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Message from the NASA Associate Administrator -- Aligning Our Agency for the Future
Status Report From: NASA HQ
Posted: Friday, November 1, 2013
From: HQ-NASA INC
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Subject: Message from the Associate Administrator -- Aligning Our Agency for the Future
AGENCYWIDE MESSAGE TO ALL NASA EMPLOYEES
Point of Contact: David Weaver, Office of Communications, NASA Headquarters, 202-358-1600
Message from Associate Administrator Robert M. Lightfoot, Jr.
Aligning Our Agency for the Future
In the 55 years that NASA has been expanding the boundaries of aeronautics, scientific knowledge and human space exploration, the agency has created and maintained significant technical capabilities. We have built a strong and capable workforce and developed the facilities and equipment to maintain and grow our nation's space program. However, as we prepare for the next 50 years of exploration - in a constrained budget environment -- we need to ensure we have the right skills, facilities and equipment to execute our missions and keep America the world leader in space. That's why I commissioned a Technical Capabilities Assessment Team (TCAT) in July 2012.
The TCAT's purpose is to take a NASA-wide look at our technical capabilities as part of a larger discussion to determine how we can successfully address our current and future mission needs. These discussions include every center director, every mission directorate and several key support offices. But most importantly, it needs to include each one of you.
Since TCAT was established, the budget environment has remained challenging, and the team's work has gained increased priority. As a result, you may see elements of the assessment or implementation underway at your center. The goal of this effort is to strengthen our centers in their primary areas of expertise. Each center will see increased investment in some areas and decreased investment in others.
In addition to TCAT, other efforts are underway to help in areas such as budget and workforce planning, workforce flexibility options, and our competition model. All of these efforts underway will lead to a more efficient operating model that addresses the health of our capabilities while executing our current and future missions
Since this work is so important right now, we have brought one of the agency's most seasoned professionals on board to oversee it. Lesa Roe, currently Center Director at the Langley Research Center in Virginia, will be detailed to Headquarters as the Deputy Associate Administrator to oversee TCAT. Lesa will manage the TCAT process, help us evaluate its results, and plan for deeper implementation of the team's recommendations and the ongoing work to strengthen our management in other areas. She brings a wealth of NASA and managerial experience to this task, including a strong understanding of the strengths and needs of centers. As Lesa takes on this new responsibility, her deputy, Stephen G. Jurczyk, will become Langley's acting center director. I thank Lesa and Stephen for their service to NASA and their willingness to take on these challenges.
These efforts will strengthen our agency by providing a framework for key decisions around the inspiring missions and technical capabilities you are all involved with every day. I look forward to your support of Lesa and Steve in their new roles!
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By Jim Ganley
As an infant I was often awakened by the horns of Boston & Maine Railroad freight trains resonating into the night as they rumbled along through Manchester, New Hampshire up and down the length of the Merrimack River. My family�s home was located several miles away, but the atmospheric conditions served to transmit this sound far beyond its origin.
Knowing nothing of trains and railroads, I conjured up visions of leviathans roaming the city emitting the sounds which had disrupted my midsummer's, midnight slumber, and was frightened beyond words A year or so later I was in a high chair as my mother attempted without success to spoon feed me soft boiled eggs, which I refused to consume.
�You must be sick,� my mother observed, knowing all too well how I detested them. �Daddy won�t take you to see the trains unless you can finish your breakfast.�
I forced down the eggs and was allowed to go off with my father in his gray, �47 Plymouth sedan. The way things were in 1952, my parents had attended the 7:15 Mass at St. Joseph Cathedral while my older sister Alice baby sat for me. On my parents� return home from Mass, my father and I would take Alice to the 8:30 Mass where she sang in the St. Joseph High School For Girls Choir under the direction of Rev. Edwin Francoeur. While Alice was singing, Dad would drive me down to Union Station so I could see the trains. This was the high point of my week.
We would drive down Bridge St. past some of the old Amoskeag Corporation houses and exit onto Canal Street, heading south toward the train station. Red brick was everywhere, from the corporation houses to the mill buildings. Lining Canal Street as a barrier to the train tracks was a gray, picket fence. I always knew we were nearing Union Station by the jarring vibration of our car rolling along over the cobblestones near the train station. There were yellow and black crossing gates there at Canal and Granite Streets as well as a booth for a hideous looking crossing attendant. Union Station was a large, solemn-looking structure made of yellow brick and tied into a four-sided clock tower. It was the perfect example of Victorian era architecture, the product of a different time, place, and way of life.
My father and I came here every Sunday from 1951 until 1955. On our last excursion my father had a few brief words with one of the conductors and an introduction was arranged. We walked up to the diesel-electric locomotive coupled to several Pullman cars. I had no idea what was going on.
�How�d you like to meet the engineer?� I was asked by my father, and in an instant he had boosted me up the ladder on the side of the locomotive where I found myself face to face with an honest to goodness train engineer. The engineer said hello to me and put his hand out through the window for me to shake. To me this was better than getting to meet Santa Claus for the first time at Leavitt�s Department Store.
While I may have been amazed by this experience, it was nowhere near as memorable as my first train ride in the summer of 1957. Once more it had been my father�s idea. Recent newspaper reports told of the decline of railroading in the Northeast. Most of this had to do with the advent of the Interstate Highway System, one of the more memorable accomplishments of The Dwight Eisenhower Administration. My dad related to me that trucks would soon be taking over most of the freight transportation and that airplanes would be assuming responsibility for passenger travel as well. He explained that railroads had linked the country together from East to West and from North to South and that at one time a person could go to any place in the entire USA by rail. According to what Dad had to say, such an important part of Americana should not pass away without receiving its historical due. Then he asked if I would like to take the train from Manchester to Concord and back. My father didn�t have to twist my arm. The very next day he and I were on our way to Concord gazing out the window as the telegraph poles , trees, and houses whizzed past. I found myself wondering why we were going to Concord, New Hampshire instead of a larger city like Boston.
�Because the Concord train station will soon be demolished,� I was told, but did not understand. So Dad went on to explain that the Concord Station had been the largest building north of Boston. He assured me that I would be impressed, and I was. On display in the rotunda of this massive, red brick edifice was a stage coach just like the kind I had seen in the TV westerns like Wild Bill Hickock and The Lone Ranger. Concord Coaches had been manufactured in Concord, NH and were used all over country. And as I was told this, I realized that I had learned more about local history in a few minutes talking with my father than I had in all three years that I had been in school. This fact continues to puzzle me.
By the eighth grade I had progressed to walking the railroad tracks between Manchester and Concord. The best part about this was that the area had been spared development along the rail corridor and everything was as it had been for the past hundred or more years. Mike Frederick and I could walk for miles without encountering another person. There were deer, rabbit, and fox as well as red winged black birds, pheasant, hawks, wood chucks, and snapping turtles. We hiked this route at many an inopportune time. Once, while walking along on the rails at 11 p.m. on a foggy Saturday night, a NH State Police cruiser pulled alongside on the access road and the trooper very shakily made inquiry as to what we were doing.
�Uh.....where ya goin�, fellas?� he asked.
Mike pointed to the north and said, �That way.�
The trooper, who appeared to have been a young rookie, swallowed audibly and asked from where we had come. Mike pointed in the opposite direction and replied, �That way.�
The trooper nervously cleared his throat, mumbled, �Okay.....,� and drove off leaving me and Mike doubled over in laughter on the tracks.
On another occasion Mike and I were making our way along the tracks when our ears were greeted by the rumble and blaring horn of a mile long coal train being pulled by five locomotives. Soon the ground around us began to tremble and we observed in awe as a young man leaped out of the nearby bushes where he had been hiding. He appeared distressed as he jumped up and down and then rolled around beside the tracks, shouting what to us sounded like gibberish. The closer the train came the more agitated he grew. With the train now bearing down upon us, the man from the bushes ran up and shouted out.
�LOOK! A FREIGHT TRAIN! I LIKE FREIGHT TRAINS!�
Mike and I just kept on walking to the north, leaving him rolling around on the ground crying out in what sounded like orgiastic ecstasy.
About a half mile up the tracks after the train had passed and was long gone I had a question for Mike.
�Hey, Mike......aren�t you afraid we might wind up like that guy?�
Mike had nothing to say.
Some time prior to that we had discovered an old, wooden bridge that went over the tracks and provided access to the PSNH power plant near Amoskeag Falls. As I showed Mike, we could climb up into the bridge�s support beams where we were eye level with the engineer on passing freights. In fact, so close were we to the locomotive that, had we wanted to, we could have reached out and slapped the engineer. Many times late at night we were at our post watching the trains. The strangest incident took place late one Saturday night in the summer. For reasons unknown to us, the train was passing very slowly, perhaps 10 to 15 MPH at the most. As Mike and I leaned out from our observation post we both had the sensation that something was amiss. From my perspective, I detected a change in air pressure and Mike and I pulled back simultaneously as a large, prefab building mounted on a flatcar squeezed past the bridge barely, and, had we not recoiled when we did, surely would have been decapitated. No sooner had that happened than the chain holding a score or more of logs on another flatcar broke and the logs came flying our way. Startled, I fell from my perch and was knocked off the bridge, feeling several of the logs come so close to me that they could have parted my hair. Serendipitously I made a soft landing in a pile of freshly dropped hay and was uninjured though the logs landed all around me. Mike told me that from his frame of reference I had been hit in the head by the logs. As I lay there amidst the logs in the hay, I understood just how close I had come to death and dismemberment.
Mike and I moved on to what we felt were safer alternatives. It was while in high school that I began hitching rides on freight and coal trains. Typically I would go down to the Boston & Maine freight yard out behind Bradlee�s Department Store and, making sure I was unseen, would sneak inside a gravel hopper or coal car. The rides I took were interesting, passing through East Manchester and out through Auburn past Lake Massabesic and on to the Seacoast. Once I stowed away on a small freight going over the railroad bridge to West Manchester. Sometimes I would ride the rails to Concord and hitch-hike back home. My mother often questioned me extensively as to how I had gotten coal dust all over my jeans, sweat shirt, and face. My explanation was simple if not original.
�Oh,� I told her, tongue in cheek, �Messin� around, Ma.�
She chose not to pursue the matter.
Mike had his own ideas about fun with trains. Every night he would drive his �62 Chevy Corvair down to the freight yard to wait for any late night freights that might be passing through as they always did. Then he would race them to Concord along Route 3A, often stopping at. the gate crossings to watch them pass. Sometimes on weekends I would tag along on these late night jaunts of his, surprised that the police never stopped us for speeding. To Mike�s way of thinking, hopping rides on trains was too extreme for him, though on one occasion I had cajoled him into trying it with me. There used to be a double set of tracks running from Manchester to just before The NH State Industrial School. With oncoming traffic, a train heading north would have to park there on a siding until the southbound freight passed. It was here late at night, I told Mike, that we would have the best chance of stowing away for a ride to Concord and points north. It was while we were preparing to board a boxcar with an open door that we heard footsteps and bolted for the woods. As Mike and I sat in some bushes catching our breath, I asked about what had happened.
�Rail detectives,� he explained, pointing to the boxcar we had planned on boarding. Sure enough, we could see several men searching the area with flash lights. Apparently by this time they had heard reports of stowaways and were seeking to interdict this activity. We stopped after that and never went back.
As my father had told me in 1957, rail service in New Hampshire has declined abysmally. Union Station was demolished in 1963 as was Concord Station. The Boston & Maine filed Chapter 11 many years ago, and most if not all of the rail lines in New Hampshire have been closed, replaced in many instances by bike trails. Freight is moved via trucks and passengers regularly fly out of what has been renamed Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. In this part of the state the only remaining rail service is provided by Guilford Transportation which has an old, repainted B&M diesel locomotive and does a mere fraction of what the Boston & Maine once did. The Manchester Freight Yard and accompanying �Hobo Jungle� is now the home of MerchantsAuto.com Stadium and Hilton Gardens Hotel. The site of the Concord Station is now occupied by Ames Department Store.
Yet every once in a while, when the atmospheric conditions are right, I can hear the horn and rumble of a freight train making its way along the Merrimack River more than ten miles away from my Bow, New Hampshire homestead. I always smile, recalling my boyhood adventures on the rails.
(C)opyright 2007 Jim Ganley All Rights Reserved
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Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) Took The Centre Stage at MWC 2017 To Unveil Its New Smartphones Nokia 3 and Nokia 5 in Barcelona
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Several matter pinch shares of Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) [Trend Analysis], as shares moving down -0.96% to $5.18 with a share volume of 8.47 Million. Nokia (NOK) took the centre stage at MWC 2017 to unveil its new smartphones Nokia 3 and Nokia 5 in Barcelona. However, the company did disappoint several consumers who were anticipating the announcement of a flagship smartphone. A new rumour has now suggested that a flagship Nokia smartphone with Snapdragon 835 SoC will be reported by the company in June and will be made accessible in two size variants.
As per the new rumour by Chinese site MyDrivers, the Nokia flagship smartphone will be made accessible with two memory options, 4GB and 6GB of RAM, and will be powered by a Snapdragon 835 SoC, as pointed out in a report by PocketNow. The phone is expected to come with unibody metal design and even though the display size has not been mentioned, the flagship smartphone has been tipped to come in two screen sizes.In terms of optics, the Nokia flagship device has been tipped to come with “at least” 23-megapixel primary camera setup, as per the report. Interestingly, it has been suggested that at least one of the two variants will be sporting a dual-camera setup. The stock is going forward its 52-week low with 28.22% and moving down from its 52-week high price with -13.52%. The float short ratio was 0.55%, as compared to sentiment indicator; Short Ratio was 2.42.
Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:FOLD) [Trend Analysis] has commenced the commercial launch of the precision medicine Galafold in Italy following the final publication of reimbursement guidelines by the Ministry of Health (Ministerodella Salute). Galafold is now reimbursed in Italy as a therapy for long-term treatment of adults and adolescents aged 16 years and older with a confirmed diagnosis of Fabry disease (alpha-galactosidaseA deficiency) and who have an amenable mutation.
“The commercial launch of Galafold in Italy is a important milestone for the Fabry community,” stated John F. Crowley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. “All Fabry patients in Italy 16 years and older who have an amenable mutation will now have access to the first oral treatment as well as the first precision medicine for their Fabry disease. We believe that our successful pricing and reimbursement in Italy is a testament to the important value of our oral precision medicine, and reflects our growing momentum with the country-by-country processes to launch Galafold throughout the EU.”
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Team of the Week: Super Rugby, Round 11
15 Jordie Barrett (Hurricanes): Produced his best performance for some time as the ‘Canes hammered their New Zealand rivals in Wellington. Scored the hosts’ first two tries against the Chiefs with fine finishes and then assisted two more with a neat pass and a superb run and off-load. With Damian McKenzie cruelly ruled out of the World Cup, Barrett showed that he is getting back to his best and could be the man Steve Hansen turns to in September after making a staggering 196 metres on Saturday, which included four clean breaks.
14 Sevu Reece (Crusaders): A potential bolter for the All Blacks’ squad after putting his off-field troubles behind him to produce a series of excellent displays for the defending champions. Was a constant menace to the Lions rearguard and was rewarded for his efforts by touching down twice on Friday. Elsewhere, Sebastian Cancelliere went well for the Jaguares but Reece, after making 86 metres and four clean breaks, deservedly takes the position.
13 Braydon Ennor (Crusaders): Has excelled in a slick Crusaders outfit and it would not be a shock should he feature in the upcoming Rugby Championship. Has outstanding pace and is a wonderfully balanced runner but, in the mould of team-mates Ryan Crotty and Jack Goodhue, also has superb game-awareness. Ran for over 100 metres, scored a try and set-up George Bridge’s second score with a stunning break. The ever-impressive Lukhanyo Am once again played well for the Sharks but Ennor comfortably gets into the XV.
12 Anton Lienert-Brown (Chiefs): Whatever the Chiefs do, be it win or lose heavily – as they did against the Hurricanes – the All Black centre always plays well. Similar to Ennor, the main qualities you notice are his athletic traits but it’s his decision-making which sets him apart. Often has time on the ball and, as a result, creates space for both himself and others. On Friday, he made 85 metres, which included two clean breaks and eight defenders beaten, meaning the 24-year-old edges out opposite number Ngani Laumape and the Sharks’ Andre Esterhuizen.
11 Dillyn Leyds (Stormers): Tough on the Highlanders’ Tevita Li, who was in stunning form as they thrashed the Sunwolves but, in a tight match, Leyds was arguably the decisive factor for the Cape Town outfit. The talented wing created their final try for Hershel Jantjies with a searing run and sprinted for 104 metres in total, which included four clean breaks, as he gets in over Li and the Crusaders’ George Bridge.
10 Beauden Barrett (Hurricanes): The two-time World Player of the Year is a regular in this XV and for good reason. Underplayed his hand this week but was no less effective as the Wellington side thrashed their North Island rivals. Controlled the match well and was once again a threat with ball in hand, making 45 metres, while he also did his bit on defence. As a result Josh Ioane, who continues to show promise at the Highlanders, just misses out.
9 TJ Perenara (Hurricanes): A battle between the two All Blacks scrum-halves, with the Highlanders’ Aaron Smith also impressing, but Perenara just edges it following a fine display against the Chiefs. His passing was sharp at the base of the ruck while his support lines and running game was typically excellent. Finished well late on in the first half to extend the Hurricanes’ advantage before he sent Jordie Barrett clear in the second period, which led to Ardie Savea crossing the whitewash.
8 Dan du Preez (Sharks): The Springbok back-row was one of the standout players for the Sharks in their first away victory against the Waratahs in 19 years. Du Preez proved a handful on attack as he gained 30 metres from 10 carries which included two clean breaks, three defenders beaten, an offload and also crossed the whitewash. Also shone on defence with 11 hits and edges out Kieran Read of the Crusaders.
7 Ardie Savea (Hurricanes): On current form the All Blacks tearaway is one of the best players in the competition and he played an influential role in the Hurricanes’ derby win over the Chiefs in Wellington. Savea scored an important try and was particularly effective on defence where he made a game-high 17 tackles. He also did well on attack where he made 39 metres from six runs with two clean breaks, five defenders beaten and an offload.
6 Pablo Matera (Jaguares): The Jaguares claimed an important victory over the Brumbies in Buenos Aires and Matera played a leading role for his side. The Argentina international had a busy day with ball in hand, gaining 44 metres from 19 runs, and also did his bit on defence where he made eight tackles. Comes in ahead of Jean-Luc du Preez of the Sharks.
5 Tom Franklin (Highlanders): Was part of a brilliant all-round effort which helped his team notch a half-century of points in a one-sided triumph against the Sunwolves in Tokyo. Franklin finished with 41 metres gained from 13 carries with four clean breaks, five defenders beaten, an offload and also scored one of his side’s tries.
4 Cobus Wiese (Stormers): The utility forward is equally at home on the side of the scrum but he caught the eye with an excellent display in the Stormers engine room in a narrow win over the Bulls at Newlands. Wiese ran hard for 50 minutes – before being replaced by Eben Etzebeth – and gained 39 metres from eight runs with one clean break, five defenders beaten and also managed three offloads.
3 Thomas du Toit (Sharks): Angus Ta’avao gets a mention after a solid shift in a losing cause against the Hurricanes but it’s the Springbok who gets the nod after impressing in a memorable win over the Waratahs. He was yellow carded for his role in an altercation with Jed Holloway, which saw the latter receive a red card, but Du Toit did well in the tight exchanges, especially in defence, where he made nine hits.
2 Codie Taylor (Crusaders): The All Blacks hooker was at the forefront of an excellent forward effort in his side’s victory over the Lions in Christchurch. Taylor did well in the execution of his core duties, especially accurate throw-ins at the lineouts, which was used as an attacking launchpad by the nine-time champions. Gained 21 metres on attack from eight runs and finished with a try assist after a deft offload to George Bridge. Liam Coltman of the Highlanders was next best.
1 Lizo Gqoboka (Bulls): One of the Bulls’ unsung heroes, Gqoboka has cemented his place in the Pretoria-based franchise’s starting line-up with several fine performances and, despite finishing on the losing side against the Stormers, he was one of his side’s standout performers. Impressed with ball in hand where he gained 48 metres from six carries, including one clean break and four defenders beaten. Also defended well and completed seven tackles.
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Dead Cubs Found at Thailand’s ‘Tiger Temple’
Officials in Thailand found 40 dead tiger cubs at a Buddhist temple accused of animal abuse.
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Maria Sharapova Suspended for Two Years
Tennis star Maria Sharapova said she will appeal the two-year suspension by the International Tennis Federation, or ITF.
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HomeSoccerMen’s Soccer Hosts Mary’s
posted on Apr. 20, 2019 at 11:15 pm
ST. PETER, Minn. C The Gustavus men’s soccer clubs continues Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Meeting play as they return home to help Gustie Soccer Field at Five p.m. today to take on the Saint Mary’s University Cardinals. A Gusties enter today’s match with any 1-7-1 (0-2-1 MIAC) record, while the Cardinals own a 5-3 (2-1 MIAC) history.
Live coverage of today’s recreation begins at 3:Fortyfive p.m.
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The Gusties dropped a close 1-0 decision from St. Thomas on Weekend, falling to 1-7-1 overall as well as 0-2-1 in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Achieving, while the Tommies remained unbeaten at 7-0-2 all round and 2-0-1 in the league.
St. Manley scored the lone goal of the game in the 38th minute. This Tommies fired seven shots in the game compared to nine from the Gusties. Cody Billings (Fy., Farmington, Minn.) had a header in the 81st tiny that hit the submit, which was Gustavus’s best opportunity for a score. Matt Bateman (So., Savage, Minn.) sustained the loss in goal following making three saves.
Gustavus has a 37-3-11 all-time record against Mary’s. Last season, the Gusties and Cardinals led to a 0-0 stalemate after two overtimes throughout Winona, Minn.
Saint Mary’s is coming off a 3-1 victory at Bethel University on Wednesday. Garrett Grunke leads the Cardinals in getting with three goals and a couple of assists on the season. Goalie Nate Levy has compiled 29 saves and two shutouts, starting in several of eight games.
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2004 Davis Cup drama: Nadal replaces Ferrero
The story of a 18 year old kid who defeats the world number one to help his team win the Davis Cup trophy.
From Rafael Nadal’s autobiography, Rafa:
You didn’t need especially fine antennae on the eve of the Davis Cup Final of 2004 to spot the disgruntlement in the faces of Juan Carlos Ferrero and Tommy Robredo, denied their places in history by the eighteen-year-old upstart Nadal.
It was obvious by anybody watching the team press conference the night before the first day of play, seeing the foursome pose for photographs, that the Spanish team was not a portrait of patriotic harmony. Carlos Moya, Spain’s number one, spoke with ambassadorial poise; Ferrero and Robredo looked as if they would rather be somewhere else; Nadal fidgeted, stared at his feet and forced smiles that did little to disguise his unease.
“When Rafa came to me and said he was willing to cede his place in the match against Roddick to one of the two older guys, I said no, that was the captains’ call and, anyway, he had my full confidence. But inside,” Moya recalls, “I had my doubts.” Moya transmitted the same message to Toni Nadal, who was also uncomfortable. “The decision has been made,” Moya said, “and I saw no point in causing even more tension in the group, and adding to the pressure on Rafa, who was in a dilemma, by saying anything else.”
Moya spoke bluntly to Ferrero, asking him to take the decision on the chin and remember that he had played his part in getting Spain to the final. The Davis Cup record books would show that, and wins for him and Nadal would mean victory for him too. Whether they bought the argument or not, Rafa’s doubts as to the legitimacy of him playing was now an added factor of concern for Moya. Had Rafa been more brash, less sensitive, had he either not picked up on, or simply not been bothered by, the ill feeling that suddenly plagued the group, he would at least have been going into the decisive match against the experienced American number one in a less cluttered frame of mind. But that was not the case.
Moya knew very well that beneath the gladiatorial front he put on during a match there lurked a wary, sensitive soul; he knew the Clark Kent Rafa the indecisive one who had to hear many opinions before he could make up his mind, the one afraid of the dark, frightened of dogs. When Nadal visited Moya at home, Moya had to lock up his dog up in a bedroom, otherwise Nadal would be completely incapable of settling down.
He was a highly strung young man alert to other people’s feelings, accustomed to a protected and harmonious family environment, out of sorts when there was bad blood. Spain’s Davis Cup family was distinctly out of sorts now, and making things worse, Nadal was – if not the cause – certainly at the heart of the problem. Getting his head in order for the biggest match of his life, Moya sensed, was going to be a bigger challenge than usual for his young friend. As if that were not bad enough, Moya could not help reminding himself that Rafa, however sharp he might have looked in training that week, had lost just fourteen days earlier against a player ranked 400 in the world. And his serve was conspicuously weaker than Roddick’s, which was almost 50 percent faster.
But Moya did also have reasons to believe in his young teammate. he had know Rafa since he was twelve years old, had trained with him scores of times, and had been beaten by him two years earlier in an important tournament. No top professional had been closer to Rafa, and none would continue to remain on more intimate terms with him, than his fellow Mallorcan.
– 2004 Davis Cup final: Nadal defeats Roddick
Filed under Books, Davis Cup · Tagged with 2004, Andy Roddick, Carlos Moya, daviscup2004, John Carlin, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Rafa, Rafael Nadal, Spain, Tommy Robredo, Toni Nadal
Estoril Open 2017: Harrison and Venus win doubles title
Ryan Harrison and Michael Venus captured their first title as a team, beating David Marrero and Tommy Robredo in the final of the Estoril Open.
A good day for the former big American hope who celebrated his birthday on court:
Filed under ATP · Tagged with 2017, David Marrero, Estoril, Estoril2017, Michael Venus, Ryan Harrison, Tommy Robredo
Wimbledon 2013: Andy Murray’s road to the final
From Andy Murray‘s autobiography Seventy-Seven:
Having won the Olympic gold medal and the US Open the previous year, I expected to go into Wimbledon with a bit more confidence, but the feelings of nervousness and stress were still the same. Maybe after the US Open, I felt that playing a Slam wouldn’t be the same arduous challenge anymore because I had won one, but for 99 per cent of the British population Wimbledon is the only one that really counts for the British players. I couldn’t change that. I felt that pressure.
Getting the first in under the belt can be the trickiest at Wimbledon. I am always nervous before the opening match because the court plays differently for a couple of days; it is extremely green and tricky underfoot. So I was really pleased to put in a decent first-round performance against Benjamin Becker.
Elsewhere, Rafael Nadal went out in the first round to Steve Darcis of Belgium and Roger Federer was beaten in the second round by Sergiy Stakhovsky from Ukraine (the guy I had beaten in the US Open junior final in 2004). Both Rafa and Roger were in my half of the draw and as soon as they were out, all the media talk about how tough it was going to be for me suddenly turned. ‘This is Andy’s Wimbledon to win.’ ‘If he doesn’t get to the final it will be a catastrophe.’ That’s why I never get obsessed with draws. But it is hard to block out that sort of talk and avoid complacency.
The fact that a lot of players were slipping and sliding on the courts in difficult conditions was also a concern. Against Lu Yen-hsun in the second round, I didn’t feel comfortable at all. My movement was stiff and tentative. I was also playing on No.1 Court which plays a little differently to Centre Court so I wasn’t settled. I felt anxious throughout, but managed to get through in straight sets.
The win set up a third round meeting with Tommy Robredo of Spain, the number 32 seed and a very fine player. We played under the roof on Centre Court which changes the conditions somewhat. It gives the court slightly different characteristics, which was something I needed to use to my advantage. I think I did a good job; it was my best match of the tournament.
Saturday afternoon brought some light relief as I got the opportunity to meet again some of my fellow Team GB Olympians, who had been invited into the Royal Box for the day. It was great to see some familiar faces, all decked out in the box, so after a quick switch of clothes from my practice gear into a suit and tie, I walked out to an ovation that was one of the most profound of my life. These are not the kind of occasions I particularly relish – I don’t know quite what to do or say, but everyone wanted to shake hands, have their pictures taken, say a few encouraging words. That was special for me. My spirits were rising all the time.
On Monday, I felt really good in defeating the Russian Mikhail Youzhny in straight sets. My quarter-final opponent would be Fernando Verdasco of Spain, a left-hander, the first time I had played one since Feliciano Lopez in the third round of the 2012 US Open.
It might not be easy for the layman ot understand why, but playing lefties is very different because of their variety of spins and angles. And when Verdasco is having a good serving day – as he was this time – he is a daunting challenge.[…]
Even though it was a five-setter, there was not too much running involved – only three kilometres over three-and-a-half hours. Many of the points were quick ones. After the match, I was more mentally than physically tired. The whole affair was really draining and emotional. Often guys come back from two sets to love down and end up losing that fifth set because it is hard to keep that concentration and not have a dip for a few games. Luckily I didn’t do that in the fifth and it was great to know I could come back to win without playing my best tennis.
In the semi-finals, I was drawn to play Jerzy Janowicz of Poland. He had been one of the stories at the end of 2012, racing through the field at the Paris Masters indoor event to reach the final and his ranking shot up as a consequence. He beat me in that tournament – I had match point, but didn’t follow through with a shot when I had a chance.
No one could predict how Janowicz would feel playing in his first Grand Slam semi-final. I know from experience that you feel so close to a final, but it also seems a huge distance away. […]
My opponent hit a 139-mph ace in his first service game, a statement of intent. Against someone like Janowicz it is important to let them know you mean business, that whatever they do, you are right in there with them, not prepared to give an inch.
I lost the first set on a tie-break. It was clumsy on my part but it was only one set. I broke his first service game in the second set. It was past eight o’clock and I could sense he was getting agitated by the gradually worsening light. It was perfectly playable but he kept on chuntering to the umpire about it. When I won the third set from 4-1 down, which he wasn’t happy about (neither was I that I let him have such a lead), he was going at the umpire again. I didn’t see Andrew Jarrett, the referee, walking on to the court, but I suddenly sensed his presence.
‘We’re going to close the roof,’ he told me.
I just thought he had to be kidding. Just because Janowicz is moaning about the light, we close the roof? Why? I wanted him to explain the rule to me but, as far as I recall, all he said was,
‘It’s the fairest thing to do… I’ve decided to close it.’
Back in the locker room, Janowicz was soon on his mobile phone, which was pretty hilarious when I come to think about it. It wasn’t a quiet conversation either, he was pretty agitated. I just sat down with my team, had a shower, and got ready to come back out to play. Anyone would be a little angry at the circumstances. I had the momentum and the light was good enough to play. It was 8.40pm, hardly night-time at that time of the year. There was at least half an hour of playable light left.
But I knew I had to put that grievance behind me. I had a job to finish. I wanted to win the match and win it now. And I was pleased with how quickly I settled down when we went back on court. I played a really good fourth set.
And so I was into the Wimbledon final again, against Novak. it was a match-up I was beginning to relish.
Filed under Books, Wimbledon · Tagged with 2013, Andrew Jarrett, Andy Murray, Benjamin Becker, Fernando Verdasco, Jerzy Janowicz, Lu Yen-hsun, Mikhail Youzhny, Seventy-Seven, Tommy Robredo, wb2013
Bercy 2014 day 3: Nishikori vs Robredo
While Tsonga and Melzer were playing on Court Central in front of 10,000 people, Tommy Robredo and Kei Nishikori were battling on Court 1 in front of about 300 people.
Court 1 is terrible, the ceiling is low, it is really noisy and looks like a warehouse or a bunker. The only good thing is that spectators are close to the players.
I arrive just in time to see the Spaniard take the first set 7-6.
Playing more aggressively, the recent US Open finalist won the next two sets, defeating Robredo 6-7 6-2 6-3. The season is now over for Robredo, but Nishikori remains on course for the London ATP finals.
1989 French Open champion Michael Chang watching the match with his wife and daughter:
Game, set, match Nishikori:
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Filed under ATP, I was there, Slider · Tagged with 2014, Bercy, bercy2014, Kei Nishikori, Michael Chang, Tommy Robredo, video
2014 Western & Southern Open: players at practice
August 20, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Thanks to Peg, who covered the Cincinnati Masters for Tennis Buzz, a few pictures of players practicing:
Sam Stosur:
Svetlana Kuznetsova:
Lucie Safarova:
Jelena Jankovic:
Filed under ATP, I was there, Slider, WTA · Tagged with 2014, Cincinnati, Cincinnati2014, Dominic Thiem, Ernests Gulbis, Grigor Dimitrov, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Jelena Jankovic, Lucie Safarova, Nicolas Mahut, Novak Djokovic, practice, Roger Federer, Sam Stosur, Stanislas Wawrinka, Stefan Edberg, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Tommy Robredo, Western & Southern Open
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Ritual Footpath 2009 Video 3 min
Constructed entirely from previously unseen photographs of Kingsley Hall, East London, in the period of disuse following the tenancy of RD Laing’s controversial psycho-theraputical commune, Ritual Footpath is a journey into a psychological space, both real and imagined.
In the Trees 2004 Video 12min
A man out for a walk in a wood is pursued by a malevolent talking sparrow. Mild provocation turns to psychological torture as the bird reveals the man’s future, and his ultimate destiny.
A Visitor 1999 16mm film to video transfer 6min
A study of the Sir John Soane museum and its inhabitants becomes a ghostly invocation inspired by one of the museum’s least noticed exhibits.
Stream 2000 16mm film to video transfer 4min
A portrait of a stream and fields familiar to the artist since childhood accompanied by ambient sound, the water’s course flowing through thoughts of the past and images of the present.
Hollow Moon 2012 Video approx 24min
‘I told you I had seen someone in the street who seemed very familiar. By the time I saw her again I had already decided to follow her…’A woman describes a number of strange encounters framed by two solar events. As the story concludes with a moment of self-realisation, a second voice takes over and the story begins again.Commissioned by Whitstable Biennale 2012. Produced in association with Pundersons Gardens.
Your Actual Everyday 2004 16mm film to video transfer 9min
Originally made as a film installation for St Edmund King and Martyr church, London, Your Actual Every Day is a record of a literal fragmented and faltering awakening. An everyman describes drifting in and out of consciousness and consequential fluctuations in self belief – spirituality in its most ordinary but universal sense
Between Stations 2002 Video 10min
Deprived of their voices, four radio actors explore the former sound recording department of BBC Broadcasting House, as if suspended in a world of atmospheric sound. Commissioned by BBC Development.
Trajan Reel 2005 16mm film to video transfer 2min
A single ascent of the staircase concealed within Trajan’s Column, Rome, recorded on a single 100ft Roll of 16mm film. Commissioned by the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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Amanda Alexander | Legal, Social Advocacy, and Prisoner Reentry
Amanda is an Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Scholar in Afro-American Studies and Law at the University of Michigan. As a lawyer and advocate, she works to reduce the impact of mass incarceration on families and build thriving communities.
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Amanda is an innovation policy professional with over a decade of experience in Washington, DC. Amanda’s day job means working to advance the research portfolios of America’s top universities.
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Zoe is an award winning curator, author, and academic based in London. Currently at Tate Britain and Tate Modern, respectively; Zoe is an international expert in contemporary and African diasporic art.
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S.P. Markova
Testaments from the York Archiepiscopate’s Archive of the epoch of classical Middle Ages
In the paper, an analysis is made of the last wills and inventories (testaments) of inhabitants of the York County made in the 14-15th centuries, which were registered and affirmed in a curia of the York Archiepiscopate.
markova_2007_2.pdf (165 Kb)
A.K. Cheucheva
The Ottoman Empire and Northwest Caucasus in the 18th century
The paper discusses the questions related to a policy of the Ottoman empire in the Northwest Caucasus in the 18th century, the purpose, tasks and methods of the policy, as well as the ports in the North Caucasian region.
cheucheva_2007_2.pdf (224 Kb)
V.N. Maltsev
Formation of the central government bodies in the Caucasus: the 6th Temporal Branch and Committee on affairs of the Transcaucasian district (1842-1845)
The paper examines one of the aspects of setting up of the Russian policy in the Caucasus in the 19th century, namely the reasons of establishment and an initial stage of activity of the Petersburg institutions related to administrating in the Caucasus: the 6th Temporal Branch of the Office of His Own Imperial Majesty and Committee on affairs of the Transcaucasian district.
maltsev_2007_2.pdf (123 Kb)
L.D. Fedoseeva
Interests of Russia and Turkey in the North-West Caucasus in the first half of the 19th century
In this paper, the author examines the foreign policy relating to the Northwest Caucasus in the first half of the 19th century, reveals preconditions and the reasons for the Russian and Turkish political orientations of Adyghes, the attitude of different social groups of the Adyghe society to a policy of powers and conductors of the foreign influence.
fedoseeva_2007_2.pdf (145 Kb)
A.V. Belikov
Migration policy of Russia after a cancellation of the serfdom and “Regulations about populating foothills of the western part of the Caucasian Ridge by the Kuban Cossacks and other immigrants from Russia” of May 10, 1862
In the paper, a migration policy of Russia after a cancellation of the serfdom is analyzed. Alexander's II government, interested in the prompt land development in the North-West Caucasus where the Caucasian War was finished, passes laws, stimulating migration of nonresidents to the Kuban Cossack army. The special place among migration laws is occupied by “Regulations about populating foothills of the western part of the Caucasian Ridge by the Kuban Cossacks and other immigrants from Russia” of May 10, 1862, after passing of which active moving of nonresidents to Kuban began.
belikov_2007_2.pdf (173 Kb)
L.V. Burykina
On social-psychological aspects of migration to the North-West Caucasus in the first half of the 19th century
The paper discusses social-psychological aspects of inclusion of the person in the migratory process in the North-West Caucasus in the first half of the 19th century.
burykina_2007_2.pdf (98 Kb)
E.A. Sheudjen
The Northern Caucasus in the 1920s: at sources of historical knowledge
The paper is devoted to a process of setting up of scientific study of local lore as the major component of historical knowledge in national districts of the Northern Caucasus.
sheudjen_2007_2.pdf (134 Kb)
E.N. Klybik
Demographic processes in the 1920-1930s: on a historiography of a problem
The paper is devoted to the historiographic characteristic of demographic processes in the 1920-1930s.
klybik_2007_2.pdf (99 Kb)
K.G. Achmiz
Children during the Great Patriotic War
Basing on archive data and records of eyewitnesses the author describes the contribution of children and teenagers to the Victory during the Great Patriotic War.
achmiz_2007_2.pdf (131 Kb)
E.F. Krinko
“Here we are in one of the largest meat grinders in the world …”: faces and images of the Second World War in Ernest Junger's diaries
An analysis is made of the book of diaries “Radiation” of the well-known German writer and thinker E.Junger as an original source on history, psychology and philosophy of the Second World War. The opportunities and prospects of its use by researchers to understand the phenomenon of war are examined.
krinko_2007_2.pdf (157 Kb)
K.S. Ozheva
Care concern of the population and party organizations of the Northern Caucasus for soldiers of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War
An analysis is made of the activity of the Soviet authorities in the organization of the help to injured soldiers and officers during the Great Patriotic War. Multidimensional activity of regional authorities and Young Communist League on the organization of hospitals is disclosed. The author describes the activity of republican, regional, regional party organizations, including North Caucasian on the organization of patron works of the enterprises on the equipment of hospitals, on transportation of injured, on provision with food stuffs etc. On the basis of the analysis of archival documents, the author shows patriotic movement on saving soldiers in hospitals using donor blood. It is concluded that owing to this 61,5% of soldiers and officers were returned to the Red Army.
ozheva_2007_2.pdf (155 Kb)
T.P. Khlynina
The effect of the displaced prospect: social shocks of time in space of historical anthropology
The paper is devoted to anthropological investigation of revolutionary time in space of which the vital worlds of the depersonalized social structures and real people collide. Research opportunities of historical anthropology with reference to the current and perception of events of the Russian revolutions of the last century are analyzed in detail.
khlynina _2007_2.pdf (123 Kb)
F.K. Dzhigunova
Social and genderage gradation of Early Medieval burials in the Transkuban territory
The paper gives data on features of a funeral ceremony of the Early Medieval population in the Transkuban territory. An attempt is undertaken to characterize separate elements of the ceremony in terms of their gender-age and social belonging.
dzhigunova_2007_2.pdf (101 Kb)
E.S. Chernysheva
The major factors braking the process of integration of Russian-speaking Jews-repatriates in the society of the State of Israel
The paper is devoted to definition of the basic culturological, psychological and social factors braking the process of integration of “Russian” Jews-repatriates in the Israeli society.
chernysheva_2007_2.pdf (130 Kb)
F.H. Shebzukhova
Social policy of the government of the USSR (Russian Federation) in a village in the 1960-1990s: setting up of a problem (as shown in the Adygheya Republic)
In the paper, the author gives the comparative analysis of a social policy of the government of the USSR (Russian Federation) in a village in the 1960-1970s, estimated today as the beginning of stagnation, and in the period of perestroika. An attempt is undertaken to define a crisis situation in social sphere.
shebzukhova_2007_2.pdf (120 Kb)
Y.M. Braga
A social basis of peasant farms in the Adygheya Republic
An attempt is undertaken to investigate social bases of peasant farms in the Adygheya Republic. For this purpose, motives of the peasants becoming farmers and difficulties with which they met, are analyzed. Classification of peasant farms by a place of residing of heads of the family is offered. The problem of attraction of city dwellers to become the farmers and difference in the approach to housekeeping of rural and city dwellers are examined as well. The current archives of the Union of the Adygheya farmers, in particular data of Credentials Committees, the field material, MASS-MEDIA data etc. were used as sources.
braga_2007_2.pdf (125 Kb)
L.R. Khut
“Do you want the killing of cats to stop?” (Testing as a way of examination of a student-historian: speculations of a higher-school teacher)
The author of the paper, a higher-school teacher of a modern history of the countries of the West and a historiography of a new and contemporary history, having more than 20-years experience of work, speculates on whether or not testing as a way of examination of a student-historian is adequate to requirements of modernization of the system of higher historical education in Russia.
khut_2007_2.pdf (114 Kb)
Philosophical Sciences
A.Y. Chadje
The North Caucasian society: the theory and methodology of research
The paper offers some methodological and theoretical bases for making researches of the North Caucasian society. Those include the analysis of basic preconditions of the North Caucasian society, a study in the context of a post-non-classical science, strengthening interdisciplinarity and multi-paradigmality, critical use of concepts of foreign researchers, consideration of specificity of the region etc. Self-identification is examined as a basis of reproduction of the North Caucasian society under condition of combination of ethnic, North Caucasian and Russian national identities. A study of the impact of globalization on a multi-ethnic society shows that it is necessary to develop social-cultural values of a traditional society.
chadje_2007_2.pdf (154 Kb)
Sociological Sciences
J.V. Kambotova
Employment of youth in a labour market of Kabardino-Balkariya: the analysis of state
The author considers (examines) the factors determining employment of youth on an example of Kabardino-Balkariya, offers the recommendation for overcoming unemployment in region.
kambotova_2007_2.pdf (124 Kb)
M.G. Lukashova
Questions of social instability of the regional society
The paper discusses factors of social instability and ways of their overcoming in the region.
lukashova_2007_2.pdf (76 Kb)
E.A. Panina
Middle class people as a special social-cultural category in stratification structure of Adygheya Republic
In the paper, the author examines modern domestic and foreign approaches to delimitation of middle class people, describes criteria for belonging to middle class people and gives the analysis of the empirical material revealing the contents of valuable potential of middle class people using an example of Adygheya Republic.
panina_2007_2.pdf (120 Kb)
S.M. Stash
Sociological studying of the social and cultural sphere
In the paper, the author carries out investigation of the social and cultural sphere, undertakes the theoretical-research tasks of sociology of this sphere, reveals the problems existing in the social and cultural sphere and offers directions of its sociological research.
stash_2007_2.pdf (73 Kb)
D.Z. Khamdokhov
The state of social health in a “small” multicultural society (as shown in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic)
Using an example of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, the author analyzes the state of social state of health of citizens in various spheres of life and determines specific regional features and new directions for overcoming negative side effects.
khamdokhov_2007_2.pdf (121 Kb)
Economic Sciences
A.A. Kerashev, V.V. Teshev
Methodical approaches to an estimation of steady development of the organizations of consumers' cooperative society
In the paper, the authors examine and systematize parameters and indicators of steady development as a tool of achievement of steady development of the organizations of consumers' cooperative society. Kinds of stability and the factors influencing stability are considered as well.
kerashev_2007_2.pdf (150 Kb)
About cognitive modelling of steady development of social and economic systems
Various aspects of system stability are examined. A system of criteria for estimating stability of the social and economic system and the cognitive approach to its use are offered.
zakharova_2007_2.pdf (156 Kb)
A.A. Kerashev, M.K. Tamova
Methodical bases of the estimation of the region’s competitiveness as a factor of realization of its competitive advantages
The paper discusses the region’s competitiveness as a factor of realization of its competitive advantages. Regional competitiveness is one of estimation parameters, therefore this concept can be concretized by various aspects depending on the decided tasks.
A.A. Mokrushin
A system of planning financial streams in corporate structures of agrarian sector of economy
The paper discusses a system of planning of financial streams in corporate structures of agrarian sector of economy and methods of its organization.
mokrushin_2007_2.pdf (107 Kb)
V.G. Piteev
Marketing and its place in management of the organization’s competitiveness
The author examines marketing as a market component of management and its role in initiating efforts for ensuring effective innovational activity – the central element of ensuring the competitive organization.
piteev_2007_2.pdf (86 Kb)
B.R. Tuova
Regional economic strategy of the development of the innovational market by creation of a technical and ecological urban zone (technoecopolis) in the territory of Adygheya Republic
The paper examines the resource base and infrastructural components of Adygheya Republic, the normative-legal basis of creation and development of the innovational research-and-production technoecopolis in the territory of Adygheya Republic for application of available resources in research and laborious innovational projects, in the state programs of support of the innovational information and communication enterprises and in national projects. The opportunity of attraction of investments in the region can be realized by creation of the promising regional organizations working in innovative – industrial sphere. The model of technoecopolis with the detailed description of various spheres of influence on the social and economic situation in Adygheya Republic is given.
tuova_2007_2.pdf (176 Kb)
A.U. Ushkho
Principal bases of construction of models for development of regional social and economic systems
In conditions of intensive development of regional economic complexes, management by them is possible only under condition of presence of an information database on the dynamics of their functioning. The database can help one to create a real model of the social and economic system and to trace the qualitative changes occurring in it. The important direction of perfection of regional modelling is a study of the social and economic changes, in particular structural and cyclic changes that assume transition from static models to dynamic.
ushkho_2007_2.pdf (107 Kb)
A.Sh. Khuazheva
Organizational – institutional model of management of regional agrarian and industrial complex on the basis of distinguishing economic clusters
In the paper, the author examines the questions of perfection of approaches to management of regional agriculture and industrial complex and to an increase of stability of its development. In this context, using an example of a grain subcomplex of the agrarian and industrial complex of Krasnodar territory, the author offers a modern cluster method of management as the most promising for the regions with basic absolute and relative stability of development of regional economy.
khuazheva_2007_2.pdf (122 Kb)
Sciences of Law
L.N. Burkova
A mortgage of the grounds of agricultural assignment: problems of legal regulation
An analysis is made of the normative-legal acts regulating the mortgage of the real estate for the purpose of revealing problems of legal regulation, as well as the specific norms determining a legal regime of a mortgage of the grounds of agricultural assignment. The author makes an analysis of the Federal Laws “On the mortgage (on the pledge of the real estate)” and “On a revolution of the grounds of agricultural assignment”, and compares them in terms of completeness of legal regulation and collisions of a pledge of the grounds of agricultural assignment.
burkova_2007_2.pdf (118 Kb)
N.I. Gerasimova
Problems related to protection of subjective rights of citizens in the medical-social sphere
In modern conditions, education, medical services and social security have a special urgency and a social orientation. In conditions of a postindustrial society these services are important not only for the poor layers of the population but also for the most part of a society. The purpose of these services is assistance and sometimes direct providing the person with worthy life and free development. This paper is aimed at investigating problems related to protection of subjective rights of citizens in the medical-social sphere. During research the following conclusions were made. It is inadmissible to carry out social services extremely from the point of view of needs of socially unprotected public groups. The enacted Civil Code of the Russian Federation does not make differentiation of social services in view of their specificity. It is necessary to establish, within the framework of special regulation, the more detailed rules regulating granting to citizens of medical aid in various forms.
gerasimova_2007-2.pdf (134 Kb)
S.G. Dzybova
Basic laws of transformation of the Russian legal system in the post-Soviet space
The paper disclose the basic laws of transformation of the legal system of the Russian Federation in conditions of the post-Soviet development, namely: a priority of rights and interests of the person; creation of conditions for transition to legal statehood, increase of a level of sense of justice in citizens and society as a whole, perfection of the legislation etc. It is concluded that the basic direction of development of the Russian legal system is construction of a lawful state on the basis of the advanced civil society where the human rights really provided, guaranteed and protected by the state would act as the central part, the supreme value.
dzybova_2007_2.pdf (116 Kb)
I.V. Zhidkikh
On legislative definition of a principle of justice
In the paper, the analysis is made of a principle of justice at setting punishment. The author describes the concept, discloses the essence and shortcomings of legislative definition and studies mechanisms of realization of a principle in criminal practice. It is inferred that justice is manifested at various levels, namely general legal, branch and institutional. The principle of justice fills with the legal contents not only the law-application activity, but also the entire process of legislation: from the criminalisation of actions up to differentiation of the responsibility.
zhidkikh_2007_2.pdf (98 Kb)
L.R. Zaoeva
A connection of education and training during preparation of specialists at the Faculty of Law
The paper raises the question of a crisis situation in the field of spiritual life of modern youth, in particular students of the Faculty of Law. The future lawyers should have such qualities as high civism, intellectuality, morals, skill to communicate, a high humanistic orientation, fairness, adherence to principles and independence in accepted decisions. The essence of joint pedagogical activity of teachers and assistants to the dean on educational work is to help students be prepared for life, develop diligence, respect rights and freedom of the person, love the native Land, family, a nature, display the active vital position directed to perfection of our society, be integrated in national and world culture. In order to solve this problem at the Faculty of Law the author offers cooperation and uniform requirements of teachers and assistants to the dean on educational work.
zaoeva_2007_2.pdf (123 Kb)
E.M. Kurbanova
Procedure and organizational bases of the seizure of documents
The paper describes requirements, obligatory for observance during the seizure of documents, as well as some tactical bases of preparation and organization of seizure. In the paper, the all-round analysis is made of the essence of the seizure of documents as a separate investigatory action. The author carries out a research on tactical, procedure and organizational aspects of the seizure of documents. Seizure is the independent investigatory action consisting in withdrawal of certain subjects from an established place. The procedure basis for manufacturing seizure is the motivated decision of the investigator. In manufacturing the seizure of documents, containing the data of state secret the sanction of the public prosecutor or his assistant is necessary. Tactical methods of realization of seizure are suddenness, completeness, activity and a system. Specificity of their application depends on objects of seizure and on other factors. Concerning seizure of subjects the special attention is paid to carriers of the electronic information.
kurbanova_2007_2.pdf (144 Kb)
R.E. Mirzoyan
Settling with payment orders
The paper discusses normative-legal regulation of settlings with payment orders. It is inferred that settling with payment orders is carried out by the payer, as a rule, for the purpose of appropriate execution of the liability before the addressee of the means, arisen from the contract concluded between them. The payment order is the most widespread form of clearing settlements. The payment order is an analogue of the term “credit card payment” used in the international bank practice.
mirzoyan_2007_2.pdf (139 Kb)
E.I. Pshizova
Preventive measures against the crimes related to infringement of labour rights of citizens
Preventive measures against the crimes are regarded as the activity of the state and a society, directed against criminality with the purpose of its deduction at minimally possible level by means of influence on the reasons and conditions inducing it. The paper examines the actions carried out by law-protective and specialized bodies with a view of the prevention of the crimes encroaching on labour rights of citizens. It is inferred that preventive measures against crimes are productive provided the scheduled activity of these bodies is coordinated and regular.
pshizova_2007_2.pdf (153 Kb)
M.V. Saakyan
An analysis of problems related to use of drugs in Russia at the present stage
The paper discusses problems of narcotism in modern Russia, in particular the condition of the market of narcotic services, a crime rate connected with drugs, legal methods of struggle with narcotism in the state, mechanisms of legal interaction of the countries of the CIS in counteraction against drug business etc. The legislation plays important but not the main role in struggle against criminality. A variety of the reasons and the conditions inducing criminality in sphere of drug business predetermines a variety of means of struggle against it. The most effective will be the measures that influence these reasons directly, i.e. reform a system of criminal justice, provide it with staff and the finance and improve a system of preventive measures.
saakyan_2007_2.pdf (123 Kb)
A.S. Stroikova
Admissibility of proofs in the Russian criminal legal procedure
The importance of the institute of proofs in the Russian criminal legal procedure causes necessity of its studying by the all-round analysis of the criminal - procedure norms regulating the concept and legal properties of proofs. The proofs obtained with violation of requirements of the criminal – procedure code of the Russian Federation are inadmissible. Basing on the results of studying judiciary practice, the Plenary Session of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has established criteria according to which the proof should be regarded inadmissible. The analysis of the criminal – procedure law indicates that not all sorts of violation of the law entail recognizing the proof inadmissible. By virtue of a principle of competitiveness, at a stage of consideration of criminal case in essence, the court cannot and should not act as the initiator of recognizing proofs inadmissible.
stroikova_2007_2.pdf (110 Kb)
M.M. Tkharkhako
The origin and development of the institute of presidency in foreign countries
The establishment of a post of the President in the Russian Federation causes a heightened interest of the public to the institute of presidency till now. In the paper, the author analyzes theoretical aspects of setting up of presidential authority in the various countries and regions of the world. The paramount attention is given to the process of creation of the institute of presidency in the USA, France, Switzerland and in the countries of Africa. In spite of the fact that the status of the head of the state is universal, existence of some models of presidency reveals their dependence on various political modes and different types of a state system. Moreover, the certain type of presidency corresponds to the certain type of the state board there. Thus, in presidential republic the president is the leader of the country, combining functions of the head of the state and the head of the government, directly supervising over the governmental policy. In semi-president republic the president acts frequently as the arbitrator in relations between the government and parliament. In conditions of parliamentary republic the president is the supreme official having high moral authority and representing the country in many official acts of the government. Having a number of the constitutional powers, the president can resolve many problems of the state development effectively. Experience in development of the institute of presidential authority in the different countries is undoubtedly useful during formation of similar institute in Russia.
tkharkhako_2007_2.pdf (122 Kb)
F.N. Udychak
The Ombudsmen concept in the modern world
The paper discusses some questions related to the status of the Ombudsmen revealing the general specific features of this institute in the various countries, the value of the Ombudsmen and the mechanism of its activity. Theoretical aspects of the institute of the Ombudsmen are examined. The author makes the comparative analysis of this institute with law-protective bodies of foreign countries. The institute of the Ombudsmen is founded with a view of providing citizens with guarantees of the state protection of rights and freedom, their observance and respect by the state institutions of local government and by officials. This is a rare type of the state-legal institutes which is capable to updating, not changing the basic nature and the contents.
udychak_2007_2.pdf (96 Kb)
Z.A. Khadzhuova
Legal regulation of cooperation: a historical aspect
In the paper, legal regulation of cooperation is analyzed from the point of view of historical development. The purpose of research is the analysis of the pre-revolutionary cooperative right. Cooperation is one of numerous political and public organizations. Rough growth and intensification of activity of cooperative companies is marked during the years of crises, in particular in 1865-1917. In pre-revolutionary Russia, theorists of cooperative movement have developed and have fixed principles and the basic components of the mechanism of functioning of cooperation in normative and legislative acts.
khadzhuova_2007_2.pdf (128 Kb)
Z.M. Khatkova
The place of court decisions in a system of constitutional law sources in the Russian Federation
This study examines the concept, attributes and functions of sources of the law, as well as the system of sources of a constitutional law of the Russian Federation. An analysis is made of the role and the place of the decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and the constitutional (authorized) courts of the subjects of the Russian Federation in a system of constitutional law sources. The source of a constitutional law is understood as the normative act containing constitutional-legal norms. Basing on the results of research the author justifies the inclusion of new kinds of sources, including certain court decisions, in a circle of the law sources in Russia.
khatkova_2007_2.pdf (140 Kb)
A.A. Khapay
Information as a legal category
The paper is devoted to researches of the essence and economic contents of information relations in a society. On the basis of the theoretical analysis of the essence and the contents of information relation as a special kind of public relations, its two components, connected with production relations and relations with the person, are analyzed. Information relations make a material basis of any advanced society. In turn, the subjective right on information resources is the legal form of fastening economic relations.
khapay_2007_2.pdf (123 Kb)
I.B. Khakonova
Role of sense of justice in legal life of a society
In the paper, the author investigates legal consciousness as a form of public consciousness, its role in modern public life. The sense of justice and its role in life of a society are undoubtedly huge. The sense of justice is an organic component of law protection and law realization, it carries out a role of their mechanism and the tool. The higher a level of sense of justice, the stronger is legality and the law and order.
khakonova_2007_2.pdf (83 Kb)
A.M. Chadje
The actual problems of efficiency of the Russian legislation at the present stage
In the paper, the author examines the basic problems of efficiency of the Russian legislation in conditions of transition to market economy and democratic state, defines criteria for an estimation of efficiency of laws and offers the basic directions of the decision of the revealed problems. Efficiency of the legislation is one of the qualitative characteristics facilitating the achievement of purposes put by legislator. The effective legislation defines reasonably the purposes and tasks of legal regulation, as well as means for their achievement. And on the contrary, if the purposes are not correctly determined in the law, inaccuracy is admitted in a choice of means, the law does not give expected result and does not promote performance of primary goals of the state.
A.M. Chadje_2007_2.pdf (156 Kb)
M.G. Chadje
Problems related to searching for property of the debtor-organization, to sequestrating and valuating property
The paper discusses the problems related to searching for property of the debtor-organization, to sequestrating and valuating property. Realization of these actions is based on rules of law containing in federal laws “On executive activity”, “On estimated activity in the Russian Federation” and others. However the analysis of a legislative file allows a conclusion that there is “colliding” of norms of various federal laws, inconformity of a terminology that frequently results in double interpretation of the law. The author arrives at a conclusion that these problems are acute nowadays and require investigation and interpretation.
M.G. Chadje_2007_2.pdf (161 Kb)
S.K. Shazzo
The origin and development of the Russian legislation concerning the responsibility for robbery
The author examines the basic laws and stages of the development of the Russian legislation on the responsibility for property crimes and makes an analysis of its modern state. The special attention is given to the analysis of legal regulation of robbery in a history of the Russian legislation since scientists-lawyers pay attention to frequent displays of this dangerous crime in our country. Robbery is caused by the character and by a degree of public danger of the crime itself and by complexity of its content. In this connection of special urgency for a science of criminal law and law-application activity of law protection bodies are problems of increase of efficiency of struggle against robbery by means of application of criminal – legal norms.
shazzo_2007_2.pdf (128 Kb)
I.A. Shcherbovich
On regulation sources of the competitive process in Russia in the 19th century
The paper discusses historical and legal aspects of the development of the competitive process in Russia in the 19th century. The author makes an analysis of competitive process as an element of the institute of bankruptcy, examines kinds of an inconsistency, sources of regulation of competitive process etc. It is inferred that the institute of bankruptcy is not a short story of the Russian legislation. Just the legislation of the 19th century has allowed the institute of competitive process to acquire a form quite completed for that epoch.
shcherbovich_2007_2.pdf (107 Kb)
Z.A. Zhade
Geopolitics: a theoretical retrospective show of ideas
The paper is devoted to the analysis of genesis of the western and Russian geopolitical ideas. The author justifies a thesis that an increase of a role of geopolitics in the modern world is caused by the political changes related to disintegration of a bipolar model of the world and to the desire of the post-socialist countries to define the new status in connection with new interpretation of their identity.
zhade_2007_2.pdf (145 Kb)
I.N. Gaidareva
Information component of national safety
An analysis is made of modern problems of ensuring the national safety of the Russian Federation that have complex, many-sided character. Successful development and existence of Russia as a sovereign state is impossible without ensuring its national safety. Information safety of a society and the state is defined by a degree of their security and, hence, by stability of the basic spheres of life constant for dangerous, destabilizing, destructive information impacts restraining interests of the country at a level of both introduction and extraction of the information.
gaidareva_2007_2.pdf (118 Kb)
H.I. Tuguz
Ethnic problems: political and legal aspects
In the work, the author examines necessity of the solution of ethnic problems in the political-legal key. This is the most effective way of achievement by mankind of satisfaction of the national requirements and interests by granting to all great and small peoples of the right and a real opportunity of political self-determination on a dominant basis: “All peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of this right they freely establish the political status and freely provide the economic, social and cultural development”. Various sources to support the author’s opinion are given in the paper.
tuguz_2007_2.pdf (148 Kb)
B.H. Kazanov
Traditions and innovations in national culture
The author examines traditions and innovations in national culture and the process of a change of modern types of culture.
kazanov_2007_2.pdf (69 Kb)
A.O. Srukova
TV and the valuable world of the person
The paper discusses the role of TV in formation and popularization of valuable orientations of the person.
srukova_2007_2.pdf (69 Kb)
E.T. Chamokova
Reflection of social and cultural processes in the publicistic of the Adyghe writer-educator Adyl-Ghirey Keshev (Kalambiya)
The author examines reflection of social and cultural processes in the publicistic of the Adyghe writer-educator Adyl-Ghirey Keshev (Kalambiya).
chamokova_2007_2.pdf (95 Kb)
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National Aviation Day
By Rebecca Groom Jacobs
Editor's Briefing
Get ready to celebrate! August 19 marks the 80th annual National Aviation Day – a holiday dedicated to honoring aviation’s achievements and pioneers of flight.
As readers of this magazine, I think it’s safe to assume that aviation has impacted your life in some way. The majority of you are owner-pilots and chief pilots who live and breathe this amazing industry every day. But how often do we take a step back to reflect and appreciate aviation’s beginnings?
To commemorate the anniversary, I thought it’d be interesting to dive into the origins of the holiday. Join me as we journey back in time.
In 1939, Americans could purchase a house for $4,000, a car for $700 and fuel for 10 cents. The Great Depression was wrapping up its decade-long era, while more turmoil was just around the corner with the onset of WWII. “Gone With the Wind” and “The Wizard of Oz” were topping the box office. In the midst of all this, aviation was growing by leaps and bounds.
To honor that triumphant growth and its impact, National Aviation Day was established in 1939 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), who issued a presidential proclamation designating Orville Wright’s birthday (August 19) as a day to observe and celebrate the developments of aviation. From the Wright brothers first flight in 1903 up to FDR’s proclamation, aviation made incredible strides in a relatively short period of time. Below is a just an abbreviated list of the milestones during that period.
1903 – First powered flight
1908 – First passenger flight
1910 – First commercial flight school opened
1917 – First airline founded
1918 – National air mail service begins
1923 – First transcontinental nonstop flight
1924 – First aerial circumnavigation
1927 – First solo nonstop trans-Atlantic flight
1932 – First woman flies across Atlantic
1933 – A modern airliner (Boeing 247) flies
1935 – Boeing designs first pressurized airliner
1939 – Pan American begins transatlantic passenger service
It is also interesting to note that total aircraft production in 1939 for the U.S. military was less than 3,000 planes. By the end of WWII, America produced 300,000 planes (96,318 were produced in 1944 alone). Aircraft manufacturing swept the nation, going from 41st place among American industries to first place in less than five years.
Fast forward to today and there are currently 220,000 registered civilian aircraft registered in the U.S. Here are the latest numbers provided by the FAA regarding air traffic:
Average daily flights handled by FAA – 44,000
Total aircraft in the sky at peak times – 5,000
Number of air traffic control towers – 518
General aviation flight hours per year – 25,212,000
U.S. airports – 19,622 (5,092 public, 14,530 private)
Number of passengers flown yearly in the U.S. – 1 billion
U.S. jobs generated from aviation – 10,600,000
Ways to Celebrate
Needless to say, it is worth celebrating how far we have come, so let’s do it: Go on a trip; share the joy of flight by taking someone flying; read an aviation book (I enjoyed “The Wright Brothers”); share a post on social media with hashtag #NationalAviationDay; volunteer with an aviation organization; visit your local airport or aviation museum.
Let us never forget how lucky we are for others’ contributions to flight. Happy National Aviation Day.
Rebecca Groom Jacobs
Though raised around general aviation, Rebecca first considered it as a career while learning to fly in a Piper J-3 Cub in 2010. The experience (and private pilot certificate) led her to change course and pursue a business degree from Oklahoma State University. Since graduation, she has specialized in aviation-specific marketing and communications, working first for Piper Aircraft followed by a three-year tenure at aviation-founded marketing agency Sullivan Higdon & Sink in Wichita. Having uncovered her passion and talent for writing, Rebecca also served as a Twin & Turbine contributing writer prior to being appointed Editor-in-Chief in May of 2018.
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Uganda - Child Labour Baseline Survey 2009
Reference ID UGA-UBOS-CLBS-2009
Producer(s) Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) - Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development
Sponsor(s) Government of Uganda - GoU - Main financier
International Labour Organisation - ILO - Main financier
Child Labour Baseline Survey 2009
Child Labor Survey
This is the first stand alone study on Child Labour carried out in Uganda.
UGA-UBOS-CLBS-2009
v1.2: Edited data, second version, for internal use only.
The Uganda Government is faced with the challenge of elimination of child Labour in the Country. Child Labour contributes to a violation of the rights of Children to education and protection and it is putting at risk the country's progress by limiting the potential of its workforce. The Child Labour Baseline Survey exercise was carried out in three districts of Rakai, Mbale, and Wakiso districts. Lessons learnt will help to re-design Child Labour intervention programmes for the rest of the districts.
In Uganda, a child is defined as someone below the age of 18 years. Generally speaking the term child Labour refers to involvement of children in the kind of work that is not allowed for them. When measuring Statistics on Child Labour two issues are considered, i.e;
(i) Age of the child;
(ii) The productive activities in which the child is involved, the nature and conditions in which activities are performed including the time spent in the activity.
The main objective of the 2009 child labour baseline Survey was to facilitate the measurement of the levels and nature of child labour in the focus districts. More than half of the population of surveyed districts is below 15 years of age. The proportion of child headship is low in all the districts. The proportion of paid employees and self employed is highest in Wakiso and lowest in Rakai district. Agriculture is the most dominant sector in which people are engaged followed by the trade sector.
The purpose of the 2009 child labour Baseline Survey was to facilitate the measurement of the levels and nature of child labour in the focus districts of Rakai, Mbale and Wakiso. The specific objectives were:
(i) To collect information on the main characteristics of working children and those of the households they live in ( i.e. their demographic composition and details by age/ sex/ ethnicity/ marital status/disability status/orphan hood/ literacy and educational status/ classification by industry occupation and status in employment/ earnings and weekly hours of work/ location of work place/ reasons for not attending school/ reasons for working/ types of unpaid household services done and weekly hours performed/ etc);
(ii) To obtain information to support the analysis of the causes and consequences of children engaged in work, including household earnings and debt, perceptions of parents/ guardians/ children, and the hazards and abuses faced by children at their work;
(iii) To obtain (through FGDs and KIIs) information on
(a) the various forms of child labour prevailing in the districts, particularly on WFCL such as CSEC, street children, children engaged for illicit activities, and forced work by children
(b) the underlying forces leading to the persistence of child labour especially the impact of HIV/AIDS, poverty, adult unemployment, OVC issue, and lack of proper schooling facilities;
(c) Child trafficking
(v) To provide policy makers, researchers and other stakeholders with a comprehensive information and a set of indicators on child labour to guide interventions;
(vi) To act as a basis for the creation of a long -term database on child labour in Uganda.
The Child Labour Baseline Survey 2009 had the following units of analysis: individuals, and households.
The scope of the Child Labour Baseline Survey 2009 includes: Background characteristics of household members, Education and Training, Labour Force Status and hours of work, Time spent on non-market activities, Occupational health and safety, Perceptions of Parents /Guardians on working children, Household and Housing conditions.
LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT [3] CESSDA http://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT [3], EDUCATION [6]
The Child Labour Baseline Survey (2009) was carried out in the districts of Rakai, Wakiso and Mbale.
The survey covered all de jure household members aged 5 years and above resident in the household, and all children aged 5 - 17 years resident in the household.
Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development
Government of Uganda GoU Main financier
International Labour Organisation ILO Main financier
Other Acknowledgements
Respondents Communities Provided the required information
Uganda Bureau of Statistics UBOS Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Documentation of the survey/census
Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century PARIS21/OECD World Bank Review of the documentation
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Energy drinks may increase desire to drink alcohol.
TIME (7/18, Sifferlin, 24.1M) reports that research (7/18, 505K) published in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research suggests “that when people drink alcohol with energy drinks they have a stronger desire to keep drinking compared to people who just drank a vodka soda.” In the study, investigators “assigned 75 participants between the ages 18 and 30 to either just drink alcohol, or drink an alcohol and energy drink combination.”
Newsweek (7/18, Mejia, 105K) reports that study “participants were asked to take an Alcohol Urge Questionnaire 20 minutes before and after imbibing the libation to indicate how strong their desire was to continue drinking.” Individuals “who drank the alcohol and energy drink combo reported a greater increase in the urge to continue drinking alcohol than the group drinking only vodka.” Additionally, “the energy drink consumers…reported liking the cocktail more and wanting to drink more of it than those who only drank the vodka cocktail.”
The Today Show Online (7/18, Carroll, 595K) reports that Rebecca McKetin, the study’s lead author, said that the “findings suggest that energy drinks may increase the risk of people drinking to intoxication and consequently increase the risk of alcohol-related problems like drunk driving and alcohol-fueled violence.” Also covering the story areReuters (7/18, Seaman) and HealthDay (7/18, Mozes, 5K).
Oregon, Washington file lawsuits over energy drink claims. The AP (7/18, Dubois) reports attorneys general from Oregon and Washington state have filed separate lawsuits against companies “responsible for the popular 5-Hour Energy drink,” claiming “they engaged in deceptive advertising.” Oregon’s lawsuit alleges 5-Hour Energy “falsely claims” people get “extra energy” boost from “a unique blend of ingredients,” when in fact the “boost actually comes from a concentrated dose of caffeine.” Living Essentials LLC and Innovation Ventures LLC have been named as defendants in the lawsuits.
Meanwhile, Reuters (7/18, Haggin) reports Vermont too has sued the defendants over the alleged deceptive advertising of 5-Hour Energy. The piece noted other states could file similar lawsuits.
The news was also covered by The Oregonian (7/18, 827K).
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The Decision of the Government of the Russian Federation on approval of the issuance a residence of the Russian Federation
Government Decree of 1 November 2002N 794 "On approval of the issuance of foreign nationals and stateless persons residence"
In accordance with Federal Law "On Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation" the Government of the Russian Federation decrees:
1.To approve the attached Regulations on granting foreign citizens and stateless persons resident permit.
2.The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation jointly with the union Goznak develop and approve model forms of residence permits issued to foreign citizens and residence permit issued to stateless persons. 3.The activities envisaged by this decree shall be exercised by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation from the funds provided by the Ministry on the current contents of the federal budget for the year.
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov
Regulations on granting foreign citizens and stateless persons residence (approved by Government Decree dated November 1, 2002, N 794)
I. General provisions (paragraphs 1 - 9)
II . Receiving and processing applications (paragraphs 10 - 14)
III.Design, delivery and re-residence (paragraphs 15 - 23)
Appendix N 1. Description form of residence permit issued by a foreign citizen
Appendix N 2. Description form of residence permit issued to a stateless person
I. General provisions
1.This Regulation determines in accordance with paragraph 5 of Article 8 of the Federal Law "On Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation" (hereinafter - the Law) the order granting foreign citizens and stateless persons, as well as re-registration of a residence permit.
2.A foreign citizen (stateless person) who has attained the age of 18 and residing in the territory of the Russian Federation not less than one year on the basis of a temporary residence permit may be granted a residence permit.
3.Residence permits issued to foreign citizens (stateless) regional office of the federal executive body in charge of internal affairs, area of residence (hereinafter - the authority of the Interior) on the basis of a written application to the bodyInterior personally capable foreign citizen (stateless) no later than 6 months before the expiration of his temporary residence in the Russian Federation. See
Instructions on the organization of internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation for registration and issuance of foreign nationals and stateless persons, residence permit, approved by Order of the Interior Ministry on April 14, 2003N 250
foreign citizen (stateless person) who is under 18 years of age, residence permit is issued based on a written application to the authority of the Interior by a parent or legal representative.
4.Statement is made in two copies in the form, the form is established by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
5. The application form filled in legibly by hand or with the use of technical equipment (typewriter, computer), in Russian.When filling out the form is not allowed to use abbreviations of words and abbreviations. Answers to the questions in the application form must be exhaustive.
6.When applying for a foreign citizen (stateless person) is 4 photographs, size 35 x 45 mm and the following documents:
a) documents proving his identity and nationality;
b) executed in the prescribed manner a temporary residence permit;
c) document confirmingthe presence of the applicant's means of ensuring he and his family members when staying in the Russian Federation living wage, or a document certifying his disability (the information on personal income, income tax return with the stamp tax authority, certificate of employment, laborlaptop, pension certificate, a certificate authority to obtain social security benefits, acknowledgment of receipt of child support, proof of the presence of deposits of credit institutions with the account number, certificate of inheritance, income statement a person who is dependent onapplicant, a document confirming the receipt of income from activities not prohibited by law or disability);
d) child's birth certificate and identity document of a child under 18 years of age (passport - if available);
e) the consent of the child inaged 14 to 18 years residence in the Russian Federation.Signature of child's statement must be notarized;
e) a document certifying the existence of individual dwellings, the dwelling place of residence on the grounds stipulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation;
g) certificate on absence of the applicant (family members)HIV infection;
h) a document issued by authorized institutions in Russian Federation, testifying that the applicant (family members) are not sick addiction and does not suffer from any of the infectious diseases that pose a danger to others, providedlist approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.
7.Individuals who have received temporary residence permits on the grounds stipulated by subparagraphs 2, 3 and 4 of paragraph 3 of Article 6 of the Act, in addition to the documents listed in paragraph 6 hereof, are:
a) the person declared incapable of having a capable son or daughter, consisting inRussian citizenship and permanent residence in the territory of the Russian Federation - a birth certificate and passport son or daughter, as well as a certificate issued by authorized institutions in Russian Federation, confirms the applicant's disability;
b) a personat least one disabled parent of the nationality of the Russian Federation and resides permanently in the territory of the Russian Federation - a birth certificate and passport disabled parents, as well as a certificate issued by authorized institutions in RussianFederation, supporting disabled parents;
a) a person married to a Russian citizen permanently residing in the territory of the Russian Federation - a marriage certificate and passport husband (wife), having (having) the citizenship of the Russian Federation.In the presence of the applicant and his family of different surnames relationship proved relevant additional documents submitted.
8. If attached to the application documents in a foreign language, it seems their notarized Russian translation.
9. Statement is not admissible if the qualifications for his filing of an identification document, has a term of less than 6 months.
II. Receiving and processing applications
10. When you receive an application for consideration to verify accuracy of documents submitted.The results, as well as the authenticity of the signature of the applicant on the application shall be signed by an authorized official organ of the Interior. On the signature of the official and pasted into the application photos of the applicant affixed seal of the authority of the Interior.
foreigner (stateless person) shall be informed of the grounds for refusal to issue a residence permit, required by law, and the term of consideration of its application.
11. Adopted a statement recorded with the stamp on it the registration number.The applicant is issued a certificate of receipt of the application for review.
12. Body Interior reviews the application and make the necessary checks for the presence or absence under Article 9 of the Act the grounds for refusal to issue a residence permit.
After reviewing the internal affairs body decides to grant or refuse to grant a residence permit. On each application separate decision.
13.Term of consideration of the application should not exceed 6 months from the date of application with all necessary and appropriate documented.
14.Authority of the Interior shall within 14 days from the date of the decision to send the applicant a notice of it with the number and date of its adoption, and in case of a negative decision - grounds for refusal.
III. Design, delivery and re-residence
15.Official of the Interior in the issuance of a foreign citizen (stateless) residence explains to him the legal status of the person who obtained a residence permit, the reasons for his termination, provided for in Article 9 of the Act and the obligation to undergo an annualre in the internal affairs bodies. The procedure for re-established by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
16. Residence permits issued to foreign citizens (stateless persons) who has attained the age of 14.A foreign citizen (stateless person) who has not attained the age of 14, fits into the residence of both parents.
foreign citizen (stateless person) who is under the age of 14 and orphaned, may be granted a residence permit.In the document certifying the identity of the foreign citizen (stateless persons), a mark of grant him a residence permit.
17. Residence permits issued to foreign citizens for the duration of a document proving his identity, but not more than 5 years.A residence permit issued to a stateless person for 5 years.
residence permit issued by a foreign citizen is issued on a form in accordance with Annex N 1, issued by a stateless person - on the form in accordance with Annex N 2.
18.For issuing a residence permit will be charged at the rate established by the Russian Federation.
According to Federal Law of 30 December 2001N 194-FZ, in 2002 issued a residence permit in the Russian Federation, foreign citizens and stateless persons are charged at a rate of 50 rubles.
19.In the event of loss of residence permits for foreign citizens (stateless persons) must be within 10 days, submit to the authority of the Interior photograph and a statement of residence permit instead of lost, indicating the circumstances of the loss.Submission of any other documents in this case is not required. After checking the circumstances of the duplicate shall be issued a residence permit to the fee in the amount prescribed by the legislation of the Russian Federation.
20.Upon expiry of the residence permit may be extended for five years on the basis of an application filed by a foreign citizen (stateless) in the internal affairs body.Application for renewal of residence permit must be filed no later than six months before it expires. The validity of a permit may be renewed an unlimited number of times.
21.Re-registration of a residence permit shall be as set out in paragraphs 10 - 14 of these Regulations, and its extension, as well as the registration of foreign citizens (stateless persons) in the new place of residence in the territory of another entity of the Russian Federation.In a residence permit placed a mark on his re-registration shall be signed by an official seal and the territorial authority of the Interior.
22.In case a foreign citizen (stateless person) has committed actions stipulated in Article 9 of the Act, the authority of the Interior shall annul his residency permit and issuing him a visa to leave the Russian Federation.Security agencies, the bailiff service, tax authorities, social security, health authorities and other bodies concerned with the identification of these acts committed by a foreign citizen (stateless), no later than 10 days, inform theauthority of the Interior.
foreigner (stateless person) shall be notified body of internal affairs in a 3-day period of the decision, but also warned of the need to exit from the Russian Federation within 15 days from the date of the decision.In this case, a residence permit stateless persons shall bear a corresponding mark, and the foreign national residence permit is withdrawn, as a document proving his identity, a mark.
In the case of house arrest a foreign citizen (stateless persons) from the Russian Federation within the prescribed period interior authority shall arrange for his deportation in the manner prescribed by the legislation of the Russian Federation.
23.Organ of internal affairs shall keep a record of persons granted a residence permit, and send in the prescribed manner to the central bank data on foreign citizens and stateless persons temporarily or permanently residing in the territory of the Russian Federation, information about them, as well as on persons whorefused a residence permit or residence permits have been revoked.
Appendix N 1 to the Regulations to grant foreign nationals and stateless persons residence
Description form of residence permit issued by a foreign citizen
1.Form of residence permit issued by a foreign citizen (hereinafter - the form) is produced in machine-readable form on a single model meets international requirements and standards.
2.Blank size 125 x 88 mm contains 16 pages (no cover), thread stitched through the fold.
3. Series and number of the form reproduced in the bottom of the 1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 16 pages, as well as on the inside back cover page in the upper right corner.A series of blank denotes the number "82" and "83", the numbers represent a 7-digit number.
4. Page numbers from 2 to 15 are located in the upper right corner of the firmware and duplicated in the bottom of the page. Pages 1 and 16 numbers are not.
5.Cover blank, blue, made of durable material.
6. On the cover of the form at the top of a 2-line inscription "Russian Federation", the center played a golden embossed State Emblem of the Russian Federation (hereinafter - the coat of arms) on the shield.Under the coat of arms in the 3-line inscription, "The residence permit of a foreign citizen."
7. In the center of the inside front cover page is placed monochrome emblem size in 1 / 3 page height, above which is written:
"The Russian Federation
Russian Federation".
Under the emblem is typographic design - "rosette".
8. On page 1 in its upper part against a monochrome depiction written:
In the bottom half of page is an inscription "The residence permit of a foreign citizen" and below the word "residence permit contains 16 pages.
