut.
The other two I don’t know. You can’t tell them apart hardly: both built like barns and dark heads of hair like they’re wearing helmets. They’re scarcely less colourful in the face than whitey, but tending towards the red.
It’s unusual enough to see people stopping along here, so I haul myself up to look closer. It’s not easy, on my feet. But I said that already, didn’t I? Those two – the ones with whitey – have got big thick jumpers on. I can practically smell the wet wool and body odour from here. They’ve got odd flaps on their legs. I’ve never seen that before. Stiff planks, like, that seem to tie up behind. But not so stiff as the planks in the barn wall, nor as long. I’ve got it! Leather.
I edge closer but keep myself half hidden. Whitey comes right towards me across the lane and now I can hear him clicking his tongue in that impatient way. The others follow him, and one of them even unlatches the gate to come in. OK, so now I’m concerned. I come out from hiding and march straight at them, thinking they’ll get wary and back off. Well, I say march. Of course, I’m capable of no such thing. There’s no authority in my shuffle, which is why they hold their ground and whitey even moves closer. He seems to be talking but in that low, would-be-soothing way that they all put on when they visit, so I don’t quite catch what he’s saying. Both of the leather-legs have brought some sort of contraption from the car. A wooden stand which the taller one is unfolding, and a green canvas bag with poles sticking out at all angles. Now what’s all that about?
I can sense that something’s wrong. Smell it, you might say. I’ve always had a fine sense of smell. But these leather-bound men with their rough jumpers and even rougher faces and their contraptions – it’s all new to me. I stand at bay a few moments, wondering what to do. I can’t make out their intentions, you see. Facing them off didn’t work, so should I turn and flee? I’m hesitating, but already my leg muscles are twitching with the memory of running and my heart in my chest is pumping expectantly. I feel my eyes have widened. My nostrils certainly have; the air is surging into them, a slippery cold that reaches down into my throat.
Just as I’m on the point of turning, whitey reaches out a hand and slaps it down on my head. I jerk back, but his fingers have twisted deep into my hair and he hangs on, painfully tearing the roots as I thrash to free myself. With his other hand he shakes the pile of ropes and the fear runs cold through me. It’s a harness of some sort, a way of trussing me up, for sure. Suddenly he’s in charge as he slides the rope behind my head, grazing my ears. We’re nose-to-nose, eye-to-eye, but there’s no triumph in his, just the same grumpy impatience.
I pull back again, tugging hard, and I’m sure my eyes are rolling as if I were crazed. We tussle in a tug-of-war that, if it was left to whitey and me, I would have won. I can see the rope is burning his hands as it’s burning my cheeks but, you see, I’m desperate to escape whereas he – well, he seems irritated. It’s not an emotion that would win wars. But this war isn’t just between me and him. There’s the other two, the lumps of walking rock with their leather legs. They start hitting me, not hard it’s true; more like slapping me around, forcing me slowly forwards till we’re near the tree by the gate. That’s where they tie me up, finally, with a length of rope so short I can do nothing, barely even shake my head to clear my thoughts.
And straight away they’re back to all that soft-talking and gentle taps and strokes, like I was a pet. The "Come on, Joey, calm down now, there’s a good fella." The "Won’t take a moment, you won’t even feel it." The "It’s for your own good you know, you’ll be much better afterwards." As if I could trust them one second. As if I was an imbecile.
I can feel leather legs number one run his hand down my thigh, ever so gently, ever so crooningly. He can see I’m about to kick him so, sly bugger that he is, he sticks me with some kind of pin just above the ankle, and as I draw my foot back in surprise, he grabs it and twists it up against his leather thigh. His mate hands him a piece of metal covered in ridges. Now, at last, I understand, as the grating shudders up through my hoof, along my shuddering back and down into the teeth that I bare in whitey’s bored purple face.
Lac du Der
The desiccated beech leaves crack like breakfast cereal and we stop, taking shallow breaths with our lips parted. The scent of decay and dark fungi jostles closely, but lighter is the lemon-tinged pollen. Now we are still and our breathing has stilled too. The skin above my lip prickles with damp in the fragments of sun, expectantly.
The woods are a morning market for birds, each crying their wares in repetitive four- and five-note tunes, sung simply, over and again. The trees are not yet in full leaf; barely have their buds broken, yet the songs sound distant as they career through the high branches. Tree-creepers with pearl-pink breasts reward our silence by shuttling beak-down or beak-up on the bark. A dynasty of blue tits sweep their family disputes into the bushes nearby. The chaffinches and gold crests are distracted by breakfast and robins throw their voices across clearings while woodpeckers play the glockenspiel of dying trees. We are the only ones to hear it.
The morning advances and the smell of sunshine wins over that of spring floods. Where the trees thin, rays of sunlight have been brought to earth as cowslips; then the cowslips themselves lift and dance around our heads in the bodies of brimstone butterflies. A cream-feathered buzzard dives to the ground a few feet away, close enough to see his prize.
We’re after bigger prey. The mud that is black with leaf mould holds prints well. The smooth, forward-pointing ovals of deer have taken on an inward tilt and a slight point at the front. Wild boar, and in numbers, were thrown into an ecstasy of acorns at this crossing in the paths. But why did one of them leave behind these fringes of black and white bristles, half trampled into the bracken?
A razor of wind cuts our ears, reminding us that today’s sun is coquette. But the wind reaches us only at the water’s edge along with the ghosts of the drowned villages. A bird we don’t recognise flashes its rust coloured tail as it farms the stony beachlets between the cut rocks of the causeway. A heron frowns and takes off with the sound of wave on shingle to find a quieter bay. Cormorants, mallards and grebes ignore us splendidly. Here, the white tumbles of pebbles merge into drifts of wood anemone whose meek blushing bells are slowly gaining confidence and raising their yellow hearts to the sun. Periwinkle flowers so darkly violet in the undergrowth we look at it for several seconds before knowing it is not green. The purple-white of meadowsweet fringes ditches where stagnant water seethes black. A thousand tadpoles have chosen today to hatch and fight their way to oxygen.
Beside a wooden hut, two women spread their pale ample shoulders along the backs of plastic chairs. They are quite content to gossip the day away, but smile still to see us and thank us for stopping. They pour us juice and cook fresh waffles that smell like birthdays and feel like eggshells as I bite through the sugar crust to the warm inside. The owner describes the winter when snow lies thickly and the boars come to dig right at the doors of the hut. Her husband has shot his share of them, she says. In summer and autumn she picks wild strawberries and nuts, blackberries and mushrooms to serve from the kiosk. When she retires next year, while her husband is hunting birds and deer and boar, she will spend all her time gathering food and making jam, and teaching her grandchildren the to profit from the woods.
Life in the vines
Back in early January, on our third or fourth day of walking, we were in the Denbies’ wine estate near Dorking speculating that the next time we would see vines would be in the Champagne region, beyond Reims. And so it has finally proved.
The gently rising slopes of brown look lifeless: not a promising time of year to be visiting. But as we walk through them over several days, we see the chalk and clay tracks are speckled with dozens of vehicles, and that the tiny dark blobs are the hunched backs of workers. These brown days are a time of promise and fierce activity. The countryside is alive.
In the agricultural swathes of Normandy or Picardy farms were mastered by machinery and just one or two workers. Here, a single glance shows twenty or more intent people; the degree of labour needed for wine production explains its price as a luxury good. The labourers look up and nod a hello, but rarely stop their hands to talk. They hint at an old-style countryside, where hundreds lived and worked together through their annual tasks and festivals - although it is no doubt much emptier even here than in the past. Nowadays five full time workers can service a three-hectare estate, rising to twenty-five people for the week-long harvest. There’s a medieval echo to life. At noon, all the church bells sound long and loud to call the vineworkers in to lunch, and again at five to end the day. In two bars, the workers nodded and smiled, but still didn’t attempt a conversation; and when two o’clock sounded they drained their coffee cups and headed back out into the clay and chalk lanes.
Living with the vines means living utterly at the rhythm of the seasons and the weather. When winter turns you must prune, and you must prune before the sap rises again. But not too soon, or the vine will channel its strength too quickly and risk frostbite on the new shoots. If a frost threatens, you must offer protection – spraying water to encase the buds in an icy nest of 0º; or burning resinous wood to build a warm smoky blanket; or fleece ‘socks’ over the vines. When the shoots and leaves start to grow it is time to pinch out all but the main branches. And when the grapes are ripe, you must harvest them. Then and there. No matter that the changes in climate mean your grapes are ready a fortnight before normal and your grape pickers have not yet arrived for the season – you must rally them as quickly as you can. "Si juin fait le vin, août fait le goût".
After several days of hiking between the vineyards and the forests of the Montagne de Reims, we are full of questions. This is the season for pruning, a job that lasts a good couple of months and follows rigid rules for the number of shoots left on which year’s growth, and for the height at which the shoots may begin and finish. There are four pruning patterns, authorised or forbidden according to the type of grape and whether the village is grand cru, premier cru or a simple champagne. With familiarity it should be possible to tell, from the pruned stalks, what kind of vineyard you are standing in.
There are as many women as men working, we notice, all swaddled in woollen hats and padded jackets with hoods, hunched against the fog and frost, the wind or rain and sleet. They work peacefully and rhythmically. Homemade or sophisticated, the winegrowers use tools uniquely evolved for the vines. They sit to their tasks on low plastic benches like skateboards on six-inch high wheels. The width of the gap between vines. The wheels point lengthwise so the worker can roll themselves down the slope as they go. After pruning, the chosen stalks must be attached to the horizontal wires, and for this a tagging gun was invented, like a shop assistant’s ticketing gun, except this one shoots out, twists and cuts the tag in one whirring motion.
Sometimes the cut stalks are taken to the woods and left to rot down, but mostly people burn them. Oil drums are slit lengthwise and eased apart, then mounted on a one-wheel frame like a wheelbarrow, to carry fire and smoke up and down the rows and consume the waste. Looking across the valleys with the ugly, modern rectangles of Reims a constant backdrop, smoke pillars are everywhere in the morning mist. Now rising tall, now billowing thick and sideways with the vagaries of the wind.
Why are some vineyards full of snails on the plants, and others not? Why are all the snails a translucent yellow-green? What is in the brown capsules hanging on the fences and at the end of some rows? What is being sprayed from the absurdly tall tractors that straddle the rows like a praying mantis? Is there such a thing as organic champagne? Not even our visits to the Musée de la Vigne or the cellars of our hosts, Patrick Soutiran, have yet satisfied the questions that come to us as we walk.
The region of the Montagne de Reims was born out of the huge sea that once covered the land. Blame millennia of sea creatures for the claggy soil that weighs our boots with extra kilos in these still damp weeks. The landscape is less monotonous than expected. The vines only love the poor soil on the slopes of the hills, where they are oriented plot by plot to be sure of full exposure to the sun. Below them, the soil of the plain is too rich and has been cultivated for wheat, rye, and oats and for rapeseed and beets. On the ‘mountaintop’, really a hill plateau, the forest takes over, a tangle of undergrowth and mossy fallen wood, boar and deer tracks and, very rarely, neat piles of harvested logs. We roam constantly between these landscapes, partnered by the exuberance of skylarks on the plain and echoing woodpeckers and nesting bluetits and blackbirds in the forest. The vines themselves are knobbled like arthritic witches’ hands in a flamenco dance. Birds do not love the vines, or not yet; but when the sun breaks through a mist of bees and insects takes us by surprise. Spring is another step nearer.
The scene looks unchanged for centuries; but in fact up until the 1920s, when re-planting after the phylloxera disaster early in the century was finally completed, the familiar rows did not exist. Vines then were plated to grow up on posts rather than along on wires, and the plants were higgledy-piggledy across the slopes, defying mechanisation. Then, too, roles were strictly divided. Wine growers grew the grapes and passed them to presses from where the extracted juice was sold to the champagne houses in Reims or Epernay for the complicated and slow process of turning it into wine. With the economic collapse in the late 1920s, growers taught themselves to make and sell the champagne themselves. Now there are no less than 320 crus or classified villages, and many more individual champagne producers.
The villages which camp at intervals between the vineyards and the forest are larger than we are familiar with: dense pockets of construction, every second gateway leads to a small Maison de Champagne with vast warehouses and small offices. Not a scrap of ground is wasted for gardens, pavements or squares. Despite the vaunted tourist routes, despite even the number of people supported by the work in the vines, these villages are as under-serviced as ever. The streets taunt with their painted and wrought signs, but each is for a champagne house to visit. There are no shops and rare bars. The shops have been replaced by vans that tour the villages and toot to scurry out the housewives: one for the bread, one for the butcher, one for the fishmonger.
Back in our flat in Ambonnay, we pass the evenings with books and big meals we prepare together, a fusion of British (kippers, roast beef and potatoes) and French (Normandy pork in cider, ratatouille) and, of course, compare the wines of the Montagne.
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Saint October 11 : Saint John XXIII : #Pope : Patron of #ChristianUnity
Saint Pope JOHN XXIII
Vatican.va Release: When on October 20, 1958 the cardinals, assembled in conclave, elected Angelo Roncalli as pope many regarded him, because of his age and ambiguous reputation, as a transitional pope, little realizing that the pontificate of this man of 76 years would mark a turning point in history and initiate a new age for the Church. He took the name of John in honor of the precursor and the beloved disciple—but also because it was the name of a long line of popes whose pontificates had been short.
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, the third of thirteen children, was born on November 25, 1881 at Sotto il Monte (Bergamo) of a family of sharecroppers. He attended elementary school in the town, was tutored by a priest of Carvico, and at the age of twelve entered the seminary at Bergamo. A scholarship from the Cerasoli Foundation (1901) enabled him to go on to the Apollinaris in Rome where he studied under (among others) Umberto Benigni, the Church historian. He interrupted his studies for service in the Italian Army but returned to the seminary, completed his work for a doctorate in theology, and was ordained in 1904. Continuing his studies in canon law he was appointed secretary to the new bishop of Bergamo, Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi. Angelo served this social-minded prelate for nine years, acquiring first-hand experience and a broad understanding of the problems of the working class. He also taught apologetics, church history, and patrology.
With the entry of Italy into World War I in 1915 he was recalled to military service as a chaplain. On leaving the service in 1918 he was appointed spiritual director of the seminary, but found time to open a hostel for students in Bergamo. It was at this time also that he began the research for a multi-volume work on the episcopal visitation of Bergamo by St. Charles Borromeo, the last volume of which was published after his elevation as pope.
In 1921 he was called to Rome to reorganize the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Nominated titular archbishop of Areopolis and apostolic visitator to Bulgaria (1925), he immediately concerned himself with the problems of the Eastern Churches. Transferred in 1934 to Turkey and Greece as apostolic delegate, he set up an office in Istanbul for locating prisoners of war. In 1944 he was appointed nuncio to Paris to assist in the Church's post-war efforts in France, and became the first permanent observer of the Holy See at UNESCO, addressing its sixth and seventh general assemblies in 1951 and 1952. In 1953 he became cardinal-patriarch of Venice, and expected to spend his last years there in pastoral work. He was correcting proofs of the synodal Acts of his first diocesan Synod (1958) when he was called to Rome to participate in the conclave that elected him pope.
In his first public address Pope John expressed his concern for reunion with separated Christians and for world peace. In his coronation address he asserted "vigorously and sincerely" that it was his intention to be a pastoral pope since "all other human gifts and accomplishments—learning, practical experience, diplomatic finesse—can broaden and enrich pastoral work but they cannot replace it." One of his first acts was to annul the regulation of Sixtus IV limiting the membership of the College of Cardinals to 70; within the next four years he enlarged it to 87 with the largest international representation in history. Less than three months after his election he announced that he would hold a diocesan synod for Rome, convoke an ecumenical council for the universal Church, and revise the Code of Canon Law. The synod, the first in the history of Rome, was held in 1960; Vatican Council II was convoked in 1962; and the Pontifical Commission for the Revision of the Code was appointed in 1963.
His progressive encyclical, Mater et Magistra, was issued in 1961 to commemorate the anniversary of Leo XIII's Rerum novarum. Pacem in terris, advocating human freedom and dignity as the basis for world order and peace, came out in 1963. He elevated the Pontifical Commission for Cinema, Radio, and Television to curial status, approved a new code of rubrics for the Breviary and Missal, made notable advances in ecumenical relations by creating a new Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity and by appointing the first representative to the Assembly of the World Council of Churches held in New Delhi (1961). In 1960 he consecrated fourteen bishops for Asia, Africa, and Oceania. The International Balzan Foundation awarded him its Peace Prize in 1962.
Since his death on June 3, 1963, much has been written and spoken about the warmth and holiness of the beloved Pope John. Perhaps the testimony of the world was best expressed by a newspaper drawing of the earth shrouded in mourning with the simple caption, "A Death in the Family."
SOURCE: Vatican.va
Official Prayer to St. John XXIII Dear Pope John, Your simplicity and meekness carried the scent of God and sparked in people’s hearts the desire for goodness. You spoke often of the beauty of the family gathered around the table to share bread and faith: pray for us that once again true families would live in our homes. With outstretched hands you sowed hope, and you taught us to listen for God’s footsteps as he prepares a new humanity: help us have a healthy optimism of defeating evil with good. You loved the world with its light and darkness, and you believed that peace is possible: help us be instruments of peace at home and in our communities. With paternal gentleness you gave all children a caress: you moved the world and reminded us that hands have been given to us not for striking, but for embracing and drying tears. Pray for us so that we do not limit ourselves to cursing the darkness but that we bring the light, bringing Jesus everywhere and always praying to Mary. Amen.
Pope Francis speaks Against Abortion "... God loves every human life." FULL Text + Video
Wednesday, October 10th 2018
Today's catechesis is dedicated to the Fifth Word: do not kill. The fifth commandment: do not kill. We are already in the second part of the Decalogue, the one concerning relations with others; and this commandment, with its concise and categorical formulation, stands like a wall in defense of the basic value in human relationships. And what is the basic value in human relationships? The value of life. [1] For this, do not kill.
One could say that all the evil done in the world is summarized in this: contempt for life. Life is assaulted by wars, by organizations that exploit man - we read in the newspapers or we see many things on the news - from speculations about creation and the culture of waste, and from all the systems that subject human existence to calculations of opportunities, while a scandalous number of people lives in a state unworthy of man. This is despising life, that is, in some way, killing.
A contradictory approach also allows the suppression of human life in the womb in the name of safeguarding other rights. But how can an act that suppresses innocent and helpless life in its blossoming be therapeutic, civil, or simply human? I ask you: is it right to "take out" a human life to solve a problem? Is it right to rent a hitman to solve a problem? One can not, it is not right to "take out" a human being, albeit small, to solve a problem. It's like renting a hitman to solve a problem.
Where does all this come from? Violence and the rejection of life where do they come from? From fear. Indeed, welcoming the other is a challenge to individualism. We think, for example, when it is discovered that a nascent life is a bearer of disability, even a serious one. Parents, in these dramatic cases, need real closeness, true solidarity, to face reality overcoming comprehensible fears. Instead they often receive hasty advice to stop the pregnancy, ie it is a way of saying: "stop pregnancy" means "take out one", directly.
A sick child is like every needy of the earth, like an old man who needs assistance, like so many poor people who struggle to get along: he, the one who presents himself as a problem, is actually a gift from God that can get me out of egocentrism and make me grow in love. Vulnerable life shows us the way out, the way to save ourselves from an existence turned in on itself and discover the joy of love. And here I would like to stop to thank, to thank many volunteers, to thank the strong Italian voluntary service which is the strongest I have known. Thank you.
And what leads man to reject life? They are the idols of this world: money - better to get rid of this, because it will cost -, power, success. These are incorrect parameters to evaluate life. What is the only authentic measure of life? It is love, the love with which God loves her! The love with which God loves life: this is the measure. The love with which God loves every human life.
In fact, what is the positive meaning of the Word "Do not kill"? That God is "a lover of life", as we have just heard from the Bible reading.
The secret of life is revealed to us by how the Son of God who has become man has treated it to the point of assuming, on the cross, rejection, weakness, poverty and pain (cf. Jn 13: 1). In every sick child, in every weak elder, in every desperate migrant, in every fragile and threatened life, Christ is looking for us (cf. Mt 25: 34-46), he is looking for our heart, to reveal to us the joy of love.
It is worthwhile to accept every life because every man is worth the blood of Christ himself (cf. 1 Pet 1: 18-19). One can not despise what God so loved!
We must tell the men and women of the world: do not despise your life! The life of others, but also their own, because the command is also valid: "Do not kill". To many young people it must be said: do not despise your existence! Stop rejecting God's work! You are a work of God! Do not underestimate yourself, do not despise yourself with addictions that will ruin you and lead you to death!
No one measures life according to the deceptions of this world, but each one accepts himself and others in the name of the Father who created us. He is "a lover of life": this is beautiful, "God is a lover of life". And we are all so dear to him that he has sent his Son for us. "God in fact," says the Gospel, "so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life" (Jn 3:16).
Je salue cordialement les pèlerins francophones, venus de France, de Suisse et de l’Île Maurice, en particulier les diocésains de Vannes et de Saint-Brieuc. Chers amis, ne méprisez jamais votre existence, vous êtes une œuvre de Dieu ! Témoignez autour de vous de la valeur infinie de toute vie humaine ! Que Dieu vous bénisse !
I greet all the English-speaking pilgrims taking part in today’s Audience, particularly the groups from England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Canada, Curaçao and the United States of America. Upon all of you, and your families, I invoke the joy and peace of Our Lord Jesus Christ. God bless you all!
Von Herzen grüße ich die Pilger deutscher Sprache, insbesondere die zahlreichen Jugendlichen, die Schulgruppen des Gauß-Gymnasiums Gelsenkirchen, des Collegium Gaesdonck und der Liebfrauenschule Ratingen sowie die Teilnehmer an der Informationswoche der Päpstlichen Schweizer Garde. Der Herr segne euch und begleite euch auf eurem Weg.
Saludo cordialmente a los peregrinos de lengua española, en modo particular a los grupos provenientes de España y América Latina. Los animo a que siguiendo el ejemplo de Jesús, que vino a dar su vida por nosotros, sepamos acoger y proteger la propia vida y la de los demás en el nombre de Dios Padre. Muchas gracias.
Amados peregrinos de língua portuguesa, dirijo uma cordial saudação a todos, particularmente aos fiéis da paróquia Nossa Senhora da Paz, do Rio de Janeiro. Este mês de Outubro encoraja-nos a perseverar na reza diária do terço, possivelmente em família, para que se reflita também na Igreja doméstica o modelo de Maria. O segredo da sua serenidade e confiança estava nesta certeza: «A Deus, nada é impossível». Desça, pois, sobre vós e vossas famílias a Bênção do Senhor.
أرحب بمودة بالحاضرين الناطقين باللغة العربية، وخاصة بالقادمين من مصر ومن لبنان ومن الشرق الأوسط. لا تقتل هي وصية إلهية تؤكد قدسية الحياة الإنسانية كهبة من الله، لا يحق لأحد، تحت أي ظرف من الظروف، أن يعتدي عليها، أو يتلاعب بها أو يحتقرها. فالقتل هو خطيئة ضد الله، سيد الحياة، ضد أنفسنا وضد القريب. ليبارككم الرب جميعا ويحرسكم من الشرير!
Witam polskich pielgrzymów. Zanim przyjechałem na plac, miałem możność pozdrowić uczestników pielgrzymki Archidiecezji Krakowskiej, którzy przybyli do Rzymu z okazji 40-lecia wyniesienia Jana Pawła II na Stolicę Piotrową. Teraz chcę pozdrowić wszystkich Was, tu obecnych i waszych rodaków. Razem z wami dziękuję Chrystusowi, Panu czasów, że zechciał powołać z waszej ziemi tego wielkiego Papieża i powierzył mu zadanie wprowadzenia Kościoła w nowe tysiąclecie. Jego nauczanie, przykład świętości i wstawiennictwo niech nas prowadzi i strzeże w codziennej, czasem trudnej wędrówce po drogach Pana! Z serca wam błogosławię!
I extend a cordial welcome to Italian-speaking pilgrims.
I am pleased to welcome the Friars Minor Conventual; the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians and the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.
I greet the school children; the parishes, especially that of Minori, together with a delegation from Patti, with Archbishop Orazio Soricelli; and that of Ostra Vetere; the National Olive Growers Consortium; the delegation of the Municipality of Cervia; the Chamber of Commerce of Viterbo; the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Coordination; the AVIS Association of Catanzaro and the Bellegra Italian Red Cross.
A particular thought I address to the young, the elderly, the sick and the newlyweds.
The month of October is dedicated to the missions and prayer of the Holy Rosary. Dear friends, praying the Rosary, invoke the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary on your every need and on the Church, so that she may be ever more holy and missionary, united in walking the paths of the world and in bringing Christ to every man.
[1] Cf. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Istr. Donum vitae, 5: AAS 80 (1988), 76-77: "Human life is sacred because, from its beginning, it involves the creative action of God and remains forever in a special relationship with the Creator, his only purpose. . Only God is the Lord of life from its beginning to its end: no one, under any circumstances, can claim to himself the right to directly destroy an innocent human being ".
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Synod of Bishops: We don’t believe in a “google” God
Today at the Synod of Bishops on Youth a number of interventions were made that highlighted the social context in which young people are trying to live their faith.
By Russell Pollitt, SJ The Prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Communications, Mr Paolo Ruffini, began today’s Synod press briefing with a report outlining numerous interventions made in the Synod’s general assembly hall. The bishops have begun working on the second part of the Instrumentum Laboris, analysing the context in which young people find themselves today.
Mr Ruffini also clarified the fact that the Chinese bishops would not be staying for the entire Synod. They had previous engagements before they were invited to the Synod.
A number of issues arose, these included accompaniment and formation, vocations, new “totalitarianisms” (things which colonise young people and take away freedom) and how to create safes spaces to assist young people discern what is good. Mr Ruffini said that in one intervention it was said that the Church cannot be reduced to a “google” God. He said that there was an acknowledgement that the Church had failed to accompany young people in marriage and that marriage should not be reduced to a ceremony.
A changing social reality
Cardinal Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes from Mexico said that in all ages those who struggle most to adapt to the social construct is young people. He said that we live in a time of societal fracture. This means that the Church must adapt in order to help young people. The Cardinal said that the common vision of Vatican II can help us create stability and a pathway forward.
Archbishop Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg said that the world is experiencing a deep and profound change of civilisation. He said that he has contact with young people, he has young people living in the bishop’s residence, and has realised that they live differently. He said that he has learned that many young people have never read a book, instead they watch and quote Netflix. Discernment, the archbishop said, is not about black and white but discovering all the different colours and shades of reality. He said that discernment is not about opinions clashing but about greatert listening and the ability to feel and see what God wants us to do. This, he noted, is what the Synod is all about.
Cardinal Rete said that totalitarianism is always a temptation for society, especially in politics and economics. He said that numerous types of totalitarianism were referred to in the assembly. He spoke of the anonymity on the web which manipulates to generate certain ideologies.
Archbishop Hollerich said that he was concerned populism in Europe. He said that this could cause a disintegration of Europe, it is putting the continents very stability into danger. He said that politics was not directly addressed at the Synod but believes that If we focus on the marginalised then we are working to prevent the growth of populism. The Archbishop said that the Synod is a good antidote to populism.
Joyful collaboration
Briana Regina Santiago, a lay auditor from the United States of America, told the press that young people have spoken and been called on for comment much more than they expected in the group discussions. She said that she is unable to express in words how beautiful it has been to participate in the Synod. She said that she had not heard of one young person having a negative experience. There has been open dialogue, it has been eye-opening and enriching and a good inter-generational conversation, she said.
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ADDRESS OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS
TO THE PILGRIMAGE OF THE DIOCESE OF KRAKOW
Paul VI Hall
Welcome! and thank you for your warm affection! I thank Archbishop Marek for his kind words, and I greet fraternally Cardinal Stanislao and the Bishops present.
You have come as representatives of the holy Church of God that is in Krakow, which welcomed me with open arms in the summer of 2016. You have come together with your Pastors and consecrated persons, to thank God for the life and pontificate of Saint John Paul II, near the 40th anniversary of his election to the See of Peter. I cordially greet all of you, especially the poor, the sick and the numerous young people taking part in the pilgrimage.
St. John Paul II has enriched the universal Church with a great abundance of gifts, which in large part has inherited from the treasure of faith and holiness of your land and of your Church. He brought in his heart and, so to speak, in the flesh the testimonies of the saints of Krakow: from San Stanislao and Santa Edvige Regina, to Sant'Alberto and Santa Faustina. From them he learned the boundless dedication to God and the great sensitivity for every man; dedication and sensitivity manifested in his priestly, episcopal and papal ministry. He received from God the great gift of being able to read the signs of the times in the light of the Gospel, and he made it profit for the journey of his people, of your people, who in the various painful events never lost faith in God and fidelity to one's own culture rooted in the Christian spirit.
Faithful to these roots, he tried to make the Church stand as a guardian of the inalienable rights of man, of the family and of peoples, to be a sign of peace, justice and integral development for the entire human family. At the same time, He has always emphasized the priority of grace and obedience to the will of God, before any human calculation.
This rich heritage, which Saint John Paul II has left us, is for us - and especially for our compatriots - a challenge to be faithful to Christ and to respond with joyful dedication to the call to holiness, which the Lord addresses to each and each of us, in our specific personal, family and social situation.
Dear brothers and sisters, Saint John Paul II does not stop watching over the Church in Krakow, which he loved so much! From heaven it accompanies your journey: families, young people and grandparents, priests, religious and all consecrated persons; the most disadvantaged, the suffering. I too trust you with his intercession. I thank you for your visit and I bless all of you and the entire diocesan community of Krakow. Please do not forget to pray for me.
And, before giving you the blessing, I invite you all to pray a Hail Mary to Our Lady.
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Today's Mass Readings and Video : Wednesday October 10, 2018 - #Eucharist
Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1GAL 2:1-2, 7-14
After fourteen years I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas,
taking Titus along also.
I went up in accord with a revelation,
and I presented to them the Gospel that I preach to the Gentiles–
but privately to those of repute–
so that I might not be running, or have run, in vain.
On the contrary,
when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Gospel to the uncircumcised,
just as Peter to the circumcised,
for the one who worked in Peter for an apostolate to the circumcised
worked also in me for the Gentiles,
and when they recognized the grace bestowed upon me,
James and Cephas and John,
who were reputed to be pillars,
gave me and Barnabas their right hands in partnership,
that we should go to the Gentiles
and they to the circumcised.
Only, we were to be mindful of the poor,
which is the very thing I was eager to do.
And when Cephas came to Antioch,
I opposed him to his face because he clearly was wrong.
For, until some people came from James,
he used to eat with the Gentiles;
but when they came, he began to draw back and separated himself,
because he was afraid of the circumcised.
And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him,
with the result that even Barnabas
was carried away by their hypocrisy.
But when I saw that they were not on the right road
in line with the truth of the Gospel,
I said to Cephas in front of all,
"If you, though a Jew,
are living like a Gentile and not like a Jew,
how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?"
Responsorial PsalmPS 117:1BC, 2
R. Go out to all the world, and tell the Good News.
Praise the LORD, all you nations,
glorify him, all you peoples!
For steadfast is his kindness toward us,
and the fidelity of the LORD endures forever.
AlleluiaROM 8:15BC
You have received a spirit of adoption as sons
through which we cry: Abba! Father!
GospelLK 11:1-4
Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished,
one of his disciples said to him,
"Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples."
He said to them, "When you pray, say:
Father, hallowed be your name,
your Kingdom come.
Give us each day our daily bread
and forgive us our sins
for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us,
and do not subject us to the final test."
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SLOTH OUT
Client: Alfa Romeo
Agency: United 1861
Executive Producer: Luca Fanfani
Sloth actor: Kiran Shah
Music: E.L.O.
While I was in Barcelona to work on another project, it happened that my italian production company Mercurio was there too for a shoot for Alfa Romeo cars. They told me they had this amazing sloth costume and they wanted to make more with it. Their idea was to create a viral for the campaign they were doing, with the sloth being some kind of womanizer, going out about town and wrecking havoc and flirting and doing what sloths do on a typical friday night. The interesting thing, apart from working with a giant sloth costume, was that I would have the opportunity to work with Kiran Shah, the man who was acting inside the suit; he had been in so many important movies, the last one being the stunt double for Frodo in the Lord of the Rings series. As we didn’t have time to write a script, I would have to come up with ideas for the next scene as we were shooting the previous. Fortunately Kiran and all the crew know their craft and made my life easier by making theirs more complicated. Uhm. Makes sense?
Beheaded sloth. What about making a meme out of this, internet?
The back of the costume’s head. As you can see, the inside was pretty much, well, a robot.
Putting on the suit was a big ordeal for Kiran, and also for the whole team who built the costume and was in charge of making sure it looked and worked all right.
Here’s Kiran during one of his much needed many breaks, probably saying something sharp and racy, just like his personality is.
Every time we shot a scene, a massive group of curious onlookers would inevitably stop and look at what we were doing. I really wish someone took a picture of the group of people that formed when we were shooting on the Ramblas, because I think it was more than a hundred. Actually at some point in the film you can see one of our producers yelling and waving at someone off camera because apparently they wanted to walk and get even closer to that rather peculiar beast they had never seen in their life before.
These are the creators of the puppet/animatronic. That whole scary techno machinery was really just a big remote controller that enabled them to control his facial expressions, specifically the eyes and the mouth. When I shouted SMILE! they would make him smile, when I shouted LAUGH! they would send a signal to the computerized mask to open its mouth as wide as possible, and also Kiran would hear my command and he would jerk his head up and down so that it looked the sloth was really laughing. Good times.
To pose for a nice face portrait you only need your face, right?
For the dancing scene in the disco, I tried to lobby the DJ into saying something for us- I wasn’t still sure I would just use a song for the whole duration of the video. Anyway, the DJ refused to do it, I assume it was because we weren’t paying him.
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Brad Marchand lifts Bruins over Sabres, despite sloppy effort
Photo By Bill Wippert
As the Bruins traveled north to Buffalo to face the struggling Sabres, it was a contest that both teams wanted and both teams needed. For the Bruins, it was a game that featured new line combinations, the backup goalie and two defensemen—David Warsofsky and Joe Morrow—making their season debuts, with the latter making his NHL debut.
Just under one minute into the contest Milan Lucic accepted Chris Stewart’s invitation to drop the gloves, but the bout didn’t seem to provide a spark or energy to either side.
As the period continued, the B’s earned their first power play of the game after the Sabres were called for too many men on the ice, and who can blame them for trying that, especially considering their last game they only managed 10 shots on goal against the Leafs. Although not scoring, the first power play unit looked solid, generating good shots and moving the puck effectively, however, the makeshift second unit looked a bit disorganized and was generally ineffective, although that can be expected with minimal playing time together.
As the first period drew to a close in the morgue-like First Niagara Center, the Bruins showed some good offensive zone time in what was an otherwise fairly uneventful 20 minutes.
The Sabres broke the scoreless tie with a goal on their second power play of the game, and that is the Sabres first power play goal of the 2014 season. The goal came from Matthew Stafford, his first of the season, as he snapped a shot from the slot past Niklas Svedberg’s blocker.
The Bruins didn’t wait too long to draw even, as Carl Soderberg’s patience and passing touch found an open Adam McQuaid who netted his first of the year as he got one by Jhonas Enroth. Brad Marchand also factored into the scoring play as he got the puck off the board to Soderberg and drove to the front of the net creating a bit of a screen as McQuaid wristed it home.
As the B’s second power play of the game expired, the Sabres broke into the Bruins defensive zone with a two-on-one and Tyler Ennis made no mistake scoring his fourth of the year off a nice pass from Torrey Mitchell to put the Sabres back on top 2-1. And 2-1 is how the period ended with the Sabres scoring their two goals on three shots.
Brad Marchand found himself on the scoresheet for the second time of the night, this time in the goal column. Marchand, crashing the net had a Loui Eriksson shot deflect off of him and end up behind Enroth to tie the game at two.
Overtime was needed in this game and the Bruins decided to just simply take over in the extra period. Brad Marchand ended it with a snipe off of a pass from Reilly Smith, capping a three-point game from number 63.
This was not a pretty win at all, but a win is a win and something to work on as they look to the Senators coming to town on Saturday.
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September 17 Israeli Elections – Everything You Need to Know
Israeli elections will take place on 17 September 2019. On this page you can find BICOM’s regular poll of polls, campaign updates and analysis of the parties and politicians.
On May 29, the Israeli Knesset voted to dissolve itself triggering a new election after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a governing coalition. Elections will take place on September 17, less than six months after the April 9 elections. What happened? Read BICOM’s analysis
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Final Election Results
Green – Arab | Red – left-wing | Orange – centrist | Blue – right-wing | Black – ultra-Orthodox
How the parties and their leaders shaped up
Getting to 61 without Yisrael Beitenu
Getting to 61 with Yisrael Beitenu
Netanyahu fails to win 61 seat majority
With nearly 100 per cent of the votes counted in the Israeli general election, Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party beat Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud by oneseats (33-32), Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beitenu party won 8 seats, compared to 5 in April, retaining its position as the kingmaker of any future coalition. Overall the centre-left/Arab bloc of parties outperformed the right-wing/ultra-Orthodox bloc by two seats – 57 to 55 with Lieberman’s party currently on the fence. 69.4 per cent of eligible voters turned out to vote, an increase of 1.5 per cent compared to April’s election.
The key results of the election were the surge in support for Lieberman which was likely fuelled by moderate right-wing voters, perhaps previous Kulanu voters, who decided not to support Likud. The increased support for Arab parties was also crucial and voter turnout in Arab communities was much higher, at 60 per cent compared to 49 per cent in April. It’s possible the higher voter turnout was a reaction to Netanyahu’s proposal to put cameras in polling stations in Arab communities and his repeated allegations of Arab voter fraud.
Netanyahu’s called for immediate national unity talks with Gantz were rebuffed by the Blue and White leader, who declared victory and said his party would “not be dictated to.” Gantz re-stated his intention to form a broad and liberal unity government. Netanyahu, for his part, said he was “disappointed” at Gantz’s refusal to meet.
President Reuven Rivlin will ask the party leader with the best chance of building a 61-seat majority to form a government. That candidate will have 28 days (plus the option of a two week extension) to form a coalition. If that candidate fails, the President is expected to demand they return that mandate to him so he can ask another party leader in order to avoid a repeat of what happened in April when Netanyahu initiated a vote to dissolve the Knesset.
With no easy path for Gantz or Netanyahu to form a government, the President may have to get more actively involved in the process in order to avoid a third election. Israeli political leaders will now engage in complex negotiations in which a series of creative solutions will start to appear in the media as well as stories about potential coalitions, rotating Prime Ministers, party splits and policy compromises. Some will be the result of real talks and others designed as part of the negotiation tactics to force a deal.
But analysts are predicting that the proceedings could last months. In one extreme scenario, unprecedented in Israeli history, three different party leaders could be tasked with forming a government and fail to do so – the last of whom would be at the end of December – after which the Knesset would automatically dissolve and elections called again.
Here are a few scenarios that could emerge:
Blue and White form a grand coalition with Yisrael Beitenu and Likud – Gantz agrees a rotating Prime Minister deal with Netanyahu and Lieberman becomes Deputy Prime Minister.
Likud and Yisrael Beitenu do a deal and form a right-wing ultra-Orthodox coalition in which Lieberman becomes Prime Minister after two years.
Likud decide to replace Netanyahu. Their new leader forms a grand coalition with Blue and White (with or without Yisrael Beitenu). They agree a rotating Prime Minister deal.
Netanyahu is scheduled to have a pre-indictment hearing in early October to challenge the evidence in the three cases where the Attorney General has recommended he be indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of trust. Netanyahu needed a 61 seat majority to vote to grant him immunity, that’s not going to happen now so Netanyahu will attempt to stay on as Prime Minister and will refuse any offer to serve as a minister in a new coalition because minister’s are required if they are indicted for criminal offences, something likely to happen to Netanyahu in less than three month’s time.
The most likely outcome with these results is some form of grand coalition but the exact make up of that and the policy compromises required will be negotiated fiercely in the weeks ahead. But one thing is clear, Benjamin Netanyahu has failed for the second time to form a 61-seat majority coalition and that could cause intense debate in the Likud about whether they should stick with him or move to appoint a new leader.
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Selected campaign videos
In this music video for the Sephardic ultra-Orthodox Shas party, various Israelis of all ages and sexes are shown in the predawn hours getting ready for their day, set against a catchy song incorporating both traditional religious lyrics and a modern “Mizrachi/Middle Eastern” melody. The Israelis all eventually arrive at synagogue for morning prayers. The video concludes with Shas’ late spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadiya Yosef, imploring people to “take the Shas slip and put it in the ballot box.”
In this Likud campaign video, two lost hikers come across Prime Minister Netanyahu on the trail. “I’ve come to make sure you’re on the right path,” Netanyahu tells them. “My path is a lot more secure and stable, it’s challenging, but only on it do you reach the summit.” Just as the two hikers ask what lies in the other direction, to the left, a horde of screaming hikers run towards them. “Don’t go that way,” one tells them. “No one there knows where we’re going.”
The top half of this Blue and White campaign video shows Netanyahu in southern Israel in 2009 vowing “to topple the terror regime of Hamas” in the Gaza Strip if he were elected Prime Minister. The lower half of the video shows Netanyahu in September 2019 being hustled off stage by his security detail at a campaign rally in Ashdod after rockets were fired from Gaza at the southern Israeli city.
Even on holiday Israelis can’t escape the election: Blue and White bought a massive billboard on the road to Larnaca airport, Cyprus, with the image of party leader Benny Gantz and the tagline “Israel Before All” in Hebrew.
This Likud campaign video asks: “Who would you rather answer this phone call?” with the image and name of US President Donald Trump calling. The ad then goes on to pose the choice of “This man?” with an image of Blue and White number two Yair Lapid, or “Or Netanyahu?” followed by video of the Prime Minister meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump. “We have to stop Lapid from becoming prime minister,” it says at the end, highlighting the Likud’s constant attacks on what it perceives as the weak link in the Blue and White leadership.
“Democrats, We Need to Talk,” Democratic Union official Stav Shaffir addresses the camera alone, in English, after the crisis surrounding Israel’s ban of US congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. Shaffir blasts the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement – which Talib and Omar support – as being “against peace” and wanting “an end to Israel.” Shaffir then blasts Prime Minister Netanyahu for giving a “gift” to BDS by banning the congresswomen, and calls for all “democrats” to “build an alliance, based on democracy, equality, freedom and peace.”
One of Netanyahu’s main campaign slogans is that he is in a ‘different league’ to any other Israeli leader. In a recent campaign video, Netanyahu is shown having meetings with US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi with each image featuring the same slogan: ‘Netanyahu: a different league’. The video featured shots of posters (pictured above) showing Netanyahu shaking hands with Trump, Putin and Modi, which can be seen hanging outside the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv.
The Blue and White party responded by photoshopping the posters, saying Netanyahu was in a ‘different league’ in ‘surrendering to terrorism’ (pictured) and in the budget deficit.
Peace Now responded with posters of their own show Netanyahu giving money to Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar (pictured) – the Government of Israel allows Qatar to send $15m a month to Gaza. Another poster shows Netanyahu with Jewish Power leader Itamar Ben-Gvir who has a photo of Baruch Goldstein on his wall at home. Goldstein murdered 29 Palestinians in Hebron in 1994
Netanyahu recently overtook David Ben Gurion as Israel’s longest serving Prime Minister. In this campaign video Netanyahu is cooking, and discusses Israel’s first start up in the 1950’s petitim (Israeli couscous) created from wheat because there was a shortage of rice. He concludes that since then Israel has turned into a technological superpower “from Waze to Iron Dome”
Stav Shaffir responded to Netanyahu’s cooking video asking “Why don’t you tell us what you plan for the day after the elections?” Shaffir attacks Netanyahu for appointing ministers who support conversion therapy for homosexuals and apartheid in the West Bank, adding “I know its hard for you to admit that Ben -Gurion did many other things other than creating Israeli couscous.” When Netanyahu mentions Waze she brings up an article on her phone that the CEO supported her in the Labour party primaries. And when Netanyahu discusses Iron Dome she says “I’m pretty sure someone else was responsible for that” (Labour leader Amir Peretz)
Avigdor Lieberman and Netanyahu continue to fight over so-called Russian votes. This campaign video ‘a tale of Ali-Bibi’ from Lieberman shows Netanyahu promising public housing in 2011 and saying exactly the same thing 8 years later in 2019. The video argues that Netanyahu just keeps talking, and that a vote for Lieberman’s party on September 17 will mark the end of ‘Bibi’s tales’ .
Blue and White’s campaign video argues that rather than prioritising the State of Israel, Netanyahu prioritises himself. This ad shows a TV interview in which Netanyahu flatly denied he would propose new laws to grant him immunity from prosecution before showing news clips where Netanyahu allies say he planned to introduce such laws. It concludes “Netanyahu only cares about Netanyahu”
Yisrael Beitenu has published campaign videos attacking Netanyahu for being overly supportive of religious parties In a video from June 23, Lieberman claims that a vote for Bibi is a vote for a religious government with ultra-Orthodox while a vote for Blue and White will lead to a government with both ultra-Orthodox and Arab parties. A vote for Yisrael Beitenu however will lead to a national liberal unity government. Another campaign video from July 1 shows Netanyahu in side locks surrounded by far right and ultra-Orthodox politicians, with the argument that rather than representing a ‘strong right’, Netanyahu is promoting a ‘strongly religious right.
Best Cartoons
This Yediot Ahronot cartoon shows Joint (Arab) List leader Ayman Odeh release a white dove into the air (R). In the next image (L) fellow Joint List officials Ahmad Tibi and Aida Touma-Sliman, along with Blue and White leaders Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid fire and destroy the dove. In a recent Interview Odeh expressed a willingness for the Joint List to join a future government – a move rejected not only by Blue and White but also from within his own party.
This Yisrael Hayom cartoon shows Blue and White leaders Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid, Moshe “Bogie” Yaalon and Gabi Ashkenazi. Gantz, at the top, says “Nothing like cliff climbing to mould team building,” as each one tries to drag or trip up the other. Blue and White has been roiled by mixed messaging, purported infighting, and near-weekly leaks
This Yediot Ahronot cartoon (30/7) shows Shaked, Bennett, Peretz and Smotrich driving off together leaving the unwanted baby Ben-Gvir (of Jewish Power) outside Netanyahu’s door.
A cartoon in Maariv (28/7) shows the Democratic Union as a ‘mega Zord power ranger’, comprised as it is of so many different parts. Ehud Barak was one of the main promoters of the union, but his unpopularity among many in the Israel public and his ties to disgraced millionaire sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein led to him choosing (or being encouraged to choose) number 10 on the list. The cartoon shows Barak – who is tucked away out of sight – saying “what a great merger I put together eh?” with everyone else telling him to “be quiet”
A cartoon in Yediot Ahronot (28/7) shows celebrations of the Democratic Union annoying their downstairs neighbours – Peretz and Levy-Abekasis.
This Haaretz cartoon (26/7) shows a marriage of Shaked (New Right) and Peretz (Jewish Home) with Netanyahu trying to replace Shaked with Itamar Ben-Gvir, of Jewish Power
The newly formed Democratic Union also presented a stark choice to Itzik Shmuli, number 2 on the Labour list. This Haaretz cartoon (26/7) presents a horse cut in two with one side (bleeding profusely) including Peretz and Levy-Abekasis, and the other featuring the leaders of the Democratic Union.
A cartoon in Yediot Ahronot (26/6) shows a three-way marriage between Meretz’s Nitzan Horowitz, Labour’s Stav Shaffir and former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, with Shaffir stamping on the glass (a tradition at a Jewish wedding) with the word ‘Labour’ on it.
This Maariv cartoon (22/7) shows Peretz inviting Levy-Abekasis onto a tree branch he is simultaneously sawing off: “Sit next to me and we will embark on a new direction” he says
Israeli media has focused on the significance of Ehud Barak’s return to politics. A Maariv cartoon (July 8) shows Ehud Barak parachuting onto a small melting ice cap on which the leaders of Blue and White, Labour and Meretz stand while telling them to ‘make space’. While Barak claims his entry into the race will increase the size of the centre-left bloc, others argue that he will further divide it, making it more likely a party wont pass the electoral threshold. Yediot Ahronot’s cartoon (July 9) ‘who will grab the wheel?’ also relates to Barak’s entry, showing him trying to hitchhike a ride from Amir Peretz, the new leader of the Labour party, but asking to drive. Barak has called for alliances between parties, but many believe his intention was to lead it himself (something Barak denies).
A cartoon in Haaretz (July 12 ) displays the various conversations with different leaders – Amir Peretz of Labour, Nitzan Horowitz of Meretz, Tzipi Livni formerly of Hatnua which together with Labour ran as the Zionist Union in 2015 and gained 24 seats), and Ehud Barak – over potential mergers.
Discussions of mergers have also continued within the right wing, with Ayelet Shaked – the former Justice Minister who ran as number 2 on the New Right list in April – considered to be most popular among the wider Israeli public. A Yediot Ahronot cartoon (July 7) suggests Shaked will ‘return to her roots’ and run with Naftali Bennett and the New Right rather than with Likud or Jewish Home. And Maariv (July 9) shows leaders of the right wing parties (New Right and United Right) trying to win Shaked’s affections, as Tzipi Livni (who was rumoured to be re-forming the Zionist Union with Amir Peretz’s Labour) looks forlornly on.
In late May, as negotiations over forming a coalition stutter on, and as the coalition parties consider voting for new elections (rather than allowing a different MK the opportunity to form a coalition) a Haaretz cartoon shows Yisrael Beitenu leader Avigdor Lieberman sitting calmly as Netanyahu leads his coalition partners off a cliff and Yediot Ahronot portrays a train wreck driven by Netanyahu.
Rumours emerged that in an effort to form a coalition Netanyahu offered a number of ministies to the Labour party, Prime Ministerial rotation to Benny Gantz and a variety of incentives to the Arab parties. This Haaretz cartoon (June 27) shows Netanyahu going through different cases – each one with a different ministry on them – while calling ‘a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse’ as Gantz Arab leader Aymen Oden and Labou leader Avi Gabbay look on. A cartoon in Maariv (June 26) shows Netanyahu the painter in front of a colourful canvas with contradictory messages on it (elections now, cancel election, rotation etc) with the artist explaining ‘everyone sees what they want to see’.
The Blue and White party have been criticised for the absence of an aggressive strategy against Netanyahu and Likud. In this Haaretz cartoon, Yair Lapid promises to ’embitter’ the lives of the government but his partners party seem unimpressed – with leader Benny Gantz responding ‘but not today’. In late June, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced he was returning to politics. As Barak begins forming his party, Yossi Verter in Haaretz argues that of all ex-generals vying to replace Netanyahu, only Barak has the energy, aggression and venom. Taking a different perspective, Maariv suggests that Barak is leading his supporters off a cliff, perhaps based on the argument that taking votes away from Blue and White will make Netanyahu the more likely candidate to have crack of the whip at forming a coalition.
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The Holy Name of Mary Must Be On Our Lips at All Times
[Remember that Blessed Among Women: Defending the Sublime Privileges of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which was published thee years ago, is still available for purchase at the Create Space Bookstore. The book is also available at Amazon and in a Kindle edition.]
The late Father John J. Sullivan led a legendary priestly life. Father Sullivan was a rough-and-tumble priest of Irish-American descent. He was born to wealth and he did, truth be told, flaunt it a bit. He was, though, deeply in love with the Catholic Faith and knew his dogma inside and out. He could quote the Summa Theologica in Latin without a moment's hesitation, something he did quite frequently in the three courses (Ecclesiology, Eschatology and Mariology, The Unity and Trinity of God) I took with him while at Holy Apostles Seminary in the 1983-1984 academic year. He was brilliant, and he knew it. He took on all comers who challenged him on theological questions, pounding out his answers from the Summa and other sources, including the Fathers of the Church.
Father Sullivan, who was ordained to the priesthood on May 22, 1941, fought for the Faith with his fists, as had the equally legendary Father Frederick Schell, S.J. Indeed, I dare say that Father Schell, who died fourteen years ago on the Feast of Saint Wenceslaus, would have beaten up "Jackie Boy" pretty good for not "getting it" about the importance of restoring the Immemorial Mass of Tradition if they had ever met. Father Sullivan did, however, win a few good battles with his fists, including one to avenge a blasphemous account of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's conception that was told by a fellow seminary professor in 1981. Father Sullivan, who loved Our Lady with all of his priestly heart, saw this priest outside of the chapel at Holy Apostles, teaching him a lesson about how he had dishonored the Mother of God. Father Sullivan told the rector, the late Father Leo Ovian, "Well, you see, Father, the man slipped, and every time he got up he hit my fists."
Father John Joseph Sullivan's spirited defense of Our Lady's honor after she had been blasphemed by a priest demonstrates the fact that a man who is analter Christus must have a special devotion to the Mother of the One to Whose Priesthood and Victimhood his immortal soul had been configured at the moment of his priestly ordination. Father Sullivan never tired during class lectures of interjecting stories about how Our Lady had assisted him in some tough times, especially when he went on raids with narcotics offices while serving as their chaplain over the years. "Our Lady helped me dodge a lot bullets" he said more than once. (If you will recall, Father Sullivan told a lot of the same stories more than once). "She will help you dodge bullets in your pastoral life as a priest!" he noted with with love in a voice that had grown gruff from years of smoking "the butts," that is, cigarettes.
Father Sullivan was very earthy, a little prone to keep an eye on a pretty waitress in a restaurant. "I like looking at the dollies. God's handiwork, you know," he told me once when I remonstrated with him years after I had left Holy Apostles. No, not exactly from the Cure of Ars or from Padre Pio. Granted. This earthy, rough-and-tumble priest who was the only boy in a family of five children, nevertheless loved Our Lady with such a tender devotion that I am sure that the men who studied under him developed an even more intense devotion to her than they had before they meet him. Devotion to Our Lady, you see, comes in all shapes and sizes. What she cares about is that we are devoted to her and that we keep her sweet, sweet name on our lips at all times. Whether it be the austere Cure of Ars, Saint John Marie Vianney, or the very earthy "Jackie Boy" Sullivan, priests who spread a tender devotion to Our Lady help souls to beat back the advances of the world, the flesh, and the devil in their own lives.
Today's feast of the Holy Name of Mary reminds us that we are to call upon Our Lady at all times of our lives. Demons flee in fright at the mere mention of her holy name. She never fails to remember those who remember her.
Indeed, there is the famous story of a man who had been away from the Faith for a long time. He was injured seriously in a car accident when it happened that a priest stopped his car and asked the man if he wanted to receive the Sacrament of Extreme Unction. The man said yes, and the priest went ahead and gave him the last rites after hearing his confession.