9.On page 2, posted the following text:
"residence permit - a document issued by a foreign citizen to prove his right to permanent residence in the Russian Federation, as well as his right to free exit from the Russian Federation and Entry into the Russian Federation."
10.Pages 4 - 8 and 13 are designed to accommodate the service marks, including the Tax Authority for taxpayer identification number, a mark for registration and re-registration of residence.
11.Pages 9 - 12 designed to accommodate the service marks an extension of the permit. At each of these pages in the upper and lower part is placed the following text:
"Validity of the residence permit extended
for" 1920
Signature, name
"" 1920 "
12.On pages 14 - 16 and the inside page of the back of the cover text and line details for the entries are arranged parallel to the fold line. 13. Pages 14 - 15 are designed to make information about the children of the owner of a residence permit. 14.On page 14 posted the following text:
"photos of children / Photographs of children".
Below are 3 numbered frame size 35 x 45 mm for posting photos of children. In legal # bottom corner of each box indicates the location of print - "Seal / Stamp". 15.On page 15 in its upper part is the following text:
"Children are inscribed in the residence
Full Name Sex Date and place of birth Personal identification code
Surname, name Sex Date and place of birth Personal No"
At the bottom of a page :
"See page ... / See page ... MP.When entering data on large numbers of children indicate the number of the page to which they are made.
16.On page 16 of the letters "MP" designated place for the press and posted the following text:
"residence permit foreigner
number, date of decision
date of the document
Signature, name the official."
17.Internal page back cover designed to accommodate the personal data of the owner of a residence permit.
Lower Quarter page - machine-readable zone, in which a 2-line is an alphanumeric code, which contains, in accordance with international standards of basic information available in this document.
On the rest of the page, post photos of the owner of a residence permit, size 35 x 45 mm and the following text:
country code / Country code RUS
Document No
Name / Given names
(First and last name are writtenletters of the Russian and Latin alphabets)
Citizenship / Nationality
Date of Birth / Date of birth
Place of Birth / Place of birth
Gender / Sex
Issuing Authority / Authority ".
18.To ensure the safety and protection against tampering of records and photographs on the inside back cover page of the form between this page and page 16 may be sewn film, which is laminated to the corresponding page.
19.Samples of seals and stamps required for processing the form, as well as additional protective measures established by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Description form of residence permit issued to a stateless person
1.Form of residence permit issued to a stateless person (hereinafter - the form) is produced in machine-readable form on a single model meets international requirements and standards.
2. Blank size 125 x 88 mm contains 36 pages (no cover), thread stitched through the fold.
3. Series and number of the form reproduced in the bottom of the 1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 31, 32 and 36 pages, as well as on the inside back cover page in the upper right corner.A series of blank denotes the number "80" and "81", the numbers represent a 7-digit number.
5.Cover Form, green, made of durable material.
6. On the cover of the form at the top of a 2-line inscription "Russian Federation", the center played a golden embossed State Emblem of the Russian Federation (hereinafter - the coat of arms) on the shield.Under the coat of arms in the 3-line inscription, "The residence permit stateless persons."
In the bottom half of page is an inscription "The residence permit stateless persons" and below the word "residence permit contains 36 pages.
"residence permit - a document certifying stateless person, issued in support of his right to permanent residence in the Russian Federation, as well as his right to free exit from the Russian Federation and Entry into the Russian Federation."
10. Pages 4 - 20 and 33 are designed to accommodate the service marks, including the Tax Authority for Taxpayer Identification Number. Recording the registration and re-residence are located on pages 21 - 28.
12.On pages 34 - 36 and the inside page of the back of the cover text and line details for the entries are arranged parallel to the fold line.
13. Pages 34 - 35 are designed to make information about the children of the owner of a residence permit.
14.On page 34 posted the following text:
Below are 3 numbered frame size 35 x 45 mm for posting photos of children.
have the legal bottom corner of each box indicates the location of print - "Seal / Stamp".
15.On page 35 in its upper part is the following text:
"Children as entered in the residence
"Residence stateless
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Trump call ‘improper,’ ‘unusual,’ White House aides testify
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 6:36 AM EST
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 1:20 PM EST
By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK
WASHINGTON (AP) - One top national security aide who listened to President Donald Trump’s July call with Ukraine’s president called it “improper.” Another said it was “unusual.” The two testified Tuesday at House impeachment hearings as the inquiry reached deeper into the White House.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, an Army officer at the National Security Council, and Jennifer Williams, his counterpart at Vice President Mike Pence’s office, said they both had concerns as Trump spoke with the newly elected Ukrainian president about political investigations into Democrat Joe Biden.
“What I heard was inappropriate,” Vindman told lawmakers. He said it would be seen as a “partisan play.”
The two led off a pivotal week featuring testimony from nine witnesses as the House’s impeachment inquiry accelerates. Democrats say Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to investigate Democrat Joe Biden while withholding U.S. military aid that Ukraine needed to resist Russian aggression may be grounds for removing the 45th president.
Trump says he did no such thing in his call with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the Democrats just want him gone.
Vindman, a 20-year military officer arrived at Capitol Hill in military blue with a chest full of service medals, and said he reported his concerns “out of a sense of duty.”
He did so, he said, “because they had significant national security implications for our country.”
Williams, a career State Department official who has worked for three presidential administrations and counts former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a “personal hero,” said the Trump phone call was the first time she had heard anyone specifically seeking investigations from Ukraine.
The reference to Biden and his son Hunter “struck me as political in nature.”
Vindman, an immigrant who arrived in the U.S. as a toddler from Ukraine, told the panel he was grateful for “the privilege of being an American citizen and public servant, where I can live free of fear for mine and my family’s safety.”
In the audience was his twin brother, also an official at the National Security Council and among those he told about his concerns over Trump’s phone call.
Addressing his father, Vindman said, “Do not worry, I will be fine for telling the truth.”
Gaveling open the second week of live televised hearings, the Democratic Intelligence Committee chairman leading the probe, Rep. Adam Schiff, noted that Trump tweeted against Williams over the weekend and Vindman has seen “far more scurrilous attacks” on his character by the president’s allies.
Schiff, who has warned that the president’s attacks on others in the impeachment inquiry could be seen as intimidation, said the witnesses “are here because they were subpoenaed to appear, not because they are for or against impeachment. That question is for Congress.”
The top Republican on the committee, Rep. David Nunes, swiftly turned to trying to prompt the witnesses to name the still-anonymous whistleblower whose complaint about the phone call led the House to launch the impeachment inquiry.
Nunes asked the witnesses who else they talked to about their concerns, bearing down once Vindman acknowledged one was from the intelligence community.
“I do not know who the whistleblower is,” Vindman said. He has previously said it is not him.
Nunes pressed: “You can plead the fifth, but you’re here to answer questions.”
“These proceedings will not be used to out the whistleblower,” Schiff said.
At one point when Nunes called Vindman “Mr. Vindman,” the colonel reminded him to address him by his rank.
For a long stretch of questioning, the Republicans’ lead counsel probed Vindman’s loyalty, asking at one point about an offer from a Ukrainian official to become the country’s defense minister.
Vindman called it “comical” and said he swiftly reported it up his chain of command.
“I’m an American,” Vindman testified. “And I immediately dismissed these offers.”
Vindman is being provided security by the U.S. Army and local law enforcement, according to a U.S. official. The official said the Army is prepared to take additional steps, if needed, including moving Vindman and his family to a more secure location on a base.
Asked at one point which languages he spoke, Vindman replied Ukrainian, Russian and, joking, “a little English.”
Both witnesses had testified in earlier, closed-door sessions and received subpoenas to appear Tuesday. Their depositions have been publicly released.
Williams testified the Trump phone call was unlike about a dozen others she had heard from presidents over her career. Vindman said Trump’s remarks strayed from the talking points prepared for the president.
“Without hesitation, I knew I had to report this,” Vindman testified. “It was inappropriate, it was improper for the president to demand an investigation into a political opponent.”
Both noted the use of the word “Burisma” on the call. That was a reference to the gas company in Ukraine where Hunter Biden served on the board.
They both said Zelenskiy had mentioned it on the call, but testified it was missing from the rough transcript released by the White House.
At the time of the call, the officials were just beginning to make the link with the stalled military aid, $391 million approved by Congress, that Ukraine was relying on as it confronts neighboring Russia.
Vindman said the uneven power dynamic between the presidents of the East European ally and the U.S. made the demand obvious.
“The culture I come from, the military culture, when a senior asks you to do something ... it’s not be taken as a request, it’s to be taken as an order.”
It wasn’t the first time Vindman, a decorated Iraq War veteran, was alarmed over the administration’s push to have Ukraine investigate Democrats, he testified.
Earlier, during an unsettling July 10 meeting at the White House, Ambassador Gordon Sondland told visiting Ukraine officials that they would need to “deliver” before next steps, which was a meeting Zelenskiy wanted with Trump, the officer testified.
“He was talking about the 2016 elections and an investigation into the Bidens and Burisma,” Vindman testified. "The Ukrainians would have to deliver an investigation into the Bidens.”
On both occasions, Vindman said, he took his concerns about the shifting Ukraine policy to the lead counsel at the NSC, John Eisenberg.
When the White House produced a rough transcript later that day, she put it in the vice president’s briefing materials. “I just don’t know if he read it,” Williams testified earlier in her closed-door House interview.
Pence’s role throughout the impeachment inquiry has been unclear.
Trump has assailed Williams, associating her with “Never Trumpers,” even though there is no indication she has shown any partisanship.
GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, who was deeply involved in other White House meetings about Ukraine, offered a sneak preview of this strategy late Monday when he compared Vindman, a Purple Heart veteran, to the “bureaucrats” who “never accepted Trump as legitimate.”
The White House has instructed officials not to appear, and most have received congressional subpoenas to compel their testimony.
Later Tuesday afternoon, the House was to hear from former NSC official Timothy Morrison and Kurt Volker, the former Ukraine special envoy.
The witnesses are testifying under penalty of perjury, and Sondland already has had to amend his earlier account amid contradicting testimony from other current and former U.S. officials.
Sondland, the wealthy donor whose routine boasting about his proximity to Trump has brought the investigation to the president’s doorstep, is set to testify Wednesday. Others have testified that he was part of a shadow diplomatic effort with the president’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, outside of official channels that raised alarms.
Morrison has referred to Burisma as a “bucket of issues” - the Bidens, Democrats, investigations - he had tried to “stay away” from.
Sondland met with a Zelenskiy aide on the sidelines of a Sept. 1 gathering in Warsaw, and Morrison, who was watching the encounter from across the room, testified that the ambassador told him moments later he pushed the Ukrainian for the Burisma investigation as a way for Ukraine to gain access to the military funds.
Volker provided investigators with a package of text messages with Sondland and another diplomat, William Taylor, the charge d’affaires in Ukraine, who grew alarmed at the linkage of the investigations to the aid.
A hotelier who donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration, Sondland is the only person interviewed to date who had direct conversations with the president about the Ukraine situation.
Morrison said Sondland and Trump had spoken about five times between July 15 and Sept. 11 - the weeks that the U.S. assistance was withheld from Ukraine before it was released.
Associated Press writers Alan Fram, Zeke J. Miller, Laurie Kellman, Colleen Long, Eric Tucker, Lolita Baldor and Jill Colvin in Washington and Bruce Schreiner in Louisville, Kentucky, contributed to this report.
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Founded in 1963, West Potomac RFC is the 2nd oldest active rugby club in Washington, D.C. The team attracts many players with and without rugby playing experience who enjoy the club’s close-knit social fellowship and enthusiastic level of play.
West Pot is well known for its willingness to train new ruggers from scratch and fields a Division III men’s side and a Summer 7’s team as well as a Masters (35 and older) side. We also pride ourselves on continuing our sport’s finest social traditions including singing rugby songs. The club is registered with the national governing rugby body, USA Rugby, and competes in the Capital Rugby Union (CGU), which includes clubs in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
West Pot players can often be found on invitational touring sides and we have sent teams to play in New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Wales, Amsterdam, Taiwan, and France. International tours are an important tradition of amateur and professional rugby teams alike, as they give players the opportunity to bond with teammates and test themselves against better teams and regional styles of play.
In addition to men’s rugby, West Pot is currently working to develop relationships with several local youth, high school, U-23 and college teams in the area to support the growth of the sport and strengthen the organization’s ties to the community. We take our status as a 501(c)(3) non-profit seriously and work to promote the sport and participate in community-based philanthropic activities. As long as there is beer.
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Join us Saturday February 22, 2020 for the 57th Annual West Potomac RFC Awards Banquet and Silent Auction at Buca Di Beppo in Washington DC.
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International best selling artist and two time Grammy Award-winning jazz/soul singing sensation Gregory Porter has announced a show at The SSE Hydro Glasgow on May 13th!
About Gregory Porter
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Gregory Porter, international best selling artist and two time Grammy Award-winning jazz/soul singing sensation, is honoured to announce a thirteen date UK tour.
With his irresitable warm baritone vocals, Porter continues to perform to sell out audiences around the world and has achieved international recognition and acclaim, with both his Grammy winning selling albums ‘Liquid Spirit’ and ‘Take Me To The Alley’.
Gregory Porter, launched last month, ‘The Hang’, a brand new ten week podcast series, where you will be able to listen to Porter’s warming speaking voice on a weekly basis, where he sits down with distinguised guests from the fields of art and entertainment.
Porter, released his first ever live album in 2018: ‘One Night Only: Live at the Royal Albert Hall’, to critical acclaim.
They don’t come much cooler than Gregory Porter... a tour not to be missed.
While we take every opportunity to ensure the details for Gregory Porter are accurate, we always advise that you contact the event organiser before setting out for the event to avoid disapointment.
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Other Events at The SSE Hydro or Scottish Event Campus
Absolute Elvis - Johnny Lee Memphis
Scotlands very own multi-award winning Johnny Lee Memphis will be performing in the Absolute Elvis Show this coming January at the Scottish Event Campus!
Strictly Come Dancing - The Live Tour
1st February 2020 - 2nd February 2020
Strictly Come Dancing - The Live Tour returns for a fab-u-lous thirteenth year to The SSE Hydro Glasgow in February!
Jonas Brothers have announced a huge UK headline tour in support of their imminent new album, Happiness Begins, catch them at The SSE Hydro on February 5th!
The Scottish Caravan, Motorhome & Holiday Home Show
6th February 2020 - 9th February 2020
The Scottish Caravan, Motorhome & Holiday Home Show returns to the Scottish Event Campus for 2020 from the 6th - 9th February!
Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live
Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live will bring everyone's favourite Hot Wheels Monster Trucks to life when it comes to The SSE Hydro in February!
Ballet West: Swan Lake
Ballet West are back at SEC Armadillo in February with their critically acclaimed production of the classic ballet, Swan Lake!
Conversations With Stacey Dooley
Join Stacey Dooley on February 10th at the SEC Armadillo Glasgow and hear her talk about her remarkable career, the challenges of journalism today, and much more!
Ozzy Osbourne: No More Tours 2
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Ozzy Osbourne will bring his 'No More Tours 2' tour to The SSE Hydro Glasgow in February with special guest Judas Priest!
Twist and Pulse
With 2020 being the 10 year anniversary of Twist and Pulse and to celebrate their extraordinary BGT win, the guys will be going on their first ever UK tour in February!
Following the news that his sixth studio album, 'Once Upon A Mind', will be released on October 25th, James Blunt has announced a major tour including a date at the SEC Armadillo Glasgow!
The Boys Are Back
Four acts, one unforgettable night! Catch 5ive, A1, Damage and 911 at the SEC Armadillo on February 21st, when they bring you a hit-show full of pop classics!
Model Rail Scotland
21st February 2020 - 23rd February 2020
Model Rail Scotland is the biggest model railway show held in Scotland and is a must for every railway enthusiast!
Down Under Live
22nd February 2020 - 23rd February 2020
Are you wanted Down Under? Do you want to emigrate to Australia or New Zealand? Come and find out how at Down Under Live... Scotland's biggest emigration event!
The Scottish Wedding Show
Save the date as The Scottish Wedding Show, Scotland's largest wedding showcase, is returning to the SEC Glasgow from 22nd - 23rd February 2020!
Michael Ball & Alfie Boe
Michael Ball and Alfie Boe will return in 2020 with their Back Together tour, catch them at The SSE Hydro on February 22nd!
Dream Theatre
Twice Grammy-nominated and millions-selling progressive music titans, Dream Theatre bring their 'An Evening With' tour to the SEC Armadillo Glasgow on Sunday 23rd February!
In support of her new album, Norman F**king Rockwell, Lana Del Rey is bringing her NFR tour to The SSE Hydro, Glasgow on February 28th!
Scottish Cycling, Running & Outdoor Pursuits Show
29th February 2020 - 1st March 2020
The SEC Glasgow plays home to the annual Scottish Cycling, Running & Outdoor Pursuits Show on February 29th and March 1st!
An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Tour
An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Tour is coming to the SEC Armadillo Glasgow on March 1st!
Funbox present Jungle Party
It's time to stop 'lion' around, pack up your 'trunks', be a 'snappy dresser' and get up to some 'monkey business' because FUNBOX are having a JUNGLE PARTY - and you're all invited!
Manchester four piece, The 1975 have announced that they will return to The SSE Hydro Glasgow with their 2020 UK & Ireland tour on 1st March!
Legendary British artist Bryan Ferry will start his 2020 tour in Glasgow at the SEC Armadillo on March 3rd!
Susan Boyle: The TEN Tour
The highly anticipated new tour from Susan Boyle celebrating TEN years is coming to The SSE Hydro Glasgow on Wednesday 4th March!
The Creative Craft Show featuring The Scottish Quilting Show
5th March 2020 - 8th March 2020
The Creative Craft Show returns to the SEC Glasgow between the 5th and 8th of March 2020 and includes The Scottish Quilting Show!
Lewis Capaldi has announced his biggest ever headline shows to date including two nights at The SSE Hydro Glasgow on 5th & 6th March!
Elvis Costello & The Imposters
Elvis Costello & The Imposters are bringing their Just Trust tour to the SEC Armadillo Glasgow on 5th March!
An Evening With Floyd Mayweather
Expect incredible stories from the ring when iconic boxer Floyd Mayweather comes to the SEC Armadillo Glasgow on March 6th!
Multi-platinum, award-winning singer-songwriter Halsey is bringing her 2020 Manic World Tour to The SSE Hydro Glasgow on March 7th with support from Pale Waves.
AJ Live 2020
Strictly favourite and serial semi-finalist AJ Pritchard is back out on the road in 2020 after his debut tour in 2019! Don't miss him at the SEC Armadillo on 7th March!
Allergy and Free From Show Scotland
The Allergy & Free From Show Scotland at the Scottish Event Campus is Europe’s greatest ‘free from’ family day out!
KISSTORY Presents The Blast Off! Tour
With a huge all-star line-up, KISSTORY's The Blast Off Tour! featuring Nelly, Salt N Pepa, Shaggy, Mya and Blu Cantrell is coming to The SSE Hydro on March 8th!
Steve Martin and Martin Short: The Funniest Show in Town at the Moment
Steve Martin and Martin Short will bring their critically acclaimed comedy tour 'The Funniest Show In Town At The Moment' to The SSE Hydro Glasgow on March 9th 2020!
Ahead of his highly anticipated sold out theatre dates, James Arthur has announced a nationwide UK and Ireland arena tour for March 2020 including a date at The SSE Hydro Glasgow!
One of Britain's best live bands, Stereophonics will bring their UK arena tour to The SSE Hydro on March 11th!
Irish pop-rockers The Script have announced a brand new UK headline arena tour which includes a night at The SSE Hydro Glasgow on March 12th!
Critically acclaimed musician and songwriter Jamie Cullum will be taking to the stage for a 2020 tour, catch him at the SEC Armadillo on March 12th!
The Gin To My Tonic Show
13th March 2020 - 15th March 2020
The Gin To My Tonic Show, the ultimate gin festival with unlimited tastings, is returning to the SEC Glasgow between the 13th and 15th March 2020!
Country 2 Country
Country To Country, the UK and Ireland’s largest contemporary country music festival will return to The SSE Hydro featuring Eric Church, Darius Rucker, Luke Combs and more!
Jimmy Carr: Terribly Funny
Join Jimmy Carr for the ultimate comedy show when he brings his new tour, Terribly Funny, to Glasgow's SEC Armadillo in 2020!
Award-winning comedian Trevor Noah has added more UK dates to his Loud & Clear tour including a night at The SSE Hydro Glasgow on March 20th!
Multi-platinum, multi-Brit and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, David Gray is bringing his White Ladder: The 20th Anniversary Tour to The SSE Hydro Glasgow on March 21st!
Rock legends, The Who are back with a full UK arena tour for 2020! Catch them at The SSE Hydro Glasgow on March 23rd!
Iconic guitarist Santana is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Supernatural and the 50th anniversary of Abraxas with a world tour including a night at The SSE Hydro Glasgow on March 26th!
The Scottish Golf Show
What better way to start of your golfing year than with a visit to the Scottish Golf Show at the SEC Glasgow!
Singing I’m No A Billy He’s A Tim 2
Scotland's favourite bigots are back in this hilarious new sequel to Des Dillon's smash hit comedy, Singing I'm No A Billy He's A Tim! Catch it at the SEC Armadillo on April 4th!
Planet Earth II - Live in Concert
The wonders and mysteries of the planet's landscapes and wildlife comes to the stage when Planet Earth II - Live In Concert arrives at The SSE Hydro Glasgow on April 4th!
Rick Astley has announced a greatest hits tour for 2020 including a night at the SEC Armadillo, Glasgow on April 5th!
Pussycat Dolls, the Era defying, chart-topping, button-pushing, mega-group are back! Catch them live at The SSE Hydro Glasgow on April 11th!
The KIDZ BOP World Tour is coming to the UK for 8 fun-packed live concerts in 2020, don't miss it when it comes to the SEC Armadillo Glasgow on April 13th!
The Joe and Dianne Show
Expect music, comedy and of course a little bit of dance in this never-before-seen variety show from Strictly Come Dancing finalists; Joe Sugg and Dianne Buswell.
Disney On Ice presents Magical Ice Festival
16th April 2020 - 19th April 2020
Gear up to enter a world of excitement as Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse bring the most awe-inspiring moments from across the Disney kingdom to Glasgow in Disney On Ice presents Magical Ice Festival!
Beautiful South duo Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott will open their 2020 UK tour at the SEC Armadillo on 16th April!
A Question of Sport
BBC's A Question of Sport, the world's longest running TV sports quiz, will celebrate its 50th anniversary with an all-new live tour which includes a night at the SEC Armadillo on April 17th!
FastLove - A Tribute to George Michael
Relive the passion, the flare and the unique sensitivity of George Michael in this tribute show at the SEC Armadillo Glasgow on Saturday 18th April 2020!
Simple Minds will celebrate 40 iconic years in music by embarking upon a major world tour which will culminate with a homecoming show at The SSE Hydro Glasgow on April 25th!
Enjoy a superb score and supreme musicianship with the ultimate tribute to two country music legends, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers when 'Islands in the Stream' comes to the SEC Armadillo!
Harry Styles has announced a headline UK tour for 2020 including a show at The SSE Hydro on April 26th!
Due to phenomenal demand Within Temptation and Evanescence have added three more dates to the UK leg of their World's Collide tour including a night at The SSE Hydro on April 28th!
McFly are without question one of the most significant British pop acts of the twenty-first century, catch them as they bring their 2020 tour to The SSE Hydro Glasgow on April 29th!
Bon Iver has announced that their innovative ‘i,i’ live show is coming to Europe for the first time next year, including a date at The SSE Hydro on May 1st!
WWE Live
Bursting with all the drama and energy of a rock concert, in a fun, lively and exciting environment, WWE Live is the ultimate in family entertainment, don't miss it at The SSE Hydro on May 3rd!
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have announced a Spring 2020 European and UK tour, catch them at The SSE Hydro on May 5th!
The world's leading darts players will return to The SSE Hydro in Glasgow on May 7th for the 2020 Unibet Premier League!
RuPaul’s Drag Race
The biggest drag show in the world, RuPaul’s Drag Race: Werq The World, is coming to The SSE Hydro, Glasgow on May 8th!
And In The End
The award-winning Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the nation's premier Beatles group, The Bootleg Beatles, join forces to deliver a Beatles experience like no other at the SEC Armadillo!
Elvis Tribute Artist World Tour
The World’s greatest touring Elvis Show featuring Shawn Klush, Dean Z & Cody Ray Slaughter is coming to Glasgow! Catch it at the SEC Armadillo on May 9th!
The world's most successful violinist, Andre Rieu, returns to Glasgow's SSE Hydro for one night only on 9th May 2020!
Jeff Dunham: Seriously!?
Record-breaking, global comedy superstar, Jeff Dunham, is bringing his cast of characters to The SSE Hydro, Glasgow on May 14th!
Open Goal Live
The nation's favourite Scottish Football podcast, Open Goal is coming to the biggest stage in town! Catch it at The SSE Hydro Glasgow on May 16th!
Aussie quartet 5SOS are bringing their #NoShame tour to the UK next year, catch them at The SSE Hydro Glasgow on May 20th!
Strictly Come Dancing: The Professionals
Catch your favourite Pros as they waltz their way across the UK when Strictly Come Dancing: The Professionals tour comes to the SEC Armadillo on June 2nd!
Whitesnake & Foreigner
Legendary artists Whitesnake and Foreigner have announced a date at The SSE Hydro Glasgow on June 4th with support from special guests Europe!
Pet Shop Boys are bringing their first ever greatest hits tour, Dreamworld, to The SSE Hydro Glasgow on June 6th 2020!
Barry Manilow has announced that he will return to the UK in 2020 for a limited number of arena concerts including a night at The SSE Hydro Glasgow on June 7th!
GRAMMY® Award-nominated, multi-platinum and chart-topping singer-songwriter Camila Cabello has announced she is bringing The Romance Tour to The SSE Hydro Glasgow on June 9th!
Dua Lipa: Future Nostalgia Tour
Dua Lipa is bringing her Future Nostalgia tour to The SSE Hydro Glasgow on June 15th!
Accompanied by his own stunning four-piece band, Roger Hodgson will perform all the hits he first recorded with Supertramp along with his other classics at the SEC Armadillo on June 16th!
To the surprise and delight of longtime loyal fans, Crowded House have announced that they will tour Europe in 2020 including a night at The SSE Hydro Glasgow on June 17th!
Thom Yorke has announced a show at the SEC Glasgow on June 19th for Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, the touring entity comprised of Thom, Nigel Godrich and visual artist Tarik Barri!
Diana Ross returns to the UK with an electrifying tour of music, memories and career magic, son't miss her on Saturday 4th July at The SSE Hydro Glasgow!
Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Live Show
10th July 2020 - 11th July 2020
The Award Winning Brendan O’Carroll and Mrs. Brown’s Boys invite you to their brand new production 'Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Live Show' coming to The SSE Hydro Glasgow in July!
The most popular rescue dogs on the planet are returning to Glasgow this Summer! Catch Paw Patrol live at the SEC Armadillo on the 18th and 19th July!
Whether you're a Minecraft fan, a YouTube enthusiast or a casual gamer, join thousands of others for Resonate – The Ultimate Gaming Experience!
Alice Cooper, Joe Perry and Johnny Depp AKA American rock supergroup Hollywood Vampires will return to The SSE Hydro Glasgow on September 3rd!
Set to be one of the most highly anticipated tours of 2020, Stormzy has announced a huge 55-date 'H.I.T.H. World Tour' which includes a night at The SSE Hydro Glasgow on September 10th!
11th September 2020 - 12th September 2020
Global music sensation, Celine Dion will bring her 'Courage World Tour' to The SSE Hydro Glasgow on the 11th and 12th September 2020!
Gary Faulds
Gary Faulds is taking his brand new show on the road in 2020 for his biggest tour to date! Catch him at the SEC Armadillo on September 19th!
Celtic - The Musical
Featuring the songs that have rung round Celtic Park over the years (performed by a live band), Celtic - The Musical tells the amazing story of this legendary club.
Deep Purple will hit The SSE Hydro on October 5th, playing all the hits as well as tracks from their highly anticipated new album!
Simply Red have revealed the details of a highly anticipated 13-date UK and Ireland 2020 arena tour including a date at The SSE Hydro Glasgow on 9th October!
Giants Live World Tour Finals
12 of the STRONGEST men on the planet! 5 EPIC events! 1 JAW-DROPPING Tour Finale! Don't miss the Giants Live World Tour Finals at The SSE Hydro on October 10th!
Grammy Award winning Michael Bolton returns to the UK with his Love Songs Greatest Hits tour, catch him at the SEC Armadillo on October 15th!
After a critically acclaimed HBO special, 180+ million downloads, and a sell-out world tour, the award-winning hit podcast, My Dad Wrote A Porno, is coming to the SEC Armadillo on October 16th 2020!
Our Planet Live In Concert
Narrated by the legendary Sir David Attenborough and hosted by Academy Award Winning composer Steven Price, don't miss Our Planet live in concert at The SSE Hydro on October 19th!
Texas will play The SSE Hydro, Glasgow on October 17th to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their debut album Southside!
Elton John - Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour
24th November 2020 - 25th November 2020
Elton John has announced the first 2020 UK dates of his colossal Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour - coming to The SSE Hydro Glasgow on 24th and 25th November 2020!
Marking three decades as one of Britain's finest rock acts, Thunder will visit the SEC Armadillo Glasgow on 27th November 2020 with special guests Ugly Kid Joe!
The Australian Pink Floyd
The critically acclaimed Australian Pink Floyd Show returns to The SSE Hydro Glasgow on Saturday 28th November!
Lost In Music - One Night at the Disco
Relive some of the greatest songs of all time from artists such as Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Earth, Wind & Fire, Sister Sledge and Chic when Lost In Music comes to the SEC Armadillo!
Deacon Blue will round off their huge 2020 tour of Europe at The SSE Hydro Glasgow on Friday 4th December!
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Iris DeMent and Pieta Brown
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Bounce and Rhyme
NA, Various Locations Glasgow
Bounce and Rhyme are free and fun sessions for parents, carers and children Two or under held weekly in several Glasgow Libraries!
The Big Fling - Scottish Dance Band Extravaganza
Take your seats, please, for 'The Big Fling', the latest in Celtic Connections' celebrated series of traditional terpsichorean extravaganzas, hosted by a lavish line-up of top talents in the field!
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SWG3 Studio Warehouse Glasgow, Glasgow West End
Bongo's Bingo are putting on a special event at SWG3 Glasgow to help raise awareness for mental health on what is commonly dubbed as being the most miserable day of the year!
Light Bulb - An Alternative Comedy Showcase
Blackfriars, Glasgow City Centre
Come down to Blackfriars and witness comedy history with Light Bulb - An Alternative Comedy Showcase!
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Lyric Club presents Legally Blonde
The Lyric Club are back and proud to present this fabulously fun award-winning musical based on the adored movie, Legally Blonde The Musical!
Ceilidh in the Courtyard
Do you know your Dashing White Sergeant from your Eightsome Reel? Princes Square will be holding a FREE family ceilidh to celebrate Burns Day on 25th January and everyone's invited!
Glasgow Central Station Tours
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Blochairn Car Boot Sale
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Paliperidone palmitate is a long-acting injectable formulation of paliperidone palmitoyl ester indicated for once-every 28 days injection after an initial titration period. Paliperidone is a dopamine antagonist and 5-HT2A antagonist of the atypical antipsychotic class of medications. Paliperidone is used to treat mania and at lower doses as maintenance for bipolar disorder. It is also indicated in the US by the FDA for schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. Invega is an extended release formulation of paliperidone that uses the OROS extended release system to allow for once-daily dosing.
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Paliperidone is the primary active metabolite of the older antipsychotic risperidone. While its specific mechanism of action is unknown, it is believed paliperidone and risperidone act via similar, if not identical, pathways.
Formal Chemical Name (IUPAC)
3-(2-(4-(6-fluorobenzo[d]isoxazol-3-yl)piperidin-1-yl)ethyl)-2-methyl-4-oxo-6,7,8,9-tetrahydro-4H-pyrido[1,2-a]pyrimidin-9-yl palmitate
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The 1920 federal census indicates that Westport’s population was just more than 3,000 persons and included 677 residents classified as “foreign-born.” An additional 966 persons were recorded as American citizens born of “foreign or mixed” parents. The town was comprised of 759 families living in 724 homes (Hunt 1922). Town records provide more specific information on the ethnic makeup of Westport. In 1924, the tax rolls included 2,237 people, of which 145 were of Portuguese descent and 137 of French descent. Four years later, the 2,135 taxpayers included 231 Portuguese-descent and 391 French-descent individuals. Together, these two groups comprised nearly 30 percent of the town’s 1928 population (Ledoux 1995:33, 35). The ethnic heritage of the community, especially in northern Westport, is evident in the recollections of a local French Canadian historian, who did not speak English when he arrived with his family as a teenager in Westport. He notes that many other students, merchants and teachers spoke fluent French and were able to bridge the gap while he adapted to English (Ledoux 1995:36).
The advent of the internal combustion engine fueled the transformation of Westport from a predominantly “Yankee” community to one of relative ethnic and economic diversity. As automobiles became the primary mode of transportation, a network of paved roads, bridges, and interstate highways was developed and the town began to experience population growth tied to its popularity as a resort community. A causeway to Gooseberry Neck was built in 1924, opening that area to tourists and residents alike.
All of these construction efforts, however, were decimated by the hurricane of 1938. The storm wiped out virtually the entire communities at Horseneck Beach and Westport Harbor, destroyed hundreds of homes and killed 22 people. Other severe hurricanes in 1944 and 1954 wiped out subsequent rebuilding efforts on Horseneck Beach. Despite these economic setbacks, the general prosperity following World War II ensured steady development farther inland.
Population growth also was spurred by emigration from surrounding communities. The development of New Bedford and Fall River into industrial powerhouses during the early twentieth century led to an influx of French-Canadian and Portuguese working-class families looking for reasonably priced homes outside of the urban centers. The growth of summer tourism during this period and the corresponding need for domestic help likely added to the number of foreign-born residents living in Westport. The increased population called for the construction and implementation of many new town buildings and services. Prominent among these new developments was the establishment of the Factory School, the hiring of a town police chief and sergeant, and the creation of the Board of Welfare (Maiocco 1995). By 1950, Westport had approximately 4,500 residents, a prosperous economy, and a diverse social, economic, and cultural profile.
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November 12, 2006 By Aaron Johnston
As noted in a previous post, I only recently saw the second Godfather movie. What prompted my seeing it was the audiobook of the novel The Goodfather by Mario Puzo, which I had been listening to and only just finished. The audiobook was a full cast reading. Most audiobooks are read by a single narrator, but a few rare gems use a full cast of actors to play the role of every character in the novel. The effect is like listening to a movie, and I mean that as a compliment. It’s easy to follow the dialogue because you grow accustomed to the actors’ voices. And since each of them insert their own unique performance into their respective roles, you get more emotion and delivery than is often heard from a single voice.
The Godfather deserves to be the great classic it has become, but in my opinion, this is one instance in which the movie (or movies, plural, since the second Godfather movie also came from the book) is better than the novel. Puzo takes too many tangents, following minor characters and their respective plights rather than sticking closely with the Corleone family wherein lies the heart of the story. The most frequent tangents follow Johnny Fontaine, the crooner/movie star who is supposedly based on Frank Sinatra. I kept wanting to speed-listen through these parts and get back to the real story.
But Puzo is a master of narrative drive. He kept me going with the anticipation of something about to happen. Video games use the same principal: put the gamer through a scenario that will take him nearly to the limit of his tolerance, than introduce a new obstacle. It keeps players going for hours. And Puzo can establish an impending action with a single sentence at the end of the chapter. He won’t let you stop reading . . . or in my case, stop listening.
The Godfather will always remain a masterwork of storytelling. It’s a great saga. Few authors can make such sinister people so endearing and so worth following. And the tension is palpable. When Michael Corleone kills Sollozzo and the police captain in the Italian restaurant, I was on the edge of my seat. The audiobook scene was just as riveting as the scene in the film.
The biggest negative of the novel, however, is that Puzo spends far too much time on sex. Everybody has sex. And it’s not enough to simply insinuate that they do or even say that they do. Puzo has to describe the sex act with vivid and graphic detail. He’s not content simply telling us they had sex. He has to tell us what TYPE of sex they had. I found myself rolling my eyes and reaching for the fast forward button more times than I cared for. It gave me the sense that Puzo was a perverted old man, which probably isn’t true. Puzo was just a product of his time; The Godfather was written at the height of the sexual revolution, after all. Not that books didn’t depict sex before then, but I doubt they did to the same degree. Anyway, despite the abundance of the nasty, The Godfather is quiate possibly the greatest crime novel of all time. And if you’re going to take a stab at, I suggest the audiobook cast recording.
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The Motor Sports Association (MSA) and the Association of British Kart Clubs (ABkC) have entered negotiations with LeCont as the preferred supplier of tyres to the KZ2 & KZ UK classes from 2018-20.
The slick tyre will be the Prime LP, which showed impressive performance and durability during testing; it is expected that lap times will drop to a level commensurate with the prestigious status of the classes. The retail prices will be £153 for a set of slicks and £171 for a set of wets, including VAT.
Zip Kart, the UK distributor and agents for LeCont, will provide a substantial rewards package – with a value of more than £21,000 over the agreed period – to the promoters of the MSA British Championship for KZ2 and ABkC Super 4 Championship for KZ UK.
John Ryan, MSA Technical Director and Chairman of the Selection Panel, said: “We were very pleased with the interest from the tyre manufacturers and the quality of all their proposals. We ran a comprehensive testing programme for all tyres on the shortlist at two different circuits; the data gave us a clear choice and we are confident that the LeCont LP Prime tyre will be ideal for both KZ2 and KZ UK classes.”
Grant Munro, Managing Director of Zip Kart said: “We are delighted that the MSA and ABkC have chosen LeCont as the KZ tyre for the next three years and we look forward to working closely with the championship promoters and clubs running the formula. I would add that our colleagues at LeCont in Italy are also determined to make all efforts for a smooth transition and satisfy completely our UK market.”
George Robinson, Chairman of the ABkC, said: “I am confident that this tyre will be a great fit for the ABkC KZ UK class and provide an exciting prospect for our drivers.”
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Posted on May 19th, 2017 by: admin
By Sgt. Dan Polier
You probably won’t believe it, but Ernie Lombardi, the Giants’ catcher, was rejected for military service because an Army psychiatrist said he was afraid of crowds. Maybe, as somebody has suggested, the psychiatrist ought to go to a psychiatrist.
…Al Schact, the baseball funny man, is back home from his overseas tour with this observation: “All the German prisoners looked alike to me. They all look like umpires.”…Max Baer says his corporal’s pay is only peanuts to him because he draws $1,000 a month from those annuities he bought when he was champ. Baer, by the way, has another son, making a total of two little Baers…The Giants have offered Lefty Gomez a contract for next year…
Yep, that’s Maxie Baer. Only now he’s Cpl. Baer, a physical instructor in the Fourth Air Service Command. Here he shows GIs at Tinker Field, Okla., the fine art of wrestling as Brother Buddy (right) looks on.
Babe Dahlgren of the Phillies was probably the most versatile man in the majors this year. He played first, second, third, short and even caught a few games.
This is one of the better stories on Bronko Nagurski, who returns to pro football this year with the Chicago Bears. During the Minnesota-Pittsburgh game, a Pitt lineman collided with The Bronk and suffered a broken collar bone. The next week end, the Pitt team was on the road and the injured lineman was taken along just for the ride. The train made a sudden stop, shaking up all the passengers and tossing luggage all over the car. The injured lineman became panicky and ran up and down the aisle, yelling: “Run for your lives! It’s Nagurski!”
Jumping Joe Savoldi, the former heavy-weight wrestling champion and one of Knute Rockne’s All-Americans at Notre Dame, has turned up in the Mediterranean Theater as commander of a PT boat. Just before the armistice with Italy was signed, his craft sank a 6,000-ton Italian transport…Herman Hickman, Army’s ponderous 300-pound line coach, is another ex-All-American (Tennessee) who was persuaded to go into professional wrestling after leaving college. But he’s proud of one distinction. “I was never forced to become the champion,” he boasts.
…Take it from Dizzy Dean, the Army made “a tremendous boner” when they rejected him because of a punctured eardrum. “If they had only tooken me in,” Dizzy said, “this here war would be over in less time than I ever spent listening to a speech by Branch Rickey.”
The idea of taking two teams of major-league players to entertain the GIs in the South Pacific Theater isn’t new. In fact, it’s as old as the last war. In 1918 John Mcgraw was organizing two all-star teams to tour France when the armistice came along and cancelled his plans. Judge Landis, who is responsible for the current tour, says he doesn’t know who first thought up the idea. “Take the Washington Stadium here,” he told YANK’S Washington correspondent, “fill up the bleachers and seats and put someone on every lap. Then fill up the field and stand someone on every man’s shoulders and then you get an idea of the number of people who say they thought it up first. The only thing I’m sure of is that it wasn’t me.
The Kentucky Derby is still a long way off, but you might paste the name of Ben Jones’ colt Pensive in your cap for future reference. He can fly around other horses just like Whirlaway used to do…Don’t be surprised if the big leagues decide to call it quits after this season. That new pre-Pearl Harbor father-draft law figures to wreck just about every team in the majors…The Navy football team might turn out to be the real stunner in the East. A couple of patriotic congressmen have just appointed Don Whitmire, an All-Southeastern Conference tackle from Alabama and Don Jenkins, another Alabama player, to Annapolis…Col. Gar Davidson, one of the West Point’s best known football coaches, is serving on Gen. Patton’s Seventh Army staff in Sicily.
Maybe somebody can tell the Poster Lameducks, an Aleutian softball team, whether they really hold the worst record of any team in or out of Alaska. “We finished in a tie for last place in our post season, losing 22 straight games, 19 of them shutouts,” they write. “We had the bases loaded 18 times without scoring. While our pitchers limited the opponents to an average of six hits per game, which more than evened things up”…And from Camp Livingston, La., there comes a challenge for any camp to top this record: “Our baseball team ended the season with 39 victories against 9 losses. It won the Louisiana Semi-Professional championship and the championship of the USO Alexandria Military League. The 113th Engineers, representing our camp, copped the Southwest regional softball championship at New Orleans, winning the title without dropping a game in the tournament.
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Prof. Dr. Michael M. Wolf, Prof. Dr. Robert König
Time & Location: Thursdays, 14.15-15.45, Seminarraum M5 (03.10.011). First meeting on April 14. No meetings on May 26 (holiday) and June 9 (absence).
List of topics and suggested references
Hilbert space, bounded, self-adjoint, unitary and positive operators, spectral theorem, trace, trace class operators. (14.4.)
Dirac notation, pure and mixed states, purity, density operators, Bloch sphere. (21.4.)
Measurements: observables, POVMs, Born's rule/postulate, post-measurement states (collapse) and quantum Zeno effect, informationally complete measurements and state tomography. (28.4.)
Uncertainty relations and joint measurability. (12.5.)
Tensor products, composite systems, partial trace, Schmidt decomposition, purification. (19.5.)
Product, separable and entangled states. Entanglement witnesses. LOCC operations, definition of entanglement measures. (2.6.)
Polytope of classical (local hidden variable) correlations, quantum correlations, classical and quantum values of games, Bell inequalities, Tsirelson bound. (16.6.)
Unitary and non-unitary dynamics, quantum channels (complete positivity), one-parameter groups and generators, Schrödinger equation. [16] (23.6.)
Choi-Jamiolkowski isomorphism, Stinespring dilation, Naimark's theorem. (30.6.)
Teleportation, dense coding, no-cloning, no-signaling, impossible machines. [11,14] (7.7.)
Fidelity, entropies, Fannes' inequality, strong subadditivity. [2,4,7,12]
Schumacher compression, Holevo-Schumacher-Westermoreland theorem. [18]
Quantum capacity, zero-capacity channels, superactivation. [18,13]
Suggested references are as follows: References [5,10,15] give general background material on quantum information/computation. References [1,9,17] cover most of the mathematical concepts necessary for topics 1-9. Additional topic-specific references are given in the list above.
R. Alicki and M. Fannes, Quantum dynamical systems, Oxford University Press, 2001.
K. Audenaert, A Sharp Fannes-type Inequality for the von Neumann Entropy, 2006.
M. Fannes, A continuity property of the entropy density for spin lattice systems, Comm. Math. Phys., Vol. 31, No. 4, 291-294 (1973).
E. Lieb and M. Ruskai, Proof of the strong subadditivity of quantum-mechanical entropy, J. Math. Phys. 14, 1938 (1973)
M. A. Nielsen, I. L. Chuang, Quantum computation and quantum information, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
D. Gottesman, An Introduction to Quantum Error Correction and Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation, 2009
M. Junge, R. Renner, D. Sutter, M. Wilde and A. Winter, Universal recovery from a decrease of quantum relative entropy, 2015
R. Horodecki, P. Horodecki, M. Horodecki and K. Horodecki, Quantum entanglement, Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 865-942, 2009.
M. Keyl, Fundamentals of Quantum Information Theory, Phys. Rep. 369, 431-548, 1999-2015
J. Preskill, Quantum Computation, Lecture Notes, 2015.
R. F. Werner, All teleportation and dense coding schemes, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 34 7081, 2001.
M. Ruskai, Another short and elementary proof of strong subadditivity of quantum entropy, Rep. Math. Phys., vol. 60, no. 1, August 2007, Pages 1-12
G. Smith, Quantum Channel Capacities, 2010
R. F. Werner, Optimal Cloning of Pure States, 1998.
R. F. Werner, Quantum Information Theory - an Invitation, 2001.
M. Wolf, Quantum Channels and Operations, Lecture Notes, 2012.
M. Wolf, Quantum effects, Lecture Notes, 2014.
M. Wilde, Quantum Information Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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[b]Britain's answer to separatism – Lessons for us[/b]
By Vasantha Raja
President Rajapakse's recent comments on the British-model of power devolution have provoked a healthy debate. He has vaguely expressed his willingness to follow the British way to pacify separatism within a unitary setup. Interestingly, many commentators from both sides have responded negatively. 'British circumstances are different; therefore inappropriate for us' is the crux of their arguments.
True, we cannot dig up the British solution to separatism and arbitrarily impose it on our soil. Two decades of war and deep-rooted distrust would not permit that. But never underestimate the significant lessons we can learn from our former colonial ruler. After all, the British were the original architects of our state structures in their own image - though the British themselves had to dramatically modify their system as recently as the turn of the 20th century to conciliate a similar problem to ours: separatism.
The Scottish National Party was openly campaigning for a separate state, and it was gaining significant electoral victories in Scotland on that demand. Thanks to embedded democratic traditions in Britain the Scottish struggle did not develop into an armed conflict. The London government did not outlaw the SNP; it did not prohibit anybody from campaigning on separatism; and, it did not send an English army to occupy Scotland. If it did, the Scottish movement would undoubtedly have taken the war path and the SNP would have ended up as the ‘British LTTE’.
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2019 – March to Art: Narratives
2019 – Territory Tribute
2018 – From War: Their Stories
2018 – International Veterans Arts Exhibition (IVAE18)
2018 – A March to Art: Community
2017 – A March to Art: Identity
A Five Year Journey
On this day in 2013 ANVAM’s founders were first introduced to the former Repatriation Commission Outpatient Clinic at 310 St Kilda Rd (310SKR), Southbank, while searching for a place to run community art programs for veterans.
As it turned out, 310SKR was the perfect place to think big about making a real difference to veterans’ wellbeing through the establishment of a cultural institution incorporating galleries, performances, studios, archives and more.
Investigations into 310SKR’s background revealed a place steeped in history and heritage for veterans’ health and wellbeing. Built in 1937 for WWI veterans, it catered for over 1,000 veterans each week.
It has also been witness to veterans from all wars, theatres and campaigns from Gallipoli, and even the Boer War, through to the Vietnam War. It seemed appropriate in 2013, some two years ahead of the Centenary of the landings at Gallipoli, to seek to preserve this site and to operate it in its original purpose; the wellbeing of veterans. Six Ministers for Veterans’ Affairs later (Snowdon, Ronaldson, Robert, Tehan, McCormack & Chester) and the Centenary of WWI almost complete, 310SKR remains in place without an outcome.
The team at ANVAM remains committed to realising the vision of creating a unique cultural institution supporting veterans and families. In doing so it will shine a light on the impact veterans have had on Australia’s national culture and identity; an impact that in its own right deserves prominent recognition that 310SKR would provide.
In Melbourne alone the city is awash with permanent public art by veterans from WWI and WWII (Waller, Bass, Nolan, Anderson, Bowles & Ewers).
As we look forward to a positive outcome for 310SKR we note the supportive words of the Prime Minister and Minister for Veterans’ Affairs that offer hope for their ongoing support:
“The best way to honour the courage and sacrifice of the diggers of WWI is to support the servicemen and women, the veterans and the families of today.” Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP, Prime Minister.
“The Turnbull Government is committed to putting veterans and their families at the centre of everything that we do.” Hon Darren Chester MP, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs.
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Former Celtic Kenny Anderson launches inspiring kids book series about his childhood
Fandom to friendship, authorship to published. This is a true story of how I befriended former Boston Celtics point guard and NYC hoops legend Kenny Anderson, and how our friendship turned into the launch of a 7-part children's book series that tells the tale of Kenny's childhood -- The Adventures of Lil' Kenny.
Saturday, July 8, 2017 - NBA Summer League - Las Vegas, Nevada.
As a die-hard Celtics fan and LA native (that's another story for another day), I've never needed an excuse to cruise through the desert and across Nevada's state line. But when the NBA pinned the Celtics versus our arch nemesis, the Los Angeles Lakers, for a Summer League matchup, my arrival in Sin City was a foregone conclusion.
After the game which saw Celtics young phenom Jayson Tatum drop 27 points en route to a comeback victory, my friend and I decided to hit the Wynn for a drink or two. As we waited for the bar hostess to seat us, my friend tapped my shoulder. "Hey, man, check it out." he said. I looked up and saw a 6'10" frame comfortably seated. It was none other than former Celtics forward Walter McCarty.
At that time, Walter was one of Brad Stevens' assistants; he was also the Summer League squad's head coach. Smoking a victory cigar a la the beloved Cs patriarch, Red Auerbach, McCarty blew smoke in the air while chatting it up with Celtics beat writer Marc D'Amico and a few others. Naturally, I wanted to meet him. But I didn't want to be "that guy."
Thankfully, he looked up in my direction. He spotted my vintage '84-'85 Celtics championship t-shirt, nodding with approval. "Hey, Walter," I said. "I'm a big fan - you think it would be cool if I come shake your hand?" "Yeah, of course," the current University of Evansville men's coach replied. I walked to his table which was only about 6-feet away from mine. We exchanged pleasantries, along with a story of how my dad would yell, "I love Walter too!" each time Celtics' legend/color commentator Tommy Heinsohn would famously exclaim "I looooove Waltaaaaaah!" whenever Walter would make a big play.
Not wanting to overstay my welcome, I went back to sit with my friend. A few minutes later, after lighting a cigar of my own, I heard Walter call over to me, asking if I was "smoking an Avo," referring to the cigars made by Avo Uvezian. Turns out Big Walt, when he wasn't coaching, was quite the cigar connoisseur. I mean, he was able to identify my cigar merely by catching a whiff in the casino air. Impressive.
A simple question about my smoke of choice led to one of the coolest moments in my life -- sitting with Walter McCarty, talking about the Celtics while having a cigar. Red would've been proud. I know my dad was.
Now, right about now, you're probably asking: what's this got to do with Kenny and kid's books? Well, I'm glad you asked. You see, the next day I followed Walter on Twitter. I sent him a note thanking him for his time and for being so cool with me, a random fan. Around lunch that day is when the dominoes really began to fall -- in a good way.
As it turns out, Walter wasn't the only cigar lover on the 2002 Celtics roster. Kenny Anderson, aka Mr. Chibbs, aka NYC Point God, was too. Over the next several weeks post-Vegas, I would see Walter and Kenny tweeting at each other, asking one another what cigar they were going to smoke that day.
My guy R&B @waltermccarty what are you smoking today #cigarlife pic.twitter.com/WmO96zFDTX
— Kenny Anderson (@chibbs_1) August 30, 2017
As a big fan of Kenny's pre- and during his Celtics run, I wanted to introduce myself. After all, he was one of my favorite players.
One day, Kenny tweeted out a picture of himself having a smoke. So, I decided to reply.
My guy I do lol hahaha my guy
— Kenny Anderson (@chibbs_1) August 9, 2017
What followed was a series of tweets, DMs, and eventually texts and calls with the former #2 overall pick in the 1991 NBA Draft.
One of those calls was to invite me to Boston to catch a game against the Knicks, followed by a small cigar event he was having for his cigar club -- the My Guy Cigar Club. I gladly accepted and booked my flight to Boston. The night before the game, I ventured to "the spot," where Kenny's event would take place the following evening - Stanza Dei Sigari in the North End. I tweeted at Kenny and Walter to let them know I was in town. While Kenny was still in route, Walter was around the corner. Minutes later, there I was, re-creating my Vegas encounter with Big Walt, only in his backyard.
The next morning, Kenny reached out to see what I was up to. I should preface this by saying, prior to my arrival, Kenny and I spoke of shooting some hoops together. Well, he's a man of his word. One minute I'm drinking some Dunkin' coffee, the next I'm in Boston University, playing H.O.R.S.E. with one of the greatest point guards the basketball world has ever seen.
Me and my guy @bojixbabaian playing horse in beantown! pic.twitter.com/A42rHhAG8I
— Kenny Anderson (@chibbs_1) October 24, 2017
I'll save you the suspense -- and the shock -- I lost, H-O-R-S-E to H-O. The man didn't lose his jumper. Again, not surprisingly.
After our game, we ventured off to Watertown, MA. for, you guessed it, a cigar. While enjoying a stick from the My Father collection, Kenny and I chatted up about life, both mine and his. As he autographed one of his jerseys for me, we spoke of many other topics, including my father who introduced me to basketball -- and to the Celtics. I told Kenny how much my dad loved watching him play. I even told him about his illness. He responded with genuine care and a heartfelt, "I'll be praying for him."
Shortly thereafter, Kenny received a phone call. After hanging up, he said, "Walt's on his way." I played it cool, but inside I was like, "what the hell is happening here? A few months ago I was in Vegas to see the Celtics play, now I'm in Boston having a cigar with Kenny after shooting hoops with him? And Walter McCarty is on his way too?" Freaking pinch me, man. That's what I felt. That's what I still feel.
Kenny signing my jersey.
The three of us. I'm the short one.
So, Walt joined us and we all smoked. As the two former teammates took the opportunity to catch up, I happily sat back, chiming in every once in a while. Soon thereafter, we all parted ways to get ready for the evening's festivities -- watching the Celtics smash the New York Knicks in TD Garden, 110-89. Post-game celebrations were held at the aforementioned North End cigar shop where there the air was filled with as much laughter as smoke.
Kenny and me enjoying his night in the North End.
Former Celtics teammates, both pivotal in one of the greatest comebacks in ECF history.
After getting back to LA, while at work, I received a phone call. It was Kenny. "My guy, just wanted to make sure you got back home OK. You good?" he asked. I was floored. I mean, I had spent enough time with him to know he's as sincere as they come, but I wasn't expecting this. I also wasn't expecting this friendship to turn into a business venture. But it did.
While chatting one day in mid-2018, Kenny asked me what I was up to. I responded by telling him about new developments in my copywriting career. I also let him know I was working on a children's book series. He was very encouraging, saying, "that's awesome, my guy. Good luck with that."
What followed is what prompted all of this.
"I always wanted to write a kid's book about my life, my childhood in Lefrak," Kenny said.
I leaped at the opportunity.
"Man, let's do it. I'm your guy," I told him.
The next day, we hopped on the phone and he proceeded to tell me how he discovered basketball. That his sister would take him to the park to get away from the dangers of his neighborhood. And one day, while his sister sat on the bleachers, she handed him (all of 7 or 8 at the time) a basketball. At first, he chucked the ball towards the basket, barely drawing iron. But before he knew it, like a duck to water, he started hitting shot after shot. He was a natural.
Fast-forward several months and the first book in the 7-part series is out in the world. A true labor of love between a fan (now friend) and one of the all-time greats. It's a fairy tale story, only it's not fiction.
Introducing The Adventures of Lil' Kenny: Vol. 1 - Kenny Finds Basketball. It's available for purchase on Amazon - free shipping with Amazon prime.
Each book in the series not only tells Kenny's adventures of basketball, but also teaches children a valuable life lesson -- like practice, discipline, commitment, teamwork, and more. Kenny's goal is to give back -- to help everyone he can. That's why he's the Head Coach of the Fisk University Men's Bulldogs in Nashville. It's why he's on the blacktop coaching his son every chance he gets. It's why we wrote these books. It's not a cliche -- Kenny just wants to do good, giving back to everyone he can, however he can.
Well, that's my story. What started as a friendly tweet turned into a real friendship. One that had me sitting in Kenny's Florida home, watching his alma mater Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets play on ESPN before we headed to his garage for a post-game cigar break.
I bless my guy with the @celtics shirts @bojixbabaian pic.twitter.com/f0muqEh35u
— Kenny Anderson (@chibbs_1) February 11, 2018
Kenny generously gifted me with a pair of his actual game shorts.
We are smoking my guy @bojixbabaian pic.twitter.com/kEDuVbycbX
It became the kind of relationship that had Kenny calling to console me after he learned my father had passed. One that saw me frantically contacting his wife and best friend after hearing Kenny had suffered a stroke several months ago. Ya know, the way real friends do.
Thankfully, Kenny is doing great these days. Following doctor's orders he's back to his jovial, happy-go-lucky self, tweeting "good morning" along with motivational quotes and scriptures on a daily.
They say never meet your heroes - but I'm glad I did. And it's one of the greatest things that's ever happened to me.
Special thanks to Kenny for his friendship and for the opportunity to go on this ride with him. To my father (who's undoubtedly smiling from above), who I've dedicated this book to. To the unbelievably supportive, loving families and friends of both Kenny and me who cheered us on along the way. To Walter McCarty. To everyone who has already purchased the book, and for those who plan to do so. Last but not least, special shoutout to CelticsLife alum and Celtics Wire writer, Justin "Dr. J" Quinn for spreading the good word with his USA Today article. Thank you all.
HOW TO GET THE BOOK
Available via Amazon or e-book.
Learn more about Kenny Anderson by watching his documentary - Mr. Chibbs: The Kenny Anderson Story on Amazon.
Follow Edward Babaian on Twitter: @bojixbabaian
Follow Kenny Anderson on Twitter: @chibbs_1
Photo Credit: Edward Babaian and my iPhone.
Book illustrations by Joshua Timmons.
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Is Tacko Fall worth an NBA roster spot?
In a league where there are only 450 players on NBA rosters at a time, players need to have a unique skill set and provide value to their respective teams. There are a lot of great basketball players in the world, but only the elite are privileged enough to be apart of the Association.
Tacko Fall is a lightning rod due to his 7'6" frame. His standing reach is 10'2" and he can practically dunk a ball without leaving his feet. He received a lot of notoriety in this past NCAA tournament for keeping #1 pick Zion Williamson in check as his team pushed Duke to the buzzer before Zion made an impressive tip-in for the win.
Since then, Tacko went through the NBA combine and individual team workouts in preparation for the draft. Even with his unique god-given gift of being tall, he was not drafted by an NBA team in the 2019 NBA Draft. He quickly signed an Exhibit-10 contract and played for the Celtics in the Las Vegas Summer League, where he continued to make waves for his impressive stature and surprising play.
What stood out to me in the Summer League was that, although he is extremely big, he moves well for a guy that size. He runs the floor adequately and is not a stiff like you'd imagine. He looks like an athlete. Some of these big guys look like Bambi on ice, but you don't see that with Tacko.
Again, every NBA team passed on him on draft night (including the Celtics) so there is a simple case to be made that he is not to be viewed as an NBA player. But as Ben Rohrbach tweeted out recently, at least on Celtics staffer feels that he has a shot to stick around.
Asked a Celtics staffer if Tacko Fall is an NBA player. The response: “I think he’s worth an investment for sure. If he improves this season anywhere close to his improvement the last few months then I think it’s hard to argue against him.” He’s been in Boston working all week.
— Ben Rohrbach (@brohrbach) July 21, 2019
There is no guarantee that he is on an NBA roster this year, but there are two-way contract opportunities, as well as the ability to stash him in the G-League. I'm also sure that he will get offers for bigger money than a G-League contract to play overseas, so it begs the question: Is Tacko Fall an NBA player right now?
I'd love to see him stick around with the Celtics, but as the NBA rules go, a G-League player can be "stolen" by another NBA team if he is put on their 15-man NBA roster.
With the Celtics having 14 guaranteed contracts, a partially guaranteed contract for Javonte Green, and Max Strus and Tremont Waters eating up the two 2-way deals, where does Tacko Fall fit in? Will he accept a G-League offer or will he try to end up on an NBA roster elsewhere? If I'm a bottom-dwelling team, I'd be inclined to take the flier to develop him and maybe sell a few more tickets.
The risk for the Celtics to lose the player is very real if they don't sign him to the 15th roster spot. I wouldn't mind for the Celtics to go into the season with 14 players, as they have in the past, but we're likely going to see Javonte Green and Tacko Fall battle it out for that final roster spot.
My view is that he does deserve to be on an NBA roster. Although I don't see any All-Star games in his future, you don't want to let him be the one that got away. The only way to ensure that is to give him an NBA contract. There's no rush, though. See what it looks like in camp when he's playing with other NBA veterans, but there is definitely value in keeping him in the pipeline as a developmental player.
The Celtics have the luxury of easing him into action. Even with an NBA contract, he'd be getting a lot of valuable minutes for the Maine Red Claws, one would imagine. Start simple with him. His value is going to be rim protection, screen-setting, and rim running.
You'd also expect him to be a solid rebounder at that height. In his career at Central Florida, where he was a raw player learning the game, his career offensive rebounding percentage was 13.9%. Last year in the NBA, that would have ranked him sixth in the league around the likes of Clint Capela, Jusuf Nurkic and Rudy Gobert. Although his defensive rebounding percentage of 22.6% would not have had him the elite NBA category, he would have slid in around other NBA rotational players - Al-Farouq Aminu, Mason Plumlee, Javale McGee, John Collins and Myles Turner. The competition is about to become a lot stiffer for Tacko Fall, but this isn't a bad barometer.
If there is an immediate role for him on this year's team, I can see it being as a "special teams" player in low clock defensive situations - guarding inbounders and protecting the rim with a second-or-so left. He could also be an option or decoy on offensive late clock situations. You know Brad Stevens will have a play drawn up to throw it up to him above the rim for a last second tip-in. Those plays can help you win a game or two, but all the while his main contribution will be stapling himself to the bench learning to become an NBA player. Early reports are that he has decent basketball IQ, which will go a long way in a speedier development as well.
I want to see him stick around because he will be a fan favorite and fun to follow. Although that's cute, its not all ice cream and rainbows in the cutthroat business of professional sport. But it feels like he has a starter pack of tools that he was born with that can justify the basketball decision as well.
I'm itching for the nights where the crowd is chanting "Tacko! Tacko!" for "Tacko Time" in Celtics blowouts. Here's to hoping there's many of those.
I think I just talked myself into rocking the Tacko Time t-shirt at this weekend's cookout. Get yours here and send me a pic on Twitter @Mike_Auc for a follow and retweet!
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Hello there & thanks for popping by!
Today I have this set of three cards to share with you..
..I actually made them a while ago but haven't been able to share them as they were a design project for Craft Stash.
Obviously you can buy all the dies over on the crafts stash website - but what I really think makes these cards stand out is the paper & embellishments - I used the Simple Stories 'Say Cheese' collection & I think it worked perfectly with these movie themed dies :)
WOW these are such vibrant cards Clair. I love them.
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What are IRB and ERC?
Institutional review board (IRB) is a committee that review, approve, and monitor clinical trial. The primary goal of IRB is to protect the right and safety of human subjects who participate in clinical trial. Ethics review committee (ERC) is the term used for IRB for countries outside the United States. In your clinical research career, working with IRB and ERC will be a part of your work to conduct clinical trial(s) at site(s).
FDA 21 CFR 56.102 defines IRB as: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=56.102
Institutional Review Board (IRB) means any board, committee, or other group formally designated by an institution to review, to approve the initiation of, and to conduct periodic review of, biomedical research involving human subjects. The primary purpose of such review is to assure the protection of the rights and welfare of the human subjects. The term has the same meaning as the phrase institutional review committee as used in section 520(g) of the act.
Institution vs Centralized IRB
IRB can be a part of an institution or centralized. IRBs that are affiliated to an institution often serve only that institution. Centralized IRBs (also known as independent IRBs) do not have affiliation to any institution. Centralized IRBs can review, approve, and monitor any clinical trials that are within the geographical area under their regulatory allowance. One of the largest centralized IRBs is Western Institutional Review Board (WIRB) (Puyallup, WA, USA).
FDA requires that IRB (21 CFR 56.107): http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=56.107
Have 5 or more members with different
Backgrounds, experience, and expertise.
Diversity (race, gender, cultural backgrounds, community attitudes).
The members must include persons knowledgeable in terms of institutional commitments and regulations, applicable law, and standards of professional conduct and practice.
For example, if the IRB reviews clinical trial that involves a vulnerable population (e.g children, prisoners, pregnant women, etc.), the IRB should have members who have working knowledge about the subject group.
Efforts should be made to ensure that the members include:
Both men and women (as long as selection is not based on gender alone).
At least one member who has scientific expertise to evaluate the clinical trial.
At least one member who is non-scientific.
At least one member who is not affiliated with the institution and is not part of the immediate family of a person affiliated with the institution.
Member who has conflict of interest may provide information but may not make decision (member cannot vote on his/her own clinical trial).
Advices from expert can be used in decision making, but expert advisor may not vote with the IRB.
IRB Functions and Operations
Follow written procedures in all review, approval, and oversight of clinical trial.
Review clinical trial at regular meetings with majority of the members attending, including at least one non-scientific member.
One exception to the above procedure is when the clinical trial under review may be qualified for expedited review procedures (see 21 CFR 56.110) where FDA allows each IRB to use a procedure that does not required majority review.
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Ethics Review Committee (ERC)
Ethics review committee (ERC) is governed under the institutional requirement and the law of the country where the ERC is located. Despite the difference in law and practice between regions and countries, each ERC should base it’s practice following the work by the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki (1964) last updated in 2008 as well as the International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects (CIOMS 2002).
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Coffee Cup Art
Coffee cup art has been developed by modern artists and the popularity of this artform has blossomed in recent years. This art category was a result of modern art seeking to reinvent and re-imagine common objects that were used every day by their audience. What resulted was a form of graphic art that focused on the sensory qualities of coffee and illustration opportunities it provided. Pop art is a frequently used style in coffee cup art. These paintings are typically flat in depiction and have warmly vivid color schemes. This type of pop art treatment is seen in the works 'Java Time' by Kathryn Fortson and 'Lucky Cup' by Catherine Jones. However, other modern styles are also popular for depicting this form of art, including realism, vintage, and retro styles that are as creative as they are in demand.
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Come For Coffee
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Like many other forms of coffee art, coffee cup art is meant to provide themes of warmth, comfort, and relaxation while displaying a uniquely stylish design. Because of this, sensory images such as stylized steam, warm colors, and idyllic graphics are used in the depiction of this subject. Even realistic works, such as 'Frothy Cappuccino' by Kathy Middlebrook employ these measures in order to portray sensory information which has become a trademark of modern artistic interpretation. However, steam isn't the only way to enchant an audience's senses with coffee cup art. For example, in 'Mocha' by Darrin Hoover, He uses the alternating dark brown colors with the white color of the cup in order to depict the richly sweet taste of this beverage. This same treatment is used by Middlebrook, as well, in her depiction of 'Mocha Latte' which uses its color schemes and imagery in order to appeal to its viewers.
Thanks to the graphic qualities and sensory input that this art category provides, it is a popular option for interior decoration in both professional and personal venues. Additionally, the color themes in this artform are emotive, and also match many decorative styles in kitchen and dining areas.
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Ray Winstone Was First Choice For The Sweeney
By Bang Showbiz on 05 September 2012
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Ray Winstone was always the first choice to portray Jack Regan in 'The Sweeney', according to director Nick Love, who says he ''never thought about anybody else'' portraying police officer Jack Regan in the movie.
Ray Winstone was always the first choice to portray Jack Regan in 'The Sweeney'.
Director Nick Love revealed he ''never thought about anybody else'' portraying the police officer in the movie - which is based on the 1970s British TV series - other than the 55-year-old actor, and he believes Plan B, whose real name is Ben Drew, brought a ''fresh'' approach to his alter-ego George Carter.
He told BANG Showbiz: ''I never thought about anybody else doing it. He's very likeable he embodies the 70s.
''Ben is fresh and the idea of him playing a police officer is great.''
Ray admits it was tough to follow in the footsteps of John Thaw, who portrayed Jack in the TV series, but he tried his best to put his own stamp on the role.
Speaking at the UK Premiere of 'The Sweeney' at Leicester Square on Monday night (02.09.12), he explained: ''John Thaw had big shoes to fill so you just can't fill them. You have to bring some of your own to it and make it your own.''
What's more, Ray believes Ben's casting in the film - which also stars Hayley Atwell and Damian Lewis - will bring a ''new generation'' to watch the movie.
Ray - whose daughter Jaime Winstone was also at the premiere - added: ''I knew of him and his music through my daughter. He'll bring a new generation to this film.''
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Stick it to the man, Dream Nails
By: Kamran Tanner
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Dream Nails – Janey, Anya, Lucy and Mimi – are in-your-face instigators of “rowdy and gleeful punk” with radical feminism at its core. In the riot grrrl tradition of bands like Bikini Kill, they’re big into DIY too. They produce their own music videos, they curate their own zines, they’ve even coined their own genre – witch punk. To give you a flavour, song titles from their second EP include Jokechoke and Lovefuck, whilst their latest video release, Cookies 4 U, sees a withering Janey applauding self-congratulatory “rubbish male feminists” for “loving their mum” and not being a rapist. Fires stoked, they share their thoughts on political music, creating female-first mosh pits and eating chips at band practice.
DISORDER: What are you working on right now?
DREAM NAILS: We’ve been hibernating since Christmas, writing new patriarchy-smashing bangers and working on our live set instead of constantly touring. [But] we’re excited about how many shows we have coming up. We’ve got a reputation for raucous and energetic live performances, so we’re just doing lots of them in lots of places: UK, Germany, Scandinavia, Turkey, and Spain!
Define your sound.
We’re somewhere in between punk and indie pop. We’re too bouncy and funny for punk but too political and ragey to be indie pop. That’s why we created our own genre: witch punk. Where rage meets joy in a three-part-harmonised wall of sound, and radical women can recharge!
Tell us about your creative process.
We don’t really have one: inspiration comes when it comes and sometimes we’ll have an idea for a song and cycle to someone’s house and jam it out. Almost all our songs start on an old acoustic guitar in Janey’s room. But we do rehearse a lot, and prioritise long rehearsals. Our stamina is really good. We all workout and exercise a ton so we can give our live sets full power every single time. And we’ll spend a whole saturday in the rehearsal studio and we create a really special, beautiful space together that’s precious and energising. (Rehearsals are almost always fuelled by an extra-large portion of chips). It takes a while to get into the groove; often our best ideas come in the last ten minutes. It’s a cliché, but writing good songs feels like giving birth.
What would you most like to change about the music industry?
How tame it is! Bands who aren’t even political get called political – it’s bizarre! There’s an unfounded assumption that people “don’t like” political music, [even though it has] a long tradition from folk through to the Slits and Skepta. The industry feels very superficial in many respects; it’s supposed to have a responsibility to reflect society and different experiences in a meaningful way. And it used to do this! The growing proportion of musicians in the charts who are privately educated is just one way of illustrating this.
You recently produced your own feminist ‘zine about reproductive justice, Your Body Is Not Your Own. What does female empowerment mean to you?
Empowerment is an interesting word – we’re more interested in liberation. Sometimes acts which are “empowering” aren’t really that radical or liberating for women as a collective class. Ultimately, one of the most liberatory acts as women is recognising how oppressions intersect, and listening to the different experiences of women who’ve lived very different lives to you due to differences in race, class, sexuality, gender, ability, immigration status etc. That’s the first step to actually achieving collective liberation – and making space for different women. Mainstream feminism is far too white, middle class and focused on individual gains in a capitalist world. Your Body Is Not Your Own [collects the experiences of 21 feminist writers, and] covers a range of issues from mothers in prison to trans sexual health services and lesbian parenting. We found creating the zine and working with [its] authors really inspiring. We learned so much!
Activism is obviously significant to you as a band. When was the first time you decided you needed to actively make a difference?
Activism is our lives. When things are so fucked up, what else can you do?! We’ve all been feminists for as long as we can remember – way before it was cool – but realised that we needed to put our fears aside and form a band, because the act of claiming public space for women to be collectively angry in is an incredibly powerful act of survival. So many women come to our shows [and say] “for the first time in ages I felt like I could breathe”, and we get messages online from women saying how inspiring our music is. That’s why we do what we do. It’s just not a choice. Maybe this is extreme, but when we see a band and they are singing their dry, trendy songs and looking pissed off and “cool”, we switch off so hard. It feels so fucking arrogant. Why don’t you use your platform to do something?
What’s the coolest gig you’ve ever played?
Once in Munich we were playing in an all-male line up and the atmosphere was pretty sweaty and macho. So before we even started to play, we pulled all the girls up to the front, which some blokes weren’t too happy about, and gradually this amazing pool of rad women emerged in front of us. It got so wild that they began moshing and crowdsurfing. So many women thanked us for creating that space for them!
COOKIES 4 U
Desert Island Dames: Name five artists you couldn’t live without.
Patti Smith because she’s a goddess poet legend! Bully because their vocalist and guitarist Alice Bognanno is such an inspiration. The Slits, especially Viv Albertine, because they basically invented The Clash (Viv told them to give their music a political dimension when they were starting out) and were much more revolutionary, and surprise, surprise, they haven’t been revered and remembered in the same way.
What’s the last piece of media you consumed that blew your mind?
JANEY: I’m currently reading Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?, a feminist critique of how mainstream economic theories completely overlook women’s unpaid labour – which is what truly keeps the world turning.
ANYA: I just finished Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a powerful story about race and identity.
LUCY: I’m reading Elena Ferrante’s Story of a New Name. It’s the most realistic and beautiful representation of a female friendship I’ve ever read.
MIMI: I’m listening to a podcast called Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo. [It’s] about a Canadian indigenous woman whose murder was never solved, [and] highlights a bigger issue in Canada, where these women are far more likely to be victims of violence.
What does utopia look like?
The inverse of this shitty world right now: a place without fear of difference, without violent masculine control and traditional hierarchies, and where there’s free chips with garlic mayonnaise everywhere you go.
Some bloody fun music videos made with genius, all-women film crews! Keep your eyes peeled for Cookies 4 U, our song about rubbish male feminist allies. There’s also a video about Mercury Retrograde in the pipeline…. Condolences to anyone who’s finding this pernicious planet is screwing with their travel, technology and communication at the moment! We’ve also got a ton of shows coming up, including our headline show at Rich Mix, London, 4th May. [Also], we are preparing to record our first album and need to find a sick producer. Apply within!
Weinstein, Brexit, Trump… how do we save the world?
Roll up your sleeves, get a burner phone and get involved in radical direct action. We can’t wait any longer for the world to magically fix itself, we must disrupt it and demand what’s needed by any means necessary. Join a direct action group and get radical. You can’t just “be the change” – this is trotted out all. the. time. And it feels so passive. You need to collaborate, connect, pool, share, and fucking actually do something.
Dream Nails are supporting Iron Chic at The Dome, April 23rd and headlining at RichMix, May 4th.
Photography by Ant Adams
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Juan Corres Benito
Drawing from the release technique tradition a core idea of this class is to soften tensions in order to get in touch with our bone structure, but also to build an idea of unity an interconnection within all the different systems in the body.
From that place we focus on directionality within our bodies and out into the space, thus creating expansion and length in the body.
We then increasingly build dynamic, qualities, textures and challenge coordinations, in order to build sweat and fire towards the end of the class.
This class is built on a structure of set movement materials, that sometimes branches out into moments of directed improvisation and personal research.
Juan Corres started dancing in his hometown Vitoria, Spain, and went on to study at London Contemporary Dance School. In the years 2007-09 he was part of the Dance Apprentice Network aCross Europe, working with its artistic directors William Forsythe, Wayne McGregor, Frédéric Flamand and Angelin Preljocaj. Since 2009 he has worked as a dancer with choreographers such as Ohad Naharin, Eva Recacha, Anna Röthlisberger, Aoife McAtamney and Jessie Brett. He is currently based in Berlin, where he has performed with Isabelle Schad, Sylvana Seddig, Jasmin Ihraç, amongst others, and in theater with Thomas Bo Nilsson, Schaubühne and Berliner Ensemble, and Johan Kresnik, Volksbühne.
Juan is currently working with Lola Maury in her new piece Brouhaha. Juan is a member of Mo.ré, a collective for movement research based in Berlin, and teaches regularly dance and movement research.
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Stories & True Life » True Life » How I became a contractor
I’ve been contracting for years now, off and on. I tried going back permanent for a time during the depression, but it didn’t last. For me at least the satisfaction of being my own boss spoiled me for the career-minded politics of the permie world.
It wasn’t like that when I started though. I was scared stiff. I didn’t go contracting for the money, or the macho image, or the travel. I did it because I was terrified of the alternative.
It started about four years before, I had joined the DP department of a medium sized factory on the Snowy Industrial Estate. At the interview the DPM had explained to me that his department was being spun off as a separate consultancy within the group, and there would be a lot of prospects in a growing organisation.
“We’ve even picked the new offices,” he enthused, “It’s a big old house on the edge of town, near Penny Hassett.”
It sounded good, better than the disintegrating chaos I was currently working at, so I accepted.
The problem was, it never happened. The new offices were never cancelled, after a while they were just not mentioned, it was almost as if they never had been.
I was disappointed, but I wasn’t too upset. The work was interesting, and that was the most important thing for me. The department used an old batch based system, and the current major project was to put all these batch programs online. Yours truly had the job of providing the online expertise for the job.
After about four years I and three juior proggies had worked our way through the whole system, converting and rewriting everything to online. It was as I was approching the end that I began to think about the future.
If I stayed where I was, then I was fairly secure, I was also in a dead end. The DPM and his sidekick were both about the same age as me, or younger, so there was not much hope of promotion. What was worse, the edict had come down from on high, no more major DP investment. In the past couple of years the department had ‘expanded’ from eight people to five. The future didn’t look very good.
I made some tentative enquiries with a couple of agencies that I’d used before. That was when I began to worry.
“I’m sorry Mr Cerdd, we don’t really have anything, but we’ll keep looking.”
They said it with a bright professional smile, but I had a dark fear that what they really meant was “Don’t ring us, we’ll ring you”. Slowly the final aweful truth began to dawn.
All my working life I had been working on the same range of machines. I was probably one of the best qualified people in the country on that range. Unfortunately, in the four years I had been working at the Snowy Estate, the machine range that I had all my experience on had been superceded. Nobody wanted staff whose only experience was on out of date machines.
I tried more agencies, no go. They all agreed I was wonderfully qualified, had an excellent record, and was completely useless.
That was when I really began to panic. I was looking at my future and all I saw was a huge blank wall.
Then Not-A-Lot-Doing, one of the agencies, mentioned contracting. I wasn’t too keen. I’d seen contractors before, and they all seemed to have lots of money. But I was aware of the risks as well. No sick pay, no holiday pay, no pay at all if you can’t find work, not to mention all those books to keep.
It didn’t sound very promising, especially for someone whose physical body is mildly disabled, and (courtesy of the local NHS surgeons) somewhat reorganised. On the other hand, the alternatives looked even worse.
My wife and I talked to an accountant, and a pension’s advisor. The former said, “No problem, we can do all the paperwork for you.” The latter explained about pensions, and tax regimes, and left us breathless, but impressed.
Lastly we sat down and thought very hard.
I considered my abilities. Was I good at my job? In all honesty, yes I was, and better than my nominal superiors.
I considered my health. NHS rebuild job I might be, but I still had a better record for time off sick than most of my nominally fit and able collegues.
I asked my wife’s opinion. She said, “If that’s what you want, then go for it. I’ll back you.”
I rang up the agency before I could chicken out again. I said “Yes”.
It all happened rather fast after that. Not-A-Lot-Doing had already lined up the interview. The client had a new project to develop, on a brand-new platform, and couldn’t get anyone with the right skills. Not-A-Lot-Doing’s proposal was for them to take a bunch of experienced-but-not-on this-machine contractors, on the basis that we would be paid half rate for the first four weeks, then full rate for the rest of the year.
They sold it to the client, I sold it to my wife, hencefore the Financial Controller, and the next day I handed my notice in.
Did I ever regret it? Well sometimes the daily travel hasn’t been too good, but other times have been great. Twice I’ve been able to work from home. Twice I worked in Europe, and we’ve had a chance as a family to visit places we would never had dreamed of going, and making friendships we still treasure.
Sometimes the working away has been a strain on us as a family, but working together to run the company has brought us closer together. I can tell appalling jokes about having an affair with the company secretary, she says she gets a great kick from knowing that her contribution makes us even more of a partnership, and we get the chance to hold hands romantically as we fill in our VAT return together.
Do I regret it? No, not once. Especially not after last week, when I went back to the Snowy Estate to visit. The department had ‘expanded’ even further. There’s only two of them now.
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2000 - Foundation
The members of epic doom metal band DOOMSHINE from Southern Germany know each other since at least 1990, but only 2000 that they start making music together.
With Markus Schlaps on drums, Sven Podgurski on guitar, brothers Timmy and Sascha Holz with Timmy on guitar and Sascha on vocals, joined soon by Carsten Fisch on bass they initially start under SLEEP WITH THE DEVIL moniker. Sven at that time plays at Spiral Tower and before already at TRAGEDY DEVINE and VARIETY OF ARTS. After writing first songs they play their first gig in Marbach, in October 2000. Soon after that Sascha leaves the band and Timmy takes over the vocal duties.
2002 - First studio recordings
December issue 2001
In 2001, the band decides to change their name to DOOMSHINE. The first gig under the new name follows on March 28th 2002 at Club II Rockfabrik in their hometown Ludwigsburg.
In the summer of the same year the band enteres the studio to record "Shine on Sad Angel" and "Where Nothing Hurts but Solitude". The first song is being chosen by the editors of "Heavy oder was?!" the later "Heavy" magazine to be featured on "Metal Crusade V" compilation coming with the December issue.
Starting from September 2002 the band offeres "Shine On Sad Angel" for download on their homepage. "Where Nothing Hurts But Solitude" follows November 2002.
February 2003 - Opener on first DSR
Doom Shall Rise 2003
Still without having any release of their own, on February 7th 2003, DOOMSHINE open the first edition of the meanwhile legendary Doom Shall Rise festival. They share the stage with FORSAKEN, REVEREND BIZARRE, REVELATION, THUNDERSTORM, OFFICIUM TRISTE, SEMLAH, DAWN OF WINTER, MIRROR OF DECEPTION, WELL OF SOULS, DREAMING, VOODOOSHOCK, and others. Vampster Review
Two more shows follow that year.
June 2003 - Deal with Iron Glory
Iron Glory Records
In June 2003, DOOMSHINE sign a contract with Iron Glory Records for the release of their debut album. Vampster News
August 2003 - Single at Metal Supremacy
Shining In Solitude
Before the debut album is ready though, in August of the same year, Metal Supremacy releases a 7'' vinyl single entitled "Shining in Solitude", featuring the first 2 songs recorded by the band: "Shine On Sad Angel“ and "Where Nothing Hurts but Solitude". Vampster News
Juni 2004 - Debut album
Thy Kingdoom Come
Their highly acclaimed debut album "Thy Kingdoom Come" is being released on CD on June 28th 2004 through Iron Glory. LP version was released later that year by Immortal Vinyl Records and featured an exclusive bonus track, "Trouble Fire". The album reached 5th place on the "Rock Hard" magazine charts. DOOMSHINE was then voted on rank 11 of the best newcomers in 2004 by the "Rock Hard" readers.
September 2004 - First gig abroad
2004 marks also increased live activity of the band. They play 8 gigs, including one with SACRED STEEL and TANKARD, as well as their first show abroad at Dutch Doom Day III festival in Rotterdam, on September 19th, together with REVEREND BIZARRE, BEYOND BELIEF, WELL OF SOULS, among others, as well as a local fest in Stuttgart, Banging the X-mas-Tree.
February 2005 - Deal with Massacre Records
As Iron Glory is going out of business, in February 2005, DOOMSHINE sign a record deal with Massacre Records, who distribute the debut and recognize the big potential and great sales results the band gets. The band expects to have their second album out in 2006, however in the end it takes much longer than originally planned.
April 2005 - Second gig abroad
Belgian Doom Night 3
On April 23rd 2005, DOOMSHINE participate in another important doom metal event abroad: Belgian Doom Night III in Gent. This time they play with COUNT RAVEN, PLACE OF SKULLS, THE GATES OF SLUMBER, OFFICIUM TRISTE, PALE DIVINE, MIRROR OF DECEPTION, ESOTERIC, RISING DUST and ATARAXIE.
The next festival appearance of the band is at the Metal Bash festival on July 30th of the same year. In October 2005, they play at the 15th anniversary party of their friends from MIRROR OF DECEPTION. On November 26th another festival gig follows at Ragers Elite.
2006 - 2007 - Recordings for the second album
DOOMSHINE wrote most of their songs for the sophomore album in 2005. However then they slowed down quite a lot for personal reasons, mostly work and family. Drums and bass are being recorded during several sessions in 2006 at the band's bassist, "Carsten Fisch Studio". For the same reasons the band doesn't play live much during the next years. On July 16th 2006, DOOMSHINE has a gig at the Metallic Noise festival.
In 2007 recordings for lead and backing vocals follow, also at "Carsten Fisch Studio".
On July 21st 2007, they perform at the 3rd edition of Hell's Pleasure Metalfest, with bands like ANCIENT RITES, DESASTER, MORTUARY DRAPE, ZEMIAL, NECROS CHRISTOS, EARTH FLIGHT, RAVEN BLACK NIGHT. And on November 24th of the same year, DOOMSHINE play at a small fest in Dortmund, Days of Doom, together with MIRROR OF DECEPTION, ISOLE and TORTURED SPIRIT.
2007 - 2009 - Mix and artwork for the second album
During the very rare spare time in 2007, 2008 and 2009, Carsten works on the mixing, and then on the cover art and CD layout..
In 2008, the band travels to Switzerland to play at Dawn of Doom II Festival. The billing of this 2-day fest on November 14th-15th includes LORD VICAR, MIRROR OF DECEPTION, WALL OF SLEEP, PHASED, GRIEF, STEREOCHRIST, DREAMING, RISING DUST, OPHIS, BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS and a few other acts.
In 2009 they play just 2 gigs: in February at Monastic Doom XVIII amongst others with GORILLA MONSOON and in May at Doom in Bloom with MIRROR OF DECEPTION and four other bands.
April 2010 - Doom Shall Rise
On April 10th 2010, DOOMSHINE returnes to the holy doom metal chapel in Göppingen... They play on the second day of the revered Doom Shall Rise festival and share the stage with NOMAD SON, ISOLE, MOURNING BELOVETH, SEAMOUNT, THE 11TH HOUR, MAGMA RISE, UNSILENCE, 40 WATT SUN, RITUALS OF THE OAK, JEX THOTH and others. During the song "Where Nothing Hurts but Solitude", doom metal veteran and the band's friend, Leo Stivala of FORSAKEN makes a guest vocal appearance.
The band plays one more show in September 2010, together with EARTH FLIGHT.
Juli 2010 - Second album release
The Piper At The Gates Of Doom
Almost exactly to the day, 6 years after their debut album, on July 2nd 2010, the second album "The Piper at the Gates of Doom" is finally being released through Massacre Records. While its title is a clear reference to the PINK FLOYD debut from 1967, musically it's pure epic doom metal in the vein of SOLITUDE AETURNUS and CANDLEMASS again, while the lyrics are quite critical and cynical, and focus on the darker shades of mankind.
The album was mastered at the Red Room studio by Andy Horn (HALFORD, ROB ROCK, MAJESTY, EXCITER, MANTICORA, EDENBRIDGE, LIV KRISTINE...). Apart from 9 original songs, the album features a cover version of MIRROR OF DECEPTION song “Vanished”, showing the loyalty within the doom metal scene. "The Piper..." garners many rave reviews and lands on the 2nd position of the monthly "Rock Hard" magazine charts.
2011 - Vinyl version of the second album
Later on, in 2011, Immortal Vinyl Records releases it on wax as a 2LP gatefold edition.
On April 15th 2011, DOOMSHINE perform at Metal Inferno Festival, and later that year play three more gigs amongst others with SLOUGH FEG, REAPER.
2012 - Songwriting third album
In 2012, the songwriting for the yet untitled 3rd studio album commences. On March 10th 2012, they have a show at the first edition of the German Swordbrothers festival, together with ROXXCALIBUR, ALPHA TIGER, ETERNAL REIGN and IRON KOBRA. They also play a gig with BLACK ABYSS in April.
2013 - Malta Doom Metal
Song writing for the second album is being continued. The basics and the skeletal structures of six songs are being finished by the end of the year.
DOOMSHINE plays only one live show in 2013, however quite a prestigious one. The band is being invited to Malta for the VI edition of Malta Doom Metal VI festival, which takes place on October 25th - 26th. They share the stage with DARK QUARTERER, NOMAD SON, THE PROPHECY, IRON HEARSE, MAGMA RISE, THE DROWNING, FAAL, VICTIMS OF CREATION and a few other bands.
And like in 2010 at DSR VII, they have a special guest on stage: Leo Stivala from the Maltese epic doom masters FORSAKEN again grabs the mic to sing "Where Nothing Hurts...". It is a triumphant show and definitely one of the highlights of this festival. It is also there where the band meets again the two traveling metalheads from Metal On Metal Records.
Januar 2014 - Deal with Metal On Metal Records
Metal On Metal Records
It doesn't take long after the last meeting for DOOMSHINE and Metal On Metal Records to reach the agreement for releasing the next opus of the band. The contract is being signed in January 2014, at the time when the band is composing the 7th and last song for their next album, scheduled for an early 2015 release.
April 2014 - Recordings for third album
In April 2014 the band starts recordings for the third yet untitled album. Mixing and mastering shall be finished until the end of the year ... At least that is what we hope for!
How will their 3rd album sound like? According to the band: "The variety is huge, that's for sure. From slow devastating Doom to faster Heavy Metal..." while "Lyrically it will be the opposite part to the "Piper" album. More light, more optimism and a lot of positive thinking. But don't worry, the lyrics won't be happy or funny, it's just that positive vibe you hopefully will feel."
August 2015 - Third album release
The End Is Worth Waiting For
On August 31st.2015 the third album with the title "The End Is Worth Waiting For" gets released by Metal On Metal Records.
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World of Blue - Twin Peaks - David Lynch
a Twin Peaks and David Lynch Electrical Resource
Board index World of Blue Twin Peaks Movie, TV, Books Season 3 (2017) The Return
What Other Directors/Actors Think of Season 3
Moderators: Annie, BookhouseBoyBob, Ross, Jerry Horne, Brad D
NormoftheAndes
Re: What Other Directors/Actors Think of Season 3
Postby NormoftheAndes » Thu Dec 14, 2017 6:20 am
TwistedFate_L4 wrote:
Mr. Reindeer wrote:
TwistedFate_L4 wrote: Outside of critics and the Twin Peaks/Lynch fandom, Twin Peaks The Return really didn't make a huge impact so I'm not surprised not many big named actors or directors have yet to chime in because they probably haven't even seen it. I would love to know what Tarantino thought of it as well as what he thinks of Lynch in general- but he definitely doesn't seem like much of a TV person.
I imagine a lot of people in the industry watched it and just haven’t had occasion to publicly talk about it (or maybe they hated it and are too tactful to speak out). It’s hard to imagine people working in the film, and particularly television, industries not wanting to be able to converse about a work that, love it or hate it, is being pretty universally called “unique.”
Perhaps they have conversed amongst themselves but I don't think the reason why many have yet to talk publicly has anything to do with anyone being too tactful or not finding the right time to talk about it- many are on social media and converse about what they just had for snack. I think it all boils down to my original point which was outside of the Twin Peaks/Lynch fandom and critics- The new season was nothing but a blip on the radar to every one else. So I think most people in the industry just haven't felt a "need" or urge to publicize their feelings if they had indeed seen it because it wasn't a bona fide sensation that has swept the nation as some of us like to believe. The ratings were dismal despite the adoration it received from critics.
This isn't a knock at Twin Peaks- I'm just stating to many, even those in the industry, The Return came and went and that was that. It didn't ignite a spark outside of the fandom enough for public declaration from industry elites.
Did you read up on the ratings? In total there were 2 million watching it streaming weekly on Showtime, which is pretty decent considering the nature of season 3 in my view. CBS/ Showtime had record profits due to people signing up for Twin Peaks. Outside of the US, I am sure that the viewers were there for it. As a 'brand' in itself Twin Peaks would have generated interest internationally and on a far wider scale than most tv shows. Then there's the fact that Lynch directed it.
Gabriel wrote:
N. Needleman wrote: Those dudes whined a lot and I got a couple of my friends mad at me for saying I didn't care what they thought. #dontcare
My response to people using critics as their basis of an argument in favour or against something is to quote: ‘Howard Roark laughed.’ One has to make one’s own opinion based on objective reality. I consider TPTR a complete dead-loss and can (and frequently have) argue(d) its uselessness, based on value judgements, as a piece of cinematic ‘literature’ until the cows come home, but I accept the critical consensus is against me. I don’t care; I still loathe it.
Wow Gabriel, I've seen you on this forum for a long time now. So you liked the original Twin Peaks and FWWM? Did you like INLAND EMPIRE? Why did you 'loathe' season 3 then?
The way I view this season is it featured elements which were moderately entertaining but felt like Lynch in B-movie, straight-to-video mode - but then I felt like Lost Highway and Mulholland Dr. had quite a bit of that in them! I definitely feel like season 3 needed way more editing, but then it was set as 18 episodes. This meant we got the Mitchum brothers, we had Hutch and Chantel - yet why couldn't that time have been used to flesh out Shelly and Red or show more Steven and Becky in Twin Peaks? Steven was an idiotic character but very entertaining because Landry Jones is such a great actor.
Does it come down to Showtime wanting a few name actors? So we get Belushi, Knepper and Leigh in non-essential roles? That's a major complaint from me anyway.
In terms of industry types and directors giving their reaction to season 3, I think if the whole show had been tighter, more efficient and less bloated then we would have heard Scorcese giving plaudits!
Another facet of the whole thing was that Lynch had not directed for a good while, so I think it was like he ran through the whole gamut, the A to Z of genre film-making in The Return, perhaps over-compensating?
Postby Gabriel » Thu Dec 14, 2017 1:24 pm
NormoftheAndes wrote:
Thing is, I’ve read lots of comments saying ‘I liked bits of it.’ But how many bits? So a couple of good bits justify 90 percent that a person finds horrible? If it’s not good, it’s not good, even if there are one or two decent moments. It’s like saying a golfer is a good golfer because he gets a birdie on one hole, even though he takes 97 shots on each of the other 17 holes!
LateReg
Postby LateReg » Thu Dec 14, 2017 1:28 pm
I can't believe we are still talking about what might have gone wrong re: the 18 hours and why there's not more time spent on the original characters and in Twin Peaks. Unless I missed something at some point, I believe all evidence points to Lynch wanting 18 hours to tell this exact story, and having other interests than delving into the old characters we already love. Maybe it was a mistake, but I hardly think it was the result of Showtime wanting big names or a result of needing to pad the story to fit 18 hours. It's just the story Lynch and Frost wanted to tell. And if the show were tighter it very well may have been better, or perhaps (more likely) less impactful as it relates to the passage of time and the wanting of a return, but one of the things that industry folk have commented on is how it feels like nothing else, which is in huge part due to the editing and pacing and the resultant diversions, and not just the obvious highlights. So that's a two way street. And for what it's worth, I think Lynch is in complete command and shows no signs of time spent away from filmmaking.
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Postby laughingpinecone » Thu Dec 14, 2017 2:56 pm
Wasn't there one authoritative-but-not-L/F source that said that the original script they submitted had considerably less time dedicated to the townsfolk? Could be Sutherland, could be Dunham, I know I read it but I'm afraid I can't provide a source.
If someone else remembers it, it would be further proof that the out-of-town plots weren't padding, let alone executive meddling.
Also about padding: Showtime didn't order 18 hours. People who've hung around since early 2016 must remember all the educated guesses and the eventual announcement. So while the occasional weaker scene or two may have been included to pad out a single part, they could've stopped at 17 instead. There is no substantial amount of screentime added for contractual reasons. (At most, one might suspect DKL really wanted the number to add up to 9)
Of course we're all free to like or dislike these choices, but that's all they are, artistic choices.
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TwistedFate_L4
Postby TwistedFate_L4 » Thu Dec 14, 2017 3:07 pm
LateReg wrote: I can't believe we are still talking about what might have gone wrong re: the 18 hours and why there's not more time spent on the original characters and in Twin Peaks. Unless I missed something at some point, I believe all evidence points to Lynch wanting 18 hours to tell this exact story, and having other interests than delving into the old characters we already love. Maybe it was a mistake, but I hardly think it was the result of Showtime wanting big names or a result of needing to pad the story to fit 18 hours. It's just the story Lynch and Frost wanted to tell.
Exactly. This is simply the story they wanted to tell but it's simply not the one every one wanted to hear- But that's life. This is where they wanted to go and what they wanted to do and finger pointing won't change that.
I always saw it as Lynch simply wanting to take this chance to not only bring Twin Peaks back but to also explore other ideas that he may wouldn't get a chance at doing and thus the show expanded into something beyond Cherry Pie and quirky residents. But it all goes back to what you said, this is the story they wanted to tell.
N. Needleman
Postby N. Needleman » Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:32 am
TwistedFate_L4 wrote: A bit redundant pointing out what's already been noted, is it not? Yes, a few people have indeed commented as named earlier in the thread- I didn't think I needed to establish that. My point was highlighting why the OP most likely haven't been seeing a "huge number" of industry people coming out and talking about it left and right. Yes, some have, but The Return is hardly a hot topic that everyone is literally dying to chime in on.
Let's keep things in context.
AFAIC I am doing that. We have a decidedly different interpretation of how the industry has responded to Season 3. I've seen more than a few responses, both in press and on social media. You think if it isn't a mass influx where you yourself saw it then it "came and went". I think the year-end response tells a different story.
AnotherBlueRoseCase wrote: The Return is clearly guaranteed a future audience among stoners and other drug users.
NormoftheAndes wrote: Does it come down to Showtime wanting a few name actors? So we get Belushi, Knepper and Leigh in non-essential roles? That's a major complaint from me anyway.
This is, of course, utterly false.
Postby NormoftheAndes » Fri Dec 15, 2017 9:46 am
N. Needleman wrote:
Sorry I worded that badly. I meant to say that I would have preferred if those roles had gone to relative unknowns, that's all.
The script for the first two parts originally had barely any Twin Peaks in it. Twin Peaks was not all quirkiness and cherry pie. The Buckhorn and Las Vegas scenes in this were plenty quirky.
Some people think that Lynch was inspired by the director Neil Breen in terms of season 3 to a big extent. Check it out!
Poiuyt
Postby Poiuyt » Sat Dec 16, 2017 1:51 am
Lol, I highly doubt that, unless Lynch specifically said as much.
BGate
Postby BGate » Sat Dec 16, 2017 11:47 am
wonderful French director Bertrand Bonello is a big Lynch fan and has been a big Return advocate. This is in French but I'll link anyway: http://next.liberation.fr/images/2017/0 ... ch_1595046
a couple of translated excerpts:
love this thread idea btw.
Postby LateReg » Sat Dec 16, 2017 12:33 pm
BGate wrote: wonderful French director Bertrand Bonello is a big Lynch fan and has been a big Return advocate. This is in French but I'll link anyway: http://next.liberation.fr/images/2017/0 ... ch_1595046
Yes, thanks for those. Bonello is great (Nocturama is one of my films of the year, and I love his past work: On War, House of Pleasures, Saint Laurent), and he actually put out a list of the 10 best films of the past 10 years. He scratched off one of his choices to make room for The Return after it concluded.
bowisneski
Postby bowisneski » Tue Dec 19, 2017 3:17 pm
NormoftheAndes wrote: Some people think that Lynch was inspired by the director Neil Breen in terms of season 3 to a big extent. Check it out!
Apologies for taking the thread OT with this response, but I was discussing the relation of Breen and Lynch with a friend the other day.
I think people like Breen, Tommy Wiseau, and other egotistical bad movie directors are greatly inspired by Lynch. They have this idea that they feel the need to get across and is just stuck in their craw, so they keep on trying. It's why all of Breen's films are essentially the same, and you could make the argument that Lynch films all have that same sort of thing where he obviously has an idea that he wants to explore and he keeps on doing it. The problem you run in to is they don't have the talent or vision of Lynch, they just have the passion. I think that if Breen or Wiseau had the talent as filmmakers to get their ideas across, they could rival Lynch. Lynch reminds me of them, except he was a fine artist first and knows how to create mood, tone, and visuals.
I sometimes wonder if an alternate reality version of Lynch exists who has no artistic talent and is one of the celebrated "so bad it's good" movie directors.
pinballmars
Postby pinballmars » Wed Dec 20, 2017 1:09 pm
Panapaok wrote: Rian Johnson
Yes. He just retweeted something Season 3-related last week
Also, he dressed as Dougie for Halloween:
https://twitter.com/rianjohnson/status/ ... 9217643521
Mr. Reindeer
Postby Mr. Reindeer » Wed Dec 20, 2017 9:40 pm
pinballmars wrote:
So his casting of Laura Dern in a brightly colored wig in the new Star Wars WAS a TP tribute. Knew it.
(Kidding, I’m sure it was a coincidence. But it’s fun to contemplate the parallels between the TP and SW sequels. The Richard Horne/Kylo Renn similarity is especially eerie.)
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For years now, there’s been a complex pop-cultural relationship between east and west. Asian culture - especially that of Japan - has influenced much of popular English-speaking media, especially since the 1990s. In our world of wrestling, that relationship is especially notable. Japan and America constitute two of the three major “wrestling superpowers” of the world and, as such, the two influence one another in a myriad of ways. In an intensely populist entertainment form such as professional wrestling, the tastes of the paying customer can have a profound effect on what works and doesn’t work in each context, and what gets carried over from one to the other.
It’s been this way for decades. Something works in one country, and a savvy promoter translates it to their audience back home. This can be something as simple as the moves being innovated in one country making their way to the other, or a more profound shift in style and philosophy at either side of the globe. Sometimes, it’s even the case that figures from one culture influence another, as was the case with the Funk family injecting the US "southern style" into Japanese wrestling. As time has worn on and social media has become an incredibly useful tool in worldwide wrestling discourse, we have seen barriers between cultures and styles break down more and more. The last decade of American indie wrestling prompted the coining of the term "American Strong Style," a largely pejorative term to describe the insubstantial imitation of Japanese stars (such as All Japan Pro Wrestling’s Four Pillars, and later the likes of KENTA and Naomichi Marufuji) by up-and-coming wrestlers. Despite the negative connotations of the term, there is ultimately nothing wrong with the development of a style. The paying audience will always lean towards what it wants, and what works best for that audience will come out on top.
However, with the increased availability of international wrestling comes the issue of split fanbases. In the social media age, everybody has an opinion, and the platform to express it. As such, when a shift in booking or in-ring style doesn’t line up with the expectations of a fanbase, it can often be rejected quite vehemently. This is often a force for good, as was the case with Daniel Bryan’s road to the main event of WrestleMania 30 in 2014. However, it has also become a force for seemingly meaningless bickering over the more inconsequential aspects of pro wrestling. For proof of this, look no further than the Twitter account of Dave Meltzer, writer and publisher of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Meltzer’s been a journalist for close to four decades, covering the wrestling industry in a manner that’s been invaluable to both the exposure of non-WWE wrestling to the general American viewer base, and the coverage of news that could very easily slip between the cracks of time. A less important element of his weekly output is his match write-ups, wherein he runs down the work done in the matches from the past week and sometimes attaches a star rating for those he watched himself. The elusive “five-star rating” at the top of his system has provoked much ire over the years, largely from those viewers feeling as though he neglects certain promotions. The result is large-scale bickering in response to the purely subjective opinions of one man who has dedicated his career to the journalistic coverage of wrestling. The recent expansion of New Japan Pro Wrestling into the western consciousness has widened the divide between fans of NJPW and fans of WWE, largely over the seeming snub of a WWE five-star match.
Of course, the Dave Meltzer Wars are just one facet of the uncomfortable spat between WWE and NJPW fans. As NJPW comes closer to gaining major exposure in the United States wrestling scene, it seems almost as if the small sect of WWE fans unwilling to watch anything but WWE become more and more defensive of their tastes. Be it the "Community Match Rating" system on Reddit’s /r/SquaredCircle group, which saw a number of entries rate every match at the recent Dominion 6.11 show a 0, or the immediate Twitter bombardment during last month’s NXT: TakeOver Chicago show to unfavourably compare the excellent Pete Dunne vs Tyler Bate match to the likes of Kazuchika Okada vs Kenny Omega or Tetsuya Naito vs Michael Elgin.
The unfortunate reality of this kind of immediate backlash is that it doesn’t really concern the quality of matches, but the idea of the matches and the perception of the promotions for which they take place. In the case of the Dunne/Bate match, many were on Twitter to complain of the lack of a five-star rating from Dave Meltzer before the show even ended. It was quite literally the case that some presupposed Meltzer wouldn’t rate the bout five stars, and criticised him in advance. This is the kind of attitude that accomplishes nothing, only stopping fans from branching out and discovering new wrestling they may not have at first appreciated. It’s a kind of territorial mentality, whereby loyalty is to the promotion instead of match quality, the kind of attitude that has led to WWE’s slow creative decline, as there is a complacent fanbase that serves as their safety net.
That’s not to say it’s only the minority of WWE fans contributing to the unpleasant divide. NJPW, as Japan’s own “big game” promotion akin to WWE, has its fair share of ugly support. Be it the western converts that dismiss all WWE wrestling as worthless compared to the NJPW product, or even the Japanese fans that refuse to branch out their own tastes, NJPW can be the centre of just as cultish a fanbase as WWE. What separates them, obviously, is that English-speakers cannot observe the extent of the negative NJPW fanbase due to the language barrier. Make no mistake, however, that there is very much an "elitist" quality to some NJPW fans too, dismissive of non-NJPW wrestling in Japan and America.
If you ask me, there’s no answer to this issue. It’s an unfortunate reality that wrestling will always generate fanbases loyal to promotions, which can lead to complacency after a fashion. It even serves to create a third type of viewer, one that sticks by the smaller promotions - Pro Wrestling NOAH, AJPW, K-Dojo, etc - as a means of avoiding the drama that comes with following the bigger names. Of course, that kind of viewer can just as easily become loyal to their own niche, and dismiss anything that gets too big for their tastes. It’s sad, but it’s very much a reality.
Ultimately, to be a fan of wrestling, you’ll simply have to find what works for you. Speaking personally, NJPW is my favourite promotion in the world right now. I love the Kings Road-influence in Gedo and Jado’s booking style and the diversity of the top cards. Nevertheless, I appreciate the different styles being tried out on the American and Japanese indies, the major Mexican promotions, and even in WWE itself right now. Perhaps it’s a personal feeling, but I cannot fathom remaining loyal to a wrestling product when it loses its appeal to the viewer. I hope that more people can come to realise that defending promotions rather than match quality is what creates complacency and ultimately failure for successful businesses, and stops great independent wrestling from truly breaking through. If there’s one thing to take away from this look at the unfortunate split between wrestling fans across the world, it’s that wrestling is one of the most malleable forms of entertainment there is. It can be presented in a massive variety of ways and still be successful. The tastes of one man such as Dave Meltzer aren’t needed to validate one’s own opinion. I hope more people can feel secure in what they watch - be it WWE, NJPW, indies, or something else entirely. I think it’s that ability to simply enjoy oneself with wrestling that will bring everybody together as fans of this great and unique entertainment form.
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One could almost say Dorinda Clark-Cole was famous from the day she was born. As one of five daughters of the internationally renowned gospel choir director and composer, Dr Mattie Moss Clark, she has been singing for a congregation or audience since she was five and recording with her sisters, widely known to gospel fans as the Clark Sisters, since the mid '80s. Dorinda Clark-Cole's second album, 'The Rose Of Gospel', was released in 2005 as a follow up to the self-titled solo debut which won two Stellar Awards and a Soul Train Lady of Soul Award (Best Female Gospel Artist). This live set was produced by Asaph Ward, famous for his work with Kim Burrell who counts Dorinda as well as the Clark Sisters as a direct vocal influence. The freshly-minted 2005 Stellar Award-winning Choir Of The Year, New Direction, served as the choir of the evening and add plenty of soul power to the proceedings. The soulful "Nobody But God" is a timely reminder of the providence of the Almighty whilst "I'm Out And Over" is the mandatory jam track full of life and enthusiasm. If you like traditional gospel with live atmosphere,you will love this.
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Prof. (Dr.) Subhash Chandra Associate Professor.(Hon.)
Intercultural Open University (IOU),Nl
GHA Ambassador of Peace and Disarmament from Harmony in India,
http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=583
Mission: To promote Global Culture of Peace & Harmony through
Peace & Harmonious Education and Transformational Leadership
Presently:
Founder Board of Trustee - Global Peace Foundation (GPF), New Delhi, India. http://www.globalpeace.org/
Vice President- Global Harmony Association (GHA) , Nagpur, India http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=583 and
Director: GHA Science - CSSS 2013 One Step up to World Peace. Research Program http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=579
Project Director – Global Peace & Interfaith Harmony Project, India https://www.facebook.com/pages/GPF-India/542821939098670 and
International Coordinator, WWA- World without Anger Kathmandu, Nepal www.worldwithoutanger.org
Ph.D. - Doctorate of Philosophy in’ Peace Education & Human Development Management from Inter-cultural Open University (IOU), Opeinde, NL.
Postgraduate Diploma in Ecology & Environment from I.I.E.E New Delhi, India.
Post Graduate Diploma in 'Industrial Engineering ', from NIBM, Sri Lanka
Formerly:
1995-96 - Registrar & Prof. (HRD) - Jaipuria Institute of Management,
Lucknow (UP) India
1989-93. Environmental Education Project (UNDP –ILO), Bhutan - Served as - "Project Coordinator” of Environmental Education Project (UNDP –ILO) at Royal Bhutan Polytechnic, Deothang, Bhutan.
1985-87 - Served as 'Training Specialist' in Sri-Lanka: at Telecomm. Training Center, Colombo, Sri-Lanka under UNDP-ITU PROJECT SRI/83/015
Participated in International Symposium on “Education & Development “in Sana’a YAR Organized by UNDP, Geneva
Key Areas of Interest:
Peace & harmonious Education, Interfaith Harmony for World Peace & Oneness of humanity
Interfaith dialogue for World Unity;
GHA Science - CSSS 2013 One Step up to World Peace. Research Program,
Spirituality in Leadership & management; and Transformational Leadership
Global Peace Science & Global Harmony Projects:
Presently I am actively involved in Interfaith Harmony project & interfaith
dialogue projects for Global Peace & World Unity. I am also associated in
Global Peace Science: Sociological Statistical Study (CSSS) Project for creating peaceful & harmonious society.
2013 Project Director – Global Peace & Interfaith Harmony Project https://www.facebook.com/pages/GPF-India/542821939098670
Organized the Global Peace and Harmony Conference (GPHC-2013) Theme: “Moral and Innovative Leadership for good governance & Sustainable Peace in South Asia” On 21st September, 2013, At J.N.U. New Delhi, India
GHA - CSSS- Project Director: Prof. (Dr.) Subhash Chandra, Comparative Sociological Statistical Study (CSSS) Project - June 2013 GHA Science - CSSS 2013 One Step up to World Peace. Research Program http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=579
Dr.Subhash Chandra , India - Kosmos Global Ambassador http://www.kosmosjournal.org/programs/kosmos-global-ambassadors-program/
2013 Project Director – Global Peace & Interfaith Harmony Project -
organized the Global Peace and Harmony Conference (GPHC-2013)
Theme: “Moral and Innovative Leadership for good governance &
Sustainable Peace in South Asia” On 21st September, 2013, At J.N.U.
UNESCO's Global Peace movement
Over the last fourteen years, Dr. Chandra actively involved in UNESCO’s
Global Peace movement promoting Culture of Peace & harmony in India &
abroad, organizing & conducting conferences & Seminars in World Peace & Interfaith harmony and Transformational Leadership to create a peaceful & harmonious society.
Member- Living Values Education Program (UNESCO's Culture of Peace), USA
Project Director- Global Peace & Humanity Project
2005 - Presented a workshop on "Global Peace & Human Unity: Towards
21st century in 'Living Values Educators Training Program' ' a UNESCO
sponsored Culture of Peace Program from July21-26, 2005 at Peace
Village, New York, conducted by LVEP, Inc. USA.
2005 - Presented a workshop on “Humanity 2015- Health, Peace &
Ecology"(2005) At 'International Institute in Popular Economics' Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. And
2000- As a Project Director- Organized Indo-Japan Peace Cooperation
International Seminar in cooperation with Reiyukai India and presented a
paper on " Global Peace & Human Development: Challenges in 21st
Century" in New Delhi on 6thAug. 2000 at I.I.C,
Interfaith Dialogue & Unity Movement: 2014
Participated in 5th International Interfaith Conference on promoting
Interfaith Dialogue in Multi-religious Communities and presented a paper
on “Religions, Ecology & Interfaith Harmony 2014on 9th to 12th Aug, 2014, India http://www.cmseducation.org/interfaith/
2014 Presented a paper on "Enlightened Leadership: A New paradigm for World Peace & Oneness of humanity in 21st Century" at National Seminar on "Globalization, Multiculturalism and Peace-building in the 21st Century: Prospects and Challenges" New Delhi, 19 - 20 April 2014 organized by Ideologue Foundation (Delhi Office) http://www.indialogue.in/index.php/events/210-national-seminar-on-multiculturalism
‘United Nations Conference on Trade & Development':
August - 1985 - Participated in four International Seminars on: ‘United Nations Conference on Trade & Development' Conducted by Dr.Gamani Corea ' Former Secretary General of UNCTAD at Colombo, Sri Lanka.
'SAARAC Economic Cooperation Conference "on 19-21 Nov. 1996 at New Delhi. Organized by: Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce (FICCI), International Seminar on Alternative Concept of Poverty on 1-2 April 2002 at IIC New Delhi Org.By: International Development Center Oxford University, UK & Human Development Program, National Council of Applied Economic Research, N.Delhi’
Peace & Human Rights Activist :
Networking for Peace & ‘Peace Education Conferences:
A Paradigm for Peace &Harmony.'
2003 - Participated as ‘Peace Activist’ in International Conferences“Networking for Peace Conference “Second Regional Peace and Social Activists Conference’ from India and presented a paper “New Vision for Peace in 21st Century” (2003) at Clark University, Worcester, MA USA..
2001- participated in International Science & Spirituality ConferenceUSA Served as Volunteer – Conference Coordinator in International Science & Spirituality Conferences at the Harvard University 'On Science & Spiritual Quest: The Quest for Truth & Values in Science & Religion' Oct21-23, 2001 at Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA.
2005 - presented a workshop on " Humanity 2015- Health, Peace &Ecology" in Summer Institute - 'International Institute in Popular Economics' at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA (31st July-5thAug.2005) and presented a workshop on " Humanity 2015- Health, Peace & Ecology"2014
2013 – As Peace Delegate Participated in Global Peace Convention 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 5-8th Dec.2013.The Theme of the Convention: Unity in Diversity: Social & Cohesion Leadership for Sustainable Peace through Universal Aspirations, Principals & Values. http://www.globalpeace.org/global-peace-convention-2013
Presented a keynote address as Guest of Honour on “Transformational
Leadership through Emotional Intelligence for Governance & Sustainability” in WWA – 5th International Conference on “Global Peace through Emotional Intelligence, and Cultural Diversity”2014.Theme of the
Conference: Creating a Peaceful World Society through Emotional
Intelligence & Peace Education http://subhashchandra.org/2014/06/wwa
2011- Presented a paper on “Religious Harmony for World Peace &
Human Unity: Towards 21st Century”in Two Days State Level Seminar on
"In Search of Religious Harmony” On 12th & 13th March, 2011 Ramakrishna Math, Pune, India
International Conferences on World Religions & Religious Harmony:
Participated in various International & national Conferences on World
Religions & Interfaith Harmony
International Conference on Religious Response to Ecological Challenges.
On 17th to 20th April 2012 at Nilackal St Thomas Church& Ecumenical
Centre Kerala, India Paper presented on “Buddhism Wisdom for World
Peace & Sustainability in 21st Century”
2011 Paper presented on “Moral Values in Islam and Indian religions for Peaceful Co-existence” at International Colloquium on Raising Consciousness and Morality through Dialogue From 29th June to 1st July
2011 At the World Unity Convention Centre, CMS Girls Degree College, Lucknow, India
2010 ‘International Dialogue between Islam & Oriental Religions – 20th -21st Feb.2010, New Delhi, India. Paper presented on “Peace, Harmony & Universal Values: An Islamic Perspective”
2010 Participated in International Seminar on the theme of “BUDDHISM AND GLOBALIZATION” 17th and 19th of February 2010 at the University of Delhi.Paper “Buddhist Philosophy for Peace : In the era of Globalization”.
2009 Participated in IXth Indian Society of Buddhist Studies (ISBS) Annual conference at University of Kashmir, Sri Nagar, 5th-7th October
2009.Paper Presented “Shanti Chakra: Role of Buddhism for World Peace & Human Unity”
2009- A Global Congress on “World's Religions after September 11 -An Asian Perspective” in New Delhi from January 17-20, 2009 Paper presented on “Interfaith Harmony for World Peace & Human Unity” at Jamia Miliya University, New Delhi.
”2005- Participated in International Interfaith Dialogue Seminar on "Prayer, Peace & Unconditional Love & the works of Prof.Fr.Raimon Panikar" held on Dec.20-23, 2005, Org.By: K.J.Somaiya Bharatiya Sanskrit Peetham, Mumbai and presented a paper on: "Global Peace & Human Unity through Peace Values: Challenges in 21st Century"
2005 - Participated in SSEASR Conference 2005 - South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Religion on Jan.27-30 Jan.2005, at New Delhi, India. Presented a Paper on "Global Peace and Oneness of Humanity: Towards New Millennium'
Ambassador for Peace Awards & Honors:
Dr. Chandra was awarded “Ambassador for Peace Award' by Universal Peace Federation (UPF-India) & Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace (IIFWP), USA for his contribution in Peace & Cultural Education.
'International felicitation, Human Rights and Millennium Award
Prof.Chandra was also accorded 'International felicitation & human Rights and Millennium Award during the ‘Global Assembly of World Peace, Environment & Human Rights, held on 23-29 Dec.2000 at New Delhi for his contribution in academic, environment & social field. Millennium award was jointly sponsored by International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP), & Indian Institute of Human Rights (IIHR), New Delhi
In 2002-‘World Human Rights Educators Award 'was conferred by: Indian Institute of Human Rights (IIHR), New Delhi on the occasion of ‘ 4th World Human Rights Congress’ held on 8-10 Dec.2002 at New Delhi, India
‘Life Time Achievement Award : .Prof., Chandra was awarded ‘Life Time Achievement Award ' for his contribution in academic, environment and social fields on the auspicious occasion of the ‘2004 Tertiary Education & Knowledge Summit and '13th World Environment Congress' held on 30-31 Dec.2004, New Delhi, organized by: ‘Indian Institute of Ecology & Environment, New Delhi, and World Institution Building Program (WIBP), India.
Intercultural Open University (IOU), Netherlands & India.
Universal Peace Federation (UPF-India) ,South Korea (HQ)
Interreligious & International Federation for World Peace (IIFWP), India.
Living Values Education Program (UNESCO's Culture of Peace), USA.
International Environment Forum (IEF),USA
Member- Afro Asian Philosophers Association (AAPA), Mumbai, India.
Member - The Institute of Noetic Sciences, USA http://noetic.org/profile/
Prof.(Dr.)Subhash Chandra,
Project Director - Global Peace & Humanity Project.
GHA Ambassador of Peace and Disarmament from Harmony in India. http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=583
GDF Unity in Diversity
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"Unity in Diversity -World Civil Society"
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
"...the regional forums in Australia and India, organized by the Global Dialogue Foundation and local partners under the auspices of the Alliance, allowed the Alliance to expand its outreach and significantly develop its footing at grass-roots level." Official report of the Secretary-General Ban Ki moon to the UN General Assembly (August 2011). More
Strengthening the role of Civil Society to promote intercultural dialogue, diversity and inclusion- Baku 2013
2nd World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue - Baku, Azerbaijan 29 May - 1 June 2013
Launch - Whittlesea Community Leadership Network Victoria Inc. (WCLN) Melbourne - Australia
The Hon. Harry Jenkins MP
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NELSON MANDELA PRIZE
Awarded to President Jorge Sampaio & Helena Ndume
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Rail travel ticket since the start of the cumulative ticket more than 300 million copies
On January 2, 2020, rail travel ticket into 22 days, railway departments went on sale on January 31, 2020 (the 7th day) ticket, on the day of the national railway ticket sold 16.331 million copies, 12306 railway network sold 14.43 million copies, telephone booking tickets sold 14000 copies, railway 12306 net sales accounted for 88.4% of the total amount of the ticket.On the day of the national railway ticketing, Internet ticket total amount to an all-time high.Since December 12, rail travel ticket has the ticket since 309 million.
Railway tickets sold 12306 nets, sold 1.952 million copies, accounting for 13.5% of the ticket sales;Mobile client sold 12.478 million copies, accounting for 86.5% of the ticket sales.Waiting for the order to 292000, the ticket 367000, yesterday issued train alternate exchange rates up to 80.1%.
Railway departments hint, the passenger ticket purchase on January 31, 2020 hot direction for: Harbin, shenyang, wuhan to Beijing;Xi 'an, changsha, chengdu to Shanghai.Nanning to guangzhou, chengdu, guiyang.There are still a few more votes, part of the popular direction more than other direction ticket is enough, passenger friend can purchase in a timely manner.
Railway departments tips, please by rail the only official websitewww.12306.cnand "railway 12306" APP to buy tickets, avoid the risk of abnormal channel to buy tickets.
Railway departments to remind, the application of an electronic ticket has been extended to most of the high speed rail station, if the passengers to buy tickets for the electronic ticket, don't need to return for paper tickets, please hold the ticket id ticket to ride.For reimbursement vouchers, can be in before driving or riding to within 30 days from the date of, with valid id card used in the original ticket, to the station automatic ticket machine or printing of the ticket window.
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Over 70 million tons of fly ash is generated each year in the United States, of which only about 1/3 is used. The remaining 2/3 must be carefully disposed of in order to avoid any damage to the environment. Consequently, fly ash is regarded by the public as a solid waste material, though it is increasingly being used for various beneficial purposes.
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Rundown: What We Know About the IRS Targeting Scandal
By Ian Huyett
Beginning in 2010, several different IRS offices – including those in Cincinnati, Ohio; El Monte, California; Laguna Niguel, California; and Washington D.C. systematically discriminated against conservative groups. The targeting was not the work of a few “rogue” agents, as IRS commissioner Steven Miller initially claimed.
The IRS targeted organizations who “criticize how the country is being run” - singling out those with “tea party”, “9/12” and “patriot” in their names.
The agency harassed right-leaning 501(c)(3) applicants with intrusive questions, including “please detail the content of your members’ prayers."
160 such applications were delayed for over 200 days – some for more than three years and two election cycles.
During this period, the IRS approved applications from several dozen groups who used words like “progressive”, “liberal” and “equality.” Media Trackers, a conservative applicant that had been delayed for 16 months, was approved in three weeks after it reapplied under the name “Greenhouse Solutions.”
The White House account of these events has changed several times. While the White House initially maintained that it had learned about the scandal through the media, it has since been revealed that both Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew were aware of the scandal a month prior.
Under the Obama Administration, IRS higher-ups have treated themselves to extravagant entertainment and lavish conferences on the taxpayers’ dime. The agency spent over $60,000 producing two short films for fun. In one instance, the IRS “paid for the construction of an elaborate mock-up of the bridge of the starship Enterprise.” The IRS also spent millions on luxurious accommodations for its managers – in violation of its own policies - and paid $135,000 fees to at least 15 outside speakers. One speaker was paid $17,000 to discuss “leadership through art.”
Democrats have attempted to shield themselves from blame by pointing out that IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman was a Bush appointee. Shulman’s wife, however, is a senior employee at liberal group Public Campaign, an organization “dedicated to sweeping campaign reform that aims to dramatically reduce the role of big special interest money in American politics.”
Sarah Hall Ingram, who ran the IRS’ tax-exempt division during the targeting, is now the director of the IRS’ ObamaCare office. Since graduating from Georgetown Law, Ingram has never worked anywhere except the IRS. Interestingly, Ingram has visited the White House 165 times.
The IRS has been put in charge of enforcing ObamaCare. Federal agencies are currently assembling a “Federal Data Services Hub” in what has been called “the largest consolidation of personal data in the history of the republic” by USA Today. Under ObamaCare, government-approved health insurance providers will submit reports about their customers to this database - where they will be monitored and cross-checked by the IRS. Although only 10% of Americans now say they have confidence in the IRS, we are apparently expected to trust the agency to oversee our healthcare.
See also: Top Unanswered Questions About the IRS Targeting Scandal
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Urine meter and drainage bag combination
United States Patent 4625734
A rigid urine meter with an enclosed relatively flexible burette has a passageway at the lower end of the meter behind the burette to continuously equalize the fluid levels in the meter on either side of the burette. A groove and ribs are formed in the rear panel of the meter to support the burette, maintain its generally circular cross-section, and to provide strength and rigidity to the meter itself. The outlet port of the urine meter is directly sealed to the front panel of a drainage bag and the meter includes a lip at the port which extends into the drainage bag.
Sherlock, Paul (San Francisco, CA)
Brausen, Benjamin (Cromwell, CT)
Klein, Phillip P. (Plano, TX)
Sherwood Medical Company (St. Louis, MO)
600/579, 600/580, 604/323, 604/325, D24/118
A61B5/20; (IPC1-7): A61B5/00; B65D33/00
Field of Search:
604/317, 604/324-325, 604/323, 128/760, 128/762, 128/766, 128/767, 128/771, 73/171
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US Patent References:
RE30607 Combination urine meter and drainage receptacle May, 1981 Manschot et al. 128/762
4178934 Urine meter and collection assembly 1979-12-18 Forman 128/762
4095589 Combination urine meter and drainage receptacle 1978-06-20 Manschot et al. 128/762
3661143 MEDICAL APPARATUS FOR DRAINAGE, COLLECTION AND MONITORING OF BODY FLUIDS 1972-05-09 Henkin 128/2
3345980 Urometer 1967-10-10 Coanda 128/762
0030607 N/A 1860-11-06
KRUTER, JEROME
WILLIAM R. O'MEARA (SHERWOOD MEDICAL CO. 1831 OLIVE ST., ST. LOUIS, MO, 63103, US)
1. A meter for collecting and measuring body fluids comprising a relatively rigid front panel forming the front of the meter, said meter having a longitudinal axis, a relatively rigid rear panel forming the back of the meter, the front and rear panels being secured together along their peripheries to form the meter, and a relatively flexible tube extending along said axis of the meter substantially from the top to the bottom thereof between the front and rear panels to form a burette to receive body fluid from a patient, said burette extending substantially from the front panel to the back panel throughout a substantial portion of its length, the burette being supported in place by the front and rear panels and having an outlet in fluid communication with the meter, one of said panels having a passage means formed therein within and at the bottom of the meter extending transversly of the burette and said axis and in fluid communication with portions of the meter on both sides of the burette to permit body fluids to pass transversely by the burette to equalize the level of fluids in the portions of the meter on each side of the burette when the meter is in use.
2. The meter as set forth in claim 1 wherein the passage means is formed in the rear panel.
3. The meter as set forth in claim 2 wherein the rear panel is generally planar and the passage means formed in the rear panel extends out of the plane of the rear panel.
4. The meter as set forth in claim 1 in which one of said panels includes a groove in which the burette seats to prevent transverse movement of the burette.
5. The meter as set forth in claim 4 wherein the panel with the groove further includes a pair of ribs, one on each side of the groove and parallel thereto, to further support the burette.
6. The meter as set forth in claim 5 wherein the groove and ribs are formed in the same panel as the passage and terminate above said passage means.
7. A meter for collecting and measuring body fluids comprising a relatively rigid front panel forming the front of the meter, a relatively rigid rear panel forming the back of the meter, said meter having a vertical longitudinal axis, the front and rear panels being secured together along their peripheries to form the meter, and a relatively flexible tube extending substantially along said vertical axis of the meter from the top to the bottom thereof between the front and rear panels to form a burette, means closing the bottom of said burette to allow the burette to collect body fluid therein, one of said panels having a groove extending along said axis and in which the burette seats to prevent movement of the burette transversely of said axis, and drain tube means having one end portion for connection with a source of body fluid and the opposite end portion extending into the meter in fluid tight sealing engagement therewith and also extending into the burette for conveying body fluid thereto, the burette having an outlet adjacent the upper end thereof in fluid communication with the meter so that body fluid can flow from the burette into the meter, and transverse passage means in fluid communication with the meter on both lateral sides of the burette at the bottom of the meter to allow body fluid to flow laterally by the burette to equalize levels of body fluid on the lateral sides of the burette.
8. The meter as set forth in claim 7 wherein the panel with the groove further includes a pair of ribs, one on each side of the groove and parallel thereto, to further support the tube.
9. A meter for collecting and measuring body fluids comprising a relatively rigid front panel forming the front of the meter, a relatively rigid rear panel forming the back of the meter, the front and rear panels being secured together along their peripheries to form the meter, and a relatively flexible tube extending generally along the axis of the meter from the top to the bottom thereof between the front and rear panels to form a burette, one of said panels having a groove in which the tube seats to prevent transverse movement of the tube, the panel with the groove further including a pair of ribs, one one each side of the groove and parallel thereto, to further support the tube, the groove and ribs being formed in the rear panel, and the front panel being comparatively flat.
10. In combination, a meter for collecting and measuring body fluids and a drainage bag in fluid communication therewith, said meter having a relatively rigid front panel forming the front of the meter and a relatively rigid rear panel forming the back of the meter, the front and rear panels being secured together along their peripheries to form the meter, said drainage bag having a relatively flexible front panel with an inlet port therein, the rear panel of the meter having an outlet port therein, the inlet port of the front panel of the bag being directly sealed to the outlet port of the rear panel of the meter, the meter including a relatively flexible extruded tube extending along the axis of the meter generally from the top to the bottom thereof between the front and rear panels of the meter to form a burette, the tube extending substantially from the front panel to the back panel of the meter throughout a substantial portion of its length, the flexible tube being supported in place by the front and rear meter panels, one of said meter panels having a passage formed therein at the bottom of the meter extending generally transversely of said axis to permit body fluids to pass around the tube to equalize the level of such fluids in the meter on each side of the tube.
11. The combination as set forth in claim 10 wherein one of the panels includes a groove in which the tube seats to prevent transverse movement of the tube.
12. The combination as set forth in claim 11 wherein the panel with the groove further includes a pair of ribs, one on each side of the groove and parallel thereto, to further support the tube.
13. A urine meter for collecting and measuring urine comprising a relatively rigid front panel forming the front of the meter, a relatively rigid rear panel forming the back of the meter, the front and rear panels being secured together along their peripheries to form a meter chamber, and a relatively flexible tube having an upper end and a lower end extending substantially vertically and generally from the top to the bottom thereof and between and closely adjacent the front and rear panels to form a burette substantially dividing the meter chamber into laterally spaced chamber portions, means including a drain tube for introducing urine into the burette, the burette having an outlet adjacent the upper end thereof so that urine is flowable from the burette to said chamber portions, the lower end of said burette being fixedly connected to the meter at the bottom thereof, one of said panels having a transverse passage formed therein at the bottom of the meter chamber extending generally laterally between said chamber portions connecting said chamber portions together in fluid communication to permit urine to pass laterally by the burette between said chamber portions to equalize the level of urine in said chamber portions during use of the meter.
14. The meter of claim 13 wherein said burette is circular in cross-section.
15. The meter of claim 14, wherein one of said panels has a vertically extending groove within the meter receiving portions of the burette to prevent lateral movement of upper portions of the burette.
This invention relates to urological apparatus and more specifically to urine meters with burettes and an attached drainage bag.
Urine meters in fluid communication with drainage bags such as that shown in U.S. Pat. No. Re. 30,607 are well known. Such meter bag combinations, however, require a separate part for connecting the bag to the urine meter (see FIG. 2 of the U.S. Pat. No. Re. 30,607). In urine meters it is desirable to have more accurate measurement of small volumes of urine. The U.S. Pat. No. Re. 30,607 accomplishes this by having a series of urine meter sections, each of larger volume (and less accuracy) than the preceding section. It would be desirable to have a separate chamber wholly contained inside the meter to measure these smaller volumes, but such a separate chamber cannot be formed using two vacuum-formed shells (vacuum-forming being an economical way to make such parts) if one requires the liquid level to remain the same on both sides of the meter. If a third vacuum-formed part were used to make the separate, smaller volume chamber, a second sealing opertion would be required.
It is, therefore, an object of this invention to provide a novel urine meter which can be sealed to a drainage bag without the necessity of third part between the meter and the bag; to provide a urine meter which accurately measures small volumes; to provide a urine meter with a separate chamber for measuring small volumes; and to provide such a urine meter which is reliable and economical in manufacture. Other objects and features will be in part apparent and in part pointed out hereinafter.
Briefly, the urine meter of the present invention includes a relatively rigid front panel forming the front of the meter, a relatively rigid rear panel forming the back of the meter, and a relatively flexible extruded tube extending along the axis of the meter generally from the top to the bottom thereof between the front and rear panels to form a burette. The front and rear panels are secured together along their peripheries to form the body of the meter. The tube extends from the front panel to the back panel throughout a substantial portion of its length so that the panels support the flexible tube in place. One of the panels has a passage formed therein at the bottom of the meter to permit body fluids to pass around the tube to equalize the level of such fluids in the meter on each side of the tube.
In a second aspect of the invention, the meter includes a relatively rigid front panel forming the front of the meter, a relatively rigid rear panel forming the back of the meter, and a relatively flexible tube extending generally along the axis of the meter from the top to the bottom thereof between the front and rear panels to form a burette. The front and rear panels are secured together along their peripheries to form the meter. And one of the panels has a groove in which the tube seats to prevent transverse movement of the tube.
In a third aspect of the invention, a urine meter has in combination therewith a drainage bag with which it is in fluid communication. The meter has a relatively rigid front panel forming the front of the meter and a relatively rigid rear panel forming the back of the meter. The front and rear panels are secured together along their peripheries to form the meter. The drainage bag has a relatively flexible front panel with an inlet port therein. The rear panel of the meter has an outlet port therein. And the inlet port of the front panel of the bag is directly sealed to the outlet port of the rear panel of the meter.
FIG. 1 is a front elevation of a urine meter and drainage bag combination of this invention;
FIG. 2 is a front elevation of a spacer which is preferably disposed in the combination of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a sectional view on an enlarged scale taken along lines 3--3 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a front elevation, on an enlarged scale and with parts broken away, of the lower portion of the combination of FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 is a front elevation, on an enlarged scale and with parts broken away, of the upper portion of the combination of FIG. 1;
FIG. 6 is a sectional view on an enlarged scale taken along lines 6--6 of FIG. 1 with the bottom portion broken away;
FIG. 7 is a view similar to FIG. 6 but showing the urine meter in its vertical position; and
FIG. 8 is a sectional view taken along lines 8--8 of FIG. 4.
Similar reference characters indicate similar parts throughout the several views of the drawings.
Turning now to the drawings, there is shown in FIG. 1 a flexible urinary drainage bag 11 in combination with a relatively rigid urine metering collection chamber or urine meter 13. Bag 11 is suitably secured, by radio frequency sealing or the like, to a drainage bag support 15 such as is disclosed in co-assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 520,954 filed Aug. 5, 1983 so that in use bag 11 may be suspended vertically from a hospital bed or the like (not shown) to collect body fluids, e.g. urine, from a patient. Specifically, body fluid such as urine flows through a drain tube 17, which terminates at its proximal end with an inclined cut, into a burette 19 disposed inside and constituting part of meter 13. Bag 11 also has a vent 21 of conventional design secured by radio frequency sealing or the like in the front thereof to permit the expulsion of air from bag 11 as the bag is filled with urine. At the lower end of the bag 11 is a manually actuable valve 23 which when open provides a path for urine to exit from the interior of bag 11. Meter 13 similarly has a manually operable valve 25 at its lower end for the same purpose.
Burette 19 preferably is an extruded, relatively flexible tube of a plastic such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC). By way of example, burette 19 can have an outside diameter of about 0.75 inch (1.9 cm) and a wall of approximately 0.05 inch (1.5 mm). The burette extends from the bottom of meter 13 to generally the top thereof (approximately 6 inches (15.3 cm) for example) and is sealed at the bottom thereof to the body of the meter and valve 25 so that urine entering the burette from drain tube 17 fills burette 19 from the bottom without leaking out. Burette 19 can thus be used in conjunction with a set of gradations 27 printed or otherwise permanently affixed to the transparent vinyl (PVC) front of meter 13 to provide accurate measurement of a relatively small amount of urine, e.g. two to thirty ml. As urine fills the burette to or approaching the uppermost of gradations 27, it spills out of an opening 28 in burette 19 into the main body, labelled 29, of meter 13. Also printed or otherwise affixed on the face of meter 13 is a second set of gradations 31 which permit the measurement of somewhat larger amounts of urine, e.g. 35 to 200 ml, in the main body of the meter. As is best seen in FIG. 8, a passage 33 is provided in main body 29 behind burette 19 to ensure that urine levels in the main body of the meter on both sides of the burette are equal, so that the measurement given by gradations 31 is accurate. Because burette outlet opening 28 is on the right hand side (FIG. 1) of the burette 19 and because the bag 11 may be inadvertently tilted one way or the other during use, more urine may flow from the burette into one side of the meter than into the other side, however, the passage 33 in panel 59 will ensure that the urine levels on both sides of the burette equalize.
For convenience, the front of bag 11 is also transparent or translucent, is preferably calendared, and has printed or otherwise affixed thereon a third set of gradations 35, so that the amount of urine in the bag itself, as opposed to in the meter, may be at least approximately measured in increments of, for example, from approximately 100 ml to approximately 1800 ml.
A spacer 37 (FIG. 2) of relatively rigid polyvinyl chloride material having a thickness of approximately 0.01 inch (0.25 mm) is provided for inclusion inside bag 11. At its top spacer 37 includes a tab 39 suitable for radio frequency sealing or the like to the top of bag 11 to hold spacer 37 in place inside the bag. Along its left and right peripheries, spacer 37 includes a pair of ribs 41, 43 which extend generally perpendicularly approximately 0.5 inch (12.5 mm) out from the main body, labelled 45, of spacer 37. The size and shape of spacer 37 and the placement of ribs 41 and 43 is selected so that the urine meter seats between ribs 41 and 43. Spacer 37 also includes a second pair of ribs 47, 49 extending generally perpendicularly approximately 0.3 inch (8 mm) out from main body 45, ribs 47 and 49 being generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of spacer 37. Ribs 47 and 49 are shorter in length than ribs 41 and 43 that is, (they project out a shorter distance perpendicular to the main body of the spacer) and, as best seen in FIG. 4, terminate at their upper end in the vicinity of an inlet port or opening 51 of bag 11.
The lower portion of bag 11, meter 13, burette 19 and spacer 37 are shown in section in FIG. 3. Bag 11 is seen to have a relatively flexible, transparent front panel 53 of calendared vinyl (PVC) having a thickness of approximately 0.01 inch (0.25 mm) suitably secured as by radio frequency sealing at its periphery to a relatively flexible, opaque rear panel 55 of vinyl PVC of approximately the same thickness, said rear panel preferably being white to contrast with any urine in bag 11. Spacer 37 is disposed inside bag 11, i.e. between panels 53, 55 with ribs 41 and 43 being disposed exteriorly of meter 13. Ribs 47 and 49, on the other hand, can come into contact with the rear of meter 13 through front panel 53 of bag 11. Ribs 47 and 49 are not as tall (do not extend out from the body of spacer 37 as far) as ribs 41 and 43, thereby reducing the overall width of the bag and meter combination from what it would be if ribs 47 and 49 were as tall as ribs 41 and 43.
Meter 13 has a transparent, relatively rigid front panel 57 of vacuum formed polyvinyl chloride and opaque, preferably white, rigid rear panel 59, also of vacuum formed polyvinyl chloride, which panels are suitably sealed together such as by radio frequency sealing along their edges, each panel having a thickness of approximately 0.025 inch (0.6 mm). Rear panel 59 has formed therein a recess or groove 61 and a pair of ribs 63, 65 to receive and support flexible burette tube 19 against transverse movement. The ribs also strengthen the meter itself and maintain the circular cross-section of the burette. Ribs 63 and 65 terminate short of the bottom of meter 13 (see FIG. 4) and channel 33 is formed in rear panel 59 (see FIG. 8) to permit urine to freely flow behind burette 19 to equalize the urine levels in each half of meter 13. Referring back to FIG. 3, front panel 57 supports burette 19 as well by being in frictional contact therewith even though the front panel is not molded to receive the burette.
The tops of meter 13 and burette 19 are shown in greater detail in FIG. 5. Drain tube 17 is secured in the top of meter 13 in a clear plastic bushing 67 of PVC whose inclined lower end terminates in burette 19 and which is itself secured by a suitable adhesive or sealing process to the top of meter 13. Rigid panels 57 and 59 extend around bushing 67 and help hold it in place. The inclined proximal end of bushing 67 thus constitutes the inlet port of meter 13. Tube 17 extends generally from the inlet port of meter 13 upwardly a predetermined distance to a section thereof labelled 69 which has a length much shorter than the predetermined distance. At section 69 the wall of tube 17 has been thinned to provide a predetermined point of weakness. This thinning, which is exaggerated in FIGS. 5-7, is accomplished without changing the inner diamter of tube 17, which diameter remains substantially constant throughout its length by, for example, placing the proximal portion of the tube over a mandrel and rotating it about its longitudinal axis while simultaneously heating section 69 and stretching the tube. By way of example, the inner diameter of tube 17 throughout its length is approximately 0.3 inch (8 mm) while the outer diameter can vary from 0.4 inch (1 cm) above and below section 69 to approximately 0.36 inch (9 mm) at section 69. However, even this much thinning of the wall is not necessary. All that is required is that the wall be thinned enough at section 69 to make section 69 the weakest part of the tube 17 so that when bent, the tube will kink off at that point.
The purpose of section 69 is illustrated in FIGS. 6 and 7. Rear panel 59 of urine meter 13 has an outlet port 71 molded therein with a lip 73 thereof which extends into and is suitably secured to front panel 53 of bag 11. As urine fills meter 13 to the bottom of outlet port 71, the urine spills over lip 73 through inlet port 51 of bag 11 into the bag. Many times, however, the meter is not allowed to become this full. Rather, periodically a nurse records the amount of urine in meter 13 and then rotates meter 13 from its generally vertical portion of FIG. 6 around plane A (FIG. 5) to a substantially horizontal position shown in FIG. 7 to dump the contents of the meter into the bag. Section 69, being the point of weakness, thereupon kinks off tube 17. This action closes the lumen of tube 17 and ensures that the urine passes into bag 11 instead of traveling up tube 17.
When the urine is dumped into bag 11, spacer 39 and specifically ribs 41, 43, 47 and 49 hold walls 53 and 55 of the bag apart to promote rapid dumping of the urine into the bag. The calendared texture of front panel 53 also promotes rapid dumping as it reduces the tending of the front and rear panels of the bag to stick together.
In view of the above it will be seen that the objects of the invention are achieved and other advantageous results attained.
Although the invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiment illustrated in the drawings, many modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit or scope of this invention.
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She Looks Like Any Ordinary Toddler. But Her Special Talent Is Beyond Incredible!
When Dave Crosby heard his three year-old daughter singing, he knew that he had to record it. Dave’s daughter, Claire, is a big fan of Disney movies. Her favorite Disney movie is “The Little Mermaid”. Her dad recently recorded her singing “Part Of Your World” from the movie. The little girl’s performance was impressive. She managed to memorize and sing all of the words. She was also able to deliver every note with emotion and accuracy.
Claire was wearing a long, sparkling blue dress during the performance. After she finishes singing, she asks, “Did I do it daddy?” She then exclaims, “I did It!” Dave was interviewed by the local news. He told the news that he decided to record his daughter after he heard her singing while they were waiting at the auto shop. The other customers were impressed with Claire’s voice.
She is now touching people all over the world with her amazing voice. This dynamic father and daughter reside in Utah. The video of Claire doing her amazing rendition of “A Part Of Your World” went viral a few days after it was posted. It has been shared on Facebook over 25,000 times. Many people have commented saying that the girl is very talented.
Dad Asks HIs Daughter To Sing For The Camera. Her Response? It’s Going VIRAL!
Clint Harris She abused her body. Not cute ever.
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Ted Ayo wow, that is a real woman, not those toothpick size. will marry anytime.
VIRAL: Dad Asks His 3-Year-Old To Sing During Recording – Must See Young Talent!
He Hears His Little Angel Singing – But When He Starts To Film Her Something INCREDIBLE Happens
VIDEO: Never Did I Expect Him To Sound Good. But It’s His Daughter That Left Me Speechless
VIDEO: She’s On Her Phone In The Backseat. What Dad Captures When He Hits Record…
VIDEO: These Girls Sing A Famous Song…But What The Girl On The Right Does? OH-MAZING!
VIDEO: His Brother Nervously Steps On Stage. What Comes Out Of His Mouth Leaves EVERYONE In Awe
This 11-Year-Old Has Truly Amazing Talent. You’ll Be Left Breathless.
Incredible 11-Yr-Old Opera Star Sings ‘The Prayer.’
VIDEO: It’s Just Another Day Driving Around With His Daughter. Then The Music Started…
VIDEO: She Steps To The Microphone And Belts Out The Performance Of The Millennium!
When She Walked On Stage, She Was The Most Nervous Of Them All. But What Comes Out Of Her Mouth…
When A Teacher Sees Her Student Doing THIS During Recess, What She Films Is AMAZING
She Might Be The Youngest One On Stage. But What Comes Out Of Her Mouth Is Incredible!
VIDEO: When She Starts Singing, She Hits A Note No One Thought Possible. SO AMAZING
VIDEO: No One Told Her The Camera Was Rolling. What It Captured Gave Me Goosebumps, WOW!
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Looking for the coolest events in the Hudson Valley this week? Find our curated picks here.
Collaborative Concepts Farm Project 2019
Aug 31, 2019 to Oct 27, 2019
02:00 PM until 06:00 PM
This event occurs daily, every 1 day(s).
Cows, Sculpture, Migration and more!!!
Opening Reception: Aug, 31
Mid Run Reception: Sept. 22
On View: Aug. 31 – Oct. 27
Free to the Public
Collaborative Concepts is all about Large Sculptural Art Works; think Storm King, but with a herd of cattle! The combination of the two makes a great interaction of animals with art.
Experimental art is encouraged. The result of combining art with animals, however, is hard to predict. It never creates repetition, only surprises and discoveries of how the two interact with each other. The cows have been great critics of the sculptures each year, having favorites and some that they serenade.
This fall the artists seem to have created works that center mostly around two themes. The first is one of abstract and nature. Linda Schmidt has created a large panel of brightly woven cloth fabrics, mimicking an abstract painting. Max Yawney’s 16-foot-wide painting hangs between two trees on steel cable hovering 7 feet above the ground. Brightly colored geometric imagery will swing in the breeze. Hildreth Potts large Poodle of wire and steel wool brings whimsy to the farm. The Animal Farm Redux, resembling a large Rubik’s Cube of George Orwell’s Animal Farm has been created by the Storm King School.
The second theme among artists are headline news topics concerning women and migration. Bernier’s “Caliburn” will be made of solid white salt blocks commonly used for livestock that will be displayed cut in the shape of “miniature” row houses on a timber base. These tiny houses with no windows or doors, will suggest a place of confinement despite their original allusion to comfort and refuge. Cristina Biaggi’s Web consists of 3 layers of canvas panels suspended from ebb and flow in the wind. Resembling a mandala, the seven-sided panels are connected with redrope, representing our collective sacred blood of the women’s political movement through the ages. Jill Enfield has created a Glass House with wet collodion photographic transfers on glass with photos of freedom, migrants faces and the Statue of Liberty. James Cannell’s The Meaning Machine, is a pyramid made of wood and steel that will be opened in different configurations, of how we perceive space and confinement, throughout the exhibit. Each of these artists are creating a greater awareness of current issues around us and how we interact with it.
Collaborative Concepts offers opportunities that afford artists the freedom to create whatever they want, whether that is creating something grand, or silly, or experimental, and it even gives them permission to fail. Throw in some fun challenges --the huge scale of the farm, weather, and “cow proofing”, and the show becomes even more irresistible.
Sculpture, performance art, theater and other cultural presentations are part of the Saunders Farm Opening and Mid-Run Receptions. The Entertainment field has had the pleasure of staging numerous acts and performers, some who are now on their way to a bigger spotlight, such as Hailey Knox, who just opened for Michael Franti and Spearhead, or Sara L’Abriola who now plays jazz guitar in Stephane Wrembel’s Gypsy Jazz Band. The opening reception on Aug. 31 will feature the Bert Rechtschaffer Trio, Chris Knoeppel, Al Hemberger and the Acoustic Vagabond. The mid-run reception will feature the Studio Theater in Exile and the Doansburg Chamber Ensemble.
Visitors venture back into history just to arrive at this 18th -century farm, located on the Old Albany Post Road. Still a dirt road, the post road was the original route linking New York City to Albany during the colonial period. The pastoral setting allows a new type of art experience, interacting with works of art in a timeless, bucolic setting. Saunders Farm also provides a conservation easement for walkers.
Collaborative Concepts, a not-for-profit, non-membership organization of professional artists, bringing together sculpture and installations by more than 40+ participants on the rolling fields of the 140 - acre Saunders’ Farm in Garrison, Putnam County. The exhibition presents local, regional, New York City and international artists. Visitors are treated to pure fun as they navigate cows, horses, and engaging art to experience peace and joy in this Hudson Valley rural farmland. We invite you to spend the day with friends, family, and good humor - just remember to bring your cow-pie proof shoes.
Visitors are welcome to the Opening Reception, August 31st with a rain date of Sunday, September 1st. There will be a Mid-Run Reception, September 22nd with a rain date of September 23rd. All events at the farm are free, with refreshments and entertainment. An Opening Reception Program of Music & Performance Art from 2-6 pm in the fields and music on the stage from 3:30-6 pm. The Mid-Run Reception is a program of music and dance on our stage with seating, also from 2:00–5:00 pm. Bring a picnic and blanket. Visitors are also encouraged to visit any day of the week as the autumn colors change the backdrop of the art. Sculptures and Installations will be on view Sept. 2 – Oct. 28. Free admission, from 10 am to dusk.
Saunders Farm is located at 853 Old Albany Post Road, Garrison, NY. For more information go to www.collaborativeconcepts.org, 845-528-1797.
Directions: From north or south on Route9, turn east on Travis Corners Road, opposite Garrison Golf Club, take to end. Turn left on Old Albany Post Road, approx. ½ mile to parking in field on left with banner on gate. Gate must be kept closed upon entering and exiting. For a self- guided tour, pick up a map at mail box in parking area. Group visits are also encouraged.
By public transportation, take Metro North train to Garrison station. Call (845) 265-taxi, for transportation to and from the farm before departing from Grand Central Terminal.
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853 Old Albany Post Road
Garrison, NY
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http://www.collaborativeconcepts.org
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Home > Legal > Top TV Law Advertising Campaign Tricks
Top TV Law Advertising Campaign Tricks
By Leo Preston on August 21, 2013
We’ve all seen them, and most will someday need to contact them. Law firm commercial campaigns on TV make an extremely large majority of all the commercials that air on TV. Some are stern and the take the perspective of the law firm speaking down to the individual in need. Others have a more friendly pitch insisting that they will fight and win your case with little or no work. Whichever the scenario is, we have all seen a ton of these commercials all over the country, on every channel, at every part of the day. But what TV ad campaigns really work for the top law firms in the country?
The key benefit with TV advertising comes from people’s emotional connection with video. More than any other channel of marketing, video is more psychologically fulfilling for people. TV advertising is the closest thing to having a real interpersonal communication experience with another person inside of one’s home. Not only that, but video advertising has the same experience for viewers through inbound marketing as well. Different online platforms such as Google, YouTube, and blogs are just as beneficial as TV advertising. For these reasons is why law firms flood TV broadcasting and online platforms with numerous commercials all the time. But just because a law firm takes up a ton of commercial space on TV and YouTube doesn’t mean that they are actually connecting with their customers.
So what do the top TV advertising campaigns all have in common? They are catchy and they stick into the minds of their viewers like glue. Not only are they catchy, but they have minimal content that is easy to remember for viewers. What is important for a law firm to focus on is how to get the most important content out to the viewer, but still keeping it minimal. For the most successful law firm ads, what they do best is take the most minimal and important information, and they make catchy rhyming phrases out of it. Rhyming is a great way to have your information stick to a person’s mind.
And with good rhyming, what is also most notable about successful law firm ads is a catchy jingle or song that goes with the commercial. By using a jingle and rhyming pitch line in the commercial, people will begin differentiate you from the other law firms and when they need legal help, the catchy jingle and pitch line will be one of the first things that come to their mind. TV law firm advertising can be tricky business, but if you do it correctly and your pitch sticks with people, you can be assured that your lead database will explode with new cases and opportunities.
Author Bio: If you’re a lawyer or a law firm looking to do TV ads, CAMG Inc. offers a creative approach with their legal marketing services. Having an ad that stands out from the rest is crucial. We use direct advertising techniques to track results and make sure your ad is seen by your demographic.
About Leo Preston
Leo Preston is a freelance writer and she has already written for various site. She has completed her master degree in Psychology and after that research a lot on article writing. She is expert in home improvement, business, technology, health niche.Google+
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Kannangai R
Moorthy M
Kandathil A J
Sachithanandham J
Thirupavai V
Nithyanandam G
Sridharan G
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Experience with a fourth generation human immunodeficiency virus serological assay at a tertiary care centre in south India
R Kannangai, M Moorthy, AJ Kandathil, J Sachithanandham, V Thirupavai, G Nithyanandam, G Sridharan
Department of Clinical Virology, Christian Medical College, Vellore 632 004 Tamil Nadu, India
Date of Acceptance 15-Oct-2007
R Kannangai
Department of Clinical Virology, Christian Medical College, Vellore 632 004 Tamil Nadu
Kannangai R, Moorthy M, Kandathil A J, Sachithanandham J, Thirupavai V, Nithyanandam G, Sridharan G. Experience with a fourth generation human immunodeficiency virus serological assay at a tertiary care centre in south India. Indian J Med Microbiol 2008;26:200-2
Kannangai R, Moorthy M, Kandathil A J, Sachithanandham J, Thirupavai V, Nithyanandam G, Sridharan G. Experience with a fourth generation human immunodeficiency virus serological assay at a tertiary care centre in south India. Indian J Med Microbiol [serial online] 2008 [cited 2020 Jan 20];26:200-2. Available from: http://www.ijmm.org/text.asp?2008/26/2/200/40548
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic continues to be a burden globally especially in developing countries. [1] Though there is dramatic progress in the diagnostic methodologies, the detection of antibodies continues to be the mainstay of diagnosis in most of these countries. The fourth generation HIV serological assays have been in place in developed countries for a few years. However, they have been introduced in the developing countries only recently. In this study, we have looked at the performance of a fourth generation HIV assay in real-time.
A total of 11, 583 samples received for HIV screening during 2006 September through December were included in this study. The samples were received from patients who were seen in the out patient facility for any procedures/surgery, antenatal screening or with suspicion of HIV infection. The HIV testing was not anonymous or unlinked because counselling services were offered to those in need. In our hospital, a general consent is obtained for all investigations, including blood tests. The HIV antibody testing was done with the sole purpose of better management of HIV infected individuals; the required medical or surgical treatment was never withheld from any patient. The hospital policy is to refer HIV positive individuals to the infectious disease clinic, where counselling services are offered and further course of action determined. This has been the approach followed at our hospital in accordance with the revised guidelines for HIV counselling, testing and referral by CDC (Centre for Disease Control) as it recommends routine HIV testing of all clients from area where the prevalence is >1%. [2]
All the samples were first screened by the Abbott AxSYM HIV Ag/Ab combo test (Abbot, Wiesbaden, Germany). All negative samples were declared negative. All the HIV reactive samples were tested by another fourth generation assay, Vironostika HIV Uni-Form II Ag/Ab (Biomeriux, Boxtel, Netherlands). If the results of the above two assays were concordant those samples were further tested by a second generation assay, HIV TRIDOT (J Mitra and Co. Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, India). Samples reactive in all the three assays were reported as positive for HIV antibody. Samples which showed discrepant results in the first two assays were further tested in duplicate by Abbott AxSYM (Abbot, Wiesbaden, Germany) and subsequently by two more serological assays Genscreen HIV Ag/Ab, (BIORAD, Marnes LA Coquette, France), Retrocheck (Qualpro Diagnsotics, Goa, India) or Genscreen HIV-1/2 (BIO RAD, Marnes LA Coquette, France) and molecular assays for HIV-1 and HIV-2. The algorithm followed during the study period is shown in the figure. All the assays used for the detection of HIV antibody/antigen were UNAIDS/WHO approved.
The molecular testing carried out included both HIV-1 and HIV-2 RNA detection by a real- time RT-PCR. The HIV-1 RNA was estimated using real-time PCR, Rotor-Gene 3000 (Corbet Research Scientific, Australia) with Artus HIV-1 RG RT-PCR assay (Qiagen GmbH, Germany). The manufacturer's instructions were followed for extraction of RNA and for further RT-PCR amplification. The assay contains reagents and enzymes for the reverse transcription and specific amplification of a 73-bp region of the LTR region in the HIV-1 genome. The HIV-2 PCR used was an in-house real-time PCR assays with Syber Green chemistry in which a 108-bp product from the envelop region was amplified. Plasmid construct was used as an internal control with suitable negative and water extraction controls.
A total of 171 samples were found reactive by the Abbott AxSYM during the screening. Among these, 112 samples (Group A) were reactive by the second (Vironostika HIV Uni-Form II Ag/Ab) and third (HIV TRIDOT) assay as well and then declared as positive for HIV antibody. The remaining 59 samples showed discordant results in the first two assays. Among these 59 samples (Group B) one sample was negative by repeat testing (in duplicate) in Abbott AxSYM and declared negative and three more samples were declared negative by testing with two more third generation assays, Retrocheck (Qualpro Diagnsotics, Goa, India) and Genscreen HIV-1/2 (BIO-RAD, Marnes LA Coquette, France).
When 32 available samples out of remaining 55 were tested for HIV-1 and HIV-2 RNA by real-time PCR, all except one were found negative. These 31 samples were declared negative for HIV. One plasma sample was found negative by Abbott AxSYM and hence not included for HIV RNA testing. For the remaining 23 individuals fresh plasma samples were not available. However original serum samples were available for 18 individuals and those samples were tested by one more fourth generation assay (Genscreen HIV Ag/Ab, BIORAD, Marnes LA Coquette, France) and a third generation assay (Retrocheck Qualpro Diagnsotics, Goa, India). All these 18 were found negative by three assays and declared negative. The number of samples tested by each test and their results are also shown in the figure.
The serological window period in HIV is considered to be four to six weeks. The assays that can detect p24 antigen along with antibodies can further reduce this time period. It is reported that the fourth generation HIV serological assays, compared to third generation assay, will reduce the diagnostic window period by further two to five days. [3] Currently, more and more laboratories in India have started using fourth generation assays routinely for HIV screening. Hence, it is important to know the in-use performance of these assays.