Amazed that such a sinner could have been so blessed to have a priest happen upon him as he lay dying following his car accident, the priest asked the man what did he think he had done to have received such a blessing."
"Three Hail Marys a day," the man answered as he was about to die. "I always said three Hail Marys a day."
"Nothing more?" asked the priest in disbelief."
"Three Hail Marys," the man said. He said three Hail Marys at that point and died.
The devotion of the Three Hail Marys can be traced to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. Saint Anthony of Padua himself practiced and recommended this devotion, and Our Lady favored those great Benedictine co-workers, Saint Mechtilde and Saint Gertrude the Great, with revelations later in the Thirteenth Century. Our Lady promised Saint Gertrude the Great that "To any soul who faithfully prays the Three Hail Marys I will appear at the hour of death in a splendor of beauty so extraordinary that it will fill the soul with Heavenly consolation." I don't know about you out there in cyperspace, but that is a whole lot of consolation to a sinner such as this writer.
Yes, we must pray to Our Lady from the time we get up in the morning to the time that we go to sleep at night. As the consecrated slaves of her Divine Son, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, through her own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, we offer to her all of thoughts and prayers and actions whatever merits and indulgences we earn during the course of a day to be used as she sees fit to direct them. She uses all of our joys and all of our sorrows and all of our pains and all of our humiliations in ways that will only be made manifest to us in eternity, please God we persevere until the end in states of Sanctifying Grace. Nothing we give to Our Lady is ever wasted. Nothing.
Yes, maybe some poor, forgotten soul in Purgatory was released one day because of the offerings we made to Our Lady's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart.
Maybe some lost soul here on earth decided to cooperate with the graces being sent his way to seek membership in the Catholic Church (or to return to her maternal bosom).
Maybe some special intention that a person who is totally unknown to us has been praying for to receive was granted him as a result of the offerings we make as the consecrated slaves of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Maybe some special act of thanksgiving we have made to Mary--or some pious invocation of her name (Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation)--has saved a Catholic from committing a Mortal Sin.
Maybe that extra set of mysteries of Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary that we decided to "squeeze in" before bedtime helped a person have a "good death," that is, a sacramentally provided-for death, just at the moment the devil was about to snatch him for himself for all eternity.
Maybe that public defense of Our Lady as the Mother of God, as the Queen of Heaven and earth, as the Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of all Graces, helped some Protestant or Jew or other unbeliever to convert to the true Faith, outside of which there is no salvation.
Maybe our wearing of the Miraculous Medal and our dispensing it--and the Green Scapular--has helped to win for us a reward in Heaven that we cannot even begin to imagine as we attempt to walk the rocky road that leads to the narrow Gate of Life Himself.
Oh, you see, we will never know until eternity the extent to which Our Lady uses the gifts we give her on a daily basis as the consecrated slaves of her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. We would bear our crosses more willingly and more lovingly, without any complaint whatsoever, if only we remembered how valiantly Our Lady suffered as she stood at the foot of her Divine Son's Holy Cross, giving spiritual re-birth to us in great lamentation as the adopted sons and daughters of the living God: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the Blessed Trinity. We would count it as our great joy to share her sorrows and her humiliations, offering them all to God through her Immaculate Heart, pierced through and through with the Seven Swords of Sorrow that the aged Simeon had prophesied in the Temple at her Purification would wound her to the core of her soul.
We must remember that the sweetness of the Holy Name of Mary will help to make our own hearts more ready to proclaim her glories and bid everyone to be her client unto eternity.
Saint Alphonsus Liguori devoted Chapter 10 in The Glories of Mary to the sweetness of the Holy Name of Mary:
The great name of Mary, which was given to the divine Mother, did not come to her from her parents, nor was it given to her by the mind or will of man, as is the case with all other names that are imposed in this world; but it came from Heaven, and was given her by a divine ordinance. This is attested by Saint Jerome (De Nat. M. V.), Saint Epiphanius (Or. de Praes. Deip.), Saint Antoninus (Hist. p. 1, t. 4, c. 6, #10), and others. "The name of Mary came from the treasury of the divinity" - ("De thesauro Divinitatis, Mariae nomen evolvitur"—S. de Annunt.), says Saint Peter Damian. Ah, yes, O Mary, it was from that treasury that thy high and admirable name came forth; for the most Blessed Trinity, says Richard of Saint Laurence, bestowed on thee a name above every other name after that of thy Son, and ennobled it with such majesty and power, that He willed that all Heaven, Earth, and Hell, on only hearing it, should fall down and venerate it; but I will give the author's own words: "The whole Trinity, O Mary, gave thee a name after that of thy Son above every other name, that in thy name every knee should bow, of things in heaven, on earth, and under the earth" - ("Dedit tibi, Maria, tota Trinitas nomen quod est super omne nomen, post nomen Filii sui, ut in nominee ejus omne genu flectatur coelestium, terrestrium, et infernorum"—De Laud. B. M. l. 1, c. 2). But amongst the other privileges of the name of Mary, and which were given to it by God, we will now examine that of the peculiar sweetness found in it by the servants of this most holy Lady during life and in death.
And in the first place, speaking of the course of our life, the holy anchorite Honorius used to say, that "this name of Mary if filled with every sweetness and divine savor" - ("Hoc nomen Mariae plenum est omni dulcedine suavitate divina"—Ap. Lyr. Tris. Mar l. 2, m. 13); so much so, that the glorious Saint Anthony of Padua found the same sweetness in the name of Mary that Saint Bernard found in that of Jesus. "Name of Jesus!" exclaimed the one. "O name of Mary!" replied the other; "joy in the heart, honey in the mouth, melody to the ear of her devout clients" - ("Jubilus in corde, mel in ore, melos in aure"—Dom. 3 Quadr. s. 2). It is narrated in the life of the Venerable Father Juvenal Ancina, Bishop of Saluzzo, that in pronouncing the name of Mary he tasted so great and sensible a sweetness, that, after doing so, he licked his lips. We read also that a lady at Cologne told the Bishop Massilius, that as often as she uttered the name of Mary she experienced a taste far sweeter than honey. The Bishop imitated her, and experienced the same thing, (Casarius, Dial. l. 7, c. 50).
We gather from the sacred canticles, that on the Assumption of our Blessed Lady, the angels asked her name three times. "Who is she that goeth up by the desert as a pillar of smoke?" - ("Quae est ista, quae ascendit per desertum, sicut virgula fumi?"—Canticles 3:6) again, "Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising?" - ("Quae est ista, quae progreditur quasi aurora consurgens?"—Canticles 6:9) and again, "Who is this that cometh up from the desert, flowing with delights?" - ("Quae est ista, quae ascendit de deserto, deliciis affluens?"—Canticles 8:5) "And why", says Richard of Saint Laurence, "do the angels so often ask the name of their Queen?" He answers, "That it was so sweet even to the angels to hear it pronounced, that they desired to hear that sweet name in reply" - ("Forsitan quia dulce nomen sibi desiderant responderi"—De Laud. V. M. l. 1, c. 2).
But here I do not intend to speak of that sensible sweetness, for it is not granted to all; I speak of that salutary sweetness of consolation, of love, of joy, of confidence, of strength, which the name of Mary ordinarily brings to those who pronounce it with devotion.
The Abbot Francone, speaking on this subject, says, "there is no other name after that of the Son, in heaven or on earth, whence pious minds derive so much grace, hope, and sweetness" - ("Neque enim, post Filii sui nomen, aliud nomen coelum aut terra nominat, unde tantum gratiae, tantum spei, tantum suavitatis, piae mentes concipiant"). After the most sacred name of Jesus, the name of Mary is so rich in every good thing, that on Earth and in Heaven there is no other from which devout souls receive so much grace, hope, and sweetness. "For", he continues, "there is something so admirable, sweet, and divine in this name of Mary, that when it meets with friendly hearts it breathes into them an odor of delightful sweetness". And he adds, in conclusion, "that the wonder of this great name is, that if heard by the lovers of Mary a thousand times, it is always heard again with renewed pleasure, for they always experience the same sweetness each time it is pronounced" - ("Nomen namque Mariae, irum quid, suave, ac divinum, in se continent, ut, cum sonuerit amicis cordibus, amicae suavitatis odorem spiret. Et mirum illud est de nominee Mariae, ut, millies auditum, simper audiatur quasi novem"—De Grat. D. l. 6).
The Blessed Henry Suso (Dial. c. 16), also speaking of this sweetness, says, "that when he named Mary, he felt himself so excited to confidence, and inflamed with such love and joy with which he pronounced the beloved name, he desired that his heart might leave his breast; for he declared that this most sweet name was like a honeycomb dissolving in the inmost recess of the soul"; and then he would exclaim: "O most sweet name! O Mary, what must thou thyself be, since thy name alone is thus amiable and gracious!"
The enamored Saint Bernard, raising his heart to his good Mother, says with tenderness, "O great! O pious! O thou who art worthy of all praise! O most Holy Virgin Mary! Thy name is so sweet and amiable, that it cannot be pronounced without inflaming those who do so with love towards thee and God. It only need occur to the thought of thy lovers to move them to love thee more, and to console them". "Thou canst not be named without inflaming; thou canst not be thought of by those who love thee without filling their minds with joy" - ("O magna, O pia, O multum amabilis Mari! tu nec nominari potes, quin accendas, nec cogitari, quin recrees affectus diligentium te"—Depr. Gl. V). "And if riches comfort the poor, because they relieve them in their distress, O how much more does thy name, O Mary", says Richard of Saint Laurence, "comfort us than any earthly riches! It comforts us in the anguishes of this life". "Thy name, O Mary, is far better than riches, because it can better relieve poverty" - ("Mariae nomen longe melius quam divitiae, quia melius angustiam relevant"—De Laud. B. M. l. 1, c. 2).
In fine, "thy name, O Mother of God, is filled with divine graces and blessings" - ("Tuum, Dei genitrix, nomen divinis benedictionibus et gratis ex omni parte refertum"—De Sim. et Anna), as Saint Methodius says. So much so, that Saint Bonaventure declares, "that thy name, O Mary, cannot be pronounced without bringing some grace to him who does so devoutly" - ("Nomen tuum devote nominari non potest sine nominantis utilitate"—Spec. B. V. lect. 9). The Blessed Raymond Jordano says, "that however hardened and diffident a heart may be, the name of this most Blessed Virgin has such efficacy, that if it is only pronounced, that heart will be wonderfully softened". I will, however, give his own words. "The power of thy most holy name, O ever-blessed Virgin Mary, is such that it softens the hardness of the human heart in a wonderful manner". He then tells us that it is she who leads sinners to the hope of pardon and grace: "By thee does the sinner recover the hope of forgiveness and grace" - ("Tanta est virtus tui sacratissimi nominis, O simper benedicta Virgo Maria! quod mirabiliter emollit duritiam cordis humani; peccator per te respirat in spe veniae ei gratiae"—Cont. de V. M. c. 5).
Thy most sweet name, O Mary, according to Saint Ambrose, "is a precious ointment, which breathes forth the odor of divine grace". The saint then prays to the divine Mother, saying: "Let this ointment of salvation enter the inmost recesses of our souls" - ("Unguentum, nomen tuum; descendat istud unguentum in animae praecordia. Sancta Maria, quod divina gratiae spiramenta redolet"—Instit. Virg. c. 13): that is, grant, O Lady, that we may often remember to name thee with love and confidence; for this practice either shows the possession of divine grace, or else is a pledge that we shall soon recover it. "And truly it is so, O Mary; for the remembrance of thy name comforts the afflicted, recalls those who have erred to the way of salvation, and encourages sinners, that they may not abandon themselves to despair". It is thus that Ludolph of Saxony addresses her ("O Mariae! Tui recordation nominis, moestos laetificat, errantes ad viam salutis revocat et peccatores, ne desperent, confortat"—Vita Chr. p. 2, c. 86).
Father Pelbart says, "that as Jesus Christ by His five wounds gave a remedy for the evils of the world, so also does Mary, by her most holy name which is composed of five letters, daily bring pardon to sinners" - ("Sic Maria, suo sanctissimo nominee, quod quinque litteris constat, confert quotidie veniam peccatoribus"—Stell. l. 6, p. 1, a. 2).
For this reason is the holy name of Mary likened in the sacred canticles to oil: "Thy name is as oil poured out" - ("Oleum effusum, nomen tuum"—Off. B. V. resp. 6). On these words blessed Alan says that the glory of her name is compared to oil poured out; because oil heals the sick, sends out a sweet odor, and nourishes flames - ("Gloria nominis ejus oleo effuso comparator; oleum aegrotantem sanat, odorem parit, flammam nutrit"—In Cant. i). Thus also does the name of Mary heal sinners, rejoice hearts, and inflame them with divine love. Hence Richard of Saint Laurence "encourages sinners to have recourse to this great name", because it alone will suffice to cure them of all their evils; and "there is no disorder, however malignant, that does not immediately yield to the power of the name of Mary" - ("Peccator es, ad Mariae nomen confugias. Ipsum solum sufficit ad medendum: nam pestis tam efficax nulla sic haeret, quae ad nomen Mariae non cedat continuo"—De Laud. Virg. lib. i. cap. 2).
On the other hand, Thomas à Kempis affirms "that the devils fear the Queen of heaven to such a degree, that only on hearing her great name pronounced, they fly from him who does so as from a burning fire" - ("Expavescunt coeli Reginam spiritus maligni, et diffugiunt, audito nominee ejus, velut ab igne"—Ad Nov. s. 23). The Blessed Virgin herself revealed to Saint Bridget "that there is not on earth a sinner, however devoid he may be of the love of God, from whom the devil is not obliged immediately to fly, if he invokes her holy name with a determination to repent" - ("Nullus tam frigidus ab amore Dei est, nisi sit damnatus, si invocaverit hoc nomen, hac intentione, ut nunquam reverti velit ad opus solitum, quod non discedat ab eo statim diabolus"). On another occasion she repeated the same thing to the saint, saying, "that all the devils venerate and fear her name to such a degree, that on hearing it they immediately loosen the claws with which they hold the soul captive" - ("Omnes daemons verentur hoc nomen et timent; qui audientes hoc nomen, Maria, statim relinquunt animam de unguibus, quibus tenebant eam"). Our Blessed Lady also told Saint Bridget, "that in the same way as the rebel angels fly from sinners who invoke the name of Mary, so also do the good angels approach nearer to just souls who pronounce her name with devotion" - ("Angeli boni, audito hoc nominee, statim appropinquant magis justis"—Rev. l. 1, c. 9).
Saint Germanus declares, "that as breathing is a sign of life, so also is the frequent pronunciation of the name of Mary a sign either of the life of divine grace, or that it will soon come; for this powerful name has in it the virtue of obtaining help and life for him who invokes it devoutly". Addressing the Blessed Virgin, he says, "As breathing is a sign of life in the body, so is the frequent repetition of thy most holy name, O Virgin, by thy servants, not only a sign of life and of strength, but also it procures and conciliates both" - ("Quomodo corpus vitalis signum operationis habet respirationem, ita etiam sanctissimum nomen tuum, O Virgo! quod in ore servorum tuorum versatur assidue, vitae et auxilii non solum signum est, sed etiam ea procurat et conciliat"—De Zona Deip).
In fine, "This admirable name of our Sovereign Lady", says Richard of Saint Laurence, "is like a fortified tower, in which, if a sinner takes refuge, he will be delivered from death; for it depends and saves even the most abandoned" - ("Turris fortissimo, nomen Dominae: ad ipsam fugiet peccator et liberabitur; haec defendit quosilibet et quantumlibet peccatores"). But it is a tower of strength, which not only delivers sinners from chastisement, but also defends the just from the assaults of Hell. Thus the same Richard says, "that after the name of Jesus, there is no other in which men find so powerful assistance and salvation as in the great name of Mary" - ("Non est in aliquot alio nominee tam potens adjutorium, nec est aliquod nomen datum hominibus, post dulce nomen Jesu, ex quo tanta salus refundatur hominibus"—De Laud. B. M. l. 11). He says, "there is not such powerful help in any name, nor is there any other name given to men, after that of Jesus, from which so much salvation is poured forth upon men as from the name of Mary". Moreover, it is well known, and is daily experienced by the clients of Mary, that her powerful name gives the particular strength necessary to overcome temptations against purity. The same author in his commentary on the words of Saint Luke, "and the Virgin's name was Mary" - ("Et nomen Virginis Maria"—Luke 1:27), remarks that these two words, Mary and Virgin, are joined together by the Evangelist, to denote that the name of this most pure Virgin should always be coupled with the virtue of chastity - ("Nomini Mariae virginitas et sanctitas inseparabiliter sunt adjuncta"—Loco cit.). Hence Saint Peter Chrysologus says, "that the name of Mary is an indication of chastity" - ("Nomen hoc, indicium castitatis"—Serm. 146), meaning, that when we doubt as to whether we have consented to thoughts against this virtue, if we remember having invoked the name of Mary, we have a certain proof that we have not sinned.
Let us, therefore, always take advantage of the beautiful advice given us by Saint Bernard, in these words: "In dangers, in perplexities, in doubtful cases, think of Mary, call on Mary; let her not leave thy lips; let her not depart from thy heart" - ("In periculis, in angustiis, in rebus dubriis, Mariam cogita, Mariam invoca; non recedat ab ore, non recedat a corde"—De Laud. V. M. hom. 2). In every danger of forfeiting divine grace, we should think of Mary, and invoke her name, together with that of Jesus; for these two names always go together. O, then, never let us permit these two most sweet names to leave our hearts, or be off our lips; for they will give us strength not only not to yield, but to conquer all our temptations.
Consoling indeed are the promises of help made by Jesus Christ to those who have devotion to the name of Mary; for one day in the hearing of Saint Bridget, He promised His most holy Mother that He would grant three special graces to those who invoke that holy name with confidence: first, that He would grant them perfect sorrow for their sins; secondly, that their crimes should be atoned for; and, thirdly, that He would give them strength to attain perfection, and at length the glory of paradise. And then Our divine Savior added: "For thy words, O My Mother, are so sweet and agreeable to Me, that I cannot deny what thou askest" - ("Habitatores mundi indigent tribus: contritione pro peccatis, satisfactione, fortitudine ad faciendum bona. Quicumque invocaverit nomen tuum, et spem habet in te, cum proposito emendandi commissa, ista tria dabuntur ei, insuper et regnum coeleste. Tanta enim est mihi dulcedo in verbis tuis, ut non possim negare quae petis"—Rev. l. 1, c. 50).
Saint Ephrem goes so far as to say, "that the name of Mary is the key of the gates of heaven" - ("Nomen Mariae est reseratorium portae coeli"—De Laud. Dei Gen.), in the hands of those who devoutly invoke it. And thus it is not without reason that Saint Bonaventure says "that Mary is the salvation of all who call upon her"; for he addresses her, saying: "O salvation of all who invoke thee!" - ("O Salus te invocantium!") meaning, that to obtain eternal salvation and invoke her name are synonymous; and Richard of Saint Laurence affirms, "that the devout invocation of this sweet and holy name leads to the acquisition of superabundant graces in this life, and a very high degree of glory in the next" - ("Devota invocation nominis ejus ducit ad virorem gratiae in praesenti, ad virorem gloriae in futuro"—De Laud B. M. l. 1, c. 2). "If then, O brethren", concludes Thomas à Kempis, "you desire consolation in every labor, have recourse to Mary; invoke the name of Mary, honor Mary, recommend yourselves to Mary, rejoice with Mary, weep with Mary, pray with Mary, walk with Mary, seek Jesus with Mary; in fine, desire to live and die with Jesus and Mary. By acting thus you will always advance in the ways of God, for Mary will most willingly pray for you, and the Son will most certainly grant all that His Mother asks" - ("Si consolari in omni tribulatione quaeritis, accedite ad Mariam. Mariam invocate, Mariam honorate, Mariae vos commendate; cum Maria gaudete, cum Maria dolete, cum Maria orate, cum Maria ambulate, cum Maria Jesum quaerite, cum Maria et Jesu vivere et mori desiderate. Fratres, si ista exercetis, proficietis; Maria libenter pro vobis orabit, et Jesus libenter Matrem suam exaudiet"—Ad Nov. s. 21).
Thus we see that the most holy name of Mary is sweet indeed to her clients during life, on account of the very great graces that she obtains for them. But sweeter still will it be to them in death, on account of the tranquil and holy end that it will insure them.
Father Sertorius Caputo, of the Society of Jesus, exhorted all who assist the dying frequently to pronounce the name of Mary; for this name of life and hope, when repeated at the hour of death, suffices to put the devils to flight, and to comfort such persons in their sufferings.
"The invocation of the sacred names of Jesus and Mary", says Thomas à Kempis, "is a short prayer which is as sweet to the mind, and as powerful to protect those who use it against the enemies of their salvation, as it is easy to remember" - ("Haec sancta oratio: 'Jesus et Maria,' brevis est ad legendum, facilis ad tenendum, dulcis ad cogitandum, fortis ad protegendum"—Vall. Lil. c. 13).
"Blessed is the man who loves thy name, O Mary" - ("Beatus vir qui diligit nomen tuum, Maria"), exclaims Saint Bonaventure. "Yes, truly blessed is he who loves thy sweet name, O Mother of God! for", he continues, "thy name is so glorious and admirable, that no one who remembers it has any fears at the hour of death" - ("Gloriosum et admirabile est omen tuum; qui illud retinent, non expavescent in puncto mortis"—Psalt. B. V. ps. i. 110). Such is its power, that none of those who invoke it at the hour of death fear the assaults of their enemies.
Oh, that we may end our lives as did the Capuchin Father, Fulgentius of Ascoli, who expired singing, "O Mary, O Mary, the most beautiful of creatures! Let us depart together"; or according to the annals of the Order, like Blessed Henry the Cistercian, who expired in the very moment that he was pronouncing the most sweet name of Mary - ("Inter ipsam dulcissimi nominis articulationem!")
Let us then, O devout reader, beg God to grant us, that at death the name of Mary may be the last word on our lips. This was the prayer of Saint Germanus: "May the last movement of my tongue be to pronounce the name of the Mother of God" - ("Dei atris nomen sit mihi ultimus linguae loquentis motus"—In Deip. Ann.); O sweet, O safe is that death which is accompanied and protected by so saving a name; for God only grants the grace of invoking it to those whom He is about to save.
O my sweet Lady and Mother, I love thee much, and because I love thee I also love thy holy name. I purpose and hope, with thy assistance, always to invoke it during life and at death. And to conclude with the tender prayer of Saint Bonaventure: "I ask thee, O Mary, for the glory of thy name, to come and meet my soul when it is departing from this world, and to take it in thine arms" - ("In exitu animae meae de hoc mundo, occurred illi, Domina, et suscipe eam"). "Disdain not, O Mary", the saint continues, "to come then and comfort me with thy presence. Be thyself my soul's ladder and way to heaven. Do thou thyself obtain for it the grace of forgiveness and eternal repose" - ("Consolare eam vultu sancto tuo; esto illi scala et iter ad paradisum Dei; impetra ei indulgentiam pacis, et sedem lucis"). He then concludes saying, "O Mary, our advocate, it is for thee to defend thy clients, and to undertake their cause before the tribunal of Jesus Christ" - ("Sustine devotos ante tribunal Christi; suscipe causam eorum in minibus tuis"—Psalt. B. V. ps. 113). (Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, The Glories of Mary.)
Indeed, what would our world look like if statesmen were willing to proclaim the Holy Name of Mary and to fight for the honor of that name? I dare say, ladies and gentlemen, that there would be no baby-killing, whether chemical or surgical, under cover of law if those who held public office proclaimed the Holy Name of Mary and shook the killing centers to their rafters by praying her Most Holy Rosary frequently near their entrances. Indeed, the infidels who surround us at present, both the Talmudic Jews and the Mohammedans, would either flee in fright as the demons do at the mere mention of the Holy Name of Mary--or they would be inspired to convert to the true Faith and thus have access to the live-giving helps provided in the sacraments entrusted by her Divine Son solely to the Catholic Church.
This is what Jan Sobieski did on September 12, 1683, forcing the Mohammedans who greatly outnumbered his forces to flee from the Gates of Vienna.
As is related in The Garland of Roses:
In 1683 Turkish forces threatened once again to overrun Europe. They carried the war into Austria for the purpose of annihilating the Catholic religion. Kara Mustapha, Grand Vizier of Mahomet IV, had boasted that he would not rest until he had stabled his master's horses at Saint Peter's in Rome. With an army 300,000 strong, the leader of the infidels arrived at the gates of Vienna and laid siege to the city. Days of enemy assaults, fire, and disease had reduced the Austrian capital to the last extremity. A small garrison of exhausted men, under the command of the courageous Imperial General, Count Starhemberg, himself wounded in the attack, fought desperately, with no earthly help in sight.
Pope Innocent XI urgently appealed to the princes of Europe on behalf of the beleaguered city and, on the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, the "Unvanquished Lion of the North", John Sobieski, King of Poland, mounted his war-horse, going forth to battle for the glory of the cross and the preservation of all Christendom. (Letter to Blessed Pope Innocent XVI)
Before Our Lady's altar in Her sanctuary in Czestochowa, the King raised his sword and vowed not to sheathe it until the mighty Queen of Heaven had given victory. The army asked Her blessings on their enterprise. Marching towards Vienna, the men prayed the Holy Rosary, Sobieski, wearing an image of Our Lady of Czestochowa, gave his soldiers their battle cry: In the Name of Mary: Lord God, help!
Joining up with the Imperial army, under the command of Charles, Duke of Lorraine, John Sobieski, whose tranquil presence in the midst of fiercest combat had such power with his own forces, had been unanimously chosen to lead the united armies of Europe. Many a time had his fearless leadership routed the Moslem invaders!
At five o'clock on the morning of September 12, the Holy Sacrifice was celebrated by the papal legate, Father Marco d'Aviano, on the heights of Mount Kalemberg, overlooking the Austrian capital. The King yielded to no one in the honor serving that Mass. The armies of Christendom knelt in humble prayer. Later on that same day, Father Marco was to see a white dove hovering over this very king and his men while the battled raged, a sign of the victory to come.
The King gave a signal. Drums rolled, cannons roared and the great human avalanche plunged down the steep mountain precipices shouting, Jesus! Mary! Sobieski! Jesus! Mary! Sobieski!
Many were the separate and terrible combats on that memorable day, but suffice it to say that by five in the afternoon, the warrior king brandished his sword and charged upon the tent of the Turkish leader, shouting the words of the prophet king [David], Non nobis Domine exercituum, non nobis, sed Nomini tuo da gloriam. Not to us, O Lord of Host, not to us, but to Thy name give the glory. [Psalm 113:9]
The name of Sobieski spread panic throughout the enemy camp. Kara Mustapha, trembling in his boots, turned to the Tarter Khan, Selim Gieray, Can you not save me? he pleaded. I know the Polish king, Selim replied, where he is, flight is our only refuge. Look out upon the firmament and you will see that God Himself is against us. (The two armies saw the crescent moon fade in the skies.) The Moslem army fled in terror. Sobieski and his men attributed their victory to God and the power of Our Lady's name.
We are now on our march to Hungary, the king wrote, taking advantage of their distraction to defeat the remainder of their scattered troops. I have all the princes of the Empire my companions in this enterprise, who tell me they are ready to follow such a leader not only into Hungary but to the end of the world...Thanks be to Heaven, now the half-moon triumphs no longer over the Cross.
Blessed Pope Innocent XI, established the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary to be celebrated on the twelfth of September each year as a perpetual memory of the victory of Vienna.
[Just as an aside, the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary is only an "optional memorial" in the liturgical calendar of the counterfeit church of conciliarism's Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical service, meaning that it can be ignored with impunity. The same feast is a Greater Double in the calendar of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.]
I do not think that the name " 'Pope' Francis" spreads terror in the hearts of Mohammedans today, who have no intention whatsoever of conceding anything to "religious liberty" in their own countries while they take full advantage of it in the formerly Catholic countries of Europe and right here in the cradle of this heresy, the pluralistic United States of America, to place themselves in a position to wield the levels of civil governance within a half century, if not sooner, as a a direct result of the embrace of contraceptive pills and devices by millions upon millions of former Catholics and as a result of the contraception and abortion of the Holy Faith represented by conciliarism. Indeed, formerly Catholic churches are being turned into mosques and/or offer to Mohammedans so that they can worship their false god throughout Europe. Meanwhile, of course, Jorge Mario Bergoglio oversaw the enactment of a "nullity" process several years ago that is nothing other than a no-fault divorce, if you will, in his own false church.
Our Lady herself told the Venerable Mary of Agreda the significance of her most hallowed name:
335. On the eighth day after the birth of the great Queen multitudes of most beautiful Angels in splendid array descended from on high carrying an escutcheon upon which was engraved brilliant and resplendent the name of MARY. Appearing to the blessed mother Anne they told her the name of her daughter was to be MARY, which name they had brought from heaven, and which divine Providence had selected and now ordained to be given to their Child by Joachim and herself. The Saint called for her husband and they conferred with each other about this disposition of God in regard to the name of their Daughter. The more than happy father accepted the name with joy and devout affection. They decided to call their relatives and a priest. and then with much solemnity and festivity they imposed the name of Mary on their Child. The Angels also celebrated this event with most sweet and ravishing music which, however, was heard only by the mother and her most holy Daughter. Thus was the divine Princess named by the holy Trinity: In heaven on the day of her nativity, and on earth after eight days. This name was written on the list of other names when her mother presented herself in the temple according to the law, as I shall relate farther on. This was the birth like to which none had been before, and the like of which cannot happen again among mere creatures. This was the most blessed birth of which nature was capable, for by it an Infant came into existence whose entrance into the world was not only free from all the impurities of sin, but who was more pure and holy than the highest Seraphim. The birth of Moses was celebrated because of the beauty and handsomeness of the infant (Ex. 2:2), but all his beauty was only corruptible and apparent. But O how beautiful is our great Child (Cant. 7:6)! O how beautiful! She is entirely beautiful and most sweet in her delights, since She possesses all grace and beauty without lacking any. The laughter and joy of the house of Abraham was the birth of the promised Isaac (Gen. 21:6), conceived by a sterile mother; yet this birth did not have greater grandeur than the participation and prefigurement of the birth of our infant Queen, toward whom all that joy of Abraham was heading. If that birth was admirable and of such joy for the family of the Patriarch because it was as it were a foreshadowing of the birth of sweetest Mary, then heaven and earth must rejoice at her birth, since through her Son She was to bring the restoration of the ruins of heaven and sanctification to the world. When Noah was born his father Lamech was consoled (Gen. 5:29), because in that son God had provided a progenitor of the human race in the ark and assured a restoration of the blessings which the sins of men had forfeited. But all this happened merely as a type to foreshadow the birth of this Child, who was to be the true Reparatrix, being the mystical Ark which contained the new and true Noah and which drew Him down from heaven who was to fill with benediction all the inhabitants of the earth. O blessed birth! O joyful nativity, the most pleasing to the blessed Trinity in all the ages of the past, the joy of the angels, the relief of sinners, the delight of the just, and the singular consolation of all the holy souls in limbo! (New English Edition of The Mystical City of God, Chapter XXI .)
Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., the great scholarly defender of The Mystical City of God, provided the following description in The Liturgical Year of this wonderful feast day, drawing upon a reading in today's Divine Office from the great advocate of Our Lady in the Twelfth Century, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux:
‘And the Virgin’s name was Mary, Let us speak a little about this name, which signifies star of the sea, and which so well befits the Virgin Mother. Rightly is she likened to a star: for as a star emits its ray without being dimmed so the Virgin brought forth her Son without receiving any injury; the ray takes nought from the brightness of the star, nor the Son from His Mother’s integrity. This is the noble star risen out of Jacob, whose ray illumines the whole world, whose splendour shines in the heavens, penetrates the abyss, and, traversing the whole earth, gives warmth rather to souls than to bodies, cherishing virtues, withering vices. Mary, I say, is that bright and incomparable star, whom we need to see raised above this vast sea, shining by her merits, and giving us light by her example.
Oh! whosoever thou art that seest thyself amid the tides of this world, tossed about by storms and tempests rather than walking on the land, turn not thine eyes away from the shining of this star if thou wouldst not by the hurricane. If squalls of temptations arise, or thou fall upon the rocks of tribulation, look to the star, call upon Mary. If thou art tossed by the waves of pride or ambition, detraction or envy, look to the star, call upon Mary. If anger or avarice or the desires of the flesh dash against the ship of thy soul, turn thine eyes toward Mary. If, troubled by the enormity of thy crimes, ashamed of thy guilty conscience, terrified by dread of the judgment, thou beginnest to sink into the gulf of sadness or the abyss of despair, think of Mary. In dangers, in anguish, in doubt, think of Mary call upon Mary. Let her be ever on thy lips ever in thy heart; and the better to obtain the help of her prayers, imitate the example of her life. Following her, thou strayest not; invoking her, thou despairest not; thinking of her thou wanderest not; upheld by her, thou failest not; shielded by her, thou fearest not; guided by her, thou growest not weary; favoured by her, thou reachest the goal. And thus does thou experience I thyself how good is that saying: And the Virgin’s name was Mary.’
Thus speaks the devout St. Bernard, in the name of the Church. But his pious explanation does not exhaust the meanings of this blessed name of Mary. St. Peter Chrysologus adds in this same night Office: ‘Mary in Hebrew signifies lady or sovereign: and truly the authority of her Son, who is the Lord of the world, constituted her Queen, both in fact and in name from her very birth.
OUR LADY: such is the title which befits her in every way, as that of OUR LORD beseems her Son; it is the doctrinal basis of that worship ofhyperdulia which belongs to her alone. She is below her Son, whom she adores as we do; but above all God’s servants, both angels and men, inasmuch as she is Mother. At the name of Jesus every knee is bent; at the name of Mary every head is bowed. And although the former is the only name whereby we may be saved; yet as the Son can never be separated from His Mother, heaven unites their two names in its hymns of praise, earth in its confidence, hell in its fear and hatred.
It was well therefore in the order of divine Providence that devotion to the most holy name of Mary should spread simultaneously with the cultus of the adorable name of Jesus, of which Saint Bernardine of Siena was the apostle in the fifteenth century. In 1513 the Church of Cuenca in Spain was the first to celebrate, with the approbation of the holy See, a special feast in honor of the name of Mary, while the Franciscan Order had the privilege for the adorable name of Jesus. The reason of this is that he memory of the sacred name included in the feast of the Circumcision, seemed to the prudence of the Pontiffs to suffice. From the same motive we find that the feast of the most holy name of Mary extended to the universal Chrch in the year 1683, and that of the holy name of Jesus not until 1721.
Our Lady justifies her beautiful title by partaking in the warlike exploits of the King of kings her Son. The city of Vienna having been delivered by her, contrary to all hope, form the power of the Crescent, the venerable Innocent XI. made this feast the memorial of universal gratitude to the liberatix of the west. . . .
All the delight of heaven, all the hopes of the earth, are centred on the cradle where Mary sleeps, while her heart is watching before God. Wisdom praises her own self; by the blessed daughter of Anne and Joachim, the loving preference shown by that divine Wisdom from the beginning of the world, is already justified; for ever more it will be her delight to with the children of men. The chosen vine, the vine of the Peaceful One is before us, announcing, by its fragrant blossom, the divine grape, whose juice, pressed out in the wine-press of the cross, will give fruitfulness to every soul, and will inebriate earth and heaven. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year, Time After Pentecost, Book V, pp. 171-173; pp. 175-176.)
We need to invoke the Holy Name of Mary in these perilous times, something that, as noted by Dom Prosper Gueranger just above, was done by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the great defender of Our Lady's holy honor, noted in the Twelth Century. I am going to reprise that passage because it should provide us with both strength of soul and consolation for us in the midst of the insanities of the worlds of Modernity and Modernism that have ejected the true Faith in favor of the works and the false beliefs of man:
It is said: And the virgin's name was Mary. Let us speak a few words upon this name, which signifieth, being interpreted, Star of the Sea, and suiteth very well the Maiden Mother, who may very meetly be likened unto a star. A star giveth forth her rays without any harm to herself, and the Virgin brought forth her Son without any hurt to her virginity. The light of a star taketh nothing away from the star itself, and the birth of her offspring took nothing away from the Virginity of Mary. She is that noble star which was to come out of Jacob, Num. xxiv. 17, whose brightness still sheddeth lustre upon all the earth, whose rays are most brilliant in heaven, and shine even unto hell, lighting up earth midway, and warming souls rather than bodies, fostering good and scaring away evil. She, I say, is a clear and shining star, twinkling with excellencies, and resplendent with example, needfully set to look down upon the surface of this great and wide sea.
Thou, whosoever thou art, that knowest thyself to be here not so much walking upon firm ground, as battered to and fro by the gales and storms of this life's ocean, if thou wouldest not be overwhelmed by the tempest, keep thine eyes fixed upon this star's clear shining. If the hurricanes of temptation rise against thee, or thou art running upon the rocks of trouble, look to the star, call on Mary. If the waves of pride, or ambition, or slander, or envy toss thee, look to the star, call on Mary. If the billows of anger or avarice, or the enticements of the flesh beat against thy soul's bark, look to Mary. If the enormity of thy sins trouble thee, if the foulness of thy conscience confound thee, if the dread of judgment appall thee, if thou begin to slip into the deep of despondency, into the pit of despair, think of Mary.
In danger, in difficulty, or in doubt, think on Mary, call on Mary. Let her not be away from thy mouth or from thine heart, and that thou mayest not lack the succour of her prayers, turn not aside from the example of her conversation. If thou follow her, thou wilt never go astray. If thou pray to her, thou wilt never have need to despair. If thou keep her in mind, thou wilt never wander. If she hold thee, thou wilt never fall. If she lead thee, thou wilt never be weary. If she help thee, thou wilt reach home safe at the last and so thou wilt prove in thyself how meetly it is said And the virgin's name was Mary. (Here ends St Bernard.)
Particular honours were already paid to this worshipful name in divers parts of the Christian world, but the Bishop of Rome, Innocent XI., ordered this Feast in honour of it to be held every year throughout the whole Church, upon the Lord's Day within the Octave of the Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as an everlasting thanksgiving for the great blessing that, under her protection, the brutal Sultan of the Turks, who was trampling upon the necks of the Christian population, was thoroughly beaten before the walls of Vienna, (upon the 12th day of September, in the year 1683.) (Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, as found in Matins, Divine Office, Feast of the Holy Name of Mary.)
Yes, the Holy Name of Mary must be on our own lips and in our own minds and hearts at all times. All times. Especially now, a time when men who have offended God and His Sacred Deposit of Faith greatly by breaking the First and Second Commandments with their praise of false religions and their participation in "ecumenical prayer" gatherings are seeking to defend the Sixth and Ninth Commandments. We need to go to the Blessed Virgin Mary to help keep us steadfast in our refusal to be drawn into this tragic farce that some people believe represents the "conservatives" versus the "ultra-progressives." As I noted nearly five years ago now, there are No Good Guys or Bad Guys, Just Shades of Revolutionaries.
We must, therefore, promote the Holy Name of Mary by praying the Rosary with fervor, trusting in the Holy Name of Mary, our dear Blessed Mother, to wipe away the pestilences of Modernism and of all other false religions, including Mohammedanism. Rather than wasting our time in silly chat rooms or discussion forums, we should be praying the Rosary at every opportunity, making reparation for our own sins and praying fervently for the Triumph of Our Lady's Immaculate Heart as the fruit of the fulfillment of her Fatima Message. We must help all of the people God puts into our lives on a daily basis to fall deeply in love with Our Lady and to impress upon them the importance of total Marian Consecration in order that the sweetness of her Holy Name will fall so very naturally and with tenderness from their lips and all occasions.
Mary is our life, our sweetness, and our hope.
May we, the poor banished children of Eve, continue to give her the public honor and glory that are due her as the Mother of God, the Ark of the New Covenant, the House of Gold, the Gate of Heaven.
May we, consecrated totally to her Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, give to her all of our sorrows and joys so that her Fatima Message, which has been ignored for so long, will be fulfilled sooner rather than later, ushering in the Reign of Mary, signified by the restoration of the Church Militant on earth and of Christendom the world.
The Reign of Mary will be an era in which all men, women and children will exult in her glories and will proclaim with love from their lips at all times:
Ave Maria! Ave Maria! Salve Regina! Salve Regina!
We must never waver in our trust in the Holy Name of Mary as we place our hope in her, she who is our life, our sweetness, and, of course, our hope.
Ave Maria! Salve Regina! Vivat Maria Regina! Vivat Christus Rex!
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.
Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us, especially on your feast day today!
Litany of the Most Holy Name of Mary
Son of Mary, hear us.
Son of Mary, graciously hear us.
Heavenly Father, of Whom Mary is the Daughter, have mercy on us.
Eternal Word, of Whom Mary is the Mother, have mercy on us.
Holy Spirit, of Whom Mary is the spouse, have mercy on us.
Divine Trinity, of Whom Mary is the Handmaid, have mercy on us.
Mary , Mother of the Living God, pray for us.
Mary, daughter of the Light Eternal, pray for us.
Mary, our light, pray for us.
Mary, our sister, pray for us.
Mary, flower of Jesse, pray for us.
Mary , issue of kings, pray for us.
Mary, chief work of God, pray for us.
Mary, the beloved of God, pray for us.
Mary, Immaculate Virgin, pray for us.
Mary, all fair, pray for us, pray for us.
Mary, light in darkness, pray for us.
Mary, our sure rest, pray for us.
Mary, house of God, pray for us.
Mary, sanctuary of the Lord, pray for us.
Mary, altar of the Divinity, pray for us.
Mary, Virgin Mother, pray for us.
Mary, embracing thy Infant God, pray for us.
Mary, reposing with Eternal Wisdom, pray for us.
Mary, ocean of bitterness, pray for us.
Mary, Star of the Sea, pray for us.
Mary, suffering with thine only Son, pray for us.
Mary, pierced with a sword of sorrow, pray for us.
Mary, torn with a cruel wound, pray for us.
Mary, sorrowful even to death, pray for us.
Mary, bereft of all consolation, pray for us.
Mary, submissive to the law of God, pray for us.
Mary, standing by the Cross of Jesus, pray for us.
Mary, Our Lady, pray for us.
Mary, Our Queen, pray for us.
Mary, Queen of glory, pray for us.
Mary, glory of the Church Triumphant, pray for us.
Mary, Blessed Queen, pray for us.
Mary, advocate of the Church Militant, pray for us.
Mary, Queen of Mercy, pray for us.
Mary, consoler of the Church Suffering, pray for us.
Mary, exalted above the Angels, pray for us.
Mary, crowned with twelve stars, pray for us.
Mary, fair as the moon, pray for us.
Mary, bright as the sun, pray for us.
Mary, distinguished above all, pray for us.
Mary, seated at the right hand of Jesus, pray for us.
Mary, our hope, pray for us.
Mary, our sweetness, pray for us.
Mary, glory of Jerusalem, pray for us.
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Mary, Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
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Mary, Our Lady of La Trappe, pray for us.
Mary, Our Lady of Divine Providence, pray for us.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord Jesus.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord Jesus.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us, O Lord Jesus.
Son of Mary , hear us.
V. I will declare thy name unto my brethren.
R. I will praise thee in the assembly of the faithful.
O Almighty God, Who beholdest Thy servants earnestly desirous of placing themselves under the shadow of the name and protection of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, vouchsafe, we beseech Thee, that by her charitable intercession, we may be delivered from all evil on earth, and may arrive at everlasting joys in Heaven, through Jesus Christ Our Lord. R. Amen
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India to Join China and United States With Its Own Quantum Computer
India to take on China and United States by building its own Quantum Computer
Quantum computer is touted as the next big leap in technology. China has been leading the Quantum computer arena and has already sent a hack-proof quantum computer into space. They even managed to achieve the first ever Star Trek-like teleportation by sending a ‘Photon’ 500 km from space to the Space Center in China. The United States is not far behind but its Quantum computer technology is shrouded in secret under the official secrets act. Indian scientists who have made a name for themselves by sending ‘Mangalyaan’ a Mars orbiter at 1/5th the price of American Mars Orbiter and launching an extraordinary 104 satellites in the space at one go.
Now the Indian scientists have embarked on their next mission – building India’s own Quantum computer. Keen to tap into the next big advance in computing technology, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) is planning to build its own quantum computer.
What is a Quantum Computer?
Unlike the normal computer and laptops that we have at our homes, the quantum computer employs the principles of quantum mechanics to store information in ‘qubits’ instead of the typical ‘bits’ of 1 and 0. While our computers and laptops run on the principle of bits and bytes, the Quantum computers run on ‘Qubits’ These Qubits are theoretically 100 times faster than the conventions bits and bytes and work faster because of the way such circuits are designed, and their promise is that they can do intensive number-crunching tasks much more efficiently than the fastest comparable computers.
How fast is a Quantum Computer?
Quantum computers are considered to the fastest things on Earth. To give you an example, a quantum computer would require 3.5 million fewer steps than a traditional machine to sort and parse a billion numbers. A quantum computer can find the solution in only 31,623 steps compared to the millions of steps a conventional computer would take.
What is the use of a Quantum Computer?
One of the top uses of Quantum computer is of course military. Indian military could have the power to number crunch any problems from field military formations to in-house missile tests and hydrogen yield testing. Quantum computer can also be used to predict the weather correctly. India depends on monsoon and a correct prediction may help its millions of farmers produce a variety of crops according to the monsoon outbreak. A quantum computer can also help ISRO’s space programme besides providing the necessary infrastructure for the Aadhar card backbone. The Indian government hopes to directly credit benefits and subsidies (Universal Basic Income) directly to the account of the beneficiary.
How long will India’s Quantum Computer take to build?
While India has the necessary resources like brain power and funds, quantum computing is a very resource intensive enterprise. The Physics departments at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and the Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, have forayed into the theoretical aspects of quantum computing, the first step to building India’s own quantum computer.
Experts from across the country are expected to gather this month in Allahabad for a workshop to develop such a computer. Canada’s D-Wave Systems which a pioneer in developing quantum computers and has sold machines to Lockheed Martin and Google will also be a part of this august gathering.
Still, India is at least two years away from actually building its own quantum computer according to experts.
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Billy Graham Home From Hospital After Health Scare
By WENN on 06 December 2011
U.S. evangelist Billy Graham has been released from hospital after undergoing treatment for pneumonia.
Graham has returned to his home in Montreat, North Carolina following a six-day stint at Mission Hospital in nearby Asheville.
The 93 year old suffered breathing difficulties and was admitted last Wednesday (30Nov11).
His publicist says, "He will be home for the holidays! Upon discharge from Mission Hospital, Billy Graham expressed gratitude for thoughts and prayers from around the world."
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Video: Woolwich ‘suspect’ Michael Adebolajo speaking at UAF demo
By Richard Milnes May 30, 2013 in Crime
A new video uncovered shows one of the Woolwich crazed jihadist Muslim extremists responsible for the murder of soldier Lee Rigby attending a Harrow demonstration organised by the far-left UAF, which has a Muslim extremist as its vice-chair.
The video was discovered by ITV and it shows Michael Adebolajo speaking at a UAF demonstration at Harrow Central Mosque on 11 September 2009, the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York.
In the video Michael Adebolajo can be heard saying, "Don't be scared of them, do not be scared of the police or the cameras. You are here only to please Allah. You're not here for any other reason, if you are here just for a fight, please leave our ranks. We only want those who are sincere to Allah. Purify your intention."
The demonstration had been organised by the far-left, anti-English UAF, whose vice-chair is the Muslim extremist Azad Ali.
Michael Adebolajo, the 'suspect' in the murder of Woolwich soldier Lee Rigby, speaking at a UAF demonstration in Harrow. The purple banner of the far-left, anti-English UAF (which is supported by British Prime Minister David Cameron) can be seen in the very left of the photo.
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Weyman Bennett, joint secretary of UAF (who also happens to be a central committee member of the far-left Socialist Workers Party) accepted no responsibility for the violence of those taking part in his demonstration instead blaming it on the peaceful protest by SIOE that had ‘provoked’ them.
The Harrow Times reported that a statement on the SIOE website said that the senior police sergeant was worried that his officers could be killed by the UAF organised counter demonstrators if they had allowed the demonstration by Stop the Islamification of Europe (SIOE) to go ahead.
The UAF is given respectability by its long list of founding signatories, which includes British Prime Minister David Cameron, who has consistently failed to denounce the UAF’s violent attacks on political opponents including those using darts and claw hammers.
Digital Journal previously exposed the UAF for its use of violence when the English Defence League peacefully demonstrated in Walthamstow.
UAF will protest against those paying respect to murdered soldier Drummer Lee Rigby
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Posted on July 15, 2014 by Ian
Brasil 2014 was the World Cup of the individual, but Germany showed us the power of the team game. Superbly drilled as a team, tactically astute and individually disciplined, they provided the perfect example of the superiority of the team game with their 7-1 demolition of Brazil’s emotionally overcharged individuals in the semi-final, and a cohesive team performance to clinch victory in the final against Argentina.
With teams carried by one creative talisman, with individual talent seen a potential match winners – Lionel Messi, James Rodríguez, Neymar and even the Netherlands were reliant on the pace of Arjen Robben – whilst Germany had talented individuals, it was the relentless team performance that won.
The 1970 competition in Mexico was the first World Cup I recall watching on television. Broadcast live by satellite and in grainy images, I recall Brazil, golden shirts shimmering in the sunshine, playing a brand of football barely imaginable to British eyes. It was slick, skilful and joyous, a team game played and won by talented individuals.
However, despite individual talent, football has become increasingly systematised, sides playing less as collections of individuals and more as a unit. This mechanisation was no less beautiful than the previous style but it was a different kind of beauty – the collective play of the Dutch and ‘Total Football’ rather than the dribbling and flair of a Pelé.
With statistical analysis and improved understanding of team strategies, structures and tactics, a pressing-style emerged.This has made the game more tactically sophisticated and interesting, but also reliant on consistency of team selection as players fit into a style of play and regime, building the mutual understanding necessary for the integration this approach demands.
When two high-pressing teams meet, the result can be stalemate, the game squeezed into a narrow sliver either side of halfway. In this World Cup, though, the early round games were often filled with glorious anarchy and, with defences less rigid than usual, skilful individuals were able to exert a powerful influence.
Some games were a throwback to the romantic fervour of a bygone age, a return to the playground style of attack-and-defence, suggesting that the spirit of Brazil at work – that everybody had caught the jogo bonito attitude. However, in the later stages where the best teams came head-to-head in more competitive games, the counter-counter patterns re-emerged, and even in the individuals’ World Cup, the system came to assert itself.
It was also noticeable that consistency of team selection – an obvious characteristic of successful teams – became a defined feature, where a small number of individuals working together on a regular basis in a defined system were successful. This counters the assertion that big squads are needed – it’s the most consistent team that wins, collaboration, empathy and familiarity outdo a wider pool of talent, with focus on team spirit.
Bigger teams don’t mean better when it comes to work either, Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon famously coined this with the two pizza rule. According to Bezos, the ideal is the ‘two pizza team’: if a team couldn’t be fed with two pizzas, it was too big.
Working with small teams, they often wish for more brains on deck to work on projects, build more complex features, and talk with more customers. It’s just natural to believe that larger teams means you’ll get more stuff, and better stuff done, and much more swiftly – but the research shows that throwing more people at a problem is one of the most common productivity traps to fall into.
People in smaller teams are far more personally productive. As group size rises, all sorts of issues spring up. Individual performance levels diminish and people start to grow less engaged. So while larger teams may get more done altogether, it’s happening at a rate lower than the sum of individual efforts. Even if more people provide a greater pool of resource, they also require greater amounts of coordination and management, to the point where size becomes an impediment.
Forget herding cats, herding humans is a challenge enough, having to grapple with three hidden costs that start to climb with team size: coordination costs, motivation costs, and relational costs.
1. Coordination Cost
The late Harvard psychologist, Richard Hackman, bluntly stated ‘big teams usually wind up just wasting everybody’s time’. What Hackman found is that it is not the number of people but the links between them that accumulate when group size increases. The coordination cost proliferates with every new addition, and management is a project of handling the links. His formula shows how the links grow at an accelerating rate:
Number of links = n(n-1)/2, where n = the number of people
To put this more simply:
A start-up of 7 people has 21 connection points to maintain
A group of 12 has 66 connection points to maintain
A group of 60 has 1770 connection points to maintain.
An enterprise of 6000 has 17.997m connection points to maintain.
Each additional person increases total productivity of the team but at a decreasing rate, which means if you were the third member to join a team, you made a bigger impact on its productivity than if you were the thirtieth.
Every steep jump in links also produces a steep jump in the potential for mismanagement and miscommunication. Delays emerge from the snowballing time and effort required to keep everyone informed, coordinated and integrated. Adding human-power to a late project just makes it later.
Research shows that the magic number for the most effective teams varies between four to nine, and more often six or seven. What’s clear is that if you want your herd of humans to get more stuff done, avoid having your team numbers hit double digits.
2. Motivation Cost
The mere perception that you’re in a group can deplete your own motivation and effort, a phenomenon known as ‘social loafing’, fear of getting lost in a crowd and depleting the strength of relationships.
A study by Latan demonstrated the social loafing effect with groups as small as six. Participants wearing blindfolds and noise-masking headphones had to shout as loud as they could. Everyone made less noise in groups compared to when they shouted alone.
While the total sound produced was louder, it didn’t grow in proportion with the group size. People in teams of six shouted at 36% of their full individual capacity. When researchers controlled for any possible coordination loss by having participants shout in concert when they were actually shouting alone, people still didn’t perform at full capacity, producing 74% of their full potential sound.
Another explanation for this phenomenon is Ringelmann’s rope pulling experiment, which shows clearly how input per head decreases as group sizes get bigger.
Ringelmann tested the effort capable of being exerted by seven individuals, on individual rope pulling tests. He then put them into teams, from two to seven, and found the collective output fell from 100% (baseline for individual effort), to just 55% per individual when seven formed a team – an attrition rate of 45%.
Social loafing is a feedback problem, when groups get larger, you experience less social pressure and feel less responsibility because your performance becomes difficult to correctly assess amidst a crowd. Human nature makes us try less hard, as we think our colleagues’ effort will compensate. The reality is a serious degradation in output as team size increases.
While initially you might not be cognizant of social loafing, that unconscious disengagement can quickly morph into purely selfish, self-interested behaviour, a fall in commitment to the team, a lack of intimacy and active disengagement. If you don’t feel like you matter, or have to make a difference, then what’s the point of trying so hard?
3. Relational Loss
University of San Diego Professor of Management, Jennifer Mueller uncovered ‘relational loss’ as the third element of why individuals’ efficiency decreases in larger teams.
Relational loss is when you feel as if you are receiving less and less support as teams get larger. This includes emotional support, assistance in performing work and overcoming setbacks. You become isolated, and don’t feel you have a shoulder to lean on or someone to help you out of a jam.
When you’re in a team, you regularly interact and spend time with each other every day. Mueller suspected that the deteriorating quality of those multiplying links contributed to weaker individual performance – just think about how the more connections you make on social networks, the weaker those ties usually are. People’s perception of support decreased as team size increased and this relational loss accounted for poorer individual performance.
The price of relational loss is paid with feelings of isolation, which harms cognitive ability and causes poorer performance. Mueller found that in larger teams, people were lost, had no identity with the team, and disconnected.
So what tools and techniques can we utilise to overcome the three risks of dysfunctional and unproductive teams? Here are some suggestions:
Figure out and apply the right communication tools The cult of productivity is often inwardly focused on the personal, while neglecting the needs of the collective. Find and use team based communication tools and processes that lower coordination cost and save people time. Focus on team productivity not personal.
This may mean finding opportunities for collaboration, apps or changing how you run meetings. Create meaning and connection through an adaptable cadence of communication rather than causing frustration and guzzling time. The agile practice of daily stand-ups is a highly effective tool for this.
Break teams down into smaller units Breaking teams down into units where everyone knows their colleagues name, role and personality makes common sense. The research highlighted earlier shows smaller teams are more effective where personal relationships are closer, there is intimacy and camaraderie, which creates a greater sense of belonging and purpose. Enabling rapport is a great way of improving productivity.
Be adventurous with your office configuration Find new ways to create opportunities for connection and personal interfaces, Skype and Google hangouts are effective for virtual teams, but having a café style area in the office for team conversations creates greater social meaning and also an opportunity for more intense and direct interaction.
Become radically transparent Transparency helps prevent behaviours such as social loafing and free-riding, which rely on the fact that there’s somewhere easy to hide, and power plays, which rely on hoarding knowledge like an information miser. Ensure all your team are highly effective communicators and socially comfortable with total transparency – half your job besides doing your work is communicating to colleagues about it, make knowledge a team asset, accessible, visible and a collective responsibility, chronicling decisions and processes, and being inclusive. Sharing daily learnings is a positive, protective shield against relational loss.
Give frequent feedback to each other Don’t isolate feedback to some twice-a-year supervisory formality, get the conversation flowing among everyone in your team to help strengthen the connections between individual effort and performance, which get swallowed up in the crowd through motivational loss. Make feedback meaningful.
Ask questions, show your teammates gratitude and appreciation, and respond to distress signals. Creating a high frequency feedback culture, where there are daily discussions on what everyone gets done and monthly one-on-ones, helps everyone connect, understand other’s issues, and be better at their own jobs.
But back to Sunday’s game. It was nerve-rattling, energy sapping and hard-fought. Despite the dearth of goals, there was never a dull moment inside the Maracanã Stadium and the match proved worthy of a World Cup Final. It was only during the second half of extra time that striker Mario Götze, who only joined the game in the 88th minute, scored the game’s only goal.
Mario Götze’s goal was of irresistible elegance, the crowning glory for the tournament’s best team, the one which had always sought the initiative. The German coaching team’s tactical flexibility, whether it was fast vertical play or patient ball retention, always found the right answer for every tactical challenge. Joachim Löw played a crucial part in this triumph – he always had the right team strategy, right team structure, right team processes – and the right team players.
‘It doesn’t matter at all whether we have the best individual players or not,’ said German captain Phillip Lahm, ‘you have to have the best team. We had unbelievable coherence, cohesion and closeness’.
It’s a strange exclamation mark at the end of a tournament of free and flighty moments, from Neymar’s and Messi’s flitters of brilliance and after all the positive and negative passion and emotion, that the winner is an effort of pure planning and the fruits of the intricate and organised system they put in place.
Even in the chances they created, you got the sense of contrast on offer. While Lionel Messi provided the natural and the unexpected, Thomas Müller and Toni Kroos provided the learned and practiced, and for all the Germans’ movement, intricate passing and attacking that was evident from the early stages as they prodded and probed at the Argentinian massed defence, there was a sense of training ground planning to much of it. A winning team on top of their game.
That’s not to take away from their talent and threat, but it’s a misplaced narrative we are left with. They are the world’s best team, with some of the world’s best players – but they don’t have the best individuals. Other teams now must take note of how Germany created their success as they look to beat them. For business, the lessons of effective teamwork and relentless pursuit of the team goal was there to be seen.
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It's not all about driverless vehicles. This is a completely new approach to mobility. We are on the threshold of a radical shift, and it's happening fast. In just a few years the world will change. We will see entirely new mobility business models enabling sustainable cities.
For years the privately-owned car has been a cornerstone for personal mobility, but now we are about to enter a new era. Connected, self-driving and shared vehicles is one important building block for this to happen. Add to this entirely new business models, serving the trend among the younger generation who prefer access to services over owning an asset; and we have a new system for personal mobility being shaped.
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As shown in this video, we believe that tomorrow’s mobility can be safer, more efficient, more environment-friendly, more affordable; while also reclaiming valuable space in cities.
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A few years ago, the Swedish government established a new instrument for addressing complex areas with huge potential to come up with sustainable solutions to challenges in our society, but – at the same time – requiring close cooperation among several stakeholders to succeed. Both these criteria apply perfectly to the opportunities and challenges with the next generation mobility system for people and goods, and in 2015 Drive Sweden was awarded a contract to address this domain as one of seventeen such Strategic Innovation Programs, (SIP). Drive Sweden is currently in the third year of an expected total duration of 12 years, and with a considerable governmental co-funding behind it.
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Rep. David R. Lewis (R-Harnett) was appointed by Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland) to the following interim committees:
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Shall, at direction of either house of General Assembly, make or cause to be made studies, investigations into government agencies and institutions and matters of public policy, and to report to General Assembly the findings of such studies.
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Shall examine election administration and campaign finance regulation in State, and in other states, in order to make ongoing recommendations to General Assembly on improvements.
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Study revenue laws and their administration; determine need for clarification, technical amendment, or repeal to make laws concise, intelligible, and equitable.
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Family's three generations of mysterious skin disease solved
The cause of a mysterious skin condition experienced by three generations of a Flemish family in Belgium, as well as an effective treatment, have been identified by researchers from Belgium and Australia. Their findings were published in
Science Translational
The condition produced severe skin lesions, fever, pain, and exhaustion and has also been found in other Belgian families, as well as families in England and France, according to a press release. Half of the children in each generation of these families developed the
same symptoms.
Inherited mutation identified
The investigators determined the condition was pyrin associated autoinflammation with neutrophilic dermatosis (PAAND), caused by a mutation in the MEFV gene. MEFV gene mutation is also associated with Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF),but where individuals need to inherit two copies of the mutant gene to develop FMF, only one copy is needed for PAAND, the authors note.
“Detailed work by clinicians told us that we were dealing with a genetic disease,” said Dr. Adrian Liston, the senior author on the paper and head of the Laboratory of Genetics and Auto Immunity at the University of Leuven in Flanders, Belgium. “Thanks to advances in
DNA sequencing technology we were able to sequence the genome of these patients and find the mutation causing the disease.”
According to the paper, the gene mutation disrupts regulation of the immune protein pyrin in such a way that the body reacts as if it had detected a bacterial skin infection, producing the inflammatory cytokine interleukin-1β (IL-1β). That inflammatory response produces the skin lesions, fever, and pain these patients experience.
Targeting IL-1β
Identifying IL-1β as the driver of the patients’ symptoms, the investigators tried treating one patient with the anti- IL-1β drug anakinra, which is usually prescribed for arthritis. The patient’s skin lesions rapidly cleared, and they recovered fully from the fevers and pain.
The paper’s lead clinical researcher, Dr. Carine Wouters, said in the release: “This is the synthesis of an intense collaboration between clinicians and scientists trying to understand this disease for almost 10 years. I am delighted to see how it has increased our understanding of rare mutations, and especially has opened a therapeutic perspective for these patients.” Dr. Wouters is a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Leuvin and a researcher in the university’s Laboratory of Pediatric Immunology.
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Views #1484 | High-Intermediate 6
Pests and Predators
Rachel talks about a movement to eliminate some animals in her country of New Zealand.
Todd: So Rachel, you are from New Zealand, correct?
Rachel: Yes, that's right.
Todd: Now when I lived in London many years ago my roommate was from New Zealand. Really nice guy, and he had the coolest job. He would ride around motorbike in New Zealand. In the bush as he called it. The wild as we say
Rachel: The bush.
Todd: The bush. And his job was to just kill invasive species. That was his job. Just go out and plant traps for rabbits.
Rachel: Yes, that's right. Actually, I have a friend how does that now.
Todd: Really?
Rachel: Yes.
Todd: So it's that big of a problem? You have to like ...
Rachel: It's a huge problem, yeah.
Todd: Really, like so what animals are a problem?
Rachel: Rabbits like you mentioned. Possums are a big problem in the bush because they eat a lot of the native plants
Todd: We have possums too in America in Northern California and they are disgusting. I love animals but they're one animal I don't like. They just ... they're nasty.
Rachel: There's a big possum hunt in many areas every year and they're starting to sell the pelts as fur because they're not a protected species so there's no limits on how much you can catch and how much fur you can sell.
Todd: Yeah, and they often have rabies right? At least in the states we have to be very careful.
Rachel: No we don't have rabies in New Zealand.
Todd: Oh, that's good to know.
Rachel: So ...
Todd: Yeah, we have crazy stories of possums or raccoons having rabies, so when you see one, like they tell you, do not touch it, don't go near it, because if you get bit you're ... Yeah, I got bit a dog while I was in Thailand and had to get the rabies shot and it was not fun.
Rachel: Oh, that sounds awful.
Todd: Yeah, and luckily for me I went in to get the shot because I didn't know about really rabies. I wasn't educated about it, and I thought well, the dog just bit me a little bit, but I better go and check and the doctor was like, "Oh, now, it can kill you" like "Yeah, you better get it checked out."
Rachel: This is one of the reasons we have very strick import laws in New Zealand. We've seen the damage that can be done, and we're very strick now. Rabies is one of the diseases that we don't have and very keen not to ever have.
Todd: So you have a problem with possums and with rabbits.
Rachel: Rabbits on farms. There's also wild deer and boar in the forests who also do a lot of damage and stray cats and dogs as well also kill a lot of native species. There's no native animals in New Zealand. The only mammals that are native to New Zealand are dolphins and bats, so there's no natural hunters except for hawks. So the birds, a lot of the birds have lost the ability to fly and they nest on the ground, so they're enormously vulnerable to predator species like cats and dogs. They've almost completely decimated many bird species, so that's why they're hunters throughout New Zealand who are basically given free range to shoot whatever they can find because they're so destructive to the natural environment.
Todd: Yeah, I think I read somewhere where you have some campaign to have like no predators by a certain year, right like a new things in New Zealand.
Rachel: I haven't heard of that but I wouldn't be surprised. I think that's always been a goal.
Todd: I think it was ... it was in the news. I'll have to check so I could be wrong, but I think it was 2050 is the goal of the government to have no predators.
Rachel: That would be amazing.
Todd: And they said the big one is dogs and cats. That's like the sticking point.
Rachel: They're starting to get much stricter about controlling cats and dogs now. Keeping cats inside and keeping dogs leashed, so that they don't run off into the bush and cause a lot of problems.
Todd: But dogs I think are probably more domesticated. They're probably not as dangerous, but cats are basically ... they're not that domesticated. They're still natural hunters.
Rachel: Yeah, we keep them with us to hunt, you know, pests like mice. They live with us, so yeah, they catch a lot of birds, but with the birds nesting on the ground and unable to fly, it's very easy for the dogs to kill them as well.
Todd: Oh, I see. And dogs can just be naughty sometimes
Rachel: Heck yes. They run off.
Todd: So what do you think? Do you think your country can achieve this goal - no predators - by 2050?
Rachel: It sounds very challenging. I think at present, only some of the offshore islands are completely pest free. Well, no predators yeah that's not quite the same as no pests because pests also include things like rabbits and possums and deer that don't eat the native species so just predator free might be a bit more achievable I think.
They're vulnerable to predator species.
A predator is an animal that kills other animals for food. Notice the following:
Sharks are well-known predators.
A predator needs other animals to hunt to survive.
give free range
Hunters are given free range to shoot.
When you are given free range to do something, you can do as you please without restrictions. Notice the following:
We were given free range to travel anywhere we wanted.
I was given free range to do as I like in school.
I could be wrong
I'll have to check so I could be wrong,
We use the phrase, I could be wrong, to express uncertainty. Notice the following:
I think 30 people work here, but I could be wrong.
The test is on the 28th, but I could be wrong.
the sticking point
That's like the sticking point.
A sticking point is an obstacle towards reaching an agreement. Notice the following:
The two companies cannot reach a deal. There is a sticking point about the terms of service.
Price is often a sticking point with buyers and sellers.
decimate
They've decimated many bird species.
When you decimate something, you completely destroy it or harm it. Notice the following:
The earthquake decimated the economy.
The drought decimated the farmland.
Rachel Todd
1485 Birds Don't Fly
The birds of New Zealand
1484 Pests and Predators
An animal issue in New Zealand
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Born in Leeds. Moved to Dorset aged 9. Studied Theatre Studies, Art and English at A Level. Achieved Grade 8 in Drama. Gained Art and Design BTEC at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, followed by BA Degree at De Montfort University, Leicester. Moved to Northamptonshire. Art Practice went to sleep. Became a youth worker. Became a parent. Went into Arts Administration. Arts Practice woke up. Went Freelance. Became an Artist Educator. Worked on the Creative Partnerships among other things. Started working with Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Royal and Derngate and NN Contemporary Art. Got a studio at NN Contemporary Art. Became Education Curator at Fermynwoods Contemporary Art. Became a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.
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I was born in Leeds and became an inner city child for the first 9 years of my existence.
I revelled in the hustle and bustle and enjoyed a multi cultural lifestyle. Sleep overs with a Caribbean family, meals out in an Italian Restaurant housed in a cellar, and eating delicious Indian sweets in Hyde Park with friends of my mum’s; a group of lovely Indian ladies dressed in their colourful saris.
Both my parents are artists. They had met at art college. There was no escape for me really. My life’s path was already set.
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Neukum Crater
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Colour view of Neukum Crater in the Noachis Terra region on Mars.
The crater is about 102 km wide and 1 km deep, with two shallow depressions and a dune field in its interior.
The crater was named after Gerhard Neukum, who developed the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express.
The images were acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on Mars Express on 31 December 2005, 24 May 2007 and 27 May 2007, corresponding to orbits 2529, 4346 and 4357, respectively. The scene covers the region 26–31°E / 42–47°S. The colour image was created using data from the nadir channel, the field of view of which is aligned perpendicular to the surface of Mars, and the camera’s colour channels. North is to the right.
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Mars Express
Neukum Crater in 3D
Neukum Crater topography
Terby crater in false colour
Maunder Crater
Terby crater
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UEFA Champions League final four: Why Barca, Liverpool, Spurs and Ajax will or won't win it all this season
It's a cliche because it's true. With just 270 minutes (plus extra time) left to play, anyone can win the Champions League. Liverpool were in the final just a year ago and Barcelona were the last team not named Real Madrid to actually win it. Ajax and Tottenham look like the longshots but have earned their places by taking down Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid, Manchester City and Juventus in the past two rounds. Plus, thanks to the fact that the quarterfinal and semifinal draws were made at the same time, one of them is already guaranteed to make the final.
So let's take a look at why each team will and won't be lifting the Champions League trophy in Madrid come June 1.
Barcelona: Lionel Messi's magicians
538.com SPI: 93.3
Chance of reaching final: 49 percent
Chance of winning: 34 percent
Semifinal opponent: Liverpool (first leg: Wednesday, May 1, second leg: Tuesday, May 7)
Why They'll Win: The last time Barcelona made it this far, they won the whole thing. In 2015, they'd successfully transitioned out of the "tiki-taka" era and seemed to have a clear succession plan in place: as Lionel Messi aged into his 30s and gradually declined, Neymar would just pick up the slack. Well, four years later, Neymar's gone -- and once again watching the latter rounds of the Champions League from somewhere in Paris -- and Barcelona might be more reliant on Messi than they ever have been.
Messi could have retired last summer and laid claim to owning the best club soccer career we've ever seen but instead, at age 31, he's putting the finishing touches on what might be his best year yet.
Who's leading Europe in goals scored? Messi. Assists? Messi. Through-balls? Messi. Take-ons? That's Eden Hazard, but Messi is second. Messi is the best player of all time because he's basically been the best scorer, creator, passer and dribbler on every field he's ever stepped on. Somehow, in his 15th season, that's more true than it's ever been.
Messi and Barcelona swept past Man United to reach their first Champions League semifinal since 2015. Can they go on to win it all again?
Why They Won't: How do I say this? Their defense... it sucks. It doesn't suck in the grand scheme of European soccer but for a Champions League contender, it sure does. According to expected goals, which uses a variety of factors to put a historical conversion probability on every shot a team takes and concedes, Barcelona have a worse defense than five teams in La Liga alone. They don't dominate possession or press as effectively from the front as they used to, and the guys who always cleaned things up on the back end -- namely, Sergio Busquets and Gerard Pique -- have aged into their 30s.
As such, rather than leveraging the entire team into an 11-man attacking machine, manager Ernesto Valverde has decided to take his foot off the gas and ask Messi to do everything. On the whole, it's worked out: They're nine points ahead of second place in La Liga and are three games from a fifth Champions League trophy. But being so reliant on a single player -- even if it's the single greatest player -- exposes you to an injury, an off day or a particularly effective opposition game plan.
With their Messi-centric approach, the current iteration of Barcelona basically function as a more talented, better coached version of Argentina. And yeah: you already know how that story goes.
Liverpool: The complete package
Semifinal opponent: Barcelona (first leg: Wednesday, May 1, second leg: Tuesday, May 7)
Why They'll Win: Remember the helter-skelter Liverpool of the past few years? The one that could nearly blow a 5-0 lead against Roma, lose 4-1 to Tottenham and concede seven combined goals against Swansea and Bournemouth? That team is dead. Long live Simon Mignolet and Ragnar Klavan.
With a slightly less manic, teamwide ball-chasing approach, and a rearguard that now includes arguably the world's best defender (Virgil van Dijk) and the world's best goalkeeper (Alisson), preventing goals has become Liverpool's strength. Based on the number of goals conceded in domestic play -- 20 in 34 games -- Jurgen Klopp's side brings the competition's best defense into the semifinals.
The results of knockout games between relatively even teams often have little to do with who dominates space or who creates the better chances. Games typically come down to individual moments: both mistakes and bits of brilliance. After losing last year's final thanks to a Gareth Bale bicycle kick and two outlandish errors by keeper Loris Karius, Liverpool know this better than anyone. Van Dijk and Allison all but eliminate the mistakes on the defensive end, which means any moment of brilliance on the other side of the field is more likely to decide a game.
Liverpool are the only semifinalist with three players -- Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino, and Sadio Mane -- who have at least 18 combined goals and assists this season. They had those three players who could win a match last year, too, but now they have the defense to allow them to do it.
Why They Won't: In short, they don't have Messi.
It might seem like picking nits but deeply flawed teams rarely make it this far in the Champions League. That high-flying front three provides the unpredictability of a goal coming from anywhere across the attack, but the team still doesn't have a standout creator who can break down a defense and magic up a chance for a teammate.
Klopp has famously said "no playmaker in the world can be as good as a good counter-pressing situation," but Liverpool aren't quite pressing as aggressively as they have in the past. Plus, among Europe's top five leagues, not a single player in the Liverpool squad is in the top 50 of open-play chances created per 90 minutes.
The lack of a go-to creator hasn't really mattered just yet; they're here and they have the second-best 34-game record in Premier League history. However, some of Liverpool's worst games this season -- the scoreless home draw with City, the 1-0 road loss to Napoli -- have come against teams who made a point of sticking a branch in their gears. Klopp's side take 15 shots per game but they registered just 11 combined attempts over those two matches.
Ajax: The underdogs who play like champions
Semifinal opponent: Tottenham (first leg: Tuesday, April 30, second leg: Wednesday, May 8)
Why They'll Win: They know who they are. For whatever reason, most teams tend to shift into a slightly more conservative gear when they're away from home. (See: Barcelona and Manchester City combining for just 16 shots in their two road quarterfinal matches.) Not this team, though. Call it "youthful naivete." Call it "the legacy of Total Football," or simply call it "Hakim Ziyech has never met a shot he won't take." Whatever the reason, Ajax play the same way, no matter where they are.
They took a 2-1 deficit into the Santiago Bernabeu against the three-time defending champs and ripped off 16 shots en route to a 4-1 win. They followed that up by taking down Cristiano Ronaldo and Juventus with a thumping 2-1 victory that could have been 5-1 on a different day. Ajax don't grind out victories; they vaporize any team that's in their way.
Ajax's most recent annual revenues were £81 million. As for their fellow semifinalists: Tottenham brought in £372 million, Liverpool £455 million and Barcelona £612 million. The typical underdog knows the odds aren't in their favor, so they play a reactive style that cedes possession, limits the quality of the opposition's chances and creates space on the other end for the occasional counter-attack or set piece. But for every Leicester City and Atletico Madrid, there are countless other teams who tried something similar, failed and were swiftly swept into the dustbin of history.
The reason Ajax have made it this far -- and could go even farther -- isn't that they've played the probabilities properly and caught lightning in a bottle. No, it's this: Even though the finances say they're David, they play like they're Goliath.
Why They Won't: What happens when they can't play their game? Ajax's wins were predicated on passing over, around, underneath and through their opponents. At their best, they systematically create an overwhelming number of chances and enough of them go in. Neither Real Madrid nor Juventus are teams that will automatically dominate possession, and neither side has an effective, swarming counter-press. So, they both allowed Ajax to play the way they want to play.
In three of the four games against those two sides, Barca-bound Frenkie de Jong completed more passes than anyone else on the field. What happens if an opposition press, much like Tottenham did with Chelsea's Jorginho, removes him from build-up play? What if their opponents dominate possession and field position? Can Ajax shift into a more vertical, counter-attacking approach? Or do they need the ball in order to generate enough shots to score?
Of the four remaining teams, Ajax have to answer the most questions.
Tottenham: The never-say-quit collective
Semifinal opponent: Ajax (first leg: Tuesday, April 30, second leg: Wednesday, May 8)
Why They'll Win: They have one of the best finishers in the world. "But," you say, "Harry Kane is out for the year!" To which I respond: meet this guy.
Forget the emotional torture of VAR. Briefly ignore Pep Guardiola's inability to either wear his hood properly or coach Manchester City beyond the Champions League quarterfinals. City vs. Tottenham was absolute madness but beneath all of the narratives and emotions, there's a simple story: Tottenham converted a high percentage of their chances and City didn't. They each scored four goals but according to FiveThirtyEight, City created 3.7 expected goals worth of chances, while Tottenham registered just 1.6.
Part of that is luck and part of it is that they have Son Heung-Min. Most players over time score roughly around the same number of goals as expected but a handful, like Messi and Son, consistently finish at a much higher rate. Over the past six years, per the website Understat, Son has scored 53 goals in domestic play on just 35.75 expected goals. He's equally adept with either foot -- 30 with his right, 21 with his left -- and if Tottenham manage to lift their first-ever European Cup, they'll be two of the biggest reasons why.
-- Was Man City vs. Spurs the greatest CL game ever?
Why They Won't: Son is suspended for the first leg against Ajax and they're simply running out of players!
Making it this far is an incredible achievement for a club that hasn't signed a new player in either of the past two transfer windows, a first for the Premier League. Mauricio Pochettino has pieced together various lineups that barely contain anything that could legitimately be described as "a midfield" but the club's lack of ambition in squad-building, coupled with a number of key injuries and the regular attrition of a long season, has left them terribly thin.
Against Man City on Wednesday night, Moussa Sissoko -- once an outcast whom Pochettino has been forced to reintegrate into the midfield as a key cog -- went off injured in the first half and was replaced with Fernando Llorente, who is 34 years old and absolutely not a midfielder. The team has plenty of extra central defenders and fullbacks, but there's close to no cover remaining in the midfield or the attack.
Currently one point clear of fifth-place Chelsea (and with a game in hand), Spurs have five close-to-must-win Premier League games left, in addition to the two legs against Ajax and a potential European final. Ajax, Barcelona,and Liverpool all enter this stage of the tournament with what are close to their first-choice XIs fully intact. Even in the best case scenario, Tottenham just won't be able to say the same.
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COLUMN: @Play: Item Design, Part 1: Potions and Scrolls
October 25, 2009 12:00 PM |
['@ Play' is a monthly column by John Harris which discusses the history, present and future of the Roguelike dungeon exploring genre. This time -- a look at the art of item design in Roguelikes.]
It has been a little while.... This column is an in-depth examination of some of the most popular items within the two most-common categories: potions and scrolls, both of which we might term "one use" items for the fact that utilizing them consumes them.
Exploring a monster-filled dungeon is not what we might consider a healthy activity. If the game were just about looking around, mapping territory, and killing monsters until the player's inevitable demise, the game might be interesting in an simplistic kind of way, but it wouldn't have that roguelike spark. No, the player must get something out of the exploration. That something is treasure.
Treasure is the carrot held in front of the player's face, leading him on into ever-more dangerous situations. The majority of treasure in most roguelikes is found laying around the dungeon. Some of the treasure is food, and the need to find more is what prevents the player from building levels indefinitely on the easier levels, but the good stuff is what pushes him downward. Unlike the trend in most RPGs these days, equipment is often a larger component of player power than experience level in roguelikes, and it is randomly generated.
The justification for treasure
Why is it so satisfying to find treasure? It cannot be denied that, without it, many roguelikes would be a lot less interesting. I suggest the reason that the expectation that players will find treasure, or other things and opportunities of value, in those dangerous places they explore is related to the exploration urge evolved out of humankind's tribal pre-history. But I digress.
The randon treasure generation is the biggest scrambling factor in a roguelike. Monsters are random, but still appear in the same proportions on each level. Dungeons are random, but even with traps most of the time the maps are not themselves very interesting. But a single item of treasure, in a good roguelike, can have the power to change the game significantly, and the variety of powers they grant, intersecting with each other and the monsters and dungeons, is what allows different plays of a single roguelike to seem different from each other.
The biggest problem with giving players lots of treasure to find is in determining how powerful it should be. If it's not powerful enough players may consider, why bother? If it's too powerful then it's unbalancing, and it is more the treasure that is the reason for success than the the player's skill. It might be useful to examine the basis for treasure in the source from which RPGs arose: fantasy literature. Bilbo's ring, for instance, enables him to overcome many of the dangers in the latter half of The Hobbit. Setting aside the ultimate identity of that ring revealed in The Lord of the Rings, a lot of the characters in that book kind of equate the ring's powers with Bilbo himself. They say that there is something more to him than meets the eye. That thing is, literally, the ring. But he found the ring through his own wit and guile, so it does make a kind of sense to say that. And even with the ring, Bilbo is in danger and must use it wisely to escape from dungeons, dragons and wars. In other words, Bilbo's possession of the ring is a manifestation of his ingenuity. So the treasure found in a roguelike, since it is gained by the player's own wit and guile, is a manifestation of it, and it is the job of the designer, as creator and custodian of that world, to have it be fitting.
We've already given an overview of the primary types of roguelike treasure in a general article some time back. It is interesting that, although Rogue is over twenty years old now, the major item types provided by that game remain the major types used in nearly all roguelikes. This is the first of a number of columns that examines the primary types in detail. In this first column, we look at one-use items, which are used a single time and are then gone.
Disposable Magic: One-Use Items
The primary one-use item types, other than food (usually a simple case) are potions and scrolls. Some games also provide for random food items like berries and mushrooms. Shiren provides herbs, which are good for a small amount of food value when eaten, but generally function more like potions. This can be seen in the way that a good number of herbs provide special effects when thrown. ADOM has herbs which are unique in that their functions are not randomly scrambled, but are the same from game to game. (ADOM's herbs have other unique and interesting properties however. They are one of my favorite things about that game, but they are a special case that doesn't fit in with the general roguelike categories.)
Scrambled one-use items are among the more difficult to identify items in a standard roguelike. The biggest problem with identifying one-use items is that, once the item is gone, it isn't there anymore. You only get once use with which to discover its purpose. And a few of these items are situationally useful, to the degree that the player may be helped considerably by using the item effectively, at the proper time or with specific preparation. And a few one-use items can cause a great deal of trouble; Rogue's potion of blindness can be a game-ender if used at an inopportune moment.
Many games auto-ID potions and scrolls upon use, but Rogue and the Hacks do not. These games require that the item's visible effect be detectable by the player, and are obviously the purpose of the item, before they'll auto-identify. Some items have effects that are so obscure that they never auto-ID this way, forcing the player to either name it themselves from experience or expend an Identify scroll on it. Others only identify sometimes (like detection scrolls when there is something to detect), and some will prompt the player for a temporary name in some situations.
The one-use-only property of potions is one area where roguelikes differ from classic Dungeons & Dragons. By-the-book OD&D and 1st edition AD&D state that found magic items are unknown, but potions may be tasted and thus given a chance of identification without consuming the thing. In those games some potions have multiple uses, and others have functions that require the liquid not be drunk at all, but instead applied to an object or the skin, or in some cases the bottle merely unstoppered. The classic roguelike play style is directly inspired by these versions of D&D, and both Rogue and the Hack-like games provide for item uses beyond the basic "quaff." In Rogue and Nethack throwing potions at monsters is an option for getting effective use even out of "bad" items. In Rogue, this may cause the item to affect the monster; in Nethack, a thrown potion breaks and may subject nearly creatures to a reduced "vapor effect." Nethack also allows for dipping items into potions, and even mixing them together, each option of some strategic worth. Both games, also, contain Scrolls of Scare Monster, which are wasted when read. Their true value appears only while they're resting on the floor. But even so, most potions are still meant to be drank.
There are usually many one-use items to discover in the game, and unlike random wearables (such as rings and amulets) the player usually will get a fairly substantial hint for what it does upon use, so, scrolls of identify are generally best used for other things. Significantly, identify scrolls themselves are random one-use items in most games. In many games, before any items can be identified by using them, the player must trial-and-error to discover them. Games that support selling items to shops often provide identification hints by offering items to shopkeepers, a tactic I refer to as "price ID." The usefulness of this strategy ranges from slightly unbalanced in Nethack to nearly essential in Shiren's Final Puzzle dungeon. Because this trick provides one of the few ways to narrow down object functions that doesn't use the thing up or require knowledge of Identify scrolls, it is particularly useful when applied to one-use items.
What is the functional difference between the two classes?
Potions are much more likely to have an effect when thrown. The only roguelike (or roguelike series) I know that provides thrown item effects for scrolls is Shiren the Wanderer.
Potions are, basically, chemicals, and this avenues for useful non-magical potions are much greater than scrolls. For some games this is a significant difference: should a potion of magic detection locate a flask of oil? In Nethack, the most useful and potion is water. It is similarly useful in ADOM.
Potions may also be more versatile in their uses than scrolls. In addition to being thrown, it may be possible to dip items into them, or to mix then together. Nethack uses hard-coded potion mix results according to type. The Color Alchemy patch randomizes potion results, making them mix according to potion color and subtractive color mixing. ADOM puts a lot of work into its alchemy system, defining a number of mixture "recipes" randomly at the start of the game, and granting the player knowledge of them as he advances in the Alchemy skill.
While scrolls may have many varied effects, potions usually work on the subject's physical form. Note, however, that this is not always the case; some detection effects may be implemented as scrolls, and others potions, in the same game. (D&D did this too sometimes; there is a line of potions for controlling various types of creatures. These potions work by the user drinking them; their influence then extends outward from the drinker, apparently.)
If the effect requires any further input from the player, particularly selecting an item to work on, the item will almost certainly be a scroll.
Here's a list of some of the most notable items in the class, from various games, and their interesting properties.
... of Healing (and Extra/Full Healing, Cure Light/Moderate/Serious Wounds, and so on)
Other than weapons, potions of healing may be the most common item among all roguelike games. While most roguelike characters heal quickly (usually returning to maximum hit points after at most a hundred turns of rest), the danger presented from facing multiple opponents at once, or surviving an encounter with a single powerful monster, sometimes necessitates a way to restore hits rapidly.
One of the most interesting gameplay choices in these games is the traditional max-HP-boosting trick of healing potions. If you drink one when you're at full health, many games will let the player push against the ceiling, giving him a tiny, permanent maximum HP increase. This seems like the better use of these potions at first, since the main method of gaining maximum hits in most games is gaining an experience level and those are rather harder to achieve, but the best move depends on your situation. Weaker healing potions are probably best quaffed for max health, especially later in the game, but the stronger ones can be so effective that they may come in handy when escaping from a superior foe, which the restrictive vision rules of Rogue make essential. Another obscure use of these potions is to instantly alleviate status effects like confusion and poisoning. Stronger types generally cure more types of these ailments. This use is of great importance in Nethack when facing certain rare, but very dangerous, Demogorgons situations.
One thing about healing potions is that giving the player an abundance of them can be less damaging to the design than you'd think. They require a turn to use, and a foe that really outclasses the player will probably put him right into trouble again with the next hit. Shiren the Wanderer has an item, the Chiropractic Jar, that instantly heals the player completely and restores most status ailments. These items have multiple charges and are not usually rare, and yet the game still has a reputation for lethality. This happens because the player must have both time to use the item, and the presence of mind to use it, and also because for their commonness they are still a limited resource, so the player tries to conserve uses. This often proves to be deadly.
... of Restore Ability
The only one of D&D's six attributes to make it into Rogue is strength, which influences bonus damage done to monsters. The game begins players with a score of 16, and it also tracks "maximum strength," which also starts at 16. There are monsters, traps and items in the game that can lower strength. All of these effects leave maximum strength alone. But unlike hit points, strength does not regenerate naturally over time. In Rogue, only the potion of restore ability, which resets strength to its maximum score, can undo damage done to it.
Like the danger of losing armor value, the danger of strength loss is mostly specific to a limited region of the dungeon, that which plays host to rattlesnakes, which by far cause most of its attribute damage. One consequence of Rogue's sight rules (only one space around the player is visible in corridors and dark rooms) is that there are certain times when it is impossible to avoid taking a hit from a monster, which means sometimes strength loss is unavoidable. This makes restore ability potions fairly important.
When I say "maximum" strength, what I mean is the player's current maximum capacity for it, which is considered to be its value when all attribute damage has been restored. Most other roguelikes provide more stats, with different functions, but they usually expand Rogue's ability restoration potions to work on all of them.
... of Gain Strength (and other stats, and Ability)
In Rogue, a potion of gain strength increases the player's strength score by one. If it was already equal to maximum, then both strength and maximum strength increase by a point. If the player has taken some strength damage though, then the result is that only one point is restored.
This means, if strength is later lowered, that drinking a restore ability potion will return strength to the new maximum. Having high strength is a subtle, yet significant, advantage, so it's fairly important to save these for when the player is at max strength.
The trick to these two items lies in the inescapably of strength loss. Most characters will take at least a point of strength damage during the game, and often more. Both types of potions are generated randomly; it is possible that none of one type will appear in the game. If your strength starts getting dangerously low and you haven't found a restore ability potion yet, is it a good idea to increase your damage done by one point by drinking a gain strength potion, or is it better to continue waiting, hoping to find a restorer to drink first? Keep in mind that the player doesn't even know which potion is which at first, and often one potion type, poison, will drain strength. At their best, roguelike games are full of these kinds of choices.
ADOM has probably the best-developed statistic system of the major roguelikes. Whereas most games satisfy themselves with, or something like, D&D's six stat system, ADOM has nine, and provides individual potions for improving all of them... and potions for temporarily boosting them, and potions solely for raising their maximum. (It also has the diabolical Potion of Exchange, that swaps them around. This can easily ruin your game if drank carelessly.) Additionally it has potions of Gain Attributes, which are more general but do not raise maximums. Of particularly awesome note: ADOM's system has no hard limit on how high stats can rise, although it becomes much tougher to increase them as they go up. Interested readers are directed to the Stats chapter of the ADOM Guidebook.
... of Gain Level
Another example of a difficult choice is deciding just when to drink a potion of gain level.
As is normal for role-playing games, each experience level requires a rapidly-increasing number of experience points to earn in order to achieve it. Some games, following from old-school D&D, even use a doubling progression. Harder monsters are worth more experience points, it is true, but in many roguelikes they don't quite keep pace with the higher point totals needed, meaning levels games come more and more slowly. Rogue, particularly, is infamous for monsters that generally get harder faster than the player gains ability. Rogue characters thus get put into ever increasing amounts of danger as they delve down, and every experience level counts.
As a consequence, the longer the player waits before drinking a potion of gain level, the more value he'll get from it. If it's used early, the experience points gained will be dwarfed by the amount received for killing even one monster. On the other hand, the longer you wait the less the portion of the game you'll have made use of it, and if you get killed the advantage is lost.
... of Poison (and Sickness)
This is an example of a bad item, one that has no good primary purpose. Nearly all roguelike items have a good secondary purpose; bad potions can be thrown at enemies for example. Even the worst item can be useful if a nymph happens to steal it instead of something better. But the "usual" method of using potions, drinking them, will cause you grief if you try it with poison.
Take note, poison is not, in itself, fatal. That is a no-no in games where the player is expected to identify things through use. If the player must rely on using unknown things, then none of those things can be immediately deadly! This doesn't mean using the item cannot be deadly if the player's state is bad (low on strength when drinking a potion of poison), or if used in a non-standard way (zapping one's self with a wand of death), or if a member of a very limited class of items (wearing Nethack's amulet of strangulation, and even that can often be survived if the player prays.) Items also cannot make the game as good as lost. Rogue's worst one-use item is the Potion of Blindness, a long-lasting potion that removes even the game's slight one-space vision range, but it does wear off after a few hundred turns at most.
... of (something) Detection
While not obviously useful to new players, detection means are potentially one of the most useful objects in roguelikes. Monster detection allows you to choose your fights, item detection enables you to direct your exploration, and map detection points out useful escape routes. Note that detection items are in a gray area between potions and scrolls; different games allocate this power to these classes differently. Rogue has types of both! Food detection is a scroll, while magic and monster detection are potions.
... of Confusion, Blindness, Paralysis
These items are bad when drank, but sometimes good if thrown at monsters. Saying "bad" is relative to the situation; in Rogue, a potion of blindness can be useful when entering the Medusa floors.
They primarily exist as an identification foil, to add danger to identifying things by use and to make random potion drinking in moments of danger an inviable strategy. One-use items are fairly easy to identify
... of Thirst Quenching (and Water, Holy Water and Unholy Water)
Each of Rogue's item classes has a do-nothing item, to throw off people who think all items must have some function. For scrolls it's blank paper, and for potions it's thirst quenching. The others are the wand of nothing and the ring of adornment. It is notable that Nethack still has all of these items, but with special uses for three of them.
... of Identify
The scroll of identify is, after healing, the most common of roguelike items. In many games they are also the most-often generated item.
Here is something I find very interesting. Scrolls of Identify are very common, but I am aware of no roguelike game that will purposely misidentify something. Nethack's cursed scrolls of Identify identify fewer items, not lie to the player about what things are. D&D has dangerous objects that purposely resemble useful things, and the diabolical potion of delusion that, depending on a group's play style, could cause the DM to lie to the player about what is happening to his character. Roguelike games, while tricky in the knowledge games they play, do not tend to go that far.
... of Enchant Weapon/Armor
These items are the scroll versions of the potion of Gain Strength. That potion increases the player's damage-dealing abillity by increasing his physical attack bonus. The scrolls increase weapon attack bonus and decrease enemy hitting chances, while the player is using a specific piece of equipment.
All of these items improve the player's state indefinitely. They do not expire naturally, but must be undone by enemy attack, unfortunate item use, or trap. That makes these items extremely useful. Although a single point of bonus is a rather subtle effect in a single encounter, over time the benefits are profound. If the player is lucky enough to find several of these the game will become much easier, maybe even too easy. Most games guard against this possibility by limiting how high strength can be raised, or how far an item can be enchanted. It is kind of a cheap way around the problem, since it means a whole class of item suddenly becomes useless just because the game designer thinks the player is getting too powerful, but it is frequently used.
A particular note... in Rogue, scrolls of Enchant Weapon are unusual in that they increase one of a weapons two pluses. That game distinguishes between pluses to-hit and to-damage, and the scroll decides randomly which of the two values is increased. Some Rogue variants split Enchant Weapon into two separate items. And some go the other way, and combine the Weapon and Armor scrolls into a single "Enchantment" scroll, which asks the player which item will be subject to the item's power upon reading.
In most roguelikes, these scrolls function immediately on a relevant item in use at the time. If no weapon or armor is in use, the scroll's effect is wasted. Nethack uses this as the basis of a subtle trap; one of its bad scrolls is that of Destroy Armor. If you're reading unknown scrolls, you might want to wear armor in order to take advantage of an unknown Enchant Armor scroll. But what if that scroll should be Destroy Armor instead? Another possible trap, used by other games, is the scroll that asks you for an item to operate on, but that doesn't tell you what for.
As an extra ability, these scrolls also lift curses from the item they operate on.
... of Vorpalize Weapon
What does it mean, to "vorpalize" something? No matter what one might have gleaned from its use in video gaming, vorpal is actually a nonsense word. It can be traced back to Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, where it is applied to a sword and can be assumed by context to mean powerful. Role-playing games have adopted it. although there is no consensus about what it should mean.
Rogue contains a scroll called Vorpalize Weapon. When read, it makes the player's weapon flash violently for a moment. It applies a pretty good enchantment to the weapon, and additionally chooses one of the monsters in the game to be the weapon's target foe. The next monster the player attacks of that type will die instantly. There is a drawback however. If the player tries to use a second Vorpalize Weapon scroll on the same weapon, it is destroyed!
The ideas here is to punish the player for being too greedy. Of course, the player doesn't know how greedy is too greedy until he loses his weapon. In practice, this becomes another of those little things players must learn as they play, another fact that must be acquired in order to eventually win. If this seems rather a harsh way of teaching the lesson... well, Rogue really isn't that long a game.
Nethack will destroy a weapon or a piece of armor if it is over-enchanted. When a weapon is enchanted beyond its safe limit, it vibrates warningly. A further enchantment has a very high (but not for certain) chance of destroying the weapon.
... of Confuse Monster
To a new player, this is one of the more enigmatic items in Rogue. Upon reading the only immediate effect is that the player's hands begin to glow red. This causes the next monster the player strikes to become confused for a short while. That is all. In principle this is a powerful item, although reading it in advance of combat usually creates a risk of it being wasted on a weak monster.
... of Scare Monster
One of the most mysterious items in the game if the player doesn't know its secret. It is also the only one that can be identified without picking it up. In fact, especially in Rogue, it is best not to pick it up until you've gotten at least some use out of it.
... of Genocide
The scroll of Genocide, often thought of as a Hack item, got its start in one of the later versions of Rogue. When read, it wipes out one entire type of monster from the game.
Items that powerful, in a good roguelike, will have a tradeoff, and in Rogue it is that other types of monsters become more common, to fill the generation hole left by the eliminated species. Plus, according to the Rogue Vede-Mecum at least, there is only one of these generated in a game, preventing the player from wiping out too many monsters.
... of Maintain Armor
This scroll, which prevents armor pluses from being reduced, is one of the most useful items in the game. Seriously, it is almost overpowered! It is a late addition to Rogue's item list, appearing in V5, and it is one of the rarest items. There is a good reason that many later roguelikes do not include it.
Armor can be harmed both from enemy attack (by Rust Monsters or Aquators, depending on the version of Rogue) and from traps. One of the many little devious facts about Rogue is that even permanent advantages can usually be undone due to unwise play, or even bad luck. Getting your strength up can be undone from a single unlucky encounter with a Rattlesnake, for example. The balance between the possibility of the player getting super strong armor, from finding a suit of plate mail and a number of Enchant Armor scrolls, is that Aquators will easily weaken armor, and rust traps become progressively more common in the deeper dungeon.
These armor ruiners can be overcome by working on building an emergency set of armor (which is balanced due to the fact that it costs two turns to switch to it, and the possibility of putting in cursed armor which cannot be removed easily), by using unrustable leather armor (balanced by its being the weakest in the game), putting on a ring of Maintain Armor (balanced by increased food consumption), and reading a scroll of Maintain Armor, which... has no drawbacks.
It has no drawbacks! Except perhaps due to it only affecting a single suit, which is nowhere near as bad a drawback as the other things. If you put this on plate mail, you have just made one of the few unequivicably good decisions you can make in Rogue.
Nethack's analogue for this is reading a scroll of Enchant Armor while confused, which provides rustproofing, and is similarly powerful (although possible to remove in rare cases). Shiren has Plating scrolls, the effect of which can be removed by a certain monster (which nearly never happens). Both are, in my opinion, subtle failures of design.
Thanks to Keith Burgun for the artwork!
Hey John! Great article.
"I suggest the reason that the expectation that players will find treasure, or other things and opportunities of value, in those dangerous places they explore is related to the exploration urge evolved out of humankind's tribal pre-history."
Similarly, I often bring up the fact that MMOs function almost completely on exploiting man's evolutionary need to "gather".
Keith Burgun | October 25, 2009 2:50 PM
A possible fix for plating/rustproofing scrolls:
The scroll renders the target armour entirely immune to magic, including enchantment and other beneficial properties.
Justin White | October 26, 2009 12:19 AM
NetHack's disenchanter can still remove enchantment from erodeproofed weapons and armor, although their attack is subject to magic cancellation and the passive attack can be avoided by switching to a +0 weapon (such as the unicorn horn most characters will have by the time they see a disenchanter) or barehanded combat.
Jeffrey Bosboom | October 26, 2009 1:27 AM
Justin White: That is an interesting idea! It would work for Rogue, but many other roguelikes place limits on item enchantment anyway.
Jeffrey Bosboom: Nethack actually uses a subtly different system than Rogue, in that the effects that reduce pluses in Rogue tend to cause rust in Nethack, which is a similar, yet distinct, condition. Disenchanters are one of the few ways (maybe the only way) an item can lower in plus that are not the direct result of a player mistake (cursed enchantment scrolls, wands of cancellation). Disenchanters are one of the few genuinely concern-causing monsters in Nethack's late game. which means they are sometimes a target for a spare genocide.
John H. | October 26, 2009 12:25 PM
This one isn't showing up at http://www.gamesetwatch.com/column_at_play/
Tim May | October 29, 2009 9:31 PM
I forgot to add it to the category. Just added it now, have a look.
John H. | October 30, 2009 12:06 AM
I don't have an explanation, but there's definitely some kind of buzz from finding an exciting-looking item. It's especially apparent in Dungeon Crawl, when you find some item with a standard glyph but a very unique colour, like neon green or bright yellow, and it suddenly feels like Christmas as you hold in your hands 'a faintly-humming spear' or something, and know you have an artifact.
Then you wield it, and it turns out to be the cursed -3,-5 spear of the Newt {Int -3, Acc -4, rF--} :)
Hawthorn | October 30, 2009 10:09 AM
A good read - I look forward to the next installment.
With regards to the "buzz" in seeing a special looking item, it's certainly worth remembering how roguelikes can quickly turn that around with mimics. Which of course then leads players to start shooting arrows at any funny looking items they stumble across... I love how every positive seems to have some corresponding negative in RLs, and vice-versa, and the analysis of items especially draws that out.
Darren Grey | October 31, 2009 4:03 AM
Darren: yes, good point! I remember Crawl did exactly this to me, when I saw a 'runed katana' - the first time I'd ever seen a katana in game! Of course I rush to pick it up, and... 'the runed katana hits you!'
Hawthorn | October 31, 2009 8:49 AM
"Similarly, I often bring up the fact that MMOs function almost completely on exploiting man's evolutionary need to "gather"."
So why do I hate MMO's so much? Aside from the obvious fact that I'm an antisocial evolutionary backwater.
Uncle Ovid | November 1, 2009 9:00 PM
As usual, the focus is on Nethack and ADOM :(
Let me add some remarks: I don't think that "more" leads to better design. Nethack has a hard time to justify its six stats (and it fails to some extent), so I wouldn't give credits to ADOM's system only because it has *nine*. I think it was a very wise move of Rogue to have just one stat. Likewise, allowing higher values of the stats is an indication of regress rather than progress: more stats, more levels, more resistances -- for what? Also, if you allow Str to range between 1 and 99 instead of 1 and 18 (say), then it is that much harder to make a point of Strength meaningful.
In my opinion, scrolls of genocide are a very bad idea. There is a reason why the live forks of Nethack nerfed the scroll.
Re: misidentification: that would be about as fun as forgetting the level map, only worse. Games are about being fun. In Crawl, we have eradicated almost all sources of amnesia, simply because this type of tedious and annoying and just not fun.
I missed the crucial distinction of effects into: (a) single use (potions, scrolls), (b) multiple but limited use (wands), (c) unlimited use (spells).
Generally speaking, power should be (a) > (b) > (c). Next, effects should not be duplicated. If you have a spell effect that copies a scroll or potion, you just turned one resource into useless garbage. In Crawl, we have right now removed the spells of Identify, Magic Mapping, Detect/Remove Curse etc., for exactly this purpose.
dpeg | November 2, 2009 9:43 PM
Well, duplication of effects can mean that the duplicated resource is useless garbage, or it can mean that it's a nice thing to tie you over until you find the thing that obviates it, or in case you can't use it (most classes in nethack won't be able to cast Identify for a while), or in case you don't have enough spell points to use it at that moment, or in case you happen not to find it. One of the ways to try to balance things out is by making powerful items rare.
In fact, that's one of the problems with potions of restore ability in nethack; not only do they duplicate the effect of the unicorn horn, which is unlimited-use, common, and utterly indispensable for other reasons, but after a certain point you just won't be losing ability points much. (SLASH'EM gives them another use.) Whereas a lot of the spells that duplicate effects actually seem a lot less useful than the items they duplicate; they're too high-level for most classes to use.
I think it's a matter of taste whether you like a more cluttered game with more items and more duplication of effects, or a more stripped-down game which may give you fewer ways of achieving your goals. I'm a little more into SLASH'EM right now just because it gives you so many different choices of where to go at the different times, although it can get pretty unbalanced in my limited experience.
Matt Weiner | December 3, 2009 7:31 PM
dpeg: Heh, it's more ADOM than I've had here for some time. Rest assured, there is some more stuff on Crawl coming, been "researching" it a lot lately.
Misidentification need not be a misfeature if done well. The key differences between a legitimate bad effect and one that just gives the player makework are whether it is possible to overcome the effect by taking hand notes (like Nethack's amnesia, bad) and the degree of uncertainity it adds to the game (too much is bad).
John H. | December 8, 2009 2:42 PM
That was some revealing blog post!!!
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I think the definition is shifting. Hazing, even if silly and bizarre, was supposed to be all about welcoming newcomers. Bullying was to shame and to humiliate newcomers or others perceived to be outside the bully's peer group. Now there is sexual hazing, including rape and sodomy, which in no way can be condoned and does not in the least resemble a practice of welcoming newcomers.
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RADFORD, Va. (AP) - Radford University says a fraternity has been suspended for two months while officials investigate hazing allegations.
Media outlets report that Pi Kappa Phi's national office is investigating the allegations at its Radford chapter. University spokesman Joe Carpenter says the university is conducting its own investigation.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - A Florida State University fraternity is suspended after an alleged hazing incident.
Omega Psi Phi's FSU chapter has been suspended by the University and the national organization, according to a member of the fraternity.
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Hazing still common in collegiate and youth sports
by Webmaster12/28/2015
There is greater awareness of the dangers of hazing, but hazing itself is still common in U.S. youth and collegiate sports, and many involved may not recognize hazing actions when they see them, according to a research review.
Hazing, or any humiliating or dangerous activity expected of a student who belongs to a group, regardless of his or her willingness to participate, is remarkably common in sports, the authors write in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
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Posted on July 24, 2014 by Kristoph Johannes
Howard The Duck~ 1986, Willard Huyck, USA
Howard the Duck is a film about an anthropomorphic duck from another planet who is accidentally brought to Earth where he befriends a young woman and sets off on a 1980’s movie adventure. It was produced by George Lucas, based on a Marvel Comics character, and is famously remembered as an enormous flop, as well as one of the worst movies of all time. Time to drop the bomb on you; it’s not that bad!
I mean, yes, it’s bad… It’s hard to be objective about a movie with this kind of reputation and almost thirty years worth of baggage attached to it, but Howard the Duck is consistently listed as one of the worst movies of all time, and this, absolutely, is undeserved. The Michael Bay Transformers films are all worse, as are all of the Resident Evil movies. Avatar was worse! Without question each summer the studios churn out at least one action stuffed popcorn film that is worse than Howard the Duck, so for poor Howard, I think the time has come for his name to be cleared.
Howard The Duck does have problems. It’s too long, almost two hours. It’s incredibly cheesey, and so, so 80’s, although at this point something like that is as likely to draw an audience as it is to repel one. How can we vilify Howard for being dumb and 80’s when that’s exactly why we love Big Trouble In Little China so much? Is there good 80’s stupid and bad 80’s stupid? I say no. All 80’s stupid is beautiful.
Another major failing of Howard the Duck? It’s a terrible adaptation of the source material, and is not very funny. The comic book garnered it’s cult following for it’s insight, it’s witty satire and it’s social commentary, as well as for the absurdities that talking alien ducks generate. The film has some of the absurdities down pat, but the satire has all been traded for bird puns, and not very good ones. Rolling Stone Magazine has become Rolling Egg, Raiders of the Lost Ark is Breeders of the Lost Stork… Stuff like that. I mean, Rolling Egg? Wouldn’t Crowing Stone have been better? Just off the top of my head. The humor just isn’t there like it needs to be, 90% of the jokes are some variation of “Howard is a duck, you guys!” over and over. Every now and again something legitimately funny happens, but only when the film chooses to focus more on the connection between the characters instead of harping on the obvious absurdities of the situation.
Maybe the biggest thing Howard the Duck has working against it is that it doesn’t know what it wants to be. It’s much too adult to be a children’s movie, and at the same time too childish to be for adults. The damn thing is rated PG, but is full of sexual themes and adult content, including boner jokes, and duck nudity. I’m not kidding, there is frontal female duck nudity in this movie. Duck boobs. What was going on back in 1986?!!? Then there is the much maligned romantic and sexual relationship hinted at between Howard and human Lea Thompson. I mean, I’m not being too puritanical about this, am I? It’s creepy.