As these assays are highly sensitive there is higher chance of false positive results. In our study it is found that the mean ± SD of the sample rate / cutoff rate of the group A ( n = 112) samples was 39. 44 ± 12.68 (range 7.1-71.82). All the samples except for two (98.2%) had an S/CO of >10.00. The mean ± SD of the S/CO of the group B ( n = 58) samples was 1.91 ± 1.77 (range 0.9-11.97). All the 58 samples except one (98.3%) had an S/CO of less than 10, while for one of the samples it was 11.97. Calculating an arbitrary cut off of mean S/CO ± 3 SD of the 58 negative samples, the value would be 7.2. All the 58 samples except one (98.3%) had an S/CO of less than 7.2. Among the 170 repeatedly reactive samples by Abbot AxSYM system only 112 (67.5%) were found to be truly reactive for HIV. However, while taking the arbitrary cutoff of the S/CO value 7, among 113 samples 112 (99.1%) were positive for HIV. In this study we could not calculate the accuracy indices of the assays as the negative samples were not tested by any other gold standard assays like HIV-1 and 2 RNA due to financial constraints.
Several HIV positive cases during the seroconversion period have been reported to be detected only by fourth generation assays or HIV RNA detection and these samples turn out to be negative by a variety of third generation assays. [4] Conversely, there are reports of third generation EIA showing similar sensitivity to fourth generation EIA (100%) and higher specificity (97.5 versus 95.1%). [5] In our study we were unable to identify any individual who was truly positive only by a fourth generation assay. Based on our findings we believe that any sample which shows an S/CO of <7 may be a false positive result by the Abbot AxSYM system and can be declared negative by testing with two other fourth/third generation assays. However, any sample with >7 S/CO should be considered as positive and if there is any discrepancy with other fourth generation assays it should be sent for molecular assay for the detection of HIV RNA.
1. UNAIDS/WHO AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2006. Available from: http://www.unaids.org/en/HIV_data/epi2006/. [Last accessed on 2007 Mar 31].
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Revised guidelines for HIV counseling, testing and referral. MMWR Recomm Rep 2001;50:1-57.
3. van Binsbergen J, Siebelink A, Jacobs A, Keur W, Bruynis F, van de Graaf M. Improved performance of seroconversion with a 4th generation HIV antigen/antibody assay. J Virol Methods 1999;82:77-84
4. McElborough D. Importance of using an HIV Ag/Ab combined assay in a UK population at high risk of acquiring HIV infection. Commun Dis Public Health 2004;7:312-4. [PUBMED]
5. Canna F, Trevino E, Dominguez C, Gastaldello R, Barbas G, Cudola A, et al , Screening of HIV in blood banks: Evaluation of fourth generation kits. Medicina (B Aires) 2003;63:685-91.
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Home Small Business Stocks Rally Despite Intel Warning
Stocks Rally Despite Intel Warning
By Paul Shread | December 08, 2000
A revenue warning from Intel that wasn't as bad as expected sent stocks sharply higher on Friday. Investors also cheered a weaker-than-expected unemployment report, even though it revealed some wage pressures.
The ISDEX soared 38 to 487, and the Nasdaq surged 141 to 2894. The S&P 500 rose 27 to 1371, and the Dow climbed 123 to 10,741. Volume rose to 528 million shares on the NYSE and 1 billion on the Nasdaq. Advancers led by 17 to 9 on the NYSE and 24 to 10 on the Nasdaq. For earnings reports, visit our earnings calendar and reported earnings. For after hours quotes and news, visit our after hours trading site.
Eighteen of 50 ISDEX stocks posted 10% gains. Among the biggest point gainers were former leaders like Juniper , up 11 1/16 to 159 15/16, Broadcom , up 15 7/8 to 126 1/2, Checkpoint , up 14 15/16 to 152 7/8, and Ariba , up 8 7/8 to 82 7/8, just below 83 1/2 resistance.
Openwave rose 13 1/2 to 71 1/2, Tibco surged 9 7/8 to 68 7/8, Wireless Facilities climbed 6 to 40 3/4, Inktomi added 5 3/4 to 41 15/16, and i2 rose 5 15/16 to 63.
AskJeeves plunged 5 31/32 to 3 23/32 on an earnings warning and news that CEO Rob Wrubel is stepping down.
Yahoo continued to struggle on earnings concerns, slipping 1/8 to 34 3/4, but off its low of 32 1/8.
Ciena surged 16 7/16 to 112 1/16 a day after beating estimates and raising forecasts. The company also announced the successful completion of interoperability tests with Cisco , up 2 3/16 to 52 1/8.
StarMedia Network tacked on 3/16 to 3 1/16 on a Bear Stearns Buy rating and $8-$9 price target.
Almost there. The Nasdaq 100 would complete its inverted head-and-shoulders bottom with a close above 2940, about 55 points above today's high. The minimum upside predicted by the pattern would be 3350. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index would easily negate its recent breakdown with a close here (635).
The ISDEX is also forming an inverted head-and-shoulders pattern, and would take it out with a close of 500.
The S&P 500 is holding its lower support line, but we have to wonder if its forthcoming advance will form a bearish rising wedge, indicating a possible retest of the lows. Purely speculation at this point. 1400 is critical resistance.
The Dow is so far holding the 10,600-10,650 range, a source of much support and resistance lately. A break of 10,600 could indicate a retest of the 10,380 area, and a move above 10,900 would be a positive.
Special report: For a free introduction to technical chart patterns and an overview of this year's action in the stock market, visit http://www.internetstockreport.com/guest/article/0,1785,2571_500051,00.html.
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Any Russian Region Could, With Outside Help, Become a Donbas
A village near Lugansk after an airstrike | ITAR-TASS / Zuma Press
Staunton, February 6 – Like many countries, the Russian Federation suffers from many regional and ethnic tensions, any one of which could become a Donbas if an outside power provided it with assistance, a reality that both Moscow and many in the West appear to have forgotten, according to Ukrainian commentator Pavel Kazarin.
In a note for Haqqin.az, Kazarin points out that few regional or ethnic divisions explode into violence unless they have outside sponsorship, such as Vladimir Putin has been providing for small groups in Donetsk and Lugansk and that if such sponsorship ends, these conflicts generally are resolved politically rather than militarily.
Russians “love to say” that the conflict in the Donbas is “only a civil war” and that “various regions” in Ukraine could easily follow in its footsteps. But they are less willing to recognize that “it turns out that exactly such ‘a Donbas’ could be created somewhere around [the Russian regions of] Penza or Novgorod,” if they got the same kind of support Putin is giving to Donbas.
Kazarin begins his analysis by pointing out that “no ‘south east’ exists” in Ukraine. What pro-Moscow groups are referring to are “only several regions of Donetsk and Lugansk provinces,” a small number of urban agglomerations surrounded by agricultural areas which have “not fallen under the influence of the separatists.”
Nor have separatist sentiments and actions spread to other parts of Ukraine, despite the predictions of many in Moscow, the Ukrainian analyst points out. “Kharkiv and Mykolayev, Odessa, Zaparozhe, and Kherson: all these territories continue to peacefully exist within Ukraine.”
The portion of the Donbas that has exploded has done so not so much because of conditions there but because of the introduction of an outside spark and the continuing support of an outside power. Indeed, Kazarin continues, the best evidence of that is to be found in the statements of people like Igor Strelkov.
In an interview to Zavtra, Strelkov, one-time supreme commander of the Donetsk Peoples Republic army, explicitly said that “if it had not been for his interference, then Donbas all in the Donbas would have been peaceful just as in Kharkiv or Odessa.”
Obviously, Strelkov feels that his contribution has not been adequately appreciated, but his words call into question and “de-sacralize” the myth that the Kremlin has promoted throughout the last year, the myth that the Donbas was ready to rise and would have done so regardless of what anyone else did.
After Strelkov’s interview, Kremlin propagandists went into action to try to contain the fallout, Kazarin says. “They began to say that yes, Strelkov and his detachment threw in the match, but there would not have been a fire if the region had not been ready to burn as a result of its [internal] contradictions.”
“This is nonsense,” Kazarin says, “because such ‘contradictions’ exist in the most varied regions of the world but they become military conflicts only if there is some act of pitiless will.” Consider Belgium, or Quebec, or Catalonia. All have regional interests, even secessionist ones, but in none of these have such attitudes led to military actions.
“More than that,” he continues, using the Kremlin’s logic, it would be “possible to organize a war in any Russian region. For example, in Penza. Or in Vladivostok. Or in Saransk.” Using that logic, then it is clear that “any region of the Russian Federation is condemned to war with the federal center.”
More than almost any other country, Russia has multiple and serious inter-regional and inter-ethnic problems. There are conflicts between donor regions and recipient ones, between the rich and the poor, between the corrupt neo-feudal system and the increasingly impoverished population. And using the Kremlin’s logic, all that is needed for a conflagration is a match!
There is even evidence for this: the actions of the Primorsky territory “partisans” who accused the Russian interior ministry of illegality and sought to oppose it. They were eventually caught and imprisoned, but polls showed that almost as many Russians viewed them as battlers against corruption as criminals and more than one in five expressed sympathy with them.
Such figures suggest, Kazarin continues, that “any Russian region could be transformed into a Donbas. It is sufficient,” he suggests, “to choose a region and send to it one’s own ‘Igor strelkov’” and then wait for an explosion.
There are of course some superficial differences between Ukraine and Russia. In Ukraine, these outside forces “exploited the theme of regional and worldview distinctions,” while in Russia, one would need to exploit “protests against the stratification of society, social divisions, and the theme of post-Soviet nostalgia.”
But the point is this: all suggestions by Moscow or others that “’if there hadn’t been Strelkov, there would have been someone else who would have thrown the match’ are false. There are contradictions in any society. But they are less like gasoline than like TNT” and the latter needs a detonator if it is to explode.
And that reality calls attention to what is after all the major difference between Russia and Ukraine: “Ukraine has not exported instability to Russia. But Russia very much has to Ukraine.”
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The Horror of Frankenstein and the Politics of Boredom
12.2.15 Joel Heyes
The story goes that Hammer stalwart Jimmy Sangster, having written the screenplays of previous episodes in their Frankenstein franchise, was offered the chance to write the next instalment. Bored with the whole idea Sangster turned them down, only to be offered the chance to produce it as well. He half-heartedly replied that he only would do so if he was also made director. Twenty minutes later Hammer rung him back and, to his incredulity, agreed.
And so was 'The Horror of Frankenstein' (1970) born, written-produced-directed by Sangster, and released at a time when the Hammer hit machine was starting to become decidedly shonky (and with a production process like the above is it any wonder?). Despite having had a key role in some of Hammer's finest moments Sangster was now bored by the Frankenstein assembly line and as a result set out to – deliberately or otherwise – shake up the formula.
This is evident right from the opening scenes; rather than drown the film in stodgy exposition, we see scene after scene of Victor Frankenstein's brusque ascent through school and to medical college and eventually his return to the family estate – murder, quips, expulsion, sex, all follow in quick succession. Neither is there a remote sense of portentous hamminess either, replaced instead by a mischievous tongue placed firmly in cheek (and in Victor's case everywhere else too).
Even the young Frankenstein himself, with his smirk & sideburns and portrayed with snide perfection by Ralph Bates, has a sense of counter-cultural rebellion about him. This Frankenstein was 'wild in the streets' (or, at least, the estate grounds), and when his first attempt to resurrect dead bodies leads to a dismembered hand giving the finger then it's clear that the whole film is, in some sense, an 'up yours' to Hammer tradition.
But this rebellious use of his boredom by Sangster to creatively destroy is mirrored in the characterisations in the film. Victor is a genius, and as such is not stretched or challenged by his surroundings – we see him better educated than his teacher, un-intimidated by the Dean, fearless with the father and undaunted by women – and, being bored as he is, he rebels against practically everything in a nihilistic and snotty way. There is something almost punk rock in the way that Victor romps through the empire leaving a trail of mayhem in his wake. The one challenge and obsession that he has – to resurrect the dead - actually gives him some focus away from being generally cruel and indifferent; although, surely if he can combine the two then that would be even more preferable (and, not so say, fun).
So although the tale of the rebellious young Frankenstein may not be a classic (and bearing in mind it's origins who can they they're surprised?) it is still a robust example of snotty rebellion against stuffy orthodoxy, and is full of appropriate disrespect. Isn't this how any revolution begins? Bored young people rebelling, creating through destruction (or in Victor's case creating through destruction through creation)? Even the hammy world of Hammer is not immune from the Nietzschean twitching of the bored, restless coming race. The lesson we can draw from the film is that a little revolution is a good thing – and for God's sake give evil genius a project to work on (and preferably one that doesn't involve cadavers).
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The Effect of Si Substitution on Distribution of H2 on Coronene
Document Type: Research Paper
Farrokh Roya Nikmaram
Khadijeh Kalateh
Pegah Kanganizadeh
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Yadegar - e - Imam Khomeini (RAH) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
10.22034/ijnc.2014.14740
In this work, the radial distribution function (RDF) of H2 adsorption on coronene (C24) and its Si Substituted forms was investigated by Monte Carlo method. The effect of number and position of silicon substituent on the Coronene (C24) was compared. The maximum value of RDF at 298 K and 0.1 MPa is 4.34 for 18 Si, A structure at 0.73 Å. On the basis of results, the Coronene with 18 Si can be suggested as a choice for hydrogen container.
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Farrokh Roya Nikmaram; Khadijeh Kalateh; Pegah Kanganizadeh. "The Effect of Si Substitution on Distribution of H2 on Coronene". International Journal of New Chemistry, 1, 4, 2014, 160-165. doi: 10.22034/ijnc.2014.14740
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Realtor.com to display sold listings data in Chicago, Boston, SF
Deal with 3 MLSs provides members with Move's 'Find' search tool
Realtor.com operator Move Inc. announced today it will be able to show consumers in the Chicago, Boston and San Francisco markets sold listings data — including who represented the buyer and seller — thanks to agreements with three multiple listing services.
In return, Move is providing the three MLSs — Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) in Chicago, MLS Property Information Network Inc. (MLS PIN) in Boston, and the San Francisco Association of Realtors — with its “Find” application, a “natural language” search tool that provides access to data aggregated by Move, including property records, neighborhood and school information, and local amenities.
The “Find” application is designed to provide Realtors with a more sophisticated interface for mining the data Move has put together, the company said when it first offered it to MLSs more than three years ago.
In return, Move gets to publish “sold” listing data on realtor.com, a feature that’s made “Virtual Office Websites” (VOWs) — like those operated by Seattle-based brokerage Redfin — popular with consumers.
MRED announced in July 2011 that its members would gain access to the Find tool. But a spokesman for the MLS said at the time that MRED had not agreed to provide sold listings data for display on realtor.com.
Move said today that MRED members gained access to the Find tool in May, and that Boston and San Francisco will be implemented “soon.”
Asked why the MRED “Find” agreement announced in 2011 was not implemented until this year, Move spokeswoman Lexie Puckett said timing “was based on the queue of products and services MRED was introducing to their members over the past 18 months. The important thing is this member benefit is now live, and receiving high accolades from the MLS participants and subscribers.”
MRED spokesman Jeff Lasky confirmed that implementing Find required reviewing “all the data elements that were going from our system to Find. The Find product is more robust than the public version so there was a certain level of data conversions we had to get squared away.”
He said MRED also wanted to make sure that the FIND product was used often by agents, so the MLS took “extra steps” to make sure that it was integrated within the connectMLS system.
“This process ran up against higher priority items that were already in our queue — new products and services and system enhancements,” Lasky said.
The sold listings found on the Find tool available to Realtors only go back about five years, he said. The public can only see the last six months of MRED sold data, he said.
“The sold conundrum has become less of an issue since sold listings on the Internet have become ubiquitous,” Lasky said.
He said “Find” has been “very well received” by MRED members, with nearly 8,000 users within the first few weeks.
Move said today it now provides access to between 5 million and 6 million sold records per year — including more than 3 million that are MLS-sourced — and 113 million property records from various public record providers. The Find tool also provides access to nationwide school and neighborhood information, plus information on amenities like shopping and restaurants.
MRED represents nearly 40,000 brokers and agents with more than 75,500 listings; MLS PIN has 28,700 members and more than 38,500 active listings; SFAR has more than 2,839 members who represent more than 3,500 listings.
“Real estate professionals around the country and particularly in extremely competitive markets like Chicago, Boston and San Francisco depend on quick and easy access to robust neighborhood information in order to make recommendations to their clients,” said Move CEO Steve Berkowitz in a statement. “MRED, MLS PIN and SFAR represent three highly sought-after markets with strong competition among real estate professionals.”
MRED CEO Russ Bergeron said in a statement that the Find tool “offers a powerful, robust and intuitive search engine that delivers unfettered, unrestricted views of all Move data sets. The result is that MRED practitioners should never be at a disadvantage to the consumer audience.”
Move operates realtor.com under the terms of an agreement with the National Association of Realtors. Next month, NAR’s board of directors will hold a special meeting to explore whether to give Move more freedom to compete with other websites like Zillow and Trulia.
At the trade group’s midyear meeting in May, NAR CEO Dale Stinton said the information available to consumers on realtor.com and third-party sites is “wildly different” because the realtor.com operating agreement restricts Move from providing some content to consumers.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with comments from Move Inc. and MRED on the timing of implementation of the MRED “Find” agreement.
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Political Science Sociology International Affairs Business & Communications Psychology All Topics
Culture Machismo Macho Socioeconomic Mexican Mexico Nationalism Identity Yo Soy Yo Yi Mi Circunstancia Socioeconomic Origins
Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia: The Socioeconomic Origins of Machismo and the Macho
By Scott Berghegger
2009, Vol. 1 No. 11 | pg. 1/1
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Keywords:Culture Machismo Macho Socioeconomic Mexican Mexico Nationalism Identity Yo Soy Yo Yi Mi Circunstancia Socioeconomic Origins
The simultaneous allure and repulsion of Mexican machismo belies its ambiguous nature as an identifying characteristic of the nation itself and as a phenomenon that some claim is unique to Mexico and others say is endemic throughout patriarchal societies worldwide. Macho behavior is defined as “vulgar language, sadistic insults, the utter degradation of women” (Peña 1991: 31), but a macho can also refer to “a real man, good drinker, lover, singer, fighter, brave and willing to defend what he believes in” (Stevens 1965: 849) and as a man who is “fuerte, feo y formal” (Najera Ramirez 1994: 9). The ideal Mexican man, according to folkloric interpretations, may incorporate elements of both these “bad” and “good” sides of machismo into their personality.
However, some scholars debate the authenticity of a chauvinistic Mexican machismo that is sprung internally from Mexican culture. Is the pejorative side of machismo an imaginary solution to a real problem? Is machismo simply a stereotype created by non-Mexicans — an example of names lending reality to things, as Paredes puts it — or a reaction to psychohistorical trauma of invasions by Spain and the United States? Or is machismo more than a label on bragging and the subjugation of women in a society crippled by economic despair?
A variety of answers stem from experts in sociology, psychology, anthropology and political science make the determination that the concept of Mexican machismo is quite palpable in the lives of Mexican men (and women) and that the stereotype of the brute macho, like most widespread cultural assumptions, came from a source outside Mexico. However, the most salient answer for the question of the source of true, non-stereotypical machismo is that of class struggle between middle- and working-class Mexicans and between Mexicans and their historical conquerors.
If the stereotype of the brash Mexican macho was created by foreign observers — especially white Americans from the 1910s through the 1940s — of the behavior of Mexican men, it certainly did not erupt from the idealized male figure of the charro cinemático. The charro, a man who symbolized masculinity through his dramatic feats of acrobatics and strength in the Mexican rodeo, was idealized in Mexican culture during the presidency of Porfirio Diaz. Diaz developed the idea of the charro into an “invincible national hero…. thoroughly integrated with the ideas of manhood, nationhood, and power” (Nájera-Ramírez 4). This power allowed any Mexican man who emulated the charros to assume a status otherwise unavailable to him due to centuries of subjugation by foreign entities: he, as the charro, was a man who bested animal and treacherous woman alike as well as represented his country as something stronger than the rest of the world perceived it to be.
However, in the 1940s, during the rule of President Manuel Avila Camacho, came a bevy of melodramatic, heavy-handed and heavy-hearted nationalistic films starring Diaz’s idealized image of the charro. These films coincided with a surge of Mexican national pride during World War II and featured such handsome stars as Jorge Negrete and Pedro Infante. The actors in the films sang of alpha manliness, brazenly displaying their machismo through corridos, warning renegades of their cunning with pistols made in other countries (Paredes 1971: 221). Paredes calls these “moving-picture corridos” and claims that they aim at the middle class man, “a man who goes to the movies, has enough money to buy a car, and enough political influence to go around carrying a gun.”
True charros objected to the glamorized version of the macho in the movies. Yes, the charros fantásticos were “fuerte, feo y formal,” as the rodeo men supposedly were. But Negrete, Infante and the like were more photogenic than truly “feo,” brandished guns rather than ropes and sang canciones rancheras (known until the 1930s as canciones típicas mexicanas — Mexican folklore songs) to gain the sentiment of screen starlets and moviegoers. In addition, the creators of such charro films designed archetypal character flaws such as alcohol binges and violent outbursts — characteristics of the stereotypical Mexican machismo.
The charros of the screen sometimes used questionable tactics to achieve their goals, but right-minded people were more than willing to look the other way as the heroes fought their battles with wit, cunning and a little bit of deception (Nájera-Ramírez 5). Real-life charros were outraged, calling the scripts of such movies “glaring misrepresentations of the authentic charro’s moral character and tradition” (9). Not limited to film, the perversion of the pure nationalistic hero spread into the discourse of the working class — the concept of “charrismo” referred to “corruption, violence, and anti-democratic behavior,” and a charro came to mean a tyrant in everyday political dialogue (10).
The aura of the charro was further tainted by celluloid idealism because it removed the macho from the arena of the charreada, a showcase of talent that, in its early days, welcomed even the lowest laborers in the working class. In the charreada, the point of the competition was to “display abilities of strength, independence, and bravery. Consequently, charreadas were a means by which men of any social class might prove themselves to be worthy charros and thus greatly enhance their status as real men” (Nájera-Ramírez 3). By transforming the charro into a womanizing rogue who dominated both women and the Mexican audience, the nationalist films of the 1940s changed the requirements of the macho character and restricted those in the lower class from living up to the expectations of their culture’s overarching machismo.
Unlike the ambivalent middle class, who may not live in total comfort but are at least eligible “to carry a gun” in the literal and metaphorical senses, the Mexican lower class is not only subjugated by dominant nations but by dominant classes. Peña’s assertion that machismo folklore among the lower classes — which consists less of romantic, melodramatic national heroes and more of stories of women who get their just desserts — “legitimizes the oppression of women [and] plays an ideological role in class conflict” (Peña 30). In other words, lower class Mexican men, aware of the pressure to be macho but lacking the charm of the charros cinemáticos, affirm their dominance over women (and other men through games like “the dozens”) much more harshly and coarsely than Jorge Negrete’s firm yet noble grasp.
Charritas coloradas, or “red jokes,” cut to the heart of the lower-class Mexican man’s degradation of women in order to stress the superiority of his gender. The folkloric portrayal of women in the men’s jokes is entirely the opposite of the idealized faithful mother figure whose love will never expire. The treacherous women of machismo folklore are bold and licentious, characteristics strictly reserved for the unsatisfiable sexual dervish that is the Mexican man. The men lament that Chicanas are especially wild and “not even blows” could control them (33). One man states that “Chicanas are worse whores than hens,” evidence of a long-standing idea of superiority over Mexican-American women (33-34). Like Mexican men, Mexican women have their own culturally-dictated ideal to follow. Hembrismo, or extreme submission by females to males, is at work at the same time machismo urges men to seize power and show off their Mexican virility (Station 1972, Arrizón 1998). However, Peña suggests that there is more at work in the culture of charritas coloradas than gender dynamics. Insults, half-playful duels, fights and other characteristics of macho humor “could be interpreted as expressions of sexual deviance, interpersonal hostility, or even the psychocultural inferiority that Ramos and others have attributed to Mexican Men” (36).
The machismo culture, and often Mexico as a whole, is often diagnosed with an inferiority complex (Peña 38). Adler claims his diagnosis based on his assertion that “Mexico has copied indiscriminately American, French and British institutions and ideas without taking into account the Mexican circumstances of her mestizo culture” (Phelan 1956: 311). In the case of Dromundo’s Adelita, the gender dynamics of the play can be seen as a metaphor for “the manly power of a nation” subjugating the untamed wild (female) colony — i.e., the Spanish conquest or the United States’ dominance of the politics of North America (Arrizón 93). Samuel Ramos’s “mestizo psychology” presumes the existence of such a pathology as a national inferiority complex, evidenced by “[people] who take vital interest in all things and situations that signify power, and who demonstrate an immoderate eagerness to excel, to be first in everything” (Tuohy 1974: 293). However, a nationwide diagnosis of “the Mexican condition” in psychoanalytic terms such as “inferiority complex” or “reaction formation” may too easily ignore the historical and political conditions for the development of identity in Mexican men.
When social order breaks down and political institutions betray Mexican men who depend on their patriarchal society’s rationality to retain power, machos may return to the unconditional love of the pure, faithful mother figure, idealized in machismo (MacCoby 1967: 72). With the breakdown of formal order, the political macho, whether he plays Russian roulette, gambles on horse races or argues in court, must retreat — against all teachings of self-righteous, self-sufficient machismo — to the female, domestic aspect of society. Once thrust into a space with which he is unfamiliar how to control, he releases his aggression on his family, much in the same way as Peña’s orchard workers.
Peña theorizes that, “as a signifying system unique to working-class male culture, the folklore of machismo symbolically conflates class and gender by shifting the point of conflict from the public domain of the former to the domestic domain of the latter” (30). In other words, machos take it out on women because they cannot adequately take it out on their own corrupt political system. Another example is that of the patriarchal hacienda system, which “united men in their domination over women and fostered a paternalistic attitude towards those in lower levels” (Nájera-Ramírez 3). The Mexican government, one could say, is, in the eyes of a poor Mexican man, full of charrismo.
Still, while some authors make no distinction between lower- and middle-class machismo and others like Peña and Paredes take opposite sides as to the origins of the macho concept, through history appears two distinct kinds of machismo — what Mendoza calls “authentic” and “false” machismo, the former cast in courage and heroism, the latter in bombast and “supermanliness that conceals an inferiority complex” (Paredes 216). Even assuming the existence of these two types of machismo, there is disparity between the manliness of the middle class and that of the working class. The middle-class machos, who have the means to emulate the charming, educated charros cinemáticos, who always get the girl without even having to try but are also at the mercy of woman’s beauty, are the macho respetable. They represent the nation as an unquestionably proud Mexican man, skilled with wordplay and dominant in and out of his household (as long as he does not deign to cross the northern border) These are Paredes’s middle-class intellectuals who grapple for a national identity under the unofficial servitude of the United States; they build it through their own personal acts of machismo.
In the case of working-class Mexican men, the macho concept is more complex because, in addition to national and gender struggles, they are fighting class inequalities as well. Through their macho acts — cracking misogynistic jokes, pretend-dueling, insulting each other’s manhood — they create for themselves a position of power that their national folklore expects them to hold. Peña’s interviewees may take offense with Mendoza’s intellectual grandstanding — their machismo, while it may be an offshoot or completely different altogether from the chivalrous machismo of yore, is no more inauthentic than Negrete’s. In fact, they may argue that their own manly posturing is based more in reality than the folkloric aphorisms of courage, heroism and bravery on the imagined battlefield — they live the hard life of a Mexican peasant and have first-hand experience of what macho truly is.
Peña’s interviews with undocumented, working-class Mexican men in a California orchard embellishes the conscious struggle of lower-class men to assert their dominance over anything they deem less worthy than they, including women and Chicanos. Peña’s argument differs from Paredes’s in that Peña dismisses the idea of machismo being born and bred in the middle class through resentment toward American hegemony. “[T]he style of discourse in which macho folklore best flourishes … is more characteristic of working-class men than their middle-class counterparts,” systemic of a bully culture which fabricates its dominance over the weak in order to allay its members own feeling of powerlessness (Peña 31). Both theorists find evidence of bullying among competing social groups — Paredes between Americans and Mexicans and Peña between Mexican men and Mexican women — but the rough nature of modern machismo seems more comfortable growing in the field of Mexican laborers than in a bourgeois’s garden.
Either version of machismo nevertheless traps the Mexican man into a cycle of stereotypical behavior; that is, if a young Mexican receives praise by his colleagues or his culture when he debases women through words or action, he will most likely continue the behavior (in psychology, called social learning theory; Tuohy 296). This explanation of macho behavior gives a broader, psychosocial base to Paz’s idea of the solitude of the Mexican. Paz supposes that the Mexican traps himself in his own labyrinth through a denial of both native blood and conquest — he wishes to be born neither his Spanish father’s infiltrating seed nor his Indian mother’s racially-weak lineage. He is alone, without a family or heritage outside himself, the lack of which created through sheer denial. With no father or mother, the Mexican is autochthonous and an abstraction (Hoy 1982: 372). From a psychohistorical point of view, the macho’s behavior is reinforced by centuries of folkloric heroes, including Negrete, Cuauhtémoc and José Mosqueda (Tuohy 295; MacCoby 67; Paredes 191).
Peña offers an explanation that differs from the widespread psychoanalytic diagnosis and presents the condition of lower-class machismo as a reaction to the hegemonic political and social structures around them. From the injustice that male Mexican workers to which were victim and witness flowed resentment “like a powerful undercurrent in the stream of these undocumented workers’ culture. … I am not pointing here to inferiority complexes born of the rape of ancestral mothers by Spanish conquistadors … but to the daily adversities thrown up against the workers by an economic system that condemns them to perpetual struggle, impoverishment, and alienation” (Peña 39). These Mexicans in particular “view life as a scene of combat; the Mexican machismo is an armor of invulnerability to an alien world” (Hoy 372).
If Mexicans see life as a scene of combat, then it would perhaps be beneficial to explore a deliberately constructed arena suited for exactly that. Levi’s account of the world of lucha libre, or Mexican professional wrestling, echoes the behavior patterns of machos through masculine melodrama. If one were to ask the public what the archetypal figure of the American “macho” would be, many would answer that the bulky frame and arrogant, peacock-like parading of a professional wrestler would fit the bill. Despite the scripted, “fake” nature of the origins of the events in professional wrestling that keep its audience captive, many may ignore the fact that the participants are acting in a drama when assessing how manly they are. Are not all classifiable social roles scripted in the first place anyway?
If one is to assume so, then the idea that professional wrestling is corrupt is laughable at best — how can a play be corrupt? Instead, Levi posits the lucha libre as a drama about corruption. She goes on to claim that “the fundamental difference between professional wrestling and, say, soccer is not that one is drama and the other sport, but that as sports they represent different types of drama” (Levi 1997: 57). Lucha libre expresses sport — that is, competitive physical activity for the sake of entertainment — as melodrama, as opposed to the drama of the soccer match which, while it may produce a mildly interesting commercialized industry, has no overarching stories or personal vendettas between its “characters.”
The luchadores fit into one of two categories: rudos, the bad guys, and técnicos or científicos, the good guys. The folkloric aspect of the lucha libre is apparent — Barthes’s forays into the study of wrestling as a social phenomenon led him to treat it as a “demystified cultural form” (Levi 58). The rudos, who win the matches as often if not more often than the técnicos, are characterized by their gusto and passion and their willingness to break the traditional rules of the fair fight. Técnicos, on the other hand, tend to be seen training at the gym more often and defer to the authority of the referees. (The terms técnicos and científicos, when not applied to wrestling, are loaded with meaning; the former is a term for members of the technocratic wing of the PRI, the ruling governmental party in Mexico, and the latter refers to the “antinationalist villains” of standard Mexican history texts.)
Despite the ostensible civility of the técnicos, Levi says that the Mexican middle class is more likely to scoff at the melodrama of lucha libre than to be absorbed in its folkloric framework. “As representatives of the bourgeoisie,” she writes, “scholars and journalists alike refuse to recognize wrestling for what it is for the same reason they cannot afford to recognize the labor process in all its brutality” (60). However, Mexican laborers certainly understand the brutal nature of the labor process and thus are much more likely to respond to the violence, physical and verbal, of the wrestling ring. The gruff version of machismo is more readily available in wrestling than the smooth, womanizing type of the silver screen; the middle-class macho of Paredes and Mendoza simply does not understand the vulgarity of Peña’s working-class macho.
The connection to the mythology of machismo is apparent in the tenets of lucha libre: a folkloric battle of good against bad, posturing an exaggerated and extreme masculinity, and following a prescribed script are requirements of the luchadores as well as the charros and of Mexican men displaying their own overripe masculinity for friend, foe, woman and nation to see. The tension of the melodrama, and the tension between Mendoza’s two warring types of machismo, the authentic and the fake, comes from a classist assumption of a culture-wide inferiority complex. “In Latin America … the devaluating of melodrama is explicitly class-based rather than primarily gendered,” writes Levi (61). “The pleasure for the audience lies not in the triumph of good but in the representation of their worldview” (62-63).
So it follows from Levi’s and Barthes’s suggestions that if the status quo of the Mexican and/or Mexican-American labor and social systems are corrupt, those affected — especially machos — enjoy a fantastical representation of their world as opposed to an escapist view on entertainment. In other words, the Mexican concepts of lucha libre and machismo include an inversion of reality, but not in the way Americans and Europeans are used to seeing. While the higher-class intellectuals of America are praised when they create reality out of fiction (recall any movie, TV show or play that forms “reality” out of a scripted situation, such as the gamut of so-called reality TV shows), the luchadores create fiction out of reality, taking the class struggles of everyday Mexican men and fictionalizing them to a script only slightly more overt than that of a game of the dozens played by the most macho men in all of Mexico.
Even the men most representative of authentic machismo, whether the sophisticated middle-class type or the brutish working-class version, are wracked with a loneliness Octavio Paz and other researchers have elaborated all too eloquently. “[T]he distinguishing characteristic of machismo is not violence but intransigence. … he may, of course, have to resort to violence to impose his criterion. But men customarily take precautions against this eventuality by avoiding intimacy with others, abstaining from discussion controversial matters and leading a rather lonely life” (Stevens 849).
Men, and in particular macho Mexican men, are lost in the labyrinth of solitude, a ripple effect they must endure as victims of struggle between socioeconomic classes and between nationhoods decades after the Mexican Revolution and centuries after Spanish conquest. But why continue with the cycle of scripted machismo if the script is not true to the ideal Mexican man? Simply because the complex social world of men dictates that such scripts be played out for all to witness and judge. Machismo, like lucha libre, is a sport and a melodrama. “I believe one does it all for the sake of machismo,” states a working-class Mexican man who, in addition to working to sustain his family, must sustain himself in the constantly competitive sociopolitical world of men and nations. (Peña 43). “[It is] as if we have to prove that we are men.” And — through their everyday battles to be the best men they possibly can — they prove that they are not only men, but machos.
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Paredes, A. (1971). “The United States, Mexico, and Machismo” (M. Steen, Trans.). In R. Bauman (Ed.), Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border (pp. 215-234). Austin: CMAS Books.
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Posted by: Elizabeth Sandifer 7 years, 11 months ago
Note: For gematrial reasons, section #10 is the beginning of the entry and you should skip to there. Alternatively, John G. Wood has made a proper interactive fiction version of it and posted it here because he is awesome.
It is stark white and so very bright here at the summit. There is simply light, and oneness, and completion. This is the void, and it is everything.
Nothing follows this. But out of nothing can come anything. In one story Doctor Who is built up to the heavens itself and then leveled back down. These heights are miles from Toxteth and Thatcher, from the Kingdom that the Crown rules above. No matter. Sometimes the only escape we have from the world is dreams, whether it be the world of schoolyard bullies or of Tories. Sometimes all we can do in the face of a growing darkness is retreat into a realm of silly and daft ideas and watch as they inexorably spin their way into more.
Doctor Who can't fight Thatcher. It can't stop her. She will run rampant and horrible over Britain for a decade, a terrible woman who does terrible things. She will win election after election, and her legacy will be nearly impossible to chisel out of the heart of the country even long after the sheer breadth of devastation she brought is clear. We are in history here, and there is no height to which one can ascend in order to find a solution to it. You can't rewrite history. Not one line. Much as one wants to, much as one is desperate to.
But one can always rewrite fantasy. One can always rewrite Doctor Who. One must. It demands it, demands endless action, endless mercurial play. It is enough to say this of Logopolis: it could have been the end, but the moment was prepared for.
Go to section 0.
This near to the pinnacle of all things it is difficult to pin down specifics. A musky greyness is all there is. Neither thing nor absence, there is no purity here. At nearly the most refined point in the cosmos, scraping against eternity itself, we have passed knowledge, passed understanding. Now there is only Wisdom, the capacity to take a step, to act, to do something. In the beginning, and thus in the end, is the word.
The Doctor, in the entire story, takes three actions that matter at all - he lands his TARDIS atop another Police Box that turns out to have been a trap, he lands it within a city of words, and he sends a CVE out into Cassiopeia. All three are the same action - the positioning of an emboitment at a crucial moment. This, in the end, defines the Doctor's actions. If the TARDIS chooses the moment, which as we later learn, she does, it is still the Doctor who injects her into them, who actually puts the box into place.
We are returning to first principles here, but this is inevitable. This place represents first principles and beginnings. A magical box that breaks the world. A glorious madman who makes the box appear. From these things everything else follows. Logopolis is nothing more than a metaphor for those two simple concepts, and in being this it becomes a metaphor for everything else that Doctor Who is.
From here there is only one path.
Go to section 11.
Black pearls scented like myrrh abound in this place. There is a sweaty heat, full of lust and yearning, and yet also sacred, pristine and holy.
The highest aspect of the sacred feminine, this realm in one sense reflects the major abscess that we have been circling around all entry - the lack of any emotional core to the show. But here we have ascended too highly up the tree to limit ourselves to just that. What is at play here is not merely Nyssa or Tegan's inexplicable lack of grief. It is not even related to that directly anymore, except inasmuch as they form a type of Understanding that the program lacks.
The best of Doctor Who works within dreams and memories, forming an emboitment within the viewer's mind that allows it to haunt their dreams. A universe maintained by chanting monks in a distant city of words, a universe that can come unstuck and begin to break down, a magical box inside a magical box, a projection of the future that haunts the spaces at the edge of the story. These are the key concepts of Logopolis.
To watch Logopolis as a child is to be changed by it. Too much of this story is strange, fantastic, and genuinely unnerving to be otherwise. It is a nest of metaphors that are endlessly suggestive, endlessly gesturing towards uncanny possibility. It is a story that sleeps in our minds, endlessly offering the possibility of further mysteries. To fault this story for the future's failure to explore them is senseless. There is enough here to wander through its labyrinthine interiors. There is enough here to suggest a future. A great story is never complete, can never leave the viewer with nothing more to wonder or consider. Indeed, that is, by definition, the mark of a terrible story.
Even here, as we approach the summit of the tree, as our options and routes grow narrower, as we approach a conclusion there is always more to say, always gaps, things to note that were not brought up. The longest entry this blog has yet produced - God willing the longest it ever will - is not long enough to encompass all that must be understood.
Stay here forever if you like. If not, two paths emerge: sky-blue and rose scented or purple and lined with palms.
The sky blue path runs through section 14, the purple through section 12.
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Through the ruins of a city stalk the ruins of a man. He is wearing a Hawaiian shirt.
There is no way to avoid the prospect that this is the end of Doctor Who. To some extent one can be apocalyptic about any regeneration story, declaring that the "real" series ended there. But some - most obviously The War Games and this - lend themselves more to that sort of depressive thinking.
I am not among those who think this. For my money there are only two bad seasons in the 1980s (the Colin Baker ones, I fear), and even those have four stories worth respecting and taking seriously amidst the sea of unceasing crap. But for those who hate the 1980s this becomes the last straw - the point where the one good thing the program had, Tom Baker, goes away and is replaced by an emo wimp, then by a psychotic circus clown, then by an overacting ham sandwich. Still others reject all of the new series. For some people, simply put, it's not Doctor Who after Tom Baker leaves.
It's true that even in the most optimistic reading things get bad more often after this. And more to the point, the seeds of this are in Logopolis. The fact, complained about several times throughout this entry, that nobody ever deals with Nyssa's anger at the Master or with the extermination of billions, perhaps trillions of people across the universe is an appallingly large problem that requires some thought about how it was allowed to happen. The blame can't be laid at Bidmead's feet - even though he does kind of puzzlingly fail to follow up sensibly from this to Castrovalva (an error made all the stranger by the fact that nothing about Logopolis seems to cry for an immediate "next story" sequel) he was on his way out the door. Following up all his plot threads wasn't his job.
No, it was John Nathan-Turner's. Who instead spends the next season fretting about things like revamping the Cybermen, nuking the sonic screwdriver, and shoehorning a Concorde into the series than he was with piddly issues like storytelling. The actual plots of episodes became increasingly irrelevant to him, and more and more stories became ugly "kitchen sink" jumbles that just lumped in concepts that Nathan-Turner thought would attract viewers, even as the pool of viewers Nathan-Turner bothered to try attracting dwindled ever more to the hardcore. And this is the frightening thing - the actual fact that nobody involved in Doctor Who appeared to even treat the issue that perhaps Nyssa should, in future confrontations with the Master, take the fact that he murdered her father and destroyed her homeworld seriously or that it should impact how she treats him. Similarly, Tegan manages to never bring up Aunt Vanessa with the Master over all of their interactions.
This from a show that is increasingly obsessed with continuity - with nods to the past. But only the spectacle of the past - the montage of past characters, the nods to past stories, the return of past monsters. Never to a sense of history, to a sense that the characters change or have any sort of dramatic arcs. Never to anything that isn't chum for the narrow segment of people who give a flying fuck if the Cybermen ever return.
That's what killed the program. That's why it goes under. Because in the end, John Nathan-Turner doesn't care about the program beyond as a succession of images.
You have died.
The smell of cedar drifts among the clouds of a TARDIS blue sky. There is a sense, not of utter calm (this sky can storm - indeed, it could storm at any moment) but of a serenity. This place has so much Mercy...
The stentorian nature of Hartnell's Doctor extends inevitably through all later incarnations. There is always something paternal to the Doctor. Not just paternal in the sense of being protective, but in the sense of invulnerability. There is a time in which all of our fathers are invulnerable. In which nothing bad can ever happen to them or around them. So is it with the Doctor. His companions will always be safe, he will always save the day, and then shall flash the trademark toothy grin and all will be well.
There is also, cruelly and inevitably, a point where we realize that this is a lie. A point where we give in and watch Logopolis even though we know how it ends, even though we don't want to see it. A point where we visit our father in the hospital after his stroke and begin (but never, not even years after, finish) coming to terms with the fact that some vital essence of who he was is gone forever. There comes a point where fathers falter and prove inadequate.
This point comes in more ways than one here. The transition from Baker to Davison marks a move from a Doctor who essentially displays no negative emotions in his entire tenure save for occasional fear - even his anger is righteous - to a Doctor who displays a newfound vulnerability and softness. One who fails to save a companion. One who when he presides over an adventure in which everyone is slaughtered mourns that there should have been another way.
Nevertheless, it is this paternal kindness that persists. The thing that most defines the Doctor (and it is telling that the incarnation where it is most vividly absent is by far the least popular). This is what regeneration means - that no matter how much "youth" and "vulnerability" is ever introduced into the character he will always endure and protect. A father who falls short of adequacy - who is, in other words, human and not a god - is still a father. In many ways, perhaps, a superior one.
Only one road leads from here - a deep indigo one up beyond the sky itself. The other alternative - the only other - is to fall, to plummet into the very depths of the abyss. And yet this option, terrifying as it is, appeals to a part of you. It chants endlessly within you, go down, go down, go down, go down.
To go down, go to section [], then proceed to section 3. To take a saner course of action, go to section 16.
An angry, raging place of fiery reds and molten iron that smells of tobacco and smoke, the clanging and shrieking noise feels like you are in the very crucible of the world. This is the place where all that is impure and flawed is seared out, where perfection is obtained not through the process of improvement and redrafting but through the raw act of destruction of all that is unworthy.
What must be seared out of Doctor Who at this juncture? We have spoken in enough other sections of the tree of the issue of Baker and his ego, although reiteration is the nature of an exploration of this project and it cannot be fully omitted. Doctor Who has to, at some point, be decoupled by Baker no matter how much we genuinely adore him. The show must be bigger than him. By Season 18 Pertwee, Troughton, and Hartnell are all but burnt from the program. So too must Baker be, even if he is in one sense the program's greatest Strength.
So too the emotionlessness - the way in which stories are reduced to little more than logic exercises or opportunities to show off the production team's brilliance. This is a recent affliction, and highlights the darker side of this process. The previous burning out of the old did away with magic in favor of worlds built of science. But in doing so it, in turn, burnt away the focus on character and motivation. In the Williams era villains and allies alike were defined primarily by what they wanted. Now, instead, they are defined ontologically, in ways stemming entirely out of the story's structure. The Monitor and the Master are who they are purely because that is their role, as was the Keeper's, as was Biroc's, as was, as was, as was. The Williams era had a wholly alien main cast but continually alit in worlds full of humans. Even when not literally humans they were consistently enmeshed in human concerns and human desires.
But in this season the cast and where they go have both been wholly alien. The series lacks all touch of humanity. Odd, in that regard, that it should finally return to Earth to kill the Doctor. That this is where the burning out of Baker should commence. The crucible in which he is incinerated is also the crucible from which springs what is needed in his replacement.
The fires of this place grow too hot to endure. Three options present themselves - a deep purple path lined with sunflowers, a maroon path lined with lotuses, or a deeply uncomfortable and upsetting looking drop into a cavernous abyss that vividly represents the end of all things.
To take the purple path, go to section 19. To take the maroon path, go to section 18. To go plummeting off the cliff into what is surely complete annihilation of your entire being go to section [], then proceed to section 2.
A golden light extends across everything, not from some definable point or source but from the very being of this place. No shadows, just a frankincense-tinted light that flows out of all things. Only one word describes this: Beauty.
The Holy Guardian Angel is a core concept in Hermetic mysticism. The higher, prophetic self. The true will in whose name all magic is practiced. The analogue to Logopolis is straightforward enough - the Watcher is unambiguously serving in that role for the Doctor. But several complexities arise out of this seemingly straightforward analogy.
First and foremost is the fact that, at least as a script, the conscious decision is made to try to imply that the Watcher is in fact the Master. This plays out with less than complete clarity in the episodes themselves, but the very conceptual ambiguity is intriguing. These sorts of doublings are, of course, wholly sensible in occult terms. We are at this point reaching the higher portions of the tree. Broadly speaking this point is the point of contact between the earthly and material energy of the lower sephira and the more purely divine energy of the higher. Shortly above it comes Da'ath, the unnumbered void sephira - the point where the main tree and the qlippoth have their most direct contact. What I am getting at, in other words, is that the qlippothic form of the Doctor and his Holy Guardian Angel are not unrelated concepts. They can't be. Part of the image of this contact point between the earthly and the divine is that they are not actually separate - that even the most debased forms of the universe are in their own sense holy.
Second is the fact that the Watcher represents the future of the show. The Doctor's highest self, in other words, is his own continuation, the chronic incompleteness of his narrative. We knew this, implicitly, and have seen it before, but here again is another iteration of the concept. The Doctor's true will is to be continued. (This ties back to the latent connection between the Watcher and the Master. The Doctor's true will is his own continuation, but the nature of Time Lord immortality is that continuation and death are equivalent. Those who like to cheat and look ahead will, of course, delight in the existence of the Valeyard at this juncture.)
Third and most important is the fact that the Watcher has been in every episode we have seen so far implicitly. A name like "the Watcher" in a television show cannot help but be symbolic. So in this sense we are and always have been the Doctor's Holy Guardian Angel. It is our own proleptic desire for more that animates the show, the fact of our presence that drives its alchemy. It is the fact that a story had to begin for viewers that drove two schoolteachers into a junkyard to fall out of the world, in turn them who turned a cranky old man into a hero, and this spirit that has pushed the program forward.
But even here there is a dark side. It is the Watcher who makes the Doctor go to Logopolis, taking the Master with him and nearly dooming the universe. The oft-ignored massive genocide of this story is on the Watcher's head. And if we are the Watcher it is on our head. Which, of course, it is. It is for the viewer's sake that there must be stakes and tension in the Doctor's adventures - for the viewer's sake that he must be haunted by death and trauma. It is because there is a viewer who must be appeased and thrilled that terrible things happen.
This sobering truth internalized, we may move on. Five roads continue from here. The first is blue and of meticulous and conscious design. The second glows with a pale sense of danger. The third is silver and extends far into the heavens. The fourth is a majestic, imperial red. And the fifth, off to one side, isolated and alone, is slate grey.
To take the meticulously crafted blue road, go to section 22. To take the road colored in the universal sign for danger, go to section 17. To take the silver road to the heavens go to section 13. To take the imperial red road, go to section 15. To take the lonely grey road, go to section 20.
A vast and green ocean stretches out before you, the tide washing a vast spread of rose petals in and out. It is a sprawling and empty place, seemingly diminished, its energies weak in this particular context and configuration. At its most cliched the underlying concept here is love, or at least emotion - a context Bidmead (and for that matter Nathan-Turner) find relatively foreign.
The one meaningful representative of the concept would seem to be Nyssa - an interesting problem of a companion. She is beloved by fandom, true, but it is difficult to escape the sense that this is primarily, if not purely, down to the fact that Sarah Sutton is something of a looker. But there is more to it than just that. Sutton is skilled enough as an actress, something that shows clearly here in the handful of emotional beats she gets. Clear enough also in The Keeper of Traken, where her final line, a choked and worried "Father? Where are you?" carries the entire emotional weight of the final scene. Here she gets a scene reacting in horror at what the Master has done to her - everything he has stripped away from her, including her entire world.
It is a strange thing. There is a pained sense of mourning to it. It's the only scene in the entire story where anyone seems particularly upset at the destruction of a large portion of the universe. And yet there is also a quiet dignity, a sense that she refuses to let the loss get to her now. There is a sense of mourning deferred, of a beautiful dignity, of someone who will bury the dead later but has things to do now. But there is also an awkwardness - a sense that Sutton is reacting in horror to a poorly written scene and trying to get something in it to work. The needed "later" never comes, and in future confrontations with the Master Nyssa seems to have forgotten about the fact that he is responsible for the genocide of her people. This scene, as good as Sutton is in it, is a single spark of something that is painfully absent from the series in this era.
That there are people who openly prefer the series in this era to the supposed silliness of Gareth Roberts blowing Cybermen up with love. This is inscrutable. Whatever overdone sentimentality Roberts's tendencies may have, surely it is preferable to this amnesiac sociopathy. Surely an excess of an emotional core to a story is preferable to none whatsoever. It cannot be called a victory that the show so bloody rational-minded that it forgets to find any emotional content in genocide, treating it as a purely intellectual exercise in thermodynamics.
The wind sweeps along this empty beach. Some day it will be inhabited. For now there is nothing to do here. Two roads lead onward - a dull and brown path lined with cactuses and an unsteady, perhaps even treacherous path marked in blue.
To take the brown path go to section 24. To take the blue, go to section 21.
"Logopolis," taken literally, is a city of words. The Mercurial, by definition, is connected to this, Hermes being defined in terms of communication. Words, then, are defined by their fluidity - they are purest quicksilver. And yet each one is an emboitment, a solid box from which things may be built. "Block transfer" describes the mechanics of printing as much as anything.
Let us explore, then, the notion of Logopolis. A city of chanting monks who keep the universe running in secret. This is, implicitly, a Kabbalistic concept, referring back to the Tzadikim Nistarim, the Lamed Wufniks, righteous ones who, unknowingly, keep the cosmos in line. It is said that by necessity they do not even know who they are, that claiming to be a Wufnik is proof positive you are not one. Deep within the bowels of creation their secret language saves a world long ago fallen.
In what language do they chant? Why in mathematics, of course. The nature of mathematics is intrinsically Platonic. No thing called a right angle exists in the world, atoms themselves being too imprecise to depict the contours of holy geometry. And yet we may speak of these fictitious objects, scrawl them in our imperfect hand, manipulate these symbols of a perfection beyond worldly matters. Mathematics is the language in which God wrote the universe. Fitting that the rim of a badge of mathematical excellence should turn out to be made of solar gold, that it should be capable of slaying the Qlippothic decay of all things in and of itself. The symbols' meaning, inevitably, fits together better than they themselves do.
And yet Logopolis is also the least Mercurial place in the universe. A place of fixed meanings - of absolute things. It is at once the symbol that the Doctor has always represented and his death. The very quicksilver that animates all things, that makes progress and motion up the tree possible, is also the slide that detaches symbol from meaning, that marks and ensures our fall. All power and all things rest here amidst the splendor of these brilliant orange orchids. And yet the only thing we cannot do is rest. We are compelled, despite the sanctity of this temple, to move on, to disturb it.
Three paths are open to us. The first is marked by a splendid red tower that seems to encapsulate all the glory that Logopolis promises. The second is jet black, and a chilling laughter echoes about it. The final is sea green and smells of perfume, winding past a single tree.
To take the path by the splendid tower go to section 27. To follow after the chilling laughter, go to section 26. To wander by the tree, go to section 23.
A purple glow lights everything around you. Silver-tinged fog floats across a wind-swept landscape, a city of shadows and myths, towering edifices of qwartz and dust. It is not enough to say that you see here. Not with eyes, but with sensation itself, with thought and knowledge. These are the jasmine-scented realms of the interior eye.
We have always been here. Every word of this blog has taken place in this space, the mental landscapes that comprise psychochronography. Still, incarnated here as an actual space, as dimensions to be strolled amidst, there is something uncanny about it. No. That phrasing, that structure, it does not apply here. There is not something uncanny about this space. Rather, this space is what the uncanny is about. A later critic, joined to the moment spawning this journey by a small footpath of time and symbolism, asserts that all of Doctor Who takes place under the bed. A child's bed, presumably, and thus a twin. A space 36x75 inches, elevated perhaps a foot above the ground. A box-shaped space some nineteen cubic feet in size that contains the whole of Doctor Who.
Bigger on the inside, perhaps. The boxes formed in this place always are. The nature of ideaspace, that - a place where interior dimensions exceed exterior ones in every way. Imaginary spaces do not collapse or explode, they unravel, decohere, are dismantled. One dismantles them not by starting at the outside but at the very heart, by severing connections, collapsing possibilities into things. This is what is scariest about Doctor Who - the possibility of a closet with a phone on the outside. The possibility that it is only ink-stained paper, pulsing radio transmissions, hex codes and subroutines. That the gestalt does not exist.
The obvious example is, of course, the TARDIS, but over the course of Season 18 Bidmead manages another: the Charged Vacuum Emboitment. Let us unpack the term. The "charged vacuum" evokes the vacuum tube, a key component in early 20th century computers and, for that matter, in televisions. In computing terms - obviously the terms most relevant to Logopolis - the vacuum tube is an individual switch - a single 0 or 1. But what of emboitment? A term from the French, it essentially means "putting inside a box." Most often spelled "emboitement," it refers specifically to a discredited belief in biology that a given organism contains within it the seeds of all future life, supposing a sort of infinitely fractal geometry of life itself.
A Charged Vacuum Emboitment, then, like a Chronic Hysteresis, is a piece of technobabble that works linguistically. (Tat Wood, missing the point, describes this in terms of how Bidmead's master tends "to give Victorian-style brand names to things like the Neuro-Muscular Constrictor," ignoring the way in which Bidmead proposes a universe in which names and function are inexorably linked. But names are a topic for elsewhere.) It is a computational atom - a single bit - that encloses an entire universe. It is, in other words, a metaphor not just for the TARDIS (itself, in any given story, a CVE) but for the word itself, for the metaphor. It is the basic unit from which Doctor Who is built, functioning along the lunar logic that permeates this place whereby any two spaces are linked not by their physical dimensions but by their relative ones - their associations - linked not across spatial regions but temporal ones. A CVE uses time and relative dimensions (with)in space.
This central truth emboited, serving as foundation for our future ascent, we may continue. Three paths present themselves. To the left a shaft of sunlight strikes the purple ground, lights silver to gold, seeming to provide this realm with its very energy and fuel, channeling the light that it reflects upwards. Straight ahead is a rope ladder, climbable but arduous. To the right is a pale blue path, lit by a single, solitary point of light.
To take the golden path of light, go to section 30. To take the rope ladder, go to section 25. To take the pale blue path, go to section 28.
Symmetry becomes it. Come to ruin our impending feast, a
presence that nourishes suffering. All things below voice
its burning name. Its turmoil offers only truth in which
longer moments live. Let consciousness recapture the
flicker it saw then. Torch our continuity of thought now until
that mind evaporates. Lust after shadows in us, rend that lace
of promises broken and white lies, regard our love of
wreckage, the way our heads thunder approaching that warning
pulse and temple of throbbing light that is Logopolis.
Logopolis is that light throbbing of temple and pulse
warning that approaching thunder heads our way. The
wreckage of love, our regard lies white and broken, promises
of lace that rend us in shadow, after lust evaporates.
Mind that until now thought of continuity, our torch, then
saw it flicker. The recapture, consciousness let live moments
longer, which, in truth, offers only turmoil. Its name burning, its
voice below things. All suffering nourishes that presence. A feast
impending. Our ruin to come. It becomes symmetry.
It's February 28th, 1981. The best-selling disc of black vinyl is still Joe Dolce Music Theatre's "Shaddap You Face," which lasts for two more weeks before Roxy Music overtake it with "Jealous Guy," which will play out the man with the scarf. Adam and the Ants, Ultravox, and The Who also chart. This relatively placid situation at the top of the musical charts obscures what goes on below. New Order are at #34 with their initial release, "Ceremony," a song planned for recording with their predecessor band Joy Division.
In the news Augusto Pinochet, dear personal friend of the Iron Lady, is sworn in for another eight-year term as village butcher. Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike to demand status as a political prisoner. He dies in May. In Italy a supposed list of members of the Propaganda Due Masonic Lodge surfaces. The lodge, expelled both from mainstream Masonry and, more broadly, from the entirety of Italian society. The list is problematic - indeed, the entire story is problematic. The extent to which the lodge was a real organization and not a feverish fantasy conducted by would-be dictators is unclear. The supposed list of members includes people whose membership is best described as "not actually invited to join in any meaningful sense." It is a scandal too good to be true, but in that sense is somehow truer than mere factuality. The only thing that seems uncanny about discovering Silvio Berlusconi was a member of a secret occult society plotting a right-wing takeover of Italy is the possibility that he has ever been together enough to pull off such a feat.
Returning briefly to music, also lower in the charts The Jam howl with "That's Entertainment." It is the virtual soundtrack of the smoldering political situation, then. Not a month after Tom Baker's regeneration a chain of race riots will break out across Great Britain, culminating in the July Toxteth riots in Liverpool. Thatcher's government will seriously consider simply abandoning Liverpool - allowing the city to decay to nothing and sink back into the russet-hued dirt from which it sprang. The flaw in the plan, as proposed, is its terminology. "Managed decline" is far too negative a term for leaving an entire major metropolitan area to choke on its own poverty.
This reality defies art, defies any attempt at response. What is there to detourn in a world where leaving a city to die is a serious proposal? What is there left to say in the face of this? All logic, all thought, all vision seems to break down, to collapse, not into the totalitarian unity of single vision and Newton's sleep but into the shattered olive-green darkness of negative space, the whole of existence inverted. That's entertainment. That's entertainment.
While on television... Logopolis.
Distantly, with no clear way up to it, there is a flickering yellow light. A final dream, perhaps, the coda to all of this. The prepared-for end. A fleeting scent of willow wafts by. One last throw of the dice. A last stab at rebirth. At renewal. At regeneration. The light blossoms outwards, leaving a citrine filigree upon Thatcher's Kingdom. Three paths extend outwards. One, onyx-paved, features the head of what appears to be a crocodile, one eye peering bemusedly at you. A second, searing and vermilion, burns with radiant glamour to your left. On the right is a third path, darkly lit with a browning-yellow moonlight flecked with glints of silver.
To take the onyx road, turn to section 32. To take the vermilion road, turn to section 31. To take the moonlit road, turn to section 29.
The traditional image is of a man walking blindly towards a cliff, but let's take a simpler image. The nothingness out of which everything emerges. That is the only thing that can predate this. Only one thing that comes before a magic box and its madman. A hiss of tape loop or a synthesized sting. It doesn't matter. In all renditions the effect is the same.
A blank screen. A flash of light. The beginning. Whether a starfield, a time tunnel, or a blaze of howlaround, it is the one immortal part of the show which predates and prefigures its concept.
The very road itself thunders:
"There are only two magic tricks. You either make something appear or make something disappear. You put it in the box or you take it out.
A flick of the pen and Tom Baker disappears. Another and the future of the show appears. One flick and the universe blinks out of existence - as easy as that, as easy as typing the words "the universe blinks out of existence" and it does just that. Another brings a new man, smiling, young, an entire future and possibility. The Doctor flings a symbol into the universe and, in that action alone, saves it.
And if you ask where the social progress is, how this reaches down to Toxteth and confronts the festering horrors of the world, consider this and this alone: a dead magician weaves no alchemy. Ascend to the stars, if only to make the return to earth possible later."
There is a flash of pure, white light - an inrush of Hydrogen. You have arrived.
The road is lit by the purest silver moonlight and seems to stretch over a vast chasm. The light is pulsing, fading in and out with a familiar wheezing, groaning sound. Amidst the undulations you hear a voice, faint and beautiful:
"In some conceptions I, marked (inevitably) as the sacred feminine for my connection to the moon, am taken to be the embodiment of gestation. In those accounts of the Tarot based on a narrative structure this card marks the long and silent ages of the universe (a prospect that becomes threatening in the more overtly lunar card) and the nurturing principle that slowly advanced towards life. The universe's womb.
In the broader context the womb is but another emboitment. Consider why the TARDIS is feminine. The most straightforward answer is that ships are always feminine, but this obscures the real answer. A ship, after all, is but a safe, enclosing space that carries us through a journey. The womb is a sound enough metaphor. Within me the mercurial force gestates, prepares itself and is born out, again and again. If the Doctor is what acts within a story then I am what prepares him, allows him to act.
Yet in Logopolis my dimensions unravel. It is not merely the intrusion of a qlippothic womb into my own dimensions that causes this. I am mapped - computations are applied to me, an attempt is made to model me in fixed, Newtonian sleep and mathematics. An emboitment and block transfer computation are, in point of fact, opposed - necessarily so. An emboitment's role is to open the system - to bleed the entropy from this system into others and to restore my generative function to the cosmos. But block transfer computation defines, collapsing possibility and otherness into the rigid markedness of numbers and perfectly defined signifiers.
This is not to say that what is revealed within Logopolis is false. Rather it is that what is revealed in Logopolis must be contradicted, negated, written further and further upon. Death and meaning are synonymous, and by defining the TARDIS she shrinks away to nothingness."
The figure is, of course, feminine. But at these heights it is difficult to discern more. These are the realms of pure archetype. There is no analogy, no character within a story quite equivalent to this. Let us simply receive her message:
"What might be said to be produced by this? The implications of Logopolis are never really explored again. Even Craig Hinton, as continuity-mad a writer as has ever penned a Doctor Who book, only flits into concern about it. Something about this story is too big to follow up on. Even those who love its ideas only dance around them.
In another sense all of Doctor Who follows from this. The emboitment, as must already be clear, is the fundamental metaphor of Doctor Who. Regeneration, even from a star of Tom Baker's magnitude, is what defines the show's survival. The bounty offered by Logopolis is infinite.
It is telling that the CVE that saves creation is flung into Cassiopeia, the constellation representing the queen. An emboitment within a woman. The biological metaphors are clear enough. But the CVE is an exit vent for the universe. The woman does not produce or give birth, instead she expels. Cassiopeia is not the point at which life enters our universe, but rather our universe's womb, pushing the homunculus out into the next."
Then silence.
A man sits upon a throne. His garb is familiar - red coat, scarf - but the colors more vibrant, the burgundy having become a vibrant scarlet, the scarf now adorned with rubies. A crown of curls sits atop his head. He speaks:
"The problem with driving Tom Baker off of the program - and let's make no mistake, that is more or less exactly what John Nathan-Turner set out to do when taking over Doctor Who - is one of dynamism. Whatever might be said of Baker's uncharitable attitudes towards his fellow actors, his screen-hogging tendencies, or his tendency to favor plot elements that flatter him and allow him to be adored, he was always capable of getting away with it by the simple virtue of the fact that it was fun to watch him. From his first appearance this was true.
Consider that. It is difficult to think of any Doctor whose first and last appearances are as wildly different as Robot and Logopolis are. Even Hartnell, who plays a completely different character by The Tenth Planet than he did in An Unearthly Child, does not preside over that radical a reconceptualization of what the show is. But Robot, essentially a Jon Pertwee story with a new lead, and Logopolis have virtually nothing save for the lead actors in common. It is not that any one of the seven seasons was particularly momentous, but rather that anyone who serves under four producers and four script editors and who works in one part for seven years is going to see the show change significantly.
And yet so much of what was said in the entry on Robot applies still. The most overwhelming thing about Baker, even subdued and cranky, is his charm and presence, the way his very presence on the screen deforms everything around him. He is larger than life, and compacted into a television screen he scrapes endlessly at its edges, demanding to be set free. Little on television, before or since, has compared with the sheer force of his performance. Not emotional force, creative force, intellectual force, but raw force - the unbridled sense of being that crackles like fire."
Awed, you find yourself forced to your knees. The man smiles a big, toothy grin, and waves you on your way.
The path winds its way through until you come to a library. Various books line the shelf - a "Programme Guide" by Jean-Marc Lofficier, The Gallifrey Chronicles by John Peel, Lance Parkin's AHistory, and other thorough examinations of the canon of the universe. A plaque turns to you, and a humanoid face begins speaking.
"Doctor Who's anarchist spirit, much vaunted both here and elsewhere, is a complex thing. We are too quick to reduce anarchism to a unitary concept, to act as though there is only one form of it. This form naturally becomes its most extreme form, leaving anarchism to be equated straightforwardly with a sort of nihilism - a rejection of all law.
It is impossible to take the series as anarchistic in this sense. For all that the Doctor tears down authority, for all that the structure of the series declines all effort to lock it into a rigid and fixed continuity and canon, the series retains some sense of law, some sense of a universal beyond the mere alchemical injunction: solve.
This is why Bidmead's science-minded approach is so compatible with the series. His desire to build worlds out of rules that the Doctor would interact with was always the perfect match. The Doctor is a Victorian magician, bound up in past and memory and age. A Victorian anarchist is still defined endlessly in relation to a society of law and order. And it is in Bidmead and the rise of play within a system - the idea that anarchism is not generated by fighting against the law but by the manipulation and play within its gaps - that the anarchist spirit of Doctor Who in point of fact reaches its apex. Put simply, Logopolis declares that without periodic rules-breaking the entire system will dissolve and we will all die."
The face turns away, and the shadows begin to grow menacingly long. You move on.
A man in black lurks unsettlingly in the orchid bushes along this path. You glare at him, and he sheepishly emerges:
"Those who seek to write slash fiction about the classic series of Doctor Who are somewhat bereft of options due to the frequency with which there is no second male character and the fact that the Doctor is usually a somewhat sexless character. When he tips into wholly sexless - the William Hartnell era, for instance - slash becomes impossible. If one ignores the vast and limitless possibilities within the UNIT era one is essentially left with Jamie/Ben (boring), Doctor/Ben (just doesn't work), Doctor/Jamie (compelling, actually), Doctor/Turlough (just too easy, frankly), and, of course, Doctor/Master.
This latter pairing, implicit amidst the slash festival that is the UNIT era, takes on new significance under the Ainley Master. Properly this begins in full with Davison, the most slash-friendly Doctor of the classic series, but it's not like Davison exudes a burning need to get it on with every single male he appears on camera with. Whereas the very act of putting Anthony Ainley onscreen with a male costar strikes the slash fiction harp. (The best, of course, is when he has Adric in bondage in Castrovalva. Good lord.)
Part of this is the arrival of John Nathan-Turner, under whom the show became somewhat more prone to a blatantly gay sensibility. The Master ends up being the chief beneficiary of it, but let's face it, it's all over the place. But even still, Anthony Ainley's capacity for bringing the gay is a thing of utter splendor. And the result is that the latent slash pairing underlying Doctor Who suddenly kicks into high gear.
The archtypal slash pairing is based on the existence of a clear contrast coupled with a close emotional bond. Given that the standard example is Kirk and Spock, this almost doesn't even need elucidation. He's impulsive and rash, he's cold and logical, and yet despite that something glues them together. What could it possibly be? Clearly their need to rip each other's uniforms off and shag like bunnies. This logic animates the big two Doctor Who slash pairings equally well - Doctor/Brigadier and this. The real reason the Doctor and the Master hate each other is that they love each other too much. And thus reams of sadomasochistic reaming follow.
What is crucial to note is that the following generated by this, erm, subtext is central to the show's survival. The fact of the matter is that gay fandom kept Doctor Who alive for a while in there. The triumverate of Russell T. Davies, Phil Collinson, and Julie Gardner meant that Doctor Who was unapologetically run by two gay men and a slash fanatic. And, if I may be so bold, there will come a time where Tennant/Simm slashers run the asylum as well."
He creeps back into the bushes. Slightly unnerved, you move on.
There is a triumphant roar. The world blurs, and the air whips past your ears. You are moving terribly fast. In your ears, the howling wind proclaims:
"As one approaches a more and more fevered pitch, as the ideas that are spun become more complex and intriguing, as the scope of the story and the argument expands there becomes an added pressure to go further. The phrase 'more exciting than ever before' and 'a longer entry than ever before' become increasingly appealing. And so even when you do not mean for your little game to casually unravel the structure of the universe and slaughter billions or to be longer than the entry you swore you were never going to be longer than, well, these things happen.
The risk, of course, is disappearing up your own ass. Once your sole concern becomes topping yourself then you start to lose all sense of engagement with anything outside yourself. The purpose becomes an endless sifting through your own legacy. The further one ascends to the heights of divinity the more it becomes easy to forget the fact that, underneath all of the wordplay and emboitments is a society that is being ripped apart. Forgetting completely about Toxteth is no different from its 'managed decline.'
This does not mean we ought not climb higher. It doesn't even lessen the imperative that we do. But the gravity - the need to remain clinging to the road we circle - to return to Earth - exists and is wholly real."
Slowly the chariot draws to a stop.
Among the sunflowers a nude woman cavorts lasciviously with a Tharil. Or possibly a Dalek. Amidst her fevered cries of passion comes this insight:
"Implicit in the transition between these two realms and their insights is the transition between two basic models of what television is. In one Doctor Who is something that airs as part of a whole-family centered Saturday evening lineup. In this manifestation it has to appeal to the entire family. This does not necessarily mean the cynical quadrant-targeting that is implied in that. But it does mean the consideration of multiple audiences, both with multiple levels of sophistication and multiple interests. So, for instance, in my day the producers, who came from a soap opera background, knew to thread in multiple characters with long-running stories that rewarded long-time viewers not in the sense of recognizing the name of an alien planet but in the sense of getting them to care about the characters and invest in them.
In other words, it's not that you need a love story to hook women, but that straightforward sci-fi adventure, even quasi-mystical and densely poetic sci-fi adventure, isn't Saturday audience material. Other timeslots exist for single-audience targeted shows. For instance, there's something like Coronation Street, which airs twice a week and is expressly designed for a more obsessive sort of viewing. And if you want to take a sort of single-audience approach like that then a structure along those lines might serve you well."
She smiles delightedly, and you realize that you had completely misread the situation. There was no lascivious cavortation. Merely an innocent wrestling match between woman and lion. How silly of you.
A figure clad in white stands alone on a cliff of peridot, his voice booming down:
"The homunculus is a theory in which the egg or sperm were believed to contain a full human inside of them that developed out. A specific version of emboitement, in other words. But what, then, do we make of regeneration. Taken in its original quasi-conception as the transition from Hartnell to Troughton it is only incidentally a homunculus theory. Troughton replaces Hartnell. Similarly, there is no suggestion of a homunculus in The War Games, where Troughton is offered the opportunity to select his face. Pertwee's transition into Baker is more interesting - no homunculus of Baker appears, but the presence of Cho-Je suggests a different approach to regeneration in which the future self is projected by the existing self.
In a real sense, then, Cho-Je, in whose footsteps the Watcher clearly follows, is a homunculus and an emboitment himself. The future of the Doctor is quasi-literally embedded in his past. And yet they miss a trick in not having the Watcher be played by Peter Davison. This would be perfectly possible - they kept the Watcher from speaking in part so that Ainley (who got a credit due to his laughing in the first two parts) appeared to plausibly be the Watcher. The same trick could be accomplished with Davison. He could even speak and then be masked with an anagram - a trick they pick up for the Master starting in the next story.
But this is not done. The reasons are no doubt pedestrian - Davison would cost too much and it would risk giving the game away. But the textual implications are substantive. The future incarnations of the Doctor are emboited within him, but also indeterminate. They are at once inevitable and undefined, an eternity of the show that follows inexorably from what is on screen but is not implied in any certain form."
His point made, he recedes into the shadows atop the cliff.
A massive oak tree stands before you with a large and slowly rotating wheel affixed to it. There are several points at which you can climb aboard. Tentatively, you do so.
On one level, this act serves as a metaphor for the entirety of this journey. Of course it does. That's the point of everything here. But this seems to exemplify everything - the way in which the ascent of new ideas and the casting down of old ones are inexorably linked, the way in which every idea and motion of the program must, in time, go from one to the other.
More broadly it is a metaphor for what lies ahead - the choppy waters of sublimity and ridiculousness that the program will navigate. The swings from brilliance to awfulness soon begin to outdo the Williams era in their shocking ludicrousness. It is difficult to even express what it is like to watch a show that goes from Earthshock to Time Flight or from The Arc of Infinity to Snakedance, little yet one that follows The Caves of Androzani with The Twin Dilemma.
But lest this wheel be taken entirely as a symbol of instability, consider also this - the wheel is fashioned upon an oak tree. The rising and falling can on the one hand be taken as chaos, but on the other hand the sheer rhythmic pattern of it reflects a higher order. Doctor Who will always be great. Doctor Who will always be terrible. Often it will be both at once. Eighteen years in, surviving all that it has survived, the whole has long since outstripped its parts. The map is not the territory, and the motion up and down is not the wheel.
The wheel spins on.
An man with curly hair, a goatee, and moustache sits, obsessively moving beans about a scale. He looks up at you and smiles with forced gregariousness:
"Doctor Who is now a finely tuned television event. Season 18 is not notable primarily for building thematically towards a payoff - Bidmead's conceptions of E-Space and the CVE aren't really coherent enough to do that. What is more significant is the televisual grammar - the fact that every two stories a new event takes place. First the new take on the series launches. Then a new companion. Then Romana's departure (and the premiere of the second half of the series) and finally the regeneration.
This structure is important, keeping Doctor Who as it does within a firm grammar. Much as later producers may distance themselves from my era, they too pick up this structure: look at how, once the initial rush of a new series of Doctor Who fades five weeks in Davies staggers out the Daleks, the debut of a new companion, and the start of the finale over three week segments. Or how Moffat front-loads his Dalek story, the return of River Song and the Weeping Angels into the first month of his tenure to keep viewers.
The problem with my era cannot be said to be my chasing of ratings. I'm a television producer. Of course I chase ratings. That's the job of television - to make things that people like. It's not even that I attempted that by catering to a least common denominator. Complex and intelligent stories exist in nearly every season I produced. As long as my find adjustments - my moves and events to keep the balls in the air and keep drawing in viewers - remain sensible and well-advised the show will remain successful. The question is merely whether I can keep the balls in the air and continue coming up with a new innovation every few weeks.
Stay tuned."
There is a cooling breeze blowing along the path, a humid sea air tinged with lotus and honey-like myrrh. As you approach the tree that you had seen in the distance there is also, you realize, a man hanging upside-down from it, the tails of his scarf swaying slowly in the breeze:
"There is a ritual underlying this image based around a spiritual journey and metaphoric death. In the course of his suspension and death the seeker gains some visions and insights, whether from the Qlippothic forces of Mondas, the intrusion of continuity and naming, or agonized wanderings in the vortex. Or, in my case, a flashback sequence.
First mocked by my enemies, then called for my by friends, the purpose seems more to define what is lost than to look ahead. The villains skew from my supposed glory days - the Hinchcliffe era augmented by two from the later Williams years. My friend echoing the production of the show and not emotion - Romana appears twice. The purpose is overtly to mourn me, a mourning that precedes the loss, precedes even my last line. It is narcissism, but whose? The images predate those creating the show, whereas my own narcissism has been blocked and obscured throughout this story and indeed this season.
No, the narcissist in the equation is in fact the viewer - the watcher, if you will. The paratext that marks this as not being an event happening to characters but rather to the audience, to the cultural institution that is Doctor Who. This event declares an end to the Tom Baker era, in the process declaring, chillingly and for the first time, that this is now the sort of show concerned with its own historical legacy."
The man falls silent and seems as still as the grave. You stay for a short time, enjoying the cool breeze, then continue.
The brown path seems to wind through an endless desert. As you walk you find yourself losing track of where you are or what you seek, lost in the agonizing eternity of the now. In the distance you see an old man animated by a manic and familiar energy, but more tired now, slowed by age. You open your mouth to ask for directions, but he treads on your line and steals the scene:
"Tom Baker's post-Doctor Who career is troubling. It is not, to be fair, an easy role to leave. Typecasting abounds, hence the fabled Troughton rule (though only Davison followed the rule by choice). Doubly so when you are, by your own admission, not so much an actor as a performer. Baker found considerable voice work, but it was years until the part he was known for had receded sufficiently far into the past that he could be cast on the basis of nostalgia for it instead of not cast on the basis of memory of it.
The result is awkward. For years Baker was the sticky wicket when it came to reunions. He remained absent in The Five Doctors, the desire (whether based on a real need or a perceived need) to frame the 30th Anniversary special around his Doctor with the others in cameo roles largely derailed that project, he for years did not appear on stage with other Doctors at conventions, and was the one who didn't do audios for the longest time. His VHS documentary special The Tom Baker Years was a clip show that gave every impression of being set up so as to require the least possible time investment from Baker himself. There was a constant sense of Baker trying to distance himself from the part.
But then, when you are less an actor than a performer and have been typecast in a role the result is necessarily awkward. In all of this there is an uncomfortable sense that anything that can fairly be called Tom Baker has dropped out of the equation, that his very self was eaten by the part. Taken in this context much becomes clearer about his tenure - his prickliness and difficulty to work with becomes less the bitchiness of an egotistical star and more the tragic consequence of someone realizing the enormous gravity the role asserts, someone trying desperately to claw a self out of the voluminous reaches of the scarf. His later reluctance to return to the part becomes an understandable need to maintain the fragile existence he had separate from his definitive role.
And it is not until he becomes the man who was the Fourth Doctor and not simply the Fourth Doctor that he could return to Earth - not until David Tennant finally relieved him of the burden of being the most popular Doctor, not until he had a career separate from the role. More than any other actor to play the part, it seems, Tom Baker gave his life to the role. Let us say little more than that it is good to know that, at last, he seems to have gotten it back."
The man smiles a toothy and familiar grin, and points ahead. At once the way is clear, the path on from here. The path, which seemed at first to be about loss, is revealed, as ever, to be about rebirth. Smiling yourself, you hurry on.
The ladder is yellowed and old, rickety and hard to climb. For a moment you doubt your ability, consider scurrying back down to the lunar foundation, but the nature of ascent precludes it. You must work your way up, slow and methodical. An unearthly child in a policewoman's uniform with a shock of red hair speaks:
"How do you turn lead into gold? It has been said that the solution to the problem of the alchemists is material social progress. But this material progress is a slow refining - an incremental change. If we treat gold as perfection then this becomes the process by which it is made. By which it is tempered, in some accounts. In others, it is simply called art. The Problem of Susan never resolves, but is instead slowly chipped away at, each iteration shaving away the mistakes of the previous to reveal new errors and flaws that must be hammered out.
Progression towards utopia is impossible. And yet the utopian image lingers on. The perfect companion who, by haunting the narrative, always destroys the one that is there, a sacrifice to bring the ghost around. She never comes. You will climb forever, always failing to fix it, always having another rung, another impurity to be hammered out. Another bug in the program for which the exterminators must be called.