The truth is that the kind of Howard the Duck movie that needed to be made in 1986 was never going to happen, it would have required subversive, anti-Hollywood sensibilities like those found in Frank Hennenlotter, Peter Jackson, or even Sam Raimi, and back then nobody was going to give that kind of director the money needed for this kind of project. Peter Jackson hadn’t even released Bad Taste yet. Hollywood wasn’t ready to gamble like that, we would have been better off had we just waited.
But we didn’t, and it’s no great tragedy. Howard The Duck is kinda fun! It’s meant to be lighthearted and goofy, and really, it is. George Lucas’ name being attached to the project may have brought on the high expectations that ultimately doomed the film to critical ire, but it also brought along with it top notch special effects and an incredible art and sound department. The cast is also mostly pretty good, with the one exception of Tim Robbins, who is way over the top. None of the reasons to hate this movie hold up, hindsight has shown us this, and in the last thirty years we have suffered through much worse with giant, brainless smiles on our dumb faces. How many Mission Impossible movies are there now?!? Do you know how much money X-Men Origins: Wolverine made? Or the Twilight franchise?!?!?!
Doesn’t Howard deserve some love, after all this time?
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A Real Do-It Yourselfer
Thanks to Bozo News Hawk Glen Snow for sending in today’s report from the International File in Perth, Australia. Here’s the bozo scenario: you have no driver’s license and the car you have is unroadworthy so you can’t get it registered. But you still need to drive around, so what do you do? You buy a pack of dry erase board markers and do a little artwork on the side and back of the car. Yep, she hand lettered “POLICE” on the side of her beat-up Hyundai. That shouldn’t attract any attention, right? Wrong. Maybe she can take some art classes in jail.
The Wrong Time Of the Month
Thanks to Bozo News Hawk Don Reese for sending in this dandy from St. Petersburg, Florida. Bozo Tacora Harper was involved in a brawl and the cops were called. As the officer approached, our bozo made threatening statements to the cop. When he got closer, she did something he had never seen before and it’s certainly something the likes of which we’ve never reported before on the Bozo Criminal of the Day. As he got near, she opened her pants, removed her tampon and hurled it at the officer. The missile struck the officer in the shoulder. We would like to say he was bloodied but unbowed, but cannot confirm this for certain. As our bozo tried to flee, the officer whipped out his stun gun and arrested her. She’s in jail, charged with assault.
The Toll Is Based On the Number of Humps
Our bozo for today comes from the International File In Chongqing, China where a man approached a tollbooth with a camel. An argument ensued over the toll charge for taking the camel across the bridge. When no agreement could be reached, the man did what any bozo would do. He left the camel in the tollbooth and walked to a nearby restaurant to get himself something to eat. After the tollbooth employees couldn’t get the camel to budge, the cops were called. Our bozo was tracked down and ordered to remove the camel and pay a fine.
You And Your Plane Are Grounded
Our bozo for today from Florence, South Carolina, has had his wings clipped. Our 17-year-old bozo was in class at the local high school when he did something that kids have been doing forever. He was bored, so he made a paper airplane out of notebook paper and let it fly. Unfortunately, this particular airplane headed straight for the teacher, hitting him in the eye. While the teacher didn’t suffer permanent injury, his eye was reported to be “very red” and he was quite upset, as he had recently had eye surgery. After a quick trip to the principal’s office, it was decided that further punishment would be necessary. The cops were called and our paper airplane throwing bozo now faces third degree assault and battery charges.
Welcome the Baby With A Bang!
We have a case today of an accidental bozo but his actions caused him to end up in trouble with the law anyway. From Scottsbluff, Nebraska, comes the story of bozo couple Jon and Ashley Landers who wanted to do something creative to reveal the gender of their upcoming baby to the world. So bozo Jon set up an explosive target which, when hit with a bullet, would explode in a cloud of blue chalk. Of course, they videoed the whole thing, showing him shouting, “It’s a boy!” as the target exploded. No problem, right? Wrong. The explosion was perhaps louder than they anticipated, as neighbors called the cops to report everything from a house exploding to a car engine blowing out. After investigating, the sheriff charged our bozo father-to-be with setting off an explosive without a state permit, which carries a fine of up to $1000 and up to a year in jail. Pops has apologized for the “pop.”
Just Chillin’
We have a new president, and not everyone is happy with the new chief executive, which leads us to our bozo for today from Big Pine Key, Florida. Our bozo, 30-year-old Elizabeth Nelson, spotted a Trump sign in the window of a business. She whipped out a knife and slashed it into pieces. She then allegedly threatened the owners of the business, which led to the cops being called. It was her explanation for her actions that landed her in the Bozo Hall of Fame. She told the cops she slashed the sign because it “ruined her chill.” OK. She’s chillin’ in jail, facing charges including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
But To Be Fair, It Was a Really Nice Tattoo
Bozo criminal for today comes from Flint, Michigan. Bozo Robert Clark really, really wanted a new tattoo, but he was a little short of cash. So, he did what any poor bozo would do. He stole a couple of guns to pay for it. He picked out his new tattoo and traded the gun to the artist in exchange for the ink. Thinking this was a rather strange transaction, the tattoo shop owner informed the cops. Further investigation found that our bozo was also on probation at the time. Oops. His next tat will be of the jailhouse variety. He’s looking at 10 years.
But, He’s Pardoned Everybody Else!
Our bozo for today obviously has gotten caught up in presidential politics and thought he would get in on the recent wave of pardons issued by outgoing President Obama. Bozo Marcus Wallace had served two years on charges of stealing valuable works of art. So, he did what any bozo would do. He stole a car, drove from Miami to Washington and demanded to speak to Attorney General Eric Holder. Among the numerous flaws in his plan was the fact the Holder is no longer AG, Loretta Lynch is. Oh, and that stolen car was a big mistake, too. The cops spotted him outside a Starbucks in Virginia an placed him under arrest.
He Missed Getting Away By a Hair
Bozo criminal for today from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, brings up seldom seen Bozo Rule Number 3403930: Crime and fashion statements don’t mix. Cops in Pittsburgh had received several reports of a man vandalizing cars. Checking surveillance cameras, they found several videos showing a man kicking the sides of cars and breaking off the mirrors. The one thing that stood out in the videos was that he wore his hair in a “man bun.” His rather unique hairstyle led to a positive ID by several of the residents. He can get a new style cheap from the jailhouse barber.
Freeze! And Drop the Cucumber!
Bozo criminal for today comes from the International File in Glasgow, Scotland, where our unidentified bozo brandished one of the strangest weapons ever. He walked into a store and pointed a cucumber, which he had concealed in a black sock, at a clerk and demanded cash. The clerk declined and our bozo headed for the exit where he was stopped by an off-duty police officer who had seen the whole thing. He tried to claim it was all a joke, but the judge didn’t see it that way. He was convicted of assault with intent to rob.
And While You’re At It, Can You Turn Down The Brightness On That Moon?
Our bozo for today from Niagara Falls, New York, is not a criminal but she certainly provided us with a unique story. A Niagara Falls police dispatcher relayed a call she had received to officers on patrol. A woman on the other end of the line asked the dispatcher if the cops could stop the wind from blowing so she could get some sleep. After being advised that the police had no jurisdiction over Mother Nature, the woman hung up.
Bozo criminal for today comes from the International File in Berlin, Germany, where bozo Klaus Raschke walked into a bank and demanded cash. He flashed a pistol but soon began acting strangely. One of the tellers asked him if he needed a bag for the money and our bozo replied, “Yep, it’s a real gun.” Putting two and two together, the bank employees realized our bozo was deaf and decided to take a chance and set off the alarm. Our bozo didn’t notice the piercing alarm and continued to wait patiently for his cash. He was still waiting when the cops arrived and took him into custody.
Seriously, This Was the Best Place You Could Find To Hide?
Bozo criminal for today comes from Bingham Township, Michigan, where it’s been cold this winter. Police were called to a report of a vehicle in the roadway with no lights on and no one around. The complainant called dispatch again and said someone was wandering around a shed after apparently driving the truck in question into the shed. The cops then followed tracks from the shed to a nearby frozen ditch. After seeing evidence that someone had broken the ice and had crawled into the culvert, emergency teams were called who extracted our very cold bozo from his hiding place. He was treated for hypothermia before being taken to the county jail.
This One Was Easy To ID
Bozo criminal for today comes from KIssimmee, Florida, where bozo Milton Hampton attempted a robbery at the local Lowe’s store, threatening a clerk with a pair of scissors. Other employees and shoppers came to the clerk’s rescue and our bozo fled, jumping over a fence and onto the grounds of a nearby resort. Once inside, he carjacked a golf cart from a security guard. But his crime spree was soon to come to an end, as the cops quickly arrived. And as far as finding our bozo, the cops said it was very simple. He was the only guy there wearing clothes. Yep, when our bozo fled, he jumped over a fence and onto the grounds of the Cypress Cove Nudist Resort. He’s busted!
Next Time Stick To Robbing Convenience Stores Like Everyone Else
Bozo criminal for today comes from Deerfield Beach, Florida where our bozo made a number of mistakes in his attempts to break into a store. First, he didn’t realize the store had a sturdy door, as it didn’t break when he threw a rock at it. Then, he kicked the door and tried to push it open, to no avail. Seeing that this burglary was going nowhere, he then walked away. End of story, right? Wrong. We failed to tell you that the store he was trying to break into was Spy Spot Investigations, a store that specializes in selling hidden cameras. Oops. Of course he was caught on camera by any number of cameras that the store had set up around the perimeter of the building. Armed with a really nice picture, the cops expect to make an arrest soon.
Another Reason to Love Thy Neighbor!
Bozo criminal for today comes from Longview, Texas, where the cops received a 911 call from a man complaining about his neighbor. The police arrived on the scene, but no one answered the front door. After finding the back door open, the cops went in and that’s when our bozo’s problems really started. Inside, the cops found a large amount of marijuana spread out on a table. All totaled, there was 2.3 pounds of marijuana sealed in plastic bags and pickle jars. When our bozo returned home a short time later he was busted! No word on what the problem was with the neighbor.
Well, It Has a Nice Beat, But You Can’t Dance To It
Our bozo story for today is a classic case of mistaken identity. The cleaning crew working at a credit union in Lake Jackson, Texas, noticed a U-Haul truck pull up around 1:45 PM on New Year’s Day. When several men emerged carrying weapons and wearing ski masks, the crew assumed the worst and called the cops. The police quickly arrived and ordered the men to drop the weapons and get on the ground. And that’s when their real intent became clear. They identified themselves as aspiring rappers Tru Keezy and Yung Groovey and explained to the cops that they were shooting a music video with a bank robbery theme outside the credit union.
After it was determined that the guns were not loaded our rappers were released without further incident.
Not a Sweet Deal
Bozo criminal for today comes from Springfield, Missouri, where bozo Suzanne Clark was not satisfied with a purchase she made. So, she took her complaint directly to the cops. Which might have been OK except for what it was she wasn’t satisfied with. After calling the police, she told them she had paid $40 for crack cocaine and had been given sugar instead. But she wasn’t done. She demanded the cops arrest her dealer and secure a refund for her purchase. After being unable to track down her dealer, the cops visited our bozo victim and, after finding her in possession of a crack pipe, placed her under arrest.
Watch Out For That…Pothole!
Thanks to Bozo News Hawk Daniel Kuras for sending in today’s report from Sterling Heights, Michigan. The cops were called to a report of a burglary in progress at a local coffee shop. They arrived in time to see our bozo smash the glass door and enter the business. He then ignored officers calls to halt and attempted to flee in his SUV, damaging two police cars and nearly running over an officer in the process. It was his escape route that got him into trouble. He headed east on 15 Mile Road, in the direction of a large 250 foot long, 100 foot wide sinkhole, caused by a collapsed sewer line. And, you guessed it, he drove right into it. Oops. He was arrested after he tried to climb out and flee on foot.
With a Tasty Snack Like That, You’ve Gotta Wash It Down With Something
But At Least He Won’t Be Charged With Speeding
He Used an Acme Gas Can
Drop the Sticky Bun and Step Away From the Counter
You Can’t Win If You Don’t…Cheat!
Next Time Hang One Of Those Trees On Your Mirror
At Least He Knows His Shortcomings
Well, Since She Was Professional, Maybe She Was Trying To Break a Record
Happy New Year! You’re Busted!
I Failed? Well I’ll Be Doggone!
My Rights To Steal Were Violated!
Hey, These Presents Are Really Light!
Well, Maybe He Just Really, Really Didn’t Like the Picture
Guess Who’s Spending Christmas in Jail
He Should Have Picked a Hybrid
If Only He’d Joined AAA
Surprised They Didn’t Take The Roast Beast Too
This Darn Phone Never Works!
It’s a Family Tradition
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About gin and tacos
Statement of political philosophy
Posted on October 25, 2010 | by Ed
Mike has a great piece up on the fallacy of austerity of a means of spurring economic growth. I encourage you to read it. Playing off of last week's discussion of the Magic Black Box theory offered by Carly Fiorina and Ron Johnson, let's do a quick thought experiment on this topic.
It's the morning after the election. Teabagger America has delivered. The GOP has won not only the seats predicted before the election but dozens and dozens more. Almost every Democrat in America has lost. When the new Congress is sworn in on January 3rd it will have 75 Republicans in the Senate and 380 in the House.
Immediately the new GOP Supermajority goes to work on the Federal budget, just as they promised. Through a series of cuts ranging from the draconian to the merely brutal they manage to debride the budget of over $1.3 trillion in just a few short weeks. Although it seems unthinkable now, the budget is successfully brought into balance. Huzzahs abound.
So, great. Now what? (Cue the Dude, Where's My Car "And then…" skit.)
What changes? What gets better? No one has been willing or able to explain what the benefits of "lower spending" will be, either in the real-world or abstract economics textbook sense. The Ron Johnsons of the world can't explain how their magical remedy will reduce unemployment. I mean, are there businesses in the U.S. right now that aren't able to hire because the Federal government spends too much money, especially bearing in mind that a vast portion of the private sector depends on government contracts? How will the balanced budget make up for, let alone stimulate, the drop in consumer demand that will result from kicking millions of people off of their current benefits (which would presumably be necessary) such as unemployment compensation, Social Security, and so on?
This dilemma speaks directly to a fundamental misunderstanding – or should I say misrepresentation – of the core economic issues in the current crisis. Unemployment is not high because of the deficit. Interest rates aren't high because of the deficit. In fact, they aren't high at all. They're mind-numbingly low, with 30-year fixed rates available at just over 3% and the Federal funds rate still pegged at zero. Property values have not plummeted because Congress spends too much. The only relationship between the Federal budget and any of these problems is that they would be worse if Washington and our various state capitols were not propping up a sizable portion of our economy.
The problem, the one whose name we dare not speak, is that 30 years of stagnant wages (except for the top 10%, they're doing great!) have killed demand. The void was filled with cheap, easy credit concurrent to political and technological changes that persuaded growing industries to expand in China or India rather than in the United States. And that's why this whole argument is so very, very stupid independently of the absurd notion that Republicans are going to do anything but nibble at our budgetary issues. Congress spending less doesn't solve any of these problems. Cutting taxes? Yes, that might provide a cheap, transient bump in demand, which will certainly be a boon to the Chinese factories churning out all of our consumer products. And then?
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J. Dryden says:
THANK YOU. The notion that the government has some kind of magical button it can press, switch it can throw, secret deity it can appease with the blood of a goat, and BAM, everybody's got good jobs at good wages…where in the flying fuck did this idea come from? Americans as a whole are often accused of indulging in "magical thinking"–succumbing to the illusion that a belief held strongly enough makes said belief true. "My taxes are too high and it's the government's fault" is not magical thinking. "I've been laid off from my private sector job and it's the government's fault" is, especially when it's followed up with "because they're spending all *my* money to solve *other* people's problems, illegal immigrants, most likely."
Say what you will about "values voters"–and there's plenty to be said–but at least they can get *some* watered-down payoff for their vote. Don't like abortion on demand? Elect Republicans who will cut off government funding and nominate judges who will make access more difficult. Hate gays? Elect Republicans and spineless Democrats who will pass things like The Defense of Marriage Act. Though the Constitution (thank God) remains a bulwark against radical social change, you can, at least, see someone with your values seeing to it than money doesn't get spent that contradicts those values. (At least, not when the cameras are on. Or even if they are–nobody watches C-SPAN.)
But voters who seek redress for the fucking they've received from the private sector are kind of missing the point contained in the adjective "private." When the GOP wins big in November, congratulate your neighbor with the red signs on his front lawn, then ask him if he's any less shit-poor than he was yesterday. And tell him you'll ask him again in a year. Don't worry–he won't be around for that awkward conversation; foreclosure proceedings don't change just because majorities do.
comrade x says:
Teabaggery isn't about solving anything- its an adolescent shit fit, aimed at getting back at " them", whoever the fuck they are.
The fact that the teabaggers get fucked along with the people they hate doesn't even enter into their reptilian minds.
Bette Noir says:
Republicans have been clinging to their anti-spending life raft for far too long; a perverse piece of me almost wants to see them get their midterm wish so that we can all be entertained when the life raft springs a leak and deposits its sorry load into shark-infested waters.
I think the Republicans will be successful in deflecting the blame onto the "Other." Used to be black people, now it's 'illegal' immigrants and Muslims. Another group, the Chinese, are waiting around the bend. Enough people will always be convinced that it's always someone else's fault; they will never acknowledge their own ignorance and stupidity. The Republicans only need a little more time to completely destroy this country.
I'm 57. Grew up in the '60's but was a more conservative Democrat. Enthusiastically worked the phones and knocked on doors for Hubert Humphrey and was never a fan of the sainted Bobby. I can 't believe that I'm about to say this but where are the Weathermen when we REALLY
(damn ENTER button)
As I was saying, where are the Weathermen now that we REALLY need them.
The Man, The Myth says:
Good post Ed. You summarized the problems quite well. Its striking that somehow I have not run across this question (and then…) from any other source. As your post explains, cutting spending really doesn't solve any of these problems… what a rotten day and a rotten week/month. At least I can throw myself into GIS and ignore teabaggers.
displaced Capitalist says:
Reminds me of that constant theme in Atlas Shrugged where the populace resorts to using candles for light because the evil government has stopped all tech innovation.
And yet, in reality it seems like it's the GOP/TEA party who wants us to use candles for light. Odd huh?
(Sorry for bringing up Ayn Rand.)
Andy Brown says:
As an anthropologist who's been researching public understandings of policy issues (including attitudes toward deficit spending) I can tell you that the overspending-is-the-problem idea is completely entrenched up and down the political spectrum. And as long as people think that taxes and spending mean money to these (*&%%$-ing) politicians and their cronies – no one is going to view government spending as anything but a boondoggle (thanks Ronnie!). Until people (again, up and down the spectra) have faith that their taxes might go into actual public investments (rather than "bailouts", stupid wars, foreign aid and welfare), the enthusiasm for government spending is gonna stay down there around 2 or 3 degrees Kelvin.
marismae says:
This is exactly what I needed to read this morning so re-calibrate my 'political circus' circuits. I really wish more of the spineless democratic politicians could articulate this point as clearly and effectively as you do. Like Bette Noir a little part of me hopes that the teabaggers and far-right wingnuts get their wish this election, just for the satisfaction of seeing them flail about when they realize their grand plan is a load of crap.
But then I wake up and realize they already know that. They just want power and don't actually give a shit about the rest of us anyway. If the Republicans win the House as expected, and the Democratic Party keeps the Senate as expected, we will see two years of unmitigated gridlock. At least in this first two years SOME headway has been made. That will all disappear and there's not likely to be any changes for good or bad if things turn out as predicted.
Bugboy says:
One would think that grown adults would have heard of the old saying "careful what you wish for" because that's exactly what the 'Baggers have going on.
They are so bent on their goal they wouldn't know what to do with it once they got there.
@Bette Noir, "a perverse piece of me almost wants to see them get their midterm wish so that we can all be entertained when the life raft springs a leak and deposits its sorry load into shark-infested waters."
Yes, but keep in mind: When it happens — and it will happen — it won't be that their policies once again failed. It'll be that the Lib'ruls once again thwarted them, somehow.
Because remember, the housing collapse wasn't because banks were giving mortgages to people who couldn't possibly afford them, collecting a few payments, foreclosing and then turning the house right back around for even more than it was before — it was because that mean ol' Gub'mint *forced* them to sell to unqualified buyers.
Forget the fact that they were making a shit ton of money in the process, and all of the fraud involved in packaging known bad debts into obfuscating derivatives and rating them AAA ++ Good Good. That couldn't *possibly* have been the motivation. It was definitely The Gub'mint™.
George Bush was president for eight years. And he had a triple-lock on the government for two of those eight years. But even though he managed to take the largest surplus in history and turn it into a raging deficit, it's the Democrats' fault.
Somehow.
Because it's not about being rational. It's not about what does and doesn't work. It's about hating the Democrats and everything they do and stand for regardless of facts or reality. The GOP is not a political party, it is a cult.
John Johnson is right!
In a nutshell – 'anything good is my doing and is done in spite of my opponents; anything bad is because of my opponents' thwarting my efforts to make things better for us all'. If I shoot a puppy and it dies, it's your fault for not [underpants gnomes!].
People like simple. People demand simple. The press gives them simple, but unfortunately nowadays the press only gives people the GOP simple, which is "liberals bad; conservatives good!". Repeat enough and it becomes (and has generally become) the unquestioned, understood fundamental rule of political life. Then it's merely a matter of defining things as "liberal" and off you go. The sad thing is, attempting to redefine stuff back, by having respected, admired figures say "I'm liberal, and this is what liberals are.." is now pretty much doomed to failure. We're in Monty Python "She's a witch!" territory now. Changing what we understand is confusing and scary. This is bad. So we cling to our fervent beliefs even in the teeth of reality, complaining about the disruption in bar service as the Titanic sinks under us. I wish I could think of a solution, but I don't see one – perhaps our grandchildren will be able to make a fresh start, but in the meantime, I'm playing a lot of Fallout.
Does anyone think a GOP supermajority would actually make significant spending cuts? Remember dubya's 8 years?
They'd make small politically-motivated cuts to the programs that democrats favor while increasing spending on programs that republicans favor. Net result might be a slight decline in spending. Remember, there's this war on terror thing that we need to spend hundreds of billions on because we *obviously* need more high-tech equipment designed to fight Russians.
It's a hypothetical based on a hypothetical, neither of which are in the realm of possibility.
That being said, very few economists would make the case that austerity makes much of a different in the short run, either way (when it comes to the US).
Monkey Business says:
The only way to make meaningful dents in our deficit spending is the same as it's always been: cut military spending and entitlements. Everything else is like scraping the icing off a shit cake.
Of course the military mostly votes Republican, and defense contractors aren't going to be happy with having their funding cut.
Of course the elderly, who are the primary recipients of those entitlement benefits, vote in large numbers and are primarily Republican.
So basically, if the GOP gets overrun with Teatards, and they magically come up with more political capital than any party ever, and manage to cut entitlement and defense spending, they're basically just shooting themselves in the face, because all those old and military voters that swept them into office will sweep them right out.
We've reached a point where there is a group of voters that is no longer concerned for their own well being. They have their beliefs, and come hell or high water they will stick to them. There is something to be admired in their obstinate refusal to accept facts, logic, reason, or anything that doesn't fit with their carefully constructed worldview. At the same time, I'd really rather appreciate it if they quit trying to take a gigantic dump on America.
Thatcher: "there is no such thing as society, just individuals and families."
How can conservatives argue home economics (let's just meet at the kitchen table and decide how to tighten our belts) when mom & dad split up and won't pay child support? here:
http://brighton-towne.blogspot.com/2010/10/laissez-faire-capitalism-bad-home.html
Keifus says:
To be fair, the modern era of deficit spending has been correlated with high unemployment, stagnant wages, and increasing income inequality–the modern era for these purposes after the second world war, and the deficit spending beginning in 1980 or so, when deficits came about due to tax cuts and extra military spending. I don't think deficits caused those other things exactly, but they were part and parcel with the adoption a general set of conservatarian principles, which included tax cuts for wealthy people, financial deregulation, union marginalization, and a strong dollar policy. I am sure, however, that that's not the sort of argument conservatives would care to make.
Before 1980, the federal budget was generally balanced when we were not in a major war. There were booms and busts, as well as some, um, categorical problems with social and economic equality (or mobility) if we go back very far. That's why I'm not convinced that debt has really correlated well on its own with bad consequences, and I imagine it has more to do with the social/economic environment and policies.
(Although saddling us with debt right now, under any and all economic circumstances, is putting a lot of faith in long-term growth.)
Paul W. Luscher says:
Look, it's the old distraction game. Since the Repubs know their ideas are the same old ones that got us into mess, and would not get them elected. they gin up a big uproar abou the "deficit"…which they created n the first place.
See how easy it is to fuck up, blame it on the people who're trying to fix it, and use the whole mess to advance yourself even further?
karen marie says:
"And then?"
Why, of course — PONIES!!!!11!
ladiesbane says:
After the mental blurt-reaction (overspending? think WRONG spending), I had a horrible moment of empathy for the low-rent tea baggers — not the John Birchers or the crypto-racists, but the poor, the disabled, the elderly folks who buy into the quasi-libertarian ideals marketed and sold by the party drivers. They are buying a fantasy vision of themselves as independent, strong, healthy, wealthy, and in control of their lives — all things they most certainly are not, right now, but would like to be. They may be self-defeating, hypocritical, hysterical, and stupid, but they are also very scared and feeling desperate. I honestly don't think they realize that their lots will worsen with GOP/Tea Party members in power.
An old, poor neighbor lady of ours used to send money to a televangelist who lived like a king, and preached health and wealth to the faithful. He sold it, she bought it. The Koch brothers and their fellow travelers are no different.
San Joaquin says:
Used Teabags lose their strength and flavor the longer they are in the water…
Why on earth did Keynsian economics fall out of favor around the world? Didn't they learn about the paradox of thrift in Econ 101?
Starving everyone until confidence returns is not going to make anything better. Soveriegn debt is not like personal debt.
Why oh why are these people, and their chosen leaders, so ignorant to the basic facts?
Neal Deesit says:
Starving everyone until confidence returns is not going to make anything better.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
"Why oh why are these people, and their chosen leaders, so ignorant to the basic facts?"
The people who follow may be ignorant about the outcome. The leaders know full well that the out come of their policies will cause the common man to suffer. The leaders are quite aware that they will be rewarded handsomely for kicking down and kissing up.
I get the impression that some of the theory behind this–not that your average teabagger knows this–is that too much sovereign debt makes businesses (who always seem to be shitting themselves) shit themselves monstrously and hold back on investment in new jobs, research, milk and cookies, etc. Reduce that sovereign debt–somehow–and businesses feel more confident about the long term future, tax-wise and all, and make more super great jobs.
I dont' know how much evidence there is to support such a theory, nor do I buy it myself, but that's the theoretical basis I've inferred from some of the more considered anti-spending conservatives out there.
Historically speaking, ages with high unemployment are the direct result of reduced capital, which then obviously leads to companies shedding jobs because of reduced demand, etc. But this is not the case now. Large companies and banks have more capital at their disposal than ever before, they are just choosing not to invest it in the economy. Instead, as the NYT showed a few weeks ago, they are refinancing their debt because of low interest rates, buying up stocks, buying up bonds, etc. What we have seen over the last thirty years is the development of an alternate economy in this country for the select few; banks and other multinationals can make enormous sums of money without a necessarily healthy economy because of financial wizardry like credit-default swaps, investing in China and India, or simply hiding their money overseas. The main problem is that people in business are mainly stupid if not full-blown retarded; I remember in college thinking how all the BBA/MBA kids were essentially the least intelligent people on campus and how these fine, ethically-sound souls would be in command of the economy in the future (hence the reason why I did not invest in the stock market). Basically the only way that we are going to create well-paying jobs in this country is the Federal Government directly investing in American industry (not just half-assed tax cuts) to create jobs, nationalizing key industries and maybe even the banking system to direct money to areas that can actually create employment. Is this socialism? Yes! Its basically the same thing France, Germany, Italy, Britain, etc. did after the Second World War. Just sitting on our hands and waiting for Goldman Sachs to fix the economy is not going to do shit. But of course low taxes and deficit spending = jobs and magic ponies so this will obviously never happen.
I think I am seeing the same thing…the glorious MBA path to "Masters of the Universe" these putzes all found as a "Get out of College FREE" card once they landed in college, indeed, such a route confirmed their Monopoly game-style worldview.
Vinny says:
Another excellent article. Austerity measures sound logical in the "no pain no gain" sense, but like you said, it does nothing for the unemployment problem. If you'd like to hear another really smart guy talk about how retarded austerity measures are: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130791197
Cochise says:
The position taken by republicans of cutting non-military spending is really just a 'dog whistle' for hurting the brown man? It is believed by the racists that African-Americans and Mexican-Americans benefit overwhelmingly from non-military spending, thus reducing 'entitlements' equals screwing over non-whites.
Everytime some racist republican (redundant) hears cutting spending he thinks it means kicking some non-white off the dole.
Republicans borrow and spend. Democrats tax and spend (and thus are actually motre fiscally responsible). However, Americans these days don't want responsibility; they're rather borrow and spend and screw the country over.
I second DS's opinon regarding MBAs, and I've worked with A LOT of them.
It's not that they're universally stupid but anyone who graduated from an MBA program post 1980 is absolutely without a conscience or even a thought for the damage they create with their new cost-savings measure or re-org genius, or that way they found to cut wages, benefits, or to just ship the whole damn thing overseas.
Business is all about the obsessive focus on quarterly returns. There is no longer any long-term planning. Employees are expendible, platitudes have taken the place of pensions and any real innovation comes from the myriad of small companies that large companies buy out in droves all while shitcanning the people who actually made the companies successful.
When I think of the real purpose, it is to protect its citizens. We have a bloated military that can fight several wars simultaneously but we've completely ignored the biggest threat to our financial lives – unregulated corporations.
Without serious and sometimes heavy-handed regulations, they will continue to scuttle the lives of their employees on a whim and leave them to scramble to find the next company that will extract every ounce of energy they have until they decide to throw them on the scrap heap.
Without unions and government oversight, the average working stiff no longer has a realistic expectation of any kind of stability or financial security. When I see these tea bagger dolts fighting to protect their abusive masters, I wonder just how much brainwashing it took to get them to never take a closer look at the severe screwing we've all taken since old Ronnie Reagan decided to starve the beast.
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A happy ending for NRI transman, Delhi HC gives historic judgment
It was a happy ending for an NRI transperson who was illegally detained and hounded by family after the Delhi High Court on Monday upheld his rights and said human rights were inalienable.
A HC bench led by Justice Siddharth Mridul directed the Delhi Police to protect Shivy, who had been illegally detained by his family members in Agra, and asked the family to return his documents in their possession so that he could return to the US for his education.
“Every human being has certain inalienable rights. This is a doctrine that is firmly enshrined in our constitution. Gender identity and sexual orientation are fundamental to the right of self-determination, dignity and freedom. These freedoms lie at the heart of personal autonomy and freedom of individuals. A transgender’s sense or experience of gender is integral to their core personality and sense of being. Insofar as I understand the law, everyone has a fundamental right to be recognised in their chosen gender,” said the bench.
Despite leaving a note informing his family that he was leaving of his own free will, his parents filed a missing person’s complaint with the UP Police and harassed, spied and threatened the activists who helped Shivy.
But the court put an end to that, saying: “The present petition highlights and brings to the fore the socio- economic marginalization and exclusion of those whose behavior is considered “inappropriate” by society. It clearly demonstrates that those who do not conform, render themselves vulnerable to harassment and violence not just by the Police but also by society that ridicules them. Transgenders have long lived on the fringes of society, often in poverty, ostracized severely, because of their gender identity. They have for too long had to endure public ridicule and humiliation; have been socially marginalized and excluded from society, their basic human rights have been severely denuded.”
The judgment left activists delighted, many of whom have been disappointed after the Supreme Court re-criminalized homosexuality. Shivy also said that he is happy with the judgement and he can continue with his life and studies in the US now.
Rituparna Borah from Nazariya said, “I am elated with the judgement as it upholds individual freedom and liberty of gender identity and sexual expression. Hope this judgement helps other people who are still struggling and facing custodial violence from family.”
Lesley Esteves, a queer rights activist who was part of Shivy’s support network, said, “I would be proud to have a son like Shivy, unlike his parents Laxminarayan Bhat and Seema Rani Bhat who abysmally failed to support him. Instead they illegally dispossessed him of his documents and confined him against his will because of their severe transphobia and utter disrespect for law. They knowingly filed a false complaint against us with UP Police alleging that he was kidnapped, despite receiving a letter from him that he was leaving of his own free will. Effectively, his abductors tried to charge others with kidnapping, in order to cut off his support system in India. But the parents did not imagine that a court would step in to protect constitutional rights of Shivy and other queer people supporting him. They were firmly rebuked by the court today, when they were told by the judge that he would “end this bigotry today”. “
The judgment said, “There is, thus, no gainsaying the fact that transgenders enjoy basic human rights including protection from violence and discrimination. They have the right to dignity and self-determination.”
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Medical science gone too far
Science has a way of taking something that seems completely commonplace and making it into the next leap forward. Medicine especially can take the strangest things, like white willow bark, turn the extracted acetylsalicylic acid into salicylic acid, and market it as Asprin. Russia took a different route to fight bacterial infections than the West, and now uses a variation of a microbe found in the sewers called bacteriophages to attack the specific infection found in the patient without damaging surrounding tissues. Ideas that not too long ago were the stuff of science fiction have been appearing in the real world.
In Parasite, by Mira Grant, the scientists and SymboGen Corporation have taken that idea a step further. They've genetically engineered the tapeworm parasite into a whole healthcare system. It can secrete hormones such as insulin, making most maintenance medications obsolete. It has just enough markers similar to human DNA to avoid an immune system response, and it's unable to reproduce, so it can't escape into the wild.
Her symbiote is the only reason anyone can figure that Sally Mitchell survived her car accident. After being in a coma, with a diagnosis of "clinical brain death," her family made the painful decision to take her off of life support, so her organs could be used for other patients. As they were saying their final goodbyes, however, Sal's eyes snapped open.
The only lasting effect from her accident seemed to be a profound amnesia, which left her a complete blank slate. The last few years have been spent learning to walk and talk, feed herself and interact properly with others. Now, Sal's able to work part-time at an animal shelter, and even has a boyfriend. She's also turned into SymboGen's pet guinea pig, since no one else has ever come back from such massive trauma, symbiote or no.
That's not the only thing that SymboGen has on its plate. People have been acting oddly. Sal's seen it herself. People will be perfectly fine one minute, and then turn into something like sleepwalkers. They'll simply stop what they're doing and wander off, eventually falling into comas. And as both SymboGen and her parents become more and more controlling, Sal will have to start finding answers on her own.
Parasite give a lot of information to the reader very quickly, starting most chapters with 'excerpts' from news articles and biographies involving SymboGen and its founders. Grant excels at this type of info-dump, never making the reader feel talked down to or bored. While a few of the characters, especially Sal, occasionally react in ways that make the reader want to shake them by the shoulders until they see what's right in front of their faces, Parasite is an inventive rollercoaster of a novel, that slowly turns from a near-future science-fiction novel to eerily creepy horror.
Highs: Tansy, with a very Harley Quinn style personality, is one of my favorite characters in a long while
Lows: As smart as many of the characters are, it's as if they were being purposefully dense about one particular plot point
Verdict: Mira Grant is back in fine form, with a new universe to explore
Further Reading: Feed, Machine Man
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TERISIO PIGNATTI - Nuovi esami tecnici e stilistici per il Cristo deposto di Paolo Veronese (pp. 9—22)
A New Technological and Stylistic Examination of the "Christo deposto" by Paolo Veronese
The article presents one of the earliest paintings by Paolo Veronese the Christo deposto nel sepolcro, now in private collection in France. After stylistic and technological analysis, author rejects attributing the picture to Battista Zelotti (that has been suggested by Ridolfi and Boschini), and concludes that the Cristo deposto picture belongs to the first masterworks of Veronese, executed about 1550 before his final removal to Venice.
W. R. REARICK - Titian's Later Mythologies (pp. 23—67)
Titian painted a celebrated cycle of six mythological subjects, works he himself called poesie, for Philip II of Spain between 1553 and 1562; today four of this set survive, including the newly rediscovered first version of the Venus and Adonis (Lausanne, private collection). What is less well known is that between 1561 and 1568 Titian painted a second set of poesie that was offered to, but not bought by, the Emperor Maximilian II in 1568. Today, we can identify four of these later pictures, two of them usually thought to belong to the first set. In them, the workshop participation is more evident, but some passages belong with the most powerful evocations of Titian's late style. This revised evaluation of Titian's later poesie we can now add a ceiling painting, the Rape of Ganeymede (Kreuzlingen, Heinz Kisters collection) that has not previously been discussed in the literature on Titian.
JAMES BECK - The Portrait of Julius II in London's National Gallery. The Goose that Turned Into a Gander (pp. 69—95)
The author rejects the attribution of the discussed painting to Raphael, which has been admitted almost unanimously since 1970. The previous idea was based on two mistakes: an inaccurate interpretation of the results of conservation carried then and the groundless identification of the London painting with the one exhibited in the sixteenth century in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome. The detailed examination of the stylistic features of the both famous portraits of Julius II - in London and the Uffizi Gallery - leads the author to the primacy of the latter one, which is probably the original of Raphael, painted possibly after the cartoon preserved in the Collezine Corsini in Florence, but not after the one from Chatsworth as supposed before. The London painting was a workshop copy painted probably ca 1516 by Giovanni Francesco Penni.
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Botticellis «Primavera». Zu Anlaß, Adressat und Funktion von mythologischen Gemälden im Florentiner Quattrocento
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The City of God as Veduta. Jan van Eyck's Madonna of the Chancellor Rolin
This essay makes the first ever attempt at linking the form and content of Jan van Eyck's Madonna of the Chancellor Rolin (Paris, Musée du Louvre) to a fundamental and uniform iconographical concept. The landscape and scenic bipartition of the painting clearly evidences St. Augustine's "De civitate Dei" as being its central theological reference. The essay examines its influence on all pictorial and compositional elements of the painting. A particularly fruitful aspect in this respect is the important role which St. Augustine's writings played at the court of the Duke of Burgundy in the 15th century. The author identifies St. Augustine's historical theology, and above all his doctrine of grace, as determining aspects of the Louvre painting.
MARCIN FABIAŃSKI - Correggio's Venus, Cupid and a 'Satyr'. Its Form and Iconography (pp. 159—173)
Both adults in the present scene derive indirectly from Michelangelo's Original Sin, probably through the medium of Raimondi's print (Venus) and Caraglio's engraving of 1527 ('satyr'). Correggio thoroughly reworked all his models and endowed them with an intensive erotic expression. No wonder that his masterpiece aroused interest among artists for over two centuries. It is iconography derives from the Hypnerotomachia Polyphili, as interpreted in the light of ancient writers, probably by Mario Equicola, Federico Gonzaga's secretary.
THEA BURNS, VOJTECH JIRAT-WASIUTYŃSKI - Paul Gauguin's Breton Girl by the Sea: Recovering a Gouache for the Artist's Oeuvre (pp. 175—185)
Combining technical and historical research, a paper conservator and an art historian study a recently discovered work by Paul Gauguin. The small painting of a Breton Girl by the Sea, signed and dated 1889, has altered significantly in colour and tonal relations over time. Fugitive colour has faded and the paper support has darkened. Scientific techniques are used to recover a more precise idea of its original appearance. Technical study shows that the painting was carefully developed from underdrawing to painted surface in a procedure very similar to Gauguin's painting practice. Media, palette and execution can be related to other primitivizing works of 1889 and their pre-Raphaelite and non-Western "Oriental" sources.
HIDEMICHI TANAKA - The Discovery of a Great Sculptor: Kimimaro of the Nara Period (710-793) (pp. 187—220)
The Nara era (710-794) with its sculptures may be considered as one of the best flourishing period, not only in Japanese art history, but also that of the world art. Among these art works we can single out for example the statue of Fuku-Kenjaku Kannon [Fig. 1] and those of the Nikko and Gakko Bosatsu [Figs. 2, 30] in Sangatu-do in Todai-ji temple, executed in dry lacquer or in day, which combine sublimity and the human aspects in one art work. Shitsukongo-shin [Fig. 18], which is stylistically close to the four statues of the warrior, Shitenno [Fig. 16], in Kaidan-in at the same temple, expresses a profound feeling of anger. Also in Shin-Yakusi-ji there are twelve statues of 12 Shinsb and their attitudes are uniquely expressive. Similarly Ganjin, the famous portrait of a blind bonze [Fig. 35] in meditation at Toshodai-ji temple, seems to us to be touched with the deepest humanity, while Gyosin-sozu, portrait of a bonze, at Horyu-ji tempie [Fig. 36] gives us an impression of firm will in a realistic figure. Each statue is considered a masterpiece for its universal artistic, not simply its religious, value, and we can compare this with sculptors from classical Greece or the Italian Renaissance period.
Despite such artistic values, the historians of Japanese art have not paid much attention to the particular artists, because, according to them, we don't have primary sources, which would identify the sculptors. However, we already know from many other documents, which mention the names of sculptors who worked for the large temples. For Todai-ji temple, Kuninaka-nomuraji Kimimaro is well known as the head of the studio (Zo Todai-ji-shi). We must try to attribute the artists' names to the concrete works. However historians do not offer satisfactory analyses of the styles of each artist, but they insist on co-production in the studio under one's direction. They do not consider that the sculptures were as personally executed in that period. From their point of view we can not appreciate a personal style in any single piece. Naturally we accept the collaboration of the studio, but in the case of the creation of the main work, it is extremely likely that somebody personally created a figure in a particular and very personal style.
In this article we try to propose attributions to Kimimaro, based on studies of style of the various sculptures considered here.
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Last days in Ethiopia
Admin August 4, 2014 August 17, 2014 Ethiopia 1 Comment
We left Lalibela early in the morning and reached Bahir Dar by 4pm. This is how we would have liked to introduce this part of the text, but alas, it all came differently. When we stopped on the dirt road just some 40kms after Lalibela, Jan’s bike refused to start again. We soon realized it was the battery, but after checking all fuses, cables and trying to jump start it from Anne’s bike we also had to see we could not fix it ourselves. A small crowd had gathered around us at this time, the older women busy shoo-ing away the younger ones (who were very unimpressed by this), and when a truck stopped and offered to give us a lift to the next town, we were very happy to accept. Jan went on the truck with Hamba-Hamba (and tried his best to keep it from toppling over during the very bumpy ride), and Anne drove behind. In Geshena, the next “town” and crossroads, we tracked down a guy who had a battery charger. Unfortunately, they had a power cut just when we arrived, but they turned up a generator from somewhere (both things very TIA ;-)). We spent several hours in Geshena, trying to jumpstart the bike with a Tuk-Tuk battery, then directly with a car, rolling the bike up and down, stripping it, putting it back together – until we finally had to make a decision either to stay there for the night, and hope that a whole night of charging would do the trick (provided there was no power cut and the generator would not fail), or try and find someone willing to take the bike on his truck to Bahir Dar. Not being able to speak Amharic always means that we have to rely on finding some people who do, and who also speak enough English to understand us. We had found the battery-loading guy only thanks to another guy on the truck who stayed with us and translated, and we only found the truck to take us to Bahir Dar thank to yet another guy. With the tips these guys got from us, plus the tip for the first truck driver from Lalibela to Geshena, plus the fee for the battery charger and the second truck driver to Bahir Dar, and then tips for him and the guys who helped us load and unload the bikes, and then of course the tips for another Amharic-English translator in Bahir Dar and the fees for the guy who actually MANAGED to repair the battery…
We actually don’t know how much it cost us in the end, but it was still definitely less than the rear shock we had to have shipped to Dar es Salaam. Plus, we had an unforgettable experience: How else would the two of us had gotten on an unforgettable truck ride through one of the most beautiful parts of Ethiopia? After loading both bikes on the truck (both bikes, because we knew we would not arrive before 10pm, and did not want one of us to ride alone in the dark, let alone the expected rain), we first drove on the back of the truck to three different spots in the countryside to load huge sacks of lentils and peas – which very nicely stabilized the bikes on the truck :-). When the truck was loaded to the brim, we put a cover on top and then squeezed with Josef, the young “loader” guy (his official title being Assistant Driver), on the passenger seat in the driver cabin. The truck driver shared his Khat leaves with us, and we shared our last Tanzanian peanuts. All this with maybe 5 English words understood on their side, and 2 Amharic on our side. This way got along jolly well, but when we reached Bahir Dar at night, the language barrier proved again to be quite difficult. Turned out our driver had planned to drop us off at the hotel and return the next morning with the bikes to unload. We had understood that we would unload the sacks of peas and lentils first, and then drive to our hotel to unload the bikes. We were very tired after the long drive (the Khat had not helped as much as promised), but Anne was very unwilling to let the bikes get out of our sight. It must unfortunately have looked like a deep distrust for the truck driver and Josef, but how to explain with no Amharic that these bikes feel like they are a part of our body by now? In the end, and once again with the help of many people, we shifted the sacks and managed to get the bikes down from the truck – sweating like pigs and breaking a metal ladder in the process. Jan’s battery was still broken, but we had made it, and we were in Bahir Dar at Lake Tana, and our bed had a clean sheet and the shower was hot… life was good for now.
Priority #1 in Bahir Dar was to get the battery repaired, and to our luck this worked out very well. A true story of African ingenuity and resourcefulness. The receptionist of the last night was still on duty and managed to find somebody with “spare time” at hand to find me whatever I need to fix the battery. So while Jan was swapping the bike batteries to settle on the battery as the actual source of the problem, Shambucca (Hope I spelled this correctly) showed up and told me about the best motorbike mechanic in town. Yared is a very knowledgeable guy and with the fixers time and translations, we spent more or less 7 hours to have the problem solved – with the aforementioned African ingenuity. Jan’s bike has a sealed battery but the negative pole broke the seal. So Yared and his crew took out that pole, welded a car battery pole to the battery and sealed the battery again. Anne had her own little repair highlight when she fiddled together a charger for our GoPro camera, cannibalizing a universal charger and an indicator light that Jan carried as a replacement. The joy of having created the solution herself was only surpassed by the joy over being able to use the GoPro again!
Also for non-repair-related needs, Bahir Dar was a perfect place for us at that time: a laid back, tidy little town at a lake, with pelicans swooping over our heads and huge gnarled trees leaning out over the water. We walked along the lake and around town, shopped for souvenirs, drank avocado juice (yummy!), ate lots of anjera with fish and without, and got 20GB worth of movies from a Canadian we met at the hotel. We realized we really needed that break!
After two days though, we had to get going again. Our timetable is already clocked to taking a certain ferry from Sudan to Egypt now (which only leaves once a week) so we got on our bikes and drove to Gonder, our last stop in Ethiopia. The town itself is a lot less appealing then Bahir Dar, but the sights are very impressive: A compound of castles, built between the 16th and 17th century, as well as the oldest church in Ethiopia to survive the Muslim raids a few hundred years ago. Both places have an eerie fantasy atmosphere – partly because they are in part a bit overgrown, partly because there are not many visitors, and partly because of this peculiar mixture of known and unknown – familiar and unfamiliar structures and images. We strolled down little paths, walked through giant halls, and of course took way too many pictures.
Another thing that struck us in Gonder was less pleasant: The poverty. We had seen very poor people on our trip, and some of the poorest where in Ethiopia. Especially, when you get off the big roads, in the rural areas. But Gonder gave us a kick in the ass to show us what real poverty means. We had already seen dozens of street kids begging, but it was the three guys we met the morning of our departure that really showed us what living on the street here means. Our bikes were parked in a building site / parking space next to the hotel, and while we were packing them for the road, they were having breakfast there. Someone had put all the leftover food from the hotel restaurant in a bucket, had thrown the contents of this bucket on a piece of cardboard, and in front of this the three guys were crouching, eating the tossed-together leftovers with their hands.
Very fitting to out gloomy mood, we got a little farewell rain to speed us on the way. But we were again lucky: the sky did not really light up, but the rain stopped, the clouds lifted a bit higher, and we got some spectacular views on the Northern Ethiopian hills and mountains while swerving towards the border. A proper goodbye from one of the most beautiful and culturally rich countries we have ever seen, with some really friendly and lots of very tough people.
Bahir Dar, Lake tana, Repairs
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nic red September 24, 2014 at 6:08 pm
Thanks for sharing these great adventures – der Teufel ist ein Eichhoernchen
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The racy sex life of the dunnock
I have been watching a pair of dunnocks in the garden and it is easy to see why this is a bird that many people overlook. It does, after all, have rather unremarkable brown-streaked plumage and a tendency to feed out of sight beneath shrubs and bushes.
But appearances can be deceptive; for the dunnock has a most racy sex life which if replicated amongst the good folk of a country parish would be deemed as quite scandalous.
The dunnock indulges in virtually every mating strategy possible. More than one male can be paired with the same female, or a male can be paired with more than one female. And two or more males may be with two or more females at the same time. But there are also some puritan birds who adopt the seemingly boring practice of monogamy.
Confused? Well it is all a game of adapting to the circumstances and trying to successfully pass on one’s genes to the next generation – or as one naturalist so aptly described dunnock breeding behaviour, a case of ‘every man for himself’.
In the scenario of one female and two males, the hen dunnock plays a very clever strategy. She will mate with one male, but then when the other male comes along he will peck at her rear which causes her to eject the sperm from the first suitor, before he too then mates with her. What all this means is that the two males think they are the fathers and will both therefore help to feed the young in the nest, dramatically increasing the chances of the brood being successfully raised.
If all this is not enough, at the peak of the courting season dunnocks may mate with each other up to 100 times a day. Furthermore, all this is happening right beneath your neatly trimmed berberis and cotoneaster bushes. Ooh-er missus, time for a lie down, me thinks.
This fascinating behaviour was only discovered in the 1990s and highlights how much we still have to learn about nature, even right on our own doorstep. Perhaps it also shows how we tend to take our more familiar creatures very much for granted and often pay them only cursory attention.
The dunnock illustrates this in other ways. Okay, so the bird does appear a bit drab at first glance. But look closer and the plumage is in fact rather intricate; a rufous brown with dark streaks and a lovely slate-grey head, throat and breast. It also has a most wonderful short and musical song at this time of year. One of my earliest memories as a child was finding a dunnock’s nest lodged in a moss-covered tree stump, the four eggs glistening like azure pebbles.
The most interesting life of the apparently unassuming dunnock should really serve as encouragement to us all to look that little bit closer at our everyday fauna and flora. In other words, the deeper you delve, the greater the surprises revealed. Sometimes quite shocking ones!
Our sleeping world
Tidying up the garden in preparation for winter, I came across three hibernating garden snails hidden beneath an ornamental rock. Huddled together, I was immediately struck by the attractive and intricate patterns inscribed upon their spiral shells.
One of the snails became dislodged from the underside of the stone, and as I turned it over I could see that the opening at the bottom of the shell had been totally closed off with a crust of hardened mucous so as to seal the animal safely inside and prevent it drying out. The heartbeat rate drops dramatically too so as to save vital energy. In effect, this trio of snails were as close to death as one can get without actually tipping over the edge.
The different strategies our invertebrates adopt to see them through the winter is an endless source of fascination for me. Beneath the soil, or in cracks and crevices in walls, or within a rotting tree stump, there is a whole multitude of life lying unseen. Many of these creatures don’t even exist in the adult form at all, but instead see through the winter months as eggs or larvae waiting to burst into life the following spring.
For the wasp, only the pregnant queens remain, holed up in some crevice in a wall or perhaps the attic of a house, waiting for the warmer weather and the chance to start up a new colony. Some adult butterflies too may be hibernating such as small tortoiseshells and peacocks and it is not unusual to find an individual in the corner of a garden shed or even in a bedroom cupboard. On warm days in March they will be among the first insects to emerge.
Other invertebrates, however, don’t need to hibernate and can often be seen during damp and mild spells. The clouds of winter gnats dancing over the garden lawn are always a sight that cheers the heart. And while garden snails go for the hibernation option, it is not unusual to see slugs out and about on a mild winter’s evening.
It seems rather perplexing why some types of slugs venture out in winter, whilst the related garden snail prefers to hibernate. Although it does appear that the garden snail is generally not very tolerant of the cold and in Scotland tends to be only found in the milder, coastal areas.
What is for certain is that both slugs and snails are important winter food our birds. It would be a veritable feast for a song thrush if one were to happen upon the three slumbering snails beneath my garden rock. Although many Scottish song thrushes head further south to spend the winter, there are usually a few that stay behind.
I like song thrushes, but these snails were appealing in their own way too, so I carefully placed the rock back again in its original position, making sure in particular that the animal I had accidentally dislodged was firmly out of sight from any predatory eyes.
Why are there so many jellyfish in the Mediterranean this year?
I’ve been lucky enough to twice visit the Spanish island of Mallorca this year to engage in my passion for snorkelling.
The Mediterranean is such a diverse place for marine life and on almost every dive I come back having seen something new.
One feature this year has been the sheer abundance of jellyfish – most notably mauve stingers and compass jellyfish. But there were also comb jellies and ‘by-the-wind sailors’, the most unusual creature I think I have ever seen.
These jellyfish were especially numerous in the spring, but were still pretty prolific on my most recent visit in October.
In previous years when snorkelling in the Mediterranean I have only occasionally seen jellyfish – so what is going on?
It is an issue that is causing a bit of debate among marine scientists, with climate change, ocean acidification and pollution, and overfishing of predator species all being cited as possible reasons.
The mauve stinger (pictured) in particular is a most beautiful species, but let me tell you this; the sting is pretty nasty as I found to my cost in the spring. The Mediterranean is highly dependent on tourism, so it would be highly undesirable economically if this jellyfish abundance were to continue in future years.
Perhaps there is some unexplained natural phenomena going on – nature does tend to have boom and bust tendencies – and numbers will fall back in the future. But whatever the case, both scientists and tourism bosses will be monitoring the situation closely.
Why the humble woodpigeon is one of our most successful birds
I was out walking the dog through a stretch of thick pine plantation in Glen Devon when I stumbled upon the half eggshell from a woodpigeon lying by the path’s edge.
Once the eggs hatch in the nest, the mother woodpigeon will deposit the empty white eggshells some distance away. The remarkable thing about my discovery is that it happened right in the middle of autumn – and this in itself gives an insight into why the woodpigeon is such a successful and ubiquitous bird.