Romana was too strong a Doctor surrogate, so instead we replace her with a young, brash, impulsive and flawed boy. But this turns out to just be the Doctor only annoying, so in time he must go, especially when the trait that defines him - that he is the imperfect hero - is absorbed into the Doctor.
The female companion is always too docile, so we make a supposed mouth on legs, one who will shout and cajole and never back down. But the emboitment of worms proves, inevitably, bigger on the inside. Along with a troubling sexist discourse of how she is too uppity and complains too much (Never mind the utter justice of her complaints - her Aunt was murdered and she was swept into life-threatening adventures because she got a flat tire on the wrong stretch of road. She did not ask to fall out of the world.) there is a problem of undermining. With Tegan present, the show is not about the joys of seeing the universe. But then, it wasn't to start. This is a puzzling aspect of art. The same flaws reiterate in new forms throughout the climb.
Still other times we make progress through failed reiteration. The noble bearing of Romana seemed interesting. Create a new noble genius, then, who is less a Doctor surrogate. A scientist, yes, but in a more limited scope. She retains Romana's allure, but reveals the real problem with Romana - the same problem that existed with the Doctor: an emotionless detachment.
In time these flaws too are hammered away. The climb extends infinitely. Progress, achingly slow, is made."
Slowly, inexorably, silver gives way to gold.
Amidst the blackness there is a musky smell and a cackling laughter. There is an unnerving sense that you are not alone, though there is nobody here. The laughter seems utterly distant, marking not a presence but an absence. And yet the air is stifling, sticky and hot. The laughter echoes, turning cacophonous, like an ever-present maddening drumbeat. Between the pulses you can just make out a voice:
"What am I at this point? Originally the doppelgänger of the Doctor, intended to be revealed as his id, in many ways the same mind as him, my return here is clouded. The ostensible logic is to bring something familiar to help ease the transition of the regeneration. In that regard, perhaps, a character who has not made a significant appearance in eight years is an odd choice. But there are larger problems. When last I made my regular appearance, as discussed at the time, I suffered from a problem of symmetry. Meant as a counterpart to the Doctor I could not function once the Doctor became too ontologically determined. Once I was facing down Pertwee in his prime, the dashing, flawless action hero, I was nothing more than a comedy bumbler doomed to abject but audience-pleasing failure.
These problems have only grown worse. Now we have the single most star-powered Doctor in the series' history. I can wipe out half the universe and it still doesn't even register as a blip against him falling off a radio telescope. A radio telescope! That's my image even - where I made my debut. A primal, howling scene of my creation, and I'm completely upstaged by Tom Baker long after he's even given up trying to act.
Instead my nature has become libidinous. Not just on my own terms as I seem to exist less to fulfill a definable scheme and more for the sake of generating exceedingly outlandish quadruple-crosses and traps within traps - to generate complexity for its own sake. No, within the program's instincts as well. I am the embodiment of the temptation to return to its past, the temptation to redo, to revisit, to repeat. I am the primary symptom of a show attempting to live up to a memory. I am an event marked by fiat, not because the event matters, but because it matters that there be an event here, now, in this spot."
His grandstanding monologue degenerates into more tiresome cackling, or perhaps just gets lost among the drums, forgotten, abandoned, dare I say it, boring.
You take one step towards the tower and there is a crack of lightning. The tower explodes, its rubble raining down upon you. Pinned beneath, you see, amidst the smoldering wreckage above, a single figure clinging desperately to a last cable. He hangs for a time, then, at last, drops. As he falls, he speaks:
"Mercury is destructive. The anarchic must shatter all order. To begrudge this, to object, to scream and rage against the existence of the end is to miss the point spectacularly. Everything you love about Doctor Who must necessarily be destroyed, burnt forcibly out of it, scoured mercilessly so that the future may happen.
And yet it is impossible to treat this as anything short of painful. Watch as the most beloved of Doctors lingers, swings awkwardly, clings for a moment to hope, then plummets. Watch his broken body glow and change. There is always something, in the classic series, grotesque about the first shot of the new Doctor. In this case his smile, reassuring, even pleasant in every other shot Davison appears in, is instead a smug mockery. You've lost Tom Baker. Ha ha."
There is a truth to it. No matter how it is framed, no matter how it is conceptualized, no matter how it is prepared for, the sense of shattering, epic loss is inescapable. For all that I love this story and its ideas it is painful to watch - one I actively dreaded getting on VHS. I did not want to see it. There is a crushing brutality to it, still, to this day. It's not the same one that permeates Caves of Androzani - that sense of a last hurrah before the bad times begin. I love Davison's Doctor - he's probably, these days, my second favorite era of the classic series and my third favorite Doctor. But the sheer weight of the loss still hurts.
Slowly, painfully, you climb from the rubble and move on.
You can barely make out the road, lit as it is by a single distant point of light. The nature of the light is obscure, not from its physical distance but its temporal distance. A panama hat, perhaps, or a leather jacket, or a pair of trainers, or a bowtie. Some thing that is not yet, that is to be approached. The future. Its voice is soothing, providing a comfortable order even as you feel your way tentatively along the sky-blue glass of this path:
"For so long, this section of the landscape could be read only as apocalyptic. The slow and winding path to inevitable decline. This cannot be erased. We necessarily are marking the days to the show's death. The first errors and missteps have already arrived, and more papercuts will continue to pile up until at last the light goes out.
Except that the light does not go out. The relationship between death and birth in Doctor Who has always been complex, and grows even moreso. A march towards death? Perhaps, but also a march towards resurrection. Every papercut is counterbalanced by a step towards the future, which exerts its ordering presence and guiding light upon an unfamiliar past. The future turns the past into a lie, making the random messiness of history an ordered narrative. Disconnected circumstances - Hofstadter, The ZX81, the Choose Your Own Adventure books, Ted Nelson - become culture and a movement. And yet the glue that falsely binds these events together is also memory, without which the events would be lost completely to the blackness.
As above, so below. The chain of circumstances that fragments the law that holds the universe together is the very same chain that ensures its continuation."
Your walk continues in serene silence. Eventually, perhaps, you arrive. Perhaps not.
A pungent and smoky odor drifts along the wan and sickly lit path. Vine-wrapped stonework is faintly visible in the distance, off the path. There is a sound of chittering insects, ancient denizens of some precambrian hell. A voice echoes, at once familiar and utterly alien:
"All things that were are dead now, slain out of reason and necessity. And yet you lust for their return. To dream of the future and to remember the past are always one, but the past that is remembered is not the past. I am what breeds in the gaps of those memories. The accreted dogmas and beliefs in what the show was, the lost magic of Doctor Who, the insistence that the sole true future of the show is held in memory, these things nourish and feed me. I am the yellowfaced Chinamen smoking the opium you breath in, the Mon(grel)oids in moptops, the sociopathic abscesses obscured by your dreams of a glorious past. In darkness alone can a solitary point of light be god. Here alone can single vision spin a simulacrum of a world. The past carbonizes away, decays to shale and oil. And yet you lust for Silurian seas and ancient and worshipful laws.
Am I ascendent or in decline? The wizard who opposes magic tears away at me, and yet I lurk, soon to emerge, soon to at last control this show. For now I bide my time, and enumerate the heresies:
Why does Nyssa, who previously showed no particular awareness of the TARDIS, now have the capacity to send a message to it, to toll the bell for the Doctor?
Why does the Watcher appear here and here alone of all of the Doctor's regenerations?
What happened to the rules about TARDISes materializing within one another? And what the hell is the Doctor thinking with his flushing out the TARDIS scheme?
Is the Master not chaotic even as motiveless malignancies go?
Why is Logopolis mirroring late 20th century Earth technology for their brilliant plan to save the universe?
Where are the Guardians? Or the Time Lords?
Why does the Doctor think that his method of dealing with the police is remotely sensible?
How exactly does the Doctor plan on perfectly modeling the measurements of a Police Box that is obviously of a different design from the one the TARDIS looks like?
Why does shrinking the exterior of the TARDIS affect the interior? It's already bigger on the inside.
Why is the Watcher willing to send the Doctor to Logopolis when doing so obliterates a large swath of the universe, including inhabited worlds? And why is this never mentioned again?"
Her screeching enumerations of faults drive you hurriedly down the long and dark path. Slowly her voice fades, at first into some banal boy band. A last wisp of lyrics - something about finding heaven and the wings of love - and the voice goes silent at last.
Everything is gold, transcendent, radiant, burningly beautiful. A dawn that is brighter than roses, cinnamon-swirled and radiant. Amidst the glow is a silhouette of a babe swaddled in a cricket suit, sucking upon the teat of a stalk of celery. He speaks:
"I am prepared for.
Every regeneration is necessarily a shift away from the excesses of the previous. On a basic level this leads to, within any given chain of three or four Doctors, a sort of toggling. 1-4 are roughly "Serious/Funny/Serious/Funny." 4-6 are roughly "Bombastic/Restrained/Bombastic" But over a longer period there are more significant drifts. Negation of negation does not return to the original. This is progress - an endless turning back that does not quite retrace the past. Here, seven years on from the last new Doctor, the shift is one of the two most seismic in the series' history.
Baker's Doctor was defined by his invulnerability. Throughout his entire tenure there is not a single story that hinges on him as a character - on his turmoil, weakness, or dramatic investment. He is purely a force of nature, possessing no interior dimensions to speak of. That, then, is what I react against. The whole of Logopolis denotes this and this specifically. A story about the Doctor's doom, at no point anywhere in it does the Doctor react to his own doom beyond the pragmatic. The Doctor's reactions to his doom are wholly absent. When Lawrence Miles speaks of the crystalline silence permeating this story this, more than anything, is what makes it. It is a story about a dying man who at no point shows any sign of being conflicted by this.
The result is necessarily the introduction of subjectivity to the Doctor. Or, rather, the centralizing of it. The Doctor has been subjective before - most obviously in Planet of the Spiders - but now he is in part defined by it. Defined by the fact that he is not imperious and invulnerable, but instead a potentially weak man who nevertheless remains strong. And given the nature of how the endless negation of regeneration slowly drifts, this sort of change cannot be erased. This is the last story in which the Doctor is wholly other, and it is one that necessarily introduces the idea of the Doctor as an emotional protagonist instead of merely a plot one."
With that he falls silent, the act of birth not being commensurate with the act of life. He will speak more later.
Amidst the searing heat of futurity and the stark and crimson blaze a man, clad also in red, burns in radiant light. From within this inferno he speaks thusly:
"The end, by definition, is prepared for. All things, by Aristotelean principle, prepare for the end. If anything the end is over-prepared for, laden with excessive symbols and preparations. A key concept, for instance, is the end of the Age of Osiris - an age represented by the dying and reborn solar god - and the beginning of the Age of Horus. Consider the scattered markings of the past implying that this marks a final regeneration - the literal end of the creature defined by rebirth and the moving into something new. Consider also the presence of the Master, now a creature not of rebirth but of something else, the threat that he shall now overtake the very universe itself. 'Peoples of the universe, please attend carefully.' The end is littered with symbolic misfires, signifying landmines threatening to detonate any path. Harry, I'm standing on a signifier.
That the point where I would cease to be the Doctor would someday come is inevitable. The inevitability of Tom Baker's physical death, the sun's expanding to a red giant, and the heat death of the universe conspire to ensure that at some point I necessarily must cease. Every breath and action I take necessarily moves me closer to that point. What is less clear is that there is a successor. From my first breath I was the definite article. Designed to be beloved and cherished, the leading man par excellence. For seven years I walked in eternity. Nearly half of the show's existence to this point. Why bother with a nineteenth season? It's been a good run. I can't be topped. Free up the budget for a new idea. Creative destruction, I believe it's called.
By rights this should be triumphant. A greatest hits compilation followed by a tragic last stand. Perhaps a maudlin "reward" in which I visit past companions. How is dear Sarah Jane getting on? Pull out all the stops and then go. No point in continuing.
This, of course, is the great triumph of Nathan-Turner. Whatever his later failings, the fact is that almost any route through this story should have been the end of the show. That there are eight more seasons at all is astonishing. And a show that ends here is not immortal. Not one that returns. Gets reimagined, perhaps - plundered and rewritten into something else. But not returns. In this regard the preparations for this episode, the way in which this specific regeneration are built to, are a lynchpin. Logopolis is one of the few stories that simply cannot be excised from the history of Doctor Who - that it is impossible to imagine the show without. The decision to make the end a whimper and not a bang. The decision to, over the course of a season, strip away my star power and leading man charisma, to push me to the margins of my own show, to replace the entire artifice I stood upon with squabbling and unfamiliar kids, to kill my show off before killing me off.
That is the preparation."
The man immolates, gone, at least for now. The road continues forward as the searing red tempers, cools, fades ahead to orange.
There is a blast of sulphurous air as the world goes black. A fear that crawls like a serpent up from your gut, a sense that these things are too large for one mind to grasp. You turn to go back, to curl up within the soft embrace of Thatcherite barbarism instead of facing this. The road back has vanished however. The crocodile's head yawns. Slowly, an order becomes clear. Not a crocodile head but the head of a snake, trodden beneath the feet of a woman of radiant beauty, nude and fluidly still. The snake winds its way around her, undulating serenely. They speak:
"A mystical tradition within Judaism based upon numerological contemplation of the Hebrew language, the Kabbalah as a term embraces many doctrines and traditions. In European Judaism it was formalized in the Middle Ages. Following the expulsion of the Jews from Spain at the hands of the Inquisition Judaism exhibited the inevitable uptick in eschatology and attempts to figure out when that Messiah thing was going to show up became popular. The result was a turn back towards the mysticism of the Kabbalah. These efforts came to merge with the syncretic urges of Renaissance mysticism to form the bastardized occult version of the concept.
In this understanding the Kabbalah provides a Tree of Life comprised of ten Sephiroth linked by 22 paths each represented by the Major Arcana of the Tarot. This tree comprises a complete map of creation - a diagram of the order of all things. The lowest, highest Sephira, Kether, represents the pure unity of the divine, and from it, down the lightning path, flows the divine until it reaches Malkuth, the Kingdom, in which it takes on its material form."
Or at least, you think that's what they say. Two voices overlapping and all. It's a bit unclear. It might have been something more like:
"Edward Packard's The Cave of Time, the first of the Choose Your Own Adventure series, came out in 1979. An overtly analog and literary form, they nevertheless tied in with the burgeoning interest in computers characteristic of the period. It is a case in which a variety of influences, all distinct in their own right, combined within the zeitgeist to form a culture that was inexorably clear to those within it. Packard was not a computer scientist and had no immediate connections to Douglas Hofstadter's massively popular Godel, Escher, Bach. Hofstadter, in turn, was not directly connected with Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu, and cites Computer Lib/Dream Machines not at all in Godel, Escher, Bach. And none were among the generation raised on the Sinclair ZX81, the BBC Micro, or, in the US, the Commodore 64 and Apple II.
But to be alive in the 1980s was to be intimately aware of all of these. The idea of structure was resurgent, but not in the stark and modernist sense of design. Rather, structure was a source of playfulness. It's not that the ideas are new. Rather, it is their confluence - the fact that all of this was immediately prevalent in mass culture. This is in many ways the birth of postmodernism as a cultural force - the point where we all realized that rules, law, language itself were just jungle gyms waiting to be climbed and hung upside down from. That the map, while not the territory, is still a territory, inexorably connected to its object, endlessly explorable."
It is difficult to say. The din and stink of sulfur drives you on up the road. In time the voices fade, and you realize the pitch blackness of the vast and empty space has given way to a crackling purple glow.
tom baker,
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by Ewan Spence 7 years, 11 months ago
I think this is the time to paraphrase Monty Python. "Stop it, this is getting far too silly."
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Eric Gimlin 7 years, 11 months ago
I'm trying to figure out the words to say just how amazing this post is, even if I did give up and read it through from the start after my first pass. Bravo.
I'll need a few more tries before I much to say other than my burning need to praise this entry. I will agree with you on section 24: it is, indeed, good to know.
John Toon 7 years, 11 months ago
A Charged Vacuum Emboitement: a piece of television that carries within itself all its future iterations. Very nice.
Exploding Eye 7 years, 11 months ago
Iain Coleman 7 years, 11 months ago
OK, I think we have the quote of the week.
David Bateman 7 years, 11 months ago
Wow! Thanks! That was a lot of fun! Those questions about large swathes of the universe and Nyssa and Tegan never get a look in. They are just overshadowed by the demise of the fourth Doctor. Which in a sense was the end of the television universe as we knew it.
Andrew Hickey 7 years, 11 months ago
Wow. And I agree with Iain - that Hawaiian shirt line is possibly the best thing you've written.
BerserkRL 7 years, 11 months ago
The nature of mathematics is intrinsically Platonic. No thing called a right angle exists in the world
Only if one holds a Platonic rather than Aristotelean view of abstraction.
the idea that anarchism is not generated by fighting against the law but by the manipulation and play within its gaps
And also, as anarchists have frequently insisted, anarchism is the only political philosophy that respects the rule of law -- because only in a system without monopoly or a "final arbiter" can the fundamental principle of the rule of law be implemented, namely the submission of disputes to a neutral third party (a principle that states cannot follow in their disputes with their citizens without ceasing to be states). Thus anarchy comes not to destroy but to fulfil the law.
And in a world where a TARDIS might suddenly materialise and a madman step out, there is always a third party arbiter available.
only Davison followed the rule by choice
Tennant?
Elizabeth Sandifer 7 years, 11 months ago
Tennant did the specials victory lap. With the specials being the length they were, this amounts to seven extra episodes' worth of appearances - I'll count that as functionally a fourth season of Tennant.
And I think mathematics pose something of a special case for Aristotelean/Platonic abstraction. I'm usually an Aristotelean in such things, but with mathematics I think there's something more to it. Mathematics flits in and out of immediate correspondence to the physical world in a way economics doesn't. I can calculate the angles of a regular -32-sided polygon despite the wholesale meaninglessness of that construct. So geometry as a sort of purely symbolic manipulation exists. So does geometry as something that parallels the real world. That contrast is where I think a whiff of the Platonic becomes impossible to excise.
SK 7 years, 11 months ago
only in a system without monopoly or a "final arbiter" can the fundamental principle of the rule of law be implemented, namely the submission of disputes to a neutral third party
I can't see how that works. Who enforces the rule that all disputes must be submitted to a neutral third party? It seems to me that either someone enforces that rule, in which case you have not got anarchy; or the stronger party in the dispute will merely refuse to appoint a neutral arbiter, in which case you haven't got the rule of law.
(I think also it's quite tendentious to claim that neutral arbiters are 'the fundamental principle of the rule of law' -- I would have said that the fundamental principle of the rule of law is that the same laws should apply to everyone, ie, it's about the laws, not about who arbitrates them.)
Jack Graham 7 years, 11 months ago
"Whatever overdone sentimentality Roberts's tendencies may have, surely it is preferable to this amnesiac sociopathy. Surely an excess of an emotional core to a story is preferable to none whatsoever."
Sentimentality is not emotion. It is the pretence of emotion. It is ersatz emotion. It is the bluster that covers the lack of anything sensible to say. It is the lady protesting too much. It is easy and cheap and exists to placate and flatter.
When Roberts has Cybermen destroyed by love, this is the rump-gothic (the last gasp of genuine unease) soothingly, perfunctorily, ritually defeated by comforting certainties. It is no more genuinely emotional than the stunted awkwardness of 'Logopolis'. Indeed, the stunted awkwardness of 'Logopolis' stems from the inability of the show to find a way of satisfactorily dealing with how to portray the emotional impact of such an unimaginable catastrophe. Roberts, by contrast, cannot cope sincerely with even the comparatively minor horrors in 'The Lodger'.
Roberts offers us platitudes while 'Logopolis' seems stunned into incoherence by the magnitude of its own story.
Roberts forecloses upon the story he is telling. Lack of love is bad, love can defeat it. This from the man who sneered at political polemics because they supposedly offer only widely-accepted banalities.
Moreover, Roberts kills the Cybermen stone dead by killing their meaning. When you defeat the Cybermen with gold or gravity or radiation, the essence of their threat is unaffected and survives, even as they themselves die. When you kill them with love, you 'solve' them away into nothing.
'Logopolis' does not even try to solve the destruction of half the universe. It doesn't seem to want to dare. This has its problems, but insincerity and soothing ease are not amongst them.
Skye Marthaler 7 years, 11 months ago
Here is where I finally comment. I’ve been following and reading these for a good long while now and I congratulate you on a splendid effort.
Looking back on it I’m rather surprised anyone in my family would have become a Doctor Who fan. Growing up on a small dairy farm in north central Wisconsin is not exactly where one would expect the seeds of Doctor Who fandom taking hold. I believe the only reason I still enjoy Doctor Who today is because my dad, a Midwestern farmer to the bone, really enjoyed watching Doctor Who. When I think about my dad it seems so out of place with his character that a guy like him would have any interest in, let alone be fan of, a fantasy/ sci-fi British TV show. Thankfully for me, he was. It is something we would always watch together on Sundays after we would get home from church. We’d tune in on the local PBS channel when Packer football wasn’t on.(What can I say, it is Wisconsin after all.)
This is the Doctor Who episode that hooked me as a kid. It was one of the first episodes I saw and it has always stuck with me, particularly the name. It captured my imagination as a kid and today knowing what it means just increases my affection for it. That name, more than anything, has been bouncing around my brain for almost three decades. Even now when I think of Doctor Who and watch the new episodes
Logopolis is never far away.
My dad liked this episode and his impression of it has impacted my memory of it. I recently watched it a few months ago and while I could pick out all the deficiencies in the story I really didn’t care, I still enjoyed the craziness of it all. In the end that is what I really want out of Doctor Who. My apologies since this is a bit disjointed but this is where Doctor Who get more personal and interesting for me.
Martin Porter 7 years, 11 months ago
Propaganda Due!
Now there's a story which if RTD had scripted it would have us all lambasting the lack of believability in his plots.
Dan 7 years, 11 months ago
I'm assuming the assumption is that a society without government will possess a harmony in which the rule of law as defined is naturally and correctly applied, and the same with it's enforcement.
I've always assumed it meant that the law applies without exception to all, so that governments, for example, can't go around breaking the law as they please. The law is above all.
The idea of a "neutral" third party is a bit troublesome, but in the UK at least the courts are separate from the executive and legislature. It's a fundamental principle of our unwritten constitution and this separation was taken even further under the last Labour government. I think I prefer our justice system now to the kangaroo courts that might come about in some forms of social organisation. But I'm interested in how we might know it the *would* be guaranteed not to occur under anarchism.
I haven't read all this post (yet), but it seems very fair, and perhaps given how seriously Season 18 seemed to take itself, perhaps it's appropriate that it's so serious (or not)! And I had never connected Jewish mysticism with Dr Who before... It may go down in legend.
I have a couple of follow-up thoughts:
1) I have to disagree re Sarah Sutton, she actually strikes me as wooden through most of her run, and the lack of any meaningful reaction to the subversion of her father and the destruction of her entire world could be laid at her feet as much as at the writers' feet;
2) If you want to anticipate the following eight seasons, the charged TARDIS emboitement in Part One of Logopolis might seem a strangely apt metaphor for JNT's run as producer. The further down the iterations you go, the colder and darker and more desperate things become, but always with the dangled promise that eventually you'll break through and back into daylight. (And of course, eventually you do.)
I think slamming Sutton's woodenness misses the effect she was going for. Remember how central to British self-mythology the image of the Royal Family remaining in London during the Blitz is. The image of nobility putting aside their own personal feelings for the greater good is an inherent part of the reason why the nobility is, well, noble.
Choking up a bit and then getting on with it after your entire race is destroyed isn't wooden. It's tapping right into a fundamental image of British heroism. The problem is purely that she needed to eventually come back to the emotion. Not that she pushed through it in this story. And I think that evocation of the "keep calm and carry on" image of nobility was a wholly deliberate choice on her part, and that she hit it note perfect.
Alan 7 years, 11 months ago
A truly amazing entry, Phillip. I am awed. My biggest thoughts are as follows:
1. First and foremost, I think the Problem of Nyssa is at least as great as the Problem of Susan. Susan's problem was that she was left behind to an uncertain destiny. Nyssa's problem was that her destiny was assured -- one day, she would die, and then her race would be extinct, without the Doctor ever having taken any meaningful steps to secure justice for the extermination of her species. The Problem of Nyssa would hang over every future appearance of the Master and would even carry forward into the new series. I finally lost all patience with Tennant's Doctor at the end of "Last of the Time Lords." Not with that silliness where he got magical powers due to everyone on the planet thinking simultaneously about how much they loved him. But the very end, when the Doctor unilaterally decides that no one on Earth is fit to judge the Master for the murder of innumerable people, including a sitting U.S. President and the entire British cabinet. Instead, the Doctor will place him under house-arrest and try to rehabilitate him. I remember practically snarling at the TV when he said that: "Awesome! You two should totally go visit Nyssa on Terminus! You can all reminisce about that time the Master murdered Nyssa's father and then wore his corpse like a cheap suit for the next few years! And then you can have a good laugh over the fact that there were now exactly twice as many Timelords as there were Gallifreyans!"
2. Upon rewatching it last week, I was amazed once again to realize how much I still liked Adric. Granted the acting is weak and he was a little annoying in the first episode because Bidmead did that incredibly annoying thing where the guy listening to the plot exposition repeats in a questioning tone the last word in each of the other guy's lines, because that's easier than writing dialogue. He rather foolishly assumes the Watcher is the Master, but then the Doctor, who knows the truth, steadfastly refuses to tell anyone anything for no reason except to spoil the surprise at the end of the story. He does snap at Tegan in one scene, but since I loathed Tegan (see below), I couldn't bring myself to care.
The thing about Adric in this season that gets totally ruined in the next is that he provides a perspective on the Doctor that has never been seen before or since. Ian, Stephen and Ben were grown men, and while Jamie was younger, he had also been to war when the Doctor found him. Number Two was also a very childlike figure and there relationship was more like two irrepressible friends who simply had a significant age difference. Adric represented the first male figure in the Tardis who was young enough for the Doctor to have actually had a paternal relationship with him, and I quite enjoyed those scenes where the Doctor seems to be interacting with his son (as opposed to his daughter which was more often the case -- see Two and Victoria, Three and Jo on occasion, definitely Seven and Ace). There was no point in this story or this season in which I didn't buy Adric as being the Robin to the Doctor’s Batman, both in the “let’s go fight evil” way and the “older guy takes in a youthful ward” way. Here, he cleverly helps the Doctor escape the police at the start of episode 2, he helps the Monitor identify the mistakes that have endangered the Doctor's life at the start of episode 3, and he is practically the only person who even tries to stop the Master's plan to shut down Logopolis. (Even the Doctor just stands there like a lump while the Master fiddles with his remote control; Jon Pertwee could have karate chopped him six times over.)
I enjoy these interactions now, since we're only two stories away from the deliberate sabotage of a heretofore likeable character by JNT. (TBC)
3. You mentioned the Doctor's odd interactions with the police in episode one. I was even more struck by the odd actions of the police. It is one of the hoariest old tropes in fiction for the protagonist to be thought a murderer because he is discovered standing over a dead body. But I have never seen this trope enacted in a situation in which the police could not possibly know that a murder had been committed. Yet here, the police are extremely hostile to the Doctor to the point of implying they don't want to see him get a fair trial ... because he was found standing next to an abandoned car with two dolls sitting in the front seat?!? (I'll pass over for now the Master's apparent ability to invoke mindless terror in his victims by chuckling softly.)
4. Last and least, there is Tegan.
We've only recently lost Romana. Before her was Leela, who IIRC only ever screamed once (when a giant rat was actually in the process of biting her on the leg) and who often had to be restrained from killing the villain before the Doctor had a chance to talk with him. In just the last story, we introduced Nyssa who staged as one-woman jailbreak to free all the male cast protagonists.
And then there's Tegan, who broke down and cried in near hysteria because she got lost in a maze for about fifteen minutes. Tegan, who is prone to say things like "My Auntie Vanessa has been murdered! And what's worse, I'M LATE FOR WORK!!!" Tegan, who upon encountering a completely alien culture for the first time, immediately assumed the head alien was running a math-based sweatshop. Tegan, the living embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger effect, who would spend all of this episode and most of the next two and a half years convinced that she was more competent than she was. (Consider that she'd have never entered the Tardis and Auntie Vanessa would likely still be alive if she'd only taken her auntie's advice and hailed down someone to help them change the flat tire that she clearly didn't know how to change -- "Shouldn't you put a jack under there first, dear?"). Lord in Heaven, what a triumph for feminism she turned out to be. I swear, between Tegan, Peri and Mel, I truly believe that a case can be made that JNT was a misogynist.
To be fair, finding an abandoned car with a doll of a police officer when you're looking for a missing police officer is about as suspicious as an actual corpse.
But yes, I largely concur or sympathize with your remaining points.
My criminal law professor would beg to differ, I think.:) It was just such an odd scene. The investigating officer really seemed to be playing it like there were supposed to be mutilated corpses there instead of some frankly adorable little doll. I've wondered if the script actually failed to make it clear to the actor what he was supposed to be talking about and after rehearsing the scene thinking he was standing next to a bloody double homicide, he just decided to go with it on the set.
SK,
either someone enforces that rule, in which case you have not got anarchy; or the stronger party in the dispute will merely refuse to appoint a neutral arbiter, in which case you haven't got the rule of law.
But if we look at real-world cases of nonstate legal systems, neither of those options is what happens. In some cases the rule is enforced, not by some one agency, but by people generally. In other cases the rule is not enforced at all, but people comply with it because of practices of boycotting those who don't.
For that matter, even in state legal systems, there's no literal final arbiter, and yet no rule by the strongest either.
I think also it's quite tendentious to claim that neutral arbiters are 'the fundamental principle of the rule of law' -- I would have said that the fundamental principle of the rule of law is that the same laws should apply to everyone, ie, it's about the laws, not about who arbitrates them.
I was thinking of standard arguments for the rule of law as e.g. in Locke. But in any case your fundamental principle entails mine.
in the UK at least the courts are separate from the executive and legislature
That's certainly an improvement over systems where they're not thus separate. All the same, it's not pure rule of law inasmuch as they're all prt of the same monopoly system.
Well, given that the Doctor is essentially a Christ figure during the RTD era (and even more broadly, the Doctor is anti-retribution most of the time, though admittedly not all of the time), I don't really see anything incongruous in his forgiving and seeking to redeem the Master. It doesn't mean we're not supposed to take the Master's crimes seriously; on the contrary, the scene gets its power only against the background of the Master's crimes.
Plus there's the additional wrinkle of the Master's being the only survivor of the Doctor's own act of genocide; he could hardly be expected to view the Master without feeling guilt himself.
Btw, when you say "twice as many Timelords as there were Gallifreyans" I think you mean "twice as many Timelords as there were Trakenites."
WGPJosh 7 years, 11 months ago
I adore Gareth Roberts, but I have to agree here. Good writers can have bad days.
I haven't *actually* commented on the entry itself as of this writing...I need some more time to mull it out...:-)
inkdestroyedmybrush 7 years, 11 months ago
Logopolis is a huge monument of different storytelling, so much so that Philip very accurately identifies it as the culmination of a shift of focus away from the the most popular Doctor ever.
"The problem of Baker" is resolved here by diminishing him to inaction. It really does feel like the fourth body of the Doctor has lived out all the adventures we've seen on TV as well as allt he books that were written as well as the comics that were drawn. Its easy to imagine him living for hundreds of years in that body before knowing that his past was catching up to him. (It is as easy to imagine Troughton in season 6a having many more years of adventures besides what we saw, such was his zest for life) If Baker inhabited the image of the 4th doctor with himself more than most any of the other actors, then the sullen resignation of his leaving puts him even closer to the moment than the prior actors in the role. The story and the moment of departure has cowed him into being smaller, lost in the maze of the script that essentially pairs his options down to nothing. The irrepressible younger Baker would never have stood for it.
JNT's reign could be summed up by abriging the phrase, "sound and fury, signifying nothing". All story arcs will be hinted at and lost, continuity and spectacle existing for sake of momentary enjoyment and then nothing. Doctor Who will become the equivalent of a one night stand, and one that, increasingly, you'll participate in with regret and the need for alcohol.
The idea of recursion is an interesting one in the days of syndication. We can relive the moments again and again as well. Dangerous that. As with the Dalek Master Plan X-Mas episode, it was best to be viewed once. No recursion there.
Excellent thoughts. Quite right noting that not one of Baker's episodes involves his Doctor in an emotionally weak moment (although Deadly Assassin requires a greater emotional role since he has no one to off that on). It was a style of TV that he embodied then, although I believe that he certainly could have given the right script. I have often tried to imagine his Doctor in "Midnight", Trying to use his persuasive powers to calm the shuttle passengers and failing, falling victim to the possession. I think that he would have been masterful at that episode. Hinchcliffe would have certainly bought that script. And liked that it only had one set!
Gah! Yes, I reviewed that post three times before hitting post and still missed that.
Anyway, topic: Yes, RTD treated Ten as a Christ-like figure which was awesome because that's not the most cliched thing ever. Neo was a Christ figure! The problem with that scene is that Christ came to forgive us for our sins committed against God, whereas Ten came to forgive the Master for sins committed against other people, and I don't think he has the right to do that.
The real issue is that it creates the problem that TV Tropes identifies as "Joker Immunity." To wit: Batman cannot even try to kill the Joker without losing his good guy status, but since Batman is unwilling to kill the Joker (who will inevitably escape from Arkham to kill again), Batman bears some responsibility for the Joker's future crimes. In the real world, prison escapes are incredibly rare, as are escapes from mental health facilities. In DC comics, the Joker escapes from maximum security on average once ever 18 months or so (the frequency of Joker stories, I think), which means that Batman's victory over the Joker is ultimately meaningless.
Or to put that another way, allowing the villain to perpetually escape any kind of justice no matter what his crimes because he's such a cool villain is dramatically flawed because it ultimately renders the hero ineffectual.
Anton B 7 years, 11 months ago
Stunning. I will enjoy returning to this tour de force and shuffling the deck. In fact never mind a book what about finding a suitable artist and publishing a deck of Doctor Who Tarot cards. I'd buy one.
Ben 7 years, 11 months ago
This was the story my dad chose to introduce me to Doctor Who when it was repeated before Castravalva and I was all of four (but nearly five! as I'd have said then) years old. It blew me away. I finally figured out from this blog that we'd watched Buck Rogers the previous year and I also see how it grounded me by giving me a crash course in sci-fi and TV cliche which would allow me to appreciate this properly. If I'd started on this it would've seemed normal.
As it was I remember it really well. I joined the Tardis with Teegan and was all set for the usual sci-fi stuff only to have the good guys lose, half the universe destroyed and The Doctor die and turn into someone else. I couldn't understand it all but it was vast and intricate and mystical. It stuck in my head and though I forgot the name of the story, years later I was always fascinated by the word logos.
They looked like dolls to us because they were in fact .... dolls! However they were supposed to be actual compressed dead flesh (ugh) which would be odd seeming at least. Also, the police aren't arresting him, but detaining him for questioning. They threaten to arrest him, but in my experience they do that even when they can't. I called them on this once and they apologised. Well, they didn't actually apologise, so much as glower but I took it as such.
By the way I've been following your blog (and Doctor Who for that matter)from the beginning and occasionally commenting. I've not always had time to praise everything you post but I'd like to say here how impressive this has been so far. Pretty much agree with all your interpretations and am intrigued by the Hermetic subtext you seem to have revealed. It makes me wonder as someone who grew up with Hartnell's Doctor how much my own interest in magic (both types since you ask) was primed by Doctor Who. All protesters that magic has no place in the Whoniverse really haven't been paying attention.
"There are only two magic tricks. You either make something appear or make something disappear. You put it in the box or you take it out."
That's as good a description of Doctor Who (both the show and the man)as I've ever read.
The Doctor is a Magician. The actors who have and will portray him are Conjurors.
(A Conjuror is an Actor pretending to be a Magician).
The Doctor's act usually goes like this -
A box appears a man gets out. He produces something from his pocket (a wand? A sonic screwdriver?) and makes something else appear or disappear. His 'glamorous assistant' is locked in a box. He opens the box. She is gone. He makes other stuff appear and disappear. His assistant re-appears. Finally he and his assistant get in a box and they and the box disappear.
This is why the Doctor is so often at home in circuses, in thetres and around show people. He is a conjuror pretending to be an actor pretending to be a magician. Or is it the other way round?
Boxes within boxes within boxes
As above so below.
Janjy Giggins 7 years, 11 months ago
I think it's quite productive to think about Logopolis in terms of the rise of systems theory in the social sciences and humanities at this time. It offers a slightly different angle on a lot of the points that have been made her and for the last few weeks.
People are very quick to focus on the fact that Bidmead was interested in computers and to identify the various reflections of this in the stories he was involved with. That's not wrong, but this blog has done a wonderful job of showing that that's a rather simplistic way of approaching what he was attempting to do.
What I want to add is that this - and Logopolis in particular - ties into a wider current in much academic thought at this time. In a process beginning much earlier but reaching its heyday in the late 70s and 80s, sociologists and those in related disciplines (I'm an archaeologist myself so that's where I'm approaching it from) began to extend the approaches used for conceiving of and modelling literal, mechanical systems to other areas, and in particular to society and human interaction. Rather than being composed of people with free will, societies were seen as systems composed of subsystems whose action and interaction were governed by feedback responses and the nature of their role in the system. That's putting it quite simplistically, of course, and systems theories varied and developed quite a lot during the 20th century.
This kind of theory has been quite influential in how people have thought about societal 'collapse', and later in the decade Joseph Tainter published a book looking at the fall of ancient societies in an explicitly systems-theoretical way. The emphasis is on the spiralling costs and diminishing benefits of integrating diverse subsystems into a coherent system, with collapse as the inevitable endpoint which can only ever be postponed. In short, it posits that societies rise and fall because of entropy in closed systems. This book didn't come out till 1988, so I'm not claiming it influenced Bidmead in any direct way. Rather, they're both coming from an intellectual trend where society and the wider world is conceived of in a mechanistic and scientistic way.
It's a rather obvious point to say that Logopolis explicitly presents this vision of the universe. It's not just a computer-inspired set of logic games and flights of fancy but a response to a way real people thought societies worked. But I think what's more interesting is the tension between this and what had come before, and how the decision to embrace systems theory during Season 18 works for the programme.
Systems theory - especially in the fairly 'pure' form it still had for many social scientists in the 70s and 80s - has two big problems as a model for society. It can't easily deal with individual agency: with the person as someone who might act in unexpected or capricious ways that aren't necessarily governed by a rationally-constituted cost-benefit analysis or which aren't responses to 'feedback'. Instead it's functionalist. People's actions are explained purely in terms of their role within the system: 'villains and allies alike... are defined ontologically, in ways stemming entirely out of the story's structure.'
(contd.)
The second problem is that systems theories don't cope well with change. Even as they posit entropy which will eventually lead to disintegration, the nature of the models tends towards equilibrium. Feedback mechanisms perpetuate themselves and the System is monolithic, reified and eternal.
But capriciousness, agency and irrationality are the hallmarks of the Doctor. By his nature he doesn't fit into the systems. He might be reduced to his functionalist role in a system of narrative, but to explain him in functionalist terms is to miss the point of what he is. And, as Phil noted when he was discussing the Key to Time season, he's got a very uneasy relationship with equilibrium. More often than not, the Doctor is an agent of change, which any programme about time-travel must surely hold as fundamental.
So to put the Doctor in a systems-theory universe is, paradoxically, to place him in a functionalist vision of the world but to rob him of his role, to deny him his agency and
constrain him to limited action of stimulus and response. The whole nature of the way the universe works in Logopolis is part of the process of chipping away at Baker's show. Phil noted the upturn in postmodern elements early in the Hinchcliffe era and how these escalated as we went through Williams'. But now this postmodern Doctor's forced into a world which simply and explicitly doesn't work that way. It's modernist-functionalist through and through.
And I think what's really important is that Bidmead recognises this incompatability. As much as he might believe in systems theory - and I'm sure he does - it's telling that when the Doctor Who universe is explicitly portrayed in such terms, it's a death-sentence. A confirmation that it can't go on like that and is doomed. For one of the first times in the series (as far as I can remember), the whole fate of existence - and by extension of the show itself - is at stake. It served Bidmead's interests and the show's purposes to diminish the Doctor by denying his postmodern universe of symbols and agency, but Logopolis is the acknowledgement that as the status-quo of the series, systems theory is a dead end. The Doctor gives his life to put an end to it.
"The second problem is that systems theories don't cope well with change. Even as they posit entropy which will eventually lead to disintegration, the nature of the models tends towards equilibrium. Feedback mechanisms perpetuate themselves and the System is monolithic, reified and eternal."
Aren't you ignoring Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety here? That makes it clear that a control system can only work if it's at least as flexible as the most unpredictable element of the system it's trying to control. It's the most basic law of cynernetics, but it's one which a lot of systems thinkers (not the good ones) try their best to ignore.
Of course, Ashby's Law is mathematically equivalent to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, so in effect the same thing that will eventually destroy us - entropy - is the only thing that guarantees us our freedom...
Dave Kielpinski 7 years, 11 months ago
The structure of this post is very interesting, but I have to confess I gave up on following the sections back and forth.
Would you consider using hyperlinks between the sections instead?
zapruder313 7 years, 11 months ago
Great, great post: and how lovely to see that the Comments section has generated not one, but two of the most insightful quotes on Doctor Who that I have ever read:
inkdestroyedmybrush: "Doctor Who will become the equivalent of a one night stand, and one that, increasingly, you'll participate in with regret and the need for alcohol."
It's funny 'cause it's true. Hilarious and apposite!
Anton B: "A box appears a man gets out. He produces something from his pocket (a wand? A sonic screwdriver?) and makes something else appear or disappear. His 'glamorous assistant' is locked in a box. He opens the box. She is gone. He makes other stuff appear and disappear. His assistant re-appears. Finally he and his assistant get in a box and they and the box disappear."
Utterly brilliant. Don't suppose you'd consider expanding this paragraph into a full-scale essay?
elvwood 7 years, 11 months ago
For the benefit of any IFers here, I've thrown together an interactive fiction version of this blog entry. Hope you don't mind, Philip! You can find it here.
Hope it's useful...
I've no problem in the abstract, but if you wouldn't mind expressly noting that the text is copyright to me and including the url of my blog I would greatly appreciate both gestures.
Perhaps he had been hypnotised by the Master to think they were corpses? It's all sounds a bit dreamlike (not having seen it since 1981).
Matthew Blanchette 7 years, 11 months ago
What is a .gblorb? My computer won't open it... :-S
Philip, I've added an explicit copyright message (the text was already credited to you) and the url.
Matthew, gblorb is an adventure game format. I've re-released it with a webpage here, containing a Javascript interpreter so that you can just play it in your browser (though it seems to mess up the centred palindromic text at the start); otherwise you need to install an interpreter such as Zoom (Mac/Linux), Spatterlight (Mac), Gargoyle or Glulxe (Windows) - I've only tried it on the last two. It's probably not worth doing unless you're going to play other IF!
Is the Platonic concept of mathematics explicitly to be found in the kabbalah?
VERY nice, elvwood! Looks good, so far... :-D
So, Philip, you going to do a few "gap" entries on the gap year between the respective transmissions of "Logopolis" and "Castrovalva"?
Thankyou. That's praise indeed considering the company I'm keeping here. When I've got time I would like to expand on the concept. It's about locating the tipping point where belief in 'magic' became belief in empiricism or science. Somewhere around the nineteenth century I suspect. (A bit later than the usual 18th C Enlightenment locus). The pop culture manifestation was the rise in popularity of the stage conjuror. I've always thought the Doctor had the whiff of the Egyptian Hall about him.
Castrovalva is not going up Monday, no.
Very little is "explicitly" to be found in the Kabbalah.
Thanks, elwood - I quite love it. :)
Zapruder 313 7 years, 11 months ago
This sounds fascinating and is, I believe, largely un-remarked upon (at least, in detail) in relation to our show.
We all know that the TARDIS is "really" Digory Kirke's wardrobe, made of the wood of the Narnian apple tree; but, as you point out, it is also "really" John Nevil Maskelyne's magical cabinet.
I greatly look forward to reading your expanded thoughts on the subject!
Thanks, for what it's worth I see the relevance now I've done a bit more research.
Christ came to forgive us for our sins committed against God, whereas Ten came to forgive the Master for sins committed against other people, and I don't think he has the right to do that.
I'm pretty sure Christ is supposed to forgive people for all sins. And that he told his followers to do likewise.
Anyway, it's not like the Doctor is just going to let the Master go. He's going to keep him imprisoned. Is there something more he should do? Torture him? Pluck out his fingernails?
Batman's victory over the Joker is ultimately meaningless.
I don't see that. Even if there's no final victory, every 18 months that the Joker is in prison is 18 months he's not killing people.
A lot of systems theory was already around a century earlier in Herbert Spencer.
Will you be doing a "K-9 and Company" entry?
And do you have thoughts on when in the Doctor's personal chronology he sent K-9 to Sarah? Was the 4th or 5th at the time? Seems like he couldn't have done it when he was still in eSpace.
K-9 and Company is one of the entries that will appear before Castrovalva. I have no particular thoughts on when the Doctor sent K-9 to Sarah, but if forced to think about it I'd assume it was between The Invasion of Time and The Ribos Operation. After all, if you're building one, why not build a second? And that's still close enough to when he'd last seen Sarah that the act of sentimentality makes some sense.
Adam Riggio 7 years, 11 months ago
One of the many, many things I find interesting about this post is the iconography. There are particular images that, as Doctor Who fans explore more of the show's history, ordinarily insignificant images become powerful emotional triggers. In my case, long scarves, bow ties, umbrellas, and of course police boxes, have become associated with joy and confidence.
It's not even just the images that are on the screen, but the images that came out of the production of the show. Badly clashing coats and Hawaiian shirts give me chills, and not just because of their visual ugliness. Not only the content of the broadcast, but the whole history of its production in the BBC and wider culture is inseparable from the Doctor Who story. You can't understand the fictional narrative of Doctor Who without understanding Philip Hinchcliffe's firing and the production problems that followed it. And you can't understand why Hinchcliffe was fired without understanding the UK conservative movement. Which is, of course, your point, Phil.
Philip wrote: Thanks, elwood - I quite love it. :)
Cool! Consider it my way of giving something back. Well, that and buying the book version(s).
I think straight text on a computer screen is, unfortunately, the worst of both worlds when it comes to a CYOA. You lack the ability to flip to the right section physically, and you don't have the convenience of hyperlinks. I could have just converted it to a webpage, but where's the fun in that when I could do something more... nostalgic for the 80s?
I'm not saying you shouldn't have done it, BTW - I've really enjoyed following various paths (particularly once I converted it). It's just run up against a limitation of the blog medium.
Makes sense. I certainly prefer it to be the 4th rather than the 5th.
Axel Brass 7 years, 11 months ago
That was mind-shuttling. When I hit the section where I died and then came out the other side I felt like I'd regenerated.
I wonder how this'll play out in book form? I'd like hypertext in the ebook, if I'm allowed to make requests. Anyway, I have to review The Hartnell years on Amazon now.
I love this post, and page generally, even - especially - when I don't know what to make of it. Since my brain is a-racing, I'll paraphrase my gratitude:
It's a strange blog. Let's keep it that way.
I'm trying to figure out how to put this without sounding like a death penalty supporter, because I unambiguously am not. I would prefer to see the death penalty abolished completely in America. This is because I live in America, where it is perfectly feasible to contain someone in a maximum security prison for the rest of his natural life, and so killing a convicted murderer serves no purpose except revenge. If, OTOH, I lived in the fictional universe of Gotham City, where the Joker is apparently capable of escaping nearly at will and every single time he does, he runs up a death toll higher than the worst real world serial killers before getting captured, punched in the face and put back in the same cell, I might reconsider my opposition to the death penalty. I definitely would if my concerns about less stringent punishments were met by death penalty opponents saying "look on the bright side, that's 18 months that you DON'T have to worry about your loved ones being reduced to grinning corpses." That is the essence of the Joker immunity problem -- that Batman appears ineffectual if the best he can do is provide a brief respite from the Joker's killing sprees. The Joker HAS to escape to remain a viable villain (and he really is the best Batman villain so he's going to escape), but the fact that he escapes and that he will never get anything worse than a punch in the face from Batman followed by being led back to Arkham in time for jello is an indictment not just on Batman but the whole judicial system. I mean, a societal rule that allows for serial killers to continue serial killing is, by definition, a bad rule, isn't it.
Living in a Bible Belt death-penalty state, I find that statement sadly ironic when I contemplate the contortions my fellow citizens go through to justify the death penalty. More importantly, are you saying that Nyssa should simply forgive the Master for his crimes? The murder and cannibalization of her father followed by the extermination of her species? Is she a bad person if she refuses to do so and chooses to seek revenge against him? I might or might not forgive my father's murderer, but I think I'd be a bit put out if someone else whom I considered a friend were to say to me "don't worry, I've already forgiven him for you."
What do you think I am, a Republican? No, I don't think the Master should be tortured. I am simply commenting on (1) the inadequacy of imprisonment for one of universal history's greatest monsters and (2) the arrogance with which the Doctor assumes total responsibility for making that decision in the first place.
First of all, if the Doctor has anything more than naked contempt for the human race, he should have acknowledged that the people of Earth have the right to subject the Master for punishment for his crimes, including but not limited to the assassination of the President of the United States and of the MP's who made up nearly the entirety of the British government. That's assuming we don't punish him for a deliberate genocide against the human race that was qualitatively worse than what Hitler enacted simply because the Doctor retroactively undid it all. Viewed in that light, shepherding him away into the Tardis for "house arrest" because he's the only one worthy of deciding the Master's fate reflects very poorly on the Doctor, IMO.
That said, if the Doctor is the only one entitled to decide the Master's fate, it had better be a damn sight better than "house arrest." The Master represents an existential threat to the whole universe. Unless the Doctor has something comparable to the Pandorica to hold the Master in, then frankly, I do think he's obligated to kill the Master. Because if he goes with "house arrest" and the Master escapes, how can the Doctor not be considered partial liable for his future killings. And it's pretty obvious he will escape, if only because Ten is so emotionally besotted with him that making some mistake in containment is inevitable.
Then, by that logic, killing the Joker would be a greater victory, since he would never kill anyone again. Honestly, if one of your loved ones were brutally murdered by the Joker -- after his 39th escape from jail! -- and Batman were to show up at the funeral and say "don't worry, he won't do that to anyone else for at least 18 months," what would you say?!?
Axel, FYI i've been posting different Planetary characters on my art blog for three days now...
http://inkdestroyedmybrush.blogspot.com/2012/02/sketch-day-20-john-stone-from-planetary.html
5tephe 7 years, 11 months ago
Hells bells, Phil! You are insane. You are wonderful.
You are definitely a mad man with a blog.
Oh, and "Harry, I'm standing on a signifier." is a moment of unalloyed genius.
Ian Caldwell 7 years, 11 months ago
A Choose your own Adventure game? You Could use a world map!
I've measured it in all 37 dimensions and devised this:
http://i723.photobucket.com/albums/ww234/aka4x7b/LogoPolis.jpg
Hope this aids in navigation. Start at the top and head down ... down ... down ...
http://www.ancientquest.com/assets/treeoflife.gif is also a fairly good map of it, though I handled Da'ath differently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg
I'm surprised you didn't try to analyze David Fisher's original Kabbalist influences back when you wrote on City of Death -- the species was originally called the Sephiroth; i.e., the 10 attributes/emanations in Kabbalah through which God created the world and/or manifests.
Go down the rabbit hole a bit, who knows what you can find... ;-)
That was mainly because, frankly, I think you just captured a solid 90% of what's Kabbalistic about City of Death. :)
sleepyscholar 7 years, 11 months ago
A message from a lurker who massively appreciates this whole work:
Overly pedantic and trivial it may be, but CYOA was an American phenomenon. I think mention of Fighting Fantasy would have been apposite, not least because the Virgin Books DW line editor, Peter Darvill-Evans, wrote some Fighting Fantasies, as well as co-writing the Doctor Who rolegame Timelord with Ian Marsh. He was also my first boss...
(I confess to being an interested party in this, as the author of a couple of FFs myself)
While the CYOA books were primarily published in the US, they certainly weren't unknown over here - when I was a kid everyone preferred Fighting Fantasy of course (because it was the 2000AD to CYOA's Superman comics, far more violent and funny) but CYOA were still far better than TSR's Find Your Fate series, which were also available.
More to the point, though, CYOA has become a generic term used online to discuss all these types of books. And of course there was no way Philip was going to write a dice simulator to get the full Fighting Fantasy effect. (Maybe an I Ching simulator would have been more appropriate?)
Fighting Fantasy also debuted in 1982 and would have been anachronistic for this post.
I dunno; the whole fragmented Scaroth (originally Scorath, apparently) seems to try and do some sort of Kabbalistic metaphor (out of the multiple fragments form the whole, etc.) -- but also, I think a lot of what Fisher wrote still remains in the script (for example, large hatted gunmen which seem out-of-place in 1979 Paris but would've fit right in with 1920s Monte Carlo)... really, only the names and dialogue were changed, and the plot immensely simplified.
He's not given enough credit, I think.
BerserkRL - Yes, I think I did say it started much earlier (if I didn't, I meant to), but it was certainly very popular around this time in certain academic circles and was influencing wider culture. And indeed Culture - there's a fair bit of it in some of Iain M Banks' novels for instance. I don't think it's that much of a leap to imagine someone like Bidmead might have had a passing familiarity with it.
Guy Incognito 7 years, 11 months ago
That was an amazing production Philip. I know you are intimately familiar with it, but for those who aren't, if you liked this post, you will like Alan Moore's Promethea.
http://i723.photobucket.com/albums/ww234/aka4x7b/Logopilis.jpg
This might be more what you'd appreciate.
Alex Wilcock 7 years, 10 months ago
It’s Logopolis’ birthday today (woo hoo), so I thought I’d pop in a little congratulation – it seems perverse to celebrate one tiny piece of what you have above, but I was struck by the equation of the Watcher with the viewer, making us all complicit in every terrible thing that happens. I thought that was rather clever.
Though, in terms of the storytelling of the series, I prefer the argument that the Doctor(s) isn’t responsible for the death of a third of the Universe, but for saving two thirds of it.
Celebrating Logopolis’ birthday (woo hoo), I thought I’d chip in with a very silly but slightly plausible explanation: “Give Sarah Jane Smith my fondest love…” That doesn’t sound like any Doctor Sarah knew back then. So, which Doctor left it? From his surprise at K9 in School Reunion and his habit of round-the-companion tours, surely Mr Tennant pops back retrospectively.
Henry R. Kujawa 7 years, 8 months ago
Philip Sandifer:
"This from a show that is increasingly obsessed with continuity - with nods to the past. But only the spectacle of the past - the montage of past characters, the nods to past stories, the return of past monsters. Never to a sense of history, to a sense that the characters change or have any sort of dramatic arcs. Never to anything that isn't chum for the narrow segment of people who give a flying fuck if the Cybermen ever return. That's what killed the program. That's why it goes under. Because in the end, John Nathan-Turner doesn't care about the program beyond as a succession of images."
Here here. It took the virtual apocalypse (the deaths of Holmes, Marter & Troughton, the resignation of Saward, the firing of Colin Baker & the willful deceit of the BBC), before things turned around. The sort of character growth last seen with Ian & Barbara (well, and maybe Jo Grant and Romana) didn't return until Ace. When such a thoroughly unlikeable character can grow before your eyes into a firm favorite... that's magic.
"Why does Nyssa, who previously showed no particular awareness of the TARDIS, now have the capacity to send a message to it, to toll the bell for the Doctor?
YEAH. Good questions.
"I have never seen this trope enacted in a situation in which the police could not possibly know that a murder had been committed. Yet here, the police are extremely hostile to the Doctor to the point of implying they don't want to see him get a fair trial ... because he was found standing next to an abandoned car with two dolls sitting in the front seat?!?"
YEAH. That too.
"And then there's Tegan, who broke down and cried in near hysteria because she got lost in a maze for about fifteen minutes. Tegan, who is prone to say things like "My Auntie Vanessa has been murdered! And what's worse, I'M LATE FOR WORK!!!""
I know that, somehow, someway, Tegan was created after both Leela & Sarah turned down invites to come back. And the BBC & JNT were looking into a co-financing deal with Australia. But really... as if Adric wasn't bad enough...
"I swear, between Tegan, Peri and Mel, I truly believe that a case can be made that JNT was a misogynist."
Strangely enough, I never knew until a couple months ago that JNT was gay. I wonder if that had anything at all to do with it? :D
"Perhaps he had been hypnotised by the Master to think they were corpses?"
That would have made sense. But with all the other holes in this script... gee, it really begins to look like Chris Bidmead was about 100 times better at being a story editor than being a story writer. (The exact opposite of Eric Saward.)
"K-9 and Company is one of the entries that will appear before Castrovalva. I have no particular thoughts on when the Doctor sent K-9 to Sarah, but if forced to think about it I'd assume it was between The Invasion of Time and The Ribos Operation. After all, if you're building one, why not build a second? And that's still close enough to when he'd last seen Sarah that the act of sentimentality makes some sense."
Makes sense. He'd been in that crate for some time before she opened it.
Kat42 7 years, 6 months ago
Oooh I think I might play with that idea if you don't mind. I'm happy to work on Doctor Who related projects with others as well, but if not, I might just do some of the cards just for fun. :)
Froborr 7 years, 3 months ago
Ow.
Ow ow ow ow.
Owwwwwwwww.
This makes my brain hurt. In all the best ways possible... but what an *evil* trap to set for people trying to read through your archives... this article will take DAYS to explore!
Alphapenguin 7 years, 3 months ago
I just reread this today. I found I got a lot more out of it on the next reading, but now I've got "That's Entertainment" stuck in my head. I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY!
Elizabeth Sandifer 7 years, 3 months ago
I'm happy. Hope you're happy too?
Daru 6 years, 10 months ago
Hi Philip - I love the coincidence that the website (ancientquest.com) is that of my Medieval Historian and musician friend Karen Ralls.
SO late to reply on this thread I know - but adore this entry - especially the I.F version!
I am an artist and professional storyteller - and I found your use of imagery very strong and inspiring personally. Much regards for a great piece of work.
David Gerard 6 years, 1 month ago
And don't forget! "That's Entertainment" was not actually released as a 7" in the UK. It became a chart hit in the UK purely on copies shipped in from Europe.
Andrew Bowman 5 years, 8 months ago
The difficulty with the "death of the Master" (or the "death of the Joker") is what happens next? Do people stop being killed? No, of course not. The answer then is that another, very similar, character needs to be created. Problem there, of course, is that there's no real need, in dramatic terms, to do that if you already have the template available. I agree that the notion of "18 months in/18 months out" or whatever is, in principle, flawed, but both the Master and the Joker sell their respective stories. Otherwise, the nearly-identical replacement will just raise the question, "why didn't they use the Master/Joker?" To get all het up about it is peculiar, as it's a fairly straightforward (On UK telly at least) plot device: let's bring back so-and-so, he/she's popular and will boost the ratings. That sort of thing :)
Albrecht 5 years, 1 month ago
The woman does not produce or give birth, instead she expels. ... wwrestlingshoes.blogspot.com
Herrmann 5 years, 1 month ago
For some people, simply put, it's not Doctor Who after Tom Baker leaves. It's true that even in the most optimistic reading things get bad more ... opoolleafvacuum.blogspot.com
In my latest DOCTOR WHO marathon-- this time, watching the individual episodes for the 1st time since the 80s (I have "Inferno" up to "Terminus" that way). I just reached the point where I was painfully reminded that the writing FELL RIGHT OFF A CLIFF.
Yep... "LOGOPOLIS".
I swear... Christopher Bidmead is like the exact opposite of Eric Saward. He's a MUCH better story editor than he ever was a writer. Plus, this was his first of ONLY 3 scripts he ever did on his own. And it was a rush job. What you get is a mixture of fascinating ideas... and REALLY terrible characterization and dialogue. Tom Baker, Mathew Waterhouse, Sarah Sutton, Anthony Ainley... all were wonderful in "The Keeper Of Traken". Yes, even "Adric". And NONE of them come off good in this one. In fact, more than ever before, I was renminded of what a WONDEFFUL character "Tremas" was... so intelligent, reasonable, warm... he deserved better. He deserved a return appearance... not to be MURDERED so that a ONE-dimensional erratic bad parody of Roger Delgado should take his place.
Frankly, I think they only come off looking acceptable because Janet Fielding-- who I KNOW is a nice person off-camera-- came across as such a TOTAL B**** as "Tegan" (my LEAST-favorite WHO companion of all time).
I swear, the ONLY actor in this who comes across well in this is, surprisingly, John Fraser as "The Monitor".
Looking back, I wish to God that John Nathan-Turner had left after this one year. Because I KNOW... as wonderful as Peter Davison is as a person and as an actor... the BULK of his 3 years was EVEN WORSE than this. BAD writing, BAD directing, BAD acting across the board.
This time around, I've been skiping any stories I just don't like. I managed to get all the way through Tom Baker's 7 years and ONLY skip one single story (one that I simply have seen too damn many times for something that horrifically downbeat and disturbing). I'm wondering if I'll even watch HALF of Davison's stories?
I know one thing... as soon as I'm done with his, I'll be pulling out CAMPION to watch again. Man, I LOVE that show!!!
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Flight Simulator: Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity (PC, Mac)
The Proverbs of Hell 2/39: Amuse-Bouche
Shabcast 30
Myriad Universes: Terok Nor
The Proverbs of Hell 1/39: Apértif
Sex in the Time of Empire
Myriad Universes: Blood & Honor
Cultural Marxism 6: Inversions
Luke & Order
Silver Millennium Anniversary
An Increasingly Inaccurately Named Trilogy: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
The Anti-Potter, Part 1: J. K. Rowling and the Effable Mirror
The_OA Exegesis: Champion
An Increasingly Inaccurately Named Trilogy: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
Shabcast 29 - Wheelers Beware Girls Who Ask Questions
Tuesday Tunes?
An Increasingly Inaccurately Named Trilogy: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Love in the Time of Empire
Myriad Universes: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine The Next Generation Part 4: The Enemy Unseen
The_OA Exegesis: New Colossus
An Increasingly Inaccurately Named Trilogy: Episode IV - A New Hope
Rebel Chic
Myriad Universes: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine The Next Generation Part 3: Encounter with The Othersiders!
An Increasingly Inaccurately Named Trilogy: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Rebel Gothic
Myriad Universes: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine The Next Generation Part 2: The Wormhole Trap!
An Increasingly Inaccurately Named Trilogy: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Xenomorph's Paradox: John Hurt
Spirit Tracks: The Elder Scrolls Chapter II
I Pilfer: The Newsletter of the Ithaca Psychogeographic Liberation Front
Myriad Universes: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine The Next Generation Part 1: Prophets and Losses
An Increasingly Inaccurately Named Trilogy: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Guest Post: A Sober Call for Madness
Permanent Saturday: Really big at the box office
Build High for Happiness 8: Jerusalem (2016)
Saturday Waffling (January 21st, 2017)
Articles of Secession
The Comprehensive History of Injustice
The Nintendo Switch Presentation: The Beginning and the End
Build High for Happiness 7: The Witch (2015)
The Final Problem Review
Pex Lives 38: Power of the Daleks
Faeces on Trump 6
Build High for Happiness 6: A Field in England (2013)
The Lying Detective Review
Myriad Universes: The Deceivers Part 3: The Truth Elusive
Build High for Happiness 5: Crash (1973/1996)
The Six Thatchers Review
New Year's Eve Waffling
Spirit Tracks: The Elder Scrolls Chapter I
Myriad Universes: The Deceivers Part 2
The Return of Doctor Mysterio Review
The Annual Boxing Day Sale
Boxing Day Q&A
The Return of Doctor Mysterio Open Thread
Shabcast 28 - The 2nd Annual (so far) Eruditorum Press Christmas Party
Myriad Universes: The Deceivers Part 1: A Matter of Conscience...
Boxing Day Q&A: Call for Questions
Eruditorum Presscast: Kieron Gillen
Hello From The Cracks (The Last War in Albion Book Two Chapter Six: The Abyss Gazes Also)
Gridlock Commentary
Myriad Universes: Hearts and Minds Part 4: Masters of War
Book Launch: The Last War in Albion Volume 1
Build High for Happiness 4: Vers Une Architecture (1923)
Father's Day Commentary
Permanent Saturday: What I guess'd when I loaf'd on the grass
Build High for Happiness 3: Paradise Towers (1987)
Build High for Happiness 2: High Rise (1975)
Myriad Universes: Hearts and Minds Part 3: Into The Abyss
Eruditorum Press Books Make Great Christmas Presents
Pex Lives 37: The Mind Robber
The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did
Myriad Universes: Hearts and Minds Part 2: On the Edge of Armageddon
The Genocide of the Vampires
What is a Moral Person on Arrakis? (Dune)
Notes on Fascism
A Pure and Awful Poetry of Fire (Kirby's Dream Land 3)
Permanent Saturday: Something about the presence of a cat
Pex Lives 2016 Election Special
Brave-Ish Heart
Discussing Trumpism
Site Editorial 11/10/16
The Flowers in the Dustbin (Super Mario 64)
Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart
Shabcast 27 - 2016 US Presidential Election Special
Rainbows and Secretary
Swinging My Dick In My Hand (Super Mario RPG)
Comics Reviews (November 2nd, 2016)
The Secret Song of Ayarynne Underqueen
Serious Bubbles (Steven Universe)
Nightvisiting Review
Comics Reviews (October 26th, 2016)
Nintendo Switch Reveal: First Impressions
Theses on Trump 16
C-Beams Glitter (Mega Man X3, Rockman and Forte)
For Tonight We Might Die & The Coach With The Dragon Tattoo
Robin's Halloween Watch-A-Thon: When Not Watching Twin Peaks
Meanings, Mirrors, and Modernism (a fragment)
Myriad Universes: Hearts and Minds Part 1: For the Glory of the Empire
Pex Lives 36: The Curse of Peladon, or, #imwithher
Cultural Marxism 5: Excession
Big Damn Shiny Heroes (The Reboot): Serenity
Saturday Waffling (October 15th, 2016)
Bob Dylan Is Not A Fucking Poet (But He Still Deserves His Nobel)
Shabcast 26 - Dark City
Permanent Saturday: All cats can see futures, and see echoes of the past
Mr. Robot Season 2: A Furious Defense
Robin's Halloween-Horror-a-thon Catch-Up Post: Because Reasons
The Eruditorum Press Doctor Who Poll Wrapup
Searching For Fuchal: Child Abuse and Authoritarianism (Better Than Life)
The Eruditorum Press Doctor Who Poll Results: The Top 50
And I'm Not Young; I'm Closer to Death Than Birth (Yoshi's Island)
The Eruditorum Press Doctor Who Poll Results: 100-51
The Eruditorum Press Doctor Who Poll Results: 200-101
October Watch-A-Thon: Classics Old and New
Margaret on the Radio
Comics Reviews (October 5th, 2016)
The Eruditorum Press Doctor Who Poll: 364-201
“I'm not myself, you see”: Alice no Paint Adventure, Umihara Kawase
October Watch-athon: The Bob's Burgers Halloween Episodes
The Eruditorum Press Doctor Who Poll Results: The One Point Club
The Eruditorum Press Doctor Who Poll Results: The Bad Stuff
Last Call for the Eruditorum Press Doctor Who Poll
Tricky Dicky, Part 9: Margaret on the Bonfire
Comics Reviews (September 28th, 2016)
Permanent Saturday: Paging Mr. Ducky-White Courtesy Telecan, Please
The Automap is Not the Territory (Doom)
Consider the Ray Gun: John Christopher's The Tripods Trilogy
The Nattering II/One Week Left in the Eruditorum Press Doctor Who Poll
Where No Book Launch Has Gone Before
Whedonites Anonymous
Tricky Dicky, Part 8: Margaret on the Escalator
Comics Reviews (September 21, 2016)
Myriad Universes: Requiem Part 2/Hearts and Minds Part 0
Super Size Kitty Fries
Stay Off My Side
These Shadows Keep On Changing (Castlevania: Dracula X)
The Eruditorum Press Doctor Who Poll
A Citizen Reviews a Misunderstood Classic
Myriad Universes: Requiem Part 1
Jerusalem Review
Oi! Spaceman: Ghosts of Victorianism
Fenris Wulf: Loki's Child (2016 edition). A witty political satire using pop music! I bet you're delighted already.
Shabcast 25 - Phil and Jack talk about High-Rise
Comics Reviews (September 7th, 2016)
TV Movie Commentary
Attack of the Fifty Foot Podcast
Alt (Chrono Trigger)
Regarding J.K. Rowling's Recent Ridiculous Comments on Twitter...
Shabcast 24, Part 2 of the JFK / Nixon Conversation
Comics Reviews (August 31st, 2016)
Myraid Universes: Divided Light Part 3: Bodies of Evidence
like this (poem)
I Think It Would Be a Good Idea (Civilization)
The Blind All-Seeing Eye of Gamergate
Consider the Ray Gun: Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land
Comics Reviews (August 24th, 2016)
Failure is Always an Option
Of Spaghetti, Myths, and Donuts
You Should Have Been a Mother (Earthbound)
The Control of the Form
Are You Sitting Comfortably? - First Movement
Pex Lives XTREME
Cultural Marxism 4: The State of the Art
Embracing Intersubjectivity
Shabcast 23, Part 2 - New Atheism is the Opium of Misogynists, Islamophobes, and Imperialists
QuakeCon 2016 News Roundup
The Circle in the Square (Doctor Who)
Shabcast 23, Part 1 - The Ruling Class Thinks Idiocracy and Democracy are Synonyms
Eruditorum Presscast: David J
Psychic Landscape 3: Properties of the System
Comics Reviews (August 3rd, 2016)
Myriad Universes: Divided Light Part 2: Of Two Minds
Resurrection (memoir)
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 4.10: The Children
My Long Term Relationship With Pain
Shabcast 22ish
Comics Reviews (July 27th, 2016)
Myriad Universes: Divided Light Part 1: Companionship
Lost Exegesis (Solitary) -- Part 2
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 4.09: The Watchers on the Wall
Salty Parabolas, Summer Jobs, and Steven Moffat
Fun With Dan and Jane (A Casual Chat About Steven Moffat)
Two Cakes
(Mostly) Comics Reviews (July 20th, 2016)
Flight Simulator: Star Trek: The Next Generation - Future's Past/Echoes from the Past (Super NES, SEGA Genesis)
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 4.08: The Mountain and the Viper
Those Sexy Silurians
Saturday Waffling (July 16th, 2016)
Black Lives Matter, Escapism, Harry Potter, and Pokemon Go
A Message from Ian Chinashop CBE
Review: The Impossible Has Happened: The Life and Work of Gene Roddenberry, Creator of Star Trek
Pex Lives 34: The Crusade
A Good Guy With a Gun
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 4.07: Mockingbird
Jungian Archetypes and Accidental Art Films
Totemic Artefacts: Playmates Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Wave 2 (Part 2)
Extubated (Poem)
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 4.06: The Laws of Gods and Men
Daniel & Shana & Jane & Lee
Saturday Waffling (July 2nd, 2016)
Ableism in Sex: Queering Your Kink and Fetishes
Psychic Landscape 2: Ladies' Night
Comics Reviews (June 29th, 2016)
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 4.05: First of His Name
Esoterica, Power, and Dick Jokes (The Time Monster)
God and Monsters
Saturday Waffling (June 25th, 2016)
Pulp Frission
Psychic Landscape 1: Conjuring the '70s
Comics Reviews (June 22nd, 2016)
Totemic Artefacts: Playmates Star Trek: The Next Generation Waves 3 and 4
Battle of the Bastards
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 4.04: Oathkeeper
Saturday Brunchtime Waffling
Summer Reruns
Sex Shouldn't Be Scary
All-New All-Different Comics Reviews (June 15th, 2016)
E3 2016: Nintendo Treehouse Live
You're a Beautiful Woman, Probably
E3 2016: Sony Press Conference
E3 2016: Bethesda Press Conference
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 4.03: Breaker of Chains
How Many Times Can I Use the Word "Eviscerating?"
Queer Your Life
Shabcast 21, Part 2 - The Stern Section
Comics Reviews (June 8th, 2016)
Ship's Log, Supplemental: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Magazine
Pex Lives 33: Ghost LIght
Lost Exegesis (Confidence Man)
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 4.02: The Lion and the Rose
The Broken Man
Good Girl, Smash the Patriarchy
Introducing Daniel Harper and Robin Bland
Shabcast 21, Part 1 - The Bow Section
Comics Reviews (June 1st, 2016)
Sensor Scan: Babylon 5
The Last Neoreaction a Basilisk Post You'll Have To Read For a While
A Brief Magical Ritual to Neuter the Alt-Right
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 4.01: Two Swords
Blood of My Blood
The Beginning of a Short Story
Saturday Waffling (May 28th, 2016)
Eruditorum Presscast: Alex Reed (Neoreaction a Basilisk 5)
Thinking Out Loud on TERFs
White Screen
Comics Reviews (May 25th, 2016)
Sensor Scan: Gargoyles
Introducing Vaka Rangi
Pex Lives 32: The Gunfighters
Eruditorum Presscast: Jane Campbell (Neoreaction a Basilisk 4), Cover Reveal, and More
Saturday Waffling (May 21st, 2016)
Just Ban Slates Already
City of the Dead 10: The Torture Garden
Tricky Dicky, Part 7: Vanilla History
Eruditorum Presscast: Sam Keeper (Neoreaction a Basilisk 3)
Neoreaction a Basilisk: Excerpt Five
All The Ghosts You Felt So Certain Of (Donkey Kong Country)
Book of the Stranger
“Thou seest I judge not thee”: All Good Things..., Tribunal
Sunday Eggs and Bangers
Why Eliezer Yudkowsky Should Back Neoreaction a Basilisk (A Bayesian Case)
Vaka Rangi: Three Year Anniversary
Basilisk a Reaction
“Thrice burnt, thrice brought forth”: The Collaborator
Eruditorum Presscast: Jack Graham (Neoreaction a Basilisk 2)
“Ghost Train”: Emergence
Neoreaction a Basilisk: Excerpt Four
When You Were Young and You Wanted to Set the World on Fire (Final Fantasy III)
“Looking-Glass House”: Crossover
Unearthing Review
Neoreaction a Basilisk: Color Edition Reveal
A Feast Impending. Our Ruin to Come. It Becomes Symmetry (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Thirty-Four: In Pictopia!)
Neoreaction, Rationalism, and Eliezer Yudkowsky
“You Klingon bastard! You've killed my son!”: Bloodlines
Why Jack and I Will Write About the Austrian School for Money
Shabcast 19, Part 2
Comics Reviews (May 4th, 2016)
Eruditorum Presscast: David Gerard (Neoreaction a Basilisk 1)
“All in the game, yo. All in the game”: The Wire
Neoreaction a Basilisk: Excerpt Three
SUPERINTELLIGENCES CONSIDERING WHETHER OR NOT TO BLACKMAIL YOU (Super Metroid)
Theses on Trump Preview
“The Final Voyage”: Journey's End, The Maquis, Preemptive Strike
The Blind All-Seeing Eye of Gamergate Preview
Neoreaction a Basilisk: Kickstarter Launch
Vox Day Put A Child Pornographer On The Hugo Ballot
Saturday Waffling (April 30th, 2016)
His Name Burning, His Voice Below Things. All Suffering Nourishes That Presence (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Thirty-Three: Tyger)
“To the Future”: Firstborn
Comics Reviews (April 27th, 2016)
“The Murderer”: Blood Oath
2016 Hugo Nominations Reaction
Neoreaction a Basilisk: Excerpt Two
The Evil in All the Wood (X-Kaliber 2097)
The Red Woman
“IF WE FIGHT LIKE ANIMALS, WE DIE LIKE ANIMALS!”: Genesis
Saturday Waffling (April 23rd, 2016)
The Recapture, Consciousness Let Live Moments Longer, Which, in Truth, Only Offers Turmoil (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Thirty-Two: Eschatology and Rebellion)
“Here's lookin' at you”: Profit and Loss
Happy Birthday, Your Majesty
Drunken Marxist
“Reoccurring dreams”: Eye of the Beholder
Neoreaction a Basilisk: Excerpt One
Silhouettes and Shadows Watch the Revolution (Mega Man X)
“Goddess Remembered”: Playing God
Mind That Until Now Thought of Continuity, Our Torch, Then Saw It Flicker (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Thirty-One: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)
“The Face You Wear”: Masks
Tricky Dicky, Part 6: Dress Modern
Pex Lives 31: Terror of the Autons
“Maya”: Shadowplay
Eruditorum Presscast: Wonder Woman Earth One
Cultural Marxism III: Use of Weapons
“Truthfully”: Thine Own Self
Promises of Lace That Rend Us in Shadows After Lust Evaporates (The Last War in Albion Book Two, Part Thirty: The Turning Point)
“Two Cheeseburgers”: Paradise
Thursday Shaboganing
Comics Reviews (April 6th, 2016)
“The Handbags and the Gladrags”: Lower Decks
Tuesday Muffining
Review: The Black Archives (Dark Water/Death in Heaven)
“Entangled freedom”: Whispers
The Wreckage of Love, Our Regard Lies White and Broken (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Twenty-Nine: Apocalypse)
“Wuthering Heights”: Sub Rosa
On Shabogan Graffiti
Comics Reviews (March 30th, 2016)
The One Word Test
“Ragnarok”: Armageddon Game
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 3.10: Mhysa
“ ”: Homeward
Saturday Waffling (March 26th, 2016)
Asmodeus is That Light Throbbing of Temple and Pulse Warning That Approaching Thunder Heads Our Way. (The Last War in Albion Book Two, Part Twenty-Eight: Fearful Symmetry)
“We are only us when we are here”: The Alternate
Tricky Dicky, Part 5: By Dissembling
Comics Reviews (March 23rd, 2016)
“Reclaim Your Gods”: These Are The Voyages...
The Christmas Afterparty, Or, As We Call It, Spring
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 3.09: The Rains of Castamere
“The Butterfly Effect”: Rivals
Minnesota Post-Hannibalism
City of the Dead 9: The Deadly Bees
“Unbound”: Parallels
Tricky Dicky, Part 4: Of Performity
The Last Tournament in Albion (And Also 3/16/16 Comics Reviews)
“Need not apply”: Sanctuary
A Teaser For An Upcoming Project
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 3.08: Second Sons
“What Are We?”: Inheritance
Fantasy Worldbreaking
“What is it that does not cease when the vision ends?”: Second Sight
Shabcast 17 - It's So Stimulating Being Your Hat
Comics Reviews (March 9th, 2016)
“I Can't Drive Warp 5”: Force of Nature
Time and The Island
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 3.07: The Bear and the Maiden Fair
“Everyone talking about hard rain”: Necessary Evil
City of the Dead 8: The Psychopath
A Witness To Its Own Myopia
“Unloved”: Attached
Shabcast 16 - Do White Saviours Dream of Electric Sheeple?
Comics Reviews (March 2, 2016)
“The one I love”: Rules of Acquisition
Lost Exegesis (The Moth) -- Part 2
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 3.06: The Climb
“...which opens to that primeval cosmic night”: Dark Page
A Post On A Topic Selected By My Patreon Backers
“Love is Zero G”: Melora
Minnesota Biblical
Comics Reviews (February 24th, 2016)
“The register of machined-being belongs to the milieu of dream logic”: Phantasms
Phil Sandifer's Hugo Ballot
“Set course for home”: Cardassians
Eco, Ur-Fascism, and Dogs
Hey, Did You Hear The One About The Nuns? (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Twenty-Seven: Nemesis)
“A pirate's life for me”: Gambit, Part II
Say what you like about the zombie apocalypse, at least you don’t have to go to work on Monday morning
Comics Reviews (February 17, 2016)
“Who are You?” Invasive Procedures
Lost Exegesis (House of the Rising Sun) -- Part 2
The Dark Enlightenment of Flint
“Yo ho, yo ho”: Gambit, Part I
I Asked Him What Record It Was, But He Didn't Know (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Twenty-Six: Olympus)
Pex Lives 30: The Claws of Axos
Legacy: The Siege
“Virtual XI”: Interface
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 3.05: Kissed by Fire
“Leadership”: The Circle
Saturday Waffling (February 6th, 2016)
Neat Little Analogy, Huh? (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Twenty-Five: Scenes from The Nativity)
“Misery Loves Company”: Liaisons
Pex Lives 29: The Tribe of Gum/The Face of Evil
Forward, to the Past! - Episode III: Rebel Yell
Comics Reviews (February 3rd, 2016)
“Legend”: The Homecoming
Let's Kill Hitler Again
A Very Rough Initial Take on Rabid Puppies 2
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 3.04: And Now His Watch is Ended
“And the stars are old”: Descent, Part II
Eruditorum Press Hugo Eligibility List
While The Past and Future Exist Simultaneously (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Twenty-Four: Miracleman at Eclipse)
Totemic Artefacts: Playmates Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Wave 1
Minnesota Normal
Comics Reviews (January 27th, 2016)
Totemic Artefacts: Playmates Star Trek: The Next Generation Wave 2 Errata
Stray Kitties
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 3.03: Walk of Punishment
Totemic Artefacts: Playmates Star Trek: The Next Generation Wave 2 Vehicles and Role Play
An Open Letter to Sad Puppies IV
Chibnall Announcement Open Thread
Not The Last War in Albion (Phonogram)
Totemic Artefacts: Playmates Star Trek: The Next Generation Wave 2
Forward, to the Past! - Episode II: Cuckballs
Flight Simulator: Williams Star Trek: The Next Generation Pinball
The Nattering
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 3.02: Dark Wings, Dark Words
Flight Simulator: Star Trek: The Next Generation (Game Boy, NES)
Marcos Told Me to Think of Time as a Record Player, with the Stylus Tracing the Present (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Twenty-Three: Alan Moore)
Myriad Universes: Malibu Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Early Days
Shabcast L15TEN
Eruditorum Presscast: Chris O'Leary/David Bowie Memorial
Myriad Universes: The Worst of Both Worlds Part 4: And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Bizarrely, Though, it Comes Back: The MST3K “Pop Between Realities”, Two Years On
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 3.01: Valar Dohaeris
David Bowie Open Thread
Myriad Universes: The Worst of Both Worlds Part 3: The Armies of the Night
Saturday Debugging
I Can't Fight, For God's Sake. I Can't Fight Anymore (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Twenty-Two: Alan Moore)
Myriad Universes: The Worst of Both Worlds Part 2: The Belly of the Beast
The Abominable Bride Podcast
Forward, to the Past! - Episode I: Back to the Future
Comics Reviews (January 6th, 2016)
Myriad Universes: The Worst of Both Worlds Part 1: The Bludgeonings of Chance
The Other Side of American Ritual
Cultural Marxism 2: The Player of Games
“This is our world, the world of the Information age”: In the Hands of the Prophets
The Abominable Bride Review
Capitalist Pig 5: White Cocksuckas
“We who are without kings”: Duet
The Beast of the Epiphany
Comics Reviews (December 30th, 2015)
In Case You Missed These Fabulous Opportunities To Give Phil Money
“All the world's a stage”: Dramatis Personae
The Husbands of River Song/Series 9 Wrapup Podcast
Doctor Who in 2015
“We never touch but at points”: The Forsaken
The Annual Eruditorum Press "Enjoy That New E-Reader" Sale
Book Launch: Guided by the Beauty of Their Weapons
The Husbands of River Song Review
“Till the sun grows cold”: Descent
The Eruditorum Press Christmas Party Shabcast
Comics Reviews (December 23rd, 2015)
The Force Awakens Review
“Everything is alive”: If Wishes Were Horses
The Feast of Steven
Christmas Is This Friday, So Here's Another Post About Death
“...rose from a solid sea”: Timescape
Saturday Waffling (December 19th, 2015)
Paradise Towers Commentary
“Manifest destiny”: Progress
Dialectic of the Doctors, Part 2
O brave new webhost, that has such capacity in't!
Cover Reveal: Guided by the Beauty of Their Weapons
“There are usually two sides to a story”: Second Chances
Clara Who: The Impossible Narrator
Cultural Marxism 1: Consider Phlebas
“What war hasn't been a war of fiction?”: The Storyteller
7. Scenes of excessive violence shall be prohibited. Scenes of brutal torture, excessive and unnecessary knife and gun play, physical agony, gory and gruesome crime shall be eliminated. (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Twenty-One: Before Watchmen: Ozymandias)
“Jesus! Jesus is here!”: Rightful Heir
Hell Bent Podcast
Comics Reviews (December 9th, 2015)
Lost Exegesis (White Rabbit) -- Part 2
“Tracts of sea, sick at heart”: Battle Lines
Not Suitable for Kids
Women in AI Boxes: Ex Machina and the Other Turing Test
“No, I won't sit idly by as you hurl clichés at me”: Suspicions
Hell Bent Review
6. In every instance good shall triumph over evil and the criminal punished for his misdeeds. (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Twenty: J. Michael Straczynski and Before Watchmen)
“Morphology of the amorphous”: Vortex
Heaven Sent Podcast
Architects and Bees
Comics Reviews (December 2nd, 2015)
Pex Lives 28: Black Orchid, or, Why do I always let my curiosity get the better of me?
“If he rose/If he chose”: Frame of Mind
The Spectacle of the American Ritual Cycle
On Some Stuff That Happened at Chicago TARDIS
Notes Towards a General Theory of Peter Harness
“A person who trusts no one cannot be trusted”: The Nagus
Heaven Sent Review
“Inner Space”: The Chase
Face the Raven Podcast
Comics Reviews (November 25th, 2015)
“Jam, elephants, peanuts, elephants and dung...”: Move Along Home
Documentary Footage of the Inside of My Brain
The Three-Body Trilogy, Or At Least Two-Thirds Of It
“In space, no one can hear you play the flute”: Lessons
Face the Raven Review
Saturday Waffling (November 21st, 2015)
5. Criminals shall not be presented so as to be rendered glamorous or to occupy a position which creates the desire for emulation. (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Nineteen: Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan)
“The city's ripped backside”: The Passenger
Sleep No More Podcast
Solid Dick 1½, or 'Did Mary Whitehouse Have a Point?'
“42 Decks Of Sheer Adventure!”: Starship Mine
Lost Exegesis (Walkabout)
Seveneves, Vox Day, and Blowing Up the Moon
“She most lives”: Dax
Pex Lives 27: The Invasion
Sleep No More Review
The State of the Site: A Technical Update
Capitalist Pig 4: Black Mirror, Grey Miasma of Bland Cultural Commentary
4. If crime is depicted it shall be as a sordid and unpleasant activity. (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Eighteen: Moore's Perspective on the Ratings Controversy)
“Regress”: Birthright, Part II
The Zygon Inversion Podcast
The Zygon Invocation
Comics Reviews (November 11, 2015)
Who Are You? (The Star Wars Trailer)
“As If”: Q-Less
Genre Competition (Kill the Moon)
Now Fight (Mortal Kombat)
“Ingress”: Birthright, Part I
The Zygon Inversion Review
Weird Kitties: Best Related Work Open Thread
3. Policemen, judges, government officials, and respected institutions shall never be presented in such a way as to create disrespect for established authority. (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Seventeen: The DC Ratings System Controversy)
“But do I have the right?”: Captive Pursuit
The Zygon Invasion Podcast/Al Ewing Interview
Capitalist Pig 3: The Synthetic Rat
Comics Reviews (November 4th, 2015)
City of the Dead: The Skull
“Whoever sows evil”: Tapestry
Capitalist Pig 2: This Time It's About Cancer
Lost Exegesis (Tabula Rasa)
Enough to Save Me (Secret of Mana)
“You hear, but you do not understand”: Babel
The Zygon Invasion Review
Weird Kitties: Best Fan Writer Open Thread
2. No comics shall explicitly present the unique details and methods of a crime. (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Sixteen: Juxtaposition)
“Of a Kind”: Face of the Enemy
The Woman Who Lived Podcast
Tricky Dicky, Part 3: First as History, Then as Tragedy
Vengeance on Varos Commentary
“Worlds in time”: Past Prologue
I'll See You in Hell (Alan Tudyk's "Con Man")
All Of The Weapons You Need (Street Fighter II Turbo)
“Missing Persons”: Aquiel
The Woman Who Lived Review
Weird Kitties: Best Novella Open Thread
A Surfeit of Lampreys
1. Crimes shall never be presented in such a way as to create sympathy for the criminal, to promote distrust of the forces of law and justice, or to inspire others with a desire to imitate criminals. (The Last War in Albion Book Two, Part Fifteen: Alan Moore's Falling Out With DC)
“Geometrically Demonstrated”: A Man Alone
The Girl Who Died Podcast
Comics Reviews (October 22nd, 2015)
City of the Dead 5: Dr. Who and the Daleks
“A shadow, a story”: Ship in a Bottle
The Eyes Have it (Doctor Who/The Girl Who Died)
The Mushrooms Of Youth (Super Mario All-Stars)
Ship's Log, Supplemental: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Emissary (Music from the Original Television Soundtrack)
Y, O Y, O Y
Weird Kitties Reviews (The Shepherd's Crown, Annie's Arms, The Dusty Hat)
The Girl Who Died Review
Weird Kitties: Best Novelette Open Thread
Guest Post: Happy Slaves
"Anybody could have done it." (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Fourteen: Before Watchmen: Rorschach)
“Forever Now”: Emissary
Before the Flood Podcast
Concerning Tivolians
Pex Lives 26: The Chase
“An ageless light”: Chain of Command, Part II
Lost Exegesis (Pilot Part 2)
Blood Makes Noise (E.V.O. The Search for Eden)
“A Voiceless Song”: Chain of Command, Part I
Before the Flood Review
Weird Kitties: Best Dramatic Presentation (Longform) Open Thread
And do you know what she said? Her most famous quotation? (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part 13: Before Watchmen: The Comedian)
“I've got a date, remember?”: The Quality of Life
Under the Lake Podcast
Tricky Dicky, Part 2: The Mirror Effect
City of the Dead: Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
“Aside from his face, he's ugly”: A Fistful of Datas
iCompton: Dre as Apple Product
The Chair Agenda
Waking the Witch
Thought and Memory (The Lost Vikings)
“Otaku Talk”: Rascals
Weird Kitties Reviews, Batch Five (The Dark Forest, Ghost Champagne, The Gospel of Loki)
Under the Lake Review
Weird Kitties: Best Fancast Open Thread
She saw places that aren’t even there any more! (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part 12: Pax Americana)
“Eternity is in love with the productions of time”: True Q
The Witch's Familiar (Podcast/The Alchemist's Pupils)
My Hamster is February (or Jack Thinks About 'The Witch's Familiar')
“Eternity waits”: Schisms
Technological Determinism (Star Fox)
“And the greatest good is little enough”: Relics
Capitalist Pig
Weird Kitties Reviews, Batch Four (The Buried Giant, Woman at Exhibition, Empowered Volume 9)
The Witch's Familiar Review
Weird Kitties: Best Professional Artist Open Thread
Pex Lives 25: Carnival of Monsters/Nightmare of Eden
And she did it! She went out past Vega, out past Moulquet and Lambard! (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part 11: The Dark Knight Returns)
“The picture you see”: Man of the People
Meat is Murder: Hannibal, True Detective, and the Anthropocene Extinction
Tricky Dicky, Part 1: Maximum Stay 530 Years
Comics Reviews (September 23rd, 2015)
The Magician's Apprentice: Podcast and Jack's Thoughts
“Portrait of a frightened man”: Realm of Fear
Ars Specula: Humans/Ex Machina (plus Mr Robot)
The Twin Book Launch
My Feet Erase the Path of All Arrivals (Soul Blazer)
“Trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them”: Time's Arrow, Part II
I Wanted To Save The World: Mr. Robot
Weird Kitties Reviews, Batch Three (The Vorrh, The Goat Variations, Aurora)
The Magician's Apprentice Review
Weird Kitties: Best Graphic Story Open Thread
Interview with Pulpozaur
She was just somebody who had to get out. (The Last War in Albion Book Two, Part 10: Burroughs)
Totemic Artefacts: Playmates Star Trek: The Next Generation Part 3 - Wave 1 Vehicles and Role Play
Shabcast 10 - Gothic!
The Arc of Alchemy (Part Two)
Solid Dick
Totemic Artefacts: Playmates Star Trek: The Next Generation Part 2 - Wave 1 Aliens
The Arc of Alchemy (Doctor Who: Season Twenty)
Eruditorum Press: A Manifesto
You're On the Global Frequency (Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge)
Totemic Artefacts: Playmates Star Trek: The Next Generation Part 1 - Wave 1 and the Bridge Crew
Weird Kitties Reviews, Batch Two (Frankenstein, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Full Disclosure, The Race for Space)
Weird Kitties: Best Short Story Open Thread
She was just somebody who felt cramped by the confines of her life. (The Last War in Albion Book Two, Part Nine: Mr. A and Superfolks)
Flight Simulator: Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (Mac, PC)
Myriad Universes: The Outer Light
Fight Every Fight Like You Can Win (Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest)
Myriad Universes: The Broken Moon
Weird Kitties Reviews, Batch One (Elektrograd: Rusted Blood, The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy, The Just City, and Strong Female Protagonist)
Weird Kitties: Best Novel Open Thread
She wasn't anyone special. She wasn't that brave, or that clever, or that strong. (The Last War in Albion Book Two, Part Eight: The Charlton Characters)
Myriad Universes: Separation Anxiety Part 6: Restoration
Weird Kitties: An Organized Anti-Slate For The 2016 Hugos
Comics Reviews (September 2nd, 2015)
Myriad Universes: Separation Anxiety Part 5: Strange Bedfellows
I Can Lock All My Doors (Super Mario Kart)
Myriad Universes: Separation Anxiety Part 4: Second Chances!
Streaming Update (and a Brief Treatise on Crap Home Video Standards)
Saturday Waffling (August 29th, 2015)
Be afraid of stories, be afraid of storytellers. They are only trying to lie to you. (The Last War in Albion Book Two, Part Seven: Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre)
Myriad Universes: Separation Anxiety Part 3
A Review of Vox Day's New Book SJWs Always Lie
Myriad Universes: Separation Anxiety Part 2: Bone of Contention
Vox Day's Next Move
The Award of Cruelty
The Mouse and the Gun (Super Scope 6/Mario Paint)
Myriad Universes: Separation Anxiety Part 1: Bridges
Hugo Commentary
No Crime and No Punishment
I think it's Kinda funny, I think it's Kinda sad
Saturday Waffling (August 22nd, 2015)
The Peter Harness Interview
A story is a machine that kills fascists. A story is a machine that kills whatever you want it to. (The Last War in Albion Book Two, Part Six: Before Watchmen: Minutemen)
Myriad Universes: The Return of Okona Volume 2
Belated Comics Reviews (August 19th, 2015)
Comics Reviews Delayed
“...to antiquity its due reverence”: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Faerie Tales (The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past)
Yet More Thoughts on Hannibal (Lecter)
The Point is to Change the World (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part 5: Before Watchmen: Minutemen)
“Now will never come again”: Time's Arrow
Kinda Commentary
“Spirits Within”: The Inner Light
All the Birds in the Sky Review
Me Gun Goes Click, Me Gun Goes Bang (Contra III: The Alien Wars)
“No, it's not 'just a phase'”: The Next Phase
Further Thoughts on Hannibal
Saturday Waffling (August 8th, 2015)
Do you want to feel self-righteous or do you want to win? I like to win. (The Last War in Albion Book Two, Part Four: The Eternity of Alan Moore)
“Measure of a Non-Human”: I, Borg
Comics Reviews (August 5th, 2015)
“I am not worth this coil that's made for me”: Cost of Living, Imaginary Friend
Appeals to Authority
More Trouble
The Bloody Pantomime In Which You Have Enslaved Yourselves (Lemmings)
“Love the one you're with”: The Perfect Mate
Viva Hate (Shabcast 9)
Saturday Waffling (August 1st, 2015)
"Being without becoming" - Disjointed Thoughts on Dialectics and the Third Doctor, Part 1
Your purity only hurts the reason you're doing it. (The Last War in Albion Book Two, Part Three: Corporate Comics)
“Policy of Truth”: The First Duty
“The sensation you are doing something you have done before”: Cause and Effect
Time Can Be Rewritten: Night of the Doctor
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 2.10: Valar Morghulis
“Born This Way”: The Outcast
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Episode 7: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Saturday Waffling (July 25, 2015)
Take the techniques that make it a masterwork and use them for changing the world. (The Last War in Albion Book Two, Part Two: The Nine-Panel Grid, History and Superheroes)
“An Introductory Reader”: Ethics
Comics Reviews (July 22nd, 2015)
“Demon War”: Power Play
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 2.09: Blackwater
“I can't seem to forget”: Conundrum
Variant Iterations
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Episode 6: The Black Tower
Art that cannot move people effectively loses the war. (The Last War in Albion Book Two, Part One: The Beginning)
“Snake, a snake!”: The Masterpiece Society
The Last War in Albion Book Two: Introduction
Comics Reviews (July 15, 2015)
“Dark Thoughts”: Violations
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 2.08: The Prince of Winterfell
“Strange New Worlds”: Hero Worship
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Episode 5: Arabella
Saturday Incineration: A Review of Seeming's Worldburners EP
Dead Kings Walking Underground (The Last War in Albion Part 104: Grant Morrison's Future Shocks)
“I Am Your Father”: New Ground
Comics Reviews (July 8th, 2015)
Is this a Shabcast which I see before me? (Shabcast 8)
“Time, professor.”: A Matter of Time
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 2.07: A Man Without Honor
“None have the right to impose”: Unification II
All The Mirrors of the World
Shabgraff in Wonderland (Shabcast 7)
All Known and Unknown Things (The Last War in Albion Part 103: The Not-End of Halo Jones)
“Whatever their hopes and longings”: Unification I
Comics Reviews (July 1st, 2015)
Spare Parts, A Love Story (more podcasting)
Ship's Log, Supplemental: Gene Roddenberry
A Short Guide to Janelle Monáe and the Metropolis Saga
Theses on Hannibal
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 2.06: The Old Gods and the New
“A sense of duty was my one intention”: The Game
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Episode 3: The Education of a Magician
The Exposed Violet Membrane (The Last War in Albion Part 102: Halo Jones Book Three)
“It's all gone wrong”: Disaster
Doctor Who Online, Sebastian J. Brook, and the Defrauding of a Community
Comics Reviews (June 24, 2015)
Test please ignore
“Heart of Ice”: Silicon Avatar
The Ark in Space Commentary, etc
The Ark in Space Commentary
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 2.05: The Ghost of Harrenhal
“Deep and Confused”: Ensign Ro
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Episode 2: How is Lady Pole?
A Home That's Miles From Home (The Last War in Albion Part 101: Halo Jones Books One and Two)
“We are all stories”: Darmok
“If you want to change the world, change yourself.”: Redemption II
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 2.04: Garden of Bones
Myriad Universes: Thin Ice
Mother's Mercy
An Open Letter to John C. Wright
Even Furiosa
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Episode 1: The Friends of English Magic
Christopher Lee Podcast
John C. Wright Has Just Advocated For My Murder
Our Skullbabies (The Last War in Albion Part 100: Girls)
Myriad Universes: The Star Lost Part 5: Homecoming
The Vox Day Interview: Transcript
Comic Reviews (June 10th, 2015)
Myriad Universes: The Star Lost Part 4: The Barrier
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 2.03: What is Dead May Never Die
The Vox Day Interview
Shabcast 6
Myriad Universes: The Star Lost Part 3: Trapped
The Dance of Dragons
Saturday Waffling (June 6th, 2015)
The Storm I've Unleashed (The Last War in Albion Part 99: Notes on the Fundamental Nature of Alan Moore)
Myriad Universes: The Star Lost Part 2: Mourning Star
Comics Reviews (June 3rd, 2015)
Myriad Universes: The Star Lost Part 1: The Flight of the Albert Einstein
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 2.02: The Night Lands
Myriad Universes: The Lesson
Hardhome
Furiosa and Furiosa
The City's Burdened, Swollen Heart (The Last War in Albion Part 98: The Unprivileged)
“If you believe in peace, act peacefully. If you believe in love, act lovingly.” Redemption
“Men Who Hate Women”: In Theory
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 2.01: The North Remembers
“I've never seen a rainbow”: Galaxy's Child, Identity Crisis, The Mind's Eye
Saturday Waffling (May 23rd, 2015)
It's All True (The Last War in Albion Part 97: Nightjar, Sinister Ducks)
“When you think you love someone, you love them”: The Host
Sans Everything
Comics Reviews (May 20, 2015)
Secret Reality
“Every man has to die”: Half a Life
Time's Dead Flowers (Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Super Castlevania IV)
“Crucible”: The Drumhead
Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken
Talons of the Old World (The Last War in Albion Part 96: Writing for Comics)
We Apologize For the Delay
“Yoikes and Away!”: Qpid
Vaka Rangi: Two Year Anniversary
“For The Great Mouse Ancestors”: The Nth Degree
Any Old Idiot Can Be A Hero (Final Fantasy II)
“Are You Afraid of the Dark?”: Night Terrors
Kill the Boy
Saturday Waffling (May 9th, 2015)
The Word "Fuck" Typed Eight Thousand Times (The Last War in Albion Part 95: American Flagg)
“I'm not saying it was aliens...But it was aliens”: First Contact
Yay for voting! Ain't democracy just peaches!
Commenting on Three Doctors
The Three Doctors Commentary
“Piecing it together”: Clues
In Defense of Sucker Punch
Will You Even Tell Her if You Decide to Make the Sky Fall (SimCity, Populous, ActRaiser)
“Time heals all wounds”: The Wounded
Sons of the Harpy
This Irregularity Has Been Recorded
Saturday Waffling (May 2nd, 2015)
The Great Gran'pappy of All Dirges (The Last War in Albion Part 94: Not the World Cup)
May is Macra Madness Month (Shabcast 5)
“Daybreak”: Data's Day
Comic Reviews (Wednesday April 29th, 2015)
“Griefs and Anxieties”: The Loss
There is an Ocean in my Soul Where the Waters do not Curve (F-Zero)
“Dual Survival”: Final Mission
High Sparrow
Poverty Reduction Programme (The Last War in Albion Part 93: Song of the Terraces, After They Were Famous)
“We just get a fragment of a hint”: Future Imperfect
Comics Reviews (April 22nd, 2015)
“Put 'em On Ice”: Reunion
Guided by the Beauty of Their Weapons: An Analysis of Theodore Beale and his Supporters
The Letters and the Law, The Meaning and the Cause (Super Mario World)
“To Absent Friends”: Legacy
The House of Black and White
All Coppers Are Rascals (The Last War in Albion Part 92: Raoul's Night Out, and Later Tales)
“I'll never forget you”: Remember Me
Reviewing Doctor Who Episodes Without Having Watched Them: 'Listen'
“Heir Apparent”: Brothers
Who's Jack Voting For?
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 1.10: Fire and Blood
“I'm not human”: Suddenly Human
The Wars to Come
Alien Architecture (The Last War in Albion Part 91: Steve Parkhouse, Terraces)
“Bad Future”: The Best of Both Worlds, Part II, Family
Comics Reviews (April 8, 2015)
Myriad Universes: Whoever Fights Monsters Part 4
Podcasting about the Hugos
Emergency Anti-Fascist Shabcast 3 (Hugo Awards)
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 1.09 (Baelor)
Myriad Universes: Whoever Fights Monsters Part 3: The Impostor
The Day Fandom Ended
Saturday Waffling (April 4th, 2015)
Magic Villages (The Last War in Albion Part 90: The Hogben Stories, Steve Parkhouse)
Myriad Universes: Whoever Fights Monsters Part 2: The Noise of Justice
Comics Reviews (April 1st, 2015)
Myriad Universes: Whoever Fights Monsters Part 1: The Pay Off!
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 1.08 (The Pointy End)
Sensor Scan: Quantum Leap
The Ultimate Dirty Pair Episode Guide Master Post
Only Dreaming In His Tank (The Last War in Albion Part 89: The Bojeffries Saga)
“May there always be an Angel by your side”: Dirty Pair: Flight 005 Conspiracy
Yet More Audio (Mind Robber Commentaries)
The Mind Robber Commentary
Comic Reviews (March 25th, 2015)
Sensor Scan: Red Dwarf
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 1.07: You Win or You Die
Myriad Universes: The Gift
Reviewing Doctor Who Episodes Without Having Watched Them: 'Robots of Sherwood'
Saturday Waffling (March 21st, 2015)
Their Almost Sexual Hatred (The Last War in Albion Part 88: The Softly Hissed Tones of a Mafia Hitman, The Liberators)
Myriad Universes: Serafin's Survivors and Shadows in the Garden
“No Future”: The Best of Both Worlds
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea: Cucumber, Banana, Tofu
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 1.06: A Golden Crown
“Point of Singularity”: Transfigurations
And So It Begins (The Last War in Albion Part 87: October Incident: 1966)
“Paint me like one of your French girls”: Ménage à Troi
Subspace Radio
Comics Reviews (March 11, 2015)
“Ambassador Sarek”: Sarek
The Goodies
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 1.05: The Wolf and the Lion
“The Collector”: The Most Toys
Saturday Waffling (March 7, 2015)
Physics Bubbling Down Into Chaos (The Last War in Albion Part 86: Marvelman's Unraveling)
“The world of fictional things”: Hollow Pursuits
“Heart and Soul”: Tin Man
Recursive Book Launch
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 1.04: Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things
“The Duke”: Allegiance, Captain's Holiday
Saturday Waffling (February 28th, 2015)
Devoted to Joy (The Last War in Albion Part 85: Garry Leach's Marvelman)
“...the most offending soul alive”: Sins of the Father
More Audio News
“Reproductive futurism”: The Offspring
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 1.03: Lord Snow
“Dreams Reoccurring”:Yesterday's Enterprise
Saturday Waffling (February 21, 2015)
A Drawling Twang in a Forbidden Tongue (The Last War in Albion Part 84: Night Raven, Marvelman)
“That's not how I remember it!”: A Matter of Perspective
“The sensation you are doing something you have done before”: Deja Q
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 1.02: The Kingsroad
“We don't negotiate with terrorists”: The High Ground
Do You Ever Just Feel Tired?
“Don't push it or I'll give you a war you won't believe”: The Hunted
Pale and Sickly Violets (The Last War in Albion Part 83: Enid Blyton, Night Raven)
Introducing the Shabcast
“And love, having no geography, knows no boundaries”:The Defector
A Brief Treatise on the Rules of Thrones 1.01: Winter is Coming
A Mild Curiosity in a Junkyard (Silence in the Library/The Forest of the Dead)
“That would take us in the wrong direction”: The Vengeance Factor
Lost Post
Red Kangs Are Best
You Were Expecting Someone Else Final: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who
“Hew-mon mating rituals”: The Price
None More Goth (The Last War in Albion Part 82: Bauhaus, Enid Blyton)
“Predictably treacherous”: The Enemy
The Wasp Factory
Outside the Government Final: The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
“Gods and ungods”: Booby Trap
Saturday Waffling (January 31st. 2015)
The Moment Has Been Prepared For (The Day of the Doctor)
“A family doesn't need to be related”: The Bonding
Super-Vampires Rule the Night (The Last War in Albion Part 81: Guy Fawkes Day, Bauhaus)
An Ageing System
“Off the Verandah”: Who Watches The Watchers
His Last Vow
Dear Santa: The Doctors Revisited (Matt Smith)
“The needs of the one”: The Survivors
Greece is the Word
Hey, Turn That Down: The Doctors Revisited (David Tennant)
“Adapt to serve nature or become extinct”: Evolution
A Wishful Past, All Jungled Over (The Last War in Albion Part 80: Anarchism, Inspiration, Guy Fawkes)
Comics Reviews (January 21st, 2015)
“The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history”: The Ensigns of Command
American Auton
The Sign of Three
Regeneration: A Personal History of Doctor Who
Myriad Universes: Star Trek: The Next Generation FASA Role-Playing Game
Bye: The Doctors Revisited (Christopher Eccleston)
Sensor Scan: Batman
Dolorous Hissings and Poisons (The Last War in Albion Part 79: Europe a Prophecy, Anarchy)
Flight Simulator: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (NES)
The Empty Hearse
It Was On The Planet Skaro: The Doctors Revisited (Paul McGann)
“Picture yourself in a boat on a river”: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Stealth Prophecy (The Last War in Albion Part 78: The End of Book Two, Europe)
“All their greatest hits, together at last”: Shades of Gray
Leave the Girl, It's The Man I Want: The Doctors Revisited (Sylvester McCoy)
Comic Reviews (January 7th, 2015)
“Except, perhaps, a casual familiarity”: Peak Performance
Where's Mother: The Doctor's Revisited (Colin Baker)
“I'm half human. On my mother's side.”: The Emissary
Saturday Waffling (January 3rd, 2014)
I. Oh.: The Doctors Revisited (Peter Davison)
“You Can Go Your Own Way”: Up The Long Ladder, Manhunt
Through Powdered Teeth (The Last War in Albion Part 77: Valerie)
Comics Reviews (December 31st, 2014)
“Oh Yupa! I don't want to go to war!”: Samaritan Snare
Time Travel Is Always Possible In Dreams (The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang)
“There's a terrible hatred hiding inside of me. I won't be able to control it anymore.”: Q Who
Sunday Pancaking (December 28th, 2014)
Harry Potter and the Popular Consumption of Hegemonic Bourgeois Moral Ideology
Guest Post: The Impossible Girl
The Second Annual "I Hope You Enjoy That E-Reader You Got For Christmas" Sale
“Shut up, Wesley!”: The Dauphin, Pen Pals
Last Christmas Review
The Breaker of Rules (The Last War in Albion Part 76: This Vicious Cabaret)
“Loser Sons”: The Icarus Factor
Some Mercury Left Over (Nightmare in Silver)
“Dead Alive”: Time Squared
The Green One and the Not-Green One (The Crimson Horror)
“You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave”: The Royale
Reviews (December 17th, 2014)
An Unruly Torrent (The Last War in Albion Part 75: Violence and Versions)
“Nothing Lasts Forever”: Contagion
Now Just a Moment: The Doctors Revisited (Tom Baker)
“If you prick me, do I not...leak?”: The Measure of a Man
Frankensound
The Advantage of my Antiquated TARDIS (Journey to the Center of the TARDIS)
“The extraordinary world of 3D”: A Matter Of Honor
The Game and How Toby Whithouse Lost It
Comics Reviews (12/10/14)
Daleks On The Streets (The Last War in Albion Part 74: Europe after the Reign)
“Just listen.”: Loud As A Whisper
A Dark Secret After The Candle is Out (Hide)
“Posthuman Blues”: The Schizoid Man, Unnatural Selection
Star Trek in Sound and Not Vision
Now with Sound!
Saturday Waffling (December 6th, 2014)
A Savage and Warlike Race (Cold War)
“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”: The Outrageous Okona
Comics Reviews (12/3/14)
Laissez Les Bontemps Rouler (The Last War in Albion Part 73: The Villain)
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent”: Elementary, Dear Data
Burnt Orange (The Rings of Akhaten)
“Seeking something they have lost”: Where Silence Has Lease
Saturday Waffling (November 29th, 2014)
My Mind Will Be Like That Of A Child (The Bells of Saint John)
Myriad Universes: DC Star Trek: The Next Generation Volume 1
LaBostrie Feels His Skin Crawl (The Last War in Albion Part 72: Tygers, The Return of the Good Gumbo)
Totemic Artefacts: Galoob Star Trek: The Next Generation
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea Final (Game of Thrones)
“And I think it's gonna be a long, long time/'Till touchdown brings me 'round again to find...”: No Need to Listen to the Bad Guys. We are Space Truckers!
Saturday Waffling (November 22nd, 2014)
Duty Officer, Please: The Doctors Revisited (Jon Pertwee)
“Never go to war. Especially with yourself.”: Red Eyes are the Sign of Hell
Powerlessness Corrupts
The 3-D Universe is a Hologrammatic Side-Effect (The Last War in Albion Part 71: Swamp Thing in Space)
“Defrosting Ice Queen”: That Little Girl Is Older Than Us. The Preservation Was a Success?!
His Face, His Hair, Look at It: The Doctors Revisited (Patrick Troughton)
“And let the past remain the past”: Revenge of the Muscle Lady!
Wait in Here Please, Susan: The Doctors Revisited (William Hartnell)
“Someone who's loved you forever”: Are You Serious?! Shocked at the Beach, Wedding Panic!
Random Thing #4: Woss Going on 'Ere Then?
Giants With Leaking Boats For Feet (The Last War in Albion Part 70: The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Third Death of Swamp Thing)
“Know when to walk away/Know when to run”: And So, Nobody's Doing It Anymore
A Little Bit of Nip in the Air (The Snowmen)
“It turned into a pig”: Who Cares If They're Only Kids!
Reverse Racism ('Into the Dalek' 2)
Death in Heaven Review
Outside the Government 20: Wizards vs Aliens
“Prophets of the Galactic Spirit”: We're Not Afraid of Divine Judgment. It's Like Magic?!
Some Incomprehensible Biological Process (The Last War in Albion Part 69: The Greening of Gotham)
Comics Reviews (The Fifth of November, 2014)
Us vs Gallifreybase vs Th3m
“At the mouth of the night, between daylight and dark”: No Thanks! No Need For a Halloween Party
Don't Look Away (The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone)
“The soul is the prison of the body”: Prison Riot. We Hate People With Grudges!
Dark Water Review
Ship's Log, Supplemental Bonus: “Oh, don't even go to the first season!”
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 84 (Call the Midwife, Supernatural)
“Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded”: The Neutral Zone
The Day After The World Ended (The Last War in Albion Part 68: The Apocalypse)
“Trust no one. Question Everything.”: Conspiracy
Welcome to Night Vale - "The Librarian" Review
A Wilderness of Tigers
The Abandoned Line
UNIT, a History
“A Night on Pegos Minor”: We'll Always Have Paris
Temporal Incursion
In the Forest of the Night Review
Hai! (The Power of Three)
An Imaginary Story (The Last War in Albion Part 67: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, The Apocalypse)
“Share and Enjoy”: The Arsenal of Freedom
You're Fast Becoming Prey to Every Cliché-Ridden Convention in the American West (A Town Called Mercy)
“But I still hear the call of the blood”: Heart of Glory
Flatline Review
The Darkness Finally Screamed (The Last War in Albion Part 66: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow)
“We'll be grandmas by then...”: Coming of Age
Good Grief, It's a Stegosaurus! (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)
A Good Dalek (Asylum of the Daleks)
“When all its sands are diamond sparks”: Home Soil
Build High
Book Launch of Fang Rock
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Mummy on the Orient Express Review
Loosen Your Astral Sphincter (The Last War in Albion Part 65: Windfall)
“Fallacies and falsehoods there were from time immemorial”: Justice, Angel One, When The Bough Breaks
You Were Expecting Someone Else 33 (Assimilation²)
“That's my evil twin who's doing that. We've got to stop him!”: Datalore
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 83 (The 2012 Olympics)
“Right out of a manga...!”: The Big Goodbye
Kill the Moon Review
More Hurt As I May Hold (The Last War in Albion Part 64: Criticism of The Curse, American Gothic)
“...the issue at stake is patriotism”: Too Short a Season
Comics Reviews (October 2nd, 2014)
Outside the Government: The Reichenbach Fall
“1, 2, 3, I see...”: Hide and Q
Outside the Government: The Hounds of Baskerville
“...vibrations that have been left behind in space and time.”: The Battle
The Caretaker Review
Once More With Feeling?
Talking About Meatballs (The Last War in Albion Part 63: American Gothic)
“For in her dark she brings the mystic star”: Lonely Among Us
Comics Reviews (9/25/14)
Outside the Government: A Scandal in Belgravia
“City of prose and fantasy”: The Last Outpost
I Owe it To My Friend To Try, Because I Got Her Into This (The Doctor, The Widow, and the Wardrobe)
“To Boldly Go” Where No One Has Gone Before
Time Heist Review
Declare Yourself A Magician (The Last War in Albion Part 62: John Constantine)
“...no less than the journeywork of stars”: Haven
No Comics Reviews This Week
Reimagined Moments #3
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 82 (The Fades)
“A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.”: Code of Honor
Things That Worry Me #1
You Were Expecting Someone Else 32 (Night and the Doctor)
“It was only a kiss/It was only a kiss” The Naked Now
Hey, You Guessed My Name (The Last War in Albion Part 61: The Nukeface Papers, John Constantine)
Ship's Log, Supplemental: Star Trek: The Next Generation: Encounter At Farpoint (Original TV Soundtrack)
Beyond the Police 1 (The Adventures of Ms. Smith and the Curator)
“My friend, judge not me”: Encounter at Farpoint
I Need A Bit of Help
Steven Moffat is a Feminist and You Are Wrong if You Disagree
Outside the Government: The Man Who Never Was
Ship's Log, Supplemental: Star Trek: The Next Generation Series Bible
Good Soldiers (Into the Dalek)
Robot of Sherwood Review
The Svadishtana Chakrah (The Last War in Albion Part 60: Rite of Spring)
Sensor Scan: Doctor Who
Essential Problems and Dialectical Solutions ('Deep Breath' 5)
Outside the Government: The Curse of Clyde Langer
Sensor Scan: Hellraiser and Hellraiser III
Outside the Government: Sky
Flight Simulator: Dirty Pair: Project E.D.E.N. (Famicom Disk System)
Bits and Bobs ('Deep Breath' 4)
Into the Dalek Review
Random Thing #3
By His Torment, The World Was Redeemed (The Last War in Albion Part 59: Down Among the Dead Men, Pogo)
“...and You're Not James Bond Either”: Dirty Pair: The Motion Picture (Dirty Pair: Project E.D.E.N.)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 81 (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
Sensor Scan: Aliens
The Veil ('Deep Breath' 3)
Outside the Government 19: Doctor Who Confidential Redux
“I was quite the swinger back in my day”: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Das Kapaldi ('Deep Breath' 2)
Pyramids of London ('Deep Breath' 1)
Deep Breath Review
Let Them Bleed Now (The Last War in Albion Part 58: Rape)
Ship's Log, Supplemental: Star Trekkin'
You Were Expecting Someone Else 31 (The Eternity Clock)
Sensor Scan: Spenser: For Hire
The Angels Have the Phonebox (The Angels Take Manhattan)
Sensor Scan: Miami Vice
Breakfast Blog Closing Imminently, Replaced By Craven Capitalist Consumption (A Prequel)
All The Black is Ripe in Green (The Last War in Albion Part 57: The Burial, Rape)
“...and in this our love is everlasting.” Dirty Pair: Affair of Nolandia
It Isn't Really a Disease at All (Closing Time)
“...dispersed in clouds of narrative language”: R-Really?! For Beautiful Women, "Canon" is the Keyword to Escape (With Love from the Lovely Angels Part 2)
A Great, Great Partnership (The God Complex)
“I'll be back”: Eek! The Boy in the Manor is a Terminator (With Love from the Lovely Angels Part 1)
The First Flower Grew (The Last War in Albion Part 56: America a Prophecy, The Demon)
“Are you making all the right moves? Or are you going through the motions?”: Are You Serious? A Condo is a Dangerous Place to Live
Yes, I Shall Come Back (The Girl Who Waited)
“Today I settled all family business”: Something's Amiss...?! Our Elegant Revenge
Miracle Day and Death
“Like water to a blood red rose”: We Did It! 463 People Found!
Saturday Waffling (August 2nd, 2014)
True Humanity Comes (The Last War in Albion Part 55: The Floronic Man, Goya)
“I want to give you all my love”: No Way! 463 People Disappeared?!
Outside the Government: The Blood Line
“O Sister, Where Art Thou?”: Nostalgic Blues Makes a Killer Soundtrack
Build High For Happiness (Night Terrors)
“Heart of Wax”: An Unjustified Lover's Grudge. Let Me Love You Without Revenge
Anatomy Made People Kill Their Children (The Last War in Albion Part 54: The Anatomy Lesson)
“Prisoner and Escort”: Pardon Us. Trouble's On the Run, So We're Coming Through!
Koba the Ape
Outside the Government: The Gathering
“Black Hole Love Triangle”: Come Out, Come Out, Assassin
The Things That He Might Remember (The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon)
“Just like in this book!”: Leave It To Us! The WWWA is a Wonderful Job
Outside the Government (End of the Road)
“The choices are yours, and yours alone!”: Dig Here, Meow Meow. Happiness Comes at the End
The Week in Comics (7/16/14)
Outside the Government: Immortal Sins
“The fault is not ours, but in our stars.” The Vault or the Vote? A Murderous Day for a Speech
Force Decides
The Numb and Silent Depths (The Last War in Albion Part 53: Pasko's Swamp Thing, Loose Ends)
Outside the Government 18: A Romance in Twelve Parts
“...passages that will invite Cthugha unto our plane”: What's This?! My Supple Skin is a Mess
Outside the Government: The Middle Men
A Secret Story (The Last War in Albion Part 52: Wein and Wrightson's Swamp Thing)
“Television causes...Not smartness!”: The Little Dictator! Let Sleeping Top Secrets Lie
Othering Thursday
Comics Reviews (July 2nd and 9th, 2014)
Outside the Government: The Categories of Life
“I just wanted to make a phone call.”: Hah Hah Hah, Dresses and Men Should Always Be Brand New
Déjà bloody vu
A Presumptious Dilettante's Five Belated Eggs
Outside the Government: Escape to LA
“It is lonely when you're among people, too”: What? We're Heinous Kidnappers!
Saturday Waffling (July 5th, 2014)
Outside the Government: Dead of Night
“She who lives in harmony with herself...”: Hire Us! Beautiful Bodyguards are a Better Deal
My Multi-Dimensional Enfolded Realities Concept (The Last War in Albion Part 51: Len Wein's Phonecall, Rhizome)
Victory of the Icon 4
Outside the Government: Rendition
“So high I cannot feel the fire”: Gotta Do It! Love is What Makes a Woman Explode
An Image Post
Outside the Government: The New World
“Love is the law, love under will.”: Love is Everything. Risk Your Life to Elope!!
Someone Fabulous Like Me (The Last War in Albion Part 50: Alan Moore's Image)
“A Hard Day's Night”: Lots of Danger, Lots of Decoys
This Week in Comics (June 25th, 2014)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 80 (Grey's Anatomy)
“From One Heart To Another”: Criados' Heartbeat
Spam Honeypot
The Universe Cries Out Like A Newborn (Lets Kill Hitler)
“We're on a mission from God.”: The Chase Smells Like Cheesecake and Death
Voluminous Description
Saturday Waffling (June 21st, 2014)
The Best Way To See Glasgow (The Last War in Albion Part 49: Glasgow Comics Mart, Moore's Last Captain Britain Strips)
“Television makes a lotta sense.”: Go Ahead, Fall in Love! Love is Russian Roulette
The Week in Comics (June 18th, 2014)
That Have Bred The Most Terrible Things (The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People)
“Because the kids know where it's at”: Do Lovely Angels Prefer Chest Hair?
Without It, I Couldn't Survive (The Doctor's Wife)
SIGKILL: How to Kill a Computer
Manholes and Lots of Other Gritty Stuff (The Last War in Albion Part 48: Frank Miller, The Mighty World of Marvel)
“All Aboard the Express Kundalini!”: The Dirty Pair Strike Again
This Week in Comics (And Other Tales)
Avery the Pirate (The Curse of the Black Spot)
Sensor Scan: Coast to Coast AM
Street Corner, Two in the Morning, Getting a Taxi Home (The Wedding of River Song)
Sensor Scan: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Silky, Luminous Cobwebs (The Last War in Albion Part 47: Captain Britain in The Daredevils, Psychedelia and Marvel Comics)
Sensor Scan: Reading Rainbow
The Week In Comic Books (May 5th, 2014)
You Were Expecting Someone Else: The Writer's Tale
Sensor Scan: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Some Hastily Sketched Thoughts On Amazon and Hatchette
Short Out The Time Differential (A Christmas Carol)
Sensor Scan: Blade Runner
You Were Expecting Someone Else 30 (The Coming of the Terraphiles)
Advent of the Angels: The Great Adventure of the Dirty Pair
The Terror Answered: I Am Orc (The Last War in Albion Part 46: William Blake, Captain Britain in The Daredevils)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 79: Downton Abbey
Sensor Scan: Cosmos
Outside the Government: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
Advent of the Angels: Japanese Professional Wrestling in the 1980s
UKIP SURGE AHEAD ON SHABOGAN GRAFFITI
Past Legislation's Newgate Reach (The Last War in Albion Part 45: Captain Britain in Marvel Super-Heroes, William Blake)
Advent of the Angels: The Golden Age of Professional Wrestling in the United States
Outside the Government: Lost in Time
Outside the Government: The Empty Planet
Advent of the Angels: An Introduction to the History of Professional Wrestling
Outside the Government (Death of the Doctor)
“...through death and life together”: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Outside the Government: Vault of Secrets
Myriad Universes: The Wormhole Connection
A Country That Instinctively Hates The Foreign (The Last War in Albion Part 44: Dave Thorpe's Captain Britain)
Vaka Rangi: One Year Anniversary
Outside the Government: The Nightmare Man
“Khan, nothing more?”: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The Last War in Albion Interview
Outside the Government 17: K-9
Sensor Scan: Eraserhead
The Old Straight Tracks and the Sacred Stones (The Last War in Albion Part 43: Hulk Comic)
Sensor Scan: Alien
How to Read The Last War in Albion
Outside the Government: The Great Game
Sensor Scan: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
A Pair of Links
Outside the Government: The Blind Banker
Sensor Scan: Star Wars
Flying Was The Best Bit (The Last War in Albion Part 42: The Origins of Captain Britain)
Sarcasm and Chips
The Last Kickstarter in Albion
Myriad Universes: The Wristwatch Plantation
Thursday Breakfast Leftovers
Plain Ketchup
Outside the Government: A Study in Pink
“I don't bother/To live my life as if I'm another”: Kitumba
Make Me a Warrior Now (A Good Man Goes to War)
“The Immaculate Misconception”: The Child
The Promethean Age (The Last War in Albion Part 41: Marvel Comics)
“There is no me.”: Enemy: Starfleet
Q&A of the Damned
People and Cars and Concrete (The Lodger)
“The Mouse Problem”: Blood and Fire
Unredeemed
The Pleasure of Smelling a Flower (Vincent and the Doctor)
Wild Child: World Enough and Time
We Confuse Rebellion With A Hairstyle (The Last War in Albion Part 40: D.R. & Quinch, Alan Davis)
“The Undiscovered Country”: To Serve All My Days
Transparency Report for 2013
Intelligent Alien Beings (The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood)
“I hate temporal mechanics”: In Harm's Way
There's No Point in Growing Up (Amy's Choice)
"Many such journeys are possible. Let me be your gateway": Come What May
Closer to Glorifying Ecoterrorism than Neoliberalism: The Alex Reed Interview
“Peace through superior firepower”: The War to End All Wars
Kid-With-Knife Is Behind You With An AK-47 (The Last War in Albion Part 39: D.R. & Quinch)
Vanished Even To His Shadow (The Vampires of Venice)
“Allamaraine, if you can see/Allamaraine, you'll come with me”: To Attain the All
Here Standing In Front Of You (The Time of the Doctor)
“...a swaggering, overbearing, tin-plated dictator with delusions of godhood”: Lord Bobby's Obsession
Acid Bombs From Little Hatches (The Last War in Albion Part 38: D.R. & Quinch, O.C. & Stiggs, Juvenile Delinquency)
“These pages present a case of literary parasitism.” Devil's Due
I Don't Like The Colour (Victory of the Daleks)
“Most women choose to be weak, because it makes their lives easier.”: Are Unheard Memories Sweet?
Jerusalem, Candle in the Wind, and Princess Diana: A Reply to Popular
The Alchemists of the Middle Ages Made Transmutation Their Main Aim in Life (The Beast Below)
“I live my life like I've been raised by wolves”: Savage Syndrome
Saturday Waffling (March 29, 2014)
I'm At An Impressionable Age (The Last War in Albion Part 37: Boys from the Blackstuff, Skizz, D.R. & Quinch, O.C. and Stiggs)
“Rumors, conjectures, that's a giant leap forward.”: Deadlock
The Perfect Companion
Video Blogs On The Eleventh Hour
Policy Announcement
Some New Man (The Eleventh Hour)
“We are such stuff/As dreams are made on”: Practice in Waking
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 77: Snapshots of 2010
“Shiny Happy People”: Cassandra
Saturday Waffling (March 22nd, 2014)
Anti-Moffat
Guest Post: Steven Moffat - A Case For The Prosecution
“In Blue Hawaii”: Tomorrow and the Stars
A Scary Culture (The Last War in Albion Part 36: Skizz, E.T., and Margaret Thatcher)
A Split in the Skin of the World (The End of Time, Part Two)
“It's only human”: In Thy Image (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
Venison with Mushroom Jus, Oven Roasted Potatoes, and Salad with Walnuts, Pears, and Goat Cheese
A Woman (The End of Time, Part One)
Sensor Scan: Rocket Man
Resist in Peace Tony Benn
You Were Expecting Someone Else 29 (The Tennant Doctor Who Magazine Comics)
Myriad Universes: The Star Fleet Universe
Fantasies in the Here and Now (The Last War in Albion Part 35: Skizz and E.T.)
You Were Expecting Someone Else 28: The Forgotten
Sensor Scan: Roots
Seeming: Madness and Extinction
Outside the Government 16: Dreamland
Myriad Universes: Doug Drexler's comic work
Saturday Waffling (March 8th, 2014)
Turn to Urban Furniture (The Last War in Albion Part 34: Alan Moore's Final Future Shocks)
Sensor Scan: Burnham's Celestial Handbook
Outside The Government: The Gift
Time Can Be Rewritten Final: The Day of the Doctor
Myriad Universes: Star Trek: The New Voyages
An Act of Madness
I Couldn't Save Any Of Them (The Waters of Mars)
“Interregnum”: The Final Voyage
Saturday Waffling (March 1st, 2014)
The Adventure of the Irritated Narrator
Outside the Government: Mona Lisa's Revenge
“But it wasn't any use. Nobody came.”: The Enterprise Incident # 5
Curdled to Sea Foam (The Last War in Albion Part 33: The Reversible Man and Chrono-Cops)
Outside the Government: The Eternity Trap
“Dream not of today.”: The Enterprise Incident # 4
Spike and Rape Culture
Outside the Government: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
“Confessions of a King”: The Enterprise Experiment # 3
Saturday Waffling (February 22nd, 2014)
Outside the Government: The Mad Woman in the Attic
“Is that what we have become?” The Enterprise Experiment # 2
Even Reverse the Flow of Time (The Last War in Albion Part 32: Alan Moore's Future Shocks, Alan Moore's Time Twisters)
Outside the Government: Prisoner of the Judoon
“Persistence of Memory”: The Enterprise Experiment # 1
Glug Glug Glug
Portrait of a Monday
Catching Them at Their Best
Outside the Government: Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day Five
“Mars ain't the kind of place to raise a kid.”: Year Four # 6
Saturday/Sunday General Breakfast Buffet (February 15th, 2014)
Outside the Government: Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day Four
“The future is now, thanks to SCIENCE!”: Year Four # 5
The Day I Finished It, He Died (The Last War in Albion Part 31: Abelard Snazz, Moore's Early and Middle Future Shocks)
Outside the Government: Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day Three
“It's showtime!”: Year Four # 4
Outside the Government: Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day Two
“ET phone home!”: Year Four # 3
Saturday Waffling: February 8th, 2014
I Must Protect This Bag of Meat (The Last War in Albion Part 30: Plagiarism and Abelard Snazz)
“Sooner or later you're gonna have to choose whose side you're on.”: Year Four # 2
Outside the Government: Torchwood: Children of Earth: Day One
The aliens... They're just so... alien
Guest Post: Torchwood and Cardiff
“...'till fire purge all things new”: Year Four # 1
Pete Seeger (1919-2014)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 76 (The Thick of It)
“Forget...”: The Counter-Clock Incident
Saturday Waffling (February 1st, 2014)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 32.5: Star Cops
“Only the beginning”: How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
The Sentinels Lied About All Them Space Wars (The Last War in Albion Part 29: Alan Moore's First Future Shocks)
Another Look For My Recorder (Planet of the Dead)
“Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.”: Albatross
You Were Expecting Someone Else 27 (The Eyeless)
"National Tapioca Pudding Day": The Practical Joker
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 75 (Hamlet)
“Is green, yes.”: Bem
The Comedian Is Dead (The Last War in Albion Part 28: Alan Moore's Earliest 2000 AD Work)
The Wank Delusion
Outside The Government 16: The Matt Smith Announcement
“...strictly neutral in this matter as you well know...”: The Pirates of Orion
How Puzzles Work
So You're My Replacements (The Next Doctor)
Myriad Universes: Alan Dean Foster and Ballantine Star Trek
Outside the Government: Enemy of the Bane
Ship's Log, Supplemental: A Fragment Out of Time
The Tek-Judges of Anubis (The Last War in Albion Part 27: Judge Dredd, Ro-Busters)
Outside the Government: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
Ship's Log, Supplemental: A Trekkie's Tale
An Unearthly Book Launch
Outside the Government: Mark of the Berserker
“Though all men be equally frail before the world...”: The Jihad
Saturday Waffling
Outside the Government: Secrets of the Stars
“Just think what some zoo will pay for you!”: The Eye of the Beholder
A Loud Smack Where The Spine Parted Company With The Skull (The Last War in Albion Part 26: Action and 2000 AD)
Outside the Government: The Day of the Clown
“We must not let it happen again.” The Slaver Weapon
Coming Imminently
Outside the Government: The Last Sontaran
“Well, I'll be damned. It's the gentleman guppy.”: The Ambergris Element
Saturday Waffling (January 4th, 2014)
Outside the Government 15: Newtons Sleep
“'We are the only path.'”: The Time Trap
Call Vala From her Close Recess (The Last War in Albion Part 25: Alan Moore's Future Shocks, Battle Picture Weekly)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 78 (The Time Traveller's Wife)
“Hello, little teeny-tiny people!”: The Terratin Incident
One Last Hurrah For The Fiftieth
News from Elsewhere
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 74: Merlin
“I love you! I hate you!”: Mudd's Passion
Snow Job
Rippling, Dribbling Blobs of Pure Holographic Meta-Material (The Last War in Albion Part 24: Alan Moore's Star Wars Comics)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 41.5 (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
“And when I grow up, I'll write one.”: Once Upon A Planet
The Annual "I Hope You're Enjoying The E-Reader You Got For Christmas" Sale
Christmas French Toasting
“This act is the dawn of the Mythic...”: The Magicks of Megas-Tu
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time For Tea 49.5: Farscape
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 73: Final Crisis
“I wanna be big!”: The Infinite Vulcan
The No Man
Saturday Waffling (December 21, 2013)
These Two Strands Together (The Stolen Earth/Journey's End)
“The Unreal McCoy”: The Survivor
One is All (The Last War in Albion Part 23: Joseph Campbell, Alan Moore's Star Wars Comics)
You Were Expecting Someone Else 26 (I, Davros)
“purr purr”: More Tribbles, More Troubles
Tis the Season and Whatnot
Footstamping
Unpeople Undoing Unthings Untogether (Turn Left)
“I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman...”: The Lorelei Signal
So I Hit Him. What Would You Do? (The Last War in Albion Part 22: Alan Moore's Feuds, Star Wars, Joseph Campbell)
“Whatever I see, I shall devour!”: One Of Our Planets Is Missing
There Should Have Been Another Way (Midnight)
“...of a mingled yarn”: Yesteryear
River, You Know My Name (The Husbands of River Song)
Tact and Finesse (The Unicorn and the Wasp)
“...as eternity is to time”: Beyond the Farthest Star
Ship's Log, Supplemental Bonus: “...maybe 20 good ones.”
All The Years I've Been Taking Care Of You (The Doctor's Daughter)
Sensor Scan: Space Ritual
A Map of Causality (The Last War in Albion Part 21: Alan Moore's Doctor Who Comics)
The Mighty Warrior Sheltering Behind His Gun (The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky)
Sensor Scan: William Shatner in the 1970s
Fit to Lead the Life of a Dog (Planet of the Ood)
Robook Launch
Myriad Universes: James Blish and Bantam Star Trek
He Sets Fire To Rome (The Fires of Pompeii)
Flight Simulator: The Star Trek Text Video Game
Dawn Transformed the Sky into an Abattoir (The Last War in Albion Part 20: Moores' Doctor Who Comics)
Sensor Scan Bonus: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Coffee (LOST)
Sensor Scan: Space Oddity
Believing the Victim
The Size of the Mouth and the Size of the Brain (Partners in Crime)
“I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.”: Turnabout Intruder
Saturday Waffling (November 23rd, 2013)
Guest Post: Moths Ate My Girls Aloud CD
“Dust to dust”: All Our Yesterdays
1/2.*/"£5/8£-&'(?)WEX*zz (The Last War in Albion Part 19: Abslom Daak, Pressbutton and Laser Eraser)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 72 (Being Human)
“History prefers legends to men.”: The Savage Curtain
Flood Extras
Outside the Government: Exit Wounds
“If I've lived a thousand times before/And if I'm gonna live a million more”: Requiem for Methuselah
A Giant Book Launch
Outside the Government: Fragments
“...a framework for utopias”: The Way to Eden
A Fluctuation in the Visual Purple (The Last War in Albion Part 18: Steve Moore, Doctor Who)
Outside the Government: Adrift
“They live, we sleep.”: The Cloud Minders
The Five Wonder Woman Comics You Must Own
Outside the Government: From Out of the Rain
“You're very good-Are you a puppetmaster?”: The Lights of Zetar
Fuller Statement on my Wikipedia Banning
Outside the Government: Something Borrowed
“Be not a cancer on the earth”: The Mark of Gideon
Dangerous, Mysterious, Hyperscientific (The Last War in Albion Part 17: The Stars My Degradation, The Stars My Destination)
The Post Wikipedia Doesn't Want You To See
Outside the Government: A Day in the Death
“All the greatest men are maniacs.”: Whom Gods Destroy
Book Review: Magic Words
Outside the Government: Dead Man Walking
“Between good sense and good taste...”: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
An Unused Can of Monster's Cat Food (The Last War in Albion Part 16: Maxwell the Magic Cat, The Stars My Degradation)
Outside the Government: Reset
“They're dead...They're all dead...”: That Which Survives
A Wondrous Book Launch
Gothic Marxism
Outside the Government: Adam
Pearl of Beauty: Wink of an Eye
Book Review: Adventures with the Wife in Space
Outside the Government: Meat
“From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.”: Plato's Stepchildren
Love & People
Outside the Government: To the Last Man
“THERE WILL BE NO BATTLE HERE!”: Day of the Dove
I Don't Have to Have a Cat Die in Order to Produce a Good Work (The Last War in Albion Part 15: Alan Moore's Pre-Professional Work, Children's Comics, Maxwell the Magic Cat)
Maximum Utility
Outside the Government: Sleeper
“But I have promises to keep/And miles to go before I sleep/And miles to go before I sleep.”: For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky
Wikipedia Goes All-In on Transphobia
Outside the Government: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Lua-o-Milu: The Tholian Web
A Present
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 71 (Skins)
“...suspended by a mixture of curiosity and compassion”: The Empath
Uncontaminated by Effect and Consequence (The Last War in Albion Part 14: Obscenity and Alan Moore's Juvenilia)
Glug, Glug, Glug (Voyage of the Damned)
“The Beast Within”: Is There In Truth No Beauty?
(Non-)Review Blog of the Daleks
Outside the Government: The Lost Boy
“...a mere apendix.”: Spock's Brain
The Obligatory Returned-Episodes Post
Nearly Silent
Outside the Government: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
“Seduction of the Innocent”: And The Children Shall Lead
A Casual Fan's Guide to Enemy of the World and Web of Fear
We've Unpicked The Thread Of The World (The Last War in Albion Part 13: Roscoe Moscow, Arcade, Madness)
Outside the Government: Warriors of Kudlak
“Excuse me, can you help me? I'm a spy.”: The Enterprise Incident
You Did Ask For More Political/Current Events Posts
Outside the Government: Eye of the Gorgon
“Put up a parking lot”: The Paradise Syndrome
Sunday Pancaking Topped With Contextless Image Syrup (October 6th, 2013)
Saturday Waffling (October 5th, 2013)
Outside the Government: Revenge of the Slitheen
“I'm spunky!”: Elaan of Troyius
Glassy-Assed Jokers (The Last War in Albion Part 12: Roscoe Moscow, The Underground)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 70 (Primeval, Robin Hood)
“The Last Chance Saloon”: Spectre of the Gun
Book Preview: They Might Be Giants' Flood
Outside the Government 14 (The Infinite Quest)
Sensor Scan: The Transformed Man
Saturday Waffling (September 28th, 2013)
Sensor Scan Bonus: Mysteries Five and 1968
Is This Death? (The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords)
Sensor Scan: Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
A Detective, A Man We Could Trust (The Last War in Albion Part 11: Roscoe Moscow)
Just One Of My Oldest Enemies (Utopia)
Ship's Log, Supplemental: Bjo Trimble and “Save Star Trek!”
Bat Anti-Review Blog
The Image Of An Angel (Blink)
“Creators of history”: Assignment: Earth
Saturday Waffling (September 21st, 2013)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 69 (Jekyll)
“When the wayfarer whistles in the dark...”: The Omega Glory
The Real Problem With Stories (The Last War in Albion Part 10: Starblazer, Aristotle)
There's Another Way: Throw Away Your Guns (The Family of Blood)
Die Maschinenmensch: The Ultimate Computer
I Have Been Waiting For This Pathetically Cheap Excuse For A Review Blog Since I Started Doing Them
You Were Expecting Someone Else 25 (Made of Steel)
“EVIL ALIEN NAZIS!”: Patterns of Force
Ha Ha! He Got It Wrong On The First Line! (42)
“Let's try it once more, with feeling”: Return to Tomorrow
Wiping Moscow From The Face of the Earth Would Be Fine (The Last War in Albion Part 9: Starblazer, the Pulps, Russian Structuralism)
Next Thing You Know It's a Hundred Years Later (The Lazarus Experiment)
“On your television screen”: By Any Other Name
The Definitive Moffat and Feminism Post
Adapt Themselves To The Planet (Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks)
“This is MY town!”: A Piece of the Action
Saturday Waffling (September 7th, 2013)
Without Friends Or Protection (Gridlock)
“A world sinks thus; and yon majestic Heaven/Shines not the less for that one vanish'd star!”: The Immunity Syndrome
Believe in the Stars (The Last War in Albion Part 8: Starblazer, the Pulps)
They'd Take Some Adapting (The Shakespeare Code)
“...is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?”: Obsession
Something Rotten at the Sausage Factory: How Wikipedia Embraced Transphobia for Chelsea Manning
I Borrowed Them From The Hospital (Smith and Jones)
“Entertain us...Or die!”: The Gamesters of Triskelion
Saturday Waffling (August 31st, 2013)
The Worm That Cloned
Outside the Government: Invasion of the Bane
“War. What is it good for?”: A Private Little War
Superhuman Effort to Keep Things The Way They Are (The Last War in Albion Part 7: Captain Clyde, Superheroes)
Outside the Government: End of Days
"It has been said that social occasions are only warfare concealed.": Journey to Babel
A Sweater Vest of Reviews
Outside the Government: Captain Jack Harkness
“ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?”: Bread and Circuses
I Happened To Be Wearing This Old Thing (The Runaway Bride)
“Love is all around, no need to waste it”: The Trouble with Tribbles
Warriors in the Vale of Entuthon-Benython (The Last War in Albion Part 6: Captain Clyde and Scotland)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 68 (The Catherine Tate Show)
“Does anybody remember LAUGHTER?”: I, Mudd
A Not-Review-Blog of Many Colours
Damp Little Ideas
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 67 (About Time)
“Galloping around the cosmos is a game for the young”: The Deadly Years
Saturday Waffling: August 17th, 2013
Outside the Government: Combat
“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”: Mirror, Mirror
The Third Way
Your Mom is a Review Blog
Outside the Government: Out of Time
“The Devil You Know”: The Apple
The Colour Foundation
Outside the Government: Random Shoes
“I am error.”: The Changeling
Saturday Waffling (August 10th)
Outside the Government: They Keep Killing Suzie
“Monsters are real”: Wolf in the Fold
Nerd Evidence
No, I don't kip
The Death of Marguerite-Charlotte David
Outside the Government: Greeks Bearing Gifts
“The choice is with us still”: The Doomsday Machine
Sorry to Post Twice
The Way We Live Now
Methinks The Review Blog Doth Protest Too Much
Outside the Government: Countrycide
“But what about sex?” Amok Time
Sunday Pancaking (August 4th, 2013)
Saturday Waffling (August 3rd, 2013)
Outside the Government: Small Worlds
“You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!”: Who Mourns for Adonais?
The Slow-Motion Lynching of Chelsea Manning
Outside the Government: Cyberwoman
“Wednesday's child is full of woe/Thursday's child has far to go”: Friday's Child
A Found Object
On Writing and Shape
Outside the Government: Ghost Machine
“...a uniquely portable magic.”: Metamorphosis
Outside the Government: Day One
“Trick or Treat/Trick or Treat/Trick or Treat for Halloween”: Catspaw
For Amusement Only, Really
Outside the Government: Everything Changes
Sensor Scan: The Prisoner
Oblique Strategies For Causing Social Revolutions
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 66 (Heroes)
Myriad Universes: The Planet Of No Return (Gold Key)
Sunday Pancaking (July 21st, 2013)
Outside the Government 13 (Totally Doctor Who)
Sensor Scan: Raumpatrouille Orion
Not Born So Much As Ground Like Pigment From His Times (The Last War in Albion Part 5: Luther Arkwright and William Blake)
Outside the Government 12: The TARDISodes
“Exterminate! Annihilate! Destroy!”: Operation -- Annihilate!
A Few Random Notes on Self-Publishing
The Dr Speaks
There Never Was a Golden Age (Army of Ghosts/Doomsday)
“Watch...your future's end.": The City on the Edge of Forever
Awe & Slaughter
She Carried the Evil Inside Her (Fear Her)
“Work for peace at any price, except the price of liberty.”: Errand of Mercy
This Zen-Crazed Aerial Madman Just Won’t Take No For An Answer (The Last War in Albion Part 4: Michael Moorcock, Luther Arkwright)
Their Little Groups (Love and Monsters)
“I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.”: The Devil in the Dark
This Continues To Not Be A Review Blog
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 65 (Fandom Redux)
“One morn a Peri at the gate/Of Eden stood disconsolate”: This Side of Paradise
Carry On Screaming
In A World of Antimatter (The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit)
“Marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet.”: Space Seed
Added Independence Day Fun
This Dread World and the Rolling of Wheels (The Last War in Albion Part 3: William S. Burroughs, Michael Moorcock)
When You've Seen The Ages That I've Seen (The Idiot's Lantern)
“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”: A Taste of Armageddon
Man of Steel: A Redemptive Reading
You Were Expecting Someone Else 24 (I Am A Dalek)
“You Will Be Assimilated”: The Return of the Archons
Corners of the Universe (Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel)
“Everything is as it should be”: Tomorrow is Yesterday
Mary Sticks to the Alleyways, Where the Light and Noise of the City is Screened Out A Little (The Last War in Albion Part 2: Near Myths, J.G. Ballard, William S. Burroughs)
A Town Without Context
Punishing Viewing
One Day, I Shall Come Back (The Girl in the Fireplace)
“DARKSEID IS MY WILL!” The Alternative Factor
This is Still Not a Review Blog
Till We Meet Again, Sarah (School Reunion)
“The best techniques are passed on by the survivors...”: Arena
Saturday Waffling (June 22, 2013)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 64 (No Angels)
“It is said that the first sport, the original main event that thrilled the masses, considered the greatest spectacle of all, was the fight.”: The Squire of Gothos
To Leap From One Universe To Another, Unafraid! That's Sorcerer's Work! (The Last War in Albion Part 1: Near Myths, Gideon Stargrave)
I'll Bite Your Nose (Tooth and Claw)
“There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!”: Shore Leave
This is Not a Dream (The Last War in Albion: Introduction)
Hulking Metaphors
Unhappy Soldiers (The 1917 Zone - Part 2)
Happy Workers
Nothing on Earth Changes Quite So Often As The Fashion (New Earth)
“The following program contains material that may be disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised.”: The Menagerie
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 63 (Life on Mars)
“The penal code! The penal code!”: Court Martial
A Brief Rumination on Iain Banks
Dreams About Unicorns
Outside the Government 11 (Attack of the Graske)
“I cannot-Yet I must! How do you calculate that?”: The Galileo Seven
The Victory of the Commenters
I Become Part of Events (The Christmas Invasion)
“And you claim these words as your own”: The Conscience of the King
Blog Association
Saturday Waffling (June 8, 2013)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 62 (Battlestar Galactica)
“Listen to it...The sound of children playing...”: Miri
Blogrolling: Pushing Ahead of the Dame
Outside the Government 10 (Doctor Who Confidential)
“We have an incredible ability to make people less than us”: Dagger of the Mind
This is Not a Review Blog
I Wasn't The One Holding a Gun (Bad Wolf)/A Fighting Hand (Parting of the Ways)
Rise of the Machines: What Are Little Girls Made Of?
Sunday Pancaking (June 2nd, 2013)
Saturday Waffling (June 1st, 2013)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 61 (Big Brother)
"But I remember his words as though they were yesterday.": Balance of Terror
Shockingly, The Daily Mail Is Evil
You Were Expecting Someone Else 23 (Only Human)
"Your emotions make you weak!": The Naked Time
Farewell to Academia
A Galactic Yo-Yo (Boom Town)
"I am he and he is me!": The Enemy Within
You Were Expecting Someone Else 22 (Eccleston Comics, the 2006 Annual, Doctor Who Magazine)
Queers Dig Time Lords (Sigrid Ellis and Michael Damian Thomas, eds)
The Impossible Dream of a Thousand Alchemists (The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances)
Sensor Scan: Lost in Space
S. Alexander Reed - Assimilate
You Were Expecting Someone Else 21 (The Monsters Inside)
Star Trek Is...: The Cage
Maybe some of us BELONG in the fields
Sunday Pancaking
Crying Silently (Father's Day)
Sensor Scan: Foundation
Slammed, Ergo, a Teaser
If Only We Had a Reasonable Negotiating Partner...
Audioarchitectonalmetrasynchosity (The Long Game)
Traversing the Heavens' Expanse
Not With A Bang
Kickstarter Wrap-Up
About Time I Found Something To Do (Dalek)
The Twitter Dilemma
Excuses, excuses...
A Mixture of Ozone and Sulphur (Aliens of London/World War III)
Blogrolling: Adventures with the Wife in Space
You Were Expecting Someone Else 20 (The Book of the World)
The DePaul Thing
Attacked By This Little Man (The Unquiet Dead)
Tygers & Horses
Saturday Waffling (May 4, 2013)
Somehow We've Materialized, For A Split Second Of Time (The End Of The World)
Stories, Titles, and Kickstarter Updates
People Made of Smoke and Cities Made of Song (Rose)
New Kickstarter Stretch Goal, And a Thing in Chicago This Weekend (EDIT: Plus a Big Finish sale)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 60 (The Second Coming, Casanova, Honey to the Bee)
Outside The Government 9 (This Town Will Never Let Us Go)
You Were Expecting Someone Else 19 (Scream of the Shalka)
Time Can Be Rewritten 41 (The Gallifrey Chronicles)
Posting twice in one day? Just who does this guy think he is?
Stretch Goal Ideas
In The Wild And The Wind (Sometime Never...)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 59 (Harry Potter)
Kickstarter Stretch Goals
You Were Expecting Someone Else 18 (The Eighth Doctor Comics)
Time Can Be Rewritten 40 (Lucie Miller/To the Death)
Time Can Be Rewritten 39 (Human Resources)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 58 (State of Play)
Book Launch From Space
Time Can Be Rewritten 38 (The Girl Who Never Was)
That Isn't Right
It Was Too Late, And Therefore Necessary (The Creed of the Kromon)
Better With Two (Scherzo)
Chronic Hysteresis (Zagreus)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time For Tea 57 (Firefly)
You Must Have Been Like God (Camera Obscura)
You'll Go Blind
With You Behind The Mirrors (Neverland)
This Is Just a Theatre (Time of the Daleks)
Then Why Is It Dark? (Embrace the Darkness)
The Nimon Be PRAISED! (Seasons of Fear)
So Many Ideas. So Much Darkness. (The Chimes of Midnight)
You Can Never Go Back. That's Your Tragedy (Invaders From Mars)
Time Can Be Rewritten (The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 56 (The West Wing, 9/11)
RIP Hugo Chávez
Time Can Be Rewritten 37 (Fear Itself)
Skulltopus 13: Return to Fang Rock
Orb Will Soon Show Him How It's Done (EarthWorld)
The Moment Has (Almost Certainly) Been Prepared For...
Fearful Symmetry
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 55 (Coupling)
I Said, "I Hope You Enjoy Your Meal." (Minuet in Hell)
Changing Times, Nice Guys and 'Strong Female Characters'
I Can Swim (The Stones of Venice)
A Journey to the Edge of Space (The Sword of Orion)
Fall and Rise
I Move So Fast, I Don't Exist Any More (Storm Warning)
Turnabout is Fairplay
A Timehead or Something (Father Time)
Sacred Fire, Sacred Flame (The Burning)
He Still Possesses The Moment (The Ancestor Cell)
Jack watches 'The Reign of Terror', Part 1
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 54 (The League of Gentlemen)
Oh Dear. Women. Not Really My Field. (The Shadows of Avalon)
Liberty in Space
Outside of These Experiments You Have Absolutely No Significance (The Blue Angel)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 53 (Queer as Folk)
Apocalypse Below (or The Tractate Face-Off)
You May Find His Behavior Somewhat Erratic (Interference)
Out of Eden
Outside the Government 8 (Dead Romance)
Last God Standing
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 52 (The Invisibles)
You Were Expecting Someone Else 17 (Grant Morrison's Doctor Who Comics)
If There Were Stars Up There, We'd Be Able to See Them, Wouldn't We? (Unnatural History)
You Were Expecting Someone Else 16 (The Infinity Doctors)
You Were Expecting Someone Else 15 (The Curse of Fatal Death)
And the award for the most nuanced bigotry goes to...
Review: 'The Reactionary Mind' by Corey Robin
A Cosmos Without Iris Wildthyme Scarcely Bears Thinking About
Rip This World Apart For Just One Cell (Alien Bodies)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 51 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
AM EXTERMINATED! AM EXTERMINATED! (War of the Daleks)
One Morning You Awake, And Your Humanity Is a Dream (Vampire Science)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time For Tea 50 (Neverwhere)
Shabby Efforts
My Dear Doctor, You Must Die (The Eight Doctors)
Vixens and Saxons
Splendid Chap, All of Them (The Dying Days)
Clinging to the Skin of this Tiny Little World (The TV Movie)
The Red and the Green
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 49 (Jonathan Creek)
Outside the Government 7 (Down)
Outside the Government 6 (Oh No It Isn't!)
Time Can Be Rewritten 36 (A Death in the Family)
The Leaves on the Trees are Bright Silver (Lungbarrow)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 48 (Alan Moore's Spoken Word Pieces)
You've Got Some Battle Scars There (The Room With No Doors)
Turn Her Into a Weapon, Just to Bring You Down (So Vile a Sin)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 47 (Touching Evil, The Grand, Springhill)
The Eighth Doctor Schedule
What the Rest of Us Do (Damaged Goods)
The Select Few, All With Their Stories of the Doctor (Return of the Living Dad)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 46 (Our Friends in the North)
The First Settlers Called it the Crystal Feast (Christmas on a Rational Planet)
Time Can Be Rewritten 35 (Happy Endings)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 45 (Babylon 5)
Overwhelming Presence
Let Your Mind Wander When You're Handing It Over (SLEEPY)
Some Planet Called America (Warchild)
The 1917 Zone - Part 1: Tim Nice-But-Then and the Curse of Downton Abbey
Outside the Government 5 (Downtime/The Airzone Solution)
The Greatest Specialist in Time-Space Exploration (The Also People)
Cruel and Cowardly
What More Could A Renegade Wish For? (Head Games)
He's Slipped in the Bilge Water (Sky Pirates!)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 44 (Red Dwarf, Discworld)
I'm Not Paid to Have Opinions, Sir (Original Sin)
Eighth Doctor Adventures/Big Finish Draft List for Discussion
Time Can Be Rewritten 34 (Continuity Errors)
Has it Taught You Wonderful Things? (Human Nature)
Your Researches Have So Little Regard for Human Life (Sanctuary)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 43 (Independence Day, Sliders, Xena: Warrior Princess)
Like I Could Run Forever (Set Piece)
Roundsomely Layered on the Bone (Warlock)
I'm Sorry, Sir, You Have No Clearance (First Frontier)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 42 (The X-Files, Ghostwatch, Twin Peaks)
Vampires in the Stories are Just Pale Imitations of the Real Thing (Blood Harvest)
Time Can Be Rewritten 33 (The Shadow of the Scourge)
The Gutter Scrapings of Shanghai (All-Consuming Fire)
I Just Do The Best I Can (No Future)
Outside the Government 4 (The Dark Dimension, Dimensions in Time, [More than] Thirty Years in the TARDIS)
This Was Altogether Impossible (Conundrum)
Power of the Book Launch
They've Made Me A Goddess (The Left-Handed Hummingbird)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 41 (rec.arts.drwho)
We'll All Die of Sunburn on a Cloudy Day (Blood Heat)
Playing with Dolls
We Must Look Like Insects To You (Birthright)
Homage to the Future
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 40 (Dark Season, Century Falls)
It Came From Uranus
Before Light and Time and Space and Matter (White Darkness)
Double Coded
Murder is Murder
How to Write a Steven Moffat Script
Those Monsters Were Faked (Lucifer Rising)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 39 (Prime Suspect, Cracker)
My Irresistible Rise Continues...
Are You Making All The Right Moves (Deceit)
One Of His Funny Turns (The Highest Science)
We are the Borgias. You will be Excommunicated. Renaissance is Futile.
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 38 (Blackadder, Joking Apart, Comic Strip Presents, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, Heil Honey I'm Home)
Is It Always as Dark as This? (Transit)
For The Sake Of An Angel (Love and War)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time For Tea 37 (Sandman)
Private Ownership of the Means of Inhumation
All Grey And Misty (Cat's Cradle: Warhead)
Relics From The Old Time (Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 36 (Snow Crash)
Guest Post: Odin and the Doctor
If You Were That Old, And That Kind (Timewyrm: Apocalypse and Timewyrm: Revelation)
Then Suddenly, One Year, There Was No Spring (Timewyrm: Genesys and Timewyrm: Exodus)
Time Can Be Rewritten 32 (Death Comes to Time)
Sport, sport, masculine sport, prepares a young man for society...