Virtually all our bird species breed in a relatively narrow timeframe in spring and early summer, but the woodpigeon is content to cast aside such hindrances and there have been records of breeding in Scotland in most months of the year. I imagine one reason they are able to extend their nesting season is by taking advantage of spilt grain in our fields after harvesting.
Even as I write this piece I can hear a male woodpigeon ardently cooing in the wood behind my house, keen to attract a mate. If he succeeds, then it could be early November before the young have fledged and are on the wing.
The pigeon family certainly does seem to have an inherent ability to adapt. Feral pigeons are, of course, common in our cities, but perhaps the most astonishing story lies in the expansion of the collared dove.
In what has been described as one of the most remarkable ornithological events of the 20th century, the collared dove didn’t even occur here until the mid-1950s when it then rapidly colonised the British Isles after spreading north-west from Turkey.
But it is not all plain sailing in the pigeon world, as highlighted by the passenger pigeon. A native of North America it made the tragic journey from being one of the most abundant birds in the world during the 19th century to extinction early in the 20th century. A lesson for us all.
Autumn life on the River Devon
Down by the River Devon the first of the autumn leaves have started to swirl in the air whenever the wind blows, alighting gently onto the water’s surface before being carried downstream.
I like the autumn; the chilling of the air and the turning of the leaves. The Ochils too will soon change hue from tired shades of green to a blaze of ochre that has been fired up by the wilting grass and bracken.
It is a season that brings so much and out on the river dippers are uttering short bursts of soft song as they mark out their territories. Dippers thrive on the Devon and one only has to turn over a small stone plucked from the shallows to find the reason why. The underside of such pebbles will invariably be crawling with small insect larvae – an abundant source of protein for the dippers to feast upon.
I disturb a heron as I make my way along the bank. Herons often have favourite fishing stations and those on the Devon particularly like to position themselves at the top of shallow rapids. Trout are on the move to spawning areas at this time of year and present an easy target for the herons as they ascend these shallow, bubbling stretches of water.
Trout have other enemies here too. Only recently I came upon an inquisitive mink that eyeballed me from in among tangled tree roots on the bankside. It soon tired of this staring game and plopped into the water and disappeared from view. Mink are the most accomplished swimmers and trout are one of their principal prey items.
Although the mink is an undesirable alien species to these parts, there is no denying that they are rather attractive creatures in their own right, thick furred and lithesome. One must never forget that it is not their fault that they are here, and as such, deserve at least a modicum of our respect.
Haunting calls of tawny owls fill our night air
Over the next few months as the nights get perceptibly longer, our tawny owls will in turn become increasingly vocal as young birds try to make their mark and form territories. The owls hoot and screech from just after sunset right through to dawn, making it one of the busiest times of year in the owl calendar.
Setting up territory is an energy sapping business, but it is also one of the most important things a young owl has to do, if it is to thrive and successfully breed. Tawny owls generally mate for life, and once a pair has established a territory they will defend it doggedly throughout the year from other owls.
A good territory that offers safe nest sites and fruitful hunting areas for voles and mice is like gold-dust, and incumbent owls do not take too kindly to young pretenders trying to move in. The young owls, therefore, have to tread carefully as they continually call so as to determine areas that are vacant.
It is a haunting experience to be out in the woods just after dusk and listen to these tawny owls engage in their vocal duels. The quavering “hu…hu-hoooo” is the main call of the male, while the female’s principal vocalisation is the more strident “kee-wick” call, which the Scottish naturalist David Stephen likened to an Indian war whoop.
Gilbert White, the pioneering 18th century nature diarist, was also greatly intrigued by the subtle variations in the call of the tawny owl. He wrote: “My musical friend, at whose house I am now visiting, has tried all the owls that are his near neighbours with a pitch-pipe set at concert pitch, and finds that they all hoot in B flat”.
However, he recounted later of instances of other owls hooting in different keys. White wondered: “Do these different notes proceed from different species, or only from various individuals?”
It is such inquisitive questioning that has led to our much more comprehensive understanding of the natural world today.
The trembling aspens of Strathdevon
Most mornings I trek up a small hill overlooking Strathdevon and one of the joys of the walk is a small group of aspen trees growing by the side of the path.
At first glance these trees appear rather unremarkable, but looks can be deceptive, for when the wind blows something quite remarkable happens; the leaves begin to tremble and quiver in delightful fashion. Indeed, the Latin name, Populas tremula, means ‘trembling poplar’ and to sit by one and listen to the wind rustling through the leaves is really quite addictive.
The early 20th century poet Edward Thomas eloquently wrote of how the ‘the whisper of the aspens’ could not even be subdued by the ‘ringing of hammer’ and the ‘clink and ‘hum’ emanating from a local blacksmith.
Folklore states that this trembling of the leaves was an indication of some secret guilt – most likely because it was believed to be the wood used to make the cross on which Christ was crucified. One book I came across on Celtic traditions said the ‘aspen tree was particularly loathed’ because it ‘had haughtily held up its head while all the others in the forest had bowed down, proud that it had been chosen by the enemies of Christ as the wood for the cross’.
The leaf stalks of the aspen are quite long and flattened; a combination that makes the leaves flutter so easily in the breeze. I like these Strathdevon aspens for other reasons too, and the chances are that at least one of them will hold foraging blue or great tits whenever I pass.
Like the birch or the rowan, the aspen is very much a pioneering tree that is among the first to colonise new areas of open ground, often where the soil is poor such as in hilly areas.
This means they are important ecologically because they help to enrich the land through their shed leaves, thus preparing the way for other types of tree such as oak that are much fussier in their requirements.
The importance of the pioneering rowan
At the head of one of the narrow glens dissecting the Ochil Hills there is a fine rowan tree I know that maintains a tenacious foothold in a rocky fissure.
Nothing unusual in that you might say, but a couple of years ago a mistle thrush built a nest in its upper crown and successfully raised a brood of chicks. In other words, if it wasn’t for the rowan, there would have been no breeding mistle thrushes in this part of the glen. This single and unassuming tree had played a small but nevertheless important role in enhancing the overall biodiversity of the area.
This is why I always look upon the rowan with much affection. They are pioneering trees gaining tenure in hilly areas where few other trees are ever found. Often known as the mountain ash, it is undoubtedly one of our most attractive trees, especially at this time of year with their branches festooned with heavy hanging bunches of scarlet berries. But the show isn’t over yet and as autumn really begins to take hold the leaves develop a stunning reddish hue. In Gaelic the rowan is rather appropriately known as rudha-an – ‘the red one’.
As well as being a handy place for birds to nest, the rowan supports wildlife in many other ways too. Winter thrushes such as redwings and fieldfares just love to feast upon their berries, and in spring the rowan is adorned with vibrant creamy white flowerheads that are magnet for bees and other insects.
It is hardly surprising therefore that the rowan is so closely engrained into our folklore. It has been associated with witchcraft since the earliest of times and Celtic Druids venerated it for its healing and medicinal properties. The tree was often planted in churchyards and near houses to ward off witches, and even up to the early years of the 20th century rowan boughs were hung over farm buildings in the Highlands. In some parts of Scotland cutting down a rowan tree is still considered a harbinger of bad luck, especially when close to a house.
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Revenue Down! What Does It Mean?
By Duane Goossen
In fiscal year 2014, receipts fell $688 million from the previous year.
Now three months into FY 2015, revenue is coming in below the FY 2014 level. That has very serious implications.
Travel through the numbers, looking first at a comparison of first quarter collections.
Several things are of note:
Individual income tax collections are down $51 million from last year, a 9 percent drop. Total revenue has fallen $33 million for the quarter.
Corporate income tax collections were up. That’s not too surprising given that tax rates for full corporations have not changed. The exemption from state income tax given to LLCs and S Corporations affects individual income tax collection amounts.
The Department of Revenue has been actively trying to settle outstanding tax cases to pump up receipts, so there is likely one-time revenue in the first quarter FY 2015 totals. Plus, the state is $26 million behind on planned transfers out of the State General Fund, transfers which, if made, would have reduced the FY 2015 total even more.
The “official” FY 2015 profile for the State General Fund (shown below) assumes revenue will be $321 million higher than the amount actually received in FY 2014. Even with that optimistic assumption the ending balance is projected to be only $29 million.
If the revenue estimate were changed to assume no growth from FY 2014 to FY 2015 (shown below), the ending balance immediately goes far below zero. Remember, FY 2015 first quarter receipts are actually below the FY 2014 level right now, not flat.
The State General Fund cannot go under zero, so a scenario like this means mid-fiscal year budget cuts.
More importantly, this signals big trouble for the future. Current expenses are set at $6.325 billion. If FY 2015 revenue does not grow — which is more and more likely — it will be $672 million below expenses: a huge structural budget imbalance.
But future expenses will keep going up, while at the same time, even more tax rate reductions are scheduled to kick in.
Kansas is on a financially irresponsible path that will be very painful and difficult to fix.
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Barns conversion project 2011 – 2013
We started the conversion of three dilapidated outbuildings in January 2011. The outbuildings were part of the former Ivy farm that had been dismembered over the past decades, its land and outbuildings sold in phases. Originally they were used for the storage and workings of the farm and then left to the weather to destroy. The roofs had suffered severe damage and the wood rotten. The date the barns were built is not certain, however they were depicted on the 1880 OS map and, in some form, on the 1840 Tithe map. The local craftsmen Kevin, Brian and Martin carried a thorough renovation of the barns, respecting the traditional character of the cornish cottage and bringing modern insulation concepts and a very good taste for details and high standard. At the end of February 2013 after just over two years the project was completed and the results of the transformation are outstanding.
The Glencoe Farm plot is in Treen village and bound on three sides by a trackway and road on the SE by gardens of nearby properties with Treen Methodist chapel on its NE corner.
Before it was given its current name, Barn number two was the most derelict of the outbuildings and probably the oldest as well, being already depicted on the map of Treen in 1840. It has a sub-rectangular shape. Originally used as an animal house, probably for calves and more recently converted into a workshop for the preparation of flowers to market and store. The roof had suffered severe slumping and cracking and part of the walls collapsed once we started its renovation. Many of the wooden beams were recycled from previous use in other buildings and in ships.
Exterior view from South West Exterior view from North West Interior before the kichen Roof tiling
Gwennel barn is a single-storey building with two interconnecting rooms forming an inverted L-shape plan. The barn had been built in several phases, before 1840 it consisted of a small square shaped building where the current bathroom stands. Over the years further extensions were added to be finalised at ist current state betwen 1840 and 1880. The evidence from archeological survey indicates that the bigger room was a stable, probaby for a pair of shire horses, used for working the land, and a cart shed and/or farm machinery shed. The function of the smaller room on the SE is uncertain, perhaps some sort of pigsy or store. The massive beam still in situe in the barn may have a mining or maritime origin.
Interior of Barn 3, with massive beam Interior of Barn 3, current bathroom Roof tiling Original boundary with big granite blocks
The little Barn “Kiji”
Barn 1 esterior NW view Interior of Barn 1 prior restauration Original copper boiler used for the washing
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@Parka_AAA - Técnico - Luchador
There are simply not enough words to describe the highly popular wrestling icon simply known as La Parka.
An authentic AAA Worldwide idol, a natural-born leader, winner of each and every title a professional wrestler can dream of, he’s undoubtedly one of the pillars that firmly support the Company.
Previously known as wrestler Karis la Momia, he enjoyed the sweet taste of victory for the first time on July 15th, 1996, in Cd. Madero, after becoming the winner of a caged match, in the Triplemanía IV event, on which he obtained the mask of rival Halcón Dorado Jr. On that same match, he also faced against lucha teams Los Juniors Atómicos (Tinieblas Jr., Máscara Sagrada Jr. and Blue Demon Jr.) and Los Payasos.
Previously, and still wearing the mantle of Karis la Momia, he won the Campeonato Nacional Crucero tournament, after defeating lucha legend Blue Demon Jr.
However, his biggest chance at stardom came later that year, when AAA General Director, Lic. Antonio Peña, choose him to bear the mantle of La Parka, after the original bearer decided to take on a new identity (L.A. Park).
Then, under his new identity as La Parka (II), he quickly earned an elite position within the AAA ranks, becoming a leader in the battle against the LLL and its allies. Wrestler La Parka has won many titles and trophies, both national and around the world. Among those titles, he has won 4 times the AAA Rey de Reyes title, among many other titles.
He also had to fight for the right to keep wearing the mantle of La Parka against none other than the original wearer himself! This lucha, held during the Triplemanía XVIII tournament, is considered among the most important ones in all Mexican Lucha Libre history.
During the Héroes Inmortales event, held on 9/10/11, he turns against his teammates and betrays the AAA Army, joining La Sociedad. But this alliance was short-lived, as he came back to the ranks of the AAA, after briefly speaking with AAA General Director, Lic. Roldán, but even so, he hasn’t stated that his return is definitive.
For now, wrestler La Parka wears and honors the flag of AAA Founder, Lic. Antonio Peña, whom created the highly popular character.
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Same-sex marriage supporters take over America's local newspapers
NEW YORK - Love Takes Over is a nationwide initiative calling on citizens to write to their local newspapers about marriage equality during the week of January 3rd-January 9th. Love Takes Over seeks to promote and foster dialogue about marriage equality on a local level.
The idea behind Love Takes Over is simple: One week. One unified voice. Everyone take over America’s local newspapers and get people talking about marriage equality across the entire country at the same time.
Love Takes Over encourages American citizens to open up dialogue on a variety of issues pertaining to marriage equality. These issues include why civil marriage is a civil rights issue, why Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships are not equal to marriage, how inequality affects the families and children of same-sex couples, and why the issue of marriage equality is personally important to the author of each article.
“We believe in the power of small,” say the activists behind Love Takes Over, “We believe that the small steps people take everyday to educate their families, friends, and local communities are a vital part of any social justice movement.”
Articles are to be published during the week of January 3rd-January 9th. College students on Winter Break are encouraged to write to their hometown newspapers and submit a piece to their campus newspaper at the start of the new semester.
For more information, please contact Jen Dugan at (201) 247-6419 or email ltonewspapers@gmail.com. More information can also be found at Love Takes Over’s official project blog: lovetakesover.tumblr.com.
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That "Crazy Texas Mommy" Can Be Silent For Months
But when she gets pissed about something she is at her best and reminds us again that she is a fantastic writer. Why? She writes from the heart and has a tortured soul.
And because, six years later, I am still ashamed. I forgive him (or at least I tell myself that), but I still fear him. I hate that the ordeal caused something to twist off inside of me that makes me know, without a doubt, I will end the damn life of any other man who hits because I know the local police won't help me— just like the Waco police didn't help the girl at Baylor. They already proved that to me twice. They don't get a third chance.
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Yeah, there's some comedy in this video but that is one heck of a swing. The form is perfect.
Trump 2016 Gains Steam!
He spoke in front of a raucous crowd in . . . Alabama last night in a . . . football stadium. (This is getting too fun.)
But if I had a Liberally Lean Hall Of Fame Photo Gallery, this pic would be in it. There is a lot going on there.
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(1) "Get me this dog!"
(2) "Kill this cat!"
I'll Be In The Storm Cellar For A Bit
This is kind of a big story this afternoon in the sports world. I'm OK. Really. I'm fine.
And get ready for the Art Briles sound bite of "Let's talk about football" from this morning. That will not play well.
Random thought: I'm in the criminal law business. The power of a verdict has consequences for many, many people other than those involved in the trial. A guilty verdict is considered as conclusive proof of guilt. A not guilty verdict is interpreted as a conclusive finding of innocence. Both propositions are incorrect. Baylor and Briles are now in the media's cross-hairs. A guilty verdict yesterday prompted this. A not guilty verdict yesterday would have brought news today of how an innocent man was wrongfully accused and Baylor supported him through it all. This isn't to diminish the crime if one was committed, and I'm not saying this jury was wrong. I am only saying a jury's decision changes everything.
I tell every jury panel: "There are no second chances. There are no do overs. You cannot afford to be wrong."
I Missed This Press Release From The Wise County Republican Party
I'll call it "interesting." It's basically: "Republicans aren't mad enough about this same sex ruling! But I'll tell you one thing, preachers on TV are telling me to take a stand. And Robert Jeffers is one of them!"
Friday's Supreme Court really did not come as a huge surprise, we all suspected it was bound to happen. What was really surprising is the response, or lack thereof, by the GOP leadership.
Facebook is awash with those who are blatantly against it (as well as the whole rebel flag controversy), and those who have changed their profile photo to a rainbow. However, we are in a time where we truly must know what we believe, and actually take a stand. Not get caught up in the issues that may take away from the importance of things that speak to the very heart of our belief system.
I happened to be in a store on Sunday and saw a headline on the TV screen that said "GOP Split over Same Sex Marriage." I was a bit shocked until I saw it was CNN... so you have to take it with a grain of salt.
Then I read an article and realized that we are not hearing the huge outcry one would expect from the leaders of a party that is supposed to STAND for traditional marriage. You see the article stated that the GOP is split on the issue because many are leaning more toward the younger conservatives acceptance of gay rights. To read the entire article, click here.
You see, the Republican leaders are more concerned about the issues with the health care law among other things. While the health care law is extremely important, why aren't our leaders being more vocal on this vote and the real impact it has on their constituents? We do have some, like our Governor, who is being very vocal, while many at the national level are not.
Wise County will be issuing the marriage licenses soon, and other counties are seeing their County Clerk's refusing to issue the licenses, and either resigning or having to go into hiding due to threats.
Many officials will be forced to choose between their moral conscience and the law, while the Southern Baptist Convention is calling for civil disobedience because of this ruling. See complete article here. 16 million people in the US are being called upon to stand up. This could have far-reaching implications in the work-place, in cities, towns, and governments, the likes of which we haven't begun to see.
While driving home from East Texas Sunday morning, I heard the live sermon from Dr. Jeffers, pastor of First Baptist Dallas, preaching on Civil Disobedience. His basic message was how to know when it is proper. Bottom line, Civil Disobedience is appropriate when the laws of the land go against the moral laws of God. He used Martin Luther King as an example.
MLK knew that civil rights were the rights God ordained for all men. He also knew he would pay a price to stand up against the laws of the land, and he did, with his very life. But Dr. Jeffers wasn't the only one preaching this message, many on TV and on the air-waves preached the same sort of sermon, stating we must take a stand.
Before too much time has past, I wanted to share the actual GOP platform on the issue so you can decide if you are willing to stand as a true Republican, much less a true conservative. The statements are in the section below with a link to the entire platform. Hopefully, you have already decided within your own conscience on the issue, understanding the full spiritual implications.
Only time will tell what this decision will fully mean for our nation. Now, however, we must decide what it will mean for Wise County. If we don't think it will impact us here, we are only fooling ourselves.
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I Would Pay Money To See This If It Had Been That Tweeting Texas Judge
(Source) A woman made quite the scene in a Broward courtroom this week when she flashed the judge. Susan Surrette, 54, of Fort Lauderdale was arrested on Wednesday for disorderly intoxication. When Judge John Hurley asked Surrette what she does for employment, she said she works as an escort and porn star named Kayla Kupcakes.
While the judge was reading her charges in bond court, Surrette made some disturbing claims about being roughhoused by police. What she did next, however, left the courtroom in shock.
I don't know what gets my attention more. A gal trying to prove she's been injured and pulls no punches to make her point, or a judge who acts like he just seen something he's never seen before. And think I'll take her side simply because of the name Kupcakes.
(Very random thought: If anyone else thought of a court scene from the very old movie Night Shift, we are kindred spirits.)
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Man, Baylor got dog piled yesterday even before and after a "football player" was found guilty of sexual assault. So much is weird about this. First, he has never played a single play for Baylor after transferring from Boise State. Secondly, the real story, other than the crime, is the lack of press about this case up until now. That prompted Deadspin to write a few days ago,"The Baylor Sexual Assault Trial You've Never Heard About." That's not Baylor's fault, that's the press's fault. Note this: The police never arrested him -- they just turned the case over to the grand jury so I'll give the press a pass at first because it's hard to report about a non-arrest. However, there undoubtedly should have been some news once the indictment occurred but the Waco Tribune Herald reported nothing (odd) and Baylor kept quiet (understandable - why do they want to announce it?) A few years back I could have sworn the publisher of the Tribune-Herald became a member of the Baylor Board of Regent's but said it would not be a conflict of interest. I think he left the board shortly thereafter but that relationship was too cozy. But my memory might be wrong.
That being said, it is Baylor, and not the media, which is getting destroyed this morning by the, uh, media.
And I hope the jury was right. This is a He Said/She Said case (by what I can gather from the little coverage there is) and the victim and defendant had been friends.
His defense lawyer "Claimed the sex was consensual, and called his client the 'victim' and said the woman had 'buyer’s remorse.'" Buddy, you should have stopped at "consensual."
I just looked at the lawyer's home page. He touts that he is the son of "Senator" David Sibley (that would be a state senator.) And there is this: "If you have found our website from a letter we sent after you have been charged with a crime, we want you to know that we understand what you are dealing with. We can provide you with aggressive representation." (Emphasis added.)
Speaking of trials, I had a bizarre one yesterday. Jury selection followed by four witness in a blood test DWI case that ended up with a hung six person jury at 3-3. All this in one day.
Shout out to the pastor on the jury panel who was aware of Liberally Lean and said, "I think my wife fights with you from time to time."
I'm still conflicted about a prosecutor in my cases bringing up Liberally Lean during jury selection -- even in passing. I used to make me uncomfortable, but you can learn a lot of about a potential juror just by their reaction. Whether it be a smile from a potential jury member who looks at me with a "That's you!?" expression or the guy who suddenly glares at me. The key is: I'm learning who I'm dealing with. And full disclosure: It's rare to have anyone on a panel who is even aware of this silly blog.
One thought about trying a case all by yourself: It's all on you. Every brilliant move. Every dumb move. There is no hiding. You own it.
I feel like I'm the only one who has no idea who Josh Duggar is. Side note: I feel sorry for any girl out there named Ashley Madison.
In my never ending quest of exposing news stories commercials disguised as ads, there was a great one last night on Fox 4. There was a a very newsworthy story about a missing teen who was found via a GPS device. They showed the device and said the product's name. Ok. No big deal. But later, when Clarice Tinsley was doing her inane reading of Facebook comments, she read one that said, "That a great product. I own one." Tinsley then looks at the camera and tells the price of it and says, "It's well worth the price." Come on.
That could be the future of advertising. Have the sales staff preview legitimate news story and see if there are any potential clients who are part of the story. You know, see a story that will mention a GPS device and then contact that company cutting a deal for a Clarice Tinsley plug.
RG3 suffered a concussion last night. (You gotta have a GIF). That's his third one in his career. This might be the beginning of the end.
"Investigators say the [41 year old] girlfriend of a 70-year-old retired judge has been charged with shooting him in the head while at his Corpus Christi home." Tell me more. Tell me more.
Lost Wise County Dog
I'm posting this for a buddy. (And I'm sorry it took me all day to get to it.)
The Ashley Madison adulterer email list was released by hackers yesterday. I envisioned Maury Povich looking at me and saying, "You are not on the list! You are not on the list!"
There is another police controversial police shooting -- this time in St. Louis.
Mark Davis opened his radio show today talking about that shooting and asking, after some careful hesitation which apparently was not long enough, "Is it ever OK to shoot a black guy?" I should note that immediately after that he mentioned that line might have been a "career definer" for him.
Someone asked me what I thought about Hillary's chances for the Democratic nomination. If I had to bet money, I'd bet on her. But there might be something in the air.
Denton attorney Rick Hagen has announced he is running for a Texas House seat. I hope he wins because I know him, and I think he would actually tell me what goes on down there. Also, he announced his candidacy at a restaurant called El Guapo’s. He should win by default simply for that power and/or comedic move.
I had yet another thought about my crazy-kill-your-child-before-age-of-accountability hypo: A believer wouldn't do that primarily because they have a doubt, a reasonable one, about whether the child would really go to heaven. Put another way, he does not believe it beyond a reasonable doubt.
How do Subway Jared'd federal case get wrapped up in record time while John Wiley Price's case goes on for years.
And is there something weird about the government collecting "restitution" of $100,000 each for 14 victims? Are they prosecutors or plaintiff's attorney?
Yvonne Craig, who appeared at Batgirl in the original Batman TV show (comedy genius by they way), has died. She was truly my first boyhood crush. And, as I look back, "Hey, Now" was justifiably deserved. (Fun fact: She appeared with Elvis in It Happened At The World’s Fair (1963) and Kissin’ Cousins (1964))
I need to start a Liberally Lean Hall of Fame. It would be unique. For example, Yvonne Craig: In. Elvis: Out.
Eight years ago the starting salary for a new assistant DA was in the mid $50s. Has it gone up? There may be a new phenomenon going on where the public sector always gets a raise while the private sector wages become stagnant.
Get Me This Dog?
Can't stop laughing 😂😂pic.twitter.com/5H1iiL1SNi
— Epic Sport Vines (@EpicSportVines) August 19, 2015
Oh, come on. Who doesn't like bangs?
I had a weird flashback yesterday as I saw a news report about high school two-a-days. In practice one time I went out to catch a pass in the flat, it was overthrown, and two or three seconds later I was hit in the back with a late hit by a linebacker. I jumped up in anger and shoved his head back with an open palm to his facemask. There was a small skirmish after that (thank god he didn't kill me because it would have been ugly) and then I walked back to the huddle. But as I walked, I heard Coach Max Moore, on a megaphone from high above, say, "Hey, Green. Grant Teaff is watching you." I found it bizarrely funny then and I still do. And it's multi-layered.
The Ticket is broadcasting at Texas Wesleyan this morning and keep promoting it, by contractual obligation, as "the oldest university in Fort Worth." Ummmkay.
Speaking of flashbacks, there's been lots of talk about televangelist Robert Tilton after John Oliver exposed him again on HBO last Sunday. I went back and watched some old clips from Tilton and he does exactly what Joel Osteen and his ilk do today -- just not as smoothly. "There is someone out there with an intestinal problem."
I was told that there is a DWI trial going on in Wise County where the defense lawyer has chosen for the jury to assess punishment if the defendant is convicted. That may not mean anything to you, but that is that is beyond fascinating, and I can't wait to hear how it turns out.
Dallas just had the "Mayor's School Fair" at Fair Park where free school supplies were available to the poor who met certain requirements. Here is what Mark Davis said about it yesterday on his radio show: "I've told you what the typical parent is in line for that thing -- showing up for the Dallas County, you know, 'free stuff' school fair. The average parent in line is, you know, just left a beer in the car, smoking a cigarette, on a cell phone to the cable company." (7:00 minute mark). Wow. (Special note to former Producer Susan: Your old boss has either lost his mind or he's trying to get fired.) Recall Davis, with all of that love for his fellow man, was allowed to speak in three services at the Grapevine Fellowship Megachurch last year.
The sex offender who escaped from his civil confinement in a halfway house in Fort Worth was found dead in South Carolina because of an apparent suicide. As a side note, four people were arrested for "aiding" his escape from that non-secure facility. But get this: "They were arrested by DPS troopers, Fort Worth and Granbury police, deputies with the Hood County Sheriff’s Department, and officials with the Texas attorney general’s office and the U.S. Marshals Service. " That's all? I will not make my obligatory "too many cops" statement right now.
I would have won Super Triple Jeopardy yesterday when someone asked me to name an old Baylor player they saw who wore number 34, and I wildly --yet correctly -- answered "Abercrombie" within seconds. (Here's an old cover of Texas Football where he's pictured along with crazy Craig James. And I had no idea he made the cover of Sport's Illustrated as a Steeler)
Uttered at the courthouse yesterday: "First you want to see me at .08 and now you want to see me on X"? (Shout out to the gal on the phone who almost joked because of laughter yet remained professional.)
The Dallas Morning News has an editorial praising the Texas Forensic Science Commission for opening an investigation into the junk science of "bite mark analysis". How it did not mention David Wayne Spence who was convicted in the "Lake Waco Murders" because of such testimony is puzzling. He was later executed by the government.
And when I do things like use the phrase "by the government" it is because I want someone out there to think, "That's not true! Oh, wait. I guess it is."
Spence's last words: "I want you to understand I speak the truth when I say I didn’t kill your kids. Honestly I have not killed anyone. I wish you could get the rage from your hearts and you could see the truth and get rid of the hatred."
So I Have A Random Thought About Receiving Tips And Then Receive This
Note: It's a lawsuit. Anyone can allege anything. It's then up to those making the accusations to prove it. If the allegations are true, he should be held accountable. If they are not, he is truly a victim. And I mean that. Hey, I just watched Gone Girl so that makes me an expert.
From his website.
And more from his website:
At stake is someone’s divine gift of life, liberty, or property, and the judge has moral obligation to the Creator to make sure that Gift is protected, both in civil cases , or in the determination of guilt of someone accused of a crime. . . . There are many different definitions of what is a conservative judge. Having a respect for the limitations of the Constitution, and a moral obligation to protect those unalienable rights endowed to us by our Creator is mine.
His little used Twitter page will provide comedy for only the most faithful and astute reader of Liberally Lean.
I'm Glad I'm Old
How would you like to be a a young person where every stupid thing you do is captured on video in quality and with editing that would even make Steven Spielberg take notice?
Wait. Hold the phone!!! Is that an Apollo Creed hat ther frat boy is wearing?
(This is reported to be at a frat pool party at UT-San Antonio).
"News" that beat me down yesterday: Blue Bell ice cream being back. (And never has there been a product that killed people be the recipient of so much free advertising of praise.)
"News" that will beat me down today: The fried junk will be offered at the State Fair this year.
I get anpymous tips all the time, and I got one yesterday that really got my attention. In crazy Palo Pinto County, a real estate agent with cancer (who just died) was indicted for stealing "real estate listings". I'm on it.
Special note to those who comment on Wise County school boards: I can't post any comment where you allege theft or corruption unless there are facts to back it up. You can call them crazy, lazy, or incompetent, but you can't accuse them of a crime.
The County Clerk who initially refused to issue a marriage license to a same sex couple "ended up costing Hood County $43,872.10 in attorney’s fees." You know what gets my attention? The fees. There are now a billion lawyers out there. Some are actually competent. If you pay a high fee believing that you are getting the "best" representation, you are getting scammed. And government employees who approve these type of checks gets scammed the most.
And that leads me to this thought: You want to get rich? Be in the private sector and get a government contract. I doesn't matter whether it is in the field of legal, information systems, defense, or construction, you will be overpaid and once you are in -- you're in. It may not be as big of a scam as the government employee who "works from home", but it's still normally a scam.
It was a slow news day yesterday and Fox 4 led with a "Deputy Saves Baby From Hot Car". "Deputy Matthew Slater noticed the child alone inside the hot SUV and broke the window with a pocket knife to get the baby out." Uh, first, it happened almost three weeks ago. Secondly, the video report says "several people had spotted the child in distress". But get this: Reporter Richard Ray said the station was "a little bit surprised" that it took the story this long to come out but Fox 4 was contacted yesterday by the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office to make sure the deputy got the recognition he deserved. Uh, it's his job.
Note to Fox 4: Your new website design is a disaster. Am I the only one who sees that the top half scrolls (weird) and the bottom half seems stationary but it looks like there is more content that you can't see? (And don't click on the link to the story about the deputy "saving" the baby. There is a 1:43 minute advertisement before you get to it. Incredible.)
A faithful reader, who remembed a Random Thought from yesterday, forwarded me a tweet from a third party this morning.: "#NowPlaying 'Jesus Christ' by Brand New from The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me ♫ http://spoti.fi/K1XALv".
Rick Santorum was at the Iowa State Fair this weekend and said we need to send troops into Iraq and then into Syria. Oh, my. But he is so irrelevant that I can't find the text of the speech. Coverage of Donald Trump and his helicopter arriving at the fair, on the other hand, that's easy to find coverage of.
I still like my question from yesterday regarding the "age of accountability". Some people said a parent should not kill his/her child because it is a sin and "against the law". ("Sheesh" on the latter). Let me remind you that we are talking about a guarantee of your child spending eternity in heaven. And parents would give up their life for their child, right? So wouldn't you do anything to guarantee you child is in heaven forever? (I would suspect forgiveness and salvation would still be intact for you if you were willing to be a modern day Abraham, but I'll leave that aside since this whole hypothetical is weird enough already.)
Fox News Knows How To Win The Ratings War
Get a couple of hot gals to debate whether a video of hot sorority girls, oftentimes in bikinis, is an appropriate recruitment tool while running said video on a loop.
A media outlet who some believe has a thinly veiled agenda is using scantily clad/hot women to promote itself? What kind of psycho came up with that crazy idea? Especially if it runs early in the morning.
Side note: Uh, for the WIN . . .
Our Texas Ag Commissioner
He's currently on a 11 day trip to China that you are paying for.
Let's Check In On Some Rich People
A video posted by @janetgretzky on Aug 15, 2015 at 7:31am PDT
Private jet. Check.
Drinks. Check.
Dancing. Check.
Waiter. Check.
The lady on the left?: 54 year old Janet Gretzky - wife of the former NHL star Wayne Gretzky.
Former Baylor Linebacker
(For most of you who could care less*, Baylor beat TCU 61-58 last year in a game which becomes as amazing as Baylor's later collapse in the Cotton Bowl every time I watch it.)
Good: That was a pretty clever bit. Bad: Not filling out the total will cause some to think you haven't authorized the transaction. But, assuming you signed it, and even if you didn't, it will go through. Ambiguous: Was that a good tip? 20% would mean it was a total bill of over $300. Easy to do in that place. Good: Having fun with a waitress with a good tip. Bad: Posting it as a former player for others to have to back up. Jealous: That's pretty good handwriting for a guy.
Edit: Ok, I know. I know I screwed that up that phrase. Send me your name and address and I will refund the cost of your subscription. I'll meet with my editors tomorrow and three or four will be fired.
I had my oil changed this weekend and had to go through the "Uh, sir. Can I show you a couple of things?" routine. I actually agreed to one of the things he suggested. Minutes later I decided that I should have said, "You might be screwing me over. If you're not, thank you. If you are, remember this moment later tonight."
When it comes to "should have said", I'm George Costanza. ("Well, the Jerk Store called, and they're running out of you.")
Julian Bond died over the weekend. I knew nothing about him. In 1965 he won a Georgia state rep seat but the Georgia state representatives voted 184-12 not to seat him because he opposed the Vietnam War. Wow. It took the Supreme Court to set Georgia straight.
Ben Carson seems like a great guy, but I'd have reservations about him operating on my brain. He just comes across as a regular guy instead of a neurosurgeon.
For over a decade I've gone to driver's license hearings in Fort Worth off Camp Bowie Boulevard. Throughout that time, there was a Planned Parenthood clinic in the same complex. It is now gone.
Official Liberally Lean Baseball Player Man Chris Davis has six home runs in his last six games.
We always seem to see a notice that a Wise County government office will be "closed for training". I can't remember ever seeing a private business locking its doors for training.
Official Liberally Lean Girl Britney Spears was at the Teen Choice Awards last night. "Hey, now."
I'm interested: A movie about the 1988 Carter Cowboys. I addition to becoming famous for beating Odessa Permian (the subject of Friday Night Lights), six players became infamous for being sentenced for robbery. I know that I remember a photograph of them being to taken into court in a chain gang, but I couldn't find it.
The raw footage of the explosions at that China chemical plant is amazing. But the guy filming it proved he was an idiot with his play by play account. (Language warning.)
The Tea Party was bragging about raising $230,000 from a "money bomb" this weekend for state rep. Jonathan Stickland. "The result? His constituents love him." I guess that's impressive but for every $1 a person donated a SuperPAC matched it with $3.
Matt Jones hitting second shot from the carpet of a hospitality tent at the PGA Championship was funny. I just wished he would have looked at the camera and said, "Kind of a thin lie." (Tin Cup bar scene shot reference).
I'm finally beginning to watch Jon Oliver on HBO and caught his show on sex education, date rape, etc. In talking about our culture, he brought up a line from a song from Grease: "Tell me more. Tell me more. Did she put up a fight?" How did we just ignore that?
I can never catch the name of the band, but there is a Bomb Factory commercial on The Ticket's online feed where the announcer refers to "their hit song 'Jesus Christ'." So jarring.
A thought provoking and disturbing question I heard this weekend: If a parent believes that a child will absolutely spend eternity in heaven if the child were to die before the "age of accountability", why wouldn't that parent kill his child before that age to guarantee that happens? His point was: Does the parent truly believe that?
It's Not Happy Gilmore vs. Bob Barker . . .
. . . but I think this is funny when it comes to golf.
It is something right out of a legal opinion. "In this case, the court must consider whether an ant is considered 'a burrowing animal' under the rules and definitions created by the Pro Golfer's Association. We hold it is not."
Or you could always go with the guy on a See-Doo talking on a cell phone. (For the sake of comedy, I'm going to assume he was asking his buddy about whether an ant is a burrowing animal.)
Dear god look at this absolutely chill dude steal Day's thunder pic.twitter.com/A4X6jg1jUS
— D. Carter Ruff (@dcarterruff) August 16, 2015
I Love The New ESPN College Football Commercial About Revenge
Commercial.
Screen Shot which is shown for only a second or two:
Bear traps? 88 miles? Oh!!!!! Now I get it!
"You're a jerk. I thought that was a sarcastic statement. "
"We're having fun here, no?"
NEW @FoxNews national poll. Trump & Carson big. pic.twitter.com/3anjZbJN0e
— Mark Halperin (@MarkHalperin) August 16, 2015
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On Cinema with Claire Denis | NYFF56
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In this annual special event, NYFF Director Kent Jones sits down with world-renowned filmmakers for an in-depth talk about films from other directors that have influenced and inspired them, their talk illustrated with film clips. This year, Jones talked with French filmmaker Claire Denis, whose completely unexpected science-fiction film High Life, starring Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche, was one of the most talked-about selections of the festival. Denis has long been a mainstay of NYFF, and this conversation gives insight into her approach to the art form.
The full list of clips shown, in order, is Mystery Train, Je, tu, il, elle, Intentions of Murder, An Angel at My Table, Thief, Touki Bouki, and Mille soleils.
The 17-day New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema, featuring top films from celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent. Since 1963, NYFF has brought new and important cinematic works from around the world to Lincoln Center. In addition to the Main Slate official selections, the festival includes newly restored classics, special events, filmmaker talks, panel discussions, the avant-garde showcase Projections, and much more.
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The Film Society of Lincoln Center is devoted to supporting the art and elevating the craft of cinema. The only branch of the world-renowned arts complex Lincoln Center to shine a light on the everlasting yet evolving importance of the moving image, this nonprofit organization was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international film. Via year-round programming and discussions; its annual New York Film Festival; and its publications, including Film Comment, the U.S.’s premier magazine about films and film culture, the Film Society endeavors to make the discussion and appreciation of cinema accessible to a broader audience, as well as to ensure that it will remain an essential art form for years to come.
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NYFF52: "Clouds of Sils Maria" Red Carpet | Kristen Stewart Pt. 2
NYFF51: Mathieu Amalric | "Jimmy P." Red Carpet
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NEWS FROM THE DIOCESES
The third issue of the publication Dievas ir Tėvynė (God and Country) has appeared. The article entitled "Mankind Has Always Believed in God" contains a rebuttal to attacks in the book by S. Markonis, "You're Not Telling the Truth, Father".
Most of the issue consists of the article, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life", in which the historicity of Christ is demonstrated from various sources.
The article, "What is Atheism?" shows how world-famous people regard atheism, and how atheism stands up under the realities of everyday life and in the light of the Sacred Scriptures.
The article "Faith—the Eternal Light" critiques the television film, "Do You Believe?"
The publication, medium in size, is 68 pages long.
A STRIKING ILLUSTRATION OF "FREEDOM"
The political and religious brain-washing of students in Lithuanian institutions of higher learning demands of Security agents ever increasing effort. Every institution of higher learning has assigned to it, permanent "bosses"—security agents, who, like spiders, weave their web: They recruit teachers, at least one student from each class, and administrative assistants to keep track of one another, to watch, listen, and report, so that "everything" might be known to Security; that everyone, no matter where they might be, or what they might be doing, would at all times feel a nagging fear, that his or her conversations would be overheard and reported, so that students and teachers would be permeated with feelings of extreme hopelessness: "Even though everyone sees clearly the most brazen lies and constraint, nevertheless there is nothing which can be done about it; it is no use kicking against the goad."
Security is quick to terrorize everyone, so that even in the depths of one's mind, a person would not dare condemn government force and deceit.
One of the "bosses" at the Lithuanian Academy of Agriculture is Daunys, an interrogator with Kaunas Security. Lecturer Zemaitis of the Department of Agrochemistry servilely helps him.
Word reached them that Virginijus Mačinkenas, junior scientific associate in the microelement laboratory of the aforesaid department, had begun to attend church quite zealously. "He is not to be allowed to do his thesis and must be watched more carefully," came the order from above.
In the spring of 1976, Virginijus applied to the seminary for admission. This was too big a matter for Daunius. The "boss" of the seminary arrived, a lieutenant colonel of Security who had the final word on which candidates could be accepted to the seminary.
For a long time he questioned, pleaded, and lectured the applicant on the realities of life. Finally he decided, "No, we'll never make an agent out of this one." It was not necessary to wait long for the decision of Security, bearing the stamp of the seminary rector.
Drivers at the Agriculture Academy, like chauffeurs of other institutions, sometimes pick up an additional bit of income on their day off by using the government bus to transport an excursion, a wedding party, or a group of mushroom hunters. In this illegal way they compensate for their poor salaries.
Virginijus asked a driver to take a group of pilgrims to Šiluva (One of the most popular Marian shrines — Transl. Note). This time the spider web immediately went into action. Lecturer Žemai-tis, like a good overseer and collaborator, used his own car on August 20, 1976, to take Virginijus to Security, where Daunys ranted for several hours, with fists raised, threatening prison sentences and legal suits. This was a great opportunity to get back at his scientific colleague, who went so far as to desire to become a priest.
Professor Baginskas, the department head, was ordered to discharge Scientific Associate Mačikėnas. How to do this quietly, so that "no dog would bark", was the problem of the department head. One thing he could be sure of: Higher authorities would in this case ignore any infringement of rights. Try not to obey, not to discharge the man, and you could suffer unpleasant consequences.
Thus it was that Mačikėnas was not accepted for the seminary, and on top of it, lost his position. Indeed, for religious believers, in the real Soviet world, there is "the greatest freedom and equality".
There is a completely different spirit among the friendly staff of the department or laboratory which is able to purge itself of Security informers and traitors. In those cases the limitless might of Security ends, and the threatening "all-knowing bosses" become sad parasites in the healthy body politic.
Kapsukas.On January 27, 1977, at Kapsukas—the former Marijampolė—the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the Servant of God, Archbishop Jurgis Matulevičius, was solemnly commemorated. Despite the fact that it was a weekday, and the event was poorly publicized, lest the government interfere with the process of canonization, the church was full.
Participating in the ceremonies were many priests and two bishops: His Excellency, the coadjutor bishop of the Archdiocese of Kaunas and of the Diocese of Vilkaviškis, Liudas Povilonis, and His Excellency, the exiled bishop of Kaišiadorys, Bishop Vincentas Sladkevičius, who presided at the High Mass. Those assisting at the services were pleasantly surprised to see the banished bishop in the pulpit. In a meaningful sermon, Bishop Sladkevičius urged all to walk the way of sacrifice.
There is no comparison between this celebration and the one held some years ago on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Archbishop Matulevičius. At that time, visiting priests were not even allowed to offer Mass in church, and the preacher on the occasion did not even dare mention that Archbishop Matulevičius had been the reformer of the Marian Fathers, and the founder of a congregation of sisters.
It would not even have occured to the organizers of the jubilee in 1971 to allow a bishop in exile to preach and to celebrate the main Mass. This change in climate clearly testifies that the sacrifices made in struggling for the freedom of the Church have not been in vain.
Vilkaviškis.On January 7, 1977, two young men were picked up by the Ministry of the Interior of Vilkaviškis: Vasily Orlov and Aleksandr Balučevskich. In broad daylight, they had broken into the church at Kybartai, damaged the cross standing on the altar, and taking another cross and a statuette of the Child Jesus, were trying to get away, when they were caught by some of the faithful.
The Ministry of the Interior of Vilkaviškis never did bring these youths to trial, but rather turned them over to the Communist Youth League since the burglars were members of the Communist Youth League.
In February of 1977, a questionnaire was distributed to medical workers in the Rayonof Vilkaviškis containing the following questions:
"What is your attitude towards religion? What reasons do you have for your religious beliefs? Do you observe religious holidays? Do you observe religious practices? What is your opinion of religion? Do you believe in superstitions? Do you have religious literature or liturgical articles at home? Are you raising your children in a religious spirit?"
The faithful are of the opinion that at the present time Rayon authorities should be more concerned about growing juvenile delinquency, drunkenness, and public dissatisfaction over the meat shortage, instead of worrying about people's religious convictions.
Vilkaviškis.On February 11, 1977, the priests of the Rayon of Vilkaviškis were summoned before the Executive Committee of the Rayon. Vice Chairman J. Urbonas of the Executive Committee checked attendance, and another assistant, Ramanauskas, Chairman of the Planning Commission of the Rayon of Vilkaviškis, began a lecture on the economy of the Rayon of Vilkaviškis, and about future plans.
After the lecture, the priests began to ask what the receipts were in the Rayon of Vilkaviškis during 1976 for alcoholic beverages.
Ramanauskas read the following statistics: During 1976 in the Rayon of Vilkaviškis, 800,000 litres of liquor, 900,000 litres of wine, 35,000 litres of champagne, and 12,000litres of cognac were consumed.
Rayon Vice Chairman Urbonas acquainted the pastors with Regulation No. 28 of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic concerning activities of religious groups.
Afterwards, the priests put many questions to the Vice Chairman, which Urbonas was absolutely incapable of answering. In his embarassment, Urbonas kept glancing at the clock, urging that the meeting be adjourned. But the pastors, as if by design, kept rising one after another and asking the Vice Chairman to explain why the Rayon government does not grant them the necessary building permits; why, at the Vilkaviškis hospital, Chief of Staff Sumskis interferes with priests who wish to confer the last sacraments on the seriously ill; why children in school are interrogated for going to church; why the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet, after the Helsinki Accord, issued an order which discriminates severely against priests and faithful; why the registration of the religious community of Slabadai is being obstructed, etc.
On February 16, 1977, the parish councils of the Rayon were summoned before the Executive Committee of Vilkaviškis. Vice Chairman Urbonas read them the new order of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet concerning the activities of religious groups. Urbonas tried to plant with the representatives of the Faithful the thought that without their knowledge the pastor may do nothing in the parish, while parish councils in all matters must consult with the Rayon government. Urbonas reminded those present that these laws were promulgated "not by us, but by order of Moscow."
On December 15, 1976, Vice Chairman A. Vaitonis of the Executive Committee of theRayon summoned the chairpersons of the parish council of the Rayon, together with the chairpersons of the committees of trustees. Vaitonis explained to those gathered together the order of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet, dated July 28, 1976, entitled "Rules Concerning Religious Groups". The Vice Chairman exulted that now there was a law which everyone would have to obey, under pain of punishment.
Šiauliai.On the last Sunday of Advent, 1976, visitors to the Church of St. George in Šiauliai were amazed to hear their pastor, Father Jokubonis, in his sermon, thanking the government for its assistance in reconstructing the burned-out church, and asking everyone to write as much as possible overseas about the reconstruction of the church, so that even Lithuanians living the farthest away would learn the facts. The people of Šiauliai say that perhaps the atheists ought also to be thanked for burning down the church.
Igliauka.In the Spring of 1976, the Deputy of the Council for Religious Affairs demanded that the bishop transfer to another parish the pastor of Igliauka, Father Alfonsas Svarinskas, and the pastor of Veisiejai, Father Albinas Deltuva. By shifting priests from parish to parish the atheists want to hurt pastoral work and to break the spirit of the priests.
The faithful of the above-mentioned parishes, having learned of the transfer of their pastors, began to knock on the doors of Rayon offices, of Deputy Tumėnas and of the Chancery, defending their pastors and asking that they remain where they were.
As Father Deltuva was leaving the Veisiejai parish, many people gathered to see him off. The officials of the Rayon of Lazdijai attempted to interfere with the send-off.
On the evening of August 16, 1976, Father Svarinskas offered his final Mass in the parish at Igliauka, and many of the faithful, including youth, knelt at the Communion rail. The following day, a large group of people insisted on accompanying their pastor to the parish at Viduklė. Hardly had the cars left Igliauka, than the militia arrived. However, they were too late to break up the demonstration.
At Viduklė, a large contingent of parishioners, together with several neighboring priests, was waiting for their new pastor. Singing Psalm 45, "God is Our Refuge and Our Strength", they all entered the church, where the new pastor offered Mass and preached an appropriate sermon.
A couple of days later, Raseiniai Security was checking with people to see whether the Lithuanian national anthem had not been sung. The security people have probably forgotten that the anthem used to be sung during the first years of the Soviet government in Lithuania, until 1948.
Vosyliškis.On November 30, 1976, the administrative committee of the Rayon of Raseiniai, consisting of Z. Butkus, Secretary D. Kleivienė, (Mrs.) O. Pikelienė, V. Gylis and J. Laurinavičius, fined the pastor of the Parish of Vosyliškiai, Father Jonas Survila, thirty rubles for organizing a procession to the cemetery on the eve of All Souls, (November 1, 1976).
The above mentioned procession occured in Žaiginis, (Father J. Survila was substituting for the pastor of Žaiginis, Father B. Ra-davičius), which is a small, out-of-the-way village, with the cemetery near the church. The Rayon officials, applying the order of July 28, 1976, had to stretch their imagination considerably in order to fabricate an "offense".
Viduklė.At the end of October, 1976, the pastor of Viduklė, Father Alfonsas Svarinskas, announced that on the Eve of All Souls a procession to the cemetery would be organized, to honor the dead and to pray for them. Since the atheists go to the cemetery at 7 p.m., the pastor moved the time of the procession forward one hour.
On October 27, Father Svarinskas was summoned to the Raseiniai Rayon. Chairman A. Skeiveris of the Executive Committee of the Rayon, and his assistant, Z. Butkus, forbade the pastor to go to the cemetery. According to them, the right to organize a commemoration of the deceased belongs exclusively to the atheists. The officials of the Rayon tried to support their order with secret instructions dated 1961.
The pastor of Viduklė tried in vain to argue that the Soviet constitution guarantees freedom of conscience, that the Soviet government signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and that Leonid Brezhnev himself signed the Helsinki Final Act. The officials would allow no discussion, categorically declaring:
"Who do you think you are, refusing to obey? The heads of all the collective farms listen to us. If you go to the cemetery, we at the Rayon will not stand for it..."
At 6 p.m. on November 1, 1976, both priests of Viduklė together with a crowd of a thousand or so left the church for the cemetery, which is located at the edge of town. The faithful maintained good order, singing the Litany of the Saints as they processed.
In town and at the cemetery, there were many security agents and officials of theRayon administration, observing the procession and the services at the cemetery.
At 6:50 p.m., the faithful, singing "God is Our Refuge and Our Strength" (Psalm 45)returned to the church. The people were happy that for once, after so many years, they were able decently, without the "help" of the atheists, to pray for their dead.
On November 16, 1976, the pastor of Viduklė, Father Svarinskas, was summoned before the Administrative Committee of the Rayon of Raseiniai, and accused of organizing a procession along Tarybų Gatvė, thus obstructing traffic. Moreover, he disturbed the populace, thus transgressing the order of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR, dated July 28, 1976.
By decision of the Administrative Committee, the pastor was fined 50 rubles.
Thus, even after the Helsinki Accord, the basic argument of the atheists in Lithuania is force. However, many priests are no longer swayed by this argument.
The pastor of Viduklė took this decision of the Administrative Committee to the People's Court of the Rayon of Raseiniai.
On December 20, 1976, The Court of Raseiniai, presided over by the People's Judge E. Jaras, with the People's Associates R. Milašius and (Mrs.) E. Miknienė participating, and (Miss) B. Balčiūnaitė as secretary, with Prosecutor (Miss) V. Petrauskaitė in attendance, rejected the complaint of Father Svarinskas in secret session.
Judge Jaras declared the judgment of the court final and not subject to appeal.
Citizens of Vidukliai were ordered from the court room. It was their good fortune that the doors in back were slightly ajar, so that the people were able to hear the proceedings. It was strange that such a minor case had to be hidden from the populace which, according to the atheists, was so disturbed by the All Souls procession.
This case reminded people of the trial of Father Prosperas Bubnys in the same courtroom, where he was sentenced to a year of imprisonment for teaching catechism to children. This unfortunate trial, which compromised the atheists so badly, remained a topic of conversation among the people of Raseiniai for a long time.
Palanga.During the summer of 1976, the choir members of the church in Palanga began learning the hymn, "God, Our God, Hear Our Country, Lithuania". Immediately, the pastor, Monsignor Barauskas, appeared and forbade the singing of the hymn. It remained unclear to the choristers, whether the pastor did so under duress from government officials, or on his own.
Žemaičiu Kalvarija.Throngs of hundreds of thousands of people annually participate in the great religious festival at Žemaičių Kalvarija (Calvary of the Samogitians). Children, youth and adults devoudy receive the Sacraments, assist at Mass, and make the Way of the Cross.
During the festival last year, the Faithful noticed the Deputy for Religious Cult, Tumėnas.
"Perhaps the man has converted," remarked those who saw him. Alas, they were mistaken.
Tumėnas, accompanied by two high-ranking clergy, passed by the enthroned Blessed Sacrament without genuflecting, and the priests respectfully seated him in the sanctuary, right by the main altar.
The people, packed elbow to elbow, knelt at the consecration, while Tumėnas remained seated. Is this proper? Why is this atheist given a place of honor?
"We believers never mount your rostrums, nor do we crash the gate at your Party conventions. The Deputy for Religious Cult, as an atheist, has no place in the sanctuary, because his behaviour offends the sensibilities of the faithful," write some Samogitians to the Chronicle.
Grūstė. (Rayon of Mažeikiai). Since days of old, in the cemetery of Grūstė stands a large, beautiful chapel, which the local inhabitants love and willingly visit. Annually the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene is celebrated there, with great crowds of the faithful participating.
In the fall of 1976, members of the staff of the museum of atheism in Vilnius and of the Folk Institute of the Rayon of Mažeikiai showed up and demanded that the caretaker open the chapel. The visitors said that they wished to examine it as an architectural monument. Entering the chapel without waiting for an invitation, the "guests" fell to taking down the stations of the cross. The caretaker protested, and a disturbance broke out. People who were at the time caring for their relatives' graves ran in and demanded to see their permit.
The atheists, having stolen seven of the stations of the cross, got into their cars and left. The remaining seven stations the faithful themselves took possession of.
A few hours later the people again noticed the same car approaching. Now the "guests" had some kind of permit from the government of the Rayon of Mažeikiai. They demanded that the chapel be opened. Not finding the other stations of the cross, they angrily went their way.
Druskininkai.A day honoring the dead was proclaimed in town for November 1, 1976.Participants in the solemn procession, consisting of representatives of various organizations and sanatoriums visited the graves of Soviet soldiers, made political speeches, and played mournful music. With this the commemoration of the dead ended.
The next day was All Souls. After dark, the parish cemetery lit up with thousands of candles. Not only relatives of the deceased, but also hundreds of vacationers from all corners of the Soviet Union headed for the cemetery. They were fascinated by a spectacle, such as one will never see in Russia.
As the people dispersed from the cemetery, suddenly an explosion was heard. A few minutes later, there was a second xplosion, then a third, and thus one after another, a dozen or so reports. No one doubts that these were the atheists' "bouquets". More than one person, especially women up in years, were severely frightened.
Visitors to the cemetery, parishioners as well as vacationers of other nationalities, were disturbed by this.
Kaunas.The specialist in the amber cleaning and polishing section of the Kaunas art-works production center at Druskininkai (formerly the "Metalistas" amber works), newly appointed as Party secretary, found a decorated Christmas tree in the office on Christmas eve. She hurled it to the ground and broke all the decorations. Going to the other sections, the Party Secretary demanded that all Christmas trees be destroyed under pain of various punishments and unpleasantness, which could last all year: the abolition of bonuses, etc.
Šiauliai.On October 25, 1976, Mečislovas Jurevičius was summoned before the interrogator, Lieutenant of Militia Kerbedis, in the Department of Internal Affairs (VRS — for Vidaus Reikalų Skyrius—Lithuanian version of the Russian MVD — Transí. Note) at No. 19 Kapsuko gatvė.
The lieutenant posed a number of questions and wrote up a report.
"How much was your sentence, and for what?" asked the militiaman.
"I was sentenced according to Paragraph 58 to twenty-five years, plus five years deprivation of rights."
"When were you arrested and when were you released?"
"They arrested me on May 29, 1950, and released me June 29, 1956."
During the interrogation, Senior Lieutenant Skarbauskas entered the room. He deluged the prisoner with various questions:
"Why aren't you working? You're making a great mistake. You should have gotten a job, and after that tried to clarify, seek justice, and to struggle. Besides, couldn't you come to an agreement to be excused from work on religious holidays?"
Jurevičius explained that he had worked an extra day which he had requested should be credited to him against Christmas Day.
In return for the overtime work which he did at the request of the shop management, the supervisor allowed him to choose any day off except Christmas. Jurevičius submitted a certified request in writing, asking for December 25th off. His request was ignored, even though Party member Čepukaitis was given the day off, perhaps to observe who was going to church.
Earlier, the management of the shop used to let Jurevičius take off on religious holidays. However, when on May 20, 1973, Jurevičius erected a shrine on the Hill of Crosses, the persecution and tension began.
The militiamen asked the suspect what he desired.
"I want to return to work at the Workshop for the Blind. I demand that my work record, which indicates that I was discharged for taking unauthorized leave from work, be corrected, and that I be reimbursed for being laid off."
The interrogators indicated that there would be no such thing. Senior Lieutenant Skarbauskas threatened to give him no peace until he obtained work.
Upon completion of the interrogation, Jurevičius refused to sign the record.
Pasvalys.In Pasvalys, Joniškis, Radviliškis and other cities of Lithuania, the atheistic government forbids the body to be brought into church for funeral services. There was a similar order earlier in Lazdijai, Prienai, Vilkaviškis, Kapsukas and elsewhere: people were required to leave the casket outside the doors during the services. Where the people energetically protested, this order was rescinded.
Paberžė.On December 27, 1976, the pastor of Paberžė (Kėdainiai Rayon), Father Stanislovas Dobrovolskis, was summoned to Vilnius by the KGB. Two security agents lectured Father Stanislovas for several hours on what to do and what not to do, in order to be a loyal citizen of the Soviet Union and a priest.
The teachers from the KGB suggested to the pastor of Paberžė that he was the most restless priest in Lithuania, and that he must be engaged in some illicit activity. The security people officially warned Father Stanislovas about his sermons, which they termed anti-Soviet. The official warning was filed with the Office of the Chief Prosecutor of the Lithuanian SSR.
Father Stanislovas had in several of his sermons urged the faithful to straighten their spines, which had bent under Hitler and Stalin; in other words, he urged them to be informed Catholics.
The name of the pastor of Paberžė is known not only in Lithuania, but widely throughout the Soviet Union. The KGB knows that many tourists visit Father Stanislovas, to see his interesting museum.
They are afraid that the priest might infect these tourists with "anti-Soviet" ideas.
At the present time, they would like to transfer Father Stanislovas from Paberžė.
Ukmergė.
A Lithuanian's Lament
"The sky is grey over our country, the clouds will not disperse..."
How can the nation's sons and daughters rejoice when the attempt is being made to root out of their hearts that which they hold dearest, that which their parents and great grandparents guarded so zealously, even at the cost of suffering and death? This is our holy faith. It was a comfort to Lithuanians exhausted by serfdom, who on their way back from work levies used to seek solace at their moss-covered wayside shrines.
Our faith, which shone in all its glory as a beacon to our parents, brothers and sisters at the dawn of our independence, strengthened us in the confusion following the war, and sustained our martyrs in prison, is today being undermined by all means possible. The faithful are hindered from practicing it freely. The baleful eye of the atheist follows them even to church.
Hear this: Albinas Morkūnas, employed as a specialist at the Vienybė factory, assisted at Mass at Easter in the parish church of Žemaitkiemis. For this "offense" he was relieved of his position as chairman of the local union executive board. Instead of being first in seniority, he wound up last.
Among us there are not scores, but hundreds of such cases. There are many in our factories and schools who on account of their religious practice, wear the opprobrious name of "fanatic". However, the more a Lithuanian is subject to attack, the more courageously he professes his faith. From the hearts of those who love God and country, rises a plea for help:
"O God, will it continue like this for long? How much more will this misfortune last? Strengthen our flagging spirit, O Holy One hanging on our wayside crosses!"
Jurbarkas. As reported earlier, in August, 1976, the graves of priests buried in the churchyard of Jurbarkas were desecrated, and the statue of the Good Shepherd there was vandalized.
On December 15, the People's Court of the Rayon of Jurbarkas tried the perpetrators of this criminal atheistic act: Jonas Puišys and Jonas Matūzas. Both of them, having spent three months in jail, left the trial free men.
During the trial, both of the accused clearly admitted that the originator, leader and co-perpetrator of this criminal plan was Gintautas Čiumielius. Since he is a member of the Communist Party, Secretary of the Communist Youth Organization, and an auxiliary militiaman, he participated in the trial merely as a "witness".
This farce of a trial surprised even the lovers of comedy.
"A hawk does not strike out a hawk's eye..."
"Out of the sack protruded an awl..."
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Gold Outlook For the Week Ahead - Gold Consolidation Expected
Commodities / Gold & Silver Jul 16, 2007 - 02:39 AM GMT
Gold rallied strongly during the week to key resistance above $670 which now threatens to end the corrective downtrend from $698 that has seen gold fall to a low of $641 three weeks ago.
Gold Outlook
The break above $666 changes the nature of the downtrend from the $698, as it now implies immediate strength and support for Gold.
Key resistance between $675 and $680 held the immediate uptrend. A Break of this resistance area would immediately target a move to the $698 high which would be expected to break and signal the move to continue towards the high set during May 06 at $730.
However, Gold has yet to break this resistance area, and therefore the corrective downtrend from $698 still remains intact, despite last weeks strength. The most likely outlook for gold over the coming week is to consolidate between $675 and $650.
Key levels of importance for the consolidation scenerio are for gold to hold the $646 low. A failure here would target $641 which would be expected to break and signal a continuation of trend lower towards the $600 target for the corrective downtrend.
The Lower MACD indicator is currently in an uptrend and gave a bullish cross over a week ago which signaled support for Gold and confirmed an immediate uptrend towards resistance.This pattern is expected to continue to support Gold over the coming week.
The break above $666 has strengthened Gold, expectations are for Gold to consolidate before attempting to break higher above $680, towards $730. A failure to hold $646 / $642 would signal a continuation of the corrective downtrend towards $600.
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Dual-Core AMD Opteron Processor Named `Best of TechEd 2005'
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jun 14, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- AMD (AMD) announced the Dual-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor took "Best of TechEd 2005" honors conferred by Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine at Microsoft TechEd 2005.
This is the second consecutive year AMD64 technology has been named "Best of TechEd" at Microsoft's largest conference for IT professionals and developers. In 2004 the AMD64 platform was named Overall "Best of TechEd 2004" for innovating an industry-standard 64-bit architecture.
In naming the Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor as the "Best of TechEd 2005," Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine recognize the evolution of the AMD64 platform and the multi-core technology enabled by this innovative architecture.
The Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor also snagged top honors in a new award category at this year's Microsoft Tech Ed, "Attendee's Pick." More than 11,000 attendees at the 2005 conference evaluated and reviewed the "Best of TechEd" finalists, selecting AMD new multi-core processor for servers as their favorite.
The AMD Opteron processor, based on AMD64 technology with Direct Connect Architecture, was the industry's first x86 multi-core processor for servers and workstations that is both 32- and 64-bit capable. Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors deliver higher performance within the same power envelope as single-core processors because they were designed from the ground up for multi-core computing, amplifying the elegance and power of AMD's current single-core solutions. With the availability of Windows(R) Server 2003 x64 editions and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, customers now have a mainstream, industry-standard 64-bit operating system optimized to take advantage of the power of AMD64 dual-core technology.
"TechEd is the world's largest assembly of the industry's leading IT professionals and influencers. What an incredible testament to be judged as best by these respected opinion leaders," said Marty Seyer, corporate vice president and general manager, Microprocessor Solutions Sector, AMD. "These awards continue to validate our non-disruptive approach to dual-core technology, with an architecture designed to fit in today's existing infrastructure while providing leading-edge performance."
"With the recent release of the Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor and the AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor, AMD has firmly established itself as the leader in CPU technology," said Mike Otey, senior technical editor for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. "AMD's new dual-core chips are currently shipping and provide immediate performance boosts for server and desktop applications with no increases in power consumption or changes in the systems hardware. This technology sets the stage for the next generation of computing."
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Concert Review: Tailwinds Music Festival In Wappinger Falls New York
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I often wondered what it would be like to sit in on all-day/all-night rock concert. I have been to my share of concerts over the years and saw as many as 4 bands performing short sets leading up to the headliner. But to leave at 7 am, drive 3 hours and return home at 3 am is another matter. That is one long day. I found out that is was well worth it by the time it was all over.
The first band came on at noon, one of the three local warm-ups preceding Sass Jordan. The Jason Gisser Band was excellent and the lead singer, the namesake of the band, has one fantastic voice. He reminded me of Lenny Kravitz quite a bit actually, and as far as I am concerned that is a good thing! After that set The Playback kept things going with their energized alternative rock with a punk edge then Big Guns came on to close out the warm-up sessions. They were very good as well and the lead singer was certainly a big gun himself, I thought of the first lead singer of Marillion, the gargantuan Fish.
After the set breakdown and rebuild, Sass Jordan came on stage to kick it up a notch. The lady has been around for several years with many releases available however I never got into her music. After hearing her I am scratching my head as to why I never did. She is a great performer with just enough edge to her voice to compliment the super tight rockin’ band that supports her. After enjoying her entire set, I felt compelled to start looking into her back catalog.
Time was ticking away on this beautiful day. The threat of rain was there but the storm headed our way turned around and changed direction. The music gods were with us as the sky cleared into blue and the sun was blazing. After a few hours of that sun beating down on you, a break was necessary. And once again we were blessed with a reprieve as a cloud cover moved in and blocked out those rays. Mr. Sun would return much later in the day and provide us with a spectacular blend of colors over the mountains.
Next up was Doug Pinnick’s Kings X. His music is different and he has a distinct vocal style that takes a bit of getting used to if you are not familiar with the music. I am familiar and actually enjoy his vocal style. The music can be a very heavy prog metal to a rock-blues edge sound. One thing you can count on in the songs are some interesting time changes. All the guitar players out there would be hard-pressed to duplicate what is being produced. Pinnick’s long slender frame and extremely long arms allow him to carry his bass down to his knees. He plays it like a lead guitar. Kings X has a large catalog of music to check out and enjoy and the concert was a taste of what there is to offer the “progressive” listeners.
By this point, the audience began moving closer to the stage and it continued to grow but not to the point of pushing us out of our seats (lawn chairs). We were about 10ft back from the stage, a perfect range to capture all the sounds and vocals. I was told at the gate they sold 1,500 tickets but it sure did not look like that many people. The capacity is 5,000 so the response to this event was pretty pathetic. It supported women’s breast cancer and the artists that were on stage were fantastic, all of them.
Now for one of the main events for many that came. Geoff Tate’s Operation: Mindcrime. Many people left after he performed which was a shame because there was more great music to come. Geoff was the voice of Queensryche and without him, they should not be bearing that name it’s as simple as that. Just my opinion on the matter. In any event, Geoff sounds fantastic and his command of the stage keeps your eyes glued right on him. He is not only singing he is playing the part of the main character in the story. The tour he and his excellent band are on this year is to celebrate the 30-year anniversary of that classic progressive metal album Operation: Mindcrime.
At one point during the performance, this beautiful blonde girl comes out on stage to sing with Geoff. I had no idea who she was. It was Geoff’s daughter Emily. She also was holding down the fort at the band’s merch table. Later on, I stopped by to say hello and asked her to make sure she told her dad that I thought that was the best Queensryche show I have ever seen. That was number 3 for me. I thought that would put a smile on his face.
Tate is as energetic and vibrant as ever and the band is tight and spot on. Basically, everything necessary to perform such a classic and musically difficult to perform recording. With twin guitars blazing away and a rhythm section that you can feel pounding right through your chest, it’s just what the doctor ordered for Mr. Tate to be in his best form. I took more pictures of that performance than any of the entire day and evening. In fact, I know CRB was the headliner but Geoff’s band could have easily been as well. No disrespect to CRB, they are fantastic, but as far as the level of musicianship and precision delivery, they are equals without question.
After that incredible performance, what more could a music lover ask for right? Well, how about the totally kick-ass Black Stone Cherry? Now here is a band that I knew of and I never pursued their music. After hearing their performance, I am totally hooked. They put on an amazing show and it rocked the house down. I went to the local vinyl LP vendor there and grabbed the only copy of their latest release Family Tree. I spoke to one of their fans on the way to the lovely porta-potties and he informed me that was their best album and they had just played 5 songs for us. I was sold! Anyone that likes to rock would love this band I have no doubt. For those music fans that left early, which was foolish, you missed a band in its prime cranking it out.
Now after hearing all of that loud and raucous music, I think we were all ready for something different, some tunes with a warmer blues, funky rock sound. That would be provided by The Chris Robinson Brotherhood. I picked up their new release Servants of the Sun in limited edition colored vinyl. I have yet to give it a spin but I am sure it’s great. I will buy anything they put it without a second thought.
CRB has a distinct sound and their main man Chris has a vocal style that is instantly recognizable. There is not anyone that sounds like him. I saw them several years ago when they had their first album out and completely enjoyed the show. This evening would be no exception. They made their way through thirteen songs interweaving their own blend of southern rock, blues, and country. I always enjoyed the guitar playing which reminds me fondly of the Allman Brothers. Chris looked very happy on stage, smiling frequently. There is not a lot to say from this group, Chris thanks the audience after each song then launches right into another one. They are like a well-oiled machine on stage and in the studio. They will be winding up their tour and finally taking a well-deserved break.
What day, what a night. I will never forget the experience I had hearing all that music. It was a glorious day and I hope if they have this event again and more importantly, that the support will be much better.
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Burma Tourism 2015
Tourism in Myanmar is expected to increase in 2015. 7 January 2015 / News. 0 2 4 6 m 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2011 2017. ASEAN, Myanmar Ministry of Hotels and Tourism. Over the next few years, the sector's contribution to GDP should take up to 6.
5 percent, while employment from tourism will rise by 66 percent between 2015 and 2026 to 2. 1 million.
Burma aims for 4.5 million visitors by 2015
It is the ambition of the Ministery of Hotel and Tourist Industry to make the 4th edition of this competition a success. It is estimated that people in the U.S. will be spending $2 billion. Myo Win Nyunt, a warden, said the department was working on expanding the tourist areas and improving other infrastructures to help the people. "Myo Win Nyunt said, "The Department has also relaxed the regulations to allow more domestic and international providers in the tourist area.
Attendees goal showed a 50 percent gain of 3. 5 million last year, which was the historic record both for the land that just opened its gates to Mavericks in 2011. Last year most of Myanmar's tourists came from Asia, especially Thailand, Japan and China, which accounted for 67 percent of travel.
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A total of 601 travellers came to the archipelago in the township of Myeik. The majority of participants came from France, Germany, Switzerland, Thailand and China. Myanmar civil servants met with Thai partners in December 2014, where the tourist industry is well established to debate tourist promotion initiatives. Together with Germany, Norway, the Asian Investment Bank, Japan, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Australia and Italy, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development also develops the tourist area.
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The next federal officers for Utah appointed by the President (in
August, 1852) were Lazarus H. Reid of New York to be chief
justice, Leonidas Shaver, associate justice, and B. G. Ferris,
secretary. Neither of these officers incurred the Mormon wrath.
Both of the judges died while in office, and the next chief
justice was John F. Kinney, who had occupied a seat on the Iowa
Supreme Bench, with W. W. Drummond of Illinois, and George P.
Stiles, one of Joseph Smith's counsel at the time of the
prophet's death, as associates. A. W. Babbitt received the
appointment of secretary of the territory.*
* Some years later Babbitt was killed. Mrs. Waite, in "The Mormon
Prophet" (p. 34) says: "In the summer of 1862 Brigham was
referring to this affair in a tea-table conversation at which
judge Waite and the writer of this were present. After making
some remarks to impress upon the minds of those present the
necessity of maintaining friendly relations between the federal
officers and the authorities of the church, he used language
substantially as follows: 'There is no need of any difficulty,
and there need be none if the officers do their duty and mind
their affairs. If they do not, if they undertake to interfere
with affairs that do not concern them, I will not be far off.
There was Almon W. Babbitt. He undertook to quarrel with me, but
soon afterward was killed by Indians."
The territorial legislature had continued to meet from time to
time, Young having a seat of honor in front of the Speaker at
each opening joint session, and presenting his message. The most
important measure passed was an election law which practically
gave the church authorities control of the ballot. It provided
that each voter must hand his ballot, folded, to the judge of
election, who must deposit it after numbering it, and after the
clerk had recorded the name and number. This, of course, gave the
church officers knowledge concerning the candidate for whom each
man voted. Its purpose needs no explanation.
In August, 1854, a force of some three hundred soldiers, under
command of Lieutenant Colonel E. J. Steptoe of the United States
army, on their way to the Pacific coast, arrived in Salt Lake
City and passed the succeeding winter there. Young's term as
governor was about to expire, and the appointment of his
successor rested with President Pierce. Public opinion in the
East had become more outspoken against the Mormons since the
resignation of the first federal officers sent to the territory,
the "revelation" concerning polygamy having been publicly avowed
meanwhile, and there was an expressed feeling that a non- Mormon
should be governor. Accordingly, President Pierce, in December,
1854, offered the governorship to Lieutenant Colonel Steptoe.
Brigham Young, just before and after this period, openly declared
that he would not surrender the actual government of the
territory to any man. In a discourse in the Tabernacle, on June
19, 1853, in which he reviewed the events of 1851, he said, "We
have got a territorial government, and I am and will be governor,
and no power can hinder it, until the Lord Almighty says,
'Brigham, you need not be governor any longer.'"* In a defiant
discourse in the Tabernacle, on February 18, 1855, Young again
stated his position on this subject: "For a man to come here [as
governor] and infringe upon my individual rights and privileges,
and upon those of my brethren, will never meet my sanction, and I
will scourge such a one until he leaves. I am after him."
Defining his position further, and the independence of his
people, he said: "Come on with your knives, your swords, and your
faggots of fire, and destroy the whole of us rather than we will
forsake our religion. Whether the doctrine of plurality of wives
is true or false is none of your business. We have as good a
right to adopt tenets in our religion as the Church of England,
or the Methodists, or the Baptists, or any other denomination
have to theirs."**
* Journal of Discourses, Vol. 1, p. 187.
** Ibid., Vol. II, pp. 187-188.
Having thus defied the federal appointing power, the nomination
of Colonel Steptoe as Young's successor might have been expected
to cause an outbreak; but the Mormon leaders were always
diplomatic--at least, when Young did not lose his temper. The
outcome of this appointment was its declination by Steptoe, a
petition to President Pierce for Young's reappointment signed by
Steptoe himself and all the federal officers in the territory,
and the granting of the request of these petitioners.
Mrs. C. B. Waite, wife of Associate Justice C. B. Waite, one of
Lincoln's appointees, gives a circumstantial account of the
manner in which Colonel Steptoe was influenced to decline the
nomination and sign the petition in favor of Young.* Two women,
whose beauty then attracted the attention of Salt Lake City
society, were a relative by marriage of Brigham Young and an
actress in the church theatre. The federal army officers were
favored with a good deal of their society. When Steptoe's
appointment as governor was announced, Young called these women
to his assistance. In conformity with the plan then suggested,
Young one evening suddenly demanded admission to Colonel
Steptoe's office, which was granted after considerable delay.
Passing into the back room, he found the two women there, dressed
in men's clothes and with their faces concealed by their hats. He
sent the women home with a rebuke, and then described to Steptoe
the danger he was in if the women's friends learned of the
incident, and the disgrace which would follow its exposure.
Steptoe's declination of the nomination and his recommendation of
Young soon followed.
President Pierce's selection of judicial officers for Utah was
not made with proper care, nor with due regard to the dignity of
the places to be filled. Chief Justice Kinney took with him to
Utah a large stock of goods which he sold at retail after his
arrival there, and he also kept a boarding-house in Salt Lake
City. With his "trade" dependent on Mormon customers, he had
every object in cultivating their popularity. Known as a "Jack-
Mormon" in Iowa, Mrs. Waite declared that his uniform course, to
the time about which she wrote, had been "to aid and abet Brigham
Young in his ambitious schemes," and that he was then "an open
apologist and advocate of polygamy." Judge Drummond's course in
Utah was in many respects scandalous. A former member of the
bench in Illinois writes to me: "I remember that when Drummond's
appointment was announced there was considerable comment as to
his lack of fitness for the place, and, after the troubles
between him and the Mormon leaders got aired through the press,
members of the bar from his part of the state said they did not
blame the Mormons--that it was an imposition upon them to have
sent him out there as a judge. I never heard his moral character
discussed." If the Mormon leaders had shown any respect for the
government at Washington, or for the reputable men appointed to
territorial offices, more attention might be paid to their
hostility manifested to certain individuals.
* "The Mormon Prophet," p. 36, confirmed by Beadle's "Life in
Utah," p. 171.
A few of the leading questions at issue under the new territorial
officers will illustrate the nature of the government with which
they had to deal. The territorial legislature had passed acts
defining the powers and duties of the territorial courts. These
acts provided that the district courts should have original
jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, wherever not otherwise
provided by law. Chapter 64 (approved January 14, 1864) provided
as follows: "All questions of law, the meaning of writings other
than law, and the admissibility of testimony shall be decided by
the court; and no laws or parts of laws shall be read, argued,
cited, or adopted in any courts, during any trial, except those
enacted by the governor and legislative assembly of this
territory, and those passed by the Congress of the United States,
WHEN APPLICABLE; and no report, decision, or doings of any court
shall be read, argued, cited, or adopted as precedent in any
other trial." This obliterated at a stroke the whole body of the
English common law. Another act provided that, by consent of the
court and the parties, any person could be selected to act as
judge in a particular case. As the district court judges were
federal appointees, a judge of probate was provided for each
county, to be elected by joint ballot of the legislature. These
probate courts, besides the authority legitimately belonging to
such tribunals, were given "power to exercise original
jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, as well in chancery as at
common law." Thus there were in the territory two kinds of
courts, to one of which alone a non-Mormon could look for
justice, and to the other of which every Mormon would appeal when
he was not prevented.
The act of Congress organizing the territory provided for the
appointment of a marshal, approved by the President; the
territorial legislature on March 3, 1852, provided for another
marshal to be elected by joint ballot, and for an attorney
general. A nonMormon had succeeded the original Mormon who was
appointed as federal marshal, and he took the ground that he
should have charge of all business pertaining to the marshal's
office in the United States courts. Judge Stiles having issued
writs to the federal marshal, the latter was not able to serve
them, and the demand was openly made that only territorial law
should be enforced in Utah. When the question of jurisdiction
came before the judge, three Mormon lawyers appeared in behalf of
the Mormon claim, and one of them, James Ferguson, openly told
the judge that, if he decided against him, they "would take him
from the bench d--d quick." Judge Stiles adjourned his court, and
applied to Governor Young for assistance; but got only the reply
that "the boys had got their spunk up, and he would not
interfere," and that, if Judge Stiles could not enforce the
United States laws, the sooner he adjourned court the better.*
All the records and papers of the United States court were kept
in Judge Stiles's office. In his absence, Ferguson led a crowd to
the office, seized and deposited in a safe belonging to Young the
court papers, and, piling up the personal books and papers of the
judge in an outhouse, set fire to them. The judge, supposing that
the court papers were included in the bonfire, innocently made
that statement in an affidavit submitted on his return to
Washington in 1857.
* This account is given in Mrs. Waite's "The Mormon Prophet."
Tullidge omits the incident in his "History of Salt Lake City."
Judge Drummond, reversing the policy of Chief Justice Kinney and
Judge Shaver, announced, before the opening of the first session
of his court, that he should ignore all proceedings of the
territorial probate courts except such as pertained to legitimate
probate business. This position was at once recognized as a
challenge of the entire Mormon judicial system,* and steps were
promptly taken to overthrow it. There are somewhat conflicting
accounts of the method adopted. Mrs. Waite, in her "Mormon
Prophet," Hickman, in his confessions, and Remy, in his
"Journey," have all described it with variations. All agree that
a quarrel was brought about between the judge and a Jew, which
led to the arrest of both of them. "During the prosecution of the
case," says Mrs. Waite, "the judge gave some sort of a
stipulation that he would not interfere any further with the
probate courts."
* A member of the legislature wrote to his brother in England, of
Drummond: He has brass to declare in open court that the Utah
laws are founded in ignorance, and has attempted to set some of
the most important ones aside,... and he will be able to
appreciate the merits of a returned compliment some day."
* Tullidge, "History of Salt Lake City," p. 412.
Judge Stiles left the territory in the spring of 1857, and gave
the government an account of his treatment in the form of an
affidavit when he reached Washington. Judge Drummond held court a
short time for Judge Stiles in Carson County (now Nevada)* in the
spring of 1857, and then returned to the East by way of
California, not concealing his opinion of Mormon rule on the way,
and giving the government a statement of the case in a letter
resigning his judgeship.
* The settlement of what is now Nevada was begun by both Mormons
and non-Mormons in 1854, and, the latter being in the majority,
the Utah legislature organized the entire western part of the
territory as one county, called Carson, and Governor Young
appointed Orson Hyde its probate judge. Many persons coming in
after the settlement of California, as miners, farmers, or
stock-raisers, the Mormons saw their majority in danger, and
ordered the non-Mormons to leave. Both sides took up arms, and
they camped in sight of each other for two weeks. The Mormons,
learning that their opponents were to receive reenforcements from
California, agreed on equal rights for all in that part of the
territory; but when the legislature learned of this, it repealed
the county act, recalled the judge, and left the district without
any legal protection whatever. Thus matters remained until late
in 1858, when a probate judge was quietly appointed for Carson
Valley. After this an election was held, but although the
non-Mormons won at the polls, the officers elected refused to
qualify and enforce Mormon statutes.--Letter of Delegate-elect J.
M. Crane of Nevada, "The Mormon Prophet," pp. 4l-45.
After the departure of the non-Mormon federal judges from Utah,
the only non-Mormon officers left there were those belonging to
the office of the surveyor general, and two Indian agents. Toward
these officers the Mormons were as hostile as they had been
toward the judges, and the latest information that the government
received about the disposition and intentions of the Mormons came
from them.
The Mormon view of their title to the land in Salt Lake Valley
appeared in Young's declaration on his first Sunday there, that
it was theirs and would be divided by the officers of the
church.* Tullidge, explaining this view in his history published
in 1886, says that this was simply following out the social plan
of a Zion which Smith attempted in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois,
under "revelation." He explains: "According to the primal law of
colonization, recognized in all ages, it was THEIR LAND if they
could hold and possess it. They could have done this so far as
the Mexican government was concerned, which government probably
never would even have made the first step to overthrow the
superstructure of these Mormon society builders. At that date,
before this territory was ceded to the United States, Brigham
Young, as the master builder of the colonies which were soon to
spread throughout these valleys, could with absolute propriety
give the above utterances on the land question."**
* "They will not, however, without protest, buy the land, and
hope that grants will be made to actual settlers or the state,
sufficient to cover their improvements. If not, the state will be
obliged to buy, and then confirm the titles already given."--
Gunnison. "The Mormons," 1852, p. 414.
** Captain Gunnison, who as lieutenant accompanied Stansbury's
surveying party and printed a book giving his personal
observations, was murdered in 1853 while surveying a railroad
route at a camp on Sevier River. His party were surprised by a
band of Pah Utes while at breakfast, and nine of them were
killed. The charge was often made that this massacre was inspired
by Mormons, but it has not been supported by direct evidence.
When the act organizing the territory was passed, very little of
the Indian title to the land had been extinguished, and the
Indians made bitter complaints of the seizure of their homes and
hunting-grounds, and the establishment of private rights to
canons and ferries, by the people who professed so great a regard
for the "Lamanites." Congress, in February, 1855, created the
office of surveyor general of Utah and defined his duties. The
presence of this officer was resented at once, and as soon as
Surveyor General David H. Burr arrived in Salt Lake City the
church directed all its members to convey their lands to Young as
trustee in trust for the church, "in consideration of the good
will which---- have to the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints." Explaining this order in a discourse in the Tabernacle
on March 1, 1857, H. C. Kimball said: "I do not compel you to do
it; the trustee in trust does not; God does not. But He says that
if you will do this and the other things which He has counselled
for our good, do so and prove Him.... If you trifle with me when
I tell you the truth, you will trifle with Brother Brigham, and
if you trifle with him you will also trifle with angels and with
God, and thus you will trifle yourselves down to hell."*
* Journal of Discourses, Vol. IV, pp. 249, 252.
The Mormon policy toward the surveyors soon took practical shape.
On August 30, 1856, Burr reported a nearly fatal assault on one
of his deputies by three Danites. Deputy Surveyor Craig reported
efforts of the Mormons to stir up the Indians against the
surveyors, and quoted a suggestion of the Deseret News that the
surveyors be prosecuted in the territorial court for trespass. In
February, 1857, Burr reported a visit he had had from the clerk
of the Supreme Court, the acting district attorney, and the
territorial marshal, who told him plainly that the country was
theirs.
They showed him a copy of a report that he had made to
Washington, charging Young with extensive depredations, warned
him that he could not write to Washington without their
knowledge, and ordered that such letter writing should stop. "The
fact is," Burr added, "these people repudiate the authority of
the United States in this country, and are in open rebellion
against the general government.... So strong have been my
apprehensions of danger to the surveyors that I scarcely deemed
it prudent to send any out.... We are by no means sure that we
will be permitted to leave, for it is boldly asserted we would
not get away alive."* He did escape early in the spring.
* For text of reports, see House Ex. Doc. No. 71, 1st Session,
35th Congress.
The reports of the Indian agents to the commissioner at
Washington at this time were of the same character. Mormon
trespasses on Indian land had caused more than one conflict with
the savages, but, when there was a prospect of hostilities with
the government, the Mormons took steps to secure Indian aid. In
May, 1855, Indian Agent Hurt called the attention of the
commissioner at Washington to the fact that the Mormons at their
recent Conference had appointed a large number of missionaries to
preach among the "Lamanites"; that these missionaries were "a
class of lawless young men," and, as their influence was likely
to be in favor of hostilities with the whites, he suggested that
all Indian officers receive warning on the subject. Hurt was
added to the list of fugitive federal officers from Utah, deeming
it necessary to flee when news came of the approach of the troops
in the fall of 1857. His escape was quite dramatic, some of his
Indian friends assisting him. They reached General Johnston's
camp about the middle of October, after suffering greatly from
hunger and cold.
The Mormon leaders could scarcely fail to realize that a point
must be reached when the federal government would assert its
authority in Utah territory, but they deemed a conflict with the
government of less serious moment than a surrender which would
curtail their own civil and criminal jurisdiction, and bring
their doctrine of polygamy within reach of the law. A specimen of
the unbridled utterances of these leaders in those days will be
found in a discourse by Mayor Grant in the Tabernacle, on March
2, 1856:--
"Who is afraid to die? None but the wicked. If they want to send
troops here, let them come to those who have imported filth and
whores, though we can attend to that class without so much
expense to the Government. They will threaten us with United
States troops! Why, your impudence and ignorance would bring a
blush to the cheek of the veriest camp-follower among them. We
ask no odds of you, you rotten carcasses, and I am not going to
bow one hair's breadth to your influence. I would rather be cut
into inch pieces than succumb one particle to such filthiness
.... If we were to establish a whorehouse on every corner of our
streets, as in nearly all other cities outside of Utah, either by
law or otherwise, we should doubtless then be considered good
fellows."*
* Journal of Discourses, Vol. III, pp. 234-235
Two weeks later Brigham Young, in a sermon in the same place,
said, "I said then, and I shall always say, that I shall be
governor as long as the Lord Almighty wishes me to govern this
people.*
* Ibid., p. 258.
In January, 1853, Orson Pratt, as Mormon representative, began
the publication in Washington, D.C., of a monthly periodical
called The Seer, in which he defended polygamy, explained the
Mormon creed, and set forth the attitude of the Mormons toward
the United States government. The latter subject occupied a large
part of the issue of January, 1854, in the shape of questions and
answers. The following will give an illustration of their tone:--
"Q.--In what manner have the people of the United States treated
the divine message contained in the Book of Mormon?
"A.--They have closed their eyes, their ears, their hearts and
their doors against it. They have scorned, rejected and hated the
servants of God who were sent to bear testimony of it.
"Q.--In what manner has the United States treated the Saints who
have believed in this divine message?
"A.--They have proceeded to the most savage and outrageous
persecutions;... dragged little children from their
hiding-places, and, placing the muzzles of their guns to their
heads, have blown out their brains, with the most horrid oaths
and imprecations. They have taken the fair daughters of American
citizens, bound them on benches used for public worship, and
there, in great numbers, ravished them until death came to their
relief."
Further answers were in the shape of an argument that the federal
government was responsible for the losses of the Saints in
Missouri and Illinois.
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Fairwell breadwoman, hello Chalky!
Vintage with Grace owner, Rachael, was also the first person to use a live mushroom as a hat in the UK.
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a) it was getting dark
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d) the safety harness was a bit too kinky for me and kept cutting off...circulation
Ah well, at least it's up now (the banner) and looks pretty imposing from the road.
If you (tenant or not) would be interested in a similar banner along the wall facing Winwick Road (the main road through Warrington), please contact us at enquiries@normanstreet.co.uk.
Farewell to Go Massage and hello vacant unit
Sad to say 'farewell' to a fairly new tenant, but that's the way it goes with some start-ups unfortunately. We now have a small storage/salon/physio unit on the first floor with plenty of foot fall.
For details, pease email enquiries@normanstreet.co.uk
New Jewellery and Craft Workshop at Evans House Business Centre
Hey kids, not posted on here for a while, but the building is still full and so we don't really care about attracting your attention.
That said, we have a new tenant here at Evans House Business Centre. The person in question only likes to be referred to as "the Fox". The mysterious Fox has quite a cool new craft and jewellery workshop on the first floor outside of Exclusive Fitness for Women. Come along for a taster session (trying to make jewellery out of macaroni and broken dreams) if you dare to be creative...
For more information check out http://www.thefoxstudios.co.uk/
'Elf 'n' safety - free compliance audit
All Evans House staff and contractors will not be required to adopt the new uniform
Ah, health and safety, a phrase you either hate or hate.
Whilst the Daily Mail would have you believe that health and safety was a recent invention of the Devil himself or Europe (same thing), it has been part of UK Law for a long time.
There is therefore really no excuse to ignore it, especially since the benefits of complying with it (fewer staff absences, fewer accidents, better productivity and profit) outweigh the perceived negatives (bureaucratic, time consuming, costly and so on).
We have recently undergone a Compliance Audit at Evans House and have found that the sheer amount of laws and regulations we might need to comply with is quite daunting.
With this in mind, we have prepared a checklist of some of the main hazards that a business needs to consider, what rules apply to them, and what the main requirements of that law are. If this would be of any use to you, please feel free to use it. Please note however that it is for background information only and may not be relied upon as legal advice or otherwise. It is merely intended to give you enough information to assist you with making compliance part of your daily business.
A copy of the Compliance Audit Template can be found HERE or on the Tenant Information Page.
If you have any comments about this, or would like to suggest changes, please leave your comments below. We would love to hear from you.
Business Profile: Mario and Monika of Monia's Cakes, Evans House Business Centre, Warrington
You know you have enough cake icing when...you have to use a washing up bowl to contain it
Monika And Mario Cebula.
What business do you run?
We run a bakery specialised in celebration cakes called Monia's Cakes.
What do you offer?
Cakes for any occasions. For Birthday, wedding, divorce, christening, or even for no occasion – which is occasion too : )
Did you really just suggest there is such a thing as a divorce cake?
Yep. Join the 21st century.
When did you start at Evans House?
201 Days ago : D
What did you want to be when you grew up?
Just simply to be happy
Happy? Have you been watching too many Disney films lately?
We like cakes and Disney. Let it go...
How did you get into running Monia's Cakes?
A bakery plan was prepared in about 4 hours in our kitchen at home (where else). Monika was working at warehouse at the time. Monika has been a baker since she was 17. We thought it would be a waste of her talent to not try and start a bakery. That’s how we came up with the bakery plan. We found best possible place to start our business at Evans House Business Centre in Warrington and ordered the equipment. Monika dropped the warehouse job and the rest is history.
What is your top tip for running a business?
Never rush. What is meant to come will come and even smallest step is still a step.
Tell us an interesting fact about yourself
Our surname means Onion : D
Dropped a cake in front of Customer : O
Where can we find out more about what you do?
Our Facebook webpage is always open for business. There, you can see our cakes, options and prices.
https://www.facebook.com/moniascakeswarrington/. We are also setting up a shop in Latchford Village. Watch this space...
Know anyone who would be interested in renting space for a business? Please forward their details to us using the CONTACT page and we will get in touch. If the referral results in an lease, we will pay you a referral fee of £250 (terms apply - please contact us using the CONTACT page for more information).
Flexible terms offered including rent free period of six weeks, set rent and services (for easy budgeting), various frequency rental agreements (e.g. weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually) and/or variable rental agreements (pay less rent when your business is quiet).
We also offer assistance with signage, marketing, business development and construction matters.
Want to succeed in business? First start with failure (or buy a dead pig)
Taking the advice on overheads a bit seriously
Having over 50 years' worth of collective experience of running businesses, dealing with tenants, disputes and all sorts of other crises, we thought it would be useful to give you some useful tips on starting and/or running a business. Disclaimer: Please for god sake don't rely whole heartedly on this as advice; it's not. Seek independent advice as appropriate.
1. Start with failure
There are loads of websites and blogs dealing with the causes of how different businesses fail. It's therefore worth looking at those causes of failure which might effect your business directly and how you might address those risks. For example, many small businesses grow and eventually have to register for VAT, which results in 20% being added to their prices (in most cases). When that money is collected and sits in the bank, those businesses wrongly consider that all the money in the bank is theirs. Come the end of the quarter and the VAT is due - BIG CASHFLOW PROBLEMS. This could easily be avoided with some simple book-keeping.
2. Do a business plan going forward - and don't be afraid to ignore it.
There's a lot of opinion as to whether business plans are any good. Our view is that having a business plan forces you to think about the basics such as, what do you want (personally) from the business, how can the business provide that, what is your product; how will it be funded, will people want to buy it and so on? By writing these things down and building on what you have learned above, you are thinking about the risks and how you will address them.
It's also useful to build a 'critical path' into your business plan This is just a step by step guide to prove you know what steps need to be taken to fulfil the plan. If you don't know how you get from 'A' to 'B', the likelihood is that you will get lost along the way.
What you then need to do is keep reviewing the business plan and do not be afraid to stray away from it. Think of it as an early warning guide or insurance if things go wrong. A free template can be downloaded from the Prince's Trust HERE.
3. Cashflow, cashflow, cashflow
As with a good business plan, a cashflow is essential to ensure that throughout the year, you have enough money to trade. If a business is profitable, it could still fail because it does not have the cash at the bank to pay suppliers, the tax man and so on.
We suggest you use the free template from Natwest that can be found HERE.
As with the business plan, do not be afraid if the cashflow turns out to be inaccurate. It's a guide that needs to be regularly updated. As with the business plan, it's the best early warning system that will allow you to take measures to avert a risk.
4. Keep your overheads as low as possible
Imaging you are a marathon runner and you choose to wear leg weights in the most important race of your life? Stupid eh? It does happen in business. We have seen so many businesses start out well, then they go and buy a posh car or a rent a massive unit they don't really need. All this does it puts stress on the business to perform. In business terms, their overheads are too high and don't result in direct sales.
At Evans House, we regularly review how the tenants are doing and whether we can assist them. For example, recently we have split units to rent up into two or more units. This usually saves on business rates, rent, service charges, electric and heating costs for the tenant. Any money saved can therefore go back into your business and not someone else's pocket.
5. The Rule of Minimum Effort, Maximum Yield
Consider two men in business. The first man is an artist and has to take the time to paint a desirable painting and sell it for a high price to a fairly small market of people who still buy original paintings. The second man sets up a website that takes orders for a local sandwich shop; takes a commission for every sandwich sold, but otherwise he does no work for that money . Assuming the first man is not some celebrity that sellotapes pine air fresheners to a dead pig and calls it art which sells for a million quid - who do you think is more likely to succeed without trying?
Looking for a unit to rent to start a business or grow your business in Warrington, please contact enquiries@normanstreet.co.uk or 01925 411170.
Ground floor retail unit with Office and Creative Space Mezzanine Studio Available to Let Evans House Business Centre
Ever wanted to have a nice looking office to pretend you have an important job, when in fact you sell squirty ice cream and drugs from a clapped out van for a living?
Ever wanted a room with giant lipstick marks on the wall.
Ever wanted a shop floor unit with a creative open plan studio for meetings, lessons or to develop your own craft business - then we have just the thing for you.
The unit is situated on the ground floor of Evans House Business Centre in Warrington and has a number of features including:
Circa 1,000-2,000 sqft space
Unit share possible
Shop window ground floor retail unit
Clean, warm office with WC
Storage rooms, reception desk and circa 1,000 sqft open studio with natural lighting
Near town centre with good parking
Flexible terms available
Price dependent upon floor space let and other terms to be agreed.
For viewings and enquiries, please call 01925 411170 or email enquiries@normanstreet.co.uk
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Schoolwide Learning Expectations
Admission Process – K-8th
Junior High Curriculum
Altar Serving
Support Your School
Modella Uniforms
Bingo Schedule
PTO Forms/Bulletins
Conference Scheduler
Plan A families are required to donate a minimum of 50 hours of service (25 for single parent families) to the school throughout the school year as well as fulfill the Basic Expectations as described below. We truly need and depend on the involvement of our families. Any unworked hours, therefore, will be billed at a rate of $20.00/hour.
Plan B families pay $650.00 per year (Single Parent Families pay $500.00/yr.) in addition to their tuition in lieu of donating service hours as well as fulfill the Basic Expectations as described below.
Parents are required to volunteer 50 hours of service to the school during a single school year. Single parent families are required to volunteer 25 hours per year. One Service hour is equivalent to $20.00. Any un-worked hours will be billed at the end of the school year.
Download Service Hours Forms
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Bank Uses AI To Screen Job Applicants
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A Singapore bank is reported to be using an AI-based system to make savings in the process of recruitment by automating the pre-screening of job applicants.
‘JIM’
The new AI screening platform, Jobs Intelligence Maestro (JIM) has been part of a pilot scheme that has been running at the DBS bank in Singapore since April.
JIM has been developed by Singapore start-up Impress.AI and DBS’ Talent Acquisition team, and has been used to support staff in the sometimes lengthy process of reviewing CVs, collecting responses to pre-screening questions, and conducting psychometric tests.
The main reason for the development of JIM is to save man-hours, to lighten the workload of the bank’s recruiters, and to enable the recruitment process to fit in more easily with the schedules of candidates who may be busy in normal office hours.
Wealth-Management Planning Roles
The AI system is intended to be used for screening candidates for wealth management planning roles in the bank in its main markets of Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Indonesia and India. This will enable the bank to meet its target of target 40% growth in staff advising its high net worth customers.
High-Volume Roles
JIM will also be used in other ‘high-volume’ roles within the bank, such as the bank’s management associate and graduate associate programmes, where more than 7,000 candidates can apply for 20 just roles.
Up until now, banks have made the news for using AI bots to make savings in the customer service side of the business. Once again, but in a different role, AI is being deployed to essentially make savings in man-hours, and to enable the 24-hour provision of a service.
JIM the AI program is being used in a supporting, time-saving, pre-screening role, and it is in these types of roles that AI is making in-roads into the world of business, and providing cost savings for those companies / organisations that can afford to and need to deploy them to add real value areas of their business e.g. for high-volume, intelligent processing work.
Automation using AI-based systems is likely to be an increasing trend, and back in 2017 the EU even voted to give a Bill of Rights to ‘robots’ that will give them “electronic personhood” status in the eyes of the Law in anticipation of a new kind of industrial robot revolution.
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Home adventure E.T.A. Hoffman fairytale fantasy Helen Mirren Jayden Fowora-Knight Keira Knightley Mackenzie Foy morgan freeman movie news movie trailer sneak peek The Nutcracker and the Four Realms WATCH: Disney Once Again Dazzles in THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS Trailer
WATCH: Disney Once Again Dazzles in THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS Trailer
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Experience the magic and uncover the mystery in Walt Disney Pictures' new fantasy adventure "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms". The film revolves around Clara (Mackenzie Foy) who wants a one-of-a-kind key that unlocks a box that holds a priceless gift. A golden thread, presented to her at godfather Drosselmeyer's (Morgan Freeman) annual holiday party, leads her to the coveted key which promptly disappears into a strange and mysterious parallel world. It is there that Clara encounters a soldier named Phillip (Jayden Fowora-Knight), a gang of mice and the regents who preside over three Realms: Land of Snowflakes, Land of Flowers and Land of Sweets. Clara and Phillip must brave the ominous Fourth Realm, home to the tyrant Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren) to retrieve Clara's key and hopefully return harmony to the unstable world. Watch the trailer right now:
Also starring Keira Knightley as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Disney's new holiday feature film "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms" is inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann's classic tale and opens in Philippine cinemas October 31.
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Jed Chua has been writing about movies for more than a decade. During the day, he works as an Operations Director for a small company and runs a small business of his own on the side. He spends his nights watching or writing about movies.
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For players born 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004.
Richmond FC is now offering boys and girls across Richmond a chance to play indoor soccer during the winter months, in five locations around the city, on Sunday nights from 5pm.
Players will be drafted into teams closest to where they live, across the city, in West Richmond, City Centre, Cambie and King George, in the U9 to U16 age groups.
The league is intended for all levels of skill and is intended to be played in a fun, recreational manner. There are no practices, but each game time will have a warm-up period.
Games will be played in two 25-minute legs of ‘5 on 5’ action every Sunday evening, with a golden goal playoff if the scores are tied. A championship table will be kept updated online and a finals series played on the final weekend for ages U9 and above.
Teams will consist of 10-player rosters and substitutions will be automatically run in a ‘last man off, last man back on’ basis, similar to cosom hockey. Games will run with no goalkeepers, will be refereed by RFC coaches and referees.
The season will run from mid/late November through to the spring, with a Christmas break, though specific dates, times, venues and team numbers will be confirmed as signup numbers take shape.
The cost of registration is $50, which covers league fees, and a team t-shirt.
Players will provide their own shin-guards and use non-floor marking sneakers. RFC will provide balls and goals. Overly aggressive play, cheating, mocking, and poor sportsmanship will be penalized in a yellow card/red card manner and persistent infractions will see the player in question sit out the game, at the referee’s discretion.
Games will be played at the following venues:
* Quilchena Elementary off No.1 Rd and Blundell
* McKay Elementary off Granville and No.2 Rd
* Wowk Elementary off No.2 Rd and Steveston Highway
* Talmey Elementary off No.4 Rd and Bridgeport
* Mitchell Elementary off No.5 Rd and Cambie
Registration will remain open until November 16, or until available team numbers are filled.
If you are currently a member of Richmond FC, please use your existing account log-in information. If you are new to Richmond FC, you will have to set-up a registration account as a ‘new user’.
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A Deeper Look at the Upcoming Ideal Org in Orlando
In an article published on Saturday, Tony Ortega reported that Scientology is pushing to open the new Ideal Org in Orlando soon. I decided to take a look at the numbers behind the building and behind Scientology in Orlando. This Ideal Org is doomed to failure because of the small number of members in Orlando and the location of the facility, even further off the beaten path than most new Scientology buildings.
Once we’ve gotten a handle on the numbers, we’ll look at whether this particular Ideal Org might herald a change in the Ideal Org strategy. Continue reading “A Deeper Look at the Upcoming Ideal Org in Orlando”
Author John P.Posted on February 28, 2018 Categories Back of the Envelope, ScientologyTags Ideal Org, Orlando, Real estateLeave a comment on A Deeper Look at the Upcoming Ideal Org in Orlando
But the FBI Said Good Things About Scientology’s “Intelligence Operations!”
“In my opinion· the church has one of the most effective intelligence operations in the U.S., rivaling even that of the FBI,” says Ted Gunderson, a former head of the FBI’s Los Angeles office.
“Scientology: The Cult of Greed”
Time Magazine, May 6, 1991
The head of the FBI’s LA Field Office said this about Scientology a quarter century ago, not long after a major investigation of the cult stalled. The article also claims that FBI agents were tiptoeing around the church, because of fears that it would retaliate personally against them. So was Gunderson’s observation correct? More so, given my observations in my previous articles regarding GO/OSA competence, is there even a valid comparison between the bureau’s intelligence efforts during that era and those of Scientology’s Guardian’s Office? Continue reading “But the FBI Said Good Things About Scientology’s “Intelligence Operations!””
Author Jeff Wasel, Ph. D.Posted on February 25, 2018 March 8, 2018 Categories Historical, ScientologyLeave a comment on But the FBI Said Good Things About Scientology’s “Intelligence Operations!”
Indirect Proof Auditing Doesn’t Work: The Failure of Independent Scientology
Another reason Scientology auditing doesn’t work: if it worked, there would be tons of “independent Scientology” groups, practicing the “tech” outside of the evil cult. But they’re nowhere to be found. Auditing is thus less valuable to ex-Scientologists than many think. Those leaving today want to distance themselves from all of what they experienced in Scientology, even the allegedly good parts.
I recently posted an article showing why success stories are not sufficient to prove that Scientology auditing actually works, even though there are many people who claim to have received life-changing “wins” while using this technique. That’s because of the nature of establishing the statistical validity of a hypothesis. The essence of the argument is that “the plural of anecdotes is not data.”
But here’s another reason that we can be fairly confident that auditing is a relatively ineffective tool for fueling personal growth: “independent Scientology,” the practice of L. Ron Hubbard’s “tech,” should be a much bigger movement than it actually is.
Continue reading “Indirect Proof Auditing Doesn’t Work: The Failure of Independent Scientology”
Author John P.Posted on February 21, 2018 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Indirect Proof Auditing Doesn’t Work: The Failure of Independent Scientology
Asymmetric Activism 3: Occultism Drove Scientology to Be An Asymmetric Totalitarian Target
In this post, I’ll further examine how Scientology morphed from a radical, insurgent mindset, to one of totalitarian monolith, ironically becoming the target of asymmetric tactics, rather than a practitioner. It starts with Hubbard’s embrace of the occult in pursuit of methods of control over an individual or situation. However, the natural progression never stops at one; it invariably leads to an obsession with subjugation and power over an ever-increasing group, rather than simply individuals. Motivation is key in determining the intent of a foe, more so if there’s asymmetry or incoherence in their strategy, especially if their motivations appear highly ideological-based. While financial gain and ideological dominance were part of Hubbard’s motivations, occultism was a founding ethos in Scientology, indeed a vital pillar underpinning Scientology’s abhorrent world view. Continue reading “Asymmetric Activism 3: Occultism Drove Scientology to Be An Asymmetric Totalitarian Target”
Author Jeff Wasel, Ph. D.Posted on February 18, 2018 March 4, 2018 Categories Scientology, StrategyTags Aliester Crowley, Hanna Arendt, Jack Parsons, strategy, Thelema, totalitarianismLeave a comment on Asymmetric Activism 3: Occultism Drove Scientology to Be An Asymmetric Totalitarian Target
Spotlight on “The Big List:” The Master List of Ex-COS Members Speaking Out
This contribution by Dutch Anon Trevor Horn, who posts in various forums as TrevAnon,reveals a different side of Anonymous, one where a committed team laboriously puts together a database over the course of a decade to help show the degree of abuses that Scientology has committed. They are aiming to compile the definitive list of all former members of the Church of Scientology who have spoken out publicly against the organization’s abuses.
This is a far different side of Anonymous than the one most of us recognize – the protesters outside Scientology facililties with clever signs, a determined but fun attitude, and lots of caek. But the committed activists laboring on these projects are making an ongoing difference, long after most Anons have hung up their masks.
The “Big List” project is important but is underappreciated and understaffed. In this post, Trevor will talk about what it does, why it matters, and how people interested can help, with a one-time perusal of the list to spot any easy additions, to becoming a project member.
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Author Trevor HornPosted on February 16, 2018 February 16, 2018 Categories ScientologyTags Anonymous, Kirsti Wachter, The Big List, Truth About Scientology, Why We ProtestLeave a comment on Spotlight on “The Big List:” The Master List of Ex-COS Members Speaking Out
Why Anecdotes Are Not Proof of Anything. Especially not Scientology Auditing
How do you prove that something like Scientology auditing “works?” I’ve had many discussions with former Scientologists who say that their lives changed for the better because of Scientology auditing, and that I should not treat it with such contempt.