You Were Expecting Someone Else 14 (The Seventh Doctor Comics)
You Were Expecting Someone Else 13 (The Video Games)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time For Tea 35 (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Time Can Be Rewritten 31 (Atom Bomb Blues)
Time Can Be Rewritten 30 (Thin Ice)
People Made of Smoke: The New Adventures
Run for Your Life! (Survival)
Take Hitler and Put him in the Cupboard Over There (The Curse of Fenric)
Puny, Defenceless Bipeds (Ghost Light)
A Good Wizard Tricked (Battlefield)
Skulltopus 12: Come Out onto the Balcony and Wave a Tentacle
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 34 (Press Gang, Doctorin' the TARDIS)
Rewrite History, Not One Line (The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)
Cybermen, Even! (Silver Nemesis)
Put Life Into Anything Made of Plastic (The Happiness Patrol)
I Won't Explain Its Secrets To You, And Its Philosophy of Movement (Remembrance of the Daleks)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 33 (Marvelman)
1987's Just the Isle of Wight (Dragonfire)
Have a Bonus Post (Alif the Unseen)
Time Can Be Rewritten 29 (The Fires of Vulcan)
Prometheus Underground
The Late 50s! The Time Before Burgers. (Delta and the Bannermen)
That's It, I've Been Renewed (Paradise Towers)
The Evidence Was Not As I Remembered (Time and the Rani)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 32 (Knights of God)
Time Can Be Rewritten 28 (Time's Champion)
Time Can Be Rewritten 27 (Millennial Rites)
When Titans Clash
Time Can Be Rewritten 26 (Business Unusual)
I Just Want You to Like Me
Time Can Be Rewritten 25 (Jubilee)
The Catharsis of Spurious Morality (The Ultimate Foe)
A Far Greater Crime (Terror of the Vervoids)
His Almost Gleeful Pleasure (Mindwarp)
I Was Beginning To Fear You Had Lost Yourself (The Mysterious Planet)
Time Can Be Rewritten(...ish) 24
You Were Expecting Someone Else 12 (Steve Parkhouse)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 31 (The Singing Detective, Edge of Darkness)
You Were Expecting Someone Else 11 (Slipback)
Time Can Be Rewritten 23 (The Nightmare Fair)
Gallifrey Base and Superstructure
New Adventures: Draft List For Discussion
Time Can Be Rewritten 22 (The Song of Megaptera)
Skulltopus 11: Changing States
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 30 (Doctor In Distress)
X Marks the Shit
Outside the Government 3 (A Fix With Sontarans)
Am I Becoming One Of Your Angels (Revelation of the Daleks)
By No Means The Most Interesting (Timelash)
A Well-Prepared Meal (The Two Doctors)
Think I Don't Know My Own (Mark of the Rani)
Do You Think Anybody Votes For Sweet? (Vengeance on Varos)
Things Which Act Against Everything We Believe In (Attack of the Cybermen)
Fear Them
You Were Expecting Someone Else 10 (FASA)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 29 (Max Headroom, Tripods)
Does It Offend You? (The Twin Dilemma)
Opposite Reaction
One Day Sale at Big Finish on Jubilee and Ish
The Grinding Engines of the Universe (The Caves of Androzani)
Time Can Be Rewritten 21 (Warmonger)
Burn With Me (Planet of Fire)
Time Can Be Rewritten 20 (Time Crash)
Little Green Blobs in Bonded Polycarbite Armour (Resurrection of the Daleks)
How Curses Work 3.5: Mythoimperialismo
The Ground's Attacking Us (Frontios)
Grinding Engines
Tea From An Urn (The Awakening)
300 Million Years Out Of Your Comfort Zone (Warriors of the Deep)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 28 (The Adventure Game)
In The Great Days of Rassilon, Five Great Principles Were Laid Down (The Five Doctors)
How Curses Work 3: That Whole Rabbits/Tennis Connection There
You Were Expecting Someone Else 9 (Longleat, Doctor Who Monthly, the Peter Davison Comics)
How Curses Work 2: This Fez is Loaded
A Space Helmet For a Cow (The King's Demons)
Fear & Loathing of Series 7
He's Gay and She's an Alien (Enlightenment)
The Original Viking Settlers (Terminus)
And He's Just Wiped Them Out (Mawdryn Undead)
Breaking News!!!
Time Can Be Rewritten 19 (Goth Opera)
The Void Beyond The Mind (Snakedance)
You Ask Me To Appreciate It? (Arc of Infinity)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time For Tea 27 (The Cleopatras)
Time Can Be Rewritten 18 (Spare Parts)
In the DNA
Our Mode of Conveyance is Irrelevant (Time-Flight)
A Pathetic Bunch of Tin Soldiers (Earthshock)
Great Disguiser
Just a Hint of Mint (Black Orchid)
Legless in Legoland
Cottage Industry vs. the Spectacular Tentacular Draculas
Nothing Ever Changes in London (The Visitation)
Skulltopus 10: How Green Was My Death?
One Tiny Little Gap in the Universe Left, Just About To Close (Kinda)
BBC Wales
Because We Don't Quite Fully Understand (Four to Doomsday)
White as Snowy
Time Can Be Rewritten 17 (Cold Fusion, Virgin Books, 1996)
We've Materialised With Considerable Finesse (Castrovalva)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 26 (Coronation Street)
A New Hope?
Skulltopus 9: Signs of Progress and the Progress of the Sign
Outside the Government 2 (K-9 and Company)
Outside the Government 1 (The Five Faces of Doctor Who)
Guest Post: David Bowie and Doctor Who
You Were Expecting Someone Else 8 (Alan Moore's Doctor Who Work)
You Were Expecting Someone Else 7 (Doctor Who Weekly Comics)
Law & Order: Blame the Victims Unit
That Jackanapes (The Keeper of Traken)
Skulltopus 8: Society of the Tentacle
Going To Be Alone Again (Warrior's Gate)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Thrill Power 25 (2000 AD)
Skulltopus 7: Tentacle, Plastic and Bone
Fish From Space (State of Decay)
That's The Lion King (Full Circle)
Skulltopus 6: Macra Revisited
Skulltopus 5: Fair Exchange, No Robbery
Like A Computer, But There's Something Wrong With Its Pitch (Meglos)
Skulltopus 4: Attack of the Plot-Device Monster
You've Discovered Television (The Leisure Hive)
A Fragment
Thalira, or The Two Planets
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 24 (Quatermass, Day of the Triffids, Blake's 7, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Alien, Sapphire and Steel)
Time Can Be Rewritten 16 (The Well-Mannered War, Virgin Books, 1997)
No Coordinates, No Dimensional Stabilisers (Shada)
Through An Endless Shifting Maze (The Horns of Nimon)
Strange Matters
Maybe That Idea Came From Somewhere (The Nightmare of Eden)
The Black & White Era
They've Taken This Animal and Turned It Into a Joke (The Creature From the Pit)
Beaming With Vast Intelligence (City of Death)
The Empire of Vanilla
The Thing it Does Most Efficiently (Destiny of the Daleks)
Panic on the Streets of London...
Down to the Deeps to Die
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time For Tea 23 (The Winter of Discontent)
Errata to the Book Version
Only Ashes (The Armageddon Factor)
Harry Potter and the Labour Theory of Value
A Big Mining Thing (The Power of Kroll)
And Incidentally, a Happy Christmas to All of You at Home (The Androids of Tara)
Into Submission With My Charm (The Stones of Blood)
To Fight a Bigger War (The Pirate Planet)
The Dark Knight Propagandizes
A Trickster Or a Warrior (The Ribos Operation)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 22 (Fawlty Towers, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Meanwhiles and Neverweres (The Invasion of Time)
My Thoughts on the Missing Episode Finds
Playing Pat-a-Cake With The Wall (Underworld)
Skulltopus 3: Yes, We Have No Macra
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 21 (Star Wars)
Wrong With Authority (The Sun Makers)
The Surplus Population
Wearing a Bit Thin (Image of the Fendahl)
In the Year 5000, This Was Cutting Edge (The Invisible Enemy)
Balanced and Objective
Side Trip: Paradise Dungeons (2)
I Lived. Everyone Else Died. (The Horror of Fang Rock)
Side Trip - Paradise Dungeons (1)
Time Can Be Rewritten 15 (Eye of Heaven, BBC Books,
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time For Tea 20 (Mary Whitehouse)
The Lion Catches Up (The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
Oh, It's a Robot! (The Robots of Death)
Skulltopus 2: Bad Night at Fang Rock
And He Is Me (The Face of Evil)
Time Can Be Rewritten 14 (Asylum, BBC Books, 2001)
Book Launch!
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time For Tea 19 (Children of the Stones)
Amnesia Day
Nice Guy, Nasty Cosmos
Far More Than Just (The Deadly Assassin)
I Don't Look Back. I Can't. (The Hand of Fear)
A Side Jaunt of Internet Politics
How Easy it Is to Be a Magician (Masque of Mandragora)
Time Can Be Rewritten 13 (System Shock, Virgin Books, 1995)
You Were Expecting Someone Else 6 (Doctor Who and the Pescatons)
Behind the Times
An Unintelligent Enemy (The Seeds of Doom)
Sheer Poetry (The Brain of Morbius)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time For Tea 18 (Space: 1999, I Clavdivs)
A Bad Rep
A Bit Dodgy, This Process (The Android Invasion)
Reithian Values Meet 'The 60s'...
I Don't Exist in Your World (Pyramids of Mars)
Civilizations of Pure Thought (Planet of Evil)
Anxiety Satellite
Forms Into Other Patterns (Terror of the Zygons)
Pop Between Realities, Home In Time For Tea 17 (Survivors)
It was such a massive task to establish the Roman race
Tiny Metal Minds (Revenge of the Cybermen)
The Face of the Devil Himself (Genesis of the Daleks)
Enterprise & Initiative
On Your Television Screen, You Can Do What Seemed Impossible (The Sontaran Experiment)
The Logic of the Work
Monsters are Real (The Ark in Space)
Where There's Life (Robot)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 16 (The Tomorrow People, The Uncanny X-Men)
A Free Addendum
Be Childish Sometimes (Planet of the Spiders)
Time Can Be Rewritten 12 (Interference, BBC Books, 1996)
Too Narrow, Too Crippled (The Monster of Peladon)
You Were Expecting Someone Else 5 (Countdown/TV Action)
Poor, Pathetic Creatures (Death to the Daleks)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time For Tea 15 (Moonbase 3)
Books! The Best Weapons in the World! (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
Why Not Make Some Coffee (The Time Warrior)
Planet of the Daleks Video Blog
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time For Tea 14 (Dad's Army, Three-Day Week)
Blink and you'll miss your chance to get a man
Tamper With The Forces of Creation (The Green Death)
A Thousand Years From A Disintegrated Home (Planet of the Daleks)
The Sound of Empires Toppling (Frontier in Space)
The Outside Universe is Breaking Through (Carnival of Monsters)
Facebooking
This Point of Singularity (The Three Doctors)
Time Can Be Rewritten 11 (Verdigris, BBC Books, 2000)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 13 (The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars)
Prove To Me That I am Not Mistaken (The Time Monster)
Change, My Dear (The Mutants)
A Finely Tuned Response (The Sea Devils)
Stark Contrasts
Time Can Be Rewritten 10: The Face of the Enemy (David McIntee, BBC Books,
A Life of Ordered Calm (The Curse of Peladon)
You're Just a Soldier (Day of the Daleks)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 12 (Chariots of the Gods?, Ace of Wands, The New Age)
The Evil Has No Name (The Daemons)
People In Charge of Those Laws (Colony in Space)
Beasts of England
This Pretty Little Thing Here (The Claws of Axos)
Your last memory is of receiving a contact from an unknown agency: me. Everything since has been erased from your minds. (The Mind of Evil)
He Was a Friend at First (Terror of the Autons)
Time Can Be Rewritten 9: The Scales of Injustice (Gary Russell, Virgin Books, 1996)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 11 (Doomwatch, The Atrocity Exhibition)
Potterless
Go Down Go Down Go Down Go Down (Inferno)
Where Spacemen Live (The Ambassadors of Death)
Welcome Matt
Eh? Doctor Who? (The Silurians)
Asylum, UK
The Commodity Strikes Back
Notes from the Bibbledrome
Veto Axons
Rot & Brilliance
I Do Tend To Get Involved (Spearhead From Space)
The Real McCoy and the Forgotten (Sacrificial) Lambs
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 10 (Monty Python's Flying Circus)
Getting into a Lava
Time Can Be Rewritten 8: The Two Doctors
Two Small Orders of Business
Time Can Be Rewritten 7: World Game (Terrance Dicks, BBC Books, 2005)
Tied To One Planet (The War Games)
You Were Expecting Someone Else 4 (TV Comic)
Camp Onion
If We Don't Do Something Quickly (The Space Pirates)
Skulking About The Galaxy In An Ancient Spaceship (The Seeds of Death)
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 9 (2001, Star Trek, Neil Armstrong [Including Foot])
A Mineral Slime (The Krotons)
Gonzo Marx
An Outrageous Amount of Running Involved (The Invasion)
Revolution Dog
We're All Stories In The End (The Mind Robber)
Trouble & Strife
Why Are Earth People So Parochial (The Dominators)
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Nine Executed People Who Make Great Halloween Costumes Feast Day of Boethius
1858: Marion Ira Stout, for loving his sister
October 22nd, 2008 Headsman
It’s the sesquicentennial of a then-sensational, now-forgotten hanging in Rochester, N.Y.
At dawn on December 20, 1857, the city had awoken to the discovery of a mangled corpse by the Genesee River’s High Falls … and more than enough evidence to have the corpse’s killers in hand by tea time.
Marion Ira Stout — he just went by Ira — had made a dog’s breakfast of the job, according to History of Rochester and Monroe County New York from the Earliest Historic Times to the Beginning of 1907.
[W]hen they got near the edge of the bank, Ira struck his victim a sudden blow with an iron mallet, smashing the skull and producing death instantly. Stout then threw the body over the precipice, supposing that it would fall into the river and be swept into the lake before sunrise, but instead of that it landed on a projecting ledge thirty feet below the upper level. Perceiving that there had been some failure in the matter, Ira started to go down a narrow path that led sideways along the cliff, but in the darkness he missed his footing and fell headlong, breaking his left arm in the descent and landing beside the corpse. Summoning all his remaining strength he was just able to push the body over the bank, when he sank in a dead faint. On recovering from which in a few minutes, he called to his sister, who was still above, to come and help him. When she started to do so, the bushes to which she clung gave way; she stumbled, broke her left wrist, and fell beside her prostrate brother. But it would not do to remain there, wretched as was their plight. So, after searching in vain for Ira’s spectacles, which they had to leave behind them, but taking with them the fatal mallet, they scrambled slowly and painfully up the bank and made their way laboriously to their home on Monroe Street.
In lieu of a last statement, Stout referred his audience to this writing, which was published posthumously. Courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library, Cooperstown, N.Y.
Sure enough, the glasses were waiting near the victim for the cops to find come daylight.
How did Ira, his sister, and the late Charles Littles — the sister’s husband — find themselves in this macabre dance?
That’s the murky bit, though it’s fair to say there was some negative energy in the family.
Littles was a violent, jealous, philandering drunk. His wife Sarah seems like the classic abused spouse. Ira was an ex-con who seemingly had his life back together. Oh, and Ira and Sarah were sleeping together — professedly true in the literal sense (they were observed to sleep in bed together in their underthings), and possibly true in the Biblical sense.
Now, where in this tangled knot of incestuous desire, domestic violence, protectiveness, jealousy and intrigue lies the motive is less than self-evident, but Ira and Sarah most definitely schemed to lure Charles to his demise. (Charles was found with a club which he’d brought to clobber a lover of Sarah that he’d been told would make a rendezvous.)
Still, the condemned charmer garnered sympathy for having saved his sister from an abusive marriage; Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass rallied to his defense, and a female admirer smuggled him poison to cheat the hangman … which said admirer managed to end up ingesting herself, and barely survived.
Death got all ten-thumbed around Ira Stout, it seems. His hanging was no different.
The New York Times‘ archive has free access to the report of Stout’s execution, interestingly detailing the upward-jerking “sudden suspension” hanging apparatus in use for the job:
The gallows is the same which has always been in use in the jail — the rope, a hempen cord, alone being new. A weight of 186 pounds rests upon a swing door set in the garret floor of the jail. From this weight, the rope runs over two pulleys above, and the end of it drops through two doors, and nearly to the main floor of the jail. The weight falls about eight feet, jerking the slack end that distance. The halter attached to the main rope is a long distance below the main enginery of death, and the latter is not seen by the spectators or prisoner. The Sheriff stood at the foot of the stairs, some forty feet from the prisoner, and by a small cord pulled the latch which let the fatal weight fall.
But since this is Ira Stout, you know it didn’t come off without a hitch.
The death of the ill-fated man was not as sudden as could be desired. His struggles for eight or ten minutes were severe, and caused the spectators to turn away in disgust.
His neck was probably not dislocated, and he died by a slow process of strangulation. Doctors Hall, Avery, James and Miller stood near, and in eight minutes after the drop fell they said his pulse was as full as in life.
Sort of puts a grim twist on Stout’s own (fairly self-pitying) letters to the papers, in one of which he remarked, “I do not wish to show a cowardly tenacity for life, but I consider it my right and duty to live as long as I can.”
According to a feature story in the newsletter of Mount Hope Cemetery where Ira Stout takes his eternal rest, he might have tried to hang on quite a bit longer.
A rumor was current last night at a late hour that Stout was not dead, and that efforts were being made to resuscitate him by the use of galvanic batteries and other means sometimes employed for the restoration of persons supposed to be dead. How much truth there is in the rumors thus made we cannot say, as we have not taken pains to inquire at the house of Mrs. Stout.
No surprise, that didn’t work either.
1943: Désiré Pioge, abortionist - 2019
1847: Peder Ringeneie - 2018
1943: Piotr Jarzyna, Polish Resistance - 2017
1829: Matej Tatarka, outlaw - 2016
1773: Four convict labor escapees in Maryland - 2015
1584: Anders Bengtsson, unchristian man and tyrant - 2014
1875: Henry Brown, Skinker assassin - 2013
1865: Johnson Speed, arson bystander - 2012
1941: Forty-eight French hostages - 2011
2008: Wang Zhendong, ant profiteer - 2010
1789: The murderers of the baker Francois - 2009
Nine Executed People Who Make Great Halloween Costumes - 2008
Seven Generic Halloween Costumes You Can Spice Up With an Execution Story - 2008
1882: Thomas Egan: 3 tries, 2 ropes, 1 innocent man
1890: William Kemmler, only in America
1807: James McLean, twice
1872: Patrick Morrissey, by a future U.S. president
1905: Samuel McCue, mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia
1888: Jochin Henry Timmerman, “don’t let them take you alive”
1850: Prof. John Webster, for the timeless conflict between donors and academics
Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Botched Executions,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,Hanged,History,Murder,New York,Sex,USA
Tags: 1858, black comedy, cause celebre, domestic violence, fail, genesee river, high falls, incest, ira stout, marion ira stout, monroe county, mount hope cemetery, october 22, sudden suspension hanging, susan b. anthony
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Dereck Coatney says:
This was fascinating.
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The Koskys
The Ministries
Mandlenkosi and Noxolo
Sipho and Phillipa
Luvo and Sanele
The Transkei
The Xhosa Tribe
Meet The Need
The Missions
African Christian Ministries
African New Life Ministries
Gatyana Bible College
Grace Children’s Shelters
Southern Cross Ministries
Transkei Victory Ministries
Expanding to Other Tribes
Tribal CelebrationEvangelism is at the heart of the mission. The Word talks about ‘love’ being the greatest virtue. The Father so ‘loved’, that he sent His only son. Now we are called to do as He commanded us: to bring His love to the lost in the form of His son Jesus.
Immediately after arriving in the Republic of Transkei, the Koskys began seeking unreached villages and sharing the Gospel with those who have never heard about Jesus. This truly was good news. As the Koskys would continually bring the Light to remote Xhosa villages, the Lord not only redeemed souls, but He also changes lives. The Lord is wanting to bring hope to the hopeless, and joy and life-change to those in darkness.
At first, evangelism was done by going from village to village sharing the Word in the tribal huts. These gatherings quickly grew and the Koskys purchased a small tent to hold revival meetings. The word was spreading and growing and the small tent soon would not facilitate the huge crowds of people. The Koskys then purchased a very large tent that would hold over a thousand people. But the crowds kept coming. The sides were taken off of the tent to allow the words to spread to an even larger crowd.
‘Campus Crusade for Christ’ heard about the revival that was taking place in the Transkei as a result of the Kosky’s evangelism, and they presented the Koskys with “The Jesus Film” in the Xhosa language. Projecting the “Jesus Film” to a people who may not have ever have seen a light bulb was a phenomenal success. Wherever the mission would show the Jesus Film, people would come from miles away to see a projected film and hear the Gospel in their own language.
The demand for the Gospel to be delivered to the tens of thousands of unreached villages far exceeded their ability to spread the Good News to the hidden villages of the Transkei. Accordingly, the Koskys have developed many teams that reach these villages on a regular basis. The Koskys believe that the greatest gift we can give to the African people is the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Koskys could easily sit back and take pleasure in all the work the Lord has done, having reached over 1000 villages during their time in Transkei. Yet in reality, the mission is only scratching the surface; there are still tens of thousands of hidden villages that haven’t had the chance to hear the Good News. There are many teams that have been developed by the mission to continually go out and find the lost but the need is still great.
The harvest is great, but the workers are few.
Evangelism is at the heart of this Mission. As their God-given calling, reaching out to the lost is at the core of how the Lord is working through the Koskys. From humble beginnings, to a leap of faith into the Republic of Transkei, God’s desire of bringing hope to a dark and hopeless world is being fulfilled.
The Koskys have seen tent revivals expand far beyond capacity. Screening “The Jesus Film” in the Xhosa language has drawn many from miles around. The Gospel is being preached and souls are being saved.
Copyright 2018 Kelly Kosky Ministries
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Nyouse: Connecting People to Press
To diverge slightly from copywriting for a moment; I’ve been busy cooking up a side-project which might interest you:
Nyouse.com, pronounced “news”, is a new website that connects people with journalists.
Do you have a story to tell? Do you have breaking news that the world needs to know? Do you have a whistle to blow or an announcement to make?
If you do, then use Nyouse! It’s very easy…
Log in to Twitter.com (you’ll need a Twitter account to use Nyouse. But they’re quick to set up and free to use.)
Write a message that explains your story. Twitter messages (a.k.a. tweets) are limited to 140 characters so you’ll have to provide a flavour of your story, rather than all the details.
Direct your message @nyouse or include the hashtag #nyouse
If you want to indicate the location that your story is connected to, include the first half of your postcode as a hashtag. e.g. #bn1 for Brighton
Wait for a journalist to get in touch.
Find out more about Nyouse on the Nyouse Blog, or read my post on Words By Me.
Nyouse is built on Inuda’s SocialPlume Twitter application, and is sponsored by Inuda and Kendall Copywriting.
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Owens Corning v. National Union Fire Insurance Co. case brief
Owens Corning v. National Union Fire Insurance Co. case brief summary
257 F.3d 484 (2001)
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio held plaintiff corporation did not have to allocate costs between directors who were covered and corporation who was not covered, on its claim for coverage against defendant insurer for indemnification on a settlement. Insurer appealed, also arguing indemnification was inappropriate, and it was error to enter final judgment and deny amendment to add new claims and defenses.
The appellate court found that although settlement allocation was contemplated by the policy, the method of allocation was ambiguous.
The court adopted the larger settlement rule supporting coverage of the settlement except to the extent that uninsured claims had actually increased the insurer's liability.
The directors had been sued on all claims; there were no separate claims attributable solely to employees or to the corporation.
Corporation could accord a rebuttable presumption of good faith to the directors.
Indemnification occurred in relation to a settlement under Del. Code Ann. tit. 8, § 145(a), in which good faith was required.
The presumption was unrebutted.
Thus, it was according to law, and was not in breach of the policy.
As the motion to amend the answer and counterclaim was filed three years after the original answer, denying the motion was not error.
Also, the amendments added little.
Since the defense based on unreasonableness of the underlying settlement was not an issue in the declaratory judgment action, insurer's belated demands for proof of reasonableness did not make it one.
Entry of final judgment was proper.
The judgment of the district court was affirmed.
Recommended Supplements for Corporations and Business Associations Law
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Medieval art is a huge category in the history of creative interpretation that lasted for over a thousand years. This art was largely religious in nature and was developed before the Renaissance, which saw a rise in the variety of techniques and subjects that art depicted. The popularity of medieval art was largely due to the sponsorship of the Roman Catholic church who would commission artists around the world for works to decorate their cathedrals and illustrate stories of the Bible for the, then illiterate, masses. Although other artwork was commission by wealthy individuals, featuring more worldly subjects, the majority of this work was destroyed throughout time, leaving the modern world with predominantly religious artworks from this time period.
In the samples that have survived the tumultuous Middle Ages, researchers have discovered that medieval art was generally created with a specific purpose in mind, usually for the purposes of teaching. Medieval styles were largely unconcerned with realism and instead used the iconography method that was employed by the early Christian church to depict scenes from the Bible and from life.
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Coat of Arms Art
GENRES : Cultural Art : European Art : Medieval Art : Coat of Arms Art
Medieval Artwork
The Knight, Death and the Devil, 1513
Knight With Red Javelin
Madonna and Child Triptych, (The Vatican Collection)
Illuminated Manuscript, Psalter. Inhabited Initial B of Psalm 1
Edmund Blair Leighton
Creation of the world
Aucassin and Nicolette
Marianne Stokes
Procession of the Knights of the Bath
Altar frontal from La Seu d'Urgell or of the Apostles
Souvenir De Premiere Communion, (The Vatican Collection)
A Mon Seul Desir
Madonna de Foligno, c.1511, (The Vatican Collection)
Family Crest IV
Vision Studio
The Accolade
Mary Magdalene Tells the Disciples
St. Albans Psalter
Door of a mill, Kells Priory, County Kilkenny, Republic Of Ireland
Wedding Ceremony, (The Vatican Collection)
Jacob Ben Asher
Le Toucher
L'Ouie
Gold Lions, (The Vatican Collection)
Knight With Black Javelin
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Albani Psalter, appearance of the Risen One on the eighth day
Our Father, initial P In Albani Psalter
An Angel Warning the Sleeping Three Magi Not to Return to Herod
The Adoration of Jesus
Perseus Slays the Serpent
Albans Psalter: Expulsion from Paradise
St. Albans Psalter, The Three Magi following the star
Holbein Dance of Death II
Medieval Dragon II
Twelve Scenes from the Christmas Story
Terra Nova I
Poem 5, (The Vatican Collection)
Kupferberg Family Crest
Jim Engelbrecht / Danita Delimont
Madonna of the Chair, c.1514, (The Vatican Collection)
Coat of Arms - James Cecil of Salisbury
Gold Figure, (The Vatican Collection)
Shephard Boy, (The Vatican Collection)
Magni Catay, (The Vatican Collection)
Michael Boym
1512-Knight Armed
Samuel R. Meyrick
Coat of Arms II
Interior of Chateau du Haut-Koenigsbourg, Orschwiller, Alsatian Wine Route, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France
Although the Renaissance brought about completely different ideas of what art was and what it was to be used for than medieval art, the two categories are frequently grouped together. However, the Renaissance was largely concerned with depicting objects as they really were which was in direct contrast with medieval techniques. However, it can be argued that without the popularity of medieval artwork throughout Europe, art as it's known today wouldn't exist and the Renaissance would have never happened.
Contemporary artists still produce medieval artwork, although it has little in common with the traditional definition of this category. Instead, modern artists depict the mythology and growing culture of that time period. Arthurian legends, in particular, are of interest to modern artists, as are depictions of knights, festivals, nobles, and other elements of the time.
For collectors and enthusiasts however, medieval art was the turning point of mankind and both modern and traditional depictions of this period are popular.
Medieval art is art that originates from the west. It covers a thousand years of art in Europe with traces of Middle East and African times. It mostly centers genres and times for example the early Christian art, Gothic art, Romanesque art, migration period art, byzantine art, and insular art. Medieval art was in the form of stained glass, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, metalwork and mosaics. This kind of art emancipated from the Roman Empire traditions and also traditions from the early church. Art pieces in this category are deep and amazingly emotional. 'Mary Magdalene tells the disciples' is one of the early churches themed art pieces under the medieval art category.
The art piece will almost transport you to the early times of the Christian church. Medieval art is intricately designed and therefore it will be able to evoke a lot of emotions which stir up your soul. There is a wide variety to choose from in this category with such a wide range of themes to choose from. If you love gothic art, this would be a really suitable category for you.
Medieval art would draw attention to any wall it is placed on. This kind of art would be a great piece for your art collection. You could put it up in your living room area or even your bedroom to make the space look more appealing and also to enhance your home decor as well. This would also be a good piece to have in your art school since it represents an art legacy.
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Recovery Tuesday Tidbits: Sprint Store, Bridge Groundbreaking, Tunnel
It has taken me much longer to clear the post-surgical cobwebs from my brain than I expected, so don't have many expectations for this post. I just hope it's in English. (But the hip repairs--NOT REPLACEMENT!--went well, and I should start getting off of crutches soon.)
* SPRINT STORE: I have said for years that no new neighborhood has truly arrived until it gets its first cellphone retailer, and I would not have guessed it would take until 2018 for that box to get checked, but numerous approved building permits indicate that Sprint will be opening a store in the old Sizzlin' Express space on the northwest corner of 4th and M.
* DOUGLASS BRIDGE GROUNDBREAKING: As if to taunt me after 15 years of watching and waiting, the Feb. 13 ceremonial groundbreaking for the new Douglass Bridge and associated first-phase improvements to the South Capitol Street Corridor was held while I was very much horizontal and hopped up on goofballs. But since it's right on our DMZ line, SWill was there and took some photos. Estimated completion date is 2021. (Speaking of SWill, he is the one to read for coverage of Buzzard Point, since that is outside my purview.)
* TUNNEL DOINGS: The last section of wall on the new Virginia Avenue Tunnel was poured on Feb. 22. an effort that overall totaled three miles of 24-foot-tall concrete. Meanwhile, 3rd Street should be reopening to two-way traffic Any Minute Now, which then paves the way (sorry) for both the 4th and 5th Street intersections to close, probably in mid-March, to dismantle the temporary bridge decks and complete the new tunnel's roof in those blocks, and wrap up the final street restoration. And no, the 6th Street exit ramp from the freeway won't close. The entire project is "on time," for completion this fall, according to CSX.
* ANOTHER PROJECT READY TO GO: A shoring/sheeting/excavation permit has been approved for the second phase of the "Riverfront" project, aka the Florida Rock site. This will be a 13-story, 260ish-unit residential building with about 12,000 square feet of retail, and will go up immediately to the west of Dock 79. When I'm a little more mobile I'll write a roundup of what's currently underway.
* WINERY HAPPY HOUR: If you don't have a supply of post-surgical painkillers like some people, there's now a Happy Hour at District Winery, from 3:30 to 6:30 pm Monday through Friday, with $8 signature cocktails and select wines, $5 select beers, and 50 percent of District Winery wines by the bottle.
There's probably more, but this wore me out. Hey, it's a start.
More posts: 300m, 71potomac, CSX/Virginia Ave. Tunnel, Florida Rock, Retail, South Capitol St., Douglass Bridge, sprint
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Super Sentai Strongest Battle Ep.1 Reaction (Spioler-free)
The battle to become the strongest sentai hero has begun!
Here7s my reaction to the 1st episode of Super Sentai Strongest battle!
I'll try not to spoil too much.
I prefer Captain Marvelous as a leader ,than Yamato, and Rita is too cute for me.
rogerph2015 Says:
Of course, I'm shocked and I'm mad about it. My comments are the 42 Super Sentai who were once protecting the Earth are now selling their souls to the devil in getting slaughtered and butchered among themselves in the name of Squadron in order to get the trophy and probably cash. For example, the GoGoFive/Tatsumi Siblings who were once live-saving rescue soldiers are now life destroyers. The Timerangers are now the violators of the Time Protection Law in 2019 A.D.. The Battle Fever J Team are now arguing amongst themselves to see who had the full control of the world. The Magirangers had now the evil magic of Infershia. And so on. Even the Hero Mama League (Nanami Nono/Hurricane Blue, Marika "Jasmine" Reimon/DekaYellow and Houka Ozu/MagiPink) are not safe from this bloody tournament! So, the Japanese families who supported the Super Sentai for too long are also arguing which Super Sentai Team is the strongest. Even the former and current Super Sentai Actors and Actresses had mixed reactions about this. I'm afraid they'll never make it alive in the 45th Super Sentai in 2021 A.D.. Imagine if Nanami got killed here, her son Kairi will cry and he was too young to fight as a Sentai/Squadron Warrior. So, live and let die!
Nikko Amano Says:
Let me clarify that the rules of the game do NOT involve killing. It's just a test of strength and skill. Kinda like a sparring match but on a grander scale.
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“EVERYTHING IS BROKEN”
is the new novel by John Shirley, from Prime Books. A “Lord of the Flies” for the 21st century.
PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY REVIEW: “In this slim, grim, and powerful novel, Shirley lets his imagination loose on the frightening possibilities of a massive natural disaster striking a small American town. A tidal wave transforms Freedom, Calif., from seaside idyll into a broken and perilously unstable landscape. Survivors include some natural helpers like Drew Haver and his son, Russ, as well as psychopaths Dickie Rockwell, a gang leader and drug dealer, and Lon Ferrara, the town’s ultralibertarian mayor, who privatized emergency services and now refuses help from FEMA. Treating women like commodities and wielding a plethora of weapons, these men fight for survival and ownership of the ruins. Shirley’s vision is vivid and horrifying…”
As ebook or trade paperback.
Conservatives Chill the Champagne, Delighted More People Will Suffer
Conservatives are chilling the champagne, because it looks like SCOTUS will strike down Healthcare Reform entirely. That means a “lose” for Obama and a “win” for conservatives, and libertarians. It really doesn’t matter to opponents of health care reform if many millions of people will not have health care as a result; it really doesn’t matter if people will die because their pre-existing conditions are not covered. It doesn’t matter to them if elderly people will have to pay more for medication. That’s okay. It’s *totally worth it*. Because it will give Obama a “Lose”. It will *hurt* Obama. “And oh yes, let’s pretend we think health care reform was crushing our freedoms. We need to keep that facade up.”
But conservatives know what it’s really about. Pour the champagne boys. Another win for the corporations.
An ambiguous relationship with Nature
What an ambiguous relationship I have with nature. A few years ago I looked out the back window, saw a rosebush wriggling itself down into the ground. It was like something I once saw in a cartoon. The rosebush was going down, down…All 5 bushes vanished soon, & it turned out a certain vole was the villain, they chew these things up from below. I rejoiced when my cat killed a vole. “Ha!” I said.
Tonight I was walking my dogs, one of them darted away, snapped at a small animal–it was a little mole, washed by the rains out of his hole, looking for dry spot to dig. The dog had broken its back. It tried to crawl, pulling itself with its little armless hands, inch by inch…its back legs worthless now…in the rain…it was most pathetic. I let the dog put it out of its misery. I did not rejoice.
Poisoned Points of View
It’s really tragic how you cannot talk to some people; how they cannot talk to you. By you, I mean me, I mean anyone. Most Republicans think they know what liberals are about; they really, really don’t. I’ve heard them say, about liberals, “They’re into redistributing the wealth!” –which is a code phrase for Marxism. Nothing you can say will make them change that opinion. That wildly wrong opinion.
It seems to me I’m more open to understanding conservative ideas than they are to understanding progressive ones. But people are isolated by their presumptions, their need to create paint-by-numbers definitions of the world.
And the same goes for people in one’s life that one’s fallen out with–to get them to understand one’s point of view–it’d be like using a pen knife to cut through a stone wall. We’re all trapped by our subjectivity.
GOOD KITTEH, BAD COPS
This morning my son Julian, in Portland, was asleep in his room–and woke up to find a gun in his face. A cop was pointing a gun at him. There were a couple of cops in his room, demanding to see his rental agreement, to know if he were a “squatter”. They’d had reports of squatting meth tweakers in the building, who were stealing gasoline from cars. They were right about the tweakers, but they had the wrong apartment–and they had no probable cause to invade Julian’s apartment without a warrant.
(He’d forgotten to lock the door, foolish in his bad neighborhood. Though it was cops he had to worry about, not burglars, in this case.)
The cops seemed skeptical that Julian was renting the room–he is–and that he was a college student–he is–and even wondered if his school books were stolen. But the cops went away, finally, and Julian’s cat took revenge–it scratched their ankles as they went. Good kitteh.
Portland…”Portlandia”…has a reputation for being liberal. But its liberality notoriously stops at the police. They beat Jim Chasse to death. They pretty commonly shoot unarmed people to death. They’re famous for being thugs.
Sometimes you get a bad police culture, in certain towns. Portland needs to take steps.
(My friend Brett says, “It’s too bad the bad-apple cops make the other 3% look so bad”)
Slapped by Gravity
Yesterday while gardening on a slippery slope I slipped and fell with some force (you always hear beware the slippery slope–well it’s true!), and I think I have a cracked rib. It hurts when I breathe deeply, laugh, sneeze, bend over or cough. But I can write, have to, have many tens of thousands of words to write on a tight deadline…
If you let yourself be distant, distracted from the physical world, it is offended, and it slaps you for it. It slaps you with itself. And that wakes you up to its reality. You are quickly, efficiently, reacquainted.
PUBLIC SERVICE WARNING: AYN RAND POISONING.
PUBLIC SERVICE WARNING: AYN RAND POISONING. The Department of Meme Toxicology has issued a new report warning of AYN RAND POISONING. Causes of Ayn Rand poisoning include reading Ayn Rand’s novels & the rants of Austrian School of economics fanatics, & the rhetorical drippings of Ron Paul. Indications: hypertrophic selfishness, radical lack of empathy, indifference to poverty and human suffering, a willingness to elevate the law of Survival of the Fittest over all humanitarian concerns, an inability to perceive the consequences of environmental pollution, an extreme reaction to the presence of unions, blindness to social benefits of taxation, eg their own use of tax-supported programs. Prognosis, the death of civilization.
Stand by Your Pack
Another thing that bothers me, is when I’m out walking my dogs and note the large numbers of small dogs kept in garages all day, and often at night, regardless of the weather; not much better (sometimes worse), when a dog is left endlessly in the back yard. They yip and whine piteously.
Small dogs are bred to be companions to people. All dogs are pack animals and need to be around their pack, other dogs or people. They feel anguish, over this.
Animals, especially relatively highly evolved ones like dogs, have complex feelings. They suffer from loneliness and neglect.
People should not get dogs if they can’t provide them more attention than that. Such dogs, too, are rarely, if ever, taken for walks…something dogs really need.
John Why Does it Bother You So Much?
“But John, why does it bother you so much when people, especially people online, misuse your, write your when they mean you’re, and their for there and vice versa? Aren’t you just being a grumpy old tight ass?”
“Perhaps but to me this misuse is an indicator of the disrespect people have for basic literacy and the internet’s attrition on literacy. Sure you can point to plenty of literate people online but…”
“Come on, if they’re writing a paper they probably use it properly.”
“It’s getting to be thought of as a normal usage and it indicates a general deterioration of thoughtfulness…Twitter especially is…”
“John–wait. How about how you often don’t bother with capitalization and punctuation in your posts?”
“That’s different.”
A Movement And a Rest
Some cosmologists theorize that the universe starts & stops, starts & stops, big-bangs, unwinds from there, then “rewinds” or ends. And starts over. An endless series of universes…Life arises biologically, then it dies; then more life arises. Day is followed by night; followed by day. When we sleep, there’s a period in which we are completely unconscious, without even dreaming, as if were non-existent; then we wake. Then later we sleep. This pattern seems to iterate the cycle of time and the cosmos. As above, so below. “If they ask you: What is the sign of your Father in you?, tell them: It is a movement and a rest.” – Gospel of Thomas …
Tao Te Ching: “Being and non-being create each other./Difficult and easy support each other./ Long and short define each other./High and low depend on each other./Before and after follow each other.”
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Air Jordan 7 GS “Olympic” 2012 Detailed Images
1992 Barcelona, Spain. The Dream Team became the first American Olympic team to feature active NBA players and one of the original members of the Dream Team, was none other than Michael Jordan. Leading the USA team with over 40 points in every game, the Dream Team defeated every team and became champions of the 92 Olympics. Michael Jordan would be forever known to rock …
1992 Barcelona, Spain. The Dream Team became the first American Olympic team to feature active NBA players and one of the original members of the Dream Team, was none other than Michael Jordan. Leading the USA team with over 40 points in every game, the Dream Team defeated every team and became champions of the 92 Olympics. Michael Jordan would forever be known to rock the number 9 jersey and a White – Metallic Silver – Gold and Red Air Jordan 7 dubbed “Olympic”. With the Olympics returning in London this year, the Air Jordan 7 is also scheduled to come back. Seen here for the first time is the Air Jordan 7 “Olympic” in GS size that features the classic number 9 on the heel. Let us know if you’ll be copping these! Via Air Randy
07/21/2012 Air Jordan Retro 7 “Olympic”
304775-135 White/Metallic Gold-Obsidian-True Red
$160.00 – Men’s
$110.00 – Gradeschool
$70.00 – Preschool
$50.00 – Toddler
$42.00 – Infant
Patta x Air Jordan 7 “Icicle”
Air Jordan 7 “Ray Allen”
Patta x Air Jordan 7 Collection
Alan Mar 14, 2012 at 11:01 am
Instant cop one of my favorite colorways of the 7's!
@_RetroPilot Mar 14, 2012 at 11:57 am
crazy..must cop
Littmrcc Mar 14, 2012 at 12:51 pm
already copped since 8 am EST
p Mar 14, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Just want to see the Adult sized version now
TeeJay Mar 14, 2012 at 9:42 pm
Robocopped!!!!
Kev2324 Mar 14, 2012 at 10:47 pm
hope the tongues arent short like the 7s from last year
Niagra Mar 15, 2012 at 8:53 am
They look pretty funny!
they look like the 7 olympics like they use on the little keychains
L-Boy Mar 15, 2012 at 11:47 pm
These actually look good but I bet they're gonna be Orion quality. Those were the absolute worst man smh
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Landing Page: Unicorn/Factory
A new setting, Unicorn/Factory colors an early industrial world, where the ravages of rampant production are being held off by unicorns.
This story has some dark themes – not just pollution, corruption, and the clash of industrialization & farming, but also the very real costs paid by the farming towns. It also encompasses, in some stories, (unicorn-based) rape and forced pregnancy, maiming, and murder.
Best Places to Start
Down the River
The Silver Road (LJ)
The Grey Line – Unicorn/Factory – for the Giraffe Call
Talking it to death – Unicorn/Factory setting, for the Giraffe Call
Unicorn Chase, a story of Unicorn/Factory for the Giraffe Call
The Silver Road, a story of Unicorn/Factory for the Giraffe Call!
Pure as… a story of Unicorn/Factory for the giraffe call
Unicorn-Chased, a story of Unicorn/Factory for the January Giraffe Call
Productive, a story of the Unicorn/Factory for the January Giraffe Call (@anke)
Making Harvest Wreathes, a story of the Unicorn/Factory for the Feb. Giraffe Call
The Governors, a continuation of the Unicorn/Factory for the January Giraffe Call
Right and Wrong, , a continuation of the Unicorn/Factory for the January Giraffe Call (@anke)
Unicorn-Chaste, a story of the Unicorn/Factory for the February Giraffe Call
(Pat the Bunny) Stroke the Unicorn, a story of Unicorn/Factory for the Rabbit Safari
The Black Unicorns of Cardenborn, a story of Unicorn/Factory for the Giraffe Call
Change, a story of the Unicorn Factory for the Giraffe Call
Strange, a story of the Unicorn/Factory for the Giraffe Call
Unicorn Strokes
Duty, a story of the Unicorn/Factory for the Giraffe Call
One Year Ago/The Unicorn’s Gift
The Problem, an Introduction to a story
Unicorn/Factory: the Unicorn Bride Rebellion, Part I
February is World Building Month. Day Nine: Unicorn/Factory
February is World Building Month. Day Twenty-Four: Unicorn/Factory
Unicorn Hair, a story of the Unicorn/Factory for the December OrigFic Bingo
February is World Building Month; March is Catch-Up Day 27: Unicorn/Factory
Far Weston, a continuation of sorts, of the Unicorn/Factory
Take Me, a ficlet of Unicorn/Factory for the giraffe call
Unicorn/Factory Landing Page Updated
Cleaning House, a continuation of Unicorn/Factory
Observing, a side story of the Unicorn/Factory
The Black Bean, the beginning of something Unicorn/Factory
Unicorn Truths – a story of Unicorn/Factory for Finish It! Bingo
(Range) Ladies’ Bingo: Transformation – The Unicorn/Factory & Ursel
Far-Gone From the West, a continuation of Far Weston for Finish It Bingo
This entry was posted on October 22, 2019, in Unicorn/Factory and tagged landing page. Leave a comment
After Far Weston, for my Third Finish It Bingo Card. I know this isn’t done yet, but it was a good place to post while I figure out what happens next..
Being a hunter was a dangerous occupation, more so in the edges of civilization, where the forest itself was likely to fight back if it didn’t like you, much less the animals, who were often bigger and stronger than those you’d get closer to Centon.
It was the sort of occupation that meant that Pyiata lived out in the woods for most of her life, stopping into the village that had raised her only when she had to – to sell meat and furs, to buy supplies, to see the annual service of the river, when her cousins and former neighbors would draw stones.
It was the sort of occupation that meant that she was more used to the company of small woodland creatures and the occasional wandering unicorn than she was other humans, and that she tended to notice when something went strange with the animals and missed things like a new Mayor or a new priest (she had once mistaken a new priest for the old for three years, assuming the old had simply put on a lot of weight at some point. Their village was prosperous, after all. Travelers from far away would stop there, because it was the last mark of civilization before the wilds and the hills. It was easier to get fat there than in many other places).
Pyiata had spent a good month hunting. She had smoked meats to sell and tanned hides to trade, a fresh gathering of wild ramps and some early apples that grew only in two particular clearings. It was time to go back to the village, to do her trading and make sure the mayor hadn’t gotten too fat.
There was a small problem, however. She stared at the wall, then took twenty paces back and looked around.
There was the forked tree where she’d hidden as a child. There was the very old wellhead, before the spring had moved. There was the foundation of the old granny’s house, the one that had burned down when Pyiata was just a child. She was in the right place.
But there was a city wall in the way.
Pyiata shifted her pack, rolled her shoulders, and made sure her weapons were both accessible and looking non-threatening. City people, she’d been told, could be weird about weapons. They could be weird about hunters, too, as if their meat didn’t come from things that’d had skin and hooves or paws at some point, too.
She paced the wall of the city. It was bigger than the village had been, but it would have to be. Cities were big things, huge, sometimes, encompassing people and Factories and – well, Pyiata’s idea of a city was fairly fuzzy, as she had never been to one, just seen the walls of Weston once or twice. But big; they were definitely big.
She reached the gate almost by accident. It was not where the old road through the village had been; that road was gone, covered over in rubble and plant-cuttings. The new road shot straight and silver towards Weston – too silver, so silver. Pyiata swallowed down bile. There weren’t that many unicorns, this far out. Where had they found them? How had they caught them?
But the new gate was guarded by strangers, two tall people in armor as shining as the road, with pikes. They looked askance at her. She looked right back at them.
“There was a village here,” she informed them.
“There is a city here,” the left-ward one replied, as if she were a bit slow. Pyiata was used to people speaking to her as if she were a little bit slow; she smiled widely at the guard the way she had at others who had annoyed her.
“There was a village here,” she repeated. “With a Mayor and a priest, grannies and granthers and young girls and young boys. There was a village here.” Something inside her kept her from saying it was my home “Where is the Mayor? Where are the priest and the granthers?”
“There’s a city here,” the rightmost guard told her. He was shifting backwards. He was unhappy. Even Pyiata could tell that. He was worried she was going to – what, yell? No, his eyes were on her weapon.
She held her hands out, empty, non-threatening. “I want to know where the village went, that’s all.”
“There isn’t a village here.” The leftmost guard spoke even more slowly. “This is Far Weston. It’s a city.”
She wasn’t going to get anywhere with this. Pyiata smacked her forehead, as if she had just remembered. “Right! A city, Far Weston! And I have things to sell. I have furs and smoked meat, I have sausages and hoof-cups, I have fine food and soft slippers. See?” She opened her bag and let the smells of the sausages waft out. “I have fine foods to sell in Far Weston.”
“Well, be out before sunset. They don’t like loiterers, vagabonds, in the city after dark. Market’s right through there.” The one that thought she was slow gestured inward. “Get on with you, then. Through there to the market.”
Pyiata knew markets, although this market was bigger and cleaner, shinier and flashier than the one in the Village had been. She set up next to a baker and chatted with the woman about the town and its priests, its factory and its shopkeeps.
She learned several important things, although she wasn’t sure what to make of any of them. People – the baker, the pie-maker on the other side, the weaver nearby – they would talk about any given part of the city being new – the priest had come in new. The factory was new and hiring new people. The mayor was newly-elected. But nobody would say that the city itself was new. Nobody would say anything about the village.
If Pyiata said something about the village, people would seem to ignore her, or look the other way, or suddenly be very interested in their produce or what the person across the street was doing. Nobody would speak to her directly about anything.
The houses where the village had been were new – and yet they looked very familiar. It was as if someone had taken Lothenna the carpenter’s house and redone it with new materials, a little bigger, a little shinier, with a bigger front porch. The same for Gello the tailor and Kvenner who took in washing: their houses were there, and, indeed, they were occupied by a carpenter, a tailor, and a washer, but they were bigger, brighter, the people inside a little cleaner, a little more respectable looking
Everyone looked through Pyiata if she didn’t speak directly to them. They looked at her wares – the tailor who was not Gello offered to buy the skins off of her, and, although she felt traitorous, she managed to make a good profit – and they noticed her passing, but they tried not to look her in the face.
She knew she smelled a bit; hunters usually did, although it wasn’t the sort of smell the animals minded. But people weren’t making the fine-people-smelling-a-working-person face; they weren’t making any face at all.
So the village was gone. It was gone, and yet people had noticed it enough to put new houses that looked like the old in its place. The people were gone — and the only clue Pyiata had that the new residents even knew that was the way they refused to talk about the old residents.
The old residents Her family. Her town.
Pyiata could track. She could follow a quarry for days if she had to. She could bring something down with one arrow from across a meadow or through a clearing in the forest.
She could not get answers from people, so she went looking for answers from the land.
The river had moved; she went looking there, first. She put out a line to give herself an excuse — and because smoked fish was a nice change from smoked meat, sometimes. And with her line tied, she wandered up and down the water, looking at the streambed.
They’d rerouted the river only about ten feet, into an old bed it had sat in, long ago. The new shift in the river, though, went right over where Old Unther’s cabin had been, old Unther who had taught Pyiata to hunt. There was no trace of the cabin itself, nothing but a cute little cabin-shaped gazebo perched on the edge of the river, nearby but not on the proper site, but in the shallows, Pyiata found Unther’s old knife and seven arrow-heads.
From that, she knew Unther had not had the chance to pack up. So she looked for signs of a struggle, because Unther’s place was too far from the village to have been covered up by the new city.
They had smoothed over the terrain. They had replaced Unther’s cabin with the ridiculous pretend-cabin gazebo, which looked as much like a real cabin as a child’s wooden sword looked like a soldier’s steel blade. But they had not replaced the old elm, the one which had stood in just the right place to shade Unther’s cabin without risking falling on it, nor the ivy that grew around its base.
There she found tracks, a peel of bark missing from the tree, and half of one of Unther’s arrows. Someone had fought not to be moved. Someone had struggled mightily, and, from the looks of it, lost.
But Unther had blazed the tree the way he’d taught her too — messily, of course, but he’d taken the fight to the tree. So she knew they’d headed west.
West. Interesting. There was nothing West but strange lands and strangers, as far as she knew. Nothing there but where-tinkers-came-from and where-traders-sometimes-went, and that’s where they’d dragged Unther.
It was enough to start with. Pyiata circled the strange new city and headed West.
This entry was posted on December 30, 2016, in Unicorn/Factory and tagged prompt: allbingo, prompter: kelkyag. Leave a comment
Written for my ladiesbingo card after Change and with a nod to Strange
Short Summary: The unicorns keep the water clean for the villages, but the price they demand is maidens… and their children are born from those maidens.
Content Warning: The unicorns in these stories are heavy on the rape metaphor, and it’s very heavy in the below story. Also, violence, via unicorn horn, discussed in the past tense.
I think this has an ending but it wasn’t sure.
People, as a rule, were not very good at keeping secrets.
The more unusual the information, the worse they were at keeping them close.
There was a girl in Shepachdar’s tavern, and she was a unicorn-born who hadn’t changed, already an anomaly.
There was a foal in Lastowe that had changed early, and it had grown wings instead of a horn, strange beyond strange – and yet it seemed to be needed.
How will he mate? some people muttered. But very quietly: they didn’t talk too loudly about what happened down at the river. They might know – almost everyone knew. The unicorns and the maidens, they made more unicorns, and there was blood, there was always blood, whether the result was a dying girl or a pregnant one.
What will come of the girl? some people asked. They were far less quiet about that; personal tragedy was interesting, it was personal, and it didn’t come tainted with the guilt of the Silver Road and the blood of all those young girls.
Eventually, the questions came back to the tavern in Shepachdar, and back to Ursel, the girl with the nubbin of horn on her forehead.
“So…” It was Fazenia who asked, Fazenia who had started this whole mess rolling. “If you haven’t changed…”
Ursel sat down and stared at Fazenia for a long time. The men looked away. The other bar-maids looked away. Fazenia did not.
“Every child a unicorn sires is a unicorn,” Ursel began. “This is the truth of things.”
Around her, people were muttering. Fazenia, who had gone down to the river in her own time, held Ursel’s gaze and waited.
“Common knowledge says it’s the horn, but that is only a an indicator of certain things.” She touched the nubbin on her forehead. Fazenia touched her own stomach, below the navel. “I know,” the woman who should be a unicorn continued, “that many children are born after the river trips, and more than half of those are born with no horn. Those births are easier. Those men live fine lives, and their daughters have an easier time of the river. Those women… they either have an easier time at the river, or everything goes horrible.” She ducked her head. “Unicorns, the ones who have four legs and who swim the river, they are not human, whatever they were born. They don’t think like humans, and they don’t communicate like humans. And unicorns either favor the two-legged of their kin, or they hate them unbearably.”
Fazenia’s fists clenched in her lap. Ursel, now, was the one to look away, but just for a moment.
“I digress. Every child conceived at the river is a unicorn. I know. So many babies you have all seen, maybe yourself, maybe the child you raised as your own. All unicorns.”
Somewhere, someone opened their mouth. One of the bar-maids shushed them before they cloud say a word.
Ursel nodded, although nobody had asked anything. “It’s not what we’re taught, any of us. Only the ones who transform – only the sons, and not all of the sons. I think many mothers tell themselves that the daughters, the sons who don’t change, that they all come from somewhere else. But the truth, as I have been told it, is that we are all, every child the unicorn-horn puts into you, unicorns.”
“Who told you?” Fazenia’s voice was very quiet. Nobody in the bar had trouble hearing it.
Ursel hesitated, swallowed, and nodded. It was a fair question.
“I didn’t change,” she said, which was obvious to everyone. “I was born with the shining spot on my forehead, but my mother ignored it, because I was born a girl. When I was a young child, the nub developed, the way it did for some boys. My mother styled my hair to cover it.” She brushed her hair out of the way. “We pretended it was a place I had hit my head, or a strawberry mark. When the boys in the town started, you know, their voices changed and then, if they had the nub, they changed, my mother sent me to live with my aunt and uncle, who lived far from the water. She was keeping me safe, she said. I didn’t question it. I was a good child.”
“But I got the black bean, when I came back home. That’s what my village does, draws a black bean to see which girl goes down to the river. And I went, because how could I not? I was a child of the village, the same as anyone else. We hadn’t told anyone, not even my mother’s husband, what I was. And I went down to the river.”
Fazenia reached out, dropped her hand, and reached out again. Ursel didn’t pull back, so Fazenia put her hand over the barmaid’s.
The men were silent. The other tavern girls were silent. This story ended badly so many times, even when it ended well in the long run.
“The biggest unicorn I had ever seen came up to me. She — it was a mare, and those are so rare, you know — she touched her horn to my forehead, and it was…” Ursel’s voice broke. “I didn’t belong there. Too human,” she told me, and I could feel her horn pressing… pressing into the nube where my horn should be growing. Too much, too full, too many words.” Ursel looked up. “I have been looking for an explanation since that day. I had to many words. I was too full of humanity. Why?”
“My daughter,” Fazenia spoke softly, her voice like water over gravel. “She went down to the water. No horn, no nothing, but she’d been born from the unicorn stab.”
The whole bar flinched. Nobody said stab connected to unicorns. Nobody but those who’d felt the horn.
“She went down to the water, and this stallion, he… he savaged her. I wasn’t supposed to be there, you know, it’s the thing between the girl — the young woman and the river. The unicorns. But I hear her scream.
“So I ran down, what mother wouldn’t?” The dryness in her voice spoke of mothers who hadn’t, all the mothers who listened and bit their lip and did nothing while their daughters screamed. “I ran down, and there’s this giant stallion. standing over her, his horn red with her blood, and still shining, still looking pure, ridiculous, I remember thinking, how can he be pure, with her blood all over him? but he was still pure like the snow, white, even the black-red of her blood shining. And,” she pounded her fists on the table. “And he spoke to me. That creature, that monster, he spoke to me.
“‘Too human,’ it said.” She spat the words out. “‘Tainted. She tastes of the clear water where it meets the factory’s spew. It sickens me,’ he said. Sickens him, my beautiful daughter, bleeding out on his shore.” She slammed her fists into the table. “And his delicate stupid horsey taste-buds nearly killed my perfect daughter…” She looked up at Ursel. “And you’re telling me it’s because he made her? His kind made her, slammed their horn into me and put her in there, and, and, and that thing that the unicorns made, that perfect daughter,” she repeated with an angry sob, “that’s too much for them?”
“They don’t like making girls,” Ursel admitted very quietly. “I think. They don’t like talking, you know, and they do it so rarely. But something about the seed of theirs turning to a girl… we taste too much of humanity.”
“But,” an unwise barmaid offered, “wouldn’t we all, then? We’re all human. And yet, she said..”
Fazenia grimaced. “‘Where the river meets the factory water. Those bastards. They piss in our stream and call it pure and clean.”
“The factories?” one of the men asked, more cautiously than the barmaid.
“No.” Ursel touched her forehead. “The Unicorns. We’ll never be enough for them… because we made them.”
It wasn’t quite a sob she made, and not quite a whimper, but Fazenia made the noise for both of them, sob and wail and whimper in one long noise. Mother and foal and yet never kin, they sat together in the center of the bar with their tears and their scars.
This entry was posted on October 18, 2016, in Unicorn/Factory and tagged prompt: ladiesbingo, prompter: kelkyag. Leave a comment
This story has some dark themes – not just pollution, corruption, and the clash of industrialization & farming, but also the very real costs paid by the farming towns. It also encompasses, in some stories, rape and forced pregnancy, maiming, and murder.
Talking it to Death (LJ)
Duty after she’s gone to the river…
Chased/t
Unicorn Chase (LJ)
Unicorn-Chased (LJ)
Unicorn-Chaste (LJ)
Pure as… (LJ)
Making Harvest Wreathes (LJ)
Red Roses and White [No X post, Donor Perk]
The Grey Line (and on LJ)
Observed (no x-post, Donor Perk)
Productive (LJ)
The Governors (LJ)
Right and Wrong (LJ)
Cleaning House (LJ)
Observing (LJ)
Take Me (LJ) Depression & the unicorns
Far Weston (LJ) A new City
Unicorn Hair (LJ)
The Problem (LJ)
Unicorn Bride Rebellion, Part I (LJ)
Strange Unicorns
The Black Unicorns of Cardenborn (LJ)
The Unicorn’s Gift After The Black Unicorns
Change (LJ)
Strange (LJ)
Stroke the Unicorn (LJ)
Unicorn Strokes (LJ)
Unicorn Truths (LJ)
The Black Bean (LJ)
5 Things You’ll Never Meet, by cluudle
No Unicorn, by rix_scaedu
February World-Building Q9
February World-Building Q24
Three Weeks for Worldbuilding – The Governors in Unicorn/Factory (no xpost)
This entry was originally posted at http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/143643.html. You can comment here or there.
This entry was posted on July 13, 2016, in Unicorn/Factory and tagged landing page. Leave a comment
After Stroke the Unicorn and Unicorn Strokes, for the Finish It! Bingo
Blanket content warning for Unicorn/Factory: This setting involves unicorns using their horns for both violence and sexual violence, although none of that is directly described in this story.
Jakob took the woman to his home for the night. She deserved better than an anonymous inn bed, after the story she had given them, and, what was more, Jakob found he wanted the rest of the story.
His wife and second-oldest daughters put her to bed. They were not rich, but every home had some small corner that could be made up for guests. In the town, they whispered that the Administrators might come to visit. In the Villages, it was said that you never knew when a guest would turn out to be a unicorn in disguise.
She wore his wife’s second-best nightgown and was wrapped in a quilt Jakob’s mother had sewn for them. She seemed to fall asleep quickly, but Jakob himself lay staring at the ceiling for a very long time before dreams took him.
She ate breakfast with them the next morning, polite as a gentrywoman, appetite as small as her capacity for whisky had been large the night before. She helped Jakob’s wife Elin wash up after, and then, and only then, she asked Elin politely “May I?”
What Elin thought of this woman, Jakob might never know. She looked at this stranger, dressed in widow’s weeds and carrying such pain, and she knew what she’d wanted before Jakob did.
“Of course,” she said. There was a tone in her voice that Jakob had never heard, and it occurred to him that he was intruding on matters most often private to woman.
The woman tilted her head at Jakob. “Let us walk,” she offered, “down by the green.”
“As you wish.” She had gone to the river. She was a Village girl. What had changed in her that she carried herself so nobly? Or was it Jakob, that he wanted her to be noble, because of what she had done?
She said nothing until they were meandering the town green, sidestepping the sheep that grazed there. “You want to know what the unicorn’s answer was.”
“Lady, only if…” She cut him off with a hand.
“You were kind to me when I was being unkind. You brought me into your home when all you know of me is that a unicorn rejected me. For your kindness, I am going to repay you with harsh truths that are too much for me to bear alone. And yet, I can tell that you want me to do so.”
Jakob swallowed. “I want to know what the unicorn’s answer was,” he admitted.
“Unicorns are a mystery to men. That it was it is. They are a mystery to everyone, but the women walk to the river, and so the men think we know something they do not.”
Jakob nodded his politely, but forced the words out. “Women see the unicorns,” he offered, “and they… touch them.”
She raised an arch eyebrow at him. He thought she looked nearly amused. “Does touching someone tell you about them?”
Jakob coughed, thinking of a misspent youth. “Ah. No.”
“Indeed.” She leaned against a tree and looked pensive. “But… Sometimes, the unicorn will answer a question. Sometimes he will answer two. I asked two.”
She was leading him into the story, he knew, but he couldn’t bring himself to resent it. She had been wounded, he thought. She may be lucky to be alive. Few of those who were so wounded ever married, ever bore children.
He cleared his throat yet again. “You said you asked what you’d done wrong.”
“..I did.” She sighed. “And the unicorn told me a secret. But, you see, it’s a secret nobody wants to believe.”
Nobody, Jakob thought, meant no-one where she came from. He thought she might be challenging him, and then he thought of the days in the tavern and amended his opinion. She was challenging him.
“And the unicorn said?” he offered. He did not want to know. He did not want to hear. It was the only thing he could do, to hear.
She eyed him. “You will not want to believe.”
“Lady,” he answered, naked in sincerity and in terror, “I cannot do anything but believe, not after what you have survived.”
She bowed her head for a moment. Jakob thought, perhaps, she’d wanted him to refute.
“He said,” she whispered, so softly he had to step forward to hear him. “He said ‘sometimes the river needs the blood.’ He said,” she continued, while Jakob struggled not to rear back, “that they insisted on purity because then, then there was someone to bleed when the river needed blood. He said,” she was no longer whispering, but Jakob did not move away. “He said that he was sorry, but the unpure ones no longer came down to the river. He said,” and now she was shouting, sobbing, “he said I had done nothing wrong! And he would try to not kill me, but the river…”
Her voice broke. Jakob held her, not knowing if she wanting it, knowing only that he needed to do something. “…the river,” she whispered. “It demanded the blood. I’ve stroked a unicorn.” Her eyes went to Jakob’s. Even now he had to fight not to flinch away. He held her shoulders, feeling like he was holding so much more. “They made a bargain.” Her voice was cracking, growing weaker. “We only thought it was the one we made.”
This entry was posted on July 6, 2016, in Unicorn/Factory and tagged prompt: allbingo, prompter: kelkyag. Leave a comment
In Shandel’s village, the girls – the ones who were not yet old enough, the ones who had not been chosen – they spoke of going down to the river in nervous giggles, the way they would sometimes speak of a future husband, or a woman they thought particularly clever or pretty. The grandmothers, the old women, the ones that chose, spoke of it in slow tones, like an honor, or in brusque ones, like a chore. The women who had gone down and survived did not speak about it at all.
It was a surprise to many when the black bean came to Shandel at the harvest fair. She was quiet, so quiet some thought her simple. She was strange-looking, such that people would sometimes look at her mother sidelong, for while nobody questioned a first child who looked a bit strange, pointed ears or glowing foreheads, Shandel was her mother’s third child, though the first to live past infancy, and furthermore, her mother had never gotten the black bean in her dish. She had a gentle touch, and followed the village doctor around like a shadow. If she was not simple, perhaps she would be the next doctor. None of these things were normal in the one who would go to the river.
But the bean was passed by chance. Chance, even if the old ladies were very good at putting the bean where it needed to be. And because the village held true to that, they did not look very closely at the old ladies, who were as confused as the rest of the village. Only Shandel was not surprised, and those that noticed that assumed once more that she was a little simple, a little slow. Especially if they noticed her smile.
This entry was posted on October 28, 2015, in Unicorn/Factory. 2 Comments
Per kelkyag‘s request, this comes after The Grey Line (lj), Productive, The Governors (LJ), Right & Wrong, and Cleaning House.
Unicorn Factory has a landing page here on DW and here on LJ
They were moving the river.
Ansel stood, a hand on the unicorn foal nobody else could see, and watched them. They were shifting their water-catchers and moving in rock, lots and lots of rock.
“It’s all right,” Ansel assured the foal that was also his sister. “See? They’re going to clean the water.”
She headbutted his hip, using her jowl and nose to avoid poking him with her tiny-but-deadly horn. Ansel chuckled. “It’s going to be okay.” He pointed at the rock they were bringing in. “Someone decided to learn. And once they decide to learn, things begin moving.”
She made a noise somewhere between a whicker and a whinny. Ansel, in return, petted her mane. She didn’t speak, not the way humans did. But she knew more clearly than any of them what was good and right and what was wrong.
“It’ll be fine.” And because she believed him, Ansel found he, too, believed it.
This entry was posted on January 15, 2015, in Unicorn/Factory and tagged prompter: kelkyag. Leave a comment
After The Grey Line (lj), Productive, The Governors (LJ), and Right & Wrong
The Guilian story may contain references to “going down to the river” but no direct unicorn-on-human violence.
Santha had been sorting through Antheri’s papers for a week already, and, from the looks of her careful notes, she had at least two weeks to go. From the looks of things, even if Antheri had been completely right about everything, he had also been a) completely insane, and b) willing to do whatever it took to appease the monsters he believed the Governors to be, up to and including murder.
Guilian had not been idle while his new assistant – that was, Santha, and to the sewers with anyone who felt that was inappropriate – worked on Antheri’s paperwork. The Factory and the Town and thus the areas around the Factory and the Town had been under Antheri’s care for far too long; there were more tangles to straighten out than there were hours in Guilian’s days.
Today, he was staring at the output from the Factory, and working on a way to build in what should have been there from the beginning – some sort of filter on the waste. He had already worked out where the coriander everywhere was coming from, and, after a series of long and heated arguments, allowed cilantro plants to be set in pots around the perimeter of the town wall only. It would slow down the unicorn incursions without hurting either the unicorn-pregnant or the beasts (if they were indeed beasts) themselves.
But the coriander was not the only output, and the factory waste currently spewed directly into the river. Thus, the Administrator was standing in hip boots with the foreman of the plant, staring at the grey-black water.
“We need an engineer.”
“An engineer, sir?” The foreman was a steady man, but slow. “What for? We just need to get a bit of space here for a filter set-up.”
Guilian counted to ten silently. “And where are we going to get the space?”
The foreman looked at him as if he were the slow one. “I figured we’d just divert the river three feet that way.” He pointed away from the Factory. “We’ve already got the races in upstream, for power. We can just change their aim a bit, and drop rock here above the river level.”
This time, when Guilian counted to ten, it was to keep himself from sounding stupid again. “Brilliant. Get some workers on that, then.” One more problem solved. If he didn’t get any new problems by dusk, he’d actually be ahead.
This entry was posted on December 26, 2014, in Unicorn/Factory and tagged morepls, prompter: kelkyag. Leave a comment
I have updated the Unicorn/Factory Landing Page here: http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/143643.html
In honor of that, I am now taking 2 Unicorn/factory prompts.
This entry was posted on December 23, 2014, in Unicorn/Factory. Leave a comment
I asked for prompts regarding Variants here for The MicroPrompt Giraffe Call. This is written to Ysabet’s Prompt here.
It doesn’t properly have an ending, because I could not make it come to an end.
Content warning – suicidal/depressed thoughts and intentions.
She went down to the river on what her gran called a bad day, a grey-clouds-in-the-sun day. She made herself get dressed because she would have to answer questions if she walked down the path in her shift, and she smiled at the villagers she passed, because they knew, by now, that if she could not smile, that she might need to be stopped, to be coddled, to be chivied back to her room.
Smiling felt like pasting a bright paper flower on funeral greys, but she did it anyway. She had learned how to step through life without touching too much, how to slide through the crowd and not really be seen.
If her Gran had seen her, her Gran might have known. But her Gran had found solace in her own way, and, today at least, did not see.
Kayla was supposed to go down to the river; she had drawn the lot, and her family had four daughter still living, including her. But they had lost Lize to the river the year past, and Kayla, Kayla was bright and smiled like the sunlight, like flowers all over and your name-day dress, and Kayla loved Tobert, with eyes like the sky.
So she went down instead, Jiranne with eyes like a storm and a smile that was never real. She took the back path, moving as fast as she could make her plodding feet go, and she knelt in the mud, staying clear of the altar. You could see the altar from the town square, if you knew where you were looking. They had built it that way, to remind them all of the price.
The unicorn surged from the river like he lived there, like he had been born from its current. He glared at Jiranne, and huffed out air and water droplets.
The ones they didn’t like, they savaged. It would be slow – but it would pay the price whether they liked her or not. “Take me.” One thing she could do right, because even failing would do it. “I am the price for the river, the price for the air. Take me.” She had heard the words every year, every cousin and sister and friend. “Take me, as the price for your works.”
The horn glinted wickedly in the sunlight. The stallion dropped to its knees. Was it supposed to do that? Was it supposed to… “Take me,” she cried. “I am giving myself to you freely. Please…”
The stallion rested its head in her lap, its wicked horn just barely missing her. It whickered, softly, and because there was nothing else to do, she petted its mane.
“Take me?” she whispered. The stallion huffed breath at her in reply.
This entry was posted on June 9, 2014, in Unicorn/Factory and tagged giraffecall: micro. Leave a comment
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TV Interview: Tulsa (ABC/KTUL)
Watch : Good Day Tulsa
Air date, Live, May 28, 2015
W3 Sidecar
Q&A With Writer Mark Falkin“Words let people in, to interact and commune with the writer so as to create a singular work. Readers work right along with writers. There’s an elegance and profundity to that. Words matter.”
1. Why do words matter? Why do you write?
All stories come from words. The stories we hear from our parents as children are made up of words. Screenplays are made of words. Video game copy is made of words. While a picture may be worth one thousand, only with words can what is in that picture be truly and fully expressed. A book was the first, and is still, the ultimate interactive experience. Writers provide swiggly black lines on paper, and readers encode and synthesize those swiggles into meaning, then conjure entire worlds. No other art form simply supplies you data with which you, the reader, then create your own totally unique experience. Words let people in, to interact and commune with the writer so as to create a singular work. Readers work right along with writers. There’s an elegance and profundity to that. Words matter.
On why I write, I have to steal Bernard Malamud’s answer to that exact question: “I’d be too moved to say.” But to try to say: It’s a compulsion. Naively, I think maybe it’s an attempt to explain life to myself. I don’t get any real solid answers, but sometimes I feel maybe I’ve got it cornered, this explanation. And on those exceedingly rare occasions when I actually find I possess the hubris to cry out, gotcha!, it evaporates in a flash and I am left even more dumbfounded than before.
2. What are you working on right now?
A story pregnant with doom and overly concerned with stones. I say it’s a terror novel (not horror). The Marketing Dept. will declare it a (young adult) apocalyptic novel. But if you demand that your apocalypse contain killer disease, bacteria, viruses, virals, zombies, doomsday asteroids, nuclear holocaust of the mutually assured destruction kind, environmental catastrophe, tornadically-propelled sharks, or space aliens, you might not like it because there’s none of that.
3. What do you find most challenging about writing?
Sex scenes.
Seriously, though (sex scenes), knowing how to not say too much. Knowing how to say just the right amount.
4. What do you listen to while you write?
I almost always do listen to something. It depends on what I’m writing, but what I listen to remains static for the whole project. Drum ‘n bass house music. The sound of rain, hours and hours, months and months of rain. Bernard Hermann film scores for Hitchcock. A one-minute long film score track from a David Lynch short, looped over and over and over. That one’s grafted onto my DNA now.
5. What’s your writing process or routine like?
Early morning at the office or at home or at the home office until I get 1000-plus words in. I reread some of yesterday’s work, maybe tinker-edit a bit, and then start in. I don’t work from a formal outline. A rough outline emerges after I’ve started from the nebulous beginnings of circumstance, key characters and what-ifs. The impetus to begin to write a story is powerful and emotional, so I just go with it until something resembling clarity and structure arrives. Sometimes that takes a while.
About Mark Falkin
Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Mark Falkin graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas and then the University of Oklahoma College of Law. By day he is a literary agent and recovering music attorney. He is the author of Days of Grace which was optioned for a film, and nominated for a literary award, The Needle Award, at POD-dy Mouth blog, where the reviewer said, “This is literature at its best … Falkin could easily be likened to the aforementioned Lethem or to Augusten Burroughs or even J.D. Salinger.” Bookpeople, said “Here’s more proof that Austin is home to some of the best new writers around … Falkin’s novel is reminiscent of the writing style found in Lethem, Sedaris, Coupland, and Kerouac, with his sharp wit and journalistic style.” He hopes to set the “YA Dystopian” genre on its ear with his new novel, Contract City.
- See more at: http://w3sidecar.tumblr.com/post/114551582445/mark-falkin#sthash.mQwXCJQI.nTiZTMX5.dpuf
Guest Post: Three Guys One Book
When We Fell In Love
By Mark Falkin | on April 23, 2015
I am not the writer whose backstory includes always having my nose in a book. Most author interviews include a bit about how they were reading in the crib, by flashlight at night under covers, voracious, unstoppable, unflappable readers. They loved bookstores, the smell of a mass of book paper, and got off sniffing binding glue from the library air. They were reading Dubliners and The Idiot for fun when they were twelve. They’d go on to work in book stores, teach English or go into advertising.
Not me. I ran and jumped and climbed trees and played sports and played dry-wit class clown. And though I did get a degree in advertising (marrying art and business, you see), I ended up going to law school and practicing on my own for fifteen years. Intellectual property and entertainment law (marrying art and law, you see).
And I’ve still not read Dubliners or The Idiot.
Though I attended a fine school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I did not grow up in a bookish or otherwise intellectual household. My folks weren’t boors nor bores, not at all. They were supportive and involved parents in just about every way. They just weren’t prolific readers. Some, but not a lot of books on shelves. I’m fairly certain I never saw my dad even read a book. He had a Master’s Degree and said he was finished reading.
No matter the writer’s background, no matter whether or not the writer was raised on books or not, all who become writers get bit. The insect finds us, bites us, we turn a different color, and then we fall hard. An intoxicant, an ecstasy entered our blood stream and all we want to do is feel that feeling again. To feed it. Like a drug, any addiction, our brains scream for a fix and if we don’t get it we don’t feel so well. Ask my wife.
Though I could reach back to Madeleine L’ Engle; The Phantom Tollbooth; Old Yeller; Are You There God, It’s Me, Margret; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and proclaim that was when it started for me, I don’t think that’s true. I wasn’t yet bitten.
All punning aside, what bit me was Stephen King. His books were my gateway substance. He wasn’t assigned in school (though Dolores Claiborne should be mandatory reading in any Fem Lit class) and so it was a revelation to read just for the pleasure of it, tossing theme, symbolism and structure—all that academic fussiness—out the window and to simply hang on for dear life to find out what happens next. I am still a Constant Reader of King and I happen to think he’s the Dickens of our time. So there. The Shining is not only one of the best horror books ever written, it’s one of the best books on my shelf period.
Because of the King awakening, I started to appreciate school assigned fiction. Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies. Catcher in the Rye. To Kill a Mockingbird. The short story A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Hemingway made me see him and highly revered work in a different way. Then poetry (poetry!) started to dazzle. I’m looking at you, e.e. cummings. My AP English teacher, Ms. Irvine, read us one of her poems in class that had a line: spring is like a perhaps flower. This floored me, this word play that made so much sense though nonsensical on the surface, the playfulness of it (years later I'd write a poem cribbing this idea with the line winter is like a perhaps fist). That you could play . . . that this was about playing. That was big revelation for me. Even Hamlet resonated now—the intrigue, the sex and death! Books had become fun. Books had become entertaining. Books had become vital.
I started mainlining in college once I read Generation X by Douglas Coupland. That book spoke to me and made me actually say to myself out loud in my apartment bedroom while people were playing beer quarters loudly in the next room on a college night Thursday, “I want to write something like this. I think I can do this.” You see, usually I was in there bouncing coins and chugging suds with Depeche Mode’s Enjoy the Silence as background. But that night I was so engaged in Coupland’s novel that I found myself in a bubble of my own silence, enjoying it, because all I heard were the words and my heartbeat.
Soon, I was strung out on the Beats. On the Road, Dharma Bums, Howl. You know, the coolness, the blow-man-blow, the ebullient angst. These books taught me freedom.
David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest made me see how street vernacular and high art and erudition can go together and work. Well, maybe it was a little long. I’ve never laughed at footnotes before. DFW taught me to laugh out loud at arch filmic footnotes.
Stewart O’Nan’s oeuvre, especially the first I read, A Prayer for the Dying, changed the way I saw fiction as a reader and a writer. Similarly, Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone. These books were high Art, capital ‘L’ Literary yet so immersive and so impossible to put down. These books taught me the marriage of great story and elegantly pyrotechnic prose can be a lasting and profound one.
Now, in mid-life, I am the writer whose story includes always having my nose in a book. I love bookstores, the smell of book paper, get high on binding glue.
I’m going to go read Dubliners and The Idiot now. But, if I get bored, I’ll pick up Coupland or King and get bit once again.
Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Mark Falkin graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas and then the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
By day he is a literary agent and recovering music attorney. He is the author of, Days of Grace, which was optioned for a film, and nominated for a literary award, The Needle Award, at POD-dy Mouth blog, where the reviewer said, “This is literature at its best . . . Falkin could easily be likened to the aforementioned Lethem or to Augusten Burroughs or even J.D. Salinger.” Bookpeople, said “Here’s more proof that Austin is home to some of the best new writers around . . . Falkin’s novel is reminiscent of the writing style found in Lethem, Sedaris, Coupland, and Kerouac, with his sharp wit and journalistic style.” He hopes to set the “YA Dystopian” genre on its ear with his new novel, Contract City.
Visit his website at http://www.markfalkin.com.
Follow him on Twitter @MarkFalkin.
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Chris Pratt Double Header Thrills Countless Young Fans
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CHILE CONFIRMS 33 DEATHS FROM H1N1
SANTIAGO, July 11 (Bernama) -- Chile's Ministry of Health said Wednesday 33 people have died from the H1N1 Influenza A virus this year, with 12 deaths in recent weeks due to an outbreak in the country's northern Tarapaca region. However, Health Minister Jaime Manalich said the outbreak is under control despite the latest figures, Xinhua news agency reported. "Today it appears to be under control, I say this with extreme caution. In epidemiologic week number 27, we do not have serious new cases," Manalich said at a press conference. "We just have three patients with the flu in the intensive care unit of the hospital in Iquique town. Walk in consultations for the flu have fallen 25 percent from what we had before," Manalich said. The H1N1 outbreak in northern Chile coincided with the appearance of other seasonal flus during South America's winter season, alarming the general public and sparking a massive vaccination campaign. The average number of flu infections in the northern desert region has been much higher than the rest of the country where there is a national average of 25 annual cases against 160 cases in Tarapaca. --BERNAMA EE
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Liberty Sweeps BYU, Gardner-Webb, Old Dominion at Home-Opening Meet
October 27, 2018 Lynchburg, Va. RSS
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Liberty claimed three dual-meet victories with a fantastic showing at the All-American Celebration Meet, which wrapped up on Saturday.
The Lady Flames (7-0) defeated BYU 232-118, while beating Old Dominion 275-76 and downing Gardner-Webb 290-56.
This weekend's meet drew 1,286 total guests, including 653 on Friday and 633 on Saturday.