I believe the stories of people who have life-changing “wins” from auditing yet, at the same time, I remain resolute in saying that auditing is not proven to be useful. How do you resolve the apparent paradox in my view?
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Author John P.Posted on February 14, 2018 February 14, 2018 Categories Analysis Techniques, ScientologyLeave a comment on Why Anecdotes Are Not Proof of Anything. Especially not Scientology Auditing
Strategic Activism 2: Applied Asymmetry and the Guardian’s Office
The first post in this series discussed the use of principles adapted from the military doctrine of asymmetric warfare as one possible strategy to combat Scientology. This weekend marks the 10 year anniversary of the start of the Anon’s version of asymmetrical warfare against Scientology, both in the virtual and physical spaces, and seems an appropriate place from which to assess Scientology’s use of similar asymmetrical or unconventional tactics.
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Author Jeff Wasel, Ph. D.Posted on February 11, 2018 February 11, 2018 Categories Scientology, Strategy1 Comment on Strategic Activism 2: Applied Asymmetry and the Guardian’s Office
Evolution of Scientology Opposition, 1968-2018
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Today marks the tenth anniversary of Anonymous’ epic protests at Scientology locations worldwide. While headcount is hard to estimate precisely, the number of people who turned out, many in Guy Fawkes masks, was at the very least a significant fraction of cult membership globally, and may have actually exceeded the total membership of the cult, which we now estimate at around 22,000 globally. Numerous sources have covered the reasons for and the history of Anonymous’ protests far better than we could.
More importantly, the scale of Anonymous’ protests put the cult into a defensive posture from which it has never recovered. The idea that a large group could show up on Scientology’s doorstep without the cult’s OSA goon squad anticipating it and preventing it undoubtedly shook leader David Miscavige to the core. And the cult’s playbook for dealing with protestors was forever shattered.
In this post, we look at why Anonymous was such a landmark in the evolution of opposition to the cult, and we put it in the context of the evolution of cult opposition over the last 50 years. We connect the dots and take a stab at predicting the nature of cult opposition that may come next, particularly if existing opponents change strategic focus to make these next generations of opposition happen.
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Author John P.Posted on February 10, 2018 February 10, 2018 Categories Scientology, StrategyTags Anonymous, Lawrence Wright, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, Paulette Cooper, South Park, Tom Cruise, UsenetLeave a comment on Evolution of Scientology Opposition, 1968-2018
Hana Whitfield Interview: Was Hubbard Really Sincere About Helping People?
Scientology devotes an immense fraction of its staff to fixing substandard delivery of its services. It has more people devoted to detecting and deterring “thoughtcrime” from members whose loyalty may be wavering … and even more toiling away in a complex organization designed to ferret out and punish staff incompetence and disloyalty.
To a never-in, this smacks of a poorly designed product from an incompetent organization. But more importantly, it suggests that Scientology “tech” may actually be deliberately and cynically designed to be impossible to succeed at, with the punishment of failure used as a retention mechanism to keep people in the cult.
Hana Whitfield, a prominent ex-Scientologist who worked personally for founder L. Ron Hubbard for many years, has contributed her perspective on whether Scientology is intentionally (and cynically) designed to fail, whether it was designed to help people but failed at that noble goal or whether Hubbard had a very different approach. The answer will surprise you.
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Author Hana WhitfieldPosted on February 9, 2018 February 9, 2018 Categories Interviews, ScientologyTags Apollo, Dianetics, Hana Whitfield, Interviews, L. Ron Hubbard, OT, ScientologyLeave a comment on Hana Whitfield Interview: Was Hubbard Really Sincere About Helping People?
Analytical Techniques: Don’t Overreact to Single Data Points
Last Thursday, the Los Angeles Times ran an op-ed piece by Scientology leader Miscavige’s consigliere, tax lawyer Monique (“Blinky”) Yingling. In it, she rebuts a Times op-ed piece that ran back in November that made a case for revoking Scientology’s tax exemption.
We analyze this message — the content, the timing, the larger context of interest in the tax exemption, and we make an emotionally unsatisfying but intellectually honest decision in processing it. Continue reading “Analytical Techniques: Don’t Overreact to Single Data Points”
Author John P.Posted on February 7, 2018 Categories Analysis Techniques, Legal IssuesTags analysis, Intelligence, IRS, Los Angeles Times, Monique Yingling, Tax Exemption6 Comments on Analytical Techniques: Don’t Overreact to Single Data Points
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Lord Peregrine
My fascination with the ancient craft of incense-making began with a conversation with a Ravenwood priestess who was burning her own hand-crafted blends at a gathering in the North Georgia Mountains. I further honed his knowledge through numerous conversations with her and through formal instruction given to me by the late Lady Galadriel, founder of the Unicorn Tradition. One of my fondest memories as a child was the uniquely wild scent of California sage which is native to the canyons and coastlines of my home state.
In this section, you will find a variety of recipes that can be used for general, spiritual work. I view making incense as a way of connecting with the inherent magickal energies of plants and herbs. Burning incense is one of the most ancient ways to honor the Gods and our connection to them so that we may be reminded of our own inherent divinity and goodness.
Please see Rev. Paul Beyerl’s works, The Master Book of Herbalism and A Compendium of Herbal Magick. No finer works out there on herbalism and incense making. Visit also The Rowan Tree Church.
Happy grinding!
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Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe
GILIOMEE, Hermann. The current troubled state of the Afrikaners and Afrikaans. Tydskr. geesteswet. [online]. 2014, vol.54, n.4, pp.571-595. ISSN 2224-7912.
The rise of the Afrikaners as a politicised ethnic group that captured the state, under the leadership of the National Party, and of Afrikaans as a public language was one of the most prominent features of twentieth century South African history. During the 1970s NP rule started to come under severe pressure as a result of its apartheid policy and it handed over power in 1994. Over the next twenty years the civil service was radically transformed, English became the de facto official language. Afrikaners not only had to deal with the sudden loss of state power but a declining demograpic base. Afrikaans-medium secondary schools and universities had to admit large numbers who preferred to receive their instruction in English. An opportunity in 2001 to safeguard Afrikaans at two universities was squandered. In technical and educational colleges the state simply phased out Afrikaans instruction. Whites in the upper echelons became largely selfemployed, while those in the lower echelons managed tofind a job but not necessarily at the level required for the traditional "white" standard of living. Afrikaans-speakers represent more than half of the Democratic Alliance 's support base, but the party's efforts to capture the black vote made it unwilling to speak up on Afrikaans as a public language or aggressive affirmative action in the public sector and large corporations. While Afrikaans has flourished in the cultural sphere, particularly at festivals, the publication of fiction, and in pay television channels, it is losing ground steadily at university level in face of the cultural totalitarianism of the ruling party and the failure of senior academics, administrators and university coucils to back up the language. The demise of both Afrikaans as public language and the Afrikaners as an ethnic group has become a real possibilty over the medium term.
Palabras clave : Afrikaans; African nationalism; Afrikaner nationalism; apartheid; business leadership; cultural festivals; cultural pluralism; Democratic Alliance; demography; English dominance; political ethnicity; language death; liberal democracy; one-party dominance; socialism; universities.
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Dublin Sinn Fein show their support for Irish Neutrality
Sinn Fein members in Dublin will demonstrate their support for Neutrality in front of Leinster House at 6.30 this evening to coincide with a Dáil debate on the Sinn Fein Private Members Bill on Neutrality. The Bill seeks to enshrine neutrality into the Irish Constitution and to make the Government accountable to the Dáil in relation to facilitating or participating in any war or other armed conflict.
Speaking in advance of the debate, spokesperson on International Affairs, Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD said:
``Neutrality has been rendered meaningless by this Government allowing Shannon Airport and Irish Airspace to be used in the US war effort. The truth behind their lies in the Nice Treaty campaign is now clear for all to see.
``100,000 people marched against war and in support of Irish Neutrality in Dublin last Saturday. This proves that the government is not just out of step with the Irish people - they are walking in the opposite direction.
Sinn Fein is now offering the Government a second chance. We are giving them the opportunity to listen to the people and support neutrality. We are also calling on them to allow their members a free vote on the issue as it is clear that many in the senior Coalition party are uneasy at the stance being taken by the Government. ENDS
Sinn Fein Dáil Group Leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD will introduce the bill in the Dáil at 7pm tonight, Tuesday 18th.
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Could this be the primary where outside GOP groups help women win?
Female Republicans in North Carolina's 3rd District earn endorsements from super PACs
Posted Apr 23, 2019 5:00 AM
Voters in North Carolina’s 3rd District will pick their party nominees in the special election primary for the the late Rep. Walter B. Jones’ seat. Winners must clear 30 percent of the vote, or the top-two finishers will advance to a July runoff. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)
Republicans’ biggest problem electing women has been in primaries.
But in the first special election primary of the year, where 17 Republicans are vying next week for the nod in North Carolina’s 3rd District, the two candidates who have attracted the most significant outside support are women.
For a party that has just 13 women in the House — down from 23 in the previous Congress — that’s a big deal, and a potentially pivotal moment for Republican outside groups experimenting with putting real money behind women in primaries.
But in a crowded race with anticipated low turnout, there’s no guarantee that spending from outside groups — which have to pay higher TV advertising rates than candidates — will make the difference, especially in a cheap media market where many candidates are on cable and some are on broadcast.
Voting for anyone new in this eastern North Carolina district is going to be a change. Walter B. Jones Jr., who was elected to his 13th term last fall, died in February. Aside from a single two-year term in the early 1990s, a Jones had represented North Carolina in Congress since 1966, when Jones’ father came to the House.
A vacancy in a district President Donald Trump carried by 24 points in 2016 generated interest from lots of ambitious Republicans (and a few Democrats) hoping to replace Jones, who ran unopposed last fall. Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales rates the race Solid Republican.
None of the Republicans are likely to pass the 30 percent threshold in next Tuesday’s primary. So the top two finishers would advance to a July runoff, followed by a September general election.
From the archives: Walter Jones’ salute to the troops
Women with outside support
Club for Growth Action endorsed accountant Celeste Cairns last week and is spending about $200,000 on radio, digital and TV ads for her. It’s working with a super PAC called Awake Carolina that’s spending about $100,000 on TV ads for Cairns. The club’s TV ads will air midweek, after Awake Carolina’s go off the air.
For a first-time candidate, getting a $300,000 advertising boost is a powerful injection in a crowded race that could come down to name recognition.
The club has always been a major player in GOP primaries, especially in safe Republican seats. Its endorsement boosted future Rep. Ted Budd in a 17-candidate GOP primary in North Carolina’s 13th District three years ago. But the club is not known for trying to advance diversity in the GOP; ideology rather than identity has always been a more salient factor.
Ironically, in a Texas primary last year, the club did back a woman — Republican fundraiser Bunni Pounds — against the eventual winner, Rep. Lance Gooden, who is Cairns’ cousin.
Cairns raised nearly $100,000 through April 18. She has financial support from former California Rep. Mimi Walters, Georgia Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter and Gooden. Cairns lives in Carteret County now but moved around overseas often as her husband served in the Army Special Forces.
Pediatrician Joan Perry has been in practice in the area for 30 years, giving her what some backers believe is a stronger connection to the district. Perry earned an early endorsement from the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List and its affiliated super PAC, Women Speak Out, which reported spending about $50,000 on digital and mail.
Winning for Women, a relatively new group dedicated to helping elect GOP women, made its first independent expenditures last year. But its five-figure digital ads for female candidates were often too little too late in 2018 primaries. Even where its candidate did win — such as in West Virginia’s 3rd District — it’s hard to see how such a small investment made the difference for now-Rep. Carol Miller in the GOP primary.
But Winning for Women has made a more significant investment in North Carolina’s 3rd District this year, announcing a six-figure TV, radio and mail campaign for Perry.
“The midterm elections presented a harsh truth — qualified Republican women will continue to fall through the cracks, particularly in primaries, unless they get the support they need from start to finish,” the group’s executive director, Rebecca Schuller, said in a statement Monday.
“NC-03 is our first opportunity to prove that Republicans are serious about playing in primaries to elect more women, and we look forward to continuing to lead this effort,” she added.
Perry raised $182,000 through April 20, including a $30,000 personal loan. She’s received financial support from Missouri Reps. Vicky Hartzler and Ann Wagner, Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.
The third woman in the primary is Michele Nix, a former vice chairwoman of the state GOP. She raised $48,000 by April 10, the end of the pre-special reporting period.
“I’m glad there are multiple women in this race,” said Julie Conway, executive director of VIEW PAC, which is backing Perry. “It’s a weird problem for us to have.”
The rest of the field
State Rep. Greg Murphy was long considered to be the closest thing to a front-runner. He raised $336,000, including a $50,000 personal loan, through April 22. By the end of the pre-primary reporting period, he had raised and spent the most.
Murphy is personally close to North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows, the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, who convinced him (and others) to get into the race. But conservatives have attacked Murphy as an establishment pick who sponsored an alternative version of Medicaid expansion in the state.
Lenoir County Commissioner Eric Rouse, a businessman who loaned his campaign $100,000, was the first candidate on TV. His ads show him skeet shooting, with clays labeled Green New Deal and government health care.
Retired Marine Corps Col. Francis De Luca, the former president of the conservative Civitas Institute, has been fundraising off the release of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report. He’d raised nearly $130,000 through April 17.
“Stand with me and President Trump to call out the Democrats’ witchhunt,” he wrote in a recent email to supporters.
Chimer Clark touts himself as “tough enough to stand with Trump,” and has argued in forums that he won’t follow in Jones’ footsteps as a Republican who bucks his own party.
Businessman Jeff Moore, who served in former Gov. Pat McCrory’s administration, has the backing of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and the National Association for Gun Rights.
State Rep. Michael Speciale, the founder of the state House Freedom Caucus, is known for making controversial and offensive comments. Other public office-holders running include state Rep. Phil Shepard and Currituck County commissioners Paul Beaumont and Mike Payment.
Phil Law, who is running again after coming up short in primaries against Jones in 2016 and 2018, loaned his campaign $50,000 last week. Doctor Kevin Baiko, medical director of the North Carolina Cannabis Patients Network, is running on a promise to support legalizing medial marijuana. Farmer Graham Boyd has received the backing of the state’s agriculture commissioner. Don Cox is a country music artist. Gary Ceres is a library technician at East Carolina University.
Even North Carolina Republicans following this race closely don’t know how it will end up. Members of the delegation are staying out of it, at least until the runoff. There’s just too many people, and in a sprint to communicate with voters, no one is wasting money on polling.
“If you look at almost all the candidates, they’re all about the same — all pro-life, all pro-gun — philosophically across the board fit the district,” Conway said.
It hasn’t broken down the way many GOP primaries do, where there’s a Chamber of Commerce candidate against a Club for Growth candidate.
“None of the normal dynamics have played out here,” said a GOP consultant involved in the race. “My experience tells me it then just comes down to name ID.”
Money certainly helps in a race like this, but the way it’s deployed is even more important — TV, door-knocking and targeted digital ads could all be effective.
“It’s either a laser beam approach or a shotgun approach. Go with your gut,” Conway said. “It’s hard to know who’s going to be right.”
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A scare becomes a lesson: Richfield looks at ways to protect affordable housing
Richfield is facing the pressure of for-profit developers in hot market.
By Miguel Otárola and Beatrice Dupuy Star Tribune staff writers
April 28, 2017 — 2:03pm
Fears that a for-profit developer might buy a large Richfield apartment property and price out its low-income tenants were eased this week after nonprofit developer Aeon said it was purchasing the complex.
But the close call gave elected officials and tenant advocates an opportunity at a City Council work session Tuesday to discuss ways the city can better protect its affordable housing in the future.
"There are these large real estate deals, and renters … whose lives are immeasurably impacted by those decisions don't have a voice," City Council Member Michael Howard said. "That requires us to show some urgency and be strategic."
Just days before the meeting, Aeon said it had entered into a purchase agreement with the owners of Seasons Park, a 422-unit complex in southeast Richfield near Interstate 494 and Hwy 77.
Aeon has built and renovated thousands of affordable units across the metro area, and Aeon President Alan Arthur said his goal is to remodel Seasons Park while keeping rents as close to current rates as possible.
"It was easy to make a decision to try and save it," Arthur said. "We're making a big impact with one fell swoop."
Jeff Wheeler, Star Tribune
Eric Schnell, COO of Aeon, addressed the Richfield City Council and the publicduring the public comment portion of the City Council meeting.
The Seasons Park sale was indicative of growing interest in the housing stock in Richfield — one of the hottest markets in the Twin Cities — and of the threats facing much of the nation's affordable housing, tenant advocates say.
At the work session, representatives from the Community Action Partnership of Suburban Hennepin and the Housing Justice Center shared more than a dozen ordinances and housing strategies the city could adopt. Debbie Goettel, a Hennepin County commissioner and former Richfield mayor, listed county resources that could be tapped by the city to help low-income renters.
One proposed ordinance would require property owners to give a 90-day notice of their intent to sell. Another would prohibit landlords from discriminating against Section 8 voucher holders, a measure that Minneapolis leaders approved last month.
Richfield Mayor Pat Elliott said it would be difficult for the city to help subsidize rents of cost-burdened residents, one of the options also discussed.
"We are a healthy, vibrant community but not necessarily wealthy," he said. "Subsidizing, from our perspective, is on the table but not, from my perspective, realistic."
Significant school impact
Seasons Park is largely made up of low-income renters, many of whom belong to minority groups. The average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Richfield is $975; in Seasons Park, the same space costs $780.
City officials were concerned that Seasons Park, owned by Colorado-based Forum Real Estate Group, would be sold to a for-profit developer that would raise rents and mandate stricter requirements for leases.
That's what happened in late 2015, when the purchase and renovation of the 700-unit Crossroads at Penn apartments — now known as the Concierge apartments — forced hundreds of low-income tenants to move out.
The switch from affordable Crossroads to upscale Concierge had a major impact on the Richfield school district. According to the district, 38 students were left without homes. To accommodate them, the district upped its services to homeless students by $77,000.
Following the Crossroads-Concierge transition, district officials had to rethink their finances and cut teaching jobs up front. The district is still recovering from the changeover, making a $2.3 million budget reduction in staffing next year to adjust for the loss of students.
"There would be a significant amount of students that could be impacted if something very similar to Crossroads-Concierge happened," said Steven Unowsky, Richfield schools superintendent.
Almost 240 children enrolled in Richfield public schools live at Seasons Park, according to the district.
Eric Hauge, director of organizing and public policy at tenant advocacy nonprofit Homeline, said Richfield city leaders should have looked at ordinances to protect low-income residents months ago.
"It's a conversation that should've been in full force by now, following the events of Crossroads at Penn," Hauge told the council Tuesday.
Working against time
At the council meeting following Tuesday's work session, Seasons Park renters and former residents of Crossroads spoke warily about the future of the city's affordable housing, urging council members to take a stronger stand against developers with overly strict rental demands.
City officials agreed that Seasons Park needs to be upgraded. Former and current residents complained of old and broken appliances, dirty walls and halls and constant police activity. Goettel called the apartments "abysmal," the result of poor management.
The purchase of Seasons Park will be finalized by the end of the summer, Arthur said. Aeon hopes to receive funding from several sources, including government assistance and private investors, to renovate the complex and keep rents affordable.
"The proof is in the pudding," Arthur said. "We have to get enough capital in order to keep it a decent place."
Debra Behrens, Aeon's chief advancement officer, said that means Aeon will seek community donations.
Still, for some tenants the Aeon deal may not come soon enough to keep them in their homes.
Cristal Vargas, 34, has lived at Seasons Park for three years with her husband and three children. She said the apartment's management, without giving her good reasons, told her it won't renew her lease when it ends in June.
Vargas, in tears at Tuesday's meeting, said she has not found another option in Richfield and is thinking of moving her family to Minneapolis.
"I'm very sad, because I don't know what to do," she said.
miguel.otarola@startribune.com 612-673-4753
beatrice.dupuy@startribune.com 612-673-1707
Miguel Otárola is a reporter covering Minneapolis City Hall for the Star Tribune. He previously covered Minneapolis' western suburbs and breaking news. He also writes about immigration and music on occasion.
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Over the last few weeks we conducted a series of case studies with clients who bring ethical, localised manufacturing to the forefront of their businesses. This week we speak to the Flint based company Mij Moj, which was founded by designers Gafyn Owen and Sean Nelson. The company designs and crafts unique, handmade gifts and bespoke furniture from sustainably sourced timber.
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Can you tell me a bit about MijMoj and where the idea for building a business around a creative studio came from?
Essentially we started making bespoke furniture, and then from the events and shows we exhibited at, started making a range of smaller items that we could sell off the stand as gifts. Since then the business has just grown and grown. We're now selling online, myself and my business partner Sean are both from a design background having studied together at University and always wanted to work for ourselves. We set up the business with the intention of developing our own products and being our own bosses.
Why is local and ethical manufacturing such an important and integral part of your business?
All the materials we use are natural materials; the timber we use is mainly oak, walnut, ash, which is ethically sourced and environmentally friendly. The leather that we use is of course also a natural product. We make all our own products here in the UK by hand, a simple style that fits in with the materials we use and it's designed to last. We source the materials from local suppliers, although some of the timber is from Europe – the timber doesn't grow quick enough in this country for what we need – but we still source from local companies as much as possible.
What are you most proud of, and what's the next chapter in your story?
We're proud of moving to a new premises- we've taken on one in the last two years. We were originally working from a small workshop or converted garages in Llanfairfechan, but recently we relocated to Flint to a brand new 3000 square foot premises – so just having the space is great. The workshop's set up as we'd like, it's definitely quite an achievement from our point of view, so that's been quite nice. We are also seeing growth in our international sales and see this as very much our next chapter exporting to more countries overseas.
What are the feature you love most about Stitchedboxes?
They're made of kraft card and uncoated and they're not glossy like the kind of packaging that you usually see in retailers. It's more in keeping with our brand, the kind of ethical values that come with using natural materials to make your products; quite honest about how its made, how its stitched, the same way as how our products are hand-finished, hand-crafted.
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Snowboarding Kosovo: Brezovica ski resort a bad idea?
By Sam Baldwn
Published November 2009
To snowboard the ski resort of Brezovica in Kosovo, or not to snowboard the ski resort of Brezovica in Kosovo, that is the question being banded around SnowSphere HQ right now.
Kosovo: will we ever get to sample Kosovan powder? (image: RhinoCarHire.com)
Along with South Africa, Israel and India, Kosovo is one of the last places you might expect to find a ski resort. But Kosovo does indeed have a ski resort. It's called Brezovica, it has 800m of vertical, gets plenty of powder and has been deemed one of the best mountains in the Balkans. There's even a Brezovica Facebook page with over 9000 fans!
Next winter's adventure for the SnowSphere team is a Balkan road trip. We are hoping to take in the snow, cities and mountains of Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo.
The Kosovo Conumdrum
As the plans slowly come together, Kosovo keeps on throwing up problems. Firstly, the vehicle that we'll pick up in Belgrade will not be insured in Kosovo. This is due to the fact that the European Green card insurance system is not valid in Kosovo. We've heard rumours of people buying special insurance at the border - but how valid this would actually be in the event of something happening - who knows?
The second issue with snowboarding Kosovo, is the fact that even if we can get the insurance problem sorted, we'll be entering Kosovo in a vehicle with Serbian number plates. Now, Serbia and Kosovo aren't exactly the best of buddies at the moment. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in February 2008, a declaration that Serbia does not recognise, and we've heard reports of cars with Serbian plates being attacked - not what we want to hear!
There's also the issue that vehicle theft is apparently quite common in Kosovo and to top it all off - Kosovan Independence Day falls during our trip. If anything is going to kick off, it's going to be then. Lots of people in the streets with patriotic hearts is an inflammatory mix, and if we're in the wrong place at the wrong time with our Serbian registered vehicle, it could spell trouble.
How real are the risks?
Having gone snowboarding in Gulmarg in Kashmir, India two winters ago, an area of the world considered off limits by many (including the British FCO) and had an amazing time with no trouble at all, you do wonder - how real are these risks?
Just like the Kashmir trip, some people can't understand why anyone would want to go snowboarding there, when France will do. The answer? It's not just about the skiing or snowboarding. It's about the travel, the adventure, the experience of meeting the local people and seeing the reality of a new culture and country for ourselves.
Many people have completely inaccurate visions of places like Kosovo and Kashmir founded on outdated media reports, hearsay and general stigma.
I'd like to cut through that. I like to go to Kosovo and find friendly locals and a powder paradise. But not if it means putting ourselves at serious risk. And it's that level of risk that we now have to figure out.
REALATED READING:
Snowboarding & Skiing Kashmir
Snowboarding & Skiing the Balkans
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Dirk Serries: Microphonics xii & xiv
Tobias Fischer
Signs along the path: A union of astral and physical realities.
The idea of creative ambition relating to perpetual progress is somewhat exclusive to music. David Lynch certainly hasn't come under too much fire for repeatedly returning to the claustrophobic world of Eraserhead, while his Italian colleague Fellini used to quip that he was essentially shooting the same movie each time. Writers like Phillip Roth, Paul Auster and even Shakespeare or Jane Austen were precisely lauded for their ingenious ability of approaching all but identical themes from a plethora of fresh perspectives. And it was only when artists like Mondriaan, Haring and Escher discarded experimentation to arrive at a personal and recognisable script that their work began to command widespread attention. In music, on the contrary, the consensus generally seems to be that artists fall into one of two categories only: Those that have signed their name in favour of re-inventing themselves with each new album. And those formulaically recycling the same chords, melodies, sounds and ideas. It is a creed sadly adopted from the times of the 19th century romantics, when the notion of maximalism ruled supreme and composer were outbidding each other in their strive for undiscovered chords and unprecedented structural extremes. And it has made appreciation of a cycle like microphonics difficult for those charmed by its ideas.
One could even go as far as to claim that it has even made life hard on its creator. Both his previous projects, vidnaObmana and Fear Falls Burning, had Dirk Serries constantly renegotiating borders, as he took their fabric to the limit. With microphonics, the search for renewal hasn't been called off. But it is now taking place within a different set of paradigms. The „old“ - in this case, meaning the sober and minimal arrangements and looping techniques of his mid-phase Ambient work – is allowed back in as a tool for the expression of timelessness and beauty, while the „new“, is now to be found in the exploration of an already defined sound. One could compare this approach to the mastery of Japanese craftsman Hatori Hanso in Quentin Tarrantino's Kill Bill. Hanso may be manufacturing seemingly identical swords. But each one nonetheless comes equipped with a unique personality of its own. What this means is that it is only the outward form of the sword which is perfect and change, now, must consist in focusing on the alloy of its metal and the perfection of the balance between the blade and the handle. There is never an end to this process, neither in sword-building nor in sound: While Hanso's dreams of the ultimate weapon is bound to falter in face of the imperfections of his working tools, Serries's quest for the best of all drones is both kindled and hampered by the fragile fabric that has remained the main inspiration for his oeuvre: Human emotion.
And thus, his latest releases are to be seen less as successive entries in a traditional discography but rather as different coordinates within a musical cube defined by sound, space and time. It doesn't take a degree in quantum physics to understand that this immediately disqualifies the typical gauges of the music industry: Early entries may occasionally seem more „advanced“ than later ones and themes may re-appear on various records. Perhaps, in this regard, it helps to think of microphonics as a single, epic and open-ended album. Those who have witnessed Serries take the concept to the stage have already been able to discover that this only seemingly static concept, by reducing the focus on an extremely reduced set of elements, has merely opened up listeners' attention to far more subtle factors: The quality of the floor serving as a resonance board, the dimensions and characteristics of the concert hall, the tactile interaction with the audience, the artist's mood and predilections on that particular day as well as the way the materials – which, as part of an interactive system between Serries and his loops, take on a life on their own – turn out to be malleable to his will and intentions. Sitting at the back of his recent gig at Münster's tiny but well-attended black box club for experimental sound art, I was certainly surprised by the heavy bass vibrations emanating from the amps, veritable thrusts of deep, stomach-hitting frequencies intermittently cutting through the fragile web of melodies and harmonies floating in the air. It was as much a tender performance as it was a discomfiting one – and further proof of the fact that there was still plenty of explorative headroom left for the future.
Just how discrete the nuances between episodes in the microphonics-cycle can be is adequately demonstrated by microphonics xiv, recorded during a performance at the Kinky Star Club in Gent, Belgium and now released in three limited runs of gold, silver and white vinyl: Quite clearly, the first half of the performance is a new take on microphonics xii, performed during this year's European tour in April, while the finale premieres thoughts which would later be reworked in Serries's soundtrack to Dutch photographer and video artists Jan-Kees Helms's aquamarijn-film. In both cases, these different parts are not so much improvements, developments, sketches or (least of all) remixes as they are variations on the aforementioned dimensions of the cube: time, space and sound. This is most apparent with regards to microphonics xii, separately available as a 10inch, since it was realised in his home studio just outside of Antwerp and therefore instructively demonstrates the impact of location and mood. Essentially, the thematic sources are all but the same for both (with merely microscopic details separating the main themes), with these pieces comprising of nothing but a sustained ground drone, two chords, a continued series of broken guitar pickings as well as a handful of interrelated melodies. But while xii conveys feelings of isolation, sorrow and sadness corresponding to the solitary ambiance of a private concert, its live pendant is marked by an air of calm, grace and majesty, expressing itself foremost in the carefully measured, slowmotion unfolding of the individual layers – the opening section alone, in which nothing but a few long notes gradually merge into a single, suspenseful tone, takes up several minutes, after which the tempo, if anything, only decreases even further.
The usual atmospheric frequencies distinguishing a studio- from a live-performance are only one part of the equation, however. The other is a technique perhaps best described by the term „lateral variations“: The shifting and juxtaposition of motivic loops in a way that makes them seem like an endless, infinitely intricate improvisation on small melodic cells. Compared to the soundtrack-work of Fear Falls Burning, these cells remain clearly audible over time rather than integrating into a tight web of lines, and thus provide for hooks, which the listener can latch onto as the music progresses. At the same time, they are engaged in a merry-go-round with other inventions, creating new patterns, which can, in turn, serve to propel the piece slowly forward like a tiny toy ship in a bath tub. Thus, while the music remains locked in a tightly delineated field of sound, mood and themes, not a single moment is quite the same. As a result, these pieces allow the listener to perceive time as an organising principle and as a being related to space - it is only when the hunger for progress has been satisfied that one is free again to perceive reality as it really is.
Which is why, next to more obvious associations with the blues and ambient, these pieces can be seen as spiritual brothers of the kraut-philosophy, which, albeit for slightly more esoteric reasons, did not believe in the separation of astral and physical realities: A few minutes can seem like an eternity here. No wonder Ash Ra Temple called one of their most intimidating and immersive tracks, off 1973's Freak n Roll, „Jenseits“, referring to the most time- and space-less state imaginable, that of the afterlife (the original German title actually also translates to „Beyond“, still containing the spatial references of the term). It is this aspect of his work that can only be achieved by rooting the music in the moment and resisting the temptation of transferring them to the tightly clocked, artificial and clearly boxed time of sequencers. Perhaps one of the most telling differences between Fear Falls Burning and microphonics are the beginnings and endings of the tracks: While the former would open with a sudden, ferocious blast of sound and end with Serries pulling the plug of his amps, the latter features some of the most extensive fade-ins and fade-outs imaginable, signalling, if anything, that they could just as much have started hours ago and could potentially go on forever. It is a feat acknowledged by the typical ending to a microphonics-concert: The artists disembarks the stage, leaving his instruments and loop-pedalds, turning into an outside observer and awarding all credit to the music alone.
What do singular albums mean in a body of work so attached to the notion of flow, flux and mutability? They are markers, signs along the path, invitations to join in. You may not need them all. But for those looking for suitable entry points into a cosmos of continually growing dimensions, these two releases make for ideal candidates.
By Tobias Fischer
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Venerable Pope Paul VI's Encyclical on Prayers during May for the Preservation of Peace
29 April 1965 - in English, Italian, Latin, Portuguese & Spanish
To His Venerable Brethren the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, and other Local Ordinaries who are at Peace and in Communion with the Apostolic See.
Venerable Brethren,
Health and Apostolic Benediction.
The month of May is almost here, a month which the piety of the faithful has long dedicated to Mary, the Mother of God. Our heart rejoices at the thought of the moving tribute of faith and love which will soon be paid to the Queen of Heaven in every corner of the earth. For this is the month during which Christians, in their churches and their homes, offer the Virgin Mother more fervent and loving acts of homage and veneration; and it is the month in which a greater abundance of God's merciful gifts comes down to us from our Mother's throne.
2. We are delighted and consoled by this pious custom associated with the month of May, which pays honour to the Blessed Virgin and brings such rich benefits to the Christian people. Since Mary is rightly to be regarded as the way by which we are led to Christ, the person who encounters Mary cannot help but encounter Christ likewise. For what other reason do we continually turn to Mary except to seek the Christ in her arms, to seek our Saviour in her, through her, and with her? To Him men are to turn amid the anxieties and perils of this world, urged on by duty and driven by the compelling needs of their heart, to find a haven of salvation, a transcendent fountain of life.
A Time For Special Prayers
3. Because the month of May is a powerful incentive to more frequent and fervent prayers, and because our petitions more readily find access to her compassionate heart during it, it has been a favourite custom of Our predecessors to choose this month, dedicated to Mary, for urging the Christian people to offer up public prayers whenever the needs of the Church demanded it or some grave crisis threatened the human race. This year, Venerable Brothers, We in turn feel compelled to call for such prayers from the whole Catholic world. Looking at the present needs of the Church and the status of world peace, We have sound reasons to believe that the present hour is especially grave and that a plea for concerted prayer on the part of all Christians is a matter of top priority.
THE NEEDS OF THE COUNCIL
4. The first reason is linked to the present historic moment in the life of the Church, the celebration of the Second Vatican Council. This momentous event confronts the Church with a weighty proposition: to adapt herself, in a suitable way, to the needs of our day. On the success of this endeavour will depend, for a long time to come, the future of Christ's spouse and the fate of many souls. It is indeed a great moment which God has injected into the life of the Church and the history of the world.
The Work Ahead
5. Although a great deal of its work has been completed, there is still much for you to do, Venerable Brothers, in the next session, which will also be the last. The period which follows that session will be equally important. At that time the Council's decisions will have to be implemented. Priests and people will be called upon to combine their efforts so that the seeds sown during the Council may bear tangible, salutary fruit. And so, to obtain the necessary enlightenment and divine blessings for completing this great volume of work, We place Our hope in her whom We gladly proclaimed Mother of the Church at the close of the last session. From the very start of the Council she has given us her loving help, and she will surely stay with us until the task is finished.
PEACE IN JEOPARDY
6. The second reason for our appeal stems from the present state of international affairs, which, as you well know, Venerable Brothers, is extremely troubled and uncertain. The supreme benefit of peace is again being placed in jeopardy. Today we see tensions worsening gravely between nations in certain parts of the world, as if no lesson had been learned from the bitter experiences of the two world wars which caused so much bloodletting in the first half of this century. Once again we see men risking recourse to arms instead of negotiating to settle disputes between opposing viewpoints. Thus the inhabitants of entire nations are subjected to unspeakable sufferings occasioned by uprisings, secret and treacherous warfare, and outright battles. These activities grow more frequent and more bitter each day, and could at any time spark a new and terrible war.
Plea to World Leaders
7. Cognizant of these grave dangers threatening mankind, and conscious of Our duty as Supreme Pastor, We deem it necessary to voice
Our anxious concern and Our fears that these tensions may degenerate into a bloody war. We implore all those who bear the responsibility of public authority not to disregard mankind's unanimous desires to achieve peace. Let them try everything in their power to preserve the peace which is now threatened. Let them not cease to promote discussions and negotiations on every possible occasion and between men of every rank, so that they may forestall the dangerous recourse to weapons and the terrible misfortunes which result for temporal, spiritual, and moral values. Following the paths marked out by law, let them try to single out every sincere quest for justice and peace; let them encourage such quests and make them successful; let them place confidence in every sincere token of good will, so that the praiseworthy cause of right order may prevail over the cause of disorder and ruin.
Criminal Acts Condemned
8. Alas, in this pitiful state of affairs, We sadly note that there is very often no respect for the sacred and inviolable character of human life; that actions and methods are employed which openly flaunt the moral sensibilities and customs of civilized people. In this respect We cannot help but raise Our voice to defend the dignity of man and Christian civilization; to condemn secret and treacherous warfare, terrorist activities, the taking of hostages, and savage reprisals against unarmed people. These are crimes which debilitate man's awareness of what is just and humane, and further embitter the hearts of the combatants. These crimes can close off the paths still open to mutual good faith; or at least they can place more difficulties in the way of negotiations which, if conducted with sincerity and honesty, could lead to a reasonable settlement.
Concern For All People
9. As you well know, Venerable Brothers, Our deep concern over this state of affairs is not dictated by any narrow self-interest. Our sole desire is to protect those who are afflicted with misfortune and to promote the true welfare of all peoples. And We nurture the hope that awareness of the responsibilities they bear before God and men will be enough to make heads of government continue their generous efforts to preserve peace; to make every effort to forestall, so far as they can, the obstacles posed to safe, sincere agreement by the course of events or human attitudes.
Peace, A Gift from God
10. But peace, Venerable Brothers, is not solely the work of man. It is also, and primarily, a gift from God. Peace comes from heaven. It will truly reign among men when we have finally proved ourselves worthy to receive this gift from Almighty God. Just as the happiness and destiny of nations are in His power, so also are the hearts of men. And so we shall obtain this lofty benefit by praying to God; by praying with constancy and watchfulness, as the Church has been wont to do from her very beginning; by praying, in particular, for the intercession and protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who is the Queen of peace.
11. So, Venerable Brothers, throughout this month of May, let us offer our pleas to the Mother of God with greater devotion and confidence, so that we may obtain her favor and her blessings. Even if the grave sins of men provoke God's justice and merit His just punishments, we must not forget the he is "the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort," (cf 2 Cor 1,3) that He has appointed Mary most holy as the generous steward of His merciful gifts.
Plea For Mary's Help
12. May she who experienced the cares and hardships of earthly life, the weariness of daily toil, the hardships and trials of poverty, and the sorrows of Calvary, come to aid the needs of the Church and the human race. May she graciously lend an ear to the devout pleas of those all over the world who beg her for peace. May she enlighten the minds of those who rule nations. And finally, may she prevail on God, who rules the winds and storms, to calm the tempests in men's warring hearts and grant us peace in our day. What we seek is true peace grounded on the sturdy foundations of justice and love—on a justice which recognizes the legitimate rights of the weak as well as those of the strong; on a love which keeps men from falling into error through excessive concern for their own interests. Thus each person's rights may be safeguarded without the rights of others being forgotten or violated.
Call For Special Prayers
13. We ask you, Venerable Brothers, to make known Our wishes and Our urgent pleas to the faithful entrusted to your care, in whatever way you deem most suitable. We also ask that you make provisions for special prayers in every diocese and parish during the month of May; in particular, on the feast of the Queenship of Mary, let there be solemn public prayer for the intentions We have mentioned.
14. You should know that We are relying particularly on the prayers of children and those suffering affliction, for their pleas have special power to penetrate heaven and soften God's justice. Since this is a perfect occasion, do not fail to put repeated emphasis on the recitation of the Rosary, the prayer so pleasing to Our Lady and so often recommended by the Roman Pontiffs. It affords the faithful an excellent means of complying effectively and pleasingly with our divine Master's command: "Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. " (Mt 7, 7)
15. Entertaining these benevolent feelings and confidently hoping that all will respond to Our pleas with speed and readiness, We lovingly impart Our Apostolic Blessing to you, Venerable Brothers, and to all those entrusted to your care.
Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, April 29, 1965, in the second year of Our Pontificate.
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At The Cosmopolitan
The Classic, The Longhorn, The Rising Sun, and The Gold Standard burgers
9:00 PM 08JUN11
This was the 6th burger in the Las Vegas Burger Tour. Holsteins had been recommended to me by two Las Vegas chefs that I had spoken with on the previous day. Holsteins had opened in November of 2010, so it had been up and running for a little over 6 months when I stopped in. Holsteins had a burger heavy menu, and I had the opportunity to sample 5 of them. Since I didn’t want to orphan my son, Happy Meal, Chef Thomas Cullen arranged to prepare a selection of miniature burgers so that I could get a feel for each one without risking cholesterol toxicity. Even with a sample of 5 burgers, I still only managed to scratch the surface of the expansive and inventive 12-burger menu.
Thomas Cullen, the assistant chef, exuded a level of confidence, regarding the quality of his kitchen’s output, which bordered on cocky. That is a strong quality in a chef. Cocky chefs take chances and make bold moves with food. We settled on a Turkey Burger, a Rising Sun (Japanese fusion), a Gold Standard (21-day dry-aged steak cuts), a Longhorn (with dry-rubbed, house-smoked brisket), and a Classic burger.
The Burger Breakdown(s)...
The Rising Sun Burger Full Size
The Beef: The beef in the standard 8 ounce burgers was a mixture of dry and wet-aged cuts. 10% of the beef in the burger was 22-day dry-aged. This was a standardized blend of steak trimmings and 20% fat, which were ground by the supplier (Premier Meat Company) and delivered fresh daily.
The Classic burger was a solid offering. The burger led with a strong taste of beef. It followed with the hearty mineral tastes and textures of the coarsely ground, chopped steak that it was. It was seasoned with simple salt and pepper. It was an honest and solid burger. Price: $13.50.
The Longhorn burger was wonderful. The brisket was perfection, and it blended sweetly into the bite of ground beef without adding any chewiness. The crisp, cabbage slaw introduced just the right amount of earthiness and crunch to balance the tender brisket. Price: $16.00.
The Gold Standard Burger Full Size
The tempura avocado on the dauntingly seasoned Rising Sun burger was a revelation in texture…why doesn’t everyone serve that? It was genius. The flavors of that burger were the culinary equivalent of a knee to the face. It was delicious but also very intense. This is a burger that one should share--a full portion of this burger would have been overwhelming. Price: $16.50.
The Gold Standard burger was aptly named. It was noticeably superior in both flavor and mouth feel to its Classic burger cousin. The 21-day dry-aging of he Sirloin came through on all of the expected fronts. It was far more tender than its less premium cousin. A pleasant funk was present. And, the flavor of the beef was mellower. It was dressed with a tasty Aged Goat Cheddar, which set this burger, and Holstein’s, apart in terms of selection of ingredients. The tomato confit was a nice touch as classed up version of ketchup. Price: $17.50.
The Turkey burger was the only low point of the meal. The patty was a brick. It was 70% white meat and 30% dark. Without cutting in a lot of turkey skin, it would have been nearly impossible to cook it properly and not have it come out that way. To compensate, Holsteins dressed the hell out of the burger with a variety of wet toppings. Here’s a tip—don’t order turkey burgers…..ever. Price: $14.50.
The Seasoning: The interior was left alone. The exterior the burger patties were dusted with kosher salt and pepper. The seasoning was spot on.
Preparation: The kitchen employed both the grill and griddle when cooking the burger patties…the right way. Each item, which was sampled, was prepared with happy and exacting precision. The small bites were, in fact, fine dining on a bun. Flawless execution was the standing order in the kitchen of Holsteins.
The Cheese: The cheese choices were numerous. American, Provolone, Goat Cheddar, and Gruyere comprised about half the list. The Goat Cheddar on the full-sized Gold Standard was mute. It was completely lost in the bun and beef.
The Bun: The mini buns were a domed white flour/potato flour hybrid. These were just sweet enough, yeasty, fresh, and moist. They were delivered daily by Bon Breads. The bottom bun very competently served to catch all of the juices from the diminutive sampler burgers. The buns were right down the middle in terms of texture and flavor. They delivered without distracting. The full-sized buns were a cake-like brioche, and they were just sweet enough to balance out the savory elements in the burgers. Sadly, they were on the stale side when we revisited.
The Meat To Bun Ratio: In the case of the miniature burgers, the ratio was precise. I took note of the full-sized burgers leaving the kitchen, and they were similarly proportioned.
The Fries and Rings: The skinny fries, potato wedge fries, and onion rings were all Lamb Wesson products, so they arrived prepped and frozen. These were all cooked in neutral canola oil to a perfectly crisp golden brown. They were appropriately seasoned with flaky, kosher salt.
The Cereal Bowl, The Drunken Monkey, and The Strawberry Cheesecake shakes
The Shakes: The kitchen came out with a flight of shakes:
The Cereal Bowl was a cereal milk shake with lots of Fruity Pebbles and Cap’n Crunch. It tasted like it its namesake.
The Drunken Monkey was nicely banana-flavored with copious amounts of chopped Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups on the bottom.
The Strawberry Cheesecake was a lot like it sounded.
The shakes were a little less adventurous than the shakes at I Love Burgers, but they were delicious and flawlessly executed.
LN2 Bubblegum Meringue
The Desserts: The pastry chef sent out what appeared to be an entire candy store of single-bite confections. Most notable was the ridiculously cool, blue, bubblegum, nitrogen-frozen meringue. This was spooned by the server from a foggy bowl of liquid nitrogen—whee! These were popped into the mouth, and then the giddy fun began. The second the cryo-frozen meringue hit the tongue, the gas began expanding and this forced cold, nitrogen fog from the mouth and nose. This coupled with the ethereal feel of the delicate meringue and its playful bubblegum flavor was just laughter-inducing fun. The berry push pop with the pistachio butter was quite nice, as well. There was a clever playfulness present in the desserts, but the flawless execution was still in place.
The candy store
Holsteins was a next-level burger affair. The culinary talent in the kitchen was a force. The speed of innovation in the back-of-house exceeded the front-of-house's capacity to commit all of it to memory. Relentless improvement and adjustment via experimentation was the recipe for the tremendously fine burgers/food in general at Holstein's. The kitchen truly delivered something special in terms of fine dining, because they were able to deliver it on a humble burger bun.
Burger Review : Fine dining on a bun. Holsteins needs to be on everyone's list of must-try burgers. In terms of execution and quality of toppings, this was the best burger in Las Vegas that I had found so far.
Rating...5 Bites (In the absence of Chef Cullen, Holsteins rated a 4 at best. The average of both visits was a 4.5)
Editor's Note: Happy Meal, the Marinater, and I revisited Holsteins on 04JUL11. Chef Cullen had departed the previous week, and his absence was already felt. The burgers were quite good, but the precision of the previous visit was now lacking.
The buns were a little too dry. The crusts were leathery.
The burgers were a little over-cooked. Both came out closer to Med-Well than Med-Rare. The Gold Standard burger ended up being on the dry side.
The yam on the Rising Sun burger was cloying, and it overwhelmed the subtle Kobe beef and the sublime tempura avocado. That tempura avocado was tremendous on the previous visit, and it was a shame to see it lost in the dish on this try.
The meager portion of the Goat Cheddar on the Gold Standard burger was invisible to the palate.
The burgers were darn good in terms of the flavor of the beef, but they no longer tasted of relentless perfection. The ingredients no longer worked in perfect harmony.
The value of the Gold Standard burger and the Rising Sun burger at Holsteins were weak. A burger that came in at $17.50 should have been flawlessly prepared. Better burgers for better prices could be located easily and within walking distance of Holsteins.
I had noted that recently, a spate of unfavorable reviews had come out regarding the service, quality, and pricing at Holsteins. That was sad, because this place had a terrific start. I do hope that they get their act together.
Posted by Pete Neumann at Friday, June 10, 2011
Labels: 5 Bites, burger, burger review, cheeseburger, Holsteins Burger, Holsteins burger review, las vegas burger, las vegas burger review
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The French translation may well be an opportunity to discover the book for those who missed the affair at the time. The torso was discovered exactly 10 days after 9/11, and, in France at least, the affair went relatively unnoticed. Richard Hoskins’s involvement in the case was personal from the start. Lecturing on African religion at the time, he was contacted by the London Metropolitan Police to help solve the mystery of Adam’s demise. But the book he wrote 10 years later (Adam’s murderers have yet to be brought to justice), is in fact a personal journey and Hoskins sets the scene in the opening chapters of the book : « if Adam could be laid to rest, then so could my own ghosts. Couldn’t they? »
Investigating Adam’s murder brought Hoskins 15 years back to the days when, a young newly-wed idealist, he established himself with his wife for a few months in the Congo (the couple ended up staying a full 6 years). Sue Hoskins became pregnant and gave birth to identical twin girls. The first was still-born but the second, little Abigail, survived. Hoskins and his wife had overcome the death of their other twin daughter when Hoskins was approached one afternoon by Tata Mpia, a local carpenter. The man claimed he too was a twin whose elder brother had died. He spoke of the living dead and told Hoskins Abigail’s elder twin was calling her « to join her in the shadowlands ». To prevent the impending death of Abigail, Hoskins, Tata Mpia instructed, should visit the nganga (witch doctor) and sacrifice an animal. Though disturbed by the man’s prophecy, Hoskins did no such thing. As a « Westerner », he tells us today, this was « a line (he) didn’t want to cross ».
Shortly after Tata Mpia’s visit, Abigail died of a fever. It is this traumatic encounter with death and witchcraft in the Congo that Hoskins was drawn back to in his investigation of Adam’s murder. The investigation in itself was clearly a turning-point as Hoskins moved on to become a novelist and a famous criminologist. He no longer considers himself an academic although he still lectures on occasion.
Interestingly enough, The Boy in the River, opens with a quotation of W. B. Yeats’s The Second Coming :
« Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… » 1
And indeed, Hoskins interprets the growing number of cases of exorcism or human sacrifice he describes in his book against the backdrop of globalization, of a world where « the centre cannot hold » and where « things fall apart ». The belief in ndoki (withcraft) is widespread in West Africa and is fuelled by the growing numbers of « pop-up » fundamentalist Christian churches. To quote from an article published in The Guardian in June 2005, « … in a country that has been deeply traumatised by war, disease and corruption, (…) one of the few growth industries is Pentecostal churches, which are offering salvation after years of bloodshed.” 2
In an interview he gave to Italian journalists in Rome on October 29th 1974, Jacques Lacan foretold the « Triumph of Religion ». « Science, Lacan declared, is going to introduce such earth-shattering things that religion is going to be needed to make sense of them ». For the power of religion stems from its ability to « clean up » after the advances of science, from its ability to deliver and invent meaning as an answer to the Real. In the words of Jacques-Alain Miller « The more dysfunctional things get, the more help we see coming from the fields of meaning » (« Au fur et à mesure que ça dysfonctionne, on voit le renfort arriver des disciplines du sens ») 3. Richard Hoskins’s interpretation of the current cases he investigates confirms Lacan’s prediction. Yet, Hoskins came back a changed man from the personal journey that took him back to his traumatic past. « It’s not so much that you take these cases back home, he told me, it’s the part of you you leave behind ». Despite the years he spent as an academic, Richard Hoskins has given up searching for meaning, a meaning that would give us solace and explain off the terrible crimes he investigates. Adam’s murder isn’t featured alongside Reggie and Ronnie Kray’s crimes or John George Haise’s bathtub in Scotland Yard’s new museum. For Adam, for Abigail, there is no closure.
1The quotation was picked upon by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe for the title of his post-colonial novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), in which a female character gives birth to 4 sets of twins, all of which are abandoned in the Evil Forest. Hoskins explains how twins were considered as unknown until recently and were thus feared and discarded, in keeping with religious beliefs.
2 http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jun/25/children.pressandpublishing
3 Jacques-Alain Miller, Un effort de poésie, May 14th and 21st 2003.
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The Project Manager of the North West Transmission Grid Connection (NWGTC) at Botswana Power Corporation (BPC), George Moeti has said the overall project progress is 73% as at July against the initial target of 86%.
He updated journalists in the sidelines of the media tour of NWGTC Letlhakane substation on Wednesday indicating that there are already recovery plans in place to catch up on lost time.
“The delayed contractors have since requested extension of time and these are under review. However, it is evident that progress has picked up so far,” he said hopeful for completion soon.
Government through Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) has invested about P2.4 billion on infrastructure to connect the northwest part of the country to the national electricity grid.
The areas to be connected to the grid such as Ghanzi and Chobe districts are currently being supplied with power from Namibia through cross border distribution networks but with limited capacity.
Moeti went on to say that the manufacturing equipment and materials started in March 2018 is 95% complete, were bought from places such as India,China,Italy including Botswana as well.
He revealed that the engaged contractors have also committed to undertake or adhere towards the Economic Diversification Drive (EDD) policy to procure the local made manufactured goods.
’’ The contractors also engaged the citizen owned companies to provide transport for these equipment and materials from the port of entries to site as well as clearing agencies. Civil works aggregates, machinery and other materials are being sourced outside Botswana, said Moeti.
Speaking to employment creation opportunities he said the NWTGC project has date employed 2,224 Batswana some as engineers, supervisors, technicians, mobile equipment operators and graduates just to mention but a few.
He however, expressed worry that some of international engaged contractors are at some point reluctant to engage locals citing that they complained on local language being a barrier for that.
“We couldn’t then not take action for those companies that had decided to use language as a barrier as defense of not employing the citizens. It has been emphasised that the project should fully to a large extent benefit the locals,” he said
He also reiterated that more jobs are in the pipeline as key construction activities such as tower assembly tower and erection continues to take shape.
Some of the challenges that he cited to be of paramount in the project delay include poor soil drainage in the Letlhakane substation which has posed threat to some people’s lives before.
In the Ghanzi district he decried of rocky soil surface that makes it clear for bush clearing as well as erecting of the towers, but pointing out that suitable machinery has been lined up for work.
The NWTGC is divided into two (2) phases with phase 1 which is 400/220/132kv transmission lines from Morupule B to Letlhakane/Orapa, Maun, Toteng, Gumare, Samochima and Ghanzi including the associated substations.
Phase transmission lines ranges from Phokoje substation to Dukwi whilst the Pandamatenga and Kasane including associated substations are currently on hold due to financial constraints.
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This spring, flag football was introduced to female students at Marc Garneau. It was an intense season that set a great start for the sport at MGCI.
This was the first year of the flag football team so the sport was open to any girls interested in participating, as a regular flag football team typically consisted of almost thirty players. This year’s coach, Mr. Fox, started team training in mid-April with practices held on Tuesday and Thursday mornings each week, to prepare the girls for the upcoming games in May and June.
Flag football is a complicated sport for new athletes to learn. During the game, teams have two lineups of twelve players: one offensive and one defensive. The offensive line includes the quarterback, and their goal is score touchdowns by running the football into opposing team’s endzone. When the ball is not in possession, the defensive line aims to stop the other team from advancing further on the field. Unlike regular football, there is no tackling in flag football. Instead, players wear a belt with three flags and play are stops when a flag is pulled off the belt of the player with possession of the ball.