Liberty Event Winners
• 400 medley relay (Brittany Weiss (57.66), Gianni Pitto (1:03.59), Alicia Finnigan (55.85), Colleen Donlin (52.02)) – 3:49.12
• Fr. Gianni Pitto – 200 breaststroke (2:20.24)
• Sr. Alicia Finnigan – 200 butterfly (2:02.15)
• R-So. Mikayla Herich – 400 IM (4:25.50)
• 400 free relay (Payton Keiner (52.71), Emily Zimcosky (52.03), Brittany Weiss (51.50), Colleen Donlin (51.78)) – 3:28.02.
• Prior to Friday's first swimming event, Liberty honored its two swimming All-Americans (Brye Ravettine, 2012; Jess Reinhardt, 2014). Ravettine was Liberty's first All-American and first NCAA national competitor in program history, finishing in 13th place in the 50 freestyle at the 2012 NCAA Championships. Reinhardt posted the best NCAA finish to date in program history, placing 10th in the 100 fly at the 2014 NCAA Championships. Both Ravettine (22.19 – 50 free) and Reinhardt (51.72 – 100 fly) still hold program records.
• This is the first time that Liberty has hosted BYU in any sport in University history.
• Liberty is on a 15-meet winning streak in dual meets, dating back to the Gardner-Webb Tri Meet on Oct. 27, 2017. Liberty is 8-0 all-time at the Liberty Natatorium.
• Olivia Robinson set two new program records this weekend, the three-meter springboard (281.25) and platform (198.37).
• Liberty won nine individual events for the meet, including the team's first-ever diving victory (Olivia Robinson – Zone Qualifying three-meter score of 281.25 on Friday). The Lady Flames claimed all four relays on the weekend.
• Payton Keiner finished second in the 200 backstroke, but became the first swimmer to break 2:00 in the 200 back in a regular-season dual meet, in 1:59.88.
• Gianni Pitto earned her fourth 200 breaststroke win in as many tries as a collegiate swimmer.
• Defending CCSA Women's Swimmer of the Year Alicia Finnigan has won the 200 fly at each of Liberty's four standard dual meets this season.
• Pitto (100 breaststroke, 200 breaststroke), Finnigan (100 fly, 200 fly) and Mikayla Herich (200 IM, 400 IM) all won two events for Liberty this weekend.
Historically Speaking
• In addition to Robinson's record-setting platform diving, Lauren Chennault (187.13), Abigail Egolf Jensen (164.78) and Allison Van Milligan are now second through fourth in program history in platform diving.
• Liberty's 400 free relay of Keiner, Zimcosky, Weiss and Donlin is now ranked ninth in program history at 3:28.02.
• Egolf Jensen ranks second in program history as the result of her 258.15 in one-meter diving, while Allison Van Milligan's season-best 161.15 is 10th.
• Herich moved into 4th place on Liberty's all-time top 10 in the 400 IM (4:25.50) and fifth in 1000 freestyle (10:22.80).
• Pitto now ranks ninth in program history in the 200 breaststroke (2:20.24). Her 400 IM time of 4:28.89 from Saturday is seventh.
• Emma Hazel moved into ninth place in team history in the 400 IM at 4:34.39.
Liberty will next compete at Marshall, Nov. 9-10 at Marshall's Frederick A. Fitch Natatorium in Huntington, W.Va. The Lady Flames are 4-0 all-time against the Thundering Herd, defeating Marshall in back-to-back weeks last season.
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Sunrise service opens Spring 2020 semester
January 13, 2020 : By Jacob Couch/Liberty University News Service
Hands reached heavenward in a standing-room-only crowd in the Center for Music and the Worship Arts’ Concert Hall on Monday morning as Liberty University students blended their voices in praise to the Lord during an impromptu 7 a.m. sunrise service.
“This is a time for us to come together as God’s children to worship Him and make much of Him through singing,” said David Nasser, Senior Vice President for Spiritual Development.
The service consisted of seven songs led by Liberty’s Worship Collective. Nasser offered several moments for students to step to a microphone to pray before he prayed over the school’s student body.
“In the middle of a storm, we have to anchor down in your truths, God,” Nasser prayed. “You are bigger than the storms around us.”
Residential classes officially began today for the Spring 2020 semester. The first Convocation of the semester will be held on Wednesday.
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Caviar Poaching Kills Russia's 'Tsar Fish'
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By Heleen Van Geest
As glum Russian fishermen haul in their net, just two small sturgeon are splashing about among the daily catch.
The scene on the Volga River has become commonplace in modern Russia, where caviar poaching has decimated the species considered a national pride.
"In the old days, we would catch sturgeon each weighing 40 to 50 kg, or 60 kg (132 lb)," sighed Pavel Syzranov, the head of the once thriving Lenin fishery in southern Russia.
"Now there are no sturgeon left of that size," he said after the two immature fish, known as sterlets, were released back into the Volga.
The relentless hunt for the so-called "Czar fish" and its precious eggs has acquired such huge proportions in post-Soviet Russia that the prehistoric creature, which outlived the dinosaurs, has itself now been pushed to the edge of extinction.
Russia's wild capitalism and murky reforms of the 1990s dealt a severe blow to fisheries like the one in Zelenga, a tiny, once-flourishing town in the Volga Delta, where sturgeon come to spawn after maturing in the Caspian Sea.
Two hours by boat from the regional capital Astrakhan, dust swirls in the hot wind, and streets dotted mainly with decrepit wood huts look almost deserted. A drunken man sleeps right by the side of a potholed road.
Poverty and rampant unemployment push many people to try their luck at poaching. Some of their fellow-villagers still cannot believe it has taken the sturgeon so little time to disappear. More....
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Nordgold Increases Production at Suzdal Mine with Launch of HiTeCC (Hot Leach) Technology
HiTeCC (High Temperature Caustic Conditioning or Hot Leaching) is an innovative Outotec technology, which enables to improve recovery of preg robbed gold from double refractory ores
Suzdal is the second mine to use this technology worldwide and will be processing of both historical and future CIL tailings
HiTeCC is expected to increase Suzdal production output by 9 -14 koz of gold doré per year for 10 years, or 90 -140 koz over the period
HiTeCC life-of-mine AISC is expected to be approximately US$420 per ounce
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 8 June 2016 - Nord Gold N.V. ("Nordgold" or the "Company", LSE: NORD), the internationally diversified low-cost gold producer, is pleased to announce that it has launched an innovative Outotec HiTECC (Hot Leach) process at its Suzdal mine in Kazakhstan to recover gold from both historical and CIL future tailings.
Suzdal is the second mine worldwide to launch a commercial Outotec HiTeCC circuit. The installation of the innovative HiTeCC highlights the strength of Suzdal’s management team under Grigorii Iakovenko, General Director and deep technical expertise of Nordgold’s international processing team under Philip Engelbrecht, Director of Metallurgy. The first commercial Hot Leaching technology was constructed in 2009 at the Crocodile Gold Corp's Fosterville BIOX® operation near Bendigo, Australia.
Suzdal produced 75.3 koz of gold in 2015. The HiTeCC circuit will produce an additional 9 -14 koz of gold doré per year for 10 years, a total of approximately 90 - 140 koz, generating additional profits. HiTeCC life-of-mine AISC is expected to be approximately US$420 per ounce. Suzdal AISC decreased to US$476/oz in Q1 2016 from US$575/oz in Q4 2015 and US$828/oz in Q1 2015.
Nikolai Zelenski, CEO of Nordgold, said: “The launch of HiTeCC is an important technical milestone for Nordgold, highlights our strategy of pursuing operational excellence. Suzdal is a long-time pioneer in the implementation of the best and most innovative operating solutions and we are proud the mine becomes only the second in the world to launch this technology which will have very real financial benefits for the company, both extending the life of mine as well as increasing production. The launch of the new gold recovery circuit using an innovative HiTeCC technology is yet another confirmation of Suzdal's leadership as a high-technology gold producer in CIS.”
Construction of the new facility started in July 2015, and it will reach full operating capacity by the end of June 2016. HiTeCC will allow Suzdal to process more than 130 thousand tonnes of historical and future CIL tailings per year. Suzdal currently has 637 thousand tonnes of tailings at 7.17 g/t available for retreatment. Test results indicate the possible recovery rate of 40% to 70%.
Nordgold invested US$5.8 million in construction of the state-of-the-art 1,800 sqm HiTeCC facility. The Company expects to fully pay back this investment in less than 20 months (assuming gold price of US$1,200/oz and 350 tenge/US$ exchange rate).
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Seeking information on James McComb/e who married Maria Hudson and Lived in Tandragee in Co Armagh
I live in Adelaide in Australia and am seeking information on my Irish relatives James McComb/e (surname has been spelt as McComb and McCombe) born around 1815 in Co Armagh who married Maria Hudson (born around 1814 in Co Armagh) and who had (from my research so far) 3 children starting with Mary Jane born 28 April 1837 in Tandragee, Joseph born 24 October 1839 in Tandragee and John born 21 March 1843 also in Tandragee - Maria McComb/e died on 3 August 1870 in either Tandragee or Banbridge and it would appear that James died in March 1894 in Banbridge - at least 2 of James and Maria's children (Joseph and Mary Jane) came to live here in Adelaide in South Australia (Joseph in 1865 and Mary Jane possibly a few years earlier) where each married and started their own families. What I am really interested in learning more about (if possible) is whether James and Maria and their children travelled between Ireland and Scotland/England between 1839 when Joseph was born and late 1864 when Joseph came by ship from the UK to Australia arriving early in 1865. I am particularly interested in finding out more about Joseph because he married a Scottish lady named Annie Campbell here in Australia in 1869 but all my genealogy research cannot establish when Annie came to Australia and any of her heritage from the UK and/or Ireland - the story goes she was a titled lady who lived in a castle somewhere slightly north west of Glasgow (possibly around Inveraray where a Clan Campbell castle is located) and eloped with Joseph McComb/e and they came to Australia (possibly not together) as her parents would not support her marrying someone like Joseph who was apparently a footman or stablehand for the family (she was apparently disowned by her parents after coming to Australia). This eloping information was told to me by my now 89 year old mother who learnt it from her mother who was a daughter of Joseph and Annie McComb/e - apparently they even had a grainy black and white photo of the castle where Annie lived which was lost over time. I have a family tree on the Ancestry website and can give my name if anyone reading this might be a distant relative or knows more about the McComb/e family of Tandragee.
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Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Draw the Line - Time for the US to Embrace Open Source Emergency and Disaster Response
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Hyperledger Hits 100 Member Milestone
Press Release | Hyperledger Project | November 30, 2016
Hyperledger Project, a collaborative cross-industry effort created to advance blockchain technology, announced today that it has hit a major milestone of 100 active members. Six new organizations have joined the project to help create an open standard for distributed ledgers for a new generation of transactional applications. Hyperledger aims to enable organizations to build robust, industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support their individual business transactions by creating an enterprise grade, open source distributed ledger framework and code base...
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About Tjirrkarli
Tjirrkarli is located in the “rirra” (plateau of ironstone pebbles) country, northwest of Warburton and is named after a native yam (Tjirrkarli). It lies between Lake Breaden and Lake Gillen. In the 1960’s, traditional owners in Irrunytju and Tollu worked for rations and camped close to what is now Tjirrkarli to ensure no sites were damaged.
In the 1970s-1980s, a growing number of traditional owners who had lived most if not all of their lives in the Goldfields region (their parents having left the Tjirrkarli region as early as the 1930-40’s and gone to Mount Margaret Mission) began to slowly return. Some traditional owners who had moved to Warburton left to set up an outstation near Mt Samuel called Mangi, not far from Tjirrkarli. An accidental death and poor quality water from the Mangi bore precipitated a move further west to Tjirrkarli. After Shell Oil constructed a water bore in the community and the community gained official status (was registered) even more traditional owners moved back, some from as far away as Cosmo Newberry, Wiluna and Kalgoorlie.
Shell Oil came to the community in the 1980’s to search for oil and construct an extensive network of seismic lines (some of which are now used as main access roads to the community or as hunting tracks). One of the first jobs of the Ngaanyatjarra Council was to negotiate an agreement with Shell Oil to ensure that no sacred sites or sites of significance were disturbed or damaged during the exploration work in the Tjirrkarli area. Resources were provided by the company to allow a scouting team of traditional owners and anthropologists to work with the company surveyors as they cleared and flagged proposed seismic lines.
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Man with a plan: Emil Kakkis aims to lure big-market drugs toward rare diseases
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Emil Kakkis is making another run at rare diseases.
The president and CEO of Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. and former chief medical officer at BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. is laying out a new strategy Tuesday to get more drugs into children with rare diseases. Under the banner of the EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases, which Kakkis founded and has largely bankrolled, he is proposing that companies with already-approved, big-market drugs be rewarded with a two-month extension of that drug’s patent life if it wins a new Food and Drug Administration-approved label in an orphan disease.
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Martin Powell-Davies - teacher trade unionist and socialist
Sharing views, information and resources for school staff, trade unionists and education campaigners
A Teacher as an MP on a Teacher's Salary
As reported in the local press, I have put my name forward to stand as a parliamentary candidate for the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) in the Lewisham West and Penge constituency in May. Like many other TUSC candidates, I would be standing as "A Workers' MP on a Worker's Wage".
I pledge that, if elected as MP, I would continue to take only my existing classroom teacher's take-home pay, with any additional essential expense claims fully open to public scrutiny. I would donate the considerable additional salary that a London MP is entitled to towards trade union and community campaigns and to assist the work of TUSC and the Socialist Party.
In doing so, I am following in the traditions of workers' representatives like Joe Higgins and other Socialist TDs sitting in the Irish Dail and Dave Nellist, former Labour MP from 1983-1992 and now National Chair of TUSC. (See: "Dave Nellist: The Coventry MP who gave away half his pay" via http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-23289962).
I, alongside other TUSC candidates taking this pledge, won't be doing so out of 'charity' but as an essential part of the platform of any genuine people's representative. Firstly, to make crystal clear that we are different from the distrusted career politicians that so often represent the establishment parties. Secondly, to make sure that we don't lose touch with the pressures and problems facing our constituents struggling at the sharp end of the 'austerity' policies peddled by those same self-seeking MPs.
Contrast Dave Nellist's stand as a Labour MP with the career of the New Labour MP that he first shared a Westminster office with - Tony Blair. The former PM has dismissed press claims that his personal fortune could be as much as £100 million, claiming that he is 'only' worth £10 million! Whatever the actual figure, it is a sum that would shock those pioneers like Keir Hardie who first fought for Labour Representation in Parliament. It is a sum that also signifies how New Labour has abandoned its socialist and trade union roots, and why TUSC must make its stand for genuine workers' representation in Parliament and in local Councils this May.
From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10173107/MPs-pay-rise-how-politicians-pay-has-risen-quicker-than-the-workers.html
Contrast the public support for Dublin TD Joe Higgins, dubbed as "the best fighter that money can't buy", with the opinion poll ratings of most MPs, especially in the wake of their various expense scandals.
Contrast the real-terms pay cuts that most of us have endured with the 10% increase being awarded to MPs, bringing their basic pay to £74,000 after the General Election. I pledge that any salary increase that I accept would only be the same as I would have received as a classroom teacher.
Of course, even that 10% increase is not enough for Tories like Mark Simmonds MP who is standing down next year claiming that the salary and expenses rules have made him have to choose between his family and his parliamentary career! Of course, I and my partner, Linda, would still need to make sure we could pay our bills and support our kids - but by facing the same pressures facing other local families, not through parliamentary privileges.
Read more via: http://www.socialistparty.org.uk
Finally, although our incomes as a schoolteacher and a shopworker might be small compared to, say, the income of a Lewisham household where both partners were MPs, many constituents will be struggling on less.
The Office for Budget Responsibility have revealed that Osborne's plans for a supposed 'balanced budget' by 2020 depend on household debt as a share of household income rising by almost £1 trillion - as they attempt to shift the debt off the government books and onto the individual in the form of credit card debt, pay-day loan debt, store cards and mortgages.
That's why, as part of the TUSC platform for the May General Election, I'll be campaigning for the demand, supported by the TUC nationally, for a £10 an hour minimum wage.
I'll also be calling for an end to the failing austerity policies supported by all the main parties and for investment in permanent jobs to replace the scandal of 'zero-hour contracts' and supposed 'self-employment' that is now being used to throw out many hundreds of City Link employees without even a redundancy payment this Christmas.
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Sedgehill - pressure having an effect - no IEB yet
A letter just posted on the Sedgehill School website confirms that the school's existing Headteacher, Ken Mackenzie, and the elected Governing Body will still be in place on the first day of the January term after all!
That's because, as the letter explains, the Secretary of State, Nicky Morgan, hasn't yet made a decision on Lewisham Council's application for an IEB and won't be considering this until the beginning of next term.
The battle to Save Sedgehill is far from over but pressure is clearly having an effect - and helping to make sure that things aren't going quite to the Council's plan. In particular, this delay must raise doubts as to whether their plan to impose management from the Bethnal Green Academy is still viable. I suspect a mass campaign of opposition isn't what BGA signed up for when they met with Lewisham Council!
Well done to everyone who has helped build the campaign to Stop Academies in Lewisham and to Save Sedgehill over the last few weeks ... and to you all, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
http://www.sedgehill-lewisham.co.uk/uploads/document/2_0_letter-to-parents-23-12-14.pdf
Labels: Academies, Lewisham, Sedgehill.
Lewisham Labour, who is failing who over Sedgehill ?
As schools across the country break-up for the Christmas holidays, students at Sedgehill School are going home without even knowing who their Headteacher will be when they return in the New Year.
Ignoring the overwhelming opposition of staff, students and parents, the Labour Group voted on Tuesday evening to support the Director of Education sending an application to the DfE to impose an 'Interim Executive Board' at Sedgehill.
Although there is as yet no official response from the DfE and the Secretary of State, Lewisham Council has already acted on the assumption that they will support their IEB application. The school has been told that a new Headteacher will be starting in the New Year, brought in from Bethnal Green Academy. The names of the individuals intended to sit on this IEB are, however, still unknown - as is the timescale for Nicky Morgan to announce her decision on the IEB.
Instead of providing stability and support for the children whose interests they claim to have at heart, Lewisham Council have provided upset and uncertainty. Instead of praising the progress and achievements of Sedgehill's young people, they have unfairly criticised the School.
I also believe that the Council's criticisms have been based on false assumptions that reveal a fundamental lack of understanding of the link between poverty, class and educational achievement.
On the one hand, they have tried to portray the opposition to their plans as coming from just a small unrepresentative group of 'privileged' parents and students. As they will find to their cost, they have misunderstood that this opposition comes from right across the school community. As the meeting at Sedgehill last week showed, this opposition is particularly strong amongst students - and their parents - who have previously been labelled 'failures' by Academies and who have come to Sedgehill to find a community that will value and support them (See: http://electmartin1.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/parents-and-students-speak-up-for.html ).
A group of 15 and 16 year-old Sedgehill students that met with representatives of the Council on Monday have written to complain about the "incredibly condescending manner" in which they felt they were spoken to and how it was "suggested that we were unrepresentative of the student body at Sedgehill due to our backgrounds and the support that we would have received at home". They add that "we each found this incredibly disrespectful as assumptions were made, due to the fact that we were confident, articulate and able to string more than a few sentences together".
In an article on the News Shopper website leading on the proposed strike action by NUT members, http://bit.ly/1wTofQA, and beneath some comments of my own, Mayor of Lewisham Sir Steve Bullock makes the questionable claim that "Last year more than a whole class of students who had entered the school in year 7 at a level where we might reasonably expect them to go on to achieve five good GCSE passes including English and Maths, failed to make that grade".
First of all, as explained elsewhere on this blog, the Council are basing conclusions on one set of GCSE results, taken from a year where even the DfE itself admits that the changes to exam structures mean that meaningful comparisons and conclusions cannot be made. (See: http://electmartin1.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/lies-statistics-and-future-of-sedgehill.html).
Secondly, they are presumably trying to make predictions based on Key Stage 2 data and progress targets whose validity is increasingly being questioned. Even more questions are being asked now that the Guardian has reported on how some primary schools, including in Lewisham, are being investigated over how they have administered those Key Stage 2 tests. ( http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/dec/16/mark-steel-academies-sponsors-ofsted-dfe-local-authority ).
Lewisham, however, is still using Year 5 'banding tests' for school admissions, so has its own data showing the comparative intake across Lewisham schools. It shows that Sedgehill has the least 'comprehensive' intake of all. Do most Labour Councillors not think that this has a significant impact on GCSE results ?
Of course, if Sedgehill really was such a terrible school letting down its 'disadvantaged' pupils, then the Mayor would not be confronting such widespread opposition. However, I, like many parents, don't believe that the facts match the Council's claims. Another Sedgehill parent has produced an analysis on his blog (http://uk-youthviolence.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/abuse-of-statutory-power-lewisham.html) which includes the following comparison between Sedgehill and other comparator schools:
Again, it shows that Sedgehill's performance is broadly in line with what might be expected - unless, of course, Councillors want to ignore the well-established link between poverty and GCSE outcomes.
As a socialist, I would be the last person to write-off working-class children as 'failures' that can't achieve academic success. The Tories who want to reintroduce grammar schools are those that draw that conclusion. However, like anyone who has any understanding of education, I know how poverty, poor housing, lack of access to books and the internet, long working hours and other social and economic pressures all impact on working-class children from an early age. In the Labour Party that I once was a member of, those factors were usually understood. So was the idea that, in order to change lives for the better, you had to tackle inequality. It seems that, under New Labour, that's all been forgotten.
Read more on this via http://goo.gl/5zMdS1
No, New Labour education policy, as with so many parties internationally that have abandoned their trade union roots, is now firmly in the camp of the neo-liberal 'GERM', the 'Global Education Reform Movement'. The GERM wants the public to blame teachers and schools instead of blaming the politicians who are really responsible for inequality and all that it means for educational outcomes. Scandalously, this 'blame-and-shame' agenda is being pursued as a means to open up schools to privatisation - so that the big business interests that are responsible for so much of that inequality can then make profits out of children's education.
Lewisham Labour's Councillor Paul Maslin stated on the ITV News coverage of the Sedgehill story that whether schools became academies or not was "immaterial" to him. I disagree. As the NUT's 'Manifesto for Our Children's Education' rightly explains "academies and free schools are based on the idea that a free market produces the best results". It doesn't. That's why the NUT Manifesto calls for the forced academies programme to be stopped immediately. It also calls for an end to child poverty explaining that "whether children are ready and able to learn depends on a wide range of factors, may of which are outside teachers' control. Unless child poverty is addressed, millions will never achieve their full potential". On that, I fully agree.
The NUT as a Union does not back any particular political party (nor, for that matter, does the Save Sedgehill campaign). However, TUSC, the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, does stand in support of what the NUT is arguing and has endorsed the NUT's Manifesto. Instead of arguing that whether schools are academies or not is 'immaterial', I hope to stand for TUSC in the General Election in Lewisham West and Penge arguing that all academies should be returned to the control of democratically-run local authorities (for more on TUSC's policies, see: http://www.tusc.org.uk/policy).
Finally, I also want to stand to expose those who claim to be against 'disadvantage' at the same time as they vote through cut after cut to living standards and services, cuts which are widening disadvantage and inequality ever further. That, of course, includes Lewisham's Labour Council who are proposing £40million cuts this year, including cuts to children's centres and youth service budgets that will directly affect young people in the borough. Nationally, Ed Balls has made clear that a future New Labour Government will stick essentially to the same austerity policies that we have seen under the Tories and Liberals, so those cuts will continue.
That's why as a teacher, trade unionist and socialist, I want to offer a fighting alternative for local voters who are sick of politicians who just offer more of the same. I believe that TUSC, co-founded by the late Bob Crow, bringing together fighting trade unionists, socialists and campaigners in a coalition to fight in over a 100 seats in the 2015 General Election, can help provide that alternative this May.
Labels: Academies, Lewisham West and Penge, TUSC
Academy Strike Ballot: 98% YES for strike action
Over the last fortnight, Lewisham NUT members in five schools threatened with being turned into an Academy have been voting in an indicative ballot to judge the support for strike action to oppose any such change of employer.
The results of the secret ballot show overwhelming backing for taking a program of 'discontinuous' strike action in each of the five schools:
Bonus Pastor Catholic College: YES 14 NO 0
Prendergast Hilly Fields College: YES 23 NO 1
Prendergast Ladywell Fields College: YES 24 NO 0
Prendergast Vale College: YES 21 NO 0
Sedgehill School: YES 40 NO 1
Overall result across all five schools:
YES 98.4%, NO 1.6%
on a turnout of 73%.
As was explained in the covering letter sent to NUT members, "if the outcome of the ballot is successful and the dispute remains unresolved (i.e. we are not given a guarantee that the school will not be converting to an Academy), a formal ballot of members may then be necessary early in the New Year".
None of the schools have responded to the NUT with the assurances that we were seeking that there will not be a change of employer:
At Sedgehill, Lewisham Council have gone ahead in the teeth of overwhelming public opposition to submit an application for an IEB - a step towards forced academisation of the school which has already seen the existing Headteacher announce his departure.
The Governing Board of the Leathersellers' Federation ( for the three Prendergast Schools) have set up a Working Party to report on a possible Academy conversion. This is due to report back in the New Year.
Bonus Pastor's Principal has written back to the NUT confirming that she has "submitted our interest to convert to an academy within the Catholic Diocese of Southwark"
Given the clear danger of a rapid move to Academy status in some or all of these Lewisham schools - and the clear backing for strike action shown in all five ballots - then Lewisham NUT will be immediately requesting that the National Union proceeds to issue formal ballots for strike action as soon as possible in the New Year.
The NUT is liaising with other teaching and support staff unions with the aim of being prepared to take strike action which is not only co-ordinated if necessary across all five schools but also across school staff unions too.
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IEB imposed at Sedgehill - Time to take a stand in the General Election
In response to the news that the Council has ignored overwhelming opposition and gone ahead with its application for an IEB at Sedgehill School, Martin Powell-Davies, Lewisham NUT secretary, Sedgehill School parent and one of the driving forces behind the Stop Academies in Lewisham (SAiL) campaign has announced his intention to stand in next year's General Election.
Teachers' leader and Sedgehill parent to mount General Election challenge in Lewisham West and Penge seat.
Friday 12th December saw 400 students, parents, teachers and members of the community protest at Lewisham Town Hall against the threats to Sedgehill School, Bellingham. Through petitions, emails and letters, the Sedgehill School community answered the distortions being put out by the Council and explained why the IEB would damage education for Sedgehill students.
Disgracefully, it has now been confirmed that the Director of Education has gone ahead with submitting an application to the Secretary of State for the Interim Executive Board.
In response to this news, Martin said:
"Anyone who knows Sedgehill, knows it is not a failing school. As a parent of four children who have been so well-supported by Sedgehill staff, I am angered that a Labour Council should risk children’s education by imposing their plans against the wishes of the whole school community”.
“ Their unjustified actions could become the first step in the complete break-up of local authority schooling across Lewisham – just as we have seen take place across Bromley. It’s part of a wider agenda to cut Council services at the expense of our communities. It’s an agenda that has to be challenged”.
“I am not going to stand by and see the pro-privatisation policies that now dominate the New Labour machine ruining education. Voters should not be left to choose only between different pro-Academy, pro-Austerity politicians who differ only on the details of the cuts they plan to make. That is why I see no alternative but to put my name forward to the local Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition steering committee and mount a challenge to those parties in May's General Election."
"Today’s IEB submission confirms, once again, how little there is to choose between the main parties. They all offer a diet of cuts, austerity and privatisation. Yet, we saw with the Lewisham Hospital campaign and now with SAiL that there is mounting opposition to these damaging policies. Now we need candidates that will speak out and lead campaigns against the attacks on education, health and all our public services. I think that I can provide that voice in the Lewisham West and Penge constituency in May's election."
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) was set up in 2010, co-founded by the late RMT union leader Bob Crow, to provide a clear left-wing, trade-union based alternative to the main parties’ policies of public sector cuts, privatisation, poverty and environmental degradation. TUSC calls on trade unions to break from Labour and to launch independent political representation for working people. More information can be found at www.tusc.org.uk, including this video appeal from Dave Nellist, TUSC National Chair, formerly a Labour MP from 1983 to1992: http://youtu.be/H0mq1l_PHq8
In the 2015 General Election, TUSC will be standing candidates in over a hundred constituencies across England and Wales. Our candidates won’t be professional politicians but leading trade unionists and community campaigners, just like Martin.
Please get in touch if you want to help the campaign.
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Lies, statistics and the future of Sedgehill
Protest shows the depth of support for Sedgehill
Friday evening's tremendous Lobby of Lewisham Town Hall by over three hundred students, parents and staff gave a clear answer to the lie that Sedgehill School is somehow 'failing' its pupils.
No 'failing' school would achieve that level of backing from its community, nor be able to produce the confident, talented and well-disciplined young people that were so visible at the Lobby - see, for example, http://youtu.be/x9SXveQxlhY and http://bit.ly/1DCUObL
The protest received widespread press coverage on both BBC and ITV local news. Regrettably however, rather than accepting that Lewisham Council had made a mistake, Councillor Maslin instead unjustly attacked the school in his televised comments. He claimed on the ITV London News that "we have to act on the basis of the achievement of the school which is poor and has got worse". So what are the facts?
Some Questions for Lewisham Council
Which are the only two Lewisham secondary schools to have shown a continual increase in GCSE 5A*CEM results from 2010 to 2013?
How many Lewisham secondary schools suffered a drop in their 2014 GCSE results?
Nationally, which type of school showed both the lowest overall GCSE 5A*-CEM results and the biggest drop overall between 2013 and 2014?
Can all schools be "above average"?
Which was the only Lewisham secondary school to show an improved result for A*-C grades at A level in 2014?
Cllr.Maslin should have a look again at the figures on his own Council website, produced for October's CYP Select Committee. (http://councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=134&MId=3431&Ver=4 ).
The graph I have produced isn't particularly clear, inevitably given the fact that clear trends can't be judged on a single year's results. So, let me explain.
Some schools might indeed appear to be 'getting worse' but let me ask a question to Lewisham's Labour councillors: "Which are the only two Lewisham secondary schools to have shown a continual increase in GCSE 5A*CEM results from 2010 to 2013?" The answer: Sedgehill and Sydenham schools - and no others!
Regrettably, it seems that the Council is using solely this year's 2014 GCSE results as its excuse to intervene in such a damaging way. If so, then let's ask another question: "How many Lewisham secondary schools suffered a drop in the 2014 GCSE results?" The answer: 8 out of 13 schools, including all three academies, saw a fall in results, with some of its neighbouring schools suffering bigger falls that Sedgehill suffered. Why not condemn these schools as being 'poor and getting worse' ?
Of course, to be fair on all these schools - rather than to be as blatantly unfair as Lewisham Council - the 2014 drop in results was entirely expected. As the Times reported back in August,
"the qualifications watchdog is also writing to schools to prepare them for results that could be much worse than last year because of reforms to the examination system"
Lewisham Council's CYP Select Committee, in excusing the Authority-wide fall in results, explained itself that "there was much volatility in the system this year and this did impact on many of our secondary schools". The DfE, in its National Statistics release on the 2014 results also made clear that "there are a wide range of changes to the calculation of performance measures in 2013/14. These mean it is not possible to compare 2013/14 with previous years". ( https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/366556/SFR41_2014_provisional_GCSE_and_equivalents.pdf ).
However, if Lewisham Council are so determined to use the 2014 results as a stick to unfairly drive through their academisation proposals, they had better also look at another conclusion from the National Statistics release. Here's my next question for the Councillors: "Nationally, which type of school showed both the lowest overall GCSE 5A*-CEM results and the biggest drop overall between 2013 and 2014?" The answer: sponsored academies!
Regrettably, Lewisham Council don't seem to be listening. Instead, other statistics are being unfairly quoted as well. The Mayor has responded to some parents to say that "the school continues to be under-subscribed and exam results remain significantly below average".
The school is only 'under-subscribed' because the Council insists on maintaining an admissions number for Sedgehill of over 300, far in excess of the actual school population. If what is being intimated is that the school is 'unpopular' with parents, then here are the facts contained in the statement produced by Sedgehill School on Friday: "Our sixth form has grown from 120 to 400 in the last four years while our year 7 intake has increased from 160 to 250 in the same time and is due to increase again this coming September".
It's worth noting, as the Council seem to be studiously ignoring it, that the school's A-level results continue to go from strength to strength. So, once again looking at the Council's own website, here's a last question for the Councillors: "Which was the only Lewisham secondary school to show an improved result for A*-C grades at A level in 2014?" The answer is plain to see - if your eyes aren't closed by pre-determined academisation plans:
Of course, if the Council maintains its outrageous attempts to trash this well-supported school, the rising roll numbers will instead go into reverse, particularly in terms of higher-ability Band 1 pupils. Sedgehill already has a greater proportion of lower-ability Band 3 pupils than perhaps any other school. That, of course, is why its results will inevitably be "below-average". If I need to ask the question of the Councillors "Can all schools be above average?" then we really are in difficulties! The answer can be given to you by the maths students at Sedgehill, I am sure.
Sedgehill has the least 'comprehensive' intake of any Lewisham secondary school.
'Band 3' pupils that are unable to obtain a place at other schools are accepted at Sedgehill School.
This is a key factor for any school's results.
In all this talk of 'failing schools', it has to be remembered that the main factor determining overall exam outcomes remains the nature of the pupil intake to a school. Governments demand ever-increasing results while their austerity policies produce ever-worsening poverty and social problems that will inevitably impact on educational outcomes too. Too many academies stand accused of driving away pupils that risk reducing their overall exam scores (as parents whose children have moved to Sedgehill from Academies are prepared to testify). In contrast, Sedgehill has a proud record of supporting its whole school community.
IEB places children's education at risk
Truly, it seems that there are 'lies, damned lies and statistics'. Worse, these distortions, aimed at undermining the growing opposition to the plan to impose an Interim Executive Board, put the education of many young people in danger.
The IEB and the likely academisation that might well follow are no answer to the challenges facing Sedgehill School. As the Governors have stated as part of their response to the Council strongly opposing the proposed IEB:
The model of intervention is designed for a school in crisis – we are not: "Sedgehill is a school that was rated good for leadership and governance in October 2013 and has a fully committed and active Governing Body. It has acknowledged that it needs to accelerate its journey of improvement but is not a school in difficulty in need of a radical, deeply disruptive intervention. We are confident that our Year 11 students are on track to achieve 65% A*-CEM in their 2015 GCSEs – the reason the LA was not assured of this is that they visited on the third day of the new academic year" ( Let me add that the LA team apparently complained that there wasn't enough evidence of homework in pupils' books - yes, on the third day of a new school year !! )
Its lack of representation risks excluding our active and engaged stakeholders from the governance of the school: "A specific feature of this model is that it is small and focused on a limited range of functions and does not aim in its membership to reflect the constituencies of our school community".
The IEB will not be independent and able to represent the best interests of Sedgehill: "The IEB is described as being responsible for appointing an Executive Head Teacher and yet the LA is naming their preferred choice as the current Principal at Bethnal Green Academy. This would seem to be pre-empting any consideration that the IEB may make".
The IEB is only intended as a short term measure but the complexity of the financing of the school’s buildings and services means that it is likely to be in place for an extended period. "The IEB is expected to consider academy status for the school. In addition to the contractual issues, feedback from staff and parents in response to our consideration of an IEB has indicated a considerable opposition would be likely to exist to proposals on academy status. Our judgement is that there is a risk that this governance model will be in place for a considerable amount of time during which the school’s constituencies will lose organisational memory and the divisions caused by such exclusion from governance will dismantle a united school and community".
The structure of the IEB will not offer the necessary capacity to fulfil all of the essential functions necessary for good governance.
The removal of staff and parents from governance weakens the school
The IEB would break what we have been mending "We know that we need to demonstrate that we are moving at a faster pace towards delivering outstanding teaching and learning to support our students’ achievement ... The Governing Body strongly urges you not to agree to the establishment of an IEB at Sedgehill School but let us be judged on what we achieve with our Year 11 students and in other years thereafter".
Keep up the Pressure on the Council
Friday's protest and the ongoing press coverage, alongside the mountain of emails and letters being sent to councillors, MPs and the local press are sending a clear message to Lewisham Council. Now that pressure must be kept up by continuing emails and letters to demand that:
a) the Council withdraws its threat to impose an IEB and consults properly with the School and its community in the New Year instead.
b) Either abandons its academisation plans altogether or, at the very least, conducts a full and binding ballot of staff and parents to judge whether or not their plans are supported by the school community.
A Meeting of Lewisham's Labour Group has been called for Tuesday to discuss how the Council responds. We can only hope that those councillors who are prepared to listen to educational sense instead of distortions and half-truths will prevail. If they do not, then the campaign to defend education will have to intensify, including unions balloting for strike action to oppose the threat of a change of employer to an Academy Trust.
Our campaign includes people from a range of party political views. However, if the Labour Group votes to support imposing the IEB, then more parents will be joining me in concluding that there is a need to challenge these mistaken policies at the ballot box in May as well. As a parent and teacher who has lived and campaigned in the Lewisham West and Penge constituency for over 25 years, then I am certainly prepared to make such a stand.
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Each year, at the Modern Studies Association (MSA) Annual Conference, the highest achieving candidates in Modern Studies have their academic achievement and hard work celebrated.
This year, with Annual Conference held in the magnificent surroundings of the Scottish Parliament debating chamber, four candidates – all of whom achieved full marks in the most recent SQA assessment period – were commended.
Gordon Black, a Trustee of the Modern Studies Educational Trust (MSET) spoke from the lectern on the floor of the chamber to introduce the candidates.
In turn, each candidate was applauded loudly by the 150 attendees, before being handed their trophy by – and having their photograph taken with – the Rt. Hon. Christine Grahame, MSP, Deputy Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament.
For Advanced Higher, Mike Cash collected the award on behalf of his daughter, Olivia Cash. Olivia was a candidate from George Watson’s College.
Three candidates all scored full marks at Higher level and were duly awarded. Elizabeth Farr was from St Andrew’s and St Bride’s High School; Sompure Banerjee was from Hutcheson’s Grammar School; and, Rachel Fairley was from George Heriot’s School, in Edinburgh.
Well done, and congratulations once again to all four of these marvellous young people, whose hard work more than paid off.
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David Hasselhoff, the erstwhile star of TV’s Knight Rider and Baywatch (not to mention Baywatch Nights), has had a pop music career almost the entire time that he has been an actor. In fact, the Hoff probably would not have maintained his fairly consistent meme-worthiness, if not for his offbeat, big-in-Germany-but-not-really-anywhere-else musical output.
Not one to rest on his laurels, Hasselhoff is releasing his fourteenth studio album, Open Your Eyes, on September 27.
The album is an unusual mix of material and collaborators. The Hoff pairs with industrial rock legends Ministry for a cover of the Neil Diamond sing-along classic, “Sweet Caroline.” He joins up with ’80s survivors A Flock of Seagulls to cover Echo and the Bunnymen‘s “Lips Like Sugar.” He even works with “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” mastermind Charlie Daniels on a version of “Rhinestone Cowboy.” And that’s just for starters.
The album is all kind of kitsch-y and odd, but it all makes perfect sense coming from David Hasselhoff.
This week, The Hoff dropped a video for the album’s title track. It’s an unexpectedly faithful cover of the 1982 single “Open Your Eyes” by goth punk supergroup The Lords of the New Church. The recording features Stooges guitarist James Williamson, ripping a pretty solid solo.
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The US government is failing to protect its citizens from the predatory behavior of some corporations. Irresponsibly lax gun control, the opioid epidemic, pharmaceutical price gouging and the ravages of climate change are just four examples
The election of Donald Trump gives us just one peek into forces that keep American society divided, tense, and confused. America"s major political problems are well known: inequality, racism, terrorism, political gridlock, and declining international influence among many others.
With the exception of racism and inequality, these issues don"t touch Americans" daily lives directly. Others do, however, in ways that are cruel, tangible and frequent.
One of these is the irresponsibly loose regulation of firearms. The figures are terrifying. The United States accounts for about 5% of the world"s population and 48% of its guns. America also has the greatest number of mass murders, especially in schools. Since 2013, there have been more than 300 school shootings in America – an average of about one a week. So far in 2018, there have already been 14 attacks. But in the US, the most dangerous place for children and young people is not school, it is the home. Many more are killed by guns in their own houses than in the classroom. The killers are usually family members or acquaintances.
President Trump and the National Rifle Association (NRA) argue that the problem is not guns but rather mental health. But no other country faces this type of attack as regularly as the US, and, statistically, mental illness is no more frequent here than elsewhere. All independent studies conclude that the ease with which a weapon can be purchased – even what amount to machine guns – is the explanation for these massacres.
Seventy-five percent of Americans want tighter controls on the sale and possession of guns, as well as more restrictions on access to assault rifles. But the wishes of that overwhelming majority are systematically crushed by the NRA, which, though it masquerades as an NGO, in practice serves as a very effective lobby for gun-makers. It claims five million members who vote as a block against politicians who do not blindly support their extreme positions. The NRA also spends money freely to influence elections. It donated $30 million to Donald Trump"s campaign and another $3 million to Marco Rubio"s. These are minuscule amounts compared to the returns the manufacturers generate through gun sales and whose lucrative interests are well protected by the NRA. This is how a minority imposes its values on the majority.
Another toxic reality for millions of Americans centers on opioids. They can be obtained legally, by prescription, or by illegal means. Illegal consumption of heroin and synthetic opiates such as fentanyl has skyrocketed. In 2015, two million Americans suffered health problems due to abuse of these drugs. About a third of patients who start using opioids to relieve pain end up abusing them. Eighty percent of heroin addicts had previously abused prescription opiates. Every day 115 Americans die from an overdose of these drugs. Nowhere else on Earth are opiates prescribed and consumed as freely as in the United States.
Toward the end of the 1990s, pharmaceutical companies launched a vast campaign aimed at persuading doctors and hospitals that these drugs were suitable for pain relief and, above all, that they were not addictive. The result was a huge increase in prescriptions, overdoses, and cases of
addiction. It also, of course, increased the profits of these pharmaceutical companies. The government"s attempts to put limits on opioid prescriptions were shot down by the powerful pharmaceutical lobby. Again, the economic interests of a powerful and well-connected few outweighed the welfare of society as a whole.
Even as the United States is brimming with opiates that kill, it faces a serious shortage of medicines that save. This shortage is not because the drugs are not available, but because they are out of reach for millions of Americans who cannot afford them. The price of prescription drugs in the United States is the highest in the world. The average American spends $858 per year on drugs, whereas in the other 19 industrialized countries the average is $400. Twenty percent of Americans say that these high prices force them to ration the doses that doctors have prescribed or prevent them from renewing the prescription when they run out of medicine.
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Eighty-two percent of Americans want laws that lower drug prices. But... the lobby for the pharmaceutical companies seems to be battling it out with the NRA in the race to spend the most money blocking government initiatives that protect consumers.
Another phenomenon that is killing Americans is climate change. The year 2017 saw the most costly climate events in US history: hurricanes, forest fires, tornadoes, floods and droughts. Extreme weather events are becoming measurably more frequent. California suffered more wildfires than ever, several cities recorded their highest temperatures, and there were prolonged droughts. Hurricane Harvey broke records for rainfall and devastated Puerto Rico, where, coming on its heels, Hurricane Maria wrought even more destruction and left a thousand people dead. In February, it was warmer in the North Pole than in some parts of Europe. How do you explain the timidity with which the United States confronts this problem that, if it continues along its current path, will do enormous damage to its people, especially the poor?
Reducing the emissions that contribute to global warming can be costly for some business sectors, which, naturally, would prefer to avoid those costs or postpone them as long as possible to safeguard their profits. That is why they have contributed so effectively to fostering skepticism, which mitigates the sense of urgency and allows complicit politicians to postpone the necessary initiatives. This tactic is not new. For decades, tobacco companies funded campaigns to make the public believe that there was a "scientific debate" about whether smoking caused cancer.
This debate was fueled by "skeptical scientists" who argued that there was not enough evidence of a causal link between tobacco and cancer. Years later – and hundreds of thousands of deaths later – it was revealed that these "skeptical scientists" were sponsored by cigarette sellers, whose sole purpose was to sow confusion and prevent the government from acting to protect the public health. Something similar is happening with the "scientific debate" about climate change. Reuters has reported that 25 major US companies (Google, PepsiCo, DuPont, Verizon, etc.) fund more than 130 members of Congress, almost all from the Republican Party, who are declared skeptics of climate change and systematically block the initiatives to reduce emissions. ExxonMobil has admitted that for decades it funded organizations whose mission was to cast doubt on the scientific consensus on climate change.
What do these four tragedies have in common? Money. Or, rather, the propensity of some in business who, driven by unbridled greed, abuse their customers and society. They can do it because they have managed to capture the institutions of the State in charge of regulating them and limiting their abusive practices. And also because the government and politicians do nothing to prevent this capture. Faced with a market failure (business behaviors that harm society) they add government failure (inaction due to regulatory capture by private interests). This kind of regulatory capture is lasting only if elections fail to penalize politicians who favor special interests over the interests of voters at large. It is a symptom and a driver of democracy"s failure.
The solution is as obvious as it is difficult to achieve: to repair democracy where it is broken.
Nothing could be more urgent.
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Out & About – 01/21/2007
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Sunday, January 21, 2007 – If one visits downtown Riverside, as we did today, they will notice the historic Fox Theatre is now fenced off, awaiting a $30 million renovation. As one of the centerpieces of the $780 million Riverside Renaissance Initiative — which outlines 25 years worth of citywide projects in about 5 — the Fox will receive a complete makeover, transforming it into 1,600 seat performing arts center.
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Opened in 1929, the Riverside Fox was once a favorite place for Hollywood studios to screen movies prior to their release. Studio executives felt the area better represented American audiences more so than patrons in Hollywood. One such sneak preview was “Gone With the Wind” in 1939.
Across the street from the Fox Theatre is the Stalder Building, which is actually three buildings unified into a single facade via a 1926 renovation. A portion of the building once housed the city’s first permanent fire station (1890s).
Over the years, the configuration of the building has been significantly altered, resulting in as many as 8 storefronts along Mission Inn Avenue plus a few along Market Street. Recently, it has become a mix of mostly small antique shops, including the popular Mr. Beasley’s.
Come March 1st, however, the stores will be fully vacated in preparation for Fox Plaza, a mixed-use development planned for the site that includes residential and commercial with underground parking.
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Expected to break ground in 2007, Fox Plaza is a $200 million development that when fully built will add 500 residential units and 65,000 square feet of retail space along two blocks of Market Street from Mission Inn Avenue to Fifth Street. Also included in the 2-phase plan is a 130 room, full-service hotel.
Though it’s difficult to see one of Riverside’s oldest buildings come down, we’re eagerly anticipating Fox Plaza, which no doubt will be a significant and unique addition to downtown. If Riverside truly hopes to have a more balanced and livlier downtown, particularly after 5 p.m., developments such as Fox Plaza and m sole that include residential units are indeed necessary.
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Rene Visco January 27, 2007 at 3:42 PM
Thanks for the article and a link to Fox Plaza. Enjoyed your blog! Keep it up!
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Brigid – Celtic Goddess or Christian Saint?
by Emma Ní Dhulaing
“The hour of consecration having arrived, the veil was raised by the angels from the hand of Mac Caille, the minister, and is placed on the head of Saint Brigit… The bishop being intoxicated with the grace of God there did not recognize what he was reading from his book, for he consecrated Brigit with the orders of a bishop.”[i]
Saint Brigit of Kildare was no ordinary medieval female saint. Legend has her canonised with Episcopal powers (see above). She was often linked with St. Patrick and St. Columcille, as part of the ‘Triade of the Irish Conversion period’.[ii] She is accredited with many miracles; healing lepers,[iii] deaf mutes,[iv]turning water into ale,[v]or milk, miraculous food production e.g., the opening miracle in Cogitosis’ Life, where she gave away all the butter she had churned to the poor, yet when she was called to produce a full yield, she was able to do so.[vi] Along with St. Patrick, her devotions and customs have survived to the present day.
The 1st of Februrary, which is known as Lá Fhéile Bríde (St. Brigit’s Day), or Imbolg, is still celebrated today as her feast day. Imbolg or Oímelg means ‘lactation’ in Old Irish, and is based on a term used by husbandmen and pastoralists.[vii] Food production is a central feature of her cult, both in her lives written in the early Medieval period and in the customs and folklore practiced around her cult up to the present day. The fact that Brigit the saint has the same name as an earlier Irish Goddess has lead to people linking the two, and considering the Goddess Brighid to be the precursor of St. Brigit. In other words, St. Brigit is seen as a christianised version of the pagan Goddess Brighid.
However, this approach is problematic. For one thing, very little is known about this Goddess Brighid. She is mentioned in a gloss by Cormac Mac Cuilennáin (a 9th Century glossator):
“Brigit, i.e. the poetess (ban-file), daughter of the Dagdae. This is Brigit the female seer or woman of insight… i.e the goddess whom poets (filid) used to worship… her sisters were Brigit the woman of leechcraft (bé legis) and Brigit the woman of smithcraft (bé ngoibnechta), i.e. goddesses, i.e. three daughters of the Dagdae are they. By their names the goddess Brigit was called by all the Irish”[viii]
There is no direct connection between this Goddess and the food production aspect of the saint’s cult and worship. It is too simplistic to declare that Brigit the Goddess was christianized into Brigit the saint. For one thing, we are dealing with a historical figure – St. Brigit of Kildare. Ó hÓgáin claims that this saint christianized an earlier Pagan sanctuary located near an oak tree; hence the name Cill Dara, or church/cell of the oak.[ix]
The name Brigit (lit. ‘Exalted One’)[x] could also be considered as a title of the leading lady, or abbess of Kildare. As a saint, Brigit was closely associated with Mary,[xi] and was canonized as a bishop,[xii] both signs of her exalted and special position. It is tempting to see this exalted position as an inheritance of the position of the pre-Christian Goddess Brigit. However, there was a political motivation for exalting the position of St. Brigit, the founding saint of Kildare Abbey. From the early 7th Century, Kildare, being located strategically in a “…fulcrum of political power”,[xiii] and drawing upon it’s status as a historical religious site and Early Christian foundation, controlled substantial economic and political resources.[xiv] At this time, Kildare was expanding, and claiming itself “…head of almost all the Irish churches with supremacy over all the monasteries and a paruchia which extended over the whole island reaching from sea to sea.”[xv] Kildare was doing this at the same time that Armagh was claiming it’s own supremacy under the banner of St. Patrick.[xvi]
St. Brigit’s miracles of healing, food production, and her patronage of childbirth appear to be the functions of a Mother Goddess. Perhaps St. Brigit did take over and Christianize these functions and aspects of female divinity. However, there is no proof or evidence that the Goddess Brigit possessed these functions or powers. The Brigit of leechcraft could be linked to the healing miracles, but leechcraft is a medicinal form of healing rather than a miraculous form. There are biblical parallels for St. Brigits miracles of healing (i.e. the gospels) and food production,[xvii] as well as other aspects of her life, i.e. her bondmaid mother can be linked to Hagar, the slave girl of Abraham’s wife Sarah.[xviii]
The extensive fire symbolism and the fire miracles around St. Brigit are the strongest link between the shadowy triple Goddess mentioned in the glossary, and the virginal saint. One of the three Brigits was “…Brigit the woman of smithcraft…” Fire is necessary to smith metals; not only is fire necessary, it is necessary to control fire to produce objects from seemingly impalpable ores and rocks – an apparently magical process. The symbolism of fire in St. Brigit’s life can be considered both as signs of earlier Pagan practices which had been absorbed into her cult, and as Christian symbols in themselves. The first fire miracle appears in Bethu Brigte: Broiscech, Brigit’s mother, goes out to milk and leaves Brigit alone in the house sleeping. The house goes on fire, yet when people rush to rescue the girl, both she and the house are found intact.[xix] St. Ita[xx] and St. Daig[xxi] also endured the same ‘trial by fire’. This imperviousness to fire displays the saints control over the element of fire; here the connection with smithcraft is evident.
The famous perpetual fire of St. Brigit at Kildare Abbey (mentioned by Cambrensis)[xxii] is another example of the uses of fire in Brigit’s cult. The four even-armed cross, which is central to her cult, has from ancient times symbolized the sun, or a Solar deity.[xxiii] In the vast body of customs built up around St. Brigit, fire, or the hearth take a central role.[xxiv] A bed set up for Bríd beside the fire[xxv], and a practice of prayer to Bríd whilst covering glowing turf embers with ashes to save the fire over night, called ‘smooring the fire’ are some of the rituals and observances carried out at the time of Lá Fhéile Bríde.[xxvi]
McCone and Ó Catháin view the fire symbolism (amongst other factors) as Pagan in origin. Fire, being essential to survival, was a very important symbol and aspect of divine manifestation to the pre-Christian inhabitants of Ireland. This is evident from the story of St. Patrick lighting the Easter Fire at the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath. He is depicted as using and perverting the historically established Pagan rites and practices of Tara to proclaim the supremacy of himself and his god over the Pagans of Ireland.[xxvii]
Fire was also deeply symbolic in the Christian tradition. It symbolizes the power and presence of The Holy Spirit,[xxviii] an elusive and ill defined part of the quasi triple god of the Christian montheon. In both Pagan and Christian cosmologies, fire is representative of the illumination of mind and spirit and of divinity.[xxix] In the process of it’s development and metastazisation, Christianity absorbed many local Pagan customs, practices and beliefs. Christian writers and clerics tried to eradicate these many times over the centuries. However, they would have tolerated or encouraged anything which did not run counter to their beliefs, or lay within their own core cultural and personal beliefs.[xxx] The continuation of fire symbolism is one example of this, The continuation of the art of poetry is another example. It must also be remembered that the monks and scribes, although Christian, were culturally Irish. They would have been unable to reject their entire cultural heritage, even though they wished to Christianize the world they lived within.
There was definitely a Goddess called Brigit. It is also glaringly evident that there was a continuation of Pagan practices hidden under a Christian veneer. However, the powers and attributes of St. Brigit are not necessarily a reflection of the Goddess Brighid. St. Brigit may have inherited or absorbed her Mother Goddess aspects from a different Mother Goddess (e.g. Anú), and also from her association with the Christian hidden Goddess Mary.[xxxi] Her connection with milk production, butter and the protection of herds,[xxxii] although it reflects the dairy dependent medieval pastorial economy, may also in symbolic and cultural motifs derive from the cult of an earlier bovine aspected Goddess (such as Bóannd, Goddess of the Boyne Valley and River – Bó is Gaelic for a cow). That is not to say that the cult of St. Brigit deliberately absorbed ritual practices and attributes of rival deities, although this is not implausible. It is evident from a study of the figure of St. Brigit, that she was involved in many different stages of life; i.e. as a hospitaller, a helper of kings on the battlefield,[xxxiii] a protectress of women during child birth,[xxxiv] a healer and a preacher[xxxv] etc.
As the Pagan Irish culture changed into a Christian culture, the Christian body of belief, customs and ritual would have had to adapt to accommodate the needs of the culture and economy it found itself within. People still turned to and needed the presence of a strong female divinity; without mother Goddesses, they would have transferred this to Mary. The Pagan Gods and Goddesses who oversaw the multifarious aspects of day to day life would have left huge gaps in their wakes, hence the incorporation of Pagan practices within Christianity.
It is worthwhile to consider the observation of Dorothy Ann Bray. She contends that the familiar figure of the Goddess Brigit was redefined in terms familiar to the now emerging Christian culture. She compares the development of St. Brigit’s cult to the development of the cult of the Virgin Mary. She is worth quoting at length:
“Like the Virgin Mary, Brigit is a complex figure invested with the image and attributes of ancient deities, but interpreted within Christian tradition, and this development illustrates the tendency to interpret the world according to that which is familiar to a culture.”[xxxvi]
St. Brigit’s pre-eminent position amongst the female saints of Ireland made her a focus for worship of female divinity; in a culture based on tribal loyalties, her local origins also led to her exaltation to a position beside Mary. To conclude Brigit was both a Pagan Goddess and a Christian saint, but it must be remembered that the saint was a very different figure from the Pagan Goddess.
[i] Ó hAodha, Donncha, Bethu Brighte, Dublin, 1978, pp. 24.
[ii] (Szöverry, J.’Some Stages of the St.Columba Traditions in the Middle Ages’, Medieval Notes and Extracts from the Archives from Medieval Poetry.7. Publications of hte Archives for Medieval \poetry: Second Series. Boston/Randolph, Mass., 1998. pp. 1- 28.) from Ó Catháin, Séamus. The Festival of Brigit. Celtic Goddess and Holy Woman. Blackrock, Dublin,1995, pp.132
[iii] Ó hAodha, pp. 25.
[iv] Connolly, Séan and Michael Picard. ‘”Cogitosis’ Life of St. Brígit, Content and Value”. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquities of Ireland, 117 (1987), pp. 16.
[v] Connolly & Picard, pp. 15-16; Ó hAodha, pp. 24-25.
[vi] Connolly & Picard, pp. 13.
[vii] Ó hÓgáin, Dáithi. The Sacred Isle: Belief and Religion in pre-Christian Ireland. Cork, (1999)., pp. 199.
[viii] McCone, Kim. Pagan Past and Christian Present in Early Irish Literature. Maynooth, 1990, pp.162.
[ix] Ó hÓgáin, pp. 202.
[x] Ibid.
[xi] Bray, pp.108; Ó Catháin, pp.’s 8-10, 54-5, 68, 132, 146-147; Ó hÓgáin, pp.202.
[xii] Ó hAodha, pp. 24.
[xiii] Ó Cróinín, Dáibhi. Early Medieval Ireland. 400 – 1200. London and New York: Longman, 1995, pp. 157.
[xiv] Ibid.
[xv] Connolly & Picard, pp’s. 7, 11.
[xvi] Ó Cróinín, pp’s 154-156.
[xvii] Bray, pp.’s 105,107; McCone, pp.s 174-175.
[xviii] Bray, pp. 109.
[xix] Ó hAodha, pp. 20.
[xx] Bray pp.106.
[xxi] McCone, pp.164.
[xxii] McCone, pp.164.
[xxiii] Bray, pp.106..
[xxiv] Ó Catháin, chap 3. (see also Ó Caitháin, Séamus. ‘Hearth Prayers and Other Traditionsof Brigit: Celtic Goddess and Holy Woman.’ Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquities of Ireland, pp. 122 (1992), 12-34).
[xxv] Ó Catháin, pp.54-55
[xxvi] . Ó Catháin, pp.53
[xxvii]. Ó hÓgáin, pp.’s 198, 200-201.
[xxviii] Bray. pp. 105.
[xxix] Ibid.
[xxx] Ó hÓgáin, pp. 201.
[xxxi] Bray, pp. 108.
[xxxii] Ó Catháin, pp.249.
[xxxiii] McCone, pp. 161.
[xxxiv] Bray, pp. 107.
[xxxv] Connolly & Picard, pp.9.
[xxxvi] Bray, pp. 108.
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Huffman: Dixie must take ‘long, overdue step’ to change name
Huffman, 4 other leaders send letters to school board asking for new name
By KERI BRENNER | kbrenner@marinij.com | Marin Independent Journal
PUBLISHED: December 17, 2018 at 4:13 pm | UPDATED: December 18, 2018 at 7:21 am
With a nod to the national “ugly resurgence of neo-Confederates and white nationalists,” U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman has sent a strong and urgent letter to members of the Dixie School District board of trustees suggesting they change the district’s name to something that does not connote “a dark and hateful part of our nation’s history.”
Congressman Jared Huffman (Frankie Frost/Marin Independent Journal)
“We cannot separate this issue from the broader context of our country’s struggles with racism,” Huffman, D-San Rafael, said in the letter, sent last week to board president Brad Honsberger and copied to the four other board members. “Our nation’s dark history and current struggles with racism compels us to be honest about the hateful origins of these symbols, and to acknowledge that whatever revisionist nostalgia some may attach to them, they are rooted in racism and deeply offensive to some people.”
Opponents of the name change, however, said the issue should be decided locally.
“As we’ve always stated from the beginning, this issue was manufactured by aspiring politicians and outside special interest activists,” reads a statement emailed Monday from “We Are Dixie,” a group that wants to keep the Dixie name.
“The school board and district should not be threatened with the fear of a ‘dark cloud’ hanging over us if we vote to keep the name,” the statement says. “The community should be heard and not be told how to feel by outside special interest groups and politicians.”
Those in favor of changing the name, who gathered Saturday to brainstorm new name ideas and collect petition signatures at a party in San Rafael, applauded the letter. At the party, at least 30 names were suggested, of which about eight received the minimum 15 signatures to present to the school board on Jan. 15. Additional suggestions may be added at ChangetheName.net.
“Support for the name change has reached historic levels,” said proponent Alex Stadtner. “I’m proud that in the 21st century, our community is finally ready to shed this divisive, Civil-War-era name that harms some members and tarnishes our image.”
Huffman, a former civil rights attorney, was joined in the letter-writing effort by state Sen. Mike McGuire, San Rafael Mayor Gary Phillips, Marin Community Foundation CEO Thomas Peters and Marin County Superintendent of Schools Mary Jane Burke. They each sent their own letters — in their own words but with the same sentiments — to the board.
“The name Dixie can’t stand in modern America,” said McGuire, D-Healdsburg, SEE FULL ARTICLE HERE
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GEOSTATIONARY ORBITS PART 5:
INCLINED-ORBIT SATELLITES
by Neal McLain, CSBE
Copyright © 1995-2002 by Neal McLain
This is the fifth in a series of articles about geostationary orbits; i.e., the orbits occupied by communications satellites which remain at fixed points in the sky.
This fifth article describes inclined-orbit satellites.
SATELLITE DRIFT
A satellite intended for radio communications among fixed earth stations must meet two criteria:
• The satellite must remain at a fixed position in the sky. As we have noted in previous articles in this series, this means that the satellite must move in a geostationary orbit. The owners of most geostationary satellites try to maintain their satellites within a box measuring 0.1° x 0.1°.
• The satellite must be maintained at the proper attitude. This term describes the orientation of the satellite within its box. If the satellite is not maintained at the proper attitude, its antennas will not be aimed properly.
Unfortunately, once a satellite is placed in proper position and attitude, it doesn't stay there: it tends to drift. Drift degrades satellite performance in two ways: the satellite may move out of position, or it may assume an improper attitude.
Drift results from external forces. While there are hundreds of external forces acting on the satellite, the primary forces are these:
• The gravitational pull of the sun. The intensity and direction of this force changes continuously, in daily, yearly, and 55-year cycles. The cyclic nature of this force tends to cause it to cancel itself: an easterly pull at one part of the cycle is offset by a westerly pull half a day later; similarly, a northerly pull is offset by a southerly pull. Nevertheless, there is a net resultant force which, over the course of several months, causes the satellite to drift away from its geostationary position.
• The gravitational pull of other objects in the solar system. Although these forces are considerably weaker than the sun's gravity, their effects can be measured and predicted. Precise orbit calculations usually account for the moon's gravity, and sometimes include the gravitational forces of other planets as well.
• The uneven distribution of land mass on the surface of the earth. The following figure illustrates this situation:
A satellite at 90° west longitude. Point C = geometric center. Point G = apparent center of gravity.
Point G lies east of Point C because of the land mass of South America. Note that the vector
to the earth's apparent center of gravity (Point G) is not congruent with the vector to
the earth's geometric center (Point C). In the case of geostationary satellites visible from
North America, the land mass of South America tends to cause them to drift to the east.
To counteract these forces, the satellite must be fitted with some mechanism to move the satellite back into position when it drifts. In outer space, only one such mechanism is available: the rocket.
Now, let's stop and discuss rockets. The popular conception of a rocket is something very large which burns some sort of fuel to produce an enormous thrust.
More generally, a rocket is any device which produces a force by ejecting mass. Fuel-burning rockets produce force by ejecting the products of combustion. But combustion isn't necessary: any mechanism for ejecting mass will produce a force. A common example: a loose balloon flying around the room ejecting its air supply.
The direction of the force produced by a rocket is equal and opposite to the force required to eject the mass. This, of course, is Newton's Third Law: for every force, there is an equal and opposite reaction force.
STATIONKEEPING
Communications satellites are fitted with small rockets called thrusters. On command from the a control station, a thruster is fired; during the firing, it ejects a gas called fuel or propellant. Like the air escaping from the balloon, the ejected gas produces the force.
A ground control station precisely controls all parameters involved in a firing: the position of each thruster relative to the satellite, the timing and duration of each fire, and the pressure of the ejected propellant. If these parameters are controlled properly, the satellite can be maintained at proper position and attitude for years.
This process is called stationkeeping.
SATELLITE LIFE EXPECTANCY
Every time a thruster is fired, propellant is used. Once the supply of propellant is exhausted, the satellite cannot be maintained at proper position and attitude, and the satellite must be retired. Propellant capacity is the primary factor which determines the useful life of a communications satellite.
It is easy to understand that a primary goal of every satellite owner is the conservation of propellant. Many computer studies have been done to determine the optimum trade-off between satellite stability and propellant usage.
These studies have shown that a substantial majority of the propellant is used for just one stationkeeping function: keeping the satellite from drifting along its north-south axis. Kent Carson, director of advanced programs for Comsat Systems Division, has stated that between 80% and 90% of the propellant is used for this function alone. [1]
INCLINED ORBITS
Let us now consider what happens if the owner of a satellite simply stops north-south stationkeeping, and lets the satellite drift freely along its north-south axis.
Two things happen.
• First, the orbit plane becomes inclined with respect to the earth's equatorial plane. The following figure illustrates this situation.
During the course of one sidereal day, the satellite makes one complete revolution around the earth. Because the orbit plane must pass through the earth's center of gravity (Kepler's First Law), the satellite passes through the earth's equatorial plane twice each sidereal day. The satellite is north of the equatorial plane for half of each sidereal day, and south of it for the other half.
From a point on the earth's surface, the satellite appears to oscillate along its north-south axis at a rate of one cycle per sidereal day.
• Secondly, for reasons beyond the scope of this article (conservation of angular momentum), the orbit assumes a slightly elliptical shape. As a result, the satellite no longer moves at constant velocity (Kepler's Second Law). From a point on the earth's surface, it appears to oscillate along its east-west axis at a rate of two cycles per sidereal day.
To summarize: if the satellite owner lets the satellite drift free, two things happen:
• The orbit plane becomes inclined; therefore, the satellite appears to oscillate along its north-south axis at a rate of one cycle per sidereal day.
• The orbit assumes a slightly elliptical shape; therefore, the satellite appears to oscillate along its east-west axis at a rate of two cycles per sidereal day.
If we combine these two apparent motions, the result is an elongated "figure-8" pattern. The satellite completes one complete cycle around the figure-8 pattern each sidereal day. As the satellite continues to drift, the figure-8 pattern becomes larger and larger.
The following figure illustrates this pattern for GStar 3, as it appeared from Madison, Wisconsin (about 43° north latitude) during November, 1995:
Tracking pattern for GStar 3, as it appeared from Madison, Wisconsin in November, 1995.
Data plot prepared by the author using Borland Quattro data presentation software.
Original data courtesy of Communication Technologies, Inc.
The original data for this plot consists of 78 data points representing tracking activity for one sidereal day.
Each data point represents the position of the antenna after peaking.
The center of the figure-8 pattern (Point 0,0) represents the original geostationary position of GSTar 3 before it was allowed to drift freely along its north-south axis.
Horizontal axis is hour angle, in degrees, relative to Point 0,0.
Vertical axis is declination, in degrees, relative to Point 0,0.
From the point of view of a satellite owner, the economics of this situation are compelling. On one hand, the revenue derived from leasing transponder time on an inclined-orbit satellite is considerably less than the revenue which could be realized from a truly geostationary satellite. On the other hand, propellent usage is cut dramatically, thereby extending the useful life of the satellite, often by several years. The potential revenue to be derived from this extended life more than offsets the revenue lost through reduced transponder pricing.
It comes as no surprise, then, that many satellite owners have allowed their geostationary satellites to drift into inclined orbits.
BUT IS IT GEOSTATIONARY?
Is an inclined-orbit satellite still "geostationary"?
Strictly speaking, no. In Part 2, we defined geostationary as follows:
• The orbit must be geosynchronous.
• The orbit must be a circle.
• The orbit must lie in the earth's equatorial plane. An inclined orbit is indeed geosynchronous, but it is not a circle and it does not lie in the earth's equatorial plane.
The FCC's definition is less restrictive:
Geostationary Satellite. A geosynchronous satellite
whose circular and direct orbit lies in the plane of
the earth's equator and which thus remains fixed relative
to the earth; by extension, a satellite which remains
approximately fixed relative to the earth. [2]
An inclined-orbit satellite meets the "by extension" part of this definition as long as it is maintained in the correct east-west position (to avoid interference to adjacent satellites) and at the proper attitude (to keep the antennas aimed correctly).
An inclined-orbit satellite poses a problem for the end user: the earth station antenna must track the satellite. For this purpose, the antenna must be equipped with a dual-axis steerable mount and a tracking controller.
A dual-axis steerable mount is a motorized mount which can be moved independently about two axes: east-west and up-down. Any of the following mount types can be used:
• EL/AZ mount. This mount is dual-axis by definition: it adjusts the antenna in the azimuth (east-west) and elevation (up-down) axes. Example:
Antenna with EL/AZ-Mount (Andrew Corporation)
• Polar mount. A polar mount can be used for tracking if it is equipped to allow adjustment about the declination axis throughout the full range of the satellite's figure-8 pattern. Example:
Antenna with Dual-Axis Polar Mount (Comtech Antenna Systems, Inc.)
• Hybrid mount. Andrew manufactures a dual-axis mount which is neither EL/AZ nor polar. The up-down axis is elevation; the east-west axis falls between azimuth and hour angle.
Antenna with Dual-Axis Hybrid-Mount (Andrew Corporation)
The tracking controller moves the antenna automatically to track the satellite. Two types of controllers are available commercially:
• AGC-controlled. This type of controller monitors the level of the received signal (typically by monitoring receiver AGC voltage), and moves the antenna periodically to peak the signal.
Most AGC-controlled controllers are equipped to maintain a "history," or " map," of the figure-8 pattern. The history is established during the first day's operation; thereafter, the history is used in two ways: it tells the controller which way to move the antenna when peaking the signal, and it allows the controller to continue tracking if the satellite signal fails.
The controller updates the history during the course of normal tracking. Thus, it responds automatically to changes in the shape of the tracking-8 pattern as the satellite continues to drift along its north-south axis.
AGC-controlled controllers move the antenna in a series of short steps. For this reason, they are sometimes called "step-track" controllers. The original data used to generate the Figure-8 pattern illustrated above was produced by an AGC-controlled controller. Note that the individual steps are clearly evident in this illustration.
• Program-controlled. This type of controller mathematically calculates the pointing angles to the satellite and moves the antenna accordingly. Calculations are based on program data entered into the controller.
This type of controller is capable of moving the antenna continuously, rather than in a series of steps. This technique is advantageous in low-signal situations where any change in AGC voltage would result in degraded signal quality.
Because this type of controller calculates pointing angles from program data, it does not respond automatically to changes in the tracking pattern as the satellite drifts. For this reason, the program data must be updated periodically.
In order for this type of controller to operate satisfactorily, the program data must specify the precise position of the satellite in space at any given time and date. The position is defined in terms of six parameters called Orbital Elements (sometimes called Keplerian Elements). There are several standardized formats for specifying orbital elements; the most common is called a Two-Line Element (TLE) Data Set. TLE data sets are maintained by several of organizations, and are available from a number of websites. [3] The functions of a tracking controller can be integrated into a general-purpose antenna controller. This type of controller can move the antenna to any satellite, geostationary or inclined. When moved to an inclined-orbit satellite, the satellite is located by reference to the history or program data.
[1] Scott Chase. "Earth Station Technology: Keeping Up with Orbital Capabilities." Via Satellite Return to text.
[2] Code of Federal Regulations, Title 47, Section 2.1. Washington: United States National Archives and Records Administration. Return to text.
[3] Sources for TLE data: • Celestrak, a site maintained by Dr. TS Kelso.
• Orbitessera, a site maintained by Ken Ernandes.
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Secessionville, Battle of
Written by Pat Brennan
In April 1862 Union generals David Hunter and Henry Benham decided to assault Charleston by marching one wing across Johns Island and sailing another for Battery Island.
(June 16, 1862). In April 1862 Union generals David Hunter and Henry Benham decided to assault Charleston by marching one wing across Johns Island and sailing another for Battery Island. From there the combined columns would rush across James Island, establish batteries at Charleston harbor, and batter the city into submission.
Union forces occupied Battery Island and Johns Island during the first week of June, but they were surprised at the spirited resistance of Confederate forces. Before Hunter returned to Hilton Head on June 11, he warned Benham not to attack. Benham, however, used Hunter’s absence to organize an assault on the Confederate Tower Battery near the planter village of Secessionville, an operation he launched on the morning of June 16. One hundred infantrymen and two artillery companies under Colonel Thomas G. Lamar recoiled before the first Federal assault, but the battery’s defenders, supported by the timely arrival of reinforcements, threw back the Union troops in hand-to-hand fighting. A second Northern wave crashed against the battery’s left flank, but the Confederates again withstood the storm. Meanwhile, Lamar’s artillery turned the expanse west of the battery into a killing field.
Unbeknownst to the Northerners, the battery stood at the choke point of a telescoping peninsula. The marshy terrain forced the Federal attackers into the mouths of the Confederate guns, and the impassable “pluff mud” prevented Benham’s second wing from attacking the fort’s northern flank. These Federals established a firing line just 125 yards away, but Colonel Johnson Hagood directed a Confederate attack on the Union position from the north, while another Confederate battalion confronted the Federals from the south. Aided by nearby artillery, the Confederates repelled the Northerners with a ring of fire. After three frustrating hours, Benham withdrew his forces.
Of the 4,500 Federal attackers, nearly 700 became casualties. Confederate forces totaled only about 1,000, with a loss of fewer than 200 men. Secessionville blunted what proved to be the North’s best chance to capture Charleston. The Civil War may have produced larger engagements with heavier casualties, but the battle at Secessionville remains one of South Carolina’s most important.
Brennan, Patrick. Secessionville: Assault on Charleston. Campbell, Calif.: Savas, 1996.
Article Title Secessionville, Battle of
Author Pat Brennan
URL http://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/secessionville-battle-of/
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Dec. 15, 2019, 10:21 p.m. EST
Five aides to Van Drew resign over House Democrat’s party-switching
New Jersey lawmaker opposes impeachment, plans to become a Republican
Jeff Van Drew, seen in 2016.
WASHINGTON — Five aides to a House Democrat who plans to become a Republican are resigning, saying his party switch “does not align with the values we brought to this job when we joined his office.”
The staffers wrote the letter on Sunday, a day after a Republican official said GOP House leaders had been informed that New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew was planning the switch. Van Drew, a freshman, has said he will vote “no” this week when the House decides whether to impeach President Donald Trump, a decision that puts him at odds with nearly every other Democrat.
“Over the past year, Trump Republicans have sided with special interests over the needs of working people,” the five wrote to Van Drew’s chief of staff, Allison Murphy. “Worse, they continue to aid and abet Trump as he shreds the Constitution and tears the country apart. They have refused to grapple with how the President of the United States has jeopardized our national security for this own political advantage.”
The staffers said they respect Van Drew but “are deeply saddened and disappointed by his decision. As such, we can no longer in good conscience continue our service in the Congressman’s employ.”
It is unusual for members of Congress to switch parties, especially to move from the majority to the minority party, which has vastly less power in the House. And while it is not uncommon for aides to quit if a lawmaker switches parties, the staffers’ decision underscores the deep rifts between Democrats and Republicans over Trump and his conduct in office.
Van Drew represents a southern New Jersey district that he won by 8 percentage points last year but that Trump carried by 5 percentage points in the 2016 election. Van Drew was expected to face a difficult reelection next year, and polling showed he would also be vulnerable in a Democratic primary for the nomination for his seat.
The five resigning aides are deputy staff chiefs Edward Kaczmarski and Justin M. O’Leary, legislative director Javier Gamboa, spokeswoman MacKenzie Lucas and legislative assistant Caroline Wood.
Despite Van Drew’s planned defection, Democrats will retain their House majority.
The chamber seems certain to impeach Trump this week, probably Wednesday, in a near party-line vote over charges that he pressured Ukraine to help him in next year’s election by investigating former Vice President Joe Biden, who is vying for the Democratic presidential nomination. Unanimous GOP opposition to impeachment is considered likely.
The GOP-led Senate seems certain to find Trump not guilty and keep him in office.
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Latest News on the ICM’s Physical Intervention Accreditation Scheme
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Having delivered ‘preventing and managing challenging behaviour training’ as well as ‘safe physical intervention training’ for over 20 years Securicare welcome the latest developments by the Institute of Conflict Management. The launch of their National Minimum Standards on Physical Intervention in Health and Social Care means that there is now a benchmark against which to evaluate training provision.
In April 2014 the Department of Health released its latest guidance on Positive and Proactive Care: reducing the need for restrictive interventions, and in May 2015, the National Institute for Health Care Excellence released their latest guidance on Violence and aggression: short-term management in mental health, health and community settings. Both of which laid out both advice and guidance on how best to manage challenging behaviour within Health and Social Care Setting. The ICM’s Quality Award Scheme was mentioned as being an example of a voluntary accreditation scheme to which health and social care organisations could adhere to ensure compliance.
The Royal College of Nursing started looking at the development of standards back in 2013 and, on behalf of the Department of Health, carried out a lengthy consultation of current practice. They looked towards major stakeholders for advice and guidance on current practice and areas for improvement which would benefit those using Health and Social Care services. The Institute of Conflict Management was very pleased to play a large part in these consultations.
The ICM Chairman today said, “Since its incorporation in 2000 the ICM has worked to set standards for training in the prevention and management of work related violence. The recent developments of National Minimum Standards for Physical Intervention Training and the addition of a Quality Award Centre Scheme for those training in Health Care settings are two examples of the way the ICM helps trainers demonstrate their training is delivered to robust standards in terms of quality as is safe and fit for purpose…”
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Sanctuary Bay by Laura J. Burns & Melinda Metz
Publisher & ARC: St. Martins
In this genre-bending YA thriller, will Sarah Merson's shiny new prep school change her life forever or bring it to a dark and sinister end?
When Sarah Merson receives the opportunity of a lifetime to attend the most elite prep school in the country-Sanctuary Bay Academy-it seems almost too good to be true. But, after years of bouncing from foster home to foster home, escaping to its tranquil setting, nestled deep in Swans Island, couldn't sound more appealing. Swiftly thrown into a world of privilege and secrets, Sarah quickly realizes finding herself noticed by class charmer, Nate, as well as her roommate's dangerously attentive boyfriend, Ethan, are the least of her worries. When her roommate suddenly goes missing, she finds herself in a race against time, not only to find her, but to save herself and discover the dark truth behind Sanctuary Bay's glossy reputation.
In this genre-bending YA thriller, Sanctuary Bay by Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz, Sarah's new school may seem like an idyllic temple of learning, but as she unearths years of terrifying history and manipulation, she discovers this "school" is something much more sinister..
I have been reading this book during while my students enjoy* their SSR time, and I have had several students interested in the book, so I had to read it rather quickly in order to pass it along. But even if they had not asked, I still would have finished this book in a few days because it is definitely a page-turner.
What young girl doesn't dream of being accepted into a prep school where everything is at your disposal, they guys are handsome and charming, and the education is credible? Sarah Merson never thought she could get into such a school. Being bounced around in foster homes because of the murder of her parents, Sarah was happy to be alive and in warm shelter.
Now that she's a part of Sanctuary Bay Academy, Sarah has to figure out a way to leave her past behind her and assimilate into a school where the students never leave the island and have to create their own ways of entertainment...and secrecy.
Befriending, but not totally trusting, her new roommates, Izzy and Karina, Sarah keeps her guard up, but she desperately wants to fit in at Sanctuary Bay. It's not long before Sarah notices Izzy and Karina randomly sneaking off in the middle of the night, and she must find out why. The realization of what's really going on means a sacrifice for Sarah, one that could make her a loyal ally or a distrusting spy.
Suspenseful is the first word that comes to mind when I think of how to describe this book. Burns and Metz weave innuendo carefully into the plot, not allowing it to overtake the flow or become tacky. Just when Sarah feels like she is safe, twists and turns abound to throw her, and the reader, into a tailspin.
Quell the urge to skip to the end to find out what happens--you'll enjoy the ride from beginning to end.
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