Since this was a new sport for many schools in the TDSB, a two-day workshop and tournament was hosted for all the teams participating in this year’s league on 25 and 26 April 2019. During the two days, players learned various aspects of the game including how to properly punt, throw, and catch a football. There were also practice games organized for players to gain experience on the field.
The flag football team playing at Wexford CI.
Although the sport piqued the interest of many students, the team was short on players, with only sixteen girls becoming committed members. By May, the girls on the team felt much more comfortable with the sport. During the season, Garneau played five games against other schools from various regions in the TDSB, ending with two wins and three losses. In addition to securing a spot in quarterfinals, the teammates had developed a strong connection with each other.
Grade 12 player, Noor Fatima Azhar said, “I’ve gotten to bond with so many new people and the team honestly feels like a family now. Every player matters: there’s no member nor position that is more important than another which makes football a real team sport.”
With more experience in the sport, there was also a new found enjoyment for it. “What I love about football is how you have to strategize on the sport according to how the other team is playing,” said Noor, “Football has become a favorite sport of mine and I don’t think I will stop playing it any time soon.”
On 3 June 2019, Garneau won their quarter-final game against Earl Haig with a score of 7-6 and moved onto semi-finals at Lawrence Park. The team was unfortunately eliminated by Lawrence Park on 6 June 2019, ending their season in fourth place overall.
“It’s absolutely amazing how far we have come. We would often only have 12 players attending each game meaning we would be on the entire match. The fact that we were able to beat schools with teams the size of almost two classrooms is something to be extremely proud of,” said team captain Takwah Ahmad.
Even though the season ended for the girls, their friendships formed with each other and enjoyment for flag football were long-lasting.
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Students in the program gain expertise in all the fundamental areas of theatrical art in graduated sequences of study designed to bring into focus rigorous critical thinking, precise methods of research, and imaginative expression.
Although theater majors often focus in on a specific area of the field, such as performance, design and production, directing, or dramaturgy, the major is designed to give students experience in all areas of theater. Students leave the department superbly trained, with a well-rounded base of knowledge that makes them competitive candidates for employment as well as graduate study. In addition to coursework, students participate in productions, serving as actors, designers, stage managers, directors and dramaturgs, both in our season and in independent undergraduate productions and informal events. Undergraduate theater majors also participate in many special events designed to supplement the curriculum, ranging from hands-on master classes with guest professionals to career-development workshops.
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Western Massachusetts boasts a number of regional and community theater companies and arts organizations which offer both interesting programming and great opportunities to get involved; UMass Theater undergraduate students have found internships, summer work, and other opportunities at companies including Shakespeare and Co., Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hampshire Shakespeare, and others.
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The ‘Deep Tide’ gig at Sheffield Cathedral on Friday the 14th will be a trio of myself – percussion, Laura Cole – keyboards, and the Norwegian cellist Maja Bugge.
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On Friday January 18th I will be doing a solo percussion set at Deda, Derby. This will be at the opening of a 3 month residency at Deda by my friend, the artist Vitor Azevedo.
On the 17th October, I performed with ‘Alchemy / Schmalchemy’ at The Martin Hall Exhibition Space at Loughborough University, as part of the exhibition, Re-Imagining Citizenship. The piece we did was ‘Rhodiaceta (Re-)Response. ‘Alchemy / Schmalchemy’ are myself on electronics, voice and percussion, Gillian Whiteley on accordion, voice & other instruments, and Geoff Bright on bass saxophone and voice. We were working with graphic scores made in response to a film made in 1967 in Besancon in the Rhodiaceta textile factory there. So it was a response to a response. The film was made by workers in the factory, who were striking in opposition to the conditions they were having to endure. This was in the build-up to the student/worker uprising in France, May 1968, especially in Paris. I was there in Paris, staying with students just prior to the uprising, which gave an extra resonance for me in this piece. The piece was filmed and will be shown at another Re-Imagining Citizenship exhibition in Besancon at the Institute Superieur des Beaux-Arts de Besancon there in 2019.
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Review: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain [2015]
The 32 year old Metal Gear franchise, brainchild of Japanese developer Hideo Kojima, spans over 20 games and is often referred to as one of the most complex narratives in video game history. It's also a predominantly console-oriented affair with only about five of them being ported to the PC. I never played any of them because more often than not, console games are crud when ported to the PC and I dislike playing franchise sequels without playing the original. The mouthful of a title Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain however, the last in the series, was really pushed for the PC more than any MG title before it and as I got it free with my GPU when MG fans were paying €50 for it so I felt it would be rude not to try it.
I've played games which one completes and indicates you're done in the form of an end credit sequence and only offers you to reload your last save, likely the last one made before the game ends. Some games offer the ability to go through the whole thing again on harder difficulty, only now you have all the weapons and gear you picked up along the way. Others offer some sort of continuation to online multiplayer, while most genuine online or MMO types of games offer the promise of continuation and "the grind" until content is updated. In the Autumn I self-imposed a completion of MGSV, easily one of the most interesting, rewarding and addictive gaming experiences ever. It felt strange uninstalling this as while I had finished all the main missions and seen the story to it's conclusion, there was still hundreds of hours of game to get lost in. I guess I didn't feel I was entirely finished with it yet; but after 589 hours (according to Steam) I figured that I probably should be, so that I can play others, so I had to forcefully pull myself out.
My initial thoughts were mixed. The first hour of the game is heavily scripted, with little by way of gameplay. Without spoiling anything, you're escaping from a hospital being invaded by a paramilitary force and you've just woken up from a coma, so you're not yet "at your best". It's filled with scripted events, blocked exits, fake doors, and you're lethargically following a bandaged man unmistakably voiced by Kiefer Sutherland (which somehow is also your own voice?) in a backless hospital gown telling you to do everything. That said it was exciting and spectacularly directed in terms of visuals but it makes no sense until the end of the game about 50 missions later!
Prepare yourself for a whopping 4 hours or so of cutscenes and scripted sequences spread throughout the game where Kojima advances the bizarre story, which does have some exceptional dramatic moments, one of which I had I can only describe as "traumatic". It certainly makes me appreciate the level of following the franchise has and perhaps justifies the adoration for Kojima I've seen online. Sadly while the game satisfactorily ends it's story, there was a few threads that were left unfinished but this was because publisher Konami put pressure on Kojima to finish it up and thus did not have time to complete everything including the most major thread which should have been "Mission 51" - the details of which can be viewed on Youtube. However I must stress that MGSV:TPP does not have a KOTOR2 situation to the ending, where the publisher demanded the developer cease development, tack on an ending and release it in that state, leaving a plethora of unanswered questions. In MGSV the main ending to the game is intact and was likely completed at the same time as the start, so various Internet musings on the game being "unfinished" are inaccurate, it's just not 100% complete. I can't speak for it addressing all the plot points that the overall lore of the whole 20-game MG series demands but unlike KOTOR2, the ending is paced adequately and the game is bookended satisfactorily.
While the 50 or so story missions are the driving force behind the game, one would have a difficult time as you progress through the story without completing Side Ops - similar to side-quests in any bog-standard RPG - which are the real meat of the game, more so than the story missions. This is certainly where one would sink most of their time into as one really has the freedom to complete Side Ops in which ever way you choose as there is only a single win condition. They can take as long as you like, use whatever tactics and resources you want and it's all good so long as you eliminate (kill or extract) a target or rescue a prisoner etc. There are 150 of these missions throughout the game and often you find yourself repeating them for the rewards in order to build up your military strength. The list of Side Ops available changes every time you complete some and return to the helo and are often updated with new ones as you complete story missions so one must always check them out after a main mission as some of them needed to be completed before a main mission will unlock and vice versa.
Building up your military strength is a crucial component of MGSV and one I particularly enjoyed. One can't really progress in the game without doing it because the enemy begins to develop countermeasures to your attacks and you need to stay ahead of the curve by developing better weapons and equipment. You eventually get a Fulton recovery device which you attach a balloon to a person or animal that you have incapacitated (not killed), a container or a vehicle and it's magically added to your resources. The person is brainwashed into joining your team, you get a reward for rescuing the animal, the container translates into resources needed for development and the vehicle becomes yours to drive later or sell.
This brings me to Mother-base - your base of operations which you really need to build up so you can hold more staff, develop more and more weapons and equipment and thus can complete missions faster, easier and with higher chances of success. Mother-base can be visited (a lot of the the plot points force you to return too) and there are some training missions to be had there. It does get rather big (35 separate platforms when fully developed) but you can drive between platforms in a jeep (if you have the time), fly on a helicopter (of you have the money) or my favourite: sit in a cardboard box on a delivery area and Fed-Ex yourself to another site!
Of course when you complete building Mother-base, the building doesn't stop. The Forward Operating Base or FOB is the final type of content for MGSV. One develops a basic FOB (essentially a near identical copy of of Mother-base in other territorial waters) during the single player game but it's really for multiplayer or event driven content. Developing an FOB increases the limits you can expand your staff even more. This is needed if you want to develop a higher grade of weaponry than you have and also generate automatic materials procurement through automatic mining, which in turn allows you to expand even more, and build even more FOBs, to expand more staff limits, to get higher levels of staff, to get higher levels of weapons and so on. I didn't get to the maximum level, I don't know what it is but I had 109 platforms which cost filled with 2800 unique staff when I called it quits.
There is a con to the FOB though. As your FOB (containing a percentage of your resources - even though you collect as part of the single-player story game) is permanently online, it is actually vulnerable to attack from other online players! Other players can actually land on your base - and if they're good enough - kill or abduct your staff and steal your raw materials! Unless you're good enough to retaliate, the only real defence against this is to not develop an FOB which severely limits the military level you can achieve and you would find it more difficult to complete. While I'm confident the issue was serious a year or two into the game's release - four years on I was only invaded once losing a mere 13 staff which were replaced instantly with staff from the base's "waiting room". It would be prudent to develop security devices and adjust the security level as high as you can so that only vets could ever attack your base and not some random noob!
In addition to a kit that might take you a while to decide what to bring from dozens (later hundreds) of available options - each of which can be customised to your liking - you also can take an AI 'buddy' to aid you in your mission. You start out with a horse first, it's good for getting around but it's limited. The buddies I used most often were D-Dog, a dog, a good dog that can sniff out weapons, vehicles, enemies, wildlife, resources and medicinal plants or Quiet a sexy semi-naked expert sniper for which no expense was spared on the movement physics of her breasts - remember the game was developed in Japan and they're a bit strange over there. I spent about 100,000GMP in game to develop clothing for her, thus treating her like a soldier and not the Dutch underwear model that provided her motion capture. Quiet's a dab hand with the sniper rifle and can actually be sent on command in to an area and methodically eliminate enemies while you leave the game to go and take a shit. She's actually a good quarter of the story to the game too so don't kill her when you first meet her.
I will say graphically the game is top tier. The Kojima Productions FOX engine is easily the most optimised graphics engine I've seen in years netting me a steady 45+ FPS at 4K Ultra detail. I needed to drop to 2K during the hot summer due to heat but FPS rose to 60 which I limit manually. This is much better performance than any Western-produced game in it's class. Character modelling is impressive for the main characters, but secondary characters not so much. Animations aren't the best either with some of the characters stances looking a bit constipated but environments are astonishingly detailed even though there are really only two regions; rocky and sand-brown Afghanistan or swampy green yet more brown Zaire. This game proves that there is indeed beauty in the mundane but it would have been nice if there had been a reason to have more temperate, arctic environments or even coastal regions.
I need to mention the game's soundtrack because it's certainly the most impressive I've heard since World in Conflict. The game is set in a version of 1984, and the soundtrack reflects that exceptionally. Midge Ure's "The Man Who Sold The World" is sort of the game's theme, and there are other offering from Kim Wilde, a-Ha, Hall & Oates, The Cure, Ultravox, Billy Idol and many more. As you invade installations you can take tapes of the songs out of the cassette players and they'll be available to listen to on your own in-game Walkman as you play or there's an option to choose your "helicopter music" - So I challenge anyone to say they have lived until they ride in a helo that's blaring Kajagoogoo's "Too Shy" on it's loudspeakers! Additionally, the in game score by Swedish composer Ludvig Forssell with Justin Dungeons & Dragons Burnett and Daniel Call Of Duty: Black Ops III and IV James deservingly earned them the best score at the Game Awards.
Bring a trained Force Recon Marine allows me to appreciate it when game designers understand the value of a tactical approach to warfare. Often such designers and Hollywood directors are of the idea that "Special Operations Forces" means "louder bangs with less men", and while it certainly can be, more often than not it's the completion of an objective before the enemy realises you've been there. What MGSV:TPP allows, is for you to take any approach, from any direction, from any distance, in daytime or night, lethal or not and complete the military objective by killing everyone loudly, neutralising everyone silently or vanishing without ever being discovered. Games like Call of Duty rely on scripted sequences to convey stealth but it's eventually just an exercise on who you kill first and how many, while the Splinter Cell franchise is built on stealth and penalises you for going loud or being discovered. MGSV in contrast gives you to the freedom to adapt to do whatever you want to do to the point where I'm sure many other games will now feel a little hollow or too constricting, even "ruined" by comparison to such a free-form experience.
I have no issue recommanding Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain to anyone who appreciates shooters and stealth games but this is not for casual gamers. The only way to progress is by spending time doing some legwork and that takes serious man-hours, but I feel the rewards are worth it in the long run.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is worth the €29.99 you'd pay on Steam but you can find it bundled with it's prequel episode Ground Zeroes as METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Definitive Experience for the same price but as with all you can wait for a sale and get it all for about €6.99.
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High Speed Chase Nets Alleged Missoula Car Thief in Lake County
29 year-old Matthew Van Vallin is in the Missoula County Jail after being apprehended in an allegedly stolen vehicle by authorities in Lake County.
Lake County Sheriff Don Bell said the car chase started at about midnight Monday morning.
“The pursuit started at about 11:35 p.m. on Sunday when a Lake County Deputy noticed a vehicle at about mile marker 46 on US 93 that fit the description of a stolen vehicle out of Missoula,” he said. “The Deputy verified the plate and the vehicle came back as stolen, so the deputy activated his Emergency lights and siren and the stolen vehicle traveled at a high rate of speed south bound out of Ronan attempting to elude the deputy. Matthew Van Vallin was arrested after a pursuit started in Ronan Mt near mile marker 46 ending at the Grey Wolf Casino about mile marker 10 where Missoula County Sheriff Deputies placed stop sticks on the highway and flattened the tires on the stolen vehicle,”
Van Vallin was placed in the Missoula County Jail and was photographed wearing a vest that protects the suspect from harming himself.
Van Vallin is in jail on just over $200,000 bond, and will appear in Missoula Justice Court on Tuesday.
Filed Under: High Speed Chase, Lake County Sheriff
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Miley Cyrus’ Fiancé Liam Hemsworth Reveals Heartbreaking Photo of Burned Down Home
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Actor Liam Hemsworth just posted a haunting photo on Instagram of what's left of his home with fiancee Miley Cyrus.
The couple's home in Malibu was torched after the devastating California wildfires ripped through Ventura County and parts of Los Angeles County last week. Despite the tragic circumstances, the actor's caption on the post is hopeful and grateful.
"It’s been a heartbreaking few days. This is what’s left of my house. Love. Many people in Malibu and surrounding areas in California have lost their homes also and my heart goes out to everyone who was affected by these fires," the actor writes.
"I spent the day in Malibu yesterday and it was amazing to see the community pulling together to help each other out in any way they can. Malibu is a strong community and this event is only going to make it stronger. Thankful for the all the great local guys that helped keep smaller fires out around my property. I love u guys. I love you Malibu. Thank you to all the hero firefighters around California. It’s going to be a journey to rebuild. Stay strong all."
Hemsworth ends the post by directing people who want to help to The Malibu Foundation and Miley's Happy Hippie Foundation.
Yesterday, Cyrus tweeted about the couple's Malibu beach house being destroyed in the fires. "Completely devastated by the fires affecting my community," the pop star writes. "My animals and love of my life made it out safely & that's all that matters right now. My house no longer stands but the memories shared with family & friends stand strong."
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MC-21 passenger jet serial production to start in 2021
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Country: Russian Federation Aircraft: Airplanes
Source: Ruaviation
Serial production of the Russian passenger jet MC-21 will start in 2021, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told reporters on Tuesday. This reported by TASS.
"I would like to confirm that we will not change our plans. The task is to complete certification in 2020 and initiate serial production [of MC-21 airplane] in 2021 against all challenges known to you," the official said.
The production output of MC-21 can be over 70 airplanes by 2022, according to Borisov.
"I think [existing production facilities] may well be capable of making 72 aircraft by the threshold of 2022," Borisov said.
Borisov also said that the Russian passenger jet could change foreign engines to domestically produced.
"We are ready that under certain circumstances we will have to shift to domestic engines only," the official said.
PD-14 engine is planned for mounting on the first serially produced aircraft, Borisov said. "PD-14 engine will go for the first serial aircraft. We do not renounce partnership with Pratt & Whitney and will not undertake any measures adversely affecting this partnership," he said.
The first aircraft produced in line with series technologies will be adapted for installation of the PD-14 engine for flight tests," the airplane manufacturer Irkut told TASS.
The MC-21 jet currently undergoes flight tests with engines by Pratt & Whitney. The Russian engine PD-14 received the type approval at the turn of 2021 and first serial specimen tests are underway.
It was reported in January 2019 that US sanctions against the Russian United Aircraft Corporation and Rostec resulted in halted supplies of composite materials for MC-21 wings.
MC-21 is a medium-haul passenger jet being developed by the United Aircraft Corporation. It may come in two configurations - MC-21-200 (seating 132 to 165) and MC-21-300 (163 to 211). Another configuration, MC-21-400 with up to 250 seats, is also planned.
Currently only the MC-21-300 plane is being developed. It performed its first flight at the end of May 2017.
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Published on Wednesday, September 16, 2015
ZTE Device Data Update
Warp Elite and Obsidian
This week we focus on two new offerings from ZTE. ZTE is one of the top five largest smartphone manufacturers in its home market of China, and top ten worldwide. ZTE primarily sells products under its own name but it is also an OEM for several smaller brands. Initially founded 30 years ago as Zhongxing Semiconductor Co. Ltd, there was a name change 12 years ago to Zhongxing New Telecommunications Equipment Co. from where we get the ZTE moniker. All of the devices in this article can be detected with our latest data file update available for download now.
The ZTE Warp Elite was launched as a Boost Mobile exclusive and was marketed as Boost Mobile's "most feature-packed smartphone for under $200". If you're thinking the name is a little familiar you won't be surprised to know that the Warp Elite is a successor to the ZTE Warp Sync from the 2014 generation of devices. The new handset runs Android 5.1 Lollipop out of the box and sports a 5.5 inch display with a 720 x 1280 pixel resolution.
Internally the handset packs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 with a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU running at 1.2GHz and naturally this is accompanied by an Adreno 306 GPU. Memory-wise you get 2GB RAM, 16GB of internal storage and a MicroSD card slot for a further 64GB expansion. This compares favourably to the Snapdragon 400 and 1GB of RAM found in the Warp Sync. A non-removable 3000mAh battery powers the unit which ZTE claims will last for up to 20 hours of talk time.
The Warp Elite is outfitted with a 13MP rear camera with LED flash paired with a 5MP front-facing camera. On the connectivity side of things, there is Bluetooth and 4G LTE support thanks to the Snapdragon 410 chipset. The Warp Elite's closest kin is the Motorola Moto G 201; the phones square off pretty evenly and the Warp Elite actually gets the jump on the Moto G 2015 with customers having to cough up another $40 to get 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. The Warp Elite is available now for $179.99.
ZTE Warp Elite
Whilst the ZTE Warp Elite is billed as affordable but feature-packed, the ZTE Obsidian goes one further and really strikes deep into budget territory. This is a lower-end offering, aimed at those who prefer a cheap device with the basics covered. Like the Warp Elite, the ZTE Obsidian also runs Android 5.1 Lollipop out of the box but this time it has a much smaller display, 4.5 inches with a resolution of 854 x 480.
This time ZTE have plumped for a MediaTek 6735M chipset to fit inside the handset. This comes with a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU running at 1.0GHz and a ARM Holdings Mali-T720 MP2 GPU. Naturally, as a budget device, something has got to give and in this case there is only 1GB RAM and 4GB internal storage, but at least there's a MicroSD expansion slot capable of supporting 32GB cards. Battery has also suffered with a 1800mAh unit and just six hours of talk time.
The rest of the features are all pretty basic but still enough to get the job done. They include a 5MP rear camera with LED flash, 2MP front camera, Bluetooth 4.0+A2DP, GPS/A-GPS, single micro SIM card slot, accelerometer sensor, Micro USB and headphone ports, and perhaps the most interesting feature, 4G LTE support. That last point is notable as even the Motorola Moto E 4G, considered one of the current best budget phones, costs $30 more for 4G. The ZTE Obsidian is available now for $99.
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9 Diners Report Illness After Eating At Fort Collins Taco Shop
A number of diners and employees recently reported becoming ill after eating and working at the Fort Collins Torchy's Tacos.
According to an Aug. 28 unacceptable restaurant health inspection, nine of 11 people who ate dinner at 6:40 p.m. on Tuesday, August 20 at the 3280 S. College Ave. taco shop became ill with varying symptoms.
The customers reported consuming a variety of tacos, guacamole, queso and chips. Symptoms included vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, stomach cramps and headache.
Torchy's staff also reported to the Larimer County Health Department that eight employees reported becoming sick between Aug. 20 and Aug. 25 and called in sick to work.
In the Aug. 28 inspection, Torchy's was docked for not having a certified food protection manager.
Torchy's opened in Fort Collins in September of 2016.
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Fantasy Football – Week 3 Sleepers
Five outside the box names who might help boost your lineup
With the fantasy football season upon us, everyone will be looking at rounding out their starting lineup with a strong contributor. Go scour the waiver wire for these individuals before it is too late.
The Tennessee quarterback is only owned in about half of fantasy football leagues, but Mariota is going to be a hot commodity soon. Averaging 15 points in standard leagues is not going to blow the average sports fan away, but his matchup against Oakland is excellent. The Raiders have allowed 819 yards and seven touchdowns in two weeks as their secondary has been completely shredded. Spot quarterback starts are key and Mariota’s matchup is about as good as it gets.
Tevin Coleman
The Falcons running back has seen a double digit percentage increase in ownership already, but make sure you grab Coleman if he is available in your league. With talk of running back by committee, Coleman's stock rises while Devonta Freeman takes a significant blow. Coleman has racked up 188 yards via the ground and air through two games along with a touchdown. Furthermore, Coleman will tee off against a New Orleans defense that has given up 231 yards on the ground through two games.
Shane Vereen
If you really need to dig deep for a flex option, the pass catching running back may well be worth a roster spot. Vereen only earned 66 yards last Sunday, but received one more rushing carry than supposed workhorse Rashad Jennings. If Vereen gets another 14 carries along with more targets in the passing game, he could be worthy of a start. Moreover, take into account the poor Washington run defense that he will be facing. The Redskins have allowed 249 yards and FIVE rushing touchdowns in just two games.
The Houston rookie is becoming a popular waiver wire pickup, but he is still available in about 20 percent of fantasy leagues so act fast. Fuller has totaled 100-yards in back-to-back weeks and also has a score. DeAndre Hopkins is going to get his against New England next week, but the Patriots have been prone to sharing the wealth with receivers. The Patriots allowed 218 yards to opposing team's top receivers, Larry Fitzergald and Jarvis Landry, but also 167 yards to the second option, Michael Floyd and DeVante Parker, over the first two weeks of the young 2016 season.
Dennis Pitta
The Ravens tight end was thought to never be the same after multiple hip injuries nearly ended his career, but he persevered and can now be your fantasy reward. Pitta, 141 yards in 2016, is owned in only ten percent in ESPN fantasy leagues, much of that coming recently, so you should be able to find a short term solution to your Gronkowski woes or possibly a long-term tight end answer. Pitta will be up against a Jacksonville defense that gave up a touchdown to Antonio Gates last week.
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“Job preservation is what prompted me to form my own company,” said Dylan Fast, President and CEO of Fast Air. In fact, it was more than that. An entrepreneur at heart, Dylan wisely realized that there was no one around that offered executive charters. He saw a niche to be filled and acted.
It was 1995 when Dylan and his brother formed the Winnipeg based air charter service. It was nothing fancy. The address was rented space at 5 Allen Dyne Road on the east side of James A. Richardson International Airport and their one plane was a leased Piper Cheyenne. However, within two months they bought a second aircraft, a Piper Navajo, and by the following summer leased or purchased more aircraft to keep up with the demand. I didn’t take on business just for the sake of becoming bigger,” explained Dylan. “Providing good service was the priority. But we kept track of all the business we were turning down.”
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Fast Air is currently involved in two major long term Manitoba Hydro contracts, one awarded in December and the Hydro Kelsey station awarded in 2006.
Setting Fast Air apart from others is that it specializes in providing Aircraft Management solutions to businesses. As the website explains, with its in-house maintenance and team of professionals, it can offer turn-key management programs tailored to a customer’s specific needs. If required, Fast Air will also assume full responsibility of the day-to-day operation and management of a customer’s aircraft. In addition, if a customer has thought about buying an aircraft for personal or company use but felt it was too large an investment, Fast Air has an Aircraft Charter Leaseback Option. This allows Fast Air to charter the aircraft thus offsetting the aircraft operating expenses and reducing the cost of private aircraft ownership.
From its beginnings with two pilots who did everything from booking to flying, Fast Air’s staff has grown to over 60 employees that include 25 pilots, a General Manager, Director of Maintenance, Operations Manager, Finance Manager, MedEvac Director, Production Manager, Sales & Logistics Manager, Inventory Logistics Manager, Accounting Clerk as well as individuals handling Charter Reservations & Dispatch, Passenger Reception and Quality Assurance.
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I had a difficult time catching up with Dylan. It seemed as if he was always flying. I had wondered how this President and CEO with his background of bush flying, crop dusting and corporate flying would like flying a desk. As it turns out, Dylan has the best of both worlds. “One of the reasons he hired me was so I could be in the office,” explained Ray Snaith, General Manager, with a laugh. “Dylan loves to fly. We tag team, although I don’t fly as much as he does!”
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Richard Madden and Brandon Flynn Cut Ties Amid Romance Rumors
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The 'Bodyguard' actor and the '13 Reasons Why' star, who are romantically linked after they became housemates following the former's split from his girlfriend, reportedly have feud.
AceShowbiz - Richard Madden and his pal Brandon Flynn have reportedly stopped living together after a recent fall out.
The "Bodyguard" actor moved to Los Angeles at the beginning of the year after splitting up with his actress girlfriend Ellie Bamber, and moved in with the "13 Reasons Why star, after the pair "bonded over being up-and-coming actors in the industry."
However, a source told Britain's The Sun newspaper they have since "cut ties" and are doing their utmost to avoid one another at public events.
"Brandon has made it clear he doesn't want to see Richard because he asked the team at Versace not to invite him to a party they are having at the beginning of December," the insider shared. "Richard has been dressed by the brand a few times and he spoke with (Elton John's friend) Donatella Versace to prepare for his role as John Reid in "Rocketman".
"But as they are working with Brandon now, they are respecting his wishes and haven't asked Richard to attend the bash."
After Richard was spotted out and about with Sam Smith's ex, there was speculation they may have been romantically involved, but the star, who is back in the U.K. shooting the Marvel film "The Eternals", declined to open up about his personal life, adding, "I've never talked about my relationships."
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Liturgy as rehearsal
Ok so I’m still working on my Paper on Messiaen (see this post). As I was reading articles and books about Messiaen, his catholic faith and liturgical music, I was reminded of The Sprit of The Liturgy, By Joseph Ratzinger (aka Pope Benedict XVI), a book recommended to me that I have been reading this quarter. Ratzinger’s book discusses liturgies’ foundations in Biblical history, its relationship to time and space, and, in his chapter on liturgical form, discussion of practical matters for the church such as placement of the altar, function of music, and physical participation (kneeling/standing/sitting).
Messiaen’s liturgical music often plays with our notions of time. His most popularly studied work, Quatour pour le fin du temps, uses a complex and irregular rhythmic language to give the listener the sense of a suspension of time (note: bad idea to listen to when you’re working on a paper with a deadline in 24 hrs).
Ratzinger, in his opening chapter, discusses what we experience during the liturgy, and how, for a moment, time and our notions of purpose and achievement are suspended in place of a new kind of existence. During the 1920s, a metaphor was made comparing liturgy to “play.” Specifically, the play of a child. Ratzinger begins his book with a mention of this concept. When a child plays, “it has no meaning or purpose outside of the rules of the game. For that reason, there is something healing, even liberating about it. Play is a kind of other world, an oasis of freedom, where for a moment we can let life flow freely.” He then illuminates a deeper facet of this analogy that ties it in with the essence of the liturgy, not to mention send shivers down my spine.
Children’s play seems in many ways a kind of anticipation of life, a rehearsal for later life, without its burdens and gravity. On this anaolgy, the litrugy would be a reminder that we are all children, or should be children, in relation to that true life toward which we yearn to go. Liturgy would be a kind of anticipation, a rehearsal, a prelude for the life to come, for eternal life, which St. Augustine describes, by contrast with life in this world, as a fabric woven, no longer of exigency and need, but of the freedom of generosity and gift. Seen thus, liturgy would be the rediscovery within us of true childhood, of openness to a greatness still to come, which is still unfulfilled in adult life. Here then, would be the concrete form of hope, which lives in advance the life to come, the only true life, which initiates us into authentic life – the life of freedom, of intimate union with God, of pure openness to our fellowman. Thus would imprint on the seemingly real life of daily existence the mark of future freedom, break open the walls that confine us, and let the light of heaven shine down upon earth.
Author adamkuriharaPosted on May 31, 2010 May 2, 2012 Categories original writing, quotationsTags liturgy, messiaen, RatzingerLeave a comment on Liturgy as rehearsal
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Music reviews with a touch of erotica
Roads to Rock and Soul
Early Rock
Dad’s 45’s
Dad’s 45’s, Part 1, 1955-59
Dad’s 45’s, Part 4, 1966
The Beatles: Overview
The Beatles (White Album)
Let It Be . . . Naked
Past Masters, Volume One
Past Masters, Volume Two
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
Flaming Pie
The Stones: Overview
December’s Children (And Everybody’s)
Aftermath (UK Version)
Between the Buttons (UK Version)
Their Satanic Majesties Request
Beggars Banquet
Exile on Main Street
The Kinks: Overview
The Kinks Greatest Hits
The Kink Kontroversy
Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround
The Kink Kronikles
Muswell Hillbillies
The Great Lost Kinks Album
Everybody’s in Show Biz
Preservation (Acts 1 and 2)
Schoolboys in Disgrace
Come Dancing
Other People’s Lives by Ray Davies
Introductory Essay
The Zombies: Odessey and Oracle
The Lovin’ Spoonful
Psychedelic Series
Series Introduction
Electric Music for the Mind and Body
Axis: Bold as Love
Mr. Fantasy
The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
Anthem of the Sun
The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse
S. F. Sorrow
Stand!
The Who: Overview
The Who Sell Out
Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy
The Moody Blues: Overview
Days of Future Passed
In Search of the Lost Chord
On the Threshold of a Dream
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Seventh Sojourn
Jethro Tull: Overview
This Was
Minstrel in the Gallery
Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young to Die
The Broadsword and the Beast
Crest of a Knave
David Bowie-Overview
The Clash: Overview
Give ‘Em Enough Rope
Combat Rock
Streetcore
Richard Thompson-Overview
Liege and Lief by Fairport Convention
I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Shoot Out the Lights
Rumor and Sigh
Mirror Blue
Mock Tudor
Maddy Prior and June Tabor – Silly Sisters
Angel Tiger
Against the Streams
Britpop-Series Intro
Blur – Modern Life Is Rubbish
Blur – Parklife
Blur-The Great Escape
Blur – Blur – Classic Music Review
Oasis: Overview
The Masterplan
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Familiar to Millions
Heathen Chemistry
Don’t Believe the Truth
Dig Out Your Soul
Pulp-Different Class
Pulp – This Is Hardcore
Pulp – We Love Life
Suede (album)
Supergrass – I Should Coco
Supergrass – In It for the Money
Radiohead: Overview
Pablo Honey
OK Computer
A Moon Shaped Pool
Great Broads
Series Intro
Ani DiFranco – Out of Range
Aretha Franklin – Never Loved a Man
Aretha Franklin – Lady Soul
Billie Holiday – Lady Day
Edith Piaf – Vol. 4
Françoise Hardy La Question
Joni Mitchell – Clouds
Joni Mitchell – The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Joni Mitchell – Hejira
Memphis Minnie
Neko Case – Fox Confessor
Nina Simone – The Essential Nina Simone
Patti Smith – Horses
Patti Smith – Radio Ethiopia
PJ Harvey – 4-Track Demos
PJ Harvey – Is This Desire
PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Sade – Love Deluxe
Sexcapades
Sinead O’Connor – I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
Appendix: Early Girl Hits Part 1
Louis Armstrong: The Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings
Billie Holiday, Lady Day
Charlie Parker: Best of the Complete Savoy & Dial Studio Recordings
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
John Coltrane: Giant Steps
Bill Evans Trio: Portrait in Jazz
Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain
Thelonious Monk: Monk’s Dream
Les McCann and Eddie Harris: Swiss Movement
Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
Frank Sinatra: In the Wee Small Hours
The Blues: Overview
Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings
Memphis Minnie – Essential Recordings
The Best of Muddy Waters
The Best of John Lee Hooker
Little Walter: His Best, The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection
Elmore James – Best of the Fire Sessions
Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton by John Mayall
The Electric Flag – A Long Time Comin’
Allman Brothers Band – At Fillmore East
Sonny Landreth – Grant Street
Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite – Get Up!
Soul: Overview
Bill Withers Live at Carnegie Hall
Aretha – Lady Soul
Dusty in Memphis
Otis Redding – Best Of
Patti Austin – That Secret Place
The Motown Series
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
Chick Riffs
Update on Life, International Relations and the American Boycott
Taking a Rain Check
Desert Island Disks
Ma Fille (A Guest Post by My Mother)
My Daughter (A Guest Post by My Father)
The Truth About Beets
Last Trip to Dodge
About That Book . . .
What’s Up!
Book Review: Sleeping with Patty Hearst by Mary Lambeth Moore
Richard Thompson- Rumor and Sigh – Classic Music Review
By altrockchick on January 17, 2014
Another superior song collection from the master. Click to buy.
Rumor and Sigh opens with a song dealing with matters in a field in which I have some expertise. SEX!
I consider myself an expert practitioner, a minor philosopher and a serious student of erotic behavior. I approach the subject with a mix of intellect, emotion and sensuality, a combination which diminishes my standing as a sexual scholar but accurately reflects the complex dynamics of sexuality. Scientific sexual research bores the crap out of me because it’s so removed from truth-as-experienced. If you can observe sex or interview people about sex and maintain a total commitment to the scientific method, you’re the last person I’d consult on the subject.
Even with all my expertise, extensive research and artistic-erotic accomplishments, sex still presents endless challenges for me because the process of seduction is subject to thousands of unknown variables. The most challenging aspect of finding new sexual partners has always been the bullshit they’ve stored inside their heads.
My upbringing was a bit unusual because my parents (particularly my mother) talked to me openly about sexuality and answered every question I had, no matter how silly it seemed. In my tale of my sexual development (since moved to my erotic blog on Tumblr), I related my reaction after my mother told me that boys released semen through the same hole that they used for the disposal of urine. I told her that I would only have sex with girls because I didn’t want boys peeing inside me. She patiently explained that it was physiologically unlikely that a man would pee inside me, but it’s always been part of my nature to seek verification through a second source.
So I asked my dad, since he had the right plumbing.
Being a contractor, he explained it to me using the vocabulary of plumbing. “You remember when I fixed that water heater at the Divisadero house? Remember how I showed you the cold water lines and the hot water lines? It’s kind of like that.”
“But we can mix cold and hot water at the sink! I can make both come out at the same time,” his smart-ass daughter replied. He frowned, thought for a minute, and said, “Well, in the body, there’s kind of a shutdown switch. When one’s on, the other’s off.”
“But what if the shutdown switch breaks?”
He laughed and said, “Look, I almost flunked physiology, so I don’t know any more than that. All I can tell you is that I’ve been inside your mother thousands of times and I’ve never peed inside her. Do you think I’d be alive today if I had?” he said with a wink.
He had a point. At the very least, my mother would have whacked off his pecker, and rightly so.
He told me to go to the library and look it up, so I did. I found out that the urethra (the pee line) is obstructed when a guy gets an erection, so as long as he stayed hard I would be okay. Once he shot his wad and softened, an unfortunate piss would become a physiological possibility, but by that time the male would have reconnected with the civilized part of his brain and be more likely to exercise proper restraint and decorum. I began to warm to the idea of contact with the male member, despite its peculiar appearance that made me launch into hysterical giggles at inopportune moments.
Because my parents were open and honest with me, I was able to approach sexuality openly and honestly with intended partners at a very early age. Most of them were shocked by my directness, and I had to shift into therapist mode to get them in touch with themselves (and hopefully in touch with me). Much worse were the guys who thought they knew it all because they’d read the experts in those glossy titty mags, and I had to show them that they didn’t know dick, to coin a phrase. The narrator of “Read About Love,” the kick-ass opening track of Rumor and Sigh is one of those poor know-it-alls:
Asked my daddy when I was thirteen
Daddy can you tell me what love really means?
His eyes went glassy, not a word was said
He poured another beer and his face turned red
Asked my mother, she acted the same
She never looked up, she seemed so ashamed
Asked my teacher, he reached for the cane
He said, don’t mention that subject again
So I read about love—read it in a magazine
Read about love—Cosmo and Seventeen
Read about love—In the back of a Hustler, Hustler, Hustler
What a society! I doubt very much if we’d have all the neurotic-but-otherwise-normal horny people we have today if we disconnected embarrassment and shame from sexuality. We could also avoid the humiliating moments of interpersonal disconnection created when guys like this view women as impersonal objects:
Read about love—now I’ve got you
Read about love—where I want you
Read about love—got you on the test-bed, test-bed, test-bed
So why—don’t you moan and sigh?
Why do you sit there and cry?
I do everything I’m supposed to do
If something’s wrong, then it must be you
I know the ways of a woman
I’ve read about love
This is what great songwriters do: they stimulate your intellect and emotions in an aesthetically pleasing and entertaining way. I find that skill to be terribly erotic, and I’d fuck Joni Mitchell, Ray Davies and Richard Thompson in New York minute, regardless of the age difference. Only once, though, because you can’t trust a musician long-term.
This killer opener is followed “I Feel So Good,” which is not Richard Thompson’s version of “The 59th Street Bridge Song.” Instead of a happy tune about “feelin’ groovy,” this is an uptempo dramatic monologue about how good it feels to engage in anti-establishment behavior, especially when you’re a hellion. Our anti-hero is a young (“I’m old enough to sin but I’m too young to vote) ex-con who claims, “They put me in jail for my deviant ways/Two years seven months sixteen days.” He gets his kicks from purple haze, taking people apart and ripping people off. He must be good at it because he is certainly reaping the rewards of his anti-social anger:
Society’s been dragging on the tail of my coat
Now I’ve got a suitcase full of fifty pound notes
And a half-naked woman with her tongue down my throat
And I feel so good, and I feel so good
Oh I feel so good I’m going to break somebody’s heart tonight
They made me pay for the things I’ve done
Now it’s my turn to have all the fun
Well I feel so good I’m going to break somebody’s heart tonight
A question this song raises is one that rarely gets asked in our fear-and-retribution cultures: what is the point of incarceration if all it does is reinforce anger and a desire for revenge? Though this sadistic (in the bad way) loser seems to be expressing exuberant joy, all I hear is the bitterness of a young man who justifies his anti-social behavior by claiming he was simply daring to be different. That’s one possibility; it’s also likely that he is an incurable psychopath, and if that’s the case, society is even less equipped to deal with his kind than it is with the non-psychotic criminal element. When it comes to dealing with criminals, wackos or anyone who dares to be different, modern societies, bound by rule-based bureaucracies and professional dogma, define the word “ill-equipped.”
The challenges of the indirect and ambiguous communication that often accompany near-intimate or intimate relationships is the subject of “I Misunderstood,” a sad but strangely sexy number with a wonderfully crisp, clean arrangement and one of Richard’s best vocals. It’s followed by “Behind Gray Walls,” a song that graphically describes a man’s anguish about the institutionalization of a lover suffering from an unknown, incurable mental illness. The imagery here is relentless, describing self-immolation (“cigarette burns down her arm”), restraint (“Tied her arms in the back/Trussed her up in a sack”) and electroshock therapy (“Tied her down on the bed/Seventy volts through her head).” The narrator never forgets for a minute that this poor girl is a human being deserving our sympathy, if not empathy (“Behind gray walls/Somewhere there’s a soul”). Like June Tabor, Richard Thompson has no qualms about singing songs that deal with difficult subjects that people living comfortable lives in advanced societies would rather avoid.
Richard Thompson does have a lighter side, and in “You Dream Too Much” you see it in the various images he uses to describe imperious women who remain unattainable to the average guy. “She had a chassis like an XJS” is a beautiful line, and the repeated response to the narrator’s attempts to secure a little nookie (“You dream too much”) has the impact of a good punch line. The only problem I have with this song is that the arrangement is a bit busy, a sometimes regrettable feature of Mitchell Froom productions. It’s followed by “Why Must I Plead,” a narrative about a man begging his wayward wife to live up to the dotted line commitment of marriage . . . a pretty weak argument, in my humble opinion.
There are times when a songwriter achieves songwriting nirvana, perfectly integrating lyrics, music and theme. These bits of perfection are often characterized by poetic economy, where not a word is wasted and every word brims with power and meaning. “Waterloo Sunset” is one such song, and “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” is another. An archetypal tale of a young man steeped in carpe diem and his chance encounter with a kindred red-headed spirit, the tale unfolds over the beautifully intricate sound of Richard Thompson’s acoustic guitar. The first verse establishes both the relationship and the symbolism of the motorcycle as an instrument of freedom, rebellion and eroticism:
Said Red Molly to James that’s a fine motorbike
A girl could feel special on any such like
Said James to Red Molly, my hat’s off to you
It’s a Vincent Black Lightning, 1952
And I’ve seen you at the corners and cafes it seems
Red hair and black leather, my favourite colour scheme
And he pulled her on behind
And down to Box Hill they did ride
James gives Molly a wedding ring, but warns her that he’s not long for this world, given his irresistible drive to live life on the edge—a life that includes a career in armed robbery. But he promises her eternal continuity through the powerful symbol of their shared passion:
Now I’m 21 years, I might make 22
And I don’t mind dying, but for the love of you
And if fate should break my stride
Then I’ll give you my Vincent to ride
Tragedy strikes when James is shot in the chest during an attempted robbery. Red Molly runs to his side, but as he predicted, his time is about to run out. Still, the eternal bond of the promise remains, its power strengthened by Richard Thompson’s choice to align the image of the open road with the movement of life:
When she came to the hospital, there wasn’t much left
He was running out of road, he was running out of breath
But he smiled to see her cry
And said I’ll give you my Vincent to ride
James’ dying speech contains equally strong poetry, but what really makes the finale work is Richard Thompson’s vocal performance, especially the passion he brings to the lines, “I see angels on Ariels in leather and chrome/Swooping down from heaven to carry me home.” Let’s dispense with the interpretation and let this masterpiece speak for itself:
Richard then disqualifies himself from a place in my sexual fantasies by expressing distaste for the kinky side of life in “Backlash Love Affair.” Okay, the broad in the song doesn’t come close to my level of sophistication, as she’s into crude gothic metal kink, but unfortunately, I can find no evidence of flexibility on Richard’s part. Damn! We’ll move on to “Mystery Wind,” a mood piece marked by the almost complete absence of melody. Not exactly my favorite number. The same is true for “Don’t Sit on My Jimmy Shands,” a boisterous tribute to the late Scottish accordionist that fails to grab me.
“Keep Your Distance” is a definite improvement, with a much stronger melodic line as well as a message I embrace with all my heart and soul. If you’re going to be in a relationship, it’s all or nothing: don’t give me any half-assed maybe-baby bullshit! If I ever find a promising male to complete my cozy little life arrangement, the first thing I’ll let him know is “With us it must be all or none at all.” On the flip side, I do not embrace the message of “Mother Knows Best,” which is either a subtle dig at passive-aggressive female control or a denunciation of mama’s boys . . . the archaic metaphors muddle the picture.
He returns to form with “God Loves a Drunk,” another unflinching look at human reality. Sung with intensity over a background of acoustic guitar with a touch of accordion, the song has a chilling beauty to it, despite the ugliness of the imagery:
But God loves a drunk, although he’s a fool
He wets in his pants and he falls off his stool
He can’t hear the insults and whispers go by him
As he leans in the doorway and sings Sally Racket
Can’t feel the cold rain beat down on his body
And soak through his clothes to the skin
This song is purgative for me, as it recalls my life in San Francisco and multiple encounters with the street alcoholic, the kind of man who “screams at his demons alone in the darkness” while the rich and well-fed scurry across the street to avoid any human contact.
As I’ve mentioned several times, I do love artists who dare to be different, and Richard Thompson certainly smashed fan expectations with the closing song, “Psycho Street.” The closest analogy I can find to this piece is “Rhinocratic Oaths” from the Bonzo Dog Band’s The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse (Urban Spaceman to you yanks). Part spoken word, part music hall, often dissonant and loaded with as many bizarre images as a Dali painting but with more of the bleakness of Edvard Munch, “Psycho Street” is an absurdist look at an absurd society. It’s a very disturbing song, one you might listen to once or twice for the experience, but it’s unlikely to stay on your playlist for long. I end my version of Rumor and Sigh with “God Loves a Drunk,” as I think it makes for a more coherent ending.
“Psycho Street” does fit in a different sense: listening to almost any Richard Thompson album is an intense experience that demands full listener engagement. I find the experience deeply enjoyable on many levels, and I never leave a Richard Thompson album without feeling intellectually and emotionally stimulated. To borrow a phrase from the sporting world, on Rumor and Sigh Richard Thompson left it all on the field at the end of the game, and I deeply cherish his passion and continuing commitment to push artistic boundaries.
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Tom H. February 17, 2014 at 9:39 am | Reply
So glad to hear about someone who appreciates the wonder that is Richard Thompson. I don’t know if you’ve had the opportunity, but I highly recommend you see him live with his band, it’s a thoroughly astonishing show (although the solo acoustic shows are also quite good).
altrockchick February 17, 2014 at 10:55 am | Reply
Thank you! I have seen Richard three times, twice with the band and once solo in a church in Vancouver. Absolutely marvelous!
Tom H. February 19, 2014 at 11:34 am
Re; “Mother Knows Best,” that’s a song addressed to Maggie Thatcher, said by some to have been recorded the day she resigned.
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tugboathunter October 24, 2016 at 8:41 pm | Reply
To echo what Tom said, Mother Knows Best is definitely Richard’s tribute to Thatcher.
Greg Cleary December 9, 2016 at 11:44 am | Reply
Nice review of my favorite Richard Thompson solo album. I’ve always preferred the albums he did with Linda because she adds variety. Richard’s dour singing style can be hard to take for an entire album. But this one stays fresh throughout because there are so many different styles of music. My favorite songs on this one are the same as yours, so I don’t have much to add. “Mother Knows Best” is indeed muddled lyrically, and musically it sounds awkward to me as well. I like “Don’t Sit On My Jimmy Shands” more than you because it is catchy and adds some lightheartedness, which as usual for Richard, is in short supply on this album. (On the other hand, I’ve seen him live a couple of times, and he was downright cheerful.) “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” is a classic–maybe the best song he ever did.
altrockchick December 9, 2016 at 5:18 pm | Reply
I’ve got Shoot Out the Lights on the to-do list for 2017. He is rather cheerful live, so I might do one of his many live albums and another solo effort next year.
John Kendall June 3, 2017 at 7:14 pm | Reply
You might also want to give Pour Down Like Silver a try. Richard’s live shows just keep getting better too.
Anna Deneau July 6, 2017 at 8:34 pm | Reply
Oh, God Loves a Drunk. So brutally realistic and compassionate.
I always feel like smacking those guys cheering at the beginning of the Seattle performance. Idiots.
altrockchick July 7, 2017 at 6:59 am | Reply
Ugh. I lived in Seattle for almost six years, and even with a very active music scene, the audiences were often clueless. I really need to get back to RT.
Anna Deneau July 7, 2017 at 8:24 am
Born and raised in Seattle. Eugene for college, then back for over a decade. While we got completely priced out of the city. Bothell… couldn’t take it. Been in Jefferson City, MO for a few years. I own a house! It’s big with rooms and stuff!
Yeah, we had to go.
altrockchick July 7, 2017 at 10:04 am
My favorite aunt (referenced in my review of Cheap Thrills) still lives in Bellevue and has told me the median home price is now $750K. Same shit happened in San Francisco, turning an exciting city into an enclave for rich snobs. Had I stayed in the States, I think my next stop would have been Atlanta, a little blue island with great flights to Europe and much cheaper housing.
Anna Deneau July 7, 2017 at 10:24 am
Yeah – my old house on Capitol Hill went for million. My parents bought it during the white flight period.
Don’t worry – I am very rarely the sender of multiple messages. I have been on the receiving end… Today is an anomaly.
I’m not worried. Comment all you want!
I’m lucky to have a father who loves buying crummy houses and fixing them up. When I moved to Seattle he bought a house on Queen Anne and we remodeled it together. I had to cover his mortgage but it was relatively cheap back in 2007. When my parents retired and moved to my mother’s place of origin here in Nice, he sold all his SF properties except the house where I grew up and the Queen Anne house. They are seriously set for retirement.
When I made the move, I bought a fixer-upper and once again, dad and I did the remodel. And after three tries, he finally got the bidet working!
Mark Hoffman October 25, 2019 at 9:39 pm | Reply
“I always feel like smacking those guys cheering at the beginning of the Seattle performance. Idiots.” Richard Thompson has said several times that he was trying to get people to laugh at the beginning of that song. It’s a classic black-humor technique: make you laugh at the start, and then slowly show why laughing was inappropriate. He succeeded.
Anyway, altrockchick, take it from a huge Richard Thompson fan who’s seen him at least 20 times, including at the Seattle show linked to here, this is one of the most perceptive reviews I’ve ever read of a Richard Thompson album. Keep up the great writing. You’re better at this than most of the writers who do this professionally in the big publications!
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The Virtues of Boredom by Jessica Fletcher
The Virtues of Boredom
Films as diverse as Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), Michelangelo Frammartino’s Le Quattro Volte (2010) and Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life (2011) can be linked through their denial of immediate visual or narrative gratification, indeed by their apparent determination to bore their viewer. They can be off-putting and antagonistic towards their audience, but their insistence on boredom is arguably intrinsic to their epic scopes.
Jeanne Dielman, for instance, can be seen as a cinematic counterpart to James Joyce’s Ulysses, albeit set over a period of days, rather than a single one. It is an epic of the everyday that follows its protagonist as she goes about her mundane routine of shopping, preparing dinner and helping her son with his homework. This repetitive structure and insistence on minimal action is in one sense meant to bore the audience: to make them acutely aware that time is passing. As Akerman once remarked in an interview, ‘the way cinema was done was mostly to escape time. When people say, “Oh, I had a good evening. I didn't see the time passing by.” Well – they were robbed of two hours of their life.’ A couple of tactics are used by Akerman to ensure that her audience is not robbed of their time: the first three hours of the film consist of a series of repetitions with very slight variations on Dielman’s carefully calibrated days, which deny any sense of narrative arc. One is invited to notice time passing – to be bored – through Dielman’s highly regulated routine. And, like Yasujirō Ozu, Akerman often uses a static camera set at hip height, so that characters move in and out of shots and the audience is asked to look at a kitchen interior and ingredients for meatloaf as much as the ostensible protagonist of the film. Unpeopled spaces are used to challenge human attention spans.
Frammartino’s Le Quattro Volte is another case of this audacious use of non-human scenes, as only a quarter of the “action” is human; the rest centres on a goat, then a tree, as it transforms from being the centrepiece of a village festival to charcoal. He gives roughly equal space to humans, animals, plants and minerals and this breadth of scope indicates the film’s epic intent. Sometimes the sections mirror each other; so a fly on the face of the goatherd in the opening quarter is echoed when a human climbs the tree in the latter half of the film. One is asked to expand one’s anthropocentric notions of action in films further than the confines of human activity.
Malick interweaves the story of the origins of the world with the origins of a man in The Tree of Life. From the Biblical quotation that opens the film: ‘where were you when I laid the earth’ (Job 38:4), to the National Geographic-esque sequence in which the audience is invited to twin an interaction between two dinosaurs and the mother’s religious ethic as a history of the growth of compassion, Malick insists on setting human activity within a cosmic context.
Frammartino and Malick seem interested not simply in drawing parallels between the human and the natural, but also, like Akerman, in presenting unpeopled scenes in order to confront human concentration with non-human subjects. Part of the aim seems to be to make one aware that time is passing as one is watching the films. This can be seen as an inherent part of their epic scope; Thomas Mann once noted, ‘an epic is a sublimated boredom’. And as Clive James suggests when he glosses Mann’s gnomic statement, ‘simply by its outline, an epic demands of us that we submit to having our time consumed, and be conscious of it’. This provides a helpful way to think about the sequences of the formation of the world set to operatic music in The Tree of Life. Some saw them as a failed attempt at epic scope that was instead numbingly dull. However the young Malick proffered some useful advice in an early interview that echoes Akerman’s and Mann’s, when he said of Days of Heaven (1978) that it should be experienced ‘like a walk in the countryside; you’ll probably be bored, or have other things in mind, but perhaps you will be struck, suddenly, by an act, by a unique portrait of nature’. Malick’s remark highlights a proposition essential to these films: the epic form involves boredom as well as revelation. Dielman’s dull and unrelenting routine in the first couple of thirds of the film is necessary, so that its derangement is startling. Similarly, Frammartino limits action and character in his film, until the final sequence that shows charcoal forming, which reduces the cinema screen to shades of black. But this ostensibly reduced scope paradoxically expands one’s vision to a grand panorama that encompasses a universal life cycle.
The epic ambitions of these films – Akerman’s cinematic Ulysses, Malick’s intertwining of cosmic and personal histories, and Frammartino’s illustration of the Pythagorean four – ask the audience to re-evaluate the place of immediate gratification in cinema and instead to discover the virtues of boredom.
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